Posted on 12/18/2011 1:18:29 PM PST by DomainMaster
This is an email sent from a friend to a friend....it demonstrates what some in the country now believe.
(My dear friend):
Thanx vm for the thoughtful (telephone) call. Sorry we were in a rush, but this was a “Super Solstice Celebration” party thrown by one of my dearest friends down here and he'd scheduled the event on Friday night just so (a friend) could attend.
The party was excellent!! We barely made it home before midnight. Would have looked like any other nice party except we all stopped partying at ~10 p.m., gathered in our hosts’ great room, and spent ~30’ talking about the true historic origins of “Christmas” being placed on December 25th.
(In attendance was) a wide variety of terrific people; mostly highly educated retirees from other parts of the country who have responsibly and joyfully banished religion from their lives or are hopefully curious about how to do so. Really good folks!!)
Watched your Newt video. He certainly is a polished speaker and debater, with an air of authority that makes it easy for his audience to believe what he's saying is true because he's so self-assured and throws in enough names and dates to make one think he must know what he's talking about.
And he definitely looks smarter and more competent compared to his Republican opposition; but so would a steaming pile of yak man*re. Right? The smartest, most rational, most humane people on the stage are two hopelessly unelectable losers; Ron Paul (a committed Libertarian, not a true Republican) and Romney (who believes Jesus came to America, the Garden of Eden was real and was located in Missouri, a moronic angle (sp) named Maroni told God's secrets of the universe to a drunken drifter in New York, and his underpants are “magical”)!!
I'm no authority on some of the subjects he addressed (like the Federal Reserve, the European Union's problems with Greece, Italy, Ireland, etc.), but IMHO, Newt only persuasively appears to “know his subject” - as you put it - if his listeners don't. To say he plays fast and loose with the facts stretches the definition of “facts” to the point of absurdity.
For example:
- Yes; presidential and congressional politicians certainly got America into the enormous economic mess we're in, but it hasn't primarily been the Democrats’ fault and certainly not Obama’s. Face facts that even rational Republicans (not yet a true oxymoron) concede: The “Great Bush Recession” was almost entirely caused by the profligate spending of the Cheney-Bush presidency and the Republican dominated House and Senate from 2000-2006. Clinton gave Cheney-Bush hundreds of billions in federal budget surplus. The Republicans turned it into trillions of dollars of deficits (sp) spending money we didn't have on the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (the first inexcusable, the second unwinnable) + more irrational, fiscally irresponsible tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% (which just happened to be Republicans’ biggest political contributors) + wasted funds on “Faith Based Initiatives” + more hundreds of billions wasted on Iraq War Profiteers (like Cheney's Halliburton & it's many, amazingly profitable subsidiaries, like the Blackwater Christian mercenaries, Inc.) + more millions using U. S. troops as Christian Crusaders trying to convert Muslims in Muslim countries to Xtianity + + + + ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
The worst “delayed effects” of Bush's Debt Debacle on subprime mortgages, the housing market, jobs, Wall Street tycoons’ reckless gambling away of teachers’ & firemen’s pension funds + AIG’s “lost long shot” didn't hit until 2008-2009, which allowed sleazy Republicans and stupid citizens to put Obama’s face on Cheney & Bush's crimes. The only disaster the Cheney-Bush Republicans didn't do on purpose - I don't think - was that ruining America's middle class decimated the federal government's tax revenue base, so our economy imploded while their fingerprints on all their “wasted money bombs” were still clearly visible to anyone who wanted to see!
I won't defend the Democrat congress's bungling of Obama’s economic stimulus plan and the healthcare bill (now falsely referred to by almost everyone as “Obamacare”) or the time and political capital Democratic congressional leaders wasted vengefully paying back Republicans for their sins from 1994-2006, but nothing they did made a dent in the Cheney-Bush-Congressional Republicans’ “Economic Disaster Trifecta”; i.e., the federal debt crisis + the “Great Bush Recession” that damaged economies worldwide and was the “Bush Depression” for middle and working class Americans + the shameless bailouts for the Wall Street gamblers who lost our collective asses betting both for and against the U. S. economy trying to profit billions instead of mere millions on financial shenanigans like derivatives and credit swaps, based on “magical commodities” that never really existed but were scammed as valued 10 times the entire worth of the NY Stock Exchange!
If you give the least damn about the “too big to fail” investment bankers and insurance titans who criminally defrauded, recklessly gambled, and straight-out stole over a trillion dollars from hardworking Americans, drove their companies into bankruptcy, then begged for and received over $700,000,000,000 in taxpayer's government funds from their Goldman-Sachs man in the White House, used our money to buy up other financial institutions they'd put into bankruptcy, then gave themselves multi-million dollar annual bonuses for being the biggest financial failures in history???!!!
