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Thinking Right's weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
● Tiger Woods is right, but then he's a mere celebrity public figure and not one who holds a position of public trust. Said Woods: "No matter how intense curiosity about public figures can be, there is an important and deep principle at stake which is the right to some simple, human measure of privacy. … Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions." To that, I would add one's sexual preferences. We don't need to know who's doing what unless the public business is involved.
● The apparently unsuccessful Atlanta mayoral candidate Mary Norwood has life's priorities straight. On a "too close to call" election night, she announced that the results wouldn't be known for hours — so she climbed in her car and went home, presumably to get some sleep. Why keep supporters hanging around until the wee hours when Wednesday's a work day? Three pollsters got this one right.
● China sought to temper public anger about the sale of contaminated baby formula by executing a dairy farmer and a milk salesman. The Wall Street capitalists scapegoated by the American Left should take heed. Here they lose their companies; there they lose their lives.
● When a blue-chip company like the Sea Island Co. hands over the deed to a 3,000-acre planned community to lender Wells Fargo & Co. , it's evidence that even the rich are reeling, too. The Frederica project was intended by designers to be "Pebble Beach of the East." Frederica lots fetched more than $2 million each three or four years ago. When this Congress finds out that "the rich" don't have the resources to support their spending, the IRS will come for the "wealth" of the middle class.
● It's a silly law that would require Wal-Mart to register with the Georgia Secretary of State to sell funeral merchandise — caskets specifically — online in Georgia. Republicans should rid this state of laws enacted on behalf of the various industries, trades and professions that are intended primarily to stifle competent competitors by controlling entry.
● The problem with having "free" money lying around — a dime in federal money that's "free" if you'll spend a dollar of yours — is that some clever soul will find a way to spend the dime and obligate the dollar. That's what Georgia's Department of Transportation board chairman, Bill Kuhlke, is attempting when he proposes to spend $87 million earmarked for the Atlanta-Lovejoy commuter rail line on a downtown Atlanta bus/rail station.
● Barack Obama is a text-message president. His speeches have no particular foundation in anything that precedes or follows. In his West Point address, for example, he accused the former administration of denying or ignoring requests for more troops. "Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the re-emergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive," he speechified. Responded former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: "Such a bald misstatement, at least as it pertains to the period I served as secretary of defense, deserves a response. I am not aware of a single request of that nature between 2001 and 2006."
● It is tacky and disrespectful of the Office of the President for the Commander-in-Chief to assemble his troops, as Obama did at West Point, and use the occasion to trash their former Commander-in-Chief. This is the action of a small-bore leader.
● Hmmm. Troops are to arrive and exit Afghanistan almost simultaneously. What could prompt such a bizarre use of force? Ah, yes, the troops are programmed to start their exit just in time for the next presidential campaign. That's a shameful way to commit the lives of those in uniform.
We couldn't salvage the old East Lake Meadows public housing project in a single year. This is not a policy to win a war; it's a policy to win an election. With Obama — on health care and national security, for example —the glory's now, the disaster is for some future president to deal with.
December 3rd, 2009
9:19 pm
1st loser
December 3rd, 2009
11:20 pm
I agree that nothing is beneath Obama. His using West Point as window dressing for his lame and lackluster speechifying backfired on him as those cadets looked like they slept through most of it, and I am sure all of them were thinking they would like to take a crack at Obama. Obama is a disaster, and I am beginning to think he might even know it himself. While he manages to keep his chin up, I think he has had the wind knocked out of his sails.
December 3rd, 2009
11:31 pm
Jim Wooten,
You have many good points here. Tiger Woods brings to mind one question for me: Why can't celebrities behave?? And why do we have to hear about them??
As to Obama, he does make an endearing speech. If only we could believe and not know that he first considers politics.. He seems to open a poltical Pandora box of debt and duplicity, a mishmash of nebulous promises not to be kept.. He's sending troops in.. He's bringing troops out. This is the deadline. The deadline is open to change, On and on.
I hope our troops know that Americans support them always. They are our sons and daughters fighting for us. They are our heroes. .
December 4th, 2009
12:03 am
What a litany of fascist propaganda! Krusty the klown, Joan the maggot and Axeltoad. There's an audience. sure you want to be on the same side as these miscreants?
December 4th, 2009
12:33 am
Where in Atlanta can I pick up my Obama money ? LOL
December 4th, 2009
5:06 am
One BIG ASS Mistake America! = Obummer
HOW do we get him OUT of the District of Criminals before its too late?
December 4th, 2009
5:08 am
I got stories to tell…
December 4th, 2009
5:39 am
Tell it to Presbo da Clown…he is saving us all…
December 4th, 2009
5:39 am
You must have gone to journalism school at UGA!! You quote Donald Rumsfeld but you do not bother to mention that his quotes havve no credibility. Jim, you know, we really do not miss you!! Why don't you get on with the rest of your life!!
December 4th, 2009
5:40 am
BTW, Tiger is an IDIOT….I guess shes frigid or something LOL
December 4th, 2009
6:10 am
Yea – 8 more years of W and Rummy would have solved all out problems. Ha! They left a huge mess – Obama is trying to pick up the pieces. I'm guessing that any general publicly requesting more troops for Afghanistan under W would have had a pink slip before the day was done.
December 4th, 2009
7:22 am
It still amazes that we have so many jack azzes on the AJC blogs that comment against the previous administration as though Obuma is still campaigning for office. He's in office, however, he's still campaigning to cover up failures that belong to him. The 20 percent far-left still think this idiot is performing, while most Americans now including many moderate Democrat's are seeing this presidents incompetence in startling detail.
December 4th, 2009
7:29 am
"It is tacky and disrespectful of the Office of the President for the Commander-in-Chief to assemble his troops, as Obama did at West Point, and use the occasion to trash their former Commander-in-Chief. This is the action of a small-bore leader."
Unlike his predecessor; who flew out to a aircraft carrier in a navy jet wearing a navy flight uniform and when he landed assembled the crew on the flight deck under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished" brag about a freat victory in Irag…
Is that how it's done?
December 4th, 2009
7:38 am
"China sought to temper public anger about the sale of contaminated baby formula by executing a dairy farmer and a milk salesman."
China's cows have started a "Drink more soymilk" campaign. You don't think they had anything to do with this, do you? Nah. Do you? Nah. Maybe. Nah. If they had access to Chick Filet's website…..Nah.
Justice aint blind in China, you gotta give them that. Now we know how the Kurds got their name, eh? Wait'll Fox News spins this. Oh, the Hume-Hannity!
December 4th, 2009
7:51 am
Obama is a lightweight, inexperienced, misguided president. We must find a way to round-off the sharp edges of his policies until we can vote him out in 2012. Otherwise, our country and our way of life as we know it will both be harmed irreversibly.
December 4th, 2009
8:13 am
I see you decided to skip over the Glen Richardson issue. At least you didn't coddle him like Ethics Committee Chairman Wilkinson, who excused possibly criminal behavior by Richardson toward his ex-wife AND who called the now ex-speaker's affair with a lobbyist a personal matter, though it's actually a matter for Wilkinson's won dadgum committee. The GOP leadership in this state is corrupt and the good members of the party need to take it away from them.
