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>Just out of curiosity, did anyone here ever take their allowance to the music store and buy an album based on nothing more than the cover?

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PS - don't forget this classic analysis of technology from yet another intellectual giant.

I read those links. Verdict: Bon Jovi is an idiot and makes Courtney Love look smart. Why do his lamentations remind me of people from the dinosaur media complaining about how awful it is that the average person has access to so much information now b/c of the internet?

Just out of curiosity, did anyone here ever take their allowance to the music store and buy an album based on nothing more than the cover? Can't say I ever participated in that experience. Then again, I never got an adjustable rate mortgage, either, but I understand those were quite popular.

Here's a counterpoint to Bon Jovi from that bastion of logic and deep thought, Courtney Love -- from all the way back in the year 2000.

I have to say, she has a point.

I, for one, welcome the death if the "music industry," or Big Music as I sometimes refer to it. Big Media, Big Film, Big Publishing and every other antiquated mercantilistic regime that exists to profit from the barriers it constructs between creator and user.

I can't wait until the days when "Top 40" as we know it (top down) disappears and radio plays music that achieves popularity based on merit, not clever Madison Ave tactics, brain-numbing repetition or blocking out all but a chosen, and probably predictable few.

I love the Amazon idea, IP.

Open thread? On St. Patrick's Day I'll post this:

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by W.B. Yeats

I know that I shall meet my fate

Somewhere among the clouds above;

Those that I fight I do not hate,

Those that I guard I do not love;

My country is Kiltartan Cross,

My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,

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A lonely impulse of delight

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I balanced all, brought all to mind,

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A waste of breath the years behind

In balance with this life, this death.

Nobody's killed music, just as nobody's killed civilization -- yet.

The Music Bidness may be in some trouble, but that's what generally leads to revitalization. How did the blues and jazz start after all? Not for moneymaking purposes. Music purposes. People will post their amateur efforts and independent producers will contact them, improve their productions, and take advantage of new media distribution mechanisms. Maybe we can dinally be rid of archaic tours like the one I saw advertised las week for Journey, Foreigner, and Night Ranger.

I appreciate and understand the dark views of DRV and Helk, but I respectfully disagree. We can withstand shocks like this. Civilization does not belong to the loudest and cruelest among us. It belongs to the overwhelming majority of people who have not forgotten how to work, sacrifice for their families, and how to leave the world a little better than they found it.

We might be entering a phase of prolonged economic distress. And that may seriously damage the consumerist culture people have been hypnotized by, but, again, that will simply incite a new strand of creativity.

People have not lost all their deepest and most important beliefs. They've gotten distracted one way or another. The human ship may take on water and roll about rather frighteningly for a time, but it doesn't sink.

Pessimism has its uses, which are generally to get people's attention to the verities. The verities are still there, though, and that's why long-term optimism is still the smartest perspective.

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"did Steve Jobs kill music, as Jon Bon Jovi posits?"

That's a good question, although the only people I know who took hanging out in record shops to an art form are John Cusack characters. Haven't read the link yet, but here are my initial thoughts: I would say "no". I definitely don't miss stores charging $20 for a freaking CD. I remember in high school, when Best Buy first hit my local scene, that was the place b/c they only charged something like $10 for any & all CDs. And they also had video games. Places like Tower Records, which prided themselves on raping you every time you walked through the door, quickly went under & disappeared. Then Best Buy started raising their CD prices. Hmm. But music went digital not long after that, anyway.

I don't miss having a thousand jewel cases cluttering up my room, either.

The only thing that gives me pause is thinking back to when I was in college, cruising around with my 6-disc CD changer (which I thought was incredible, at the time). Today, with my Droid smart phone (which I like more than my old iPod touch; eat it, Apple!), I can skip anything I don't feel like listening to at the moment & instantly bring up any song I want to. But it used to be that I had to listen to entire albums or mix CDs, especially during road trips. During those times, there are some songs that grew on me that most people still have never heard because they weren't played on the radio & they didn't have singles.

