tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post5105283242029917432..comments2024-03-28T22:08:48.577-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: The Stuff of NightmaresOldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-32972458679417720352016-05-28T18:58:13.142-07:002016-05-28T18:58:13.142-07:00"It is widely assumed that Mrs. Clinton will ...<em>"It is widely assumed that Mrs. Clinton will pay no price for misbehavior because the Democratic president’s Justice Department is not going to proceed with charges against the likely Democratic presidential nominee."</em><br /><br />We shall see, I suppose.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-36435833228953427302016-05-28T18:23:25.700-07:002016-05-28T18:23:25.700-07:00...found an open copy of the Peggy Noonan column.
......found an open copy of the Peggy Noonan column.<br />http://patriotpost.us/opinion/42878ColoCommentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-56290717540404573232016-05-27T12:56:50.455-07:002016-05-27T12:56:50.455-07:00Interesting. It's good to get reports from the...Interesting. It's good to get reports from the folks who are actually on the ground in a politician's home turf.<br /><br />I've only seen him from a distance. Thanks for the report RAS.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-65372085860649866682016-05-27T12:27:59.444-07:002016-05-27T12:27:59.444-07:00Just so you know, Piyush, like limberger, is fine ...Just so you know, Piyush, like limberger, is fine at a distance but gets stinky and obnoxious when you get close up. I say that as someone who voted for him a few times, thought highly of him, spent some time with him, learned he is shallower than Lake Ponchartrain. He is as bad a public servant as has ever existed in Louisiana because he is sodden with desire for power above all else. The only real difference between him and The One is no difference at all - they simply pander to different groups but their pandering for power is cut from the same cloth.<br /><br />RASAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-17911513727947032712016-05-27T11:46:04.291-07:002016-05-27T11:46:04.291-07:00It does ring some bells.
A new Dark Age is upon u...It does ring some bells.<br /><br />A new Dark Age is upon us, perhaps.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-40884636032902708862016-05-27T11:44:09.867-07:002016-05-27T11:44:09.867-07:00Same here.Same here.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-44443469117578309232016-05-27T11:12:15.614-07:002016-05-27T11:12:15.614-07:00In this country and all over the world we are Keyn...In this country and all over the world we are Keynesians. "The errors of Keynes have empowered sociopathic political classes all over the world and deprived the world of the economic progress we would otherwise have enjoyed.<br /><br />As a young man, Keynes and his friends became what he himself described as “immoralists.” In a 1938 paper called “My Early Beliefs,” he wrote:<br /><br />We entirely repudiated a personal liability on us to obey general rules. We claimed the right to judge every individual case on its merits, and the wisdom to do so successfully. This was a very important part of our faith, violently and aggressively held, and for the outer world it was our most obvious and dangerous characteristic. We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom. We were, that is to say, in the strict sense of the term, immoralists."<br />(Good ol' John wrote this as quoted from Mises.org)<br />See anything familiar going on today in the Executive, Justice, Homeland Security,State Dept., etc.?<br />Anyone? Anyone?<br /><br /><br />Dave's Daily Day Dreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17491764990082380190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-7952624804881380312016-05-27T10:59:02.474-07:002016-05-27T10:59:02.474-07:00I am afraid there is some plot afoot that would wo...I am afraid there is some plot afoot that would work to Biden's ascendency. I am not going to commit to the internet what I think it is, but I'm watching, with dry heaves on occasion.Dave's Daily Day Dreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17491764990082380190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-85292371009617718882016-05-27T10:43:22.279-07:002016-05-27T10:43:22.279-07:00Not sure why but your latest comment had to be ret...Not sure why but your latest comment had to be retrieved from the spam filter.<br /><br />Pay walls nearly always stop me, my security software doesn't like cookies. All I saw at those links was a couple of sentences then a button to sign in/subscribe. I never push those buttons.<br /><br />Once burned, twice shy. Also I have my settings so cookies are <em>verboten</em>. Yes, it's a pain, but it's saved me a couple of times.<br /><br />As a computer guy I could get past the pay wall. But as a locked screen door keeps the honest out, pay walls keep me out.<br /><br />It's a philosophy more than anything else.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-2857787687613305192016-05-27T08:49:54.693-07:002016-05-27T08:49:54.693-07:00You let a paywall stop you?
