WTFook???
stayintheboatstayintheboat!!!

b/t this loserasshat and the LGoSC, i’m ready to declare open season on AynRandites.

but then again, i do have reason to believe that Bauer is just stringing along the far-right, getting ready for the ultimate trap: to actually teach them something. he’s a master satirist, nobody else knows, that’sall.

http://readingpalin.blogspot.com/2010/01/lt-gov-andre-bauers-real-master-plan.html

The obvious solution is to cut taxes on the rich and raise taxes on the poor. This will give an incentive for people to earn more money.

Speaking of government incentives to be poor, back in the 90s I was deciding whether to lead a stable, productive life with decent vacations or to become a homeless crack addict. Luckily, they canceled midnight basketball — because before that happened, it was really 50-50, incentive-wise.

I stuck a leg out of the boat and felt something slimy brush up against it, so I retreated. *shudder*

When did the poor get bailed out and pay themselves bonuses? I missed that.

Idows Way Ight May.

“The action of hoarding all the good-looking prom dates, leaving me no other date options than my cousin Kevin…”

I know why they’re angry.

There is a parable Jesus told, about a poor widow who puts two copper coins in the collection plate and a Pharisee who pours in a large quantity of silver. The poor widow gave more, Jesus explained, because she didn’t gave from what she needed, not from surplus.

This clown, on the other hand, digs up a proverb about a unhappy stingy man to prove that poor people are greedy because…they didn’t open a business. No, really, he says that. It’s worth getting off the boat just to read that bit.

Say what you like about Ayn Rand (and I have and will again) at least she didn’t try to suck up to Christians by saying “Jesus wants you to be greedy”. She acknowledged that Jesus wanted you to give your wealth away. That was the root of her problem with religion.

Now I find myself wishing that at least the wingnuts were as intellectually honest as Ayn Rand. Wow. Maybe you should stay in the boat after all.

Now I find myself wishing that at least the wingnuts were as intellectually honest as Ayn Rand

Unfortunately, I’ve read enough Ayn Rand to know that she wasn’t intellectually honest at all.

“The obvious solution is to cut taxes on the rich and raise taxes on the poor.”

Or just cut the charitable giving deduction. The poor all itemize and have tax aadvisors, don’t they?

Now I find myself wishing that at least the wingnuts were as intellectually honest as Ayn Rand

Unfortunately, I’ve read enough Ayn Rand to know that she wasn’t intellectually honest at all.

Are these statements necessarily contradictory?

Wait a damn minute. Greed is good, right? Driver of capitalism? And rich people acting greedy is what keeps us rich, right? But greedy poor people are apparently morally deficient for choosing not starving over charity, and must be corrected by the saintly, enlightened, illuminated Galts of the better-than-you class.

I don’t mind when they get the motivations of liberals completely and utterly wrong. Kinda fun to watch actually. But watching internal consistency break down to such a degree is rather sad. I think that when wingnuts make their deal with Satan to be respected by the mainstream no matter how dumb they act, they get some sort of chip implanted that sends out the message “Rich good; poor bad; act accordingly.” But maybe accordingly is too big a word.

The obvious solution is to cut taxes on the rich and raise taxes on the poor.

See, this is always the solution to any problem. Look how svelte K-lo got during the Bush Administration!

Alternate shorter- I don’t see any Haitians donating to UNICEF.

We see the stereotype everyday in Hollywood films: The wealthy, corporate, penny-pinching sell-out who inevitably becomes a slave to their own greed.

That is an unfair stereotype. In the real world, everyone else becomes a slave to their greed.

It’s funny because it’s not true!

As anyone would know who has ever been poor or spent time with poor people . A lot of “able bodied” homeless people will literally give you the shirt off their backs. Not to mention that the big tippers are construction workers and truck drivers, while the people barking into their blackberries are highly likely to screw you.

It’s all the fault of materialism. Once upon a time, you could sell your soul with no outwardly visible effects. Now that fewer people believe in souls, you have to sell your brain instead.

