Wolf cookies!

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I read that somewhere. I think it applies to us all.

re: #2 Cap'n DOC

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I read that somewhere. I think it applies to us all.

Do unto others, then split?

Rush is saying that one of obambi's biggest fundraisers is hosting a reception for dinnerjacket in NYC.

Ahhh....fresh air.

Do unto others, first.

re: #3 Dustyvet

Do unto others, then split?

I think run like hell is more apt.

re: #4 newsjunkie_ky

Rush is saying that one of obambi's biggest fundraisers is hosting a reception for dinnerjacket in NYC.

That figures...

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.

Sometimes I think it's to screw me out of every single freakin' dime in taxes.

re: #4 newsjunkie_ky

Rush is saying that one of obambi's biggest fundraisers is hosting a reception for dinnerjacket in NYC.

Why am I not suprised. Some of Obama's biggest backers and friends were also supporters of Saddam Hussein.

re: #4 newsjunkie_ky

Rush is saying that one of obambi's biggest fundraisers is hosting a reception for dinnerjacket in NYC.

WHAT?

Very good news: The Gang of Umpteen has abandoned their efforts to push the sham energy bill through the Senate. I hope my emails to two of the Gangsters helped.

re: #4 newsjunkie_ky

Rush is saying that one of obambi's biggest fundraisers is hosting a reception for dinnerjacket in NYC.

Shocking.

Be courteous, professional and prepared to kill everyone you meet at a moment's notice.

re: #4 newsjunkie_ky

Rush is saying that one of obambi's biggest fundraisers is hosting a reception for dinnerjacket in NYC.

One "Penny Pritzker", Hyatt empire heiress.

Now Rush says that 20 Black protesters were pulled out of an obambi rally.

re: #4 newsjunkie_ky

Rush is saying that one of obambi's biggest fundraisers is hosting a reception for dinnerjacket in NYC.

Pritzker, the Hyatt hotel family. Trustees of the University of Chicago, Poli Sci Department is in Pritzker Hall, deep into promoting Ayers and Dohrn and Obama.

re: #4 newsjunkie_ky

Rush is saying that one of obambi's biggest fundraisers is hosting a reception for dinnerjacket in NYC.

You have got to be kidding me. Fundraising with a dictator whose stated goal is to destroy our country and Israel? There has got to be a law against that.

re: #16 newsjunkie_ky

Now Rush says that 20 Black protesters were pulled out of an obambi rally.

I'm not near a radio, did you happen to hear what city the rally was held in?

re: #12 doppelganglander

Very good news: The Gang of Umpteen has abandoned their efforts to push the sham energy bill through the Senate. I hope my emails to two of the Gangsters helped.

They must be too busy buying out crooked businesses using responsible peoples taxes to see it thru.

re: #15 pink freud

One "Penny Pritzker", Hyatt empire heiress.

Rush is saying the event will be held at the Grand Central Hyatt. Pritzker is the woman who organized the 25K/ a plate dinner with Streisand.

Do unto others, before they can do unto you.

re: #15 pink freud

One "Penny Pritzker", Hyatt empire heiress.

Too bad Paris Hilton's squandered her credibility.

re: #20 KibbyKat

Coral Gables

re: #11 MandyManners

WHAT?

uh oh, here comes "Gramscian Whore of the Caliphate"!

Rush is going nuts

re: #24 MandyManners

Too bad Paris Hilton's squandered her credibility.

When did she have that?

re: #11 MandyManners

That Penny Picster (or whatever her name is) heiress to Hyatt fortune that put on the recent big fundraiser in hollyweird is hosting a reception. He says he has heard it from 3 sources.
Now he is discussing the sandra barnhard 'big Black brothers raping Sarah remark'.

The joke is so funny but I can't tell it?

re: #19 doppelganglander

You have got to be kidding me. Fundraising with a dictator whose stated goal is to destroy our country and Israel? There has got to be a law against that.

I think there is, I seem to remember something called TREASON, or was it SEDITION?

re: #22 pink freud

Rush is saying the event will be held at the Grand Central Hyatt. Pritzker is the woman who organized the 25K/ a plate dinner with Streisand.

The McCain/Palin campaign needs to do a series of ads about this.

' Katie Couric has a campaign-trail day in the life of Senator Biden, who says about debating Gov. Palin: 'It's kind of hard to prepare, because I don't know what she thinks.'

From my morning Politico email update. This is going to be soooo much fun, watching Biden debate Palin... which it was first.

re: #17 lifeofthemind
Thanks for further info.

re: #16 newsjunkie_ky

I could make a "Sorry - No Fried Chicken" comment, but I'll refrain.

re: #26 pre-Boomer Marine brat

GRAMSCIAN WHORES OF THE CALIPHATE!

re: #28 Sharmuta

When did she have that?

When she was born?

Penny Pritzker Parties without Preconditions with Persia's Politico...for benefit glorious democrat undermining USA/troops/Iraq effort.

re: #36 MandyManners

GRAMSCIAN WHORES OF THE CALIPHATE!

Thank you.
I'm been feeling sensory deprivation of late.

re: #20 KibbyKat

Miami? it is on cnn, according to Rush.

re: #17 lifeofthemind

Shut UP. Are you serious?
Surely this one will end up under the bus asap......

re: #19 doppelganglander

You have got to be kidding me. Fundraising with a dictator whose stated goal is to destroy our country and Israel? There has got to be a law against that.

Or at a minimum a rapidly put together R-527 commercial showcasing Pritzker's connection to Barry.

re: #31 Dustyvet

I think there is, I seem to remember something called TREASON, or was it SEDITION?

Trying people for sedition didn't fly even during John Adams' administration. Good luck pulling that off today.

re: #39 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Thank you.
I'm been feeling sensory deprivation of late.

Mandy, ... my sides are hurting from laughing so hard!

re: #33 tradewind

Do you know the debate schedule? What is it?

re: #19 doppelganglander

You have got to be kidding me. Fundraising with a dictator whose stated goal is to destroy our country and Israel? There has got to be a law against that.

* * * *
Regular Americans don't need special laws to tell them not to party with enemy combatants.

Liberals don't follow the current laws against treason anyway.

Didn't Penny grow up in Iran? I'll go check.

re: #28 Sharmuta

When did she have that?

Theoretically, at least, as a new-born.

re: #12 doppelganglander

That is good news. Now we need to just hold on, and let the Moratorium expire. Then Drill Here, Drill Now!

I still wanna know if Billy Ayers' ring came from Sen. McCain's left wing.

# 2
I thought it's " Do others before they do You"

Obomba just said that women are the backbone of the country. But not the backbone of your ticket, right Barry? LOL!

re: #45 Junior

Not for the veeps, but the first real debate is down here next Friday on Ole Miss campus.
Should be a nice opportunity for Obama to play the race card.

re: #42 unrealizedviewpoint

Or at a minimum a rapidly put together R-527 commercial showcasing Pritzker's connection to Barry.

I'm sure that will happen, and Obama will be forced to decline the money. (For an image of the pain this will cause him, picture Jack Benny being mugged.) Once Rush has put it out there, it's not going away.

re: #15 pink freud

One "Penny Pritzker", Hyatt empire heiress.

Ah yes, Penny Pritzker, one of Chicago's wealthier citizens.

Barack Obama was in Chicago at the time of the Superior Bank failure & has full knowledge of what went on and the cause of the collapse.

The Pritzkers, one of the nation’s wealthiest families and heirs to the fortune created by the Hyatt hotels, agreed today to pay a record $460 million to the federal government to avoid being punished for the failure of Superior Bank F.S.B., the big savings and loan institution that regulators seized last summer.

Federal officials said the payment, which will be spread out over 15 years, is the largest settlement ever in the failure of a banking institution. The failure itself is one of the largest in the last decade, one that some estimate could cost the government up to $1 billion.

Unbelievable isn’t it? The failure of Superior Bank, based in Hinsdale, cost the F.D.I.C. about $700 million, making it one of the largest federally insured financial institutions to fail in a decade. Regulators said Superior had collapsed because of poor lending practices and sloppy bookkeeping.

One of the unfortunate victims who suffered as a result of the poor lending practices at the hands of the Pritzker family was Fran Sweet, who was written about in the In These Times in 2002 (emphasis and italicized comments added):

Meanwhile, roughly 1,000 depositors who had deposits above $100,000 in a Superior account—money above the FDIC-insured limit—lost about $65 million. Most of them were middle-class individuals, attracted by Superior’s high interest rates. [Ed. note: it is presence of FDIC itself that allows unsound banks to offer high interest rates like this.] In the three months just before the bank was closed, there was a surge of $9.6 million in uninsured deposits. Since about 54 percent of the uninsured money has since been repaid as Superior was sold off, the depositors have still collectively lost about $30 million. (That just happens to be the amount that the Pritzkers gave to the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine earlier this year.)

But wait, there's more!

Obama's subprime pal

But a letter obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times shows that until the end, Pritzker appeared to be taking a leadership role in trying to revive the bank with an expanded push into subprime loans.

Pritzker wrote in May 2001 that her family was recapitalizing the bank, and she pledged to "once again restore Superior's leadership position in subprime lending." The bank shut down in July 2001.

Pritzker's attorney Kevin Poorman and Obama's campaign spokesman emphasized that not all "subprime lending" is the "predatory" kind that Obama and White House rival Hillary Clinton rail against. The kind of subprime lending Superior was doing in 2001 was not predatory, Poorman said.

But at least some of the 1,400 victims who are still owed money seven years after the bank failed say Pritzker is the wrong person for Obama to put in charge of the campaign's finances when part of his campaign is about reforming the banking industry.

Penny has been devoting her time, energy and money into making sure Barack Obama is foisted upon us elected.

Rush now sez that the Quakers and the Minnonites (sp) are the ones that invited dinnerjacke.

Sept 19th

Arrrh, happy Talk Like a Pirate Day mateys !

re: #52 Salem
No wonder he's in trouble, he's spineless.

Another pretty Penny tie to Obamabi, and Ayers....Currently she is vice chair[4][5] of the Chicago Public Education Fund, the successor organization to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

Rush says it's being held at the Grand Hyatt, but there is no evidence (yet) that Penny Pritzker knew about it.

re: #56 newsjunkie_ky

They only want him for his beard.

Rush:

Quakers and Mennonites invited Ahmadinejad to the meeting at Grand Central Hyatt. Pritzker did not.

/?

re: #15 pink freud

One "Penny Pritzker", Hyatt empire heiress.

what is with these stupid heirs and heiresses who have no clue about the real world wanting to be such idiots.

With that kind of money you'd think she/he could actually afford an excellent education and be able to discern good from evil.

re: #46 alegrias

Liberals don't follow the current laws against treason anyway.

semi-OT ... whattcha wanna bet that Jane Fonda has, or doesn't have, a scrapbook of photos taken in North Vietnam?

Michelle Malkin has an article about Nobama telling his peeps to get in the face of your neighbors who do not agree with Nobama. Does this mean I finally get to use my nine iron golf club?

re: #60 doppelganglander

Rush says it's being held at the Grand Hyatt, but there is no evidence (yet) that Penny Pritzker knew about it.

I say bullshit. Penny's been in this up to her eyeballs.

re: #18 buzzsawmonkey

Community: Life is good.

Community organizer: Life stinks! You're miserable!

Community: No, we're fine.

Community organizer: No, you're wrong. You have grievances, like [grievance], [grievance], and [grievance].

Community: By golly, we never thought of it that way before. You're right! BIG [GRIEVANCE] IS RIPPING US OFF! Boy, are we pissed!

Community organizer: Well, you know, you could do something about that...

Community: We could? What? Tell us! Boy, are we pissed!

Community organizer: Well, you know, [grievance] is all [target]'s fault. You could attack [target].

Community: Yes! Yes! Down with [target]!

Community organizer: Heh.

Pure Alinsky... the masses have to be unhappy enough with their situation to follow your desire for change.

Note that their situation need not actually be bad, you just must convince them so they think it is.

re: #19 doppelganglander

You have got to be kidding me. Fundraising with a dictator whose stated goal is to destroy our country and Israel? There has got to be a law against that.

The most disturbing part here , is that Penny Pritzker is Jewish.

re: #47 Irene NYC

Didn't Penny grow up in Iran? I'll go check.

* * *
Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett (sp?) grew up in Iran while her dad was stationed there, according to Fox News yesterday.

She's slated to be Chief of Staff in an obama administration...

re: #63 Eowyn2

"afford an excellent education "

Think about standard academia fare of today. Maybe she did.

re: #57 DaddyO

Sept 19th

Arrrh, happy Talk Like a Pirate Day mateys !