December 4th, 2009
8:20 am
By hook or by crook, powerful and well connected enemies foreign and domestic are encouraging executives throughout the United States to subvert the economy, and pilfer the wealth of the citizens thereof via Ponzi Schemes etc. After all, should white collar criminals succeed in stealing billions of 'free money' from citizens, the worst punishment expected is to be tried, convicted, imprisoned, and released at a later date. Eventually, they expect to be blessed by confidants associated with the scheme and the offshore accounts.
China doesn't permit that form of organized sacrificial evil to exist. In China, the Bernie Madoffs of the world and accomplices would be tried, convicted, and executed for the high crimes committed against citizens. And others remotely involved would be tried, convicted, and imprisoned for life. The government of China wouldn't relent until the stolen money is recovered and returned to the rightful owners.
Don't get it twisted. This is by no means a wholehearted endorsement of the criminal justice system in China. It's an indictment of 'white collar' executives and the politicians they influence in the United States.
December 4th, 2009
8:21 am
Voice of Reason, I agree 100% and I just hope that someone in office has the guts to stand up and make the needed changes or blocks to accomplish this. I am very afraid for not only my way of life, but what life is going to look like for my daughter when she grows up. Will she even have the chance at a good life or will it just be a socialist state?
Rome was once the greatest government in the world and they ended up destroying themselves. It could happen again I fear.
December 4th, 2009
8:25 am
Obama is a texter. Clinton is a sexter. Bush is a vexer. Palin is a hexer.
Can you imagine Palin performing occult rituals and stirring a bubbling cauldron in her basement? Sticking pins into effigies of McCain and Katie Couric? Her book titled, instead, "Voodoo Economics"?
Me neither. Until I read her book. OMG! We need a woman scorned as our president. Fellow Liberals: we need to stop tweaking her nose. There's no telling what she'll do if she gets half a chance.
I've got a bad feeling after reading her fix things right in her own mind. The whole book is an orange alert. A Clockwork Orange alert.
How did the Mayans know that a country that didn't exist would have an election in 2012?
Luckovich hit a homerun today. "Desperate House-Jives"
December 4th, 2009
8:27 am
The Geico Gecko has cancelled Tiger Wood's auto insurancy policy. The money he could be saving saw the whole thing.
December 4th, 2009
8:29 am
Charles the Original:
Sad but true statements. Madoff along with the SEC examiners who "missed" that one should be executed as they are in China.
Can we add Barney Frank and Chris Dodd to that list as well?
A step in the right direct might be to limit the campaign for political office period to 10 weeks with a strict budget. It certainly would make things more interesting. As to the influence of lobbyists…..that is graft? Isn't it?
December 4th, 2009
8:39 am
There was free money in Iraq for the right people: From today's WSJ: "A former Army major was sentenced to a 17½-year prison term on corruption charges in Wednesday in San Antonio, signaling the beginning of the end of a far-reaching Iraq War corruption probe.
As part of the probe, a growing cadre of career soldiers has confessed to siphoning millions of dollars from defense contracts in Iraq and Kuwait. The investigation into their spree already has led to the indictments of five U.S. military officers, with another dozen expected to follow."
All 18 officers are BLACK: I quote the wsj again: "Almost every suspect comes from the same background: African-Americans who rose from childhood poverty to successful military careers."
There is just something about money and authority these people cannot handle and should not be trusted with, imho. Note the ajc has not covered this story, and most likely will not. Cindy Lou would be too upset at the overt racism of it all.
December 4th, 2009
8:41 am
This is the action of a small-bore leader.
Succint, to-the-point prose. Obama's a .22 caliber leader in a .357 magnum world. Even when he hits the right policy (like Afghanistan) he diminishes the act by also specifying when the troops are leaving. Small bore. Short round.
I'm extrememly thankful that I purchased my house in 1992. The mortgage is almost paid and the value remains comfortably above where I bought it. I'm am sympathetic to those who bought during the previous 3-4 years like the Frederica Island development.
It's a nightmare for so many people and it's principal cause can be traced to EXCESSIVE government intervention in the residential mortgage markets. If the American people and the 55% percent who pay federal income taxes should ever take note of the capacity of politicians to create problems, then I submit the residential housing market as exhibit A. How many of those existing owners of lots in the Frederica project are now underwater on their mortgages? I would suggest that MANY of them are even if they have the ability to continue making payments.
THE LESSON. Look for hedge funds which specialize is taking advantage of government-created inefficiencies in the market. Particularly those that will revert to a more efficient structure in the future. I don't know where I can find such a fund but maybe I should start one. Hmmmm, free-market solves problem again!!
Unlike some of my blog compatriots, many of us miss your political insight and heft, Jim, but I have to say that Kyle's coming along nicely. With some additional time at the helm he should make a fine conservative commentator for the AJC.
December 4th, 2009
9:03 am
"…Obama is a small bore leader who trashed the former commander in chief…"
Wooten is….RIGHT! Shame on Obama for trashing Cheney.
Seriously, small bore Obama shouldn't have trashed dumb-dumb. (W)
December 4th, 2009
9:14 am
Wrong Jim…..The way the legislators are taking Gifts at the Capitol downtown Atlanta with Republican's leading the way there certainly IS FREE MONEY !
December 4th, 2009
9:14 am
Chris, your comments were, likewise, small bore.
The 'Geico' schtick was mildly amusing at first, but now it's migrating toward tedious.
Let's move on, shall we?
December 4th, 2009
9:16 am
WRONG Jim……. the way Cheney has been trashing this administration….All is fair Play….Cry baby !
December 4th, 2009
9:17 am
Ahhh, always nice to know that I can come to JW's page and enjoy a well deserved ReTHUGlican break. I agree with him, (I can't believe I said that), on Tiger. It's his and his family's personal business. The media are the one's making it a mountain. As for his comments of the President, ho-hum. It's funny that ANYTHING he does gets a negative reaction from the dwnidling bloggers on this page. Kinda like the GOP, splintering and fracturing into oblivion. As for trashing Dubya and Cheeeney, President Obama stated factual occurences. As typical, the GOP and its affiliates wish to rewrite history through loud denial as if a child refusing to take their medicine.
Man up. Your doctrine is dated and no longer applies to the reality that we are in as a result of it. Those that wish to continue this madness, wish then for the continued failure of this country. They could care less about American lives. They can longer drape themselves in the flag and scream Patriot, while they count their money from backs of Americans. Enough.
Y'all can go back to hating now.
December 4th, 2009
9:18 am
Time to change the name of this Blog to….. "Thinking Small " ….. The Republican way…….but hey lots of lobbyist Gifts for Votes, and contracts !
December 4th, 2009
9:18 am
And Richardson gets off without one word from Wooten! Wow!