I used to have a WSJ p...You let a paywall stop you?<br />I used to have a WSJ print subscription, but the third year they raised it to the "regular" price, so I dropped it. A few months later, I got a solicitation to give a gift subscription (at a killer price), so I gifted one to my dog, Murphy (apparently, WSJ doesn't/didn't double check for identical delivery addresses.) Third year they raised it..., so I dropped it.<br />WSJ permits a limited # of "free" articles (per day, maybe?) and it drops cookies on your computer to count them. So:<br />1) First option: Delete your cookies*; access WSJ online; highlight article title and Google search it; click on result to open "free" article.<br />Rinse, repeat. When you run into the paywall again, you can nuke your cookies again and start over.<br />2) Second option: in Chrome, do Control-Shift-N to go "incognito"; this works for me sometimes, sometimes not.<br />* unfortunately, killing off your cookies also destroys some of their convenient features, like remembering auto-saved logons and passwords. Tradeoffs, tradeoffs. Life is a series of tradeoffs. ;-)<br /><br />ColoCommentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-30290073278463839952016-05-27T08:19:32.868-07:002016-05-27T08:19:32.868-07:00I thought that the Reynolds article was brilliant....I thought that the Reynolds article was brilliant. Sad but he's right. The Noonan and Strassel articles are behind that pesky WSJ pay wall. In addition to being (like you claim to be) a kinda-elderly and cranky curmudgeon, I'm also cheap.<br /><br />I know we'll survive Trump. Shrillary or Comrade Bernie, nope, that's the death of the Republic. How very Roman of us.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-11012650398251661972016-05-27T08:08:46.382-07:002016-05-27T08:08:46.382-07:00Well said WSF!Well said WSF!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-48606323133070291222016-05-27T08:08:16.974-07:002016-05-27T08:08:16.974-07:00Same here Juvat.Same here Juvat.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-72086194213933546282016-05-27T08:07:44.588-07:002016-05-27T08:07:44.588-07:00That's the scenario that haunts me.That's the scenario that haunts me.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-82798497901395494472016-05-27T08:07:13.102-07:002016-05-27T08:07:13.102-07:00Heh, PBJ.Heh, PBJ.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-27182268531894746852016-05-27T08:06:56.300-07:002016-05-27T08:06:56.300-07:00I think you're right on the Vermonters, no oth...I think you're right on the Vermonters, no other explanation makes sense.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-57186879615052717952016-05-27T08:06:30.449-07:002016-05-27T08:06:30.449-07:00We shall try.We shall try.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-28929446405190613392016-05-27T08:05:39.216-07:002016-05-27T08:05:39.216-07:00Yup. No matter how you phrase it.Yup. No matter how you phrase it.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-87942909115987229942016-05-27T07:59:17.954-07:002016-05-27T07:59:17.954-07:00There are some interesting op/ed pieces out there ...There are some interesting op/ed pieces out there today:<br />1) Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds) has a "modest proposal" (and yes, I thought that title quite clever of him);<br />http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/05/26/donald-trump-imperial-presidency-obama-executive-action-order-power-column/84907556/<br />2) Peggy Noonan, WSJ;<br />http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-embodies-washingtons-decadence-1464302560<br />3) Kimberley Strassel, WSJ (one of my favorite columnists)<br />http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-rakes-the-clinton-muck-1464302380<br /><br />If a Democrat takes the WH, be it by outright win or by third party taking votes from the Republican, we will see an expansion of federal hegemony, the SJWs will continue to ramage through our social institutions, and the SCt will obtain a solid liberal majority for at minimum the next 30 years (presuming that newly-appointed justices may be in their 50s and serve into their 80s.)<br /><br />I suspect that the country will survive a Trump presidency (as Reynolds suggests, he'll be paddling upstream with any policy changes), after all, we [so far] have survived Obama [although just barely].<br />I firmly believe that the country, after another 8 years of destructive liberal policies, will not survive in any form recognizable to us elders.<br />But, I'm an elderly & cranky curmudgeon, so what do I know?ColoCommentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-63871275111853939202016-05-27T07:55:29.497-07:002016-05-27T07:55:29.497-07:00I like that quote!I like that quote!juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-84969773316716755532016-05-27T07:12:12.111-07:002016-05-27T07:12:12.111-07:00Darn tablet!
It was supposed to say - initialized...Darn tablet!<br />It was supposed to say - initialized Jindal to "PBJ"(not necessarily your) Uncle Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02705753220273516841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-3128696232789749952016-05-27T06:52:21.126-07:002016-05-27T06:52:21.126-07:00“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesse...“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”<br />― Margaret Mead<br /><br />Sums up this election for me.Well Seasoned Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16670165728759453075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-82569257351921033922016-05-27T06:47:53.960-07:002016-05-27T06:47:53.960-07:00Someone who I greatly respect told me recently tha...Someone who I greatly respect told me recently that he believes that Obama is just waiting for Bernie to be eliminated before the Democratic convention at which point he will direct the Attorney General to immediately indict Hillary. At that point he announces that Biden is the only possible compromise candidate. (And I think that Fauxahontis would be the potential VP) Considering all the other devious things that have emanated from the Oval Office in the last eight years this has a certain credibility. Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15482185271178889753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-18446481292687061762016-05-27T06:47:10.490-07:002016-05-27T06:47:10.490-07:00I'm surprised nobody in the media initialized ...I'm surprised nobody in the media initialized Jindal.<br /><br />As for Vermonters backing whatshisname, I chalk it up to parochialism and the fact he has no real track record running anything.(not necessarily your) Uncle Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02705753220273516841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-78011026373385408642016-05-27T06:27:00.068-07:002016-05-27T06:27:00.068-07:00Take not the counsel of your fears. Take care of t...Take not the counsel of your fears. Take care of the little things and the big things take care of themselves. https://youtu.be/SJ2hJezvd2IPrairieAdventurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466447251827774900noreply@blogger.com