A pirate comes back to his ship with both of his ears pierced. Another pirate without any ear rings says "Where did you get those ear rings?"

The first pirate replies:

"Me matie I was at the mall and they had a special, they were a "Buck an Ear!"

YARRRRRRRR!

re: #29 newsjunkie_ky

That Penny Picster (or whatever her name is) heiress to Hyatt fortune that put on the recent big fundraiser in hollyweird is hosting a reception. He says he has heard it from 3 sources.
Now he is discussing the sandra barnhard 'big Black brothers raping Sarah remark'.

it sounds like something that stupid bitch would say. She really is an ignorant piece of trash.

re: #66 Honorary Yooper

I say bullshit. Penny's been in this up to her eyeballs.

I tend to agree. Obviously she doesn't oversee the renting of every Hyatt Hotel ballroom, but if this is a fundraiser for Obama, she knows exactly what's going on. And on a side note, what the hell is wrong with the Quakers and Mennonites? Since when does being peace-loving include helping your enemies who want to kill you?

re: #53 tradewind

Not for the veeps, but the first real debate is down here next Friday on Ole Miss campus.
Should be a nice opportunity for Obama to play the race card.

Wish I could come - go over to the Ajax and have some crawfish pie and fried pickles!

re: #18 buzzsawmonkey

Hi, buzzsaw - posted this poem on the now dead thread. The poem you posted reminded of this one. It's long been my favorite example of someone putting into words that which can't be put into words.

I am gentler now, who once demanded
All of life enwoven in one mesh,
For I have known your love in fragile hours,
Felt your eyes upon my willing flesh,
Had you bend and softly prison me within your arms.
I have known it clear as final shadows sank
The pillowed room.
None of life was life but what was here; and weakened, gentler now for
having loved,
I mark how subtle is the senses freeing when spun into a moments
miracle,
and used tenderly to solve the fact of being.

(For I have known your love, by Elizabeth Grahm)

re: #56 newsjunkie_ky

Rush now sez that the Quakers and the Minnonites (sp) are the ones that invited dinnerjacke.

Huh?

re: #53 tradewind

Thanks - I'm pretty sure the first VP debate is the first week of October... the 3rd I think?... (which would suck cause thats a Friday)

Schoolboy terrorist Hammad Munshi locked up for two years after bomb guide is found in his bedroom

Britain's youngest convicted terrorist was locked up for two years this morning after plans to cause death and destruction were found hidden in his bedroom.

Hammaad Munshi was just 15 when he was recruited into a worldwide plot to wipe out non-Muslims and longed to become a ‘martyr’.

Munshi, a GCSE student and grandson of a leading Islamic scholar, led a double life, obediently attending school by day and surfing jihadist websites at night.

He was part of a cell of cyber-groomers devoted to brainwashing vulnerable Muslims into killing ‘kuffar’, or non-believers.

I guess his grandfather forgot to tell him about the ROP...

re: #58 tradewind

No wonder he's in trouble, he's spineless.

I just don't know how he thinks he's going to say something like that without plugging for McCain.

re: #64 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Let's not even go there...

Okay, I'll ask one more time and then drop it.

Does anyone know why the Cox and Forkum graphic was removed from the frontpage?

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re: #41 tradewind

Shut UP. Are you serious?
Surely this one will end up under the bus asap......

Correction it is the Medical School named for the Pritzkers, Poly Sci is in Pick, that has a hammer and sickle in front.

Can one crack a rib from coughing?

Breaking: Obama's email hacked!

re: #85 newsjunkie_ky

Can one crack a rib from coughing?

Yes

re: #63 Eowyn2

what is with these stupid heirs and heiresses who have no clue about the real world wanting to be such idiots.

With that kind of money you'd think she/he could actually afford an excellent education and be able to discern good from evil.

They are born with a sense of overwhelming guilt which stems from their plight of being born wealthy. So they need overcompensate, hence they go liberal, never able to see nor hear a conservative viewpoint.

re: #41 tradewind

Shut UP. Are you serious?
Surely this one will end up under the bus asap......

Nope. She's one of the ones funding The One, The Big Zero.

re: #56 newsjunkie_ky

Rush now sez that the Quakers and the Minnonites (sp) are the ones that invited dinnerjacke.

foolishness.
i'm getting a headache.

re: #73 doppelganglander

I tend to agree. Obviously she doesn't oversee the renting of every Hyatt Hotel ballroom, but if this is a fundraiser for Obama, she knows exactly what's going on. And on a side note, what the hell is wrong with the Quakers and Mennonites? Since when does being peace-loving include helping your enemies who want to kill you?

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) has been up to their eyeballs in that kind of stuff for a long time. They shipped a lot of "aid" to N. Vietnam during that war.

re: #63 Eowyn2

what is with these stupid heirs and heiresses who have no clue about the real world wanting to be such idiots.

With that kind of money you'd think she/he could actually afford an excellent education and be able to discern good from evil.

Rockefeller actually instituted a system that protected his money and helped his family. From what I understand, at least in the recent past, a Rockefeller family member received educational opportunities, and, if they did well, was offered a position in the family trust. Those that did not or could not make the grade were culled and basically handed (relatively)small pensions.

This system of winnowing the successors means you seldom see news about a Rockefeller.

The Hiltons are a grand example of what goes wrong. Grandpa built the business, Dad appears to have come up in it and understand it, but the Paris generation was treated to the success only, not the labor.

re: #87 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Thanks, I think I have. whew, it hurts.

re: #85 newsjunkie_ky

Can one crack a rib from coughing?

Absolutely.

re: #75 GGMac

That's lovely. I added it to my favorites - first time I ever used that feature.

re: #65 cathypop

I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face," he said.

Same speech where he said ' I'm skinny but I'm tough'.
And I'm thinking yeah, banty rooster.... that's your animal right there....

re: #47 Irene NYC

Didn't Penny grow up in Iran? I'll go check.

Nope, I got that wrong, it was Valerie Jarrett, another top Obama adviser. Here's a good clip from O'Reilly about Penny, Valerie, Sugar, BettyLu, etc. Click on "Politics" on the left and then "The Obama Chronicles: Part 3 Barack Obama's Mentors" on the right.

re: #65 cathypop

Michelle Malkin has an article about Nobama telling his peeps to get in the face of your neighbors who do not agree with Nobama....

Really? They are actually telling people to do that? Well then, go ahead and make my day...

re: #81 Cap'n DOC

Let's not even go there...

