Ding Dong.
(Munchkin 2)
You've killed her so completely
That we thank you very sweetly
(Glinda)
Let the joyous news be spread
The wicked, old witch at last is dead
(Munchkins)
Ding-dong the witch is dead
Which old witch? The wicked witch
Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead
Wake up you sleepyhead
Rub your eyes, get out of bed
Wake up the wicked witch is dead
She's gone where the goblins go
Below - below - below
Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low
Let them know the Wicked Witch is dead
From the lyrics for Somewhere Over the Rainbow, the Wizard of Oz
My Peculiar Aristocratic Title, by the way, is ("borrowed" from Empress Bee (of the High Sea, at muffin53, one of the best sites on the Web)
The Most Honourable Rock the Sanguine of Melbury Bubblewick
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic TitleDead as a Doornail
Saddam Hussein is dead, and this is a good thing.
Tell us Saddam, what those 72 virgins look like. Are they as pretty as you thought they'd be?The Barbarity of It All
I watched, as many of you did, Saddam being led to the noose, looking vulnerable for the second time in his life. The first time was when he was captured. Anyway, I felt empathy for the man as he saw the device that would in moments kill him.
We don't like to think of ourselves as barbaric. We imagine we are above the people of the Roman times who went for a day to the Coliseum to gobble pita and felafel and watch the gladiators be butchered; or those folks from the Middle Ages who picnicked on chicken legs while cheering witches being burned at the stake; or present-day Iraqis who kick and punch their handcuffed prisoners; or terrorists who slice off heads.
Even in our Constitution we have banned "cruel and unusual punishment." This does, in my opinion, put us above nations that will torture prisoners and so on. Yet those who oppose capital punishment, including again the Pope, and much of the "civilized" world, think that the death penalty is cruel and unusual, and ought to be banned.The Fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way
Out of Whack Yin Yangs
A Just War and a Good Death
This gets us back to our continual battle with liberals over what is right and wrong. I think it is relevant to my continuing presentation in recent posts on yin and yang, Chastising the Pope, Gerald Ford, and Vicious Liberals; and Christmas, Kwanzaa and Wiccans. Liberals have a severe imbalance in their yin yang. They are all yin, all feminine, if you will, and no yang, no masculine. All lightness and "peace," and no strength or aggression.
I agree with Dennis Prager especially on this range of subjects (see arguments pro and con for the death penalty). There is such a thing as a just war. There is such a thing even as a wise preemptive war. Killing monsters is moral. The death penalty is good for fiends.
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It's interesting that the only truly evil people in the world, according to liberals, are the persons standing up to evil. It's not the Saddam Husseins, Hugo Chavez', Fidel Castros who are evil, but the George Bush's and Tony Blaires. The liberals' yin is so far up their yangs that they can't see straight.Ding Dong the Witch is Dead
Saddam is dead. Thank God.(Judge)
But we've got to verify it legally
To see...
(Mayor)
To see...
(Judge)
If she...
(Mayor)
If she...
(Judge)
Is morally, ethically
(Munchkin 1)
Spiritually, physically
(Munchkin 2)
Positively, absolutely
(Munchkin Men)
Undeniably and reliably dead
(Coroner)
As Coroner , I thoroughly examined her
And she's not only merely dead
She's really most sincerely dead
(Mayor)
Then this is a day of independence for all the munchkins
And their descendants
Yes, let the joyous news be spread
The wicked old witch at last is dead
Rock
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We, as moral citizens of Earth, sanctioned by common sense, and by God, I believe, the God of all people, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Muslim, have a right and a duty to fight for goodness when this is necessary.
It was not just okay to invade Iraq, it was an obligation. Regardless of results. If doing the right thing made some people hate us, then this is the price we must pay for goodness.
So, too, with killing Saddam Hussein. We can be proud that we brought it about, or helped bring it about. One bad guy down, a few million more to go.
The Liberal Disease
Appeasement, avoiding just war, not standing up to enemies, being kind to monsters—these are immoral. These lead to the death of women and children. These bring nuclear bombs to New York City. You are not a good person if you endorse these. You are part of the reason why there is war, suffering, and poverty.
You pat yourself on the back for believing you are for world peace, when in reality what you are for is cowardice in the face of danger. You think life is simple and all you have to do is smile and drink lattes with your smug liberal friends. Just ignore problems and they will go away. Do nothing and Darfur will disappear. Smile and Saddam will stop torturing his people. Hug a terrorist and he will unstrap his bomb. Freedom demands nothing except to sit on your rear end and criticize your brave leaders and the soldiers who protect your latte-drinking way of life.
The worst people in the world are the Saddam Husseins. The second worst are Saddam supporters. The third worst are the peace advocates and the enablers of evil. All three of these groups have blood on their hands. You have a moral obligation in life to see evil, correctly identify it, and fight it.
It is all right to be logically opposed to any one specific war, as with the Iraq War. It is not all right, though, in my opinion, to avoid the hard choices in life by hiding behind mindless mantras. Those mindless mantras kill.
Logic to a Liberal is Like Kryptonite to Superman
Saddam Hussein was a monster, right? So, his death was a good thing, no? Oh, but this will mean the nasty terrorists will hate us even more now, right? Do I care? Am I supposed to avoid doing what is good because someone won't like me for it? Ditto with the invasion of Iraq.
A Good Life
Here is what life and God demand of good people:
Learn the difference between good and evil.
Be good.
Love good, and hate evil.
Stand up for goodness against evil.
If you do this, you are living a useful and moral life.
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
(From the title for Michael Savage's book, at Amazon.)
Liberals deny the existence of evil. They think even monsters are "good." They believe in "loving" all people, which means appeasement. They don't believe in standing up to anyone or for anything.