tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1898315759386820054..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Whiteheads, Blockheads, and Rising Up Out of the Old GrooveyardGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42700325788186231952009-05-07T09:26:00.000-07:002009-05-07T09:26:00.000-07:00I kind of figured they were self-appointed. If the...I kind of figured they were self-appointed. If they were Episcopal, I'd be more likely to believe they were legit. But indeed, the whole parade and puppet thing is very inverted.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71125829618605877392009-05-07T08:52:00.000-07:002009-05-07T08:52:00.000-07:00The "Catholic Pastoral Committee on Sexual Minorit...The "Catholic Pastoral Committee on Sexual Minorities" is a completely self-appointed group. The name they chose is obviously intended to mislead some into thinking they are a an official branch of the archdiocese (a facade which the local papers are more than willing to accommodate).<br /><br />The puppets represent a spiritual sickness to me. As inverted man is looking up (↓) he must work relentlessly to convince himself that he is looking into the light rather than the darkness or else face the grim reality of his predicament.Brazentidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14185966349888770222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69060169808600851792009-05-07T08:06:00.000-07:002009-05-07T08:06:00.000-07:00Brazen, there's a "Catholic Pastoral Committee on ...Brazen, there's a "Catholic Pastoral Committee on Sexual Minorities"? Huh.<br /><br />The parade was surprisingly tame this year.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90059442928760241402009-05-07T07:22:00.000-07:002009-05-07T07:22:00.000-07:00OT
A friend sent me This. I felt I needed to "sha...OT<br /><br />A friend sent me <A HREF="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/05/celebrating-our-common-treasury.html" REL="nofollow">This</A>. I felt I needed to "share" it.<br /><br />Please forgive me.Brazentidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14185966349888770222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28123716487249930312009-05-07T05:52:00.000-07:002009-05-07T05:52:00.000-07:00While millions die, decade after decade, from mala...While millions die, decade after decade, from malaria in the third world we are still kicking-around possible alternatives to DDT. Millions dying is certainly an alternative that has been selected. Certainly that should be placed back on the table.<br /><br />Why didn’t we just pull-out of Japan? Where were the time tables? Endless war.<br /><br />Where are all the anti-war protests now, by the way? Those demands for time tables? The billions spent every month over there while the war on poverty still wages on over here?<br /><br />Truman did what he was hired to do; what millions hire American Presidents to do generation upon generation when new citizens are born into this great nation of freedom. At 18 they can leave if they don’t like the contract – that is also in the contract, unlike some countries.<br /><br />Truman simply followed through on his oath. It’s all in the Preamble. “Provide for the common defense” does not mean “your common everyday defense”, or a “proportioned response”. Those may be appropriate in endless games (unless you want to win) or comment windows – but even then, only up to a point. By “common” it means protect us all. “<I>Secure</I> the blessings of [our] liberty”. Slavery was on the way. It was Truman’s job and we hired him to do it. And not just those Americans back then hired him. All future generations he could never know, except to know that they deserved the right as much as he did, since the Founders hadn’t sat around waiting for Independence to sprout out of the ground. They recognized the right to freedom always existed, and they acted. And they were right, so says the millions upon millions to be born here in freedom and around the world after Truman’s act, after the Founder’s act.<br /><br />Speaking of posterity, Prez Wimpy on the other hand, through the release of the so-called torture memos, has removed a tool in the peoples’ arsenal. A tool <B>permanently</B> denied of all future American presidents. And all future America citizens have been denied their right to be defended under any similar circumstances, which will come, in this permanent, post 9/11/01 world.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14899955448322527662009-05-07T04:22:00.000-07:002009-05-07T04:22:00.000-07:00This would seem to be the source of Anonymous' quo...This would seem to be the source of Anonymous' quotations in his 5/06/2009 10:54:00 AM comment:<br /><br />http://www.doug-long.com/quotes.htmMike O'Malleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03786963522098086259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40428435303743921962009-05-07T04:09:00.000-07:002009-05-07T04:09:00.000-07:00Thanks Ximese
and hello Van.
