tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post477736811070049967..comments2024-03-28T11:36:34.873-05:00Comments on Althouse: Another GOP debate. Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42973952462180656162016-02-15T13:38:35.277-06:002016-02-15T13:38:35.277-06:00Original Mike said... Didn't get to watch the...Original Mike said... <i> Didn't get to watch the debate. Did Trump really blame 9/11 on George Bush? </i><br /><br />chickelit said...<br /><br /><i> The exchange went something like this:<br /><br />Trump was asked about his known opposition to the Iraq war. Trump was tweaking Jeb. Jeb responded that "at least GWB kept us safe." To which Trump retorted that 9/11 happened on GWB's watch. Someone else (Cruz?, Rubio?) translated this to a GWB did not cause 9/11 -- it was Clinton. </i> <br /><br />Rubio. What is this here, that people can't tell the difference between Cruz and Rubio?<br /><br /><b> TRUMP: (repeating this now when Rubio is tallking) How did he keep us safe when the World Trade Center - the World - excuse me. I lost hundreds of friends. The World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush. He kept us safe? That is not safe. That is not safe, Marco. That is not safe.<br /><br />RUBIO: The World Trade Center came down because Bill Clinton didn't kill<br />Osama bin Laden when he had the chance to kill him.<br /><br />(APPLAUSE) </b>Sammy Finkelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105012664741556033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27927261731417121022016-02-15T13:30:05.507-06:002016-02-15T13:30:05.507-06:00StephenFearby said...
I have no use for Trump, b...StephenFearby said...<br /><br /><i> I have no use for Trump, but he is correct in saying that GW Bush failed to keep America safe by ignoring the CIA's Al Qaeda warnings of a domestic attack: </i><br /><br />This isn't true, and Trump didn't even say that. The allegation is based upon the CIA telling him in August 2001, taht Osama bin Laden still intends to attack the United States. As Condoleeza Rice said, what are you supposed to do with that. And what they don't tell you, is the CIA told him that because George W. Bush asked: <br /><br />He was given warnings about a possible attack at the G-7 summit conference in Genoa. George W. Bush asked, what about an attack in the United States? This briefing or paper was their answer, and as some people have pointed out (I think maybe John Podhorets or somebody I'm not sure) the message there was that they had the situation well in hand. It was telling him what they were doing.<br /><br /><br />Sammy Finkelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105012664741556033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3181385550216622082016-02-15T13:24:33.631-06:002016-02-15T13:24:33.631-06:00StephenFearby said...
Graham just lying through ...StephenFearby said...<br /><br /><i> Graham just lying through his teeth. Not only didn't other intelligence services believe the WMD nonsense they tried to get the US to reconsider.<br /><br />--Which services? When?<br /><br />From Wikipedia: Curveball (informant) </i><br /><br />Curveball was a source for a different issue. He claimed that Iraq had some mobile <b> biological weapons </b> laboratories. Not just a biological weapons research laboraory, but they kept them in trucks. <br /><br />The United States government even thought they had identified the trucks, or maybe this giy actually knew about the trucks (which were actually something else entirely - either mobile milk pasteurization or hydrogen generation trailers. But Saddam Hussein was not preparing to keep his precious supply of biological material safe from bombing by putting them in refrigerated trucks.)<br /><br />Even according to Curveball, that was only a research program, and most people anyway believed that Saddam Hussein had, or had had, a research program into biological weapons anyway - but that he got interested in smallpox too late. He was said to be interested in anthrax. <br /><br />Nobody thought much had come of it.<br /><br />What we usually are talking about when we say WMDs were thought to be theer and not found are chemical weapons, not biological or nuclear weapons, although they are all called WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction) and sometimes NBC - Nuclear, Biological and Chemical weapons.Sammy Finkelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105012664741556033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17945075670663350492016-02-15T13:11:04.206-06:002016-02-15T13:11:04.206-06:00John Henry:
"We let businesses write off in...John Henry:<br /><br /><i> "We let businesses write off investments, why don't we let parents write off the investment in their children." (Very approximate quote) </i><br /><br />That was Rubio. He is the one who had the increaed child tax credit in his tax plan.<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/politics/transcript-of-the-republic<br />an-presidential-debate.html?_r=<br /><br /><b> STRASSEL: O.K., I have a question, a related tax question.<br /><br />Senator Rubio, you have the highest tax rate of anyone up on the stage<br />in terms of the top tax rates, 35 percent. Some economists say, "It<br />would limit its potential to boost economic growth." You do that so that<br />you will have more revenue to pay for a tripling of the Child Tax<br />Credit.<br /><br />Normally, it's liberals who like to use the tax code to insert social<br />policy. Why should conservatives who want to tax adopt the other side's<br />approach?<br /><br />RUBIO: Well, because I'm influencing social policy - this is their<br />money. This is the money of parents. You don't earn the tax credit<br />unless you're working. That's your money, it doesn't belong to<br />government.<br /><br />Here's what I don't understand. <i> If a business takes their money and they<br />invest in the piece of the equipment, they get to write off their taxes.<br />But if a parent takes money that they have earned to work and invests in<br />their children, they don't? </i> This makes no sense.<br /><br />Parenting is the most important job any of us will ever have. Family<br />formation is the most important thing in society. So what my tax plan<br />does, is it does create, especially for working families, an additional<br />Child Tax Credit. So that parents who are working get to keep more of<br />their own money, not the government's money, to invest in their children<br />to go to school, to go to a private school, to buy a new backpack.<br /><br />Let me tell you, if you're a parent that's struggling, then you know<br />that $50 a month is the difference between a new pair of shoes this<br />month or not getting a new pair of shoes for your kids. I'm going to<br />have a tax plan that is pro-family, because the family is the most<br />important institution in society. You cannot have a strong country<br />without strong families. </b> <br />Sammy Finkelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105012664741556033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78461116014849441452016-02-14T13:39:27.657-06:002016-02-14T13:39:27.657-06:00That f'n bell was louder than our tornado sire...That f'n bell was louder than our tornado sirens. My wife finally said "if you don't turn that off, I'm going to come in there, and then you'll be sorry!"<br /><br />I said "I'm sorry now!"<br /><br />I'd have to feed Toto a damned treat every time the f'n bell rang...<br />Etiennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02463542962653770911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1064969415229363582016-02-14T12:47:47.118-06:002016-02-14T12:47:47.118-06:00"I'd say if they agree with the people th...<i>"I'd say if they agree with the people then they can retain their unique privilege."<br />Freedom of speech is the right of an American, not a privilege granted by you or anyone else.</i> <br /><br />No one's taking away that billionaire's right, you paranoid conserfative. He can say all he wants. Comment on Blogger, give a press interview. Look how free it is! I'm doing it right now and it's costing me nothing! Who's taking that away from him? <br /><br />What you want is to give him the privilege to allow his speech to be louder than others, more pervasive, to drown out other voices through unequal advertising money. So go ahead and propose giving as much money and advertising resources to others and then I'll believe your pretension to favoring equal free speech rights for all.<br /><br /><i>Fuck you, fascist.</i><br /><br />Lol! YOU'RE the one who wants to tie corporate and financial power to the state, you retarded dildo of a conserfative.Wisconsin Republican Alliancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07524525431239641681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-7020115960519607242016-02-14T12:44:03.111-06:002016-02-14T12:44:03.111-06:00Was Trump trying to convince primary voters with t...Was Trump trying to convince primary voters with the Bush lied meme? I doubt it will work and might backfire.<br /><br />OTOH, he can afford to lose a few voters in the primary, being so far ahead. Perhaps he was reaching out to Democrat, general election, voters?<br /><br />John HenryJohn Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05059334464714085746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34326692612277014582016-02-14T12:41:20.119-06:002016-02-14T12:41:20.119-06:00Chuck,
I noticed that about Trump's face as w...Chuck,<br /><br />I noticed that about Trump's face as well. Looking closely, I don't think it was makeup, I think it was the lighting. It looked like they had a red spotlight on him. <br /><br />Perhaps donor payback for not taking their money. <br /><br />John HenryJohn Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05059334464714085746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63764005702886989692016-02-14T12:37:37.116-06:002016-02-14T12:37:37.116-06:00Kramer knows about write-offs:
https://www.youtub...Kramer knows about write-offs:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQJohn Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05059334464714085746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23606418379682793702016-02-14T12:34:50.221-06:002016-02-14T12:34:50.221-06:00Except for his citizenship status, I have always b...Except for his citizenship status, I have always been a big Cruz fan as he seems most like a liberal. He lost me last night. He showed that he has not even the most basic understanding of economics, finance or accounting. <br /><br />"We let businesses write off investments, why don't we let parents write off the investment in their children." (Very approximate quote)<br /><br />I assume that by write off, he means depreciate but is too much of a pussycat to say it. Business write off investments because they depreciate in value. A new stamping press may have a useful life of 10 years after which its value may be zero. The business gets to deduct 10% of its investment each year.<br /><br />Cruz, by making this comparison, is saying that children depreciate in value each year until they are worth nothing. <br /><br />That may be the way some parents view their children but most of us feel quite differently. Our children do not depreciate in value, they appreciate in value. Mostly non-monetary but appreciation nonetheless.<br /><br />From everything I've seen Cruz loves his children and seems to be a good father. That makes it even more horrifying for him to say this.<br /><br />Trump, who understands about writing off depreciation, should have called him on it. <br /><br />I suspect that Carson, having run a medical practice that likely had depreciable assets probably knows about this too. He should have called him on it. <br /><br />A horrible, horrible, sick thing for Cruz to say. <br /><br />John HenryJohn Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05059334464714085746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11442792525804823422016-02-14T08:13:48.294-06:002016-02-14T08:13:48.294-06:00Saying "it's about values" while cal...Saying "it's about values" while calling those who disagree with you "cocksuckers": why 99% of us think R&B is a liar, a fool, and (of course) a creep, all wrapped up in one nasty package. Many of us also suspect he is paid to come here and wreck the comment section. Dr Weevilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10059306888033890029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81549502271484297012016-02-14T08:08:22.071-06:002016-02-14T08:08:22.071-06:00Hoyden wrote:
With a looming communist/societal tr...Hoyden wrote:<br /><i>With a looming communist/societal transformation who will populate America's military to fight for our existence?</i><br />They don't care, Hoyden. The Great American Liberal Project is to reform America. Their energies are focused inwards, they recognize no foreign threat. When Obama talks about taking in refugees from the ME, he talks about what it means to us, not what it means to them. It is important to him that they come <i>here</i>, not some other western nation where they would presumably be just as safe.<br />It's one of the few remaining real differences between the GOP and the Democrats, these days. Republicans talk about how their foreign policy will change the way other countries or external terror groups act. Democrats talk about how their foreign policy will change the way that we think about ourselves.Lewis Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01200232293505119133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-46396514243017008302016-02-14T07:36:13.442-06:002016-02-14T07:36:13.442-06:00Liberals appear poised like a car chasing dog who ...Liberals appear poised like a car chasing dog who finally catches the car. What will it do now? With a looming communist/societal transformation who will populate America's military to fight for our existence? I can't imagine the traditional folks who fought for America will be interested in laying down their lives for the bureaucratic-ruled, socially leveled America. <br /><br />Relax, learn, and share the popcorn.hoydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13269690586125378243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71687917237649017392016-02-14T07:20:58.615-06:002016-02-14T07:20:58.615-06:00@ rhhardin:
Epstein's scholarship (e.g.,his w...@ rhhardin:<br /><br />Epstein's scholarship (e.g.,his writing about tort law or product liability) tell a very different story.busterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13772893318825172802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-43712858651424495672016-02-14T07:11:14.156-06:002016-02-14T07:11:14.156-06:00Epstein finds the orginal sources of the original ...Epstein finds the orginal sources of the original texts; and explains SC mistakes in those terms. There are reasons for the principles.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-8291466496913619782016-02-14T07:08:38.339-06:002016-02-14T07:08:38.339-06:00Belmont Club comments on the Obama disasters and S...<a href="https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2016/02/13/american-idol/" rel="nofollow">Belmont Club</a> comments on the Obama disasters and Scalia's death, in terms of vanishing design margin.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90405131159990004612016-02-14T06:59:07.706-06:002016-02-14T06:59:07.706-06:00Terry quoting Vaclev Havel; putting into words the...Terry quoting Vaclev Havel; putting into words the future I feel is coming out way.hoydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13269690586125378243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50589658572752249792016-02-14T06:54:01.752-06:002016-02-14T06:54:01.752-06:00I don't know a lot about Epstein's views o...I don't know a lot about Epstein's views on constitutional interpretation--I read his book on property rights years ago--but I doubt he's an originalist (or textualist) like Scalia. His legal analysis is driven in large part by ideological commitments--just different commitments to those of Breyer, Kagan, Ginsberg, and Sotomayor. The same for Posner.busterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13772893318825172802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-58766157145098104862016-02-14T06:27:46.477-06:002016-02-14T06:27:46.477-06:00Vaclev Havel:
“[Communism] offers a ready answer ...Vaclev Havel:<br /><i><br />“[Communism] offers a ready answer to any question whatsoever; it can scarcely be accepted only in part, and accepting it has profound implications for human life. In an era when metaphysical and existential certainties are in a state of crisis, when people are being uprooted and alienated and are losing their sense of what this world means, this ideology inevitably has a certain hypnotic charm. To wandering humankind it offers an immediate available home: all one has to do is accept it, and suddenly everything becomes clear once more, life take on new meaning, and all mysteries, unanswered questions, anxiety, and loneliness vanish. Of course, one pays dearly for this low rent home: the price is abdication of one’s own reason, conscience, and responsibility, for an essential aspect of this ideology is the consignment of reason and conscience to a higher authority. The principle here is that the center of power is identical with the center of truth.”<br /></i>Lewis Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01200232293505119133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28652627762976903142016-02-14T06:08:35.062-06:002016-02-14T06:08:35.062-06:00The argument is that women want a court that will ...The argument is that women want a court that will give them what they want now even if the system collapses tomorrow, and men want a court that will keep the system running.<br /><br />So the men have to lie successfully.<br /><br />It's a MSM problem that lies are necessary, because the problem can't be discussed.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60314459755589743252016-02-14T06:04:13.995-06:002016-02-14T06:04:13.995-06:00Trump won't appoint Epstein though, becuase Ep...Trump won't appoint Epstein though, becuase Epstein thinks Trump is a loose cannon.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76885875374131770112016-02-14T06:03:28.264-06:002016-02-14T06:03:28.264-06:00Richard Epstein is the obvious choice. You want w...Richard Epstein is the obvious choice. You want writings, there you go.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82703319471917618402016-02-14T06:01:46.661-06:002016-02-14T06:01:46.661-06:00It's a celebrity death, not the death of an ac...It's a celebrity death, not the death of an acquaintance. So there's the entertainment value to ignore.<br /><br />The court is politicized and the only remaining check on the left, after all the checks and balances have been nullified.<br /><br />The dignity of the court is no greater than the dignity of the remaining four on the right.<br /><br />The court itself is the same ridiculous object that it's been for years.<br /><br />A high price for getting your agenda through. The unspoken rules no longer work and the system isn't self-policing any longer.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-47429657955460087962016-02-14T05:53:21.984-06:002016-02-14T05:53:21.984-06:00Nineteen Eighty-Four is a difficult book to read. ...<i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i> is a difficult book to read. It is a tragedy. There is no happy ending for anyone. Not even the members of the oligarchy called "Big Brother" are happy. <br />But it is an excellent description of the ways and means of totalitarianism. Particularly with Winston Smith's conversations with the interrogator O'Brien, Orwell -- who saw totalitarianism close up -- shows us how inhuman and utterly bankrupt Big Brother is. Nothing matters but power. There is no other goal. Big Brother doesn't want to win the war with East Asia. Big Brother doesn't want to make the world a better place. Big Brother exists solely to exercise the power of Big Brother. Like Sauron in Tolkien's <i>Lord of the Rings</i>, the goal of Big Brother is to see everything in the world, and see nothing that was not an exercise of his will. <br />Power is not power, O'Brien tells Smith, unless it is arbitrary.<br />So it is with the American Left. From the absurdity of SSM to the fantasy of global warming, the only goal of the American Left is to make you behave differently than you would choose to behave if you were free. That is what is behind the claim of leftists (like Obama) that they aren't ideologues, and they are only interested in what works. The only ideology they have is that they get to make the decisions, not you. The details of the decisions don't matter.Lewis Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01200232293505119133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50794732245861497062016-02-14T03:27:43.144-06:002016-02-14T03:27:43.144-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Etiennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02463542962653770911noreply@blogger.com