muffler's Comments (116)

“Narcissist pure and simple. She is incapable of accepting that anything could be her fault and any critical assessment. Couric's questions diminished her ego and that requires her to attack beyond necessary to internally undue the damage. She will continue to be a fascination with the media because narcissistic people react in a way that is repulsive and confusing in an interesting way. It is a slippery slope, but with continue light she could eventually become unglued and when it happens it will be undeniably majestic in it scope and size...”

“OK so a well connected powerful politician is concerned of a "plot" and that "they" we will "get all of us". Why would he do this unless 1) he is unsure and worried about a plot or even worse.. knows who "they" are? More fuel to the fire huh? Conspiracy people... get out the databases and pens!!!”

“That's what most people don't understand about Obama. He naturally understands that you have to plant the seeds of an idea and then slowly move that way. You can't make sweeping jumps. It takes time for national debate to settle down and define acceptance.”

“Provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare! That is the roll of government. Regulating and controlling the markets as to keep them fair does promote the general welfare. Unregulated markets are left to be controlled by the richest companies. It's not a balanced market anymore.”

“I disagree. The big corporations have lobbied to have our tax money either subsidize them or take all burdens off them so they can be more profitable. Medicaid and medicare actually take the people who aren't profitable anymore off the hands of the heath insurance companies and put the burden on the tax payer. The changes in copyright and patent laws to extend ownership and publishing rights stymie competition and restrict innovation. Corporate Personage gives companies rights with no repercussions, and the list goes on and on. Once the companies have enough money they then use their profits to lobby the government to spend tax payer money on them or change legislation to control the markets for them. The best part is they also made these contributions tax deductible.

The concepts in this article are pretty clear and very enlightened. The house is being robbed and they have everyone arguing over how to load the dishwasher. Now I think we are noticing that we are being robbed...u­nfortunate­ly the "american police force" is already owned. They aren't coming.”

“no he hasn't, but you know someone in America is unemployed and the wealth of our country is going to India and China.”

“The only thing that creates wealth is manufacturing and industry. The rest should be servicing the needs for that goal.”

“Actually as I see it they are the greatest recipients of the benefits that tax dollars provide. They get a stable society, government, roads and services that their businesses take full advantage of. It's actually a good deal for them, but they want all that with no extra investment­... good business, but bad policy and off based reality. You benefit more might mean that your investment should be greater. By greater understand that the actually amount might be higher even if the actually impact is lower.”

“Romoving the "polanski" factor... yes humaneismyth there are geniuses in the film profession. That includes the technical areas as in Cinematography, Art Direction, Lighting etc. Your comment is silly. Never should genius be used as an escape from justice. On the other hand neither should wealth, social standing, political party, company affiliation or religion.”

“Does anyone here do anything but broad characterizations of industries, political parties, professions or demographics? I think "Middle America" (all 200 MIllion or more) have varying positions on "Hollywood" and are smart enough to define bad from good on an individual basis.”

“It's not about weak or strong. That's playground stuff. It's about being smarter, faster, quicker, and picking the right time to do things. The US is in 2 wars, failing financially, industrially, intellectually and socially. This isn't Obama's fault. It's our fault - all of us in these United States - for oh so many reasons. We have been divided by the top 2% of this country to bicker over trivial stuff while they systematically loot the country and moved industry away. They made us all think it was great capitalism as they moved industry and services to Asia and sold off our resources. It was great capitalism for the owners and zero investment in our future.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that while they have us arguing over abortion, healthcare, environment, finance, terrorism, drug wars etc they have been busy doing other things. Ladies and Gentleman the house is being robbed and they have us arguing over how the dishes go into the dishwasher.”

“Correction to above... It's not going to happen (Us invading Iran)”

“No country views an invading army as a liberator unless they have a foreign army on it's soil already that they want kicked out. That os the entire fallacy of Iraq. Invading Iran will be a colossal failure. Obama knows that invasion is no happening. It's a terrible situation and thinking that the United States will prevent Iran from having Nukes is a fantasy. It's going to happen, but more unfortunate is that iran will be blamed for any loose nukes that get used. The US will have the ultimate scapegoat. It's going to be a long hard 10 years.

The best thing the US can do is bring manufacturing home, get out of Iraq, reduce the deficit, regulate extreme capitalism (a few fair rules in finance, healthcare etc),pay teachers more, teach science again and start realizing that God isn't going to instantly fix it for us. Without this we won't be ready for anything.”

“If this is accurate.. I mean that sincerely. then Westmorela­nd... ooopppss I mean McChrystal is doomed to repeat history except it's Afghanistan and not Vietnam.

June 7, 1965
Westmoreland requests 44 battalions.”

“So let me get this in my mind. The Right is comparing Obama to the Soviet Union because of the term Czar which is weird because if I remember correctly the Czar was overthrown by the communists. So if the right is look to overthrow the czars maybe they are communists­... ah the right=communism. Now I get it.”

“Yeah sure... The media doesn't cover the true issues and the American people would never know if there was "a real movement". The media hypes the Sept 12th thing, but ignores the war protesters of 3X the size. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars aren't even on the radar or the front page. Americans are mostly dumbed down and don't even know that they the house has been robbed and the rest is being sold off. By the time they wakeup the thieves will have relocated the cash and goods internationally. We will be left like a victim of identity theft: Broken, in debt and no recourse. The rule of 2 applies... too late, too little and too slow.”

“What is your point? Maybe you can enlighten everyone here with your reason?”

“America has become a battered child. It needs to be hit by corporations and mis-informed by corporate media and lied to by politicians because that is all it knows. It is afraid to not have the battering done to it by it's masters because the evil it knows has to be better then anything else. It's comfortable. Keep it up people...”

“Sarah is still running on ideas and memes from the 1990s. She isn't exactly creative nor is she really talented. She is a very good mimic, but as a natural she is nothing more than a narcissist doomed to her own self image of perfection. I have just finish popping what might be the first of many bags of pop corn. This will make for another wonderful summer side show along with Entourage and Nurse Jackie! Oh and since we already have on thing uncorked we might as well open up a bottle of wine too!”

“Palin represents small departmental politics instead of the sophistication required on a state and Federal Level. She is offensive on so many levels from intellectual through moral, behavioral, psychological and maturity. The difficulty with Palin is that she has so many issues we are forced to look at her through base eyes of visual impression. Her photo's and lies in the Runner magazine sum up that she lives her life as a beauty pageant, but she is repugnant as a person.”

“And in 3.....2...­..1.....”

“I didn't see a single comment looking to ban religion.”

“If the fundies would spend their time figuring out how to adopt the unwanted and accidentals they would be occupied and doing something good. Instead they take the easy route and complain, get angry and shoot people.”

“We were as close as possible without flying a cross from the white house.”

“You are talking about the difference of Torture and Political Wiretapping versus consensual sex between two adults. I don't know about you, but sex to me is not torture. The only reason Clinton was in trouble was that the Republican's think that knowing our personal life is the business of Government whereas they don't feel the acts of wiretapping and torture are anyone's else's business.”