Post #263,657
8/3/06 4:06:00 PM
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Ah, now I see where this is going
[link|http://select.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/opinion/03brooks.html|NY Times] In all healthy societies, the middle-class people have wholesome middle-class values while the upper-crust bluebloods lead lives of cosseted leisure interrupted by infidelity, overdoses and hunting accidents. But in America today we\ufffdve got this all bollixed up. Ah, now I see where this is going. The elite can't get any traction blaming the poor any more. So now they have to move on to blaming the middle class for being insufficiently dedicated to hard labor. Jay
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Post #263,666
8/3/06 5:37:14 PM
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Matters not.
Soon, the middle class will be gone. And then there will simply be the wealthy and the servant/wage-slaves.
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- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #263,667
8/3/06 5:38:03 PM
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You got that right.
Smile,
Amy
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Post #263,670
8/3/06 5:46:38 PM
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you forgot the outlaws
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Post #263,733
8/4/06 1:15:20 AM
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True.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #263,985
8/6/06 10:33:02 PM
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And the lawyers ... or is that redundant?
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Post #263,993
8/6/06 11:17:50 PM
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CAN they be 'outlaws?
Or is 'the year they hung the lawyers' yet to come?
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #263,997
8/6/06 11:33:06 PM
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Think about it
"There was no controlling legal authority." Lawyer words for a 5-year-old's tantrum: "You didn't say I couldn't, wah!"
Or "signing statement" for, "Good law, but it doesn't apply to me."
(Some) lawyers love to "blaze new trails". Counts as "outlaw" in my book.
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Post #263,810
8/4/06 5:28:53 PM
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I wish the NYT didn't make you pay for access
I ain't gonna pay, so I can't read their columnist.
lincoln
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Post #263,811
8/4/06 5:39:48 PM
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The Smirking Chimp has it.
Google is your friend. :-)
[link|http://www.smirkingchimp.com/viewtopic.php?topic=66897&forum=2&start=0|The Smirking Chimp].
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #263,813
8/4/06 6:04:18 PM
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That Brooks is a talking head-up-ass on PBS
-still-
seems to be the price of the day, to keep the God-squ(ali)d off your tail:
equal time for berserkers. Everything he 'knows' about liff - is theoretical.
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Post #263,816
8/4/06 6:23:14 PM
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Isn't about 95% of that piece tongue in cheek?
E.g. Meanwhile, down the income ladder, the percentage of middle-age men who have dropped out of the labor force has doubled over the past 40 years, to over 12 percent. Many of the men have disabilities. Others struggle to find work. But in a recent dinner-party-dominating article, The Times\ufffds Louis Uchitelle and David Leonhardt describe two men who are not exactly Horatio Alger wonderboys.
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Many readers no doubt observed that if today\ufffds prostate-aged moochers wanted to loaf around all day reading books and tossing off their vacuous opinions into the ether, they should have had the foresight to become newspaper columnists.
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More important, this reversal is a blow to the natural order of the universe. The only comfort I\ufffdve had from these disturbing trends is another recent story in The Times. Joyce Wadler reported that women in places like the Hamptons are still bedding down with the hired help. R. Couri Hay, the society editor of Hamptons magazine, celebrated rich women\ufffds tendency to sleep with their home renovators.
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Thank God somebody is standing up for traditional morality. My take is that it's a (probably too) subtle attack on the two New York Times pieces he mentioned. Cheers, Scott.
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Post #263,820
8/4/06 8:20:12 PM
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It could be his idea of subtlety, I suppose
My disdain is about the countless blab-pieces heard to date, the generally mealy-mouthed evasions of some clearly worded opening question - in his role of token, "let's hear the Other side".
Hmm, does a spherical object Have "an other side?"
(And note one poster's complaint about his characterization of the POV of Uchitelle. I've heard him attribute off-mark 'summaries' of others' points, too; such stuff taxes one's research time - how many debunked trivialities constitute a hanging offense?)
"Balanced" - the Other misapplied blab-word.
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