Displaying 2,671 To 2,700 Of 19,504 Comments Not to mention President McCain’s wars in Syria, Egypt and Vietnam (to get revenge). » Posted By AdLib On March 3, 2014 @ 10:48 pm Funk, what do you mean? Putin invaded Ukraine because he hates us for our freedom. He’s an evildoer, maybe even a Satan worshipper. And he would never have invaded Ukraine if Obama wasn’t weak. He would have been extending his vacation in Sochi but when he saw Obama was weak, he said to himself, “Hey, I should invade Ukraine now!” Seems pretty simple to me. » Posted By AdLib On March 3, 2014 @ 10:44 pm Kes, we often are on the same page! It never looks like a mistake when a bigger country takes its first steps into a smaller, less powerful country. It’s sustaining the invasion that always brings about their downfall. Because, simply put, the people in that country always outnumber the amount of troops trying to control them and if they refuse to be dominated, their opposition will be an unending weapon that will erode away at the resources and manpower of the bigger countries military. And if other big players slap sanctions on them, it makes it even worse. It’s not surprising that the biggest wackjobs in the GOP would howl and blame Obama for the invasion. As I mentioned below though, what about all the attacks including 9/11 that happened under “strong” Republican Deciders in the WH? It’s a load of BS and I don’t think most people will be fooled by this continued regurgitation of “Obama’s bad!”. » Posted By AdLib On March 3, 2014 @ 10:41 pm PPO, I don’t know that this required much strategizing by Putin. Yanukovych was ousted on Feb 22nd, the Olympics ended the next day, Feb 23rd. It took time to wrap up the Olympics, amass the military and get the warships to Crimea so his invasion just 6 days later on Mar 1st seems pretty immediate. IMO, there is nothing that would ever have prevented Putin from invading Crimea if his puppet leader was overthrown and a genuine democracy developed. Whether the U.S. was weak or strong, Putin sees Crimea as his and would have done the same whatever the circumstances. I completely agree about not appeasing this tyrant and the comparison to Poland in 1939. Putin has the ambition to rebuild the USSR and he wants to annex all of the breakaway states. If the rest of the world was to stand by an allow it under any justification, it would be just a matter of time until another ex-USSR state was invaded. One aspect some aren’t considering is that the Russian economy, under the rampant corruption and oppression, is failing. Their economic growth for the year is projected at 1%. So, how could Russia stay afloat with painful sanctions and a new war front in Ukraine to fight along with all the other fronts around their borders? I think this could be as much of a disaster for Putin as Iraq was for the US and Bush. Right now Putin feels strong and untouchable but as this winds on, I think it will extract a greater and greater cost on Russia and Putin than he will be able to compensate for. Unfortunately, I think it will be gradual and take time but I do think this will be seen as a massive miscalculation by an ambitious dictator. We’ve seen this repeatedly in history, it seems to be the downfall of these types. » Posted By AdLib On March 3, 2014 @ 10:29 pm Thanks exfan!!! » Posted By AdLib On March 3, 2014 @ 6:52 pm CADawn, I saw that it’s 30% of their gas but that’s still a huge percentage. There are actually some steps that the EU and US could take together and even some the US could independently that could take a real toll on Russia. There are billions of Russian dollars in U.S. banks and in investments in the U.S. The U.S. could freeze those and that would really hurt them and combined with at least some of Europe, those parts that are less dependent on Russian oil especially, could add to that. Also, refusing Russians visas and other diplomatic moves could inflict real problems. Russia could be kicked out of the G-8. All these things will matter to Russia and Putin so I do think that we could put real economic and diplomatic pressure on Russia that will wear on them as time goes by. Maybe we could get the Saudis to help out too, supplying more oil to Europe in the meantime to put pressure on the Russians who are supporting the murderous regime in Syria that they also oppose. We’ll see what develops but there is far too much at stake to be Neville Chamberlains at this point and let Putin become confident about invading ex-USSR countries under the guise of “protecting Russian speaking people”. » Posted By AdLib On March 3, 2014 @ 6:51 pm exfanofariana, how can I not love such an appropriate quote from Descartes?! I don’t know what the stats are now but before 9/11 and the change in the law that you need a passport to travel to Canada and Mexico, only 12% of Americans had passports and only 8% of Americans had ever used them. So how much first hand insight into the world do most Americans really have? Of course the chickenhawks want war but even they don’t