AMERICAN DIGEST: June 2010 Archives

Something Wonderful: Atheists Don't Have No Songs

Suzi @ My Own Thoughts sez: "Steve Martin sings with the Steep Canyon Riders. It's hysterical." It is.

Christians have their hymns and pages, (hymns and pages)
Havah Nagilah is for the Jews, (for the Jews)
Baptists have their rock of ages, (rock of ages)
Atheists just sing the blues.

Romantics play Claire de Lune, (Claire de Lune)
Born agains sing He is Risen,
But no one ever wrote a tune, (wrote a tune)
For godless existentialism.

For Atheists,
There’s no good news,
They’ll never sing a song of faith.
In their songs they have a rule,
The “he” is always lowercase.

The “he” is always lowercase.

Some folks sing a Bach cantata, (Bach cantata)
Lutherans get Christmas trees,
Atheist songs add up to nada, (up to nada)
But they do have Sundays Free.

Some folks sing - they sing to heaven, (sing to heaven)
Coptics have the book of scrolls,
Numerologists count - they count to seven, (count to seven)
Atheists have rock and roll.

For atheists, there's no good news.

They'll never sing a song of faith
In their songs they have a rule,
The “he” is always lowercase.

The “he” is always lowercase.

Atheists - Atheists - Atheists

Don't Have No Songs.

Christians have their hymns and pages,
Havah Nagilah is for the Jews,
Baptists have their rock of ages,
Atheists just sing the blues.

Catholics dress up for mass
and listen to Gregorian chants.
Atheists, just take a pass
watch football in their underpants.

Watch Football in Their Underpants

Atheists - Atheists - Atheists

Don't have no songs.

Don't Have No Songs.

Posted by Vanderleun Jun 25, 2010 8:35 PM | Comments (14) | QuickLink:

Blame Reynolds: The 39 Confessions of Saint Glenn

It's only human to want to fix blame for the slobbering disasters that have befallen the United States of America since November, 2008. The problem is to know exactly who is to blame.

Fortunately for us, the solution to our problem is simple: Glenn Reynolds.

Not only is Reynolds to blame for this fine mess, he has confessed it in public over and over again. Herewith, although his sins are both numerous and multiple, I have collected a mere 39 of his confessions . As he freely, but as yet without forgiveness, acknowledges Reynolds has caused all these things and more by casting his 2008 vote for John McCain.

These are those confessions -- IN HIS OWN WORDS! -- by which he stands CONDEMNED! As you can see there is almost nothing that has happened in the Obama years that Reynolds is not directly responsible for (Except, perhaps, Michelle Obama's recent nip and tuck. Developing.).

Consequently this summer's full series of the Orwell Network's "Two Minutes Hate" will be focused on Glenn Reynolds exclusively.

Gentlemen, start your loathings!

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Posted by Vanderleun Jun 23, 2010 7:03 PM | Comments (24) | QuickLink:

"For Dorothy"

At Sippican Cottage. Right now please if you don't mind.

Posted by Vanderleun Jun 22, 2010 11:48 AM | Comments (9) | QuickLink:

DrudgeNow: Translated

There's "text," there's "sub-text," and then there's "Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink."

White House to continue its search for a wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling General Prostitute:

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Posted by Vanderleun Jun 22, 2010 11:17 AM | Comments (19) | QuickLink:

Something Wonderful: Going Mobile!

... and viral.

Posted by Vanderleun Jun 16, 2010 10:59 AM | Comments (6) | QuickLink:

Something Wonderful: The Testament of Freedom

"The flames kindled on the 4th of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them." -- Jefferson

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.
—A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them. Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great… We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favor towards us, that His Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
—Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (July 6, 1775)

III

We fight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offense. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder conditions than servitude or death. In our native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it; for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves; against violence actually offered; we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.
—Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (July 6, 1775)

I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on steady advance... And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them...The flames kindled on the 4th of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.
—Letter to John Adams, Monticello (September 12, 1821)

"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them."

The Testament of Freedom is a four-movement work for men's chorus and piano composed in 1943 by Randall Thompson. It was premiered on April 13, 1943 by the Virginia Glee Club under the direction of Stephen Tuttle; the composer served as pianist.... to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Thomas Jefferson; consequently, the text for the work was taken from Jefferson's writings.

Posted by Vanderleun Jun 14, 2010 11:12 PM | Comments (1) | QuickLink:

The Road to Serfdom as a Comic Book

Hayek's classic The Road to Serfdom in comic-book format. Background:

The book was originally published in 1944. A condensed version of the book written by Max Eastman was then published as the lead article in the April issue of Reader's Digest, with a press run of several million copies. This condensed version was then offered as a Book of the Month selection with a press run of over 600,000 copies. In February 1945 a picture-book version was published in Look magazine, later made into a pamphlet and distributed by General Motors. [Reproduced here.] The book has been translated into approximately 20 languages and is dedicated to "The socialists of all parties." In 2007, the University of Chicago Press put out a "Definitive Edition." In total the book has sold over two million copies.

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Posted by Vanderleun Jun 8, 2010 5:10 AM | Comments (23) | QuickLink:

Something Wonderful: Tea Party Member Stuns Crowd

An amazing moment. This is your antidote to Helen Thomas and all of her ilk.

"Herman Cain lead a Q&A session at the Douglas County Tea Party when a young woman asked him about the attack by the Left on our Judeo-Christian heritage in America...He addressed her question, then went to the last question of the night, and the crowd was not expecting what happened next..."

[HT: “Oh! Thus be it ever…” - Maggie's Farm]

Posted by Vanderleun Jun 6, 2010 11:17 AM | Comments (10) | QuickLink:

Something Wonderful: Just when you've lost all faith in humanity some damn fool does something like this.

File under: How to make sure she can't say no.

Posted by Vanderleun Jun 5, 2010 12:16 PM | Comments (4) | QuickLink: