The Election: I cannot accept…

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1. Ann Applebaum of the Washington Post, has just written a book, “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe.’ Said ‘crushing’ was based both on both the extreme violence of war, and the slow, ineluctable penetration of government into every aspect of the people’s existence. This is called totalitarian government.

a. From one review of the book: “… some scholars were sure that Communism had its bad points, but capitalism and its ideology represented by America were worse.”

2. Some ‘scholars.’ What will scholars say about Americans who gave in to the same without even being under the gun, the violence of war? Lack of interest? Lack of focus? Lack of knowledge of history and of human nature? Or did the people who once were famed for their ‘Can Do’ attitude simply get tired of personal responsibility and pride?




3. Let me give credit to the Alinsky designs, the vicious personal attacks, the lies that were supported by the media, the class warfare. A respectable, religious man, successful in business, who has demonstrated an ability to govern, attacked and sullied by a socialist raised by communists, steeped in 20 years in a Marxist church, a failure in economic policy as well as foreign policy….yet he proved that the more despicable the campaign, the more successful…

a. “Barack Obama’s aides and advisers are preparing to center the president’s reelection campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background,… unabashedly negative…”
Obama plan: Destroy Romney - Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com




4. And, let’s give credit as well, to a progressive philosophy which promises all things to all people…it’s charm predicted by Tocqueville, and it’s danger explained by Sowell:

a. Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”

b. Sowell takes the key political issues and challenges the reader to analyze not only their short term (Stage One) political impact but to also think ahead to their long term (Stage Two, Three, etc) economic impact. He reminds the reader that politicians do not think beyond Stage One because they will be praised (and elected) for the short term benefits but will not be held accountable much later when the long term consequences appear. From a review of “Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One,” Thomas Sowell




5. So, through ignorance, or ineptitude, or avarice, half of the population has sold out the glory of what America was, submission rather than sovereignty. We are living through the fall of the Roman Empire, the crushing of Eastern Europe, the supremacy of the collective.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. Eliot.
 
In recognition of Obama voters:

“ ‘Oh, you dear children, who has brought you here? Do come in, and stay with me. No harm shall happen to you.’ She took them both by the hand an led them to her little house.”
Brothers Grimm, “Hansel and Gretel.”
 
Sarah Palin called it when she said Romney needs to personalize the campaign against Obama. She said it in 08, was ignored, we lost. She said it again in 12 was ignored and we lost again
 
1. Ann Applebaum of the Washington Post, has just written a book, “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe.’ Said ‘crushing’ was based both on both the extreme violence of war, and the slow, ineluctable penetration of government into every aspect of the people’s existence. This is called totalitarian government.

a. From one review of the book: “… some scholars were sure that Communism had its bad points, but capitalism and its ideology represented by America were worse.”

2. Some ‘scholars.’ What will scholars say about Americans who gave in to the same without even being under the gun, the violence of war? Lack of interest? Lack of focus? Lack of knowledge of history and of human nature? Or did the people who once were famed for their ‘Can Do’ attitude simply get tired of personal responsibility and pride?




3. Let me give credit to the Alinsky designs, the vicious personal attacks, the lies that were supported by the media, the class warfare. A respectable, religious man, successful in business, who has demonstrated an ability to govern, attacked and sullied by a socialist raised by communists, steeped in 20 years in a Marxist church, a failure in economic policy as well as foreign policy….yet he proved that the more despicable the campaign, the more successful…

a. “Barack Obama’s aides and advisers are preparing to center the president’s reelection campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background,… unabashedly negative…”
Obama plan: Destroy Romney - Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com




4. And, let’s give credit as well, to a progressive philosophy which promises all things to all people…it’s charm predicted by Tocqueville, and it’s danger explained by Sowell:

a. Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”

b. Sowell takes the key political issues and challenges the reader to analyze not only their short term (Stage One) political impact but to also think ahead to their long term (Stage Two, Three, etc) economic impact. He reminds the reader that politicians do not think beyond Stage One because they will be praised (and elected) for the short term benefits but will not be held accountable much later when the long term consequences appear. From a review of “Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One,” Thomas Sowell




5. So, through ignorance, or ineptitude, or avarice, half of the population has sold out the glory of what America was, submission rather than sovereignty. We are living through the fall of the Roman Empire, the crushing of Eastern Europe, the supremacy of the collective.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. Eliot.

Such effort. With such schizophrenic results.

I wonder if you will gracefully accept real, sincere advice?

Try to write like a normal person so we can better digest what you are trying to say. While unique, your style is not working for you.
 
1. Ann Applebaum of the Washington Post, has just written a book, “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe.’ Said ‘crushing’ was based both on both the extreme violence of war, and the slow, ineluctable penetration of government into every aspect of the people’s existence. This is called totalitarian government.

a. From one review of the book: “… some scholars were sure that Communism had its bad points, but capitalism and its ideology represented by America were worse.”

