Soon enough, there was Deepak Chopra, healer, New Age philosopher and digestion guru, advocate of aromatherapy and regular enemas, holding forth on CNN on the meaning of the attacks. ... What happened in Mumbai, he told the interviewer, was a product of the U.S. war on terrorism, that "our policies, our foreign policies" had alienated the Muslim population, that we had "gone after the wrong people" and inflamed moderates. And "that inflammation then gets organized and appears as this disaster in Bombay."
Pinkos are oh so predictable. Even aromatherapeutic enemas tend to be more interesting.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
"Neocons" Always Get Special Treatment
I agree with Le Pew that this is most selfish and unfair, and hereby announce my full support for Equal Yet Special Treatment for all Versailleans and other PP Comedians.
"Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again,".
Goreball warming takes a hit
Somehow, when Pepe's boyz strike, the Lysenkoist pinko goreballs seem to take less urgency. Funny how AK47s tend to concentrate the mind, at least in the short run...
Sayings from the Bleu Book
...and thus was the last seen of Le Pew, as he was ridden by his Strong Camel deep into the Persian sands, the cries of 'Tollah, 'Tollah, 'Tollah redounding in the distance.
Pepe's Abortianalia Comes To Chomp Him in the Balls
Killing Kiddies is a "social policy" that can go in any awful, and no good, direction, Le Pew
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Friday, November 28, 2008
Pepe's plan to save america
The federal government is sending each of us a $600 tax rebate. If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, the money goes to China. If we spend it on gasoline it goes to the Arabs. If we buy a computer it will go to India. If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. If we purchase a good car it will go to Germany/Japan. If we purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan and none of it will help the American economy. The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it on prostitutes and beer, since these are the only products still produced in US. I've been doing my part - are you fcp-ers behaving like true american patriots?
Thursday, November 27, 2008
The Bible according to Pepe
The text "She will have a son, and you will name him Jesus" is illustrated with a veiled Muslim. One verse has a photo of a pair of knickers draped over high-heeled shoes, sending you back to the passage to find out what it's really about. Yep. Sounds like the King Pepe version. [Added Pepe da Vinci -- JJ]
You don't say
In a speech in Washington, DC, on November 18th Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, an internet giant, claimed that government-funded research done in university laboratories was “the core aspect of America’s competitiveness”. Without a dramatic increase in investment in such research, and in maths and science education, Americans risked becoming mere “captive consumers” at the mercy of rising Asian powers, he argued. Well, duhhh...
Nonsense, insists Amar Bhidé of Columbia Business School. For America to retain this sort of edge, then, what the country needs is better MBAs, not more PhDs. Oh, yeah? What a bunch of crock.
Nonsense, insists Amar Bhidé of Columbia Business School. For America to retain this sort of edge, then, what the country needs is better MBAs, not more PhDs. Oh, yeah? What a bunch of crock.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Molotov cocktails
Of course, when AQ shoots dozens, Pepe doesn't worry about guns: he dismisses the carnage as mere throwing of "Molotov cocktails". BTW, I was passing last week through Penn Station, but I had no idea the Binnie Boyz had it on their radar screen. Jeepers, I better stay home, and hide under the bed.
Guns'n us
My gallery is hosting a group photography show "Guns'N Us" on the theme of "the impact of the availability of firearms on the social fabric", opening on December 6.
Featured photographers are: Kyle Cassidy, Andre Lambertson, Donna De Cesare, and Frank Relle.
You should find it to be curated in a very even-handed fashion and all of you second amendment nuts are invited. (Don't miss the comments under Kyle's images).
Some useful gifts
Don’t know what to buy as a Christmas present for your girl? The answer is really simple - electric toothbrush. There you go.
Now, if people also stopped jabbering on their brain fryers...
... I'd say there is a silver lining in all this, after all.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Mother Russia to Save the World!
RUSSIAN ANALYST PREDICTS DECLINE AND BREAKUP OF USA
Tue Nov 25 2008 09:04:22 ET
A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.
Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA published on Monday: "The dollar is not secured by anything. The country's foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse."
The paper said Panarin's dire predictions for the U.S. economy, initially made at an international conference in Australia 10 years ago at a time when the economy appeared strong, have been given more credence by this year's events.
