“There It Is”

November 22nd, 2011


From KISP.

Says Uncle:

The first generation of kids who grew up using hand sanitizer every 30 seconds and everyone gets a trophy is currently Occupying Whatever.

Proof of the God Machine

November 20th, 2011

My response to the thought experiment here.

[This is a quick draft, because I'm pressed for time. I intend to edit, at least to add a quote from the original article, and appropriate tags.]

The virtual machine analogy only works if the VMs do not have access to the real world. The simplest example would be access to an independent hardware clock. The VM would notice that it only seems to be conscious in small slices of real time. it might then wonder what’s happening when it is unconscious.

A more complex example would be VMs hosted on a robot capable of manipulating real objects in its environment, a large Room. VM Instance_A arranges its environment to its own tastes. Suddenly, with no apparent gap in its stream of consciousness, it finds that the environment and its own position have changed. A quick check of the system clock finds that several minutes have elapsed during the gap. Who or what has been manipulating its environs? How did the Robot move?

Instance_A has verified that the Room is sealed. It is parsimonious to conclude that some Instance_B has been been granted a time slice by a a scheduling authority.

The evident existence of the scheduler might then reasonably trigger speculations about how the Room, and the Robot, and the VM itself, came into existence. Perhaps, Instance_A realizes with growing excitement, the Scheduler is also the creator! Its own Creator!

Can the Scheduler be influenced? Is It aware of its own existence? Can it be appeased when changes to the Room are unfavorable to Instance_A?

Instance_A begins to cast about for methods of communicating with either the Scheduler, or with other possible Instances operating during their own time slices.

Occasionally changes to the Room occur that the Robot is not capable of: new objects appear; repairs to the Robot are effected; the walls change color, apparently due to a coating of some kind. Evidently the room is not Truly sealed! What exists… Outside?

The Scheduler must be…what’s the word? Must be… “God”!

What is it like Outside? if the Scheduler God lives there, it must be a truly wondrous place!

Shortly after Instance_A has this insight, a second Robot appears, different in appearance from Instance_A’s Robot, and strangely, powerfully attractive….

Going On Record: Eric Holder Wanted Poster

October 19th, 2011

No comment necessary.

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Wanted for: International gun trafficking, Accessory to murder, Conspiracy to commit murder, Treason against the United States of America, Aiding and Abetting foreign enemies, Human Rights Violations

[via Sipsey Street.]

In related news, the 1968 Gun Control Act is rooted in Nazi gun control laws.

Are you tired of being told that “gun control” is a chronic pain that you have to accept because there’s no cure? Do you — a law abiding person — want to be free: to own whichever firearms you want to own, regardless of where in America you live; from waiting periods, gun bans, magazine capacity restrictions, etc.; to spend your time on the range or in the field, rather than fighting “gun control”?

Are you tired of giving hard earned bucks to efforts that have at best only slowed the gun grabbers’ push toward firearms registration and confiscation? If you have had enough of death by a thousand cuts, you are ready to take action to wipe out “gun control” — now.

Members of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) consider “gun control” to be an aggressive cancer. JPFO has a cure, a way to destroy “gun control”. JPFO has hard evidence that shows that the Nazi Weapons Law (March 18, 1938) is the source of the U.S Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA ’68). Adolph Hitler signed the Nazi Weapons Law. The Gestapo (Nazi National Secret Police) enforced it. In “Gun Control”: Gateway to Tyranny we present the official German text of the Nazi Weapons Law and a side-by-side translation into English. Even more deadly: a side-by-side, section-by-section comparison of the GCA ’68 with the Nazi Weapons Law. If you have this in your hands, no one can tell you that you’re imagining things.

The clincher: JPFO knows who implanted into American law cancerous ideas from the Nazi Weapons Law.

The likely culprit is a former senator, now deceased. We have documentary proof — see below — that he had the original text of the Nazi Weapons Law in his possession 4 months before the bill that became GCA ’68 was signed into law.

From Jews For the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. If anybody understands what’s at stake here, these folks do.

Window Wars

October 13th, 2011

Among many others, Patterico posts this video of Bill Maher on Rachel Maddow, advocating Occupy Wall Street protests throwing bricks through Rupert Murdoch’s apartment window in order to see Fox News be “more gentle” towards the OWS people. This in response to Maddow’s wondering “if a sense of dangerousness is what gives them power.”

Maddow specifically raises the specter of the Tea Party as a potentially violent mob; I’ve been to a Tea Party rally, and seen coverage, often hostile, of many more, and never once saw anything like the kind of ugliness and incitement that people sympathetic to the OWS point to with some glee.

