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Meanwhile, In Hugo’s Socialist Paradise . . .

Yeah, I have to admit I was one of the guys who laughed about the boat thing.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

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Serr8d’s Unwell

Here's a gif that he produced on the occasion of Rielle Hunter's GQ interview and photo op:

What struck me most about the interview was her saying that one should never try to change a man, but that she wanted to help Johnny integrate. Holy shit.

Hope you feel better soon, buddy, and thanks again for the screen..

Dan Collins

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Deeming

I deem myself to have paid my taxes.

This is a case of the hair of the tail of the dog doing the wagging, and it's beyond preposterous, beyond craven, and beyond hypocritical.

Where are those who said that the euphemism Enhanced Interrogation Techniques was Orwellian?

What? Deficit? I'm going to use that money to pay the rent, and then I'm going to use it again to buy beer. What are you looking at, fool?

BTW, Obama administration 30-plus percent less transparent than Bush's.

Dan Collins

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March Madness Cheerleader Post

I went out and found a lot of pictures of cheerleaders on the intarwebs. For whatever reason, they seem to get photographed and posted a lot. Here's one that I found that demonstrates, I think, the difference in beauty between the male and female of our species:

Oh, and Lance the Trog is feeling blogwhorish.

Kinda looks like Enoch and his wife, now I think of it . . . though they're twice as old.

I'd like to state, too, that it's my observation that in these photos blondes are over-represented as a statistical portion of the population, so, insofar as I'm taking part in this scheme, I am going to avoid blondes, so as not accidentally to make young women feel self-conscious about their hair image.

ROFL: Somewhat related is Javelina Bomb's post on Obama's womanliness.

Black Beauty:

Dan Collins

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The Paper Revolution

Been thinking, as I do around this time of year (taxes), about how much I hate the government. I know I am not alone in this sentiment... Now, as you may or may not know, I can be counted among the right-wing fringe. Especially in this time of leftist fascism, where lovers of Liberty are cast as small-minded reactionaries.

I could talk about exactly how radical the origins of our republic were. I could mention here that those ideas and ideals proffered by the Founders were exceedingly dangerous. A threat to all the age-olde Systems erected and protected by the overlords - who really did believe they knew best. I could go on to speak, as Cahill promulgates in Desire of the Everlasting Hills, of the radical and dangerous nature of the Word. I could point out that a pre-Christian brain at first reading would be startled at the message of the Word. And then I could draw parallels about what happens when the radical truth becomes familiar - and so forth and so on.

"Back to the topic at hand," you urge (at least those of you who haven't given up on this post). That is fine. And I hear you. But I need to make one more foray into the land of long-winded before I do.

The beauty of the 9-11 attacks was that the enemy turned our very strengths against us. Elegance, I tell you. And, further, these same-minded, though less-obvious, enemies of the Republic have now turned to hijacking our very institutions to do us harm. I am not sure which is more brutal. But I am sure that the latter method will be more effective in bringing us to our knees. Shame on us for being so willing to enable it.

Now, I can finally return to the theme at hand: how best to bring the Republic to its knees (should that be something a Patriot might like to do).

Sure, one could be a left-wing loon and fly a plane into an IRS building. And I am not even completely opposed to seeing more of it. That is, I am not sure it doesn't serve some purpose of merit. But I don't think it is the best way to go about expediting the death of the beloved Republic in the proper, most merciful, fashion. I mean, if that is what one thought best for the ideas and ideals for which it was initially created.

No. I think the best way to go about it is to bury it in paper. All manner of filings, petitions, objections, appeals, etc. The Bureaucracy for which It Stands loves paper. And hiding behind layers of law and procedure, the Individual finds himself on his knees, swimming against a tide of tireless momentum. And helpless in the face of it. Like "punching a pillow," they kill the Individual passive-aggressively.

The Bureaucracy, and more specifically Bureaucrats (local, state and federal), are the real enemy of the People. Ask the Russians.

We ought to bury them all in paper. And if they get a couple paper-cuts along the way, so be it.

A good place to start is the Census. Incomplete, inaccurate, and otherwise marginally accurate information would do just fine as an early shot.

Enoch_Root

AKA. Bobby Donn Brubaker (the most popular man in Mesa, AZ), the Umbrella of Terror, Jack Ketch.

