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Saturday, January 27. 2007

"Drone - drone - drone..."

Listen to the recording - it's a kick, and a grammar lesson. Nyhan. But who is prolix here?  (Just an idea: Prolix - the new antidepressant that gets you talking again.)
Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 16:30 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Someone didn't take their lithium.

I guy sounded genuinely hostile about the gnome. I mean politeless gnomes have been around fro centuries. What's his problem.
What's this world coming too. Whatever it is I hope it's soon I have to use the bathroom, so pull over at the next McDonalds.
#1 Habu on 2007-01-27 17:36 (Reply)
I guy??WTF .. how about..... The guy
#2 Habu on 2007-01-27 17:38 (Reply)
He's a stickler. Not to mention his emotional problem.
#3 BD on 2007-01-27 17:48 (Reply)
Paradise Lost; Why the Left Loves Muhammad

For who can yet believe, though after loss,
that all these puissant legions,
whose exile hath emptied Heaven,
shall fail to reascend Self-raised,
and repossess their native seat?"

John Milton
Paradise Lost
Book one, verses 631-634



Conservatives seem baffled by the animosity held by liberals towards Christians and Jews. Christianity requires the believer submit to authority, accept the rule of government, be charitable to his fellow; in short, be a model citizen. Ditto the Jews, who held these requirements even longer than the Christians. Why are liberals so hostile to both? For that matter, why do liberals seem so smitten with that 7th century holdover known as Islam? Why do those on the Left seem less than eager to defend our freedom and way of life from the ravages of Islamic Jihad?

From the American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/01/paradise_lost_why_the_left_lov.html
#4 Habu on 2007-01-27 18:02 (Reply)
Why? Because in the eternal battle between good and evil, Hate is more dramatic than Love --?
#5 buddy larsen on 2007-01-27 21:08 (Reply)
I always liked Milton on Hell. The place where, everytime you are sure you're in it, the ground opens beneath you and you fall still further. The mind is its own place, said he, so that you can be on the very edge of Paradise, yet stuck still in Hell. Not exactly a light-hearted feller, that Milton.
#6 buddy larsen on 2007-01-27 22:18 (Reply)

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