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Amen!!!
An apostasy? I doubt it would be that,
“The Instrumentum Laboris burdens the Synod of Bishops, and finally the pope, with a grave breach with the Depositum fidei (deposit of the faith), which in its consequence means the self-destruction of the Church or the transformation of the Corpus Christi mysticum (Mystical Body of Christ) in...
"This election has nothing to do with Vichy, whatever number you give to it."
One of Le Pen's campaign points was deporting immigrants; I'm thinking she didn't mean Germans, Dutch, Polish immigrants, but the survivors of France's colonial policies in Africa, Asia, and possibly the ME. Who did the French deport in 1942? Jewish immigrants. The French police not the Germans carried out rounding them up and getting them to German death camps.
Maybe she didn't really mean it. Maybe she wouldn't do it. In the meantime, the example of Vichy stands as a warning. Let's call it Vichy 1.25.
Macron wins the French presidency with 65 % of the vote.
The voting rate was approximately 75%. The cities appear to have turned out the vote very heavily. Le Pen received just under 35% of the vote which for a party and candidate that wants to withdraw from the EU, severely limit immigration and deport those suspected of terrorism is a rather h...
Exactly so.
"Has Obama betrayed Israel?" Henry Siegman
"Is it not high time for Israel’s public to wake up to Netanyahu’s deceptions? The countries that voted for this Security Council resolution are not anti-Semitic outliers. They included every major democratic country that belongs to the Security Council. Not one of them voted for the Zionis...
Annihilation in NYC is a daily possibility. I hadn't particularly thought of the Russians doing it. Of course, there are the Russian cabbies, but they can only pick off one or two people at a time.
What to make of this...
Yesterday, President Obama ordered up a report on Russian hacking and the 2016 election. Lo, this morning's (12/10) New York Times. "WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign ...
This informal Saturday poll responding to, "What Does this Mean..." seems to be:
Doesn't mean a damn thing, except that the Democrats are sore losers.
What to make of this...
Yesterday, President Obama ordered up a report on Russian hacking and the 2016 election. Lo, this morning's (12/10) New York Times. "WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign ...
Yes, I do remember very well.
And you probably remember that I was taken to be an ardent Clinton supporter. I was certainly opposed to Trump and voted for Clinton. However, I was, and among those, who during the election lamented that we had to spend so much time criticizing the Republicans and Trump in particular. We were looking forward to the day when we would having Clinton "to kick around again"; meaning that in the face of two bad choices, she was the least bad.
I don't recall that you were specifically a Trump fan, but you won't mind my saying, I hope, that you should be careful what you wish for.
What to make of this...
Yesterday, President Obama ordered up a report on Russian hacking and the 2016 election. Lo, this morning's (12/10) New York Times. "WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign ...
The comments questioning her analysis are also worth a read.
What to make of this...
Yesterday, President Obama ordered up a report on Russian hacking and the 2016 election. Lo, this morning's (12/10) New York Times. "WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign ...
And the Washington Post has this: "The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter." http://wapo.st/2h9HyW3
What to make of this...
Yesterday, President Obama ordered up a report on Russian hacking and the 2016 election. Lo, this morning's (12/10) New York Times. "WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign ...
What to make of this...
Posted Dec 10, 2016 at Sic Semper Tyrannis
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Touche! It is especially unfair to hound dogs.
The 1st Debate
IMO most people who are not members of the "elites" will see her performance as excessively robotic and programmed. The constant wide eyed Kewpie doll smiling , eye rolling, sneering, etc. was quite annoying. It brought to mind Al Gore's behavior in 2000. OTOH his inability to sustain a p...
Excellent rendition of Alice in Wonderland, 2016 edition.
The 1st Debate
IMO most people who are not members of the "elites" will see her performance as excessively robotic and programmed. The constant wide eyed Kewpie doll smiling , eye rolling, sneering, etc. was quite annoying. It brought to mind Al Gore's behavior in 2000. OTOH his inability to sustain a p...
Intimidate you? Impossible. Would never think of it. Would never want to.
The kewpie doll comparison took me aback. Peace.
The 1st Debate
IMO most people who are not members of the "elites" will see her performance as excessively robotic and programmed. The constant wide eyed Kewpie doll smiling , eye rolling, sneering, etc. was quite annoying. It brought to mind Al Gore's behavior in 2000. OTOH his inability to sustain a p...
Only here where there is a strong streak of misogyny. It's one thing to read it on a Tyler post, I was sorry to read it on one of yours.
The 1st Debate
IMO most people who are not members of the "elites" will see her performance as excessively robotic and programmed. The constant wide eyed Kewpie doll smiling , eye rolling, sneering, etc. was quite annoying. It brought to mind Al Gore's behavior in 2000. OTOH his inability to sustain a p...
If I may....Can we agree on this: Women shouldn't be given a pass on ideas, statements, performance, execution, etc. Stuff that counts.
