Say Anything Blog

Personally, my preferred public pastime is poisoning pigeons in the park.

“...And maybe we’ll do in a squirrel or two
as we’re poisoning pigeons in the park”

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Is it National Brotherhood Week yet?

"Jack”: just go shoot your “hope”.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

What’s the matter, bob---doin’ the masochism tango again?

"Jack” you are in your own little world.  Keep clinging to your “hope”.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

bob, you need to get down on your knees, fiddle with your rosaries, bow your head with great respect, and genuflect, genuflect, genuflect…

Ah… yes.  “The Vatican Rag”

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Um, Jack.  Hard to genuflect, genuflect, genutflect if you’re already down on your knees.

Get to church much? 

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

“Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely, and who rely on you in return.”
Senator John McCain, Faith of Our fathers

Bob, what I think he is saying is that you need to relax on the porch with your levies over your lead BVDs.

Lestat,

Its Jack’s ill-framed quote is from an old Tom Lehrer song called “The Vatican Rag.” R108 had brought up Lehrer in a different context on another thread.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bob, what I think he is saying is that you need to relax on the porch with your levies over your lead BVDs.

When I need a nonsense translator, I’ll let you know.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

And his first was from “National Brotherhood Week”, his second was from the “Machismo Tango” and mine was from “The Wild West is where I want to be.”

Jack was having fun with Tom Leher.  It’s Robert who wasn’t getting the joke.

Dealing with you guys makes me want to “make do with gin.”

It’s Robert who wasn’t getting the
joke.

What was the funny part?  I thought “jokes” were supposed to be funny.
BTW, my thing about Obama being the old hope peddler and the kids being hooked by “free” schooling is no joke; it’s ruining our country.  I had no intention of being funny with this - it’s too real.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

"free schooling” is killing this country?  Free schooling and an educated populace is what got our country where it is today.

“free schooling” is killing this country?  Free schooling and an educated populace is what got our country where it is today.

It is, now that the govt schools have become leftie indoctrination centers.  We have turned our backs on what got our country where it is today: the founding principles.  Why do you think we have to import engineers from outside the US?  We have too many impressionable kids being brainwashed with envirobabble and “womens studies”.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

I think that free education is a must for any free society to survive, especially in the modern era.  That being said, we’re going about it all wrong here in the US.

We’ve essentially nationalized the school systems, which school boards losing more and more control each year to the federal level.

What we need to do is pry the schools away from the government monopoly and instead subsidize schools while leaving power over the schools as local as possible.

That’s tough to do, because all government money comes with strings, but even if it’s not perfect a voucher system - where parents get to choose where their child’s share of the education dollars goes - would be a vast improvement over what we have now.

Which is essentially indoctrination centers being run by teachers unions and government employee lobbies for the sake of their political interests.

My daughter is seven, and already I find myself more and more having to explain to her that the world isn’t going to end in an apocalypse of global warming and that not everyone who owns a gun is a criminal.  And this is North Dakota.

Things really are that bad.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Rob: My comment about “free” education was to how it teaches entitlement consciousness to the kids, so they come to expect it, and are thus vulnerable to the leftie messages later in life.
In fact, our education system is not free, nor is it a good deal for all the money we have confiscated from us to pay for its excesses and poor performance.
I think kids should always know that their education isn’t free, but that the rest of society pays for it.
Sorry you’re having that experience with your daughter.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.