Displaying 751 To 780 Of 3,538 Comments 1.)Well now I’m conflicted. If Wall Street hates this debt deal then I’m beginning to think it must have been a pretty good deal after all. Fuck you Wall Street. I live to see the day you are burnt to the ground. 2.)S&P is the enemy yet ignorant people will pat them on the fucking back because they said some things about the Tea Party. People will still listen to them cause they push those political buttons, like with the Bush tax cuts. They’re backstabbing, traitorous slime but everyone on TV seems to be focused on who the fuck to blame for this. As usual. Here’s a hint. There’s an ampersand in their name. 3.)Hooray!!! I’m in the dummy belt! We don’t get to vote because people disagree with us! That’s totally American! Seriously though, if I ever hear someone actually say I;m from the Dummy Belt I will end your fucking life. You think WE’RE the problem?! You know what? I wish we would stay out of it. Just take away the mid-west and most of the South. Then you can see what the real problem is. Arrogance. Entitlement. You think you’re better than me? 4.)Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. » Posted By ADONAI On August 9, 2011 @ 1:45 pm Apparently it’s a combination of Old World money and real estate. Seems their ancestors owned chunks of New York including most of Midtown Manhattan and the site for the Empire State Building. » Posted By ADONAI On August 10, 2011 @ 8:40 pm Indeed BSM. It can be a humbling experience but also give people a new strength and determination they may not have known they had. And it is a strength that comes from within, you are correct. From life experiences. The ups and the downs. » Posted By ADONAI On August 10, 2011 @ 8:27 pm Yeah but Roosevelt was just a different cat. He didn’t give a shit. At all. And he was one of the last Presidents without term limits. Dude was in office for 12 years. He was from a wealthy family and I think he just felt bad for people who were being cheated out of just a fraction of what he enjoyed. Made him angry. A lot of people steal from the rich but what kind of asshole steals from the poor? I think that drove much of his economic policy. If America was going to be great they had to start at the bottom and work up. A New Deal for America. » Posted By ADONAI On August 10, 2011 @ 7:37 pm Amen Al. Amen! » Posted By ADONAI On August 8, 2011 @ 7:03 pm bito, The only people questioning our solvency is us. Don’t see anyone turning our money down. We still have a top tier credit rating. China just doesn’t have the debt and deficit issues we do. Yet. They will though. And if China collapsed, the world would move on. If America collapsed, the world stops spinning. Too big to fail. » Posted By ADONAI On August 8, 2011 @ 6:34 pm I don’t think just taking away the tax incentives will send them running either. i kinda think it’s meaningless in the long term. I want to break them. And if they leave, they leave. time to put the dogs back on the leash. And, honestly,I have to agree with you about nationalization. I know I blew right past several steps before even getting anywhere near that. And the idea you’re talking about sounds like a good one. And most definitely more stick. GOOD LORD more stick! One that would make Teddy R. say “Damn! That’s a big stick!” » Posted By ADONAI On August 8, 2011 @ 6:28 pm Indeed agrippa. I think the new government realizes this too but I don’t think they have the time to get the consensus they need to really address it. I don’t wan tot see another country suffer an economic crash but it will seriously hamper their ability to “overtake us economically” as many think they will. Which I still don’t get. Not only are we worth more than China, we’re worth more than them and every other country combined. China has solvency problems coming down the road. Today and for decades to come we are the very best bet for creditors and investors. From a purely credit standpoint, defaulting would not have killed us. many.MANY people would have suffered but we would have gotten back on course. Creditors would come back because we are still the best bet plus we would then be free of debt. China’s debt will eat them up. Especially when their sizable elderly population retires. But that’s just one of many opinions I’ve read on the future of all this. it seems to make the most sense though. » Posted By ADONAI On