Don't forget the remote.

open *this*!

And the beer...

Good day, ALL!™

re: #3 littleoldlady

And the beer...

Good day, ALL!™

good day, bad day, it's all the same day man...

You know, RR was The Great Communicator.

We'll end up calling Obama The Great Clarifier.

Morning kiddie poos!

Obama Carter 08 !

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said Thursday that he would welcome the death penalty

/death by freefall, give him a few minutes to think about it

I'm quite content.

hi!

re: #7 Killian Bundy

Push him off...say the Sears Tower.

re: #9 BignJames

Push him off...say the Sears Tower.

Nah, how about the new "Islam tallest building in world"
aka Burj Dubai.

push him off that.

night all. My cat, Bob, insists I get a couple hours sleep so I can safely drive my bobcat tomorrow so I can bring home tuna.

re: #5 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

You know, RR was The Great Communicator.

We'll end up calling Obama The Great Clarifier.

Morning kiddie poos!

i'm thinking "Lying POS" will roll of the tongue easier and with less retching... %-)

/and be more accurate too!

re: #11 Neo Con since 9-11

night all. My cat, Bob, insists I get a couple hours sleep so I can safely drive my bobcat tomorrow so I can bring home tuna.

Yet Teach a cat to fish...

/snicker @ the thought of teaching a cat anything...

re: #7 Killian Bundy

/death by freefall, give him a few minutes to think about it

i like my idea from a few threads back: death by nursing home...

/massive organ failure, caused by sepsis, induced by MRSA from untreated bed sores and an indwelling catheter.

re: #13 Hengineer

Yet Teach a cat to fish...

/snicker @ the thought of teaching a cat anything...

they teach us.

/but we never learn %-)

Mornin' all. Another hot day in store -- low 90s.

Watched "Tora, Tora, Tora" with the boys last night. I'd forgotten how good it is.

re: #16 Lucius Septimius

Mornin' all. Another hot day in store -- low 90s.

Watched "Tora, Tora, Tora" with the boys last night. I'd forgotten how good it is.

I'm afraid we've woken a sleeping giant.

/nuff said

re: #10 Hengineer

Nah, how about the new "Islam tallest building in world"
aka Burj Dubai.

push him off that.

Hell no.
Push him off a twelve foot wall; then march him back up to the top of the wall.
Push him off again. "Oh he sprained an ankle".
March him back up; push him off again, "Oh, he broke a wrist."
March him back up, etc.

Tonight we're gonna party like its 799.

re: #18 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Hell no.
Push him off a twelve foot wall; then march him back up to the top of the wall.
Push him off again. "Oh he sprained an ankle".
March him back up; push him off again, "Oh, he broke a wrist."
March him back up, etc.

Tonight we're gonna party like its 799.

We going to do that, might as well have an old-fashioned stoning...

re: #19 Hengineer

We going to do that, might as well have an old-fashioned stoning...

feed him nothing but MRE's and 2 canteens of water a day.

/he'll explode

re: #19 Hengineer

We going to do that, might as well have an old-fashioned stoning...

"I got a rock."
Charlie Brown (Trick or Treating with friends on Halloween special)

re: #19 Hengineer

Too cruel? To barbaric? Too Muslim?

re: #22 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Too cruel? To barbaric? Too Muslim?

Nah, feed him a soup, then later tell him that it was made from pork gravy...

re: #7 Killian Bundy

/death by freefall, give him a few minutes to think about it

Could use him for target practice while he's falling. We can hit satellites, and there not much bigger than a womp rat.

re: #17 Hengineer

/nuff said

I think the giant needs to wake up again. It's been snoozing for way too long.

re: #21 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

"I got a rock."
Charlie Brown (Trick or Treating with friends on Halloween special)

how about we keelhaul the bastiges?

/get some w*rk out of Henniger %-)

gotta go to bed... 2H6 will be getting up soon.

/whoops! %-)

LOL
Thinking about the future

CHICAGO—As the 2008 presidential election draws closer, Democrat Barack Obama has reportedly been working tirelessly with his top political strategists to perfect his looking-off-into-the-future pose, which many believe is vital to the success of the Illinois senator's campaign.

When performed correctly, the pose involves Obama standing upright with his back arched and his chest thrust out, his shoulders positioned 1.3 feet apart and opened slightly at a 14-degree angle, and his eyes transfixed on a predetermined point between 500 and 600 yards away. Advisers say this creates the illusion that Obama is looking forward to a bright future, while the downturned corners of his lips indicate that he acknowledges the problems of the present.

Poor ol Machievelli

Nice guy .. pissed off some Italian stooge called Medici and he's had the reputation of a badass ever since.

Shows you .. good intentions and politics have been blurred for an awful long time.

/Bongiorno Bunny

re: #22 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Too cruel? To barbaric? Too Muslim?

Morning, Lizards.

I'm sort of a traditionalist, here. If he wants to be "martyred", fine. I say we do it the traditional Islamic way, as depicted in Tom Clancy's The Sum Of All Fears. Namely, behead him in the town square, at noon, with a single stroke of a very sharp sword.

Then cremate the remains and scatter them to the winds.

As I understand it, this would mean that at best, he would arrive in Paradise looking rather like the Headless Horseman. More likely, he would arrive there looking more like something you would compost your flowers with. Either way, he will have no use for any virgins.

As for "martyrdom", again quoting from Clancy:

"Martyrs all have the same thing in common. They're dead."

- Jack Ryan

cheers

eon

re: #29 Buster Bunny

"Wicked Nick" is how he's referred to in our house; my Lovely Bride is a Machiavelli scholar, which means dinner time is always an adventure.

[Link: www.suntimes.com...]

this is a puff piece but even it has info that is harmful to obama

BTW, Google found time out of their busy schedule to celebrate Diego Velazquez...

re: #28 Dar ul Harbarian

LOL
Thinking about the future

It warms my heart to know Obama is concentrating on " National Security" issues.

The trial of that fat slob Sheik-ie is just what we need to remind the country that the election is not just about the price of gas.

I'd prefer to keep the bastard locked away in solitary Supermax obscurity for the rest of his life with no possibility of parole.

NO
SUNLIGHT,
R

re: #32 yochanan

[Link: www.suntimes.com...]

this is a puff piece but even it has info that is harmful to obama

Your in Chicago right? Can't sleep? I'd be sleeping like a rock if my team were playing like the Cubs.

Grant his wish, but rub him down with pig fat before he goes.

re: #35 offendi

How much weight did he gain in "Club Gitmo"?

re: #26 redc1c4

how about we keelhaul the bastiges?

/get some w*rk out of Henniger %-)

haven't seen that yet, but we could start it back up again.

we could hang him from a yardarm

re: #39 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

How much weight did he gain in "Club Gitmo"?

Just some water weight from the "boarding". Hopefully.

Listening to Quinn & Rose this morning
Quinn seems to think Hillary is not finished Hussein Obama
Because she only suspended her campaign and still controlls her delegates
Hmmm ?

Morning all, Hot Today, Hotter this weekend. Well at least I got my AC in the van fixed.

Been reading Liberal Fascism by Jonah.Goldberg (got it along with Moment of Truth by Michael Yon, also a good book). He really presents a good case for the existence of the Fascist left, I have not finished it yet so I don't think Barry is in it but lots of the things he says really fits the model. The amount of government control Wilson and Roosevelt put in place makes Bush seem like the good fairy. Roosevelt had a heavy thumb on the population well before WWII. One story was very informative, after they imposed price controls they convicted a tailor of pressing a suit for 35 cents instead of the required 40 cents, he got 7 months.

re: #32 yochanan

[Link: www.suntimes.com...]

this is a puff piece but even it has info that is harmful to obama

Unfortunately the people caught up in the aura won't care. The average Obama supporter is so enamored of the image that they will not look to see the man behind it.

re: #43 Fredlike

Morning all, Hot Today, Hotter this weekend. Well at least I got my AC in the van fixed.

Been reading Liberal Fascism by Jonah.Goldberg (got it along with Moment of Truth by Michael Yon, also a good book). He really presents a good case for the existence of the Fascist left, I have not finished it yet so I don't think Barry is in it but lots of the things he says really fits the model. The amount of government control Wilson and Roosevelt put in place makes Bush seem like the good fairy. Roosevelt had a heavy thumb on the population well before WWII. One story was very informative, after they imposed price controls they convicted a tailor of pressing a suit for 35 cents instead of the required 40 cents, he got 7 months.