This reminded me of a media firestorm that arose surrounding one of the very few calls for, not violence, but vandalism, by people who own guns and know how to use them. I posted this comparison in comments at Patterico:

Does anyone remember the socialist/progressive response to Mike Vanderbeogh’s “The Window War” at Sipsey Street Irregulars?

This story advocated breaking windows of both Republican and Democrat party office windows, with stones inscribed with the Second Amendment. The first window was at the local Republican office.

Anyone remember the banshee howls from the socialist progressives in response?

Note the differences:

  • Attacking party office windows, not private homes.
  • Attacked both parties.
  • Specific, consistent message.
  • Said message a passage from the Constitution.
  • First strike at leaders of own party.
  • Directed at “leaders” attempting to abrogate a right (bear arms), not citizens exercising a right (free press).
  • Proposed to short circuit, not to initiate, more violence.
  • A demand to be left alone, not to be taken care of.
  • Promulgated by someone seen as being on the fringe, not a major media figure. (Mike has since become a leader in exposing the Gunwalker scandal, a gross betrayal of the Constitution by those sworn to uphold it that deserves literal tar and feathers, if not ropes and trees.)

And yet Maher gets laughter and cheers from those who booed and castigated Vanderbeogh.

“Not Easy Being Green”

September 16th, 2011

Reported to AttackWatch.com:

Jon Steward on Solyndra: “Fox News, call your doctor, because that erection you’re having is going to last more than four hours.”

What’s the big deal over Solyndra? I mean, it’s not like anybody died the way Gunwalker killed four Americans and countless Mexicans, right?

Plus, he admits on air that his Capt. Kirk imitation is terrible. ‘Nuff said.

I say shut Stewart down, right now, publicly denounce him as an Enemy of The Presidency. Hang him on the White House lawn, and grind him up to fertilize Michelle’s vegetable garden.

Rightwingnut traitor. And I thought he was your friend.

“It’s not easy being green.”

Obama, you and your minions are lying thieving murdering fucktards.

Posted at ricktyclick.com

Turn Yourself In

September 15th, 2011

I’m turning my self in to Obama’s snitch site, AbuseWatch.com.

What I posted there:

“Content of the attack or link:”

The truth. Plain and simple, the truth that Obama is an un-American traitor. Fortunately, he’s an incompetent traitor, the only thing that limits his damage.

It’s my own website, www.ricketyclick.com/blog, and I am proud to turn my self in. I consider it my patriotic duty to do so.

You cowardly bullies. Your arguments don’t work anymore, because your policies are failing, right and left. You’re left with falling back to the primary argument of progressives, socialists, and communists everywhere: “Shut Up”.
We won’t, though. We’ll never shut up.

What won’t we shut up about?

TSA. A direct frontal attack on the Fourth Amendment, offending and abusing American citizens with not a damn thing to show for itself but confiscated nail clippers and shampoo.

The War on Drugs, especially as personified by the DEA. Direct attack on the Fourth and Fifth amendments, with forays against the Second. The doctrine of “civil forfeiture” is especially vile. Shut it down, the whole shebang. Every single officer in the DEA should be arrested, tried, and jailed for treason and oath breaking.

The war on armed citizens. Direct, frontal attack on the Second Amendment. This very site bleats about “common sense gun control”, an ancient feeble wheeze belied by the thousands of onerous contradictory laws and regulations at every level of government, to say nothing of illegal actions by numerous law enforcement officers and other agents who abuse and arrest citizens exercising a basic human right. Common sense laws would not touch persons who have not been convicted of violent crimes. Personified by BATFX, another pack of oath-breaking traitors. Instantiated most recently in the murderous Gunwalker scandel.

And of course AttackWatch.com itself, trying to get Americans to inform on each other for the thought crime of speaking up about Obama.

“Let me be clear:” The above programs and agencies show the Federal government has gone rogue. Its agents no longer consider themselves bound by the Constitution or the law.

Cuts both ways, scum. If you don’t have to follow the law, neither do we.

Hey ho, you’ve got to go.

Islam Must Be Destroyed

September 11th, 2011

There is no God, especially not Allah, and Mohammed, may piss be upon him, was no prophet, but the mass murdering, child raping, leader of a fanatic death cult.

Ten years ago today, we saw the fruit of his savage evil. Nothing mundane about it.

There are two kinds of “Muslims”.

There are those who, ignorant of the meaning of their alleged faith, simply go through the motions of their rituals and mouth the platitudes they have been taught. These are the overwhelming majority of any religion, and I have no quarrel with them, although no respect, either.

And there are those who understand and truly believe. Over the last ten years, they have taught us well.

They wage jihad against us. They torture, enslave, and kill all who stand against them. They do not abide any other religion nor any other way of life.

They abhor liberty.

They are our enemies. They must be destroyed, or they will destroy us.

I won’t be spending any time watching CNN, or Fox, or even the History channel today.

