Obama’s Five Easy Pieces.

Barry Hussein Obama is bound to leave his hordes of incurious, wilfully ignorant, clueless and naïve lovers at the gas station of their phony and embarrassing leftard daydreams. Gotta Mister! But Bobby, sorry Barry, has a talent for playing just the right kind of mesmerising toon for the kind of boobs who know they’re superior to say, you and I. The song remains insane and sadly it’s a love that can never be. For narcissism, cigarettes, power, radical ideology via using anybody and other peoples money, are Barry’s true loves.

Via filmsite org:

“Five Easy Pieces (1970) is a moody, thoughtful character study of an alienated, misfit drifter and drop-out, Robert Eroica Dupea [Jack Nicholson].

At his family’s home, he is accused of being incapable of real feelings:

Catherine: “You’re a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family, work, something – how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask for it?”

“He [Robert] lives with an ignorant, dim-witted but kind-hearted waitress girlfriend Rayette Dipesto [Karen Black] – an aspiring [and awful] country music singer. She constantly chatters to him, aggravating him: “If you wouldn’t open your mouth, everything would be just fine.” She pathetically clings to him and smothers him with love although he is unfaithful and not committed to her:

Rayette: “I’ll go out with you, or I’ll stay in with you, or I’ll do anything that you like for me to do, if you tell me that you love me”.

He delivers a painful, one-sided confession to his dying, paralyzed father in a wheelchair in the cold outdoors, in the film’s most powerful scene. He apologizes for his abandonment of his family and talent, for giving up on his responsibilities, and for not living up to his father’s high ideals, breaking down in tears mid-speech:

“I don’t know if you’d be particularly interested in hearing anything about me. My life, I mean… Most of it doesn’t add up to much… that I could relate as a way of life that you’d approve of…I’d like to be able to tell you why, but I don’t really…I mean, I move around a lot because things tend to get bad when I stay. And I’m looking…for auspicious beginnings, I guess…

I’m trying to, you know, imagine your half of this conversation…My feeling is, that if you could talk, we probably wouldn’t be talking. That’s pretty much how it got to be before… I left…Are you all right? I don’t know what to say…Tita suggested that we try to…I don’t know.

I think that she…seems to feel we’ve got…some understanding to reach…She totally denies the fact that we were never that comfortable with each other to begin with…The best that I can do, is apologize. We both know that I was never really that good at it, anyway…”

He finally bows his head, sighs, and admits with sorrow, “I’m sorry it didn’t work out.”

As he returns home with Rayette, he ignores her observation: “There isn’t anybody gonna look after you AND love you, as good as I do.”

In the bleak final sequence, he abandons her in a Gulf gas station without explanation, leaving her with his wallet and car, while he catches a lift from a northbound lumber truck toward Canada and freedom. The driver promises they will travel to an even colder climate and he could borrow a jacket: “Where we’re goin’, it’s gonna get colder than hell.” He responds: “Nah, it’s okay. I’m fine. Fine. I’m fine.” Continue reading at Colonel Robert Neville Always Dresses For Dinner…

Something For You Liberals To Think About

Stay with me folks…

By Matthias Schulz

Roman engineers chipped an aqueduct through more than 100 kilometers of stone to connect water to cities in the ancient province of Syria. The monumental effort took more than a century, says the German researcher who discovered it.

When the Romans weren’t busy conquering their enemies, they loved to waste massive quantities of water, which gurgled and bubbled throughout their cities. The engineers of the empire invented standardized lead pipes, aqueducts as high as fortresses, and water mains with 15 bars (217 pounds per square inch) of pressure.

In the capital alone there were thousands of fountains, drinking troughs and thermal baths. Rich senators refreshed themselves in private pools and decorated their gardens with cooling grottos. The result was a record daily consumption of over 500 liters of water per capita (Germans today use around 125 liters).

However, when the Roman legions marched into the barren region of Palestine, shortly before the birth of Christ, they had to forgo the usual splashing about, at least temporarily. It was simply too dry.

Not Enough Oxygen

But that didn’t stop the empire’s clever engineers. They soon figured out a way to put things right. In the former Roman province of Syria (located in modern day Jordan), researchers are currently studying a sensational canal system. It extends mostly underground over a distance of 106 kilometers (66 miles).

The tunnel was discovered by Mathias Döring, a hydromechanics professor in Darmstadt, Germany. Treading on moss-covered steps, he squeezes his way into dark caverns plastered with waterproof mortar. Greek letters are emblazoned on the walls, and bats dart through the air. “Sometimes we have to stop working — there isn’t enough oxygen,” says the project director.

Qanat Firaun, “Canal of the Pharaohs,” is what the locals call the weathered old pipeline. There are even rumors that gold is hidden in the underground passageways that run up to 80 meters (262 feet) below the surface.

Döring has found a better explanation. It turns out the aqueduct is of Roman origin. It begins in an ancient swamp in Syria, which has long since dried out, and extends for 64 kilometers on the surface before it disappears into three tunnels, with lengths of 1, 11 and 94 kilometers. The longest previously known underground water channel of the antique world — in Bologna — is only 19 kilometers long.

“Amazing” is the word that the researcher uses to describe the achievement of the construction crews, who were most likely legionnaires. The soldiers chiseled over 600,000 cubic meters of stone from the ground — or the equivalent of one-quarter of the Great Pyramid of Cheops. This colossal waterworks project supplied the great cities of the “Decapolis” — a league originally consisting of 10 ancient communities — with spring water. The aqueduct ended in Gadara, a city with a population of approximately 50,000. According to the Bible, this is where Jesus exorcized demons and transformed them into a herd of pigs.

The Height of Its Glory

Döring will return to the site with his students in April to further explore this underworld. Every morning the group heads out into the barren landscape armed with theodolites — instruments used for measuring angles of incline — and GPS devices. They are looking for new entrances that lead to the hidden labyrinth. A dilapidated old farmhouse, located in the midst of the ruins of ancient Gadara, serves as an excavation camp, high above Lake Genezareth.

The massive undertaking was launched around the year 90 A.D. — that much is clear. Emperor Domitian ruled in Rome and the empire was at the height of its glory. Frontinus, Rome’s water commissioner, was in charge of nine aqueducts built on towering stone arches. He even pumped water free of charge into the cellar of the Coliseum.

The Levant was also experiencing an enormous boom thanks to trade with the Orient. The people of Rome wanted to see tigers. A tame lion prowled around Domitian’s throne. Rich senators savored spices from India and wore silk from China. Whoever could afford it burned copious quantities of frankincense and purchased beautiful slaves from Arabia.

The desert trade flourished accordingly. Dust-covered caravans thronged the gates of Gadara and camels stood at the troughs. The Romans built two theaters in the city. Even a temple to the nymphs was planned, with fountains and a 22-meter-long basin.

Local springs, though, did not produce enough water to fulfill such luxurious demands. Soon the region was suffering from water shortages. So the city administration decided in favor of an unprecedented tour de force. It seems they tapped a river deep in the backcountry, near Dille in modern day Syria. The water was then routed through a trough made of Roman concrete, the famed “opus caementicium.”

Bridging a Chasm

This channel was covered with slabs to protect it against animals, bird excrement and dust. This also kept out the light, which stopped the growth of algae. The pipeline inclined only slightly as it cut across the Syrian high plateau. Hundreds of cement mixers toiled under the hot sun. Finally, they reached the first city, Adraa.

But then their way was blocked by the mountainous country of northern Jordan, a chain of flat-topped peaks, surrounded by steep gorges. The very first obstacle, the Wadi al-Shalal, is a 200-meter deep gash carved into the landscape. No Roman master builder could have ever bridged this chasm. What to do now?

First, the engineers swerved to the left and ran the aqueduct along the mountainside to the south. Since the rough terrain made it virtually impossible to extend the route over the surface, however, they carved an underground channel through the rocky mountain face. This continued for 11 kilometers.

Finally, the desert valley was narrow enough that the gap could be bridged with a single bold construction. Even today the blocks of stone from this structure lie at the bottom of the ravine.

Beyond this canyon, the terrain became even more grueling with a seemingly endless succession of hills and steep slopes. Facing similar topography near Carthage, the Romans had routed water 19 kilometers across huge walls and stone arches.

How Did the Romans Accomplish Such a Feat?

This time the empire pursued an even more ambitious goal. It aimed to place the remaining route underground. That dispensed with the need for bridges. Below the surface, laborers could simply chisel the floor of the tunnel out of rock.

But the project faced daunting hurdles. The compass was unknown in the ancient world. How were they to orient themselves within the mountain? And how to provide adequate ventilation inside the tunnels? After only a few meters, workers would have had trouble breathing in the dusty passageways.

