tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61855212024-02-08T14:16:13.707-06:00Ayn Clouter's Blog"Der Lachende Hat die furchtbare Nachricht Nur noch nicht empfangen." -- Brecht, <em>An die Nachgeborenen</em>Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comBlogger399125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-13353481527352730032008-08-25T20:02:00.014-05:002008-08-25T22:13:47.115-05:00Mini Mansions -- Dead-Blogging The DemoConWell, you can't call it live-blogging, when their big video so far is Zombie Jimmy Carter. Of course he is appropriate to this year of House Posturing. While it was fine for Mrs. John Kerry to own homes all over the world, INOKIYAR ("it's not o. k. if you're a Republican"). So as upwardly-pretentious yuppies lose their over-mortgaged McMansions the Blue Gushies bring out this guy who builds tar Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-65028642783813171372008-07-08T11:06:00.000-05:002008-07-08T11:07:50.339-05:00A Hydrant In Every DoghouseAn AP-Yahoo! News poll found that pet owners favor McCain over Obama 42 percent to 37 percent, with dog owners particularly in McCain's corner. Now if you're Ms. Liberal Paranoia, you won't believe me when I tell you that this isn't just a desperate effort by the AssPress to find some poll, no matter how far-fetched, that shows The Sacrifice Flyboy ahead. (It was no surprise to any of you when Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-78804904664760607312008-07-02T18:02:00.000-05:002008-07-02T18:03:04.357-05:00You People Are So Superstitious....Schadenfreude of the summer: watching those within the Democrat (sick) Party infected with O.D.S. (Obama Derangement Syndrome) tying themselves into Gordian Nots to justify defecting to McCrash. They've even gone so far as trumpeting imaginary videos of harridian hateshrieks. That only discredits them to the real world, not in their own denying eyes. But they are amateurs: one doesn't need to Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-56113444673181631522008-06-23T14:06:00.001-05:002008-06-23T14:06:42.091-05:00Can't Hire Good Sins These Days....I too was inspired by the latest Creative Market Solution Proposal run up the flag-pin pole by our Designated Sacrifice Flyboy, Senator McAbel, to contemplate other intractable irritants resolvable by Reward Posters. Fortunately, Arthur beat me to it, even if his decadent lifestyle caused him to consider less Family Friendly (TM) targets for innovation. Read his extension of the solon's remarks Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-45216202575441743992008-06-13T16:27:00.000-05:002008-06-13T16:29:13.874-05:00Hey Kids! It’s A Contest!John McCain said Friday that the Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo Bay detainees is "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country." –FOXNews.com An unidentified nonspokeswoman added "It's just as bad as Brown vs. Board of Education and almost as terrible as Roe vs. Wade."Gee, what do you think are the others in his Top Ten Terrible Turnarounds of the Benighted Nine? Put your answersAynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-36957494386516277922008-06-13T16:25:00.001-05:002008-06-13T16:27:08.223-05:00The Second Time As FarceA jury acquitted R. Kelly on all counts .... –AP He will announce later today that he will spend all his fortune trying to find "the real pornographers".Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-85587026638922468922008-03-01T14:20:00.001-06:002008-03-01T14:23:08.729-06:00The Patient Fantasies Of The Newly Emergent, Or, Karma Comes Back For The Dog-Whistlers(To the tune of "Tomorrow Belongs To Me".) The sundown towns no longer maintain their signs. No crosses are burned on TV.The racists reluctantly learned new lines: An open society!Those born since the sixties they cannot recallThe dogs and the noose in the tree.Their elders agree to forget it all.What could I grow up to be?White Citizen's Councils avert not their eyesCo-opting N.A.A.C.P.,But my Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-28422375332630751232007-12-30T00:54:00.000-06:002007-12-30T00:55:58.858-06:00The Pith Of The PendulumYears ago, I used to hear Birchers (more widespread then than now) talk about the evil master conspiracy trying to rule us all. They were convinced that anyone who understood would oppose those vicious schemes. I, naturally, reacted differently. If these plotters were winning so efficiently, shouldn't we try to join them and be among the winners ourselves? Hence my own political efforts, helping Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-26367400827065983292007-10-30T00:18:00.000-05:002007-10-30T00:19:29.626-05:00Paging Dr. FreudulentWhy is the administration of Our Noble Lame Duck continuing to dribble away its efforts trying to censor science that Ordinary People Were Not Meant To Know, when they could instead be directing research to proving more politically palatable theories? I've had one such inspiration in reading a quote (from an article in *ugh* The Nation about "Toxic Toys") found by the ever-alert Sister Nancy BethAynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-36882950491339412082007-10-10T17:05:00.000-05:002007-10-10T17:06:47.402-05:00PLEASE MAY I HAVE SOME MORE?:Once again, the Pyrrhic victory of ideology over poetic sense has been exampled by that Laureatess of the Leftness, Mad Kane herself. Despite my helpful corrective suggestions to her in the past, she continues to write what she believes to be haiku, while ignoring the deeper beauty of the medium. Consider her latest barrage at the only President we have, which she Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-17683926213283034362007-07-30T19:13:00.000-05:002007-07-30T19:15:26.079-05:00BIG NANNY IS WATCHING: Meredith, N.H. - Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Monday accused Democrats of favoring a controlling "nanny government" as he continued his bashing of the rival party. Sadly, but unsurprisingly, Rudy the Unready hasn't yet learned the lesson of Dick: embrace the maternal substitute, so that if we let the voters grow up they shall not depart from the Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-32741724175742474122007-07-06T22:51:00.000-05:002007-07-07T11:38:56.104-05:00NEXT TO NATURE, ARTSY: Ward Churchill is not the only (soon to be ex-) ivory tower dweller who is assaulting the public complacency with subversive essays spitting in the face of our most widely accepted public myths. One of his fellow underminers is an art