World Politics

[VeloCity]

Republicans are pretty much *******s.

http://getenergysmartnow.com/2011/11/18/going-toe-to-toe-in-a-congressional-hearing/

 

[rhubroma]

http://www.google.it/imgres?imgurl=[/B]


Forgive me for quoting myself, but....

"The illusion that financial capitalism could resolve the rebus (that for which the economists, driven by the interests of the strong powers, have always sought an answer) between keeping wages low, consumerism high as well as providing for business development, has turned out to be a chimera or like that famous Goya etching: "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters."....

[i]And [/i]pay down the debt on top of it....

Meanwhile our political leaders argue over what's to be done.

Looks as if the laviathan in the end is a holy beast that ends up devouring itself.

 

[rhubroma]

The good and the bad of the debt supercommittee’s failure



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...upercommittee/2011/08/25/gIQAxQq4eN_blog.html

Forgive me for quoting myself, but....

"The illusion that financial capitalism could resolve the rebus (that for which the economists, driven by the interests of the strong powers, have always sought an answer) between keeping wages low, consumerism high as well as providing for business development, has turned out to be a chimera or like that famous Goya etching: "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters."....

And pay down the debt on top of it....

Meanwhile our political leaders argue over what's to be done.

Looks as if the laviathan in the end is a holy beast that ends up devouring itself.

 

[VeloCity]

Limbaugh: Michelle Obama Was Booed At NASCAR Event Because She Has Exhibited "Uppity-Ism"

Uppity

And if you go read the comments on conservative websites, they pretty much all agree with Rush. Sorry scott, you can deny it all you want, conservatives are generally racist.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Occupy Melbourne movement...this is what is left.

 

[VeloCity]

Yep, Fox News. Pepper spray is "a food product, essentially".

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...-its-a-food-product-essentially.php?ref=fpblg

It really does make you stupid.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Republicans are pretty much a******s.
Energy hearings and the arctic refuge.

Wow that was appalling. No wonder why people hate Congress. I'm talking about the tone, not the topic. Show up to a hearing to give expert advice, and get lectured to and talked down by the committee.

 

[fatandfast]

And if you go read the comments on conservative websites, they pretty much all agree with Rush. Sorry scott, you can deny it all you want, conservatives are generally racist.

Abe Lincoln was a Republican

 

[redtreviso]

""Uncle Jack's speech in Dallas was to have been an explosive broadside against the right wing. He found Dallas' streets packed five deep with Kennedy Democrats, but among them were the familiar ornaments of presidential hatred; high-flying confederate flags and hundreds of posters adorning the walls and streets of Dallas showing Jack's picture inscribed with "Wanted for Treason." One man held a posterboard saying, "you a traitor ." Other placards accused him of being a communist. When public school P.A. systems announced Jack's assassination, Dallas school children as young as the fourth grade applauded."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/post_1548_b_807713.html

 

[VeloCity]

Abe Lincoln was a Republican

Abe Lincoln was also pretty racist.

 

[VeloCity]

Wow that was appalling. No wonder why people hate Congress. I'm talking about the tone, not the topic. Show up to a hearing to give expert advice, and get lectured to and talked down by the committee.

Douglas Brinkley is an author and historian who wrote a book about the history of conservation in Alaska, he's not really even an expert per se. I'd love to see Don Young go up against someone who knows a bit about the ecology of the region. He'd end up looking even more idiotic.

It's a good book, btw:

http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-World-A...KKQU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321995138&sr=8-1

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

I was just aghast at the way Young and whomever that other guy was, treated the speakers. This wasn't a Congressional indictment, it was a guest PhD giving input on the subject of the arctic refuge. Brinkley was right, they work for him not the other way around. To be talked down to like that, from such an arrogant and autocratic stance was unbelievable. It's no wonder Congress is at 9% approval with 8% margin of error - And this number is likely to get worse with the latest budget supercommittee debacle.

 

[Cobblestones]

I was just aghast at the way Young and whomever that other guy was, treated the speakers. This wasn't a Congressional indictment, it was a guest PhD giving input on the subject of the arctic refuge. Brinkley was right, they work for him not the other way around. To be talked down to like that, from such an arrogant and autocratic stance was unbelievable. It's no wonder Congress is at 9% approval with 8% margin of error - And this number is likely to get worse with the latest budget supercommittee debacle.

