U.S. politics isolation tank

[midwestyankee]

So, y'all can feel free to strengthen your dollar any time now. I used to love getting my royalty cheques in Yankee bucks for that extra 20%. Now? Some days they take money away from me!

I'll have my people give my man Barry a call and see if he can take a meeting on this muy pronto.

In other fantasies, yank was seen cavorting with a hawt canucky blonde behind a jumbo banana leaf recently in his dreams. Unfortunately, he was sewn into his Portuguese Man-o-War costume and could only manage to tease her with his tentacles.

 

[Homburg]

So, y'all can feel free to strengthen your dollar any time now. I used to love getting my royalty cheques in Yankee bucks for that extra 20%. Now? Some days they take money away from me!

They aren't taking money away. They are removing weak USdollars and giving you stronger Canuckistan rupals in exchange. You just have to modify your perspective and work on seeing your own money as valuable.

 

[teknight]

So the Conservatives4Palin site has up the first of a two-part series called "10 Qualifications Sarah Palin Has Over Five Recent Presidents (Part One)." Catch these fancy qualifications:

1. 10 years in municipal government

2. 10 years volunteer work in the Parent Teacher Association

3. 2 years pro-life advocacy

4. 1 year as an oil and gas commissioner

5. 2.5 years governing the largest state in America


I kid you not folks; this woman who wants to preside over your country thinks that 10 years of working on PTA bake sales makes her qualifed for the job of President.


Yikes, fucking yikes!

She can hold a bake sale to solve the debt.

 

[midwestyankee]

She can hold a bake sale to solve the debt.

Maybe we could kill two birds with one stone: legalize marijuana, bake the last million pounds of impounded mj into Freedom Brownies and sell them on the National Mall on weekends.

 

[rosco rathbone]

So the Conservatives4Palin site has up the first of a two-part series called "10 Qualifications Sarah Palin Has Over Five Recent Presidents (Part One)." Catch these fancy qualifications:

1. 10 years in municipal government

2. 10 years volunteer work in the Parent Teacher Association

3. 2 years pro-life advocacy

4. 1 year as an oil and gas commissioner

5. 2.5 years governing the largest state in America


I kid you not folks; this woman who wants to preside over your country thinks that 10 years of working on PTA bake sales makes her qualifed for the job of President.


Yikes, fucking yikes!

I just bet my stepfather 100$ that she takes the 2012 nomination.

Go Sarah!

 

[Keroin]

I'll have my people give my man Barry a call and see if he can take a meeting on this muy pronto.

Much obliged. Now I'm going to climb on my flying unicorn and head off to my job as a chocolate/martini taster.

They aren't taking money away. They are removing weak USdollars and giving you stronger Canuckistan rupals in exchange. You just have to modify your perspective and work on seeing your own money as valuable.

You and your...logic. Pfft.

 

[midwestyankee]

I just bet my stepfather 100$ that she takes the 2012 nomination.

Go Sarah!

Nice bet. I think I'll take Duffy Waldorf to win by 18 in the 2011 Masters. Similar odds, in fact.

 

[WriterDom]

Sarah would place in the top three if she runs, but winning? I don't think so. I image they'll be about 12 candidates at the first debate. They'll get whittled down pretty fast. Gingrich has my primary vote if he runs. After that it won't matter because Obama won't carry Georgia against Pee-wee Herman.

 

[teknight]

Sorry to bust up the Sarah party (yeah, let's pull a train on Sarah Palin!), but have you guys heard of this?
North Korean artillery hits South Korean island‎

It's more foreign policy than anything else, but it will flash on the news sooner or later.

 

[midwestyankee]

Sorry to bust up the Sarah party (yeah, let's pull a train on Sarah Palin!), but have you guys heard of this?
North Korean artillery hits South Korean island‎

It's more foreign policy than anything else, but it will flash on the news sooner or later.

Seems like NoKo is in a mood to prove that it can still get it up and to weasel some more concessions when we all sit down to give them another time out.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Party Inversion Watch: 2010

Baggers Boycotting Big Business???

And the inversion continues.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...port-obama-and-well-take-you-down.php?ref=fpb

 

[WriterDom]

Sarah Palin is running for president. That's my prediction. And she said any organized opposition by the republican party can be defeated with a prayer shield.

A Prayer Shield.

She was on Fox for an hour last night and I didn't get to see it until today. She's pushing another book and has several clever lines already memorized for the campaign.

I didn't think she would but heck, she's a maverick.

Winning the nomination is another matter though.