December 4th, 2009
9:22 am
Mixed feelings on the Tiger stuff. Until the beatings spilled over into the public throughfare privacy was warranted. Once the domestic abuse hit the highway and then a tree or whatever it became a public issue. I do believe people in the public eye (e.g., Glenn Richardson) have a role-model obligation, regardless of whatever wisdom leave Charles Barkley's lips. Tiger fell short. I do not favor Chinese-style execution for the failing; I suspect Mrs. Woods may take care of that.
"When this Congress finds out that "the rich" don't have the resources to support their spending, the IRS will come for the "wealth" of the middle class." I'm no longer so pessimistic. All but the stupidest leftists are beginning to fear the wrath of the rabble, i.e., all except Madame Speaker.
Heck, I would allow Walmart to sell non-medical marijuana without a state license.
I thought the West Point speech was dreadful in practically every respect. Our genteel host uses the "text message" simile, whereas I would say he phoned it in. As to "small bore," I will surely not be the first here to assert Big Bore. Nevertheless, I am comfortable that the president lied when he suggested troops would be removed beginning in 2011. Odd that I take comfort from the lie.
December 4th, 2009
9:30 am
If you had taken Oblablama's teleprompter away, I don't believe he could have enunciated his position on Afghanistan…other than a string of ooohs and aahhhas.
We all need to flatly admit Oblablama is a puppet of the ruling elite hell bent on flushing out every dime of hard-earned assets from the middle class.
The very people that think Oblablama is the Messiah, are the ones most hurt by his insane fiscal policies.
There is no remedy for being stupid.
December 4th, 2009
9:35 am
Yes there is no remedy for Being Stupid……….George Bush prime example !
December 4th, 2009
9:45 am
"Rome was once the greatest government in the world and they ended up destroying themselves. It could happen again I fear."
Explain exactly how (1) Rome was once the greatest goverment in the world, and (2) your bases for asserting that Rome destroyed itself. And then think about what characteristics of America most reflect Rome's downfall.
My position is that Rome only destroyed itself by stretching itself too thinly and trying to police and control too much territory. Then it was torn apart by non-Romans (who ironically learned a lot from Rome before shredding it) while it was stretched too thin. Now look into which party has behaved more in that manner in regard the America.
December 4th, 2009
9:49 am
Hey Whip, I'd say Rome fell because they used lead-laden vessels to drink their wine. The party of parties would be the best American analogy, those who tear themselves apart via substance abuse.
Notably that was not a political issue of Rome – more like a behavior standard. We see the same here, today.
December 4th, 2009
9:52 am
Reminder to all, the "sacking" of rome was not a destruction. Rather the Germanic tribes that "conquered" simply moved in, and out numbered the debilitated and decadent locals. We could suffer worse than seeing industrious, religious, family-oriented Mexicans reshape America.
December 4th, 2009
9:55 am
You fail to see the difference. Bush didn't blane Clinton for anything on the aircraft carrier, Obama did blame Bush at West Point. Very clear difference.
December 4th, 2009
10:17 am
You must be drinking from lead-laden vessels, because that is a common misconception about Rome. Lead had very little to do with the fall of Rome.
And the "debilitated and decadent locals" amounted to a lesser fraction of the population than current "debilitated and decadent locals."
Go read a real history book.
December 4th, 2009
10:28 am
Rome was destroyed by cartographers. At what point did Persians start being and then stop being "Romans"? When the map makers changed the name back to Persia.
Rome was merely the evolution of political expedience in the minds of an expanding pool of deluded entitlement recipients who were living off of the ever-diluting allegience of illusory military conquests.
Just like today.
December 4th, 2009
10:31 am
Ragnar Danneskjöld – R U talking about the industrious Mexican Drug gangs murdering whole families in Northern Mexico and into the USA? Yes, they are very family oriented, but not in a good way.
December 4th, 2009
10:39 am
We bee wating n lin two get us sum monies out of Obama's stash.
December 4th, 2009
11:00 am
I don't see much change in the policies of Bush or Obama. Wooten is just spewing republican propaganda, but the policies have mostly stayed the same. Only in Wooten's eye, it was ok when republicans were in power. He seems to forget anyone that disagreed with Bush/Cheney was labeled a traitor or not a patriot. Obama never referenced Bush by name, although Cheney went on a 90 minute rant speaking negatively about the Prez. In Wooten's eyes, speaking bad about Bush at West Point is worse than outing a CIA agent.
What nothing to say about Richardson, Wooten?
December 4th, 2009
11:06 am
What does your Navy son think about our current military positions?
I, too, think legal industriious, religious, family oriented Mexican/Hispanics are a fortunate addition to the "American family" (such as my most gracious and ethical son-in-law.) But the drug cartels are something else. Then again,..they too would have no business if nobody bought the drugs here. I believe the Mexican president brought out that point one time.
PETER, have you noticed that no one here has mentioned Cheney but you. What's with your seeningly brainwashed viewpoints? .And have you noticed that Obama has now decided (but gave no credit) that many of Bush's policies had merit and should be continued? Maybe it is time for you to "see the light".
CHRIS BROE, how far back do you want to go in this "ever-diluting allegience of illusory military conquests"? I believe Germany and Japan are free countries. Did I miss something?
December 4th, 2009
11:09 am
Your mind LEFT you long ago…..
December 4th, 2009
11:14 am
Dusty have you noticed Cheney has been on TV bashing Obama ?
Have you been paying attention to his rabble rousing baloney about US security ?
Jim never notices, as he is gone to pasture !
What is the light Dusty …..all the gifts the Republican's have been getting at the Capitol via Lobbyists ?
December 4th, 2009
11:38 am
No, I haven't seen Cheney bashing Obama on TV. I don't watch much TV except in the evenings. But I did see President Obama "bashing" President Bush.
Obama is not campaigning now. He is in charge. He needs to explain his own reasons for his policies, He does not need to wat months for decisions and then blame President Bush on what he decides. That is the cowardly approach of a weak personality..
Did all the Democratic lobbyists die off in Washington, Peter? They must have. You don't seem to see their presence there.
That must be a mighty green pasture you've designed for Jim Wooten. He surely does know how to kick up his heels. Goooo, Jim!!!
December 4th, 2009
11:40 am
And so it continues. Republicans, with all their ill dealings, and Democrats incapable of tying their shoes. Richardson and a host of the Republicans that run the State legislature are in bed with those that could care less about Georgia(ns), but want the dollars. Driving people out of work, out of home, and out of their minds. JW lauds their effort. He attacks a President that is sitting, to defend a President and Vice President that held this country hostage for Big Business for years. Truth hurts, huh?
Can't wait to see what happens next.
December 4th, 2009
12:39 pm
Dusty………"Peter, No, I haven't seen Cheney bashing Obama on TV. I don't watch much TV except in the evenings. But I did see President Obama "bashing" President Bush."
Well Dusty you have not been paying attention at all then or reading the news.
I fact Cheney has been very vocal and has been bashing Obama constantly in the news since Obama took office.
The Capitol I am talking about is Downtown Atlanta where the Republican's are in charge.
December 4th, 2009
1:32 pm
Time to retire, move to Del Boca Vista, and start complaining about the HOA budget and the hippies.
please go back to posting your hackneyed, corn-ball platitudes on The Vent.
December 4th, 2009
1:33 pm
Hey Jim…..What about this………
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, for instance, has received gifts valued at $12,870 since 2005, records show. But Jaillene Hunter, Cagle's spokeswoman, said, "It absolutely does not influence the lieutenant governor's decision-making process."
Burkhalter (R-Johns Creek), the speaker pro tem, has received even more — $52,076.
Senate leaders got less: Eric Johnson (R-Savannah), who was president pro tem, accepted $18,688 in entertainment and other gifts, while his replacement, Tommie Williams (R-Lyons), took $23,560.
Keen (R-St. Simons Island), the third-ranking House leader, received $49,103 since 2005, much of it from the same sources.
By contrast, the House minority leader, Rep. DuBose Porter (D-Dublin), accepted $5,945 during the past five years. His Senate counterpart, Robert Brown (D-Macon), took $2,243.
HA HA HA Jim…There seems to be plenty of FREE MONEY going around…..For Both sides of the Isle !
December 4th, 2009
1:43 pm
In regards to your Rumsfeld quote…classic example of your mindless parroting. Notice how Rummy said "between 2001 and 2006." Funny, because Bush was in office until 2008. Hmmm…wonder why he used those specific dates?
It's not Obamas speeches that have no reference, it's your shoddy opinion work. Try again please.
December 4th, 2009
1:49 pm
What you really mean is that Cheney is disagreeing with Obama's policies. Well, he's not the only one. Democrats are disagreeing with Obama many times now. That is why his popularity is waning in the polls with Democrats..
I don't understand your last sentence. We are discussing Cheney and you say you are talking about the Capitol in Downtown Atlanta. I guess I missed Cheney in the Capitol in Down town Atlanta. Huh????
By the way, would you mind telling me wha happened to all the investigations, innuendos and other efforts that were going to indict Cheney? There aren't any because he has done nothing illegal.
But there is a fact about Cheney that has become known.. Cheney has given millions to charity. I guess that is something you forgot to mention..
December 4th, 2009
1:57 pm
Could it be that was the period he was secdef? Rumsfeld did clarify, that during his tenure in office those requests did not occur. That's pretty clear. Obama's mouth peice Robert Gibbs, a disgrace to all Auburn grads, said the request Obama was referring to was the one in 2008, long after Rumsfeld was gone. Bush did his own review, it was completed about the time of the election. He contacted the Obama transition team and Bush was asked by the Obama team not to take any action. So Bush left it to Obama like he was asked.
So I guess Obama was complaining about himself. Isn't strange how the facts can bite you in the tail.
December 4th, 2009
2:13 pm
You are correct. Rumsfeld resigned as Secretary of Defense in 2006. The order in question was in 2008. As usual, Gibbs was playing the old "Bush did it" game by trying to blame Rumsfeld.
Obama needs some new speech writers or a replacement for Robert Gibbs.
December 4th, 2009
2:19 pm
Doddering, Cranky Geezer
Please return to your Alzheimer's unit and read a book by MIss Manners. If not too late, you may learn something.
December 4th, 2009
2:21 pm
I thought Obama was smart but misguided at first, now I'm not so sure.He needs to replace Gibbs. Gibbs is the biggest joke I have ever seen.
BTW Jim Wooten, you are always "on the money" in weekly dose of common sense. I hope you will continue to write for many years.
December 4th, 2009
2:21 pm
No Dusty..Don't put words in my moth……I said Cheney has been bashing him on TV, and in the media !
December 4th, 2009
2:55 pm
I'm not putting any words in your mouth. You've got plenty of your own. I'm just trying to keep all your ducks in a row. They seem to wander a bit.
December 4th, 2009
2:57 pm
Anything you (Wooten) get paid over $7.25/hr for writing this IS free money.
December 4th, 2009
3:26 pm
Dusty.. Thank you for the ducks in a row…….you made my day !
December 4th, 2009
3:32 pm
I am always surprised that people as stupid as you are willing to demonstrate their ignorance and stupidity in blogs every hour.
I'd be too embarrassed to post if I was as stupid as you. But you're likely too dense to comprehend that notion.
December 4th, 2009
3:39 pm
Glad you are still here and hope you choose to stay around a while.
On the topic of "free" money lying around, I could not believe that FEMA was begging people to take disaster relief funds after the recent floods. Less than a week before the funds were to run out they were on the news saying that only 15% of the money had been spent, and pleading with people to get their applications in by the deadline. His last line in his interview was, it would be ashamed for people in Atlanta to leave "Free federal money on the table".
Our rewards spending money. This has to end.
December 4th, 2009
3:53 pm
Stupid Geezer-
I guess your mother never taught you how to place nice. Please take two tablets and continue bloging in the morning. The stress is obviously to much for you.
December 4th, 2009
4:11 pm
Hey RetiredSoldier …..Funny stuff !!!!! Thanks I am laughing, which is good for health and the soul !
I hope your weekend is wonderful !
December 4th, 2009
4:13 pm
Well, merry Christmas and happy New Year, GEEZER I can see you are the happiest little elf around, spreading joy etc. Have a good one, Grinch. I mean Geezer.
December 4th, 2009
4:27 pm
Thank you Peter. Now if you and Dusty can make nice I can go on my merry way and see if I earned my wings. Dang, never heard the bells. Guess I just need to find Jimmy Stewart and start all over again.
Have a good weekend all
December 4th, 2009
5:08 pm
The rich are just smart enough to not hand over cash for overpriced real estate, which is exactly what Frederica is. Same with Cloister, Lodge and everything else. Like the Cloister, where the $$'s spent per room were close to double the normal 5-star establishment, tons of money was wasted unecessarily on developing Frederica.
The issue is that the "stupid rich" (not stupendously rich, but rather people that are rich, and also stupid) aren't rich anymore…this is because, well, they're stupid.
Unfortunately Bill Jones abandoned his core constituency (people with moderate wealth, and the conservative rich) and bet the farm on attracting the stupid rich — that was a stupid bet.
By extension one might say Bill is, well, ……………..
December 4th, 2009
5:37 pm
Cheney is a private citizen now isn't he? And aren't we all bashing Obama? But there is a difference in the degree of the bashing if the President is bashing someone. I think it particularly small to keep beating a dead horse–Bush, at this point. Bush has had the grace not to pony up his private citizen opinion–unlike Carter and Cheney, but as between the two latter, who is the more nuts??
December 4th, 2009
7:28 pm
It's official: This blog and the responses just won the Most Boring Award. Man, I can't believe I clicked on it. Not that I disagree with all of it, but still. Boooooring.
December 4th, 2009
7:28 pm
These bullet-point "essays" are lazy at best.
December 5th, 2009
9:35 am
Mike it's a bild blog world out there. Don't waste your time here.
December 5th, 2009
9:35 am
opps…I meant bold
December 5th, 2009
9:45 am
"…dairy farmer, milk salesman….scapegoated…."
