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Beyond Passing Thoughts. . .

Posted on | August 7, 2010 | 31 Comments

by Smitty

Virginia Virtucon notes:

David Jones of the UK Daily Mail wrote an article that shows how the combination of Mother Nature’s resiliency and BP’s strong clean-up efforts have almost completely mitigated what the White House, the mainstream media, and the environmental lobby would have you believe to be a horrible, generations-lasting disaster of epic, near-biblical proportions.

How do we transfer that marvelous efficiency to the most expensive political disaster in human history, Progressivism?

Comments

31 Responses to “Beyond Passing Thoughts. . .”

  1. Randy Rager
    August 7th, 2010 @ 11:55 pm

    You don’t. Progressivism is FAIL, and the people in the movement are in love with anything that fails.

    There is no polish for that turd.

  2. Randy Rager
    August 7th, 2010 @ 7:55 pm

    You don’t. Progressivism is FAIL, and the people in the movement are in love with anything that fails.

    There is no polish for that turd.

  3. Roxeanne de Luca
    August 7th, 2010 @ 11:57 pm

    Darwinism. Aside from watching them abort their young, we can shove them into their own world, refuse to prop them up financially (or morally), and let the whole thing go to rot within a few years.

  4. Roxeanne de Luca
    August 7th, 2010 @ 7:57 pm

    Darwinism. Aside from watching them abort their young, we can shove them into their own world, refuse to prop them up financially (or morally), and let the whole thing go to rot within a few years.

  5. Choey
    August 8th, 2010 @ 12:16 am

    You would need a whole bunch of progressive eating bacteria. In order to get them you have to cultivate them. It’s a simple matter of rounding up all the progressives and throwing them in the Gulf of Mexico and letting the bacteria eat them. Simple…right???

  6. Choey
    August 7th, 2010 @ 8:16 pm

    You would need a whole bunch of progressive eating bacteria. In order to get them you have to cultivate them. It’s a simple matter of rounding up all the progressives and throwing them in the Gulf of Mexico and letting the bacteria eat them. Simple…right???

  7. Joe
    August 8th, 2010 @ 1:38 am

    I am glad to hear the disaster may be less than previously thought. Not because of Obama or BP (whether there were strong clean up efforts is a matter of debate), but because of the people and animals of the Gulf.

    What this shows is most of the parties involved have no idea what is going on (starting with the Obama administration).

  8. Joe
    August 7th, 2010 @ 9:38 pm

    I am glad to hear the disaster may be less than previously thought. Not because of Obama or BP (whether there were strong clean up efforts is a matter of debate), but because of the people and animals of the Gulf.

    What this shows is most of the parties involved have no idea what is going on (starting with the Obama administration).

  9. Lonely Conservative
    August 8th, 2010 @ 1:40 am

    Springsteen is such a disappointment to me.

    “It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap you gotta get out while you’re young” = progressivism!

  10. Lonely Conservative
    August 7th, 2010 @ 9:40 pm

    Springsteen is such a disappointment to me.

    “It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap you gotta get out while you’re young” = progressivism!

  11. El Cerdo Ignatius
    August 8th, 2010 @ 1:43 am

    I’ve become convinced that the only hope to defeat progressivism and crawl out from under the pile of debt and dung that passes for the federal government is an amendment to the Constitution. Time to cut the bastards off at their knees.

  12. El Cerdo Ignatius
    August 7th, 2010 @ 9:43 pm

    I’ve become convinced that the only hope to defeat progressivism and crawl out from under the pile of debt and dung that passes for the federal government is an amendment to the Constitution. Time to cut the bastards off at their knees.

  13. Lonely Conservative
    August 8th, 2010 @ 1:49 am

    Wrong post. Sorry.

  14. Lonely Conservative
    August 7th, 2010 @ 9:49 pm

    Wrong post. Sorry.

  15. Joe
    August 8th, 2010 @ 2:19 am

    It is almost Sunday…

    And Smitty and Stacy have been so good lately that they serve desert on Saturday night.

  16. Joe
    August 7th, 2010 @ 10:19 pm

    It is almost Sunday…

    And Smitty and Stacy have been so good lately that they serve desert on Saturday night.

  17. Adobe Walls
    August 8th, 2010 @ 2:32 am

    It will take several amendments.