On the other hand, digital music has made music you want to find so much more accessible. Remember those Japanese import albums that stores would get in two or three at a time? They would be identical to the US albums except they would have the giant "IMPORT" sticker on them with the exotic Kanji characters on the side and they have one or two tracks that weren't available anywhere else. Also, they would cost something like $40 and you had no way to know if you would even like those tracks. I could never afford to buy those, but I'm glad b/c I would have kicked myself after Napster hit, at which point I went apeshit and got everything from B-sides to live acoustic performances to obscure studio demos, all for a *nominal* fee. I can't imagine how much that would have cost before the internets.

Who the hell ever wanted to hang out in record shops? Those people literally stank. There was nothing (of imperative value) to learn there that couldn't be learned in a one-on-one session with Coltrane, via avocado plastic headphones.

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Thanks for the encouragement, Alfa! I'll get one... but they're all sold out nationwide. After France, I guess.

A little bird told me that an iPhone has been a game changer for you, and I can relate. That little device has made me a more efficient person and let me do things like send videos of the boys directly to my distant parents -- as they happen.

Since this is an open thread, I'd love to get some feedback from you, IP, and the rest -- did Steve Jobs kill music, as Jon Bon Jovi posits?

Here's one response: http://brianshall.com/content/bon-jovi-was-right-steve-jobs-did-kill-music-industry

I can't link to the original article, but Bon Jovi's choicest quotes are in that article and the hundreds of others.

The long and short: we no longer get to hang out in record shops checking out big, beautiful cover art and finding new music. However, we do get to find new music (if we're so inclined) with incredible ease, and we can buy individual songs instead of 12 song albums with only two good tracks.

If I didn't know better, I'd have expected IP to cherish the past, as he has with cars and cursive. But he's the one who turned me on to the incredible wealth of music linked on Youtube, and now that has become a whole cultural movement, with users posting their own playlists of freely available music from across all decades.

So what do you think, IP? Are we headed in the right direction? Did Steve Jobs kill music or simply save it from the bloody pirates (Arr!)?

Go Lake. Love it. The iPad - yes.

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Personally, Islam is against my religion, and I'm perfectly happy to live and work and do the best I can as part of a dying civilization rather than submit to Allah; this would be the case even if the Koran were proven to be true.

It's not like you can't love and live and be happy, you know? At least it's interesting. And certainly how you go out - and what potentially follows - is pretty darn important. The beginning is what hooks you, the action is what excites you, but the ending is what makes you remember the story.

Since as an article of faith I can't accept Islam, if that's the wave of the future I'll die with all the other nonbelievers. My personal religion isn't pacifist, so I'd hope to go out casting a spear for the Allfather, and I hope I'd be proud to do so.

However, having a pre-made alternative civilizational model ready and waiting to take over - whatever that may be - is actually the ideal, practically perfect outcome, and statistically speaking we won't be so lucky. Non-Americanized Islam certainly doesn't seem to be stepping up to the plate. It's far more likely that civilizational decline will lead to some period of relative anarchy, which college-educated libertarians who habitually obey most traffic laws think would be cool, but which in reality means you get raped by somebody bigger and stronger when you're 4 years old. Thankfully we're not likely to reach that level of depravity in my lifetime, and all my kids will know how to shoot and have plenty of ammunition Daddy stockpiled for them.

I'm reminded of a book by Victor Hanson, "The Other Greeks". Civilization - our idea of Western civilization - seems to require a populace who make things to better their own lives with their own hands and brainpower. When too many people are more concerned with what sort of electronic gizmo they can buy at the store, rather than what they do to produce value which affords them a surplus which allows them to trade for such a gizmo - this is when bad things happen. I'll also reference Spengler's "The Decline of the West". Decline, end, sunset, conclusion - these aren't good or bad, they just are a natural part of the cycle of history. Those who think history has an "end" are morons.

