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Matt Taibbi: How Obama Sold Out America
Commented Dec 11, 2009 at 10:51:28 in Politics
“It's time for O to stand up to congress. It's time for O to go to the public to support delivering on his campaign promises.”
JohnJames replied on Dec 11, 2009 at 11:01:10
“Stand up? Obama is worse than Congress.”
shivasquest replied on Dec 11, 2009 at 10:58:57
“Its been the whitehouse who wanted the trigger for healthcare from the beginning.And now they are fighting the drug importation bill which would cut drug prices.”
rekk replied on Dec 11, 2009 at 10:55:51
“Actually, as Tabibi stated in the article, it's CONGRESS who has been standing up to OBAMA!”
Sarah Palin Hedges On Agreeing To A Debate With Al Gore
Commented Dec 11, 2009 at 08:54:38 in Media
“I think the media (Huff Post included) are keeping the spotlight on Sarah to goad the right into makeing her a spokesperson. I would put that in the careful what you wish for column. As a liberal I see a need and a purpose for a conservative voice in political affairs. I hate to see the right turn into a side show.”
swengnikaerb replied on Dec 11, 2009 at 09:01:15
“The Right turned to a side show in 2000. Too bad the price of admission tacked on to our Nations credit card.”
Hoyer: Medicare Buy-In "Worth Consideration"
Commented Dec 09, 2009 at 11:48:42 in Politics
“I'm 60 years old. If this passes and it is affordable, I will retire at 62. There, poof, I created a job. My employer pays $300 per WEEK for health insurance for my wife and I. Over the last 10 years health care insurance costs of risen at 3 times the inflation rate. At the same time hospitals all over the country have closed. Doctors and nurses are being asked to work for less money every year. I'm ready to try something else.”
Paul Volcker, Former Fed Chairman To Wall Street: "Wake Up, Gentlemen"
Commented Dec 09, 2009 at 11:31:24 in Business
“It seems to me that the bankers are doing just fine. They now can lend money to people who can't pay it back and sell the loan to people who are protected by the government. They can borrow money from the Fed at less than 1% and lend it at 5% and more. Are they the ones that need to wake up, or is it the taxpayers who are footing the bill. They have created a perpetual money machine. That is innovation. We should be storming Washington and demanding a stop to this massive fraud. Instead we are more interested is Sarah Woods, or is it Tiger Palin, I forget.”
Bailout Watchdog: Obama Foreclosure Plan Inadequate, New Direction Needed
Commented Dec 09, 2009 at 11:20:32 in Business
“We have been sold a bag of magic beans, and now the cow is overseas. What did you think the "service economy" was? The financial, health care, drug and military industries have taken over our economy. It is going to take sacrifice to regain some balance. It is going to cause many thousands of people pain. Is this country ready, willing and able to face the music. So far, it doesn't seem likely. Until we face the fact that this country needs a painfull transformation, we will continue to shuffle the deck chairs on the Titantic. For the sake of our grandchildren, let's hope we don't wait until the ship sinks. This country has been off course for many decades, and righting the ship will not be easy.”
LorettaSingbiel replied on Dec 09, 2009 at 12:00:14
“Well ... we seem to have no problem scraping together HUNDREDS upon HUNDREDS of BILLIONS to "train" Iraqis to fight Iraqis and "train" Afghans to fight Afghans (for the next 15 to 20 years according to Hamid Karzai) ... and until they are all "trained" ... OUR SOLDIERS WILL DIE fighting THEIR battles for THEM in THEIR 1,000s year Civil Wars.
Apparently WARFARE is money well spent!”
Apparently WARFARE is money well spent!”
Richard Cohen: Gay-To-Straight 'Therapist' Spars With Rachel Maddow (VIDEO)
Commented Dec 09, 2009 at 10:31:19 in Media
“Human sexuality is a constant puzzle to me, but I'm pretty sure that we don't chose our preferences. Biological, social and family dynamics probably play a huge role. I take no pride in the fact that my sexual preferences are heterosexual, it isn't really a choice as to what stimulates me. The heart wants what the heart wants. Maybe someday we will discover that anything but bi-sexual is a mental disorder brought about by conditions experienced in our youth. That the natural way of things for primates (which we are) is to have sex with those of both genders. Doesn't work for me, but I may be damaged.”
MoeB replied on Dec 09, 2009 at 10:46:03
“I think we are just starting to understand human sexuality...I think it is far more complex than we currently understand it to be.”
guillermo85 replied on Dec 09, 2009 at 10:39:30
“My heart wants to have an orgy with an endless supply of people who are in perfect physical shape.”
guillermo85 replied on Dec 09, 2009 at 10:37:00
“I have a preference to be naked, tied-up and hung upside down from the chandelier while chubby girl scouts tickle me with a feather. It's just the way I am.”