2. Some ‘scholars.’ What will scholars say about Americans who gave in to the same without even being under the gun, the violence of war? Lack of interest? Lack of focus? Lack of knowledge of history and of human nature? Or did the people who once were famed for their ‘Can Do’ attitude simply get tired of personal responsibility and pride?




3. Let me give credit to the Alinsky designs, the vicious personal attacks, the lies that were supported by the media, the class warfare. A respectable, religious man, successful in business, who has demonstrated an ability to govern, attacked and sullied by a socialist raised by communists, steeped in 20 years in a Marxist church, a failure in economic policy as well as foreign policy….yet he proved that the more despicable the campaign, the more successful…

a. “Barack Obama’s aides and advisers are preparing to center the president’s reelection campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background,… unabashedly negative…”
Obama plan: Destroy Romney - Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com




4. And, let’s give credit as well, to a progressive philosophy which promises all things to all people…it’s charm predicted by Tocqueville, and it’s danger explained by Sowell:

a. Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”

b. Sowell takes the key political issues and challenges the reader to analyze not only their short term (Stage One) political impact but to also think ahead to their long term (Stage Two, Three, etc) economic impact. He reminds the reader that politicians do not think beyond Stage One because they will be praised (and elected) for the short term benefits but will not be held accountable much later when the long term consequences appear. From a review of “Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One,” Thomas Sowell




5. So, through ignorance, or ineptitude, or avarice, half of the population has sold out the glory of what America was, submission rather than sovereignty. We are living through the fall of the Roman Empire, the crushing of Eastern Europe, the supremacy of the collective.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. Eliot.

Such effort. With such schizophrenic results.

I wonder if you will gracefully accept real, sincere advice?

Try to write like a normal person so we can better digest what you are trying to say. While unique, your style is not working for you.

Or as I like to put to these types,

...if you're going to be wrong, at least be brief.
 
In recognition of Obama voters:

“ ‘Oh, you dear children, who has brought you here? Do come in, and stay with me. No harm shall happen to you.’ She took them both by the hand an led them to her little house.”
Brothers Grimm, “Hansel and Gretel.”

Here is what I hope happens:

SNIP:

My hope for now: gridlock. People say they like bipartisanship, but bipartisanship usually means politicians conspire to take more of our money and freedom. Bipartisanship gave us the Department of Homeland Security, TSA, PATRIOT Act, Import-Export Bank, war on drug users, ethanol subsides, TARP, No Child Left Behind, foreign wars and an ever-rising debt. When Democrats and Republicans come together, they put us deeper in debt.

Let's have some gridlock!


The outcome of this election is a sea of government with a few islands of freedom. Gay people are freer in a few states, and marijuana consumers in a couple more. But sadly, most of us will be victims of the ever-growing government spider web of higher taxes and freedom-killing rules.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_john_stossel/did_freedom_win
 
This turead is really funny!

Considering that Red China is now our largest trading and corporate partner.
 
If only we could get gays to stop being gay and stop asking for equal protection of the laws. Then we could get on with not being totalitarian.

If only we could get another layer of government bureaucracy imposed between us and our constitutional right to vote. Then we could get on with not being totalitarian.

If only we could get Muslims and immigrants and all the darkies who are mooching off us out of America. Then we could get on with not being totalitarian.

If only we could waterboard just a few more people. Then we could get on with not being totalitarian.

If only we could issue a few more NDLs to librarians. Then we could get on with not being totalitarian.

If only we could search the records of another few tens of millions of phone subscribers. Then we could get on with not being totalitarian.

If only we could make the Department of Homeland Security a lot beefier. Then we could get on with not being totalitarian.

If only we could militarize our police just a little bit more. Then we could get on with not being totalitarian.

Then maybe...just maybe...we could finally get the trains running on time.


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1. Ann Applebaum of the Washington Post, has just written a book, “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe.’ Said ‘crushing’ was based both on both the extreme violence of war, and the slow, ineluctable penetration of government into every aspect of the people’s existence. This is called totalitarian government.

a. From one review of the book: “… some scholars were sure that Communism had its bad points, but capitalism and its ideology represented by America were worse.”

2. Some ‘scholars.’ What will scholars say about Americans who gave in to the same without even being under the gun, the violence of war? Lack of interest? Lack of focus? Lack of knowledge of history and of human nature? Or did the people who once were famed for their ‘Can Do’ attitude simply get tired of personal responsibility and pride?




