Lou Dobbs, "always a good man of business," as Marley's Ghost in A Christmas Carol: "Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
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A thought-provoking comparison.
Rachel Maddow by way of MoxNewsDotCom at YouTube:
Lessons In Disaster! The Path To War In Vietnam
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
tonight. As usual. I particularly like her take on the Stupak amendment. Apparently there are only about 10 or 11 Stupak assholes and not the forty he claims.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
doesn't she?
He harbors illusions of political office, I would love to see this attempted. I'm betting the election of Al Franken has made Lou want to get his freak on politically.
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
Scrooge?
I've never seen change without a fire
Cheney?
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
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I've never seen change without a fire
Nope, not possible. Remember that at the end of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge had turned into a wonderful, kind and generous man. Now, who here can picture Dick Cheney as kind or generous? No one. I thought so.
Oh puleeease...Cheney is the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
'War on Christmas', if ever there was one.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
unpossible. you do remember that scrooge reformed in the end. cheney will be asking where the workhouses are til the end of time.
Wall Street greed is America's business. Kindness, forbearance, charity, benevolence.......just a bunch of bleeding heart librul socialist fascist crap.
We must let the unemployed masses die in the gutter, because it wouldn't be fair for billionaires to lose their tax cuts?
America - where the philosophy of Ebenezer Scrooge will get you elected in 40% of the country.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
dropped in price to $1.55. Funny, funny! Maybe it wasn't selling. :)
I've never seen change without a fire
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/u_s_depo...
:D
I've never seen change without a fire
Are there no workhouses?
The person who defines Reality wins.
at one time, Lou was a well respected financial 'analyst' on CNN.
Somewhere along the way he caught 'Glenn Beck disease' and went off the deep end. Anybody have any idea as to what happened to Lou? Is he simply a senile old man?
Hannity has his "great american" schtick. Beck has his teabagger schtick. And, until he got the poor man murdered, O'Reilly had his "Tiller the baby killer" schtick. Lou heard through the grapevine that fox was looking to fill a timeslot with someone who has a combination birther/anti-immigrant schtick. What you perceive to be a plunge for Lou has actually been a long, well-orchestrated audition. And it worked.
BlueGal believes in God, yet publishes such unkind pictures.
Very enlightened.
And actually Marley is the lesson-teacher in Dickens. Maybe once Lou Dobbs is gone he'll actually have something to teach us about loving our fellow humans. Calling human beings "illegals" doesn't cut it with me, and that has something, but not everything, to do with the fact that I'm a believer and try to see all humankind as children of the God I say I believe in.
I've pointed this out before jhunter but you don't seem to get it. You think by pointing out my theism you'll get people here at C&L against me. C&L, its staff and readers, are open-minded people. I don't attempt to convert anyone to my religion, ever. In fact I often express that to try to convert someone shows willfulness contrary to what my idea of God might want for another.
Please don't bring my religion into this conversation again. You and I have said what we need to say here.
don't disagree with you in any way. We can all worship in our own way and it's none of anyone else's business.
"You think by pointing out my theism you'll get people here at C&L against me."
Not against you. Just questioning the obvious. Your cheap and hateful photoshop addiction lowers the tone. So pedestrian, so high school. The "open-minded" spirit you speak of, an excuse for coarse and childish insult, is doubly caustic when coming from one of faith.
"That which you do to the least of my brothers that you do onto me."
So when you mock Dobbs, your faith says you mock Christ. So I am not being the close minded...you are.
I call you on it, you get upset. Then change the direction by mentioning conversion. Total non sequitur.
Then the school marm tone, talking down to me like I somehow broke a rule. "You and I have said what we need to say here." Really? You don't control what I say, or how much I say.
I have not been abusive, broke none of JA's rules. All I did was expose hypocrisy. Not earth shaking hypocrisy, not evil gut wrenching hypocrisy, just little nibbling Christian hypocrisy.
I still haven't been abusive.
Been abusive, that is.
I held back after your first shot, but now I just have to show you that your behavior was captured on film, in spirit anyway. Go to the 3:50 mark.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
LOL!
I was hoping for the scene in the theater!
While I was looking for any comments that you said threatened you. Yes, I saw that..
WTF did you call out BlueGal for?
And I'd hardly call Dobbs less than fortunate.
mebbe the rest of your day will go better.
You should just apologize and get it over with.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I thought the clip was me getting into it with some teabaggers last August. It was nationally televised. Then of course I looked at your clip! Love that movie.
"WTF did you call out BlueGal for?"
She is a Christian and as I said before, when she mocks Dobbs, she mocks Christ. NOT MY RULES>>>HERS!
Dobbs is a disease not a cartoon. The trivial and pedestrian pics makes progressives look like kids, lowers the tone of the discussion and makes light of his deadly hate speech.
Apologize? NEVER!
So when you mock her?
And I take it you think all Christian's are exactly alike.
You do see what you've done , don't you?
Do you know about the temple, and what Jesus supposedly did there?
I say supposedly because I don't necessarily buy into all of that stuff.
anyway, you try to salvage whats left of your day.
I'm outta here.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Tone Lowering. And Hypocrisy. And School Marm Tone. And Getting Upset When Being Called Out.
Jeez dude. Look in a mirror.
me-oww!
I am not the Christian or the award winning blogger.
but you are the blind poster, apparently. Blind to the obvious irony of your attitude coupled with your post.
Who set you up as judge and jury of someone else's faith and practice?
Yes, that is you, hawking a loog over the balcony.
me-oww!
I still haven't been abusive.
