Carnivals: August 2005 Archives

Welcome to Carnival of Liberty the Eighth!



The Law:



He walks into the room,

He's got a briefcase like a bomb

A smile on both faces

And he calls it aplomb

(Al Stewart, "License to Steal")



Pubcrawler tells us about The Law



Fearless Philosophy tells us about attempts to discriminate against John Roberts in A Religious Litmus Test?. Without doing any research, there's been an anti-Catholic movement in this country since at least 1848, in the wake of the first large wave of Irish. It still disgusts me.



Below the Beltway talks about the useless The War on Sudafed



Stop the ACLU tells us about stopping the ACLU's Crusade against one religion in 'Anti-ACLU' Fights for Religion in Public Life. The religion the ACLU hates isn't the one that wants to conquer us, but then it's been a long time since I've heard the ACLU being accused of rationality.



Stop the ACLU tells us about Victory Dance For Moses



Mover Mike asks us Who is Chief Garret Chamberlain? Somehow, I don't think the ACLU is happy with him, either.



satire tells us about Pink Revolution Complements God's Rainbow Palette By Giving Muslim Sodomites Quranic Right to Marry.



Property and Taxation:



I'm working hard to pay the rent

And support my government

Built the highways and the railroad tracks

Now we're not giving up 'til they pay it all back

(The Hooters "Blood From a Stone")



Unrepentant Individual gives us a lot of information in his two part series The FairTax Plan - my response, and The FairTax Plan - the opponents.



Peakah's Provocations tells us about more ACLU funny business in Me Immigrant, You Racist. We can't have people taking the law into their own hands, but this is ridiculous.



Forward Biased tells us again about the further antics of the City of New London against Kelo et al in Sorry, but "chutzpah" doesn't quite cut it for me



Your host has helpful economic and stress reducing advice on procedures to follow in acquiring or refinancing your property in The Appraisal



Firearms and the second amendment



And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessèd---they know the Angels are on their side.

They know in them is the Grace confessèd, and for them are the Mercies multiplied.

They sit at the feet---they hear the Word---they see how truly the Promise runs.

They have cast their burden upon the Lord, and---the Lord He lays it on Martha's Sons!

(Rudyard Kipling, "The Sons of Martha")



Combs Spouts off considers where the second amendment stops in Purity versus Principles



Mr. Completely asks us Is it time to dump your AOL account? Seems they are firing employees who keep firearms locked in the cars in the parking lot.



Education:



But Johnny can't read

Summer is over and he's gone to seed

(You know that) Johnny can't read

He never learned nothin' that he'll ever need

Well, is it Teacher's fault? Oh no!

Is it Mommy's fault? oh no!

Is it Society's fault Oh no!

Well is it Johnny's fault? Oh No!

(Don Henley, "Johnny Can't Read")



Liberty Letters asks us Should Constitution Day Be Mandated?. Seems Robert Byrd wants it taught, and wants to allow the schools to decide how. If you leave it up to the NEA, I'm not certain the students won't be taught about a mandatory class size of three and all teachers must be paid at least the years smallest lottery win.



Irregular Verbs:



Three sides to every story

Yours and there's mine and the Cold Hard Truth

(Don Henley, "Long Way Home")



Pubcrawler sends us an example of irregular verbs in Morally Absolute. You know, Irregular verbs as in "I'm witty, you're stupid."



Dangerous Liberty discusses a dichotomy between things which are labelled Liberty and things which are Liberty in Diamond in the Rough



The Common Room talks of gatekeepers and not taking their word in The Free Press



Private Enterprise



Nothing Ventured, Nothing gained they said

So you played for "Winner takes all"

Tossed the dice high up and craned your head

To see how the numbers would fall

(Al Stewart, "Midas Shadow")



Eric's Grumbles talks of Robert Heinlein's treatment of spaceflight in Heinlein on Private Space Flight. This is one of the great unfulfilled dreams of my generation; the world turned its back on space before I was of voting age.



Privacy:



I was taking some comfort

I needed a break from the rain

I guess I was mistaken

And someone remembered my name

But I knew I was doin' just fine

And it was nobody's business

Nobody's business but mine

(Don Henley, "Nobody's Business")



Your host talks about the implications in Able Danger, Databases, and the Right to Privacy



Next week's host: Resistance Is Futile!



"Carnival of Liberty can also be found at The Truth Laid Bear's ÜberCarnival."



UPDATE: Welcome Instapundit readers and thank you Professor Reynolds!

Welcome to RINO Sightings for the week of August 8th, 2005. Rather than weaving into a single lyric like the last two hosts, I tried to find appropriate lyrics for at least every category. Everybody says my music collection is eclectic, but I hope you approve. If one particular name seems to predominate, well, he's one of the best society and political songwriters out there. Enjoy!



(As a side note, some entries inadvertently got left out last week, and that oversight has now been repaired.)

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And all the science, I don't understand

It's just my job five days a week

(Elton John "Rocket Man")



Respectful Insolence explains the difference between science and faith in The final straw: Bush endorses intelligent design



Big Cat Chronicles gives us Now let's talk about faith-based versus science teachings. If there is no possible method where it can be unequivocally disproven, it's not science.



