Blame Gun Owners

A district attorney and his wife have been murdered in Texas.

Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were found shot dead inside their Forney home on Saturday night, a chilling crime that put law enforcement agencies across Texas on high alert and shook prosecutors, defense attorneys and others in legal circles around North Texas.

Late Saturday night, sources said a .223-caliber assault rifle, similar to an AR-15, was used in the murders, with approximately 14 rounds being fired.

The criminal responsible will not be blamed by the gun-grabbers.

There will be more calls for more violence against innocent people by the gun-grabbers.

Count on it.

Disarm The Citizens

Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit wrote:

It’s still not clear if the new gun control laws in Colorado will save any lives. That’s still up for debate.

The answer is no.

Legally disarming the citizens will have no impact on the actions of criminals and the insane. Such legislation has historically placed citizens at greater risk of death or injury as a result of criminal action.

In light of this fact there can be no valid reason to disarm the citizens.

Thought For The Day

North Korea would be a joke if it weren't for all the dead bodies.

Fact Of The Day

Islamic Law is a complete contradiction in terms.

For example:

Lama al-Ghamdi, 5, died this past October from injuries relating to a crushed skull, broken ribs, a broken arm, a broken back and severe burns. On top of being brutally beaten, medical reports say that Lama had also been raped repeatedly.

Lama was killed by her father, prominent Islamic preacher Fayhan al-Ghamdi, who served only three months in prison and was released after paying $50,000 as ‘blood money.’

Islam is the creation of a depraved creature. (I won't call it a man.) This creature made a career of rape, robbery, and murder. It claimed to speak for God and murdered those who correctly refused to believe that claim. It created a false code of law in order to facilitate further crimes by itself and it's followers.

Islam denies the validity of all real laws. Including the Bill Of rights. Under no circumstances can Islam EVER claim protection as a religion under the First Amendment. EVER.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Fact Of The Day

Contrary to what many conservatives believe absolute economic equality is actually possible to accomplish.

All that has to done is to completely annihilate the Human Race.

Thought Of The Day

Back in December after the Sandy Hook Massacre I was involved in a discussion on firearms ownership on an Objectivist Mailing list.

One list member, who I will not identify to save him from further embarrassment, wrote:

Again drawing from fiction, in The Weapon Shops of Isher and its sequel The Weapon Makers the author A.E. Van Vogt uses the phrase: “The right to buy weapons is the right to be free,” which I think most astute. In this classic science fiction story the Weapon Shop weapons are only capable of being used in self defense.

The list owner correctly declared that this was metaphysically impossible.

Let’s examine the premise.

Consciousness Is Identification.

Consciousness is the process of seeing things as they actually are.

In order for an artifact, such as a firearm, to be able to identify the difference between a valid target it must be a conscious being. In practical effect the weapon is a person. As a piece of property this person is a slave.

Furthermore, if the weapon owner, or the operator it is issued to, cannot identify the difference between a valid target –- statists and criminals -- and innocent persons, then the owner or operator in this respect is unconscious. To require that the attribute of consciousness be constructed into a weapon demonstrates that the potential owner or operator is not fit to hold it.

As Consciousness Is Identification, what can we say about those in government who cannot or willfully refuse to identify the difference between citizens and criminals? Or unable to simply identify any fact of reality at all?

We would have to identify them as being unconscious.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Thought For The Day

I went home with a waitress, the way I always do,
How was I to know, she was with the Cylons too?

Update

Initial submission to a semi-pro magazine rejected.

I submitted a revised version to Analog.

Let's see how that works.

Addition

Even though I submitted a short story for publication I rewrote it a bit.

It includes this new line.

Well. That was nice. An equal opportunity Armageddon.

Oddly enough I'm actually looking forward to a rejection slip.

Text I Decided To Not Use

Francis shouted.

“Don’t you want the ultimate software package?”

“No.” I replied. “Perhaps you should call Bill Gates at Microsoft or whoever is in charge at Apple now that Steve Jobs is deceased. Or you could send a letter.”

Francis stared at me with a blank expression on his face.

Mystifying. Isn't it?

Here's more text:

“Have you given thought to masturbation?” I replied. “It’s a much safer form of sexual gratification.”

Miss Buckley was visibly shocked.

Sex, computers, what else?

