Let me be the first to say it...

Ignorance is Bliss

Posted by TFDNihilist

Just came to say THIS, really.

Total Fuckin' D got there first me-sees.

Good eye there, TFDN!

Actually, that, combined with a tendency towards being wealthy elitist asswipes with less empathy than the average serial killer ensures the Right a huge advantage in the "Happy Happy Joy Joy" singalong competition.

Change frightens them.

The Status Quo is their friend.

Spud would rather be an aware and empathetic humane being rather than one of these slack-jawed, imbecilic ass-clowns anyday.

Be Well.

/Outta here fer a bit, as a tater do,
stage left.

Your a fuckehad

At least Spud can spell "fuckhead".

...and "you're" (although Spud admittedly prefers spelling that "yer" fer some strange reason)

Got the "a" part right though!

Spud likes to spell stuff.

Spud can fer example spell "race baiting"

Rethug code words like "state rights" meaning resistance to black advances used by Rotten Ronnie Reagan at the urging of Trent Lott in order to wean disaffected blue collar low info Dems away from their base and into Ronnie the Butchers blood-soaked hands.

The Party of Lincoln did indeed free the slaves but that was before before it became the party of entrenched racism that it is today.

Reagan the false saint also reversed a long standing ruling denying tax exempt status to private schools that held openly racist policies such as Bob Jones University (later over-ruled by the Supreme Court).

GOPher Geoff Davis saying about Obama that "that boy's fingers doesn't need to be on the button"

George Wallace standing in front of that school door.

This years crop of GOPher candidates refusing to take part in any Black or Hispanic debates.

Trent Lott saying how if more folk had voted fer segregationist shithead Strom Thurmond "we wouldn't have the problems we have today" basically saying that American attempts at seeking racial equality led directly to an unacceptable level of "uppitiness" amongst minorities.

The Segregationist Dems who crossed the line to become racist GOPhers, the so-called "dixie-crats" who even today factor in the GOPher's "Southern Strategy".

Jeb Bush adding innocent blacks onto his phoney "felony list" of folk who couldn't vote in Florida.

Momma Bush telling folks how the blacks affected by Hurricane Katrina were "better off".

Willie Horton ads. John McCain's push polled "black love-child"

Wy Rethug Senator Barbra Cubin essentially saying in the Senate that all blacks are drug addicts and thus shouldn't own guns and then being backed up by her fellow rethugs when the Dems demanded her words be censured and stricken.

R-tards like Rush Limpbaugh playing "Barack the Magic Negro" over and over again.

Face it asswipe, the GOP, fer at least the last fifty years, has been an elite club of wealthy white folks with a few token minorities who are willing to toe the racist/elitist/corporatist line. Folks like Alan Keyes and Michelle MalKKKin and Neo-Condi.

Got it now or does Spud hafta spell it out fer you again FUCKHEAD?

Be Well.

Everybody witnessed it

Witnessed wot?

If Spud didn't witness it then yer abolutist (and quite possibly insane) argument falls flat on it's face.

you can expect to be called on it. Every time

Uh-huh, let's just keep having this discussion then.

Over and over and over and over again.

S'fun fer Spud!

Woo Hoo!! ^_^

John McCain is a dangerous Piece Of Shit who doesn't deserve to be dog catcher and who, quite simply, lacks the capacity to make an effective leader.

Older than Raygun, the braindead assclown.

More corporately corrupted than Bush the Elder.

Stupider than Bush the Younger.

He's a pandering, disingenuous, rage-filled, lying, misogynistic, philandering, opportunistic, elitist, POS.

He's a whore mongering, fear mongering, war mongering BushCo Clone.

Do Not Want.

Can. Not. Afford.

His service is less than honorable and more than lethal (to the wrong side)

Fuck that traitorous bitch with a stick.

Does Spud know wot "The Official Story" is on McCain?

Yes, yes Spud does.

Does Spud buy into it?

No fucking way.

Be Well.

Spud's favorite part of this H12B visa scandals?

Watching Bill Gates going to Congress to beg for more H1B Visas by crying poverty and explaining how Microsoft needs them cheap Indian Techies in order to "stay competitive"

Musta taken some "keeping a straight face" lessons recently.

Musta aced that course.

Labour has been shit on by the powers that be for at least the last thirty years this merely another continuation of a long slow slide to the bottom ending with an internalised thrid world within the United States.

The propaganda in regards to workers rights is so thick in the US you can cut it with a knife and spread it on toast.

Did Spud just mention Workers Rights?

Oh Noes!1!! Commies under the bed !1!!EleventyOne!1

Be Well.

11 Ties. Obama with one more electoral vote than McLame.

The coroporate media and their elitist masters get their 49/51% solution yet again!

Quelle suprise./snark>

Fer now.

As Gal sez six months is a long way off and anything could happen yet.

Most Americans think they know McCain but they don't.

They will though if Spud has anything to do with it.

(heh heh) ^_^

Be Well.

Sorry but you can not support the troops and not the war if you think this is an illegal war as most Dems do.

~Timbuckfifty

Actually just cos YOU can't chew gum and walk at the same time doesn't mean other folk are incapable of doing two things at once.

In this case not supporting this war IS supporting the troops.

Supporting increases in VA spending that lead to better medical care and long term treatment of both physical and mental injuries as well as supporting better pay and saner tours of duty and not allowing the long term usage of National Guardmen as international warriors are all good ways to support the troops.

All ways that the BushCo bitches have countered.

The new GI Bill of Rights mentioned on another thread is another example.

Spud'll reppeat.

R-tards support the war and not the troops.

Dems support the troops and not the war.

The two top recipients of campaign funds from the troops in this campaign have gone to Ron Paul the anti Iraq war candidate on the right and Barrack Obama the real anti Iraq war candidate on the left.

That's who the troops support, Timster.

Them's the facts, you brain addled maroon.

Deal with it.

GObama '08 or you won't be supporting the troops!

Be Well.

"Dems divide by race, gender, class."?

GOPhers are the most racist, sexist and class-concious Party of the two easily.

Not even a contest there.

America is supposed to be a "classless society" and in many respects the GOPhers are that but only if you understand that Spud don't mean the good definition of "classless" there.

^_^

The Political Class is, by and large, the rich and the very rich and they get their agendas from even richer folks than themselves.

This is true of both parties.

Now, let's start looking a little bit closer at THAT divide and spend a lot less time wrapping half the nation's fingers around the other half's throats and vice versa.

That's wot the powers-that-be want and they don't just hope for it to happen.

They actively encourage it at every turn.

When you know wot to look for their game becomes increasingly obvious.

Spud knows wot to look for.

Is all them spuddish eyes, you see.

Or do you?

Be Well.

Dear Israel:
Please nuke my country at your earliest convenience

~Wob the Snuke Conveyor.

Israel's gots nukes?

Oh Noes!!

