Candide (or is it Don Quixote?) goes out into the big world. But these Dems know nothing about Ketman:
Unfortunately, no one prepared Clinton for her trip by explaining the rules of ketman. This is an Oriental form of dissimulation first described by the 19th-century French ethnologist Count Gobineau and perfected, as it happens, by the Persians. According to Gobineau, the people of the East believe that, “He who is in possession of the truth must not expose his person, his relatives or his reputation to the blindness, the folly, the perversity or those whom it has pleased God to place in error.” In other word, he must hide his true beliefs.
How do you do a "reset" when the other guys are playing you for fools? These people are in so far over their heads. Relevant image above via Flares: http://yargb.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-don-quixotes-rule-world.html
The pitfalls of paternalism. Somin at Volokh. It's not a joke. If people want to be children, they will be treated as such.
Raul Castro on Socialism:
"Nobody, no individual nor country, can indefinitely spend more than she or he earns. Two plus two always adds up to four, never five," he said. "Within the conditions of our imperfect socialism, due to our own shortcomings, two plus two often adds up to three."
Reality is a bitch.
FIRE: Victory for Free Speech as College of William & Mary Dumps Speech Codes, Earns ‘Green Light’ Rating
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The new America? People are learning from Washington: "Everybody was like, 'I still want my free stuff,' and that started the riot," he said. Related at Betsy: The reality facing the money-for-nothing crowd
Glenn Beck VOGUE puts on blackface and nobody cares
Wall Street Journal surpasses USA Today as No. 1
Dems now represent the rich zip codes. So much for the "evil rich Repubs."
The Baucus plan would bankrupt the states. Say, how's that plan working out in Massachusetts?
From The Mind Boggles at Am Spectator:
It behooves us instead to take a moment to marvel at the insanity of the process we have allowed to steer the fate of the Republic.
Think about this. We have decisions made about matters desperately close to home, affecting our health and wealth, our lives and livelihoods, and by whom? A group of Senators, fairly capable people, farm the work out to aides of whom we know nothing. Who are these people and how is their capability determined, their efficiency measured, their accuracy gauged? The work produced by these ciphers in their crypts is hardly understood by the legislators, then subject to manipulation by jurists. It seems unimaginable that your life and mine may be offered as human sacrifices to the meddling of these wizards of Oz hiding behind their curtains.
More on the topic of covering the field with slime -
The media war on the smart and charming Liz Cheney
Steyn on Rush:
...the geniuses at Media Matters say: You want chapter-and-verse on those "Slavery was great/Give James Earl Ray the Medal of Honor" quotes? Okay, here's some stuff Limbaugh has said about Obama...
The race deck is all trump cards:
Step One: You can't say that. It's racist.
So you don't. Next:
Step Two: You're using "code language".
As I always say, "code language" is code language for "I’m inventing what you really meant to say because the actual quote doesn’t quite do the job for me." Still, you steer clear of "code language". So then:
Step Three: We'll just concoct it out of whole cloth, and, after running for a week with "Slavery Advocate Wants Medal Of Honor For MLK Killer", our fact-checkers will confirm the accuracy of that statement by citing something you said about Donovan McNabb or Obama's economic policy. Close enough.
PS Can Rush buy the St Louis Rams if he gets Roman Polanski to front the deal?
Powerline's post on the topic, Rush is Out, included this pic from CNN with a totally manufactured Rush quote. This kind of thing is dangerous stuff, besides being immoral, unethical, and despicable:
