As Americans, almost 99.9% of us participate in some sort of "socialist" program offered by the State
True, but the common line is that the broad based systems that serve the republicans targeted (like medicare or social security) are good; it's those damn liberal programs like welfare or food stamps or obamacare that are ruining the nation.
But we both know the Repugs will get much more political traction using the "Jew" thing rather than the "socialist" thing.
You're so right Ray...Hardly an election cycle goes by where you don't see Republicans engaging in rampant anti-Semitism...
Makes you wonder how a Jew Boy like Eric Kantor ever got elected House GOP Leader, or why Sheldon Adelson is one of the biggest Republican contributors...
Actually...his Jewishness might make it difficult for Republicans to accuse Bernie of "antisemitism" if he doesn't closely toe the Israeli Likud line and kiss up to Netanyahu, the way they think every good Christian--and every good POTUS--ought to.
In my book, that'd be a real plus.
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
— God@The Tweet of God
Makes you wonder how a Jew Boy like Eric Kantor ever got elected House GOP Leader, or why Sheldon Adelson is one of the biggest Republican contributors...
There are plenty of Jews involved in politics on all levels of government. It's the glass ceiling of becoming POTUS that the GOP will be keeping them from breaking. Kantor was so wormy that he would NEVER have gotten the GOP nomination for president. And Adelson, like the christian Koch brothers, are seen as being so rich, and so aloof, that they are way out of touch with the working class voters. The GOP just wants their money, and gives them platitudes in return.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
Econoline wrote:Actually...his Jewishness might make it difficult for Republicans to accuse Bernie of "antisemitism" if he doesn't closely toe the Israeli Likud line and kiss up to Netanyahu, the way they think every good Christian--and every good POTUS--ought to.
In my book, that'd be a real plus.
I imagine the thrashers "Self-hating Jew" will be bandied about.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Yeah, CP; that thought occurred to me too...but it seems to me that they'll need more than a disagreement with just one part of the wide Israeli political spectrum in order to make that label seem credible.
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
— God@The Tweet of God
Jesus, how long before this dog and pony show gets to an election?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Jesus is with us in every thing we say and do, every second of every day.
He's watching out for us doing homosexualist stuff, so he can burn us in hell for it, as a sign of his everlasting love and compassion.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
We are all latent homosexualists, and we need to be strong to resist the temptation to suck off other guys.
Jesus is watching for our momentary lapse into madness and lust.
Then he'll fucking cook us.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Gob wrote:Jesus, how long before this dog and pony show gets to an election?
There is ONLY 79 weeks left before the 2016 presidential election. A big nation requires a huge, protracted, and bloated electoral process. PACs and overt and covert campaign financing just doesn't happen over night, you know. Just like Jesus, our system works in strange and wondrous ways.
Hallelujah, and God bless America.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
In March, Carson became the first prominent Republican to announce an exploratory committee. Now that Carson has made official his run for president, his first challenge is to establish himself as a serious candidate, both among voters and donors.
Doing that will likely require a level of consistency he has failed to display in the campaign's early going. For starters, he'll have to do some foreign policy cramming. Consider his recent flub while appearing on the Hugh Hewitt Show, in which he said the Baltic states need to "get involved in NATO," (they are already members of the organization) and misjudged how old Islam is as a religion.
His flair for dramatic rhetoric—like comparing the United States to Nazi Germany or calling Obamacare the "worst thing since slavery"—has drawn both liberal ire and conservative ardor. But his recent comments on gay rights brought him so much flak that he has said he is not going to talk about it anymore.
Flair for "drama" my ass. He's simply a nutty race baiter.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
I think I've made pretty clear what I think of Carson, but anybody who can help divide the snake handling vote in the early contests is somebody I'm happy to see join the race...
There are two more set to announce in the next couple of days; Mike Huckabee and Carly Fiorina...
I'm happy to see Huckabee get in as well. He'll also help split up the "the earth is only 6000 years old " vote in Iowa...
Apparently his main argument against his rivals for his slice of the vote is going to be experience...(He was governor for 10 years)
To which I can hear his rivals for that vote, (Cruz particularly comes to mind) replying, "Yeah, you're experienced at releasing felons who murder and rape after you let them loose."
