Comments on: Anonymous Cowards Beware: This May Be The Future

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:23:37 +0000

2010 Predictions, here goes: 1) Dow ends the year at 1600 in the aftermath of joint US/Israeli attack on Iran 2) US drone strikes kill Al-Zawahiri 3) Al Qaeda prisoners claim Bin Laden has been dead since 2007 4) Republicans regain House and Senate 5) Secretary of State Clinton resigns for health reasons 6) Health care reform leads to masssive confusion among citizens 7) Two major bank CEOs assassinated as part of blue collar revolt against tight money Obama’s poll ratings soar to 60%, as he turns super hawkish 9) unemployment drops to 8% as dollar strengthens with US on active war footing 10) Taliban routed by joint US/Pakistani forces,a s US casualties mount 11) “Hurt Locker” wins Oscar Best Picture, George Clooney Best Actor, Meryl Streep Best Actress 12) Cincinnatti Bengals win Super Bowl 13) Tiger Woods returns to play in Masters 14) New York Yankees repeat as baseball champs 15) New York Times declares bankruptcy (financial, not moral) 16) George Stephanopolous fired, as GMA ratings slump 17) Vice President Biden resigns in kickback scandal, replaced by Senator Claire McCaskill 18) Nude photos of Sarah Palin sold to “Playboy” 19) Mike Huckabee indicted in pardons-for-cash investigation 20) Ron Rosenbaum book hits Times bestseller list, as he signs exclusive deal with “The Atlantic Monthly”, ending relationship with Pajamas Media

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:47:44 +0000

Check out “Nazi Ideology in the Arab World” in the January 2010 “New Criterion”, out the first of the year, and thanks again, Heather, you are a peach and Ron’s a plum, so let’s make a pie, as I am the apple!

By: heathermc

heathermc — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:42:30 +0000

addendum: the Charles Finch book, Fleet Street Murders” is a really good book, an oasis of civilized behavior on the part of the Good Guys. And it includes a very interesting description of a Victorian election. So, I recommend it wholeheartedly. Also, it has a truly lovely cover design!

By: heathermc

heathermc — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:38:46 +0000

most human beings don’t want to notice the train coming down the tracks at them. That is what we have leaders for, to shoo us off the tracks before we are destroyed. I am so afraid that our leaders are like us, now, and will let the train come on, until it is too late.

Iran, now. The lefty anti Zionists (most of them American Jews) chatter on about the sins of Israel; when Iran is openly planning on destroying Israel, like really destroy it, not just shunning it, or complaining about the “fake holocaust”. Amazing. I am constantly amazed at this. And I have upper class Jewish American intellectual in-laws, who (from quiet asides during the wedding, are quite conscious of being Jewish)… yet, they carry on about Israeli ‘sins.’ All of which proves that having brains and education has NOTHING to do with wisdom.

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:02:49 +0000

Thank, Heather. “Fleet Street Murders” received a rave in “The New York Times Book Review” today. My son and I thank you very much for your enthusiasm and support. As to my post above, “The Times of London” has just reported that iran is testing a neutron intiiator, the final stage in developing a nuclear weapon. God Help Us All…

By: heathermc

heathermc — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:30:35 +0000

Charlie Finch is, actually, a good reason to read Ron’s blog.

I am interested in Ron’s thesis in his new book. Post war nuclear doctrine? No wonder he has been so cranky!

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:10:34 +0000

Nobody asked me, but (apologies to Thomas Sowell and Jimmy Cannon): 1) Don’t you think the Oslo speech was spurred on by some REALLY bad intelligence from Iran? 2) When a big celebrity gets caught in a scandal, shouldn’t his corporate sponsors be required by law to keep making ads with him for a couple of years, to atone for their own conformist lies? 3) If we could meet Obama’s parents, we would solve all the mystery surrounding him 4) The harder she works and the more tired she gets the more authentic Hillary Clinton finally becomes 5) When Sarah Palin becomes President the matrix between Media World and Political World will dissolve forever; that’s why she is out there 6) The more we read about the Salahis, Tiger Woods and the next golden shoes to drop, the less we hear abput Bill Clinton, the man who made it all not only palatable but necessary 7) techno/info acceleration divided by human mortality equals the curve of binding energy has anyone ripped out the index card from Laura yet and reshuffled them? 9) the more intellectuals like Robert Wright and Christopher Hitchen and Dawkins and Singer throw spitballs at God, the more powerless they seem, for His ambiguity defies them with nothingness 10) if you haven’t listened to the recordings of the late Eva Cassidy, please do…

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:50:36 +0000

Hey everybody: Ron is wrapping up the NukeStrat book, being very humble about which means it should be kind of like his “Four Quartets”, you know, that silo redolent of roses in East Coker. Ron remarked that the denouement of his ruminations on just war theory nicely greeted Obama’s Oslo speech at the station. There are no kings outside the Gates of Eden.

By: Fred Mecklenburg

Fred Mecklenburg — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:40:15 +0000

Ah Liam. “The last time I saw you was down at the Greeks, there was whiskey on Sunday and tears on our cheeks…” That is such a hard goodbye.

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:33:08 +0000

Goodbye Liam Clancy…and The Band Played Waltzing Matilda