Nice! Sorry I missed that one, yesterday.
"To that, I would add one's sexual preferences. We don't need to know who's doing WHAT unless the public business is involved."
A corrective rewrite is appropriate here: "We don't need to know who's doing WHOM", (not what), unless you meant "doing what to whom", or unless you were foreshadowing the "scapegoating" comment, in which case your pronoun "what" is just fine, so nevermind. (I forgot that you were talkin' 'bout Georgia politicians.)
Like Kyle Wingfield, Jim Wooten has finally learned that political spin is best presented as entertainment. This is a fence-breaking piece. It is also gender-bending, mind-bending, and fender-bending, (If you're readin' it on your blackberry while drivin').
December 5th, 2009
10:22 am
Jim, in your spare and abundant retired time, do you think you could cover this sentencing and trial of corrupt Army officers? Will the AJC make an effort to cover this story – "Major Gets 17½ Years in Iraq Contract Case," or ignore it as they do most other important news that does not meet the Political Correct world of Cindy Lou and the other Blacks-R-Victims-of-Whity crowd. Here is the link for the story from the wsj http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125980636539574013.html
So far, three former Army majors and one lieutenant colonel have pleaded guilty to money-laundering, bribery and other charges. Another major is awaiting trial, while sentencing of former Maj. Christopher Murray is slated to occur in Georgia in two weeks. Do you think the ajc could spare a reporter or at least an intern to cover this trial? It is right here in Georgia after all. There could be a Pulitzer in it for someone. Compare and contrast the treatment of these 17 Black Officers and senior enlisted soldiers with treatment of Kellog, Brown, and Root (at the time owned by Dick Cheney's Haliburton). Surely the AJC can spare at least one unpaid intern or one retired former editor for the sentencing of former Major Christopher Murray and the trial of another Major. I mean, the ajc is a NEWSPAPER, is it not, and this is NEWS.
December 5th, 2009
1:28 pm
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December 6th, 2009
10:32 am
We have a very intellectually challenged POTUS, in today's politically correct vernacular. As for those that like to imply that Bush was stupid, where's your guy's college records? Hiding behind something like $1.5 million in attorney's fees to date. Obama is not the smart guy some seemed to think. He's way out of his league and has only socialistic and simplistic ideas to guide him, and those are not setting well with the electorate. This guy's a one trick pony and his time will be up in 2012; that of his useful idiots in congress in 2010. The liberals have had their messiah now, and look at the disaster he's wrought. Total and irrefutable incompetence, as well as a narcissist to boot. Stupid people don't bother me, their bragging about it is another matter. The liberals can hide their heads in the sand all they want; 2010 will be a rude wake-up call to them and their ilk. As for me, it can't come soon enough!
December 6th, 2009
12:19 pm
Until everyone is willing to recognize, and talk openly about the cultural problems in our schools, there will never be progress made toward improving our public education systems. When there is a group of students who have been raised to place no value on education, with parents who are not willing to instill a respect for schools and teachers, no amount of money or government programs is going to change this. Our response for the last several decades has been to dumb down the schools to make it easier for all to succeed, or in the Case of Atlanta schools, just cheat on standardized tests. This has resulted in lowering the standards for all in those ares where this culture persist.
In order to improve, our educators need to look at states and systems which do succeed. The best schools in the country, as measured by SATs are in the upper plains states. N.Dakota, S. Dakota, and Iowa are topping the list. It's also important to note that these systems have among the lowest cost per student in the country. What they do have is a culture of hard work and respect for the institutions of learning.
This is not a problem which can be solved by government programs or more money. This has been tried and it failed. This will be solved when parents, the communities, and community activists decide they must help themselves. This is a cultural problem. It will change when the culture changes, not before.
December 6th, 2009
2:04 pm
Well, it is cold and cloudy in Atlanta but no snow. Anybody else got any snow? Christmas is coming and "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas"…Will Frosty the Snowman be disappointed??
Sorry, Jim, I'm just getting in a Chrsitmas mood tra la. Haven't decked the halls yet. Excuse me for wandering off. …Maybe Chris Broe will add a little entertainment here. La la la???
December 6th, 2009
6:33 pm
Dear Dusty @ 2:04, apologies for slow response. My son hasn't much to say about the long-awaited latest iteration of the Chauncey cure for Afghanistan. He will deploy early next year, so perhaps he and his buddies will cure the problem over there. Temperature here in the Florida swamp tonight is 75 degrees. I may have to close the window.
December 6th, 2009
8:36 pm
Dear Ragnar,
Good to hear from you. I am so envious. SEVENTY FIVE DEGREES?? I am totally sweatered, wrapped and blanketed trying to keep warm in my thrifty 68 degree house (which must be fifty degrees on the floor). Please open your windows and let it all those warm breezes come this way.
Best wishes for your son in all ways, especially his deployment to Afghanistan. Like you said, he and his buddies may be just the cure. I surely do hope so.
By the way, what are you doing in Florida when we need you in Atlanta?? Surely you would not desert this cool and charming place of delights?? We will be launching a new mayor soon. See what you are missing?
December 6th, 2009
8:46 pm
Retired soldier @4:27
Just checking to see if you've gotten your wings yet. Surely you have heard the bells by now. There seems to be plenty of ding-a-lings around.
December 7th, 2009
1:31 pm
Dear Dusty, I'm hiding in Florida (Galt's Gulch) until sanity returns to the fever swamps of Foggy Bottom. For now it's just smarter to let them fall.
December 8th, 2009
12:19 am
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8:13 am
several; the election, no suprise, there was a declaration months before that a black man should/must win in a choc. city. therefore pigmalian came thru. and maybe some votes that were shady too.
the vick embarassment: the atl team is in a fight for a berth, and the "fans" of atl showed support for the opposing thug. there has never been a worse embarassment in the NFL on a sunday.
political correctness. please, isn't it time to say what we see, mean and feel, rather than to be so nice as to not want to hurt anothers feelings? my mom taught me if you have nothing nice to say say nothing. not to pass over the indescression and put a spin on it with words and smiles and gestures. WE are not polititians, we are the government, we are supposed to be the we in we the people. the governing body has become elete, above and so politically correct that it sickens one to see/read/hear the comments from the blustery bunch in DC.
thank you
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5:05 am
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- Calories from fat: 22%
- Fat: 6g
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- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.8g
- Protein: 37g
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Thomas Carlyle (17951881), Scottish born biographer, historian, philosopher and prolific author wrote of Hero Worship. (1841)
Thomas Carlyle, the eldest of nine children, was born on 4 December 1795. The family home was built and designed in part by his hardworking father, stonemason James Carlyle (1757-1832) and was called Arch House, in Ecclefechan, in the district of Annandale, county Dumfries. An arched doorway and an arched window centered on the second floor give it its name. He would later write of his father "He was among the last of the true men, which Scotland (on the old system) produced, or can produce." His father often spoke metaphorically though he did not know what metaphor was and didn't have much time for poetry and fiction. He instilled the Gospel of Work into his children however, like many peasant Scotsmen who had sons with a gift for great learning he wanted his eldest to become a minister and was surprisingly patient while he tried to find his vocation in school. Carlyle's childhood home was dominated by his father who rarely showed emotion and where the absolutes of Religion, Conduct and Work prevailed. Carlyle's doting and loving mother, Margaret née Aitken, taught him to read and was a true Christian believer, living in the frugal Calvinist way.
