So why does "paste"suddenly NOT work for copying a document into my post space?
Y.C.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
SOME WARS WE NEED TO LOSE
In Lyndon Baines Johnson's presidency great attention was given to his War on Crime and War on Poverty. According to news reports and the shriek for more and more welfare, neither was very successful.
Our current BADministration has, in the euphemistic cloak of "health care reform," declared a War on American Life, and via unprecedented, maniacal spending, a War on U.S. Solvency, to accompany its Wars on Hydrocarbons, Hate Crimes, Sanity on the Supreme Court, General Decency, and I don't know what all.
I'm hoping and praying that BO - or whoever is pulling that puppet's strings - is no more victorious than LBJ.
Our current BADministration has, in the euphemistic cloak of "health care reform," declared a War on American Life, and via unprecedented, maniacal spending, a War on U.S. Solvency, to accompany its Wars on Hydrocarbons, Hate Crimes, Sanity on the Supreme Court, General Decency, and I don't know what all.
I'm hoping and praying that BO - or whoever is pulling that puppet's strings - is no more victorious than LBJ.
A WEIGHTY TOPIC
Dear Friends,
I hope you didn't think I'd forgotten you. No, far from it; just traveling and recruiting a bit.
Lately I read that 34.3% of Americans are obese, and, whereas I've never gathered any data, mere inspection suggests that, whatever the actual tally, a huge proportion of us are huge.
Relatedly, from news photos and advertisements by charitable organizations, the foreign poor are generally pitiable skeletons covered by a tightly stretched casing of skin, while the poverty-stricken of the U.S. are frequently veritable blimps. The only explanation I can adduce from this disparity is that here fatty and carbohydrate-laden foods must be almost gratis.
It follows then that it would cost us very little to donate stores of these cheap calories to zones of starvation and thereby save lives.
What do you think? Is there a fallacy in that?
Y.C.
I hope you didn't think I'd forgotten you. No, far from it; just traveling and recruiting a bit.
Lately I read that 34.3% of Americans are obese, and, whereas I've never gathered any data, mere inspection suggests that, whatever the actual tally, a huge proportion of us are huge.
Relatedly, from news photos and advertisements by charitable organizations, the foreign poor are generally pitiable skeletons covered by a tightly stretched casing of skin, while the poverty-stricken of the U.S. are frequently veritable blimps. The only explanation I can adduce from this disparity is that here fatty and carbohydrate-laden foods must be almost gratis.
It follows then that it would cost us very little to donate stores of these cheap calories to zones of starvation and thereby save lives.
What do you think? Is there a fallacy in that?
Y.C.
Friday, July 10, 2009
BON VOYAGE!
I don't know Governor Palin's plans for the future, but I wish her eminent success in them.
Among last fall's four top candidates, she alone had experience in governance. The 141-day senator, the Neighborhood Organizer, N.O. = B.O., made her look, in comparison, like Thomas Jefferson. (Thanks again American, no-brain voters, for letting the likes of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Oprah Winfrey cast your votes for you.)
I read that McCain ran his own campaign, and, if true, we can thank him for squandering an asset that was the brightest star in the dismal debacle.
Good luck and God bless you, Gov. Palin. More than ever, your country can use a sound, Conservative head with love, compassion, and wisdom all stored in good measure.
Y.C.
P.S. Were I Pope Benedict my sole motivation for lending the Enemy of Life my reflected dignity would have been to excoriate him.
Among last fall's four top candidates, she alone had experience in governance. The 141-day senator, the Neighborhood Organizer, N.O. = B.O., made her look, in comparison, like Thomas Jefferson. (Thanks again American, no-brain voters, for letting the likes of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Oprah Winfrey cast your votes for you.)
I read that McCain ran his own campaign, and, if true, we can thank him for squandering an asset that was the brightest star in the dismal debacle.
Good luck and God bless you, Gov. Palin. More than ever, your country can use a sound, Conservative head with love, compassion, and wisdom all stored in good measure.
Y.C.
P.S. Were I Pope Benedict my sole motivation for lending the Enemy of Life my reflected dignity would have been to excoriate him.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
A QUOTATION PERTINENT TODAY IN THIS COUNTRY
From Saint Leo the Great
"Whatever is forced on you contrary to the Christian faith, whatever is presented to you contrary to the commandments of God, it comes from the deceptions of the the one who tries with many wiles to divert you from eternal life."
As is said in German, Denken daran.
Y.C.
"Whatever is forced on you contrary to the Christian faith, whatever is presented to you contrary to the commandments of God, it comes from the deceptions of the the one who tries with many wiles to divert you from eternal life."
As is said in German, Denken daran.
Y.C.
Monday, July 6, 2009
TOLD YOU SO - ONE MORE TIME
Friends,
Check again my post, UNSWEET ARE SOME USES OF DIVERSITY, and compare to a news report today on riots in the west of China; "... ethnic minorities, who say they are being marginalized in their homelands as Chinese migrants pour in."
While you're at it, think about being marginalized in your own country one of these days.
Y.C.
Check again my post, UNSWEET ARE SOME USES OF DIVERSITY, and compare to a news report today on riots in the west of China; "... ethnic minorities, who say they are being marginalized in their homelands as Chinese migrants pour in."
While you're at it, think about being marginalized in your own country one of these days.
Y.C.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
A TIMELY QUOTATION
I find quite relevant to the B.O. badministration's distortions and downright chicanery (as in suppressing scientific questions into the validity of their great dreams over saving us from global warming) the following quotation from G.K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man. In this case the railroad was embracing evolution in the absence of scientific evidence.
"It is necessary to say plainly that all this ignorance is simply covered by impudence. Statements are made so plainly and positively that men have hardly the moral courage to pause upon them and find that they are without support."
Keep this in mind when experiencing the stampede to "do something" about global warming at any and all costs.
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
"It is necessary to say plainly that all this ignorance is simply covered by impudence. Statements are made so plainly and positively that men have hardly the moral courage to pause upon them and find that they are without support."
Keep this in mind when experiencing the stampede to "do something" about global warming at any and all costs.
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
I AM WONDER FULL
One wonders how, in a country that became great by promoting the best through healthy competition, there ever **WAS** a New Haven firemen’s case and, even more so, how the devil it ever got to the Supreme Court. (Well, I guess, after all, jurisprudential incompetence and/or lunatic misconceptions account for that.)
One also wonders how a blockhead like Sotomayor, reversed FREQUENTLY by a sane Supreme Court, ever got to be nominated for that group or, in fact, to the oft-reversed chair she now occupies.
Finally, one wonders why it was that “no African-American and only two Hispanics were likely to be made lieutenants and captains based on …” a promotion exam. One wonders if they obviously inferior. One wonders how to account for that obvious inferiority. Anyone have a clue?
One also wonders how a blockhead like Sotomayor, reversed FREQUENTLY by a sane Supreme Court, ever got to be nominated for that group or, in fact, to the oft-reversed chair she now occupies.
Finally, one wonders why it was that “no African-American and only two Hispanics were likely to be made lieutenants and captains based on …” a promotion exam. One wonders if they obviously inferior. One wonders how to account for that obvious inferiority. Anyone have a clue?
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