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The Audacity of War

Freedom is about Authority

58 years after Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, we have a presidential candidate who espouses the ideals of Orwell's nightmare:

"Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."
-Rudy Giuliani

http://www.csindy.com/csindy/2007-08-09/news2.html

Gee, that sounds familiar:

"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength."
- Campaign slogan of the Inner Party

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

Bushism of the day

He uses "the Google" to search the internets.

Turkeys

Click on the turkeys to see the gallery.

I have no idea what's up with this. Over the past year, I've been seeing turkeys around the Twin Cities. They mostly hang out in parks, but once in a while you'll see them near a busy highway looking confused. They always look confused though.

When I saw two of them tearing up the boulevard across the street from my house, I thought that I'd try to sneak up on them and get a picture. Yeah, right. They seemed to think that it was dinner time. For them.

Como Conservatory

The Como Conservatory is a great place to forget about the gray cold landscape outside and the evil snow cat.





the snow cat lurking

Bees

Notice!

A note from my Dad, maybe 7, last seen heading out on his tricycle.

Circa 1925, Evanston, Illinois

Fahrenheit 2500

In honor of brilliantly creative and formerly reasonable author Ray Bradbury's recent decision to go completely crazy, this is a partial list of things that will burn, break or melt if exposed to molten steel welding spatter. I have proven the ignitibility of each of these items through personal experience. As recently as today*.

scotchbrite pad*
bench brush*
skin
hair (knuckle, forearm, scalp, beard)
fingernail
trash can
oily rag
dry rag
damp rag
ragged clothing
new clothing
sock
shoe
toe
foot
hat
bandanna
co-worker
vehicle undercoating
carpet
carpet pad
carpet adhesive
plywood
pine
poplar
oak
maple
masonite
particle board
craft paper
legal pad
leaf
bark
grass
rubber
paint
aluminum (lower melting point, requires a lot of hot steel)
concrete (explodes without burning, nasty shrapnel)
glass (breaks)

HalBoy

This is, of course, way too self-indulgent, but I just couldn't resist. I'm not really this cute or this red. And less hair these days. My sweetie made the image.

BTW, the movie is wonderful (not that they need any help).

The Passion of the Bejesus

**Thought for the day** Before the web, how the heck did you determine the accepted spelling of words that everybody uses but aren't in the dictionary? I need to know.

Skippy likes the basket

Skippy likes the basket

Skippy likes the garden

Skippy likes the garden