Comments on: The Committee at work. http://nancynall.com/2009/07/10/the-committee-at-work/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-committee-at-work one writer's daily download Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:42:25 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Linda http://nancynall.com/2009/07/10/the-committee-at-work/comment-page-2/#comment-274191 Linda Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:04:28 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=4240#comment-274191 My condolences, Dexter. It's hard losing a good friend. At least she had the comfort of your presence and touch as she passed away. My condolences, Dexter. It’s hard losing a good friend. At least she had the comfort of your presence and touch as she passed away.

]]> By: Dexter http://nancynall.com/2009/07/10/the-committee-at-work/comment-page-2/#comment-274122 Dexter Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:33:44 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=4240#comment-274122 My beloved 14 year old Labrador Retriever passed last night at around 8 P.M. Her name was P-Dogg Princess. She went quietly as I stroked her head. My beloved 14 year old Labrador Retriever passed last night at around 8 P.M.
Her name was P-Dogg Princess. She went quietly as I stroked her head.

]]> By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2009/07/10/the-committee-at-work/comment-page-2/#comment-274092 brian stouder Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:22:28 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=4240#comment-274092 Catherine - no Pottery from me (yet) - but speaking of premier pictures - I just noticed a sublime addition to the Proprietress's Flickr display on the main page. Reflective sun glasses out on the water; and the smile - and the hair....Good Stuff! Catherine — no Pottery from me (yet) — but speaking of premier pictures — I just noticed a sublime addition to the Proprietress’s Flickr display on the main page.

Reflective sun glasses out on the water; and the smile — and the hair.…Good Stuff!

]]> By: Catherine http://nancynall.com/2009/07/10/the-committee-at-work/comment-page-2/#comment-274076 Catherine Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:37:33 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=4240#comment-274076 Are we talking about the Harry Potter premiere here yet? Because that's all I am hearing at home. Here's a story that might delight all the Daniel Radcliffe fans, or just fans of young gentlemen: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/07/daniel_radcliffe_aces_intervie.html Are we talking about the Harry Potter premiere here yet? Because that’s all I am hearing at home. Here’s a story that might delight all the Daniel Radcliffe fans, or just fans of young gentlemen: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/07/daniel_radcliffe_aces_intervie.html

]]> By: Scout http://nancynall.com/2009/07/10/the-committee-at-work/comment-page-2/#comment-274064 Scout Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:00:05 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=4240#comment-274064 Call me crazy, but I kinda like Caliban/Prospero. Hope y'all had a fine weekend! Call me crazy, but I kinda like Caliban/Prospero.

Hope y’all had a fine weekend!

]]> By: Kirk http://nancynall.com/2009/07/10/the-committee-at-work/comment-page-2/#comment-274059 Kirk Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:51:39 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=4240#comment-274059 Human Events has been filled with lunacy at least since the 1960s, when I grew up in a small town riddled with frothing John Birchers. They also liked to read another neo-Nazi rag called, I think, American Opinion. Human Events has been filled with lunacy at least since the 1960s, when I grew up in a small town riddled with frothing John Birchers. They also liked to read another neo-Nazi rag called, I think, American Opinion.

]]> By: Linda http://nancynall.com/2009/07/10/the-committee-at-work/comment-page-2/#comment-274054 Linda Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:13:25 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=4240#comment-274054 Re: your adsense troubles. I had to laugh. Since I have a blog that features "no free money" prominently, I could make some coin, but I won't touch it, since it would attract my readers (all 3 or 4 of them) to fraudulent scumbags who should not only not have their businesses promoted, but should be drawn and quartered. Then hung. I have read fat acceptance bloggers with the same dilemma--diet and weight loss ads presented for them that are the opposite of their philosophical beliefs. I don't know what your troubles are, but good luck. Re: your adsense troubles. I had to laugh. Since I have a blog that features “no free money” prominently, I could make some coin, but I won’t touch it, since it would attract my readers (all 3 or 4 of them) to fraudulent scumbags who should not only not have their businesses promoted, but should be drawn and quartered. Then hung.

I have read fat acceptance bloggers with the same dilemma–diet and weight loss ads presented for them that are the opposite of their philosophical beliefs. I don’t know what your troubles are, but good luck.

]]> By: Jolene http://nancynall.com/2009/07/10/the-committee-at-work/comment-page-2/#comment-274039 Jolene Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:57:37 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=4240#comment-274039 <i>Serious question: Who would want her endorsement?</i> Good question, Brian. Both Virginia and New Jersey have close gubernatorial races going on, but <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070801984.html" rel="nofollow">neither of the Republican candidates seem particularly enthusiastic</a> about having her come. Serious question: Who would want her endorsement?

Good question, Brian. Both Virginia and New Jersey have close gubernatorial races going on, but neither of the Republican candidates seem particularly enthusiastic about having her come.

