tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1618498274510200451..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Healing Liberalism Through Apparatchiks AnonymousGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79713175672312584082009-08-01T09:29:05.711-07:002009-08-01T09:29:05.711-07:00The neocon is the leftist rat that abandoned the l...The neocon is the leftist rat that abandoned the leftist ship, gnawed and rotting, and swam for safety to the rightwing ship, which is now rotting for the same reason. <br /><br />Irving Kristol--<br />One can say that the historical task and political purpose of neo-conservatism would seem to be this: to convert the Republican party, and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics suitable to governing a modern democracy. <br /><br />BTW,<br />The unnatural, that too is natural.<br />Goethexlbrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01931950075332608449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44821571871040122312009-08-01T07:20:06.293-07:002009-08-01T07:20:06.293-07:00be left of right?
= bereft of lightbe left of right?<br />= bereft of lightgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16003090635361983262009-07-31T20:57:09.547-07:002009-07-31T20:57:09.547-07:00g said "string ords together"
g? no, g....g said "string ords together"<br /><br />g? no, g... tee-hee.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2199406699427934222009-07-31T19:38:32.268-07:002009-07-31T19:38:32.268-07:00"He can kiss 2% of my ass!"
- Dr. Seinf..."He can kiss 2% of my ass!"<br /><br /><i>- Dr. Seinfeld</i>Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12081748773107975632009-07-31T19:29:59.612-07:002009-07-31T19:29:59.612-07:00I'm sure goddinpotty would say that Bush only ...I'm sure goddinpotty would say that Bush only helped Byrd because he was a Grand Dragon in the KKK, while Crowley only helped Gates because he's <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/impersonating_a_victim.html" rel="nofollow">57% white</a>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75026418904163486912009-07-31T19:21:38.697-07:002009-07-31T19:21:38.697-07:00Why...here it is..<a href="http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/07/31/bush-vs-obama-4/" rel="nofollow">Why...here it is..</a>Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81550442101697148102009-07-31T19:01:41.052-07:002009-07-31T19:01:41.052-07:00HT Ace of Spades:
“That's the racist idiot Cr...<a href="http://minx.cc/?post=290382" rel="nofollow">HT Ace of Spades:<br /></a><br />“That's the racist idiot Crowley, our Susan Boyle, helping Gates navigate the stairs, while President Wonderful preens for the camera.”<br /><br />Bob, reminds of that photo of President Bush helping Senator Byrd.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83292531522833148142009-07-31T18:19:15.621-07:002009-07-31T18:19:15.621-07:00Outstanding, Bob!
Heck, this entire post is quot...Outstanding, Bob! <br /><br />Heck, this entire post is quotable.<br />Next time someone asks me why leftists bitterly cling to their old, failed ideology/cult despite all the evidence of it's destructive results, I'll point them to this post.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10813743903533930222009-07-31T17:27:31.729-07:002009-07-31T17:27:31.729-07:00Nice linking skills, G. I’ll get right over there....Nice linking skills, G. I’ll get right over there..<br />What’s an ord?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42862700015654410152009-07-31T17:22:35.892-07:002009-07-31T17:22:35.892-07:00NB,
Either we’re agreeing with each other, or you ...NB,<br />Either we’re agreeing with each other, or you attribute Canada’s and Calgary’s success to the fact that they are socialist … I say they’ve learned a good thing or two from us. We’ll see how long it lasts.<br />Let me put it this way, the weaker we become here (in general, as a whole, not pockets), the more nervous the average citizen anywhere around the world should become. So by “we” I mean the average citizen here. You say you are a business owner who goes where the going’s good. That’s what capitalists do – which is only half my point. If our property rights (businesses included) can be taken from us, <i>here of all places</i>, it’s steam roller time for anybody anywhere. Then where will you go? Down the list to the next less-socialist county?<br />This is why I say we are agreeing with each other.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44090244911716941882009-07-31T16:56:35.494-07:002009-07-31T16:56:35.494-07:00Cont. from my previous comment...