And not one of those crooks has gone to jail???!!! (Oh; that's right. What they did would have been criminal before Reagan but it wasn't after Reagan!! Add those embezzled trillions to the lost incomes of the millions of American jobs Reagan cost us by writing business regulations and tax laws that blatantly encouraged America's biggest industries to send our jobs to third world countries - so they could be extremely profitable there instead of merely highly profitable here - leaving only their corporate headquarters behind, so they could explode the average CEO salary and bonuses from 14 times their average workers’ pay to over 40 times in only 8 beautiful, Reagan years!!!
And Newt can't say “I'm a Reagan Republican!” loud enough or often enough???!!! That's exactly what I - and if you haven't noticed on Fox Not-the-News, almost every public official and staff member who has ever worked with the “real” Newt - are so terrified and furious about! If ever elected president, Newt will be exactly the same kind of corrupt, conscienceless, self-absorbed, greed-crazed, viciously partisan and anti-patriotic, economy-wrecking, butt-licking, theocratically plutocrat that Reagan and Cheney-Bush II were. Except he'd be even more disastrous for America because he's a hell of a lot smarter than those two dimwits were.
I could go on and on about the subjects Newt addressed in your video - the Federal Reserve’s role in the Great Bush Recession, Medicare, PSA false positive tests, the Republican debt ceiling farce (that almost turned America into a third world p**S pot), the “Select Debt Reduction Committee's” abominable failure due to Republicans’ hyper-partisan intransigence, the real content and international effects of Obama’s “apologias”, China's threat and the Republicans’ complicity, and the 100% lies told in Newt's closing campaign commercial - but you've probably stopped reading several paragraphs ago!
I love you (people). But if y'all seriously believe that what America needs in order to recover any semblance of its lost greatness is more vicious partisan Cretans like Jim DeMint and fewer smart practical patriots like Obama, I think you've completely lost touch with reality; at least the reality of contemporary Neo-Con/Tea Bagger Republican politics. (And your girl, Nikki Haley is certainly setting a fine example of conservative government, isn't she?! I didn't think it was humanly possible to screw things up so badly in SC that Mark Sanford's goobernatorial follies would look like the “good ol’ days”, but she's pulling it off!!)
Sampere (sp) Aude -
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 5:36:10 PM · 203 of 203
DomainMaster to r9etb
Where ya been?
And what ‘truth’ would that be?
The liberal ‘progressive” version of it, in short, total BS?
I am reminded of descriptions of similar parties thrown by Dr. Goebbels and assorted Nazis friends at Xmas times. He especially hated the Catholic Church into which he was baptized. He was dead long before he died.
Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach. Those that can’t teach send you wordy emails that noone else has the time or interest to read.
It shows. For one thing, the economic malfeasance he's trying to blame on a Republican Congress took place under the Democrats, whose forty years of spending control trump anything the Republicans could even be accused of in four. For another, the Great Bush Recession took place under 0bama, under policies condemned by 0bama and promptly continued, under spending practices that 0bama managed to quadruple in a mere 90 days. And for a third, anyone who does not know the difference between "cretin" and "Cretan" has no claim to education past the grade-school level.
This is not a bright individual. This is a marginally literate poseur blind to ignorance and proud of being able to spout a great cloud of cliche-ridden gas to cover up for it.
like Cheney's Halliburton & it's many, amazingly profitable subsidiaries, like the Blackwater Christian mercenaries, Inc.) + more millions using U. S. troops as Christian Crusaders trying to convert Muslims in Muslim countries to Xtianity
I can readily believe the Occupy movement's complaint that it's very hard for liberal arts college grads to find jobs--if this is an example of what current PhDs write like.
Notes to the emailer:
First, solstice festivals are also religious holidays.
Second, sir (pardon me for assuming you are such), what you describe as an excellent party, I consider a tedious foretaste of Hell, and probably would even were I not a Christian. Suffice it to say that if a friend of mine dragooned me into attending a party where the revelry broke off at 10 PM on a Friday for a dreadfully earnest half-hour discussion of the atheist take on the origins of the Christmas holiday, I would tell said friend I wanted that time back. No, that’s not right. I’d keep drinking and either start having it out with those pompous prats, or start singing carols. Or maybe both. And understand that when I say “carols”, I mean “Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth” is about as secular as my set list would be likely to get that evening.
And third, a note to you: The writer is candid about what he thinks. But speaking the truth about what one thinks is not precisely the same as speaking the truth, period.
