Sentences with phrase «sacred cows from»

This is a lot of crap and political theatre, just like the depressing spectacle of the hordes of special interests descending on the Capitol like locusts this time every year to bleat and whine and self - flagellate to keep their oxen from getting gored or their golden geese and sacred cows from being butchered by budget cuts, to thoroughly mix metaphors.

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I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

Though a satirist always risks blowback, both from those who don't get the joke and from some who do, when it comes to social criticism, I tend to follow what we might call the Joe Bob Briggs Doctrine: think of the social critic as a machine gun spraying fire across the cultural landscape, and «when a target screams, you've found the sacred cow.

Eliot Spitzer never really got a chance as governor but as attorney general showed that he wasn't afraid to tax sacred cows and he wasn't afraid to tell it like it is, which is what you really need from a comptroller,» Paterson told WCBS 880.

«Apart from bringing corrupt public officers to justice, we are determined, in line with the stance of the current administration, to send an unmistakable message to everyone, that no Nigerian shall be regarded as being above the law or treated as a sacred cow as far as the fight against corruption is concerned.

The sacred foods we are familiar with in the western world include raw dairy products from pastured cows, egg yolks from pastured chickens and cod liver oil.

For thousands of years, the traditional people in India have known the sacred power of foods from the holy cow, especially the power of colostrum for its qualities of energizing and giving well being.

In the Swiss Alps, the butter from cows eating rapidly growing green grass was a sacred food, considered very important for pregnant women.

Deep yellow / orange butter from cows eating rapidly growing spring grass was considered a sacred food by the Traditional Swiss culture, a culture with young men so perfect and pleasing in physique, strength, and character that the Vatican favored these young men over all others to serve as the Papal Guard at the Vatican.

As long ago as the 1970s, James Block was referring to this notion of «individual differences» as one of the «sacred cows» in education, immune from criticism and opposition.

Another sacred cow put to the sword in the book is the use of five - year earnings - per - share growth to improve the returns from a price - to - earnings screen.

Presaging Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley and exerting noticeable influence on artists such as Barry McGee and Ed Templeton, Saul's oeuvre is long overdue for deeper examination and this comprehensive publication provides the first complete overview of his work over the past five decades — from his epic historical canvases to his homage to Thomas Hart Benton, his lampoons of art world sacred cows and works evidencing his particular take on the existential dilemmas of the aging American male.

But the whole political spectrum is under attack; the very concept of left and right, the concept of disagreement - hat enlightenment might emerge from questioning sacred cows.