Just some stuff I bookmarked recently but for some reason haven’t gotten around to putting up a post on – feel free to dump any of your own in the comments:
Palinism II – The New York Sun – thoughtful treatment of the substance of Palin’s politics.
America’s Booming Natural Gas Production – American Enterprise Institute – [...]
Jim Geraghty, one of the first to react to Carlyfornia’s instant classic “Demon Sheep” web ad, calling it “genius” and possibly “the Greatest Campaign Web Video of All Time,” has expanded on his thinking, which, like the ad itself, left many observers scratching their heads.
Geraghty provides a short review of the ad – stressing [...]
: 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
: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704131404575117611125872740.html
: And this was amusing, from Kunstler's successor, at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031102522.html
CK MacLeod on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – On Israel, it’s not Joe, it’s not Obama, it’s Petraeus: BTW – note the update on the top post – still looking for an...
Rex Caruthers on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – On Israel, it’s not Joe, it’s not Obama, it’s Petraeus: narciso wrote: Are you kidding Rex, China stopped being our foe, when the... Rex Caruthers on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – On Israel, it’s not Joe, it’s not Obama, it’s Petraeus: narciso wrote: Yes, but that was not the reason, it predates our current... narciso on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – On Israel, it’s not Joe, it’s not Obama, it’s Petraeus: Yes, but that was not the reason, it predates our current situation, btw, the... Rex Caruthers on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – On Israel, it’s not Joe, it’s not Obama, it’s Petraeus: Narciso’ My point is that we were Taiwan’s best friend until... narciso on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – On Israel, it’s not Joe, it’s not Obama, it’s Petraeus: Are you kidding Rex, China stopped being our foe, when the smart folks decided...
Seth Halpern on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – On Israel, it’s not Joe, it’s not Obama, it’s Petraeus: The point is that Obama has left the generals to twist slowly in the wind... Rex Caruthers on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – On Israel, it’s not Joe, it’s not Obama, it’s Petraeus: Israel caN TALK TO Taiwan about how that works.” I don’t know what this is... narciso on The Wall: And this was amusing, from Kunstler’s successor, at http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03 /11/AR2010031102522.html narciso on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – On Israel, it’s not Joe, it’s not Obama, it’s Petraeus: Then again, we shouldn’t we really be surprised, didn’t General...… (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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