U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus also ruled that provisional ballots can't be invalidated because of poll worker errors."--this again involving, go figure, Jennifer Brunner, this link leads to her shameless "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" defense on previous matters.
"Finally, someone ELSE is talking about his first book.
Now ... first of all. You need to understand that what I'll be talking about in this segment is totally and completely off limits. You're going to read some notes about Barack Obama's past statements and associations .. negative statements and negative associations. You will not read about these associations in the mainstream media. That would be because the mainstream media � and by that I mean the Beltway and New York City media � are totally and completely dedication to the election of Barack Obama as our next president. For the reporters and editors that comprise what used to be our most trusted source for news all pretentions of objectivity have been out the window. The new standards for reporting a news story are who, what, when, where, how and will it hurt Barack Obama. If the story can hurt Obama, and if it can be quietly killed, so it shall be.
Question for you, dear listener. If someone could come up with something that John McCain wrote a book or an article about 20 years ago in which he detailed his attraction to members of the Ku Klux Klan during his college years? Do you think for a minute that this would not be at the top of the front page of every newspaper in the country? Not to mention leading every television newscast.
But what if we have a candidate writing about his attraction to Marxism during his college years? News? Well, if that person is going to be on the presidential ballot on election day, you would think it would be news. Well .. that person IS on the ballot on election day, and it is most certainly NOT news.
Now I've been telling you this for months. But who am I? Just a radio talk show host without a television show. But I read Barack Obama's "Dreams From my Father" several months ago ... and there they were; Barack's expressions of affection for his Marxist and socialist friends and mentor of his college days and before.
Finally, it's becoming news. Well .. news to some outlets like the one liberals just love to hate, Fox News. Here's your link to a story appearing yesterday on FoxNews.com. The title is "Obama Affinity to Marxists Dates Back to College Days."
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists." These are the friends that Obama says he "chose carefully." That's carefully?
Obama's interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan's Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called "the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union."
"At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature."
"Sometimes attended" socialist conferences? Oh... and by the way, they were selling Marxist stuff at the entrance. Oh, and another thing, one of my mentors, Frank Marshall Davis, was a Communist. But hey ... I'm clean.
Question to Obama, if you were so careful with your friends in college, why wouldn't you continue to use the same level of judgment when choosing your friends to help you get elected ... i.e. Bill Ayers? Hey, maybe you chose him, and Jeremiah Write just as carefully, right?"
"So let’s get this straight: we are going to see more than $4 trillion in new spending, have a big tax increase, and defund our military — while certain to face international challenges where 'it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.' And this is what Democrats are saying?"
Let me point out that even those that want something for nothing or for the U.S. to be substantially if not entirely weakened on the world stage are expressing a global and human patriotism...so don't criticize them or in any way threaten their ascendancy, or you're a bigot and part of the problem.Even though I kind of hate it when writers and politicians use their children's cute little utterances to illustrate points — I am going to do it here. James Gimpel gives a data-backed defense of Sarah Palin's comments about some places and people being more patriotic than others, here. He writes,
Also, rural areas are more Republican, and the University of Michigan survey shows a significant partisan difference in patriotism. Democrats are considerably less likely to express strong love of country than Republicans are, and less likely to think being an American is important. Of those who claimed to be “Strong Democrats,” only around half expressed extremely strong love of country, compared to three-fourths of the “Strong Republicans.” A sizable share of (but by no means all) committed Democrats are apparently embarrassed about their country and about being American.
So, last weekend, in a beautiful town in rural Vermont, my 10 year old, Sarah, looked at a purple painted house festooned with peace signs, and said — "Look. Obama voters." We had seen plenty of Obama lawn signs — and an equal number of McCain ones as it happens — but this house didn't have one. "How do you know they're Obama voters," I asked. (Not that I doubted it. I just wanted to understand how she made the connection.) She rolled her baby blues at me and said, "Mom. A peace sign. What do you think?" So I asked, "What sign would tell you that people are McCain voters?" Sarah and her 9 year old sister simultaneously and without hesitating said, "An American flag."
I have, in fact, refused to buy them clothing or accessories with peace signs on them — which are popular at the moment. I have explained many times that peace is good, but the peace sign is about walking away from a job we need to finish. Mostly they roll their eyes at the lecture added to the "no." I try not to discuss support for the war in terms of parties.
I'm glad someone at the University of Michigan went to the trouble of quantifying these fundamentally self-evident associations. It is both sad and a little amusing that, the minute anyone (Palin, that is) uttered an unfiltered comment expressing the same observation, she was slapped down, and had to apologize. I wonder if the speech police will soon require parents to explain to their children that, while one side in the culture war is always criticizing their country's actions, its essential nature and its "meanness," that does not in any way mean that that side loves its country any less than the side where people say they love their country and leave it at that. And if you tell your kid that, and she accepts it, wouldn't you worry that she wasn't very bright?
