These were given out by my daughter's French teacher at the high school today. I think this was so cool! Free speech is alive and well in my town. Astonishing considering I live in CT!
For a little tiny town, we have quite the number of freedom and liberty minded folks. And our principal carries. It's a refuge amongst the progressives pressing in on all sides.
There are still some of us folks in the Nutmeg State who believe in the Constitution (out other nickname). It's simply that we've been overwhelmed by the moochers in the inner Cities!
Take a look at an election map by county or finer granularity. With one exception, it is almost perfectly correlated to progressives dominating the urban centers and libertarians dominating the rural areas (I use the political philosophy terms instead of party, even though the party affiliation is what is shown on the maps).
Hey, I'm in Connecticut, too! When the zombie apocalypse hits we should pool our resources. I have a big garden, a very big greenhouse, plenty of timber and a defensible property with a dug well with 16 feet of water. Between us I'll bet we have a firearm or two...
Or two... ;-) Those are some great things to have on your property. I have a well, stream, garden... Shore, western, litchfield hills, eastern? W are in the Litchfield hills. :-)
And West Point is fantastic to see a game at! This side of the Hudson, across from West Point, there is this phenomenal Shakespeare troupe. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, if I'm remembering it correctly. All summer they have performances. And it is an outdoor venue. Gorgeous!
Excellent. I'll be shocked if some parents don't complain.
What ever happened with all the AR-banning they were talking about after Sandy Hook, and the massive response from some gun owners? Did the state back down or the police decide to not enforce the rules?
Back down? Are you kidding? The law passed and I doubt that any CT cops would decide not to enforce it. Not only did they ban perfectly good semi-auto rifles based solely on aesthetics but we're not allowed any magazines over 10 rds. Existing mags had to be "registered".
There was a long line of slaves at the (non) public safety dept waiting to add their names to the list of future targets of confiscation. But there was a much longer line of proud gun owners who stayed home and flipped our governor the bird.
Of course *I* would never disobey the law... No sir, perish the thought!
Too bad. Now CT is just like the peoples republic of taxachusetts. All these "assault weapon" rules are about aesthetics. Same here. Can't wait to get my spot in NH, where you need any ID to buy a gun, and LtC is 10 min and a form at the police office.
I've had my CT concealed carry permit forever. It was due for renewal this year and life interfered so I mailed the form two days late. I was sure I'd have to reapply and wait months. VERY much to my surprise there was no hassle at all.
Always! And to be sure that nobody can steal it I've disconnected one of the tertiary rheostats on the down-regulation capacitance banks that charge the primary gimbal-mounted timedrive.
Even a first year time mechanic can tell you that will cause a highly stable standing wave form in the entire array of resonance chambers, even the upgraded ones with redundant nano-turbulators. As long as you're stuck with that standing wave there's no access to the time vortex.
Now, if a crafty Timelord got chatty with the right engineers on Logopolis he might have learned that relocating the entire tertiary rheostat assembly to the inside of the n-dimensional projector that maps the interior of the Tardis onto 3-dimensional space would cause the self-diagnostic to fail WITHOUT an error code - why then his little bit of sabotage would be undetectable! (And by the Rod of Rasselon don't forget to beef up the shielding!)
It was either the nano-turbulators or fuzzy dice to hang over the console. I thought the fuzzy dice might clash with the little dog with a bouncy head.
The little dog reminds me of K9 and I get misty eyed :(
They use food grade glaze at the HS, which is good. I use a mug she made for me, but the Tardis is strictly hers. :-) I respect that. It was her idea, and effort. She just said I'm allowed to use it. No warming up in the microwave though.
I'd rather not have the screen updates bogged down to a crawl with massive bandwidth wasting pictures. And that's just from productive posts. Imagine how bad troll posts would be. Yes, it would be nice to display a chart or wisely compressed photo, but links usually work well enough. There are places that don't have free unlimited bandwidth and most American web designers haven't a clue about frugal bandwidth use. Fortunately the Gulch designers understand. I could rant for some time about how the web UI "experience" has degraded since mouse over menus became ubiquitous interruptions to anyone just trying to read an article in peace. Anyway I vote no thanks to in-comment bandwidth wasting illustrations. Anything worth displaying is worth compressing, uploading, and linking. That give the freedom of choice to the reader.
The police are not on board. None I'm friends with, at any rate. People are starting to wake up. Unfortunately it didn't extend to the Governor's office.
Yes, they did talk about the Islamic extremists that did this heinous act. They talked about the aftermath and the response by world leaders. And the non response by ours.
