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Sunday, February 22, 2009
YOU ARE NOW YOUR BROTHER'S KEEPER: LIKE IT OR NOT
"TOO MANY HANDS CAUGHT IN THE COOKIE JAR"
"Socialism" is now emerging as the natural successor to the"Free Market Capitalist System" as it seems no amount of whining, kicking and screaming by the elitist architects and perpetrators of the failed system can stem the rising socialist tide. Also, it is worth noting here that in their desperate attempts to replace enough stolen cookies to kick start this now exposed pyramid scheme. They are further exacerbated by the increasing realization that the cookie jar itself seems to have been stolen. Arrogance and stupidity seem to be the ugly first cousins of personal and collective greed. Glenn Nunley. North Florida.
"Socialism" is now emerging as the natural successor to the"Free Market Capitalist System" as it seems no amount of whining, kicking and screaming by the elitist architects and perpetrators of the failed system can stem the rising socialist tide. Also, it is worth noting here that in their desperate attempts to replace enough stolen cookies to kick start this now exposed pyramid scheme. They are further exacerbated by the increasing realization that the cookie jar itself seems to have been stolen. Arrogance and stupidity seem to be the ugly first cousins of personal and collective greed. Glenn Nunley. North Florida.
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"Never has so much been done for so many by so few so quickly" THE OBAMA WHAM"
Thursday, February 19, 2009
ANOTHER DAY ON THE SQUALL LIVE FORUM
Re: Who are those guys?? Obama's Team is Major League
You know, TP is a strange nut to crack. Not sure what side of his buttered toast he actually sits on.
Posted by jencabo23
Re: Who are those guys?? Obama's Team is Major League posted at 2/18/2009 4:53 PM CST on news herald.com squallqueen First post: 5/21/2008Last post: 2/19/2009Total posts: 4723 Replying to:
(quote squallqueen): This should clear things up:
"Where DID this GUY come from? Anyone listening to President Obama's announcement on his " Manageable Managed Mortgage Miasma" can only stand in awe of the man. In less than twenty minutes today he accomplished a feat that for months has baffled the minds of the world's best economists. In so doing he swept away the fears while capturing the affections of a jubilant crowd of supporters who cheered him on. He seems to have produced a plan, which was by the way, already voted on and funded that is seemingly fair and equitable across the board, politically poetic and would go far in squelching the foreclosure miasma, and probably save our way of life. Who couldn't love him?"
TerraPatriot.
Update 2/25/2009: "Bythec," A regular squaller on The Panama City, Florida News Herald "Squall live" free public forum, where all participants are anonymous, visited the "TerrorPatriot Blog" and after discovering several postings from the "squall live forum," "of which I have in the past been a part and had re-posted here, this and other postings for reasons of sharing them with my readers," became upset and raised the alarm; that I was somehow exposing several of the fictitious characters to the sunlight of the "World Wide Web" while herself failing to realize that the "squall live forum" is itself on line and exposed to the WWW.
[quote] Did you see my post from this morn--you are on TP's internet blog along with SQ and Blackwalk... Posted by bythec Thursday, February 19, 2009
It is a forum that I highly recommend to anyone involved in the study of "Human Herd Behavior"or would like to observe the absurd reasoning and conclusions as a result of the blind leading the blind!! Anyone who wishes to acquire a true window into the minds of "Squallers of the "Redneck Riviera" I strongly urge you to access "The Panama City, Florida News Herald" subscribe/register free and login/join in "The Squall Line"
WARNING: ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK; IF YOU ARE CAPABLE OF INDEPENDENT THOUGHT; YOU MAY FIND IT EXPEDIENT TO KEEP IT TO YOURSELF AS THE PACK WILL TURN ON YOU IF THEY PERCEIVE A THREAT TO THEIR OWN 'OMNIPRESENT DESIRE TO BE PUBLISHED' IN THE HARD COPY UP TO THE BIG HOUSE." TerrorPatriot.
Re: squallqueen upset; responded as follows: Replying to:TP, exactly what are you attributing to ME? If it is the "Obama's Team is Major League", then you have been snorting too much gold dust, buddy.
Note from TP:
It is not and will never be my intention to slander any single individual, alter their post or mischaracterize anyone who participates on the "squall" because most are very good, moral, intelligent people. It is the herd-like, political mindset of the group that captures my imagination. The way in which any group of people can be influenced by the sometime charismatic and many times inaccurate facts offered up by one and then the other which will then give rise, day after day, to a psychological undertow of pure irrationality resembling "mob rule" devoid of reason or logic. This is precisely what I endeavor to address, intolerance and indifference, "Right or "Left." TerrorPatriot.
