The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    THE NEW MATH

    Ptolemy
    An early Baroque artist's rendition of Claudius Ptolemaeus.

    MISS PALIN BACHMANN CONJURING

    They talk down to us. Especially here in the heartland. Oh, man. They think that, if we were just smart enough, we’d be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell ’em, and I do tell ’em, Oh, we’re plenty smart, oh yeah—we know what’s goin’ on. And we don’t like what’s goin’ on. And we’re not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.” http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010

     

    It is kind of like the fact that two pair beats three of a kind.

    I mean that is a fact.

    You betchya!!!

    Mathematicians would be able to prove that to you if they were not such liberal hacks.

    The fact is that there are facts that the LAMESTREAM media will constantly ignore to their detriment and to the detriment of America.

    Here are some facts that some of you may not be aware of. Your ignorance is a direct result of the liberal media’s bias:

    1.       George Washington freed all his slaves and worked tirelessly throughout his Administration to destroy slavery.

    2.       Bill Clinton had sex in the Oval Office in direct violation of the terms of Article 13, Section 4 of the United States Constitution.

    3.       Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence right after he freed all the slaves and declared Income tax to be unconstitutional.

    4.       FDR? WTF?

    5.       37% of all Democrats are homosexuals who despise our children.

    6.       Sputnik was named after a Russian who ran fourteen Gulags and who refused to ever fly the American Flag.

    7.       When I see liberals I SEE RED PEOPLE!!!

    8.       We have enough oil to power this country for three hundred years and then some and we are importing oil to save some birds. WTF!!!

    9.       People on food stamps will not work for food!

    10.   When Lincoln gave out his Gettysburg Address he was revealing the site of his summer home and that is how John Wilkes Booth found him and killed him.

    11.   The great state of South Carolina seceded from the Union because the wonderful folks who lived there were against the income tax and redistribution of wealth.

    12.   JFK was killed by liberals because he wished to lower the income tax rate for all Americans.

    13.   Andrew Jackson removed the Native Americans from Georgia because he had found a better place for them to live in Oklahoma.

    14.   President Wilson sent us to war in Europe because he wished to entrap us all in communism.

    15.   Real Americans believe that the Post Office was developed by FDR to provide pensions for lazy folks who did not wish to work.

    16.   I would rather not think of what we have never been but what we could never become.

    17.   The Brits are already communists although most of the actual citizens are unaware of this. That is the real reason our Founding Fathers called them ‘red coats’.

    18.   You know why our banks failed? Because liberals passed laws to let more minorities buy houses.

    19.   The earth is only 6,000 years old and I assure you, I have not evolved from the likes of monkeys because my bible tells me so.

    20.   The commie state USSR was destroyed through universal health coverage and its commitment to Sputnik.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_there

    Satire may turn to tragedy though. People who listen to these morons and add some hate speech for dessert from the likes of rush and beckerhead also vote. And these followers, these no-nothings would gladly support measures that would not only hurt the American poor but send our economy into a tailspin from which it could never recover.

    The risk is that for some, it could just as quickly be the end.

    At one level Paul follows the House Republican standard of rolling back appropriations for many agencies to the levels set three years ago under the Bush administration. But elsewhere, he clearly goes much further, folding the Energy Department into the Department of Defense and wiping out most of the Education Department but for Pell Grants to low income college students.

    The Department of Housing and Urban Development is a third casualty, together with seven independent agencies including the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and national endowments for the humanities and arts.

    Paul’s 12-page bill appears to state its defense cuts as a series of 10 percent reductions from President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget request—not yet fully enacted. But as described in accompanying material provided by the senator’s office, the end result would be about a 2.7 percent cut below 2010 levels—far more severe than anything envisioned by House Republicans.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48178.html#ixzz1CHIgS2x0

    There are Americans who are extremely upset over the world that exists. They are angry and frustrated and filled with fears by this world and so they have deigned to construct a universe of their own.

    Some of these believers have reached high office in state as well as Federal Government.

    Others, who may be a great deal saner and better educated, find that there are votes to be had from this ‘new group’ of Americans and so they incorporate those tenets into their speeches, into their dialogues and into their legislative votes.

    Of course, this artificial construction of an artificial universe is part and parcel of the human condition. We have been doing this sort of thing since we stood up in the African Savannahs and created our own fireplaces in the ground.

     The Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy created an intricate Earth/Solar system whereby the sun and the moon and all of the stars orbited our planet. In order to make the math work and the models believable all sorts of tricks were brought to bear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy

    This model created in the second century A.D. was used by the Roman Catholic Church for 1300 years and anyone who questioned this model of the universe was burned at the stake.

    Here are some new rules for the New Christian Millennia that are being implemented in legislatures all over the country and proposed by Senators and Congressman on the Federal levels.

    What follows is a list of new tenets being implemented thusly:

    1.       The New Universe is 6,000-10,000 years old; God stood on the earth and cast the stars and the moon and the sun into the sky; men and dinosaurs were created about the same time—within a day or so; after a thousand or two thousand years, the Lord brought forth a great flood that inundated the entire planet wiping out all life on this planet except for one family and pairs of all species now existing on this planet (except for water friendly species I suppose). All this with no homosexual species.  see here and here and here  and here.

    2.       Human life begins at conception; no ifs ands or buts. here

    Even in cases of rape, the fetus must be carried till birth: here and here and here.

    3.       Our Forefathers freed their own slaves and worked tirelessly to abolish slavery and the proof is right there in the Constitution. Negroes were recognized as being 3/5 of a human being by our Forefathers; they were saying, hey, 3/5 is better than nothing.  And slavery was not that bad an idea anyway     here and here and here

    4.       Our money is no good and all currency should be backed by gold; we need to reinstitute the gold standard.  here.

