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Chad Purser
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Great News! Protein Wisdom!
Last weekend I was explaining to my son the meaning of Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen name as we were all sailing so it is appropriate to quote him here in reference to Protein Wisdom and whether he will be back.
“Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated!"
What Jeff and his family have had to endure because of a rather sad ex-quasi professor is a telling tale of the dark side of the internet.
Thanks, everyone
“Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated!"
What Jeff and his family have had to endure because of a rather sad ex-quasi professor is a telling tale of the dark side of the internet.
Thanks, everyone
The Rural Ten
Anybody that has spent time in the country knows this version well. I heard this many times here in Ohio working on a farm in beautiful Delaware County.
Kentucky version of the Ten Commandments:
(1) Just one God
(2) Honor yer Ma & Pa
(3) No tellin' tales or gossipin'
(4) Git yourself to Sunday meetin'
(5) Put nothin' before God
(6) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal
(7) No killin'
(8) Watch yer mouth
(9) Don't take what ain't yers
(10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff
Via e-mail from a great person, Lori Viars of Family First.
Kentucky version of the Ten Commandments:
(1) Just one God
(2) Honor yer Ma & Pa
(3) No tellin' tales or gossipin'
(4) Git yourself to Sunday meetin'
(5) Put nothin' before God
(6) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal
(7) No killin'
(8) Watch yer mouth
(9) Don't take what ain't yers
(10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff
Via e-mail from a great person, Lori Viars of Family First.
I Love This Guy
No, don't get excited Andrew Sullivan.
Via This ain't Hell
Boehner Calls Iraq Defectors in GOP 'Wimps'
House Republican leader John Boehner blasted GOP defectors in the Senate, calling them "Wimps," as lawmakers awaited the Bush administration's assessment Thursday of political, economic and military progress made by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government.
Via This ain't Hell
Chapter 39 of the Book of Jeremiah
Via Return of the Conservatives
This very cool. As a kid I played make believe that I was archaeologist. In our neighbor's yard, but that is another discussion...
This very cool. As a kid I played make believe that I was archaeologist. In our neighbor's yard, but that is another discussion...
Ancient Document Confirms Existence Of Biblical Figure
But Michael Jursa, a visiting professor from Vienna, let out such a cry
last Thursday. He had made what has been called the most important find in
biblical archaeology for 100 years, a discovery that supports the view that the
historical books of the Bible are based on fact.
Nobel Death Products Enable Peaceniknut Platform to Threaten Bush
Nobel laureate calls for removal of BushBetty Williams, doing her best Doris Day impression, stated to a crowd of the International Women's Peace Conference in Dallas:
"Right now, I could kill George Bush," she said at the Adam's Mark Hotel and Conference Center in Dallas. "No, I don't mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that."
It appears that such an expert as Betty isn't quite up on the presidential succession nor what is happening in the "Muslim world". If she is speaking of Iraq and Afghanistan maybe someone should remind her of how they used to live. For the rest of the "Muslim world" maybe someone can give her a history lesson on, oh, say "Muslim world" history for the last 50 - 60 years.
Betty is in good company with Jimmy "one note" Carter who has as much gravitas as a 9.6 volt Black and Decker cordless drill.
The Confederacy of Morons grows everyday.
Protein Wisdom RIP?
The “the goodbye post” post
Later, all.
Posted by Jeff G. @ 4:15 pm Trackback Share This
I can't remember how I found PW, but there have been few days that I have not checked in. I believe Jeff Golstein that good.
PW/Goldstein had punch. Other blogs fluttered.
Many people who have been PW fans have written kind things about Jeff and they should, but I will miss the intellect. Gordian's knot didn't have a chance once sighted by Jeff.
An academic who faced down the inbred brilliant ignorance of the academy.
I will search for his return. With hope.
Later, all.
Posted by Jeff G. @ 4:15 pm Trackback Share This
I can't remember how I found PW, but there have been few days that I have not checked in. I believe Jeff Golstein that good.
PW/Goldstein had punch. Other blogs fluttered.
Many people who have been PW fans have written kind things about Jeff and they should, but I will miss the intellect. Gordian's knot didn't have a chance once sighted by Jeff.
An academic who faced down the inbred brilliant ignorance of the academy.
