tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post3866202677754345467..comments2023-10-30T06:31:05.501-07:00Comments on MilPub: He That is Without Sin Among You, Let HimFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-14733525475457335142016-10-19T22:08:47.870-07:002016-10-19T22:08:47.870-07:00Fasteddiez -
Good to hear from you. No offense t...Fasteddiez -<br /><br />Good to hear from you. No offense taken, always good to hear your kibitzing. What have you been doing lately?<br /><br />BTW i've also seen bupkus, bubkis, and bubkes. But it's all 'merde de chevre' isn't it? Or maybe I mixed that one up too?mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-48590021666752786072016-10-19T20:34:49.987-07:002016-10-19T20:34:49.987-07:00I have read Taibbi do much better. In fact, when h...I have read Taibbi do much better. In fact, when he shamed the press a while back, he was at his finest and most honest.<br /><br />I can only wonder what prompts such a magniloquent piece as this.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-29528086077837496732016-10-19T20:30:54.242-07:002016-10-19T20:30:54.242-07:00oops ... p.s. to Chief:
Please know that, tho'...oops ... p.s. to Chief:<br /><br />Please know that, tho' it's not a chuckle I get, I am truly amazed by this spectacle before us. I did not take an interest in this election until reading a few months of the vitriol against the Republican nominee-who-could-not-be (and yet who was.)<br /><br />Trump never was a GOP creation [many still disown him!], and that is a major fact which we are missing. The GOP (and everyone) got this SO wrong.<br /><br />Out of their stable of 16, they thought at least one would capture the imagination, but since none of these men HAD an imagination, they fell flat. All parroted one platform or another, all losers. They were ALL sops, and the voters got THAT.<br /><br />It seems that the majority of Trump voters were not these crazed Tea Party, pro-life, birthers. Trump is not that. He's pretty middle-of-the-road for a Republican, ISTM. Moreover, Mrs. Clinton seems pretty hawkish, and to the Right of the Left spectrum, IMHO.<br /><br />So that makes this no easy choice.<br /><br />I have a few more posts in me trying to deconstruct the thing. Hopefully before Hallowe'en.<br /><br />Like I have said before, media and semiotics are my thing :).Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-33078080636306712492016-10-19T20:17:35.718-07:002016-10-19T20:17:35.718-07:00Of course, per Mrs. Roosevelt, I was keeping the r...Of course, per Mrs. Roosevelt, I was keeping the reference to her husband, alone. Yes, both were consensual, and yet their lifestyles (which the press largely kept hidden) did not accord with the prevailing moralities, no?<br /><br />That is all I am saying. I find it interesting that a man is called a bounder or worse for such behavior, and yet the latest book speaks respectfully of Eleanor's affair.<br /><br />We seem to have different standards for men and women, do you agree?Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-67277834464321480222016-10-19T20:14:37.857-07:002016-10-19T20:14:37.857-07:00mike,
Thank you for the kind words.
