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posted by Mike Dubuc | 10:29 AM
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Mike, were you were inspired by the other "Mike," aka Don Miguel in writing this. I thought only he and I would have celebrated Candlemas tomorrow. Yes, it marks the end of the ancient calendar for Christmastide. Interestingly enough this year only days before the start of lent. Things are just funny that way. Merry Christmas, have some ashes? Also please see my final comment on the last post.
And the Christmas season now has ended for Dr. Franklin. The Superbowl is over.
Let's not discuss it, jo jo.
I'm celebrating Mardi Gras with my beads and the bubonic plague.
The Plague is good as it cuts down on the excessive population.
Tish, tish, Dr. F., that was yesterday. Today, as you know, is Ash Wednesday, the partying over now it is time for repentence. Put away your party threads, it's time for sackcloth and ashes. Make your lent count! Even a heretic like yourself can try to make a good lent!
The full meaning of repentance in the Hebrew Bible is indicated in the Hebrew term teshuvah (lit. "return"). This implies: (1) Transgression and sin are the natural and inevitable consequence of man's straying from God and His laws (comp. Deut. 11:26-28; Isa. 1:4; Jer. 2:13, 16:11; Ezek. 18:30). (2) It is man's destiny, and therefore his duty, to be with God as God is with him. (3) It is within the power of every man to redeem himself from sin by resolutely breaking away from it and turning to God. God's loving-kindness is also extended to the returning sinner. "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon" (Isa. 55:7) (4) Because "there is not a just man upon earth, that does good, and sins not" (Eccl. 7:20; I Kings 8:46), every mortal stands in need of this insistence on his "return" to God.
Geroge Bush can't run for re-election. That should be enough.
Thank God. The great big government liberal can't run again.
You'd prefer the muslim?
I'm all for the war hero McCain!
And, has Mike turned into Don Miguel or just Teviah? Deedle, deedle, dum, if I were a wealthy man! TRADITION, TRADITION!
Dr. Franklin, did you have any luck with the search?
'coon dog? One or the other of those parts maybe, but both. And who do you think you are, Jed Clampet?
actually, I see myself as Burt Reynolds character "the Bandit" from the '70s classic "Smokey and the Bandit".
The fact that you would actually admit you saw such movies as "smokie and the Bandit," scares me. Was that Burt pre or post abusing Loni?
The fact that you haven't seen such a classic 1970s American movie about running from cops, speeding and CB radios is not shocking at all.
Didn't you spend the '70s learning Latin from some old nun at Dominican Academy?
I am in shock that the American people would actually vote for that Obama dude. Is it that apparent that Hillary is a soul sucking bride of the devil?
Apparently so, jo jo, apparently so.
Perhaps the way to win-for McCain that is, is to get Huckabee to be his V.P. That way McCain can grab the moderate Republicans and pro war voters and Huckabee can get the Christians in the South and the far right groups. I just don't know if Huck is electable.
McCain also will get a lot of undecideds and the Conservative Democrats-those poor people have no choice at all this cycle.
I have come to despise politics!
"those poor people have no choice at all this cycle."
How dare you imply that all people should be represented!
McCain may well be the man for the job, but Obooboo and Billary are both very tough competition it seems. He'll need a strong VP to run with. Huckabee has shown more staying power than one would have imagined. McCain's failing I think, is that he is not favored by the right. Huckabee is.
It's nearly baseball season, and we still lament the Super Bowl loss. The Hollywood writers strike is over, and American Idol is back on the air. And in the film world, "The Other Boleyn Girl" premiers on February 29th.
It will be worth seeing just to see Natalie Portman!
Anyone-as long as you are off of that Ally McBeal chic. Ack!
actually, Scarlett "the best boobs in Hollywood" Johannson is also in that movie.
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall saw the actual premier the other night in London.
Yeah, well he's not actually descended from either one of those Boleyn tramps, anyway!
Scarlett Johansen has "the best boobs" in hollywood?
that's what spilly reported awhile ago.
Scarlett has a magnificent body, curves and not fat, oh yeah! The classic, curvy chic.
Thankfully, Expat isn't fat at all.
