Comments Posted By Commie Stooge
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MY TOP TEN FAVORITE MOVIE FIGHT SCENES OF ALL TIME
What James Bond in "From Russia With Love" with the fight with Red Grant on board the Orient Express?
Comment Posted By Commie Stooge On 16.06.2009 @ 05:13
Please call me when the Humanoids arrive.
For those who don't know what i'm referring to; the Humanoids were the creation of the late SF writer Jack Williamson.
The Humanoids were robotic creations designed to improve human life; and instead enslaved humanity with the best intentions.
For all the hyperbole in this post the sorry state of US health will be the same in ten years.
I just saw that clip of Rush blaming America's health crisis on all those folks who injure themselves while exercising.
Baloney, indeed.
Comment Posted By Commie Stooge On 12.06.2009 @ 20:06
MUSEUM SHOOTER INFLUENCED BY RIGHT WING RHETORIC?
Sorry, but I disagree.
While the Lunatic Fringe will always be with us (get Richard Hofstadtler's book); new is the 24 hour news cycle and the internet.
One merely has to turn on Fox news to get constant barrage of subtle criticisms and attacks on President Obama and the ruling Democrats.
I recently joked with a Fox news viewer that if the "re-education" camps that Hannity warned about were being set up; I wouldn't mind a rural vacation in one. I wondered if the same things were being said about the CCC Camps during the New Deal.
A constant diet of falsehood; biased information; and right wing propaganda is al that's needed to set off the "lone wolves" to act; leaving their support systems intact. One need merely to go the websites of the rabid anit-abortion groups to see this in action.
As a Jew and a historian; I'm all too familiar with this.
Just read the new book (I've forgotten the title) about the history behind "Protocols."
This a movie I've seen repeated many times before.
Comment Posted By Commie Stooge On 12.06.2009 @ 05:24
THE ABSOLUTE WORST NIGERIAN EMAIL SCAM IN HISTORY
I've gotten less of these things over the last few years.
Like all scammers; they're moving on to other, newer frauds.
I have kept some of the texts I've been sent; and then send them on whenevr I get a new email.
Quite fun, actually!
Comment Posted By Commie Stooge On 22.05.2009 @ 04:55
REPORT FROM THE FRONT: PRAGMATISTS HAVE NO SOUL
As a Democrat; watching the GOP self-destruct is better than watching a STAR TREK rerun. Or better yet; I'll get the movie "Danton" about the French Revolution from the library (Didn't Simon Schama write a book about the French Revolution?).
The fact is the GOP coalition (like that of the New Deal) wasn't going to last forever.
In the 80s; when I was a committeeman; I was angered that the Dem Party didn't react to changes in the polis; and it would take Bill Clinton & the Dem leadership Council to make the party more centrist.
Barack Obama; like FDR; got elected because the polis changed. The Free Market doesn't look so good when you have a sub-prime or alt-a mortagage that has doubled and you can't afford anymore. Or the loan is worth more than your house. Or you're unemployed.Ever since I started working in 1980 I've sounded like a Financial Cassandra: Pay your debts! Buy a car; pay it off; and keep it 10 years. Don't take extravagent vacations. Save for a rainy day.
Today the average Joe has multiple credit cards; a first & second mortgage; thousands in debt. And is one step away from bankruptcy.
In this weeks NYT Magazine I suggest the article "My Personal Credit Crisis" by Times reporter Edmund L Andrews. It shows just how easily someone can get trapped into debt. Even intelligent; educated folks!
Comment Posted By Commie Stooge On 19.05.2009 @ 07:39
As a Democrat; I'd like to see the "Club for Growth" run candidates in every race in the nation.
Comment Posted By Commie Stooge On 17.05.2009 @ 07:11
Heck; I'll even contribute $25!
The new mascot for the GOP should be Wiley E Coyote.
And Boss Limbaugh makes a great spokesman.