@ 5/06/2009 01:22:0...Thanks Ximese<br /><br />and hello Van.<br /><br />@ 5/06/2009 01:22:00 PM Anonymous said: <I>I also don't always agree with Eisenhower, but I think he was sufficiently aware of and burned by the military-industrial complex to warn of its power. It is this power that current conservatives refuse to recognize. Criticizing its machinations has become synonymous with treason, a mindset brought about by careful propaganda.</I>Anonymous' point above undoubtedly relies on one such standard misquotation of Pres. Eisenhower's farewell speech to the nation on January 17, 1961. Here is an example of the use the Left puts this speech to:<br /><br /><br />Here is the speech itself in full http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu<br />/~hst306/documents/indust.html<br /><br />Notice what portions of this speech that the Left always seems to leave on cutting room floor:<br /><br /><br /><br /><I> A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.<br /><br />Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.<br /><br />Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.<br /><br />This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.</I> the standard quotation misused by the anti-American Left was spoken here (see here http://sourcewatch.org/<br />index.php?title=Military<br />-industrial_complex ) , to be followed by <I> Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.<br /><br />In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.<br /><br />Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.<br /><br />The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present<br /><br /> * and is gravely to be regarded. <br /><br />Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.</I>.<br /><br />We can see that not only was President Eisenhower telling us that our military establishment was “A vital element in keeping the peace”, he warned us about the corrupting influence on American research and scholarship of expanding Federal spending. He also warned us an “ equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite” which if updated to include Post-Modernist Left-wing academia would be well past time to heed.<br /><br />.<br /><br />.<br /><br />Ximese, Van and all, should we not call upon Anonymous to revisit and RETRACT his comment of 5/06/2009 01:22:00 PM? It would seem to be worthy and healthy effort for Anonymous to visit the links I have provided above, and then to observe and to acknowledge how he has mislead us about Pres. Eisenhower.Mike O'Malleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03786963522098086259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59658778179369990242009-05-06T23:10:00.000-07:002009-05-06T23:10:00.000-07:00Mike,
My Japanese former Mother-in-law confirmed t...Mike,<br />My Japanese former Mother-in-law confirmed that starvation scenario, even tho they had land for growing stuff. Kempeitai would come & take everything, refugees & passers-by stripped what was left. No fit men to protect anybody or anything, so the kids would walk further out into the country, often for hours, to see if they could steal a potato or two from somebody else. Get caught, get beaten, & hopefully not to death.<br /><br />That was for the 12 of them. So Eldest Son joined Kamikaze-training 'cause they sorta-got-fed, he'd not be taking food from his family & sometimes could actually bring them some. Conditions were hideous & getting more violent by the day as people tried to survive. 'Occupation saved our butts' is what they said to me repeatedly about those years.ximezenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79988224906614762552009-05-06T21:47:00.000-07:002009-05-06T21:47:00.000-07:00Well, you know, more people died in the fire bombi...Well, you know, more people died in the fire bombing of Tokyo, than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People miles out of town suffocated as air rushed in to feed the firestorm.<br /><br />I guess firebombing would have been an alternative. A waste of gas, men and material, but an option.<br /><br />People that think Nukes are so awful forget, or were not alive for the HUNDREDS of above ground tests that occurred, that did not kill the planet, cause nuclear winter, etc. etc.<br /><br />-LukeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13005681852584958362009-05-06T20:57:00.000-07:002009-05-06T20:57:00.000-07:00Van, I think this word describes it, or near enoug...Van, I think <A HREF="http://mkfreeberg.webloggin.com/i-made-a-new-word-xxvi/" REL="nofollow">this word</A> describes it, or near enough anyway.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22026445803012324602009-05-06T20:39:00.000-07:002009-05-06T20:39:00.000-07:00ximeze @ 3:41
Hello ximeze!
