tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post4945738461224023308..comments2024-03-19T03:55:23.248-05:00Comments on Althouse: "What Is Your American Dream?"Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11386680250425129472010-10-19T22:16:50.155-05:002010-10-19T22:16:50.155-05:00Ahhh Meade.
A good man, Professor.Ahhh Meade.<br /><br />A good man, Professor.JALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15503869597362866878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45120680633004147772010-10-19T19:19:40.620-05:002010-10-19T19:19:40.620-05:00Good explanation, Meade.
I was heavily influenced...Good explanation, Meade.<br /><br />I was heavily influenced by "The Impossible Dream" in my youth. "Living the Dream" is a different take.former law studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196697206046544350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3548255699060444712010-10-19T18:22:03.277-05:002010-10-19T18:22:03.277-05:00Thanks to those who took the time to comment on my...Thanks to those who took the time to comment on my comment. Obviously (to some), I took the question not as "what is MY American Dream" but as "what is my idea of THE American Dream."<br /><br />My hope and wish FOR Americans is that fewer and fewer take for granted our sacred rights and liberties or consider the idea of living in freedom to be banal, trite, or somehow unworthy of expressing.Meadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00117933390338651739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-68048934053952141502010-10-19T16:21:16.966-05:002010-10-19T16:21:16.966-05:00Robert Cook assured: "Don't worry, GMay&q...Robert Cook assured: <i><b>"Don't worry, GMay"</b></i><br /><br />I won't Bobby. <br /><br />Just like you didn't worry about mentioning the CRA. Smart move.GMayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12231225580249665221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-70664962243266315172010-10-19T15:54:15.833-05:002010-10-19T15:54:15.833-05:00Shanna, you thinking maybe a combat boot look?Shanna, you thinking maybe a combat boot look?jungathearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14052796343893692840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50602054307248219922010-10-19T15:40:10.642-05:002010-10-19T15:40:10.642-05:00AMEN, Meade.AMEN, Meade.Tarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06472104751888958606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90353622202767054782010-10-19T14:02:58.953-05:002010-10-19T14:02:58.953-05:00He "wares" them, is normal and rides his...He "wares" them, is normal and rides his bike nude.<br /><br />Somehow all of that just doesn't work together.The Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05354536924604187137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-57777879277490448462010-10-19T13:20:17.842-05:002010-10-19T13:20:17.842-05:00P.S He also rides in a nude bike rally once a year...P.S He also rides in a nude bike rally once a year. It's a different part of America.ken in txhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345764031059905578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72354302133978465562010-10-19T13:18:24.098-05:002010-10-19T13:18:24.098-05:00I checked out the guy's website and verified m...I checked out the guy's website and verified my guess that he is from Ecutopia on the upper left coast. They are very popular there. I have a nephew who lives in Washington state. He wares these things. He is a normal guy, an architect, getting married, to a woman.ken in txhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345764031059905578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20565440066406675782010-10-19T11:57:11.170-05:002010-10-19T11:57:11.170-05:00It's a compelling project. Reminds me a bit of...It's a compelling project. Reminds me a bit of David Lynch's <a href="http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/www/#/all-episodes" rel="nofollow">Interview Project</a> (haven't watched too many of these, but I've been moved & charmed by those I've seen). <br /><br />I think the key to doing a project like this is to try to approach every one of your subjects-- each a distinct unique human life in medias res, a self making some fragmented sense of itself-- without contempt. But rather try to summon and maintain something more like wonder and compassion… at the recognizable, unfathomable other. (I think the best photography requires something like this too.)yashuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716156754089411837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-36567104243428540382010-10-19T11:45:59.347-05:002010-10-19T11:45:59.347-05:00I always like to read about Meade.
Unfortunately,...I always like to read about Meade.<br /><br />Unfortunately, he is my diet guru, and I've gained back five pounds. It isn't his fault.<br /><br />Michelle Obama is also gaining weight.<br /><br />Or gravity.<br /><br />I had hoped to attain Meade's levity. But there was a sickness, then a root canal, and I couldn't stay on track, but am beginning to think about it again.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38821392995038614932010-10-19T11:45:02.050-05:002010-10-19T11:45:02.050-05:00I assume that is the beta model?I assume that is the beta model?lonetownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10969510756729828503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88113132561378767742010-10-19T11:20:04.063-05:002010-10-19T11:20:04.063-05:00Don't worry, GMay...those were the smallfry......Don't worry, GMay...those were the smallfry...winnowed out by the market. The big boys on Wall Street are doing quite well. You wouldn't say the Mafia has been defeated if a few soldiers are gunned down but the dons are still living handsomely on Staten Island.Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-6384007392290291382010-10-19T11:11:29.883-05:002010-10-19T11:11:29.883-05:00Robert Cook missed a couple of newsdays:"Thos...Robert Cook missed a couple of newsdays:<i><b>"Those lending to people who were poor mortgage risks were not doing so for any other reason than to rip them off and leave them--and us--holding the bag.<br /><br />They succeeded quite smashingly in their criminal scheme and made billions in their thieving."</b></i><br /><br />Not very familiar with the CRA or all those banks that went belly up eh? Hard to make billions when your institution tanks.GMayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12231225580249665221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27752492280528052692010-10-19T11:05:51.622-05:002010-10-19T11:05:51.622-05:00The hosannas here in response to Meade's answe...The hosannas here in response to Meade's answer--<i>"To live in freedom"</i>--make my brain ache, given the Hallmark card banality of the sentiment...it's as if the clouds parted to reveal God, who spake...only to say <i>"Have a nice day."</i>Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-52379075302415546372010-10-19T10:32:15.439-05:002010-10-19T10:32:15.439-05:00Seriously? Am I the only person who reads both Alt...Seriously? Am I the only person who reads both Althouse and The Oatmeal?<br /><br />http://theoatmeal.com/blog/utilikiltAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11095556257772381398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27242526143442058012010-10-19T10:28:06.113-05:002010-10-19T10:28:06.113-05:00"I get so tired of hearing "The American...<i>"I get so tired of hearing "The American Dream of Home Ownership™" as an excuse for lending to people who have no business taking out a mortgage."</i><br /><br />What does this statement even mean?<br /><br />Those lending to people who were poor mortgage risks were not doing so for any other reason than to rip them off and leave them--and us--holding the bag.<br /><br />They succeeded quite smashingly in their criminal scheme and made billions in their thieving.Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-9262000816030554222010-10-19T10:06:53.330-05:002010-10-19T10:06:53.330-05:00Shanna for the win!
