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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.

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Friday, November 30. 2007

Friday Morning Links

More thoughts on the Dems as the party of the rich. Dr. Sanity

Venezuelans flee to NYC. NY Sun

Rodney King. Still an icon of dysfunctionalism.

How to go to college for free.

How to date at the office. Dr. Helen

Keep your laws off my body. Except... Coyote

The Dems want a bilingual America. Pure pandering, IMO. I can speak French and German (and a little English, aka Modern Friesian), and the only thing that might motivate me to learn Spanish is to read Cervantes. The only language I covet is Sienese Italian.

The latest on cybercrime and spambots. We have had our tussles with spambots here.

Prepare ye for the end! Rick Moran thinks Pat Buchanan's new book is over the top.

CNN: We're not embarassed by our lack of journalistic integrity

Dr. Bob on Medicare:

The history of Medicare is a history of regulatory tyranny which invariably results in “unintended and perverse consequences.” When your local hospital closes, after this proposal is implemented, be sure to write your Congressmen and local Medicare officials to express your deepest appreciation for their efforts to improve health care quality.

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Funny isn't it how imperfections in medical services lead to programs like Medicare which create new problems that need to be solved with new programs? It never ends. I think the belief in government solutions to the problems of life are sincerely held by some (the naive) and manipulated by others. Cynical enough for 'ya?
#1 Tom C., on 2007-11-30 09:07 (Reply)
Break the NEA and we'll be alright again someday.
#1.1 buddy larsen on 2007-11-30 09:13 (Reply)
no, ap, i meant the Norwegian Eel Aficionados.
#1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2007-11-30 11:06 (Reply)
If that is the National Education Assoc. I am right with you!
#2 apple pie on 2007-11-30 10:44 (Reply)
(note to wanna-be smartasses, at least put your comments in comprehensible sequence)
#2.1 buddy larsen on 2007-11-30 11:09 (Reply)
Ditto on breaking the NEA!


Oh, and boo hoo for Hugo. Wait, I mean 'serves you right, you megalomaniac'. I can't help smiling when I see the protesters fanning the fumes of their frustration. Good stuff.
#3 Meta on 2007-11-30 10:59 (Reply)
will the protesters fanning the fumes of their frustration cause Hugo to harvest the hell of his hubris ?
#3.1 buddy larsen on 2007-11-30 13:34 (Reply)
Mr. Larsen,

I hope so. And get him kicked out of the Norwegian Eel Aficionados. Hugo is too oleaginous for that august club of round-meat, mukluk wearing, sled-riding gustatorians.
#3.1.1 Meta on 2007-11-30 17:33 (Reply)
Meta, no, the NEA is not an organization of Norwegians who like eels--it's an organization of just any folks (some of whom may indeed, but only incidentally, be Norwegian) who like Norwegian eels.

Why, you've got it so bumfuzzled it might as well be an organization of Norwegian eels who are just general aficianados of an unspecified anything or everything whatsoever (tho eels being eels presumably mostly nothing much).
#3.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2007-12-01 00:10 (Reply)
CNN has been beyond embarrassment since it least 2005, when boss Eason Jordan speaking at an international conference in Madrid, accused the American armed forces in Iraq of a deliberate conspiracy and action to murder journalists.

oh yes, he had to step down afterwards--but that made it even worse--as in, by g_d if such a thing is true, you're gonna meekly quit your job when you get a little resistance on the accusation?

So, CNN manages to be both a viciously aggressive liar and a spineless cowardly wimp at the same time--no mean trick!
#4 buddy larsen on 2007-11-30 11:24 (Reply)
RE: CNN
This NYT article was a wake up call. Mostly tuned CNN out after reading it.

The News We Kept To Ourselves
BY EASON JORDAN
Published: April 11, 2003

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E7DC173BF932A25757C0A9659C8B63
#5 Anonymous on 2007-11-30 11:42 (Reply)
Whoops. That Anonymous was me, Patina. Good morning to ya all. :)

Not to boast NJ (well maybe a little) but some years back I read Don Quixote in Spanish. Had a very demanding instructor and got to be quite fluent. Don't know how much good it did but no harm either. Still can not speak or understand much French but have worked with more than a few Canadian guys named Jean Guy.....pronounced Jawn Gee or Gi or Guh-eee. (How to spell?!) Anyways, Guy is spoken with a hard gee and a long eee. Why the desire to speak Sienese (?) Italian? Also never heard of Frisia. They have a cool flag.