3. Let me give credit to the Alinsky designs, the vicious personal attacks, the lies that were supported by the media, the class warfare. A respectable, religious man, successful in business, who has demonstrated an ability to govern, attacked and sullied by a socialist raised by communists, steeped in 20 years in a Marxist church, a failure in economic policy as well as foreign policy….yet he proved that the more despicable the campaign, the more successful…

a. “Barack Obama’s aides and advisers are preparing to center the president’s reelection campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background,… unabashedly negative…”
Obama plan: Destroy Romney - Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com




4. And, let’s give credit as well, to a progressive philosophy which promises all things to all people…it’s charm predicted by Tocqueville, and it’s danger explained by Sowell:

a. Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”

b. Sowell takes the key political issues and challenges the reader to analyze not only their short term (Stage One) political impact but to also think ahead to their long term (Stage Two, Three, etc) economic impact. He reminds the reader that politicians do not think beyond Stage One because they will be praised (and elected) for the short term benefits but will not be held accountable much later when the long term consequences appear. From a review of “Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One,” Thomas Sowell




5. So, through ignorance, or ineptitude, or avarice, half of the population has sold out the glory of what America was, submission rather than sovereignty. We are living through the fall of the Roman Empire, the crushing of Eastern Europe, the supremacy of the collective.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. Eliot.

Such effort. With such schizophrenic results.

I wonder if you will gracefully accept real, sincere advice?

Try to write like a normal person so we can better digest what you are trying to say. While unique, your style is not working for you.

1. "...sincere advice."
Thank you for your concern, and interest.



2. "Such effort. With such schizophrenic results."

Do you know what 'schizophrenic' means?
schizophrenic [ˌskɪtsəʊˈfrɛnɪk]
adj
experiencing or maintaining contradictory attitudes, emotions, etc.
schizophrenic - definition of schizophrenic by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

What were the aspects of the OP that were contradictory?

a. I construct an OP to support a particular view, as stated in the title.
It seems to me that it did that. Not to you?


3. I write for folks with my level of education, on whatever side of the political aisle
they reside.
I have no interest in changing that.

If that does not apply to you, I understand your moving on.

But, thank you for your suggestion.



4. "Try to write like a normal person so we...."
Does the "we" represent some group for whom you were elected to speak/
Or, were you simply afraid to speak for yourself, using "I"?

And....exactly what are the credentials for normalcy...as you see it?


5. "I wonder if you will gracefully accept real, sincere advice?"
Try to use words with more precision...as I do.
 
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1. Ann Applebaum of the Washington Post, has just written a book, “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe.’ Said ‘crushing’ was based both on both the extreme violence of war, and the slow, ineluctable penetration of government into every aspect of the people’s existence. This is called totalitarian government.

a. From one review of the book: “… some scholars were sure that Communism had its bad points, but capitalism and its ideology represented by America were worse.”

2. Some ‘scholars.’ What will scholars say about Americans who gave in to the same without even being under the gun, the violence of war? Lack of interest? Lack of focus? Lack of knowledge of history and of human nature? Or did the people who once were famed for their ‘Can Do’ attitude simply get tired of personal responsibility and pride?




3. Let me give credit to the Alinsky designs, the vicious personal attacks, the lies that were supported by the media, the class warfare. A respectable, religious man, successful in business, who has demonstrated an ability to govern, attacked and sullied by a socialist raised by communists, steeped in 20 years in a Marxist church, a failure in economic policy as well as foreign policy….yet he proved that the more despicable the campaign, the more successful…

a. “Barack Obama’s aides and advisers are preparing to center the president’s reelection campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background,… unabashedly negative…”
Obama plan: Destroy Romney - Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com




4. And, let’s give credit as well, to a progressive philosophy which promises all things to all people…it’s charm predicted by Tocqueville, and it’s danger explained by Sowell:

a. Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”

b. Sowell takes the key political issues and challenges the reader to analyze not only their short term (Stage One) political impact but to also think ahead to their long term (Stage Two, Three, etc) economic impact. He reminds the reader that politicians do not think beyond Stage One because they will be praised (and elected) for the short term benefits but will not be held accountable much later when the long term consequences appear. From a review of “Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One,” Thomas Sowell




5. So, through ignorance, or ineptitude, or avarice, half of the population has sold out the glory of what America was, submission rather than sovereignty. We are living through the fall of the Roman Empire, the crushing of Eastern Europe, the supremacy of the collective.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. Eliot.

Such effort. With such schizophrenic results.

I wonder if you will gracefully accept real, sincere advice?

Try to write like a normal person so we can better digest what you are trying to say. While unique, your style is not working for you.

It’s not working for anyone.

Particularly when one realizes ‘out of context’ is not a ‘style.’
 
1. Ann Applebaum of the Washington Post, has just written a book, “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe.’ Said ‘crushing’ was based both on both the extreme violence of war, and the slow, ineluctable penetration of government into every aspect of the people’s existence. This is called totalitarian government.

a. From one review of the book: “… some scholars were sure that Communism had its bad points, but capitalism and its ideology represented by America were worse.”