There is just as much of a fascist right as a fascist left.

Granted we haven't had one in power here as much as say, Afghanistan, but the Taliban was VERY much a fascist right, as theocracies are.

re: #29 Buster Bunny

Poor ol Machievelli

Nice guy .. pissed off some Italian stooge called Medici and he's had the reputation of a badass ever since.

Shows you .. good intentions and politics have been blurred for an awful long time.

/Bongiorno Bunny

The Teacher:
A Riff on Machiavelli's The Prince,
Replacing Prince with Teacher, His with Her, State with Classroom, and Men with Students
By goddessoftheclassroom

I say that every Teacher should desire to be accounted merciful and not cruel. Nevertheless, she should be on her guard against the abuse of this quality of mercy. Cesare Borgia was reputed cruel, yet his cruelty restored Romagna, united it, and brought it to order and obedience; so that if we look at things in their true light, it will be seen that he was in reality far more merciful than the people of Florence, who, to avoid the imputation of cruelty, suffered Pistoja to be torn to pieces by factions.

A Teacher should therefore disregard the reproach of being thought cruel where it enables her to keep her students united and obedient. For she who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than she who from too great leniency permits things to take their course and so to result in rapine and bloodshed; for these hurt the whole Classroom, whereas the severities of the Teacher injure individuals only.

And for a new Teacher, of all others, it is impossible to escape a name for cruelty, since new Classrooms are full of dangers. Wherefore Virgil, by the mouth of Dido, excuses the harshness of her reign on the plea that it was new, saying: A fate unkind, and newness in my reign Compel me this to guard a wide domain Nevertheless, the new Teacher should not be too ready of belief, nor too easily set in motion; not should she herself be the first to raise alarms; but should so temper prudence with kindliness that too great confidence in others shall not throw her off her guard, nor groundless distrust render her insupportable.

And here comes the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. For of students it may generally be affirmed that they are thankless, fickle, false, studious to avoid danger, greedy of gain, devoted to you while you are able to confer benefits upon them, and ready, as I said before, while danger is distant, to shed their blood, and sacrifice their property, their lives, and their children for you; but in the hour of need they turn against you.

The Teacher, therefore, who without otherwise securing herself builds wholly on their professions is undone. For the friendships which we buy with a price, and do not gain by greatness and nobility of character, though they may be fairly earned are not made good, but fail us when we have occasion to use them

Ah, a Friday morning. Good morning, lizards. Speaking of being contented with untouched property, it looks like Ireland might vote "no" on the Lisbon Treaty EU Constitution. "More taxes, less power" is the anti-EU message. Funny: they sound like the main planks of Obama's platform.

re: #37 Nevergiveup

Your in Chicago right? Can't sleep? I'd be sleeping like a rock if my team were playing like the Cubs.

i want the cubs to make it to the w.s. and then get beaten by the CHICAGO WHITE SOXS.

re: #48 yochanan

i want the cubs to make it to the w.s. and then get beaten by the CHICAGO WHITE SOXS.

Could have guessed that if you're a SunTimes reader.

re: #47 godfrey

Ah, a Friday morning. Good morning, lizards. Speaking of being contented with untouched property, it looks like Ireland might vote "no" on the Lisbon Treaty EU Constitution. "More taxes, less power" is the anti-EU message. Funny: they sound like the main planks of Obama's platform.

Everybody seems to want the benefits of taxation without having to pay for it.

re: #46 goddessoftheclassroom

Mornin' Goddess.

I've always thought I'd like to rewrite the Prince as a parenting manual. "Machiavellian Mommy" or some such.

honor shmonor

[Link: www.chicagotribune.com...]

BLAGO will be tossed under the bus to help obama other wise some will go after obama for tony rezko

re: #36 Render

I'd prefer to keep the bastard locked away in solitary Supermax obscurity for the rest of his life with no possibility of parole.

NO
SUNLIGHT,
R

/give him a roommate

re: #28 Dar ul Harbarian

We're working on the squinting

Gee, Clint Eastwood had that down cold forty years ago.

He could at least go for a Jimmy Stewart "stern but resolute" look, like in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington.

Of course, the main danger is that at some point, he'll lapse into the "upthrust arm and arched back while screaming about 'Czechoslovakia Israel is part of Minehead Gaza, already!'" look, sort of like Mr. Hilter.

/old Monty Python routines never die- they just look less and less fanciful

The problem with the Onion is, how do you parody people who, in real life, insist on being strange and expect you to pretend not to notice?

/oh, and make them President, too

cheers

eon

re: #54 Killian Bundy

/give him a roommate

/good ol' boy from Texas who is in for hate crimes (preferably of the KKK variety)

re: #54 Killian Bundy

a big horny roommate.

re: #43 Fredlike

... Roosevelt had a heavy thumb on the population well before WWII. One story was very informative, after they imposed price controls they convicted a tailor of pressing a suit for 35 cents instead of the required 40 cents, he got 7 months.

Somehow I had the notion price controls involved upper limits on prices. I can only imagine some prison warden put in a request for a taylor, and the requisition was fulfilled.

re: #51 Lucius Septimius

I always thought that if the Prince did all that Machiavelli says he should do, he would surely soon be found out and murdered. Was Machiavelli goading this on? His Discourses are all about republics and civic virtues ... was he really anti- Prince?

re: #51 Lucius Septimius

Mornin' Goddess.

I've always thought I'd like to rewrite the Prince as a parenting manual. "Machiavellian Mommy" or some such.

{Lucius Septimius}

When I was a new teacher, I'll admit that I wanted to be loved, and I was sometimes too "nice" rather than "just."

re: #42 LeftJustAintRight

Listening to Quinn & Rose this morning
Quinn seems to think Hillary is not finished Hussein Obama
Because she only suspended her campaign and still controlls her delegates
Hmmm ?

She's already got her fallback plan ready, namely for the convention.

Best guess- she'll hold onto enough delegates to prevent a first-ballot nomination. Then, when delegates are released for the second, offer a "compromise", like (Eugene) McCarthy in Chicago in '68. That "compromise" being herself with the Obameister as her running mate.

Meanwhile, in the streets outside, every kook and zany to the left of Ned Lamont will be busy trying to turn Denver into Woodstock- with extra Molotov Cocktails for everybody.

Call it "Days of Rage- The Next Generation".

/anybody else making popcorn?

cheers

eon

re: #45 Hengineer

The main theme of the book is that all Fascists are in fact left wing. Hitler, Mussolini, FDR, Wilson were all very much lefties. The Fascists were called right wing by the communist because even though they were both socialist, national versus internationalist, they may have been slightly to the right.

Most Islamic regimes are very much modeled on either the national socialist or communists model. The exceptions are the theocracies like the Taliban and Iran, but even there they are not typical of the US right which stands for personnel freedom and smaller government. In practice they follow the left wing ideal of government control of everything (this assumes they are in power of course)

I'm not going to be able to rewrite the whole book here and I haven't finished it yet. One thing to remember though is that after WWII Fascism become identified with anti-semitism and other evils. Prior to the war it was seen as a different model of government not evil. Goldberg calls the US version nice fascism in that there was very little brutality involve, and not the total rejection of christianity that was seen in Europe.

The collective, the nanny state, it takes a village, all very good fascist themes.

Off to work now, have fun all.

re: #58 abolitionist

They were fighting deflation so the price controls were for minimum prices.

Didn't work any better than the Nixon upper bound price controls as you might expect.

re: #60 goddessoftheclassroom

{Lucius Septimius}

When I was a new teacher, I'll admit that I wanted to be loved, and I was sometimes too "nice" rather than "just."

Me too -- actually what I wanted was for them to share my passion. I had to learn that not everyone will, and that you have to pitch things differently to different people; you can't present an idea once or in only one way, but multiple ways. I also learned to draw on my background in theater and stand-up -- I can work a crowd pretty well and am a good story teller.

Sometimes you have to trick people into thinking.

Morning Lizards!

Well, like Fredlike, I have to run, too.

Have a great day, Lizards.

cheers

eon

re: #62 Fredlike

The main theme of the book is that all Fascists are in fact left wing. Hitler, Mussolini, FDR, Wilson were all very much lefties. The Fascists were called right wing by the communist because even though they were both socialist, national versus internationalist, they may have been slightly to the right.

Most Islamic regimes are very much modeled on either the national socialist or communists model. The exceptions are the theocracies like the Taliban and Iran, but even there they are not typical of the US right which stands for personnel freedom and smaller government. In practice they follow the left wing ideal of government control of everything (this assumes they are in power of course)

I'm not going to be able to rewrite the whole book here and I haven't finished it yet. One thing to remember though is that after WWII Fascism become identified with anti-semitism and other evils. Prior to the war it was seen as a different model of government not evil. Goldberg calls the US version nice fascism in that there was very little brutality involve, and not the total rejection of christianity that was seen in Europe.

The collective, the nanny state, it takes a village, all very good fascist themes.

Off to work now, have fun all.

My point is that there are multiple kinds of "rights". There is the Religious Right, which is actually almost fascist, in that it does wish to control more, to "nanny-state" people from doing "bad things" and then the rest of the "Right" which IS for smaller government.

I do concede that most of the most famous fascists of modern era who've come to power HAVE been of the left-wing variety, that doesn't mean that there are no such thing as right-wing fascists.

Think of politics as a 2-d instead of 1-d scale. Left-Right is liberal-conservative, and Up-Down is Fascist-Anarchist.

One can be Right wing, and still want MORE government (cough)...Huckabee ...(cough)

re: #63 Fredlike

Thanks.

In other news, the times they are a changing, and you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Guess who's endorsing Obama

Anti-crime `street teams' to mobilize in St. Louis

Plans also call for partnering with other groups to mentor young people, and regular neighborhood summits.

How long before CAIR inserts their Ameriphobic probiscus into this program ?

re: #54 Killian Bundy

Terrible Tommy Silverstein comes to mind.

NON
CONTACT,
R

re: #59 godfrey

I always thought that if the Prince did all that Machiavelli says he should do, he would surely soon be found out and murdered. Was Machiavelli goading this on? His Discourses are all about republics and civic virtues ... was he really anti- Prince?

Yes and no.

Machiavelli's idea is a Prince who establishes a Republic -- the four "founders" he discusses (Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus) all did that to an extent. But you need an initial lawgiver, someone to create and initially enforce the new modes and orders (i.e., laws, customs, social structures, governing institutions) around which the state and society is organized. A prince -- like Moses -- who can create particularly effective modes and orders can create a state which will endure in spite of whatever is thrown against it. His comments about the Church, an institution he both admires and abhors, are instructive -- they have orders grown old with religion; they do not enforce them yet people obey, they do not govern and yet people remain under them. The modes and orders of Christianity may not provide the best foundation for a state, but they are amazingly effective.

As for the persona of the Prince, I would suggest that for Machiavelli, the republican citizen must have the virtues of the prince; in a polity where power -- executive and legislative -- is shared out among the citizens, the citizens must be able and willing to take that burden seriously, which means that they must become princes themselves lest they lose their liberty.

re: #64 Lucius Septimius

Me too -- actually what I wanted was for them to share my passion. I had to learn that not everyone will, and that you have to pitch things differently to different people; you can't present an idea once or in only one way, but multiple ways. I also learned to draw on my background in theater and stand-up -- I can work a crowd pretty well and am a good story teller.

Sometimes you have to trick people into thinking.

Absolutely. I love throwing out statements contrary to the conventional wisdom and seeing their looks of shock at my blasphemy. For instance, one student said something along the lines of "everything is relative"; I shot back with, "No, it isn't. There is right and wrong, good and evil, and actions fall into one of those two categories. You can rationalize an action, you can explain mitigating circumstances, but it doesn't change the nature of the action itself."

A terrific discussion followed...

With junior high kids, I try to make my class something they look forward to; if I can create a positive atmosphere, it helps break down some of the resistance.

A few years ago, a kid told me, "I really hate English, but I love your class."

Military shoots down missile in test off Hawaii

The U.S. military intercepted a ballistic missile Thursday in the first such sea-based test since a Navy cruiser shot down an errant satellite earlier this year.

The military fired the target, a Scud-like missile with a range of a few hundred miles, from a decommissioned amphibious assault ship near Hawaii's island of Kauai.

The USS Lake Erie, based at Pearl Harbor, fired two interceptor missiles that shot down the target in its final seconds of flight about 12 miles above the Pacific Ocean.

/kiss this technology goodbye

re: #68 abolitionist

I remember back when all of the folk singers, rock and rollers, and Hollywood types were shillin' for the Bushes, Dole, Nixon, Ford, Eisenhower, etc. When did that change?

re: #70 Render

Terrible Tommy Silverstein comes to mind.

NON
CONTACT,
R

Ooh, Aryan Brotherhood.

/nice touch

re: #72 goddessoftheclassroom

You are going to be a helluva a Drama Teacher.

re: #65 rightside

Morning Lizards!

{rightside}

Good morning!

Interesting Political Quiz that looks at various DIFFERENT ways you can view things.
[Link: politicalquiz.net...]

The following are your scores. They are based on a gradual range of 0 to 12. For instance, a Conservative/Progressive score of 3 and 0 will both yield a result of social conservative, yet 0 would be an extreme conservative and 3 a moderate conservative

Conservative/Progressive score: 5
You are a social moderate. You think the progressive movement is overall well meaning, but sometimes it goes too far. On issues like abortion and affirmative action, you see the negatives of both extremes on the issue. You probably value religion, but at the same time you think it should still stay separate from the government

Capitalist Purist/Social Capitalist score: 0
You're a Capitalist Purist. You believe that the market should be completely free, and that the invisible hand of the market will make sure that the people get what they want and will do it in the most efficient way possible. You believe in small government, less taxes, and more privatization.

Libertarian/Authoritarian score: 7
You're a Moderate. You think that we all have certain inalienable rights that must be protected, but that sometimes laws need to be made to protect the majority's lives or quality of lives. You might think that the 2nd amendment isn't necessary anymore because letting everyone a gun is extremely dangerous to the community. You might also be against illegal drug use or public pornography because of its possible harmful effects to society.

Pacifist/Militarist score: 9
You're a Militarist. You believe that since the United States has so much power in the world, it has a responsibility to keep the world safe. You think that if the US does not exert its power in the world, it may eventually lose its power, and that we can not look weak in the face of terrorists, and must take them out where they live.

Overall, you would most likely fit into the category of Republican

re: #74 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

When the Cold War ended and now that we were the only superpower, we should only use our powers for good.

/"good" being very narrowly defined in this case.

//Such as GOOD EVENING Y'ALL.

For GOTC :

Can you spell 'education?' This school can't ...

WESTLAKE, Ohio (AP) -- A Cleveland-area principal says he's embarrassed his students got proof of their "educaiton" on their high school diplomas.

re: #76 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

You are going to be a helluva a Drama Teacher.

(blushing) Why, thank you!

I've got to run, Lizards--inservice workshops to write new curriculum...

I Chose Against University of California Irvine Because of Hate Speech
I Chose Against University of California Irvine Because of Hate Speech
Spencer Morgan June 2nd 2008

Poughkeepsie, NY
I am a student in college and have been hearing many stories about Israel and America on the campus that make my skin crawl.
I was accepted to University California Irvine, but decided against it. I heard Allyson Rowen Taylor speak at a Chabad event and she discussed the issues on the campus to a room filled with parents who had no idea what was going on in the public arena. After reading about UCI online, and speaking with others who have seen the campus antics, I decided to go elsewhere, not only for reasons of the intense hatred of Jews at UCI, but because I wanted to be free of the "apartheid walls" and the vitriol of speakers who create hate with my fellow students. I searched for a campus with high academics where study was a priority, and the influence of the MSU was minimal if not absent. While there are issues at my campus, they are tiny compared to the issues of the UCI campus.
Thank you for opening the eyes of others who have no idea what is happening to our universities.
Spencer Morgan is a member of the Vassar Class of 2011.
[Link: www.thecuttingedgenews.com...]

[Link: shariahfinancewatch.wordpress.com...]

re: #49 Lucius Septimius

the sun times is a bird cage liner now was a decent paper when Black ran it.

the tribune is tinged with anti semitism sometimes right in the open

re: #77 goddessoftheclassroom

{goddess}

Mr. Rightside!

hullo the house!

re: #79 buzzsawmonkey

Here, here.