Paragraph Of The Day

From a parody I'm working on at the moment:

“Have you considered masturbation?”  I replied.  “It’s a much safer form of sex.”

Notice

New pope elected.

He has taken the official name of Francis.

So what?

Quote Of The Day

Classical economic Marxism is not light, and most of the radicals of the Sixties were not deep.

Bill Lind, August 10, 1998

You Tube video here.

Announcement

Hugo Chavez, who once attempted to seize power by force and was elected to be the chief looter of Venezuela, has expired.

The Marxist piece of trash should have been taken out and shot.

Some things should not ever be left to the hands of God.

And here is the Pythonic version of the announcement:

He’s not pining! He’s passed on! This looter is no more! He has ceased to be! He’s expired and gone to meet his maker! He’s a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If he hadn’t been nailed to the hospital bed he’d be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He’s off the twig! He’s kicked the bucket, He’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bloody choir infernal!! THIS IS AN EX-Looter!!

Thought For The Day

Barack Obama: We dumped the British Monarchy for him?

Post of the day

I've finished the second chapter of the novel.

http://otherles.livejournal.com/11890.html

A Reminder

If your spine glows while you are having sexual intercourse you may be a Cylon.

First Chapter

I just posted the first chapter of my novel on my Live Journal page.

This is not set in the Official Traveller Universe.

http://otherles.livejournal.com/11664.html

Event Of The Day

Today is Yoko Ono's 80th birthday.

I'd say, "Dear God, why?" But I'm an atheist.

A Literary Demolition Of DORSAI!

Or how not to write a science fiction novel.

As part of my project to write a science fiction novel I am re-reading DORSAI! Yes, the exclamation point is part of the title. This is the first novel in a series of ubermensch fantasies by Gordon R. Dickson. I am reading it with the intent of deconstructing it as an example of military science fiction with mercenaries. My goal as a novelist is to create a depiction of a similar band of mercenaries and show how a rational nation would be deal with them.

Here’s the first paragraph from the chapter titled MERCENARY III:

Returning again up the corridor toward the bow of the ship, Donal allowed himself to wonder, a little wistfully, about this incubus of his own strange difference from other people. He had thought to leave it behind with his cadet uniform. Instead, it seemed, it continued to ride with him, still perched on his shoulders. Always it had been this way. What seemed so plain, and simple and straightforward to himself, had always struck others as veiled, tortuous, and involved. Always he had been like a stranger passing trough a town, the ways of whose people were different, and who looked on him with a lack of understanding amounting to suspicion. Their language failed on the doorstep of his motives and could not enter the lonely mansion of his mind. They said “enemy” and “friend”; they said “strong” and “weak”–“them” and “us”. They set up a thousand arbitrary classifications and distinctions which he could not comprehend, convinced as he was that all people were only people–and there was very little to choose between them. Only, you dealt with them as individuals, one by one; and always remembering to be patient. And if you did this successfully, then the larger, group things came out right.

Can you understand that? Was Dickson an English Literature major at the U of M?

ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, the periodical that published this serially in 1959 did pay a penny a word. But this amount of barely incomprehensible verbiage is simply absurd.

Dickson attempts to recreate the European political environment prior to the Treaty Of Westphalia (1648), a time when the use of specifically raised and organized mercenary units was commonplace. Civil wars within what should be sovereign nation states are commonplace. Dickson also creates a moral nightmare. A universe where the Right Of Life is legally negated. An individual may be conscripted by the state and forced to work on another world in trade for another worker with knowledge in another field. Or die as cannon fodder in a foreign war. And the penalty for an individual who broke this so-called contract is death.

Dickson may not have understood the concept of government. But then he was a graduate of the University Of Minnesota.

What is very apparent when reading this and the other works in the series is that Dickson adopted a Platonist metaphysics. What passes for philosophy is a gibberish of Eastern Mysticism and Racial Collectivism along with the open practice of magic. In fact the overall plot of the series, such it was, is completely dependent on the occurrence of magical events. It would more accurate to describe this series as a work of fantasy instead of science fiction. In THE FINAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, Dickson actually wrote a scene set on the Platonic World Of Forms. And at the end of the initial novel Dickson has his protagonist literally commanding the antagonist to suffer. And the antagonist magically does so.

If reality is unreal in a fictional universe, why bother to write about it?