Speaking of educating our young:

That’s Samuel’s essential quandary, and it’s the predicament of all Foreman characters. On some level, they’re always stuck in Philosophy 101, trying to figure out what’s real and what’s imagined and to express that dichotomy in a satisfactory...

I made my own breakfast because Mom and Dad left for work before I left for school.  Funny, that.

I do not believe we should intervene with military support in Syria. While we can offer a way to get to peace talks and negotiations, we cannot select sides. Both sides in this case appear to be very wrong. Each side will commit genocide against their enemy if they are in power.  There will...

You made your own breakfast!!! Did your mom just lay in bed and eat bon bons? Remember when that was a thing?

Prager is a shitheel, and takes advantage of the Limbaugh type rubes who just want to believe that poor people are lazy, therefore their children should be penalized for that. You...

I'm getting whiplash. Turns out Pipes is pushing the play-both sides idea hard.

Now that it looks like humanitarian intervention might not work out, it turns out they have a Plan-B ready to go. How can a man dare to dream, even on a spring night, without a thousand points of light?...

I think I will change my name to Mr. Light.  Then, Mr. Day and I can open our own University based on the Prager University and Glenn Beck University models.  Naturally, we'd call it the Day-Light University and we would offer courses of education in Progressive thinking especially...

I agree that the Russians' willingness to consider a future government led by someone other than Assad is really big news.  What we need to watch no, I suspect, is whether the rebels will agree by some kind of consensus to leave Assad and his family alone in exile or something....

Okay, it has been awhile but I hereby render unto LULU the Dayly Comment of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site; given to all of him from all of me.

So many links in my poor essay but thousands out there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/business/energy-environment/obamas-keystone...

This reminds me of that Augustinian line I quoted a couple years back:

The Church may be a whore; BUT SHE IS STILL MY MOTHER!

hahaha

Heritage appears to be running out of subjects to lie about.

Speaking of lying about; Mom still has to get the kids properly attired or at least see that they are properly attired; Mom still has to check the back packs; Mom still has to see the little buggers off to the bus after she...

This is good news and I hope it plays out to produce a cease fire. I have to say that my biggest reason to support Obama in 2008 was that I felt he would be much smarter about war. I have been very disappointed a number of times but He seems to be finessing this one about as well as possible. Or...

The U.N. is pleased to hear it:

8 May 2013 – The Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, today welcomed the...

It is surprising that the information that Tsarnaev had a YouTube channel didn't come out before this.

Part of the problem, I'm sure, is that enough nutty stuff gets said on YouTube in English that the nutty stuff said in other languages ends up at the bottom of the pile. (Not a...

I can't imagine what we would do now in Syria that would be of much help, and we obviously have a very biased view to go in & push our world agenda/Axis of Evil philosophy with.  (hey, I thought Syria had all Saddam's WMD's???)

700 people died in Iraq last month, most...

I couldn't find the Far Side cartoon I wanted to make a particular point, but this one seems relevant to the discussion ;)

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Too many people are still quick to believe bad things about homosexuals. But lots of influential and powerful people are actually reluctant to believe bad things about Jason Collins personally, because they know and like him.

During the 2004 elections and the...

Fisk and his nonsense non-sequiturs :

...I mean, if Syria decided to take out a couple of Israeli nuclear warheads in the Negev and said, well, it had the right to defend itself and it feared these missiles might be fired at Syria, Mr. Obama would be promising us that...

Noah’s ark is on fire

And so here we go again with flood and fire season in America, the...

Does anyone else think this is a little - ummm - inverted?  Why would you want a floating rate if you are expecting rates to rise? 

Okay, there are some functional reasons for doing it but still.  When practically the whole world wants to own your debt, even to the...

I always knew I should pay more attention to Star Trek.  Kobayash Maru is simply brilliant RM, truly so.

How does 'the world' handle a nation where the inhabitants are intent on killing each other? Do we assign armed bodyguards for each and every family, clan, ethnic group, village and town? Occupy the nation with hundreds of thousands of armed troops? For how long?

How do we create...

You know he started out as a ambulance chaser.  When I worked in Pensacola, I used to see him on a bill board every day on my way to work.  That was in the late 1980's.  Of coarse he would be all over the place depending which way the wind is blowing. That was his stock and...

Peracles,

I wasn't thinking of 12 dead people.  I was thinking of 70,000, which is the number I've heard bandied about as the number of dead in Syria. 

I have no doubt that my view is unpopular, and I respect my detractors that feel differently and I truly do...

Russian Secret Service probably set off the Moscow apartment bombs to justify the 2nd Chechnya War. Yes, false flags happen all the time. Note that the FBI spends much of its time these days trying to find loser Muslims & fill their heads with hate and then plots to seek revenge, and then...

I guess that with this great concept of chained CPI , the retired people are expected to switch to the Chinese rat skewers in place of beef...see both links below.

...

I will try to answer your question. Doing so will require that I get into some of what I see as false assumptions leading to mis characterizations in your comment.
First, the simplistic short answer is that I was not intentionally “hard” on Aaron C. I  first politely...

Well that reassures me, the frequent nut-job and hair-on-fire Sully finds it in his heart to forgive Fergy. All is well in the universe.

(of course I wonder if I've crossed the line by thinking that maybe the Chinese look at  time and the future different because their religion...

Lulu. Not sure why you're being so tough on Aaron when you're the one who used big letters above to highlight bizarre speculation about Israeli false flag stuff while thousands of Syrian civilians are being massacred--by Syrians.  

I am not focused on OWS and in that...

What bothers me most about Morning Joke is that they try to be all things to all people. Some days they're Liberal, some days they're Conservative, some days they're pragmatic middle-of-the-roaders.   Tuesdays is "Everything the Democrats do is wrong" day, where they...

I just watched Mornin Joke do the same rant against Gore.

He accuses Al of hypocrisy because he made so much money in oil?

It's all good.

Al just laughs all the way to the bank.

I am not happy about the sale of the network to Al Jazeera though. Does that make me...

Yes, absolutely.  

Thanks, Michael. I think this addition

I would add to that -- people don't always know, or they don't always know what they know.

is very true. For both partners in such a relationship.

Satire: Very difficult concepts for people Wolfy.   Just ask The Daily Currant.

Yes, so far as I know it is.  

THEY are watching you Jolly.

Every goddamn day!

hahahahahaha

(Frankly you just have to stop rubbing yourself in front of your PC.

I mean the behavior is just not PC!)

THE END

This article has already been edited since you first linked to it. Messed up a couple of points I was going to quibble about. 

It is now being said that there is no proof the rebels are the culprits. That has as much and as little definitive value as saying that there is no...

Read the whole Filkins piece now.  Filkins seems to have pretty much been convinced that Obama himself really really doesn't want the military to get  involved in Syria, nor does Obama want to supply weapons to the rebels, despite many of his advisors being for more action on that...

Well, it's somewhat related, but doesn't really address what to do in Syria, seems to beg gettomg distracted with an OWS side-channel.

I do think the image of peaceful US citizens surrounded by a bunch of nuts with guns in the wake of recent shootings will not play well for the NRA.The NRA is going crazy because they are being pressed by gun groups that are even more hardiness.Until rational gun owners speak up, the wingnut...

Your comment seems perfectly apt, and the only question is whether the individual you refer to reflects OWS or is acting independently. 

Aaron, Carrine, I seem to be missing something here. I don't see what an OWS cartoon condemning Obama giving non-lethal aid has to do with anything in this blog. Maybe a link to the cartoon would help. Or just a bit of an explanation. Thanks.

It doesn't matter whether the creditors were cynical or stupid. If they fall, they can bring down others and start a contagion.

And so, Michael, what role do the creditors have to play here in the Greece example sans responsibility for their choices or any...

everything America does is evil and anyone who is against America is good" school of thought.

I tend to see folks like that as a kind of warped version of imperialists. Where it's hard for them to believe we are not in control of everything that happens in the world,...

Now the false flag accusations may probably start from the right wingers who  have very much noticed how the Obama administration wasn't...

There was some show in the 60's called the Vigilantes.

I cannot find it right now.

Clint Eastwood did a few films on this subject.

Quantrill was a goddamnable Confederate as was Jesse James and a hundred other terrorists!

It is all in the perspective or...

I enjoy Dr. Reich's blog.  I have been a fan of his since I met him in the late 1980's at a lecture on "Just in time stock inventory, Dr Demming model."   I posted Mark Blyth blog on austerity in the news section last week "The Austerity...

I found this paper interesting.  You are right, they usually stay in the center of the box but I still look at their site.  The Hamilton Project paper shows how much Washington has failed with their politics.  No one in Congress has the curiosity to learn economics...