tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post4880024368870940165..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-89829585479825915642013-10-05T23:41:13.667-04:002013-10-05T23:41:13.667-04:00Of course you may, Lady Liberty. I am very flatter...Of course you may, Lady Liberty. I am very flattered you would ask. Thank you again for such kind attention.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-28944047432938071612013-10-05T17:21:42.377-04:002013-10-05T17:21:42.377-04:00would appreciate permission to re-post your wonder...would appreciate permission to re-post your wonderful article on my facebook, and click on SHARE.Lady Libertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291915434069623867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-88056879969540175202013-10-05T17:20:01.921-04:002013-10-05T17:20:01.921-04:00George has decided to apprpriate my avatar (you ca...George has decided to apprpriate my avatar (you can see him over at progressive Eruptions using it). He hasn't stolen the name yet, but I expect he might shortly.<br /><br />He don't know me very well... do he? :)-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-23179703471245017262013-10-05T07:57:15.184-04:002013-10-05T07:57:15.184-04:00"The "Parallel Universe theory" fas..."The "Parallel Universe theory" fascinates me, because it really does seem as though members of each of those camps live in two entirely different worlds." I find this fascinating as well and have almost come to the conclusion that<br />folks are born with, if not a political outlook, the precursor thought mode/machinery. My very<br />liberal sister and husband raised<br />5 very conservative kids, I live in a very conservative state and in my experience, if one avoids the topic of politics, we all have much in common. Fascinating, indeed. <br />BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-9837996232006641852013-10-04T22:02:56.577-04:002013-10-04T22:02:56.577-04:00Thank you, BB, for providing links to a source mak...Thank you, BB, for providing links to a source making those claims. The New Republic is a decidedly "liberal" publication, and the names of both authors are connected to highly liberal institutions. That does not mean they are not telling the truth, but from everything I've been able to gather over a long period of time publications identified as particularly liberal OR conservative harbor a bias. The "Parallel Universe theory" fascinates me, because it really does seem as though members of each of those camps live in two entirely different worlds. <br /><br />I am sure it is more-than-possible that many doctors hold liberal-progressive political views -- especially those who received an Ivy League education or went to the University of Chicago or Berkeley in California,. I know many committed liberals personally -- was even <i>married</i> to one once, ;-) and all I can say is that leftist ideology is MUCH more important to most self-described liberals than conservative ideology is to conservatives most of whom don't live, sleep, breathe and eat politics, but tend to have broader interests.<br /> <br />The modern conservative movement is after all a fairly recent phenomenon. The Socialist-Liberal-Progressive-Statists have been organized and at it for more than a century.<br /><br />"George" -- either the real one or the counterfeit one -- doesn't matterp both are equally offensive. I regard each of them (frankly I don't believe they are two different people at all) as a troll and therefore equally undesirable. Neither is welcome at my blog, because I don't entertain troublemakers, if it can be helped, and I don't appreciate truculence and belligerence in anyone of any poltical persuasion.<br /><br />Thank YOU kindly, Lady Liberty. It's pleasant to hear conditional praise once in a while. It's rare. I promise to make every effort not to let it go to my head. ;-)<br /><br />Waylon, it's good to have a visit from you.<br /><br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-22641792932287202822013-10-04T21:09:12.827-04:002013-10-04T21:09:12.827-04:00I just wanted to THANK YOU, FreeThinke, for your d...I just wanted to THANK YOU, FreeThinke, for your delightfully entertaining, well reasoned, and well-written articles. It is a very great pleasure to indulge in the reading of your blog!Lady Libertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291915434069623867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-44285297387778184902013-10-04T19:25:30.984-04:002013-10-04T19:25:30.984-04:00I'm not sure about George or 'George',...I'm not sure about George or 'George', but in the interest of Fair & Balanced, to answer the query "Where is the proof of the assertions regarding the medical community?", we note-<br />Paragraphs 2 and 10 <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/medical-organizations-respond-aca-ruling/story?id=16673570" rel="nofollow">here</a><br />and Paragraph 6 <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/99827/no-doctors-dont-hate-obamacare" rel="nofollow">elsewhere</a><br />as well as numerous other sources.