Post #223,860
9/9/05 10:28:37 AM
|
Ok...
I can't speak to the NAACP since I don't pay much attention to them. Their issues aren't mine and they don't seem to be a physical threat to me, so I pretty much filter them. They did good work in the past, but now I pretty much regard them as yet another special interest group. They do not seem to be part of his 'base', and he doesn't seem to like to talk to people who disagree with him. As far as the Hitler comparison, any dictatorial figure who supports government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations would work. You may admit that he doesn't take disagreement well and he likes rich corporations better than mainstream or poor people. He has the empathy of a turnip.
I believe that he is being branded racist in blogs and fringe publications. Until quite recently, the mainstream press has sucked him off more than Monica ever did for Willie.
As far as divirsity, putting incompetents in positions of authority for political reasons is not necessarily a good thing. Promoting Condi after being a screwup as National Security Advisor is political or stupid. Take your pick. Colin Powell was pretty much neutralized when he strayed from the party line. Placing people because it looks good or they contribute a lot to a campaign fund is damaging to the country he's sworn to support.
He's probably not stupid, but he does appear to be one of the most intellectually lazy people in public service. One of his major achievments does appear to be that he he is no longer an obnoxious drunk, so don't worry about that one. Murderous? Lot of people are dead who don't need to be to further his ambitions. Murder? Manslaughter? Causing death while not giving a fuck? What's in a word?
Considerig what could have been said, or even what could have been asked, yes, he's gotten a free ride for the last 5 years. That's just my opinion, of course.
|
Post #223,864
9/9/05 10:31:32 AM
|
your idea of a free ride
after a raped and beaten woman is spotted by a trucker who stops to help, she explains her plight and he starts taking off his belt saying "I guess this aint your lucky day" thats what your free ride sounds like.
thanx,
bill
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
|
Post #223,868
9/9/05 10:35:43 AM
|
That made as much sense as usual :)
|
Post #223,870
9/9/05 10:37:09 AM
|
with you it all depends on who is riding :-)
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
|
Post #223,877
9/9/05 10:50:21 AM
|
Nah... don't like any of them
|
Post #223,901
9/9/05 12:42:30 PM
8/21/07 12:43:00 PM
|
Oh - you mean like this ride?
Wanna be rescued? [link|http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46160|Show us your tits!]
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
|
Post #223,916
9/9/05 1:11:52 PM
|
wouldnt need to be rescued
already have my plans for when I retired to Pass Christian or therabouts. Maybe they should have taken steps to protect themselves prior to the storm like buying water and food to stock their hotel rooms
thanx,
bill
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
|
Post #223,947
9/9/05 1:49:31 PM
|
I hope this is as accurate as most worldnutdaily stuff.
bcnu,
Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
|
Post #224,306
9/11/05 5:16:50 PM
|
Ged? So mom & dad were LeGuin (Wizard of Earthsea) fans, eh?
|
Post #223,869
9/9/05 10:37:00 AM
|
Re: Ok...
I believe that he is being branded racist in blogs and fringe publications. Until quite recently, the mainstream press has sucked him off more than Monica ever did for Willie. Since when did talk radio become the mainstream press? As long as I can remember, newspapers were mainstream as well. Major net news was mainstream.,,but newsprint moreseo because it is by and large the source for the major networks "breaking stories" All I see here is Rush this, Hannity that, fox news this...and these statements then used to defend a position that "mainstream media is <insert whatever blah here>" (not you specifically...just a noticeable overall trend) If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
|
Post #223,875
9/9/05 10:49:18 AM
|
Was thinking more of the Cleveland Plain Dealer
which I read daily before I moved and various on line news mags. What I saw there was a parroting of what ever news release was handed to them and a complete lack of critical analysis. It was very rare that anybody critisized Bush off the OpEd pages. Reporting has been either fawning or "The president said blah blah blah". Having reporters ask questions has, until recently, been a lost art. The state of the free press is worth an entire tirade in itself. Which I'm not up for at this time...
I don't think I've ever heard Rush and I don't watch Fox news. Since we stopped getting movie channels, my TV time is down to a few hours a month. I've never really considered TV news jounalism. That just me.
|
Post #223,879
9/9/05 10:56:12 AM
|
Re: Was thinking more of the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ouch. As a veteran of reading that paper, I'd have to agree. But I don't know if their staff is capable of critical analysis either. I hated that paper.
Philly Inq, NYT. LA Times, etc..all qualify...and you can get them online too :-)
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
|
