Displaying 61 To 90 Of 222 Comments “the rest is subject to opinion- and I won’t go there..” » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 8:44 pm ,, and then on to NOVEMBER when Wisconsin will jettison Paul Ryan.. and the country will relegate the baggers back to their requisite cesspools. » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 7:01 pm ADDENDUM: William Black, former bank regulator and attorney specializing in white-collar crime says it best. “Standard & Poors and their sister organizations were absolutely essential in creating this crisis by giving AAA ratings to stuff that was called in the trade, “toxic waste”… and which the trade organization, The Mortgage Bankers Association’s Anti-Fraud Unit called “Liars Loans”.. an open invitation to the fraudsters. They sad that 90% of these ‘Liars Loans’ were fraudulent. By 2006 in the United States, roughly 1% of these were “Liars Loans”.. and S&P, Fitch, Moody’s all gave “AAA” ratings to every single one of the top installments of those issuances. So if you don’t understand those lies by S&P, you don’t understand the crisis itself. Attorney General Holder has continued Bush Attorney General Caseys policy that you can defraud the United States of America with impunity if you are politically powerful and make large political contributions. It was fraud and it is prosecutable. In the Savings & Loan crisis which was caused for very similar actions, we were able to convict over 1000 elite business people on felony charges and it is a scandal that we haven’t done it here in this instance. How do we fix this? The first thing we need to do is to stop lying. When this crisis hit we didn’t just bail them out, we hid it off the balance sheets. We own, for example, 79.9% of Fannie and Freddie so we don’t have to consolidate their debt into the United States for recognition purposes.. and that is a pure scam. Instead, we changed accounting rules so the banks didn’t have to recognize these losses… which only allowed losses to fester and made them bigger… meaning that you have all of these major zombie institutions like Bank of America going around committing one fraud after another in the foreclosure process. So now, you’ve got pervasive fraud that caused the crisis.. and the government responds to this fraud with it’s own fraud… lying about things as well…. Geithner going around for 3 years now roughly saying “Boy, I solved the entire crisis by using smoke and mirrors”. Well, the markets are telling us you didn’t solve the problem. We need to remember that the original Stimulus Bill had one of rarest of rarities… a good republican idea.. adopted by President Obama. “Revenue Sharing”. Everybody knew that there was a crisis coming and it was critical that the Federal Government to fund it. That was in the Bill. Republicans and BlueDog Democrats insisted on killing it…. and in typical milquetoast tradition, The Obama Administration gave up without a fight. In a single day.” » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 6:32 pm Please see my addendum above. » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 6:32 pm Thanks, Sue… if I had the ability to edit my piece and update it, I would. Alas…. » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 6:31 pm I’m not seeking it… I’m making an observation. » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 5:12 pm We control nothing, my friend… we are the ones who ARE controlled. Weimar Germany was a “democratic republic” as well. » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 4:05 pm See: British Empire » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 3:15 pm It isn’t too big to turn to shit. » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 2:43 pm I can’t tell you how disappointed I am.. more every day as I come to grips that President Obama is behaving as a Milquetoast in handling these situations… his delusions that there are any redeeming qualities at all in those powers that oppose him and that there is some way to appeal to their ‘better nature’ They have publicly stated that their sole mission is to destroy him. What more does he need? What WE need is another FDR…. instead, we seem to have ended up with Millard Filmore. » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 2:39 pm They are still colluding (now more than ever.. albeit in a ‘stealth mode’ that the B-1 would be envious of). … and this is EXACTLY what the neocons / neolibs wanted to happen. The Plutocrats and Oligarchs have been hoarding as much currency as possible without re-injecting any into circulation, deliberately depressing our economy while simultaneously offshoring as many American jobs as possible. The goal? The virtual elimination of the middle class and its replacement with a permanent underclass comprised of indentured servants… mired in debt without a snowballs chance in hell of ever getting out of it… the greatest gap between rich and poor since the Gilded Age. All the while continuing their concerted efforts to bust as many unions (both public and private) as they possibly can. Milton Freidmans wettest of dreams. They’re almost there… but the momentum is now being stymied by their perennial