Note the excessive use of ad hominem in lieu of argument; and the supercilious fatuity with which the writer assumes that using polysyllabic language to describe something someone confers truth on one's ravings.
Check the posting history. Do I smell Purina, or ozone?
SNIFF.
Cheers!
Note the excessive use of ad hominem in lieu of argument; and the supercilious fatuity with which the writer assumes that using polysyllabic language to describe something somehow confers truth on one's ravings.
Check the posting history. Do I smell Purina, or ozone?
SNIFF.
Cheers!
Just another bag of burning poop from a lib.
I smell used Purina.
>> Apologies in advance for any that are offended by the truth of this email.
You’re apologizing for the FReepers that are offended by the existence of this email? Of course, that’s not what you meant, but doubtlessly less idiotic then the premise FReepers are offended by ‘truths’.
Yeah! No bigotry there! ( The only liberal mortal sin.) /s
The irony is that this author, ( a bigot of Mt. Rushmore proportions) likely considers himself as being, oh so, tolerant and thinks Christians are the closed minded Neanderthals. Maybe he fell down the rabbit hole and everything up is now down.
Ever wonder why these screeds are da*ned WORDY?? sheesh. The arrogant author thinks he’s being cute with his coy little abbreviations and euphemisms. I have a galvanized washtub that is too small to hold all the barf.
When I was in college, I used to think professors like this and their minions were tiresome bores.
As I got older, I started to realize how garden-hoe stupid they are.
But, now that I’m older still, I have to admire their ability to at once fleece their universities, their fellow citizens (via government grants) and their students. These people pull down great salaries, incredible benefits and often enjoy great respect (well, lately it’s mostly within their own minds and their eco chamber of like-minded edu-parrots) while simultaneously deriding and/or destroying all that makes it possible, and yet we still keep sending our children to be “educated” by these babbling boobs.
But who’s the bigger fool here? This professor, or we, who feed, clothe, and support him for life, and then continue to send our children to be brainwashed by him and his ilk?
“Professors live in ivory towers so high they can’t see or hear outside of them.”
Someone might want to check if she is getting nose bleeds from the altitude.
This proves the saying, When people cease to believe in God, they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
- G. K. Chesterton
Goldman Sachs makes out like a bandit no matter who is in the Whitehouse or Congress. Plenty of officials from each party hailed from Goldman Sachs.
Each party has their recipients of largess taken from the labor of people who work in this country. Some companies grow through better products, more efficiency, and meeting their consumer's expectation - others grow with dependence on Government handouts.
The real truth is that there has not been a real reduction in the national debt since 1957 no matter which party had the Whitehouse or the Congress.
Explain to me how the so called Clinton “surplus” was so wonderful that the national debt increased every single year from 4.064 trillion on 9/30/1992 to 5.674 trillion on 9/30/2000? P.S. the habit of Congress to change the social security funds from on budget to off budget has a direct impact on whether there is a surplus or not.
During the GWB years, the debt increased an average of .525 trillion per year. Explain to me what is so wonderful under Obama and his democratic congress that allowed the national debt to increase by 1.65 trillion in the first year of his term in office? Three times the rate of the former occupant. And sure to be even worse as the cost of Obama care and baby boomers medicare hits the books. No matter, the president can always shift blame to Congress even though he had majorities in both houses it must have been the fault of those rascally RepubliCONS.
The majority of the people in this country are sick and tired of living according to the dictates of the 30% who wield the power of the governing class. We are at a point where the tentacles of Government so permeate every aspect of life and so many have become dependent on Government, that to continue down this path means bondage.
What is needed is George Washington and honest politicians (an oxymoron though there may be a few) to restore this Republic to it's founding principles. That is not Obama who admits to an intrigue with Marxism, and sadly none of the current Republican candidates.
However, most important is informed, and ever vigilant citizens who will take back their freedoms from the monstrosity that our Government has become, so quit looking for the perfect leader, and roll up your sleeves. If the citizens fail, the Republic falls, and you might as well rename us the New United Socialist People's Republic of Amerika.
Every citizen who dislikes the direction this country is headed needs to start right now, with your friends neighbors, local and state governments, schools. Do whatever you can to help your community and neighborhood .
Watch your state officials, demand that they quit assisting Washington's efforts to make them irrelevant. Run for precinct chairman of your party if you can, and take them over neighborhood by neighborhood.
All that is needed for this evil to persist is for good and honest people to say nothing and do nothing. "A man dies when he fails to stand up for what is right" and so does the Republic.
This "friend" is a boor and a bore, anf I wonder why you'd associate with such a useless, condescending tw@t.
Deserving of a ZOT.
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