and...
Seems to me that Pat Buchanan is what is passed as the 'Conservative Republican' voice on MSM. Sometimes think he is a mole. Traditionally, IIRC he has most often helped put Dems in office.
#6 Patina on 2007-11-30 11:49 (Reply)
Buddy--the biggest problem we have with cleaning up our schools system is that we cannot--IT IS IMPOSSIBLE--to find a conservative attorney, who will bring legal action against them. I can prove this to you: I am currently searching for an attorney in DC, or WA to bring a claim against the American Association of University Professors. I have even advertised in the Bar Assoc. Journal. NOW: anybody here want to help me find such a counselor--please feel free to forward their name. Or better yet, have them get in touch with me. The folks here know how to do that. But--not to worry--it won't happen. Republican attorneys will NOT go after the groups that control our education system be it, NEA, ACE, AAUP, or whatever. IT WON'T HAPPEN!
#7 apple pie on 2007-11-30 12:48 (Reply)
If the coming campaign has the courage, it will make a HUGE issue of the racist aspect of opposition to vouchers.
#8 buddy larsen on 2007-11-30 13:05 (Reply)
One's personal safety is best in a crowd. However, it will take individual attorneys of personal courage to confront these powerful groups one on one in numerous cases. You know buddy--just like the left has done to our churches. Start small out in the sticks, then move onto cases in bigger communities (larger campuses). But, until we find individual attorneys willing to help it won't happen.
#9 apple pie on 2007-11-30 13:52 (Reply)
I haven't read nor really want to read Pat's book but heard an early morn, hour-long interview with him about it.

Pat is a watchman on America's towers, who cuts the crap and hones in on the real economy and the real war and accurately identifies the real players severally involved.

The most vital question any Presidential candidate should pine his soul with is "Who am I ready to kill for the security of USA?"

Of course, Buchanan doesn’t want to kill anyone – I think., says the fantastic exegete.

Mr. Moran doesn't want to kill anyone, me thinks, nor does he want to lighten the load on America's prisons and labor halls to drive the illegals out of country.

Moran was hardly worth the read but Pat is well worth the listen.

A new course is warranted and thanks be to God, it's possible, mandated in USA Constitution.

One question to be mulled in finding a new Executive and Commander should be: Which one of these fella's, is going stop the right people at the border export all the illegals and kill the right people.

We're not electing a philosopher.
#10 Leag on 2007-11-30 16:03 (Reply)
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7499442?print=true

Taylor's death a grim reminder for us all
#11 mal on 2007-11-30 16:47 (Reply)
Among his many achievements, Pat Buchanan helped bring Conservative Americans both of Pres. Clinton terms. From Wiki....

1992 campaign
In 1990, Buchanan published a newsletter called Patrick J. Buchanan: From the Right; it sent subscribers a bumper sticker that read, "Read Our Lips! No new taxes."[22] In 1992, Buchanan began the first of his three presidential campaigns, running on a platform of economic nationalism, immigration reduction, and social conservatism, including opposition to multiculturalism, abortion, and gay rights. He unsuccessfully challenged the incumbent, President George H. W. Bush, for the Republican Party presidential nomination, garnering some 3 million votes in state primary elections. Buchanan won 38 percent of the seminal New Hampshire primary, seriously challenging Bush, whose popularity was waning. Buchanan explained his reason for running thus: "If the country wants to go in a liberal direction, if the country wants to go in the direction of [Democrats] George Mitchell and Tom Foley, it doesn't bother me as long as I've made the best case I can. What I can't stand are the back-room deals. They're all in on it, the insider game, the establishment game -- this is what we're running against."

and

1996 campaign
Buchanan again sought the Republican nomination in 1996 while voicing his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Buchanan won an upset victory in the New Hampshire primary in February, defeating Senator Bob Dole by about 3,000 votes. At a rally in Nashua, he said, "We shocked them in Alaska. Stunned them in Louisiana. Stunned them in Iowa. They are in a terminal panic. They hear the shouts of the peasants from over the hill. All the knights and barons will be riding into the castle pulling up the drawbridge in a minute. All the peasants are coming with pitchforks. We're going to take this over the top."[27] While campaigning, Buchanan energized his supporters with the slogan "The peasants are coming with pitchforks", occasionally appearing with a prop pitchfork, thus earning him the nickname "Pitchfork Pat".
#12 Patina on 2007-11-30 18:05 (Reply)
Interesting suggestion if I don't misread your insinuation that Pat is a Hillbillary mole.

Wiki is an unvetted resource but full of laughs.

Now, what possesses gilded nest producing vective upon American demigod's trusted warrior is beyond me.

I'd have expected well educated would have severed that, if this wasn't Maggies Farm.
#12.1 Leag on 2007-11-30 19:53 (Reply)
Re: Still Icon

Me thinks the boy can take a punch.

Must be some redemption in that.
#13 Leag on 2007-11-30 20:15 (Reply)
Re: Hands off my hide

The wonder of youth only allows such libertarian fantasy, excepting as Coyote does in case of another intimate body.

Police have a multitude of reason to lay hands on bodies.

That they don't is marvelous.

Libertarians are leftists, but for Coyote's individual sensibility.

Right brooks no alliance with murderers or there enablers.
#14 Leag on 2007-11-30 22:03 (Reply)

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