To get you “started” on tonight’s journey …
I guess it’s no surprise that someone with a deep affection for the relatively obscure movie “That Thing You Do,” not to mention a nom de blogue of “stands for decibels,” would have a deep appreciation for music, particularly music of a particular era. From what little we know of him from his postings, he is also a fan of Rachel Maddow and Eric Blair, and one of the calmer voices on an often cacophonous blog.
He is also tonight’s guest host. Ladies and gentlemen, sfd:
“I’d been thinking about some pretext to recommend a tune by a band whose song “Start!” is one that’s somewhat familiar to American ears, and while it may not be my absolute favorite ever-ever by the Jam, I gave it another listen last night and heard some elements I hadn’t previously considered.
For starters, it’s not necessarily specific to the “start” of any particular kind of relationship–it might be about connecting with a potential lover, or a friend, of maybe just a fan. (Given that I was as big a fan as one could be when they recorded it, I wanted to believe that last one.) Musically, when you consider bandleader Paul Weller’s unabashed love for mid-60s rock, it’s kind of a one-song homage to all three composers of the Revolver lp–the opening riff is lifted from George’s “Taxman,” the solo could’ve been part of John’s “Tomorrow Never Knows,” and the bit of horns is a nod to Paul’s “Got to Get You into My Life.”
I could regale you with personal connections to this band, but suffice to say this tune appeared on an album that was released whilst I was sharing a house with a bandmate, wherein we rehearsed in the basement, and we covered more of the Jam’s tunes than we should. I loved their sound, dug the look, and I envied the massive following they had in Britain while being dumbfounded as to why they couldn’t get more of an audience here in the states. (as to that last bit: now it’s obvious. 1) they were just too English for most Americans to digest, and 2) the Jam likely didn’t give enough of a crap to adjust their sound, and tone down their accents, to make themselves more marketable here.)
If you’re not familiar with their catalog, they did six albums–all have some classic nuggets within, but you can’t go wrong with the 3rd, 4th, or the 5th album (Sound Affects), from which “Start” is a part.
And back, for just a bit, to the sentiments expressed? I think it’s true of what we try to do at your blog, with one another. We don’t always really understand each other, we get p–ed off and fight over the silliest of reasons, but it’s different sides, talking to each other, sort of. And at least it’s a start.”
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TaxPayer
July 8th, 2012
1:58 pm
Georgia hospitals lost 1.5 billion last year treating uninsured patients. Is that a good business model. I wonder what will happen if they continue on their path of more of the same.
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
1:59 pm
I heard Ronnie actually stood there in front of the little pig’s brick wall blah blah blah….
Libs do love they revisionist history they do.
TaxPayer
July 8th, 2012
2:04 pm
I expect TSPLOST to pass given that it moves us one more step closer to implementation of a tax scheme that resembles the so-called “Fair Tax.” A penny of consumption tax at a time to cover everything from roads to schools, etc., and we should be able to eliminate property and income taxes by time we hit that 25 cents on the dollar consumption tax rate. How can a Republican resist. A vote of YES for TSPLOST is a vote for the Fair Tax.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 8th, 2012
2:04 pm
Reagan kicked Chuck Norris’, Jean-Claude Van Damme’s, Jet Li’s and Jason Statham’s asses in a steel cage death match blind-folded.
TaxPayer
July 8th, 2012
2:05 pm
Yes, when Ronnie spoke it did sound like blah blah blah. How could anyone argue that.
TaxPayer
July 8th, 2012
2:07 pm
Chuck Norris said he could take Obama with his Walker tied behind his back.
TaxPayer
July 8th, 2012
2:08 pm
Bain Capital said things just haven’t been the same since losing their Chief Executive Offshorer, Mitt.
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
July 8th, 2012
2:10 pm
Ronnie wouldve been a tea partier
And willard’s dad wouldve been more of a con than Willard is
Silly liberals
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
2:13 pm
Reagan = 16.1 million net new jobs, 21 million from the bottom of the recession, and 7-9% economic growth just a couple of qtrs out of the worst recession since the great depression. Just the facts mam. Just the facts.
Obama? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!
Don't Forget
July 8th, 2012
2:14 pm
T shirts, get your Reagan T shirts……
http://www.zazzle.com/reagan+tshirts
Oscar
July 8th, 2012
2:16 pm
TSPLOST
Vote no for several reasons.
