tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6506668435228729400..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Lie With the Left, Wake up FleecedGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45827072652675826852008-09-02T13:02:00.000-07:002008-09-02T13:02:00.000-07:00Those critical critics who criticize my "negativit...<I>Those critical critics who criticize my "negativity" probably think I am engaging in the former -- heatedly countering the lie -- when I am calmly engaged in the latter -- simply reaffirming the truth.</I><BR/><BR/>Oddly enough, I'm pretty calm, too. :->Ray Ingleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16290483120987779339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82595806362688917772008-09-02T08:34:00.000-07:002008-09-02T08:34:00.000-07:00Van,"your idea sounds like fun, and I'm curious to...Van,<BR/>"your idea sounds like fun, and I'm curious to watch it develop, but I hope you'll forgive me if I don't commit one way of the other."<BR/><BR/>That's fine - at this point, I was simply hoping for a couple "that sounds interesting" comments. Later today, I'll set up a side blog to flesh it out a bit. <BR/><BR/>And thanks, guys, for saying something. <BR/>:)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15280613456948099032008-09-02T08:00:00.000-07:002008-09-02T08:00:00.000-07:00Llyod is right about animals lying…chimps can lie,...Llyod is right about animals lying…chimps can lie, for example. But a lying chimp isn’t sinning. Sin is an inevitable byproduct of a self conscious and spiritual, mortal yet transcendent — and therefore human — being. A chimp can lie, because it has a sense of itself as a being. But a chimp cannot sin, because a chimp does not know it is wrong to lie. A chimp can be taught that certain behaviors have consequences, but it cannot know that some actions have transcendent consequences, that they depart from the moral preference of the universe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37285159636813272262008-09-02T07:09:00.000-07:002008-09-02T07:09:00.000-07:00Julie--That's an interesting and cool idea. If you...Julie--<BR/><BR/>That's an interesting and cool idea. If you can figure a way to let it work, I'd love to lend a bit of my voice to the project. ^_^Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63647545054353452532008-09-02T06:36:00.000-07:002008-09-02T06:36:00.000-07:00Julie says:"And yet another real life demonstratio...Julie says:<BR/><BR/>"And yet another real life demonstration, transplanted from the Middle East to Jolly Olde England."<BR/><BR/>You may have just found the ideal "investor class" for financial instruments backed by subprime mortgages.jphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05908157207748014622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7649881989379979912008-09-02T06:13:00.000-07:002008-09-02T06:13:00.000-07:00As Blackadder says:"My whole life has been a tissu...As Blackadder says:<BR/><BR/>"My whole life has been a tissue of whoppers. I consider myself to be one of England's finest liars."jphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05908157207748014622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44251975935770067402008-09-02T05:33:00.000-07:002008-09-02T05:33:00.000-07:00JWM said "This isn't just kids wanting to freak ou...JWM said "This isn't just kids wanting to freak out the old farts by wearing wild hair, and some goofy-ass clothing. This is permanent disfigurement. These kids are locked into looking like stupid teenagers for the rest of their lives. This trend bespeaks a deep pathology loose in our culture. But maybe only an unhinged lunatic would think so."<BR/><BR/>I agree, it goes way beyond knee jerk teen rebellion... or what may be more disturbing, that for so many people, doing something that vile and permanent to themselves (and those who must see them) they went ahead with with no more thought or care than mere knee jerk teenage rebellion, and continue on doing it well into 'adulthood'.<BR/><BR/>Now that is unhinged.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50947709551208446332008-09-02T05:25:00.000-07:002008-09-02T05:25:00.000-07:00Julie, your idea sounds like fun, and I'm curious ...Julie, your idea sounds like fun, and I'm curious to watch it develop, but I hope you'll forgive me if I don't commit one way of the other.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91714888365237043122008-09-02T03:03:00.000-07:002008-09-02T03:03:00.000-07:00Great idea, Julie! Now if only I had musical talen...Great idea, Julie! <BR/>Now if only I had musical talent...<BR/>I know, I'll be the Roadie guy! <BR/>Or at least the bouncer. <BR/><BR/>BTW, if Skully volunteers don't pay him with grog.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21492414801737122922008-09-02T03:00:00.000-07:002008-09-02T03:00:00.000-07:00Joan, you stopped blogging?Arrgghh! I second Julie...Joan, you stopped blogging?<BR/>Arrgghh! I second Julie's sentiments.