Did you truly intend to say that wounded soldiers should just give up? That they aren't good enough to serve this country any more, even if they want to? Even if they have worked for months to recover and are medically fit for duty? Did you really mean to say that after everything they've done, we should treat them like unruly children who don't know what's good for them, or mentally ill misfits who should be warehoused somewhere where they can't do the rest of us any harm?
Feel familiar? Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. A large collection of Friedrich's work is HERE in chronological order. See also: Caspar David Friedrich: 1774-1840 By Norbert Wolf
"The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, but also what he sees in himself. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him. Otherwise his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead. [VIA: Catalog of Visual Interestingness ]
"I want to be remembered," she said, "as I was when I was young and in my golden times. . . . I want to be remembered as the woman who changed people's perspectives concerning nudity in its natural form." - Bettie Page dies at 85 [VIA: 2blowhards]
To my frothing brethren: I am dismayed and saddened at their exhiliration. It is the selfsame sense of giddiness and euphoria I felt upon learning of the Lewinski chicanery, or the last time I inhaled an entire E cylinder of nitrous oxide. Believe me, Intrepids, that Panglossian feeling will pass rather more quickly than a kidneystone in a bouncing boat.
The O-vulator is impalpably untouchable, lest ye have forgotted. He is diaphanous, a gossamer creature you will never lay brute paws upon. The Pellucid One will certainly be implicated in all manner of improprieties as this malodorous onion is peeled, however there will be no Judgment Day for Him. No reckoning of the soul. -- Velociworld: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing [You know, the man's got a point.]
"more people need to understand the correlation between dimwitted government programs, and waking up one morning with a trantula the size of a poodle sitting on your face." [We agree, but we think it's going to take the coming tarantula tsunami to get it across.]
To break even as an ad-funded digital-only business, with a quarterly cost base of, say, $338m, NYTimes.com -- already the number one newspaper site in the US -- would either need four times as many unique users or ad rates four times as high as today's.
Sullivanism (the print version of Matthewsism): a subset of Beltway hysteria, in which erratic political posturing and shoot-from-the-hip opportunism are chalked up to "figuring things out," and falsely accusing others is but a routine day's work of "thinking out loud."
She has a skin condition, dermatographia, which causes her skin to quickly turn red and form welts when she's scratched. Ariana utilizes her medical hypersensitivity condition to create designs and patters on her body, which she then photographs. --Modern Art Obsession
Ad agency Grey in Stockholm, Sweden thought it would be a peachy keen idea to polybag fliers with samples for Lactacyd (sexy name!)—soap for down there—onto the seats of 10,000 women's bikes in a few of the country's major cities.[VIA: New York Animal ]
The MKV-L mission is to destroy medium through intercontinental-range ballistic missiles equipped with multiple warheads or countermeasures by using a single interceptor missile. During an actual hostile ballistic missile attack, the carrier vehicle with its cargo of small kill vehicles will maneuver into the path of an enemy missile. Using tracking data from the Ballistic Missile Defense System and its own seeker, the carrier vehicle will dispense and guide the kill vehicles to destroy any warheads or countermeasures.
Just wondering:
Why would we, the Obot Nation, retaliate on behalf of an Israeli state that no longer existed due to an Iranian nuclear strike, which by amazing concidence also no longer existed?
Stupid me, I've answered my own question. Because it would do nothing and cost nothing.
Posted by: at December 12, 2008 7:51 AMAmerican Digest,
Thanks to the link to my post (December/Dumb Ideas), I appreciate it!
Bob W.
acreofindependence.com
btw, in re the Onion's "satire" about limbless vets, the maturity of the posters over at HotAir seems to eroding by the moment.
Posted by: Rob De Witt at December 12, 2008 1:21 PM
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