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ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post US Covert War in Yemen Receives Support from Saudi Air Force
My, my. How truly charming Saudi Royalty is. First they finance the 911 bombers and now they participate in war crimes all in the name of stopping their own flunkies and saving Democracy.
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ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post Late Night FDL: We’ve heard this song before…
With the current break up of the world’s monetary system the chessboard is being toppled and many human pawns are being sacrificed now by hidden hands the world over. The pawns twittered opinions of what is motivating them to act out is of little moment in the geopolitical Great Game of divide and conquer…
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ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post CBPP Destroys Catfood Commission Dems’ Plan for Deficit Reduction
The Wall Street speculators used the Clinton administration’s ever so brilliant tactic of “triangulation” to repeal FDR’s Glass-Steagall banking regulations thereby creating worthless trillions of dollars of unregulated derivative securities. This treachery is what sunk public finances. Now Wall Street demands fascist austerity and the toady “Democrats” rush to implement it in lockstep, why should any but the most gullible mush-headed Pollyannas be surprised?
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ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post Wrong, Jonathan Chait: Not “Everybody” Thought the Stimulus Was “Mind-Bogglingly Large”
All this palaver over nothing…The problem is that monetarists where they be neo-liberal Keynesians or libertarian followers of Ayn Rand have no inkling whatsoever that there is a science of physical economy.
The fact is that there must be a reckoning with the literally quadrillions of worthless debt that was created by financial houses like Goldman Sachs. The return to the FDR era’s Glass-Steagall regulation would allow this nightmare to be reined in. We must pull the plug on the too big to fail financial houses. Without this, all this sound and fury is just a tragicomic farce… -
ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post Ordinary Americans Continue to Deliver Progressive Messages at Republican Town Hall Meetings
Here is an interesting story you folks might take note of on democratic revolt against Obama: Democrats React to State Senator’s Call for Obama Resignation.
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ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post The PMS of S&P
Downgrade Standard and Poors
Anyone who believes that Standard and Poors should determine the credit worthiness of the United States is a damnable and sniveling fool. Alexander Hamilton provided the tonic for removing this sovereign Republic from the grasp of a financial oligarchy based in the City of London. His named antagonist in his reports to Congress was none other than Adam Smith. Smith’s doctrine that wealth was merely the product of buying and selling to get money, and that mankind must only be concerned with the principle of pleasure and pain and not the consequences of our actions upon the future of humanity is the epitome of a slave’s (or rather a subject’s) mentality. For the most part, both sides of the aisle accept (and that unthinkingly and blindly) these tenets of Adam Smith’s wretched ideology. The idea that the moneyed interests rule is their unshakable conviction. This is why they cower at the likes of S&P.
The simple fact is that everything decent our nation has accomplished has been based upon the exact opposite principle. We have led the world because we have had a vision that our nation has a mission to uplift mankind and that the purpose of government IS to provide for the general welfare of future generations yet unborn It is well past high time we throw off the shackles of the craven belief that “money rules the world.” What is required is that our citizens exhibit a backbone again and impose a swift end to the control of these financiers by re-enacting FDR’s Glass-Steagall. Call or write your Congressman now to support Marcy Kaptur’s Glass Steagall Bill H.R.1489 and Maurice Hinchey’s Glass-Steagall bill H.R.2451 -
ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post Senate Debt Ceiling Watch Party — Part V
An oligarchic rose by any other name would smell as pestilent…
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ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post Senate Debt Ceiling Watch Party — Part V
The Unconstitutional “Super Congress” Council of Twelve
The so-called Venetian Republic had a council of ten which did the bidding of a small and criminal oligarchy, which carried out political assassinations of its opponents with impunity. This Venetian sort of tyranny is what James Fenimore Cooper exposed in his novel The Bravo. If we accept this new form of “Super Congress,” then we shall have an outright tyranny of twelve handpicked henchmen of Wall Street, and our true form of constitutional republic will be no more a republic than the quondam oligarchic charade known as the Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia. Obama aspires to be nothing more than Il Doge, a figurehead lap dog of this brave new world. -
ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post Whip the Super Congress: Call and Ask Your Member of Congress if They Like Their Job
The Unconstitutional “Super Congress” Council of Twelve
The so-called Venetian Republic had a council of ten which did the bidding of a small and criminal oligarchy, which carried out political assassinations of its opponents with impunity. This Venetian sort of tyranny is what James Fenimore Cooper exposed in his novel The Bravo. If we accept this new form of “Super Congress,” then we shall have an outright tyranny of twelve handpicked henchmen of Wall Street, and our true form of constitutional republic will be no more a republic than the quondam oligarchic charade known as the Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia. Obama aspires to be nothing more than Il Doge, a figurehead lap dog of this brave new world. -
ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post Obama Ignored Advice of Top Legal Advisors, OLC in Waging War in Libya
Quite all right, by the way, I guess Politico doesn’t want to get on the wrong side of Morning Joe and MSNBC who are touting the crapulent tub of lard for Fuehrer.
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ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post Obama Ignored Advice of Top Legal Advisors, OLC in Waging War in Libya
Certainly, dear Starbuck: here.
By the bye, my posting on Christie:
“Union leader compares NJ gov to Hitler at rally
If Christie is Adolf Hitler then he must have forgotten to take his laxatives…”was deleted from Politico. No historical sense of humor I guess… -
ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post Obama Ignored Advice of Top Legal Advisors, OLC in Waging War in Libya
Obama: “Being a dad is sometimes my hardest job”
“Look,” said the little boy in the crowd loudly and animatedly, as he pointed to Barack Obama, who was exhibiting his typical blank stare, “the President has no mind!” An embarrassed hush descended upon the erstwhile frenzied crowd gawking at the “First Family.”
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ThingumbobEsq commented on the blog post BREAKING! Weiner Roast: Pelosi, Dem Leaders Oppose Members Who Do Bad Things
Who Is Nuttier Weiner or Obama?
Oops, I’m afraid they got the wrong weiner, it’s Obama whose abject and disgraceful kowtowing to Wall Street proves that he needs the psychiatric counselling far more seriously than does the philandering congressman. (As, I should add, do those that continue to support him.) -
ThingumbobEsq commented on the diary post Scarecrow’s Nightmare: Austan Goolsbee Defends President Romney’s Economic Plan by Scarecrow.
So much crapola like all that the aforesaid Professors Krugman and Goolsbee come up with…The simple fact is that without establishing a return to Glass-Steagall (which Rep. Marcy Kaptur has promoted) all this is so much sound and fury signifying nothing but cfriminal speculators “too big to fail,” like the monotony of Poe’s The Bells…


