For some reason I am having trouble linking from YouTube so that is why I have not put up Parts 3 and 4 of Obama's speech. I may try a different link tomorrow, possibly a video with the whole speech.
Meanwhile, over in warrantless wiretap land.....someone or a few someones have been looking into Senator Obama's passport information....illegally. CNN has the story.
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Contract workers.
Imprudent curiosity.
'nough said.
Let's talk J. Wright some more... ...think Hillary is smiling ear to ear when she sees him on TV? How would Presdient Bush be treated if, say, he spent 20 years in the church of Rev. Falwell or Pat Robertson?
Quote of the day:
"The intellectual probity of a person is measured not merely by what comes out of him, but by what he puts up with in others." - William F. Buckley (RIP)
...and, sorry to be so off track but I've been feeling a bit split-personality of late (Thank you Joe) and unless something sinsiter happens w/ this passport business, there's little traction to that story. So, to go back in time to a couple of posts ago on ...
Jonah Goldberg and many on the right are welcoming the playwright David Mamet, if not to the conservative movement, to a least to a more centrist point of view.
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Questioned on his change, Mamet invokes John Maynard Keynes’s response to criticism that he changed his mind: “When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?”
Critic, Michael Billington responded “I am depressed to read that David Mamet has swung to the right. What worries me is the effect on his talent of locking himself into a rigid ideological position.”
This response is quite simply perfect, a Picasso of asininity, a Mona Lisa of moronic imbecility. Mamet, a dashboard saint of angst-ridden cosmopolitan liberalism, has set out to read widely and carefully, exploring how his outdated political pose no longer tracks with reality or with his own understandings of the world, and Billington worries that Mamet is locking himself into a rigid ideological position.”
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Critics are now beginning to say that Mamet’s work is slipping. Time will tell, but I predict that soon they’ll say he was never that good. What you’re seeing is the cost of being a free thinker.
I'd like to know who these three workers were and who they were affiliated with...I don't think this story should be brushed off.
First of all, anyone that says that Mamet's work is slipping has to have their art spoon fed to them. They are completely full of shit. I realize this is an opinion call but David Mamet is the finest playwright...one of the top five best writers...of our time.
Who cares what he says about politics? I don't agree but it won't change my view of him. I think he is taking a view of the left which ultimately serves the goals of the right, which is to lie and re-direct from those who are, in fact, more like fascists.
Mamet (and Goldberg) need to read this one again...
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”
That was James Madison, 4th President and founding father. Tell me, Dave, who do you think best represents this quote?
A good quote. And a very real possibility in the right circumstances, though I don't see it applying to our current situation in the least. ...suits your viewpoint, though.
If we’re comparing quotes, particularly ones that relate to tyranny in America, I like this one by Thomas Jefferson because, not only is it insightful, but it’s spot on to what is happening with the activity judiciary we’ve seen over the last quarter century.
“...the Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. When all government... in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. (1821)” – Thomas Jefferson
Hey Mark,
The State Department thing just got weirder. The same contractors were accessing Clinton and McCain's files as well. What is going on?
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