dhinds's Comments (1146)

“People grasping at straws.”

“That's a fact.”

“"Hate is all around, the GOP/Conservatives seems to be more peaceful."

They're unaware of what's going on.

"That's a fact, not emotion, just reality"

Your equivocal version of reality.”

“Soros doesn't own the Wall Street Journal.

"Put your emotion away"

I hone my emotion to a fine edge.

"and try and get educated on facts and the grown-up business world".

A typically groundless condescending remark. You have no corner on reality and I'll wager, know far less than yours truly in general.

Even Obama has changed his stripes once he became elected; he's nowhere new the "for the people" leader "you" thought he'd be.

He was by far the best (and only tolerable) candidate of the two with real chances of winning.”

“"Comparing Palin to Ronald Reagan".

All show and little comprehension in both cases. Reagan was at his best when he represented the Actors Union. As POTUS, he was easily manipulated by a team of real shadows with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

Under Reganomics and Trickle Down, the disparity between the rich and the poor increased greatly.

Decisions were made based on the recommendations of Nancy's astronomer.

And I thought libs had a bad opinion of Palin."

A typically snide and supercilious remark.”

“"Before you blast the nation, understand it's purpose".

What I understand (and understand quite well) is the the purpose of Rudolph Murdoch and his mercenary cohorts is not MY purpose but rather, a purpose that runs counter to the legitimate interests of all decent, hard working, freedom loving Americans.

" As for FN, the headlines are, well, news."

A glimpse of reality as viewed from the gutter.”

“The anger comes from having to live through the destruction of the USA and all that it stood for during eight nightmarish years under GWBush.

No progressive politician has trashed the Constitution, invested so many financial, human and institutional resources in unnecessary, destructive activities as the governments administered by the repugnant regressive party; and progressives aren't war mongering mercenary war profiteers, like the last RP Presidential Candidate.

That's where the anger comes from, Republican thugs ruining the country, possibly forever.”

“"The great Teachers do not involve themselves in politics "

Like JC?

"By your injecting yourself into the life and politics of Sarah Palin - you become no better than Jeremiah Wright"

A statement flabbergasting for it's illogic. When Sarah Palin injected herself in the public arena (thanks to John Sidney McCain), she provided a free pass for one and all to inject themselves in her life and politics. Punto.”

“You summed it all up pretty well.”

“"If he really was malicious towards any ethnicity on his show"

He was really malicious, period - and directed it primarily at undocumented migrant workers, who he claimed were responsible for all of America's ills.

"he would have been fired a long time ago. "

He's a friend of Turner's (who's still on the CNN Board of directors).

"Well demeanor proves nothing."

Demeanor is a valid window to his character and intentions (if you know how to read them).

"People may disagree with his stance on illegal immigration or the fact that he has been criticizing Obama but the constant accusations of racism are unfair."

They're more than fair. He antagonized, deprecated and demonized the undocumented Latino Community and now he'll have to pay the price. (Latino activists are well aware of why some of their paisanos lack documents and the gaffe stems from the discrepancy between the current legal framework and the economic reality. The law is the law, except when it's fundamentally flawed).”

“She was selected as an adornment.”

“Ghouls from the cesspool.”

“His sneering, deprecating demeanor said it all.”

“The rules are the reality of the labor market. No undocumented harvesters means crops rot in the field. Nobody waits in line because by the time permits are granted, the crop was lost.

Did the Pilgrims get permits from the Algonquins?

Get real. Your rules are irrelevant - a pretext to get pompous on us.”

“Condescending, castrating fiction.”

“The most loyal, obedient and trustworthy canine races are (surprisingly) Wolf / Sled Dog (Malamute &/or Husky) crosses.”

“Pit Bulls and Doberman are responsible for a majority of the (sometimes fatal) attacks on human beings and should not be trusted around children.

Great Danes follow.”

“The decision to invade Iraq preceded 9/11 and was intended to provide access to the oil Saddam Hussein had nationalized, a goal that was accomplished at a tragically great cost: The lives lost, the debt incurred and the moral stature of the USA reduced to worthless hype; the suicides and homelessness among the war's American victims who know or sense they've been deceived.

When GWB was in the Texas Air National Guard he "borrowed" a navy jet to visit a girl friend. Once he became Commander In Chief, he had the nation's Armed Forces at his disposal.

He betrayed his country, which has yet to recover from the results of his treachery.”

“"the Taliban is using the money to kill us" because we invaded their country, which makes us fair game.

But the moneys not going just to the Taliban. Most of it goes to feudal, tribally based, war lords. Religious fundamentalism provides an added twist for the Taliban, but most of those involved with the "insurgency" are simply bandits, charging the invaders (i.e. the USA) passage through their territories - and that includes the Taliban.

www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston

IOW, the Privatization Model (biznez as usual) GWB established (as did his grandfather Prescott) is nothing more than an extension of the same mentality - and the terms "global jihad" and "democrati­cally-elec­ted government of Afghanistan" are simply window dressing to justify the US Military presence in a country where a few predatory US vultures can make a little money.”

“No "global jihad" exists in Afghanistan.

No " democratic­ally-elect­ed government of Afghanistan" exists there either.

And the Taliban is native to Afghanistan. They may not be in power in Kabal but have control over much of the rest of the country.

The system of government in place in Afghanistan is the same as it has been for thousands of years: Feudal, tribally based, with war lords. Religious fundamentalism provides an added twist for the Taliban, but most of those involved with the "insurgency" are simply bandits, charging the invaders (i.e. the USA) passage through their territories - and that includes the Taliban.

www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston

IOW, the Privatization model (biznez as usual) GWB established (as did his grandfather Prescott) is nothing more than an extension of the same mentality - and the terms "global jihad" and "democrati­cally-elec­ted government of Afghanistan" are simply window dressing to justify the US Military presence in a country where a few US vultures can make a little money.”

“http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee”

“I should have mentioned that Tim Berners-Lee DONATED the www technology in order to contribute to the development of society. He prevented the www from becoming entrenched in the private domain, creating a truly public, almost universal interactive medium.

The addition of color graphics, sound and movement to what had been a text only medium increased the Internet's popularity and propitiated the investment in infrastructure that allows so many of us to use it for communications, information procurement, telephony, document interchange and even the financing of political campaigns (Barack Obama would never have become POTUS without the agile use of the web that his campaign implemented).

No one has created more change than Tim Berners-Lee. Based on this medium however, the open-source software movement is going to further a culture of sharing and mutual assistance that is what America and the World really needs; so don't forget Bill Stallings (and many more).”

“Oops - that's www.w3.org/”

“The man that's changed the world most is without a doubt Tim Berners-Lee www.w3c.org”

“"I was under the impression that "imperialists" ruled the countries they conquered.­"

Wrong impression. Now they just tear them down and contract their chums to build em back up - a little. Everbody's worse off except Halliburton and Blackwater (or whoever's doing it in Afghanistan) and they were bad to begin with.”