Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope

Reminds me of Shakespeare.

Deep.

Give up Hope.

Get a Plan.

Mac and cheese, MMM!

Return of the Welfare State. Start Squawking.

re: #1 Sharmuta

Trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries

I feel so Hopey and Changey...

GIMME MY STIMULUS CHECK...

I hope Jihadis don't start more fires

More like Monday Afternoon Copin'.

Response from a local channel asking what its viewers want for Valentine's Day: "For Valentine's Day, I'd like to see the stimulus bill die like a gangster in a Chicago garage."

re: #8 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I hope Jihadis don't start more fires

Just have a chat with them... They won't.

re: #1 Sharmuta

That is
Shakespear

Anagrams:

T. S. Eliot = Toilets

re: #13 Ojoe

That is
Shakespear

Which is why I was reminded of it.

re: #12 tfc3rid

Just have a chat with them... They won't.

That explains the loud noises

SONET 29, by "Willie the Shake"

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least.
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's mouthwash

T. S. Eliot, I'd like you to meet S. O. Teric.

Joe Biden - a long-haired cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

-Jesse Helms to John Bolton in Surrender is not an option

re: #19 Ojoe

It's one of my favorites.

Often times, when I'm between books, I go through the Sonnets again.

re: #10 gmsc

Response from a local channel asking what its viewers want for Valentine's Day: "For Valentine's Day, I'd like to see the stimulus bill die like a gangster in a Chicago garage."

John Telafaro Thompson's typewriter, the gift that keeps on giving.

re: #22 SasquatchOnSteroids

Joe Biden - a long-hairedtailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

-Jesse Helms to John Bolton in Surrender is not an option

Gees, I hate it when they get it wrong

Intaxication Manslaughter is when it just becomes to much!
or would Intaxiification Manslaughter be better?

Yeah I'm little more on the hopin, then chagin side today,

Hfmstr

re: #23 Sharmuta

You cannot beat Elizabethan English, The King James Bible is written in it too.

re: #600 jcm

Irritate the squirrel at you own peril...
;-P

...and for those who needed proof of that statement...

re: #8 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I hope Jihadis don't start more fires

It's hard to light a fire with a clenched fist.

Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey

Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.

Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.

Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).

You should read them too, it's frightening, the Bonkeys hid the path to socialized medicine inside their 800 page Porkapalooza and thought no one would notice. And it has absolutely nothing to do with "stimulus".

/welcome to Europe, sneaking in on the down low

re: #22 SasquatchOnSteroids

Joe Biden - a long-haired cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

-Jesse Helms to John Bolton in Surrender is not an option

Isn't the expression "long-tailed cat"?

Go, Bibi, go!

re: #31 USBeast

yes, and I can't ding myself down for it,either.

re: #23 Sharmuta

It's one of my favorites.

Often times, when I'm between books, I go through the Sonnets again.

re: #27 Ojoe

You cannot beat Elizabethan English, The King James Bible is written in it too.

Of course it is. Shakespeare wrote the King James Bible!

Sniff Sniff...ahhh!
That new thread smell...
Makes me wanna say...
Boobs
Guns
Beer!
Ahhh!
Speaking of guns,
This H.R. 45 Bill is frightening!

re: #10 gmsc

Response from a local channel asking what its viewers want for Valentine's Day: "For Valentine's Day, I'd like to see the stimulus bill die like a gangster in a Chicago garage."

That a beautiful construction! Everything is in there. Valentine's Day massacre. It's like Wretchard speaking.

Oh, eff us. To put it really simply, read the article re normalized damages in the Rottie's website today. You. Will. Puke...
[Link: nicedoggie.net...]

So, let’s recap…

Total damages from all landfalling US hurricanes from 1900-2005: $1.07-1.09 TRILLION
Total damages from Hurricane Obamessiah hitting the US in 2009: $1.17 TRILLION

April is the cruelest month.

On the plus side, it's also Charles' birthday.

There was a young man named Dave,..

re: #27 Ojoe

Posting Shakespeare's Sonnets is an automatic upding in my book.

Bye, Lizards!

re: #35 reloadingisnotahobby

Sniff Sniff...ahhh!
That new thread smell...
Makes me wanna say...
Boobs
Guns
Beer!
Ahhh!
Speaking of guns,
This H.R. 45 Bill is frightening!

NY has a couple new ones brewing.

re: #33 SasquatchOnSteroids

yes, and I can't ding myself down for it,either.

No down dings from here, Dude.

re: #40 Sharmuta

And an easy one.

Back to work for me, er, back to promotion to get work.

re: #18 taxfreekiller

its back up
[Link: www.nostimulus.com...]

It's back down.

:-(

Is it just me or did a wave of ennui just pass through America?

re: #38 Occasional Reader

April is the cruelest month.

On the plus side, it's also Charles' birthday.

...and the 45th anniversary of this classic television moment:

...who kept a dead whore in a cave...

re: #46 snopercod

Is it just me or did a wave of ennui just pass through America?

Who cares?

re: #30 Killian Bundy

Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey

You should read them too, it's frightening, the Bonkeys hid the path to socialized medicine inside their 800 page Porkapalooza and thought no one would notice. And it has absolutely nothing to do with "stimulus".

/welcome to Europe, sneaking in on the down low

There goes the biotech industry and all new pharmaceutical development. New drugs aren't going to meet the governments test for how "cost effective" they are.
Stimulus? Help jobs? Not in medicine anymore.

