Crashing the Economy - Blame Who?

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Wednesday September 14, 2011 · 10:47 AM PDT

2011/09/14 · 10:47

Cicadas were already screeching in the trees and the morning vapors had long since ceased ascending out of the moss covered live oaks. Jack was seated on a bench, tackle box beside him, and two fishing poles when Billybob, the sheriff's son arrived in his overalls and Keds. Jack went in and fetched them two Coca Colas. Because, as poppy told him, “It’s not smart to drink on an empty stomach.” Jack had breakfast hours ago, but Billybob still looked bleary-eyed. And a little unsteady.

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Who's to blame for the state of the economy?

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Who's to blame for the state of the economy?

China

0 votes

Narrow Education, Narrow Minds

5 votes

Dubya

13 votes

Greed

21 votes

Free Trade Advocates

2 votes

Tea Party Sponsors

2 votes

Labor Unions

3 votes

Banking Deregulation

16 votes

All of the Above

23 votes

Obama

9 votes

Tom, the Troll

3 votes

Why Not Hillary?

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Wednesday April 02, 2008 · 11:41 AM PDT

2008/04/02 · 11:41

Attributed variously to Eleanor Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Arabic culture is an old saying that goes something like this.

Third rate people talk about people.
Second rate people talk about events.
First rate people talk about ideas.

We wonder if the concept cannot be extended to the speech of political candidates. And, perhaps, political reporters.

Third rate candidates talk about events.
Second rate candidates talk about issues.
First rate candidates talk about principles.

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Tuesday April 01, 2008 · 4:02 PM PDT

2008/04/01 · 16:02

The "subprime mortgage" fiasco is being treated as if it is some kind of exotic financial disease heretofore unknown to man. There seems to be a lot of "how could we have known?" going around. But if one looks beneath the specifics and gets to the generalities, one quickly realizes the fiasco is of a type that can be traced far back in history The specifics are different but the generalities are the same. The problem is one of speculation.
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Bush vs. Spitzer - Current Affairs

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Tuesday March 18, 2008 · 8:17 PM PDT

2008/03/18 · 20:17

As a voting public we cannot forgive former governor Eliot Spitzer for wrecking his personal life; but we can forgive a president for wrecking his nation. Is there something wrong with this picture? Read More

Pot Meet Kettle, Mr. Steyn.

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Monday December 03, 2007 · 8:19 AM PST

2007/12/03 · 08:19

"Kill her, Kill her." That's what the fundamentalist crowds of Khartoum were chanting during the trial of a western school teacher who had allowed her students to name a teddy bear "Mohammed." The judges handed down a somewhat more moderate sentence, 15 days in prison. The schoolteacher, Gillian Gibbons, a young British woman, had offended Islam by allowing a stuffed animal to bear the name of its greatest prophet. And this, the fundamentalist crowds of Khartoum found heretical. Read More

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Being offensive

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Being offensive

Is the distinguishing characteristic of western liberalism.

0 votes

It's what endears America and Americans to the meek rest of the world.

0 votes

Is the ony way we can truly be free.

0 votes

Is one of the accidental pains of a liberalizing process.

3 votes

Is the only reasonable treatment for people who insist on being fundamentalists

2 votes

Evil Democrats Ruin Republican Debate

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Friday November 30, 2007 · 11:40 AM PST

2007/11/30 · 11:40

Evil Democrats have been working overtime this year to embarass the bejesus out of Republican Presidential Candidates. And it's just not right. It's just not fair. Take this, for example. During a recent debate a person who is giving paid advice to the Clinton campaign asked a question of the Republican Candidates. It just about ruined the whole event. What right do they have to do this? Read More

Tancredo's Crusade

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Wednesday August 01, 2007 · 7:26 AM PDT

2007/08/01 · 07:26

So you are clearing brush in your large back yard and you get strung by a bee. This pisses you off. You live next to a national park and there is a natural hive ten feet tall, twenty feet wide, and five feed deep not far from the edge of your property There must be a billion bees in there. . In your pain and anger, you decide to to act.

If you are Republican presidential candidateTancredo, you get a baseball bat and you go over and beat the hell out of those bees and their hive There are a billion of them and you refuse to stop beating on their fragile hive until the hive is destroyed. To protect yourself you don a baseball catcher's mask. Read More

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Such action is

Really smart because it teaches them not to mess with you.

Necessary because retaliation is what prevents violence.

Morally required because God commands us to "Get Even."

Risky but necessary if one is to proves he is not a "Girly Man."

Suicidally insane.

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Such action is

Really smart because it teaches them not to mess with you.

8%

1 vote

Necessary because retaliation is what prevents violence.

0%

0 votes

Morally required because God commands us to "Get Even."

3 votes

Risky but necessary if one is to proves he is not a "Girly Man."

8%

1 vote

Suicidally insane.

8 votes

A Neocon Mass

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Tuesday July 10, 2007 · 12:43 PM PDT

2007/07/10 · 12:43

Preface

The following is a liturgical mass for the neocon. It celebrates the neocon God. It orients the neocon to his goal. It binds together the neocon practitioners into one practicing body.

The Chicago School Mass
In memory of all the guys who taught us how to get power, manipulate fear and greed, and make tons of money. Read More

Genghis Khan to Jefferson and Back

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Friday June 29, 2007 · 2:48 PM PDT

2007/06/29 · 14:48

When the clouds of dust arose on the horizon announcing the approach of Genghis Khan's armies, it was too late. Hoards of keshiks would descend on the city and demand fealty or death. One submitted or the city was levelled. Either way, the city fell, the hoards took what they wanted, and they rode on. Khan's armies struck quickly and dealt severely with opponents. "I am the wrath of God," claimed Khan. His sense of victimhood had turned to one of entitlement. Read More

Heat, But No Light: On Iraq Partition

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Tuesday June 26, 2007 · 5:00 PM PDT

2007/06/26 · 17:00

Stephen Schwartz writes at the Weekly Standard about a conference on the partition of Iraq arranged by Senator Joe Biden. His first complaint is that there was but a single neocon there. And that was himself. This might be a fair complaint had the Iraq war not been sold to the American public by this same group using a pack of lies. If a stranger drives into town on a buldozer and demolishes your house and for years fails to explain why, it is simply is not reasonable to rely totally on his own good graces to restore it to working order. Read More

Is Cheney Like Dali?

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Friday June 22, 2007 · 12:22 PM PDT

2007/06/22 · 12:22

In a 1934 hearing in front of that movement's leader, Breton, Salvadore Dali was thrown out out of the Surrealist's movement for actually behaving in a genuinely surreal way. In a pivotal part of the hearing Dali draws a pamphlet from his pocket, waves it at Breton and quotes back to him his own words: "Surrealism is thought dictated in absence of all control by reason and outside all moral and aesthetic preoccupation." Read More

Nose Knows Best

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Wednesday June 20, 2007 · 5:10 PM PDT

2007/06/20 · 17:10

Sniffing out a Better Presidential Candidate
What were the founders of this country thinking, for God's sakes? It's as if they were sooooo obsessed with separation of powers, freedom of religion, and the distinction between republics, monarchies, and democracies that they forgot all the important issues. The requirements of the president, for instance are a laugh. He has to be born in this nation. And he has to be thirty five or older. Like that matters. Read More

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How does a viable presidential candidate smell

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How does a viable presidential candidate smell

Like money

16 votes

Leather, saddle soap, black powder

3 votes

Aqua Velva

3 votes

Musty books and Ivy covered walls

4 votes

Success' sweet smell

4 votes

With his nose

34 votes

Pie

13 votes

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