Donkihoti's Comments (36)

“Thanks for the post, well said! It's time to take the gloves off, and fight back against the sheeple who've been terrified by the rants of the hatemongers...Mr. Obama needs to know we are behind him, and against this kind of terrorism...terror means fear right? Terrorism means using people's fears to control their actions or affect decisions they make, right? Call 'em as you see 'em!!”

“Ha! What a dolt!! Pure genes my backside...Turn off the Fox News people, no intelligent life there!
Two words: Hybrid Vigor.”

“Well said. Seems to me if you look at it long enough, it's this impulse to feel or appear superior to other people that drives a lot of people to adopt irrational belief sets...a need for elitism in which they are the elect kind of neurosis/sociopathy. There should be a clinical name for it, probably is but I don't know it. Anyone who claims moral authority to condemn the actions of others has but one set of rules they must be held to- their own. Participating in the reprehensible circus they made of the Clinton scandal, actually impeaching a sitting president over it, and wasting the public's time, money and trust was the real embarrassment- not the foibles of an all-too-human president. The "special" moral status of these hypocrites comes from a self-delusion that their belief systems enable and encourage, and has been at the root of most of the problems of western civilization for the last millenium! These people deserve neither our respect or our silence on these matters. I'm sick to death of being told we have to tread lightly around the "rights" of these pseudochristians, or pretend that their irrational beliefs somehow have any legitimacy, when simple common sense and experience tells us otherwise. He has no choice but to resign, by his own standards. Let's see if he really has the strength of his convictions, or is just another lying, reprehensible neocon.”

“Why am I not surprised? These heartless bankers are nothing more than parasites on the people. And to think we bailed them out....more fools we.
My own experiences, and those of others I know with BoA lead me to believe that anyone still doing business with them should exercise their freedom of choice and take their business elsewhere.
Usury is a sin, in Christianity and Islam.”

“We already have "Truth Commissions", we call them courts. Or since GWB and company thought being Commander in Chief of the military was the preeminent position as President, we could use Tribunals for them, or general court-martials would work too. Since all military personnel in America swear to uphold and defend the constitution, not allegiance to the current leadership, they have failed in their duties and sullied our country and their offices with their illegal, reprehensible actions.
NO BLANKET AMNESTY FOR CRIMINALS!”

“Me too! I want to be on her list too! Do I have to contact her office?”

“Way to go, OK Legislature!! This is just too funny. Reminds me of Bill Hicks. Got your own home-grown cultural Lysenkoism going there people. Thanks for giving us all something to chuckle about, and for proving once again how wasteful of the people's time and resources these morons can be. If I was an Okie, I'd be leading a recall ballot petition. Who cares whether it's about the God Delusion or not? I doubt any of them read the book....Dawkins states his points pretty stridently in it. Possibly one of these "representatives" feels that they could debate the author on his work? Naw, let's just harass and abuse him if he thinks he can talk like that round these parts....cognitive dissonance leading to irrational aggression, who would have guessed it?”

“Bravo, Rob!
I agree, it's going to be interesting to see where Mamet winds up over the next four(possibly eight) years.
The semantics of the conservative(as in conserve mine, I'm all right jack) movement over the last couple of decades has always seemed, to me, like a perverse fulfillment of Orwell's doublespeak prophesy...

Competition? The only competition possible in today's mega-corporatized business world is among the newest technology producers or in areas with very little profitability. I do believe that competition could help us see improvements, but it just isn't possible until we put some teeth back in the antitrust laws.

Great Post!”

“Thank you, Dr. Feldman. it is indeed refreshing to see our elected representatives looking to represent us again, not more "well I have a mandate from my electorate so I'm the decider" crap. Pragmatism is just common sense, and doing the will of the people is the job description, not just one of the options available to our president and members of Congress. Enough ideology. Do your jobs, representatives...or get out of the way and let someone who understands the job description do it.
Fellow citizens of our Republic- demand accountability from your elected reps. Bother them. Call them out. Throw them out if they won't listen to the will of the people.
We should demand a ban on all lobbying of our reps- if groups want to lobby, let them lobby the people, not try to sidestep the fact that our government is accountable to US, the electorate, and not to any special interests.”

“The arrogance of these people is beyond belief. "Thanks for the money suckers, but we're not gonna tell you what we did with it". This is incredible. These people think they owe us nothing for bailing them out...the stimulus package was supposed to free up credit so they could begin lending again to help stop the loss of jobs and businesses, instead they bandaged their self-inflicted wounds with our money and are giving us all the finger. If we can't get straight answers and compliance with the OBVIOUS intentions of the package, I say not one red cent more. Let them collapse, they aren't part of the solution, obviously. I owe them NOTHING and neither does any American. Talk about damaging, irrational senses of entitlement!! These people should be locked up-how is it possible to do this kind of economic violence to Americans without facing severe penalties? I could get myself in more trouble stealing a loaf of bread!!!
End the control of our economy by the fed- sign the abolish the fed petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/fedres/petition.html
Nationalize all the failing banks, let the worst of them collapse, who needs them? Why would any sane person agree the nationalize these criminals risk-taking with no consequent benefit/ownership?
They think we're all idiots, and they buy and sell our elected representatives. They are traitors to our Republic.”