  18. Adobe Walls
    August 7th, 2010 @ 10:32 pm

    It will take several amendments.

  19. Randy Rager
    August 8th, 2010 @ 3:07 am

    It will take a hell of a lot more than a few amendments. As much as it pains me to admit it, I think it will take a civil war. A real one, not a pansy ass war between the states.

    I’m not advocating violence, and I hope like hell I’m wrong.

    But I don’t think I am.

  20. Randy Rager
    August 7th, 2010 @ 11:07 pm

    It will take a hell of a lot more than a few amendments. As much as it pains me to admit it, I think it will take a civil war. A real one, not a pansy ass war between the states.

    I’m not advocating violence, and I hope like hell I’m wrong.

    But I don’t think I am.

  21. smitty
    August 8th, 2010 @ 3:16 am

    @Randy,
    At ease, Rager. If you study Clausewitz, he talks about a triangle consisting of people, policy makers, and military leaders.

    There ain’t no way you’re going to build any serious, sustained rebellion, notwithstanding your angst.

  22. smitty
    August 7th, 2010 @ 11:16 pm

    @Randy,
    At ease, Rager. If you study Clausewitz, he talks about a triangle consisting of people, policy makers, and military leaders.

    There ain’t no way you’re going to build any serious, sustained rebellion, notwithstanding your angst.

  23. Estragon
    August 8th, 2010 @ 3:56 am

    So what do you call Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayor, Shumer, Harkin, Frank, Conyers, Rangel, Waxman, Sanders, and Murray on the ocean floor all chained together to the BP well cap?

    .

    .

    .

    A start . . .

  24. Estragon
    August 7th, 2010 @ 11:56 pm

    So what do you call Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayor, Shumer, Harkin, Frank, Conyers, Rangel, Waxman, Sanders, and Murray on the ocean floor all chained together to the BP well cap?

    .

    .

    .

    A start . . .

  25. Randy Rager
    August 8th, 2010 @ 4:08 am

    I don’t intend to, and I’m not angsty. I’m just telling you what I think it will take. We’re so far gone down the rabbit hole of leftwingnut insanity that the only thing with any chance of even semi-permanently (for little political change is ever permanent, and few bad political ideas ever die forever) killing the Hydra of Horrors that is “Progressivism” is a bloody civil war.

    I desperately hope I’m wrong, because I’m too damned old and out of shape to serve in any combat capacity.

    Clausewitz, for all his genius, had a bad tendency to overcomplicate relatively simple matters. So did Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, for that matter. I far prefer General George C. Kenney, but that’s probably due more to service prejudice than any other factor.

  26. Randy Rager
    August 8th, 2010 @ 12:08 am

    I don’t intend to, and I’m not angsty. I’m just telling you what I think it will take. We’re so far gone down the rabbit hole of leftwingnut insanity that the only thing with any chance of even semi-permanently (for little political change is ever permanent, and few bad political ideas ever die forever) killing the Hydra of Horrors that is “Progressivism” is a bloody civil war.

    I desperately hope I’m wrong, because I’m too damned old and out of shape to serve in any combat capacity.

    Clausewitz, for all his genius, had a bad tendency to overcomplicate relatively simple matters. So did Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, for that matter. I far prefer General George C. Kenney, but that’s probably due more to service prejudice than any other factor.

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  28. Kojocaro
    August 8th, 2010 @ 9:33 pm

    and in other news mary tillman who is the mother of pat tillman is saying the military had her son murdered for opposing the iraq war

  29. Kojocaro
    August 8th, 2010 @ 5:33 pm

    and in other news mary tillman who is the mother of pat tillman is saying the military had her son murdered for opposing the iraq war

  30. Bob Belvedere
    August 8th, 2010 @ 9:47 pm

    Smitty, I to have the same fears as Randy Roger, as you know. But, I must say, I will do everything in my feeble power to prevent it from going that far. However, Mrs. B. and I are about to arm ourselves.

  31. Bob Belvedere
    August 8th, 2010 @ 5:47 pm

    Smitty, I to have the same fears as Randy Roger, as you know. But, I must say, I will do everything in my feeble power to prevent it from going that far. However, Mrs. B. and I are about to arm ourselves.