Displaying 211 To 240 Of 322 Comments “Maybe this guy wanted out this way, in order to free him up for a run himself in 2012 » Posted By dildenusa On June 24, 2010 @ 10:09 am I agree absolutely about the punditocracy. Whether on the left or the right they all think that their excrement smells like roses. But if one sifts through the garbage one can find some gems. Obviously our political and military leaders have not read their history books. In fact, they have compltely forgotten what happened yesterday let alone last year or 2 or 3 or 4 hundred years ago. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/were-emallem-terrorist-su_b_623500.html » Posted By dildenusa On June 24, 2010 @ 9:09 am Hi! I’ve been following your trilogy but haven’t made any comments until now. Call it what you want, soap opera, political theater, McChrystal and his aides should’a known better. I’m a Vietnam Veteran and the military heirarchy demands that officers do not fraternize with subordinates when off duty, especially enlisted subordinates. The atmosphere in the officers club is like a Masons or Elks Lodge meeting. Well, Duuuuh! How do you categorize a reporter from a left leaning magazine. Excuuuuuuse Me. He is a civilian. So do you get drunk with a civilian present and start spouting off your personal feelings about your boss? Isn’t that why there are psychotherapists? So McChrystal must think his excrement smells like roses. And the President and his staff are a bunch of fools. Obviously, McChrystal can’t take the heat and needs to get out of the kitchen. » Posted By dildenusa On June 23, 2010 @ 9:34 am Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: A Trilogy of Manipulative Media Types – Part II Well said. And when the Supreme Court of the US starts talking about the first amendment and free speech my eyes glaze over and my blood pressure begins to go off the charts. Why? because there is a high level of free speech for those with resources and means and a lower level of free speech for the little people. Sting and the Police said it best: Poets, priests and poiticians » Posted By dildenusa On June 23, 2010 @ 9:44 am Ah yes, northern Idaho. The birthplace of Sister Sarah of the Frozen North. They just looooooooove to hate there. » Posted By dildenusa On June 18, 2010 @ 12:26 pm I never heard or read this poem/song. And I guess since I grew up in Pennsylvania and lived in Vermont for over 15 years I couldn’t be considered a “good ol’ southern boy.” But now I live in Arizona. One of the whacko states that wants to secede and build a wall not just between Arizona and Mexico, but between all the other states that border Arizona. So am I a good ol’ southwestern boy now? Could I add to the list of southern values a misplaced idea of the concept of “personal responsibility.” We all have to take responsibility for our actions no matter what the outcome. But the idea prevalent now about personal responsibility is that if you lose your livelihood through no fault of your own, well, that’s just too bad. If y’all sufferin’ then suck it up. We don’t need no gubment relief. We’re self reliant folk. That gubment relief is for those blacks and liberals. » Posted By dildenusa On June 18, 2010 @ 12:16 pm LIVE – BP Testifies to Congress CEOs don’t get demoted. In corporate speak they get “kicked upstairs. » Posted By dildenusa On June 18, 2010 @ 12:18 pm LIVE BLOG – Pres. Obama’s Address to the Nation I don’t have an armchair but I fell asleep on the couch during the president’s speech so I’m listening to it now as I type this post. What bothers me is that the way the right wing mainstream media is spewing their drivel like a blown out oil well, one would think Obama himself caused the well to blow up. Now, the hypocrit politicians are up in arms because of the deep water drilling moratorium. » Posted By dildenusa On June 15, 2010 @ 8:13 pm Excellent post. The lobbying by the oil and transportation industries following World War 2 to expand the global infrastructure for fossil fuel extraction and highway construction is a perfect example of the influence of shadow elites and their networks. Politicians bought into it on the idea that they needed to avoid going back to the economic depression of the 1930’s. So the keyword for the politicians was “jobs.” But just an infinitesimal amount of foresight would have shown this to be unsustainable. The dogma of the unfettered unregulated “free market” won out. Just like the “Wizard of Oz” or “The Emporers New Clothes,” the dogma of the “free market” has now been discredited. What now? It’s become clear that the failure of blowout preventers in the BP