The Ponderosa: We require 12 hours to digest the SOTU ...

Death before Dhimmitude

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

We require 12 hours to digest the SOTU ...

Especially inasmuch as the NHL skills contests were held tonight ... but this is instructive ...

I'm No Bipartisan Pollyanna

But how the heck can you make an stubbornly obnoxious point, as Speaker of the House, to sit through this? “And ladies and gentlemen, nothing is more important at this moment in our history than for America to succeed in the Middle East ... to succeed in Iraq ... and to spare the American people from this danger.”

We're there, can we agree we ought to succeed?

Apparently, some sweet old Botoxed grannies do not concur.

Woe are their grandkids.

The Ponderosa

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

We require 12 hours to digest the SOTU ...

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