tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84636559672479148062012-02-16T02:51:01.142-08:00Free Speak in the Age of Meekoakenquillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649715250683202659noreply@blogger.comBlogger531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463655967247914806.post-54068568488519354092010-06-30T14:28:00.001-07:002010-06-30T14:28:36.390-07:00

Podcast 1   (4149 KB) Listen on posterous Posted via email from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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The Highty-Tighties BLACKSBURG, Va., April 5, 2010 -- The Corps of cadets will be represented at the Cherry Blossom Festival on Saturday, April 10 in Washington, D.C., by the Regimental Band, the Highty-Tighties. via vtnews.vt.edu Delta Phi Omega '11 . . . "Invictus" Posted via web from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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One of the oddest features of the scene is attributed to the president’s “cool,” which seems to be the euphemism of choice for what, in less stellar executives, would be regarded as an unappealing combination of coldness and self-absorption. via article.nationalreview.com Imperialism, denotationally, is the extension of a country's influence internationally. Something all countries with a

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I just chalked up to politics over ethics, but it is disturbing that true civil rights activists would play such detestable games.  The Democrats' Fake Hate Crime -- By: Mark Steyn. . . But that's what the Democratic Party has been reduced to - faking hate crimes as pathetically as any lonely, mentally ill college student.. . .   Posted via email from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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Obama's 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman's claim of being 'over-taxed'. . . He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze. His discursive answer - more than 2,500 words long -- wandered from topic to topic, including commentary on the deficit, pay-as-you-go rules passed by Congress, Congressional Budget Office reports on Medicare waste, COBRA coverage, the

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Funny how death isn't much of an option when you yourself must "live" with your decision. Months to Live: Palliative Care Doctor Fought for LifeDr. Desiree Pardi, a leading practitioner in palliative care, counseled patients about accepting death, until cancer spread in her body, and she chose to fight it. Posted via email from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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Cultured Traveler: Zora Neale Hurston’s FloridaFor the 50th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s death, the author’s hometowns are taking note of her Posted via email from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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Pope Sees Easter as Time of Pardon and TruthBuffeted by sex abuse scandals, the Vatican kept up its stiff defense of Pope Benedict XVI Sunday, hailing him at the start of Easter Mass as a courageous leader. Posted via email from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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And like stepping off a cliff, the passage of any legislation that allows the government  to design and implement the distribution of healthcare will be the death of innovation. Not  just the innovation of medicines and medical procedures, but innovative business models to  bring insurance to market. via martinsvillemedia.com Posted via web from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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Obama: US would go bankrupt without health changes President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Friday, April 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he did a full court press for a health care system remake because "this country was going to go bankrupt."At the same time,

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This is a follow up to my column a few weeks ago. The control we presume to have over the animal kingdom is, at best, a lease granted us by those animals willing to offer it. But that lease can be terminating at any time of their choosing.At worst, that control is an illusion of our own manufacture. In either case, intermittent death will always haunt us. ____________________  Autopsy on SeaWorld

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This is perhaps the left’s most brilliant rhetorical feat – magically transforming failed corporate-statist half-measures they once championed into examples of the sorry state of the status quo and arguments for yet more statism. And you’ll see it again in about ten years, when well-meaning but dim liberals start calling federal subsidies for health-care coverage “socialism for rich insurance

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"beige, but the shadows make it shadow-color"via mediaite.com With flashes of genius such as the above by James Franco, I myself have no business applying to an MFA program. I should just go hang myself with a rope-colored rope. Posted via web from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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So far, Obama & Co. have suffered the most rapid decline in polling history of any first-year administration, from around 68% to below 50% in a mere year, and is looking at a large correction, perhaps of historical proportions, in the 2010 referenda. That seems to me enough of a meltdown — well aside from $2 trillion added in additional debt, near 10% unemployment, a neutralist foreign policy,

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. . . A woman (Nancy Pelosi) pushed the health care bill through the House. The bill's most visible and vocal proponents included a gay man (Barney Frank) and a Jew (Anthony Weiner). And the black man in the White House signed the bill into law. It's enough to make a good old boy go crazy. via mobile.nytimes.com This is how the Left frames every conservative: misogynistic, homophobic,

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Despite the sophisticated rhetorical mechanisms Rev. Jackson employs — no doubt based upon his education as a sociologist — he won’t be able to shape reality into his image as long as the public has a firm understanding that that is exactly what he is aiming to do: in other words, deceive us. All this may seem obvious to most readers: after all, agenda is the hallmark of activism. And most

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The scientific method isn’t about self-congratulations. And it certainly is not about entertaining ourselves. Dying while in the pursuit of knowledge is part of the noble endeavor, but dying while performing glorified parlor tricks benefits no one — most notably the victim. via martinsvillemedia.com Here's a taste of my second column. Follow the link for the entire piece. Posted via web