Sarah Palin: WaPo Faces Heat For Running Op-Ed
Commented Dec 09, 2009 at 09:39:45 in Media
“Sarah hasn't spent much time in Alaska lately, but that's what she reads in "all the newspapers".”
Sarah Palin: WaPo Faces Heat For Running Op-Ed
Commented Dec 09, 2009 at 09:38:19 in Media
“The Huff post is one of the largest suppliers of Palin non news. Now it's news when she submits a op-ed? My God, she gets more free publicity. Sarah is to science what Stephen Hawkins is to surfing.”
Bailout Refunds Are Really About Escaping Pay Limits: Andrew Ross Sorkin
Commented Dec 08, 2009 at 11:42:38 in Business
“"Financial markets demand clarity and certainty" What is very clear is that I am certain that the financial sector in this country is full of fraudsters and self serving crooks. Good luck getting any of my hard earned savings until they clean house and get back to basics. Poor Bofa, none of thier drinking buddies are interested in the CEO job until they can talk serious money. You mean to tell me, with all the laid off bankers they can't find one guy who is willing to run the company for 1 or 2 million bucks? Oh please........Are the boards of these companies determinded to hire the same kind of genius that caused this meltdown. Someone who is willing to gamble the farm on instruments he doesn't understand, as long as he gets to skim the cream off the top?”
ErnestineBass replied on Dec 08, 2009 at 23:23:19
“Your last sentence is the most succinct description of what happened I've read yet.
Sheer perfection! A tip'o the hat to you, blueken.”
Sheer perfection! A tip'o the hat to you, blueken.”
Sarah Palin: Tomatoes Thrown During Book Event, Police Arrest Jeremiah Wobbe
Commented Dec 08, 2009 at 11:29:09 in Politics
“The infatuation with Sarah Woods, or is it Tiger Palin, is understandable. I for one grow weary of hearing that we will not get comprehensive health care reform, and there will be no end to the Wars in the East, no sensible regulations for the financial sector,,,,on and on and on. It is refershing to read an article about Tiger's wife smashing his Suv's window with a tomatoe, or someone throwing a golf club at Sarah. Takes one's mind of the pressing issues of the day, don't you think? Best of all, these daliances require no effort on the part of the reader. We can smugley past judgement and move on with our day.”
Despite Financial Crisis, Credit Rating Agencies Skirt Overhaul
Commented Dec 08, 2009 at 10:10:35 in Business
“Sad, but true.”
Sarah Palin: Tomatoes Thrown During Book Event, Police Arrest Jeremiah Wobbe
Commented Dec 08, 2009 at 10:00:49 in Politics
“So we call tea baggers at town hall meetings mature and open to discussion? Hmm...... interesting.”
Sarah Palin: Tomatoes Thrown During Book Event, Police Arrest Jeremiah Wobbe
Commented Dec 08, 2009 at 09:59:35 in Politics
“I know the difference, you can't kill someone with a tomatoe.”
Sarah Palin: Tomatoes Thrown During Book Event, Police Arrest Jeremiah Wobbe
Commented Dec 08, 2009 at 09:57:54 in Politics
“I respect your question and I wil respond. I don't hate her, but I strongly dislike her campaign speeches that were designed to tear people in this country apart. Her comments about "Real Americans". I don't agree with a lot of her points of view, does that make me not a "Real American"? She also said that some people "don't see America like you and I". Does that mean that my perception of this country is not valid? These types of inflamatory comments build wedges between people. United we stand, divided we fall.”
Sarah Palin: Tomatoes Thrown During Book Event, Police Arrest Jeremiah Wobbe
Commented Dec 08, 2009 at 09:52:55 in Politics
“I'm a liberal and I don't support this type of protest. This puts the left on the same level as tea baggers, birthers and death panel people on the far right.”
linda6or7 replied on Dec 08, 2009 at 10:13:57
“Believe me, nothing the left will do will put them on the level of birthers, deathers and tea baggers. Monkeys at a zoo? Yeah they might reach that level but I don't think tey would be quite that stupid either really..”
lisaman replied on Dec 08, 2009 at 09:56:06
“I agree!”
oregon bird replied on Dec 08, 2009 at 09:55:51
“Who's talked to the guy and ascertained he was political? It could be a book critic. Or someone with a disabled child without health care. Or someone with starving relatives in the outer reaches of Alaska, due to Palin's mismanagement. Or a GLBT sympathizer. Or a writer who can't get $10 out of a publishing company. Or someone who actually has to ride the bus.”
