tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post1639580658903810205..comments2024-03-20T12:34:55.100-05:00Comments on Stonekettle Station: State of ConfusionJim Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-3540592637152637412019-03-04T18:50:30.870-06:002019-03-04T18:50:30.870-06:00You and I are very different - we have little in o...You and I are very different - we have little in our backgrounds that connects us. But you make SO much sense! I love your posts. They are based in common sense and intelligent thought.<br /><br />Thanks, again.D. Toolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663301000927280133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-52858320613736927822019-02-17T14:42:50.385-06:002019-02-17T14:42:50.385-06:00On the subject of a abortion; christian's have...On the subject of a abortion; christian's have serious reading comprehension problems. It says right in the Bible that god breathes life into man. The soul enters with the first breath. Anti-abortion is 100% about controlling women's bodies, if the anti-abortionist has even a passing knowledge of the subject. http://ranthonysteele.com/2015/10/abortion-as-natural-as-life-itself/ every protest does direct harm to women who have little choice in seeking the procedure. It's a travesty. Their god is a demon. He's not the good of the Bible. As loathesol as he is, he's better than their god.R. Anthony Steelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02360569752081330836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-68497055409899965212019-02-15T21:57:53.657-06:002019-02-15T21:57:53.657-06:00"Bipartisan:" Do what I want.
nuf said"Bipartisan:" Do what I want. <br />nuf saidbearsensehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12000858896207125033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-47041214075991341502019-02-10T16:21:00.989-06:002019-02-10T16:21:00.989-06:00That's the Republican healthcare plan in a nut...That's the Republican healthcare plan in a nutshell. Every American has the right to create a GoFundMe page to request donations for their medical care.Arakasinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-12390407185345243842019-02-09T13:38:00.946-06:002019-02-09T13:38:00.946-06:00This: "hospitals to disclose real prices"...This: "hospitals to disclose real prices" - that legislation has already been passed, and went into effect in January. The thing is, it amounts to huge spreadsheets of medical mumbo-jumbo that's nearly impossible for any patient to actually use. Dianenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-17720321466366663542019-02-09T11:31:44.043-06:002019-02-09T11:31:44.043-06:00Thanks for writing and continuing to illustrate ho...Thanks for writing and continuing to illustrate how despicable djt is.<br /><br />One typo I found: There is no chance whatsoever than (s/b that) such legislation would make it out of committee, Tony Deenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11534045682041467844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-3573681959104023122019-02-09T05:18:49.718-06:002019-02-09T05:18:49.718-06:00Jim, I can't thank you enough for expending th...Jim, I can't thank you enough for expending the time and emotional labor necessary to listen to, quote, and shed the light of reason on the vapid but toxic effluence from The Thermonuclear Bowel Evacuation Currently Disgracing the Oval Office.Christopher C DeSantishttp://playingintheworldgame.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-35657087765012527382019-02-08T19:57:26.767-06:002019-02-08T19:57:26.767-06:00For me the thing that got me most was that this a...For me the thing that got me most was that this alt-reich favourite, nazi-empowering bigot, this sociopathic racist old man-child who has himself shared anti-Semitic memes in the past had the staggering chutzpah and uber-sized hypocritical gall to use survivors of the Shoah (Nazi Holocaust) as political props. The sheer lack of self-awareness there is just beyond words really.StevoRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02506855815096149912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-86831711853176036822019-02-08T10:37:06.532-06:002019-02-08T10:37:06.532-06:00I think you wrote more words and spent more time o...I think you wrote more words and spent more time on Trump's poor reading of a speech with high-sounding phrases and no sense of irony than that damn speech was worth. Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17414725749450659875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-81644134747275947382019-02-08T06:51:20.501-06:002019-02-08T06:51:20.501-06:00Except that he's already trashed the economy w...Except that he's already trashed the economy with the tax bill. It just takes awhile to hit.SFC Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-31261292456918514852019-02-08T00:28:16.304-06:002019-02-08T00:28:16.304-06:00OMG!!!! Now if we had a time machine and maybe JFK...OMG!!!! Now if we had a time machine and maybe JFK made this speech in the 50's it would probably would have made the masses all Yanky Doodle Dandy but in Trumps voice and in this day and age it just plays like a bad movie.Viki Banaszakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06674155424478355136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-27045425607078764612019-02-07T22:29:21.004-06:002019-02-07T22:29:21.004-06:00I don't want mikey's God to bless me. I kn...I don't want mikey's God to bless me. I know all too well what a snake mikey is. Yeah, I live in Indiana.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03036968995236500886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-64767626429905401592019-02-07T21:59:31.710-06:002019-02-07T21:59:31.710-06:00Even more galling, original FY2019 budget request ...Even more galling, original FY2019 budget request tried to cut the budget of the National Institutes of Health, the government's primary funder of biomedical research and the locus of research against cancer, by 27%. Meaning, he proposed to cut $8.9 billion from the NIH budget in one year--and now he's offering to add $50 million per year back into that budget for cancer research. Mixed message much?<br /><br />See https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ap_18_research-fy2019.pdf for the budget request for R&D agencies--the table with NIH is on page 234.techiewonkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16003721103276948709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-92024410220626102992019-02-07T20:46:25.082-06:002019-02-07T20:46:25.082-06:00Well, all I can really do, to describe the painful...Well, all I can really do, to describe the painful experience of reading this post, is to re-post what I wrote in response to <a href="http://www.stonekettle.com/2017/02/petulance.html" rel="nofollow"> this post </a>. Sorry if this seems narcissistic, but it really is just Déjà vu all over again:<br /><br /><i> I started watching “There Will be Blood” last night. I’ve seen it before, long time ago, and decided to watch it again. I remembered the main theme, but mainly I remembered that it was extraordinary.