tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-252684092012-05-29T01:10:46.079-07:00Welcome to the world, and my thoughts on both the issues of the day and nonsense that occurs to me. The internet is international: be a part of it.Christopher Taylorhttps://profiles.google.com/112320142830061690239noreply@blogger.comBlogger7097125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25268409.post-11045313353544964712012-05-28T07:12:00.000-07:002012-05-28T07:13:15.353-07:00

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Why aren't you here?I wake up every night.I check the front porch light,Making sure it's shining bright.And I'll be there to shine the lightSo you can find your way to me.-Queensrÿche, "Home Again"I know what its like to have a long distance relationship. Every single hour of the day, there's a gnawing emptiness in your heart, a longing for someone who is not there. Sometimes it is stronger,

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"Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I'll sock you in your god damn face and you'll stay plastered."-William F Buckley to Gore Vidal

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"The euro has turned out to be a doomsday machine, a destroyer of jobs"Boris Johnson is a hardcore leftist. He's so leftist that even in Europe, he's considered left wing. And he's governed that way as Mayor of London, one of the more powerful jobs in the continent. But even he can see some serious problems with the EU, the Euro, and the idea of Greece and Germany being considered economic

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"I like the words we learn. I thought they sounded funny at first, now I think they sound cool”For me, the biggest story of the week is the docking of a private SpaceX craft with the International Space Station. Since the Obama administration has ended all manned space flight, humans cannot get from America to the station through NASA. So its good to see someone else pick up the ball from the

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“This chart — the truth — very clearly shows the truth undoubtedly.”-Ed SchultzChances are, if you've been online recently, you've seen a chart that looks something like this:And it seems terribly impressive... and counter intuitive. How did the debt manage to more than double in the time President Obama has been in office if he's spending so much less than other presidents?We know for a fact

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You should see her make a sandwich.

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"Do you think this Constitution-loving is getting out of hand?"-Joy Behar

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"She turned me into a Newt!!"I've never quite understood the concept behind burning a witch. If she's really a witch with magical powers, has a pact with Satan, and can curse you with a glare, how on earth do you figure you'll get away with killing her? The very fact that she's not cursing you all and melting your face while she's on trial suggests she's probably not, in fact, a witch.Salem,

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"I have been taught my entire life because Europeans are both intellectually and morally superior to Americans, you’d think they could easily find a defensive strategy that would not require help from us boors in North America."Any time someone asks me as a conservative where I'd cut government spending I always start with the salary, benefits, and staff of the three branches of federal

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"My power is to look fabulous!"Superheroic stories are inherently conservative by their nature; they focus on justice, the right use of force, the certainty of absolute right and wrong, the responsibility to use your abilities to fight evil, and the willingness to do without personal acclaim to do right. The Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies covered these themes quite well, with the second in

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A common language, separated by an ocean.

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"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."-Ann Landers

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"A lot of us can't remember what life was like before smartphones, let alone the Internet"There's an article up at Cracked which I found fascinating and wanted to draw your attention to. Cracked is typically juvenile and crude, but they are almost always thoughtful and intelligent as well, sort of a South Park way of teaching and entertaining. I appreciate snark less and less as I age, but the

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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."-Eleanor RooseveltI have to admit something that is going to make me seem very odd in modern culture. Well; odder.I think the concept of retirement is strange. The idea that you get to a certain point in your life where you just stop working and relax until you die strikes me as bizarre. It is certainly a modern invention,

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"I think the commercial was excellent, in that it recommended MEN sharing the burden of birth control."Take a look at this ad that someone posted on Facebook. Its kind of funny (although hardly the funniest ever) at one level.Now think about this. The ad is European (some Scandinavian country, I'm not sure which), the continent where the birth rate of Europeans is so low they aren't replacing

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The man has a lot of secrets in his past, and you have to wonder why.

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"Apparently I'm supposed to be more angry about what the Romneys do with their own money than what Barack Obama does with mine." -Commenter at LA Times article about Ann Romney's horse

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"A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest."-John McCarthyIn the previous part of this series, I noted the possibility that you'll need to hunt and fish for survival if things get bad enough. When stores are empty and your cupboards are cleared out, you will need to find a way to find food, because food doesn't come from plastic containers and cardboard boxes, it comes

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"This so-called balanced approach—some spending cuts for large tax increases—has been proven to be a recipe for disaster by economists. It fails to stabilize the debt, and it is more likely to cause economic contractions"While I was writing for the Washington Examiner, I did a piece on compromise and not expecting too much from the GOP congressmen elected in 2010. They only controlled the House

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"A lot of folks see the amounts of money that are being spent and the special interests that dominate and the lobbyists that always have access, and they say to themselves, maybe I don’t count."Just about everyone has a bad impression of the term "lobbyist," an impression that many lobbyists seem to be working as hard as they can to support. Corruption in congress, earmarks, favor dealing,

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“Violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.”-Paul Krugman on the Tea Party movementNo word from him yet on actual violence from the Occupy movement.

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You've been taken from my eyesBut you're running through my veinsAsia is still around as a group, something I did not realize. I thought they'd put out one eponymous album then fell apart like GTR did. Back in the late 80s, Asia formed out of several other groups, mostly progressive rock guys who had some more mainstream pop ideas they wanted to do but couldn't in their groups. Carl Palmer (

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"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"-Isaiah 5:20“You’d think they’d be saying thank you.”-President ObamaMike at Cold Fury has a baffled analysis of modern culture which examines what has happened to definition and language in the events of the last 25 years or so. I'd call it

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