tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post7452280621535054553..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Robert Gilbeau is in a heap of legal trouble. In June, he became the first active-duty Navy admiral in modern history to be convicted of a felony. Next month, he faces sentencing and could land in federal prison for up to five years.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40045163978926704622022-05-02T12:23:15.488-04:002022-05-02T12:23:15.488-04:00replica bags philippines replica bags canada rep...<a href="https://neasysl09732.blogspot.com/2022/04/jennifer-anistons-favored-bags.html" rel="nofollow">replica bags philippines</a> <a href="https://teighdit70590.blogspot.com/2022/04/surf-17853-celine-bag-stock-images-as.html" rel="nofollow">replica bags canada</a> <a href="https://wheareth10781.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-shop-has-97-score-and-has-actually.html" rel="nofollow">replica bags on amazon</a>mcthetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14330934314168097174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27253353579281164222017-03-22T23:27:36.306-04:002017-03-22T23:27:36.306-04:00Vulnerable to Attacks<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-23/london-terror-western-cities-will-always-be-vulnerable/8380000" rel="nofollow">Vulnerable to Attacks</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45339163837346975242017-03-22T23:26:29.577-04:002017-03-22T23:26:29.577-04:00In other words, risks to countries involved in the...<i>In other words, risks to countries involved in the war against IS will rise as its fortunes in its so-called caliphate slide. IS is on the ropes in its Middle Eastern strongholds.<br /><br />This makes it more dangerous to Western interests.<br /><br />In London, and among Britain's allies, political leaders have hastened to express solidarity, but all would be aware that such ritualistic professions of support and concern will not provide a foolproof shield against the next Islamist-inspired terrorist attack.<br /><br />The question is not if, but when and where.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53503306400063291162017-03-22T23:19:08.461-04:002017-03-22T23:19:08.461-04:00CYA time will now accelerate the flight to safety....CYA time will now accelerate the flight to safety.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87503085788544699542017-03-22T23:18:23.987-04:002017-03-22T23:18:23.987-04:00Well, well, well. Guess who got caught. As I said....Well, well, well. Guess who got caught. As I said. They do it. They did it. Because they can.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46591678199041239962017-03-22T23:07:58.884-04:002017-03-22T23:07:58.884-04:00Ciaran Jenkins, a correspondent for Britain's ...<i>Ciaran Jenkins, a correspondent for Britain's Channel 4, asked Trump on Twitter if he thought his remarks were "helpful".<br /><br />"Did you even read the article before goading London's Mayor during a live incident?" he wrote on Twitter. He added, "Headline is based on very first sentence, which if you'd bothered to read it could apply to any major city in the world.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Trump declined to elaborate on his tweet later. "I'm not going to comment on every tweet I send," he said in an email.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7617920460849185612017-03-22T23:01:05.486-04:002017-03-22T23:01:05.486-04:00Latest Tweet from Q-Tweeter:
In his rejection of ...Latest Tweet from Q-Tweeter:<br /><br /><b>In his rejection of modernism Trump is Amish</b>Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58176096725824393472017-03-22T22:56:35.481-04:002017-03-22T22:56:35.481-04:00.
