tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65038542012-05-26T12:54:40.784-04:00BlondeSenseBlondesense Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031061333650846105noreply@blogger.comBlogger10189125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-71537361937156169182012-05-26T12:53:00.001-04:002012-05-26T12:54:40.814-04:00The Dignity of Ignorance
Bernard: But surely the citizens of a democracy have a right to know.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: No. They have a right to be ignorant. Knowledge
only means complicity in guilt; ignorance has a certain dignity.
– From Yes, Minister
With all due deference to Sir Humphrey, he's wrong.
In a democracy, it is essential that the electorate has to be
educated and adequately informed. Since we Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/05/bernard-but-surely-citizens-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-73867762034178412382012-05-06T16:26:00.001-04:002012-05-06T16:26:39.271-04:00Misplaced Priorities
Double
Standard on 'Victory Laps?' ... Hard Times in France ... Harder Times
for the Greeks ... Whither the Eurozone? ... Russians Threaten to Get
Jiggy with It ... Romney Camp Aiming at Wrong Target ...
Back
in 2003, as the dust was starting to settle around the fallen statue of
Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, the President of the United States decided
to crow about how successful we were, Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/05/misplaced-priorities.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-57993644387785667552012-05-04T20:53:00.001-04:002012-05-04T20:53:54.393-04:00Naughty Friday Musical InterludeTom Lehrer's art - now 20% cooler!
Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/05/naughty-friday-musical-interlude.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-23484254044829375112012-05-01T04:52:00.000-04:002012-05-01T04:52:04.137-04:00Arise!Arise, you prisoners of starvation,
Arise, you wretched of the earth,
For Justice thunders condemnation -
A new world's now in birth!
No more tradition's chains shall bind us
Arise, you slaves, no more in thrall!
The Earth shall have a new foundation!
We have been naught - we shall be all!
So, comrades, rally
And the last fight let us face!
The International
Unites the human race!
No savior Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/05/arise.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-81232967646715845112012-04-26T17:05:00.001-04:002012-04-26T17:05:12.630-04:00Not Insane, But ...On a nice day in July of last year, a truck bomb was set off in the government center of the Norwegian capital of Oslo.
Which, for the benefit of my readers in the USA, is in Norway.
Eight people died in the blast, and more than 500 more were injured to varying degrees. Since it was summer vacation time in Oslo, the center wasn't as full of people as it usually is, which explains the low Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/04/not-insane-but.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-64771767711291475962012-04-20T20:11:00.003-04:002012-04-20T20:11:55.177-04:00Obligatory Friday Sex PostCourtesy of Dr. Graham Chapman (deceased) and the Monty Python Singers:
Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/04/obligatory-friday-sex-post.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-39101532296992466452012-04-16T17:15:00.002-04:002012-04-16T17:19:49.583-04:00Dumber Than A Second Coat Of PaintThat's Tennessee.The Volunteer State - or, in this case, the "Volunteer for Stupidest Bunch of Cretins in Their State Legislature."Okay, you ask, what's got his nickers in a twist now?First, the State of Tennessee is now a state where the teachers are practically required to "teach the controversy" regarding such topics as climate change and evolution. Got that? Two subjects about which Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/04/dumber-than-second-coat-of-paint.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-46433264085766094672012-04-04T00:06:00.002-04:002012-04-04T03:20:27.256-04:00Mister Inevitable and Crunching NumbersThe Rise of Mittens ... Santorum Stays the Course As the Band Plays Nearer, My God, To Thee ... Gingrich's Sugar Daddy Blues ... Paul Who? ... Obamacare and the Ryan Budget: Both Better and Worse Than You Think ...The polls had barely closed in Maryland and the District of Columbia tonight when the media declared the races for Mittens "Put Another Dog on the Car Roof" Romney. Wisconsin took a Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/04/mister-inevitable-and-crunching-numbers.