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Republicans to the Unemployed: You're Lazy
Post Date: 2010-06-25 11:56:39 by Brian S
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Salt, meet wound. Wound being unemployment, and salt being the suggestion that the worst economy since the Great Depression was created by its powerless victims -- the jobless. Republicans, do tell: If so many jobs are ripe for plucking, explain the five applicants for every job. (Down from six a few months ago. Oh joy.) Why would anyone believe unemployment is voluntary when there is so much evidence to the contrary? The answer is surprisingly simple: Because that belief makes them feel good. Life is not fair, we learned in childhood. Apparently we never got over it. The psychology term "just-world phenomenon" has been around for only half a century, but the practice of assuming ...
Sarah Palin Is Toxic
Post Date: 2010-06-24 15:16:02 by Brian S
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Commentators keep telling us how influential Sarah Palin's endorsements are, and even if the whole "mama grizzly" meme is clearly overstated, there's no quibbling with the fact that Palin has pull among GOP primary voters. But the more interesting point to be made about Palin is how toxic she's become among the broader electorate. In fact, buried in the internals of the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is an amusing number: A majority see a Palin endorsement as a clear negative. The poll asked people how they'd respond if a Congressional candidate had various hypothetical attributes. Asked how they'd feel if a candidate were "endorsed by Sarah ...
An Open Letter to President Obama From Jon Voight
Post Date: 2010-06-22 21:39:38 by Murron
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An Open Letter to President Obama From Jon Voight President Obama: You will be the first American president that lied to the Jewish people, and the American people as well, when you said that you would defend Israel, the only Democratic state in the Middle East, against all their enemies. You have done just the opposite. You have propagandized Israel, until they look like they are everyone's enemy — and it has resonated throughout the world. You are putting Israel in harm's way, and you have promoted anti-Semitism throughout the world. You have brought this to a people who have given the world the Ten Commandments and most laws we live by today. The Jewish people have given ...
war falls apart at his 3rd new home. Goldi, 22rifle and Packrat1145 were right about him. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-22 17:59:58 by Happy Quanzaa
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To: war Cut the bullshit. You can't alter content of articles. Are you that f**king stupid? On the titles I already answered you elsewhere. Now have you ever altered any other content of articles. I may already know the answer. Lets see if you can be honest. A K A Stone posted on 2010-06-12 Post Comment Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest #1. To: rifle22 (#0) I apologize for defending war that one time r22 WhiteSands posted on 2010-06-12 21:49:40 ET Reply Trace #2. To: WhiteSands (#1) Aw man, no need to apologize. But thanks. 22rifle posted on 2010-06-13 0:05:11 ET Reply Trace #3. To: WhiteSands (#0) Lets see if you can ...
Don't blame McChrystal, blame Obama
Post Date: 2010-06-22 17:24:25 by WhiteSands
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Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal should not lose his job because of the article about him in Rolling Stone magazine. If anyone deserves blame for the latest airing of the administration’s internal feuds over Afghanistan, it is President Obama. For months Obama has tolerated deep divisions between his military and civilian aides over how to implement the counterinsurgency strategy he announced last December. The divide has made it practically impossible to fashion a coherent politico-military plan, led to frequent disputes over tactics and contributed to a sharp deterioration in the administration’s relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The virtue of the Rolling Stone article ...
GOP Response to Gulf Spill a Model of Incoherence
Post Date: 2010-06-21 20:12:26 by go65
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Like a chorus of vuvuzelas, Republican commentary on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a din that could win the World Culp for incoherent messaging if there were such a trophy. Obama should do more. Obama should do less. The feds should crack down on BP. The feds should ease off on BP. Fix the problems that caused the blowout in mile-deep water. Keep drilling in mile- deep water. Joe Barton (right) apologizes to BP, then apologizes for the apology, which was too much even for ultra- partisan John Boehner, the GOP's top banana in the House. Michele Bachmann calls the $20 billion compensation escrow agreed to by BP a "redistribution-of- wealth" fund, as if requiring ...
