tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post111913746973302059..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: Winston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1120059119172956122005-06-29T11:31:00.000-04:002005-06-29T11:31:00.000-04:00Um, false dilemma?Um, false dilemma?Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1119677776460029782005-06-25T01:36:00.000-04:002005-06-25T01:36:00.000-04:00Aw, I don't miss much, WS.What the soldier meant w...Aw, I don't miss much, WS.<BR/><BR/>What the soldier meant was that if al-Qaeders want to obliterate themselves to gain a ticket to heaven, better they present themselves to a fully-armed member of the United States Armed Forces than to public transportation in Missouri or Madrid.<BR/><BR/>Had the US/UK invaded some innocent bystander like Jordan to create a magnet for Islamicist terror, that Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1119611085698304872005-06-24T07:04:00.000-04:002005-06-24T07:04:00.000-04:00Uh, I think you may be missing the point here, t.....Uh, I think you may be missing the point here, t... Nobody's blaming St. Louis...Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1119559089671555472005-06-23T16:38:00.000-04:002005-06-23T16:38:00.000-04:00What is strange is the Muslim-on-Muslim suicide bo...What is strange is the Muslim-on-Muslim suicide bombing of innocents, which was more characteristic of <A HREF="http://atheism.about.com/b/a/002404.htm" REL="nofollow">places like Pakistan</A>.<BR/> <BR/>We hope that these tactics, if you can call mindless murder "tactics", are making <A HREF="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=834742" REL="nofollow">even the Sunnis</A> realize thatTom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1119546421992299542005-06-23T13:07:00.000-04:002005-06-23T13:07:00.000-04:00Funny you should mention that... I just had a sim...Funny you should mention that... I just had a similar thought while driving down the road. Even if it were true that we were fighting them there so we didn't have to fight them here, it would still be wrong. It's roughly equivalent to saying "Hell, it's better to tear up Iraq and get some Iraqis killed than to risk similar death and destruction in America."<BR/><BR/>Because, of course, Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1119479264192818832005-06-22T18:27:00.000-04:002005-06-22T18:27:00.000-04:00But remember, we're fighting them in Iraq so that ...But remember, we're fighting them in Iraq so that we don't have to fight them in St. Louis.<BR/><BR/>I've always wondered how the Iraqis would feel about that. Making sacrifices to keep Americans safe.<BR/><BR/>so sez The Duke of PrunesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1119298065406009012005-06-20T16:07:00.000-04:002005-06-20T16:07:00.000-04:00I feel you, Rilke, but what if the christianists a...I feel you, Rilke, but <A HREF="http://philosodude.blogspot.com/2005/06/universal-health-care-armageddon-or.html" REL="nofollow"><I>what if the christianists are right?</I></A><BR/><BR/>I'm doing enough worrying for the three of us.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1119279470041151452005-06-20T10:57:00.000-04:002005-06-20T10:57:00.000-04:00Rilkefan posted "...the christianist elements of t...Rilkefan posted <BR/>"...the christianist elements of the GOP are broken and that the American people develop a lasting revulsion for reckless, non-transparent, unchecked, divisive, emotionally manipulative, Lysenkoist, extremist governance."<BR/><BR/>Seven accurate adjectives (and a noun and an adverb in there for good measure) in a row. My compliments on your succinct summation of this Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1119242355643173522005-06-20T00:39:00.000-04:002005-06-20T00:39:00.000-04:00Well, tvd, we're thinking about having kids, and t...Well, <B>tvd</B>, we're thinking about having kids, and the prospect of them growing up in a country weakened and divided by Bush's spendthrift and knee-jerk-partisan ways in a world made more dangerous and splintered by his arrogance and stupidity - well, seven adjectives don't do justice to my fear and anguish for them.rilkefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01189347779617969628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1119234954514820632005-06-19T22:35:00.000-04:002005-06-19T22:35:00.000-04:00"...the christianist elements of the GOP are broke..."...the christianist elements of the GOP are broken and that the American people develop a lasting revulsion for reckless, non-transparent, unchecked, divisive, emotionally manipulative, Lysenkoist, extremist governance."<BR/><BR/><BR/>7 pejorative adjectives (and a noun and an adverb in there for good measure) in a row. My compliments.<BR/><BR/>Congratulations on your marriage, rilke. It has Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1119193089380640242005-06-19T10:58:00.000-04:002005-06-19T10:58:00.000-04:00Oops, to go honeymooning and on returning to respo...Oops, to go honeymooning and on returning to respond to the top post at a favorite blog without reading beyond the next few posts is a classic dumb mistake - I see you've made exactly the above argument already.rilkefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01189347779617969628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1119192497067606792005-06-19T10:48:00.000-04:002005-06-19T10:48:00.000-04:00I think I'm both more anti-Bush and less divided r...I think I'm both more anti-Bush and less divided re success in Iraq than you, but it seems to me you leave out the argument that it might be good for America in the long term for Bush to fail clearly enough that the christianist elements of the GOP are broken and that the American people develop a lasting revulsion for reckless, non-transparent, unchecked, divisive, emotionally manipulative, rilkefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01189347779617969628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1119140123460147242005-06-18T20:15:00.000-04:002005-06-18T20:15:00.000-04:00That's why I enjoyed Adam Smith's other book, The ...That's why I enjoyed Adam Smith's <I>other</I> book, <A HREF="http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/smith/moral.2" REL="nofollow"><I>The Theory of the Moral Sentiments</I></A> so much. Man, he really had us humans wired: <BR/><BR/><I>That wherever we cannot sympathize with the affections of the agent, wherever there seems to be no propriety in the motives which influenced his conductTom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com