Disqus - Friends of canucklehead

Re: Fair Questions for Sarah Palin

caricopas — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:43:25 -0000

canucklehead, old bean!! you're a distinguished-looking lad, if i may say so.

Re: Fair Questions for Sarah Palin

caricopas — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:27:46 -0000

LOL. Thanks nad2!

Re: God’s Politics Has Moved!

caricopas — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:42:16 -0000

Neuro, i think your avatar is waycool.

Re: Vote Out Poverty: ‘That’s Just How We Roll Around Here’

caricopas — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:49:53 -0000

"Re: Jubliee economics = redistribution of wealth = communism."

So much for the early church as described in the early chapters in the book of Acts. Now I get it, Peter and John were really Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Re: Sackcloth and Ashes on Wall Street

caricopas — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:37:09 -0000

nad2: "executive severance & congressional retirement should be tied to how well what they've managed does in the long-run."

Interesting idea about congressional retirement tied to job performance. Here in California we haven't had a state budget on time in years. Once the budget deadline has passed, members of the state legislature don't get paid. But they get full compensation after a budget is approved.

Some people are proposing permanent docking of pay for each day the budget is overdue. But don't know how you could tie congressional performance to effectiveness of bail-out plan.

Re: Sackcloth and Ashes on Wall Street

caricopas — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:44:12 -0000

Nad2,
first, thanks for the good wishes. Life generally is good these days for me and mine. But one can't help but worry about our nation and the state of the economy.

I appreciate the thoughtful response. Lots of details would have to be filled in, of course, but your idea about tying salary to national economic performance is worth pursuing. I hope others comment on it. Wish I had enough dough to start my own think tank!

Take care. Good to see you on here.

Re: Sackcloth and Ashes on Wall Street

caricopas — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:44:54 -0000

"Fat Man" is a cool Jethro Tull song.

Re: Sackcloth and Ashes on Wall Street

caricopas — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:51:09 -0000

Sasha,
as a longtime U.S. history instructor, I found your summary of the New Deal interesting. It differs a bit from what I teach about the 1930s. Can you suggest some books or articles on the topic?

My grandfather, a lifelong factory worker, once told me that FDR "was the best friend the American working man ever had." He and his young family would have starved had it not been for the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Sackcloth and Ashes on Wall Street

caricopas — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:35:46 -0000

Sasha,
thanks for the detailed and thoughtful post in response to my request for sources. I kinda thought Murray Rothbard was in there somewhere in your initial post.

Jonabark, this isn't really "Classic revisionist republican history." It's much more interesting than that; Rothbard was a thoughtful libertarian who was prescient in warning of the temptation to empire offered by American cold war interventionism. With respect to the Depression, while I don't agree with him or Sasha that too much government was at fault--though Smoot Hawley was disastrous--they offer an intellectually respectable analysis that deserves a more thorough hearing than it's received.

Thanks again Sasha. I'll have to pick up the Schlaes book next time I'm at Barnes and Noble.

Re: Holy Insecurity

caricopas — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:29:15 -0000

Diana, great to have you back! Fine piece, as usual, and look forward to reading the new book.

Re: In Money We Trust

caricopas — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:31:40 -0000

neuro_nurse: "Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.

"LaBruzzo said he worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue to the government.

"[His program] also could include tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, he said.

Thanks for posting this neuro_nurse. Most of us wouldn't have seen it otherwise.

Is LaBruzzo in a tight election? This is really pandering to a particular kind of hard racist right.

Re: A ‘Micah Challenge’ to U.S. Christians

caricopas — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:59:39 -0000

fatman: "Who came and helped with New Orleans?"

Cuba offered and the Bush administration turned them down. Too bad; New Orleans could have used all the help it could get. But there were political points to be made, and that has always carried more freight with the Cheney/Rove administration.

Re: A ‘Micah Challenge’ to U.S. Christians

caricopas — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:15:22 -0000

"Please - and that didn't happen in the Clinton / Gore adm???
Pres Clinton for the most part dictated is policies by how the winds were blowing."
Off topic.

"Cuba offered what - a band?"
No, medical personnel, including physicians.

"Besides - the last time Cuba sent people to the US they emptied their prisons on US - do you remember the Carter years?"
Off topic again. And yes, I remember the Carter years very well--I was in college.

Re: A ‘Micah Challenge’ to U.S. Christians

caricopas — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:28:25 -0000

"Off Topic - so was your slam with Cheeney/Rove."

No it wasn't.

Re: A ‘Micah Challenge’ to U.S. Christians

caricopas — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:35:08 -0000

"Medical personnel - and that is why Castro has gone to Europe for a lot of his medical work?"

Evidence? I don't think he's ever gone to Europe for medical treatment. He flew in a world-class specialist from Spain several years ago for a particular ailment, but that's not uncommon for a national leader.

Re: Talking to the New Evangelicals Voters

caricopas — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:56:45 -0000

"Orwellian" comes to mind.

Re: Principles in an Unprincipled Crisis

caricopas — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:36:06 -0000

Thanks Jim.

Carl "Bleeding Heart Christian" Copas

Re: SBC-Controlled Bookstores Remove Magazine With Women Pastors on Cover

caricopas — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:44:37 -0000

Drom'hump, for an atheist you seem to be quite familiar with Scripture. Would be interesting if you shared a bit of your background.

Best.

Re: Common Ground With the Muslim World

caricopas — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:51:27 -0000

The large moderate one's usual tantrum when he gets frustrated: recast the opinion that he disagrees with in the most extreme, ridiculous terms possible, and throw in a gratuitous sarcastic shot or two while he's at it. It's the blog equivalent of "I'll take my ball and go home if I don't get my way."

Re: SBC-Controlled Bookstores Remove Magazine With Women Pastors on Cover

caricopas — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:49:27 -0000

Thanks Hump. I'd say you're closer to the Kingdom of God than even you suspect.

Re: The Idolatry of Security (Part 1)

caricopas — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:33:19 -0000

A fine piece. Thank you Dr. Rah. And "tin" makes more sense--I never fully understood "plumb line" in the context that Amos offers.

Re: Principles in an Unprincipled Crisis

caricopas — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:41:00 -0000

In my neck of the woods "Bleeding Heart Liberal" is akin to a nasty epithet. I wouldn't flag a post that uses it, but I agree with Anothernonymous that it brings dialogue to a screeching halt.

Christians, even Christians who see politics differently, can surely do better.

Re: Principles in an Unprincipled Crisis

caricopas — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:45:25 -0000

Good comment Don. Similar terms, depending upon context of course, are "fascist," "pinko," "socialist."

Re: Principles in an Unprincipled Crisis

caricopas — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:47:44 -0000

Ha! I came darn close to adding it, and given the response below fervently with I had.

Re: Principles in an Unprincipled Crisis

caricopas — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:48:59 -0000

Oops! "wish I had"

Carl Shibboleth Copas