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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Very Funny Fox News

You have got to read this story. The headline, the name -- impossible! And then there's one sentence that should, if you're half-alive, make you laugh doubly hard.

2 comments:

Milton Stanley said...: That's my Tennessee!; 8:29 AM, October 08, 2008
The Underground Pewster said...: I am confused by the following,

"After he ran over the fox, he stopped his GMC Jimmy to get the fox to cut off its tail for a souvenir..."

How does one get a fox to cut off its tail?; 10:54 AM, October 08, 2008

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ON PROGRESS

The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.

O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.

-- T. S. Eliot

STEVEN G. CALABRESI:

"[Barack Obama] believes -- and he is quite open about this -- that judges ought to decide cases in light of the empathy they ought to feel for the little guy in any lawsuit.

"Speaking in July 2007 at a conference of Planned Parenthood, he said: '[W]e need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges.'

"On this view, plaintiffs should usually win against defendants in civil cases; criminals in cases against the police; consumers, employees and stockholders in suits brought against corporations; and citizens in suits brought against the government. Empathy, not justice, ought to be the mission of the federal courts, and the redistribution of wealth should be their mantra...

"Every new federal judge has been required by federal law to take an oath of office in which he swears that he will 'administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich.' Mr. Obama's emphasis on empathy in essence requires the appointment of judges committed in advance to violating this oath. To the traditional view of justice as a blindfolded person weighing legal claims fairly on a scale, he wants to tear the blindfold off, so the judge can rule for the party he empathizes with most."

-- "Obama's 'Redistribution' Constitution"

Holman W. Jenkins Jr.

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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Very Funny Fox News

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