About time we had a Oscar Wilde quote.......................... :)

Kali the Destroyer, the goddess worshipped by the bloodthirsty cult of the Thugi in 19th century India, is also the Hindu goddess of education, because education is the destruction of ignorance.

Amazing how much of it has been on display on certain threads in the last few weeks.

I sure feel at times like Oscar was describing me.

Ahh, if only we could crack stupidity and make a clean burning fuel.

A shout out to all the jihadis reading today:

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

re: #4 FurryOldGuyJeans

I sure feel at times like Oscar was describing me.

He did invent me.................. ;P

I wonder how Freddie and Fannie are doing. Not well I'm guessing. I also would guess that some Washington pols are trying to deflect any blame.

re: #5 Racer X

I suggest strapping one of these to Gore and harnessing all of that hot air!

re: #3 Sharmuta

Amazing how much of it has been on display on certain threads in the last few weeks.

duh?

nap time...BBIAW

re: #1 doriangrey

About time we had a Oscar Wilde quote.......................... :)

WE ARE ALL OF US IN THE GUTTER
BUT SOME OF US ARE LOOKING AT THE STARS

Crissie Hynde channeling Oscar Wilde

re: #11 goddessoftheclassroom

nap time...BBIAW

I'm leaving too.
Might be back this evening.
Have a good nap, get even MORE beautiful.

re: #11 goddessoftheclassroom

nap time...BBIAW

Heh heh heh sweet dreams of hunky guys you cutie pie you......

re: #7 doriangrey

He did invent me.................. ;P

LOL!

Having died in 1900, Wilde was saying something quite remarkable. Not only did he pinpoint the fundamental building block of the universe (hydrogen), but he also explained what dark matter is: It's stupidity.

Note to Zombie- and others
Just finished a book titled 'The Bedtime Tales' with many great short stories. The jacket says it was a gift to my father in 1945. One of the stories was titled "Slummer's Paradise", by Herbert Asbury. Pretty much puts into perspective how things got to be the way they are in San Francisco. I suggest you find a couple of minutes to dig up a copy of this and read it. Probably a classic in the bay area, but it was new to this old hick.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Certainly expands during an election year. Boyles Law isn't it?

re: #15 MandyManners

LOL!

Heh heh heh ..... ;)

re: #12 Thanos

If I am going to be spending a long time looking at the stars I will require someplace comfy to lie down.

Well I think I'm going to join goddess in a nap... well figuratively speaking of course... ;)

I was waiting for an Open Thread to ask the Lizard Army to link me to definitive sources on the Plame debacle.

Moonbat relative BELIEVES:

1. Scooter Libby is a traitor.
2. Plame was a covert agent because the head of the CIA said so, said moonbat claims he heard the head of CIA say so in the hearings.

Help! I need back up. Said moonbat is driving me nuts.

re: #23 Crimsonfisted

I was waiting for an Open Thread to ask the Lizard Army to link me to definitive sources on the Plame debacle.

Moonbat relative BELIEVES:

1. Scooter Libby is a traitor.
2. Plame was a covert agent because the head of the CIA said so, said moonbat claims he heard the head of CIA say so in the hearings.

Help! I need back up. Said moonbat is driving me nuts.

Here is a link to an NRO search for Valerie Plame. Lots of articles - take your pick.

Valerie Plame

re: #23 Crimsonfisted

Here's a discussion of that at Powerline:

"John wrote here that whether Valerie Plame was a "covert agent" subject to the protection of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act appears to turn on whether she served outside the United States during the five years preceding her identification."

[Link: www.powerlineblog.com...]

re: #23 Crimsonfisted

I was waiting for an Open Thread to ask the Lizard Army to link me to definitive sources on the Plame debacle.

Moonbat relative BELIEVES:

1. Scooter Libby is a traitor.
2. Plame was a covert agent because the head of the CIA said so, said moonbat claims he heard the head of CIA say so in the hearings.

Help! I need back up. Said moonbat is driving me nuts.

Screw that, just show them this link and watch their head explode...

re: #23 Crimsonfisted

Do a search on Clarice Feldman articles over at American Thinker, she coverd it start to finish and pretty thoroughly.