You know, TP is a strange nut to crack. Not sure what side of his buttered toast he actually sits on.
Posted by jencabo23
Re: Who are those guys?? Obama's Team is Major League posted at 2/18/2009 4:53 PM CST on news herald.com squallqueen First post: 5/21/2008Last post: 2/19/2009Total posts: 4723 Replying to:
(quote squallqueen): This should clear things up:
"Where DID this GUY come from? Anyone listening to President Obama's announcement on his " Manageable Managed Mortgage Miasma" can only stand in awe of the man. In less than twenty minutes today he accomplished a feat that for months has baffled the minds of the world's best economists. In so doing he swept away the fears while capturing the affections of a jubilant crowd of supporters who cheered him on. He seems to have produced a plan, which was by the way, already voted on and funded that is seemingly fair and equitable across the board, politically poetic and would go far in squelching the foreclosure miasma, and probably save our way of life. Who couldn't love him?"
TerraPatriot.
Update 2/25/2009: "Bythec," A regular squaller on The Panama City, Florida News Herald "Squall live" free public forum, where all participants are anonymous, visited the "TerrorPatriot Blog" and after discovering several postings from the "squall live forum," "of which I have in the past been a part and had re-posted here, this and other postings for reasons of sharing them with my readers," became upset and raised the alarm; that I was somehow exposing several of the fictitious characters to the sunlight of the "World Wide Web" while herself failing to realize that the "squall live forum" is itself on line and exposed to the WWW.
[quote] Did you see my post from this morn--you are on TP's internet blog along with SQ and Blackwalk... Posted by bythec Thursday, February 19, 2009
It is a forum that I highly recommend to anyone involved in the study of "Human Herd Behavior"or would like to observe the absurd reasoning and conclusions as a result of the blind leading the blind!! Anyone who wishes to acquire a true window into the minds of "Squallers of the "Redneck Riviera" I strongly urge you to access "The Panama City, Florida News Herald" subscribe/register free and login/join in "The Squall Line"
WARNING: ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK; IF YOU ARE CAPABLE OF INDEPENDENT THOUGHT; YOU MAY FIND IT EXPEDIENT TO KEEP IT TO YOURSELF AS THE PACK WILL TURN ON YOU IF THEY PERCEIVE A THREAT TO THEIR OWN 'OMNIPRESENT DESIRE TO BE PUBLISHED' IN THE HARD COPY UP TO THE BIG HOUSE." TerrorPatriot.
Re: squallqueen upset; responded as follows: Replying to:TP, exactly what are you attributing to ME? If it is the "Obama's Team is Major League", then you have been snorting too much gold dust, buddy.
Note from TP:
It is not and will never be my intention to slander any single individual, alter their post or mischaracterize anyone who participates on the "squall" because most are very good, moral, intelligent people. It is the herd-like, political mindset of the group that captures my imagination. The way in which any group of people can be influenced by the sometime charismatic and many times inaccurate facts offered up by one and then the other which will then give rise, day after day, to a psychological undertow of pure irrationality resembling "mob rule" devoid of reason or logic. This is precisely what I endeavor to address, intolerance and indifference, "Right or "Left." TerrorPatriot.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
YOU WILL REAP WHAT YOU SEW
SEWING A BITTER CROP
I have watched over the last couple of years as our government and it's agencies have been enlisted and utilized by the greedy bankers and wall street thugs. They have diligently worked hand in hand to craft the rules of the game in a way to reap a bountiful harvest off the backs of millions of honest working and middle class people and in the process have sewn the seeds of despair and anger throughout the lengths and depths of our country. What has been over looked by these pilgrims is that while they gathered in their ill gotten gains they could not harvest our spirits. The American people are for the most part good and decent folks just like you and me given to fair play and live and let live attitudes, but they also possess a deep rooted spirit of independence and a strong dislike of being bamboozled by the very people who are sworn and obligated to run our institutions in a way that is fair with equal opportunities for all. When the evidence is laid bare and there is no doubt that we have been railroaded by these groups then it will not be long until there will be hell to pay. So when the facilitators of all this mischief becomes more clear everyday and with each function of our lives that is disrupted only serves to bring the day of reckoning closer. You had better know that if you are not with us you are against us and that sooner or later you will be called to answer for the devious and greedy behavior that has resulted in so much unnecessary suffering and disruption of our lives. The retribution that will be exacted could take many forms and the methods will vary but in the end the seeds that have been sewn will produce a bitter crop for all those malevolent planters and harvesters. Glenn Nunley. North Florida.
