It's obvious from the examples of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis that the human body's immune response system is an evil regulatory agency and should be abolished.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9813180

'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Oct. 24th

Updated: 9:20 a.m. ET Oct 25, 2005

TONY BLANKLEY, THE WASHINGTON TIMES: . . . He‘s got three years left in his administration and it‘s important for him and for the country that he be functional.

MATTHEWS: You know, Tony, there is in the past, it‘s not always there, but sometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility . . .

- - "Hardball"

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070419-3.html

President Bush Discusses the Global War on Terror in Tipp City, Ohio

. . . And I will tell you, one reason -- this may sound counterintuitive, but a good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C. It's been an amazing experience to be a husband and then a dad as President of the United States. I emphasize, that is the priority for me as the President. It's my faith, my family, and my country. And I am pleased to report that our family is doing great, particularly since my wife is such a fantastic person.

. . . I said, they've asked me to design a rug in the Oval Office; I don't know anything about rug designing; will you help me? She said, of course. But I said, I want it to say something -- the President has got to be a strategic thinker and I said to her, make sure the rug says "optimistic person comes to work." Because you can't make decisions unless you're optimistic that the decisions you make will lead to a better tomorrow.

And so, if you were to come in the Oval Office, what you would see is this fantastic rug that looks like the sun. And it just sets the tone for the Oval Office.

. . . So I have a decision point to make, last fall. And the decision point was whether or not to either scale back or increase our presence in Iraq. And that was a difficult decision . . . The question was, do we increase our -- I call it, reinforce, you can call it, surge, there's all kind of words for it -- or do we pull back? As you know, I made a decision to reinforce. And I did because I believe the Iraqis want to have a peaceful society . . . If the United States were to leave a chaotic Iraq, not only would the vacuum of our failure there to help this young government enable extremists to move more freely and embolden them, but I also believe it would -- it could cause the Middle East to enter into a nuclear arms race.

. . . It's very important -- I think some really are -- I know a lot of people are tired of it. People get pretty tired of war, and I understand that. It's really important as we -- that we have a sober discussion and understand what will be the consequences of failure.

As I've told you, on the rug -- the reason I brought up the rug was to not only kind of break the ice, but also to talk about strategic thought. The President's job is to think not only about today, but tomorrow . . .

- - whitehouse.gov

Louis XIV chose the sun as an emblem of, among other things, peace -- despite his reign being one of frequent (and very expensive) wars.

Louis XIV wasn't a particularly honest king.

More capable than some other kings, though.

The false assertion that Brit Hume sometimes functions in a non-ideological way, but that Keith Olbermann is never non-ideological, is seen within our media culture as so obviously true that it's not even worth debating.

(And what's the evidence? Olbermann has been making commentaries that Democrats like and that Republicans don't like. Therefore, Olbermann must be partisan. Nevermind that, back in the 90s, Olbermann was angering Democrats and warming the hearts of Republicans with his anti-Clinton items.)

shawnv seems to agree that our media inhabit a worldview so warped that they can't function properly, yet for some reason shawnv claims to agree with those who say that this subject isn't worthy of discussion.

An uninformed and misinformed electorate ain't no big whoop.

What the heck is shawnv's point, then? Why is he/she wasting his/her time here?

Sic Semper Omnibus.

I almost did a double take today when I walked past a newstand and saw the huge words, "BUSH . . . RESOLUTE OR DELUSIONAL?" for today's "U.S. News" cover story.

Krauthammer better get busy finding a vaccine for B.D.S.

http://sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000E2F1B-C4FA-1331-841D83414B7FFE9F

Antigravity
October 2005 issue

By Steve Mirsky

. . . Speaking of big government, on August 1 President George W. Bush endorsed the teaching of so-called intelligent design as an alternative to evolution. Intelligent design, as noted in this space in February, is "the full-blown intellectual surrender strategy" that proposes that a scientific explanation of life's complexity requires the intercession of a supernatural being. But examination of the available data leads only to the conclusion that the biggest beneficiary of the Bush presidency is Warren Harding.

- - Steve Mirsky

Maybe the AFL came from medieval guilds, but the IWW and the CIO sure as hell didn't.

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