Here's one possible solution, DRV, if you're willing to settle for it: http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/iwar/the_way_of_islam_is_the_o.php

I find it difficult to conceive the idea of possibly caring less about "March Madness", but as a rule I don't vote. Mob rule is not fun in the streets and it has no place on the internet either.

America, and thus the civilized world, which is wholly Americanized, is doomed. It is doomed because the civilizing influence is gone; the world has become wholly barbaric. Barbarism occurs when the people are more concerned with getting Things than with making Things.

This is not to say Americanization is the cause of this civilizational decline. Nor that it is not. These things happen. It's quite possible that the Americanization of the world has held off a civilizational decline which began around the time of the French Revolution and would have reached its apex following the Great War. Or not. Most of us only live in one reality at a time, so we have no way of knowing what the alternative would have been.

(If anyone wants to argue, on a blog written generally in American English and about generally American-centric topics and run by several Americans on the World Wide Web - which was invented by Albert Gore, Jr. - that the civilized world is not "Americanized" because, for example but not to be limitingly specific, China, is not 'Americanized', then when China restores the Qing dynasty and smart Chinese students cease applying for jobs with U.S.-based software companies while pirating Hollywood-produced movies, I will stop laughing in your face.)

Civilization - our civilization - is in decline. It is sclerotic, senile, and impotent. There is no cure for this disease; it must run its course. Presidential candidates - politics in general - are meaningless in contrast to general civilizational decline. Because homo sapiens is a social animal and difficult to eradicate, some new civilization will eventually emerge. We can hope to hasten and, perhaps, influence that eventual re-emergence, by preserving as much of the knowledge and know-how of our present civilization, and by preserving as much as possible an orderly society to mitigate the risk of massive death and destruction - which destroys the only resource really needed for civilization: human knowledge. It may or may not be helpful to prolong the death of our current civilization; whether such assistance would be a blessing or a curse is probably moot, as it is unlikely anyone will obtain the power necessary to do so without hastening the destruction of civilization in the process of that acquisition.

Every "world event", from the aesthetic crimes against humanity committed by Hollywood producers, to the bloody and violent civl wars billed as "peaceful revolutions" in North Africa, Persia, and Araby, to the generally uninformed 'reporting' which completely misrepresents how nuclear reactors actually work, is merely a symptom of this general malaise.

It will be important for those of us who hope to live during - or, optimistically, through - this civilizational decline and rebirth to recognize that this is a natural process. There is room for optimism; no human thing can possibly be immortal, but while "progress" is not always good, a new birth always represents a new opportunity for goodness and beauty.

There is, however, generally quite a bit of pain and discomfort involved.

As it happens, I have a Kindle and have been looking for just one more excuse to get an iPad... count me in.

Guy, I choose *you* -- for formatting? I want to bring this book and TBB (and other projects?) to the iPad, the Kindle, anything that people have and want content for. You in? I'm getting the band back together.

IP, congratulations on the progress. If I can be of service in proofreading, just let me know.

I'm honored to feature in your juxtaposition of "reckless self-absorption in front of electric screens" with scenes from the Japanese nuclear plant. I may be misinterpreting it -- what little poetic sensibility I have runs toward meat-and-potatoes guys like Kipling and Service (and this site's own Laird, of course, who has at least one foot in the meat-and-potatoes camp). But at any rate, thanks for thinking of me, I guess?

A word to you all. I'm not loafing. I've been rereading Brizoni's Instapunk manuscript before he sens it to Amazon.

It's a tiny percentage of the whole, but it's still a big book.

What surprises me, especially in light of Brizoni's youth, is that it doesn't come across as a blog slice but a piece of writing. We're still quibbling about the beginning, but we'll work it out. (Lake?) From here on in, he's allowed to say whatever he wants about Ayn Rand. (I'm still allowed to object, but...) His posts go up without edit.

I just wish he loved Edward Hopper as much as he does Ayn Rand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIbc-CVnN64

Man.... Do you understand the reaction kinetics? I am no reactor technician....

I made this for instapunk. I put instapunk in the tags, you know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRz3XLEEAk

I hope you get an immediate chance to watch it.

