If the republican party leans any further to the right , it is sure to collapse.

Maybe we could give it a little shove

“No aid for you, angry white men,
unless you can answer my questions ten.”

Oh, they’re makin’ a list
won’t edit it twice,
gonna find out
who’s crazy and white
Righty Clause is comin’
to town…

Santa’s a Facist say it anin’t so Santa!

Keith O. had great fun showing that their idol Ronnie would not have been eligible for membership, as he failed to practice the list of winger virtues.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385×406770

Will they nail the list on the door at C Street’s Little House of Horrors?

God rest ye merry, gentlemen 
Let nothing you dismay
 Remember,
Christ, our Saviour 
Was born on Christmas day 

To save us all from Satan’s power
 When we were gone astray

O tidings of comfort and joy, 
Comfort and joy
 O tidings of comfort and joy 

In Bethlehem, in Israel,


http://www.carols.org.uk/god_rest_ye_merry_gentlemen.htm

Just who do invite to rest and remind not to get angry at Christmas? Besides Glen Beck?

The term Merry Gentlemen reminds me of the phrase Kindly Ones…the Furies!

Will they nail the list on the door at C Street’s Little House of Horrors?

Like as not, most of it probably originated there. :-(((

“If the republican party leans any further to the right,” they’ll fall off the world’s edge (which they believe in).

In Greek mythology the Erinýes (Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς, Erinýs; lit. “the angry ones”) or Eumenídes (Εὐμενίδες, pl. of Εὐμενίς; lit. “the gracious ones”) or Furies in Roman mythology were female, chthonic deities of vengeance or supernatural personifications of the anger of the dead. They represent regeneration and the potency of creation, which both consumes and empowers. A formulaic oath in the Iliad (iii.278ff; xix.260ff) invokes them as “those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath.” Burkert suggests they are “an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinyes

In Greek mythology the Erinýes (Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς, Erinýs; lit. “the angry ones”) or Eumenídes (Εὐμενίδες, pl. of Εὐμενίς; lit. “the gracious ones”) or Furies in Roman mythology were female, chthonic deities of vengeance or supernatural personifications of the anger of the dead. They represent regeneration and the potency of creation, which both consumes and empowers. A formulaic oath in the Iliad (iii.278ff; xix.260ff) invokes them as “those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath.” Burkert suggests they are “an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinyes

Gracious Ones is used here instead of Kindly Ones but Chtonic Deities I think Lovecraft would approve also no male counterpart suggests itself to my mind in mythology but while a Female without a Male counterpart might seem liberating and powerful its also incomplete?
Which granted might explain the anger I’m sure their are some rude Ancient Greek Jokes on the subject.
However some religious knowledge was held back the Eleusinian Mysteries for example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries

Also remember the Hebrews would not say Yahweh instead they just said The Lord to keep the name magic and powerful.
I’m suggesting a secret Male Counterpart to the Furies whose only remembrance now is in an old Christmas song with a funny lyric that don’t fit?

Hey remember Vodoo works if you believe:)

it is sure to collapse.

Maybe we could give it a little shove

Make them even angrier, angry people make mistakes. Even bigger mistakes are those who would Rouse Leviathan/the Mob and fool enough to think they can control it:)

Good morning, pups. The Moustache of Wisdom is off today, so MoDo flies solo. In “Thanks for the Memories” she says President Obama can often be more interested in wooing opponents than tending to those who put themselves on the line for him. Hmmm… Can’t say that I disagree with that.

Here she is.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got apple cranberry muffins. Is everyone ready for tomorrow? I think Mr. Marion in Savannah may want to strangle me when I ask him to get more milk. The grocery store the day before Thanksgiving is not necessarily a fun place to be… Have a great day.

Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform whose antitax pledge has become generally required signing for Republican candidates, said he was concerned that the proposal would lead the national party to step in where voters should.

“The party has a platform, and that platform and the pieces of it are enforced by primary voters,” Mr. Norquist said. “I think orthodoxy should be imposed from below not above.” Still, he said, forced adherence to 7 of the 10 principles listed “strikes me as eminently reasonable.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/us/politics/24repubs.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1259071405-qqQii5H7umXi/PQwhvJB0w

“I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”[25]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist

Grover thinks this is a bad idea they lost Grover? So to the Right of Grover but still a little to the Left of Hitler.

In the back of the room, back where they were parched, back where no water or coffee was served for the two-hour meeting, sat Greg Craig, the White House counsel who was a ghostly presence, given his death by a thousand leaks.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

Come on Modo you can do it your almost there Death by a Thousand Leaks? You mean to say Rahm don’t you:)
His stench is all over this when people say White House leaks in a bad way I always assume Rahm.
Why the pattern of the leaks is Prowar, Probusiness and against what Obama ran on plus the NY Times normally gets the story first.