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84727057526829586652008-09-01T21:44:00.000-07:002008-09-01T21:44:00.000-07:00"Obama wants to remake American society in his own..."Obama wants to remake American society in his own image. Talk about projecting your own substance..." (Julie)<BR/><BR/>Phew, that's a whole lot of corpses. Er, corpssss? Where do I not sign up? Oh...I can't not sign up? Freedom, I never knew you.NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65706973819794756972008-09-01T20:11:00.000-07:002008-09-01T20:11:00.000-07:00"But some cultures are so immersed in the Lie that..."But some cultures are so immersed in the Lie that they cannot help producing lying liars, most dramatically in the Middle East..."<BR/><BR/>And yet another real life demonstration, transplanted from the Middle East to <A HREF="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2653266/Preachers-of-separatism-at-work-inside-Britains-mosques.html" REL="nofollow">Jolly Olde England</A>.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47589632469711473162008-09-01T19:58:00.000-07:002008-09-01T19:58:00.000-07:00Joan, since you've disabled comments at your now-d...Joan, since you've disabled comments at your now-defunct place, well... Hell. <BR/><BR/>Your blog will be missed. <BR/><BR/>I do hope you keep commenting, though. Or barring that, I hope all is well and that, for you, it's a change for the better.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50061175512689598702008-09-01T18:49:00.000-07:002008-09-01T18:49:00.000-07:00Mark Steyn has checked in too.<A HREF="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODNhOTk2YTU0NWY4ZjY5ODNhZTgyOWZkNjY5YjFlMmY=" REL="nofollow">Mark Steyn</A> has checked in too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3492252500085480222008-09-01T17:44:00.000-07:002008-09-01T17:44:00.000-07:00It sounds like Lloyd has been listening to Booger ...It sounds like Lloyd has been listening to Booger the Cat, or maybe Fergus. It isn't true, Lloyd. The cat gets all she can eat all the time, and I do <I>too</I> share my roast chicken. On the other hand, you might want to listen if she tells you you'd sound way better with a tattoo.<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3796004159216671382008-09-01T17:33:00.000-07:002008-09-01T17:33:00.000-07:00Animals can lie; they do little else, in their fut...Animals can lie; they do little else, in their futile attempt to survive. Why are you so naive?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46620744713818286032008-09-01T15:46:00.000-07:002008-09-01T15:46:00.000-07:00Darwinism. Is there anything it can't explain?Darwinism. Is there <A HREF="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/dn14641-monogamy-gene-found-in-people.html?feedId=online-news_rss20" REL="nofollow"><I>anything</I></A> it can't explain?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69666585313922410042008-09-01T15:43:00.000-07:002008-09-01T15:43:00.000-07:00Dr. Sanity is back from her hiatus, so be sure and...<A HREF="http://drsanity.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Dr. Sanity</A> is back from her hiatus, so be sure and bookmark her.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13422740107256721152008-09-01T15:40:00.000-07:002008-09-01T15:40:00.000-07:00"It's amazing how much panic one honest man can sp..."It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites."<BR/> Thomas SowellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50572994045798443902008-09-01T14:23:00.000-07:002008-09-01T14:23:00.000-07:00"He was incredibly humble, full of warmth, and com..."He was incredibly humble, full of warmth, and completely without pretense. We were seeing the man his family sees."<BR/><BR/>The <A HREF="http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/08/the-reason-to-d.html" REL="nofollow">opposite</A> of his potential replacement. (Via Vanderleun)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91399262124780440842008-09-01T13:33:00.000-07:002008-09-01T13:33:00.000-07:00Absolutely. It is a reversion to barbarism and pa...Absolutely. It is a reversion to barbarism and paganism, pure and simple. The only way to understand where these impulses come from -- things like human sacrifice, infanticide, scapegoating, and body mutilation -- is to understand the more primitive substrate of the human mind.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3786223113966458642008-09-01T13:24:00.000-07:002008-09-01T13:24:00.000-07:00"And once the lie is in place, it causes the psych..."And once the lie is in place, it causes the psyche to enter a sort of parallel universe, for it constructs itself on the foundations of that primordial lie."<BR/><BR/>All cultures are equal. Cultures express themselves in different ways, and we should never fall into the trap of mistakenly regarding differences as marks of superiority or inferiority. <BR/><BR/>I had to go to Lowes yesterday to get some spray paint. It was early, and the store wasn't crowded. As I walked in I noticed a guy- probably in his mid forties. He was dressed pretty much the same as I was- jeans, tank shirt. His upper body was just littered with tattoos. It looked like a page out of a bored high school kid's notebook: doodles, names, little pictures of this and that all over the place. Nasty. It took some time, but I found a sales clerk. This guys arms looked like a page out the Sunday comics. Only with a pin-up girl or two thrown in for good measure. You see this kind of stuff a lot. I always wonder- in what universe does someone find this stuff attractive?