Why Crist Now Leads Rubio in Florida Senate Race (Crist 42%, Rubio 31%, Meek 14%)
Post Date: 2010-06-21 19:22:44 by Brian S
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Florida's Republican Governor Charlie Crist is now leading in polls against Republican Marco Rubio for the 2010 Florida Senate race, where Crist will run as an independent. Crist's break with his party was seen as a sign that the GOP's hard-line conservatives were growing in power over the moderate wing of the party. A recent poll by the Florida Chamber of Commerce shows Crist with 42 percent support, giving Rubio 31 percent and Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek 14 percent. After months of Rubio leading Crist, often by double digits, the new poll is the latest showing a Crist resurgence. How did he do it and what does it mean for the Florida and for national races?Economy No ...
Neocons Lead Charge Against Turkey
Post Date: 2010-06-21 16:44:15 by Brian S
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As the right-wing leadership of the organised US Jewish community defends Israel against international condemnation for its deadly seizure of a flotilla bearing humanitarian supplies for Gaza, a familiar clutch of neo-conservative hawks is going on the offensive against what they see as the flotilla's chief defender, Turkey. Outraged by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's repeated denunciations of the May 31 Israeli raid, as well as his co-sponsorship with Brazil of an agreement with Iran designed to promote renewed negotiations with the West on Tehran's nuclear programme, some neo-conservatives are even demanding that the US try to expel Ankara from NATO as one among several ...
Bill O'Reilly: The Left turns on Obama
Post Date: 2010-06-21 15:43:33 by Badeye
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Bill O'Reilly: The Left turns on Obama By: Bill O'Reilly Examiner Columnist June 21, 2010 Hell has frozen over! The far Left in America is turning on its guy President Obama. After his speech on the oil disaster a few days ago, the crazy left Greek chorus on MSNBC hammered the president. He wasn't specific enough, he was too weak, I don't sense "executive command," they wailed. You would have thought they were talking about President George W. Bush. In fact, many of the anti-Obama criticisms echoed the Hurricane Katrina invective directed toward Bush in 2005. Usually, the far Left covers for its folks, provides them excuse after excuse for their failures. But ...
America Is Declining, With Middle Powers Challenging Its Supremacy
Post Date: 2010-06-20 19:52:57 by Brian S
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Long, unfinished wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – coupled with the global recession triggered by the excesses of Wall Street – are widely seen as symptoms of the relative decline in the economic and military clout of the United States. Rising middle-level powers such as Turkey and Iran in the Middle East and Brazil in South America now are challenging the diplomatic supremacy of Washington. Earlier this month, the new contours of diplomatic power were on display in Istanbul. The city was the site of the summit of the 20-member Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building in Asia, which was presided over by the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The event also ...
Why, Really, Was The USS Liberty Attacked By Israel?
Post Date: 2010-06-20 19:41:38 by Brian S
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The following is my keynote address to the annual re-union dinner of the Liberty Veterans’ Association – Long Island, 12 June 2010. I want to begin by saying that though I covered wars wherever they were taking place on Planet Earth in my television reporting days – it was in Vietnam as a very young correspondent that I first started to ask myself questions about why things are as they are in the world – I am an Englishman and one who didn’t serve in his country’s armed forces. (Not because I was a draft dodger. Conscription had ended). So it is both an honour and a privilege for me to be with you this evening. And please believe me, I really mean it. I’m ...
Inside the Mind of the Anonymous Online Poster (long editorial)
Post Date: 2010-06-20 19:41:06 by Murron
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Inside the Mind of the Anonymous Online Poster Neil Swidey 2010-06-19 On Monday, May 17, at 2 p.m., a breaking news article headlined “Obama’s aunt given OK to stay in United States” hits the home page of Boston.com. In a matter of seconds, the first anonymous online comment appears. A reader with the handle of Peregrinite writes, “of course she can . . . can someone appeal.” Certain topics never fail to generate a flood of impassioned reactions online: immigration, President Obama, federal taxes, “birthers,” and race. This story about Obama’s Kenyan aunt, who had been exposed as an illegal immigrant living in public housing in Boston and who was ...
