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The Mask Slips

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:23:26 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "Remember voodoo economics? That was the derisive term George H.W. Bush used for Ronald Reagan’s fantasy that he could simultaneously increase defense spending, cut taxes and balance the budget. After Reagan became president (with Mr. Bush as his vice president) the budget deficit — surprise, surprise — soared.
Just as they were wrong about trickle down, conservative Republican politicians and their closest buddies in the commentariat have been wrong on one important national issue after another, from Social Security (conservatives opposed it from the start and have been trying to undermine it ever since) to Medicare (Ronald Reagan saw it as the first wave of socialism) to the environment, energy policy and global warming."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The lesson for Americans suffused with anxiety and dread over the crackup of the financial markets is that the way you vote matters, that there are real-world consequences when you go into a voting booth and cast that ballot.

For the nitwits who vote for the man or woman they’d most like to have over for dinner, or hang out at a barbecue with, I suggest you take a look at how well your 401(k) is doing, or how easy it will be to meet the mortgage this month, or whether the college fund you’ve been trying to build for your kids is as robust as you’d like it to be.

It’s not just the economy.

Voting has consequences.

The first is how wrong conservative Republicans have been on so many profoundly important matters for so many years. The second is how the G.O.P. has nevertheless been able to persuade so many voters of modest means that its wrongheaded, favor-the-rich, country-be-damned approach was not only good for working Americans, but was the patriotic way to go.

Dead Heat

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:51:43 GMT

clipped by: pecksnif
clipper's remarks: The Poseur and his Pollsters

Clip Source: curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com

ZOGBY- "Dead Heat"

"... mirrors the 1980 election, when voters didn’t embrace Ronald Reagan over then-President Jimmy Carter until just days before the election."

The presidential race is still too close to call and could come down to the very last weekend before voters decide if they like or distrust Barack Obama, a national pollster predicts.

Zogby’s latest poll, released yesterday in conjunction with C-Span and Reuters, shows Obama and John McCain in a statistical dead heat, with the Illinois Democrat up 48-45 percent.

Zogby said the race mirrors the 1980 election, when voters didn’t embrace Ronald Reagan over then-President Jimmy Carter until just days before the election.

Tags: obama. phony poll numbers

An 82-year-old's perspective on the debates

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:43:11 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: She says: "It’s OK. We’ve been part of the greatest generation. We had our turn. Now we get to sit back and enjoy our pie while someone else worries about the calories. The new guy has the energy and the new ideas. Senator Obama, I hope you’re up for the challenge."

Clip Source: margaretandhelen.wordpress.com

here is what my heart is telling me. I am 82 years old (83 in December). It’s time to hand the reigns over to the next generation and hope that we did a good job raising them. To Senator McCain I say, with love in my heart, sit down and shut up. You’re beginning to look like

a cross between Barnie Fife and Floyd the Barber

There is too much at stake. You can’t agree with George Bush all of the time and then say you are about change. You can’t say the economy is strong in the morning and then say it’s a crisis that afternoon. You can’t be about deregulation for 25 years and then suddenly be against it. And for God’s sakes war can’t be the answer to everything

It’s OK. We’ve been part of the greatest generation. We had our turn. Now we get to sit back and enjoy our pie while someone else worries about the calories. The new guy has the energy and the new ideas. Senator Obama, I hope you’re up for the challenge.

One more thing

before this old bird goes to bed. Ronald Reagan is dead. Let it go

Tags: obama, mccain, election

Keep Your Sunny Side Up by Mark Steyn

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:13:01 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: The Iraq surge (McCain's unique selling point) is a victim of its own success and has dwindled away to an irrelevant footnote, and the front pages are full of a supposed economic catastrophe which the crude rules of politics suggest any fool should be able to hang on the incumbent.

Yet Obama still can't open up a solid lead. After all, why would record numbers of viewers watch the vice-presidential debate if the election's already over?

Meanwhile, the supposedly damaged Republican brand is proving suprisingly resilient. I see one of the two New Hampshire seats that flipped blue in '06 may return to the red fold next month. Where's the blowout?

A lot of the dynamite is well past its sell-by date: Two references last night to Ronald Reagan negotiating with Tip O'Neill. No one remembers who Tip O'Neill is. McCain might as well have been evoking misty watercolor mem'ries of Talleyrand . . . Obama, by contrast, is all future - which is understandable, given his past.

Clip Source: corner.nationalreview.com

Republicans have cause to be disappointed by last night: As everyone says, Obama wins by not losing. He looks more and more as if he's already the president, while McCain prowling the stage seeking to "connect" looks more and more like Yosemite Sam after the dynamite* failed to go off.

Nevertheless.

Before everyone succumbs to a terminal case of inevitabilititis, it's worth remembering we've been here before. In the last months of the primary campaign, the press kept assuring Hillary fans that Obama's victory was inevitable and the shriller the media Obamaboppers got, the more bluecollar Dems sat on their hands. In the end all the King's horses and all the King's men had to drag the guy across the finish line. You couldn't replay his spectacular victory in slow-motion because it was already slower than any slo-mo technology ever invented.

