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Due to an accident which my spouse had on Tuesday, we have been somewhat preoccupied with matters medical and automotive. In plain language, she drove it off the road on a rain slick highway and got a compression fracture in her back for her trouble. Thanks to a prompt response team and excellent medical care at two different hospitals both staffed with caring capable professionals she is ambulatory and on the road to recovery. She will be in a back brace for several weeks until the healing is complete.
We are grateful to those who kept her in their prayers. We both truly believe that you have considerable influence with your Creator. He has obviously listened and harkened to your pleas.
We apologize for the irregular postings. We shall have more for you later both on “Zion Beckons” and “Granny with a Pitchfork.”
In His abiding love
Cecil Moon
Friday, October 16, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Christopher Columbus
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Whatever happened to those who would have taken the opportunity to diss old Chris on this, his day? This has been early October sport for at least a generation or possibly more. How can we ever hope to keep every American of Italian descent offended by criticism of that noble explorer if we don’t manufacture outrages on his part while “discovering” the new world.. In the past we have had at least small front page entries in the newspapers or TV film clips celebrating every miscue on his arrival in the America’s.
Have we now decided to just let him rest in peace and ignore the heroics of the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria? Could it be that we have crimes and misdemeanors so severe in our government that they have occluded reportage of Chris’s nefarious efforts to find a route to the Indies? What about those who labored so long to hang black crepe in Columbus Circle in NYC? Have they now joined the unemployed, which total enlarges daily? Possibly we have news sources which prefer to continue fruitless investigations of the CIA and Gitmo over false allegations of the terrors inflicted by the party of intrepid explorers who faced the unknown to locate random islands in the Caribbean.
I have seen exact reproductions of these vessels—one in Columbus, Ohio—and share with you that no sane man would ever contemplate using one for a trans-Atlantic trip. Below decks, the maximum comfortable height for a crewman would be 5’ because that’s the margin between floor and ceiling. Even worse, they used a “hot bunk” protocol which demands that a sleeping man is immediately replaced by one coming off duty. Some cushy trip that was. If, as a crewman, you wanted some relief you go always go topside and enjoy the refreshing spray in your face generated by the typical fall storms in the mid-Atlantic.
Today we shall have to settle for little coverage because those crafty Norwegians have upstaged Chris and provided other, Nobelian, issues to occupy the minds of the pundits. I wonder, today, if that committee would find it in their hearts to reward such an effort in crossing the great sea to lay the groundwork for establishment of a continent of free men. Nah! It was, upon the promise of Isabella, a commercial enterprise to enrich the Spanish government and the intrepid explorer as well. Heaven’s to Betsy, we wouldn’t want anyone to make a profit now would we?
Interestingly, no one can assert that Columbus didn’t keep busy. Wikipedia accuses him of the deaths of 3,000,000 native inhabitants in the fifteen year total of his influence in the Western Hemisphere. Let’s see, that figures out to 547 persons per day. Assuming he rested on Sundays—everything he named had religious significance—that figure would move to 650, or 3900 persons per week. Lacking modern automatic-fire weapons that would have required some awesome physical skills. No wonder he died of complications of arthritic debilitation.
I strongly suspect that the primary criticism of Columbus was his desire to turn a buck on his efforts. Most of the dissatisfaction with his endeavor appear to come from those who, at the same time, see little problem with deaths of over 40,000,000 infants in the United States. Is it not ever thus? After everything which he endured while making ground breaking discoveries, it’s not hard to see why he might have been a little “owley” when he finally got here.
In His abiding love,
Cecil Moon
Whatever happened to those who would have taken the opportunity to diss old Chris on this, his day? This has been early October sport for at least a generation or possibly more. How can we ever hope to keep every American of Italian descent offended by criticism of that noble explorer if we don’t manufacture outrages on his part while “discovering” the new world.. In the past we have had at least small front page entries in the newspapers or TV film clips celebrating every miscue on his arrival in the America’s.
