tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post2888649873181678546..comments2024-03-29T05:29:57.536-04:00Comments on The DiploMad 2.0: Striving for that "Strange New Respect"DiploMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-28684538521731025272013-10-13T18:37:14.608-04:002013-10-13T18:37:14.608-04:00Favorite new blog to read. Keep up the great work!...Favorite new blog to read. Keep up the great work!<br /><br />Conservatives have abandoned these institutions- government, media, academia etc.- in hopes they would be left alone, which reflects their worldview. But it has not worked out that way. These institutions need to be reformed, to the extent they can, and dismantled as you suggest to prevent them from being overtaken.Holmeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06948695292139416867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-15212177622119368672013-10-02T08:54:23.551-04:002013-10-02T08:54:23.551-04:00a6z....fighting is the key. Everybody on the right...a6z....fighting is the key. Everybody on the right is sick of being told how the Senate operates and how Washington operates. The voters are just supposed to get over it. A Ted Cruz comes along and ignores the bipartisan political/media class and it makes that class wet themselves uncontrollably. The State friendly AP had a story this am about the two Kings in the House- Steve and Peter and how they represent the split in that body and why some Dems are siding with one of them. "House's 2 Kings personify GOP split".whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-3929163913726350632013-10-02T05:17:41.225-04:002013-10-02T05:17:41.225-04:00Kepha:
One of the great stories about Santa Ana wa...Kepha:<br />One of the great stories about Santa Ana was his leg. Amputated after receiving a wound at San Jacinto, Santa Ana had it buried with full military honors. When he was thrown out of power mobs would dig it up and parade it around before throwing it away. When he regained power it was found paraded around reburied with honors. This apparently happened several times and was a reliable indicator of Santa Ana's current political status.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-73245017721139151802013-10-01T23:32:16.794-04:002013-10-01T23:32:16.794-04:00Is there a way to be drafted but not forcibly draf...Is there a way to be drafted but not forcibly drafted?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-90322052396465460442013-10-01T23:26:34.086-04:002013-10-01T23:26:34.086-04:00A little more explicit: Cruz thinks that when the ...A little more explicit: Cruz thinks that when the wheels come off ObamaCare, he is poised to say, "I fought it every step of the way."<br /><br />That may be good tactics or bad, but it is not obviously bad. At least he is fighting, which a lot of people respect.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-31749490139197309752013-10-01T23:16:41.563-04:002013-10-01T23:16:41.563-04:00Don't think people with whom you disagree are ...Don't think people with whom you disagree are "not that bright."<br /><br />Cruz is a Harvard man; Kerry's Yale. I could comfortably condescend to them--I'm CalTech, myself--but to what end? The problem with one of them is not stupidity but ideology. Pick your side and make your case.<br /><br />Also, one does, too, sometimes pick fights he cannot win. You just did, for instance. But I also mean that it is sometimes done intelligently, tactically.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-38661194833329380922013-10-01T21:09:05.564-04:002013-10-01T21:09:05.564-04:00Agreed
MMAgreed <br />MMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-9948549181466625462013-10-01T20:44:44.179-04:002013-10-01T20:44:44.179-04:00The little I know about Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana...The little I know about Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, Agustin de Iturbide, and certain other founders of Mexico makes me very thankful that the USA had George Washington!Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-26526327820605746782013-10-01T17:16:51.457-04:002013-10-01T17:16:51.457-04:00And yet the sun rises!And yet the sun rises!Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-36950078240065433852013-10-01T12:26:51.181-04:002013-10-01T12:26:51.181-04:00The government is closed.
Who will spy on me now?
