The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.

— H. L. Mencken

And honourable men rarely try to force their morals on others.

/my $.02

Morning BC, Lizards!

How's things this morning?

Morning rightside, galloping granny. Bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning?

A Mencken quote in keeping with the season:

"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."

morning gg, yes, another fine Navy day!

Reposted from the previous thread (since the thread-bot spawned this thread just as I posted in the older one...)

And now, for your viewing pleasure, something completely different...

Note: this is filmed in Japan, but the dancers are from China. Supposedly they are deaf... yes, deaf, though I have no supporting evidence for that. [Though the Japanese on the screen does indicate that these 21 dancers can't hear the music.]

Recommended.

re: #4 BlueCanuck

Morning rightside, galloping granny. Bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning?

No choice. We have acquired a dog. A BIG dog. A big dog who needs to go out at 5:30 in the morning or so. One who feeds herself. Apparently she indulged in a picnic last night - all of the peanut butter she could lick out of the jar after she got it open (where she found the pb I do not know!). She also thoroughly washed all of cat food cans she managed to find anywhere so that they are fit for the recycling bin.

re: #8 galloping granny

LOL, aren't dogs a joy to have. The funniest one I saw was our family pet. He managed to get a carton of eggs and suck out all good stuff from the shells by some how punching holes in them.

/crafty mutt.

re: #8 galloping granny

OMG that's funny...from afar..

re: #7 freetoken

Reposted from the previous thread (since the thread-bot spawned this thread just as I posted in the older one...)

And now, for your viewing pleasure, something completely different...

Note: this is filmed in Japan, but the dancers are from China. Supposedly they are deaf... yes, deaf, though I have no supporting evidence for that. [Though the Japanese on the screen does indicate that these 21 dancers can't hear the music.]

Recommended.

That is gorgeous! And it sure puts a whole different perspective on the many-armed goddess statues of SE Asia.

G'Day all, what a crafty mutt indeed GG, my dog cracks me up almost everyday, he was chasing an invisible ball today.

re: #10 rightside

OMG that's funny...from afar..

Luckily she does not make too terribly much of a mess. She is quite selective about what she removes from the trash. And she does keep it all neatly in one place. On the couch. The one she isn't supposed to sit on - and doesn't until after we've gone to bed.

re: #11 galloping granny

Yup, I was impressed when I watched it. Found it via an expat-in-Japan blog. Easily one of the most impressive demonstrations of a synchronized dance team I have every seen, which is why it is all the more stunning that they are supposedly deaf.

re: #12 Remnant

G'Day all, what a crafty mutt indeed GG, my dog cracks me up almost everyday, he was chasing an invisible ball today.

ROFL!

re: #14 freetoken

Yup, I was impressed when I watched it. Found it via an expat-in-Japan blog. Easily one of the most impressive demonstrations of a synchronized dance team I have every seen, which is why it is all the more stunning that they are supposedly deaf.

The deaf part does not particularly surprise me. Many deaf people can feel music even if they cannot hear it.

re: #14 freetoken

Great video!
Thanks for sharing :)

Good morning, Lizards!

re: #18 goddessoftheclassroom

Good morning, Lizards!

Morning goddess. How're things in your neck of the woods today? BTW, watch the video that got posted just upthread. Stunning!

Don't know if the handful of insomniac lizards quite find the use of Mencken here as ironic as I do...

Mencken was quite the character, and though I've never read a biography what little I have seen written about him paints him in, let's say, an interesting light.

From the Wikipedia entry:

In 1989, as per his instructions, Alfred A. Knopf published Mencken's "secret diary" as The Diary of H. L. Mencken. According to an item in the South Bay (California) Daily Breeze [1] on December 5, 1989, titled "Mencken's Secret Diary Shows Racist Leanings," Mencken's views shocked even the "sympathetic scholar who edited it," Charles A. Fecher of Baltimore. There was a club in Baltimore called the Maryland Club which had one Jewish member, and that member died. Mencken said "There is no other Jew in Baltimore who seems suitable," according to the article. And the diary quoted him as saying of blacks, in 1943, "...it is impossible to talk anything resembling discretion or judgment to a colored woman..."

The image painted in the Wikipedia entry is that Mencken was a true elitist, probably put the Obamas to shame.

Another saying attributed to Mencken:
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Also, given his coverage of the Scopes trial, I suspect Mencken would have choice words for today's ID'ers.

{goddess}

Good morning goddess, how does the garden go?

re: #20 freetoken

Don't know if the handful of insomniac lizards quite find the use of Mencken here as ironic as I do...

