Comments on: Cult of Personality

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:14:45 +0000

John, Captain Lex, sirs, on that note: HuffPo people are on to your game:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-impeachment-of-presid_b_297330.html

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:07:54 +0000

This is what the HuffPo says…from Volokh: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-volokh/school-children-singing-t_b_300126.html

By: John P

John P — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:55:58 +0000

It would seem that the far left now has a god. They are so happy that they want to break out in songs of adoration to their new god. They think it is wonderful that little children sing songs of praise to their new god. They strongly believe that anyone who objects is a racist and a right wing nut who should be shouted down and made to shut up. These are people who are in their first flush of enthusiasm regarding their first quasi-religious experience. They would joyfully line up to kiss Barrack Obama’s testicles, and they don’t understand why everyone else does not feel the same way.
In other words, they are nuts. There are many more of us than there are of them. If we all just take the time to vote in 2010, we can put the brakes on this insanity.

By: Uncle Mike

Uncle Mike — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:19:45 +0000

daveg,

Thanks for opening the door and giving me the opportunity to thank the Army for giving me the chance to use my college degree to learn to operate (one doesn’t ‘drive’ them) a bulldozer. For those who post here whose experience is limited to sailing the seas in mighty warships or soaring the skies in swift aircraft, you can not begin to imagine the joys of traversing the land at a heady mile and a half an hour. It gives one the time to observe and enjoy at a human pace. Probably kind of like the pioneers.

Didn’t take me twelve years to learn, but one gets better with practice. Need an airfield? You’ll need a dozer. Need a freeway? You’ll need a dozer. Need a place to safely store fuel or ammo? Same thing, you’ll likely need a dozer. They are very useful pieces of equipment.

Spend time on one in sub-zero temperatures? How about 100+ temperatures and humidity? Then you’ll wish you were a surgeon in some nice hospital, or a community agitator, or [gagging sound] even a senator. Heck, you might even wish you were a sailor. Not me; all that salt water that’s too deep to stand up in makes me queasy. And I’m certain that all those high-G turns and loops and all that aviators/pilots tolerate would make my brain explode. And all those dials to watch and switches to keep track of are way beyond my ability to comprehend.

Spent too many years planning and leading but never forgot my roots and took every chance I could to show that the old guy could move dirt with the best of them — and some of those kids are amazing. In a down to earth kind of way.

Pardon the diversion.

By: ChrisP

ChrisP — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:05:08 +0000

In light of this little school ‘episode’, I would refer to an old shorty by James Clavelle: “The Childrens Story”;

My “HTML-Fu” is weak, so if there is not a link, it should be http://home.comcast.net/~llefler/clavell.htm

ChrisP

By: Uncle Mike

Uncle Mike — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:44:31 +0000

Lioness,

Sad to say, but Coastal California is leading the rest of the state over the edge. Used to be fairly conservative in its views, but no more.