tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post1235929619499146490..comments2024-01-02T22:01:12.976+00:00Comments on Avedon's Sideshow: Just nod if you can hear meAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-72443341262293460122016-02-14T08:16:08.693+00:002016-02-14T08:16:08.693+00:00If you want to grow a tough skin become a Hillary ...If you want to grow a tough skin become a Hillary supporter, it's part of the job description.<br /><br />20 odd and more years ago? So before 95 then. Add the odd and that's before 93. The and puts it before 92. <br />You're dedicated Ten Bears.Buzzcookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10466134753394910191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-66470205046291783202016-02-14T01:40:23.806+00:002016-02-14T01:40:23.806+00:00Seems to me the LAST thing we need, in this electi...Seems to me the LAST thing we need, in this election is for people left of the Magnificent Seven or however many they now are of the FAR RIGHT of Amerika, is for another division of democrats and people of the left like we had in in 2008. As the FAR right says every day, over and over, if we have a Republican president AND Congress, America. as we think we know it, will cease to exist. <br />Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16487881659099930783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-76641766618344131412016-02-13T16:24:33.872+00:002016-02-13T16:24:33.872+00:00Kissinger's protégé. I've taken a lot of a...Kissinger's protégé. I've taken a lot of abuse from the Hillary-bots not just these past few months but over the years for my disdain for Ms Clinton, none of them apparently capable of grasping that that is a decision I arrived at twenty odd and more years ago. Like most of my cohort I have been politically active for fifty years, and am not going forget, or forgive, one of Nixon's Young Republicans, or a student and protégé of Henry Kissinger who would lie bald faced over something as innocuous as inhaling marijuana. <br /><br />Sanders has nothing to do with it.<br /><br />Speaking of magic, Paul and Signe passing together is... bittersweet. You're the only one I've noticed to notice. As I observed at the time, we probably need to grow thicker skin as this is going to continue to happen with perhaps alarming frequency. Any day now...Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-9067716782993254462016-02-12T19:38:09.385+00:002016-02-12T19:38:09.385+00:00President Nixon and Henry Kissinger, 3 Aug. 1972 [...President Nixon and Henry Kissinger, 3 Aug. 1972 <a href="http://allthewaywithlbj.com/nixon-tapes/" rel="nofollow">[LINK which includes the actual audio]</a><br /><br /><b>President Nixon:</b> Let’s be perfectly cold-blooded about it. If you look at it from the standpoint of our game with the Soviets and the Chinese, from the standpoint of running this country, I think we could take almost anything, frankly, in my view, that we can force on <i>[CMike- South Vietnamese president Nguyen van]</i> Thieu. Almost anything; I just come down to that. You know what I mean?<br /><br />Because I have a feeling that we would not be doing, like I feel about the Israelis, I feel that in the long run we’re probably not doing them an in—a disfavor due to the fact that I feel the North Vietnamese are so badly hurt that the South Vietnamese are probably going to do fairly well.<br /><br />Also due to the fact—because <b>I look at the tide of history out there, South Vietnam is probably never gonna survive anyway. I’m just being perfectly candid. I—</b><br /><br /><b>Henry Kissinger:</b> In the pullout area—<br /><br /><b>President Nixon:</b> There’s got to be—if we can get certain guarantees so that they aren’t . . . as you know, looking at the foreign policy process, though, <b>I mean, you’ve got to be—we also have to realize, Henry, that winning an election is terribly important. It’s terribly important this year. </b> <i>[CMike- they are talking about what would be Nixon's upcoming re-election in November 1972]</i><br /><br />But can we have a viable foreign policy if a year from now or two years from now, North Vietnam gobbles up South Vietnam? That’s the real question.<br /><br /><b>Kissinger: If a year from now or two years from now North Vietnam gobbles up South Vietnam, we can have a viable foreign policy— if it looks like as if a result of South Vietnamese incompetence. </b> If we now sell out in such a way that, say that in a three- to four-month period, we have pushed President Thieu over the brink, we ourselves—I think there is going to be—even the Chinese won’t like that. I mean, they’ll pay verbal—verbally, they’ll like it—<br /><br /><b>President Nixon:</b> But it will worry them.<br /><br />Kissinger: But it will worry everybody. And <b>domestically, in the long run it won’t help us all that much, because our opponents will say we should have done it three years ago.</b><br /><br /><b>President Nixon: I know.</b><br /><br /><b>Kissinger: So we’ve got to find some formula that holds the thing together a year or two, after which—after a year, Mr. President, Vietnam will be a backwater. If we settle it, say, this October, by January ’74 no one will give a damn.</b>CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-60507252388893666382016-02-11T21:28:29.034+00:002016-02-11T21:28:29.034+00:00If you're just a back porch guitar player, you...If you're just a back porch guitar player, you've probably had a real guitar player pick up your beater guitar and make it sound ten times better than when you play it.<br /><br />The variables for what make a guitar sound good are enormous and we've known for many years that wood is a minor variable.<br /><br />Taylor guitars produced a shipping pallet guitar with unknown 2x4 wood for a top back in 1995.<br />http://www.guitaradventures.com/taylor-pallet-guitar-story <br /><br />Ovation guitars have back and sides made of molded plastic. Mario Maccaferri made plastic guitars back in the 50s.<br /><br />There is still some debate about top wood, but back, sides, neck and fret board can be made of just about whatever you want.<br /><br />And what people want is pretty magic. So they look for Brazilian Rosewood and Adirondack Spruce because they think the pretty magic wood will make them a better guitar player. Buzzcookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10466134753394910191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-4291374613183984052016-02-10T19:28:49.836+00:002016-02-10T19:28:49.836+00:00Clinton's other option is to assure everyone s...Clinton's other option is to assure everyone she can maintain continuity in American foreign policy. <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/top-of-content-main/kissingerclinton.jpg" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a>CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-8463100189901541032016-02-10T19:13:09.542+00:002016-02-10T19:13:09.542+00:00Herri's comment over there provides some usefu...Herri's comment over there provides some useful background. <a href="http://coreyrobin.com/2016/02/10/is-hillary-clinton-running-the-most-cynical-campaign-in-recent-history/#comment-99592" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a>CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-6145898847840229432016-02-10T15:50:00.677+00:002016-02-10T15:50:00.677+00:00Have to enjoy that marching around the White House...Have to enjoy that marching around the White House carrying candles Dems in 68 are The Establishment. Guess that one's as open to interpretation as 'progressive'.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17553541514560319083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-31821949651973391852016-02-10T07:09:07.325+00:002016-02-10T07:09:07.325+00:00And we have Corey Robin, highlighting the Clintons...And we have Corey Robin, <a href="http://coreyrobin.com/2016/02/10/is-hillary-clinton-running-the-most-cynical-campaign-in-recent-history/" rel="nofollow">highlighting the Clintons 180° turn on race</a>. I am astonished that she seems to be getting black votes, given her record.Raven Onthillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06634556869209594389noreply@blogger.com