tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post1418851865152802859..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Today's Dog Whistle to the Plutocratic PitbullsKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-80877447852454974242013-05-14T23:15:59.358-04:002013-05-14T23:15:59.358-04:00Here's my comment on the NYT editorial about O...Here's my comment on the NYT editorial about Obama's war against freedom of the press:<br /><br />Besides indicting the six whistleblowers under the Espionage Act, this administration has also imprisoned Bradley Manning under conditions that the United Nations has found to be abusive. The government has also kept WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange trapped in the Equadorian embassy in the UK, due to the very high probability that Eric Holder has a sealed indictment waiting for him somewhere in the dark recesses of our injudicious department of justice.<br /><br />The A.P. is just the latest prey in the Obama White House's continuing abusive campaign against the dwindling ranks of the truth-tellers and the embarrassment-causers. <br /><br />Holder has all the time and energy and resources and chutzpah in the world to sweep a dragnet over journalists. But somehow, he thinks it's too hard to prosecute the financial criminals who brought down the whole world economy, destroying the hopes and dreams of millions of people, wiping out trillions of dollars in household wealth in the process.<br /><br />If the journalists and whistleblowers who expose the war crimes and reveal the presidential Kill List, and afflict the comfortable are now considered enemies of the state, then it must follow that the Obama regime is an enemy of the people. And that goes for any Congress member, government appointee, or talking head who gives the White House a complicit free pass on this, the latest in a whole series of outrages that would be crimes if we still lived in a country whose leaders believed in the Bill of Rights.<br />Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-73487359302761969302013-05-13T18:19:45.296-04:002013-05-13T18:19:45.296-04:00Obama's response to increasing criticism about...Obama's response to increasing criticism about his handling of the Benghazi case was:<br /><br />"There's No There There". A perfect description of his presidency and <br />administrationPearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-82567265183052740752013-05-12T21:52:51.254-04:002013-05-12T21:52:51.254-04:00Grok!Grok!annenigmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-12968966760533022402013-05-12T20:33:03.855-04:002013-05-12T20:33:03.855-04:00@Denis--
I do believe that I'm shocked to see...@Denis--<br /><br />I do believe that I'm shocked to see you favorably quoting Robert Heinlein, one of my most beloved authors.<br /><br />I am not familiar with <i> Assignment Eternity, </i> but I shall have to see if I can track down a copy, or, failing that, a synopsis. <br /><br />My personal favorites are <i> The Moon is a Harsh Mistress </i> and <i> Starship Troopers. </i><br /><br />It seems to have been forgotten that Heinlein was as much a philosopher as he was the author of some of the best science fiction ever written (at least, in my limited exposure). <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<br />Robert_A._Heinlein<br /><br />Quite some time ago--and in another forum--after Kat had suggested some reading to me, she indicated that she might be open to some reading suggestions from <i> me </i> other than <i> The Road to Serfdom </i> by Hayek.<br /><br />Heinlein is whom I suggested, though I don't think she ever took me up on that <i> particular </i> suggestion.<br /><br />Perhaps you could persuade her otherwise.<br /><br /><i> TANSTAAFL! </i>Zeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-47204620408727759362013-05-12T15:56:36.151-04:002013-05-12T15:56:36.151-04:00Here's part of a question from the syndicated ...Here's part of a question from the syndicated column "Real Estate Matters":<br />Q: We are underwater on our primary home mortgage. Our mortgage has been modified twice, and the loan balance that was once $216,000 is now $285,000.<br /><br />Heckuva job, Barry!<br /><br />Even the advice columnist saw fit to say "You have to consider the possibility that your lender is trying to keep you in the home, extracting as much money as possible from you on the higher loan balance." Katnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-12791756890484967022013-05-12T12:32:16.312-04:002013-05-12T12:32:16.312-04:00James said…“risked driving some economies into a d...James said…“risked driving some economies into a downward spiral."<br /><br />“It's like a boulder rolling down a hill - you can watch it and talk about it and scream and say ‘Shit!’ But you can't stop it. It's just a question of where it's going to go.” - Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test<br /><br />Two Minutes Hate: “Recession is a good time to exploit cheap labour,” says Cameron adviser on enterprise and former cabinet minister under the late Baroness Thatcher. What's not to like about that?<br /><br />“Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.” - Robert A. Heinlein, Assignment in EternityDenis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-28658944896031154602013-05-12T10:09:31.032-04:002013-05-12T10:09:31.032-04:00"The talks took place against a background of..."The talks took place against a background of growing austerity fatigue in Europe, and concern that the region’s focus on reducing deficits and debt risked driving some economies into a downward spiral." <br /><br />I chiseled the above out of a story on Japanese currency talks in the NYT. Just glom onto "...risked driving some economies into a downward spiral." It shows how much the austerity disease has infected financial journalism. "Risked"? Are they out of their fucking minds!James F Traynornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-82757791709577450132013-05-11T19:15:49.955-04:002013-05-11T19:15:49.955-04:00A square is in fact a circle.
“It would not be im...A square is in fact a circle.<br /><br />“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.” - Joseph Goebbels<br /><br />Reigniting the Middle Class Engine…<br /><br />“The farm was more prosperous now. The truest happiness, Napolean said, lay in working hard and living frugally. Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer – except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. As for the others, their life, so far as they knew, was as it had always been. The lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county. And yet the animals never gave up hope. More, they never lost, even for an instant, their sense of honor and privilege in being members of Animal Farm. None of the old dreams had been abandoned. Someday it was coming: it might not be soon, it might not be with in the lifetime of any animal now living, but still it was coming. No animal had ever actually retired. The talk of setting aside a corner of the pasture for superannuated animals had long since been dropped. Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any clash of interests whatever. Their struggles and their difficulties were one.”<br /><br />"If you have your lower animals to contend with," Mr. Pilkington said, "we have our lower classes!" This bon mot set the table in a roar; and Mr. Pilkington once again congratulated the pigs on the low rations, the long working hours, and the general absence of pampering which he had observed on Animal Farm…<br /><br />“An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously. Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”<br /><br />Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.<br /><br />“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” - Erich FrommDenis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-36158564117440059052013-05-11T18:47:08.133-04:002013-05-11T18:47:08.133-04:00If he deceived us during his campaigns, and prevar...If he deceived us during his campaigns, and prevaricates to listeners every Saturday over the radio, and fabricates cotton candy spin to stuff into his speeches, and distorts the big numbers of the economy, and falsifies what has been accomplished, and tergiversates about who deserves the credit and who the blame, and exaggerates his shadowboxing as “fighting” for good folks, and, despite all that fibbing, struts over the landscape as if he’s superior to weasels, well – just maybe – he’s a LIAR (capitalized out of respect for the office).Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.com