Obama is frightening; it is only the shortest of steps from "identity politics" to the worst excesses of Totalitarianism.

re: #10 Hengineer

Nah, how about the new "Islam tallest building in world"
aka Burj Dubai.

push him off that.

Imagine the car swarm around whatever vehicle he impacts.

re: #84 yochanan

the sun times is a bird cage liner now was a decent paper when Black ran it.

the tribune is tinged with anti semitism sometimes right in the open

A shame too; I used to like the Tribune, but can't read it any more.

The SunTimes was perfect for reading on the train.

re: #88 JamesTKirk

Imagine the car swarm around whatever vehicle he impacts.

It would be all over the news as "proof" of an Israeli missile attack.

re: #14 redc1c4

Let's not get too ghoulish. You'll just let the HuffPos try to draw a flase moral equivalence between us and the way they pray for the painful death of Americans.

Lethal injection is fine. Anything more will just increase his martyr cachet.

"flase" is morally equivalent to "false". PIMF.

re: #89 Lucius Septimius

the trib has always had a problem with anti semitism in the past i used to be a consative paper now they are trying to be the chicago version of the new york times.

re: #90 Lucius Septimius

It would be all over the news as "proof" of an Israeli missile attack.

Complete with photoshopped pictures with extra darkened smoke after the car crashes subside.

[Link: www.quiz2d.com...]

Another 2-d political quiz calls me a "small government centrist"

Your views call roughly the same amount of government with just a bit more liberty than we currently have in the United States today. Your views are probably best served by a nearly equal mix of Democrats and Republicans in the legislatures, as long as you choose the correct Democrats and Republicans.

Or, if you want to make sure government shrinks a bit, you could throw a few Libertarians into the mix. But just a few. The Libertarian Party calls for radical cuts in government far beyond what you want. Think of a tub of cold bathwater. To get it warm enough to be comfortable, you can add scalding hot water to bring the temperature up to ideal.

Approximately 10% of the takers of this quiz scored in this area, 36% for all within the centrist circle.

re: #90 Lucius Septimius

Or a secret Mossad operation trying to destabilize the whole region.

re: #91 JamesTKirk

Ironic how this guy wants to be a martyr and will probably get a subdued, painless death.

/splodey-dope he won't be.

re: #97 laZardo

Or a secret Mossad operation trying to destabilize the whole region.

Well everything is run by the Mossad anyway, remember J00s run the world.

re: #91 JamesTKirk

Let's not get too ghoulish. You'll just let the HuffPos try to draw a flase moral equivalence between us and the way they pray for the painful death of Americans.

Lethal injection is fine. Anything more will just increase his martyr cachet.

Do it quietly, privately, with no fanfare. The Luca Brasi treatment.

re: #74 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I remember back when all of the folk singers, rock and rollers, and Hollywood types were shillin' for the Bushes, Dole, Nixon, Ford, Eisenhower, etc. When did that change?

Yuri Bezmenov's words are sounding rather phophetic. Scary phophetic.
Bezmenov on demoralization in America

More here.

re: #79 buzzsawmonkey

he is a supporter of Israel was couched almost entirely in personal, domestic, and racial terms.

Which is why my snarky comment after listening to that speech was, "Obama's next church is going to be a synagogue."

A most excellent post, buzz!

PIMF: phophetic prophetic

THREAD WAKE-UP!

/brb, dinnar

No way. 11 minutes since last comment? Is my pooter broken?

re: #86 Hengineer

Hengineer! 4 burning, 2 turning?

re: #105 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

No way. 11 minutes since last comment? Is my pooter broken?

I suspect everyone's coffee kicked in at the same time, forcing them to retire momentarily.

Another Halo

Bow to your Lord, Reuters. Bow to him.

They are embarrasing themselves with this human worship. And don't care.

re: #108 Lucius Septimius

BTW Lucius, welcome to summer. Time to re-tool? Or staying busy?

re: #106 rightside

Hengineer! 4 burning, 2 turning?

Negatory, in port, Jebel Ali

re: #108 Lucius Septimius

I suspect everyone's coffee kicked in at the same time, forcing them to retire momentarily.

I was checking out the HULC exoskeleton video on one of the spinoff links.

Good morning Lizards...

re: #109 mikeinmd

They are embarrasing themselves with this human worship.

No, they're not. They have no sense of shame.

re: #107 buzzsawmonkey

a wistful nostalgia calculated to play well with his audience--and that he showed clearly that he views the issue in terms of racial politics and group identities.

Precisely -- he plays on sentiment, on emotions, on vague images but appears to have no principles at all. And I don't even think "race" for him is a concrete category; given his own background it really can't be. It is yet another arbitrary category which can be defined and redefined as is politically expedient.

re: #108 Lucius Septimius

I suspect everyone's coffee kicked in at the same time, forcing them to retire momentarily.

Comedian said (can't remember his name)...

"The definition of fear? Fear is being stuck in a tunnel in traffic and realizing that you had a bran muffin and a cup of coffee 45 minutes ago."

ROP has been busy after 'prayers'
[Link: www.jpost.com...]

BTW,
Hey Jammiewearingfool... nice piece on Jack Lucas and thanks for the Hat Tip on your barry piece ;)
- Your a staple of my morning read... (despite a giants fan- ha)

-granite

Once the general election campaign starts, the media will visit Obama's church and find it filled with whites, blacks, Asians, and hispanics and even Jews and Muslims, all holding hands and singing this song, and they'll broadcast it ad nauseum:

Je t'aime
Te amo
Ya ti-bya lyu blyu
Ani o hev ot cha
I love you

The sounds are all as different
As the lands from which they came
And though the words are all unique
Our hearts are still the same

Love in any language
Straight from the heart
Pulls us all together
Never apart
And once we learn to speak it
All the world will hear
Love in any language
Fluently spoken here

We teach the young our differences
Yet look how we're the same
We love to laugh, to dream our dreams
We know the sting of pain

From Leningrad to Lexington
The farmer loves his land
And daddies all get misty-eyed
To give their daughter's hand

Oh maybe when we realize
How much there is to share
We'll find too much in common
To pretend it isn't there

Love in any language
Straight from the heart
Pulls us all together
Never apart
And once we learn to speak it
All the world will hear
Love in any language
Fluently spoken here

Tho' the rehtoric of government
May keep us worlds apart
There's no misinterpreting
The language of the heart

Love in any language
Straight from the heart
Pulls us all together
Never apart
And once we learn to speak it
All the world will hear
Love in any language
Fluently spoken here

re: #110 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Little of both -- got a lot of reading to do and want to get out and do some work in the garden. But no fixed hours, which will be nice.

re: #119 Lucius Septimius

Little of both -- got a lot of reading to do and want to get out and do some work in the garden. But no fixed hours, which will be nice.

In other words you got some industrial grade slacking planned...SLACKER...

F.I.I.F.
Good morning, Lizards!

re: #120 doriangrey

In other words you got some industrial grade slacking planned...SLACKER...

And durn proud of it!

Actually, my hope is to get at least two book chapters and an article churned out this summer, so I'll be writing like a mad man. But I get to set the schedule.

re: #122 Lucius Septimius

And durn proud of it!

Actually, my hope is to get at least two book chapters and an article churned out this summer, so I'll be writing like a mad man. But I get to set the schedule.

ROTFLMAO...You go Lucius...

re: #122 Lucius Septimius

Good on you then!

re: #118 Tigger2005

Or this song?

re: #109 mikeinmd

Paging the Almighty: We have a First Commandment cleanup on aisle (D).

re: #119 Lucius Septimius

Little of both -- got a lot of reading to do and want to get out and do some work in the garden. But no fixed hours, which will be nice.

You might be surprised at how much pressure that gardening can apply to your "no fixed schedule." :)

re: #127 galloping granny

You might be surprised at how much pressure that gardening can apply to your "no fixed schedule." :)

Oh, it'll apply pressure -- mainly because I'll need to do all that work early in the morning. That said, I take a fairly Darwinian approach to plants -- they have to prove themselves worthy by surviving despite the abuse and neglect.

re: #128 Lucius Septimius

Thanks a lot. So much for the gardening book I was going to write, named, "Plant 'em and Watch 'em Die".

re: #107 buzzsawmonkey

Thank you. One could point out legitimately that the personal commitment which Obama was trying to sell is itself suspect, given his personal associations with Rashid Khalidi, the late Edward Said, Zbigniew Brzenzski, Jeremiah Wright, etc., and the support he has garnered from such flagrantly anti-Israel figures as Carter and Galloway--but many people will attempt to dismiss these on the grounds that he is not responsible for who decides to support him, or that the mere fact that his associates and acquaintances show a disturbing trend is not proof positive that he shares their opinions.

