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• • 29 Oct 09
  • 8:20 am

  I love reading Sirota's stuff. He is such a fucking idiot. With all due respect, of course. A Party With No Punch? How can you say that? In nine short months, the Obama Progressives have utterly wasted over a trillion dollars on a stimulus package and other financial nonsense that has only stimulated the unemployment rolls, as planned. Their domestic and foreign agendae are doing exceedingly well, by Marxist standards. They will get a wasteful, corrupt, destructive, ineffectual health care bill and call it victory, but the recent global cooling has proven global warming to be a fraud and a deceit, …

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• • 30 Oct 09
  • 1:11 pm

  Maria - Welcome back, lady. Long time, no hear. The original well-recognized AGW fraud was the hockey stick curve, wherein global temperatures were depicted as stable for a thousand years until recently when temperatures suddenly began rising. Marxists attributed this temperature rise to increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. The fraud was perpetuated in many computer-generated climate models that consistently showed temperature rising indefinitely from 1980 forward. But the hockey stick curve ignored the Medieval Warm Period. An accurate temperature graph of the last millenium shows that the temperature curve looks more like a roller coaster track or a sine wave than …

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• • 31 Oct 09
  • 10:35 am

  Maria - During the Great Depression, Marxists loudly and proudly proclaimed themselves as Communists and Socialists. In this they were following Marx's own injunction in the last sentences of The Communist Manifesto: "The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims." Norman Thomas was prominent among those Marxists, running for president on the Socialist ticket numerous times. (Evan Thomas, Newsweek editor and Norman's grandson, was the one that said that Obama was "like God", ) The Great Depression was a time of social and economic turmoil, and one might think that Marxists would have attracted many followers. But no one was …

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• • 05 Nov 09
  • 8:44 pm

  Maria - Are you still with us? I am looking forward to your input, particularly your justification for your use of the "savage capitalism" meme.

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• • 11 Sep 09
  • 8:58 am

  ... hot-button cultural issues like abortion and gay marriage. According to Frank’s polemical thesis, Republicans succeeded in getting poor whites to vote against their own economic self-interest by focusing on these issues. ... Frank’s book and this movie are both vulnerable to accusations of condescending elitism, Frank for his thesis and the movie for its focus on the eccentric Kansas personalities.

  Oh, I doubt if there is any organized or disorgaized effort by anyone to persuade anybody "to vote against their own economic self-interest" by invoking "hot-button cultural issues." The effort would have to be massive, and there is no evidence …

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