Can’t go to church, I don’t think I can control the little ones for the liturgy…So this instead:
A naoidhean bhig, cluinn mo ghuth
Mise ri d’ thaobh, O mhaighdean bhan
Ar righinn oig, fas as faic
Do thir, dileas Fein
A ghrian a’s a ghealaich, stuir sinn
Gu uair ar cliu ‘s ar gloire
Naoidhean bhig, ar righinn go
Mhaighdean uashaill bhan
English Translation:
Little baby, hear my voice
I’m beside you, O maiden fair
Our young Lady, grow and see
Your land, your own faithful land
Sun and moon, guide us
To the hour of our glory and honour
Little baby, our young Lady
Noble maiden fair
nice sound
@ mawskrat:
its mumford and sons. check them out on youtube. great stuff.
my new favorite band
Yesterday in shul the Torah portion was Eikev. It contains the part of Moses’ final oration to the Israelites which reminds them that their prosperity in the Land is not due to their own industry, but comes from God. Last week’s parsha had the part where they are reminded that they will be taking over “cities you did not build, cisterns you did not dig.”
Note how the rhetoric of this section of the Torah has been taken over and adapted by Obama, and by Elizabeth Warren, from whom Obama lifted it. It is the model for Obama’s “you didn’t build that” oration from a few weeks ago—but Obama and Warren are substituting the government for God, quite literally.
There is, probably, a joke to be made here; your prosperity comes from GOD, i.e., the Good Old Deity. Government tends to add too much to life; to overcomplicate it. Instead of the Good Old Deity, in Obamaworld prosperity comes from the divine hand of
Government,
Oversight,
Voting,
Entitlements,
Regulation,
Nepotism,
Meddling,
Environmentalism,
Narrative, and
Taxes.
In counterpoint, Ryan in his speech yesterday said “our rights come from God, not the government.” I have mentioned before that the difference between “human rights” and rights under the Constitutional model is that the latter assumes that we do not need “human rights” because if we have liberty the only “rights” we need are the rights codified to keep the government off our backs—whereas the “human rights” model presumes that rights come from the government and that the government may grant or withhold them at its will.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
preach it!
*gets all olde timey evangelical for a moment*
@ coldwarrior:
been to a few revivals in my day
mawskrat wrote:
then you know where i was at!
dickie sez;
Amen! Some pulpit-poundin’, foot stompin’
@ buzzsawmonkey:
@ mawskrat:
@ coldwarrior:
@ coldwarrior:
i like that version cause dickie tips his hat to jerry garcia
@ coldwarrior:
Absolutely can’t go wrong with Dickie.
huckfunn wrote:
it aint the allmans without dickie
coldwarrior wrote:
mawskrat wrote:
ha!
i was at a wedding at a huge baptist church near here, full blown band a signin; it fomr the rafters.
I had a ball! see, we orthodox tend to be very low keyed in matters of faith.
it didnt look quite unlike this:
coldwarrior wrote:
For a long time I couldn’t quite think of them as the Allman Brother(s) without Duane. The guy was amazing and not yet 25 when he died.
Let us all Bow Our Heads and pray for God’s Guidance.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
A situation and condition that is coincidentally true for America today. Our prosperity is a gift from God and not our own industry.
@ huckfunn:
well, yeah…duane was the man.
killed on a motorcycle, taken too soon.
@ doriangrey:
yep just look at the book of Job
CW….our Pastor at the time asked
if any one wanted to get saved before
he married us
doriangrey wrote:
You would probably like this Kipling poem: The Explorer.
It’s long, or I’d post it here; worth reading through.
mawskrat wrote:
i love that!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
i usually don’t like poetry…unless its kipling. his is a different matter all together.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
@ coldwarrior:
When I was a kid, my Dad would recite The Grave of the Hundred Head in his best Churchillian accent. I can still (mostly) recite that one and Gunga Din.
Debbie Wasserman Shlutze was just on FNC.
