Our own Jazz Hands Club is planning a “silent protest” against Big Oil this Saturday, October 15th. I’m a little confused, because one of their other supposed causes is high unemployment. I’m not sure how trying to shut down an industry that supplies, directly or indirectly, about 50% of the jobs in our area helps, but whatever.
Energy Day is sponsored the big oil companies responsible for the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and for building the Keystone XL Pipeline, a potential serious environmental disaster running from Alberta, Canada right into our backyard! Valero and other oil refining companies are seeking a tax refund to the tune of $135million to cover the cost of hydrotreating equipment to reduce pollution. This refund is coming from our property taxes. Money meant for schools may go to large oil companies to cover these costs! We need to educate festival goers that there are serious threats to our planet, local tax money wasted, and a serious corruption chain behind big oil!
Big Oil hates children! And pollution! Oh…wait.
Every Jazz Hands event must be heavy on symbolism. This one is no different:
We will march the perimeter of the festival in white shirts and red bandannas or $1 bills over our mouths. Why do we cover our mouths? Why are we silent? Because the 99% of the citizens in this country do not have a voice in this country! Why do we wear white? It’s the opposite of black, the color of oil, and a symbol of the corruption and collusion rampant in the big energy industry.
Black is the color of corruption??? Racists!!! Jazz Hands are racist!!!
Thankfully our Houston Chapter made sure to get their Orwellian hand signals down pat at the General Assembly last night. Nothing worse than a mob of trendy hipsters running around flashing random hand signals willy-nilly while the Human Megaphone is trying to get its act together:
Hand signals
- Hands raised to either side with fingers up, wriggling fingers (jazz hands, some call it) -also the sign for ‘applause’ in sign language. This is used to show that you agree with the speaker, and is also used when a proposal is being presented, as as measurement of consensus
- Hands held out in front in a SO-SO gesture means you’re not loving the proposal, but you don’t have a big problem with it either.
- Hands held out in front (similar to above) but hanging downward, rotating back and forth. This means that you really disagree with the proposal or statement a speaker is making, but (in the case of a proposal) are are not so strongly opposed that you will Move To Amend (the X symbol)
- Point of INFORMATION- This IS NOT to be used for questions and not for opinions, not matter how pressing yours might be! a Point of Information is only to be used when something being said is lacking a critical piece of factual/empirically based information, or if the basic facts being presented are not accurate.
- Point of PROCESS- Holding fingers and thumbs to form a TRIANGLE. This means we are not sticking to adopted PROCEDURE. For example, if someone held their hands up in the POINT OF INFORMATION signal but starts rambling about their opinions, this signal can be used to express this opinion. The moderator *might* at that time direct the speaker to add themselves to the STACK to have a turn to speak their opinions.
- WRAP IT UP / DO YOU HAVE A POINT?- Rolling the hands one over the other in front of oneself, as though to say “let’s keep things rolling”
Odd time to pop up, its usually after 8:00.
Oh and First!
Mornin’ Gang
Pardon my mundane cheerleading…………….
GO RANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH!™ and g’mornin folks
All this stuff about “Jazz Hands” and I wonder why presenting the dorsal side of the hand with only the middle finger extended was not expounded upon? Does that symbol mean the same thing to them as it does almost globally or is it merely and invitation/request for participation?
I was gonna say “OH” too but ifn Katfishy has trademarked it… Morning all.
It looks like Gibson is starting to fight back.
I hope he sues the DOJ corporately and Holder personally big time! It looks like he has a slam dunk case; not to mention that he can claim a 14th amendment violation (equal protection under the law) as his company and Martin Guitars buy their wood from the same source and Martin has not been harassed.
Are all of these people illegal aliens? Can they not vote?
Wait, I contradict myself….
Here are some interesting numbers about higher education and todays youts
http://www.thebestcolleges.org/higher_education_bubble/
This is a great example of taqqiyya: The Iranians get caught red-handed trying to kill a Saudi Ambassador on US soil; and this is the lying taqqiyya-laden Iranian response:
I wonder what the Saudi’s are going to do now?? We saved their ambassador and exposed a plot by their arch mooooooooooooooooslim enemy, the wretched shia Iranians. Are they gonna make sure that we have a continuous flow of oil to keep the markets stable and the economies running? Are they gonna send in hit squads to Iran to take out the vile shiite mullahs and the lunatic Ahmadinnerjacket? Are they gonna hire the Mossad to do the job? Stay tuned because this could get real big real fast.
