hippiechick wrote: 
I would tread lightly when mentioning secrets and lies when discussing this administration vis a vis Mr. Bush and his team. Very lightly...

Micro-managed?  Team Obama rams full speed ahead even when the public in a majority is saying, loudly, NO.

 musik_knut wrote: 
I totally get that. Here's a confession:

I was very disappointed in Obama's speech last night. I thought he looked like he was trying to hard to please the media with some emotions, against his character, and that religious crap at the end turned me off.

But he is a politician. He has a lot of people to please, as well as get an impossibly large job to get done.

Those who have never tackled a huge problem in a management environment prolly don't have a good picture of how long it takes to get anything done. This is the largest disaster in American history. It isn't like a hurricane or airplane attack, that comes and goes, this is ongoing and long running.

The government never before has had to be micro-managed by the public and the media, like Obama's administration is. IMO, this is a backlash to the Bush Admin, which not only kept everything a secret, but lied and manipulated the media. Once bitten twice shy.

 hippiechick wrote: 

Then you can appreciate how those to your Right cannot understand you way of thinking...and that is not meant to make this personal. I apologize in advance if you take it that way.

 musik_knut wrote: 
All ideologues are scary, because they are unable to think outside their narrow view.

I am not an ideologue, if that is what you are thinking, but the Right view is so the complete opposite of my way of thinking, that it is very difficult for me to see their points.

 hippiechick wrote: 

Rush is scary. His hard core followers are scary, too. I would also apply that to those who see Mr. Obama as the best ever. The only one in a country of 300 million currently suited to the tasks at hand. That's scary stuff.

I wonder what Rick Barber's stance on our foreign policy is. Too often 'tea party' types rail against a bloated, wasteful government but are ready to further these wars all over the middle east to 'fight terror'.

They are incapable of seeing the correlation between the two. Maybe one day he will get it.

It is promising though, to hear that guys like him are giving the grand ol party fossils a run for their corrupt money.

 hippiechick wrote: 
I can't help but to admire just how brilliant this ad is!  Seriously.  In hindsight it is rather humorous that the straw that broke our (the colonies) camel's back was a tax on tea!  I think this was a smart ad.  Would I vote for the guy?  Uh, who knows.  I've never voted or not voted for a person based on their position on one individual issue.  Like all other political ads, it's just a soundbite, not anything of real substance.

 kurtster wrote: 
Rush is, and always has been, a comedian. He will say whatever outrageous statement he can to keep his audience and rake in the green. But the dittoheads believe him, and that's what's scary.

 sirdroseph wrote: 
  Bingo.

The problem with Rush is that he doesn't make it clear if he is serious or joking.  Unlike some commentators, he does not issue frequent disclaimers saying that his show is "for entertainment purposes only", or use any of the tools that professional comedians use to let the audience know that it's humor.  I believe that, just like the Fox "News" Channel, which only issued a single disclaimer that, despite the misleading name, that they were in fact an "entertainment channel", that Rush is trying to deceive as many people as possible.

For a caught-red-handed drug addict, I have not seen any effort more than what was necessary to keep his fat ass out of prison, when it comes to recovery.

Unless and until Rush gets serious about working on his drug addiction, he simply cannot be trusted.  Therefore it's obviously a big problem when lots of people trust him.  I believe in personal liberty, so if Rush wants to slip into insanity, I say that's his prerogative.  But he has zero right (and should not be given the privilege) to let his insanity hurt innocent people.

 hippiechick wrote:I like this. I resonate with this. This speaks to my point-of-view. What video game is it a clip from?

 hippiechick wrote: 
Jezuz humphing Josef, this is some scary shit.

 kurtster wrote: 
I don't.

 buddy wrote:
I don't read the blogs of wacko's - just the ones that think like I think!

 kurtster wrote: 

Family Guy—THE BIRD BIRD BIRD, THE BIRD IS THE WORD! - Funny home videos are a click away

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

 Manbird wrote: 
I guess I have to find a new favorite word

 sirdroseph wrote: 

Touché 

 kurtster wrote: 

Kurt, please do not try to defend what Rush says about this, joking or not, context or not, this is just plain asinine.  I do not take Rush seriously, the problem is he has a lot of listeners that do. I do not try to justify Al Gore's mansions, please do not try to justify these remarks.

 brandog wrote: 
Yes, having heard the words and the tone, yes he was kidding about the rig being blown up on purpose, at least that is my personal conclusion.  It is a big stretch from his actual words to what the headline states.  The headline represents the words as an actual quote.

Yes, oil oozes from the floor of the ocean all over the globe, naturally.  And the ocean does deal with it.  Another fact.

This however is a man caused disaster, and requires rapid intervention.  It is fair to note that it took BHO 12 days to show up and check out the disaster first hand.  Pretty casual response to what is going to no doubt be one of the greatest ecological disasters of the 21st Century.  Any fifth grader figured that out by day 3 when the well was found to still be leaking. 

One could say that Limbaugh's remark mirrors the casuality of BHO's response.

I don't take Limbaugh very seriously, but I do listen and he does make sense now and then.