Friday, January 7, 2011
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The Fish: The fish is a "coat of arms" for the blog, symbolizing three formative influences in the life of the blog founder. The first is his experience at the University of Virginia--symbolized most importantly by the fish itself, or a caricature of a "Wahoo", the fish we have acquired as an informal nickname. Additionally there is the sword, the sword of a Cavalier. It is not wielded in a threatening manner, as this is a civil blog. But it is there, should it be needed. Thirdly, there is the influence of 21 years in the Navy--symbolized by the anchor on the Wahoo's fin (and again, the sword) . Finally, there is the bowler, tuxedo, and monocle, symbols of a refined, intellectual conservatism, or what I seek to encourage here.
The Policy: I take FULL responsibility for what I write. I will not be held responsible for the content of my comments section--as long as it is civil and passes my own inscrutable sniff tests, it will appear. If the comment offends you, that is on you.
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15 comments:
So Johnny Weir is gay - who saw that one coming?
all this fervor over that homeless guy with the announcing voice. just like that susan boyle from britain's got talent who had a nice enough singing voice--what is it with people that whips them into this giddy feel good fervor with situations like this? i mean, susan boyle is hardly the most amazing singer any of us has heard...i don't deny she can sign okay, but if she had been average looking would anyone have really cared? and this guy with the announcing voice...so what? lots of others have good announcing voices, but this guy who steered his life course on inseminating a bunch of crack whores, choosing drugs and crime instead of work while others perfected their trade...all this clown has to do is scrawl out some piece of crap sign and say a few words and he's the celebrity du jour? Sorry, i give the guy about 6 months before he embarrasses the bejeezus out of his sponsors and all the talk shows say just how unfortunate it is that this man fell on to hard times. That's like someone who made a decision to jump off a roof and everyone bemoaning his unfortunate fall on to hard cement. Get over it people.
that would be "sing okay"
You're right Mudge, this is nothing but a homeless guy who won the lottery. In a few months he'll be back on the streets.
It's been my view that for many years the Constitution has been ignored, eroded, purposefully misinterpreted and slandered all to advance a leftist agenda to centralize and consolidate power in DC. A requirement of tyranny is a centralized authority.
In order to achieve this pie in the sky utopia (I would say dystopia) opponents of the Constitution have attacked States rights almost from the beginning. If one reads the document, especially the 10th. Amendment, one will find most of the power resides with the States. The Federal gov't is very limited in what they can and can't do.
Which brings me to an interesting argument (proposal). Jason Lewis (worked for Bush Sr.) has a book on the balance of powers and a proposed Amendment. His argument is the horizontal balance between executive, judiciary and legislative are fine but not nearly as important as the balance between the Feds and the States. In his view that balance has been compromised by the Civil War Amendments (specifically in my view the 17th), the expansion of the commerce clause etc. In order to insure liberty the Feds must have a real check on their power not dependent on the balance of powers at the federal level; a vertical balance of powers if you will.
So, he proposes an Amendment to the right of succession. Whoa, I can hear it now...these issues were decided at Shiloh and Gettyburg, well right you are. But to quote Mr. Lincoln, "nothing is settled until it is justly settled". Lewis' says the United States was voluntary union with a clear understanding of the right of succession. In fact the first States to consider succession were not the Southern States but New England after the Louisiana Purchase (they thought they would lose political power as a result). The right of peaceful succession would be a tremendous check on an over-reaching, overbearing illegal centralized Federal government. And as JFK once said, "any country that does not allow for peaceful revolution will soon find itself with violent revolution".
I found Mr. Lewis' argument compelling and I'd appreciate your thoughts.
Male figure skaters, hairdressers, interior designers, and anyone in the entertainment industry need to be prohibited from pronouncements like Weir's. In the spirit of "man bites dog" stories, it would only be news if they were heterosexual.
Been a long time since I have listened to "Top 40" radio; I used to think it was homogenized BS. I recently listened to what constitutes "Top 40" radio today. I never thought it could have gotten any worse, but it did. And what's this BS with producers/artists using autotuners on 7 out of every 10 songs? Musically, we're going to hell in a bucket and I'm not enjoying the ride!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDlcKXJa4Q
The phrase of the day is "quantitative easing"!
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Hammer - Thanks for posting the link to this Springsteen ditty. This song holds special meaning to me (OK, going all Johnny Weir here). This is the song I was blasting out of my stereo and singing to - over and over - while getting dressed to take my girlfriend out back on January 16, 1982. I proposed marriage and she accepted that evening. She did ask me why I was playing Out In The Streets over and over!
Go get 'em Doc, glad I picked one you like because Out in the Street, Trapped and Born to Run are the only Springsteen songs I really like.
And just who the hell is Johnny Weir? google•google•google
Oh ok, looks like an ice skater...a very flamboyant ice skater. Jesus, even Boy George would slap the hell out of this dude. He's gayer than gay. Liza Minelli's husband has more testosterone than this ponce.
I was on the concert commitee at the Naval Academy and we were very fortunate to get The Boss to perform there shortly after he released "Born to Run." It was a great concert but I had to chuckle when I heard one of my classmates make his plebes (froshman) alter one of his required "rates" (knowledge requirements) during a "come around" (pre-meal grilling of plebe rates). Before a plebe was permitted to leave the come around in the upperclassman's room, he had to "request permission to shove off, sir!". This was usually granted with a "shove off" whereupon the plebe would step away from the bulkhead (wall) against which he had remained at attention, put on his dixie cup (sailor hat) and squaring his corners take off at a run yelling "Beat Army, Sir" or "Go Navy, Sir" at each 90 degree turn.
But so pumped was the brigade of midshipman by the concert that in this case, my classmate, instead of granting permission to shove off, asked the plebe "why?" to which the plebe smiled and yelled, "Because, sir, TRAMPS LIKE US, BABY WE WERE BORN TO RUN!!"
We were a wild college bunch, we were.
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