Well, then better stop making them America's number one foreign aid recipient cos under US Law it's illegal for America to provide funds to folks who harbour undeclared nuclear weaponry.

Maybe you can get them to pay all that money back too?

Jeez, that would sure be a shot in the arm, eh?

/Spud got a Masters Degree in Snarkasm.

//Going on the lecture circuit soon.

Note to spuddish snarkastic self:

Buy a jacket with leather patches on the elbows and a pipe or nobody'll take you seriously enuff.

Be Well.

Most Dems support the troops but not the war.

Which makes a refreshing change from the GOPhers who support the war but not the troops.

Be Well.

She's still Black... the top Diplomat of America is a Black woman put there by a Republican

Spud uses the "horticulture" in a sentence.

"You can lead a whore ta culture but ya can't make her think"

You are that whore, Wobbles.

Spud's posts are that culture.

Neo-Condi the Neo-Con-Artist achieved near total FAIL as "America's Top Diplomat".

She hasn't a single accomplishment to her name and a host of failures.

Christ on a cracker!

She makes John "I am the Walrus" Bolton look good in direct comparison and that's nearly impossible to do.

"Bob Geldoff"?

Worked tirelessly to achieve debt relief to Africa and then learned wot a "Vulture Fund" was.

Bobster got played.

Be Well.

PS: Fuck Time magazine.

GOPhers, being hopelessly over-zealous idealogues and True Believers, have an abysmal track record with the Enviroment.

From initial opposition to the idear of interfering with corporate profits in order to clean up the earth, water and air, to Reagan nominating James "Armageddon is a'coming" Watts as SecInt to Chimpy putting corporate lobbyists for the planets biggest polluters into the EPA at all levels, the GOPhers are quite simply eco-cidal freaks who should all dig a hole in their backyards and beat themselves in the head with a shovel until they fall down dead and ultimately become mulch, thus assauging Mother Earth anger and paying some small portion of their collective karmic debt back to the planet.

If the EPA stuck to catching polluters and stayed out of researching global warming hoaxes, we'd all be better off.

~RykersIsland

Are you an actual functionary of the massive Global Warming Denial Industry by Exxon Mobil and other corporate polluters or are you just a brain dead victom of their propaganda?

Inquiring minds wanna know.

/The more you know...

Be Well.

tigerbalm: Last election. 100% of Americans voted for a white guy.

Wobblybits: Last election I believe roughly 120 million Americans voted... so your statement is as faulty as the condoms your father bought...

Okay, let's ammend that shall we?

In the entirety of America's history everyone who has voted for the Dem or GOP nominee has voted for a White Man.

Of course the same thing can be said for Candian Prime Ministers but at least we had a female PM already, albeit briefly.

Be Well.

Spud: "Joe doesn't quite get why most black voters feel uncomfortable in the GOPher's "Big (White) Tent"?"

Joe: Your post is proof that you can't think of anything.

Nope, Spud knows exactly why black tend to vote Dem rather than GOPher but thinks it's funny that you don't (or won't admit it).

Why post at all?

Some people knit. Spud tried it and FAILed big time.

So now Spud is just blog. Is safer!

I wonder that about you quite often.

Wonder no more.

Back to the books.

Try Loving v. Virginia.

Note which party enacted the most Human Rights legislation.

Google "Dixiecrat" and "Southern Strategy"

Google "caging scandal"

Note who was especially disenfranchised by the GOPhers in that one.

Collect a bunch of boxtops and send 'em in to collect Clue#1.

Try and get the whole set.

Be Well.

Brilliant plan by the Obamites, btw, to call blue-collar Dems racists if they don't vote for The Holy One.

Actually, Spud's just calling them gullible, low-info rubes being played by Hillary's PT Barnum-esque Bullshit.

Besides ...are you seriously denying the spate of vagina-visioned (TM) Hill Shill's who accuse anyone who doesn't back their "Inevitable One" as being sexist?

That argument cuts both ways Corky.

Hill is playing to the blue collar base because they are quite simply the only people naive enuff to buy into her painfully obvious pandering and her "say anything" inauthentic bullshit.

Anyone with half a brain can see right through it and thus her only hope is too concentrate on the more numerous but less thoughtful blue collar set.

Shooting Crown Royal, changing accents, pandering with gas tax holiday proposals, all the while stealing unabashedly anything she thinks is working fer Obama and then acting like she originated it.

This election, moreso than most, is a real test of the gullibility of the American Electorate.

Regardless of whoever gets elected the country is still is serious trouble but out of the three candidates remaining only Obama has shown a resistance to the status quo mind-set that McCain and Hillary are such die-hard examples of.

If America truly wants another 4 more years of Corporate Corruption and erosion of America's moral standing in the world then America will reap wot she sows.

Between the MSM trying to lead them around by the nose as usual and Hillary and McCain bald faced lying to them by telling them wotever they think they wanna hear the low-info voter may very well chose against their own best interests once again. That sed, the idea that Obama wants to elevate the discussion to a higher level rather than play to the peanut gallery is a big plus not a negative.

Spud to Blue Collar Base:

Fuck electing someone you wanna go drinking with and try electing someone who has the brains and the guts to run the country the way it should be run.

Fer a change.

08ama '08.

Be Well.

A prenuptial agreement left much of the family's assets in Cindy McCain's name.

Ha! McLame is a bought and kept commodity.

Cindy's very own man-candy.

Maybe her and Theresa Heinz Kerry can compare notes?

Maybe all thm jokes at Kerry's expense can be used against John "Yes, I called my wife a Cunt" McCain in the General?

/Aint saying John's a gold-digger...

Be Well.

Wonder wot her deductions were fer pharmaceuticals?

...Or are drugs you steal from yer own charity not deductible?

Any Tax folk in the house to clear that one up?

Be Well.

Or have you just been provided with access to computers again, deth?

Spud's been werking hard after hardly werking fer a bit.

Dividing up his blogtime between this place and Fark and doing a lot more independant reading besides.

Also in the springtime the girls all smell better and Spud tends to spend inordinate amounts of time wandering around after them with a big dopey grin on his puss.

Also doing the Movie Thang again. Iron Man RAWKS!!!

Thanx fer askin'.

Be Well.

Are you saying that the GOP has done something to earn the Black vote? Please explain, with references where approriate. Blue Book form is preferred, but Red Book form is acceptable.

Ha! mOntecOre moves to the top of his class with that one.

Joe doesn't quite get why most black voters feel uncomfortable in the GOPher's "Big (White) Tent"?

O rly?

Tha's funny! ^_^

Shhhh, nobody tell him.

More funny that way.

Cagier too! ^_^

Be Well.

"Nobody's said I'm crazy," said Ybarra.

Ybarra, you, sirrah, ARE CRAZY.

Got that?

To clarify that... Ybarra is crazy in the sense that he is not gonna get no 20 million dollars fer his pet project here but maybe not so much in terms of his putting light on an issue largely untouched by the MSM.

