tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post3378316647933213652..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: The Grumpi Interviews, November 8, 2014Don Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-57469970464152890702014-11-09T22:12:19.650-05:002014-11-09T22:12:19.650-05:00And on Tues, our thoughts and prayers should be wi...And on Tues, our thoughts and prayers should be with our veterans.<br />------<br />Amen.<br />I also extend a prayer of thanks that none of my relatives are active military under Presidente Pen and Phone. Amazingly, Veterans' Day here in Connecticut is being treated as a genuine holy day, not merely the makings of a three day weekend. I can't explain why the parade was last week, but schadenfreude enjoyed at the sight of the Governor and Associated Pols walking in the cold.<br /> <br />I wish politics hadn't become what it is. Can't help but think it wasn't supposed to be this way. Once government embarks on endless revolution it's impossible to ignore. Even if nothing can be done about it. C.S. Lewis with some tea does sound nice, also pleasant would be a bit of P.G. Wodehouse.<br />-----<br />The Abolition of Man is a 1943 book by C. S. Lewis. It is subtitled "Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools," and uses that as a starting point for a defense of objective value and natural law, and a warning of the consequences of doing away with or "debunking" those things. <br />------<br />I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.peter brushnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-27233406999306459202014-11-09T14:51:41.408-05:002014-11-09T14:51:41.408-05:00Hasn't everything now been said about the gube...Hasn't everything now been said about the gubernatorial election? I'm starting to think about the holidays. And on Tues, our thoughts and prayers should be with our veterans.<br /><br />U.S.Senate: Be careful what you wish for. GOP has many more senators up for re-election next yr than Dems. 2016 around the corner.<br /><br />C.S.Lewis also said "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me". Have a cup of tea and settle down with a nice long book. It's time for a little rest and refreshment.Pat Longonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-37341395818821948402014-11-08T21:15:31.362-05:002014-11-08T21:15:31.362-05:00his vision had in it an ethical and spiritual elem...his vision had in it an ethical and spiritual element<br />------<br />For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God by the wise disposition of his divine providence so to order and dispose of things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and upon the River of Connectecotte and the lands thereunto adjoining; and well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God...<br />----------<br />The People of Connecticut acknowledging with gratitude, the good providence of God, in having permitted them to enjoy a free government; do, in order more effectually to define, secure, and perpetuate the liberties, rights and privileges which they have derived from their ancestors...<br />-----------<br />YOU HAVE THE "SAME" BENEFITS AND PENSION I HAVE????? Can you retire at age 50 with 85 percent of your salary and full medical benefits for you and your spouse???? YOUR EITHER A BIG FAT LIAR OR YOUR WORKING WITH ME AND SHOULD COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS "AND" KEEP YOUR UNGRATEFUL MOUTH SHUT!!!I HAVE A FEELING YOUR A BIG FAT LIAR WITH A "CRAPPY" OCCUPATION!!peter brushnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-50152618504059468542014-11-08T12:57:47.748-05:002014-11-08T12:57:47.748-05:00In pushing for mandatory paid sick leave and a hig...In pushing for mandatory paid sick leave and a higher minimum wage, he displayed empathy for the struggles of the working poor.<br />His challenges moving forward include keeping state finances balanced without turning to more tax increases. Gov. Malloy must make sure the legislature adheres to commitments it has made to address the state's underfunded pension system. In addition, he must work with the private sector to make Connecticut a more business friendly state. It rates poorly in that regard.<br />--------<br />From the Takes One to Know One Department: in its explanation of its endorsement of Attorney Malloy New London's "Day" says that Foleys proposals were incoherent. I suggest that the editorial board's incoherence is matched by the incoherence of the electorate's Malloyalist contingent. They want government to do, or force society to do, something, anything(!), about an unending series of social ills and deficiencies. They give credit to pols for pushing people around in the direction of social justice. No program is too expensive. No hack-pol imposed regulation or mandate is too expensive. The private sector, the profit-seekers, money-grubbers are in it only for themselves, while pols and bureaucrats, not to mention editorial boards, academics, attorneys and social workers are in it for the common good. Therefor, since the expansion of governmental programs, the ever more intricate and burdensome regulatory apparatus, the ever higher taxes the welfare state requires, have nothing to do with unfunded liabilities or a poor business climate, it makes perfect sense to ask that Governor Malloy The Sequel and his Party of Government & Progress do something (but what?) about balancing the budget, etc. <br /><br />It used to be that I didn't hold these people responsible for their blindness. Now I do. They say all pols lie, or, in this case, say that they understand that Malloy is rightfully held in very low regard, but we should vote for him anyway. More, even though all pols lie, we should give them more power and be grateful for their good works.<br /><br />Foley ran a poor campaign. The "Day" says he should have done better with Democrats. But, how do you do better with intellectually dishonest, not to say bigoted, people? If a man as dishonest as the "Day" acknowledges Malloy to be were running a private corporation to which he owed a fiduciary duty he'd quickly have been out on his ear courtesy of both shareholders and board. I'm sorry, but Malloyalists in giving us four more years good and hard displayed disrespect for their fellow citizens and our covenant with one another that in former times was called unpatriotic.<br />----<br />http://www.theday.com/op-editorials/20141106/ugly-win-aside-malloy-faces-opportunitypeter brushnoreply@blogger.com