    5.       Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan were our greatest presidents in addition to our slave owning Forefathers.  here and here.

    6.       Only Christians should be considered Americans; real Americans; although we can tolerate the Jews to a certain extent.  Muslims are the scourge of the planet and must be annihilated. here .  And there is a conspiracy to implement Sharia Law into our government. here.

    7.       Immigrants from our southern borders are not persons under the terms of our state and Federal Constitutions; be they fetuses or babies although corporations are persons. http://ozarkssentinel.com/missouri-ahead-of-the-game-in-dealing-with-illegal-immigrants-p1034.htm

    8.       Thousands upon thousands of laws passed by Congress over the last century are unconstitutional on their face. http://crfb.org/blogs/sen-rand-paul-proposes-500b-annual-spending-cuts

    9.       The right to own guns and weapons of all kinds is a God-Given right and this right is specifically provided for in our Constitution. Guns protect us and innocent people who died as a result of the unlawful use of guns would not have died if they had been carrying a decent God-Given weapon.  http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100321/NEWS01/703219976/-1/NEWS

    http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/pat_quotes/

    10.   Gays are more dangerous than Al Qaida.

    http://www.poe-news.com/stories.php?poeurlid=75343

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_y3-ckuM3E

    These are just ten of the tenets that are the foundation for this new universe held by tens of millions of Americans.

    You cannot argue with the people who hold these beliefs. You will get nowhere demonstrating inconsistencies or showing them ‘facts’ or suggesting that they are ignoring the data accumulated by organizations like NASA.

    The speed of light and the DNA research and the digs performed by paleontologists and all the rest of our accumulated knowledge on this planet would not sway these people.

    Demonstrate to these people that their votes are going to people who wish to take everything that they have left by way of property in this world, and it will all go for nought.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97IBY8cQ5fs

    First attempt @ http://onceuponaparadigm.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/miss-palin-bachmann-no...

     

    Comments

    Nice rant Dick.  I especially liked  #16.   "I would rather not think of what we have never been but what we could never become".  I'm still thinking about that one.  So they must be purty smart if they can figger that one out in 2 minutes or less, no?  As a sideline, I'm not sure education has as much utility here as the ability to actually think.  Something in short supply inside the beltway imo.


    Hello Miguel!!! hahahahaha

    Ponder more upon the nihilist's take upon history. hahahahahah

    You must think first and you of course, as much as I realize that education BEGINS when we finish our studies.

    the end

     hhashahaha


    Some good news Dick:  Glenn becks viewership is off by about a third in the new year:  http://www.alternet.org/story/149728/glenn_beck_limps_into_2011_with_sinking_ratings


    I always knew you was one of us!!

     


    hahahaahahah

    I hereby render unto The Decider, the Dayly Line of the Day for this here Dagblog, given to all of him from all of me!!!  hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

     


    That's quite a list, DD.  For a while there I thought it was pretty funny, but the deeper I got into it, the more truthiness I found.  I don't always like truthiness before breakfast.  It's bad for the digestive system.  But what's done is done,  and there's always lunch. :)

    Good job.


    Actually, the first half was meant to be a satire standing by itself.

    A couple days after that I kept coming accross these radical legislators shooting for the moon.

    And they are not kidding.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVHNwBbkSj4

     

     


    You cannot argue with the people who hold these beliefs. You will get nowhere demonstrating inconsistencies or showing them ‘facts’

    You can't argue with them, you cannot change their minds but you can deride or ridicule them which you do a good job of here. They are morally and intellectually impaired and not responsive to obvious facts and reality, and hate to have it pointed out to them. They think a President reforming the health care system is committing a worse crime than a President starting a war of aggression. They think guns are like cars or swimming pools.

    I saw a comment today in the NYT on Republican efforts to make it easier to destroy our education system by facilitating the firing of teachers. Ignorance and poverty are the pillars of despots, be they from the GOP or al Qaeda. The GOP is in never ending pursuit to increase both in America.

    NYT:

    Stop blaming teachers for the dumbing down of American society, as evidenced by the level of public discourse in the country. Give me a break! Sarah Palin was a vice presidential candidate and Michelle Bachman is a contender for the Tea Party presidential nomination, and you think teachers are making your children stupid. You live in a culture that celebrates stupidity and campaigns of misinformation; yet you believe that children are somehow insulated from all that.

    How many of you will turn off the Super Bowl to help your child study for an exam, work on a science project, or finish a research paper?

    Teachers are rolling a rock up a very steep hill.


    That is a funny, funny line. hahahaha...and you think teachers are making your children stupid. ha


    I blame Palin's and Bachmann's teachers. (No, not really.)


    Probably union. hhahaahah


    How many of you will turn off the Super Bowl to help your child study for an exam, work on a science project, or finish a research paper?

    How can I turn it off if I never turn it on? Thanks for the reminder to get my shopping done early, though. I hate going out grocery shopping only to find that the football fanatics have taken over the grocery stores.


    Richard - now the wingnut Republicans think guns are like health insurance! South Dakota Bill would force all citizens over 21 to buy a gun.


    Hey, don't they know that forcing all Americans to buy something is unconstitutional? Oh wait, I forgot, this is a Republican mandatory compliance bill...


    Us Dakota Hill Folk need a gun more than we need some high fallutin city slicker Doctor! Don't need no law to make us getta gun, bought my kid old one soon as he could lift my 22 squirrel rifle.


    Nice dialect.   ;-)