tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251507487364843225.post5102185701278620474..comments2023-09-29T03:52:47.358-07:00Comments on The iParty Blog: Hope & the Great WhiteCANDIDATEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06876351335348063574noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251507487364843225.post-75418383415191318592009-05-03T15:46:00.000-07:002009-05-03T15:46:00.000-07:00An honorable profession. No apology necessary.
I ...An honorable profession. No apology necessary.<br /><br />I think that was the first time I used that wrong word. In fact, it wasn't until I finished the new Koontz novel (his "Falun Gong" story, like BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON was his "drugs / Art Bell / rense.com" story) that I realized the difference between loathe and loath. Hope to not have to use either ever again.<br /><br />But I might read the next Koontz novel.<br /><br /><I>Keep on proofin’...</I>.msCANDIDATEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06876351335348063574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251507487364843225.post-12224277129252704812009-05-02T13:16:00.000-07:002009-05-02T13:16:00.000-07:00I believe you meant "loath".
Sorry, proofreader.
...I believe you meant "loath".<br /><br />Sorry, proofreader.<br /><br />WWproofreadernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251507487364843225.post-60247451147548011852009-03-18T10:22:00.000-07:002009-03-18T10:22:00.000-07:00Am re-reading ILLUMINATUS (WHY?*)!, and just found...Am re-reading ILLUMINATUS (<B>WHY?*</B>)!, and just found the quote that I originally meant to open this post. As I archived the first 64 posts and gave them to my Grandson, I'm loathe to change a word, so here's Howard the dolphin's song with the "caption" in bold:<BR/><BR/>“A big mouth, a tiny brain / He only thinks of blood and pain.<BR/><BR/>He only thinks of blood and slaughter / The shark should live on land not water.<BR/><BR/>To hell with the shark and all his kin / And fight like hell when you see his fin.<BR/><BR/>May storms and rains and typhoons beat them / May Great Cthulhu rise and eat them.” <BR/><BR/><BR/>*Hagbard lays it out in <B>1975</B>:<BR/><BR/>"<B>Their</B> grip on Washington is still pretty precarious. <B>They've</B> been able to socialize the economy. But if <B>They</B> showed their hand now and went totalitarian all the way, there would be revolution. Middle-roaders would rise up with right-wingers, and left-libertarians, and <B>They</B> aren't powerful enough to withstand that kind of massive <B>change</B>. But <B>They</B> can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools <B>They</B> need to finish the job of killing off the Constitution."<BR/><BR/>"What sort of tools?"<BR/><BR/>"More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock laws. Stop and frisk laws. Government inspection of first-class mail. Automatic fingerprinting, photographing, blood tests, and urinalysis of any person arrested before he is charged with a crime. A law making it unlawful to resist even unlawful arrest. Laws establishing detention camps for potential subversives. Gun control laws. Restrictions on travel. <B>9-11</B>, established the need for such laws in the public mind. Instead of realizing that there is a conspiracy, conducted by a handful of men, the people reason - or are manipulated into reasoning - that the entire populace must have its freedom restricted in order to protect itself. The people themselves agree that they themselves can't be trusted."<BR/><BR/><I><B>Emphasis (Fnords) added</B></I><BR/><BR/>All Hail!<BR/><BR/>;><BR/>.msCANDIDATEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06876351335348063574noreply@blogger.com