In Rio.

I would love to believe that the over 4,000,000 lbs of uranium and plutonium sitting in those cooling ponds could just go away (not vaporize, just disappear). That the spent fuel beneath the main reactors was not there *to begin with*.

I am split, torn asunder. I live far from the tree, but I don't aim to smell bad. While I was far from the tree I did not see that the criminals climbing her branches were so willing to risk everything, just to ensure that I could toast my morning bagel in an *electric* toaster oven.

But I already have radiation sickness. It is radiating from Japan, right into the heart of what I believed to be my patriotic self. I have taken my comfort for granted. That is my crime. My terrible crime was to use electricity to criticize electricity. Change cannot come from within. Not this time. It is to late.

Maybe an electric Rambo will come forth? If my fears are realized, all that I have said regarding the death of our way of life will come true. I fear that if we do not change from our current practices of industrial animal farming and reckless self-absorption in front of electric screens, we will be deserving of what is coming. A tsunami of radioactive particles injected into the jet stream - a vial of unimpeachable vengeance poured forth.

I am sorry. I thought I would have time to offer an example of a direction to go. But I am too small. In my minuteness, I may escape the particles, but it will only be as a result of slipping through the cracks.

I feel that I cannot go back. And I do not know what it means to move forward from here. Save to say that I know I sunburn easily, and I will not be able to cross the Darien Gap without a guide.

Thank you all for the advice. It's probably true that I'm not a writer. Maybe something like an architect who now has to hand-build something that at least resembles his blueprints; I may not be a natural bricklayer, but they are such good blueprints I have to do something with them. In any case, I'll take time to think over the ideas offered here.

Guy:

"You could just start writing nonsense until you get into the groove.

Observation: You're not a 'writer', you just write. Writers can't stop themselves. They're neurotic obsessives that get paid for their semi-quiet madness. "

This is from Urthshu. He's 100 percent right.

"Write to *someone*. Write first to someone you don't know. I suggest you start by writing to God (an extemporaneous ideation). If you have no God to write to, make one up, give him/her/it a set of powers, make it responsible for a number of things (like stuff you don't know, things you have not yet written). If that fails, write to a person you know, tell him or her about what it is you cannot or choose not to write about. Assume they will be less interested the more long-winded you are. Elevate this assumption to the status of a law."

This is from Helk. A proof that some things are easier said than done.

Most of what's written about writing is crap. Hemingway is the one to blame. He made it into some sort of priestly exercise. He was wrong.

"That's not writing. It's typing." Truman Capote on the subject of Jack Kerouac to a spluttering Norman Mailer.

Right AND wrong. All writing is typing.

My advice. Start typing. Explain your slipperiest thoughts to yourself. Describe the wildest fantasies in your head to yourself. Forget completely about the "audience." Wait, then read what you have wriiten out loud, again to yourself. When what you've written doesn't make you cringe, you're either a writer or a man with a tin ear and no soul.

I already know you have a soul, so there's half the question resolved up front.

Don't compare yourself to anybody. Don't read books about writing. There's only one defintition of a writer, and Urthshu got it the first time. Writers write. Because they can't NOT write. The ones who want to write and don't are dilettantes. The ones who write in hope of approval are fakes.

Forget all the excuses. Writers write because it's more important to them than breathing.

It's everybody else's call whether you're a GOOD writer not. But that doesn't matter.

I'd write what I write here whether any of you were here or not. When I was young, I kept quitting writing. Now that I'm old, I don't think about it. I just do it. For me it's the most essential component of living.

WRT the Presidential candidate hoo-hah:

I think the more interesting questions at present are:

Will Obama be Primaried from within his own Party? [tricky because it seems unlikely as Hell but there's still Hillary and long-shot Dean with their own followings, plus it counts on a fracture within the Dems which I do believe is very real]

and

Will the Republicans get in someone who did NOT lose to the Grand Loser himself, John McCain? [my vote is No]

Re: Why write, especially following all those wasted days and wasted nights?

