dagblog - Comments for "Here is the Pubic Evidence that Russia Hacked the DNC"

A Democratic "Judicial Watch"

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:52:15 +0000

A Democratic "Judicial Watch" - bravo. 2 decades of payback to deliver.

I'm not sure college makes

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 06:32:42 +0000

I'm not sure college makes you smart. Maybe just gives you more wider precedents to work from than experience often buys. Maybe instills delayed gratification. I haven't used Calculus or nuclear Physics or Genetics since college.

Precedents.

Flavius — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 02:35:26 +0000

In reply to "Trust but verify"? With

Precedents.

We're used to there being laws but forget the greater supply of precedents by which are actions are

controlled- until they aren't.

It never occurs to us to tell the driver not to run down a pedestrian. Unless the driver

is Trump. Not that I think he would. I don't. But we really haven't a clue what he will or won't do.

Part of his appeal to the non college educated . Who were wrong. Is that part of

the cost of non college education for the non college educated?

Don't think so.

My father had somewhat less than a year of high school but I can't imagine his

voting for Trump. He certainly voted for FDR .

I recall giving him a record which included FDR- on the campaign trail in 36- saying "I've had a g l o r i o u s day here in New England." It could have been true, but it wasn't.

He wasn't on Lexington Green. Or Nantucket. Or Craftesbury Common. Where it

might have been glorious. He was in a small open convertible on a hot street in

Worcester which is still waiting for its first glorious day.

Why did my father laugh?

He knew that FDR was having a rotten day but it was normal politics to say you were having a glorious day so he said it knowing full well that no one in the sound of his voice thought he was having

a glorious day nor thought he was trying to fool them

He was playing the role he was assigned, They knew it. He knew they knew it. They knew he knew

that they knew he was just playing his part while ,in effect winking at them.

And my father knew all the above and was fondly enjoying this well loved

voice from the past playing that game with his audience.

How do you get that smart without any college education?

Maybe by not having any college education?

Or high school, Except for half a term.

When we finally moved from Boston to a small town they seemed to

know.Voted him onto the draft board . Where he drafted me and

my brother. When they decided not to put up a monument to the WW2

dead, elected him to Chair the project to build veterans' housing instead.

(One of his best friends never spoke to him again.In New England

some people thought, still do, you should never help anybody. Bad

for the moral fibre or something. He was a bit sad, but

just shook his head.)

The veterans housing was a great success. Still standing and going

up in value.

What I really dislike are the

CVille Dem — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 21:22:38 +0000

In reply to You're just ok, not too hot,

What I really dislike are the large ones, and the ones that have moving parts.

You're just ok, not too hot,

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 21:04:57 +0000

In reply to Some of us never use emojis

You're just ok, not too hot, not too cold - all the emotioemotionl range from a to b

Some of us never use emojis

ocean-kat — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 20:06:56 +0000

In reply to Emojis are for amateurs.

Some of us never use emojis because we never get emotional. Just cool, calm, collected and rational all the time.

Emojis are for amateurs.

CVille Dem — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 19:55:54 +0000

In reply to Emojis

Emojis are for amateurs.

"Trust but verify"? With

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 19:19:13 +0000

In reply to An astute point.

"Trust but verify"? With Hillary it was "speculate and condemn" from all sides. The GOP was ready to turn Obama's 1-year SJ hold into a full 4-year top-to-bottom lockdown for Hillary. Screw that - as they say in the South, obstruction today, obstruction tomorrow, obstruction forever.

McCain and the rest of the

rmrd0000 — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:59:26 +0000

In reply to An astute point.

McCain and the rest of the GOP will cave. Lindsay Graham and Rand Paul may be the only holdouts. Tillerson will be confirmed without a great deal of conflict. The conflict will be settled by the time of the hearings. Putin is now our BFF.

An astute point.

Flavius — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:14:07 +0000

In reply to People in the intelligence

An astute point.

There are two different issues.

Dealing first with Tillerson ,he's entitled to the normal trust correctly extended to any American. But "trust but verify": McCain should tell him that as a matter of normal prudence we want him, Tillerson, convincingly to explain ,with respect to the Russians, why he believes we would be wrong to fear he would have the normal tendency to let down one's guard when dealing with a long time acquaintance.

With respect to Trump it would be irresponsible to ignore his signals that he does not feel obliged to comply with precedent, therefore McCain should tell Trump that the Senate would only approve Tillerson on condition that Trump commits to eschew personal contact with any Russian official except in the presence of Tillerson or his representative.