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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: john828 on January 20, 2009, 11:16:54 AM
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Watching some of the pre-inauguration reporting this morning has absolutely sickened me. Most of the talking heads are gushing as if they are talking about their high school sweetheart. I knew throughout the primaries and election that they were mostly in his corner, but man, I bet Obama could have his way with them without even buying them a drink first. Brokaw has to be the worst. With his smug, condescending nasally voice, I cannot even listen to him, so I joined APS instead.
Rant's over.
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Brokaw thinks that because he wrote about "the greatest generation" he's part of it. The pomposity of old news readers never fails to amaze me.
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The media are not smitten.
The media today are on their knees with religious adoration in their eyes. Even Fox.
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Pomposity is right. They truly do believe that they are right and anyone who disagrees is wrong. They believe that they can govern, lead, and convert the masses through their drivel. Oh, and so many buy into it. I guess my rant is not over.
Can we discuss the media in this forum?
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Religious adoration leavened with too many lines of coke over the years, I suspect.
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I'm no more of a fan of W. than many people on this forum, but one reason Bush was so hated was that he is viewed by the overheated Left as the utlimate party-pooper. Reality is not a word that the Left wants to hear. As far as the worshippers are concerned, the party's not over, it's just beginning. The "day after" hangover should be interesting to watch.
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Pomposity is right. They truly do believe that they are right and anyone who disagrees is wrong. They believe that they can govern, lead, and convert the masses through their drivel. Oh, and so many buy into it. I guess my rant is not over.
Can we discuss the media in this forum?
I have no problem with people believing they are right and those who disagree with them are wrong.
If you don't believe that, please don't try to lead.
However, they believe they are right and those who disagree with them are utter morons and evil people who must be destroyed. Not their ideas, the people themselves.
That's what's scary about the left.
I think the left is ignorant and short-sighted. As such, their ideas must be defeated. They think people like me must be destroyed. (Especially in public office).
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This is not an Inauguration.
It is an Inaug-o-rama...or, to some of us, an Inaug-o-thon.
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Call it what it is.
It's a coronation.
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makattak,
I understand that a person who believes in A necessarily has to believe B is wrong if A and B are contradictory. And I appreciate you elaborating on my thoughts. Sometimes I don't express myself to well. Thanks.
Wasn't an augur something like an omen or something? And an augury, someone who divined and explained the omens?
Whatever, either way, we're in for one hell of a ride over the next four years. Hopefully many people will wake up and not hit the snooze as soon as their larders are full again.
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Nothing honorable about Feinstein but the title she holds. I guess I am going to watch the inauguration/coronation.
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The media are not smitten.
The media today are on their knees with religious adoration in their eyes. Even Fox.
Judging by what I was seeing this morning, I think that's a lot closer to the truth. Even the local DC Fox station is under the spell of the Magi, as it were.
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Nothing honorable about Feinstein but the title she holds. I guess I am going to watch the inauguration/coronation.
Yay, Feinstein talking about liberty.
I'd rather not watch this, but the people at work are. It's not worth the conflict to leave.
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Yay, Feinstein talking about liberty.
I'd rather not watch this, but the people at work are. It's not worth the conflict to leave.
Why are they watching that instead of doing work?
If I had control over IT, I'd kill the mime types for all streaming video for the day. If they want to waste time, they can take PTO from their total and sit at home.
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Why are they watching that instead of doing work?
Well, I'm on my work computer, but my team works in a conference room. My teammates fired up the TV in the conference room.
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Yay, Feinstein talking about liberty.
Lipservice only, just like Biden's (and soon to be Obama's) oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies domestic and foreign. The entire BoR is like a playground for them, and they think swings are slides and slides are monkey bars.
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Why are they watching that instead of doing work?
If I had control over IT, I'd kill the mime types for all streaming video for the day. If they want to waste time, they can take PTO from their total and sit at home.
Why are most of us posting on an internet forum instead of doing work? Would you block access to APS as well? :police:
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Why are most of us posting on an internet forum instead of doing work? Would you block access to APS as well? :police:
Yeah, that takes all of five seconds to post something in one of many windows on two screens while I'm waiting for a video segment to render so I can continue working with it. It's not rapt attention on a TV show.
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Well, I turned it off after the first few minutes of his speech. After he said something about us weathering the storms by remaining faithful to our forebearers and true to our founding documents, I just heard all I needed to hear.
The brightest spot of the day was Rick Warren's prayer. If only it will be answered the way he prayed. I oftentimes don't get what I ask for, but seem to get what I need.
I think I will watch the after action reports by the talking heads. I must be a masochist to do so, but I want to hear their spin and see if any creamed their pants.
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From the speech.
Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control - and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross Domestic Product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
Prosperous. Those who worked hard to get rewards.
Oh, f___ =(
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I hope by...
on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart
...he meant, "get a job you lazy parasite on society."
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that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.
IMO, a "nation" should not prosper at all. It should subsist.
Individuals should prosper if they earn the means to do so.
Nations should also not favor anybody... prosperous folks or non-prosperous folks. Nations should be blind to income just as they should be to race, religion, ethnicity or sex.
Sigh. So much broken logic, so little time, and no ears to hear it. ;/
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Do they have crazy poets reading at every inauguration? I know Clinton had Maya Angelou, can't recall if GW had anybody.
Heh. There's a kid just to Michelle's right that has a total 'WTF' look on his face. I sympathize.
P.S. Hot damn, at least the bishop can make a rhyme.
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not out of charity,
Because charity is an act of free will, and taxation is not.
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Because charity is an act of free will, and taxation is not.
Yup.
This ought to be interesting. If you dared work hard for money, it's going to be taken away to give to people with poor impulse control and zero work ethic.
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Because charity is an act of free will, and taxation is not.
LMAO, Ben. Too true. To take my money and give it to someone who sits around and just collects a check or two a month is an abomination of justice.
Real conversation overheard on a bus in Minneapolis. Girl basically says, "I can't wwait for my baby is born, so I can get that new Durango." Pitiful. Here I was driving a POS minivan with over 200,000 miles which had broken down which put me on the bus just so I can overhear that conversation.
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The whole thing fell flat.
The Oath was botched.
The big speech wasn't.
And the most memorable image will be Aretha's hat.
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So that was it? I was expecting an ascension like the ancients on Stargate: Atlantis...
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And the most memorable image will be Aretha's hat.
Incomparably awesome.
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I thought it was neat how he rode in to DC on Bidens back with everyone having palm fronds...
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Why are they watching that instead of doing work?
If I had control over IT, I'd kill the mime types for all streaming video for the day. If they want to waste time, they can take PTO from their total and sit at home.
I broke up a praise Obama session on the boob tube in the control room earlier. It didn't take long for the worshippers to get back to their work. I expect the diversity police will be notifying me of my actions that made the workplace unfriendly today for those who didn't travel to DC.
Anygunanywhere
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Does "upholding the constitution" include the 2nd amendment?
IMO, a "nation" should not prosper at all. It should subsist.
Ahh, but the state is the people, comrade! =D
I seriously think most people in this country are idiots. Like authentically dumb. I speak with people I work with and it just blows my mind how stupid they are about law, foreign policy, and politics.
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Does "upholding the constitution" include the 2nd amendment?
Ahh, but the state is the people, comrade! =D
I seriously think most people in this country are idiots. Like authentically dumb. I speak with people I work with and it just blows my mind how stupid they are about law, foreign policy, and politics, <and insert anything beyond their tiny areas of interest>.
Fixed it for you.
As an economist, it's especially frustrating as people don't seem to care that they are ignorant and will argue with me over FACTS. >.<
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Apparently, the liberal elite came in over 600 private jets.
There was no reporters at the airport. There was not a bit of video or a photo. Not a damned thing.
If it was Republicans, they'd have been crying about how much greenhouse gases those were and how many children they could have fed.
The MSM has chosen its side.
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This is not an Inauguration. It is an Inaug-o-rama...or, to some of us, an Inaug-o-thon.
Call it what it is. It's a coronation.
It appeared to me to be the founding moments of a new religion.
