Comments on: There are Reasons Alan Grayson Inspires Absolute Rage on the Part of Anti-American Right-Wingers

By: DrZen

DrZen — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:34:21 +0000

Excellent post. There should be more Howie Klein round here. And I particularly like to read people saying that the war in Afghanistan is not the good war. It’s as bad as Iraq. I felt sick when I read that Obama had suggested that he is fighting the people responsible for 9/11 in Pakistan. That’s the same lie Bush told about Iraq. However bad the Taliban are for the people of Afghanistan–and that’s not much worse or better than any other stakeholder in power there–they have never attacked and would never attack America.

You know, it’s a pity there is no competitive party that consists solely of Graysons. It’s a tragedy of American politics that the guys who have some regard for the people have to share a party with corporatists who only have a regard for feathering their own nests.

By: mui1

mui1 — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:56:55 +0000

That would work for me too.

By: mui1

mui1 — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:56:37 +0000

I am moved to second that.I’ll use an expression an old friend of mine used to use and selise is the cat’s meow.

By: serge

serge — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:07:01 +0000

Grayson is fun to watch in action. I’m hoping for many more years of plain-speaking, and withering questioning in committee.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:03:55 +0000

Book Salon a couple of flights upstairs with Adam Gopnik’s Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:53:36 +0000

Seconded.

He’s doing a great job.

By: goldstandard

goldstandard — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:44:36 +0000

That’s the key! Getting Grayson more in the way of air time especially on something like The Daily Show. If he can get the message out to a larger audience with regard to the transparency issue and the Federal Reserve, those who in their daily routine never even gave the Fed a second thought, would sit up and take notice. It is simply outrageous for a non governmental agency to have the power over spending trillions of our tax dollars without having to answer to anyone even the US Congress. Actually, I wish Grayson would have taken this matter one step further so we could rid ourselves of the beast that was created on Jekyll Island. We don’t need a central bank. what we need is a US Treasury with dollars backed by gold and silver. Not hot air.

By: dmac

dmac — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:38:44 +0000

(and, pssst, selise…there are certain mid-western phrases uttered by a certain individual that you are taking personally….and i can say, emphatically, with complete confidence, that they are not personal, they are normal utterances that not knowing the ‘lingo’ led you down the wrong road.way back when…and then has piled on since…i can understand why it could have been interpreted a certain way , but having had those same things said to me on a daily basis from people i know, i know it is not what you thought…ergo my not being able to stop laughing the other day, it was a comedy of errors from way back, and on it went again complicating it further.. …really…someday, i look forward to meeting you and defining this better..it absolutely, unequivocally, without a doubt in my mind, is not what you thought was aimed at you…and yes, i am still amused.sorry. rofl…the internet opened up the world, but it did not come with a regional dictionary…it happens more than we think.)

By: dmac

dmac — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:12:24 +0000

all true.

By: dmac

dmac — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:08:58 +0000

gotta go, building a bird bath fountain/rocks thing.
found two pumps when going through my clutter and have an antique cement bird bath and lots of rocks, my collection since a teenager, most from cape cod and newport, ri that i gathered in the rain while mom read her books. in the rain, the colors show better…..so, can’t let them go to waste, now, can i? (picture my dad, moving me, carting boxes and boxes of books and ROCKS..to my third floor apartment i mentioned in another fireworks thread, he was not amused…i am finally using them, giving them a home.)

most times, we have what we need already, gather it up..

took time from this special project to touch base and say that i am grateful for your information.

thanks howie and selise for the ammunition you provide. i use what you provide. i do, just like finding two pumps and making something out of it.

out in the world, there are many of us who actually use what you post.

bbl.