No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for March 24th, 2008

Abandon all hope, my MRQ of the week competitors

by @ 18:28. Filed under Miscellaneous.

It seems Rule #2 of my Rules for Hiring Hookers is worthy of being in the running for last week’s MRQ of the Week. So, go over to Fred’s site and vote for “If you’re stupid enough to ignore rule #1, always pay cash.” If you don’t, I’ll find out who you are, and tell Knock-Knees Tony you are me.

The Morning Scramble – 3/24/2008

by @ 7:51. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

There really is only one song that sums up my bracket…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaWzWVo7o9U[/youtube]

Nobody reads this place on the weekends, but some people do weekend blogging. Let’s roll:

– A “nervous” Mary Katharine reads the Sermon on the Mount. MKH, nervous? Surely she can’t be serious.
– Elliot questions the removal of a secular Easter display on the grounds that it would offend non-Christians in Saint Paul, Minnesota (emphasis in the original commentary). Yes, it has come to this, folks; the secularization of a religious holiday isn’t secular enough for the everybody-but-Christians (and sometimes Jews) crowd.
– Peeps, Peeps, Peeps, Peeps everywhere, but not a Week in Peeps in sight yet (in order of the links, Michelle, E.M., Keith, Phelony Jones and Kevin, who would rather have a chocolate egg).
– Tom McMahon sums up the Winter That Won’t Die™.
– Ruthless is hunting RINOs out in northwest Wisconsin. Good hunting.
– I’m surprised Jib didn’t get the frying pan for his observation on Hollywood’s obsession with stick figures. Of course, since Mrs. Jib agrees, that reduces the risk a lot.
– JammieWearingFool discovered what happened to the folks behind the video version of M-m-m-m-max bin Laden. Guess they became victims of coicumstance and American-made ordnance, but mostly American-made ordnance.
– Since this is the post-weekend edition, and it’s my rules, I can double-dip on my sources. JWF discovered what donors to freshly-minted New York governor David Paterson’s campaign bought for Paterson.
– I’m not much of a jazz person (my dad failed to pass that along), but Headless Blogger is.
– Trail-Mix, the Disgruntled Truck Driver, goes YouTubin’. ‘Tis a good first effort, IMHO.
– Speaking of YouTubin’, Uncle Jimbo discovers Google doesn’t like dead jihadi body parts flying around the screen, but mixes some buildings holding jihadis getting blowed up real good with lefty music (always a great “tweaking” combo).
– Tom asks, “Snowpocalypse or Stormageddon?”

Words matter, but actions matter more

by @ 7:00. Filed under Miscellaneous.

“Don’t tell me words don’t matter. ‘I have a dream’ — just words. ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ — just words. ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself’ – just words. Just speeches.”

…Barack Obama

In a well publicized speech, Barack Obama tries to dodge the accusation that he is an empty suit with flowery language and nothing else.   He tries to equate his words to those of words that have formed the history of the United States.  

While Obama makes a valid point showing that well crafted words can encourage, challenge and motivate us, he misses a more important point that if all we had were these words, without the action that followed them, none of these words would be remembered.

And so it is now with Obama.   For the past ten days he has been using words to attempt to explain his affiliation with Jeremiah Wright and to distance himself from Wright’s hateful language.

Words like:  

"I reject them completely "” they are not ones that reflect my values or my ideals or Michelle’s."

or

"If I thought that was the repeated tenor of the church then I wouldn’t feel comfortable, but frankly that has not been my experience at Trinity United Church of Christ.”

Now it is found that Jeremiah Wright used his column in the chuch newsletter to reprint a Hamas hate manifesto, Obama uses these words:

“I have already condemned my former pastor’s views on Israel in the strongest possible terms, and I certainly wasn’t in church when that outrageously wrong Los Angeles Times piece was re-printed in the bulletin,”

Hey Barack, there is a point where words without actions mean nothing.   You have reached that point.   No one should believe another word about your alledged disgust with the positions of Jeremiah Wright until you not only talk about it, but denouce your affiliation with the church that has been the host of his hate messages for these past 20 years.  

If you don’t follow your words with actions, we can only assume that in fact, they are JUST WORDS!  

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