Important Stuff -- Or Not: Is It Over?

Saturday, September 01, 2007

Is It Over?

Can I come out of hiding now? Was this the last tribute to Diana? Is the mourning period finally over? The big one-zero usually means a transition to normalcy, but I'm not sure a decade is enough for some people. We can only hope. I was waiting at a train station near Tokyo one night for my ex to come home from her part-time job teaching English. The door of my car opened and a British woman who was nearly the spitting image of Di popped in. She looked at me and said, "You're not Charles." I said, "And you're not Di, but you're pretty close." Just two ships passing in the night. I've been busy the past few days with my car. I took it in for an emissions test ($28!!) and it failed. I took it across the street to a Chevy dealer and they said I need a new catalytic converter. They would be happy to do the job for $900. OR I could find a Pontiac dealer and it would be free, because they are warrantied until 66,000 miles and I don't yet have 47,000 miles on the car. Got an appointment next Wednesday. I'm getting a lot of e-mails about preparations for the death of Castro. Seems he might already be dead. If JFK hadn't choked, he would have been killed or overthrown in 1961 in the Bay of Pigs invasion. And 36 years of incalculable suffering would have been avoided. You'd think liberals would have learned from that and from Vietnam and from Somalia what happens when the good guys turn tail and run. But nope, they're pushing for yet another defeat, which will result in decades more human suffering -- including in our own country. Just got a bulletin that South Korea paid the Taleban 20 million dollars to release 19 missionaries. The Taleban says they will use the money to buy weapons, reestablish their communication systems and fund more suicide bombings. Lovely. This is what happens when you cave to terrorists. Nothing good ever comes of it. Of course, they could be lying. Terrorists aren't exactly pillars of the community. That DREADFUL show Red Eye just began on Fox News, so it's time to hit the mute button and listen to yesterday's episode of Laura Ingraham.

3 comments:

Mark said...: My car needs a motor. I got lucky and found a guy who will fix it for "only" $2200.00. He will use a used engine with 47,000 miles on it, which by itself, is only $950.00. The rest is labor and fluids and seals and misc items. I had it towed for $50.00 to him on Wed, and was going to pay him $1450.00 down and the rest on completion in a couple of days, but had an emergency and had to ask him to hold off until Tuesday. He told me the law won't allow him to keep my car at his property for more than a couple of days (Which is probably not true) so I had to pay another $50.00 to have the car towed back home, only to have to pay another $50.00 to tow it back to him on Tuesday.

(sigh) When it rains, it pours.; 6:41 AM
Anonymous said...: Okay, I admit it, I stayed up all night, back in 1981, to watch Charles and Diana's wedding. So shoot me. ;)

My emissions test was $60. I'd offer to trade, but at least my 10-year-old van passed. :)

That is so disturbing about South Korea. I can't imagine what they were thinking!; 11:06 AM
Lone Ranger said...: Although I'd been driving farm machinery since I was about 10, my first car was a 1957 Datsun Bluebird that I bought in Okinawa in 1969 for $95. Gas then was 32 cents a gallon. This car packed a thundering 34 horsepower. It was green with big, gray patches of Bondo. I called it Puff the Tragic Wagon.

Things have changed.; 10:56 PM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.