Actually, the failure of the supercommittee is probably a net positive.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Perhaps. I just don't know the voters will see it that way when they accomplished nothing.

 

[gregod]

Abe Lincoln was a Republican

your defense of rebublicans is one man from more than 150 years ago? weak sauce, dude.

Abe Lincoln was also pretty racist.

to be fair, he was relatively progressive for his time.

 

[Captain_Cavman]

This is well worth a read if you want to know what's going on in the bond markets. And you do, I'm sure.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/complete-and-annotated-guide-european-bank-run


"To summarize: everyone is dumping European paper, except for the ECB and Italian banks, which have no choice and instead have to double down and buy more. In the meantime, the market is going increasingly bidless as liquidity evaporates, confidence has disappeared and virtually everyone now expects a repeat of Lehman brothers. Of course, this means that when the bottom finally out from the market, the implosion of the Italian banking system, and thus economy, will be instantaneous. And when Italy goes, so goes its $2 trillion+ in sovereign debt, and at that point we will see just how effectively hedged and offloaded the rest of the world is, as contagion shifts from Italy and slowly but surely engulfs the entire world."

Why is this in the Politics thread? Read the last para to find out.

 

[redtreviso]

This almost belongs in the chaos thread..

""You may think that when you buy a Butterball turkey this Thanksgiving you’re as American as apple pie. But, you’d be wrong. In fact, you’re the victim of a “stealth halal” conspiracy.

In a column on The American Thinker, anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller explains that halal meats are already prevalent throughout most of the meat industry, but now they have even infiltrated the popular frozen turkey producer Butterball.

A citizen activist and reader of my website AtlasShrugs.com wrote to Butterball, one of the most popular producers of Thanksgiving turkeys in the United States, asking them if their turkeys were halal. Wendy Howze, a Butterball Consumer Response Representative, responded: “Our whole turkeys are certified halal.”

“In a little-known strike against freedom, yet again, we are being forced into consuming meat slaughtered by means of a torturous method: Islamic slaughter,” Geller writes.

She continues that if you like freedom and hate sharia, you should boycott Butterball and ask them to stop selling these nefarious birds:

Non-Muslims in America and Europe don’t deserve to have halal turkey forced upon them in this way, without their knowledge or consent. So this Thanksgiving, fight for your freedom. Find a non-halal, non-Butterball turkey to celebrate Thanksgiving this Thursday. And write to Butterball and request, politely but firmly, that they stop selling only halal turkeys, and make non-halal turkeys available to Americans who still value our freedoms. ""

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/this_thanksgiving_beware_the_sharia_turkey.php

and then there is this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j1N3G37_SQ

 

[Bala Verde]

This is well worth a read if you want to know what's going on in the bond markets. And you do, I'm sure.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/complete-and-annotated-guide-european-bank-run


"To summarize: everyone is dumping European paper, except for the ECB and Italian banks, which have no choice and instead have to double down and buy more. In the meantime, the market is going increasingly bidless as liquidity evaporates, confidence has disappeared and virtually everyone now expects a repeat of Lehman brothers. Of course, this means that when the bottom finally out from the market, the implosion of the Italian banking system, and thus economy, will be instantaneous. And when Italy goes, so goes its $2 trillion+ in sovereign debt, and at that point we will see just how effectively hedged and offloaded the rest of the world is, as contagion shifts from Italy and slowly but surely engulfs the entire world."

Why is this in the Politics thread? Read the last para to find out.

You should have added the independent image :

What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe

 

[VeloCity]

to be fair, he was relatively progressive for his time.

well yes, it has to be seen in the context of his time, but the dude was still pretty racist:

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

 

[rhubroma]

This is well worth a read if you want to know what's going on in the bond markets. And you do, I'm sure.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/complete-and-annotated-guide-european-bank-run


"To summarize: everyone is dumping European paper, except for the ECB and Italian banks, which have no choice and instead have to double down and buy more. In the meantime, the market is going increasingly bidless as liquidity evaporates, confidence has disappeared and virtually everyone now expects a repeat of Lehman brothers. Of course, this means that when the bottom finally out from the market, the implosion of the Italian banking system, and thus economy, will be instantaneous. And when Italy goes, so goes its $2 trillion+ in sovereign debt, and at that point we will see just how effectively hedged and offloaded the rest of the world is, as contagion shifts from Italy and slowly but surely engulfs the entire world."

