May, 2011 archive
A Movable Farce 0
Just as I predicted.
Rapture Rapup 0
From Andy Borowitz. A snippet:
More at the link.
T-Pawty 0
With apologies to Peter Bergman, from whom I stole the title. He doesn’t think T-Paw has a prayer with the teabaggers. His reasoning:
That leaves T-Paw, who’s done his damnedest to kiss the Tea Party’s ring. He’s performed his mea culpas for protecting the environment, and is parroting the cant of draconian budget cuts and tax relief for the rich. But it won’t be enough. Pawlenty, bless his beige, Minnesota persona, isn’t crazy enough for the Tea Party. If they can’t convince Bachmann or Palin to lead a third party, they’ll write them in, or do whatever they can to spoil the GOP’s chances in 2012, and perhaps for decades thereafter.
Drinking Liberally Wednesday in Virginia Beach 0
Fun and fellowship for liberals. Join us.
When: Wednesday, May 25, 6 p
Where:
Kelly’s Tavern
1936 Laskin Rd, # 201
Virginia Beach, Va. (Map)
More here.
New OTR Links 0
I’ve added several more old time radio links to the Old Time Radio item over there
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on the sidebar.
Rapturous Results 0
The Shockoe Literary Messenger, in an attempt to explain their disappearance, theorizes that Gingrinch supporters appear to have been raptured.
More at the link.
Fiduciary Responsibility 0
Bankster style:
He was annoyed. “When Countrywide had it I paid my own taxes,” said Bohannon, 67. “I always paid them and I didn’t think I had to worry about it.”
But Bohannon, who is semi-retired and cares for disabled people in his home, wasn’t half as annoyed as he was last month when he got a letter from his town saying his property taxes, due April 10, had not been paid. He was delinquent.
The bank sent the town a lump-sum check for all its mortgage customers in the jurisdiction. The town sent it back, along with a letter and a phone call, because it was for an incorrect amount. That was the last the town heard of it.
Also, Vermont apparently has a exceptionally complicated system for figuring property taxes.
But, really now, that’s what computers are for.
Facebook Frolics 0
Update: Link appears broken at the other end. Here’s the newspaper story.
Oh, my.
Afterthought:
Free speech means you can say it, no matter how stupid and hate-full it is. It doesn’t mean that others are prevented from objecting to it.
Contraband of Brothers 0
A ceremony yesterday commemorated an event from a century ago (long story at the link): Three slaves escaped from working on Confederate defenses and fled to Fort Monroe, Virginia.
Today, we would say that they sought asylum. The Union forces did not know what to do.
In the weeks and months after Butler’s ruling, thousands of former slaves marched into Union hands.
Today, persons descended from those men and women celebrate their having been classified as “akin to enemy horses or cannon” and consider it to have been a step up from their previous status.
“Singing in the fields” my anatomy.
False Equivalences Again 0
Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution discusses wingnut attacks on ultra-conservative George Senator Saxby Chambliss for the crime of being willing to talk with Democrats. In the process, she points out the falsity of false equivalences. A nugget:
Let Rush Limbaugh say what he will, there is simply no similar force on the political left.
Follow the link to her reasoning and her examples.
Rapturous Thinking 0
Greet the new rapturous day!
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Calling CQ.
Calling CQ.
Isn’t there anybody there?
Anybody . . . . ?
If you were expecting to be raptured today and are reading this, you obviously are not worthy. Live with it.
Hey! What happened to all those annoying self-righteous?
Get your rapture relief here!
All seriousness aside, we were given the capacity for reason for a purpose.
Faith without reason is not faith.
It is fanaticism. It is Jonestown.
The Elmer Gantrys and the other End-of-the-World-Is-Nigh scammers–the false prophets who live by gulling the unreasoning and the vulnerable to sell the lectures, the radio shows, the books, the retreats, and the merchandise–will claim that there must be an error in their cosmic arithmetic, a sign that was misread, and, like a GPS gone screwy, will continue
- recalculating, recalculating, recalculating . . .
all the while soliciting additional donations from their willing victims to pay for more and better recalculators while selling revised lectures, revised radio shows, revised books, revised retreats, and revised merchandise.
They will continue fleecing their followers and betraying trust with their con games, for, as L. Ron Hubbard knew, the best scam is a religion scam.