I will search for his return. With hope.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Thank God They Weren't Korans
Or Japan would be burning
Money found in toilets across Japan
Envelopes containing Y10,000 ($A95.65) bills and well-wishing notes have been discovered in municipal toilets across Japan, media reports said, baffling civil servants and triggering a nationwide hunt.
Local media have estimated that over Y2 million ($A19,131) worth of
bills were found at men's rooms in city halls in at least 15 prefectures
(states) in recent weeks.
Each package of 10,000-yen bills, some wrapped in traditional
Japanese washi paper, was accompanied by handwritten letters that read "Please
make use of this money for your self-enrichment," and "One per person,"
according to reports.
Officials are baffled over the identity of the benefactor or any
motives, the reports said. Packages turned over to police were to be kept for
some time in case someone claimed them.
Lal Masjid, Clerics in Burkhas, Kidnapping and Murder? Blame America
Deadly Pakistan Mosque Siege Ends
"This (mosque attack) is part of our government's action against religious
elements to please America," said Shabbir Khan, a lawmaker from an opposition
Islamic party, at the demonstration.
About 15 other Islamic opposition lawmakers gathered in front of the
Supreme Court in Islamabad, blaming Musharraf for Pakistan's troubles, including
the mosque attack, and calling for his resignation.
In neighboring Afghanistan, a senior Taliban commander, Mansoor Dadullah,
urged Muslims to launch suicide attacks on Pakistani security forces, calling
the assault "a cruel act."
"I would have sent 10,000 mujahedeen to support the (Red Mosque) students
but we are busy in Afghanistan and Islamabad is far from Afghanistan. I wished
to go myself to support them," he told The Associated Press by telephone.
Oh yeah, a brave one, that one. What the AP isn't saying is that their crack reporter was probably sipping an espresso just off the dangerous Piazza Navona and the brave murderer Dadullah was calling from his headquarters in a Starbucks in Istanbul where he defending his faith by buying little girls. And I'm not talking about his Starbucks Coffee Liqueur.
World Map of Freedom
For a 2007 map Go HEREIf Congress succeeds in its desire to run away from Iraq, Afghanistan and the Greater War on Terror, the map may change considerably in the near future.
Not coincidentally, countries subjugated by Islamofascists will be colored green.
Republican Chicken Littles and the Personal Power of Cowardice II
Do Senators and Representatives actually read the Iraq reports that are delivered to them or are they just listening to staffers that slavishly watch network news as if theirs jobs depend on it? If so, their jobs are safe for a while, but also so are our lives as we know them.
I propose pop quizzes on the floors of Congress with public grading on C-SPAN. Those who fail should get swats in the well aired on network nightly news right after the film by al Qaeda segments are aired.
I propose pop quizzes on the floors of Congress with public grading on C-SPAN. Those who fail should get swats in the well aired on network nightly news right after the film by al Qaeda segments are aired.
How Al Qaeda is Winning Even as it is Losing
But al Qaeda's largest harvest from "random slaughter" strategy was realized in America. Through acts of indiscriminate violence transmitted by the media, insurgents brought their war to America's living rooms. The atrocity-of-the-day is the principal informational input most Americans receive. This forms their knowledge base. The public does not live in the villages and mahalas of Iraq. Patterns of recovery, of normalcy, are not evident.
This is the essence of 4th Generation Warfare. And al Qaeda is clearly winning
it. . . . Al Qaeda is running its war on smoke and mirrors - or, more accurately, on bytes of sound and sight. Congress could act on General Petraeus' reports from the ground, rather than broadcasts generated by insurgents. This requires a simple commitment - one foreign to many in the elective branch: Leadership.
Republican Chicken Littles and the Personal Power of Cowardice
It is a given that the MSM is doing all it can to undermine educational efforts, welfare reform, cutting tax rates and Iraq, in short, any program supported by President Bush, because they hate President Bush. The elected officials in Congress should be working for the security and the betterment of the United States of America, but they are more interested in elections and power. In short, most of them have become partisan hacks that hump special interest projects, earmarks and whatever else they feel they need to give them more power to make them more important to their party by making their party more powerful.
This has traditionally been a Democrat persona, but Republicans have defied the physics of stupidity and caught up in record time
To the point here, the Republicans that are squealing like scared piglets that the sky is falling in Iraq are moral and political cowards. Their cowardice is nestled in their arrogance of power and importance. In their helping the forces of chicken littles to gain a personal victory they have fashioned their own legacy. They are the Benedict Arnolds of today without the gall of Benedict Arnold.
