Comments on: QUIET YEARNING

By: upshifter

upshifter — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:32:46 +0000

Utopian Engineering is a game the left likes to play. Building the perfect society is like attempting to build a perpetual motion machine; it's impossible.

Actually Socialist attempts to build these perfect societies has resulted in carnage greater even than what the National Socialists did.

"Every time I think I want to become a Republican, they do something greedy. Every time I think about becoming a Democrat, they do something stupid." … J. Leno

I think about the good old days when I killed commies, and I long for it again. It gives a rush like none other.

Of course some babies were killed during that time; it was called "collateral damage". But killing babies is legal now according to the pro-abortionists. Also, the little ones grow up to be big ones. The end justifies the means, doesn't it?

Who knows what is right? I guess it all depends on who's bull is getting gored.

In the past, the Judeo/Christian ethic was the cornerstone of a civilized society; but that's all gone now. We make the rules as we go. Hmmm? Where are we going? I used to think the Nuremberg Trials exemplified a just and civilized society; but now I wonder. Was it right to have Russian war criminals condemning German war criminals?

I'm glad that you've got it all figured out; or does the Kenyan have it all figured out for you?

By: CParrinello

CParrinello — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:18:12 +0000

I find the idea that Obama is a serene Jedi Master and just isn't exciting enough to be more than a little retarded. He's drab but makes all the right shots? Right, like keeping Guantanamo open, continuing to torture innocent people and deny them trials, keeping silent about gay rights, maintaining a deceptively hawkish two front war, and actively participating in the corporatism of his predecessor is "making all the right shots?" You don't hide your political allegiances, but seriously, do you have any semblance of perspective?

By: Tobias Funke

Tobias Funke — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:39:35 +0000

There is one problem with your basketball analogy. Of those two players, the one who couldn't make a shot would be run out of the league. Sure, he would create some nice headlines and eventually end up on a VH1 reality television show, but no real sports fan would have any time for him on the basketball court. We live in a country where the same person who could rattle off every member of the 1991 Chicago Bulls couldn't name all 50 states on a map. Our priorities are bonkers.

By: ladiesbane

ladiesbane — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:25:46 +0000

I don't know. I think Angela Merkel might still consider Bush to be an octopus.

By: Desargues

Desargues — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:55:37 +0000

Beau: Yes, thank you. Cephalopods are entities whose head is attached to their feet, as it were. Kephas,-alos and pous,-odos, in the language of Aristotle. Gastropods is more like what I had in mind.

By: jazzbumpa

jazzbumpa — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:09:34 +0000

I disagree that Bush made terrible decisions. I don't believe they were necessarily his but that is an answer to a different question.

Let's take a look -
1 – Richest 400 families further enriched by about $1.5 billions each – check
2 – Massive upward redistribution of wealth at every decile – check
3 – Saudi royal family enriched by about $20 trillion – check
4 – Sadaam dead – check
5 – Massive oil company profits at the expense of working Americans – check
6 – Iraqi infrastructure destroyed, keeping the iol in the ground – check
7 – Middle East destabilized – check
8 – Further impoverishment of the have-nots – check
9 – Patriot act encroaches on basic American liberties – check
10 – Military industrial complex wealth increases – check
11 – Actual military severely damaged – check
12 – So it could be displaced by mercenaries – in progress
13 – Prison system privatized – in progress
14 – Social Security Privatized – OK, even the Republicans like THEIR socialism, so – FAIL

Now, I'll grant you, Shrub did not achieve all of his goals – I mean, I get my social security checks on time – but he sure accomplished a hell of a lot in eight fucking dismal years.

Most successful presidency EVAH!

Jeers!
JzB

By: beau

beau — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:04:52 +0000

Des – cephalopods have heads (In fact, I believe that cephalopod means something like 'head and feet'). Recent studies I'm too lazy to google and provide a link to have also shown that some of them MAY be capable of observational learning.

So not all that much like the Beckians.

By: cicely

cicely — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:45:50 +0000

Nonononono. Gastropods. "Leaving a trail of slime wherever he goes…."

By: Desargues

Desargues — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:10:48 +0000

Wife beaters also tell their women, when the latter decide to seek help and move out, that they'll miss their beatings. "If I beat you, it is because I love you." Anyway, there's nothing new about the fact that Beckians are fucked up in the head. Do they have a head, anyway? Many of them strike me as cephalopods.