Displaying 2,221 To 2,250 Of 19,504 Comments Russia’s Shooting Down of Malaysia Flight 17 – The New Lusitania? Beatlex, I bought eggs at the store and when I got home I found that one was cracked…damn you Obama! » Posted By AdLib On July 23, 2014 @ 4:40 pm Beatlex, I’m not encouraged but Kalima posted a link below from Vox that makes EU action a good possibility. Sure hope so! » Posted By AdLib On July 23, 2014 @ 4:35 pm Hey Kalima, thanks for the links! Putin has painted himself in a corner, he must keep annexing land or he will look like a failure to the Russian people. But as he keeps trying, the world keeps turning against him and can further hurt his economy…which will turn the people against him. This is a very dangerous time. I sure do hope a strong EU response is coming, the US is doing much on its own but it’s not enough without the EU. » Posted By AdLib On July 23, 2014 @ 4:34 pm ExFan, If Europe makes the same mistake it made in the 1930s, by cowering from making the sacrifices necessary to stop a growing invading power, they can suffer the terrible consequences once again. The time to stop tyrants is early on, when they begin invading countries and shooting passenger planes down. I’m really angry at these short-sighted leaders. » Posted By AdLib On July 23, 2014 @ 4:16 pm Nirek, most airlines have been avoiding that area but it was established that flying as high as they were was outside of the conflict zone. Still, why take a chance like that? Just to save some fuel and money? I mentioned below, there won’t be a WWIII, using our military or weapons won’t accomplish anything, this war has to be a World Economic War and that is one Russia can’t defend itself against. Putin can be brought to his knees by an economic assault and not one drop of blood need be spilled. » Posted By AdLib On July 22, 2014 @ 3:04 pm KT – No, I don’t think Putin would use nukes because as crazy as he is, he knows that it would be suicide and the end of his reign over Russia when the nukes came back his way. My guess right now is that it was the act of Russian extremists who have been empowered by Putin, whether intending to shoot down a passenger plane or not, Putin is personally responsible for these murders. Military action is not going to help this situation but economic action will. The EU countries that are muting their outrage and holding back on tough sanctions are doing so because of their economies, that is Putin’s weak point as well. If the Russian economy crashes, they will turn on him. Tough sanctions now! » Posted By AdLib On July 22, 2014 @ 2:52 pm Thanks NoMan! That’s the case, Putin is another in a line of brutal, tyrannical Russian dictators and if the world pulls a Neville Chamberlain on this outrage, the world will only suffer more in the future. » Posted By AdLib On July 22, 2014 @ 2:42 pm Allymax, unfortunately, it’s too easy to understand the muted outrage from European countries, it’s all about the natural gas that they want to keep getting from Russia. What they don’t understand is that Russia can less afford to cut them off than they think. The Russia economy is continuing to sink and cutting off their own revenue would only push their economy off a cliff. In any case, they should stand for some kind of morals and principles even if it doesn’t help their economy. Human life should matter more than cheap gas. » Posted By AdLib On July 22, 2014 @ 2:30 pm Let’s Put the Blame Where it Belongs Nirek, if we’re blaming the Tea Party for sabotaging our democracy, as we should, we must blame even more the Koch Brothers and their cronies who contrived and funded this organization for hatred of government that’s led by a black man. Without the Kochs and their Freedom Works arm, there would. Ever have been a Tea Party, just the same independent racist nut jobs howling against minorities and the rights of anyone who doesn’t share their race, religion and gender. Sue’s article began with a thumbnail of the book, Christian Nation, which portrayed a RW coup of America. In reality, the Kochs and other plutocrats have used the Tea Party to accomplish their coup of Congress. Take the wealthy out of the position of supporting the Tea Party and it falls apart. This is a traitorous scheme hatched by them to control our government and it has worked. That’s an issue that Dems need to take on, the corruption of our democracy (by ALEC and Repub Govs and legislatures as well). It is in existential issue for our democracy. » Posted By AdLib On July 16, 2014 @ 2:44 pm Cable News Channels Declare, “Sorry, There’s Not Really Any News Today!” My pleasure as always, Kalima! O’Reilly looks to be in his natural environment, howling like a five year old as he’s pushed by someone who’s immature. Hope someone shows him this graphic! » Posted By AdLib On July 16, 2014 @ 2:05 pm ppo, you are missing out on a rather heavy bill though. Wait, that’s like a good thing, is ‘t it? » Posted By AdLib On July 16, 2014 @ 1:58 pm VB, that’s a great compliment indeed! Cheers! » Posted By AdLib On July 16, 2014 @ 1:56 pm Thanks monicaangela, that makes my day! » Posted By AdLib On July 16, 2014 @ 1:55 pm Thanks pal! Things have gone to such extremes in the media, it’s hard to out-absurd them! » Posted By AdLib On July 16, 2014 @ 1:54 pm Thanks KT! The graphic is from the movie, Bad Grandpa. Talk about typecasting! » Posted By AdLib On July 16, 2014 @ 1:51 pm Murph, indeed, what passes for journalism today is a modern kind of yellow journalism from the Hearst days