Posted on 08/24/2010 8:44:52 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan
As soon as I tuned in and heard that voice, I clicked the radio back off.
He’s a nice guy - smart and everything.... I just can’t stand listening to him stammer and stutter, and he seldom seems to make a salient point like Rush does. His attempts at humor are really sad, IMHO.
But like Rush, bagpipes and Moxie, he ain’t for everybody.
Hey CC doin’ the work and lurk thing today.
That’s easy. Just say yes dear 20 times a day.
True, Gretchen is the best of the three. Dr Laura was condescending beyond belief to women in need, a bad character trait, IMHO.
Man, i really could listen to Walter and Thomas talk all day about where we are economically, how we REALLY got here and how to get us back on the right track.
Ditto
It’s like a Econ 101 class.
Plum Line
“Mosque” fight reveals Cheney-ization of GOP
Jonathan Chait makes the case that the battle over the “Ground Zero mosque” is more than just a war over issues surrounding the Constitution and religious freedom. Chait notes, crucially, that this is also an intra-party struggle over the future direction of GOP foreign policy:
The second question is about laying the groundwork for Republican foreign policy for the next GOP presidential administration. George W. Bush pursued a policy of attempting to divide the mass of the Muslim world from the dangerous and radical hard core, reassuring and praising the former while opposing the latter. President Obama has pursued the same policy, adding onto it the personal touch of using his identity and unique history to dramatize the same basic message.
The Park51 episode has become a proxy fight on this question among Republicans, many of whom see the foreign policy struggle as a clash of civilizations between Islam and Christianity/Judaism.
It’s also worth adding that if the battle over the Islamic center has revealed an intra-Republican struggle over whose foreign policy vision will prevail, it’s clear who’s winning this fight: The Cheney-ites. Consider: Virtually all leading Republicans who are currently in positions of power, or are currently lining up to run for office in 2012, have adopted the Liz Cheney line.
The project is opposed by many of the leading GOP officials in Congress, from John Boehner to Eric Cantor to Mitch McConnell. What’s more, the battle over the Islamic center has actually become a litmus test for the 2012 GOP hopefuls, with Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and Tim Pawlenty all trying to out-demagogue each other on the issue.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the Republicans who have stepped forward to support the project are largely former Bush officials who are no longer in positions of power or aren’t running for office anytime soon. In other words, the Cheney-ite line has become the required position of thise with actual influence within the GOP — or those who are currently in the process of seeking it.
This development is actually part of a larger story that hasn’t really gotten the attention it deserves: Ever since Obama took office, there’s been a widening rift between Republican officials and politicans on one side, and the GOP’s former allies in Washington’s permanent national security establishment on the other.
Obama’s positions are more in line with the old-line GOP defense establishment in D.C. — people like Colin Powell and James Baker, as well as Bush holdovers who are working for Obama, like Robert Gates and David Petraeus. Yet Republican elected officials and office seekers have almost uniformly adopted the Cheney-ite critique of Obama on issues like torture, Mirandizing terrorists, and whether to close Guantanamo.
In other words, the widespread opposition to Cordoba House among Republicans is only the latest installment in the ongoing Cheney-ization of the GOP. I don’t need to tell you that this trend has ominous ramifications in light of the possibility of a GOP takeover of Congress or even of the Presidency.
True but her advice was always good I thought.
She was also a vocal advocate against the Homosexual Agenda. You don’t hear that much on the airways nowadays.
By today’s educational “standards”, it’s well past post doctoral.
(I’m still steaming about the experience I had during my stint as a local college technical instructor: Couldn’t give even third and fourth year students in my classes anything but multiple choice tests because three-quarters of them couldn’t produce a legible, coherent written answer....and don’t even get me started about math or simple logic.)
What field is a “technical instructor” in?
I can understand. I helped the LTC proof read some of the papers written by Captains and Majors in his CAS3 classes.
(BTW, the LTC himself is one of the worst spellers I know, but he does know how to use a dictionary)
Me too, that’s why I like Macs so much.
They spellcheck automatically regardless where you are writing.
No one gags you as you walk in a theater, the utterance itself is not the crime.
However, you can be held criminally and civilly responsible for any death, injury, or destruction you cause.
Computer Aided Design
Really? I didn’t know you were that young?
:-O
Sorry, couldn’t help myself...
A little history about yelling ‘fire’
1913-Italian Hall disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Hall_disaster
The Italian Hall Disaster (sometimes referred to as the 1913 Massacre) is a tragedy that occurred on December 24, 1913 in Calumet, Michigan. Seventy-three men, women, and children, mostly striking mine workers and their families, were crushed to death when someone falsely yelled “fire” at a crowded Christmas party.
On Christmas Eve many of the striking miners and their families had gathered for a Christmas party sponsored by the Western Federation of Miners. It is estimated that there were over five hundred people at the party, which was held on the second floor of Calumet’s Italian Hall. A steep stairway was the only way to the second floor, although there was a poorly-marked fire escape on one side of the building and ladders down the back of the building which could only be reached by climbing through the windows.
The tragedy began when someone yelled “Fire!”; there was none. However, people panicked and rushed for the stairs. In the ensuing melee, seventy-three people (including fifty-nine children) were killed.
Our son claims that I act like I’m 19-going-on-sixty-something. (Sticking out my tongue and blowing you a good Bronx cheer....)
Actually started my engineering career on a drawing board (still have one in the shed that I use for smaller jobs), but got into CAD about the time that the first commercial systems came out.
I knew you were around that age, the learning curve must have been harsh. I went to college in the 70’s and back then we had a punchcard computer I learned Basic on, not sure where you would have fit that in before or after the VN war.
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