rougy
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Real Name: The Rogue Poet
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Programmer, poet, progressive, pot advocate, pugnacious liberal.
Living in America is like being trapped on an island half-filled with crazy people.
Trying very hard to get out of America and move to a free country.
Reading: Moby Dick - Melville; The Big Sleep - Chandler; Confessions of Nat Turner - Styron; Fathers & Sons - Turgenev; Ishmael - Daniel Quinn; Influence - Cialdini.
Remember: 9/11 was an inside job.
Remember: Republicans make rich people richer.
Living in America is like being trapped on an island half-filled with crazy people.
Trying very hard to get out of America and move to a free country.
Reading: Moby Dick - Melville; The Big Sleep - Chandler; Confessions of Nat Turner - Styron; Fathers & Sons - Turgenev; Ishmael - Daniel Quinn; Influence - Cialdini.
Remember: 9/11 was an inside job.
Remember: Republicans make rich people richer.
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In reply to this comment by rougy:
Funny how one of the most destructive eras of our recent history is also one of the most romantic.
In reply to this comment by rougy:
All the cons are rooting for Osama now.
The America-haters.
I'm sorry I falsely accused you. I was so sure that it was you that I didn't even take a second to check. No hard feelings.
In reply to this comment by rougy:
It wasn't me who downvoted your comments.
You really are a piece of work.
I went off on Deedub because I told him over and over not to bother me on my profile page.
I'm now asking the same of you.
I had to ask him three or four times to stop bugging me.
Wonder how many times I'll have to ask you?
In reply to this comment by thepinky:
Between yesterday and today someone went through my recent comments and downvoted nearly all of them. I wonder who that was. It hurt my feelings oh so much. *sniff*
In reply to this comment by rougy:
First, it's spelled "propaganda" you dumb fucking redneck. Figures you're too goddamned lazy to check your spelling.
What does the anchorwoman say in the video at 1:15?
"The email's author is anonymous." Yet, true to your dipshit, shit-kicker bones, you have attributed these emails to the Obama campaign. Why am I not surprised? Oh, yeah, that's not why you posted this. You're still an idiot, but I stand corrected.
Then Obama says "I don't take from oil companies or washington lobbyists" which, according to this video, is true.
So what's you're fucking point? That we liberals have to hold Obama to a "higher standard"? Which is another way of saying that Obama can't play the game like your hero, McCain?
People like you have turned this country to shit. Fuck off and die.
Look, nothing personal. Sorry we disagree on the cluster bomb thing. You seem very fired up. I'm going to drop it. Feel free to get the last word/downvote in .. etc.
Take it easy.
Nothing personal, man. It's okay to butt heads.
I'm the kind of person that can seem kind of hot on one thread, and totally forget it on the next.
See you around the Sift.
You don't see the similarities between your own comments and this woman's remarks.
In reply to this comment by rougy:
Fat, stupid, and fundamentalist is the Republican way of life.
In reply to this comment by rougy:
I missed the "Quoted from link" part.
I hope you can forgive me.
In reply to this comment by Zonbie:
>> ^rougy:
You're full of shit, Zonbie.
I can't believe how pissy-pants the cons have become over this.
Talk about reactionary aggrandizement.
What the fuck Rougy - take the time to read my comment properly before you call me out...
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Blankfist, I've lost a lot of respect for you.
You are lying to yourself. You are ignoring reality.
Neoconservatism is based, overwhelmingly, on the teachings of Leo Strauss, and the fact that you chose to leave that name out of your definition says a lot about your honesty, or lack of it.
Does this sound left wing to you?
Strauss wrote that "just because Germany has turned to the right and has expelled us (Jews), it simply does not follow that the principles of the right are therefore to be rejected. To the contrary, only on the basis of principles of the right – fascist, authoritarian, imperial – is it possible in a dignified manner, without the ridiculous and pitiful appeal to ‘the inalienable rights of man’ to protest against the mean nonentity (Nazism).
(ibid)
1. Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act. Pretty much everything that Ted Rall endorses here would get my full support.
Can you give me the basic regulatory principle behind the Glass-Steagall Act? Its a pretty long piece of legislation.
2. Law enforcement. The market's insistence on pollyanish "we'll do it ourselves" regulation is obvious hogwash. Marketeers are the types of people who may know legal from illegal, but they do not know right from wrong.
Capitalism is not a system of government, it is a system of economics. Law enforcement is a function of the government. We are in agreement here. Can you provide another example?
1. What specific regulations would you like to see?
2. Can you give me an example of a specific issue that could arise in the market that can only be solved by government regulation?
1. Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act. Pretty much everything that Ted Rall endorses here would get my full support.
2. Law enforcement. The market's insistence on pollyanish "we'll do it ourselves" regulation is obvious hogwash. Marketeers are the types of people who may know legal from illegal, but they do not know right from wrong.
It's the government's job to create and enforce laws that discern right from wrong. As it is now, the largely GOP controlled government, at the insistence of "conservative Republican" lobbyists, has essentially allowed loan-sharks and fraudsters to infiltrate and subvert our system of finance.
You crack me up, stellar.
Your precious "free market capitalism" is defunct and will crumble from greed every time unless it is properly regulated--the evidence is right in front of your nose--yet you keep posting these "free market" icons of yours as if nothing's wrong.
1. What specific regulations would you like to see?
2. Can you give me an example of a specific issue that could arise in the market that can only be solved by government regulation?
Hey, thanks for your vote, maybe you'd care to upvote this related video too?
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Weakerthans-One-Great-City
PS., I answered your question in the comments!
I'd be happy to upvote that video.
See you around the sift.