http://www.aristocratickcombination.com/blog Not everybody thought the Constitution was such a great idea Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The "Donation of Constantine" - another convenient lie The recent documentary, "Not Evil, Just Wrong" takes the eponymous position that the fevered frothings of prophet-for-profit Al Gore and his fellow Carbon Cult revelators and seers are sincerely held and honestly pursued beliefs, if at variance with observed reality. This position was ... http://www.aristocratickcombination.com/blog/?p=670 Such excellent paving-stone work your people do here Remember when we were told (by the same people who breathlessly assure us the President is not chain-smoking) that he didn't bow to the guardian of Mecca? Well, now it's "Tenno Heika Banzai!" from the Nobel laureate. The silver lining is that this dispels the ... http://www.aristocratickcombination.com/blog/?p=659 Spot the people-eating alien menace in disguise There's "out of touch", and then there's "not of this world". The President and the Congress are so removed from mere Earthlings that one wonders whether ABC's "V" is an example of "organic" programming... Horatian hyperbole, you scoff? Consider: Congress is comprised of ... http://www.aristocratickcombination.com/blog/?p=649 Not Al Gore's way. Remember how George Bush brought Katrina on New Orleans because global warming, for which he was responsible (much as Ronald Reagan killed people with AIDS and crack), was causing more and worse hurricanes? Well, as with so much else in the canon of the Carbon Cult, ... http://www.aristocratickcombination.com/blog/?p=643 ...make the most of it! It's not "spin" that is the most egregious and dangerous part of having 3/4 of all professional journalists in the United States self-declared supporters of the party in power - even as self-described "conservatives" outnumber "liberals" 2 to 1 in the country at large. It's ... http://www.aristocratickcombination.com/blog/?p=634 Horatius' various browsers retain leftover tabs, some going back to June, so it's time to close some and gather others into another helter-skelter -er- eclectic collection... In a time when readership and viewership figures speak rather loudly about disgust at shameless media ideological shilling, the nuts and bolts of how important ... http://www.aristocratickcombination.com/blog/?p=629 Giving orders to the wrecking crew With all the palpable falsehoods ("opt out") and verbal gymnastics ("public option") coming from those who control the Congress and the Executive in Washington City, it is as refreshing as it is surprising to hear a plain, clear statement of honest intent on the part ... http://www.aristocratickcombination.com/blog/?p=614 Is the rule of law hiding in the garage? In the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, called ostensibly to revise the Articles of Confederation, Alexander Hamilton pulled a mighty bait-and-switch, slamming the doors shut, swearing everyone to secrecy, and announcing that they were there to replace the Articles with a new unitary ... http://www.aristocratickcombination.com/blog/?p=607 Have we not arrived? Horatius has perhaps been noted to have remained quite silent through a summer of discontent during which the gulf, between the Federalists of the Congress and Executive and the people who actually produce the wealth and pay the taxes in the country, became so ... http://www.aristocratickcombination.com/blog/?p=600 http://www.aristocratickcombination.com/blog/?p=595