http://voxd.blogsome.com Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:14:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Final score: Incremental progress: 1 Headlong dash to the past: 0 Sorry, Mssrs. R, no lovely parting gifts nor a home version for playing. The Sun is sunnier, the sky bluer, the birds chirpier today. Because ‘an empty vessel makes the most noise’ is still a truism. Because the Power Point Presidency has left the ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2012/11/07/game-set-match/ So the madness imposed by panic can be wrestled back into the dark,. dank place whence it sprang. Ye olde scribe takes a modest measure of some pride in having repeatedly pointed out the exact same stance in law (and in the tradition of Constitutional protection) as the court ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2012/10/17/exoneration-is-a-dish-best-served-often/ So the first ‘debate’ has come and gone. Impressions: Worst thing of the entire program was to witness Jim Lehrer morphing from news media patriarch and éminence grise to Captain Dunsel in the span of the first 15 minutes. Mr. Obama had a ready, if rote, grasp of facts and figures, ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2012/10/04/the-incredible-shrinking-campaign/ Ye olde scribe hereby dubs W. Mitt Romney the Calzone Candidate. All the meat is hidden by the denseness of the upper crust, which releases hot air. http://voxd.blogsome.com/2012/07/17/a-chew-to-rue/ Sweden rocks. Swedish people believe today that the worst scandal suffered by their country in the last 20 years occurred in 2001, when the Government was involved in the controversial program to torture and illegally transfer persons detained by the CIA. According to a poll conducted by Channel 5, the scandal arising ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2012/07/10/sense-and-responsibilty/ Should anyone happening upon this post own (or know someone who does) one of those delis which name their sandwiches, might ye olde blogscribe humbly suggest for the menu a $1000 Mitt Romney Grilled Bonanza: Wagyu beef tongue topped with Ass cheese and gold leaf between slices of the world’s ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2012/06/21/elite-eats/ By broadly asserting corporations as “people,” W.M. Romney has publicly defined his active engagement in one of the lowest, most odious, and most near-universally despicable commerces conceivable. As head of Bain Capital, an enterprise whose raison d’etre is the buying and selling of corporate entities for profit, W.M. Romney was, by ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2012/01/10/snooze-muse-13/ So this is how an extended, unwarranted, atrocious, panicked action shambles off the highway of history: Not with a bang, nor with a whimper, but with “nostalgia.” “There was a signing of papers of receivership that gave Iraq custody of the base effective today,” [U.S. military spokesman Col. Barry] Johnson said. ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2011/12/02/iraq-iio-453/ What have we become? There you have it — indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge or trial.  Source Congress, then. I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2011/12/02/oath-schmoath/ Together in peace. In the late Senator Teddy’s case, with the solace of readily available government-paid end of life aid and assistance. Edward Kennedy was a Senator who understood and extolled the service part of the phrase public service and who worked to make conspicuous and to never forgo the concept, responsibility ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2009/08/25/joe-jack-bobby-ted/