ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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I’m not going to participate in the whitewash. Laurak
Posted by: laurak on April 16, 1865 at 3:16 PM | PERMALINK
The idolatry exhibited on even the supposedly objective rags should put paid to the idea of a “liberal” media. It won’t, but it should.
Posted by: Linkmeister on April 16, 1865, at 3:19 PM | PERMALINK
Are they seriously trying to complain that there was praise and admiration, but not quite enough praise and admiration?
I’d say the grief was making them irrational, but they make idiotic arguments like that on regular days too.
Posted by: Gordon on April 16, 1865, at 3:24 PM | PERMALINK
lincoln was controversial and did things good and bad we still feel today. republicans need to lighten up and accept the sum of this important man especially now in his passing. geez, who’s the whiny party now?
Posted by: travy on April 16, 1865, at 3:29 PM | PERMALINK
Nobody has mentioned the irony of Mr. Lincoln’s getting shot with a revolver. During his presidency, Mr. Lincoln sent many men to their graves with the bullets of war.
Posted by: W, The Great Prevaricator on June 6, 2004 at 3:36 PM | PERMALINK
Let’s take the high road and insist that Dred Scott not be mentioned when Buchanan dies 🙂 Think we can hold them to it?
Posted by: dude on April 16, 1865, at 3:43 PM | PERMALINK
And in the words of Moms Mabley (about her husband):
“They say you should only speak good of the dead.
“He’s dead.
“Good.”
Posted by: hexatron on April 16, 1865, at 4:23 PM | PERMALINK
Now is not the time to remain silent, not while the wingnuts rewrite history. Now is the time to set the record straight.
Abraham Lincoln as America’s Sun King
Posted by: Alice Marshall on April 16, 1865 at 4:43 PM | PERMALINK
I’ve had about enough of Aby worshipping for one weekend. I doubt chimpy will get much of a boost from this, and not a lasting one either. As bad as lincoln was, he looks like a towering genius next to johnson.
Why is it that chimpy is always either smirking or looking constipated? Or is it chronic gas?
Posted by: fourlegsgood on April 16, 1865 at 4:48 PM | PERMALINK
I just hope there are no political statements in any eulogies. Those who were so outraged by the
Taylor funeral surely wouldn’t be hypocritical enough to condone such behavior.
Posted by: KCinDC on JApril 16, 1865, at 3:52 PM | PERMALINK
I, too, remember why I looked down my elitist nose at Lincoln: he was a useful idiot.
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr on April 16, 1865 at 6:18 PM | PERMALINK
Ding-dong the witch is dead, the wicked with, the wicked witch. Maybe now the evil spell will be lifted which fell across America …
Posted by: The Fool on June 6, 2004 at 7:13 PM | PERMALINK
Burning Diesel, Greening Grass
I recieved this from dad a farmer who wishes to remain anonymous. It’s an interesting theory.
As a result of fifty years of farming in Saskatchewan I have come to the conclusion, as a result of observation and deduction, that the production of crops in the prairie provinces and particularly, Saskatchewan, absolutely depends on the emission of carbon dioxide gas from burning fossil fuels.
Every year about October the farmers of Saskatchewan put away their combines and tractors except for a few chore tractors and either go curling or to Texas or Arizona. There is no green grass growing in November or December. Nor, in January, February or March.
In April,as it is tax time and the curling is over,the farmers return to their farms, get out their tractors and begin to prepare the land and sow the crops.
In May, the tractors really start to roll and the crops, grass and trees start to green up at a phenomenal rate as a direct result of the plentiful emissions of CO2 produced by preparing the land and sowing the crops. The CO2� from the sprayers and haying machines adds to the total and the country is soon lush and green.
In July the seeding and haying machines are put away. As a result, CO2 levels begin to drop. By the end of August the crops start to turn brown, (some more dependent on CO2 earlier), and the farmers, in an effort to salvage the browning crops and replenish the CO2, get out their combines and go to work. But, it is too little to late and by the end of September – early October the crops are salvaged, but the country slowly turns brown again. So the farmers put away their tractors and combines, head to Arizona for a few months and the cycle repeats itself.
