Conservatism is about the protection of individual rights and liberties, freedom.
Abortion. Drug war. Pornography. Patriot Act. Warrantless wiretapping. Gulags at Gitmo and Bagram. "Show your papers" law in Arizona.
You were saying?
The lower class needs healthcare: response is to increase government spending with entitlements
...and force people to buy insurance from the same greedy insurance companies that would just as soon watch you die in the street than pay out claims.
The economy is tanking badly: response is to create a slush fund of a trillion of dollars (give or take a billion)
...fantasy with no basis in reality.
BP screwed up and caused an oil spill: response is to send in the lawyers, SWAT?, setup several more bureaucracies, etc.
...and thanks for letting us know you're a political hack. The conservative/libertarian line is that we don't need no stinkin regulation because companies will be held responsible for their fuckups. Well, a company has the most spectacular fuck-up in American history, but any mention of any kind of accountability, and the political hacks start whining about frivolous lawsuits.
A car company is going belly up
...Detroit is only the basis for 3 million American jobs.
Wall Street actually paid back their debts
...with a combination of our own money and the profits they made by taking zero interest loans from the government and then handing them out to consumers at 20-30%.
and threaten wall street with excessive taxes
...on what planet is that? A fair basis for taxation would be taxing investment income at the same rate as regular income, eliminate the cap on payroll taxes, and bring back the 91% tax bracket.
Government spending is wildly out of control
Funny how that's only a problem when Democrats are in charge, and only on budgetary items that don't go through the CIA or the Pentagon.
Which will result in fewer companies hiring, fewer company startups, an even more depressed economy, etc.
Which is complete nonsense. There has never been a single income tax cut in history that has created a single job. If a business owner will make more money expanding his business and hiring more workers - then he'll plow the profits of the business back into expansion, and write it off on his taxes. His personal income tax rate is utterly irrelevant.
It's just that the DKos is SOO far left they think Obama is right.
If you think that's "far left", you need to see a nice proctologist in North Korea about that little "problem" of yours. Once he's done extracting your head from your ass, you can take a good look around and see what "far left" actually looks like.
You're using the words, "so much", but they don't mean whatever it is you think they mean. In the 30's, the Democrats put 4 million people back to work in 4 months. The stimulus that passed didn't even come close to doing that, much less match those numbers as a percentage of the population.
"Uh, no thanks, we'd rather cut back our spending than try to keep up with you"
The rich crashed the world economy. They got bailed out, corporate profits have recovered, and now the middle class has to take all the cuts in services to pay for it. Smashing, yeah plutocrats.
And surprise, surprise, the Democrats are getting ready to raise taxes again. Not just on those rich folks they demonized during the elections either; they are coming after your paycheck and mine.
Olbermann said, "It is as useful to remind them anew of how the term originated and with whom. A TV news report aired last March 14 in which a correspondent described the original protest act, 'take a teabag, put it in an envelope, and mail it to the White House.' He added, 'reteaparty.com has a headline Teabag the Fools in D.C. on tax day.' Thus the verb to teabag was invented by the teabaggers themselves, and the correspondent who put it on TV was a Griff Jenkins of Fox News. Send your complaints to him."
The teabaggers coined their own name, without realizing what it also means, and then they blamed their critics for their stupidity. By the way, why did it take them so long to figure out what a teabagger is? Why has this outrage on their part flared up recently?
Now, stop pretending the teabaggers aren't reaping what they sowed.
Moot or not, it is now a disgusting slur used to denigrate a large group.
No, that's pathetic whining on behalf of a group of really stupid people. Not our fault they adopted a term, 'teabagging', that's slang for fellatio. Nor is it our fault they started protesting Obama for raising their taxes when he was actually signing the largest middle class tax cut in American history. Nor is it our fault they carry around signs, without a hint of irony or self-awareness, saying "keep your government hands off my medicare".
The teabaggers made their own bed of stupid, and now they can lye on it.
..and as many others on the left knew long before the election.