disaster doesn’t bother people as much as the indifference to the slow motion catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico by the upper level management at BP. One can only hope that this will shine sunlight on the rampant hypocrisy of the tea bag partiers and their shadow cult leaders on the far right. » Posted By dildenusa On June 10, 2010 @ 9:37 am What do you mean California isn’t for sale? Now that the politicians have completely screwed up paradise, I want to bid one dollar. » Posted By dildenusa On June 10, 2010 @ 9:41 am The tea bag partiers need to mix up a new batch of ice tea. the one they are drinking now just doesn’t get it. The objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand has been totally discredited by one of it’s staunchest proponents. Alan Greenspan. Sure, on a small scale if you allow business to operate in a free unfettered unregulated market, 99.9% of them will do the right thing. But we have moved into the era of the megasized multinational corporatocracy. They have no incentive at all to do the right thing. So how can tea bag partiers talk about personal responsibility while the corporatocracy says, “What, me worry?” » Posted By dildenusa On June 9, 2010 @ 9:53 am The same thing happened to me until I lowered the resolution. Then it ran smoothly. » Posted By dildenusa On June 9, 2010 @ 9:45 am In my post of May 24, 2009 “Now Presenting the Sequel To….” I showed how demagogues on the right are planting the seeds of hate and moving their minions to go out and attack Mosques and police officers they think are trying to confiscate their guns. This is absolutely remeniscent of 1920’s and 1930’s Germany when thugs rampaged through the streets attacking anyone they thought was an enemy of the state. Being of Jewish heritage I am constantly aware of what could happen here. And if anyone thinks it can’t happen here, I hate to tell you, it is. And when a pretty face demagogue like Sister Sarah of the Frozen North starts telling her minions that Obama will tell them what kind of car they have to buy, what doctor they have to go to, what kind of food to buy, the thugs in the streets are not far behind. » Posted By dildenusa On June 7, 2010 @ 6:49 pm I’ve not been able to find any news archives of 5 police officers killed at the same time in the line of duty for 2008 or 2009. Was this the shootings in Oakland, CA or Pittsburgh, PA or Tacoma, WA. » Posted By dildenusa On June 7, 2010 @ 6:27 pm OK, I admit I had to look it up on wikipedia to find out who the shamwow guy is. But I don’t have $22.99 to but this shirt. And if I did have $22.99 to but this shirt, I wouldn’t wear it since I do have a car that I need to feed. I would send it as a gift to Sister Sarah of the Frozen North. » Posted By dildenusa On June 6, 2010 @ 9:42 am Vampire squid? I like the analogy. Also, hydra is appropriate. Obama as Heracles. Janine Wedel in her book “Shadow Elite” talks about “flexians” and “flex-nets.” Alan Greenspan said the free markets would weed out fraudster’s. Well, what really happened is after the savings and loan fraud of the 1980’s, and the enron and world com frauds of the 1990’s, the lawyers and accountants involved in those frauds formed flex-nets and moved on to bigger and better things. Remember Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns? » Posted By dildenusa On June 6, 2010 @ 1:07 pm Very good post. The political philosophy of Ayn Rand bordered on Anarchism. Her embrace of laizzer faire capitalism shows a complete disregard and lack of understanding of the US Constitution. If one reads the preamble to the US Constitution, it says very clearly, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” The exploitation of workers and consumers certainly does not “promote the general welfare.” Neither does favoring the corporatocracy. The tea bag partiers like to cite this passage that says, “promote the general welfare.” They will say, “it doesn’t say provide.” And I say, of course not because when this was written 98% of the population lived on farms and didn’t worry about their next meal or the mortgage. Well now, reality is upside down. If 98% of the population is dependent on the corporatocracy, then the government better start promoting the general welfare because if it doesn’t the corporate dystopia is right around the corner. » Posted By dildenusa On June 6, 2010 @ 10:21 am Thanks for the comic relief. » Posted By dildenusa On June 1, 2010 @ 7:44 pm This just appeared on MSNBC. It’s obvious that Netanyahu not only took the bait, but swallowed it whole while the Palistinians took pictures of the big fish they landed. One