Posted by
LadyLiberty on Friday, November 21, 2008 12:12:41 AM
Episode 56: Standards and Deviations
(Link Returning home, whistling as he closes the front door)
Ann: (calling from the living room) Well you sound better!
Link: Anthemum's the word.
Ann: Aunt Thimum? Hmmm. Did I meet her at our wedding? I don't recall her name.
Link: (Snuggling up on the couch) Oh...(snickers) Well, no...dear old Aunt Thimum has passed, Ann.
Ann: What?! I am so sorry, why didn't you tell me she was ailing, Link?
Link: No, no. Auntie passed...uh...years ago (sniffling, looks downcast for a moment, but retrieves his spirit)...Golden Pompon, that's what we used to call her, you see.
Ann: Oh??
Link: Yes, Golden Pompon, for she was from, well, the lighter side of the family shall we say? And what a kidder. I'm not even joking--as your students would say--but SHE sure got off some good ones. And that radiant face of hers when she put one over on you...I tell ya...gosh I wish she were here with us right this moment.
Ann: Well I do too. She sounds...wonderful.
(doorbell rings)
Ann: I'll get it. (Ann answers the door to a florist delivery man) Oh, my goodness, who are these for??
Delivery Man: Mrs. Lincoln Douglas.
Ann: Ooooh! For me?? From whom, I wonder? Well, thank you. (closes the door and reads the card)
To my beautiful chrysos anthemum! Love, Link
Link, what are these?...(muttering) chrysos anthemum...anthemum...(staring at him with a mixture of joy and indignation) Uh huh.
Aunt Thimum. Yeah. I'm not even joking haha. About the dead. Funneeeee. Yupppp. A REAL side-splitter, there Link.
Link: I can explain...See, what with the migraine and all, I went to Shih & Herbary...
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(At Olam and Freiah's)
Olam: Well, now this is rather interesting, but I'm curious what you think of it, dear.
Freiah: (Looks up from her reading) What's that?
Freiah: (Gets up and reads from the computer screen) Polarization?... the accentuation of differences...let's see what it says. (Reads the Horse Race Blog) Hmmmm.
(Reading from the blog) First, it is fair to say that this indicates that the political polarization we have seen in recent cycles cannot solely be chalked up to the personality of George W. Bush. Instead, it appears as though there might be a systemic cause,
(Finishes reading) Well that's interesting but not surprising for some of us. There's a "systemic cause" all right. And while these telling red state graphs are not explicitly measuring the ideology of voters, implicitly they clearly are.
Look at the red states predominating. See how they are moving slightly around the nation as the leaders and times shift, but the so-called "polarization" is growing in number of states: 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 13 in '08.
It's the conservative red state stand.
Olam: Yeah. The standard emerging, or re-emerging. It's been a long time in the wilderness, but liberty is taking her stand again.
Freiah: If you've got eyes to see. You can deviate from the standard just so long until you have "partisan" "polarization".
Olam: I'll drink to that. You might enjoy
John O'Sullivan's great piece from our Canadian coalition. A savvy reminder of the law of unintended consequences as has just played out in the Democrats' blunder with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--the socio-catalyst for our economic "meltdown". Welcome back to reality. The business of business is best fiscal practice.
Freiah: I shall cruise right over to it. Let's include Peter Robinson's latest
Uncommon Knowledge interviews with Shelby Steele at our next Keeper's meeting.
Olam: That's fitting. Let's. Fitting in the heartbreaking sense that you've got to put it back together.
Freiah: I'm afraid so. Interesting...this other graph on "polarized" states. Did you notice the similarity between 1968 and the last 8 years? The most "polarized" of times since '48.
Olam: Or two different poles squaring off in the same generation.
Freiah: One pole of the 60's generation vs another? Two governing philosophies.
So if you want bipartisanship, the red conservatives say:
No purple prose to steer me leeward. Look deeper than color, number, and identity.
We are what's left of the red, white and blue, and we're taking our stand to keep her.