tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post1106194171805298895..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-85752449116725795902017-12-12T23:38:42.770-05:002017-12-12T23:38:42.770-05:00Even so, the Marxicrat only "won" by LES...<b>Even so, the Marxicrat only "won" by LESS THAN ONE PERCENT of the vote –– at the time of the announcement.</b> <br /><br />I wonder if Roy Moore will demand a recount?<br /><br />If he were a DemonRat, he'd do that for sure. FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-18969889500742995472017-12-12T23:33:06.327-05:002017-12-12T23:33:06.327-05:00CORRECTIONL The Alabama Senate seat vacated by Jef...<b>CORRECTIONL The Alabama Senate seat vacated by Jeff "Cipher" Sessions was WRESTED from Roy Moore by the ineffbly vicious WaPo Hit Squad.<br /><br />We must chalk up another illegitimate triumph for the ENEMEDIA</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-56763346609793162052017-12-12T23:01:35.661-05:002017-12-12T23:01:35.661-05:00It's Official, Doug Jones beats Roy Moore in r...<b>It's Official, Doug Jones beats Roy Moore in rebuke to Trump.<br /><br />Deep <i>blood red</i> Alabama swings blue. <br /><br />This could be a harbinger of things to come in 2018.</b> Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-87045470923235675572017-12-12T09:30:50.177-05:002017-12-12T09:30:50.177-05:00...but to a Straussian, that doesn't mean you ......but to a Straussian, that doesn't mean you can't use a "noble lie" to perpetuate a "fool's errand". And THAT is what the neocons exploit in post-WWII America. They keep us pursuing that "fool's errand" and pretending that we can maintain the world power and dominance we acquired in 1945 without "running the empire into the ground" whilst avoiding <a href="http://farmersletters.blogspot.com/2017/12/why-herodotus-and-not-thucycides-is.html" rel="nofollow">Thucydides trap</a>... the belief that we can anticipate the Black Swan event that will eventually end American dominance.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-33925034186159666052017-12-12T09:24:03.344-05:002017-12-12T09:24:03.344-05:00What distinguishes a Straussian from all others is...What distinguishes a Straussian from all others is that a Straussian understands that everything depends upon "a Noble lie". And all naive attempts to rectify the injustices of the world require one to perpetrate further injustices. Social justice, therefore, is but "a fool's errand".-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-44364441494541207292017-12-12T09:16:28.623-05:002017-12-12T09:16:28.623-05:00Leo Strauss understood the difference between the ...Leo Strauss understood the difference between the Athenians and the Spartans.<br /><br />from the Jowett summary of Plato's "The Laws"<br /><br /><i> But as the country is only moderately fertile there will be no great export trade and no great returns of gold and silver, which are the ruin of states. Is there timber for ship-building? 'There is no pine, nor much cypress; and very little stone-pine or plane wood for the interior of ships.' That is good. 'Why?' Because the city will not be able to imitate the bad ways of her enemies. 'What is the bearing of that remark?' To explain my meaning, I would ask you to remember what we said about the Cretan laws, that they had an eye to war only; whereas I maintained that they ought to have included all virtue. And I hope that you in your turn will retaliate upon me if I am false to my own principle. For I consider that the lawgiver should go straight to the mark of virtue and justice, and disregard wealth and every other good when separated from virtue. What further I mean, when I speak of the imitation of enemies, I will illustrate by the story of Minos, if our Cretan friend will allow me to mention it. Minos, who was a great sea-king, imposed upon the Athenians a cruel tribute, for in those days they were not a maritime power; they had no timber for ship-building, and therefore they could not 'imitate their enemies'; and better far, as I maintain, would it have been for them to have lost many times over the lives which they devoted to the tribute than to have turned soldiers into sailors. Naval warfare is not a very praiseworthy art; men should not be taught to leap on shore, and then again to hurry back to their ships, or to find specious excuses for throwing away their arms; bad customs ought not to be gilded with fine words. And retreat is always bad, as we are taught in Homer, when he introduces Odysseus, setting forth to Agamemnon the danger of ships being at hand when soldiers are disposed to fly. An army of lions trained in such ways would fly before a herd of deer. Further, a city which owes its preservation to a crowd of pilots and oarsmen and other undeserving persons, cannot bestow rewards of honour properly; and this is the ruin of states. 