Displaying 181 To 210 Of 344 Comments Corporate influence in Government is NOT the same as in Entertainment. Hypocrisy is expecting the court jesters, who have very little influence, to the same standards as elected officials. He was a critic of Clinton, w, Obama, most congressional nonsense, consistently. » Posted By ghsts On February 12, 2011 @ 10:19 pm Thanks, first attempt at real. » Posted By ghsts On February 12, 2011 @ 9:02 pm Yeah, I don’t get HBO, only see the clips of Bill, this one highlights the overthrow of corruption and digging your heels in. Not the farce that is the bagger movement (Bill Maher is not bill oreilly). You seem to be misplacing your anger here, Maher is not a whiner to suggest one look in the mirror it seems wholly appropriate at this time. I remember working quite hard for an elected official who promptly handed the keys of the hen house back to the foxes. So who is the enemy in the US, since you’ve been out of the country a while give us some perspective. » Posted By ghsts On February 12, 2011 @ 9:00 pm This is what makes guys like Luntz so dangerous, frame the issue so people avoid the label. We weren’t born that way but 50yrs of cold war framing and soon feeding the poor sounds too much like free lunch. » Posted By ghsts On February 11, 2011 @ 6:13 pm In as positive light I can muster, how do you stop unjust wars, police state, eviction, discrimination etc when 40% of the country is perfectly fine with all those so long as they have a job and a roof over their heads? » Posted By ghsts On February 11, 2011 @ 6:09 pm How about something like this- Mubarak has been a long time ally to the US and peace in the middle east however the cost to the Egyptian people has been great and the time has come for them collectively decide their own future, and please don’t use all those tanks, jets, and guns against us or our allies, ps you might want to look in Switzerland for a large chunk of that US aide money. Schizophrenia is believing that Mubarak would be allowed to transition the government to democracy. All kidding aside what was gained by towing the line, better relations with other pro US dictators? » Posted By ghsts On February 11, 2011 @ 5:55 pm That was my point on Lincoln, it wasn’t till thousands were lying dead on the battlefield did he come to publicly acknowledge or define the war. Had Obama simply stuck to his promises there would be no issue, it wasn’t a left issue then to characterize those critical pillars of his campaign now as too far left is absurd. » Posted By ghsts On February 11, 2011 @ 5:36 pm Your wisdom is sound advice to all. » Posted By ghsts On February 11, 2011 @ 5:25 pm You have painted a beautiful bulls-eye on my forehead, not that anyone is looking. I too have become frustrated, with Obama apologists that seem to be doing a Nixon imitation, ‘he’s our crook’ when it comes to the man who disappoints so many. I’ll save the list for some other day. (For context, I dedicated 18 months of my life to helping him, not just any D, get elected in a state know for blue dogs, heartland values, conservative righteousness and the wisdom of Kurt Vonnegut.) President Obama like many in that position has a fluid set of values, the older among us recognize this and push in an attempt to influence his migration. I find no comfort in being lumped in with baggers, neocons and fixed news services when our critiques coincide but will defer blame where it belongs, at the source. To highlight some sort of Catch 22 to a potus’ political stance does little to enlighten the debate because there is a critical mass attached to him unlike most, POWER. When our president avoided making statements to outright condemn one of this countries most successful puppet dictators it was understandable but not excusable. Many centrists have been touting the ‘he’s the President of the whole country not just the Left,’ as if his compromises are justified to encompass all points of view. Not to mention they serve only to embolden his critics from the right. I can only think of how sad it would have been if Lincoln had not been forced to paint the picture as black and white. This country has always had a significant population that has been deluded, coerced or just plain evil and while we are all Americans the brand belongs to our better angels not our inner demons. We may come to dislike Egypt’s democracy, but that is irrelevant to their god given right to define it