Might suggest Caroline's ""On Kipling and Weekday Afternoons" in HEADS TO THE STORM, 1989 for the Cherryh fan.
Poul Anderson "He [Kipling] is for everyone who responds to vividness, word magic, sheer storytelling. Most readers go on to discover the subtleties and profundities."
The phrase was pommes, poires et des Scooby Doo from a song popular not quite 50 years ago. I wondered why the plastic lace was purely decorative rather than say lanyards for a whistle or a Scout compass.
Resarch does imply the most likely to stay addicted and use to the point of destruction are the children for whom drugs are the sole and only pleasure in life. I don't think any research has invalidated the crack - when you think of television's awesome power to educate aren't you glad it doesn't?
See also Where Are The Divisions As of January 4th
for a source with obvious bias but also a strong urge to explain things.
Perhaps Boxer thinks it realistic to see people defenceless against bullies with sticks?
She [Boxer] was a leader in passing the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban, and she wrote a bill to ban dangerous “junk guns” or Saturday Night Specials
It does seem that others of the Democratic leadership (more if Dean makes it) don't see gun grabbing as a winning liberal issue or particularly desirable or both so Boxer does deserve full credit for a steadfast gun grabbing position.
Further discussion from secondary sources as reviewed in the NYT (usual registration required and articles expire and go pay)
'Imperial Reckoning' and 'Histories of the Hanged': White Man's Bungle
where it is reported
Not only are the colonists barbaric in their treatment of the Kikuyu, but, as she [Elkins] has it, they are basically barbarous in private as well, maintaining ''an absolutely hedonistic lifestyle, filled with sex, drugs, drink and dance.'' Or to me sounds like a lot of fans at one time or another.
I should say that an argument for genocide based on a possible reduction in the natural rate of increase - but a period of increasing population all the same - is to abuse the language. To call the dominant population of the country, before, during and after victims of genocide is to trivialize the term at least as much as denying genocide during ethnic cleansing in Darfur.
I repeat my own view that some facts are here ignored in the interests of making a point and in lieu of claiming the lurkers agree with me I'll quote from the netoriously right wing American medium:
Unfortunately, Elkins's prosecutorial zeal in a sense precludes a true ''imperial reckoning.'' For British rule brought crucial benefits that persist -- among them modern education and a degree of infrastructure -- as well as violent oppression to its subjects. A thorough reckoning would provide, by way of paradox, not only a more deeply insightful but a more deeply wrenching work of imperial history. Daniel Bergner
Sidebar: How Racist Ideology Works
But surprise-- the Mau Mau savagery is a myth. As the Economist details in a review of Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of the End of Empire in Kenya, the number of British settlers killed? Emphasis added quoting the side bar reference.
At the time, westerners became aware of Mau Mau from reading grisly newspaper articles about the murder of white farmers. In fact, although thousands of Africans died in the conflict, only 32 white settlers were killed by Mau Mau in eight years. Sidebar reference quoting the Economist
To stop short after saying thousands of Africans died in the conflict might carry an implication that those deaths resulted entirely from British or Colonial actions and certainly there is an implication here that only the 32 white settler deaths ought to to be counted against the Mau Mau. Some consideration might be given to the reported 2,000 collaborator Africans murdered by the Mau Mau according to official Colonial Government figures as of 1956. Some say the conflict was also a civil war. As the Great Lorenzo observed - when one party has the right idea it will dominate then split -
In March 1960, KAU split into two parties, KANU (Kenya African National Union) and KADU (Kenya African Democratic Union). The former, supported mainly by Kikuyus and Luos, defended a central government in Nairobi, whilst the latter, preferred by the minority ethnic groups and by Great Britain, proposed a federal political system to avoid concentrating power in Kikuyus' hands.
I'd say some history is glossed over here in the interests of making a point. It's not obvious to me that glossing over history is the best way to make a point as opposed to scoring one.