Write to *someone*. Write first to someone you don't know. I suggest you start by writing to God (an extemporaneous ideation). If you have no God to write to, make one up, give him/her/it a set of powers, make it responsible for a number of things (like stuff you don't know, things you have not yet written). If that fails, write to a person you know, tell him or her about what it is you cannot or choose not to write about. Assume they will be less interested the more long-winded you are. Elevate this assumption to the status of a law.

Or be a total dick. I suggest that you practice writing (in words) with your non-dominant hand. This exercise will be very frustrating (at first). [Note: Most of you will quit, or never try.] Just let the words come out. Then guess which card I am going to pick from a Tarot Deck that sits in my desk. Write your guess down. Ask the God you created whether or not your selection has any bearing on my final outcome. Or don't.

Writing is not preserved as an object, it is only preserved in the sense of an operator. The object we investigate references an operator we wish to define. The operation ceases, the bones remain. The bones will be consumed by the Sun, and the Sun by other Suns. The operator cannot be consumed. Only the artifact of operation has a presence in the sense of having Mass. The opportunity for a particular bone to arise in a particular place at a particular time is what *made you*. And there exists a hypothesis: The word spelled 'evolution' represents the summation of those data points which are 'interesting' in the search for a 'prime mover'. For to find the prime mover (of evolution) is the prime directive of religion. And the prime directive of Religion is? *To know with certainty* some eternal aspect of God. The eternal aspect of God, as seen by an Evolutionist, amounts to measuring the rate at which bones are seen to change relative to time (as if 'classical time' is an operator on DNA and bone manufacture!). As if God speaks in classical mechanics!

I guess what I am driving at is, if you want to write, take up any position and do something. Anything.

>>Does anyone have tips for self-motivation in writing? Even with a project I genuinely enjoy working on, actually making myself sit down and start is surprisingly difficult.

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You could just start writing nonsense until you get into the groove.

Observation: You're not a 'writer', you just write. Writers can't stop themselves. They're neurotic obsessives that get paid for their semi-quiet madness. So don't take that as insult - some writers can't effectively tie their own shoes... Maybe that relieves some pressure.

For President, so far Palin and Christie appeal to me -- questions of electability/intention-to-run notwithstanding. Maybe someone else will pop up who appeals to me almost as much, or at least more than McCain did. (Though I do give him a great deal of credit for selecting Palin -- too bad he then hid her under a bushel basket.)

Watched The Quantum Activist last night. One of Goswami's main points was a revision or refinement of the "Law of Attraction" as commonly understood in New Thought circles. He spoke of the collective subconscious as a kind of traffic light -- where it is needed, at least, though not everything (nor even most things) in life are necessarily zero-sum situations. Some interesting ideas.

Does anyone have tips for self-motivation in writing? Even with a project I genuinely enjoy working on, actually making myself sit down and start is surprisingly difficult. Granted, by the time I can potentially get to it on a given day I've spent 11 hours away from home and driven 90 miles, but that's not much of an excuse. I tell myself that all the books/movies/etc. I'm absorbing instead are useful preparation, which is surely true to an extent, but it gets ridiculous.

Evolution is coupled. To what is it coupled? Conserved quantities.

From what source does the evolutionist borrow (deduce) his assembler architecture? Does the evolutionist dare to say that an assembler self-assembles the probability of its own existence!? By probability I mean explicitly to not use the word *possibility*, for we are not denying what exists now, rather we are ascribing some meaning to its having arisen *in the first place*. In arriving at an 'understanding' within one level of assembly (the consequence of DNA existing as a remnant is that we can talk about it as a structure), we are to become so bold as to claim that we now have an "understanding" of the mechanisms involved in generating a genetic organization as complex as human life?

You know, nobody knew it was a *Queen* honeybee until some idiot savant (back in the 1700's) took the time to study them closely and dissect them (only after they died naturally, of course). Imagine his surprise, when he got to erase thousands of years of misapprehension, and show that it was a uterus, not a cock, that was worshiped. Too bad all the people who believed that the bees were ruled by a male were already dead, and were unable to benefit from the new understanding.

