tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post3342611231793306927..comments2023-12-23T16:22:22.290-05:00Comments on alicublog: FIRST TIME AS FARCE, SECOND TIME AS FARCE.roy edrosohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161980502027888634noreply@blogger.comBlogger152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-9575732647854277842014-02-27T18:04:05.000-05:002014-02-27T18:04:05.000-05:00I wonder if dumbshit Simon even realizes that neit...<i>I wonder if dumbshit Simon even realizes that neither the protestors <br />(now in power) nor the recently deposed government favor anything even <br />remotely like his "we don't need no government" stance.</i><br /><br />All that Simon cares about in the Ukraine imbroglio is that an elected president was removed from power by the side who lost the election, after they made enough of a fuss and managed to bribe enough of the parliament over to their side. That is all the parallel he needs. The frothing loons watched the Orange Revolution and the Rose Revolution in Georgia and have been thinking enviously ever since, "Why can't we do that <b>here</b>?", though their Colour-Coded Revolution would presumably be 'white'.<br /><br />If Simon confines his activities to calling on other people to revolt rather than involving himself personally, that's consistent with his 45-year history of Yellow Elephantism.smut clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-28789543110892073362014-02-27T12:25:20.096-05:002014-02-27T12:25:20.096-05:00True, true. But he did get the clulessness to a t...True, true. But he did get the clulessness to a tee (hee.)ketanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-82304516172758769022014-02-27T12:16:36.649-05:002014-02-27T12:16:36.649-05:00The ironic thing is that this ever-dwindling group...The ironic thing is that this ever-dwindling group of white, aggrieved conservative people who despise minorities...<br /><br /><br />are themselves becoming the minority. It's exactly what they deserve.Buddy McCuehttp://buddymccue.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-18584945812426743002014-02-27T12:13:16.524-05:002014-02-27T12:13:16.524-05:00That would SEEM to be a contradiction, except that...That would SEEM to be a contradiction, except that it isn't the actual America that they love.<br /><br /><br />It's a fictional America. You know it when you see it... it kind of looks like a Thomas Kinkade painting.Buddy McCuehttp://buddymccue.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-60116613729062088452014-02-27T12:10:27.289-05:002014-02-27T12:10:27.289-05:00Ouch!Ouch!ketanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-20290277266504516602014-02-27T12:08:23.322-05:002014-02-27T12:08:23.322-05:00That does seem to be the gist of it.That does seem to be the gist of it.Buddy McCuehttp://buddymccue.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-4622403818590096942014-02-27T07:43:47.872-05:002014-02-27T07:43:47.872-05:00Or at least the barrel.Or at least the barrel.El Manquécitonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-4994826955804770702014-02-26T23:38:43.497-05:002014-02-26T23:38:43.497-05:00The impulse to get on the bus, gus? To make a new ...The impulse to get on the bus, gus? To make a new plan, Stan?<br /><br /><br />Oh, right, different Mr. Simon.AGoodQuestionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-23537682874568655542014-02-26T23:19:25.660-05:002014-02-26T23:19:25.660-05:00Yup, missed that one by a mohel.Yup, missed that one by a <i>mohel</i>.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-655231777679366362014-02-26T23:12:46.823-05:002014-02-26T23:12:46.823-05:00"...to cut [Government]s functions with a mea..."...to cut [Government]s functions with a meat cleaver to release our better impulses"<br /><br />I wonder if Mr Simon is game to tell us precisely which of his "better impulses" the Gubmint is currently preventing him from "releasing".<br />.davdoodlesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-22839750154180754072014-02-26T23:06:02.813-05:002014-02-26T23:06:02.813-05:00I would gladly go on a Blind Date with this commen...I would gladly go on a Blind Date with this comment.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-9339611108744282142014-02-26T22:29:06.581-05:002014-02-26T22:29:06.581-05:00i got it, but i'm from jerzy...i got it, but i'm from jerzy...skippynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-15809428315058751592014-02-26T22:17:34.938-05:002014-02-26T22:17:34.938-05:00Anything else, any attempt to tie it in to any oth...Anything else, any attempt to tie it in to any other topic, to make comparisons, to attempt to draw lessons, and so on, is fraught with peril.<br /><br /><br /><br />You lucked out by missing the perhaps months-long Sadly,No! vs foreskin restoration enthusiasts flame war that grew out of a simple passing mention of the Foreskin Holocaust.JennOfArknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-84487627942421530952014-02-26T21:50:59.395-05:002014-02-26T21:50:59.395-05:00Eh...not exactly. Chauncey Gardner wasn't a n...Eh...not exactly. Chauncey Gardner wasn't a narcissist, an egomaniac, or an evil bitch.JennOfArknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-828228273146047892014-02-26T21:18:06.819-05:002014-02-26T21:18:06.819-05:00As far as I could tell through the old-man-shouts-...As far as I could tell through the old-man-shouts-at-clouds fustian of his prose, the take-home message was that (a) in 1968 Simon was as young and cool and idealistic as everyone else, and would have joined in at the barricades in Chicago except that he had other commitments in London; and (b) Chicago was wasted on the people who <i>were</i> at the barricades; they should have been thinking about the Holocaust rather than this "revolution" frivolity.<br />Oh, and (c), the Chicago students were naive and self-deluding, not like the 1968 Simon with his uninterest in or unawareness of May in Paris and August in Prague.smut clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-51588049057844973752014-02-26T20:40:33.808-05:002014-02-26T20:40:33.808-05:00So long as those freaks from the People's Jude...So long as those freaks from the People's Judean Front are kept at bay, I don't see the problem.Jay B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-9918987323881496682014-02-26T20:39:49.764-05:002014-02-26T20:39:49.764-05:00I wish! What these "small-government conserva...I wish! What these "small-government conservatives, Tea Partiers, libertarians" types have really enjoyed is the idea that fags n' dykes can be shunned in the public sphere <i>legally</i>. Which is central to their point.Jay B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-51659087096073239262014-02-26T20:25:36.964-05:002014-02-26T20:25:36.964-05:00The situation in the Ukraine is pretty complex, wi...The situation in the Ukraine is pretty complex, with folks that we would not want much to do with on either side of the barricades.<br />Leaving that aside, though, as well as what US policy is, was or should be viz a viz the Ukraine (my vote is for staying out of it), I wonder if dumbshit Simon even realizes that neither the protestors (now in power) nor the recently deposed government favor anything even remotely like his "we don't need no government" stance. Whether closer to the EU or Russia, the Ukraine has no tradition and no history whatsoever of any kind of extreme "libertarian" bullshit. Everyone there, on both sides of the barricades, accepts and wants a more active government than this clown. And that is true in the Czech Republic too, which he also purports to admire. Whatever the folks on the barricades and in the line of riot police were fighting for, it was not for what he wants.philadelphialawyernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-35440934856736036852014-02-26T20:17:09.816-05:002014-02-26T20:17:09.816-05:00Plus, didn't they just tell us that they didn&...Plus, didn't they just tell us that they didn't need no stinkin' government to protect them and their families and their wealth? They got their assault rifles, right? And that's all they need, while us members of the "dependent class" need police and courts and prisons and such. That being the case, with even the minimal, "night watchman" State not necessary or wanted, why do they need any government at all? Once again, they should simply move to Somalia, where they can build a compound and man the ramparts 24/7, and never, ever, ever have to worry about no damn gubmint again!philadelphialawyernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-811538548337440612014-02-26T20:10:26.133-05:002014-02-26T20:10:26.133-05:00Those already convinced of our cause — the People&...Those already convinced of our cause — the People's Front of Judea, the Judean People's Front, the Judean Popular People's Front, and the People's Liberation Front of Judea — should put aside their squabbles for now, join together and seek to be as inclusive as possible.M. Krebsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-76754134954972319272014-02-26T20:08:25.143-05:002014-02-26T20:08:25.143-05:00Jeez, that makes him all the more ridiculous.
I t...Jeez, that makes him all the more ridiculous.<br /> I thought maybe he was some young guy, for whom 1968 was ancient history. But no, he was actually an adult, in Europe, at the very time that the Prague Spring was crushed (August 21, 1968...a week or so before the DNC in Chicago), and, from your link, he does actually seem to be at least somewhat aware of the significance of "'68" in Europe. <br />And yet he still can't distinguish Dubcek from Havel or the Prague Spring from the Velvet Revolution? WTF?philadelphialawyernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-84514940189322534472014-02-26T19:35:09.382-05:002014-02-26T19:35:09.382-05:00The march was also used as the theme for the old-t...The march was also used as the theme for the old-time radio drama <i>The FBI in Peace and War</i>, which ran from 1944 to 1958.Jaime Orianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-75977086283804947642014-02-26T19:33:35.515-05:002014-02-26T19:33:35.515-05:00In 1968 when the Warsaw Pact tanks crossed the bor...In 1968 when the Warsaw Pact tanks crossed the border into Czechoslovakia and crushed the Prague Spring, Roger feckin Simon was sitting in a flat in London, watching the Chicago Democratic-party convention on TV and wishing he was <i>there</i>. <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/1968_revisited/" rel="nofollow">According to his 2007 reinvented biography, anyway</a>. He'd gone to Europe in search of life experience and inspiration for a novel; a few borders away, history was turning on its axis; but it turned out that Simon was more interested in the minutiae of US internal politics.<br /><br />Do not expect historical facts to intrude upon his solipsism.smut clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-17449483949342768212014-02-26T19:11:52.771-05:002014-02-26T19:11:52.771-05:00"Not a Spring like the Arab Spring, of course..."Not a Spring like the Arab Spring, of course, which was and is a nightmare beyond anyone’s wishes...."<br />Of course not, because, first of all, nothing A-Rab can be any good, and, secondly, the toppled dictators were mostly pro Western toadies.<br />"... but something more like the original Prague Spring that remade the Czech Republic into the vibrant country and society it is today."<br />Something tells me this guy has no clue as to what "the original Prague Spring" was. It started in the Spring (duh!) of 1968, and it ultimately failed, and thus did not remake the "Czech Republic" (which did not even exist at the time, as the Czechs and Slovaks were united in one country, Czechoslovakia). Moreover, the Prague Spring was a top down attempt by the Communist leader of the government, Alexander Dubcek, to reform the country within the Soviet bloc and while keeping to a socialist path (ie "socialism with a human face"), not a bottom up revolt like either the Arab Spring in Tunisia or Egypt or even, arguably, the recent events in the Ukraine. Ultimately, events started moving too quickly for the Soviets, and they crushed the movement, which did not offer military resistance.<br />I think the author is actually referring to the Velvet (or Gentle) Revolution of 1989, which did succeed, and which eventually led to the division of the country and the remaking of Czech government and society. Of course, the events of the Velvet Revolution took place in the late Autumn and early Winter of 1989, not the Spring.<br />Not a big deal, perhaps, but I think it does show a laxness, an unwillingness to do even minimal research, even as one calls for revolution and so forth...."Follow me to the barricades, even though I am both ignorant and stupid...." is not the most persuasive thing I have ever heard.philadelphialawyernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-85451591718117525452014-02-26T18:49:01.722-05:002014-02-26T18:49:01.722-05:00"Listen, son", said the man with a gun &..."Listen, son", said the man with a gun "there's room for you inside".RHWombatnoreply@blogger.com