This is beyond infantile...all this Rev Wright shit 24/7...so he was over the top from his pulpit.,..who cares? Ready for $5 per gallon gas? OH right Americans don't give a flying shit about that.
bulldog909
· 1 year ago
Why would we think that gas won't hit $5 per gallon? WE consume it like crazy, China/India/Russia now consume as much as we do (20 million bpd). We do nothing to increase supply, blocking drilling in ANWR, the Gulf, and the outer shelf. Don't blame the oil companies, they just sell it. WE are to blame. Use less, produce more, prices will drop, but ultimately pressure from a growing China will keep prices high unless we offer big incentives to the auto makers to produce electrics or fuel cells. They won't out of fear of being stuck again if prices for gas drop and everyone rushes back to SUV's.
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
"we must constantly remind Americans -- as well as ourselves -- that the country is moving steadily in our direction"
You are right AJ and that makes me happy and nervous. I fear the right will lash out at US in one way or another as punishment.
ccokz- what are they going to do when they can't go down any further? Lower rates seems to be all they think will work.
jr
· 1 year ago
"we love culture war distractions to get the unwashed to vote for tax cuts for us"-millionaire cable news anchors
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
great post A.J.
never give up.
jimfromthefoothills
· 1 year ago
Thank you!!! Our economy is melting down and all basketball head Tim Russert can talk about is flag pins. If Andrea likud Mitchell gets tired of talking about flag pins basketball head Russert will change the topic to Rev. Wright.
Here's a thought ABC, CBS and NBC, why not have some economists as guests? Talk about our national accounts, GDP versus consumption, trade deficits, savings rates and government deficits. Is that too much to ask of you morons? Do your fucking jobs.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Yeah...culture war distractions...isn't it just about time for "fag marriage"?
CJramsey
· 1 year ago
The MSM has gone insane focusing on this absurd trivia. When in the world are they going to spend an equal amount of time on the truly important issues?
jaclemons222
· 1 year ago
CJRamsey writes:
"The MSM has gone insane focusing on this absurd trivia. When in the world are they going to spend an equal amount of time on the truly important issues?"
Yeah! Like the use of the word "pansy"! That's what the media should focus on! We reap what we sow.
PORTAGE, Ind. – Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said this afternoon that recent comments by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright were “offensive,” “outrageous,” “off base,” and “far out,” and tweaked Senator Barack Obama for making clear his own condemnation of his former pastor’s words on Tuesday – “finally,” she said.
I'm waiting to say....."Hillary has dropped out of the race....finally."
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
Confirmation of problems with Al Qaida has come from our own State Department (finally) and yet this information doesn't seem to make the news. MSNBC has virtually NOTHING on their network regarding the war and only CNN has some small sampling of the goings on in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is shameful what has happened to our so called independent media! ========================================================= Al-Qaida has rebuilt some of its pre-Sept. 11 capabilities from remote hiding places in Pakistan, leading to a jump in attacks last year in that country and neighboring Afghanistan, the Bush administration said Wednesday.
Attacks in Pakistan doubled between 2006 and 2007 and the number of fatalities quadrupled, the State Department said in its annual terrorism report. In Afghanistan, the number of attacks rose 16 percent, to 1,127 incidents last year.
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
"The report says attacks in Iraq dipped slightly between 2006 and 2007, but they still accounted for 60 percent of worldwide terrorism fatalities, including 17 of the 19 Americans who were killed in attacks last year. The other two were killed in Afghanistan.
More than 22,000 people were killed by terrorists around the world in 2007, 8 percent more than in 2006, although the overall number of attacks fell, the report says.
The report once again identifies Iran as the world's "most active" state sponsor of terrorism for supporting Palestinian extremists and insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, where it says elements of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps continued to provide militants with weapons, training and funding."
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
"In Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, al-Qaida and its affiliates remain "the greatest terrorist threat to the United States and its partners" despite ongoing efforts to combat followers of Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to the report. It says Zawahiri has emerged as the group's "strategic and operational planner."
"It has reconstituted some of its pre-9/11 operational capabilities through the exploitation of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, replacement of captured or killed operational lieutenants, and the restoration of some central control by its top leadership, in particular Ayman al-Zawahiri," it says. Dailey, however, stressed that al-Qaida is still weaker overall than it was before Sept. 11, 2001."
Bluestocking
· 1 year ago
"Our policies in Iraq -- not to mention places like Pakistan, Indonesia, Somalia, Iran, North Korea -- make America and the world a more dangerous place. Expert upon expert and report after report say so, and they're correct. The right wing wants to tie this common-sense argument to controversial figures so they can marginalize ideas along with individuals, and it's a smear tactic that can be devastating if people don't stand up and identify it for what it is. They're not making substantive critiques, they're using the politics of destruction and distraction."
Absolutely -- very good point. A few things that I've never understood and never will understand about conservatives -- or perhaps more specifically, neoconservatives -- is their apparent inability (or refusal) to recognize 1) that everything's connected, 2) that what works in theory doesn't necessarily work in practice, 3) that actions never occur in a vacuum, and 4) that sometimes even the very best or most noble intentions simply don't compensate for poor judgment. Collectively, neoconservatives strike me as being very much like spoiled and petulant children who view themselves as not only having the power to cut-and-sew the world to their liking -- but having the right or even the *duty* to do it, the freedom to do whatever they like whenever they like wherever they like with complete immunity and impunity because they're the only ones who know what's best. (Of course, smart people know that arrogance of such colossal magnitude is more often than not the refuge of the profoundly insecure). Ironically, however, they don't hesitate to criticize other people who they feel are not "taking personal responsibility" -- a clear-cut case of Freudian projection if I've ever seen it.
Andon
· 1 year ago
"I don't believe it's in the American character to bully"
Thats rich. 230 years of beligerence against just about every other country in the world at one time or another and yet the delusion lives on. Face it, this is self-serving rubbish. Look in the mirror again and this time take off the rose colored glasses.
I love your posts but do you really think the American policies are not a type of bully policy? Off hand I can't bring up any specifics but over the years I have read about the US interfering in various other countries political processes. Isn't that a form of being a bully?
bulldog909
· 1 year ago
Yes! Like interfereing in South Africa's political process of apartheid, or Serbia's process of ethnic cleansing. We should just butt out and stop bullying people, right?
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
Aquarius, I think you are double posting again today. Is it the software or a glitch in your computer?
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
jenniloon 3 minutes ago -------------------------------------------------------------- Most certainly the Republicans are bullies, but more broadly, our government which is run by BOTH parties, tends to want to dominate the world's activities in all manners of form.
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
The Prize: Iran has taken command of its nuclear technology and could have an atomic bomb in a year, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz was quoted as saying Wednesday, citing Israeli intelligence. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208...
Despite Republican roadblocks, America continues to progress. Can you imagine the medical advances under a Democratic administration? What if science and education were once again respected and not silenced for speaking the truth? The grand prize would be freedom from the control of the religious lunatic fringe. The winners would be the entire planet.
jenniloon
· 1 year ago
i think the republicans are bullies.
jenniloon
· 1 year ago
one prize: SCOTUS. i'm reading Toobin's The Nine, and it's scary. Scalia - Thomas - very very scary.
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You are right AJ and that makes me happy and nervous. I fear the right will lash out at US in one way or another as punishment.
ccokz- what are they going to do when they can't go down any further? Lower rates seems to be all they think will work.
never give up.
Here's a thought ABC, CBS and NBC, why not have some economists as guests? Talk about our national accounts, GDP versus consumption, trade deficits, savings rates and government deficits. Is that too much to ask of you morons? Do your fucking jobs.
"The MSM has gone insane focusing on this absurd trivia. When in the world are they going to spend an equal amount of time on the truly important issues?"
Yeah! Like the use of the word "pansy"! That's what the media should focus on!
We reap what we sow.
The USS Lincoln enters the Persian Gulf and the US denies it's planning to invade Iran. Also today, the US released a report claiming Iran is the top state sponsor of "terrorism".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080430/pl_afp/mex...
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.asp...
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/c...
I'm waiting to say....."Hillary has dropped out of the race....finally."
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Al-Qaida has rebuilt some of its pre-Sept. 11 capabilities from remote hiding places in Pakistan, leading to a jump in attacks last year in that country and neighboring Afghanistan, the Bush administration said Wednesday.
Attacks in Pakistan doubled between 2006 and 2007 and the number of fatalities quadrupled, the State Department said in its annual terrorism report. In Afghanistan, the number of attacks rose 16 percent, to 1,127 incidents last year.
More than 22,000 people were killed by terrorists around the world in 2007, 8 percent more than in 2006, although the overall number of attacks fell, the report says.
The report once again identifies Iran as the world's "most active" state sponsor of terrorism for supporting Palestinian extremists and insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, where it says elements of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps continued to provide militants with weapons, training and funding."
"It has reconstituted some of its pre-9/11 operational capabilities through the exploitation of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, replacement of captured or killed operational lieutenants, and the restoration of some central control by its top leadership, in particular Ayman al-Zawahiri," it says. Dailey, however, stressed that al-Qaida is still weaker overall than it was before Sept. 11, 2001."
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Absolutely -- very good point. A few things that I've never understood and never will understand about conservatives -- or perhaps more specifically, neoconservatives -- is their apparent inability (or refusal) to recognize 1) that everything's connected, 2) that what works in theory doesn't necessarily work in practice, 3) that actions never occur in a vacuum, and 4) that sometimes even the very best or most noble intentions simply don't compensate for poor judgment. Collectively, neoconservatives strike me as being very much like spoiled and petulant children who view themselves as not only having the power to cut-and-sew the world to their liking -- but having the right or even the *duty* to do it, the freedom to do whatever they like whenever they like wherever they like with complete immunity and impunity because they're the only ones who know what's best. (Of course, smart people know that arrogance of such colossal magnitude is more often than not the refuge of the profoundly insecure). Ironically, however, they don't hesitate to criticize other people who they feel are not "taking personal responsibility" -- a clear-cut case of Freudian projection if I've ever seen it.
Thats rich. 230 years of beligerence against just about every other country in the world at one time or another and yet the delusion lives on. Face it, this is self-serving rubbish. Look in the mirror again and this time take off the rose colored glasses.
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Agreed!
I love your posts but do you really think the American policies are not a type of bully policy? Off hand I can't bring up any specifics but over the years I have read about the US interfering in various other countries political processes. Isn't that a form of being a bully?
I think you are double posting again today. Is it the software or a glitch in your computer?
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Most certainly the Republicans are bullies, but more broadly, our government which is run by BOTH parties, tends to want to dominate the world's activities in all manners of form.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208...
Iran-Europe gas deals anger Washington
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a473f7de-16d5-11dd-bb...
hooray for the left-wing blogosphere!