Well, I think the shutdown is over. Been kind of busy and not following the news closely as I’m almost done with the manuscript for my next book — longer than any of my previous one and it will also be out in print this time. So kind of focusing on that right now, and after it’s done I should be able to blog more.
So kind of missed it: What was this whole shutdown thing trying to accomplish anyway?
No one knows, Frank. But what’d we get?
♫ another day older and deeper in debt. ♫
(After 16 tons of Boehner BS.)
For some interesting comments about the shutdown:
Boehner, You Ignorant Pustule
Scroll down to the comments and note the many pages.
Enjoy.
Why China Wants to Dump the Dollar
Oh, please. Please do.
Is it possible that China is the only one who could stop our runaway debt train?
To paraphrase Lincoln.
A Party divided against itself cannot stand. I believe the Republican Party cannot endure, permanently, half RINO and half free. I do not expect the Party to be dissolved — I do not expect the Republicans to fall — but I do expect they will cease to be divided. They will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of Big Government will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its enablers will push it forward, till it shall become permanent in the United States, for the old as well as young — in the North as well as South.
All memorials should be made private.
All fascist park rangers should be fired now!
I think the shutdown was just a test to see if Powder River Panels were effective in controlling animals with opposible thumbs.
The government shutdown was actually part of a phone call with tech support. It’s a well known fact that many common government problems can be solved by shutting down the government, waiting a little while and then starting it back up.
We learned that Republicans are determined to surrender no matter how important the issue or how strong their hand is.
@5 A.Men
All fascist park rangers should be fired now!
with real fire
So whatever happened to Superego?
Is that what you’re completing?
Veeshir,
Superego was completed back in January and I’m just waiting on publishers. I’m pretty sure it will get a publisher which is why I haven’t self-published, but it’s a longer wait than I thought. I’ve actually completed another novel since then I’m really excited about — maybe I’ll put some of that one on the blog because this whole waiting years to get feedback is hard for a blogger.
The book I mentioned is this post is one I have a contract for with HarperCollins and is technically a non-fiction book — as much as this blog is non-fiction, I guess. It will be a self-help book — the definitive self-help book.
@4 Walrus:
I think you’ve hit on something — something pretty good.
I’ll bet that if, just as you did, one replaced the word “country” with “Republican Party”
and the word “slavery” with “big government”
and “slave” with “individual”
in old anti-slavery speeches, you’d be astonished at how accurate they sound.
It’s a winning formula.
Here’s one quick experiment: Frederick Douglass, 1850:
…
Wow. Douglass would have made a great blogger.
What if I don’t want to help myself?
And if I’m reading something you wrote and doing it, how can it be self-help?
Or are you saying you’re trying to help yourself?
I figure the last.
I did forget to answer your question.
What was this whole shutdown thing trying to accomplish anyway?
As nearly as I can tell, it was so our fine political, media, social and moral betters could bash tea partiers.
That’s all they seemed to accomplish.
As for the stated purpose, it seemed to me they were arguing over whether we’d go a little over a $trillion in debt this year or a little under.
@12 A point of which the Left constantly fails to grasp is that Big Government cannot survive without enslaving enough people to make it run. The reason my example and yours work is that the underlying truth is plain, it is both fundamental and unavoidable.
It was all a ploy to piss off McCain. They just love pranking that guy.