Against the gradient of entropy (in a sense) does life-force produce an artifact (bone). Evolutionists would see the bone as manufacturing itself out of mud! As if mud contains the assembler code as a precondition of mud!

Does it?

Speaking of threads, that's some beautiful silk thread in the picture.

Hard for me to get enthused about any of the presumptive presidential candidates.

I live in Indiana and like Mitch Daniels, but the times do not call for a fiscally conservative RINO.

I like Palin as well but I think that the media have done their job in convincing a lot of people in this country that she is not intelligent enough for the job. Those kind of people shut up quickly when I ask them if she is as smart as Obama.

My dream team? Thaddeus McCotter and Herman Cain, T-Mac just wrote a book and that has been a precursor to running it seems.

Land of the Rising Son, indeed!

1760 tons of Uranium (and Plutonium) on site. That is 3,520,000 pounds. Fore reference, Fat Man and Little Boy contained a total of around 200 pounds of fuel. There is 17,600 times more fuel on that site than was used to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The plutonium in reactor #3 is the same type that is used to create Hydrogen bombs (re: Bikini Atoll). Chain reaction is feared in the spent fuel pool in reactor 4. If any reactor or cooling pool explodes (from achieving criticality and thermonuclear chain reaction) the entire complex will explode with thermonuclear chain-reaction type energy.

The explosion will eject radioactive particulate up to 85,000(?) ft. (depends on heat and rate of chain reaction). The jet stream conducts air and dust particles at a maximum rate of 140 mph (over the Pacific). The current jet stream is concentrated over Tokyo, and follows a northern route, intersecting the Western US over Seattle, Washington.

A real president (take Donald Trump for instance) would have *immediately realized* that pumping 'liquidity' into the reactor would result with a cooler reactor. Why Kan has not realized that infinite liquidity would immediately result with infinite certainty, is not fully understood at this time.

President Obama is reported to be visiting former President George Bush in Peru. Former President Bush is seen here waiving to reporters from his large Peruvian estate house. Obama is said to be seeking funds for his re-election campaign, to be launched in 2012.

A 6.0 earthquake *just* struck Japan. No Tsunami expected in Tokai area.

End.

I'm getting antsy for a shooting vacation in the Finger Lakes. Just need time off from work and other concerns. In my job.... wish I could say. I'm looking for people and having difficulty finding them.

That really eats away at me. Not because I'm a perfectionist nor because my boss yells nor because they owe money or are crooks. I'm trying to stop the spread of the disease they may be harboring inside them and am working with scant information. I experience these kind of difficulties like an ominous black cloud constantly hanging over me.

And that, not the anticipated vacation, is why I'm not sleeping. But I did find one today. Sero-negative. Huzzah.

Write what you like. I'm not interested in either.

Open thread, open issues, eh? My mind is all over the place tonight. It's just me and my two boys for the next couple of days as E. is off on a short vacation before my France adventure.

Before she left, I spared her from reading a tragic and sad story from MA today (sent by her own mother, right before leaving her boys?!) about a 6 year old who hung on to the opposite escalator, got pulled into the gap between them, then fell down into a display case, causing injuries leading to his death. This instantly connects to an image that they're pulling off of news sites, perhaps rightly so: a father and mother cradling the head of their daughter, deceased, in a wrecked and tossed van in the tsunami.

This puts my most morbid imagination into overdrive, and it takes my utmost will to stop picturing such awfulness happening to my boys.

But while I'm heartsick, I am happy -- my boys are right here, sleeping, safe. Why am I this lucky?

I'm thinking about the iPad 2 because I suspect the school is going to give me one so I can create content for them that will run on it. What a frivolous little thing... yet I'm excited, and somewhat ashamed for being excited, and embarrassed to post it here. I'll make stuff for it, but I'm excited to have a prayer of actually making music with it... M. laughs, maybe sneers.

