As Yet Untitled

As time creeps onward, men grow colder,

Soaring ever higher on wings of wax we chase the wind.

Ozymandias’ folly lay in graven immortal aspiration,

Tho’ left, eloquently set more firmly than any stone edifice,

The muse of ancients; wisdom, mores stewardship,

Fanning the flame sewn upon nature, harbinger of logos.

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Even as the heirs of this priceless foundation,

Raise ever higher the spires of achievement,

The swill of words leave the looters’ lips,

Sophists’ tendrils to brand with feigned righteousness,

Condemning to serfdom the torch bearing pillars.

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With hubris they raze aiming to birth morality anew,

The depravity of indulgence without purpose.

If there ever hath been a time, Lord Yahweh,

Show us the way, that time is today,

As Sophist’s hands beat plowshares into swords,

Shine perishing Republic, shine.

Supreme Court Observations:

Separated at birth? Forget whether Elana Kagan is gay or not--the real question is whether she is a stealth candidate... That is, Kevin James in disguise!

Judge Judy for Supreme Court. She has everything Obama is searching for in a Justice: minority status, humble beginnings, no qualifications and celebrity. Let the affirmative action checklist begin!

Avatar Debut in Iran?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seen here at James Cameron's 'Avatar' premier in Tehran: "Khalid, do you see this 3-D magic!?!? This Avatar movie is phenomenal! Best thing to come from the Great Satan since Night at the Roxbury! Allah be praised, it almost makes me wish to spare the zionist pigs! Maybe I won't run Israel into the sea after all!" Just kidding, this is actually Mahmoud Yabba Dabba Dooeyjad viewing some sort of uranium enrichment process which he plans to use to wipe Israel off the map. Happy Days.

Patterson on the Brink

NY Governor David Patterson will forever be SNL's caricature of the Patternator. No matter how corrupt, Patterson will remain comical and benign in the role of hapless executive.

New York’s political problems don’t bother me so much for some reason. It actually is a little comical. The fact that Elliot Spitzer and David Patterson should be locked up doesn’t really get me all hot and bothered–probably because in New York State, the political boss who replaces the scandal plagued mobster before him is usually worse. New York State (especially upstate) is a great state with the worst political body in the Nation. Charlie Rangel, Spitzer, Patterson, Arcuri, Cuomo, Schumer… Will New York ever get its federalism together and throw the bums out? With many with the will to drain the swamp, fleeing to other states, will anyone be left? Youth and talent are siphoned into the South and West. New York is crumbling before our very eyes. The Empire State will soon follow the example set for it by all empires from epochs past.

A Dusting in Tennessee: Please Flee in an Orderly Manner

See the green on the sides of the road? A dusting of snow has closed the Gay Street Bridge in Knoxville and caused a littany of accidents. A twenty minute drive just took me an hour. I knew driving was bad in the south, but this settles it--southerners may in fact be worse than Massachusetts drivers. Learn to drive!

Defcon 5 here in Tennessee as a full quarter inch of snow piles up all around Knoxville.  Roads are closed and traffic is destroyed and wreckage is everywhere.  A ‘dusting’ in New York, where I am from, requires snow tires, a snow blower, and a fire brigade of shovelers to remove you from your driveway.  In Tennessee, a dusting is barely visible and wrecks death and destruction on a mass scale.  Call in the National Guard.

Earlier today, I watched with great amusement as one four wheel drive vehicle started up the hill by my house, and after two minutes, turned around and gave up.  Another four wheel drive vehicle stopped and stared at the hill for another minute.  I turned my 4 cylinder Ford Fusion with two wheel drive around as well.  I drove 30 yards, turned around again, and gunned it past the awe struck southerner, up the snow dusted hill, and safely home.  And that, my friends, is how the South lost the Civil War.

Thought of the Day: Do Terrorists Have Human Rights?

Dirka Dirka, Jihad Muhammed?

Occasionally I like to stir up discussion, so here goes:

Lately, all the president’s men and all the president’s activists have tended to preoccupy themselves with granting terrorists Miranda rights, bringing them to the U.S. for trial in civilian court, and railing against underwear being placed on the heads of detainees in Guantanamo Bay, I began to think…  Our founding documents prohibit the government from depriving anyone of their God-given civil and human rights without the due process of law.  Terrorists are neither U.S. citizens protected under our Constitution and the Geneva Convention specificially does not apply to terrorists or saboteurs, as they are not considered prisoners of war.

My question, then, is this:  Do terrorists have human rights, and why?  What documents, or moral code justifies that they have more human rights than, say, a dog?  After all, one can forfeit rights to life, liberty or property based upon choosing to violate the social contract we live under, which I would presume would extend to not blowing up innocents for the purpose of making a political statement.  I know this blog is new, but I encourage anyone who is reading this to weigh in.  I enjoy dissent, even if you are wrong.