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by Smitty

This cartoon is a hoot, but I’m not dealing with its copyright restrictions. Check the cartoon for a list of things for which we’re supposed to, somehow, thank these fellows.

In the first place, the liberals stole the notion of classical liberalism. That, apparently, occurred at the end of the Progressive Era. As the internet is increasingly used to point out what a sad little confidence game these ‘liberals’ are playing, look for them to test a new label in focus groups.
In any case, the modern liberal/Progressive remains a sad by-blow of an intellectual encounter between Rosseau and Marx.
Just keep on pluckin’ that chicken, liberals.

by Smitty

Via Tech Crunch:

The creator of Lisp and arguably the father of modern artificial intelligence, John McCarthy, died today. He studied mathematics with the famous John Nash at Princeton and, notably, held the first “computer-chess” match between scientists in the US and the USSR. He transmitted the moves by telegraph.

McCarthy believed AI should be interactive, allowing for a give and take similar to AI simulators like Eliza and, more recently, Siri. His own labs were run in an open, free-wheeling fashion, encouraging exploration and argument. He won the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1972 and the National Medal of Science in 1991.

Lisp (List Processing) is one of those initial revolutionary ideas. Whoever does not understand LISP, is doomed to reinvent it, as they say. In my opinion, McCarthy was more important than Steve Jobs.

One anticipates a coffin consisting of a pair of giant parenthesis.

Heaven rest him.

by Smitty

Ann Althouse has the Perry quote:

“It is a liberal canard to say I am personally pro-life, but government should stay out of that decision.
If that is your view, you are not pro-life, you are pro-having your cake and eating it too.”

I have always held that life begins at conception, and abortion is murder. What other logically consistent argument is there?

However, the federal government was delegated power by the states to manage multi-state issues, e.g. national security. Not to fret individual choices. On this, and so many other issues, the fundamental problem in American politics is the flattening of government into a single, federal mass.

So, as a SoCon, I would pray for the state setting up a baby abattoir on every corner, and making it legal to call a commitment ceremony involving a chicken ‘marriage’. And I understand too that there is a 14th Amendment argument to make about not letting the unborn be chattel slaves who can be snuffed at will.

Nevertheless, my contention is that ALL of our current fiscal problems are rooted in DC’s poking its pen into personal lives, in terms of housing, retirement, sex, education, retirement, etc. We can either repent of that Progressive idiocy, or keep on shagging that chicken as we are.

SoCons have got to understand that, secretly, Progressives welcome the precedent set by passing legislation that justifies DC meddling with individuals.

by Smitty

One surmises he’s closer in spirit to Tea Partiers:

Using biggovernment.com plus other news sources, rapidly we painted an accurate picture of the groups training, leading, and organizing the “movement.” The movement is organized by anarchists, Code Pink, the American Communist movement, jihadists, anti-Israel, socialist, and anti- free enterprise interests. OWS folks are politically to the left of President Barack Obama.
At the Lech Walesa Institute Foundation in Warsaw, they were thankful to receive this information.
Based on our discussion and intervention, President Walesa is not going to get involved with the OWS. He is not comfortable with the “organizations” behind the movement. It was not a difficult discussion.

via RocksEm

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