The reason why the Latino vote is more courted than empowered is because they are to the left wot the religious whackjobs are to the right.

A base to be exploited but not overly empowered.

They are rightish only in the sense that their non-cafeteria Catholicism agrees with the Reichwing "ideal" of overturning Roe v. Wade but they are not really courted as such.

They are leftish in that they know the harshest anti-illegal immigrant rhetoric spews from the right.

The big fear behind acknowledging and empowering the growing Latino power base is the destruction or erosion of the traditional white elitist power base that is the other half of that zero sum game.

The Latino population time bomb will eventually cause the erosion of the white elitist power structure but that day is still far off.

This is a brilliant publicity stunt on one level and a travesty of democracy on another.

Spud can't decide whether to call shenanigans or offer up a *golf clap* here.

Be Well.

Shut the fuck up you stupid piece of shit.

S'matter Jeffy? Did Spud hit a nerve or sommat?

Righto is wrongo, friendo.

Never laid a glove on Spud to date despite yer faulty take on the situation.

McCain IS a traitorous POS.

Anyone who thinks he'd make a decent POTUS is a moronic POS.

G08ama!

Be Well.

During the first part of her speech tonight, I thought she was changing her style to Obama-Lite. Anybody else here echoes of the speech Obama made earlier?

The amorphous blob that is Hillary Clinton has shamelessly stolen sound byte, platforms, slogans, and rhetoric from Obama from the get-go of this campaign.

Spud indeed noticed the "Obama-lite" aspect to Hillary's 2% Victory speech that evening but merely thought it was a continuation of her earlier machine pol/focus grouped style of "say/steal anything politics.

She wishes to be all things to all people and thus it's impossible to tell wot she's really like.

Her and McCain remind Spud of a pair of Hollywood breasts.

They are both boobs and they are both fake.

Do. Not. Want.

Be Well.

Radio Free Vietnam!

Since 1992, Viet Tan operates a daily radio broadcast to Vietnam under the name "Radio Chan Troi Moi" (New Horizon Radio). The program airs every night from 8:30pm to 9:00pm on AM 1503 [6]. Despite efforts to jam the broadcast by the government, it can be heard in most areas of the country.

Goooooood evening Viet Nam!

Spud has a hard time believing that the Viet Tan or even it's earlier incarnations the National United Front for the Freedom of Vietnam (NUFLV) are not at least in part funded by the American government. While the NUFLV tried to encourage active resistance to the government of Vietnam through revolutionary means it's subsequent incarnations as the Vietnamese Reform Party and later the Viet Tan disavow the use of violent confrontation and are now committed to using peaceful means to promote democracy and pluralism to the people of Vietnam.

They have been labelled a terrorist organisation for a while now and while not falling strictly under that category in a traditional sense it is easy to se why the Vietnamese government considers them an illegitimate nuisance.

That sed, Vietnam has a lousy human rights record and Spud supports the efforts of groups like Reporters Without Borders to try and free these folks and also to keep this entire situation, including the current imprisonments, from disapearing off of the world's media radar.

Any form of authoritarian state deserves to be challenged; regardless of whether it labels itself, communist, socialist, monarchal or democratic.

Be Well.

Waiting for him to articulate what form of change he's talking about.

~Dion Celine

Ah, the ole "Empty Suit" argument.

Wot a fucknut you are.

Obama is a policy wonk's policy wonk. He used to get criticized for being too professorial in his speeches so he changed to be more uplifting and now he supposedly an empty suit because of that.

Changes? Off the top of me head...

Getting out of Iraq.

Investing in too long ignored Infrastructure.

Promoting a real National Healthcare plan one that benefits people rather than Aetna et al and the HMO's.

Talking with America's enemies rather than giving them a free pass.

Working on increasing Governmental Ethics.

Returning to fiscally responsible policies after the years of dangerously destructive and reckless GOPher "borrow and spend" madness.

Comprehensive national enviromental and energy policies that don't undercut each other.

Talking straight with the America People rather than pandering to them or treating them like retarded children a'la McCain and ClintCo.

In a sense the empty suit argument can be turned on it's head by noting that both McCain's suit and Hillary pantsuit are not empty.

They ARE FULL ...of SHIT.

Did anyone else catch McNutso on the Daily Show last night? Not answering a single question honestly. Turning every answer he gave into a dumbed down campaign sound byte. The guy thinks he's on easy street and all he has to do to get the Presidency is to largely avoid saying anything controversial or real.

He's wrong, of course, but that's the way he's playing it.

Straight Talk Express? NOT!

If McCain swallowed a nail he'd shit out a corkscrew.

Same fer Hillary. Natch.

08ama.

Be Well.

It seems the guys who purposely shot themselves in the foot are now pissed they're walking with a limp.

Ahhhhh!

Sweet!

Good 'un, 4thDan!

Spud is luff a good analogy.

That there was a great one.

Some things bear repeating.

Be Well.

One of the reasons that Mrs. Clinton is resolved to keep fighting is, I think, a resentment that she and many of her followers feel over sexism in the campaign. On that issue, she has a point. One of the political lessons of this year -- backed by psychological research and polling data -- is that the bar is probably higher for a woman candidate for president than for a black candidate

Sexism v. Racism?

Interesting but kinda not the real point here.

There may be a certain element of sexism inherent in the anti-Clinton voting block but in the main most Dem voters whom Spud has read in blog-world contend, as Spud does, that a woman POTUS would be a fine thing, indeed, the election of a woman President is historically overdue.

That sed, NOT THIS WOMAN.

The idea of Dynastic politics while not unknown in American politics (Think Kennedy, Bush, Roosevelt, Adams et al) is still antithetical to the very notion of a Democracy based on merit and a class free society.

GHW Bush was essentially Dick Cheney during Ronnie "The meat puppet" Reagan's reign of errors. Viewed in that light the Bush/Clinton/Bush Dynasties go back 28 years.

The development of the overly cosy, highly destructive relationship between BigGov and BigBiz (particularily the MIC) has benefitted massively from this continuity.

The more aware people are politically the more they are prone to a growing aversion to the status quo. They see that it is working out only for a very few individuals and is working against the vast majority.

What has been put (rather over-simply in Spud's judgement) as "Clinton Fatigue is in reality a fatigue over the sense that the "fix is in" in DC (for indeed that is the case).

The Powers-that-be in the US through their complient lap-dog MSM are invested in wot Spud refers to as the 51/49% solution. A permanent state of gridlock between so-called left and right elements in politics that allows their influence to have the most sway.

In a very real sense it doesn't matter who wins to them as long as the race is tight.

Hillary, by staying in the race, despite being unable to win satisfies this agenda.

What the powers-that-be fear most of all is wot they refer to in their client states as "super-nationalism" ie. a powerful political majority working to effect change that helps the vast majority of the people rather than just the people with all the money as well as the psychotic corporate personages who currently call the shots.

