from: http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/09/24/opinion/24wed1.html?s=2&pg=3
September 24th, 2008 10:48 am
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor." - Thomas Jefferson
Today in the Washington Post George Will observed "The essence of this crisis is lack of knowledge, including the inability to know who owes what to whom, and where risk resides." Of course this is the same pundit who once observed: "The future has a way of arriving unannounced." Well, the future is here. The American economy is in tatters. Congressional oversight, always a dream, is soon to be a nightmare. And the 'free market' is but a corrupt joke.
The brand of political and economic freedom prized so dearly by the likes of G. Will and W. Kristol has failed. Its potential sold short. Sold on the cheap. Sold on the backs of the American public.
George Will once opined: "Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses." Now with capitalist excess rotting the foundation of the once "shining house on a hill" its time he recanted.
The incestuous relationship long championed by the right wing mouth pieces turns out to have been built on nothing but a sick symbiotic relationship between the goals of power and greed. The perverse troika of amoral politician, complicit regulator, and abetting banker has borne America a bazturd child. One that threatens all the pillars of American Democracy.
I wonder if in Rome's waning days its recalcitrant pundits were trying to rationalize the irrational?
Empire, always fleeting, is never defeated from without - it is always from within. And in this case one need look no further than the Conservative mirror to see the culprit. Reaganomics, thy name is mud. The only trickle down you ever bring is abuse of power.
Wishing the likes of Kristol and Will no ill-will, I pray they fare better than Shakespeare's 'Cinna, the Poet' from "Julius Caesar", who you may recall "a mob, eager for blood" kills using the "excuse that they never liked his poems much anyway". Such is the fate of facile mouthpieces. Beware the mob Kristol and Will! Brooks, you be careful too.
— BeerBellyBuddah, Wpg., Canada
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
re: George Will's WaPo Article 09/24/08
fr: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092302325_Comments.html
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor." - Thomas Jefferson
Georgie Boy,
You once said: "The future has a way of arriving unannounced."
Well, the future is here. The American economy is in tatters. Congressional oversight, once a dream, is soon to be a nightmare. And the 'free market' is but a corrupt joke.
The brand of political and economic freedom you prize so dearly has failed. Its potential sold short. Sold on the cheap. Sold on the backs of the American public.
You once wrote: "Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses." Now with capitalist excess rotting the foundation of the once "shining house on a hill" I beseech you to recant.
The incestuous relationship you have long championed was built on nothing but a sick symbiotic relationship between the ideals of power and greed. The perverse troika of amoral politician, complicit regulator, and abetting banker has borne America a bazturd child. One that threatens all the pillars of American Democracy.
I wonder if Rome's recalcitrant pundits in its waning days also tried, like you, to rationalize the irrational?
Empire, always fleeting, is never defeated from without - it is always from within. And in your case one need look no further than the Conservative mirror to see the culprit. Reaganomics, thy name is mud. The only trickle down you ever bring is abuse of power.
Georgie, wishing no ill-will, I pray you fare better than Shakespeare's 'Cinna, the Poet' from "Julius Caesar". You may recall "a mob, eager for blood" kills him using the "excuse that they never liked his poems much anyway". Such is the fate of the facile poet- beware the mob Georgie Boy!
9/24/2008 1:27:51 AM
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor." - Thomas Jefferson
Georgie Boy,
You once said: "The future has a way of arriving unannounced."
Well, the future is here. The American economy is in tatters. Congressional oversight, once a dream, is soon to be a nightmare. And the 'free market' is but a corrupt joke.
The brand of political and economic freedom you prize so dearly has failed. Its potential sold short. Sold on the cheap. Sold on the backs of the American public.
You once wrote: "Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses." Now with capitalist excess rotting the foundation of the once "shining house on a hill" I beseech you to recant.
The incestuous relationship you have long championed was built on nothing but a sick symbiotic relationship between the ideals of power and greed. The perverse troika of amoral politician, complicit regulator, and abetting banker has borne America a bazturd child. One that threatens all the pillars of American Democracy.