When asked about the ad accusing Romney of
causing a woman’s death had an outrageous answer.
The Super PAc is run by Bill Buton, an Obama
lackey, but she said “I don’t know what their
political affiliation is”
coldwarrior wrote:
The best poetry usually starts with “There once was a girl
from Nantucket.”
Later.
@ RIX:
And if anything had legs she would…..
RIX wrote:
It never ceases to amaze me what accomplished liars the dims are. Carney can hold an entire press briefing without uttering one word of truth. Of course he was well schooled at Time Magazine.
Macker wrote:
That should have cut the interview right there.
mornin ya’ll
Sarah Palin has her facebook endorsment of R/R
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10151109537628588
whew, we dodged a bullet when her and Mccain lost, that woman is so dumb
she souldn’t spell cat if you spotted her the c and the t
/dem rant off
here is a sample
Obama’s America is today’s California – complete with $100 billion taxpayer funded bullet trains to nowhere; out of control environmental extremists who have destroyed family farms and left some of the most fertile farm land in America fallow in order to protect a three inch fish; permanent high unemployment; government policies hostile to small business job creators; crippling high taxes; an abysmal real estate market; bloated government that wastes taxpayer money; endless budget shortfalls due to massive unfunded liabilities; city after city declaring bankruptcy; and a state government run by, in the words of one Wall Street Journal writer, “a brothel of environmentalists, lawyers, public-sector unions and legislative bums.”
We can’t afford Obama’s vision. Our children can’t afford it. Today we are over $15 trillion in debt and running up trillion dollar budget deficits year after year for as far as the eye can see. And our “leaders” have no plan to stop it! President Obama and this Congress don’t even have the fundamental blueprint—a budget!—to outline where they intend to take us as they merrily roll along with their out of control spending and constant increases of our debt “limit.” Our debt to China alone is more than we can ever hope to pay off in multiple generations. Such debt and dependence on foreign nations weakens us in countless ways. And yet our government keeps on spending despite the risks and despite conscientious, hardworking citizens telling them to just stop it. Our debt is growing by $3 million per minute. This debt, in conjunction with Obama’s massive government over-reaches like Obamacare, has strangled the private sector, which in turn has stifled job growth and slowed all economic growth. The only way to get our country moving again is to get back to basics like normal people do with our home and small business budgets! That means we must live within our means, get government out of the way of our job creators, develop the God-given natural resources we have been blessed with to provide real jobs and real energy security, and stop growing government and wasting taxpayer money on D.C. cronyism and useless stimulus kick-backs for favored donors.
Barack Obama’s record is one of dismal failure, which is why he isn’t talking about it. He would rather spend his time demonizing his opponents. The simple fact remains that Mitt Romney is not responsible for the dire state of our economy or the corruption and incompetence of the current administration.
yeah
read it all
@ huckfunn:
The Dems are serial liars. It was’nt always that way,
but it is now.
Oh… Were doing Poetry now are we… Rime of the Ancient Mariner…
Yes, I actually have a 1798 copy of this book…
@ RIX:
When weren’t the Dems liars? They started with Andrew Jackson, ran it through McClellan and FDR, and now have produced their perfect exponent, Barack Hussein Obama, the first anti-American President. I would say except for Jefferson Davis, but Davis wasn’t as anti-American as Obama is.
Oh, and since nobody seems to be paying attention I’m going to quietly drop this lecture by Professor Leonard Susskind into the thread, well, for no other reason than I’ve been watching the series for about a week now…
(Oh, and it’s a 10 part lecture so don’t forget to watch them all)
For G-d distance is an indirect measurement
@ Iron Fist:
I would say that Truman was honorable.
From LBJ forward the Dem Party has been disgraceful.
Your description of Barack Obama as our first anti-
American question is true , except that Woodrow Wilson
(another Democrat) was suspect.
My point is that they are now beyond redemption, but
they question the patriotism of others.
