UID59079 needs to be banned!

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Sunday April 18, 2010 · 9:02 AM PDT

2010/04/18 · 09:02

It's been four weeks since HCR was passed and that's the same lapse of time since I last logged on to this site. For the first week of absence my reason was being on vacation but if I had been home I probably would not have logged on in any case. So please keep in mind that like Rip Van Winkle I've missed the past four weeks of outraged harangues against the doings of Palin, Teabaggers, Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh and all the other faux issue characters that keep attention distracted from the lack of doing anything by Democrats or the great man Obama himself.

When the year-long Kabuki Theater dance of "healthcare" came to its climax with the new marching mantra "The perfect is the enemy of the good" firmly entrenched in our "progressive" consciousness by the likes of Markos (all Hail,) his trashee Dennis Kucinich (this bill is a piece of shit but we need to save Obama,) and even Michael Moore (same deal, it's all about saving Obama,) intuitively I knew I was finished with this delusion that the mission of electing Democrats made the slightest bit of difference. As Nader said, not a dime's worth.

Arctor

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Thursday January 28, 2010 · 11:39 AM PST

2010/01/28 · 11:39

The debate on the cloture vote is on and if our Dems do what they're best at,snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, they will confirm him and they and Obama will own him and be seen as the defenders of Wall Street. Oh what a lesson they have learned from Massachussets! This is America today, not just a culture without accountability, but a society that outright rewards failure and corruption.

Arctor

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Tuesday January 26, 2010 · 11:55 AM PST

2010/01/26 · 11:55

Well we have banks that are too big too fail, of course Wall Street will totally collapse should they lose their "facilitator" in chief. At some point, is it legitimate to question the "holy" assumption that what's good for the DJIA (General Motors) is good for the U.S.A.? I can't help remembering the day Dubya "tricked" us for his last performance with: "pass the bailout or the entire world economy will collapse!" At some point we have to be a people with the courage to confront our problems head-on. Let this nomination be that day! And if it isn't, the consequences will likely be even worse than "Scotty" Gibbs can foresee, 'cause win, lose, or draw Bernanke (and Geithner) will likely become the scandal that breaks the Obama administration, period.

Arctor

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Wednesday September 30, 2009 · 6:22 PM PDT

2009/09/30 · 18:22

The last shoe has dropped for embattled CEO Ken Lewis at Bank of America with the announcement of his retirement today as noted by Bloomberg News Ken Lewis Steps Down, No Successor Named.

A federal judge this month rejected a $33 million settlement between the bank and the SEC tied to the bonuses, asking whether the bank had lied to shareholders and why the company’s executives haven’t been sued. Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney general, has said he’s deciding whether to bring charges against executives. In a statement today, Cuomo said Lewis’s departure won’t affect his probe.

Arctor

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Saturday May 30, 2009 · 2:40 PM PDT

2009/05/30 · 14:40

Last Thursday's edition of Countdown will be my last until I learn from some grapevine that Keith has returned to doing something other than pandering to us "liberals'" lowest common denominator: disgust and disdain for the members of the right-wing fog machine. I think an entire show dedicated to observations about Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly,Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, and various other assorted nuts of the right is nothing more than taking the easy way out to putting together the kind of show Countdown had previously been.

Arctor

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 7:06 PM PDT

2008/10/30 · 19:06

It's easy to dismiss the new Republican talking points about Obama being a Socialist as the last gasp rantings of a failed party, but is that all that's going on in these last days? It's similarly easy to grimace at their continuing attempts to spread false alarms about vote fraud and questions suggesting that Obama's contributions are also suspicious, but is this something more sinister than we can see over the glee of our impending electoral victory.

Sure the Republican trash talkers that are being recycled, DeLay, Armey, Guiliani, Rove come across to us as the idiot shills they are, but are we too innocently dismissing the intentions of the monied powers behind them, the same one's who have been behind the excesses of Bush/Cheney? Are we to imagine that the powers that have been manipulating our national existence for over fifty years will just step gentlemanly out of the way, or should we already be on alert for the battle yet to come?