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Apparently, the liberal elite came in over 600 private jets.
There was no reporters at the airport. There was not a bit of video or a photo. Not a damned thing.
If it was Republicans, they'd have been crying about how much greenhouse gases those were and how many children they could have fed.
The MSM has chosen its side.
I've been slowly backing away from televised news programs and their accompanying websites over the last year. I could not stand the adulation coming from most of the MSM, local news sources (he is a "Hawaii boy" after all), and the Hollywood crowd. All for having sweet nothings whispered into their ears and nothing but an image to look up to. As far as I'm concerned, I agree that the MSM has chosen sides - NOT the side I'm on. That they did speaks very poorly of the lot of them, though I'm sure that a small minority still has some sense of objectivity left. The next thing that really needs to fall is the business of media, much more than the auto industry. Maybe then they can rebuild themselves back to what they should have been long, long ago - a source of information instead of influence.
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The future:
http://volokh.com/posts/1232595017.shtml
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The future:
http://volokh.com/posts/1232595017.shtml
Holy moonbats!!! Those people are nuts. If it weren't for religious organizations, half the hospitals would not exist. The same is true for universities. Hell, science itself began because religious people believed that there was a well ordered nature worthy of exploration.
Ok, religious rant off.
Moonbat and looney leftist elitism rant on.
Those people have the means to do a lot of what they said and some of them will. Good on them when they do it. But that video was just evil. It left me with a feeling of doom and dread. There are some very influential people in this world who would love it if the elites could dictate their wills. Why would they want it? Because they think they are the elites.
Real conversation in a Minneapolis coffeeshop with a cute little college girl who attended a local ultra-liberal arts college. We got into a discussion on parenting. She believed that there should be a license for parenting--really she did. I asked her who would set the criteria. She, without a smile, immediately shot back that she would be happy to set the criteria herself. This from a nineteen or twenty year old girl who would probably have an abortion if she got pregnant wants to dictate who should be a parent.
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Larry King on Barack Obama: “Black is in…my eight-year-old son wishes he was black.”
Thursday, January 22, 2009, 05:50 PM GMT [General]
CNN's orange-haired septuagenarian chatterbox Larry King has been bowled over by the new Age of Obama, enthusing that his youngest offspring (from his seventh marriage) wants to be black. I guess it's a case of black being, er, the new black.
Interviewing a visibly uncomfortable Bob Woodward on his eponymous CNN show last night, Larry, 75, gushed: "My younger son Cannon, he is eight. And he now says that he would like to be black. I'm not kidding. He said there's a lot of advantages. Black is in. Is this a turning of the tide?"
The distinguished Watergate scribbler responded "well, maybe" and talked about how his 12-year-old daughter Diana liked Barack Obama's inaugural speech before gingerly steering the discussion towards George W. Bush's magnanimity and how he "hasn't, you know, made any cheap shots" at his White House successor.
It could have been worse, Bob. The other day, Larry blurted out that things were changing so fast that there could soon be a lesbian in the Oval Office. "Who would've thunk it," he said on KIIS radio in Los Angeles. "I can't believe it. Well, in 10 years' time we'll have, a what, a lesbian?"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/01/22/larry_king_on_barack_obama_black_is_inmy_eightyearold_son_wishes_he_was_black (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/01/22/larry_king_on_barack_obama_black_is_inmy_eightyearold_son_wishes_he_was_black)
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I'm shuddering over the possible lead in to the nightly news every day now for the next 4 years.
"Day 4 or 10 or 30 or 100 or 365 of the Obaman presidency"
'President Barak Obama, today, changed the lead in his pencil after signing Executive Order 475 that orders everyone who has lead in his pencil to properly dispose of it in a hazardous contamination friendly container and change over to the new material from Algore LLC that has a zero carbon footprint'
Video at 11. Over to you Charise.'
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If Obama has the answers, I suggest he go for the Presidency of Kenya--no doubt he'd be elected by acclamation--and try them out there.
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I dug out an old song from the 80's that seems to fit so well right now - "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour. Adding it to my daily mp3 rotation soon.