It is now February 21. All hail. No, wait, that was a couple of days ago. Then it melted.

This is Not a Thing

It may look like a thing, but that is an illusion

Caesar's Job Description

In January of 2008 , Barney Frank said:

I agree that it would have been better not to have had to fight over some of the issues that occupied us in the nineties. But there would have been only one way to avoid them -- and that would have been to give up. More importantly, the only way I can think of to avoid "refighting the same fights we had in the 1990's", to quote Senator Obama, is to let our opponents win these fights without a struggle.

Gotta get clear on whether you're trying to be Caesar or Savior, or you're going to fail dismally at either one.

Jesus loved his enemies, sure. Re-attached the arresting officer's ear and all that. He was explicitly not trying to prevail in the context of terrestrial realpolitik. Where "love-thy-neighbor" is fine, if it comes with a membership in the heavenly clique.

Which has what to do with being POTUS? Come on, J of N would make a terrible President, unless he brought Gawd's army into the picture, the way Judas apparently wanted him to.

Over in Pottersville, jurassicpork said last week that he didn't vote for Neville Chamberlain. Neither did I, and I damn sure didn't vote for Amateur Jesus.

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Powell Does the Right Thing

In a way I wish he had also repudiated the war, but what he did do is more likely to prevent McCain from ratfucking and vote-stealing his way into the WH.

OK then, "phone calls are being made."

McCain-Palin-Clark

What, you're kidding, right?  McCain and Obama are tied.  Is this poll fraud, or is it a nation, not of whiners, but of idiots?  I know conservatives who have brains.  I disagree with their premises, and I think they are mentally rigid, but they are rational, and we can get to where we understand where it is we disagree.

But Sarah Palin?  What kind of brain-dead monkey thinks a huge chip on your shoulder is a qualification for being a heartbeat away from control of history's biggest economy and history's biggest military machine?  Well, nobody has "control" of that economy, but certainly the POTUS has the ability to guide it towards or away from the rocks.  Captain Clark welcomes you aboard....

Is this SPAM?

Just wondering, that's all.  I see that quite a number of people have had their blogs classified as SPAM, and are having some difficulty reasoning effectively w/Blogger.  What's up with that?

I'm trying to determine if this is a software or operations anomaly which will at some point be remedied, or if there's something more evil going on, which I have seen alleged.

It appears that when a blog is declared SPAM, the specific rule that triggered that declaration is not cited for the blogger.  Why not?