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Topic: The Surrealistic States of America |
The Surrealistic States of America
PJ Media, by Roger Kimball
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Posted By:steveW, 11/21/2012 12:28:36 AM
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| These last couple of weeks I have divided my time largely between talking to cleanup crews, insurance adjusters, and contractors who promise, eventually, to undo the ravages of Hurricane Sandy and restore our house to its antediluvian semi-splendor — “All in good time, Mr. Kimball” — and reading Like the Roman, Simon Heffer’s magisterial 1998 biography of the great, if much and unfairly maligned, British statesman Enoch Powell. To many people these days, Powell is totally unknown. To those who do recall his name, he is the author of the so-called “Rivers of Blood Speech”
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The Twilight Zone
Alice In Wonderland
Salvador Dali
The Obama "Presidency"
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 11/21/2012 2:46:34 AM (No. 9026925)
And "Welcome Back, Kotter"
Whatever...are you going to bawl your eyes out every night abought this or do something about it?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/21/2012 4:36:19 AM (No. 9026958)
Ny and Nj will start recovering as soon as the checks start flowing to unionized,liberal contractors.
All they would really have to do is steal the billion in bearer bonds lost in the floods.
I wonder if you´ll see a "flood" of lawsuits aimed at safe companies because the contents got wet.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 11/21/2012 5:18:49 AM (No. 9026975)
This is a very powerful article and should be taken seriously. The quotation: "Whom the gods would destroy. they first make mad" perfectly fits what happened in Britain and is now happening here. The people in charge are not behaving in a sane manner.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fritzilou, 11/21/2012 7:43:08 AM (No. 9027150)
Good read and true.
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It´s a perennial favorite of scammers to claim we face pending doom that can be averted only if we quickly send them more money or do what they want us to. From The Music Man´s "Ya Got Trouble" to the emails purporting to be from family members who´ve been robbed or imprisoned overseas, the game is a constant money maker for the con men who employ it. Count President Obama as one of the masters of the art of diverting attention from facts, crying doom and grabbing yet more money from our pockets to enrich his buddies
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