Comments on: “I’m Living in a Cuckoo Clock” http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:03:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: No to B.O.= Body Odor & B. Obama http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-427227 No to B.O.= Body Odor & B. Obama Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:27:09 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-427227 Do these programs mean even more of OUR tax money is going to go to Reverend Wright's and Father Pfleger's hate-espousing churches? In these economic times, I would prefer some of that tax money back rather than to go towards spreading hate against everyone who is not Black - but I guess that's just me and my empty pockets from paying $4.50 a gallon for gas... Do these programs mean even more of OUR tax money is going to go to Reverend Wright’s and Father Pfleger’s hate-espousing churches?

In these economic times, I would prefer some of that tax money back rather than to go towards spreading hate against everyone who is not Black - but I guess that’s just me and my empty pockets from paying $4.50 a gallon for gas…

]]> By: Zeke http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-424710 Zeke Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:01:04 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-424710 in a nutshell! in a nutshell!

]]> By: Zeke http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-424705 Zeke Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:58:12 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-424705 its abysmalicity I believe ... Happy 4th! its abysmalicity I believe …
Happy 4th!

]]> By: Zeke http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-424696 Zeke Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:49:57 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-424696 Hey Jose, It's the Fourth of July. Go fuck yourself Hey Jose,
It’s the Fourth of July.
Go fuck yourself

]]> By: Linda C. http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-424309 Linda C. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:44:08 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-424309 This economy is about ready to go over the cliff. They are having food riots in other countries. The only thing that is keeping US manufacturing limping along is the weak dollar and artificially low interest rates.. However that cannot continue because it is driving up fuel prices and inflation. The jobs that are being lost now are service sector jobs. The automakers are laying off as well too. We have been practicing Wiemar Republic economics and will now doubt have a similar result. The economic bobble heads at the feds think they can control this train. They are fools to think so. The only issues that need to be substituted are our current debt for the German war debt and demand for reparations by the Allies. For other issues within the article just substitute "outsourcing" for Germany's loss of valuable resources, special low interest sweet loans to important people, and hedge funds where appropriate. http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/germany/lectures/20weimar1.html It was partly because of fear of Bavarian instability that Preuss wrote into the Weimar Constitution the now famous Article 48, which gave the president of the republic the right to govern by decree in emergencies. Before 1928, however, nobody paid much attention to this provision... ... Economic problems were among the most pressing that the young republic had to face. Because of the inflationary means by which the imperial government had financed the war, the German mark in 1919 was worth less than 20 per cent of its prewar value. Despite Erzberger's energetic financial reforms, the state's revenues from taxation based on nominal values were hopelessly inadequate. .. Another reason for the prominence given to reparations is their alleged contribution to the runaway inflation of the early 1920s. In fact, however, inflation, far from being the consequence of reparations, preceded them. Successive governments then seized on it as a means of evading reparations payments, as well as for internal social purposes. No German government before 1923 made any attempt to stabilize the currency, because German industrialists worked out a system of ''inflation profiteering.'' They would obtain short-term loans from the central bank for improvement and expansion of their plant, and then repay the loans with inflated currency. This economy is about ready to go over the cliff. They are having food riots in other countries. The only thing that is keeping US manufacturing limping along is the weak dollar and artificially low interest rates.. However that cannot continue because it is driving up fuel prices and inflation. The jobs that are being lost now are service sector jobs. The automakers are laying off as well too. We have been practicing Wiemar Republic economics and will now doubt have a similar result. The economic bobble heads at the feds think they can control this train. They are fools to think so. The only issues that need to be substituted are our current debt for the German war debt and demand for reparations by the Allies. For other issues within the article just substitute “outsourcing” for Germany’s loss of valuable resources, special low interest sweet loans to important people, and hedge funds where appropriate.

http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/germany/lectures/20weimar1.html
It was partly because of fear of Bavarian instability that Preuss wrote into the Weimar Constitution the now famous Article 48, which gave the president of the republic the right to govern by decree in emergencies. Before 1928, however, nobody paid much attention to this provision…
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Economic problems were among the most pressing that the young republic had to face. Because of the inflationary means by which the imperial government had financed the war, the German mark in 1919 was worth less than 20 per cent of its prewar value. Despite Erzberger’s energetic financial reforms, the state’s revenues from taxation based on nominal values were hopelessly inadequate.
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Another reason for the prominence given to reparations is their alleged contribution to the runaway inflation of the early 1920s. In fact, however, inflation, far from being the consequence of reparations, preceded them. Successive governments then seized on it as a means of evading reparations payments, as well as for internal social purposes. No German government before 1923 made any attempt to stabilize the currency, because German industrialists worked out a system of ”inflation profiteering.” They would obtain short-term loans from the central bank for improvement and expansion of their plant, and then repay the loans with inflated currency.

