tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post641072577408374839..comments2024-03-28T11:25:20.916-07:00Comments on dangerous idea: Donald Trump and our monarchophobic foundersVictor Repperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-69023140601358995832019-08-14T18:52:33.091-07:002019-08-14T18:52:33.091-07:00Democrats warn Supreme Court it's too unhealth...<b>Democrats warn Supreme Court it's too unhealthy to hear gun case</b><br /><br />Looks like the SCOTUS failed the Red Flag test and now must have their power taken away.bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-19370580626138325042019-08-14T17:30:22.386-07:002019-08-14T17:30:22.386-07:00Yeah I'm sure the human wastecans that compris...Yeah I'm sure the human wastecans that comprise the Senate Democrats would have the same opinion of a politicized Supreme Court if it was expected to rule in their favor. Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593005679430527458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-36777467267247030512019-08-14T17:02:55.955-07:002019-08-14T17:02:55.955-07:00Here's the Senate Democrats overstepping their...<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/13/sheldon-whitehouse-warns-supreme-court-not-hear-gu/" rel="nofollow">Here's the Senate Democrats overstepping their boundaries.</a> The fact is nobody stays in their political lane. The nature of co-equal branches invites this sort of thing. Everyone wants to be in charge.<br />SteveKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497892283006396471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-48919051000415899852019-08-13T19:37:31.877-07:002019-08-13T19:37:31.877-07:00Carrie was a scary fictional story.
Here's an...Carrie was a scary fictional story.<br /><br /><a href="https://medium.com/@TheHimmmm/nasty-business-a-himmmm-blind-item-story-6fc0c8147f5a" rel="nofollow">Here's another.</a> It may be even scarier.bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-31958034594262515032019-08-13T15:02:03.733-07:002019-08-13T15:02:03.733-07:00Carrie was pretty scary.<i>Carrie</i> was pretty scary.bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-36807313008149846192019-08-13T13:42:00.311-07:002019-08-13T13:42:00.311-07:00the world has been going downhill since 1974
I me...<i>the world has been going downhill since 1974</i><br /><br />I mean, Stephen King isn't the greatest author ever, but I would hardly herald his first book as the downfall of man!Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593005679430527458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-60681595743143761352019-08-13T12:28:51.995-07:002019-08-13T12:28:51.995-07:00Practically everything I admire is before that dat...<b>Practically everything I admire is before that date.</b><br /><br />I'll bet it's because you forgot what it was really like or didn't realize what it was really like. For instance, 1963 was before <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-sweden-overcame-socialism-11547078767" rel="nofollow">Sweden went hard Socialist.</a>bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-50579429575047645022019-08-13T11:55:09.005-07:002019-08-13T11:55:09.005-07:00Ha! At this very moment, I am watching a 1963 Beat...Ha! At this very moment, I am watching a 1963 Beatles concert in Sweden on Youtube. As far as I am concerned, the world has been going downhill since 1974. It's like a second Fall of Man. Practically everything I admire is before that date.Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-52745218325247100012019-08-13T11:41:51.832-07:002019-08-13T11:41:51.832-07:00Hey. Maybe you could open up a little museum wher...Hey. Maybe you could open up a little museum where the old balding hippies from the 60's could come and reminisce about the good times.;-)bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-7924057357128456402019-08-13T11:00:52.124-07:002019-08-13T11:00:52.124-07:00"Convincing" would be better than "..."Convincing" would be better than "convinced".<br /><br />Considering how many years I worked on that target, I have very few "souvenirs" from the Evil Empire: The aforementioned bust, a (quite beautiful) celebratory banner presented to a top producing factory (gold fringe and everything), some space-related lapel pins, and a retiree medal for a worker in state security (how appropriate!). A handful of books (my favorite being an elementary school reader)... oh, and a front left turn signal indicator light I screwed off of a knocked out Soviet built Iraqi T-55 tank on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death" rel="nofollow">Highway of Death</a> in Kuwait.Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-25831813922764830812019-08-13T10:10:52.282-07:002019-08-13T10:10:52.282-07:00Google says it means "convinced", but al...Google says it means "convinced", but also maybe "dedicated" or "persuaded".bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-88029122237318495592019-08-13T09:19:54.233-07:002019-08-13T09:19:54.233-07:00I got it back in the late 1980s, when a co-worker ...I got it back in the late 1980s, when a co-worker of mine went with one of the disarmament inspection teams over to the USSR. (Remember Reagan's "Trust, but verify!"?) He asked me whether I wanted anything from there, and I said "If possible, pick me up a bust of Lenin." So a few days later I get a message from him. "Do you want a smiling Lenin? a stern Lenin? a farsighted Lenin? Lenin with a cap? Lenin without a cap? Lenin as a youth? etc., etc.<br /><br />I chose the <i>ubezhdennyj</i> Lenin, a pretty much untranslatable term, perhaps best called an "inspiring" Lenin.Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-76707177139002418872019-08-13T07:47:15.055-07:002019-08-13T07:47:15.055-07:00Interesting comrade.