August 8, 2011 @ 4:04 pm 1.)Great article AL. The two graphs you threw in from Think Progress are worth a thousand words on their own. 2.)Maybe we should wake up from the American dream. Not everyone is gonna own a house with a white picket fence and a new car every 5 years. That America only ever existed on film. I’m not saying lower your expectations so much as adopt realistic ones. If you have a job you like, a place to stay, and money to live on, what more do you need? Who cares if you rent? Most Americans do. You wanna counteract a crooked, volatile housing market? Don’t even get involved. You can find a town house just as nice and you won’t owe your entire life to a bank. Just my opinion though. 3.)People. The people need to be ready to fight. We have laws and regulations on the books that could fix a lot of our problems, but there’s no force behind them. They either don’t go far enough or are weakly enforced. Your Congressman/woman isn’t gonna care until you care. Many of them, the good ones, desperately want you to care. 4.)Trade deals. I see these have already been touched on. They have to be rewritten. There is no free trade here, and definitely no fair trade. The deals should be weighted to favor the American worker. Not a faceless multinational company. 5.)Nationalize the manufacturing industry. Buy all the factories and machines and give them to the public. Americans WILL put Americans back to work. We own the products, we own the machines making them. People will work again, our economy will get back the giant chunk we cut away from it, and we get ALL the profits. 6.)China. China’s currency manipulation(which I admittedly know very little about) is what brings American companies to them. Not only is labor cheap but profits are larger and production cheaper as well. But that will change soon. I say we ignore China for now. They will fuck themselves up in due time. Remember the Great Depression? Well, good luck with that China. 7.)Taking away corporate tax incentives will only make them more inclined to seek labor elsewhere. Corporations are legally bound to make profits. Maybe they should change that for starters. But that won’t really matter if we assume control of the manufacturing base. My goal is to either have corporations conform or leave the country. We’ll sign some deals with them but it will ALL be on our terms. But since the ideas people are proposing here will require a momentous period we haven’t seen in this country in decades, I figure we’ll just talk about taxes for awhile and pretend that’s solving the problem. » Posted By ADONAI On August 8, 2011 @ 2:30 pm If that’s your view, then why do you care so much? And I didn’t put democratic republic in quotation marks. Cause we actually are one. Not an imitation. You seek to take power from the hands of the people. I fight to give them more. » Posted By ADONAI On August 8, 2011 @ 5:08 pm We’re not an empire. Or a Caliphate. We’re a democratic republic. We control our future. Not the whims of a mad tyrant. » Posted By ADONAI On August 8, 2011 @ 3:22 pm It is too big to stay there for very long. » Posted By ADONAI On August 8, 2011 @ 2:45 pm Still not worried. America is too big to fail. » Posted By ADONAI On August 8, 2011 @ 2:38 pm Presidential Primary Challenges Miss the Point First, welcome to the Planet. I’m totally with you on this one. Primary challenges aren’t a bad thing but challenging your own Party’s Presidential candidate has rarely been a good thing. And what has he done to deserve a vote of no confidence? Who would protesting Democrats run against him? We all know Republicans have no one that can beat Obama. Do Democrats? I don’t think they do. If they want to challenge Obama, go ahead. it’s part of the process. But it will do nothing but hurt you in 2012. You’re trying to win Congress and you expect people to award you the House while you openly challenge your own Presidential candidate? Obama will win, you will lose the House, and be left with nothing but your misplaced anger and the same dysfunctional government. I begrudge no one for standing on principle and exercising their democratic rights, just think it through. That’s all I ask. » Posted By ADONAI On August 11, 2011 @ 1:19 pm Weekend Music Thread – Summertime Well, we started calling them bounty hunters a while back but, yep. 🙂 » Posted By ADONAI On August 6, 2011 @ 7:55 pm Sublime – Summertime