Like M, I'm thinking about the stars, but in a different way -- I'm taking pictures of them and teaching people how to process the pictures, and they look like this. We're automating our observatory dome this week, so we'll be able to take pictures from home, remotely. Pictures far better than this one. So I'm thinking a lot about that.

I'm thinking about France, not knowing what to expect but leaning into the uncertainty. I'm thinking about a draft of a book that I'm going to read, a book that will hopefully be available soon to millions of eBook readers... right, Brizoni?

Lots on my mind, none of it world-changing and much of it self-focused.

D for effort?

One upvote for the Evolution post, for what it's worth.

M:

Ah. An open thread post. Thank you. I'm not well enough at the moment to join your motorcycle crusade, but my heart is, as it has always been, with you.

I'm concerned that the cause of American decline is not in our falling from the heights but in simple dilution due to illegal immigration. A government and a culture take on the character of their people. This works the other way, too (the phenomenon we call "assimilation"), but it works much slower that way. And it is much less successful to the same degree that a people is culturally divided. So the medium- and long-term likelihood, all things continuing as they are, is that America becomes Mexo-America. Sorry, but I've seen Mexo-America, and I don't have high hopes for it. I've also seen the figures on multi-generation Mexican immigrants, and it looks like backwards movement on "assimilation." Not good.

I'm concerned that not a single viable or even non-viable Republican candidate for the presidency has a strong position on this. Instead, I see a lot of globalist faggots and weak-headed Bushies who dream that our southern friends will drink the water and become Jeffersonians.

--------A SIMPLE Child,

That lightly draws its breath,

And feels its life in every limb,

What should it know of death?

It’s what happened in Pennsylvania last week. That fire. For a week now I can’t think about anything else. And I see that tonight, as a small community gathers around a husband and wife whose measure of grief has thrust them into Job’s inner circle, those fucking zombies from Westboro Baptist are planning to make an appearance.

So yeah, we certainly live in a delicious country when those dumb fucks are possible. Even inevitable. What a giant free spirits we possess here in America to inspire those little truncators of the soul.

In a few hours, as I’m scanning the early evening sky for a first star, I’ll be having one wish. That the old warrior punks of Punk City are alive and even now westbound on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. That sometime after dark---in total silence, so that not a single wave of grief is disturbed on its brutal path to God---the punks are rolling into that humble Mennonite town. That for a moment that feels like the eternity they so desire, the assembled Westboro Baptists catch a glimpse of their own horror in the grizzled, painted faces of an advancing horde of armed avengers. And that the punks cut their fucking throats. Every single one of them. And then leave without a trace.

In spirit, I ride with Kassander and the Doomslayers tonight.

My second wish is that this is a universe where those dead children will visit their parents and their little sister in dreams every night under the end of time. Please.

If you can bear to see their faces: http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story/Supporting-Clouse-family/b92LnGRJXEC5GtoyvSlDAg.cspx

Zut alors! Everyone in this open threddings must be warn to stay off the path of real destruction: the one that is cause by my Montreal Canadiens in the anyshell playoff!

That F didn't stand for "fabulous" by any chance, did it?

I'll just say that I was speaking of the nuclear situation in Japan being overstated. Not the loss of life & other damage aspect of it. Should have specified.

But you're right, I'm not practiced in open threads. I'll try again.

Because you're the brave one who replied first, I'm going to make an object lesson of you. Typical IP fairness.

I give you an F.

This is an open thread. You're not supposed to respond to me but to your own most deeply rooted concerns.

But even in your misunderstanding you fail. You think the Japanese situation is overstated? Really? Thousands missing in towns, trains, and boats. It's a horror, and it's worth commenting on in the context of nature versus one of the world's most advanced, cautious, and peaceable civilizations.

Presidents? Who do you want and why? I asked that you not sharpshoot. The time is rapidly upon us when we MUST choose. So you neither sharpshoot nor make a case for anyone other than the ghost of Reagan. Why we're headed toward a huge

I could go on but won't.

