<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post113072919898452378..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113102962908361333</id><published>2005-11-03T09:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-03T09:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I can&#39;t see how Bush&#39;s promotion of democracy in I...</title><summary type='text'>I can&#39;t see how Bush&#39;s promotion of democracy in Iraq or his insistence that women make up a quarter of their legislature, is in any way pro-Nazi.  The weapons were there because we had given them to him when we were backing him against Iran.  Where they went is anybody&#39;s guess.  Since our spy network in that area of the world is pretty perfunctory we can&#39;t seem to find anything -- not Bin Laden,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113102962908361333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113102962908361333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html?showComment=1131029580000#c113102962908361333' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113072919898452378' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113072919898452378' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 03, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113099000625383305</id><published>2005-11-02T22:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-02T22:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>O&#39;Reilly thinks &quot;the dots&quot; are &quot;big enough to slap...</title><summary type='text'>O&#39;Reilly thinks &quot;the dots&quot; are &quot;big enough to slap you in the face.&quot; Is he hallucinating, or a bad poet? Unfortunately, neither.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What if the comparison of this administration to the beginnings of the Nazi regime is more appropriate than usual? It&#39;s a worn-out accusation, sure, but to point out the similarities may not be mere rhetoric. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There were clearly some lies about 9/11, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113099000625383305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113099000625383305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html?showComment=1130989980000#c113099000625383305' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113072919898452378' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113072919898452378' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 02, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113090979102410226</id><published>2005-11-02T00:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-02T00:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Personally, my morale has never been higher. I put...</title><summary type='text'>Personally, my morale has never been higher. I put on my flight suit and salute it, and Bill O&#39;Reilly better fucking salute it too. Whoever he happens to be. No relation to The O&#39;Reilly of GPO fame, I suppose? Imagine Edward R. Murrow covering that. I picture John Cazales as Yeats: the forelock toss, the voices in the head, the whole &quot;Who will go with Coppola now?&quot; you-were-there kind of thing. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113090979102410226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113090979102410226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html?showComment=1130909760000#c113090979102410226' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113072919898452378' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113072919898452378' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 02, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113089990997335624</id><published>2005-11-01T21:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-01T21:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hitler had only one ball.Goebbels had two but they...</title><summary type='text'>Hitler had only one ball.&lt;BR/&gt;Goebbels had two but they were very small.&lt;BR/&gt;Himmler&#39;s were very similar.&lt;BR/&gt;But Goering had no balls at all.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113089990997335624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113089990997335624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html?showComment=1130899860000#c113089990997335624' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113072919898452378' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113072919898452378' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113088906236049464</id><published>2005-11-01T18:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-01T18:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A lot of the left has characterized President Bush...</title><summary type='text'>A lot of the left has characterized President Bush as a Nazi.  Even some of my own friends have done this.  It&#39;s not hard to separate fact from fiction on that matter as I don&#39;t think Bush even knows how to goosestep, probably hasn&#39;t read Mein Kampf, nor defecates on his wife&#39;s face.  I doubt if even once he has given the Nazi salute in all earnestness, and probably when he is watching WWII </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113088906236049464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113088906236049464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html?showComment=1130889060000#c113088906236049464' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113072919898452378' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113072919898452378' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113086752342680494</id><published>2005-11-01T12:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-01T12:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Halvard,I guess I read that second conflict differ...</title><summary type='text'>Halvard,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I guess I read that second conflict differently, since those forces never seemed in doubt. Capital always wins when it&#39;s played out within the framework of a single corporation. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113086752342680494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113086752342680494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html?showComment=1130867520000#c113086752342680494' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113072919898452378' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113072919898452378' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113086593559376224</id><published>2005-11-01T12:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-01T12:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, this is a wonderful movie – but.  And you hav...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, this is a wonderful movie – but.  And you have given it a damn fine review.  But just as it was impossible to really foreground the love affair at the center of Dog Day Afternoon it seems that it is still impossible for Americans to come to terms with the role the American Icon Rin Tin Tin played in the fall of McCarthy.  Yes, Eisenhower did his little bit but it was Rinty who finally pushed</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113086593559376224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113086593559376224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html?showComment=1130865900000#c113086593559376224' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113072919898452378' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113072919898452378' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113086133937704587</id><published>2005-11-01T11:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-01T11:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>To This DayLiterally dancing, the real heartplayed...</title><summary type='text'>To This Day&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Literally dancing, the real heart&lt;BR/&gt;played out on the big screen&lt;BR/&gt;at gunpoint.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The sidewalk chanting&lt;BR/&gt;to curious thousands&lt;BR/&gt;just three or four years later.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A fact-based drama,&lt;BR/&gt;complete with sidekicks&lt;BR/&gt;and back story.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bad teeth, bad&lt;BR/&gt;skin, bad everything.&lt;BR/&gt;Death house interviews.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bungled bank heist.&lt;BR/&gt;At gunpoint.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113086133937704587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113086133937704587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html?showComment=1130861280000#c113086133937704587' title=''/><author><name>Halvard Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01464580122014170701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113072919898452378' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113072919898452378' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1589256002"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113085834100063157</id><published>2005-11-01T10:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-01T10:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Excellent insights. I can&#39;t wait to see &quot;Good Nigh...</title><summary type='text'>Excellent insights. I can&#39;t wait to see &quot;Good Night, and Good Luck.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113085834100063157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113085834100063157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html?showComment=1130858340000#c113085834100063157' title=''/><author><name>Michael Parker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01280355936107965244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113072919898452378' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113072919898452378' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2002640408"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113085770519270116</id><published>2005-11-01T10:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-01T10:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My wife and I saw *Good Night, and Good Luck&quot; just...</title><summary type='text'>My wife and I saw *Good Night, and Good Luck&quot; just the other day and found the conflict between Murrow and Paley much more gripping than the one between Murrow and McCarthy. That conflict, which Murrow&lt;BR/&gt;and CBS News lost, was of enormous consequence.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113085770519270116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113072919898452378/comments/default/113085770519270116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html?showComment=1130857680000#c113085770519270116' title=''/><author><name>Halvard Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01464580122014170701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/edward-r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113072919898452378' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113072919898452378' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1589256002"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 01, 2005"/></entry></feed>