in his essay a modest proposal jonathan swift suggests that the irish could pull themselves out of poverty by selling their babies off to british dinner plates
i have been assured by a very knowing american of my acquaintance in london that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food whether stewed roasted baked or boiled and i...... [Show More]
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last week i reread jonathan swifts a modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people in ireland from being a burden to their parents or country and for making them beneficial to the public as a part of the martelharper challenge .
while i was well aware that jonathan swifts short essay is classic satire i guess because my own chubby oneye...... [Show More]
this came up during the party at the consortium sunday how in the space of a month the mighty wurlitzer of the right wing has kicked into high gear and dug out all their crap they had believed about the clintons dusted them off scratched out the name clinton and carved in the name obama in its place.
so now we have the obama body count follow the link from the sadlynauts.
a...... [Show More]
thats righta what an honor to have someone nominate this little old blog
i was nominated by jon swift under the best small minor blog authority between 101 and 200 category
if you havent been to his blog yet i suggest you go check him out. i dont know exactly what category you would put him in but considering he gets between 5000 6000 visi...... [Show More]
playing tag Post Source: www.polimom.com Posted: Nov 12 2008 19:56:37
dyre at dyre42 tag ged me .a first time thats happened i think in all the years ive had the blog so of course i have to play.
here are the rules of the game
1. link to the person who tagged you.
2. post the rules on your blog.
3. write six random things about yourself.
4. tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. let each pe...... [Show More]
bfaw tonight. for some reason ive been permanently exhausted for the last fortnight and writing is much harder than it normally is. bear with me this will pass.
fred at slacktivist has a good post on usury. personally i think hes far too soft on it i think lending at interest is inherently wrong but hes still talking more sense than 90 of people
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welcome to the november 10 2008 edition of scribes we have had a lot of entries for this slightly late round but i decided to also go ahead and inject a few picks of my own as well. i hope you enjoy them.
and i would just like to say admirableindia.com stop spamming my carnival .
ahem.
erika collin presents 100 fun useful search engines for writers posted at learningxl .
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presser Post Source: www.pineviewfarm.net Posted: Nov 09 2008 01:06:39
jon swift wields his scapel to dissect the disaster of president elect obamas first press conference. as andrew sullivan would say money quote
conservatives were shocked when obama snubbed fox news the countrys only fair and balanced network by not calling on its reporter during the press conference. wisdom and judiciousness were not exactly evident scolded redstate w...... [Show More]
wow talk about under the radar gabriel malor of the archconservative blog ace of spades quietly outed himself as he mourned the passage of prop 8. on prop 8 i know most of you disagree with me about it. but could we have a moment of silence for those poor fools who were happily married or engaged yesterday and today are finding out that they dont have squat prop 8 was much more ...... [Show More]
theres something you need to do today
we can wake up tomorrow to a new country or we can continue the way we have gone. choose one
what is the overriding paradigm you want in your leadership
a. hope
b. fear
whose values would you rather have guiding the new administration
a toot
b. an unlicensed plumber who thinks hell make 250001
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coc nov 3rd 2008 Post Source: www.quisani.com Posted: Nov 04 2008 02:26:38
i believe in giving those around me a chance to speak their views even if i think they are wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong and they cant see the light. shhh dont tell them that that sentence was supposed to make me look like a bigot but im not really im just helping them propagate the idea that conservatives are ignorant heathens if they found out were not...... [Show More]
welcome to chapter 15 of the carnival of aloha a there was a pretty interesting combination of blog posts for this carnival.a people are so busy coming into the holiday season that it looks like its going to be very interesting this year.a between the pending holidays and the hectic election year coming to a close tomorrow were all walking into walls with all of the propaganda ...... [Show More]
please dont make us do this again in two years
grand finale
michele bachmann has been an embarrassment in minnesota for two long. its too much for me to take. we have a great chance to close this sad chapter in minnesota history on tuesday november 3rd. vote for el tinklenberg 6th district. while there are many good reasons that you would want to vote for him even...... [Show More]
welcome to the november 3 2008 edition of amazing vision. it is great to read human ingenuity and there is plenty of it in these blog posts.
isabella mori presents heroes of healing thich nhat hanh posted at change therapy saying therapist blogger and friend to this blog isabella mori contributed this interesting article.
damien presents magnas scheving has...... [Show More]
holy cow i dont know what to say thanks to all of you who submitted to the carnival. without you guys this carnival would not be the success that it is. there were 20 submissions this week. all of them excellent and yes i do actually go read them all before i allow them to be published.
that way not only do i make sure i keep this carnival spamfree but i also get to le...... [Show More]
as a brave nomadic warrior of the political web ive noticed some insanely desperate attempts to change the course of the race over the last year or so.a from the idea that it was ayers who secretly wrote obamas book to the elusive michelle obama whi tey tape to allegations that barack forged his birth certificate the width and breadth of the assertions seemed to ...... [Show More]
jon swift has outdone himself this time. this post is particularly fun for me. because i was able to successfully block out 99 of the us elec tion campaign i didnt even know about half this stuff. one of the many things i love about the jon swift blog is the hilarious consistency of the comments. whatever post you read youll always see at least one comment that...... [Show More]
image by barack obama via flickr
i am voting early
this morning is the most important day for me since november 2 2006. i am voting early. i have made up my mind and i am voting for barack obama . i know this is no surprise. am i voting for the candidate who i think is the magic man who will shower me with socialist government benefits no. am i voting for the guy who i think is t..... [Show More]
welcome to the october 29 2008 edition of the fuelmyblog carnival.
fracas presents googling his way back to health sort of posted at fracascanada.com saying have you ever had one of those days where you try to fix one thing but that action causes something else to go awry this is the story of what happened to daddy papersurfer after he found his fountain of youth on ...... [Show More]
happy halloween Post Source: fairlane.wordpress.com Posted: Oct 31 2008 13:59:53
dont talk to strangers
a poetic justice
angry black since 1976
angry ballerina
baby boomer advisor club
black wednesday
blogging with badger
blondesense
blue gal
bushmerika 2
cannablog
chen zhen
citizenmindful
clapsotronics
club troppo
coffee messiah
cowboy the cat
crooks and liars
current jam
dancys corner
dashiell
democratic undergroun...... [Show More]
flopping aces is a disturbing read for someone looking for honesty and thought in the blogosphere. it was highlighted by jon swift as one of the blogs spreading misinformation about barack obama. i decided to interject into a discussion about cindy mccain. they were heaping praise on her philanthropic deeds of which i was unfamiliar with. they also provided some details about mccains mul...... [Show More]
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