He's more Faust than fat
Hey don't roast Faust, uh Fat, em Froast, er Efrast, ah ExFast. Oh dear, I got that all wrong I'm afraid. Let's start over. There once was a man From Jerez, who wore him a fancy red Fez. The tassle did twirl, while drinking he sat, and his close friends did call him Expat.
William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.
And he was the last person, after Thurston Howell III, to speak with Long Island lockjaw. The end of the American aristocratic accent. I'll miss his right wing comments, but, although dead at 82 he was embalmed at 22!
Well thank the gods that Mrs Clinton scored big yesterday!
Yea, the bitch did seem to clinch things in Texas and Ohio. It must have been all the Hussein references!
Go Hillary!
I have a few liberals I work with, all Obama supporters, who are accusing Hillary of voter "irregularities" in Ohio! They tell me "you can't trust the Clintons" HA! Where were they in the 90s!!!!
Typical Liberals, blowing with the wind, ankle biting, gnashing their teeth in desperate attempts to get people to believe their inflamatory rhetoric.
I'm the only Hillary supporter I know of! That tells you where the Liberals are!
Pathetic. The Liberatarian knows the better avenue thank the Democrats do for their own party. Perhaps though she has finally pierced the teflon.
News Flash*** Mike has the Flu****He is maronned at an undisclosed Florida hotel****he is awaiting special forces to extract him****We all hope he gets to civilization in time***
does he need me to use my connections and call in Her Majesty's Secret Service to extract him?
Perhaps Mr. Bond would come in handy.
This is getting to good:
WASHINGTON (CBS) ― A Barack Obama adviser resigned Friday after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster."
Samantha Power, an unpaid foreign policy adviser and Harvard professor, announced her resignation in a statement provided by the Obama campaign in which she expressed "deep regret."
"Last Monday, I made inexcusable remarks that are at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration for Senator Clinton and from the spirit, tenor, and purpose of the Obama campaign," she said. "And I extend my deepest apologies to Senator Clinton, Senator Obama and the remarkable team I have worked with over these long 14 months."
Power's interview Monday was published Friday in a Scottish newspaper, even though she tried to keep it from appearing in print.
"She is a monster, too -- that is off the record -- she is stooping to anything," The Scotsman quoted her as saying.
As U.S. news media picked up on the remark, Power issued a statement of apology and the campaign said Obama decried the characterization.
The Clinton campaign held a conference call with several of the former first lady's congressional supporters calling for Power to be fired.
"Senator Obama has called for change, and a new kind of politics," said New York Rep. Gregory Meeks. "This is the worst kind of politics."
Obama's spokesman Bill Burton said in an e-mail: "Senator Obama decries such characterizations which have no place in this campaign."
Though Power immediately attempted to withdraw the remark, the newspaper insisted she had agreed in advance that her interview - part of a book tour - would be conducted on the record.
"You just look at her and think, 'Ergh'," Power is quoted as telling the newspaper. "But if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive."
In a separate interview for Britain's left-leaning New Statesman magazine, published Thursday, Power warned Clinton's campaign against reveling in the trial of an Obama donor Antonin "Tony" Rezko on corruption charges.
"I don't think it's a good idea for the Clintons to get into a competition over who's got the most unsavory donations, you know what I mean?" Power was quoted as telling the magazine.
The controversy over Power's comment came soon after a top aide to Clinton compared Obama to independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr.
Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said Obama's statement that he plans to be more critical of Clinton's record is reminiscent of the attacks the Clintons endured during the investigations in the 1990s.
"Our point here is to point out that after a campaign in which many of the questions that voters had in the closing days centered on concerns that they had over his state of preparedness to be commander in chief and steward of the economy, he has chosen instead of addressing those issues to attack Senator Clinton," Wolfson told reporters in a conference call. "They've announced that this is what they are going to do.
"I for one do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president. But perhaps that theory will be tested," he said.
By raising Starr's name, Wolfson revived memories of the investigation that led to former President Clinton's impeachment. But many Democrats feel the Starr investigation was politically motivated, and injecting Starr into the debate is one more way for Clinton to depict herself as a victim of enemies out to get her. She's already complained recently about the media being against her.
