tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post7741541941486375839..comments2023-09-15T08:07:28.542-06:00Comments on Western Hero: Mr Obama, You're No Reagan!Silverfiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-20830771128931981292011-10-26T05:14:51.776-06:002011-10-26T05:14:51.776-06:00Wasps have a sting. More like gnats...Wasps have a sting. More like gnats...Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-49812673716121926062011-10-25T21:01:31.314-06:002011-10-25T21:01:31.314-06:00I suspect Bd may have taken a new nom de plume, al...I suspect Bd may have taken a new <i>nom de plume</i>, although people of Bd's ilk have reached epidemic proportions. Very sadly his name is Legion.<br /><br />It's like a swarm of of wasps.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-12562390931419083892011-10-25T20:03:13.165-06:002011-10-25T20:03:13.165-06:00she's one dimensional and gets all of her thou...<i> she's one dimensional and gets all of her thoughts and facts from Fox News</i><br /><br />Speaking of sound bites with no substance...Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-27222170102703977672011-10-25T19:13:01.749-06:002011-10-25T19:13:01.749-06:00Don't bother trying to swede Leticia Ducky, sh...Don't bother trying to swede Leticia Ducky, she's one dimensional and gets all of her thoughts and facts from Fox News. She's a walking sound bite with no substance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-64215354633589688832011-10-25T16:53:28.275-06:002011-10-25T16:53:28.275-06:00Ducky, no matter how I respond I am sure you would...Ducky, no matter how I respond I am sure you would find fault with it. My statement stands fine on its own.Trekkie4Everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03226981394122557804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-4280886923038544372011-10-25T15:19:19.098-06:002011-10-25T15:19:19.098-06:00OWS?
I suppose that stands for
One World Social...OWS? <br /><br />I suppose that stands for<br /><br /><b>One World Socialism</b>? <br /><br /><b>Outraged Wasps Seething</b>?<br /><br /><b>Our World Shattering</b>?<br /><br /><b>Out With Sarcasm</b>?<br /><br />If I ruled the world I would ban the use of acronyms and cryptic combinations of initials -- the lazy man's way of communicating with pretensions to erudition.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-55871046448289641892011-10-25T12:08:00.293-06:002011-10-25T12:08:00.293-06:00So AOW, now that we realize there is broad agreeme...So AOW, now that we realize there is broad agreement on Freethinker's premise, why isn't there an alliance?<br /><br /> The Tea Party wasn't interested in what the left had to say but OWS is open to anyone who agrees with Freethinker.<br /><br /> While OWS is criticized for not having a list of complaints that completely misses the goal. The nightly meetings are meant to allow everyone to have a voice. No, not efficient but it does allow people to have a voice. Experience a format that is a means to collect opinion.<br /><br /> But we'll still yap about his birth certificate or whether or not he's a socialist. And the "sensible" people are going to continue to spin their wheels in that crap.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-42358609546188800592011-10-25T04:58:58.601-06:002011-10-25T04:58:58.601-06:00FreeThinke,
sensible people of modest means are ca...FreeThinke,<br /><i>sensible people of modest means are caught in the threshing machine run by the fiends...</i><br /><br />Perfect analogy as to what this mess is. **sigh**Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-7711818660788591642011-10-24T20:04:35.585-06:002011-10-24T20:04:35.585-06:00And now it's MY turn to be vulgar
This just i...And now it's MY turn to be vulgar<br /><br />This just in from The Netwits:<br /><br /><i>Here's another way to look at the U.S. Debt Ceiling:<br /> <br />Let's say, you come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood....and your home has sewage all the way up to the ceiling.<br /> <br /><b>What do you think you should do …… Raise the ceiling, or pump out the shit?</b></i><br /> <br />Your chance to implement your choice is coming in November of 2012 .......<br /><br />Submitted by FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-21427620942583346692011-10-24T19:54:05.095-06:002011-10-24T19:54:05.095-06:00"You are vulgar."
