What is at stake tomorrow? Nothing, really, says James Petras. I liked his expression, a nice turn of phrase, that if Romney wins there will be a shift in the “rhetorical pendulum.”
That’s about it.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
Piece of Mindful 
A fitting end; wishing for the good-ole’-days when American toilets — one of America’s greatest visual icons — flushed just about everything imaginable, everything, including used condoms.
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I believe Obama was the choice of the ruling class in 2008 (that is why Palin was selected as VP: to ensure the McCain ticket was not taken seriously) and I believe he has done nothing to the ruling class to be deselected in 2012.
The clown show that was called the Republican nomination process was a joke. Out of this process came Mitt. When he chose Ryan to be his running mate many pundits from both parties asked why. Ryan had stated his position very clearly. He wanted to openly attack the programs the working class relied on for the best of sixty years. Thus, the choice of Ryan as VP candidate could not help Romney with the majority of the electorate but it could help Obama.
It is amazing that Obama is even in the running with his economic record. The ruling class was having a hard time getting the old base of liberal democrats enthused until Ryan was picked and all the far right Republicans started making their anti-woman comments. Scaring the liberal democrats to vote for Obama has been very successful.
Obama and Romney are basically the same when it comes to policy, but Obama would be the best pick because, being both Black and a Democrat, he can mute the liberal democrat and a majority of the African American voters.
The ruling class has big plans to challenge China in Africa; who better to do this then an African American President?
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The whole nation-state v. nation-state thing is over. Since GATT, NAFTA, WTO, etc., imperial, global capital operates with little fear of China or the U.S. per se. The European colonial model, and Cold War imperialism are failed models, both dead as it gets. We have a lot of catching up to do.
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Got me a new bumper sticker.
http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff.42753742
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I am looking for a new expression, along the lines of Liz Lemon’s “Blurg!, to contain the idea that a comment is so ridiculous that no words can answer it. It would be the verbal equivalent of the open mouth with words caught in the throat and index finger sort of in the air. I haven’t given it much thought, and the best I have right now is “droik!” I’m open for suggestions.
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pfrr!
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I will henceforth use that word, and encourage others to do the same. It’s great appeal is that it is unpronounceable, an appropriate response to unfathomable.
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Yeah but coming up with a single all encompassing verbal equivalent would force you to be clear and concise.
Perhaps even witty.
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Nice burn! So unlike you.
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This is not meant to one-up you. In fact, I will reaffirm your comment.
In all the years that I’ve been skirmishing with you, I do not see where your thinking has advanced an iota. We are all engorged in information of all sorts from every angle, and truth can happen in any sphere. So we sift, consider, decide, reconsider, feel silly and conned, try again … An ongoing process without every having the assurance we are right in our underlying assumptions. There is only assurance now and then as pieces fit in place and stay in place, but even then … it is not a black/white world, and there are even shades of gray interspliced by rainbows. It is a very complex world.
Your assurance that you know what is true, that it is presented to you on a platter each day, is your undoing. You’re not even trying. You need to shed your absolute certainty now and then, and be filled with doubt. That is where education has its seeds.
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Would my advancement include the unraveling the spider web of your contorted logic?
Would it be the sudden realization of your well hidden solutions?
I’m a believer of Heaven and Hell. I take the Bible’s view of Heaven more literally than Hell. Instead of lakes of fire or a Devil with a pitchfork I’m thinking Hell is more like Bill Murray’s fate in “Ground Hog Day”. Except there’s no end, it goes on forever.
Every person you’ve wronged, every lie, covet, curse, get’s played over and over in a madding carousel, except in your case the deceptive garbage you spew replaces the scratchy carnival tune.
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The Bible, since every word is said to be true, by definition freezes your brain. I rest my case.
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