The Billiken's Bluff

Fasten, fit closely, bind together.

Saturday, September 30, 2006

Looking for Some Triangulation

Posted by: billikenbluff / 7:20 PM

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Lights are fading, the feeling is back

This is the closest thing to disaster

Keep on fading, snow white into black
The kind of thing you (hope to) laugh about after

Posted by: billikenbluff / 9:09 PM

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Like One of Those Woman on the Front of the Ship

We on an award tour with muhammad my man
Goin each and every place with the mic in our hand
New york, nj, n.c., va
We on an award tour with muhammad my man
Goin each and every place with the mic in our hand
Oaktown, l.a., san fran, st. john

A Chav Party!!!

Leathal Weapon 5

The Screwtape Letters

But are you not being a trifle naïve? It sounds as if you supposed that argument was the way to keep him out of the Enemy's clutches [...] But what with the weekly press and other such weapons we have largely altered that. Your man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to have a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily 'true' or 'false', but as 'academic' or 'practical', 'outworn' or 'contemporary', 'conventional' or 'ruthless'. Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong, or stark, or courageous -- that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.

The trouble about argument is that it moves the whole struggle on to the Enemy's own ground. He can argue too; whereas in really practical propaganda of the kind I am suggesting He has been shown for centuries to be greatly the inferior of Our Father Below. By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Your affectionate uncle

Screwtape

Poor people of the world unite...Harlem World to Caracas...

Take that, take that...

A call to arms... a call out of alcoholics (recovering addicts in the room excluded)... and a warm winter for all.

two oil-rich straight shooting cowboys headquartered in the lone star state

Straight shot...

Citgo will provide 100 million gallons of heating oil at discount prices this winter to low-income people in New York and 17 other states. Citgo, a Houston-based energy company that is owned and controlled by the Venezuelan government, organized the highly publicized event in Harlem -- one of a series designed to boost the Venezuelan leader's popularity in the U.S.

Posted by: billikenbluff / 11:26 PM

Don't Say I Didn't Warn You

From LA Times/Bloomberg:

WASHINGTON — President Bush's approval rating has reached its highest level since January, helping to boost the Republican Party's image across a range of domestic and national security issues just seven weeks before this year's midterm election, a new Times/Bloomberg poll has found.

The survey spotlights a continuing array of Republican vulnerabilities, but it also offers the first evidence in months that the GOP may be gaining momentum before November's battle for control of Congress.

Democrats hold a lead in the poll, 49% to 39%, when registered voters are asked which party they intend to support for Congress this year. But that advantage may rest on softening ground: On virtually every comparison between the parties measured in the survey, Republicans have improved their position since early summer.

In particular, Republicans have nearly doubled their advantage when voters are asked which party they trust most to protect the nation against terrorism — the thrust of Bush's public relations blitz in recent weeks.

Good job, guys.

Posted by: N Dot / 11:16 AM