Month: February 2011

Contributed by: filbert Thursday, February 17 2011 @ 01:34 PM CST

Here’s another phrasing of my basic philosophy:

Don’t make life harder than it already is for people, and maybe just maybe do something to make it easier for people every once in a while.

-Me, in an e-mail conversation earlier this week with a friend.

Contributed by: filbert Thursday, February 17 2011 @ 08:41 AM CST

IN WALKS THE VILLAGE IDIOT, AND HIS FACE IS ALL AGLOW. He’s been up all night listening to Mohammed’s radio.[*1]
I HEARD THE GENERAL, WHISPERING TO HIS AIDE DE CAMP: “Be watchful for Mohammed’s lamp.”[*2]
EVERYBODY’S DESPERATE, TRYING TO MAKE ENDS MEET. Work all day, still can’t pay the price of gasoline and meat.[*3]
YOU’VE BEEN UP ALL NIGHT, JUST LISTENING FOR HIS DRUM: Hoping that the righteous might just, might just, might just, might just come.[*4]

The way things are going, the Sage of Knoxville will have more of this . . .

Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, February 16 2011 @ 02:53 PM CST

Things that can’t go on forever, won’t.

Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds[*1]

[*1] http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/115110/

Contributed by: filbert Monday, February 28 2011 @ 03:29 PM CST

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.

Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress.

They are reactionary.

Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary founders.

— Calvin Coolidge, 1926 (As quoted on page 18-19 of America by Heart by Sarah Palin)
(Re-formatting to a more bloggish format is mine)

Contributed by: filbert Tuesday, February 08 2011 @ 01:31 PM CST

Is it your responsibility to pay for the irresponsibility of someone else?

Contributed by: filbert Sunday, February 06 2011 @ 12:10 PM CST

“The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now” ~ South Carolina v. United States, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905).

Contributed by: filbert Saturday, February 05 2011 @ 10:44 AM CST

Trust, but verify.

— Ronald Reagan