<br />I come with out vilification, just<br />objectivity.<br />BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-5583999701532146492013-10-04T19:22:45.737-04:002013-10-04T19:22:45.737-04:00I'm not familiar with all the details of Obama...I'm not familiar with all the details of Obamacare but if those who had medical care coverage previously to the enactment of Obamacare into law, and they were perfectly happy with the plan, are they forced to enroll in Obamacare? If so this does seem more than a bit heavy handed. Can those that are absolutely gung ho for Obamacare not just quietly enroll in this plan? They should all be happy if there is a choice.<br /><br />Since Obamacare is supposedly the crowning achievement of this Obama administration was the first person to enroll not the President? Second person on the list should be Mrs. Obama and the children. Has this occurred recently?Waylonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08533895509055020394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-71170601551803864742013-10-04T13:07:58.736-04:002013-10-04T13:07:58.736-04:00" ... I don't believe he does anything bu...<i>" ... I don't believe he does anything but preach to that choir which would be on life support but for gerrymandering."</i><br /><br /><b>Also sprach Kanardosta!</b><br /><br />You need to get some new material. Your act grew flat, stale and unpleasantly odoriferous years ago.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-17988410127008600032013-10-04T13:03:30.102-04:002013-10-04T13:03:30.102-04:00Where is the proof of the assertions regarding the...Where is the proof of the assertions regarding the medical community you've been spamming all over the place, "George?"<br /><br />And what would make you think sensible people would trust the AMA and the insurance Industry anymore than they trust any OTHER enormous power bloc?<br /><br />What you and your "cohorts" -- and too many RINOS in power -- don't not understand is that people such as I are not against government <i>per se,</i> <b>we are against too much POWER concentrated in ANY one location, be it Government, Industry, the Enemedia, the Church, or any particular Pressure Group</b>.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-30761988404549648542013-10-04T12:56:35.896-04:002013-10-04T12:56:35.896-04:00Mexico's The News wrote in an editorial.
In t...Mexico's The News wrote in an editorial.<br /><br />In the United States, however, government shutdowns - or the threat thereof - have become an accepted negotiating tactic, thanks to the quirks of the American federal system, which allows different branches of government to be controlled by different parties. It was a structure devised by the nation's founders to encourage compromise and deliberation, but lately has had just the opposite effect. <br /><br />-----<br />That's right, the Mexican press understands our government and the threat from a rump group of fringe right wingers from safe gerrymandered districts better than Sowell.<br /><br />I hope this will give you insight into what a true mediocrity he is, FT. In fact I don't believe he does anything but preach to that choir which would be on life support but for gerrymandering.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-28826006659128560952013-10-04T12:54:28.350-04:002013-10-04T12:54:28.350-04:00"Obama's claim to fame is as a neighborho..."Obama's claim to fame is as a neighborhood agitator."<br /><br />PLEASE! The term is Community Organizer."<br /><br />You wouldn't want anyone to think he was rabble rouser, would you?<br /><br />Sir Reebrall of Braintree, Lord of LibertyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-40256546629279517232013-10-04T12:42:02.667-04:002013-10-04T12:42:02.667-04:00To George Whyte (whichever one he may be) who don&...To George Whyte (whichever one he may be) who don't know Jack Shyte:<br /><br />I just did a word search on this entire blog post and commentary, and the only person who used the term communist was you, you liberal loon.<br /><br />What right-thinking people are concerned with is progressive statism and its lovely handmaiden, state-sponsored corporatism. That is what explains the enthusiasm of professional medical organizations as well as insurance companies.