At the Panda's Thumb blog, Timothy Sandefur has been occasionally linking to LGF, and there's at least one person there who's freaking out about it.

However, the pragmatic part of my post - essentially, the point that if PT allows uncritical links to right wing sources, with no comments allowed, something embarrassing and inappropriate is sure to be linked - still causes me concern. LGF is already really pushing the envelope quite vigorously. A fair proportion of the US scientific community is of Muslim heritage, as are large numbers of law-abiding US citizens who aren’t involved in trying to violate anyone’s rights. LGF is usually thought of as being out there with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, which is not to say that every single idea expressed there is wrong or offensive, but some of it probably is

re: #28 Charles

How did I know it would be harold? lol

re: #23 Crimsonfisted

Why would you let moonbat make you prove a negative? Make moonbat prove something WAS said, not other way around.

THANK YOU ALL!

May said moonbat finally stop the nonsense. May said lizard get some relief.

"LGF is usually thought of" is not a precise measurement, harold.

re: #24 reine.de.tout

Hey, I got one who thinks everything on the internet is true and belives that the WTC was imploded by Bush. Painful, isn't it?

re: #32 jaunte

I wonder if he'll end up as grafitti.

re: #23 Crimsonfisted

I was waiting for an Open Thread to ask the Lizard Army to link me to definitive sources on the Plame debacle.

Moonbat relative BELIEVES:

1. Scooter Libby is a traitor.
2. Plame was a covert agent because the head of the CIA said so, said moonbat claims he heard the head of CIA say so in the hearings.

Help! I need back up. Said moonbat is driving me nuts.

Libby did not leak Plame's name to anyone. The leak was Richard Armitage. Hardly a friend of Bush but a lefty over State Department official from Clinton

re: #19 kansas

Certainly expands during an election year. Boyles Law isn't it?

Which would certainly argue against any global warming.

re: #35 Neo Con since 9-11

Libby did not leak Plame's name to anyone. The leak was Richard Armitage. Hardly a friend of Bush but a lefty over State Department official from Clinton

Look's like you are suggesting arguing reason and fact. Lots a luck with that.

Oh my! LGF is an internet site with possibly wrong or offensive content. Why can't we be perfect?

re: #34 Sharmuta

I'm not familiar with their rules, but the graffitti wall may be tilted to absorb 'outsider' comments.

re: #30 theparson

Why would you let moonbat make you prove a negative? Make moonbat prove something WAS said, not other way around.

Said moonbat is home all day and HEARD it himself. Claims so, anyway. This fine lizard is at work all day. (Said moonbat cleans, cooks, does the laundry etc as well, for which this lizard is extremely grateful by the way). If the moonbat heard it, it was said. This much I can trust.

"Now leave me alone and get lost."

-Oscar the Grouch

Very bad news:

Insurgents kill 9 U.S. troops in Afghanistan

Insurgents killed nine U.S. soldiers in an assault on an Afghan army and NATO outpost in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, making it one of the worst days for foreign troops casualties in the country since 2001.

Details are scarce but Taliban apparently infiltrated homes and a mosque near the outpost and opened fire at close range. The battle continued for several hours.
The situation in Afghanistan has definitely deteriorated with the terrorists apparently benefiting from a friendlier regime in neighboring Pakistan.

With the war in Iraq almost won, look for lefties and liberals to drop their phony bait-and-switch support for the Afghan operation, and return to the kind of shameless defeatism and Taliban cheerleading we saw before the Iraq operation started.

re: #40 Crimsonfisted

Said moonbat is home all day and HEARD it himself. Claims so, anyway. This fine lizard is at work all day. (Said moonbat cleans, cooks, does the laundry etc as well, for which this lizard is extremely grateful by the way). If the moonbat heard it, it was said. This much I can trust.

