Things Heard: e177v5

Good morning.

1. Quibbles over some terms.
2. Movements on Malta.
3. US decline.
4. Southern Baptists go to hell … in a topical sense.
5. Links to the whole saga here.
6. The Administration’s war powers response. It strikes me that there’s a double edged thing going on here. In the 80s, if I recall, war powers arguments were used by the Dems against Reagan in several contexts (Nicaragua?) which the GOP supported (and likely Mr Obama at the time opposed). So, for the left, why oppose that and not this and conversely for the right the similar argument holds.
7. Oh, and here’s a pointed rebuttal to the point that the Libyan action isn’t one of war. 
8. Van Gough interprets Tolkein.
9. Jesus as that great insane moralizer. Wait … what!?
10. He may have legal recourse … but that doesn’t mean he should avail himself of it. Should you avail yourself of laws you think are wrong but which are in your favor. 
11. Pah. The ultimate goal of “bike culture” was aptly stated by Freddy Mercury … “Get on your bike an ride!” And that’s the beginning and end of it.
12. I’m not an Apple fan … but here’s a defense against the lastest salvo against them.
13. Empathy, a typical Democrat meme, turned against our not-clearly-empathic President.
14. Rape and war, kind of like the “it’s for the children” tax and spend refrain.

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