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SMB2 theme in the style of Django.That would be Super Mario Brothers 2, for the non-nerds.
Whatever it is, it’s great.
“I’m not an Obama fan, particularly, but a lot of people I like and respect are. To treat Obama as something evil or subhuman would not only be disrespectful toward Obama, but toward them. Instead, I hope that if Obama is elected, their assessment of his strengths will turn out to be right, and mine will turn out to be wrong. Likewise, those who don’t like John McCain or Sarah Palin might reflect that by treating Palin and McCain as obviously evil and stupid, they’re disrespecting tens of millions of their fellow Americans who feel otherwise. And treating a presidency held by a guy you don’t like as presumptively illegitimate suggests that presidents rule not by election, but by divine right, so that whenever the “other guy” wins, he’s automatically a usurper. We don’t have to agree on issues, or on leaders. But if we can’t agree that a free and fair election can produce a legitimate president even when it’s not the candidate we like, then we’ve got a very serious problem.”
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Whoever Wins, Chill A Bit - Forbes.com
Keep reading Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.com
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“There are about 1,460 days until the next Presidential election, and I assume that I will spend approximately the next 1,459 of them opposing Barack Obama. But I’m spending today proud abut what my country has overcome.”
—Jim Manzi at NRO’s The Corner (via sds)
“In “The Coming Economic Earthquake” (1991), Burkett delineated growing federal deficits and the ever increasing use of debt by business and households out of control. Burkett points out those severe economic times will appear sometime shortly after the millennium unless current polices are changed. Burkett believed that Keynesian economic policies, with ideals for continuing federal deficits and the implicit preference for higher levels of consumption, reduced saving, and a larger role for government in the economy are a means to disaster. As Burkett states in the book that as interest on the debt consumes a larger and larger portion of the yearly federal budget, and more money is borrowed each year to pay the interest on what was borrowed in previous years, there will be a temptation to “monetize” the debt at an increasing rate leading to a calamity not seen since the Great Depression. Burkett questioned whether or not elected leaders would take action in time to prevent fiscal chaos, and believed they would not.”
—Larry Burkett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Interesting….. (via sds)
Very.
Interesting….. (via sds)
Very.
not paying attention
White House upbeat on economy, defends AIG move even though Stocks tumble after government bailout of AIG.
[the great part is that these headlines appeared right next to each other on yahoo.com.]
I may be way off but isn’t it possible for the White House to be right in the long run but the stock markets to be right in the short run? Or even vice-versa? Even if not in this case, there is way too little nuance in the national discourse. Nuance, people! (It is a funny juxtaposition, though.)
“O Coffee! Thou dost dispel all care, thou are the object of desire to the scholar. This is the beverage of the friends of God.”
—“In Praise of Coffee,” Arabic Poem 1511 (via kristieneff) (via sds)
“So often in my literature classes students told me what they “felt” about a novel, or a particular character in a novel. I tried, ever so gently, to tell them that no one cared what they felt; the trick was to discover not one’s feelings but what the author had put into the book, its moral weight and its resultant power. In essay courses, many of these same students turned in papers upon which I wished to—but did not—write: “D-, Too much love in the home.” I knew where they came by their sense of their own deep significance and that this sense was utterly false to any conceivable reality. Despite what their parents had been telling them from the very outset of their lives, they were not significant. Significance has to be earned, and it is earned only through achievement. Besides, one of the first things that people who really are significant seem to know is that, in the grander scheme, they are themselves really quite insignificant.”
—Joseph Epstein: The Kindergarchy (via sds)
169. Be nice to your sister. You are her confidante, cheerleader, and bodyguard.
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Advise I should have followed better. I think Mills would agree.
Same here. Remember that, son.
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