tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7534968518200529099..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Death Cult and its Strange Nasolabial Gods (11.22.11)Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36681507691155873862008-11-15T17:22:00.000-08:002008-11-15T17:22:00.000-08:00NoMo,That ""Resistance" domain looks like a Fraud ...NoMo,<BR/><BR/>That "<A HREF="http://www.grassfire.org/" REL="nofollow">"Resistance"</A> domain looks like a Fraud plant, collect personal data for reeducation camp matriculants.<BR/><BR/>Why should one swear to respect a Fraud, as the sign-up form compels?<BR/><BR/>OPSEC/COMSECDavid R. Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416692639208634879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60274853787008838242008-11-11T06:50:00.000-08:002008-11-11T06:50:00.000-08:00I nominate Ben for president of the resistance!I nominate Ben for president of the <A HREF="http://www.grassfire.org/111/petition.asp?pid=18651528" REL="nofollow">resistance</A>!NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65667010959815472632008-11-10T22:43:00.000-08:002008-11-10T22:43:00.000-08:00JWM-Well said. People like Queeg fail to see that ...JWM-<BR/>Well said. People like Queeg fail to see that it isn't either or for most people. Hell, even most lizardoids don't (yet) agree that<BR/>social conservatives (who are usually fiscal and national security conservatives too) are to "blame" for the lost election. <BR/><BR/>Probably no one thing is to blame, but the MSM would be first on my list, followed by the economy tanking, bailouts, perhaps a fear of bein' called racist, in McCain's view.<BR/><BR/>Afterall, he was much harder on Romney than he was on Obama.<BR/>Come to thnk of it, seems fiscal responsibility, or lack thereof by many in the GOP was also a big factor.<BR/><BR/>I don't see where social conservatives really played a big part in this election. Both candidates were asked just once about abortion, during the debates, and no one cornered Obama about his stance on abortion IRT his record.<BR/><BR/>We saw what happened with gay marriage, really a seperate issue from the Presidential election, and there wasn't much else mentioned, except for school vouchers by McCain, and he didn't really bring it up a lot.<BR/><BR/>But you're right, the suckular moderates, RINOS, and the elitist pundits do wanna eject the socons, and, not surprisingly, they hate Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal.<BR/><BR/>IMO if a Republican has to vote like a Democrat on most issues to get elected, I don't see where that helps the party of Conservatives. We saw how reaching across the aisle helped Democrats but where did that help Republicans?<BR/><BR/>I respect John McCain for his service but I wasn't too impressed with his Conservatism. Except for foreign policy, there wasn't a whole lot seperating him from Obama.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8842017114347830852008-11-10T22:25:00.000-08:002008-11-10T22:25:00.000-08:00No problem, Ben - I figured as much, and just thou...No problem, Ben - I figured as much, and just thought it was funny. An excellent article is worth the extra raccoonmendation :)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3858223910681089412008-11-10T22:24:00.000-08:002008-11-10T22:24:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51793119494340965322008-11-10T22:23:00.000-08:002008-11-10T22:23:00.000-08:00Yikes - after your description of shingles, well, ...Yikes - after your description of shingles, well, yeah, that sounds about right. And suddenly, I squirming in my chair...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81212443354003838632008-11-10T22:21:00.000-08:002008-11-10T22:21:00.000-08:00Sorry about that Julie. I didn't read the comments...Sorry about that Julie. I didn't read the comments first. :^)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72642109292509402872008-11-10T22:16:00.000-08:002008-11-10T22:16:00.000-08:00Anone said-"Obama!, Obama!, Obama!, There now, doe...Anone said-<BR/>"Obama!, Obama!, Obama!, <BR/><BR/>There now, doesn't that just give you the warm thigh tingles?"<BR/><BR/>More like itchy ass shingles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29284866078020051852008-11-10T22:14:00.000-08:002008-11-10T22:14:00.000-08:00"For example, just ask a typical victim of reducti..."For example, just ask a typical victim of reductionosis -- as Julie attempted to do -- what a smile is."<BR/><BR/>Another thing about smiles is the eyes.<BR/>Someone can smile exactly like they do when they are joyful (many politicians do this) but if you are close enough the eyes will tell you if that person is truly joyful.<BR/>Heck, you can even sense it.<BR/><BR/>That's just many of the reasons that Obama, Biden or Pelosi creep me out whereas Sarah Palin is genuine, no put on. <BR/><BR/>This is somewhat OT, but perhaps this explains why Ombama is more comfortable with a teleprompter, while Palin is more comfortable without one.<BR/>He is uncomfortable being himself, while Sarah is not.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3503237547301532702008-11-10T21:59:00.000-08:002008-11-10T21:59:00.000-08:00High seriousness about [Wodehouse] brings to mind ...High seriousness about [Wodehouse] brings to mind poor Professor Scully.