Actually, I’ve heard news reports that it’s presently unoccupied … maybe the evil spirits inhabiting it put up the list to keep anybody balanced out.

Grover is only one of the former insiders who thinks it makes the right too scary, to let the lid fly off and show off all the craziest behavioralists.

Oh, they’re makin’ a list
won’t edit it twice,

If they edit it once I’ll be surprised.

Good morning, everyone. Coming down with a cold. Haven’t had one for years. Gonna see if I can nip it in the bud with vitamin C.

Will they nail the list on the door at C Street’s Little House of Horrors?

Like as not, most of it probably originated there. :-(((

My theory involves inbred New Englanders raising Cthulhu, the Bush Family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dunwich_Horror

Garlic and chicken soup help. Hope it passes by quickly, before the turkey.

Actually, I’ve heard news reports that it’s presently unoccupied …

Hmmmmmmmm…….that do be interesting. Guess that would mean the address has been put on a visitor’s walking tour of the capitol. A little sunlight sends the cockroaches scurrying….must have found a new rock under which to congregate.

Take hot lemonade with bourbon and honey while seated. Or in bed. (It tends to take my kneecaps away, but it works!)

I think vitamin C is the active ingredient in garlic. Vitamin C has worked for me in the past. Chicken soup, to be sure. I’m going to be staying in my sil’s house, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed. Don’t want to infect everyone else.

That sounds like a nice mix for later in the day.

Try some Garlic Lemonade I tried it its good. Menudo with Whole Oregano, Fresh squeezed Lemon, Cabbage and of course some hot peppers to get the nose running even more and force the cold virus trapped out even faster should help. Throw in some carrots too.

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/10115

Good intentions, but you may want to pack a face mask in there to be really, really thoughtful. Also, then you don’t have to laugh at the old old old jokes.

“Make them even angrier,”

They’ve already begun to eat their own .
Beck Palin Limbaugh Bachman etc. have become the voices of the party leading it further into the relm of the lunatic fringe

I’m going to be travelling today, but I’ll make up a batch of that when I get back. Looks like it’s good for what ails you. Thanks for the link.

Good Morning….where do you get all that? ;)

Could Bill Clinton really have the Clout with the Governor of New York to kill Caroline Kennedy’s Senate Nomination?

Looks like I missed the link…

The funny thing is that I have been around almost no one since I took the cat to the vet last Friday. And no one there was obviously sick. So I have no idea how I could have picked it up.

Norquist also said that to prevent spending on social programs, create such government debt that it would be financially impossible. Hmmmm. Someone listened.

Was there a woozy looking piggie on the premises?

That reminds me of a home-made cough syrup recipe the doc gave my parents – paragoric + honey + bourbon…..this long ago and far away when you could buy the stuff OTC. Keep meaning to ask a doctor to give me a script for the paragoric; supposedly it is still available. As I remember it, it was *good* stuff! Failing that, I’ll have to remember the lemonade substitute.

Do the home remedies really shorten the duration of a cold or do they just help to relieve the unpleasant symptoms?

Any Mexican Grocery store will tell you how to make it and have the ingredients. Menudo is cow intestine soup with veggies and hominy the Whole Oregano, Cabbage, Peppers and fresh squeezed lemon are added after the soup is made.
Please boil cow intestines until soft and open the windows. Also powered red pepper needed for soup I think it maybe the most important ingredient since I have made vegan Menudo before and it works even when I can’t get many of the other ingredients.

My father used to say that a cold lasted 10 days if you treated it, and about a week and half if you didn’t.

I think everyone develops their own thing for colds. Vitamin C has stopped one from developing in it’s early stages, several times in the past. But treating it with lemonade, bourbon, chicken soup, garlic, certainly helps one feel better.

A 16-pound orange cat in Ames, Iowa, did something last month that will now and forevermore have a lot of cat lovers taking care to sneeze into their sleeves.

The 13-year-old tabby came down with H1N1 swine flu, proving that humans ill with the flu virus should take pains not to spread it to cats as well as humans.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-flu-pets_mullennov08,0,7440266.story

The Bush administration:)

I tried to find a Menudo recipe online none of the ones I saw were like what we make in Chicago. Personally I don’t think pigs feet ads that much flavor.

Possibly. eCAHNomics might have a better take on that, being a New Yorker. Ultimately I think her nomination sank under the weight of little details like her not voting. But YMMV.