Mencken was quite the character, and though I've never read a biography what little I have seen written about him paints him in, let's say, an interesting light.

From the Wikipedia entry:

The image painted in the Wikipedia entry is that Mencken was a true elitist, probably put the Obamas to shame.

Another saying attributed to Mencken:
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Also, given his coverage of the Scopes trial, I suspect Mencken would have choice words for today's ID'ers.

Actually, as brilliant and witty as Mencken was, he was an intellectual snob. He always thought he was the smartest person in the room. He too much enjoyed his sting.

{rightside}
{BlueCanuck}

I didn't tackle any gardening yesterday. I've got to get a good pair of gloves after school today first. I'm excited, though!

This guy doesn't like Obama at all LOL

re: #23 goddessoftheclassroom

I remember reading a short story about the time all the ID stuff came out where the ghost of Mencken possesed a person. Rather funny when he realised that there was a life after death. Much hilarity ensued.

/can't remember the authour, think it was in one of my Sci-Fi rags that I had a subscription to.

Spent the day in the garden today, keeps the wife happy!

re: #25 MigueldowninMexico

Love that one...think he has a breast fetish too? lol

Oh yah, looks like things are heating up over in Asia between Georgia and Russia.

re: #25 MigueldowninMexico

Is it normal to be passing political comment in church?

re: #27 Remnant

Spent the day in the garden today, keeps the wife happy!

What are you growing?

re: #28 rightside

Love that one...think he has a breast fetish too? lol

DOUBLE D!

I hink he does LOL ;)

re: #31 galloping granny

ah, well lots of weeds until today, found a few flowering plants in the undergrowth!

re: #30 Remnant

Is it normal to be passing political comment in church?

In black US churches, yes.

/Mosques are even worse...

Well, don't have time to stay long tonight... so I must sign off from my blogging day, but will leave you all with this. (Performed btw by one of the better voices ever recorded, IMO.)

re: #33 Remnant

ah, well lots of weeds until today, found a few flowering plants in the undergrowth!

I have been pulling, cutting, clipping and digging weeds in the terraced beds that run up the hill in back of the house since the day we moved here. In another five years I might have them something like they were originally. Been allowed to run wild for years. I would just dig everything up and start over but there are some fine old heirloom varieties in there I want to try to preserve.

re: #36 galloping granny

I have been pulling, cutting, clipping and digging weeds in the terraced beds that run up the hill in back of the house since the day we moved here. In another five years I might have them something like they were originally. Been allowed to run wild for years. I would just dig everything up and start over but there are some fine old heirloom varieties in there I want to try to preserve.

Hang in there--the peonies are worth it!

I read a story in which a family plouwed up 100-year-old peonies in order to plant a Victory garden. I've never recovered from the shock.

re: #34 MigueldowninMexico

an interesting concept indeed.

OK why in the hell can't I email an article from LGF now?

Has Charles been doing techie stuff again?

The next time you hear someone suggest school vouchers, just think of the word "Madrassas."

re: #38 Remnant

an interesting concept indeed.

Based on the truth. What actually happens.
Versus what should be.

re: #37 goddessoftheclassroom

Hang in there--the peonies are worth it!

I read a story in which a family plouwed up 100-year-old peonies in order to plant a Victory garden. I've never recovered from the shock.

Unfortunately whoever planted the peonies here put them in places where it is pretty shady. I'm going to have to either move them or sacrifice what is around them. (Nasty choice.) Not the greatest peonies anyway - mostly singles. I love the great big double ones like my Grandpa raised. Might try to snag some of those from my uncle.

Now the iris - those are worth almost anything to save.

re: #39 JAT

OK why in the hell can't I email an article from LGF now?

Has Charles been doing techie stuff again?

I didn't know you could email a specific article. I always just open up the article in a separate window, copy the URL and paste it into an email.

Ok, time for me to go.
Good bye and God bless all :)

Have a good day Miguel.

Later Miguel, enjoy your day.

time for me to go too, goodnight all and stay safe:)

The night shift is starting to drop like flies.

Okay, let's see if this works...

It works! Okay lizardoid minions, click my avatar to see my old pup and my new pup getting along between romps in the back yard.

Bye Remnant. Happy gardening.

re: #50 joncelli

It works! Okay lizardoid minions, click my avatar to see my old pup and my new pup getting along between romps in the back yard.

Very cool!

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. -- Barack Obama.

Oh, sorry. That was Mencken too.

re: #51 galloping granny

thanks! bye all

re: #50 joncelli

Nice pups. Mine's cuter. :)

Good morning everybody! The school year is almost over and I am about to make coffee. Life is great!