for themselves. [img]http://www.flickr.com/photos/50724122@N04/5437037319/[/img] » Posted By ghsts On February 11, 2011 @ 5:19 pm So the salient facts we are to take away from Luntz is that the fox news focus group believes that Obama who faced ceaseless attacks from fox and the gop in 2008 for being a devote of Rev. Jeremiah Alvesta Wright, Jr. of Trinity United Church of Christ is in fact a Muslim? Or that fox news focus group have severe long term memory dysfunction from watching tv. Luntz is a curious type of grease that seems to get under the nails and is impossible to clean but truth is the man is the king of semantic manipulation. When the original story broke, Obama’s reaction was ‘well I never heard that,’ and promptly dumped the church and Wright was forced to retired over the mess, perhaps this is the weakness the foxes exploit. More importantly WGAF if he was sympathetic to the Muslim faith, for those who vote for crusader in chief of the holy states of christ I would like to say in the words of the Amityville house, “Get Out!” » Posted By ghsts On February 11, 2011 @ 1:44 am Many, myself included, got nothing that is not a frame it is the wall. » Posted By ghsts On February 13, 2011 @ 6:34 pm First thing tomorrow, read more! If they are as you describe then why add them at all? Doesn’t the behavior simply perpetuate the horror that I remember from the Bush years and the concept that legislation after passage is open to interpretation from the Executive? » Posted By ghsts On February 13, 2011 @ 12:23 am Thanks for the link, that’s a positive that they are available no matter how unconstitutional. You realize that the value or worth of this economy, its health is based on debt. The less debt the bigger the crisis. Geithner spoke (yesterday now) saying we had to decrease the countries exposure in “home mortgages”, visa vie Fanny Mae not fictitious wall st financial instruments. So the problem wasn’t default swap trading but poor people spending too much with govt backed debt. Someone get me a sedative. » Posted By ghsts On February 12, 2011 @ 11:26 pm I assume that was directed at me, not funksands. Last I heard, not above learning new things, it wasn’t the executive branch’s responsibility to TRY anyone. In college, not Harvard, we were taught that was a duty under the Judicial branch’s jurisdiction. » Posted By ghsts On February 12, 2011 @ 11:12 pm Sloppy kids eating in the basement, we didn’t have rats in the heartland only mice. » Posted By ghsts On February 12, 2011 @ 11:03 pm Didn’t work with; civil rights, minimum wage, prohibition, environmental policy, slavery, suffrage, reproductive rights, DADT,marriage equality, universal hc, immigration, right to work, did I miss something here? 20-30 years, like I said, does wonders for burying the trips so in a sense I agree with you. Props to you Califighters but you’ve got a sketchy record when it comes to influence east of the divide, let alone your own state. » Posted By ghsts On February 12, 2011 @ 11:00 pm Center of what? Is that like ‘most Americans just want the Congress to work together to pass stuff to fix junk’? This country didn’t migrate to the right, the left just sat the last one out, the country is the same split it was in 2008, or don’t you remember the live feed from the McCain concession? Saying that people changed their minds and want fiscal responsibility is just bagger talk, or Stockholm syndrome. Let me see Obama’s last signing statement so we can see what he thinks of the constitution. » Posted By ghsts On February 12, 2011 @ 10:37 pm As my mother always said, ‘food goes in the mouth on the floor only attracts mice. » Posted By ghsts On February 12, 2011 @ 10:12 pm The only way you’re gonna push back against Citizens United is by Constitutional Amendment or a one way ticket to 2032. First steps generally are in the direction you want to go. Centrifugal force is wonderful in dancing, but centripetal force just keeps you on the same track while making you sick. » Posted By ghsts On February 12, 2011 @ 10:09 pm Awesome post! Like you, I’m just looking for some way back to him but for me it is like expecting to get eggs from a squirrel. I knew Obama from my heydays in Chicago, and was kinda creeped out by his stances on polar issues in the state senate but was all-in for his other two campaigns. You don’t usually get to Harvard by rocking the boat and expected the occasional pain in the back. I loved DeVito in the Rainmaker, and wanted to believe in the mythical lawyer for the underdog. He is a man under pressure no doubt but that shtick didn’t work out of w’s mouth and unholy out of the mouths of Democrats. I don’t need to be satisfied by success in the first two years not to mention my lifetime. Like the Civil Rights movements before us, real change takes decades or centuries not months and not for lack of trying. Dare I say it, I was looking for some one to take a stand for the Real.