teacher at Dickinson College named Crispin Sartwell. He had already shown where his heart truly lies by co-editing the revealingly titled Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-22804570427273882752007-06-20T14:20:00.000-05:002007-06-20T14:21:43.954-05:00THERE ONCE WAS A CONTEST AT MAD KANE'S....:The Poetess Laureate of the blogging world, Mad Kane, is having another limerick-writing contest, complete with a small cash prize. This time the topic is Money. You can read more about it (and make your own entry) at this post. Since virtually anything I pen is obsessed with politics, I considered which Presidential candidate is most concerned with Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-17932956090863731132007-06-14T14:00:00.000-05:002007-06-14T14:03:11.189-05:00THE DEVIL AND HILL'RY ROD'AM:Yes, Hill'ry Rod'am's gone, but for a while, even before she ran for President, she was the most successful lawyer in the country. She never, ever seemed to lose a case. As a fresh law school graduate, she'd personally argued before the Supreme Court and convinced them to make abortion legal everywhere. Then she went on later to get them to ban draft registration, andAynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-8377166580311845402007-04-06T17:00:00.000-05:002007-04-06T17:02:27.646-05:00SUCCESS IN THE WAR ON TERROR:Traitorous doubters of Our Noble Lame Duck's GWOT strategy can be reassured by the latest poll results. Taking the truly small-"d" democratic viewpoint that the public at large can best judge how safe they are, we must conclude that it's working fine. When asked "What do you consider the GREATEST threat to the physical safety and security of Americans today?", the Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-22921665313220271712007-04-04T17:07:00.000-05:002007-04-04T17:08:27.337-05:00SUCKER PUNCHING CONGRESS:Our Noble Lame Duck throws the gauntlet out again. He's put Sam "swift boat ad funder" Fox in the very spot he withdrew him from when the Democrats stood up against him: On Wednesday, with Congress out of town for a spring break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.This means Fox can remain Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-2728291258278705902007-03-12T22:00:00.001-05:002007-03-12T22:00:56.195-05:00THERE WAS NO CRY FOR HELP:The visitation and the funeral for my late friend are taken care of, and the memorial is yet to come. Tonight after a meeting of one of the groups suffering this startling loss, those of us who cared most learned that our friend had an almost incomprehensible (though experts say surprisingly un-rare) hidden tragedy.Any of us could and would have helped, or pointed the Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-40013107361363657412007-03-04T22:29:00.000-06:002007-03-04T22:31:10.672-06:00WEST ATLANTIS:Many years ago I had an idea for a story I never finished. At one point a character from California was on the east coast when she watched live TV coverage of her whole state sinking into the Pacific, as a huge new earthquake fault opened up. At the end of August in 2005 I felt the same emptiness as that character, watching Katrina devastate the place that I came from.Scout prime ofAynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-58148109296586783272007-03-03T18:11:00.000-06:002007-03-03T18:13:19.593-06:00WHY EDWARDS DIDN'T HIRE ME TO BLOG:The details are at The American Street.Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-1171146337615275652007-02-10T16:23:00.000-06:002007-02-10T16:26:22.443-06:00TOP HEADLINES FROM ANSNews"All Anna Nicole All The Time"Osama Bin Laden Gives Up Struggle After ANS Death Terrorist leader says he didn't hate us for our freedoms, only for our floozy.UN Says ANS Death Will End Global WarmingNew study shows it was caused by her breathy speech after all.Hillary Drops Out Of Race For PresidentSenator claims her only motive was to provide an alternative role model Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-1170276640155621672007-01-31T14:42:00.000-06:002007-01-31T14:50:40.176-06:00UNDERMINING FROM WITHIN: That leader of lamentable liberals, Kevin Hayden of the American Street, is taking a hiatus from blogging for several months. Foolishly, he was persuaded to allow me to co-anchor his site during his absence, as he announces here. This will be a marvellous opportunity to instill sound political and economic thinking into clueless leftist web surfers, in the hope of Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-1170185283174098352007-01-30T13:27:00.000-06:002007-01-30T16:01:57.276-06:00UNLACING HIS SHOES:Timothy Noah (a good New and Old Testament name, there) over at Slate has begun The Obama Messiah Watch, "Introducing a periodic feature considering evidence that Obama is the son of God." This is an excellent remedy to the patella-crushing celebrity sycophancy of the media. It's also another great excuse to bring up again my favorite guitarist:Roy Buchanan - The Messiah Will Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-1166332479951681552006-12-16T23:13:00.000-06:002006-12-16T23:14:39.966-06:00PRIVATIZE IMPEACHMENTS.......And then they will be cheaper, and there will be more of them: A former Georgia congressman who helped spark President Clinton's impeachment has quit the Republican Party to become a Libertarian, saying he is disillusioned with the GOP on issues such as spending and privacy.Bob Barr, who served eight years as a Republican congressman before losing his seat in 2002, Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-1163276874880469182006-11-11T14:25:00.000-06:002006-11-11T14:40:49.700-06:00WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO: It did not take the incoming Demagogocrats long to prove again that verse above from Luke (12:34), by shoving the bulk of their supporters aside from the trough and gobbling up the spoils of victory for their own elitists. According to today's WaPost: Democratic leaders this week vowed to make the alternative minimum tax a centerpiece of Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-1162405586364673882006-11-01T12:25:00.000-06:002006-11-01T12:26:26.366-06:00OOOPS!! NEVER MIND!!Disregard my previous post, "How The Democrats Stole The Election". That was set up to go out automatically NEXT Wednesday, following the anticipated Democratic victory. Please ignore the software glitch which sent it out today instead, and pretend you never read that. Let it be a surprise next week.Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.com