I can say a lot of bad things about Hillary Clinton, but doing her best as a lawyer for a reprehensible and guilty client is not one of them.
She’s not being criticized for doing her job so much as laughing about it.
You’re familiar with the expression “peek and shriek” that surgeons use among themselves? You’re admitted to the hospital with abdominal pain, they eventually feel it necessary to do exploratory surgery, and they find widespread metastasized incurable cancer. The surgeon isn’t necessarily a callous asshole – often they are just dealing with the stress of their job.
Some of the medical slang is pretty funny, particularly when it describes a situation that isn’t otherwise the least bit funny.
Please tell us you don’t really believe that’s an excuse for her behavior.
Nice thought Bob, but it is irrelevant. This was not a moment of stress during the trial. This was an interview well after the event. And sending people to read about medical slang is definitely OT, which is par for the course for your nonsense.
I’ve got some medical slang for ya, Bob. Rectal Craniectomy. Get one.
I goal of objectivity is over rated.
Lawyers and reporters worship the idea, it’s a false god.
Yet these who worship objectivity avid doing things which are politically incorrect, so don’t
even follow their religion, they only use it as excuse not to do the hard things.
Or in the simplest terms, it’s immoral.
Impressive article. I clipped it. I’m wary of zealots that flip, as they tend to become just as radical on the other side. I do hope the author follows through on the small steps philosophy.
Your wariness was best described by a line in “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean”, “No one is more self-righteous than a reformed whore.”
Yeah, but if he becomes a right-wing radical, what’s he really going to do, demand that cupcakes be sold at whatever price the market will bear? They already are, thanks to the evil cupcake lobby.
Worse, George, much worse…..
he’s going to let people say what they want even if it offends him…
he’s going to allow a Nativity scene on a town common…….
The horror………the horror……
Most of these epiphanies she has had about the lunacies of the left are things that people with common sense had already realized by the time they were 18 years old.
Which goes to show how out of touch with reality the hard-core leftist really is. Nice to see a progressive change their ways without going through the physical mugging.
There’s a whole blog devoted to people who are former leftists: http://neoneocon.com/
See the right sidebar under “A mind is a difficult thing to change”.
Bah. The Left promotes hate. The Right promotes hate. It is only targeted at different groups. The Right constantly complains about working class people not being entrepreneurial enough. As if people are considered to be morons because they work for someone else. Conservatives criminalize drug addicts. In the US this results in the incarcerations of millions of citizens.
The so called War on Drugs. Or the War on Terrorism for that matter which only planted the seeds for the current ISIS take over of Iraq which will infest all the neighborhood with radical Islam when its influence had previously been waning even in Iran.
Once you take your rose colored glasses off you see much of these two perspectives Right/Left are just two faces of the same coin. Communism is anti-clerical and modern liberalism was in favor of the separation of Church and State. These are not the same things as one is the extreme of the other. Still I can understand why Marx thought more of the same was a good idea although I disagree with his idea also being a Catholic myself. Plus I never was a member of the Communist party nor were none of my family since most of us found it self-congratulatory and delusional.
As for the coming over of totalitarianism regimes I thought this had a higher chance of occurring in the past. However I am more and more convinced what we will get will be closer in practice to William Gibsons corporate dystopias after seeing the sort of crap the WTO and the World Economic Forum promote. i.e. the progressive erosion and obliteration of the nation state and citizen rights. While workers in these large megacorps, such as Google, live lives secluded from other workers inside complexes which use their own security, food services, and transportation services and probably eventually housing as well. As wealth is funneled out of the system by corporate tax evasion the government itself fails while the corporation has to do more and more of the functions of the state in order to maintain productivity as everything around it crumbles. A sort of neo-feudalism if you will.
I believe the statist/libertarian label can work as well as right/left. There are statist and libertarian strains in both parties. The statists will use their base to increase centralized power. (Funny how compromise often results in more state control.) This, I think, is why the left and right become so similar. Power is addicting.
Fortunately, I believe we are seeing some cooperation between the libertarian strains. For example, Rand Paul spoke to the tech industry in San Francisco last summer. This might be a generational issue. GenX is far more libertarian than the boomers. If this cooperation continues, there will be a push to return power to the states.
Mostly a good article.
I can say a lot of bad things about Hillary Clinton, but doing her best as a lawyer for a reprehensible and guilty client is not one of them.
