Displaying 121 To 150 Of 152 Comments Mike Huckabee Afflicted By Post Trumpatic Stress Disorder Well AdLib, on this we disagree, I will never believe any person with a modicum of intellect could believe some all powerful ‘being’ is out there worrying about this little blue ball of mud. It is beyond belief. Giving ones self over to something that vague is beyond me. Since the caveman shamans and preachers have used fear to control others, power is next on the list, if you can control beliefs you can pretty much do as you please, until exposed, and this shyster and his ilk are just the tip of the spear in that department. » Posted By gyp46 On July 31, 2015 @ 10:43 am Well you could be closer to the truth of it. Personally I believe there must be a class that ‘preachers’ take to project believability from the pulpit and ‘ol Huck’ has perfected that look. I have often wondered how some can stand before others and boldly lie about what is true, practice, practice and practice I guess. Remember the story about the old preacher who answered the question about the money, “I throw into the air, what god wants he keeps, what hits the floor is mine” . » Posted By gyp46 On July 30, 2015 @ 9:13 am It seems our great country is devolving into something I do not recognize, I am 69, have voted since the ’68 election, against ‘Tricky Dick’, have followed politics since the ’60 election while in high school, never have I seen such vitriol and hate, seems many wish for another internal war, such a shame for our nation. » Posted By gyp46 On July 28, 2015 @ 10:24 am Seeing hate is so revealing, when watching the Huckster make these atrocious statements his face was frightening, he seems lost in the ecstasy of hate for the President. And what is truly appalling is that some, maybe many, Americans believe him!! Hitler had the same look when preaching hate against the Jews, that insane ‘glow’!! » Posted By gyp46 On July 28, 2015 @ 8:08 am MSNBC to Spin Off Sister Channel MSTRUMP While doctors do recommend laughter daily, too much Trump is dangerous to your health. Continuous laughter can cause brain damage, especially Hair laughs, take care not to injure yourself with falls and the rolling on the floor. » Posted By gyp46 On July 9, 2015 @ 2:28 pm Republicans Are Now Drowning in Climate Change Denial I know this is petty and admit it up front ok. Remember the talk from the evangelical crowd about Katrina being the wrath of god falling on the unbelievers and sinners of New Orleans? Oh it was retribution and hell and brimfire, well Texas, what now, still think god is on your side?? » Posted By gyp46 On May 30, 2015 @ 7:02 am Senator Bernie Sanders For President! Competition is great, and I want Sanders to push his ideas, yet being a realist he cannot win a majority of the American voters, the time has come for a woman to win, and that is Hillary, whether we totally agree or not, the alternative is to hideous to contemplate. Personally I like Jim Webb also, but again he has no chance, we must also concentrate on the senate, it is in our power as progressives to achieve both the White House and the senate. » Posted By gyp46 On May 9, 2015 @ 8:33 am I remember a song from the ’60’s, “WISHING AND HOPING” that is Bernie Sanders. Love the guy’s honesty and his willingness to battle all for his vision of America, but his chances in 2016 are nil and if we are honest with ourselves we’ll admit that. Progressives have one goal for ’16 and that is to not allow the White House to fall into the hands of the enemy of all the workers of America. Can any imagine if the idiots of the ‘invasion of Texas’ crowd were in power!!!! » Posted By gyp46 On May 9, 2015 @ 7:26 am The Case Against Democrats Supporting Hillary Clinton (Yet) The greatest tragedy that could occur for America and the progressive movement would be the election of a republican in 2016 for the presidency. Of the current group running on the right no one stands for the people of this country. While I agree with ‘Ad Lib’ that an aggressive primary season is a good thing, I kinda like Webb, and certainly like Sanders, in the end we must work to take the Senate back and keep the White House. so if that means Hillary, so be it. » Posted By gyp46 On April 28, 2015 @ 10:12 am What do Republicans Stand For? Well it certainly isn’t free speech as we see in Florida and Wisconsin where using words such as ‘climate change’ has now been struck from the English dictionary. » Posted By gyp46 On April 10, 2015 @ 8:01 am Watching “Selma” In A Nearly Empty Theater. Why? Let’s see if I can do justice here. I also went to a matinee with very few people in the audience, also went with a couple who live most of the year in Missouri, we