<BR/><BR/>No relations. Just in case anyone was wonderin'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71458737704324919052008-11-10T21:08:00.000-08:002008-11-10T21:08:00.000-08:00And now for my own little offering.Nasolabial...lo...And now for my own little <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdMf-86Evro" REL="nofollow">offering</A>.<BR/><BR/>Nasolabial...love that word. It may be the reason I snore.NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21219747826943503272008-11-10T20:46:00.000-08:002008-11-10T20:46:00.000-08:00Ben said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINES!!!OOHRAH!"Hey Ben...Ben said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINES!!!<BR/>OOHRAH!"<BR/><BR/>Hey Ben, megga Ditto's on that one! <BR/><BR/>Skully, Grog!<BR/><BR/>I put up a <A HREF="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2008/11/happy-birthday-and-semper-fi.html" REL="nofollow">Happy B-Day</A> to one Marine in particular and all Marines in general, on my site as well.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91876339689564431772008-11-10T20:06:00.000-08:002008-11-10T20:06:00.000-08:00Another classic rock instrumental from the '60s.Another classic <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHq4laFwAEM" REL="nofollow">rock instrumental</A> from the '60s.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64843484721366582822008-11-10T19:49:00.000-08:002008-11-10T19:49:00.000-08:00At the risk of inducing bouts of toxic nostalgia (...At the risk of inducing bouts of toxic nostalgia (see below) in some of the *ahem* middle-aged coons, I give you:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAQYxqBxJjQ" REL="nofollow">Telstar</A><BR/><BR/>Nostalgia gets toxic only if you continually use it to measure the the shortcomings of the present. <BR/>I would never do this myself, however. Not me. Nope.<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90367824420528896372008-11-10T19:32:00.000-08:002008-11-10T19:32:00.000-08:00And just what is the meaning of this? My head is ...And just what is the meaning of this? My head is ‘bout to explode.<BR/><BR/>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/1896_Electoral_Map.pngAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71138528346809259982008-11-10T18:03:00.000-08:002008-11-10T18:03:00.000-08:00Might as well enjoy the night...(I know Bob's not ...<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY3dcE3kqtw" REL="nofollow">Might as well enjoy the night...</A><BR/><BR/>(I know Bob's not much of an early Jazz fan, but this is a fav...)Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3400425209254197072008-11-10T16:52:00.000-08:002008-11-10T16:52:00.000-08:00I'm curious as to why you linger on (or return cyc...<I>I'm curious as to why you linger on (or return cyclically to) this particular line of thought?</I><BR/><BR/>Hey, Anonymous... tell me, how many times did Christ say "Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" (If you don't know, feel free to look it up; after all, this life is an open-book test.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66394053231550477012008-11-10T16:12:00.000-08:002008-11-10T16:12:00.000-08:00Which leads us to ask: what is the interior glue t...<I>Which leads us to ask: what is the interior glue that holds the nasolabians of the left together? What is the common interest, say, of the corrupt labor leader, the abortion activist, the dysfunctional Teachers' Union, and the homosexual agenda? </I><BR/><BR/>I think you answered this yourself the other day- wait a minute...<BR/>Here, from last Thursday:<BR/><BR/><I>Another danger of politics is that it tends to organize people around their hates. As a result, their center of gravity becomes that which they hate. </I><BR/><BR/>I was trying to put my finger on the source of some deja-vu that's been floating through my general disappointment with the outcome of the election. Lileks' piece in today's screedblog helped to zero it in. <BR/>I was in my second year of teaching when the LA teachers' union called a strike against the district. I had been following the issue pretty closely, and came to the conclusion that the union leader, and his threatened strike were bullshit. So I had to decide- should I go along with the union members, who were the great majority, and, incidently, included most of my friends at work, or should I go along with the few others on the faculty who likewise disagreed with the union?<BR/>You know just how popular you can become on a job by bucking the union? I do. I crossed their picket lines every day, and along with the handful of other who also stayed, kept the school running as best we could.<BR/>The union won, and when they returned to work it was with great joy, and celebration- and, from some, bitter shunning for those of us who didn't go out on strike.<BR/>So that's sorta' what it feels like now- those first few days when the strike was over, and I was getting used to the idea that I had bought myself a ticket to the pariah club.