Wow, the cyclone in Burma was worse than I realized: Death Toll Tops 15,000...

A Clinton strategist, Geoff Garin, told reporters during the same call, "She's(Hillary) got a pretty clear standard here. Her abiding economic principle is that in America we've got to have shared prosperity."

...and the friggin Clinton's can start by sending me $5 million out of the $110 they made in the past 3 years. Sharing starts at home Hillary - you lying, thieving hypocrite.

Mornin folks.

re: #55 BlueCanuck

Okay, you win the cute sweepstakes. Even from a cynical, hard-bitten 40-something like me that elicits an "ooooohhhhhh! Cuuuuuuute!"

re: #59 joncelli

Thank you. The trouble is he knows it. Hard to take him for walks have to stop every few feet for the exact same response.

/He's getting an ego.

Well, work beckons. See you later, lizards.

Got to run--take care, Lizards!

later joncelli, goddess. Have fun out there.

Daughter of the Most Big Ot in the hiz-ouse!

This is WLGF!

Yippee! A thread under 200 comments by the time I see it!

re: #42 galloping granny

What's this talk about Pee-on-knees?

[Link: farm2.static.flickr.com...]

It's a wonderful day in the nayburrhood, again

So, he is not talking about the dam,, dam, ,dam A.C.L.U...

To help the A.C.L.U. better understand the need to stfu,,

send money or join one of the org. that oppose them in the courts.

like

[Link: www.telladf.org...]

Stop the A.C.L.U.

so say taxfreekiller on the Internet in the open for all to see

re: #65 Mr. Bingley

Yippee! A thread under 200 comments by the time I see it!

you have lurked a long time!

re: #65 Mr. Bingley

Ya gotta get up fairly early in the morning to catch them.

/or do what some of us do and stay up reeeaaaallll late.

re: #57 joncelli

That's just foreign propaganda they use to try to force American imperalist intervention!

/Myanmarese government mode off...

//Good Evening Reptilia!

Good Morning all. Happy Siete De Mayo.
Indiana & NC to the polls today. Remember Michelle said that Barry is now really angry. If he gets upset in NC , I am afraid that he will hold his breath.

re: #71 opnion

Can we HOPE™? It would bring about great CHANGE™.

/drink

Morning.

Belgium: a haven to neo-Nazis

Heavily criticized for being lax on combating terror, Belgium is now being attacked by its own press for doing nothing about neo-Nazi groups.

Accused of being a “paradise” for neo-Nazis, Belgium claims it does not have the necessary legal instruments to combat the racist groups that have been flocking to the country after meeting resistance from the German and Dutch governments.

Neo-Nazi groups such as two called Blood and Honor are increasingly heading to Belgium for their Hitler commemoration events as they usually do not face any problems from Belgian authorities. De Morgen, a Belgian left-wing daily, declared Belgium a safe haven for fascist groups in an article published on Friday. According to the daily a German investigative journalist who had been attending similar gatherings of German, English and Dutch skinheads and neo-Nazis in particular confirmed in the VRT program “Koppen” that the Belgian authorities had done nothing to stop these groups.

According to Minister of Home Affairs Patrick Dewael (VLD), the government currently does not have the necessary judicial means to act. Despite Dewael’s claims, Federal Minister for Employment and Informatization Peter Vanvelthoven has introduced a bill to ban neo-Nazi groups, characterizing these groups as private militia. Two weeks ago Hitler commemorations were held in the Belgian cities of Bellegem and Overpelt.

[SNIP]

[Link: www.noaa.com...]

got an inch and a half yesterday

now some more coming, crap

{TIME!}

has come today!

Cuckoo!

re: #74 BabbaZee

And here we were thinking it was just the VB.

{Babba}

re: #66 Widow'smight

What's this talk about Pee-on-knees?

[Link: farm2.static.flickr.com...]

It's a wonderful day in the nayburrhood, again

Oh those are just gorgeous! Peonies are one of my most favorite flowers.

Beautiful today here too, so I'll be back up the hill in a bit to put in some more stuff - broccoli rabe, some miniature red cabbages, a few lettuce sets I picked up the other day at a local farm since mine went in as seed. Should find lots of germination up there today. Can't wait to see. . . .

re: #70 laZardo

LaZeeeeeEEEEeeeeEEEeee!

re: #77 laZardo

And here we were thinking it was just the VB.

{Babba}

Not me, I KNOW it is not just the VB
I did too much damn work not to know!

LOL

[Link: www.timberlinelodge.com...]

snow about every other day for the next 10 days,,,

to May 15

re: #76 BabbaZee

I needed a wake up call. Thanks.