seem crazy enough to be suggesting that we mount a ground war against Russia. Right now, they’re just enjoying blaming Obama for being weak and claiming we need to be strong…without a single specific idea on what that BS means…because it is meaningless. And as you so well pointed out, their last “strong” Republican President presided over a long list of foreign attacks on America and Americans. McCain and the Repubs may not care what liars and frauds they are but many Americans do. » Posted By AdLib On March 3, 2014 @ 6:27 pm Just a note about the chickenhawk Repubs and MSM hacks like Chuck Todd and Luke Russert looking down their noses at Obama for claiming in the past that this is not the 1960s and we’re not in a Cold War… …this is not the 1960s and we’re not in a Cold War you douches! We have all kinds of economic ties as do our allies to Russia which was not the case during the Cold War and represent powerful tools to use against them. There is no need to reverse course on troop cuts because we will NEVER fight a ground war against a major nation like Russia due to the nuclear deterrent. Lastly, it doesn’t take a military expert (hell, anyone who’s ever played Risk can tell you), even if Russia didn’t have nukes, we would never fight a war against Russia in Ukraine because it is right on their doorstep where they could quickly supply troops and provisions while the U.S. is thousands of miles away and would be at a ridiculously limited disadvantage when it came to supplies and troops. And with the Russian Navy already encamped and capable of swift increases at Crimea of battleships and subs, it would be suicide for the U.S. to come at them. Again, all of this is only being discussed as a hypothetical in a universe where Russia has no nukes. They do have nukes so we would never fight a war against them in any case. All these Repubs swaggering about how much stronger they are than Obama are just huffing out hot air that smells like manure…because we all know what they’re full of. » Posted By AdLib On March 3, 2014 @ 4:01 pm Nirek, I’m not worried about the chickenhawks because the majority of Americans would explode at them if they voted to take us into war with Russia. We’re war weary as a nation, we want our troops home from Afghanistan, not poured from there into an unwinnable war against Russia in a country bordering their nation. And Obama would never sign off on that anyway. » Posted By AdLib On March 3, 2014 @ 3:47 pm exfanofariana, thanks so much for your props! This is now to always be expected, whenever there is any international incident, it will be Obama’s fault for being too weak not be an omnipotent god to have prevented bad things from ever happening. Is there anything that would ever have prevented Putin from seizing Crimea? Would the offshore wealth of a President Romney have made Putin fearful of taking this action? Of course the mental illness of Republicans when it comes to Obama has nothing to do with reality, it’s all about always trying to score cheap points attacking Obama on everything possible, no matter how it gives aid and comfort to our enemies. I don’t remember Republicans howling about how weak their man-crush Reagan was when the marine barracks in Beirut were attacked and 299 soldiers were killed. Or when GHW Bush was president and Saddam invaded Kuwait. Or when George W. Bush was President and Al Qaeda launched the biggest attack in history on America. Guess when it comes to Republicans, attacks happen because they’re too strong on defense. It’s idiotic to think that any U.s President could have global control over all countries to stop all of them from ever doing something terrible. Remember, before Obama supported military action in Libya, McCain insisted he had to use it but once he went ahead and used it, McCain howled about it. McCain is an unethical opportunist, that’s all. He doesn’t even suggest now that we should send in the military to fight WWIII with Russia but he whines that if only we had bombed Syria, the Russians wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine. It’s logic like that which McCain used to crash 5 planes in WW II without being shot down, the last resulting in his imprisonment and being called “a hero” instead of “careless” and “stupidly flying himself into enemy hands”. And when it comes to idiotic, who else but John McCain and Lindsay Graham would be leading the Republican parade? » Posted By AdLib On March 3, 2014 @ 3:41 pm The Weekend Music Thread-The House We Live In Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) – Marvyn Gaye » Posted By AdLib On March 1, 2014 @ 11:39 am The Blue – David Gilmour » Posted By AdLib On March 1, 2014 @ 11:35 am Let it Rain – Eric Clapton » Posted By AdLib On March 1, 2014 @ 11:32 am Fields of Gold – Sting » Posted By AdLib On March 1, 2014 @ 11:31 am Nature’s Way – Spirit » Posted By AdLib On March 1, 2014 @ 11:29 am The Republican Charm Offensive…Less Charm, More Offensive JJ, it does seem like their act is wearing thin on most people. Just