wonders what Obama’s options are now. I see him and Netanyahu both in a corner. Obama being a “pragmatist” will see his way out through concilliation, however, Netanyahu will lose face if he doesn’t appear “tough.” » Posted By dildenusa On June 1, 2010 @ 7:18 pm For politicians of all stripes, hypocrisy is like mother’s milk. They will gorge themselves on it and then smile and say, “I’m a pragmatist.” For the Israelis to cause the impoverishment of the entire Palistinian people as a punishment for a few bad apples is immoral. And for the politicians here not to call them on this is aiding and abetting. » Posted By dildenusa On June 1, 2010 @ 6:16 pm They also make excellent whiskey. » Posted By dildenusa On May 31, 2010 @ 12:56 pm It’s obvious that Kevin Annett is using his skills and knowledge in a self serving manner. I wasn’t aware that he was behind the hidden from history web site. Then I noticed that he has appeared on the Alex Jones Radio Show. If you don’t know who Alex Jones is, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(radio_host) he is basically a self serving scum bag like Keven Annett. » Posted By dildenusa On May 31, 2010 @ 10:59 am I visited the provinces of Quebec and Ontario several times when I lived in Pennsylvania and Vermont and most of the people I met were friendly and eager to please the tourists from the US. If only to get some of the tourists to spend their money. Of course hypocrisy comes in many forms and the Canadian settlers from Europe are no different. » Posted By dildenusa On May 31, 2010 @ 9:22 am 13-year-old climbs Everest. Amazing? Or disturbing? Ok, so I must admit that I’m between 4 and 5 times older than this kid and the tallest mountain I’ve hiked up is 8400 feet. And I can’t even do that anymore. But I didn’t know the mortality rate for Everest is 10%. Well, children, especially in the US are put at risk every day by parents who should know better. Parents known as helicopters, because they hover, push their children physically and emotionally to overachieve. The problem is it’s not about the children succeding, it’s about the parent’s hubris and ego. » Posted By dildenusa On May 29, 2010 @ 7:07 pm Being a Vietnam Veteran, I am very relieved that those who served and died in Vietnam on both sides are finally getting the respect they always deserved. What is sad is that in the 21st Century we should know better than to start wars for the twin sins of economic gain and political expediency. » Posted By dildenusa On May 29, 2010 @ 7:19 pm Ten reasons why the Stanley Cup Finals beats the NBA Finals It ain’t over till it’s over. » Posted By dildenusa On June 1, 2010 @ 9:15 am Well, the chickens are coming home to roost. If BP admits it acted irrationally and irresponsibly then it is opening itself up to billions of dollars in claims. The only thing it can do now is hope the “top kill” works. Otherwise BP will be history. Whether or not that is a bad thing is open to discussion. » Posted By dildenusa On May 26, 2010 @ 6:47 pm They are just doing now what should have been done in the first place. They never should have removed the drilling fluid on the day that drilling stopped. Upper level management didn’t want to continue paying big bucks to keep the drilling rig in place while the blowout preventer was retested and steps were taken to safely close the well head. » Posted By dildenusa On May 26, 2010 @ 6:20 pm Apparently, not enough mud is entering the pipe. It’s being pushed out the side of the blowout preventer by the pressure of the oil and gas. And where do these engineers come up with these names? Top Kill? It sounds like a video game. Why not just admit you screwed the pooch in the first place by removing the mud on the day drilling was finished? » Posted By dildenusa On May 26, 2010 @ 6:13 pm If you think this is bad. Just wait till they start offshore drilling in the arctic. Even after this, the oil company lobbyists will be spinning their PR that that offshore drilling in hostile environments is a cake walk. And knowing our government, they won’t do a thing to counter the lobbyists PR. » Posted By dildenusa On May 25, 2010 @ 8:03 pmComments Posted By dildenusa
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no-one’s jamming their transmission
And when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/01/a-regional-strategy-implodes.html
http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/
Today their hypocrisy takes the form of “green energy.”
http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/romaine-river-heart-canada%E2%80%99s-wilderness
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