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Comment on tumblr_mby2mjsUYB1qey5y8 by barbara jackson

barbara jackson — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:52:06 +0000

Two out of twenty-two . . . I dunno, I think he’s losing his touch – on the basketball. On everything else, he’s batting 1000, without much help, I’m afraid.

Comment on Gun Control Debate: A few facts by 10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down | Mother Jones | FACELESS WRECKORDS

10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down | Mother Jones | FACELESS WRECKORDS — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:13:47 +0000

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Comment on More bogosity from Michelle Rhee by Brenda Louise Hudson

Brenda Louise Hudson — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:21:39 +0000

Hi Walter: Thanks for posting! Brenda Louise Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 03:50:15 +0000 To: californiapoppy91@hotmail.com

Comment on Skill Sets and Null Sets by angrymanspeaks

angrymanspeaks — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:46:58 +0000

Excellent. On point. I often marvel at the political trickery that constitutes our system and the lack of actual issue honesty

Comment on “Packaging Smoke:” Reconstructing Goldman’s Role by Steven Ng

Steven Ng — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:33:44 +0000

Do you have the rights to the photo of the GS building? http://southernperlo.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/30hudsonstgoldmansachs1.jpg?w=604

If so could I use it in my project?

Comment on What Resides In The Background? by Barjack

Barjack — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:45:33 +0000

Actually, Walter, both Romney and David are Bait and Switch salesmen. Romney behaves like old-time politicians, seemingly unaware that his speech in Florida or Pennsylvania is viewed it the collective states at the same time. This should make it hard for him to ‘diversify’ for a segmented population, but the new American propensity to sort out and ditch whatever you don’t like in a speech makes intelligent voting a near impossibility. I hope we get smarter as time goes on, but . . .

David has a job to test his ability to walk a narrow line without falling off into either the snake pit or the alligator pit. So he begins his formula writing with “Once upon a time . . ” and first invites you (NYT lefty reader) in to the flower garden where he hands you a lovely bouquet to soften you up for the next act. We then get to the main text, called “picking the legs carefully and slowly off flies” where he begins to asasinate your Democratic choice with softly-chosen words. Last, we get to the conclusion, where he concludes that when you come to your senses, you’ll realize that his wise writing will open your eyes and you will see that Romney has everything that is missing in our present choice, and that we’ll thank him in the morning . . .

Comment on What Resides In The Background? by Lynne Powell

Lynne Powell — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:16:17 +0000

This is so very good. I think of this as “clearing the clutter” so we can see the truth. Thanks so much.

Comment on What Resides In The Background? by Larry Lundgren

Larry Lundgren — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:24:38 +0000

thanks about the italics, I had not understood that. Larry

Comment on What Resides In The Background? by southernperlo

southernperlo — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:34:37 +0000

Actually, italics represent the comments and responses of others I include in the post. I edit the order for continuity or when I’m posting a reply. Many points of entry are possible–and valid. I wanted to began the discussion, move it beyond and back to politics by broaden the “tests” and reviewing the validity of the ideas.

Comment on What Resides In The Background? by Larry Lundgren

Larry Lundgren — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:16:15 +0000

Worth reading, not least because a reading leads this reader to consider alternative ways of phrasing some of the same points made in the post. I particularly like the opening lines (Those in italics), which I believe are quoted from Walter’s own comment filed in the New York Times perhaps a day or two ago (counting from today 9/6). I happen to remember because I was puzzled by Walter’s assertion that David Brooks is the “moderate darling of Democrats and liberals.” I am both Democrat and liberal (in the American sense, I am writing from Sweden) and I am consistently appalled by David Brooks formulations. (And FYI, Sweden’s liberal newspaper Dagens Nyheter regularly presents Brooks in translation but I cannot determine exactly why.)

I wonder, Walter, if you believe that Romney uses flip-flopping as an action strategy after carefully evaluating the benefits and costs (unintended consequences) or whether he is so deeply committed to helping the rich get richer that he flips whenever he discovers that it enhances his (apparent) status.

I must add the following, even though it has nothing to do with Romney, but instead is triggered by your strategy when confronted by the beggar asking for money for food. Each year with the exception of 2011 I spend 5 weeks in Burlington, Vermont. Strangely I am confronted on Burlington’s legendary Church Street by one beggar after another, each holding a sign. Most of them seem completely able bodied and relatively young. Next summer when I will be there again I think I will test your strategy. You say you want money for food, OK I will buy you a Fast Food meal.

Only 6:15 AM in your part of the world

Larry