George Jurgenson 1 day ago in reply to Rutabaga Ridgepole

Are you calling Obama a "tyrant" because he claims the right to assassinate American citizens without a warrant or any other variety of judicial review?

Rutabaga Ridgepole 1 day ago in reply to George Jurgenson

Yes, that would be a sufficient reason to call anyone a "tyrant."

But since the only assertion I made about Obama and the Harvard Law Review was that Obama...

...won a student election at the Harvard Law Review once upon a time.

It's hard to see how I "mischaracterized" anything, since Obama was in fact elected president of the Harvard Law Review by the other student-editors, as described by the Boston Globe and all other sources.

The law review president's election is a fussy affair, part intellectual debate, part frat house ritual. Obama was one of 19 candidates. As the 61 editors not running for the job debated the merits of the candidates behind closed doors on a Sunday morning in late February, the hopefuls cooked them breakfast, lunch, and dinner . Every few hours, the editors winnowed the list further, until just after midnight, when only Obama and a 24-year-old Harvard graduate named David Goldberg remained contenders.

At about 12:30 a.m., the editors called Obama into the room, told him he had won, and broke into applause. Mack, another black editor, pulled Obama in for a hug.

And of course it's totally appropriate that the comments under my last blog at TPMCafe include silly claims and sillier insults from yet another sucker for Obama.

Now the President demands
tremendous sacrifices from all of us
as the price of his forgiveness.

But wouldn't it be easier
if the government dissolved the people
and elected another?

-Bertolt Brecht

And now since I'm officially shut out from bloggting here, and my "blog now" button just sends me around and around to sign in and sign in again and again...

Here's my last shot, which I posted on Jon Taplin's blog and will continue to post all around the site until they shut me down.

A Democratic Party coup d'état against the people of the United States!

85% of the American people oppose cutting Social Security benefits!

But Obama and his playmates are proceeding with their Catfood Commission and its plan to cut Social Security benefits right after the next election.

This isn't "politics..."

The isn't "representative government..."

This is a coup d'état against the almost unanimous will of the people.

And now the dishwater Democrat Jon Taplin wants us to send a message to President Obama about some tax-cuts, after Obama already announced another $300 billion in tax-cuts for corporations!

Okay, here's a message for your stinking President and his anti-democratic Democrats!

"You no longer rule by right or any shadow of right. Your administration has degenerated into tyranny, and it's the duty of every honest citizen to bring it down!"

Raise the black flag of anarchy, children! It's time to get out in the streets!

A Democratic Party coup d'état against the people of the United States!

85% of the American people oppose cutting Social Security benefits!

But Obama and his playmates are proceeding with their Catfood Commission and its plan to cut Social Security benefits right after the next election.

This isn't "politics..."

The isn't "representative government..."

This is a coup d'état against the almost unanimous will of the people.

And now the dishwater Democrat Jon Taplin wants us to send a message to President Obama about some tax-cuts, after Obama already announced another $300 billion in tax-cuts for corporations!

Okay, here's a message for your stinking President and his anti-democratic Democrats!

"You no longer rule by right or any shadow of right. Your administration has degenerated into tyranny, and it's the duty of every honest citizen to bring it down!"

A Democratic Party coup d'état against the people of the United States!

85% of the American people oppose cutting Social Security benefits!

But Obama and his playmates are proceeding with their Catfood Commission and its plan to cut Social Security benefits right after the next election.

This isn't "politics..."

The isn't "representative government..."

This is a coup d'état against the almost unanimous will of the people.

And now the dishwater Democrat Jon Taplin wants us to send a message to President Obama about some tax-cuts, after Obama already announced another $300 billion in tax-cuts for corporations!

Okay, here's a message for your stinking President and his anti-democratic Democrats!

"You no longer rule by right or any shadow of right. Your administration has degenerated into tyranny, and it's the duty of every honest citizen to bring it down!"

Vox populi vox Dei, motherfuckers!

From Elvis Presley to Marilyn,
Sugar Ray and Billy the Kid,
From Jackie O to JFK,
Little Richard to Lady Day,
Everyone played a different role...

But we were born to be sold.

Way back when I was just a kiddie without a clue about politics or history, I still wanted to line up on the left with people like you, and who you are is still more persuasive to me than any amount of argument.

I think you're probably right, diachronic, and reducing cognitive dissonance probably also explains why so many people only watch Fox News and only listen to right-wing talk-radio. They tune in to a superficially consistent message, and the dissonance between dreams and reality fades away.

What the heck is "information?"

That question reminds me of St. Augustine's almost universally misquoted remark about time (Confessions, XI, 14)...

"When you don't ask me, I know what it is, but when you ask me, I don't know."

We can always lose, but we never have to surrender!

Vox populi vox Dei, motherfuckers!

And thanks for your hundreds of intelligent comments and diaries, oleeb, and also your support way back when the Obamabots were in the ascendant and attacked in packs.

Did any of them ever apologize for all the bullshit they posted about their stinking con-man Messiah?

But now it's hard for even the most obtuse of them to pretend that left is right and up is down, and I guess we owe some gratitude to Alan Simpson and the Catfood Commission for finally ripping off the last vestige of a mask and showing us the real face of Team Obama.

We apparently lost all the battles, and maybe the war, too, oleeb, but at least we witnessed against the bosses and their tools, and the truth always has a value, wherever anyone even tries to tell it.

Ave atque vale, my friend!

For the impoverished majority in countries affected by free trade deals with the US, increased gross national product is a meaningless statistical phenomenon. Take Chile, where increased mineral exports have further enriched the country's mining elite, but left the general population worse off than before. Indeed, the gap between rich and poor in Chile is now wider than at any time since the reign of US-backed dictator General Augusto Pinochet.

Nobody could possibly believe that huge tax-cuts for corporations which are already swimming in cash will create jobs or even stimulate business-to-business spending...

Nobody except a bunch of morons from outer space!

$1,840,000,000,000!

It would make a heck of a stimulus, if we took it away from the fucking hoarders who are sitting on it now.