Scarabus's Comments (232)

“Well, he was raised by white people after all. I'll bet he really likes pineapple pie.”

“Both are on the menu.”

“well what can you expect from folks that barely graduate high school english”

“Nice try. Political correctness in our culture for the last several decades has been almost exclusively the purview of the left. Certain "politically correct" groups were labeled off limits to criticism as they were, by virtue of their "victimhood" held not responsible for their faults and failures and were therefore above criticism.
Even the best of intentioned constructive criticism was silenced with the words "racist" or "sexist" etc. People were attacked and silenced for daring to break the rules of political correctness.
PC is one of the nastiest, vicious, and destructive things ever to happen to modern American culture.”

“I'm from sixth congresional district, but I'll contribute for his campaign.”

“Word up. Like that, feel ya.”

“I'm with you!”

“Your are right, if spun correctly the whole situation looks as though this administration is oblivious to the concerns of working class people and pandering to corporate interest, but everything that would address their concerns is being evicerated by the opposition and their "anti-government" brigade of low information voters who 's attention have been misdirected from the past 30 years of conservative policy which put us in this position and convinced that any instance of progressive policy is poison to the nation. Healthcare and Energy reform would create the quality jobs that will never return to the manufacturing sector, but why would corporations with a global footprint take that route of their own accord, corporations are not fearful of high unemployment numbers, that's like a casket maker who is depressed because people are dying and buying caskets. Unemployment means higher profits especially when your are a multi-national entity headquartered in the country with the low employment numbers, while the national currency just happens to be losing strength, that means exports to countries were people have money and jobs (our jobs) will grow with the same level of productivity, they could create new jobs (check out the returns) but why would they? If the working class suffers long enough eventually they'll except pennies on the dollar for a job, and if you want to retire guess what you'll probably have to give most of those pennies back to those who started this crisis in the form of 401k contributions.”

“First off, the majority of extremely liberal voters are among the richest people (salaries over 100,000 annually) in the country, that or the poorest. It is easy to say you dont mind higher taxes when you are taking money out of the pockets of the working poor to pay for your policies. Most Rebpublican voters are the in the lower and middle classes, check recent polling data if you dont believe me regarding voter demographics. The middle class are the people who get squeezed most with new tax and social policies. These rich Republicans you speak of are a myth. Any smart Goldman-Sachs fatcat would lobby anyone to pass legislation that benefits them, not just one party. I would be surprised if the percentage of the Republican party that are rich robber barons even reached 0.5% of the registered voter population.”

“I'm positive that no, absolutely no iPhone user would admit to fitting that profile. That's called denial. Just like nobody says their a right wing nutjob.”

“I would probably win a lot of money betting on whether or not the same could happen here if we allowed the fundamentalists to come into power. Of course....­.only women would be punished.”

“Pecora was the man, (of Italian extract) who after the fall of the stock market in the 1930's called for an investigation as to why it happened. He made quite an impression in those days, shaming some big wig financiers in those Senate hearings. He is exactly what we need now. We need hearings that do a little more than spread platitudes around.”

“This story is about an Iraqi Journalist who works for Reuters - so we are doing it to people of other nations - though I'm sure we do also do it to ourselves.”

“You say that the president takes the oath to defend and preserve our Constitution, but not to keep Americans safe? Correct?

I guess you neglected to read the Preamble of that Constitution: domestic Tranquility, general Welfare etc. The Preamble IS the platform or spirit where the Articles stand. The rest of the Constitution is simply outlining our governmental structure.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."”

“Well, if being the "Commander­-In-Chief" doesn't mean that it is the President's job to "keep us safe", I don't know what else does.

FYI - There is nothing in the Presidential Oath of Office or in the Constitution that gives the President the power to nationalize private industry, yet that is exactly what is happening with the auto industry.”

“I learned in my M.B.A. program that if you listen to a conversation long enough, someone may say what you would have said. Thank you for making my post unnecessary. Yours is perfect.

But I WILL add, Prof. Stone is obviously bright and thoughtful. He delineates the issues well. But your point is his huge blind spot. John Kerry got pilloried for suggesting the "war on terror" should be thought of more as a police action. He was right.”

“I have followed everything this corrupt bunch of war mongers did from the Florida recount until Bush slunk out of DC in January. I've read O'Neil's book, Richard Clarke's books, Ron Suskind, Seymour Hersch, and Jane Mayer.

To this day, I cannot understand WHY Cheney and Rumsfeld, and the rest of the neo-cons really wanted to invade Iraq. Bush would have done anything his advisors told him to do after 9/11, bec. really, everyone knew it was a failure by his administration that allowed it to happen. And more than anything, he wanted to distract public attention from that failing, and get re-elected in '04...and become a two term president, which had eluded his father. So a war SOMEWHERE was likely sold to him as a way to save his reputation and get re-elected. But WHY Iraq? The Project for a New American Century, which was the primary proponent of a new era of AMerican empire building, wanted the US to be the dominant force thruour the MidEast. I've always assumed that was proposed to surround Israel with US influence and protect it from the Arabs. But why did Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld buy into that motivation? I hope we hear that explained some day.”

“Invading Iraq was the beginning of the financial collapse created by the lawlessness of the Chaney/Bush regime. We hear about this financial collapse every day.”

“people this depraved by religion are weak and afraid. not healthy at all”

“Just so you'll know in the future, prostitution in NOT legal in Las Vegas nor anywhere else in Clark County NV. Seeing that you found it necessary to remind others about gaming and gambling, I thought you might appreciate the correction.”

“And had he been forced into that service it would be of no value whatsoever.”

“In defense of the author, I do think he's (theoretically) addressing the Beltway navel-gazers, not "The Rest of Us."

The Rest of Us clearly already get it.”

“It would be nice, but I can't see any way of making them change that philosophy. The concept of balance is great. but having a climate scientist on, and a denier is 50-50 coverage, when it should be 99 climate scientists and one denier. Heck if you insist the denier be a qualified scientist without conflict of interest, I bet the ratio would be even worse for the deniers. The media is what makes most people think the science isn't settled.”