Like I say,...mike,<br /><br />Thank you for the kind words. <br /><br />Like I say, I write on the spectacle, and not the content of the player's positions. Everyone must vote for himself.<br /><br /><br />Chief: <br /><br />I know this is a military blog, but I think we may discuss politics as the connection to the next Commander in Chief is inexorable.<br /><br />I will have more, because I feel we must try and understand the tragedy unfolding in real time.<br /><br />This is most singular election in our lifetimes, for certain. With the addition of the new media platforms, perhaps any.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-12555413146710981032016-10-19T20:07:20.205-07:002016-10-19T20:07:20.205-07:00Hey Fasteddiez,
Good ta see yaz. True dat, but my...Hey Fasteddiez,<br /><br />Good ta see yaz. True dat, but my OED allows the phonetic "cahones".<br /><br />Chork it up to the bad influence of social media, and the rapidity with which errors are repeated.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-6096721822055866692016-10-19T20:04:51.666-07:002016-10-19T20:04:51.666-07:00PF Khans,
I am speechless before the spectacle. T...PF Khans,<br /><br />I am speechless before the spectacle. Truly, "incredibly unhelpful" does not do it justice.<br /><br />What we are seeing is so far beyond the average hatchet job -- the visceral hatred so deep -- that I can only wonder what is behind it all.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-19362417434515380762016-10-19T13:35:46.054-07:002016-10-19T13:35:46.054-07:00Oh, as an aside it's cojones, the J is pronoun...Oh, as an aside it's cojones, the J is pronounced as H, and the H is silent (why have it at all (ask a messkin)....on the other hand, don't. Oh Mike, it's Bupkis. No weisenheimer intent proffered. Fasteddiezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10431990022248470187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-72373245056148273462016-10-18T19:41:09.863-07:002016-10-18T19:41:09.863-07:00This is such a bizarre election, I cannot believe ...This is such a bizarre election, I cannot believe the speed, fury, and incredible brevity of every 'shocking' scandal. The media is being exposed quite severely as being incredibly unhelpful in this election season.<br />PF Khansnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-14641345074358850712016-10-17T16:16:25.416-07:002016-10-17T16:16:25.416-07:00But before I go, I'm gonna leave you with this...But before I go, I'm gonna leave you with this, just because unlike your frankly bizarre screed Matt Taibbi has crafted a little gem pointing out the REAL story you should be on top of AND furious about...<br /><br />http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-fury-and-failure-of-donald-trump-w444943<br /><br />Here's the nut grafs:<br /><br /><i>"Trump from the start had been playing a part, but his acting got worse and worse as time went on, until finally he couldn’t keep track: Was he supposed to be a genuine traitor to his class and the savior of the common man, or just be himself, i.e., a bellicose pervert with too much time on his hands? Or were the two things the same thing? He was too dumb to figure it out, and that paralysis played itself out on the Super Bowl of political stages. It was great television. It was also the worst thing that ever happened to our electoral system.<br /><br />Trump’s shocking rise and spectacular fall have been a singular disaster for U.S. politics. Built up in the press as the American Hitler, he was unmasked in the end as a pathetic little prankster who ruined himself, his family and half of America’s two-party political system for what was probably a half-assed ego trip all along, adventure tourism for the idiot rich.<br /><br />That such a small man would have such an awesome impact on our nation’s history is terrible, but it makes sense if you believe in the essential ridiculousness of the human experience. Trump picked exactly the wrong time to launch his mirror-gazing rampage to nowhere. He ran at a time when Americans on both sides of the aisle were experiencing a deep sense of betrayal by the political class, anger that was finally ready to express itself at the ballot box.<br /><br />The only thing that could get in the way of real change – if not now, then surely very soon – was a rebellion so maladroit, ill-conceived and irresponsible that even the severest critics of the system would become zealots for the status quo.<br /><br />In the absolute best-case scenario, the one in which he loses, this is what Trump’s run accomplished. He ran as an outsider antidote to a corrupt two-party system, and instead will leave that system more entrenched than ever. If he goes on to lose, he will be our Bonaparte, the monster who will continue to terrify us even in exile, reinforcing the authority of kings.<br /><br />If you thought lesser-evilism was bad before, wait until the answer to every question you might have about your political leaders becomes, “Would you rather have Trump in office?”<br /><br />Trump can’t win. Our national experiment can’t end because one aging narcissist got bored of sex and food. Not even America deserves that. But that doesn’t mean we come out ahead. We’re more divided than ever, sicker than ever, dumber than ever. And there’s no reason to think it won’t be worse the next time."</i><br /><br />Yep. Oh, so very WASF yep.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-55111876180605012252016-10-17T16:07:31.355-07:002016-10-17T16:07:31.355-07:00Oh for God's sake, Lisa...
