tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post7874593522498646608..comments2024-03-28T11:58:42.109-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: Quo Vadis?Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-10737334923042452152018-09-12T18:36:17.004-07:002018-09-12T18:36:17.004-07:00Any 2nd LT dependent on the good graces of their N...Any 2nd LT dependent on the good graces of their NCOIC quickly learns the truth that being newly "educated" doesn't mean you have any truly new ideas, or a clue as to how to "fix" things.<br /><br />It's a lesson more painful for some than others. (fortunately I've usually been good at learning from witnessing the pain and stupidity of others).RandyGChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758726126424011542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-70740464673323395922018-09-11T11:09:35.921-07:002018-09-11T11:09:35.921-07:00+1 on Mark D's last statement...
I think many ...+1 on Mark D's last statement...<br />I think many people today conflate knowledge with intelligence; viz, "We have more knowledge than our forebears, thus we are more intelligent and so should change what they built as it was clearly designed by inferior people."<br />Based on the nonsense being spouted by millennials today, I'd say it's quite the converse. People seem to be less intelligent AND more ignorant of anything beyond trivial or personal issues.<br />DifferAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-61190813320211556072018-09-11T05:41:58.700-07:002018-09-11T05:41:58.700-07:00I think we went seriously off the rails when we ac...I think we went seriously off the rails when we accepted that there could be such a thing as a career politician. Congressmen, Senators, even the President and Vice President, were intended to be offices held for a time by men who'd been successful BEFORE they went into politics, then after a couple terms they were supposed to leave public service and return to their careers. In effect, they put their careers on hold for a few years, performed a public service in exactly the same manner in which we serve on jury duty, then leave and go back to their old life.<br /><br />Washington, Jefferson, Adams and company would be shocked that people today study Political Science in college, or that there are currently thirteen members of Congress who have been there since before I was old enough to vote (that would be people first elected to Congress over 37 years ago). Let alone that three men (thankfully all no longer in Congress) who've served in Congress longer than I've been alive so far.<br /><br />Sure, they'll claim to be public servants. They serve the public in much the same manner as a bull serves a cow.<br /><br />Mark DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-8883513457147597532018-09-11T04:19:17.033-07:002018-09-11T04:19:17.033-07:00There is no keeper of the truth but God above. Ev...There is no keeper of the truth but God above. Even though the U.S. Constitution were completely abandoned, the human spirit and all it's manifestations would remain in full. The truth remains, even if none were to accept it.<br /><br />RickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-39966954057640355842018-09-11T04:08:58.751-07:002018-09-11T04:08:58.751-07:00Unfortunately Pat, all the assembled representativ...Unfortunately Pat, all the assembled representatives of every colony, the actual Congress, and the individual state legislatures of all thirteen states all disagree with that assertion.<br />There are entire books on the topic. Libraries, even.<br /><br />So I can believe you, or my lying eyes, and a literal fuckton of contrary primary-source evidence.<br /><br />I'm not a big fan of historical revisionism, regardless of the motives, mainly because of the company it keeps.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-79215836429245962842018-09-11T03:45:46.818-07:002018-09-11T03:45:46.818-07:00The Articles of Confederation were far superior to...The Articles of Confederation were far superior to the current Constitution. The current constitution is working exactly as intended by the Federalists. Curses upon John Jay, Geo. Washington, and Alexander Hamilton.<br /><br />Ref: "Hamilton's Curse".<br />https://www.amazon.com/Hamiltons-Curse-Jeffersons-Revolution-Americans-ebook/dp/B001FA0JNC/Pat H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18297461069687246149noreply@blogger.com