The Missal

MY FELLOW CONSERVATIVES

2014-11-05T08:00:00.000-05:00

I told my wife before the election ever began that the Republicans would pick up 8 seats in the Senate, take a bunch of governor's races, and pick up maybe 10 or more seats in the House. I knew anyone with any sense who was actually honest with themselves about the Democrats and Obama would turn on them. And it looks like that is how it will actually shake out. And good.

I’m glad for the wins and the show of honesty on the part of most Americans.

However I must be honest about this as well.

A lot of modern people think political elections (and far more importantly what comes afterward) are like petty high school popularity contests (oh please like me, please like me best!) or some type of stupid, juvenile sporting event where every so often your teams shows up and ass-whoops the other guy. Until next game of course.

And secondly a lot of modern people believe it is the job of “their Team” to do everything for them. (That’s’ what you elected them for, right?)

Nothing could possibly be farther from the Truth. That’s exactly the way modern liberals think. That politics is a popularity game or a sporting event and that “your team” is supposed to win the game and fix the world for you. Fix you for you.

Now if you’re a Real Conservative, or even just a mildly mature adult, you know instinctively that politics as a popularity game is utter infantile bullshit, and that no one alive is ever going to fix you other than yourself. Unless, of course, in certain extreme situations, God will have to throw in with you if you are extraordinarily stubborn and self-destructive. But no politician is ever gonna be your stupid savior (you are really, really incredibly naïve and stupid if you believe in "political saviors") and no political party is ever gonna fix either you or the world for you. You want a mommy, okay, but you’re an utter imbecile if by now you haven’t figured out that Obama isn’t gonna breast feed you.

Neither is the Democratic party or their stupid liberal ideology. Nor is the Republican party going to fix you or the world for you.

Let those with eyes to see and ears to hear understand me.

You’ve won the election, but the actual Work is now yours my friends. Entirely yours.

It always was. So it will always be. You just forgot that over time.

Don’t forget it again.

Instead of all that get off your asses and fix yourself. Get off your asses and fix the world. Get off your asses and fix your nation. And it will actually start to get fixed.

You see that’s exactly what being a Conservative means. You don’t look to be led, popular, tended-to, or wet-nursed by effeminate "political saviors." Of any stripe, color, or class.

Instead you look to be honest (with yourself and the rest of the world), solve problems, and fix things.

So don’t let me or anyone else stop ya. Not the old Democrats, not your new Republicans.

This is your job sports. So, hit the bricks. And let’s whip this mutha back into some kinda working shape again.

And there ya go. Case closed suckas, case closed!

THE ANTHROPOCENE ANALYSIS

2014-10-17T07:34:00.001-05:00

Well now, decisions-decisions.

Sometimes when it comes to modern people I don't know whether to laugh out loud or just to myself, but either way I know there will be a good belly laugh involved.

I breathlessly await their decision. For otherwise, and without their erudite analysis, how would we ever truly know?

I'm just thanking God that there is at least one lawyer in the lot for this momentous decision. There should always be at least one lawyer in the lot when decisions of this magnitude are reached.

One thing is for sure, whatever happens, it's gonna be absolutely amazing. And a fundamental shift in both our world and in human nature...

Right? Ain't I right on this people?

The term, coined in the 1980s by ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer, takes its prefix from the Ancient Greek word for human because its proponents believe the influence of humanity on the Earth's atmosphere and crust in the last few centuries is so significant as to constitute a new geological epoch.

The Anthropocene Working Group assembles in Berlin on Friday, an interdisciplinary body of scientists and humanists working under the umbrella of the International Commission on Stratigraphy and "tasked with developing a proposal for the formal ratification of the Anthropocene as an official unit amending the Geological Time Scale".

The AWG will examine the shift in the biophysical conditions of the Earth humans have brought about (Picture: Getty)

The 30-strong group, which includes a lawyer, has outlined two key questions which it will address during deliberations at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt:

"How does the recent cognition of the immense quantitative shift in the biophysical conditions of the Earth affect both scientific research and a political response to these changes?" and "Does the Anthropocene also pose a profound qualitative shift, a paradigm shift for the ways in which science, politics, and law advance accordingly?"

THE SUPER SECRET THAT NEVER WAS

2014-10-13T18:02:00.002-05:00

If it's really so secret then how do you know?

If it's really so secret then why do you know?

Seems to me like any other old "modern secret."

