tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post4088287757324295246..comments2024-03-19T02:31:02.140-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Tom Daschle to be "Health Czar"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24820911133776476562008-11-29T17:42:00.000-08:002008-11-29T17:42:00.000-08:00Health JesusHealth JesusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78298381949511718272008-11-29T17:41:00.000-08:002008-11-29T17:41:00.000-08:00Yeah, the first time I heard it was when Bill Benn...Yeah, the first time I heard it was when Bill Bennett was named "Drug Czar." I was outraged at the evident seriousness with which the term was used. First I believed it was a joking term, but nooooo. It was the country that was turning into a joke...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25664764791064631782008-11-29T17:40:00.000-08:002008-11-29T17:40:00.000-08:00When the new administration appoints this or that ...When the new administration appoints this or that czar (health czar, drug czar, ring-around-the-collar czar, whatever), a suit should be brought against them in federal court based on Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution:<BR/><BR/>"No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States:..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53040995730664335432008-11-29T16:12:00.000-08:002008-11-29T16:12:00.000-08:00You will recall that we did not hear of any Czars ...<I>You will recall that we did not hear of any Czars after Reagan took office.</I><BR/><BR/>What are you talking about? The concept pretty much <B>started</B> its current vogue in the Reagan Administration, when a 1982 news story by United Press International which reported that “Senators... voted 62-34 to establish a ‘drug czar’ who would have overall responsibility for U.S. drug policy.” Actually, recent scholarship suggests (unsurprisingly) that our brilliant Vice President-elect originated the term. See the NYT, October 9, 1982, "U.S. plans a new drive on narcotics" Section 1, Page 18: <BR/><I>"But Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Maryland </I>[sic!]<I> Democrat who is a strong advocate of antinarcotics efforts, said today that he thought no program could work without a Cabinet-level "drug czar" in charge to coordinate the work of various agencies."</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35377129509244784032008-11-29T16:08:00.000-08:002008-11-29T16:08:00.000-08:00"Health Messiah" would sound too much like someone..."Health Messiah" would sound too much like someone was actually going to be healed somewhere along the line. "Health Czar" has the right ring, though--a distant king with great powers which he wields in ignorance of local conditions, to little positive effect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40786535550976263192008-11-29T11:46:00.000-08:002008-11-29T11:46:00.000-08:00Kaiser and Czar come from the same root ("Ceasar")...Kaiser and Czar come from the same root ("Ceasar").Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76340547093667634222008-11-28T23:34:00.000-08:002008-11-28T23:34:00.000-08:00Health god (small-g of course)Health god (small-g of course)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83720441341815028212008-11-28T23:06:00.000-08:002008-11-28T23:06:00.000-08:00The word tsar is derived from the Latin title Caes...<I>The word tsar is derived from the Latin title Caesar by way of the Old Slavonic tsesar. The word is cognate with German Kaiser, Gothic Kaisar and its Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian cognates. </I>--anonymous<BR/><BR/>Yes, and if the press is caught using, without our express permission, the Cæsar family name, image, trademark, or any derivative thereof, in any language, dialect, pidgin, argot, or jargon, or in any <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_game" REL="nofollow">language-game</A> derivative therethereof, in any alphabet, syllabary, pictograph, glyph, rebus, sign language or other manual or corporal gesture, or semaphore, Morse, binary or other code, they will be hearing forthwith from our attorneys.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24988058711288969282008-11-28T17:45:00.000-08:002008-11-28T17:45:00.000-08:00How about Big Nurse?The whole ----- Czar thing was...How about Big Nurse?<BR/><BR/>The whole ----- Czar thing was a media fad of the 1970s, when it was fashionable to pretend that the US and the USSR were basically alike or were converging, so we should resign ourselves to adopting Russian titles. You will recall that we did not hear of any Czars after Reagan took office.<BR/><BR/>The media is now in its New Deal nostalgia phase. Because GDP dropped about 0.1% in the third quarter, we have just endured a camp Depression, so we need to enact a camp New Deal. <BR/><BR/>It is always 1932 in the donkey's brain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56555026299805143872008-11-28T16:13:00.000-08:002008-11-28T16:13:00.000-08:00I think they are going to use Fuhrer for President...I think they are going to use Fuhrer for President Obama and Commissar for all the rest..... LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36117711389912604632008-11-27T22:11:00.000-08:002008-11-27T22:11:00.000-08:00"Health Kaiser" might have trademark problems."Health Kaiser" might have trademark problems.Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389602137217799305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39621811379338790092008-11-27T22:00:00.000-08:002008-11-27T22:00:00.000-08:00"Patroon" is not well-known outside of upstate New..."Patroon" is not well-known outside of upstate New York, where the patroons ruled. This may be why the appleknockers rejected their own patroon in the 1930s and 1940s. (And 1920s as well, no doubt.) They knew what it meant.<BR/><BR/>Most of the rest of the country's voters got it confused with "poltroon", apparently applied to themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89222791248320627802008-11-27T20:49:00.000-08:002008-11-27T20:49:00.000-08:00Lord High Executioner is not in your list.Lord High Executioner is not in your list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46680619296228185372008-11-27T18:44:00.000-08:002008-11-27T18:44:00.000-08:00Caudillo would not be inappropriate,nor Conducato...<A HREF="http://www.huelvayork.com/wp-con%20%20,tent/uploads/2006/12/fransisco_franco_y_adolf_hitler.jpg" REL="nofollow">Caudillo</A> would not be inappropriate,nor <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/5343/trial.jpg" REL="nofollow">Conducator</A> ,either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11687266279435000942008-11-27T16:59:00.000-08:002008-11-27T16:59:00.000-08:00The health daddyThe health daddyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36725267471176417622008-11-27T16:39:00.000-08:002008-11-27T16:39:00.000-08:00A bit of history:Julius Caesar's last name gradual...A bit of history:<BR/><BR/>Julius Caesar's last name gradually became a title in Rome. Caesar adopted his ultimate successor Augustus, giving him the Caesar name. Augustus adopted his successor Tiberius, passing on the Caesar name to him. Tiberius was succeeded by a son of his own adoptive son, kicking down the Caesar name to a yet another unrelated individual. And so on. All those adoptions were necessary because the old Roman aristocracy was dying of atheism and childlessness at that time. So many unrelated-to-each-other emperors in a row used Caesar as one of their names, that it for all intents and purposes became a title. <BR/><BR/>Long after the empire disappeared, its prestige lingered. The title of Caesar was used by many rulers who had nothing to do with the original Empire and who spoke many different languages. Even Ottoman Sultans called themselves Caesars of Rome (Qaisar e Rum). Kaiser, the German version, is closest to the way Julius Caesar himself would have pronounced it. The Russian czar and the English caesar are based on centuries-old mispronunciations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85433856239316207052008-11-27T14:44:00.000-08:002008-11-27T14:44:00.000-08:00Health LebowskiHealth DudeHealth Dude LebowskiHealth Lebowski<BR/><BR/>Health Dude<BR/><BR/>Health Dude LebowskiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13919858030744870042008-11-27T14:28:00.000-08:002008-11-27T14:28:00.000-08:00"I think Czar is the Polish spelling, which got in..."I think Czar is the Polish spelling, which got into English somehow."<BR/><BR/>No, Polish cz = English ch as in char. Tsar/czar in Polish is 'car' (c = ts as in cats for most Eastern European languages)<BR/><BR/>It's more likely to be an old Hungarian spelling where cz = English ts in cats. In modern Hungarian this is only found in some proper names. Modern Hungarian tsar/czar is cár.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure how an old ugro-finnic spelling ended up in English to represent a Slavic word....michael farrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232229721381140090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12824832717337051882008-11-27T12:05:00.000-08:002008-11-27T12:05:00.000-08:00Czar is of course derived from Caesar. In Ivan the...Czar is of course derived from Caesar. In Ivan the Terrible's coronation address he calls Moscow the third Rome. The first two being Rome itself and then Constantinople. He states that there will not be a fourth. This speach is alluded to in the recent Val Kilner Movie "The Saint".<BR/><BR/>Caesar's name is also preserved in the name of the Spanish city of Zaragoza (Caesar Augustus). The Sargasso Sea also derives from that. <BR/><BR/>So when you hear the title of Czar maybe you should think of a giant stagnant pool of floating becalmed garbage.albertosaurushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209465319904999278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42346306711307915132008-11-27T10:38:00.000-08:002008-11-27T10:38:00.000-08:00We definately need to go back to calling the Dept....We definately need to go back to calling the Dept. of Defence to the Dept. of War. Same thing for health and human services.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89461431212278793032008-11-27T09:04:00.000-08:002008-11-27T09:04:00.000-08:00Why didn't the Czars work out so well in Russia? U...Why didn't the Czars work out so well in Russia? Under the Czars Muscovy threw off the Tatar yoke, conquered all of Siberia, Central Asia, the Baltics, Ukraine, Finland, and Crimea. Battered the Ottoman and Swedish Empires into submission and dismembered Poland. Not a bad record.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90210541763512156142008-11-27T08:04:00.000-08:002008-11-27T08:04:00.000-08:00Health Werowance. (Thanks to Rex Stout)I think Cza...Health Werowance. (Thanks to Rex Stout)<BR/><BR/>I think Czar is the Polish spelling, which got into English somehow.Baloohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08245765878554696634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77961855498953225102008-11-27T07:11:00.000-08:002008-11-27T07:11:00.000-08:00Health "Caesar" the root of Czar and Kaiser.Health "Caesar" the root of Czar and Kaiser.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12789153657442637138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55016272617151529162008-11-27T06:43:00.000-08:002008-11-27T06:43:00.000-08:00As a fan of the S.M. Stirling "Domination" series,...As a fan of the S.M. Stirling "Domination" series, may I suggest Health Archon?<BR/><BR/>-Vanilla ThunderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39266834497559935412008-11-27T04:20:00.000-08:002008-11-27T04:20:00.000-08:00Health Panjandrum?Health Panjandrum?Aaron Haspelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00527492171280066397noreply@blogger.com