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Obama’s Plan to Balance the Budget
Keep nominating tax dodgers for positions in his administration. They pay up (and often go away); he nominates another tax dodger in their place… etc.
Sneaky. Veddy, veddy sneaky…
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“Forget-Me-Not”
“heh”
“If you don’t have something to say, you may be tempted to just say something, because if you don’t, people will forget you are there.”–Jerry Pournelle
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The Problem’s Been Around a While…
Yeh, I rail from time to time about stupid, self-mafe illiterates, but ya know they may have some excuse…
N.B. Brownie points to Perri for being the first literate to read this post. (Brownie points may be used to purchase “byes” for typos, errors of grammar, spelling and punctuation, but never for errors in reasoning.)
BOLO for future Brownie point earning possibilities…
Another Explanation of the Haste with which ‘Porkulous’ Was Passed
Well, not so much an explanation as an observation that a universal law of large organizations compelled the unseemly haste which impelled the passage of the Dhimmicraps’ obscene “stimulus” bill.
PARKINSON’S LAW OF TRIVIALITY: The time spent on any item of a committee’s agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum of money involved.
Indeed.
The Dhims’ ‘Tell’
In cards, a player’s “tells” give away what the player wishes to remain unknown. Politicians have their “tells” as well, and the recent rush to pass “Porkulous”–the so-called stimulus bill–without open examiniation is one such. After all, as Robert Burns said,
“There’s nane ever fear’d that the truth should be heard but they whom the truth would indite.”
Aye, most telling indeed.
(“The Dhims”? Yep. Even those three Repugnican’ts in the Senate who voted for the thing were but acting as wannabe-dhimmicraps)
“I do not think that word means what you think it means… “
…or maybe it does.
While I was listening to one of my fav songs by Stephen Fearing recently, I was once again stuck by the lyrics, particularly by his use of a word central to the song: beguiling. And once again, I wondered at his use of the word, for most of my exposure to it in a lifetime of reading (usually) good books rendered the word in my mind’s ear once again as “leading with deception” or some such. So, this time, I went to Meriam-Webster online and found…
beguile
1: to lead by deception
2: hoodwink
3: to while away especially by some agreeable occupation ; also : divert 2
4: to engage the interest of by or as if by guile
But when I thought to check the same resource’s thesaurus I found
beguile
1 to attract or delight as if by magic— see charm 1
2 to cause to believe what is untrue— see deceive
3 to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage— see lure
Ahhh, there the meaning Fearing’s song alludes to is most akin to the primary meaning cited. And then methought, “The third listing: ‘Lure’? Fearing uses the word almost in the sense of ‘alluring’ (to entice by charm or attraction) doesn’t he?” Well, almost. But I think I’ve finally found the heart of the song in the fact that the “beguiling eyes” Fearing sees are… (at least partly) in the eyes of the beholder.
Quite apart from all that, Fearing’s wonderful artistry on the guitar, and the lyrics and melody taken as a whole, make this song one that can occupy my mind’s ear for hours. Yeh, yeh, I could wish for better vocal artistry, but the guy apparently wrote the thing as he heard it in his mind’s ear, and discovered he couldn’t quite manage some of the (very well-written) melodic devices. Someone with a better vocal instrument might do the melody more justice, but they’d have a hard time matching the overall artistry of Fearing’s own performance.
Here’s a small sample–just a portion of the intro. Get your own copy of the entire song for under a buck at the link I provided above. And no, I’m not getting anything out of the link–twc has, for now at least, been entirely “de-monetized”. All that went along with taking steps to kill off most of my traffic last year.
[audio:http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/beguiling-eyes-clipped.mp3]And no, I’m not going to post the lyrics. Go buy a copy of the song and listen for yourself.
🙂
“Needs garlic”
Oftentimes, folks take good intentions and run with them without enough forethought, resulting in more unintended consequences than if they’d stopped to think things through first.
Case in point: my keyboard drawer. Now, my desk is a cobbled-together bunch of bits and pieces from here and there (the legs, for example, are mere pieces of ice-felled sycamore branches that vary from about 7″-10″ in diameter), and I just sort of assembled the thing like Topsy grew. As a result, my keyboard drawer–1″ thick a piece of MDF with plastic laminate on all six sides that’s 24″ wide and 18″ deep; a piece of scrap I pulled from someone’s discard pile–has nothing to keep me from shoving things off the back side. And, given its size, I do tend to collect things on it…. to be shoved off the back whenever the pack gets too populated. Hence, at least once a week, I have to crawl under my desk–usually behind the safe I use as a foot rest–and retrieve something I’ve shoved off the back.
All this could have been avoided with a little more careful planning (heck, any planning at all! *heh*)
Something like this is behind the recent “stimulus” package, I fear. Nearly 1,500 pages of unread pork passed without any review by adults whatsoever. “Do something–now!” without any sober reflection or consideration of unintended consequences (let alone revelation and consideration of the intended consequences). Good will not come of this, contrary to the spin and lies put forth by politicians, Mass Media Podpeople and the (other) folks set to benefit from all that pork.
All that pork. Needs garlic.
What’s the Problem with Gay Marriage, Anyway?
I really don’t get it. Last night my Wonder Woman and I were having a really gay time watching some Red Skelton material. I think our society needs more gaiety in marriages.
Homosexual “marriage”–now that’s another matter entirely different to gay marriage. I do wish folks would learn the difference… but then most of the folks who make the mistake of referring to homosexuals as “gay” probably also make the mistake of speaking about making war on an emotional reaction (terror) to horrific acts (terrorism).
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West Virginia’s Own Ayatollah
via Don Surber, news of a West Virginia state legislator who wants to adopt a law “Iran’s ayatollahs had considered last year.”
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