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- drgz0
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When conservatives come to power in 2 years, it will be exactly like this
- TheBlueOne0
Sarah Palin keeps calling herself a "grizzly mom", the proper term for a female bear is "grizzly sow"...just thought I'd be helpful....
- thought you were super focused on only the important issues********
- Well all the major news networks seem to focus on this has-been idiotTheBlueOne
- true they do. thought you didnt. i find no reason mentioning her.********
- but see thats what i meant by teams. i know you know she is inconsequential. and yet you post. all i can take from it is indirect attack to the right********
- its an indirect attack to the "right". unless you really feel she is threatenign and are attacking her i apologize********
- I called her an idiot not inconsequential. She'll still be the leading nominee for Republican Presidency..TheBlueOne
- So one "team" likes idiots. You can ignore that at your peril. Besides you seem to like that "team" so stuff it asshatTheBlueOne
- Nice one deathboy... zing********
- thought you were super focused on only the important issues
- TheBlueOne0
What a collapsing Empire looks like...
- TheBlueOne0
"but see thats what i meant by teams. i know you know she is inconsequential. and yet you post. all i can take from it is indirect attack to the right"
Welcome to reality. That's the problem with libertarians in particular and most people who tend to be starry eyed idealists. I recognize there are "teams" as you put it, and they tend to be simplistic, idiotic, manipulated, and generally have ill advised and biased views of reality.
The problem is that these "teams" are in fact the structure of political discussion and power, irregardless of the , so you have to deal with them. They may be idiotic and senseless, but inconsequential they are not. They are powerful. And sarcasm is one very useful tool to deal with the powerful. See Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, etc. Yes, it's an indirect attack on the powerful, not the "right".
Sure, Palin is a moron, but that moron is now and probably will be the leading candidate for the Republican party in 2012. You can't dismiss her
It's like Galileo saying "The earth is round, and that's the undeniable truth and this Catholic Church team are idiots, so therefore they are inconsequential." Which would be a mistake of course, because the Catholic Church "team" had power over life, limb and property and idn't like being told what the "truth" is.
You know, like one of the "teams" out there that is so unhinged form reality they're calling a middle of the road corporatist president a "maoist". Or they think there are concentration camps being built. Or they can't articulate what it is about the 14th amendment that's bugging them, only that it needs to be repealed "because it's about inequality" despite 150 years of jurisprudance on it that dictates vast swaths of the things that underpin our current working political/social order.
Just because people are idiots doesn't make them "inconsequential". In fact, it turns out the idiots tend to figure out how to be so consequential to systems that they end up running them, and you ignore that at your peril (See Soviet Union, Stalin's Italy, most major corporations, American High Schools, etc..and so on throughout all time)
- dasohr0
fuck Afghanistan
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- georgesIII0
how predictable,
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What collapsing empire looks like
By Glenn Greenwald
http://www.salon.com/news/opinio…
What collapsing empire looks likeAs we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military pay. But a new New York Times article today illustrates as vividly as anything else what a collapsing empire looks like, as it profiles just a few of the budget cuts which cities around the country are being forced to make. This is a sampling of what one finds:
Plenty of businesses and governments furloughed workers this year, but Hawaii went further -- it furloughed its schoolchildren. Public schools across the state closed on 17 Fridays during the past school year to save money, giving students the shortest academic year in the nation.
Many transit systems have cut service to make ends meet, but Clayton County, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, decided to cut all the way, and shut down its entire public bus system. Its last buses ran on March 31, stranding 8,400 daily riders.
Even public safety has not been immune to the budget ax. In Colorado Springs, the downturn will be remembered, quite literally, as a dark age: the city switched off a third of its 24,512 streetlights to save money on electricity, while trimming its police force and auctioning off its police helicopters.