My friend was o...Cont. from my previous comment...<br /><br />My friend was offended that I likened his two opposites he held so dear. If fascism wasn't right wing, then what WAS the opposite of leftism? If conservatives and "neo-cons" was something other than the only non-leftist option, fascism, then what is it? Mr. Truth comes walking in the room and he (my friend) runs for cover. <br /><br /><br />Sometimes wv is too much fun. He was "cribin". [In a crib.]Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900344453710081874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42962717921074682132009-07-31T16:42:32.619-07:002009-07-31T16:42:32.619-07:00Susannah: wow, that is a shocking statistic! Unfor...Susannah: wow, that is a shocking statistic! Unfortunately it is entirely meaningless because it does not take into account the distribution of wealth and income.<br /><br />http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/faculty/hodgson/Courses/so11/stratification/income&wealth.htm<br />http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html<br />http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/03/29/business/20070329_TAX_GRAPHIC.html<br /><br />Van said: <i>As any three card monty huckster knows, 'something for nothing!' is the way to reel in the rubes, and as gulpinpotty so often proves, the one who is least willing to admit he's been had, is the rube that's been robbed... because it would require admitting that he thought he was robbing the one, who was actually robbing him, to ever fess up.</i><br /><br />Have you considered trying to get a job as a speechwriter for Sarah Palin? You seem to share her inability to string ords together into coherent thoughts.gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72880426215491555852009-07-31T16:19:25.873-07:002009-07-31T16:19:25.873-07:00Ricky,
As a coon with a paw in both countries (I&...Ricky,<br /><br />As a coon with a paw in both countries (I've lived about equally in US and Canada) I can tell you that currently Canada is considerably more business-friendly and economically stable than the US. My last significant company was in Massachusetts. I would be insane to locate the next one there. Calgary is a far better bet right now.Northern Banditnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4220802277492141062009-07-31T15:57:11.437-07:002009-07-31T15:57:11.437-07:00I remember once talking to a friend about how Comm...I remember once talking to a friend about how Communism/Socialism and Fascism were pretty much the same thing, and he indignantly said, "I've never heard of that. Nobody says that." What I think was going on is that I was saying, "Hey look at this green (arbitrary color chosen for analogy) color over here" (ie US-style freedom.) And he was comparing two variations of blue and not even considering green. So to me, the two blues were ...blue, and I was comparing it to another hue completely. That's how stuck in the mold he was. He didn't even have a category for real freedom. He only had flavors of control. Very much like the mammon-seeking head smacking against-the-wall imprisonment mode versus the wall-less hierarchically-correct truth/freedom mode. <br /><br /> <br />wv: swast (ica)<br /><br />Freaky.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900344453710081874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27844181335847178752009-07-31T15:21:40.722-07:002009-07-31T15:21:40.722-07:00"Worse, Leftism offers NO FORGIVENESS." ..."Worse, Leftism offers NO FORGIVENESS." So true! There is no rest/slack for one trapped in a works-centered ideology. I once heard a commentator say that liberals really just want to feel good about themselves. It's self-absolution (which equals bondage to sin).Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4306552349159014312009-07-31T14:34:46.447-07:002009-07-31T14:34:46.447-07:00Will said "...it's a shimmering illusion ...Will said "...it's a shimmering illusion that promises a salvation that's always "one shot away", but that never materializes, never... "<br /><br />And it is those seeking something for nothing that are particularly susceptible to the glamour con. As any three card monty huckster knows, 'something for nothing!' is the way to reel in the rubes, and as gulpinpotty so often proves, the one who is least willing to admit he's been had, is the rube that's been robbed... because it would require admitting that he thought he was robbing the one, who was actually robbing him, to ever fess up. Talk about the guilt of the victim card player.<br /><br />The type of person who truly wants to accomplish something isn't look for something for nothing, quite the opposite, to create something to relieve a nothing. For them, being celebrated is something that may or may not follow from their accomplishment, and so they're not susceptible to being conned by the glamourizers.<br /><br />But those who just want to be recognized, to be celebrated and glamorized, regardless of what they have or haven't done... in fact they'd just assume not having to work for it. They want something for nothing, and they will go right on trying to get that free lunch, no matter how much it costs, and the monty dealer go on flattering him until he not only has nothing, but is nothing.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6018104317334982052009-07-31T13:32:16.906-07:002009-07-31T13:32:16.906-07:00Socialism and capitalism cannot coexist in the sam...Socialism and capitalism cannot coexist <i>in the same country</i>… as we are constantly led to think it somehow can here – look at Canada, etc. , some say… But “here” just ain’t any ol’ “anywhere”.<br />All will fall to communism eventually if here goes away. These look-to countries aren’t communist yet because they benefit greatly (scratch that, critically) in so many indirect ways by the separate existence of a Truly progressive, freely creative nation centered around <i>her</i> capitalism, classical liberalism and her capitalist, classical liberals; somewhere they must be free or the rest fall. We can all still point to at least one such place, thank God.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66199373110230547772009-07-31T13:09:20.859-07:002009-07-31T13:09:20.859-07:00“As I've mentioned before, in many respects, m...“As I've mentioned before, in many respects, my own "journey" to so-called conservatism hasn’t been a journey at all.”<br /><br />This is why I say our chances are better if we lower the voting age to zero.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87720118728009361262009-07-31T13:02:18.703-07:002009-07-31T13:02:18.703-07:00Worse, Leftism offers NO FORGIVENESS.
