Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Fighting Words

Fighting Words
These recent pronouncements by Howard Dean and, especially, Barack Obama transcend socialism and move into raw communist rhetoric.

I had some problem finding attribution for a proper quote I had in mind, until I found this.

Cato the Stillborn: Hwæt hinderljng dulmúnus áswindan from díeðung ænig regnþéof hwa dulmúnus  burgsteal wyfe'sandsumnes híe bídsteal  cynegold?



  Cato the Stillborn
Roughly translated from Old English:

What base coward would shrink from putting to the sword any man who would lift his wyfe's petticoat or steal his gold?  - Cato the Stillborn.

4 comments:

bocopro said...

Howard Dean --
Known in high school as “Weird Howie” and voted “Most Likely to Become a Political Prisoner,” Dr. Dean did considerable “bumming around” and, by his own admission, drank prodigious amounts of beer from time to time. Before attending Yale and ultimately Columbia for his medical degree, he tried several schools, among them Oscar Meyer Academy, Fly By Night Teacher’s College, and Kwikset University.

Along the way he acquired a serious cough and was diagnosed with 3rd stage uvular displacement, likely from a psychological aberration which caused him to sleep with his foot in his mouth. The constant bacterial infections probably inspired his first published medical paper, “Cultivating Viruses for Fun and Profit.” Later, as governor of Vermont, or New Hampshire, or Newfoundland . . . one of those stormy, frozen wastelands . . . he frequently told his staff, “One of these days, you’ll see, you’ll all be sorry for making fun of me. I’ll show you. I’m gonna be President!”

DougM said...

*shshshshshshshshshk*
*shshshshshshshshshk*
*shshshshshshshshshk*
[That's the sound of whetstone on steel.]

Anonymous said...

Corporate profits are shared with American workers, they're called pay checks.
-embycil

Rodger the Real King of France said...

clap-clap embycil

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