Comments on: Gingrich won’t debate Obama if the media sets the terms https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/31/gingrich-wont-debate-obama-if-the-media-sets-the-terms/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:11:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Bronwyn Duwe https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/31/gingrich-wont-debate-obama-if-the-media-sets-the-terms/#comment-312881 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:11:02 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13323#comment-312881 The absurd notion that liberals promote a “culture of victimizat­ion” is one of the clearest examples of right-wing projection I’ve ever witnessed. The ENTIRE conservati­ve movement is built on feeling sorry for themselves and claiming they’re the victims of nefarious forces (the “liberal media”, “liberal academia”, “liberal teacher’s unions”, “liberal PC culture”, “liberal secularist­s”, the “liberal ACLU, etc.) Noticing a pattern here? The left is far, far weaker than the right in America, and yet, they’ve built up this all-purpos­e liberal bogeyman / straw-man to blame all its failures on.

]]> By: davisbr https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/31/gingrich-wont-debate-obama-if-the-media-sets-the-terms/#comment-312078 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:37:32 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13323#comment-312078 Aargh: must.close.tags.

]]> By: davisbr https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/31/gingrich-wont-debate-obama-if-the-media-sets-the-terms/#comment-312076 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:35:10 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13323#comment-312076

rickl Says: February 1st, 2012 at 5:29 am
Utterly off-topic, but I found this while I was looking for the Little Big Man clip:

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors

I for one welcome our new nano quadrotor overlords.

Yeah “OT” …but fascinating. And maybe quad-rotor overlords isn’t far off the mark.

The video wasn’t clear whether that drone flight was either purely software (robotic) or remote+software controlled. And I wonder what the range is? 1 klick? 5 klicks?

Anyways …the weaponization potential there is, umm, well: just think about it. Especially at the battlefield level.

The cost of those things would be miniscule (even compared to the current drones). Targeting should be an utter no brainer (well, general line-of-sight, at least).

Even at this point of development, just add some minor but sufficient amout of C4 and a detonator. Maybe a small ‘cam. Send a flight of these (enough so they can’t all be shot down …and targeting the things would be hard, regardless, due to their size) over an enemy troops know-but-inaccessible-to-fire position (even one that is otherwise pretty well shielded, say behind a revetment or plain ol’ wall). Upon arrival, reform the flight pattern overhead to some given explosion density factor …and detonate.

Bad guy(s) all gone (or incapacitated to some degree …and casualties are almost always more of a liability to an enemy force than fatalities).

Platoon level guided munitions on battlefields at a cost barely more than bullets. With an accuracy rate (kill rate) that reaches expert sniper level.

Mosquito bomb drones.

Oh my.

Doesn’t this is sound almost immediately feasible?

]]> By: Mary Wilbur https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/31/gingrich-wont-debate-obama-if-the-media-sets-the-terms/#comment-312042 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:00:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13323#comment-312042 This is a piece of Gingrich’s enormous ego. He isn’t going to get the chance to debate Obama.

]]> By: CZ https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/31/gingrich-wont-debate-obama-if-the-media-sets-the-terms/#comment-312032 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:11:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13323#comment-312032 From the looks of things Noot will never get his chance to go one-on-one with B.O. Not that I wouldn’t like to see it.

OMG! 2012

]]> By: rickl https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/31/gingrich-wont-debate-obama-if-the-media-sets-the-terms/#comment-311998 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:39:04 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13323#comment-311998 The comments are great.

]]> By: rickl https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/31/gingrich-wont-debate-obama-if-the-media-sets-the-terms/#comment-311997 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:29:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13323#comment-311997 Utterly off-topic, but I found this while I was looking for the Little Big Man clip:

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors

I for one welcome our new nano quadrotor overlords.

]]> By: rickl https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/31/gingrich-wont-debate-obama-if-the-media-sets-the-terms/#comment-311996 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:26:42 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13323#comment-311996 Baklava:
Cutting government by 50% makes me a liberal?

The problem is that the rate of growth of debt and debt service is outpacing the rate of growth of GDP.

There is no way we can grow our way out of this. The math don’t work.

]]> By: rickl https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/31/gingrich-wont-debate-obama-if-the-media-sets-the-terms/#comment-311991 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:08:39 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13323#comment-311991

That’s EXACTLY what he wants you to think.

I can’t help being reminded of the scene from “Little Big Man”:

You Go Down There

Soros probably regards the prospect of a Gingrich candidacy or a Romney presidency as a “win-win”.

]]> By: dicentra https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/31/gingrich-wont-debate-obama-if-the-media-sets-the-terms/#comment-311962 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:57:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13323#comment-311962 Gingrich’s behavior over the past few days has been downright bizarre. I’d say it’s probably a sign of desperation.

I’d say it’s a sign of narcissistic personality disorder. NPDs can’t respond to criticism sanely or gracefully, but rather lash out irrationally, usually to their own detriment.

They’re so fixated on destroying the one who dissed them that they can’t see how absurd or destructive their vengeance has become.

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