Consequently, I think it is vital to emphasize that, when given the chance to make his own case in his own words, he chose to do so not only in a shallow and pallid manner which made reference to no actions or stances that he himself had taken and little to nothing he himself had experienced, but instead merely referenced a wistful nostalgia calculated to play well with his audience--and that he showed clearly that he views the issue in terms of racial politics and group identities.

Buzz, zip over to [Link: www.votesmart.org...] and take a look at Obama's Senate voting record. He makes reference to no personal actions or stances because he deliberately avoids having any. He has an unbelievable number of NOVOTES - over 100 times in just a few short years that he has either missed a vote or refused to cast a vote other than present. In some categories that loom very large - abortion & health care among them - he has never cast a vote.

re: #129 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Reminds me of the great gardener (and human, for that matter) Henry Mitchell, who, when contemplating his garden and his own fate wrote
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. . . . Defiance . . . is what makes gardeners.

OK so a poster over at The Jawa Report has posted a very disturbing cartoon. It was published in an Iraqi news paper on June 24th 2000. It shows Saddam kicking down the World Trade Center buildings. Make of this what you will, the cartoon is genuinely authentic.

re: #128 Lucius Septimius

Oh, it'll apply pressure -- mainly because I'll need to do all that work early in the morning. That said, I take a fairly Darwinian approach to plants -- they have to prove themselves worthy by surviving despite the abuse and neglect.

Me too, but I do weed - don't like ticks and it makes it easier to get the good stuff. Now and then I have to water. And once harvest season starts it can take quite some chunk of the day to haul it all down the hill and do something with it.

I can't wait! Despite the cold and rain I've got two kinds of melons, zucchini, cukes and beans all up as of yesterday. And we'll be eating baby bok choy next week.

Good morning, y'all! :)

/a funny video, it might have been posted already but it's good enough to post twice... Weezer - Pork and Beans (an homage to all the YouTube 'stars' and well known videos LOL)

re: #130 galloping granny

He's a coward, afraid to do anything that could let people know what he's really about- because then he can't shift with the wind every time it blows from a different direction. Waffler. Ugh.

re: #135 gop_patriot

He's a coward, afraid to do anything that could let people know what he's really about- because then he can't shift with the wind every time it blows from a different direction. Waffler. Ugh.

I think I would call him a con artist writ large. All those NOVOTES about some pretty important subjects can't be anything other than deliberate.

re: #132 doriangrey

Wow, that's creepy. 2000, huh. I wonder if this is the first time this has been seen?

/now that I've killed the thread, I'm off to take the kids to VBS. Have a good morning, y'all. :)

re: #135 gop_patriot

He's a coward, afraid to do anything that could let people know what he's really about- because then he can't shift with the wind every time it blows from a different direction. Waffler. Ugh.

Oh, but he will provide "leadership" and "hope" and bring about "change."

It says something about how desperate some people are to be led that they would make themselves believe that someone as vacuous and cyncial as Obama is a principled leader.

re: #132 doriangrey

OK so a poster over at The Jawa Report has posted a very disturbing cartoon. It was published in an Iraqi news paper on June 24th 2000. It shows Saddam kicking down the World Trade Center buildings. Make of this what you will, the cartoon is genuinely authentic.

A graphic artist and web developer gave me a CD of images in the year 2000. At the end of the school year I gave it back to her but one image, that seemed incongruous, stuck in my brain. It was an image of the U.S. Capitol building, with a huge crack in the dome, smoke pouring out, with a black flag flying over it. It was a fairly large, high resolution image. It wasn't until September 11, 2001 that I thought of it again. I always thought that Flight 93 was headed for the Capitol building.

What a surprise to hear Obama back-peddling from his AIPAC speech... surprise if you haven't heard anything else he has said for the past 20 years. And now we have his standard, "That's not the (fill-in-the-blank) I know" excuse he uses every time he throws somebody under the bus. Actually, I was expecting he would wait till after the election to stop pretending to support Israel. The sooner people see the real Obama, the better.

Oh well, it's been fun, but I've got stuff to do.

Have a great day, ya'll.

Barack Hussein Obama...

Change You Can Believe In

And

An Agreement They Both Can Live With

Obama in a nutshell... Everything to everyone all of the time...

Does anyone remember, D Day 64 years ago today. Take a moment to remember and give thanks.

re: #139 ec marm

A graphic artist and web developer gave me a CD of images in the year 2000. At the end of the school year I gave it back to her but one image, that seemed incongruous, stuck in my brain. It was an image of the U.S. Capitol building, with a huge crack in the dome, smoke pouring out, with a black flag flying over it. It was a fairly large, high resolution image. It wasn't until September 11, 2001 that I thought of it again. I always thought that Flight 93 was headed for the Capitol building.

In one of the Tom Clancy novels just exactly that happens, while the State of the Union address is being given. Jack Ryan (very low man on the totem pole) becomes POTUS and there is literally no one else left. Sounds pretty familiar, doesn't it?

Goddessoftheclassroom,

That piece is brilliant, and, if I may, I would like to copy it and share it with some of my teacher colleagues.

re: #46 goddessoftheclassroom

The Teacher:
A Riff on Machiavelli's The Prince,
Replacing Prince with Teacher, His with Her, State with Classroom, and Men with Students
By goddessoftheclassroom

I say that every Teacher should desire to be accounted merciful and not cruel. Nevertheless, she should be on her guard against the abuse of this quality of mercy. Cesare Borgia was reputed cruel, yet his cruelty restored Romagna, united it, and brought it to order and obedience; so that if we look at things in their true light, it will be seen that he was in reality far more merciful than the people of Florence, who, to avoid the imputation of cruelty, suffered Pistoja to be torn to pieces by factions.

A Teacher should therefore disregard the reproach of being thought cruel where it enables her to keep her students united and obedient. For she who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than she who from too great leniency permits things to take their course and so to result in rapine and bloodshed; for these hurt the whole Classroom, whereas the severities of the Teacher injure individuals only.

And for a new Teacher, of all others, it is impossible to escape a name for cruelty, since new Classrooms are full of dangers. Wherefore Virgil, by the mouth of Dido, excuses the harshness of her reign on the plea that it was new, saying: A fate unkind, and newness in my reign Compel me this to guard a wide domain Nevertheless, the new Teacher should not be too ready of belief, nor too easily set in motion; not should she herself be the first to raise alarms; but should so temper prudence with kindliness that too great confidence in others shall not throw her off her guard, nor groundless distrust render her insupportable.

And here comes the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. For of students it may generally be affirmed that they are thankless, fickle, false, studious to avoid danger, greedy of gain, devoted to you while you are able to confer benefits upon them, and ready, as I said before, while danger is distant, to shed their blood, and sacrifice their property, their lives, and their children for you; but in the hour of need they turn against you.

The Teacher, therefore, who without otherwise securing herself builds wholly on their professions is undone. For the friendships which we buy with a price, and do not gain by greatness and nobility of character, though they may be fairly earned are not made good, but fail us when we have occasion to use them

re: #143 perkypauly

Thank you for reminding us.

June 6, 1944

re: #137 gop_patriot

Wow, that's creepy. 2000, huh. I wonder if this is the first time this has been seen?

/now that I've killed the thread, I'm off to take the kids to VBS. Have a good morning, y'all. :)

re: #139 ec marm

A graphic artist and web developer gave me a CD of images in the year 2000. At the end of the school year I gave it back to her but one image, that seemed incongruous, stuck in my brain. It was an image of the U.S. Capitol building, with a huge crack in the dome, smoke pouring out, with a black flag flying over it. It was a fairly large, high resolution image. It wasn't until September 11, 2001 that I thought of it again. I always thought that Flight 93 was headed for the Capitol building.

Just what ever you think, remember that the glorious MSM has proven beyond question that Saddam had zero connection to 9/11. Connections to Osama Bin Laden yes, to other terrorist organizations yes, but none what so ever to 9/11.

I saw it. I stole it. It's mine now, fair and square.

