Signs, Sings, Everywhere Are Signs...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
The Palin Hoax
When Fox News ran that story about Sarah Palin not knowing Africa was a continent based on information supplied by an unnamed source, then that unnamed source identifies himself and he turns out to be a hoaxer, how do we know the hoaxer ain't a hoax?
Andrew Sullivan, who didn't like Clinton almost as much as he doesn't like Palin, has this to say on the subject.
When Owning A General Lee Ain't Enough.....
When owning a General Lee aint' enough, there's this website
TWO PLUS TWO MAKES FIVE!
Really, Believe It:
TWO PLUS TWO MAKES FIVE!
TWO PLUS TWO MAKES FIVE!
TWO PLUS TWO MAKES FIVE!
There, That's Better!
Don't You Feel Better Now?
TWO PLUS TWO MAKES FIVE!*
You Can Believe It!
We Wouldn't Lie To You.
We Had A VISION!
Click here. Read the post and the linked posts, they will refresh your memory about what's going on . Then read Jackehammer's report:
On June 4, 2008, as the city and City Council were budget crunching for fiscal year 2008-09, I wrote, "Springfield Skatepark Association/Springfield-Greene County Parks Mitigation: Example of Open and Transparent Government." In that entry, I quoted from Jason Wert's blog, "Life of Jason,*" an update in which he quoted, in part, Public Information Director Louise Whall as making this statement:
"We have another round of mediation scheduled for January 8 (2008) and we are hopeful this matter can still settle. We want to work with these guys if at all possible. But we don’t feel its appropriate to air any details on the matter until we make this further attempt at mediation. After the January 8 meeting we should be in a position to discuss it more fully.”
We all know now that the city ended up filing suit to try to take ownership of the skatepark.
This story just gets more and more wicked.
We're supposed to believe the city and Park Board were seriously trying to negotiate and work with "these guys" in January, 2008, when they'd already budgeted to take over management of the skatepark 4 months before the agreement had even expired and stated outright the Skatepark Association was, "expected to cease operations and management of this facility in October 2007" in the budget document for fiscal year 2007-08?
Who is the villian here? "The City"? The Parks Department? or Jackehammer for reporting it?
BTW---A friend, with whom I have discussed this issue on previous occasions, sent me this in an email this morning: "This scenario vindicates my hunch a year ago that the Park Board action was a planned hostile takeover of the skate park, without good reason or adequate public discussion. And, of course, when I expressed this to councilman Gary Deaver earlier this year he had a hissy fit."
Mexan por riba de nós e temos que decir que chove.
"The Native had a great love of his country but remained suspicious of government" reads the caption on this photograph in Ozark Mountain Folk, These Were The Last, a portfolio of photographs by Townsend Godsey.*The meaning of "two plus two makes five": George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four used this slogan as an example of an obviously false staetments one must pretend (or even try) to believe, similar to other obviously false slogans by the Party in Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is contrasted with the phrase "two plus two makes four", the obvious -- but politically inexpedient -- truth.
If the State might declare "two plus two makes five" as a fact; if everybody believes in it, does that make it true?
btw: wtf? I thought she retired.
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Stick Enters Toy Hall Of Fame
A stick was entered into the National Toy Hall of Fame yesterday.
From CNN.com
Curators said the stick was a special addition in the spirit of a 2005 inductee, the cardboard box. They praised its all-purpose, no-cost, recreational qualities, noting its ability to serve either as raw material or an appendage transformed in myriad ways by a child's creativity.
"It's very open-ended, all-natural, the perfect price -- there aren't any rules or instructions for its use," said Christopher Bensch, the museum's curator of collections. "It can be a Wild West horse, a medieval knight's sword, a boat on a stream or a slingshot with a rubber band. ... No snowman is complete without a couple of stick arms, and every campfire needs a stick for toasting marshmallows.
"This toy is so fantastic that it's not just for humans anymore. You can find otters, chimps and dogs -- especially dogs -- playing with it."
One other aspect of the stick is its cost. It is free and is abundant. Even poor families had access to sticks. Well, except for those children from poor families living on the treeless plains of western Kansas in the middle of the Great Depression.
My neighbor, who grew up in western Kansas during this time, where there are few trees and thus, few sticks, told me his family was so poor and destitute that they could not spare any sticks for toys. Sticks were gathered and hoarded, to be used for fires for cooking and heating.
For poor families in western Kansas in the 1930s, he said, sticks were not playtoys. He also noted his family was so poor that if he weren't a boy, he would have had nothing to play with.
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Finita La Commedia
"Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks
noted correctly (if belatedly) that conservatives' "disdain for liberal intellectuals" had slipped into "disdain for the educated class as a whole," and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole. There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it."
Mark Lilla WSJ Online.
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