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2 “Our culture should be encouraged to encourage girls to ask boys to get together. Despite all the other advancements in society, too many times an otherwise independent and forthright woman feels restrained from expressing her interest to a man.”
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4 “Not only does it allow a female more independence and opportunity, it may salvage the typical clueless male.”
2 “I resemble that remark.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
“We have met the friend and he is us.” Pogo
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8 “On one side you have Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and the soldiers from the Sunni region of Iraq with some of its members d.b.a. (doing business as) ISIS or ISIL or IS. They are the ‘Sunni Squad’.”
7 “Yet Saudi Arabia and Turkey really do not like each other.”
8 “They just hate each other slightly less. On the other side, you have Syria, Iran, Russia and the Kurds in the region who hate Turkey. They are loosely the ‘Shiite Squad’.”
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7 “Turkey has cited Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and demanded that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. Thus, Turkey contends that NATO nations must come to its assistance. Right.”
8 “And thus join the ‘Sunni Squad’ and assist ISIS or ISIL or IS.”
7 “Challenge Saudi Arabia and lose its support for the PetroDollar. Without the PetroDollar, the United States slides into second world status.”
8 “Or join the Russian gang and ally with the ‘Shiite Squad’ which is likely to be the winner if there is a winner.”
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8 “Now which squad is China supporting?”
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[See the e-commentary at Seriously Sizing Up Syria Seizing Up (October 12, 2015).]
Bumper sticker of the week:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy?
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K “Any GPS system will take you to the intersection of Ronnie Reagan Road and Saddam Hussein Highway without hesitation or reflection.”
J “Or irony or regret. But Quantrill was a domestic terrorist whereas Hussein threatened the supremacy of the U.S dollar as the world’s reserve currency and was not nice in an area with many not nice people. We Americans should celebrate our own.”
K “Our own what?”
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K “Changing the names of streets and schools does not rewrite history, it changes the names of the individuals who are celebrated on streets and schools.”
J “I have found that those people who want to keep William Quantrill Circle are also those people who claim that the Civil War was about state’s rights rather than about slavery.”
K “Streets and schools should be named after heroes not villains. The history books should be written to reflect the actual history including the actual exploits of the heroes and the villains.”
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K “Not only are Stuart and Lee going down the road, Washington and Jefferson also will be sent down a trail renamed after someone else.”
J “Rename the ‘Washington Monument’ on the Mall as the ‘George Washington Carver Monument’?”
K “Then we could still refer to it generically as the ‘Washington Monument’ on the Mall.”
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[See the e-commentary at The Confederate Flag: What Does It Mean To You? (July 6, 2015) and Columbus And The Redskins (October 14, 2013).]
[See the e-commentary at Has Scalia Gone Feral (March 4, 2013) and One Gun Per White Adult Male? A Flintlock Musket? The “One Man, One Gun” Decision (October 4, 2010).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Happy Presidents’ Day
Celebrate heroes on streets and schools; chronicle the activities of the heroes and villains in the history books.
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K “The business plan is simple. 50 percent of the commentators afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable. 49 percent question whether afflicting the afflicted and comforting the comfortable is appropriate. 1 percent afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.”
J “So are they running a newspaper or running a newspaper into the ground.”
K “They are running. Scared at this time. Perhaps they need 99 percent of the commentators to afflict the afflicted and to comfort the comfortable and fire the 1 percent. Going cautious is the typical reaction.”
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J “Subscriptions for a product and service that is free elsewhere evaporated. Without subscribers, the advertisers left. When the newspaper was no longer the portal to products and the segway to services, it was doomed.”
K “Craigslist, eBay and other digital outlets undermined the newspapers’ financial base.”
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J “The digital world provides one commentator per person. Now we can all find someone to confirm our world view.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
Speaking Truth to a cinder brick wall.
All The News That’s
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K “The two divisions of the ‘War and Wall [Street] Party’ are conducting the first of their many charades and parades today. The WW Party is on the war and Wall Street path.”
J “The ‘D’ division and the ‘R’ division of the ‘WW’ Party are picking their faces and their facades. At least with the Buffoon on the loose, the process is a more entertaining farce this year.”
K “Bernie Sanders is not really a war and Wall Street person nor for that matter is Rand Paul.”
J “The Owners will veto the Bern’s candidacy. The Paul is not gravitating toward the war and Wall Street crowd fast enough to endure.”
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J “The rest of them are all Tweedlededumb for the ‘D’ division and Tweedlededumb for the ‘R’ division.”
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[See the e-commentary at The Choice: Pro War And Pro-Wall Street Candidate v. Pro War And Pro-Wall Street Candidate (April 13, 2015) and The First Look At The “Second Political Party” (January 3, 2011).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.” Mark Twain
Professor George Carlin was right (left?).
The bottom 1% are fighting wars for the top 1%.
Making the world unsafe for Wall Street.
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