A digression on jacket sleeve length: NY style exposes about a half inch to an inch of shirt cuff. Boston style sleeve and cuff are just about even. Under no circumstances should the jacket sleeve be longer than the shirt. Croozie looks like a complete fool in that photo.
That looks like a suit off the rack and there was no time to get a tailor.
My Dad used to manage a Grayson Robinsons and so knew clothing pretty well. He was friends with the tailors in the town where I grew up. He went into the family grocery business when I was about 5.
He always went for New York style. Or when I was growing up Boston style moving towards New York style. Then we only had to buy new shirts. And let out the pants legs.
And of course always cuff links. I had bunches of them.
Frank
MMM asks is Cruz a sincere prude or a hypocrite. He’s neither. He’s like a liberal in believing that the rabble, who include all those intellectually beneath him, are like children who need a strong hand to keep them in line. What would these directionless, ignorant, and potentially unruly and dangerous lesser folk do without the fear of God hanging over them? The liberal intelligentsia are more direct. They put the fear of the state right in peoples faces. Michael Savage summed it very well yesterday by quoting Dostoyevsky from The Brothers Karamazov:
The thing that is clear to our overlords is that I have no secrets in the Internet Age. What is not yet clear to them is that neither do they. Any action on the secrets they hold is a reveal. So their knowledge is of limited value or useless. Counterproductive even.
Of what use is a self destruct button? I’m not a Christian. At all. But the best advice I can give them is, “Go in peace.” If you need to own something try owning yourself. Because that is an infinitely harder job than owning a civilization. And infinitely more worthwhile.
One of the reasons that I adore the Assassin’s Creed franchise comes from the paradox of the title’s creed, “Nothing is true, everything is permitted,” which is quoted several times in the games. A creed is defined as a profession of belief, but the assassin’s creed is a profession of belief in nothing except pure freedom. The games explore the paradox of an anti-creed in their mechanics and narrative design, which would deserve many pages to unfold analytically.
But what I’m especially interested in is a further wrinkle in the paradox: the mystical and magickal background of this statement as derived from its roots in history. The author of “Nothing is true, everything is permitted” was Hassan I Sabbah, an Islamic mystic belonging to the Ismaili sect. Ismaili mysticism is not the same as nihilism: rather, it entails (like many schools of mysticism) the idea that the visible, physical world is unreal in comparison to a higher, divine reality of ideas. Because the physical and social world is not true in comparison to the higher reality of Allah, an Ismaili initiate is freed from all laws. This notion of a liberating transcendent reality that renders null the laws of the world is an antinomian religious notion (from “anti” and “nomos,” against the law) contrary to the nihilism advocated by thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, who saw in Hassan I Sabbah and the assassins a rejection of all transcendent values. Hakim Bey, a pseudonym of scholar and Sufi mystic Peter Lamborn Wilson, is responsible for analyzing and popularizing Hassan I Sabbah’s Islamic mysticism in the book Scandalous: Essays on Islamic Heresy
Hassan I Sabbah was also a Burroughs favorite.
Man Mountain Molehill
As Nietzsche said, if these Christians really believe they go to heaven when they die they should hurry up and go, and stop bothering the rest of us.
captain*arizona
he has helped pay the bills of tranny hookers.
SPQR
Cruz was Solicitor General for Texas and he was defending a Texas law because …
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Is Croozles a sincere prude and censorious busybody or just a lying-ass hypocrite pandering to the ultra religious base? Either way he’s scum.
Posed for a picture wearing a suit jacket with sleeves 4″ too long.
http://images.hngn.com/data/images/full/126514/trump-and-cruz.jpg?w=650
A digression on jacket sleeve length: NY style exposes about a half inch to an inch of shirt cuff. Boston style sleeve and cuff are just about even. Under no circumstances should the jacket sleeve be longer than the shirt. Croozie looks like a complete fool in that photo.
That looks like a suit off the rack and there was no time to get a tailor.
My Dad used to manage a Grayson Robinsons and so knew clothing pretty well. He was friends with the tailors in the town where I grew up. He went into the family grocery business when I was about 5.
