Displaying 1,711 To 1,740 Of 2,270 Comments The Insanity Defense for Trickle Down You will never win over a Conservative voter by telling them they are wrong or what they believe is wrong or by providing tangible proof of their wrong-ness. You will only win them over with a more compelling vision than they already suscribe to. See: Tea Party. » Posted By funksands On June 15, 2011 @ 5:26 pm Buddy, this was rhetorical right? When someone is given scads of empirical and historical evidence that is completely contrary to their belief, and it doesn’t change their thinking AT ALL? That is someone is who has built a wall that reason will never penetrate. Only disaster. » Posted By funksands On June 15, 2011 @ 5:19 pm LOL Perfect!! 🙂 » Posted By funksands On June 15, 2011 @ 5:15 pm Kalima, if I haven’t said it before: You are very smart person. It is human nature. When tough times hit, people become even MORE susceptible to fringe political and economic theory. Education and information don’t help enough. I think it just helps individuals rationalize their poor choices better. » Posted By funksands On June 15, 2011 @ 5:10 pm AdLib, when the American public is hurting and vulnerable they are even MORE susceptible to half-baked economic and social theory. That’s why this particular point in our history is so interesting. There are many forks in the road ahead of us. Too many Americans are more than happy to double down on failed economic theories over and over again, because the alternative is to admit to themselves that their entire world-view that they have subscribed to their whole lives has been wrong. They’d go crazy. That’s what the right counts on, and what too often the middle (Dems) fall back on. » Posted By funksands On June 15, 2011 @ 5:04 pm A Viewers Guide to Tonight’s GOP Debate in NH Khirad, you were right. Really well done. Oh and CNN sucks. » Posted By funksands On June 14, 2011 @ 7:37 am “Mr. Cain: Flesh-eating bacteria or ebola?” “Mr. Santorum: Missionary or Reverse Cowboy?” “Ms. Bachmann: Medicaid or Farm Subsidies?” “Mr. Romney: Decaf coffee or warm tap-water?” » Posted By funksands On June 13, 2011 @ 8:31 pm Weekend Music Thread – Stay Cool Ack!! » Posted By funksands On June 11, 2011 @ 9:01 pm That was an unexpected treat. Thanks! » Posted By funksands On June 11, 2011 @ 8:56 pm The Cure – Hot Hot Hot [img]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6A09Iqj68U&feature=related[/img] » Posted By funksands On June 11, 2011 @ 8:49 pm Good choice of weekend music. » Posted By funksands On June 11, 2011 @ 8:42 pm EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Palin Emails! LOL 🙂 » Posted By funksands On June 10, 2011 @ 3:58 pm I like Ezra Klein’s take on the emails: ezraklein Ezra Klein » Posted By funksands On June 10, 2011 @ 2:24 pm AdL: Great stuff, I think you have a future career as Moosealini’s twitter and facebook ghost-writer! 🙂 [img]http://graneyandthepig.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/sarahpalinbigger.jpg[/img] » Posted By funksands On June 10, 2011 @ 2:20 pm Reporter: But Governor Palin, are you ready to be President and leader of the free world? Palin: “Totally. I will totally lead the world. Any world. I will lead Mars or whatever too if those guys need a world president. Or just a Mars president. I took on the ole’ boys club in Alaska and I can take it on in Mars.” http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103×387823 » Posted By funksands On June 10, 2011 @ 2:17 pm Cher, the Korean kid was a low blow……Wow. » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 10:45 pm Adonai: Yes. One hand distracts while the other hand loots. » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 2:59 pm Real GDP has expanded for seven straight quarters 2013 we’re now in the eighth. Corporate profits are at a record; The S&P 500 is up 100% from the bottom; Consumer spending is $450 billion above its pre-panic 2008 peak, And private sector payrolls have expanded for 15 straight months. This is called a hitting streak. That being said, it is sluggish. I think that what we are seeing is a phenomenon born of three issues: 1) UCLA estimates that 25% of all private sector jobs created between 1998 and 2008 were a direct result of the real-estate bubble. When that collapsed, those jobs vaporized, never to return. This wasn’t a cyclical slow-down, lay-off, re-hire. This was entirely different. That bubble popping has left a crater in our job force and tax base. 2) We’ve shipped 4.2 million professional and manufacturing jobs overseas in the last ten years. And we pay our corporations to leave. This also decimates centers of manufacturing and service. 3) Banks aren’t lending. Because they don’t have to. From this stew, we see a new type of recovery emerging, a grass-roots recovery, slowly knitting over the hole in our nation. It is recovery, but it is sloooooow. » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 7:45 am What I Learned About Society From Costco Soon the Costco Mariners will eliminate the need to decide whether to shop at Costco or go to a Mariners game. Why not do both? » Posted By funksands On June 7, 2011 @ 7:46 pm
