Maggie's Farm

Stolen fron No Parasan - 

 

A sampling of military staff officer quotes:

"His knowledge on that topic is only power point deep..." MAJ (JS)

"Ya know, in this Command, if the world were supposed to end tomorrow, it would still happen behind schedule." CWO4 (EUCOM)

"No. Now I'm simply confused at a higher level..." Foreign GO/FO when asked if he had any questions following a transformation brief at JFCOM

Read more of them at Irish Pennants

Oral Love: A review of a bowl of unusual new books on food, at Bookslut

Your tax dollars at work. Homeland Security buys 80 security cameras for tiny Alaskan fishing village. Osama - take note.

Who organized the illegal immigration marches? The Spanish radio stations.

"Immigration backlash"? Saunders says no, at RCP.

"Get back to work, you lazy bastards."
MVRWC on the French. Videos and photos from the infantile French students at No Parasan. Now they are using water cannon...apres moi, la deluge!

Stirrings of wisdom in the Yale Daily, quoted by Ace:

Outrage over religious fascism ought to be the province of American liberals. But in Hashemi's case it has been almost entirely trumpeted by Fox News, the Wall Street Journal editorial page and right-wing bloggers. A friend of mine recently remarked that part of his and his peers' nonchalance (and in some cases, support for) Hashemi has to do with the fact that the right has seized upon the issue. Our politics have become so polarized that many are willing to take positions based on the inverse of their opponents'. This abandonment of classical liberal values at the expense of political gamesmanship has consequences that reach far beyond Yale; it hurts our national discourse.

More on Aztlan - with the map! Moonbattery.  

... if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Nietzsche

High praise for his new record.

Of all of his great tunes, my favorite is These are the Days from Avalon Sunset. A tear-jerker, and rightly so.

And it happens to be a theme song of the wonderful Rockbrook Camp in NC, where girls learn about independence, courage, endurance, horses, white-water kayaking, rock-climbing, guns, corny camp songs, bonfires, heavy-duty hiking, God, life-long friendship, shaving-cream battles, and everything else that matters in life.

We posted Frederick Church last week. Since we're on a Hudson River School kick, here's a local favorite by Thomas Cole (1801-1848) - View from Mount Holyoke (1836), but often referred to as the Oxbow. That's the Connecticut River. A bit here about Mt. Holyoke. If you drive through Route 91 in Mass., you have been past the oxbow.

 

This Pepsi_Italian_Style.wmv  one is as good as the Mercedes advt. If you missed the Mercedes advt we posted a couple of days ago, scroll down. This stuff is Art!

The Religion of Peace

The Song Sparrow may be the most common sparrow in the Eastern US, but is found across the country and Canada. He is on my mind because I have just begun to hear his spring song last week, which will continue throughout the summer (unlike most songbirds who sing territorially in the spring, and then keep quiet).

He is an easy sparrow to identify, with the streaked breast with the big blotch in the center. And, perched on the top of a shrub branch, head tilted to the sky, pouring his heart out, he is hard to miss.

Interestingly, his song has many regional accents, but the basic format remains the same.

More about the exhuberant Song Sparrow, with sample of his familiar song, at CLO.

Photo courtesy of P. LaTourette.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

C.S. Lewis 

Great Mercedes advt - watch.

Incredible. A model Tomcat. Watch.

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Re-posted from March 2006

Victims of hoplophobia need help and understanding, along with firearms re-education from sensitive Social Workers who are not only caring, but carryin'.

The "irrational fear of weapons" is a health crisis which must be crushed before it spreads, as it has spread in Canada, Australia, and the UK. Can we call it the Hoplophobia Flu? It is not yet known why women and metrosexuals seem more vulnerable to this debilitating and life-threatening scourge.

One theory is that is spread by contact with infected newsprint, but other medical researchers believe that a loud "Boom" is just innately disturbing to some people with fragile nervous systems.

We need many more highly-paid professional union-member Hoplophobia Specialists in our schools and businesses if we are determined to defeat this plague. Only Government Resources can hope to have an impact on this crisis, but "a substantial national investment is required," according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, before "this thing gets out of hand."

An Epidemiological Psychiatry researcher at the CDC commented "Guns go Boom. This is scarey for some, but they need professional help. This phobia has the power to spread just like the Bird Flu. It is highly infectious to vulnerable adults. This phobia has the power to render honest folk, sportsmen and sportswomen and sports-transgenders, and innocent hunter-gatherers, helpless not only against bad guys, but against food on the wing and hoof. Indeed, it is no different, in effect, than having a weak immune system, or being a de-clawed kitty cat."

Image: A very nice Lady without Hoplophobia, hunting Islamo-fascists on her farm without a license, unlike her weenie son.

Frederick Church (1826-1900). His Heart of the Andes, below, brought him fame. A brief bio of Church here, and a good summary of The Hudson River School, and what they wanted to convey in their work (which was very much out of fashion in the 20th century for being overly-sentimental and unsophisticated), here.

 

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

The Eagle Cam (and the Osprey Cam too) are up and running at Blackwater NWR in Maryland, with eaglets already in the nest.

Well, it looks like the "radical" pampered youth of today have somehow got it in mind that those radical 60s are something to emulate. Go for it, kids. But never forget which side your bread is buttered on - your freedom here to make a fool of yourself. H/T, Michelle. And do not forget that you will need to work someday, and to be free to speak your mind later, when wisdom arrives along with gray hair.

We have had 100,000 visits
since January 1, 2006. That's a lot for a minor-league, or a critic might say Bush-league, or, you might say, boutique, or, you might say, insignificant or, you might say, a grab-bag, but we like to think we have an elitist and eclectic blog for the discerning few.

We  hope you all visit daily. Your visits to Maggie's are our reward.

Yes, Maggie's Farm has been around for a year, but we didn't have the stat-gathering format that we have now, thanks to Blogmeister Chris - our Guardian Angel. And his system is more accurate than Site Meter - tho we use that too.

And it's Spring, but it will be 26 degrees (F) tonite and we are having light snow flurries right now.