mixed with the cynical greed of the modern corporate era. There are no standards anymore, when Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller gladly published Cuban government propaganda and paid no price for it, no one was fired. And of course, no need to explain what Fox News does. A democracy requires being informed about the truth. We can see how trivial democracy actually is to the RW. » Posted By AdLib On July 16, 2014 @ 1:50 pm Thanks Murph! It is a problem when your business is informing the public about what’s going on and either nothing audience-grabbing or agenda-affirming happened that day. What do you do to rouse your audience and sell more advertising? Make it up or exaggerate. Figure out how to press buttons on your viewership to whip them up and watch more. Like health care, journalism is something that should not be a for-profit business, that makes it instantly corrupt. » Posted By AdLib On July 14, 2014 @ 3:28 pm Always my pleasure, GreenChica…even more of a pleasure after hearing you enjoyed it! » Posted By AdLib On July 14, 2014 @ 3:23 pm kevinbr38, are they calling that segment, “Bash the King”? That’s enough to put anyone off their dinner! » Posted By AdLib On July 14, 2014 @ 3:21 pm Cheers slm! Very glad you enjoyed it! » Posted By AdLib On July 14, 2014 @ 3:20 pm Nirek, that’s true, they lie and embellish whether there is or isn’t news. What gets me is that too many in their audiences are clueless to how they are being pandered to and manipulated just to profit the corporations that own the news channels. » Posted By AdLib On July 14, 2014 @ 3:19 pm Hey KT, thanks so much for the kind words! As you say, we’ve seen many non-news days but they always find a way to regurgitate news from previous days on those days. » Posted By AdLib On July 14, 2014 @ 3:17 pm Sue, very embarrassing I spelled that wrong (now corrected) but thanks for the props in spite of the spelling! Same here, Andrea Mitchell is the kind of journalistic saboteur that has brought the profession down so low. She is a creep, married to a creep, masquerading as a journalist to promote the creep philosophy she and her husband share. After the economic crash, she should have been canned…makes you wonder about who’s keeping her on at MSNBC and why, despite her lack of professionalism and ratings (“We now cut away from coverage about an asteroid about to hit Earth to Justin Bieber who has just been charged with publicly impersonating a douche.”) » Posted By AdLib On July 14, 2014 @ 3:14 pm Hey kevinbr38, from reading the link you left (you can edit your comment to add the graphic to it as Kalima describes below), I think this was who you were wanting to pose a picture of? [img]http://www.seattlegayscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/DameEdnasPuss-1024×818.jpg[/img] » Posted By AdLib On July 13, 2014 @ 4:33 pm Join Our Live Chat Tonight on the Week’s Events! Vox Populi at 7:00pm PDT!! Hello, Vox is on! See you there! » Posted By AdLib On July 18, 2014 @ 7:03 pm Coalition Of Church And State: Destroyed From Within. Sue, another strong addition to your series and very important in the simple instructions it gives…when extremists warn you of what they’re capable of, believe them! That is a chief difference between religious fanatics and well adjusted people, they lack the regulators in their brains that would keep a normal person from acting on severely hostile ideas. Very interested in Christian Nation, I like alternate reality stories, really gives the opportunity to extrapolate out what could happen. It is fiction of course and I would argue that In such a scenario, there would be many Americans of conscience who would never back down and would build a national protest movement that would eventually prevail. Still, the scenario of the insanity and oppression that a RW religious extremist could unleash on this nation if she/he had the power of the Presidency is alarming. They do seek that power, the SCOTUS Five are doing all they can to pave the way for them. Their focus on winning local elections has been successful and the support of billionaires like the Koch Bros. give them the public megaphone they need. They are a real threat and I’m reminded of one of my favorite lines from The Cotton Club, “If you don’t know you’re in a war, you’ve already lost.” » Posted By AdLib On July 16, 2014 @ 2:32 pm Another Money Making Conspiracy Con by a Right Wing Huckster Murph, loved your quote of this being a “patriotic Sharknado”! That really says it all! A self-parodying, ridiculous, exaggerated and outside of reality badly made film! That photo of D’Souza as Lincoln is hilarious and so revealing about his need to feel important. To watch a film made by a convicted fraud and believe it is more a reflection of the dishonesty of its fans than of D’Souza. He may be in denial about what a liar and fraud he is but any reasonable person who knows that he’s a proven and criminal fraud would not look to him as a voice of honesty. I saw him on Bill Maher trying to advance this BS about, “Capitalism was ending slavery and then the North attacked the South anyway to damage them!” Sounds like ramblings he must have thought up during his campaign fraud activities, anyone buying that gets a free bottle of snake oil that will cure lumbago…just a small handling fee to get your free bottle. And the rudimentary and racist propaganda he concocts from interviewing Native Americans and trying to portray them as anti-American (when they are