I can see that the Dems already miss the steady hand of Lt. John Kerry at the helm of their windsurfer.

re: #109 mikeinmd

Another Halo

Bow to your Lord, Reuters. Bow to him.

They are embarrasing themselves with this human worship. And don't care.

Yuck, he has some really ugly ears.

re: #78 Hengineer

Interesting Political Quiz that looks at various DIFFERENT ways you can view things.
[Link: politicalquiz.net...]

I fell into the category of NeoCon Republican... Wow... I'm not even Jewish, as the progressives would have you believe the NeoCons are...

CLINT EASTWOOD STILL THE MIZZAHF*CKIN' MAN!

About Spike Lee's recent criticism:

yes, there was a small detachment of black troops on Iwo Jima as a part of a munitions company, "but they didn't raise the flag. The story is Flags of Our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn't do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people'd go, 'This guy's lost his mind.' I mean, it's not accurate."

Changeling is set in Los Angeles during the Depression, before the city's make-up was changed by the large black influx. "What are you going to do, you gonna tell a fuckin' story about that?" he growls. "Make it look like a commercial for an equal opportunity player? I'm not in that game."

There's more! :)

Even if Clint gets fed up with Republicans and votes Dem this year I'll always love the guy

Mandy Manners pointed out to me something interesting. First look at the flag of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Then, the logo used by the "Relay for Life" of the American Cancer Society. Not a little bit of visual plagiarism involved?

re: #152 ec marm

Don't see much of a resemblance, but using white and blue for it makes it look a tad ominous...

Today is D-Day. Let's remember. If you haven't been to the WW2 Memorial in DC yet, try to go. There's always a vet there with family, and a crowd surrounding them shaking hands.

Here's FDR's prayer broadcast to the nation that day, and a link to the original recording (Amazing how leaders and Democrats have changed):
[Link: www.historyplace.com...]

My Fellow Americans:

Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.

And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest -- until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.

For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.

And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them -- help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keeness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment -- let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace -- a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

Thy will be done, Almighty God.

Amen.

Franklin D. Roosevelt - June 6, 1944

Geert Wilders visits Copenhagen (video)
Description:

1. June 2008

Geert Wilders holding a speech in the Danish parliament building about his resent film "Fitna".
Mr. Wilders also gave his opinion on Islam in general, with some following words about the Islamisation process of Europe. ("The Eurabia project") Geert was invited to Denmark by the Danish Free press society.

re: #152 ec marm

Mandy Manners pointed out to me something interesting. First look at the flag of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Then, the logo used by the "Relay for Life" of the American Cancer Society. Not a little bit of visual plagiarism involved?

Why the heck does the American Cancer Society have a star and crescent as part of the Relay for Life logo? That is the most jarring "logo" I've seen in some while. Looks like a two year old threw it together. No unity at all.

re: #150 tfc3rid

I fell into the category of NeoCon Republican... Wow... I'm not even Jewish, as the progressives would have you believe the NeoCons are...

I came out a little to the right of Ganges Khan. I think it might have underestimated how conservative I am.

re: #154 jcbunga

Today is D-Day. Let's remember. If you haven't been to the WW2 Memorial in DC yet, try to go. There's always a vet there with family, and a crowd surrounding them shaking hands.

Here's FDR's prayer broadcast to the nation that day, and a link to the original recording (Amazing how leaders and Democrats have changed):
[Link: www.historyplace.com...]

My Fellow Americans:

Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.

And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God: SNIP

These days they would impeach him - violation of "separation of church and state."

re: #99 Hengineer

Well everything is run by the Mossad anyway, remember J00s run the world.

This is true and yet, i still need to keep this day job. Running the world as part of ZOG doesn't pay the bills!

General Dwight David Eisenhower: June 6th 1944
[Link: www.kansasheritage.org...]

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have
striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The
hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on
other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war
machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of
Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well
equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of
1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats,
in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their
strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home
Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions
of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to
Victory!

I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in
battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great
and noble undertaking.

SIGNED: Dwight D. Eisenhower

re: #152 ec marm

See also, the Turkish flag. The crescent embracing a star is a significant symbol in Islam. The cancer society relay is different, in that the star is outside the crescent.

And of course, here's one more crescent symbol

re: #13 Hengineer

"A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime."

— Mark Twain.

re: #156 galloping granny

Why the heck does the American Cancer Society have a star and crescent as part of the Relay for Life logo? That is the most jarring "logo" I've seen in some while. Looks like a two year old threw it together. No unity at all.

I'm only pointing it out so that any teachers or "art purchasers" out there that are unfamiliar with the number of islamic nations* that use the crescent and star as part of their flags, don't think that this is some original design they are being presented with.

*First row: Algeria, Azerbaijani Republic, Malaysia, Maldives

Middle row: Republic of Singapore,Tunisia, Turkey,Turkmenistan

Bottom row: Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Comoros, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Uzbekistan

re: #158 galloping granny

These days they would impeach him - violation of "separation of church and state."

He would have been Lieberman-ed from the Democrat Party...

Speaking of Joe Lieberman, read in the NY Post this mornign that Obama cornered Lieberman in the Senate yesterday and was quite intimidating towards him...

re: #158 galloping granny

These days they would impeach him - violation of "separation of church and state."

sadly, no doubt.

You only have to go back to JFK and LBJ speaches to see how far the Libs have fallen.

It seems the "conservatives" are now the libs, and the "libs" are now marixists/socialists. Gotta be a righty out there someplace.

re: #150 tfc3rid

I fell into the category of NeoCon Republican... Wow... I'm not even Jewish, as the progressives would have you believe the NeoCons are...

You can be an honorary Jew. I will allow it as a member of the all powerful Office of Jewish Global Domination.

Good morning Lizardia!

Now what?

Worst logo ever.

re: #166 madisonsfriend

You can be an honorary Jew. I will allow it as a member of the all powerful Office of Jewish Global Domination.

Well, this Irish-German Catholic appreciates it!

re: #163 ec marm

I'm only pointing it out so that any teachers or "art purchasers" out there that are unfamiliar with the number of islamic nations* that use the crescent and star as part of their flags, don't think that this is some original design they are being presented with.

*First row: Algeria, Azerbaijani Republic, Malaysia, Maldives

Middle row: Republic of Singapore,Tunisia, Turkey,Turkmenistan

Bottom row: Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Comoros, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Uzbekistan

I don't recall Singapore being a Muslim country...

re: #168 Kenneth

Did you ever hear that it was a Zionist plot because you can rearrange the symbols to look like the word Zion? We are truly everywhere.

re: #164 tfc3rid

He would have been Lieberman-ed from the Democrat Party...

Speaking of Joe Lieberman, read in the NY Post this mornign that Obama cornered Lieberman in the Senate yesterday and was quite intimidating towards him...

Really? That seems to be throwing a lot of weight around for a junior first-term Senator, even one who thinks he might like to be POTUS. Got linky?

Happy D-Day you all!

June 4th 1944 : If the Invasion had failed. If America had not fulfilled it's G-D given destiny.
[Link: doinghistoryproject.tripod.com...]

Our landings have failed and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”

re: #173 GreenDroll

Happy D-Day you all!

God Bless America and the men and women who fought for our freedom.

re: #168 Kenneth

that one is pretty horrific...

Here is another bad one... Looks like Domino's Pizza...

Citi Field Logo

re: #168 Kenneth

There was someone who photoshopped that to look like the 0-2 on the right was going Gomorrah on the 2-1 on the left.

re: #171 madisonsfriend

I hadn't heard that, but it makes sense...(adjusting tin-foil hat)

re: #154 jcbunga

The Paths of Liberty.

This is a tribute to the soldiers of D Day.

It is by a Frenchman, and at least one Frenchman who gets it.

Actually many do.

Good morning y'all from a hot (77 degrees, going up to 99 degrees) but brilliantly sunny Charlotte!

BTW, I hope all y'all remember this date: June 6th.
In 1944 an awful lot of extremely brave young Americans, Canadians, British, Polish and Free French forces landed on Nazi Occupied French beaches, enduring a hail of bullets and artillery to begin the liberation of Europe and the end to Adolph Hitler. God Bless each and every one of them.

re: #172 galloping granny

Really? That seems to be throwing a lot of weight around for a junior first-term Senator, even one who thinks he might like to be POTUS. Got linky?