Have we now decided to just let him rest in peace and ignore the heroics of the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria? Could it be that we have crimes and misdemeanors so severe in our government that they have occluded reportage of Chris’s nefarious efforts to find a route to the Indies? What about those who labored so long to hang black crepe in Columbus Circle in NYC? Have they now joined the unemployed, which total enlarges daily? Possibly we have news sources which prefer to continue fruitless investigations of the CIA and Gitmo over false allegations of the terrors inflicted by the party of intrepid explorers who faced the unknown to locate random islands in the Caribbean.
I have seen exact reproductions of these vessels—one in Columbus, Ohio—and share with you that no sane man would ever contemplate using one for a trans-Atlantic trip. Below decks, the maximum comfortable height for a crewman would be 5’ because that’s the margin between floor and ceiling. Even worse, they used a “hot bunk” protocol which demands that a sleeping man is immediately replaced by one coming off duty. Some cushy trip that was. If, as a crewman, you wanted some relief you go always go topside and enjoy the refreshing spray in your face generated by the typical fall storms in the mid-Atlantic.
Today we shall have to settle for little coverage because those crafty Norwegians have upstaged Chris and provided other, Nobelian, issues to occupy the minds of the pundits. I wonder, today, if that committee would find it in their hearts to reward such an effort in crossing the great sea to lay the groundwork for establishment of a continent of free men. Nah! It was, upon the promise of Isabella, a commercial enterprise to enrich the Spanish government and the intrepid explorer as well. Heaven’s to Betsy, we wouldn’t want anyone to make a profit now would we?
Interestingly, no one can assert that Columbus didn’t keep busy. Wikipedia accuses him of the deaths of 3,000,000 native inhabitants in the fifteen year total of his influence in the Western Hemisphere. Let’s see, that figures out to 547 persons per day. Assuming he rested on Sundays—everything he named had religious significance—that figure would move to 650, or 3900 persons per week. Lacking modern automatic-fire weapons that would have required some awesome physical skills. No wonder he died of complications of arthritic debilitation.
I strongly suspect that the primary criticism of Columbus was his desire to turn a buck on his efforts. Most of the dissatisfaction with his endeavor appear to come from those who, at the same time, see little problem with deaths of over 40,000,000 infants in the United States. Is it not ever thus? After everything which he endured while making ground breaking discoveries, it’s not hard to see why he might have been a little “owley” when he finally got here.
In His abiding love,
Cecil Moon
Monday Morning Rant 114
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Does it seem to you that all I write about is rain? Well this time it’s another 7” which really got our attention. That was the accumulation over about 24 hours. The bridge north was cluttered with 20’-30’ logs over the roadway and the road south had water up to the bottom of the doors on the Exploder. Ah yes, the bucolic life of the country squire. All is well now and we both made it to church.
Gandhi Wuz Robbed
For an interchange with two former presidents I highly recommend that you read the article by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times.
If you would rather not sully your screen with the usual content from the gray lady, you can also find it posted on Giovanni’s World and I guarantee it will come up faster.
It’s a hoot! If dyed in the wool sympathizers such as Dodd and others can take such deadly aim at the “One,” there must a problem. Seems just about everybody is stunned by the award and they all ask the same question: “What for?”
More Wisdom in Comments
I think I’ll just skip reading the posts and devote my full time to the comments. Some of these guys have ability to wrap up complex problems in very few words. See if you agree.
This is from Bob Campbell in response to an article in American Thinker.
“Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.”
Now there are ten well spoken words that will haul you up short. If that strikes us a little too close to home maybe we should all rethink our relationship with Him.
This one came from neil c., commenting on the same post on American Thinker:
“I can agree that it is important to maintain objectivity when scrutinizing one's values. I often ask myself why I hold the values I hold. I do my best to live by the same moral and ethical standards that any devout Christian would, yet I am not a Christian. I am an agnostic. It is not my emotional attachment to a god or the fear of the afterlife that drives my conservative beliefs. I like to think that it is sheer logic."
Here's another phrase maybe we should all consider: Ideological Defensiveness. I have yet to meet a liberal who is willing to get into an intellectually honest debate on pretty much any issue. Their logic is circular or incoherent. The same logic can never be applied to more than one topic.