Just how anti-Israel is the British press?

New Report out:

[Link: www.justjournalism.com...]

the famed old place is open for business again...I'm driving for a night this spring...I thought that was important

[Link: www.stjamescimarron.com...]

re: #46 snopercod

Wave of nausea, more likely.
I'm anything but bored. And not in a good way.

re: #27 Ojoe

You cannot beat Elizabethan English, The King James Bible is written in it too.

Thou viperous ill-bred harpy!

Have fun...:)

[Link: www.william-shakespeare.org.uk...]

re: #22 SasquatchOnSteroids

Joe Biden - a long-haired cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

-Jesse Helms to John Bolton in Surrender is not an option

Should that be long-tailed cat? Or did Jesse hose the quote?

re: #42 tommygum

If my reading of it is correct...
I'm F*&^ked!
It's Nation , and far worse than Clintons High Cap... ban!
[deleted],deleted]!

re: #27 Ojoe

You cannot beat Elizabethan English, The King James Bible is written in it too.

oh forsooth yourself...

re: #46 snopercod

Malaise, more likely. We should be so lucky as to experience ennui at this point.

re: #46 snopercod

Is it just me or did a wave of ennui just pass through America?

As if a million fiscal conservative voices cried out, and were suddenly silenced.

but what are the carbon credits on ennui? Can we extend it a hand before it unclenches the fist?

An Eliot thread! You have no idea how long I've waited for this!

re: #50 Kosh's Shadow

There goes the biotech industry and all new pharmaceutical development. New drugs aren't going to meet the governments test for how "cost effective" they are.
Stimulus? Help jobs? Not in medicine anymore.

Hey, you don't need the government for that.

My employer's insurance is WAY ahead of the curve in second-guessing and hemming in doctors.

re: #61 Occasional Reader

Bwahaha! Destroyed by the Death Stimulus!

re: #57 buzzsawmonkey

It's the Bess that money can buy.

!

Is it a Brown Bess?

re: #54 tradewind

...And not in a good way.

Do you mean that in the Jeff Dunham/Bubba J sense?

re: #60 joncelli

Malaise, more likely. We should be so lucky as to experience ennui at this point.

re: #60 joncelli

Malaise, more likely. We should be so lucky as to experience ennui at this point.

re: #60 joncelli

ennui all sadly sat in our malaise lounge.

(No, not trying to start a pun thread.)

;-)

BHO. The nation's first fearmongerer-in-chief.

re: #65 joncelli

Bwahaha! Destroyed by the Death Stimulus!

Quick! Someone suit up a squid amd mount a counterattack!

re: #63 Cato the Elder

Your kidding ...Right?
Ha Ha!

re: #67 snopercod

On so many levels.

re: #63 Cato the Elder

An Eliot thread! You have no idea how long I've waited for this!

The rough beast, slouching towards Jerusalem, its time come at last?

re: #66 OldLineTexan

!

Is it a Brown Bess?

In the words of The Captain & Tennille: Looks like Musket Love.

re: #28 gmsc

...and for those who needed proof of that statement...

The courage of the mother squirrel, very beautiful...

re: #68 taxfreekiller

Hmmm... I click linky and get this:

Site off-line

The site is currently not available due to technical problems. Please try again later. Thank you for your understanding.

re: #46 snopercod

Is it just me or did a wave of ennui just pass through America?

The local pet store just got in a new litter of melancholy.

re: #30 Killian Bundy

Crikey.

Tom Daschle is a dangerous creepy soul sucking socialist of a man.

The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.

Translation: If you are suffering from a deadly disease and you want to attempt to save your life with new experimental drugs or treatments - and the government doesn't agree with the costs - tough luck. The democrats think you are expendable.

F*K you, Tom Dash-hole.

re: #75 OldLineTexan

The rough beast, slouching towards Jerusalem, its time come at last?

You're the barbarian at the Yeats.

re: #75 OldLineTexan

The rough beast, slouching towards Jerusalem, its time come at last?

Hey! What? I'm not even slouching in my chair!

re: #60 joncelli

Malaise, more likely. We should be so lucky as to experience ennui at this point.

Well, I live in Moonbattachusetts. Trying to convince my congresscritters and senators not to vote for pork would be like trying to teach a pig to sing.
Caligula appointed his horse to be a senator; we did it better - we have two horse's asses.

re: #68 taxfreekiller

[Link:

re: #82 Occasional Reader

You're the barbarian at the Yeats.

I'm sorry, did you say something?

/the falcon

re: #75 OldLineTexan

As BHO said to the Republicans, T.S.

re: #80 DaddyG

The local pet store just got in a new litter of melancholy.

Aww wee Melancholys are so cute before they open their eyes..

re: #82 Occasional Reader

You're the barbarian at the Yeats.

Ouch, I'll bet that Burns.

re: #81 FrogMarch

Crikey.

Tom Daschle is a dangerous creepy soul sucking socialist of a man.

Translation: If you are suffering from a deadly disease and you want to attempt to save your life with new experimental drugs or treatments - and the government doesn't agree with the costs - tough luck. The democrats think you are expendable.

F*K you, Tom Dash-hole.

Don't know about other folks, but I'm really, really glad he's gone.

re: #27 Ojoe

You cannot beat Elizabethan English, The King James Bible is written in it too.

