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Post by artraveler on Sept 11, 2021 11:03:24 GMT -8
My wife has cancer and we just don’t have the means that we used to.” If his wife truly has cancer then he is despicable for using a life treating illness to get a scam a reduced price. If his wife doesn't have cancer then it is just a scam and the fool is just as despicable. Without context there is no good way this works. No one whose spouse was ill would ask that kind of question.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 11, 2021 11:21:24 GMT -8
This reminds me of the time a Singaporean politician was exposed getting a special deal on a high-end apartment. He came out saying something like "his son was handicapped so he did the deal to ensure the boy's future." Very smarmy.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 11, 2021 11:29:41 GMT -8
So true. That was part of my latent doubt that you put into words.
Another aspect of this is that (god forbid) his wife could indeed be suffering from cancer and that the husband was spending money hand-over-fist anyway. As I told my brother, there are people who will let their children starve while feeding a crack habit.
You just never know. The truth could be worse than the lie of this apparent price-chiseling attempt.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 11, 2021 11:33:12 GMT -8
Indeed. Again, as I told my brother, if my brother would have had, say, a rocking chair listed on eBay and the guy said "My wife is going through chemo and rocking in a chair helps with the pain." Good god, yes, he could have gotten a discount and then some. But a friggin' board game? He's using his wife to chisel the price on that?
It sounded fishy and I think it is fishy.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 13, 2021 19:38:09 GMT -8
This is why I am closest to David Horowitz's ideas as to what must be done. They call it treason He forgot to mention that once they are found guilty, they need to be hanged.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 13, 2021 20:00:00 GMT -8
Shocking. Deep evil resides in the Democrat Party.
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Post by artraveler on Sept 14, 2021 5:49:38 GMT -8
This is why I am closest to David Horowitz's ideas as to what must be done. While it is possible that enough sanity may return to the American people to indite and try these people, I believe the only solution for a return to fundamental Americanism will require blood and a lot of it. I do not advocate for violence but I see little in our current culture that can avoid it. Not only in America, but world-wide the leftist philosophy is on the march. It has been almost 80 years since the end of the last world shaking war. The determination of the United States, republican and democrat, to prevent another has kept the wars since then comparatively small. The last great period of relative peace was the 19th century from the treaty of Vienna, 1815, to the start of the Great War, 1914. Historically, it is time for another. It could be argued that the Cold War period, 1945-1991, could have been a safety valve that relieved pressure for major military action. In spite of all the excess of the Soviets they were rational. When faced with existential pushback, realized the only way to survive was not to fight. We now face enemies that relish the idea of death, not only ours, but everyone's. The nihilistic philosophy is a path to certain doom. Not only are they staring into the void, but they jump. I wonder, are we now living the last golden age of man?
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 14, 2021 8:12:37 GMT -8
I don’t disagree. But I’m forced to do a reality check. The people who we think are raining destruction on our world think that are the cat’s meow in terms of goodness. After all, they: + Are saving the planet from pollution and overpopulation + Are sensitive, open, accepting, and non-judgmental + Hate all the right people Make no mistake, I believe in almost every single Leftist/Progressive principle (in a degree) like I believe in the 1/2 teaspoon of salt that goes into a good chocolate cake. But if all the other ingredients are replaced by salt, then you have an inedible and unhealthy mess. Tolerance for homosexuals? Sure. Protecting the environment? Within reason. Socialized medicine? For the truly downtrodden. Teacher’s unions? Okay, you got me there, along with abortion and some other stuff. And even for the things I would support in conjunction with balancing principles (tolerance for homosexuals, but acknowledging that male/female is normal and better), all we get is salt, salt, salt from the cake-makers of the Left. Every otherwise good instinct is taken to a destructive degree. But we can’t have this conversation in the wider world because the zealots on the Left think they are God’s gift to humanity. And, granted, the Kungian Principle should not be passed over which says, “A good many of these people are just power or money-hungry criminals.” Salt? Sure. You can’t bake a good cake without it. But all we’re getting from the Left in every area of their beliefs is a big, honkin’ cake of salt lick. And you can’t live on salt.