Poor people are selfish pigs because they give a lower percentage of their milk money to charity than rich people.

So all they’re left with for a political arguement is “Neener, neener”?

Latest in a series. The current campaign is to assert, against all evidence, that the rich are really doing the poor a service and are doing God’s work; one of the Goldman Sachs crew actually went as far as to make that claim.

Too bad there’s not God; if anyone deserved hell, it would be these creatures.

The action of hoarding all the good-looking prom dates, leaving me no other date options than my cousin Kevin.

Kevin called. He said that if you insist on spending Christmas with the family this year, he is not interested in taking a bath together “like when we were kids,” so please stop asking.

“There is a parable Jesus told, about a poor widow who puts two copper coins in the collection plate and a Pharisee who pours in a large quantity of silver. The poor widow gave more, Jesus explained, because she didn’t gave from what she needed, not from surplus.”

That’s the story that popped into my mind when I read that.

And in my experience, if there’s any trend in terms of stinginess and greed, it goes the other way – the more money people have, the more they hoard it. My circle of college friends spanned the spectrum from working-class western PA to top-of-the-ladder, Real-Housewives-Of-New-Jersey-town aristocracy. Out of us all, the only one whose parents dodged taxes through Cayman Islands accounts was the one at the very top of the income scale. Unsurprisingly, she and her daddy were yellow-dog Republicans.

Ayn Rand is against my religion.

my religion favors the downtrodden. Behold:

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,
that the blind will see,
that the oppressed will be set free,
and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.”

Net diary entries:

Homeless people can also be unwelcoming hosts.

Starving people can also be couch potatoes.

Ha. Hahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The FBI, alleging a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in downtown New Orleans, arrested four people Monday, including James O’Keefe, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group’s credibility.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/acorn_gotcha_man_arrested_for.html

I’m staying the boat, but are any of the comments bringing up the grand old canard about America being the world’s most generous donor because it gives the most in absolute dollar terms instead of measuring % of GDP?

I really like that one.

Luke 20:45-21:4

[45] While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, [46] “Beware of Adore the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets, which is totally friggin’ pimp. [47] They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers — again, like I said, totally pimp. Such men will be punished bailed out most severely.”

[21:1] As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. [2] He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. [3] “I tell you the truth,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others next to friggin’ nothing — like she’s wasting everybody’s time with her stupid two coins. [4] All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on, and, of course, this is why the poor suck.”

Conservabible.

Ha. Hahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

What would not be at all surprising is if he ratted out all his co-conspirators. Anyone bankrolling this drip better be concerned they are going to be implicated as well.

commie atheist – holy crap … there is a God after all?

Chowderhead is aiming for punditry stardom by channeling Bobo Brooks. He finds Makes up “facts” to spin his absurd psychological evaluations.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along to your homes now.

I come from a family of 8 brothers and sisters. My oldest brother has cancer and a shitty health insurance plan. Of the 8 of us, 1 of my brothers (the youngest) is a raving wing-nut catholic climate change denier.
For Xmas, we decided (without the knowledge of my oldest brother) to pool some money together to give to him to help defray the expenses not covered by the shitty insurance. I collected the funds from everybody (including my nearly bankrupt youngest sister) EXCEPT my wing-nut brother. He’s married to a doctor, and managed to buy his kids a Wii for xmas. I’m struggling raising 2 kids, with an out-of-work wife who used to provide over half the income, but I’m pitching in. I certainly would like to buy a Wii for my kids.
I sent an email to all of my sibs after collecting, saying, “If you still want to contribute, do so now, because I’m going to disburse it to our sick brother.”
Nothing from the wing-nut bro.
It’s very disheartening to not be able to reach someone so close – it’s a horrible ideology, and has made good people act horribly.

But, but, but…if I don’t break the law by stealing information and breaking into people’s offices, how will we ever restore the rule of law? I mean, you guys don’t expect me to accept nigger law, do you?