Actually, it is the Authorised Version. Never been replaced, neither.

re: #50 Kosh's Shadow

There goes the biotech industry and all new pharmaceutical development. New drugs aren't going to meet the governments test for how "cost effective" they are.
Stimulus? Help jobs? Not in medicine anymore.

There is no great big wealthy country to do that for us. All those other countries with socialized medicine that cap the price of pharmaceuticals rely on us to pay for the development costs. We've been subsidizing their crappy care for decades.

re: #76 buzzsawmonkey

Loader wipes tear from his eye!
Most excellent find!
A ding I shall give thee!

Are one of you the MyRightWord blogger, or does he only post links to his blog in the spin-offs?

re: #76 buzzsawmonkey

Why, of course.

I see your Brown Bess verse, and raise you a Black Betty.

re: #68 taxfreekiller

Its back up.

...and back down again. Must be tied to oil futures.

Interestingly, I just checked some rates for an upcoming vacation at Disney. It seems that they haven't heard of the horrible recession or near depression that we are currently mired in. Nearly all of their rooms are booked and many go for $300, $500+/night + park tickets, etc.

Either everyone is named Madoff or the media is lying about the scope of the financial melt-down.

Regarding this great Hopey theme of Obama's, I am reminded of an old Army adage..."Hope is not a Method"

If your planning contained any element of 'hoping for something to happen', you would get your ass handed to you by your commander...

re: #89 USBeast

Ouch, I'll bet that Burns.

and that's being Frank

re: #89 USBeast

Ouch, I'll bet that Burns.

Is a poet pun thread (ee) cummings?

A bit more Eliot:

"Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
—But who is that on the other side of you?"

re: #56 CyanSnowHawk

Should that be long-tailed cat? Or did Jesse hose the quote?

That was me screwing up the quote. I take full responsibility for effin' that all to hell.

re: #60 joncelli

Malaise, more likely. We should be so lucky as to experience ennui at this point.

It's more than malaise. It's like watching a nation commit suicide, and knowing there's absolutely nothing you or I can do to stop it. I don't know the proper word for that, but I think it's the opposite of 'Hope'.

re: #81 FrogMarch

Crikey.

Tom Daschle is a dangerous creepy soul sucking socialist of a man.

Translation: If you are suffering from a deadly disease and you want to attempt to save your life with new experimental drugs or treatments - and the government doesn't agree with the costs - tough luck. The democrats think you are expendable.

F*K you, Tom Dash-hole.

Of course, the Europeans get their new drugs subsidized by the US; they don't pay full price. With this, no one will be paying, so there won't be any new drugs.

re: #104 snopercod

More like nausea, really - watching parts of Rome catch fire

re: #98 Bubbaman

Interestingly, I just checked some rates for an upcoming vacation at Disney. It seems that they haven't heard of the horrible recession or near depression that we are currently mired in. Nearly all of their rooms are booked and many go for $300, $500+/night + park tickets, etc.

Either everyone is named Madoff or the media is lying about the scope of the financial melt-down.

"Spend it now before it's worthless"?

re: #101 OldLineTexan

Is a poet pun thread (ee) cummings?

I wouldn't take it to Harte.

re: #98 Bubbaman

Interestingly, I just checked some rates for an upcoming vacation at Disney. It seems that they haven't heard of the horrible recession or near depression that we are currently mired in. Nearly all of their rooms are booked and many go for $300, $500+/night + park tickets, etc.

Either everyone is named Madoff or the media is lying about the scope of the financial melt-down.

Same here. Mrs LGoPs and I were thinking of going over to Catalina Island for Valentine's weekend and the rates were in the $400 a night range. They must not be affected by the recession since they're 'offshore' accounts maybe...?

I should have been a pair of ragged claws...fuck that.

Groucho Marx was a big fan of Eliot. When Marx finally met him, all the poet wanted to talk about was The Marx Bros.. "Well," said Groucho, "what do expect from a guy from St. Louis?"

I am so tired.
And, he's only been in office less that 3 weeks. I may not make it till 1/20/13.

re: #107 kafir lover

More like nausea, really - watching parts of Rome catch fire

Does Ner0bama play the fiddle?

re: #101 OldLineTexan

Is a poet pun thread (ee) cummings?

I didn't expect a pun thread sassoon in the day. But it's partly my owen fault, I guess.

re: #109 USBeast

I wouldn't take it to Harte.

Think I need Robert Service to have look.

Speaking of aid... I don't suppose the rest of the world is clamoring to get off of the foreign aid teat and help us out a bit until we get back on our feet?

Nah, didn't think so.

Hope is for the lazy, for the dreamers.
I'm a woman of action.
I'll take action over hope any day.
Hope never got you a better paying job, a husband or wife, hell even a grilled cheese sandwich. Getting off your tush and doing something is what generates a true change of your circumstances.

That's how Obambi got elected. These morons would rather hope for an actual change then to go out and make the changes needed in their own lives. The sad thing is that they will take those who actually effect change down with them simply because they have (at least for the present) more on their side than we have on ours.
*spit*

re: #109 USBeast

I wouldn't take it to Harte.

That's just a Poe comparison. Are we Donne with the puns yet?

I think I'll put this on my resume:

I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.

Already posted under Moonbats, but it's so appalling I thought I'd repeat it here: More proof that pencil-necked Sensitive New Age Guys are some of the biggest totalitarians and misanthropes around.

re: #81 FrogMarch

What the Euros are really good at is controlling rampant spending on their older population. Here's their final solution: leave town every August for an entire government-paid month, and let the oldsters swelter to death in un-airconditioned heattraps. Works every time.

re: #116 DaddyG

Speaking of aid... I don't suppose the rest of the world is clamoring to get off of the foreign aid teat and help us out a bit until we get back on our feet?

