Posted on 02/10/2014 3:18:28 PM PST by jazusamo
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
It is amazing how many people still fall for the argument that, if life is unfair, the answer is to turn more money and power over to politicians. Since life has always been unfair, for thousands of years and in countries around the world, where does that lead us?
I am so old that I can remember when sex was private. "Don't ask, don't tell" applied to everybody.
However fascinated the U.S. Supreme Court may be with the concept of "diversity," every one of the 9 justices has a degree from one of the 8 Ivy League institutions, out of the thousands of institutions of higher learning in this country. How diverse is that?
Despite the rhetoric, the goals or the intentions of the political left, the world they seek to create is a world where decisions are taken out of the hands of ordinary citizens and transferred to third parties. ObamaCare is the latest example of this trend, and can now join the long list of the "compassionate" catastrophes of the left.
It is fascinating to see academics full of indignation over the "exploitation" of low-wage workers by multinational corporations in Third World countries, when it is common on their own academic campuses to have young men get paid nothing at all for risking their health, and sometimes their lives, playing football that brings in millions of dollars to the college and often gets coaches paid higher salaries than the president of the college or university.
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I agree with you with respect to foreign policy. 0bama is an ignorant ideologue with neither knowledge nor respect for history and an inexplicable conviction that he's above it all. A decent choice for Secretary of State might have helped him but he didn't make one either chance he got.
Domestically, though, that's where I started squirming reading those books. He has a passionate, destructive, tribal following that has been very successful at bullying scapegoats, enjoys winning by cheating and intimidation, and is hell-bent on forcing the world into a mold it will never fit.
I am curious too and don’t have a clue, hope someone does.
Well put, we have not seen the end of the damage
Obama has created and is continuing to create.
I have reached the point where I dispair of ever
being able to turn things around. I am afraid it
will be like the soviet union and change will only
come from complete collapse, but at what a cost!
Charles Krauthammer wears Thomas Sowell pajamas. :)
BUMP. “The Smartest Man in America.”
He is old! I can barely remember those days, and I'm in late middle age.
:-) I’m not quite as old as Tom Sowell but can remember when sex was private.
Sowell never fails to knock the ball out of the park.
Great post!
Another good read is “How Democracy was lost”,
by Ellen Switzer.
He has a passionate, destructive, tribal following that has been very successful at bullying scapegoats, enjoys winning by cheating and intimidation, and is hell-bent on forcing the world into a mold it will never fit.
Who Obama or Hitler?
When you look, it’s kind of hard to tell.
Obama’s penchant for operating outside the bounds
of the constitution is only getting started.
If he is not called on it soon, he will continue to the
point, he can’t be called on it.
I am certain he has true believers who would have no
qualms about repressing any opposition, which if they
were only thugs would be bad enough, but to put them
in positions of authority with the power of government
behind them is not just criminal but deadly.
“Chills. On a somewhat enforced rest last month I re-read that one along with Shirer’s Berlin Diary. It was very disturbing reading.”
On a much less intellectual level, watching “Cabaret” again is somewhat similar.
Tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs to...
That movie scared hell out of me then and it still does. More now, I think, than it did when it came out.
I'll guess: The husband met a woman, not from Berkeley, who tried to be attractive. She was able to take him away from his wife from Berkeley, because the wife did not try to be attractive. Ms. Non-Berkeley turned out to be a libertine (no inhibitions), so that relationship failed too. It would have been better for both husband and wife if the wife had tried to be attractive.
It is unusual for Sowell to be unclear.
The man is a treasure.
The only one in the Faculty Lounge worth listening to.
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