Tags's Comments (147)

“Forget the British. It wasn't recent enough to be relevant. The Russians would be a great argument. I've heard it from Harry and from other people as well. One problem. The Russians invaded Afghanistan and crushed them. Crushed them until another superpower covertly entered the war. We dumped what amounts to a billion dollar in weapons, we added satellite help, we added serious tech and we taught the Afghans, including Osama, how to shoot down modern aircraft. That is why Russia lost. Russia wasn't losing and then we jumped in and helped them lose more. They were WINNING when we entered the fray. Now if you take that into account, also you have to take into account that we don't want to stay. This isn't a life long occupation this is a stabilization with a couple of military bases. Big ones. But just some military bases. We aren't fighting the Afghan people and while we've done a lousy job making that point, we aren't done yet. We'll have more success than the Russians did.”

“I have been in the garage all day making signs that say that. I thought it was clever. You think I am a jerk?”

“See, this is where the democrats have failed in their assessment. Obama brought out voters because he was who he was. The liked him and still do and even the vast number of voters, including republicans, still like him as a man. BUT, they voted incumbents out. So, Barry has no coattails. The independent party switched and will switch again in 2010. Result? A wave of republicans back in Congress.

Course, you will still have Barry.”

“unknown author? He's written 2 brilliant & widely-sold novels in his short career so far.”

“If they played ABBA, John McCain would probably be visiting Afghanistan even more.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-lewis/mccain-dumps-chuck-berry-_b_82338.html”

“I interpret this post as: "Will the last person to leave America please turn out the lights." I not want to live in the America you represent.”

“What's the alternative? Deciding the United States is a failed state and hasten its demise? New Orleans is simply waiting for a catastrophe to destroy it, and if that happens, a return to national prosperity is vastly less likely. You can't keep killing essential parts of a country and expect it to thrive. The death of New Orleans would be a bullet to the breadbasket.”

“Staying for a second off-topic, what President Obama DIDNT do is stop giving gazillions to the very Wall Street banksters who got us into this mess in the first place, and he hasn't pushed through any new, toothier federal regulatory oversight to prevent the exact same thing happening again.

Mortgage foreclosure rates are still very high---and in some areas, the only reason they haven't gone even higher is that everybody's already been foreclosed on and their houses stand vacant, driving down the price of everyone else's house.

And, home values have still not been "marked to market", or else the losses to these gargantuan, bloated, Jabba-the-Hut-esque Wall Street institutions which have been allowed to rule our lives in so many ways---would sink them all over again.

And that's all I can think of off the top, Tags. So much for our republican thwartocracy battler-in-chief.

I expected a little better, didn't you? At some point, even the finest words are only words when not backed by any action.”

“"Handing over money to Wall Street. That was GW Bush."

...and Obama and his Wall Street appointees.

"Harry's not blaming, he's prodding."

Actually, Harry has pointed out that BHO has time for the Olympics & Wall Street, but not for NO.”

“"Handing over money to Wall Street. That was GW Bush."

...and Bernanke and Geithner and Summers and Rubin and Obama.”

“Sarah could have called it "Argghhhhhhhhh".”

“I clicked "Reply" under the "beans are toxic" comment.

Why did this end up here?”

“What about the sea salt versus salt salt conumdrum? As if there might be health benefits from salt evaporated from modern oceans over salt evaporated from ancient oceans. Personally, I'd imagine that less heavy metal contaminants might be in the ancient sea salt beds and that 'mined' salt might be healthier in the long run--but that would be anti-health food wuldn't it?”

“So you're saying he wasn't a Vegan. Which is what this article is about. No animal products.”