tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post3224300601743536764..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-71312462292388375602013-02-13T09:33:58.265-05:002013-02-13T09:33:58.265-05:00Doubtless you spoke basic truth, RR.
Doubtless you spoke basic truth, RR.<br /><br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-44647361701865815032013-02-12T19:41:04.802-05:002013-02-12T19:41:04.802-05:00Whats the sense of watching the Crap-Sandwich toni...Whats the sense of watching the Crap-Sandwich tonight, He'll just blame the Republicans for his failure(s).... then Blame Bush.<br /><br />That should tell you EVERYTHING you need to know about Obozo's SOTU address..<br />If you look up failure in the dictionary you'll find a picture of Barack Hussein Obozo. Rational Nation USAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14983270982420539094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-85951793739992404142013-02-12T15:06:14.837-05:002013-02-12T15:06:14.837-05:00Thanks, Conan. Please visit us as often as you can...Thanks, Conan. Please visit us as often as you can.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-21500935492299779352013-02-12T13:21:55.410-05:002013-02-12T13:21:55.410-05:00"Canardo, like all leftists, fails to see -- ...<i>"Canardo, like all leftists, fails to see -- or refuses to admit -- that a tyrannical government is as bad -- and probably much worse -- than gigantic global industries."</i><br /><br />Well said.<br /><br />I can refuse to patronize a business, but it is illegal for me to resist the smothering embrace of the feral government.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00534344221575644836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-77996997892338607142013-02-12T12:06:34.698-05:002013-02-12T12:06:34.698-05:00Canardo, like all leftists, fails to see -- or ref...Canardo, like all leftists, fails to see -- or refuses to admit -- that a tyrannical government is as bad -- and probably much worse -- than gigantic global industries.<br /><br />Very very very very few seem to realize that what we live with today is the hideous MERGER of Government with Big Business -- an alliance that truly has --softly, stealthily, ruthlessly, relentlessly over many decades of scheming and manipulation -- turned "The Little Man" into a <i>de facto</i> galley slave once again.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-12537204701358407462013-02-12T12:00:46.234-05:002013-02-12T12:00:46.234-05:00Thank you Mr. Fouts, (Should I, perhaps, call you ...Thank you Mr. Fouts, (Should I, perhaps, call you Conan? ;-) You seem to appreciate Mr. Reed more fully than the others. Yes. I have very recently learned of his existence through a private correspondent of some years who hails from -- Beantown!!! -- if you would believe? <i>[Yes, Virginia, a few Conservatives really do live in Boston.]</i><br /><br />Mr. Reed helps to fill in the gap created by the supremely unfortunate absence of Michael Savage from the airwaves.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-23449341688296181662013-02-12T11:54:41.363-05:002013-02-12T11:54:41.363-05:00Somehow, I doubt, AOW, that Mr. Reed had anyone li...Somehow, I doubt, AOW, that Mr. Reed had anyone like your obnoxious neighbor in mind when he used the phrase "unpleasantly nice" to describe the way suburbanites tend to relate to one another.<br /><br />I'm pretty sure he was thinking more of the hypocritical mask of politeness and pretended interest people show one another that thinly disguises boredom, contempt, vanity, shallowness and the ever present desire to "find evidence" that might put oneself in a position to influence or dominate others in achieving one's own purposes, etc.<br /><br />CIty Councils, Churches, PTA's, "Service Clubs," Scout Troops, Garden Clubs and Bridge Clubs, etc. are full of this kind of thing.<br /><br />Without hypocrisy "polite society" would cease to exist within minutes -- possibly seconds. ;-)FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-69446997505224860132013-02-12T11:45:04.608-05:002013-02-12T11:45:04.608-05:00Jack, I think it would broaden your horizons, shar...Jack, I think it would broaden your horizons, sharpen your perceptions, increase your understanding and otherwise benefit you greatly, if you read Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind.<br /><br />If you've already ready it by any chance, please read it AGAIN.<br /><br />I know you have studied "history" and political "science," but have you examined in any depth the philosophy, literature, poetry, music, theater, fashions, culinary developments, architecture, religious values, and advances in engineering, medical arts and technology that inspired, informed, shaped and nourished the events and trends whose existence you've catalogued? <br /><br />In truth ALL fields are interrelated. No one can know all there is to know -- or even half of what we've forgotten -- but unless we rise above over-specialization, which tends to give us tunnel vision, we could never begin to comprehend the <i>context</i> into which the myriad details we've crammed into our heads belongs or the ways in which much of it might best enhance the quality of daily life.