<br /><br />When government controls the entire game, they end up suborning everyone who wants their cut, and that is what this is all about.<br /><br />I understand this Geo. Whyte may not actually be the real one, but the issue he raises provides an opportunity to answer a common charge.<br /><br />-- Miniver CheevyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-14803719872735346272013-10-04T12:39:40.159-04:002013-10-04T12:39:40.159-04:00Obama thinks that it's ALL about the people it...Obama thinks that it's ALL about the people it is about him and big business. I don't think he understands the Constitution that tell us that the House holds the purse strings of the Government. This President thinks that the Constitution is getting in the way of his agenda.. This "bill" is a total fraud as is the person sitting in the oval office.<br /><br /><br />End a crisis...NOT on your life...Remember, Obama's claim to fame is as a neighborhood agitator...The guy lives for this. How else can he pontificate freely to the welfare, entitlement society that he is reaching down to help the downtrodden. He will lie, cover-up, discount truth, and sacrifice anyone in his way to promote chaos. This is a narcissist, who does not want his policy followed, but his orders obeyed.Lib Busternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-2485686343746673332013-10-04T11:20:26.513-04:002013-10-04T11:20:26.513-04:00We interrupt this Blog thread for the following......<i>We interrupt this Blog thread for the following...</i><br /><br /><b>Shutnado Alert! REPEAT Shutnado Alert!</b><br /><br />Federal agency Twitter accounts are tweeting that they can’t Tweet<br /><br />REPEAT<br /><br />Federal agency Twitter accounts are tweeting that they can’t Tweet<br /><br /><i>This has been an ALERT of the Emergency Shutnado notification system. Had this been an ACTUAL emergency, the tweeters in question would have used their own personal Twitter accounts, which we would have ignored just as obstinately as we ignore their irritating official Government Tweets<br /><br />That is all. Carry on.</i><br />Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-81711268857123112612013-10-04T11:10:49.656-04:002013-10-04T11:10:49.656-04:00...and NOT enough Ludwig Van....and NOT enough <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtg8Gi11nic" rel="nofollow">Ludwig Van</a>.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-62157723645748720412013-10-04T11:08:16.324-04:002013-10-04T11:08:16.324-04:00Sounds like George has been listening to FAR too m...Sounds like George has been listening to FAR too much <a href="http://youtu.be/e6M_JXRV2l0" rel="nofollow">Mozart</a>! :)Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-24716187542036510062013-10-04T10:55:38.445-04:002013-10-04T10:55:38.445-04:00Hey Free Thinke this is for you and your crazy con...<br />Hey Free Thinke this is for you and your crazy con friends:<br /><br />"The American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Osteopathic Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American College of Cardiology all endorsed the Affordable Healthcare Act."<br /> All you folks whining about the big bad Government would be the first to complain about it not being there if it really was gone. Why don’t you go to Somalia and try living under their Government. Comparing the U.S. President to a socialist or Comparing the U.S.Government to Communist nation-state is stupid. And that’s what you ALL are! STUPID!<br />You are all Commies The whole freaken bunch of you. And frankly I’m sick of you and your asinine posts. Leftist,Liberal, and Progressivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16593646181317235281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-81311489585195454742013-10-04T10:47:37.055-04:002013-10-04T10:47:37.055-04:00I think that the lyrics sung by the chorus "d...I think that the lyrics sung by the chorus "during" the marcha turca segment (<a href="http://youtu.be/ljGMhDSSGFU" rel="nofollow">9:30-12:30</a>), just after the G_d reference, illustrate your point, as well. They represent a point in the 4th Movement in which "Unity" joyfully embraces specific "individualities", be they "in" or "out" of step with the overall rhythm and timing of the composition of the Whole.