With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Irish Joke
The two lads objected strongly.
"Last year we shot six. The pilot let us take them all and he had the same plane as yours."
Reluctantly, the pilot gave in and all six were loaded. However, even on full power, the little plane couldn't handle the load and went down.
Somehow, surrounded by the moose bodies, Paddy, Mick & the pilot survived the crash. After climbing out of the wreckage, Paddy asked Mick, "Any idea where we are?"
Mick looked around. "I think we're pretty close to where we crashed last year."
Racism At Planned Parenthood
Idaho donor: The abortion—I can give money specifically for a black baby, that would be the purpose?
PP Rep: Absolutely. If you wanted to designate that your gift be used to help an African-American woman in need, then we would certainly make sure that the gift was earmarked for that purpose.
Idaho donor: Great, because I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don’t want my kids to be disadvantaged against black kids. I just had a baby; I want to put it in his name.
PP Rep: Yes, absolutely.
Idaho donor: And we don’t, you know we just think, the less black kids out there the better.
PP Rep: Understandable, understandable.
Idaho donor: Right. I want to protect my son, so he can get into college
PP Rep: Alright. Excuse my hesitation, this is the first time I’ve had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I’m excited, and want to make sure I don’t leave anything out.
Hat Tip: Brothers Judd
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Three Schools of Philosophy
Jacques Maritain famously said that there were never more than three schools of philosophy:
The idealists who believe that getting the truth was easy. These are the conventional liberals, whom Bill gently mocked.
The nominalists, the Sophists, who deny truth altogether; these are the hard Left,
the true enemy he rallied us against.And finally the realists, who accept that the truth is out there but is fiercely difficult to lock down.
Soccer Player Dresses As Hitler
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
William F. Buckley Jr. Has Died
Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that my favorite and perhaps only William F. Buckley Jr. quote is when he said "Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. " While the quote itself has little or nothing to do with the great man's life long vocation of promoting conservatism, it contains something rarer than brilliant political acumen for which he is so fondly remembered. There, in brief, is truth and beauty and the appreciation of both. There are those who will tell you that we live in dour times, that there has been nothing to be proud of, that we are surrounded by ugliness. William F. Buckley Jr. knew better. We live in the best possible time and in the best possible place, if we have the wisdom, courage and strength to make it so. It begins with knowing that despite whatever else may plague you, there are beautiful things readily available to assuage and lift you.
Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
Whoops :
A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or
down.
Obama: Clueless on Iraq
Barack Obama has brilliantly managed to say next to nothing on his way to defeating the not so inevitable Hillary Clinton on his way to clinching the Democratic nomination. He should stick to that, because he's clearly out of his mind when he says:
- That Al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq until we invaded.
- We need to bolster NATO in Afghanistan with additional American troops - Why don't we DEMAND that our useless NATO allies actually fight? Obama thinks their resistance is because we "blundered" in Iraq? Did they say that Senator or did you? Couldn't it be that they're just a bunch of poltroons?
- If Al Qaeda builds a base in Iraq??? Where has this man been the last four years?
Hillary couldn't attack Obama from the right, McCain is under no such limitation. I wonder how Obama will fare when hope and change, change and hope no longer cut it?
It's also ironic that a man who platform is entirely focused on the future, or so he says, can't get his agile Harvard mind around the fact that the war in Iraq is reality. Whether or not we should be there in the first place could not matter less, we're there now. What would he do as president to ensure the best possible outcome for the US and our interests?
Monday, February 25, 2008
Obama In A Turban
Sunday, February 24, 2008
A Shit Sandwich
Saturday, February 23, 2008
The Best Argument For Drinking
What the Drys don’t seem able to grasp is that a drinker can walk into a bar, and a handful of transactions later, attain the same level of euphoria that the teetotaler would have to strangle a half dozen or so kittens to achieve.
Friday, February 22, 2008
O.C.M.S. - Wagon Wheel
Voice, bass, fiddle, guitar, banjo and guitjo, yeah I'd call that a string band.
John Kerry's Helicopter Incident
Monday, February 18, 2008
Speaking of Antics
Read about the whole story, spring training is here "with its pregame ballyhoo, antics, rhubarbs, scheming, luck; its look as if little or nothing is going on."
Oh Boy
I Got The Fever
I need to go fishing.
