David Brooks of the NY Times thinks because he saw a few white folks eating food from black vendors and listening to rap music that none of the current criticism against the President is racially motivated. Can you say clueless white guy? Douche, asshat.
"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/opinion/18brooks.html"
18 September, 2009
17 September, 2009
Beyond No
Republicans have gone beyond simply being the party of 'NO'. They have become the party of no facts, no questions, no solutions and absolutely no clue. The protesters in DC this past weekend were an amalgam of I don't know what. No one really seemed to know exactly why they were there.
Plenty of Obama as Hilter posters-I don't even know where that comes from. Nazi analogies are just bizarre; no matter what side uses them. No one is suggesting genocide as a solution to anything, so let's tone down the rhetoric. Lots of anti-socialist screeds too. I wonder how many of them really know what socialism is? According to Webster socialism is (noun):
1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
Last time I checked that was not what was going on. But, if socialism doesn't get your blood boiling maybe Oligarchy will. Again from Webster's:
Oligarchy (noun)
1 : government by the few
2 : a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes; also : a group exercising such control
3 : an organization under oligarchic control
Let's try Fascism (noun)
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
Often the President is depicted as all three at once. Though I'm not quite sure that is possible, but I dwell in the reality based community and inhabitants of right-wingnuttia well, don't. They don't care what words mean, as long as they sound scary. The truth is optional, especially if it gets in the way of their story line.
Let's face it Fox News rails against Mainstream Media as if they are not a part of Main Stream Media. They rail against NBC & MSNBC as if it's a workers collective over at the GE owned conglomerate; MSNBC has three liberal anchors fox has how many psycho rightwingers anchoring shows? It's hardly a level playing field.
I want to be clear I love disagreement; I love to debate a point to death; I don't have a problem with dissent. I do have a problem with dishonesty and that's what this boils down to inherent intellectual dishonesty. President Carter was right when he said on NBC News the other night people are angry. The sad part is people don't really know why they are angry. I take that back, they do know some of the reasons, the budget deficit is huge and banks got bailed out by the government and people continue to lose jobs and we aren't getting any bailout money. I get that all understandable to an extent, I'm pissed about that stuff too. Difference is I know the deficit wasn't created by the President who was sworn into office 9 short months ago; I know the bailout wasn't voted on the current congressional makeup. All this stuff happened before President Obama was President-elect Obama. The wars in Iraq & Afganistan are the reason the budget deficit is larger than it was under Reagan. The financial industry was able to run hog-wild because Reagan, G.H.W Bush, Clinton & G.W. Bush decided regulation was a bad thing and that industry should just police itself. We had already tried that once at the turn of the last century and it didn't work out really well then either. But Americans have no sense of history, we think prior mistakes can't happen again, even when we toss aside the lessons learned from those previous mistakes.
We need to get away from this silly idea that government is bad, and all it wants to do is take your money. Taxes are the price we pay for citizenship. We need roads,
Plenty of Obama as Hilter posters-I don't even know where that comes from. Nazi analogies are just bizarre; no matter what side uses them. No one is suggesting genocide as a solution to anything, so let's tone down the rhetoric. Lots of anti-socialist screeds too. I wonder how many of them really know what socialism is? According to Webster socialism is (noun):
1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
Last time I checked that was not what was going on. But, if socialism doesn't get your blood boiling maybe Oligarchy will. Again from Webster's:
Oligarchy (noun)
1 : government by the few
2 : a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes; also : a group exercising such control
3 : an organization under oligarchic control
Let's try Fascism (noun)
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
Often the President is depicted as all three at once. Though I'm not quite sure that is possible, but I dwell in the reality based community and inhabitants of right-wingnuttia well, don't. They don't care what words mean, as long as they sound scary. The truth is optional, especially if it gets in the way of their story line.
Let's face it Fox News rails against Mainstream Media as if they are not a part of Main Stream Media. They rail against NBC & MSNBC as if it's a workers collective over at the GE owned conglomerate; MSNBC has three liberal anchors fox has how many psycho rightwingers anchoring shows? It's hardly a level playing field.
I want to be clear I love disagreement; I love to debate a point to death; I don't have a problem with dissent. I do have a problem with dishonesty and that's what this boils down to inherent intellectual dishonesty. President Carter was right when he said on NBC News the other night people are angry. The sad part is people don't really know why they are angry. I take that back, they do know some of the reasons, the budget deficit is huge and banks got bailed out by the government and people continue to lose jobs and we aren't getting any bailout money. I get that all understandable to an extent, I'm pissed about that stuff too. Difference is I know the deficit wasn't created by the President who was sworn into office 9 short months ago; I know the bailout wasn't voted on the current congressional makeup. All this stuff happened before President Obama was President-elect Obama. The wars in Iraq & Afganistan are the reason the budget deficit is larger than it was under Reagan. The financial industry was able to run hog-wild because Reagan, G.H.W Bush, Clinton & G.W. Bush decided regulation was a bad thing and that industry should just police itself. We had already tried that once at the turn of the last century and it didn't work out really well then either. But Americans have no sense of history, we think prior mistakes can't happen again, even when we toss aside the lessons learned from those previous mistakes.
We need to get away from this silly idea that government is bad, and all it wants to do is take your money. Taxes are the price we pay for citizenship. We need roads,
06 September, 2009
Wanker of the Day
Mr. I was all for the invasion of Afganistan back in 2001; but now well, maybe it's not a good idea. Tom Friedman
Friedman actually has a point in this piece today, but Bob Herbert & Nick Kristoff have already covered this information and it took an article in the Times earlier this week to make Friedman aware that the situation in Afganistan is untenable. There's that forward thinking for ya. He is such a tool.
Friedman actually has a point in this piece today, but Bob Herbert & Nick Kristoff have already covered this information and it took an article in the Times earlier this week to make Friedman aware that the situation in Afganistan is untenable. There's that forward thinking for ya. He is such a tool.
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