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Comment on The Stars Came Back -082- Incoming by Rolf

Rolf — Fri, 24 May 2013 03:25:00 +0000

It’s a very old ship, and Helton et al don’t seem to get the date reference. But WE, the readers, do, so it works. Besides, who would YOU want to go to battle with?

Comment on The Stars Came Back -082- Incoming by RabidAlien

RabidAlien — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:57:59 +0000

Heh. Nice to see “Talk Like A Pirate Day” continues well into the future!

Comment on Quote of the day—My Gun Culture (@mygunculture) by Lyle

Lyle — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:29:27 +0000

I must be among the more cynical then. Another way of looking at it is that certain people, many people, must avoid basic principles at all cost, for to face them is to face one’s own dire failings or lose one’s identity. So when looking at ways to “fix” the world they must look in all the wrong places because they must NOT look at First Principles. That behavior many very well take on the appearance of a very calculated scheming for power by making more and more things illegal, and it is, but just not via the exact process way we may think.

It’s really that “All One Thing” I’ve mentioned before. Some people seek “liberation” from the constricting aspect of basic principles, while others seek liberation from nit-picking nanny-staters who avoid basic principles. Each way of thinking (and living) is truly and fundamentally threatened by the other. Each side is oppressed by the mere existence of the other and seeks liberation.

This is brought clearly to the surface in comments such as Obama’s telling us that we’re “gumming up the works”. He longs to be “free”, and we’re just in the way, but what he actually seeks to free from are the basic principles of justice, equality and liberty. Those who happen to uphold those principles are merely the best and most obvious targets., You can tap a person’s phone lines or e-mail, or demand extra paperwork from them via the IRS, and you can outlaw big sodas, but you can’t intimidate or kill a principle.

Ultimately, those on the left are at war with themselves, but as long as they have other people to blame for their problems, they can avoid facing that fact. When they run out of scapegoats, like Hitler and Jones did, finding themselves alone with their pathology, they tend to blow their own brains out.

Comment on Gun Song – Marty Robbins – Big Iron by Rolf

Rolf — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:07:24 +0000

Good song. Used it a few weeks ago.

Comment on Who’s paranoid now? by Rolf

Rolf — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:06:14 +0000

More hate and lies from The Stranger here:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/kids-shoot-the-darndest-things/Content?oid=16837331
What a bunch of misinformation, disinformation, distortion, hate, and anti-rights victim-hood mentality.

Comment on Quote of the day—Sen. Joe Manchin III by Lyle

Lyle — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:05:13 +0000

He didn’t think that up in his head all extemporaneously either. It’s an on-going tactic. Radical Muslims aren’t terrorists either. Now they’re “conservative Muslims”. Cute, ain’t it? We’re conservatives, they’re conservatives. We’re all conservatives together. This sort of thing goes back several generations.

Comment on Quote of the day—Sen. Joe Manchin III by Paul Koning

Paul Koning — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:12:45 +0000

The Wall St. Journal had a nice op-ed piece about Axelrod’s amazing statement along the lines of: you can’t expect to hold the president accountable for bad stuff because the government is too big to control.
True, but as the WSJ points out, that’s one heck of a Freudian slip for the most recent architect of big government.

Comment on Quote of the day—Sen. Joe Manchin III by Lyle

Lyle — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:04:28 +0000

So there’s purpose in all that incoherence.

Comment on Quote of the day—Sen. Joe Manchin III by Lyle

Lyle — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:52:20 +0000

We should also note the “this great country” bit. He’s saying that America’s greatness flows from government power, government programs and government action. Thus, to limit government is to limit America’s “greatness”.

So any “Greatness” is a result of the “Entrepreneurs” in government. That means that the rest of us are just in the way, no?

Comment on Gun Song – Marty Robbins – Big Iron by ASM826

ASM826 — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:14:01 +0000

How about Tennessee Ernie Ford singing “Shotgun Boogie”?

Comment on The Stars Came Back -081- Delivery by Rolf

Rolf — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:16:59 +0000

Slang. Likely not a formally correct term, but one I’ve heard forever. Similar to “whatnot.”
Easy to change to avoid confusion.

Comment on The Stars Came Back -082- Incoming by Rolf

Rolf — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:14:03 +0000

Same guy. Rather than trust Kwon’s assertion about the ships armor, he ran for his own bunker, caught an incoming round out on the open space.

Comment on The Stars Came Back -081- Delivery by ubu52

ubu52 — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:05:31 +0000

You might want to check the word “such-not.” I’ve never heard of it and I couldn’t find it in a dictionary or a thesaurus.

Comment on The Stars Came Back -082- Incoming by ubu52

ubu52 — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:02:08 +0000

Confused about this: “He falls, bounces and rolls, and lays still, next to the bloody body and lifeless eyes of the tech level compliance monitor.” Is this compliance monitor the same guy who was inside with Helton when the warning went off? Or is this someone else?

Comment on Who’s paranoid now? by Rob Crawford

Rob Crawford — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:23:37 +0000

“We’ve nearly all exhibited behavior something like this.”

What you mean “we”, kemo sabe?

Comment on The Stars Came Back -082- Incoming by Rolf

Rolf — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:17:03 +0000

Aye, that it be, lad. Thank’ee fer d’fix.

Comment on Who’s paranoid now? by Lyle

Lyle — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:07:34 +0000

Also, as a victim you are absolved of most any responsibility. It’s extremely attractive. It’s a form of salvation isn’t it? All your sins are washed away, not because you’ve repented but because someone else is to blame. Now you’re free to act without limits, and to hell with anyone who gets in the way of your freedom.

To make the point that your self defense is your responsibility sort of throws a wrench in the whole thing then.

Comment on The Stars Came Back -082- Incoming by Alan Rognlie

Alan Rognlie — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:05:56 +0000

Bridge scene, 5th paragraph

Ship AI: (OC, with heavy pirate accent) Someone looks to be slip’n into the harbor, quiet-like, to take us ***as*** anchor. Crows nest can’t see a thing, fog’s thick, but thar be a splash t’ be heard.

as s.b. at?

Comment on Who’s paranoid now? by Bubblehead Les

Bubblehead Les — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:55:35 +0000

So over on the Other Left Coast in NYC, a Homophobic Nut Job shot to death a Guy because he was Gay.

I think people out there better realize that Trigger Fingers are Gender-Neutral. And Religious-Neutral, Politically-Neutral, Racially-Neutral…..

Comment on The Stars Came Back -081- Delivery by Rolf

Rolf — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:50:23 +0000

Thanks for the support, and hopefully I can keep on spinning as well a while longer. And, of course, feel free to let others you know that like the same genre know about it. It will eventually be in book form, and I’d like to sell enough to make it worth continuing.
Yes, Tajemnica is keeping things tight, but there is very good reason for that, even aside from the legal issues, as will be shown eventually.