tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post2436194975142496565..comments2024-03-28T16:58:17.705-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Second NatureGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-70593981491302714272014-07-24T01:52:56.996-04:002014-07-24T01:52:56.996-04:00It's not burning nearly fast enough.It's not burning nearly fast enough.Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-81202033026161338972014-07-22T21:26:49.687-04:002014-07-22T21:26:49.687-04:00Maybe Obama thinks if he keeps talking so inanely,...Maybe Obama thinks if he keeps talking so inanely, he'll make Putin so tired of him that he'll make some accession to shut him up. Given the visceral reaction I have to hearing Obama by now, it might work on me.douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03241790925053112959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-10252073631164086552014-07-21T18:31:45.955-04:002014-07-21T18:31:45.955-04:00Beware the sternly wagging finger of international...Beware the sternly wagging finger of international opprobrium... :p<br /><br />If Putin keeps this up, Obama will ask Putin to go into Time Out until he feels better about himself.Cassnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-11445669836466698752014-07-21T18:07:24.106-04:002014-07-21T18:07:24.106-04:00In the movie Flyboys, treating WWI fighter pilots,...In the movie <i>Flyboys</i>, treating WWI fighter pilots, there's a scene when one of the young American pilots complains to his French commander that a German pilot had killed his buddy after the buddy had gotten safely to the ground. There had to be justice, he said, for that violation of accepted norms governing combat.<br /><br />The French officer replied with words to the effect of, 'You want justice? Up there, you're the guy with the gun.'<br /><br />Well, that was the old way. Now we get on camera and say, 'No one denies that he has extraordinary influence over the direction of his machineguns. And if he doesn't stop pointing them at helpless people and shooting them to bits, he's going to find himself increasingly isolated.'Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-68994021116851071132014-07-21T16:38:34.126-04:002014-07-21T16:38:34.126-04:00Grim, Grim, Grim... Parents perpetuate inequality,...Grim, Grim, Grim... Parents perpetuate inequality, with their insistence on "authority" and "rules" and "consequences". <br /><br />Why should anyone - least of all equals - have to listen to anyone else?Cassnoreply@blogger.com