Any roads built will be congested and out of date by the time they are completed. Happens every time. More roads just contribute to and cause more sprawl.
We don’t need another tax.
Oscar
July 8th, 2012
2:19 pm
Ronnhie employed basic Keynes economic theory to stimule the economy. He reduced taxes and increase government spending financed by borrowing. Works but runs up deficit and expands the money supply. Look at the increase in national debt. Upturn started when Ronnie was in.
getalife
July 8th, 2012
2:21 pm
The truth about reagan is:
“Reagan was a serial tax raiser. As governor of California, Reagan “signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state up till then.” Meanwhile, state spending nearly doubled.
Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit. During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion, “roughly three times as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether.”
Unemployment soared after Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts. Unemployment jumped to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level. Meanwhile, income inequality exploded.
Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously. Reagan promised “to move boldly, decisively, and quickly to control the runaway growth of federal spending,” but federal spending “ballooned” under Reagan. He bailed out Social Security in 1983 after attempting to privatize it, and set up a progressive taxation system to keep it funded into the future.
Reagan did little to fight a woman’s right to chose. As governor of California in 1967, Reagan signed a bill to liberalize the state’s abortion laws that “resulted in more than a million abortions.”
Reagan was a “bellicose peacenik.” He wrote in his memoirs that “[m]y dream…became a world free of nuclear weapons.”
Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants. Reagan signed into law a bill that made any immigrant who had entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty.
Reagan illegally funneled weapons to Iran. Reagan and other senior U.S. officials secretly sold arms to officials in Iran, which was subject to a an arms embargo at the time, in exchange for American hostages. Some funds from the illegal arms sales also went to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua — something Congress had already prohibited the administration from doing.
Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act. which placed sanctions on South Africa and cut off all American trade with the country. Reagan’s veto was overridden by the Republican-controlled Senate.
Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahidin fighters in Afghanistan. Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to these fighters through the Pakistani intelligence service. The Talbian and Osama Bin Laden — a prominent mujahidin commander — emerged from these mujahidin groups Reagan helped create, and U.S. policy towards Pakistan remains strained because of the intelligence services’ close relations to these fighters.”
doomy worships that.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 8th, 2012
2:22 pm
In Aliens v Predators: Tear Down that Planet, Regan with his bare hands destroys the home planets of both species while that sissy Ted Nugent cries in the corner.
But wait…. at the end of the movie, some of Grover Norquist’s DNA survives despite repeated “fees and penalties” from Mitt (before Mitt fell to Regan’s tax increases)….. oh no, Ronnie may be have to face Republican’s greatest enemy yet…. GROVER!
Brosephus™
July 8th, 2012
2:22 pm
I read each of your complaints regarding Romney and it seems to me there is a big difference between a misstatement or simply being wrong and an orchestrated lie.
I never disputed there being a difference. I simply refuse to make excuses for one party doing that while excoriating the other for the exact same thing. We don’t disagree as much as you think we do. I just won’t make excuses or explanations for either side. That said, I’m moving beyond this.
TaxPayer
July 8th, 2012
2:24 pm
Let’s follow in Ronnie’s bootsteps and borrow more money. After all, it worked so well for G.W.
TaxPayer
July 8th, 2012
2:25 pm
Grover is Ronnie’s illegitimate step child.
getalife
July 8th, 2012
2:28 pm
Tax,
I watched reagan’s son talk about being molested and he is outspoken on the issue.
reagan was not a very good father.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
July 8th, 2012
2:32 pm
Historical narratives matter. That’s why conservatives are still writing books denouncing F.D.R. and the New Deal; they understand that the way Americans perceive bygone eras, even eras from the seemingly distant past, affects politics today.
Bill Clinton knew that in 1991, when he began his presidential campaign. “The Reagan-Bush years,” he declared, “have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.”
The Reagan economy was a one-hit wonder. Yes, there was a boom in the mid-1980s, as the economy recovered from a severe recession. But while the rich got much richer, there was little sustained economic improvement for most Americans. By the late 1980s, middle-class incomes were barely higher than they had been a decade before — and the poverty rate had actually risen.
When the inevitable recession arrived, people felt betrayed — a sense of betrayal that Mr. Clinton was able to ride into the White House.