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-32193814537689342132012-03-28T08:09:00.002-04:002012-03-28T08:12:49.370-04:00Culture Project: Blueprint for Accountability - From Georgetown University last eveningCulture Project: Blueprint for Accountability from Culture Project on FORA.tv"Tonight at 7pm EDT, you can watch Blue Print for Accountability --a live-stream from Georgetown University featuring the verbal pyrotechnics of Eliot Spitzer, former governor of New York; Matt Taibbi, the journalist best known for documenting the obscene behavior of Goldman Sachs; Van Jones, the honcho behind Rebuild JerseyCynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436705683800547607noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/03/culture-project-blueprint-for.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-52823944778367359792012-03-15T10:37:00.001-04:002012-03-15T10:37:51.165-04:00Away, Down South !Mullah Ricky Stomps on the Competition ... Gingrich's Cri de Coeur ... What Is That Senile Fool Up To? ... The Show That Will End in Tampa?"Away down south in the Land of CottonI smell you and you smell rotten!Go away! Go away! Go away, Dixieland!"Two huge primaries were decided back on Tuesday in two rather unlikely states, Mississippi and Alabama. A poll released just before the voting Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/03/away-down-south.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-45466603121894657462012-03-12T01:44:00.000-04:002012-03-12T01:45:07.996-04:00You Don't Have to Go Home, But You Can't Stay HereOver the weekend, a US soldier, identified so far only by his rank as a staff sergeant, left his base in Afghanistan.He went to several Afghan homes, and shot sixteen Afghans - nine of them children. According to the BBC, several of the children were killed by single shots to the head. There is also evidence that some were set on fire after they were shot.Five or so others are being treatedWalthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/03/you-dont-have-to-go-home-but-you-cant.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-23303469459429902102012-03-12T01:18:00.002-04:002012-03-12T01:25:50.433-04:00John Boehner Speaks!Or, Out of the Mouths of Fools.The Great Orange-Skinned One, the Oompa-Loompah from Ohio, the Speaker of the House of Reprehensibles, John "Crying Man" Boehner (R-OH), sat down to have a chat with the Wall Street Journal over the weekend.Among the many nose nuggets he fished out and flicked at the reporter was little gem, one of several amazing things said while the rest of us were trying to Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/03/john-boehner-speaks.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-38192446642321214702012-03-10T22:17:00.001-05:002012-03-10T22:17:59.854-05:00Bleeding Kansas... And the Half-Sane Prince (Of The Church) ... Romney Bails On The Sunflower State ... Can A Patrician From Massachusetts Love Grits, And Does It Go Well With Scrod? ... The Kansas caucuses are now history.His Eminence Rick Santorum, Archbishop of Kookyville, trounced the field and won about 33 of the 40 delegates on offer. This boosts his standing on the hustings, but according to Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/03/bleeding-kansas.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-51174338750623534282012-03-05T16:31:00.001-05:002012-03-05T16:31:33.013-05:00Monday News RoundupThe war drums continue to throb in the late-winter air, gentle readers, reminding us that the Top In The Relationship wants us to throw ourselves headlong into yet another war on the Asian landmass. Yes, indeedy, Israel wants war with Iran, and the neocons in this country just bend right over and beg, "Will you at least kiss us this time?"A group of retired generals have put out a full-pageWalthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/03/monday-news-roundup.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-22973150679593738642012-03-05T09:05:00.000-05:002012-03-05T09:05:54.210-05:00Probably a little childish...but then the recipient is a cockatrice trying to evole into a basilisk.I've posted this before on this blog. It's from an old BBS back in the late 80s (the Stone Age of the Intertubes).
With the idiocy that has manifested itself in the embodiment of a POS known as Rush Hudson Limbaugh, especially due to his recent comment to Sandra Fluke and his hateful, derogatory remarks toward women, I decided a physical letter was in order. Since I couldn't formulate the Father Tymenoreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/03/probably-little-childishbut-then.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-45145343244106097712012-03-03T16:12:00.000-05:002012-03-03T16:12:34.522-05:00Jesus H. Xrist!From the Huffington Post
The Wilmington City Council has a message for men -- sperm are people, too.
