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Stolen from Uncledark and he stole it from here:(http://sensiblyeclectic.com/news/index.php/mainsite/2006/06/20/bushian_logic)

Bushian Logic

But the Bush administration is not big on European philosophers. So perhaps we can develop the philosophy in purely Bushian terms. To highlight its logic, I will present it in mathematical form, the way that Spinoza presented his ethics:

Axiom 1: We are good people.

Axiom 2: Our enemies are bad people.

Axiom 3: Anything that helps good people beat bad people is good.

Corollary 1: Whatever we do to beat our enemies is good.

Corollary 2: Whatever hinders us from doing what we do to beat our enemies is bad.

Theorem 1: Anythingthat makes us look bad is false. (Proof: If it makes us look bad, itmust be false, because, according to Corollary 1, what we do to beatour enemies is good, not
bad.)

Corollary 3:It can’t be true that the Guantanamo prisoners killed themselvesbecause of how we treated them. (Proof: That would make us look bad.Whatever makes us look bad is false.)

Surprising Corollary 4: Facts that make us look bad are false.
(Proof: Follows directly from Theorem 1.) (Comment: If you thought thatfacts can’t be false, you haven’t understood that truth and falsity aremoral terms: truth is what good people say, falsity is what bad peoplesay. If bad people state facts, those facts are false.)

Theorem 2: Laws that constrain us are bad. (Proof: Follows directly from Corollary 2.) But –

Axiom 4: Good people support the rule of law, and that makes the rule of law good.

Corollary 4: We support the rule of law. (Proof: By Axiom 1, we’re good people; and by Axiom 4, good people support the rule of law.)

Surprising Theorem 3:Laws that constrain us don’t exist. (Proof: By Theorem 2, a law thatconstrains us would be bad. But by Axiom 4, the rule of law is good.Therefore there cannot be such a thing as a law that constrains us.)

Axiom 5: Anything that anyone uses against us is a weapon of our enemies.
Decisive Theorem: Any international forum or legal argument that mightconstrain us, or anything that might make us look bad, is a weapon ofour enemies.

Axiom 6: We’re strong and our enemies are weak.

Corollary 5:Any international forum or legal argument that might constrain us, oranything that might make us look bad, is a weapon of the weak. To putit in other words, it is an act of asymmetric war against us.

I love you Uncle Dark! Even in an insomniac state, you rock my socks! I miss the Oracle Of Oakland. Must go to Ancient Ways soon.

My first read was Charlie and the Chocolate factory.What was yous?

Roald Dahl hailed with birthday celebrations By Paul Majendie
Tue Sep 12, 6:35 PM ET



LONDON (Reuters) - Children, parents, teachers and adult fans are throwing parties on Wednesday to celebrate what would have been the 90th birthday party of the darkly comic writer Roald Dahl.


"He understood children and identified with them. This is like a great big happy birthday party to acknowledge him," said his daughter Lucy, launching what she and others hope will be a day of improvised "Revolting Rhymes" and "Oompa Loompa" dances.

Exhibitions and children's reading campaigns are also being staged to commemorate Dahl, who died in 1990 and has now sold more than 100 million books in 40 languages.

Dahl initially made his name as a writer of adult fiction, but cult children's classics such as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "The Witches" have more recently overshadowed his chilling adult work.

Children's writer Anthony Horovitz said the recent renaissance in children's literature had begun with Dahl, rather than J K Rowling, author of the phenomenally successful Harry Potter wizard sagas.

"Dahl was perhaps the first author to take the children's side and collude against the smelly, ugly, stupid creatures that inhabit the adult world," he said.

In an echo of Potter's Hogwarts Express, a special train will take visitors from London to Great Missenden, the rural retreat in southern England where Dahl wrote in a hut at the bottom of the garden.

The Dahl Museum, which attracted 70,000 visitors in its first year, is staging walking tours around the village to locations used in his books.

Amanda Conquy, director of the Dahl literary estate, hailed Dahl as the first of children's writers to achieve 'pop star' status. "He was very much the children's choice against their parents," she said.

Some critics have attacked his books as brutish, scary and scatological, but in an interview 20 years ago with Reuters the author supplied his own fitting epitaph:

"I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like."

These are so Pretty!

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Just had to share. And Yes, they are the prettiest ROSES EVER! *shiny*

Seriously, they are very pretty.

Thanks Sage. Needed that this morning.

New Deck! New Deck!

My Love Rocks! Last night when waiting for therealluthien we went into Barnes and Noble to just hang and look at books.
While browsing the discount section we found The Shakespeare Oracle! Basicly it is Shakespeare influneced Tarot Cards, but they are so cool! Each of the major aracna are Shakespearean Characters and things from their play, poem, etc. And just in time for the Linden Street Fair! I love it!

The Man rocks my world!