After losing three out of four contests Tuesday night, Obama told reporters Wednesday that he plans to increase his criticism of Clinton's record in coming days.
His campaign also has been attacking her for refusing to release her tax returns. The Clinton campaign said all the Clintons' returns since they left the White House will be made public around April 15.
Obama's spokesman said the comparison to Starr is "absurd" when Clinton has been calling for more scrutiny of Obama's record.
"We don't believe that expecting candidates for the presidency to disclose their tax returns somehow constitutes Ken Starr tactics, but the kind of transparency and accountability that Americans are looking for and that's been missing in Washington for far too long," Burton said in a statement. "And if Senator Clinton doesn't think that the Republicans will ask these very same questions, then she's not as ready to go toe-to-toe with John McCain as she claims."
Ugh. They deserve each other. This whole race is disgusting. Anyone worth voting for is thoroughly un-electable. As Aristotle pointed out, the form of government doesn't matter nearly so much as the virtue (or lack thereof) of the populace. My friends, it seems to me that we are going the way of Rome. The only significant difference McCain offers is that we can be relatively well assured that we won't get blown up by any outside crazies--we'll just implode instead. (Granted that is better than imploding AND getting blown up by outside crazies)
Don Miguel is right. And I wonder what sliced up mess the Republican Candidate will be running against. The Democrats will so smear one another that there will be no need for their oponent to say anything!
"As Aristotle pointed out, the form of government doesn't matter nearly so much as the virtue (or lack thereof) of the populace."
Bravo Don M, bravo!!!
Your wisdom is much savored.
Of course we are going the way of Rome, like every other successful, powerful civilization. It does not mean however, that we are headed for disaster. Rome was founded on bloodshed, and morphed over 2000 years or so. There are always good and bad times, sometimes at the same moment. Even the reformers often(The Gracchi Brothers, Sulla, Caesar) had less than honorable in their methods or goals. Unfortunately the best remedy for the salacious appetite of the worlds people is poverty. Even then it does not end it, it merely keeps us too busy trying to survive to have much time for it. Death and poverty sort of "clear the palate" to use an industry phrase. I would strongly argue that mostly the world is a better safer place than any other time in history. The US is the leader in that. Billary and O-bo-bo should they get elected(shudder) will be a miserable prize for the country, but they will not destroy us-we had 12 years of FDR and survived(not to mention Carter, Jefferson, Wilson and LBJ(to name a few). We will be fine. For now we have Alito, Scalia and Roberts to help guide the future-that's the place that matters.
Aside from the fact that the next president will almost undoubtedly be appointing at least one Supreme Court Justice (reason enough to worry), I am specifically concerned with the fact that our citizenry is not nearly so virtuous as it was even so recently as the time of FDR. Thanks to folks such as the aforementioned and others (like John Dewey) our fellow citizens to great degree (get it? 'degree') have been edjumacated instead of liberated, taught how to suck off a federal sow instead of fostering an ethic of industriousness, taught to seek first our own pleasure instead of pursuing the Common Good, encouraged to be slaves of our stomachs instead of free men of virtue and integrity. If this sounds cynical, I am not. I just can't otherwise explain how our choices for the next Commander in Chief of our erstwhile great country could possibly be the likes of McCain, Clinton, and Obama. The 'people' have spoken.
Alas.
Ahhhh, you meant that-well, then, "let them eat cake".
jo, jo, we don't have lead pipes so part of Rome's disaster will not befall us. Don Miguel is again correct. Our downfall is in the laziness of the population. It was too easy for the gen Xer's to make lots of dough and not suffer for it. Our society as a whole (western) is corrupt and selfish. This is the real reason the radical muslims hate us. But it is true, our society has lost the virtue that once brought it greatness and has turned into a den of selfishness. McCain is the lesser of the three evils. I do think that Hillary or Obama could do irrepairable harm to the nation. Over four years of a term things become institutionalized and then they become "rights." It is easy for a democracy to fall into tyranny without the populace even knowing it. We need to be very careful in this next election. Unfortunately we have an electorate that is, albiet not as ignorant as the current Spanish electorate, quite uncultured and uneducated. We need to be the watchdogs of our freedom.
don is right. We have lost the virtues of the Protestant work Ethic. Now, we have boatloads (mule loads?) of immigrants coming over from Mexico and draining the taxpayers for every Buffalo nickel they can get. I do believe that somehow we will be fine and survive, but that road will be a difficult one.