Speaking of talking past each other - fly talk: unwarranted assertion followed by flat denial followed by things flying -
This is what the Republican party has excelled in reinforcing as regards launching war after war: that if you watch all the way to the end, and don't walk out during intermission, everything will work out for the best.emphasis added
Contrast that with this from Dr. Pournelle:
I don't believe the Democrats can get the oil flowing again; and the last time they were in control of the military they demonstrated that they are still the Party of War (US involvement in WWI, WW II, Cold War, Korea, Viet Nam, Haiti, all started under Democratic presidents), and also that they were now interested only in wars in which there is no discernable US interest: Bosnia, and the whole Balkan affair. Republican adventures were generally short and decisive (Granada and Panama come to mind) and had some faint connection with national interest: even Iraq if we had done it right. Bush the Elder got us into Somalia but was ready to get out: staying to build nations was another President's idea. The Party of War kept us there until the Black Hawk was down. The Party of War, but never war in American interests. "What's the use of that splendid army if we can't use it to do good?" emphasis added again
It is not obvious to me that farm supports for Archer Daniels Midland, or assorted Florida cane growers (including in Florida the right to damage the ecosystem including to pollute with run-off at least as offensive to the glades as a feed lot is to its own community) constitute anything but a transfer of wealth from the blue states to the stock holders and coupon clippers; not to the man with a hoe.
Notice the Idaho Congressional delegation - as a delegation - wanted to Sunset provisions of the Patriot Act as having been enacted to meet a potential emergency that failed to develop -hardly a knee jerk Red State reaction by my lights. Nor am I inclined to believe they caucused and decided to oppose the views of their constituents on this issue.
That's straw man bullshit, Clark. Actually in context I'll take that as a pun. Whatever my sympathies might be for Anabaptist thought I repeat that setting fire in the thatched roof of a barn as part of a peasant's revolt does much to make people equal and much more to make them hungry.
There are the worse the better strategies to which much of this country has always echoed the immortal words so often associated with Bill Bixby - don't make me mad, you wouldn't like me when I'm mad - see any of the pundits on the Scotch-Irish-Jacksonian strain of American thought especially to include war making. As a nation we may act just as individuals do, judging ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions - but whether for that reason or any other it is a mugs game to seek to persuade the majority their own intentions are bad.
Besides everybody knows Democrats vote that way because they are all gun grabbers who envy their neighbor's guns and want to tax their ammunition outrageously.
Reduce Inequality And when the red rooster crows on top of the barn folks are more equal and that's a good thing today as it proved to be once upon a time? Let's hear 3 cheers for corrosive envy?
Did I miss the irony here? Democrats need to define The Republican Politician as a DECEIVING, MANIPULATIVE, SCHEMING, MEAN-SPIRITED, CON-ARTIST who willfully and gleefully assassinates the character of any innocent victim that stands in the way of his rabid lust for power And the New Class of Democrats will be so much better?
Some folks may just not go to Oklahoma much any more but if I'm with family in Wichita (actually Winfield but people wouldn't recognize Winfield as a nice little college town) I'd like to be able to shop Ponca City - hardly convenient to unite the country by strands of barbed wire across the boundaries between our newly found ethnic identities - even if you throw Kansas in with Oklahoma as a reservation for Republicans.
Does it work justice to declare lifeboat rules and throw the first class passengers out of the boat in favor of the steerage? Throw the fatcats to the wolves they'll take longer to digest?
How about a consensus on Pareto Optimality - if an opportunity exists to make somebody better off without making anybody worse off let's take it.
Not quite all fifty states: Seems to me, - and fact checking is left as an exercise Google is your friend, I may be quite mistaken - that a current proportional system derives from the historical Electoral College system - a system of 1 vote per representative and 1 per senator in the College. The proportional system allocates the 1 vote per representative to the national candidate who carries the given congressional district and similarly the 1 vote per senator to the national candidate who carries the senatorial district (which district is the state).
Interesting implications for places like Texas today and other places at other times.
Then too last time I checked the political parties formed in the United States lasted to this date - and folks could still join the Wobblies.
Quite true that there is a disincentive to be the sort of independent party leader in a coalition that we see in say Israel - but there might be, despite first past the post for head of state (which is fairly common actually -see e.g. Double Star obs SF) with different congressional rules - have to strain though (story alert!).
Colorado, we now know rejected change.
Anybody have an opinion on schools as polling places - school in session or classes canceled? with whatever the electioneering at polling places rules might be applied to students?
I'd think anybody who finds the Kipling new should look at (obsSF) Heads to the Storm and A Separate Star but then I would wouldn't I.
As noted I take the said attack as a denial of use attack - on readers - rather than a denial of service attack. Be that as it may, I certainly have no problem with pointing people at an issue as this site does so well.
Of course as a free speech absolutist I'd have to support that side in each case - here and in the school auditorium. I'd expect you all to agree - perhaps for some people on the even a blind hog can find an occasional acorn - with even such as Mr. du Toit that the whole of this country is by rights a free speech zone. Perhaps not, I've seen some indication that some folks here would deny that right to LGF and such.