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-84723775727825937122013-02-12T06:42:51.312-05:002013-02-12T06:42:51.312-05:00Suburbia contains a lot of unpleasantly nice peopl...<i>Suburbia contains a lot of unpleasantly nice people...</i><br /><br />Apparently, Fred has met my NLRB neighbor, the neighbor who dumps all her raked leaves and lawn clippings on my lot, which is across the street from her house.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-42461012190531911022013-02-11T23:16:45.873-05:002013-02-11T23:16:45.873-05:00Here's Ducky:
Surely you are not offering as ...Here's Ducky:<br /><br />Surely you are not offering as an alternative that we turn our owned "collective ass" over to Big Government?<br /><br />Big Pharma, Big Kapital, Big Government: A Three-Headed Monster.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00534344221575644836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-76166658286149069302013-02-11T18:32:45.819-05:002013-02-11T18:32:45.819-05:00I love it when old guys accuse suburbian men of be...I love it when old guys accuse suburbian men of being "effeminate." It would seem for a time that society went backwards. To be "manly" in the ancient Greek sense meant that you were virtuous. To be manly in the Machiavellian sense meant that you were one who was able to seize fortune and make it work to your advantage.<br /><br />Then somewhere along the line someone thought that being "manly" meant that your primary employment comes from manual labor or what you like to do in your spare time (hunting, fishing, sports). This isn't the stone age.<br /><br />100 years from now, humans will look upon Fred's version of manliness and remark of how antiquated it sounds. No one will know anyone who still feels that way. And that's not a bad thing. In fact, it's a good thing, because someone who is able to realize that those sort of things are arbitrary and ultimately meaningless is someone who is able to focus on what really matters in his or her life.<br /><br />Fred's conclusions about gun control I agreed with (in terms of banning guns and the innefficacy of prohibition), but everything else is pretty far off base, and it's indicative of an old guy wishing that everything could be the way it used to be.<br /><br />To all of you old timers (sorry FT): Just because it was true and it worked 50 years ago doesn't necessarily mean it's true and works TODAY. Evolve or die (surely the social darwinists can appreciate that sentiment).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-29607710183565764162013-02-11T17:39:47.831-05:002013-02-11T17:39:47.831-05:00These drugs are heavily—heavily—promoted by Big Ph...These drugs are heavily—heavily—promoted by Big Pharma, which is the supply arm of the business of compulsory doping of American children, just as Lockheed-Martin is the supply arm of the Pentagon’s burning of Asian children. There’s money in this, boys and girls. <br /><br />-----<br />Hardly a shattering revelation but at least he's managed to understand that Kapital owns our collective ass.<br /><br />If anyone denies this they are blind.<br />The rest should be asking what we can do about it.<br />Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-72147829167216570632013-02-11T15:11:35.239-05:002013-02-11T15:11:35.239-05:00I agree with Curt. You've found a real diamond...I agree with Curt. You've found a real diamond in the rough, FT. He call a spade a spade and makes powerful point doing so.Waylonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08533895509055020394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-88082879783128347862013-02-11T14:32:04.194-05:002013-02-11T14:32:04.194-05:00I love Fred Reed.
Did you just stumble upon him?
...I love Fred Reed.<br /><br />Did you just stumble upon him?<br /><br />He is horribly politically-incorrect and he gores all oxen regardless of ideology. <br /><br />He is what our press should be.<br /><br />I love these formulations:<br /><br /><i>"And what do they give little boys bored with schools run by intellectual termites?"</i><br /><br />"Intellectual termites" describes our entire "education" industry, top to bottom. Not to denigrate teachers. The good ones, freed from the clutches of government bureaucrats, would remake the system and actually teach our kids.<br /><br />I also appreciate gems like this, which flow from his pen in every article he writes...<br /><br /><i>"Suburbia contains a lot of unpleasantly nice people, in particular effeminate men and bored housewives with a Mussolini complex."</i>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00534344221575644836noreply@blogger.com