Tygrrrr Express states it very well:
Will crying George have another bolt of Bolton remorse or will he cut to the chase and pull out that old tie-died t-shirt kept in the back of his political closet?
This has traditionally been a Democrat persona, but Republicans have defied the physics of stupidity and caught up in record time
To the point here, the Republicans that are squealing like scared piglets that the sky is falling in Iraq are moral and political cowards. Their cowardice is nestled in their arrogance of power and importance. In their helping the forces of chicken littles to gain a personal victory they have fashioned their own legacy. They are the Benedict Arnolds of today without the gall of Benedict Arnold.
Tygrrrr Express states it very well:
Given that all we are dealing with is the fate of the free world and
civilization versus death, destruction and barbarism, I think I will trust
General Petraeus and the soldiers with boots on the ground to handle this
matter.
We can either support General Petraeus, and contribute to saving
the world, or we can undermine him. When the history books are written, those
who chose to undermine him will be seen as uglier than the souls of those
currently at antiwar rallies.
Mr. President, you picked the right man for the job. My friends and
I are going to patiently back him, and are confident that he will deliver the
desired results in due time.
Good luck to both of you. You deserve nothing less.
eric
Will crying George have another bolt of Bolton remorse or will he cut to the chase and pull out that old tie-died t-shirt kept in the back of his political closet?
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Candidates Flock to First Ever Amish Debate
Presidential Candidates In First Ever Amish Debate
(Plain City, Ohio) For the first time the leading candidates for the presidency will hold a televised debate devoted solely to Amish issues.
The one-hour event will be held on August 9 and broadcast on Amish network DARK at 9:00 pm ET (6:00 pm ET) and through live streaming yelling at Amishoffline.com for people outside the event.
Ron Paul, Jim Gilmore, Tom Tancredo and Sam Brownback have confirmed they will participate. Several other Republican candidates also may join the debate. Newt Gingrich, who in the past has underwritten several grants for horse mechanics programs, who is said to considering an appearance stated “You can't trust anybody with power which is why all Americans love horse and buggies”
The debate will be conducted with a live audience in Plain City at the Der Dutchman Restaurant. On the panel questioning the four Republicans will be Amish Defense League president Friedrich von Steuben and seamtress Esther Stoltzfus.
The debate was put together by DARK and ADL.
"In the 2008 presidential election, issues of concern to the Amish community have already been at the forefront of the national conversation,” said von Steuben.
"From the repeal of “Don’t Cask, Don’t Yell” to the recent signing of apple butter legislation in Pennsylvania, there is no doubt that voters will demand answers to important questions affecting our community."
The panelists in a statement said they plan to cover a range of issues including inter-family relationship recognition, Hochmut and Demut, workplace fairness and child labor laws, current conscientious objector status, buggy safety, Ellis-van Creveld syndrome and other important issues such as Rumspringa.
The Amish vote is considered a decisive electoral force and according to exit poll data make up an unknown percent of the voting population.
Plain City was chosen as the site for the event because of the city's outstanding Snicker Doodles, Chow Chow and Schnitz and Knepp. Besides, if the debate were held in Columbus, it would be all night getting home.
"We're honored to give the presidential candidates an historic opportunity to share their views directly with the Amish audience," Amos Stoltzfus, Elder, Entertainment, DARK Networks Music Group, and Elder, DARK said in a hand written statement.
"This forum continues DARK Networks’ tradition of engaging vital niche audiences with voting and the electoral process. It's just too darned sad that we have no broadcasting equipment, but heck, no Amish have televisions. It's like, stups, no electricity"
In addition to questioning by von Steuben and Stoltzfus people will be able to pose their own questions through DARKoffline.com and ADL.org representatives who will be taking notes outside the restaurant prior to the event.
(Plain City, Ohio) For the first time the leading candidates for the presidency will hold a televised debate devoted solely to Amish issues.
The one-hour event will be held on August 9 and broadcast on Amish network DARK at 9:00 pm ET (6:00 pm ET) and through live streaming yelling at Amishoffline.com for people outside the event.