 

[rosco rathbone]

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/progressives-push-palin-for-president/

 

[Netzach]

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/progressives-push-palin-for-president/

Frank Rich has concern troll fail though, because her series seems to be tanking the second week.

Attention spans being what they are I think we could go through about 6 cycles between now and 2012.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Party Inversion Watch: 2010

http://freekeene.com/reasons-to-move-to-keene/

 

[Netzach]

http://freekeene.com/reasons-to-move-to-keene/

"Keene cops not as nasty as bigger cities like Manchester."

I am about to die laughing. Yes, you really are imperiled when arrested for a moving violation or weed in VT.

10$ an hour office job in Brattleboro - wait, I'm leaving NOW....

 

[rosco rathbone]

"Keene cops not as nasty as bigger cities like Manchester."

I am about to die laughing. Yes, you really are imperiled when arrested for a moving violation or weed in VT.

10$ an hour office job in Brattleboro - wait, I'm leaving NOW....

I've got to see that town. Sounds like it's chock a block with free-market Abbie Hoffmans.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Let's say you're a memesmith with a tough assignment: how to gin up outrage and cause the proles to do a 180-degree reversal on some issue, like the post-9-11 national security crack-down.

During the Bush administration to criticize the PATRIOT Act, the DHS, and all the rest of it was to be labelled an abettor of terrorism.

That's why the current "TSA Perverts" meme is kind of brilliant.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

http://freekeene.com/reasons-to-move-to-keene/

"Keene cops not as nasty as bigger cities like Manchester."

I am about to die laughing. Yes, you really are imperiled when arrested for a moving violation or weed in VT.

10$ an hour office job in Brattleboro - wait, I'm leaving NOW....

New Hampshire seems like an interesting place: leftist libertarian free-Keene element mixed with an active Tea Party and your more typical New England crunchiness.

 

[Netzach]

Let's say you're a memesmith with a tough assignment: how to gin up outrage and cause the proles to do a 180-degree reversal on some issue, like the post-9-11 national security crack-down.

During the Bush administration to criticize the PATRIOT Act, the DHS, and all the rest of it was to be labelled an abettor of terrorism.

That's why the current "TSA Perverts" meme is kind of brilliant.

I am really excited about this moment, actually. Both annoyed pinko secret muslin socialist nazis AND teabagging douchenozzles can agree on something at last. I don't understand anyone who's not pissed. Mostly because your ass that has been fondled or irradiated will be flying astride a pile of unchecked priority mail letters.

Safety is basically a joke unless and until the cost of letting people die exceeds the profit margin desired by the airlines.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Pissing is so much more fun than solving actual problems.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Pissing is so much more fun than solving actual problems.

You might like this:

http://www.workinglife.org/imgbin/wlimgs/ItsNotRaining-JonathanTasini.pdf

 

[rosco rathbone]

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/the-instability-of-moderation/

It’s possible to be both a conservative and a Keynesian; after all, Keynes himself described his work as “moderately conservative in its implications.” But in practice, conservatives have always tended to view the assertion that government has any useful role in the economy as the thin edge of a socialist wedge. When William Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale, one of his key complaints was that the Yale faculty taught – horrors! – Keynesian economics.

I’ve always considered monetarism to be, in effect, an attempt to assuage conservative political prejudices without denying macroeconomic realities. What Friedman was saying was, in effect, yes, we need policy to stabilize the economy – but we can make that policy technical and largely mechanical, we can cordon it off from everything else. Just tell the central bank to stabilize M2, and aside from that, let freedom ring!

When monetarism failed – fighting words, but you know, it really did — it was replaced by the cult of the independent central bank. Put a bunch of bankerly men in charge of the monetary base, insulate them from political pressure, and let them deal with the business cycle; meanwhile, everything else can be conducted on free-market principles.

 

[rosco rathbone]

http://michael-hudson.com/2010/11/schemes-of-the-rich-and-greedy/

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

You might like this:

http://www.workinglife.org/imgbin/wlimgs/ItsNotRaining-JonathanTasini.pdf

http://michael-hudson.com/2010/11/schemes-of-the-rich-and-greedy/

Thanks for these. Both are thought-provoking.

I remember talking to a U.S. senator years ago, telling me that the greatest threat to democracy was the accelerating gap between the uber-rich and everyone else (he was ultimately defeated by the ultimate corporate-shill-dressed-in-populist clothing, btw).

What, exactly, is it going to take to get average Americans to realize we are being raped by the rich and their political surrogates, and to start screaming?