'Still, in Crete we say that the battle of Salamis was the salvation of Hellas.' Such is the prevailing opinion. But I and Megillus say that the battle of Marathon began the deliverance, and that the battle of Plataea completed it; for these battles made men better, whereas the battles of Salamis and Artemisium made them no better. And we further affirm that mere existence is not the great political good of individuals or states, but the continuance of the best existence. 'Certainly.' Let us then endeavour to follow this principle in colonization and legislation. </i>-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-24633273530745613682017-12-12T09:11:35.390-05:002017-12-12T09:11:35.390-05:00The objectives of the Jewish neocons coincide with...The objectives of the Jewish neocons coincide with American conservatives of the post WWII global capitalist "empire" variety. Since Hitler, the Jews are very worried about being able to move from State to State. An "American Policeman" keeps emigration a viable alternative.<br /><br />I'm personally of the Federalist Papers foreign policy persuasion. 'F the rest of the world.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-20890308949140846602017-12-12T09:03:43.770-05:002017-12-12T09:03:43.770-05:00from Wikipedia:
Neoconservatism (commonly shorten...from Wikipedia:<br /><br /><i>Neoconservatism (commonly shortened to neocon) is a political movement born in the United States during the 1960s among liberal hawks who became disenchanted with the foreign policy platform of the Democratic Party. Many of its adherents became politically famous during the Republican presidential administrations of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Neoconservatives peaked in influence during the administration of George W. Bush, when they played a major role in promoting and planning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[1] Prominent neoconservatives in the George W. Bush administration included <b>Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Richard Perle and Paul Bremer.</b> Senior officials Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, while not identifying as neoconservatives, listened closely to neoconservative advisers regarding foreign policy, especially the defense of Israel and the promotion of American influence in the Middle East.<br /><br />The term "neoconservative" refers to those who made the ideological journey from the anti-Stalinist Left to the camp of American conservatism.[2] Neoconservatives typically advocate the promotion of democracy and American national interest in international affairs, including by means of military force and are known for espousing disdain for communism and for political radicalism.[3][4] The movement had its intellectual roots in the Jewish monthly review magazine Commentary, published by the American Jewish Committee.[5][6] They spoke out against the New Left and in that way helped define the movement.[7][8] <b>C. Bradley Thompson, a professor at Clemson University, claims that most influential neoconservatives refer explicitly to the theoretical ideas in the philosophy of Leo Strauss (1899–1973),[9] though in doing so they may draw upon meaning that Strauss himself did not endorse.</b></i><br /><br />Paul Wolfowicz' mentor was Allan Bloom, my favorite Straussian.<br /><br /><i>Allan Bloom was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1930 to second-generation Jewish parents[5] who were both social workers. The couple had a daughter, Lucille, two years earlier. As a thirteen-year-old, Bloom read a Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents he wanted to attend; his parents thought it was unreasonable and did not encourage his hopes.[6] Yet, when his family moved to Chicago in 1944, his parents met a psychiatrist and family friend whose son was enrolled in the University of Chicago’s humanities program for gifted students. In 1946, Bloom was accepted to the same program, starting his degree at the age of fifteen, and spending the next decade of his life enrolled at the University in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood.[6] This began his lifelong passion for the 'idea' of the university.[7]<br /><br />In the preface to Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960–1990, he stated that his education "began with Freud and ended with Plato". The theme of this education was self-knowledge, or self-discovery—an idea that Bloom would later write, seemed impossible to conceive of for a Midwestern American boy. He credits Leo Strauss as the teacher who made this endeavor possible for him.[8]<br /><br />Bloom graduated from the University of Chicago with his Bachelor's Degree at the age of 18.[9] One of his college classmates was the classicist Seth Benardete.