tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post7032305320823766448..comments2024-03-27T08:31:10.126-07:00Comments on SHADOW OF A DOUBT: License to ShillKirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-71528471890841904202010-04-06T12:16:32.412-07:002010-04-06T12:16:32.412-07:00@Gabriela--If it's the flow you like, that'...@Gabriela--If it's the flow you like, that's fine with me. Incidentally, I don't know that I necessarily like politics all that much. It's just that, in my more pretensious moments, I think of myself as someone who writes about the human condition, and the people who get to preside over that human condition, seems too big of a factor to leave out.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-58550742195396116662010-04-06T09:58:55.104-07:002010-04-06T09:58:55.104-07:00I get lost with US political/social troubles, so I...I get lost with US political/social troubles, so I can't properly comment on your well written post.<br />I really like the way it flows, even if I do not like politics I couldn't stop reading your post.<br /><br />Great piece!<br /><br />loveNlight<br />GabiGabriela Abalohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11316879938383542026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-21540843338440836032010-04-03T13:32:21.233-07:002010-04-03T13:32:21.233-07:00You're right, my friend! We just play the card...You're right, my friend! We just play the cards in the order they're dealt.Leslie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702472429383639709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-42458344336992966452010-04-03T13:08:23.716-07:002010-04-03T13:08:23.716-07:00Elisabeth--I think you figured out where I'm c...Elisabeth--I think you figured out where I'm coming from, Elisabeth.<br /><br />Your referendum story reminded me of an online coversation I had a while back with a Brit who writes a blog called Cosmic Navel Lint. I asked him why Britian is always referred to as a constitutional monarchy when they have no constitution. He replied that technically it's not, but, as they choose their leaders and have the same personal liberties as Americans (without a Bill of Rights, I may add) they're essentially a republic in all but name only. A republic with a taxpayer supported group of folks called "royalty". I wonder what the tea partiers would make of THAT? Knowing them, they probably wouldn't even care. Anyway, in spite of all the kings, queens, princes, princesses, lords, dukes, duchesses, counts, and whatever else they have (how in the world do they keep it all straight?) Britian ended up in the same place as the USA. I imagine the same is true of Australia. Makes me wonder what all that fuss back in 1776 was really all about.<br /><br />Since you've uncorked the genie known as the private email, I'm going to be sending you a brief reply. I found both your essays very interesting.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-15998012246588447272010-04-03T12:44:23.139-07:002010-04-03T12:44:23.139-07:00@LimesNow--Here's how it works, Les. I wrote a...@LimesNow--Here's how it works, Les. I wrote a post about the Tea Party movement. You responded with a crack about Jaws making hors d'oeuvre out of Sarah Palin. I topped your crack with my baked Alaska crack. This involved very little brainwork on my part. It's all in the sequence of events. If, under different circumstances, I had initiated the hors d'oeuvre crack, and I very well may have, you would have thought about it for a moment, and come up with baked Alaska. It's all in the order the comments appear.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-50858794267660343972010-04-02T18:58:38.397-07:002010-04-02T18:58:38.397-07:00I have just now read this post after sending you a...I have just now read this post after sending you a long long email about my struggles. <br /><br />I can see links almost anywhere, and certainly here, when you talk about people who see themselves as better than others. I see a link with my tale - the elites who want to keep their so-called inferiors oppressed and the degree to which some people might identify with their superiors and keep themselves oppressed, as sort of servants, while others, like your Jaws here, choose to fight for the underdog and with it greater freedom. <br /><br />I know little about American politics other than the broad outlines. <br /><br />I had trouble with America when Bush was at the helm. I have far less trouble now with Obama in charge. <br /><br />That said, I have found it difficult to understand the vast opposition to health care reform that is clearly so necessary in America. <br /><br />This is the wealthy country where you cannot afford to be ill. <br /><br />I'm glad the bill was passed. However inadequate, it's a start.<br /><br />This post reminds me of the efforts some have made in Australia to become a republic. We had a referendum years ago to change from being one of England's satellites into our own republic and it did not get passed. Perhaps because the alternatives were not yet well explored and it needed more work, but essentially I think because people are generally comfortable with the status quo. <br /><br />They therefore resist change at all costs, oftentimes to their own detriment. <br /><br />Thanks, Kirk, for a thoughtful and beautifully written post.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-1864563236364307222010-04-02T17:50:16.225-07:002010-04-02T17:50:16.225-07:00Oh, Kirk, how could I have let baked Alaska escape...Oh, Kirk, how could I have let baked Alaska escape me!?Leslie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702472429383639709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-23958247027912117062010-04-02T11:27:48.549-07:002010-04-02T11:27:48.549-07:00@Dreamfarm--Glad you enjoyed it, Dreamfarm. Social...@Dreamfarm--Glad you enjoyed it, Dreamfarm. Social Security and Medicare are apparently such successful government programs, people no longer remember that they ARE government programs.<br /><br />I heard on the news that some Republicans would now like the tea partiers to protest finance reform. Let's just see how these anti-elitists make THAT argument.<br /><br />@LimesNow--Not hors d'oeuvre, but dessert: baked Alaska.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-22410266827249578922010-04-02T08:28:53.794-07:002010-04-02T08:28:53.794-07:00Those rascals gathered last Saturday in Harry Reid...Those rascals gathered last Saturday in Harry Reid's home hamlet of Searchlight, NV, with Palin pouring the tea. Alas, I was not able to go out and throw spoiled produce as I'd threatened to do as I was otherwise engaged for the weekend. I wish Jaws had shown up at the gathering and laid those mighty metal teeth into some of them, with Palin being the hors d'oeuvre.Leslie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702472429383639709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-87076081781764514382010-04-01T20:07:40.583-07:002010-04-01T20:07:40.583-07:00Great piece. I remember Jaws in those movies.
In...Great piece. I remember Jaws in those movies. <br /><br />In an article I read recently on Teapartiers demonstrating against the health care bill on the grounds that it was too much government in our lives, the Tea Partier interviewed as on disability. He did not see the irony in this!<br /><br />I have sincere hopes that this movement will die a natural death. I tend to think it attracts people who don't fully grasp the complexity of social problems or that they can be fixed, at least to some degree. And you are right on about the waste they are NOT protesting. Hello!!Dreamfarm Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08494214244290730058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-74110778121451576802010-04-01T16:37:41.958-07:002010-04-01T16:37:41.958-07:00I like what you said, Tag, about "one on one&...I like what you said, Tag, about "one on one". Maybe it's like George Carlin once said, that people are great on an individual basis, it's when you get them in a crowd that the trouble begins. Thanks for commenting.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-58751130688820484432010-04-01T16:11:41.931-07:002010-04-01T16:11:41.931-07:00These tea partiers look just like me. Middle age w...These tea partiers look just like me. Middle age working class, many of them veterans, Some getting medicare or some other government benefit. One on one they would help a fellow out in whatever way they could. Yet somehow they have planted themselves firmly against their best interests. A "jaws moment" is what is neededAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00533184345345882921noreply@blogger.com