tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post3162068874848178102..comments2023-12-23T16:22:22.290-05:00Comments on alicublog: #StandWithThatAssholeRandPaul.roy edrosohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161980502027888634noreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-60873432050613607242013-08-24T11:23:21.487-04:002013-08-24T11:23:21.487-04:00No need for foreigners to do this. We sell the te...No need for foreigners to do this. We <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/28/us/massachusetts-pentagon-plot-arrest" rel="nofollow">sell the technology here</a>.zuchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-15240137181618623292013-03-08T23:07:03.831-05:002013-03-08T23:07:03.831-05:00what parts of SS and Medicare have been actually c...<i>what parts of SS and Medicare have been actually cut?</i><br /><br />The plan, at least, is to <a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/14764-macho-men-social-security-and-the-chained-cpi" rel="nofollow">cut Social Security in a very sneaky way by changing the CPI used for the annual COLA (cost of living adjustment) to the "Chained CPI"</a>.atheisthttp://www.tumblr.com/blog/atheist-thoughtsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-32444057797765351472013-03-08T22:36:05.014-05:002013-03-08T22:36:05.014-05:00Placating the Republicans=telling the population a...Placating the Republicans=telling the population at large that their benefits are going to get cut, and soon. Not a winning strategy. Remember, given the choice between a real Republican and a fake one, people will choose the real one.DocAmazingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-6247228146030932462013-03-08T22:04:21.048-05:002013-03-08T22:04:21.048-05:00Question: Unless I'm missing something (entire...Question: Unless I'm missing something (entirely possible, it's been a long 4 years) what parts of SS and Medicare have been actually cut? They keep talking about it because it's a good way to placate the media and the Republicans, but I can't recall anything actually being cut. <br /><br /><br />FTR, I do think the Dem leadership ought to do more for the party's liberal base. They wouldn't get elected without us. But I think the base sometimes goes a little nuts over things that are only supposed to be beltway media fodder that never actually go anywhere.Spaghetti Leenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-1536890162942411272013-03-08T19:43:17.937-05:002013-03-08T19:43:17.937-05:00Yeah, Obama's been crap on Social Security as ...Yeah, Obama's been crap on Social Security as well. There comes a point where maintaining party discipline is less important than pointing out what's actually going on.atheisthttp://www.tumblr.com/blog/atheist-thoughtsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-22024333215605437372013-03-08T15:14:46.187-05:002013-03-08T15:14:46.187-05:00It sure has! I'm glad Occupy found a way to do...It sure has! I'm glad Occupy found a way to do it.atheisthttp://www.tumblr.com/blog/atheist-thoughtsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-29085607689874094802013-03-08T10:59:49.219-05:002013-03-08T10:59:49.219-05:00That's not spying on the police, either. That...That's not spying on the police, either. That's monitoring and documenting their activities in the open. That has proven necessary, since more than a few of their number have shown themselves to be abusive and brutal, and to enforce any kind of discipline against these abusive and brutal cops video footage has proven necessary.DocAmazingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-8392091131541717352013-03-08T10:49:38.723-05:002013-03-08T10:49:38.723-05:00Here's the problem: the Dems themselves keep ...Here's the problem: the Dems themselves keep doing things to contribute to their crack-up, and to alienate their constituency. Messing with Social Security and Medicare? Instead of forthrightly stating "We will protect these popular programs from Republican villains!" the White House keeps going on about Grand Bargains. This is not popular, and it merely contributes to rank-and-file disillusionment with the political process generally and the Democratic Party in particular.<br /><br /><br />So when centrists piss the public off by dismissing things the public wants, that's something that we "principled" types need to just suck up to keep the coalition together? The centrists are doing a fine job dividing the coalition all by themselves--ask a union worker or a government employee.DocAmazingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-1463488671027905272013-03-08T09:51:43.907-05:002013-03-08T09:51:43.907-05:00I think she's talking about "The Occucopt...I think she's talking about <a href="http://techland.time.com/2011/12/21/occupy-wall-streets-new-drone-the-occucopter/" rel="nofollow">"The Occucopter", a surveillance drone that Occupy has apparently used</a>. The difference is that nobody in Occupy claims that they have the right to fire missiles at police.atheisthttp://www.tumblr.com/blog/atheist-thoughtsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-19959910243138064682013-03-08T09:43:18.617-05:002013-03-08T09:43:18.617-05:00And if it has been decided that it's the execu...And if it has been decided that it's the executive's right to assassinate Americans at will, then they will be within the laws too. I'm well aware the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#Assassination_by_Chicago_Police" rel="nofollow">the US government has violently</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army#U.S._Army_intervention" rel="nofollow">cracked down on its citizens before</a>, and nobody cared much. What concerns me is that now the government is asking for <i>explicit rights</i> to assassinate whoever they wish without a trial. That seems to me to be a whole new level of shitty.atheisthttp://www.tumblr.com/blog/atheist-thoughtsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-88032832757265236282013-03-08T09:26:13.960-05:002013-03-08T09:26:13.960-05:00Well, at least his posse didn't use an unmanne...Well, at least his posse didn't use an <i>unmanned drone</i> to kick a dissenter in the head. And she was the wrong type of dissenter anyway, so it would be okay for the government to deny <i>her</i> due process. The latter sentiment, which is consistent with previous public pronouncements, is much of the reason why I'm so disgusted by Paul's showboating.