tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post2009537545644982901..comments2024-03-23T18:50:32.902-04:00Comments on Telling Secrets: Profligacy wears a Conservative Mask: A cultural parableElizabeth Kaetonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-23611467499431682682008-09-25T09:09:00.000-04:002008-09-25T09:09:00.000-04:00Agreed Elizabeth. The word "nihilist" comes to min...Agreed Elizabeth. The word <B>"nihilist"</B> comes to mind.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05623709712119761741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-77767297502192652552008-09-24T23:07:00.000-04:002008-09-24T23:07:00.000-04:00Jack - I don't know who you are or why you came he...Jack - I don't know who you are or why you came here, but I don't think I want any of whatever it is you've been smoking.<BR/><BR/>Come here again and use that same language and you will be block.<BR/><BR/>This is your first and only warning.<BR/><BR/>Why did I publish this? So you can see some of what I have to put up with on a regular basis.Elizabeth Kaetonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-54917662423959021982008-09-24T16:16:00.000-04:002008-09-24T16:16:00.000-04:00Blame professulas whose posh pensions graze on stu...Blame professulas whose posh pensions graze on stumbent loan interest from vacuous degrees in basket weaving commie nutty organizing. Turn grant grubbing blatherers into fuel, especially perverts like mayor crotch who gas for obsama zbin biden. Your islamosympathic gutterswabbing clothing and pierced privates spread diesease. If you weren't such baby killing, vermin snuggling perverts you wouldn't be driving up our health costs, then collecting disability for your commie nutty organizing dementia. Your passive aggressive labor unions grab our guns, cars (congestion pricing), balls (SONDA), wallets, and homes but we will grab your throats and dang you from trailer bone tolls. Repeal the seventeenth amendment before any VAT. All the homeless are drugged out hippies. Second Amendment is the ONLY Homeland Security. Wait until we waste all your stumbent subprimes, so you need to sell your affectation glutton art and work instead of diverting tution and Y2K scams to soviet freezeniks! Deport for multiple visits to same country. If you controlled your own pension neither your boss nor the government could abuse it. Lynch soviet wealth fund abbetting aghadhimmic peakies when oil plummets! Hazards and pollution stem mostly from mandates. Aqua volte! This land wasn't build by bullocraps.Jack Reylanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13966577163658691971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-55534848823287876152008-09-23T17:14:00.000-04:002008-09-23T17:14:00.000-04:00I don’t know if his time line is correct. In Gold...I don’t know if his time line is correct. In Goldwater’s time, it was still the Conservative faction that wanted to be the world’s policeman. It was the Liberal side, especially the kids in school who wanted out of Viet Nam. People were actually afraid of Goldwater because they feared that he wouldn’t hesitate to use the Nuclear option. Using “Nukes” was never a Liberal point of view. It was the Liberals who were taking over college campuses with the Conservatives aghast at their actions. It was the Liberals who got shot at Kent State while protesting the war while it was the Conservative National Guardsmen who did the actual shooting. No right thinking Liberal wanted to be in the Army. On Wall street it was the Liberal students who tried to lower the flag at City Hall to half-mast in honor of the Kent State dead, while it was the conservative Wall Street workers and construction workers who rioted and went after them. I know because I was there.<BR/><BR/>I think his time line has to be stretched farther back to get the result the author is talking about. It was probably different at the outset of WWII when the opposite was happening. The Conservatives of that era would have loved to practice isolationism and remain neutral while it was the liberal side of the aisle that approved Lend Lease and wanted to aid the British and French. It was FDR, a Democrat, who befriended Churchill and looked for ways to provide aid. Remember, it was Pearl Harbor that dragged us into the war. If it wasn’t for that insult to national pride, the conservatives in congress would never have agreed to go to war. Conservatively speaking, wars cost money and the money comes from taxes. So, I would put this shift in ideology back almost 70 years and not the 40 years he is referencing.<BR/><BR/>I can’t begin to look for parallels in the church because my knowledge of the church in that period is sorely lacking.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05623709712119761741noreply@blogger.com