Friday, March 26, 2010

Up and Coming Nomenklatura Candidate

Meet Jordan Johnson, President of the University of Florida Student Body.

This young man is primed and ready to be hired by the Obama adminstration, heck any bureaubot officialdom system would be pleased to have him on board, as is evidenced by the following.

UF Student Body President Jordan Johnson was cited for disorderly conduct by the University Police Department after demanding a SNAP ride to his off-campus home at about 1:45 a.m. Saturday…

When asked to identify himself, Johnson said, “You know who I am.”

When asked again, he said he was the Student Body president.

When SNAP employees Aljahra Lewis and Kendal Orgera refused to take Johnson and girlfriend Erica Rakow to his off-campus apartment, Johnson got angry and pointed out that, as president, he funded SNAP and used it to get home frequently.

After continued refusal, Johnson said “Student Government should pull its funding from this [unknown expletive] program.”

Yep, the State run education system is finally reaching its full potential in students such as Jordan Johnson, who has learned his political lessons well.

UPD cites SG president for disorderly conduct

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Posted by John Venlet on 03/26 at 12:25 PM
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Dogmatic Prayers

For individuals of faith, the efficacy of prayer is real.  For individuals on the last rung preceding perfect faith, prayer may be considered as a learned exercise in foolish futility.  So be it.

I think at the worse, a praying individual may receive only mental comfort from expressing their fears, hopes, or what have you when appealing to God (I used the word God here for simplicity of understanding - for good or bad*) for guidance.  At the best, the praying individual may receive what they believe is actual guidance from above.

Those thoughts occurred to me when I read, this morning, that The Church of England has published a book of prayers for voters.

The Church of England has published prayers to help confused and cynical voters ahead of Britain’s upcoming election.

Some snippets of the prayers.

“(The prayers) ask that the concerns of all may be heard and seek protection from despair and cynicism,”...

...“Thank you for caring about how our country is run, and that we have the right to vote for our politicians and government.” But it goes on to say: “Sometimes I wonder whether there’s any point in voting, whether anyone cares what I think.”...

...“Help me not to be cynical about politics and politicians, help me to remember that my vote can make a difference.”...

...“truth may prevail over distortion, wisdom triumph over recklessness.”

The Church of England would have better served its parishoners by publishing a book of prayers which petitioned God* to protect the people of the world from government, to raise them up as self interested and self reliant individuals coveting no man’s productivity due to their perceived want, for freedom from the violence of voting, so that “truth may prevail over distortion, wisdom triumph over recklessness.”

Church issues prayers for confused UK voters

Posted by John Venlet on 03/26 at 08:34 AM
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“Freedom-ectomy”

John Bergstrom, of Attack Cartoons, illustrates a Freedom-ectomy.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/26 at 08:05 AM
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“Pyramid of Moral Endurance”

The following quote is closely related to the thoughts expressed in Albert Jay Nock’s Isaiah’s Job which I linked to the other day.

In Atlas Shrugged, I discussed the “pyramid of ability” in the realm of economics. There is another kind of social pyramid. The genius who fights “every form of tyranny over the mind of man” is fighting a battle for which lesser men do not have the strength, but on which their freedom, their dignity, and their integrity depend. It is the pyramid of moral endurance.

Link to above Rand quote via Diana Hsieh.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/26 at 07:56 AM
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Not Yet Quote of the Day

From an inane Washington Post piece titled Iowa man joins protest against Obama and health-care reform.

“I’m not ready for outright violence yet. We have to be civil for as long as we can,” Millam said. But, he added, “we are watching the infrastructure of this country crumble under our feet. The government doesn’t want to hear us. We have to make them listen.” (bold by ed.)

How much longer can Americans hold out?

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Posted by John Venlet on 03/26 at 07:47 AM
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That’s Low

Via Samizdata, links to two viddies of jets flying, as Jonathan Pearce states, “incredibly low.”  Yeah, they are flying incredibly low.

Viddie number one, with dust trails instead of contrails (1:45).

Viddie number two, again with dust trails, plus needle threading (3:31).

Wow!  Those are some exceptional pilots.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/26 at 07:31 AM
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DeathCare Bureaucracy Count

RicketyClick blog links to Questions and Observations’ Perhaps HCR is a jobs bill post with the following commentary.

Here’s a nice list of Offices, Grants, Programs, Committees, Exchanges, Boards, Projects, Groups, Working Groups, Centers, Councils, Systems, Task Forces, Allotments, Commissions, Cooperatives, Corridors (What the hell is a “corridor”?), Boards of Governors, Institutes, Organizations, Panels, Tracks, Teams, Surveys, Services, Funds, Plans, Networks, Network Review Boards, Tribes, and numerous combinations and permutations thereof, created by the Obamacare Act. One hundred and fifty nine of them.

RicketyClick also provides the list, with some additional commentary.  I’m surprised there are only one hundred fifty nine (159) of them.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/26 at 06:45 AM
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