Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Monday, December 6. 2010

Monday morning links

For Christmas, Gnomeland security


High speed rail: Trains to nowhere


Presbyterians Against Israel


Lawmakers Weigh Deal to Extend Tax Cuts for All 


I still find this amazing:



41% of [US] babies were born to unmarried moms in 2008. … More than half of the unmarried parents were living together at the time their child was born and 30% of them were romantically involved (but living apart).


Nanny to nix bake sales?


I didn't know this:



Foreign banks were among the biggest beneficiaries of the $3,300bn in emergency credit provided by the Federal Reserve during the crisis, according to new data on the extraordinary efforts of the US authorities to save the global financial system.







Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:07 | Comments (20) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

Well, let's see.

Traditionally, Presbyterians have always struck this poor old Papist as thrifty, resourceful, hard-working, innovative and successful in every venture they put their minds to.

Interestingly, Israelis have also impressed me as thrifty, resourceful, hard-working, innovative and successful in every venture they put their minds to.

Somebody has had a change for the worse here.

And it's obviously not the Israelis.
#1 JJM on 2010-12-06 09:14 (Reply)
"Somebody has had a change for the worse here. "

It's not us Presbyterians in the pews either. It's the ultra-liberal professional church leadership. They throw out nonsense anti-Israeli, pro-Palestine proposals - and all get shot down in the General Assembly meetings. They seem to hell-bent on embarrassing and undermining an otherwise fine denomination. And they are next to impossible to remove.

The UCC is worse and let's not even talk about the Episcopalians.
#1.1 NJSoldier on 2010-12-06 12:11 (Reply)
I've been a Lutheran and would throw them in that same mix. United Methodists seem to be doing the same. Even my own current less political denomination, the Evangelical Covenant Church, shows increasingly the same split.
#1.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2010-12-07 21:31 (Reply)
"Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord..."

Once again, Wikileaks proves the accuracy of the age-old Law of Unintended Circumstances.
#2 JJM on 2010-12-06 09:17 (Reply)
"Once again, Wikileaks proves the accuracy of the age-old Law of Unintended Circumstances."

Oops!

I guess that should have been "Law of Unintended CONSEQUENCES".

Time for coffee!
#2.1 JJM on 2010-12-06 10:59 (Reply)
JJM, you were just a victim of circumcision.

(Comforting to see that someone besides myself here can screw uo the king's English!)
#2.1.1 Big___Al on 2010-12-06 12:10 (Reply)
As I just did AGAIN, above. "Up" is the word I meant to type.

Hopeless...
#2.1.2 Big___Al on 2010-12-06 12:12 (Reply)
The women's leadership group of Washington state are at it again

http://www.mynorthwest.com/category/news_chick_blog/20101201/UW-prof-compares-military-recruiters-with-child-sex-predators/

Please note that this gal started life out doing the bidding of the local teacher's union at the PTSA--now amazingly she is a tenured (lifetime employment) professor.
#3 another one on 2010-12-06 12:14 (Reply)
Please God, let it not be Romney.

The guy couldn't win before; what makes him electable now?

To use a bible phrase, he is neither cold nor hot. He is lukewarm, and if you know the bible you know what should be done with a lukewarm beverage: spew it out of your mouth.

Plus, he's got the Mormon noose around his neck, a major problem in conservative Christian circles...
#4 Big___Al on 2010-12-06 12:18 (Reply)
I heard Medved cite all the precedents that favor Romney. But I hope that the GOP has learned a few lessons from the Tea Party. Romneycare is an albatross around Mitt's neck that cannot be explained away. I'm not in favor of any of the contenders from 2008. Fresh. Blood. Please.
#4.1 Judith L (Link) on 2010-12-06 13:48 (Reply)
Given the economy-heavy problems of the last years, Romney would have been a good choice for 2008 (unless he wanted to go mucking around in health care reform). Not for changing the attitude of overall government, but for limiting the damage. But I think the time for that is past. We've dug ourselves a deeper hole, and artful sailing on the economy won't cut it anymore.
#4.2 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2010-12-07 21:38 (Reply)
Romney..., well, at least he has executive experience. I wonder if there are any other candidates who were governors? And since Romney has a record he can run on, he can impress me with how he lowered taxes, abolished income taxes, and abolished say, 10 useless government departments. Otherwise he can run on the Democrat-Socialist ticket.
#4.3 tehag on 2010-12-07 21:56 (Reply)
Thanks for the Armed Forces Journal link. General Scales wrote a very eye-opening article.
#5 arcs on 2010-12-06 13:54 (Reply)
The massacre and de construction of the Episcopal Church in the US was an important event for the liberal/union agenda. They must tear down the Christian faith--it poses 10 obstacles that they no longer wish to deal with in their quest for absolute control. There no longer is an Episcopal Church--there is some fine real estate out there.
#6 another one on 2010-12-06 14:15 (Reply)
NJ Soldier is right, it's not the Presbyterians in the pews driving this, and unfortunately most of us have no interest in church politics because it serves no useful purpose. A look at the numbers show that Presbyterians, more than any other denomination are voting with their feet to leave a church that chooses to cherry pick and misinterpret the Bible. They are moving to churches that, while they seem quite different from the churches we grew up in understand what the primary purpose of the original Christian churches were - serving and caring for the local populace. The traditional mainline churches have lost their way and as a result are losing their body. In a couple of generations they will barely exist.
#7 Andy Meredith on 2010-12-06 16:06 (Reply)
Golly gosh Medved, i was talkin' with History at cafe and she didn't mention Mormitt as viable GOP candidate.

She teased he might run better as Democrats candidate, though.

I think he could represent cars and his diety, daddy George.

But cars don't vote, do they?
#8 Leag on 2010-12-06 19:29 (Reply)
Y'all can do what you want to.

But if the Republicans run Mitt, I'm going to be voting Third Party for the rest of my life.

If Mitt is the best they can do, he'll go down with Bob Dole and John McCain as someone who deserved his turn, no matter how crappy his candidacy actually was.

I'll quote one of the favorites from this site here...."I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've I've had enough."

And I've never lived in New York, but at that point, it becomes mostly moot. Because "..she takes away your voice and leaves you howling at the Moon."

No. I ain't going to play that.
#8.1 jefferson101 on 2010-12-06 22:16 (Reply)
I like Mitt --but Mitt is yesterday. I agree --if it's to be Mitt, then we'll have Obama again, and he'll finish us off.
#8.1.1 buddy larsen on 2010-12-07 05:52 (Reply)
Mormitt will be crushed but voting third for the rest of one's life seems rather extreme, jefferson.

He just ain't much different than present el presidente.

Meself has lived in the City but i ain't goin' back till the yanks figure out the problem and deport Muhammadans and then maybe not then, either.
#8.1.2 Leag on 2010-12-07 17:05 (Reply)
My last conversation as a Presbyterian involved asking if say the other 49 states were trying to murder the people of Delaware, if it would be a good thing for the Presbyterians to join up with those 49 states.
#9 buddy larsen on 2010-12-07 05:50 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.