Try this one on a liberal and see how he responds:
If healthcare is a right (which it's not; at least not according to the constitution) and it is government's responsibility to provide it, then why is it not the government's responsibility to provide me with a gun (which the constitution does say is my right)?
If a women's body is so important that the government has no right to tell her she can't have an abortion, then why is it ok for the government to tell her she must have healthcare? (It's implied that if the government mandates health insurance for everyone, then everyone must receive the treatment.)
I could go on and on with examples, but you get the point.
Liberals deflect attack, lie, deny, rationalize, or ignore logical arguments against them. All of them seem to have an uncanny ability to turn a logical argument into a personal attack, making themselves the victims and you the evil attacker. Logical arguments are useless. You can't win an argument with liberals; all you can do is shut them up. The best way to do this is to call them Nazis before they can call you one. Most liberals will at that point realize you have pretty much disarmed them. That's what Republicans need to do in Congress.
When Joe Wilson called Obama a liar, the only response he had was, "nuh uh... no I'm not." That's just about all he could say. He couldn't defend his position. He couldn't debate it. And, at that point it would have made him look very childish to say "nuh- uh, you are."
So you can remain objective all you want, but when it's time to hit the ball field, you better stand with your team mates and call that umpire a blind old fool if he makes a call against you, because you know darn well the other team will.”
Unreal Reality
It is surreal to observe our government in decline. It is happening so fast that one hesitates to get out of bed, crank up the computer, read Drudge or other sites in the morning just to see what outrage has been perpetrated overnight. I truly believe that an outright blitzkrieg would be easier to handle than the creeping onslaught of attacks on the Constitution and the people.
As control of our lives is regulated into oblivion, or at the least attempted, we see little which we can physically accomplish to stem the tide. The biggest challenge is which issue to confront as a valid threat and which one has been thrown up as a smoke screen to cloud other issues which are genuine. While the Nobel Prize was ridiculous and an obviously contrived device to further the agenda of European socialists, the matter did serve to divert our attention from the mischief in the congress to enslave our citizens. Enslave is the correct label to attach to their goals.
Any abridgement of the rights of the Americans people is a step toward enslavement. That condition arises further with each choice denied. Think about it. Consider the simple act of riding a bicycle. Are you wearing your knee pads? Is your helmet on securely? Have you reviewed all the rules for bike safety? Did you do a full safety check--brakes, tire pressure, seat firmly attached, proper handle bar location, all nuts and bolts secure—before you departed? Your mother didn’t even require this of you in her everlasting worry over your activities.
The end result is the over-regulation and policing of everyday activities while law enforcement is diminished at the borders and the penalties for actual crime are reduced. What have we come to?
And Finally
Even with the disruption of activities caused by torrential rains we are peacefully enjoying the good life here on the top of the bluff. The biggest thrill of late has been the presence of the deer extremely close to the house. One of the oaks closest has been shedding acorns at a record pace. Unlike the clutter of the forest which hides that bounty, the acorns lie on the ground, easily accessible to the deer on mowed grass. The dogs go nuts which does little more than keep the deer alert. Given their speed, they have little to fear. We thank God for this entertaining spectacle and the peace it brings.
In His abiding love,
Cecil Moon
Does it seem to you that all I write about is rain? Well this time it’s another 7” which really got our attention. That was the accumulation over about 24 hours. The bridge north was cluttered with 20’-30’ logs over the roadway and the road south had water up to the bottom of the doors on the Exploder. Ah yes, the bucolic life of the country squire. All is well now and we both made it to church.
Gandhi Wuz Robbed
For an interchange with two former presidents I highly recommend that you read the article by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times.
If you would rather not sully your screen with the usual content from the gray lady, you can also find it posted on Giovanni’s World and I guarantee it will come up faster.
It’s a hoot! If dyed in the wool sympathizers such as Dodd and others can take such deadly aim at the “One,” there must a problem. Seems just about everybody is stunned by the award and they all ask the same question: “What for?”
More Wisdom in Comments
I think I’ll just skip reading the posts and devote my full time to the comments. Some of these guys have ability to wrap up complex problems in very few words. See if you agree.
This is from Bob Campbell in response to an article in American Thinker.
“Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.”
Now there are ten well spoken words that will haul you up short. If that strikes us a little too close to home maybe we should all rethink our relationship with Him.
This one came from neil c., commenting on the same post on American Thinker:
“I can agree that it is important to maintain objectivity when scrutinizing one's values. I often ask myself why I hold the values I hold. I do my best to live by the same moral and ethical standards that any devout Christian would, yet I am not a Christian. I am an agnostic. It is not my emotional attachment to a god or the fear of the afterlife that drives my conservative beliefs. I like to think that it is sheer logic."
Here's another phrase maybe we should all consider: Ideological Defensiveness. I have yet to meet a liberal who is willing to get into an intellectually honest debate on pretty much any issue. Their logic is circular or incoherent. The same logic can never be applied to more than one topic.
Try this one on a liberal and see how he responds:
If healthcare is a right (which it's not; at least not according to the constitution) and it is government's responsibility to provide it, then why is it not the government's responsibility to provide me with a gun (which the constitution does say is my right)?
If a women's body is so important that the government has no right to tell her she can't have an abortion, then why is it ok for the government to tell her she must have healthcare? (It's implied that if the government mandates health insurance for everyone, then everyone must receive the treatment.)
I could go on and on with examples, but you get the point.
Liberals deflect attack, lie, deny, rationalize, or ignore logical arguments against them. All of them seem to have an uncanny ability to turn a logical argument into a personal attack, making themselves the victims and you the evil attacker. Logical arguments are useless. You can't win an argument with liberals; all you can do is shut them up. The best way to do this is to call them Nazis before they can call you one. Most liberals will at that point realize you have pretty much disarmed them. That's what Republicans need to do in Congress.
When Joe Wilson called Obama a liar, the only response he had was, "nuh uh... no I'm not." That's just about all he could say. He couldn't defend his position. He couldn't debate it. And, at that point it would have made him look very childish to say "nuh- uh, you are."
So you can remain objective all you want, but when it's time to hit the ball field, you better stand with your team mates and call that umpire a blind old fool if he makes a call against you, because you know darn well the other team will.”
Unreal Reality
It is surreal to observe our government in decline. It is happening so fast that one hesitates to get out of bed, crank up the computer, read Drudge or other sites in the morning just to see what outrage has been perpetrated overnight. I truly believe that an outright blitzkrieg would be easier to handle than the creeping onslaught of attacks on the Constitution and the people.
As control of our lives is regulated into oblivion, or at the least attempted, we see little which we can physically accomplish to stem the tide. The biggest challenge is which issue to confront as a valid threat and which one has been thrown up as a smoke screen to cloud other issues which are genuine. While the Nobel Prize was ridiculous and an obviously contrived device to further the agenda of European socialists, the matter did serve to divert our attention from the mischief in the congress to enslave our citizens. Enslave is the correct label to attach to their goals.
Any abridgement of the rights of the Americans people is a step toward enslavement. That condition arises further with each choice denied. Think about it. Consider the simple act of riding a bicycle. Are you wearing your knee pads? Is your helmet on securely? Have you reviewed all the rules for bike safety? Did you do a full safety check--brakes, tire pressure, seat firmly attached, proper handle bar location, all nuts and bolts secure—before you departed? Your mother didn’t even require this of you in her everlasting worry over your activities.
The end result is the over-regulation and policing of everyday activities while law enforcement is diminished at the borders and the penalties for actual crime are reduced. What have we come to?
And Finally
Even with the disruption of activities caused by torrential rains we are peacefully enjoying the good life here on the top of the bluff. The biggest thrill of late has been the presence of the deer extremely close to the house. One of the oaks closest has been shedding acorns at a record pace. Unlike the clutter of the forest which hides that bounty, the acorns lie on the ground, easily accessible to the deer on mowed grass. The dogs go nuts which does little more than keep the deer alert. Given their speed, they have little to fear. We thank God for this entertaining spectacle and the peace it brings.
In His abiding love,
Cecil Moon
Saturday, October 10, 2009
And the Winner is….
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Jimmy Carter, no! Yassar Arafat, no! Al Gore, no! Those were all ill-thought former choices. It is our very own President, BHO; and the Scandinavian Follies continue. We have apparently entered a time when those recipients of the prestigious prize have gone from Miss Congeniality to Mr. “I Think It Might Happen.”
Ah Scandinavia, from Denmark to Norway, we find the snowy slush in the streets barely equivalent to the mush in their minds. Keep in mind that their global position is roughly equivalent to Alaska. In February, much of Norway is shrouded in near total darkness which apparently serves to hide the intent of these crypto-communists, with unpronounceable names, from true peace loving peoples. Unlike those scant months of summer when they have brilliant sun and mid-night twilight, they choose the timing of the advance of their globalist agenda in the darkening skies of impending winter gloom. Lord, save us from the inter-solstice mischief of winter.
Amid the shock of the announcement and the plaintive pleas of innocence and feigned humility from the president, I continue to question the relevance of the entire affair. One factoid I gleaned from the near universal reporting is the decline of importance of those former recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. If I have to explain Jimmy Carter’s continuing plunge in credibility, Yassar Arafat’s heinous record, or Al Gore under constant attack for his contrived charts, graphs, and psuedo-science then this point will be less than obvious. For good or ill, most recipients were at the peak of their game when they got the gold and the 1.4 million. It was all downhill from there.
If you have your Nobel and a lifetime sinecure, why bother with seeking to enlarge your accomplishments? In the serious sciences, it is an acknowledgement of a lifetime quest to solve a problem of international scope and seek a benefit to every person on the globe. In the more subjective arenas--literature, peace, etc.--it carries an inborn curse of finality.
What great book was written after its author received the prize? Aside from Carter’s carpentry skills, an equivalent talent shared with millions of home handymen, what has he done on the Nobel level? Granted, Arafat continued to notch his gun after the award but that is not what he achieved the honor for. Or was it?
So is this a predictor of the fate of the current recipient? As his ambitions become more and more obvious, even to many of his former supporters, and as the shine wears off the medal, so too may the acceptance of reshaping America and the Constitution be tarnished. One can only hope that the tradition continues and he eventually slips into obscurity as well.
In His abiding love,
Cecil Moon
Jimmy Carter, no! Yassar Arafat, no! Al Gore, no! Those were all ill-thought former choices. It is our very own President, BHO; and the Scandinavian Follies continue. We have apparently entered a time when those recipients of the prestigious prize have gone from Miss Congeniality to Mr. “I Think It Might Happen.”
Ah Scandinavia, from Denmark to Norway, we find the snowy slush in the streets barely equivalent to the mush in their minds. Keep in mind that their global position is roughly equivalent to Alaska. In February, much of Norway is shrouded in near total darkness which apparently serves to hide the intent of these crypto-communists, with unpronounceable names, from true peace loving peoples. Unlike those scant months of summer when they have brilliant sun and mid-night twilight, they choose the timing of the advance of their globalist agenda in the darkening skies of impending winter gloom. Lord, save us from the inter-solstice mischief of winter.
Amid the shock of the announcement and the plaintive pleas of innocence and feigned humility from the president, I continue to question the relevance of the entire affair. One factoid I gleaned from the near universal reporting is the decline of importance of those former recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. If I have to explain Jimmy Carter’s continuing plunge in credibility, Yassar Arafat’s heinous record, or Al Gore under constant attack for his contrived charts, graphs, and psuedo-science then this point will be less than obvious. For good or ill, most recipients were at the peak of their game when they got the gold and the 1.4 million. It was all downhill from there.
If you have your Nobel and a lifetime sinecure, why bother with seeking to enlarge your accomplishments? In the serious sciences, it is an acknowledgement of a lifetime quest to solve a problem of international scope and seek a benefit to every person on the globe. In the more subjective arenas--literature, peace, etc.--it carries an inborn curse of finality.
What great book was written after its author received the prize? Aside from Carter’s carpentry skills, an equivalent talent shared with millions of home handymen, what has he done on the Nobel level? Granted, Arafat continued to notch his gun after the award but that is not what he achieved the honor for. Or was it?
So is this a predictor of the fate of the current recipient? As his ambitions become more and more obvious, even to many of his former supporters, and as the shine wears off the medal, so too may the acceptance of reshaping America and the Constitution be tarnished. One can only hope that the tradition continues and he eventually slips into obscurity as well.
In His abiding love,
Cecil Moon
Thursday, October 8, 2009
What’s This About Bombing the Moon?
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Good grief, don’t we have more pressing matters to attend to? I know, they figure they can tell by raising a big dust cloud if there is water present. Since it’s pretty cold up there I can’t imagine that any water would be obvious in any form other than ice. It’s not like you could detect a steady drip drip, drip. I mean, did we see any snow drifts or icicles up there the last time we went? Man has been ogling the moon for centuries and I would think someone might have noticed an ocean or a big lake or at the least a lazy creek on the moonscape.
In some scientific minds there is, no doubt, concrete reasoning for this move but it sure does escape me. Let’s just say for grins and giggles that I’m wrong. So what? What are going to do, build a pipeline to bring all that valuable H²0 treasure down here. Given the temperature in space, that would require heated towers which would tax our already overburdened fuel sources to the max. A few trays of ice cubes would be hopelessly impractical. Come to think of it, the whole deal seems pretty silly to me.
Perhaps the intention would be a prelude to full colonization of our satellite neighbor. Boy, we are just dying to live a world of scant gravity and freezing temperatures. It could soon become a spot where the slurpee became the beverage of choice. I can just hear their triumphant cry now, “Houston, the water bucket has landed.”
At various times over the last few decades, I have been very impressed with the noble aims of our space program. This is definitely not one of them. Maybe I’m just too old to fully appreciate this effort and all it means, not just to our country but to mankind in general. My limited scope does not easily reveal the full scope of this project.
My greatest fear is that folks will get accustomed to “shooting the moon.” Since that is my name, I shun the thought of legions of people rejoicing because we ‘shot the moon.” There are very few of us so even the loss of one ‘moon’ would be tragic; especially for those of us who are moons. Over the course of nearly eight decades I have already heard just about every “moon” joke that ever came from the stage or a gaggle of kindergartners and they were all of equal quality. I see no reason to add fuel to the fire.
So, what now? If you have any influence with NASA I strongly urge you to mention that you oppose this effort. However, if the blast happens to dislodge vast quantities of pure gold, I certainly wouldn’t object to hauling some of that back here for general use. It might go a long way toward balancing our budget which, as you well know, is in horrible shape. Is it possible that our leadership is already aware of this possible outcome? Nah!
In summation I can only say; “I’m agin’ it.”
In His abiding love,
Cecil Moon
Good grief, don’t we have more pressing matters to attend to? I know, they figure they can tell by raising a big dust cloud if there is water present. Since it’s pretty cold up there I can’t imagine that any water would be obvious in any form other than ice. It’s not like you could detect a steady drip drip, drip. I mean, did we see any snow drifts or icicles up there the last time we went? Man has been ogling the moon for centuries and I would think someone might have noticed an ocean or a big lake or at the least a lazy creek on the moonscape.
In some scientific minds there is, no doubt, concrete reasoning for this move but it sure does escape me. Let’s just say for grins and giggles that I’m wrong. So what? What are going to do, build a pipeline to bring all that valuable H²0 treasure down here. Given the temperature in space, that would require heated towers which would tax our already overburdened fuel sources to the max. A few trays of ice cubes would be hopelessly impractical. Come to think of it, the whole deal seems pretty silly to me.
Perhaps the intention would be a prelude to full colonization of our satellite neighbor. Boy, we are just dying to live a world of scant gravity and freezing temperatures. It could soon become a spot where the slurpee became the beverage of choice. I can just hear their triumphant cry now, “Houston, the water bucket has landed.”
At various times over the last few decades, I have been very impressed with the noble aims of our space program. This is definitely not one of them. Maybe I’m just too old to fully appreciate this effort and all it means, not just to our country but to mankind in general. My limited scope does not easily reveal the full scope of this project.
