tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post8934253523658921549..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: The Extreme Centrism of Hillary ClintonKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-74660116811185579702015-07-19T17:35:22.127-04:002015-07-19T17:35:22.127-04:00I'm three quarters or more through this and mu...I'm three quarters or more through this and must take a break. Of course it took four days to write! Thank you, Karen. You are a great teacher. Hillary will say anything it takes so she can jump to her military industrial complex strategy and any other means it takes to help her Wall Street and investment bank friends if she achieves that excruciatingly burning need to be president. She's such a scary and terrible phony.Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04750652366930667874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-80733770030848176162015-07-16T15:42:26.897-04:002015-07-16T15:42:26.897-04:00"Explain to younger people how norms of yeste..."Explain to younger people how norms of yesterday starkly differ from today. Put the rw on the spot. Plenty of people are walking around that lived then and could testify to a different US."<br /><br />Yes indeedy Meredith. I am still trying to wrap my head around Caitlin, formerly Bruce Jenner Olympic athlete, making an important public speech in a long white gown. Some things are changing too rapidly for us old timers. Wish it were the politics.Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-55328017920087487452015-07-16T15:25:33.095-04:002015-07-16T15:25:33.095-04:00I am looking forward to Bernie Sander's kick o...I am looking forward to Bernie Sander's kick off across he country July 29 where he will speak to the nation and hopefully help deflate Hillary's balloon. He has the highest number of people contributing to his campaign than ever recorded by either party. Should be interesting. As he said, the opposition may have the money but we have the people.<br />I don't think he will bore people to death like his opponent.Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-37342790909659816552015-07-14T20:43:58.649-04:002015-07-14T20:43:58.649-04:00Karen....thank you for your informative post, fill...Karen....thank you for your informative post, filled with detail to be kept for reference. And especially Lincoln quote----'labor is prior to and independent of capital.' Could some intrepid reporter put that to today's Gop stars and force a comment out of them? Might be educational.<br /><br />When Clinton has to debate Sanders, her lack of specifics will contrast with him. He's the most specific candidate. The media will be forced to pay attention. Let’s see what they can think up to discount Sanders then. <br />It’s a long, long campaign. Will she evolve?<br /><br />At least she cited closing tax ‘loopholes’ that reward sending jobs overseas. Profits from that have been shared with lawmakers by campaign donations in an upward spiral. <br /> <br />Is there such a thing as tax incentives to bring jobs back? How would that work?<br /> <br />GO BACK TO A BETTER AMERICAN PAST.<br /><br />Clinton says we can’t go back to the past? But that’s just what her theme should be---back to our more successful, equitable past The evidence is all there to make use of. <br /><br />Here’s a terse comment clip that tells it. “At one time we had sustained 4% growth in this country, unions were strong and the plutocrats had marginal tax rates between 75 & 91%.” <br /><br />And yet business was profitable and expanding!<br /><br />Talk about raising wealth taxes to higher rates that were once acceptable. While jobs were kept here and union apprenticeships were a path to stable support of a family. <br /><br />That’s a past as a positive role model. Business was profitable while paying higher taxes, jobs were kept at home, salaries and benefits were rising. We subsidized college tuition, didn’t let hedge funds profitize public schools, and accepted govt regulation of corporations as normal, to a much greater extent.<br /><br />Before the starve govt ideology got mainstream, moderate Repubs actually existed on this earth, and supported many of these policies. Highlight this contrast. <br /><br />Explain to younger people how norms of yesterday starkly differ from today. Put the rw on the spot. Plenty of people are walking around that lived then and could testify to a different US. <br /><br />Meredith NYCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-17426998984406929782015-07-14T19:31:54.025-04:002015-07-14T19:31:54.025-04:00Karen and Kate - To be honest with you, I ended up...Karen and Kate - To be honest with you, I ended up, about half-way through, reading just Karen's honest response. I might consider skimming Naked Capitalism. I don't care what she say in response to anything. I am working and voting when his name is on the ballot, for my junior senator - Bernie.Ste-vonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-74193650463997483752015-07-14T18:42:38.313-04:002015-07-14T18:42:38.313-04:00Kate,