The other night I spent six hours inventorying my rods, reels and spools. I even created a color coded Excel spreadsheet. The next night I replaced all my backings, as if I'll ever see one, and cleaned all my lines.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Secret Prejudice, Overt Stupidity
And it's not just race. A large and growing number of psychologists now argue that a welter of prejudices are simmering just below the surface of society: prejudices against many ethnic groups, against women, gays, the elderly, and outsiders like the homeless and drug addicts. The big question is whether these unconscious animosities are potent enough to actually shape our actions, to make us do things we ourselves find shameful. A new study suggests that, unhappily, the answer is yes.
Would you hire a drug addict? Let a homeless person to baby sit your kids? No? Then you sir/madam are worse than Hitler. I joke of course. Disliking someone because of their parents place of birth or the color of their skin without any knowledge of their character is prejudice. Disliking or avoiding somebody who continually does something untoward is not, it's common sense. I think Martin Luther King may have described making this distinction as "...not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Continued drug abuse and homelessness are character issues. Being born Hungarian is not. You would think that Wray Herbert, the author of the tripe above, would know the difference.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Some Little Known Facts About Abraham Lincoln
Today is Abraham Lincoln's 199th birthday. Here are some interesting, to me anyway, facts about Lincoln from the Constitution Center:
At 6 foot, 4 inches, Abraham Lincoln was the tallest president.
Lincoln was the first president to be born outside of the original thirteen colonies.
Lincoln was the first president to be photographed at his inauguration. John Wilkes Booth (his assassin) can be seen standing close to Lincoln in the picture.
There are no direct descendants of Abraham Lincoln even though he had 4 sons.
During the Civil War, telegraph wires were strung to follow the action on the battlefield. But there was no telegraph office in the White House, so Lincoln went across the street to the War Department to get the news.
The contents of Lincoln’s pockets on the night of the assassination weren’t revealed until February 12, 1976. They contained two pairs of spectacles, a chamois lens cleaner, an ivory and silver pocketknife, a large white Irish linen handkerchief, slightly used, with “A. Lincoln” embroidered in red, a gold quartz watch fob without a watch, a new silk-lined, leather wallet containing a pencil, a Confederate five-dollar bill, and news clippings of unrest in the Confederate Army, emancipation in Missouri, the Union party platform of 1864, and an article on the presidency by John Bright.
Lincoln was the only president to receive a patent, for a device for lifting boats over shoals.
Lincoln’s son, Robert, who was in Washington when his father was killed, was also on the scene when President Garfield was shot in 1881, and when President McKinley was assassinated in 1901.
Lincoln and his wife held séances in the White House. They had a great interest in psychic phenomena.
Lincoln was the first president to wear a beard.
Lincoln had the largest shoe-size documented. He wore a size 14!
Saturday, February 09, 2008
No Shit Neil
Bizarre Dreams
A 2005 study carried out by the British Cheese Board discovered that when it came to dream types, Stilton cheese seemed to cause odd dreams, with 75% of men and 85% of women experiencing bizarre and vivid dreams after eating a 20g piece of the cheese 30 minutes before going to sleep.Since this was in Britain I don't imagine these people brushed their teeth prior to going to bed. Perhaps the bizarre dreams were caused by moldy cheese breath.
Friday, February 08, 2008
dada's Dim Live in 2003
Off of their excellent 1992 album Puzzle, one of the very few pop albums that will sound decent on a good audio system.
The Declining Terrorist Threat July 10, 2001
Hat Tip Insty
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Tornadoes
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
I Voted Today
Super Tuesday
Whom do I vote for tomorrow, as if it matters? I can't vote for McCain and think Romney is a bit of a pussy. I'd sooner become a Baptist myself before voting for Huckabee and Ron Paul is a GOP version of Dennis Kucinich. Does Connecticut allow write ins? Is it crazy to throw a vote away for Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan or Tom Regan for that matter?
I hope something changes between now and November to change the candidates, their positions and/or how I feel about them. Maybe a triumphant HRC moderating leftward will enrage the GOP base and energize the moderates to oppose her. Maybe John McCain will get knocked of his horse on the road to Damascus and after a period of blindness, become born again hard. Maybe the monkeys flying out my butt will bring me back a pizza.
Since I live in Connecticut, it probably won't matter who I vote for in November, if I vote at all, because Connecticut's 7 electoral votes are all going to go the Democratic candidate anyway.
Berkeley Waffles
A week after blasting the Marines as "unwelcome intruders" in Berkeley, two city council members want the city to back off the declaration that ignited the wrath of the nation's right wing and inspired a Republican senator to try to sever Berkeley's federal funding.Cowards.
Monday, February 04, 2008
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