]]> By: C D Ward http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-424265 C D Ward Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:23:25 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-424265 <blockquote>John sez: I can’t vote for Nader because he screwed over Gore in 2000, and besides, a vote for Nader is not as damaging to Obama’s chances as a vote for McCain.</blockquote> Help me out here, John. Seriously. You've decided to to "screw over" Obama in 2008 just as 250,000 of <em><strong>your fellow Democrats</strong> in Florida alone</em> did to Gore in 2000 — all the while clinging to the DNC's favorite fairytale about how it was all that damned old Ralph Nader's fault. <blockquote>In the 2000 presidential election in Florida, George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by 537 votes. Nader received 97,421 votes. In fact, all seven of the other third-party candidates on the ballot in Florida each received more than 537 votes. The claim is that this was Nader's "greatest impact" on the election. Nader himself, both in his book "<em>Crashing the Party</em>", and on his website, states: "In the year 2000, exit polls reported that 25% of my voters would have voted for Bush, 38% would have voted for Gore and the rest would not have voted at all." When asked about claims of being a spoiler, Nader typically points to the controversial Supreme Court ruling that halted a Florida recount, Gore's loss in his home state of Tennessee, and the "quarter million Democrats who voted for Bush in Florida." A study by the Progressive Review found no correlation between votes for Nader and votes for Gore (i.e. <strong>larger votes for Nader did <em>not</em> correlate to less votes for Gore and vice versa</strong>). When asked by MSNBC's Tim Russert about the possibility of preventing a Democratic victory in 2008, Nader responded, "Not a chance. If the Democrats can’t landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, and emerge in a different form." — <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader#Third-party_votes_controversy" rel="nofollow">wikipedia</a></blockquote> It'll be interesting — if you're successful — to see whether they'll "wrap up, close down, and emerge in a different form" as they should, or issue yet another half-assed alibi pointing fingers in every direction save their own. This year, at least, it can be both Ralph <em>and</em> Hillary's fault. <a href="http://www.votender.org" rel="nofollow"><strong>Nader / Gonzalez '08</strong> — votenader.org</a>

John sez:
I can’t vote for Nader because he screwed over Gore in 2000, and besides, a vote for Nader is not as damaging to Obama’s chances as a vote for McCain.

Help me out here, John. Seriously.

You’ve decided to to “screw over” Obama in 2008 just as 250,000 of your fellow Democrats in Florida alone did to Gore in 2000 — all the while clinging to the DNC’s favorite fairytale about how it was all that damned old Ralph Nader’s fault.

In the 2000 presidential election in Florida, George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by 537 votes. Nader received 97,421 votes. In fact, all seven of the other third-party candidates on the ballot in Florida each received more than 537 votes.

The claim is that this was Nader’s “greatest impact” on the election. Nader himself, both in his book “Crashing the Party“, and on his website, states: “In the year 2000, exit polls reported that 25% of my voters would have voted for Bush, 38% would have voted for Gore and the rest would not have voted at all.”

When asked about claims of being a spoiler, Nader typically points to the controversial Supreme Court ruling that halted a Florida recount, Gore’s loss in his home state of Tennessee, and the “quarter million Democrats who voted for Bush in Florida.” A study by the Progressive Review found no correlation between votes for Nader and votes for Gore (i.e. larger votes for Nader did not correlate to less votes for Gore and vice versa).

When asked by MSNBC’s Tim Russert about the possibility of preventing a Democratic victory in 2008, Nader responded, “Not a chance. If the Democrats can’t landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, and emerge in a different form.”
— wikipedia

It’ll be interesting — if you’re successful — to see whether they’ll “wrap up, close down, and emerge in a different form” as they should, or issue yet another half-assed alibi pointing fingers in every direction save their own.

This year, at least, it can be both Ralph and Hillary’s fault.