Here you go Granny...

Lieberman Baracked Into a Corner

re: #168 Kenneth

Worst logo ever.

Zionist conspiracy, didn't you know? Can you see the word "ZION"?

The smaller logo here, if you click on it, shows what some other people see in that logo.

Good Morning Lizard Nation!

Wild night in the Boston sports world.

Brawl
Sucker punch

Oh and the Celtics took game 1 against the Lakers. LOL

re: #181 tfc3rid

Here you go Granny...

Lieberman Baracked Into a Corner

I suspect Lieberman might pay Obama back at the RNC Convention.

Happy Day to all Lizards!

Greetings from sunny Las Cruces, New Mexico, where it is cooler and more comfortable now than in Washington, DC and a good part of the eastern seaboard. Highs today in the lower 90s with a lovely dry heat! Don't worry. Our payback comes in July and August with very high heat, monsoons and humidity in August.

Tomorrow I take a German Exam to add a German teaching certification onto my teaching license.

The presidential campaign has fizzled to a disappointing end with candidates now 'chosen'. Can't we just vote for "none of the above"?

A good friend of mine jumped Normandy, Market Garden and was at the Bastogne. I've spent hours listening to him and his friends talk about The War, at least what they are willing to tell me. (Battle of the Bulge is not discussed, for various reasons.)

re: #183 loppyd

Not bad loppy... Not bad at all...

Some of our European friends do remember.

The people who see and make a difference are not the majority.

But the remnant, so to speak, will carry the day in the future too.

re: #158 galloping granny

These days they would impeach him - violation of "separation of church and state."

Every President has regularly invoked the name of God in speeches to the nation, and none have been impeached for it.

And in the course of the day, y'all might take a moment to reflect on this day, 64 years ago, and say thanks.

re: #147 doriangrey

Just what ever you think, remember that the glorious MSM has proven beyond question that Saddam had zero connection to 9/11. Connections to Osama Bin Laden yes, to other terrorist organizations yes, but none what so ever to 9/11.

This is not proof that Saddam was behind 911. [Link: www.factsofisrael.com...]
However, Saddam's own criterion for executing his enemies was a simple one - intent.

re: #170 laZardo

I don't recall Singapore being a Muslim country...

Opps, you're right:

Buddhist 42.5%, Muslim 14.9%, Taoist 8.5%, Hindu 4%, Catholic 4.8%, other Christian 9.8%, other 0.7%, none 14.8% (2000 census) [Link: www.cia.gov...]

Strange that they would use such a symbol in their flag.

re: #184 Nevergiveup

I suspect Lieberman might pay Obama back at the RNC Convention.

Lieberman will give the Zell Miller speech...

Good Morning and Happy Friday, {all y'all}.
Let's all get on our desks and do the happy dance!

What's up with this logo?

re: #194 redstateredneck

Good Morning and Happy Friday, {all y'all}.
Let's all get on our desks and do the happy dance!

If I did the happy dance on my desk the desk would collapse and I would be in dual casts for the entire summer.

re: #196 galloping granny

You may dance whilst seated, granny.
;-)

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have
striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The
hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on
other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war
machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of
Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well
equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of
1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats,
in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their
strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home
Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions
of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to
Victory!

I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in
battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great
and noble undertaking.

SIGNED: Dwight D. Eisenhower

re: #183 loppyd

Good Morning Lizard Nation!

Wild night in the Boston sports world.

Brawl
Sucker punch

Oh and the Celtics took game 1 against the Lakers. LOL

What was it between Manny and Youkles?

re: #193 tfc3rid

Lieberman will give the Zell Miller speech...

Before or after accepting the VP nomination?

/Just a thought...

Well, I for one and thankful and recall what our incredibly brave men did on June 6, 1944...

It was an incredible assault and one that worked... The beginning of the Allied assault on Europe... Incredible...

One has to stop and think if such an endeavor will ever be seen again...

re: #192 ec marm

They used to be a province of Malaysia, before they were kicked out for some reason. Funny how that turned out.

re: #200 CIA Reject

Before or after accepting the VP nomination?

/Just a thought...

I've actually had that thought as well off and on... I don't think that would be a very good idea...

re: #193 tfc3rid

I don't think ANYONE (in polictics today) can give another speach like that. It is one of those speaches, at least in my life, that will alway stand out. I really made an impression on me.

re: #168 Kenneth

Worst logo ever.

I like it because it spells ZION.

re: #192 ec marm

Singapore broke away from Muslim majority Malaysia. The inclusion of the vaguely Islamic symbolism in the flag was a kind of "inclusiveness" gesture to the minority population. The 5 stars represent each of the major ethnic/religious groups.

Another Kossack jumps ship...

You've convinced me..

For over twenty years, I have identified myself as a Democrat.

For over twenty years, I don't think I've ever voted for anyone who wasn't a Democrat except in primaries after the Dem nominee was selected OR in races where there were no Dems running.

Thank you DailyKos.. you've convinced me that this Democrat... this former Democrat... is an Independent now.

I have called the DNC and asked them to remove my name from their fundraising lists and email lists.

Why?

We have selected as our nominee a man with only three years of experience at the Federal level; much of which he spent campaigning for President. In fact, according to govtrack.com (which btw ranks him to the right of Clinton)
he's missed 21% of the votes taken in the Senate since he joined it.

Obama tells us lies about not taking money from lobbyists.

Obama's campaign has been extremely sexist and has used his male privilege to benefit from sexism in the media.

They took half of my vote from me and took delegates won from a candidate and gave them to another.

I am also leaving DailyKos.

This site has devolved into little more than venomous comments and hate towards anyone who disagrees with the pack. I don't want to participate in a site that thinks that making comments about Clinton's breasts, PResident Clinton's dick or McCain's teeth is valid political commentary.

I don't think you are what you think you are.

Heh.

Good morning lizards!

re: #170 laZardo

re: #163 ec marm

I'm only pointing it out so that any teachers or "art purchasers" out there that are unfamiliar with the number of islamic nations* that use the crescent and star as part of their flags, don't think that this is some original design they are being presented with.

*First row: Algeria, Azerbaijani Republic, Malaysia, Maldives

Middle row: Republic of Singapore,Tunisia, Turkey,Turkmenistan

Bottom row: Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Comoros, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Uzbekistan

I don't recall Singapore being a Muslim country...

Why does the IR of Mauritania look like someone shot the Cheshire Cat right between the eyes?

re: #203 tfc3rid

I've actually had that thought as well off and on... I don't think that would be a very good idea...

Yeah, but watching all the resultant cranial detonations would be fun!

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Things are once again quite busy in the ME, with Israel firing on Hamas and other terrorists as the terrorists' rocket war against Israel continues to inflict casualties.

Meanwhile, the US is considering lifting the ban on selling Israel the F-22 Raptor. That wont do anything with respect to the Palestinian issue, but is directed solely at the Iranian nuclear situation. Right now, it's just talk, but if the Iranians continue to show that they have no intention of giving up their nuclear program, watch for the US to sell the Israelis the weapons systems needed to take out existential threat to Israel's security.

re: #209 CIA Reject

Yeah, but watching all the resultant cranial detonations would be fun!

Are those like brain farts?

Vote Obama!

/take a principled stand, so he doesn't have to

Also on 6 June, the Battle of Belleau Wood, in 1918.

Sempre Fi, Devil Dogs.

On this historic day June 4th 1944, google chooses to honor the brave soldiers of...er...Diego Velázquez---what the f-uck?

re: #207 NJDhockeyfan

I love it when the scales fall from their eyes and they see the light.
Hallelujah!

Vote Obama!

/don't you want a free unicorn?

re: #210 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Things are once again quite busy in the ME, with Israel firing on Hamas and other terrorists as the terrorists' rocket war against Israel continues to inflict casualties.

Meanwhile, the US is considering lifting the ban on selling Israel the F-22 Raptor. That wont do anything with respect to the Palestinian issue, but is directed solely at the Iranian nuclear situation. Right now, it's just talk, but if the Iranians continue to show that they have no intention of giving up their nuclear program, watch for the US to sell the Israelis the weapons systems needed to take out existential threat to Israel's security.

Better get a move on if they're going to do that. Unless McCain wins in November, all bets are off and I would expect anything in the pipeline to come to a screeching halt. Obama would change US Israel policy (already not all that great) markedly - and not for the better.

re: #187 tfc3rid

Not bad loppy... Not bad at all...

