tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post7065875763673169866..comments2024-03-28T14:52:13.218-05:00Comments on Stonekettle Station: The War Is Over, But The Battle Rages On…Jim Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-118039246022918002012-04-18T00:54:27.580-05:002012-04-18T00:54:27.580-05:00Santorum has a history of doing whatever's bes...Santorum has a history of doing whatever's best for his family despite his rhetoric. Best example I can think of is Karen Santorum's partial-birth abortion.<br /><br />http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/05/1052025/-Pro-Choice-Santorums-Own-Partial-Birth-Abortion-<br /><br />When it's his wife on the line, Santorum's for protecting her. He just doesn't love yours.Shades of Greyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15819018522563497158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-25980524160027697462012-04-18T00:49:49.090-05:002012-04-18T00:49:49.090-05:00I like the cut of your gib, Anonymous. You ai'...I like the cut of your gib, Anonymous. You ai'ght.Shades of Greyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15819018522563497158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-46463941068033654102012-04-18T00:48:13.688-05:002012-04-18T00:48:13.688-05:00I like the cut of your gib, Mr. Anonymous.I like the cut of your gib, Mr. Anonymous.Shades of Greyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15819018522563497158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-91449513425936509062012-04-17T10:13:39.912-05:002012-04-17T10:13:39.912-05:00Heh, let me know whichever comes first, full time ...Heh, let me know whichever comes first, full time writer or ruler of the universe. I'll be the first in line to buy the book or cast a vote.jefdammhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16827435648312087919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-86902710693674838742012-04-17T01:08:32.707-05:002012-04-17T01:08:32.707-05:00So now being broke is "winning in a different...So now being broke is "winning in a different way"?<br /><br />Tell that to the poor.Diannenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-32108059076085194242012-04-16T16:54:38.344-05:002012-04-16T16:54:38.344-05:00OMG, I love your blog!! I love the no BS way you t...OMG, I love your blog!! I love the no BS way you think.<br /><br />(And just because I wrote "OMG", doesn't mean that I think you are God - although I checked that box in the feedback, lol - or that there is a God. Just like if I say "Santa Claus" it doesn't mean I think he really exists.)<br /><br />It's just so refreshing to read what you say, even if you are 'wordy' - shoot, to heck with conciseness, this stuff needs to be hashed out!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-9659322522663746722012-04-16T10:58:08.445-05:002012-04-16T10:58:08.445-05:00And David Axelrod sticks his foot in his mouth eve...And David Axelrod sticks his foot in his mouth everytime he speaks!! No demorat has ever "suspended" his campaign I'm sure!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-27096363805408208772012-04-15T19:11:23.599-05:002012-04-15T19:11:23.599-05:00This was a great post. Surely you have something ...This was a great post. Surely you have something to say about the war on women's rights. I'm waiting with a bowl full of popcorn for it to arrive.WakeUpAmericanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-77702693933364343532012-04-15T18:12:27.945-05:002012-04-15T18:12:27.945-05:00Jim,
I really enjoy your blog. Great writing and ...Jim,<br /><br />I really enjoy your blog. Great writing and insightful views.<br />Just a laymans opinion. Keep it up.<br />Thanks,<br />JoeJoe Holoubeknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-24511382592560955332012-04-15T12:51:43.095-05:002012-04-15T12:51:43.095-05:00Hi Jim, et al - Twenty years ago I took a writing ...Hi Jim, et al - Twenty years ago I took a writing course in the UK, taught by a gnarly old ex-journalist, US expat professor home based at Galway, Ireland. This guy was a wonderful nutcase specializing in Old and Middle English - funny as hell. I digress. <br /><br />In one class he adopts a bad-German accent and starts presenting a proposal for attaining political and societal ascendancy for upper class, white, wealthy business leaders and politicians. He proposed fomenting inter-racial and inter-class tensions to justify the corporate takeover of government in order to institute a more appropriate control of society by those few leaders best suited to lead the nation. His character of course would play a prominent role in deciding how this plan would be implemented. The response from my classmates was funny, the prof had immediately pissed off the blacks, women or anyone with a minority bent. He apologized for the perceived insults, but stated that our assignment was to write a precise of this Nazi gent's proposal and present a counter-proposal to his quasi-Third Reich destiny for America.