the hard core mindless followers seem to be buying their ugliness. And as time goes by, the Republican Party keeps shrinking. » Posted By AdLib On February 28, 2014 @ 6:03 pm jj – I wish there was a law against public figures intentionally spreading lies but unfortunately not, it’s all covered by the 1st Amendment. There are laws in a couple of states including OH, against malicious lies in political advertising but they’re not well constructed or enforced. I look at the GOP as more like mindless hitmen working for the wealthy and corporations who are the actual mafia. The wealthy put out a “hit” on black voters or the poor and the GOP takes their money and tries to politically assassinate them. Looking at the current Republican politicians though, looks like the ammunition they’re using are dum-dums. » Posted By AdLib On February 28, 2014 @ 3:29 pm I don’t know that I’m underestimating them, I was just joking that to be a committed Repub nowadays seems to be the same as a KKK member. There is no room for diversity in such an authoritarian and extremist party, you’re either with their extremism or you’re against them. And it is both disappointing and a relief that they represent about 25%-30% of the population but their numbers are shrinking each year as they cling desperately to “White Male Power” and only supporting the wealthy. They are unfortunately sustaining an over-representation nationally and in mostly Southern states but demographics will change that before too long and by the time TX turns purple (within 15-20 years?), they will either change to become more moderate or they will become as extinct as the do-do bird. In the meantime, FL is getting closer to becoming a bluish shade of purple and when that gets locked in, it will be nearly impossible for Repubs to win the WH again unless or until they become sane again. » Posted By AdLib On February 25, 2014 @ 6:06 pm KT, the GOP doesn’t have a tent anymore, let alone a big tent. All they have now is just a white hood that only fits on their own heads. » Posted By AdLib On February 25, 2014 @ 2:07 pm Kalima, it does seem like the over-representation of the extremists is all that’s keeping them from sinking into the ashes of history. There is such an unhealthy disconnect between what the majority of Americans support and oppose and what the RW fights for. They are such a de facto minority nationally but thanks to their media outlets and gerrymandering, they have far more power and influence than they should. In many Southern states especially, they are more accepted and there’s not too much we can do about that u til the passage of time changes the balance of demographics there. Sure would be nice though to not have to wait until 2020 to begin to address the gerrymandering that’s propped them up but that seems to be what would make the biggest difference. » Posted By AdLib On February 24, 2014 @ 8:15 pm The GOP’s Supermarket Shopping List Like it Nirek! And don’t forget all the Repubs who are Fruit Loops and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. » Posted By AdLib On February 23, 2014 @ 9:30 am Thanks Funk! That Ron Paultini sounds just like Ron Paul looks! Nice one! That’s a whole other list, Republican mixed drinks. Have to put that one up in the future. Like The Republican Screwdriver, “No orange juice, no vodka, nothing! Screw you takers!”. » Posted By AdLib On February 21, 2014 @ 6:58 pm The American Political System and Accommodating Evil Monicaangela, I agree with you that the core followers of the Repubs are addicted to the racism, hatred and doing and saying anything as a means to an end that is today’s GOP. They have become hooked on the rush they get from Rush…and the other dealers in hate and dishonesty who give them the fix they so desperately need to block out the realities of the current society they unhappily find themselves in. The people I get more upset at are those who have become complacent and just accept that being deceptive and unprincipled is just “the way things are” in politics and an acceptable strategy for the opposition. There should be a stigma and a price to be paid for the liars and fear mongers out there, it’s up to the people to apply it since our media and politics won’t. » Posted By AdLib On March 30, 2014 @ 9:51 pm Kes, thanks so much! It’s hard for fellow Americans to understand how people in the South can so often vote against their best interests, one can’t blame VW from being in the same situation and even viewing the South as having a screw loose. Who would think that workers would vote for lower salaries, no power in the workplace and less safety? Not VW. It does make sense that TN would pay a price for representing such an anti-worker mentality, sorry that it falls on the workers in TN instead of the politicians like Corker but it does reflect how important it is for citizens and workers to take responsibility for educating themselves instead of blindly following or being manipulated by fear that is whipped up by their RW leaders. I