...The government is closed.<br />Who will spy on me now?<br />I feel strangely alone...babshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09262838137108787643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-36910044234076542572013-10-01T09:22:29.096-04:002013-10-01T09:22:29.096-04:00The government is closed. We're all going to d...The government is closed. We're all going to die.whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-7845537615605552812013-10-01T06:24:35.980-04:002013-10-01T06:24:35.980-04:00Michael Adams:
It's jhankey2@gmail.com, look f...Michael Adams:<br />It's jhankey2@gmail.com, look forward to hearing from you.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-41579012343624527562013-10-01T01:18:44.923-04:002013-10-01T01:18:44.923-04:00I do not see an e-mail button here, but, Dip, cou...I do not see an e-mail button here, but, Dip, could you please give my e-mail to James. I am sure we need to talk.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10352174311146177708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-1921548833426731252013-09-30T20:50:07.227-04:002013-09-30T20:50:07.227-04:00Wow, there are a lot of Texans here! Somebody bett...Wow, there are a lot of Texans here! Somebody better keep a sharp eye out for Gunnery Sergeant Hartman!Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-15371307483584683072013-09-30T20:39:21.607-04:002013-09-30T20:39:21.607-04:00I'm retired Navy. The nearest PX/Commissary is...I'm retired Navy. The nearest PX/Commissary is 150 miles from me and for 20 plus years we did not make that trip as there were never any savings. Now with all kids gone the wife and I find we can make the trip about once a month and more than pay for the gas just on savings realized at the commissary. I invite you to visit any military town and especially the PX/commissary. Try and time the visit around payday. The admiral comment is very correct. My Navy is top heavy! <br />signed...a Texan Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-29443476233677014372013-09-30T19:08:51.411-04:002013-09-30T19:08:51.411-04:00Sorry if I came off odd on the Alamo deal, my repl...Sorry if I came off odd on the Alamo deal, my reply below to Adams should illuminate my thoughts. I'd like to here yours.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-59529925220390795842013-09-30T16:15:22.529-04:002013-09-30T16:15:22.529-04:00You're right but as is, the ACA has been so ba...You're right but as is, the ACA has been so bastardized from what was passed and signed that all Dem candidates everywhere now own it no matter what. whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-27365279547260607832013-09-30T15:14:58.046-04:002013-09-30T15:14:58.046-04:00Even better, the GOP should have forced the Dems t...Even better, the GOP should have forced the Dems to strictly enforce all provisions of the ACA as passed to the letter. No exemptions to unions, no one year deferral of the employer mandate, and so on. They should have brought all of these to a recorded vote so that the Dems would be on record as having voted against provisions of the ACA. But nobody listens to me anyway...TheOldMannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-533072288710080022013-09-30T12:52:36.127-04:002013-09-30T12:52:36.127-04:00Looks like Celia got stuck in spam, because she ap...Looks like Celia got stuck in spam, because she appears above David from Oz, but was not there when I read comments this A.M.(Gotta do something to keep awake while I floss)<br /><br />To add to her comment, it's also amusing that the O'Connors sided with Santa Anna, and many Mexican families sided with the rebellion.Much of South Texas is now populated by O'Connors, and there's a big RC church in Corpus Christi with windows, baptismal font, everything imaginable, donated by O'Conners, Dunns, Kennedys and other Irish-Texan ranching families. More than one O'Connor has told me that if their ancestors could not steal it, they married it. Many of them "look Mexican," while there are blond, blue-eyed citizens of South Texas with Spanish surnames.<br /><br />But, back to the rebellion, the Anglo-Celtic settlers were invited/encouraged into Texas to form a buffer between Comancheria and Mexico. Texas was so far to the north, and populated only by Indians who were here before the Comanche, and seriously menaced by them, and by the Spanish missionaries. Because of this distance, Santa Anna did not understand that the "Anglos" were mostly yeoman farmers, with very few slaves, and didn't have a slave-based economy. (Oh, and serious bad-asses, too, as he would learn.) One of the things he tried to do, to cause economic damage to the Texicans, was to abolish slavery. He could not enforce such a law, and most people would not have been affected, anyway. It was just a measure of his distance from a place he meant to rule, and this distance, as Celia said, was the reason for rebellion in many Mexican states, who thought a true federalism was the only sensible approach. Well, there is a point to this two-headed foot note, and that is that ruling Scotland or Portugal from Brussels is bat-shit crazy.Would-be rulers never learn from the mistakes of other would-be rulers. So, Labour in Britain and Democraps in the US absolutely can not see that the Soviet Union fell because the finitude of human intelligence makes it impossible for one person or group of persons to micromanage the lives and economies of other people.Oh, no, it was just that the Communists were not as smart as we are.This flies in the face of psychology, statistics, and a lot of common sense, but they do keep trying.