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Post by artraveler on Sept 14, 2021 9:52:35 GMT -8
Tolerance for homosexuals? Sure. Protecting the environment? Within reason. Socialized medicine? For the truly downtrodden. Teacher’s unions? I can live with all of those-----in moderation, even teacher unions, but only with the acceptance on the part of the union that striking is a no contest dismissal from employment. Maybe also some guidelines on curriculum. As far as homosexuality goes, if it fits the individuals adult need for love, friendship and compatibility, then live the life, but don't seek to impose it on any anyone who does not want it, moderation again. The saddest thing about homosexuality, female and male, is the capacity of two people who love and care for each other to reproduce and as a consequence have that special bonding that parents have more often than those who never have biological children. It can happen, but it is harder to achieve and hold on too. This longing for that special feeling is the cause of the rampant promiscuity in the homosexual community. Not to say that heterosexuals are a lot better, but the percentage of stable relationships is notably higher among male/female couples. There may even be a case made for group marriage, in theory it has many advantages but I've not seen or heard of any case where it actually works. As far as the environmental movement goes, sure preserve as much as can be cared for and utilized. If your an advocate of global warming, don't purchase shoreline property. Go to Canada and await the great warm up when you will be living in a verdant savanah, otherwise don't bother me with hockey stick forecasts made by people who can't tell if its going to rain next Tuesday.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 14, 2021 13:02:13 GMT -8
Accepted without amendment. Loved this bit:
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 14, 2021 17:19:25 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 21, 2021 10:05:58 GMT -8
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Post by artraveler on Sept 21, 2021 10:29:37 GMT -8
This should be no surprise. The democrat party law firm of Perkins/Cloie has been in the middle all along. Dunham has suggested more to come, but given the slow roll of bureaucratic DC. I would not expect to see inditements anytime soon. So I'm very much on your side here. Hillary and Bill will be long dead before either is every shown to be culpable.
You can bet the farm that any republican caught involved in this kind of criminal activity would already be in jail.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 27, 2021 12:58:45 GMT -8
More proof that Robert Kagan is a political whore of the lowest order and that the movement around Trump scares the shit out of the Uniparty/Globalists. The lies and misrepresentations in this piece would be breathtaking if they were not already a much overused tool in the Uniparty/Globalists kit of falsehoods. If you want to know exactly what the Uniparty/Globalists are truly about, simply take what they are accusing Trump and his followers of, and apply it to the Uniparty/Globalists. Kagan the Globalists' running-dog lackey For Kagan those Americans who are appalled at Biden's Afghan debacle, the invasion at our southern border, who believe there are only two sexes and who love the United States are deplorables.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 28, 2021 7:13:31 GMT -8
I couldn't read that load of blather. Clearly this guy is not a Trump fan.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 28, 2021 8:45:36 GMT -8
It is much deeper than that. Kagan is condemning those who support Trump in the most vicious manner. This is nothing new, but that a so-called public intellectual (and advisor to government) is reduced to spewing these lies and misinformation on the pages of the Washington Post indicates just how much these Uniparty/Globalists fear Trump and the movement around him.
They know there is a plurality, if not a majority of people in the USA who understand that they have been screwed by the system which is now nothing more than a criminal syndicate. The same people know that the lies vomited up by academia and the media about 57 sexes, etc. are insane.
The elites, and their paid guns such as Kagan, couldn't care less that the people understand this as long as all the people do is bitch. What scares the hell out of them is a unifying figure, like Trump, around whom an amorphous-powerless, incoherent mass of dissatisfied citizens can coalesce into a solid, unified, informed powerful block which can roll over that which stands in its way. And it is the elites who are fearful of being rolled. That is why they will do any and everything they can to stop Trump, but more importantly the movement which supports him.
To give you an idea of how bad things are in the USA, here is the conclusion which a friend in Singapore has reached about America. And he used to greatly admire the country.
Our corruption is so glaring that one can see it through the haze of propaganda being spewed out by the main-stream media, even though one is on the other side of the world.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 28, 2021 12:59:20 GMT -8
Won't be long until he's writing for National Review.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 28, 2021 15:44:34 GMT -8
Oh, what a surprise. Numerous federal judges adjudicating cases in which they have financial interests. What could go wrong? It was a mistake
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 21, 2021 12:09:18 GMT -8
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Post by artraveler on Oct 21, 2021 12:22:33 GMT -8
I agreee, anyone in the Senior executive service, GS-18 and above should be required to either divest or place assets in a blind trust. It is enough that a large part of our political class are rich to begin with but entering office as Clinton and Obama as relative upper middle class and leaving as ultra rich is obscene. Remember the Clinton's looted every gift given to the US by foreign government and then had the gall to claim them as personal.
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