tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6586797002473445729..comments2024-03-18T21:33:35.309-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Am I Here to Amuse You?Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66339087841749696792009-04-30T07:47:00.000-07:002009-04-30T07:47:00.000-07:00P.S.
Julie, I love the new avatar. I think I need...P.S. <br />Julie, I love the new avatar. I think I need one. QP will coach me, when she gets back from her 'rest cure'.Salhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13201226644704622876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88430422967551461522009-04-30T07:45:00.000-07:002009-04-30T07:45:00.000-07:00"Fish gotta swim,
Bird's gotta fly
Bob's gotta m..."Fish gotta swim,<br /> Bird's gotta fly<br /> Bob's gotta make those puns<br /> 'til he die.<br /> Can't help lovin' that Gagdad o'mine."<br /><br />(with apologies to Mr. Kern)<br />It's called a vocation.<br /><br />wv: brattes. we're surrounded bySalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13201226644704622876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23010083548193914492009-04-30T06:43:00.000-07:002009-04-30T06:43:00.000-07:00“QUESTION: Did you read the documents recently ref...“QUESTION: Did you read the documents recently referred to by former Vice President Cheney and others saying that the use of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" not only protected the nation but saved lives? And if part of the United States were under imminent threat, could you envision yourself ever authorizing the use of those enhanced interrogation techniques?”<br /><br />World’s Longest “No”:<br /><br />“OBAMA: I have read the documents. Now they have not been officially declassified and released. And so I don't want to go to the details of them. But here's what I can tell you, that the public reports and the public justifications for these techniques, which is that we got information from these individuals that were subjected to these techniques, doesn't answer the core question.<br />Which is, could we have gotten that same information without resorting to these techniques? And it doesn't answer the broader question, are we safer as a consequence of having used these techniques?<br />So when I made the decision to release these memos and when I made the decision to bar these practices, this was based on consultation with my entire national security team, and based on my understanding that ultimately I will be judged as commander-in-chief on how safe I'm keeping the American people.<br />That's the responsibility I wake up with and it's the responsibility I go to sleep with. And so I will do whatever is required to keep the American people safe. But I am absolutely convinced that the best way I can do that is to make sure that we are not taking short cuts that undermine who we are.<br />And there have been no circumstances during the course of this first 100 days in which I have seen information that would make me second guess the decision that I have made. OK?” <br /><br /><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMmTBR2Grcg" REL="nofollow">Not long enough? Torture yourself hear.</A>Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83834514197401385782009-04-30T06:07:00.000-07:002009-04-30T06:07:00.000-07:00Is this where we’re holding the anti-humor sit-in?...Is this where we’re holding the anti-humor sit-in?<br />Reminds me of when me and my ex-accountant built that hotdog stand for the anti-low gas price parade in 99.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28342506873331194902009-04-30T02:47:00.000-07:002009-04-30T02:47:00.000-07:00Funny, there were no trolls today.Funny, there were no trolls today.Skullynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86817380914445876892009-04-30T02:45:00.000-07:002009-04-30T02:45:00.000-07:00How much are we talkin' about, anyway? Not that I ...How much are we talkin' about, anyway? Not that I can be bought, I'm just curious...Skullynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45589055345244856392009-04-30T02:34:00.000-07:002009-04-30T02:34:00.000-07:00Bob-
Your humor is one of the main things about y...Bob-<br /><br />Your humor is one of the main things about you that kept me here long enough to get an inkling of what you're talkin' about.<br /><br />After that happened you couldn't pay me enough to not come here.<br />Jest sayin'. :^)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15865765820632579902009-04-29T21:23:00.000-07:002009-04-29T21:23:00.000-07:00Matthew 7
9 Or what man is there of you, whom if ...Matthew 7<br /><br /><I>9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? <br /><br /> 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? </I> <br /><br /><br /><br />You don't think this line wasn't a total crack up? I'll bet they howled. Still strikes me as the funniest lines in the Bible.<br /><br />JWMJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89746366786436958222009-04-29T19:48:00.000-07:002009-04-29T19:48:00.000-07:00Glad it's not just me wondering, Van.