McCain and Hillary ar two peas in a pod in that regard. They are both thoroughly co-opted, corporately pre-approved, disingenuous, inauthentic, "say anything" pols.

Barack Obama while obviously a creature of that culture (no politician can afford not to be) is nowhere near as commited to and corrupted by the status quo.

G08ama '08.

Be Well.

/Yup, tis the Tater o' Doom, on his third coffee no less, entering the fantabulous realm of the blog-god, the Drudge Retort, as ya do
stage left.

Trying to corner the market in depleted uranium munitions?

One of the most keen and cutting ironies of the Iraq war is the fact that Bush used real nuclear weaponry (albeit low-grade) in an attempt to prevent the potential use of nuclear weaponry (which didn't exist).

Ah, life's rich pagent goes on and on.

If Cheney ever launches that nuclear tipped bunker buster at Iran's enrichment program (hidden deep underground in a couple of locations) then he will officially be calling for nuclear retaliation on US soil and if it occured then nobody on the fucking globe would shed a tear beyond the crocodile variety.

Forewarned.

Forearmed.

All that.

And so it goes.

Be Well.

Well if you follow that particular line of utter fucking stupidity, it means that a teacher can't confiscate a laser pointer and put it in her desk, either.

Ah, the utterly fucking ridiculous Pinchaloaf weighs in.

The reason laser pointers are taken away from kids is because they can potentially be used to blind folks.

Is Maosy Tongue arguing that Mexican Flags are a danger to the vision of the nation's youth?

"You'll poke yer eye out!" sez Mao.

Wot a pusstard.

Still wearing yer "I Voted Fer Hillary/Operation Chaos" badge proudly there ya cheatin' sack of shit?

Be Well.

"Those who can't do, teach.

Those who can't teach, teach gym."

Spud sez this so-called gym teacher outta be strung up and used as a human pinata as part of a belated Cinco De Mayo celebration.

People like that shouldn't be allowed to serve as mentors to the young.

Period.

Idaho is not only spud country but it's kinda got a rep fer having enclaves of racist fucksticks as well, sadly enuff.

This asswipe aint helping change that impression.

Be Well.

On Topic?

Somebody get Spud a silver bullet, a buncha garlic cloves, a stake, a bucket of holy water, and start singing The Morning After" backwards.

Seriously, Hilldawg has "the candidacy that refused to die".

Who's directing her campaign now?

George fucking Romero?

Ya don't say!/snark>

Obama has the numbers and is in the playoffs and Hill never made the cut.

So solly Charlie ClintCo but only good tasting tuna get to be Star-Kist.

Get over it!

The biatch just lent herself another 6 million dollars outta Bubba's "speakers fees" in order to try to catch up to Obama's massive number of supporters and campaign fundage apparently unable to come to grasp with the reality that he's not only winning this race but he's coming around the track and is ready lap her.

Barack is drink her milkshake. Drink it up.

She may be a disingenuous machine poll playing her unbelievable schtick to the LCD masses (ie. The only folks naive enuff to buy into her phoney accents and focus grouped lying sound bytes) but ya gotta admit she makes the energiser bunny look like a freakin' piker in direct comparison.

Spud to Hill:

Get in the box.

Nail yerself in.

It's over.

Momma sed BARACK you out!

08ama.

Be Well.

Now... where was Spud? Ah, yes, Spud is remember...

These media manufactured bullshit "controversies" are pathetic attempts to distract from the real and all too pressing issues that a BHO candidacy would try to effect positive change in.

The days of the corporate agendised MSM leading the electorate around by the nose are going the way of the dodo as more people wake up to the continual onslaught of non-issue molehills built up to be all important mountains.

The Media continues to dumb down and distract but despite their attempts many folks are beginning to think for themselves and wise up.

To see through the smoke and beyond the mirrors.

Can you say SWIFT BOAT?

John McCain was a sub moronic Navy Royalty brat who finished near the bottom of his acadamy class.

He still got to be a jet jockey because of his familial connections.

He destroyed 5 jets in total under questionable circumstances.

He started a fire on the USS Forrestal by wet starting his engine and igniting a missle which flew ahead of his plane ignited some jet fuel which led to an even larger flame.

132 Forrestal crewmen dead, 62 more injured and two missing and presumed dead

McCain was transported off the ship by helicopter and his part in the incident was covered up.

Many survivors of the fire believe that the reason John Sidney McCain III was so quickly whiskerd away was because the crew wanted his blood.

Spud aint talking about McCain's Pastor or a volunteer in an unofficial office or a lapel pin here.

Human lives.

Ended by John McCain.

Now ya wanna talk about the disgraceful way McCain rolled over fer the Viet Cong and betrayed his fellow soldiers at the Hanoi Hilton?

But sure, go ahead with yer manufactured non issues.

Good luck with that in November.

G08ama '08.

Be Well.

/McAncient is a physically challenged, intellectually inadaquate, superannuated, whore mongering, fear-mongering, war-mongering PSTD case with rage issues who's been turned into such a disingenuous, inauthentic Pander Bear by the most loathsome elements of the fascistical reichwing of the GOPher party that Spud can honestly say he doesn't have a single good quality to reccomend him fer the most powerful office in the land.

Same for the Cuban flag in Obama's Houston Office.
I didn't mention it because I didn't believe it, or thought if it were there in a photo that the photo was doctored. But then I saw it on a FOX news clip (I know that Fox and news is an oxymoronic pair of words) and the flag is there, with an image of Che on the flag.

I'm sure he didn't hang the flag and may not even know it is there but the RCM will not make such subtle distinctions. They will play that clip until doomsday, the first Tuesday in November.

Yeah, the reichwing trolls are all over that action like it actually means shit.

Coupla things here.

First, the folks who put up the flag in question were not paid Obama staffers but volunteers.

Second, it wasn't an official Obam,a campaign office.

Third, Obama rightly called the flag "offensive" when the flap first started making the rounds in the rightwingnut blogsites.

Fourth, WTF?!

Are you people are completely nuts?

Wright, Rezko, Maria Isabel, Flag Pins, Secret Muslim, Not black enuff, too black, Black Panthers, Secret Commie, Most Liberal Senator EVAR?!

Oh Noes!!!

These are the things you think are gonna sink Barack in November against McLame?

America is stupid but hopefully not that stupid.

The War and the Economy and the increasing corporate over-influence and corruption.

That's the real shit right there.

All three of those issues are actually one big issue.

See also: the Enviroment, Man Made Global Warming/ Climate Change.

TBC

Be Well.

Ever notice that latte liberals sound a lot like Republicans?

Actually the correct terminolgy there is "Wine Dems" as opposed to the "Beer Dems" that Hillariousness ClintCo so shamelessly and cynically panders to.

She offers to bribe them with their own money, talks shit about Obama like a right wing radio host, and pretends to be "one with the people" when in reality she's more of an elitist than McCain.

Her backers are some of the worst corporate monopolies in the country. She's part of the whole Nafta, Cafta, GATT outsourcing crowd and she pretends to be the opposite.

She's changes her accent to match up with where ever her schedule puts her and always claims to have a solid connection with wotever state she's trying to suck into her bald faced lies.

She's as inauthentic, disingenuous and down-right cynical as they come.

She's Rethuglican Lite in Dem's clothing.

Do. Not. Want.

Be Well.

/Of course she doesn't talk shit about gays and immigrants the way R-tards do, so yer comparison are somewot lacking.

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to National Journal's 27th annual vote ratings. The insurgent presidential candidate shifted further to the left last year in the run-up to the primaries, after ranking as the 16th- and 10th-most-liberal during his first two years in the Senate.
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I don't make this shit up.

No, but the National Journal does.

And yer quite correct to call it "shit".

On Thursday afternoon, political reporters across the country received a gushing email from the Republican National Committee, with a big picture of Barack Obama next to the words "Obama: Most Liberal Senator In 2007." It was a reference to the National Journal, Washington's big-deal political trade magazine, which released its annual bipolar rankings of the Senate. The results: Hillary Clinton was the 16th most liberal member of the Senate. Barack Obama was #1.

For those Democrats who still have nightmares from the 2004 election, the importance of this fact is unmistakable. Back then, Republicans repeatedly tarred nominee John Kerry with the fact that he had been ranked as the #1 most liberal member of Senate in 2003. Could it all be happening again? If Obama is the nominee, you can bet on it. In point of fact, both Obama and Clinton are relatively liberal members of the Senate. But "most liberal"? That sounds a bit like being the drunkest guy at a Superbowl party--not something to be proud of in a general election.

The more interesting question, though, is, Does this "most liberal" ranking actually mean anything? And the answer, once you look at the National Journal's methodology, is not really. I say this only because I got an email from Dave Meyer, a researcher here in DC, who is one of the many usually-unnamed people who toil behind the scenes in Washington brokering in information. Here is what Meyer wrote:

I actually browsed through the scorecard National Journal used to determine the ranking. There are precisely two scored votes where Obama took the liberal position and Clinton took the conservative. The first was Joe Lieberman's S.Amdt. 30 to S.Amdt. 3 to S.1 The Amendment was "To establish a Senate Office of Public Integrity." Here's the roll call of the 27-71 vote. Joining Obama on the "liberal" side -- meaning the side in support of Joe Lieberman's amendment -- were Republicans Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe Chuck Grassley, and John McCain.
The second was Jeff Bingaman's S.Amdt. 1267 to S.Amdt.1150 to S.1348, the Immigration Reform bill. The Amendment was "To remove the requirement that Y-1 nonimmigrant visa holders leave the United States before they are able to renew their visa." Here's the roll call of the 41-57 vote (60 votes needed to pass, so it failed by 19). Joining Obama on the "liberal' side were Richard Shelby, Chuck Hagel, and Tom Coburn.

So there you have it. Obama is more liberal than Clinton because he voted with John McCain, the most likely Republican nominee, and Tom Coburn, one of the Senate's most conservative members. Ain't political rankings a wonderful thing?

I still have not seen anyone show definitive proof of this. I have not seen anyone explain how we'd have decoupled the Japanese military from the peace negotiations, nor have I seen any precedents shown, from the 20th century prior to 1945 of the Japanese surrendering willingly. I don't believe the Japanese surrendered on any Pacific island. Seems to me they were big on fighting to the death. Finally, show things from the perspective of 1945, not 2008 or 1955.

There can be no "definitive proof" here as you well know or should. This is all speculative. Just as your assertion that the bombings saved lives is unprovable speculation by any "definitive" standard.

"Precedents"? There were no precedents for WWII just as there were no antecedants. The war was unique.

Some Japanese on some Pacific Islands did fight on to the death. Some even years later. This proves nothing in terms of how the state would react.

Every quote that Spud has pulled in order to bolster his argument was from people who were there in 1945 so yer final question about "info available in 1945" is specious.

The de-coupling of the military from the governmental power structure was done during the occupational period.

America would do well to try and relearn that skill today although in truth it's the CIA, NSA and other clandestine organisations who hold the true power while the Pentagon merely uses it's insane budget as a way of perpetually "priming the pump" in terms of the US economy with increasingly smaller and smaller gains each time.

Be Well.

/Yes, yes, well and truly gone now.

Eddie,

Yer plan actually makes sense to Spud.

It might even possibly work out so as to avoid having a shameful number of Veterans sleeping rough on the streets of America every night as we have too often seen.

Be Well.

/Thing to see
People to do
Spud's gotsata get going agin
stage left.

God, I HOPE Obama's a socialist. It's time we started evolving.

~Sagmain

Stifling an economy just to make it fair for everyone is evolution?

~The Pink and the Stink

Fair is evolution.

Unfair is devolution.

America is becoming more like a third world country everyday due to corporate over-influence.

Essentially, America is a democracy in name only and in practise is really a country run by the golden rule (ie. Them wot gots the gold makes the rules) which is the very anti-thesis of a democracy.

America's manufacturing base has all but fled in search of climates that do not have worker's rights or enviromental laws and that frequently have heavy handed regimes that enforce the will of government over the express wishes of the people.

The rich get richer.
The poor get poorer.
The middle class are squeezed out of existence.

Working towards social justice, less inequity and against corporate over-influence is not merely a matter of morals and self interest but one of survival in the long term.

The technology now exists that can make a "1984" like state work for BigGov/Big Biz perpetually and thus prevent any real meaningful social reform.

The time to become aware of these issues and to act is NOW.

The fierce urgency of now calls.

Listen up or lose big.

Be Well.

In several ways, recent news has been good to Clinton. She continues to win in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania where there are large numbers of white working-class voters. Arguably, her coalition of white working-class and Hispanic voters is equal to Obama's coalition of white-collar and African-American voters. Obama has been on the defensive lately, dealing with the continuing problem of his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and trying to explain his own comments that "bitter" blue-collar workers often "cling" to religion and guns instead of voting their economic interests. These two episodes--the Reverend Wright fiasco and "bitter-gate"--have revealed some chinks in Obama's armor.

But the problem for Clinton is that Obama has a clear lead in delegates and that, short of a sudden Obama collapse, there are not enough delegates left for her to pull even, never mind pull into the lead.

Here is the math. There are 4,048 total delegates. You need 2,025 to win the nomination. Of those delegates, about 80 percent are selected in primaries and caucuses by voters, and 20 percent are the so-called superdelegates--party leaders and elected officials who get to vote by virtue of their position. As of today, Clinton and Obama are almost tied in endorsements by superdelegates, but Obama holds a lead in the elected delegates. Using the New York Times's count, Obama has 1,735 delegates (a combined total of elected delegates and superdelegates) to Clinton's 1,601.