[10] For post-graduate studies, he enrolled in the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, where he was assigned Classicist David Grene as tutor, and went on to write his thesis on Isocrates. </i>-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-77443310159652893772017-12-11T18:37:58.580-05:002017-12-11T18:37:58.580-05:00If President Trump fails to acheve his campaign pr...If President Trump fails to acheve his campaign promises, it won't be HIS fault, Waylon.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-3097140405072192852017-12-11T18:36:08.455-05:002017-12-11T18:36:08.455-05:00Don't reallysee how any of that relates to th....Don't reallysee how any of that relates to th.e NEOCON movement, but I have always seen the NEOCON phenomenon as a primarily JEWISH thing, despite Jeanne Kirkpatrick, DIck Chency and a other non Jews identifying themselves with the movement.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-40336274891887748862017-12-11T18:32:36.092-05:002017-12-11T18:32:36.092-05:00LEO STRAUSS s (1899-1973) was a German-American po...<b>LEO STRAUSS s (1899-1973)</b> was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy. He was born in Germany to JeWISH parents and later emigrated from Germany to the United States. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.<br /><br />Originally trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and immersed in the work of the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Strauss later focused his research on the Greek texts of Plato and Aristotle, retracing their interpretation through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy and encouraging the application of those ideas to contemporary political theory. ...<br /><br />For Strauss, politics and philosophy were necessarily intertwined. He regarded the trial and death of Socrates as the moment when political philosophy came into existence. Strauss considered one of the most important moments in the history of philosophy Socrates' argument that philosophers could not study nature without considering their own human nature, which, in the words of Aristotle, is that of "a political animal." However, he also held that the ends of politics and philosophy were inherently irreconcilable and irreducible to one another.<br /><br /><b>Strauss distinguished "scholars" from "great thinkers", identifying himself as a scholar. He wrote that most self-described philosophers are in actuality scholars, cautious and methodical. Great thinkers, in contrast, boldly and creatively address big problems</b>. Scholars deal with these problems only indirectly by reasoning about the great thinkers' differences. ...<br /><br />Strauss taught that liberalism in its modern form (which is oriented toward universal freedom as opposed to "ancient liberalism" which is oriented toward human excellence), contained within it an intrinsic tendency towards extreme relativism, which in turn led to two types of nihilism ...<br /><br />As a youth, Strauss belonged to the German Zionist youth group, along with his friends Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin. Both were admirers of Strauss and would continue to be throughout their lives . When he was 17, as he said, he was "converted" to political Zionism as a follower of Vladimir Jabotinsky. He wrote several essays pertaining to its controversies but left these activities behind by his early twenties.<br /><br /><b>While Strauss maintained a sympathetic interest in Zionism, he later came to refer to Zionism as "problematic" and became disillusioned with some of its aims.</b><br /><br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-648739372915602842017-12-11T18:14:39.610-05:002017-12-11T18:14:39.610-05:00I wish it were, but I don't think so. It was ...I wish it were, but I don't think so. It was reported at DRUDGE and was identofoed s a FOX poll.<br /><br />We'l know the truth tomorrow evening at any rate.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-6822869375486260262017-12-11T18:12:40.515-05:002017-12-11T18:12:40.515-05:00PLEASE DON'T MAKE PERSONAL REMARKS ABOUT OTHER...<b>PLEASE DON'T MAKE PERSONAL REMARKS ABOUT OTHER BLOGGERS <br /><br />tHANK YOU.</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-25518277204634128332017-12-11T16:30:06.359-05:002017-12-11T16:30:06.359-05:00Fake News!Fake News!Kevinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-27634659316908905572017-12-11T16:22:35.972-05:002017-12-11T16:22:35.972-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Lauranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-69085670928938634822017-12-11T13:57:31.724-05:002017-12-11T13:57:31.724-05:00Uh OH! Yesterday Real Clear Politics had MOORE up ...Uh OH! Yesterday Real Clear Politics had MOORE up by 4.8.<br /><br />TODAY theu have JONES up by TEN.<br /><br />How could this be?<br /><br />Who knows WHAT to believe?<br /><br />I for one certainly do NOT believe in POLLS, do you?FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-50938042255911432442017-12-11T13:02:17.819-05:002017-12-11T13:02:17.819-05:00Russ T. Nayles said