When asked when the U.S. economy would collapse, Panarin said: "It is already collapsing. Due to the financial crisis, three of the largest and oldest five banks on Wall Street have already ceased to exist, and two are barely surviving. Their losses are the biggest in history. Now what we will see is a change in the regulatory system on a global financial scale: America will no longer be the world's financial regulator."
When asked who would replace the U.S. in regulating world markets, he said: "Two countries could assume this role: China, with its vast reserves, and Russia, which could play the role of a regulator in Eurasia."
Asked why he expected the U.S. to break up into separate parts, he said: "A whole range of reasons. Firstly, the financial problems in the U.S. will get worse. Millions of citizens there have lost their savings. Prices and unemployment are on the rise. General Motors and Ford are on the verge of collapse, and this means that whole cities will be left without work. Governors are already insistently demanding money from the federal center. Dissatisfaction is growing, and at the moment it is only being held back by the elections and the hope that Obama can work miracles. But by spring, it will be clear that there are no miracles."
He also cited the "vulnerable political setup", "lack of unified national laws", and "divisions among the elite, which have become clear in these crisis conditions."
He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts - the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.
He even suggested that "we could claim Alaska - it was only granted on lease, after all." Panarin, 60, is a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has authored several books on information warfare.
Developing...
Tue Nov 25 2008 09:04:22 ET
A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.
Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA published on Monday: "The dollar is not secured by anything. The country's foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse."
The paper said Panarin's dire predictions for the U.S. economy, initially made at an international conference in Australia 10 years ago at a time when the economy appeared strong, have been given more credence by this year's events.
When asked when the U.S. economy would collapse, Panarin said: "It is already collapsing. Due to the financial crisis, three of the largest and oldest five banks on Wall Street have already ceased to exist, and two are barely surviving. Their losses are the biggest in history. Now what we will see is a change in the regulatory system on a global financial scale: America will no longer be the world's financial regulator."
When asked who would replace the U.S. in regulating world markets, he said: "Two countries could assume this role: China, with its vast reserves, and Russia, which could play the role of a regulator in Eurasia."
Asked why he expected the U.S. to break up into separate parts, he said: "A whole range of reasons. Firstly, the financial problems in the U.S. will get worse. Millions of citizens there have lost their savings. Prices and unemployment are on the rise. General Motors and Ford are on the verge of collapse, and this means that whole cities will be left without work. Governors are already insistently demanding money from the federal center. Dissatisfaction is growing, and at the moment it is only being held back by the elections and the hope that Obama can work miracles. But by spring, it will be clear that there are no miracles."
He also cited the "vulnerable political setup", "lack of unified national laws", and "divisions among the elite, which have become clear in these crisis conditions."
He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts - the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.
He even suggested that "we could claim Alaska - it was only granted on lease, after all." Panarin, 60, is a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has authored several books on information warfare.
Developing...
Talebs doin' the FCP thing
At least these girls won't end up being dangerously overeducated Harvard grads. Omar thinking globally but acting locally.
An FCP kind of guy
“His behavior and attitudes reveal that he feels like a rejected genius,” the agent noted in his report, which has since been made public. “He shows that whoever does not agree with his views is stupid and incompetent.”
Decades later, Mr. Klaus, the 67-year-old president of the Czech Republic continues to provoke strong reactions. He has blamed what he calls the misguided fight against global warming for contributing to the international financial crisis, branded Al Gore an “apostle of arrogance” for his role in that fight, and accused the European Union of acting like a Communist state.
Decades later, Mr. Klaus, the 67-year-old president of the Czech Republic continues to provoke strong reactions. He has blamed what he calls the misguided fight against global warming for contributing to the international financial crisis, branded Al Gore an “apostle of arrogance” for his role in that fight, and accused the European Union of acting like a Communist state.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Obama's Barney-Frank-Basher-in-Chief
This will be good. Maybe women don't have the brains for analysis but do fruits?
Hooverboy trips over his booklarnin'
Who the fuck is Caesar Chavez? California est omnis divisa in partes tres.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
When the Locke Gives Way to the Mill...
...and the Mill gives way to an mft meal.