Open thread means you own the discussion, not me. Today, you're all silk.

Our "exports" - it's really the people behind our exports I have a problem with, especially the cultural ones. For example: there is allegedly strong evidence that the mooslim who shot the U.S. airmen in Germany watched that stupid DePalma film,"Redacted", that had the scene with the US soldiers raping Iraqis and he thought it was real. Same with CNN International: how ever bad you think our CNN is, the international version is far worse. So a lot of what we export is, unfortunately, anti-American.

In one sense, I will agree I take America for granted even though I have learned to appreciate more than many others who were born here (especially in my age group). During the time I spent in Korea I got to sample some of their local entertainment. It pretty much sucks from TV to movies. They are mostly imitating Americans, anyway (when they aren't imitating the Japanese). Also, I saw American movies plastered all over Korea and soldiers would routinely go out and see them in Korean theaters b/c they usually were only done with subtitles, not dubbed. If you were a Korean living in America, though, how hard would you have to look here to find a theater playing a brand new Korean release? I can't fathom that type of reversal b/c I'm so used to being American. In short: even some of our mediocre entertainment is still much better than what they have in other countries.

Presidential candidates: I have no idea but I am not letting that depress me b/c that is pointless worrying. Someone that will sign a repeal of Obamacare, not have an army of czars and not do things like direct the EPA to enforce a backdoor cap & trade system will work fine for me as long as they stand up to our foreign enemies, refuse to bail out Blue States & get the hell out of the way to let Red States do their thing. Let CA & NY be as broke as they want to be.

Which brings me to Wisconsin: the left wants to stop all this scaling back on the unions b/c people will quickly see that the state saves money, teachers will not be starving in rags out on the streets AND education will probably improve. The main purpose of everything that happened there was not even so much to prevent Walker from signing that bill but more as a warning for others trying to do the same thing from now on. Anybody squishy will be scared of going through all that and they are the real targets. Same as the left & shakedown unions have always done. There is nothing new here.

Japan: I don't think this situation is as bad as the media is portraying it and I am utterly disappointed in sources like Drudge. I've examined a bunch of news stories and they are all kind of vague with no supporting links. Right now Drudge even has, as one of it's top links, something from a tinfoil hat guy talking about how a radiation cloud could float to California from Japan. Are you fucking kidding me? Even people like Dr. Kaku are jumping on the hysteria bandwagon ("everyone now universally admitting in the media"? I guess he forgot to throw in "overwhelming consensus", too). They're tossing around words like meltdown, Chernobyl, TMI, fuel rods, explosion, radiation, and doing very little else other than repeating them ad nauseam.

For example, I could write: "Explosion near fuel rods threatens to cause meltdown & leak radiation in worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl & TMI!!!!!!!oneone" Nothing I said there is technically inaccurate. It's just sensational. Especially when you consider that this is #3 out of 3 bad nuclear accidents in the history of nuclear power. And as of yesterday afternoon, it was still rated one notch lower than TMI on the scale they use for such things, as reported by NEI, even though everyone else is saying it's one heartbeat away from being worse than Chernobyl. The real headline should be, "Nuclear safeguards still working as designed despite heavy damage from tsunami caused by historic earthquake" But hey, it's more fun to repeat my first headline over & over for days on end b/c who wants to read about how well something is going?

For anyone who cares, here is a great link from NEI for hearing what the latest news is. Compare this link with pretty much everything else. Who sounds more rational & rooted in fact rather than emotion & sensational rhetoric?

Here's a hint: where else have you heard that one reactor is in the process of being brought to a cold shutdown & another has already been brought to a cold shutdown instead of that everything is getting "worse by the hour" as Dr. Kaku warned us yesterday.

World leadership: as disheartening as our field of potential GOP candidates may be, I'd still take several of them over any other world leader I can think of off the top of my head (Sarkozy? Puh-LEEZE).

Everything else was, I think, addressed in the video Brizoni provided the link to.