clsez's Comments (40)

“Sowers, correction.”

“Thanks HuffPost for creating the forum

Thanks Paul Begala for bringing this guy into focus

I cannot say how much I yearn for candidates like Mr Sowell. He inspires confidence, intelligence and enlightenment having seen it all from a warriors, a well traveled and a teachers perspective. He will have to satisfy the local red meaters there but I would not doubt that he is coming from a place of sincerity and true effort.

Off to donate. Let's all go.”

“Watched you since you first got back from your last tour with sane and heartfelt discourse. Listened to you when Air America first started and your numerous forums getting people to listen to the serviceman's perspective. Great Job Paul. I needed to finally say that.”

“You are absolutely right. There is untold value in that delight that people feel from sudden good fortune. An action that carries a long way albeit linear. Enough of them and you begin to create a narrative that sets your apart from the others. Good reminder.”

“Avoiding, evaluating, viability, actions, words, fine-tuning, inner compass.

Sweet. Like stars circling their heads, while trying to decide which of his actions belong with which star.

Ladies, decide truthfully what and who you are and let everything flow through that filter.
Decide who you will be and it will be very clear to everyone soon. People can within one week, convince people who have always known us, that we are completely opposite from whom we have been all our lives. They will see correlation through perception.”

“This an 007 car? Slime dispensers, tire spikes, missiles. Make it tough for him. Stiff arm him, see if he keeps chasing. Then what? Once past the hoops who does he find in you? Accomplished guys I know love a challenge and work for many months for the trophy rather than do the flood of easy girls who "just wanna have fun" out there. Other guys would not be gamed that long... there's the aforementioned low hanging fruit. This leaves either the good guys who soon recognize game and run away from such manipulation or the ones who would chase ad nauseum. Many times, the result is her cynicism induced belief that he's desperate and she can do better. She moves on and he migrates to group two above.

Most women want a guy who's in control. Control of his reality, and of others, the more, and more influential in her eyes, the easier her willingness (Jag's physicist's accomp. dropping) Just hope he's in it for your reason and the relationship grows. Peoples abilities and aspirations only rise to the level of their self perception.

So, forget all Jag, and humbly I, wrote. Follow one rule. Comprehensively decide what are, and don't compromise your principles. Period. Live fully knowing your principles will guide you, alert you, lose you some prospects but keep you happy. You'll attract who you deserve. This works for both sexes, ghetto or Park Avenue. Change your principles to change your prospects. Life's a mind job.”

“I wonder, can you tell me what the strategy is for Afghanistan? Have you thought of the competing strategies and what promise each holds? Can you even imagine competing strategies or are you a give the Military all it wants guy? The Prez, if you are not aware is not only the commander in chief, he is CEO of all the Federal govt. The military have a military job to do and they do it well but if the military has a 10000 birds eye view ceiling, the Prez's is 30000. What!”

“In retrospect, the pre and August break ruckus was helpful in building a counter-offensive which crystallized some facts, the truth being best served simply.
1. Health Insurance companies have loyalty only to their business interests, not to the American public and will do anything to keep their large, and even in a recession, record profits.
2. Everyday human stories have been seen and heard which proffer a simple understanding of the the inner workings and logical unfairness of our private health financing system .
3. Universal belief that something needs to be done this time, a fact that was already widely held.

People responded and have shown that they get it, which quieted most of that ruckus bunch when their arguments simultaneously sprung leaks. The question of how government run systems can and have run less expensively than private insurance has been easily understood by even the lamest but honest, in clear cut examples like that of the Medicare CEO making $150K a year while private insurance CEOs make $10 million plus. Against this backdrop, I cannot see how Obama signs a bill that does not include the competition he so loudly and commonsensical-ly proposed. The question then becomes whether he signs a bill which uses the most effective method to bring that competition or not. For little relief from the cost and rationing horrors they have, for years endured, I know the public will exact a price from the blue dogs and Obama. I will .”

“The word has no damamging effect unless you have not been around politics long. Do not drink the kool-aid by being fed issues to be defensive about. Wake up people. Reagan, the Rights Angel Gabriel had Csars but we did not complain, so why do we bend into defensive posture?”

“The Executive branch is full of people who have power and "answer to the president" Where have you been? A csar is an advisor. He is supposed to bring a perspective of the area he is csar of, when discussions are being carried out that could be influenced by said area. He can gather information related to that area to become a subject matter expert. That, is the extent of the csars power.

How come we are being led into debating csars when Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 all had csars? Why are the complainants not just being ridiculed and laughed at?”

