indyhoosier's Comments (19)

“If the NFL perceived that putting Vick or Stallworth on the field would cause loss of ad revenue or a drop in gate attendance, they would move to remove them, just as baseball moved John Rocker out.

If the NFL thought having Rush in a skybox doing his act in blackface would increase revenues, they would welcome him with open arms and market videos of him non stop on ESPN.

NFL owners only concern is to maximize profits, they don't care about value judgements outside of how those judgements or perception of them affects profits.”

“Oops, its Augusta National, not Agusta National, sorry for the typo...”

“This blog is just plain dense. His "rights" have not been violated, his brand was simply rejected in the free market. No government policy or law forced the owner's group to drop Limbaugh. They chose to drop him from the group of their own free will because they decided it was in their best financial interest to do so.

Rush has explicitly argued for the rights of owners to exclude people they want to. As he did when Martha Burk was petitioning Agusta National to allow women into the club, and they persisted in not allowing women in. Rush said this:

"It was Martha Burk, and I loved what Hootie Johnson and the membership did. Most clubs would have cowed in fear and called a meeting to reach a "common goal" and all that. Not Augusta National. I've played there 10 times, by the way. My first time, I was hosted by Jack Stephens. I believe my best score there is 99. "

If Rush loved that, why should he complain about the same thing happening to him?”

“My generation had its share of people that thought the same way you did, that it was the right thing to do. George Bush was one of them, but he hid in the safety of the National Guard and did his drugs in the safety of Texas.

Those that believe imperialism of the type demonstrated in Iraq is the right thing to do are lacking in morality or are ignorant. Your generation didn't have 50,000 killed in the deserts of Iraq, or a lot fewer would be willing to go. Even so, military recruiters have a suicide problem today, and are lowering standards to take felons because it is getting harder to get the "generation of the willing" to volunteer to go. The national guard is being deployed in unprecedented tours of duty to cover for the lack of regular service troops available to due duty.

Rambo was fiction, intentionally designed to get the hopelessly stupid to believe that killing massive numbers of people in the name of patriotism is warranted. It is not.”

“Let me explain why health care and financial safety nets are rights. Once all land and the core resources needed for survival are privitized, so that you as a citizen have no ability to live on this earth on which you were born without having to be engaged in commerce, certain rights must be maintained, actually guaranteed in exchange for peace.

The peace I am referring to is the peace you have of knowing that your life and assets are protected by a police state. You have the security of knowing that if someone barges into your home who is physically or intellectually stronger than you cannot take your assets or life without consequence. If enough people reject the premise that you have inferred rights as a citizen of a state, they can overwhelm the police state and take away your peace. What civilization offers in exchange for the abandonment of barbarism is security, and a right to survive. Take that away, and you should be prepared to become far more engaged in your self defense.”

“You don't get his point. That is his point.”

“Wrong, wrong, wrong. The excess capital would be used to move more assets offshore or start new development offshore where labor costs less, and where third world governments are easier to buy off. No pesky environmental, labor, or human rights issues to affect bottom line profits.

Without the tax revenue, the government would have to scale back its military operations and not be in a position to exert force anywhere in the world at any time. As such those overseas investments would be riskier to being nationalized, creating a dampening effect on equity growth.

Also without tax revenue, the infrastructure in the US would crumble into third world oblivion, and the inability to move goods to market quickly would cause prices to rise. This would occur at the same time unemployment was rising to 40% or more and the world would witness the final "Sovietization" of the US into the post Gorbachev black market anarchy that pervades the old USSR.”

“Until everyone of us are willing to buy a more expensive product because it is manufactured in America, Moore's recommendations are inoperative. We cannot compete with manufactured products produced in third world countries or totalitarian capitalism as practiced in China as long as the cost of labor content is not offset by the cost to transport the product. This basic truth of economics can only be discarded when people are willing to pay more for ideological reasons.