The GOP has summoned the Furies.

If the person in the vet’s office before you had a cold and you sat in the same chair or used the same pen or touched the same table… You don’t need to be sneezed on.

Thats what I thought too that and Jane was wondering about her campaigning skills. Normally the Media blames Lefty Bloggers when things go wrong.

So naive….but it amazes me anyone cares at all what Rush (racist, feminazi instigator, druggie) has to say. Feel about the same way about bitter, arrogant Laura Ingraham. Talk alot; contribute nothing.

God rest ye merry, gentlemen 
Let nothing you dismay
 Remember,
Christ, our Saviour 
Was born on Christmas day 

To save us all from Satan’s power
 When we were gone astray

O tidings of comfort and joy, 
Comfort and joy
 O tidings of comfort and joy 

In Bethlehem, in Israel,


http://www.carols.org.uk/god_rest_ye_merry_gentlemen.htm

My bold
Merry Gentlemen Rest don’t get Dismayed (Angry)
Its Christmas the phrase To save us all from Satan’s power suggests reminding the evil gods Christmas means today you can’t hurt us?

I have no idea what went on behind the scenes, but Caroline did herself no favors in her entry into public life. She acted like a real doofus, wouldn’t answer Qs, etc. She also appeared not to like public life, for which I can’t blame her. But perhaps she didn’t know that in advance, although that would be weird.

Would it take more than 4 days to show up?

Rush went to the Dominican Republic I think it has the third highest Aids rate in the Western Hemisphere with a ton of Viagra. Why risk that when America has women and men? Boys however would explain it even millionaires have a hard time buying that in America.

Laura Ingraham adopted a Hispanic kid from a country Ronnie sent School for the America’s Trained Death Squads too. The first time her step daughter gets beat up for being Hispanic or called a Spic and cries I expect Laura to have a Paul in Damascus moment.
By the time she is a teenager I expect she will find out what her Mom said about Hispanics. I predict Laura is in for some very tough years then.

Just how do Right Wingers get to adopt Hispanic kids?…I know Pull. But why do they want them?

That would be refreshing..she is so adamantly right/correct/knowitall about everything she says….Yuk

Modo’s sources, evidence of Bill’s Clout ? Wait Rahm has been leaking to the Times allot but if Rahm is bad mouthing Bill and lets face it Obama’s campaign didn’t leak till Rahm got there and Hilary I really don’t think would hurt her husband and self like this suggests?
Suggests there is conflict brewing between Rahm and Hilary and or Bill behind the scenes but about what?

Swim is up…

I’ll take your word for it I haven’t heard her in years. Hmmm? I wonder if there is a link with Right Wing hate radio
and heart attacks, strokes anything anger or high blood pressure related?

I think this list is more like this:

“He’s got a little list, he’s got a little list, and they’ll none of ‘em be missed, they’ll none of ‘em be missed!”

Great you do know we are all on that list? I’ll look you up in the FireDogLake Wing of the Prison:) Maybe we can form a gang!

Now you’ve got me! I don’t know what the incubation period for the common cold is, but a couple of days “feels” right. (I am not a doctor, I just play with them all day long…!)

Republicans are smart. They get what the want from their leaders and they are hardly marginalized like we are.

24-48 hours for common cold/influenza virus. I’m not a nurse, I just play one on TV. :-)

Very interesting, thanks for digging into the roots of the terms.

You remind me of a passage from Joseph Campbell’s brilliant little book, Thou Art That: transforming religious metaphor, in chapter 5 of which he discusses the bizarre divorce of masculine and feminine divinities in our traditions, and the hellish effects of the banishment of the goddess as an embodiment of nature and the demand for exclusive devotion to a patriarchal, anti-nature war god.

TCU, your post is an example of the advice Campbell gives at the end of the passage quoted below. Well done.

Please pardon the length, this is a rarely discussed topic that I believe to offer the most helpful insights to our present dilemmas. As a Joseph Campbell Foundation associate, I’m taking the liberty to post it despite its length.

When the Dead Sea Scrolls and the other desert scrolls were unearthed at midcentury, scholars discovered that one of these early Jewish writings, called “The War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness,” was sheer Zoroastrianism. The Zoroastrian influence, particularly on the Hebrew community, is represented in the work of the Essenes. We have, therefore, in the Bible itself, this concept of the world as wrong. Consequently, throughout the Old Testament one reads of the kings who, in the sight of Yahweh, do well to wipe out the nature religions. These stories represent a tension between two totally different mythologies. One is of the goodness of nature, with which individuals try to harmonize themselves. That is considered a virtuous and healthy and humanly sustaining act. The other sees nature negatively and the person’s choice is to say “no” to it, and to pull away from it.