I understand why conservatives want to rewrite history and pretend that these good things happened while a Republican was in office — or claim, implausibly, that the 1981 Reagan tax cut somehow deserves credit for positive economic developments that didn’t happen until 14 or more years had passed. (Does Richard Nixon get credit for “Morning in America”?)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/opinion/21krugman.html?_r=1
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
2:33 pm
Don’t Forget,
I’ll let you know if I ever see one of them Reagan t-shirts being worn. To date I never have and I seriously doubt any con on here has either.
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
2:34 pm
Krugman = no credibility.
getalife
July 8th, 2012
2:35 pm
They will try to rewrite history for w too.
w is in Africa because the only people he helped are Africans.
They love w in Africa.
getalife
July 8th, 2012
2:36 pm
doomy = no credibility.
Krugman predicted the collapse so he is credible.
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
2:39 pm
So let me get this right, cult of personality can only be invoked if Thulsa Doom as actually seen someone wearing a tshirt of the individual he says others worship. Otherwise he plays semantics a games to show why the cult of personality doesn’t hold true for anyone on the right.
Have to love that logic or lack thereof.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
July 8th, 2012
2:39 pm
Of course. The only credibility comes from people like Rove or Briebart……………
And?
July 8th, 2012
2:40 pm
In what was his most memorable campaign moment, Huntsman decided to use the January 7th debate to go after Romney’s escalating China bashing with a clever demonstration of his Mandarin skills with a blithe “他不太了解這個情形.” Mitt was naturally baffled and Huntsman condescendingly translated that as “He doesn’t quite understand the situation” and followed up by re-assuming his role as ambassador to China and presenting a little lecture from Hu Jintao. Huntsman smugly warned Romney — and worried Americans at home — that attempting to hold China accountable to global trade norms and the agreements they’ve signed would result in a retaliatory trade war. Romney’s poll numbers shot up and Huntsman finished a distant fourth in the New Hampshire primary he’d fought hard for because the candidate from Beijing doesn’t appear to understand the situation in America.
That situation is a harsh reality where more than 20 percent of Americans are either unemployed or tragically underemployed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-navarro-and-greg-autry/huntsman-drops-out_b_1208215.html
Would the “moderates” Brosephus & JamVet still like the opportunity to vote for Huntsman after reading the facts?
No?
I didn’t think so.
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
2:45 pm
getalife,
So is it Reagan’s fault that a camp counselor molested Michael Reagan?
Brosephus™
July 8th, 2012
2:46 pm
Would the “moderates” Brosephus & JamVet still like the opportunity to vote for Huntsman after reading the facts?
Hopefully, your ability to work, earn a living, and support yourself is not predicated on your ability to think. Given the choices the GOP put forth vs the incumbent, Huntsman would still get my vote as a better person to lead the country. Thank you for playing though, and as a parting gift, you’ll receive the Bookman Blog™ Board Game as a consolation prize.
If you’re not Brosephus, don’t try to think or act like Brosephus. You’ll only end up looking like a fool.
Bonnie Fwank
July 8th, 2012
2:48 pm
Why is Jam Vet so agitated today? Lithium is the answer.
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
2:48 pm
Love me some Reagan,
Sorry dude but anyone with 2 ounces of common sense knows that cult of personality is a phenomenon of the left? Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, O. I’ve seen tons of people wearing Obama t-shirts. In my entire life I’ve never seen anyone walking around with a picture of Reagan or any other big time con on their shirt. And I suspect even you admit that. Now put down the koolaid sport.
Oblama
July 8th, 2012
2:50 pm
Bonnie – ObamaCare will furnish free lithium but they won’t open your mouth and push it in. He has to take the pills for it to work. Understand?
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
July 8th, 2012
2:50 pm
Don’t downplay the fact that, although Reagan was a brilliant politican — and maybe even a good husband, he was sh##t for a father.
The fact remains that not only one child but another has come forward with tales of Reagan and Nancy’s “parenting” skills being subpar. One child, you might be able to blow off — two?…..
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
2:52 pm
“In Aliens v Predators: Tear Down that Planet….”
Nonsensical gobbledeegook alert @ 2:22.
