tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59761602011-04-21T19:04:29.046-04:00The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems— the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. - john maynard keynesnicknoreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1099975479076904352004-11-08T22:16:00.000-05:002005-02-19T12:50:14.130-05:00

The following post was written in October of 2004 - I never hit the publish button, and it sat in "editing purgatory" since then. Please keep in mind that although this was written at the height of the election madness, it remains topical and completely valid.This post - probably the last I write in this forum is a brief discussion of some of my sense of people, and my sense of America. And my

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1099021990406388982004-10-28T23:20:00.000-04:002004-10-29T00:15:06.623-04:00

Eric Martin of Total Information Awareness added some comments to my Previous post: Democracy, and the War on Terror: Fatal Flaw?. I thought they were interesting, and I wanted to properly respond. His comments in full can be found here. His point is as follows: [The assertion that "type of government it can be argued has been the unwavering guideline between our friends, and our enemies"] is

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1098842018022411542004-10-26T21:03:00.000-04:002004-10-27T14:57:13.936-04:00

[Edit: Consider this a draft. I didn't have time to go over this enough. Will be refined later today] A question has been rolling around in the back of my head for some time. Recent events have made me reconsider it more seriously. Does Democracy in the Middle East make us safer? The idea should be well known to anyone who follows the WoT. It was one of the cornerstone arguments for an

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1098799580204714832004-10-26T09:05:00.000-04:002004-10-26T10:35:20.696-04:00

There is a new argument arising against the "Bush is incompetent" line. It is the "Look, not everything is Bush's fault" argument. And unless you are a die hard left partisan you should probably see the truth in this. It's become something of a joke, if it rains, its Bush's fault, if there was traffic, it was Bush's fault, etc. It has gotten silly, mistakes are made, and no president is perfect.

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1097728773457409852004-10-14T01:24:00.000-04:002004-10-14T00:46:32.316-04:00

I think Kerry won hands down. Except for the last question. Kerry didn't flop on the "women in your life" question, but I don't want to touch why his answer for that went straight to his mother (there is no good answer for kerry in that). Bush on the other hand, hit a last minute home run with a really great response. After being on the receiving end of atleast 75% of the debate, he recovered at

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1097316691885300092004-10-09T05:59:00.000-04:002004-10-09T06:19:38.163-04:00

Personally, I thought Bush won the second debate. I thought he connected with his early rhetoric, and I saw too many missed opportunities for Kerry to say something meaningful. In addition, I thought that Kerrys "I have a plan" stuff was vague and impossible to guarantee (how can you be sure you can contain Russian nuclear material in 4 years, how can anyone guarantee anything like that?). This

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1097210760138170892004-10-08T01:21:00.000-04:002004-10-08T03:35:46.936-04:00

There is a good and growing chance for Kerry to win in november. I'm glad, after the debates I have more confidence in Kerry, enough so that my vote will not just be a small protest against a President that I believe mislead this country for 4 years, but will be a vote for a man who I believe can do better. But that does not change the fact that its time for the Democratic party to sit down and

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1097190968856975692004-10-07T18:54:00.000-04:002004-10-07T19:16:08.856-04:00

So obviously 30to1 has suffered from a certain lack of love and attention. I haven't thrown anything new up in weeks, and although I have 5-6 posts stored in blogspots "draft" mode, I have yet to polish them to a point where I am sufficiently satisfied. Why is this? Because this blog does not yet have enough traffic to justify the amount of time it takes me to put together a thoughtful post. So

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1096047200814245812004-09-24T13:02:00.000-04:002004-09-24T13:45:09.346-04:00

Publius of Legal Fiction (as if he needs another plug on this blog) discussed an article on NRO written by Andrew McCarthy a very Hawkish Neoconservative (how redundant), this article had three parts: Part One: The war on terror should be reclassified as the war on militant Islam. Part Two: Saddam had Al Qaeda connections. Part Three: The goal in the war on militant Islam was one fold: To kill

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1096037409987653292004-09-24T10:49:00.000-04:002004-09-24T10:50:09.986-04:00

For those of you who may stop by periodically to check in on 30 to 1, this blog is not dead. I am currently making an effort to finish a couple long pieces. Pieces that I think require additional revision and some additional reflection. Thanks for stopping by.

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I can't even say a word. Just watch Rummy completely break down. Its a daily show clip. And it shows why they're the best news on tv. Just watch.

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1095290290987501622004-09-15T19:01:00.000-04:002004-09-15T19:18:10.986-04:00

Its hard to resist marking up Iraqi casualties as non-critical when following war coverage in Iraq. Lets be honest here, most of us seeing "Iraqi's killed" instead of "American's killed" can shrug the incident off. When Iraqi police are killed instead of our Soldiers some strange gut reaction of "whew, our plan to put an Iraqi face on the occupation is working" is the internal reaction of many.

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1095123416167607132004-09-13T20:13:00.000-04:002004-09-15T19:00:54.816-04:00

The nature of Blogs Criticizing is easy. Very easy. It seems like its almost part of the nature of things, part of the system of things, inertia bound to entropy. As no thing is perfect, there are always flaws, spaces for improvement, areas of failure, and more material for criticism. But criticizing in a vacuum is pointless. Instead, people complain to someone, attempting to influence them.

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1095020515302960482004-09-12T15:55:00.000-04:002004-09-12T16:52:05.840-04:00

So, taking my previously established wild success with the previous post, I wanted to comment on a new development. Juan Cole of Informed Comment has begun a viscous and largely true line of questioning on Iraq, and the War on Terror. Its summary is more or less: Al Qaeda stood to gain from a prolonged guerilla campaign against the US in an Arab nation. By having the US occupy a country like

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1095016637565743332004-09-12T14:47:00.000-04:002004-09-12T18:28:27.030-04:00

There seems to be a censuses across the left. My previous post, "It's the truth, stupid" a plea to the left to fight the good fight against Bush was right on. Posted on the 3rd, the New York Times' Paul Krugman agreed on the 7th: What is clear is that whenever political debate turns to Mr. Bush's actual record in office, his popularity sinks. Only by doing whatever it takes to change the subject

nicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976160.post-1094263451312551792004-09-03T22:03:00.000-04:002004-09-04T18:17:44.383-04:00

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32. Look. I don’t understand what’s going on anymore. All I hear from the left, from the right, from the people in the middle is over and over, “This is the most important election in your lifetime”. And its true. It is. It’s the first one in my lifetime that really, really matters. It’s the first one where my vote and

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