agree, Nixon really set all of this in motion and the lesson learned seemed to be, you can do evil but don’t get caught. Haven’t most of the GOP leadership shaped themselves into the same paranoid psychotic Nixon was? Doesn’t he seem like a tame role model now, compared to them? I don’t know if it’s legal to use the words “pragmatism” and “Republican” in the same sentence. Sure, you and I and most other human beings have pragmatic sensibilities but Tea Partiers and Republicans simply want to hurt and damage the things that stand in their way of power and wealth. There is no pragmatism or logic in their minds, they can convince themselves that shutting down our government and refusing to pay our bills won’t hurt our economy because they want to strike out so bad, they’ll believe anything that makes it okay to do so. Is there anything pragmatic about attacking minorities and women when you need to win national elections? Ideologues are by nature, not pragmatic and have a twisted vision of themselves, their actions and what the results of their crusades will be. The GOP may be trying to pull itself back from the brink now but it is a party of ideologues who happily cut off their own noses to spite their faces. Very interesting about Capone, I didn’t know that the business community in Chicago had such a hand in putting him away. I don’t know that we could expect the same from today’s GOP business community because the Kochs and others like them have shown to be such convicted ideologues, they don’t care if they set a neighborhood on fire as long as they burn down voting booths. There does seem to be a gradual realization by some corporations that opposing Climate Change is bad for their bottom line and their greed could be leverage to get more support to combat…or at least prepare more for the effects of Climate Change. And some are tired of losing Presidential elections and what should have been slam dunk wins due to the radicalism of the current GOP. So, some may be seeking a tiny bit of moderation but they remain ideologues when it comes to power and enriching the wealthy and the blind hatred of the Tea Party is still the tail wagging the dog. I don’t know that any real change would or could happen until or unless the gerrymandering favoring Republicans is reversed to a degree (maybe after 2020?) and these Bagger extremists are stripped of the outsized representation they have in Congress. Then, once being extremist means losing seats, I think the GOP’s lust for power wil lead them to change. » Posted By AdLib On February 20, 2014 @ 10:21 am Cheers, Kalima! It is amazing that a society can find social mores more important than allowing evil to flourish. Horrible things may happen to a nation but at least no one will have to be disturbed by honesty. We have that in the US too but in a different form, pundits may attack those who promote evil here but the TV news hacks here will sit right in front of someone spewing evil and portray it as simply the other side of a debate. Here, the appearance of being “fair” is more important than allowing evil to flourish. It’s like watching someone evil pouring poison into a city’s water supply and regarding it as valid opposition to the city’s water policies. People matter, their lives and futures matter, the legacies and futures of societies and countries matter, the truth matters. Being polite or appearing to be fair don’t matter and in the end when a society is corrupted by evil, they are laughable charades. I know how you are Kalima, I can’t imagine you conceding to sit by politely and allow wrongs to go unchallenged right in front of you. The Polite Squad have a lot more gasps and frowns ahead of them! » Posted By AdLib On February 20, 2014 @ 9:49 am Nirek, thanks so much for illustrating so plainly how unions have bettered and even saved the lives of workers. We know that, the wealthy and RWs know that, this isn’t really about whether unions help workers or not, it’s about who has power in the workplace. After this vote, VW is bewildered and upset and now they’ve come out to actually say the opposite of the Corker lie, they now say they won’t be looking in the South for further expansion…because of the deceitfulness and interference of the RWs to manipulate the union election. I said above that there would be no price to pay for Corker lying and corrupting an election…that may be true but now it seems that the state he represents and the workers in it will pay a big price for his lies. » Posted By AdLib On February 20, 2014 @ 9:28 am You Are the Sunshine of My Life – Stevie Wonder » Posted By AdLib On February 15, 2014 @ 12:59 pm Time in a Bottle – Jim Croce » Posted By AdLib On February 15, 2014 @ 12:52 pm (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher – Jackie Wilson » Posted By AdLib On February 15, 2014 @ 12:49 pm Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen » Posted By AdLib On February 15, 2014 @ 12:45 pmComments Posted By AdLib
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