Well, look who's ...<i>"You are vulgar."</i><br /><br />Well, <i>look</i> who's talking. <br /><br />Oh the irony! The incredible irony! Whenever the pot calls the kettle "black," I have to stifle the urge to indulge in hysterical laughter.<br /><br />Whatever quibbling and questionable bandying about of selected facts you want to indulge in the fact remains that under Carter everything turned to excrement, the misery index was at an all-time high, and our prestige abroad was shot.<br /><br />All that changed radically under Mr. Reagan's watch. Happy Days were here again.<br /><br />Then it all started to disintegrate under the mealy-mouthed, limp-wristed leadership of George Herbert Walker Bush. Disgusted Conservatives got sucked in by Ross Perot and didn't spot his hidden agenda till it was too late. <br /><br />As a result we got Klintoon who quickly turned the presidency into a dirty joke and a lunatic farce, and the White House into a whorehouse, which made us the laughingstock of the world.<br /><br />Then we got Dubya whose bumbling incompetence and crypto-Liberal policies took us from the frying pan into the fire.<br /><br />What we have now is the end-product of a severe case of ptomaine poisoning that gurgles and seethes in America's rectum bursting through her anus with quasi-volcanic blasts of putrefaction and noxious vapor.<br /><br />So Mr. Reagan does, indeed, appear like a Knight in Shining Armor in comparison to everything that has threatened to engulf, contaminate and destroy the country at both ends of his presidency.<br /><br />Your assertions about Iran-Contra are patently absurd.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-63367018322983029942011-10-24T18:56:26.766-06:002011-10-24T18:56:26.766-06:00Leticia was he a man of great moral force when he ...Leticia was he a man of great moral force when he swapped arms for hostages?<br /><br />Iran/contra was your idea of moral rectitude?<br /><br />Financing butchers of nuns and priests in Salvador made him a great man?<br /><br />Financing a civil war in Guatemala that killed a quarter million at least made him a great man? A moral man?<br /><br />Raising taxes on the middle class while giving a tax break to the unproductive "investor" class is your idea of a moral economy?<br /><br />Yeah, I know, if we hadn't increased the defense budget and spent hundreds of millions on magic missile shield the Soviet Union would have never fallen. And by claiming we did the work you insult Solidarnosc, the Prague Spring, the samizdat writers and everyone going back to the Hungarian revolt. The one's who did the heavy lifting. You are vulgar.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-6308165008471944412011-10-24T18:47:28.530-06:002011-10-24T18:47:28.530-06:00thanks, FT. it did fit, didn't it.
Leticia, ...thanks, FT. it did fit, didn't it.<br /><br />Leticia, you're so right....no comparison in all the important things.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-64180805364734489442011-10-24T16:56:32.893-06:002011-10-24T16:56:32.893-06:00It's almost unfair to compare the incompetence...It's almost unfair to compare the incompetence of the Obama administration with the Reagan administration.<br /><br />Reagan was a man of high morals and truly cared for this nation and our military personnel and would never have place this great nation into the financial turmoil we have found ourselves in.Trekkie4Everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03226981394122557804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-56679711963982232262011-10-24T15:48:21.045-06:002011-10-24T15:48:21.045-06:00Lol, no, Obama's no Reagan. He hasn't rais...Lol, no, Obama's no Reagan. He hasn't raised taxed 11 times but Reagan also advocated taxing the rich at a higher rate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-89108474043362600402011-10-24T15:28:05.140-06:002011-10-24T15:28:05.140-06:00"Free marketeers know that government cannot ...<i>"Free marketeers know that government cannot borrow the recovery."</i><br /><br />Good one, Z!<br /><br />~ FTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-72324286638822902252011-10-24T15:23:40.538-06:002011-10-24T15:23:40.538-06:00By the way SilverFiddle, I meant to say this right...By the way SilverFiddle, I meant to say this right after I first read your post, but got asstracked instead. Sorry!<br /><br />Anyway, how could Economics properly be called a "science," when it's nothing but assertions, conjecture and educated guesswork based on wishful thinking and statistics manipulated by agenda-driven intellectuals to support their pet theories?<br /><br />My Mother's Recipe Card File is a more authentic example of Science than any cockamamie economic theory I've ever heard of. When you do exactly what my Mama tells you, your company dinners come out perfect every single time. <br /><br />THAT'S Science.<br /><br />Could even the great Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek or even the more whimsical Art Laffer make a similar claim?<br /><br />Economics is in the same class with Astrology, Numerology and Phrenology and Zoroastrianism. <br /><br />'Tis far more farce than force I fear.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-64754636467303734962011-10-24T15:18:37.296-06:002011-10-24T15:18:37.296-06:00YOu wrote "Free marketeers know that governme...YOu wrote "Free marketeers know that government cannot power the recovery."<br /><br />I mistakenly read it "Free marketeers know that government cannot borrow the recover." I think that's appropriate, too, :-)<br />Economic success and freedom means not being in debt to the tune we are.<br />O's economic failure can be blamed on that, too, of course.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-19703945260792468642011-10-24T15:13:12.905-06:002011-10-24T15:13:12.905-06:00"assrack" --- It's a local phrase...."assrack" --- It's a local phrase.<br /><br />A human shell that doesn't have a freaking brain and is nothing more than a walking, unthinking rack for an asshole. Think about it and then blame the government because your paper screwed the pooch.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-72043644414249899902011-10-24T15:09:59.250-06:002011-10-24T15:09:59.250-06:00But they almost never hear of the "Brown Scar...But they almost never hear of the "Brown Scare" of the 1930s, when liberals painted political opponents as incipient fascists.