The most fertile, creative minds writing fiction today are hopelessly mismatched in the battle for originality by our political class. Irony keeps resurrecting itself in new and novel ways…
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a measure allowing girls as young as 12 to be vaccinated against HPV with Gardasil without their parents’ consent.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a measure completing vast “Dream Act” legislation allowing illegal resident aliens scholarships and financial aid for college in the state.
HT: Malkin
Actually, I think they were hoping it would distract from the gun-running investigation.
No. they set rates to maximize $
No. they’re chicken and too weak to handle a response
No. they would never contract the Juice; think what would happen if word got out
A couple more things like this and maybe we should consider sending them a sternly-worded letter.
Glued to the side of a 2,000lb JDAM sailing through the head ayatollah’s bedroom window.
#9 texpat
Don’t forget the legislation to prohibit use of tanning salons by minors.
You can’t give them an aspirin without parents jumping through hoops, but you can sneak them off to get a surgical procedure (abortion) without any notification or permission.
/jazz hands
The owners of the private property and park where the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have been held once expressed outrage and serious concern for their liability and the condition of their privately owned Zucotti Park. NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg claimed the protesters were a bunch of losers costing the hard-working taxpayers of New York millions in overtime pay for police.
And then, all of the sudden, everyone became quiet.
And Mikey Bloomberg said the nice, little protestors could stay as long they want.
Hmmmm….
#10 Pyro:
How many more acts of war and outright terrorism do they have to commit before the letter(s) gets sent? Most of this crapola could have been avoided with a few kind words and some strong diplomatic pressure and support of the protesters in Iran a couple of years ago. A well targeted “special delivery” letter or two would have sealed the deal. What we could now be dealing with is another Cyrus of Persia instead of Ahmajackass-terrorist. It is way beyond coincidence that they refused to support actual Persian freedom fighters in Iran as while they actively opposed to supported outright Moooooooooooooooslim Brotherhood terrorists in Egypt and Libya.
#11 WB
Following along with Michelle’s take on it.
Jerry Brown – a true Texas conservative….who knew ?
#12 TEXPAT: What is described is nothing more than Chicago-style thug diplomacy. Brookfield Properties got bribed by the foul “O” with our money. Wadyawanna bet that the $168.9 MILLION “loan” never gets paid back?
There are acts of war and there are acts of war.
At what point do you decide enough is enough? What response is appropriate? Do we send one JDAM through a window, giving them what amounts to an invitation for no holds barred mayhem? Do we turn the place into a glass-lined, self-lighting parking lot? Do we try to have Amiwebpbcbpcbijad and/or a couple ayatollah’s whacked?
You forgot one:
So then they can blame us for attacking a Muslim country, no doubt.
I was answering the questions in order.
You’re answering a question that wasn’t asked.
/jazz hands
/in my best pleading whiny voice
What we do is the only thing allowed by the Constitution! We issue Letters of Marque and Reprisal!
/waving my magic pen around in the air (similar to jazzhands)
Blowback!!!! End the Fed!!!!
Cracker Justice
#16 Pyro: I would suggest that we use Persian assets and assist them in taking their country back from the invading mullahocracy. Islam is an invader to Persia and it needs to be treated as such. I am sure that there are some caverns in the US State Dept that have Persian contacts; the bulk of the yutes and, I believe a majority or at least plurality of the rest of that country is quite sick of the mullahocracy and want in wissin gone. The trick is to use the contacts we have and supply their insurgency. Let’s actively help the Persians take their own country back.
I don’t know if any of you read my post last night, but I had a great class! We only had to move two students who preferred to talk rather than listen, but they weren’t terribly disruptive. I broke the kids up by numbers (on their name tags) and made them sit at tables that I decided for them. I have name tags that have their last name (in one of four colors), their first name (in one of four colors), and a number 1 through 4 (in one of four colors). That way, I can break them into groups quickly. Last night, it was by the color of their last name.
I have a couple in the class (the last two to join up), who are obviously deep in the throes of teen love. After I assigned seating, but before everyone had claimed their new seat, the young man approached me, asking if he could sit next to his girlfriend. He actually looked lost. It was almost heartbreaking. Poor thing. I told him no. He survived the class without her.
We discussed faith, belief, religion, and we covered the topics of sola scriptura and sola fide. They got an overview of different beliefs – Buddhism, atheism, and the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. After that, I was able to show them where Catholicism and Protestantism fit in. I saw a lot of notes being taken, which I haven’t seen in a long time. Good questions were asked. There was a lot of laughter along the way.
Believe it or not, but I was using a Star Trek movie (number 1) as a tie-in, and one girl admitted she had no idea what Star Trek was. Then she admitted she had never seen Star Wars. I told my bouncer to give her some candy, just because she’d had such a deprived childhood. At first I thought I was just getting old, but some of the other students were trying to help fill in the blanks in her education, so I didn’t feel so badly after that.
Two of students from previous popped in and got a quick hug.
Good class. I’m really looking forward to this year.
#12 texpat
Nanny of New York Bloomberg has once again changed his mind, telling the people infesting the park that they must leave by tomorrow.
I’ve read a couple of reports that say the stench is overpowering. The letter mentions that the piles of garbage are attracting rodents.
/jazz hands
#20 Hamous: Firing squad should be manned by 12 with 12 gauge shotguns loaded with 00 buckshot. Only one volley would be necessary, accuracy would not be a problem and death would be swift – what’s the problem?
Other than clean-up afterwards?
I jest but I guess I should elaborate, seriously, for the record. For a lot of my adult life I’ve been on the fence or leaning to the side of supporting the death penalty. Occasionally I’ve actually jumped off the fence and firmly planted my feet.
But over the last decade, as I’ve watched too many death row inmates be exonerated because of DNA evidence, I find myself no longer able to morally justify supporting the death penalty.
The epiphany for me came when I asked myself “Could you sit on a capital murder trial jury and convict another human being to death?” Based on my life experiences with LEOs, judges, and the general riff-raff of humanity, I decided I could not. Cops lie. Witnesses lie. Judges lie. Everyone lies. If I couldn’t sentence someone to die how can I justify supporting the sentence?
#23 WB
Please clarify – is this castoff remains, like food wrappers? Or are we talking about the sleeping protestors?
Other hand signals being considered.
Does anyone anywhere actually believe that the Iranian assassination story is anything other than an attempt by the AG to deflect attention from the supoena issued by Congress regarding Fast and Furious?
Does anyone anywhere actually believe that this OWS exercise is anything other than a warm up, sponsored by the White House and/or some Democrat/Socialist organization, for the upcoming election season to deflect attention from the Messiah’s dismal record in office?
If you do believe either of the stories are just isolated, coincidental events, please contact me immediately as I have a herd of RFU’s for sale cheap. Not only do they fart rainbows, but they poop marshmallows.
And we though English would eventually be the official language of the US. Looks like it will be sign language instead. Can’t afford to make it too complicated, so just simple symbols. Just another effort to dumb down the language.
I believe the story to be true, but the timing of the news release is suspect.
They know that for the next year people will be talking about how bad things are in the country economically. Its an attempt to identify Socialism and Liberalism (but I repeat myself) as the solution, not the problem. Its kind of a “Who, US?” kind of thing.
#23 WB
Well, of course, now that the $169 million loan is nailed down, Bloomie can deflect the criticism and say it was his fascist, prog-hating police chief who threw the children out of the park.
#25 – Hammy we can easily agree to disagree – but I do completely understand the position you’ve noted.
#25 hamster
I also find myself drifting away from capital punishment. I have no problem whatsoever with locking the really bad guys up and welding the door shut. There is enough uncertainty in a capital trial that leaves sufficient doubt as to whether the accused/convicted is really guilty.
We have seen people walk from trials where they were almost certainly guilty. We have seen prosecutors willfully suppressing exonerating evidence, lawyers who were completely inept, lawyers who were not acting in the interests of their client, and other things which should give pause to anyone who votes for the death penalty.
What’s done more to change my perspective than anything else is this:
Facing the Financial Firing Squad
Copyright troll Righthaven, half-owned by $2.8 billion news conglomerate, Stephens Media, claims they can’t raise the money or assets to post a $34,000 bond to the federal court which ruled against them.
HT: Clayton Cramer
I don’t have access to the info but Texpat has a link to a discussion on the validity of this Iran plot that is pretty good. One question that seems significant to me is why would the Iranians be trying to accomplish this through a bunch of Mexican drug lords? It doesn’t make sense. Is this all a fabrication by our HNP to save his butt? I guess it’s possible. If it is, it will come out soon enough. Like I’ve been preaching to the Troofers for a decade, any plot hatched by the US government cannot be kept secret for long. They can’t even keep their homosexual affairs secret for long. There’s no way they can keep international espionage involving hundreds of participants secret.