I realize you are wetting your pants in anticip....<br /><br />I realize you are wetting your pants in anticipation, old timer, but you have seen the outline. You will just have to wait. Try crossing your legs.<br /><br />,Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85444777381614452262017-03-22T22:44:10.112-04:002017-03-22T22:44:10.112-04:00"Terror attacks are part of living in a big c...<i>"Terror attacks are part of living in a big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khan."<br /><br />Khan had said the threat of terror attacks are "part and parcel of living in a big city" and emphasised the value of preparedness.<br /><br />...<br /><br />"London is the greatest city in the world and we stand together in the face of those who seek to harm us and destroy our way of life," Khan said.<br /><br />"We always have, and we always will."<br /><br />Khan became the first Muslim to be elected mayor of a major Western capital city in May 2016.</i><br />samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88723777785145481422017-03-22T22:36:55.948-04:002017-03-22T22:36:55.948-04:00Yet another of The Donald's 'rejection of ...Yet another of The Donald's 'rejection of modernism' -<br /><br />His refusal of the TV Interview, or even to be seen on TV<br /><br /><br />BWABWABWABWABWABWABWABWAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />Po' Quirk, he's really put his shoe in the shit this time !Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33664938779065040362017-03-22T22:25:33.411-04:002017-03-22T22:25:33.411-04:00Another example of The Donald's 'rejection...Another example of The Donald's 'rejection of modernism' -<br /><br />His refusal to Tweet<br /><br /><br />Bwabwabwabwabwabwabwahahahahaha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-91616815774096105262017-03-22T22:21:18.361-04:002017-03-22T22:21:18.361-04:00Start with this one, Lame Brain:
• "The Reje...Start with this one, Lame Brain:<br /><br /><i>• "The Rejection of modernism"…</i><br /><br />Then explain The Trump Tower, the Trump jet plane(s),the Trump choppers, the Trump escalators, the Trump Golf Courses, Trump communication equipment, and, basically, The Trump Whirlwind Tour.....etc etc etc<br /><br />He's not exactly turned his back on the wheel, the wing.....the jet engine.....not to even mention the motorized golf cart...<br /><br /><br />Bwabwabwabwabwabwabwabwabwabwahehehehehehahahahahahahhahahahahahahha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69144471058652972942017-03-22T22:12:15.944-04:002017-03-22T22:12:15.944-04:00Bwabwabwabwahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Bwabwabwabwahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17243913886479889052017-03-22T22:10:04.189-04:002017-03-22T22:10:04.189-04:00India, the US, France, the European Union on Wedne...<i>India, the US, France, the European Union on Wednesday strongly condemned the deadly attack in London that killed at least four and injured 20 people.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Four people have been killed, including the male attacker, and at least 20 injured in the attack.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30776153022138065312017-03-22T22:05:28.096-04:002017-03-22T22:05:28.096-04:00SEBASTIAN GORKA HAS MORE BRAINS IN HIS LITTLE TOE ...<b>SEBASTIAN GORKA HAS MORE BRAINS IN HIS LITTLE TOE THAN QUIRK HAS IN HIS ENTIRE QUIRK NOGGIN</b>Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42703366787989068982017-03-22T21:26:08.386-04:002017-03-22T21:26:08.386-04:00.
For What It's Worth: Poll Cites Trump's....<br /><br /><a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/poll-trumps-support-slipping-among-republicans-white-voters-men/ar-BByBxc6?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp" rel="nofollow">For What It's Worth: Poll Cites Trump's Dropping Approval Numbers</a><br /><br /><i><b>President Trump's support among Republicans, white voters and men is dropping, according to a new survey.</b><br /><br />A Quinnipiac University poll finds that the president has a job approval rating of just 37 percent. Fifty-six percent of respondents disapprove of the job the president is doing.<br /><br />In a March 7 survey, the president had a job approval rating of 41 percent, compared to 52 percent who disapproved of the president.<br /><br />The recent survey found that 43 percent of men approve of the job the president is doing, compared to 49 percent who approved of the president in a survey conducted earlier this month.<br /><br />Slightly more than 80 percent of Republicans now approve of the job the president is doing, down from 91 percent in the March 7 survey.<br /><br />And 44 percent of white voters approve of the president in the latest poll, down from 49 percent.<br />The poll also found that 60 percent of voters think the president is not honest and 55 percent think he doesn't have good leadership skills.<br /><br />Fifty-seven percent of respondents believe the president doesn't care about average Americans, <br />according to the poll. A majority of voters believe the president is a strong person and is intelligent.<br /><br />Nearly three-quarters of voters think the president and his administration make statements "very often" or "somewhat often" without evidence to support them.<br /><br />The poll was conducted from March 16 to 21 among 1,056 voters. The margin of error is 3 percentage points.</i><br /><br />.<br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73374059124453086582017-03-22T21:16:25.639-04:002017-03-22T21:16:25.639-04:00QuirkWorld's Truth Seekers:
https://theconser...QuirkWorld's Truth Seekers:<br /><br />https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/white-house-unmasking-team.jpg?w=768&h=768Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59472176594525827832017-03-22T21:08:08.025-04:002017-03-22T21:08:08.025-04:00.