"Why is it th...Oh for God's sake, Lisa...<br /><br /><i>"Why is it that a man's affair, once revealed, become licentious, but a woman's lesbian affair is accepted de facto."</i><br /><br />Affair? Seriously? You really wanna die on that hill, that this is about Drumpf's "affair"?<br /><br />If you cannot grasp the concept of "consent" than I cannot explain it to you.<br /><br />I'm sorry, but these posts of yours are getting frankly ridiculous. I'm going to stop reading and commenting because they just get my blood pressure up and my spirits down. <br /><br />And to think that of all the people that I thought would get a cynical chuckle about the GOP's creation and then loss of control of The Creature it was you...FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-3591876415119134192016-10-17T12:52:46.810-07:002016-10-17T12:52:46.810-07:00Lisa -
Ranger Jim is a lucky man to have a strong...Lisa -<br /><br />Ranger Jim is a lucky man to have a strong, outspoken woman like you as a companion in life. <br /><br />And the Trump campaign is lucky to have you too. I am not understanding why you are such a fan of a pathological liar like Trump. But as Jim might say: <i>'Sua Sponte'</i>.<br /><br />BTW regarding my so-called Dumpster slander - the man is a piece of trash. Let him sue me. And you, Lisa, did not say Mrs Old Crone, nor Mrs Witch, nor Mrs Revels-in-Swampland.<br /><br />Sorry if I missed your analogy re "I am", as I have always been a little slow. But it sure sounded to me like you were favorably comparing him to "the Big Macher in the Sky" and "Rib-Eye Steak". My own opinion and that of the great majority of our fellow Americans is that he ain't worth bubkes.<br /><br />Trump is not Hitler. But like Hitler he thinks he knows more than the generals and has said he will institute torture. You are right that he will never be allowed to deport Catholics and Jews. But I think he should stop with the anti-Pope tweets and the comments on a"cabal of international bankers".<br /><br />The press's attacks on Mrs Clinton have been going on for a quarter century and are still going on. Are you buying into right wing cock and bull stories? (spelling for press's???? I was never good at apostrophic usage. Maybe should have just said "press attacks", you think?)mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-48237033340679502872016-10-16T13:54:01.828-07:002016-10-16T13:54:01.828-07:00See, mike, that's the thing: you're too po...See, mike, that's the thing: you're too polite, and keep your naughty boy thoughts inside. OTOH, I say what I think and see. (Mum always said I wear it on my sleeve, which is not always to my benefit.)<br /><br />I had to think for a mo' when you said, "Dumpster". I think that is a slander of the candidate? I do not do that, and instead call them "Mr." or "Mrs.".<br /><br />I did not say he was a "macher", but I made an analogy to the declarative "I am".<br /><br />There is no evidence that Trump wants to deport Catholics and Jews; you are buying into the Hitler canard. He has never made a call to assassination.<br /><br />I am not privy to the press you speak of which makes Mrs. Clinton into a monster. Far as I can see, she is their choice and presumed heir-apparent.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-69489694082532038492016-10-16T09:50:56.862-07:002016-10-16T09:50:56.862-07:00Dear Lisa –
I am not without sin. During my teen...Dear Lisa –<br /><br />I am not without sin. During my teens and twenties my only thoughts about the human race were about what was under the skirts of the female half. And even now at 73 and happily married I still look at the field and one day last week I found myself unconsciously eye-humping a stranger until I recollected my manners and started staring at my feet and the ceiling.<br /><br />But I have never called you or any other woman a harpie, shrew, vixen or wench. And neither have I called any woman an old crone, or witch, or swamp dweller :-)<br /><br />My main beef with the Dumpster came long before the reports of his habit of groping. My beef is with his shady business practices, his cheating of partners, creditors, small businesses and contractors, and taxpayers. The man is not a ‘macher’. He is a scam artist, a promoter of smoke and mirrors, a pathological liar. I also dislike his slander of veterans and of Americans like my smallest great grandson surnamed Garcia, whose paternal ancestors were Californios a couple of centuries before the Trump (or Drumpf) grandfather immigrated from Germany. Mark my words, Trump will next be deporting Catholics and Jews. He has already been in a twitter flame war with Pope Francis, and has made anti-semitic inferences to cabals of international bankers.<br /><br />I agree Hillary is not perfect. She is not the monster that the media tries to make her out to be. She will be a good president, possibly a great one if the Congress changes hands. I for one will be glad when the election is over. But the slime attacks won;t stop even then. Let us hope Trump's encouragement of rebellion and assassination are not heeded.<br />mikenoreply@blogger.com