Posted on 01/27/2008 6:57:51 AM PST by Mo1
For some ladies, I understand Darlin’, such a plan would be equivalent to mortifying the flesh, and by their suffering in repentance, gain absolution.
But then what do I know of such things...
FOFLOL. Enough!
Good night see you all in the morning.
Double Life of Barack Obama
Wright is wrong for America.
By Thomas Sowell
There is something both poignant and galling about the candidacy of Barack Obama.
Any American, regardless of party or race, has to find it heartening that the country has reached the point where a black candidate for president of the United States sweeps so many primaries in states where the overwhelming majority of the population is white.
We have all seen the crowds enthralled by Barack Obama’s rhetoric and theatrical style.
Many of his supporters put their money where their mouths were, so that this recently arrived senator received more millions of dollars in donations than candidates who have been far more visible on the national stage for far more years.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that Barack Obama has been leading as much of a double life as Eliot Spitzer.
While talking about bringing us together and deploring “divisive” actions, Senator Obama has for 20 years been a member of a church whose minister, Jeremiah Wright, has said that “God Bless America” should be replaced by “God damn America” — among many other wild and even obscene denunciations of American society, including blanket racist attacks on whites.
Nor was this an isolated example. Fox News Channel has played tapes of various sermons of Jeremiah Wright, and says that it has tapes with hours more of the same.
Wright’s actions matched his words. He went with Louis Farrakhan to Libya and Farrakhan received an award from his church.
Sean Hannity began reporting on Jeremiah Wright back in April of 2007. But the mainstream media saw no evil, heard no evil, and spoke no evil.
Now that the facts have come out in a number of places, and can no longer be suppressed, many in the media are trying to spin these facts out of existence.
Spin number one is that Jeremiah Wright’s words were “taken out of context.” Like most people who use this escape hatch, those who say this do not explain what the words mean when taken in context.
In just what context does “God damn America” mean something different?
Spin number two is that Barack Obama says he didn’t hear the particular things that Jeremiah Wright said that are now causing so much comment.
It wasn’t just an isolated remark. Nor were the enthusiastic responses of the churchgoers something which suggests that this anti-American attitude was news to them or something that they didn’t agree with.
If Barack Obama was not in church that particular day, he belonged to that church for 20 years. He made a donation of more than $20,000 to that church.
In all that time, he never had a clue as to what kind of man Jeremiah Wright was? Give me a break!
You can’t be with someone for 20 years, call him your mentor, and not know about his racist and anti-American views.
Neither Barack Obama nor his media spinmeisters can put this story behind him with some facile election-year rhetoric. If Senator Obama wants to run with the rabbits and hunt with the hounds, then at least let the rabbits and the hounds know that.
The fact that Obama talks differently than Jeremiah Wright does not mean that his track record is different. Barack Obama’s voting record in the Senate is perfectly consistent with the far-left ideology and the grievance culture, just as his wife’s statement that she was never proud of her country before is consistent with that ideology.
Senator Barack Obama’s political success thus far has been a blow for equality. But equality has its down side.
Equality means that a black demagogue who has been exposed as a phony deserves exactly the same treatment as a white demagogue who has been exposed as a phony.
We don’t need a president of the United States who got to the White House by talking one way, voting a very different way in the Senate, and who for 20 years followed a man whose words and deeds contradict Obama’s carefully crafted election-year image.
© 2008 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
I hope she has a nice trip, (and safe trip), Cardi!
I’ll bet Jane bought a couple bottles of good red wine, two loaves of freshly made French bread, and a block of good cheese.
What more could they want? (That’s what I would do.) ;-)
That is what I did when five of us toured Europe a few years ago. We camped one night in Paris and one night just outside Venice but the rest of the time was in hotels having feasts on the beds, with our supermarket food and wine. We did intend a camping holiday but the weather was not that good so we camped in hotels.
They stayed overnight just outside Marseilles as they did not want to arrive anywhere and start looking for hotels in the dark.