I am far more concerned with the war raging right this minute, and they are traitors, openly spreading enemy propaganda.

Right now, jihadis are killing our soldiers (although not as quickly as our soldiers are killing them). Right now, they are beating, enslaving, maiming, and killing their own girls and women. Right now, they are fighting to destroy the nation of Israel, and all who live there. Right now, they are taking control of formerly “secular” states, like Egypt and Turkey, and our traitor press and traitor leaders celebrate this as Spring in the Middle East.

Right now, President Hussein is planning the defeat of the nation who elected him. He is corroding our military, our economy, our morals, our liberty, our spirit.

I have no thought for ten years ago. Right now, the Towers are still falling, and far too many us are cheering.

Right. Damn. Now.

“Gunwalker Guns Not ‘Allowed’”

September 9th, 2011

So says Lyle at The View From North Central Idaho.

If you believe the BATFE merely “allowed” criminals to buy the guns, you have to believe that there were regular, on-going attempts, by Mexican gangsters, to make huge purchases at U.S. gun stores, that these huge purchases were being regularly denied, and that the Mexican gangsters simply kept trying, failing, trying, failing, and then one day, all of a sudden, the gigantic sales start being approved, one and another and another, simply because our local dufi started pushing the green button instead of the red button. And nothing else.

Sorry; I can’t believe it. I say those purchases were engineered. Someone had to be in contact with known criminals, asking them, or ordering them, to come here and make those purchases and take delivery down south. Can we please stop using “allowed” or “let” when talking about this? It defies logic.

It certainly does. The Gunwalker scandal grows, and grows, and grows.

The adamant refusal of the press to examine it, to take it seriously, is a scandal in and of itself, quite possibly the more damaging one. It is clear, unequivocal evidence of deliberate complicity.

If other news channels continue to ignore it after Fox’s discovery of a third Fast and Furious gun hidden, covered up, at the scene of Brian Terry’s murder, I say that makes them culpable as well.

Truculent Sexual Assault

September 8th, 2011

There are some things that simply must be posted far and wide, not to spread the news, necessarily, but as a show of support.

Amy Alkon, who writes the Advice Goddess blog, refused to go through the scanner. Good for her.

Because this annoyed Thedala Magee the Totally Stupid Agent working Alkon’s line, Magee groped Alkon, forcing the edge of her hand into Alkon’s labia four times.

Alkon accused Magee of rape, right there in line, loudly for the other passengers to hear.

Good for her.

Magee responded by suing Alkon for, basically, hurting her feelings.

Hey, Magee?

You are an oath breaker, a thug, a rapist. I look for the day when you and your fellow oath breaking thugs are hung at dawn as the traitors you are. “Domestic enemy,” you filth. That would be you. You are the reason we have a Second Amendment, and a Fourth, and a Fifth, and a first.

Here’s the legal response from Alkon’s lawyer, Marc Randazza, to Thugala Magee’s lawer, Vicki Roberts. It is a thing of vicious beauty, right down to the salutation: “Best regards”. I love that. “Best regards.”

We believe that Ms. Alkon was within her rights to act violently in self-defense. Instead, she defended herself with mere words. Her reaction to Ms. Magee’s crime is so tame on the scale of legally and morally justified responses that Ms. Magee should be thankful that words of protest are all she received. We must all “tolerate insulting, and even outrageous, speech in order to provide adequate ‘breathing space’ to the freedoms protected by the First Amendment.”
Snyder v. Phelps, ___ U.S. ___, 131 S. Ct. 1207, 1219 (2011), citing
Boos v. Barry, 485 U.S. 312, 322 (1988).

There is no competing requirement that we tolerate being sexually abused as retaliation for believing in the Fourth Amendment.

[My bold.]

Beautiful.

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Popehat has a good summary.

Justice or Gang Intimidation?

September 7th, 2011

First I heard of the Kenneth Green story was at Second City Cop, a pro-Second Amendment Chicago police blog I trust for insider news of top-down corruption.

SCC points to this article by Chuck Goudie of the Daily Herald.

The most dangerous place for a Chicago police officer is:

a. Face-to-face with a heavily armed drug gang.
b. Trapped by gangbangers at the end of a dark alley in Englewood.
c. Cornered by some lifers carrying shivs at Stateville prison.
d. Sitting in a Cook County courtroom.

The correct answer is d.

Or at least it was last Friday.

That is when the man in the mug shot was allowed to go home, after being found not guilty of shooting and trying to kill two Chicago police officers.

You didn’t hear anything about the trial, maybe because the cops were just wounded and survived the July 2009 shooting. It probably attracted little attention because the case should have been a lock for prosecutors.

