COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Saturday, September 23, 2006

The Mood of the Bar

Summary of The Elephant Bar posts and its Clientele...

1. We're screwed!
2. Things are only going to get worse.
3. Idiot politicians are killing us.
4. Rumsfelds 10-30-30 military is too small.
5. Euros will not fight.
6. Jacque Chirac should not come to America.
7. Israel is screwed.
8. Iran will get the bomb.
9. China will get the business.

My thoughts:
1. Technology is great but in the end, it will still come down to mano y mano.
2. Western civilization may be forced to retreat from the heart of the Islamic world and fight at the borders. Meditarranean Europe, Southeastern Europe, Western India, Western Pacific, Southern Russia and Western China.
3. A wall or a fence will get built along the US/Mexico border as Chavez ruins SA.
4. Events (big terror attacks) will determine the size of our military particularly the infantry. American youth will volunteer after 9/11 type events.
5. The grand scheme to bring democracy to the Muslim world will fail or succeed in Iraq. It's a "one off" for US. It's up to the Mulims now.
6. I thought we had a military that could fight two wars simultaneously. Is that not the case?
7. US propaganda efforts in the ME seem to be almost non-existant. I wish I could think that this is by design but our State Department does not work well with our military and this needs to be remedied ASAP.
8. Conservatives must maintain control of the US government because of the the Supreme Court. This issue alone makes voting Democrat out of the question. The liberals on the Court are "killing us."
9. Israel will still be singing the lyrics, "Send lawyers, guns and money."

26 comments:

  1. Great Words and Ideas will win the War.
    See the BC.
    Let us rarely resort to violence lest we become like them.
    Pierre Legrande disagrees, as do I.

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  2. I think this, what was supposed to be, transitional Pope, may have really started something.

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  3. Whit

    1. We're screwed!............
    No, but challenged for sure.
    2. Things are only going to get worse.
    Yes.
    3. Idiot politicians are killing us.
    They are not helping.
    4. Rumsfelds 10-30-30 military is too small.
    Yes.
    5. Euros will not fight.
    When they feel threatened, they will fight. I happened to see some young French marines at Charles DeGaule Airport. They will fight.
    6. Jacque Chirac should not come to America.
    He may be going to jail.
    7. Israel is screwed.
    Challenged.
    8. Iraq will get the bomb.
    One in Five chance.
    9. China will get the business.
    If China wins markets, more power to them. But we should keep their feet to the fires on fair trade.

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  4. The Pope, Faith, and ReasonIn the hands of the press, it was more like Will and Grace.=


    Time for the new crop of British journalists to return to school for their graduate degrees, studying “parts of speech, syntax, spelling & basic grammar rules” in
    “JOM926 Journalism Practice” — just the kind of training that will prepare them to eventually work at important daily newspapers where they may one day cover things like Pope Benedict XVI’s speech on “Faith and Reason,”
    a lecture the pontiff delivered to his former colleagues at a German university.

    Part of the problem journalists face when they have to report on complicated, somewhat obscure topics, such as Roman Catholic dogmatic theology, is that graduate journalism courses like JOM926 may stress spelling and grammar, but completely at the expense of “faith and reason.”
    So maybe it’s not fair to blame journalists for the inanities in the week’s reporting of what was a very complex discussion by a scholarly pope concerning faith and reason in Christianity and in Islam.
    -Denis Boyles

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  5. Good post Doug. Why not put that one up on the marquee?

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  6. I want to encourage more members to prepare posts. I thought the comments of Heather were worthy and, I often read comments that are quite good and go unanswered. I would like to do more of that. I also am happy that there is more going back and forth with the BC.

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  7. Rufus, always argumentative, disagrees; he says everythins gonna be alright.

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  8. Rufus pointed out that the new operation in Baghdad is having very good results in the areas where it's been implemented. He, also, pointed out (or, meant to) that the Iraqi Army had completely taken control of the second province, and that the coalition is killing Taliban by the hundreds in Afghanistan.

    He pointed out that gasoline is now selling below $2.00/gal in parts of the country, and that new ethanol plants are opening at a rate of one or two a week.

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  9. Thank God for Rufus!

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  10. Monsieur Wheet, je ne suis pas d'accord avec votre #6, au sujet de mon ai aimé le Président Jacques Chirac. En fait, JE VOUS EXIGE fais des excuses!

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  11. rufus, very cogent post re the thoughts of rufus. i believe you nailed it -- why, it's almost like you can read his mind or somethin.

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  12. Excuses ? Paraphrasant le caractère Redbone de Richard Pryor parlant à Dracula dans le capot, "froggy, vous améliorez l'excuse votre âne sur le heah d'outta!"

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  13. IMHO, in my humble opinion, buddy larsen has nailed buddy larsen's thoughts in regards to rufus's nailing rufus's thoughts, almost perfectly.

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  14. I nominate Rufus for the EB Scribe.

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  15. Richard Pryor? Il "plays" un pimp, avec le Président Chirac "EST" un pimp. Ainsi, aucune foire!

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  16. 2164th.
    We've got a frog sympathizer in the bar. Do you want me to have him thrown out?

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  17. all i said, was that Presdent Chirac went richard pryor one better, and actually *is* a pimp, rather than merely playing one on tv. does not authenticity count for anything anymore?

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  18. Actually, Buddy, I Knew Rufus; and take it from me, Rufus is no Rufus.

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  19. However, I Do think that Buddy nailed Buddy pretty good.

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  20. This guy did a lot for calendars, no?

    http://www.rubylane.com/shops/howstrange/item/0598

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