Arguing With Liberals

Found at Power Line Blogs week in photos which is always worth the clickover:

To my observation, asking questions back is the quickest way to silence a liberal.

Next year I plan to attend the hearings for the anti-gun bills and ask a lot of questions.

Job Qualifications

A few days ago I had my last remaining app requiring Windows XP die aparetnly an irrevocable death. That being the case, I no longer had a reason to keep my old XP box on the desk. Except for a bunch of personal files and pictures and whatnot that I've been meaning to find and move over to the Win7 machine. Looking for an easy solution, I removed the hard drive from the XP box and installed it in the new one. As it happened, the connections were new enough that it looked like a plug and play operation with the big obstacle being the mechanical installation.

The L-shaped socket in the data cable matches the L shaped protrusion in the receptacle and

The Power cable neatly fits the larger receptacle. What could go wrong?

Got that done, plugged it all in with only having to replace one cable for a longer one, and pushed the GO button. The power supply breaker popped as soon as my finger lifted from the button. Unplug the drive and the machine starts right up. I didn't see anything wrong with the way I'd plugged everything in so I query my friends who are more computer oriented than I am. Got lots of advice, including an offer from Jed of the loan of a device that allows one to connect pretty much any hard drive to any computer regardless of connection requirements.

 He came over with the esoteric tool to connect stray drives to working computers, I showed him what I'd done, he thought it looked OK, I hooked it back up and turned it on and Voila! it works. Nothing changed except Jeds presence. 

So Jed is now a certified faith healer. I think it has something to do with the length of ones beard. The price of gold has historically followed the average length of men's beards, and whenever the media want an economist to pontificate on something they find some fellow with a beard. Economists without beards are simply non credible. As the beard gets longer, the area of expertise gets more esoteric and the job titles tend toward spiritual healer, high holy man, and wizard.

Keep in mind, before you toss your razor, that these are tricky lines of work and difficult to get in to like the NBA. There are a few successful religious leaders, mostly with titles like Ayatollah or Mufti, and a lot of less successful philosophers, many of whom adorn the busiest street corners with cardboard signs. Some of them are probably failed economists as well. I will note here that the current Pope is clean shaven. I will also note that, in my humble opinion, he isn't one of the better popes to come down the line, and he certainly knows nothing about economics. Next time, maybe one with a beard?

Morals And Ethics

I always found it interesting that the left was so uniformly adamantly opposed to displays of the 10 commandments on state capitol or courthouse grounds. Especially as the most corrupt politicians tended overwhelmingly to be Democrats. My take was that this sprung from Religion in general being the source of our morals and ethics, the left would of course see any moral or ethical guidelines springing from religion as creating a hostile work environment.

Here's a better explanation complete with optics:

Since their political philosophy is pretty much devoid of moral or ethical absolutes, to the left, the presence of the commandments on the building lawn is like showing a cross to a vampire.

Note also the love shown by the left toward Islam, the only major religion to include broad exceptions to every moral and ethical commandment.

Found here at Prager U.

Islamic Problem Self Solving

At last here's some Islamic theology I can get behind:

The Friday prayer leader in holy Mecca called for all Sunnis to slaughter Shiites in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon.
The holy imam told his flock that whoever is killed while fighting Shia Muslims will go to heaven as a righteous martyr.

All that's missing at this point is a Shia cleric saying the same thing. Frankly I don't think we'll have to wait long for that.