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Interesting to try and wrestle with the notion that George Will can understand the threat to the republic, that was Woodrow Wilson, but happily voted for all his policies, times ten, in the vessel that is Hillary Clinton. I guess a true intelligent, intellectual conservative, lives for the talk of conservative principals, but detests anyone that would actually implement such policies. George Will is a coward.

#1 B. Hammer on 2019-09-03 08:42 (Reply)

We ended up with a certain group of 'conservatives' as pundits who were more interested in making sure they kept getting invitations to the DC cocktail parties than actually espousing a 'conservative' philosophy.

One must have priorities in life, after all. And their 'conservative' idealism was getting in the way of the good times.

#1.1 JLawson on 2019-09-03 10:17 (Reply)

Bingo! The mind of a D.C. hypocrite never ceases to amaze, JL.

#1.1.1 jma on 2019-09-03 11:44 (Reply)

Ask Bill Nye the Science Fraud about the time he angrily told some kids he didn't want to give out any autographs. Weird thing is nobody had asked him for one.

#2 Rusty on 2019-09-03 09:13 (Reply)

Rusty, your comments on Nye, always make me laugh, or turn my stomach. Are they based on fact?

#2.1 B. Hammer on 2019-09-03 09:51 (Reply)

100% true. That last one happened during a school field trip.

He's pretty much the worst person alive right now.

#2.1.1 Rusty on 2019-09-03 13:34 (Reply)

Re: Communicating with plants.

That would be very helpful if you wanted a hamburger with no meat. I bet the plant would object.

#3 oolioo on 2019-09-03 09:21 (Reply)

Thanks for reminding me to mow my yard tonight. Hopefully, she will drive by during that time to hear my grass scream.

#3.1 Dangerous Dean on 2019-09-03 16:35 (Reply)

No Pain, No Gain.

#3.1.1 Aggie on 2019-09-03 20:43 (Reply)

re Powerline's Hayward loves George Will's new book

Read the comments to the post over at PL.

Heh.

While the book may be a scholarly triumph, it appears a substantial percentage of his potential market has been alienated and will not forgive him him for trashing Trump and voting for Clinton. They will not reward him for that by buying his book.

#4 feeblemind on 2019-09-03 10:32 (Reply)

re Ethanol fight divides key groups in Trump's base

Ethanol is an Iowa scam.

Ethanol is indeed a nothing more political payoff. Even the pseudo fig leaf of "reducing our dependence on foreign oil" is gone, as we are no longer dependent on foreign oil.

Is there no better use of cropland than to destroy our engines?

The short answer is "no". If there was, there would have been no need for ethanol in the first place.

#5 feeblemind on 2019-09-03 10:41 (Reply)

You and I agree on SO many issues, but I think we disagree on this point. I remember buying corn and corn flakes before our gasoline contained ethanol. The cost of both went up. Sharply.

I never drove a diesel engine truck, but I know that diesel used to be cheaper than gasoline. Now that so many tractors are needed to grow that corn for ethanol, diesel costs substantially more than gasoline (at least in my corner of Central Texas).

I wish both parties would agree to end the ethanol in our gas tanks.

#5.1 Dangerous Dean on 2019-09-03 16:39 (Reply)

Stevie Wonder ~ The Secret Life Of Plants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PveWXfUZEJg

#6 CapitalistRoader on 2019-09-03 13:00 (Reply)

Rush decoded the languague of the forrest for us a long time ago with The Trees:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_D0wkLyCXE

#6.1 Dangerous Dean on 2019-09-03 16:42 (Reply)

Italy in Decline: We're in Milan tonight, and walked around the corner of the hotel to a bar near the train station. The a$$holes sold us a sh*t bottle of screwtop wine for 80 euro, charged us 5 bucks for a packet of Ketchup, etc. $160. Clearly a tourist trap that we fell for. Lessons learned: Read Tripadvisor or Google religiously.

As for this particular topic today, the reason Italy is in the toilet is the government allows businesses to treat its tourists this way.

Name of the place is Miniera d'Oro - Ristorante Pizzeria Bar by the way. Avoid like the plague.

Best,
Bull

#7 Bull on 2019-09-03 16:40 (Reply)

If you have time, try L'Immagine Bistrot, out near the Bovisa campus of Milan Technical U., northwest of the center of town. Stunningly good and not a tourist joint.
http://limmaginebistrot.it/

#7.1 Niccolo on 2019-09-03 18:30 (Reply)

I'm not in favor of a carbon tax because I know who's going to be in charge of it. No matter what a policy looks like in theory, in reality everybody's got to get a little somethin'-somethin' out of the deal and the policy in practice looks nothing like the policy in theory. It's why nothing in government works. (Or why you think it doesn't work, I should say. Government programs work just fine as long as you don't judge the results based on the stated objectives of the program but understand that any government program's primary purpose is to be a government program. Spending a billion dollars on Problem X may not do anything to address Problem X, but nobody can accuse you of not caring about Problem X or claim that you're not doing anything about Problem X - you're spending a billion dollars on Problem X aren't you?)

#8 Jerryskids on 2019-09-03 21:13 (Reply)

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Tuesday, September 3. 2019

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