Mossback Culture tells us why we shouldn't teach Intelligent design in school with Exposing the children to different ideas



StandingOutInTheCold has a radical suggestion for parents who want intelligent design taught in Unintelligent Debate



aTypical Joe has some give and take in On the future (& Intelligent Design)





You say Tomato, I Say Toe-mah-toe

You say Potato, I say Po-tah-toe

Tomato, Toe-mah-toe, Potato, Po-tah-toe

Let's call the whole thing off

(Partisan Politics)



Politburo Diktat talks of who is and is not doing worthwhile work in Restless Mania sends us Hooray, we LOST, but only by four points!. Here's to manufactured triumph!



Don Surber presents Anti-Byrd Ad Gets An A. Of course, it's up against the guy who brings home the bacon so much that a government supported drive to canonize him would get lost in the shuffle.



Louisiana Libertarian gives us Another Reason Why The LP Shouldn't Be Taken Seriously, or, how the LP prevents themselves from being taken seriously.



Decision '08 give Arianna a lesson in mathematics and disclosure with News Flash: 8 of 10 Americans Make 80 Percent



Countertop Chronicles sends us The Rino In The Middle





A messenger came, blood on his feet and a wound on his chest

"The Christians are coming," he said, "I have seen their cross in the west"

In a rage Saladin struck him down with his knife

and he said, "I know that this man lies

They quarrel too much, the Christians could never unite!"

(Chris DeBurgh, "Crusader")



Don Surber sends us Al-Jazeera's New Hero: Tojo. Always looking for advantage?



Don Surber presents Banned Word, although he slides by with the same tactic as ancient writers of Hebrew.





You got the price of admission

You don't have to ask permission

To take somethin' from another man

You cross a lawyer with the godfather baby

Make you an offer that you can't understand

(Don Henley "Gimme What You Got")



The Art of the Blog presents Texas Moves to Stop Eminent Domain Abuse. I really hope it works.





Here we are, born to be Kings

We're the princes of the Universe

(Queen, "Princes of the Universe")



Tinkerty Tonk debunks the myth about women being unable to lead in Women presidents



The Art of the Blog tells us that Supreme Court Justices are still human in A Note About the SCOTUS. I seem to remember something about the Romans commissioning a slave to ride beside a hero in their triumphal parades.



Tom Hanna at Tom Rants talks about recess appointments in Abuse it how?





Every evening, you come around here

in your cloak of lies

(Al Stewart "Angel of Mercy")



Countertop Chronicles tells us about Phoney Baloney Democrat BS





There's a sign in the desert that lies to the west

Where you can't tell the night from the sunrise

and not all the king's horses and all the king's men

have prevented the fall of the unwise

(Alan Parsons Project, "Turn of a Friendly Card")



Your host at Searchlight Crusade has a topical paragraph with links on Real Estate Bubble





Soho feeds the needs and hides the deeds, the mind that bleeds, disenchanted, downstream in the night

(Al Stewart, "Soho")



Environmental Republican tells us about a man driven to suicide in The Power of Life and Death



All Things Jennifer talks about disillusionment with I hate these people



Inside Larry's Head talks about Wow It's been a while... (Hiatus UPDATE)





I sit here now on the banks of the Rhine

Dipping my feet in the cold stream of Time

And I know I'm a dreamer, I know I'm out of line

With the people I see everywhere



The couples pass by me, they're looking so good

Their arms round each other, they head for the woods

They don't care who Ernst Roehm was, no reason they should

Just a shadow that hangs in the air

(Al Stewart, "Last Day of June 1934)



Classical Values gives us a creepy parallel in Inflammatory talk beats colorless totalitarianism





Every night I say a prayer in the hopes that there's a heaven

But every day I'm more confused as the saints turn into sinners

(Styx, "Show Me The Way")



Louisiana Libertarian tells of of James Dobson violating Godwin's Law in James Dobson compares embryonic stem cell to Nazi Germany



phin's blog doesn't think it's a smiting in A smiting or not?





I'll never know, I'll never know

Why I was taken from the line and all the others

To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia

And it's cold and damp in the transit camp and the air is still and sullen

and the pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming

And I wonder when I'll be home again and the morning answers "Never"

And the evening sighs, and the steely Russian skies go on forever

(Al Stewart, "Roads to Moscow")



Armies of Liberation gives us Yemen: The Week in Review





I can't deal with these periscope views

And the caveman scrawl that you call news

Hey, why don't you make a note to cancel your next visit?

Well I knew that things were getting out of control

When you found your faith and lost your soul

(Al Stewart, "Here in Angola")



Pigilito Says covers the ground in Another explanation of Islamic terror which leaves out Islam





Pandora comes today

The warning signs flash in her eyes

The old familiar feelings rise again

(Al Stewart "Pandora")



World According to Nick tells us about Bill O'Reilly's Whoops





Ah remember the first day of man on the Moon

The whole world was watching, the whole world in tune

It was hard to believe he was the same as me and you



Oh, look back to the future and look down the years

It wasn't all battles and bad news and tears

We have brought to this place a desire to have a Dream

(Chris DeBurgh, "The Spirit of Man")



Finally, your host wishes to make discourse less rancorous with Let us Disagree Without Being Disagreeable



Feel the Anchor sinking

And voices ringing clear

Oh Welcome my kindred

And friends are none so dear

("Journey's End" traditional, arrangement Clannad)





This concludes our tour. Please return your seats to the full upright position. Make sure you have all your valuables with you as you debark. Have a great day and come see us again. Your next week's host: Balloon Juice



"RINO Sightings can also be found at The Truth Laid Bear's ÜberCarnival."