Looking ahead, there are eight contests in states or territories which will select about 400 delegates by June 3. There are also around 250 uncommitted superdelegates. The most likely scenario is that Clinton and Obama will split the remaining 400 elected delegates equally. North Carolina is likely to go for Obama. Indiana and West Virginia favor Clinton and, added together, they have nearly the same number of delegates as North Carolina. Later in May, you have Kentucky (51 delegates), which favors Clinton, and Oregon (52 delegates), which favors Obama. Puerto Rico is likely to go for Clinton, but Obama is likely to win the last two western states, Montana and South Dakota (so far, he has won all of the mountain and plains states).

If we assume a 50-50 split of these delegates, then Obama will be at 1,935 and Clinton at 1,801. Obama will only need the support of about one-quarter of the remaining superdelegates to get the nomination. These superdelegates are likely to move in Obama's direction as long as he maintains his lead.

History has obviously vindicated Truman, and proven Leahy wrong. How many American lives did dropping the bomb save? A million? A hundred thousand? How many Japanese--three million? One million? What difference does it make?

~WrongisWrong

History has not vindicated Harry Truman's decision to drop the bomb. Indeed the more we learn from those time the more obvious it has become that it was the wrong decision.

Japan would have surrendered w/o the bombs and all those lives would have been saved.

The concessions that Truman wanted to avoid ie. conditional surrender and the continuance of the Emporer were eventuially aceded to anyways so in truth the bomb only took lives and saved nothing.

BRIGADIER GENERAL CARTER CLARKE

(The military intelligence officer in charge of preparing intercepted Japanese cables - the MAGIC summaries - for Truman and his advisors)
"...when we didn't need to do it, and we knew we didn't need to do it, and they knew that we knew we didn't need to do it, we used them as an experiment for two atomic bombs."

Quoted in Gar Alperovitz, The Decision To Use the Atomic Bomb, pg. 359

GENERAL CARL "TOOEY" SPAATZ

(In charge of Air Force operations in the Pacific)
General Spaatz was the person who received the order for the Air Force to "deliver its first special bomb as soon as weather will permit visual bombing after about 3 August 1945..."(Leslie Groves, Now It Can Be Told, pg. 308). In a 1964 interview, Spaatz explained:

"The dropping of the atomic bomb was done by a military man under military orders. We're supposed to carry out orders and not question them."

In the same interview, Spaatz referred to the Japanese military's plan to get better peace terms, and he gave an alternative to the atomic bombings:

"If we were to go ahead with the plans for a conventional invasion with ground and naval forces, I believe the Japanese thought that they could inflict very heavy casualties on us and possibly as a result get better surrender terms. On the other hand if they knew or were told that no invasion would take place [and] that bombing would continue until the surrender, why I think the surrender would have taken place just about the same time." (Herbert Feis Papers, Box 103, N.B.C. Interviews, Carl Spaatz interview by Len Giovannitti, Library of Congress).

Be Well.

Do white, hate-filled, divisive, immoral antiChristian POS preachers like Hagee et al generally get a pass in the MSM?

No shit, Sherlock.

Moyers merely states the obvious here.

Wright is the victim of a massive corporate media attempt to assasinate his character. The great unwashed masses are more affected by it than the more informed types.

This election will be, as much as anything else, a geek test of the intelligence of the American population.

How scary is THAT?!

Let's hope America's grown up a little in the last eight years otherwise it's back to square one.

Be Well.

a fucking traitor!

Are you talking about McNutso again?

The guy who "wet started" his jet on the USS Forrestal and blew up a bomb on the wing of the jet behind him starting a masive fire on board in which many were injured?

Okay, that was merely a spoiled, thoughtless, military royalty brat trying to act like a hot shot not so much the act of traitor.

That sed, there are dark rumours that McInsane actually sold out his fellow captors in the Hanoi Hilton in order to achieve better conditions for himself and those rumours, if true, would make him a traitor.

His backing of this insane coroporate over-reach in Iraq makes him a traitor to the people of his country albeit a hero to the mostly American based multinationals whose agenda started the thing.

Be Well.

All is fair in love and war.

~Petrock

Bullshit.

Guess this means you won't be complaining the next time a mercenary is hung from a bridge and burned or someone gets their head cut off by an extremist?

Torture is okay with you, too?

How about if the Chinese drop an atomic bomb on the US from one of their shiny new nuclear subs?

That "fair" too?

Are the Geneva Conventions worth the paper they are written on to you?

Are anti-nuclear proliferation and other types of treaties worthless?

Are you totally amoral or immoral?

On Topic?

Spud still believe that Pat Tillman was killed before he could publicly come out against madness inherent in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

With so many PSTD cases wandering around in those countries along with the above-the-law mercenary types and special ops guys directed by the CIA and NSA it's a wonder there isn't more of this "friendly fire" than there is.

Be Well.

That Obama voluntarily took his name off the MI ballot is his problem.

Still making that reward chicanery and punish honesty argument?

Helldawg ClintCo is, simply put, one of the most disingenuous, cynical and corporately co-opted candidates in the race.

Crap, she begins to approach McCain is the crazy-assed loon competition.

From her obnoxious attempts to bribe the voters with their own money, her ever-changing accent depending on where she's talking, to her reckless unabashed courting of the low-info crowd she is proving herself to be the dangerously divisive and polarising figures in the race.

Her attempts to turn Obama into "the black candidate" rather than a guy who transcends the racial divides of America has been partially successful and totally reprehensible.

Fuck that biatch sez Spud.

Fuck her with a stick.

A truly new kind of politician would not have lied about, er, misrepresented his health care plan for much of a year as "universal". Until caught, that is.

Helldawg is especially beluffed by the HMOs and BigInsurers because her health care scheme is a plan to punish the uninsured by making people's payments mandatory regardless of their financial status.

That Hellacious surrogate Corky misrepresents Obama's position that considers people first and HMOs second as being "not universal" is no suprise.

Be Well.

The big O is a socialists and how that squares with Paul is beyond me.

Ah, the proganda is strong is this young one.

American proganda has spent billions of dollars over the last several decades convincing it's citizenry that socialism equates to communism which it doesn't.

In fact, one of the things that has made America the great country it still is in many respects is the hard fought and won gains for workers in the early part of the previous century. 5 day working week. Overtime. MAternity leave and so on and so forth.

Socialism within the bounds of a truly democratic structure is preferable to the kind of corporate fascism which America creeps closer and closer to becoming, day by day and year by year.

Infrastructure and social programs are things to be desired not derided.

Corporate Welfare and over-influence is to be derided and quashed where ever possible unless you are of a mind with asswipes like John Jay Rockerfeller who once stated that "Those who own everything should run everything"

That way lies a internal third world-ification of the once proud USA.

That is also the path yer on now, btw.

Be Well.

On Topic?

Of course Paul prefers Obama to McCain. Despite being half crazy RP was the only half sane candidate the reichwing nutjobs fielded this time out.

McCain is a dangerous lunatic and a meat puppet for the worst elements on the right despite being sold as being a Republican-lite anti-Bush.

