• on a comment on Snake-Oil Antisemitism over 5 years ago

    The British have a notoriously high threshold for these matters. As previously stated, DailyKos is infested with diaries that accuse Jews of conspiracies and dual loyalties. There have been at least ten such diaries posted today, so if you are "missing" them it is not for lack of opportunity.

    Here is a representive link in which the scholar receives 129 approving ratings and zero disapprovals from the community as he accuses Jews of the entire Goebbels litany: greed, disloyalty, conspiracy, depravity: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/14/ 161822/181

    Here is another Kos classic you might savor in which Zionists are deemed to be fucking assholes who cry anti-Semitism and deserve an ass kicking (25 positive ratings, zero negative): http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/6 /28/154837/147

    Rather than suffocating you in links, just go to DailyKos and peruse today's diaries. You will learn that Jews control the US government, the media, the oil market, and the banking system (you won't have to peruse long).

    If Kos is insufficiently Jew-phobic for your continental tastes, stop by HuffingtonPost and sample the reader comments on any topic even remotely related to Israel, with the cautionary note that David Duke would consider some of the more fervent anti-Semitic insights to be over-the-top.

    I hope I have been of some assistance. It must be grueling to live in a cave.

  • comment on a post Snake-Oil Antisemitism over 5 years ago

    The situation is more complex than you would like it to be. Most of the opposition to Lieberman is based on the principle that he is a Republican lapdog involving issues ranging from illegitimate wars to fascistic judicial appointments. However, intellectual honesty dictates acknowledging the fluorishing anti-Semitism on the far left. Any doubts can be dispelled by tripping over to DailyKos and reading the many diaries that are variations on this theme:

    Imagine a world without Israel
    by qrswave
    Wed Jul 12, 2006 at 06:41:50 PM PDT

    Or is that not allowed?

       * qrswave's diary :: ::
    *

    Muslims, Jews, and Christians could live in peace without fear of mutual destruction.

    There would be no more need for US AID or justification for Dimona.

    We could bring down the Wall, send prisoners home, and families could be reunited.

    We could dismantle checkpoints, open crossings, and pull down barbed wire fences.

    There would be no more settlements or armed settlers because the people would be united.

    We could replant trees and olive groves and rebuild battered cities.

    No more suicide bombers or sniper fire, and no more dead civilians.

    No more targeted killings and hell-fire missiles, or systematic demolitions.

    Palestinians and Jews could live together and the world could address other issues.

    What a simpler place this world would be

    if there was no need for a Jewish majority - where there would otherwise be none.

    Is it so hard to imagine?

    {end diary excerpt}

    It would be easier to ridicule Lieberman's self-pity if far leftists were not publicly yearning for a world devoid of a Jewish state or claiming that Juan Cole is a victim of the international AIPAC conspiracy.

  • comment on a post CA-GOV: Angelides Leads Arnold over 5 years ago

    This is an extremely pleasant surprise. California's airwaves have been blanketed with Schwarzo ads quoting former Dem candidate Steve Westley as basically saying that Angelides was separated at birth from Fidel Castro. Meanwhile, Angelides has been largely AWOL. I feared a double digit lead for Herr Gropinator...maybe the electorate has finally tired of dilettante governance.

  • comment on a post LIEBERMAN WINS, LAMONT IS THE LOSER!!!! over 6 years ago

    The campaign just began and Lieberman has already lost a third of the Democratic vote. Cheering this "victory" is equivalent to Custer celebrating that he reached Montana safely. Let's do the math: if Lieberman continues to lose a third of his support every month between now and the August primary he will ultimately get 7.9% of the vote. Not coincidentally, liebermanlives, that is identical to the percentage of adults who still wet the bed.

  • There already is a liberal book club. It is called the public library system. Have you ever met a conservative in a library? They are too busy burning books to read them.

  • comment on a post Bush approval at 22-75 in NY over 6 years ago

    Eight percent of Democrats approve of Bush. To quote  Butch and Sundance, "Who are those guys?" Why would someone who approves of Bush be a Democrat? Is it to avoid the stigma of being a Republican? Does the standard-issue GOP brown shirt clash with the vacant look in their eyes? It is likely that the last time those "Democrats" actually voted for a Democratic candidate was when McClellan opposed Lincoln.

