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Floyd | Saturday, 31st of October 2009 at 04:57:28 PM
Of course we know the answer to that, but nevertheless Jason Richwine of the AEI has an interesting piece on the issue atThe American.
This same principle works in places where the default and iconoclastic beliefs are reversed. Japan, for example, has no tradition of monotheistic religion, but the few Japanese Christians tend to be much [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 31st of October 2009 at 04:34:15 PM
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trzupr | Saturday, 31st of October 2009 at 01:54:16 PM
Havin another bad hair day…
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Eric | Saturday, 31st of October 2009 at 10:45:47 AM
Sincerely hope Wankette’s cold hasn’t lingered to the point she’s fallen and she can’t get up … out of bed (or off the floor). Till she makes her glorious return, though, a little somethin’-somethin’ to potentially keep us occupied. Also in honor of the 80s kids who boo-hoo’ed about being too young to appreciate the [...]
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JohnFN | Saturday, 31st of October 2009 at 09:58:34 AM
UPDATE FROM Floyd — Apparently Scozzafava has suspended her campaign in NY-23. Score one for the conservatives!
From Iowahawk – and for good reason.
Canuck reader Maryann Crabtree forwards this photo of the candidate posing proudly in front of his Two Lane Blacktop – worthy 1955 Chevy 210 2-door sedan. Note missing rear bumper. Note radiused [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 31st of October 2009 at 09:54:39 AM
Haven’t heard from Wanks so I apologize up front!!!
OK Threedonians…. it is of course, Halloween. What are your top 5 Halloween memories? Or in the alternative things that creep you out or scare you?
1. Tarantulas… I can kill black widows and all manner of small spiders all the live long [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 31st of October 2009 at 09:20:49 AM
Pernicious: 2. a. Of a thing, action, intent, etc.: causing or likely to cause harm, esp. in a gradual or insidious manner; dangerous, destructive; evil. Also in weakened use: having a harmful influence; undesirable. OED 2d ed. Draft Revision of December 2008.
Example:
Dozens of U.S. Congress members have been targeted by ethics probes for behavior [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 31st of October 2009 at 08:35:07 AM
Saturn Devouring His Sons — from “The Black Paintings” by Francisco Goya
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JohnFN | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 10:41:08 PM
Peggy Noonan’s latest Wall Street Journal column has made the rounds, but given how poignant it is, I felt it deserved a post. She takes on Washington, the intelligentsia’s careless attitude and the consequences.
The biggest threat to America right now is not government spending, huge deficits, foreign ownership of our debt, world terrorism, two wars, [...]
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Rufus | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 06:06:53 PM
Kenn writes:
My theory – listen up all you naturalists/nature freaks, out there – is that capitalism is natural – socialism/communism are mechanisms devised by man to subvert the natural process. Capitalism, is almost a perfect reflection of the natural word – those that hunt and gather have a greater chance of survival than those [...]
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Floyd | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 04:23:50 PM
Comedy comfort food.
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Rufus | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 04:06:46 PM
Unsafe at any speed
Some of you may have heard Bill Maher’s recent statement about President Obama’s difficulties passing legislation. Mr. Maher said,
“You know, they’re talking about 60 votes they need. Forget this stuff. You can’t get Americans to agree on anything. Sixty-percent? Sixty-percent of people don’t believe in evolution in this country. He [...]
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trzupr | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 03:30:57 PM
Frequent Threedonian Flyer David Marcoe asked us to visit Our GOP Forums, where David is one of the moderators. Since I’m all about following instructions, I did a fly-by and it is my intent to offer some comments there from time to time. However, almost the first post that I ran across was this, in [...]
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Rufus | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 12:06:53 PM
It could be… It might be… It is!
Yesterday Floyd gave NEA Director Rocco Landesman an apropos and skillful dressing down based on Rocco’s comments in a recent speech. Today Jonah Goldberg teed it up and (no offense to Floyd) knocked it into the cheap seats. Floyd and Jonah have pretty much guaranteed Landesman will be met with [...]
