Quotes
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Politics in the style of Runyon
From the Belmont Club, channeling Damon Runyon
The Gaza withdrawal may turn out to be far more dangerous to the Palestinian Authority than to Israel because it unleashed powerful forces which Abbas has been unable to control. It now threaten to drag him like a man whose foot has been caught in the traces of runaway horses. The sad trainwreck unfolds. Hamas blows up its own parade through stupidity. Unable to lose face, Hamas rockets Israel from Gaza. Sharon, loathe to concede the Gaza withdrawal may have endangered Israel, will kill a score of terrorist leaders and hit the Palestinians in the pocketbook to show he’s tough. That will get the ‘militants’ all jumping up and down, while the PA teeters like a house of cards in a Category 4 hurricane and the peace movement hums an inspirational hymn indistinguishable from the shrieking of the wind.
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Friday rapid fire
- The Laws of Cartoon Physics
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Do you believe that no one can voice support of the IRAQ war UNLESS they are willing to serve in it?
YET when it came to the flood, you readily assumed an expertise in crisis management within hours of the disaster? - Interesting post on the previous strife between the NO mayor and the LA govenor.
- Useful post on disaster preparedness.
- This is bad
- Commercial geo-coding of photographs makes it’s first appearance.
- Very good article in the NYT on the legal issues of using the National Guard and regular army troops in disasters.
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Quotes of the moment
“Credit you give yourself is not worth having”
Irving Thalberg“We don’t’ want our slickness and professionalism to overwhelm you.”
Norman Blake. -
Best put down I’ve seen in a while
From the comments on this blog post discussing shooting looters in New Orleans.
I’m so glad you aren’t in charge of anything more important than your opinion…
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Perfectly put (again)
By the wonderful Dr Sowell.
Many people are so preoccupied with the notion that their own knowledge exceeds the average knowledge of millions of other people that they overlook the more important fact that their knowledge is not even one-tenth of the total knowledge of those millions. That is the crucial fallacy behind the repeated failures of central planning and other forms of social engineering which concentrate power in the hands of people with less knowledge and more presumption.
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Thursday Rapid Fire
The rapid fire is almost a daily feature now.
- Belkin I-Pod Microphone
- 142 arrested in antiterrorism sweep – Why isn’t this bigger news? It happened in a major US ally (Italy) and is a staggering number for a Western country
- Pet Robot Housekeeper – or something like that from Japan
- Rove Free Zone – Thoughts from the left coast on the Wilson – Plame affair
- Annan urges U.N. expansion, reform – It’s hard to believe that was actually said out loud. And what’s been happening to the Oil For Food probe anyway? That’s been in a black hole for two months.
- Quote of the Day – “When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.” Marquis de la Grange
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The Karl Rove Quote
Interesting commentary from Instapundit, and I agree with him that this was a very well done political trick, which the dems seem to be buying, hook line and sinker. More commentary at Winds of Change.
Michael Totten brings us the quote of the week with “It’s like watching a leper challenge a hemophiliac to full contact karate.“
Some what prescient is this Andrew Sullivan column about the whole matter. Rove has done a very good job of exploiting the principal-agent problem going on with the Dems right now.
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Items of the day
- Funnies one liner – John J. DiIulio for his characterization of the the Bush administration as “the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis“
- This post by the Agitator :
Better people who are well-employed decide for the urban poor that they don’t need those jobs. And that they should be shopping at more tasteful stores, anyway.
I think that maybe — just maybe — anti-Wal Mart sentiment has more to do with an aversion to the white, rural ethnology the store sometimes represents than its labor practices. We can’t have our Ethiopian restaurants and esoteric bookstores blighted by NASCAR culture.
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Quote of the moment
“The smart money is on gravity.”
For better one’s, check out WikiQuote on H.L. Mencken.
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Quotes of the Day
“The limit of the possible is the actual.”
anonymous internet poster“There’s incredible diversity of religion in the mountains, why we have more than 40 different kinds of Baptist.”
from the PBS special, The Appalachians (review coming soon)