How does one fairly label people?
Does a person become part of a group by saying they are part of a group or do they become part of the group by actually following the positions of the group? For example when does a person stop being part of the Conservative, Libertarian, Liberal, or [your pick ism]? Do we need to add adjectives to delineate between the groups?
If say 10% of the group does terrible things can you say the whole group is like this? (Especially if the larger part of the group does not denounce them.) If say 10% is good can the whole group claim goodness?
I like this story for death defying logic.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/atheist-minister-continues-fight-to-remain-ordained-in-united-church-of-canada-142493/
A minister of a church in Canada is an avowed atheist … Continue reading
I am wondering how people are doing. I am writing this post because the situation is fluid. (bad pun) How people were doing after the initial storm is not the same as they are doing now.
I got a hold of someone who could tell me that Boymoose missed the flood hitting his house by an inch. The garage was not so lucky.
Does anyone know about SeaWriter’s place? Aaron Miller if I remember correctly lives in the area so him too?
(Brent, stop watching at the 56 min mark.)
Even if you don’t have the full 70 minutes, snippets will be worth your time. This man was downed in Nam and spent over a year in a hospital. He drank the Kool-Aid. (Watch the video to understand.) He took some personal photos of the SR-71 which were amazing.
Sad day here. One of my basket cases going through Chapter 11 is giving it up. Between the prolongation of the case by a seriously OCD Federal Judge, a vindictive Federal Trustee who keeps trying to prove malfeasance and the actions of a Progressive Government passing a ridiculous minimum wage law state wide, the three restaurant business is going under.
Once the wages were mandated , full service restaurants that were middle priced were doomed. Chipolte and other ‘fast fresh’ models would dominate.
The Judge took every minor accusation and demanded a full blown investigation , which took the available cash from a start point of $300,000 and dwindled it to $100,000 in professional fees to rebut the charges over a two year period. They happened to be … Continue reading
I remember in 2008 how many of us listeners mentioned to Hugh (and this happened on Michael Medved’s show, too) that Obama is a Socialist (really, he’s a Marxist) and he refused to let callers continue, dismissing them immediately. He later admitted that Obama was a socialist in 2012. Too late, of course.
Since he’s been on MSNBC and other mainstream shows he’s defended the MSM personalities to his listeners and talked about how nice they all are. It’s difficult to listen to his interviews of some of these people as he never gives them any difficult or challenging questions. With them he’s become a shill and it’s embarrassing and it’s obvious.
When Robert Mueller was appointed as a special prosecutor he was lavish in his praise, insisting … Continue reading
A week or so ago, I finished reading Tramp Royale by Robert Heinlein. It is a travelogue documenting an around-the-world trip Heinlein and his wife took in 1953-54 by ship, rail, and airplane. Mostly, the book is a light-hearted description of their travels with his wife (Ginny, aka “Ticky” in the book) humorously cast as his troublemaker companion. She published the book in 1992, after her husband’s death.
This is not a book review. It is the book’s concluding passage, extensively quoted below, that struck me as applicable today as it was over 60 years ago. Heinlein speaks of America’s many enemies and few friends abroad but … Continue reading
Dateline: Houston, Texas
President Trump and the First Lady arrived in Houston yesterday to survey the damage wrought by Hurricane Harvey. But the purpose of the trip was overshadowed by reactions to Melania Trump’s footwear, which is obviously of much greater import than a little water damage, thousands of lost houses and businesses, and some dead people. I mean let’s get our priorities straight here. Am I right?
On the ground at the White House, CNN’s I.M. Amoron reported: “Melania Trump just boarded the plane in stiletto heels. One has to wonder what she was thinking when she got dressed this morning. It looks to me like she was thinking only of herself as usual. It’s just more evidence of the disconnect. Which is my new favorite word. … Continue reading
It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another town hall meeting in the Village of the Darned.
BDB still wants somebody, multiple somebodies, or multiple nobodies out there to volunteer to speak on interesting subjects.
If the software tells you that you’re the only caller, don’t you believe it! Press on with the access code and you’ll probably find us in there!
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Chile +56 2 3210 … Continue reading
Just in case you missed it, which would not be hard to do because it was not widely reported, last week a dozen or so Philadelphia BLMs came to the quiet street on which a Philadelphia cop lives with his family. The cop is on administrative leave pending an investigation into his participation in a shooting death of a black man in June. For a couple hours the BLMs, with a bullhorn, shouted threats and obscenities, ignoring the fact that it was a street of families and kids. A string of police officers instantly materialized and separated the thugs from the crowd of Philly-attitude parents who quickly came out to ‘discuss’ things with them.
Not mentioned in any news report that I’ve seen, but reported by the local … Continue reading