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
2:52 pm
Thulsa
Is that your definition? Let me guess, you have unbiased information to back up your claim in regards to cult of personality being a phenomenon of the left?
Based on what I have read in just a few minutes, you are as biased and partisan as anyone on the left.
Fooling yourself doesn’t mean others are fooled
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
2:54 pm
DDR,
And a third child says he was a great dad. I notice the trend seems to be personal attacks on the man, his character, even his parenthood. I guess if folks can’t attack his record on jobs or economic growth then personal attacks is what they are reduced to. Sad.
TaxPayer
July 8th, 2012
2:54 pm
Republicans yearn for more Greenspan and Gramm.
getalife
July 8th, 2012
2:55 pm
doomy.
Micheal’s words not mine.
I had no idea until I saw him say it on fox.
The other son is a lib but our local rag prints Micheal’s bs.
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
2:57 pm
Thulsa
Don’t give me names. Provide expert information to back up your claims.
Thanks in advance
JamVet
July 8th, 2012
2:58 pm
Bonnie, did you celebrate when your fellow cons tortured and murdered Matthew Shepherd?
“The Reagan-Bush years,” he declared, “have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.”
Self before service. GOP before USA.
Why I call them the Anti-Patriot Party.
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
Love me some Reagan,
Simple observation ma’am. Can any reasonable person actually say that they haven’t seen lots of folks wearing Obama t-shirts or the the cult of personality thing is primarily a product of the left? And I never said I wasn’t biased. I’m just stating the obvious- that the cult of personality phenomenon is primarily a product of the left. I don’t think you’ll have too many historians dispute that.
BTW if you’ve run out of silhouetted Obama t-shirts or you are just ashamed to wear them given his abysmal jobs and economic record feel free to put on one a them cool looking t-shirts that romanticizes Che. Even us cons think they look cool. We just wouldn’t wear one is all.
TaxPayer
July 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
Republicans love Reagan for his ability to keep them conned. Bonzo recognized him for what he really was though–second billing on a B-movie.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
July 8th, 2012
3:00 pm
I’ve seen tons of people wearing Obama t-shirts. In my entire life I’ve never seen anyone walking around with a picture of Reagan or any other big time con on their shirt.
They sure can wear those Anti-Obama t-shirts though. Or those anti-Clinton t-shirts, or even those t-shirts dissing Barney Franks and some of the people wearing them doesn’t even LIVE in Frank’s state!!
It seems that repubs are really big on showing hate — love? Not so much.
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
3:02 pm
“Simple observation ma’am”
Who would have guessed? If it fits Thulsa’s definition then that’s what it is, otherwise it isn’t.
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
3:02 pm
recognized him for what he really was though–second billing on a B-movie blah blah blah”
I see the trend of silly personal attacks continues. Further proof that if they can’t attack his economic growth record or his jobs record that they are reduced to 6th grade personal attacks. Still can’t refute the economic growth numbers or the astounding jobs growth numbers can ya? Nope. Ya can’t!
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getalife
July 8th, 2012
3:02 pm
He started the war on drugs that failed.
He cut and ran from Lebanon.
He started deregulating the banks.
I give him a F.
getalife
July 8th, 2012
3:04 pm
Give doomy some credit for being consistent.
Consistently wrong so what he writes, the complete opposite is the truth.
Hot Air
July 8th, 2012
3:06 pm
getalife – Your B.S. is registering high on the B.S. meter today….. Carter caused the problems you are attributing to Reagen concerning the economy. Carter was kicked out by one of the highest majorities in voter history because of the recession he created and Reagen inherited. 20 % mortgage rates, extremely high unemployment, gas lines and what Carter called “malaise” which Carter actually had the gall to blame on the American people. Reagen had to do what he had to do to keep us from going in to a deeper recession. At the end of his 2nd term the economy was strong, unemployment was low and the country was in a boom. Revised history by the socialist left registers high on the B.S. meter.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
July 8th, 2012
3:06 pm
And a third child says he was a great dad. I notice the trend seems to be personal attacks on the man, his character, even his parenthood. I guess if folks can’t attack his record on jobs or economic growth then personal attacks is what they are reduced to. Sad.
Reminds me of that song; where there’s a line that says, “Don’t be sad, two outta three ain’t bad”.
Who sings that Jam?