Early on Carlyle showed a great aptitude for mathematics, which his father had introduced him to. While in grammar school, as his mother had taught him to turn the other cheek, he was bullied by the other boys until once responding in kind and the attacks lessened. His apartness was obvious when the teachers singled him out as gifted, causing jealousy and more bullying. He quickly learned to defend himself to the hostile world verbally and turned to reading, among many others, Defoe, Fielding and Sterne for solace.
In 1809, at the age of fourteen Carlyle was now prepared to enter the University of Edinburgh to study maths and the classics. He was still the reticent boy, shy and often retreating to his books. Many of the social activities at the university went against his upbringing of frugal emotion "amusements, too often riotous and libertine" which seemed initially coarse and distasteful to him. His father had become a farmer at Mainhill so he would travel there for his summer vacations. In 1813 he graduated with a B.A. Upon finishing university and until 1818 he studied for the ministry of the Church of Scotland, though he ended up telling his parents that he would not pursue theology, to his mother and father's great disappointment. "Let me write my books as he built his houses." Between 1814 and 1818 he became schoolmaster for first the Annan then Kirkaldy Grammar Schools but had little patience for the young boys disinterested in the Latin and arithmetic he so loved. Again his father did not chastise his confusion as to his chosen profession. He suffered a period of ill-health, probably dyspepsia, and retreated to his parent's in the country where he became quite depressed until the summer of 1819.
An exceptional break in the black clouds occurred for Carlyle in 1820 when his friend, Edward Irving (d.1836) assisted him in becoming a tutor to the two Buller boys. Irving was hopeful that his friend would gain some self-confidence through this position which turned out to be a success. Carlyle was beginning to be regarded as somewhat of a pioneer in the area of translation of German; the Reviews of the day were publishing his material, however Carlyle remained wracked with doubt as to his own abilities. He met the Bullers in London in the spring of 1824 and would live with them for a time, whereupon he was to meet `the very best figures in literary society' including Coleridge.
By 1824 Carlyle was writing full-time and studying German literature, in particular Fichte's transcendentalism. Life of Schiller (1825) first appeared in London Magazine in 1823-1824. He was also immensely impressed with Goethe and translated some of his works. He felt Faust's pilgrimage was very similar to his own quest to rationalise his spiritual and intellectual sides. In 1826 Carlyle and the writer Jane Baillie Welsh (1801-1866) married. Financial difficulties caused them to move to Jane's inherited farm `Craigenputtock' in 1828 for four years though she felt it beneath her at first. Carlyle's brother Alick would help run the farm. While Jane had a servant she also was known to help with the chores. Carlyle had another period of despondency and listlessness, and as a result he wrote his Sartor Resartus. (1838) Under the guise of reminisces of a German philosopher by the name of Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, it's part autobiography and part philosophy, satirising the inane shams of life and revealing a profound turn from revelation to acceptance in labyrinthine quotations. It was highly praised by R.W. Emerson in America. Feeling positive and encouraged by his opinion he set off on the five-hour boat trip from Scotland for London to survey the literary scene.
As was their pattern during a separation, Carlyle and Jane resumed their affectionate correspondence while he was away. She wrote to him "Heaven reward thee, my clear-headed, warm-hearted, dearest little Screamikin." She would join her husband after a while, though promptly suffered an attack of nerves and headache. She tended to ill-health at the best of times, getting colds often, though she concealed the worst of her complaints from her husband for years. Carlyle wasn't having any luck in finding a publisher for Sartor. News came from Scotland that Carlyle's father John Carlyle died on 22 January 1832. He wrote a portrait of his father which was published in his Reminisces. (1881) "With the exception of the religious and moral instruction which I had the happiness of receiving from my parents, and which I humbly trust will not be entirely lost on me, there is nothing for which I feel more grateful than for the education which they have bestowed on me." The grieving son and his wife moved back to Craigenputtock. The couple were back to their difficult country life for a few years, with long silences between them, quarrelling and lack of social contacts. Carlyle often read from 9a.m. to 10p.m. He went horseback riding alone. The tedious days of life on the moors were broken up by the arrival of the young American Emerson seeking out his much admired Carlyle of whose work he'd read so much of in magazines. While Jane was suffering physically, Carlyle was suffering mentally, consumed with great impatience to express to the world "A strange feeling of supernaturalism, of the fearfulness and wonderfulness of this hurts me and grows upon me . . . The whole Creation seems more and more divine to me." Carlyle would finally have his Sartor Resartus serialised in Fraser's Magazine though it would go largely misunderstood.
Between the autumn of 1834 and January of 1837, while living in Cheyne Row, Chelsea, Carlyle wrote his three-volume The French Revolution. A major disruption, the first manuscript of one-hundred and seventy pages of foolscap was accidentally burned by John Stuart Mills' maid. Mills begged Carlyle to accept compensation and he finally agreed to £100, wages for five months labour. The Carlyle's had a number of illustrious guests visit them including Dickens, Tennyson, Darwin and Ruskin. Carlyle was always a difficult companion when he was in the middle of writing and often Jane's ill-health would come to the fore and this time was no exception and she left for Scotland for refuge. Upon completion of The French Revolution Carlyle embarked on a series of lectures On Heroes and Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. By using examples of great men from history he spoke of the chaos in society and it's demands that heroes take control; that society loses it's humanity when ideological formulas, `rights' and `laws', are applied. He also wrote Life and Letters of Oliver Cromwell. (1845) The success of his lecture tours were partly due to the generosity of Lord and Lady Ashburton. He fell under the spell of and became romantically involved with Lady Ashburton in 1846, much to the notice and dismay of Jane. Carlyle had never met anyone like her, she was "the most queen-like woman" he had ever met, practically the opposite of Jane. He was invited to give talks at their residences at Addiscombe, The Grange and Bath House. He was invited to go hunting and to attend their grand house parties. Of his good friend and mentor, Carlyle published the Life of John Stirling in 1851.
Carlyle wrote his magnum opus, a biography of Fredrick the Great of Prussia in six volumes between 1858 and 1865. It exemplifies his pen-portrait art, his ability to describe character in minute detail. He once again set out in his claims that the universe is of a construct that it is Right only to be strong, but his critics misunderstood him as his belief in the divine right of strength. He approached Frederick as the German scholar he was, though with no great portent to Germany's future role in world history. His estrangement with Jane started to wane when Lady Ashburton died suddenly in 1857. The Carlyle's correspondence became affectionate again. In the winter of 1865 Carlyle was asked to accept the Rector ship of Edinburgh University. He had finished and published Frederick so duly accepted, but while not having a prepared Address, held his audience captive for an hour and a half. Three weeks would pass by with all the dinners and congratulatory occasions following his appointment. His dear Jane, while out for a carriage ride in Kensington Gardens, died suddenly on 21 April 1866. Her husband never fully recovered from his grief "I am forever poor without her" he wrote. He immersed himself in chronologically arranging her correspondence between himself and others in The Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle. "Oh that I had you yet but for five minutes beside me, to tell you all!"