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I’ve been away for too long

And hope that you all think I still belong amongst the cadre of POWIP authors who have been "picking up my slack".  I assure you that my absence has been neither arbitrary nor capricious.  "Well where the heck have you been, Rocket-geek", I hear you all asking.  And, as fair is fair I owe all of our readers an explanation...

I'd like to be able to say that I've been on an adventure in some romantic locale, like on Safari in the heart of darkest Africa,  or in  the harsh beauty of the Arabian desert, or even on a mission as a mercenary for the Sultan of OOM-Pa-Pa-Mau-Mau.  But alas, reality is so much more banal than that.

I've been in a frenetic place; at the confluence of many committments and obligations, at once familial, professional, and ministerial.  In order to live up to any of these undertakings, let alone the combination of them, something had to give.  Unfortunately, writing here at POWIP, although a labor of love was, alas, extra-curricular.  Please don't misunderstand me though, it's not as if posting here is a mere dalliance, to be blown off when "a better offer" comes along.  Indeed, it is the opposite; a privilege that I take seriously.  I couldn't simply dash off any half-arsed posts and feel that I was adding anything the conversations.  As some have noted over the past 10 weeks or so, even my comments in the various threads have been few and far between.  That's because I'm the kind of person that doesn't do thinks half-way; I generally strive for excellence in all of my undertakings.  And as I mentioned, several committments outweighed my own recreation over that same time period.

But now I've finished the draft of the documents, lesson plans, experiments, and companion text, pertaining to a course I'll be teaching soon; it's a companion course in Aeronautics to go along with the Astronautics course I developed and taught last summer.  And, although there will certainly be refinements to be made before the course takes off (sorry about that!), and my work with several of my church's ministries will always be an ongoing committment, the labors should not be so intense that I won't be able to fit some words in edgewise here-so to speak.

So to my fellow POWIP authors I offer a hale and hearty greeting; many thanks for all of the fine content you've provided since the start of 2010.  And especially to Dan and Enoch, the cornerstones of this marketplace of ideas, I offer a thousand pardons for seeming to disappear, and assure you that your efforts here have not been, and are not, in vain; something that you fellows seemed to question recently.  Now, more than ever, we have to keep in the game; rhetorically slugging away at those that would subvert our Republic and undermine our individual God given liberties; as well as, you know, academically discuss the important nuanced difference between racks and sweater-puppies!  Be of firm will, unwavering courage, and good cheer my friends, the ol' Rocketman has got your backs!, as they say in the hood.  And I'm not going anywere but up! (sorry about that again...)

I'll have more to add later, but unfortunately my electricity has been out since Saturday, and the battery on this laptop is getting  low, so it will have to wait until the public library opens or LIPA get's on the ball-whichever comes first...

I mean, after all, we are on the smart grid...Now that's progress.

Rocketman

Skeevy Perverted Politicians

With all the latest news of the John Edward's sex tape scandal, I wonder why it is that so many of our political figures are such sexual perverts. I understand that it's not a new thing, but it's really starting to get on my nerves.

The list of modern American political perverts is long and getting longer. From Bill Clinton to Barney Frank and Eliot Spitzer to Larry Craig, the perversion crosses party lines and sexual preferences. And these are all just the scandals we know about. Yet no matter what, these guys continue to get elected. We get rid of one guy, finding ourselves replaced with another even worse. Every day I turn on the TV and it seems like there is yet another scandal involving tickle fights, or hookers, or extra-marital affairs, hell even child pornography. So to me that begs the question, are these politicians deviant from the beginning, or does their perversion escalate with their power? Is there anyone out there left in American politics who is monogamous? I mean is that too much to ask?

As conservatives we talk about cleaning house and electing men and women who will truly represent us. We call for smaller government, less spending, strong defense, protection of our god-given rights under the constitution. But along with all those things, is it possible to elect men and women with morals? Or does it even matter? I would like to believe that it still does. If we are truly electing politicians to represent us, then I would hope they would do so both politically and morally. I think that for John Edwards and the rest of them, a career in the porn industry may be a better place, although, when you think about, I guess politics isn't really that far off these days.