PS: Doom — the third child was probably the one that was hiding behind the grassy knoll.
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
“he created and Reagen inherited. 20 % mortgage rates”
Carter controlled the Fed?
Is that an old or new conspiracy?
getalife
July 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
doomy,
Lets discuss w’s legacy.
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
DDR,
The only hate I see on this page is a whole lotta hate directed at a dead man. Scroll through this page and the previous page and tell me how many hateful personal attacks you see on this dead man. I see plenty. Matter of fact I see plenty more hateful personal attacks on him than I do on Clinton, Obama, or Barney frank. Some of them are just plain silly and juvenile in their hatred.
To be fair I do see hateful comments towards O today and every day. I’ll give you that. But then I saw plenty on W also when he was potus. Just comes with the territory when you are potus.
Oblama
July 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
Hot Air – I think he is not intentionally revising history – may have memory lossfrom being around so many leftists.
G Mare
July 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
Oscar, I’m with you on a no vote on tsplost. Let’s not give the politicians any more money; it only encourages them.
getalife
July 8th, 2012
3:10 pm
Hot Air,
The same ole deflection of blame is bs son.
The buck stops with the President.
Own it con.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
July 8th, 2012
3:11 pm
I’m just stating the obvious- that the cult of personality phenomenon is primarily a product of the left. I don’t think you’ll have too many historians dispute that.
Then why are all these websites selling these “We Love REAGAN!!” type t-shirts? You think only the Dems are buying them?
Yeah, that makes sense!! The DEMS are the ones buying all these Pro-Reagan and Pro Republican T-Shirts!!!
It’s starting to make sense now……
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
3:12 pm
PS: Doom — the third child was probably the one that was hiding behind the grassy knoll.
Well at least I can count on DDR to inject some good humor into the situation. The eldest I think its Michael is following his dad’s legacy directly. The youngest is rebellious and the opposite. Maureen Reagan was always angry at her dad over the divorce and his remarriage to Nancy from what I’ve read. That’s not unusual though.
JamVet
July 8th, 2012
3:12 pm
More Reagan worship:
Carter caused the problems you are attributing to Reagen concerning the economy.
Silly rubes.
And at least you could spell Saint Ronnie’s last name correctly, Norman Einsteen.
More Reagan worship:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/01/24/us/politics/fivethirtyeight-reagan1/fivethirtyeight-reagan1-blog480.gif
getalife
July 8th, 2012
3:13 pm
Why did reagan raise taxes so many times?
It would get kicked out of the gop cult today.
Bonnie Fwank
July 8th, 2012
3:13 pm
I’m retiring to the life of a lobbyist. Yeah baby. Cashin’ in on the American dream. Keep blaming “W” for everything. Don’t forget to blame “W” for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae going bust. We need a scapegoat.
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
3:15 pm
“The youngest is rebellious and the opposite. ”
Is he rebellious just because he personally thinks his dad’s policies were not good for the country?
Whether he is right or wrong, does he not have the right to his own opinion without being called “rebellious”?
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
3:16 pm
DDR,
Oh geez. Come on. You know how cheap it is to have a website. And on the same issue there are tons of websites I’m sure selling O t-shirts and Dem t-shirts. Tons of em selling Elvis and every thing else t-shirts. So what. I’m just saying I’ve seen tons of t-shirts of Obama worn out and about and then in my entire life I’ve never seen someone wearing a t-shirt with a pic of a con on it. Never seen it. I’m sure it happens but I haven’t seen it. And I’m sure that if people buy and wear these t-shirts that they wear them at tea party events and functions or party events and functions. As far as wearing them in public have you ever honestly seen a con wearing a t-shirt with a pic of Ronnie? Be honest Debbie.
G.I. Joe
July 8th, 2012
3:17 pm
JamVet needs to come clean – he’s not Captain America.
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
3:19 pm
Debbie
It is the t-shirts dammit. If Thulsa sees t-shirts that means cult of personality. If people talk about a conservative as if they were one of the disciples that just means he was an alright guy and nothing else
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
3:19 pm
Love me some Reagan,
The kid can’t make his own way and has written books critical of his dad. Basically just seems to me he’s making money off his dad’s legacy in a negative way- something that his elder brother has painfully made note of. He knows there’s a market for Reagan hate. This very blog proves it.
