Art by Howard Portnoy
Curated by CK MacLeod
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: BTW, narciso, see new link under Rec Browsing, are you keeping up with the aftershocks? This thing is verging on major imbroglio... (Sure dodged a bullet with Biden instead of that know-nothing chillbilly as VP, right?)
: You betcha, CK, but all's world in 'bearded spock'
world. Hillary Clinton or Avigdor Lieberman, who would you bet on
: From a comment on JWF, this link shows that much like ZAzi's and even Hassan, words are
not to be trusted
http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:TryROz5sdjcJ:www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2660+Anas+Muhaimin&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
: What happened to Putin on the Ritz?
I keep reloading down below, but Putin on the Ritz seems missing!!
: is Howard not taking comments from me or is there some different problem?
: hmmmm... thot I'd taken care of that... he copied the text from the Examiner and it came with all sorts of "extras" that screw up the blog. Lemme see if I can fix it...
: fire away, Gridley
CK MacLeod on 18 Long Years in the Senate: 3 Tiny Bills: Zoltan Newberry wrote: I thought there was a more stalwart conservative seeking the Republican nomination who also had a good chance (not... fuster on 18 Long Years in the Senate: 3 Tiny Bills: @ Zoltan Newberry: If you’re too feeble to finish a stake in thirty minutes, who’s fault is that. and fer Pete’s sake,...
Geoffrey Britain on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – On Israel, it’s not Joe, it’s not Obama, it’s Petraeus: Without the Pax Americana, the only place the world will move on to is... Zoltan Newberry on 18 Long Years in the Senate: 3 Tiny Bills: PUT a stake! Wish we had a little longer to edit, yup! narciso on An Assault on FOX News by—Howell Raines?? : I forgot Krauthammer, that’s a gatling gun by his own self, the ones they used to mount on the F-14s. I guess that’s why... Zoltan Newberry on An Assault on FOX News by—Howell Raines?? : Wa Po has Krauthammer. Sitting in his chair, Charles K, kicks all of their asses put together on a weekly basis. You look at...
adam on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – On Israel, it’s not Joe, it’s not Obama, it’s Petraeus: All American allies should be making plans to take care of themselves, including... Zoltan Newberry on 18 Long Years in the Senate: 3 Tiny Bills: I thought there was a more stalwart conservative seeking the Republican nomination who also had a good chance (not the Arab... narciso on An Assault on FOX News by—Howell Raines?? : AS compared to Klein, and Garance Ruta, and all part of the Soros hatchling club, even Ignatius who used to be sensible has gone off the... narciso on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – On Israel, it’s not Joe, it’s not Obama, it’s Petraeus: If you read “Inside the Kingdom” the Saudis certainly don’t...… (remember you can designate yourself) part of you is actually glad to see a wolf, because now you can prove to everyone how important you are, by bossing everyone around for their own good.
“A doctor and a peasant know more than a doctor alone,” the Italians used to say. Self-appointed doctors everywhere are working to suppress this insight. Human societies can save themselves from the next wolf, if they are allowed to do so; but it is hard for them to save themselves from the shepherds.
The unbridled, technocratic arrogance of this administration has acted like a time machine. Obama and the Dims have, deficit wise, leapt at least 10 years into the future. The ever-over-the-horizon inevitable fiscal catastrophe of the committed welfare state has been brought rudely into the present tense for all of us to gape at in shock. RIGHT NOW! As with the hapless, doomed frog sitting in water slowly being heated to boiling, yet continuing to sit because the heat is being added incrementally, Americans have for 40 years been putting up with first 50- then 100-, then 200-, and even 400-and-500-billion-dollar annual shortfalls with pathetic equanimity. The Dims threw caution to the winds, skipped right past 800-billion and even trillion-dollar deficits – why tarry? – and seized the big brass ring: Whack! $1.6 trillion bucks in the hole. Suck on that! And more of the same to come. Ring-a-ding-ding!
The frog is scalded pink and more than ready to jump. It just wants somewhere – anywhere but the destination on offer now – to land. Ryan suspects that, I believe. Why can’t the Repub leadership see it, too?
Joe NS @ Who’s afraid of Paul Ryan?.
…than the pedestrian Obami would have it, and [Avatar] is an American film. Think about it. The Russians and Chinese and others will see it and they must again marvel at our creativity and our technology. They will be seeing yet another distinctive American film, a wonder like Dances With Wolves and E. T. and Close Encounters… before it. Again they will be seeing America at Her best, an America which can meld together all people of good will, an America which is not afraid to be self critical and idealistic. They may even come to think well of an America which can inspire such a fine sense of wonder as “Avatar” has done.
Zoltan Newberry @ In a world of their own: Conservatives and Avatar.
Archive for Said in a Thread »Telomeres of defined length,
Were by his God in mankind bent,
To make it sure that aged ones,
Would pass to make room for their sons,
Before they learn to mount the hill,
They yearn to climb, their God to kill.
New daughters too then see their day,
As the used up old fair pass away,
And the brighter young can in their turn,
Seek their creator’s iron rules to spurn.
One day mankind may beat the odds,
And take on the powers of the gods.
Sure on that day He’ll mold an image,
And include within his toy’s equippage,
A strictly limited telomere,
To set for it a cliff that’s sheer.
For once a former God is whipped,
Displaced by his toy free will equipped,
The former toy learns something odd,
About possession of the mind of God,
Namely, knowledge of the entire script,
Makes the endless now a boring crypt.
Mere mechanical beasts are not a cure,
For their script entire a God knows for sure,
To divert a toy must have free will,
And at least a chance to climb the hill,
There to displace its God, a bitter pill
“People are 97% water and no damn good.”
They’d do what they oughta,
If they god dammned could,
But they can’t, so they don’t,
And they ain’t gonna change.
It’s a hundred percent fact,
That the truly pure,
Are more or less demure,
And don’t make a show,
Of a holy man act.
Those precious few don’t affect the case,
For the utterly pure never win the race,
Which always goes to the mostly base,
Cause none of us likes very much to be,
Reminded too much that we’re deeply flawed,
Though we talk a bit about being awed,
By those few among us who walk with God.
Then too the vast mass,
Of the flawed and crass,
Like nothing better in the end,
Than a deep and sweet crow,
At the predicament of them,
Who get caught, caught, caught,
Where they ought not go.
Who’s to say the vast herd,
Isn’t better off for the word,
To get around and resound,
Among the flawed but sound,
That if you should get caught,
Doing what you shouldn’t ought,
Ninety Seven Percent will pretend,
That your act was round the bend,
And the mocking, the mocking, will never end.
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Sci – soc – just click the arrow(s) next to the thumbnail images, and you will find your way quickly to the Great Mr. Peanut. Click the image of Mr. Peanut’s face. Click fs to view in Full Splendor. Hit “escape” after appropriate time spent in votive wonder and contemplation of the Peanut, and you will return to this vail of tears.