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trzupr | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 12:05:41 PM
Veruckt asked for some hotforwords.com hubba-hubba and we are always happy to accomdate the V-Man – times 2. We also give you a question to accompany the above graphics. It will eventually be possible to imbed polls like the following directly into this here bloggy-thingy. For now, Floyd has set my level permissions [...]
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Floyd | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 11:47:21 AM
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trzupr | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 09:43:53 AM
Because he IMs me with stuff like this:
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Floyd | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 08:45:38 AM
Principled — “1. Instructed in, imbued with, holding, or motivated by certain principles; taking a position on principle; that is so or such on principle.”
“4. Based on principles or rules; (esp. of a system, method, etc.) guided by technical principles; not arbitrary or ad hoc.” (OED 2d ed. Draft Revision 2009)
Today’s example is [...]
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trzupr | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 07:00:08 AM
Another day, another Democrat leader unveils another health care plan. What do Democrat leaders do when they’re not drafting health care plans? Aside from complaining about the sorry state of their Gulfstream that is.
Researching Pelosi’s proposal (which does not involve reading it, by the by, since we know that NOBODY reads health care plans, especially [...]
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Eric | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 12:01:27 AM
… blah-blah-blah and exactly what is Sting smoking these days???
Very glad to have finally seen the Police a couple years ago, but that was mainly so I could witness the percussion genius of Stewart Copeland fairly up-close and personal. Sting, though? Let’s just say that while I own the majority of his solo output (and [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 29th of October 2009 at 05:48:33 PM
Back in the mid-90s we were out in California on Spring Break from Texas. I began to get an ear infection. I had had a lot of them in my 20s and early 30s so I knew what it was almost before I even felt the icepick in my ear. Off we [...]
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Outlaw13 | Thursday, 29th of October 2009 at 02:23:52 PM
I post this story from the newspaper for purely selfish reasons. It boils my blood to read about a person who wakes up every morning in their own bed, drives their car to work, flies an Uninhabited Aerial System (UAS) from a work station for several hours and at the end of the day [...]
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JohnFN | Thursday, 29th of October 2009 at 01:19:23 PM
While many strident liberals begin to question the Obama administration for its incessant whining about George W. Bush, don’t look for it to end. Hillary Clinton was in Pakistan today, fending off accusations from questioners that the U.S. favors rival India. Clinton, without a proper retort, went back to the administration’s one-off answer to everything.
Answering [...]
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Rufus | Thursday, 29th of October 2009 at 10:42:01 AM
I know I’ve posted this before, but Porvaznik brought her up and I just couldn’t resist…
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JohnFN | Thursday, 29th of October 2009 at 09:25:26 AM
"Don't give me no tiny picture, sucka!"
Starring Bradley Cooper of The Hangover as Templeton “Faceman” Peck, former UFC champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson as B.A. Baracus, Sharlto Cooper of District 9 as Murdoch and Liam Neeson as Col. Hannibal Smith.
Yes, that is the venerable GMC full-sized van in the background.
Pros: John Singleton is [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 29th of October 2009 at 07:21:10 AM
Sycophant, “3. A mean, servile, cringing, or abject flatterer; a parasite, toady, lickspittle.” OED 2d ed. 1989.
Today’s example comes from Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. A couple of days ago, in a speech, he said this of President Barack Hussein Obama (emphasis mine):
This is the first president that [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 29th of October 2009 at 06:51:26 AM
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Floyd | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 11:01:49 PM
You know… if you stick around long enough… your protest song actually becomes relevant.
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Floyd | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 10:41:29 PM
Governor Schwarzenegger sent the above message in vetoing the bill of an Assemblyman who had earlier told Arnold to “kiss my gay ass.” His office is saying it was a “coincidence”. Yeah right. Not the classiest way to respond, but it would’ve been even better if he’d had an acrostic for “a**hole” [...]
