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The computerized voices are a little rough, but the idea comes across--thanks to Blogonomicon for the resource--not that I'll ever get skilled enough to progress beyond crude attempts like this.
It doesn't appear to shut the sound off after the slides, but you can left click to activate controls, then right click to pause the damn thing after it starts to get irritating--which for some will no doubt be sooner than later.
Click on "publish" and then look under "Visual Options." Check the box for "show buttons." This will put play control buttons on your slide show. After you check the "show buttons" box, it will show additional optionsso you can select from different kinds of buttons and adjust their transparency.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing. You can adjust the size of the show so it fits your blog. It doesn't have to be one of their default sizes.
ReplyDeleteCute and I take the point, as one of the voices talking about "baby steps", but I don't think it quite hits the mark.
ReplyDeleteHas the shooting started yet? If so, then I'm with ya. But until that point, we have to work legislatively and that works differently.
As a resident of Chicago, it often doesn't seem like I have representation, but I do. Sounds like I'm gonna have alot more taxation to go along with it soon!
Sorry DWL, but I don't believe you.
ReplyDeleteNot because I think you're not sincere, but because "experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
That's why there has been no line in the sand from the moderation crowd--so we have places requiring registration, places that forbid the bearing of arms, requirements for licensing of a right, outright bans, confiscations, imprisonments--and the reaction from "your" side of the aisle always seems to be we need to work to change the laws we don't like, and anyone who gets caught pretty much brought it on himself.
Unless and until I hear you baby-steppers define a line in the sand where you will unify and defy and resist, it is all words--and that's what our enemies think, too.
Anyone who wants to disarm you is your enemy. To take the rights of another human being away under threat of destruction is an act of an evil predator--it is an act of hostage-taking rape. You would not suffer this outrage from an individual, but when it's government, we suddenly need to mind our manners, get polite, surrender all principle and compromise on how far they can shove it in.
Just as an individual predator will not attack a person who appears strong and confident, so too does this work on a societal level. But if the target victims appear soft and weak--if they have no "or else" there is nothing for an evil predator to respect.
Why would you want to wait until a shooting war starts? I thought the whole point of strength was to be a deterrant. Wouldn't you rather the jackals were afraid to attack?
And what makes you think the rollover crowd would join in a shooting war anyway? Most of them, as "experience hath shewn" would grouse on forums about how the radicals got what was coming to them and they make us all look bad.
The problem today is not that there are too many radicals--it's that there aren't enough of us.
It is hard to define the line until it actually gets crossed. I think it is one of those things you feel chiming inside you. Unfortunately I think for many of us it chimes too late.
ReplyDeleteI hesitate to draw lines in the sand as one looks foolish when the line is crossed and there is no response (think Libya). But to me, the Parker case represents such a line. SCOTUS had better say the Second Amendment means something.
The problem is that lone dissenting voices are easy to pick off. It is hard to be bold and take an uncompromising stand when you have such a poor turnout of folks wanting to defend their rights.
I'm afraid I might be one of five guys interested in defending my rights in the entire city of Chicago. Nobody is marching in the streets here. Am I to march by myself down to city hall and confront Daley myself? What will that accomplish? My immediate goal is to first establish a network of like-minded folks in the Chicago area.
You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him.
And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization.
And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
Ah, so THIS is why I can't get to your blog on many computers...
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