Neanderpundit

learned that one of my oldest and dearest friends has cancer, and it is already moving around.

So pray ye scurvey dogs, pray like ye’ve never prayed afore. And you athiests, you pray too. God is especial glad to hear from you.

The Creator don’t owe me anything but a one-way ticket to Cronkiteland, but Ken is a decent man, a good Christian in every sense of the word, and deserves all the years he can get. There are too many things yet he needs to do.
More: This post will remain on top until I learn more about his condition. New posts below this one.

About 200 hours a month reading. A lot of it is internet but quite a bit is dead-tree reading. I do this not because I love it, though I do, but to keep my bullshit detector finely tuned.

I have had a thousand conversations where the conversee said things like “I don’t believe that” or “I don’t buy that” or “I don’t feel like that’s right”.

Belief, my minions, is reserved for the Creator. There is no room in politics for belief, only reason. Reason and facts will let you know that the financial mess we’re in was predominantly orchestrated by Jimmeh Carter, aided and abetted by Janet Reno, involved a Citibank lawsuit including The One himself, and the nails were driven in the coffin by Franklin Raines, barney Frank, and Nancy pelosi and Jamie Gorelick were complicit as well. Sure, there were other players, but those were the primary ones. And the Big Three would never have begun to have financial difficulties if the prices of gas hadn’t gone through the roof, and that wouldn’t have happened had offshore drilling and drilling in ANWAR been allowed early on.

Yes, there are other factors, but those are the root causes. If you can read, if you are capable of reason, you can easily see that there is no portion of liberalism that does not cause problems for it’s adherents. AND everyone else. The idea that liberal policies can “fix” people’s lives, or world problems, or environmental issues (when they exist) is ludicrous. That is “belief” and it is a classically unfounded belief. And the people that “believe” in these policies instead of troubling themselves to discover the facts, should not vote. They got us where we are. Where we are is bad.

This doesn’t mean they’re bad people; though, it is a great litmus test. If they do understand the illogic of their actions and do what they do for reasons of political gain, they are evil. Everyone else is just incapable of reason.

Like one Marc Rubin having his ass handed to him at the Smallest Minority.

Back in March, I decided that it might be a good idea to get my old lawnmower back up to snuff for the coming season. So I yanked the deck and dismantled it, taking apart the aging and decrepit spindles and sending the deck itself off to be sandblasted. They did a nice job, I had new rails made for the sides, and the first week fo April, I ordered the parts to rebuild the spindles.

And they arrived Friday.

I have been mowing with the pushmower, and also with the neighbors mower which I borrowed many times. But now I am within striking distance of having this thing completed. I even got new blades.
The words I have for the place where I ordered the parts, that took from April to July to ship, I cannot even type. Having exhausted my normal supply of expletives, I had to create new ones, for which no letters exist in english to type the words. First of all, I would need another “Shift” type key that said “Scream” instead of “shift”. Then I would need letters that described the sound of ultimate human frustration at having ordered something in plenty of time and had the supplier dick around for ages until the summer is almost over. Finally, I would need to have a word that described the fury of a thousand white hot suns. And that’s just to say “hello”.

Anyway, God Willing, I will mow my own lawn with my own tractor this weekend.