McCain! Pretend he's Eisenhower and all will be well, all will be well, all will be well . . . .
Jessicali
· 1 year ago
It is rather funny actually.
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
PURE EVIL FASCISM...and Limpballs get a 400 million dolar payday yesterday.tells you all ya need to know abot MEDIA DRIVEN Fascism
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
They're just giddy because Cindy has promised them all planes if McCrazy wins.
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
this is true
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
prosperity express..yeafor the McSames and their good buddies the filthy rich press corps
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
comfort the afflicted,aflict the COMFORTABLE,not in this country
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
and the little GNOME LIEBERPUTZ is ALWAYS along for the ride,gathering the crumbs
lynchie
· 1 year ago
The posting below on The Mall and the $350 million needed to clean the relecting pool and maintain the structures, grounds etc. is just how Bush has run the country for the past 7 years. He has raped and pillaged, done nothing on maintenace of bridges, roads and infrastructure. He has ignored the needs of the people and this country in his desire for more money for him and his frat buddies. I am convinced he bursts out laughing, not just his little smirk, everytime he makes a speech. The Republican Congress have gladly gone along pissing money away. Trillions for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and allowed the banks to replicate the S&L fraud with mortgages. And by the way reading about the bill Dodd is shepherding through, it was written by the banks and basically allows the banks to divest themselves of the most risky loans, transfer them to FHA and the mortgage would be forgiven and a new mortgage at the current value of the house given to the owners. Hey, i want one of them too, by house is worth 25% less now, my bank is not offering me a reduction in the principle. So much for Dodd and his buddies in Banking. They made the loans they should be forced to eat them. As I understand it from a few friends there were a lot of loans where the loan officer told the owners to add on an extra $50K or $100K because the value of homes was rising and they could take the future equity out now. Of course the owners pissed the money away and are left with something they can't afford. Tough titty, your bad but you don't get your debt and the banks forgiven with my tax money.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
DC monuments don't rank very high with Bush.
He's is mainly concerned with building monuments to himself in the Green Zone.
dad
· 1 year ago
he's mainly concerned with redistributing public money into private profit.
plunder
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· 1 year ago
Totally agree. I've wanted a house for a long time now but have been responsible living in an apartment complex where you can hear someone else's toilet flush each time but saving my money. Fuck their stupidity.
dad
· 1 year ago
its a real campaign now..
the groupies can't wait. (nobody rides for free)
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
Man said the press corps, will I ever be traveling in style with McCain. McCain sure knows how to spend that taxpayer election money on comfort. Not like that frugal Obama campaign. They sure pinch the pennies over costs there.
dad
· 1 year ago
campbell's all soupy
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
The Flight Attendants are all called "Flight C*nts."
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Dress Code:
White shoes and matching belt.
dad
· 1 year ago
BB :)x2
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
McCrazy and Lieberputz are too old for sex, so the "Mile High Club" means passing gas at 6,000 feet.
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· 1 year ago
I read James Kunstler's website, Clusterfuck Nation. Really enjoy his writing and forcasts:June 30, 2008
Worse Than Grandma's Depression
This isn't so funny anymore. Intimations of a July banking collapse rumbled though the Internet this weekend while mainstream news orgs like The New York Times and CNN pulled their puds over swift boats and Amy Winehouse's performance technique. Something is happening, and you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones...? to quote the master. What's happening is that American society is sliding into a greater depression than the one Grandma lived through. On the technical side, there has been unending controversy as to whether we're gripped by inflation or deflation. It's certainly deceptive. Food and gasoline prices are rising faster than the rivers of Iowa. But the prices of assets, like houses, stocks, jet-skis, GMC Yukons and pre-owned Hummel figurines are cratering as America turns into Yard Sale Nation. We're a very different country than we were in 1932. In that earlier crisis of capital, few people had any money but our society still possessed fantastic resources. We had plenty of everything that our land could provide: a treasure trove of mineral ores and the equipment to refine it all, a wealth of oil and gas still in the ground, and all the rigs needed to get at it, manpower galore (and of a highly disciplined, regimented kind), with fine-tuned factories waiting for orders. We had a railroad system that was the envy of the world and millions of family farms (even despite the dust bowl) owned by people who retained age-old skills not yet degraded by agribusiness. We had fully-functional cities with operating waterfronts and ten thousand small towns with local economies, local newspapers, and local culture. We had a crisis of capital