I don't think Carly Fiorina is qualified for the top spot, and she ran a campaign for the Senate against Babs out here a couple of years ago that was so lackluster that it was virtually invisible; she was a terrible candidate in that race. A huge disappointment.
However she's a bright and articulate person, and from what I've seen of her the past few months she looks like she's showing a lot more pulse then she did in her senate campaign. So I'm not unhappy to see her in the race, I think she'll make a good addition to the debates. (From what I hear she's running mainly to raise her profile for possible consideration for the Veep slot or a cabinet post.)
Well, this does it, into the clown car with Carly:
Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina on Monday blamed environmentalists for what she called a "man-made" drought in California, which has led to the state's first water restrictions.
“With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided,” Fiorina, a likely 2016 Republican presidential contender, said in an interview with radio host Glenn Beck. “Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.”
Fiorina, California's 2010 GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, said it was a "classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.”
The drought, now officially in its fourth year, prompted Gov. Jerry Brown (D) last week to order a 25 percent reduction in water consumption. The order does not apply to the agriculture industry, which consumes nearly 80 percent of the state's water.
Lawmakers in Congress and in the state legislature have proposed bills authorizing construction of new dams and reservoirs, citing the need to capture water that ends up in the ocean. They have been opposed by environmental groups, which argue the projects would endanger the state's habitat and endangered species. Last year, House Republicans proposed pumping additional water to Southern California, but the bill failed under a veto threat from President Barack Obama.
There is significant debate about whether the state has enough water left, at this point, to justify the cost of building new dams and reservoirs. According to The Sacramento Bee, some new reservoirs, wouldn't supply significant new water.
"There's nothing magical in and of themselves to build a (reservoir) facility," Lester Snow, the executive director of the California Water Foundation, told the Bee last year. "If we had two more surface storage facilities that we built 10 years ago -- pick any of the two that people are talking about -- they would both be very low right now. There's a tendency to pull down our surface storage when we get mildly short of water."
NextGen Climate, the climate-focused political group run by billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, on Monday evening called Fiorina's comments "irrational."
"For a science denier to opine that Democrats caused the drought in California is about as irrational as believing someone who failed at running a business in California and then failed as a candidate for office in California has any cause to be running for the highest office in the land," Bobby Whithorne, the group's spokesman, said in a statement.
The Sierra Club, a national environmental group, disputed Fiorina's assertion that more dams and reservoirs would have lessened the impact of the drought.
"For more than 100 years, environmentalists have failed to stop the damming of nearly every significant river in California. And yet all of the hundreds of dams out there have done nothing to produce rain or snow pack over the last four years. That's because you can't store what's not there," said Kathryn Phillips, director of Sierra Club's California chapter. "We simply don't have rain or snow pack and are suffering the worst California drought since water agencies and weather trackers started keeping records."
"What we are seeing is exactly what climate scientists have predicted would happen in California with the onset of human-caused climate disruption: Weather and precipitation would become less predictable and droughts would become more frequent and more severe," Phillips added.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
I don't know Carly Fiorina from Carly Simon, but I do know when a hack-journalist for a knee-jerk idealogical website puts false words into a person's mouth. Nowhere did Fiorina in her statements say that liberals caused the drought as expressed by the writer here:
blamed environmentalists for what she called a "man-made" drought in California,
She blamed them for the "man-made disaster" by which she made clear was the severe impact of the drought -- water restrictions. Her point is that with more storage capability the state can better withstand the drought. I think the second part of that argument is to have more water diverted into available storage rather than allowing flows to protect downstream habitat (but that part did not make it into the Hackpost article). You can argue that allowing water flow to protect habitat is more important than storage for human needs, but there is no doubt that if more of the available water is stored, there will be more water in storage to draw upon. It doesn't matter if it rains 10 inches or 100 inches, with more of the available water going to storage which would include building more storage spaces, more water can be stored. That may be bad policy when you weigh all the factors, but it is a tautological truth.
Who in their extreme, conservative, right mind is going to fund this clown? Nurse, the defibrillator and 10cc of epi, stat! Unfortunately this Patch Adams will prove to be DOA in a very short time.
Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard. N'yuk n'yuk n'yuk!
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
