Displaying 391 To 420 Of 466 Comments Weekend Music Thread – Merry Xmas 2011! Pretenders – 2000 Miles » Posted By jjgravitas On December 25, 2011 @ 12:05 am Bob Rivers – I am Santa Claus » Posted By jjgravitas On December 25, 2011 @ 12:01 am Bob Rivers – Jingle Hells Bells » Posted By jjgravitas On December 25, 2011 @ 12:00 am Weekend Music Thread – Fly Me To The Moon The Beatles – Flying » Posted By jjgravitas On January 7, 2012 @ 11:19 am I would love to be one of the 1%. I’d pay all my taxes and keep enough aside for when the taxes go up to a more reasonable level. As it is, I have to be satisfied with being at the lower level of the 99%. I guess I don’t know what you mean. » Posted By jjgravitas On December 14, 2011 @ 1:53 pm The “Irony mark.” To denote “sarcasm?” I thought that was what “emoticons” were for. 😕 And “air quotes.” 🙄 » Posted By jjgravitas On December 14, 2011 @ 1:48 pm Coalition of Church and State Revisited: Convincing The Public This is why I gave up on all established religions a long time ago. Once a religion becomes “established” (self-perpetuating. All the top religions fit into this category.), grabbing and holding onto power becomes its main priority, and its original message takes a back seat. When was the last time a politician talked about the actual teachings of Jesus Christ, about piety, about turning the other cheek, about His disdain for and dislike of money and politicians? Separation of church and state was written into the U.S. Constitution for this very reason. When a government aligns itself with a religion, both become corrupted. This is true for all religions and all governments – there can be no exceptions. » Posted By jjgravitas On January 4, 2012 @ 12:45 pm ‘Twas The Newt Before Christmas – A Political Parody Make your Drooltide gay, and many thanx to the GOP for all the noise noise noise noise noise! » Posted By jjgravitas On December 13, 2011 @ 12:20 pm Weekend Music Thread – Return of the Hippies Kinks: Sunny Afternoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMpkY0P_JGs » Posted By jjgravitas On December 10, 2011 @ 12:34 pm Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Death Cab For Cutie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9y4vLrHsm4 » Posted By jjgravitas On December 10, 2011 @ 12:28 pm Bonzo Dog Band – We Are Normal (And We Want Our Freedom!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIYOY10RD-M » Posted By jjgravitas On December 10, 2011 @ 11:50 am The GOP and the Clinical Definition of a Sociopath I’d like to say “thanks,” but my “fingers” are getting tired from making all these “air quotes.” Oh I almost forgot: “LOL” 😆 » Posted By jjgravitas On December 10, 2011 @ 12:49 pm The narrow minded get all this media exposure thanks to the genius of “narrow casting.” » Posted By jjgravitas On December 9, 2011 @ 9:21 pm Worth noting”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhUYCZEBc4 » Posted By jjgravitas On December 25, 2011 @ 7:05 pm Will Gingrich be Stopped? Sure. By himself. Thanks, Murph! Now I feel justified in my original observation … that Gingrich and Delay were close associates while Gingrich was in office. I remember that from news reports and documentaries from back then. » Posted By jjgravitas On December 9, 2011 @ 8:38 pm My bad. Don’t know why I thought Gingrich and Delay were in Congress at the same time. Oh well. My original point was that as embarrassing as the Lewinsky scandal was, the republican-led Congress made it that much worse by claiming it represented a threat to out “national security” in order to punish Clinton as severely as possible. And Gingrich had everything to do with that. Just another example of how Gingrich twists truth for political gain. » Posted By jjgravitas On December 8, 2011 @ 7:27 pm Correct me if I’m wrong. Was Gingrich the guy who claimed the Clinton/Lewinsky sex scandal represented a “national security crisis” (remember, this was years before nine-eleven)? Or was it Tom Delay? Or was it both of them (Gingrich and Delay were thick as thieves back then)? Tom Delay was another guy who left congress while being investigated for corruption, and I haven’t heard from him since. Perhaps he’s in prison. » Posted By jjgravitas On December 8, 2011 @ 2:30 pm I really hope this election won’t be as nasty and mean spirited as I fear it will be. With the rich remorseless fat-cat mad-tea-party republicans on one side and the 99% occupy movement democrats on the other side, it could get rough. It may need to. » Posted By jjgravitas On December 5, 2011 @ 10:16 pm Newt Gingrich? For President? Try to picture it. Newt as the best choice republicans have to offer … for Chief Executive. That would be the final step toward the U.S.A becoming the United States of Banana Republican. The only reason the rest of the world would still think of us as a superpower is because we haven’t taken down all of our nukes yet. Is it any wonder the rest of the world hates us, when we let ourselves be led by corrupt people like him? Did we not learn anything from eight years of watching George W. Bush flushing trillions of dollars down the toilet? Every election cycle seems to show the republican party getting stupider and stupider. » Posted By jjgravitas On December 5, 2011 @ 1:21 pm Coalition of Church and State Revisited: Office of Faith Based Iniatives Church and state could stand to be a whole lot more seperate. Now if we could just do something to get money out of the election process (it corrupts everything) and convince the Supreme Court that corporations are not people. » Posted By jjgravitas On December 1, 2011 @ 9:49 pm The most