The maintenance of unit cohesion and comradery is one of the primary arguments for Stop-Loss. I honestly believe that w/out Stop-Loss, we'd have a lot more casualties, because we'd be forced to send send understrength and thrown together units into a combat zone.

~Katieberry.

Not going into Iraq at all and only going after the Taliban and AQ in Afganistan and in Pakistan woulda been better still.

Iraq was, and is, a bridge too far.

Yer Stop-Loss argument is belied by the grim suicide statistics this article cites. Increased time in-country with decreased time back in the world leads inevitably to increased PSTD and suicide. Thus the unit's cohesion and morale are already decreased before they return to Iraq. Add into the mix the fact that the neo-Praetorian Guard ie. the Mercenaries get better wages and accomodation plus the inherent viciousness of house to house inter-urban combat against an insurgency/resistance movement and the ultimate unwinnability against a committed local resistance (all propaganda about AQ and "foreign fighters" aside) and you have a recipe for disaster.

The fact that troops were and largely still are being rotated out of an area after making alliances with locals just underscores in Spud's mind how the plan was always controlled chaos. Which is to say that BushCo planned for Iraq to go to hell and radicalise in order to perpetuate the thin excuses used to go into the country and stay there.

The US Government has signed thirty and fourty year agreements with the multinationals and there is no way in hell that they were signed w/o assurances that America would continue to provide reasons (similar to the BS excuses Israel uses in Palestine) in order to continue the unwarranted occupation.

BTW, the VA has been failing verterans for decades!!

~Eddie.

First thing you've sed in a long while that Spud has agreed with.

Still no excuse fer not fixing the thing but it's true nonetheless.

Be Well.

"MacArthur biographer William Manchester has described MacArthur's reaction to the issuance by the Allies of the Potsdam Proclamation to Japan: "...the Potsdam declaration in July, demand[ed] that Japan surrender unconditionally or face 'prompt and utter destruction.' MacArthur was appalled. He knew that the Japanese would never renounce their emperor, and that without him an orderly transition to peace would be impossible anyhow, because his people would never submit to Allied occupation unless he ordered it. Ironically, when the surrender did come, it was conditional, and the condition was a continuation of the imperial reign. Had the General's advice been followed, the resort to atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have been unnecessary."

William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur

Be Well.

ADMIRAL WILLIAM D. LEAHY

(Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman)

"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.

"The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children."

- William Leahy, I Was There, pg. 441.

Be Well.

"...in [July] 1945... Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. ...the Secretary, upon giving me the news of the successful bomb test in New Mexico, and of the plan for using it, asked for my reaction, apparently expecting a vigorous assent.

"During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude..."

- Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate For Change, pg. 380

In a Newsweek interview, Eisenhower again recalled the meeting with Stimson:

"...the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."

- Ike on Ike, Newsweek, 11/11/63

Be Well.

The US wanted the war to end. A naval blockade of Japan, although a strangling hold on the country, most likely would not have resulted in surrender.

Japan would have surrendered w/o the bombs being dropped.

The use of the atomic weaponry was more a case of being a display of raw power rather than a strategic neccessity.

In a sense perhaps they were neccessary in that the world needed to see what man's hand had wrought in prder to properly appreciate the new era that had been ushered in.

An argument can be made that w/o the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that a another display of power may have taken place possibly one using the later developed and more powerful He Bombs.

There was definitely never any need for both cities to be bombed.

That was overkill.

That was wrong.

Be Well.

If you're trying to say Wright and Hagee are equally bad...

Hagee is far worse than Wright.

Wright is more right than wrong in his assessment of social justice issues and race relations in America.

The character assassination attempt on Wright is mostly a creation of the corporate MSM who want either of the two corporately pre-approved candidates (ie. ClintCo or McSame) to win the Presidency.

If either of those two win then America loses.

Again.

Be Well.

Libs like to giv away my money, not theirs.

Posted by Sniper

Libs believe in social programs and infrastructure investment that benefits the vast majority while Rightwing assholes believe in corporate welfare and tax cuts for the well off minority.

There is a boot stomping down on their faces.

Whenever it gets close they attempt to kiss it.

They are beyond fools.

Their so-called "Culture of Life" is really a Culture of Lies and Death.

They are toadies to the loathsome.

Most unwell.

Be Well.

/More than half the world lives on a dollar a day. The US has helped, more than any other country on earth, to assure this status quo continues indefinitely all rhetoric to the contrary.

Hillary tries bribing voters with their own money despite being fully aware from previous attempts that the approach is flawed?

Why that's so obvious and cynical it just might work amongst voters too stupid to see past her pandering.

/That's pretty much her entire base, btw.

Be Well.

Sen Joe McCarthy was right

~unFathomable

You sir, are a total retard.

So much FAIL it hurts the eyes to look directly into any one of yer postings.

Be Well.

Comparing Congress to the Mafia isn't praising the Mafia it's insulting them.

Be Well.

I've never heard you clamor on about how we shouldn't have troops in Japan, Germany, England, Kuwait, wherever... Because they're not in any danger.

The comparisons are all ludicrously inapt.

Iraq is more like a combination of Palestine and Vietnam than any of the above.

Kuwait is a special case.

Kuwait may have aquiesed to the idear of allowing American forces in their mini-state but at they also stopped pegging their currency to the US Dollar about a year ago which turned out to be a pretty shrewd move.

They have no love for the US in Kuwait just fear and hate in the street and a cynical acceptance in the ruling elite.

Much like the Saudi fucksticks.

Be Well.

McInsane is a fucking nutjob.

A complete whacko.

How much of that is due to his inherent stupidity?
How much is due to his PTSD and rage issues?
How much is due to his creeping senility?

Hard to say really.

Prolly a combination of the above plus some advanced form of venereal disease he picked up back when he was a whoremongering shitheel who could still get it up.

Now he's just a war mongering, fear mongering, POS.

He's said our troops should stay in Iraq for another hundred years = Al Gore said he invented the Internet

A) Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet that's an invention of rightwing fucktards like Freako.

B) McLame actually has sed at various times "100 years", "1,000 years" and 10,000 years" in Iraq are "fine" with him.

John McSame thinks he can come off as some kind of fiscally restained conservative by harping on the warmark issue but he still thinks the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy (which he once denounced) need to be made permanent and he thinks the Iraq War costs can be kept up ferever.

He's just another R-tarded borrow and spend Rethug just like the BushCo boys and that murderous piece of shit Reagan.

The only person more ignorant than John McBush is any asshole dumb enuff to vote fer the SOB.

Be Well.

/Morning folks! Yup is Spud once again tutoring the trolls in the ways of righteousness, having entered the Drudge Retort, as ya do,
stage left.

Spud is so gonna see this one.

Prolly tommorow.

By all accounts it RAWKS!

Sweeeeet!

