tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post7015724674531188079..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-34294621766908192472013-12-04T21:17:28.775-05:002013-12-04T21:17:28.775-05:00I agree. The man in Georgia who shot an Alzheimer&...I agree. The man in Georgia who <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/us/one-man-lost-and-impaired-the-other-fearful-and-armed.html?pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">shot an Alzheimer's patient</a> who wandered to his door in the middle of the night was an Iraq war veteran. I wonder how much of a factor that was in the shooting.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-17650049452150864162013-12-04T20:39:10.552-05:002013-12-04T20:39:10.552-05:00What makes me sad about this is the shamefully hig...What makes me sad about this is the shamefully high suicide attempt rate among returning veterans, and the lethality of initial attempts using firearms. With the current (lack of) support for returning troops with PTSD or other psychological problems, the last thing we need, especially for their benefit, is continued insistence it is them against the world and that they must always have weapons nearby.jemandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14019113699488108374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-84371103811631663152013-12-04T15:02:25.073-05:002013-12-04T15:02:25.073-05:00Dude, the man said that he "couldn't thin...Dude, the man said that he "couldn't think of an analogue" on the left. I was just trying to help him out. Some folks, perhaps not you among them, actually like to be presented with a new idea, with a way of looking at things from the other side, even if they don't ultimately agree with it. It is usually quite easy to see where our political opponents go wrong, but not always so easy to see how we ourselves at least MIGHT be open to those very same faults.<br /><br />And, last time I checked, it was OK to say, in effect, ya' know, over on the other side, they say X, Y and Z, and not necessarily be on the other side or buy into X, Y and Z. To, as I said, simply be presenting the conservative argument, for the sake of argument. <br /><br />Or is that too subtle for your Good Guy/Bad Guy worldview? I suppose so. For someone to repeat, even if they disavow, an argument, means, in your tiny, little mind, that they have drunk the "Kool Aid" (which, I take it, is your catch all phrase for anything you disagree with). "Ten Bears?" Sounds more like Ten Idiots to me.<br /><br />And one final thing...I ain't your "boy." <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-65421541862008315632013-12-03T12:01:45.150-05:002013-12-03T12:01:45.150-05:00You're making the claim. It's coming out o...You're making the claim. It's coming out of your mouth.<br /><br />Drink some more Kool-Aid, boy.<br /><br />No fear.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-8260855431034967822013-12-02T22:54:17.623-05:002013-12-02T22:54:17.623-05:00"This guy comes home and regards the society ..."This guy comes home and regards the society beyond his property line as full of hostile figures who either want to hurt him precious family or deny him the means to defend his loved ones. This strikes me as a specifically right-wing worldview -- I can't think of an analogue for this on the left.:<br /><br />Well, rightists say that "the left" is by and large all about the State and the individual, and nothing in between. It is the left, according to this view, that sees the world as hostile...the corporations, the churches, the racists, the sexists, the homophobes, the "vast right wing conspiracy" generally, etc all out to get him and other victims. The left wants to disempower all these oppressive private group actors (churches, families, businesses, employers, associations), while making the State more powerful to protect him and others from them. With the only exception being individual rights. And, of course, according to the right, even individual rights are ephemeral if not based on natural law, and that they are then revocable at any time by the State.<br /><br />"in this man's world, there's country (represented by the flag and the military) and there's family, but there's nothing in between. There's no community." <br /><br />The claim is that leftists say they care about "community," but what they really mean by that is the State, and usually the largest embodiment of the State (ie the Fed) at that. The left says it takes a village, but what they really mean is that it takes the government of the village, with mandates coming from the State capitol and DC.<br /><br />I'm not saying any of this is true or valid, but that is the claim. Atomism is the inevitable product of liberal fixation on autonomy. No priest, no parent, no tradition, etc is going to tell a liberal what to do. And so a liberal ends up all alone, with only the State to protect him, but also at the mercy of that State, because all other institutions have been weakened or destroyed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-74974377657936634802013-12-02T16:22:20.010-05:002013-12-02T16:22:20.010-05:00Hey, you guys, quit badmouthing the spot. Look at...Hey, you guys, quit badmouthing the spot. Look at the two really really good things it did:<br /><br />1. It showed us that in America, a typical young army sergeant can afford a home that costs between $450,000 and $1.5 million, depending where it's located.<br /><br />2. It showed a woman in her proper role: in the home, folding laundry<br /><br />Yours most crankily,<br />The New York Crank<br /><br />The New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-59183711159943435002013-12-02T07:58:23.918-05:002013-12-02T07:58:23.918-05:00Yeah, a lot has changed in the forty years since I...Yeah, a lot has changed in the forty years since I came home: it's the twenty-first century! For example, Ronnie Raygun didn't start a nuclear war with the former Soviet Union (now and again Russia) so it wasn't necessary to raise my family in an old school bus on the High Cascade with guns and dogs (wolf/belgian shepard hybrids) and goats and three years dried goods and ammunition. Had I not, things might have turned out differently. I might have gone to school and started a "career" earlier than my mid-thirties. I might have joined the credit card society so today I'd be rich on paper. Any number of things I could have done, had I not been played for a rube by a suit somewhere out east who sat out the war with college differments.<br /><br />Still have the guns.<br /><br />No fear.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-41425646275476354512013-12-01T18:59:59.887-05:002013-12-01T18:59:59.887-05:00It's been a long road getting here, and a lot ...<i>It's been a long road getting here, and a lot has changed since I got back.</i><br />Yeah, a lot has changed: Violent crime is down, for one thing. But try telling him that. <br /><br /><i>This guy comes home and regards the society beyond his property line as full of hostile figures who either want to hurt his precious family or deny him the means to defend his loved ones.</i><br />Welcome to the world inhabited by the fearful & their oversized amygdalas. There really is no left equivalent to this sort of paranoia.M. Bouffanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519088858760760560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-75519205309936682542013-12-01T16:43:17.919-05:002013-12-01T16:43:17.919-05:00Beautifully written and quite right.Beautifully written and quite right.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-8267213647612917582013-12-01T15:05:26.152-05:002013-12-01T15:05:26.152-05:00Also missing, in classic Death Wish fashion: the ...Also missing, in classic Death Wish fashion: the cops.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-41217685314066203112013-12-01T13:18:56.301-05:002013-12-01T13:18:56.301-05:00The Liberal analogue would be some male DFH, reeki...The Liberal analogue would be some male DFH, reeking of patchouli oil, wearing natural fiber clothing, in hemp sandals, coming home to the commune bearing the marijuana leaves he'd just cut, while his DFH girlfriend puts the baby she'd been nursing down in a bamboo and straw crib, and pours a cup of herbal tea for him, while the other DFH's take a break from their chores, and greet him.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com