Johanna

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Of Racks and Sweater Puppies

Over the weekend, I was challenged by Carol of No Sheeples and by Stacy McCain to post on the subject of sweater puppies, but unfortunately was too preoccupied with Aidan's birthday celebration to do so, though the subject is one that I hold dear. The Classic Liberal, whose Rule 5 blogging is, frankly, Homeric, also linked up. So without further ado, let me just state that to the best of my knowledge it must be conceded that Sophia Loren had the greatest rack of which there exists photographic evidence, ever.

With due deference to Victor Davis Hanson, that carved upon the prow of a trireme would have caused great confusion among enemy pilots, it is my firm belief.

Having established that to the satisfaction, at least, of anyone who is competent to judge of these matters, I would like to make a distinction. A great rack is an object of extraordinary sublimity in the Wordsworthian sense. It has its own gravity; the cleavage of it is like a black hole drawing the gaze inexorably into it, and threatening to draw the face along with that gaze in a headlong plunge.

This is not so of sweater puppies. Sweater puppies are more accessible, friendlier, not as august, sculptural or imperious. Although she was the prototype of Rielle Hunter, one of the foremost exponents of sweater puppihood ever must be Shirley MacLaine in her very early years, as she appeared in her first film, Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry. Strangely, it is hard to find a photo of her from this period that does justice to her sweater puppies.

She was the pixie ingenue for whom the knit was created, her feminine sensuality always radiating from behind her tomboyish companionability, the pliant fabric accentuating the contrast with her lissome body, with an apparently unconscious penchant (so stupid are men) for hyperextending her elbows on either side to push her breasts together and up, while casually leaning over a porch railing or balustrade. She was the kind of chick that you could be friends with, have a few beers and a laugh, and then have hot abandoned sex in the cabin and still manage a game of strip pinochle over Irish coffee in the morning.

Whereas the pleasure of the rack is predominantly visual, the pleasure of sweater puppies is anticipatory to tactile palpation. The sweater girl has gone into sad eclipse in American culture. I'm afraid that it can only be considered a decadence. Horror movies with disembodied hands exist for a reason, you know, and a large part of that reason has to do with sweater puppies encompassed in lovely cashmere, beside one in a darkened theater. The rack requires the machinery of cantilevering fabric called the bra. Inevitably, the two breasts of the rack are considered in the aggregate, whereas a pair of sweater puppies can be contemplated in harness, as it were, or individually.

I don't mean to be pendantic, but I think it's important to make these distinctions.
UPDATE: For dicentra

Dan Collins

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Scamnesty and Totalitarianism

Over at Daily Caller, Representative King calls for a short-circuiting of Obama's plan to get a general amnesty for illegal immigrants.

How so? Well, we know that Obama would prefer a health plan that covers undocumented immigrants. He was willing to put that aside, though, to try to get the bill passed, as it is essential to the centralization of government power over the lives and welfare of citizens, and then to try to reclassify those who are excluded on the basis of not being citizens. It's a fundamental bait and switch maneuver.

This second phase is motivated also by the prospect of adding 8 million presumably overwhelmingly Democratic voters to the rolls, as is made clear by this video of SEIU activist Eliseo Medina (read also the linked piece from Trevor Loudon's New Zeal blog). Obama plans to throw in biometric identification for citizens after this amnesty is achieved, and after he's gotten his health bill by presenting CBO scores that don't include these many millions.

Congressman King's proposal short-circuits this plan by using e-verification mechanisms that are already in place to enforce laws that are already in place, despite the DoJ's decision not to enforce them. This preempts the false choice that Obama is planning on presenting to Americans.

We've already seen Mexican cartel drug violence spilling over into the US, though it takes episodes such as the murder of the American Consular employees to focus media attention. One would have to be awfully naive not to believe that the State Department's failure to allude to US citizens murdered in Mexico in its latest report on Mexican mob violence was an oversight.

Of course, Obama also proposes to take and log DNA samples from any American arrested (not convicted, not charged) for any reason at all. In short, he is proposing the most sweeping invasion into US privacy ever, in conjunction with advocating a government takeover of health care (and student loans, into the package bargain), without any provision at all that the information will not be shared. I habeas your corpus right here, buddy.

The civil libertarians who screamed about the wiretapping provisions of the Patriot Act, as you can see in this memeorandum snapshot, seem strangely silent on the subject.

Dan Collins

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