Displaying 61 To 90 Of 9,743 Comments Periodic Table of Dangerous Elements: Final 2012 Edition 😆 yeah that is kind of a weird optical illusion that plays tricks on your eyes. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2012 @ 3:43 pm Thanks Patsy I’m glad you liked it. Sorry one of the limits of using a periodic table format is that the font is pretty small. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2012 @ 3:35 pm Cheers CL. For comedic purposes the GOP and other right wingers are the gifts that keep on giving. But unfortunately the jokes on all of us when they win elections or influence people through the media. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2012 @ 3:32 pm The new edits are 47%ium (Romney name change), ModMitton (new Romney), Antimuslim (Peter King), Witchhuntium (Issa), Batshitcrazon (Bachmann name change), Homophomic (Steve King), GOPslutium (Limbaugh name change), Polutur (A Koch brother name change), KillNHSide (Cameroon Kalima should like this addition), Hesbackium (Putin because of his reelection), Buyelectium (Sheldon Adleson), Deadbeatide (Joe Walsh), Teabagen (Cantor new name), Bombiranide (Bibi new name), Godsplanon (Mourdoch) and Legitrapium (Akin). » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2012 @ 3:29 pm Failed History of Conservatism in America Yes Eisenhower definitely owned the anti-war and anti-militarization mantle of his time. The Dems at that time were the nation builders and anti-domino demacons up until Carter. That’s why I never look at one party always being liberal or always being conservative at least in the history of both parties. I’ll never forget the Dixicrats existed as part of the Dem coalition and Teddy Roosevelt really started the progressive movement. Not to mention Lincoln instituted the most liberal civil rights change in our nation’s history. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 3, 2012 @ 10:32 pm Most of us are from the US but one founder lives in Japan but is originally from Europe. We have members from all over the world. In fact Kalima does a great daily wrap up of international news on her Morning Blog piece and Khirad does a great less frequent periodic piece on the Middle East. You can click on the images on the right to see them. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2012 @ 4:54 pm Thanks so much and welcome to the Planet! Many of us here gave up on HP as well. Actually all the founders ‘met’ on HP. You should like the Periodic Table of Dangerous Elements. Arianna is one of the elements. 😉 » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2012 @ 3:40 pm Cheers high praise indeed. Welcome to the Planet. I know exactly how you feel. We all try our best here as plain folks who are tired of just reading articles from cynical pundits and are interested in progress. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2012 @ 11:09 am Cheers very good points Nirek. I mean could you imagine a fully privatized FEMA. It could result in only two outcomes. First people would be victimized by the natural disaster and then they could be victimized by getting a bill for any disaster relief they received by government. Second and most probably the GOP would privatize FEMA and spend 10X as much on independent contractors where all the tax payers would have to spend more. Again it would be just another redistribution of wealth to cronies of the GOP administration. Enough business is contracted out by FEMA now. Remember some of the ridiculous deals Bush made during Katrina with house trailers that were not used before they became unlivable because they were left unused so long? It cost taxpayers millions and millions. We would have even more FEMA Haliburtons where we pay more for much less. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 31, 2012 @ 5:53 pm Thanks K. Cameron is the perfect example of a conservative failure. I should have added that conservative austerity in a deflationary period has lengthened the great recession in Europe. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 31, 2012 @ 5:31 pm KT very good points and I understand what you are saying. However when you leave the party paradigm behind politics is all about moving forward, moving backwards or staying the same (which I think amounts to moving backwards). In rare circumstances like the environment do you want to go backward and that’s not entirely true either because you want innovation to go forward that will help the environment. Absolutely the modern conservatives are the worst of the worst because they pick the wrong choices at every level including everything you mentioned. They are reactionaries who are just conserved about power and keeping the status quo which is a fixed system where only they and their cronies benefit. The saddest part is they are hypocrites and do not represent good conservative values like offering serious policies that reduce the budget because they refuse to raise revenue and cut defense enough. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 31, 2012 @ 5:06 pm I’ve know allot of conservatives that are good people that do incredibly good things on an individual basis. My cardiologist is a perfect example. He’s a staunch conservative but is the most generous doctor I ever had. But he’s totally against the ACA. It’s more about blind ideology for allot of conservatives I’ve known. I also don’t think conservatives are only in one party. In fact the Republicans use to be the progressive party way back and we have conservadems and had Dixiecrats who fought some of the same things I listed. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 30, 2012 @ 10:39 pm It’s Not Nice to Fool (With) Mother Nature 😆 so true. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 30, 2012 @ 8:14 pm Yeah but, but, but Obama may have only gotten a bronze star instead of a gold star for staying asleep during nap time in kindergarten. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 30, 2012 @ 7:06 pm The worst part is how that money is wasted. The most ignorant part of the 1st debate in my opinion was when Romney kept harping on Obama investing $90 billion in new energy technology like it was a bad thing. I mean it was less than spent in one year during wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The investment also needed to be so high because Bush and previous presidents had no real future energy policy save for Carter. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 30, 2012 @ 6:36 pm This graph temperatures obtained from Greenland ice cores measuring O18 isotopes which is related to surface temperatures shows all you need to know. The most recent epoch is on the left side of the graph. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 30, 2012 @ 6:27 pm You are so right AdLib Gaia is absolutely pissed at it’s greatest creation and possibly biggest mistake. Unfortunately she doesn’t discriminate so her weather affects red and blue states and all of humanity alike. Brilliantly stated. This isn’t the end of the world, Earth has gone through many eras of freezing over and becoming overheated, uninhabitable for millions of years. Earth will continue with or without a safe and secure human society. It’s up to us as to how we will impact this planet and impact our lives and future. The only reason homo sapiens could have evolved in the first place was because we had an uncommonly moderate climate for eons now. If you look over the whole history of weather on the planet calm periods like we are in now are the exception not the norm. So what does human kind do but fuck that all up with burning fossil fuels and exploding our population (= cutting down the natural vegetation that could mitigate higher levels of CO2 at the same time. Of course for us to survive progressive thinking has to overtake reactionary thinking (even in Europe we’ve seen a trend toward reactionaries) which is an even bigger threat than climate change. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 30, 2012 @ 12:52 pm Weekend Music Thread – Calling Out Around the World Great theme Adlib. A global and other obvious theme for this track. Rush – A Passage To Bangkok
» Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 27, 2012 @ 11:06 am If Romney Wins: A Look at the Impact Murph this is a related article worth reading as well. 10 Awful Things a President Mitt Romney Would Likely Do » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 28, 2012 @ 8:41 am I’m flattered. You can always use what I write on the Planet. If it’s used on another blog you don’t even need to reference my moniker since they probably won’t know me there anyway. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 27, 2012 @ 8:36 pm You are spot on per usual CL. I think Murph maybe giving the best case example but it will be a much gloomier future. The only positive thing I could say is don’t underestimate people’s reactions to the right wing agenda. What the right wing may want they will not get in many cases. Sure they vote for the Ryan budget but when it counts are they willing to displease that many voters? I don’t know. My case against Romney is more based on character than anything else. We will absolutely have the worst character as president I’ve seen in my lifetime and that’s saying allot. He’s a pathological liar and I don’t care what you call him in psychological terms but he has minimal human empathy. That is self evident from his Bain years alone. You can’t trust a word that comes out of his mouth so he’ll be a complete disaster as a head of state where your only currency is your word. Like Bush I think he’ll have to deal with foreign policy much more than he thinks and he’ll make all the wrong decisions because he has the wrong people advising him. If I didn’t leave the country under Bush I’ll never leave but under Romney every day I’ll hate living under such an absurdly unqualified person to be president and will never accept Romney. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 27, 2012 @ 10:48 am Apathy is the biggest threat to democracy indeed and the GOP plays that game so well. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 27, 2012 @ 10:34 am I’m so glad you did this excellent piece Murph. The economy will get better under Obama or Romney but the recovery will only be sustainable under Obama. Sure companies may invest more but the question is where? Under Romney and the GOP they’ll just invest more in China and the like or just churn it on unproductive Wall Street. His austerity measures will halt any recovery like it did in Europe and he won’t get the spending increases he wants in the military anyway. I don’t think he will pay for his tax cuts but if he does he’ll take another $2,000 out of the middle class who spend it and give it to millionaires and billionaires. Ending Obamacare will be another net negative on the economy because while their profits will go down expenditure by people who are uninsured now will go up sharply because they will finally go for the treatment they need. It’s also a myth that regulations slow economic growth because the opposite is correct since businesses need to hire more people for compliance. This puts a small dent in profits but it’s worth the offset in new hires. Last but not least is Romney will create some kind of bubble. Maybe in oil and gas production that will explode while cutting investments in future energy sources which would be sustainable. Roe v. Wade will be overturned some way some how Whether it’s an act of congress or a liberal judge retiring on the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade will be overturned and no longer law of the land. It will cause a schism in the union as devastating as slavery because some states will have legal abortions and some in some states they will deem women who get abortions criminals and doctors who provide them murderers. It’s similar to the way DOMA affects same sex marriage now but even more people will be affected negatively. Most importantly you have to realize what a country governed by a lying sociopath would look like. Since Romney has no true core beliefs he will be driven like a remote control car by the right AND corporate America. Every decision will be slanted right and/or totally cynical. Ironically I don’t think he’ll end Obamacare fully because he knows that it will help his reelection but he will take away good parts of Obamacare like the subsidies, cost ratios and free birth control. Add that no world leader will negotiate with a head of state they cannot trust and Romney is the poster child of that kind of pol. The only leader Romney will work with is Bibi and he will lead Romney by the nose to another unfunded and more importantly disastrous war. BTW I have no problem with means testing for Social Security. It just makes sense not to give millionaires like McCain the same SS as someone who needs it. Of course it all depends on the level of means testing but I would be fine with it if it was staked very high. Though I would prefer increasing the income ceiling on payroll taxes but when you think about it they are both sides of the same coin because it means the rich don’t get back what they put in. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 27, 2012 @ 10:30 am LIVE CHAT TONIGHT! – 6:00 PM PST – The Final Obama-Romney Debate BITO the real challenge here is for the American electorate. If Romney is elected America is beyond lost. Bush scared people enough in 2004 to win but even that campaign tactic was sort of ‘rational’ given the events of the time. But if Romney wins this election with the most cynical strategy ever that even makes Nixon look like an honest pol the right wing has won by dumbing down America and depending on white America being a xenophobic tribe that does not care about character. We just have never ever seen a person with this low level of character be this close to the White House. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 23, 2012 @ 9:13 pm I’m with you K about watching Romney and all his lies, especially live during the debates he makes me physically ill. It’s just so upsetting to me that such a huge liar is so close to the presidency. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 22, 2012 @ 5:57 pm Hey folks. I’m gonna record the debate and watch after the game. When I slept through most of the debate last time it seemed to work for Obama so I’ll try deferring watching the debate until later again. Much better for the ole ticker too. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 22, 2012 @ 5:52 pm UPDATED: Business Owners: Vote Romney or Else! This goes along with my theory that business which is run by mostly conservatives have done what they could to collude with GOPTEA obstructionism all along by keeping hiring at a minimum. They have become so hateful of the president that they are no overtly saying what their real intentions are. This election is going to be close enough and I already here people using the most idiotic logic ever to vote for Romney but face it much of it has to do with people thinking Romney just looks the part of being president better than Obama. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 19, 2012 @ 11:27 am LIVE CHAT TONIGHT! – 6:00 PM PST – The Second Obama-Romney Debate I’ll be in and out during the debate tonight. Right now I desperately need a nap. Thanks to the Obama administration for forcing delinquent states like Georgia to finally hear SSDI claims I have Medicare now so I’m making up for five plus years without proper healthcare. So far I’ve gotten a real primary, an endocrinologist, an ophthalmologist, a chiropractor and a pain specialist to see besides my regular cardiologist visit the end of this week. I’ve also had four different blood work panels, a stress test and an ecocardiagram I’ve been putting off for a couple years now. Anyone who tells you coverage does not equal care is just full of shite. Don’t believe the hype that more and more doctors don’t take Medicare either the only instance a doctor would not see me with Medicare was a pain specialist who isn’t taking new Medicare patients until next year. Fortunately my wife finally was able to get insurance too and she is finally getting all the care she needs as well. The worst rationed healthcare in this country is self-rationing when you don’t have insurance and providers refuse to see you unless you are rich and can pay cash up front. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 16, 2012 @ 4:39 pm Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Romney’s Debate Bounce Welcome great to see new folks. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 10, 2012 @ 8:38 pm As far as strategy goes Obama has to do what Bush did in his second debate in 2004. He’s got to make the point to America that someone who changes positions all the time and has no core cannot do that in the oval office when you literally face hundreds of tough decisions. You can’t be pro choice one minute and anti-abortion the next when the final decision is made whether to sign a piece of legislation or not. You can’t waiver on touch foreign policy choices waiting for a poll to tell you what to do. You can’t tout only the popular parts of policy like the $5 trillion tax cuts and then hope the unpopular parts are done by congress. Obama has to make the point that’s not leadership. If anything that’s the vulnerability Romney set himself up for the most to be attacked. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 10, 2012 @ 4:48 pmComments Posted By KQµårk 死神
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