tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post6649999349712215432..comments2023-10-30T06:31:05.501-07:00Comments on MilPub: The Red FlagFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-8643055262862538792011-08-10T15:25:37.165-07:002011-08-10T15:25:37.165-07:00One little difference between the U.S. and Europea...One little difference between the U.S. and European nations: we have guns. Boy, do we have guns. <br /><br />If the genie is let out of the bottle in this country, not all of the cops in world will be able to stop it. I thought all of us knew that. I especially thought the moneyed classes knew it. But I guess Marx was right after all. The capitalist will indeed sell the rope.<br /><br />Fundamental precept: noblesse oblige stems from self-interest. Not from charitable instincts, but from self-interest.Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06189226852559033120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-80685428970589663472011-08-09T12:17:00.603-07:002011-08-09T12:17:00.603-07:00Here is where I'm with Andy; both "partie...Here is where I'm with Andy; both "parties" are complicit in this. On fiscal issues they have both been captured by the financial sector, and will not do anything that their masters don't want.<br /><br />Most the the Wall Street/Chamber of Commerce types have no idea what is brewing in the projects. Their response will just be to send the coppers to break heads, much as the Parisian aristocracy just assumed that the Army and a whiff of grapeshot would be just fine for settling these little differences and the Russian nobility figured that their loyal peasant would continue to fight for them...up to the minute the doors to the mansion were kicked open and the butchery started.<br /><br />I don't think we're looking at a 1917 or a 1789 anytime soon. But strange political events have started from less than these riots, and once the genie of rebellion is out of the bottle it can be very hard to stuff it back in. I'd rather figure out a way to put this country back to work...FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-84579203812035925312011-08-09T07:31:50.423-07:002011-08-09T07:31:50.423-07:00Prescient post. Thanks for this.Prescient post. Thanks for this.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05571330841840150164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-34071513369095055642011-08-09T05:25:09.819-07:002011-08-09T05:25:09.819-07:00http://tinyurl.com/3ul4w4n
A bit of sanity sprout...http://tinyurl.com/3ul4w4n<br /><br />A bit of sanity sprouts.<br /><br />bbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-50705123684210469502011-08-09T04:33:08.192-07:002011-08-09T04:33:08.192-07:00Sheerakhan: "The amusing thing about all this...Sheerakhan: "The amusing thing about all this here in the states is that the Republican party is only now beginning to realize the cost of the Tea Party's involvement with them, and that crazy train has left the station with them on it."<br /><br />I've said for some time that the Democratic Party no longer really exists:<br />- It does not groom members for higher office and promote from within<br />- It does not privately build consensus within the party before announcing policies<br />- It's internal party discipline during key votes is insufficient<br />- It does not discipline unruly members after votes<br />- All it does is to serve as a platform for ambitious non-Republicans (Clinton and Obama) and provide a target for the opposition.<br /><br />The Republicans have fallen into the same situation, destroyed from within by the ambitions of the Tea Party.<br /><br />I was shocked when I realized that the Tea Party had gone rogue in 2008 and developed its own agenda. I was even more shocked when it became apparent that the Tea Party's first target was the Republican Party, not the Democrats. And I'm totally shocked that it has succeeded in destroying the Republicans in three years.<br /><br />We're now down to the various shades of Tea Party for surviving political parties. Will they destroy the last remnants of the Democrats or will the various factions of the Tea Party turn on each other?<br /><br />My best guess is that it will turn on itself but I've been wrong about this movement before.Plutohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04036751798841079048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-38276342644751553772011-08-08T21:44:56.159-07:002011-08-08T21:44:56.159-07:00Hey, at least riot police will have steady employm...Hey, at least riot police will have steady employment.Aelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788190394672505925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-82348673152325965062011-08-08T19:43:13.445-07:002011-08-08T19:43:13.445-07:00The amusing thing about all this here in the state...The amusing thing about all this here in the states is that the Republican party is only now beginning to realize the cost of the Tea Party's involvement with them, and that crazy train has left the station with them on it.<br /><br />Reminds me of the Metallica song, "King of nothing" where it says, "be careful of what you wish for, you might just get it/and might regret it."<br /><br />I think about all those wonderful dolts in the front ranks of the Tea Party legion, lining shields up, ready to face Hannibal's forces, and not even realizing that Rome has closed it's gates behind them.<br /><br />All those old people down in the south screaming and yelling, "Government out of my Medicare!" are going to get their wish.sheerahkahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16694622087244891222noreply@blogger.com