went in Yuma,Az as we are all seniors. The difference between our reactions to the movie could not be more different. » Posted By gyp46 On January 24, 2015 @ 8:24 am When wrong, obfuscate!! The specialty of the ‘right’. Instead of seeing the reality and deciding to finally have some open discussions of the lousy race relations in America, just blame Al Sharpton or the President. Keeps their base fed on their lies. I doubt we will ever reach the level of total honesty about the track record of equality or the lack of, I should say. Many my age, 68, still live in the dark ages of the 50’s, colored people is their term still, they have no concept of how privileged their lives as whites has been. I will hold out for change with the millennial generation, maybe somewhere down the road something will happen!! » Posted By gyp46 On December 23, 2014 @ 7:55 am Open Carry is a Whites Only Law While it is fun,(a bit anyway) to post and read others who feel the same about issues, the most fun I have had since HP folded their tents and sold out is on the Faux No News website. I know that feels like being a traitor, but wow can you ever get those hornets stirred up. » Posted By gyp46 On October 2, 2014 @ 9:48 am Scott Brown’s Lack of Moral Imagination Ya have to admit, simple is easier. Black is black and white is white, no shades of grey, I forget is it ‘gray or grey’ for colors, oh well back to being simple. I have been retired for about 11 years now and in the course of that time I have determined that for me doing nothing is the goal. I mean really, nothing. But in life that is a near impossibility as I and many others have discovered. Yet there seems to be a faction in America who believe we can actually have a country that does ‘nothing’ for it’s people. Having been on the other side of the fence for over 35 years, (employer), and wanting all to work for the least amount necessary, it finally dawned on me the Henry Ford was right, you do need to pay enough for your employees to have a decent life if you want to get ahead. Well I digress , again, happens with old age, anyway what I have determined is one ‘simple little fact’ the left cares, and the right does not. Nuff said!! » Posted By gyp46 On June 21, 2014 @ 9:16 am The Bush Legacy 2.0: The Dissolving of Iraq Into Warring Factions So much knowledge available and so few using it. Along with ‘Krystal’ of the ‘right’ McCain has a long history of being ‘wrong’, but hey, he never let’s that fact shut him down. I have noticed in the last few days the abundance of ‘talking heads’ from Bushie’s crowd, laying all the blame on the Prez., ya gotta love their ability to turn corners though, even at high speeds they can change direction on a dime. What is truly amazing is the fact that 30% of Americans believe them, no matter which side of the argument they are on today. That takes back to the lack of knowledge about the world that prevails in our country, even with only a hi-school education, with reading a couple books back in the 70’s I knew the difference between Sunni and Shia and the existing hatred of both, but our fine leaders and talking heads seem surprised about all this, even today!! We need to stay out, period, there is no solution that requires more American deaths. » Posted By gyp46 On June 20, 2014 @ 8:59 am “IF ONLY”, SOONER BETTER THAN LATER. THANKS,GYP46 » Posted By gyp46 On June 20, 2014 @ 9:21 am As I am reading this there is a US Senator, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, on the tube lying again about the removal of all troops from Iraq, and how that is all, of course, Obama’s fault. Along with the SCOTUS saying lies are OK, we are slipping into the world of ‘1984’, Orwell’s classic political novel. Where has the ‘truth’ and honor gone? How can ‘intelligent’, a loosely used term I know, people keep denying the basic facts? Even when video clips show the actual positions taken in the past, the liars just deny they even meant those words, and we as a people let them get away with it. The destruction of Europe in WW2 shows propaganda works, and the masters of today’s propaganda machine, Faux and the republican party learned that lesson well! » Posted By gyp46 On June 20, 2014 @ 9:18 am The Republican Encyclopedia of Hindsight Deals sorry, but the Taliban is not a terrorist organization, even today. Sure they fight our troops, but that does not make them ‘terrorists’. They have never exported their ‘war’ to the world as has others, they are, in their eyes, fighting an invader of ‘their’ country, just as we citizens of America would do if an invader came here. Just labeling someone a terrorists does not make them terrorists. » Posted By gyp46 On June 21, 