tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post7076148699576209863..comments2024-01-07T00:58:01.364-05:00Comments on SON OF THE CUCUMBER KING: Jobs We Can Believe InRay Errol Fox / Son of the Cucumber Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244270231118696818noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-78438556986293926332010-02-18T10:39:25.425-05:002010-02-18T10:39:25.425-05:00Elsie says....
Je suis ni républicain ou Democrat...Elsie says....<br /><br />Je suis ni républicain ou Democrat. Je ne sers aucun maître mais lui qui a créé tous. <br /><br />Mr. Nixon and the Emperor of Japan bent slightly at the waist, heads level, eyes meeting, a sign of mutual respect. Mr. Bush Sr. kissed the Saudi King on each cheek a greeting in Middle Eastern countries that indicates friendship. Mr. Obama bowed so deeply that it was viewed internationally as a sign of capitulation and subservience.Elsie La Vachehttp://fechezlavache.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-87544040674883056302010-02-16T19:04:52.214-05:002010-02-16T19:04:52.214-05:00must be you did'nt see nixon bowing huh oh ya ...must be you did'nt see nixon bowing huh oh ya republicanit did'nt happenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-90020059943595629642010-02-16T09:35:18.163-05:002010-02-16T09:35:18.163-05:00Why be thankful for Mr. Bushs' death? Ya'l...Why be thankful for Mr. Bushs' death? Ya'll have been killing him since he left office. Like Sean Connery says to Harrison Ford at the end of "The Last Crusade" Let it go. That said, I TOTALLY agree with the points on givernment whether Obama does it or Bush does it. Mama always said that two wrongs don't make it right. Spending more money to reduce out of control spending though, is not "progress" it is pure idiocy. 43 Presidents never bowed to world leaders, that the 44th does it is not progress it is a troubled sense of foreign policy. A health reform bill ( which is absolutely necessary ) that inflates the size of givernment by 161 agencies bloating a federal bureaucracy that already suffers from givernment obesity is not progess it is dieased with the arrogance of power. On and on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. I do however, fully agree with the assessment about movie remakes; unless of course they are all done in the spirit of Mel Brooks.ElsieLaVachehttp://cafeaulait.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-11431303186889343612010-02-15T01:24:56.529-05:002010-02-15T01:24:56.529-05:00"We do not need more givernment (Yes Jakey I ..."We do not need more givernment (Yes Jakey I said it GIVE in place of gov...)" Like when our previous "elected" President decided to GIVE us all $300 checks without considering where the money would be coming from? Like when he decided to GIVE us another check further into his second term? Like when the Democrats successfully stopped him from GIVING our Social Security to Wall Street, which would have GIVEN them even more of our money that would have been gone? Just had to ask.<br /><br />It's safe to say we're agreeing to disagree about the future of progressivism, because I believe in the very core of what progressivism is, and you can see it right in the word itself: progress. Moving forward and constantly doing everything in our power to make this nation today better than what it was yesterday. (Except for remakes of movies, but that's for another category altogether.) This is something that we ALL should strive for, and a group that is cheering for the end of that belief is not a group I would care to be invited to join. <br /><br />Oh, and as for that previously "elected" President that I mentioned before, he and I have stood on opposite sides of the spectrum but when the time comes for him to leave, I wouldn't say that he was "thankfully" dead.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10150523772624652036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-55986818126181805792010-02-14T02:15:01.745-05:002010-02-14T02:15:01.745-05:00Elsie how quaint! Do you have health insurance?Elsie how quaint! Do you have health insurance?girlontapehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12107411738753899518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-63576562257590882242010-02-12T13:25:36.972-05:002010-02-12T13:25:36.972-05:00Progressive ideals haven't worked in 100 years...Progressive ideals haven't worked in 100 years. Including the failure of the new Deal. In 1933 unemployment peaked at 24.% and for most of the New Deal remained between 14-17%. Upon entering WWII it dropped to 9.9%. (Elsie is a statistics cow).At the end of the war it peaked again but by then (Thankfully) Roosevelt was dead and private industry was welcoming back GI's with new construction and industrial jobs. We do not need more givernment (Yes Jakey I said it GIVE in place of gov, because the last thing the moronic collective in Washington does is govern, but they sure do a lot of giving). What we need is for Pelosi, Reid and the Obamanation in the White House to pick up shovels and learn what so many Americans already know: This country was not built in the minds of progressive intellectual idealists, it was built on the backs of hard working people with a dream to be free. Don't feel the down mood GHW! Join those of us who have hope, not the false hope of the false prophet in the White House, but the real hope of the profit of the labor of good men and women all across the country who stand up for their beliefs. Let not your heart be troubled, the end of progressivism is nigh.<br /><br />Elsie, in the mooooood for flowers :)ElsieMooCowhttp://inthemooooooodforamerica.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-88895272548819515852010-02-11T20:51:55.888-05:002010-02-11T20:51:55.888-05:00I hate to say it, but maybe we are. We have differ...I hate to say it, but maybe we are. We have different news outlets telling us if we should be happy or upset depending on what side of the spectrum we're on, we have cars that parallel park themselves, we have cell phones that ensure that we never have to memorize another phone number again and we now have celebrities that don't have to do anything to be celebrities. It is kinda depressing. Sorry to bring the mood down...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10150523772624652036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-16320184142536606862010-02-11T20:44:09.979-05:002010-02-11T20:44:09.979-05:00so are we devolving GHWriter? so depressing.