Arctor

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 6:27 PM PDT

2008/09/10 · 18:27

I'm watching Rachel Maddow (as many of you no doubt are) and it occurs to me that he goes hat-in-hand to this crook's yacht with his bagman-campaign director but without his constant companion, Cyndy, on his birthday, to socialize? Well, Mr. Brilliance there and his sidekick Davis know very well he doesn't represent the Vatican: they are soliciting the support of a con man!

He's outdone Bush and Rove hasn't even gotten him to The Casa Blanca yet! Then I says to myself, if they are the only two animals left on the island, I think I would have to go with Dubya. Now there's a case where you can't put lipstick on a pig! McCain was and always will be the pig.

His claim to fame, being a POW, everything after: there's no there, there. Absolutely no beef. His whole record and bio a contrived lie. And now he doesn't even waste time with spin, this washing-machine goes right to lies!

Arctor

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 2:15 PM PDT

2008/08/29 · 14:15

As predicted by French demographer and political prognasticator Emmanuel Todd, the American Empire will shortly follow that of the Soviet Union's demise as we play out the coming destruction of the Republican apparatus in a dying spasm of electoral defeats and criminal investigations. The GOP will soon join the KGB on the ashcan of history.

The inner corruption and culture of arrogant ignorance has provided the spectacle of a rotting corpse heading to a political convention to nominate a man they do not want and probably will not support. McCain is starting to look dumber than Boris Yeltsin in the final days. He's self-indicted himself as a collossal dumbass with this transparent selction of a woman to attract Hillary supporters; as if women who've fought for liberal ideals all their lives would support McCain because he has a woman Veep candidate? Instead, he's alienated his fundamentalist base and probably scared off the Pappy Bush clan who must think he's nuts.

Arctor

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Monday June 30, 2008 · 6:49 PM PDT

2008/06/30 · 18:49

Tonight on Countdown, Keith Olbermann asked Jim Webb what he might suggest next in support of the troops and Senator Webb though committed to their cause did not have a ready answer. For me, whenever I see an insipid Support The Troops sign on someone's lawn, or worse, a bumper sticker to that effect on a gas guzzling SUV, I think Why not a $ 10,000 bonus for each tour that these folks have served and will continue to serve? If all these Superpatriots were willing to put their money where there overly large mouths are, Support The Troops might mean something to war critics like me.

Arctor

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Thursday June 26, 2008 · 7:51 AM PDT

2008/06/26 · 07:51

I am looking forward to the Obama presidency and huge Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress with reasonable optimism. I know Obama is a politician and I like to think we're both realists. His reality is the "classic" candidates strategy of run to your base in the primaries and then move to the center for the general election. I get it! But as an individual citizen fighting to preserve the constitution that protects me and hoping still to see justice done in respect of the crimes of the Bush administration,I have my strategies too and the main strategy I follow is to support those who stand up for what I believe in. I don't believe the wishy-washy weak me-tooism of the Democratic Party has been an effective position in opposing Bush and so my "realism" is to pragmatically support those who demonstrate a willingness to fight for what's right, not expedient.

Arctor

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Wednesday May 07, 2008 · 4:55 PM PDT

2008/05/07 · 16:55

About the most outrageous piece of political hogwash I've ever seen posted on a blog is up on the Huffington Post at this moment. Under the teaser, "Big Rewards Await Clinton If She Drops Out Now," Thomas B. Edsall, political editor of the Huff Po and reputedly a professor of Journalism at Columbia University, asserts in his second paragraph:

One of the most inviting is the near certainty that the Obama campaign would agree to pay back the $11.4 million she has loaned her own bid, along with an estimated $10 million to $15 million in unpaid campaign expenses.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

It made me so hot and bothered, I couldn't even pay the gentleman the courtesy of reading the rest of this absurdity. Someone must have diaried this already? I'd be happy to delete!

Arctor

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 9:16 AM PDT

2008/04/26 · 09:16

As he said to Dubya about attacking Iraq, we'll ride that horse as War President for eight years. Now it's McCain's turn to play out Rove's web of evil. And, he'll have the full support of Bush and Cheney. While we spend our days being distracted by Hillary, the other Iran War hawk, the wheels are in motion to attack Iran and use the resulting chaos to boost McCain's presidential prospects. For who but the great war hero is capable of taking the helm from Alexander W. Bush and Julius Cheney, our great military leaders of today!

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