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On Fights in Which I No Longer Own a Dog
American Digest ^ | December 31, 2005 | Vanderleun

Posted on 12/31/2005 2:18:58 PM PST by vanderleun

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1 posted on 12/31/2005 2:19:00 PM PST by vanderleun
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To: vanderleun

Bears repeating.

Anyone who knows a scintilla of a jot about human nature knows that alternate, sustainable energy solutions will come to pass on the day that the last gallon of gasoline on the planet is burned and not one second before.


2 posted on 12/31/2005 2:26:26 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68
Anyone who knows a scintilla of a jot about human nature knows that alternate, sustainable energy solutions will come to pass on the day that the last gallon of gasoline on the planet is burned and not one second before.

Demonstrably NOT TRUE. They will come when they are less expensive than gasoline. Microeconomics 101.

3 posted on 12/31/2005 2:35:14 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: vanderleun

Did you write this? You need an editor.


4 posted on 12/31/2005 2:36:47 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: vanderleun

bump for later perusal


6 posted on 12/31/2005 2:40:49 PM PST by jra
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To: vanderleun

bump--


7 posted on 12/31/2005 2:41:58 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: vanderleun
Here is one compromise I would agree to. Okay, a compromise. We'll shoot Michael Savage on the air in mid-mental meltdown if you'll garrote Al Franken in mid-flatulation at the same time. Okay? That is right on.
8 posted on 12/31/2005 2:47:46 PM PST by oldtimer2 (Liberal: a power worshipper without power....George Orwell)
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To: vanderleun

Please explain why you are so taken with the work of William Cummings.


9 posted on 12/31/2005 2:50:55 PM PST by Capriole (I don't have any problems that can't be solved by more chocolate or more ammunition.)
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To: vanderleun
I take the time and the trouble to see a lot of what passes for new art and it is almost invariably depressing and disgusting and forgettable in varying degrees. In the last year, I have seen only one show of one artist (out of dozens of visits to exhibitions) in which beauty and feeling and form and the sublime triumph.


I've seen plenty of art that does NOT convey a sense of cheap cynicism or subversion or nihilism or infantile contrarianism. It really is out there. But does it catch the attention of New York's effete navel gazers? No, but so what? Why should it? There's an artist out there in America's free-market for every buyer.
10 posted on 12/31/2005 2:51:09 PM PST by macamadamia (The great dangerous non-sequitur du jour: oil-independence will stop terrorism.)
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To: vanderleun

A man's garden should never be bigger than a single day's weeding.


11 posted on 12/31/2005 2:55:28 PM PST by Old Professer (Fix the problem, not the blame!)
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To: Capriole

"Please explain why you are so taken with the work of William Cummings."

I would but the above is 3400 words and I'm done for the day.


12 posted on 12/31/2005 2:56:39 PM PST by vanderleun (from <a href="http://americandigest.org" target=new> American Digest </a>)
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If you have nothing to say, the worst thing you can do is take 4,000 words to do it.

This screed may have legs on DU, but it is oddly out of place where thinking people congregate.

13 posted on 12/31/2005 2:59:44 PM PST by IronJack
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To: vanderleun

I enjoy being shallow one day a year.

"Did you ever have to make up your mind
Pick up on one and leave the other behind?
It's not often easy and not often kind.
Did you ever have to make up your mind?"
-- The Loving Spoonful

I really liked those lyrics when all I had to do was identify with the singer over his quandary over which of two people to date.

/end shallow commentary


14 posted on 12/31/2005 3:01:12 PM PST by GretchenM (God made you. He will also take you out. Better to go on His terms, that is, through Jesus.)
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To: vanderleun

All right! Lay down a barage and get everybody.

No such thing as collateral damage when everybody is the target.


15 posted on 12/31/2005 3:02:21 PM PST by tjg
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"Call it what you will. The idea is that I can't keep as a deep dark secret something so important and basic to my way of thinking from people I consider my friends."

From the liberal coming out blog referenced here. I know what she's talking about but I have it even worse. I call it "can keep my mouth shut" syndrome. I have the the problem both among people I know in my nearly hundred percent blue neighborhood and on the Internet. Understanding the subversive and murderous nature of our enemy, I tried to keep my mouth shut on a number of subjects for longtime. however, failing to do so, I have finally given up trying.


16 posted on 12/31/2005 3:08:26 PM PST by strategofr (Hillary stole 1000+ secret FBI files on DC movers & shakers, Hillary's Secret War, Poe, p. xiv)
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To: Baynative

"some urban outdoorsmen"

There are only significant amounts of homeless people during Republican administrations. The problem miraculously largely vanishes during Democratic administrations. Certainly, the Liberals have no real interest whatsoever in helping the homeless right now. Every problem the homeless have at this time is good publicity for the Left.


17 posted on 12/31/2005 3:10:23 PM PST by strategofr (Hillary stole 1000+ secret FBI files on DC movers & shakers, Hillary's Secret War, Poe, p. xiv)
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To: GretchenM

"I really liked those lyrics when all I had to do was identify with the singer over his quandary over which of two people to date."

So did I and I still like the words just as much because nothing is changed. I suspect you feel the same.


18 posted on 12/31/2005 3:12:24 PM PST by strategofr (Hillary stole 1000+ secret FBI files on DC movers & shakers, Hillary's Secret War, Poe, p. xiv)
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I thought that tooting one's own horn belonged in the BLOGGERS section - this stuff sure AIN'T news...
19 posted on 12/31/2005 3:15:20 PM PST by solitas (So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
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To: vanderleun

In all your Berkeley education did you ever have a course in "Bonehead English", or did you just hang out there?


20 posted on 12/31/2005 3:19:23 PM PST by tertiary01 (Dems ..the party that repeats history's mistakes over and over and....)
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