Union goons can’t even fill a small auditorium in PA for The Obama.
Good morning Hamsters. Unexpected rainfall last night left a few puddles and wet pavement and 1/10″ in the plastic gauge. Yea. And 67 at 6 with a front marching through all morning, heralding that wonderful clear blue sky. Doing the Snoopy Happy Dance in between the morning chores.
Back to St. Peter’s and the Pantheon this afternoon.
Because the cartels have the logistical infrastructure and all the necessary materiel already in place. The Iranians would have to develop sources of weapons, explosives, and other equipment such as burn phones, etc. They would have to find out who to bribe to make transportation routes safe to use, and develop a network of safe houses and caches to house operatives and store equipment.
The cartels already have all of that in place, they’d just be moving different stuff around. All it takes after that is establishing a price.
Adee – enjoy yourself. When Lovely and I went to Italy/Sicily, I sent out our pictures as Pics of the Day to those on my POD list, along with a commentary. I was able to relive our adventures for another three months that way.
I still have some of those emails, and I can go back and relive those moments as I read my notes that went with each picture.
Good times.
#37 adee
My favorite sculpture is in St Peter’s. La Pieta.
Huh? They’re on the verge of having freakin’ nukes. They’ve been doing these kinds of things all over the world for over 30 years.
#35 Hamous
Here is the article you mentioned about the suspicious and puzzling questions surrounding the Saudi ambassador assassination plot.
Barry Rubin is the director of the Global Center for Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) in Israel and he is also a regular contributor to PajamasMedia.
Barry Rubin’s website.
GLORIA’s website.
Here’s a look at it from the drug lord perspective.
Such an arrangement just doesn’t make sense from either side.
How I feel sometimes.
The inevitable and tragic intersection of Cracker Justice and Cracker Stupidity
Why did the aspiring Robin Hood think it was a good idea to get naked in the driveway?
Building nukes inside your own country in no way compares to launching covert operations in another, so lets leave that one aside.
Conducting a special operation to assassinate the Ambassador of one country inside the borders of another country and launching that operation from inside the borders of a third country has a degree of complexity orders of magnitude higher than the comparatively crude and less ambitious operations Iran has conducted heretofore. They would be looking for an “off the shelf” logistical operation that they would have a reasonable assumption was under the control of an entity without an ideology other than profit. The cartels have such a network.
It doesn’t have to make sense from the cartel’s POV, just from the Iranian side. The article linked in #43 provides all the proof that is needed to assume that the Iranians are active in Mexico and are desirous of either building or acquiring such a network. If that idea didn’t make any sense from the Iranian side, we wouldn’t be spending so much money and time on the Intelligence efforts we do have down there.
It’s entirely believable to me that the Iranians would make such an attempt, and it is to both our government and the Mexican government.
Plausible deniability. If Iranians contracted with a cartel, and the likely event of at least one of the perps being captured occurs, the Iranians would deny it with intense vigor – as they are doing now. Imagine ifn that restaurant actually got bombed and the Saudi Diplomat was killed. He could be written off as collateral damage to a domestic terrorism incident. That domestic terrorism incident would require more stringent gun control to ‘prevent the next attack.’ The crisis could be spun in numerous different directions to best suit the miscreants in the O admin. The more I look at this skunk, the smellier it gets.
The Iranians are in Mexico on a conversion mission. They’re looking to find recruits for jihad because of all the turmoil. It ain’t workin’.
Say what you want about the drug lords but they aren’t going to be interested in the whole 72 virgins thing.
It’s all them d@mn Catholics.
The place is crawlin’ with ‘em.
He was probably from Alabama
#49 –
O’ course!! (they gettem while still alive to enjoy em!)
Which only argues for them to attempt to contract the dirty deeds out.
Never said they would. All one has to do to prove plausibility is to demonstrate how the attempt makes sense to the Iranians.
Everybody knows its stupid, for a number of reasons, to try and hire a hooker. It definitely isn’t smart and there are thousands of reasons arguing against it, but thousands of people try it every day.
