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My Favorite Poem This Time of Year

Posted by ScarletPimpernel on Saturday, December 27, 2008 10:07:17 AM
I read this poem every year on New Years Eve.  This year, it seems especially apropos for us conservatives.  Following the poem is a nice link with a little insight about Hardy and his time.  I say we go out and make like the little Thrush.
 
The Darkling Thrush
I leant upon a coppice gate   When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
 
http://www.alsopreview.com/aside/aethrush.html
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Things That Are Useless and What To Do Next

Posted by ScarletPimpernel on Thursday, December 18, 2008 1:39:44 PM
Things that are useless:  Complaining about the weather.  Whining about referees.  Teats on a boar hog. Claiming Obama is not an American citizen.  Crying about Dem/libs and the Press being unfair to Republicans.  The current Republican Party.
This week it really hit me: I am homeless. I am a conservative.  Not the Libertarian No Laws kind.  Not the Americans Are Always Right kind. Not the Everything That Goes Wrong in America Can Be Blamed on Liberal Politics kind either.  I am the instinctive, common sense kind. I like to think I'm logical too.   TH is boring me to tears as the Big Timers stick to the broad road to Hell. What I'm hearing from the Republican Party lately leads me to believe them insane. W has finally admitted that he's thrown out his free market principles as few as they were to begin with.  We no longer are arguing about whether the Government should play a role in the people's personal lives and in the business world; now it is HOW MUCH $$$ should Uncle Sam give (that's you and me btw).  Republicans have chased off conservatives and have only eunichs left to keen about the unfair practices of the Left. 
 
What I'm going to do about it in the New Year:
   Take the plank out of my eye and try to get Repubs to do so as well.  If the Repubs don't get it, I'll work with the Con party or
   whichever party gets close to what I believe.
   Read the Constitution weekly until I know it by heart.
   Read the classics in conservative literature so that I'll have more facts and historical examples to go with my instincts.
   I'm going to "know what I know" - that is, I'm going to clarify, simplify and fortify my principles and ready my political apologetics. 
   Try to find like minded cons and stick together.
   Stay on my representatives' collective arses.  These folks have got to know that we are watching. 
   Search for up and comers who represent what I believe.  Vet them, as it were. 
   Invest my labor and not just my votes, letters and money in standing up for conservative ideals.
 
My thanks and tip of the hat to my fellow SCDSers.  I know we only gain cold comfort by being right but still, I enjoy your company.  Let's ignore the howler monkeys in the Repub party, sweep the clutter out the back door, and go back to the future.  
 
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Iowahawk Strikes Again

Posted by ScarletPimpernel on Sunday, December 07, 2008 12:08:20 PM
Now, THIS guy's funny. 
 
Obama might as well go ahead and name him next.
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