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JohnFN | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 09:23:45 PM
It takes a village to raise a child, as Hillary Clinton put it in her idiotic tome some years back, but it takes a government to wrench itself from the bounds of common sense. Welcome to Britain, where parents are assumed pedophiles and locked out of playgrounds until proven otherwise.
Parents are being banned from playing [...]
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Rufus | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 03:37:11 PM
She’s a rich girl, and it’s gone too far…
From Spinner.com:
TV personality Rachael Ray is on a mission: to get Hall and Oates into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We’ve known that Ray is a lover of the more rock-flavored variety of the Hold Steady and the New York Dolls, but after [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 03:09:10 PM
Wal-mart, like Costco, is now selling caskets and urns through its online store.
Prices range from $999 for models like “Dad Remembered” and “Mom Remembered” steel caskets to the mid-level $1,699 “Executive Privilege.” All are less than $2,000, except for the Sienna Bronze Casket, which sells for $3,199.
Caskets ship within 48 hours. Federal law requires funeral [...]
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trzupr | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 02:49:42 PM
…was a conservative newspaper:
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Eric | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 02:44:05 PM
No offense, Scott. M, but some of us ’round here love football and baseball, even if this cartoon digs a knife deeper into my back the same week the Tribe hired the ex-manager of a team with a worse record. The regurgitating pumpkin couldn’t have said it any better.
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Outlaw13 | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 01:51:56 PM
I’m not a big fan of C&W music, but I think it is impossible to grow up in Texas and not be exposed to it. There are bands like Poco and Eagles that were heavily influenced by Country Music. Anyway there is a song that expresses some of what I feel every time [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 12:02:24 PM
The OED is down today so this definition comes from A Preface to Philosophy 3d ed. by Mark B. Woodhouse, Wadsworth (1984).
Deontological: “Any ethical system or standard in which the rightness of an act is defined by reference to factors other than the act’s consequences.”
Today’s example comes from my dear State of California.
The U.S. Supreme [...]
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Eric | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 12:01:11 PM
A President wiser than I (and the exact opposite in terms of being faithful to his wife) once asked not what your country can do for you, rather what can you do for your country. Well, how about it U.S.A.? Care to talk the talk, walk the walk … and sign the sign?
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CFKane | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 10:16:19 AM
This is messy with the universe:
The Amazing Reverse Toast Toaster – Click here for more blooper videos
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Outlaw13 | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 08:32:57 AM
Nice work if you can get it.
It does say something about our society that someone feels they need to make a film to encourage people to do “the right thing”.
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Rufus | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 07:17:03 AM
Frequent Threedonia commenter BarryO wrote this,
It’s awesome to see great minds “working it out.” Thanks David & Rufus for great points.
yesterday, and it caused me to write this, in response:
That’s my favorite thing about Threedonia, BarryO, and that’s why I am very happy when folks with differing opinions drop in and give their 2 cents.
I [...]
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Outlaw13 | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 03:40:16 AM
People have said this many times before, but where do we get such men?
The answer is they are all around you every day. These are you sons and daughers, brothers, sisters, moms and dads. THIS is what it’s all about. These are the people some up in DC are going to try [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 28th of October 2009 at 12:35:03 AM
h/t: e-mail sent to me from a friend in AZ. Click on the photo to read the sign.
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Floyd | Tuesday, 27th of October 2009 at 02:00:17 PM
Stolen Kiss by Jean Honore Fragonard
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Eric | Tuesday, 27th of October 2009 at 12:00:22 PM
Laughter the best medicine? Some old, some news, so you decide …
Q: What’s the main problem with Barack Obama jokes?
A: His followers don’t think they’re funny and everyone else doesn’t think they’re jokes.
Q: Why does Barack Obama oppose the Second Amendment?
A: It stands between him and the First.
Q: What’s the difference between Rahm Emanuel and [...]
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