» Posted By funksands On June 7, 2011 @ 7:45 pm Good article KT. Dominionists and Reconstructionists have at the heart of their mission to take over every single local obscure political post and position. Combine that with their goal of converting the military to Christ’s army and you have a dangerous combination. 14,000 of our military’s OFFICERS belong the the Officer’s Christian Fellowship whose goal it is to spread the gospel worldwide while in the service of our country. » Posted By funksands On June 12, 2011 @ 5:51 pm Mitt Romney’s Mormonism — cause for concern or target for bigotry Haruko, I grew up in the middle of a mess of them, and am related by marraige to scads more. I think your take on the issue is pretty solid. Most mormons I know are parochial, paternalistic, conservative, a lot of them are mildly racist. But that could describe many many americans. That said most of mormons I know are just people and pretty nice ones at that. My 15 nieces and nephews are pretty cool. 🙂 Mormons are all right. The Mormon church is one of the biggest businesses on the planet and a huge influence in the corporatist takeover of our nation. I have a bigger problem with what that means than the religion or the individuals that subscribe to it. » Posted By funksands On June 3, 2011 @ 2:07 pm Bill Moyers was an ethical and thoughtful journalist to be sure. But he also had immense talent that I think is sometimes overlooked. I’ve always been struck by his uncanny and intuitive knack of penetrating to the important parts of a topic. That can be a learned skill, but is also owed much to talent. Ad, a wonderful article about a great man. » Posted By funksands On June 2, 2011 @ 5:18 pm Dr. Kevorkian And The Right To Die Great post KT. There is so little that we are in control of in our life, the least being how we came into it. Being able to leave it in a manner of our choosing and with what dignity we can manage doesn’t seem too much to ask. » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 3:25 pm Funny you should mention China. For some reason I’ve started to get into Classical Chinese poetry. Du Fu is one of my favorites: Facing Snow Battle cry many new ghosts (755) Du Fu » Posted By funksands On June 1, 2011 @ 9:09 pm “Fascists-with-benefits” 🙂 Now a hilarious new comedy on CBS…. » Posted By funksands On May 31, 2011 @ 10:19 pm All of the GOP candidates are evidence of America’s fascist-curious phase. Y’all remember going through that in college? I bet Europe was hoping we’d skip it considering how their dalliance with it ended…. » Posted By funksands On May 31, 2011 @ 8:45 pm The human capacity to volunteer to fight for, defend, and die for a nation of people they have never met for a cause that they barely understand is incredible. The capacity of our politicians to squander that nobility and selflessness on folly and half-baked idealism is equally incredible. I don’t know anyone that has died while in active duty in a war, though I know many that have served. The appreciation of the first trait is what keeps me going back to the national cemetery every year to say thanks. The fear of the second is one the main reasons to stay politically active and aware. There are services at Tahoma National today at 1pm. Find the closest one to you and attend sometime. » Posted By funksands On May 30, 2011 @ 11:56 am RE: Rick Perry… Remember when Rick Perry scuttled over to DC in the middle of night during the govt. shutdown talks to lobby for 25 million in federal education funds to help balance his budget? Good times…. After facing a $6.6 billion budget hole, Texas used $6.4 billion of Federal money to help patch it, allowing the state to keep its $9.1 billion emergency fund intact, CNN reports. But on the same day he asked for the bailout money, governor Rick Perry started a petition called “No Government Bailouts.” http://wwwÂ.themidnigÂhtreview.cÂom/2011/01Â/rick-perrÂy-uses-fedÂeral-moneyÂ-to-save.hÂtml Good times….. » Posted By funksands On May 27, 2011 @ 12:13 pm The Republicans’ Meatloaf Strategy But that still doesn’t change the fact that all they have left are sociopaths, which does tend to limit their options on a national basis. » Posted By funksands On May 23, 2011 @ 10:51 pmComments Posted By funksands
You wouldn’t believe all the important facts about American politics that I’ve learned while not reading Palin’s emails
Worry and grieve alone old man
Disorder cloud low dusk
Rapid snow dance return wind
Gourd ladle discard cup without green
Stove remain fire like red
Many place news broken
Worry sit straight book empty After the battle, many new ghosts cry,
The solitary old man worries and grieves.
Ragged clouds are low amid the dusk,
Snow dances quickly in the whirling wind.
The ladle’s cast aside, the cup not green,
The stove still looks as if a fiery red.
To many places, communications are broken,
I sit, but cannot read my books for grief.
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