Comments on: Megyn Kelly vs. Nancy Pelosi

By: T

Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:53:23 +0000

Above (@2:54 PM 7/11/14) I mentioned Boehner’s impending lawsuit against Obama.

Today Charles C.W. Cooke has an excellent essay on precisely this topic:

At present, Obama is unrestrained, happily enjoying the inherent advantages of the executive branch and secure in the knowledge that his antagonists are faced with a choice between doing nothing and declaring all-out war. John Boehner may not have worked out a way to make bring his rival to a halt, but he may have found a promising middle course, . . .

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/382570/john-boehners-legal-lesson-charles-c-w-cooke

By: Matt_SE

Matt_SE — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 05:21:51 +0000

In other words, these liberal voters are suffering from almost complete epistemic closure. They see only what they want to see, hear only what they want to hear.

Which is why collapse is necessary. They won’t listen to us or to reason, but it’s much harder to ignore reality. Cruel, impersonal reality.

By: waitforit

waitforit — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 04:31:34 +0000

O how feeble is man’s power,
That if good fortune fall,
Cannot add another hour,
Nor a lost hour recall;

and yet:

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/meditation3.htm

By: waitforit

waitforit — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 04:18:19 +0000

Very nice, davisbr, example of anaphora and mnemonic structure.

I see evidence of form, of thought, of poetry!

By: davisbr

davisbr — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 04:01:37 +0000

I...

These liberal friends are predisposed to trust women more than men, although I see no evidence of why that should be.

...see

This likewise defines her as better and more trustworthy than a conservative Republican, although I see no evidence of why that should be.

...no

This defines her as especially intelligent, although I see no evidence of why that should be.

...evidence

This defines the MSM as truthful, although I see no evidence of why that should be.

...of why that should be. ...I thought it scanned better as poetry. Piquant Holmesianisms, neo. Kudos. (Of course you see none, because there is none ...and of course I merely re-state the obviously implied.)

By: T

Sat, 12 Jul 2014 03:23:59 +0000

Tonawanda (@9:35),

“How can anyone prove that the repetition isn’t a coincidence?”

As Auric Goldfinger clarifies: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”

By: waitforit

waitforit — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:57:34 +0000

The independence that government offers the malcontents, the misanthropes, the marauders follows the money they demand of you and me. It is time to say, hey, Mr. Government, you cannot take from me to give to my enemies or even to obliquely support their causes. Therefore, I will attempt every method to deprive you of your revenue. This will be my jihad and I will use taqqiya, the art of deception. I will declare you are my great and powerful benefactor while at the same time sup at your teat and not pay anything. Do you like me so far. You must. You are supporting all Muslim causes. I’m going to turn that funnel against you. I will rejoice, exalt and celebrate your reverses, demises and hardship. They shall be as life to me, and when the final battle is declared, you will be so weak that you cannot defend yourself. You belong to me, as you always have. You are my servant. I declare now my right of ownership, my right of management, my right of representation as stated in the Constitution.

By: kaba

kaba — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 01:55:59 +0000

LisaM,
Yup, I wandered the streets my first night there. I was propositioned 3 times. One was by a professional lady; the second by a man; and the third was a coin-toss. The interesting part was visiting Haight Ashbury. All kinds of rare and exotic creatures there in 1969.

By: waitforit

waitforit — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 01:47:22 +0000

Logic. What the hell is logic? Reason, perhaps. Authority, perhaps. Emotion, likely. Culture, positively. But logic? What the hell is logic?

The life of the law is not logic nor even experience but flows from those who define words.

By: Tonawanda

Tonawanda — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 01:35:49 +0000

BO, Pelosi and the rest of the Left are not competent and are not logical, but they are not stupid.

With the soviet media as the flickering illumination, they are gas-lighting.

One of the unheralded, unappreciated and utterly brilliant gifts given by Rush, is the frequent use on his show of a dozen or so clips from the media where the same phrase is repeated by various “journalists” on a particular issue.

Rush, to my knowledge, has never made a comment on these segments. He just plays them.

Example: the word “gravitas” being used with reference to Bush. Within 24 hours Wolf and Andrea and Diana and the rest of the crowd all came up with the word “gravitas.”

Rush has done this many times (dozens, scores??).

Rush does not comment because any comment necessarily makes the commentator look ridiculous. How can anyone prove that the repetition isn’t a coincidence?

The precise object of gas-lighting is to make the enemy or victim look crazy by casting things in such a way where a statement of the truth by the enemy or victim looks like a mental aberration.

There is absolutely no inconsistency about a message which appeals to the lo-fo, stimulates the tuned-in, deranged cognoscenti, and makes any response by the truthful look crazy and extreme.

Contrast: Rush can merely present the facts without comment, Pelosi can broadcast the malign fantasy without fear of contradiction.