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Here's my second column. For whatever reason, the Martinsville Chronicle has yet to post it to their website. I'm beginning to think they don't like the way I write. Posted via email from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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By the same count, there are 204 votes for the bill, leaving the Democratic leadership 12 short of being able to pass it. There are 18 votes thought to be undecided. via washingtonexaminer.com They say all babies are tyrants. I'm convinced Pelosi is so bratty as to be wholly tyrannical. But the genius of our country is that a single vote can quell tyranny. Do NOT give 1/6 of our economy to

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Each week, I'll post an image of my column as it appears in the Martinsville Chronicle . . . for posterity and braggin' rights. Posted via email from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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Each week, I'll post an image of my column as it appears in the Martinsville Chronicle for posterity . . . and braggadocio. Posted via email from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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. . . be sure to pick up a copy of the Martinsville Chronicle at these locations: Purchase the Chronicle here Buy the Martinsville Chronicle at these fine establishments: Rania’s Frith’s Dixie Pig Mel’s Market Square & Deli Binding Time El Norteno Mexican Restaurant Chamber of Commerce Evan’s Real Estate Community Market # 2 Exxon Church St

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What is most likely is that Obama is a diplomacy little-leaguer trying to dilute his original faux pas by now bowing to everyone. It is a sad attempt to create a false normative of diplomatic symbolism. Because in the world of diplomacy, everything is symbolic. But to my larger point, this sort of procedural manipulation — and disavowal of mistake by silence — testifies to an observation made

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At least 200 people, most of them Christians, were slaughtered on Sunday, according to residents, aid groups and journalists. The local government gave a figure more than twice that amount, but offered no casualty list or other information to substantiate it. An Associated Press reporter counted 61 corpses, 32 of them children, being buried in the mass grave in the village of Dogo Nahawa on

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Be not intimidated… nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice. — John AdamsI'm often told that President Obama's style of politicking -- most notably his incessant use of bows when meeting world leaders or mayors of Tampa -- is

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Iran's Ahmadinejad calls Sept 11 "big fabrication" Sat, Mar 06 09:47 AM EST TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a "big fabrication" that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported. Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West and Israel, made

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Virginia's colleges thinking of banning discrimination against gays better think twice. The state's attorney general is arguing that such bans are themselves banned. Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli is advising the state's public colleges to rescind anti-discrimination policies based on sexual orientation. In a letter to college presidents and other officials, Cuccinelli says only the

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Scores of Islamic students staged protests outside Jakarta's parliament and in at least three other major Indonesian cities on Friday against President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to this predominantly Muslim country.The students carried banners branding Obama as an enemy of Islam and an imperialist in downtown Jakarta as well as in the provincial capitals Padang, Yogyakarta and Surabaya.They

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. . . FLASH . . . FLASH . . . FLASH . . . Today marks the publication of a weekly column I'll will be writing for the Martinsville Chronicle. While the Chronicle has a website, the electronic edition is delayed while the print version is still fresh on the stands. Therefore, on Wednesday, when the new editions hit the stands, the website will have nary a soupcon of what is on offer in the most

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Mr Yousef had harsh words for the movement that his father helped to form, and which now rules the Gaza Strip after a bloody takeover in the summer of 2007. “Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis,” he said. “That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels, only a ceasefire, and no one knows that better than I. The Hamas leadership is

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NEW YORK (AP) - Toyota's president says the automaker compromised quality by growing too quickly in the U.S., but it will take steps to improve quality control. Toyota President Akio Toyoda will deliver the remarks Wednesday to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The prepared testimony was released ahead of time. The head of Toyota's U.S. sales arm, as

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If the Pledge of Allegiance is a laughing matter, then the joke may be on a California congressman. A Republican candidate for Congress in California is calling on U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra to "clarify his reaction" after the Democrat was caught on a YouTube video laughing at a suggestion that the Pledge of Allegiance be recited prior to a union meeting in Los Angeles. The 46-second video

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". . . 'The helicopter then stopped the ... skiff as it attempted to speed away, by firing warning shots across its bow' . . . ."m.yahoo.com Many do not like the idea of America as the world's police, and while we are not the only navy patrolling the seas and thwarted piracy, we have always been examplary. We must encourage our policy makers to instruct the Pentagon to be proactive — not

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Check out this website I found at m.upi.com I'm inclinded to believe both reasons. Posted via web from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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> > ". . . no enemy forces . . . no hostile fire . . ." > > 2 U.S. Army pilots killed in Iraq helicopter accident > http://m.cnn.com/primary/_sZGcxt-iB5F9YDsM1 Posted via email from Oakenquill: Words Matter

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via mobile.nytimes.com. . . The mountain skirmish features both traditional adversaries — those who would like to live in remote areas and those who would like to preserve them — as well as new and increasingly visible foes: green on green. . . . Now that the Mean Greenies have secured an ideological haven in Southern California, the detente that existed between the factions while battling the

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. . . The men are suspected of trying to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson. . . .via blogs.cbn.com It is not the enemy abroad that will destroy us. Much of what we do militarily as a country overseas is, while necessary, but theatrical. The cancer is the ideology that Americans citizens contract. We must be fight it with a deep elaboration of our founding principles -- we must fight