<br /><br />Every other student attacked the neo-Nazi proposal as anathema to the American way, and most felt that the US was already the Greatest Nation of Earth, etc. I went the other way. I wrote that Herr Nazi Consultant was not far sighted enough. His plan had merit from the perspective of obtaining power and control over government through applying disruptive democratic and economic leverage to subvert and disrupt stable societal and security structures. I proposed that he did not go far enough to utilize the natural and human resources that would be freed up by the break down of the conventional social compact. <br /><br />Once the appropriate inter-racial, inter-class and religious conflict was achieved, and public security had been compromised to raise the fear level, then the country would accept the eventual rise of a oligarchic leadership arrangement to better manage the return to security. Albeit with much more severe but understandable limits on movement and personal expression. After all, freedom is not free. <br /><br />The US would eventually be run by appropriate corporate, white, Christian leadership (all for the good of society, of course). National parks and public lands would be turned over to correct use of natural resources for mining, drilling or as closed hunting preserves for the "leaders". As Indian reservations often have mineral and forest reserves, they would be taken over by extraction industries, and the present occupants would be "invited" to remain as resident workers. The new benevolent corporate overlords would provide housing and sustenance for the working class. Not much more is needed if the understanding is that "no work, no eat". The new American model of "right use" of resources and applied force and labor "understanding" between the remaining two classes could then be exported to other nations as mandated by destiny. <br /><br />Of course, Herr Consultant believed that he would attain some high rank in the new order. But, my advice was that this gentleman would eventually outgrow his usefulness and could find better employment in one the new "mineral extraction communities." <br /><br />My instructor was alarmed by my counter proposal to accept and expand on the Nazi-lite social restructuring idea. I meant the writing assignment to present a non-serious and fanciful concept. I assured the class that I did not seriously believe the the US could or should be taken over by special interest, wealthy, corporate powers wrapped in the US flag and carrying a cross. <br /><br />Two decades later I witness Romney, Bachman, Palin, Santorum, Gingrich, Bush, Cheney, Fox News, Ryan, even Obama all chipping away at reality as we used to know it. I guess the joke's on all of us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-36014721098243799292012-04-15T11:43:56.685-05:002012-04-15T11:43:56.685-05:00"More tax breaks. Then they’ll create some jo..."More tax breaks. Then they’ll create some jobs. You’ll see. Hey, only in a great country like America would unemployed folks whose jobs were sent to India be out in the street wearing Tri-Corner hats and demanding tax breaks for Millionaires."<br />After 50 years or so observing politics in this country, this is certainly what I see as the "central" problem we are facing. The "Whats The Matter with Kansas?" phenom. As you pointed out, we keep having to fight the same battles over and over again (how did the less than 1 percent of the population who were southern slave owners, convince a huge number of poor southern whites to go fight for them?)<br />Your litany of unmitigated financial disasters caused by lack of regulation speaks to the same definition of insanity (repeating a failing strategy over and over again thinking the next time it will work)<br />In any case, to these tired eyes, it no longer looks like a battle between two ideologies: It looks like a fight between the reactionary forces of ignorance, and the side enlightenment and progress....and the battle ground is those who are constantly touting the mushy middle and imaginary compromise. If someone is dragging you 20 feet toward a cliff over and over again, convincing them to drag you only 10 isn't compromise...it's insanity.blackdaughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05554233110211227532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-34446319847307972822012-04-13T00:00:50.016-05:002012-04-13T00:00:50.016-05:00Suspend is a tactical move. If they quit, they lo...Suspend is a tactical move. If they quit, they lose their delegates. In theory (hah!) they might get enough, here and there, to broker the convention.<br /><br />Not gonna happen, at this point, but it's what all them were trying to do.Terry Karneyhttp://pecunium.livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-15544258527027378802012-04-12T22:26:43.663-05:002012-04-12T22:26:43.663-05:00Well, I for one think it's good that all these...Well, I for one think it's good that all these guys are going back to suspenders. I mean, since the last resurgence in the 80s, men wearing suspenders have all but disappeared on the landscape. So for these candidates to openly admit that they're forgoing the belt and eventual tightening and going back to suspenders… well, I applaud that.Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-78215863112890956092012-04-12T14:41:39.106-05:002012-04-12T14:41:39.106-05:00Now Santorum is admitting he "suspended"...Now Santorum is admitting he "suspended" because the money wasn't there.<br />http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57413143-503544/santorum-i-left-gop-race-because-money-dried-up/?tag=strip<br />Also, I missed it, I guess, that Gingrich "suspended" his campaign, but did catch that his campaign is bouncing checks.Sophienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-17244489564627303332012-04-12T13:21:23.117-05:002012-04-12T13:21:23.117-05:00So, if these folks are in suspension, can they com...So, if these folks are in suspension, can they come back to life as they know it and re-enter the fray at the behest of their devoted, deluded minions at the nominating convention?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-58381688464584385592012-04-12T12:47:33.506-05:002012-04-12T12:47:33.506-05:00Hi, Gang!
A.N. Onymous here.
