Comments on: The Death Of Conservatism http://jontaplin.com/2009/02/27/the-death-of-conservatism/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:00:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jvill http://jontaplin.com/2009/02/27/the-death-of-conservatism/comment-page-2/#comment-34550 jvill Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:38:42 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=4060#comment-34550 "Meanwhile, the developers and contractors and drug lords and liquor storeowners.." I get where you were going, but that's a funny group of people. Are they all on retreat together? Do the contractors fall above or below the liquor store owners on the social pecking order? “Meanwhile, the developers and contractors and drug lords and liquor storeowners..”

I get where you were going, but that’s a funny group of people. Are they all on retreat together? Do the contractors fall above or below the liquor store owners on the social pecking order?

]]> By: jvill http://jontaplin.com/2009/02/27/the-death-of-conservatism/comment-page-2/#comment-34557 jvill Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:38:42 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=4060#comment-34557 "Meanwhile, the developers and contractors and drug lords and liquor storeowners.." I get where you were going, but that's a funny group of people. Are they all on retreat together? Do the contractors fall above or below the liquor store owners on the social pecking order? “Meanwhile, the developers and contractors and drug lords and liquor storeowners..”

I get where you were going, but that’s a funny group of people. Are they all on retreat together? Do the contractors fall above or below the liquor store owners on the social pecking order?

]]> By: JTMcPhee http://jontaplin.com/2009/02/27/the-death-of-conservatism/comment-page-1/#comment-34544 JTMcPhee Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:59:28 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=4060#comment-34544 Meanwhile, the developers and contractors and drug lords and liquor storeowners are all at their winter retreats in Cancun and Costa Rica and the Cote d'Or, while their people and advertisers are working real hard to hook you back up. Meanwhile, the developers and contractors and drug lords and liquor storeowners are all at their winter retreats in Cancun and Costa Rica and the Cote d’Or, while their people and advertisers are working real hard to hook you back up.

]]> By: JTMcPhee http://jontaplin.com/2009/02/27/the-death-of-conservatism/comment-page-1/#comment-34552 JTMcPhee Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:59:28 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=4060#comment-34552 Meanwhile, the developers and contractors and drug lords and liquor storeowners are all at their winter retreats in Cancun and Costa Rica and the Cote d'Or, while their people and advertisers are working real hard to hook you back up. Meanwhile, the developers and contractors and drug lords and liquor storeowners are all at their winter retreats in Cancun and Costa Rica and the Cote d’Or, while their people and advertisers are working real hard to hook you back up.

]]> By: JTMcPhee http://jontaplin.com/2009/02/27/the-death-of-conservatism/comment-page-1/#comment-34556 JTMcPhee Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:59:28 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=4060#comment-34556 Meanwhile, the developers and contractors and drug lords and liquor storeowners are all at their winter retreats in Cancun and Costa Rica and the Cote d'Or, while their people and advertisers are working real hard to hook you back up. Meanwhile, the developers and contractors and drug lords and liquor storeowners are all at their winter retreats in Cancun and Costa Rica and the Cote d’Or, while their people and advertisers are working real hard to hook you back up.

]]> By: JoeKelley http://jontaplin.com/2009/02/27/the-death-of-conservatism/comment-page-1/#comment-34539 JoeKelley Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:49:30 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=4060#comment-34539 I was asked by my 92-year-old grandmother to explain what I thought Obama's plans and strategy were all about. She doesn't vote or follow politics; she's still too mad about Vatican II. The best I could do was, we're like an alcoholic, college-dropout house-painter with a seriously sick child who has finally hit rock bottom as the last credit-card has run out; and now, newly clean and sober, with no resources, we're begging and stealing and writing bad checks to finish the college degree we should have finished fifteen years ago, hoping desperately that if we pull it off, we'll get a much better job, with health benefits for our kid and a high enough salary to begin to pay off the debts that we have no hope of handling on a painter's pay. It's a hell of a risk, parts of it maybe even illegal, and it all comes down to can we hold it together and work our ass off and get the degree and the job and the rest of it fast enough to save ourselves, and our family and our sick kid. It's gut-check time. We have to invest every bit of effort, time, and money we can scrape up or steal, and hope that the bet pays off. Our own addictions and shortsightedness got us into this, and if we do nothing, our kid will die. I was asked by my 92-year-old grandmother to explain what I thought Obama’s plans and strategy were all about. She doesn’t vote or follow politics; she’s still too mad about Vatican II.

The best I could do was, we’re like an alcoholic, college-dropout house-painter with a seriously sick child who has finally hit rock bottom as the last credit-card has run out; and now, newly clean and sober, with no resources, we’re begging and stealing and writing bad checks to finish the college degree we should have finished fifteen years ago, hoping desperately that if we pull it off, we’ll get a much better job, with health benefits for our kid and a high enough salary to begin to pay off the debts that we have no hope of handling on a painter’s pay.

It’s a hell of a risk, parts of it maybe even illegal, and it all comes down to can we hold it together and work our ass off and get the degree and the job and the rest of it fast enough to save ourselves, and our family and our sick kid.