My greatest fear is that folks will get accustomed to “shooting the moon.” Since that is my name, I shun the thought of legions of people rejoicing because we ‘shot the moon.” There are very few of us so even the loss of one ‘moon’ would be tragic; especially for those of us who are moons. Over the course of nearly eight decades I have already heard just about every “moon” joke that ever came from the stage or a gaggle of kindergartners and they were all of equal quality. I see no reason to add fuel to the fire.
So, what now? If you have any influence with NASA I strongly urge you to mention that you oppose this effort. However, if the blast happens to dislodge vast quantities of pure gold, I certainly wouldn’t object to hauling some of that back here for general use. It might go a long way toward balancing our budget which, as you well know, is in horrible shape. Is it possible that our leadership is already aware of this possible outcome? Nah!
In summation I can only say; “I’m agin’ it.”
In His abiding love,
Cecil Moon
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Commenters' Thoughts
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Reading the blogs is often not as enlightening as reading the reader comments. Often they may be singled out as worthy stand alone commentary. Even though they refer to the original article, they often have relevance beyond the object of the provoking blog post. My suggestion is to read them and capture the thought as presented.
If you wish to have one of the posts which provoked these observations click here for one of them by Roger Simon.
Jim Bruce:
“When America is put (even more) at risk and the you-know-what hits the fan, you will hear people say that Obama failed to protect America. That will be incorrect: He will have REFUSED to protect America.”
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:44 am
Mike G in Corvallis:
“This one is on an observation by John Derbyshire.
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.”
A comment quote from bgates on Roger Simon’s blog. It stands alone.
"Obama will be remembered as the most disastrous head of state in the Americas since Montezuma.”
This is from Bill Whittle at the conclusion of a rant on the handing out of lab coats at a White House presser.
“And by having them wear white lab coats, you see, he is making sure we realize they are doctors. But I remain confused. Couldn’t they also be lab technicians? Perhaps they need to wear that reflector thing on their foreheads. Damn it, no — Dentists wear those too, and no one would be persuaded to give up their current insurance just because a hundred and fifty dentists wearing white lab coats and reflectors nod in agreement. What they should have had was stethoscopes around their necks! That would have gotten this bill passed!
And so it goes. Yet another speech, with props appropriate for a fourth grade show and tell, to sell the rubes on something they seem unwilling to want to buy and another appeal to oratory in place of substance. And meanwhile, out at the edge of the campfire’s glow, lean and cruel wolves circle red-eyed and hungry, watching and learning.”
Milton Friedman :
"Is there some society we know that doesn’t run on greed? What is greed? Of course none of us are greedy; it's only the other fellow who's greedy.
"The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the auto industry that way.
“In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you're talking about, they have had capitalism and largely free trade.
“If you want to know where the masses are worst off, it's exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that. The record of history is absolutely crystal clear: that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system."
From IMAO with have this from Frank J.
“…the only thing he got out of his meeting with the IOC was a coupon for five dollars off a ticket to the 2016 Olympics.”
These preceding quotes were all found in the comments section of the various blogs. I know that reading them is sometimes tedious but it can also be very rewarding. When the people speak it is often well worth the time to listen.
In His abiding love,
Cecil Moon
Reading the blogs is often not as enlightening as reading the reader comments. Often they may be singled out as worthy stand alone commentary. Even though they refer to the original article, they often have relevance beyond the object of the provoking blog post. My suggestion is to read them and capture the thought as presented.
If you wish to have one of the posts which provoked these observations click here for one of them by Roger Simon.
Jim Bruce:
“When America is put (even more) at risk and the you-know-what hits the fan, you will hear people say that Obama failed to protect America. That will be incorrect: He will have REFUSED to protect America.”
Oct 6, 2009 - 7:44 am
Mike G in Corvallis:
“This one is on an observation by John Derbyshire.
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.”
A comment quote from bgates on Roger Simon’s blog. It stands alone.
"Obama will be remembered as the most disastrous head of state in the Americas since Montezuma.”
This is from Bill Whittle at the conclusion of a rant on the handing out of lab coats at a White House presser.