As the opponents of CO2 emissions would say,”anyone who questions these conclusions are bordering imbeciles, entirely unobservant or both.
White House Rift?
Not a bike fall??
Via Drudge.
Air Canada’s Fate: Up In The Air
Canadian Defense Minister David Pratt admitted late Wednesday evening that they military has been caught off guard by the possible failureof last minute negotiations to rescue Air Canada from liquidation.
“Without the agreement of the Canadian Auto Workers, the possibility of the airline ceasing operations is very high. If that happens, there will be a lot of planes stranded up there. We’re going to have to find a way to bring them all down.”
Pratt admits this is problematic, as the aging Sea King helicopters are not equipped to fly at the altitudes of commercial jet liners. If pilots can bring their planes down a few thousand feet before the deadline arrives, the heavy duty helicopters may be able to pull some of the smaller ones in to local airports. A high-ranking defense official admitted that military jets are unsuitable for heavy duty, but was quick to point out that though “military cargo planes don’t generally serve as tow vehicles”, they can be quickly outfitted with rescue equipment “in a pinch”.
“It’s not every day we are called on to pull planes as large as 747’s back down to the ground, but we’ve got the best training in the world. Canadians should not be concerned. We won’t leave anyone up there.”
Gentlemen…
Select Commission On Gettysburg
Via RWN;
Mr. Ben-Gorelick: Good evening, President Lincoln. The Select Commission on Gettysburg thanks you for taking time out from the Civil War to appear.
Lincoln: You’re welcome, sir. I respect the commission.
Mr. Ben-Gorelick: Before I get to the blunders at Gettysburg, sir, I must ask about the speech you just gave there dedicating the cemetery. This “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth.” Do you have the?
Lincoln: I know it.
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Mr. Ben-Gorelick: And yet – and I’ll put this text in the record – there’s not a single reference in this speech to saving the union.
Lincoln: It’s implied.
Mr. Ben-Gorelick: Not a single reference. Isn’t it a fact that you said in the speech, “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal..”
Lincoln: Yes, in the first sentence.
Mr. Ben-Gorelick: And isn’t it a fact that you say, and again I quote, “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.” ?
Lincoln: Yes.
Mr. Ben-Gorelick: Isn’t it a fact that you were referring to slavery?
Lincoln: Well, yes. But I also said, second paragraph, that they died, quote, “that nation might live.”
Mr. Ben-Gorelick: Yes, but what nation, sir? Clearly, your real goal is to abolish slavery. You took us to war under false pretense, didn’t you, sir?
Go read the whole thing. Priceless “commentary” by Chris Matthews, too… “I’m here with the Gettysburg widows.”
Separated At Birth
Which Celebrity Guinea Pig Are You?
The Peruvian
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The Sheltie
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The Baldwin
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Heh.
(Today’s gratuitous Baldwin bashing is a Traffic Jam special.)
Floatation Device
Schwarzenegger Comes Calling On Klein
EDMONTON – The Terminator came calling and Alberta Premier Ralph Klein was up for the challenge.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger phoned Klein yesterday to place a wager on the Calgary-San Jose National Hockey League playoff series and the duo agreed to put up $1,000 each on the outcome of the best-of-seven semi-final.
“Each person will decide what charity to support once the winner is decided,” said Klein’s press secretary, Marisa Etmanski.
Klein is leaning toward helping the Special Olympics, she said.
Etmanski added that the two leaders did not clarify during their five-minute telephone chat if the loser will have to pay in American greenbacks or Canadian loonies.
“I imagine if it’s Arnold giving it to us, it’d be in American,” she said.
Etmanski said Klein thought talking to Schwarzenegger, an actor best known for his roles in the Terminator movies before he became governor, was “cool.”
The leaders also discussed other things such as Alberta’s energy role in California, the Edmonton Sun reported in a story today.
“(Schwarzenegger) was quite receptive and hoped that they could meet face to face some day,” Etmanski said.