Probably on The View.

re: #39 jaunte

I haven't gone back to see, but I don't think I was removed to the bathroom.

re: #35 Neo Con since 9-11

Libby did not leak Plame's name to anyone. The leak was Richard Armitage. Hardly a friend of Bush but a lefty over State Department official from Clinton

I know that, you know that, trying to prove it. Fortunately, facts do matter to this particular moonbat. I just didn't have them at hand! Anything really really good though, and I knew I could find the best direction here.

re: #28 Charles

uncritical links to right wing sources

Heh.

re: #43 kansas

Probably on The View.

GACK! Bite your tongue! He would NEVER watch that. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

:)

re: #45 Crimsonfisted

not that it will help, but see this:

[Link: www.page1book.com...]

Panda's Thumb picked up the muslim creationists story from LGF- no wonder harlod is upset.

/And no, I wasn't flushed- that really had to get him.

re: #42 Shiplord Kirel

I heard the toll was 16 dead on Sunday not 9.

Heh. A Panda's Thumb admin warns 'harold' about his constant whining:

Harold, feel free to continue at AtBC or the bathroom thread. This is a final warning. PT has a variety of contributors from all walks of life, if you do not like Sandefur then ignore his postings or consider the use of free blog sites such as blogger to set up a ‘why I hate Sandefur’ blog. This whining is just getting old and is unnecessarily distracting. You have been heard and I am with you that Sandefur’s links are not always linking to the best sites but then again, different people get their information from different sites. I sometimes link to UcD or other ill informed sites, which does not mean that I agree with said content or with the site itself. Most newsites would quickly drop off my radar screen if I were to ignore them based on their biases.

Nuff said

re: #42 Shiplord Kirel

a sad day....

good afternoon every one

re: #19 kansas

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Certainly expands during an election year. Boyles Law isn't it?

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious
day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at
last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

- H.L. Mencken, Journalist (1880 - 1956)

A fair proportion of the US scientific community is of Muslim heritage

What is that? Is there Catholic heritage? Methodist heritage? What is a fair proportion? The author should at least provide a verifiable percentage, to make that an honest statement it seems to me. Which science?

That is what jumped out at me (besides the LGF stuff)

re: #52 Charles

LMAO!

re: #51 Neo Con since 9-11

I heard the toll was 16 dead on Sunday not 9.

Source?

re: #48 leboaz

not that it will help, but see this:

[Link: www.page1book.com...]

I wonder if anyone will show up.

re: #29 Sharmuta

How did I know it would be harold? lol

Should we know harold?

lgf listed in lat article on blogs:

Daily Kos. Little Green Footballs. Talking Points Memo. Instapundit. Firedoglake. Captain's Quarters. These are among the thousands of political blogs that are increasingly a factor in U.S. politics.

[Link: www.latimes.com...]

re: #50 Sharmuta

Ah, so they did, The other article the linked to is very enlightening as well...
While secularists sleep well-funded creationists are on the march in Europe

Clearly, for the assembly, the report amounted to strong evidence that creationists were working strategically across Europe, with the aim of influencing the science curriculum as well as public opinion. Though it does not say so explicitly the implication of the report is that creationists of different denominations and faiths are, or might soon be, working together in a concerted assault on science teaching, in the same way that American creationists have been for the past decade. In response to the call for action from the Assembly, only the Swedish government acted promptly, swiftly issuing a general ban on the teaching of creationism and Intelligent Design in their schools.

re: #60 reine.de.tout

I had a round or two with him over at PT.

re: #59 Crimsonfisted

sorry, can't make it
doing anything else that day

In Canada, the NDP (New Democratic Party) bills itself as the social democratic party. Notwithstanding that it was founded by Jews (the grandfather of the DESPICABLE Avi Lewis), it is almost always on the other side of issues from Israel.

Their former leader, who is a Member of Parliament from Nova Scotia wrote the following column this week in our local paper:
Nuclear Non Proliferation and Disarmanent

How does someone write a whole column about that topic and not mention Iran once?

re: #62 Killgore Trout

They also linked the National Review thread.

re: #63 Sharmuta

I had a round or two with him over at PT.

ah. And, who won? (As if it wouldn't be obvious).

re: #19 kansas
For a good chuckle over Boyle's Law, type in "is hell endothermic or exothermic" into a search engine. It's a delightful little piece of writing.

re: #67 reine.de.tout

He's a hypocrite, whining about censorship at LGF and then hoping my comments would get "flushed" the the "bathroom". He clearly has some anti-LGF sentiments if he's still whining about it after a week or so.