Achilles Heel… overreaching and underestimating the breaking point of a populace that has little left to lose. History has never been subtle as to the results… as many heads-on-pikes could testify to (if they still had tongues). » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 2:31 pm oldpol2.. They are still colluding (now more than ever.. albeit in a ‘stealth mode’ that the B-1 would be envious of). … and this is EXACTLY what the neocons / neolibs wanted to happen. The Plutocrats and Oligarchs have been hoarding as much currency as possible without re-injecting any into circulation, deliberately depressing our economy while simultaneously offshoring as many American jobs as possible. The goal? The virtual elimination of the middle class and its replacement with a permanent underclass comprised of indentured servants… mired in debt without a snowballs chance in hell of ever getting out of it… the greatest gap between rich and poor since the Gilded Age. All the while continuing their concerted efforts to bust as many unions (both public and private) as they possibly can. Milton Freidmans wettest of dreams. They’re almost there… but the momentum is now being stymied by their perennial Achilles Heel… overreaching and underestimating the breaking point of a populace that has little left to lose. History has never been subtle as to the results… as many heads-on-pikes could testify to (if they still had tongues). » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 2:29 pm Also… the data I supplied describing the behavior of the ratings agencies is well established, right to the point that the Italian authorities have literally raided S&P there for more evidence in their investigation of their malfeasance and fraud. “Dodd-Frank” is not opinion, it is fact. » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 2:22 pm Indeed. I should have been clearer in the fact that my “Houston” bit was metaphor in that what was “ruined” was there place as the ‘solar plexus’ of the energy industry. » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 8, 2011 @ 2:19 pm MSNBC Contributor Pat Buchanan’s New Book Includes Chapter Entitled ‘The End of White America’ MSNBC contributor and long-standing bigot Pat Buchanan has a new book coming out called: “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” This upbeat future “best-seller” will hit the shelves in October, but this morning, Politico Playbook provided those waiting with race-baited breath a preview of the wisdom within. Chapter 4, entitled “The End of White America,” lauds: “[The] radicalization of the working and middle class, such as occurred in the Truman-McCarthy era, during the George Wallace campaigns, and in the anti-amnesty firestorm that killed the Bush-Kennedy-McCain push for a path to citizenship for illegal aliens.”. To Buchanan — a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans — these “movements” shared a “populist rage” and a “sense that they are losing their country. And they are right.” George Wallace, of course, was the stauchly pro-segregationist former governor of Alabama and presidental candidate, know for his most famous quote: “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” Other chapters of Buchanan’s book include, “The Death of Christian America,” which explains President Obama’s “campaign to expel Christianity;” and “Demographic Winter,” which links the West’s downfall to the fact that “children are no longer desirable” here. – — – — – — – — – — – Pat Buchanan in His Own Words. On African-Americans: On race relations in the late 1940s and early 1950s: “There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The ‘negroes’ of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.” “Integration of blacks and whites — but even more so, poor and well-to-do — is less likely to result in accommodation than it is in perpetual friction, as the incapable are placed consciously by government side by side with the capable.” “There is a legitimate grievance in my view of white working-class people that every time, on every issue, that the blacks loud-mouth it, we come up with more money…. If we can give 50 Jets to the Jews, and a multi-billion dollar welfare program for the blacks, why not help the Catholics save their collapsing school system.” Buchanan chided the Republican Party for overreacting to Duke and his Nazi “costume”: “Take a hard look at Duke’s portfolio of winning issues and expropriate those not in conflict with GOP principles like reverse discrimination against white folks.” Justifying apartheid in South Africa, he denounced the notion that, “white rule of a black majority is inherently wrong. Where did we get that idea? The Founding Fathers did not believe this.” On Immigrants and People of Color: “There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country.” On affirmative action: “How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?” To the Christian Coalition, Buchanan described multiculturalism as “an across-the-board assault on our Anglo-American heritage.” “If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?” On Jews: “Hitler was an individual of great courage…. his