http://therealmccain.com/ The corporate media won't report it so pass it on!

If I were Ken Silverstein, I'd be careful mentioning that trip to Russia...

The article Tbogg posts a complaint about isa satire. It's a bad idea to talk about somebody leaving our side glaringly exposed like that (the Russians and Serbs financing a lobbyist thing) particularly when some GOP dittohead could (inaccurately, of course) point out that Nancy Pelosi went to Syria on an unauthorized trip (without, of course, taking money from the guys she visited), the article on globalization evidently thinks the only nations worth surveying that aren't WASP European nations are New Zealand and Italy (where's Japan? France? Spain? Australia? Canada, for Chrissakes?)....

I don't understand particularly how a sloppy study like the Economist's View one could slide by the "reality-based community."

And did I mention that quoting somebody who thinks the Feds organized 9/11 in order to pressure this flabby, sheeplike population into doing something not at all difficult to do (attack somebody weak, brown-skinned, and foreign) and somehow, now, when the Bush Administration has a 28% approval rating and the easiest way to make a buck would be to point to where those Flight 93 people went and to show that yes, Virginia, we Americans are so damn dangerous (ha, ha, hahhahahahahaha) that the Government under the Goa'uld-Bush Administration tricked us into attacking somebody else is a bad idea? I'm serious here, 9/11 Truthers are the most dangerous kind of naive.

ABC News/Wash. Post withheld results of poll favorable to Obama

Summary: ABC News and The Washington Post issued staggered releases of the results of their latest poll, withholding from their first release results favorable to Sen. Barack Obama, including the finding that 50 percent of registered voters would vote for Obama for president versus 42 percent for Sen. John McCain. The next day, the Post ran an article headlined "Poll Finds Voters Split on Candidates' Iraq-Pullout Positions," which did not mention Obama's 8-point lead over McCain. Later that day, ABC News and the Post issued a second release with additional poll results that stated: "Obama continues to hold most of the advantages in the presidential race."

Way to go Curt! Why wait to leave office to become a lobbyist? It is much more effective to be a lobbyist and congressman concurrently.

“stealth ideology”

indeed, passing off "intelligent" design as science is akin to passing off death as life. ID is ANTI-science. and had scientists over the generations shared the ID philosophy things today would have been much different--for the worst. very stealthy.

but, on the other hand, as far as the constitution-shredding nature of the bush presidency, i don't find this to be 'stealth' at all. if one paid attention to the GOP/corporate messaging you will find a complete disdain for democracy, and the will of the majority. not so stealthy.

Samson- @ 10:

“stealth ideology”

indeed, passing off "intelligent" design as science is akin to passing off death as life. ID is ANTI-science. and had scientists over the generations shared the ID philosophy things today would have been much different--for the worst. very stealthy.

but, on the other hand, as far as the constitution-shredding nature of the bush presidency, i don't find this to be 'stealth' at all. if one paid attention to the GOP/corporate messaging you will find a complete disdain for democracy, and the will of the majority. not so stealthy.

Hm, the Nazis they ain't. They're cowards, they lack the balls and the spines to do a fraction of what Hitler did. Problem is, they don't seem to realize that.

Mickxotic @ 13:

General_Rennenkampf @ 12:

Samson- @ 10:

“stealth ideology”

indeed, passing off "intelligent" design as science is akin to passing off death as life. ID is ANTI-science. and had scientists over the generations shared the ID philosophy things today would have been much different--for the worst. very stealthy.

but, on the other hand, as far as the constitution-shredding nature of the bush presidency, i don't find this to be 'stealth' at all. if one paid attention to the GOP/corporate messaging you will find a complete disdain for democracy, and the will of the majority. not so stealthy.

Hm, the Nazis they ain't. They're cowards, they lack the balls and the spines to do a fraction of what Hitler did. Problem is, they don't seem to realize that.

I hope that you are right,Gen. I won't breathe a sigh of relief 'til they leave office - if they do at all. They are not shy of breaking any laws; will they actually permit a free election and step down from office?

Heh, I see not promoting a free election as counterproductive, assuming everything is as you say. A power behind the throne, particularly when a seemingly reformer leader is in power is a mighty effective smokescreen, wouldn't you say? Keep the people happy by electing somebody seemingly against the same ol' same ol' then keep the same ol' same ol' going on with a power behind the throne? You suggest something a wee bit too blatant.

