Paul Ryan and Frat Boy Economics

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Tuesday August 14, 2012 · 9:42 AM PDT

2012/08/14 · 09:42

The selection of Paul Ryan as the Republican Veep pick strikes a cord with me due to his infatuation with Ayn Rand. Now, I know there have been a number of posts dissecting Ayn Rand, many of them better than I can hope to do, but rest assured this will not plumb the depths of that dispicable world view.

What strikes me most about Ryan and Rand takes me back to my experiences in college. Follow me below the squiggly.

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Most lovable frat boys?

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Delta Tau Chi (Faber Chapter)

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The Truth About Obama and the Nobel Prize

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Friday October 09, 2009 · 10:05 AM PDT

2009/10/09 · 10:05

I'm going to make this quick, b/c this is so straightforward that it really doesn't require much thought.

Regardless of where you stand on the accomplishments of Obama internationally and specifically towards the area of peace, there are some fundamental truths about the awarding of the Nobel Prize.

See me after the jump:

MrWinky

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Friday January 23, 2009 · 1:52 PM PST

2009/01/23 · 13:52

Listen to the Right long enough, and you will hear the exact opposite thing come out of their mouths. Unlike the rest of us who change our stances from time to time, they won't even realize that it is a contradiction (even when you point it out to them). Part and parcel with this is their failure to take their own arguments down the path to their own logical conclusion. All of this because of Republican "certainty," that we are right and righteous in all cases, therefore any position they take is the correct one. As stated in the movie, "Doubt" "Certainty is an emotion, not a fact."

Right now, Gitmo's closure is the perfect example.

MrWinky

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Tuesday October 07, 2008 · 12:43 AM PDT

2008/10/07 · 00:43

With the oncoming debate tonight, I flinch at the thought of the nastiness that will be spewing from McCain. Part of me is encouraged, not only by Obama's ability to field such ploys handily, but by the fact that McCain's obvious surliness and contempt for Obama cost him votes last time. I can only imagine how real nastiness is going to send him further in a death spiral.

This would be amazing to hear at the debate tonight.

Here it goes after the jump....

MrWinky

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 12:28 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 12:28

A thought occurred to me as I was thinking about the Sarah Palin candidacy: It could really set feminist causes back 100 years. I don't say this because I believe feminism only exists on the left and not on the right, but rather b/c the root of sexism, like all prejudices, is based upon either conscious or unconscious beliefs that are harbored by us collectively as a people.

I think of her candidacy, and it brings to mind two people: Jack Johnson and Jackie Robinson. Let me tell you why...

MrWinky

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Sunday September 28, 2008 · 4:38 PM PDT

2008/09/28 · 16:38

I am writing this b/c like many of us, I am stumped. There are many levels to my stumpedness, and this may be my attempt to work through them. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out the selection of Sarah Palin as a Vice-Presidential candidate. I assume like a lot of you, I didn't know too much about Palin at first, all I knew was that some pundits had mentioned her as being one of the "Republicans on the rise" and figured she had a lot going for her.

After the interviews with Gibson and Couric, there can be little doubt that she is a mental midget of biblical proportions and much like Ricky Bobby of Taledega Nights, I pray to 6 lb. 8 oz baby Jesus every night that she remains the VP candidate for the Republicans. I make that prayer with one caveat, that she not actually become the Vice President of my beloved United States.

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Sarah Palin is dumber than a:

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Sarah Palin is dumber than a:

Stump

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Fence post

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Bag of Hammers

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Door Knob

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there is nothing physically present in the Universe dumber than Sarah Palin

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McCain is a befuddled old man

MrWinky

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 11:11 PM PDT

2008/09/25 · 23:11

The situation in this campaign is absolutely surreal. Republicans have always had that Dr. Stranglove bizarro feel to them, but there is no doubt that they are excruciatingly effective when it comes to campaigns and fooling people to vote for them. What McCain is doing now is just rudderless, he is merely a leaf held hostage to the mercy and whim of the winds.