2. Some ‘scholars.’ What will scholars say about Americans who gave in to the same without even being under the gun, the violence of war? Lack of interest? Lack of focus? Lack of knowledge of history and of human nature? Or did the people who once were famed for their ‘Can Do’ attitude simply get tired of personal responsibility and pride?




3. Let me give credit to the Alinsky designs, the vicious personal attacks, the lies that were supported by the media, the class warfare. A respectable, religious man, successful in business, who has demonstrated an ability to govern, attacked and sullied by a socialist raised by communists, steeped in 20 years in a Marxist church, a failure in economic policy as well as foreign policy….yet he proved that the more despicable the campaign, the more successful…

a. “Barack Obama’s aides and advisers are preparing to center the president’s reelection campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background,… unabashedly negative…”
Obama plan: Destroy Romney - Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com




4. And, let’s give credit as well, to a progressive philosophy which promises all things to all people…it’s charm predicted by Tocqueville, and it’s danger explained by Sowell:

a. Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”

b. Sowell takes the key political issues and challenges the reader to analyze not only their short term (Stage One) political impact but to also think ahead to their long term (Stage Two, Three, etc) economic impact. He reminds the reader that politicians do not think beyond Stage One because they will be praised (and elected) for the short term benefits but will not be held accountable much later when the long term consequences appear. From a review of “Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One,” Thomas Sowell




5. So, through ignorance, or ineptitude, or avarice, half of the population has sold out the glory of what America was, submission rather than sovereignty. We are living through the fall of the Roman Empire, the crushing of Eastern Europe, the supremacy of the collective.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. Eliot.

Such effort. With such schizophrenic results.

I wonder if you will gracefully accept real, sincere advice?

Try to write like a normal person so we can better digest what you are trying to say. While unique, your style is not working for you.

Or as I like to put to these types,

...if you're going to be wrong, at least be brief.


The most common response from those with A.D.D.
 
Sarah Palin called it when she said Romney needs to personalize the campaign against Obama. She said it in 08, was ignored, we lost. She said it again in 12 was ignored and we lost again

Please, please, please run with Caribou Barbie in 2016.

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Such effort. With such schizophrenic results.

I wonder if you will gracefully accept real, sincere advice?

Try to write like a normal person so we can better digest what you are trying to say. While unique, your style is not working for you.

Or as I like to put to these types,

...if you're going to be wrong, at least be brief.


The most common response from those with A.D.D.

To be fair, PC, your method of writing is very distracting.

You could drop the numbering, and try to limit your threads to one or two points you are trying to make. if you want to make other points, start a different thread.
 
In recognition of Obama voters:

“ ‘Oh, you dear children, who has brought you here? Do come in, and stay with me. No harm shall happen to you.’ She took them both by the hand an led them to her little house.”
Brothers Grimm, “Hansel and Gretel.”

A new immigration point system for Canada starts in 2012 - thestar.com

Good luck!

Regards from Rosie

1. When the war broke out in 1775, many Loyalists fled to Canada. Many from New York’s Mohawk Valley, where wealthy families found security in the protections afforded by the empire, as opposed to what they considered mob rule in the republic. The Loyalists were willing to overlook the empires’ outreach to Catholics and French Canadians. And the Six Nations’ Haudenosaunee (Iroquois, including Mohawk, Oneida, Tuscarora, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca) were part of the Loyalist coalition.
David Mills, “Idea of Loyalty in Upper Canada,” p. 15-16.

a. As a result of the treaty of 1783, Britain betrayed many of these Loyalists and Indians, as they lost any claim to property now controlled by the Patriots. At least 38,000 Loyalists permanently settled in Upper Canada, rewarded with several hundred acres of land by the British. At this time there were some two and a half million Americans, and about 100,000 British subjects in Canada.



2. Besides reforming Upper Canada to make it an example of how prosperous and stable British rule would make the republic it is beyond coincidental that these efforts occurred at the same time that rural Massachusetts erupted in Shay’s Rebellion: Daniel Shay’s and four of his officers visited Quebec during the winter of 1786-1787, where rumors insisted that they pledged allegiance in return for munitions.
David P. Szatmary, “Shay’s Rebellion, “ p. 108-109 and 118.

a. Vermonters and Kentuckians sought favorable trade deals in preparation for the apparently impending collapse of the American union.
J. Leich Wright, “Britain and the American Frontier,” p. 44.


3. “History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes”
Mark Twain
 
Such effort. With such schizophrenic results.

I wonder if you will gracefully accept real, sincere advice?

Try to write like a normal person so we can better digest what you are trying to say. While unique, your style is not working for you.

Or as I like to put to these types,

...if you're going to be wrong, at least be brief.


The most common response from those with A.D.D.

I don't have ADD. I also don't have any problem reading and understanding what most posters here have to say, even the rightwing nuts.

To be wrong, inarticulate, and tediously verbose, well, that's a dubious Triple Crown trophy.
 

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