In 1874 Carlyle received the Prussian Order of Merit. By this time his niece Mary Aitken had moved in with him at Cheyne Row to care for him. On his eighty-fourth birthday, Browning and Ruskin visited. Into his eighties, the widower Carlyle could be seen walking twice a day rain or shine on the Battersea Park or Chelsea Embankment. He lost his vent for emotion as he could no longer write due to a shaky hand. John Carlyle died on 5 February 1881 in London, his last words "Goodbye". Four days later his body was taken by train to Scotland to Ecclefechan where his remains are buried beside his parents. His funeral was at noon. The Presbyterian Kirk bells tolled the hour. A hundred of the local villagers followed his hearse and as was the custom nobody spoke and his coffin was lowered in silence. John Carlyle's collected works comprise 30 volumes.
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Drawing on "The Selected Writings" of Carlyle
PECULIAR DIFFICULTIES What I try to do in this poetry is not unlike the role of the historian as Thomas Carlyle saw it; namely, "to isolate the message from the irrelevant matter by which it is obscured, to distinguish well what does still reach to the surface and is alive and frondent for us (from) what moulders safe underground, never to send forth leaves or fruit for mankind any more." We play out our lives as poets "against the ceaseless activity of the multitudinous extras in the cast." It is this "ceaseless activity" of the wider society, of history, of what takes places now on the global stage that is the "most durable impression" for the masses of humankind. But in our own private lives the texture of events is different and we must summon up reserves of energy and concentration; we must possess a relentless emphasis on being constantly active and cultivate our own 'peculiar feverishness' in our mode of expression as poets.-Ron Price with thanks to Alan Shelston in Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings, Penguin, Ringwood, 1971, p.27. This inward home reared by slow and laborious effort and an insight into what I trust will never alter, once desolate, baleful and darker than night, now covered anew with beauty and solemnity, with doubt banished from the important places and the reconciliation of life's contradictions always the task in my own way and manner, surrounded as I am by the peculiar difficulties of our time.1 1 See Carlyle's essays on Goethe. ibid., pp.37/8. Ron Price 24 November 2002
Quoting Carlyle on Humour
LAUGHING GAS While I was teaching at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education in 1974 and at Box Hill Tafe College in Melbourne in 1975, the film Monte Python and the Holy Grail was produced and then released in London. I won't summarize the film's story here because readers can find the story in many places. But this classic satire of King Arthur and his knights has been part of the core of comedy's world in western society now for more than a quarter of a century. This send up of a legend, of courtly love, fidelity and bravery, among other things, symbolized, for me, my getting of humour. I had grown up in a serious household of classical music and religion; I had studied serious subjects in university for four years; I had struggled through the first six years as a teacher, experienced several episodes of bi-polar disorder and lived through a divorce by 1975. These were all pretty heavy-duty items on life's agenda. By 1975, though, I had had four years living in Australia where humour was a way of life with its slices of skepticism and cynicism, sarcasm and irony, self-mockery and pleasure seeking. During my decades in Australia humour became, as Thomas Mann experienced the process, insensibly and by immeasureable degrees, by subtle and incremental additions and alterations, part of my soul's salvation. Humour was, as Thomas Carlyle put it at the beginning of the Baháí Era, "a token of virtue." Self-mockery and humour's light touch became for me, what it was for millions of others, survival tools in a spiritually parched land.1 -Ron Price with thanks to Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Four On An Island, George Ronald, Oxford, 1983, p.87. They've been pumping laughing-gas into lounge rooms now for over half a century.1 I remember I Love Lucy back in the fifties: that was where it began for me. It's not all bad, Gore. It's got an important role in our great, vast brontosaurissmus society, with its slough of despond and the phantoms of a wrongly informed imagination. The laughs have lightened the load, Gore. I was, like you, once critical of the whole thing, but I've softened with the years in this downunder land, this world that is just not as serious as Canada which once housed my impulse to believe, nurtured my imperfections and let them grow as insidious as a seed. Laughter came out like a baby, pushed out, giving birth, born of the pain of life in a grand and periodic shake-up injecting a high seriousness with laughing-gas. Gore, it's not all that bad. 1 A remark made by Gore Vidal in an interview in 2006. Ron Price 21 November 2006
Carlyle As A Thinker And His Style
CARLYLE AS A THINKER Carlyle exerted such a profound influence upon generation by his thought as to be called the Censor of the age. His was a clarion cry to Victorian England to abandon its self-complacency and profit and loss philosophy and to know and hold to the Everlasting Yea. In the age of democracy and individualism he preached the gospel of hero-worship and medieval organization. Belief in human freedom and in the infinite nature of duty, as the basis of religion; belief in the rule if the few wise and strong over the many weak and foolish, as the basis of government; belief in mutual sympathy, as the basis of society; belief in a spiritual interpretation of natural appearances, as the basis of philosophy; and, above all, belief in sincerity as the condition of all knowledgethese are the foundations on which Carlyle built. By his friends, Carlyle was considered to be a great teacher, more like a great tonicas a source of intellectual and moral stimulus and refreshment , rather than of theoretical and practical guidance. Tyndall says Carlyle was great awakener. Emerson says he is a friend and aider of those who would believe in power and worship. CARLYLE --- AN ICONOCLAST (A breaker of images/ superstitions) Carlyle delivered vehement and even savage attacks against some of his most eminent contemporaries, whether they were heads of religious institutes or lover of science like Charles Darwin. Once he called Darwins discoveries as Gorilla damnifications of humanity. His wrath was specially directed at the metaphysicians, scientists and political economists whom he labeled together as logic-chopping machines. NOT A PESSIMIST: Carlyle philosophy, if carefully considered, will be found to be dangerously optimist rather than pessimist. As a thinker Carlyle is not sad, but recklessly and rather unscrupulously satisfied. For he seems to have held the theory that good can not be defeated definitely in the world; and the every thing in the long run finds its right level. It began with what we may call the Bible of History idea; that all human affairs and politics were a clouded but unbroken revelation of the Devine. CARLYLES RELIGION Carlyle religion was that of a mystic, a transcendentalist. He got his faith from the German philosophers Kant and Fichte and from great German writers like Richter, Novalis and Goethe, the influence of last one being the paramount and abiding on Carlyles career and belief. Carlyles spiritual conversion came about in June 1821, when he was having a walk. Carlyle considers Universe to be Divine and Matter having no existence. In his words To me the Universe was all void of life, of purpose, of volition or hostility; it was a huge dead mass. PERFORMANCE OF DUTY: To Carlyle, the chief aim and end of life is the performance of duty, and only consolation in life is to be sense of doing the duty. He is full of contempt for the pursuit of happiness. His stern creed allows no collateral support to the discharge of duty. DUTY OF WORK: The first great duty is the duty of workaction, activity. This eminent feature in his preaching has called the Gospel of Labour. Mans greatest enemy is disorder: his most imperative and crying duty is