Combine the Vodka, Cointreau, cranberry juice,
lime juice and crushed ice in a cocktail shaker. Gently shake and strain into a
cocktail glass. Garnish with a twist of lime.
Left:
Yet the Democratic Party, which by now can hardly remember the far-distant past
when it was a volcano not of molten rhetoric but of serious thought, seems
preoccupied with the chafing around its neck. The chafing is caused by the
leashes firmly gripped and impudently jerked by various groups like MoveOn.org
that insist the party adopt hysteria as a policy by treating the Supreme Court
nomination of John Roberts as a dire threat to
liberty. -
Right:
the Republican Party has far fewer worries than it deserves.
-
It is showing signs of becoming an
exhausted volcano. Regarding Iraq, it is mistaking truculent asperity and
tiresome repetition for Churchillian wartime eloquence. Regarding domestic
policy, intellectual anemia has given rise to behavioral patterns not easily
distinguished from corruption, as with the energy and transportation bills.
(H/T Commissar)
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In
re: The Iraqi constitution: Fine, reconvene, start over – this time with
the Sunni’s getting out the vote. Let the putz in the Sunni street put
purple ink on his finger - find out if they pick the same self-satisfied
rejectionists who speak for them now. My guess: They’ll be desperate to
get on board this time, and when the foreign jihadis mobilize to stop them then
they’ll be the ones reaping the blood debt
whirlwind.
Don't rush it though -
these things take time. We had to wait 12 years to go from the essentially
useless Articles of Confederation (1777) to the Constitutional Convention in
1789. And even after waiting all that time to get it right, we still had to wait
two more years to tack on the Bill of
Rights.
Which was all pretty damned
good work, if you ask me. But still left the fields fallow and the ground
planted for a devastating Civil War a little less than a hundred years later.
And back in the days when our population numbered roughly 10% of its current total, we had (north
and south) over 50,000 casualties in a 3-day period at Gettysburg. Over three thousand
Americans died in a single day at Antietam, with another estimated
4000 eventually succumbing to wounds received there.
I'd kind of
like a Big Jen Sandwich too. He said, inside an empty house. Not really meaning
it.
I
swear.
And speaking of Soldier's
Angels and Project Valour-IT, the Kat (in Missouri) has a lovely post up that you
owe it to yourself to read. Do come back when you're done, I'm not finished
yet...
Here's
why. And thanks to David , at Oxblog. That was a great commercial.
I still get shivers.
And I wonder
where the girl in the orange running shorts is
today...
---
Speaking
of tone deaf, (what, we weren't speaking about
that?) Joannie finds that our very own mayoral
candidate, Donna Frye, is hanging with a group of folks who will, at the end of
the day, reflect poorly upon her judgement. For God's
sake.
You
are
known by the company you keep. And this from the same candidate (and world's
best advertisement for sun screen) that would have won the mayoral election last
year, if it hadn't been for the fact that her own partisans were literally too stupid to
vote.
Democracy: The worst form of
government
ever.
Apart from all the
others.
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Rhythms
- still digging it? Or not. Too much detail? Not enough action? Or too little
character development?
Inquiring
minds want to know. This stuff isn't as easy as maybe it looks, and the
attention span of the audience, it seems to
wander...
Fickle
bastards.
I mean that in the most
loving, appreciative way, of
course...
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That's it.
Done.
Y'all have a great
weekend!
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"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." - John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friederich Nietzsche
