Kavanaugh confirmed 50 to 48

Posted by exceller 6 years, 9 months ago to Politics
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Congratulation Justice Kavanaugh!


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  • Posted by EgoPriest 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Please see my latest post: "Are You Getting Out, Getting Along or Just Giving Up."

    I'll be happy to consider your contribution.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would agree it’s preferable that people wise up before a huge collapse. I do think tho that it’s going to take a collapse before enough people will wise up. Once people have been entitled and used to freebies, they don’t give those things easily
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They would go after her as religious conservative, not because she has children.
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Going Galt", i.e., dropping out, would do nothing to overturn bad ideas. That is not what Ayn Rand advocated..
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ayn Rand did not say that the system has to collapse before rational ideas can be heard. She advocated the opposite: she wanted people to go into the professions, especially, where they could advocate the right ideas and create a better influence. She feared that if the system collapses it will collapse into dictatorship or the anarchy of civil war or both, making civilized life impossible at all, let alone advocating and spreading rational ideas.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm ba-ack having gotten some things taken care of with more to do but most of that is put off for tomorrow. .
    You want flaws. You're a demanding little cuss, aren't you?
    Let's see, months ago ewv took me to task for writing something praiseworthy about Trump did and logically proved both I and the Tangerine Tornado were flawed in our thinking.
    The problem about that is, me old dino can't remember what the heck that was. Old dino regrets those too many days when I forget to take my Prevagen like I almost forgot to do right now.
    Once again, I'm ba-ack! This time I'm working on a chewable Prevagen.
    So what flaws do my rusty innards recall?
    Me dino recalls it being discussed on this board that Trump has no problem with the enforcement of eminent domain. Well, me dino has a problem with that as does many Gulchers.
    And Trump likes to talk about helping out the little guy. A little guy really feels little when he's forced to watch a bulldozer knock down his house to make way for a shopping center.
    Perhaps because this next bit also adds to his power, the Ornery Orange Of The Big Apple has no problem with the Patriot Act and maybe that's a big factor why Kavanangh was at the top of his nomination list.
    Blaring Trumpet's speeches have become annoyingly repetitive for me or perhaps me dino is the one flawed for watching too many of them on Fox News.
    And then there is his hair. His silly looking hair!
    Why am I thinking of The Three Stooges in a barbershop? No, no, a hair stylist. Perhaps one with a crewcut who calls himself Curly.
    Anyhoo, listening to yet another speech just yesterday, I saw Halloween Hair look off to one side, providing me with a profile. Along the side oif his head, I saw the longest and widest bald crease I've ever seen in his hair before. Ugly!
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  • Posted by EgoPriest 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is to my point but also for Kavenaugh and his Family:

    Children Say
    Level 42

    [They want me...
    To] keep to myself
    what I might share with others
    but they don't seem to understand
    I open my mouth
    [Tew] rediscover
    [I now] have the words at my command

    Holding out
    for a world so much better
    but I'm a stranger in a stranger's land
    all my friends have sold out
    couldn't handle the pressure
    counting their blessings trying to salvage what they [can't]

    Children say - children say
    [our minds should think alike]
    [must] one more day - slip away?
    [when will] the dreams of the young [ever] come to be?

    When I overhear
    my parents conversations
    well I'm struck by the things they say
    it seems they traded the years
    for mere complications,
    who ever thought it could end this way?

    they close the door
    but they can't lock it
    'cause something of their childhood remains
    and they've felt it before
    when the [Galt] in their pocket
    counted the cost of their material [chains]

    Children say - come what may
    be strong for the friends you've known
    but one fine day - (not) far away
    will [you] remember the love [that's been lost or betrayed] ?

    Well you knew what I was saying
    but did you know what it meant?
    when you saw that look in my eye
    did you [...know, I said what I meant?]

    was it all a waking dream?
    all that time we [have misspent]
    well I guess it must have been
    somehow [those feelings] came and went [...]

