tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57085062009-07-18T09:29:30.322-04:00"Our history now descends from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust."Winstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11655408534664425823noreply@blogger.comBlogger1938125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708506.post-49454004430248397132009-07-18T09:13:00.003-04:002009-07-18T09:29:30.330-04:00

"He rode hell for leather to escape..."This is how Adrian Goldworthy describes the flight of Constantine to Britain in How Rome Fell. What a brilliant use of words.

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Our Radio Flyer ATW wagon goes north. New routes (new memories) and hopefully a refurbishment/overhaul.

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Two great posts by Andy McCarthy. The first is about a conference in Chicago (wink, wink) entitled, "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam" sponsored by the Sunni fundamentalist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir. The second is about the lifeline the Obama administration has given the Iranian terror regime. This quote answers the why: "As I've been saying for a month, there is nothing complicated

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And when you trust your televisionWhat you get is what you gotCause when they own the information, ohThey can bend it all they want- John MayerThe Obama Administration is now referring to their failed $800 BILLION stimulus as a stabilization/recovery act/bill. The intent is to lower expectations now that economists have predicted a jobless recovery. The national unemployment rate is hovering

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Welcome Back, CarterThe stimulus package has failed to stimulate as trillions of dollars of debt are being laid upon our children and grandchildren as we build turtle tunnels and try to save marsh mice. The Obama administration is trying to get money into the economy instead of leaving it where it was in the first place through tax cuts. As we near double-digit unemployment, it is failing as

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...from Mark Steyn about the death throes of the Fourth Estate are HOT! My leg is tingling.This kind of indestructible, fatuous narcissism is a big part of what's wrong. What other industry conflates itself with the very legitimacy of the state? If you're insisting on your indispensability even as millions dispense with you, you're the one with the problem.

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There's something in the air called objectivity.There's something in the air like electricity.There's something in the air, and it's in the air, the air.There's something in the air that's pure silliness.There's something in the air that you can't resist.There's something in the air, and it's in the air,And you can't get it out of the air.- "Es Liegt in der Luft" (There's something in the air) (

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Disarray. That's one word to describe the status of the Obama administration's legislative program as Congress heads into its final four weeks of work before the August recess...Related$1 Trillion Deficit Complicates Obama's Agenda (WSJ)Federal budget deficit tops $1 trillion with 3 months left in budget year (USA Today)Limestone CommentaryWho will the DEMS blame?

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U.S. 2010 World Cup roster projection

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10 Great Things To Do in Airports

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Flea Market TreasuresThis trading card is from the 1950s. It was produced as part of the Jets/Rockets/Spacemen series by Bowman (Topps). This card is #2 of #108 and titled Seeing a Rocket Built. The set was reissued/reprinted in the 80s.The back of the card reads:While our 6X52 was being prepared for blasting off to the Moon, we dropped in a Hangar "B." Spatial engineers were building a rocket

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The Stuart Holden Goal in stoppage time against Haiti. Awesome!

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One Year, One Nation - Outside the Lines on ESPNThe 2010 FIFA World Cup, to be played next summer in South Africa, means so much to this nation that is just 15 years removed from authoritarian apartheid rule. Bob Ley, host of "Outside the Lines," (Sunday, 9 a.m. ET on ESPN) reports from Johannesburg, Cape Town and Soweto about Africans' passion for soccer and what the investment in infrastructure

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Bermudan, U.S. Governments Take Hits for Moving Uighurs Out of Guantanamo"When an American is watching an ad (for Bermuda) it hits my mind as an American, they saw the level of intense media attention, I say to myself, 'Hmm, that's the country that accepted Guantanamo Bay detainees' ... This is a fact, mark my words, tourism will be affected by this." - Donte Hunt, United Bermuda PartyFour PLP

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The U.S. MNT plays Haiti tonight at 7:00 PM EST in their final match of group play in the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The U.S. is 2-0 in group play.Updates¤ The U.S. leads 1-0 in the 20th minute. The match is on TeleFutura. ¤ It's half time and U.S. still leads 1-0. What a sloppy half.¤ The U.S. has conceded two goals in the first 5 minutes of the second half and now trail 2-1.¤ It's the 65th minute

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I referenced this article yesterday from The Royal Gazette and keep coming back to this quote:The Warwick businesswoman wrote to Government MPs: "I am ashamed of the leader of my country. His dictatorial leadership style, his grandiose spending, his questionable ethics, his inflated ego, his lack of transparency, his stirring up of racial hatred, are all hurting the fabric of our Island.

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Neal Boortz channels George Orwell: All you have to do is recognize and acknowledge the true goal of the political class. It's summed up in one word: POWER. You think they actually give a flying Krispy Kreme about you? What? I know you were born at night, but was it last night? They may care about your vote .. but that's it. It's power, my friends. Power and little else.

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The Music of Eastern via Ultra Swank.

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Three related articles...How Nations Rot + Our Chrysalis Stage + Shocked by MP's e-mail 'arrogance' = XRelatedHard to Believe the Lovable Uighurs Could Be Involved in Terrorism...Unrest on the western front

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Help choose the next quote/phrase for Limestone Roof.(A) Convenience and frequent repetition do not amount to truth.(B) The best argument for conservatism, is the real world results of liberalism.(C) 'More Humble Men.': The Poor and the Rest

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The vast sweep of an early Revolutionary War battle, with well-trained and equipped British troops on the left and the raggle-taggle citizens' army ranged against them, brings to life a stirring chapter in America's history. - Excerpt from Walt Disney's EPCOT Center: Creating the New World of Tomorrow. Panorama created for The American Adventure.

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Then something messy comes along that doesn't fit the neat paradigm like the purple-finger elections in Iraq, Tiananmen Square, or the most recent democracy demonstrations in Iran that confound that easy calculus.- Victor Davis Hanson

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"The emperor needed the wealthier classes to help him run the empire. Senators in particular were the class he lived amongst and their attitude towards him tended to dictate how he would be portrayed in later histories." - How Rome Fell, Adrian GoldsworthyRelatedAmid Criticism, Post Drops "Appalling" Plan to Sell Access (ABC)Barack Obama Seeks to Turn America into a Third World CountryAgain, Why

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The Job Market's Grim Picture: Unemployment flirts with an ugly truth--the possibility of hitting a new post-Depression high. (Forbes)Stocks Skid on Payrolls Data (Wall Street Journal)Unemployment in America: A rising tide (Economist)America lost a further 467,000 non-farming jobs in June, pushing up the unemployment rate to 9.5%, a 26-year high.RelatedHow Politicians Bankrupted CaliforniaObama’s

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I've just started this meaty book by Adrian Goldsworthy and will eventually post a full book review. For now, I found this quote in the preface rousing:The Roman Empire did not fall quickly, but as part of a very slow process, and this should warn us against magnifying current events and their likely consequences on the long-term fortune of countries. Britain has been a fairly depressing place

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