So we already know there's a huge disconnect between the unstoppable Messianic force promoted by the media and the cooler appraisal by actual voters.

Tags: mccain, obama, "townhall"debate

Palin’s Alternate Universe

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:20:22 GMT

clipped by: glennbah

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Palin’s Alternate Universe

We’ve lived through nearly two terms of an administration that believed it could create its own reality:

“Deficits don’t matter.” “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.” “Those weapons of mass destruction must be somewhere.”

Now comes Ms. Palin, a smiling, bubbly vice-presidential candidate who travels in an alternate language universe. For Ms. Palin, such things as context, syntax and the proximity of answers to questions have no meaning.

In her closing remarks at the vice-presidential debate Thursday night, Ms. Palin referred earnestly, if loosely, to a quote from Ronald Reagan

if Americans weren’t vigilant in protecting their freedom, they would find themselves spending their “sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was like in America when men were free.”

What Ms. Palin didn’t say was that the menace to freedom that Reagan was talking about was Medicare

Reagan “saw Medicare as the advance wave of socialism

Does Ms. Palin agree

Miserable???? They got your number....

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:05:29 GMT

clipped by: mooner-one

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Misery index (economics)

The misery index is an economic indicator, created by economist Arthur Okun, and found by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate. It is assumed that both a higher rate of unemployment and a worsening of inflation both create economic and social costs for a country.^[1] It is often incorrectly attributed to Chicago economist Robert Barro in the 1970s, due to the Barro Misery Index that additionally includes GDP and the bank rate.^[2]

During the Presidential campaign of 1976, Democratic candidate, Jimmy Carter, made frequent references to the Misery Index, which by the summer of 1976 was at 13.57%. Carter stated that no man responsible for giving a country a misery index that high, had a right to even ask to be President. Carter won the 1976 election. However, by 1980, when President Carter was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the Misery Index had reached an all-time high of 21.98%. Carter lost the election to Reagan.

Palin's code words

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:51:03 GMT

clipped by: georgecf

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Democrats and other critics distracted by her winks may have missed the message, but Palin's target audience heard it loud and clear. She is like the high-pitched whistle only dogs can hear. While Democrats heard non-answers, superfluous segues and cartoon words -- shout-out, I'll betcha, doggone, extra credit -- Republicans heard God, patriotism, courage, victory.

It's called code, and Republicans are fluent.

It isn't just the "maverick" word, which we now may consign to the Cliche Crematorium. Sprinkled throughout Palin's remarks were phrases that set the free associative mind in motion.

"Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again" was Ronald Reagan all over again.

"I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and God bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right?" Every evangelical Christian heard her rallying cry -- Onward, Soldiers!

"Because here you voted for the war and now you oppose the war." Did anybody hear flip-flop?

Tags: palin

Palin’s Alternate Universe

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:49:48 GMT

clipped by: rmowery

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Palin’s Alternate Universe

Sarah Palin is the perfect exclamation point to the Bush years.

We’ve lived through nearly two terms of an administration that believed it could create its own reality:

“Deficits don’t matter.” “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.” “Those weapons of mass destruction must be somewhere.”

In her closing remarks at the vice-presidential debate Thursday night, Ms. Palin referred earnestly, if loosely, to a quote from Ronald Reagan. He had warned that if Americans weren’t vigilant in protecting their freedom, they would find themselves spending their “sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was like in America when men were free.”

Tags: palin, elections, us, republicans, debates

Political Satire Stronger Than Candidates

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:20:13 GMT

clipped by: citizenbfk
clipper's remarks: This is a good article about extra-wonderful satire and Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin (the first quote clipped here)...and a couple of nice slashes at Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden.

These comedy sketches are becoming more well-known than the candidates themselves. Many folks now, when they hear Palin speak, wonder ahead to how SNL will parody it.

Palin, certainly, gives the comics a lot of material to work with.

A link to a video of the skits is at the bottom of this article.

With the elections just a bit more than three weeks from now, we have to "press on," -- these Republicans are like vampires and to kill them you really have to drive a stake through their heart: They're not dead till they're dead.

At least with our talented comics we not only can 'press on,' but laugh-on as well.

Clip Source: features.csmonitor.com

“Gwen, we don’t know if this climate change hoozie-what’s-it is man made or if it’s just a natural part of the ‘End of Days,’” she said. “But I’m not gonna talk about that. I would like to talk about taxes, because with Barack Obama, you’re gonna be paying higher taxes. But not with me and my fellow maverick. We are not afraid to get maverick-y in there and ruffle feathers and not got to allow that. And also, too, the great Ronald Reagan.”

“Look, I love John McCain,” he began. “He is one of my dearest friends. But at the same time, he’s also dangerously unbalanced. I mean, let’s be frank, John McCain - and again, this is a man I would take a bullet for - is bad at his job and mentally unstable. As my mother would say, ‘God love him, but he’s a raging maniac. And a dear, dear friend.”

parody of Biden’s schizophrenic feelings toward McCain.