But...it seems to be a cultural factoid of U.S. media and politics that women have to show up in public with make-up perfect, hair done, clothes clean and pressed. And so Clinton did. She looked fine for a 68-year old.
Let me contrast her mode and demeanor with her opponent who looked like an old hound dog with his puffy eye bags, pouty lips (though no drool), and baggy suit. I would never mention this except in contrast. She was obliged to look as good as she could. He was not.
The day a woman candidate can walk up to the podium looking like Mr. Trump did last night will be aesthetically sad, but then we can judge candidates on their political smarts, or lack thereof.
With pardon to our German friends, let me point out that Chancellor Angela Merkle is a fine representative of a culture where politics and media do not dictate what she wears and how she looks. Bravo!
The 1st Debate
IMO most people who are not members of the "elites" will see her performance as excessively robotic and programmed. The constant wide eyed Kewpie doll smiling , eye rolling, sneering, etc. was quite annoying. It brought to mind Al Gore's behavior in 2000. OTOH his inability to sustain a p...
"NYC real estate is highly regulated."
You bet it is--by the real estate industry itself and its lobbyists and representatives in Albany and at City Hall.
You're electing a president who learned everything he knows in NYC real estate.
2016 election forecast - 19 September
Between now and the November election we will make periodic checks as to SST members opinion as to the outcomes. Please give your view as to results in the congress and for the presidency. pl
"I will vote for her because there's no choice,"
I should have added because, as I may have mentioned I was born and baptized in Chicago, and therefore I must vote for someone...
The Commander in Chief Forum
We watched it last night. This morning I was out with Harper having a giant diner breakfast at Bob and Edith's on 23rd St. in Crystal City. So this is now my first chance to put something up about the exalted brooding last night. I am going to let you all write first as to your opinions bef...
Not because I am her supporter. I will vote for her because there's no choice, but I am not her supporter. A koan!
Impartial--not the issue. He had two strikingly different characters before him. He hectored her and let him off free. He didn't know what he was doing, imho!
The Commander in Chief Forum
We watched it last night. This morning I was out with Harper having a giant diner breakfast at Bob and Edith's on 23rd St. in Crystal City. So this is now my first chance to put something up about the exalted brooding last night. I am going to let you all write first as to your opinions bef...
Apropos of the observation in the addenedum above: "I thought Lauer was quite even handed and is now paying the price levied by the band of leftist harpies gathered around HC. You know their names."
Even-handed in what way? Lauer several time told Clinton to cut it short, until she finally had to say at one point "Let me finish." Had the air of a marital "dialogue."
With Trump it was more like shooting the bull with the guy next to you at the bar. Since Trump says the minimum, perhaps there was no need to say, "cut it short"; couldn't have been any shorter. On the other hand, if Lauer really knew much about the issues he questioned the two on, he would have had better follow-up queries and points to Trump; he might even have done the same for Clinton.
We can all look forward to the debates with fear and loathing. See you there.
Whatever Lauer's politics, the problem is he was vastly underinformed and undercoached on running such a forum. A bit like Judy Woodruff on the Newshour.
The Commander in Chief Forum
We watched it last night. This morning I was out with Harper having a giant diner breakfast at Bob and Edith's on 23rd St. in Crystal City. So this is now my first chance to put something up about the exalted brooding last night. I am going to let you all write first as to your opinions bef...
Yes, hmmm, perhaps.
However, I have long thought that Israel is playing a double-game with Syria. However much medical support they may be giving to IS fighters (haven't actually seen that reported), they have been reported as giving medical assistance to the opposition and "other" Syrian fighters. No doubt humanitarian. And no doubt with an eye to the ultimate settlement, which very likely could be without Assad but with the Alawites a major contingent, perhaps dominant, in a new government.
Syria's new government concedes the Golan and peripheral border territory to Israel.
As a lead-up to that how about this: Turkey kow tows to Putin and ends support of all factions fighting in Syria; Assad finally gets his dacha (perhaps in Crimea); Turkey and Israel have, if not kissed at least made up; Netanyahu is looking to flirt with Putin as a lever to move along the U.S. subvention to the occupation (and Liberman, foreign minister, and former citizen of the Soviet Union is there to translate.) Iran? will follow Assad's lead...not sure about this?
Perhaps I am naive (she says), but the idea that Clinton is going to nuke the world seems more far-fetched than the scenario I have just sketched.
Of course, I could be wrong...only a history major.
Most American Don't Care About U.S. Foreign Policy
And don't know much about it. Alas! Most Americans will vote for the candidate who not merely promises, but seems likely to deliver on domestic policies that will address local problems, that will benefit the issues that roil American communities (e.g., schools, pre-school, police, homeles...
Her inauguration is 5.5 months away. Maybe Russia, Turkey, Israel, and Assad will have settled matters per the comments on "30 Syria-2016 just to thwart her nuclear ambitions!
