agandia's Comments (15)

“This is the POY: Post of the Year.
Thanks!”

“Courage is what is going to help with this and other issues afflicting Americans. And you, apparently, have plenty of it. Keep up the fight. Be creative, persistent and courageous! God bless you.”

“If you think he lost the debate maybe it has something to do with it being SIX to one. That was a mob scene, not a fair and balanced debate.”

“Here's my list on how to fight right:

1. I'm sorry did you say something?
2. You sound like my ex-wife
3. We'll talk about it when the commercial starts
4. Say that one more time and I'll puke on your shoes
5. If you spent as much time cooking as you do blaming me for things we wouldn't be eating out every night
6. I love you - when you don't talk
7. You so beautiful when you're yelling and screaming
8. Who are you? Kate Gosselin?
9. If you ever come to your senses again call me
10. Pack
13.”

“I agree.
It's gone beyond parody.
Time for #5 stories on the Countdown and Special Comments.”

“Great post.
Also for an excellent accounting of how the U.S. overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran in 1953 - because he wanted to nationalize the oil companies - read ALL OF THE SHAH'S MEN. You will understand why Middle Eastern distrust Americans.
Great book.

http://www.amazon.com/All-Shahs-Men-American-Middle/dp/0471265179”

“The plagerism shouln't bury what should be the lead... she is wrong about Reagan. She, like Gingrich, is feeing the Reagan myth. The man who one referred to the Soviet Union as the "evil empire," sat down and negotiated with them. The man wanted to let the markets run free, rose taxes almost every year of his presidency. An on and on it goes.

When is the so called Liberal Media going to get it right?”

“The media has to go after these nuts. Expose who they are. Continually run stories that causes humiliation and banishment from their communitiies. These people are wrong. Period. They are bigots and dangerous. The media - mainstream and alternative - must go after them just like the NBC's To Catch A Predator series with Chris Hanson”

“I worked as a reporter at a major market and it is distressing what passes for journalism. Stossel isn't really a journalist, anyway. He's an Andy Rooney.

The question is how can we get people to take an interest in real news? How do we motivate people away from materialism and consumption and inspire them to read, volunteer and become engages in civics?”

“Boston Globe Editorial

AMID A GLOBAL financial crisis that began with unsustainable loans to people with bad credit, it was only a matter of time before apologists for Wall Street excesses would try to pin the blame on the poor - and on government policies meant to help them.

Sure enough, the Community Reinvestment Act has emerged in recent weeks as a favorite target of conservatives and others who oppose any government intervention in the market, for it requires banks to lend in neighborhoods they might otherwise avoid.

And yet the Community Reinvestment Act has nothing whatsoever to do with the subprime mess.

The law applies specifically to commercial banks, which in recent months have been the least volatile part of the financial-services industry. The measure was passed in 1977 to combat redlining, the practice of banks refusing to write mortgages in poor neighborhoods - even when they were taking deposits from residents of those neighborhoods.”

“By David Goldstein and Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — As the economy worsens and Election Day approaches, a conservative campaign that blames the global financial crisis on a government push to make housing more affordable to lower-class Americans has taken off on talk radio and e-mail.

Commentators say that's what triggered the stock market meltdown and the freeze on credit. They've specifically targeted the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the federal government seized on Sept. 6, contending that lending to poor and minority Americans caused Fannie's and Freddie's financial problems.

Federal housing data reveal that the charges aren't true, and that the private sector, not the government or government-backed companies, was behind the soaring subprime lending at the core of the crisis.

Subprime lending offered high-cost loans to the weakest borrowers during the housing boom that lasted from 2001 to 2007. Subprime lending was at its height vrom 2004 to 2006.

Federal Reserve Board data show that:

_ More than 84 percent of the subprime mortgages in 2006 were issued by private lending institutions.

_ Private firms made nearly 83 percent of the subprime loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers that year.

_ Only one of the top 25 subprime lenders in 2006 was directly subject to the housing law that's being lambasted by conservative critics.”

“I worship Naomi Klein.
Her book is a masterwork.
Her appearance on Bill Maher last week and making Andrew Sullivan look like a nitwit was a thing of beauty.
Thank you, Naomi.”

“The Banality of Evil is a phrase coined in 1963 by Hannah Arendt in her work Eichmann in Jerusalem. It describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal.

wikipedia”

“Time Magazine should name Bill Moyers Person of the Year!!!!!!”

“What do you mean? What is the evidence that the party is becoming far-left? I don't see it. There's no far-left healthcare plan, like a government run system. No far left taxation plan, like FDR's. What are you talking about?”