Lives in a Shoe

Who Runs the World? Scott Explains It All to You

 

 

When the Lights Go Out Forever

Pay attention.

It would come with almost no warning. Without any immediate signs as to why, the lights go out, cars stop dead, telephones cease to function, everything with a microchip in it fails, and most of it all never works again.

In the wake of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States, part or all of the country is thrust back into the 1860s but with 10 times the population. The threat is real, it is pressing, and the United States is doing little to address it.

It strikes many Americans as a fanciful prospect, almost cheesy apocalypse porn, to suggest that something as simple as the destruction of the nation’s power grid could thrust the United States into the dark ages. But those who have investigated this prospect are not rolling their eyes to the threat as are so many of the country’s sophisticates.

 

Fierce Moral Urgency

Anybody Paying Attention?

Phoenix: 98% of Somali women being treated have undergone genital mutilation (FGM)

via Horrific Taboo: Female Circumcision on the Rise in U.S. – NBC News.com.

(The headline is somewhat misleading in that te 98 percent figure is for treatment at a refugee women's center.  Bad enough though.)(The NBC story is good.)

We Are Not Subjects

Mass defiance in Connecticut against assault weapon registration law

A bit of miltary wisdom has it that you should never give an order you know won't be obeyed. Issuing such an order accomplishes nothing except to undermine your authority and expose the extent to which, no matter what enforcement mechanisms are in place, you rely upon voluntary compliance. But now that Connecticut's resident class of politically employed cretins has awoken to the fact that, in their state, like everywhere else, people overwhelmingly disobey orders to register their weapons, they're acting like this is a shocking revelation.

The Hartford Courant is raging, raging that Connecticut is home to scofflaws (armed scofflaws) and apparently wishes they could all be sent to -- well, maybe Siberia.  That'll teach 'em.

One of the saddest things I have ever seen is this photo of seemingly well-intentioned people trying to do the right thing, lining up to obey the registration edict.  Connecticut, United States of America.

 

 

I Return.

Haven't been posting but now am ready to take a few steps ahead after dealing with the vision problems. 

Facebook doesn't seem the place for topical other than personal so I'll be posting here.  I'll give a heads-up for those who would rather not read about it, calling it "Pay Attention" in big red letters.

We'll start with this:

Pay Attention:

Today 60 Minutes reported about Benghazi. Legal Insurrection has it here: 

[T]he heart of the report is that there were clear and unequivocal warnings which were ignored, and the Obama administration lied about these warnings after the attack.

Video and transcript are at the CBS/60 Minutes site.