Protesters suspicious of plan to clean up NYC park
Dude, what if, like, the maids weren’t really maids? Like, maybe they’re the cops, man.
The video tomorrow morning should be pretty good. They have A Right to be there. They are using their rights under the first amendment to protest. Stuff. Or something. The cops have no right or justification to kick them out.
/jazz hands
#53 sarge
So what you’re sayin’ is they should try to recruit Mexican hookers?
#55 Pyro
Funny, yeah — but that wasn’t how I read it.
Insofar as it makes sense to them to look for infidels who would do anything for money, yes.
Hiring out assassinations is not unheard of in the Muslim culture and is in keeping with Sharia Law. Hiring mercenaries is not unheard of either.
The Taliban has been doing that with drug dealers in Afghanistan for the past few decades with a good deal of success.
Why wouldn’t the Iranians try to emulate that success?
More on the park clean
upoutThey catch on quick for a coupla morons. This is the best yet:
Because the city didn’t give them a portapotty, they just had to crap on the ground? Where they slept?
That’s beyond disgusting.
All I can say to this……is…..
/facepalm
#57 sarge
Wouldn’t they have to train the Mexican hookers? I can’t imagine that there are that many assassins-of-the-evening running around, what with the end of the Cold War so long ago and all.
#59 tedtam
one percenter
/puzzled look
The OWS would have “maintained” the portapotties themselves? How? Dumping out the contents on the ground? How is that different than what they’re doing already? Carrying it off? In what – their hands? Carry it to where? How is that different from what they’re doing now?
These people can’t even think rationally. They lean towards destruction and sophomoric self-entertainment. Giving these guys a way of destroying more private property is not something that should be considered.
A little background on Jazzhandology Supporters:
West Coast surfer finds self-propelled surf rock.
I think he meant maintain the park. He also could have been stupid enough to not know that it would need regular servicing.
#63 hamous
You left out Bun B.
Worth reading: Who’s behind the Wall St. protests?
Wouldn’t that make the medieval bacterium the crazy aunt of the modern plague?
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/10/13/black-death-is-grandmother-all-modern-plague/#ixzz1aggZk21e
#68 hamous
That would be Yersinia Tedtamis
Nanzi Pelousy has lost her tenuous grip on sanity. Here’s the proof.
One of the commenters raised an excellent question: Seeing as how Nanzi is such an outspoken advocate in favor of abortion, even past the point of lunacy as evidenced in the clip above, why has the archbishop in San FranFreako not excommunicated her yet? She is obviously an unrepentant advocate of murder of unborn children and is trying to make the taxpayers pay for such barbarity; as such she is an unrepentant apostate. Isn’t the position of the church clear on this?
#69 WB
Careful, or I’ll cough on you!
#68 From your linkie: the question is why was the black death of the 14th century so devastating? Answer:
Add to that the long cold wet period and the associated numerous crop failures, the people were in a weakened state before the bug hit them.
I think that humans encountered a similar thing with leprosy, most of us either have had some exposure (but not contracted the disease) and built our immune systems to fight it or we are not genetically predisposed to get it. I think that most in the latter category have died off long ago and that genetic weakness has mostly left the gene pool.
I think the Mongols gave the Europeans flea-infested blankets.
Who then passed them along to the anarchists in New York.
Correction to my #72:
#74 Pyro: That is gonna infect a whole lot of new fleas, then the rats who will not be able to survive the pestilence coming from the OWS vermin. Perhaps there could be a net positive effect for NY after all ifn all the rats die.
RE: Saudi Ambassador Assassination Plot
You know, it really is getting difficult to absorb all the information flowing about the negligence and incompetence of the Obama administration.
Read this posting from the Long War Journal and you can also see Bryan Preston’s comments on the piece here at PJM.
We left Pope Julius II laying the foundation stone to the new St. Peter’s in 1506, the design in the capable hands of Donato Bramante, and the work beginning with the demolition of previous walls to make room for his master work. It was to be a long journey to completion, as Julius Ii died in 1513 and Bramante in 1514. St. Peter’s was finally completed and consecrated by Pope Urban VIII in 1626, and his master of works then was Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Bernini’s artistry included the magnificent Altar of the Chair in the apse behind the central canopied altar. An ancient wooden chair inlaid with ivory with fragments of acacia wood visible had been long revered as the Chair of Peter, and Pope Alexander VII bid him build a suitable monument to enshrine it. A throne of gilded bronze encases it, richly ornamented in Baroque style, surrounded by elegant Baroque statuary and suspended above its altar as if floating on clouds. It is a stunning work completed in 1666. Now for some people, the Baroque style is just too busy and distracting and detailed. IMHO, this one works and awes.