And there were other challenges: With an average height of 2.5 meters (8 feet) and a width of 1.5 meters, only four legionnaires working underground could ensure the advance of the tunnel. They couldn’t manage more than 10 centimeters (4 inches) a day. At that rate, they would still be tunneling toward Gadara today.

Surveyors, water engineers and mining experts traveled farther east to find solutions to these problems. Döring has largely deciphered their working methods. “There are many indications that the engineers first traced the surface route and then sank sloping shafts into the rock every 20 to 200 meters,” he says. These shafts provided fresh air. What’s more, they meant that hundreds of men could work simultaneously on the endeavor.

Dead Chickens

When Emperor Hadrian visited the Decapolis in the 129 B.C., the project was in full swing. To the sound of trumpets the legionnaires and local workers lined up and climbed underground. They labored with pointed chisels in the glow of oil lamps. Slaves hauled the excavated material up the shafts.

Nowadays, the old service entrances make it possible to determine the course taken by the underground water labyrinth. “Nearly all entrances were walled up in ancient times to prevent animals from falling in,” explains Döring, “and we found others buried or filled with meters of rubbish.” Dead chickens lay in one hole.

Like mountain climbers, with one hand on a safety rope, the professor and his helmeted students make their way down the steep steps, which descend at 50-degree angle. With each step it becomes more slippery.

Down below, on the floor of the tunnel, the researchers are surrounded by damp darkness. At times it is so suffocating that the gas monitoring devices begin to peep. Rubble occasionally blocks the passage, creating hip-high ponds of mud and rainwater. In other places, the wind whistles and blows like in a wind tunnel.

The group has unearthed over 300 entranceways. But there remain many unanswered questions. “Over the first 60 kilometers, the tunnel has a gradient of 0.3 per thousand,” explains the project director. That works out to 30 centimeters per kilometer — an astonishingly shallow angle of descent.

Down to the Last Centimeter

The Romans did have levels, a six-meter long design called a chorobate copied from the Persians. They also filled goat intestines with water to find a level around corners. But that alone does not explain the precision of this amazing aqueduct.

“First the surveyors had to establish a uniform route with posts that extended for many kilometers,” Döring points out. That alone was extremely difficult on the uneven terrain. Then they had to transfer this line deep below the surface and determine the location of the tunnel floor down to the very last centimeter. But how did they accomplish this with such a high degree of precision? It wasn’t possible to lower a plumb line because the construction shafts descended at an angle.

In view of such difficulties, it’s hardly surprising that mistakes were made. Once in a while, the chiseling crews would hammer right past each other. In such cases, the only way to connect the sections was to send tapping signals through the rock and zigzag until the workers met up.

It took 120 years to complete the subterranean enterprise. Then the water finally gushed and bubbled from below. Mineral deposits in one section near Abila reveal that 300 to 700 liters per second rushed through the canal. The genius of Rome had managed to transform this part of the Levant into a veritable Garden of Eden.

And yet there was an overwhelming sense of disappointment in Gadara. Even the mega-aqueduct in Jordan attests to the tragic truth that nothing created by the hand of man is ever perfect. The original plan called for the water to fill a high stone reservoir that would feed the city’s fountains and the planned temple to the nymphs.

But that never happened. Since the surveyors ended up making a number of miscalculations, the water — after over 170 kilometers — arrived in Gadara slightly too low for the grand plans.

The reservoir could not be filled — and the fountains never went into operation.

Translated from the German by Paul Cohen

Pretty amazing what was accomplished so long ago via good old fashioned hard work and with minimal technology huh?  I know a few of your lips are trembling to get “but it was done by slave labor” off of your liberal, crybaby lips but get over it, I’m sure every race and religion was accounted for in the tunnels.

A populace needed something (water) and did what had to be done to get it.  They didn’t die of thirst waiting on some ruling class (democrats) to bring it to them, they didn’t expect a neighboring village to supply water to them via their hard work, and they definitely didn’t hold a grudge against the neighboring village for not sharing their water!

Today in America, you have plenty of opportunity for “water.”

Here’s the question you need to think about.  Why hasn’t liberalism or the socialist democrat party solved one ding danged problem they have been using for decades to keep you (yes YOU, Obama worshiper) right where you are.  Hand out and dumb as shit, with all your problems still the fault of the evil, racist, capitalist cracker.

C’mon liberals, explain…

Obama’s Infanticide Agenda

A Wall Street Journal article by Laura Meckler…

WASHINGTON — The outgoing Bush administration this week will finalize a regulation establishing a “right of conscience” allowing medical staff to refuse to participate in any practice they object to on moral grounds, including abortion but possibly birth control and other health care as well.

In transition offices across town, officials in the incoming Obama administration have begun considering how and when to undo it.

Just to put this in perspective, its perfectly fine to force a health care professional to perform an abortion or provide information on how to get one regardless of their feelings on the matter BUT, its not okay to force a Muslim taxi driver to allow a dog into their cab.  It’s not okay to display a Christmas tree in a growing number of places.  It’s not okay to say the Pledge of Allegiance.  But force someone to facilitate the murder of a baby simply as a convenient way to absolve irresponsible behavior?  That’s f’ng outstanding!

See the warped logic yet?

Prediction:  A wide spread shortage of health care professionals who will simply walk away before being forced to perform a barbaric procedure for the convenience of an irresponsible whore.  To clarify, in cases of rape, incest and/or threat to the life of the mother of course abortions should be a consideration, but not to facilitate irresponsible behavior.  That’s just my personal opinion.

The regulation is one of a swath of abortion and other reproductive-health issues under review by the Obama team, which is preparing to reverse a variety of Bush measures, according to officials close to the transition. The review is part of a sweeping scrutiny of Bush-era legislation and regulation on issues across the federal government, from environmental and labor rules to defense spending.

On abortion and related matters, action is expected early on executive, regulatory, budgetary and legislative fronts.

Decisions that the new administration will weigh include: whether to cut funding for sexual abstinence programs; whether to increase funding for comprehensive sex education programs that include discussion of birth control; whether to allow federal health plans to pay for abortions; and whether to overturn regulations such as one that makes fetuses eligible for health-care coverage under the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

The perverseness of calling abortion a “reproductive health issue” should be disturbing to any rational and moral human being.  That’s like calling rape a “manly recreational activity.”  Not one of you liberals see anything wrong with replacing the lessons of morality with a quick lesson on how, regardless of your irresponsible behavior, thegub’ment will be there to “make it all go away.”   We wouldn’t want any of your children to think that there are consequence to ones actions would we?  How foolishly “antiquated” an idea that is.

Women’s health advocates are also pushing for a change in rules that would lower the cost of birth control at college health clinics.

Obama aides will have to settle many of these questions in issuing their first budget in February.

“We have a lot of work to do to fix the damage the Bush administration has done,” said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Laughable.  The “damage” done by the Bush administration.  It is common knowledge, at least among those of us who utilize logic versus emotion to analyze situations, that liberal policies (liberalism) are the root cause of every single problem facing society today.  ALL OF THEM!

As one of his first actions, Mr. Obama is likely to issue an executive order lifting President George W. Bush’s restrictions on funding for research using embryonic stem cells, a move with bipartisan support.

Women’s health advocates also expect early action on the “global gag rule,” which bars foreign organizations from using their own money for abortion services or advocacy if they accept U.S. aid for family planning. This policy was instituted by President Ronald Reagan, immediately overturned by President Bill Clinton and then reinstated by Mr. Bush.

The abortion debate in the next year is likely to focus on the Freedom of Choice Act, a bill that would codify Roe v. Wade into federal law.

Get that?  If you live in a small town where 100% of the citizenry believes abortion to be immoral, wrong and barbaric, the federal gub’ment will force that population (YOU) to offer and pay for abortions.  Freedom of Choice?  That’s  a poor choice of name dontcha think?

Mr. Obama is also expected to restore federal funding for family planning to the United Nations Population Fund soon after taking office. This policy also has gone back and forth with control of the White House, with Republicans arguing that the U.N. agency supports coercive abortions because of its work in China with its one-child policy, and Democrats saying that the agency doesn’t.

Great!  Let’s give the United Nations more of our money!  Screw you if you don’t approve….  (Whisper… stop paying taxes)

Messrs. Clinton and Bush took action on those two issues in the opening days of their administrations. It isn’t clear whether Mr. Obama will follow suit. He has suggested that he wants to find middle ground on abortion-related issues, and some Democrats worry about the politics of making abortion policy one of his opening moves.

