Posted on 06/19/2003 4:17:17 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Good Morning!!
Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
A reading from the First Book of Climaticus, beginning at the fourteenth verse of the Third Chapter:
14 - And so it was that the Lord looketh down upon the Eastern dwellers and observed the state of their activities.
15 - In a town upon the Potomac that goest by the name of Washington, the Lord noticed much activity and much consternation.
16 - The Lord noted there were of His kind which had foresaken the message and imputed that they, his children, were capable of usurping His province and were of thinking they, themselves but small and tiny creatures, were capable of controlling the majesty of the heavens.
17 - These kind referred to themselves as Democrats and Liberals, or a kind taken to referring to all changes in such things as the weather issues that were the results of their own activities.
18 - The Liberals referred to the product of His children by such names as Global Warming and Climate Change, but by all their nature they were saying the children of God were now capable of controlling God's work themselves.
19 - So the Lord sought to provide a message, a message that would surely humble His children and have them understand the power of His Almighty Hand.
20 - God looketh down upon the city on the Potomac and pondered what would be best for these folks, and he remembered the Great Flood once unleashed upon the land.
21 - In His ponderings, God did remember the Promise provided to His children after the Great Flood insofar as He indicated such an act would never again be visited upon the land.
22 - It was decided, however, that a small taste of the Great Flood might serve as a sufficient reminder that it is He and He alone that governs the heavens and controls the weather.
23 - So God decided that it would be visited upon the city on the Potomac and neighboring environs where the kind called Liberals frequent a continous rain, the rain lasting for not just forty days and forty nights, but until the population who had forgotten His message would be unable to remember days with sunshine.
24 - Thus the rains began, and the rains continued. Each day was visited upon the city on the Potomac more waters from the heavens.
25 - The waters issued forth in white form, in ice form, and in liquid form, but the waters came. And the children of God took notice, but those who called themselves Liberal continued to mock the work of the Lord, saying this, too, was the result of the activity of mere people.
26 - The people called Liberals ranted, and they raved. They took to the streets, and the yelled from the rooftops. Notice us, listen to us, they cried, all of this rain is the result of years upon years of human existance.
26 - But the children of God no longer listened, for they had understood all along that climate was the work of the Lord.
27 - The Children of God had come to notice, and so hath the Lord himself, the Liberals were all wet.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
Maybe the same will happen for young son's job situation :)
Blasphemous? No, at least I don't think so.
Irreverent? Yes, a tad -- in the same vein as Monty Python's reading from the Book of Armaments, though I would offer my writing did have a tad more respect. Heck, I didn't even offer that the Book of Climaticus was a book of the Bible.
Consider the theme - God looks down upon liberal eastern America, and doesn't like the fact that some humans (of the liberal persasion, for the most part) have decided that people can change the climate of the Earth. God decides to teach these people a lesson through continous rains, not of the Biblical proportions of Genesis, but still a scourge upon the land, that only He is in charge of such matters. The liberals are not repentent, but God has achieved his mission because the rest of humanity now disregards their message and accepts His.
Not quite sure what is blasphemous about that.
I'll give you a line used by my first cousin at last years 'tator reunion.
After the meal I took the mike and went to each of the 'tators on hand and and asked what was happening in their lives. One cousin, in his best rural Southern Ohio accent said, "Well I'm a looking forward to retirement." I asked when he was to retire. He replied Southern Ohio style, "In three year and four months." I asked what was he going to do after he retired. He replied with out batting an eye, "Finish my book." I, with some incredulity, asked "Are you writing a book?" He replied, "NO sir!... I'm a readin' one."
He is apparently a comedian by avocation. So am I. It is a tator trait. For me to write a book, I would first need a boss to keep my nose to the grindstone.
Did you see how smug Joey Lieberman looked? I swear, it must have been what was on that piece of paper! LOL!
I was laughing for several minutes when I saw that! I'm just glad my coffee was on the side desk when I viewed it!
Cheese and meat raviolis from scratch. With a couple of culinary suprises that actually worked. Hand rolled dough.
Hand crafted baguettes made earlier and crafted into little crustini with a good olive oil and a scrape of garlic across.
Hand crafted REAL vanilla ice cream (with half of a real vanilla bean).
I think tonight qualifies for at least 2 stars for casual dining. ;>)
/john
/john
No, but I'll tell ya, the number of green boxes (flash flood warnings) on the NEXRAD is amazing.
The Washington post says the Bush administration has changed its mind on meating with Democrats to discuss surpreme court nominees. It said yesterday Ari said the administration would not meet with Democrats to negotiate on a nominee should an opening occur. But today in a change of direction the white house council said he would talk to the senate democrats about nominations for the surpreme court.
This is presented as a flip flop by bush.
What Ari said yesterday was that the president and officals of the administratoin would NOT meet to negotiate a nominee should an opening occur. Ari went on to say that Bush had autorized the white house council to meet with democrats to explain the process under the law. What Ari said yesterday is what happened today. Nothing changed except the Washington post lied because either the reporter did not under stand what Ari said or the reporter lied on purpose.
What Ari said yesterday was Bush was going to send his lawyer to the senate to explain the law to Kennedy and Biden. Today he did so. It was a Bush insult to the Democrats that the Washington Post was too dumb to figure out... or just decided to lie to make the leftist case.
If is as if Bush sent his Doctor over to the senate to teach the Senate Doctor how to write a prescription.
It was Bush telling the senate he thinks their problem is the Senate lawyers don't understand the law.
I said pretty much nil. It is just people grandstanding to please media. Here is part of a story from the Washington Post.
The Senate Commerce Committee voted Thursday to
overturn parts of a Federal Communications Commission
decision freeing media companies from decades-old
ownership limits and allowing them to buy more
outlets and merge in new ways.
The proposal, which faces an uncertain future in the
full Senate and a tough road in the House, would roll
back changes that allowed individual companies to own
television stations reaching nearly half the nation's
viewers and combinations of newspapers and broadcast
stations in the same city.
"I would like the FCC to start all over," said Sen.
Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who opposes the
changed rules. She said they are "potentially
dangerous to media diversity in this country.”
This is just noise making. The senate committee passed it the senate may but the house will do nothing. The new rules adopted will stand. Prior to now the networks have had a lot of power over local stations. Stations could do as the network said, or lose the right to carry the networks programs.
Now several companies will acquire stations until they have significant number of stations on one of the networks. Then a group perhaps owning twenty five or more percent of the stations carrying the network, could say, take DAn Rather off and put an unbiased reporter in his place or we will drop CBS on all of our stations. CBS would lose a huge percent of its revenue. It would have to fold.
CBS will have to buy local stations or lose control of its own format. It will in effect have to please its customers. CBS does not want to do that.
These senators of both the left and the right who are on the communications committee get big donations from the media. They are doing what the media wants. But the media does not have the right people bought.
What this says of the major media, is we bought senators and it didn't work.
Glad you were able to catch that!
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