Vince P’s response depressed me, but I’ve slowly come to understand some of the feelings that prompted me to post on it yet again. Of course, the impetus was my daughter’s passion – she is young and at the beginning of her life, she isn’t sentimental or optimistic, but she does value the force that is beginning to affect her. I hadn’t added that she was also distressed over the amount of time the book spent bashing Bush (as if Kyoto worked, as if under Clinton it became law, as if . . . ). Of course, there was a political connection even in this.

However, the Randy Newman song, the Bill Ayers’ delight in the end of an empire, the sense of both that we are adrift – well, that’s what I used to feel and for a lot of reasons, I began to feel alive again in the last decade. And so I understand the disdainful ennui of faculty dinner parties, the frenetic but meaningless arguments of educationists (some trained, many influenced by Ayers).

The passion, the energy, and most of all, perhaps, the life force that is Palin shook things – yes, now, we realized what was missing. It was children – not perfect but loved – in the governor’s office; it was joy. When some of her detractors complain she is a red-neck, we begin to realize that what they are complaining about is a zest for life. Just put up Ayers/Obama/Michelle on one side and think of a land grant school, a champion snow mobile racer, and the mother of 5 – well, sure it’s a contrast. But not all of us feel that the former beats the latter.

Winthrop’s old question returns – both of how we live our days and how we vote. And we can choose life – or not. We cam choose the anarchic path that loves little more than blowing up things or we can choose build, for ourselves and our children.

- William Ayers (The Timothy McVeigh of the 70s) Poem of the Month *
* Mentor of Barack Hussein Obama

OBloodhell:
“Really, really old people — especially useless aristocrats such as ‘Barons’ and their ilk — may have a ‘duty to die’ because of the strain they put on their families and public services.”

I mean, really — what is some useless 80yo bitch from hell going to do with the exact same respources that a young 20yo can’t do more with???

Anyone have a problem with that?

“A zygote is a gamete’s way of producing more gametes.”
– Lazarus Long(Robert A. Heinlein) -

I think you can actually make a rational case for this… but: IT’s THEIR LIVES TO WASTE, even if so.

And, as far as wasting the resources of the UK National Healthcare, if they weren’t using such a socialist model,
a) They’d have a lot more resources in the first place
b) It would not be centralized monies involved, it would be those of the family.

So she doesn’t get to whine about blatantly obvious flaws in a system she almost certainly supports.

CLEARLY she needs re-education in a more strict indoctrination camp.

As **EVERY** good green citizen *knows*, -human- life is a vile, disgusting, reprehensible thing and should be eradicated at every opportunity.

GET WITH THE PROGRAM, YA LITTLE MONSTER!!!

;oP

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Sarah Palin is being persecuted because she is openly Christian.
this election will decide if Christian values and morals will ever again have a place in government. Soon Christians will be holding secret prayer meetings and drawing fish in the sand.

Those who cheer the defeat of Christianity should remember that human beings are hard wired to believe in some sort of God. The Christian God is perhaps the most benign of the currently available choices.

It would be truly ironic if, having conquered Christianity, we were to witness an Aztec Revival in which the pyramids of Mexico were reopened so that the heads and hearts of the chattering classes could be sacreficed to the Sun God in order to prevent Global Warming.

As a famous philosopher once said “Everybody must believe in something and I believe I will have another beer.”

In beer veritas.

Walter Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz

wished the kids in the region where I’m stayin’ had a little more opinion on things like your adolescent daughter instead of just boyband preferences & what’s the latest fashions, the latest media gossip, yada yada. First things first : no environment advocatin’ the readin’ of decent literature.