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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I've disagreed with Glenn in the past and never been censored for it. Maybe your vulgarity or technic is to blame?
It was -- doubledave27 that wrote "a small plot of land".
My apologies.
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It might be a somewhat decreased tolerance for inanity today.
Strikes me as the most likely place for finding anything empirical. Using the search term "political dynasties"at HNN, I came up with these results:
http://hnn.us/results.php?cx=009765591100091698464%3Ave6wzf7owyw&cof=FORID%3A11&q=political+dynasties&sa.x=9&sa.y=10#818
Didn't begin to read them all. Other search terms might or might not yield something as well.
And that's just not allowed in this country. Oh, sure, it's okay to speak about other countries in which things like social class or inherited wealth or institutions of socialization and policy planning networks affect who runs for and is more likely to win office, and what sorts of policies are consistently supported over time.But you cannot do that for this country, for then you are an extremist fringe lefty conspiracist paranoid.
Any attempt in this country to point out the ongoing class warfare is immediately deemed to be a dastardly attempt to "incite" class warfare. This seems to me the equivalent of blaming the poor bastards in foxholes in 1914 France for inciting World War 1.
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That being the strange phenomenon of American women who perceive and describe themselves as Princesses.
I found that statement a little odd. I will admit to wearing a small tiara on my wedding day, but I'm not following you with regard to this being a substantial trend among American women.
Setting aside young girls who worship Disney creations and Paris Hilton (who is a "creation" unto herself), most of us appear, to me at least, to have a fairly decent grasp of the realities that have become our lives, and that wedding day tiara hasn't been worn since, if we were fortunate enough to wear one then.
Can you give me some examples of what you are referring to here? Because this "phenomenon" sure hasn't been something I've seen in the women in my life.
Isn't it about stability and the perception that the political establishment is always about to be discredited?
So, we don't let the people know too much about what happend behind the scenes when JFK was assassinated, because that would undermine the legitimacy of our government. Same with Watergate. Same with all the scandals. Same with 9-11. There a big one.
Obama chooses a war cabinet and no one from the left in foreign policy or economics. That sends a message that there will be no tinkering with capitalism. Obama has to send a lot of messages that the way things have been done will not change much.
The nepotism is all about the reassurance that nuts don't fall too far from the tree.
"But I would cheer the appointment of RFK Jr. (or perhaps any K)to a higher office. He's a real lefty who isn't afraid to speak the truth about things The Powers wish to keep under their control."
BS. He's a con artist and a liar. His self-aggrandizing lies have done immeasurable harm to children all over the world. See my earlier comment.
Oh Glenn, if only you knew what went on in Delaware. They call it the "Delaware Way". We didn't even put up a first tier Senate candidate against Mike Castle this year because of an alledged back room deal with now congressmen former governor Carper and Castle. Horrible...
They just cut half the staff at the local (Gannet owned) newspaper.
I really don't see this as a problem in politics at all. Sure it happens, but if you look at our presidents anyway, from Kennedy through Bush we had almost 40 years and 6 presidents all of whom were self-made men from varying degrees of poverty to middle-class.
And after all, would it be more democratic to bar relatives from office? With the exception of appointments all of these dynasties were democratically elected, and even the appointments have to face the voters sooner or later.
Now the chattering class dynasties are a different matter.
I've disagreed with Glenn in the past and never been censored for it. Maybe your vulgarity or technic is to blame?
There's criticism of and disagreement with what I write in every single post of mine -- often intense, sometimes even foul, disagreement. All anyone has to do is check any random comment thread to see I don't delete dissent or have any content-based deletions.
Hawkd is ElectoRobert and a whole slew of other names who has repeatedly attempted to disrupt the discussion here with the same idiot nonsequitors over and over and over ("Slaughter the Jews. It's all their fault"). He's proven beyond any doubt that his presence here is purely disruptive and it's not wanted, even if -- one extremely rare occasions -- he writes something relatively harmless.
That many people don't know who they are voting for. Back in the spring of 1968, when I lived in NYC and was between jobs, I spent a lot of time working in the campaign office of Gene McCarthy (over a long-gone Chock-Full-O-Nuts outlet on the south side of Columbus Circle...the head guru of the office was a very young Harold Ickes Jr.). I had always wondered why campaigns repeated the same simple-minded stuff over and over, until I took a phone call from a lady who was under the impression that our McCarthy was named Joe. The light went on for me then, and has, alas, never gone off. Being a small 'd' democrat gets harder all the time.
I clicked on the linky thinking I'd made TOTD...
Well, I was just at a birthday party for a 22 year old woman the other night and five girls there were wearing tiaras. Also, perhaps you could do a myspace search for people whose screen names involve the word Princess in one way or another, I'm sure you'll come up with thousands of examples.
I know that just using the word "women" in today's climate is considered incendiary but I am only attempting to describe what I have witnessed. If you're offended I'm sorry, but I've yet to have a girlfriend who didn't like being called "Princess" or didn't like being treated like a "Princess".
And I'm glad you brought up Disney because I am sure they are at least partially to blame for promoting this notion of Princessliness.
Valentine's Day is fast approaching, be sure to listen closely to radio commercials and watch closely television commercials and web ads as they implore the men of our nation to treat their "Woman" like a Princess this Valentine's Day. Perhaps you've not noticed the phenomenon but I have. Myself, I am an anti-royalist, so I pay particular attention to these things. You yourself admitted that on your wedding day you wore a tiara, well for my own part I have never in my life worn a crown and never will.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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