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| 04.28.09 (9:11 am) [edit] |
Good morning Boys and Girls,This morning; a short list, entitled "Things I believe". • In any debate, when weak minded people encounter an argument they cannot easily address, they will first ignore the argument, and then, inevitably, if pressed, they will end the discussion altogether. • Weak men - cowards - love to blame women for problems they've caused themselves. (This is wonderfully stated in a novel I just finished reading called, "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Housseini, who also wrote "The Kite Runner". "Like a needle that points north, a mans accusing finger finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.") • As digital effects and CGI have made anything possible in the movies, I find myself less and less impressed with what I see on the screen. • As I age, I find I'm more excited about that which I know I can never know, than what I know for sure. • Americans who fear foreigners and foreign influence, and as such worry about trying to put the Genie back in the bottle with regard to "Globalization" , don't realize that the Genie was never in the bottle in the first place. • Making plans, while important, is, too often, pointless. • It is very very surprising to look up from the computer keyboard while writing a post toward the TV, and see a tiny frog hopping across the carpet in your den, as happened here just now. Honest. There was a bowl from some popcorn I made last night sitting on the table next to my recliner, so I dumped the few leftover unpopped kernels in the trash and used it to scoop up the little thing up and put it outside. Hey, how the heck did Roadie not find the thing? And how did it get in? -Weird. Be good to everyone. |
posted by: tampi (reply)
post date: 04.28.09 (6:27 am)
did you like Khaled Housseini
posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 04.28.09 (6:33 am)
Reply to: tampi
Oh yeah. Great writing.
posted by: barnabus1 (reply)
post date: 04.28.09 (9:50 am)
Pretty good points! I'm beginning to hate some special effects, especially where gas is used to make a fireball, where there is almost never a fireball...cars crashing don't make fireballs, but they havent figured that out yet!!idiots!!!
posted by: bawdy (reply)
post date: 04.28.09 (1:51 pm)
Interesting thoughts, but you're no Jack Handey! heh
posted by: auntconi (reply)
post date: 04.28.09 (3:14 pm)
"a tiny frog hopping across the carpet" ~ "how did it get in?"
Probably came in when you opened the door to check on the birdfeeder, or something like that, and he hasn't been there very long, and Roadie was probably sleeping on the waterbed. Poor Roadie has such a difficult life, eh?
... lucky Kermit!
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 04.28.09 (3:49 pm)
I'll not discuss this any further. Discussion ended. Period. Besides, it's all the fault of some woman.
Personally, I think one can be conservative and also quite rational of thought. It is the other guy who, most often, gets emotional and starts calling names.
posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 04.28.09 (4:07 pm)
Reply to: PastorDave
Oh oh. You sound just like SweetLady's ex - another nut-job Bible thumper. Hmmm. I always thought you were slightly more lucid!
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 04.28.09 (4:18 pm)
I think I know the guy. Isn't he a deacon in a Baptist church?
posted by: Barnabus1 (reply)
post date: 04.29.09 (8:26 pm)
This pigs fly flu is strange Bioengineering!! European swine flu, Asian Swine fly, Avian flu Human gram negative flu and human gram possitive flu...put in Mexico because, Mexico City is heavily polluted, the sky is always gray, many lung problems there, so tis pretty deadly there!! Not so hot in the US where we have cleaner air, we ingest more antioxidents, and our immune system is at a great level...
posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 04.29.09 (8:53 pm)
Reply to: Barnabus1
And you learned this where?
posted by: barnabus1 (reply)
post date: 04.30.09 (1:33 pm)
Reply to: surrogate
Could have been Health Sciences Institute, or Dr. Mercola...or American Association of Health Freedom, or Healthy living...think HSI..not sure!!
posted by: Bonegnawer (reply)
post date: 05.03.09 (2:02 am)
mankind is not an important part of this biosphere
posted by: OldSchool (reply)
post date: 05.03.09 (8:31 am)
I definitely agree with the statement on CGI for movies. I love the old school special effects much better in most cases.
Maybe Roadie was staying away from the frog just in case there is a "frog flu" which might be contagious. Can't be too safe.
posted by: lynnkramer (reply)
post date: 05.14.09 (9:45 pm)
The time for debate is over. We need to stop talking and start acting. Better yet, we need to highlight all of the problems with Rabbi Khaled Q Housseini, Esq.'s unscrupulous nostrums. The rest of this letter is focused exclusively on Rabbi Housseini, not because I harbor any ill-will towards him but because I think that dichotomous thinking has stymied his ability to reach solutions. You probably think that too. But Rabbi Housseini does not think that. Rabbi Housseini thinks that children should belong to the state. If we let him palm off our present situation as the compelling ground for worldwide imperialism, then greed, corruption, and incendiarism will characterize the government. Oppressive measures will be directed against citizens. And lies and deceit will be the stock-in-trade of the media and educational institutions.
Rabbi Housseini's initiatives may sound comfortable and simple, but it must not be forgotten that Rabbi Housseini's threats are based on a denial of reality, on the substitution of a deliberately falsified picture of the world in place of reality. And this dishonesty, this refusal to admit the truth, will have some very serious consequences for all of us in a lustrum or two. By allowing Rabbi Housseini to respond to this letter with hyperbolic and uncorroborated accusations and assaults on free speech, we are allowing him to play puppet master. I frequently talk about how his secret agents are too impuissant to stand up to him. I would drop the subject except that he feeds on our goodwill like worms feed on buried corpses. To say anything else would be a lie.
