tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post821906469279403998..comments2023-09-15T08:07:28.542-06:00Comments on Western Hero: America's Condition: Progressively WorseSilverfiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-6010507294686571152013-01-07T17:52:03.312-07:002013-01-07T17:52:03.312-07:00Lol. Loving this, Jersey pwns and wingnuts spin in...Lol. Loving this, Jersey pwns and wingnuts spin in their own wind.liberalmannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-16029891783509486972013-01-07T14:24:20.250-07:002013-01-07T14:24:20.250-07:00Why would you take any comfort from the infinitely...Why would you take any comfort from the infinitely scurrilous and insincere academics' evaluations of your powers of judgement -- surely their endorsement should give you doubts if anything? I realise this may have been a deliberate joke, in which case sorry for ruining it!Jez Austinhttp://www.facebook.com/jez.austinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-28550596404598912932013-01-07T10:59:06.265-07:002013-01-07T10:59:06.265-07:00There's nothing wrong with 'testing the sp...There's nothing wrong with 'testing the spirits'<br /><br /><br />If more citizens approached things with a healthy does or skepticism, we'd be much better off.<br /><br /><br />Because he is an old school democrat, I believe he, like WRM, is chiding fellow Democrats to open their eyes and change their ways.<br /><br /><br />Perhaps that is what you were detecting.Kurt Silverfiddlehttp://profiles.google.com/kurt.silverfiddlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-45929377984980477432013-01-07T08:39:26.591-07:002013-01-07T08:39:26.591-07:00I automatically question the integrity and sinceri...I automatically question the integrity and sincerity of all academics and journalists -- professions I have come to regard as infinitely scurrilous, <i>especially</i> in the <i>theoretical</i> fields. <br /><br /><br />I realize too that I have an irritating habit of imagining I can "read between the lines," but having been praised many times for demonstrating that capability -- by <i>academics</i> no less -- I have reason to believe there may be some justification for the conceit. ;-)<br /><br /><br />Facts can only carry us just so far. Without sound instincts and penetrating insight our species would still be swinging from tree to tree no doubt.FreeThinkenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-78072408796777196192013-01-07T08:32:31.183-07:002013-01-07T08:32:31.183-07:00I too congratulate Massachusetts on all those ster...I too congratulate Massachusetts on all those sterling achievements, but the cynic in me can't help but wonder who did the rating?<br /><br /><br />Only a question. Please don't regard it as an accusation.FreeThinkenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-80498111469965470152013-01-07T06:21:48.547-07:002013-01-07T06:21:48.547-07:00FT: Joel Kotkin is a very sincere academic. He i...FT: Joel Kotkin is a very sincere academic. He is also a self-described moderate, or perhaps and old school democrat. <br /><br /><br /><br />I find people like him and Walter Russell Mead interesting because they follow the facts where they lead them.<br /><br /><br />Neither of these men is a firebreathing rightwinger or Randite who wants to tear it all down. They want to reform the system.Kurt Silverfiddlehttp://profiles.google.com/kurt.silverfiddlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-75133610167093154902013-01-07T05:50:20.438-07:002013-01-07T05:50:20.438-07:00...but don't just take a partisan's word o......but don't just take <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/21/cbo-even-with-subsidies-electric-cars-are-still-uncompetitive/" rel="nofollow">a partisan's word</a> on it...rncscabnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-9338700403719847142013-01-07T05:47:17.575-07:002013-01-07T05:47:17.575-07:00Evidently, the Green Welfare crowd aren't par...Evidently, the Green Welfare crowd aren't <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/21/govt-subsidies-for-chevy-volt-up-to-250000-per-car/" rel="nofollow"> parasites</a>... Chevy Volts for EVERYONE! Got $40k?rncscabnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-47318770826931506592013-01-06T23:15:45.710-07:002013-01-06T23:15:45.710-07:00It's everything inside the beltway...been to w...It's everything inside the beltway...been to western Mass lately? Not the epitome of economic recoveryFinntannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-30209811356010820232013-01-06T23:14:13.363-07:002013-01-06T23:14:13.363-07:00It's hard to see through the blue hazeIt's hard to see through the blue hazeFinntannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-28502751242556952772013-01-06T23:13:11.134-07:002013-01-06T23:13:11.134-07:00Toke, toke, tokeToke, toke, tokeFinntannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-859849741661924092013-01-06T23:12:45.562-07:002013-01-06T23:12:45.562-07:00Oh yeah Jersey, take another toke of the hopium pi...Oh yeah Jersey, take another toke of the hopium pipe because everything you described is entirely the province of sleazy cons. The Pentagon may be gaping money hole the size of 1/3 of the budget, entitlement programs are the gaping money hole that make up the other 2/3rds. Ah...don't that hopium make you feel so good.Finntannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-11410694469148654752013-01-06T21:51:16.991-07:002013-01-06T21:51:16.991-07:00The poorest looking thing about that woman in the ...The poorest looking thing about that woman in the picture is her POSTURE. Next would be her grooming. The "rich man on the left is hardly attractive either. <br /><br /><br />This article by Kotkin is designed primarily to IRRITATE and PROVOKE. <br /><br /><br />I frankly don't think his Kotkin cares much about the issues on which he expounds.