The prologue is enough for now as I have other ....<br /><br />The prologue is enough for now as I have other things to do.<br /><br />The next post will be titled:<br /><br /><b>Trump World: Alt-right Reality in an Alt-right Dimension</b><br /><br />Part 1: Donald Trump a Fascist? Oh yeah!<br /><br />Characteristic 1 of 14: <i>The Cult of Tradition</i><br /><br /><br />.<br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67263616285644003722017-03-22T20:58:57.964-04:002017-03-22T20:58:57.964-04:00Straight Talk From QuirkWorld:
https://uploads.di...Straight Talk From QuirkWorld:<br /><br />https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cff3a752e9cd2343eff4502a4c1e10e1eac3a68f4596af364fb1982511711f4b.jpg?w=600&h=195<br /><br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37022652594515025902017-03-22T20:56:59.041-04:002017-03-22T20:56:59.041-04:00{...}
Section 2: Promises Made. Promises Broken...<br />{...}<br /><br />Section 2: Promises Made. Promises Broken.<br /><br />In the second part of this expose, I will attempt to list all the ways Trump has played on the hopes of the poor and ever shrinking middle class in this country that put him in office and then betrayed them by not only ignoring the promises he made but by proposing legislation that would negatively affect these people leaving them worse off than ever. I will point out that he is simply an amoral con man more interested in his own interests than those of the country.<br /><br />Section 3: Donald Trump: A psychological profile.<br /><br />In section 3, I will attempt to point out the pathologies that drive Trump, where they came from, how long he's displayed them, and what we can expect his prognosis to be.<br /><br />As you can see, there is much to discuss. That's why this expose will be serialized. It will follow the outline I just presented.<br /><br />. <br /><br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85910370227452841592017-03-22T20:54:58.830-04:002017-03-22T20:54:58.830-04:00Quirk wrote:
"[Note: Readers may want to cut...Quirk wrote:<br /><br />"[Note: Readers may want to cut and paste the various posts on this expose into a separate file folder so that when it is filled in with more detail (what we in the publishing industry refer to as filler)and published in a leather bound edition, the reader can brag that they have their own set of 1st edition author's notes.]"<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LOL!Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70632936491450137762017-03-22T20:47:44.677-04:002017-03-22T20:47:44.677-04:00Politico a middle-right source in QuirkWorld.Politico a middle-right source in QuirkWorld.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8347637553644447262017-03-22T20:46:42.690-04:002017-03-22T20:46:42.690-04:00{...}
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• "Pacifism is Trafficki...<br />{...}<br /><br />continued...<br /><br /><i>• "Pacifism is Trafficking with the Enemy" because "Life is Permanent Warfare" – there must always be an enemy to fight. Both fascist Germany under Hitler and Italy under Mussolini worked first to organize and clean up their respective countries and then build the war machines that they later intended to and did use, despite Germany being under restrictions of the Versailles treaty to NOT build a military force. This principle leads to a fundamental contradiction within fascism: the incompatibility of ultimate triumph with perpetual war.<br />• "Contempt for the Weak", which is uncomfortably married to a chauvinistic popular elitism, in which every member of society is superior to outsiders by virtue of belonging to the in-group. Eco sees in these attitudes the root of a deep tension in the fundamentally hierarchical structure of fascist polities, as they encourage leaders to despise their underlings, up to the ultimate Leader who holds the whole country in contempt for having allowed him to overtake it by force.<br />• "Everybody is Educated to Become a Hero", which leads to the embrace of a cult of death. As Eco observes, "[t]he Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death."<br />• "Machismo", which sublimates the difficult work of permanent war and heroism into the sexual sphere. Fascists thus hold "both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality."<br />• "Selective Populism" – The People, conceived monolithically, have a Common Will, distinct from and superior to the viewpoint of any individual. As no mass of people can ever be truly unanimous, the Leader holds himself out as the interpreter of the popular will (though truly he dictates it). Fascists use this concept to delegitimize democratic institutions they accuse of "no longer represent[ing] the Voice of the People."<br />• "Newspeak" – Fascism employs and promotes an impoverished vocabulary in order to limit critical reasoning.</i><br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism<br /> <br />I will try to show how Trump amazingly displays ALL of the characteristics of a fascist.<br /><br />{...}Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36279321454805026232017-03-22T20:44:35.071-04:002017-03-22T20:44:35.071-04:00{…}