“And by having them wear white lab coats, you see, he is making sure we realize they are doctors. But I remain confused. Couldn’t they also be lab technicians? Perhaps they need to wear that reflector thing on their foreheads. Damn it, no — Dentists wear those too, and no one would be persuaded to give up their current insurance just because a hundred and fifty dentists wearing white lab coats and reflectors nod in agreement. What they should have had was stethoscopes around their necks! That would have gotten this bill passed!
And so it goes. Yet another speech, with props appropriate for a fourth grade show and tell, to sell the rubes on something they seem unwilling to want to buy and another appeal to oratory in place of substance. And meanwhile, out at the edge of the campfire’s glow, lean and cruel wolves circle red-eyed and hungry, watching and learning.”
Milton Friedman :
"Is there some society we know that doesn’t run on greed? What is greed? Of course none of us are greedy; it's only the other fellow who's greedy.
"The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the auto industry that way.
“In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you're talking about, they have had capitalism and largely free trade.
“If you want to know where the masses are worst off, it's exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that. The record of history is absolutely crystal clear: that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system."
From IMAO with have this from Frank J.
“…the only thing he got out of his meeting with the IOC was a coupon for five dollars off a ticket to the 2016 Olympics.”
These preceding quotes were all found in the comments section of the various blogs. I know that reading them is sometimes tedious but it can also be very rewarding. When the people speak it is often well worth the time to listen.
In His abiding love,
Cecil Moon
Military Absentee Voting
There is an epic rhyme attributed to Rudyard Kipling which covers this morning’s post.
“God and the soldier, we adore,
In time of danger, not before.
The danger passed and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.”
The state of Virginia, in a blatant effort to stifle the voting franchise granted to ALL its citizens, has enforced a law which allows them to send absentee voter packages and notification of election to military citizens out of state the day before the election. That is not a typo—they can mail these packages to points all over the globe the day before the election. This applies not only to those who wear the uniform but their dependants as well, who accompany them on some far flung assignments.
“The Democratic Chairwoman of the Virginia State Board of Election (appointed by the Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine, in his capacity as Virginia Governor) Jean Cunningham just claimed a legal basis for massively raising the barrier to voting for soldiers at war.” The original assertion is here.
Not only is this a disgrace to disenfranchise these brave young men and women but it is immoral. Since national elections are involved, it would appear that a remedy may lie in the congress. This is a question which should be addressed immediately and corrected to enable them to vote. We expect voter fraud and manipulation from ACORN and the goons of SEIU but not overt action by elected officials to subvert the right to vote by the military.
At the least, in Kipling’s poem, the slight of God and soldier waited until the dangers were past. In the mind of today’s Democrat party in their avaricious pursuit of an election at any cost, no one is immune from their mischief even while fighting for their lives.
Is their no lower boundary to which these cretins will stoop?
In His abiding love,
Cecil Moon
“God and the soldier, we adore,
In time of danger, not before.
The danger passed and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.”
The state of Virginia, in a blatant effort to stifle the voting franchise granted to ALL its citizens, has enforced a law which allows them to send absentee voter packages and notification of election to military citizens out of state the day before the election. That is not a typo—they can mail these packages to points all over the globe the day before the election. This applies not only to those who wear the uniform but their dependants as well, who accompany them on some far flung assignments.
“The Democratic Chairwoman of the Virginia State Board of Election (appointed by the Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine, in his capacity as Virginia Governor) Jean Cunningham just claimed a legal basis for massively raising the barrier to voting for soldiers at war.” The original assertion is here.
Not only is this a disgrace to disenfranchise these brave young men and women but it is immoral. Since national elections are involved, it would appear that a remedy may lie in the congress. This is a question which should be addressed immediately and corrected to enable them to vote. We expect voter fraud and manipulation from ACORN and the goons of SEIU but not overt action by elected officials to subvert the right to vote by the military.
At the least, in Kipling’s poem, the slight of God and soldier waited until the dangers were past. In the mind of today’s Democrat party in their avaricious pursuit of an election at any cost, no one is immune from their mischief even while fighting for their lives.
Is their no lower boundary to which these cretins will stoop?
In His abiding love,
Cecil Moon
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