(Case in point Obama would have walked away from Egypt after Mubarak agreed to not run in September.) In the HC bill we got ‘no preexisting condition’ and lost everything else. The admin didn’t give us DADT repeal the courts did, though the prez made it stick no doubt. The “Crisis with Just Say No Pain” hit and everyone cried jobs, so Obama started licking the jackboots. OK, they may be Doc Martins but my face lost feeling years ago. Down with corporate lobbyists, turned into please sign here for your free tote bag as you exit the oval office. Accountability for unjust Wars turned into what good could come from rehashing the past? So no, I won’t trade your head for my bed, a new cardboard box could be fun though. » Posted By ghsts On February 12, 2011 @ 10:01 pm Tips For Newcomers (and Regulars Alike) Great help, like many I should have read this first. Nice to see all the émigrés. » Posted By ghsts On February 11, 2011 @ 3:31 pm Those photos are so crazy beautiful. Here’s my 2c, at least some know when to cover their tracks, ap reports Charlie Chaplin donates money earned at Stalin’s bachelors party to the Josephine Butler Foundation. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/03/beyonce-nelly-furtado-kadafi-money-donated-libya.html US citizens should avoid travel to countries west of Fukuoka, south of Huston or east of Wien, Australia and New Zealand suggest invitation only. » Posted By ghsts On March 7, 2011 @ 4:18 am Kalima, all these years I’ve been saying Nein mit kitten!, but google says it’s “Nein, mein kleines Kätzchen”, I tried google’s version and they still don’t listen. » Posted By ghsts On March 6, 2011 @ 12:52 pm Good morning/night Kalima, great post again. Behind a picture of HAL9000, (Hypocritical Haliaeetus leucocephalus.) Careful Tomasky is speaking heresy, love this Samuel Johnson fellow. I am an unabashed anglophile, washing dishes in a Soho Hotel eating Yorkshire pudding with professional waiters, ah good times. When you say “crumbling” I’m assuming you mean outside the epic urbanization of Beijing, in between the new? Urban sprawl another fine US export. I found this Telegraph bit off of your link an may explain gop progress theory. » Posted By ghsts On March 5, 2011 @ 3:37 am Time to mess up the kitchen, mmm curry. » Posted By ghsts On March 4, 2011 @ 8:34 am Kalima patience is something only achieved through compassion. We had two cats adopted from my brother who couldn’t be bothered to pay much mind to his female matron. So we saved them from a short wild life behind a walmart store. This fall, our next door neighbors with a similar attitude left theirs to fend for herself at age of one and promptly returned with a litter. Flea infested, emaciated and friendly in that evil cat kind of way so we started leaving water and food on our front porch. When the landlord next door lost his house to the bank and the tenants were evicted they abandoned their furry one. Subzero temps led us to the vet to domesticate her and despite violent opposition from the kitty gop she is now just another family member eating our savings and our hearts. My whole life I was a dog guy but that didn’t stop Karma. » Posted By ghsts On February 21, 2011 @ 4:01 am And here I was looking for Korea, C is my guess too. Never expected to see Libya go down like that, so public, oppression has no limits. » Posted By ghsts On February 20, 2011 @ 5:03 am It is interesting to note that the Chinese who also have a vested interest in status quo in the region have simply downplayed Egyptian events and remain silent on Iran, and western criticism. » Posted By ghsts On February 16, 2011 @ 2:14 am I’m headed again to Indianapolis tomorrow, tell me if you see me on tv with my pov sign, HA. » Posted By ghsts On March 9, 2011 @ 10:42 pm Ha, sounds like you’ve been reading X. » Posted By ghsts On March 9, 2011 @ 10:31 pmComments Posted By ghsts
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