“Nationalize the oil companies-energy is too important to our society to let these fatcats steal from us so blatantly!!
Any non-renewable resource should be held for the common good, not left to thieves and rascals to hold an economic gun to all our heads with!”

“Actually, the majority of the American people want Rush to fail. Me & O. included.
There's no shame in that. Justice done to demagogues is justice for the whole human race.
Propaganda as "entertainment". There is certainly shame in that....”

“Well, we will do our hunting within the laws..we don't need no gitmo's and sham military tribunals.
Like the Homeland Security Act says, if you've got nothing to hide, why do you mind if we investigate you?
Hypocrite.”

“I wonder what color the sky is in Gonzales' world....and why we keep hearing about justifications for torture, when anyone who's looked into it can tell you that intel from tortures is worthless!! So you pushed for a worthless, illegal, and immoral method to gain worthless intel, broke lots of laws, played politics and ideology over qualifications and ethics, made our country look like the keystone cops do the spanish inquistion, and you don't think you'll get what you deserve?
I'm just flabbergasted at these idiots. It's embarrassing to have to admit he was the AG.”

“Bravo Mr. Taylor, I couldn't agree more. We need to revisit the Pecora commission, and right quick! The extraconstitutional nature and actual USURY of the federal reserve needs to be abolished too, for the sake of the American people. Let these badly mismanaged banks fail. The shareholders should have known there was risk, and demanded transparent accounting from the firms they invested in. Why should we, the taxpayers who stand to make no profit, take any risk at all for these bungling criminals?? They have clearly shown that they intend to take no risks to help us out, witness the fact that credit is still frozen after they've already bled us for so much. Not a nickel more without the taxpayers getting a decent return on our investment in cleaning up their mess!
How is it even possible that these people can commit this kind of economic violence on the majority of the people in the world, without us howling for their heads? Aren't we all supposed to be equal under the law? Prosecute these criminals!”

“I meant no mention of it IN THIS ARTICLE.”

“As he is the Commander-in-Chief, I read "request" as a polite form of order. Watch and learn.”

“The treatment of Katrina survivors was unconscionable. The Bush administration did a terrible job and their loyalties were all too clear to anyone with a brain.
Bravo, truth is the way to deal with this fiasco....truth first, then appropriate action.
This is like a fresh breeze blowing over all Americans, rich or poor.
My America! How I've missed you! Welcome Back!!!”

“No mention of halting trials at Gitmo....Barack is off and running!
Stay tuned America, Change has arrived!”

“Marv-
doesn't take long to look for abuse of the program...here's one
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/spying.on.americans/index.html
I'm sure you do believe that, but supporting a program that obviously infringes on the protections supposedly guaranteed by our Constitution is, by definition, Anti-American. If you want fascism, go somewhere else. I don't trust anyone to hold that kind of power and not abuse it, nor did our founding fathers. What makes you neocon apologists so much smarter than them? Arrogant.
And please stop using the computers at work to post this stuff.”

“Thank You!
Also, the entire city government of Milwaukee, Wi from the years 1897-1940
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-043/?action=more_essay
Eugene Debs died for your sins!”

“Hurray for Socialism!!
It's about time. I've had enough socialized risk and privatized gain. Time for the people to get the benefit of the social contract, not the bill for it!
Look around you, my fellow citizens of these American states- the socialists have the right ideas, and leave a heck of a lot better than we do...”

“Here's another example of pragmatism at work- Obama doesn't want to weaken the possibility of getting a responsible bill that addresses the issue at hand, so he's opposed to adding all the crap to it. Looks like crisis politics is starting to inform what both sides are doing- Naomi Klein was right!
Bankruptcy definitely needs attention, the changes made by Bushco and the banks need to be rolled back- but let's do it in January when we have majorities and the Pres to make sure it gets done right!
Compromise and pragmatism are the watchwords of democracy, not ossified partisanship and media-scripted brinksmanship. Patience, get out the vote...we'll take back our country.
Obama is showing more and more that he is a true statesman in the traditional sense. McCain is another loose cannon smashing things in his path-

Obama 08!”

“Hear, hear!
I remember reading Mr. Gorbachev's book at the time, I thought it was a real eye-opener. All this noise about Reagan "defeating" the Soviet Union and trying to take credit for the wall coming down is just bizarre. He did nothing of the kind.

Mr. Gorbachev, thanks for raising your voice about the lunacy of this administration's policies, and the real danger of a McCain presidency.”

“Why, why does this keep coming up? Nuclear power is ultimately a negative in terms of making money, as the costs of handling, storing and keeping safe the radioactive waste left over for 40,000 years will inevitably outstrip the value of the electrical power they produce over the lifetime of the reactor. It's a utility bill for this year that you get to pay over and over practically forever.
I'm pleased every time I get to see the wind power fields expanding to the west along 88 and south of 80/94 just north of Peoria. I think they are a beautiful site to see, and welcome lots more of them!
Please, let's stop looking for cheaper ways to deal with the problem. It's time to build the new renewable energy infrastructure, yes right here in Illinois, from soy biodiesel to wind and solar power, All of it-except nuclear power. We need to do away with this lethal and very costly industry. We can't afford to pollute the planet this way any more, and we all know it.
No more nuclear plants. Start living like we have to leave this place better than we found it!!”