I have watched over the last couple of years as our government and it's agencies have been enlisted and utilized by the greedy bankers and wall street thugs. They have diligently worked hand in hand to craft the rules of the game in a way to reap a bountiful harvest off the backs of millions of honest working and middle class people and in the process have sewn the seeds of despair and anger throughout the lengths and depths of our country. What has been over looked by these pilgrims is that while they gathered in their ill gotten gains they could not harvest our spirits. The American people are for the most part good and decent folks just like you and me given to fair play and live and let live attitudes, but they also possess a deep rooted spirit of independence and a strong dislike of being bamboozled by the very people who are sworn and obligated to run our institutions in a way that is fair with equal opportunities for all. When the evidence is laid bare and there is no doubt that we have been railroaded by these groups then it will not be long until there will be hell to pay. So when the facilitators of all this mischief becomes more clear everyday and with each function of our lives that is disrupted only serves to bring the day of reckoning closer. You had better know that if you are not with us you are against us and that sooner or later you will be called to answer for the devious and greedy behavior that has resulted in so much unnecessary suffering and disruption of our lives. The retribution that will be exacted could take many forms and the methods will vary but in the end the seeds that have been sewn will produce a bitter crop for all those malevolent planters and harvesters. Glenn Nunley. North Florida.
Monday, February 16, 2009
RIGHT- WASHING The New Deal
It's probably a good thing that cable news generally doesn't draw much of an audience from the 18- to 24-year-old demographic. Otherwise, history professors across the nation could very well be witnessing the undoing of their work to educate students about the dire economic climate the United States faced for much of the 1930s.
Those who have been watching cable news lately have undoubtedly noticed the litany of conservative media figures attempting to rewrite history by denigrating the tremendous successes of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies in what amounts to an orchestrated effort to derail the economic recovery plans of President Obama.
Fox News Washington managing editor Brit Hume recently called Roosevelt's policies "a jihad against private enterprise," just after claiming that "everybody agrees, I think, on both sides of the spectrum now, that the New Deal failed." That may be accurate if by "both sides of the spectrum" Hume is referring to the right and far-right over at Fox News.
Hume's own jihad against the facts, however, represents only a small portion of the historical misrepresentations passed off as reasoned debate about the New Deal.
Witness the day-break machinations of the crew over at MSNBC's Morning Joe. During a recent broadcast, Joe Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski kicked off a string of attacks against the president's recovery plan, using the New Deal as their dubious weapon du jour. Mika said of Obama's plan, "I think we're going to have the same unemployment in three or four years, just like the New Deal." That just isn't true -- unemployment fell every year from 1933 through 1937.
Her buddy Joe didn't fare much better, cherry-picking data in telling viewers that unemployment was at "20 percent" in 1938, ignoring the downward trend in unemployment that occurred under the New Deal.
Joe isn't alone -- conservative columnists George Will and Mona Charen have played the same numbers game to falsely claim the New Deal failed to reduce unemployment, a contention disputed by historians and economists.
Don't take my word for it -- data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the unemployment rate in 1933 clocking in at 24.9 percent and falling each year thereafter (to 14.3 percent in 1937) until 1938 when it rose to 19 percent. Why the increase from 1937 to 1938? As Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has noted, it was a reversal of these very same New Deal policies, which had reduced unemployment, that actually led to recession and drove the numbers back up. It's worth noting, by the way, that these numbers do not include those in federal work-relief programs (at the time, BLS counted those employed by the New Deal's emergency work programs as unemployed). So, the unemployment numbers were actually lower than reported in these years.
The strengthening of the social safety net during the 1930s stimulated the economy while also providing assistance to those waiting to feel the economic recovery for themselves. That's perhaps why Fox News' Bill O'Reilly saw fit to lambast portions of the president's plan aimed at assisting those most in need during these difficult times, claiming last week on his television show that increased funding for programs like food stamps has "nothing to do with stimulating the economy." Though his ego will never let him admit it, O'Reilly is dead wrong.
Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf and former McCain campaign economic adviser Mark Zandi have both said that extending food stamps does, in fact, stimulate the economy. Zandi stated last year that "extending food stamps [is] the most effective [way] to prime the economy's pump," while Elmendorf noted in congressional testimony just last week that "[t]ransfers to persons (for example, unemployment insurance and nutrition assistance) would also have a significant impact on GDP."
Faced with the prospect that history will again demonstrate that government spending and investment are important tools in confronting an economic crisis, it is now clear that conservatives are engaged in a misinformation campaign to mislead the public.
So, when radio host Rush Limbaugh, whom former President Ronald Reagan reportedly called the "Number one voice for conservatism" and House Republicans named an honorary member of Congress in 1994, recently said of Obama, "I hope he fails," it makes one wonder if he might not be speaking for all of his pals on the right.
If Limbaugh and conservatives truly want the president to "fail," rewriting the history of the New Deal may very well be the first salvo in a long war to defeat Obama's agenda for America
Right-Washing the New Deal
by Karl Frisch
Those who have been watching cable news lately have undoubtedly noticed the litany of conservative media figures attempting to rewrite history by denigrating the tremendous successes of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies in what amounts to an orchestrated effort to derail the economic recovery plans of President Obama.
Fox News Washington managing editor Brit Hume recently called Roosevelt's policies "a jihad against private enterprise," just after claiming that "everybody agrees, I think, on both sides of the spectrum now, that the New Deal failed." That may be accurate if by "both sides of the spectrum" Hume is referring to the right and far-right over at Fox News.
Hume's own jihad against the facts, however, represents only a small portion of the historical misrepresentations passed off as reasoned debate about the New Deal.
Witness the day-break machinations of the crew over at MSNBC's Morning Joe. During a recent broadcast, Joe Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski kicked off a string of attacks against the president's recovery plan, using the New Deal as their dubious weapon du jour. Mika said of Obama's plan, "I think we're going to have the same unemployment in three or four years, just like the New Deal." That just isn't true -- unemployment fell every year from 1933 through 1937.
Her buddy Joe didn't fare much better, cherry-picking data in telling viewers that unemployment was at "20 percent" in 1938, ignoring the downward trend in unemployment that occurred under the New Deal.
Joe isn't alone -- conservative columnists George Will and Mona Charen have played the same numbers game to falsely claim the New Deal failed to reduce unemployment, a contention disputed by historians and economists.
Don't take my word for it -- data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the unemployment rate in 1933 clocking in at 24.9 percent and falling each year thereafter (to 14.3 percent in 1937) until 1938 when it rose to 19 percent. Why the increase from 1937 to 1938? As Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has noted, it was a reversal of these very same New Deal policies, which had reduced unemployment, that actually led to recession and drove the numbers back up. It's worth noting, by the way, that these numbers do not include those in federal work-relief programs (at the time, BLS counted those employed by the New Deal's emergency work programs as unemployed). So, the unemployment numbers were actually lower than reported in these years.
The strengthening of the social safety net during the 1930s stimulated the economy while also providing assistance to those waiting to feel the economic recovery for themselves. That's perhaps why Fox News' Bill O'Reilly saw fit to lambast portions of the president's plan aimed at assisting those most in need during these difficult times, claiming last week on his television show that increased funding for programs like food stamps has "nothing to do with stimulating the economy." Though his ego will never let him admit it, O'Reilly is dead wrong.
Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf and former McCain campaign economic adviser Mark Zandi have both said that extending food stamps does, in fact, stimulate the economy. Zandi stated last year that "extending food stamps [is] the most effective [way] to prime the economy's pump," while Elmendorf noted in congressional testimony just last week that "[t]ransfers to persons (for example, unemployment insurance and nutrition assistance) would also have a significant impact on GDP."
Faced with the prospect that history will again demonstrate that government spending and investment are important tools in confronting an economic crisis, it is now clear that conservatives are engaged in a misinformation campaign to mislead the public.
So, when radio host Rush Limbaugh, whom former President Ronald Reagan reportedly called the "Number one voice for conservatism" and House Republicans named an honorary member of Congress in 1994, recently said of Obama, "I hope he fails," it makes one wonder if he might not be speaking for all of his pals on the right.
If Limbaugh and conservatives truly want the president to "fail," rewriting the history of the New Deal may very well be the first salvo in a long war to defeat Obama's agenda for America
Right-Washing the New Deal
by Karl Frisch
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