Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Maybe he can recycle some of his SNL rape jokes in the Senate?
Dunno Lex, I’m sure it’s not going to be very funny what happens next if you’re firmly rooted in reality though.
First it was Paul ‘never met a war worth fighting’ Wellstone, then we sent Mark ‘duck and cover’ Dayton to the senate, and now Al ‘Stuart Smalley’ Franken.
Not that Norm Coleman was any prize, but I didn’t think my neighbors were as dumb as this.
If nothing else, the good folks of this country will truly get to see what the Democrats stand for. Be interesting to see what happens with the mid-term elections.
Does this mean that everytime they can’t get something done they will stop blaming the Republicans? Maybe not, “we’re a diverse party” and all.
Its getting I can’t watch the news anymore. I’m ready to say “cap this” mf..
OldT6/
Dear Congress,
You Cap Us, We Trade You.
Love,
Your Boss
Buy the Tshirt here, about 4 entries down.
What is the deal with Minnesota voters? Anyone here from that state that can explain why they vote the way they do? I mean, Al Franken as your Senator???
What do you expect from the same state that elected Jesse Ventura as Governor?
Those Minnesota folks sure do have a sense of humor. It’s all just a joke- only I don’t hear a lot of laughing.
One thing is sure. Now they (the DEMS) own it all…the economy, defense, Iraq, international issues….all of it. Kind of like the dog that was always chasing cars and finally caught one. Now what?
Can’t wait to watch the next congressional elections.
Well, I guess I can mark Minnesota off my list of possible places to move. Unfortunate too – they pay their teachers pretty well.
This is the sort of thing that makes a Badger come out of his burrow, look to the immediate west, see what the gophers are up to, and leap back into his burrow, and slam the blast door.
Badger/ HF6 heard they were the “golden” gophers. He was thinking of the glitter, and you had to ruin it with your “blasted” bright sun-shiny “day after”.
Something smells in Minnesota, and it’s not just the lutefisk.
We have a daughter and son-in-law up in the very middle of the state.
I wonder if an extraction is called for yet?
Franken is a f#^*@n clown, so he’ll probably fit right in with all the other clowns in Washington. The good news is that we are now 1/4th of the way to the next congressional election, and hopefully, the people will make some wholesale changes then. The bad news is that the clowns can do an almost unimaginable amount of damage in the next 18 months.
Lex:
OK, here’s the sad report from the still-Blue state of Minnesota. There were two factors last cycle: One, there was a “spoiler” candidate, a semi-Ron Paulian who took more votes from Coleman than Clown-boy and second, as SNO reported to me (he interned on Coleman’s campaign) it was atrociously run by Coleman. Franken stayed on his message :”Anything bad is George Bush’s fault and Norm Colemen is George Bush” and since Franken has utterly no political record whatsoever all Coleman could do is point out what an idiot Franken is in other parts of his life. There is a very strong history of very far left politics in the state that runs in a line from Rochester, through the Twin Cities right up I-35 to Duluth and the Iron Range, which is “yellow dog Democrat” country. (“Jesus could run as a Republican against a yellow dog Democratic-Farm/Labor and the dog will win on the Iron Range”) There is considerable skepticism about the votes, especially the absentees, that came to be counted and not counted, but in the end it was very, very close. The third party guy is the one to target, and he’s getting away scot-free in this one. Hope the Paulians are proud of themselves.
VR,
Comjam
Comjam/
Chuckle.. You’re description of Jesus and yellow dogs reminds me of the old saying in the part of Illinois where I grew up where it was said of the old E. Kentucky and Tenn, hill people who settled the area that if the Devil came into town riding on a Donkey, they would vote for him hands down…(and they would have, too!)
I am beginning to get the feeling that we have fallen too far down the rabbit hole to recover. We can (sometimes) rally the nation against foreign enemies, but when the 5th Column is so deeply entrenched I begin to really fear. The last step in the Gramscian March is to take over the Supreme Court. It is highly likely that this crowd of clowns will be able to replace 3 justices in the next 3+ years.
Something that startles me, and makes me very sad, is that I have many relatives who are gophers, and many of them belive, to thier very cores of thier beings, that anyone who differs with the Farm Labor ( the name that the Democratic Party operates in MN under ) line is a person full of hate. There is alas, a fair number of people here in the Badger State who feel the same way.
For 8 years, the Joy Cardin Show on Wisconsin Public Radio was the daily three hours of hate for George Bush. Now, it’s a mix of HUZZAH For The One/Lets Have Contempt For The Right show. Every night, at 6:00 PM, WPR airs On Point, a show that originates from WBUR Boston, that is so Left, that I am convinced that if God Himself were to appear in the sky, and say, ” Look, you chaps, I have been watching you guys since the beginning. Trust me, I have seen infinately worst than G W Bush “, the next day, On Point’s program would have as it’s topic, God, Why He’s Wrong.
These two states are at the core of the Upper Midwest, and if we are in this condition, I fear for our country, as we know that the Left have taken over the larger Coastal States.
I suspect that the heart of the problem lies in the fact that being a Conservative requires that you think, while being a Liberal only requires that you feel good about something.
“being a Liberal only requires that you feel good about something.”
Actually, only that you feel. Good or not, and sometimes you are supposed to feel bad about things.
A popular comic back in the 30s (can’t recall his name for some reason – he died in a plane crash with Wiley Post) said he didn’t belong to an organized political party, he was a democrat. The Dems used to fight all the time when they owned Congress before, why should it change. Now that they own it all, some will suddenly realize that only they can be blamed for what happens, and start voting with some sense. Inhofe is predicting Cap and Trade will go down in the Senate. We can only hope that and the Pedophile Protection Act of 2009 (“Hate Crimes”) will also go down after passing the house.
Quartermaster, that is the mark of a true airman — remembering Wiley Post but not Will Rogers.
Rogers had many good one-liners. You can see a collection at:
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Will_Rogers
Both good men who died in Alaska.
Bad thing is, I remembered after the edit time expired. For some reason his name just escaped me.