tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post5057219880743137466..comments2024-03-29T05:30:01.292-04:00Comments on the daily howler: WHERE THE DEPLORABLES ARE: Data are hard!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-25161865149111624882017-09-20T01:58:54.499-04:002017-09-20T01:58:54.499-04:00Gee, "Unknown", I'm not one to criti...Gee, "Unknown", I'm not one to criticize how anyone gets his jollies, <br />so if you get a kick out of being Bob's unpaid bouncer, then who am I to judge? Although your contribution here, consisting of telling other commenters to "get lost", is minimal. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-56203223799984552972017-09-19T23:52:19.054-04:002017-09-19T23:52:19.054-04:00That'll teach her for siding with corporate Am...That'll teach her for siding with corporate America.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-68521017087126325282017-09-19T23:17:11.325-04:002017-09-19T23:17:11.325-04:00[QUOTE] President Lyndon Johnson chose William Wes...[QUOTE] President Lyndon Johnson chose <b>William Westmoreland</b>, a distinguished veteran of World War II and the Korean War, to command the U.S. Military Assistance Command in Vietnam (MACV) in June 1964. Over the next four years, the general directed much of U.S. military strategy during the Vietnam War, spearheading the buildup of American troops in the region from 16,000 to more than 500,000. His strategy of attrition aimed to inflict heavy losses on North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces using superior U.S. firepower, but resulted in a costly stalemate by late 1967. <br /><br />The enemy’s ambitious Tet Offensive in early 1968 cast serious doubt on Westmoreland’s claims of progress in the war effort, even as he called for some 200,000 more troops. Growing antiwar sentiment on the home front led President Johnson to halt bombing attacks on North Vietnam in March 1968, and in June he replaced Westmoreland in command of the MACV. [END QUOTE] <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/william-westmoreland" rel="nofollow">LINK</a><br /><br />I had always assumed the context of that quote about "the Oriental" had more to do with why Westmoreland thought his strategy of attrition had proved less effective than he thought it would than as a justification for U.S. bombing in North and South Vietnam.<br /><br />That said, a whole lot of sixty and over lefties in the United States owe their familiarity with that precise quote to an astounding one minute thirty-eight seconds of film from the 1974 documentary "Hearts and Minds." <a href="https://youtu.be/huFh760p-MA?t=29s" rel="nofollow">LINK</a><br /><br />If you can believe it, these were Westmoreland's revised remarks after, we are left to surmise, his initial statement was uttered with more bluntness than the general had intended. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_and_Minds_(film)#Featured_individuals" rel="nofollow">LINK</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-84975805791007857312017-09-19T21:03:13.042-04:002017-09-19T21:03:13.042-04:00The point of Hitler's war was to enslave his n...The point of Hitler's war was to enslave his neighbors of inferior races and put them to work producing goods and services to meet the needs of Germans. Inferior races were French, Italian, Greek, all the Eastern Europeans --anyone not pure German (Aryan). Forced labor occurred in all the Nazi occupied countries in WWII. As all the women and children sold into sex slavery can tell you, being white is no advantage.<br /><br />Slavery is a human vice only sometimes associated with skin color, but more often not during our long human history. Look up how serfs were treated by their Russian owners, who were of the same color and ethnicity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69265211020233828342017-09-19T20:49:43.847-04:002017-09-19T20:49:43.847-04:00Someone who says "standard of deviation"...Someone who says "standard of deviation" when he means "standard deviation" isn't showing off much of an IQ. Love it when folks misspell their racial taunts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50249889620808233352017-09-19T19:02:00.466-04:002017-09-19T19:02:00.466-04:00It's a Dragonspeak flaw in Comrade Boris's...It's a Dragonspeak flaw in Comrade Boris's translation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-27082220256819490212017-09-19T18:59:45.628-04:002017-09-19T18:59:45.628-04:00There's not a slag heap big enough to contain ...There's not a slag heap big enough to contain @ 1:26 jared spencer's a momma's boynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-9048260609562821422017-09-19T13:09:20.134-04:002017-09-19T13:09:20.134-04:00Politics is not a "holier than thou" gam...Politics is not a "holier than thou" game, where you can decide to withhold your support in the election because the candidate is not "good enough" for you. You have to get involved early and often to make sure you support the best candidate that you can, and when the time comes to vote, you make sure your vote elects the better of the two candidates. Anything else is just letting someone like Trump win just to score points with you friends about how "pure" you are. Elections have consequences and the most vulnerable in our nation are going to suffer because too many people couldn't be bothered to vote for the lesser of two evils. Grow up.Dave the Guitar Playernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83385233854018008142017-09-19T12:55:22.192-04:002017-09-19T12:55:22.192-04:00She voted for authorization for the war ... then t...She voted for authorization for the war ... then tried to cover her ass with a speech. Typical Clinton "triangulation". A simple NO! would have been much more useful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-55716244427197974232017-09-19T11:43:29.061-04:002017-09-19T11:43:29.061-04:00A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-90010977165313490022017-09-19T11:07:42.278-04:002017-09-19T11:07:42.278-04:00To use your example of Navy seals, they experience...To use your example of Navy seals, they experience very high rates of trauma too. Aggressors and victims both have trauma and experience anxiety and depression, and have to be treated for that. Cognitive therapy is the leading framework for understanding that.