...but he sure campaigned on a host of liberal issues before the election. Getting us out of dumb wars, ending DADT, having a public option on health care, signing the EFCA, curbing lobbyist power.
Instead, he escalated Afghanistan after the government admits Bin Laddin left the country and there's less than 100 Al Queda guys left, gave the public option away to the hospital industry at the start of negotiations, pushed Congress to procrastinate on DADT, either invites lobbyists to the White House or for coffee across the street to get around disclosure rules, and the EFCA? What's that?
Ok, just to be clear, exactly what is it that you think Obama should be doing that he's not doing about the oil pumping into the gulf? I'm just curious because I really haven't heard of any useful suggestions that haven't already been acted on, and you've got a whole group of conservatives that want to downplay the severity of the situation at every opportunity. After all, like Limbaugh said, oil is natural!
Except that's a red herring. The problem that honest liberals have with Obama's response to the disaster in the Gulf has been his reliance on BP in the response effort. Or as Shep Smith pointed out, 'BP has a worse safety record than all other companies combined, times ten'. Why was BP free to dump whatever dispersants they wanted into the Gulf? Why have they been free to restrict information to the public? Why have they been free to higher private security guards to chase the press off public beaches?
It's only because the rest of the world are so far left that they see Obama as not a liberal.
I suppose you could see it that way, if you're a fascist. Eisenhower had a 91% top marginal tax rate. Nixon started the EPA. Reagan signed a treaty requiring the prosecution of torturers. Obama? Expands Bush's claims of executive privilege, and places U.S. citizens on CIA hit lists.
But hasn't anyone been paying attention to his world-wide apology tour?
Yes, we've been paying attention to your made-up talking point. If he were actually on an "apology tour", he would have apologized to Iran for the United States overthrowing their peaceful, secular democracy in 1953, and to Latin America for all the brutal dictators we supported over the years.
He's as socialist as any Russian, but he wouldn't admit that.
You're using that word, socialist, but it doesn't mean whatever you think it means.
You're using that word, liberal, but it certainly doesn't mean whatever it is you think it means. If Obama were liberal, he would have signed an executive order halting DADT his first week in office, appointed an Attorney General that would be laying waste to Bushco and Wall Street with indictments, pushed for at least a 70% top marginal tax rate, withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan, pushed for single payer, pushed for a real green energy bill....
At this point, it's an open question if Obama will finish his presidency to the left of Reagan, who raised taxes to reduce the deficit, granted amnesty to illegal immigrants, and signed a treaty requiring the prosecution of torture (hint, hint Obama).
BTW, unlike Bill Kristol, who writes opinion pieces, Jayson Blair was supposedly writing news articles.
Which doesn't explain why he's still invited on news programs, but nice attempt at misdirection. Maybe you'd like to take a shot at explaining why Dan Rather was fired - over guard memos that were sourced for the accuracy of their content - yet reporters writing and airing "news articles" featuring the bogus claims of the Bush Administration still have their jobs.
Nevermind that they terminated R2K's services a week before they were approached about the phony numbers. Nevermind that they only reason that this was discovered in the first place is because Dkos insisted on having open cross tabs of the poll data.
So you're clearly speaking out of your ass....that's good?
The current Tea Party movement initially came up with the 'clever' idea of sending Tea bags to members of Congress. It was in their initial rallys that they started referring to this act of sending their representatives boxes of tea bags as 'TEABAGGING":
Now this may be a generational thing but somebody should have told these people that the term was already in wide use as a term for performing oral sex on a man. Now you got people like Tucker Carlson crying: "Stop saying Teabagger". I got news for all of you Teabaggers that are opposed to the use of the word Teabagging when they are out doing their Teabagging protest; You really shot yourself in the foot (or other appendage) when you started this mess. But then what do you expect from the extremist that our on a highly successful mission to divide and destroy the once Grand Old Party, GOP. Oh yeah, and they really didn't mean to destroy the country their supposed to be saving either. Collateral Damage its called!
