KEZ of War of  Winds just posted something that I have strongly agreed with for years. She comes at it from a slightly different direction but the destination is the same. Public criticism is there for one reason and one reason only, the self-aggrandizement of the critic. A real critic will hand you their critique privately and only on invitation.


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My first article that isn’t on my own blog Winking smile I am thrilled! I have never considered submitting anywhere before. They took the article substantially as written, with some minor grammar changes. Considering that I only wrote it in two days, that is significant, I feel.

Now, what to do about the next article? Winking smile

userinfotheglensaid weekly and I’ll stick to that Smile

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Every major push, be it code or prose, leaves me in a “What the fuck do I do now?” state.

Come on! It’s not like I don’t have a bazillion things to do, is it? I have four other books to finish, plots to plan and an article series to write that I am already behind schedule on. I also have some sys admin stuff that I need to get to and about a ton of stuff to get out here from California. There is no shortage of work. Yet, hitting yesterday’s milestone is making me feel like I was left in the lurch, like I just lost my job. It’s crazy.

No, I can’t work on that book anymore until I get it back from the editor. Yes, I’ve been jamming on the book since December. The goal is to get something ready enough to submit to an agent. I’ve been working fairly continuously at it since then. Yesterday was a major milestone, one step closer to getting the damned thing out there!

I’ve felt like this before, over major code projects. After such enormous effort, the finish is almost anti-climactic. It leaves me feeling off-balance like, having the big rock that I’ve been pushing against suddenly removed without warning. It’s unnerving. Confused smile


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Religious whacktards! In this case Jihadist religious whacktards!

Five suspected Islamist militants have been arrested for planning a gun attack at the Copenhagen offices of a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005, police say.

The men intended to burst into the Jyllands-Posten office and kill as many people as possible, officials said.

It’s like the Hydra, isn’t it?

Twelve caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in 2005 had a huge impact around the world, with riots in many Muslim countries the following year causing deaths and destruction – so what do the drawings actually say?

They originally appeared in the best-selling Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005 to accompany an editorial criticizing self-censorship in the Danish media.

Will we accept this?

Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist who drew the image of the turban bomb, has been honored with awards by free-speech groups, but he now lives under police guard amid death threats from radical groups.

All because of this:

Muslims regard any visual representation of the Prophet as blasphemous.

I’ve read the Quoran and I find it a nasty piece of work. It advocates doing serious harm to others. Worse, once you have read it and then still don’t believe it is the word of god then you are a disbeliever and subject to punishment, including death. Yes, it is that nasty a piece of work.

According to the teachings of the Quoran, all Muslims are supposed to be jihadists! We call that extremism but  the Quoran considers it as normal and just, even a religious obligation. This is not just one possible interpretation, it is the only possible interpretation! The entire Quoran is laced with this thinking throughout its texts. That’s why I went ahead and read it; To see for myself. Yes, the movie Fitna, by Geert Wilders, misquotes parts of the Quoran but the tone and context of the Quoran supports the allegations made in Fitna.

The point that everyone fails to mention is that Islam is not simply another religion, it is a heresy against Christianity! The same sort of thing that the Huguenots were persecuted for. Yet, now we tolerate the heresy of Islam, in Europe. That’s very progressive but Islam will not tolerate us.

Upon entering a Western country, Muslims should be made to foreswear Shria Law, including all Fatwas, and to only obey local secular laws, which includes prohibitions against murder. Alternatively, we can apply ecumenical law against Muslims. Equitable trade that, we give up Ecumenical law and they give up Sharia law. In other words, we don’t try to kill them and they stop trying to kill us.

Remember Theo Van Gogh!


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