Say what you will, but we now have a Libertarian as Speaker of the House.

Posted by Zero 9 years, 6 months ago to News
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Maybe I just have lower standards for politicians - but I'm kinda pleased about this.

Will it make any difference - I don't know - probably not. Seems its all bad news lately.

But I'll take what I can get.
We now have a person with strong free-market views 3rd in line for the Presidency!
Ha!


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  • Posted by JCLanier 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Esceptico: Just to be clear-I hope you took my comment as an affirmation of your comment and that I liked your original use of "Bonehead" for Boehner!
    It seems Foster interpreted my comment the opposite way.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    go to NEW or History and look for Defined Not Devine. First part a precis of history and the second personal comment.

    Don't take it rough it was a lot less what i had to go through finding out 24 years in the infantry had been for nothing. I'm not sure how long I've got on this planet so I use head on shock but probably not awe and I principally stick up for those of us who were termed enemies of the country by a government of traitors.

    Consider. DOHS when I mention them is Directorate of Internal State Security because the DISS the citizens and do little to protect us. It's just a way to get a new protective echelon in place. Translate that to German. Schutz Staffel. SS. Lightning strikes on black uniform collars. Consider the english meaning of Barak. lightning and lightning is a destroyer.

    My uniform had three on the shoulder patch and the motto in latin is De Opresso Liber. Liberate the Oppressed we were used for that nobly stated purpose - very little and used for the opposite purpose too much. And then spit on by the people who used us.

    You get a momentary twinge of self pity. I get to die not being able to change that stain on our unit's honor.

    Maybe......doing something like this will be of some use especially since the oppressed now can be found in any passenger line in any airline terminal..not to mention income tax and ;shyster dictators moochers and looters running the government.

    Definitely look for ways of improving it. The lack of ability to figure out what those bastards are doing in Wash. DC is largely a result of the redefinition. At the very least you now know why Republicans have become Democrat lapdogs and Madonna the liberal airhead made a movie in praise of Evita Peron a supposedly right wing fascist. She was but it wasn't really right wing. just right wing of the left.

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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I used them as the prime example of the Nuremberg Defense I didn't assign a verdict or make known the charge. That was....you?

    Don't take it too hard most people don't realize what fascist truly means nor that the entire left from Rino to Hillary are all of that bent. Byi association so are their supporters. Most don't understand conservative or liberal and probably think Democrat means democratic. Pays to read a pre PC dictionary from time to time.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm much the same. But i tune in here then go look at the articles being discussed or the article headlines in townhall which is republican blog. a couple of the writers will always give up the leftist spin of the day. Most anything else I can see that's important is quick scan of intellicasts weather picture for North half of western hemisphere or their list of weather events world wide. skip by Reuters and BBC and and the local blog. About 5 minutes tops counting waiting for the screen to load. This one gets me hooked into stuff that's being ignored that's nice. like Trumps still uncommented on theft of credit onthe 'Ford Motor company deal.noticed a big drop in Trump posts since then. I'd be too embareassed to mention him too. He's off the left's list of suitable candidates to allow on the dumbo side of the final selection anyway. Hillary crap is boring. this latest meaningless charade with the 40, Boner, and the newly annointed love child of the left Rand or Ryan whatever the same. They did the same thing to McCain and played him lhoik liine and sinker like a fish without a brain. I didn't like that he just stood and took it. but thats history..Academic anyway none of the Dumbos they chose to play in the politolimpics panned out anyway...Rinos one and all. More I like the comments and some of the discussion except the one thought preachers and master de-baters. And occasionally possibilities ...But not many. When it comes to heavy lifting most stop at the book. or are here for other purposes. the one's soros or his kind send out like lambs to the slaughter. ....good references though a lot have found their way into my hands via the miracle of kindle and a few in paper form.
    that's a real plus....and original thought, original research....a lot of that in this one location. So? I go look at others when they pop up ....but normally find them lacking. The western journalism site was one. Headlines led nowhere ...no beef. The mmf or m2f media is at best skim over country with no serous journalists only spin reporters...why bother land. 'kinda liek a decaf lo fat espresso. I couldn't even bother to paragraph this one....
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Gotta tell ya, Mike, I've never been compared to a Nazi before. Kinda rough, don'cha think.

    My conscious haunts me for many past sins but not about this.

    It's OK to disagree, y'know, that not everyone who differs is evil.
    In fact - few people really are.

    Even Obama - who seems in a mad rush to destroy us - is in fact acting on his best judgment, sincerely trying to do what he feels is best for his people.

