leftist: Conquest is an illegitimate form of acquisition.
non-leftist: OK…
leftist: Well, up until the modern era, conquest was the main basis for acquisition.
non-leftist: again, OK…..
leftist: don’t you get it? When you buy something you are buying land or other goods derived from the land which were, at some point not to many decades ago, acquired through the illegitimate form of conquest. Someone took it by force!
non-leftist: What, exactly, are you driving at?
leftist: If it was originally obtained through conquest then passing that on to someone else is like selling stolen property! you might as well buy a car from a car thief!
non-leftist: But virtually everything on the planet, at one point or another was taken from someone else by force and then passed on from that point, by inheritance or sale, to someone else. By your form of reason there is no one who can claim ownership of anything, unless they grew it or made it themselves. Even then they grew it or made it from something that, according to you, they did not legitimately own.
leftist: That’s right. No one can claim ownership of anything at all. It is all a big sham! So hand over that Lexus you bought with your illegitimate money you earned from your ill gotten job you barbaric thief!

This past weekend, my brother-in-law Ash and I went to a camping resort on Lake Michigan. We went down to the beach just before sunset and decided to walk and talk before a swim. We left our shoes and headed South. When the sun set I pointed out that it was going to get very dark soon. After a while I convinced Ash that we needed to reverse course. By the time we got back to the public beach area it was so dark we missed our shoes sitting there and ended up walking at least a mile or a mile and a half past the spot, completely lost for where the steps were leading off the beach. I kept saying “Just a little further and I think we will find it.” Ash convinced me otherwise and we went back, eventually finding our shoes. It all looks pretty much the same in the dark. I am glad no one moved our shoes.

I am writing this post from my daughter’s new touch. It is pretty sweet and I may need to go on eBay and pick one up. My old pal
tungsten just does not compete. Although typing is not quite up to what I like with my laptop. But I think it would beat what I am doing now.

I currently sit on my front porch enjoying a cup of coffee and a good steady rainfall. The first rain in 11 days so we really needed it. Yesterday I worked and with any luck I will be spending the whole of next week in Detroit working with lots of OT. Today however I am still in my pajama shorts without shaving or having had breakfast yet. Just kind of lounging for the morn.

My friends the Campbells are up this week to get in some flight time with my friend Bob. He let their oldest even do the landing (mostly). He said he might get me up there a little bit later but, hey, I live a mile from the airport and they drove up 5 hours to get here.

well it has been forever since I have put anything on this blog. I think I just got tired of it and I was Facebooking most things. It is high time that I got this going again. If there is anything you would like to see me post on, go ahead and suggest it. I am writing again, on my full length book. I am probably 2/3 of the way done with it, but no, other than a bit of a teaser I will not be posting it on here. You want this one, you are going to have to buy it. It has been in the works for many years (but most of those years it was not touched). I have actually had to go back in and update a few minor details because they were kind of out of date (technology wise). It does feel good to be back though.

PS I can’t find the USB connector for my wireless mouse. It disappeared here in my office. If it shows up at your house or office, will you let me know?