Comments on: Now I’m dreaming about politics

By: Liberty Wolf

Liberty Wolf — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:13:46 +0000

I can understand having this political dream, though I’m surprised it’s the first you’ve had. The whole Benghazi mess is the most disturbing thing yet to actually happen. Although ushering in the Muslim Brotherhood… Iran getting so close to a bomb, not supporting the Green Revolution, it goes on and on. Drawing down our military so dramatically in a time of increasing peril… Just when you think it can’t get any weirder or worse, it does. This tops it all though with Americans dead, and in a horrible way more likely than not. Obviously there is some kind of coverup, or negligence. Or?

By: davisbr

davisbr — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:12:50 +0000

@Occam's Beard at 12:46 pm: My thesis advisor (a Nobel Laureate, a real one), who was famous for his short fuse, half rose from his seat (which was a few feet from the speaker), pointed his finger in the hapless student’s face, and roared, “Anyone can figure something out when he’s got all the facts! The trick is to do it when you’ve only got partial information, and half of that is wrong!” That profound observation resonates with me to this day.

As it will with me to the rest of my days. Words to live by. Thanks. ...that was as Heinleinesque a quote from not actually being from Bob as I can recall. ...yes that was a compliment. If you're a Heinlein fan, at least lol.

By: rickl

rickl — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:53:57 +0000

Well, today was nice because I was able to ignore politics for awhile and follow the heroic exploits of Felix Baumgartner, who set an altitude record for a manned balloon flight, the highest parachute jump, and the fastest free-falling speed. And the previous record holder, Joseph Kittinger, was his advisor and capcom. They sat side by side at the post-flight press conference.

Thanks to modern communications technology, I was able to watch it all live on the internet.

By: LAG

LAG — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:44:58 +0000

NeoConScum, as those in the business can tell you, revision cuts two ways.

Depends on who’s being revised.

It’s funny how dependence on buzz words to do the thinking can lead someone off course.

By: IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully in All 57 States

IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully in All 57 States — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:56:51 +0000

}}}} Our lives will be empty without Obama. I hope he is re-elected. 2012 ... The Year We Hope we will Change "The One" to "The Last One"

By: NeoConScum

NeoConScum — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:46:46 +0000

Victor Davis Hanson, a Revisionist??? Whew! Wonder if they know that at The Hoover Institution,’Yo.

By: Al Reasin

Al Reasin — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:48:25 +0000

I have the same feeling about this as I do about Fast and Furious and the 9 other gun walking operations. The media went nuts over Watergate where no one died; in F&F and Benghazi people died and Obama lied.

By: fmt

fmt — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:12:00 +0000

All right, Neo, now look what you did. I read your post last night, went to bed and dreamed that Barack Obama was in my living room. He came in with an armful of books and marched around putting them down here and there, opened and lying spine-up on their pages (the way the librarian always told me never to leave books.) It was some kind of practical joke that he thought was pretty funny. One of the books was one of his, which he was careful to point out. He was dismayingly charming but would NOT leave my living room. That’s my first-ever political dream, and I blame you.

By: LAG

LAG — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:55:01 +0000

Occam’s Beard -“Guys like Victor Davis Hanson aren’t revisionists.”

Actually, he earned his spurs by presenting a revised view of Greek warfare based partly on his personal experiences as a grape farmer, something not many other academics could list in their resumes, though lack of experience never kept any academic from spinning a good story.

It’s a bit obscure, but accurate as far as his early writing is concerned to call him a revisionist. See Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece.

By: IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully in All 57 States

IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully in All 57 States — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:55:41 +0000

}}}} of seeing someone “having convictions”

I think there are a lot of people in the Obama Admin who should have convictions, but most of them manage somehow to avoid that, largely thanks to the Holder-run JD.