She’s not being criticized for doing her job so much as laughing about it.
You’re familiar with the expression “peek and shriek” that surgeons use among themselves? You’re admitted to the hospital with abdominal pain, they eventually feel it necessary to do exploratory surgery, and they find widespread metastasized incurable cancer. The surgeon isn’t necessarily a callous asshole – often they are just dealing with the stress of their job.
See http://pc.blogspot.com/2009/08/medical-slang.html for a list of slang expressions, and a link to a longer list.
and
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/dr-brian-goldman/dark-humour_b_5368005.html for commentary
Some of the medical slang is pretty funny, particularly when it describes a situation that isn’t otherwise the least bit funny.
Please tell us you don’t really believe that’s an excuse for her behavior.
Nice thought Bob, but it is irrelevant. This was not a moment of stress during the trial. This was an interview well after the event. And sending people to read about medical slang is definitely OT, which is par for the course for your nonsense.
I’ve got some medical slang for ya, Bob. Rectal Craniectomy. Get one.
I goal of objectivity is over rated.
Lawyers and reporters worship the idea, it’s a false god.
Yet these who worship objectivity avid doing things which are politically incorrect, so don’t
even follow their religion, they only use it as excuse not to do the hard things.
Or in the simplest terms, it’s immoral.
Impressive article. I clipped it. I’m wary of zealots that flip, as they tend to become just as radical on the other side. I do hope the author follows through on the small steps philosophy.
Your wariness was best described by a line in “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean”, “No one is more self-righteous than a reformed whore.”
Yeah, but if he becomes a right-wing radical, what’s he really going to do, demand that cupcakes be sold at whatever price the market will bear? They already are, thanks to the evil cupcake lobby.
Worse, George, much worse…..
he’s going to let people say what they want even if it offends him…
he’s going to allow a Nativity scene on a town common…….
The horror………the horror……
Most of these epiphanies she has had about the lunacies of the left are things that people with common sense had already realized by the time they were 18 years old.
Which goes to show how out of touch with reality the hard-core leftist really is. Nice to see a progressive change their ways without going through the physical mugging.
There’s a whole blog devoted to people who are former leftists:
http://neoneocon.com/
See the right sidebar under “A mind is a difficult thing to change”.
Hello. My name is rickl, and I’m a former leftist.
Bah. The Left promotes hate. The Right promotes hate. It is only targeted at different groups. The Right constantly complains about working class people not being entrepreneurial enough. As if people are considered to be morons because they work for someone else. Conservatives criminalize drug addicts. In the US this results in the incarcerations of millions of citizens.
The so called War on Drugs. Or the War on Terrorism for that matter which only planted the seeds for the current ISIS take over of Iraq which will infest all the neighborhood with radical Islam when its influence had previously been waning even in Iran.
Once you take your rose colored glasses off you see much of these two perspectives Right/Left are just two faces of the same coin. Communism is anti-clerical and modern liberalism was in favor of the separation of Church and State. These are not the same things as one is the extreme of the other. Still I can understand why Marx thought more of the same was a good idea although I disagree with his idea also being a Catholic myself. Plus I never was a member of the Communist party nor were none of my family since most of us found it self-congratulatory and delusional.
As for the coming over of totalitarianism regimes I thought this had a higher chance of occurring in the past. However I am more and more convinced what we will get will be closer in practice to William Gibsons corporate dystopias after seeing the sort of crap the WTO and the World Economic Forum promote. i.e. the progressive erosion and obliteration of the nation state and citizen rights. While workers in these large megacorps, such as Google, live lives secluded from other workers inside complexes which use their own security, food services, and transportation services and probably eventually housing as well. As wealth is funneled out of the system by corporate tax evasion the government itself fails while the corporation has to do more and more of the functions of the state in order to maintain productivity as everything around it crumbles. A sort of neo-feudalism if you will.
I believe the statist/libertarian label can work as well as right/left. There are statist and libertarian strains in both parties. The statists will use their base to increase centralized power. (Funny how compromise often results in more state control.) This, I think, is why the left and right become so similar. Power is addicting.
Fortunately, I believe we are seeing some cooperation between the libertarian strains. For example, Rand Paul spoke to the tech industry in San Francisco last summer. This might be a generational issue. GenX is far more libertarian than the boomers. If this cooperation continues, there will be a push to return power to the states.