cobobs's Comments (510)

“America invents a whole new set of parallel laws? That, is more dangerous than terrorism.

Right wingers turn out to be such cowards who do not believe in America.”

“Greedy unpatriotic plutocrats and their minions trapped in an ideological mind warp being outmanoevered by China.”

“Could they collaborate to perform the same services for themselves?”

“This is proper use of the internet for activism.”

“I hope they are reading you, Jeff Feld Machiavelli.”

“Tiger Woods hubris? Tragic, overreaching arrogance that offends the gods?Tiger's problem is not arrogance. He would have been a horndog even if he was just a caddy. If you put an overeater in a buffer or make an alcoholic a bartender, the unfortunate result is not caused by arrogance, but by human weakness.

Regarding Obama, did you elect a dictator? Did you underestimate the power of the interests that created the status quo? So you really thought he could snap his fingers , twirl on his heel and everything would be right? The former regime scared us with its aspirations to dictatorship. Now you wanted a black genie.”

“At last somebody who was actually listening to what was being said than to voices in the head.”

“"Real Americans"?
Funny that is a term that Cherokee, Nanticoke, Iroquois and others who could rightly claim to be "real Americans" do not use.”

“Tired, warmed over ideology from Ayn Rand and co. Have an original thought.”

“The only words of wisdom I have read on this whole matter. Thank you, Donna Estes Antebi. Somebody ought to show this to Elin, the Tiger's wife. If she listens to her heart, instead of those cheering her on to be dramatically righteous, she would follow your advice.”

“Why are the senate rules such that they hand such power to a single perverse individual?
What can other senators do? Shun him? Refuse to shake his hand? Strip him of chairmanships? What?”

“Mr Gates understands. A permanent, ever richer small aristocracy and a shrinking middle class is a recipe for social and political instability. Countries that have gone down that path are brutal, nasty places.”

“Personal hard-earned my posterior. Why don't you go to the moon alone and see how you would do with that "hard earned wealth" you are so proud of. Did you really earn anything on your own, without support and infrastructure from the country? Did you read Mr Gates article? There are too many people running around with all that weird stuff they picked up from John Birch Society and Ayn Rand.

These are the same privileged people who do not send their kids into the military but are ready to support ANY wars nilly-willy. A permanent aristocracy is a dangerous thing, and even Thomas Jefferson railed against it.”

“After the era of the robber barons and the days of Roosevelt, America learned that people should not trust their well being to the caprices and good will of great wealth, which really could not be trusted to put people first with notable exceptions such as Milton Hershey of Pennsylvania.

So, they got regulated and that prevented Communism from taking over America. If the middle and lower classes were perpetually deprived, that would have happened.

Then in the 70s - 2000s the ultra wealthy created institutes to spread the fiction that only by deregulation would there be wealth and growth in America. They conveniently forgot to state wealth for whom. People bought the lie and voted in governments that presided over the greatest transfer of wealth from the have a littles to the have it alls in the history of the planet. Now, things are bound to swing in the other direction and the little guy needs to pay attention.”

“Right, in your head he isn't”

“Great wealth and power actually do transform people, most people who acquire them. Sadly, more often than not, the transformation is monstrous. It takes a lot of work to be equanimous.”

“Bernie Sanders
Al Franken
Barbara Boxer”

“There is no constitutional basis for the government developing the internet. It went ahead and did so any way. Same thing highways and space flight and a whole lot more. There is no constitutional basis for foreign aid. I guess we should stop it too.

You are calling government a thief? I would rather rely on government than on the tender mercies of wicked Christians. What did Jesus say when he looked at the Roman coin? Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's. If Caesar decides to promote the people's welfare with it, it is his right and privilege.”

“Nancy is a real great. What are her secrets for perpetual youth and vitality?”

“How do you really know? Everything including your analysis is 3rd to 4th degree interpretation. We do not have direct experience of anything. Gotama had the correct insight about this thousands of years ago, regarding the irreality of experience and interpretation and struggled to drill down to direct experience.”

“Attend one of those Vipassana meditation 10 day boot camps, to jumpstart the process.”

“He should bring that incredible focus to sticking to one woman at a time.

---I guess he is doing that already, serially.”

“Americans have bought into this silly dream that if we really really really work hard at something, we could all become "successful". We have been sold a bill of goods tht we should not be upset that some people become astronomically wealthy doing nothing really valuable while we scramble to pay the electric bill. Right, we should not be upset because that would be "class warfare", the most shameful of things with which to be associated. The reality is that most of us will never become rich, but it is socially unjust that our lives should be like a long treadmill on which we are constantly falling backwards. The social order needs to be corrected so that ordinary people can live decently and the basics such as food, housing, healthcare are not part of a life and death struggle. Ordinary people may also have to reconsider their addiction to toys and entertainments that the hucksters sell to us as essential.

The proclivity to tearing down these wealthy celebrities when they falter might just be the welling anger of the suffering majority finding expression.”

“There is a little secret about the public, because the MSM is only serving the public as a market. These scandals sell. Why? Ordinary citizen America actually hates and resents its tin gods, the overpaid pitchmen, sports figures, actors etc. The public secretly believes that these folks are paid completely out of proportion to their contribution to society at the expense of their own under-appreciated hard work and drudgery. Therefore, when they have opportunity to tear down these tin gods, they do that with relish and a serving of schadenfreude. The MSM continues to dish up the goods and tools to animate the feeding frenzy. When they have torn Tiger to ribbons, they continue to serve up.”

“Thank you, sir. This is not a trivial matter. This kind of thinking and the actions that come with it have the power to unravel this great experiment.”