He always went for New York style. Or when I was growing up Boston style moving towards New York style. Then we only had to buy new shirts. And let out the pants legs.
And of course always cuff links. I had bunches of them.
MMM asks is Cruz a sincere prude or a hypocrite. He’s neither. He’s like a liberal in believing that the rabble, who include all those intellectually beneath him, are like children who need a strong hand to keep them in line. What would these directionless, ignorant, and potentially unruly and dangerous lesser folk do without the fear of God hanging over them? The liberal intelligentsia are more direct. They put the fear of the state right in peoples faces. Michael Savage summed it very well yesterday by quoting Dostoyevsky from The Brothers Karamazov:
Without God all is permitted
The liberal take is:
Without the State all is permitted
Except for Rand Paul no one seems a bit concerned about this:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-18/saint-or-sinner-government-eyes-are-watching-every-move-you-make
It’s where the left and statist right intersect.
Here’s a Cruz ‘complishment: every time he opens his mouth I like him less.
Frank,
Having had a secret clearance I lost my privacy 50 years ago. It doesn’t bother me. The general population is not so ready for it.
http://classicalvalues.com/2016/04/the-ineptness-of-our-overlords/
The thing that is clear to our overlords is that I have no secrets in the Internet Age. What is not yet clear to them is that neither do they. Any action on the secrets they hold is a reveal. So their knowledge is of limited value or useless. Counterproductive even.
Of what use is a self destruct button? I’m not a Christian. At all. But the best advice I can give them is, “Go in peace.” If you need to own something try owning yourself. Because that is an infinitely harder job than owning a civilization. And infinitely more worthwhile.
On gaming
http://designingquests.com/?p=522
One of the reasons that I adore the Assassin’s Creed franchise comes from the paradox of the title’s creed, “Nothing is true, everything is permitted,” which is quoted several times in the games. A creed is defined as a profession of belief, but the assassin’s creed is a profession of belief in nothing except pure freedom. The games explore the paradox of an anti-creed in their mechanics and narrative design, which would deserve many pages to unfold analytically.
But what I’m especially interested in is a further wrinkle in the paradox: the mystical and magickal background of this statement as derived from its roots in history. The author of “Nothing is true, everything is permitted” was Hassan I Sabbah, an Islamic mystic belonging to the Ismaili sect. Ismaili mysticism is not the same as nihilism: rather, it entails (like many schools of mysticism) the idea that the visible, physical world is unreal in comparison to a higher, divine reality of ideas. Because the physical and social world is not true in comparison to the higher reality of Allah, an Ismaili initiate is freed from all laws. This notion of a liberating transcendent reality that renders null the laws of the world is an antinomian religious notion (from “anti” and “nomos,” against the law) contrary to the nihilism advocated by thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, who saw in Hassan I Sabbah and the assassins a rejection of all transcendent values. Hakim Bey, a pseudonym of scholar and Sufi mystic Peter Lamborn Wilson, is responsible for analyzing and popularizing Hassan I Sabbah’s Islamic mysticism in the book Scandalous: Essays on Islamic Heresy
Hassan I Sabbah was also a Burroughs favorite.
As Nietzsche said, if these Christians really believe they go to heaven when they die they should hurry up and go, and stop bothering the rest of us.
he has helped pay the bills of tranny hookers.
Cruz was Solicitor General for Texas and he was defending a Texas law because …
That was his job.
So go ahead, make fun of him for doing his job.
So go ahead, make fun of him for doing his job.
I did.
BTW you should read Scott Adams on Trump.
I’m not trying to make a logical case here. I’m playing politics. I’m trying to sway emotions.
I grabbed emotions with 6 words. It took you 18 words to counter that. In the PR game – I’m winning.
My point is to show how what is going on is being done. I like Trump for somewhat logical reasons. But the people against him are not very good at PR.
In any case I don’t much care for a guy who would ATTEND a “kill the gays” rally. It strikes me as Hitleresque.
Which is logical AND emotional. Heh.