Very Misc.a certain kind of Anti-Statism....partial from Beinart at Daily Beast

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 05:20:03 CST 2011


Mark Kohut wrote:
> Silent Cal did open his mouth long enough to spell out his foreign policy vision, >and what he said could be emblazoned on a Ron Paul for President poster:
>"The people have had all the war, all the taxation, and all the military service
>they want."

a) that's not what I've started seeing on imaginary posters for
Paul... the shame is not that Ron Paul apparently wrote at least some
of those crude expressions, but that enough people paid money for that
drivel it that he's said to have made a million off of it.  There
really is a sucker born every minute!

b) Try cutting the military?  better be a heck of a salesperson or
face an enraged Praetorian Guard.  Maybe these guys could pass a jobs
plan for all the displaced military personnel and suppliers.

c) apropos of nothing...My friend told me a joke about Coolidge and
his wife on a visit to a chicken farm; Mrs Coolidge watched the
rooster mount one hen after another and pointed it the performance to
her husband.  Mr Coolidge said, "yes, but it's a different hen every
time"



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