tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post116554712192339564..comments2024-03-18T05:15:30.666-04:00Comments on Foma*: Wolverines!yellojkthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1165681115258449202006-12-09T11:18:00.000-05:002006-12-09T11:18:00.000-05:00Though one hasn't been seen here in decades, did y...Though one hasn't been seen here in decades, did you know that the Wolverine is Michigan's state animal?trusty gettohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12428191762443615975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1165602967106454322006-12-08T13:36:00.000-05:002006-12-08T13:36:00.000-05:00Ha. yello, nicely done.I remember all too well the...Ha. yello, nicely done.<BR/>I remember all too well the rightwing paranoid fantasies of the 80's; heck, Tom Clancy's still obscenely rich from it.<BR/><BR/>Not surprisingly, I got some blog mileage out of the ISG report too:<BR/><BR/>http://www.10thcircle.com/10/?p=156<BR/><BR/>bcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1165600746485588952006-12-08T12:59:00.000-05:002006-12-08T12:59:00.000-05:00anonymous,The fact that you can tell me all that (...anonymous,<BR/><BR/>The fact that you can tell me all that (and none of it is new to me) is part of what does make this country great. At least no one is running around killing dissidents with radioactive isotopes. <BR/>Yet.yellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1165599839443829142006-12-08T12:43:00.000-05:002006-12-08T12:43:00.000-05:00Sure, it's a great country that supports freedom. ...Sure, it's a great country that supports freedom. Keep telling yourselves that, just after Congress voted and the President signed a Military Commissions Act that eliminated 800 years of executive power review. This is a country that refuses to admit that it conducts torture and terrorism of its own--not just occasionally, but every day. This is a country that lets a pusilanimous little peacock stampede us into an unnecessary and disasterous war--an aristocratic peacock at that. This is a country in which 13,000 votes in one congressional district are made to mysteriously disappear--and the congressional delegate is "elected" by less than 300 votes Historically, this is a country whose executive branch sold weapons to our enemies in order to circumvent the exact instructions of the elected Congress; and before that the party out of power made a separate deal with kidnappers in order to help insure that the party in power was voted out. We live in 1984--the book, not the year--and we have apologists to make sure we stay there. That makes us a great democracy, doesn't it? Keep your heads in the sand--maybe no one will call you an illegal enemy combatant and stick you in a Guantanamo cell for the rest of your life (unless someone can make a profit by selling you to the CIA).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1165579925807867082006-12-08T07:12:00.000-05:002006-12-08T07:12:00.000-05:00There are references to Nicaraguans in the movie, ...There are references to Nicaraguans in the movie, but the Cubans were clearly the goons in charge.yellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1165579343120764682006-12-08T07:02:00.000-05:002006-12-08T07:02:00.000-05:00Well said. There are a number of reasons that the ...Well said. There are a number of reasons that the neocons failed to remember the moral of this film. Dor most of them, as for the country-club Republicans that preceded him, Reagan and Reagan Republicanism are nothing more than an embarrasing aberration. Add to that the fact that they are the sort of people who don't want to hear any information that criticizes or contradicts their Jacobin beliefs. Plus, many that were of the right age to be Young Republicans were Trotskyites atthe time. Jerry Pournelle and David Brin both have a number of less than pleasant things to say about them.<BR/><BR/><I>Nobody makes movies with the jackboots as the heroes.</I> And a time-tested way of establishing someone as a thug in movies is to have them stuff somebody's head in a toilet. Can you say "waterboarding"? I knew you could.<BR/><BR/>On a lighter note, you either did some research or your memory is a lot better than mine. I'd have sworn that was David Keith, not Patrick Swayze. This was the beginning of the end for Mr. Keith's stardom. And I thought they were Nicaraguans, not Cubans, but you are correct.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1165574337024494692006-12-08T05:38:00.000-05:002006-12-08T05:38:00.000-05:00jennine,I appreciate your opinion. I feel very str...jennine,<BR/>I appreciate your opinion. I feel very strongly about the goodness of America too. The United States is the greatest country in the world and I don't say that out of nationalism, but out of a belief that the values in the Declaration of Independence are profound universal truths.<BR/><BR/>But even very good people do stupid things either out of ignorance or misplaced trust. When you make a mistake, you say "I'm sorry" and you fix the problem. These are things we teach two-year olds.yellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1165561807656381332006-12-08T02:10:00.000-05:002006-12-08T02:10:00.000-05:00Sometimes soft power isn't enough. And Americans w...Sometimes soft power isn't enough. <BR/><BR/>And Americans will always be hated by some group because of the freedoms we enjoy. Freedoms we want others to have, as well.<BR/><BR/>If I were smarter, I would comment further because despite my inability to make a cogent argument as eloquently as you have, I feel strongly about the goodness of America. Instead, I'll leave it at that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com