tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post5910408995843628208..comments2023-10-30T09:23:42.803-05:00Comments on Some Assembly Required: SAR #16161Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-75779515103028862232016-06-09T13:42:21.416-05:002016-06-09T13:42:21.416-05:00I suspect the source is the same place our collect...I suspect the source is the same place our collective 'cognitive dissonance' comes from. It is often referred to as the 'Ugly American' syndrome. Just because the phrase went out of fashion doesn't mean the problem went away.<br /><br />I believe the modern term is 'American Exceptionalism'<br /><br />How sad is it when a nation becomes famous for its ignorance/conceit?Gegnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01918737715343158105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-57870524916248455012016-06-09T10:41:40.961-05:002016-06-09T10:41:40.961-05:00Yes. It has always puzzled me why we confuse the ...Yes. It has always puzzled me why we confuse the USSR under Stalin with any form of communism. It was remarkably like the US today.Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-11645482633112723102016-06-09T09:28:10.619-05:002016-06-09T09:28:10.619-05:00Ya think the rain will hurt the rhubarb? [not if i...Ya think the rain will hurt the rhubarb? [not if its in cans!] Other rhetorical question: ya think Obama's endorsement will help the undecided get behind Hillary?<br /><br />Look at our choices, bat-shit crazy and deluded beyond belief, perhaps more politely described as Republican and Republican-lite.<br /><br />Rallying the Democrats is a lost cause because they don't exist anymore.<br /><br />It's all become an exercise in 'hand waving' [look over here, ignore what's going on over there!]<br /><br />Yeah, Patreaus is just one of the many who 'walked away' from their crimes because the MORONS in Justice didn't want to 'dishonor the office'.<br /><br />Seriously? Like the voiceless and unrepresented majority I think it's time for a 'new broom'.<br /><br />But this election proves what many of us suspected for a long time; the ballot box is broken, the media controls the results and the owners control them.<br /><br />Capitalism needs to get the Bum's Rush because it isn't going away voluntarily [the laughable part of Ayn Rand's assertion that we'd be lost without the selfish few]<br /><br />Rand came from Stalin's USSR and not Lenin's, two very different places.Gegnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01918737715343158105noreply@blogger.com