There are some lovely photos accompanying the article, including one showing what a darkened street in Colorado looks like as a result of not being able to afford street lights. Read the article to revel in the details of this widespread misery. Meanwhile, the tiniest sliver of the wealthiest -- the ones who caused these problems in the first place -- continues to thrive. Let's recall what former IMF Chief Economist Simon Johnson said last year in The Atlantic about what happens in under-developed and developing countries when an elite-caused financial crises ensues:
Squeezing the oligarchs, though, is seldom the strategy of choice among emerging-market governments. Quite the contrary: at the outset of the crisis, the oligarchs are usually among the first to get extra help from the government, such as preferential access to foreign currency, or maybe a nice tax break, or -- here's a classic Kremlin bailout technique -- the assumption of private debt obligations by the government. Under duress, generosity toward old friends takes many innovative forms. Meanwhile, needing to squeeze someone, most emerging-market governments look first to ordinary working folk -- at least until the riots grow too large.
The real question is whether the American public is too apathetic and trained into submission for that to ever happen.
UPDATE: It's probably also worth noting this Wall St. Journal article from last month -- with a subheadline warning: "Back to Stone Age" -- which describes how "paved roads, historical emblems of American achievement, are being torn up across rural America and replaced with gravel or other rough surfaces as counties struggle with tight budgets and dwindling state and federal revenue." Utah is seriously considering eliminating the 12th grade, or making it optional. And it was announced this week that "Camden [New Jersey] is preparing to permanently shut its library system by the end of the year, potentially leaving residents of the impoverished city among the few in the United States unable to borrow a library book free."
Does anyone doubt that once a society ceases to be able to afford schools, public transit, paved roads, libraries and street lights -- or once it chooses not to be able to afford those things in pursuit of imperial priorities and the maintenance of a vast Surveillance and National Security State -- that a very serious problem has arisen, that things have gone seriously awry, that imperial collapse, by definition, is an imminent inevitability? Anyway, I just wanted to leave everyone with some light and cheerful thoughts as we head into the weekend.
- Continuity0
74LEObump
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The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime: extravagant and out of touch with the American people
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- who are the "big majorities of Mainstream Americans"?plash
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House called back to bail out states
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.co…
On NBC’s “Meet the Press," House Minority Leader John Boehner claimed, “The American people are screaming at the tops of their lungs to Washington, stop. Stop the spending, stop the job killing policies and yet the democrats from Washington refuse to listen.”
Boehner even suggested pulling the plug on the stimulus bill altogether to prevent the expenditure of the estimated $400- to 500-billion which hasn’t yet been spent.
- joeth0
Sad times when we stop seeing the value in basic investments...
Krugman: America Goes Dark
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/0…
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- A rocky patch, indeed.********
- "...corporate profits are up 65 percent from two years ago", Oh yes, very tough times for big business.IRNlun6
- A rocky patch, indeed.
- ********0
"Michelle (My Belle) had a beach closed down in Spain after taking 40 of her best friends there and leasing 60 rooms in a five-star hotel (paid for by you) because they deserve it. But you have to pay up. The Obamas preach against capitalism while living off of it."
-Rush
- Vote for Sarah Palin next time around, bottom feeder.DrBombay
- I BET YOU WILL, AFTER WHO YOU VOTED FOR THIS PAST ELECTION!********
- Soooooooooo stupid!!! And the sad part is, you still stick up for this guys BS!!!********
- Stooooooooopiddddddd... Hey dumb ass??? hows it going with that hope and change in your pocket!!!********
- Vote for Palin then. It is your option to do that.DrBombay
- Haaa haa haha********
- You quote Rush to prove what point? I mean, the man lies when he breathes.luckyorphan
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shes not really a political opponent. more money in entertainment
- She has a ton of idiots fooled then.DrBombay
- does that include you?********
- If you Obamaites think that Palin is running for the Republicans next time out, you're a delusional clad.********
- Or, it's wishful thinking....********
- ********0
- Or is it a macabre, "good riddance?"********
- How about a "Who the fuck is this guy?"locustsloth
- I can tell you watch the news, //cough.********
- Rot in hell scumbag Stevens! LMAO @ Jazxutopian
- Well, well, well, there you go, the class of the "Liberal" class, interesting.********
- Yeah it was classy of stevens to enrich himself off of the taxpayers back too.DrBombay
- you mean like BO?********
- Or is it a macabre, "good riddance?"
