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English is a funny tongue
Which has no standard form.
To sounds and words and letters,
There isn't any norm.
Just for one example,
"Alarm" and "Harm" and "Farm" —
What logic cannot tell is why
They do not rhyme with "Warm."
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When I was young, I observed that a precious few nuts wanted to get behind the Iron Curtain, while the bodies on the barbed wire at the Berlin Wall testified how mortally desperate many were to get out.
That seemed clear.
Never had reason to revise that image's lesson, only reinforced.
During Nam, I understood the protesters against an unfair draft, corporatized warfare, and thoughtless jingoism, but protesting these things got conflated with (or hijacked by) anti-war, pro-Communist, anti-American ideologues. All I could think was, had they not seen the bodies at the wall as I had?
When the slaughter and torture of our abandoned SVN allies inevitably occurred, 'told you so' was awfully cold comfort.
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Mrs had a dresser which belonged to her mother, and was giving it to our daughter, so, naturally, I get The Dirty Job, to vacuum up the cobwebs underneath it.
Stuck under the very bottom, rolled up, was a 1950 $10 bill.
It wasn't under a drawer, it was stuck in a groove in the wood "skirt" around the bottom.
If you look at the back of the bill, you can see the patch of varnish stain on what was the outside of the rolled-up bill. Was it in there when (if) the dresser was refinished, or did the varnish just transfer over the years?
We've got it flattening out in a book. Mrs hopes to find a two-sided frame to display it. Nothing special about it. Just an old Federal Reserve Note.
But how did it get there? Did her mother put it there? Was it some kind of reserve emergency money? Not easy to stash or to get to, but sure wouldn't be found by an intruder.
This mystery!
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill
Back in the day, on CompuServe religion forum, there were characters who seemed out of place, too enthusiastic, pushy, insistent about a particular belief - shrilly interjecting their doctrine into all exchanges, insisting their beliefs are divine (which was fine) and everyone else's are demonic (which was not) — disruptive to the point of banning.
Then I'd see the same person in some technical forum and they behaved perfectly sociably.
Religion had no monopoly. Fanatical True Believers exist in ... every? ... category. (Fanatical quilters? Probably.) With some folks, there's topics you can talk about, and topics you can't. When you got to know someone in one context where they were fanatical and you can just ignore them, then you meet them being more normal in other circumstances, you have to see them a little more sympathetically.
I suppose we can all be like that, given the right circumstances.
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Y'know the saying, gun control is hitting what you aim at?
A well regulated militia is responsive because you have an informed citizenry. Well-armed and ready, obviously. Expected to be able to hit what they aim at, implicitly. Able to aim coordinatedly, preferably.
But importantly, when you call out, "The redcoats are coming!" you don't have to explain who the redcoats are, or why that announcement means, "Grab your muskets and come a-runnin'."
Update terms as needed.
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Why would we need an old-fashioned militia in this day and age? That's silly.
Oh, well, there's this.
Politico headline: Arming TSA officers hits resistance on the Hill
Breitbart headline: Capitol Hill Resists Union's Call for Armed TSA Agents
Drudge headline (linked to Politico): Union moves to arm TSA agents...
Notice how Politico focuses exclusively on "Capitol Hill," Breitbart also puts the focus on "Capitol Hill" while mentioning that upon which Drudge exclusively focuses, the armed Union members angle.
That crazy Drudge guy!
Well, and then there's this.
DHS to Hire "Top Secret" Domestic Security Force
Of course, that's on Infowars. That Alex Jones, what a certifiable tinfoil-hat loon! And what would we have to fear from the TSA or a secret domestic security force? All of these things just tell us how safe we are.
Right?
Now, about militias.
Supplemental viewing:
The President Learns Gun Control (video)
The President Learns Gun Control (video)
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