(suggested musical accompaniment)
[prologue and invocation]
Rise, rise, cold Solstice Sun
There’s scarcely time in day for fun,
And tooth of wind is frightful keen,
As heatless Sun is briefly seen.
Now HopeyChangeys roam the land,
Devouring brains at every hand,
While Demons hatch an evil plan,
To smother granny when they can,
By barring meds when she gets frail,
And her general health begins to [...]
Score one for Sarah Palin.
via usnews.com.
h/t C4P
In a follow-up to her “Death Panels” posting, Mrs. Palin has a heavily footnoted explanation as to why they aren’t as far-fetched as TGL’s supporters would have you think.
A comment at The Corner yesterday, by a certain “senior fellow in human rights and bioethics at the Discovery Institute, a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture, and the author” etc…. and etc…. begins as follows:
Much has been made in the blogosphere and elsewhere about Sarah Palin’s warning against “death boards” in [...]
At The New Republic’s The Treatment blog – in a post under the winsome and lighthearted title “Have You No Decency?” – Professor Harold Pollack of Chicago University has responded to the widely discussed and widely criticized statement of Sarah Palin’s that we recently highlighted as a “Contention of the Day” (also HotAir Quote of [...]
: narc, I kinda get that they are the bad guys.
But, again and again, I'm gonna keep saying that they are bad does not mean that we are allowed to do any or every thing.
We have rules and laws for good and sufficient reason.We should follow those rules and laws for good and sufficient reason.
We'll always have reasons for fudging them, but the closer we stick, the better.
: Yes, that's the way I read it, maybe he didn't intend
it that way, but bringing
up the attack on FOB Chapman, makes that conclusion undeniable
: It occurs to me, the idiocy of Biden's recent
remarks, the Israelis had
to go after Mabdouh in an open city like Dubai, because apparently the local authorities welcome
terrorists, yet he's whining about some extra
settlements
: 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
Seth Halpern on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – DEDUCTIVE LOGIC: Sending Joe Biden to Israel while Obama’s domestic policies collapse is proof of active, concerted hostility? There is no...
Tortz R Us on The Real Progressives: Luther Tompkins wrote: If more people would do that which needs being done we’d prob’ly have a much better place in which to live, don’tcha think? Well, Mr T,... Seth Halpern on 18 Long Years in the Senate: 3 Tiny Bills: The blimp thing was funny – wasn’t there a menacing inflated “Big Boy” in one of the “Ghostbusters”...
Luther Tompkins on The Real Progressives: @ fuster: Obviously I disagree. Being an Official Simpleton, I jes’ call ‘em as I see ‘em. And I ain’t indelicate. Forthright,... narciso on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – THE LAW OF IRONY STRIKES AGAIN: If gold is at 6,000,/oz I’d say shotguns and canned food are better investment, because the zombie infestation is...
Zoltan Newberry on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – THE LAW OF IRONY STRIKES AGAIN: @ Rex Caruthers: I kind of liked the troll who showed up a little while ago and wondered what all the... fuster on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – DEDUCTIVE LOGIC: narc, what people wanted a generation ago isn’t always what people want today. people were quite happy to see the end of Fulgencio... narciso on The Wall: Why do they give him the time of day, again http://newsbusters.org/blogs/t im-graham/2010/03/13/barbara-w alters-lets-jesse-ventura-spre ad-9-11-truther-rant-gives-out -fr narciso on CONTENTION OF THE DAY – DEDUCTIVE LOGIC: Except for the pulpits in Riyadh, Damascus, Khartroum, Sanaa, Amman,Cairo, just right off the back. Because one has to ask themselves,... fuster on The Real Progressives: @ Luther Tompkins: No matter the Tsar’s somewhat unusual taste in undergarb, it does not require your indelicate airing of same. Pfui!… (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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