Oh, I agree (Tonkin Gulf, '63-66), but I just suspect they are close to her heart.

re: #82 Lizard by the Bay

You'll have to ask Mr. LizardMaster himself.

re: #90 nyc redneck

foolishness.
i'm getting a headache.

"My brain hurts."

Later

re: #93 newsjunkie_ky

more common is to pull or tear a muscle on you ribcage. That hurts too.

re: #85 newsjunkie_ky

Can one crack a rib from coughing?

probably not but sure enough pull a muscle.
that's painful.

re: #85 newsjunkie_ky

Can one crack a rib from coughing?

You can separate a rib, and feels like it's cracked, hurts like a mutherf*&%er

I've been reading through Lord of the Rings lately ... just skipping around in it, I pretty much know the whole book by heart. Here are two of my favorite passages:

The onset of the Rohirrim on the Pelennor Fields:

Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane, and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Eomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first eored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Theoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Orome the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! It shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

Frodo yields to the power of the Ring at the Cracks of Doom:

And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart of his realm, the Power in Barad-dur was shaken, and the Tower trembled from its foundations to its proud and bitter crown. The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare. Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him. For he knew his deadly peril and the thread upon which his doom now hung.

From all his policies and webs of fear and treachery, from all his stratagems and wars his mind shook free; and throughout his realm a tremor ran, and his slaves quailed, and his armies halted, and his captains suddenly steerless, bereft of will, wavered and despaired. For they were forgotten. The whole mind and purpose of the Power that wielded them was now bent with overwhelming force upon the Mountain. At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgul, the Ringwraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom.

I have a friend who is a Mennonite, and he somehow talked to a guy where I used to work ages ago to go to the Palestinian territories and complain to Israel about it's "policies" (spit). He thought he was a great success, but all he did was earn a flag on his name. He can never enter Israel again.

His loss.

While I like several of Mennonites I know, I also know they take their peace ideas to a complete extreme.

re: #69 alegrias

Yes, thank you for the correction.
;)

re: #103 Kenneth
Thanks, I know there is nothing you can do for either injury but let it heal.

re: #105 jcm

You can separate a rib, and feels like it's cracked, hurts like a mutherf*&%er

Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier with 3 cracked ribs from being thrown from a horse the day before.

re: #29 newsjunkie_ky

Now he is discussing the sandra barnhard 'big Black brothers raping Sarah remark'.

Wha? I thought Sandra Bernhard was dead....

re: #105 jcm

You can absolutely break a rib from coughing.... did it while six months pregnant, and it was not pretty....

re: #99 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Yes, I know. We should all be good little Commies since Jane says so.

re: #111 Salem

That is just so illustrative of the far-left moonbat /perv mind that Obama was playing to at the Hollywood fundraiser. I hope it gets lots of press.

re: #71 Dustyvet

A pirate comes back to his ship with both of his ears pierced. Another pirate without any ear rings says "Where did you get those ear rings?"

The first pirate replies:

"Me matie I was at the mall and they had a special, they were a "Buck an Ear!"

YARRRRRRRR!

Yaaar, good one that.
A little boy is trick or treating. Rings the bell & the woman answering says"What are you supposed to be?" He answers, "I'm a pirate"
The woman smiles & says, "If your a pirate, wheres your buccaneer."
The kid says, "My buccaneer is under my bucan hat. Now I said Trick or Treat."

Changing the subject, NRO has a terrific new article from Bill Whittle:
The Undefended City

re: #110 Tigger2005

Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier with 3 cracked ribs from being thrown from a horse the day before.

On the 50th anniversary of that day he did it again driving a F-15 (without the broken ribs).

re: #83 pink freud

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re: #82 Lizard by the Bay

I don't know why...but I don't miss it. I never could figure out who those two guys were supposed to be or what they were doing. I like C&F but that one went over my head.

re: #62 pink freud

Rush:

Quakers and Mennonites invited Ahmadinejad to the meeting at Grand Central Hyatt. Pritzker did not.

/?

I posted this on the thread below. From Free Republic:

Courtesy of new General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto, who is Nicaragua’s foreign minister, and a coalition of left-wing American Christian groups, he will be the guest of honor at a private iftar dinner to celebrate the end of Ramadan. The September 25 event at the Grand Hyatt Hotel has all the trappings of a Cold War solidarity event. Joining D’Escoto as hosts are some companeros from the former Catholic priest’s Sandinista days: The World Council of Churches, the American Friends Service Committee, the Mennonites, and the US section of the World Conference of Religions for Peace.

re: #115 buzzsawmonkey

Not Sara Bernhardt,.... the big mouthed lesbian comic, Sandra Bernhard.
One with talent, one with none.

re: #122 tradewind

Not Sara Bernhardt,.... the big mouthed lesbian comic, Sandra Bernhard.
One with talent, one with none.

Sandra Blowhard.

re: #119 unrealizedviewpoint

You're welcome! Just downloaded it myself, haven't had a chance to check it out yet.

re: #123 Tigger2005

Thanks, I'll try to get that mental picture out of my mind before lunch......

re: #124 pink
freud

Is this a limited trial version or complete?

Watch this video, second one down on the page,

Gianna Jesson on Hannity & Colmes

It's sickening to listen to that worm Colmes defend Obama on this. Un-fricken-believable!

Penny Pritzker is the national finance committee chair for Obama campaign

LA times

Hah!

Rush just pointed out - 0bama did not protest when the WaPo mentioned Raines - but he is protesting now that McCain mentions it.

re: #129 Racer X

Hah!

Rush just pointed out - 0bama did not protest when the WaPo mentioned Raines - but he is protesting now that McCain mentions it.

IT'S RACIST! ! !

The World Council of Churches, the American Friends Service Committee, the Mennonites, and the US section of the World Conference of Religions for Peace.

If your church belongs to the WCC, or NCC, then you might be an anti-Semitic moonbat.

re: #126 NC State of Mind

Looks complete. If you read the comments section, you will find links to several other full-service programs. The comments are very helpful.

re: #130 redstateredneck

IT'S RACIST! ! !

I did not know Raines was black until Rush just mentioned it. Doesn't matter.

obama is across btw a weasel and a snake.

re: #2 Cap'n DOC

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I read that somewhere. I think it applies to us all.

Do unto others before they do unto you. I read that somewhere.

re: #131 buzzsawmonkey

In long form, he is saying what I observed last night; that this election is a battle between the values of the frontier, and those who hold that the values of the frontier, if they were ever a necessity, were at best an evil necessity which we have long outgrown.