With the pork sausage in the oven (in the caste iron skillet with celery, onion, garlic, bacon, some diced pepperoni, butter, a bit of olive oil, some rinsed chili beans, a bottle of Goose Island Honker Ale, and just a bit of Italian seasoning and some chili sauce), it's time to pass along some of the quotes pulled from John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
Between the two Johns, I'd recommend Mill over Locke, primarily because Locke conjures up the divine when it is entirely unecessary. He does make the distinction between why metaphysics are not to impose on a discussion concerning human nature. Why does he bring it up?: Locke is a man of his 17th century proto-Enlightenment time.
As for the 19th-century Mill, absolutely glorious thus far. In a footnote of his "On Liberty," he says, "there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered."
And he is partly mistaken in his assumption with this next quote. Mistaken because it's a quote that needs to continuously be repeated to the Moron (see Washington, D.C.): "No argument, we may suppose, can now be needed, against permitting a legislature or an executive, not identified in the interest with the people, to prescribe opinions to them, and determine what doctrines or what arguments they shall be allowed to hear." Mill never saw Sarah Palin coming.
Another of Mill's, this too pulled this afternoon from "On Liberty": "...the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."
Back to Goose Island Honker Ales.
AI's Harvard seniors averaged 69.56%
Can you do better? Pepe, I'll try to find you a similar quiz about the Soviet Union.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Hitchens to GOP: don't try this shit again
I found it pretty easy to cast a vote that told the Republican Party, for which I recommended a vote last time, not to try any of this shit again. No more McCarthy tactics; no more stumblebum quitting of the campaign trail and attempting to pull out of the first presidential debate in order to wind up voting to save Lehman Bros.; no more driveling Christian fundamentalism; no more insinuation that only those silly enough to endorse them are "real Americans." No more sneers at San Francisco as if it weren't a real American city. McCain and his preposterous running mate will just have to believe in an afterlife in which they can live down the shame of what they attempted this year.
Homo Bill O'Reilly?
Note: I don't have a game console, or even cable television, but I caught this on the internet, and also a clip where Bill O'Reilly is dressing down Heidi Klum and the producers of the above ad (click the YouTube video). Apparently, it's not good to let boys and young men watch this stuff? Take a peak for yourself, gentlemen. Heidi can do her thing in my living room whenever she wants.
Note upon another note: can America ever shed the idiocies of its Puritanical origins? I know in AA's, AI's and Pepe's old stomping grounds, this video would seem a bit too tame: Heidi should've bared her aesthetically pleasing breasts. Might as well.
Friday, November 21, 2008
You schmucks know this?
How do you think it relates to Arnol'd's silliness you posted a while back, AI?
A good day for Versailles....
Latin America analyst Johanna Forman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, described as "ham-fisted" a trip crafted months before the November 4 election victory of a more conciliatory US president, Barack Obama.
"It's more an in-your-face approach that may not resonate when you have a new administration ... The Russians are still fighting a war with Bush," she said.
"It's more an in-your-face approach that may not resonate when you have a new administration ... The Russians are still fighting a war with Bush," she said.
A Bad Day For Versailles.....
......when his own Soldats decide that, despite Le Pew wishing 'em Dead Dead Dead, the Ricains are a pretty worthy lot.
Planet Pepe Sees a Thriller
Ah, Islam, it always gets the best of the West. Versailles turns Green with envy.
Let the Boys Play, eh JJ?
Also, does it seem somewhat easy to anyone else to arm and train the commercial cargo crews to launch offensives of their own if confronted by pirates? I wouldn't let these fuckers take me alive, period.
A new Michael Moore as Described by my Russian Realist Friend
I learned from a trusted and reliable source that within the community of filmmakers of the documentary style (a.k.a. Danish approach to cinema [he means porn --JJ]) a documentary is in the works that will trace the unjust and ignominious defeat of the good old patriots who want to keep the country free and market-oriented. They are foiled by cunning anti-market, anti-tax-reduction demagogues with great oral skills which they use to inveigle the installment of Big Brother. The demagogues likewise foil the noble attempts to save the election by Joe the plunger [sic] by bringing the indiscretions of Joe's youth to light. This, combined with partial tax evasion tarnishes the plunger's shining armor and turns away the easily manipulatable masses.
The complexity of the plot had a dumbfounding effect on me. My simple mind never could come up with anything beyond suggesting that pants with crotch at the knee level should be new business casual.
