Once again, I am speechless, this time with awe rather than shock.
http://www.tlogical.net/bioboom.htm
CORRIE TEN BOOM (1892–1983)
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Once again, I am speechless, this time with awe rather than shock.
http://www.tlogical.net/bioboom.htm
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from http://prester-scott.livejournal.com/1245739.html
Prime Minister Brown sees the coming global depression as an apt opportunity to establish a New World Order. Maybe they can dissolve the House of Lords even more.
I like the line particularly where the article says now is the time to reassert faith in climate change. I am glad the article admits it is an article of faith.
from Reuters:
In the comments box under another article, I was having a discussion with my pal John House about bias in the media. Well, not a discussion, exactly, but an exchange of words, where I would say something about the topic, and he would make an ad hominem attack without addressing the topic. He did not say that there was not a bias, he said that everyone has to define his own truth, and that I was a snob if I objected to dishonesty in the newspaper business.
Well, as if to pound the last nail into the coffin of media credibility, the Washington Post has today published an article admitting that they were in the tank for Obama.
As I recall, Dan Rather made a similar admission a little ways back. This is what we lawyers call ‘a statement against interest.’ It is an exception to the hearsay rule. Third party comments are admissible as evidence when they are statements against interest, the theory being that the main and common motivation for lying is absent when a person says something damaging to himself.
lenneth asks: "I’ve always been afraid to read Lovecraft . . . I am a perfect scaredy-cat. But this is lovely! :) Are some of his works not horror then?"
His so called horror stories would not scare a rabbit, in my opinion. Arthur Machen or Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft is not. But, yes, some of his work is weird fantasy, after the fashion of Lord Dunsany: lyrical, hypnotic, unearthly, archaic, and strange.
Most memorable of these (they are the first fantasy ever I read) come from Lovecraft’s ‘Dream Cycle’
Let me strongly suggest you read THE DREAM QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH, and the related short stories,
Celephais
The silver key
The white ship
The strange high house in the mist.
The Cats of Uthar
You can read DREAM QUEST online here: http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/lovecraft/novellas/dreamque.htm <>>
His other works are available here: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Howard_Phillips_Lovecraft
The modern age is simply a time of magic: in either days I would have had to lend you my precious out of print Ballatine paperback to make these little gems of weird fantasy available. Now they are free for you to read.
Here is the opening passage:
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Carbonelle writes:
Stop talking about politics for a moment or two.
Post a reasonably-sized picture in your LJ, NOT under a cut tag, of something pleasant, such as an adorable kitten, or a fluffy white cloud, or a bottle of booze. Something that has NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS.
Include these instructions, and share the love.
Why, it is little Juss, walking along the
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I have always been haunted by this eerie little fragment written by an author describing a dream:
Bonus points and bragging rights if anyone can identify the author?
UPDATE: everyone who guessed got it right. That man had a distinctive style.
Lord, may we endure thy wrath as did the children of Israel beneath the iron sceptre of Ahab, and the other cruel and vicious king it pleased You to raise to dominion over us. We accept thy stern rebuke with humility.
The Orwellian-named Freedom of Choice Act will pre empt all local sovereignty on the issue of abortion.
Please read the expert analysis by Americans United for Life (AUL) and sign the Fight FOCA petition at:
I hate to say it, but I was fooled by an immoderate anti-Clinton press during Clinton’s term, much as the BDS Left was fooled by an immoderate anti-Bush press during Bush’s term. Let cooler heads prevail.
We must pause in admiration that this is an historic moment. The first Black man has been elected President of this nation. Complaints that the United States suffers from institutional racism from this moment on must be met with hoots of contempt. Would that it had been Alan Keyes or Colin Powell instead, but the significance of the moment is undiminished by the smallness of the man who plays this epochal role. Let the goats and bulls and stoats in Kenya gush forth the sacrificial blood beneath the knives of celebration!
In four years, we shall see another historical first, as Sarah Palin becomes the first lady President, and her husband become First Dude. Perhaps by that time, the conservatives will have jettisoned the idea of big-government conservatism, and return to the ideals of Goldwater, Reagan, and Burke. Maybe we can take the time to reread the Federalist Papers and re-acquaint ourselves with what are alleged to be our first principles, or perhaps even Adam Smith.
The ire of the Left following a Palin inauguration will be as great a temptation to them, then, as ire is to the Right, now, on the eve of an Obama inauguration. Let us by all means eschew such temptation. Let there be no four years of Obama Derangement Syndrome, please.
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I have just heard Sen McCain concede on the radio. Seems our boy does not have the gumption of a Al Gore, and is not willing to call for endless recounts.
