Comments Posted By Richard Bottoms
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CAN ANYTHING BE DONE TO SAVE HAITI?
Appreciate your take on the disaster.
Were it not for evil bastards like Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson, conservatives might actually get credit for supporting a much needed humanitarian effort instead of being openly ridiculed for the raving racism of teh crazies who rule the Far Right airwaves.
My only surprise is Glen Beck having held his tongue, at least for the moment. Maybe even he has a point below which he will not stoop in Fox's effort to fire up the base.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 15.01.2010 @ 13:31
REPORTS ON THE DEATH OF CULTURE 11 HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED
Last time I looked, the Jewish population was about 2% of the total, while Christians are at about 85%, which is, again, not to knock Jewish participation in the group.
Certainly not.
I am sure they're quite comfortable living in a Christian America (as opposed to America) seeing how that's worked out so well in the past.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.01.2010 @ 22:30
What it does do is take away one of the underpinnings of conventional conservatism, and thus provides for an edgy membership in a heavily Christian-based group such as conservatives.
Must make Jewish Conservatives fell welcome.
All three of them.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.01.2010 @ 21:38
Most conservatives have seen the tacticts and methods of the left and in the past were caught with the losing hand because they were to gentlemenly and polite.
Yeah, polite piranha like Lee Atwater.
What a crock.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.01.2010 @ 20:37
mannning Said: 2:14 pm Perhaps the core of your discontent with many conservatives lies with your atheism and secularism
Everybody knows none of those people are really citizens or have any rights you need to respect. This is a Christian nation, when will you you other folks with your "funny" religions stop making trouble?
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.01.2010 @ 16:38
WHY CONSERVATISM IS DISCONNECTED FROM REALITY
I’ll keep voting for the more conservative candidate. If by October, unemployment isn’t under 10%, the entire goddamn democratic congress may decide not to run for reelection.
Spring will be a shock for how fast things improve. There's so much pent up demand and the Fortune 500 has sliced things so much there's no fat left. They can't send all the jobs to India or work their present crews to death. Much as they'd like to.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 13.01.2010 @ 17:05
Exxon and Aetna provide jobs, goods, services, and tax income to the public coffers.
Two words:
Exxon ValdezTwo more words:
Patient RescissionTwo more words:
Toxi AssetsThese conglomerates look out for nothing but the bottom line and were it not for the few restrictions the government is able to put in place your air would be dirtier, patients with pre-existing conditions would not be able to get any coverage at all, and the banks would be charging interest rates that would make Tony Soprano envious.
No, I don't have any sympathy for woes of the over-burdened multi-nationals as they race to the bottom for wages and working conditions.
The GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fortune 500, the public be damned.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 12.01.2010 @ 20:46
“Government solutions,” huh? With today’s political class? Surely, you jest.
Who's going to look out for your interests, Exxon? Aetna? Bank of America?
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 12.01.2010 @ 18:54
Their worldview, shaped as it is by wallowing in the echo chamber of conservative media, and warped by a naive and ultimately uninformed ideological prism through which they spout nonsensical, paranoid conspiracies, may be relevant to the political health of the right but has little to do with the breakdown of conservatism as a governing philosophy itself.
'Tis true.
The conspiracy theories about President Obama's executive order on Interpol are getting wilder by the day.
Invoking no less an authority than Glenn Beck, movie tough guy (and political activist) Chuck Norris has taken aim at Obama's Dec. 17 executive order extending certain "privileges, exemptions, and immunities" to Interpol, otherwise known as the International Police Organization, based in Lyon, France.
(Never mind, as we pointed out, that contrary to the Man From U.N.C.L.E. fantasies of the blogosphere, Interpol officers actually don't have the authority to arrest anybody on U.S. soil.
Now Norris, famed for his expertise in the martial arts, attacks from a different direction. In a new column on World Net Daily, the right-wing Web site, he claims that Obama signed the executive order so that he can slyly, without anyone noticing, create a "secret vault" at Interpol's New York office to conceal important records about the war on terror from the American public.
"Is it merely coincidental that Obama signed this executive Interpol order, and that the feds want to try these 9/11 terrorists in civilian courts rather than military courts?" Norris asks in his bizarre and hard-to-follow rant.
I had the U.N.C.L.E. gun when I was a kid. Best present ever after my Erector set. Anyway, great to hear Norris and his buddy John Voight sqwaking like loons to the Gelnn Beck wing of what used to be the Republican party.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 12.01.2010 @ 13:30
OF AX GRINDING AND SCORE SETTLING
IF Thomas Sowell, Ward Connerly, J.C Watts, Lynn Swan, Walter E. Williams, Armstrong Williams, Shelby Steele, Janice Rogers Brown or Clarence Thomas decided to run for a high office I would be first in line to donate and go door to door out here in bitter clinger country to help their cause.
And yet they don't. Run. They do bloviate, write books, and generally provide wish fulfillment that black people really do love Republicans.
I give Alan Keyes credit for running, but he's batsh*t insane and he got his head handed to him by Barack Obama.
As I said, when the GOP actually gets a single, solitary black person elected to the Senate or Congress then they can lecture the Democrats about anything having to do with race.
They've done it before I know, but I'm not sure a deadbeat dad with children out of wedlock is the best poster child for the family values party anymore. Meanwhile, Michelle and Barack and as sweet as can be, devoted, and the epitome of what a solid family should be.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 12.01.2010 @ 11:23