I don't have a link ...ximeze @ 3:41<br /><br />Hello ximeze!<br /><br />I don't have a link handy but I recall that Japan was on the verge of mass starvation in the fall of 1945. It wasn't until after the second bomb that a decision was made to surrender. The Japanese War Party had been determined to hold out to the end and had commandeered much of the harvest and food supply for military use. The Japanese merchant fleet sat at the bottom of the Pacific and East China Sea and the Sea of Japan. But because of the Atomic bombing, the US occupation force began to arrive in Japan weeks after the surrender and within two or three weeks latter the US occupation authorities realized the condition of food supplies in the Home Islands. The US immediately began to rush in massive shipments of food and just barely averted famine. If US occupation had been delay until November or December 1945 approximately one quarter (25%) of the Japanese civilian population would have starved to death by the summer of 1946 or so.<br /><br />It seems that the Left is replaying Stalinist aggi-prop, talking points used by CPUSA to demonize Pres. Truman much the same way and the Sorosian-DNC Left demonized Pres. Bush. The KGB was using CPUSA to buy Stalin enough time to develop atomic WMDs.<br /><br />BTW: from my experience as a former Leftie I'd recommend that someone insist that Anon provide his sources for that quote from Pres. Eisenhower. From my experience it is funny how too often similar standard quotations of Eisenhower convey a very different meaning when read in full and in historical context.<br /><br />BTW: I seem to recall that neither Macarthur or Eisenhower were brief about the atomic bombings before they occurred. I could be wrong on that point, but that would mean that Eisenhower's view were based upon more limited information than provided to Pres. Truman at the time and that Eisenhower's views might have been strongly colored by hindsight.Mike O'Malleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03786963522098086259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41850836069660636132009-05-06T20:38:00.000-07:002009-05-06T20:38:00.000-07:00So Biden says to Obi, "I'll gladly pay you in 2036...So Biden says to Obi, "I'll gladly pay you in 2036 for a hamburger today."Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63558873136550847912009-05-06T20:25:00.000-07:002009-05-06T20:25:00.000-07:00Obama and Biden eat at place called "Hell Burgers"...Obama and Biden eat at place called "Hell Burgers" today, and you guys can't manage to make a cheap crack about it? Standards are slipping.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37136252434049560742009-05-06T20:10:00.000-07:002009-05-06T20:10:00.000-07:00anonoffendingmouse said “No offense, but I don'...anonoffendingmouse said “No offense, but I don't hold an opinion on the subject, actually”<br /><br />Ah. So you’re indifferent to the issue… except to try to stir people up with… hmm... somehow that seems worse.<br /><br />“I like to look at the assumptions of an argument, see if they are weak or strong, and go from there.”<br /><br />And then… just testing for no purpose? Not bothering to drive on towards a resolution? Just round and round the dithering-bush… pomofo-ishly?<br /><br />Yech.<br /><br />“My grandfather fought in Japan in World War II, so I have that point of view down perfectly, and I deeply respect it. He never fails to break into tears when he is begged to recount his experience.”<br /><br />Ok. My Aunt & Uncle (great A & U) were prisoners at <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjWZu2JMNhw" REL="nofollow"> Santo-Tomas </A> from the fall of the Philippines, to its liberation – barely escaped a last minute execution before being liberated (incidentally, they later moved to Japan & lived there for several years, loved the people, loved the place), Ed, at 6’3 was 95 lbs… but as relates to the issue (‘argument’ seems the wrong term for someone who just likes to test assumptions for no purpose)… so what? What relevance in mentioning that, if it has no affect upon your reasoning? Just to prove that you can have deep respect for those who had first hand knowledge… and not be moved by it? Is that a good thing? ‘My grandfather breaks into tears, but ain’t no skin off my nose’…!<br /><br />Sorry folks, I know it’s a bit of troll kibbles, but difficult to let this go… anonoffendingmouse apparently feels that ‘testing’ an issue, with no intention to resolve the issue… is somehow a virtue. I think it is a deplorable vice. Note, I’m not saying that you always will arrive at a satisfactory conclusion, or that you should push for one that doesn’t have sufficient grounds for a conclusion, or that you should fake a position when you honestly can’t decide – there are many issues that may never be resolved – but it isn’t a goal. There are very legitimate issues that people come to entirely different, principled, conclusions over, people can agree on principles and yet adamantly disagree on their implementation – look no further than Hamilton and Madison for a very relevant example for Americans – but to just look at assumptions, testing, probing, not resolving, not attempting to resolve, just to bait people for the fun of testing, oh look, I’ve got traumatized relatives on this issue, but, no offense, I’ve no opinion …”… anonoffendingmouse, please feel free to take as much offense from this as you feel you need to, please, but personally, I think it is sick.<br /><br />Seriously.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23719155099278480572009-05-06T18:34:00.000-07:002009-05-06T18:34:00.000-07:00“And what is the necessary cosmic environment for ...“And what is the necessary cosmic environment for a true thought?”<br /><br />Intimate experience; love.<br /><br />(Second guess: freedom)Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5057226116817384322009-05-06T17:38:00.000-07:002009-05-06T17:38:00.000-07:00NB:
Nonlocality has absolutely been proven. See ...NB:<br /><br />Nonlocality has absolutely been proven. See pp. 52-53.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34090444611844537022009-05-06T17:12:00.000-07:002009-05-06T17:12:00.000-07:00(I meant, I did read stupid gods article; dang, yo...(I meant, I did read stupid gods article; dang, you guys are fast)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43073053949544764332009-05-06T17:11:00.000-07:002009-05-06T17:11:00.000-07:00Yep, I did. Great way to start the day :)
In othe...Yep, I did. Great way to start the day :)<br /><br />In other news, if <A HREF="http://gawker.com/5242778/" REL="nofollow">this</A> is <A HREF="http://www.collegenews.com/index.php?/article/oprah_kfc_coupons_cause_riots_possible_racial_violence_0506200433/" REL="nofollow">true</A>, it's schadenfreudically delicious. Granted, there are only a couple of sources and I don't know if they're for real, but the coupons are apparently legit.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31240477836178519382009-05-06T17:10:00.000-07:002009-05-06T17:10:00.000-07:00"Please get over your infatuation with nicknames."..."Please get over your infatuation with nicknames."<br /><br /><B>No.</B> <br /><br /><br />Haha hahaha Heh <br /><br />ximeze hearts Vanximezenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23119293651124352392009-05-06T17:09:00.000-07:002009-05-06T17:09:00.000-07:00From Julie's Spengler post:
The “Good God/Bad God...From Julie's Spengler post:<br /><br /><I>The “Good God/Bad God” apposition that naïve writers posit between Old and New Testaments is not only wrong, but it is drooling idiocy. God’s love is what is terrifying, for it consumes the individual ego and annihilates the human sense of self. If you don’t believe the Rav, go read St. Teresa of Avila.<br /></I><I>To approach the sacred is dangerous. </I>Northern Banditnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89108579997281842132009-05-06T16:56:00.000-07:002009-05-06T16:56:00.000-07:00Julie,
Cooncur. Early on there was more than a whi...Julie,<br />Cooncur. Early on there was more than a whiff of 'spiritual people believe <I>this</I> way' etc. <br /><br />****************************<br /><br />Thanks for those Spengler links this morning. Did you by chance follow the linkydink in the body of the first one to read <A HREF="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KC31Ak02.html" REL="nofollow">The gods are stupid</A> , written 3/31/09 for his old site? <br />It's a gem.ximezenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86466535911280063912009-05-06T16:50:00.000-07:002009-05-06T16:50:00.000-07:00Also noted from the same article above, that boffi...Also noted from the same article above, that boffins (as the Brits call them) from Osaka U. have confirmed Hardy's paradox.<br /><br />The beautiful thing? All of this serves as a resounding "hard" confirmation of coon theory.Northern Banditnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1904692785501538042009-05-06T16:46:00.000-07:002009-05-06T16:46:00.000-07:00I hadn't known that non-locality has been experime...I hadn't known that non-locality has been <A HREF="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124147752556985009.html" REL="nofollow">experimentally proven</A> -- but then I'm hardly an expert. Noted that Sci-Am gives a cursory nod to a possible "spiritual dimension". <br /><br />Hey, it beats the usual global warming pabulum they serve up most of the time.Northern Banditnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25837672403105456432009-05-06T16:37:00.000-07:002009-05-06T16:37:00.000-07:00Julie,
Thanks for sharing that link to Mushroom's ...Julie,<br />Thanks for sharing that link to Mushroom's post!Cassandranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53047759072846793232009-05-06T16:04:00.000-07:002009-05-06T16:04:00.000-07:00Ximeze, I don't think anony was actually even star...Ximeze, I don't think anony was actually even starting from that assumption. Going by its comments of the past few days (and over time in general), it has a warped idea that by "testing" our "assumptions" it will actually prod us, somehow, into being better and more spiritual people (according to its own definition of what a spiritual person actually is). It actually, laughably, believes itself to be beneficial.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com