]]> By: Deborah http://nancynall.com/2009/07/10/the-committee-at-work/comment-page-2/#comment-274037 Deborah Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:23:02 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=4240#comment-274037 See Basset, I don't agree with you about Caliban/Prospero. I think people like him can inspire us, can make us look beyond ourselves, can make us grow in unexpected ways. I think that's why Nancy lets it flow. We can learn important lessons from the edges. These are lessons that have potential, they are not mainstream, they make us stretch and think. We should not throw them away. See Basset, I don’t agree with you about Caliban/Prospero. I think people like him can inspire us, can make us look beyond ourselves, can make us grow in unexpected ways. I think that’s why Nancy lets it flow. We can learn important lessons from the edges. These are lessons that have potential, they are not mainstream, they make us stretch and think. We should not throw them away.

]]> By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2009/07/10/the-committee-at-work/comment-page-2/#comment-274017 brian stouder Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:50:08 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=4240#comment-274017 What Julie said! And, here's something our friend C/P could sink his teeth into. Back during the campaign, I started getting Human Events e-mail updates (always good to know what the other folks are thinking, I thought) and I still get their spam. This excerpt from their ad for a rightwing revision of history got me laughing: <i>One of the first things Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and other totalitarians did was rewrite the histories of their nations, remaking the past to bolster their control of the present. The American Left has done the same thing in our country: Most American history books -- both for students and adults -- are riddled with PC nonsense that makes the Founding Fathers over into racist slaveholders, the settlers of the West into genocidal land-stealers, and the welfare state into America's ultimate triumph. But conservatives and patriotic Americans have an antidote: [name of book being hawked here] is a handy one-volume guide to our nation's glorious past that has one key advantage over today's dozens of dreary PC history books. This one tells you what really happened -- not what liberals wish had happened. From the Puritans through the drafting of the Constitution, the Civil War, the World Wars, the failure of the "Great Society" to the fiasco of the Clinton Administration,</i> STOP!!! HahHahHahHahHahHah!!! - They're killin' me!! Just how the hell these folks square their <b>"PC nonsense that makes the Founding Fathers over into racist slaveholders"</b> with <b>"what really happened"</b> with regard to the Civil War would almost make picking the book up off the remant table and thumbing back to the index, to see how they square the circle worthwhile. Short of being a neo-Confederate rebel apologist, how can anyone place an abstraction like "states rights" above the demands of simple humanity (for example - NOT claiming ownership of other human beings, and breaking up and literally selling members of families down the river) Presumeably Human Events is deeply submerged in the fever swamps. Maybe they always were - but good God, they're so PROUD of it, nowadays! I mean - <b>forget</b> about Andy Jackson's "Indian Removal" policy, or the Taney Supreme Court's Dred Scott ('no rights that a white man is bound to recognize') decision, or even Nixon's train wreck of a presidency...that Bill Clinton was a FIASCO, I'm tellin' ya!! And speaking of fever swamps, didja see that soon-to-be private citizen Ms S Palin now says "I will go around the country on behalf of candidates who believe in the right things, regardless of their party label or affiliation"? Serious question: Who would want her endorsement? What Julie said!

And, here’s something our friend C/P could sink his teeth into. Back during the campaign, I started getting Human Events e-mail updates (always good to know what the other folks are thinking, I thought) and I still get their spam. This excerpt from their ad for a rightwing revision of history got me laughing:

One of the first things Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and other totalitarians did was rewrite the histories of their nations, remaking the past to bolster their control of the present. The American Left has done the same thing in our country: Most American history books — both for students and adults — are riddled with PC nonsense that makes the Founding Fathers over into racist slaveholders, the settlers of the West into genocidal land-stealers, and the welfare state into America’s ultimate triumph. But conservatives and patriotic Americans have an antidote: [name of book being hawked here] is a handy one-volume guide to our nation’s glorious past that has one key advantage over today’s dozens of dreary PC history books. This one tells you what really happened — not what liberals wish had happened. From the Puritans through the drafting of the Constitution, the Civil War, the World Wars, the failure of the “Great Society” to the fiasco of the Clinton Administration,

STOP!!!

HahHahHahHahHahHah!!! — They’re killin’ me!!

Just how the hell these folks square their “PC nonsense that makes the Founding Fathers over into racist slaveholders” with “what really happened” with regard to the Civil War would almost make picking the book up off the remant table and thumbing back to the index, to see how they square the circle worthwhile.

Short of being a neo-Confederate rebel apologist, how can anyone place an abstraction like “states rights” above the demands of simple humanity (for example — NOT claiming ownership of other human beings, and breaking up and literally selling members of families down the river)

Presumeably Human Events is deeply submerged in the fever swamps. Maybe they always were — but good God, they’re so PROUD of it, nowadays!

I mean — forget about Andy Jackson’s “Indian Removal” policy, or the Taney Supreme Court’s Dred Scott (‘no rights that a white man is bound to recognize’) decision, or even Nixon’s train wreck of a presidency…that Bill Clinton was a FIASCO, I’m tellin’ ya!!

And speaking of fever swamps, didja see that soon-to-be private citizen Ms S Palin now says “I will go around the country on behalf of candidates who believe in the right things, regardless of their party label or affiliation”?

Serious question: Who would want her endorsement?

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