in the 1930s for reasons that are still debated today. My own guess is a combination of a bad debt workout that sucked "money" into a black hole (since money is loaned into existence, but vanishes if the loans are not systematically paid back) plus a gross saturation of markets, meaning that every American who had wanted to buy a car or an electric toaster had done so and there was no one left to sell to. (The first round of globalism -- 1870 - 1914 -- had shut down after the fiasco of World War One.) Our debt problems today are of a magnitude so extreme that astronomers would be hard pressed to calculate them. By any rational measure our society is comprehensively bankrupt. From the federal treasury down to the suburban cul-de-sacs so much loaned money is either not being paid back, or is at risk of never being paid back, that the suckage of presumed wealth has passed through an event horizon out of the known universe into some other realm of space-time, never to be seen again in this realm. This would seem to be the very essence of monetary deflation -- money defaulted out-of-existence. This condition is partly disguised by both the loss of credibility of US currency and real-world scarcities of oil and food, but the upshot will be something at least twice as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s: people with no money in a land with no resources (with manpower that has no discipline), hardly any family farms left, cities that are basket-cases of bottomless need, comatose small towns stripped of their assets and social capital, an aviation industry on the verge of death, and a railroad system that is the laughingstock of the world. Not to mention the mind-boggling liabilities of suburbia and the motoring infrastructure that services it. The banks have been doing their death dance for an entire year now, pretending that their problems are those of mere "liquidity" (i.e. cash-on-hand) rather than insolvency (no cash either on hand or in the vault and nothing else to sell to raise cash except worthless "creative" securities that nobody would ever buy). But the destruction of money (resulting from loans not paid back) is now so intense that the game of pretend has reached its terminal point. The question for the moment is exactly who and what will be crushed as these institutions roll over and die. Complicating matters is a global oil predicament that is really not hard to understand, but which the organs of news and opinion have obdurately failed to explicate for an anxious public. Call it Peak Oil. There are only a few elements of it you need to know. 1.) that demand has now permanently outstripped supply; 2.) that new discoveries are too meager to offset consumption; 3.) That under under the circumstances, the systems we rely on for daily life are crumbling. I've called this situation The Long Emergency. Our chances of mitigating this, and of continuing our current way-of-life is about zero. I've tried to promote the idea that rather than waste remaining resources in the futile attempt to sustain the unsustainable (i.e. come up with "solutions" to keep suburbia running), that we should begin immediately making other arrangements for daily life -- mainly by downscaling and re-scaling everything from farming to commerce to the way we inhabit the landscape -- but my suggestions have proven unpopular even among the "environmental" elites, who are too busy being entranced by new-and-groovy ways to keep all the cars running. So where we are at now is the equivalent of standing in the slop by the ocean shore under a gathering hundred-foot-high wave that is about to come crashing down on our heads. Since I sure don't know everything, I can't say how this will all play out in the months ahead, especially with the presidential election coming at the exact moment that voters will be turning on their furnaces for the cold and dark winter beyond. I would venture to say that so far our society as a whole has done a piss-poor job of comprehending the situation. But there is still the possibility, with four months of politicking left, that the nature of our predicament can be articulated in a way that few can fail to understand, the way Mr, Lincoln articulated the terms of the Civil War on the eve of its fateful outbreak.
Wow, I love Kunstler, too. He articulates my own views much better than I.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Good one!
Meanwhile, on CSPAN, James Glassman, former rightwing publisher and replacement as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy (!) for the know-nothing Karen Hughes, reveals his penchant for propaganda--even Rethugs calling in questioned his pronouncements about the Bush funded radio station broadcast in the ME and on other issues.
Of course, he damned "Sixty Minutes" for its exposing of that propaganda machine. And CSPAN continues its parade of rightwing hacks...
Õ¿Õ
· 1 year ago
This morning, two shock jocks on the radio were had a segment, since the economy is in a tailspin and people are having to cut back, "What would you be willing to cut out?" This is a country radio station and over 90% voted for bush, guaranteed. Some of the responses included "gummy bears" and "doughnuts." "Beer." They have absolutely no idea what's about to hit them.
lilybart
· 1 year ago
I just want to know who paid for it.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
good lord, a 747. that's a bit much even for a wealthy elitist, dontcha think? talk about a carbon footprint.
pardon me. Mrs.Greenspan calls it a 747 but the other brown nosers call it a 737. She'll get to sit in one of the captain's chairs for THAT!
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
You fool they aren't the elitist. The Obamas are. Boy we dems don't get it huh?
Õ¿Õ
· 1 year ago
Fucking happy fourth of july.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
That's the new plane huh? Little bitty thing isn't it? Cougar McTart's plane is probably half again as large as this itty bitty crop duster. If I were the press I'd refuse to fly on anything smaller than a C5A, I'd consider a 747, but only consider it.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
Cindy is there to make sure the good little reporters are good. Cause if there are they get to sit up front with daddy McFlipper. Bad little reporters get to sit in the back of the plane. So moral of story be good little reporter and tow the party line.
jr
· 1 year ago
all these beltway bumpkins are giving promise rings to McCombover
larz
· 1 year ago
New plane - same stupid message. You can dress that dog anyway you like senator, but it's still a dog.
warsaw
· 1 year ago
Following comment offensive to women: Seeing the clip it's clear that so much of our news is delivered by young women with the some sort of voices, trained with the same inflections and with similar objectives: to e pretty, non-threatening, not bright but sparkley and just this side of bimbo. Obviously the networks see these women as disposable and eminently replaceable by others who are indistinguishable from one another. They are rotated in and out of entry level on-camera jobs, not paid well and have limited shelf life depending on their age, retread capabilities (plastic surgery, botox, hairstyle manipulation) and willingness to see themselves recycled out into menial off-camera jobs or cheesy contract buyouts. These women create their own untenable situation because they are willing to say anything that's written for them no matter how stupid or how it reflects on their longterm career potential and because they accept crappy pay packages. They are the human equivalent of Styrofoam packing popcorn; they fill space until the men take over to provide the substance. They're throwaway images, no more substantial than paper dolls. The harm they do is immeasurable. They're active, shameless participants in the trivializing, tabloidization of the political process, voicing endlessly cycling cliche and rumor as if they had meaning. They serve the same function as the shrieking, high-pitched women on Japanese game shows, to gin up adrenaline and to be anonymous. They need to grab themselves some self esteem.
mirth
· 1 year ago
I don't dispute what you write. It's true enough. But to not lay the same load on male counterparts and to not recognize that while the females are rotated out at breakneck speed and equivalent males are kept in their jobs long enough to gain a sort of cred does not tell the full story and is, y'know, sexist and thus a load of horseshit.
warsaw
· 1 year ago
Ah, Mirth. Here you come again. You know you are free to pass on by when you see a comment by me. You run too hot and cold for my taste. Observing your mood swings here is like reading a textbook definition of involutional psy...er, let's just say disturbance.This comment in particular has a kind of schizoid tone to it.
mirth
· 1 year ago
Y'know, warsaw, if you can't take criticism of your comments without labeling as psychotic those who disagree with what you write, then it's a good idea not to make them in public forums.
Capiche?
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
yeah and look who hires 'em. i'm not aware of many high level female execs in the msm...not that that would necessarily help. sex sells and males buy, mostly.
rwgate
· 1 year ago
With his record, do you really want him running another plane? Isn't five enough, for gods sake. And I agree with previous poster: who is paying for this plane?
All Comments
He's is mainly concerned with building monuments to himself in the Green Zone.
plunder
the groupies can't wait.
(nobody rides for free)
White shoes and matching belt.
Worse Than Grandma's Depression
This isn't so funny anymore. Intimations of a July banking collapse rumbled though the Internet this weekend while mainstream news orgs like The New York Times and CNN pulled their puds over swift boats and Amy Winehouse's performance technique. Something is happening, and you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones...? to quote the master.
What's happening is that American society is sliding into a greater depression than the one Grandma lived through. On the technical side, there has been unending controversy as to whether we're gripped by inflation or deflation. It's certainly deceptive. Food and gasoline prices are rising faster than the rivers of Iowa. But the prices of assets, like houses, stocks, jet-skis, GMC Yukons and pre-owned Hummel figurines are cratering as America turns into Yard Sale Nation.
We're a very different country than we were in 1932. In that earlier crisis of capital, few people had any money but our society still possessed fantastic resources. We had plenty of everything that our land could provide: a treasure trove of mineral ores and the equipment to refine it all, a wealth of oil and gas still in the ground, and all the rigs needed to get at it, manpower galore (and of a highly disciplined, regimented kind), with fine-tuned factories waiting for orders. We had a railroad system that was the envy of the world and millions of family farms (even despite the dust bowl) owned by people who retained age-old skills not yet degraded by agribusiness. We had fully-functional cities with operating waterfronts and ten thousand small towns with local economies, local newspapers, and local culture.
We had a crisis of capital in the 1930s for reasons that are still debated today. My own guess is a combination of a bad debt workout that sucked "money" into a black hole (since money is loaned into existence, but vanishes if the loans are not systematically paid back) plus a gross saturation of markets, meaning that every American who had wanted to buy a car or an electric toaster had done so and there was no one left to sell to. (The first round of globalism -- 1870 - 1914 -- had shut down after the fiasco of World War One.)
