the Kommisariat's Kontinuing Kronicles: more right-wingery in the USA, 2k11-12

Oh. Wrong thread.

I enjoyed this immensely

The reasoning of the Supreme Court in 1973 in Roe v Wade relied on the philosophy of the Greek Stoics as part of the basis of its decision.

The Stoics were followers of Zeus.
That same god was called Jupiter/ Olympus by the pagan Romans.
The Hebrews & Israelites of the Bible knew it as Baal.

Which raises an interesting question: did not the Supreme Court in its Roe v Wade ruling of January 22, 1973 surreptitiously install Baal-worship as the official religion of the United States, in violation of the "establishment clause" of the First Article of our Bill Of Rights?

It seems like it could be a genuine concern of his. Which is nice.

How lolsy.

The Stoics were followers of Zeus Not particularly

The Hebrews & Israelites of the Bible knew it as Baal. What? Utter rubbish. Get one brain and one intellectual honesty.

By further extension of this kind of reasoning, giving the ruling in English, a language orginally developed to sing the praises of Woden, otherwise known as Satan, was the Court not trying to induce the unborn to listen to \m/etal?

LOOOOOOL

Which raises an interesting question

To which the answer is: No. And you are a total prat who couldn't reason his way out of a paper bag.

yeah the guy from atwater, mn with a website called the "erwin rommel school of law" doesn't have his shit together

"erwin rommel school of law"

To be fair, using the wisdom of this school in a court of law is very much like suicide.

yeah the guy from atwater, mn with a website called the "erwin rommel school of law" doesn't have his shit together

loooool

more like erwin roffle

Wasthefuchs school of law.

confidential to edward III

spengler's moving up in the world!

http://pajamasmedia.com/spengler/

congratulations to roger simon and the rest of the crew on another inspired hire

his final missive for asia times:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MH16Dj01.html

don't blame big banks or those poor hedge funds, blame the stupid greedy american public for the recession

it's Wüstenfuchs, BTW.

he's also par for the course as far as pro se "attorneys" go.

it's Wüstenfuchs, BTW.

I know. I was just making a lame pun.

The ANT
AND THE
GRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different ......
Two Different Versions
Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and
laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter,
so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:

Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all
summer long, building his house
and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC
show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with
a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is
allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah
with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green..'

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright
has the group kneel down to pray for thegrasshopper's sake.

President Obama condemns the ant
and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher
Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has
gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper,
and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act
retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and,
having nothing
left to pay his retroactive
taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow,
never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken
over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle, the once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest
of the free world with it.

I've sent this to you because
I believe that you are an ant!

You may wish to pass this on to other ants, but don't bother
sending it on to any grasshopper's because they wouldn't understand it, anyway

sent to me by my uncle, in a typeface that changed size and color frequently and with no apparent parttern

prob the wrong thread but

i think that belongs in the "is america becoming a fascist state" thread

but don't bother
sending it on to any grasshopper's because they wouldn't understand it, anyway

proof lack of education causes racism

So awesome. Pretty close to a complete list of proper nouns designed to trigger a blood-pressure rise amongst the target audience.

Is Kermit a right wing boogyman now?

I personally welcome our new arachnid overlords

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident

Also Aesop and La Fontaine were Greek and French, respectively. Greece and France lol socialism!

He was probably all hopped up on grass, goole.

http://www.newcastletaichi.co.uk/carradine.jpg

i thought it was a choker thing, idk

This was a nice read, sitting on the porch of my government-granted house. I think it used to be owned by a CEO. I don't really care about looking into it though, because I am busy playing and dancing all summer long.

Actually even going back to La Fontaine, the ant is a dick. "Eh bien! Dansez maintenant" is one of the coldest fcuk yous possible.

Also, I think this may be entomologically suspect and I'm pretty sure ants are pretty close to being formical-socialists.

lol true

actually aren't ants ruled by a queen?

btw i think Kermit is just a stand-in for "Hollywood Celebrities" as well as an excuse to work in the song "It Aint Easy Being Green"

actually aren't ants ruled by a queen?

Monarcho-formical socialism

the "queen" doesnt rule anything

she just has babies

Bab-bees more like

Ants inhabit 'world without sex'

ants are amazing, there was a guy talking about them on npr the other week, apparently there are like four HUGE ant "families" in california/baja california, and you can pick up an ant from humboldt count and take it down to san diego and put it with some other ants and if its the same family the lil guy will just fall right in line and start doing her job

and if its a different family the ants will fucking murder her

also they herd katydids. herd them!! if i had a choose a #1 species most likely to take over world and enslave humans it would be ants

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LgtnwsfsFew/SWFJ_d3y2rI/AAAAAAAAAyo/0WyPvZ9tK_I/s400/antonpeony.jpg

pictured: the world

I'm constatnly at war with ants in kitchen. The black ones like grease and the red ones dig the carbs. They should start reading the nutrition nazi thread, for their own good.

btw i think Kermit is just a stand-in for "Hollywood Celebrities" as well as an excuse to work in the song "It Aint Easy Being Green"

I think it also has to do with hatred of funding for PBS trickling down to hatred of muppets and learning and children.

You mean INDOCTRINATION

The Chair of the Sumter South Carolina Tea Party posted -- and then quickly pulled -- a post on her Facebook page earlier this month that joked about throwing the Obamas out of a helicopter.

Shery Lanford Smith posted the the joke on her Facebook page on August 11th. The page is now private.

In the joke, the Obamas are on a helicopter talking about how they could make people happy if they threw money out the window. The pilot says: "I could throw both of them out of the window and make 256 million people very happy!" Smith added: "If you're one of 256 million, PASS IT ON."

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/obamajoke.jpg

I wonder which polling firm came up with that 80% pro-assassination number.

There are only 223,553,265 white people in America BTW.

spoke with a customer last week: "my computer's not working, GUESS I'LL BLAME BARACK OBAMA, HAW HAW"

my populace's not working, guess i'll blame barack obama

It's like every day, this stuff!

Assemblyman Patrick Delany cited family reasons when he unexpectedly announced his resignation last month.

But the real reason for Delany’s resignation came pouring out today, after the political website PolitickerNJ.com published a racially-charged e-mail that Delany’s wife, Jennifer, allegedly sent to state Senate candidate Carl Lewis in response to a mass e-mail from Lewis' campaign.

“Imagine, not having to pay NJ state income taxes ... It must be nice. Imagine getting a court ruling overturned so your name could get put on the ballot. Imagine having dark skin and name recognition and the nerve to think that equalled (sic) knowing something about politics. Sure, knowing someone with fat purse strings is nice, but you have no knowledge,” the website quotes Jennifer Delany writing.

In a statement issued shortly after the story appeared on the website, Delany, a Republican from Burlington County who resigned Aug. 12, acknowledged the e-mail’s authenticity and said it was the reason he resigned.

"I am deeply disappointed in my wife's decision to send that email to Mr. Lewis' campaign; it does not reflect my personal beliefs whatsoever,” he said. “In an attempt to repair the serious damage this has caused to our marriage, and to protect our kids from public humiliation, I decided to leave public life. On behalf of my family, we sincerely apologize to Mr. Lewis for any pain this caused him."

http://img2-cdn.newser.com/square-image/122267-20110630101713/john-lennon-was-a-closet-republican-assistant-fred-seaman-claims.jpeg

Imagine, not having to pay NJ state income taxes ... It must be nice. Imagine getting a court ruling overturned so your name could get put on the ballot. Imagine having dark skin and name recognition and the nerve to think that equalled (sic) knowing something about politics.