Progressive group, Dems host candidate forums

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written by LaffyGirl , September 12, 2011 - 04:47 pm

Are these the only forums set so far for City-Parish council debates?

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written by Compassionate One , September 12, 2011 - 04:47 pm

Now how did they miss self proclaimed "progressives" such as Joey Durel and Don Bertrand?

Go figure...

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written by RCajunrunner , September 12, 2011 - 05:10 pm

Compassionate One, do you mean "progressive" or just liberal?

Interesting possible debate in the future, Joey Durel vs. Mike Stagg. Who's the bigger advocate of big government policies?

A few weeks ago, Mike Stagg endorsed William Theriot's proposal to phase out government funding of Non-Governmental Organizations. After seeing how taxpayer monies have been managed at LHA and Acadiana Outreach, who can blame him?

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written by Robert J. Wilson , September 12, 2011 - 05:50 pm

Hi, everyone!

For the most up-to-date information on The Acadiana Debates, please visit http://www.facebook.com/AcadianaProgressive.

We're taking questions via Facebook and by call-in, so Like the AP page today! We just might choose your question to pose to a candidate!

Thanks!

Robert J. Wilson
Producer, Acadiana Debates

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written by Gunga Din , September 12, 2011 - 06:49 pm

Progressives? More like a Fabian Society of crack pots.

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written by Compassionate One , September 12, 2011 - 10:15 pm

RC, isn't progressive just another word for liberal?

I agree a Durel and Stagg debate would be interesting!

P.S. Good to put a name and face together, had no idea you were already collecting your social security checks....haha.

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written by resident2 , September 13, 2011 - 05:26 pm

"We're taking questions via Facebook"

Facebook? Really? What are we? 15 years old?

You guys can't put together a real website?

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written by ragin_cajun , September 13, 2011 - 05:32 pm

"Progressives? More like a Fabian Society of crack pots."

Very astute. Exactly where Durel and Bertrand's heads are at. Big government Socialism without the Revolution. I

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written by Gaius Cilnius Maecenas , September 13, 2011 - 06:54 pm

To the Readership:

I want to introduce a series of non-controversial ideas, ancient & post-modern, that embellish the themes expressed here.

We, presently, are living in a complex, uncertain, and open global community of almost seven billion human beings vying for the natural resources of this Planet Earth, we call home.

In ancient Greece, at Delphi, carved in stone on the sacred Temple of Apollo, were presumably three inscriptions: γνῶθι σεαυτόν [gnōthi seautón, "know thyself"]; μηδέν άγαν, [mēdén ágan, "nothing in excess"]; and Ἑγγύα πάρα δ'ἄτη [engýa pára d'atē, "make a votive offering, mischief is near"]! For the ancient Greeks, as for us, these are the foundational roots of wisdom and self-protection by the Gods. Some of us send our young to religious schools to protect them from perceived evil influences by an outer society. Also, self-knowledge and moderation permit us to have a fruitful, happy life.

Also, our rulership (our political leaders) and politics are tearing our Fatherland apart by the well-understood literary tools of rhetorical hate-talk, psychological puffed-up fear, and economic anguish & oppression. We are detroying ourselves from within. Politics should be "ritualized friendship", not partisan animosity and greed. This is nothing new, lamentably, in the historical annals of the Western world and its many traditions.

A Roman aristocrat caught this in his day and age, Gaius Lucilius [ca. 180-102/1 BCE], by his sharp, censorious satirical verses: "Yet nowadays from morning to night, whether it's a holiday or not, the plebs and the senate alike flock to the Forum, and never think of leaving. They are all up to same tricks, engaged in the same business: cheating each other cleverly, battling treacherously, outdoing one another in flattery, posing as respectable citizens, laying traps for each other---all of them acting as though each were the other's mortal enemy!" It appears that the more things change, the more they remain the same.

Now to move into the modern world! Presently, we have lost $12 Trillion Dollars of our national wealth in an eighteen month period (around 2008 CE); Fourteen million of our fellow Americans are unemployed, and six to eight million are under-employed or not looking for work; Twenty-Five Percent of our youth are unemployed; Fifteen Percent (actually 15.1% to be exact) of our people are living below our poverty standard, the highest since 1983; and, finally, One Percent of our Americans control Forty Percent of our national wealth.

To make our social-economic matters worse, this nation has spent and will spend $3.5 Trillion Dollars on two wars that will, indeed, change the world forever. It still too early to know, since it is so problematic, whether this will prove to be a positive change or a negative change in the annals of world history. I sincerely trust that this infusion of our national American Spirit into these foreign countries shall enrich mankind globally---but at what cost? Only Fate and God, be he Yahweh, Jesus or Allah, will determine these matters.

Lastly, I want to recommend a brilliant 15-page paper that captures the moral greatness of our American people and its Fatherland: "A National Strategic Narrative" by Mr. Y [Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2011, www.wilsoncenter.org ]

I will conclude with these sanguine observations: if we pursue with focus and determination these next ten years, as we did these oligarchical inspired wars, making our future the finest in the world, we have the capability of leaving all mankind, essentially, in pre-history! Do not forget, this nation has collected and internalized the greatest amount of knowledge of any society in human history; furthermore, our retiring Baby Boomers---all 64 million of them---have learned skill-sets and knowledge never achieved before in the last 50,000 years of mankind's recorded history! No society has managed to pull off, what we have done! We are Americans! We do things!

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written by Gaius Cilnius Maecenas , September 13, 2011 - 09:40 pm

If I may, I want to correct two errors: For *"in the last 50,000 years of mankind's recorded history" read "in the last 50 centuries of mankind's recorded history." Writing was invented in 3300 BCE; it achieved workable sentence structures in 2200 BCE. We do have archeological data of human settlements for the last 50,000 years. It is generally observed that we lifted our eyes to the Heavens 10,000 years ago, when we worshipped the moon on all fours. I have long thought that it is these observations of the celestial bodies that inpsired Imagination in our upper-ape primate brain---what made us human in the modern sense!

The second error, less pernicious, the second to last sentence in the last paragraph: For *"No society has managed to pull off" read "No Society has managed to pull this off".

When one does high-purpose moral prose, one is not permitted these clumsy blunders. One's critics are ruthless & unforgiving!

If there are other factual errors, I want to be held accountable! I consider it "more than a crime, it is a blunder" to transmit false information to our aristocratic high French culture in our wonderful land of Lafayette, Louisiana! I want to thank the editors for posting my comments here. And, especially, Walter, for bringing these matters to my attention.

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written by Gunga Din , September 14, 2011 - 12:53 pm

ANYTHING written by Gaius Cilnius Maecenas gives verbose a new definition.

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written by Gaius Cilnius Maecenas , September 14, 2011 - 08:35 pm

Gunga Din:

The English-Latin term, verbose, means "word." The English nuance is "wordy." Guilty as charged! The question is, Did my "words" communicate effectively? A book is, by definition, "wordy." I do not think I wrote here a book.

By the way, I much enjoy your sober, lucid, and malevolent observations to us here! Brevity is the Soul of Wit! I much enjoy your comments! But that is I!

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written by Gunga Din , September 15, 2011 - 01:20 pm

To Gaius Cilnius Maecenas

Also, brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Well, at least you admit your guilt. :-) Just a little more water boarding and Walter will too.