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10352174311146177708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-67045081549964637332013-09-30T11:03:00.075-04:002013-09-30T11:03:00.075-04:00And one shouldn't forget that when Santa Anna ...And one shouldn't forget that when Santa Anna revoked the Mexican Constitution of 1824 and essentially made himself a dictator, a number of other Mexican states rebelled as well, not just Coahuila-Tejas. At the time, Mexico was torn between two factions, the Centralists (old-style conservative, authoritarian rule from Mexico city) and the Federalists (old-style liberal, favoring a loose coalition of states, modeled on the US.) In some ways, the Texas rebellion was just the final spasm of the Centralist-Federalist dispute. Santa Anna had put down those other rebellions of Federalists with great brutality. After the no-quarter at the Alamo, and the mass execution of the surrendered garrison of the Goliad, the Texans knew very well they were for the chop.<br />(I wrote this into the background for one of my novels - Daughter of Texas - trying to teach history by making a ripping good adventure yarn out of it.)<br />You know - if Santa Anna had not been a brutal and arrogant fool, he might have quashed the rebellion in Texas very easily, by being merciful; paroling the Alamo and Goliad survivors and expelling them from Texas. It is possible that the Texas revolution might have collapsed, since many of the old-time settlers weren't really keen on it. There was a 'Peace party', looking for accommodation and consideration of their rights under Mexican law. But Santa Anna rode roughshod right over them, and eventually everyone realized it was fight or go under.Celia Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16261103494038415027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-14761256077336529182013-09-30T10:41:52.183-04:002013-09-30T10:41:52.183-04:00Honestly hadn't read much about Texas history ...Honestly hadn't read much about Texas history before.<br />Makes sense with the distinctive culture attributed to the state.<br /><br />- reader #1482Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-70208341185302537872013-09-30T08:41:05.558-04:002013-09-30T08:41:05.558-04:00I do enjoy seeing Angelo's clear thinking at t...I do enjoy seeing Angelo's clear thinking at times like these. The country class and the governing class. Or as a first rate blog in England calls it--above the line or below the line.Time to break some furniture.whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-38160291279503943122013-09-30T08:16:56.502-04:002013-09-30T08:16:56.502-04:00It's gotten more difficult to be a conservativ...It's gotten more difficult to be a conservative in this country, even if you're not one who is publicly maligned and mocked, such as Palin, Cruz...<br />After a while, the constant grinding of the media narrative leaves you doubting your sanity, and wondering whether the fight is worth it, or if you should simply tune in, turn on, and drop out of the productive private sector and join the trough-wallowing public employee unions, whose politicians actually seem to stay bought.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05920772209272112515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-4338087899304030882013-09-30T07:13:26.852-04:002013-09-30T07:13:26.852-04:00Michael Adams:
The point I'm trying to make wi...Michael Adams:<br />The point I'm trying to make with the Alamo is the intangible can not only matter but can be very potent. On a strategic and tactical sense Sam was absolutely correct and Texas would not exist today without those decisions he made. Without Sam's operations it can be fairly said that the Alamo would have been another foolish forgotten military disaster of which history is littered with. It can also be argued that without the Alamo Houston's army and cause would have melted away forever into the western US of that time. I believe you're here in Austin and probably know this has been a topic here since San Jacinto.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-67268824340304000382013-09-30T04:27:44.415-04:002013-09-30T04:27:44.415-04:00"An intelligent man such as Rubio, for exampl...<i>"An intelligent man such as Rubio, for example, got pounded into supporting a bizarre immigration reform plan that would serve to create millions of new Democratic voters. "</i><br /><br />There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to think that Rubio "got pounded" into supporting amnesty for invaders - none at all. He has been amnesty's chief pusher, faceman and spokesliar. He wasn't drafted, let alone forceably drafted, he very enthusiastically volunteered. And given that he thought he could get away with such betrayal, he's not very intelligent. He is a despicable little worm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com