good...so are we devolving GHWriter? so depressing. <br />good to see, yes Elsa :)girlontapehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12107411738753899518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-28632457800950626082010-02-11T19:45:52.018-05:002010-02-11T19:45:52.018-05:00Back in those days, the national media wasn't ...Back in those days, the national media wasn't dominated by one party's spin vs. the other party's spin. It was simply... reporting what was, and our elected leader reaching out to his people and quieting their doubts. Can you imagine how little would actually be accomplished if there was a Fox News equivalent going out of its way to discredit everything that FDR was trying to say? If there were that, Dewey's comments would have been welcomed and repeated every hour on the hour until the right amount of people believed them...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10150523772624652036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-82690945220253755312010-02-11T12:10:02.974-05:002010-02-11T12:10:02.974-05:00Education is a progressive discovery of our own ig...Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant<br /><br />Good to see so many educated progressives here :)<br /><br /> Elsa die KuhEllieMaeBovinehttp://obamaisjesus.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-7947148646415137232010-02-11T08:01:09.131-05:002010-02-11T08:01:09.131-05:00Brilliant post Ray - I especially love the Russell...Brilliant post Ray - I especially love the Russell quote - and I fully second Jacopo's comment. The President knew it would be like this - he warned us about it over & over.girlontapehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12107411738753899518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-41136134482109952932010-02-11T03:49:33.017-05:002010-02-11T03:49:33.017-05:00The instant I received a notification about your m...The instant I received a notification about your most recent entry (which I agreed with, thoroughly), I was glancing over my final draft of 5 Widely Believed Facts About WW II (That Are Bullshit) for Cracked.com (which should be online momentarily). One example that struck a particular chord with me personally was the entirely baseless and politically-motivated smear that FDR deliberately allowed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to galvanize support for war. I do not know if this section made the final cut, but I am willing to risk sounding repetitive on an worthy subject. The crux of this "bullshit" issue was that it was nothing more than a callous partisan move supported by Congressional Republicans and GOP presidential candidate Gov. Dewey (of our own New York, no less) to use against FDR in the 1944 elections. Although Army Chief of Staff Gen. Marshall repeatedly made it clear that these rumors were baseless and, more importantly, dangerous to the war effort (at the time, Japan did not know their codes had been broken), it took more than several attempts for Dewey to eventually scrap his plan to use this lie in his campaign.<br /><br />This is what disheartens me: how the Republican Party is willing to go to "win the day" through the slow-death of their adversity, even if it means at the expense of their own people. I have put my fullest faith in President Obama, and have repeatedly held out hope of a bipartisan cooperation between Democrats and Republicans; a second "Era of Good Feeling". Unfortunately, this seemed too bold for modern times, or at least too "arrogant" for beltway Republicans. Every time I see the Democrats reach across the aisle to offer their peers an olive branch, it is the Republicans that repeatedly meet them with a bayonet through the heart.<br /><br />We do need a second New Deal, and I believe the GOP will stop at nothing to see it killed. Why? Because they have made their own citizens into their enemies, and will stop at nothing to see them fail. This is a dangerous form of politics that I can find no possible merit in. If these people are dead-set on sabotaging the country they swore to serve, then I believe they can truly be classified as domestic enemies to the US Constitution, and should play no further role in its implementation for the general welfare of citizen or state.Jacopohttp://www.cracked.com/members/Jacoponoreply@blogger.com