Tag: stupid is as stupid does

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Class will tell

And since he ain’t got none, it shows with Jean Fraud sKerry


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Liar. He said he’d release his records. And he did. Sure he did. The only folks so far who’ve actually seen them have been Kerry, his staffers and some tame Mass Media Podpeople who refuse to publish them for the people who really count: you and me.
Also, see Cao’s Blog for more specifics on how Jean Fraud sKerry is still gaming the system to avoid keeping his word. (It all depends on what the meaning of “is” is, after all… )
And see these others for more, as well:
Aaron’s cc
And Rightly So!
Atlas Shrugs
Balance Sheet
Cao’s Blog
Cathouse Chat
Christmas Ghost
Civil Issues
Conservative Friends
doubleplusgood infotainment
Doughnut Holes
Euphoric Reality
Flight Pundit
Fundamentally Right
Furry Press
GM’s Corner
Gribbit’s Word
House Of Wheels
i-imagery.com
Infinite Universe
International House of Conservatism
Jackson’s Junction
Jay Howard Smith
Kender’s Musings
Lifetrek
Moonbattery.com
My Vast Rightwing Conspiracy
NIF
PBSWatcher
Pirate’s Cove
Pooklekufr: The Kafir Constitutionalist
Power and Control
Private Radio
Progressive Conservatism
Ravings Of A Mad Tech
Republican Vet
Rottweiler Puppy
Shades of Gray
Something…and Half of Something
Stop the ACLU
Tall Glass of Milk
The Babaganoosh
The Creative Conservative
The Dark Citadel
The Paragraph Farmer
The Pulpit Pounder
The Sunnyeside Of Life
Think About It
Third World County
TMH’s Bacon Bits
Uncle Jack
Villainous Company
Web-Nuts
What Attitude Problem?
Where’s Your Brain?
Word Park Blog
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Paying Extortion—Danegeld never works

Listen to Kipling, then a brief observation…


Dane-Geld
A.D. 980-1016

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: —
“We invaded you last night–we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”
And that is called asking for Danegeld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Danegeld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
And that is called paying the Danegeld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Danegeld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —
“We never pay any-one Danegeld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!”

So it is with any extortion. A child who throws a tantrum in the grocery store because he wants that cereal, now… and gets it (because Mom or Dad don’t have the guts to stand up to a two-year-old) is little different in principle to the islamofascist murdering savage who blows up civilian non-combatants (men, women and children) to get attention for his “cause.” Both have learned that the powers that be have deemed that they will get what they want if they cause enough trouble.
People who will let children and savages dictate their behavior to them are just a tad on the dim side: they’ll be paying Danegeld forever.
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The Wonders of Connectivity…

Cell phones and internet…
Lovely Daughter was in for an extended weekend (with side trips to check out a neat job possibility south of here and a trip to the BIG City north to pick up more of her “stuff” that needed moving). Traveling back to OKC, this evening, in her wee car, big ole thunderstorm laid right along the turnpike.
Called me on cell phone for weather report. heh
(Interjection from Lovely Daughter, just now: “Ooo! There’s a rainbow!” 🙂
Was able on this end to look at the radar maps and report storm’s progress to her, call ahead on another line to let folks who were expecting her know she’d be running a lil late, etc.
Disconnected more and more in time and space and… independence, and yet… much more connected to hearth and home than Wonder Woman and I were at that age, at least partly (as tonight) through technological wonders.
Neat.
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America’s One-Party System

Short Shrift this a.m. I’ll just leave y’all with warring quotes, for now. More Later.

“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for western civilization as it commits suicide. It allows one to feel good while watching everything one believes in collapse and be destroyed.”–James Burnham in Suicide of the West

And

“American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward to perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It tends to risk nothing serious for the sake of truth.”- R. L. Dabney (19th Century Reformed theologian)

Feel free to talk among yourselves…

Oh, and why not check out this biography of James Burnham, James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life. I think I’ll be angling for a copy soon, myself…

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Hey! Look at this!

Getcherself on over to Christine’s “other place” (BTW) and look at what she found squirreled away somewhere. Talented gal that Christine…

I always appreciate Christine’s thoughtful posts, both the “fun” coffeeblogging at Morning Coffee & Afternoon Tea and her most pensive, personal journal at By the Way. The post referenced above is a followup to an earlier post. Be sure to CLICK on her “Main” link, too.
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*Sigh* ;-)

OK, traffic’s up; just checked blogosphere ecosystem ranking and it’s way up, too.

So, why are comments way down? Is it just a lot of folks popping in, thinking, “What is this crap?” and then for some obscure reason linking back, anyway?
Weird.
🙂
Do you think it’s my deodorant?
heh