Top-secret X-37B military space plane could land in California this week

Technicians work on the the first X-37B space plane after a smooth landing on Dec. 3, 2010 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The same X-37B spacecraft launched back into space on Dec. 11, 2012. U.S. Air Force/Michael Stonecypher

The U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane will return to Earth this week --possibly as early as Tuesday -- after 22 months in orbit on a secret mission.

The robotic X-37B space plane, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, will land at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where Air Force officials are gearing up for its return. As of Oct. 12, the X-37B mini-shuttle has been in orbit since December 2012 and racked up a record-shattering 671 days in space.

"Team Vandenberg stands ready to implement safe landing operations for the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, the third time for this unique mission" said Col. Keith Baits, 30th Space Wing commander, in a statement on Friday, Oct. 10. [See photos from the X-37B mission]...

THE GULF from POLITICAL CAUSE

2014-10-13T11:29:00.000-05:00

Politics is not the basis of my morality. Morality is the basis of my politics. Because there is a gulf as wide as that separating Heaven and Hell between these two approaches.

ULTRASONIC UNIFORMS

2014-10-09T09:51:00.001-05:00

Superb! (Not the price, the idea and technique.)

Navy tests out new way of making clothes: Welding

Oct. 8, 2014 - 06:00AM |

A swatch of fabric with a welded seam, top, is displayed resting on a piece of U.S. Navy camouflage fabric, below, that utilizes a traditional seam sewn using thread, at Propel LLC, a textile technology research company, in Pawtucket, R.I. The Navy could be turning to ultrasonic welding to make its uniforms lighter, stronger and cheaper. (Steven Senne / AP)

By Jennifer Mcdermott
The Associated Press

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Clare King, of Providence, R.I., displays a zipper attached to a swatch of fabric using a welded seam, foreground, while a U.S. Navy camouflaged parka, that was sewn together using traditional thread, rests on a table in the background, at Propel LLC. (Steven Senne / AP)

PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Welding isn’t just for aircraft carriers anymore.

The U.S. Navy could be turning to ultrasonic welding to make its uniforms lighter, stronger and cheaper. And if the project by a Rhode Island company and the Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility is a success, it could help bring manufacturing back from overseas.

Welded seams — created when two pieces of fabric are essentially melted together by sound waves — are already used in some clothing that some Americans have in their closets. Patagonia and North Face both sell models of jackets with welded seams. But so far, most, if not all, of that manufacturing is done overseas...

TORPIC TRAVEL?

2014-10-06T08:22:00.000-05:00

I'm not really seeing the innovation as this idea has been around for an extremely long time.

Perhaps the article writer is referring to the specific techniques that would be involved. However there is no guarantee that torpor will either be universally effective or universally safe. Plus there will be the danger of a difficult and untimely revival.

And obviously you can't put everyone in torpor, that's far too dangerous.

NASA Eyes Crew Deep Sleep Option for Mars Mission

Oct 3, 2014 12:00 PM ET // by Irene Klotz

During interplanetary transit, the crew would receive low-level electrical impulses to key muscle groups to prevent muscular atrophy.

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Last year, NASA announced the discovery of water on Mars. This posed a question to scientists: Could we grow plants in the soil of Mars? Trace explains what is necessary to grow crops on Earth, and if Mars is able to sustain life.

The deep sleep, called torpor, would reduce astronauts’ metabolic functions with existing medical procedures. Torpor also can occur naturally in cases of hypothermia.

ANALYSIS: Private Mars Mission in 2018?

“Therapeutic torpor has been around in theory since the 1980s and really since 2003 has been a staple for critical care trauma patients in hospitals," aerospace engineer Mark Schaffer, with SpaceWorks Enterprises in Atlanta, said at the International Astronomical Congress in Toronto this week. "Protocols exist in most major medical centers for inducing therapeutic hypothermia on patients to essentially keep them alive until they can get the kind of treatment that they need.”

HOW TO SOVIET UP YOUR IRRIGATION PROJECT

2014-09-30T06:57:00.000-05:00

Want to do it right? Don't go Russian...

ARAL SEA

2000

2014

In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. The region’s two major rivers, fed by snowmelt and precipitation in faraway mountains, were used to transform the desert into farms for cotton and other crops. Before the project, the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya rivers flowed down from the mountains, cut northwest through the Kyzylkum Desert, and finally pooled together in the lowest part of the basin. The lake they made, the Aral Sea, was once the fourth largest in the world.

