I know it’s Wednesday, but somethow it feels like a Monday.
Not sure if I’d call that a metaphor, or just the new normal.
Meh. Flip a (soon to be worthless) coin.
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New normal strikes.
Memo undoubtedly going out soon to all SWAT. Make sure you destroy/confiscate the device that the cameras are hooked into not just the cameras.
GOP Senator Apologizes for McCain Tantrum at Syrian Christian Leader Meeting
If it feels like Monday, that’s because under Barak Obama, the weekend has been doubled!
Real, J-Screwel credentialed, juice-box mfia approved journolists don’t try to make a negative out of a positive by referring to the four-day weekend as a three-day work week.
You better watch your ass.
And you for damn sure better report the forthcoming guarantee to america’s werkers of 99 weeks of vacation right, if you know what’s good for you.
The NSA-IRS is watching.
Always watching.
So Wednesday is still Hump-day, just a smaller hump?
Geoff, I’m a fairly pro law enforcement guy, but between this, that and the other thing, I’m about ready to permanently disqualify myself from jury duty by joining the ranks of those who assume the police always lie.
That would be a complete reversal of my earlier –equally disqualifying– postion of assuming that the cops don’t arrest ya for nothin’.
“Your Honor, I believe that 95% of all laws are unconstitutional, and will judge this case on that basis.”
To maintain Obama’s infallibility, the number of days in the week has been increased to eight so as to maintain the ratio of states (57) to days of the week (8). This conveniently also helps make most people part time workers, thus furthering the goals of Obamacare, allowing all of us more time to tuck our children into bed.
Thank you sir. Have another.
tuck our children into bed.
Change the t to f, transpose the d and b and add back the t you took away,
if you want the truth
Have we arrived at the old Soviet saw, “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us” yet?
We’re only at the “There is no truth in Pravda and there is no news in Izvestia” saw.
the mohammed factor is zero
Is This the Most Peculiar Court Summons in Recent British History?
– We should all do everything we can to help Jay Carney escape from his job so hes free and not trapped. As soon as possible.
Hanging chads? That’s so 2000. Soon we will have misguided and misled chads that can be corrected by heroic poll volunteers.
Every day is exactly the same.
3 magic scratches, two rich wives, and one magic hat, that’s a tough hand to beat.
(As long as that wet toupee Lord tossed in the fire doesn’t smother it ) Hope kindles
Just ask Dubya.
Uh oh…red meat! Cass Sunstein…
Today is the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Ronald Wilson Reagan, indisputably the greatest American hero.
What else can you call a man who travels through time just so he can lasso and break dinosaurs?
That’s because they have to go through certain Republicans before they can get at the Democrats John.
Try to think of it this way: The Tea Party just wants to help the GOP with it’s old white men image problem by retiring some old white men.
Sunstein seems concerned that too many might suffer undue ‘trouble’ —
[“The final objection, and perhaps the most fundamental, involves the consequences. If we accepted Scalia’s version of originalism, much of the U.S. constitutional system would be deeply unsettled, and in a way that would trouble liberals and conservatives alike.”]
— yet, given the choice between those who are troubled and those who are entirely untroubled by the meaning of our fundamental political organization, like Sunstein, such who think they have everything well in hand, believing they are possessed of the method and goals necessary to fundamentally change the fundamental political organization of America without a need for troubles concerning its meaning (for these are such valorous knowers, the non-existent god knows (his other name is George Lakoff)!), I’ll take the people whose inclination is to pause and think again.
How do you unsettle something that’s treated like Rorschach ink blots on silly putty anyways?
We only have to think of the horror of the possibility of the elimination of the Social Security tax and ponzi-scheme, it would seem to me, in order to understand that there is nothing Rorschach blot-like about it, from Sunstein’s point of view. Once achieved, such progressive law is written in the hardest most enduring of stone: any consideration of that sort of change is tantamount to the gravest of impieties known to any true believers in human history.
Lacking.
Every day is exactly the same.
In 100 Years of Solitude, one of the characters notices that Tuesday is indistinguishable from Monday and so he goes mad. They tie him to a tree in the middle of the patio.
Meanwhile, in Sochi, “showers take you.
Then the progressives should have written in stone, instead of saying sand is the same thing as stone, or will be, if you give it enough time, heat and pressure; and since it’s neither animal nor vegetable, one mineral’s as good as another. Shouldn’t they?
Then the progressives should have written in stone, instead of saying sand is the same thing as stone, or will be, if you give it enough time, heat and pressure; and since it’s neither animal nor vegetable, one mineral’s as good as another. Shouldn’t they?
I think they do (writ[e] in stone), with the understanding that they are themselves the stone, since the meaning of a “living” constitution is that these persons are themselves the stone in which the writing is done. Stony of mind, stony of heart, stony of ambition, stony of right. What else could a moral exemplar possibly be?
But they’re only living while they’re alive, right?
Change the concensus and instead of Social Security checks and Medicare Advantage, it’s the ice floe express straight down the polar bear’s gullet.
Which is why I’m amused (or bemused, as the case may be) at Sunstein wailing about how it’s wrong to change the convention because that would be unconventional.
But they’re only living while they’re alive, right?
But hang on a second — whatever happened to their proper aspiration to eternal life? I mean, these are no more nor less availed of a deep belief or aspiration to sempiternal life than any others. And wouldn’t they, just as any others, seek to reproduce themselves in body, as well as in disciples steeped in their great and wise learning, in order to achieve this great ennobling desire? Well, sure they would, and do. They’re humans, not — well, with exceptions previously noted — immortal gods.
They like to think of themselves that way, sure, but they’re not, having cut themselves off from the Mos Maiorums.
The hidden cost of Progress, perhaps?
The hidden cost of Progress, perhaps?
Or even the hidden cost of republican-democratic constitutionalism, for that matter. We’ve all jumped into the modern boat: it’s just that we’re more or less reluctant to look too closely at that old decision. On the other hand, it’s jolly good fun to eat popcorn and boo the aristocrats.
I don’t agree about the republican-democratic constitutionalism part. Republican-democratic principles enshrined into foundational law with a clear mechanism for change (as opposed to the pretended mechanisms we’ve come to rely upon) are the Mos Maiorum.
Seemed to me the whole point of the so-called enlightenment was to be rid of it (rightly understood). But perhaps I misunderstood, unrightly.
Having now thought about it for another thirty seconds, I will concede that our foundations are less secure than the throne and altar/Burkean ancestral customs (I forget the quote) foundations we cast aside in 1776.
Of course, that was betrayal with a sword instead of a kiss. So the Founders had that going for them, compared to our Progressive would-be re-re-re-founders in perpetuity.
Socrates early on found out what happens when one denies the rightness of the old because old in favor of the rightness of the right because right: be persuaded to drink hemlock, por favor.