I gave them some alternatives regarding the Ferries and they will be making decisions in that regard later. They still want to see as much as possible of the south of France so I suppose they will be messing around there until at least Saturday.
"Of course, we've all heard about the tsunami of foreclosures that has descended on much of the country. But not all real estate disaster areas are created equal:
This week RealtyTrac released new foreclosure numbers about cities that were hit the hardest in February.
Stockton, with nearly 5 percent of all households at some stage of foreclosure, got the honor of ringing up the second highest foreclosure rate nationwide, after Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla. Other sprawling California regions dominated the list:
Modesto at No. 3, Merced at No. 4, Riverside-San Bernardino at No. 5, Bakersfield at No. 7, Vallejo-Fairfield at No. 8, and Sacramento at No. 9.
The guy who made this over colored everything, But there is one shot with a WWII American airplane flying over the fields which is interesting.
I have been to Majorca and it is much better than these photos show. He seems to like beaches, unfortunately, Mediterranean beaches are the pits, dull sands on a tideless sea.
Good pictures, Cardi. I agree - he did overcolor them. The old man fishing on the dock would have been better if he hadn’t made a figure running on the space of the sun.
Here are some more pictures (naturally colored) of Majorca. Just touch each picture with your cursor, and it will show in the enlarged box on the right of the screen.
http://www.freshpage.net/Majorca/index.htm
Of course I couldn’t resist clicking on the Warkworth Castle at the bottom right of the page (Northumberland, UK)
I checked your pics of Majorca - I must try and find mine I am wondering if I had my digital camera then. To me everything is a few years ago until I check thing out and then “a few” seems to run from 3 to 20 years ago. That is what happens to us old folk - everything happened yesterday - lol
The English castle - not very romantic - I seem to remember those bone chilling mists. Hardy souls those English making love is such a cold climate. :)
Soooooooo, how’s the weather?
(I hear your old home got A FOOT of rain yesterday!)
Look who is changing the subject! LOL!
ALCAZAR HISTORY: The Capital of the Segovia Province in central Spain, ALCARZAR DE SEGOVIA stands high atop a rocky outcrop overlooking the surrounding countryside. Above the confluence of the Eresma and Clmores rivers, King Alfonso VI of Castile built the castle in the 11th century based upon the Moorisg Castle, Alcazar of Toledo. It was rebuilt in the 1300’s and became the residence of Castilian kings over the next several centuries, During the 15th and 16th centuries the castle was modified considerably from its original form. King John II added a massive square tower with a dozen cylindrical minarets to the castle’s central keep. I the late 16th century, King Philip II drastically altered the Moorish architectural influence with a more Germanic style.
The castle’s interior is lavishly decorated with rich alabaster floors, polychrome inlays and stunning-gold gilt ornamentation. Fire severely damaged the castle in 1862, leaving only the outer walls and King John II’s tower unscathed. A massive restoration was completed three decades later, and left the castle reminiscent of the stylish Bavarian “fairy tale” type castles. It was at Alcazar that King John I created the Christian calendar and that Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand received Christopher Columbus to finance his exploratory voyage to America.
Here are some more interesting photos of the gardens at Alcazar, and some of the interior.
http://www.infocordoba.com/spain/andalusia/cordoba/photos/cordoba_photos_alcazar.htm
One comes around the corner at the top of the hill before entering Segovia and there before you is the most impressive Roman aqueduct you could ever imagine. Built entirely without mortar and looking as though it was put up yesterday.
Here is a Google tour (taken by satellite) of the Segovia Aqueduct. You can move the map any way you want - zoom in or out, go N,S,E, or W.
http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=1836&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=40.947921,-4.11777&z=18
I think will hire appoint you as my research assistant.
The river between here and Berryville is higher than I’ve ever seen it. I haven’t been up by Beaver Lake since all the rain.
Are you staying dry? I imagine your work is taking to to places that aren’t hardly there anymore!
One of the ladies in the office couldn’t get home last night because her road was completely washed out...and she has a 4 wheel drive.
Actually, I’ve been holed up in the office the past two days. I avoid some of those places when it rains anyway.
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