2014 @ 6:52 am Without using foreign examples with your ‘republican buddies’ why not just use some simple examples closer to home. 1. ask if they have ever used their ‘unemployment benefits’ (a communist plot of the 30’s) 2. Ask if they have ever been hurt on the job and used their ‘workers comp’ insurance, ( another communist plot ), or 3. if old enough do they ‘take’ their SS, (socialist security), or their medicare, (socialized medicine). Ya gotta love that two sided stance. » Posted By gyp46 On June 21, 2014 @ 6:46 am An Open Letter To Any And All “Conservatives” Seeing as how you refuse to examine facts, I see no use in further communication. RM laid out facts, backed by research and memos, along with interviews and comments by the involved persons. The plan to invade was entirely for ‘big oil’, the emphasis was on securing the oil fields, first and foremost, the record is clear! » Posted By gyp46 On June 27, 2014 @ 8:53 am Kalima, I re read my post and can find ‘no defense’ of the atrocious actions towards women by the Taliban, my only point was the fact the the Taliban are not ‘terrorists’ who have attacked our country. Labeling is wrong if the facts do not back up the label. To themselves they are fighting an outside invading force, right or wrong, that is their view. So does that make them terrorists? Our press and ‘leaders’, and I use that term very loosely, use these labels to justify our actions, if we look back to the time just after 9/11 we entered Afghanistan to wipe out OBL and the AlQueda network, we achieved that, now, are we trying to ‘build’ another Iraq? We see just how effective that has been, con’t we!! I have no sympathy for those who would oppress their own citizens, be they Taliban or the ‘ultra right’ here, restricting the rights of voters and women, closing clinics in Texas, or blocking women by the use of vile language and killing doctors to achieve the same ends that those Taliban will do again in Afghanistan after we leave. » Posted By gyp46 On June 27, 2014 @ 8:44 am I see you skipped over the important issue of ‘why’ we went into Iraq, why is that? Take the time to review that information and you may have your eyes opened. On the subject of ‘guilt by association’ as you seem to indicate the Taliban are guilty of, well if that is the case many of us are guilty of many things, from dope to robbery if we ever associated with someone who perpetrated any illegal action. Islam is no better or worse than Christianity as a ‘religion’, as a governing body though you are correct, no religion should be combined with a religion. Yet, just labeling some group as being terrorists does not necessarily make it so, actions are required to achieve that goal. If you associate with christians then by extension you have participated in the killing of innocents some time in the history of that religion if your thesis is followed to it’s logical conclusion. » Posted By gyp46 On June 26, 2014 @ 6:45 am Just a couple of items you may be interested in, one: watch, “Why we went”, google Rachel Maddow show for that video, It will maybe enlighten you as to why Cheney from even before 9/11 pushed for the Iraq war, and two: examine the terrorist lists of 2002 before the Taliban were labeled, they are not in the official sense a ‘terrorist organization’, they have not promoted terrorism against us or any other nation, they have fought us but that alone does not make a terrorist, that makes them ‘soldiers’ of their homeland. They ‘did’ give shelter to OBL but that is the nature of Islam. Thanks gyp46. » Posted By gyp46 On June 25, 2014 @ 12:19 pm Huffington Post Finalizes Its Divorce From Its Bloggers Thanks AdLib, for the welcome. I have high hopes, yet little expectations. We’ll see. What constitutes ‘lively debate’ is the key. Sometimes it is enlightening to ‘stir the pot’ a bit and see the response from others. If the goal is to have a site where we all agree, well that is not really getting anywhere, is it! Sometimes heated discussion is needed to wake others to the facts, not that it always ends up in the exchange of knowledge, some will not learn even with a heavy stick applied to the cranium. I have to thank ‘THE MURPH’ for his outreach to us out here looking for a home for our meager opinions. gyp46. » Posted By gyp46 On June 22, 2014 @ 9:07 am I stayed as long as I could, until all went to FB posting, it was not pleasant to watch your fan list diminish daily as good people left. Years of posts and friends gone, for what?? Arianna sold out and the ‘right’ won the battle on HP in my mind. Censorship of the English language became the norm, totally unacceptable. » Posted By gyp46 On June 21, 2014 @ 7:22 am In the beginning