G.I. Joe
July 8th, 2012
3:19 pm
The youngest Reagan is a prancing dancer.
TaxPayer
July 8th, 2012
3:20 pm
Reagan put us farther in debt and raised taxes and set up a foreign policy that resulted in the creation of the Taliban, etc. A true con’s con. Right up there with tricky Dick Nixon.
B
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Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
3:20 pm
Thulsa
Your reply would not be considered any answer to my question by any means, but thanks for trying.
Be good
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 8th, 2012
3:20 pm
Reagan single handedly built the Hoover Dam with only a toothpick, dental floss, and an alarm clock.
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
3:21 pm
Love me some Reagan,
If you can’t acknowledge that historians generally see the cult of personality phenomenon mainly as a product of the left as in totalitarian states then you are simply beyond help.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
July 8th, 2012
3:21 pm
The only hate I see on this page is a whole lotta hate directed at a dead man.
Doom, telling the truth is not HATE – it’s telling the truth The only “hate” associated to it, is the fact that you “hate” to hear it.
To be fair I do see hateful comments towards O today and every day. I’ll give you that. But then I saw plenty on W also when he was potus. Just comes with the territory when you are potus
Oh? Did you see anything EVER directed at a president like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jMhnKMRTw
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
3:23 pm
Family or not, if someone writes a book about Obama that put him in a bad light, can it be said that person “hates” the President?
Or would that be conjecture to make that assumption unless the author actually said that he hated Obama?
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
3:24 pm
“Reagan single handedly built the Hoover Dam with only a toothpick, dental floss, and an alarm clock.”
Kam’s intellect is truly dizzying- that is a well articulated and masterful debate point.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 8th, 2012
3:25 pm
Doomy’s losing it.
Melt-down to follow.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 8th, 2012
3:26 pm
Since many of you libs. on here are referring to Mitt Romney as “Willard” then I am sure you will have no problem if I add “Hussein” to my list of Obama names.
Fair enough ?
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
July 8th, 2012
3:28 pm
Never seen it. I’m sure it happens but I haven’t seen it.
Well, have you ever seen a real life Tyranosaurus? Not the bones, but a real LIVE T-Rex? No? Well that blows your theory right out of the water there………
Be honest Debbie
You first…………………
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 8th, 2012
3:28 pm
josef:
I assume you saw this over the weekend?
Headline: “Hitler protected his Jewish former commanding officer”
http://www.france24.com/en/20120707-germany-adolf-hitler-heinrich-himmler-nazis-ss-judge-letter-holocaust
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
3:28 pm
“If you can’t acknowledge that historians generally see the cult of personality phenomenon mainly as a product of the left…”
Historians who have been known to provide as much opinion as truth, inject bias (right or left) and like Reagan’s son you ridicule many are out to make a buck selling books and doing speeches?
Why wouldn’t you speak of what sociologists, psychiatrists and psychologists say about cult of personality?
You want to throw up one side examples and in your mind think that is all the proof you need to state something as fact, when in reality all you have provided is anecdotal evidence and opinion.
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
3:29 pm
DDR,
OMG. One birther? Is that all you got? I’ll match that with the hate Bush fan club.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/35034364876@N01/
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
3:30 pm
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How about President of the United States of America?
That will do just fine, thanks
barking frog
July 8th, 2012
3:30 pm
God Doom Debbie Do love
you. just in a negative kinda
way.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
July 8th, 2012
3:31 pm
Numbers — no one cares. Williard IS Romney’s name just as Hussein IS part of Obama’s name.
To paraphrase Shakespeare:
What’s in a name……
G Mare
July 8th, 2012
3:31 pm
Kam, you are one the bright spots on this blog. If we can’t laugh, maybe all we have left is hate.
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
3:33 pm
“You want to throw up one side examples and in your mind think that is all the proof you need to state something as fact, when in reality all you have provided is anecdotal evidence and opinion.”
The cult of personality is endemic to totalitarian societies which by definition are leftist government controlled societies. Again. If your mind cannot understand this rather simple, straightforward point then I simply can’t help you. Are conservative, market oriented, open societies that lean to the right conducive to totalitarian cult of personality rule? Um. Nope. I don’t think your mind can be helped on this issue though.