<br /><br /><br />I know Kurt Silverfiddle is bound to disagree with me, but the underlying <i>tone</i> of the piece is palpably insincere -- to me.FreeThinkenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-16108087479934317622013-01-06T21:43:24.859-07:002013-01-06T21:43:24.859-07:00Massachusett's diversity program is called a S...Massachusett's diversity program is called a Student Visafreesoul1957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-17187570913160548092013-01-06T21:41:25.500-07:002013-01-06T21:41:25.500-07:00Counting 100k more students in Cambridge... I thin...Counting 100k more students in Cambridge... I think we've got the rest covered. Thanks for playing, though.freesoul1957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-8416418004439902682013-01-06T18:05:34.432-07:002013-01-06T18:05:34.432-07:00I must say Shaw it is difficult to argue your fact...I must say Shaw it is difficult to argue your facts with respect to Massachusetts. Having lived and worked here for 41 years I can say Massachusetts is actually better than i was when I arrived. My two sisters, my youngest son and his wife all have graduate degrees from this state. Three of the four are hard working liberals and the fourth is a hard working conservative school teacher in a liberal state. But since she is a math teacher doing her job well politics ain't so important.<br /><br />As to RomneyCare. Maybe I'm talking to all the wrong people who have been in the position to use RomneyCare due to various unfortunate circumstances but they ALL say it sucks and those who have been fortunate enough to get off RomneyCare are happy as two pigs in a poke. But at least they had lousy health insurance as opposed to no health insurance at all. I guess that's the point eh?<br /><br /><br />Personally I think we ought to be spending time devising a better mousetrap that increases employment, reduces healthcare cost by improving physical well being, allowing competition across state lines among healthcare insurers, and capping profits on a service that Americans need when ill or facing life threatening situations. One of the only one I feel this way about.<br /><br /><br />Now call me a socialist if you like. But before you do you may want to check in with Thomas Paine on that one conservatives.Les Carpenternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-33322967241530583752013-01-06T17:14:31.986-07:002013-01-06T17:14:31.986-07:00Where shall we start? Wilson? Roosevelt? Johnson? ...Where shall we start? Wilson? Roosevelt? Johnson? Carter? Clinton? Obama? And that's only the progressives on your side of the aisle. We're looking at the result of a century of governance by people who simply refused to believe in a government of limited powers that was neither designed nor intended as a cure for all the worlds ills. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor <br />prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,<br /> or to the people."viburnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-61022692880068843902013-01-06T15:42:29.625-07:002013-01-06T15:42:29.625-07:00How was the abuse of the Constitution by Progressi...How was the abuse of the Constitution by Progressives responsible for the costs of the Great Recession?<br /><br />Explain that to me, please, if you would.<br /><br />JMJJersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-15735470103886894082013-01-06T14:46:55.634-07:002013-01-06T14:46:55.634-07:00Not at all true. Middle Eastern, North African, C...Not at all true. Middle Eastern, North African, Chinese, Japanese, Lashawkenawenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-76104405890695343072013-01-06T13:26:36.875-07:002013-01-06T13:26:36.875-07:00Gee I thought the topic was the failures of Progre...Gee I thought the topic was the failures of Progressivism. Since that is unquestionably rooted in the sort of fallacious understanding of the Constitution, and thereby the role and powers of government, that you display I thought I'd be helpful and point that out to you.<br /><br /><br /> As for sleazy, see above.viburnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-68879872147330615392013-01-06T13:06:47.850-07:002013-01-06T13:06:47.850-07:00Yes we are, which is why I cheer your success, and...Yes we are, which is why I cheer your success, and again, I congratulate you.Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-42703934681495860522013-01-06T13:05:38.457-07:002013-01-06T13:05:38.457-07:00Notice how everyone who doesn't agree with Jer...Notice how everyone who doesn't agree with Jersey is sleazy, or a moron?<br /><br /><br />Yeah Jersey, that $15 trillion in debt is all the rebublicans' fault (eye roll)Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-70329286085602008962013-01-06T12:58:56.382-07:002013-01-06T12:58:56.382-07:00viburnum, try to stay on topic. I know it's h...viburnum, try to stay on topic. I know it's hard for you, but intentionally changing the subject to avoid debate is the depth of sleaziness.<br /><br /><br />JMJJersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-36212400803666951662013-01-06T12:36:44.851-07:002013-01-06T12:36:44.851-07:00If it weren't for Boston's 152,000 college...If it weren't for Boston's 152,000 college students, there wouldn't be a single minority in the entire state.freesoul1957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-69841197360273710122013-01-06T12:30:30.523-07:002013-01-06T12:30:30.523-07:00But not because of it's diversity....
Oh wait...But not because of it's diversity....<br /><br />Oh wait, that's probably not on the list of judging criteria. Diversity is only important in qualifying for free handouts.freesoul1957noreply@blogger.com