Consumers are just as guilty of short sightedness as GM is. We buy the lowest cost product, irregardless of the long term consequence. The long term consequence of shopping at WalMart has been the destruction of the manufacturing based economy of the US, and its conversion to a merchant economy. Corporate America has relentlessly removed labor content from products it sells, and consumers enable them by always buying the lowest cost product, blind to the erosion of the core economic realities that meant in the long term, consumers are eroding their buying power because far fewer sources of income are available when the only game in town is big box stores and the infrastructure needed to move products from port of entry to the big box.”

“I especially like the transcendance and the promotion of liberty and tolerance of another viewpoint that Jesus championed (at least as far as one can tell when the only evidence that Jesus existed is based on scripture created in the bronze age) as dictated in Luke.

"But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.” (Luke 19:27 KJV)”

“Given the era in which church doctrine was "evolved", the most likely cause for the exhortation to reproduce had little to do with competition with religion, and a lot to do with survival.

Life expectancy in the Roman empire was between 22 and 25 years. Infant mortality and childhood diseases that are now easily treated took its toll on the population.

Agragrian economies need labor to produce, and in order for the papal church/state to survive and prosper, it need larger quantities of people to farm the land. There was more arable land (and profits from which to build more churches) than there were people to farm the land.

Hence, the exhortation to go forth and multiply.

As usual in the course of human history, just follow the money, and you will be enlightened.”

“"I was hoping to come back on your show and have a reflective, intelligent dialogue"

Reflective, intelligent dialogue on Hannity?

How could anyone believe that this is within the realm of possibility?”

“I would like to know how anyone in government thinks they can hand out trillions of dollars to absorb the losses generated by our "free market" companies while lowering taxes, without crippling the ability of government to provide any services for anything other than transferring wealth to the uber rich.

More importantly, why does anyone think this is a good idea? If companies are going to make bad decisions and generate massive losses, when they fall on the public to re-fund themselves, the public should have an equity stake in those enterprises.”

“When Colin Powell went before the UN with artists' renderings of WMD, and carried the Bush administration's water for starting the war in Iraq, he quit being his own man. Like all humans, Secretary Powell is multi-dimensional. He has done great things, and he has done terrible things. Lending his credibility to starting the war in Iraq, with its disasterous results is one of the latter.

Perhaps his support of Obama will go down in history as a turning point in which the US wakes up from its Repubican nightmare, and starts becoming a nation that reflects the ideals that its propagandists say it has. I hope so.”

“My career has spanned 28 years of Republican leadership and 12 years of Democratic leadership. The only time I made good money was during the Clinton years. Nixon was a nightmare with price controls and inflation, Reagan destroyed the midwest where I live. Remember the Rust Belt years where a large segment of the population were living in KOA camps or in the streets as the industrial economy started abandoning the US? The Clinton era had problems, but it was the only era in which I was able to truly prosper. Bush has been a tortuous hell.

As far as Dems being the kiss of death, tell that to the 4 million people in the Middle and Far East that have been killed by Republican policy. They know the real meaning of the kiss of death. Oh, and it was done with your tax dollars. Aren't you proud?”

“I don't think the appeal is to the worst in us, its to the worst of us. The only hope that we don't get four more years of neocon nightmare, is that the best of us outnumber the worst of us, and vote against the disasterous ideology that grips our government. And the next hope is that the votes actually count.”

“Jim is shorting the market. He wants large scale selling to occur which will make him a lot of money. You can take it to the bank, if you can nudge yourself in front of Cramer.”

“The Republicans have put forward intellectually regressive candidates non-stop since Ford. They love this type of pliable, dimwitted, twit that sells with their base.

I actually expect to see Palin put forward as a presidential candidate in 2012 or 2016.”

“McSame gets it. He is an elitist that benefits from globalization. McSame's only real concern is for capital, not for citizens. Elections put him in the uncomfortable position of having to act like he cares what happens to people in this country. But the only concern elitists have about a country is how it affects their bottom line as they move their assets around the world.”

“Arianna,

What an absurd post. An intellect astute enough to realize that faith is primitive and ridiculous does not fear it in any sense. Faith is boring, wrong, irrational, low brow drivel. Faith is irrelevant. The only anxiety it creates occurs when its practitioners engage in their ubiquitous violence.”