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This is the most most realpolitic thing I have read in years. He may be innocent, but he is not delivering the way I want so lets hang him on an ethics charge.

A good Marxist symbol should represent the very opposite of its counterpoint in reality. The Ministries of War, Rationing, Propaganda and Repression were called the Ministries of Peace, Plenty, Truth and Love by the Party. Yet with words we can look behind the canvas; from Wretchard’s comments:

Perhaps we should make more use of parentheses, as in:
Students for a Democratic Society (Just Not In South Vietnam),
The American (Highly Selective) Civil Liberties Union, The Democratic (In Name Only) Party, International ANSWER (But Don?t Ask Too Many Questions), The People?s (But Not Many Of Them) Republic of China (And Whatever Else We Can Get Our Hands On), The City of New Orleans (And The Federal Government When Things Get Rough), The Federal Emergency Management Agency (And Department of Bailing Out Inept Politicians), etc.

I don;t know who to attribute it to but it is found here .

If “conservative” means anything other than stick in the mud old people who cannot accept new ideas, it means limited Constitutional government and a free people.

If “compasionate conservative” means anything other than low taxes, high borrowing, repressive government sanctioned morality, and huge spending by Republicians; it means normal conservatism is not compasionate. Let that sink in, Ronald Reagan, who lifted people from poverty, was not compassionate, the Founding Fathers, who created a system of government which empowered the least among us to persue their own goals free from chains, and to do the best yet found on the face of the earth in realizing it, is not compasionate. Only Tom Delay and Arlin Spector, spending other people’s money is compassion.

Awwww! Og and the Oglets went to Dibney . I wish I could muster some sympathy, at least for the food tab. I get the same feeling I got when one of the junior law associates at the big firm proudly took a half day off because his wife was birthing a child. I’d been many miles down the road beyond him and knew he would be in the office more hours in the future available for more grunt work. Next year, Og it will be the Oglets and the in-laws for Cirque de Sol @ 200 a pop

For two years now I have clicked around my extensive “Favorites” folder of blogs, checking for new content seveal times a day. You might say I am addicted. I understand, vaguely, that an RSS or ATOM feed would allow me to “subscribe” to any numbr of blogs and I would be “notified” when any one dispenses free ice cream. I never bothered to do the work to look into it. I must waste hours a day clicking on blogs that have not been updated since my last visit.

Now thanks to my weird habit of reading a marketing blog, I found a good explination, with subscribimg how-to, of syndicated content (RSS, ATOM, Etc) Seth’s Blog: What’s RSS?

Could someone please ‘splain it to me. As long as I am buying gasoline at the world market price and paying all the taxes imposed in my jurisdiction, why is it anyone else’s business if I purchase gas to transport my family in comfort and safety in a large automobile?

No one seems to object if people in China purchase gas to manufacture do-dads.

If the United States government unleashed the terrible power of the state (with its fines and handcuffs and, ultimately, guns) to require that every domestic consumer purchase a car that got a zillion miles per gallon, and the result was exactly as desired in that the price of gasoline went down to $1 a gallon, the Chinese would buy all the more gas to produce and sell all the more do-dads.

Why is that better than me using the gas for my goals?

No one is suggesting that if my car got better gas mileage the world economy would consume less gas. As a matter of fact, if the price of gas went down, the existing supplies would be diverted to lower priority less valuable uses.

Mark Steyn

Afghanistan has got closer to a functioning democracy in the last three years, the last four years, than it got in the previous 8,000 years. And that is largely due to the effort made by George W. Bush. And that’s why the policy of liberalization is such an important one for America. Because even if it fails, America would be living up to its values. And if it succeeds, as it’s succeeding in America, then George W. Bush will go down as an immensely historic figure in that part of the world and in the Middle East.

I think it’s important to understand that, although suicidalism builds on some pre-existing pathologies of Western culture, it is not a native or natural development. It is an infection that evildoers and their dupes created and then spread as part of a war against the West; their goal was totalitarian control, and part of their method was to talk the West into slitting its own throat.

It’s not the most elegant formulation, but I particularly like Suicidalism found over at Armed and Dangerous.

There is an Internet company HDQ in New Orleans. One of its employees is posting news from ground zero: The Interdictor

It is a zoo out there though, make no mistake. It’s the wild kingdom. It’s Lord of the Flies. That doesn’t mean there’s murder on every street corner. But what it does mean is that the rule of law has collapsed, that there is no order, and that property rights cannot and are not being enforced. Anyone who is on the streets is in immediate danger of being robbed and killed. It’s that bad.

It is really so different from the MSM, who just want a body count.