<br /><br />Decodernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-56311480336146406742017-09-19T10:36:03.120-04:002017-09-19T10:36:03.120-04:00There is no such thing as "viable" cogni...There is no such thing as "viable" cognitive research, although it sounds pretty hefty. <br /><br />First you say that thoughts cause actions, then you say that thoughts justify them. That implies a different temporal order (thoughts after actions, not before them). <br /><br />People who study cognition don't much like it when amateurs selectively use their research to justify their own preferred beliefs.<br /><br />Doctors believed that infants didn't feel pain either. Does that justify infanticide? You are an idiot. <br /><br />If you are going to make this argument work, you first have to find one set of thoughts and beliefs that characterize a whole culture. Good luck with that. Unless you do, you are just cherrypicking beliefs and using them as post hoc explanation for actions which probably have a whole set of causes. Historians learn not to do this. You, on the other, find coincidence meaningful. That's going to make you susceptible to all kinds of conspiracy theories and nonsense.<br /><br />The foundation of cognitive research is experiment. That means showing cause and effect by manipulating variables and showing their impact on measurements. We don't run around believing our pet theories just because a few examples suggest co-occurrence. <br /><br />For example, there is also a belief that people who win in battle are tolerant to pain (e.g., Navy Seals, boxers). If you have both the losers and winners exceptionally tolerant to pain, what is left of your theory?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-16910074846453385792017-09-19T10:27:03.242-04:002017-09-19T10:27:03.242-04:00When someone uses the phrase "Clinton Crime F...When someone uses the phrase "Clinton Crime Family" I know I do not have to read a word they say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87559619644307644542017-09-19T10:24:21.917-04:002017-09-19T10:24:21.917-04:00Spoken like someone who never read the speech she ...Spoken like someone who never read the speech she gave about the war at the time. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-28852893297576652552017-09-19T04:27:07.360-04:002017-09-19T04:27:07.360-04:00Just as the anti-war folks were begging for a lead...Just as the anti-war folks were begging for a leader who would stand with them and say NO!, she cast her lot with the hawks. Thought she could win the respect and admiration of the 'why do you hate America?" crowd. When it was all said and done all that was left for her was to complain that she had been duped by the neocons. I have no sympathy for her. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-77880528170874212752017-09-19T02:09:56.737-04:002017-09-19T02:09:56.737-04:00Hello, dear, anybody there? There was a reason why...Hello, dear, anybody there? There was a reason why the Clinton Crime Family used their own mail server, and it's not sloppiness. It's the content of their emails. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69079427477963328142017-09-19T01:43:21.005-04:002017-09-19T01:43:21.005-04:00Glorious be unto happy love spell the man who mak...Glorious be unto happy love spell the man who make me see reasons that there are still real and genuine spell casters like him. since 3 weeks now i have witness what is called heart broken. my boyfriend that promised me marriage failed me and impregnate me and leave,he dump me,he stop calling" he stop picking my calls,and he no longer respond to me. 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Other tools build Mar a Lagos with gold toilets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-31010050358542589852017-09-18T22:49:53.872-04:002017-09-18T22:49:53.872-04:00Thats ridiculous.
No one is stupid enough to vote ...Thats ridiculous.<br />No one is stupid enough to vote for jill Stein as President of the United States. I find it hard to believe she could find the United States on a world map.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-41265192649148480422017-09-18T22:47:51.303-04:002017-09-18T22:47:51.303-04:00Will someone please relieve the "economic anx...Will someone please relieve the "economic anxiety" of Anonymous at 1:26 PM?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-12546399663957088892017-09-18T22:45:26.140-04:002017-09-18T22:45:26.140-04:00"cowardly"?
Because she didn't "..."cowardly"?<br />Because she didn't "love Saddam" nor "hate America'? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-17877328467157291082017-09-18T22:42:08.296-04:002017-09-18T22:42:08.296-04:00"You just sound ridiculous when you type this..."You just sound ridiculous when you type this stuff."<br /><br />As long as the rubles keep rolling in...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-14106609701316021492017-09-18T22:40:30.430-04:002017-09-18T22:40:30.430-04:00"...in all likelihood she'd be in prison ..."...in all likelihood she'd be in prison now."<br /><br />What's the typical prison sentence for the crime of being sloppy with emails? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45692210841049702572017-09-18T22:29:53.554-04:002017-09-18T22:29:53.554-04:00No one cared? Obama had and continues to have his ...No one cared? Obama had and continues to have his non-right wing critics. The "they all do it" argument has got to stop, otherwise we'll never do any better than what we have been getting. None of what Obama did or does absolves Clinton, she remains and always will be a big money tool. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com