We must make some changes here. As mentioned above, however, that is not enough. It is necessary to do more. It is necessary to get people to sign a petition to limit Rabbi Housseini's ability to cause trouble. While others have also published information about belligerent lummoxes, at no time in the past did what I call ignorant, adversarial good-for-nothings shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. To put it crudely, my current plan is to hinder the power of disgraceful scalawags like Rabbi Housseini. Yes, he will draw upon the most powerful fires of Hell to tear that plan asunder, but for the nonce, he is content to defy the rules of logic. But any day now, he will reconstitute society on the basis of arrested development and envious malevolence.
This is a suitable place in the letter to explain how I cringe at the thought of how Rabbi Housseini might some day supplant one form of injustice with another. Unfortunately, I'll have to skip that rather intersting discussion because I have bigger fish to fry. In particular, I need to tell you that if Rabbi Housseini were to use more accessible language then a larger number of people would be able to understand what he's saying. The downside for Rabbi Housseini, of course, is that a larger number of people would also understand that we can't stop him overnight. It takes time, patience and experience to foster mutual understanding.
I have seen what Rabbi Housseini is capable of, and I am afraid. I am very afraid and I am very angry. I mean, if he bites me I will bite back. It is as if we were safely on the bank of a raging river, enjoying a picnic with our friends and family, when a bunch of repugnant malingerers came along and threw us into the river. Not only must we struggle to avoid drowning in the raging torrent of Rabbi Housseini-sponsored gangsterism, but we must crawl out of the river before we can renew those institutions of civil society—like families, schools, churches, and civic groups—that give parents the means to protect their children. I was appalled when I first learned that his legatees want to make human life negligible and cheap. Am I saying that he should think for himself? Yes. That we all have an obligation to stand up together and forcefully oppose his psychotic ventures? Maybe. That appeasement is not the answer? Definitely.
Currently, Rabbi Housseini's outbursts merely make a cause célèbre out of his campaign to usher in the beginning of an amoral new era of Trotskyism. As you will see before the year is over, this is only the tip of a gigantic iceberg. Rabbi Housseini says that onanism is the key to world peace. What balderdash! What impudence! What treachery! He practically breaks his arm patting himself on the back when he says, "It takes courage to go down into the muddy trenches and turn over our country to delirious, self-indulgent spouters." As if that were something to be proud of.
Why is it that you can hear the crwth's fremescent clangor every time Rabbi Housseini tries to divert attention from his unprovoked aggression? It's because if he is going to make an emotional appeal then he should also include a rational argument. I shall make every effort, especially in this limited space, to study the problem and recommend corrective action. That conclusion is not based on some sort of neo-putrid, gloomy philosophy or on Rabbi Housseini-style mental masturbation, but on widely known and proven principles of science. These principles explain that the purpose of this letter is far greater than to prove to you how rude and pusillanimous Rabbi Housseini has become. The purpose of this letter is to get you to start thinking for yourself, to start thinking about how only through education can individuals gain the independent tools they need to open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. But the first step is to acknowledge that Rabbi Housseini has been trying to conceal his plans to redefine unbridled self-indulgence as a virtue, as the ultimate test of personal freedom. Fortunately, the truth about his spleeny declamations is spreading like a jungle fire. Soon, everyone will know that Rabbi Housseini must have some sort of problem with reading comprehension. That's the only explanation I can come up with as to why Rabbi Housseini accuses me of admitting that it is effrontive to question his precepts. What I actually said is that all of the bad things that are currently going on are a symptom of Rabbi Housseini's impertinent morals. They are not a cause; they are an effect.
Some insecure bourgeoisie actually insist that I'm too cheeky to stop the Huns at the gate. This is the kind of muddled thinking that Rabbi Housseini is encouraging with his fulminations. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as snooty, pertinacious muttonheads.
Okay, now it's time to offend a few people. Actually, I hope not to offend anyone, although if a cogent, logical argument entered Rabbi Housseini's brain, no doubt a concussion would result. Rabbi Housseini's policies serve as a stepping stone to world government. And who will compose that world government? A ruling class consisting of tasteless predatory-types and irritating yahoos. I could tell Rabbi Housseini that it scares the bejeezus out of me to know that he might resort to underhanded tactics eventually, although he obviously doesn't care. I could tell him that he demands his freedoms while unhesitatingly and hypocritically encroaching upon the rights of others, but he wouldn't believe me. He probably also doesn't care that whenever he encounters a free-thinking individual who presents factual data that conflicts with his beliefs, Rabbi Housseini doesn't know what to do. So let me appeal to whatever small semblance of reason Rabbi Housseini may be capable of when I tell him that I am aware that many people may object to the severity of my language. But is there no cause for severity? Naturally, I think that there is because we are at a crossroads. One road leads into the light of a bright, shining future in which stentorian fault-finders like Rabbi Housseini are completely absent. The other road leads into the darkness of mandarinism. The question, therefore, is: Who's driving the bus? It is bootless to speculate on the matter but it should be noted that Rabbi Housseini is entirely power-hungry. We all are, to some extent, but he sets the curve.
Rabbi Housseini's argument that lamebrained, stubborn rubes make the best scout leaders and schoolteachers is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. I am not predicting anything specific. I just have a feeling, an intuition, based on several things that are happening now that Rabbi Housseini will make bargains with the devil in the immediate years ahead. Of all of his exaggerations and incorrect comparisons, one in particular stands out: "The best way to make a point is with foaming-at-the-mouth rhetoric and letters filled primarily with exclamation points." I, speaking as someone who is not a sleazy, deluded vagrant, don't know where he came up with this, but his statement is dead wrong. I have seen and heard enough. Now, it is time to navigate a safe path between the Scylla of Rabbi Housseini's vile credos and the Charybdis of opportunism. Rabbi Khaled Q Housseini, Esq.'s little schemes are bound to fail. Never forget that and never let Rabbi Housseini threaten, degrade, poison, bulldoze, and kill this world of ours.
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