<br /><br />And what you see as a great tragedy, I see merely as proof that in every "earthly" resolution of conflict, the seeds for the next are inevitably sown. For as the philosophers say, there is "generation" from opposites. :)Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-25082354403712701502013-10-04T10:38:58.697-04:002013-10-04T10:38:58.697-04:00How did a country so carefully crafted as a consti...How did a country so carefully crafted as a constitutional republic by thoughtful men who had experienced tyranny up close and personal ever get to this point? Thats easily explained, this is exactly the effect of Progressive movement! <br />What we need is for the House to hang tough. If nothing else, the standoff is revealing Obamás incredible pettiness and lack of concern about what is best for the U.S. Our Dear Leader is more concerned with his image than he is for the good of our nation., or for the will of the people. If they allow the president de-facto power of the purse, as in forcing them to pay for his Obamacare no strings attached, then we are more than halfway to a dictatorship. <br />Boy will this cause a loud howl from the progressives who have their way with we the people for so long.<br />Keep smiling all you Progressive Obama lovers, Remember, "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan"..Have fun with that.Rottweilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05169370591461093067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-22210648568707711372013-10-04T09:34:40.596-04:002013-10-04T09:34:40.596-04:00Let nothing disturb thee
Nothing affright thee
All...<i><b>Let nothing disturb thee<br />Nothing affright thee<br />All things are passing<br /><br />God never changeth<br />Patient endurance <br />Attaineth to all things<br /><br />In whom God pleaseth<br />In nothing is lacking.<br />Alone God sufficeth.</b></i><br /><br />~ Saint Teresa - Lines written in her breviary<br />As translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.<br /><br />To understand what that means we must try to understand what the term "God" really means. Few who dismiss His existence as mere myth and legend have ever bothered making an attempt to get beyond the miserable habit of counting all the stupidity fed by ancient superstition, and the cruelty and horrible crimes committed by "organized religion," and probe more deeply to find sufficient insight to get to the heart of the matter. FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-12192363012895026022013-10-04T09:24:06.824-04:002013-10-04T09:24:06.824-04:00I understand, Thersites. ALL things -- bad AND goo...I understand, Thersites. ALL things -- bad AND good -- are temporary. All life has always been in a constant state of flux and will remain so for Eternity.<br /><br />The most magnificently satisfying aspect of the finest achievements in Musical Art lies in its capacity to present specific themes embellished by Variation, challenged by Conflict then brought to a Conclusion after energetic Rebellion, Celebration, serene often wistful Contemplation, Reflection and Resolution.<br /><br />Important Music -- Art and Literature too, of course, -- do what Life, itself, has been designed <i>never</i> to do. They provide not mere PRESENTATION but <i>RESOLUTION</i> of CONFLICT.<br /><br />This, of course, is but temporary, but it's <i>not</i> illusionary in that the best in Art gives us guideposts on the road toward an encouraging concept of what Perfection might be.<br /><br />This is why I fight endlessly and uncompromisingly against the cynical, destructive, pernicious ideologies and debased, perverted forms of artistic expression that took hold in the past century and came to full flower in the Sick-sties.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-1408186546198445752013-10-04T09:10:36.022-04:002013-10-04T09:10:36.022-04:00Thomas Sowell is a learned and wise man. Republic...Thomas Sowell is a learned and wise man. Republicans would do well to pay attention to his closing words:<br /><br /><i>"But unless the Republicans get their side of the story out — and articulation has never been their strong suit — the lies will win. More important, the whole country will lose."</i><br /><br />--------------<br /><br />And just in time, this from AEI:<br /><br />The GOP is losing the shutdown battle in the court of public opinion, 22% supporting, 72% opposing.<br /><br />44% blame GOP<br />35% blame Obama and the Democrats<br /><br />http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/10/shutdown-whos-winning-what-you-may-have-missed-in-the-polls/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aei-ideas%2Fposts+%28AEIdeas+Posts%29<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-17353345628700842682013-10-04T08:44:21.758-04:002013-10-04T08:44:21.758-04:00We're merely trapped in the Marcha Turka segme...We're merely trapped in the <a href="http://youtu.be/5VAKKnBOaKE" rel="nofollow">Marcha Turka</a> segment of the 4th Movement of Beethoven's 9th. ;)Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.com