  • comment on a post How Republicans Lie About the Economy over 6 years ago

    Alan Greenspan changed the way inflation is calculated in order to screw Social Security beneficiaries out of their cost of living adjustments. He implemented an algorithm called "The Replacement Formula" in which the Fed automatically assumes that when the price of a product or service rises the consumer purchases a lower price alternative. Using the prior method of calculating inflation the current rate would be over ten percent, causing huge increases in Social Security benefits. Economist John Williams has written extensively about the corruption of government economic statistics. If the Democrats felt like winning in a landslide they could publicize what the GOP has done.

  • comment on a post Brewing Lamont scandal, he owns Halliburton stock!! over 6 years ago

    I don't care if Lamont dates Ann Coulter. Lieberman must go so that the rest of the faithless Senate Dems are terrified into compliance. Lamont doesn't matter. What matters is lining Lieberman up against the electoral wall and pulling the philosophical trigger. I want my party to represent its voters, and that begins by shoving Joementum into the crapper.

  • comment on a post National Socialism With A Human Face over 6 years ago

    "However, the Christian Right is filled with hatred for Islam..."

    While I believe bashing the Christian Right is exactly What Jesus Would Do (If Only He Existed), it is not our wacky Christian friends who are rioting over cartoons and demanding an end to freedom of expression. It may be illiberal to notice, but the Muslims are the ones who are simultaneously demanding the right to disparage other religions while having their primitive superstitions legally exempted from critique.

    And it is not xenophobic to opine that providing operational control of our ports to Osama's camping buddies is a tad insane.

  • "...I'm thinking, HEY, I don't need to pay any attention at all to these idiots. I'm going to screw them worse from now on. This is the danger..."

    This is the mindset that has allowed the Democratic Party to be neutralized. Many liberals go through life displaying your attitude, which is that to defend oneself from being abused merely invites additional abuse. The corollary, of course, is that to refuse to defend oneself ensures being subjugated. Lieberman already is implacably hostile to liberal interests, so challenging his perfidy is worth the risk of further alienating him. If Democrats allow Lieberman and others to betray the party with impunity, there is no chance for success.

  • comment on a post Cheap Money For US May Be Drying Up over 6 years ago

    The yield curve is inverted and precious metals are skyrocketing. The last time that combination appeared it signaled "stagflation", the economic cancer of stagnant growth and diminished purchasing power. Add in the record federal debt and  lofty equity valuations and a real estate bubble to create a recipe for disaster. Meanwhile, the average American homeowner has no savings, so a rip roaring bull market in homelessness is looming.

  • comment on a post George Bush, hated around the world over 6 years ago

    They hated him in Europe. They hated him in Africa. He was despised as a bloodthirsty murderer in Central America. The South Americans loathed him. Most of Asia thought he was dumber than sushi. And a review of public opinion polls in the US reveals that he was hated during the first two years and the last two years of his presidency.

    Reagan was beloved by Corporate America and its media. He was also adored by various dictators in the Middle East. Saddam Hussein, for example, thought Reagan was just swell for providing the Ba'athist Party with sophisticated weaponry.

    The mainstream press has been diligent in canonizing  Reagan, but his average approval ratings were lower than those of HGW Bush and Clinton. In fact, he was highly unpopular even in his own family. The old bastard was blessed to run against two of the worst Democratic candidates ever, or he would have spent the Eighties doing the Gloria Swanson shtick from "Sunset Boulevard": "Look, Mommy - there I am with Bonzo! His acting was so nuanced that it was impossible to compete. Those were the golden days of cinema..."

  • on a comment on Shameful Xenophobia over 6 years ago

    Actually, the tattoo on your forehead just below the incision where they removed all four lobes reads: THE PUNJAB CENTER FOR LOBOTOMIES AND CASTRATIONS.

    Your decision to partake of the package deal was evident from the beginning.

  • on a comment on Shameful Xenophobia over 6 years ago

    "I thought that you had permanently moved to the land of permanent, terminal irrelevancy."

    When they perform lobotomies in the Punjab they certainly do a thorough job.

  • on a comment on Shameful Xenophobia over 6 years ago

    Yet another airball,v2. Reading your comments is like watching Shaq shoot free throws.

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