Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

This is certainly a great tragedy, but how come nobody talks about the Israelis who are maimed or killed when the Palestinians lob rockets into Israel (like the 45+ lobbed in to celebrate the ascension of the One (Obama's election))? - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

I would love to start a St. Louis News Blog/site. - Mark Horne

Aside from time availability, what's to stop you? - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

no comment necessary - Mark Horne via Bookmarklet

Now, compare this to Gitmo. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

Speaking of seeing your physicality, I sent an email to your gmail address to ask you for your physical address. May you emerge from the cyber-realm ever so slightly that I might get your address. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

This like all the other stories and links relating to economics and our government's corruption are all very interesting in their way, but there is absolutely nothing you or I or anyone else at our stations of life can do about it. Our citizens are idiots as proved by our system of selecting candidates for high political office and the outcome of the recent election. I will do what I can for my family and hope God protects and provides for me. I will look for the nation whose city is built on the foundations of the "evidence of things not seen". Merry Christmas!!! - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

Looks very cool; too bad my hand-eye coordination sucks (why I tend toward strategy only type games). - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

It's not what you think. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

"Invoking Main Street resentment of Wall Street's federal bailout, some 200 workers entered their third day of occupying a shuttered Chicago window and door factory on Sunday, demanding that Bank of America agree to pay them severance plus vacation pay. Workers belonging to the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union began their peaceful occupation of the plant on Friday after family-owned Republic Windows & Doors said it was closing after Bank of America canceled its line of credit." - Mark Horne via Bookmarklet

Even if one has a dislike of or a whiny attitude about unions, it is still not biblical to withhold the pay of workers. And by law the window & door company's agreement with the union is a contract (usually signed by both parties); to not honor a contract is a breach of said contract. I won't even go into the lack of wisdom of running a company on such a tight margin that the canceling of a line of credit effectively ends your business. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

I hate and abominate Bratz dolls, but I want to defend them from this evil. - Mark Horne via Bookmarklet

So, another big corporation can't compete in the marketplace and they have their lapdog (the Federal Gov't) beat up on their competition. Adam Smith continues to be right and the monopolists continue to be the enemy. Oh how I loath our current establishment in the US. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

I got the first paperback (at least within the chronology of the story; it may not have been Leiber's first story about Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser). I was really repelled by the story of Fafhrd and the portrayal of women as evil for being mad about husbands and sons in pursuit of erotica. - Mark Horne

I haven't yet read the stories of Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser, but I remember that in D&D circles it was a reference. And in the fantasy community it was on the list. I was originally a hard SciFi guy that got dragged for a decade over to the fantasy genre because of the excellence of Tolkien, but even to this day, when I ever have time I like to make a digression over into fantasy for "old times sake". On another note, I have had to deal with the clash of world-views ever since when I first "got saved" when.. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

I was in the height of SciFi immersion. I really believed the gospel and the out-and-out godlessness of all my favorite hero-authors of that genre really disturbed me. I had to compartmentalize them to enjoy the entertainment value and philosophical contemplations. It is too bad the writer "dissed" women. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

I understand that the writer of the Twilight books (you know, the teenage vampire angst made into TV series) really did some disturbing things for teenage girls in regards to getting them to like abusive boyfriends (see the various bloggetry on the subject). - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

Did anything like this happen in the aftermath of 9/11? - Mark Horne via Bookmarklet

After 9-11, if I were GW, I would have fired everyone in the relevant departments about three levels deep (of course I would have done that to all the departments upon taking office just to purge the stain of Clintonista). And I would have seized all Saudi assets (since it was Saudi oil money via the Wahhabists that financed Al Qaida's operation). It amazes me that our leaders have no concern that the Islamo-Fascists want to kill us all including them. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back." - Mark Horne via Bookmarklet

"How could you take a man's life to save $20 on a TV?"--This is why most of the world detests the materialism of the US (while secretly wishing they also had the same goodies)>:) - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

Here, Here! (or is it Hear, Hear?) - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

We think we've made progress in human rights and then this happens without much protest. What is going on? - Mark Horne via Bookmarklet

Just another part of the worldwide corporatist Fascist-Oligarchy. It is no accident that our corporations just love China; kind of like our RIAA, etc. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

Some of this I knew, but it is always good to think about living frugally. Thanks. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

"I'm just too white and nerdy"--(check out the song by Weird Al Yankovic) - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

The people of America are so stupid it staggers the mind. (That they should have voted in this regime, among other things.) - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

"Seven years later, CIA Inspector General John Helgerson has issued a blistering report finding that the CIA repeatedly lied and covered up details about the intercept program, about the downing of Bowers' plane, and about other incidents that never made the news." - Mark Horne via Bookmarklet

Definite proof that the US government is Anti-God. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

So? Lew Rockwell has his own myth. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

There are many within each racial camp and many powers-that-be who would like racism to continue. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

If I were single I wouldn't use them now. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

"A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record." - Mark Horne via Bookmarklet

Another malleable truth event. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

"It is all a reminder that the biggest threat to a healthy economy is not the socialists of campaign lore. It’s C.E.O.’s. It’s politically powerful crony capitalists who use their influence to create a stagnant corporate welfare state." - Mark Horne via Bookmarklet

"...crony capitalists..."--This is the sort of mercantilist way of doing business that Adam Smith criticizes in The Wealth of Nations. I have long held that we do not have true free enterprise capitalism in the US or in the world. Everyone wants to have their little special favors; what happened to free trade (in its truest sense)? - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

"Another way to judge Palin is by McCain’s own standards. He picked her to do two things: rally the Republican base, and attract key swing voters, including women, independents, suburbanites, and younger parents. By every conceivable measure, Palin failed. Core Republican turnout declined 1.3 percent compared to four years ago, the Republican share of the electorate dropped five points from 2004 – and the depression of conservative voters was amplified in key states like Ohio, where Obama won despite earning almost the same number of votes as John F. Kerry. The difference is that 300,000 people who showed up for Bush/Cheney decided to stay home for McCain/Palin." - Mark Horne via Bookmarklet

What weighed McCain down was that he was a known RINO; the only reason I ended up holding my nose and voting for McCain was that Palin was on the ticket and my certain knowledge that Obama is a Liberal-Fascist w/Communist tendencies. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

Let's hope the RIAA didn't read this. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

I object to the politically correct "science" that will get funded under the Obamanation, but to be fair, many scientists throughout history relied on patronage of various powers to finance them (unless they were noblemen themselves). Perhaps in our fadingly prosperous civilization, one could make the case that there are enough private financing opportunities that the gov'ment handout isn't necessary, but these opportunities weren't always available in history. So, meh. - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

good grief - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

Erm, I'm biting tongue, and my keyboard. One of those comments is quite misguided and ill-informed; but hope springs eternal that he's not gonna rush into something that he cannot be extricated from. - wyclif

One of my favorite poems ever. - Jandy Stone

Of course Patton was not so concerned about his men. But he was concerned about winning the great conflict and had we listened to his idea of foreign policy, many people in the Eastern Block would not have had to live under tyranny for 60+ years. ...but, I forget myself...it doesn't matter now... - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.

Mark, I can probably claim affection for an anti-WWI poem without too much politics becoming involved; it was a heavily disillusioning experience, even if it had to be fought. - Jandy Stone

"There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness." --Oh, yea verily. Isn't tyranny of the majority wonderful? - Jimmie R. Irwin Jr.