Biden - Experience does not equal judgment

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:59:19 GMT

clipped by: georgecf

Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

On experience, I'm all for it. But judgment is at least as important. Biden has 35 years in the Senate, yet his record on national-security issues during that span has been atrocious. He might be able to name Germany's chancellor, but he was wrong in his fierce opposition to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and to the surge in 2007. Even Democrats don't see Biden as president. He got 0.9 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses. Forced out of the 1988 White House race for plagiarizing, he is that blend of longevity and long-windedness that Washington accepts as statesmanship.

Tags: biden

America Pays the Piper, Big TIme

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:46:53 GMT

clipped by: Spiritualmonkey

Clip Source: www.consortiumnews.com

After a 28-year binge of drunken optimism and blind nationalism – often punctuated by chants of “USA, USA!” and “We’re No. 1!” – Americans are waking up with a painful hangover, facing a grim “morning in America,” not the happy vision that Ronald Reagan famously sold them on.

Significantly, too, Reagan credentialed a new generation of neocon intellectuals, who pioneered a concept called “perception management,” the shaping of how Americans saw, understood – and were frightened by – threats from abroad.

Yet the perception managers appear to have at least one more trick up their sleeves. They are turning John McCain, the self-proclaimed foot soldier of the Reagan revolution who championed the neocon cause overseas and the deregulators’ schemes in the domestic economy, into a reformer who can change the system.

If recent opinion polls are to be believed, tens of millions of Americans still want to believe.

Tags: history, reagan, mccain, politics, elections, necons, republicans, propaganda, empire

Palin Channels Reagan - and Gets it Soooooo Wrong

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:48:05 GMT

clipped by: dulios
clipper's remarks: Idiot.

Clip Source: blogs.tnr.com

Palin Channels Reagan

Palin's final quote was from Ronald Reagan, warning that without vigilance, "you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children's children, what it once was like in America when men were free."

In fact, Reagan was not warning about a general lack of vigilance about freedom, he was warning what would happen if Medicare was enacted.

Tags: palin, lightweight, go home

erin sullivan - astrology site

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:28:30 GMT

clipped by: bakancs
clipper's remarks: September 11, 2001 Attack: news analysis
Eros and Aphrodite, Love and Creation ...

Clip Source: www.erinsullivan.com

September 11, 2001 Attack: news analysis

Erin Sullivan analyzes the astrological significance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US (written September 12, 2001).

The Lightning-Struck Tower
Erin Sullivan takes a second look at the astrological significance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US (written September 26, 2001).

Kurt Cobain - Voice and Victim of the Collective
- As first published in AstroDataBank, 2002

Madonna, Mighty Aphrodite
An article by astrologer Erin Sullivan about the ongoing evolution of Madonna
- as published on Star IQ, May 20, 2000

Russia Elects Libra Leader
- as appeared on Star IQ, spring 2000

Bedtime for Bonzo
Ronald Reagan's term on this planet is almost up
- as published on Star IQ, April 27, 2000

Eros and Aphrodite, Love and Creation

Sun and Moon
Astrology is not Gender Biased. An edited excerpt from "Dynasty: The Astrology of Family Dynamics". Features the archetypal masculine and feminine functions in the psyche.

A coffin on top of Ronald Reagan's coffin

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:13:25 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: No kidding! The whole conservative movement have crumbled down with this financial crisis. Now, only the lies and deceit could bring you back up.

Clip Source: news.xinhuanet.com

However, the largest bailout plan since the Great Depression in1930s was turned down by over two-thirds of republicans and 40 percent of Democrats.

Representative Darrel Issa, said he was "resolute" in his opposition to the measure because it would betray party principles and amount to "a coffin on top of Ronald Reagan's coffin."

Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey also voiced her opposition against the bill, noting taxpayers were being asked to pay for wild irresponsibility by America's top finance firms.

Tags: united states, finance, politics

Dateline October 26, 2006: Henry Paul and this Well-Planned 'Economic Crisis'

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:19:35 GMT

clipped by: zizzy
clipper's remarks: Quote from an investment newsletter I subscribe to:

most of the time, they were aware of the dangers. They knew your future was in grave jeopardy. They saw it in their own government data and talked about it behind closed doors. They even made not-so-secret preparations for this day.

They didn't suddenly discover these threats yesterday.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Hank Paulson, the market-wise Treasury Secretary who built a $700m fortune at Goldman Sachs, is re-activating the 'plunge protection team' (PPT), a shadowy body with powers to support stock index, currency, and credit futures in a crash

known as the working group on financial markets, it was created by Ronald Reagan to prevent a repeat of the Wall Street meltdown in October 1987

it will have a command centre at the US Treasury that will track global markets and serve as an operations base in the next crisis

The top brass will meet every six weeks, combining the heads of Treasury, Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and key exchanges

"We need to be vigilant and make sure we are thinking through all of the various risks and that we are being very careful here. Do we have enough liquidity in the system?" he said, fretting about the secrecy of the world's 8,000 unregulated hedge funds with $1.3trillion at their disposal.