WV: reppare - reppare thee to...Shanna for the win!<br /><br />WV: reppare - reppare thee to thine chamber and donneth socks.The Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05354536924604187137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49793647021711247462010-10-19T09:59:05.046-05:002010-10-19T09:59:05.046-05:00I was going to follow up Big Mike's suggestion...I was going to follow up Big Mike's suggestion with the thought that the professor apply for work at the independent Franklin Pierce Law Center in New Hampshire, but they have recently chained themselves to the State, and are now the UNH School of Law.<br /><br />Escaping the snares of government is so hard these days.former law studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196697206046544350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60682481633517016542010-10-19T09:47:15.751-05:002010-10-19T09:47:15.751-05:00Good answer by Meade. I was going to suggest that ...Good answer by Meade. I was going to suggest that you consider joining the faculty of the Dartmouth law school (state motto: "Live Free or Die") but apparently Dartmouth doesn't have one.<br /><br />Ah well, winters in Wisconsin are bad enough. And Wisconsin has a better football team.Big Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831645119853118904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-36083483649675562222010-10-19T09:36:18.954-05:002010-10-19T09:36:18.954-05:00(The Crypto Jew)
I love FLS’ false dichotomy…eith...(The Crypto Jew)<br /><br />I love FLS’ false dichotomy…either live in WI/the US today or live in a cabin in the woods. One must have an UAW-GM bailout, ruinous fast rail and light rail schemes, Cap n’Trade and Green Jobs boondoggles or else one ahs nothing. Really, so the people of Ohio or WI were not “free” until 2008, FLS? Neither were EVER Slave States, so you don’t even get that rhetorical refuge. The people of Ohio and WI weren’t free in 1840, 1940, or 1980? Only NOW they’re free?<br /><br />You want it to seem that what exists TODAY is “Freedom” and what went before was not. How is that so? Please explain, use examples, and demonstrate that today’s freedom is superior to yesterday’s freedom. Show how the folks living in Lincoln’s Ohio were not free, or how the people of WI under T. Roosevelt, were not free. <br /><br />One does not need the Welfare State to be free; neither does a rejection of the Welfare State mean rejection of the State. Certainly the Founders were not Anarcho-Capitalists. They acknowledged a role for the Federal Government AND State Governments. A smaller “State” does not mean NO State, but if that’s what you want to think of your philosophic opponents, please drive on. Your ignorance will be your undoing…please consult Kuhn’s <b> The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</b> If you wish to support the political science version of “phlogiston” feel free, but a refusal to understand the nature of the paradigm shift approaching can prove intellectually fatal. If you wish to be the Left’s Robert Taft, feel free…but expect it to get pretty lonely over there.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13846399206688807076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91726996255477742722010-10-19T09:23:01.042-05:002010-10-19T09:23:01.042-05:00Perhaps true, fls, if The Law permitted any of it,...Perhaps true, fls, if The Law permitted any of it, which it doesn't, including foregoing health care, which is now a duty of citizenry, and declared 'Constitutional' because we breathe in and out.KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-69060024442477090202010-10-19T09:19:30.499-05:002010-10-19T09:19:30.499-05:00Which particular bonds of oppression are chafing t...Which particular bonds of oppression are chafing the Meadster?<br /><br />I think he might feel better if he gave up all claims to the state's bounty, living apart from the professor in a wilderness cabin, built of trees he felled with his own axes and crosscut saw. They can still get together of course, each paying their own way.former law studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196697206046544350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91619257899696150702010-10-19T09:11:27.973-05:002010-10-19T09:11:27.973-05:00He should wear different shoes with that skirt.He should wear different shoes with that skirt.Shannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15709594638793030086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-53210010950583917842010-10-19T08:56:10.870-05:002010-10-19T08:56:10.870-05:00Typo!
And that's not even the half of it.Typo!<br /><br />And that's not even the half of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com