<br /><br />-----<br /><br />Large potion of the nation was either pro-Germany or isolationist. Wasn't much of a strategy.<br /><br />FDR had a tough time managing the sanctions that eventually got Japan to attack. It was about the only way he could get us into the war after he had decided we'd come out as the only economy standing. <br /><br />Not an apt analogy.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-61073030452229552592011-10-24T15:07:29.895-06:002011-10-24T15:07:29.895-06:00It's an excellent essay, AOW. Unfortunately, s...It's an excellent essay, AOW. Unfortunately, sensible people of modest means are caught in the threshing machine run by the fiends whose ambition is to gain and hold dictatorial power -- and the feckless fools who look to them for "salvation." <br /><br />–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––<br /><br /><i>" ... Reagan actually inherited a much stronger economy than did Obama.</i>"<br /><br />There you go again, Jersey!<br /><br />You're kidding, right?<br /><br />I was in my forties when Mr. Reagan first took office. Jimmy Carter left us with record high interest rates -- <i>I was carrying a <b>13.75% mortgage</b> at the time</i>. <br /><br />By the time Mr. Carter was evicted from the White House, the Dow was somewhere in the vicinity of <b>700</b> -- that's SEVEN-<i>HUNDRED</i>. The stock market was in a state of virtual paralysis.<br /><br />Mr. Carter took office 35 years ago. How old were you at the time -- maybe <i>seven</i>? <br /><br />I don't know where you get your information, Jersey, but if I were you, I'd start looking at other sources. From what you tell us, you must get informed by MADD Magazine -- or maybe The Daily Worker? <br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-56107357645985832742011-10-24T15:04:48.551-06:002011-10-24T15:04:48.551-06:0098ZJUSMC -- interesting Raygun factoid. His only d...98ZJUSMC -- interesting Raygun factoid. His only decent acting performance was the one time he played a heavy.<br /><br /> He's the mob head in Don Siegel's excellent version of "The Killer's". Give it a look, skip the rest of his crap even though you're obviously an uncritical fan.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-75061843654116325122011-10-24T15:00:35.274-06:002011-10-24T15:00:35.274-06:00The cost of debt servicing means absolutely nothin...The cost of debt servicing means absolutely nothing, Silverfiddle?<br /><br />Are you sure you don't want to reconsider.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-15870365545036409922011-10-24T14:44:31.961-06:002011-10-24T14:44:31.961-06:00It's a difficult comparison, be it 1980 v 2012...It's a difficult comparison, be it 1980 v 2012 or Reagan V Obama.<br /><br />Inflation is not the issue it was in 1980, so right there you have a huge contrast. As well, Reagan actually inherited a much stronger economy than did Obama. As well, tax rates were very, very different in 1980. Post-recession unemployment has gone on longer and longer after ever recession since the 1970's. Then there's a the huge difference in trade, energy dependence, and on and on.<br /><br />Volker, an architect of our modern economy should be blamed for our condition today, not lauded and looked to for further instruction.<br /><br />Obama's biggest mistake was allowing the Bush tax cuts to remain in place. He and the Dems had the opportunity to undue that irresponsible policy and failed to do so.<br /><br />So no, Obama is not all that different than Reagan - he's made some unfortunate but easy decisions that have in the end hurt him politically, and kept the country from recovering from yet another catastrophic consequence of conservative mismanagement and malfeasance. <br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-71193395434518399522011-10-24T14:23:02.249-06:002011-10-24T14:23:02.249-06:00Today, at the dentist's office, I had to wait ...Today, at the dentist's office, I had to wait a few minutes. A copy of today's <i>Wall Street Journal</i> was on the reading table in the waiting room. I read <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903327904576524753805400370.html#printMode" rel="nofollow">this essay</a>. Excerpt:<br /><br /><i><b>Obama's Re-Election Model Is FDR</b><br /><br />With the economy sinking in 1937, Roosevelt accused business of sabotage.<br /><br />President Obama is cozying up to the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, intending to make resentment of big business a central theme of his re-election campaign. Here he's following the lead of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who tried to convince the public that Wall Street was to blame for the double-dip recession that plagued his second administration....</i><br /><br />Also note this from the essay:<br /><br /><i>American students are all familiar with the "Red Scare" that followed World War I, and even more with the one led by Joseph McCarthy in the early years of the Cold War. But they almost never hear of the "Brown Scare" of the 1930s, when liberals painted political opponents as incipient fascists.</i><br /><br />More at the above link, and much of the essay is spot on, IMO. We are presently seeing Obama demonizing big business -- and for the purpose of getting re-elected.<br /><br />The American electorate are particularly vulnerable to that ploy, particularly during times of economic turmoil. Clearly, we hadn't seen this much economic turmoil in the United States since the days of FDR.<br /><br />Obama would much rather pretend that he's a Ronald Reagan than take the risk of the electorate's discovery that he's closer to channeling FDR.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-11961786579107258102011-10-24T11:51:24.788-06:002011-10-24T11:51:24.788-06:00SF says - This is an msnbc talking point to dress ...SF says - <i>This is an msnbc talking point to dress up the fact than Obama has racked up more debt than Reagan and Bush combined, and he's done it in only a few short years.</i><br /><br />Is that where the artsy types go for their biting and incisive political commentary?<br /><br />Who'd a thunk it?<br /><br /><i>Saint Ronnie Raygun</i><br /><br />LMAO. It <i><b>never</b></i> gets old. Nevah!<br /><br /><i> Deroy Murdoch is a assrack.</i><br /><br />House-sitting Krugman's cat today?98ZJUSMChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00835592067007059336noreply@blogger.com