Are these statements necessarily contradictory?

I guess not. And, really, any form of the word “intellectual” does not belong in a sentence with the Teabaggers.

The FBI, alleging a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in downtown New Orleans, arrested four people Monday…

Were they all wearing pimp costumes?

commie atheist – holy crap … there is a God after all?

No, but there is a man in the sky who controls everything, and he punishes people who do bad things, and rewards people who do good things, although sometimes he does the reverse, and sometimes he just randomly kills lots of people for no apparent reason.

(Cribbed from Ricky Gervais’ “The Invention of Lying,” which is a wonderful, sweetly subversive movie that everyone should go out and rent right now. Seriously.)

But, but, but…if I don’t break the law by stealing information and breaking into people’s offices, how will we ever restore the rule of law?

Nixon did it, and now he’s a saint.

The FBI, alleging a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in downtown New Orleans, arrested four people Monday, including James O’Keefe, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group’s credibility.

If we’re having a poll, I would like to stake out the following position:

Within 24 hours, Breitbart, Malkin and the entire wingnut noise machine will be claiming that this was a sting operation based on falsified evidence and Nazi jackbooted ACORN Obama-is-a-commo-marxo-fascist thugs.

Some input on the relation between greed and poverty; this was written by an anti-war blogger and journalist way back in 2004 when he was touring Iraq, and he observes much the same thing as what we’ve been saying here. Here’s a link to the relevant archives (I don’t know how to direct it to the exact article) – http://www.empirenotes.org/april04.html

And the text itself copied and pasted below;

“April 18, 12:57 am EST. Baghdad, Iraq — You hear a lot about the thieves and bandits ever since the “liberation” — and that’s certainly true to an extent. But my experience has been that your average Iraqi has no petty dishonesty of this kind.

I wrote earlier about my time in Aadhamiyah, when people were so furious about Fallujah but still took trouble to point out to me that my money was falling out of my pockets. I often leave small bills lying around in my hotel room. The dirt-poor middle-aged women who clean the hotel room — and look remarkably like their counterparts in the United States — never touch anything. And the amount of money is not small to them — a $20 bill is one third of what the CPA was paying an Iraqi policeman every month, even though the job is phenomenally risky (of course, the salary was so pitiful that every policeman complained about it).

I remember, the first time I rode a “minibus”, a small van with 13 passengers, while in Turkey — and what a shock I felt when a man sitting behind me tapped my shoulder, stuck a bundle of bills in my hand, and indicated that I should pass it up towards the driver. People pay at different times, needing different amounts of change, some of which has to wait until somebody else pays with small bills, and they pass their money to complete strangers with complete faith that the right amount of change will come back to them — and it always does.

As an American, I was very edgy about handing my money, not to the driver himself, but to a fellow passenger. It just doesn’t occur to a Turk that someone else will pocket part of the money, then claim that it’s his — although it certainly occurred to me. It took me several minibus rides before I lost my natural wariness.

I confess, I sometimes left bills around deliberately in my hotel just to see what would happen (not that I’d have done anything about it).

Contrary to common perception, the poor of the world are mostly quite honest, even though they have far more justification for stealing. So I’m not saying this is exceptional behavior. I still think it’s remarkable, though.

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O’Keefe on Thursday gave a speech to Libertarian Pelican Institute for Public Policy in New Orleans.

Shocking!

Canadian, I wouldn’t dare bet against that.

including James O’Keefe, a conservative filmmaker

Karma.

Pelican Institute

Whaa-aat? Pelicans aren’t libertarians, always giving fish a free ride in their beaks! Yeah, then they eat them, but…still! Free ride! If you want to name your club after a true freedom animal, call it the Eagle Institute CYBORG EAGLE INSTITUTE with lasers!

Sweet Jeebus, that NOLA story has wwwwwwonderful twofer:

O’Keefe on Thursday gave a speech to the Pelican Institute for Public Policy, a libertarian group in New Orleans.

….