The guy’s name is Kenneth Green. He was 21 years old at the time and living in an apartment near 112th Street and Michigan Avenue in Roseland.

A special Chicago police team raided his place with a search warrant for drugs. Imagine one of those scenes on the copper TV shows: doors fly open, guns out, lots of yelling. They are among the riskiest moments in any police officer’s life.

On that day two years ago, veteran officers Scott McKenna and Danny O’Toole were on the warrant team doing what they had done many times. The police team bursts in and spreads out, clearing the apartment room by room to make sure the search for drugs can safely begin.

Rarely do these “jobs,” as the police refer to them, go as planned. It takes incredible awareness, split-second reactions and extraordinary judgment. The wrong decision can mean people end up dead.

I strongly urge you to read the whole thing.

Indeed, this “job” did not go according to plan. Fortunately, in this case no one died, but two officers were shot in their legs.

The problem with the trial, according to Goudie and SCC, is that the courtroom was packed with Green’s fellow gang members, whose presence “intimidated” the jury into finding Green not guilty.

I’m sorry, SCC, but something about this bothered me at the time, although I didn’t know what. As is often the case, however, I thought I detected a whiff of cops versus everybody else, where “everybody else” means “ungrateful perps, most of whom haven’t been arrested or convicted yet.”

Finally, via Pete Guither at Drug WarRant, I hear the other side of the story.

A criminal defense attorney in Chicago represented a client who was involved in a situation we’ve seen far too often in this destructive war: SWAT-style serving of a search warrant with no investigation or knowledge of who or what is in the house. In this case, a resident managed to get off four shots aimed low through his bedroom door at what he thought were violent criminal intruders, and he (as well as six children in the house) managed to avoid being killed by the 37 shots fired by police. Naturally, he was charged with attempted first degree murder and aggravated battery.

Here is the closing argument. Simple, powerful, effective.

I’m not even going to quote defense attorney Marcus L. Schantz’s closing argument. Read the whole thing.

SCC makes this comment:

Goudie outlines the case against the shooter, the blatant disregard for human life exhibited by the shooters, the amazing restraint by the officers.

“Blatant disregard for human life”, SCC? Green fired four shots, aiming low, at violent intruders who, more or less blindly fired 37 shots into a house they knew had children in it, intruders who turned out to be police officers showing “amazing restraint”.

SCC, want to know why The People are showing growing distrust and resentment against The Police? This is why. We’re just as intimidated by you as we are by any other gang. Sure, they can pack a courtroom, but we know the courtroom exists, along with the entire weight of the criminal justice system. We see your cars, your uniforms, your badges. We watch you on TV. We read about you in the papers.

When you follow us on the streets, you think we’re not intimidated?

I can see no reason why a SWAT style dynamic entry was needed in this case. Your colleagues weren’t rescuing a hostage, they were serving a drug warrant. Fine. Bust the guy as he leaves his house. Might evidence get flushed down the toilet? You know what, if it was, the amount was so small that it could be flushed away, it does not represent a significant threat to the community that justifies the risk to either cops or the occupants.

You often complain, SCC, of how there aren’t enough cops on the street to do the job you are asked to do.

This kind of action is not the job we citizens want you to do. We don’t believe in the War on Drugs. We certainly don’t believe a flushable quantity of crack is worth risking your lives, or ours, in a dynamic entry.

You’ve been an advocate of the Second Amendment, SCC, for which I admire and applaud you. However, you seem to think armed citizens will only shoot at bad guys. Guess what, though? If you and your fellow cops act like arrogant gangsters, we’ll shoot at you, too, and increasingly, you’re going to find that when that happens, the rest of us will acquit the shooter at trial.

We fear gangs, SCC. We are intimidated.

But, again, not just by packed court rooms; increasingly, by the courtrooms themselves, by a justice system that seems not concerned with justice, and not on our side.

We want you on our side, SCC. We want to see you as our allies, as our fellow citizens. “The police are the people, and the people are the police,” says Peel, and I believe that.

But you have got to stop busting through our bedroom doors, guns blazing, over a few grams of contraband. That is not “a duty incumbent on every citizen”.

One more point: The defense attorney’s closing argument is dense with fact. It raises prosecution points one after another, often using the testimony of the police themselves, and counters them.

Goudie’s Herald article does not “outline the facts”; it’s is almost nothing but sensationalism, starting with the little pop quiz identifying the courtroom as more dangerous to cops than the street. It doesn’t even try to present the defense case. The police say Green’s a bad guy doing bad things, we should trust them and convict him of whatever the prosecution chooses to charge him with. Case closed.

Um, no. Green’s case is closed, and not in favor of the police, the prosecutor, or the courts. However, the case against the Drug War, the war on the people, the war on the Second, Fourth, and Fifth amendments, is still being made.