So, I have noticed that it's never the REALLY oppressed that rebel. The slaves in the old south, the citizens of North Korea, Basically anyone in Africa, etcetera. When things are sufficiently bad, people can't get it together well enough to rebel. It's only when things actually improve a little that people have the free time, communication ( Read more... )

So, I realized I don't tend to talk much here about my personal life.... Well, I don't actually talk much at all about my personal life. But I topes have one!

For instance, I got married! October 3, 2015, akilika and I tied the knot. It was a humble ceremony, but a lot of fun. I have a lot of thanks to give to my circle of friends and family for ( Read more... )

A friend is telling the story of a person she met who is fearful. The reasons are what they are. One of the commenters to that thread posted this ( Read more... )

Because liberals have a hive mind, and I am sick of having the same discussion, with the same points raised over and over, in the same order, using the same words, and would rather cut and paste the rebuttals from here, rather than typing them again and again.

( long-winded )

Do this: Go to google news. Search for "Iraq" from 2007-2008.

You'll see a clear picture. A nation that had stabilized, and was picking up its own governance. we'd won, the insurgencies were put down, the nation of Iraq was picking up control over its own territory, and we were withdrawing troops.

link to searchNow, note here that that's ( Read more... )

In my last entry, I mentioned the one aspect in which BLM can be supported. I pulled from the Jefferson "tree of liberty" quote ( Read more... )

A while ago, I wrote of the Bundy ranch standoff that they were "withdrawing the consent of the governed". Today, that particular cause is being reprised in Oregon, with armed rebels taking control of a federal building (wildlife preserve, so not a major structure or anything like that). And, my instinct is to support them, even though they ( Read more... )

Diversity exists ( Read more... )

Back in the Triassic (90s and early oughts), when I lived in DC, I was fairly regularly going to goth clubs. I picked up a group of friends. Over the years, most of them have gotten lost to years and distance. Simply "lost touch" in the way of the world ( Read more... )

After any shocking event, it's pretty typical these days for people to divide into 2 camps. 1) We should kill those responsible even if it means some collateral damage. and 2) we cannot bomb our way to peace, bombings and collateral damage just radicalize ( Read more... )