The complexity of the plot had a dumbfounding effect on me. My simple mind never could come up with anything beyond suggesting that pants with crotch at the knee level should be new business casual.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
SDS retards at it again
Best comment: "It is obviously from a racist voter who wanted to vote for Franken because he preferred misogynist tax cheats who will humiliate Minnesota, but poked himself in the eye while genuflecting towards the blow-up Obama doll in the voting precinct."
The History of American Autos: Big, Flashy, and Sloppy
The Atlantic gives us the cultural inertia reason for the automotive industry, started and perpetuated by The Greatest Generation. Perhaps it's time for counterpoint, Mr. Brokaw?
The paradox: Big [auto] companies make two conflicting statements --"We give the public what it wants" and, also, "Whatever design we choose becomes the accepted style standard through saturation."
And now they want big bail-outs. JJ, compact flying cars, let's get on that.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Al Qaida and (or is?) the KKK
In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — "house negroes."
Seriously, the KKK and Al Quada should hold a conference in northern Idaho, perhaps getting David Duke as a speaker. This sounds a lot like the garbage I was hearing in northern Montana, just after Obama won the election.
Seriously, the KKK and Al Quada should hold a conference in northern Idaho, perhaps getting David Duke as a speaker. This sounds a lot like the garbage I was hearing in northern Montana, just after Obama won the election.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Yup. Obamacles Imperator Showing His Crimson Tide on a Green Crescent
The Saudirian Candidate, preparing for the Solution of the Neocon Problem. PP hasn't been this proud since Petain waved "Bon Voyage" to the trains chugging northeast out of Paris.
O: Surrender and declare victory. M: Can do, Chief!
What a joke. The generals (except Clausewitz-Sánchez) must despise this cretin we've elected.
Pepean AG
He attended Columbia University, where he earned a B.A. in 1973 and a J.D. in 1976. Of course. Seethe, JJ, seethe.
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law. Forgedabbout Old Sparky now.
Holder gave a "neutral, leaning towards favorable" opinion of the pardon to Clinton, which led to the pardoning of Rich on Clinton's last day in office. Joys of Planet Pepe.
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law. Forgedabbout Old Sparky now.
Holder gave a "neutral, leaning towards favorable" opinion of the pardon to Clinton, which led to the pardoning of Rich on Clinton's last day in office. Joys of Planet Pepe.
A heckuva job, JJ and AA
Half of Boston's high school graduates who studied math when they arrived at local colleges in fall 2005 had to take remedial courses, which a quarter of them failed. Now, now, who's fault is that?
Monday, November 17, 2008
Pepe's Minister for Moral Reconstruction
Put on those red bands if you want Hope for a Change. Quality Ethics, courtesy of Planet Pepe.
"Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Democratic officials.
The choice gives the president-elect both experience and loyalty. During the primaries, Craig was an early Clinton alumni defector to Obama. Columnist Robert D. Novak reported back in the winter of 2007 that Craig had told him he “was impressed with Obama when he first met him at the home of investment banker Vernon Jordan, an intimate friend and supporter of the Clintons.”
Craig was an Obama foreign policy adviser during the campaign. At the start of the Clinton administration, he had been the State Department’s Director of Policy Planning, the head of State’s in-house think tank. He also was senior adviser on defense, foreign policy and national security to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.).
Besides defending Clinton through the impeachment process, an effort that Craig lost, who else had the benefit of Craig’s counsel?
Elian Gonzalez’s father - Craig represented the father who demanded the return of his son after his estranged wife died trying to take Elian to freedom. Most people saw this as a thinly-veiled publicity stunt from Fidel Castro, attempting to embarrass the US. The dispute got resolved when Janet Reno ordered an armed assault on the house where Elian’s family in the US provided him a home.
John Hinckley, Jr - Craig presented and won the insanity defense that allows Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin to spend weekends with his family now.
Kofi Annan - The former Secretary-General of the UN hired Craig to defend his interests in the Volcker Commission probe of the Oil-for-Food scandal, which put billions of dollars into Saddam Hussein’s pockets while providing cash for Annan’s son, his deputies, and some allege Annan himself.
Pedro Gonzalez Pinzon - A Panamanian legislator wanted for murdering an American soldier in 1992.
Planetary Sanity Amongst the Naked Tree-Huggers?
