My understanding was that you were already on the purge list. It was discussed at the last Neocon-Zionist meeting.Originally Posted by Gian P Gentile
Yeah, we bought our daughter a few years ago a cute little bright red VW beetle; you know, the kind that his the little flower vase next to the steering wheel for a flower. I like driving it; I especially liked driving it last year after getting back from Baghdad. I always made sure the flower was in the vase.
gian
My understanding was that you were already on the purge list. It was discussed at the last Neocon-Zionist meeting.
Last edited by SteveMetz; 01-01-2008 at 12:24 AM.
Right, Right; that is the thing that Ken White runs.
No
Didn't you see the memo
He broke off and created the proto-diluvian subset.
Probably too many disagreements with the more purist interpretations.
I myself have chose a more definative path of NZOOSRP
I have trouble coping with complex theories, therefor I've decided to label myself as a neo-Zionistic proto diluvian and I'm sticking with that no matter what either side's fringe wants to call me. NZPD for short, not to be confused with the far better known (and probably more efficient) Slapout PD.
( Neocon-Zionist-Over-Optimistic-Somewhat-Realistically-Pragmatist)
Last edited by Ron Humphrey; 01-01-2008 at 01:20 AM. Reason: cant spell, let alone know what to think
Sigh. Keeping
Colonels outa trouble is So-o-o repetitive a thing as jobs go.
No, sir, you always start off on your LEFT foot. So it's left, right...
(Unless you're in the Old Guard, they walk funny. Not to mention at my age and on a pack of Pall Malls a day, I don't run anything or anywhere if it can be avoided...)
(Ron is correct, on reflection,us dinosaurs cannot be associated with any of this neo-stuff; we do Paleo and the paleo-er the better. Ergo, I have to be a PZPD -- which sounds like an old Soviet AP Mine??? ...)
Oooh my daughter wants one of those. Did you get her the uber environmental friendly (high mpg) diesel or the uber sun friendly convertible?
Urp... I mean aren't they made by former fascists and horrible on American trade!!!!????
Anarchist political correctness is so dang tiring.
Sam Liles
Selil Blog
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I guess I should have just asked this in the first place. I first came across the concept of 5GW here:
http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/07...ation-war.html
Also here:http://www.dreaming5gw.com/2007/11/t...ategy.php#more
The authors' seemed to indicate that 5GW begins with some sort of conspiracy. The second article deals exclusively with left-wing 5GW strategy.
Last edited by Ratzel; 01-01-2008 at 03:59 AM.
Did you check into who the authors are? I find that's usually a good starting point. Personally, I find Dan tdaxp a little creepy to read. And there's no profile that I can find at his blog, which is never a good sign.
here is one discussion on the topic
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JeffC wrote:
Jeff,"Did you check into who the authors are? I find that's usually a good starting point. Personally, I find Dan tdaxp a little creepy to read. And there's no profile that I can find at his blog, which is never a good sign. "
There's nothing creepy about Dan, he's a good guy - and I know him personally. He's bright with multiple advanced degrees in different fields. Dan has/had a need for a time before he was accepted into a doctoral program to be a little obscure about who he was online. Not an uncommon practice for academics or aspiring academics given that we live in the age of Google and that hiring and departmental committees usually include a couple of vindictive wack jobs. He's not alone in that; presumably "JeffC" is neither your full Christian name nor your c.v.
About the worst that can be said of Dan is that, at times, he posts things simply to get a rise out of ppl and keeps yanking their chain past the point where he should fess up that he wasn't being entirely serious.
Who would do something like that? And, don't forget I owe you that cup of coffee.
Sam Liles
Selil Blog
Don't forget to duck Secret Squirrel
The scholarship of teaching and learning results in equal hatred from latte leftists and cappuccino conservatives.
All opinions are mine and may or may not reflect those of my employer depending on the chance it might affect funding, politics, or the setting of the sun. As such these are my opinions you can get your own.
On the topic of "take it for granite"...
I had to add...
Years ago, at 17, I believed the expression to be, "It's a doggy dog world"...my girlfriend at the time had to correct me...
The "take it for granite" comment had me howling with laughter if only because my kids have proved to me that how you hear/understand it is how you spout it....
Cheers -
D
[QUOTE=zenpundit;36759]JeffC wrote:
Jeff,
There's nothing creepy about Dan, he's a good guy - and I know him personally. He's bright with multiple advanced degrees in different fields. Dan has/had a need for a time before he was accepted into a doctoral program to be a little obscure about who he was online. Not an uncommon practice for academics or aspiring academics given that we live in the age of Google and that hiring and departmental committees usually include a couple of vindictive wack jobs. He's not alone in that; presumably "JeffC" is neither your full Christian name nor your c.v.
I didn't call Dan creepy. I don't know him well enough to say. What I said was that his writing has a creepy feel to it. Clearly, YMMV. Regarding JeffC, that's just a shorthand version of my name, Jeff Carr, which is easily discovered at my blog, the link to which is in my profile.
[QUOTE=JeffC;36793]YMMV?? This is like trying to watch my teenage daughters text message.
[QUOTE=SteveMetz;36795]
I didn't understand the acronym either -LOL!
Hi Jeff
Well-focused blog on your part. Nice.
Aesthetic opinions are usually a matter of taste and I'll leave it to that.
Hey Selil
Coffee would be good; You mentioned that you were north of me - near or far ?
I'm at Purdue Calumet in Hammond, Live about 20 miles east.
Sam Liles
Selil Blog
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The scholarship of teaching and learning results in equal hatred from latte leftists and cappuccino conservatives.
All opinions are mine and may or may not reflect those of my employer depending on the chance it might affect funding, politics, or the setting of the sun. As such these are my opinions you can get your own.
Hammond? I drive past that dump - er, town - every year on my way between Ithaca and Chicago. My profound sympathies.
As far as this post, I'll tread as lightly as I can because I know I'm a pretty liberal guy wandering through a forest of traditional conservatives/Republicans - and if you can't stand bad metaphors and rhetoric, you should probably stop reading now - but I just want to say this idea of MoveOn somehow trying to overthrow traditional values or practicing subversion of any kind is really kind of painful to read.
MoveOn may be extreme in their techniques (the Petraeus ad obviously was a pretty low point) but agenda-wise, it's difficult to consider them radical when they were clamoring for the end of a war that, just a few short months ago, was strongly opposed by 50% or more of the country. Their social and economic agenda, while liberal, is hardly "socialist" and anything smacking of a "leftist" conspiracy is so unbelievably outrageous that I have a hard time believing you're serious. Especially considering that liberals in the US are not nearly as liberal as left parties in European states and Canada, let alone anything approaching "Stalinism."
And yes, there are plenty of far-left campus radicals. But the people I interact with more on my campus - I know, poor choice of friends - are more likely to be near-racist anti-Muslims who support this war and any war, while being conspicuously unwilling to fight in it (or even pay higher taxes for it.)
Extremism is in the eye of the beholder, and it definitely goes both ways.
I am sorry if that seems to be personal in any way, I'm done with this whole thing - no arguments from me. I just felt something was missing here that needed to be said.
Thanks,
Matt
"Give a good leader very little and he will succeed. Give a mediocrity a great deal and he will fail." - General George C. Marshall
To everyone:
As I bleeding-heart, San Francisco mega-lefty, let me officially deny that we have a vast international conspiracy.
To other lefties on the forum:
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