Haven't read it yet, but Bill Whittle is generally spot on.

Watch this video, second one down on the page,

Gianna Jesson on Hannity & Colmes

It's sickening to listen to that worm Colmes defend Obama on this. Un-fricken-believable!

National Review Online says Obama has an ad out in response....he call her a "liar". And also says J-Mac will ban all abortions (what power he must have).

The top four lawmakers who received campaign contributions from Lehman Brothers employees:

Hillary Clinton $409,980
Barack Obama $395,574
Charles Schumer $181,450
Christopher Dodd $165,800

__________________

Didn't the Lehman Brothers go broke?

re: #132 Dave the.....

If your church belongs to the WCC, or NCC, then you might be an anti-Semitic moonbat.

List of churches belonging to WCC on right sidebar.

A lot of mainstream (mine included) denominations belong, sadly.

re: #139 Dustoff-507

The top four lawmakers who received campaign contributions from Lehman Brothers employees:

Hillary Clinton $409,980
Barack Obama $395,574
Charles Schumer $181,450
Christopher Dodd $165,800

__________________

Didn't the Lehman Brothers go broke?

Filed for Chapter 11 protection. They get to garner their assets, liquidate them according to an orderly plan, and pay off creditors according to certain classes

re: #136 kansas

Oh, sure. Steal my thunder from me. ;o)

re: #120 elevenbravo1969

I don't know why...but I don't miss it. I never could figure out who those two guys were supposed to be or what they were doing. I like C&F but that one went over my head.

It was a moonbat in the arms of a jihadi both about to be squished by the giant football. What's not to like?

re: #142 Creeping Eruption

Yikes... Washington state employees retirement is with them! 0-:

The golf balls or all lined up on their tees, McCain merely needs to take out his driver and start whak'in

re: #142 Creeping Eruption

Filed for Chapter 11 protection. They get to garner their assets, liquidate them according to an orderly plan, and pay off creditors according to certain classes

re: #68 opnion

The most disturbing part here , is that Penny Pritzker is Jewish.

Unless she belongs to the nutbag Neturei Karta, these type of "Jews" have nothing to do with Judaism, except that they hate it.

re: #135 nyc redneck

obama is across btw a weasel and a snake.

A sneasel?

Video: Blacks Against Obama interrup Obama rally

I cannot believe their overt racism!

/

I hate to be the one throwing a wet blanket on Matthew Arnold's "We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know."

There is a counter to it.

The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value. Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute is self-sacrifice -- which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction -- which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.
--Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It (1982)

re: #75 GGMac

That is just lovely.

re: #82 Lizard by the Bay

Okay, I'll ask one more time and then drop it.

Does anyone know why the Cox and Forkum graphic was removed from the frontpage?

Not sure, but I've been waiting for something to fill that space.

In fact, if McCain was smart, whenever Obama and his surrogates start playing the "race card", he should declare from the rooftops, we will not let what happened to Bill & Hillary Clinton, namely, falsely accusing them that they were running a rascist campaign happen here!

re: #149 NC State of Mind

Video: Blacks Against Obama interrup Obama rally

I cannot believe their overt racism!

/

Ha!
Teleprompter man still reading his message.

re: #86 Kenneth

Breaking: Obama's email hacked!

It's an inside job...nothing more.

Definition of LIBERAL according to Webster:
Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in
political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion;
not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the
constitution or administration of government; having
tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished
from monarchical or aristocratic, forms ...

Now, those people we call "Liberals" are definitely bound by their leftist philosophy and are manifestly unfriendly to freedom in both government and ideology.

Re: #46
Regular Americans don't need special laws to tell them not to party with enemy combatants.

Liberals Leftists don't follow the current laws against treason anyway.

Fixed it for you, and best regards to you, alegrias.

re: #149 NC State of Mind

Video: Blacks Against Obama interrup Obama rally

I cannot believe their overt racism!

/

Dow up 448 in the corner. Too funny.

re: #55 Honorary Yooper

Penny has been devoting her time, energy and money into making sure Barack Obama is foisted upon us elected.

I'm sending those to everyone I know.

re: #145 Dustoff-507

Yikes... Washington state employees retirement is with them! 0-:

My version is very simplistic. So much depends on so many things, I would wait to be worried.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? —George Eliot

re: #88 unrealizedviewpoint

They are born with a sense of overwhelming guilt which stems from their plight of being born wealthy. So they need overcompensate, hence they go liberal, never able to see nor hear a conservative viewpoint.

It's so stupid, because that wealth can be put into innovation and create new jobs. Imagine what Bin Laden could have done if his wealth had been invested in free enterprise.

Please stop saying "my friends". Please?

Can't a brother get a break?

re: #149 NC State of Mind

Video: Blacks Against Obama interrup Obama rally

I cannot believe their overt racism!

/

"Lets get back to work. Settle down everybody, lets get back to work." "Hey folks, can't I just finish my waffling?"

re: #149 NC State of Mind

At the RNC the crowd cheered "U-S-A" when interrupted by the nutcases. At an Obama rally they chant "Yes-We-Can." I think that about says it all....

re: #156 Dustyvet

LOL. Michelle - pick up eggs on the way back from the ME. You're rotten.

We are here on earth to do good to others.

Does helping to register Republican voters count?

Liberal friend just had a comment on the loan fiasco.

Privatize the Profits
Socialize the costs.

He got that one right.

re: #117 doppelganglander

Changing the subject, NRO has a terrific new article from Bill Whittle:
The Undefended City

That is indeed terrific!
Sent shivers down my spine - thanks for the link!

re: #160 Creeping Eruption

Not worried. I'm not part of them. But our DEM gov in WA needs to speak up. (-:

re: #122 tradewind

Not Sara Bernhardt,.... the big mouthed lesbian comic, Sandra Bernhard.
One with talent, one with none.

What did she say?

re: #169 jcm

Liberal friend just had a comment on the loan fiasco.

Privatize the Profits
Socialize the costs.

He got that one right.

Was he making an observation or a recommendation?

Missing email in the Onion Obama inbox spoof:

JWright: Hey man, when can I come back? Hiding out in Africa is a bummer.

re: #150 Syrah

I hate to be the one throwing a wet blanket on Matthew Arnold's "We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know."

There is a counter to it.