Oscar
July 8th, 2012
3:34 pm
But why does anyone think building more roads and encouraging sprawl would help Atlanta. It wouldn’t. It would do the opposite. We need to encourage smart growth, not more roads and more traffic.
and we don’t need another penny consumption tax. It’s a regressive tax that hurts those the most that can’t afford it.
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
3:35 pm
Thulsa
Still nothing from experts?
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
3:35 pm
barking frog,
God Doom Debbie just loves to give me hell. Its all good though.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
July 8th, 2012
3:36 pm
Doom – ONE birther? Seriously? You’re seriously pretending that only ONE BIRTHER is doing all the ranting about Obama’s place of birth? SERIOUSLY?
Doom — I hate to say this but………..
You’ve just torpedoed your credibility in one strike.
Sad. You were doing so well up to that point………
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
3:39 pm
Still nothing from experts?
Please read what sociologists have to say in the wiki page. B O O M!
Oh noes. Almost all the examples given of cult of personality are of leftist leaders!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
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July 8th, 2012
3:39 pm
DebbieDoRight – A Do Right Woman :
Good ! Then there should be no complaints about “Hussein”.
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July 8th, 2012
3:40 pm
Love me some Reagan:
Ever heard of “W” ?
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
July 8th, 2012
3:40 pm
We need to encourage smart growth, not more roads and more traffic.
I’m voting AGAINST T-Splost and the main reason is because we don’t need more roads, we need a more sensible approach to our congestion problem.
barking frog
July 8th, 2012
3:43 pm
Debbie Do Right
“we need a more
sensible approach to our
congestion problem.”
……….
Mucinex might work.
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
3:44 pm
“Almost all”?
How does “almost all” constitute a phenomenon of the left?
You do a great back peddle to cover your tracks
Once again, you have provided names, not studies from credible experts to say it is a one sided political issue. And as for left and right. It is basically preschool to equate US left and right politics and how it has changed over the years with totalitarian regimes of any political stripes. Those are false equivalences of those who usually know better, but are willingly stuck in their own dogma and bs.
Keep trying
I could careless, but reading your drivel is humorous.
Thulsa Doom
July 8th, 2012
3:46 pm
DDR,
I didn’t watch the video all the way through. It was bo-ring. I just saw the one birther complaining for what seemed like a minute and said “Really? Is this all she got?” Are there 2 or 3 birthers complaining? Oh noes!
Don't Forget
July 8th, 2012
3:46 pm
Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, O
Really? You put Obama in that crowd. What a jerk.
Tundra Dude
July 8th, 2012
3:46 pm
Krugman = no credibility.
Agree.
liberal bias: failure to validate or sufficiently flatter the conservative narrative on any given subject
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July 8th, 2012
3:46 pm
Headline: “Violence, political unrest in Iraq fuel fears of civil war”
“A dramatic uptick in violence and political instability in Iraq has raised fears that Baghdad once again is tilting toward civil war.
A half-year after the U.S. military left Iraq, the war-weary country is beset by violence as insurgents take advantage of the power struggles between the country’s ethnic and sectarian factions.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/8/violence-political-unrest-iraq-fuel-fear-civil-war/
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
July 8th, 2012
3:47 pm
Are conservative, market oriented, open societies that lean to the right conducive to totalitarian cult of personality rule? Um. Nope
OF COURSE!! There isn’t ANY correlation between someone’s politics and someone’s proclivity to be in a cult type society, and/or have a Messiah follower mentality.
You haven’t named people like David Koresh, or the followers of Warren Geff or the people in that bank in Stockholm; or even the followers of Neo Nazis!
You always do that Doom – you always throw up one side of a square box and try to push all your misguided theories inside of it!
Love me some Reagan
July 8th, 2012
3:47 pm
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I hear of W and I called him President of the United States.
To be so blind as to say or think well I heard numerous people call W names, so I might or I will do the same for Obama is childish. Don’t you think?
You want the bar raised, see how well you can raise it yourself and set an example.
Try that for a change. Wont hurt you at all, unless you just want to be as immature as those who called W names
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July 8th, 2012
3:48 pm
DebbieDoRight – A Do Right Woman:
“I’m voting AGAINST T-Splost and the main reason is because we don’t need more roads, we need a more sensible approach to our congestion problem.”
Jay is NOT going to be happy with you.