A Facebook Game

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible/ Torah X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X

Total: 7

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X

Total: 7

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy X
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh X
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Total: 8

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma-Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X

Total: 5

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan X

Total: 6

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafo
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X

Total: 5

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac X
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville X

Total: 5

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce X
76 The Inferno – Dante X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

Total: 4


80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Total: 4

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole X
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas X
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X

Total: 8

GRAND TOTAL = 59

So Teddy's Dead...

and I just have one question about Health Care Rebuild.

Was Rush Limbaugh just being an outrageous Republican leader or was he just ahead of the curve?
Grand Klegal Robert Byrd of West Virgina seams to think it's a great idea.

In his honor and as a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name for his commitment to insuring the health of every American.

Nat Hentoff Got Mugged

One of my all time favorite New York writers goes screaming off the reservation.
Nat Hentoff talks about health care reform as only an old Liberty loving Jew can.

And meanwhile over at Rolling Stone Matt Taibbi says that the 31% of health care cost are Administrative. There are too many choices for you and I for insurance, so that makes it too expensive. Okay what ever.
There are too many forms FROM THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT, not private insurance dipshit. A single payer, government run system will be all peaches and cream in this asshat's world view. Luck for us he thinks its doomed.

From his shit stained mouth to G-d's ears.

Read VDH

I know I say this a lot, but please read this great point about the New Oceana, a.k.a. Obama's America.

Once again he saves the best line for the end:

George Orwell, a man of the left, warned us that freedom and truth are not just endangered by easily identifiable goose-stepping goons in jackboots. More often he felt that state collectivism would come from an all-powerful government — run by a charismatic egalitarian, promising to protect us from selfish, greedy reactionaries.

Orwell was onto something.

We have always been at war with Eastasia!

One Less Dem in 2010

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) steps on his tiny little member. He told the Nutroots that he would vote against the interests of his own constituents. In his own words:

MASSA: So what happens in my town hall meetings frankly is important, because I am in one of the most right wing Republican districts in the country, and I’m not asking you guys to go back to wherever and send people to me. This is a generic statement of what can I do? Well that’s one thing we can do...

MASSA: I will vote for the single payer bill.

PARTICIPANT: Even if it meant you were being voted out of office?

MASSA: I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

MASSA: I will vote against their opinion if I actually believe it will help them.

So Lets hope that he people of NY District 29 will remind him of the first line from his Official Web page

As your member of Congress, my #1 priority is serving you. This is your Congressional Office and your Congressional staff and your opinion on the critical issues facing Western New York matters.

Let's hope he has a job lined-up for 2011.

The Beautiful MM Writes.

Michelle Malkin has a great piece on the continued hypocrisy of the left when they are in charge.
During the Bush years I kept hearing how dissent was the HIGHEST form of patriotism.
Any complaints from the right were met with screams of FASCIST!
Yet the White House wasn't part of the Chill Wind that we heard about on a regular basis from the Left.
Things were so bad during the Bush years that nut jobs could camp outside the entrance to the President's PRIVATE residence, and, well, nothing happened.
Things were so bad that people trashed Karl Roves PRIVATE property in a Virginia suburb and, well, again nothing.

Yes there were some people who called these protesters traitors, etc. I was one of them. But the leaders of this nation didn't tell us how to protest. Didn't call protesters evil. Yet now that the left has enough votes to jam just about anything it wants down our throats and they seem to be afraid of the protesters and other voices on the right.

They don't need our support, yet they need it because they know that if this fails the power grabs that they have in mind will slip away, and ...

So that's my rant for the day.

I Just Flag(@whitehouse.gov)ed Myself

What I sent to them.

I would like to mention that this whole idea is fishy.

“I HAPPEN TO BE A PROPONENT OF A SINGLE PAYER UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM." - Barack Obama during 2003 speech to the AFL-CIO

"I HAVE NOT PROPOSED A SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE PLAN." - Barack Obama at this week's NH Town-hall meeting.

So which is it?

Sincerely,
James F. O'Connell III

P.S.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Thoughts On The News

Hey have you flag(@whitehouse.gov)'d yourself yet?

Shrilary lives up to her nickname. Damn girl listen to the question, and then ask the translator if they got that right. Wow.