Goodies from Ol' Remus

Ol' Remus 

 

Nymphs and Satyr
William Bouguereau 1873

Like the clever definition of mythology: "what never was, but always is", William Bouguereau (La Rochelle France 1825—1905) was little more than a persistent legend until recent times. Bouguereau, a consummate painter of the human figure, perhaps the era's Michelangelo, was the traditionalist most reviled by modern art, yet such was his genius he outlasted the effort to expunge him.

Rehabilitated—more nearly, rediscovered—in the later 20th century, his works are again the aspiring artist's self-measure and command prices equal to their value. Almost exclusively a genre painter, Nymphs and Satyr, above, is one of his few classicist works.

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History, rhyming - The Obama Regime's military build-up over the past 6 or so years is no less frightening, no less obvious and no less a portend of their intention, than was Germany's in the '30s. Obama told America who he is, what he is and what he intended, most starkly with his “domestic military police force” comments. Tyrants only ever have one destination; tyranny.
The Gantt Guy, comment at falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit

CNN is on DC's payroll, says CNN journalist

Amber Lyon is an award-winning journalist who worked for CNN. She says while working at CNN she was ordered to report fake stories, delete unfriendly stories adverse to the Obama administration, and construct stories in specific manners while working for the left-wing network. Why? According to Lyon CNN is paid by foreign and domestic Government agencies for specific content. Let me repeat that. CNN is paid by the US government for reporting on some events, and not reporting on others. The Obama Administration pays CNN for content control, says sundance in this article, The Last Refuge, at The Conservative Treehouse.

How to win in Iraq

After the administration blundered on Benghazi, on the Arab Spring, and Syria, Heaven itself has afforded it one last chance to set itself right. It is almost impossible for the administration to screw it up. All it has to do is nothing. Yes, Nothing! So let them shoot it out. When the Mideast is a flaming wreck, the administration should encourage Putin or China to intervene. Nothing sinks empires faster than trying to tame the Muslims. We will get out, and avoid our own collapse, says Mike Konrad in this article, Let Them Kill Each Other, at American Thinker.

Designated dimwits - Contemporary television advertising would lead us to believe that white male physicians are a faint and failing minority being overtaken by waves of minority medical graduates... the dunces and dupes whose wives and all-wise minority physicians point out their delinquent behaviors... the message delivered to white children across this nation is that your daddy is a moron who can’t find his butt with both hands.
Russ Vaughn at americanthinker.com

Hillary's book bombs - Between us, they are nervous at Simon & Schuster. Sales were well below expectations and the media was a disaster. They sold 60,000 hard covers first week and 24,000 ebooks. Simon & Schuster hoping and praying for 150,000 print first week. The 60k represents a less than 10% sell thru based on what they shipped. They will be lucky to sell 150,000 total lifetime. It's a bomb but it will be interesting to see how they spin it.
"Veteran publishing source", to Daniel Halper at weeklystandard.com

The Bill and Barry Show - I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who ever lived. I've had two successors since I left the White House—Bush and Obama—and I’ve heard more from Bush, asking for my advice, than I’ve heard from Obama. I have no relationship with the president—none whatsoever. I really can’t stand the way Obama ­always seems to be hectoring when he talks to me. Sometimes we just stare at each other. It’s pretty damn awkward. Now we both have favors to ask each other, and it’s going to be very unpleasant. But I’ve got to get this guy to owe me and to be on our side.
Bill Clinton, Blood Feud, The Clintons Vs. The Obamas by Edward Klein, via Thomas Lifson at americanthinker.com

Lies my leaders told me - "Socialists" clearly now no longer seek the amelioration of social problems through economic restructuring, if they ever did, but rather to destroy the nation state and traditional society, root and branch, in favor of a controlling elite and a borderless world awash in a tidal wave of third-world primitivism, dysfunction, and failure. This objective cannot be admitted and thus the necessity for the lies.
Col. B. Bunny at bastionofliberty.blogspot.com