But what do you expect from people who start holding anti-tax protests after Obama signed the largest middle class tax cut in history? What do you expect from the kind of geniuses that hold up signs saying "Keep Your Government Hands off My Medicare".
Unfortunately, you're missing the obvious: Hulu doesn't have to compete with newspapers or magazines or cable TV. It has to compete with torrents and alt.binaries.hdtv.h264, which generally have high quality and no ads.
until it became public knowledge that he just made things up?
At which point he was shitcanned. Your point? Whereas Bill Kristol has gotten virtually everything wrong in his entire career, yet still has a job. As do most Iraq-war-supporting pundits.
Only if you're fond of false equivalencies, or an Obama fanboy. Of which there definitely are some on Dkos, but you'll also find liberals complaining about Obama placing U.S. citizens on CIA hitlists - something you wont find from the teabaggers.
So your notion for the **current requirements** for Logic or FCP have no bearing - since we're talking about the software which works on his older box.
I'm not sure you were aware of what you actually wrote:
new Mac software is requiring new Mac hardware
And by the way, he doesn't use either Logic or FCP for recording, which is what the DSP cards are for. He uses ProTools.
...which also only requires an Intel Mac. Which means a 4 year old Mac Pro would work just fine. Which means we're back to a 4 year old machine not being "new" by any stretch of the imagination.
Your use of the Bill O'Reilly tactic of taking.000000000001% of all commentors and pretending it's representative of a group just further marks you as being a fucking idiot.
Whereas less than half of Republicans believe that Obama was born in the U.S. Try to find something from the other side of the aisle that's on the same planet, much less the same page, as that bit of lunacy. Oh, and remember how liberal celebrities were mocked for saying they'd move out of the country if Bush was re-elected in 2004? How about Republican Governors talking about seceeding from the frikkin Union after Obama was elected? Feel free to give up your bogus false equivalency at any time.
Good find
Oh, and speaking of good finds, I might as well point out that your smear of Helen Thomas is 100% bogus as well. Watch your own video - she's asked a question on Israel the country and then the "interviewer" interrupts her to change the subject to Jews. Nice try. Well, not really.
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Conservatism is about the protection of individual rights and liberties, freedom.
Abortion.
Drug war.
Pornography.
Patriot Act.
Warrantless wiretapping.
Gulags at Gitmo and Bagram.
"Show your papers" law in Arizona.
You were saying?
The lower class needs healthcare: response is to increase government spending with entitlements
...and force people to buy insurance from the same greedy insurance companies that would just as soon watch you die in the street than pay out claims.
The economy is tanking badly: response is to create a slush fund of a trillion of dollars (give or take a billion)
...fantasy with no basis in reality.
BP screwed up and caused an oil spill: response is to send in the lawyers, SWAT?, setup several more bureaucracies, etc.
...and thanks for letting us know you're a political hack. The conservative/libertarian line is that we don't need no stinkin regulation because companies will be held responsible for their fuckups. Well, a company has the most spectacular fuck-up in American history, but any mention of any kind of accountability, and the political hacks start whining about frivolous lawsuits.
A car company is going belly up
...Detroit is only the basis for 3 million American jobs.
Wall Street actually paid back their debts
...with a combination of our own money and the profits they made by taking zero interest loans from the government and then handing them out to consumers at 20-30%.
and threaten wall street with excessive taxes
...on what planet is that? A fair basis for taxation would be taxing investment income at the same rate as regular income, eliminate the cap on payroll taxes, and bring back the 91% tax bracket.
Government spending is wildly out of control
Funny how that's only a problem when Democrats are in charge, and only on budgetary items that don't go through the CIA or the Pentagon.
Which will result in fewer companies hiring, fewer company startups, an even more depressed economy, etc.
Which is complete nonsense. There has never been a single income tax cut in history that has created a single job. If a business owner will make more money expanding his business and hiring more workers - then he'll plow the profits of the business back into expansion, and write it off on his taxes. His personal income tax rate is utterly irrelevant.