    The world is a COMPLICATED place.
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  • Posted by $ CBJ 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ayn Rand voted for Nixon in 1972, even after he had imposed wage and price controls in the previous year.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I suppose at some point we just have to agree to disagree. It's not the end of the world.

    Peace out, brah!
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I hear ya, Foster, but I gotta say Cr-apitalism is alive and well with the GOP too.
    That's always the issue with politicians and business.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, I make no effort to keep up with the news.
    I'd say "My bad." But, nah, I'm pretty happy with my level of exposure.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Now the answer to that is easy. Every voter who put any of them in office. Ignorance is no longer an excuse Everyone knows what scumbags people like Hillary, Trump, and pick a RINO are. everyone knows it's a rigged, dirty, crooked evil system. The vote for continuance is spelled 'Guilty.'
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Haven't seen it work in 50 years plus. I have no faith in people who have made a living off of us saying one thing and doing another, claiming to be one thing and being another i have absolute one confidence that one fine day in the future you to will learn to check the vaseline for sand when your hear BOHICA. i suppose it doesn't matter as status quo ho hum is not the kind of people I'm looking for. i want that five percent that aren't couch potatoes looking for an excuse. This isn't fiction. People like that killed off 60,000 of us just a few decades ago and the people that put them in office continued to commit second hand murder with their votes. You murdered the troops,you sent out. you murdered the Bill of Rights, you murdered shame and decency and you offer me fairy tales and science fiction? Congress didn't do that the voters did that.

    You weren't worth the effort. You weren't worth fighting for....Your last chance IS people like me and those on active duty....buy...you aren't worth the effort.Truth? You jest? When was the last time that happened. Wayne Morse voting against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.Fifty years ago. A plague on both two faces of your one party system.

    When and if the military decides to up hold it's oath of office I'm starting to support they do it permanently.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    MichaelA-

    But that is just fine. Human beings are fallible, and as long as he does his job well, I can quote, "Dinna bind th' mouth o'th' kine that tred th' corn." If he negotiates a balance budget and gets our finances under better control, then I will live with human failures.

    If it turns out that he actually has integrity, so much the better. Have you noticed that in SF/Fantasy novels where the world is 'just a little bit better' than our current one, there is often a 'truth machine' (or 'spell')? If we could vet for integrity, or at least minimize lack thereof, we would be better off. We cannot, so we have to work with the tools available.

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 9 years, 6 months ago
    Is it possible to be a 'Progressive' Libertarian? cause his voting record doesn't show me Libertarian, even though he knows a little about Ayn Rand. We'll see it he kissy poo's with bamy or not.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My comment was about the GOP lying about their goals.
    But you must recognize it isn't slower. That is just the false assumption that the GOP wants you to believe.
    When a Dem is in the oval office, the GOP has (in the past at least) had to oppose the worst unconstitutional proposals. When a republican is in the oval office, there is no opposition to such programs regardless of how unconstitutional they are. In recent years, the GOP makes no attempt to reduce government; they only change who get the spoils of government piracy.
    Contrast the failure of Clinton to pass laws ignoring the bill of rights to the successful destruction of its protection of rights under GWBush. The Democrats are openly and brazen looters. The GOP pretends to be defenders of liberty until the day after the election. Then they do nothing to stop the growth of government. In fact, they expand it beyond the programs previously passed by Democrats.

    Wake up! Evil = Evil.
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Worse or better, time will tell. I'm not expecting utopia. That's what the progressive want. I want my country back and I believe we have the same chance of getting it back with Pelosi as we do with any of the Establishment Republicans. We need a sharp turn, quickly.
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  • Posted by Esceptico 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Worse or better than Speaker Bonehead? I never checked his record. While it would be nice to have somebody of worth, such a person (if it exhsits) does not present itself to be Speaker. I suppose we can always go back to Pelosi, right? My point is, in politics we don't want to commit the Nirvana fallacy = comparing some utopian ideal with the real world.
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  • Posted by mdant 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Huh??? How can a slower move into socialism be worse than a faster move? I figure I am at least half way through my life and have a lot better chance of a decent life if it is slower.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "There are persons of sound mind and good heart on both sides"
    But none of them are allowed to run as candidates for the GOP (or the Dems.)
    A vote for the GOP or the Dems is a vote for evil, acquiensence to socialism, consent to slavery, a part of the problem, not the solution.
    Break away from the brainwashing or your name defines the value of your vote.
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