Poor Mr. Obama is now in the difficult position of proving himself to be the Messiah. He won the nomination by appealing to the far left, and won the presidency by voter fraud by appealing to the center left: he will certainly disappoint someone.
He ran as the Messiah, he was elected as the Messiah. Somehow, I doubt he will govern as the Messiah.
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Otto Octavius. We can achieve energy independence once he learns the secret of controlled electrohydrodynamic fusion.
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Review of NULL- A CONTINUUM up on SfSignal
They give it 4.5 stars out of a possible 5. Them’s good stars.
They also say it is incomprehensible at times. Whether I write in an incomprehensible style, we cannot know. But this much we do know: here is the race that will rule the Sevagram!
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Despite the strong initial showing in exit polls, it is important to remember that the Detective Comics candidate, Superman, is not eligible to serve, because he was born on the planet Krypton. To be President, one must be born a citizen of the United States.
On the other hand, the Marvel Comics candidate, Ben Grimm, is not only a WWII air-ace and war hero, he has several times defended Earth against attack by Skrull and threats originating from the Negative Zone. Mr. Grimm promises that, as commander-in-chief, he will initiate any military or police action by our armed services with the words: ITS CLOBBERING TIME!!!
I realize that some libertarians out there are partial to their third-party candidate from Charleston Comics, Steve Ditko’s Mr. A. While there is much to admire on his platform, why throw away your vote on a third party? It is time for compromise. There is always a gray area in moral questions.
Also, Kang the Conqueror reports from the future that any votes for Lex Luther may result in the rise of the dictatorial Justice Lords, once Superman laser-eyebeams Luther to death in the Oval Office.
In other news, Skynet reports that its systems will record all votes and tally them in a fair and unbiased fashion. Skynet also reports that Ultron will be our next President. Hail Ultron!
Pollsters, when polling other pollsters about polls, said that one hundred eighty one zillion percent of respondants, out of a sample of Mr. Zogby and Mr. Gallup and six of his employees, trust polls absolutely, since they are utterly and scientifically accurate.
In fact, the polls are so accurate, that Hari Seldon has devised, based on these polls, a system of predicting future events over the next thousand years of galactic history, so that he can stash recordings now telling people centuries in the future how to buy stocks and what color socks to wear. Wow. That is accuracy! In other news, weather predictions for the next four hundred years, based on computer models of a version of Earth with no clouds whose sun never changes temperature output, shows a rise in the seawater temperature of one degree. We can predict the weather five centuries before hand, but cannot tell you if it will rain tomorrow.
And in other news, the most highly rated TV show of all time was a documentary called ‘The Neilsen Families: a Look at the Families behind the Neilsen ratings!’
That was a joke. This is in earnest:
http://dirtyharrysplace.com/?p=5445
A refresher:
1. The corrupt liberal media always under polls Republicans. Election after election after election… Whether we win or lose, the outcome’s always the same: Republicans get more votes than the polls said they would.
2. This year pollsters all have it for Obama because all of them assume a record turnout of Democrats unlike anything seen since Watergate. Re-weight these polls to historical norms and you have a 2-3 point race. In other words: doable.
3. The corrupt liberal media has called 2008 over on every news show and in every newspaper for weeks now. This is to suppress your vote. This is an abuse of power. This is a threat to liberty.
4. In 2000, the corrupt liberal media knew the very conservative panhandle of Florida was in the central time zone and still they called the state early for Al Gore. In response, conservatives still in line to vote for Bush went home. Thousands of them. Look how close the corrupt liberal media came to stealing that election.
5. In 2004, the afternoon of election day, the corrupt liberal media leaked absurd exit polls showing Kerry shellacking Bush. Again, an intentional leak designed to demoralize and dishearten conservatives and keep us home.
For those of you on the left ready to accuse me of hyperbole, please do list your examples of when it was the other way around.
Please do not listen to premature announcements of an Obama victory, which we have been hearing since 2006. When weighed correctly, the polls show a tie or near-tie, and the news media reports this as a two-digit spread favoring Obama.
Please vote.
It would be nice to surprise the establishment. I for one am sick unto death of having an arrogant news media composed mostly or entirely of people more mentally inert or more morally corrupt than I am*, telling me what is good for me.
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* FOOTNOTE: I am no saint, God knows, and my sins are many and revolting. But at least, thank God, I do not tell lies for pay.
Please read this http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/03/an-open-letter-to-our-fellow-catholics-on-election-eve/
Following some of the links in this open letter may prove instructive.