Comments on: Obama’s self love *UPDATED* http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/01/26/obamas-self-love/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:49:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rhymes With Right http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/01/26/obamas-self-love/comment-page-1/#comment-88529 Rhymes With Right Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:42:12 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10575#comment-88529 <strong>This Week's Watcher's Council Results...</strong> More good stuff for your intellectual consumption! Winning Council Submissions First place with 1 2/3 points! – Mere Rhetoric - Wonderful: Iraqis Permanently Scratch Out Ancient Hebrew Inscription Biblical Prophet’s Tomb Second place with 1 1/3 points ... This Week’s Watcher’s Council Results…

More good stuff for your intellectual consumption! Winning Council Submissions First place with 1 2/3 points! – Mere Rhetoric – Wonderful: Iraqis Permanently Scratch Out Ancient Hebrew Inscription Biblical Prophet’s Tomb Second place with 1 1/3 points …

]]> By: Soccer Dad http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/01/26/obamas-self-love/comment-page-1/#comment-88366 Soccer Dad Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:13:37 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10575#comment-88366 <strong>Council speak 02/01/10...</strong> The council has spoken. This week's Watcher's Council results are UP! Winning Council Submissions First place with 1 2/3 points! - Mere Rhetoric - Wonderful: Iraqis Permanently Scratch Out Ancient Hebrew Inscription Biblical Prophet's Tomb Second pl... Council speak 02/01/10…

The council has spoken. This week’s Watcher’s Council results are UP! Winning Council Submissions First place with 1 2/3 points! – Mere Rhetoric – Wonderful: Iraqis Permanently Scratch Out Ancient Hebrew Inscription Biblical Prophet’s Tomb Second pl…

]]> By: The Council Has Spoken! http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/01/26/obamas-self-love/comment-page-1/#comment-88147 The Council Has Spoken! Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:26:41 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10575#comment-88147 [...] second place honors were American Digest’s “Obama: Working the Enemies List” and Bookworm Room’s “Obama’s Self [...] [...] second place honors were American Digest’s “Obama: Working the Enemies List” and Bookworm Room’s “Obama’s Self [...]

]]> By: Watcher of Weasels » Rethinking the http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/01/26/obamas-self-love/comment-page-1/#comment-87798 Watcher of Weasels » Rethinking the Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:03:15 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10575#comment-87798 [...] Second place with 1 1/3 points – Bookworm Room - Obama’s Self Love [...] [...] Second place with 1 1/3 points – Bookworm Room – Obama’s Self Love [...]

]]> By: Bookworm Room » Obligatory post about POTUS’ SOTU speech http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/01/26/obamas-self-love/comment-page-1/#comment-87544 Bookworm Room » Obligatory post about POTUS’ SOTU speech Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:34:16 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10575#comment-87544 [...] way, because the speech was exactly what one could have predicted after reading my attack on Obama’s narcissism.  It was dishonest, defensive and, significantly, showed an inability to be flexible in the face [...] [...] way, because the speech was exactly what one could have predicted after reading my attack on Obama’s narcissism.  It was dishonest, defensive and, significantly, showed an inability to be flexible in the face [...]

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/01/26/obamas-self-love/comment-page-1/#comment-87533 Ymarsakar Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:53:46 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10575#comment-87533 Heh, no, I cannot claim to be familiar. Heh, no, I cannot claim to be familiar.

]]> By: Al http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/01/26/obamas-self-love/comment-page-1/#comment-87489 Al Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:49:46 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10575#comment-87489 Earl #24, I rise at 4am Eastern. Fell asleep last night long before the One mounted the podium. No danger of his lies disturbing my dreams.   Y #27 Thanks for the toast. Are you familiar with the French Cavalry toast concerning fine horses and good women? Al Earl #24,
I rise at 4am Eastern. Fell asleep last night long before the One mounted the podium. No danger of his lies disturbing my dreams.
 
