In These Times

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• • 07 Nov 09
  • 11:11 pm

  This mania for looking on the bright side has given us the present financial collapse; optimistic business leaders—assisted by rosy-eyed policymakers—made very bad decisions.

  Damn! I could have sworn it was the Democrats who did that. Wasn't it LBJ and Democrats in congress that gave us the War on Poverty? $6.6 trillion dollars was utterly wasted over a thirty-year period, there was substantial destruction of poor, mostly Black, family life in the USA, and there was a legacy of crime and drugs among displaced males when women were paid only if there were no males in their households. The whole …

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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, …

  Posted to A Party With No Punch

• • 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 …

  Posted to A Party With No Punch

• • 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 …

  Posted to A Party With No Punch

• • 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.

  Posted to A Party With No Punch