Nah, didn't think so.

Soon, dollar worth nothing, aid cuts itself off. No problem.

Need more bagpipes...

It's a long way to the top!

re: #27 Ojoe

You cannot beat Elizabethan English, The King James Bible is written in it too.

Something to ponder:

The year the King James Bible completed: 1610
Shakespeare's age that year: 46
46th word from the start of the 46th Psalm (King James version): SHAKE
46th word from the end of the 46th Psalm (King James version - not counting "Selah", which is basically "Amen"): SPEAR
Shakespeare's age at the time of the completion of the King James Bible (46) + Psalm we're using (46) + word we're using (46): 138
12th (in 138, 1 + 3 + 8 = 12) word in 138th Pslam (King James version): WILL

Right out of the King James version: WILL SHAKE SPEAR!

re: #76 buzzsawmonkey

Why, of course.

Brown Bess was great in her time, but the hapless Mexican army was still using them during the Mexican War of 1846-48. American troops were armed with rifles and Colt revolvers, which is a fair part of how we came to own California and most of the Southwest.

re: #114 Occasional Reader

I didn't expect a pun thread sassoon in the day. But it's partly my owen fault, I guess.

I go to Cerf the web and this is what I get.

re: #101 OldLineTexan

Is a poet pun thread (ee) cummings?

That would Frost me if that started.

re: #117 redheadredstate
Exactly Red!

What gets me, is all those idiots that still think that the 0 is the messiah have no clue about what is going on with the stimulus bill.
They just want a check.

re: #81 FrogMarch

Crikey.

Tom Daschle is a dangerous creepy soul sucking socialist of a man.

Translation: If you are suffering from a deadly disease and you want to attempt to save your life with new experimental drugs or treatments - and the government doesn't agree with the costs - tough luck. The democrats think you are expendable.
F*K you, Tom Dash-hole.

Interesting that they have that in common with Marxists/Communists. The individual is expendable...as evidenced by 100 million dead last century.

re: #81 FrogMarch

Crikey.

Tom Daschle is a dangerous creepy soul sucking socialist of a man.

Translation: If you are suffering from a deadly disease and you want to attempt to save your life with new experimental drugs or treatments - and the government doesn't agree with the costs - tough luck. The democrats think you are expendable.

F*K you, Tom Dash-hole.

Having had to battle a life-threatening desease with one of my children, all I can say is thank God it wasn't with this lot in control.

This whole thing makes me sick.

re: #102 SurferDoc

I like ts eliot, but I gotta' ask. Was he on drugs or something?

re: #120 mikalm

Already posted under Moonbats, but it's so appalling I thought I'd repeat it here: More proof that pencil-necked Sensitive New Age Guys are some of the biggest totalitarians and misanthropes around.

Population control should be voluntary. These dopes can set the example and go first.

re: #120 mikalm

Already posted under Moonbats, but it's so appalling I thought I'd repeat it here: More proof that pencil-necked Sensitive New Age Guys are some of the biggest totalitarians and misanthropes around.

The current planetary die off rate—meaning the rate at which species are going extinct—is a 1000 times greater than ever before in history. Why? Because humans—one species among millions—have stolen the food, the water, the space.

Evolutionary success, baby.

But he could off himself ...

re: #113 Kosh's Shadow

I'm not sure, but his reign was "often associated with tyranny and extravagance".

re: #84 Kosh's Shadow

Heh. Being in Illinois, I don't have much hope for my Senators either. One's a Dickhead, and the other's a Tombstone.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick
Jack jump over the candlestick.
Jack now show us another trick
Do it again Jack with a lighted wick.

Jack you're jumpy since you were born,
And as Jumping Jack you are known,
But Jack this little cliche never scorn...
"Never play leapfrog with a unicorn!"

re: #90 subsailor68

Don't know about other folks, but I'm really, really glad he's gone.

/unfortunately, his socialized medicine legacy is still in the stupid "stimulus" bill travesty

re: #124 gmsc

Did you ever hear of Ignatius Donnelly? He was a 19th century American political and independent scholar who tried to prove that Shakespeare's plays were actually written by Francis Bacon, by using convoluted analyses of "codes" in the Bard's writings like the one you came up with.

re: #134 OldLineTexan

The current planetary die off rate—meaning the rate at which species are going extinct—is a 1000 times greater than ever before in history. Why? Because humans—one species among millions—have stolen the food, the water, the space.

Evolutionary success, baby.

But he could off himself ...

Guess no one told the white tail deer, eh? Guess I'll go out to my back yard and let all ten gazillion of them eating my shrubs about it.

re: #132 snopercod

An TS Eliot is an anagram of toilets.

re: #127 thefallingman

That would Frost me if that started.

A lot of people would Nash their teeth.

re: #139 mikalm

Did you ever hear of Ignatius Donnelly? He was a 19th century American political and independent scholar who tried to prove that Shakespeare's plays were actually written by Francis Bacon, by using convoluted analyses of "codes" in the Bard's writings like the one you came up with.

Another fine person from the Great State of Minnesota

re: #138 Killian Bundy

/unfortunately, his socialized medicine legacy is still in the stupid "stimulus" bill travesty

You're so right about that. The loon is gone, but the malady lingers on.

re: #142 Killgore Trout

An TS Eliot is an anagram of toilets.

