BlackHat's Journal: Slam on the brakes at the first sign of trouble

or to the zoo.pl?

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Tammany's the most patriotic organization on earth, notwithstandin' the fact that the civil service law is sappin' the foundations of patriotism all over the country. Nobody pays any attention to the Fourth of July any longer except Tammany and the small boy. When the Fourth comes, the reformers, with Revolutionary names parted in the middle, run off to Newport or the Adirondacks to get out of the way of the noise and everything that reminds them of the glorious day. How different it is with Tammany! The very constitution of the Tammany Society requires that we must assemble at the wigwam on the Fourth, regardless of the weather, and listen to the readin' of the Declaration of Independence and patriotic speeches.

You ought to attend one of these meetin's. They're a liberal education in patriotism. The great hall upstairs is filled with five thousand people, suffocatin' from heat and smoke. Every man Jack of these five thousand knows that down in the basement there's a hundred cases of champagne and two hundred kegs of beer ready to flow when the signal is given. Yet that crowd stick to their seats without turnin' a hair while, for four solid hours, the Declaration of Independence is read, long-winded orators speak, and the glee club sings itself hoarse.

Talk about heroism in the battlefield! That comes and passes away in a moment. You ain't got time to be anything but heroic. But just think of five thousand men sittin' in the hottest place on earth for four long hours, with parched lips and gnawin' stomachs, and knowin' all the time that the delights of the oasis in the desert were only two flights downstairs! Ah, that is the highest kind of patriotism, the patriotism of long sufferin' and endurance. What man wouldn't rather face a cannon for a minute or two than thirst for four hours, with champagne and beer almost under his nose?

And then see how they applaud and yell when patriotic things are said! As soon as the man on the platform starts off with "when, in the course of human events," word goes around that it's the Declaration of Independence, and a mighty roar goes up. The Declaration ain't a very short document and the crowd has heard it on every Fourth but they give it just as fine a send off as if it was brand-new and awful excitin'. Then the "long talkers" get in their work, that is two or three orators who are good for an hour each. Heat never has any effect on these men. They use every minute of their time. Sometimes human nature gets the better of a man in the audience and he begins to nod, but he always wakes up with a hurrah for the Declaration of Independence. --George Washington Plunkitt

Declaration of Independence trademark of Diebold. Available in a glowing-blue GE edition or an oil-soaked Theocracy Lite.

News:
Little metal bottlecaps nailed upside down on the floor. Copyright snafu with Hitlers cottage pictures. Last part is the key point. Yes, I could put the scans back up on my site, but it was clear that they simply hadn't made any detailed checks on copyright when I first contacted them, and had hoped it would all go away with a single stern email.

Take this constitution to Kabul or else. role of Islam: Fine ground wheat. Baked in a octagon-pan. Decorated with boiled & sweetened rosewater taffy-strings and dots forming the shape of popular phrases.

China's hard line on its far west.

Ahmed Qureia still having problems making a Cabinet for storing their rolls. I ordered poppyseed with cream cheese!

Selective incompetence works just as well as rigging. Cough*Florida*Cough

So it's militants is it? Terrorist used for every report old and busted now?

How many UK troops needed in a years time? And Hoon starts singing; "Why not take all of them..."

Tits for Bush. Gotta love that british'er humour with its breast and bathroom jokes. [Cue Flanders & Swan: PPBBD 6 seconds]

Dynasty is as easy as 1 2 3.

Texttoon:
Fumetti : Video capture of Donald Rumsfeld on FOX. Hands motion blurred. Overlayed thought bubble has him thinking; "As long as they don't ask exactly what we are to win, we're ok."
 

Thanks fer the links...

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

My god, man! You know Flanders & Swan, too?

There's a reference I haven't heard since - since "My Music" was on BBC radio!

"Oh my lovely armadillo..."

Re:Thanks fer the links...

[BlackHat]

Life long fan of F&S. They are the bomb, 20 tons of TNT to correct ;-)

glee dub

[turg]

Are you scanning these quotes? Anyway, it seems someone did -- "glee dub" for "glee club" seems a typical OCR error. Or maybe it was a really (post-)modern gathering.

Re:glee dub

[BlackHat]

I have noticed when I snag Gutenberg chunks, rather than typing in from my own books, they have a high number of ocr errors. Thanks for noting it/fixed.