Jon Favre directing Robert Downey Jr as the millionaire/ death merchant/ scientist Tony Stark who sees the light and becomes a force fer good despite being troubled by inner darkness and alcoholism?

Woo Hoo!

Also Gwennie Paltrow is pure YUM!

Be Well.

Life is like a shit sandwich, the more bread ya got the less shit ya gotta taste.

Apparently, people with more money also feel less pain.

On Fark this one would come with an "Obvious" tag.

Be Well.

What armies do the corporations have?

Well the United Fruit Company has the American Army and the CIA to do their bidding since the 1930's.

The Iraq War was started not because of the threat of terrorism but because a consortium of BigOil interests wanted to de-nationalise Iraq's oilfields.

Most of American policy over the last sixty years or so has stemmed from an agenda from multinational corporations (mostly American based) not any long term needs/desires of the people despite wotever propaganda yer MSM is pitching this week.

One of the cold hard facts that the Media is largely in existence to distract from and counter.

Be Well.

I know. I'm one. And I've taken responsibility for my children, so that you won't have to.

No need to thank me. That's what a real man does.

~ReichisWrong

You make enuff enuff money to be able to afford to take care of yer kids and good fer you but to suggest fer a second that the huge numbers of people falling into bankrupcy annually over their inability to pay for medical issues in their families are all irresponsible does indeed reek of arrogance and elitism.

America's for-profit health care system stinks.

America becomes less of a democracy and more of a corporatocracy daily and all to the cheering of fools like Reich.

You are a sad excuse for a human being, Reich.

You are a typical "I got mine" Rethug.

You are pathetic inhumanity masquerading as responsiblity while supporting the corporate welfare state that robs the citizens of their right to dignity.

Yer an evil, fascist fucktard.

Be Well.

The disaster of New Orleans before and after Katrina rests solely on Nagin and Blanco.
You know it, I know it, the whole world knows it.
A racist mayor and a ineffectual governer, both democrats.

~Right Wing Dumb

Heckuva post, Dummy!

Nagin and Blanco share responsibility with Bush and Brownie.

A corporate meat puppet and a hand picked incompetant loyal Bushie in a previously cabinet level position.

All sane people know that.

/Hey RWDumstain, if you know any sane people (which Spud doubts//...maybe you could get one of them to explain that to you
///...slowly.

Be Well.

I see JOHNSON still confuses "adaptation" with "devolution".

~Zed

See also: "ass" and "a hole in the ground"

The list of stuff wot TJ is confused about is well nigh endless.

Be Well.

Spud,

No not Japanese I just ran across that term somewhere. The joke is on me tho as I thought is was more synonymous with wageslave, but a quick search reveals that it seems to have a middle management connotation.

whada ya gonna do?

Meh, on Drudge Spud is 8 1/2 inch tall talking potato and on Fark I'm an 8 1/2 foot tall Sasquatch typa guy.

Ya make yer bed and ya lie in it one supposes.

Ta fer replying.

We need a name for those "antis," who support terrorists, the equivalent of what the term "fellow travelers" described for those who supported communism. I thought of a euphonious term, but have decided to table it for now rather than publishing it immediately

~Tiny Johnson

Coupla things here.

First, nobody in the upper levels of the US Government was ever seriously thinking that the Soviets were gonna take over the world but it did provide an excuse to continue on the profligate Militarty spending and occasional purges w/i the US (Think McCarthyism) and so the lie continued fer decades.

Second, you sir are, in fact, the supporter of terrorism not Spud.

You support the policies that lead to increased terrorism. You support Gitmo and Amerca's other torture sites which are hardening world opinion against the US and especially radicalising parts of the Islamic world towards increased acts of radical terrorism.

You support terrorism both abroad and at home.

Spud works to counter terrorism both foreign and domestic.

Spud knows you are rarely right about anything and thus shouldn't be suprised at yer blatent misunderstanding and deliberate ignorance on the topic and yet still Spud feels a need to rub yer nose in yer own stink until you begin to get the idea.

..or at least some small semblance of an idea.

/Ya work with wot ya got.

Be Well.

/Outtie
stage left.

The wife was rightfully convicted of manslaughter, but the husband should have had murder charges brought against him.

~G-man.

Agreed.

By shooting at a fleeing individual the Hubby was no longer "protecting" his wife he was committing an act of revenge.

A shame Darrell isn't as sharp with his wits as he is with his gun.

~Zap.

Maybe yes, maybe no.

Spud remembers when this story first appeared here how at the time Spud speculated that the "rape" story was made up after the shooting and prior to the phone call to the police and that the idea originated by the enraged hubby (still holding his smoking gun) and agreed to by the cheating wife.

Possibly they thought neither of them would go to jail if they just stuck to that story.

As it is Spud reckons the two of them both deserve time in jail and the dead guy deserves a post-humous Darwin Award fer fucking the wife of a Texan who looks like he eats concrete for breakfast cos he likes the taste.

Waiting for the press to get Dr. Laura's take. She seems to have a lot of followers on the DR.

~Phoenix

Whaaaaa?!

"Docta" Laura is an insane, megalamaniacal, bitch-assed control freak who should just STFU and go DIAF.

Be Well.

/Not really here.

American Military Authorities have always taken a kind of solace in the fact that Red China has never undertaken to develop a fleet of Aircraft Carriers from which they would be able to project their power in order to back up their "diplomatic" efforts in the same way the US has and does.

See: Persian Gulf.

That sed, the "Heathen Chinee are a particularily tricky people".

In the meanwhile, they have swept ahead of the US in terms of building faster and quieter attack subs than the US.

Recently, Spud recalls a story in which a Chinese Sub made it's presence known in the middle of an American sub excercise. It showed up out of nowhere and then fucked off in a way that they were not able to be caught up to.

This wasn't an accident.

It was the PRC's way of saying: Don't Fuck With Us, Round-eye!

When Nixon signed off on the "One China" policy it set the seeds for the eventual end of democratic Taiwan.

Nixon got a much needed photo op in the midst of the Vietnam War debacle and tons of media cred fer his "ping pong diplomacy" and China got exactly wot they wanted in terms of long range goals.

China obviously had closely observed the US routine of crushing existing socialistic governments who were at least somewot responsible for their peoples interests and then installing corrupt and brutal dictatorships who crushed unions and offered sweetheart deals to multinationals who were mostly US based causing a flight of capitol to the west.

China called Shenanigans on that action.

The opening up of China has not led to the masive external outflow of capitol to foreign companies as has been the case in far too many parts of the world and thus they are in a far better position to commit resources to these kinds of long term projects.

While America has used the international drug trade (under Reagan/Bush I) and, more recently, the exagerated threat of terrorism (Bush II) in order to further perpetuate the Pentagon system of massive public spending on military systems they have for the most part ignored the growing threat of an actual non third world entity that is very real and growing.

Wotta bunch of fuckin' morons sez Spud.

Neat story Zat!

Be Well.

/Not really here yet.