MalleusMaleficarum's Comments (175)

“Are you aware that before Democrats did so, communists supported civil rights, voting rights, women's rights, gay rights, abortion rights, and equal rights?”

“awesome!!!”

“Hmmmmm.....

Nixon - didn't he sign the EPA into existence?
Civil rights - it was the Republican party that kicked that off, in the 19th century.
Even into the early part of the 20th Century many of the first Black Senators were in the Republican party.
Enron - that ran amok during the Clinton era, exploded in the Bush era

I guess what I'm saying this is the time to focus on ISSUES and not these fluid political parties.

But basically the Democrats are about to squander ALL of those games by embracing sweat shop economics aka Neo-Liberal economic policies that Naomi Klein so eloquently described in The Shock Doctrine.

This is NOT the Democratic party of the New Deal.”

“Dean has since recanted. And there is a provision for Non-profit agencies al the French model.”

“X4”

“x3”

“Agreed.”

“If she is a young woman as her avatar suggests, she possibly has no idea at all how limited her opportunities would have been in 1959 as opposed to in, say, 1974, much less as opposed to today. If she is a career woman, or even if not, she might reflect on the fact that in 1959, besides the career of housewife, the best jobs for the overwhelming majority of women were as secretaries, schoolteachers, waitresses, or sales "girls," with the occasional graphic artist or other exotic creature thrown in. Women lawyers (or women law students) were a rarity, women executives almost nonexistent, as were women cops or architects or senators or pro athletes or just about anything else except hair stylists. She might want to watch a few episodes of "Mad Men" and realize that it's actually a fairly benign representation of the pre-sixties, and in a very liberal part of the country. Were the sixties an "aberration"? Sure. So was the civil rights movement, the discovery of fire, the invention of the wheel. But I guess that with minigun it's like the old saying about people who are born on third base and think they hit a triple, with no notion that the sixties "fizzled out" in all the chances that are open to her today.”

“All the same, its better than what we have now. By the time deductibles, co-pays, per incident requirements and out-of-pockets are met, each of us already pay more than $10,000 if we have insurance, even the crappy plans.”

“The democrats are completely out of the closet & we now see that their anti regulation philosophy is identical to the republicans. They no longer "believe" in government regulation & are "free enterprise". If you haven't before, meet the "New Democrats" (DLC).
Why vote for the imitation when you can have the "real" thing? (Thats right. You WOULDN'T)
Corruption goes all the way to the BONE in Washington DC. ANYBODY BUT IN 2010!”

“You don't think all of the $85 Million went to Iran. I would say 5 million made it.”

“If that were the case Clinton and Gates would be looking for work. Try again.”

“Please send me the name of your drug supplier....I wants me some of that.”

“Sure hope you're right”

“Now THAT is a real possiblity were he to run. But he's a coward. He won't run for anything but he sure will run away from things.”

“When you are trying like heck to make the end of the world come about in your lifetime so you won't have to experience death, you really don't have much motivation to work for peace and harmony among people. Your whole goal is war. Catastrophic war. Anyone who works for the betterment of their fellow men, who seeks reconciliation and true collaboration between peoples is seen as getting in the way of the plan.”

“Well, the last command performance at Camp David, in 2000 certainly was a "good idea". It ended with a bang.

And what part of Netanyahu's conduct would be considered "outrageous"?”

“I think the disagreement is about the STRATEGY NOT being in Afghanistan. Biden is not in favor of sending 40,000 troops. He is in disagreement with McChrystal's plan not Obama's. Obama has not even revealed his plan. He has one more Security Council meeting. I think AH is jumping the gun. There is no indication that Obama and Biden are NOT on the same side. At least from my vantage point.”

“Not true. He lost influence before he died. After he resigned people here were shocked. The British public were always anti-war but Blair didn't listen. And he didn't listen after Cook resigned and Cook went quietly. He didn't stir anything up.

I don't think he died until a year or more later.”

“How do we WIN the war in Afghanistan with that baggage on the Commander-In-Chief? I guess we just pull out. That's the brilliance of the Nobel Committee.”

“And might it constrain him too from doing what may be necessary to protect his fellow citizens?”

“Wait a second...You're saying he's insubordinate because not supportive. (1) To whom was he insubordinate? (2) What forthcoming hybrid? Do you work for Obama? How can say with such certitude what he going to decide? Actually, you're kind of saying a decision has already been made.”