tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109273002024-03-13T12:21:22.571-05:00Atlanta ROFTERSThis blog used to be the reactions of a reader of the conservative Catholic journal First Things to the many fine articles to be found therein. Now it's just another minor blog of staircase wit, from just another minor blogger who doesn't realize that blogging is dead. About the only notable thing about me is that I am a Christian conservative who loathes creationism in all its forms. Enjoy your visit.The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comBlogger1558125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-32661786268234143092020-10-12T11:56:00.000-05:002015-12-05T10:36:54.196-05:00STICKY: Blog has been suspended, probably discontinuedSTICKY: In case you haven't noticed, I have abandoned this blog, having moved on to being a full-time commenter elseweb. Please do click on the links in the blogroll though, as those sites are still quite worth a visit. No greatest hits list, as most of my best bloggage was topical & is well past its sell-by date. You can follow me in the links on the sidebar, "Me on Disqus", etc. New posts may occasionally appear below. Thanks for a diverting ten years of blogging, internet! The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-26404924895776237322015-05-15T20:40:00.002-05:002015-05-15T20:40:23.272-05:00I made the front page of Reddit today....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGswzUE7wtKCVGBcM8oOsLcphbyHkO83XVNHW_yKFoIW9jzmzT8W7z6N0ZcCQGhTG9WzlRhALIDkoQSqSXHqWTDHs09dUubYtabVFVhCWHJtlok2Rh2z-2_ucgfOZoGrsItOU/s1600/reddit.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGswzUE7wtKCVGBcM8oOsLcphbyHkO83XVNHW_yKFoIW9jzmzT8W7z6N0ZcCQGhTG9WzlRhALIDkoQSqSXHqWTDHs09dUubYtabVFVhCWHJtlok2Rh2z-2_ucgfOZoGrsItOU/s640/reddit.png" /></a>The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-54666872035497833802015-04-24T23:02:00.000-05:002015-04-24T23:02:09.289-05:00Congressional hearings from 1922 on the Armenian GenocideCan be viewed in Google Books <a href="http://bit.ly/1DtzJLH">here.</a> <br />
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took me down to the quayside in Dar-Es-Salaam harbor. And he pointed<br />
out a dhow in the harbor and he said, "You see that dhow there? Twice<br />
a year it comes down from Aden. It stops here and goes down [South].<br />
On the way down it's got boxes of machinery and goods. On the way back<br />
up it's got two or three little black boys on it. Now, those boys are<br />
slaves. And the United Nations will not let me do anything about it."<br />
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"The conversation went on. "Look, boy. There is not going to be a World<br />
War between Russia and the United. The next World War will be between<br />
Islam and the West."<br />
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"This is 1955! I said to him, "Dad, you're nuts! The Crusades have been<br />
over for hundreds of years!"<br />
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"And he said, "Well, I know, but militant Islam is on the rise again.<br />
And you will see it in your lifetime."<br />
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"He's been dead some years now. But there's not a day that goes by that<br />
I don't think of him and think, "God, I wish you were here, just so I<br />
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-- John Rhys-Davies, interview, 2003The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-50091750258822333442015-02-18T16:38:00.001-05:002015-02-18T16:38:59.444-05:00Coptic Martyrs (no gore)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gTkf8CzZhGw" width="480"></iframe>The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-43402279633410231152015-02-18T15:08:00.003-05:002015-02-18T15:08:46.449-05:00"Radicals" and "Moderates"Look at who is committing these jihadist attacks. They are quite radicalized. Look at who is complaining about "islamophobia" and "backlash", the split-second the jihadists commit another atrocity. They are quite peaceable and moderate, seemingly--but yet they will still brook no criticism of Islam from infidels. So these moderates transfer blame for the attacks, by tortured rhetoric, from the attackers to the victims, and injury from the victims to themselves. If you need examples just look at any given press release from CAIR.The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-65471276580514225532015-02-01T09:49:00.001-05:002015-02-01T09:49:20.413-05:00How to Be Miserable in the Land of Opportunity: Scott Ott's 7 Secrets| S...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FohKp_1TGlY" width="480"></iframe>The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-45657633221033665332015-01-30T14:17:00.001-05:002015-01-30T14:17:58.863-05:00Remy: I Need a Hashtag!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JeXX_zwhmi8" width="480"></iframe>The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-62882607201457697582015-01-20T23:04:00.000-05:002015-01-20T23:04:20.236-05:00Notable Tweets from the State Of The Union speech<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>I can't wait to be lectured about misogyny during Hillary's campaign by the same people now cursing Joni Ernst.</p>— Will Antonin (@Will_Antonin) <a href="https://twitter.com/Will_Antonin/status/557743169040044033">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>For a guy that was elected on “hope” by a public desperate for someone to bring us together, that display of petulance is despicable. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sotu?src=hash">#sotu</a></p>— Charlie Harper (@IcarusPundit) <a href="https://twitter.com/IcarusPundit/status/557737611616616448">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Pres. Obama said, "join me to make voting easier for all Americans... black, white, Hispanic, legal, illegal, alive and dead alike..." <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOTU?src=hash">#SOTU</a></p>— Walter Cronkite (@CronkiteSays) <a href="https://twitter.com/CronkiteSays/status/557737163912392706">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>"The right 2 vote is 'sacred'" (as if anyone is kept from it.) but the right 2 to not have your vote negated by illegal aliens IS that right</p>— Evan Sayet (@EvanSayet) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvanSayet/status/557736178540363778">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Obama gets it right: Even if we don't agree on abortion, we should all agree that it should be subsidized</p>— Salon (@Salondotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/Salondotcom/status/557735860238823425">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>The guy who weaponized gov’t agencies to persecute people who didn’t like his health care is lecturing on kindness. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOTU?src=hash">#SOTU</a></p>— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/557735558269894657">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Crumbling infrastructure, poor education, high energy costs: man, I hope Obama can save us from whoever's been in charge these last 6 years.</p>— Will Antonin (@Will_Antonin) <a href="https://twitter.com/Will_Antonin/status/557735067469230082">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>1. ISIS beheads journalists 2. Obama does nothing in response 3. Obama claims ISIS isn't advancing 4. Journalists let him get away with it.</p>— Will Antonin (@Will_Antonin) <a href="https://twitter.com/Will_Antonin/status/557733553069641728">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Obama 30 mins ago: Look how our oil production has grown! Obama just now: Look at all this climate change!</p>— Kyle Wingfield AJC (@kwingfieldajc) <a href="https://twitter.com/kwingfieldajc/status/557733467510034432">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Flash: Government that will be insolvent in 2025 has plan to change temperatures in 2075</p>— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a href="https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/557733443698970624">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>“No foreign nation should be able to... invade the privacy of American families…" Because that’s NSA’s job dammit! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CatoSOTU?src=hash">#CatoSOTU</a></p>— Julian Sanchez (@normative) <a href="https://twitter.com/normative/status/557732276520624129">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>"When what you're doing doesn't work for fifty years, it's time to try something new!" - Obama not talking about War on Poverty <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOTU?src=hash">#SOTU</a></p>— el Sooper ن (@SooperMexican) <a href="https://twitter.com/SooperMexican/status/557731667037941761">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>If Obama would get to the part of the speech about France and rip his shirt open to show a JE SUIS CHARLIE t-shirt I would forgive him a lot</p>— Blasphemous Hat (@Popehat) <a href="https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/557714606735773696">January 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-21437146956024829592015-01-17T18:16:00.001-05:002015-01-17T18:16:26.189-05:00Antisemitism In Turkish Media, Government, Mosques Continues To Rise; Turkish Governor Announces: 'With Great Hatred In My Heart,' The Grand Synagogue Now Undergoing Restoration Will Not Reopen For Worship But 'Will Become Only A Museum, With No Exhibits In It'Meanwhile, in Turkey, the campaign against that nation's Jews rachets up another ugly notch. How appalling to have this evil spreading over the earth again!<br />
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Dear God in Heaven, how do libs wrap their thoughts into these contortions?The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-14394548214056345672014-12-18T22:19:00.000-05:002014-12-18T22:19:49.373-05:00Relations with Cuba to be normalizedWell, it's finally happening, for good or ill. It will be good for people to more freely meet their relatives, of course. Will a lifting of the embargo spread freedom in communist Cuba? I hope it turns out that way. It didn't in China, which figured out a way of providing material prosperity to its people, while keeping them firmly under boot. I hope one part of the deal normalizing relations is that forensic teams will be allowed to exhume the graves of the regime's victims. Probably need regime change for that, though.<br />
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Looks like the Sixties Left will get to have their youthful "idealism" validated after all. Hope Cuban communism's victims won't be forgotten by everyone else. <i>El Jefe</i> always had a gift for schmoozing First World entertainers and intellectuals. Now the Sixties Left and the generations they've indoctrinated in college can finally claim validation of their youthful "idealism". They've always excused or denied communist tyranny in Cuba by claiming that the U. S. backed right wing police states that were as bad. The difference of course is that the U.S.'s backing of right wing dictatorships during the Cold War was understood as grim <i>realpolitik</i>, rightly or wrongly. The Left's support of communist regimes was a positive love affair. When First World proggs begin sneering about how crass and commercialized Havana is becoming, we'll know that liberty and prosperity are finally coming to the Cuban people. <br />