The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value. Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute is self-sacrifice -- which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction -- which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.
--Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It (1982)

My view is, people should be left alone to do what they want with their lives as long as they don't infringe on the rights of others. You want to make a lot of money and keep it for yourself? Cool. You want to spend your life as an impoverished monk? Great! You prefer something in between those extremes? Excellent. Let's just quit judging the way people choose to live their lives as long as they aren't doing undue harm to others or breaking laws or sponging off the public.

re: #162 debutaunt

I read somewhere the other day (can't remember where) that
college students
academics
journalists
trust fund babies
40 year olds in mama's garage

all have one thing in common. They are all well-insulated from reality, so they are inclined to see the world in idealistic terms.

re: #173 Syrah

Was he making an observation or a recommendation?

Observation, that's what made my jaw drop.

Maybe he's starting to see some light.

re: #120 elevenbravo1969

I don't know why...but I don't miss it. I never could figure out who those two guys were supposed to be or what they were doing. I like C&F but that one went over my head.

A moonbat and a terrorist go into a bar...

re: #175 Tigger2005

My view is, people should be left alone to do what they want with their lives as long as they don't infringe on the rights of others. You want to make a lot of money and keep it for yourself? Cool. You want to spend your life as an impoverished monk? Great! You prefer something in between those extremes? Excellent. Let's just quit judging the way people choose to live their lives as long as they aren't doing undue harm to others or breaking laws or sponging off the public.

I would happily accept that. It is when others want to compel people into their service or the service of "others" that I get nervous.

re: #171 Dustoff-507

Not worried. I'm not part of them. But our DEM gov in WA needs to speak up. (-:

The Queen?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA
*cough*
*gasp*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA

Yeah, right.

Another missing email in the Onion Obama inbox spoof:

LeninDesigns: Your new flag design is ready. Pick up flags on Jan 20.

re: #177 jcm

Observation, that's what made my jaw drop.

Maybe he's starting to see some light.

It sounds like he revealed something important about his inner worldview. He is not among the lost.

Just saw two houses a few miles down the road proudly displaying McCain Pali yard signs. Not an Obama in sight.

re: #180 jcm

Ahhhhhhhhhh come on JCM, were only 3.2 billion in debt! LOL

re: #161 jill e

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? —George Eliot

"Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs"

/Bill Wilson

re: #171 Dustoff-507

Not worried. I'm not part of them. But our DEM gov in WA needs to speak up. (-:

Frankly I think a number of pension funds (actually their managers once the dust settles) are fucked.

re: #181 faraway

LOL. This could go on for days. Perhaps it could enjoy its own thread? We could do drive-by voting with the dinger system.

re: #183 vagabond trader

Just saw two houses a few miles down the road proudly displaying McCain Pali yard signs. Not an Obama in sight.

We have two houses with Obama stuff on their car and house window a few houses down from us. Hooray for LA.

You know, this stuff about the Pritzkers and Hyatt reminded me that a few years ago, a Chabad I go to would have their High Holiday services at a Regency (Hyatt division).
Suddenly, the location got changed to a nearby Radisson. The rabbi, being a proper gentleman, would not say why, just that "anyone who wants to rent a room for a function should go to the Radisson"
This makes me wonder what really happened.

re: #186 Creeping Eruption

You can be sure of that. JCM and I are having a big laught about it.

Were both from WA state. (-:

re: #182 Syrah

It sounds like he revealed something important about his inner worldview. He is not among the lost.

I think so, he's a homeowner so this ones hitting close.
A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

re: #158 faraway

Dow up 448 in the corner. Too funny.

Dow up doesn't matter. Only down.

re: #189 Kosh's Shadow

You know, this stuff about the Pritzkers and Hyatt reminded me that a few years ago, a Chabad I go to would have their High Holiday services at a Regency (Hyatt division).
Suddenly, the location got changed to a nearby Radisson. The rabbi, being a proper gentleman, would not say why, just that "anyone who wants to rent a room for a function should go to the Radisson"
This makes me wonder what really happened.

Bet the Pritzkers didn't get their Shmura Matzah or Shalech Manot that year. :)

re: #188 TheMatrix31

Hey, it is LA, my sighting was in the blue state of RI, near the blue border of CT. Encouraging.

re: #181 faraway

Another missing email in the Onion Obama inbox spoof:

LeninDesigns: Your new flag design is ready. Pick up flags on Jan 20.

The one with 57 stars?

re: #106 Tigger2005

I'm sure you can guess my favorite paragraphs.

re: #195 Kosh's Shadow

It will be fewer than that. :~)

re: #176 unreconstructed rebel

I read somewhere the other day (can't remember where) that
college students
academics
journalists
trust fund babies
40 year olds in mama's garage

all have one thing in common. They are all well-insulated from reality, so they are inclined to see the world in idealistic terms.

This insulation is what makes for a voting democrat.

Inbox:
MTV: Confirmed Cribs taping on Jan 20th.

re: #149 NC State of Mind

That was classic, but I couldn't figure out what their issue is. Are they claiming Obama is endorsed by the KKK? Is this the black version of Trooferism?

re: #186 Creeping Eruption

Frankly I think a number of pension funds (actually their managers once the dust settles) are fucked.

True, but our Gov. in WA is famous for not taking responsibility for anything. That little habit of hers has cost Dustoff and I plenty.

re: #201 doppelganglander

That was classic, but I couldn't figure out what their issue is. Are they claiming Obama is endorsed by the KKK? Is this the black version of Trooferism?

Don't rule out the possibility that these are Obama stooges.

Inbox:
Weatherman Bill: Don't be near the Pentagon on Wednesday.

re: #199 buzzsawmonkey

BIG updingy for this one.

The chairman of the Senate banking committee, Democrat Chris Dodd, said the United States could be "days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system" and Congress is working quickly to prevent that.

Now everything will be OK...CONgress is working on it!

re: #203 kansas

Don't rule out the possibility that these are Obama stooges.

It could be a prop by Obama but I do not think the one sign would say No to gay marriage. The KKK sign might have been a reference to Jeremiah Wright's comments. Hard to see.

re: #206 missouri boy

As opposed to actual PROgress.

re: #206 missouri boy

The chairman of the Senate banking committee, Democrat Chris Dodd, said the United States could be "days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system" and Congress is working quickly to prevent that.

Now everything will be OK...CONgress is working on it!

