“Well, okay, maybe two teeny-tiny flaws. For details on the second, simply Google “Weimar Republic” … yeah, see, it turns out that a major catastrophic societal meltdown isn’t exactly a fertile nursery for progressive politics – & America is already pretty fucking authoritarian & hyper-religious right now without one.

Careful what you wish for – you might get it.”

It’s actually shocking, how many similarities there are between 2010 America and 1930-33 Deutschland. Don’t even mention Godwinning, because I’m deadly serious.

Read Defying Hitler, by Sebastian Haffner. Notice how many things he went through, growing up in WWI and Weimar, sound familiar to you.

and the uneducated consumer loved it. they bought it lock, stock and barrel.

We get to see the results of their version of “their” Gilded Age.

yesterday we heard about Carnegie, Vanderbilt and so on.
today it is Goldman Sacks, ChaseMorgan,

oops some return, some don’t

Re R. Porrofatto’s attempt to rescue The One, I can’t see that his remarks look any better in context, in extenso. And they’re not really any different from many other stupid things he has said. As I said, it’s like Bush never left.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Do you miss Dubya yet?

The middle class has traditionally been the revolutionary class. The French Revolution was indeed a middle class affair, as was 1830 and 1848. Also, the Commune. This is not to say that other classes did not participate (they certainly did), but the various levels of bourgeoisie were generally the most involved, especially as leaders and theorists (none of the important leaders of the Great Revolution–Robespierre, Danton, etc.–were poor or working class.)

(Although it is WILDLY anachronistic to refer to “class” until fairly late in the 19th century, especially in France, where identity was corporate, rather than socio-economic).

It was the Revolution of 1848 that saw the end of the revolutionary bourgeoisie. They got frightened enough by the groups pushing up the social ladder that they threw their lot in with the wealthy.

BS. The “normal” market incentives wouldn’t have existed if they hadn’t gutted Glass-Steagall and the other regulations, and the “coercion” — to stop redlining minorities — accounts for about 3% of the crash. Go suck up to rich reactionary assholes someplace else.

As a fiscal conservative I can only offer: *LAUGH*

at any rate sports stars are in fact bailed out by taxpayers. Most sports stadiums are built using taxpayer funds, taxpayer guaranteed bonds and other financial vehicles.

Go read both excellent articles for yourself . . .

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/clueless/

http://www.anncoulter.com/

Head over here and let Ann Coulter explain it to you.

http://www.anncoulter.com/

eg, the gov’t said you must make loans to bad risks, but don’t worry we’ll tell Fannie and Freddie to buy up all those bad loans and package them in securities which we’ll tell WS are sound because there are defacto backed by the gov’t (Fannie/Freddie) and the rest is history.

see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4

great 10 minute video detailing the whole sordid truth, including Obama’s part in it as a lawyer that sued one of said banks for not making enough sub-prime loans.

but, you libs have succeded in white-washing that history. but you’re still in the burned out house aren’t ya?

A bi-partisan solution I can totally support!

So long as you recognize that notion as a fantasy i.e. not reality, you should be able to cope with real life if only on a limited basis.

No, I’m not going to do any research, either, as I am working from my couch while home sick, eating shit sandwiches.