Good Old Neon

Tweed, your contribution to most topics is one or two sentences at best, usually inane, and often mean spirited - so please, spare me the lecture.

They wouldn’t even have to consider it a tax, call it a refund, for all those overcharges.

It’s the day before Thanksgiving, I’m feeling charitable, so, we’ll just stick it to the top 9 war profiteers. CACI Titan Bechtel Aegis Defense Services Custer Battles General Dynamics Nour USA Chevron ExxonMobile whoops - how could I have forgotten Haliburton and Black Water. Oh and christ, how could I forget Raytheon.

Middle and lower income folks have always lost their lives to war disproportionably. As if you've ever given a shit about hurting someone's feelings.

What else, I don’t know, maybe we should focus on the individuals profiting from these wars, defense contractors, former vice-presidents and other members of the previous administration – those sorts of folks.

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Ok, mashugana.

Are they not? I'm not necessarily in favor of a tax, and if we must, it should be spread equitably, but the fact remains, lots of people are paying a much higher price than a few extra dollars. And hey, you voted for Bush – so in that sense, you and the millions of other voters who put him, and then kept him in office share some responsibility for the mess we’re in.

Well, the middle to lower income folk are paying with their sons and daughters lives.

Unfortunately, wars consume lots and lots and lots of capital, which is one reason why we shouldn't enter into them haphazardly - or if we do, we should probably just stick to one at a time - and we really, really shouldn't devote most of our military to waging a manufactured one, vs devoting our resources to the one that can maybe begin to be justified - while also cutting taxes, primarily for rich folk. That shit will come back to bite you right on the ass, it will. Bush's legacy is the gift that just keeps on a'giv'n.

The quest for ideological purity is destroying their party - which, more power to them. Considering they cheerlead any and all wars that come around the bend, even when manufactured, wars that result in the deaths of civilians living outside the womb, their stance on abortion is nothing short of pathetic and laughable. They don't give the slightest fuck about life, they're just interested in adhering to their precious bibles - mostly out of a sense of fear. But by all means, continue to eat your own. Fixed

Indulging my little apocalyptic, we’re all going to die fetish. I don’t agree with all of Kunstler’s speculative predictions regarding peak oil (which is inevitable) and the end of suburbia, but he’s a smart guy and a fun read. His TED presentation is worth 20 minutes of your life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ

I might if McDonald’s hamburgers are on the menu – the food equivalent of shitty beer.

You had that "world's most interesting man" thing going on for a second there.

I stopped right there. http://www.realclimate.org/

Putting aside all that pesky evidence in favor of AGW, could someone please explain why pretty much the entire scientific community is perpetrating a hoax, and to what end?

This is what I've read as well. I take his claims about as serious as I take Kirk Cameron’s attacks against evolution.

True, but I think Bush set a negative tone early in his presidency. The tone being, essentially, “We’ll do whatever we goddamn well please, and we don’t give a fuckall about how you feel about it.” - which didn’t exactly engender feelings of trust and truthfulness. No doubt, some of that attitude was the result of what occurred on 9/11, but Bush, and to a greater extent, Cheney, have exhibited that sort of attitude for years. You’ve said it before, and I agree with you, more now than in the past, of the two, Cheney was (and is) responsible for some of his administrations most reprehensible

I think some of the overreaction during Bush’s tenure was related to the introduction of the Patriot Act, a piece of legislation most members of congress didn’t have time to even read, of if they did, couldn’t quite understand. So in that context, I can understand why some people overreacted. I would also be willing to wager a paycheck that Palin supporters now concerned about our loss of freedoms didn’t lose any sleep while Bush was in office. Their newfound concern comes by way of right wing talking points, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and the million other rightwing pundits who claim our fre

For most people, they haven’t, but you might receive a different answer from, say, Jose Padilla - a US citizen. Glenn Greenwald wrote about the case extensively: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2006 The Bush administration's torture of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla (updated below) The Bush administration's May, 2002 lawless detention of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla -- on U.S. soil -- was, as I recounted in my book, the first incident which really prompted me to begin concluding that things were going terribly awry in our country. The administration declared Padilla an "enemy combatant," put him in a mil

I like what I’ve seen. I’m especially fond of the Wallace reference – and I agree, I think Tweedy’s lyrics touch upon many of the same themes explored by Dave – loneliness, addiction, solipsism or the flight from, the desire to communicate authentically and sincerely, etc. I’ve often wondered if Jeff is familiar with or a fan of Wallace. Anyways, I’ve bookmarked your site and will check back frequently – good luck!

Well hell, if we're going to include pundits, the pool of dipshits just deepened exponentially .

You know, like, all the freedoms, the ones that Sarah and Beck and Rush and Hannity and all those other guys keep telling us we’re losing.

I like the part in the video where that women going on about “drill baby drill” says that we need to stop these PETA people and that we have to take the polar bear off the endangered species list so that we can drill. I also like the women who mentions cap and trade, and then when asked her opinion on it, admits she doesn’t actually like, have one – or the person who answers, “I never really thought about it” when asked why she thinks Sarah would make a fine president. What is clear, is that the strategy of spreading dishonest, bullet pointed talking points is highly effective, unfortunatel

Holy shit, you're right - that dude is a ringer.