Comments on: Sunday Talking Heads: April 26, 2009 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:05:42 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887945 Adie Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:40:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887945 <p>Hinting at rage? I’m not sure I feel confident enuf to call it that. But just the pent-up frustration/whine one hears when the uber-arrogant, would-be world-opining leadership classes find themselves trapped by the awful truth they have foisted upon the rest of the world in general.</p> <p>Dubya whined like an overheated sump pump. Brooks went way beyond common decency and deliberately tried to develop whining into an art form, sigh. But it’s most revealing when it’s shown in a genuine form by the unwary. Yes. Rummy was a victim of hisownself on this point. And PattyBuchcanan is hopelessly trapped in that never-never-land between true peeve and faux poobah. I don’t think he’s quite all there anymore. how sad. sniffle.</p> <p>The pugs are purt nigh devoid of any masters of the art and left to the clumsy devices of inept pretenders to the throne. Hence part of their dilemma. Examples: Do Boingner, McCain or McConnell bring you to tears with their ooopso, aye-yie, flip-dee-dupes routines in defense of their total stagnation and full-bore attack on anything even remotely resembling progress to help the people of this nation and the world?</p> <p>Would that those folks would even see the tunnel, much less the light, and work for the greater good. But do they even have any comprehension of what that idea means?!</p> <p>I think I remember someone trying to teach that to us in kindergarten.<br /> Mebbe those guys were too busy stealing cookies to listen.</p> Hinting at rage? I’m not sure I feel confident enuf to call it that. But just the pent-up frustration/whine one hears when the uber-arrogant, would-be world-opining leadership classes find themselves trapped by the awful truth they have foisted upon the rest of the world in general.

Dubya whined like an overheated sump pump. Brooks went way beyond common decency and deliberately tried to develop whining into an art form, sigh. But it’s most revealing when it’s shown in a genuine form by the unwary. Yes. Rummy was a victim of hisownself on this point. And PattyBuchcanan is hopelessly trapped in that never-never-land between true peeve and faux poobah. I don’t think he’s quite all there anymore. how sad. sniffle.

The pugs are purt nigh devoid of any masters of the art and left to the clumsy devices of inept pretenders to the throne. Hence part of their dilemma. Examples: Do Boingner, McCain or McConnell bring you to tears with their ooopso, aye-yie, flip-dee-dupes routines in defense of their total stagnation and full-bore attack on anything even remotely resembling progress to help the people of this nation and the world?

Would that those folks would even see the tunnel, much less the light, and work for the greater good. But do they even have any comprehension of what that idea means?!

I think I remember someone trying to teach that to us in kindergarten.
Mebbe those guys were too busy stealing cookies to listen.

]]> By: bobpine http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887783 bobpine Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:55:36 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887783 <p>Not only that,I’m quite sure it would have been all over the news at the time.I guess I must have been sleeping that whole day.</p> Not only that,I’m quite sure it would have been all over the news at the time.I guess I must have been sleeping that whole day.

]]> By: RevBev http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887764 RevBev Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:43:05 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887764 <p>My, are you hinting at a bit of rage? Maybe that’s what’s behind the grating slow, low pitch….trying to remain so j’ne c’est quoi when wanting to throw a fit. I do believe you’re on to something.</p> My, are you hinting at a bit of rage? Maybe that’s what’s behind the grating slow, low pitch….trying to remain so j’ne c’est quoi when wanting to throw a fit. I do believe you’re on to something.

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887725 Adie Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:35:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887725 <p>An even later thot, in part positive. Whining by one used to being catered to and automatically empowered often signals peevish frustration and stress. Wouldn’t you say?</p> <p>Now, don’t you feel better? Sometimes I just love watching that whine meter kick in, heh.</p> An even later thot, in part positive. Whining by one used to being catered to and automatically empowered often signals peevish frustration and stress. Wouldn’t you say?

Now, don’t you feel better? Sometimes I just love watching that whine meter kick in, heh.

]]> By: RevBev http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887706 RevBev Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:47:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887706 <p>Quite late…Can someone send a notice to withdraw all invitations for Peggy Noonan. Her voice, filled with the whine and the vapors, needs to be just turned off. Over & out, please.</p> Quite late…Can someone send a notice to withdraw all invitations for Peggy Noonan. Her voice, filled with the whine and the vapors, needs to be just turned off. Over & out, please.

]]> By: oldgold http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887600 oldgold Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:32:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887600 <p>Yes, but there wasn’t any discussion. It was individuals reading talking points [literally by Will] and utterly failing to engage one another in the consideration of what is going on. As such, it was a dreary waste of time.</p> Yes, but there wasn’t any discussion. It was individuals reading talking points [literally by Will] and utterly failing to engage one another in the consideration of what is going on. As such, it was a dreary waste of time.

]]> By: capemh http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887599 capemh Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:26:10 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887599 <p>I was somewhat pleased with Brazille and Freeland on the subject of torture. Much better than Friday night’s Ifil/Washington Week (everything was the fault of “leftists” on WW). Will and Matt Dowd were apologists, but Freeland really surprised…</p> I was somewhat pleased with Brazille and Freeland on the subject of torture. Much better than Friday night’s Ifil/Washington Week (everything was the fault of “leftists” on WW). Will and Matt Dowd were apologists, but Freeland really surprised…

]]> By: oldgold http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887586 oldgold Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:54:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887586 <p>At any table in any beanery in America on any given day you could find a better discussion of current events than today’s panel on This Week.<br /> What is wrong with these villagers?</p> At any table in any beanery in America on any given day you could find a better discussion of current events than today’s panel on This Week.
What is wrong with these villagers?

]]> By: masaccio http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887581 masaccio Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:49:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887581 <p>The bank is the manager for an ESOP, which is a retirement plan like a 401(k). It has a duty to act in the interest of the beneficiaries, and that means dumping the stock if it has no future. As it happens, GM got a going-concern letter from its auditors, so the Bank has little choice but to sell. The assets remaining, which are cash and cash equivalents, are there for the beneficiaries of the plan, and will be paid out under the terms of the plan.</p> The bank is the manager for an ESOP, which is a retirement plan like a 401(k). It has a duty to act in the interest of the beneficiaries, and that means dumping the stock if it has no future. As it happens, GM got a going-concern letter from its auditors, so the Bank has little choice but to sell. The assets remaining, which are cash and cash equivalents, are there for the beneficiaries of the plan, and will be paid out under the terms of the plan.

]]> By: Elliott http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887578 Elliott Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:45:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/sunday-talking-heads-april-26-2009/#comment-1887578 <p>oh the gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands between Kristol and Hume…<br /> It’ll be an inquisition, all that damage to national security, and even *god forbid* trashing the Bush Administration!</p> <p>But “Bring it on!” since the door’s been opened now sez kristol</p> oh the gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands between Kristol and Hume…
It’ll be an inquisition, all that damage to national security, and even *god forbid* trashing the Bush Administration!

But “Bring it on!” since the door’s been opened now sez kristol

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