“Question posed, question answered. You need no audience. NEXT!”

“Ah gotta love pontificators.

Thinking that 9/11 was an inside job IS DIFFERENT from suspecting that some who knew of it's eminence did nothing to stop it.

Van Jones signed a petition claiming the latter. I think with a minimum of the PDB saying Bin Laden about to attack, there would have been reason to look at what more existed that was not acted upon but wait, criticizing the Bush Administration was and still is simply un-american. You need to get your facts straight though.”

“Well said.

You put your finger dead on what frustrates me the most as a progressive and it comes not only from the leaders. The rank and file are just as complacent after a win as the leaders are spineless. O for a Dem congressional cadre made up of Anthony Weiners.”

“This is good but I think there might be a target problem here. Baltimore, San Fran and Chicago do not exactly hold the majority uninformed and uninclined. This would be more like preaching to the choir than in rural, sparsely populated and southern suburbs.”

“@ Hardlyhikin & Silica. I had a good deep laugh. Thanks.”

“I am a Palin patriot. A plumbin, teabaggin, birther. I am a war lovin, health care hatin, Terry Schiavo Jesus piece. I am an anti-intellectual what-the-hell-is macroeconomics, peloponnesian. I love freedom. Yes, being cannon fodder for overarching corporate greed especially against my own interests fulfills me. I care not for logic in my argument ...why! I have vitriol on my side......”

“The news is rife with those stories. Here's one from only the last 24 hours.

Video of cops framing a woman after running into her car.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-hollywood-cops-fake-report-b072809,0,4707202.story”

“Tell me you have not seen KKK rallies where they yell going down streets. As long as they do not incite violence, they do not get arrested and, Mr, they do draw large crowds. You are biased and I suspect I know why. Gemaddict is right no matter your attempt at recodification”

“You have not lived in his skin. No pun.”

“You don't like him because he protested what he saw as racism? Do you accord yourself that level of accuracy in all your estimations? Your judgement seems to assume that his actions stem from nowhere which would negate all the protestations that come from manifest racism. Understand that your privilege of never having lived a full life of guilt by the mere hue of your skin is only that, a privilege. It does not afford you the right to assume in generalities. Gates made a mistaken assumption from a historical first hand knowledge of injustices. What should we have expected from a policeman who is supposed to understand such injustices since he taught profiling prevention to his force? A 180 degree turn and on to the next call or an arrest?”

“LIKE..... EAT THEM? heh
Also, what does that say about a country where pets are still treated, in vast cases, better than humans? Where humans were chattel until recently?”

“Amen! You see what people have been complaining about for eons being confirmed by the perpetrators. I had $40 stolen from my dashboard once by a cop and figured it was a small price to pay since I had been stopped for not having my tag light on. I walked to the back of my car and cupped my hand beneath the lights(my car has 2 tag lights) and both of them were on. I stood up and looked in their smiling white faces and apologized "officers" then they let me go. See my surburban town is notorious for its intimidation of blacks. How lawful is that? It is understood and tolerated though. How many people would go to arms about just one of many similar incidents I feel grievance about? Isn't it always portrayed as I certainly having done something wrong? If only all the blacks in the area came to protest, the white attitude once again is that of unsympathetic "what are they complaining about, bunch of criminals, or they should stop those in their community commiting crimes that warrant such treatment of all of them." I havent been set up with drugs yet, maybe because it would be implausible for someone with my record but those who fail to understand, do so out of priviledge.”

“Tell him BuddhaU. Saved me a lot of typing.

Just unbelievable the cynical tone, but how usual. Refusal to look at our bloody hands does not make them clean.

Iranians kicked BP out, but colonial British Petroleum wanted to keep owning Iranian oil so CIA deposed their democratically elected Mossadeq and installed an unwanted Shah as their president. Iraninans in return got angry and installed a religious government taking the US emabassy and prisoners so we funded Saddam for 8 years, providing chemical weapons to kill Iranians with. At each turn we have called them evil. What in comparison have Iranians done to the USA? But they are the ones who are evil. Carry on”

“Hear!”

“Ah, well put John. It is right out of the recipe book though, a prescription whose rite of passage involves understanding all the smug codes. That conviction on Palins face and in her voice comes from divine assuredness and the assurance of riches (after all, why would God let the GOP be the moneyed party if it were not so right, no pun inteneded) and is the same you would see on the faces and hear in the voices of Rush, GWB, Hannity, Robertson, Dobson, Reed, Atwater, Delay and recently McCain. The list goes on.”