Although irrigation made the desert bloom, it devastated the Aral Sea. This series of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite documents the changes. At the start of the series in 2000, the lake was already a fraction of its 1960 extent (black line). The Northern Aral Sea (sometimes called the Small Aral Sea) had separated from the Southern (Large) Aral Sea. The Southern Aral Sea had split into eastern and western lobes that remained tenuously connected at both ends.

By 2001, the southern connection had been severed, and the shallower eastern part retreated rapidly over the next several years. Especially large retreats in the eastern lobe of the Southern Sea appear to have occurred ...

EVIL PROPAGATES - AMERICAN BEHEADING

2014-09-26T12:42:00.000-05:00

Foreign Evil propagates. Here. Among us. (As if we didn't have enough of our own already.)

And unless we are men enough to call it what it truly is and then obliterate it, then it will spread and corrupt and do much more harm and countless murders.

We should kill this now and give it no room or time to grow. We've already wasted far too much time allowing it to breed elsewhere in the world.

The War of Terror is alive and well. It does not matter how effeminate and intentionally naive we are about our own terminology. Still, it comes.

Oklahoma man beheads woman, stabs 2nd victim during workplace fight day after being fired from job

Police said Alton Nolen, who recently converted to Islam, burst into a Moore, Okla., food distribution center beheaded 54-year-old Colleen Hufford. He injured a second woman, 43-year-old Traci Johnson, before an off-duty cop at the plant shot him and ended the rampage. Police said he did not know either of his victims. He’s expected to survive.

BY Meg Wagner , Corky Siemaszko

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Published: Friday, September 26, 2014, 10:14 AM

Updated: Friday, September 26, 2014, 1:21 PM

Moore PolicePolice said 30-year-old Alton Nolen rushed into an Oklahoma food distribution plant and stabbed two women, one fatally.
The FBI is investigating an outbreak of Islamic State-like terror in the heartland after a recently-fired Oklahoma man stormed into a food plant and savagely beheaded a former co-worker.

Alton Nolen also stabbed and critically injured another woman before he was shot and wounded by a company executive who is also an Oklahoma County reserve deputy...

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THE BIGGER MAN

2014-09-26T10:54:00.002-05:00

This pretty much confirms what I believe. Modern police training is abominable. And reckless and totally contrary to your real function, to protect and serve. Cops are being trained that they are at war with the Citizen.

Police, you are not at fucking war with the Citizen. You're supposed to be serving him. Drawing your weapon and shooting unarmed, peaceful men before they present themselves as threats is utterly inexcusable and entirely unmanly. AND ENTIRELY UNMANLY. Do you understand what that means? I say this as a man who is usually sympathetic to the police.

You could have killed this man for complying with your request.

YOU MUST BE BIGGER THAN YOUR TRAINING. If not you are smaller than yourself.

You keep killing your own cause, and sometimes innocent men. But in the end you must control yourself first, son. No one else.

Manhood requires far more than being a trained automaton. Your job is to protect the innocent from danger, not to become dangerous to the innocent.

If you do not realize this then who will? And how can any amount of training prepare you for recklessly and impulsively shooting the innocent?

It is well past time to change my friends. For your sake as much as anyone's.

South Carolina man shot by police after alleged seatbelt violation

"Sir, why was I shot? All I did was reach for my license. I'm coming from work."

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Site Staff in News

The moment State Trooper Sean Groubert shot Levar Jones.

COLUMBIA, SC — Dashcam video captured the moment an unarmed man was shot by a state trooper while being confronted about alleged not wearing a seatbelt.

The motorist, 35-year-old Levar Jones, pulled into a Columbia convenience store parking lot on September 4th, 2014.

South Carolina State Trooper Sean Groubert was lurking in his cruiser adjacent to the parking lot, and watched as Mr. Jones slowly pull his white pickup truck into the lot. Officer Groubert waited a moment for Mr. Jones to park, then pulled his cruiser up behind the truck...

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THE MODERN CULT from HUMAN EFFORT

2014-09-26T10:47:00.000-05:00

I am all for training and tradition. But we make a cult of it when we cannot exceed it.

ELIMINATE AND OVERCOME

2014-09-26T10:40:00.000-05:00

Criminals rely upon the fear and ignorance of their victims to be successful. Eliminate your ignorance and overcome your fear and the criminal has a far bigger problem than you do.

AND STILL MORE...

2014-09-23T14:13:00.001-05:00

What God has forgotten about nothing is still far more than I'll ever know about anything.

