Execution of Robespierre Hanging actually was too good for him.
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According to the Houston news, Michael Vick has been reinstated as of some time yesterday.
And Robespierre got what he asked for!
What a vile, monstrous human being Robespierre was. The ultimate self-righteous liberal.
An amazingly effective monsterous liberal, though. He managed to talk himself out of a tough spot so many times that when they finally decided to off him, the first thing they did was hold him down and shoot out his tongue so he couldn’t turn the guards against them. Wow! Seriously, Wow! I can’t think of a single American politician who could make that claim!
Unrelated to that – and I apologize for posting it on here twice, but I figured no one would see it on the Sunday open thread – I think some of you guys might really like it: http://www.republibot.com/content/global-warming-it-turns-out-its-actually-good-planet
Those were some interesting pictures, Bot.
I know every study I’ve seen shows that a warmer planet would be able to feed more people. But didn’t “The Day After Tomorrow” prove that flooding will be instantaneous, and furthermore we’ll be flash-frozen like Bird’s Eye niblets?
Mmmmmmm, niblets.
One thing that has been inconveniently denied is the fact that ice formation on the Earth is a little understood process. If you look at all the data they say about the Arctic, the amount of ice that has disappeared should have already led to flooding. However, in the Antarctic, ice is building rapidly, leading to stable ocean water levels. As its studied more there is a low grumbling that a consensus is building around the theory that Earth’s ice caps are more in flux then previously theorized.
It amazes me how supposedly intelligent people see glaciers and ice caps as permanent geological structures. Have they never dropped an ice cube into a glass of water?
Actually,Floyd,he got his prissy little head chopped off…my girlfriend and I were in Paris back in May,and we passed by the Place de la Concorde almost every day.A lovely place(the obelisk at the center,and the Pont Alexander III across the Seine..).It was also the birthplace of genocide
I meant hanging was too good for him… that’s why they chopped off his head.
@ Republibot… I thought Robespierre tried to kill himself the night of his arrest and incompletely blew his head off — 45 degree angle Robespierre — come on! so they completed the job the next day.
Little wonder that Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot studied in Paris
Some say Robespierre has been reincarnated and is a wellknown politician today. There are some striking similarities.
For every Robespierre, you do get a Marquis de Lafayette.
Does that mean for every Abe Lincoln, we get a B.H. Obama?
The Lafayettes have to work pretty hard to counterbalance the Robespierres. Evil’s easy. Good is tough.
Robespierre the lawyer…He saw himself as a man of the center.He deplored the athiests on the left,the Enrages,and attacked the Hebertists(unlike Hebert,Robespierre was a devout believer in God).Then he struck at Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins on the right(those 2 finally decided that enough blood had been shed:that was enough to seal their fate).
Floyd,he shattered his jaw by the pistol shot…they say that when they put him in the guiillatine they ripped the bandage off his mouth.You could hear him scream across Paris before the blade fell.
Wikipedia, for what it’s worth, says nobody’s entirely sure whether the pistol shot was self-inflicted or not.
“You can’t dust for vomit.”
Robspierre was a fanatic and a monster. He became what he said he deplored like aHell fanatics do. He absolutely got what he deserved.
Just finished up “Atlas Shrugged,” and I’m pretty sure Mrs. Rand was refering to Robspierre when she said that “Most mystics of muscle began as mystics of spirit.”
As to Global Warming, I think it’s based on a fundamental flaw in the human outlook: if something is going on now, we naturally assume it must have always been so, and always will be. Obviously, this ignores that World War II was not eternal, but it’s the way people are. The earth is changing, and has been changing back and forth in this way for 3 million years, but as that’s too slow to be noticed like the seasons, we assume it doesn’t change at all.
Couple that with the notion that “If anything goes wrong, it must be our fault,” and you’ve got a dangerous combination indeed.
Remember that ozone hole over Antarctica? Turns out that it’s probably always been there. Ozone is unstable in low temperatures, and tends to break down over cold locations like the south pole. The following summer, it was completely gone, but it re-appeared the next winter. We assumed this was our fault, but in fact, we never thought to even look prior to 1986 or so. It may have been a sesonable hole for the last hundred million years, for all we know, but of course it’s just *got* to be our fault.
Also, I’m pretty sure I caused Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. I was having a bad week. Sorry.
Global warming is for those afraid to go to church/temple/place of worship and acknowledge a higher power. Not saying we shouldn’t be responsible (of our own choosing), but so arrogant to think we mere mortals have an earth-shaking effect on our planet.
Republibot 3.0,
I think all environmentalists who swing to the extremes have a warped view of humanity and their sphere of influence. As I’ve said countless times before, anyone who believes he or she can predict specific, annual, global weather patterns based on decades of data knows nothing about the globe, or weather patterns. If one plotted significant climate changes in Earth’s history even centuries would be too small to warrant coordinates.
My mom was convinced she caused 9-11. Not even joking.
OK I am sorry but the new FOX reality show, More to Love just is horrible.
