tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post384820369832085772..comments2024-03-08T17:48:05.678-05:00Comments on Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: When Glenn Reynolds speaks ...Rodger the Real King of Francehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11349261387199416434noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-74179897468723626882013-02-08T15:49:35.474-05:002013-02-08T15:49:35.474-05:00I've put up wanted posters all over town!I've put up wanted posters all over town!Rodger the Real King of Francehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349261387199416434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-19491919152753112972013-02-08T13:52:21.235-05:002013-02-08T13:52:21.235-05:00A couple of nights ago, my wife and I were watchin...A couple of nights ago, my wife and I were watching "Jeopary", their Teen Tournament. Trebek asked one boy what he wanted to be after he got to be an adult. The kid said that he would like to be President. Then Trebek asked what he wuld bring to the White House that his predecessors had not over the last couple of decades. The kid said< "Honesty and accountability." That stopped Trebek immediately.<br /><br />ScottiebillAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-69975426850134820372013-02-08T13:14:13.174-05:002013-02-08T13:14:13.174-05:00PRIOR COMMENT WAS INCOMPLETE
The Glenn Reynolds e...PRIOR COMMENT WAS INCOMPLETE<br /><br />The Glenn Reynolds essay (USA Today ran this?) makes reference to The Hunger Games. Out of curiosity, I watched this on Epix channel and was quite taken with it. As a result, I read the three novels in the series despite their being targeted to the young adult reader.<br /><br />It’s a well-spun story of a distant Capital keeping the people in poverty and under their thumb while it’s dilettante denizens live a life of luxury and privilege. <br /><br />While at times it’s emotionally manipulative, there are also good action sequences and clearly defined good and evil characters. Also, there’s lots of killing without the use firearms. <br /><br /><br />ps – The series author, Suzanne Collins, lives in Newtown, Connecticut.<br />Tom Mannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-19989576977196614762013-02-08T13:11:02.418-05:002013-02-08T13:11:02.418-05:00The Glenn Reynolds essay (USA Today ran this?) mak...The Glenn Reynolds essay (USA Today ran this?) makes reference to . Out of curiosity, I watched this on channel and was quite taken with it. As a result, I read the three novels in the series despite their being targeted to the young adult reader.<br /><br />It’s a well-spun story of a distant Capital keeping the people in poverty and under their thumb while it’s dilettante denizens live a life of luxury and privilege. <br /><br />While at times it’s emotionally manipulative, there are also good action sequences and clearly defined good and evil characters. Also, there’s lots of killing without the use firearms. <br /><br /><br />ps – The series author, Suzanne Collins, lives in Newtown, Connecticut.<br />Tom Mannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-39167839294792770712013-02-08T11:25:09.038-05:002013-02-08T11:25:09.038-05:00Well, I wanna be Lord High Executioner. Been chop...Well, I wanna be Lord High Executioner. Been choppin' wood all fall and winter, political necks gotta be way softer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-72528276044198155752013-02-08T10:46:05.269-05:002013-02-08T10:46:05.269-05:00Good call my benevolent King. Oh Doug please leave...Good call my benevolent King. Oh Doug please leave out that "provide for the common good" stuff.<br />georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00492301814208549551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-49071309124682837772013-02-08T10:10:32.487-05:002013-02-08T10:10:32.487-05:00You, Doug M, shall be given sole authoship of the ...You, Doug M, shall be given sole authoship of the new constitution when I'm in power!Rodger the Real King of Francehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349261387199416434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-12573689885082605472013-02-08T10:01:53.406-05:002013-02-08T10:01:53.406-05:00I don't see how a constitutional convention so...I don't see how a constitutional convention solves the problem of the FedGov not living up to its existing constitutional contractual obligations and constraints. <br />Why would one think it would live up to a <i>new</i> one?<br />Nah, that can only work by legitimizing the existing, ongoing sins.<br /><br />He's right about a convention being a precursor to revolution, though. Well, a precursor to secessions.<br />My first thought is usually heads-on-pikes (you know, examples), but that just legitimizes repression.<br />There's no way to cut off the money, either. The tax-collection machine is too automatic, the fear of the IRS is too strong, and the people are too risk-averse as individuals.<br />There seems to be no existing official mechanism to protect us from overreach, corruption, and irresponsibility, save some miraculous whole-sale overturn of legislative and executive officeholders willing to truncate the scope of the FedGov back to Constitutional limits and to clean out and fumigate the bureaucracy and judiciary.<br />I don't see that happening, given the population's brain-washed addictions and expectations.<br />We got here over a hundred years of constant Progressive brainwashing, but I don't see the reverse happening, not realistically. The lotus-eating doesn't seem reversible. (Then again, <i>we're</i> still here, so it's theoretically possible, I guess.)<br /><br />America still retains a useful inherent characteristic, however: regional diversity. <br />Looking at the red/blue map (rural/urban map), I see a possible mechanism for change. <br />If the Constitution is no longer considered a contract by the blues, then the reds have no contractual obligations, either. Therefore, there is no longer any constraint against region secessions.<br /><br />Unfortunately, that will eventually result in totalitarian blue regions in close proximity with republican reds (whom the blues will depend on for almost everything and whom the blues outnumber).<br />Offhand, that seems to be an even worse situation … a much, much worse situation, if history is any judge.<br /><br />Where does that leave us? Dunno.<br />Individual, regional, and State resistance? Education and new media (counter-propaganda)? Massive political push-back?<br />(What? Okay, maybe a <i>few</i> heads on pikes.)DougMhttp://sondrakistan.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-16091432893478954772013-02-08T09:13:17.120-05:002013-02-08T09:13:17.120-05:00There are a bunch of concerned people about . I us...There are a bunch of concerned people about . I used to feel that I was in the minority , but lately it is showing itself everywhere I go . I must have had 20 different people ask me about going to the gun show in Chantilly , Va. this weekend . I've never seen anything like it , and it feels good to see America waking up ; ) > SMIBSIDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15290406.post-18223421471448580602013-02-08T08:25:42.838-05:002013-02-08T08:25:42.838-05:00The government can only operate if there is money....The government can only operate if there is money. When the money is gone, whether due to economic collapse, or by an unwillingness of the people to contribute, the big changes happen immediately. <br /><br />While many people think the government will take money by force, they forget those that now are the majority in the government have no loyalty, except for the wealth they can accumulate while they abuse their position. No money; no force and lots of concessions. Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15969361446367636746noreply@blogger.com