<br />About half an hour into it, the details of the movie started to return to me. An hour later, I almost had to stop watching. The film is such a miserable index of human cynicism, bad faith and just plain evil (all superbly acted) that I wasn’t sure I could continue. But I said to myself, and I’m not sure why, “No, I’m going to watch this to the bitter end.”<br />I got the exact same feeling whilst reading this post. It went on and on, the actual horror of it all, and I read to the bitter end, though I nearly couldn’t. Thank goodness for the humorous bits, it helped it go down more easily. And it went on for 2,000 more words?<br />At the end of the “There Will be Blood,” I felt a sort of existential emptiness. Like all good movies, it took me to another place, and that place was very dark. There was no humor in that place, no hope for humanity. But I shook it off. It was just a movie.<br />Right?</i><br /><br />You do what I cannot bring myself to do, which is actually watch the train wreck. Instead, you describe it in written word. And I thank you for that. No one should be insulated from this lunacy. It has to be seen (or read) to be believed.<br /><br />Leroy<br /><br />Leroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02021120389394278239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-79272924425094276682019-02-07T18:22:07.639-06:002019-02-07T18:22:07.639-06:00not to mention that this maladministration (I like...not to mention that this maladministration (I like that) has consistently been cutting funding of research for effective HIV prevention in the form of possible vaccines since they got in office. Oh, and the whittling away of Planned Parenthood funding, where the majority of low income people go for HIV treatment. Allegra in NorCalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08589363426798206035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-47504380562249820842019-02-07T13:19:32.712-06:002019-02-07T13:19:32.712-06:00"Let us work together to build a culture that..."Let us work together to build a culture that cherishes innocent life. And let us reaffirm a fundamental truth: all children -- born and unborn -- are made in the holy image of God." Wait, even brown and black children? The children ripped apart from their parents at the border? The traumatized children who will never be reunited with their parents? The children who his administration says it's too difficult to reunite with their parents? Those children too? I was hoping and praying someone in the audience would shout out "You lie!" We cannot get rid of this orange menace soon enough.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15503023612221990533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-44793099556137737342019-02-07T12:03:26.644-06:002019-02-07T12:03:26.644-06:00I did (skip) and your commentary was great.I did (skip) and your commentary was great.Banewoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10505522715810989827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-80209026439105928832019-02-07T11:40:45.806-06:002019-02-07T11:40:45.806-06:00The speech was published in its entirety for a rea...The speech was published in its entirety for a reason. <br /><br />You may skip over the parts you're not interested in. <br /><br />//JimJim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-58477993420772264952019-02-07T09:46:41.660-06:002019-02-07T09:46:41.660-06:00This starts out as one of your more brilliant piec...This starts out as one of your more brilliant pieces, but then you get bogged down by fully quoting Trump's actual mind-numbingly painful speach.<br />In the example of the lengthy droning after your "poor sap, Lucifer," you might have instead boiled it down to "woof woof, blah blah."<br />Or you could hit fast-forward and use a word cloud.<br />I ran that part of the text through a word cloud generator. Too bad I can't show you a picture of it. But here is a list of the top 10-most words:<br /><br />9 United<br />9 States<br />9 will<br />7 American<br />6 years<br />6 ago<br />6 one<br />5 Joshua<br />5 never<br />5 last<br /><br />That would give someone the gist without all of the pain. Banewoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10505522715810989827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-43999305524622204282019-02-07T07:42:11.965-06:002019-02-07T07:42:11.965-06:00Thank you.Thank you.Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-45491567559048729932019-02-07T06:55:52.387-06:002019-02-07T06:55:52.387-06:00Safer for whom, not who...
Beyond that, great ess...Safer for whom, not who...<br /><br />Beyond that, great essay, as per usual.Geoffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-38128751410350592172019-02-07T02:34:01.844-06:002019-02-07T02:34:01.844-06:00I'm so grateful that my New Zealand(!) FB budd...I'm so grateful that my New Zealand(!) FB buddy sent me this. Wish our government would listen to your logic -- but hopefully voters will. Please keep writing.Marlisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06174261864793095987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-28789509052184638622019-02-07T01:33:12.014-06:002019-02-07T01:33:12.014-06:00But if we leave it to the chaplains, what WILL Pen...But if we leave it to the chaplains, what WILL Pence do about his Resting Smirk face?<br /><br />He might have to retrain his facial muscles...talontshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15529847632826061298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-1156699155760719432019-02-07T01:31:33.819-06:002019-02-07T01:31:33.819-06:00You noticed that too, eh? My first thought was &q...You noticed that too, eh? My first thought was "with Medicare For All", she wouldn't HAVE to raise $40k.talontshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15529847632826061298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-81965829616112227242019-02-07T01:28:59.268-06:002019-02-07T01:28:59.268-06:00Thanks for suffering through watching it for us.
...Thanks for suffering through watching it for us.<br /><br />He's gotten so bad that I have difficulty reading his transcripts without profanity, so I have to admit that I skipped large sections of your transcript quotes to get to your commentary. I'll try to slog through his unending lies tomorrow in daytime when I can't grab a drink in order to do so.talontshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15529847632826061298noreply@blogger.com