I deem this distinction of mythologies very important. We have the nature mythologies, which put us in touch with our own nature. But there also exist, one must note, antinature mythologies. These are the mythologies of the nomadic people.

When you live in the desert, you cannot depend on Mother Nature very much and the social awareness of the situation is accented. The God of this society may be negative to the desert. Among the Greeks, the two attitudes tend together. From this integration we see the reemergence of the notion of the Goddess. In India, for example, after the Indo-European invasions–around the time of the Hebrew invasion of Canaan, in the thirteenth to fourteenth century B.C.–we see a reemergence of the Goddess cult.

It is worth examining the idea of deity that is found in these Mother Goddess religions. The word “Brahman” refers to something that is beyond all concepts, and, in this regard, there are two ways of interpreting the word “transcendent.” One signifies something that is out there and so transcends this place here. In that sense, Yahweh is transcendent. Yahweh is, it might be said, a supernatural fact, up there.

The other way of reading the word “transcendent” is that of Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason, as the ultimate mystery of being that transcends all conceptualization, beyond thought, beyond categories.

48 Thou Art That

That is the notion that is found in the Upanisads. In India, when the female power of the Goddess revived during their period, there was some realization that the ultimate mystery is found in the mystery of one’s own being but that mystery is deeper than any individual’s thinking can go.
This spiritual experience has been termed Gnosticism, from the Greek gnosis, or knowledge, and it describes this intuitive realization of the mystery that transcends speech. For that reason, the language we use in speaking of religious mystery is that of metaphor.

Metaphor is the language of myth that remains, as we have observed, a still widely misunderstood term. Even many so-called well-educated people think that “myth” means something that is false–that is, a lie or distortion about some person or event.

But that misunderstanding arises, as we know, only when we misread metaphorical language. All of our religious ideas are metaphorical of a mystery. It is vital to recall that if you mistake the denotation of the metaphor for its connotation, you completely lose the message that is contained in the symbol.

God is a symbol. The connotation of the symbol lies beyond all naming, beyond all numeration, beyond all categories of thought. One often asks, “Is God one, or is God many?” These, however, are categories of thought and do not serve well in talking about what is beyond all speech.

You are probably familiar with one of my favorite quotations from Heinrich Zimmer, who used to say, “The best things can’t be told. The second best are misunderstood.” Why are the second best misunderstood? Because they are metaphors that, as we only seem to repeat too often, are misread for their denotation rather than their connotation.

Jesus dies, is resurrected, and goes to Heaven. This metaphor expresses something religiously mysterious. Jesus could not literally have gone to Heaven because there is no geographical place to go. Elijah went up into the heavens in a chariot, we are told, but we are not to take this statement as a description of a literal journey.

These are spiritual events described in metaphor. There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call “atheists,” and those who think they are facts are “religious.” Which group really gets the message?

No good is accomplished by throwing the message out. All the messages of myth, from the period of the agricultural people on, are talking about that which constitutes the values of one’s life, and of all lives. Finally, the message is right there, in this very thing that seems to be blocking you because it is taken literally instead of metaphorically. Then, especially as all the different horizons within which myth has grown up are broken, we realize that, since we are all together on one planet, we must begin to read our own mythology as something that refers not just to us, but, as in conjunction with all mythologies expressed through metaphor, to everyone.

It is of great importance to remember the cycle, if you will, that I have already mentioned. As the patriarchal mythologies rose in strength they put down the Mother Goddess mythologies. The Mother Goddess mythologies then reasserted themselves, as, for example, in the seventh century B.C. or so in Greece when they rose again in the Eleusinian Mysteries, the wonderful mystery religions. In India they also returned and the Goddess remains the principal deity in India. Kali, in one of her various forms, is Shakti, the energy that informs all of life. Thus, the myths do return in relationship one to the other.

Let us begin, then, to look again for the teeming life within texts and traditions that may seem fixed and dead. . . .

(Thou art that : transforming religious metaphor / Joseph Campbell ; edited with an introduction by Eugene Kennedy, pp.47-50.

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Who doesn’t see the “party of no” in this? In their hearts and minds, war is the way the world was made by a male god to work in favor of males in the rightful conquest of all things feminine, esp. Mother Nature.

Therefore, IMO, metaphorically speaking, we need the power of the Mother Goddess to assert Herself and heal the planet from within.

You’re probably right. Diaper fetishes, sodomy and fornication are not disqualifying.

Apparently in the Republican Party, those are qualifiers.