HP was a delight, back and forth commenting, even some arguments, it was simply a fun time. then came ‘censorship’ under the guise of ‘freedom of speech’ and ‘polite discourse’. Why must heated discussion be ‘polite discourse’? Passion is necessary for vigorous debate to me. Listening to untenable opinions and replying that they are ‘untenable’ is politics. Then came the mandatory FB thingy, then the actual posting to FB, that was the final straw for so many of us, at least it was for me. Using new sites has been a struggle for us ‘computer challenged’ old people, but we will learn and move ‘forward’ instead of ‘back to the stone age’ as the tbaggers wish. » Posted By gyp46 On June 21, 2014 @ 7:15 am The American Political System and Accommodating Evil “CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE”!! I saw this phase on an election billboard in southern Oregon yesterday and it got me thinking. What does a constitutional conservative have that we constitutional progressives do not? Answer: NOTHING, except propaganda. And in that department the ‘right’ is way ahead of the ‘left’. When you have a network at your disposal 100% of the time, when you have a section of the nation that listens to nothing except right wing talk radio and that aforementioned TV network, you have a recipe of winning at the local level at least, just look at the ’10 elections if you have any doubts. » Posted By gyp46 On June 22, 2014 @ 9:24 am And that’s the real scary part of trumpists. Acceptance of the ABNORMAL!! » Posted By gyp46 On February 8, 2020 @ 7:26 am Just to be accurate, it was 1972 when Iowa dems first used the caucus, 1976 the repubs followed. » Posted By gyp46 On February 8, 2020 @ 7:24 am Took long enough. Remember Mitty’s words prior to Nov ’16 about Donnie, then look at his lack of courage for over the last 18 months. NO, I don’t think this leopard has changed its spots. Romney is still against the people and for the wealthy. » Posted By gyp46 On February 8, 2020 @ 7:17 amComments Posted By gyp46
A bit of background, as a 18 year old west coast boy who joined the Navy and was then shipped off to the ‘oceans’ of Memphis, Tenn for schooling in 1964 my world of ‘whiteness’ was smashed by reality. I spent a year traveling around the south on weekends by train and hitchhiking. Talk about an eye opener, boy howdy, that was an education in and of itself. I was there during this period and listened to the rhetoric of the white population. One incident sticks out after 50 years, and that was in Miss., about midnight, walking into a train station to buy a ticket back to Memphis, seems I walked through the wrong door and the seller of the tickets refused to sell me one, even though I was in uniform, WHY, because I walked into the ‘black’ side of the depot, she made me go out and around the building to the ‘white’s only’ door and then proceeded to sell me the very ticket she should have sold me on the other side.
Now back to the movie experience, when we exited we stopped to discuss the movie, my reaction was renewed anger about the atrocities perpetrated against other Americans, the couple from Missouri, watching the very same movie came out with the belief that all ‘young blacks’ should take a lesson from this and stop provoking the establishment,(i.e.) the police. They talked about ‘not’ talking back, doing what you’re told, when you’re told, amazing how individuals watch the same thing and see something entirely different.
On the subject of the Taliban, they are as despicable a group as any group on earth, but that does equate to ‘a terrorist group’, how many governments has the USA backed over the years that killed their own people? Many, many, and many more. My whole point was the use of the term, especially by the ‘right’ over the Bergdahl exchange, those men were soldiers, picked up on the battlefield, not ‘terrorists’ bombing the World Trade center.
Now how many of you do not stand for the ‘constitution’? Very few I would bet, yet if you listen to your neighbor who is plugged into the propaganda machine of the ‘right’you would come away thinking all progressives were communists at heart. Hitler learned early on that repeating negatives works, and our ‘illustrious’ republicans have also learned that very lesson with the help of that ‘network’ and it’s owner. Never in the over 50 years of watching and participating in our elections have I seen such vitriol and hate that is so prevalent today.
So again, CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRESSIVES need to step up and speak out about our belief in that CONSTITUTION, we must not relinquish the debate to the ‘right’ !!
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