After Bramante’s death, Michaelangelo took on directing the work at age 72 and did so until his death in 1564. His artistry for St. Peter’s included the magnificent, haunting, sorrowful yet not despairing La Pieta (that Wagonburner #40 so kindly posted) and the incomparable Sistine Chapel paintings. We did not get a close look at La Pieta as the church was jammed with visitors, being a Saturday, and Rome was locked in a warmer than expected weather week with highs in the mid 80s and plenty of humidity, and St. Peter’s does not have ac. It was becoming quite uncomfortable inside, so we left and got cooler air out on the square. There was no time to get in line to get into the Sistine Chapel before it closed for the day, regrettably. Another time….
The Square contains two monumental fountains 14 meters high, symbolic of Christ the source of the Living Water of Eternal Life. These are on either side of a pink granite Egyptian obelisk 25.31 meters high on a base 8.25 meters wide, built by Pharaoh Mencares in 1835 BC in honor of the sun. It was brought to Rome from Heliopolis, Egypt on order of lunatic Emperor Caligula and placed in the circus he had built. It witnessed many martyrdoms of Christians. In 1586 it was moved to St. Peter’s Square and was dedicated to the Holy Cross. It is huge and difficult to imagine how it was moved with less than modern machinery.
Reference: St. Peter’s, Guide to the Square and the Basilica by Nicolo Suffi, translated by Kate Marcelin-Rice. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1998, 119 pp.
Next, the remarkable Pantheon
75 Bonehead,
I lived next door to a leper colony in Africa in the eighties. The members of the colony are able to reproduce at a early age before the leprosy ravages their bodies.
Modern drug treatments renders leprosy non-contagious. We haven’t gotten any stronger or immune; Our drugs have.
Simple
#79 Simple:
Ifn the bug leprosy was so deadly why didn’t kill us all millenia ago? I think part of the answer is that there is a segment of the population that is not geneticly predisposed to easily acquire it. The immune system, on top of the above mentioned genetic resistance, will recognize it as a pathogen and build antibodies to defend against it; this is much more likely in an otherwise healthy and well fed individual. This trait is likely passed through successive generations. If you will re-read my previous post on the subject, I did not speak in absolutes and I fully recognize that the disease is not completely wiped out. Not everybody who contracts the disease is able to reproduce, and those who do are less likely to reproduce, thus the trait to easily contract the disease is dying out.
That does not mean that it is impossible for humans to continue getting the disease, just not as likely.
Thanks Adee, you are a wonderful tour guide for us armchair adventurers.
In re numerous posts containing the word “war” and “death sentence” above,
I had the distinctly enlightening experience of working on the Texas Department of Corrections Ellis Unit Death Row for a little over a year. During that time, I came to realize that many of the residents of that facility were, but for a few circumstances, no different from myself. Others were as crazy and demon-possessed as any Hollywood character you can name. The Texas death penalty was subsequently overturned and some of those I met on Death Row were moved to the general population. One of them became a State Approved Trustee and my bookkeeper in a prison industry.
I have heard the term “just war” uttered by a few learned folks especially after 9/11. My question to this august assembly is this: Can anyone point me to a coherent definition of “just war” and help me correctly understand the scripture where Jesus tells me it is ok to kill my fellow man.
#82 tim
You can start here. The CCC is well-footnoted with references to Scripture and the various other documents the Church uses.
#83 Mr. Burner,
Lemme study that a while and get back to you. Gotta go now and get the Gallopin’ Ghetto out of the shed for this weekend’s RV trip.
You know those irritating bicyclists who think they own the road and nearly cause motorists to collide with one another to avoid them ?
Well, we now have a solution…the red hartebeest.
Absolutely crazy. I thought they sped up the film at first.
Wow.
#85 Texpat
I saw that one the other day. Good thing he had that helmet, eh?
Disgusting. Repugnant. Immoral.
I’ve run out of words. /spits
I hope the family gets away safely. That poor girl. God bless her for sticking to her beliefs. And at 12 years of age, too. I hope her rapists get exactly what they deserve.
The front page of Drudge has the 3 biggest jackasses in the world wagging the index finger in separate pics.
