Cheney Warns!!!!!!!

Cheney warns on China, N Korea

Cheney warns Iran about nuke program

Cheney Warns Disney/ABC To Stay With Republicans Or Else

Cheney warns of “dire threat” posed by Lamont candidacy

Cheney warns Asian allies

Cheney warns NRA against Kerry presidency

Cheney Warns Iraq Terrorists Trying to Sway U.S. Election

Cheney warns of Iraq domino effect

Cheney Warns of Terror Risk if Kerry Wins

Cheney Warns Democrats

Cheney warns of vetoes if Congress loads budget with pork


And, this is the guy who didn't warn his own hunting partner before shooting him?

From John Hawkins at Townhall.com:

Moreover, in Thomas Sowell's immortal words, conservatives believe that, "There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs." Because of this, conservatives regularly do something that liberals seldom do: they consider the long-term consequences of their policies. Sometimes in politics, that's a tough duty. It's always easier to say, "We're going to use someone else's tax money to give you this right now," than it is to say, "We're going to keep government out of your way and let you do this for yourself." But, that's the path conservatives have chosen for themselves. They're willing to be attacked and called, in some form or fashion, "mean" in order to advocate policies that are good for the country.

First, the whole notion that there are "no solutions, only trade-offs" is the worst kind of defeatist mentality, what is know as the "zero-sum" game. So much for any synergistic mentality, here. What happened, John, to the conservative supply sider's belief in the mystical "invisible hand" that works magic through the mass of individual irrationality to produce rational economics?

Second, here we have another clueless conservative that doesn't understand the difference between the liberal's "tax and spend" mentality and the conservative's "borrow and spend" mentality. So much for moral concerns about the fiscal burden willed to future generations.

Third, this whole notion that conservatives are going to "keep government out of your way" is only partly true. Conservatives are willing to borrow to let you keep your tax dollars; just don't try spending them on libertarian vices! Give me the decadent liberal who will spend my tax dollars but respect my social autonomy.

Sometimes I think the conservatives forget to read that portion of the Constitution's preamble that states "promote the general welfare:"

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

No, John, conservatives aren't "mean." Just clueless.

Bleedin' Red All Over

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Tax and Spend Liberals pay as they go.

Borrow and Spend Conservatives just put it on the card.

Weird.

Tucker Carlson Admires Dumb Politicians

Watching Tucker Carlson tonight. The "tie" states regarding politicians: "it is the smart ones who cause all the problems." So, George W. --with the estimated second lowest IQ ever amongst presidents--has caused no problems?

Tucker also stated--predictably--that some cultures (U.S.) are superior to other cultures and then mentioned/mumbled something about Europe! Maybe our clueless conservative of the day might want to check out UNICEF's most recent rankings of countries in terms of child welfare showing the U.S. ranking below 18 European countries.

Cool. The more clueless, the better.

Terry Jeffrey disses Protestants

Tonight on the daft Chris Matthews' show right-winger Terry Jeffrey rants on about how John Edward's feminist bloggers dissed the Catholics, Catholics, Catholics. No mention at all about the Virgin's role in Christianity, generally. The retro-right really is dissolving deep into the archetype, now ignoring the Reformation. And, of course, Mr. Chris "George-Bush-reminds-me-of-Atticus-Finch" doesn't mention to Terry that he might want to throw a bone to the evangelicals.

Good. The more clueless, the better.

Bomb Bomb Bomb

Ah, bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran
Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran

Oh bomb Iran, take that land
Bomb Iran
You got me rockin and a-rollin
Rockin and a-reelin
Bomb Iran ba ba...

Heck, maybe the "decider" just gets old songs confused with foreign policy?

(With apologies to all Beach Boys fans everywhere.)

Pimples on the Ass of the Implicate Order

Inherent in the flow of time, the psychic and spiritual energy of the implicate order emerges or int-er-rupts into the explicate order ... manifesting the range of the mundane, the sublime, the profane.

Here we have the constant reminder that all of us -- at some time -- are pimples on the ass of the implicate order.

(Note: Photo creatively acquired from here.)