HEY ,,, DODD ,,, HANDS OFF ,, take a look at the market yesterday and today ,,, REPUBLICANS worked on a fix ,, looks like the world approves !

re: #206 missouri boy

The chairman of the Senate banking committee, Democrat Chris Dodd, said the United States could be "days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system" and Congress is working quickly to prevent that.

Now everything will be OK...CONgress is working on it!

That is like Bin Laden saying we need to protect ourselves against terrorism

Just because:

What is the difference between a hockey mom and a killer bunny? Lipstick.

re: #202 jcm

Her comes a payroll tax. 0-;

Inbox:
David aka Popcorn: Hey, open the bus doors. The FBI is after me.

re: #206 missouri boy

No, actually the awesome trio lead by Henry Paulson is doing that.

I loved the picture on the front of the WaPo today. Pelosi looked so ...... lost.

re: #111 Salem

Wha? I thought Sandra Bernhard was dead....

That's wishful thinking.

Heh.

Just saw a car driving down the street with an "Obama '08" bumper sticker. Someone stuck a "s" sticker over the "b". Perfect match - took some effort making up those "s" stickers. I doubt the driver even noticed - probably been like that for days (he had a second "Obama '08" sticker on the back window that was not tampered with).

Too funny!

re: #179 Syrah

I would happily accept that. It is when others want to compel people into their service or the service of "others" that I get nervous.

Yes, that's the thing. It must always be a free choice.

I recently read the book "The Go-Giver." Now, a lot of liberals like this book. But I didn't find the ideas in it that liberal (except for some things right at the end). The basic idea was, you have a better chance of making money (and keeping it) when you are focused less on making money than you are on providing excellent service. People will pay more for high value. The thing is, this is not "sacrificial" service, it's an exchange. Even when you give without keeping a tally, without expecting a "favor" in return, you're building networks and a good name that may help you down the road when you least expect it. But again, it has to be a free, personal choice.

"The Fountainhead" had some fantastic ideas. I don't agree completely with Ayn Rand's philosophy but I don't throw the baby out with the bathwater either. The main character, Howard Roark, is a fiction hero of mine almost on the level of Atticus Finch. He absolutely refuses to compromise his principles. He never gives less than his full talent and abilities to any project. In the end, he probably "gives" more than it's really possible to compensate, but he can do nothing less.

re: #214 unreconstructed rebel

No, actually the awesome trio lead by Henry Paulson is doing that.

I loved the picture on the front of the WaPo today. Pelosi looked so ...... lost.

I heard her crowing on Laura Ingraham in a sound clip saying: No, no , no to every question "Aren't the democrats to blame for htis crisis?" Pathetic

Inbox:
GwenIfill: Your debate questions look dreamy.

re: #212 Dustoff-507

Her comes a payroll tax. 0-;

Rossi as chair of the finance committee dug us out of the last hole. I think he can do it again.

State Revenue in WA is project to go up 8%, the spending deficit is rushing past $2 Billion toward $3 B. Olympia is run by morons.

re: #218 wright1

I heard her crowing on Laura Ingraham in a sound clip saying: No, no , no to every question "Aren't the democrats to blame for htis crisis?" Pathetic

I wanted to reach through the radio and bitch slap her!

re: #216 Racer X

Heh.

Just saw a car driving down the street with an "Obama '08" bumper sticker. Someone stuck a "s" sticker over the "b". Perfect match - took some effort making up those "s" stickers. I doubt the driver even noticed - probably been like that for days (he had a second "Obama '08" sticker on the back window that was not tampered with).

Too funny!

Vandalism is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

re: #220 jcm

Long as we don't have another Voting problem. 0-:

This voting by mail has me very nervous

re: #79 buzzsawmonkey

Nice. Very nice.

Yes - a lovely, non-nuanced differentiation between love and screwing around.

re: #223 Dustoff-507

Long as we don't have another Voting problem. 0-:

This voting by mail has me very nervous

I plan on voting by mail this year - 147 times.

*snicker*

re: #216 Racer X

Heh.

Just saw a car driving down the street with an "Obama
'08" bumper sticker. Someone stuck a "s" sticker over the "b". Perfect
match - took some effort making up those "s" stickers. I doubt the
driver even noticed - probably been like that for days (he had a second
"Obama '08" sticker on the back window that was not tampered with).

Too funny!

You sure it was vandalism? Given how kooky the left has gotten, I wouldn't be surprised if the driver was supporting Bin Laden!

re: #216 Racer X

So, whatcher sayin is we all need to go by the local hardware store & pick-up a bunch of stick-ons of the letter s?

/I may be arrested this weekend

re: #225 Racer X

Now I like that.... didn't that happen last time in Wa state. 0-:

re: #228 unreconstructed rebel

So, whatcher sayin is we all need to go by the local hardware store & pick-up a bunch of stick-ons of the letter s?

/I may be arrested this weekend

I'd rather get some "D"s & "Y"s to paste over the "HOPE" posters - change 'em into "DOPE" & "HYPE"

re: #228 unreconstructed rebel

So, whatcher sayin is we all need to go by the local hardware store & pick-up a bunch of stick-ons of the letter s?

/I may be arrested this weekend

Whatever color the background is for the OBAMA 08 one is, get a blank of that also. Cover the "8" and PRESTO ,, "OBAMA 0"

re: #228 unreconstructed rebel

So, whatcher sayin is we all need to go by the local hardware store & pick-up a bunch of stick-ons of the letter s?

/I may be arrested this weekend

Forget that, just hack Obama's Yahoo account.

re: #222 MandyManners

Vandalism is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

That assumes the driver didn't do it him/herself.

Well my Momma just told me on the phone she thinks Obama is "the Devil".....needless to say, she's a McCain supporter.

re: #223 Dustoff-507

Long as we don't have another Voting problem. 0-:

This voting by mail has me very nervous

Let's hope Sam Reed's changes and purge of 500,000 invalid registrations helps.

Yes Lizards, The WA Sec State found 1 out of every 7 voter registrations was invalid. Gorton in '00 lost his Senate seat to Cantwell by 2000 votes, and Rossi lost in '04 by 133. It doesn't take a whiz kid to figure out a few of 500,000 invalid registrations got voted.

ACORN has been very busy in WA, and 5 members have done or are doing jail time for fraud.

The encouraging thing is even with that extent of effort they only won by a fraction of a percentage. In a straight up fair election guess who wins?

Obama supports U.S. economic recovery efforts

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said on Friday he supported efforts by the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve to shore up confidence in the financial markets and said he would hold off from presenting his own economic recovery plan.