Flanagan is the son of William Flanagan, who is the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, the office confirmed. All four were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.

;;;;

I look forward to all Federal grant applicants having to affirm that they don’t have nothing to do with Teh Fukcing Pelicans.

And I”ll second the “this was a sting operation to destroy a good documentary filmmaker JUST LIKE MICHAEL MOORE except everything he makes is not a evil liberal Stalinist lie so there nyaaah“.

“He who gives to the poor will lack nothing,
but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses.”

Proverbs 28:27

I’m no bible expert, but I looked up that page on the sneaking suspicion that Jesus didn’t actually think that the poor were greedy and deserved it.

“I’m staying the boat, but are any of the comments bringing up the grand old canard about America being the world’s most generous donor because it gives the most in absolute dollar terms instead of measuring % of GDP?

I really like that one.”

I don’t know if the numbers have changed. But it wasn’t too long ago that Japan gave more total, not just as % of GDP

Contrary to common perception, the poor of the world are mostly quite honest, even though they have far more justification for stealing. So I’m not saying this is exceptional behavior. I still think it’s remarkable, though.

If they acted more like the rich and stole every dime that wasn’t superglued to its owners hands, they would be rich.

This is just proof to me that being wealthy in America is a measure of who’s the biggest fucking crook. They’re ALL crooks in my eyes. Every one of them. One of the reasons my respect for the law in this country has left me. It’s nothing but a fucking giant con-job and the most venal, depraved fucking crook wins.

And boom goes the dynamite.

Good fucking god. I’d like to use that guy to clean out my vajayjay cuz he is a huge DOUCHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And omg, the comments. The sad, pathetic comments. I honestly think these people would curl up and die if they didn’t have “stingy poor’ to look down upon. I wanted to laugh but I couldn’t. To think that roughly 30% of the country is that stupid and lacking in empathy is just fokking scary.

Note original title of Crowderhead’s item:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2010/01/19/lonewolf-diaries-poor-people-can-be-greedy-scumbags-too/

“He who gives to the poor will lack nothing,
but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses.”

Proverbs 28:27

Or, as the Lolcat Bible puts it:

givz sum cheezburgerz to teh po peepelz an yu b okai but if yu iz haidin an pertendin not to see no po peepelz den peepels callz yu meen naimz! Srsly!

Like a lame man’s legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of a fool (proverbs 26:7)

“I wanted to laugh but I couldn’t. To think that roughly 30% of the country is that stupid and lacking in empathy is just fokking scary.”

It’s not the fact that 30% of the country is that fucked up that’s scary. What’s scary is that among the other 70%, at least half listen attentively and respectfully to the opinions of the 30 instead of dismissing them as the fucking dickwads they are.

Like a lame man’s legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of a fool (proverbs 26:7)

It’s like that.

Unfortunately, I’ve read enough Ayn Rand to know that she wasn’t intellectually honest at all.

T&U: Ayn Rand was like most chain-smoking, dour, and extremely unattractive people: she was just desperately trying to get laid. As a solution to her dating problems, she created her own cult, customized to suit the times and her intellectual pretensions. It worked: she found guys willing to screw her without making her put a bag over her head.

I didn’t Trust The Shorter, but it wasn’t on purpose, I clicked on the wrong link, read the first para and got sucked into the madness … ugh! This is your brain … this is your brain on the Old Testament.

Goddammit, where did I leave my Heathen-brand brain bleach?

Slippy said: “This is just proof to me that being wealthy in America is a measure of who’s the biggest fucking crook.”

I’m sorry, Slippy, but you’re simply wrong, and a liberal nutcase to boot. (hey! that came out as a double-meaning thingy!) Every right-thinking person today knows that money = morality. The more money you have, the more morally upright you are. Jesus says so. “laws” obviously only apply to the immoral (= poor) and liberal ( = unholy heretics and heathens).
I hope that clears up your confusion. No need to thank me.

They all have 10 grand in their sock. He said that.

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