#88 TT: It kind of makes you wonder if pok-ee-stahn was ever on our side in the first place, doesn’t it? They have been making the fertilizer for the IEDs, they hid bin fishfood, formerly known as Bin Ladin, they have routinely not helped us find the insurgents and have hidden them, and now this?? I just hope the Indians are real through with their bs as well, mayhaps we can help them reclaim Northwestern India from the mooooooooooooslim invaders.
Just for you, WB
:jazz:
GOP introduces its own Buffett Rule: Add explicit donation option to tax returns
Woo hoo! USA drone computers not attacked by enemy hackers — it was a gambling virus according to Drudge headline.
Our drones are gambling??? I’m not sure that’s any better.
80 Bonehead,
Once again you are only partially correct. Leprosy is prevalent amoungst darker skinned people, but Norwegians should take care; there are numerous cases of European missionaries working in the leper colonies contracting the disease.
There is something to be said about the collective human population developing an immunity to a particular virus or bacteria; but alas evolution provides an endless stream of modifications to end around runs on the immune system. One would think that killing the host is pretty poor survival tactic; after all the virus must incubate, mature, and then it’s offspring must jump to the next host. Jumping from a stinking corpse is hard to do when the prospective hosts do their best to avoid touching dead people.
Ebola and Marlberg have been around for a long long time and the human populations where these hemoragic fevers prevail have not developed an immunity. The speed that the Ebola virus kills works in our favor. It might spread thru a village, but the inhabitants are killed long before they can walk to another village to spread the wealth.
Read the following from the National Institute of Health’s Library.
Simple
#95 Simple
From my numismatic period several decades ago, I recall that one of the Hawaian islands housed a leper colony long ago. The colony had its own coinage, featuring the caduceus medical symbol.
#95 Simp:
And here all this time I thought the only use for thalidomide was to disfigure infants in the womb.
Official recommended listening list for refugees from the 24 hour political news cycle….
Nasty Girl Category (my favorite):
Bonnie Rait
Marcia Ball
Ronstadt
Allison Kraus
Other:
Shake Russell/Dana Cooper
Guy Clark
Update pending…
Damn, I almost feel human again.
Call me at election time will ya?
96…mharper
There was a leper colony in South Louisiana for years and I think it finally closed in the mid ninties.
I lived on the Western Coast of Africa in Angola during the eighties. We had a leper colony next to us in a fishing villiage. I think the name of the village was Malimbo.
We did not directly employ any of the residents, but one of the native technicians served as the compound procurer (I am using big words Granny Hambone…for the kids). I always got a chuckle when our less than disciplined expats discovered the pedigree of their previous night’s entertainment.
Simple
mharper,
Molokai…the home of Father (Saint) Damian
Simple
Only on Hambone will you find a connection between leprosy and numismatics.
Oh,…Crap! I posted before I scrolled down to see where we were. I defer to “Iron Mary Cash” for the coveted #100. Arrrgh
#85 Texapat, I had that video for our safety meeting on Tuesday. Motto, wear your helmet.
Actually it was for morning sickness for
crazypregnant wimmins.#85 texpat
Almost knocked his pretentious @$$ out of those gay stretchy pants he had on.
A side note on Michaelangelo and Julius II interactions as artist and patron, friends and opponents. Charlton Heston played Michaelangelo to Rex Harrison’s Julius II in 1965′s
The Agony and the Ecstacy. It’s a whale of a good movie covering the period of the painting of the Sistine Chapel. As I recall, Julius II was pretty much the last of the warrior Popes intent on securing the Papal states and ruling a physical as well as a spiritual kingdom. Their differences got pretty heated at times, but their friendship survived.
This is in interesting–to me anyway–contrast with the relationship of Emperor Hadrian as patron with his architect over construction of the Pantheon (118-125 AD). Hadrian was into building things you know, like that long wall in Britain.
A book on the city of Rome that spouse read before our trip and a biography of Hadrian both mention that the disagreements between the men got feisty during the years of construction, with the architect at times driving the Emperor to distraction. Spouse cogently puts it that one of them had more clout than the other, and Hadrian finally had the architect killed. No need to plead temporary insanity. Maybe other than that, Hadrian was considered to be a good Emperor.
The Pantheon’s on deck for tomorrow.
107 Adee
Thanks for the reminder.