Jonah Goldberg is one of the ...<b>Russ T. Nayles said</b><br /><br />Jonah Goldberg is one of the Never Trumpers. FORGET Jonah Goldberg. He got accepted as a member of the establishment. That means he joined the enemy. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-31947229085869224092017-12-11T12:58:27.402-05:002017-12-11T12:58:27.402-05:00REMINDER: THIS BLOG is a TAUNT-FREE ZONE. We will...<b>REMINDER: THIS BLOG is a TAUNT-FREE ZONE. We will NOT TOLERATE PERSONAL REMARKS, INSULTS, SNIDENESS or IDIOTIC PARTISAN BALONEY.</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-49208356916922835102017-12-11T12:57:40.150-05:002017-12-11T12:57:40.150-05:00REMINDER: THIS BLOG is a TAUNT-FREE ZONE. We will...<b>REMINDER: THIS BLOG is a TAUNT-FREE ZONE. We will NOT TOLERATE PERSONAL REMARKS, INSULTS, SNIDENESS or IDIOTIC PARTISAN BALONEY.</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-82390491472800833792017-12-11T11:38:31.792-05:002017-12-11T11:38:31.792-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.The Ghost of Ronald Reagannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-90492319060627526492017-12-11T11:34:18.896-05:002017-12-11T11:34:18.896-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Comedy GOP Goldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-9000893348145173492017-12-11T11:14:55.309-05:002017-12-11T11:14:55.309-05:00Perhaps the big take away from all tis is a) two w...Perhaps the big take away from all tis is a) two wrongs a right does make, and b) hypocrisy is rampant in both major political parties.<br /><br />It would be funny, were it not so pathetic. IMNHO.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-73268151304134053032017-12-11T11:04:40.923-05:002017-12-11T11:04:40.923-05:00The Feminitwit's Mystaque said
Sex and the S...<b>The Feminitwit's Mystaque said</b><br /><br /><b>Sex and the Single Goal</b><br /><br />American Spectatorr<br /><br /><i>by David Catron</i> <br /> <br /><b><i>The sexual harassment hysteria that shifted with such convenient alacrity from the entertainment industry and the news media to Capitol Hill has nothing to do with protecting women, “rape culture,” or radical feminism. It isn’t even about destroying President Trump, though his downfall is ever a consummation devoutly to be wished by the left. #MeToo, in its partisan permutation, is instead a movement cynically co-opted by Democrats desperately seeking an issue — any issue — that will save them from disaster in next year’s midterms. Its only goal is to save “the party of Jefferson and Jackson” from annihilation in ...</i></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-7920263666240477992017-12-11T10:59:34.309-05:002017-12-11T10:59:34.309-05:00Lucullus P. Leunlicher said
Democrats forgave Re...<b>Lucullus P. Leunlicher said</b><br /><br /><br /><b>Democrats forgave Rep. [Gerry] Studds for Preying<br />on Teen Boys, Hailed as Gay Rights Pioneer</b><br /><br />Washington Times, by Valerie Richardson <br /><br />If Alabama voters choose Republican Roy Moore for the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s special election, it won’t be the first time in the modern era that voters have sent to Congress a man dogged by a teen sex scandal. Massachusetts voters stood by Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds even after he was censured by the House in 1983 for his sexual relationship at age 36 with a 17-year-old male congressional page, as well as making sexual advances toward two other teenage pages. Far from dooming the Democratic Party, the episode barely registered at the ballot box. Democrats kept their House majority and gained . . . Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-71194355509927171212017-12-11T10:54:55.642-05:002017-12-11T10:54:55.642-05:00Mycroft Holmes said
Will Misconduct Scandals M ak...<b>Mycroft Holmes said</b><br /><br /><b>Will Misconduct Scandals M ake Men Wary of Women at Work?</b><br /><br />Associated Press, by Jennifer Peltz <br /><br /><b>NEW YORK- Some women, and men, worry the same climate that´s emboldening women to speak up about sexual misconduct could backfire by making some men wary of female colleagues. Forget private meetings and get-to-know-you dinners. Beware of banter. Think twice before a high-ranking man mentors a young female staffer. "I have already heard the rumblings of a backlash: ´This is why you should´thire women,´" Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg wrote in a recent post ."So much good is happening to fix workplaces right now. Let´s make sure it does not have the unintended consequence of holding women back,"</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com