Ron Paul, Jim Gilmore, Tom Tancredo and Sam Brownback have confirmed they will participate. Several other Republican candidates also may join the debate. Newt Gingrich, who in the past has underwritten several grants for horse mechanics programs, who is said to considering an appearance stated “You can't trust anybody with power which is why all Americans love horse and buggies”
The debate will be conducted with a live audience in Plain City at the Der Dutchman Restaurant. On the panel questioning the four Republicans will be Amish Defense League president Friedrich von Steuben and seamtress Esther Stoltzfus.
The debate was put together by DARK and ADL.
"In the 2008 presidential election, issues of concern to the Amish community have already been at the forefront of the national conversation,” said von Steuben.
"From the repeal of “Don’t Cask, Don’t Yell” to the recent signing of apple butter legislation in Pennsylvania, there is no doubt that voters will demand answers to important questions affecting our community."
The panelists in a statement said they plan to cover a range of issues including inter-family relationship recognition, Hochmut and Demut, workplace fairness and child labor laws, current conscientious objector status, buggy safety, Ellis-van Creveld syndrome and other important issues such as Rumspringa.
The Amish vote is considered a decisive electoral force and according to exit poll data make up an unknown percent of the voting population.
Plain City was chosen as the site for the event because of the city's outstanding Snicker Doodles, Chow Chow and Schnitz and Knepp. Besides, if the debate were held in Columbus, it would be all night getting home.
"We're honored to give the presidential candidates an historic opportunity to share their views directly with the Amish audience," Amos Stoltzfus, Elder, Entertainment, DARK Networks Music Group, and Elder, DARK said in a hand written statement.
"This forum continues DARK Networks’ tradition of engaging vital niche audiences with voting and the electoral process. It's just too darned sad that we have no broadcasting equipment, but heck, no Amish have televisions. It's like, stups, no electricity"
In addition to questioning by von Steuben and Stoltzfus people will be able to pose their own questions through DARKoffline.com and ADL.org representatives who will be taking notes outside the restaurant prior to the event.
Republicans Piddling Themselves for Peace Reelection
Weak Kneed RINOs United For Losing
Still, the one factor that could give the Democrats their biggest boost is also the one that’s largely beyond their capacity to control. If more Republicans break ranks and call on Bush to start bringing troops home from Iraq, as Sens. Richard
G. Lugar of Indiana, George V. Voinovich of Ohio and Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico have already done, Democrats might not have to spend as much of their limited time on efforts to end the war.
Republican poster children for failure.
Richard Lugar
Lamar Alexander
Judd Gregg
Pete Domenici
Chuck Hagel
George Voinovich
Olympia J. Snowe
Way to go people. You make us proud. Just don't all cry at the same time. Losers.
Peter Kirstein, a Thoroughly Modern Moron
Now this is a smack down. COB is the man.
Pete is very intelligent, no doubt in my mind:
Last time I checked, getting stitches here in bad 'ole America was a tad cheaper than a ticket to France. And a drive to Canada. Whatever.
Oppressed peoples of the earth? I get depressed that professors still today can't figure out who is oppressing who. Churchill, if alive, would bitchslap Pete.
Oh, that's right. The U.S. is an "imperialist force" subjugating the world so NASCAR can hold races for ignorant hillbillies in the south. That is part of Rove's oil for grits vote program.
Nothing gets past good 'ole Pete. He's a sharp one, he is.
UPDATE: I referred to "without AAA" in e-mail to cadet. Some have deliberately misquoted me in saying I was criticising attacking nations with AAA. It would make no sense. other than that, feel free to disagree with me.
This was not so in the screen shot of the e-mail you sent (that was my reference point), but I do give you large kudos for being polite.
Pete is very intelligent, no doubt in my mind:
SiCKO is one of the greatest movies in the history of cinema. It ranks with Citizen Kane, Apocalypse Now and On the Waterfront as an epic masterpiece.
...
These are “fellow Americans” who have to stitch their own wounds; these
are our neighbors that have to flee to Canada or France to receive basic health
coverage. Peter Kirstein July 4th, 2007
Last time I checked, getting stitches here in bad 'ole America was a tad cheaper than a ticket to France. And a drive to Canada. Whatever.
Vladimir Putin, the courageous and bold president of the Russain Federation, has responded to the 60th anniversary of the Stalin Purges. This has been another Churchillian moment for the emerging spokesperson for the oppressed peoples of the Earth. Peter Kirstein June 24th, 2007
Oppressed peoples of the earth? I get depressed that professors still today can't figure out who is oppressing who. Churchill, if alive, would bitchslap Pete.