Hey Sunday Afternoon Lizards! It's overcast and nice in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland.

Family is out and I'm alone with my laptop. Well, the dogs are here, one of whom at 6 oz of milk chocolate and has been to the emergency vet already today. No cause for alarm. The toxic level is an ounce per pound and she is way over 6 lbs.

Just have to look for some "extreme" need to go outside and be there when it happens.

How are you-all and what are we talking about?

re: #23 Crimsonfisted

I was waiting for an Open Thread to ask the Lizard Army to link me to definitive sources on the Plame debacle.

Moonbat relative BELIEVES:

1. Scooter Libby is a traitor.
2. Plame was a covert agent because the head of the CIA said so, said moonbat claims he heard the head of CIA say so in the hearings.

Help! I need back up. Said moonbat is driving me nuts.

Great try, but it won't help. Any source you quote will be discredited by them as conservative propaganda.

I was gratified to be part of a discussion on Obama's candidacy after church today. I was gratified because almost every point about his friends, skills, qualifications, and experience that are mentioned on LGF were mentioned by my fellow church members. I thought I might be able to add to the conversation, but they already seemed to know he would be Carter II but not quite as good.

re: #58 Shiplord Kirel

Source?

My mistake, I was thinking of a battle on the Pakistan side of the border yesterday. If I had taken the time I should have I would have realized you were referring to a different battle

re: #65 darkster2400

NDP = "We Are All Hezbollah Now"

Most (if not all) of the party leadership is rabidly anti-Israel, which automatically makes them pro-Islam. For them, Israel is always the aggressor and Muslim countries only ever use self-defense.

It's disgusting.

re: #60 reine.de.tout

Should we know harold?

can we have a: 'he's not the harold I knew' ?

re: #71 Mars Needs Neocons

Great try, but it won't help. Any source you quote will be discredited by them as conservative propaganda.

Possibly, probably, but I should try. I am very poor at debate and when I am right, I need to defend the position and learn to do it better. I have to try.

Fortunately, although this lefty won't vote McCain, the realization of what a clown Obama is, is patently obvious to him and won't pull the lever for BO either.

re: #76 Crimsonfisted

At least there's that small comfort.

re: #42 Shiplord Kirel

Very bad news:

Insurgents kill 9 U.S. troops in Afghanistan

Details are scarce but Taliban apparently infiltrated homes and a mosque near the outpost and opened fire at close range. The battle continued for several hours.
The situation in Afghanistan has definitely deteriorated with the terrorists apparently benefiting from a friendlier regime in neighboring Pakistan.

With the war in Iraq almost won, look for lefties and liberals to drop their phony bait-and-switch support for the Afghan operation, and return to the kind of shameless defeatism and Taliban cheerleading we saw before the Iraq operation started.

They've also had a large influx of veteran jihadis from Iraq in the past six months.

re: #77 Mars Needs Neocons

At least there's that small comfort.

Yes, and he had BO's number during his first speech at the Dem convention where he launched into national prominence. He saw through him that night (took me a few days and American Thinker) so I know all is not lost on him.

re: #79 Crimsonfisted

Yes, and he had BO's number during his first speech at the Dem convention where he launched into national prominence. He saw through him that night (took me a few days and American Thinker) so I know all is not lost on him.

So, how much of a Clintonian is he? Anyone that worships the BoyKing seems to have problems with Obama.

re: #70 ggt

I am stuck inside also ggt. Wife went to the pool and son is over at his friend's house, while my daughter is still in Israel for a little while longer, and I am stuck inside finishing up homework and getting my finances in order for work tomorrow. Gotta love it! At least I went fishing with the son yesterday. Today is better weather though!

re: #80 Mars Needs Neocons

So, how much of a Clintonian is he? Anyone that worships the BoyKing seems to have problems with Obama.