It's just that the DKos is SOO far left they think Obama is right.
If you think that's "far left", you need to see a nice proctologist in North Korea about that little "problem" of yours. Once he's done extracting your head from your ass, you can take a good look around and see what "far left" actually looks like.
We are spending so much so-called stimulus money
You're using the words, "so much", but they don't mean whatever it is you think they mean. In the 30's, the Democrats put 4 million people back to work in 4 months. The stimulus that passed didn't even come close to doing that, much less match those numbers as a percentage of the population.
"Uh, no thanks, we'd rather cut back our spending than try to keep up with you"
The rich crashed the world economy. They got bailed out, corporate profits have recovered, and now the middle class has to take all the cuts in services to pay for it. Smashing, yeah plutocrats.
And surprise, surprise, the Democrats are getting ready to raise taxes again. Not just on those rich folks they demonized during the elections either; they are coming after your paycheck and mine.
[Citation needed]
Because it gets people killed, and low taxes have high costs. Any more questions?
Too bad the facts don't meet your storyline.
Now, stop pretending the teabaggers aren't reaping what they sowed.
Moot or not, it is now a disgusting slur used to denigrate a large group.
No, that's pathetic whining on behalf of a group of really stupid people. Not our fault they adopted a term, 'teabagging', that's slang for fellatio. Nor is it our fault they started protesting Obama for raising their taxes when he was actually signing the largest middle class tax cut in American history. Nor is it our fault they carry around signs, without a hint of irony or self-awareness, saying "keep your government hands off my medicare".
The teabaggers made their own bed of stupid, and now they can lye on it.
..and as many others on the left knew long before the election.
...but he sure campaigned on a host of liberal issues before the election. Getting us out of dumb wars, ending DADT, having a public option on health care, signing the EFCA, curbing lobbyist power.
Instead, he escalated Afghanistan after the government admits Bin Laddin left the country and there's less than 100 Al Queda guys left, gave the public option away to the hospital industry at the start of negotiations, pushed Congress to procrastinate on DADT, either invites lobbyists to the White House or for coffee across the street to get around disclosure rules, and the EFCA? What's that?
Ok, just to be clear, exactly what is it that you think Obama should be doing that he's not doing about the oil pumping into the gulf? I'm just curious because I really haven't heard of any useful suggestions that haven't already been acted on, and you've got a whole group of conservatives that want to downplay the severity of the situation at every opportunity. After all, like Limbaugh said, oil is natural!
Except that's a red herring. The problem that honest liberals have with Obama's response to the disaster in the Gulf has been his reliance on BP in the response effort. Or as Shep Smith pointed out, 'BP has a worse safety record than all other companies combined, times ten'. Why was BP free to dump whatever dispersants they wanted into the Gulf? Why have they been free to restrict information to the public? Why have they been free to higher private security guards to chase the press off public beaches?
It's only because the rest of the world are so far left that they see Obama as not a liberal.
I suppose you could see it that way, if you're a fascist. Eisenhower had a 91% top marginal tax rate. Nixon started the EPA. Reagan signed a treaty requiring the prosecution of torturers. Obama? Expands Bush's claims of executive privilege, and places U.S. citizens on CIA hit lists.
But hasn't anyone been paying attention to his world-wide apology tour?
Yes, we've been paying attention to your made-up talking point. If he were actually on an "apology tour", he would have apologized to Iran for the United States overthrowing their peaceful, secular democracy in 1953, and to Latin America for all the brutal dictators we supported over the years.
He's as socialist as any Russian, but he wouldn't admit that.
You're using that word, socialist, but it doesn't mean whatever you think it means.
Obama is certainly a liberal.
You're using that word, liberal, but it certainly doesn't mean whatever it is you think it means. If Obama were liberal, he would have signed an executive order halting DADT his first week in office, appointed an Attorney General that would be laying waste to Bushco and Wall Street with indictments, pushed for at least a 70% top marginal tax rate, withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan, pushed for single payer, pushed for a real green energy bill....