I just for the life of me cannot figure out what the Hell he is trying to accomplish, other than look plain ol' silly.

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What's more embarrassing for a Republican maverick than getting beat up by a queen from Mass?

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Dream about going to school naked

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Spinach in your teeth

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Asking a non-pregnant lady when the baby is due

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Absolutely freakin' nothing

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Sarah Palin- The Inside Story of an Insider

MrWinky

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Saturday September 20, 2008 · 1:46 PM PDT

2008/09/20 · 13:46

Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce myself. Circumstances dictate that I may no longer remain silent. We, through the course of this campaign, have had diarists make outrageous claims as to their unique knowledge of Sarah Palin. We have heard from someone who lived in Alaska. Then someone who lived in Wasilla. Now up on the rec list, we have heard from someone who worked under Sarah Palin - the Grand High Poobah of this state. This being the situation, I can bear it no longer, that these imposters, pretenders and charlatans try to claim that they can give you the true inside story of Sarah Palin. NOBODY, but NOBODY knows Sarah Palin better than me, and I'm here to spill my story.

I am a bacterium floating in Sarah Palin's stomach, and I'm here to spill my guts (so to speak) Follow me after the fold.

MrWinky

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 1:39 PM PDT

2008/09/12 · 13:39

There are many reasons why I am voting for Obama, and as I am speaking to the choir, I am not going to waste valuable internet ink in spelling them out here b/c I am sure you feel the same way. However, even if I wasn't so ga-ga over our candidate, I would vote for a very bland candidate over what has emerged from the swamps of the Republican party.

My main reason? Both McCain and Palin possess a singular trait of Dubya that I find the most disturbing of all his characteristics, and is chief behind many of the woes which to which we have been subjected.

Decision making.

MrWinky

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 4:26 PM PDT

2008/09/11 · 16:26

I believe as sure as God made little green apples a lot of you on DKos are going to laugh at this title, blurting out "Uh yeah, why do you think we are on here? This in from Mr. Winky, water wet, sky blue, film at 11" Smart asses.

I am writing this just to vent my frustration at what a terribly inept press we have. I am a firm believer in the fourth estate, and in a democracy, we simply can't function without an attentive and vigilant press corp. (I think there is actually a quote on that from one of our founding fathers, but I'm too lazy to track it down) This is what gets my goat, more after the jump...

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Who would do a better job at covering the race?

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Who would do a better job at covering the race?

A ham sandwich

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A monkey

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A dead squid

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A money and dead squid eating a ham sandwich

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Let's All Take A Collective Pill

MrWinky

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Monday September 08, 2008 · 2:09 PM PDT

2008/09/08 · 14:09

It's been a hard 24 hours for me. Why? Because a lot of the places I like to go and review the state of the race and the current events are all up in arms, from concern, to sheer panic, to I give up. Not only reading this is depressing, but to be honest - I'm blindsided.

How did we go from jumping for joy over the absolute tidal wave that was the Democratic National Convention to this Pit of Despair (hat tip to the "Princess Bride) The only thing missing is the raspy voiced albino.

Is this all b/c of one poll from Gallup/USAT? One which may be an outlier seeing as none of the other polls show a sudden 10 point lead for McCain while all the others show that it is basically tied. Realclearpolitics, pollster and 538 all show a distinct Obama advantage in the electoral college race - The Only Race That Matters. Do we honestly believe b/c McCain has now declared himself a reformer and added an inexperienced Governor to the ticket, that he got a 17 point swing in a matter of days, even though Palin has high negatives, that polling shows many independents were turned off by her attacks, and that she is going to have a limited effect among women?

Let's regroup here.

MrWinky

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 12:06 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 00:06

I'm going to be the first to tell you, I am not the most objective observer when it comes to the GOP. From the start, I have thought that Sarah Palin is an absolute zero, coming to power in a very different and isolated political forum in Alaska. This speech did not change anything for me.

At once she seemed more empty and vapid than I had ever imagined.

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