On the other hand, just possibly, the principal acted in the community interest and followed a standing policy of making publicly paid for community facilities available for events of community interest. As I think he should (in the small town community center circumstances here described) - even for rallies attended by some controversy - almost without limits (see above on free speech to include a right to a forum beyond a soap box in Hyde Park).
I'll never know but I'll also never believe (short of maybe video tape or a full adversarial hearing or.....) the school administration ever intended to or did in fact act contrary to the various controlling (controlling isn't always bad?) holdings especially the clear statements of Tinker.
However I also suggest in the circumstances here described that finding a small town school administrator - or a state official - to be fascist is equally permissable and about as hard for me to believe.
Such an identification sounds to me more like a personal attack on the hotel front desk clerk for management miscues.
Rather than pester folks in Wisconsin I'll take my lead from Dr. Pournelle when he says:....Now, while you are thinking about it. Google NRCC[Republican National Campaign Committee], go to Contact Us, and tell them they have been worse than foolish. This is a dangerous game, and the people who thought of trying it ought to be invited to leave political employment forever.
I also suggest that the NRCC begin sensitivity classes for its staff: sensitivity to the Bill of Rights, and particularly to the provision about Congress making no law abridging the freedom of speech.
Of course I also agree with the NRA and others that any reform that deprives any group of a voice is no reform.
I took it as an effort to get the comments filtered - that is blocked for folks at work - certainly never looked like a marketing effort inexpert though I be in those areas
(actually I did follow things a little bit when p0rn was cutting edge in web techniques and development of micropayment by association in various adult chek schemes and clickthrough)
- with a possibility of flagging browser use for abuse of company resources for folks at work when the logs come home to roost.
There must be a name for it; not quite a Joe job but quite related?
Of course if we propose to worry about shooters who don't deserve the name of snipers may I remind this group and the world that Lon Horiuchi is still walking free to our sorrow.
Of course if we propose to worry about shooters who don't deserve the name of snipers may I remind this group and the world that Lon Horiuchi is still walking free.
If we're going to cite cases then I suggest:
Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Comm. School Dist.
Syllabus
Petitioners, three public school pupils in Des Moines, Iowa, were suspended from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Government's policy in Vietnam. They sought nominal damages and an injunction against a regulation that the respondents had promulgated banning the wearing of armbands. The District Court dismissed the complaint on the ground that the regulation was within the Board's power, despite the absence of any finding of substantial interference with the conduct of school activities. The Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, affirmed by an equally divided court. Held:
1. In wearing armbands, the petitioners were quiet and passive. They were not disruptive and did not impinge upon the rights of others. In these circumstances, their conduct was within the protection of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth. Pp. 505-506.
2. First Amendment rights are available to teachers and students, subject to application in light of the special characteristics of the school environment. Pp. 506-507.(emphasis added)
3. A prohibition against expression of opinion, without any evidence that the rule is necessary to avoid substantial interference with school discipline or the rights of others, is not permissible under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Pp. 507-514.
DISPOSITION: 383 F.2d 988, reversed and remanded. [504]
I just might read that to imply that juveniles -students - in fact have the same rights as adults - teachers - certainly to pure speech but subject to more stingent than usual time place and manner restrictions given the school's actions in place of the parents. In any event I would read it to suggest the school administration that today objected to black armbands is acting in bad faith.
A Section 1983 Action - for deprivation of civil liberties under color of State authority - is so attractive in its remedies as to be over advocated and under-utilized in practice but on the bare facts here such an action might well lie. Not a professional opinion but an engaging option.
Terry if you have to go to school in Texas why not San Angelo this time of year?
Yeah, I do think it’s extreme to call these people fascists Taking fascist as I understand the term banning Coke gear in a Pepsi school or vice versa - as has in fact happened - might be fascist.
The infringement of free speech rights described here is stupid beyond belief - but then a null hypothesis of stupid beyond belief is irrefutable for many school administrators - as well as a violation of constitutional rights to free speech in an area of speech - political speech - entitled to the greatest protection or alternatively phrased where any restriction must stand the strictest possible scrutiny. Of course this doesn't and wouldn't and won't. Ranks right up there with saying a student may not use a picture with a sporting firearm in the yearbook - as has also happened - but hardly fascist.
Where stupidity is an adequate explanation I might look no farther but I would welcome an explanation of why this in particular is fascism and another incident of political correctness in the schools isn't.
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