ARMY GOES ATHLETE

2014-09-22T13:53:00.000-05:00

Indeed. There is a great deal of difference between static strength (as exemplified by things like push-ups) and flexible, capable, athletic capabilities as evidenced by the ability to climb, jump, pull, push, roll, etc.

The ability to climb, roll, carry, climb, hoist, and so forth are far more important capabilities to a soldier (or anyone in an occupation requiring both physical fitness and adaptable capability) than is an ability to complete a specific number of sit-ups.

I for one am very glad to see the physical emphasis shifting towards active physical capabilities in testing.

Army's Big PT Test Changes

by Christian Lowe

For the first time in more than 20 years, the Army is gearing up to change its fitness test for every Soldier.

Gone is the simple pushup, sit up, and run routine, and in its place comes a battery of sprints, jumps and rows.

And the service is also introducing a grueling series of slalom runs, balance beam walks, casualty drags, and ammo carries it calls the Army Combat Readiness Test -- a totally new evaluation that simulates the kind of body crush Joes experience on deployment.

"The key difference is between 'readiness' and fitness," said Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, the Army's deputy commanding general for initial training. "It's one thing to be fit it's quite another thing to be ready for the things we are being asked to do. And in our case, it's becoming a 'tactical athlete.' "

For the next six months, the Army will be administering the new Army Physical Readiness Test and the ACRT to almost 10,000 Soldiers at nearly 10 Army commands, including Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.; Fort Benning, Ga., and Fort Sill, Okla. Soldiers there will help Army fitness experts determine how best to structure the tests and how often to do them.

Army officials are also looking into how to grade the new tests, with a simple "excellent," "good" or "poor" potentially replacing a pass-fail or a point score...

BABY FINGERS

2014-09-21T14:43:00.001-05:00

BABY FINGERS (The Secret Song of Lord Petyr Baelish)

a song I wrote linked from Wyrdwend, my Literary Blog.

AMERICA from POLITICAL CAUSE

2014-09-21T14:38:00.000-05:00

America, late to every war that will ever matter, and determined to lose every war that will ever count…

SO RARELY from POLITICAL CAUSE

2014-09-21T14:36:00.000-05:00

There is a certain pathetic irony to human history in that the vast majority of people are willing to endure evil for so long yet are willing to risk for the better so rarely.

EPIGENETIC MEMORY

2014-09-19T07:28:00.000-05:00

I have been studying the field of epigenetics for about ten years or so now? Something like that. Since the field of genetics has been a personal interest of mine for decades. But I only relatively recently became of aware of modern epigenetics and began studying it in depth.

I see it as being directly related (as a manipulation mechanism) to my theory of the Renaissance Man and the polymath.

Anyway I thought this was a rather good but very basic summary of some of the recent research advances and studies in the field.

Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations

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This image shows inheritance and transmission of the epigenetic mark H3K27me3 in C. elegans. The 1-cell embryo (left) shows the mark (green) inherited on sperm chromosomes but not on the oocyte chromosomes (pink) contributed by a mutant mother lacking the methylation enzyme PRC2. The 2-cell embryo (right) shows transmission of the mark on the sperm-derived chromosomes in each daughter nucleus. Credit: Laura J. Gaydos

A growing body of evidence suggests that environmental stresses can cause changes in gene expression that are transmitted from parents to their offspring, making "epigenetics" a hot topic. Epigenetic modifications do not affect the DNA sequence of genes, but change how the DNA is packaged and how genes are expressed. Now, a study by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows how epigenetic memory can be passed across generations and from cell to cell during development...

Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations

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This image shows inheritance and transmission of the epigenetic mark H3K27me3 in C. elegans. The 1-cell embryo (left) shows the mark (green) inherited on sperm chromosomes but not on the oocyte chromosomes (pink) contributed by a mutant …more

A growing body of evidence suggests that environmental stresses can cause changes in gene expression that are transmitted from parents to their offspring, making "epigenetics" a hot topic. Epigenetic modifications do not affect the DNA sequence of genes, but change how the DNA is packaged and how genes are expressed. Now, a study by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows how epigenetic memory can be passed across generations and from cell to cell during development.

Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations

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THE HUMAN SUIT

2014-09-19T07:13:00.000-05:00

And about bloody time too. I've been saying the same thing, and following the same design principle with my own AISTHPLEIS Suit design for over a decade now.