I wonder if Rome's recalcitrant pundits in its waning days also tried, like you, to rationalize the irrational?
Empire, always fleeting, is never defeated from without - it is always from within. And in your case one need look no further than the Conservative mirror to see the culprit. Reaganomics, thy name is mud. The only trickle down you ever bring is abuse of power.
Georgie, wishing no ill-will, I pray you fare better than Shakespeare's 'Cinna, the Poet' from "Julius Caesar". You may recall "a mob, eager for blood" kills him using the "excuse that they never liked his poems much anyway". Such is the fate of the facile poet- beware the mob Georgie Boy!
9/24/2008 1:27:51 AM
Sunday, September 7, 2008
George Will: "Feelings are facts"?
Georgie Boy!
Oh, Georgie Boy!
Here you go again, trying to obsfucate the obvious issue by proffering yet more blithe bafflegab. In the end, the result is always the same: more litter, more 'faux constructs', ... more pundit dung.
Seemingly, you will not be happy until you have covered the entire political discourse landscape with your fetid inanities. Again you have foisted upon us a potpourri of epic marginal value.
"But feelings are fact."???
Your assertion that individual 'feelings' are the empirical equivalent of hard data is absurd. Of course, one's 'beliefs' and 'feelings' are key indicators to how they will vote!
Egad! How did you manage to ferret out this wisdom nugget without divine inspiration?
To state that 'feelings' are an appropriate substitute for hard 'facts' is simply absurd.
We all know what you are really trying to do. You are trying to the convince the voter it is okay if they 'feel' like voting Republican - even if the 'facts' of the past eight years dispute the veracity of this inclination.
What you are really doing is counseling 'group-think' and ignorance. You want the 'feelings' of erstwhile Bushies to substitute for reason.
Clearly when you ask: "...are you better off than you were four years ago? That depends. On what? That, too, depends" - - you are talking out of an orifice usually reserved for other purposes. Only an Obsfucator such as yourself could possibly manage to get the orifice in question to perform double-duty as an oracle. Well done. But my 'feeling' is, it's time you wiped it clean.
Your column today reminds me of a movie review I read that characterized a 'Star Wars' installment as: "Turgid dialogue performed with faux emotion and a woodenness that wouldn't look out of place in the National Forest."
As Stan Lee used to say- 'nuff said'
Oh, Georgie Boy!
Here you go again, trying to obsfucate the obvious issue by proffering yet more blithe bafflegab. In the end, the result is always the same: more litter, more 'faux constructs', ... more pundit dung.
Seemingly, you will not be happy until you have covered the entire political discourse landscape with your fetid inanities. Again you have foisted upon us a potpourri of epic marginal value.
"But feelings are fact."???
Your assertion that individual 'feelings' are the empirical equivalent of hard data is absurd. Of course, one's 'beliefs' and 'feelings' are key indicators to how they will vote!
Egad! How did you manage to ferret out this wisdom nugget without divine inspiration?
To state that 'feelings' are an appropriate substitute for hard 'facts' is simply absurd.
We all know what you are really trying to do. You are trying to the convince the voter it is okay if they 'feel' like voting Republican - even if the 'facts' of the past eight years dispute the veracity of this inclination.
What you are really doing is counseling 'group-think' and ignorance. You want the 'feelings' of erstwhile Bushies to substitute for reason.
Clearly when you ask: "...are you better off than you were four years ago? That depends. On what? That, too, depends" - - you are talking out of an orifice usually reserved for other purposes. Only an Obsfucator such as yourself could possibly manage to get the orifice in question to perform double-duty as an oracle. Well done. But my 'feeling' is, it's time you wiped it clean.
Your column today reminds me of a movie review I read that characterized a 'Star Wars' installment as: "Turgid dialogue performed with faux emotion and a woodenness that wouldn't look out of place in the National Forest."
As Stan Lee used to say- 'nuff said'
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