Despite Financial Crisis, Credit Rating Agencies Skirt Overhaul
Commented Dec 08, 2009 at 08:53:27 in Business
“The only way we will reform Wall Street is when we no longer trust them, and no longer supply them with money. My trust has been shaken to the core. If we all move our money to the safest havens, money will dry up and we will see reform. Remember what WC Fields said "You can't cheat an honest man."”
EqOrbit replied on Dec 08, 2009 at 09:36:30
“Won't do anything good. Because dollar in circulation just make up a small faction, say about 15% of the total dollar volume. The majority are already in the banks.
And what would your safest havens be?”
And what would your safest havens be?”
vlm1948 replied on Dec 08, 2009 at 09:09:39
“Agreed.”
8 Books That Predicted The Financial Crisis (PHOTOS, POLL)
Commented Dec 08, 2009 at 08:48:25 in Books
“These 8 books should be used as evidence in the criminal prosecution of executives with the rateing agencies on Wall Street. If they didn't know what those authors knew, they were criminaly neglegant.”
Anatomy Of A Failed Foreclosure Program
Commented Dec 08, 2009 at 08:39:53 in Business
“Every effort to right this economy has been less than affective because you can't bake a cake without breaking a few eggs. We can't reform the financial system without hurting those people within the financial system that keep screwing it up for there own benifit. We can't reform health care without hurting the drug, financial and health insurance industry. They are the problem. We have all suffered so that the financial, drug and health insurance industries may prosper. It is time for them to suffer so that we may prosper. Nothing else will work. It will be painfull and it will take time, but friends that is the bitter medicine that cures this problem.”
Woman Rushed To Hospital From Tiger Woods' Home
Commented Dec 08, 2009 at 08:33:53 in Sports
“Tiger just wants to put a little ball in a small hole, Sarah wants to run the country, big difference. If all that is coming out is true, Tiger is a serial cheater in his marriage, but at the end of the day, he is just another athlete. I have never heard Tiger try use the government to impose his religous beliefs on others.”
Jackie Ramos, Bank Of America Employee, Fired After Helping Customers (VIDEO)
Commented Dec 07, 2009 at 15:20:56 in Business
“i have been sticktly credit union for over 18 years. Unfortunately, my credit union farmed out credit cards to Bank of America. Jeeze.....................”
Jackie Ramos, Bank Of America Employee, Fired After Helping Customers (VIDEO)
Commented Dec 07, 2009 at 15:19:11 in Business
“Let's get this straight, credit card companies are not there to help you manage your money, financial companies are not there to protect your investments, and health insurance companies are not there to pay your doctor and hospital bills. They are there to make money. All that other stuff is so 1980. Customer service? You are kidding right?”
EPA: Greenhouse Gases Are Danger To Human Health, Must Be Regulated
Commented Dec 07, 2009 at 14:45:24 in Green
“Saw an interesting documentary this week-end on "Becoming Human". Scientists gathered data from rock formations and sea sedements and found an exact correlation between rapid climate change in Africa and the extinction homonids. I guess the point is that we can adapt, but it will be painful. Maybe we should slow down a bit.”
nolookpass replied on Dec 07, 2009 at 14:48:26
“I bet it was the homonids driving SUV's that did it.”
Reality Show Stars Charged Over Rat Killing, Cooking, Eating
Commented Dec 07, 2009 at 14:00:54 in Entertainment
“I havn't watched the show in years, but back when, it seemed to me that they are tested physicly and put on low protien diets. National Geo has an article about on of thier field guys eating baboon, and feeling a surge from the protien because he hadn't had meat in a week or two. .”
Reality Show Stars Charged Over Rat Killing, Cooking, Eating
Commented Dec 07, 2009 at 09:45:13 in Entertainment
“How absurd. They killed the rat for much needed protien. It is the killing of animals that allowed humans to support large brains. We are getting a little too distant from our food sources when you can be arrested for killing an animal to eat. Do your thing vegans, just leave us omnivours alone.”
TinaGirlla replied on Dec 07, 2009 at 12:30:49
“Ummmmm...they killed the animal for entertainment, clearly. Not like they were starving in some famine stricken area.”
GOP Would Require President, Cabinet, Staff To Enroll In Public Option
Commented Dec 07, 2009 at 09:42:22 in Politics
“I would go one better, all government employees must go on the public option, and the public option should be available to anyone who wants it. If the private sector is doing such a good job, they shouldn't mind at all. It's called choice, it's called competition. Right now my employer picks my health insurance, and I have no say whatsoever. The private sector had a chance to deliver good health care at a reasonable price, they have failed. Time to try something else.”
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