AIPAC Circulates Racist Anti-Turk, Anti-Arab Video
Post Date: 2010-06-20 13:45:47 by Brian S
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ments 120 The "pro-Israel" lobby is slipping big time. First, earlier this spring, its student activities czar, Jonathan Kessler, openly spoke about how AIPAC muzzles Congress. But this is worse. Yesterday, it's press liaison circulated a blatantly racist video. (He sent it out to his media contacts by email to avoid too much of a direct link to AIPAC. Nice try). In days of yore, AIPAC would never do anything this blatant. But then neither would Israel, which has also been promoting these videos. Check it out. I have no problem with a pro-Israel lobby. But not one like this which evidently cares nothing about Israel but only about sucking up to ...
The Barton Apology: Proving Conservatives Want America to Be Dependent on Big Oil
Post Date: 2010-06-18 13:33:26 by Brian S
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Before Rep. Joe Barton literally apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward for the "tragedy" of the "$20 billion shakedown" -- otherwise known to the sane as an escrow fund to pay claims to victims of the Gulf gusher -- he stressed he was not speaking for the Republican Party. Fair enough. But he was certainly speaking for conservatism. And Barton's astonishing apology to the disgraced multinational oil behemoth lays bare the sorry state of conservatism -- an ideology so blinded by hatred for anything associated with liberalism, and so compromised by financial relationships to Big Oil, that it will junk any philosophical principle, ignore all science and reject all common ...
A Snakebit President
Post Date: 2010-06-18 12:24:53 by Badeye
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A Snakebit President Americans want leaders on whom the sun shines. By PEGGY NOONAN The president is starting to look snakebit. He's starting to look unlucky, like Jimmy Carter. It wasn't Mr. Carter's fault that the American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran, but he handled it badly, and suffered. He defied the rule of the King in "Pippin," the Broadway show of Carter's era, who spoke of "the rule that every general knows by heart, that it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart." Mr. Carter's opposite was Bill Clinton, on whom fortune smiled with eight years of relative peace and a worldwide economic boom. What misfortune ...
Gulf oil spill puts industry-friendly Republicans in tight spot
Post Date: 2010-06-18 10:29:41 by go65
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Who says there's no such thing as loyalty in politics? Rep. Joe L. Barton (R-Tex.), who has received more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from the oil industry during this election cycle, revealed Thursday that he may be the only person in America who believes that BP deserves an apology for the way it has been treated during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Although Barton later retracted his suggestion that BP was the victim of a White House "shakedown" -- after House GOP leaders threatened to take away his position as ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee -- the episode showed the uncomfortable spot in which some Republicans find themselves. This ...
Gulf Oil Spill Puts Industry-Friendly Republicans In Tight Spot
Post Date: 2010-06-18 00:25:54 by Brian S
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Who says there's no such thing as loyalty in politics? Rep. Joe L. Barton (R-Tex.), who has received more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from the oil industry during this election cycle, revealed Thursday that he may be the only person in America who believes that BP deserves an apology for the way it has been treated during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Although Barton later retracted his suggestion that BP was the victim of a White House "shakedown" -- after House GOP leaders threatened to take away his position as ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee -- the episode showed the uncomfortable spot in which some Republicans find themselves. This ...
Goldi Really Posted This? (LOL)
Post Date: 2010-06-16 12:26:34 by no gnu taxes
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http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=291219&Disp=1#C1
The Economics of Libertarianism, Revealed
Post Date: 2010-06-16 09:31:57 by go65
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It is both the best and worst of times for libertarians. On the plus side, real, live politicians who might conceivably get elected call themselves libertarians. On the negative side, true libertarians have lost their ancient luxury of being able to avoid any responsibility for the gaffes and errors of political leaders. Libertarianism rests on two bedrock beliefs: human freedom is a great good and the public sector tends to screw things up. The first belief is based more on faith than empirical result; the second derives from millennia of human experience. The increased appeal of libertarianism today reflects a nonpartisan view that the public sector has been deeply problematic under ...