Dr. F,
That road you so eloquently refer to will undoubtedly be paved with our tax payer dollars (or are they pesos now?)
Not fer nuttin, but we pay to import 25 Mexicans up to Québec each year to work on the farm. These people are the best darn workers...practically begging to work 6 days a week and 14+ hours a day...aye, aye, aye, aye...send me your Frito Bandito (this statement and/or phrase was not in reference to, nor descriptive of, any person human or otherwise. Any such similarity is purely coincidental)
Expat, Expat, Expat...You always reduce things past the simple straight through to banal. Lead pipes? That is what you come up with..lead pipes? If you were Carl Sagan it would sound something like this...*Ahem*..."Hundreds and hundreds of years ago man first emerged from Spain." EVERY society falls in it's own way. We do not have 'lead lined wine casks'(cold water leeches almost nothing from lead. You need acid rain, or hot water-or something else acidic like wine to do the job.) We do have drugs. Every generation is as lazy as it can get away with. I still don't have a problem with immigration, because it keeps fresh fighting blood in the US gene pool. It is the illegal immigration that is hurting us.
jo jo, I am continually amazed at your brilliance of thought. mike I am sure you are in agreement that jo jo lends this blog that intellectual gravitas that other similar blogs lack. We are grateful for it. jo jo is 100% correct, not only does Expat get mired in the minutia of meaningless details (of which he is an expert Expat), but he totally misses the point. Thankfully, we have jo jo to light the way for all of us.
Dr. F,
I concur; Jo Jo is truly a laser-like beacon that slices through the nylon clad morass of Expats vitriol.
Alas, without yourself or Jo Jo I would afloat a naked sea of empty thoughts.
I, sir, know where my bed is bruttered.
shame on you Expat, shame. mike just chastised you for your morass vicious vitrol and now you spew your venomous hatred again. This is why we seek the intellectual strength and fortitude of great men like jo jo. If it were not for him, all of cyberspace would be a dark sea of cold ignorance.
It brings a tear to my eye. Being defended from the wretched masses by a great man such as Doctor Franklin. I am honored. And Mikey-King of Cranberry Land. No one should be as blessed as I.
This is from Lori:
Little Zachary was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried everything, tutors, mentors, flash cards, special learning centers. In short, everything they could think of to help his math.
Finally, in a last ditch effort, they took Zachary down and enrolled him in the local Catholic school. After the first day, little Zachary came home with a very serious look on his face. He didn't even kiss his mother Hello. Instead, he went straight to his room and started studying. Books and papers were spread out all over the room and little Zachary was hard at work. His mother was amazed. She called him down to dinner.
To her shock, the minute he was done, he marched back to his room without a word, and in no time, he was back hitting the books as hard as before. This went on for some time, day after day, while the mother tried to understand what made all the difference.
Finally, little Zachary brought home his report card. He quietly laid it on the table, went up to his room and hit the books. With great trepidation,
His Mom looked at it and to her great surprise, little Zachary got an "A" in math. She could no longer hold her curiosity. She went to his room and said, "Son, what was it? Was it the nuns?" Little Zachary looked at her and Shook his head, no. "Well, then," she replied, "Was it the books, the discipline, the structure, the Uniforms?”WHAT WAS IT ALREADY?"
Little Zachary looked at her and said, "Well, on the first day of school when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren't fooling around."
Had the kid had a proper Religious upbringing he would have failed math again! Should we find a lesson in this? Nah, the nun's would have just beat it out of him (sisters of no-mercy, of course)
Happy Evacuation Day from my family to yours!
This is the only holiday which celebrates an enema.
It's the beginning of the holiday season!
Evacuation Day, then Patriot's Day, then Memorial Day, then Bunker Hill Day, followed by July 4th!
How do you keep up?
alcohol
Deladus Diggle
we are all dead.
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It is remarkable in it's lack or remarkability. I feel now it is time to unplug the machine. *snif*
we are still dead.
Mike.....where are you when we need you?
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