Our debt problems today are of a magnitude so extreme that astronomers would be hard pressed to calculate them. By any rational measure our society is comprehensively bankrupt. From the federal treasury down to the suburban cul-de-sacs so much loaned money is either not being paid back, or is at risk of never being paid back, that the suckage of presumed wealth has passed through an event horizon out of the known universe into some other realm of space-time, never to be seen again in this realm. This would seem to be the very essence of monetary deflation -- money defaulted out-of-existence.
This condition is partly disguised by both the loss of credibility of US currency and real-world scarcities of oil and food, but the upshot will be something at least twice as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s: people with no money in a land with no resources (with manpower that has no discipline), hardly any family farms left, cities that are basket-cases of bottomless need, comatose small towns stripped of their assets and social capital, an aviation industry on the verge of death, and a railroad system that is the laughingstock of the world. Not to mention the mind-boggling liabilities of suburbia and the motoring infrastructure that services it.
The banks have been doing their death dance for an entire year now, pretending that their problems are those of mere "liquidity" (i.e. cash-on-hand) rather than insolvency (no cash either on hand or in the vault and nothing else to sell to raise cash except worthless "creative" securities that nobody would ever buy). But the destruction of money (resulting from loans not paid back) is now so intense that the game of pretend has reached its terminal point. The question for the moment is exactly who and what will be crushed as these institutions roll over and die.
Complicating matters is a global oil predicament that is really not hard to understand, but which the organs of news and opinion have obdurately failed to explicate for an anxious public. Call it Peak Oil. There are only a few elements of it you need to know. 1.) that demand has now permanently outstripped supply; 2.) that new discoveries are too meager to offset consumption; 3.) That under under the circumstances, the systems we rely on for daily life are crumbling. I've called this situation The Long Emergency.
Our chances of mitigating this, and of continuing our current way-of-life is about zero. I've tried to promote the idea that rather than waste remaining resources in the futile attempt to sustain the unsustainable (i.e. come up with "solutions" to keep suburbia running), that we should begin immediately making other arrangements for daily life -- mainly by downscaling and re-scaling everything from farming to commerce to the way we inhabit the landscape -- but my suggestions have proven unpopular even among the "environmental" elites, who are too busy being entranced by new-and-groovy ways to keep all the cars running.
So where we are at now is the equivalent of standing in the slop by the ocean shore under a gathering hundred-foot-high wave that is about to come crashing down on our heads. Since I sure don't know everything, I can't say how this will all play out in the months ahead, especially with the presidential election coming at the exact moment that voters will be turning on their furnaces for the cold and dark winter beyond. I would venture to say that so far our society as a whole has done a piss-poor job of comprehending the situation. But there is still the possibility, with four months of politicking left, that the nature of our predicament can be articulated in a way that few can fail to understand, the way Mr, Lincoln articulated the terms of the Civil War on the eve of its fateful outbreak.
http://www.kunstler.com/
Meanwhile, on CSPAN, James Glassman, former rightwing publisher and replacement as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy (!) for the know-nothing Karen Hughes, reveals his penchant for propaganda--even Rethugs calling in questioned his pronouncements about the Bush funded radio station broadcast in the ME and on other issues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K._Glassman
Of course, he damned "Sixty Minutes" for its exposing of that propaganda machine. And CSPAN continues its parade of rightwing hacks...
talk about a carbon footprint.
pardon me. Mrs.Greenspan calls it a 747 but the other brown nosers call it a 737. She'll get to sit in one of the captain's chairs for THAT!
If I were the press I'd refuse to fly on anything smaller than a C5A, I'd consider a 747, but only consider it.
Seeing the clip it's clear that so much of our news is delivered by young women with the some sort of voices, trained with the same inflections and with similar objectives: to e pretty, non-threatening, not bright but sparkley and just this side of bimbo. Obviously the networks see these women as disposable and eminently replaceable by others who are indistinguishable from one another. They are rotated in and out of entry level on-camera jobs, not paid well and have limited shelf life depending on their age, retread capabilities (plastic surgery, botox, hairstyle manipulation)
and willingness to see themselves recycled out into menial off-camera jobs or cheesy contract buyouts. These women create their own untenable situation because they are willing to say anything that's written for them no matter how stupid or how it reflects on their longterm career potential and because they accept crappy pay packages. They are the human equivalent of Styrofoam packing popcorn; they fill space until the men take over to provide the substance. They're throwaway images, no more substantial than paper dolls.
The harm they do is immeasurable. They're active, shameless participants in the trivializing, tabloidization of the political process, voicing endlessly cycling cliche and rumor as if they had meaning. They serve the same function as the shrieking, high-pitched women on Japanese game shows, to gin up adrenaline and to be anonymous.
They need to grab themselves some self esteem.
Capiche?