» Posted By ADONAI On August 6, 2011 @ 7:31 pm HOORAY!!!!! » Posted By ADONAI On August 6, 2011 @ 5:06 pm Summertime Mix: Deftones – My Own Summer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOzs1FehYOA&ob=av3e Type O Negative – Summer Breeze http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knT660jfFoY Jimi Hendrix – Long, Hot Summer Night(great tune!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9aX56j9oZg One Day As A Lion – Ocean View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LX_VEaD2Xg PanterA – Sandblasted Skin (Reprise) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTlUjOUwUMg Enjoy. » Posted By ADONAI On August 6, 2011 @ 1:22 pm That feeling will pass with the years my friend. » Posted By ADONAI On August 7, 2011 @ 4:58 pm Indeed KT. Pushing your body to the limits and depriving it of essentials was all a part of the Native American “vision quest” as well. And I prefer acid myself. Don’t do it anymore but if yo want a clean, RELATIVELY safe trip, I say acid is the way to go. That or peyote. » Posted By ADONAI On August 7, 2011 @ 4:57 pm I love sleep. The peace. The quiet. Makes me envy the dead. It’s the only break we get from life and I won’t let that go for anything. I had a similar conversation with wts not too long back about sleep. Most of the sleep you get is for your mind. Your body normally only needs a few hours rest. Your mind needs to release the buildup of the day int he form of dreams. It’s been documented that a prolonged lack of proper rest can cause hallucinations. Dreaming while you’re awake. Your subconscious mind can no longer bear the load so it releases it while you’re still awake. Which is pretty much what hallucinogenic drugs do. Open your subconscious mind while you’re awake. But you can train your body to only accept fewer hours of rest. Too much sleep is a bad thing too. If you find that it takes you hours after waking to really adjust to the day, you may be getting too much sleep as opposed to not enough. Best to consult a physician on that. If they have drugs that can provide what the brain needs from sleep then I really could see people staying up for days on end. The body would still have to rest though but you could cut your sleep time down dramatically. Good stuff. “I didn’t sleep for ten days. Because that would be too long.” » Posted By ADONAI On August 7, 2011 @ 4:41 pm I agree. The First Amendment trumps everything. It doesn’t exist to protect us from things we don’t like, it exists to protect things we don’t like from us. » Posted By ADONAI On August 8, 2011 @ 3:12 pm Amen tex » Posted By ADONAI On August 6, 2011 @ 9:42 pm You just never stop rubbing it in do you? » Posted By ADONAI On August 6, 2011 @ 9:31 pm HA! » Posted By ADONAI On August 6, 2011 @ 9:23 pm I think so too Em. Give him time and he’ll put out a consistently good show. he has the fire for it. » Posted By ADONAI On August 6, 2011 @ 9:22 pm This is about the time I say, RAAAAAAWWWWWWWRRRRRRRR ME HATE OBAMA!!!!! RAAAWWWWRRRR!!!! ME HATE HIM WHEN HE DO THINGS!!! RAAAAAWWWWWRRRRRR!!!!!! ME HATE HIM WHEN HE NOT DO THINGS!!!!! IT VERY VICIOUS CYCLE. RAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRR!!!!!!! ME HATE OBAMA!!!!!!! » Posted By ADONAI On August 6, 2011 @ 9:20 pm Indeed. You go to school to learn. And you learn by asking questions. » Posted By ADONAI On August 6, 2011 @ 9:18 pm Well lemme qualify my remarks by saying I don’ think Lawrence is an “Obama basher” either. Just a fake TV newsman. » Posted By ADONAI On August 6, 2011 @ 9:06 pm When I found out that Al Sharpton might be getting his own show to replace Cenk I decided to che3ck him out. He’s entertaining, has a perspective I find refreshing, and at least once an episode he says something that makes me laugh my ass off(in a good way) or asks a question I really want someone to ask. So I am surprised and I think he would do well on his own show. Now, to the point of the post. Lawrence O’ Donnell is a sentient android constructed in the basement lab of Dr. Zaius and The Incredible Hulk. He’s designed to give milquetoast answers to serious political questions and deliver obvious speeches as though they were revolutionary ideas. He is currently operating at 100% efficiency. » Posted By ADONAI On August 6, 2011 @ 7:28 pmComments Posted By ADONAI
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