I so appreciate your appreciation! It took...Kate, <br /><br />I so appreciate your appreciation! It took me more than four hours to research and write this piece. During the halfway point, as I plodded through paragraph after stultifying paragraph, I asked myself "is this hell never going to end?" <br /><br />I can see why there were so few analyses of her speech. A truly epic deconstruction can be found over at Naked Capitalism... but other than that, the reviews were a few inches long, the reactions ranging from "meh" to "you go girl!"<br /><br /><br /><br />Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-10141680900915599032015-07-14T16:16:09.664-04:002015-07-14T16:16:09.664-04:00Thank you for writing this - it must have been exh...Thank you for writing this - it must have been exhausting and draining, but I'm so appreciative. It's stunning to me though how so many people - after all we've been through with Obama - will hear her speech and think, "What a fighter for progressive values and everyday Americans." She is just another plastic politician spouting inane nothings to win her place at the top. Kate Flanneryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02303710833222746336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-69155240952240258802015-07-14T15:24:42.733-04:002015-07-14T15:24:42.733-04:00Aw, you got me that time, Paula. Do tell. Paula ...Aw, you got me that time, Paula. Do tell. Paula Deen, of course. Somebody had to clue me in. The big dogs, they shut you down on every other channel, so you’ve come here to do your thing.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-34597606060113914102015-07-14T14:08:54.816-04:002015-07-14T14:08:54.816-04:00“I love that this blog doubles as a chat room for ...“I love that this blog doubles as a chat room for anything and everything.”<br /><br />You can say that again, Paula D.<br /><br />“I love that this blog doubles as a chat room for anything and everything.”<br /><br />Clever on topic tie-in anyway, what with that bit about Chelsea, the maid, and big mama herself humming lullabies to baby Charlotte. Up to that point it crossed my mind you might be doing overtime for Hillary as a spoiler, or, in the alternative, that you sure can whip up a dish of irony I’ll gobble up anytime: breakfast, lunch or dinner.<br /><br />Whatever the custard you’re cooking up in that kitchen, do NOT read Karen’s follow-up down in the weeds of the commentary back on June 10, 2015, at 7:09 PM. Might curdle the custard.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-69459032880145593182015-07-14T12:18:48.200-04:002015-07-14T12:18:48.200-04:00I love that this blog doubles as a chat room for a...I love that this blog doubles as a chat room for anything and everything.<br /><br />Let me share my favorite recipe for custard pudding, so easy on the digestion. Chelsea's maid can whip it up in a jiffy so that Hillary can feed it to Charlotte at the same time she is reading and singing to her to enhance her brain:<br /><br /><br /><br /> 2 -3 tablespoons cornstarch<br /> 1⁄2 cup sugar<br /> 3 eggs<br /> 1 (12 ounce) can evaporated milk<br /> 1 cup skim milk<br /> 1 teaspoon vanilla<br /><br />Directions<br /><br /> Mix together the sugar and cornstarch, then add the eggs. Beat until the mixture is well combined and pale colored.<br /> In a large saucepan, bring the milk to a boil over miedium-high heat. Stir frequently to keep it from sticking.<br /> Add a little of the hot milk to the egg mixture, and stir until combined. Then pour the egg mixture into the milk.<br /> Cook the mixture until it reaches desired thickness, stirring constantly.<br /> Stir in the vanilla.<br /> Remove from heat, and place plastic wrap on the surface of the pudding instead of just around the pot. This will prevent a skin from forming while it cools.<br /><br /> Paula D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-75686090898666035962015-07-14T08:59:42.397-04:002015-07-14T08:59:42.397-04:00Keep fighting the good fight, Pearl! I am sure you...Keep fighting the good fight, Pearl! I am sure you speak for many who are to cowardly to speak up. valerienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-15181794990899254902015-07-13T23:30:05.539-04:002015-07-13T23:30:05.539-04:00Just glanced at your report on dear Hillary - too ...Just glanced at your report on dear Hillary - too late to read it closely but I feel you deserve a good night's rest Karen for your efforts. Now I have something to look forward to tomorrow. <br /><br />I am exhausted from fighting the endless dining room battle at my retirement place and have resorted to using polite but strong stinging rhetoric finally. They can't throw me out of my condo so there is nothing to lose. Even one of the dining room waitresses said about their decisions - it's all in the numbers meaning what brings in the most profits for the owners. When I said to my dearest friend, I don't know if its worth ruining what is left of my health with all this e-mailing back and forth all day, she stated clearly, "YOU ARE CHANGING THE WORLD!!" <br /><br />Even in the dining room??????? Well it's a start. There is plenty of food but expensive and fancy and not healthy for old people which kind of meals don't bring in the $$$$$$. <br /><br />PEARLnoreply@blogger.com