A great movie. I’ll have to dig it up again soon.
Hamous #20;
I think it was my first year in Utah as a student and there was an execution carried out by the firing squad. I fell in love with Utah right there and then. (Though I’d never want to live there).
82 timden
I can help. But not without a number of our blog friends be-otching about the boring Christians taking over two days in a row.
Google ‘just war’. And embark on one of my favorite journeys.
I could. I would give me an awe feeling inside which would cause me to make sure that’s the right decision but it’s that feeling which I think is necessary in order to ensure justice.
Especially in Chicago. In court you go with the evidence. This is no different in waging war and picking your target. It’s how Bin Laden got smoked.
timben;
Here’s something this Mormon has to say regarding “just war”.
(Alma 48)
(Alma 43)
I also highly recommend the following article, War and Peace
The war in Iraq was a just war but not our military involvement in Lybia. But in both cases, once we were involved I wanted to win. Though I still worry as to the long-term outcome in kicking Gadaffi out of his desert country.
#110 Shannon
This is not just a Christian question, although since Tim is a Christian, pointing him towards those documents and discussions oriented that way is appropriate.
Anyway, I thought that is what blog forums were for – the open discussion and civil debate of serious issues.
James Turner Johnson of Rutgers University:
James Turner Johnson is Professor of Religion at Rutgers University and author of several books on the historical development and contemporary use of the just war tradition, including Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War (1981)and Morality and Contemporary Warfare (1999).
Johnson writes:
and,
If you want to discuss the Torah and Talmud on this subject though, well, its going to take a while.
#105 – I glad to see that you recognized the redundancy in the terms “crazy” and “woman” and made the necessary correction.
I agree with that premises. I do not support intended killing of civilians (noncombatants) unless they become a legitimate target (tha they would bring harm to my side) and I do support avoiding harm to noncombatants but I think there may be circunstances where harming them is unavoidable.
By bringing (or attempting to bring) harm to your side, they become a combatant.
I see that by many accounts, skepticism is growing about the validity of the Iranian assassination plot being used by Eric Holder to divert attention from his Congressional subpoena. Seems things just don’t add up, even to some in the MSM who actually claim to know how to add…
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/no-one-buying-iranian-terror-allegations
Wow. I don’t even know how to respond.
#110 – HARUMPH (we aint ALL boring yanno Brutha)
#117 EG
Most of the people and sources cited in that Zerohedge piece are unhinged or insane, but even they can stumble over a nugget of truth now and then.
Very interesting stuff if you sift out all the nonsense.
You don’t have to. I support capital punishment. I like order. I see it as honoring life, not inflicting death. I like the idea of a firing squad. It’s very American and it carries out justice. I also find it a very humane way to die. Even more humane than the sleepy juice. I don’t like the electric chair due to its cruelty.
The awe feeling I referred to is one of deep inner thought. “Am I making the right decision. I believe in the principle of capital punishment but is it justified in this situation?” I went through a very similar experience in coming to support the invasion of Iraq. I knew by supporting it that I’d support killing people. In principle I stand behind defending my country but was it right in that situation? I decided it was, regardless if Iraq had nukes or not. In other words, I do not take the decision to support killing people lightly whatsoever.
wagon;
I agree. But what if they are no threat in the immediate moment?
The SEAL Team took the honorable choice but wounded up dead. All but one that is. On the battlefield there are times where there are no clear cut decisions. Make the wrong one, however noble your intent, and you could cost yourself and/or members of your team their lives.
http://www.theluttrells.com/LoneSurvivor.html
For the record, I do not judge Marcus Luttrell or SEAL Team 10 either way. Their ultimate decision proved fatal but I do not in any way judge them ignorant, stupid, or ortherwise incompetent. Had they decided to kill the two adults and one teenager on the spot, I would not judge them a barbarous, cruel, immoral, or in any way unjust.
I consider SEAL Team 10 valiant heroes and would still consider them valiant heroes had they executed the three civilians.
How Did Obama Know About ‘Fast And Furious’ Before Holder?
This Breitbart link shows a clip from an interview with Obama in March where Obama acknowledged the existence of Fast and Furious and Eric Holder testified on May 3rd that he first heard about it within “the last few weeks” of his own testimony.
My take is, if Romney’s got Rubio’s support, then Romney can’t be all that bad.
Report: Marco Rubio’s top aide pushed to move Florida primary up to benefit Romney