So, why does our country love war? I think I’ve heard it’s the money and the MIC….Was Ike right? Stop the madness.

Nothing personal, it’s just business.

The government loves whatever business the lobbyists on K Street are representing on a given week. Be it the military industrial complex, Wall Street and/or pharmaceutical/health care industry.

If you’re looking for something interesting this week to read/listen to, let me suggest Dan Carlin’s Common Sense podcast this week. He talks a lot about the Patriot Act renewal and a lot of caveats that some have may have missed.

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/cs

Mornin’, BT, pups

Seems like the Regressives are doubling down on just about everything. They’ve got all their turds in one basket and are spending a lot of time trying to polish said turds in their compliant corporate media. Good luck with that, assholes.

Palin’s shit is just too stupid for words.

The progressives wanted a jobs program. ObamaLLP has provided a jobs program. Granted, it’s based on war rather than infrastructure or education but we have to remember that Obama did the best he could.

Boxturtle (The sad thing is, Obama DID do the best he could)

And she is the darling…Is she the future?

Palin’s shit is just too stupid for words.

But it is entertaining, however. Her remarks are generating actual real laughter at this point. Melissa Harris-Perry was on Maher’s show on Friday, and she almost fell out of her chair with laughter when she heard about the “Paul Revere” comment.

The GOP Comedy Cavalcade rolls on…

Good morning Shoto and fellow firepups.

I am suffering from Hedges’ withdrawal. No article to muse over this week.

Yeah, but there’s only so much humour that comes with the village idiot.

Depends on how one defines “future.”

There is a certain wince factor, alright…

Yes, Sarah is an idiot. But so was Shrub.

One does have to be a little careful here, however. If Americans were asked, “Did Paul Revere warn the British?, the vast majority would have answered no.

I hope you’re saying it gets old…and soon.

Here’s a substitute. Welsh is pretty dark…

Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day and we find ourselves funding warz of choice.

To whom are you referring, I might ask?

Palin got old a long time ago. She’s attractive and that sells, unfortunately.

Palin, in this instance, but there are plenty more to go around.

As a candidate, who knew more about American history: Shrub or the Quitter?

Good morning, all …

BT, ’tis good to see you holding forth. I hope you had an enjoyable and relaxing vacation.

This perpetual war “business” is simply endlessly stupid and forever nonsense … an “everywhere” battlefield of intentional mayhem may provide “opportunity” in confusion for “some”, but it is not a viable long-term solution or “philosophy” of ANY merit, being far closer to utter madness and total insanity.

Those who “run” the place have no intention of changing their behaviors, so the rest of us will have to insist that “they” change. Period.

And, SD has “covered” all-about-Palin most succinctly … to the soulful depth and honest breadth which she and her “followers” most righteously deserve.

It is a glorious day, the sun is shining, the birds are singing … perhaps things will all be “left” with the world were we, all, together, just to give genuine peace … a real chance … by insisting upon it.

DW

Barry has just raised the number of troops leaving Afghanistan from 5,000 to 5,500. /s

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Afghanistan: 1,605

US KIA Irak: 4,459

Iraki, Afghan and Pakistani casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M

US MBS 2011: 19,344 and counting

Mother

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things

Namaste

No war but class war

Never. Give. Up.

The Quitter.

Shrub displayed no knowlege of history or knowlege of any kind.

The Quitter knew that Paul Revere rode horseback.

The A holes on the right know they will always have a stage since whatever nonsense they spew merely reinforces what the corporate media wants the public to believe.

Good morning all.

Either a horse or a dinosaur.

Rimshot.

Are you sure she knew? It seems more likely she was just spouting something she’d heard somewhere.

Boxturtle (bet the teacher could sure tell when Sarah helped her kids with their homework)

Kinda like checking one of the 4 or 5 multiple choice answers on the test before the test designers figured out to instate some penalty for wrong answers.

Good Morning All,

JOBLESS RECOVERY X 287 million!

Nine years of tax breaks, bailouts, giveaways to the upper crustiness of America has not brought this country back to productivity. Time to call bullshit on all their houses!

