You know, it would be great to be feverdown. In his little world, everything that pisses him off is connected, in cahoots, and run by a team of democrat-librul-nigra-loving-islamo-homo Clinton-Carter-feminazis, and gardeinis-scented sushine streams out of Republican ass, since time immemorial. Sure beats thinking.

One clue... if your story fits together that well... IT"S BULLSHIT! This can be proven scientifically proven, but not to those who don't believe in science.

It's almost too much work to refute every utterly false and risible statement in his idiotic post, but one could start with the fact that the banking rules that were relaxed in the Clinton era were written by lobbyists, and championed by Phil (Nation of Whiners) Gramm, and basically repealed the depression era reforms championed by Franklin Roosevelt. Clinton did sign, but he was no liberal, particularly economically, and had little choice.

Banks were hardly forced to make loans to "minorities" against their wills, but particularly after they'd figured out a way to sell off shaky loans, and buy themselves a punitive and draconian bankruptcy law, they headed for the ghetto like white suburban boys looking for some blow. And given the size of the mortgage meltdown, you have to be as delusional as you are racist to even begin to see the problem that way. There is such a thing as math, you know.

Furthermore, the "market" of which he fantasizes, has not and will not ever exist. No country has ever tried it until the US, now, and look how it's turning out. The already bankrupt government is gobbling up whole industries pretty much every week, even as overpaid, useless CEO's (Don't cry for me Carly) laugh all the way to the bank.

Is Halliburton what you'd call free market?

Anyway, listening to such hogwash as Feverdown's fever dreams is one thing no one will have to put up with for much longer, except on Fox and righty radio, because each day another of their treasured fairy tales swirls down the crapper, and the rest of the world stares at them like a gruesome car accident. Would that they had to pay for it all, too.

That would be the "market" at work.

A matching set of trolls: one declaring that government officials may freely conceal their official business (as both Bush and Palin have done, illegally), and the other extolling the notion that ordinary citizens have no right of privacy at all. Both exhibit disturbing violent and eliminationist fantasies and a tendency to resort to name-calling and bizarre threats, The first one can't read and the other can't write.

The right is really scraping the bottom for spokesmen these days.

Blue Meme hits on something I've been thinking a lot about lately; the fact that, far from defeating the Soviet Union, we've become it. We have our very own Pravda (Fox), we have bloated, corrupt, government-dependent industries and an enormous military eating all of our resources, we invade countries (some of the same ones, even), and, increasingly, a corrupt oligarchy keeps the population poor and insecure. Our government operates as an unaccountable police state, where decisions, often bad ones, are made in secret.

The bad part is, that unlike the commies of old, we have a substantial portion of our population that think this situation is just dandy, and believe what the government says, mostly due to the fact that our education system is worse than theirs was, and religious fundamentalism is so widespread.

The Cold War is over, and we lost. Maybe that was what Bush saw when he looked into Putin's "soul;" a soulmate.

As I caught up on the thread, I was delighted that the one-hit wonder PalinTrolls were a little less thick, in every sense of the word, than yesterday, and surmised that even trolls like to beat the Friday traffic.

Then, along came Fladad, and another one called something comic bookish with a "hawk" in it.... (Anyone care to guess why rightwingers fancy themselves as comic book heroes? Never mind.)

I'm developing a troll-opedia; and would welcome any contributions to this list of genres....

1) Concern Troll: Ostensibly (to a moron perhaps) politically unaffiliated citizen who "fears" that this promising line of inquiry against the Republican criminal du jour will "harm the Democrats."

2) Disappointed Democrat: Claims to have been voting Democrat, until just now, when this promising line of inquiry against the Republican criminal du jour came up. Has now, with regret, been forced to switch sides.

3) Enraged Asshole: This type of troll is probably not collecting pay from the RNC, and loudly proclaims his many hatreds and desired punishments of all present, complete with name-calling, personal attacks, and a litany of poorly spelled Rush Limbaugh/Bill O'Reilly rants.

4) Religious Nut: (usually overlaps a lot with #3) Obsesssed with other people's sex lives, using feigned concern for "unborn babies" or "traditional marriage" as a cover for his lack of a sex life of his own, which has caused him to behave this way.

5) Selfish Pig: Fancies himself, and perhaps Dick Cheney, as one of the sole examples of a Useful American, because he has his, and you commies can all go fuck yourselves.

6) Faux expert: A better writer than most, this sort of troll will selectively and misleadingly quote legitimate-sounding texts, legal, scientific, or historical, and sounds much more reasonable and mature than the others This type probably gets paid.

7) Doubting (Clarence) Thomas: Pretends to be a member of some minority the Republicans are fond of bashing, marginalizing, or vilifying, and explains, from personal experience, why liberals are worse.

They all have one thing in common... Personality types that would make them rather unpleasant to, say, "have a beer with" Or ride an elevator.

This is probably the most fun they have all day....