At this point, it's an open question if Obama will finish his presidency to the left of Reagan, who raised taxes to reduce the deficit, granted amnesty to illegal immigrants, and signed a treaty requiring the prosecution of torture (hint, hint Obama).
Which doesn't explain why he's still invited on news programs, but nice attempt at misdirection. Maybe you'd like to take a shot at explaining why Dan Rather was fired - over guard memos that were sourced for the accuracy of their content - yet reporters writing and airing "news articles" featuring the bogus claims of the Bush Administration still have their jobs.
Slashdot has always leaned one way--left.
I suppose you could see it that way, if you're a fascist.
Nevermind that they terminated R2K's services a week before they were approached about the phony numbers. Nevermind that they only reason that this was discovered in the first place is because Dkos insisted on having open cross tabs of the poll data.
So you're clearly speaking out of your ass....that's good?
Too damn bad:
But what do you expect from people who start holding anti-tax protests after Obama signed the largest middle class tax cut in history? What do you expect from the kind of geniuses that hold up signs saying "Keep Your Government Hands off My Medicare".
If you had an educated mind, you would have noticed I didn't make any.
Unfortunately, you're missing the obvious: Hulu doesn't have to compete with newspapers or magazines or cable TV. It has to compete with torrents and alt.binaries.hdtv.h264, which generally have high quality and no ads.
Can you say "entitlement complex"?
Of course - for the owners of Hulu, since they feel entitled to sell you a paid service yet continue to stream you ads.
Now, can you say "ankle grabber"?
Compared to all the digital offerings from Hollywood up until now, this is a godsend
When it's a matter of which one sucks least: so what?
There you start the pathetic whining. You hold tea party rallies, you're a teabagger. Deal. With. It.
The subject was accuracy, remember? Get reading comprehension.
At which point he was shitcanned. Your point? Whereas Bill Kristol has gotten virtually everything wrong in his entire career, yet still has a job. As do most Iraq-war-supporting pundits.
Nobody expects the Daily Kos to be accurate.
Only if you're fond of false equivalencies, or an Obama fanboy. Of which there definitely are some on Dkos, but you'll also find liberals complaining about Obama placing U.S. citizens on CIA hitlists - something you wont find from the teabaggers.
So your notion for the **current requirements** for Logic or FCP have no bearing - since we're talking about the software which works on his older box.
I'm not sure you were aware of what you actually wrote:
And by the way, he doesn't use either Logic or FCP for recording, which is what the DSP cards are for. He uses ProTools.
...which also only requires an Intel Mac. Which means a 4 year old Mac Pro would work just fine. Which means we're back to a 4 year old machine not being "new" by any stretch of the imagination.
Started the EPA.
Went to China (equivalent would be if Obama went to Iran)
Proposed a national income.
Had a 70% top marginal tax rate.
That was easy.
Your use of the Bill O'Reilly tactic of taking .000000000001% of all commentors and pretending it's representative of a group just further marks you as being a fucking idiot.
Whereas less than half of Republicans believe that Obama was born in the U.S. Try to find something from the other side of the aisle that's on the same planet, much less the same page, as that bit of lunacy. Oh, and remember how liberal celebrities were mocked for saying they'd move out of the country if Bush was re-elected in 2004? How about Republican Governors talking about seceeding from the frikkin Union after Obama was elected? Feel free to give up your bogus false equivalency at any time.
Good find
Oh, and speaking of good finds, I might as well point out that your smear of Helen Thomas is 100% bogus as well. Watch your own video - she's asked a question on Israel the country and then the "interviewer" interrupts her to change the subject to Jews. Nice try. Well, not really.
It's so easy to make one side or the other look bad when you are willing to cherry pick.
It's so easy to make one side or another look bad when you're a fucking idiot posting photoshoped images and pretending that's what people said.
Changes nothing.