success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.” In many publications that claim Nazi death camps are a Zionist concoction, Buchanan challenged the historical record that thousands of Jews were gassed to death by diesel exhaust at Treblinka: “Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.” “If U.S. Jewry takes the clucking appeasement of the Catholic cardinalate as indicative of our submission, it is mistaken. When Cardinal O’Connor of New York seeks to soothe the always irate Elie Wiesel by reassuring him ‘there are many Catholics who are anti-Semitic’…he speaks for himself. Be not afraid, Your Eminence; just step aside, there are bishops and priests ready to assume the role of defender of the faith.” “Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.” On Gays: “Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say privately is they are fearful of being branded ‘bigots’ by an intolerant liberal orthodoxy that holds, against all evidence and experience, that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle.” “Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.” “Gay rights activists seek to substitute, for laws rooted in Judeo-Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.” “The poor homosexuals — they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).” Buchanan demanded that New York City Ed Koch and New York Gov. Mario Cuomo cancel the Gay Pride Parade or else “be held personally responsible for the spread of the AIDS plague.” “With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide,”. “AIDS is nature’s retribution for violating the laws of nature.” On Women: “Rail as they will about ‘discrimination,’ women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.” “The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.” “If a woman has come to believe that divorce is the answer to every difficult marriage, that career comes before children… no democratic government can impose another set of values upon her.” Yet this UNAPOLOGETIC RACIST, HOMOPHOBE, BIGOT, ANTI-SEMITE, & MISOGYNIST is still a “contributing commentator” for the likes of MSNBC.. giving him not only a semblance of “credence”.. but GRAVITAS ferchrissakes. What the FUCK? » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 7, 2011 @ 4:42 am “Honesty is the best Politics” ~~ Stan Laurel » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 5, 2011 @ 5:30 pm heh!!! » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 5, 2011 @ 5:29 pm Razzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 5, 2011 @ 4:13 pm Start with friendly persuasion… if that doesn’t work, stern education… if that doesn’t work psychotropic pharmaceuticals…. if that doesn’t work.. cattle-prods. » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 5, 2011 @ 4:08 pm Giving away my age, I remember seeing the Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. “Booing” dem BUMS was actually a term of endearment!! » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 5, 2011 @ 2:04 pm Weekend Music Thread – The Sky’s the Limit 5th Dimension.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIxm0Th55Iw Up, Up & Away » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 1, 2011 @ 1:54 am Hear HEAR!!! it is SO nice to see that I’m not alone in my amazement that this 3rd rate ‘standup’ has garnered not only credibility.. but GRAVITAS amongst the progressives. His show is only as good as its GUEST lineup.. the rest is pure prattle. He made a stupid remark and got fired from ABC and is the LUCKIEST man in SHOWBIZ. He is ignorant, arrogant and spews garbage about subjects he knows NOTHING about… and he has the AUDACITY to compare himself to the likes of Lenny Bruce or George Carlin. He’s more in the realm of “Carrot Top”….. and that is on his better days. » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 5, 2011 @ 8:56 am Cher… Are you guys coming tonight? » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 30, 2011 @ 3:08 pm Weekend Music Thread – Take Me Away 😉 » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 24, 2011 @ 6:53 pm THANKS! I’m on Keys. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 24, 2011 @ 5:20 pm GUILTY PLEASURE…
Christopher Cross.. “Sailing”. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 24, 2011 @ 5:03 pm My arrangement of “Sugar, Sugar” (yes.. the “ARCHIES” tune!) http://www.youtube.com/user/FROMTHEMLB?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/lM7wcMkpamk » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 24, 2011 @ 4:38 pm Actually it’s the 30th (not the 31st).. around 5PM (Peters train leaves for San Diego around 8). Still OK? » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 22, 2011 @ 3:21 pm Hey Cher… Just heard from Peter (dutchman) and peacekitten, keepmelearning and myself are meeting him for dinner on the 31st at “Tracks” restaurant (Union Station). Interested? Know of anyone else in L.A.? » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 22, 2011 @ 2:48 pm Weekend Music Thread – Got Change? Jerry Garcia on pedal steel. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 10, 2011 @ 12:37 amComments Posted By BlueStateMan
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