Y #27
Thanks for the toast. Are you familiar with the French Cavalry toast concerning fine horses and good women?
Al

]]> By: Soccer Dad http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/01/26/obamas-self-love/comment-page-1/#comment-87477 Soccer Dad Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:36:16 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10575#comment-87477 <strong>Submitted 01/28/10...</strong> This week's Watcher's Council nominations are up. Council Submissions Joshuapundit - Lexington And Concord Revisited - The Brown Upset and What It Means American Digest - Obama: Working the Enemies List The Glittering Eye - A Short History of Air Hij... Submitted 01/28/10…

This week’s Watcher’s Council nominations are up. Council Submissions Joshuapundit – Lexington And Concord Revisited – The Brown Upset and What It Means American Digest – Obama: Working the Enemies List The Glittering Eye – A Short History of Air Hij…

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/01/26/obamas-self-love/comment-page-1/#comment-87463 Ymarsakar Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:08:37 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10575#comment-87463 Essentially, enemies of humanity hold that which we wish to protect hostage. In order to kill them or to eliminate them, we would have to endanger that which we value. So they expect that we will let them go and they factor in this when they plan their operations.   This is why such people as Sun Tzu and various rulers have always understood the exact point of executions. It's to get the point across in a way that people won't be able to misunderstand. It communicates that only a certain level of incompetence is tolerated. Past that and the exigencies of war allows extreme solutions.   <B>That is what I will be drinking tonight, if I make it to nine o’clock to hear the “President’s” State of the Union Address.</b>   Here's a belated toast for ya. "'He either fears his fate too much, Or his desert is small, Who fears to put it to the touch, And win or lose it all.'   Essentially, enemies of humanity hold that which we wish to protect hostage. In order to kill them or to eliminate them, we would have to endanger that which we value. So they expect that we will let them go and they factor in this when they plan their operations.
 
This is why such people as Sun Tzu and various rulers have always understood the exact point of executions. It’s to get the point across in a way that people won’t be able to misunderstand. It communicates that only a certain level of incompetence is tolerated. Past that and the exigencies of war allows extreme solutions.
 
<B>That is what I will be drinking tonight, if I make it to nine o’clock to hear the “President’s” State of the Union Address.</b>
 
Here’s a belated toast for ya.
“‘He either fears his fate too much,
Or his desert is small,
Who fears to put it to the touch,
And win or lose it all.’
 

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/01/26/obamas-self-love/comment-page-1/#comment-87462 Ymarsakar Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:05:05 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10575#comment-87462 <B>Can generals be court-martialed for terrible strategic decisions that, in effect, leave their soldiers to be slaughtered.</b>   These things are a little bit too complicated for me to be capable of explaining in this kind of format. Legend of the Galactic Heroes explains this kind of dynamic much better through dramatic and historical portrayal. I won't claim to be able to do better or to even equal it.   Generals do not get court martialed for such things. They simply are prevented from being promoted. But if you promote an idiot or Hasan, then the consequences are pretty predictable. But once that happens, you cannot take extreme or even effective action against them because if you have rank over them it is called 'micromanagement' to interfere and if you don't have rank, then you are expected to obey the chain of command because when you get promoted that exact chain of command is what you will use to draw forth obedience from your subordinates. This is a sort of screwed situation, but then again, so is life. And it is not just military life that is so, civilian life is just the same. People just call it different things but they're describing similar phenomenon. <B>Can generals be court-martialed for terrible strategic decisions that, in effect, leave their soldiers to be slaughtered.</b>
 
These things are a little bit too complicated for me to be capable of explaining in this kind of format. Legend of the Galactic Heroes explains this kind of dynamic much better through dramatic and historical portrayal. I won’t claim to be able to do better or to even equal it.
 
Generals do not get court martialed for such things. They simply are prevented from being promoted. But if you promote an idiot or Hasan, then the consequences are pretty predictable. But once that happens, you cannot take extreme or even effective action against them because if you have rank over them it is called ‘micromanagement’ to interfere and if you don’t have rank, then you are expected to obey the chain of command because when you get promoted that exact chain of command is what you will use to draw forth obedience from your subordinates.

This is a sort of screwed situation, but then again, so is life. And it is not just military life that is so, civilian life is just the same. People just call it different things but they’re describing similar phenomenon.

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