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You’ve gotta love quotes like this:
Amy: Have you thought about what happens if the Gravity fails?
The Doctor: “I’ve thought about that.”
Amy: “And?”
The Doctor: “We’ll all plunge to our deaths. See, I’ve thought about it.”
From Series 5 episode 5 Flesh and Stone
at the final shot of the two towers from this embed at Little Miss Attila’s site. I won’t give the other side the satisfaction, I’m just pissed they haven’t been rebuilt. As a computer guy I did get a real kick out of seeing the old punch cards. There was still a single card reader when I started at Raytheon in 1985.
Nor does the Anchoress links to Burke’s marvelous series (that deserves more attention) cause shock, as a regular reader and as a person who is into history I know the vast contributions that the Church has given civilization.
But this should be required watching for school students everywhere. You can find more here. I suspect it would get more respect from the tea parties than from elsewhere.
Now if they only would release Steve Allen’s Meeting of Minds….
Here is the Classic Liberal’s alterations to my list per my statement Here are his corrections to my list:
Obama isn’t even done with his first term yet, so he shouldn’t be ranked at all. But he is setting himself up to be one of the worst ever.
On Thomas Jefferson … The Louisiana Purchase is considered by many to be his biggest sin (even though it worked out). It wasn’t constitutional. He did however lower taxes, pardon John Adams political prisoners, and his election was also a major victory over the Federalists (who wanted a government more like we have today). So Jefferson deserves to be towards the top.
Prior to Obama, GWB grew the size and scope of government greater than any other president in history. Therefore he belongs at the bottom of the list along with the other major progressives – T Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR, and LBJ. Lincoln was no saint either, being responsible for the death of over 600,000 Americans in his war against the south that started not over slavery, but over taxes. So these are my 6 worst presidents.
Calvin Cooldige is incredibly underrated in our history. And despite some of his problems, Andrew Jackson deserves to be among the top for his success in shutting down the central bank.
I disagree with a lot here, but that’s half the fun with these lists.
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