<BR/>I've been reading a lot of post election post mortem stuff, and one of the themes that recurs is that the Republican party needs to drop the anti-abortion, creationists, religious right, and get with the program on the environment, global warming, gay marriage...<BR/>In other words, adopt the values of the Lizardoid right. And they're probably correct if they want the Republican party to attract young voters.<BR/> That brings us back to the Alignment of Sides. Those who are trying to keep an O centered life and worldview are necessarily going to be fractured out into the smallest of minorities- a remnant as it were. And now as I think of it, Jesus didn't promise his followers that belief in him would get them in with the in crowd. Quite the opposite, if I remember right.<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63859454092476190832008-11-10T15:42:00.000-08:002008-11-10T15:42:00.000-08:00See, it was so good it got linked twice ;)OORAH!See, it was so good it got linked <I>twice</I> ;)<BR/>OORAH!juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33626017554809193582008-11-10T15:35:00.000-08:002008-11-10T15:35:00.000-08:00Before I read Bob's great post today, here's somet...Before I read Bob's great post today, here's something to commemorate the birthday of the US Marine Corps:<BR/>HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINES!!!<BR/>OOHRAH!<BR/><BR/>By Andrew Klavan<BR/>11/10/08<BR/> <BR/>Andrew in Afghanistan<BR/>From "Five Days at the End of The World" in City Journal, Autumn 2008<BR/><BR/>I was standing at a military checkpoint outside Ali al-Saleem Air Base, about an hour from Kuwait City. I was hunkered in a three-walled cinderblock shelter with a canvas fluttering overhead. It was nearly 110 degrees. A dust storm was turning the daylight yellow-brown. I had sand in my teeth. I had grit in my eyelids. I was waiting for some Army media guy to cut my orders so I could get on base and catch a military transport to Afghanistan.<BR/><BR/>And I felt downcast, I confess. I felt bitter and a little self-righteous, too. I kept thinking how, right that minute, there was probably some other screenwriter sitting poolside at the Skybar in LA, pitching his new antiwar story to an eager producer: “Then, see, the GIs devour the Iraqi child’s body to hide the evidence, and we finally understand the dehumanizing consequences of Bush’s foreign policy. Forget box office! Think: prestige!”<BR/><BR/>I was on my way to Afghanistan because of the movies. Really. Movies like Brian De Palma’s Redacted; In the Valley of Elah, written by Paul Haggis; and Lions for Lambs, starring Robert Redford—movies about the War on Terror in which our soldiers are portrayed as rapists or post-traumatic murderers or naive fools roped in by warmongering neocons. I went because of the movies that didn’t get made, too—the movies that never get made—movies in which the heroic U.S. military defends our nation’s principles of liberty against a low, violent, Islamofascist miscreed. I wrote about these films in City Journal (see “The Lost Art of War,” Winter 2008) and in the Los Angeles Times. I attacked Hollywood for wallowing in outmoded European ideologies and for resurrecting imagery left over from movies about Vietnam.<BR/><BR/>Then, after a while, I started to ask myself, “Hey, wait a minute. How do you know what a movie about the War on Terror should look like? What would your movie look like, big mouth? What kind of story would you tell?”<BR/><BR/>Read the rest at:<BR/><A HREF="http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_4_afghanistan.html" REL="nofollow">5 Days At The End Of The World</A><BR/><BR/>It's good to see this author and screenwriter having the balls to speak out against Hollywood scumbags who can't handle the truth.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5849706012760627482008-11-10T13:51:00.000-08:002008-11-10T13:51:00.000-08:00“what is the interior glue that holds the nasolabi...<I>“what is the interior glue that holds the nasolabians of the left together?”</I><BR/><BR/>CITY LIFE! <BR/><BR/>Well, for a while there it was that Bush pissed off all the wrong people: academia, media, attorneyia, intelligentsia... the guys who’re best at digging for dirt and making said dirt public but according to 2008 county by county red/blue election maps it’s back to: <BR/><BR/>CITY LIFE!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82263291808903206482008-11-10T13:47:00.000-08:002008-11-10T13:47:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54152789731108413702008-11-10T13:46:00.000-08:002008-11-10T13:46:00.000-08:00I come here just to get a smile on my face./JohanI come here just to get a smile on my face.<BR/><BR/>/JohanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26050089845826260682008-11-10T13:44:00.000-08:002008-11-10T13:44:00.000-08:00More culture.(I do hope this isn't getting annoyin...More <A HREF="http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/11/09/rent-this-movie/" REL="nofollow">culture</A>.<BR/>(I do hope this isn't getting annoying)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53786874943521682008-11-10T13:19:00.000-08:002008-11-10T13:19:00.000-08:00Boys and girls, can you say, "Corrupter in chief"?...Boys and girls, can you say, <BR/>"Corrupter in chief"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com