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General_Rennenkampf @ 14:

Mickxotic @ 13:

General_Rennenkampf @ 12:
I hope that you are right,Gen. I won't breathe a sigh of relief 'til they leave office - if they do at all. They are not shy of breaking any laws; will they actually permit a free election and step down from office?

Heh, I see not promoting a free election as counterproductive, assuming everything is as you say. A power behind the throne, particularly when a seemingly reformer leader is in power is a mighty effective smokescreen, wouldn't you say? Keep the people happy by electing somebody seemingly against the same ol' same ol' then keep the same ol' same ol' going on with a power behind the throne? You suggest something a wee bit too blatant.

in other words the pattern we have seen for decades

Millenia, more like it. A small minority of people in each country control affairs in each country. It's what you'd expect from a gracile Australopithecine descendant.

Samson- @ 15:

General_Rennenkampf @ 14:

Mickxotic @ 13:

General_Rennenkampf @ 12:
I hope that you are right,Gen. I won't breathe a sigh of relief 'til they leave office - if they do at all. They are not shy of breaking any laws; will they actually permit a free election and step down from office?

Heh, I see not promoting a free election as counterproductive, assuming everything is as you say. A power behind the throne, particularly when a seemingly reformer leader is in power is a mighty effective smokescreen, wouldn't you say? Keep the people happy by electing somebody seemingly against the same ol' same ol' then keep the same ol' same ol' going on with a power behind the throne? You suggest something a wee bit too blatant.

in other words the pattern we have seen for decades

Arguably, for over a century. I've also heard it said that FDR didn't necessarily save the USA, rather that he saved American capitalism.

Mickxotic @ 18:

Samson- @ 15:

General_Rennenkampf @ 14:

Mickxotic @ 13:

Heh, I see not promoting a free election as counterproductive, assuming everything is as you say. A power behind the throne, particularly when a seemingly reformer leader is in power is a mighty effective smokescreen, wouldn't you say? Keep the people happy by electing somebody seemingly against the same ol' same ol' then keep the same ol' same ol' going on with a power behind the throne? You suggest something a wee bit too blatant.

in other words the pattern we have seen for decades

Arguably, for over a century. I've also heard it said that FDR didn't necessarily save the USA, rather that he saved American capitalism.

That's pretty much accurate. America prior to the Depression was much less centralized, much more brutal in terms of treatment of workers, and much less of a unified entity. The New Deal saved the US from either a fascist revolution led by Father Coughlin or a Communist one led by Huey Long, who was governor of my state, incidentally.

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General_Rennenkampf @ 16:

Samson- @ 15:

Millenia, more like it. A small minority of people in each country control affairs in each country. It's what you'd expect from a gracile Australopithecine descendant.

very true. although one difference, i'd argue, is that things were assumed to be different--hence the whole american experiment. and that there are large swaths of the population that indeed believe that we have a completely democratic society.

the anthropologist in me enjoyed the 'gracile Australopithecine' inclusion, they are so rarely mentioned

Well, yes, but then it's much easier to have a small minority controlling it when officially, it doesn't exist. You could make a convincing case the Founders were as close to a Democratic oligarchy as could exist. And I know what you mean about the gracile Australopithecines not being mentioned. People like to pretend that tiny minorities controlling stuff is somehow a shock, when every ape species both now and dating back to the human-chimp-gorilla common ancestor had a small group of alpha males (and perhaps, depending on what the extinct species were selected for, females as well), and the name and some styles may change, but good ol' monkey hierarchy never fades, not even after 50,000 years of behaviorally modern man.

democratic oligarchy indeed, which is another way of saying 'republic'--the hamiltonian/federalist vision for america.

which behooves me to mention the incredibly interesting (and damning) Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States(1913), by charles beard.

Jive-ass? I didn't know what the hell that meant back in the 70's when people might actually have said it. Are you trying to start a revival to make it trendy again?

You might want to note that the author of the National Review column about "real men" voting for McCain is a fiction writer.

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Is Blackwater going to be left in Iraq?

No, Blackwater has to be in place in the USA when the election is cancelled and martial law is declared.

Blackwater is busy in the central asian republics doing something, complete with private airforce and some naval units for other purposes.
Their focus is keeping the keeping the oil flowing to the Afghan pipeline now.