Local elections today. None seem worth the button to press. Bah.

re: #82 TimeQuake

I needed a wake up call. Thanks.

Local elections today. None seem worth the button to press. Bah.

Bah squared, times infinity, plus pi, to the 4th power.

re: #79 BabbaZee

Not so loud, please! lol

re: #48 BlueCanuck

Well, I ended up going back to bed for a couple of hours. The coffee wasn't ready to be drained and I hate the powdered instant stuff.

re: #83 BabbaZee

Bah squared, times infinity, plus pi, to the 4th power.

LOL How true.

Islamic Banking heads west

A new report from A.T Kearney, a global strategic management consulting firm, revealed that Islamic banks are making their mark on the financial markets of non-Islamic countries. While shaira-compliant banking has traditionally focused on the GCC and Malaysia, there has recently been a dramatic increase in the number of Islamic banks outside the core markets: most remarkably in the UK, where the number of Islamic banks has more than doubled over the past 12 months.

[HASAN CHOP, LIMEY KUFFAR]

re: #83 BabbaZee
I see your infinity, and raise you a google.

The mathmatical one of course, not the search engine.

When it's google on the label you get libby on the table!

re: #83 BabbaZee

Bah squared, times infinity, plus pi, to the 4th power.

Um.... Is this Jeopardy?

How many lies has Hillary Clinton told during this election cycle?

re: #85 Bubblehead II

heh heh, no problem. If I went for a nap at that time my boss would be displeased. :)

re: #89 Wino

Um.... Is this Jeopardy?

How many lies has Hillary Clinton told during this election cycle?

Has she actually told truth at all?

Good morning all. Another beautiful day in the neighborhood. Got to finish writing one exam and then start grading another pile. What I really want to do is go to the batting cage with oldest boy, but that'll have to wait until later this afternoon.

How's everyone this fine lovely morning?

Wino, LOL!

You forgot to say "what is?"

BAMPP!

#88 sojerofgod

LOL

Morning all.
Bret Stephens in today's WSJ: Israel's sixty year test. Too many good quotes to excerpt.

re: #95 Jim in Virginia

Saw that -- good piece.

re: #92 Lucius Septimius

Well since my Stan riding in Hegel thing made every one go "clunk" yesterday

I am just gonna sit and spin

:~}

re: #83 BabbaZee

Um.... Is this Jeopardy?

How much more will we pay in taxes if Obama is elected?

re: #83 BabbaZee

Um.... Is this Jeopardy?

How many new illegal immigrants will come into the country if McCain's "comprehensive reform" is enacted?

T.D. Jakes weighs in on all the "Black Church" crap

The church I have read about in the media -- a church filled with divisiveness, a lack of tolerance for other ethnic groups, a church not focused on helping the downtrodden and less fortunate, a church filled with hostility -- does not remotely resemble the churches that I grew up around and have loved for more than 50 years.

re: #96 Lucius Septimius
You usually post stories like that before I get a chance to.
You're slowing down!

re: #82 TimeQuake

I needed a wake up call. Thanks.

Local elections today. None seem worth the button to press. Bah.

I really wish that we had an option labeled "None of the above."

re: #78 galloping granny

Well, when the Cats away, the mice will play. Those little buggers must be velly busy up there. You might have to get the grandkiddies to camp out with you to see what really happens up on that hill.

re: #99 Wino

How many new illegal immigrants will come into the country if McCain's "comprehensive reform" is enacted?

Listen

IMO

There is no difference between R & D today
except the flavor of their lies
the speed at which they travel
and the estimated time of arrival

re: #102 galloping granny

I really wish that we had an option labeled "None of the above."

144,000 updings to that

re: #102 galloping granny

Agreed.

re: #83 BabbaZee

Bah squared, times infinity, plus pi, to the 4th power.

How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?

No... I'm not happy with ANY of the current candidates.

I'm the typical "conservative voter" who is being told that McCain is the lesser of the evils, so I'm supposed to vote for him.

I have never skipped the Presidential box, but it's definitely looking like third party, this time around. We have no conservatives from the top two parties, and I'm not going to vote for any of them. This reminds me so much of Jimmah Cattah and Gerald "win" Ford of 1976.

Now Drudge is showing 50,000 dead in Burma. It is horrible.

re: #98 Wino

How much more will we pay in taxes if Obama is elected?

If Obama is elected you won't need to worry about taxes. You will need to worry about retaining control of your property, having everything you own taken as "reparations" and staying out of the gulag.

re: #107 Jim in Virginia

How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?

re: #109 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Now Drudge is showing 50,000 dead in Burma. It is horrible.

Eee-ooooo