I was up way past my bedtime watching all the excitement!

re: #214 Nevergiveup

On this historic day June 4th 1944, google chooses to honor the brave soldiers of...er...Diego Velázquez---what the f-uck?

Surprised?

Today's Mt. Wilson Sunrise
Today's tiny Obama Breakfast.

re: #199 Nevergiveup

What was it between Manny and Youkles?

Yes!

Nobody's talking, though.

re: #183 loppyd Hey {loppyd}! Good morning goodlooking! Say, how long has ole Manny been doing them 'roids again? Or has he moved on to crystal Meth?! LOL!
I have no idea why he "bitch slapped" (not the term I'd use but...) Youkilis but you just don't do that to a teamate in the middle of a game, and in full public view.

re: #214 Nevergiveup

This surprises you how?

F*ck google

Peter Schweitzer on C-Span
"Makers and Takers"

When I listened to Obama's speech to AIPAC and heard him vow to defend Israel, with an undivided capital in Jerusalem, I was shocked, I tell you, because,

"That's not the Obama I know!"

re: #220 Ojoe

Obama's cornflakes unsweetened! (ungesuessed)

re: #207 NJDhockeyfan

"I don't want to participate in a site that thinks that making comments about Clinton's breasts, PResident Clinton's dick or McCain's teeth is valid political commentary."

This Ex-Koss is confused.
Hillary should not be referred to as "President Clinton".

Vote Obama!

/stop worrying whether or not you make enough money

re: #222 {realwest}

Hey {loppyd}! Good morning goodlooking! Say, how long has ole Manny been doing them 'roids again? Or has he moved on to crystal Meth?! LOL!
I have no idea why he "bitch slapped" (not the term I'd use but...) Youkilis but you just don't do that to a teamate in the middle of a game, and in full public view.

Good Morning Handsome!

I have no clue what started it...and you're right it was uncalled for.

Terry Francona was mum on the subject last night, but the Boston sports media will probably dig it up.

re: #218 loppyd

I was up way past my bedtime watching all the excitement!

As was I but I was watching the Mets lose and a $#%^% hit by pitch in the bottom of the ninth in San Diego...

re: #195 Who Watches the Watchmen? Huh, watch out for falling bowlers or something?!? LOL!

Hello all from Metro Chicago.

re: #228 Killian Bundy

Vote Obama!

/stop worrying whether or not you make enough money

Won't need money in the re-education camps.

re: #225 Kenneth

When I listened to Obama's speech to AIPAC and heard him vow to defend Israel, with an undivided capital in Jerusalem, I was shocked, I tell you, because,

"That's not the Obama I know!"

/did you catch the part where he promised to end weapons smuggling into Gaza?

re: #198 loppyd Thanks for that {loppyd}!

re: #230 tfc3rid

As was I but I was watching the Mets lose and a $#%^% hit by pitch in the bottom of the ninth in San Diego...

And of course, all night long there was this douche sitting behind home plate wearing the Obama 'O' t-shirt...

re: #232 BFSkinner

Hello all from Metro Chicago.

Pronounced Chicargo by 9 out of 10 southerners.

Realwest,

Say, how long has ole Manny been doing them 'roids again? Or has he moved on to crystal Meth?! LOL!
I have no idea why he "bitch slapped" (not the term I'd use but...) Youkilis but you just don't do that to a teamate in the middle of a game, and in full public view.

"That's not the Manny I know..."

re: #237 redstateredneck

Pronounced Chicargo by 9 out of 10 southerners.

Trust me... I'd rather hear a Southern accent than a Chicago accent anyday. I am from MI ... swore I'd never live back up north... and here I am. Blech.

re: #7 Killian Bundy

/death by freefall, give him a few minutes to think about it

From the top of a very tall skyscraper, just so he'll know how some of the 9/11 victims felt.

June 6 in history:

1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice.

1513 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.

1644 - the Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchus would rule China until 1912 when the Republic of China was established.

1813 - War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek - A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.

1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Memphis - Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.

1882 - The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.

1982 - 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.

re: #234 Killian Bundy

/did you catch the part where he promised to end weapons smuggling into Gaza?

There will be no need to smuggle weapons into Gaza. Weapons will be openly purchased. And besides, once Israel has been turned over to the "rightful owners" there will be no need for weapons. Other than an occasional knife to murder a new bride with on her wedding night because you think she might not be a virgin. . . .

re: #207 NJDhockeyfan

Obama's campaign has been extremely sexist and has used his male privilege to benefit from sexism in the media.

This ex-Kossack still needs some reeducation if he's going on about privilege, but he or she will learn.

BTW, President Clinton himself made his dick a topic of valid political commentary, but that is old, old news.

Omaha Beach Normandy
[Link: www.normandy.worldweb.com...]

Bravo to Juan Williams!

It's Time for Another Obama Race Speech

To deal with this controversy effectively, Mr. Obama needs to give another speech. This time he has to admit to sins of using race for political expediency – by knowingly buying into divisive, mean messages being delivered from the pulpit. He has to say that, as a biracial young man with no community roots, attaching himself to Rev. Wright and the Trinity congregation was a shortcut to move up the ladder in the Chicago political scene. He has to call race-baiting what it is, whether it comes from a pulpit or calls itself progressive politics. And he has to challenge his supporters, especially his black base, to be honest about real problems at the heart of today's racial divide – including out-of-wedlock births, crime, drugs and a culture that devalues education while glorifying the gangster life.

re: #207 NJDhockeyfan
Good morning - what do you mean "another" one jumps ship?!

re: #228 Killian Bundy

Vote Obama!

/stop worrying whether or not you make enough money

Don't you know that prosperity for all is possible through legislation and taxation? It's just that simple.

re: #207 NJDhockeyfan

5%...that's all it takes.

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

re: #210 lawhawk Morning lawhawk - don't think the potential sale of the Raptor has much to do with Iran, as the Raptor is "just" an air superiority fighter - albeit the best one in the entire world. Don't see how it would help Israel with attacking Iran (but would clear the skies of any Migs that Iran somehow gets to Israel).

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

Why doesn't AP just give in and put "freedom" in front of "fighter"? You know they want to- because recognizing these killers as terrorists would be wrong- and keep them from their lovefest meetings with Hamas

re: #234 Killian Bundy

Well, he didn't say he would end weapons smuggling, he said he would call on Egypt to end the weapons smuggling. There is a big difference. "Calling on Egypt to end smuggling" is an easy thing to do -hell even Rice, Olmert & bush have done that. Let's do it again right now, shall we? "Hey Egypt! End that weapons smuggling, ok?" See, job done.

Actually ending weapon smuggling is another matter entirely.

Perhaps under Amir Obama, it won't be considered smuggling anymore, it will be legitimate aid.

re: #245 loppyd

Didn't you know Juan Williams is an uncle Tom?

re: #245 loppyd

Only a black commentator can get away with that. Obama can't call him 'racist'. Juan seemed to be genuinely shocked by the anti-white rhetoric going on at Trinity Church. Obama's lame speech announcing leaving the church without denouncing any of it did not fly with him.

Remarks at the U.S. Ranger Monument
Pointe du Hoc, France
June 6, 1984

One of two speeches commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion, this speech was delivered at the site of the U.S. Ranger Monument at Pointe du Hoc, France, where veterans of the Normandy Invasion, and others, had assembled for the ceremony. Later during the day, President Reagan spoke at Omaha Beach, France.
1,988 words.

[Link: www.reaganlibrary.com...]

re: #249 realwest

Morning lawhawk - don't think the potential sale of the Raptor has much to do with Iran, as the Raptor is "just" an air superiority fighter - albeit the best one in the entire world. Don't see how it would help Israel with attacking Iran (but would clear the skies of any Migs that Iran somehow gets to Israel).

I think there are "range" issues with the current Israeli air force. Especially if they had to fly around Iraq to get to Iran.
Maybe the IAF just needs a refueling air tanker?

Call me naive, but I can not for the life me understand why Google can't honor the day of days!

Morning, everyone, from mid-state Illinois. I'll be lurking a lot today. I've got some weirdish work to do and I'm expecting a shipment of new toys today.

By the way, go over to Hot Air and read what Bolton says about Obama's naivety. Just wonderful.