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codeine commented on the diary post The Common Good: Bang, Bang; They Shot It Down by wendydavis.
hi there, wendy.
Watching Cass Sunstein (O’s intellectual mentor, even if he isn’t WH Deregulator in Chief anymore), on television yesterday, offer warm praise of Thatcher and Reagan’s “empiricism” made me want to puke.
At least Obama knows what empirical means, presumably. Makes it all the more shameful what’s happening these days. -
codeine commented on the diary post Drones, Debates, and Deadly Consequences by Center for Constitutional Rights.
but Obama is so serious…and he does things you or I cannot, such as serve as jury, judge, and executioner all in one, so the Program (if it were “Programme” as in British English it would be as soothing as classical music) must be legit. Trust him.
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codeine commented on the diary post ‘Batten Down The Hatches’ And Our ‘Preferred Plan’ in Syria by CTuttle.
I suppose Gantz had to say that.
Meanwhile the Israeli press berates the failed and moronic ‘leadership’:
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codeine commented on the diary post ‘Batten Down The Hatches’ And Our ‘Preferred Plan’ in Syria by CTuttle.
It amuses me that Israel’s defense establishment has been unanimous in condemning the hacks, Netanyahu and Barak, failed leaders who require wars to distract the nation from their astounding incompetence.
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codeine commented on the diary post Today Is Terror Tuesday: Say a Prayer* for the Chosen Ones by wendydavis.
ah, wendy, I’ll spare you the odium of searching for the ‘moral’ philosopher in love with drones; here he is.
yet another priest of ‘civilized’ murder.
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codeine commented on the diary post Today Is Terror Tuesday: Say a Prayer* for the Chosen Ones by wendydavis.
hi wendy. excellent piece as usual. Odd how apt Romney’s characterization of Obama as “Dr. Strangelove” was. Also, reading the Times piece, I thought of sinister religious conspiracy theories, and then comes Brennan’s priest ministering to the tormented C-in-C who, unique among military commanders (I think), personally chooses those he is about to kill. It [...]
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codeine commented on the diary post The Sound and The Fury of Tweedledee vs. Tweedledum – Yawn. by Bill Perdue.
The only solution is electoral reform- ie proportional representation.
ok maybe it isn’t the whole solution, but it would break up the tyranny of the present system.
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codeine commented on the blog post Erskine Bowles-to-Treasury Rumor Picks Up Steam
Herbert Hoover was a populist in comparison to Obama.
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codeine commented on the blog post Defense Motion Details Horrific Conditions Bradley Manning Was Subjected to at Quantico
Manning’s captors should be on trial for torture.
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codeine commented on the blog post Great News: Cass Sunstein Leaving Government
I’d rather have Obama appoint a Republican than continue with a hypocrite who claimed to have the plans to complete FDR’s “unfinished revolution” (no kidding, he wrote a book on this subject called “The Second Bill of Rights”- Sunstein is not a man to be underestimated).
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codeine commented on the blog post Great News: Cass Sunstein Leaving Government
Sunstein’s philosophy (“paternalistic libertarianism”) is a self-contradiction. So naturally he is Obama’s intellectual guru. The damage he’s done to Obama’s willing and receptive mind is, unfortunately, irreversible.
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codeine commented on the blog post Great News: Cass Sunstein Leaving Government
It’s going to be challenging for even Obama to find someone as bad, let alone worse, to replace him.
Not that he won’t try.
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codeine commented on the diary post Obama runs Syria war from Incirlik air base in Turkey by fairleft.
That’s not totally fair to HuffPo- some people at least are trying to grapple with it…not necessarily those employed by HP, of course…
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codeine commented on the blog post ACLU, CCR Sue Administration Over Targeted Killings of US Citizens
This answers one of the big questions I had about the Awlaki case- whether his father would sue again, given legal standing by his son’s assassination.
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codeine commented on the diary post Thomas Hardy: Opening the Conversation on Sexual Violence in 1891 by wendydavis.
and of course (sorry for writing in such discrete little quanta) what makes this ironic is that the resemblance can’t be attributed to genetics; it does seem like a curse to the Ancient-Mariner-like Sergeant, divinely bestowed.
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codeine commented on the diary post Thomas Hardy: Opening the Conversation on Sexual Violence in 1891 by wendydavis.
It means that the eyes of the girl he raped were identical to those of his daughter, perpetually reminding him of his crime.
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codeine commented on the diary post Thomas Hardy: Opening the Conversation on Sexual Violence in 1891 by wendydavis.
No stress. And Hardy’s style can cause a less unusual state of ‘dyslexia.’…..it’s hard reading.
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codeine commented on the diary post Thomas Hardy: Opening the Conversation on Sexual Violence in 1891 by wendydavis.
I was wondering about how you were faring in the fires… was glad to see you able to write (even more eloquently than ever), but obviously it is a huge stress. Since “Wessex Poems” is the only book of Hardy’s on bartleby (and it happens to be the one I have on my bed at [...]
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codeine commented on the diary post Thomas Hardy: Opening the Conversation on Sexual Violence in 1891 by wendydavis.
here’s the link I omitted-
http://www.bartleby.com/121/42.html
A haunting poem about the backward march of humanity.
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codeine commented on the diary post Thomas Hardy: Opening the Conversation on Sexual Violence in 1891 by wendydavis.
I remember thinking Angel Clare was the most repellent character in literature after reading the novel. “Tess” was his 2nd-to-last novel: he gave up writing them for the reasons adumbrated here: http://www.bartleby.com/121/40.html good thing most of his poems were better than that! He was one of the greatest poets of the 19th and 20th centuries- this [...]
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