AlexandriaCynic's Comments (68)

“I was going to say something about these "interesting" FMPs but I decided it would be impossible.”

“I'd be delighted to withhold fodd to make it easier for her to keep her fast going. I'd gladly take off say--a year to make really sure she fasted for long enough.”

“It will be hard for me to hire anyone educated in Texas. Not that they can't be smart and good workers but that they will have to overcome such ignorance. Will I be able to trust that their thinking processes haven't been permanently clouded? It's sad.”

“All of this sounds right. I would add that payers must have an incentive to promote the long-term health of their insureds (like the VA which must care about a patient now AND five or ten or fifteen years from now.) With the current status quo, insurers don't have to care about whether they help or hurt the patient in the long term. So preventative medicine and early diagnosis are drags on their bottom lines.”

“I love it when critics who either didn't see the film, ignored what was in the film, or have lower-than­-room-temp­erature IQs and don't understand the plot lines and scenarios presented in the film. Every part of his first paragraph is wrong. Saul ought to see Star Trek before making any more incipid comments.”

“I now have a TOTALLY different take on PETA. I always knew it stood for People Eating Tasty Animals but I had the context all wrong. Come on, NBC... run the ad!”

“Hooray for Chuck Todd! The best political analyst by a mile. Gregory is a lghtweight who has been overly hard on Dems since Clinton (when he was vicious) and soft on Republicans. He was right-leaning this cycle even if you (as I don't) forgive him for dancing with Rove. Here's hoping he flubs quickly enough for MTP to survive until Todd can claim the reins he deserved far more than DG. And good luck to David Shuster -- one of the ost solid reporters in DC for a long while.”

“That comment is just plain ignorant. Liberalism has nothing whatsoever to do with greed and graft which, by the way, have been much more associated with conservatives of late -- coincidental, but worth mentioning when idiots like Pinkmarbles suggest that being liberal equals all that is bad in the world.”

“Don't forget how much David (the Rove dance partner) Gregory hated Bill Clinton in the late '90s. He did ask some decent questions of W when everyone else refused to, but he's a democrat hater at heart.”

“Became isn't the right word. Gregory was one of the most vicious anti-Clinton reporters on the White House beat in the late '90s. What a ridiculously bad choice.”

“Erm...I don't think Bible Spice had any intent to bamboozle us. She doesn't know enough about the subject matter. If you look-up "ignorant" in Wikipedia, you'll see Sarah's picture. She isn't manipulative so much as she just doesn't have a clue. Didn't they teach Civics in any of the schools she attended? Unbelievab­le...”

“Best cold open ever! Alec was right, she is hot. But we aren't voting for hot, we're voting for the leadership of the free world. So the skit was funny without being lame, insulting without being dishonest. I loved it even if it will draw a few pity or "good sport" votes to the GOP. The average voter (and at least half of all voters are average or above) will see how below average the reublicans are nowadays.”

“Couldn't be more right, The only tactic left to the republicans is to smear as viciously as they can (and with Atwater/Ro­ve/Schmidt they have decades of practice!) They have to force Obama's negatives as high as they can and will accuse him of anything and everything. Most will be by way of push polls and email smears, but they'll certainly get some 527s to blast the airwaves with lies, distortions, and slander. Anybody who loves America needs to give lots and give often so Obama can affor to push back against the lies.”

“This is one of the most compelling posts I have ever read. Having grown-up in the 1950s in Richmond, Virginia (at that time a segregated, Jim Crow hothouse of racism) I have had friends and family who dishonestly acted color-blind. I have suspected that much of the anti-Obama rhetoric came from from racism but never was I able to articulate it as well as Schaeffer has. I hope everyone everywhere gets a chance to read his post and that some small percentage will get an "aha!" from it. We may be on the verge of a transformational national event--one in which we forever leave behind the racism of our parents and choose rationality over greed and bigotry.

As a political cynic, made so by decades of observing the duplicitousness of Republican politicians and their media water-carriers, I have to hope Obama has really big leads in the polls on November 2nd so the Republicans dare not try again to steal or game the election. I'm starting to think this might just happen. And if Obama's lead in the polls is big enough to give hope to all those who know the vote cagers will be trying to deny them their voting rights, these voters may well turn out in numbers too vast for the best voting machine hackers in the world to fool.

I would gladly vote against McCain and Palin for many reasons; but I look forward to proudly voting FOR Obama.”

“Just in case you haven't looked at the menu of the restaurant John (NOT ELITE) McCain dined ast while everybody else was working on solving the financial meltdown..­.

"Appetizers included a lovely "carpaccio" of thinly sliced red and gold beets accented with sake-marinated scallops, the sweetness of all the ingredients in harmony. Earlier in the summer, a half dozen raw oysters were served in Chinese porcelain spoons, each with a different topping--caviar, cucumber, tomato--that worked beautifully with the salinity of the oysters. Wontons of shrimp and broccoli are complemented by a lobster broth with lemongrass. Tuna tartare with foie gras, ponzu sauce, ginger, and scallions is a wonderful combination of flavors. Sometimes modernizations of traditional Asian dishes miss. The Still Life of Peaches, a trio of white-peach sorbet, peach salad, and white-peach foam, was so subtle as to be nearly tasteless. The Crispy Spring Roll filled with crabmeat, cabbage, and mushrooms was not crisp and not enhanced by its honey-truffle sauce.