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-60137757506337085202013-03-08T09:14:43.403-05:002013-03-08T09:14:43.403-05:00They get upset when Muslims do it because Taqiyya ...They get upset when Muslims do it because Taqiyya involves denying one's faith when threatened with persecution, not blatantly lying in order to gain temporal power and influence. So it makes the modern fundamentalist Christian version, known variously as "Bearing false witness" or "Pants on fire," look bad by comparison. As you know, Bastard, most of the current Talibornagain hysteria over Muslims and their Global Caliphate is fueled by <i>envy</i>.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-69790520338241552882013-03-08T09:06:30.817-05:002013-03-08T09:06:30.817-05:00But what if we get a real shithead president somet...But what if we get a real shithead president sometime down the line?<br /><br /><br />Then, as our history of shithead presidents demonstrates, that hypothetical real shithead president will use the hellfire missiles if he or she damn well pleases, regardless of Eric Holder's lawyerly answer to a crudely-composed question.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-91277873840587227342013-03-08T07:59:37.265-05:002013-03-08T07:59:37.265-05:00Would you agree that, if the US has a policy of us...Would you agree that, if the US has a policy of using drones in a certain way, that helps normalize that particular mode of drone use internationally?atheisthttp://www.tumblr.com/blog/atheist-thoughtsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-4672906244291775072013-03-08T00:56:13.794-05:002013-03-08T00:56:13.794-05:00Yo--what? Documentation of claim, please?Yo--what? Documentation of claim, please?DocAmazingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-22703065389856776852013-03-07T22:26:00.104-05:002013-03-07T22:26:00.104-05:00Spaghetts wins!Spaghetts wins!Haystacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-83565279495715979532013-03-07T22:20:44.205-05:002013-03-07T22:20:44.205-05:00Hard to see what's not there.Hard to see what's not there.zuzunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-58378705202775775682013-03-07T22:19:40.873-05:002013-03-07T22:19:40.873-05:00Good point, that's what happens when you engag...Good point, that's what happens when you engage a neutral country.trizzlornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-62092993156603235082013-03-07T22:17:41.875-05:002013-03-07T22:17:41.875-05:00We bombed Switzerland repeatedly during WW2 withou...We bombed Switzerland repeatedly during WW2 without declaring a damn thing. Paid reparations for it, though, after the war.TGuerrantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-61364094218615979302013-03-07T22:09:33.983-05:002013-03-07T22:09:33.983-05:00That's a perfectly honorable position and I re...That's a perfectly honorable position and I respect it, my point was only that Holder's statements regarding the legality of attacks on Americans on American soil is neither absurd nor without precedent.trizzlornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-39764457526921951942013-03-07T21:57:29.828-05:002013-03-07T21:57:29.828-05:00Re the Civil War, I'm on record here and in ot...Re the Civil War, I'm on record here and in other forums as thinking that it was actually Lincoln's biggest mistake, not his biggest triumph. War was not the answer even to an atrocity as egregious as slavery, and it's worth noting that in the history of the world stretching from at least 1700 to the present, the U.S. was the only country that needed to basically declare war on itself to end slavery. That said, Congress thought of the Southern secession an "insurrection", which gave them enough constitutional cover to declare war.satchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-51640654777899511742013-03-07T21:36:04.732-05:002013-03-07T21:36:04.732-05:00Actually, you're all fucked (americans, I mean...Actually, you're all fucked (americans, I mean) for eternity because of your election system,Michael Søndberg Olsenhttp://www.facebook.com/regnumstygianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-89819041492271648662013-03-07T21:32:18.439-05:002013-03-07T21:32:18.439-05:00I think you mean Vogonish.I think you mean Vogonish.Michael Søndberg Olsenhttp://www.facebook.com/regnumstygianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-72730503529592593192013-03-07T21:16:26.381-05:002013-03-07T21:16:26.381-05:00The ends justify the means, and the end is the inc...The ends justify the means, and the end is the increase of their personal power. It's <a href="http://www.mormonwiki.org/Lying_for_the_Lord" rel="nofollow">lying for the lord</a> extended to secular endeavors. Oddly enough, the righties get really upset <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiyya" rel="nofollow">when muslims do it</a>.Big_Bad_Bald_Bastardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-76465360480445291382013-03-07T21:04:37.626-05:002013-03-07T21:04:37.626-05:00I don't know if I'd be happy with losing t...I don't know if I'd be happy with losing the moral high ground, even if the media doesn't recognize that we have it. Sure, it would be nice to see some partisan "coup counting" once in a while, but I'd rather not sink to the level of the righties. Hopefully, this trend of eating their own will continue.Big_Bad_Bald_Bastardnoreply@blogger.com