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2009-12-29 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2009-12-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 soon to be replaced by lessons from Avatar

Posted by bman 2009-12-29 00:43|| 2009-12-29 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Who's the chika?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-12-29 01:41|| 2009-12-29 01:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Virtue is to be apologized for.

How about an apology for those earrings and makeup?

Posted by lex 2009-12-29 06:37|| 2009-12-29 06:37|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 Who's the chika?

Pamela somebody-or-other, one of the Pajamas blog-nutters. Kind of a minor-league Michelle Malkin wannabe.

Posted by lex 2009-12-29 06:38|| 2009-12-29 06:38|| Front Page Top

#5 She runs the blog, "Atlas Shrugs". It is in the sidebar of Rantburg.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-12-29 07:05|| 2009-12-29 07:05|| Front Page Top

#6 The purpose of a thing is always itself. That's probably Aristotle. Augustine would agree.

All altruism is just a greater perspective on self interest. Compassion is a combination of the words Cum( Latin) which means WITH and Passion ( which means to bear or suffer..where we get the word "passive").

I personally feel uncomfortable with compassion. I know too much about Human Nature. Like William Money says in the Clint Eastwood film The Unforgiven..."we all have it coming."

You cant afford illusions about yourself and about your enemies. Your enemies are just like you are only they are dead. Somebody wins and somebody loses. The Virtuous are probably not going to make it. Joan of Arc was just there to be used.

The important thing is to pay attention and get there fustest with the mostest. I have always like Jubal Early, who was Lincoln's "bad old man".

God has friends, but its always hard on His friends. Try not to get any of that on your shirt.
And you have to remember that one of Joan of Arcs best friends was Bluebeard. No, really. And another was L'Hire. You dont want to know.

In a tight place you dont need Dudley Doright. Trust me.

Posted by Angleton9 2009-12-29 08:40|| 2009-12-29 08:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah, so she's the chica that Churls at Little Green Pusballs gets agitated over approximately once a week for supposedly being some right wing neonazi!

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-29 09:01|| 2009-12-29 09:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes. She's also the author of this.

Posted by lotp 2009-12-29 09:03|| 2009-12-29 09:03|| Front Page Top

#9 She's a bit out there beyond Michele Malkin but she is obviously on the same side of the "what the heck is going on here" question that most of us here are.

I think she's obviously concerned about the teflon coating the press and the Obama Monarchy are putting on Islam.

Posted by Karl Rove 2009-12-29 11:11|| 2009-12-29 11:11|| Front Page Top

#10 She's right about the headlines sounding like they came out of an Ayn Rand novel. They really do.

Sales of her novels have spiked since Obama got elected, just like gun sales.

The books can be difficult in places because Rand sends her characters on long, tedious rants that would never happen in real life conversations. John Galt's radio speech is particularly tedious and heavy on the Aristotle. People would be turning off their radios.

"A is A", he says.

Well, of course it is but can we just get on with the story?

Rand also has trouble with the concept of God. She believes only in what can be proven and accuses preachers of misleading their flocks with appeals for compassion. Unfortunately, many preachers resemble that remark. The Archbishop of Canterbury comes to mind.

Nonetheless, it is shocking how close Rand gets to the truth behind today's politics. Politicians will go on and on about compassion for the poor when all they really want is to steal your money so they can buy votes with it and make us all dependent on the state.

There are people who either cannot or will not read Atlas Shrugged. It doesn't necessarily mean they are bad...Maybe they just drank the KoolAid. But you need to beware of these people.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2009-12-29 12:41|| 2009-12-29 12:41|| Front Page Top

#11 I thank God I was made to read Atlas Shrugged when in college. The book literally changed the way I viewed collectivism and opened up new ideas I'd never given much thought of. Right now many of us are Hank Rearden.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-12-29 21:34|| 2009-12-29 21:34|| Front Page Top

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