A NASA illustration showing the newly discovered planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting the star Fomalhaut. The brown and gold colors are a Saturn-like ring that astronomers say may encircle the planet. A vast disk of dust and debris surrounding Fomalhaut is shown in the background as the curving cloud-like feature that appears to intersect the 200-million-year-old star. The planet lies 1.8 billion miles inside the disk's inner edge. (ESA, NASA, and L. Calçada [ESO for STScI])
ObaMcCain?
Instead of doing real work (which I'll get to just after this post), I'm posting on FCP... Does anyone else think this from time to time?
Your typical pinko prof
Bernal was a public intellectual, very prominent in political life, particularly in the 1930s after having left the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1933. He attended the famous 1931 meeting on History of Science, where he met the Soviets Nikolai Bukharin and Boris Hessen, who gave an influential Marxist account of the work of Isaac Newton. This meeting fundamentally changed his world-view.
Maybe Pepe wants to explain the Marxist account of Newton's work. I'm waiting with bated breath.
In 1949 the Evening Star published an interview with Bernal in which he endorsed the "proletarian science" of Trofim Lysenko.
Of course. Les grands esprits se rencontrent.
In 1949 he was refused a visa for a US visit.
G_d d__n the US of KKK A, exclaims Pepe!
Throughout the 1950s, Bernal maintained this faith in the Soviet Union as a vehicle for the creation of a socialist scientific utopia.
The finest exemplar of Planet Pepe.
Maybe Pepe wants to explain the Marxist account of Newton's work. I'm waiting with bated breath.
In 1949 the Evening Star published an interview with Bernal in which he endorsed the "proletarian science" of Trofim Lysenko.
Of course. Les grands esprits se rencontrent.
In 1949 he was refused a visa for a US visit.
G_d d__n the US of KKK A, exclaims Pepe!
Throughout the 1950s, Bernal maintained this faith in the Soviet Union as a vehicle for the creation of a socialist scientific utopia.
The finest exemplar of Planet Pepe.
Extreme Ales and the Baltimore Hub
Drunken howler monkeys riding drunken Indian elephants through local villages?
Calagione sent Gasparine back to Paraguay with an order for forty-four hundred board feet of palo santo. “I told him to get a shitload,” he remembers. “We were going to build the biggest wooden barrel since the days of Prohibition.”
I've had a Dogfish beer in an uber-Yuppie suburb of Denver. A 12-ounce bottle ran $8.00. I remember not asking about price before ordering two (for a co-worker and myself), and handing the bartender a $20. She returned with four bucks, and I said, "Did I give you a $10?" She said, "No." I responded with, "Oh," and drank my eight dollar Dogfish Ale while some jazz band played softly, and others in the outfit pretended to read Nietzsche and hit on girls who enjoyed being hit on by Yuppies who pretended to read Nietzsche. It was culture.
Life is good
David J. Sargent, president of Suffolk University, an 8,900-student private institution in Boston, was the highest-paid president, earning $2,800,461. In addition to a base salary of $436,000, Mr. Sargent's compensation package included a $1.2 million "deferred sabbatical bonus" and $556,000 in certain deferred compensation. Who says we don't get paid well in academia?
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Americans Have Always Been In Debt...
President Jefferson passed away with a lot of monetary debt. But the country was indebted to him. The link above guides you to the cultural historian T.J. Jackson Lears (@ Rutgers), as he and/or his graduate students (unmentioned, naturally and understandably) put together an article that thematically traces the history of American debt. Culture for thought, that's all.
How's That for Marxist Theory?
Planet Pepe yearns to drown the American Dream in a Socialist Sea. The first to drown will be Lady Liberty.
"The right-wing propaganda machine will scream socialism, and that is also a good thing. Because the more socialism comes to be identified with real policies that raise the standard of living and improve the quality of life for the working class and the whole people, the more socialism will be looked at seriously. A stronger left that follows the tradition of the Communist Party in its unbreakable commitment to a socialist future and to educating people about the value and necessity of socialist policies in the present could follow."
Hitchens on Hardball (10/24/08)
Hitchens continues to inject Classical Liberalism into today's GOP. In a different interview with Larry King, Hitchens took Palin to task for mocking genetic tests with fruit flies. While I watched it, I rooted on Hitchens while destroying fruit flies so annoyingly buzzing in front of me (I purged my apartment plants some time ago, but one or two fruit flies still linger).
How's that for marxist theory ?