The idea makes far more sense and would be far more efficient and pragmatic than either a bulky, cumbersome diving bell type suit (current designs) or a totally artificial/mechanical robotic machine type exoskeletal suit (current military designs).

Biomechanical, bio-organic, nanobiological, human imitative and human enhancing and direct somatic interfacing technologies such as this are the wave of the future, not old style mechanical and robotic technologies.

Spacesuits of the future may resemble a streamlined second skin

Sep 18, 2014 by Jennifer Chu

The MIT BioSuit, a skintight spacesuit that offers improved mobility and reduced mass compared to modern gas-pressurized spacesuits. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT

For future astronauts, the process of suiting up may go something like this: Instead of climbing into a conventional, bulky, gas-pressurized suit, an astronaut may don a lightweight, stretchy garment, lined with tiny, musclelike coils. She would then plug in to a spacecraft's power supply, triggering the coils to contract and essentially shrink-wrap the garment around her body...

THE DEATH OF EVERYTHING ELSE

2014-09-17T20:05:00.000-05:00

I completely agree. Modern liberalism is obsessed with turning everything else into modern liberalism. To the death and detriment of everything else.

Do more and more liberals find the emotions unleashed by the arts—I mean all of the arts, from poetry to painting to dance—something of an embarrassment? Are the liberal-spirited people who support a rational public policy—a social safety net, consistency and efficiency in foreign affairs, steps to reverse global warming—reluctant to embrace art’s celebration of unfettered metaphor and mystery and magic? If you had asked me ten years ago, I would have said the answer was no. Now I am inclined to say the opposite. What is certain is that in our data- and metrics-obsessed era the imaginative ground without which art cannot exist is losing ground. Instead of art-as-art we have art as a comrade-in-arms to some more supposedly stable or substantial or readily comprehensible aspect of our world. Now art is always hyphenated. We have art-and-society, art-and-money, art-and-education, art-and-tourism, art-and-politics, art-and-fun. Art itself, with its ardor, its emotionalism, and its unabashed assertion of the imagination, has become an outlier, its tendency to celebrate a purposeful purposelessness found to be intimidating, if not downright frightening.

The erosion of art’s imaginative ground, often blamed on demagogues of the left and the right, is taking place in the very heart of the liberal, educated, cultivated audience—the audience that arts professionals always imagined they could count on. The whole question is so painful and so difficult that I have frankly hesitated to tackle it. It is relatively easy to point to the deformations of art at the hands of politically correct left-wingers and cheap-shot moralists on the right, as the late Robert Hughes did in the fast-paced, witty series of lectures that he published as Culture of Complaint in 1993. It is far more difficult to explain why people who pride themselves on their carefully reasoned view of the world want to argue that art is not a value in and of itself, but rather a vehicle or a medium or a vessel through which some other human value or values are expressed. That these thoughts are often voiced indirectly makes them no less significant. Indeed, such thoughts may be all the more significant because they are being expressed by critics and scholars who would deny that they are in any way discomfited by the unique powers of the arts. An illiberal view of art is gaining ground, even among the liberal audience. This is one of the essential if largely hidden factors that is undermining faith in our museums, our libraries, our publishing houses, our concert halls, symphony orchestras, and theater and dance troupes.

NASA CATCHES UP TO THE 21ST CENTURY

2014-09-16T16:52:00.000-05:00

Good. We should be relying upon American corporations not hostile foreign nations for our Space Exploration endeavours.

On the other hand we shouldn't be relying upon the American government for our Space Exploration efforts either. The future of Space Exploration is Private Enterprise.

Space Race: NASA Awards Contracts to Boeing, SpaceX

Sep 16, 2014, 11:00 AM ET

By GINA SUNSERI and ALYSSA NEWCOMB

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NASA astronaut Alvin Drew participates in an EVA on the International Space Station on Feb. 28, 2011.

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NASA awarded contracts today to Boeing and Elon Musk's SpaceX to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, signaling the agency's return to manned spaceflight after the end of the space shuttle program.

"This is the fulfillment of the commitment President Obama made to return human space flight launches to U.S. soil and end our reliance on the Russians," NASA administrator Charles Bolden said.

The winning designs will end U.S. dependence on the Russian Soyuz for transportation back and forth to the International Space Station.

THE ORIGINAL

2014-09-16T13:18:00.006-05:00

I have nothing but admiration and respect for Classical Liberalism.

I have nothing but disdain and disgust for modern liberalism.