Big fan of Slick Willy. Although I wouldn't characterize him a worshipper though.

re: #72 David IV of Georgia

I have found that most of the people that I come in contact with each day are not hard-core Obama supporters. High gas prices are the main topic; and, grandchildren of course!

I work with mostly blue collar workers and when O is mentioned, they are not too complimentary. They understand that he is an empty suit.

It strikes me "the people" he is trying to bring "change" to don't really know what he means by "change".

re: #83 hippieforlife

I have found that most of the people that I come in contact with each day are not hard-core Obama supporters. High gas prices are the main topic; and, grandchildren of course!

I work with mostly blue collar workers and when O is mentioned, they are not too complimentary. They understand that he is an empty suit.

It strikes me "the people" he is trying to bring "change" to don't really know what he means by "change".

The Marxists always wanted the workers with them, but despised the workers. They were not intelligent enough to understand the "nuance" of Marxism.

re: #17 leboaz

Note to Zombie- and others
Just finished a book titled 'The Bedtime Tales' with many great short stories. The jacket says it was a gift to my father in 1945. One of the stories was titled "Slummer's Paradise", by Herbert Asbury. Pretty much puts into perspective how things got to be the way they are in San Francisco. I suggest you find a couple of minutes to dig up a copy of this and read it. Probably a classic in the bay area, but it was new to this old hick.

I'll try to dig up a copy and check it out. I've never heard of it before. Thanks!

re: #85 zombie

I'll try to dig up a copy and check it out. I've never heard of it before. Thanks!

The funny thing is I didn't even really want it. I forgot to cancel my Conservative Book Club order for the month and wound up with it and The Ten Books that Screwed up the World. (However I found the internet version to be much better than that one.)

re: #65 darkster2400

NDP = DFC as far as I'm concerned.

Don't forget to cash in your 401(k) and stock up on gold and silver.

re: #88 buzzsawmonkey

I find it difficult to credit that Oscar Wilde is the source of this quote:

a) It is unlikely that Wilde wrote anything at all about hydrogen, and

b) The term "shelf life" as a generally-used phrase is very, very recent; probably not more than fifty or so years old. It is highly unlikely that it was in use, let alone current, in Wilde's time.

Shelf Life was supposedly first seen in use in 1927Etymology

Or here. 1925-1930.

re: #90 Mars Needs Neocons

Shelf Life was supposedly first seen in use in 1927Etymology

Or here. 1925-1930.

So, since Wilde died in 1900, that would lead to the belief this isn't his quote.

Charles is a freaking evil genius. Here's the quote.

re: #17 leboaz

"Slummer's Paradise", by Herbert Asbury

Is this what you were reading? SF History

Some of you will now have to Burn Your Beatles Albums...

/ theological evolution of IXOYC?

re: #93 slokat

That's it, thank you. My version appears to have been edited slightly, but the point is still the same. Count on young Lizards to find these things without going through my dusty old library.

re: #88 buzzsawmonkey

I find it difficult to credit that Oscar Wilde is the source of this quote:

a) It is unlikely that Wilde wrote anything at all about hydrogen, and

b) The term "shelf life" as a generally-used phrase is very, very recent; probably not more than fifty or so years old. It is highly unlikely that it was in use, let alone current, in Wilde's time.

DOH.....................The quote it would seem is actually from Frank Zappa.....

The quote is attributed to Oscar Wilde by World of Quotes as coming from An Ideal Husband (act II). A search of the plays Act 2 however reveals that the quote is not in that play.

Never underestimate the power of large groups of stupid people.

re: #96 doriangrey

Which shows that most of what is on the Internet (and believed primarily by Lefty and his/her/its kind) is bullshit.

re: #87 Macker

I'm sure I will agree with you, but I am unfamiliar with "DFC" - pardon my ignorance.

Did anyone else see the Book TV bit this morning re Iran and Israel's options?
It's not looking like there is a lot of time left.

re: #92 Mars Needs Neocons
I think Charles ' name should from now on be followed by the letters N.D.
** noted debunker

Did anyone else see this?

Cynthia McKinney nominated as Green candidate for POTUS

Wow. There's a worse choice than Obama in November.