Commie eats, anyone? Would be perfect for the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
Mitt Romney Delivers Barn-Burner of a Speech. Democrats React. (Satire)
CNN reported that Mitt Romney gave a ‘barn burner’ of a speech in Wisconsin today. Democrats were quick to react.
At the White House Press Briefing later today, Jay Carney asked, “Do we want an accused arsonist as the next President? The White House absolutely condemns Mitt Romney for burning a barn.”
PETA issued a statement: “It is cruel enough that animals are enslaved and confined to barns, but now we have a candidate who would burn them to death. Barns are sacred temples for the finest living creatures on Earth. Mitt Romney wants to immolate them, sadistically.”
Bob Beckel, on Face The Nation, said, “Now we have a Republican running for the Presidential position who clearly hates farmers. The loss of a barn would devastate most farmers. We must stand against this!”
Attorney General Eric Holder promised immediate investigation into Mitt Romney for his alleged arson. “If this occured on Federal land, you can be assured we will quickly act to prosecute Mr. Romney,” he said.
Debbie Wasserman Shultz remarked, in a fundraising letter, “Republicans want to burn down America. It’s obvious, when Mitt Romney burns down a barn, that this is a symbol of what he wants to do to the middle class.”
Mitt Romney’s spokesperson, Kevin Madden, responded to the charges, “Are you guys all on crack? What the f*** is wrong with you people???!?”
He did not deny the charges in this statement, and investigation is ongoing.
bwahahahahahahhahahah
Democrats in Panic Mode After RNC Raises $3.5 Million Following Ryan Pick
That was Quick… Dem Group Releases New “Toss Granny Off a Cliff” Smear Ad (Video)
@ rain of lead:
The GOP and all witnesses to the speech [especially those who enjoyed it] will be fined substantially for the unauthorized, politically-motivated use of carbon credits.
/The Green Party
GOP Leader Reince Priebus: This President Stole $700 Billion From Medicare… He “Has Blood on His Hands” (Video)
UPDATE: Team Obama spokesperson Stephanie Cutter called Obama’s $700 million in Medicare cuts stolen from taxpayers to fund Obamacare an “achievement.”
Romney and Ryan will be on 60 minutes tonight. I haven’t watched it in years, but will do so just to watch R/R backhand the crap out of Bob Schieffer.
Congressman Von Hollen on FNC just claimed that he has
not seen the Super Pac ad accusing Romney of being
responsable for the woman’s death.
He said that he has not seen the ad! Then he went on
to defend it.
Debbie Wasserman Schultze claimed earlier that she does
not know the Party affiliation of the super Pac.
They are appealing to the intellect of Chicago Public
Schools graduates.
RIX wrote:
More like Chicago Public School drop-outs, because I have trouble believing even Chicago Public School graduates are that stupid.
huckfunn wrote:
Bob Schieffer in charge of drawing first blood against the double-R’s. Catie Couric must be devastated.
doriangrey wrote:
I would say a kid that drops out of Chicago Public Schools
might be better off. They are semi-literates, cranking
out more semi-literates.
doriangrey wrote:
/In Chicago graduating means going 4 whole years without getting shanked.
brookly red wrote:
Or shot thanks to their toughest gun laws in the nation.
John Difool wrote:
well to be fair unless you repeat the 5th grade you usually graduate HS by age 18 so most HS students would no qualify for a permit anyway.
John Difool wrote:
well mad-cow got beat down…
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/08/12/national-reviews-rich-lowry-destroys-msnbcs-rachel-maddow-meet-press#ixzz23LfPVrnA
huckfunn wrote:
Another pith helmet wearing British Colonialist…like Cecil Rhodes. Obama would not approve!
@ brookly red:
That’ll happen when you leave the safety of your own personal
MSNBC echo-chamberJohn Difool wrote:
indeed… let’s hope she tries again
New Thread.
@ brookly red:
Al least she still has her looks.////
@ rain of lead:
Sarah is much too polite. Obama is beyond dismal failure, he’s a Stuttering Clusterf*** Of Miserable Failure!