Most American Don't Care About U.S. Foreign Policy
And don't know much about it. Alas! Most Americans will vote for the candidate who not merely promises, but seems likely to deliver on domestic policies that will address local problems, that will benefit the issues that roil American communities (e.g., schools, pre-school, police, homeles...
Colonel Lang:
Insofar as I was born in Chicago and baptized a Catholic and a Democrat, you could say I am a Dem partisan. For some years now, and for various policy reasons, I have been a homeless Democrat. So I know how many Republican partisans must be feeling now.
As to the Rodham family drama, I know very little. What you write about mother and father Rodham sounds right. The Rodham brothers, as I recall, were something of a nuisance during Bill Clinton's presidency, but they seem to have gone off-screen.
The Rodhams lived in one of Chicago's commuter suburbs not far from O'Hare airport. Like most Chicago suburbs it was staunchly Republican, and if I remember correctly this one may have had a serious John Birch contingent. The politics were anti-Chicago. My family would never have gone there!
Hillary Clinton has written about her break from this politics. She credits the youth minister of the local Methodist church with having introduced her and her cohort to inner-city Chicago and contact with African-Americans (tutoring was big then, but I can't recall the project). Off she went to Wellesely and the rest is history. Perhaps her father did not see eye-to-eye with her sympathies and new political views. It may also be that he was a somewhat traditional pater familias against whom she had to rebel and they were never reconciled. Maybe he was just a drinker--so many possibilities.
Perhaps her foreign policy tendencies are simply the leftovers from 1950s Cold War America (we did have to hide under our desks during air raid drills). If so, they may be confounded with the R2P impulses of some of her Democratic colleagues, e.g., Samantha Power. Since she is likely to be our next president, whatever any of us think of her policies, we should hope (and pray) that she will avoid the very obvious missteps that lie in wait.
That's all I know!
Most American Don't Care About U.S. Foreign Policy
And don't know much about it. Alas! Most Americans will vote for the candidate who not merely promises, but seems likely to deliver on domestic policies that will address local problems, that will benefit the issues that roil American communities (e.g., schools, pre-school, police, homeles...
Thanks for the clarification and correction.
Question: How will the "new" Glass-Steagall Act resolve the problem?
Most American Don't Care About U.S. Foreign Policy
And don't know much about it. Alas! Most Americans will vote for the candidate who not merely promises, but seems likely to deliver on domestic policies that will address local problems, that will benefit the issues that roil American communities (e.g., schools, pre-school, police, homeles...
To: Sam Peralta @ 7:52
Whatever Trump's challenges in Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio, I puzzle over Pennsylvania. Coal-mining and Scranton are not the only issues, but one of the reasons coal-mining is on the downward spiral can be seen in the level of fracking that goes on in Pennsylvania. I don't have statistical comparisons, but while coal-mining PA has tanked, fracking PA (natural gas) has surged. Once the wells are dug, the jobs look to be pretty minimal, but lots of farmers and land owners are raking in the royalties....
Most American Don't Care About U.S. Foreign Policy
And don't know much about it. Alas! Most Americans will vote for the candidate who not merely promises, but seems likely to deliver on domestic policies that will address local problems, that will benefit the issues that roil American communities (e.g., schools, pre-school, police, homeles...
To Walrus @6:53
Glass-Steagall: What did I carelessly suggest? Bear-Stearn, Lehmann Brothers, and AIG, major factors in the crisis, would not have been Glass-Steagall regulated. The subprime mortgage crisis was not primarily a bank crisis but a crisis of mortgage orginators, such as Countrywide Financial. I say "may or may not," because as far as I can tell had it been in place, there would still have been a crisis because these were not banks. Therefore, reinstating it unless recalibrated to today's conditions "may or may not" prevent the next crisis....
Most American Don't Care About U.S. Foreign Policy
And don't know much about it. Alas! Most Americans will vote for the candidate who not merely promises, but seems likely to deliver on domestic policies that will address local problems, that will benefit the issues that roil American communities (e.g., schools, pre-school, police, homeles...
I read the New Yorker article by Jane Mayer. What I found both fascinating and frightening was Trump's inability or refusal to sit down and talk. He hired the guy, he agreed to the terms, and then he wouldn't/couldn't sit down to be interviewed for the project.
If I got Mayer's report right, Schwartz already had half of the very large advance. Schwartz had to follow Trump around and create the narrative. So was/is Trump ADD, a spoiled rich guy, a sociopath? Something's not normal. But maybe that's what many supporters are looking for in their next president.
Most American Don't Care About U.S. Foreign Policy
And don't know much about it. Alas! Most Americans will vote for the candidate who not merely promises, but seems likely to deliver on domestic policies that will address local problems, that will benefit the issues that roil American communities (e.g., schools, pre-school, police, homeles...
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