…art, music, and opinions from Lower Alabama
Sure, Obama loves America. The one in his head, that looks like Europe, where is he wearing a crown, summarily executing ppl by drone attack
— ₿ Michelle Ray ₿ (@GaltsGirl) November 3, 2012
https://twitter.com/jeromewilson43/status/264721041509740544
https://twitter.com/TexasLighthouse/status/264724017712345088
https://twitter.com/TexasLighthouse/status/264725646314467328
via National Review
Mesopotamia
They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young,
The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave:
But the men who left them thriftily to die in their own dung,
Shall they come with years and honour to the grave?They shall not return to us; the strong men coldly slain
In sight of help denied from day to day:
But the men who edged their agonies and chid them in their pain,
Are they too strong and wise to put away?Our dead shall not return to us while Day and Night divide–
Never while the bars of sunset hold.
But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died,
Shall they thrust for high employments as of old?Shall we only threaten and be angry for an hour:
When the storm is ended shall we find
How softly but how swiftly they have sidled back to power
By the favour and contrivance of their kind?Even while they soothe us, while they promise large amends,
Even while they make a show of fear,
Do they call upon their debtors, and take counsel with their friends,
To conform and re-establish each career?Their lives cannot repay us–their death could not undo–
The shame that they have laid upon our race.
But the slothfulness that wasted and the arrogance that slew,
Shall we leave it unabated in its place?Rudyard Kipling, 1917
.@BarackObama only made three mistakes in #Benghazi: before, during, and after.
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) November 2, 2012
https://twitter.com/strangep00rk/status/264354174018412545
…over at BlackFive. Something stinks in all the swirl around Benghazi, but it may not be what we think it is.
You have to be a special kind of crazy to look back at the past four years and say, "damn, I want four more years of that!"
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) October 31, 2012
Wow, our esteemed Veep is a real piece of work, isn’t he?
I know he makes me feel good to be an American.
BuzzFeed isn’t normally my cup of tea, but this article caught my eye –
There was no shark in Brigantine and certainly no beached seal in Manhattan. The NYSE trading floor did not flood, and the 10 or more Con Edison workers trapped at a damaged plant turned out not to exist. These rumors were briefly and embarrassingly juxtaposed in users’ Twitter timelines with real and often devastating stories about lives and property that had been destroyed, people in need of help, and a city’s infrastructure buckling under the weight of a historic storm.
But more important, perhaps, we already know they’re false.
Twitter’s capacity to spread false information is more than cancelled out by its savage self-correction. In response to thousands of retweets of erroneous Weather Channel and CNN reports that the New York Stock Exchange had been flooded with “three feet” of water, Twitter users, some reporters and many not, were relentless: Photos of the outside of the building, flood-free, were posted. Knowledgeable parties weighed in.
Twitter may end up being the most accurate news source available- especially since the MSM has apparently totally abdicated any responsibility beyond being a left-wing cheerleader and meme-perpetrator. Just be sure to apply the 24- and sometimes 48- hour rule to anything that isn’t immediately verified (and cheer-leading “me too” responses don’t count)- pictures or video or it didn’t happen.
As always, though, YMMV.
I scoured these from Twitter’n’other places- all rights reserved to those who took them, natch.
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Looks like NY just had their very own Katrina.