So he was on pot?

Two favorite passages from Eliot's "Four Quartets":

In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place
Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.
Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires,
Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth
Which is already flesh, fur and faeces,
Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.
Houses live and die: there is a time for building
And a time for living and for generation
And a time for the wind to break the loosened pane
And to shake the wainscot where the field-mouse trots
And to shake the tattered arras woven with a silent motto.

That's the opening of "East Coker". The first line is a reversal of a motto Mary Queen of Scots had embroidered on her Chair of State: En ma fin est mon commencement. It was with her during her captivity by Elizabeth Tudor.

The second is the end of the last Quartet, "Little Gidding".

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

There's your Christian mysticism for the day.

re: #127 thefallingman

That would Frost me if that started.

My favorite poem was written by "Phin", subtitled, "A Battle Hymn of the Republic, set in the year 1888":

re: #95 Ben Hur

Are one of you the MyRightWord blogger, or does he only post links to his blog in the spin-offs?

/he's the reigning LGF Blog Pimp Champion, that's all he does

Alrighty, then.

re: #134 OldLineTexan

But he could off himself ...

Which is the real motivation for a lot of these Humanity=Evil types. They utterly loathe themselves (usually for excellent reasons), and project their self-hatred onto Homo sapiens as a whole.

re: #143 USBeast

A lot of people would Nash their teeth.

You definately would, if placed in a Kelvinator.

re: #149 Killian Bundy

Thanks

That's what I figured.

re: #123 lawhawk

Cheer up, it's Monday, and that means Jack Bauer.
Wouldn't it be fun to hear him** address the real Congress, just once...
** Jack. Not, sadly, Kiefer.

re: #75 OldLineTexan

The rough beast, slouching towards Jerusalem, its time come at last?

You mean Yeats predicted Eliot? ;^)

re: #146 OldLineTexan

So he was on pot?

No, but his poems were for mopes...

re: #146 OldLineTexan

I don't know.

re: #132 snopercod

I like ts eliot, but I gotta' ask. Was he on drugs or something?

Not that I know about.

I think we can have poet puns, AND serious discussion. This thread is rumi enough for both.

re: #140 subsailor68

Guess no one told the white tail deer, eh? Guess I'll go out to my back yard and let all ten gazillion of them eating my shrubs about it.

too many deer is very bad for the deer...sounds like a problem...southwest MI is teeming with them and when they raise the limits people freak...idiots

He said she's not pretty

re: #123 lawhawk

AWESOME!

re: #156 LGoPs

No, but his poems were for mopes...

The original Emo!

All of the really good poetry that I have heard starts with, "There once was a girl from Nantucket..."

re: #155 Cato the Elder

You mean Yeats predicted Eliot? ;^)

/You don't see them as somehow akin?

I constantly mix them up.

;)

re: #139 mikalm

Did you ever hear of Ignatius Donnelly? He was a 19th century American political and independent scholar who tried to prove that Shakespeare's plays were actually written by Francis Bacon, by using convoluted analyses of "codes" in the Bard's writings like the one you came up with.

I recall a professor explaining the method to his class, then setting them to work looking for similar "clues." The students produced compelling evidence that Elvis Presley, Warren G. Harding, Groucho Marx, and Myrna Loy were the actual authors of the Bard's plays.

re: #152 Honorary Yooper

I'm getting Fried with these puns. People can't help but sow their literary Oates with 'em.

re: #161 albusteve

too many deer is very bad for the deer...sounds like a problem...southwest MI is teeming with them and when they raise the limits people freak...idiots

Well, when you get enough deer/car/people fatalities, the fainting Nancies will perk up and do something, I'm sure.

re: #98 Bubbaman

Interestingly, I just checked some rates for an upcoming vacation at Disney. It seems that they haven't heard of the horrible recession or near depression that we are currently mired in. Nearly all of their rooms are booked and many go for $300, $500+/night + park tickets, etc.

Either everyone is named Madoff or the media is lying about the scope of the financial melt-down.

I know for me it is denial. I am still going on my cruise (Carnival Destiny out of Miami on the 14th.), and I have already started to plan my next (November).

re: #89 USBeast

Ouch, I'll bet that Burns.

Said Waylon Smithers.

re: #139 mikalm

Did you ever hear of Ignatius Donnelly? He was a 19th century American political and independent scholar who tried to prove that Shakespeare's plays were actually written by Francis Bacon, by using convoluted analyses of "codes" in the Bard's writings like the one you came up with.

The credit for this convoluted bible code analysis would go to Dr. Joshua Irving Matrix, who himself is a creation of Martin Gardner.

re: #141 buzzsawmonkey

Something else to ponder: how could Shakespeare, were he to have written the KJV, have predicted that it would be completed in the 138th anniversary year of his birth?

Read the post again - the KJV was completed when Shakespeare was 46.

re: #168 calcajun

I'm getting Fried with these puns. People can't help but sow their literary Oates with 'em.

Well, be my Guest if you think you can do Moore.

re: #134 OldLineTexan

The current planetary die off rate—meaning the rate at which species are going extinct—is a 1000 times greater than ever before in history. Why? Because humans—one species among millions—have stolen the food, the water, the space.

Evolutionary success, baby.

But he could off himself ...

Bingo! Whenever these enviro-freaks start complaining about there being too many people on earth, I wonder why they don't kill themselves and help the planet out. Some how I bet they think they are the ones who should still be on the planet.

