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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
You're right. I heard that a squadron of Russian MIGs flew over Iowa the other day. Holy McPain! We're being invaded! Are you still stuck there sitting in a puddle of paranoid piss over the long over red menace? It's time to update a little. The point I made about Georgia (that's the country not the state) is that it'd be pretty stupid and half cocked to get America involved in a war in the caucusus when we're still engaged on two fronts in the Mid-East. I'm not yet a Georgian, I'm still an American, but if you wanna be a Georgian, jolly good for you. Put on your boots and strap on your chutes.
It would be nice if the author of one piece - in this case the one about Mr McCain's stand on technology and free markets - could get their analysis straight.
Four contradictory quotes from the article:
- McCain had to choose whether to be pro-competition or pro-big business. In most instances, he chose the latter route [...]
- [...] Government can do no good in telecom policy. "McCain is a pure free-market ideologue," said Mark Cooper.
- More recently, McCain has sided with the telecom industry in the network neutrality debate.
- McCain sided against competition and opposed Markey's legislation.
So, what is McCain, a free market ideologue, which entails competition, or a protectionist in favour of big companies, which entails being against smaller business [Mom-and-Pop] and the consumer?
As with the completely warped political dictionary of the USA - liberal meaning leftist radical, conservative being a right-wing radical - there seems to be more than just a little confusion when it comes to economic and socio-economic debate.
BTW, I still have to stumble upon the free market touter, who is against regulations. A necessary component of a completely free market is the fully informed participant - a phantom in the real world, only used in theoretical discussions. Only if you disregard this can you think a free market in reality should be free of regulations. Please, could people stop misapprehending Adam Smith and David Ricardo.
Yup, yapping on cell phones mindlessly, text messaging adolescent banalities, and real life Pee Wee Hermans pretending they're something other than useless DNA typing away as if they had an ounce of self respect and/or dignity....Yeah, as Sqiggy used to say "Yeah, that's the ticket."
Sho Nuff! we should get rid of all the old farts who choose to think instead of stare; Nutballs like Warren Buffet or the Entrepeneur I worked for, who attained a net worth of over 6 billion dollars after coming here as a dirt poor immigrant.
And the classy way the computer savvy crowd shows its lack of potty traing in denigrating (whatever his politics)of a life long combat veteran, public servant, and patriot sure clinches it for me.
Yo, ZUP, C-Ya L8R.
he hasn't been on Ebay seeking to buy Grover Cleveland's underpants (unworn), he doesnt' know that all the wisdom of the ages is compressed in Wiki, eliminating the need for anything as demanding as reading a book. What a wonderful surreal world will unfold before him when he learns about pornographic channels and discover more about the marvellous drollery of media-person Martin Bashir when commenting on the allure of "Asian babes".
If he can summon the courage to read Amanda Terkel he must accept that his age is an "UNSAVORY topic", and I'm wondering if this writing-person is referring to the labiate herb, savory, and suggesting that he and all seniors should eat more greens like arugula, for instance. I don't think that's what she's implying with her clunking "unsavory" as it means unpleasant and, frequently, morally offensive. She has tried to play a cat-and-mouse game but doesn't have the skills, coming across as more mousey than feline. Instead of honestly offering an opinion on age, even if all she knows about it comes from T.S.Eliot's "Gerontius", she comes up with the facetious idea that the ability to Google like crazy makes you relevant or, on the other hand, essentially a non-person. Barack Obama's senior foreign policy advisor (in a cast of hundreds) is Zbigniev Brzezinski and I don't think he's a "pring chicken" any more than McCain but if he can Google and boogie at the same time wouldn't it be great ! He could even get a droll screen name such as Ziggy Stardust and who knows...He might be an even better writer than Amanda Terkel, difficult and all as that would be.
Access to high-speed internet won't matter if we don't have jobs to pay for it, or homes in which to install it. Even right-wing dittomonkeys like berlet98 won't be able to rant when he's out on the streets, courtesy his buddy Bush and Company.
Pretty soon, China will call in America's debts and will own the country. We will finally be the third-world nation that Bush wanted to rule, and that years of crappy under-funded public education has promoted. The real technological challenge America will face in the 21st Century is finding enough sturdy cardboard boxes for its still-living citizenry to live in, and avoiding the boots of the Chinese troops as they lay claim to our wasted land.
Regardless of McCain's knowledge or lack of it about the Internet, he displays early symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease, just like his hero, Ronald Reagan, did in his first run for the presidency.
Our national downhill slide started with Ronnie: deregulation, de-unionization, holding down the minimum wage, and a huge gap between the wealth of the top few percent vs. the rest of us, hard-working though we may be. Fehhh!
I find it hard to believe that McCain does not have even the slightest curiosity about this amazing thing called the Internet. But, oh, sorry, he does doesn’t he. He wants to make sure that people are not “exposed” to things he considers bad – could that include enlightenment?
I wonder if he has light bulbs in his house – or does he think that new fangled things like that could give you sunburn, or even more concerning, people might read books at night.
I’m sure some of George Bush’s antipathy to technology was mixed up with his religious beliefs. The more technology solves problems, e.g. stem cell research, the harder it is for fantasists to claim that some things are what their god intended.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