As they face Democrat-controlled Washington, antiabortion activists are gearing up to fight the Freedom of Choice Act, or FOCA, which would codify Roe v. Wade into federal law. Mr. Obama said last year that he would sign the bill. Depending on how it is interpreted, the bill could overturn state laws regulating abortion, such as parental notification and mandatory waiting periods.

So you see mom and dad, Obama and his minion are far better suited to “parent” than you are.  Wait until the United Nations gets a hold of your kids.  Yipee!

“Our No. 1 concern would be the FOCA bill,” said Connie Mackey, senior vice president of Family Research Council Action, a conservative group that focuses on social issues. “We have to appeal directly to the American public.”

The opponents of this legislation appear more eager for a debate over it than the proponents do, perhaps knowing it is a strong way to rally their supporters early in the administration.

While many abortion-rights supporters would like to see Congress pass FOCA, their advocates in Washington have concluded that there aren’t enough votes in Congress and that it isn’t politically smart to push such a divisive measure. A coalition of nearly 60 liberal and women’s groups submitted a list of 15 requests for action in the Obama administration’s first 100 days, and FOCA isn’t on the list.

Is it me or does it appear that this matter is often times treated not with the moral compass of right or wrong (which it should be) but with the mentality of “will it get me elected next cycle.”  Yet we keep electing them.

“We’re going to be smart and strategic about our policy agenda to bring people together to make progress for women’s health,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “The Freedom of Choice Act is very important…but we have a long list of things to get done that I think can address problems immediately that women are facing, that are really immediate concerns.”

What the worthless sack of dung Cecile is telling us is that its important that they get FOCA passed because it would mean a truck load more money and Planned Parenthood can finally branch out into those places they’re not wanted in the first place.  Remember, its only Freedom of Choice if you choose to condone irresponsible, immoral behavior and a federally funded murder fix.  If your conscience tells you that abortion is wrong or at the very least, shouldn’t be paid for with your tax dollar, well, your thoughts don’t matter.  Liberals, ALWAYS know what’s best for you.  Look at what a great job they’ve done with Michigan, New York and California!  All liberal hell holes.

Among them is the “right of conscience” regulation that is expected to be published this week. It will take effect 30 days after being issued. That means that if the Bush administration issues the regulation this week, it will become final before Mr.Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20, and his administration won’t be able to undo it easily.

For decades, federal law has said that doctors and nurses can’t be compelled to perform abortions. The new regulation broadens that to make clear that all health-care workers may refuse to provide information, such as a referral, to patients looking for an abortion. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates the regulation would affect 584,000 hospitals, doctor’s offices, pharmacies and other entities.

Advocates on both sides of the issue have interpreted the rule as also protecting workers who refuse to participate in providing birth control or other care they don’t support. The rule could be blocked by Congress, or Health and Human Services could begin the laborious process of issuing a new regulation reversing course. Officials close to the transition have signaled that they intend to begin the regulatory process anew.

Let’s not get into a discussion of right and wrong or moral versus immoral, let’s dumb it down as only a true Buffoon can do.

If a person walks into your workplace and demands you do something that you wholeheartedly disagree with, be it perform an abortion, put relish on a hot dog (something I consider both disgusting and wrong) or reach into his pocket for a game of pocket pull.  Is it the federal governments role to force you to do it?

Prediction repeated:  A wide spread exodus of qualified moral health care workers and doctors from the medical profession to be replaced by immoral, un-qualified gub’ment robots who care nothing about you, your health or your freedom of choice.

Make sense?

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My boy Bill destroys classic Leftard logical fallacy et al via harsh and beautiful reality.

The mythical sub that never was. Yep, The Big Lie of my early childhood. Yes, if only every five year old could build a Kingdom of Cardboard Fantasys! Well, now you can! Become a Left Liberal.

Dear sports, everyday I get hold of something great and they come overwhelmingly from conservative to libertarian but still essentially conservative sources. No, really. I’m a conservative liberatarian for want of a better hackneyed phrase. If Huffington Post and Daily Kos are two of the top Left Liberal forums and they apparently are, well it can only be as Lester Burnum said in American Beauty regards his morning wank in the shower, “its all downhill from here“.

The Left Liberal is overwhelmingly interested in their ideas above all else, that they have invested heavily and totally. This is above the objective truth of most anything. It’s easy if you have absolutely no intention of living out a single fantasy or abstraction you may spout and advocate, eh?

And these unproven and unprovable “ideas” exist in the same two places almost exclusively…Continue reading on Colonel Robert Neville Always Dresses for Dinner >>