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The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, Transforming the yard to a winter delight. The sparkling lights in the tree I believe, Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve. My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep, Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep. In perfect contentment, or so it would seem, So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream. (more…)

The company’s name is Steorn — website here: www.steorn.net. From their site,

Steorn is a word translating as ‘to guide, direct and manage’.

In maybe as little as a few months time, they will become

1. not-very-widely known as hoaxers;
2. not-very-widely known as unfortunate engineers (and equally-unfortunate or just astonishingly poor selectors of peers to review their shizzle);

or

3. known all over the world, on the front page of everything everywhere, as the little company that changed the course of human history.

Some random bits, aimed at your general enlightenment and edification.

• Could you have passed the eighth grade in 1895? As it turns out, I wouldn’t have even come close…
• Debunking the fallacy of throwing more money at education. More support for getting rid of the Department of Education…
• Milton Friedman talks about limited government. Milton Friedman (who died today at 94) was a longstanding advocate of limited government. The link is to a PBS special from waay back yonder — remarkable how identical and timeless his points are to those that must be made (or really, re-made) again today…

She’s now, constitutionally, second in line to the Oval Office. While I’m less than thrilled with Jorge’s performance of late (a massive understatement), I don’t want to attempt to imagine where we’d end up with a Democrat-controlled Congress and a President Pelosi. Nationalized health care? Endless tax raises? Forever porous borders and periodic amnesties? Endless head-in-the-sandism with regards to the significant portion of the world that wants to exterminate and/or dominate us?

The nightmare that I wake up sweating from: some far-left moonies whack VP Dick “The Big” Cheney and President Jorge “Illegals? What illegals?” Bush just so they can see Shrieker Pelosi take the reins and steer us full-tilt into The Abyss Formerly Known As Progressivism.

Dear Secret Service, If you’re listening, we respectfully request that you make every effort to keep POTUS and VPOTUS out of the same possible sight picture from now until Jan 2009.

Thanks, the Management

If you can stand another frightening piece of just-barely-fiction about the future, check out Raymond S. Kraft’s latest piece over at The New Media Journal.

The lesson is the same as the Simmons piece I linked to a few days ago: we must take off the rose-colored glasses that the Dhimmicrats have been busily handing out and observe the world as it is. That doesn’t mean we have to like it as it is, but we must at least rationally and clearly evaluate it as it is so that we can effectively react to it. Lefties might preach high-and-mighty about making the world a better place …but if your head gets hacked off by an Islamic terrorist or you get vaporized in a low-yield nuke attack, what good are your high-road ideals then? The world will never benefit from your well-intentioned goals because you were too busy snuggling your head into the sand to first deal with the people that wanted to kill you.

Wake up, America. Now.