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His Husband, Her Wife December 12, 2013 If a word as spoken does not contain the entire history of its usages, neither does it offer any defense against them- state-nation as nation-state January 21, 2014 Its notion turns the whole world upside down, since the ideal state-nation is the universal homogeneous state, the world state or the democracy whose demos would be all of humankind, not any particular state within history but the action of history itself under a declared progressively "federative concept."
- A Collective Suicide Note February 22, 2014 So much to admire about this historical document, which came up yesterday on the excellent twitter feed of "Todo libro antiguo" (@Libroantiguo) with the following description: "Declaration of war from the German Empire 1914, starting WORLD WAR I. Signed by the German Kaiser Wilhelm II."
September 5, 2014
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November 4, 2016
Ironic how Trump apologists, especially certain types of "American Conservative" paleo-cons, self-styled republican constitutionalists, and diverse fellow travelers all the way extending to everyday "Deplorables" drunkenly hurling foul epithets at campaign reporters, have adopted a main strategic rationale of the despised Neocons and Globalists.
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January 3, 2013
January 3, 2013
History, International Relations, Liberalism v Islamism as a Syncretic Problem, Neo-Imperialism, On Liberal Democracy in Relation to Islamism, Philosophy, Politics, Yoga
1. The conflict between liberalism and Islamism is a creedal as well as cultural, social, political, and economic conflict.
2. As an ideological articulation of an Islamic concept in relation to and within an expansionary global political-economic system dominated by liberal-democratic regime forms, Islamism will absorb and re-express contradictions internal to the liberal democratic concept.
3. The "Great Separation" of religion from politics is a paradoxical mythic-fictive foundation of liberal democracy whose necessary concealment cannot be continuously maintained in the encounter with unitary political alternatives as under typical forms of Islamism.
4. The generally occluded, intermittently exposed theological (Christian-soteriological) origin of the Great Separation and therefore of liberal democracy conforms to the instruction of the Qur'an on the political realization of revealed truth.
5. The radical coercive potential of the modern nation-state will be turned irresistibly against those who would accept and implement this instruction, except under adaptive integration of an effectively liberal-democratic concept.
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Now, I could point out that this site is my site. I pay for it. I built it. I maintain it. All of its content [...]
Scott Miller wrote:
It is destructive, not comforting.
...destructive sometimes to what we think we are or prefer to think we are, and to the goals [...]A Levinasian paradox: she was a Polish RC right-wing nationalist bigot, yet she issued an appeal, itself in entirely anti-semitic terms, for the rescue and [...]
On “Americans planning American building project in America”
@ miguel cervantes:So you think that the 18-20% who believe Obama to be a you-know-what is because of ill-framed questioning and that it's a coincidence that 18-20% of the population is Catholic and Mormon?
Just a coincidence, eh? No need for a smell test?
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Almost 1 in 5 now believe it, or will say that they do, if someone asks them.
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A couple of lefty bloggers (one for Fuster)
yes, that is strange. let it be, though.
On “Karl@HotAir throws some more smoke bombs…”
I can't say that i really followed Beck on Jones, but I did notice that Beck was peddling a bunch of stuff that wasn't true.
what is "his green jobs scam"?
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CK MacLeod wrote:
interesting thought. is there a list of Beck's five most brilliant moves to date?
On “The obsolescence of the obsolescence”
SAME OLD SAME OLD
!) RUBIN- the virtual cemetery of 3,000 Americans.
!!) PRESS-TV--Israel bulldozes Muslim graveyard
rampaged through graves in the ancient al-Quds (Jerusalem) Maaman Allah cemetery
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@ miguel cervantes:
what lies are laid on the tea party table?
On “Flamesem and Japesem (The Gates of Conservative Ijtihad Are Closed!)”
@ George Jochnowitz:
George, is Ahmadinejad part of the Corboda House initiative?
Is there a reason why you're mentioning this anti-Semitic idiot?
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@ Appeasers For Peace:
who was throwing candy, 'peaser-brain?
was it the people applying for permission to build Corboda House or totally different people?
if you write juvie crap such as that, does it mean that everyone related to you by blood, friendship, religion or proximity is likely to be simple and silly?
this isn't a question of liberal or conservative, it's a question of whether the Bill of Rights applies to all Americans or not.
On “Voting with joy and other psychosocial diversions”
miguel cervantes wrote:
that the one with Danny DeVito?
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who's Anne Heywood?
On “Either/or vs both/and (JRub strikes again)”
miguel cervantes wrote:
From your horsehockey link...
after some history that ended more than three centuries back,
the first damn sentence is
right there you should stop reading. when the first line of an argument is utter crap, j u s t stop
On “Too late for healing”
@ miguel cervantes:
in the worms of Bud Dolan,
Miggy's Farm
Well, I wake up in the morning
Fold my hands and pray for rain
List'ning to a head full of ideas
That are drivin' me insane
You keep jumping the shark on a hot tin roof.
None of that crap means anything you just cited is central, pertinent or cogent.
That we consistently had bad choices to make and consistently made them badly is no reason not to re-evaluate our depth of support or strength of commitment.
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@ miguel cervantes:that was some authentic Iberian gibberish, mickey.
people's positions on iraq changed with finding out that we had been lied to by the government and with the reporting of the facts about just how utterly inept was our effort at occupation.
additionally, going to Iraq and finding out how repugnant the members of the "new" Iraqi government were and how repugnant most of our soldiers found the Iraqi people to be, forced some rethinking.
That's not forgetting, that's learning.
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@ miguel cervantes:
I don't remember anything about Beinart being against the war in Iraq and know for a fact that he was a strong supporter of the invasion.
Beinart's foreign policy ideas, as far as I know, call for a large US presence and a full-throated advocacy of democracy around the globe.
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@ CK MacLeod: Beside funny and scary, it's also plain ignorant.
People don't know that traditional beat reporters used to sit together in "press rooms" during the day and bar rooms half the night and talk the same type of stuff?
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@ CK MacLeod:
Ut's more than just stupid, the guy is just another dude trying to equate lack of support for whatever Netanyahu's government attempts with opposition to Israel or America's alliance with it.
J Street, Ackerman and Yglesias are all Zionists and describe themselves as such.
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@ miguel cervantes:
Truly horribly uninformed garbage and propaganda from Ben David
On “Either/or vs both/and (JRub strikes again)”
@ miguel cervantes:
I didn't vote for either Nixon or Obama.
sue me.
On “Too late for healing”
@ miguel cervantes: You should get a shilling every time you're impressed... as well as grog and a flogging and such.
On “Either/or vs both/and (JRub strikes again)”
@ J-Bone:
where do you live? there's no intense reaction in NYC. we're as grumpy and self-involved as ever and most everyone who has an opinion about Cordoba House is for it.
50,000 opposed out of 10,000,000......or something.
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@ narciso: Happily, my old enemy Sonny Carson has shuffled off, narc, and is riling Brooklyn no more.
On “Too late for healing”
@ CK MacLeod:
Try reading his piece from Feb 2009 when he reported that Gen Petraeus, along with co-cabalists Odierno and Keane, had, in a frenzy of usurpation, forced Obama to abandon his plan to withdraw the combat troops from Iraq by Sept 1, 2010 and instead the war would be intensified.
Porter writes for something called Interplanetary (?) PressService.
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@ miguel cervantes:
sit, man, ask MacLeod who he most oft pummeled and deleted when the blog was young and the living easy.
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@ CK MacLeod:
dammit, you and Sully pushed each other into adopting stances that were more pose than not.
and besides being fun, Sully usually is what passes for a grown-up around here.