tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post3520081666574451947..comments2024-02-08T07:32:20.315-06:00Comments on Steve Bates - Yellow Doggerel Democratic Views: Social Security Under Siege: Sen. Bernie SandersSteve Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-37623578388022976552012-08-21T08:55:10.982-05:002012-08-21T08:55:10.982-05:00Thanks, Enfant. I do tend to turn loose my most pa...Thanks, Enfant. I do tend to turn loose my most passionate diatribes after several glasses of wine! :-) Amazingly I do not have a headache this morning, but I still have that sense of overwhelming sadness that I had last night. I hope I can overcome it. Actually, I hope the reasons for it can be made to go away!<br /><br />Your research has helped me greatly, and I am sure you will help again when time permits. Thank you!Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-33106789100354208392012-08-21T06:42:46.177-05:002012-08-21T06:42:46.177-05:00Steve,
Excellent post!
Deeply touched by your repl...Steve,<br />Excellent post!<br />Deeply touched by your reply to karmanot ...<br /><br />(as far as I am concerned, I have not always time to do research, but I try to help and contribute as I can)L'Enfant de la Haute Merhttp://inconue.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-5039345825094315832012-08-20T22:29:08.378-05:002012-08-20T22:29:08.378-05:00karmanot, it is late at night here, and I am drunk...karmanot, it is late at night here, and I am drunk on cheap wine. That is not unintentional. Despite the pain in my foot, I actually drove out and bought the wine, knowing exactly the state I would be in within a couple of hours. At least the foot pain is numbed a bit. The soul pain is more resistant.<br /><br />Those two articles you linked are tough to absorb. Given the authors, they are probably largely true. I have ceased my resistance (in vain) to believing conspiracy theories; forgive me, sainted Molly Ivins, who believed that ignorance, greed and incompetence were sufficient to explain anything otherwise attributable to conspiracy. Conspiracies are real, Molly notwithstanding.<br /><br />The more I read about the vast capacity and capability of the human brain, the more I regret its probable engineering of its own total demise. No grand destiny begot this horror: it was ours to choose, and some of us chose it. For the rest of us.<br /><br />I cannot begin to address all of what Hedges and Roberts offer. It is horrifying to a degree and in a manner that simply cannot be answered. Simple aggressive Republican misogynism seems positively innocuous by comparison, as repugnant as it may be. <br /><br />At the moment, I am without hope. I fear we cannot win this one... and by "we" I mean the people of good will in the world, and by "this one" I mean the survival of human freedom.<br /><br />Dog preserve us all!Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-34188280074629100632012-08-20T15:39:18.176-05:002012-08-20T15:39:18.176-05:00Well done. The clarion call for alarm is shrill no...Well done. The clarion call for alarm is shrill now, and still the mass of Americans dull their way through another day. Both <br />Hedges and Paul Craig Robert are beyond alarmed: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/08/20/amerikas-future-death-paul-craig-roberts/<br /><br />and:<br />http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_war_in_the_shadows_20120820/teenedy 28akarmanothttp://adgitadiaries.comnoreply@blogger.com