“For us to simply recreate what existed back in the 30s in the 21st century — I think would be missing the boat,” Mr. Obama said in the interview. “I think the basic principle that government has a role to play in kick-starting an economy that has ground to a halt is sound. I think our basic principle that this is a free market system and that that has worked for us, that it creates innovation and risk taking, I think that’s a principle that we’ve got to hold to as well.”
A non-ideologue for president ? Scary.
A non-ideologue for president ? Scary.
VDH in a Spenglerian Gloom
Pepe will be reminded of Hitler in his bunker, philosophizing with his Mauser about the Germans being unworthy of him.
Let's climb Mt. Etna
La colonna del cielo, l'Etna ricoperto di neve, nutrice di ghiacci perenni e pungenti. OK, OK, but keep your hard hat on. And, if you chase them mountain goats, watch for those car-sized rocks falling out of the sky, willya?
Another Reason to Take a Pisser
Is It Really Necessary?
I've got some in my fridge," he added. "It tastes fine to me."
I've got some in my fridge," he added. "It tastes fine to me."
Saturday, November 15, 2008
JJ's package
McCain, who is proponent of campaign finance reform that weakened party organizations and basically put George Soros in the driver's seat. His proposal for amnesty for illegals. His support of global warming, cap-and-trade programs that will put another burden on our economy. And of course, his embrace of the bailout right before the election was probably the nail in our coffin this last election. And he has been an opponent of drilling in ANWR, at a time when energy is so important. It really didn't fit the label, but he was our package.
Verbal diarrhea
My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.
And, she concluded, “never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.”
It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any.
And, she concluded, “never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.”
It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any.
The Atlantic Assesses American Atheists
Interesting article, even Pepe friendly. Check it out, Frenchie:
Twain’s unbelief, for Mencken, was almost the fulfillment of his Americanness. “Mark was wholly of the soil,” he proclaimed. Here the American comic atheist rises up: unencumbered, disenthralled, in rude existential health, not huddled palely in some priest-ridden twilight but soaking up the UV of reality. Fuckin’ innocent, in a word.
Note the intellectual tradition, that is, how this begins in the latter half of the 19th century. And no, atheist doesn't equate Nihilist.
But don't get too excited, Pepe: Another Atlantic article says the following:
Islam is surging. Orthodox Judaism is growing among young people, and Israel has gotten more religious as it has become more affluent. The growth of Christianity surpasses that of all other faiths. In 1942 this magazine published an essay called "Will the Christian Church Survive?" Sixty years later there are two billion Christians in the world; by 2050, according to some estimates, there will be three billion. As Philip Jenkins, a Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University, has observed, perhaps the most successful social movement of our age is Pentecostalism (see "The Next Christianity," October Atlantic). Having gotten its start in Los Angeles about a century ago, it now embraces 400 million people—a number that, according to Jenkins, could reach a billion or more by the half-century mark.
Twain’s unbelief, for Mencken, was almost the fulfillment of his Americanness. “Mark was wholly of the soil,” he proclaimed. Here the American comic atheist rises up: unencumbered, disenthralled, in rude existential health, not huddled palely in some priest-ridden twilight but soaking up the UV of reality. Fuckin’ innocent, in a word.
Note the intellectual tradition, that is, how this begins in the latter half of the 19th century. And no, atheist doesn't equate Nihilist.
But don't get too excited, Pepe: Another Atlantic article says the following:
Islam is surging. Orthodox Judaism is growing among young people, and Israel has gotten more religious as it has become more affluent. The growth of Christianity surpasses that of all other faiths. In 1942 this magazine published an essay called "Will the Christian Church Survive?" Sixty years later there are two billion Christians in the world; by 2050, according to some estimates, there will be three billion. As Philip Jenkins, a Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University, has observed, perhaps the most successful social movement of our age is Pentecostalism (see "The Next Christianity," October Atlantic). Having gotten its start in Los Angeles about a century ago, it now embraces 400 million people—a number that, according to Jenkins, could reach a billion or more by the half-century mark.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Mitt Hussein Romney!
Hah! PuffHo are OK with Mitt at Treas. Great idea. He'll be at home with the Massocialists. Obama staff on their heels already.
Is Sarko a closet pinko?
What kind of a question is that? Of course, all French are pinkos, almost by definition. They may hide that, to some extent, or go off on a tangent, but deep down, they've been like that since time immemorial. Must be something in the gros rouge they drink.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
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