If Obama had any guts at all, he would say enough of this already and get going on the largest public works infrastructure, green energy, and mass transit programs ever!

They went to school? I was thinking she homeschooled them.

I was surfing channels early this morning and stopped to see what that Republican Snake Joe Scarborough was up too. I was just in time to hear his guest Dem Steny Hoyer tell his audience that the two parties are going to have to “hold their hands at the same time over the hot plate” in relation to Medicare and SS. I hope Hoyers Maryland constituents heard this. Another guy that has been around too long. There really is no hope for us is there?

This orchestrated selling out of Medicare & SS by both parties reminds me of how the Iraq war was sold. Nothing but lies repeated relentlessly.

And it worked.

Well, it that case, the teacher probably COULDN’T tell. :-)

Boxturtle (Evil thought: Ask Sarah the difference between the 2nd commandment & the 2nd amendment)

The bad news is that local governments are in even worse shape. Not only are they losing state aid, but they are finally feeling the fallout from the mortgage meltdown. Property tax assessments, a major funding source for municipalities, have only started to drop.

Hang on to your hats, the shit’s about to hit the fan.

And of course it’s Obama’s fault, and therefore the libruls’ fault.

Gotta cut taxes and eliminate some more gummint programs.

You know, I had not thought to liken the two, but you are correct.

I say the Presidential election is not what is important right now. Either way, Obama or a republican, you still get an Austerity bugger republican. The most important elections are the House and Senate.

Obama is a proponent of Tax Cuts and “The (Free) Market” and he is an advocate for Private Sector Hiring.

Obama speaks of the efficacy of Private Sector Hiring as he outsources jobs. He is a Republican.

Obama said plainly, “The Government Can’t Create Jobs.”

We’ve been had.

LOL! Yep.

I really don’t know, just funning.

yes indeedy! I read somewhere a while back that Obama flat out rejected any type of Public Works programs to get the country going.

Just look at the people he chooses to fill positions. That’s all you need to know. He doesn’t really care what is going on in the country itself, his only worries are about the banks and Corps.

An evil man.

Honestly, I read collections like this a.m.’s Early Morning Swim and I can only think “we’re doomed”.

Evil to working and middle class Americans. To the plutocracy he’s an angel.

We are. But it’s not about us. It’s about the PTB.

Yep. For O, it’s about winning the next election. After 11/12, O could care less what happens in the U.S.

Absolutely!

All the more reason to work like hell to remove jerks from the House and Senate.

We should also ask Palin to get on her horse with her guns and go warn the British about the coming Austeriry.

What’s “PTB?”

Powers That Be.

We should also ask Palin to get on her horse with her guns and go warn the British about the coming Austeriry.

Boxturtle (If we’re going to make wishes…..)

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Goldman-may-release-papers-to-rb-2266319137.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=1&asset=&ccode=

Lookee here! Golden Sacs is pulling out some papers to go against the Senate SubCommittee and show them they didn’t do a darn thing wrong with investors. Haarumph! Take that, you silly legislatures! You don’t scare the big Golden Sac!

the big Golden Sac!

I love it!

Thank goodness BT is back. I *need* my 10:30 a.m. PST snark.

Santorum 2012: I Don’t Wear Diapers!

Why does our media not call GOP As Krugman notes even Obamacare tries for reasonable coverage at reasonable cost via subsidies whose size is determined by the need to limit the share of their income that families spend on medical costs.

GOP Vouchercare’s fixed, inadequate to obtain real care, sized vouchers is not about giving a population health care – it is about giving insurance companies a welfare check.

Medicare cost control – as in Maryland – is needed, Perhaps changing the way doctors are paid – as proposed for Massachusetts – will save money, although I doubt it. But the GOP do not propose cost controls other than making all increases in cost not a problem for the government – just a public health problem as more folks get sick from no care.

Krugman noted that the US and Canada paid 7% of GDP in 1970 for health care – now Canada pays 10.5 percent of G.D.P. while we pay over 16%.

If the GOP wants to make Medicare sustainable move health care in the US to the Canadian system. But our media will never discuss this.