As to whether the Austrian-born Schwarzenegger is a hockey fan, Etmanski said he “indicated he definitely wanted San Jose to win.”
Calgary won the first game 4-3 in overtime Sunday. The second game will be played tonight.
*cough*
Except it wasn’t “Ahnold” calling. It was an Edmonton radio station, pulling a prank.
Don’t anybody tell the Star. It looks good on them.
Not Alone
Hypertasking?
BIGresearch claims 70 percent of media users consume more than one medium at a time. Of those who listen to radio, 53.7 percent are online, 46.9 percent are reading a newspaper and 17.7 percent are watching TV. Of those watching TV, 66.2 percent are online and 74.2 percent are reading a newspaper.
And I just assumed I had Attention Deficit Disorder.
(Hypertasking this post at the Beltway Traffic Jam )
Investment Counselling
To my bank manager this morning during a review of my meagre investment portfolio;
“If I was interested in ‘high-risk, high-return’, Betty – I’d be selling crack.”
Deadball Trivia
In 1861, 21 year old Jim Creighton died from a ruptured inguinal hernia, after swinging at a pitch. In 1888, John Glenn was accidentally shot by a policeman while being protected by a lynch mob. Len Koenecke was battered to death in a plane in 1931, by a member of the crew, who used a fire extinguisher to do the deed.
Dedicated to dead major league baseball players, Frank Russo’s The Deadball Era has this and much more!
Canadian Breast Implant Registry
Following on the heels of the highly successful and universally praised Canadian Firearms Registry, a new Canadian Breast Implant Registry has been announced.
The registry would address concerns of Health Canada that illegally sold and unregulated breast implants are making their way across the border from the US and Asian countries. It is estimated that the illegal breast trade has swelled to nearly $300 million since most breast implants were banned in Canada in the early 1990’s in a wake of device failures and court settlements.
The Breast Implant Registry would be backed by new legislation that would allow police to enter any hospital or commercial place of business without a warrant. In special circumstances, searches can be extended to allow physical examinations if illegal implants are suspected. Negotiations are underway with the provinces to hammer out who pays for removal of illegal implants, as these devices are a known threat to health, and many victims are unaware they have them.
The legislation also further restricts the use of approved breast implants, including limits on minimum age and maximum size. As of Jan 1, 2005, no implant in excess of a B cup will be legal in Canada, unless approved by a hospital committee.
Health Canada reports that about 4,500 Canadian women per year, as well as a handful of men, require surgery for breast implant related injuries or illness, and that many others go unreported. It is unknown how many illegal breasts are in Canada, but estimates go as high as 40,000.
“We are seeing just the tit of a breast implant iceberg”, says New Democrat MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis. Wasylycia-Leis is part of an all party committee looking at the problem.
Gay Equality Rights
Heterosexuals Demand Right To Be Gay
“Equality for Gay Heterosexuals” met yesterday to organize their first ever Gay Pride Parade. George MacRae, 47 and his wife, Janice spoke for their organization. Pushing back his baseball cap to reveal a tanlined forehead, George explained,
“All we’re asking is for society to allow us to stand up and say “We’re gay!”. Not all the time, of course, but most of the time. We have a heck of a lot of fun at poker rallies and fishing derbies, but we can never be gay. For years we’ve been forced to say we were ‘delirious’ or ‘ecstatic'”.
“They say only homosexuals can be gay. We can be ‘happy’ if we like, with all the same protections of happiness that homosexual people have. But ‘happy’ isn’t the same thing as ‘gay’, you know? It’s close, but it’s not the real thing. We just want to be equal and to live our lives as gay people in peace. Being a heterosexual and gay does nothing to dimish homosexual gayness. We think it strengthens it.”
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MacRae’s wife has opened a dance club where members have a place to meet and socialize with other gays. Friday was the ribbon cutting, followed by a whist tournament and barn dance. |
“Homosexuals don’t have to give up anything up to allow heterosexuals the right to be ‘gay’. Homosexual culture and traditions aren’t going to come crashing down because a man and woman want to be recognized fully as a gay couple.”
Shameless self promotion at the Beltway Traffic Jam