Bill calls for castrating sex offenders

A bill introduced in the Alabama House of Representatives this week would require convicted sex offenders who targeted young children to be surgically castrated before leaving prison.

The bill would require castration for male sex

offenders older than 21 convicted of a sex crime against a victim younger than 12.

Rep. Steve Hurst, D-Munford, has pushed legislation authorizing castration for two years.

“We need a stronger deterrent than what we have now,” said Hurst, who introduced the bill Tuesday. “I’d like for Alabama to take the lead and say that enough is enough.”

re: #146 OldLineTexan

More like ethanol.

re: #170 OldLineTexan

Well, when you get enough deer/car/people fatalities, the fainting Nancies will perk up and do something, I'm sure.

Be careful there. They may well decide there are too man of us.

re: #174 thefallingman

Well, be my Guest if you think you can do Moore.

Roger that.

re: #112 newsjunkie_ky

I am so tired.
And, he's only been in office less that 3 weeks. I may not make it till 1/20/13.

we will make it. it is easy to get down but don't doubt the we will make it.
start looking for the schadenfreude as he keeps making an ass of himself.
:)

re: #166 OldLineTexan

/You don't see them as somehow akin?

I constantly mix them up.

;)

You should get that checked out; you may be suffering from a Yeats infection.

re: #170 OldLineTexan

Well, when you get enough deer/car/people fatalities, the fainting Nancies will perk up and do something, I'm sure.

One would think so, but wasn't it the morons in Tuxedo Park NY who wanted "contraceptives" for the deer? (They were overrun and hated seeing their gardens being used as an all-you-can-eat deer buffet.)

Didn't work.

;-)

re: #130 LGoPs

What depresses me is that my Dad -- my 79-year-old, overweight Dad with the bad heart -- thinks everything will be great when we get national health care. I just can't bring myself to tell him what will happen if his pacemaker starts to act up.

I don't know who this T. S. Eliot character is but he never hoped to me to begin with.

/

I'm going back upthread to see if someone ran this quote through the universal translator for me.

re: #157 Iron Fist

Interesting!
If Afgan hurds men were doing it in a tent in the 20,s with hand tools...Why not!
Note to self...Buy a small milling machine!

re: #166 OldLineTexan

You don't see them as somehow akin?

I constantly mix them up.

;)

Oh, yes, they are indeed! And Yeats was a big help to Eliot when he set out to make his bones.

Mary had a little lamb,
The news made every front page,
With pictures of her being taken to jail,
Cause you see, he was under age.

re: #175 livefreeor die

Bingo! Whenever these enviro-freaks start complaining about there being too many people on earth, I wonder why they don't kill themselves and help the planet out. Some how I bet they think they are the ones who should still be on the planet.

What really irks him is that I have five little DNA repositories out there, and he still can't get a date on Main Street with a $50 bill hanging out of his fly.

re: #165 opnion

All of the really good poetry that I have heard starts with, "There once was a girl from Nantucket..."

The was a young lady from Crewe,
whose limericks stopped at line two.

The was a young man from Verdun . . .

re: #132 snopercod

I like ts eliot, but I gotta' ask. Was he on drugs or something?

No.

Just very, very intelligent.

re: #178 unreconstructed rebel

Be careful there. They may well decide there are too man of us.

pimf - many

I'm reposting the following because when I wrote it yesterday I completely (and stupidly!) screwed up the numbers (thankfully Buzzsawmonkey and Astronmr20 caught my error). In any case, I first learned of this story in some detail at the Herzliya Conference last week and--since this is an open thread--I think it's worth reposting, if for no other reason than to get it right.

Approximately 850,000 Jews were expelled from Muslim lands after the founding of Israel in 1948. They received no reparations, no "right of return" options, no catalogue of lost property, and today there are no remaining refugee camps to be found--every last one of these Jews was assimilated (although not always easily) either in Israel, US, Canada or elsewhere.

Between 500,000 and 700,000 (at the most) Arab "Palestinian" refugees left Israel--many voluntarily or at the instructions of religious or political leaders--during the 1948 War of Independence. And what do we have today? 1,500,000+ whiners. And these so-called refugees--and their so-called camps-- have become useful statistcs in an NGO/UN moneymaking racket.

And smells kinda sh*ty

re: #170 OldLineTexan

Well, when you get enough deer/car/people fatalities, the fainting Nancies will perk up and do something, I'm sure.

white tail are also disease prone when overcrowded...herds need to be maintained at optimum levels to protect them...it's for the children

The latest troubling noises from the Obama camp? Apparently they're allowing Boeing to send parts to Damascus to rehabilitate several 747s in their possession. That would be an about face from a Bush executive order prohibiting all such transactions except for food and medicine.

Slouching towards appeasement.

re: #176 SasquatchOnSteroids

Bill calls for castrating sex offenders

Known as the "Cartman Act", this would call for each offender to be kicked sqwar in the nuts.

re: #188 Dustyvet

Mary had a little lamb,
The news made every front page,
With pictures of her being taken to jail,
Cause you see, he was under age.

Old Mother Hubbard
went to the cupboard,
to get her poor daughter a dress.
But when she got there,
the cupboard was bare,
And so was her daughter, I guess!

re: #175 livefreeor die

Bingo! Whenever these enviro-freaks start complaining about there being too many people on earth, I wonder why they don't kill themselves and help the planet out. Some how I bet they think they are the ones who should still be on the planet.

