Ah the irony. Months and years ago when you’d criticize Pelosi, everyone would converge on you telling you what a saint she was although she let Bush get away with war crimes. Now, our savior HRC is going to make things all better in 2016. That’s just what we need another dynasty. I’m certain there are no other families out there or qualified individuals.

Sorry, I’ve had enough of dynasties and frankly, she isn’t very liberal at all. I’ll be sure to not vote for her in 2016, so write me down now as voting against my best interests.

Foolishly flipped around the radio yesterday evening (or was it the day before?) and came across this news story on NPR:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/05/16/152841891/lugars-last-race-indiana-senator-doesnt-take-defeat-sitting-down

In short, it was about the senators who go on a yearly run and NPR reported that it just isn’t the representatives that run, but also members of the Senate staff and the media.

Why is it that the media feels that this is OK? How can they be objective and be a check on the powers that be if they are doing crap like this with the very people they are supposed to be watching? Would you feel OK if your prison guards were having water gun fights with the inmates on a regular basis?

It is just insane. Shame NPR, shame on you and the rest of your kind.

Why don’t you go shoot water guns with Biden or have another White House Correspondent’s Dinner that you will plaster across your websites like it is the least bit meaningful to anyone outside of the media itself.

Makes me sick.

Lived in Harris County in the early 1980s, grew up in Brazoria.

I’m happy that the Greek people are finally standing up for themselves. It is amusing to see how the markets have reacted. Did you think they were actually pleased as punch that they were getting taxed and having their benefits cut? Did you think it made them happy to privatize everything to offset their debts? LOL.

I guess it is true, Wall Street hates to be made the bad guy. At some point, they are going to have to come to terms with it.

Amen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

The police see it as “us vs. them” and as such, we are the “bad guys” to be subdued, not defended. As long as the MOTU keep patting them on the head and saying that they are in the right, expect the beatings and abuse to continue.

I sure am glad that all of the encroachment on our civil liberties at home has made the difference in the war on terror and was used to catch the bomb plot before it reached US shores…. What? You mean that people outside of the US did things and all of the bazillion dollars we have spent and the countless people we have felt up didn’t catch anything?

As with gun laws, the only people the law stop are ordinary citizens trying to get on with their life. True criminals (or terrorists) will not be deterred by idiotic trampling of the US Constitution by our powers that be.

I’d rather see the occasional terrorist attack than give up every one of my civil liberties for the notion of “safety”. What would have happened if the bomb had gone off? We’d have clamped down even more at home and let people overseas do whatever they want. The unfortunate truth of the matter is in a globalized environment, we aren’t going to see eye to eye on this crap and as long as we allow the free flow of people and commerce from country to country, you can’t stop the occasional attack from getting through.

The fact that we have been “safe” for so long has allowed the American people to rebuild the notion in our heads that we do no wrong on foreign shores that the people we invade are grateful for our activity. I found it amusing, was speaking with a vet from Iraq who told me that the people were truly grateful for what they did. If I was talking to an invader, I’d say that too. Let’s not even talk about the fact that one of the reasons their country was so bad off was because the West starved the people with sanctions for years or how we allowed so many to get slaughtered in the aftermath of the first Gulf War. So yeah, we are awesome.

Until we redress how we treat others across the globe, there will always be the possibility of terrorism. While it is great that we caught whatever either real or perceived threat, it only reinforces the notion that somehow we are “winning” this war. We can’t win it. It is a never ending war that can only be stopped by coming to grips with the fact that the people we exploit overseas have a reason to be angry with us. If we give them no other means of recourse, violence is generally the means that this frustration is expressed.

As much as I want to call this event “terrorism”, I don’t want to fuel the argument that this is why American military forces need to be allowed to operate within the continental United States.

Let me know when some leftwing group in the past 30-40 years has done anything like this and then we can start saying how both the left and right wings have their own “crazies” and this is of course an isolated event.. blah blah blah.

So since and tired of the wacko right being compared to the left and calling everything equal.

Amen. I could give a rat’s ass if several hundred thousand were hired, let’s compare income of those new workers. Let’s compare taxable income of the population pre-bust to today and then we’re talking.

The reason so manufacturing is coming back is because our wages have been slashed to hell and unfortunately prices on consumables have only gone up.

Over all, this isn’t anything to be excited about. Let me know when we start talking about doing away with NAFTA and the WTO. Until then, it is all bullshit and we will continue to see downward pressure on wages.

In all honesty, I agree that money is the root of the corruption in politics, but why don’t we merely force the broadcasters that use public airwaves to provide air time for political messaging which in turn would completely neuter the influence of most of the money in politics.

Why can’t we force broadcasters to give up air time to politicians beyond debates? Why can’t they be forced to use the airwaves for the people’s business? Why do they get to profit off of a fundamental part of our democratic system? It is just as simple as negating the money that goes to airtime.

What system would decide who would be on the air? I don’t know, but it is just dumb that we don’t do something as simple as that and this doesn’t require a Constitutional amendment.