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critter![]() Inner circle Spokane, WA 2551 Posts ![]() |
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On 2011-05-23 13:57, balducci wrote: And if you change the 'k' to a 't' then it is obvious that Borat is the anti-Christ.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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RS1963![]() Inner circle 2716 Posts ![]() |
Ah ok. that does make sense Balducci. Critter you keep coming up with the showstoppers. Lol another good one.
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Woland![]() Special user 680 Posts ![]() |
Let me take this thread back to the subject of the arrest of DSK, and also to a higher level.
Whatever you might think this sordid episode says about the qualities of the leading men of our generation, we are still privileged to live in a society, and at a time, when a crime committed by one of the high-and-mighty against a foreign chambermaid could bring down all of the force of the impartial law. I daresay that would not have been the case for most of the preceeding two or three thousand years of recorded history. So as they say in New York, Excelsior! Woland |
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mastermindreader![]() V.I.P. Seattle, WA 12589 Posts ![]() |
Good point Woland. Remember Mel Brooks' Louis XIV as he shtupped the chamber maid in "The History of the World Part II"? "It's good to be King!"
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Woland![]() Special user 680 Posts ![]() |
Didn't remember the exact circumstances of that immortal quote. Thank you for your kind notice, but I could have put it even more forcefully: what a wonderful time to be alive, when an outrage committed against a chambermaid by one of the elite is in fact a crime at all.
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balducci![]() Loyal user Canada 230 Posts ![]() |
If DSK is convicted, would he be eligible to transfer to a prison in France and serve his time there (provided France agrees to take him). Or would he be stuck in an American prison (at U.S. taxpayer's expense)?
I know the U.S. and Canada have an agreement for prisoners in one to be sent home to the other to serve their time (provided both governments agree). So I am wondering if the U.S. does the same thing with France.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Whit Haydn![]() V.I.P. 5449 Posts ![]() |
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On 2011-05-23 14:06, Woland wrote: I thought Excelsior is highly flammable packing material. Kurt Vonnegut made fun of a fire-extinquisher company that called itself "Excelsior" |
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Woland![]() Special user 680 Posts ![]() |
Ah, when ordinary products had such wonderful, mellifluous names . . . of course they were not ordinary products, they were remarkable . . . many of them were named for the ports from which they were shipped . . . "Manila" fiber . . . . Sisal . . . and of course Moka and Java . . . . but there were also raffia . . . and coir . . . and excelsior, or "wood wool" . . . according to the infallible Wikipedia, it was already know as excelsior when 15 patents were filed for it by 1876 . . . the term in used as early as 1856 but first credited by the O.E.D> in an 1868 patent . . . and it is the traditional stuffing used for teddy bears . . .
As for whether the State of New York would allow DSK to serve his term in France, I think that is highly dubious, since the presumption would be that he would be granted special privileges, I think. Meanwhile, his agents are said to be trying to bribe his victim's impoverished family, in order to persuade her to change their story, but New York's Finest are reportedly confident they can proceed to trial even without her testimony . . . |
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critter![]() Inner circle Spokane, WA 2551 Posts ![]() |
Isn't "Excelsior!" Stan Lee's catch phrase?
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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Woland![]() Special user 680 Posts ![]() |
It wouldn't surprise me, since I think he grew up in New York.
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balducci![]() Loyal user Canada 230 Posts ![]() |
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On 2011-05-26 11:41, critter wrote: That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the word in this thread, and yes it was. Apparently "Excelsior!" is also the New York state motto. (I think Woland was alluding to that above.)
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Woland![]() Special user 680 Posts ![]() |
Yes, "ever upwards," or something like that. I thought New York could be very proud of 1)the hotel personnel, and 2)the police, and 3)the culture of justice and fairness which makes a reality of the equality of all persons before the majesty of the law that the people have made. This is not the story of a sordid sex crime, it is a demonstration that our civilization has reached a pinnacle to which countless millions of people have yearned in vain through dark centuries of feudal, seigneurial oppression.
Excelsior! Indeed. W/ |
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balducci![]() Loyal user Canada 230 Posts ![]() |
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On 2011-05-26 13:07, Woland wrote: I'm also waiting to hear how the other rich and powerful versus maid story pans out. It seems that more revelations about his behavior are being outed every day. http://www.thestar.com/news/world/articl......security
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Woland![]() Special user 680 Posts ![]() |
"Weinergate" does not rise to the level of the Strauss-Kahn case, so to speak, but it did prompt a thoughtful comment this morning from Professor Glenn Reynolds:
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I think there’s an important point in the comic value: The people who think they’re smart enough, and morally superior enough, to run everyone else’s lives are risible. They’re not smart enough, and they’re actually, overall, morally inferior — I mean, John Edwards, DSK, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barney Frank, Tax Cheat Tim Geithner, just go down the list — and mocking them is inherently valuable. They pursue power, and they exercise power, as much for deference as anything else. Deny them that, and make it painful for them whenever possible. That’s my take. He links to an excellent essay by "Theodore Dalrymple" that is well worth reading. Woland |
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Woland![]() Special user 680 Posts ![]() |
My apologies, that essay is by Timothy Dalrymple, not Theodore. Quite a different author, but still worth reading.
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landmark![]() Inner circle within a triangle 5010 Posts ![]() |
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On 2011-06-04 10:09, Woland wrote: Bah, sounds like that Alinsky character.
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Woland![]() Special user 680 Posts ![]() |
But landmark, you know that Alinsky was a "small c" communist. His criticism of the men who happened to be in power was never intended to return us to a truly free and Constitutional system. The end result of his "community organizing" would be Lyubyanka, Vasili Blokhin, and the Archipelag Gulag.
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landmark![]() Inner circle within a triangle 5010 Posts ![]() |
Alinsky is constantly criticized by the right for his supposed tactics. it's just nice that Reynolds agrees with them. But I understand, it's only the right that's allowed to ridicule. All others will be arrested for joking or dancing.
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Woland![]() Special user 680 Posts ![]() |
Ridicule is only one of Alinsky's tactics. And it is not only his tactics which are objectionable, it is his overall aim, and of course the fact that, like Roger Baldwin of the ACLU, he concealed that aim as a necessary part of his strategy to achieve his airm.
But more importantly, although it isn't a new case, we should also mention Johnny Reid Edwards in the context of this discussion. |
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landmark![]() Inner circle within a triangle 5010 Posts ![]() |
Understood, only your aims are noble.
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