CULTURE

"The more interviews Speaker Pelosi gives explaining how vital the STD
industry is to restarting the U.S. economy, the more I find myself hearing
'syphilis' every time she says 'stimulus.' In late September, America was
showing the first signs of 'primary stimulus' ƒ?? a few billion lesions
popping up on the rarely glimpsed naughty bits of the economy: the subprime
mortgage racket, the leverage kings. Now, the condition has metastasized in
a mere four months into the advanced stages of 'tertiary stimulus,' with
trillions of hideous, ever more inflamed pustules sprouting in every nook
and cranny as the central nervous system of the body politic crumbles into
total insanity -- until it seems entirely normal for the second in line of
presidential succession to be on TV gibbering away about how vital the
federalization of condom distribution is to economic recovery. The rules in
this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party
wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's
'politics.'" --columnist Mark Steyn

Ed

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"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is
to fill the world with fools." --Herbert Spencer

"The republican is the only form of government which is not
eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."
-- Thomas Jefferson

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