There are ...Worse, Leftism offers NO FORGIVENESS. <br /><br />There are indulgences, via Al Gore and his environmental carbon credits, but no FORGIVENESS!<br /><br />Does it matter? <br /><br />Yes it does. In the dark of the night, when you have only yourself to confront, it does matter.<br /><br />wv: pasho<br />I had a German Shephern dog named Pasche.<br /><br />Everything matters.sehoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00398831051769112602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45394832405313554942009-07-31T12:34:15.228-07:002009-07-31T12:34:15.228-07:00>> . . this is not a psychopathology but a p...>> . . this is not a psychopathology but a pneumapathology -- a disease of the soul. Since leftism is a faux religion, you really need something closer to cult deprogramming<<<br /><br />I think you'd need a mass exorcism, conducted by all those who take prayer seriously. <br /><br />I think Leftism might be considered a universal mind-parasite, a floating meme that gets its traction by way of glamorization - it's a shimmering illusion that promises a salvation that's always "one shot away", but that never materializes, never. It's literally a trance-inducing *spell* that corrupts genuine divine imagination into shabby fantasy. (which is what spells do)<br /><br />Leftism glamorizes completely. It's a party-atmosphere with bubbles. It provides "meaning" to lives that are without such. It's "fun" in the syrupy way that crying jags and benders are fun. It provides excitement - it's always a hoot to think of yourself as fighting against the Man. It's righteousness on the cheap, which is to say, it's not righteousness at all, but a satanic lie.willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85328047394312640332009-07-31T11:09:06.636-07:002009-07-31T11:09:06.636-07:00gulpinpotty said..."Why Isn’t the Whole Left ...gulpinpotty said..."Why Isn’t the Whole Left Neoconservative? Because neoconservatism has revealed itself as a sick joke over the last eight years."<br /><br />And... if so, all the more mystery, why aren't you lefties all Neocons?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9324016428422831642009-07-31T10:59:56.870-07:002009-07-31T10:59:56.870-07:00More alternate reality from the left. Trees shoul...More alternate reality from the left. <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51756" rel="nofollow">Trees should have legal standing to sue.</a> As per Obama's "science" "czar."Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83607902169658948052009-07-31T10:52:01.054-07:002009-07-31T10:52:01.054-07:00Reality denial… How much progressive taxation wil...<a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/24944.html" rel="nofollow">Reality denial…</a> How much progressive taxation will be deemed enough by radical leftists? "To put this in perspective, the top 1 percent is comprised of just 1.4 million taxpayers and they pay a larger share of the income tax burden now than the bottom 134 million taxpayers combined.<br /><br />Some in Washington say the tax system is still not progressive enough. However, the recent IRS data bolsters the findings of an OECD study released last year showing that the U.S.—not France or Sweden—has the most progressive income tax system among OECD nations. We rely more heavily on the top 10 percent of taxpayers than does any nation and our poor people have the lowest tax burden of those in any nation.<br /><br />We are definitely overdue for some honesty in the debate over the progressivity of the nation's tax burden before lawmakers enact any new taxes to pay for expanded health care."Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76405218973177888452009-07-31T09:41:51.350-07:002009-07-31T09:41:51.350-07:00This I see TRANSFORMED man, wished to be very in t...This I see TRANSFORMED man, wished to be very in type, from which it keeps with me. They are not safe, because this one may not know the God existence. All these to lose in its Web page. Traditional capitalism always has, always had social factor the video that has way of the demands there that are the United States, my spheres of the steam one. I wait for the luminous task, not those, which of a little erroneous, because I do not do. AbdulAbdulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28900565669830095992009-07-31T09:32:23.903-07:002009-07-31T09:32:23.903-07:00Why Isn’t the Whole Left Neoconservative? Becaus...Why Isn’t the Whole Left Neoconservative? Because neoconservatism has revealed itself as a sick joke over the last eight years. <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/07/31/bill_betsy/" rel="nofollow">Here's merely the latest example</a> of its leading intellectual spokesman spouting complete self-contradictory nonsense. Oh but wait, you think Jonah Goldberg is a genius. Never mind.goddinpottynoreply@blogger.com