Category Archives: Say What?

when you’re a designated shepherd or sheepdog…

… (remember you can designate yourself) part of you is actually glad to see a wolf, because now you can prove to everyone how important you are, by bossing everyone around for their own good. “A doctor and a peasant know more than a doctor alone,” the Italians used to say. Self-appointed doctors everywhere are [...]

Consider this angle on what Ryan is doing:

The unbridled, technocratic arrogance of this administration has acted like a time machine. Obama and the Dims have, deficit wise, leapt at least 10 years into the future. The ever-over-the-horizon inevitable fiscal catastrophe of the committed welfare state has been brought rudely into the present tense for all of us to gape at in shock. [...]

America is much bigger and much stronger and far more resilient and wonderful…

…than the pedestrian Obami would have it, and [Avatar] is an American film. Think about it. The Russians and Chinese and others will see it and they must again marvel at our creativity and our technology. They will be seeing yet another distinctive American film, a wonder like Dances With Wolves and E. T. and [...]

I persist in viewing Obama as…

…a narcissistic political “prodigy” who rode that perfect storm of financial crisis, race neurosis and war exhaustion into office. To call him an anti-Semite seems, ironically, to attribute to him something approaching a genuine principle. I doubt he’s held a sincere political, social or religious conviction in his life, in the sense of being willing [...]

The way health care is run and paid for in America today…

…is entirely dictated and distorted by the actions of government. It’s not too much to say that government is to blame for everything we don’t like about our health care system. [...] It IS possible for things to be different, and the main thing that has to change is how much the federal and state [...]

There is only one issue left…

…how we handle our Debts,every other issue is an evasion of the stranglehood that Debt has on every aspect of our society. And none of the options are pretty in a Democracy,in fact,too much Debt is the quickest way to go from a Democracy to a Dictatorship. Rex Caruthers @ In defense of rightwing Leninism.

we’re already in the ‘bearded spock’ universe…

…when you deficit spend to avoid bankruptcy, where you dither on military commitments in order to reassure our allies, where you suppress oil and gas exploration, in order to become energy independent. Where you threaten the strangulation of every aspect of economic activity to encourage jobs, where terrorists get civil trials, and the CIA men [...]

Re-Quoted for the Eternal Archives

“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.” – Richard Feynman Sully @ CONTENTION OF THE DAY – something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Some businessmen realizing the opportunity to game the system…

…come up with the idea of carbon credits, based upon the latest climate scaremongerers who have moved from ice age to heat wave – both with nothing but faith backing them up. Enron is the name, and along with Goldman Sachs figure a ton of money is to be had shaking down people for indulgences [...]

My Mum…

… used to say our very short rabbi from Brooklyn was going to sue the city because they built the sidewalk too close to his ass. Zoltan Newberry @ Noonan: Barack, We Hardly Knew Ye

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