Some are considering it...

re: #190 gmsc

The was a young lady from Crewe,
whose limericks stopped at line two.

The was a young man from Verdun . . .

Ah, another patron of the arts!

re: #30 Killian Bundy

Will this apply to Senator Kennedy?

re: #175 livefreeor die

Bingo! Whenever these enviro-freaks start complaining about there being too many people on earth, I wonder why they don't kill themselves and help the planet out.

I was at least a little relieved to see that some of the commenters on that article suggested that very thing to him. (Although a dismaying number think he's really a genius.)

re: #178 unreconstructed rebel

Be careful there. They may well decide there are too man of us.

Deer, while dangerous, are not as dangerous as me, the feared killer ape.

re: #196 lawhawk

The latest troubling noises from the Obama camp? Apparently they're allowing Boeing to send parts to Damascus to rehabilitate several 747s in their possession. That would be an about face from a Bush executive order prohibiting all such transactions except for food and medicine.

Slouching towards appeasement.

Makes complete sense after his interview with Al-Arabiya.

Arab dictators are safe.

For poetry, I like things like "Old Ironsides", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", and Poe.

Once upon a midnight dreary
As I pondered weak and weary
over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
Suddenly there came a tapping
As of someone gently rapping
Rapping at my chamber door.

(skipping a bit)
Quoth the Raven
(SQUACK!) Nevermore! (SQUACK!)

What?

re: #199 jcm

Some are considering it...

Yeah, if those dorks were serious, who would maintain the website? Hmmm?

re: #174 thefallingman

Well, be my Guest if you think you can do Moore.

Well, one they realize they are on the wrong Plath, the Howells of derisive laughter might make them stop.

re: #206 OldLineTexan

Yeah, if those dorks were serious, who would maintain the website? Hmmm?

ROFL!

re: #197 OldLineTexan

Sounds like a sharia law thing.

re: #191 ryannon

No.

Just very, very intelligent.

Like, the John Kerry of poets?

re: #195 albusteve

For the children!
LOLOL
I hearby offer my services in the ..ahem..Maint Dept!

re: #196 lawhawk

The latest troubling noises from the Obama camp? Apparently they're allowing Boeing to send parts to Damascus to rehabilitate several 747s in their possession. That would be an about face from a Bush executive order prohibiting all such transactions except for food and medicine.

Slouching towards appeasement.

Every day he manages to do something even dumber than the day before. Just when you think he couldn't possibly undermine America's security any further...

And, of course, the "Republican" Senator from my state is helping him out with the freaking stimulus bill.

Senator Specter, if you're reading this, my husband and I will never vote for you again and we will actively campaign for whoever opposes you in the primary. God willing, it will be Rick Santorum.

re: #207 calcajun

Well, one they realize they are on the wrong Plath, the Howells of derisive laughter might make them stop.

We should instead talk about Sexton, drugs, and rock n' roll!

re: #175 livefreeor die

Bingo! Whenever these enviro-freaks start complaining about there being too many people on earth, I wonder why they don't kill themselves and help the planet out. Some how I bet they think they are the ones who should still be on the planet.

I've always compared creeps like him to the cultists in "The Call of Cthulhu," who want to wipe out humanity so that they can rule a cleared planet along with the Elder Gods.

re: #190 gmsc

The was a young lady from Crewe,
whose limericks stopped at line two.

The was a young man from Verdun . . .

There once was man from Venus
Who's body was shaped like a...

Oh, the hell with it.

Cat thrown to death from 14th floor apt. in N.Y.

Ross said Irvin told them that the cat, an non-neutered male, angered him by spraying as Irvin tried to clean the apartment.

What a worthless piece of skin.

re: #209 the1sgjohns

Sounds like a sharia law thing.

I thought it was more Code of Hammurabi-ish.

re: #184 joncelli

What depresses me is that my Dad -- my 79-year-old, overweight Dad with the bad heart -- thinks everything will be great when we get national health care. I just can't bring myself to tell him what will happen if his pacemaker starts to act up.

This is slightly off topic but one of my favorite movies is Dr Zhivago. Aside from being a beautiful film it is very instructive about the evils of communism.
Also interesting as a sidenote is that the author, Boris Pasternak, recieved a Nobel prize for it but the Party of the People, *Spit* would not allow him to collect it, IIRC.

I find chilling parallels in it to what is happening today, albeit our native born apparatchiks will be wearing smiley face buttons and Nikes...

re: #165 opnion

All of the really good poetry that I have heard starts with, "There once was a girl from Nantucket..."

Then you might be interested in this.

re: #205 Kosh's Shadow

For poetry, I like things like "Old Ironsides", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", and Poe.

Once upon a midnight dreary
As I pondered weak and weary
over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
Suddenly there came a tapping
As of someone gently rapping
Rapping at my chamber door.

(skipping a bit)
Quoth the Raven
(SQUACK!) Nevermore! (SQUACK!)

What?

I like the modernized version:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I websurfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious website of 'hot chicks galore',
While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour.
"'Tis not possible," I muttered, "give me back my cheap hardcore!" -
Quoth the server, "404".

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
~T. S. Eliot

OT:
SEC and Madoff to settle civil fraud suit. Criminal charges still pending...

re: #214 Occasional Reader

We should instead talk about Sexton, drugs, and rock n' roll!