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I do want to see who will be the first of the entertainment industry glitterati to fly down and congratulate Castro for outlasting the embargo, though. It'll be beyond rich if it's someone connected with Sony studios.<br />
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Glad Alan Gross and the unnamed intelligence officer are out of that hellhole, btw.The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-88228208015108062382014-11-28T10:21:00.000-05:002014-11-28T10:31:48.857-05:00Scenes of shopping mayhem in Britain on Black Friday"As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later."<br />
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This is probably also why the Ferguson eyewitnesses were contradicting one another.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v_QbTX2qS10" width="480"></iframe>The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-61462760543145669492014-11-24T19:37:00.001-05:002014-11-24T19:37:30.955-05:00Welcome back, Hoder!<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30136003">Iran releases 'Blogfather' Hossein Derakhshan</a> The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-35577024828348663382014-11-22T14:12:00.001-05:002014-11-22T14:12:10.679-05:00A song made out of a comet.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hrw7Wp2q8nY" width="480"></iframe>The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-25438639914562874982014-11-12T14:19:00.000-05:002014-11-12T14:19:18.604-05:00Philae lands on comet...Best tweets I've found on this historic event:<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>If the world were socialist, the solar system would have a shortage of comets. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Philae?src=hash">#Philae</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Socialist_party">@Socialist_party</a></p>— Bruce Thompson (@BruceThompson51) <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceThompson51/status/532569003869618176">November 12, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Eagerly anticipating the moment <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Philae?src=hash">#Philae</a> hits, the comet explodes and a giant 'level compete' sign flashes on the Moon. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rosetta?src=hash">#Rosetta</a></p>— theuglygame (@uglygame) <a href="https://twitter.com/uglygame/status/532564836388196352">November 12, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I always thought we'd land on comets the day when Maryland, Massachusetts, and Illinois all got GOP governors.</p>— Razor (@hale_razor) <a href="https://twitter.com/hale_razor/status/532573728446877696">November 12, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I have hazy recollections of watching moon landings on b/w tv. I watched <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Philae?src=hash">#Philae</a> land on a comet on my phone. A PHONE <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sheesh?src=hash">#sheesh</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mazin?src=hash">#mazin</a></p>— Eric Murray (@ericjmurray) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericjmurray/status/532570740806385665">November 12, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
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The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-21720182705819581702014-11-08T08:50:00.001-05:002014-11-08T08:50:59.828-05:001989 Year of Miracles<br />
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The years 1989-1991 were the most momentous historical years in Europe I had ever lived through. I missed 1789, 1848 and 1917, but I'm humbled that I can say I witnessed & comprehended 1989--even if it was just on TV from Atlanta.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U2WiX3BOeKo" width="480"></iframe>The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-46868789537403671082014-11-05T11:04:00.000-05:002014-11-05T11:04:45.903-05:00Quite a diverse election, this was... A couple of milestones to note: A black Republican woman of Haitian heritage, Mia Love, was elected to Congress from Utah. A black Republican from South Carolina, Tim Scott, is the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction. And Republican Elise Stefanik, the new representative from New York's 21st Congressional district, is the youngest person ever elected to Congress. <br />
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And the only reason all three of these people, embodying diversity, youth and female power, are not going to be on the cover of this week's TIME magazine is because of the R after their names.The Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-78070730078512149962014-10-31T11:34:00.001-05:002014-10-31T11:34:39.980-05:0010 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman<div style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
This video resonated with me secondhand. I'm a straight male, but sometimes when I'm walking downtown I'll seemingly set off a false alert on someone's gaydar. It doesn't happen often, but it makes me uncomfortable enough that I can sympathize with Ms. Roberts in the video. </div>
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On the other hand, for perspective, let her try her walk through a haredi Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem, and she might get stones thrown at her. Let her try it in Khandahar, and she might get acid splashed in her face. So, while I acknowledge that this street harassment is very annoying and unwelcome, it is also very much a First World Problem.</div>
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