The new pic...Glad it's not just me wondering, Van.<br /><br />The new pic is an old me, probably age 10 or 11; it's been on my mind for a couple days to change the avatar, and after seeing so many of my own comments in a row I just couldn't take it any more.<br /><br />Plus, I thought the laughing and the "Jester's Weekend" t-shirt were apropos today. (I don't remember what that means; may have been an Air Force family function or something).juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48136658732733796592009-04-29T19:35:00.000-07:002009-04-29T19:35:00.000-07:00Ok... seriously... where is everybody today?
Juli...Ok... seriously... where <I>is</I> everybody today?<br /><br />Julie, who's the new pic a pic of?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80093283124018023952009-04-29T19:33:00.000-07:002009-04-29T19:33:00.000-07:00Julie said "Also, where is everyone today? It's wa...Julie said "Also, where is everyone today? It's way too quiet in here."<br /><br />(insert Lurch image here)'uhhhooo<I>OOOHHHhhhoughhhh'</I> <br /><br />... Got the new guy, dump-the-urgent-fixes-and-annoying-problems-on-'em bluuu<I>esssssss.</I>Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72369231121066308472009-04-29T19:29:00.000-07:002009-04-29T19:29:00.000-07:00"However, a moment's reflection will inform you th..."However, a moment's reflection will inform you that "what expresses itself in the image must be nonidentical with the image itself." In other words, there is this mysterious breach -- that transitional space again -- where it all goes down."<br /><br /><I>Now</I> you've done it, 'It seems that time really is the moving image of eternity', smile and say cheese!<br /><br />(unless of course you want to be humorless... it's gonna be on your permanent record though. Just sayin')Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22736949145556566772009-04-29T19:20:00.000-07:002009-04-29T19:20:00.000-07:00"Again, we can never grasp the essence behind the ..."Again, we can never grasp the essence behind the image. Rather, we can only know the essence by or through the image. Conversely -- and this is something Schuon often discusses -- a focus on the image to the exclusion of the essence tends toward a shallow "art for art's sake," or mere aestheticism instead of aesthetics. Naturally, this divorces beauty from the true and good, and here we are in the aesthetic wasteland of postmodernity."<br /><br />Wo... you can say that again, and again and again, and... you get the picture.<br /><br />Either direction, that attempts to exclude or minimize the import of either one, leaves you with infinitely less than One.<br /><br />Wish there so many examples today to choose from.<br /><br />wv:unfutal<br />Hmm... never knew wordveri to be optimistic....Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23247756786361923932009-04-29T19:12:00.000-07:002009-04-29T19:12:00.000-07:00“Okay, I'll try to play this one straight. Old sch...“Okay, I'll try to play this one straight. Old school. Fire and brimstone. No easy yokes, no guffah-ha! experiences, no laughty revelations.”<br /><br />Hem… heh.<br /><br />Eh… ha ya right’… he…<br /><br />Blink.<br /><br />Ahhhh-hhhHHAAAAH-HA-HAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! <br /><br />HAhhhh-hhhHHAAAAH-HA-HAHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHH!!!!!!<br /><br /><I>Ahhhh-hhhHHAAAAH-HA-HAHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!<br /><br />HAhhhh-hhhHHAAAAH-HA-HAHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!</I> <br /><br />No, seriously.<br /><br />Hem… heh.<br /><br /><I>Ahhhh-hhhHHAAAAH-HA-HAHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! <br /><br />HAhhhh-hhhHHAAAAH-HA-HAHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!</I>Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39018583856501544712009-04-29T16:56:00.000-07:002009-04-29T16:56:00.000-07:00Have you seen Obama's signature?I'm no handwriting...Have you seen <A HREF="http://sweasel.com/archives/3592#comment-40231" REL="nofollow">Obama's signature?</A>I'm no handwriting expert but, wow!Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47941579440289510602009-04-29T16:24:00.000-07:002009-04-29T16:24:00.000-07:00No, really this is both funny and refreshing.No, really <A HREF="http://hillbuzz.org/2009/04/27/brace-yourselves-for-this-because-we-can-hardly-believe-it-ourselves-but-we-really-miss-having-dick-cheney-around/" REL="nofollow">this</A> is both funny and refreshing.Hillbuzz blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61352510334198751652009-04-29T15:22:00.000-07:002009-04-29T15:22:00.000-07:00One of the more attractive things about God is His...One of the more attractive things about God is His sense of humor. God is filled with the very highest humor. One aspect of idolatry is the notion that god is a sort of dsypeptic puritan schoolmarm. And one sign of a spiritual poseur is a grim sincerity intended, I suppose, as a sign of righteousness.Corynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87423263029434186382009-04-29T14:45:00.000-07:002009-04-29T14:45:00.000-07:00Julie asks,
Where is everyone today?