No. Just kind of unnecessarily dickish.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
where is your snarky excuse for stranded, who has hit the nail on the head? Still working on it?
me-oww!
it is. The point being that Dickens was relevant then, and is just as relevant now. Mankind is our business, and to point out where others lead us astray seems to me the enlightened path.
and found a live rattlesnake in its trunk. Don't know why I'm telling that but it has as much to do with anything else as a photoshopped picture of Lou Dobbs has to do with god. It's an open thread, right?
Marley's Ghost- Dobbs
Scrooge- B O'Reilly
Ghost of RW Pundits past- W Buckley
Ghost of RW Pundits present- Hannity
Ghost of RW Pundits future- Carlson
Bob Cratchett- Olbermann
Tiny Tim- Jon Stewart
Crazy Guy Screaming at Christmas Goose in Butcher Shop Front Window- Glenn Beck
Christmas Goose- Rush
we would have a lot of folks over, take a whole ounce of pot, put it in a coffee can and light it, and we'd all cram into a closet with it and shut the door. That was my first experience of god. Not making a joke.
No more involuntary overdraft fees. Ironically, the RNC health care plan does cover abortion. Here's a first: A Southern state which doesn't send a black guy to Death Row for murder. It's hard out there for a poor little rich boy. Is Barry already preparing to leave Afghanistan? Palindrone throws McCain under the bus. She also claims Katie Couric is biased. Will Reid be the Robin Hood of health care reform? Swine flu really gets around. Ten broke states, but no partridge in a pear tree. Two hundred million children are hungry. Exposure to BPA sterilized manufacturing workers in China. Ray LaHood wants airline workers to stay hired. Mormons have no sense of irony when it comes to gay rights. Less unemployment claims =/= more jobs.
Liberalism, as in intellectualism, doesn't appeal to the dumb-downed masses that prefer ignorance and delusion to truth and selfish short-term motives. They are, hopelessly, in subjective bondage to the Big Lies in this orwellian Twilight Zone.
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On a macro-level, scientifically, the swine flu epidemic is a prime example of bacteria(human) infestation on a host(the earth). The pollution of human and their created material waste on this living earth are evidence of this disease. And generations of their children after them, unfortunately, will suffer by this custom(life is a terminal disease).
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Here's the video, Youtube Video: Who Is Dan Quayle ?
The happy ending to A Christmas Carol was Ebenezer Scrooge becoming a Socialist.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Toys-for-Tots, some for over 12 hrs in 45-50 degree weather here in Orlando, to try to get Christmas toys for their kids. Very sad.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
"All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher." - Lucretius (94 BC - 49 BC)
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Oil is our god…
Worth seeing again:
A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash here
Our seeming prosperity has come from cheap energy, and has been stolen from the future. When the future arrives what will we have? Very little.
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Alice, what an interesting thought. I'll have to ponder that one for a while, with that Future speeding down the pipe............... thanks for that.
I hope we will be seeing a lot less of Lou after he leaves CNN.
and have fewer constraints.
I wish that I were wrong.
Why are you wasting bandwidth on some unemployed, discredited, xyenophobic yellow journalist that doesn't have enough journalistic credibility to run a high school newspaper?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
If any of y'all want to see a really good version of A Christmas Carol, forget the Jim Carrey crap.
See the version with George C Scott. He preens, he glowers, he stomps, he's never the tremulous and fearful old man. They also have the most angelic looking Tiny Tim ever and great score.
Funny thing though is it's casted a little odd. They had Edward Woodward as the Ghost of Christmas Present, who came to attention as a murdered cop in the Wicker Man, and of course later the Equalizer (rumor has it it's being adapted into a movie starring Timothy Dalton). Frank Finlay played the ghost of Jacob Marley, best known in the 1977 BBC adaption of Count Dracula as Van Helsing. They had Michael Gough as one of the charity men, later Alfred in the Batman movies. They had an early appearance by Roger Rees as Scrooge's nephew, delivering complicated lines as if they were only conversational.
But weirdest of all was Scott, because of his controversial portrayal of Patton, Samantha Eggar who was controversial because of a movie she made with a gross scene from David Cronenberg's The Brood, and David Warner, typically the bad guy in movies like Tron and Time After Time, as an excellent Bob Cratchett.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I agree with you choice on "A Christmas Carol". I also enjoyed "Scrooged" with Bill Murray.
On another note, I just read this horrific article regarding a new Obama Administration appointee who is strongly connected to Monsanto and other agricultural corporations. Apparently he's so into pesticides that his organization chided Michelle Obama for having an "organic" garden!!!:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/...
I just wish I could make it through one day and learn of some truly good news from Obama. Maybe Eric Holder bringing an indictment against Bush/Cheney, or Obama declaring that no more troops will be going to Afghanistan as long as a corrupt government is in place there, or having him meet with the head of China and make a strong objection to their "black sites" of torture for citizens who come to the government with any complaints (heard this story on NPR yesterday) etc.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
I like the Bill Murray version, but haven't seen it in years.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Republican National Committee has instructed its insurance company to remove a provision from the committee's health insurance policy that covered elective abortion for employees.
"Money from our loyal donors should not be used for this purpose," RNC Chairman Michael Steele said in a statement released late Thursday. "I don't know why this policy existed in the past, but it will not exist under my administration. Consider this issue settled."
In a note accompanying the statement, the RNC said this type of coverage dated to 1991.
The Politico newspaper first reported the story Thursday.
Sheesh...no wonder oil prices are going up. These guys are burning gasoline like water as they politically immolate themselves.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I think, rather than A Christmas Carol, the movie you should put Lou into is Treasure of the Sierra Madre. To paraphrase Bogie in his paranoid monologue, "Nobody ever put nothin' over on Lou Dobbs."
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjbIx7saTsQ
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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