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Shannon Love I might be tempted to believe every jot and tittle about my infallible genius, too — if anybody ever, you know, wrote about that. Couldn’t I get a jot or two? Hell, I’d settle for a tittle. . . .
Of course the mighty Instapundit is a genius. My proof? Well, it is said that it takes genius to recognize genius and Glenn often links to yours truly.
Therefore, Glenn is a genius. QED.
MY GUESS IS, THEY MISSED THE WINDOW FOR THIS: Aptera: We need government money to bring vehicle to market.
I don’t like to say I told you so…
Hell, who am I kidding! I love to say I told you so.
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Personally, I’ve always thought that politicians spend like a drunken frat boy with daddy’s credit card.
BUDGET CUTS THAT BARELY SCRATCH THE SURFACE are not “Draconian.” Did Draco even cut budgets? I think his interest lay elsewhere. And do the people calling these cuts “Draconian” have any idea who he was?
Etymology is a hobby of mine but I realized I didn’t know the derivation of “Draconian.” That hole in my knowledge was easily corrected by the Online Etymology Dictionary which says that “Draconian” derives from:
1876 (earlier Draconic, implied from 1640s), from Draco, Greek statesman who laid down a code of laws for Athens 621 B.C.E. that mandated death as punishment for minor crimes. His name seems to mean lit. “sharp-sighted” (see dragon)
… and “dragon” itself derives from:
early 13c., from O.Fr. dragon, from L. draconem (nom. draco) “huge serpent, dragon,” from Gk. drakon (gen. drakontos) “serpent, giant seafish,” apparently from drak-, strong aorist stem of derkesthai “to see clearly,” from PIE *derk- “to see.” Perhaps the lit. sense is “the one with the (deadly) glance.” The young are dragonets (14c.). Obsolete drake “dragon” is an older borrowing of the same word. Used in the Bible to translate Heb. tannin “a great sea-monster,” and tan, a desert mammal now believed to be the jackal.
… so, “draconian” spending cuts are “clear sighted” cuts.
Sounds good to me. Who would have guessed the Democrats thought so highly of the wisdom of cutting government spending? I guess the Democrats’ ever-so-superior intellects led them to use a classical allusion that confused us lesser mortals.
What is it about leftwing organizations and teenage sex slaves?
Not in my wildest dreams would I think I would have to write a post like this one ever again. Yet, here we are.
Planned Parenthood is clearly the target of a successful ACORN style sting. The investigators released one video, got the Planned Parenthood executives and supporters to go on record saying that the one incident was just a fluke and indicated nothing but one corrupt employee. Once the defenders had staked out their position in the ambush zone, the investigators spring another video. We can assume there are at least three tapes in the queue waiting to pop up and continue the story.
The really weird thing is that you would assume that the Planned Parenthood people would have been on their guard after the whole ACORN sting went down. I mean, how stupid can these people be?
I bet they weren’t even paying attention. They were probably all too busy down in the basement obsessively watching The Handmaid’s Tale over and over again.
Well, they better look up from their fantasies and start paying attention because they’re two strikes down. One more and they’re out of the game.