I'm here mi...Julie asks,<br /><br />Where is everyone today?<br /> I'm here minding my own business since I got plenty of hostile and not so hostile hints where to keep my nose. <br /><br />TheofiliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46938502699226334512009-04-29T14:02:00.000-07:002009-04-29T14:02:00.000-07:00I am usually a silent reader here, Bob, but the su...I am usually a silent reader here, Bob, but the suggestion that you should curtail or eliminate your humor compels me to speak. Your humor has undone what an upbringing in the Catholic Church, and 4 years in college did to me. Personally, I see your humor as a sure sign of your wisdom, not a contradiction of it.Stevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23437781697899971842009-04-29T13:15:00.000-07:002009-04-29T13:15:00.000-07:00This is funny; I have to agree with the Catholics....<A HREF="http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/11304-Church-sign-wars.html" REL="nofollow">This</A> is funny; I have to agree with the Catholics.<br /><br />Also, where is everyone today? It's way too quiet in here.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6679357745832679752009-04-29T13:13:00.000-07:002009-04-29T13:13:00.000-07:00Just because you approach God with a light heart a...Just because you approach God with a light heart and a smile on your face it does not mean that you are dead serious about it.<br /><br /><br />/JohanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56061385780635381532009-04-29T12:44:00.000-07:002009-04-29T12:44:00.000-07:00It seems that time really is the moving image of e...<I>It seems that time really is the moving image of eternity. </I> <br /><br />This goes along with some other HvB (actually, I think he's quoting someone else here, but the footnotes are not helpful) I was reading this morning regarding the Old Testament:<br /><br /><I>"The future determines the present. The God who is to come is proclaimed and adored as the God who has already come. The God who will appear and who will be seen is already doing before men's eyes works which manifest his might and his will, his glory and his grace"</I>juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36135372324906186852009-04-29T12:26:00.000-07:002009-04-29T12:26:00.000-07:00on the seventh day
god let us in on the joke*
stop...on the seventh day<br />god let us in on the joke*<br />stop it that tickles<br /><br /><A HREF="http://steinbring.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/proboscis0925b.jpg" REL="nofollow">*</A>robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23882881722182273982009-04-29T12:24:00.000-07:002009-04-29T12:24:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3722033038835637832009-04-29T09:56:00.000-07:002009-04-29T09:56:00.000-07:00The first time I ever encountered G.K. Chesterton ...The first time I ever encountered G.K. Chesterton was reading his "Orthodoxy." I sucked it down in a day and then I stood looking out the backdoor at the setting sun and cried. <br /><br />I cried because it was the first time I had ever encountered a God who laughed. <br /><br />Thank God for humor and laughter and joy and wise guys.sehoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00398831051769112602noreply@blogger.com