tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5877258589688504583..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: You Say You Want a Revolution? I Prefer a Line.Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22849528372980688122014-02-11T12:19:20.488-08:002014-02-11T12:19:20.488-08:00Dan is right, lefties are hoes.Dan is right, lefties are hoes.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11574847752349988682014-02-11T12:18:33.663-08:002014-02-11T12:18:33.663-08:00Speaking of revolution Dan Greenfield wrote this y...Speaking of revolution Dan Greenfield wrote this yesterday:<br />"The left cannot escape its own materialism. Its attempts at adding an ethical dimension to materialism fail because its ethical dimension is still materialistic. Its pathetic efforts at injecting pastiches of Third World and minority spirituality into its politics to provide the illusion of a spiritual dimension are hollow and racist. The left cannot fill its own hole, because it is the hole.<br /><br />Like Islam, it provides something for people to believe in, but the thing it provides is the compulsion to find meaning by forcibly remaking other people's lives in a perpetual revolution which becomes its own purpose."<br /><br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83055120039826269312014-02-11T09:33:03.549-08:002014-02-11T09:33:03.549-08:00I reckon you could say our Founding Fathers hit a ...I reckon you could say our Founding Fathers hit a line drive to center field of dreams.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12162985089468101162014-02-11T09:31:02.888-08:002014-02-11T09:31:02.888-08:00For Obama it's a MEvolution. Cuz it's all ...For Obama it's a MEvolution. Cuz it's all about him donchaknow.<br />"Constitutional scholar" my ass. More like Constitutional Pallor.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53655055602940472452014-02-11T09:27:41.121-08:002014-02-11T09:27:41.121-08:00In point of fact -- and we have discussed this in ...In point of fact -- and we have discussed this in the past -- our war of independence was the opposite of a revolution. For what is a revolution? Well, for starters, it is a circle, as in how our earth revolves around the sun. You might say that political revolutions pretend to take place at 180˚ but necessarily come 360˚ and thus back to 0˚."<br /><br />The American Resolution would make more sense. Plus it's not so revolting and unoriginal like revolutions are.<br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38744925854720192082014-02-11T09:11:36.546-08:002014-02-11T09:11:36.546-08:00And yet, virtually every revolution since then fol...<i>And yet, virtually every revolution since then follows the French and not American model. </i><br /><br />That reminds me, has anyone else noticed that in a pack of "Forever" stamps, at least in the past couple of years, each stamp comes with one of four proclamations: "Freedom," "Liberty," "Justice," "Equality."<br /><br />One of these is not like the others. When I noticed, I did a double-take to make sure someone hadn't thrown "Fraternity" in there with the assumption that nobody would notice.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59300136892704983612014-02-11T09:08:28.018-08:002014-02-11T09:08:28.018-08:00Progressivism -- going no where really, really fas...Progressivism -- going no where really, really fast. <br /><br />Speaking of the power of Jewish revelation reminds me of the cycle that is depicted in Judges. They keep going from deliverance back to bondage. Somewhere in a book I have a better graphic than <a href="http://jesusplusnothing.com/studies/images/cycle.gif" rel="nofollow">this, but it's the same idea.</a><br /><br />I'm also reminded of the scene in <i>True Grit</i> where Mattie tells Ned Pepper she knows a good lawyer. He replies, "I need a good judge."mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com