ONE THING INTO ANOTHER - PRINTER INTO LABORATORY

2014-09-16T13:09:00.000-05:00

I very much like the idea of one device having multiple applications (with a small amount of reconfiguring or even retooling).

To me this is a positive step towards God Technology.

Now you can turn your inkjet printer into a chemistry lab and use it to diagnose diabetes

5 hours ago by Mark Lorch, The Conversation

Ready, set, print me a reaction. Credit: Chaikom

If you stop and think about it for a moment, you will realise what an astonishing feat of precision engineering your colour printer is. It can take the primary colours – cyan, yellow, magenta and black – and mix them together carefully enough to achieve more than a million different hues and shades. Not only that but the drops of colour are mere nanolitres (billionths of a litre) in volume, each of which is then placed on the paper – assuming its not jammed in the feeder tray – with better than pinpoint accuracy...

WHAT I REMEMBER: 9/11, 2014

2014-09-11T14:10:00.000-05:00

This is hardly a day to celebrate, of course, but it is a day to remember so that we may hopefully better foresee the future.

What bothers me about this day is not that we were ambushed, for anyone can be, or even that we did not anticipate 9/11/01 (we should have, but humans are humans, we do not anticipate everything, even those things we easily should) but how easily we have dismissed the implications of this day.

We are in the very early stages of what may very well promise to be another Hundred Year’s War.

Yet so many are still so naïve, so self-absorbed, so easily deluded.

They thought this would all be over quickly, won easily, that they could return unabashed and untroubled to their self-indulgent and erroneous political theories and their quaint causes and their video games and their personal interests du jour and that the War on Terror would disappear because they and their self-appointed leaders so desired. Merely because they chose to stop calling it a war. As if anything ever disappears simply by un-naming it.

Good luck with that.

You’re sure as hell gonna need it.

Evil doesn’t give a shit what you think of it. It doesn’t care what you want. It doesn’t care how complacent or apathetic or naïve or just plain ignorant you desperately desire to be. It doesn’t care who you are. It likes to make martyrs, not be martyred, it likes the weak, it likes the naïve, it likes the apathetic, and it especially loves the overly sophisticated, the urbanized intelligentsia, and wholly self-deluded (I apologize for being redundant, that was just for emphasis). They all make for awful good eating.

Evil is what it is folks, and it is a hunter of the unprepared, and it is extremely patient, and it smells blood where you smell your own self-absorption and Danish topped coffee stains.

So just get used to it, it is the way of things.

You might think war is something you wage on TV and film screens, something that will be won in a single tow-hour fictional combat by Captain America and Batman. You might think it can be won by words and empty suit promises by painted pretty boy Presidents who can’t wipe their own asses for confusing it with a back-nine grass-covered golf hole.

But what you’re likely gonna get is something altogether different and more costly than that.

So, get used to it sunshine.

You just have no idea of what’s coming... and how little you yet understand.

And God help us, maybe you’ll just get lucky, eh?

Then again luck is no more of a plan than Hope and Change.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

2014-09-11T07:34:00.001-05:00

For those of you familiar with blogging I have a question to ask. I'd like to solicit your advice.

I have four blogs, one is my personal blog, one is my literary blog, one is my business and invention blog, and one is my gaming and design blog.

Three of my blogs are on Wordpress, one is on Blogger. When each is old enough and well established enough (I just started them a couple of months back) each will go private, but for now they are hosted.

So here is my question: of these two platforms, Wordpress and Blogger, which is better for building your audience and which is better overall if your aim is blog success to support your business and writing enterprises?

At this stage of my blog development process which do you think is the superior platform?

Which do you recommend, and why? Your advice is appreciated.

THE MISSAL

2014-09-10T14:29:00.000-05:00

I've reinitialized the Missal. The Missal will now become my personal and political and religious blog, though I'll also cover other topics as well, such as military and law enforcement matters. I'll disclose more details later, but for now I'll be making regular blog posts to the Missal once or twice a week again.

I also have other blogs I am currently writing. If you would like to visit one of my other blogs they are as follows:

Wyrdwend : my Literary blog covering my writings - fiction and non-fiction, my songwriting, and my poetry.

Launch Port : my business and entrepreneurial blog covering business, career, entrepreneurship, start-ups, capital and funding, and my inventions.

Tome and Tomb : my gaming and game design blog.

You are welcome to link to or follow any of my blogs. All readers are welcome.

Have a great day,

Jack.