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The crates of whisky were found under a hut built and used by Shackleton Five crates of Scotch whisky and brandy belonging to the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton have been recovered after more than 100 years in the ice.They were buried beneath Shackleton's Antarctic hut, built in 1908 for a failed expedition to the South Pole. Some

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CENTRALIA, Pa. - . . . After years of delay, state officials are now trying to complete the demolition of Centralia, a borough in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania that all but ceased to exist in the 1980s after the mine fire spread beneath homes and businesses, threatening residents with poisonous gases and dangerous sinkholes. . . . In reality, Centralia is already a memory — an

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From BBC.The first paragraph is the doorway - or rather loophole - through which understanding climate change science can be understood. (See below.)Prof. Beddington defends the accuracy of the "science" but not the accuracy of the "interpretation." It has long been assumed that the people who collect a given set of data are also the best in deciphering it's meaning. While many scientist are

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I am a current Virginia Tech student and I was enrolled here on April 16, 2007: I advocate concealed carry on campus. As of now, VT does not allow concealed carry (or open carry) on campus. They are preventing nothing. "Whereas 'there were 47 reported sexual offenses' on the [Colorado State University] campus in 2002, the year before students were allowed to keep concealed weapons to defend

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   (477 KB) Listen on posterousAs an act of bitter self-entertainment (and to see how my blog handles audio files) I wrote and recorded myself reading the poem below. Enjoy! (In that awkward "what the eff" kinda way.) Writer's Block and the Angry Metaphor Time is a mouse mother eating her youngin the moments after their hairless birth – birthing them quickly to save her frommaking a meal of her

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I've been a little irritated with how many pundits have been careening off of Harry Reid's anachronistic language with only a cursory examination of his thrust. Ann Althouse has come closest to a significant exegesis when she attacked the definition of the word “racist” in this particular context. But Althouse's argument is about the language of others in describing the language of Reid. What

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My mother was a makeup artist for several decades, so I like it when science validates my neurosis with a surprising discovery. I was often my mother's guinea pig when she was perfecting her trade and learning that the pyschlogical affects are out-weighed by the health benefits brings a small relief to my night terrors. Okay, modern makeup doesn't use lead like the Egyptian brand: I just wanted

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It is better for critics to eschew the creative process. They are supposed to liaise between art and the Everyman. They are meant to add definition to works that transcend self-explanation - some concepts worth expressing are, in fact, beyond the grasp of the uninitiated. But there is a line that demarcates the realm where creative works become "art for artists' sake" and as such lose relevancy

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via pjtv.com There has been a frustratingly lack of accurate information concerning the living conditions at Gitmo from the MSM. Thank you, Steven, for the elucidation on detainee treatment regulations. As far as the living conditions for service personnel go, as much as 15 years ago when I was in the Navy, my shipmates would glow at the thought of returning to Gitmo. It has always been a

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... Yarosh, who moved back to Windsor, New York, after his retirement in January, concedes he was a little uneasy when he sat for the portrait because he worried about how an artist, likely to be more liberal, might depict him. Still, Yarosh agreed because he thought having his portrait done would be "super cool." ... But somehow, "I felt it was done when I felt I could see his

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From the journal of G-, June 10, 2009:A drunken, self-destructive James Dean told me that God brought me to The Cellar last night. He had asked me if I was a religious man. Asking much in the way a salesman fumbles about in the dark night of an unmet quota. The customer has a front door, but the porch light is off. And with his hands on the ground the salesman feels around for the little pathway

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Memorial Day via redplanetcartoons.com From the Korean War Veterans Memorial website ( http://www.nab.usace.army.mil/projects/WashingtonDC/korean.html ): "There are 19 statues sculpted by Frank Gaylord of Barre, Vt., and cast by Tallix Foundries of Beacon, N.Y. They are approximately 7’3" tall, heroic scale and consist of 14 Army, 3 Marines, 1 Navy, 1 Air Force. They represent an

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As much as I want to address the deeper, literary implications of changing the lives of such iconic characters as Wolverine, I will try to restrict this review of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” to the merits of the film as a self-contained entity – with only a few plunges into the deeper implications.It begins with a very young, sickly James (Troye Sivan) at the point his mutant abilities manifest

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Speaking in Prague last month about North Korea’s recent test launch of a ballistic missile, President Obama sternly said that “Violations must be punished. Words must mean something.” It would be pretty to think so. Certainly, North Korea had violated UN Security Council resolutions 1695 and 1718, which explicitly prohibited its launching of ballistic missiles, among much else. Thoughtful

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Values Author Legacy, Wanderlust Leaves You Forgotten (To start this ePamphlet out is the first pamphlet I wrote, circa summer 2008. Please download the PDF and distribute to those who may need to center themselves.)          Who is your author? Who will have authority over your legacy? Most presume it is themselves. If we presume

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