Since Republicans prefer group-think, rather than self-starters, the promotion of incompetents for public office is a gross insult to the electorate. Disrespect. Where does it come from?
Need to remember this: loud mouth drunk on his own magnificence
Category Archives: Hannah’s views
Ah, that hits the spot!
From FB today. “loudmouth drunk on his own magnificence”
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A scam, a sham and a shame
A letter to a consulant who presumes to divine the sentiments of the community in two visits from Denver.
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Mariupol
What’s Russia going to do with a pile of rubble? About as much as the puppy does with the slipper he chewed. Increasingly, Putin’s Tantrum is looking like one big distraction from Russia’s administrative failures. Showmanship, the typical response of failed leadership? Is showmanship a substitute for the deluge or the antecedent? Is that what is meant by “going down in a blaze of glory”?
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Death is in the news, of course
Two big stories: one that causes much consternation and the other that gets mainly ignore. Ten deaths in Buffalo merit a visit from the President. 43,000 highway fatalities last year are par for the course. Why?
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Materialism
Material objects are tangible physical manifestations of the memory function. The problem with currency is that it is twice removed from the material and imperceptible to individuals who have no awareness of their memories as such. Observers can identify short and long-term memory function, but the individual may not be aware of remembering.
In an alzheimer’s patient, why are autonomic functions lost? Does the destructive agent travel like a virus from the temporal lobes to the amygdala?
Care and Crime
‘Tis a strange culture where one has to experience or commit crime to get care. The good not only die young; they get ignored.
Feeding the Media Maw
It is probably past time to consider whether the cloak of immunity is well placed in covering the press, especially now that it has morphed into a much more pervasive media presence.
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Original sin.
The self-defined originalists on the SCOTUS are likely informed by their familiarity with original sin, the concept that give lief to some to control the behavior of others to enforce conformance with defined moral standards. (I should note that I perceive a significant difference between coercion and restraint). Who’s the boss? Is there a legitimate boss?
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Person.
Funny how disdain for the person leads to the creation of personalities and the personification of the inanimate. Also, depersonalization. Is that all the consequence of the triumph of the ideal over the real? Is the destruction of the real material world imperative if the idea is to win. The triumph of ideology. Desideratum of the incompetent. Clean hands. Is that the ultimate perfection of the upright stance? I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW!