Displaying 271 To 300 Of 339 Comments True enough. » Posted By audadvnc On April 18, 2011 @ 9:51 am According to a Washington Post article, one item that may have caused Fox to give GB the boot was Beck’s expose of the roots of the Federal Reserve. It seems GB may have tripped over a live wire there… that’s what happens when you inadvertently speak the truth on the MSM. » Posted By audadvnc On April 18, 2011 @ 9:12 am Doing and saying nothing is one thing, abandoning your sanity after throwing your bushel of psychic tomatoes at the brick wall – after voting every election, attending 39 years of antiwar protests (1st one in 1972), and calling out the tyrants at every available turn – is another. How much is enough – or is it never enough? » Posted By audadvnc On April 18, 2011 @ 8:33 am It worked so well for Mussolini… But what is the difference between “complete authoritarian rule” and “totalitarianism”? And would Supreme Leader and First Comrade Boehner be able to distinguish the distinction, or even care? » Posted By audadvnc On April 18, 2011 @ 7:05 am Rein in the CIA and the MIC? That sounds like a nice idea, but you’re about 60 years too late to do anything about it now. That die was cast long ago, before most of us were born, all we can do now is sit tight and try to avoid being in the neighborhood of the inevitable karmic payback when it comes sailing out of the sky onto Washington DC, someday soon… » Posted By audadvnc On April 18, 2011 @ 6:58 am One nice point at the end – there is a US Navy guided missile cruiser named the “Waddell”, after the captain of the CSN warship; it’s perhaps the only case of a US naval vessel named for an enemy combatant. Remember the Elvis movie, “Love Me Tender”? He plays Clint, whose brother (and CSA soldier) Vance pulled a train robbery on the US Army after the Confederacy’s surrender – but before word had reached the locals. It raised some interesting moral questions; should Vance give back the money, as he was acting as a CSA soldier at the time? Should the US hang him, as the robbery occurred after surrender? » Posted By audadvnc On April 18, 2011 @ 6:47 am Interesting blurb from the insane wingnut fringe. But I bet there’s some deeper chess playing going on here. As one of the comments noted, Beck/Palin/Bachmann and their fan base are being fed lines that are sooooo fruity and out of this world that they make the Newt/Rove/Boehner set look downright reasonable (which is part of the Big Plan for 2012). Fox may be spinning off the Tea Party, but I doubt that their funding will instantly dry up, as they are useful idiots. » Posted By audadvnc On April 18, 2011 @ 6:37 am From the Guardian article: “Tasini complained that ‘Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington’s plantation…’ ” That’s foolish and insulting to everybody. Real slaves have no choice where they work, and they certainly don’t volunteer for it. Huffington bloggers may have been fools for believing their interests coincided with the Empress’, but they could have blogged somewhere else, like this site. They were trading their words for fame and high click traffic, rather than dollars – which they all knew ahead of time. Sounds like they want to have the cake and eat it too. » Posted By audadvnc On April 13, 2011 @ 7:41 am You must have seen a different set of TYT shows than I did. Cenk & gang didn’t tell me to stay home, he said to vote for true progressive candidates like Russ Feingold and Alan Grayson, rather than Blue Dogs and sock puppets for Wall Street (which appears to be the PPOV position). And partly as a result of TYT, Minnesota voted in a Democratic governor to replace that worthless hack Pawlenty, instead of some used car salesman who ran on the GOP ticket. Was that bad advice? As for TYT censorship policies – I watch it on YouTube, which has no censorship whatsoever. I’ve put up plenty of posts criticizing TYT for stupid stuff (their alliance with HP in particular), and been roundly reviled for it in turn – but my comments are still up there. » Posted By audadvnc On April 13, 2011 @ 7:27 am Yep, that’s right. » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 3:18 pm Coat hangers all around! » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 3:16 pm I got it, we all did, but where some people have space in their psyches for imagination, conservatives have just fear and anger. » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 3:15 pm “… if she has sought no other person’s help?” Like AA, or counseling, or the police? She’s done all that. I brought up military service recently, that didn’t fly. Try to kick him out, and turn him loose? He breaks the windows and crawls back in. And blames her for the trouble. And, sadly, he’s well past 21 in years, but frozen at 15 emotionally. Of course there’s the enabling aspect, which, like addiction, runs deep in her family also. I’m a friend, I’ve already given her the same advice you just gave me. What would be the next step? Jail? Prison? The grave? It’s almost as bad as trying to talk sense to a dittohead. » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 3:00 pm Safety? I’m on a City Data Forum board, and have seen time and again that people’s perceptions of personal safety are more often based on pre-existing biases and fear mongering news sensationalism than fact. If we fixate on violent crime committed by strangers, yet ignore the risks of traffic accidents and the consequences of poor diet, we’re not getting the whole picture. And we’re letting the fear mongers drive the debate. » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 2:53 pm What is the limit of our responsibility for others’ self destructive foolishness? A dear friend of mine has an unemployed, anger driven, alcoholic/drug addict son. Despite her best efforts she cannot get him to even recognize his addictions; sonny thinks SHE’s the problem, and drugs are the solution. Meanwhile he eats her food, sleeps in her house and wrecks her life. If she kicks him out, he’ll wind up in the gutter. What are the limits to our compassion? » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 1:59 pm Best part – you read it in Vanity Fair! We find truth in the strangest places … – and where we’d expect to find it – wall to wall Snookie stories. » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 7:06 am Feingold/Grayson 2012 » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 6:14 am Just give back the nukes and the armories, and the schools, and the bridges & highways, and all that infrastructure the rest of us paid for. Let ’em go their merry way… and no one will get hurt. » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 6:03 am OMG!!! That was unexpected. » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 6:00 am IIRC, that was a Reagan era initiative. » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 5:49 am Agreed. “We” didn’t have much say in the deal. I have a dog – does that mean “we” should stop eating turds on the street? » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 5:47 am Heh, reminds me of that Guindon cartoon from the 70’s: picture a psychologist office, with 2 blatantly hippie parents railing about their 8 year son (who’s wearing a three piece, 1920’s accountant suit). Momma Sunshine pleads with the counselor: “I don’t know where we went wrong!” » Posted By audadvnc On April 8, 2011 @ 5:44 am Talk about unintended consequences. I hear that in the 14th Century, Europe thought that cats were demons, and slaughtered them all. Result – the rats, and the Black Plague. » Posted By audadvnc On April 7, 2011 @ 11:08 am The future of the Democratic party is not in Washington, that gang have shown their allegiance to Wall Street. Call them by their proper name – DemCorp. Get back to the reason of the party. Look to Madison, Wisconsin, specifically the Kloppenburg race. 19 counties that voted GOP last November just voted in favor of the Democrats. Start your 50 state strategy with the Wisconsin model. » Posted By audadvnc On April 7, 2011 @ 11:03 am Bill Cosby for President! » Posted By audadvnc On April 7, 2011 @ 9:57 am Nice simplification, but…Um, aren’t you leaving out that part where the Dems screwed over their constituency? » Posted By audadvnc On April 7, 2011 @ 8:52 am My partner’s 16 year old son got quite upset this morning when mom told him he couldn’t get a lip piercing. What else can you expect from immature brats? » Posted By audadvnc On April 7, 2011 @ 8:50 am Next up … ? » Posted By audadvnc On April 6, 2011 @ 11:20 am Why am I here? Because there are serious forces of oppression eating away at our society. And they are not all in the GOP. Don’t be fools, folks. Claiming that one power group is exempt from criticism (the Obama team face of the PTB) is falling for cult-like group think. » Posted By audadvnc On March 30, 2011 @ 9:10 am Thoughtful and constructive discussions? Or uncritical fandom for Pres Obama? This site appears to be a vehicle for the Obama reelection committee. Tim Geithner’s actions are reprehensible, yet he has the full faith and backing of the President – and apparently, PPOV. » Posted By audadvnc On March 30, 2011 @ 8:43 amComments Posted By audadvnc
This cogent comment by Ms. Edwards went in one ear and out the other – it didn’t even have time to blink.
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