the original Americans and D’Souza is the true racist and hater for demonizing them because of their race) is pathetic. Wow, those Native Americans are evil for being upset at the invaders from Europe launching a genocide against their ancestors and stealing their land, what bad sports! So, a criminal and a racist who thinks black people being slaves is normal, Native Americans are assholes for holding a grudge against those who wiped out their ancestors and stole their land and thinking he looks like an American icon dressed up in a fake beard and stovepipe hat, is a hero to RW Republicans. Who would’ve thunk that? » Posted By AdLib On July 10, 2014 @ 11:46 am Could Hillary Clinton Become the Next Republican President? cyndibru, there is a very interesting phenomenon about some people when it comes to race. They may be genuinely kind people who would never intentionally be insulting to those of other races, religions, etc. However, they have been raised and/or surround themselves in an environment where everyone around them shares the same taken-for-granted “facts” about “others” that are actually bigotry but seem to such a community, just to be the way things are. Such people can express prejudiced views openly but be oblivious to the fact that they are prejudiced. Their meter doesn’t begin at zero like others who aren’t prejudiced, it begins higher up the scale so from their perspective, when they’re really registering well up the prejudice scale with most other people, they see themselves at zero. It’s oblivious prejudice. You can try to explain to such people that what they’re saying is prejudiced but in their minds, it’s absurd that anyone could accuse them of that, just for saying what “everyone knows”, such as black people are so shallow that they will vote for candidates solely because they are black (ask Herman Cain how many black people voted for him). I wouldn’t expect such people to “get it”. They use all kinds of different codes for essentially saying that white people are smart because they vote on the issues but minorities are so simple minded, they only vote based on the race of the candidate. Some people expressing such views are incredulous and offended that their views haven’t been seen as matter-of-factly as their fellow oblivious colleagues would have viewed them. It is a very familiar approach to make sweeping generalizations about those one disagrees with, often employing race, gender, religion, etc. then claim that one just “knows” they’re right with absolute certainty how people with very different mindsets think (never providing any documentation or links from credible sources to support their claims of course)…even though they don’t associate with such people in their personal lives. Then when their prejudiced proclamations are batted back at them, being oblivious, they claim they’re being attacked and victimized unfairly. So, first one portrays others in an offensive way (obliviously or not) then that same person claims they’re being attacked when their attacks aren’t left to stand unchallenged. From what you’ve written, it would seem appropriate to assume that you would not describe yourself as a Progressive (I believe you’ve described yourself as a Libertarian?). I would think that you could well describe the thought process of Libertarians but what seems clear is that you really don’t understand how Progressives think and make choices. You are absolutely entitled to express your views of Progressives just as those who you generalize about in a negative way have every right to refute your flawed assertions. My question to you is, are you interested in truth and if so, why wouldn’t you ask those who see things differently than you do, why they do, instead of adopting prejudiced assumptions that appear to be constructed solely to be self-affirming? » Posted By AdLib On July 11, 2014 @ 6:55 pm KT, I know what you mean but just speaking technically, the top 1% of income earners in this nation begins at around $340,000. The Clintons pull down tens of millions so they are probably towards the top of the top 1%. I have heard of some things the Clinton Foundation has done that are very good but I don’t know the full scope of their operations, once I do, I can be a bit more affirmative about how I view it. There is no dispute though that the Clintons rely on the wealthiest and most powerful people to contribute to their foundation and that is who they spend the most time with. So I can’t say at this point that the Clintons are down to Earth people as they were before Bill’s Presidency, they live in a new, very elite neighborhood now and they don’t come into contact with “real people” very often. Remember when Obama was coming down on Wall Street over inequality and Bill Clinton warned him to lay off Wall Street and the wealthy? That’s not someone who remembers where he came from when he chooses protecting the 1% over the 99%. They’ve cultivated that image for themselves but in politics, images should rarely be believed. » Posted By AdLib On July 10, 2014 @ 10:58 am NoMan, Hillary and Bill are self-admitted corporatists and they are elitists. Isn’t that the job description of Republicans? They have been core members of the DLC which is basically, Democrats for Corporations and Wealth. So even if they don’t refer to themselves as Republicans, they share many of the same values. » Posted By AdLib On July 10, 2014 @ 10:41 amComments Posted By AdLib
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