tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post9145511484755104014..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Quote of the Day:Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-64921051380574286442007-12-04T10:16:00.000-05:002007-12-04T10:16:00.000-05:00gvi, let's just count they ways that real Puritans...gvi, let's just count they ways that real Puritans were more fun than what we've got now:<BR/><BR/>They drank like fish. Dogfish.<BR/>They "bundled."<BR/>They grew their own smoke.<BR/>Not just tobacco, either.<BR/>"Higher education" involved Greek, Latin and Hebrew.<BR/>Unregulated blunderbus ownership.<BR/>"Locked into stocks": whole 'nother meaning.<BR/>You could flee <I>to</I> Rhode Island.<BR/><BR/>The part about dunking Hillary, I'm leaving to you. Just saying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-78336183825687224622007-12-04T02:14:00.000-05:002007-12-04T02:14:00.000-05:00America has always had her puritans. First it was...America has always had her puritans. First it was religious zealots coming over to New England. Then it was the temperance movements. Both had a strong foundation in religion and religious principles.<BR/><BR/>Mencken called Puritanism<BR/>"the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." We had 'em when Sir Walter Raleigh was saving England's bacon from Spain, we had 'em in Ben Franklin's time, we have them to thank for the 18th Amendment, and now we have them to thank for, well, doing what they always do best, which is to take the fun out of everything.<BR/><BR/>I find it ironically amusing that "our" puritans come not from the "Moral Majority," but from the radical secular left. Radical feminists try to take the fun out of sex; radical eco-nutters try to take the fun out of a walk in the woods; radical vegans try to take the fun out of dinner, and so forth.<BR/><BR/>They'll do about as well as their forbears, I suspect. Annoying and to be pitied in their joyless hovels, not much more.<BR/><BR/>gviAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-67647036261728472462007-12-03T21:24:00.000-05:002007-12-03T21:24:00.000-05:00"So...... if (sc)AirAmerica publicly augers in, an..."So...... if (sc)AirAmerica publicly augers in, and nobody was listening, did it make a sound?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-90391294237545807662007-12-03T17:33:00.000-05:002007-12-03T17:33:00.000-05:00It's hilarious that the Left is so obsessed with D...It's hilarious that the Left is so obsessed with Death and Meaning in their Lives, and their sad little philosophy gives them Sartre and nothingness! Bwahahaha! No wonder they sympathize with the mentally and philosophically constricted Islamists, they're in a double-bind.NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-57349770311115929062007-12-03T17:09:00.000-05:002007-12-03T17:09:00.000-05:00The failure of Leftist Talk Radio is quite easy to...The failure of Leftist Talk Radio is quite easy to explain. In order for it to succeed;<BR/><BR/>One person can talk.<BR/>Others must listen.<BR/><BR/>The typical lefty, unable to interrupt the speaker, quickly succumbs to a paroxysm of cerebro-vascular contractions, resulting in convulsions, loss of all bladder and bowl control, and a desire to move to San Francisco.<BR/>,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com