    Songwriters: Mark King / Michael David Lindup / Philip Gould
    Children Say lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

    https://youtu.be/zj9Wd1BaVrU
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  • Posted by EgoPriest 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I said not one word about politics. It's not emotion that's the enemy but emotionalism! We need the same mindful passion and rational awareness for the justice of our cause as they pretend to theirs.

    You think like intrincists hung-up on one concrete or principle of the broader concept that it must reduce back to reality, to proudly act out your independence of spirit that comes of climbing that supreme mountain of oratory, that's what activates the mind of a revolutionary (at "home," or "abroad").

    But these aren't just figures of speech. Everyone has a smartphone in public, and any player can be a hero in the fight for freedom. That's the ultimate goal: to create or inspire joint endeavors of public performance of our "mythos," the artistic vehicle of the personal, cultural and ultimately political revolution: The Atlas Spoke Transparency.

    I am only a sherpa, a poet and a player. But I am honest through and through, and I'll admit that although I do believe that "the training is the treatment," I also recognize and respect the transparency of those whose proclivities focus their minds in more "predictable" ways, let us say.
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  • Posted by lrshultis 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is how the USA has gotten to the point that it has. Compromise with evil usually just gets one closer to evil rather than to the good. If I recall right, Rand wrote something about the direction in which compromise leads.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Tucker Carlson wrote a book called Ship Of Fools.
    Me dino hasn't read it, but I'm thinking someone close to the Kavanaugh hearings should write a book called Circus Of Fools.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Of, course, everyone is flawed.
    Of course,Trump has strong points that matter. His policies has big time jacked up the economy, job growth and the stock market and he undid a lot of stupid stuff a traitor named Obama pulled off.
    The Clintons are criminals and both Bushes were jerks.
    Rocket Man is no longer shooting missiles all over the place.
    I could go on. Could be nothing I write will please you. Got other stuff to do.
    Sheesh!
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree that it takes heavy duty disaster to get people to change their basic mode of living. I am amazed at how much of a disaster it takes- Look at Venezuela. I would have expected a violent overthrow of the socialist government by now.

    I do think AR was right in AS- the system needs to collapse before a John Galt can actually be heard and understood. I think its going to be a long road of decline here in the USA to use up "other peoples' money" before real objectivist changes could be accepted on a widespread basis.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Flawed? What are his flaws?

    Was Bush or Obama faultless? Let alone Clinton?

    Show me one individual who is not flawed.

    It does not matter what his weak points are. He has strong points that matter and what is important for the future of the country.
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  • Posted by Solver 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Within an illiberal circus of so many ferocious humanoid animals and so many overly emotional clowns, there is little time to ask such rational questions.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes.

    Unfortunately people change their thinking only when their very existence is threatened. You can refer to the Europeans who are still denying that the Muslim invasion is dangerous (countries like France, Germany and Sweden for example).

    There are two ways out: one is to kill the prog/liberal movement and eliminate its most vocal supporters, the other is to hand over control to them which inevitably would lead to the death of the country.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think its way too late to expect actual political changes. Before that must come a realization that reason needs to supplant emotion when making philosophical decisions. Right now, emotion is the gold standard, and it shouldnt be. I think a change like that is at least one or two generations away. The reason I say this is that growing up from relying on emotion as a baby and learning to thnk happens (IMHO) at an early age and substantially doesnt change after that.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The information in the link you provided are the things that should have been brought up without of all the distracting smoke and mirrors of the noisy left's phony allegations.
    Me dino has described Trump as well-meaning but flawed.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't think that the Liberals have any idea of what they have done to the women in their base. Ironically, this latest double standard that is used against Republicans has hurt their cause. An awful lot of people know that Ford is lying, and now women will no longer be automatically believed, which of course, is the way that it should be. This doesn't serve the Liberal agenda well. Go "Mama Bears."
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