Will Republicans Miss Opportunity?
Post Date: 2010-06-15 15:17:38 by Brian S
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Can there be a more fortunate politician on Earth than Nevada Sen. Harry Reid? The Senate majority leader has seen his popularity plunge in the Silver State. He led the fight for the health care bill, opposed by a majority of Nevada citizens, according to state polls. Reid also had his fingerprints all over the bailouts. In a time when insider politicians are under fire, Reid is the ultimate insider. But he may yet get re-elected. Republican Party leaders in the state had backed a candidate they felt confident would easily defeat Reid — former state party chairwoman Sue Lowden. She had the political connections to run a strong, statewide campaign. Lowden is a solid conservative, but ...
The Drudge factor
Post Date: 2010-06-15 09:35:25 by Badeye
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The Drudge factor By Brent Budowsky - 06/14/10 06:49 PM ET In the latest debate about Matt Drudge, Mark Halperin of Time magazine suggests that Drudge appeals to racism among a portion of his readers. I often agree with Halperin, but he misses the point. Drudge does not appeal to racism. This is wrong about Drudge and insulting to his readers, and diverts attention from the big question: With so many wealthy liberals and Democrats, with Democrats controlling the presidency and Congress, and with Hollywood and New York full of brilliant, wealthy liberal stars and moguls, why does the right have such a media lead over the left? Drudge is no different from elements of the press since ...
A Gusher of Light Sweet Terror
Post Date: 2010-06-14 19:22:13 by Brian S
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“We need to be realistic about operating in a mile of water” Tony Hayward, the cherubic little weasel who serves as the front man for British Petroleum, BP, Beyond Pathetic or whatever they are calling their ‘brand’ this week, made the statement above, on camera to reporters while standing on an oil fouled Louisiana beach a couple of weeks ago. Earlier that day I had a fairly heated argument with an elderly acquaintance who recently became enraptured by the ‘Teabaggers.’ This giddy political infatuation has had the gruesome effect of making him more of a pain in the ass than he was previously. At one point in the ‘discussion’ he asked me why BP was ...
Crimes by Israel, Sanctions for Iran
Post Date: 2010-06-14 15:19:02 by Brian S
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The Iranian nation is not unfamiliar with the double standards of the superpowers anymore. The history of Iran's relations with the western and eastern superpowers is filled with deceitfulness, dishonesty and fraudulence. The recent U.S.-proposed, Russia-backed United Nations Security Council resolution against Iran over its nuclear program is simply one example out of hundreds of instances which demonstrate that the big powers have not ever been honest and sincere with Iran.
While the international community is witness to the flagrant, ceaseless and unrelenting felonies of the illegitimate regime of Israel in the occupied territories of Gaza and West Bank, United Nations Security ...
Is The Tea Party Over?
Post Date: 2010-06-14 15:06:58 by Brian S
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Is the tea party movement already weak tea? Has the anti-government, anti-Obama movement already peaked? A new ABC-Washington Post poll shows that half of Americans now view the tea party unfavorably. Besides that, its political endorsements have not turned out as well as many had hoped. In Nevada, tea party members are fussing and finger-pointing over the election of Sharron Angle as the GOP nominee to face Harry Reid. Some are pointing out the obvious: Angle, a former state legislator with fringe views, isn’t the strongest candidate against Reid. In Virginia, tea partiers put forward so many candidates for congressional seats that establishment-backed candidates won the nomination. ...
Helen Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel
Post Date: 2010-06-11 12:58:21 by Badeye
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Helen Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel The world cares deeply about refugees, disputed territory, and divided cities — when Israel is involved. Otherwise, otherwise. It is hard to become much more influential than the doyen of the White House press corps, who is given a ceremonial front-rows seat at press briefings and press conferences. So when Helen Thomas suggested that the Israelis should leave their country and “go home” to Poland and Germany, this was not some obscure, eccentric anti-Semite, but a liberal insider who has come to enjoy iconic status and a sense of exemption from criticism. Note that Ms. Thomas did not call for just a West Bank free of ...
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