The council for Delaware's largest city passed a resolution by an 8-4 vote Thursday calling on the Delaware legislature, other state legislatures and the U.S. Congress to pass laws granting "personhood" rights to eggs and sperm. The resolution was authored by councilwoman Loretta Walsh asFather Tymenoreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/03/jesus-h-xrist.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-9541283064793300942012-03-02T16:39:00.000-05:002012-03-02T16:39:32.378-05:00Concerned about Google invading your privacy for their monetary gain?Anybody with a Gmail or Google account who may be worried (and rightly so) about their privacy and how Google plans to use all your web stuff should check this site out and make sure your web history is (supposedly) turned off.
From boldprogressives.org
Protect Your PrivacyFather Tymenoreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/03/concerned-about-google-invading-your.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-47728270288627550562012-03-01T06:23:00.003-05:002012-03-01T06:37:39.139-05:00Even the Rothschilds Are Weather Obsessed (WSJ)Me too!(Hmmm....E.L. Rothschild LLC acquired A 70% stake in Weather Central last year)So how's the weather in your neck of the woods?JerseyCynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436705683800547607noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/03/even-rothschilds-are-weather-obsessed.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-22605229302690574292012-02-29T16:16:00.001-05:002012-02-29T16:16:34.056-05:00Sweet Jesus in Jodhpurs, I Feel Old ...Davy Jones, of the Monkees, dead at age 66:RIP.Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/02/sweet-jesus-in-jodhpurs-i-feel-old.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-29086451094687155392012-02-25T05:35:00.001-05:002012-02-25T05:35:28.565-05:00Dance, Monkeys, DanceMewling Man-Child Newton Gingrich, worried that his birth state of Georgia might go for Santorum or one of the other Feeble Foursome on Super Tuesday, said that it was essential for each candidate to win their home state in order to stay in the race.Nice try, Newton my lad. As long as Sheldon Adelson keeps writing checks you'll stay in and be the Circus Geek everyone always wants to Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/02/dance-monkeys-dance.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-33373393118894610362012-02-24T16:57:00.000-05:002012-02-24T16:58:59.983-05:00Mutato Nomine ..."Muskie is already finished ... (h)e had no base. Nobody's really for Muskie. They're only for the Front-Runner, the man who says he's the only one who can beat Nixon - but not even Muskie himself believes that anymore; he couldn't even win a majority of the Democratic vote in New Hampshire, on his home turf."- Frank Mankiewicz, in Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Dr. Hunter Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/02/mutato-nomine.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-8905082175742408372012-02-21T17:55:00.000-05:002012-02-21T17:56:03.851-05:00Conservatives Cornering the Market on StupidYou have to wonder if they sell stock in Stupid, because if they did the price would be going through the roof right about now.We have Frothy Mixture Santorum doubling down on the Stupid, first by dribbling that the Affordable Care Act will (somehow) lead to - hey presto! - the French Revolution and guillotines. And if that Chick Tract version of the future isn't enough for you, Ayatollah Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/02/conservatives-cornering-market-on.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-89816183988547884272012-02-20T16:49:00.001-05:002012-02-20T16:49:21.813-05:00Having FunI swear.I'm having so much fun in this election cycle that it's almost illegal.Why?Well, I'm so glad you asked! I direct your attention to Arizona, where the anti-immigrant craze has hit amazing heights. The Sheriff of Pinal County, Paul Babeu, has been a very loud voice on the side of those who want to keep those scary dark-skinned Mexicans from sneaking across our border. But he's not Walthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606532479875983176noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/02/having-fun.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-81024611816564824602012-02-17T02:53:00.005-05:002012-02-18T09:52:54.542-05:00"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament" ~ Florynce Kennedymore spot on quotes from Flo Kennedysame old, same old...Are we REALLY going to keep this up?I can't stand these redundant distractions for much longer.Maybe it's the final test by TPTW?UPDATE From Bill Moyers (one of the few sane voices left): FREEDOM OF AND FROM RELIGION"So here we are once again, arguing over how to honor religious liberty without it becoming the liberty to impose on others JerseyCynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16436705683800547607noreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/02/if-men-could-get-pregnant-abortion.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503854.post-34597519744023776332012-02-14T07:10:00.000-05:002012-02-14T07:10:08.724-05:00Meanwhile, in keeping with the previous theme...Father Tymenoreply@blogger.com0http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2012/02/meanwhile-in-keeping-with-previous.html