It’s gut-check time. We have to invest every bit of effort, time, and money we can scrape up or steal, and hope that the bet pays off. Our own addictions and shortsightedness got us into this, and if we do nothing, our kid will die.

]]> By: JoeKelley http://jontaplin.com/2009/02/27/the-death-of-conservatism/comment-page-1/#comment-34547 JoeKelley Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:49:30 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=4060#comment-34547 I was asked by my 92-year-old grandmother to explain what I thought Obama's plans and strategy were all about. She doesn't vote or follow politics; she's still too mad about Vatican II. The best I could do was, we're like an alcoholic, college-dropout house-painter with a seriously sick child who has finally hit rock bottom as the last credit-card has run out; and now, newly clean and sober, with no resources, we're begging and stealing and writing bad checks to finish the college degree we should have finished fifteen years ago, hoping desperately that if we pull it off, we'll get a much better job, with health benefits for our kid and a high enough salary to begin to pay off the debts that we have no hope of handling on a painter's pay. It's a hell of a risk, parts of it maybe even illegal, and it all comes down to can we hold it together and work our ass off and get the degree and the job and the rest of it fast enough to save ourselves, and our family and our sick kid. It's gut-check time. We have to invest every bit of effort, time, and money we can scrape up or steal, and hope that the bet pays off. Our own addictions and shortsightedness got us into this, and if we do nothing, our kid will die. I was asked by my 92-year-old grandmother to explain what I thought Obama’s plans and strategy were all about. She doesn’t vote or follow politics; she’s still too mad about Vatican II.

The best I could do was, we’re like an alcoholic, college-dropout house-painter with a seriously sick child who has finally hit rock bottom as the last credit-card has run out; and now, newly clean and sober, with no resources, we’re begging and stealing and writing bad checks to finish the college degree we should have finished fifteen years ago, hoping desperately that if we pull it off, we’ll get a much better job, with health benefits for our kid and a high enough salary to begin to pay off the debts that we have no hope of handling on a painter’s pay.

It’s a hell of a risk, parts of it maybe even illegal, and it all comes down to can we hold it together and work our ass off and get the degree and the job and the rest of it fast enough to save ourselves, and our family and our sick kid.

It’s gut-check time. We have to invest every bit of effort, time, and money we can scrape up or steal, and hope that the bet pays off. Our own addictions and shortsightedness got us into this, and if we do nothing, our kid will die.

]]> By: JoeKelley http://jontaplin.com/2009/02/27/the-death-of-conservatism/comment-page-1/#comment-34555 JoeKelley Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:49:30 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=4060#comment-34555 I was asked by my 92-year-old grandmother to explain what I thought Obama's plans and strategy were all about. She doesn't vote or follow politics; she's still too mad about Vatican II. The best I could do was, we're like an alcoholic, college-dropout house-painter with a seriously sick child who has finally hit rock bottom as the last credit-card has run out; and now, newly clean and sober, with no resources, we're begging and stealing and writing bad checks to finish the college degree we should have finished fifteen years ago, hoping desperately that if we pull it off, we'll get a much better job, with health benefits for our kid and a high enough salary to begin to pay off the debts that we have no hope of handling on a painter's pay. It's a hell of a risk, parts of it maybe even illegal, and it all comes down to can we hold it together and work our ass off and get the degree and the job and the rest of it fast enough to save ourselves, and our family and our sick kid. It's gut-check time. We have to invest every bit of effort, time, and money we can scrape up or steal, and hope that the bet pays off. Our own addictions and shortsightedness got us into this, and if we do nothing, our kid will die. I was asked by my 92-year-old grandmother to explain what I thought Obama’s plans and strategy were all about. She doesn’t vote or follow politics; she’s still too mad about Vatican II.

The best I could do was, we’re like an alcoholic, college-dropout house-painter with a seriously sick child who has finally hit rock bottom as the last credit-card has run out; and now, newly clean and sober, with no resources, we’re begging and stealing and writing bad checks to finish the college degree we should have finished fifteen years ago, hoping desperately that if we pull it off, we’ll get a much better job, with health benefits for our kid and a high enough salary to begin to pay off the debts that we have no hope of handling on a painter’s pay.

It’s a hell of a risk, parts of it maybe even illegal, and it all comes down to can we hold it together and work our ass off and get the degree and the job and the rest of it fast enough to save ourselves, and our family and our sick kid.

It’s gut-check time. We have to invest every bit of effort, time, and money we can scrape up or steal, and hope that the bet pays off. Our own addictions and shortsightedness got us into this, and if we do nothing, our kid will die.

]]> By: JT http://jontaplin.com/2009/02/27/the-death-of-conservatism/comment-page-1/#comment-34534 JT Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:24:46 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=4060#comment-34534 When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d, Desiring this man’s art and that’s man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. W. Shakespeare When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d,
Desiring this man’s art and that’s man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

W. Shakespeare

]]> By: JT http://jontaplin.com/2009/02/27/the-death-of-conservatism/comment-page-1/#comment-34535 JT Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:24:46 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=4060#comment-34535 When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d, Desiring this man’s art and that’s man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. W. Shakespeare When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d,
Desiring this man’s art and that’s man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

W. Shakespeare

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