Monday Open Thread

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  by: Colorado Pols Mon November 19, 2012 at 4:36 PM MDT

“He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat.”

–Robert Estabrook


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  1. parsingreality says:
    Mon November 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM MDT

    ….not having to race Libertad to this spot.

    I wonder if he will be back.  Sure hope the joings the ranks of The Bot, Sybil, Gecko, Liberalism is a Sickness and the entire ilk.  

  2. Albert J. Nock says:
    Mon November 19, 2012 at 11:20 AM MDT

    The following quote may stir your imagination.

    “Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.” — Robert A. Heinlein  

  3. Albert J. Nock says:
    Mon November 19, 2012 at 4:18 PM MDT

    Do Democrats have any principles or is all about party?

  4. CaninesCanines says:
    Mon November 19, 2012 at 4:24 PM MDT

    to say the least. Lucien K. Truscott IV in the New York Times:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11…

    The genius of General Petraeus was to recognize early on that the war he had been sent to fight in Iraq wasn’t a real war at all. This is what the public and the news media – lamenting the fall of the brilliant hero undone by a tawdry affair – have failed to see. He wasn’t the military magician portrayed in the press; he was a self-constructed hologram, emitting an aura of preening heroism for the ever eager cameras.

    I spent part of the fall of 2003 with General Petraeus and the 101st Airborne Division in and around Mosul, Iraq. One of the first questions I asked him was what his orders had been. Was he ordered to “take Mosul,” I asked. No answer. How about “Find Mosul and report back”? No answer. Finally I asked him if his orders were something along the lines of “Go to Mosul!” He gave me an almost imperceptible nod. It must have been the first time an American combat infantry division had been ordered into battle so casually.

  5. MADCO says:
    Mon November 19, 2012 at 8:21 AM MDT

    then Fred Flintstone, but   tractor parade just dosnt work.

  6. Diogenesdemar says:
    Mon November 19, 2012 at 9:01 AM MDT

    fer sure . . . more often  

  8. parsingreality says:
    Mon November 19, 2012 at 12:47 PM MDT

    Wow, like heavy, man.,

    Hey, how about “The human race divides politically into those who want to control others and those who want to control their own destinies.”

    See how that works?  

  9. raymond1 says:
    Mon November 19, 2012 at 2:48 PM MDT

    … sure is “something to think about” on a politics-and-policy blog.

    But we already knew that your whole worldview is teenage boy fantasy (plus fear of big black men).

  10. Albert J. Nock says:
    Mon November 19, 2012 at 1:05 PM MDT

    And Parsnips is obviously from the camp of control others.

  11. AristotleAristotle says:
    Mon November 19, 2012 at 3:29 PM MDT

    I don’t think Nock can perceive the difference.

  12. Fidel's dirt nap says:
    Mon November 19, 2012 at 4:23 PM MDT

    or rigging elections, or running around namecalling people communists/socialists/facists, then you’ll know its all about party.

    Call us then. In the meantime you may want to direct your attention to another party.

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