In his 1995 essay "Eternal Fascism"...{…}<br /><br /><br />In his 1995 essay "Eternal Fascism", Umberto Eco lists fourteen general properties of fascist ideology.[11] He argues that it is not possible to organise these into a coherent system, but that "it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it". He uses the term "Ur-fascism" as a generic description of different historical forms of fascism. The fourteen properties are as follows:<br /><br /><i>• "The Cult of Tradition", characterized by cultural syncretism…<br />• "The Rejection of modernism"…<br />• "The Cult of Action for Action's Sake", which dictates that action is of value in itself, and should be taken without intellectual reflection. This, says Eco, is connected with anti-intellectualism and irrationalism, and often manifests in attacks on modern culture and science.<br />• "Disagreement Is Treason" – Fascism devalues intellectual discourse and critical reasoning as barriers to action, as well as out of fear that such analysis will expose the contradictions embodied in a syncretistic faith.<br />• "Fear of Difference", which fascism seeks to exploit and exacerbate, often in the form of racism or an appeal against foreigners and immigrants.<br />• "Appeal to a Frustrated Middle Class", fearing economic pressure from the demands and aspirations of lower social groups.<br />• "Obsession with a Plot" and the hyping-up of an enemy threat. This often combines an appeal to xenophobia with a fear of disloyalty and sabotage from marginalized groups living within the society (such as the German elite's 'fear' of the 1930s Jewish populace's businesses and well-doings; see also anti-Semitism). Eco also cites Pat Robertson's book The New World Order as a prominent example of a plot obsession.<br />• Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak." On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will...</i><br /><br />{...}<br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60091496483323171912017-03-22T20:40:32.971-04:002017-03-22T20:40:32.971-04:00.
Trump World: Alt-right Reality in an Alt-right ....<br /><br /><b>Trump World: Alt-right Reality in an Alt-right Dimension</b><br /><br />PROLOGUE<br /><br />In describing Trump, the man, I have decided to examine three key factors that reflect the nature of the man, his political philosophy, his nature as a populist con man, and the psychological issues that drive the man. I have divided the discussion into 3 sections each discussing one of those three factors.<br /><br />Section 1: Donald Trump a Fascist? Oh yeah!<br /><br />Bob has taken me to task for calling Donald Trump a fascist. However, I merely meant the term as objectively descriptive not as invective or pejorative. Let's try to keep this serious discussion dignified. <br /><br />There are numerous definitions for fascist or fascism. Umberto Eco, a noted novelist who grew up in Italy under Mussolini explains why.<br /><br />http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html<br /><br /><i>It may seem to tax one word to make it account for so many different cultural manifestations of authoritarianism, across Europe and even South America. Italy may have been “the first right-wing dictatorship that took over a European country,” and got to name the political system. But Eco is perplexed “why the word fascism became a synecdoche, that is, a word that could be used for different totalitarian movements.” For one thing, he writes, fascism was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas, a beehive of contradictions.”<br /><br />While Eco is firm in claiming “There was only one Nazism,” he says, “the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change.” Eco reduces the qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism” down to 14 “typical” features. “These features,” writes the novelist and semiotician, “cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.”</i><br /><br />If you run a search for the definitions of <i>fascism</i> you will come across a Wikipedia entry that lists a number of the more well known descriptions including that of Eco. It was his description that I used in describing Trump as a fascist.<br /><br />{…}<br /><br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.com