tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post96638501667049119..comments2023-10-31T03:18:26.963-07:00Comments on Great Guys Weblog: RecalibratingBrethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-79891670171527421932015-03-07T13:16:37.769-08:002015-03-07T13:16:37.769-08:00Hey Skipper,
yes, yes and yesHey Skipper,<br /><br />yes, yes and yesHowardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14980738175201874292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-1480054866999428812015-03-06T08:27:27.572-08:002015-03-06T08:27:27.572-08:00Clovis, you again miss the point. We were standin...Clovis, you again miss the point. We were standing up for the process of law by objecting to public officials harassing citizens without due cause.<br /><br />BTW - Hippies were led around by the nose by commies and dreamed only of avoiding the draft, sex and drugs in that order.<br /><br />The notion of world peace was and is only for the terminally gullible.<br /><br />As along as collectivists are able to seduce people into giving over their lives to them in exchange for trinkets they don't have to work for, there can never be world peace.erphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826044412670324694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-10554730763217708472015-03-06T07:59:49.844-08:002015-03-06T07:59:49.844-08:00Erp,
So you and your husband were back then enab...Erp,<br /><br /><br />So you and your husband were back then enabling hippies and now you complain you are in a world where people dream of world peace?<br /><br />Haven't you heard of "you get what you pay for"?Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-90785950425543099862015-03-05T18:15:03.433-08:002015-03-05T18:15:03.433-08:00Good idea. Now try to convince the rest of the wo...Good idea. Now try to convince the rest of the world. <br /><br />Throw back to "Cosmos" TV series string. Today we went on a lark to the local planetarium where the topic was "Tonight's Sky." The lecturer sounded like a breathless airhead in a SNL skit. <br /><br />The sky tonight was summed up by pointing out that ambient light is making it difficult to see the stars and we should turn out all lights not absolutely necessary.<br /><br />The main thrust of the lecture was that the ISS program is making the world safer because there are astronauts there from 15 different countries working together for world peace.<br /><br />I guess we should be grateful she didn't bring up global warming or recycling.erphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826044412670324694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-31270252698055007432015-03-05T17:41:52.232-08:002015-03-05T17:41:52.232-08:00I could swear I've brought this up a couple ti...I could swear I've brought this up a couple times already: Left & Right are useless terms; instead we should use Collectivist & Individualist.<br /><br />To be fair, I never thought of extending the concept to two dimensions: malleable & innate.<br /><br />Thomas Sowell's "A Conflict of Visions" and Stephen Pinker's "Blank Slate" have the territory covered.<br />Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-81146615814524665512015-02-16T13:45:19.172-08:002015-02-16T13:45:19.172-08:00Howard, I had to laugh when I saw that you put hip...Howard, I had to laugh when I saw that you put hippies in our neighborhood. In 1969, when hippies had been on stage only a short while, we were on the New York Thruway on our way to a wedding in the Buffalo area. With my husband and me were my parents. In front of us waiting to pay the toll was an old VW van full of kids. It was painted with bizarre psychedelic depictions new to us.<br /><br />They van was pulled over and when we got to the toll taker, we asked why the kids were pulled over. He gave us some nonsense about searching for drugs ... <br /><br />My husband pulled over and asked what the probable cause for the search was. Since there wasn't any, we paid their toll and they were let go their way.<br /><br />We looked for the van for next couple of hundred miles, but didn't see them. I never found out if they prudently got off the thruway or were picked up further down the line.<br /><br />Too bad those kids were turned by the commies leading the anti-war movement and didn't realize they were on the wrong side of the anti-establishment agenda.erphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826044412670324694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-27480906057886035872015-02-16T12:25:34.071-08:002015-02-16T12:25:34.071-08:00I'm a little skeptical, but after reading the ...I'm a little skeptical, but after reading the whole Zombie article, some of it rings partly true.<br /><br />I'll have to think about it some more, but thanks for the post.Brethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.com