Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • “The Russian Way of War, reflects Slavic patience and endurance. It would not be

    —“The Russian Way of War, reflects Slavic patience and endurance. It would not be possible elsewhere in the world.”— Roman Skaskiw

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-18 09:54:00 UTC

  • “What language do they speak if you light them on fire?” – Curt Doolittle “From

    “What language do they speak if you light them on fire?” – Curt Doolittle

    “From those lips, the torrent of rabid lies turns into sudden rapid truth.” — William L. Benge

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-18 06:17:00 UTC

  • (worth repeating) —“I see myself as rescuing ALL of the Misesian/Hoppeian prog

    (worth repeating)

    —“I see myself as rescuing ALL of the Misesian/Hoppeian program from the fruitcake fringe: by laundering German, Jewish and British enlightenment fallacies – the attempt to universalize local evolutionary strategy – rather than simply adopt scientific epistemology (operationalism) as the only neutral tool for the use of studying group evolutionary strategies.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-18 06:06:00 UTC

  • AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT IS JUDGED AS GENERAL FIRST AND ALL ELSE SECOND. —“lookin

    AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT IS JUDGED AS GENERAL FIRST AND ALL ELSE SECOND.

    —“looking at the timing of [Obama’s] decline, the only intruding event that might have had that impact was the rise of the Islamic State and a sense, even in his own party, that he did not have an effective response to it. Historically, extended wars that the president did not appear to have a strategy for fighting have been devastating to the presidency.”—

    This is true of all other presidencies. All other rulers.

    I predict, using similar logic, that the martial caste, that has been forced from office under american hegemony will be restored world wide as it has been under Putin.

    A king is first a general. After that he is merely the moral voice of his people. After moral voice he is mere bureaucrat. And we all hate bureaucrats.

    re-nationalize liberty.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-18 06:04:00 UTC

  • GEORGE FRIEDMAN (STRATFOR) ON FAILED PRESIDENCY (Note: prior to reading this, ke

    GEORGE FRIEDMAN (STRATFOR) ON FAILED PRESIDENCY

    (Note: prior to reading this, keep in mind that this is an artifact of majority rule, and the necessity of the two party system that must evolve under majority rule.)

    —“[U]nderneath all of the churning, about 40 percent of the electorate is committed to each party. Twenty percent is uncommitted, with half of those being indifferent to the outcome of politics and the other half being genuinely interested and undecided. In most normal conditions, the real battle between the parties — and by presidents — is to hold their own bases and take as much of the center as possible.

    So long as a president is fighting for the center, his ability to govern remains intact. Thus, it is normal for a president to have a popularity rating that is less than 60 percent but more than 40 percent. When a president’s popularity rating falls substantially below 40 percent and remains there for an extended period of time, the dynamics of politics shift. The president is no longer battling for the center but is fighting to hold on to his own supporters — and he is failing to do so.

    When the president’s support has fragmented to the point that he is fighting to recover his base, I considered that a failed presidency — particularly when Congress is in the hands of the opposition. His energy cannot be directed toward new initiatives. It is directed toward recovering his base. And presidents who have fallen into this condition near the end of their presidencies have not been likely to recover and regain the center.

    Historically, when the president’s popularity rating has dipped to about 37 percent, his position has been unrecoverable. This is what happened to George W. Bush in 2006. It happened to Richard Nixon in 1974 when the Watergate crisis resulted in his resignation, and to Lyndon Johnson in 1967 during the Vietnam War. It also happened to Harry Truman in 1951, primarily because of the Korean War, and to Herbert Hoover before World War II because of the Great Depression.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-18 06:01:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2014/11/undermining-private-property.html

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-17 14:09:00 UTC

  • de.aristocratia –“How can one be a free man all his life? “By feeling contempt

    de.aristocratia

    –“How can one be a free man all his life? “By feeling contempt for death.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-17 05:32:00 UTC

  • de.aristocratia —When asked what form of instruction was most in vogue in Spar

    de.aristocratia

    —When asked what form of instruction was most in vogue in Sparta, he said, “Knowledge of how to rule and to be ruled.”—

    Reform the academy with violence, not words: Testimonial Truth. Ethics, Law, Politics, Economics, Engineering and War. One does not rule those who are immoral with their permission – but expressly without it. Otherwise they would not need to be ruled.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-17 05:21:00 UTC

  • de.aristocratia When asked how anyone could possibly rule in safety without the

    de.aristocratia

    When asked how anyone could possibly rule in safety without the protection of a bodyguard, Agasiclese, King of Sparta said, “If one rules his subjects as fathers rule their sons.”

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-17 05:16:00 UTC

  • “What language do they speak if you light them on fire?”

    “What language do they speak if you light them on fire?”

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-16 09:21:00 UTC