Money considerations...Hi, Gang!<br />A.N. Onymous here.<br /><br />Money considerations aside, I have a feeling that the timing comes as a result of having to consider the possibility of an embarrassing defeat in Pennsylvania.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-11830505508686092032012-04-12T11:54:39.673-05:002012-04-12T11:54:39.673-05:00Consider if Santorum had won the actual Presidency...Consider if Santorum had won the actual Presidency (as if). Would he be allowed, permitted, consider "dropping out" to care for the daughter in the middle of, say a Camp David Accord? Not likely.<br /><br />Your logic is sound, and so is that of many others on this forum.<br /><br />I do mourn Santorum suspending his candidacy, however. I would have loved for the voters to have an opportunity to vote on his ideas and ideals. Granted, Mr. Santorum would reject the real world voter rejection of him and his Constitutionally flawed theocratic concepts, but that's his call. The rest of us are denied our opportunity to say "no" to this gentleman and his fractured sense of reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-86698721416245993072012-04-12T11:41:26.759-05:002012-04-12T11:41:26.759-05:00It is all about the money and that's a damn sh...It is all about the money and that's a damn shame. I'd at least like to hear one of them say "I just ran out of money, I wasn't really beaten". It worked for me for about 15 years when I was playing ball. Almost never got beaten, but ran out of time:)<br /><br />Thanks, Jim. Another gold star on your chart!Tom Wackerhttp://motorcyclebackroads.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-43654227245461523992012-04-12T11:19:23.494-05:002012-04-12T11:19:23.494-05:00I'd settle for them looking into the camera an...I'd settle for them looking into the camera and saying "I am NOT smarter than a fifth grader." But, I'd want them to give up their money stalking afterwards too.<br /><br />Thanks Jim - always spot on.Alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03776416251290011024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-83625160725934220512012-04-12T10:41:30.533-05:002012-04-12T10:41:30.533-05:00Petulant children - exactly. If they were 10 year...Petulant children - exactly. If they were 10 year old's on the dodge ball field, Sarah would be whining "it's my ball and I'm not going to let you play with it unless you let me hit you in the head!". Newt is the pudgy boy in the corner that is afraid of being hit with the ball, but tells everybody he is the key player on the team. Santorum - He keeps trying to throw the ball, but his aim is terrible and he keeps bonking Romney on the back of the head. Romney - keeps trying to look cool and knock out the captain of the other team, but the ball keeps on slipping out of his fingers and he's constantly scrambling after it, tripping on his untied $500 basketball sneakers. Just as the score gets to where it is inevitable that the other team is winning, they grab the ball and go home.hedgewytchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-12589805539639742282012-04-12T09:45:25.070-05:002012-04-12T09:45:25.070-05:00Ahhh, why bother with "instead of"? Just...Ahhh, why bother with "instead of"? Just go for the Coors Light, it already IS pee. *schnort*Kathy Carrasconoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-459854456202724822012-04-12T09:23:18.592-05:002012-04-12T09:23:18.592-05:00I was beginning to worry about you! Glad you'...I was beginning to worry about you! Glad you're still full of piss and vinegar--whether you drank it or just produced it.Roxanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06921303128817745535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-13743109449051406292012-04-12T07:58:51.775-05:002012-04-12T07:58:51.775-05:00Thanks @kateshort, I was about to make the same po...Thanks @kateshort, I was about to make the same point. Rick Perry was the first to put on the suspenders while his campaign fund remained active. Compare the suspenderers to Newt who is so deeply in debt that his campaign bounced a $500 check for a filing fee in Utah, Newt can't afford to suspend so he soldiers on in the hope that after the convention he'll get his debts paid by the GOP warchest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-74327614164247439832012-04-12T01:01:52.604-05:002012-04-12T01:01:52.604-05:00Rebecca beat me too it but this is the primary rea...Rebecca beat me too it but this is the primary reason that candidates don't official end their campaigns. Want to take any bets on whether Santorum will run in four years?<br /><br />As far as the post - Absolutely Wonderful, as usual. You are a must read for any and all political junkies like me.Moorcathttp://www.moorcat.com/roadlesstraveled/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-44544144906914997552012-04-12T00:33:20.270-05:002012-04-12T00:33:20.270-05:00Hello Jim
You have been missed - hope easter was ...Hello Jim<br /><br />You have been missed - hope easter was good to you and yours. Meanwhile the whole "family" thing. It always seems to be politicians who are losing that "suspend" their campaign because of the family.<br /><br />Sarah Palin dragged her pregnant 17 year old daughter and the latter's stunned baby father onto the stage at the republican convention. She carried her down syndrome babe around in a bus (and an airplane - not mentioned) to publicize a book - but decided not to join the 2012 campaign because of her family. In 2012 Sarah Palin has minimal support, no policies (but she never had any of those), few staff, no RNC support and minimal fundraising - but it was the family that stopped her campaign.<br /><br />Rick Santorum - took his family all over the states - who knows where Bella was most of the time (but no doubt in good hands) - but his wife and other family members were on the stage worshiping his every word - until it was obvious he was running out of money and out of support - and suddenly his family is at the forefront. The media gives politicians an out by saying how "hard" it is on the families. <br /><br />If anyone knows of a politician who was ahead in the polls - and then "suspended" his/her campaign because of the family - do let me know.TSnoreply@blogger.com