In a old book, 'The Hidden Wound'... By Wendell Berry.... Essay-Racism and Economy.

I think you'd enjoy W,B's thought about people's inordinate desire to wish to feel superior.

It's about insecurity, subjection of other people, and it may Help Anybody give insights into your/others human condition.

A person desires to enslave. others?

People will allow themselves to be enslaved?

It's a sad situation. A real fear?

A willingness to be subjected ?

It's a weak human condition!

Oh, hick? Liberal? O stigmatize!

Redneck. Hillbilly. O shed blood?

Be on the "power" and cash-$-side?

No. Ya's lose your innards and soul!

Maybe Google? Introduce yourself to Mr Berry.

No? No sell yourself for a plumb nickel or pickle.

Bamage: Laphroaig is peaty. Real peaty. Have only been able to plow though one bottle of the stuff. That's why I thought it might be high-powered enough for bucky1 to deal with GC!'s poetry. But, as it would turn out, bucky1 likely doesn't need any help at all. The Glenlivet is my personal favorite (sorry to disappoint, Gordon), although I do have a bottle of McCallum's in the cupboard I haven't tried yet. Dewar's will do in a pinch. And, have been meaning to try Johnny Walker Blue, just because I liked the ad that ran in Glenn's threads for awhile.

ondelette, your translation of the TMP post is nearly poetry of itself. The poor pizza delivery man! He's likely to wind up in a rendition program to Gitmo.

Senator Obama gave a very, very good speech. He raised the issue of race in a way that we (the American electorate) haven't heard in a long time.

There was a lot said in it that a lot of people liked.

It won't satisfy everyone who heard it, nor was it intended to.

This speech may prove significant, or it may not. At the very least its forcing people to talk about an issue that has long needed addressing.

Going by the 52 pages of comments thus far, there are partisans aplenty on both sides with very fixed views.

Those who are expecting Senator Obama to be lilly pure will certainly be disappointed, as he is simply a human being and not some paragon. Those who think his world view is shaped exclusively by a select few of Reverand Wright's remarks are fooling themselves and selling the Senator short.

Senator Obama is showing leadership that has been sorely lacking for a long time, hence the enthusiastic response to him. Portraying this response and support as some kind of cult of personality are fooling themselves and selling the American people short.

Those who demand a refutation of the select few of Reverand Wright's remarks have gotten it. Whether they've listened enough to actually hear it is on them.

Time for we Americans to show whether we'll listen to our better nature and try to correct the mistakes of our past (both recent and historical)...or if we'll follow a geriatric warmonger who should've been put to pasture decades ago.

...since I've been blessed with a slightly faster metabolism. It's not that I exercise.

There was a heavier period, though... when I tried to be a vegeterian. Didn't work for me. Instead, I gained weight. Giving up the wheat (and dairy) that I was eating more of took it back off.

I gained a little back on butterscotch and root beer (looking for things with round, full flavors to make up for the lack of flour and butter). I eventually gave them up, too, and lost those pounds. It's the HFCS (the corn syrup); that stuff is practically poison.

If you can have eclairs three times a day without any ill effects, I might say try it for a week. By then, you'll probably have had enough. Much longer is probably not a good idea.

bucky1 is seen in the rodeo dugout chewing his saddle, donkey shoes, and still acting like a

bucky1 moo cow?

bucky1 is eating poor William Timberman's hat, boots, baseball catcher's leather mitt, and metal boot spurs? Why?

Better than any single malt, and I'm a Scot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullamore_Dew

YMMV

Various
Laphroaig single malt scotch. If a good strong snort of the stuff doesn't make Good Celery! instantly comprehensible, then he might be beyond you after all.
- - bystander Wednesday, March 19, 2008 01:14 PM

Watch out. Dangerous stuff. My quasi-Scottish grandmum (from Berwick) (pronounced BERR-ick) (where she was raised by HER Scottish (not quasi!) grandmum on the Scottish side of the Tweed) (physically in Scotland but legally in England, sort of like Gibraltar, or maybe Kosovo, and last month they voted to re-unite with Scotland) (this dispute has been going back and forth for a thousand years) (this was all spozed to be settled by the "Treaty of Perpetual Peace" in 1502) (Perpetual Peace? SNORT! support the BUTLA! Berwick-upon-Tweed Liberation Army!) (Where was I? . . .) My grandmum. Well she had a nighly snort and swore it was a tonic but then she keeled over at 99. Watch out.

Anonymust or any one else ~ If you are ever passing via Ohio, stop for a overnight stay with Rick and Pedinska.

What hospitality! Well, sorta. It's imperfect.

However, if you do use the indoor bathroom,

there is usually about three dark brown eclairs.

They are tossed in the toilet for some odd reason? Why?

What ya's do is go there, and flush the commode handle with the left foot.

Bring your own soap, tp, towel, napkins, food, catfood, and goldfish food.

Thanks bucky1...@ 1:30. wow.

My wish to you is Same-same.

LWM ~ It's a razor fine veneer.

A Sage/Idiot, or, A Fool/Wise?

A idiot lawyer, or, a wise one.

If a renowned Constitutional Lawyer would judge toes,

and everybody's toes, we'd need to go snooze & ooze....

Drink booze? No. And Ya's can't pick Ya's friend's nose.

So stupid. Good Night. LWM? You win a ugly leg award.

apologies.

I forfeit it!

stalk? rot!

osteomyelitis.

okay. No problem.

Perpetual Peace? SNORT! support the BUTLA! Berwick-upon-Tweed Liberation Army!

When I was in Bretaigne (Brittany to the non-Celts), the Bretaigne flag flew at least as much as the tricolour. There was even some graffiti on walls: "Free the Bretaigne political prisoners!" (of which there are none). A modest insurrection if ever there was one (their Celtic cousins in Galicia may be a little more ... ummm, "enthusiastic"), but there is a fair number of people there trying to preserve the ethnic heritage and identity. The language is moribund, but may hold on (as much as Celtic does in Scotland/Ireland), and the music is still practised by quite a number of quite talented groups, a number of which I've heard. In preserving this cultural heritage, I salute them, along with their more stately method of asserting their identity.

Cheers,