The real treats among the main courses have been the fish dishes. Sautéed black cod with miso, thin slices of kumquats, and pomegranate-lemon sauce was very good. The beautifully fried crispy whole fish would have been even better if the accompanying spicy bean sauce had been as good as that found in almost any Chinatown restaurant. Crisp-skinned striped sea bass was nicely accompanied by stir-fried vegetables and an intriguing carrot-coconut sauce."

I'd eat there but I'm aN elite...”

“When I read the line about Palin maybe being a good fit as Secretary of the Interior, I had a BGO -- that's a Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious. McCain isn't the brightest bulb in the lamp but he isn't the idiot W is. And he may not be as honorable as he says he is but he probably isn't enough of a traitor to want to stick the country with a President Palin. But there has to be some way that choosiing her to be his running mate made sense to him.
Here's my suspicion -- no factual basis, just a hunch that might make sense. McCain goes to Sarah Palin and makes her an offer she can't refuse: run with him for Veep, take the oath, then immediately resign for family reasons. She can stay in the Administration as Secretary of the Interior, a 40 hour a week job, and let Lieberman be the 120 hour a week Vice President. A McCain Lieberman couldn't win, but McCain Palin has an outside chance. And this deal would be win win for McCain and for Palin.
Honorable? No. But much less despicable than the conventional wisdom that he really thinks she would be an OK President.”

“I've seen one page of comments and I'm about 99.9% sure that Frieda44 is the paid Troll of the Night. Did I miss anything?”

“Well...you­'d have to be a daily reader of the Washington Post Op-Ed page to understand. Cohen isn't a Rush Limbaugh or George Will but he does write long and often on pro-republican positions. He is either a conservative I could live with or a very incipid liberal.”

“Looks like the troll paymasters got their funding...­wdw is going to get rich! Great for us...total­ly ineffectual AND the paymasters have less money to spend on their smarter trolls.”

“Yup, yup.. A republican is saying she's 5 months pregnant? OK, so we know it isn't 5. Might be six, might be 4, but it sure isn't 5. maybe she isn't pregnant at all. They have been known to just, you know, MAKE THINGS UP. They don't know how to tell the truth. And though I hate to disagree with ReasonIsMyReligion, I have to in this case. I don't think she'll deliver 7 months from now, I suspect she'll have a really unfortunate and completely unexpected miscarriage a couple of days after the election. (That way, we'll never know how pregnant she was...or even if she was pregnant this time. And no, I'm not suggesting they would make a truly pregnant girl have a miscarriage, just that they would fake a pregnancy to get votes.)”

“I have two dogs who are smarter and better informed than Proudbutnotdem. Richard Armitage, a Republican, took the fall for outing Valerie Plame (with a P) thus risking her life and those of her contacts and ruining a valuable CIA operation but the illegal and national security damaging outing was orchestrated by Karl Rove and Lewis Libbie, acting for Bush and Cheney. There was a Democrat , Sandy Berger, who tried to improve his reputation and that of President Clinton by removing some documents but that hardly put anyone's life or any CIA front's efectiveness in jeopardy. And the allegation (at least I think it's an allegation--hard to tell from the ridiclulous syntax) that Democrats leak to CNN any more than Republicans is complete drivel. No committee members or staffers from either side have been accused, much less convicted. Thank goodness Proudbutnotdem is not a Democrat but I queston his/her reason for being proud of anything.”

“I'll speak for myself -- I care so much about who McCain picked because even though I think it unlikely that McCain will win, he might. Who woulda thunk America would elect W not once, but twice? He's a disaster of never-since-Nero proportions yet he's been President for 7 1/2 years! So McCain could win. And if he does, his Veep stands a pretty high liklihood of becoming President. And Sarah Palin is as likely to be an adequate President as Harriet Miers was likely to be an adequate Supreme Court Justice. Dan Quayle was a far less dangerous Veep than Palin and George H W Bush was far younger and in much better health than McCain. This choice is simply mind-boggling. McCain runs on experience and being prepared to keep us safe from terrorists yet chooses someone whose experience runs to terrorist moose(s). She could be PRESIDENT????? ARGH.”

“I'm 58 and I don't think McCain is too old for the job. A clear trend is people living longer and healthier lives. But I am worried about McCain's mental lapses and I wonder if his constant use of the POW-as-her­o-get-out-­of-jail-fr­ee-card for every lapse and gaffe isn't an attempt to keep the not-so-bright media from making a connection: he's not too old but he might have been imprisoned for too long. Not that all POWs have PTSD, but I think I would. Being kept in a cage, treated inhumanely, and tortured must be unbelievably horrific. What effects would that have on anyone's mental faculties? I don't disrespect the sacrifice, but I also don't think we ought to replace all legeslators with POWs. We should honor, respect and care for them. And those who are capable of big jobs ought to get them. But McCain has shown more bluster, anger, bombast, confusion, and memory loss than anything else. I'm not ageist or anti-veteran. But I am scared. Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran isn't an acceptable joke for the Commander in Chief -- especially not if he might not remember that he's supposed to be joking. Wes Clark started to make this point and was immediately shouted down by the media. Isn't it time for someone who cares about our national security to tell the media to shut up and let us ask the question?”

“I'm ready for the Veep debate. Order the popcorn! It doesn't matter who Grumpy McWarmonger picks, his nickname will be MINCEMEAT! nobody knows more or can articulate it in a polite but devastating manner than Joe Biden in a one-on-one debate.”

“Erm...acci­dently so everyone at all the affiliates could tape it and cut the distribution costs to $0? Sounds like an awfully convenient "accident.­"”