to subdue disorder, convert chaos into order and method. Furthermore, he lays great emphasis on duty of Obedience and duty of Sincerity. HERO WORSHIP: To the readers of Carlyle, nothing in his writings is so well-known as his doctrine of Hero-worship. We conceive of history of peoples, Carlyle conceived of History as the Biography of Great Men or Heroes who are responsible for what the world has been or will be. Carlyle swept aside the current conceptions of Democracy and Freedom and said; In freedom for itself there is nothing to raise a man above a fly; the value of human life is that of its work done; the prime province of law is to get from its subjects the most of the best work. The first duty of people is to findwhich means to accepttheir chief; their second and last to obey him. SOCIALISM: He points out three ideas as dominant in Carlyles social political treatises, firstly protest against the doctrine of Laissez Faire, side by side with wrong support of free trade, secondly the advocacy of the Organization of Labour, and thirdly advocacy of Emigration, as a remedy for over-population. We may say that his chief contribution to political thought was the vigour of his demonstration that man lives by spiritual as well as material things, and that civilization is not a piece of mechanism grinding out results of itself, but is dependent on the energy and will and devotion which men put into it. CARLYLES STYLE Carlyle is known for his peculiar style, known as Carlylese. His style is mirror of his mind. No writer is as idiosyncratic as he is. It illustrates not only all is traits but all his moods. It brings out into the starkest relief his defects as well as his qualities. It is terribly indiscreet and lays bare his caprice, his lack of deference, his defiance if discipline, his intoxicated responsibilities. GERMAN INFLUENCE: There are some writers who believe that German writers and philosophy had deep impact in the moulding Carlyles style. Once Carlyle admitted that his style had its origin in his fathers house in Annandale. Carlyle often stated that style was not a thing a man could put off and on, and that matter was more important than manner. A man should have something to say, and should say it in the manner that comes natural to him. Carlyle was parent of own style. DEFECTS OF CARLYLES STYLE: The defects in Carlyles style are more apparent than its merits. Its ellipsis, gestures capitals, interjection, iterations, its barbarous, new, erroneous coinages and locution, the constant recurrence of some words in quaint and queer connexion, Germanized compounds, frequency of inversion, fatiguing over-emphasis, occasional jerking and almost spasmodic excitement lie on the surface. Besides, these easily perceptible defects there are two other which are more fundamental. One is the noise of the style, the strident emphasis by the trick of italicizing, and the other is the intense self-consciousness of all his writing, good and bad alike; the self-reference, the self-lashing, the self scrutiny, the self-distrust. MERITS OF CARLYLES STYLE: He always tried to paint the light shining in the darkness comprehending it not, and therefore it was that he strive so hard to invent a new style which should express not simply the amount of human knowledge, but also so far as possible, the much vaster amount of human ignorance against which that knowledge sparkled in more radiant points breaking the gloom. It seems to me a style invented for the purpose of convincing those whom it charmed, that moral truth can only be discerned by a brilliant imaginative tact and audacity in discriminating the various stars sprinkled in a great vault of mystery, and then walking boldly into the doubtful light they give; that there is much which cannot be believed except by self-deceivers or fools, but that wonder is of the essence of all right mindedness. CHARACTERSTICS OF CARLYLES STYLE (a)Romantic and Oratorical Prose: Carlyles style does not match with the Classical writers of Prose because he does not possess the Classical qualities of clearness, ease and balance. It rather looks to be Romantic Prose since it is addressed to the ear rather than to eye, to the feelings rather than to the understanding. (b)Love of the concretely picturesque: He speaks in images so beautifully that it creates mental vision in readers mind. With the help of Metaphors and Similes, he makes blur image look clear, and this faculty is in born in him. (c)Vocabulary: His command of words must be pronounced to be of the highest order. Among the few that stand next to Shakespeare, he occupies very high place in describing characters. He coined new words and compounds plentiful and makes new forms of syntax. (d)Humour: Bromwell calls Carlyles humor a trifle, flat and artificial, because it is more than willful. but that is an unjust sentence. His humor presents picture of amusement, scorn and sadness. Sometimes he looks a little out of place and his Humour a bit elephantine. But as a rule he master of irony and the ludicrous. He is great in sarcasms, satire and euphemisms. (e) Wealth of allusions: Carlyles range of allusions is wide, and in one passage he will be giving allusions half a dozen different and widely separated books in literature. 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7 June 2009 at 7:41am
I searched around I cannot find the sapphire's forum, wiki, developer's group etc.
So Silver Stripe is for people who edit the web content. Sapphire is for people who build web sites.
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Sapphire is a PHP framework and SilverStripe is a CMS that's based on said framework.
To effectively bring the CMS to a good use, PHP knowledge is mandatory in my opinion (only to build the site, not to administrate it of course). Sure, you could copy-paste some snippets together, but to get the best results and highest flexibility you'll write custom classes for your website needs.
Since the cms and the sapphire framework are built with an MVC structure in mind, you can easily split the designer and programmer part. Designer might create CSS, Images and Templates, while the programmer writes all the required functionality (classes, controllers etc.)
A lot of the documentation you'll find actually covers sapphire, since SilverStripe is really "just" the CMS module on top of it, and it obviously makes heavy use of the framework classes. It's probably best you have a look at the classes and their relationships. Here are the API docs: http://api.silverstripe.com/ (select "sapphire" on the top right to see the sapphire classes).
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I searched around I cannot find the sapphire's forum, wiki, developer's group etc...
Well sapphire is made up of lots of components and a few of those have their own forum - namely Datamodel, templates and forms are all Sapphire based rather then CMS focused.
The CMS and Sapphire are tightly integrated so most of time the documentation refers to features in sapphire.
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William Romaine Newbold
William Romaine Newbold (November 20, 1865-September 6, 1926) was an American philosopher who held the Adam Seybert Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy chair at the University of Pennsylvania from 1907 to 1926. Newbold was noted for his lectures and writings on Theological Psychology, Christian Gnosticism and Cryptography.[1]
In 1919 Newbold began an analysis of the Voynich Manuscript at the request of Wilfrid Voynich. After his initial study Newbold quickly agreed with Voynich that the manuscript had been authored by the English polymath Roger Bacon. During the next several years, Newbold developed a complex system to decipher it and his analysis, The Cipher of Roger Bacon, was published two years after his death. Newbold's theory was entirely disproved in a 1931 paper by his friend John Matthews Manly and it is now mostly disregarded.[2]
- ^ "William Romaine Newbold (1865-1926)". Penn Biographies. University of Pennsylvania. 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
- ^ D'Imperio, M. E. (1978). The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma. Fort George G. Meade, MD: National Security Agency/Central Security Service. p. 33-35. OCLC 50929259.
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