If you look close enough, you can see Edmund Blackadder climbing through the window into Robespierre’s bedroom and leaving him a small tray of milk chocolates and an insulting note.
The only worse than finishing “Atlas Shrugged” is beginning it..
We now have more than a respect for golf in common, Scott! Hate. That. Overrated. Piece. Of. Pretension.
“We now have more than a respect for golf in common, Scott! Hate.”
That reminds me of a book about college football. It’s title is something like, A Hate Like This Is a Joy Forever.
Count me in, too.
What Scott said. Atlas Shrugged is being tossed around these days as the book to read. I’m going with Brave New World. As longs as Gammas & Betas & all the rest get their Soma, they’ll be happy.
“There’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that’s what soma is.” World Controller Mustapha Mond, Chapter 17
Glad to hear it,Eric.It amuses me that some conservatives love to count this militantly atheistic shrew as one of their intellectual saints…
Glad to hear it, Eric.It amuses me that some conservatives love to count this militantly atheistic shrew as one of their intellectual saints…
It just annoys the hell out of me. She was herself no less a mystic than the people she derided and often more superstitious. I wish I could find the article, but it was an interesting piece by a center-right author on his firsthand experience with Rand and her circle and how it displayed cult-like behavior. Even in her works, her code of ethics is never consistently applied to or by her characters.
Great week for golf here in Shelby County,by the way…our Loren Roberts won the Senior British Open,and our Justin Timberlake opened his new golf course!
Yes,David,one of her apostles was Allen Greenspan
I frankly wouldn’t wipe my a** with anything Ayn Rand wrote…if you want a big book to read,flush “Atlas Shrugged” down the toilet and read “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers
Oh, it wasn’t a bad book. I actually really enjoyed the first half, but the wheels go off in the second half, and the axles break in the final third. I’ll run a review on Republibot eventually.
I think the reason *some* Republicans venerate her as an intelectual saint is that we haven’t really been known for intellectualism for quite a while. Teddy Roosevelt is the last Republican most people can point to as being something of a thinker and progressive. Conversely, the Democrats can cite a hundred zillion intelectuals to back up their cases. It’s logical, then, that we’d begin to develop a bit of envy over this, and greedily glom on to any who would seem to be in our camp.
Fact is, Rand wasn’t in our camp anyway. She’s more of a militant Libertarian than a Republican, so claiming she supports ‘our side’ is kind of like a dude in prison claiming he’s straght because he only has sex with the effeminate prisoners, not the butch ones.
I’m not sure how anyone could ‘consistently’ apply Rand’s ethical code, since it is by definition situational ethics.
I’d say that William F. Buckley, Russell Kirk, Leo Strauss, Hayek, Friedman, Chambers and others would take exception to your argument, 3.0.
Not to mention the Threedonian brain trust.
When it comes to “Atlas Shrugged” I’ll let Whitaker Chambers do the talking:
“Something of this implication is fixed in the book’s dictatorial tone, which is much its most striking feature. Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other book in which a tone of overriding arrogance was so implacably sustained. Its shrillness is without reprieve. Its dogmatism is without appeal. In addition, the mind, which finds this one natural to it, shares other characteristics of its type. 1) It consistently mistakes raw force for strength, and the rawer the force, the more reverent the posture of the mind before it. 2) It supposes itself to be the bringer of a final revelation. Therefore, resistance to the Message cannot be tolerated because disagreement can never be merely honest, prudent or just humanly fallible. Dissent from revelation so final (because, the author would say, so reasonable) can only be willfully wicked. There are ways of dealing with such wickedness, and, in fact, right reason itself enjoins them. From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: ” To the gas chambers — go!” The same inflexibly self-righteous stance results, too (in the total absence of any saving humor), in odd extravagances of inflection and gesture — that Dollar Sign, for example. At first, we try to tell ourselves that these are just lapses, that this mind has, somehow, mislaid the discriminating knack that most of us pray will warn us in time of the differences between what is effective and firm, and what is wildly grotesque and excessive. Soon we suspect something worse. We suspect that this mind finds, precisely in extravagance, some exalting merit; feels a surging release of power and passion precisely in smashing up the house. A tornado might feel this way, or Carrie Nation.”
I just recently read that review, Daniel. Did you post that link earlier? I think the gas chamber comment is hyperbole, but her philosophy and personality are both repellent to me.
(Never mentioned it before, but I dig your avatar.)
Yeah, it’s hyperbole and I may have linked that review here in the past. If I was to give it a rewrite, I’d inject “To the cubicle farms – Go!” But gas chambers have a bit more oomph.
In my rarely to be humble opinion, Jeeves & Wooster was the pinnacle of their careers. Then again I’ve never seen an episode of House.
I’ve seen a couple episodes of House, and you’re right. Although I was amazed that I could watch those episodes, not to mention the publicity blitz leading up to the show’s premiere, and not recognize Laurie. Not by the face, mannerisms, voice or accent. (And I’ve seen him in a lot more than Jeeves & Wooster.)
Thanks,Daniel,exactly the quote I was thinking of