important thing we can do right now is something we are already doing: an intense focus on the message coming from each candidate. When the wrong guy gets elected is when the people don’t care enough to actively vote against him. So that’s good. » Posted By jjgravitas On November 28, 2011 @ 11:48 am Occupy Las Vegas, Occupy Congress, Occupy the Vote I’d like see the Occupy movement set up an encampment at the Supreme Court, who has made so many rulings in favor of the rich, such as: a.)declaring that corporations have the same rights and privileges as individuals (but none of the responsibilities); b.) declaring that unlimited sums of money can be dumped into political campaigns (a recipe for corruption of there ever was one. Personally I’d like to see all money eliminated from political campaigns, as it would make them more honest and a lot shorter); c.) the Supreme Court decision in 2000 declaring George W. Bush president in spite of the complete screw-up of the Florida vote. At the very least they should have ordered a complete do-over of the Florida election so we would know for sure what the people wanted – the following eight years were a nightmare. Does the Supreme Court work for all of us, or only for the rich (as it appears)? » Posted By jjgravitas On November 21, 2011 @ 10:30 pm The End of #Occupy? Or a Restart of New Economic Justice Movement? It had been said many times that the administration that followed the Bush administration would spend most of its energy cleaning up the damage caused by the Bush administration: the war, the economic slide, the astronomical government debt, etc. Far too many problems than could be solved in just four years. The foregone conclusion was that if a democrat was elected and did his best to make things right, it would be enough to convince the American people to elect him for a second term, and would instead elect a republican, and the same destructive policies that were were employed during the Bush administration would start up all over again (starting wars that only benefit contractors, short-lived bubble economies created by reducing or eliminating regulations and by funky bank loans). All the republicans would need to do is sit back and watch the next administration play out while being as unhelpful as possible. What they didn’t count on was that the next president – President Obama – would actually finish up his first four years with a multitude of accomplishments (the first move toward universal health care, the death of Al Qaeda’s leaders including Osama Bin Laden and the winding down of the wars). And the Occupy movement surprised everyone. It is a breath of fresh air to see the public rise up to protest against the economic injustice that we have been living with all this time. » Posted By jjgravitas On November 16, 2011 @ 1:14 pm Weekend Music Thread – Animal Attraction Bonzo Dog Band: Ali Baba’s Camel » Posted By jjgravitas On December 14, 2011 @ 10:46 pm Occupy – The Finest Form of Patriotism We really are at a tipping point, aren’t we? We should be focusing an extremely bright light on those who argue against a.) new taxes on corporations and the wealthy and b.) corporations in this country whose jobs are not located in this country. An extremely bright light on the Republican party and on their “no new taxes not ever” pledge that they force all republican politicians to agree to. And while we’re at it, we should force – yes I said force – the Supreme Court to reverse their ruling that allowed for unlimited amounts of money to be donated to election campaigns because it is obvious which party that ruling was designed to be helpful for: the republican party aka the support-the-rich-at-all-costs party. » Posted By jjgravitas On November 3, 2011 @ 12:44 pm No they didn’t. » Posted By jjgravitas On October 26, 2011 @ 2:55 pm Next Republican political candidate: Mr. Gumby! » Posted By jjgravitas On October 26, 2011 @ 2:10 pm Yes, well, what other name could you give to a political party that proposes to abolish science, abolish education, deify the rich, and make the poor pay for everything? Dangerously silly! » Posted By jjgravitas On October 26, 2011 @ 2:01 pm Maybe we should just change the name of the Republican Party. Call them the Silly Party. Leave it at that. » Posted By jjgravitas On October 26, 2011 @ 1:37 pm Getting It Wrong In Afghanistan: Victory and Loss in 2002 and Today FWIW, I support the idea of taking our troops our of Afganistan ASAP. I know there is still conflict, but I don’t know why it is still our fight. They have their new government, they should be able to stand up for themselves by now. We are not the world’s police. » Posted By jjgravitas On October 26, 2011 @ 3:32 pmComments Posted By jjgravitas
Just the same, thanks. 😉
In the days just before Congress closed for the Christmas 2011 holidays, Republican congress members were gathered ’round discussing their favorite movie “Braveheard” and how they identified with the heroes of that movie. But I think the movie that the movie that is the best metaphor for this year’s Republican behavior is “Mars Attacks!” To quote the movie: “They blew up Congress!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VepS-IyKOLE
I still have a pet peeve against the electoral college. Is it still working for us, or should it be abolished as I believe it should? It definitely betrayed us in 2000 when it went against the votes of the American people and picked the less popular man for president (not to mention the Florida debacle).
[img]http://orangecow.org/pythonet/pics/gumby1.jpg[/img]
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