<BR/>But the tatts were nothing. When I looked at the kid working the checkout I got one of those awful little gut drops that you get when you see someone missing a limb, or with a grotesque deformity. What once had been this kid's earlobes were now two limp, dangling loops of flesh that hung a good inch and a half down from where they should have ended. Picture elbow macaroni with wrinkles. They flapped around when he moved his head.<BR/>I'm sure when he had the inch diameter hoops inserted they looked much cooler.<BR/>Again. Who finds this attractive? This is the kind of "beautification" practiced by people in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea, or Brazil. It is the mark of people whose cultural triumphs consist of tribal rule, living in mud huts, and eating bugs in the jungle. And it is patently, grotesquely ugly. It takes some serious rewiring of a person's aesthetic senses to cause them to see mutilation as beauty. I can't imagine a deeper insinuation of the Lie.<BR/> (And don't <I>EVEN</I> get me going on tattooed women.)<BR/>Cultural relativity is permission for worship of the Primitive. Worship of the Primitive is a civilizational dead end to say the least. I find this whole thing very disturbing. This isn't just kids wanting to freak out the old farts by wearing wild hair, and some goofy-ass clothing. This is permanent disfigurement. These kids are locked into looking like stupid teenagers for the rest of their lives. This trend bespeaks a deep pathology loose in our culture. But maybe only an unhinged lunatic would think so.<BR/><BR/>JWM<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30872007144211492452008-09-01T13:11:00.000-07:002008-09-01T13:11:00.000-07:00Obama wants to remake American society in his own ...Obama wants to <A HREF="http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_08_31-2008_09_06.shtml#1220243277" REL="nofollow">remake American society</A> in his own image. Talk about projecting your own substance...<BR/><BR/>I really, really hope Mccain wins this one.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26359062643084491262008-09-01T12:57:00.000-07:002008-09-01T12:57:00.000-07:00With Bob's indulgence, I'm going to post this agai...With Bob's indulgence, I'm going to post this again (seeing as how I managed to put it up where the least possible number of eyes might stumble across it last night):<BR/><BR/>With all of the musically talented people who hang out here, I wonder if it would be possible to create a virtual song? Start with some lyrics and a basic melody, hand off (via email or a forum, possibly? I don't have a clue how big the files would be) to various instrumentalists/ vocalists to play with (maybe just one at a time, so they're all building on the same musical structure), overlay their part, then pass along... each person would need a half-decent microphone (to record their part) and compatible software, probably the kind that comes free with most computers would be fine (GarageBand or similar?). Not that I know how to work with it yet, but it's supposed to be fairly user friendly. If we keep it simple, it could possibly work.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, it just struck me as something that could be a really fun and interesting collaboration. There's no lack of creativity here, nor a lack of musical ability. And admit it - you'd love to hang out and have an impromptu jam session (or even just sit on the sidelines and listen to the results) with your fellow Raccoons. This could be the next best thing.<BR/><BR/>Dougman has already stepped up to the plate. Who else wants to play? Bob, Van, Will, Robin, River - I know you all have some skills that would be helpful in this endeavor. And I'm sure there are others, too. If enough people are at least intrigued by the idea, I'll set up a slackateria where we can try to get the ball rolling, so as not to impose further on Bob's hospitality.<BR/><BR/>What say you, Raccoons? We spend a lot of time talking music. It might be delightful to actually <I>share</I> music. Who knows? We might come up with a mess, or just maybe, with a little Grace, we could make something Beautiful.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49307803010447951302008-09-01T12:41:00.000-07:002008-09-01T12:41:00.000-07:00Johan, didn't you say you were a fan of Philly sou...Johan, didn't you say you were a fan of Philly soul? If so, you'll want to know about <A HREF="http://www.legacyrecordings.com/News/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsGuid=61cb4dc7-f4eb-4b06-8aec-8b2daa07abb1" REL="nofollow">this</A>. Can't wait.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.com