Too late asshole, train's left the station.

/what a jerk, just yesterday he was loudly and proudly bad mouthing the economy

The Pritzkers do have a record of supporting Jewish causes, so I would be suprised...

re: #216 Racer X

Subtle and harmless delicious fun. :)

re: #83 pink freud

Thanks for the link. I lost my previous pdf converter software when my laptop crashed.

re: #231 sattv4u2

Whatever color the background is for the OBAMA 08 one is, get a blank of that also. Cover the "8" and PRESTO ,, "OBAMA 0"

It's Prussian Blue.

re: #233 victor_yugo

That assumes the driver didn't do it him/herself.

he's a democrat and an Obama supporter. he doeesn't do ANYTHING by himself. There must have been a gov't program to help him!

re: #85 newsjunkie_ky

Can one crack a rib from coughing?

re: #222 MandyManners

Vandalism is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

Do you mean that in a 70s/blaxploitation sense?

re: #235 jcm

Let's hope Sam Reed's changes and purge of 500,000 invalid registrations helps.

Yes Lizards, The WA Sec State found 1 out of every 7 voter registrations was invalid. Gorton in '00 lost his Senate seat to Cantwell by 2000 votes, and Rossi lost in '04 by 133. It doesn't take a whiz kid to figure out a few of 500,000 invalid registrations got voted.

ACORN has been very busy in WA, and 5 members have done or are doing jail time for fraud.

The encouraging thing is even with that extent of effort they only won by a fraction of a percentage. In a straight up fair election guess who wins?

A voter fraud conviction should result in a prison conviction of life without parole. It undermines our entire government and should be harshly punished.

re: #217 Tigger2005

I have my disagreements with Rand as well. Those libertarians who treat her as a god have lost something along the way.

Her archetypes are a bit comic bookish, but I think they serve their purpose well.

Howard Roark is the archetypal libertarian hero, an example and a guide, and in that purpose, the character works.

I have posted many links to Obama's Call to Service speech in Colorado. I think it reveals a great deal about his worldview and his concept of the role of the state (the community) and the proper relationship of citizens to it.

Have you seen it?

A lot of moral equivalence in "The Catcher in the Rye." I think there's a part where a character says the American military was no better than the enemy it was fighting.

re: #199 buzzsawmonkey

One of the books which was very popular throughout the '60s, was recommended on many advanced highschool and college reading lists, was Paul Goodman's "Growing Up Absurd". Basically, the book goes on at length about how useless and soul-destroying work and modern society is; it is a clarion call to the young to enter upon the training-ground of college and their subsequent entry into life convinced of their own uselessness, the pointlessness of their endeavor, the worthlessness of work, etc. I suspect that the damage done by this book is incalculable.

Contrast this book with, say, Kipling's raucous and slightly fictionalized account of his schooldays in the book "Stalky & Co." The United Services College, which Kipling attended, prepared boys for the Army and the Indian Civil Service. Kipling was something of a fish out of water there, in that being very nearsighted he was ineligible for the Army--but it gave him an appreciation for the virtues the school taught.

Today, of course, a high-school or college student is far more likely to read something like Catcher in the Rye than they are to read Stalky & Co. Though Catcher in the Rye is, like Stalky, a work of fiction, it does much to inculcate the value of Goodman's nonfiction book.

Who is Holden Caulfield? A rich-boy screwup, expelled from yet another private school. The book details his aimless wandering around New York between the time he leaves the school and must go home to face the music. He spends the time ranting against "phonies," and against his brother who is "being a whore" for working as a screenwriter--i.e., having a productive job. His ambition is to be that nonexistent thing, a "catcher in the rye," who prevents a number of small children from falling off an imaginary cliff--i.e., prevents them from growing up into adults, keeping them children forever.

I mention these things because, having read Bill Whittle's essay linked to upthread, in which he discusses how children are taught how this country is evil and not worth defending, I think it worth pointing out that disaffection from the embracement of adulthood has been an article of faith with the "thinking" establishment for fifty years plus at least--and that the material foisted upon kids as "literature" is designed to inculcate that worldview at precisely the time that kids should be viewing the world beyond their schools with excitement and anticipation.

re: #242 GGMac

Yes, from sneezing too.

re: #85 newsjunkie_ky

Can one crack a rib from coughing?

Happened to my wife, the answer is yes.

re: #236 Killian Bundy

Obama supports U.S. economic recovery efforts

Too late asshole, train's left the station.

/what a jerk, just yesterday he was loudly and proudly bad mouthing the economy

It means his 300 advisers are in the back room fighting over a mild socialist solution or the out and out Marxist solution.

re: #242 GGMac

That's supposed to be a reply to #85 newsjunkie_ky.

Yes, you can break a rib when coughing. Have an auntie-in-law who has had it happen several times; bones compromised from lifetime of seizure meds.

re: #226 MandyManners

*snicker*

Chocolate? WHERE?!

re: #228 unreconstructed rebel

So, whatcher sayin is we all need to go by the local hardware store & pick-up a bunch of stick-ons of the letter s?

/I may be arrested this weekend

NO!

I am not saying that! I am not saying that taking the "s" from an old "Edwards '08" sticker is a perfect match. Not saying that at all.

re: #236 Killian Bundy

Obama supports U.S. economic recovery efforts

Too late asshole, train's left the station.

/what a jerk, just yesterday he was loudly and proudly bad mouthing the economy

He will likely spin his announcement as (uh) "statesmanship".

re: #243 Occasional Reader

Do you mean that in a 70s/blaxploitation sense?

Shut your mouth!

re: #236 Killian Bundy

Obama supports U.S. economic recovery efforts

Too late asshole, train's left the station.

/what a jerk, just yesterday he was loudly and proudly bad mouthing the economy

Obama has a plan.
/channeling John Kerry.

re: #248 Maximu§

Happened to my wife, the answer is yes.

Another way to crack a rib is to get drunk & trip on the stairs, or so I have been told.

re: #252 Racer X

NO!

I am not saying that! I am not saying that taking the "s" from an old "Edwards '08" sticker is a perfect match. Not saying that at all.

And I not saying that that is too funny!

re: #251 Fat Jolly Penguin

Chocolate? WHERE?!

Ask Laura Booth?

re: #252 Racer X

LOL

re: #236 Killian Bundy

just yesterday he was loudly and proudly bad mouthing the economy

You must be a liar and a racist to bring up something that happened so long ago.