Nader / Gonzalez ‘08 — votenader.org

]]> By: Pandora1 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-423873 Pandora1 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:37:23 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-423873 I'm sooo sorry the NYT is "disappointed" in Obama's current persona. Perhaps if they had done the minimum research on him before they vaunted him as the Messiah they would not have been in the least bit surprised. As an ex-Chicagoan myself, his exploits are legion: beating out his former mentor in his race for the state legislature (black woman)and an old-time pol (black man)shows that he early on knew no moral bounds he couldn't cross on his way upward. What kind of reporter (all media, including pundits)doesn't do his/her homework on a candidate before waxing poetic? Answer: ALL OF THEM. No, I don't think he's evil, just the same ole, same ole, without the political savvy of his cohorts. Sad, very sad. I’m sooo sorry the NYT is “disappointed” in Obama’s current persona. Perhaps if they had done the minimum research on him before they vaunted him as the Messiah they would not have been in the least bit surprised.

As an ex-Chicagoan myself, his exploits are legion: beating out his former mentor in his race for the state legislature (black woman)and an old-time pol (black man)shows that he early on knew no moral bounds he couldn’t cross on his way upward. What kind of reporter (all media, including pundits)doesn’t do his/her homework on a candidate before waxing poetic? Answer: ALL OF THEM.

No, I don’t think he’s evil, just the same ole, same ole, without the political savvy of his cohorts. Sad, very sad.

]]> By: clik212 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-423855 clik212 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:27:33 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-423855 Looking at your obvious choices, PBS offers you comprehensive news that you don't get on commercial network news. Instead of arguing with me why don't you offer us the alternatives for international news. I'm not saying that all news is corrupt. Read again I am talking about the major broadcast outlets. Don't get so wound up. PBS is now under Bush and you still get object news do you not watch the News Hour? Looking at your obvious choices, PBS offers you comprehensive news that you don’t get on commercial network news. Instead of arguing with me why don’t you offer us the alternatives for international news. I’m not saying that all news is corrupt. Read again I am talking about the major broadcast outlets. Don’t get so wound up. PBS is now under Bush and you still get object news do you not watch the News Hour?

]]> By: JozefAL http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-423496 JozefAL Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:14:39 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-423496 Uh, Hope? Personally, I LIKE the idea of "humanist" ideology. It sort of reaffirms the idea that HUMANS (not some sort of mythical/supernatural being) are responsible for their own lives, and that natural acts (like hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes) are NOT the result of someone's or some group's "sinful actions". This doesn't preclude the idea that government should be there to help the less-fortunate. Also, Marxism has never been put into actual practice. EVER. While Lenin and other later Communists claimed to be advocates (and devotees) of Marx and Engels' theories, none of them truly were, as the base concept of Marx and Engels' Communism was supposed to be based on INDUSTRIAL workers in Capitalist societies leading the "Revolution". As we've seen from history, EVERY SINGLE COMMUNIST NATION came from largely agrarian societies (with almost no real industrial base to speak of). In fact, Mao's vision of Communism saw peasants as active participants in the Revolution. (It's worth noting that the Eastern European states that fell to Communism after WWII were all largely agrarian societies until the Soviets forced mass industrialization programs on each.) Uh, Hope? Personally, I LIKE the idea of “humanist” ideology. It sort of reaffirms the idea that HUMANS (not some sort of mythical/supernatural being) are responsible for their own lives, and that natural acts (like hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes) are NOT the result of someone’s or some group’s “sinful actions”. This doesn’t preclude the idea that government should be there to help the less-fortunate.
Also, Marxism has never been put into actual practice. EVER. While Lenin and other later Communists claimed to be advocates (and devotees) of Marx and Engels’ theories, none of them truly were, as the base concept of Marx and Engels’ Communism was supposed to be based on INDUSTRIAL workers in Capitalist societies leading the “Revolution”. As we’ve seen from history, EVERY SINGLE COMMUNIST NATION came from largely agrarian societies (with almost no real industrial base to speak of). In fact, Mao’s vision of Communism saw peasants as active participants in the Revolution. (It’s worth noting that the Eastern European states that fell to Communism after WWII were all largely agrarian societies until the Soviets forced mass industrialization programs on each.)

]]> By: Hope Floats http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-423449 Hope Floats Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:50:40 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/04/im-living-in-a-cuckoo-clock/#comment-423449 Exactly. Republicans are upset that McCain doesn't have a strong message. He just keeps hitting away subtly at Obama. But it would be foolish to waste too much money knocking Obama too hard before the convention. They want to run against him more than Clinton. Exactly. Republicans are upset that McCain doesn’t have a strong message. He just keeps hitting away subtly at Obama. But it would be foolish to waste too much money knocking Obama too hard before the convention. They want to run against him more than Clinton.

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