tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post3151795064466565836..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Moon StruckKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-30849642405787604452012-05-25T00:09:08.251-04:002012-05-25T00:09:08.251-04:00I too am a fan of Byron Dorgan. What a wise man. S...I too am a fan of Byron Dorgan. What a wise man. Sadly, we are getting many like him anymore. As @Zee says, lunatic is a pretty good descriptor for many of the politicians in Congress.valerienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-29541789059888811762012-05-24T22:59:38.738-04:002012-05-24T22:59:38.738-04:00@Denis and @Karen--
Byron Dorgan became one of my...@Denis and @Karen--<br /><br />Byron Dorgan became one of my all-time heroes after I listened to him on this interview: <br /><br />http://billmoyers.com/segment/byron-dorgan-on-making-banks-play-by-the-rules/<br /><br />Thanks for the referral, @Valerie!<br /><br />@Denis--<br /><br />A most interesting quotation from Kay Redfield Jamison. <br /><br /><i> "It is, at the end of the day, the individual moments of restlessness, of bleakness, of strong persuasions and maddened enthusiasms, that inform one's life, change the nature and direction of one's work, and give final meaning and color to one's loves and friendships." </i> <br /><br />I will have to give that some further thought.Zeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-20440877305583722662012-05-24T22:04:45.102-04:002012-05-24T22:04:45.102-04:00Thanks Denis. Made the correction -- hope I didn&#...Thanks Denis. Made the correction -- hope I didn't tick off any Nebraskans.Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-5463448869038781782012-05-24T21:32:42.984-04:002012-05-24T21:32:42.984-04:00Senator Kent Conrad represents North Dakota, not N...Senator Kent Conrad represents North Dakota, not Nebraska.<br /><br />North Dakota is rapidly becoming the Saudi Arabia of the United States<br /><br />Former North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan was a damned sight better than Kent Conrad.<br /><br />The 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act:<br /><br />"Today Congress voted to update the rules that have governed financial services since the Great Depression and replace them with a system for the 21st century. This historic legislation will better enable American companies to compete in the new economy." - Treasury Secretary Larry Summers <br /><br />"I think we will look back in 10 years' time and say we should not have done this but we did because we forgot the lessons of the past, and that that which is true in the 1930's is true in 2010." - Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota. <br /><br />Dorgan’s dire warning that the decision to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 would someday wreak havoc on the nation's financial system came to pass.<br /><br />On “moonstruck” people…<br /><br />“I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist. It is, at the end of the day, the individual moments of restlessness, of bleakness, of strong persuasions and maddened enthusiasms, that inform one's life, change the nature and direction of one's work, and give final meaning and color to one's loves and friendships.” - Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness<br /><br />“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” - GoetheDenis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-58359311666870015602012-05-24T09:50:26.084-04:002012-05-24T09:50:26.084-04:00I'm no great fan of "political correctnes...I'm no great fan of "political correctness" but, in this instance, I agree that the use of the word "lunatic" is insulting to people who are, <i> through no fault of their own, </i> "of unsound mind."<br /><br />Still, I find use of the word "lunatic" to be perfectly appropriate when describing virtually all of our current crop of politicians.Zeenoreply@blogger.com