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2012-07-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by 2012-07-13 00:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Brilliantly done Mr. Hanson. I would suggest adding the following to our witnessing:

A statist, progressive assault on American Constitution-based values, an attack that has steadily snowballed since President Roosevelts New Deal of the 1930's has been unmasked as classic socialist tyranny through the blunderings of a mysterious community organizer with a Muslim name.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of it victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satisfied; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with approval of their own conscience."

C.S. Lewis, God in the Dark: Essays on Theology and Ethics, ed. Walter Hooper (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1994, 292.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-07-13 00:58|| 2012-07-13 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 A related story from the BBC.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-07-13 07:08|| 2012-07-13 07:08|| Front Page Top

#3 And the politician in Besoeker's UK link says:

"Regulation tightening would be welcome."

Is there any subject in the world that would NOT prompt that reply from a pol?

Posted by AlanC 2012-07-13 09:12|| 2012-07-13 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Is there any subject in the world that would NOT prompt that reply from a pol?

Their own expense accounts?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-07-13 12:25|| 2012-07-13 12:25|| Front Page Top

#5 He wasn't speaking as a pol but rather as the head of an establish fracking company looking to keep cheap corner-cutting competition from poisoning the public acceptance of this method IIUC.

Posted by lotp 2012-07-13 12:29|| 2012-07-13 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Their own expense accounts?

Ba-da-bing Ba-da-boom!!! And don't forget to try the Veal.

LOL 8^)

Posted by AlanC 2012-07-13 13:12|| 2012-07-13 13:12|| Front Page Top

#7 The current administration is wrong on so many of the fronts mentioned by Hanson. Time for a helmsman and a rudder and to quit drifting.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-07-13 16:18|| 2012-07-13 16:18|| Front Page Top

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