Why is this in the Politics thread? Read the last para to find out.

Naturally most street Italians don't realize their country is the economic surrogate that's paving the way to armegedon.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

This almost belongs in the chaos thread..

""You may think that when you buy a Butterball turkey this Thanksgiving you’re as American as apple pie. But, you’d be wrong. In fact, you’re the victim of a “stealth halal” conspiracy.

In a column on The American Thinker, anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller explains that halal meats are already prevalent throughout most of the meat industry, but now they have even infiltrated the popular frozen turkey producer Butterball.

A citizen activist and reader of my website AtlasShrugs.com wrote to Butterball, one of the most popular producers of Thanksgiving turkeys in the United States, asking them if their turkeys were halal. Wendy Howze, a Butterball Consumer Response Representative, responded: “Our whole turkeys are certified halal.”

“In a little-known strike against freedom, yet again, we are being forced into consuming meat slaughtered by means of a torturous method: Islamic slaughter,” Geller writes.

She continues that if you like freedom and hate sharia, you should boycott Butterball and ask them to stop selling these nefarious birds:

Non-Muslims in America and Europe don’t deserve to have halal turkey forced upon them in this way, without their knowledge or consent. So this Thanksgiving, fight for your freedom. Find a non-halal, non-Butterball turkey to celebrate Thanksgiving this Thursday. And write to Butterball and request, politely but firmly, that they stop selling only halal turkeys, and make non-halal turkeys available to Americans who still value our freedoms. ""

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/this_thanksgiving_beware_the_sharia_turkey.php

and then there is this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j1N3G37_SQ

Tell us the truth. YOU got this from FoxNews didn't you?

 

[frenchfry]

Tell us the truth. YOU got this from FoxNews didn't you?

I have a friend who works for the tax department who forwards me hundreds of e-mails with similar content. What is disturbing is that much of this is true.

Disclaimer: I work tutoring immigrant (Muslim) kids, the goal of the association is to help them succeed in their studies to better integrate.

 

[VeloCity]

Despite what R's like to believe, the problem with the '09 stimulus was that it wasn't nearly big enough.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/195181-cbo-says-obama-stimulus-still-helps-economy

 

[blutto]

....and you guys thought that librrrllllz were just a stuffy bunch of bureancrats savouring world domination....they have a sense of humour too!...some may call it gallows humour but it is humour none the less...

...the original...

http://dc-cdn.virtacore.com/2011/11/UC-Davis-pepper-spray.jpg

...and now the real fun begins...

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/casually-pepper-spray-everything-cop/photos

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/203411-casually-pepper-spray-everything-cop

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/203575-casually-pepper-spray-everything-cop

...and last and most certainly not least....

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/203681-casually-pepper-spray-everything-cop

....y'all have a good day now...

Cheers

blutto

 

[Amsterhammer]

I guess this is not strictly election related, so......

Fox News viewers less informed about current events, poll shows

A new survey of New Jersey voters comes to a provocative conclusion: Fox News viewers tend to be less informed about current events than those who don't watch any news at all.

Among NPR listeners, 68% correctly said they had been; only 49% of Fox News viewers answered correctly. In fact, the survey found, Fox viewers were 18 percentage points less likely to answer correctly than those who watched no news at all.

"The results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don't watch any news at all," said Dan Cassino, a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson.

Those who watched Sunday public affairs shows tended to be the best informed on current events, the survey found. Readers of national newspapers also were more likely to respond correctly.

And it seems Jon Stewart may be more reliable than cable news anchors. On Occupy Wall Street, the survey found viewers of "The Daily Show" were 12 percentage points more likely to say protesters were predominantly Democratic. MSNBC viewers were the most likely to say the protesters were mainly Republicans.

"Jon Stewart has not spent a lot of time on some of these issues. But the results show that when he does talk about something, his viewers pick up a lot more information than they would from other sources," Cassino said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-fox-news-poll-20111121,0,3985116.story

Well, who woulda thunk it?