Oh, that's right. The U.S. is an "imperialist force" subjugating the world so NASCAR can hold races for ignorant hillbillies in the south. That is part of Rove's oil for grits vote program.
Nothing gets past good 'ole Pete. He's a sharp one, he is.
UPDATE: I referred to "without AAA" in e-mail to cadet. Some have deliberately misquoted me in saying I was criticising attacking nations with AAA. It would make no sense. other than that, feel free to disagree with me.
This was not so in the screen shot of the e-mail you sent (that was my reference point), but I do give you large kudos for being polite.
Episcopals United Against Jesus and Victory in Iraq
Okay, I was on the high seas of Erie which means my cell and my puter didn't work. Thankfully the bottle opener, the on board grill and the compass did. My best friend and his wife, both liberals of the nth degree, graciously invited my wife and I for a long sail, good conversation and vast amounts of fun with drink, food and friends and no politics.
Bonus points were scored when mRed Jr (who has me by 4"s) and girlfriend joined us all on Kelley's Island where he immediately brought up just how stupid liberals were for wanting to lose in Iraq. The wife and I immediately ran for the bar as a Canadian couple joined the ensuing argument over Amerinazis. My friend, who is a practicing non-practicing Episcopalian, and wife quickly joined us to commence a nonstop communion of shots stated that the Church we both grew up in had become a joke which made the communion quip relevant. I let it slide until this morning I came across this article.
Doctrinal dispute? Convenient time? God's will? Does this babe moonlight as a vegan reviewer for Ruth's Chris?
No wonder the episcopal church is no longer a Church.
My son made the Canadians beat a hasty retreat by using facts and joined us. It was fun and even my friend and his wife had to chuckle.
Did I mention his girlfriend is smart and beautiful.
Bonus points were scored when mRed Jr (who has me by 4"s) and girlfriend joined us all on Kelley's Island where he immediately brought up just how stupid liberals were for wanting to lose in Iraq. The wife and I immediately ran for the bar as a Canadian couple joined the ensuing argument over Amerinazis. My friend, who is a practicing non-practicing Episcopalian, and wife quickly joined us to commence a nonstop communion of shots stated that the Church we both grew up in had become a joke which made the communion quip relevant. I let it slide until this morning I came across this article.
Episcopal priest suspended after saying she also is Muslim
The Rev. Ann Holmes Redding must take a year from her position at
Seattle's St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral and should "reflect on the doctrines of
the Christian faith, her vocation as a priest, and what I see as the conflicts
inherent in professing both Christianity and Islam," the Rt. Rev. Geralyn Wolf,
bishop of the Diocese of Rhode Island, wrote in an e-mail to church
leaders.
dotdotdot
"Since entering Islam," she told the newspaper, "I have been, by my own
estimation, a better teacher, a better preacher and a better
Christian."
dotdotdot
Since being suspended from the priesthood, Redding said, she realizes
many believe "the last thing the church needs to deal with at this time is this
type of doctrinal dispute. I wish it could've been at a more convenient time,
but as far as I know I am responding to God's will and God's timing."
Doctrinal dispute? Convenient time? God's will? Does this babe moonlight as a vegan reviewer for Ruth's Chris?
No wonder the episcopal church is no longer a Church.
My son made the Canadians beat a hasty retreat by using facts and joined us. It was fun and even my friend and his wife had to chuckle.
Did I mention his girlfriend is smart and beautiful.
Man in Dress By 10, Unannounced Second and Ron Paul Cleaning Up the Rear
The breakdowns:
Republicans.
Giuliani has the support of 30% of "Republicans and Republican
leaners," vs. 28% a month ago; Thompson comes in with 20%, vs. 19% in June;
McCain has 16%, vs. 18% a month earlier.
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney remains in fourth, at 9%
vs. 7% in June.
The current numbers for the rest of the Republicans included in the
survey: Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, 6%; former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, 2%; Rep. Duncan Hunter, 2%; Rep. Tom Tancredo, 2%; Sen. Sam Brownback, 1%; Sen. Chuck Hagel, 1%; former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson, 1%. Neither former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore nor Rep. Ron Paul registered any support.
None of the Republican numbers change significantly if Gingrich is
removed from the poll. The survey of 394 Republicans and voters who "lean"
Republican has a margin of error of +/- 5 percentage points.
The odds makers are busy and they haven't even left the gate.
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