"7. Conclusion
There is not always a meeting of minds in this debate. Some physicalists believe the zombie idea and its relatives exert an irrational grip on anti-physicalist thinking, so that
… it is tempting to regard anti-physicalist arguments as rationalizations of an intuition whose independent force masks their tendentiousness (Loar 1997, 598).
Correspondingly, some anti-physicalists believe their opponents’ commitment results in turning a blind eye to the difficulties:
Some may be led to deny the possibility [of zombies] in order to make some theory come out right, but the justification of such theories should ride on the question of possibility, rather than the other way round (Chalmers 1996, 96).
Regardless of whether those pessimistic readings of the debate are correct, and of whether the zombie idea itself is sound or incoherent, it continues to stimulate fruitful work on consciousness, physicalism, phenomenal concepts, and the relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility."
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Legend has it, that there was a farmer, Stingy Jack, who had a reputation of being a drunk and a gambler, that played a trick on the devil.
One night, he was at his usual haunt, the alehouse, but had run out of money to buy any more booze. He persuaded the devil to turn himself into a sixpence so he could buy one last drink.
However, once the devil changed himself into a coin. Rather than paying for his drink with this coin, Stingy Jack put the sixpence (remember this is the devil in disguise) into his pocket.
Also in his pocket was a silver cross. This silver cross prevented the devil being able to change back from the coin to himself. Of course the devil was not happy.
Eventually Stingy Jack and the devil struck a deal. Jack would remove the cross so the devil could change back only if he promised to leave Jack alone for one year, and that when he died Satan would not claim Jack's soul.
After a year the devil came back to bother Jack. This time Jack tricked the devil into climbing an apple tree to collect the largest apple, where Jack trapped him by carving a cross on the tree bark.
They struck another deal, this time Jack would let the devil go if he promised not to bother him for 10 years.
Of course, when he eventually died, Heaven did not want him because he was such a bad character, but he could not go to hell either as the devil, true to his word, would not claim his soul.
The devil sent him away with a piece of burning coal, that Jack placed in a carved out turnip.
With the turnip as a lamp he roamed the earth for the rest of eternity. He was referred to as Jack of the Lantern, eventually Jack O' Lantern."
I assert that what I was lazy enough to copy and paste above is 1000 percent true in the literal sense and, furthermore, because the above photo is from a fancy schmancy yacht club (as is clearly evident in the accomodations,) in the littoral sense as well. Also, while I do not advocate laziness, I always root against the debil
) er, sorry about that. I meant the Devil, so good for Jack!
Pazzo waded through the panicked birds to find out what was wrong. She found one penguin that hadn’t fled. “It was sinking into the ice as if into quicksand,” she says. Somehow the ice beneath the bird had melted; the penguin was waist deep in slush. Pazzo tried to help the struggling penguin. She grabbed its wings and pulled. With a heave she freed the bird. But the penguin wasn’t the only thing she hauled from the slush. About a dozen small, hairless pink molelike creatures had clamped their jaws onto the penguin’s lower body. Pazzo managed to capture one of the creatures—the others quickly released their grip and vanished into the slush.
Over the next few months Pazzo caught several of the animals and watched others in the wild. She calls the strange new species hotheaded naked ice borers. “They’re repulsive,” says Pazzo. Adults are about six inches long, weigh a few ounces, have a very high metabolic rate—their body temperature is 110 degrees—and live in labyrinthine tunnels carved in the ice.
Perhaps their most fascinating feature is a bony plate on their forehead. Innumerable blood vessels line the skin covering the plate. The animals radiate tremendous amounts of body heat through their “hot plates,” which they use to melt their tunnels in ice and to hunt their favorite prey: penguins.
A pack of ice borers will cluster under a penguin and melt the ice and snow it’s standing on. When the hapless bird sinks into the slush, the ice borers attack, dispatching it with bites of their sharp incisors. They then carve it up and carry its flesh back to their burrows, leaving behind only webbed feet, a beak, and some feathers. “They travel through the ice at surprisingly high speeds,” says Pazzo, “much faster than a penguin can waddle.”
Pazzo’s discovery may also help solve a long-standing Antarctic mystery: What happened to the heroic polar explorer Phillipe Poisson, who disappeared in Antarctica without a trace in 1837? “I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that a big pack of ice borers got him,” says Pazzo. “I’ve seen what these things do to emporer penguins—it isn’t pretty—and emporers can be as much as four feet tall. Poisson was about 5 foot 6. To the ice borers, he would have looked like a big penguin.'
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