Looks like the only places y...<a href="https://www.ebay.com/b/Lenin-Bust/12517/bn_7023224822?_pgn=4" rel="nofollow">Interesting comrade.</a><br /><br />Looks like the only places you can get one of those is from the former Soviet states.bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-79201395819317697642019-08-13T03:44:20.061-07:002019-08-13T03:44:20.061-07:00All that, plus I do have a bust of Lenin on my des...All that, plus I do have a bust of Lenin on my desk.Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-34420845690717772562019-08-12T18:44:32.010-07:002019-08-12T18:44:32.010-07:00Starhopper:
Speaks Russian? Check
Was in Intelli...Starhopper:<br /><br />Speaks Russian? Check<br />Was in Intelligence? Check<br />Wants US to unilaterally disarm? Check<br />Engages in Agitprop? Check<br /><br />I do believe that Starhopper is a RED (Retired-Extremely Dangerous).bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-32983846733119366832019-08-12T17:29:40.741-07:002019-08-12T17:29:40.741-07:00Hypotheticals, Legion, hypotheticals. The FACTS s...<i>Hypotheticals, Legion, hypotheticals. The FACTS show that, since the dawn of time, the USA has so far dropped 2 nuclear devices on our enemies. The rest of the world? Zero.</i><br /><br />The <b>FACTS</b> show that nearly a century ago the United States dropped two nuclear weapons during a world war, which killed at most half a percent of the civilians who died during that war. In other words, militaries were slaughtering civilians quite handily with conventional weapons. Personally, I'm far more upset with all the civilians killed in the Middle East by the modern United States military than I am with the decisions made during World War II.<br /><br />But disregard that. Even sticking to just the two bombings, how many of the people who made that decision are currently in office making policy? <br /><br /><br /><i>Just based on our respective records, which party is more likely to use nuclear weapons?</i><br /><br />Guess I'll head over to Germany and start punching people in the face, since their record shows them to be the most likely to have Nazis.<br /><br /><br /><i>This may come as a shock to most Americans, but the United States is today THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD that officially maintains the possibility of a first nuclear strike as an "option on the table".</i><br /><br />You mean, the only country that admits it?<br /><br /><br /><i>The fact is that the USA is the LEAST trustworthy nation when it comes to nuclear weaponry. Shocking, but true.</i><br /><br />Well okay then.<br />Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593005679430527458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-45005901122946776102019-08-12T17:11:24.933-07:002019-08-12T17:11:24.933-07:00Damn! I posted the above before I found this much ...Damn! I posted the above before I found this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2-zzmCmMVI" rel="nofollow">much better version of the anthem</a>.Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-8923971110105813522019-08-12T17:02:57.433-07:002019-08-12T17:02:57.433-07:00Ahh.. That's what I get for not keeping up wit...Ahh.. That's what I get for not keeping up with Russia once it stopped being <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCTrNb4uC-Y" rel="nofollow">the Soviet Union</a>.Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-21459934813492501112019-08-12T15:00:50.307-07:002019-08-12T15:00:50.307-07:00That's not quite right<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_first_use" rel="nofollow">That's not quite right</a>bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-8792583848940285832019-08-12T14:25:19.298-07:002019-08-12T14:25:19.298-07:00Hypotheticals, Legion, hypotheticals. The FACTS sh...Hypotheticals, Legion, hypotheticals. The <b>FACTS</b> show that, since the dawn of time, the USA has so far dropped 2 nuclear devices on our enemies. The rest of the world? Zero.<br /><br />This isn't a contest between which side is the most trustworthy. Just based on our respective records, which party is more likely to use nuclear weapons? Recall that in 2002, the whole world held its breath (myself included) while we feared a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan. But the two sides stepped back from the brink. Recall that South Africa had actually developed and tested (in the South Atlantic) a nuclear device, but voluntarily (under pressure from nobody) cancelled its program and destroyed its own bombs. The same (apparently - we can't be sure) goes for Israel. As for the old Soviet Union, the policy of both Khrushchev and Brezhnev was "no first use". This at a time when the USA refused to make any similar declaration. (It still does not!)<br /><br />This may come as a shock to most Americans, but the United States is today <b>THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD</b> that officially maintains the possibility of a first nuclear strike as an "option on the table". The fact is that the USA is the LEAST trustworthy nation when it comes to nuclear weaponry. Shocking, but true.Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-6615277220190174602019-08-12T14:18:08.277-07:002019-08-12T14:18:08.277-07:00Wait. Wasn't it just yesterday the Russians w...Wait. Wasn't it just yesterday the Russians were the greatest evil EVER? Colluding like crazy with Trump to hack elections and make us their servants. <br /><br />You know since Trump is a secret Russian agent, then he'd be in control of the only nukes left when the US disarmed. I think his was his plan all along!bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-56110011104359989952019-08-12T13:51:55.164-07:002019-08-12T13:51:55.164-07:00They would breathe a sigh of relief and follow sui...<i>They would breathe a sigh of relief and follow suit.</i><br /><br />Based upon what? The Russian government isn't exactly known for its peaceful side.<br /><br /><br /><i>The only reason they don't "go first" is because they quite rightfully do not trust us.</i><br /><br />To be clear, are you saying the Russians are the trustworthy ones compared to us? You think the Soviets wouldn't have nuked the hell out of Germany in WW2 if they could have? Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593005679430527458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-78181976014823972432019-08-12T11:54:43.128-07:002019-08-12T11:54:43.128-07:00"How do you suppose Russia would conduct its ..."<i>How do you suppose Russia would conduct its business if the United States destroyed its nuclear arsenal, leaving Russia with thousands at its disposal?</i>"<br /><br />They would breathe a sigh of relief and follow suit. The only reason they don't "go first" is because they quite rightfully do not trust us. After all, we are still (thank God) the only nation to ever use the damned things.Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-36284328333887339642019-08-12T11:49:35.702-07:002019-08-12T11:49:35.702-07:00How do you suppose Russia would conduct its busine...How do you suppose Russia would conduct its business if the United States destroyed its nuclear arsenal, leaving Russia with thousands at its disposal? China? How would North Korea respond?<br /><br />Yes, the United States does have a lot of unnecessary military expenditures, but disarming itself in this world would be like knowing there is a violent thief on your front porch and thus deciding to throw your weapons out the window and unlocking the door to make a peace statement. Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593005679430527458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-10587173753165815022019-08-12T09:29:37.973-07:002019-08-12T09:29:37.973-07:00How is it irrelevant?How is it irrelevant?Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.com