I have no problem with Je suis Charlie, in fact I applaud much of what they've published. I do have a problem with both the French, US and other 'Western Democracies" pretending to protect free speech when in fact they only protect what they approve of, rather than all speech. Now obviously such acts as shouting fire in a crowded theater must be forbidden, but lest we forget the same government that sponsored the "Free Speech" march last Sunday closed down 'Charlie' during the Mitterrand reign of demagoguery for criticizing Charles de Gaul shortly after his death.
I think they were vile, despicable, hate mongers. That said, I have no problem with them being such and publishing their vile, hateful rag. Just as I had no problem with the juvenile who pissed in a bottle and placed a crucifix upside down in it and called it "art." These are individuals who cannot convey their ideas in a manner that can survive even the softest scrutiny, so they resort to inflammatory expression.
Your point has merit, that said, I will defend their right to say or publish whatever they want, regardless of the levels of taste evoked. I'm not sure if there is any person, religion or irony that they have not poked. I simply cannot condone any attack on anyone's right of free speech or their right to voice their own opinions or to read what ever they wish to read. And while I might be prone to restrict it on a grade school reading list, in Middle or High School it is fodder for an excellent Social Studies discussion.
I'm surprised it's allowed to be published in France, though. Laws that create a "right not to be offended" are the root of the problem. You can't very well have them and yet allow CH.
The problem is, only you can decide to be offended, or what is offensive. Thus, we have standards of "offensiveness" that are as numerable as there are people.
I did decide to backtrack erase half a sentence I started. The reason I only posted the link without comment was that I was chomping on the bit to ask--never mind what I was going to ask. That would be telling after having to decided not to write, well, post a word.
When they can't effectively argue your points their go to move is smear you personally.
Those are some great things to have on your property. I have a well, stream, garden... Shore, western, litchfield hills, eastern? W are in the Litchfield hills. :-)
Darlene Love is playing at Ike this coming Saturday. One of the great, but unknown, singers (due to Phil Specter, scumbag).
What ever happened with all the AR-banning they were talking about after Sandy Hook, and the massive response from some gun owners? Did the state back down or the police decide to not enforce the rules?
There was a long line of slaves at the (non) public safety dept waiting to add their names to the list of future targets of confiscation. But there was a much longer line of proud gun owners who stayed home and flipped our governor the bird.
Of course *I* would never disobey the law... No sir, perish the thought!
Even a first year time mechanic can tell you that will cause a highly stable standing wave form in the entire array of resonance chambers, even the upgraded ones with redundant nano-turbulators. As long as you're stuck with that standing wave there's no access to the time vortex.
Now, if a crafty Timelord got chatty with the right engineers on Logopolis he might have learned that relocating the entire tertiary rheostat assembly to the inside of the n-dimensional projector that maps the interior of the Tardis onto 3-dimensional space would cause the self-diagnostic to fail WITHOUT an error code - why then his little bit of sabotage would be undetectable! (And by the Rod of Rasselon don't forget to beef up the shielding!)
Jan
The little dog reminds me of K9 and I get misty eyed :(
Jan
Just double check that the glaze is food safe. A lot of them have lead and it can leach into food.
Yes, it would be nice to display a chart or wisely compressed photo, but links usually work well enough. There are places that don't have free unlimited bandwidth and most American web designers haven't a clue about frugal bandwidth use. Fortunately the Gulch designers understand. I could rant for some time about how the web UI "experience" has degraded since mouse over menus became ubiquitous interruptions to anyone just trying to read an article in peace.
Anyway I vote no thanks to in-comment bandwidth wasting illustrations. Anything worth displaying is worth compressing, uploading, and linking. That give the freedom of choice to the reader.
Now obviously such acts as shouting fire in a crowded theater must be forbidden, but lest we forget the same government that sponsored the "Free Speech" march last Sunday closed down 'Charlie' during the Mitterrand reign of demagoguery for criticizing Charles de Gaul shortly after his death.
I simply cannot condone any attack on anyone's right of free speech or their right to voice their own opinions or to read what ever they wish to read.
And while I might be prone to restrict it on a grade school reading list, in Middle or High School it is fodder for an excellent Social Studies discussion.
-- j
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Heb...
In all my 67 years, I have asked more than one dumb question.
:-)
The reason I only posted the link without comment was that I was chomping on the bit to ask--never mind what I was going to ask.
That would be telling after having to decided not to write, well, post a word.
It's the Information Age.
There! You made me talk. Well, sorta.
Dino just snickered at what he wrote.