tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52985952009-11-09T15:01:53.169-05:00Questioning the questioners and salesmen alike: <b>A Non-PC Journal composed mostly of turgid babble on Politics, Faith, Common Sense, and how Poison Dart Frogs and coffee affect the Modern Age.</b> ---------------------------------------------------- <i>“Just a plain guy who is following--and occasionally dropping--some epistemological breadcrumbs down a path in the dark woods to--hopefully--enlightenment.” </i>Wakefield Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07214688786380814406swtolbert@bellsouth.netBlogger237125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5298595.post-23235817033369949002009-10-31T15:21:00.003-04:002009-10-31T15:35:35.327-04:00

Not on the Money, Big Money. As to al-Quaida's presence in Iraq, I can say otherwise to what you've claimed, even with Wikipedia being NOT the Fount of Knowledge and edited by those ghouls with an agenda on an almost daily basis, due to the fact that we know of the strategic importance of that region to al-Qaida's long term plans. And, if for no other reason that it might turn out true in

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The caption reads: "I'm just an easy-going guy who taught the humble peasants how to make a really delicious Peking Duck, and thus inspired annointed leaders the world over!"

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Yet another government muck-up. Cash for Clunkers...flunked. This time, we flunked as well as the Obama administration's creative way to get rid of what were usually good assets--and we're the Flunkers. This lackluster car-buying stimulation bit the dust shortly after it got off the ground. The good news here, such as it is, is that if you liked the flunked-clunk of the Clunker program,

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Back in Columbia SC. Home again, home again, welcome home. I can just see that young Live Oak in the back yard looking not so young anymore. Funny how time does that. Do we ponder how fast time leaves us behind? That tree, planted in summer of 2000 will--in all probability, barring accident or fire, or removal by whatever project or construction that comes two hundred years hence--outlive all

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"We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words-to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it...

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Seems the pitch against making any real headway against the continuing onslaught of illegal migrants to the United States is now shifting to a higher gear. Read the story and weep--if anyone even cares at this point.Gotta love the liberal mindset: This is the same "Health Care or JAIL, Buddy!" crowd that mockingly and condescendingly assures us that non-verification of illegal migration will be a

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It's for your own good, of course... _____________________ The snarky, "self-loathing" Canadian-turned-New Hampshirian resident Mark Steyn--as usual--has some of the best takes on happenings in media and culture, and is always keeping his sharp eye and thumb on the rapidly weakening pulse of Western Society's wheelchair rush to the old folks home. Regarding this, he's written many

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No. Not love itself, actually. Rather, what we think we're doing with some common testing procedures regarding love. Science now confirms--love and marriage require more commitment and planning than just getting close enough to kiss and...____________________Human beings have probably always been roamers, and haven't exactly paid as much attention to monogamy as they've been told they're

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Important research and information on all this is multiplying rapdily as well..I've commented on all this before.Here are some updates from science writer/investigative journalist Michael Fumento, whom I've also referenced before, and yet again he shows why the controversy about federal funding of hESC (human embryonic stem cells) is not as straightforward as the major media have led us to

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I give up.If health issues are now to be collectivized, why not have computers, food and cars and houses be 100% reimbursed."Making sure that everyone has access to health care (and that the system operates as cost effectively as possible) benefits each of us because it benefits all of us."So writes one T.R. Reid, who is busying himself on a global world "health" tour around media, including

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“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it. Two significant developments have already appeared - the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the surrender of the claim that science

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Is man-made global warming real--or is it just ideology.I'm voting for the latter. As Jeane Kirkpatrick used to say about what the Marxist theoreticians claimed, "it's not an accident" that most proponents of Cap-n-Trade legislation and the continued expansion of government power over our lives due to the new bugbear du jour--Man-Made Global Warming--are decidedly leftist in origin. To them, the

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Who knew? Well, I could have guessed that one. We all should be able to guess at this kind of thing.But if you ask some people, they (the unborn) are not even human learners....But they learn nonetheless!Can we give them an endangered SPECIES status in that case? Something akin to butterflies and polar bears?Not human--but worthy of protection? Or is this still asking far too much?So, unborn

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While vacationing recently at Pawley's Island SC--and trying desperately to soak up the last part of summer's fading sunlight and add a touch of relaxation--I got into a brief conversation with my nephew, Joshua, and pondered posting about some of the things we talked about: National interests, war, as compared to a newfound priority on domestic policy, and the fact that President Obama is

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A little much, yeah. Now guess who pays for the "art of persuasion"?I'm usually not nonplussed about mere words. But Mr. Tolbert is now a little concerned about some trending in ideological advocacy. We might call it, the "art of persuasion", as one commentator did.Political corruption knows no boundaries. It resets them. This is horrific, and more dangerous than it seems, not to mention

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Not to seem as if “piling on” here against poor Teddy. The Kennedy family has had just about enough tragedy for one clan. And, well, I'd wish brain cancer on no one. I've resisted as long as I can commenting on the passing of such men, and waited until most of the blog chatter had died down to a low hum. Even for those whom we all know led a life of debauchery and chicanery, and know fully well

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After the President's speech the other night (yet another one) I'm so glad the naysayers got shushed, the whole ball of wax gets explained, and everything is all clear now."I don't think we're going to eliminate the private insurance carriers right away, it might take, 10, 15, 20 years to fully do that, but that's certainly a goal to work towards"--Barack Obama to his adoring flock of busybodies

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Subtitle this one: Mr. Van Jones, YOU'RE the asshole here, so get off the stage already...This post is in response to a fellow South Carolinian blogger on the issue of the Truther/Birther dichotomy, and conspiracy theory in general. I had made a follow-up comment on his blog to the effect that, while both sides of the conspiratorial nuthouse have a mulish stubbornness in the face of certain

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A female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird gets in one last feed. Summer yields to Fall. Quite literally, you feel it and sense it in the very de-humidified air you breathe. Throughout history, this climatic shift was often seen in melancholic terms; a "gearing back down" of sorts, much the same as the rest phase after vigorous exercise, or the breather after hard work along with a moment of

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After the President's speech last night (yet another one) I know we're all so glad that the nasty townhall terror lords in nice suits, the naughty cynics, Tea Party Twits, and naysayers were all rebuffed, and the whole ball of wax in this simple request for health care tweaking was so carefully explained.Everything is now crystal clear. (See below for more details on this exciting intrusion of

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Thwap be da man! Well...in a manner of speaking....__________________________Dear Gentle Readers:For those rare, benighted, and darkly-touched numbskull individuals, who--for some ungodly and untold reason known only to Will of Allah--are following thwap's or twithead's, or whomever's, blog and decided to follow the breadcrumb trail here, even though I didn't intend to leave one, keep something

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"There are great cosmic principles at work here (regarding the term "Creative Destruction"). Simplicity begets complexity. From ammonites and trilobites comes 700 species of dinosaur; the spare teachings of the Master call forth annotations, exegesis, and commentary upon the commentary; from the convenience of a phone we advance to e-mail inbox folders, texting, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter."--

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