That is a subject we should keep Pounding over and over.

re: #218 OldLineTexan

I thought it was more Code of Hammurabi-ish.

You do babyl on, don't you?

re: #214 Occasional Reader

We should instead talk about Sexton, drugs, and rock n' roll!

What we really need is someone to pun "Dickenson."

re: #196 lawhawk

I'd be okay with that if a) they used cannibalized parts from Pan Am 103, and b) sent them over to be installed by some of the mechanics currrently holding up contract talks at my former employer.
/only part sarc/

Does anyone have a link to the Senate version of the stimulus package?

re: #218 OldLineTexan

Uh! maybe. Or perhaps just good old fashioned advice from grandma. Yeah! Here brother smell the cookies...WHACK!. It's ok have a cookie. I think you would see a lot less child molesting happening that's for sure.

re: #199 jcm

Some are considering it...

You have got to be kidding me, these crazies want to de-evolve. Jeeze

re: #224 lawhawk

OT:
SEC and Madoff to settle civil fraud suit. Criminal charges still pending...

Take everything he has and let his investors each have one kick under the Cartman Act.

But it's really the company I crave

re: #217 SasquatchOnSteroids

Cat thrown to death from 14th floor apt. in N.Y.

What a worthless piece of skin.

Even worse.

re: #215 mikalm

re: #189 OldLineTexan

What really irks him is that I have five little DNA repositories out there, and he still can't get a date on Main Street with a $50 bill hanging out of his fly.

Couldn't get laid in a whorehouse with a fistfull on hundred dollar bills on a rainy monday night.

re: #226 Occasional Reader

You do babyl on, don't you?

Ur you talkin' to me?

re: #227 thefallingman

What we really need is someone to pun "Dickenson."

Well, there's that famous lady poet, Anita Dickens-Hyde.

re: #216 calcajun

There once was man from Venus
Who's body was shaped like a...

Oh, the hell with it.

A version of that was used in the "Naked Now" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, with Data starting the line, and Picard interrupting him.

Dem Senator proposes witch hunt

WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is proposing a "truth commission" to investigate abuses of detainees, politically inspired moves at the Justice Department, and whole range of decisions made during the Bush administration.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said the primary goal of the commission would be to learn the truth rather than prosecute former officials, but said the inquiry should reach far beyond misdeeds at the Justice Department under Bush to include matters of Iraq prewar intelligence and the Defense Department.

Leahy outlined his suggestion for a "truth and reconciliation" commission during a speech at Georgetown University Monday.

"I'm doing this not to humiliate people or punish people but to get the truth out," he said.

re: #220 USBeast

Then you might be interested in this.

Thank you, but I of course have that. I thought that every well stocked library did.

re: #234 mikalm

Good lord.

re: #191 ryannon

No.

Just very, very intelligent.

Oh yeah. Then why couldn't he write stuff that people could understand?
:)

re: #241 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Dem Senator proposes witch hunt

I propose chaining stupid to his apple tree.

re: #217 SasquatchOnSteroids

Cat thrown to death from 14th floor apt. in N.Y.

What a worthless piece of skin.

Let the punishment fit the crime...Toss this bastard off the 20th floor.

re: #225 calcajun

That is a subject we should keep Pounding over and over.

We have the strength for it, we're a Hardy lot.

re: #241 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

"Leahy outlined his suggestion for a "truth and reconciliation" commission during a speech at Georgetown University Monday. "

Ministry of Truth anyone? This is scary, scary stuff.

re: #234 mikalm

Even worse.

Well, guess that proves cats will land on their feet. Let's see Mythbusters try that one. (sarcasm)

Ugh.

I emailed my idiot Senator (Udall) to tell him I thought he should vote NO on the stimulus bill. I actually got an email back with the subject line: Re: URGENT! Please pass the economic stimulus package.

I actually momentarily felt sorry for the kid who answered Udall's senate office phone when I called him.

re: #241 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Leaky Leahy's the patron saint of Kos. I'm sure he's doing it just to see his name revered in a diary or two.
Not gonna happen.

re: #246 Dustyvet

Let the punishment fit the crime...Toss this bastard off the 20th floor.

Hamas or Fatah-style?

re: #241 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

"I'm doing this not to humiliate people or punish people but to get the truth out," he said.

Horseshit. Leahy is one of the meanest, most vengeful partisans in the Senate. (Not to mention the fact that the story assumes facts not in evidence.)

re: #241 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Dem Senator proposes witch hunt

"I'm doing this not to humiliate people or punish people but to get the truth out," he said.

Oh, Bullsh---, he's hoping to humiliate and punish as many Bush admin people as he can. He probably dreams about it every night.

re: #176 SasquatchOnSteroids

Bill calls for castrating sex offenders

That's some ballsy legislation.

/yikes. let's leave it at that.

re: #237 OldLineTexan

Ur you talkin' to me?

Relax, Einkidn'u.

Have to say, I love T.S. Eliot. Thanks, Charles. This one is apt, too:

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!

and then the ending...
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

re: #98 Bubbaman
I kind of wonder about this too. Shops and restaurants are still crowded where I live. No sign of anything like panic. Weird.

re: #253 OldLineTexan

Hamas or Fatah-style?

Whatever get's the job done...:)

re: #241 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Dem Senator proposes witch hunt

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said the primary goal of the commission would be to learn the truth rather than prosecute former officials,

I thought VP Cheney told him to go fuck himself. Obviously this fucktard can't even follow simple instructions...
/