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  • Reply to blog post: If My Mother Only Knew Then... by voltaire
    Comment written 1 hour ago

    It seems to me that winter would have persuaded elderly women to wear pants. My mother resisted our arguments of the benefits of pants, but as I indicated, remained stubborn for some time.  C'est la vie!

  • Reply to blog post: How to End This Finance Madness and Make Them All Pay by whereabouts
    Comment written 2 days ago
    My, my, whereabouts, you are getting rough! (lol) Incidentally, I thought your hero, Ron Paul, and Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader should have been included lin the debate between the two nominees We boast of competition in business and sports, etc. But "they" do not believe in competition in politics!
  • Reply to blog post: Nearing The End by nobullthinker
    Comment written 3 days ago

    No, no, don't wait another year.  I should like to see your take on economic Darwinism.  I am a Darwinian only in the biological evolutionary sense.  Heaven knows man is a flawed being.  But one should believe, I think, in our capacity to grow and adapt to his environment, and not live in an economic society in which he is out to cut his neighbor's throat.  A colleague of mine used to say, "There's no hope for mankind."  Sometimes, when I am not fuzzy and warm, as you were,  I am almost swayed.  But then I think of how far we have come, even though there is much more to do in the way of behaving less like apes.

    We have yet to human beings who are the thinkers and who are compassionate towards our fellow humans.  A big order, I admit, but then as Browning wrote: "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

    Hope you slept well,

  • Reply to blog post: New Famous Quote of the Day by Hank Paulson by whereabouts
    Comment written 4 days ago

    Obviously, Paulson is a man of few words.  Maybe few thoughts, also.

  • Reply to blog post: If My Mother Only Knew Then... by voltaire
    Comment written 4 days ago
    Thank you.
  • Reply to blog post: Nearing The End by nobullthinker
    Comment written 4 days ago

    I dare not to leave you uneducated---if you are wrong.  But you are essentially right in your definition, up to line three.  It is not, however, the determination of socialism  who lives and who  dies.  That is your subjectivity at work.  Perhaps we can argue inversely, namely, that it is capitalism a Darwinian economic system, which  permits some to live and some to die.  (for example, the lack of a national health plan, in the U.S.)  Or that the free market system is the decentralization of, the non collection of and distribution of wealth (note: not re-distribution), thereby determining who lives and who dies.  Stay well.  (Now see?  This is a civil give and take of discourse!)  Stay well and enjoy the fall weather.

  • Reply to blog post: Nearing The End by nobullthinker
    Comment written 5 days ago

    Your last paragraph is nonsense.  Socialism does not determine who works, eats, and gets medical help. That is fascism.  Apparently you don't know the difference.  You want to believe what you want to believe. So? Believe it if it makes you happy.

  • Reply to blog post: Our Affair With Foreign Affairs by voltaire
    Comment written 1 week ago
    And so am I.
  • Reply to blog post: Nearing The End by nobullthinker
    Comment written 1 week ago
    Okay, good for you. My area is largely made up of Democrats, and the signs would be overwhelmingly for Obama. But to call it "political and sociological" intimidation is nonsense.. It simply means that more people are for Obama in Ithaca. Would you agree that if in your neck of the woods McCain signs outnumbered Obama by 50 to it would be intimidation> would not be "intimidation?"
  • Reply to blog post: Nearing The End by nobullthinker
    Comment written 1 week ago

    Oh yes, I did, Comrade.  I not only went to Rense, but beyond to Greg Swank Look, nobull, if you believe what you believe, nothing I can say is going to change your optical Weltanschaung.  I just find that the 45 points were ludicrous and so is your belief of Communist intrusion in American life.  I am sure that I could pick out a year as a focal point in American politics and make a conspiratorial theme out of it.  I could argue for example that we Americans were enablers of European nazism and fascism starting back on a particular date in the 1930s.  Being right about it would require how I marshal my evidence.  In the Rense formula, I don't see evidence, but simply a laundry list of charges. 

    I lived through the Joe McCarthy era in which he destroyed a number of lives and careers because of his scattergun charges.  I don't like seeing you making the same mistake on your blog.  Nothing personal here.  Just trying to save you from being in the grip of political delusions.  If I thought for one moment all of that was  true, I would certainly be your ally in sounding the bugle.

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