I only intend to post on politics this year when it's clear I'm not going to offend anyone...
Let me just say how it warms my heart in so many ways to hear Newt Gingrich talk about a colony on the moon. First, I'd love to have a colony on the moon. Second, what a hilarious thing to say in a Republican presidential debate!
My heart was strangely warmed... ;-)
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Monday, December 12, 2011
The "Palestinian" Gag
From The Associating Press:
In one of the longest running gags of recent times, the "Palestinians" have finally admitted to a joke started in 1948 when the United Nations created the nation of Israel. "We had just been hanging out in the countryside at the time," said one of the many Arabs who was in on the joke. "We saw that the 'Jordanians' had made up a name for themselves... (Don't tell anyone but they're really Arabs with a made up name too)... and the Jews were calling themselves Israelis.
"So my Dad and some other guys got together at a pub in Jericho and had this great idea of calling ourselves, 'Palestinians.' Get it, we were in Palestine," he continued with a chuckle. "For a while we thought we might actually get a whole country out of it.
"Then some crazies started bombing things and killing people and it all went Ramallah. Frankly, I'm glad it's all over. It's been hard keeping up the joke all these years. We'll all be abandoning the desert and going back to Arabia in the next week or two."
In one of the longest running gags of recent times, the "Palestinians" have finally admitted to a joke started in 1948 when the United Nations created the nation of Israel. "We had just been hanging out in the countryside at the time," said one of the many Arabs who was in on the joke. "We saw that the 'Jordanians' had made up a name for themselves... (Don't tell anyone but they're really Arabs with a made up name too)... and the Jews were calling themselves Israelis.
"So my Dad and some other guys got together at a pub in Jericho and had this great idea of calling ourselves, 'Palestinians.' Get it, we were in Palestine," he continued with a chuckle. "For a while we thought we might actually get a whole country out of it.
"Then some crazies started bombing things and killing people and it all went Ramallah. Frankly, I'm glad it's all over. It's been hard keeping up the joke all these years. We'll all be abandoning the desert and going back to Arabia in the next week or two."
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Kudos to Gingrich...
... for not wanting to split up immigrant families who've been here for 25 years. I'd like to think that the influence of Jim Garlow is somewhere in the background of that comment!
I bet I'd actually like a lot of the candidates more if they could actually say and do what they really think.
I bet I'd actually like a lot of the candidates more if they could actually say and do what they really think.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Gingrich--biggest election since 1860
I drew this quote from msnbc.com: "Republican Newt Gingrich told a Georgia audience on Friday evening that the 2012 presidential election is the most consequential since the 1860 race that elected Abraham Lincoln to the White House and was soon followed by the Civil War.
"Addressing the Georgia Republican Party's convention, Gingrich said the nation is at a crossroads and that the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama would lead to four more years of 'radical left-wing values' that would drive the nation to ruin."
What struck me as ironic about this comment is that Gingrich is comparing this race with the Lincoln race, and he's doing so in Georgia. I don't think he intended the overtones this comment brings with it in context. The context might lead one to conclude that Gingrich thinks that the 1860 race went the wrong way. After all, Lincoln advocated the authority of the federal government over the rights of individual states like Georgia, and Georgia opposed Lincoln. Furthermore, Gingrich stands for a substantial reversal of the trajectory the Lincoln administration solidified with regard to federalism.
The current Republican party has ironically done a 180 flip since Lincoln and become the party of states' rights over the authority of the federal government. It is no wonder it is strongest in the south. I strongly suspect that a fascinating side effect of the movement to elect Presidents who appoint judges who might overturn Roe-v-Wade is that we have found ourselves voting for an anti-civil rights, states' rights agenda.
P.S. Indiana just passed the toughest anti-abortion law since Roe vs. Wade--no abortions after the 20th week. And it had nothing to do with the Supreme Court.
"Addressing the Georgia Republican Party's convention, Gingrich said the nation is at a crossroads and that the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama would lead to four more years of 'radical left-wing values' that would drive the nation to ruin."
What struck me as ironic about this comment is that Gingrich is comparing this race with the Lincoln race, and he's doing so in Georgia. I don't think he intended the overtones this comment brings with it in context. The context might lead one to conclude that Gingrich thinks that the 1860 race went the wrong way. After all, Lincoln advocated the authority of the federal government over the rights of individual states like Georgia, and Georgia opposed Lincoln. Furthermore, Gingrich stands for a substantial reversal of the trajectory the Lincoln administration solidified with regard to federalism.
The current Republican party has ironically done a 180 flip since Lincoln and become the party of states' rights over the authority of the federal government. It is no wonder it is strongest in the south. I strongly suspect that a fascinating side effect of the movement to elect Presidents who appoint judges who might overturn Roe-v-Wade is that we have found ourselves voting for an anti-civil rights, states' rights agenda.
P.S. Indiana just passed the toughest anti-abortion law since Roe vs. Wade--no abortions after the 20th week. And it had nothing to do with the Supreme Court.
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