Weekly Open Thread

I LOVE when leftists try to tell Conservatives what they think or how they view someone. Especially when that someone is Sara Palin.

MISSY:, HOW is that beautiful daughter, we are praying for?TELL her we think about her.
bye

Bill Ayers is parsing.

He wrote a book called, Prairie Fire.

He dedicated it to a passel of radicals, assassins and what Ayers calls political prisoners.

One of those listed was Sirhan Sirhan.

But today Ayers says:
“….any suggestion he dedicated a book to the man who assassinated Robert Kennedy was fiction invented by right-wing bloggers.
There’s not a shred of truth in it…”

The book was “dedicated to some very weird people, starting with John Brown and Harriet Tubman,” he said. “Sirhan Sirhan’s name is listed with dozens of others on a page in the book, which also reads “To All Who Continue to Fight” and “To All Political Prisoners in the U.S.””

Gee, I can see how we lesser souls (including Chris Kennedy RFK’s son) could be confused.

NOT!!!!

MISSY, thank you, take care, bye

I’ve been waiting in vain to see some reaction on this and other conservative blogs over the decision by Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve Board to print $600 billion in new currency (printing money out of thin air), to inject this money directly into the economy (which is what essentially happens when the Fed redeems this money for T Bills). This is almost the size of Obama’s much criticized “stimulus” (which was, in fact, only $250 billion more than the GOP’s counter-proposed “stimulus”). Bernanke is a Republican, who was appointed by a Republican (GWB).

Why did the Fed decide to print more money? According to economic pundits, it’s because Bernanke felt that more dollars needed to be injected into the sluggish economy and he knew that there was no political possibility for another “stimulus” round, which would have been the preferred first option, were this not politically impossible.

Does everyone understand that there is no difference between adding $600 billion to the debt load by selling more T Bills, versus paying off $600 billion in debt by printing more money? Both actions weaken the dollar and weaken the future position of the US to be able to borrow money (through the sale of T bills) to finance debt. Already, investors around the world are bailing out of dollars to buy euros and commodities.

If Obama had had the power to do what Bernanke just did, Obama would have been crucified by conservative pundits. But don’t let anyone fail to understand that Bernanke’s actions have basically been an endorsement of Obama’s approach to the management of the financial crisis: (1) purchase of hundreds of billions of dollars of toxic assets (precisely the same as the Wall Street bailouts) and (2) artificial injection of hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy through slight of hand (printing T bills to sell, compared to printing dollars to buy T bills).

I am waiting for Bernanke to be labeled a “Marxist” and for the Federal Reserve Board to criticized with the same colorful language used to describe members of the Democratic Party.

– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA

Larry, I agree.
It makes me wonder why pump 75 billion extra dollars into the market monthly will do anything IF we already have banks sitting on huge amounts of cash they are just not lending.

Right after this was announced almost all commodities rose in price.
(We hardly create any commodities here at home anymore.)
Oil is headed back to $100/barrel territory.

Companies that SOUND ”American,” like McDonalds, but that really make most of their money outside the USA, did well on the stock market today.

I hope we are properly diversified for what is coming.

There was a neat Sunday funny here a couple weeks ago about how Obama and his policies were preventing home buyers/sellers from finding the bottom yet.

This looks like more of the same.
Obscuring where the bottom will be is not the same as changing/improving where it is.

I see. Even tho Berneke has made bad decisions, then obama isn’t a Marxist? Nice (lack of) logic there Larry. It’s amusing you think that his actions are an endorsement of obama’s policies or that we are leaving him alone because he’s a Rep. Need more straw?
I’m starting to wonder if you have looped a clip of him coming out of the ocean on your PC.

Gaffe, I LOVE hearing 3rd world leftists like yourself squeal.

@ #29:

“I’ve been waiting in vain to see some reaction on this and other conservative blogs over the decision by Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve Board to print $600 billion in new currency (printing money out of thin air), to inject this money directly into the economy (which is what essentially happens when the Fed redeems this money for T Bills).”

Once you’ve mentioned that Bernanke is a Republican who was appointed by a Republican, I believe you’ve pretty much explained why conservative blogs are leaving the matter alone.

FDR agreed with you Larry and his policies EXTENDED the misery. So you’ll excuse me if I and others here disagree.
Greg, your hypocrisy is showing.

openid.aol.com/runnswim. I remember reading BERNANKE ‘s name on a BILDENBERG
GOOGLE search he was a guess with other,and the GROUP is known for plannings
THE WORLD ORDER, WHERE UNIFICATION OF AMERICA WITH the WORLD COUNTRYS TO REDISTRIBUTE THE WHEALTS AND TAKE THE POWER OF ALL THE WORLD
AND ALL THEIR ASSETS, IN OTHER WORDS ruin THE UNITED STATES, and
replace it by them. power.
MATA made a post quite a while ago maybe a year, in the archive now, but I don’t remember the name of the post she wrote.
this would be better than my comment poorly explain. bye I heard OBAMA’S agenda is same

@Hard: Infrastructure was only a small part of the New Deal. I’ve never read where the infrastructure portion of the New Deal was accused of prolonging the Great Depression. Perhaps you can point me to a reference?

My criticism of “the stimulus” was that too much of it went to tax cuts and not nearly enough to infrastructure.

Here’s a guy who agrees with me (or with whom I agree, to be deservedly modest):

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec08/infrastructure_12-22.html

@Nan: I agree with your positions in # 38

– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA

@Mooseburger:

My goodness, you are just miserable, aren’t you? Tough week?

No way that she can sway the majority of the country to follow her lead if this is what she promotes,

How is that sway working out for your party? What just happened?

but the GOP will not be able to say a word against the Tea Party or Sarah and are helpless to speak against her or the nutty fringe.

How long has Pelosi reigned over the dem party? Evidently the majority of your elected members have not made too much of an effort to “say a word against her” which resulted in what?

Palin and her followers can and will be a force that the GOP will not be able to disagree with in public, lest they get a primary challenge,

YEEEEHHHHAAAWWW, rumors are floating about that Howard Dean is crawling out of the swamp, things aren’t as lieberal as he likes. Perhaps you might want to be concerned with what’s going on in your own backyard? It’s always so nice that those that are so opposed to everything the Tea Party movement represents wants to give advice. Yet, they seem to ignore problematic issues going on within their own, right under their nose. Like the debt Pelosi, Reid & company amassed since 2007. Lovely number isn’t it?

3 hours of hate from Rush Limbaugh and a big Rino like a Scarlet Letter pasted to their foreheads.

Schultz, Olberman, Maddow, Matthews, Rhodes, etc……if your guys didn’t stink, someone might be listening to them. Credit to Rush, after all these years, he’s still there making gazillions and the competition seems to always have a short shelf life.

suek
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Just ran across this – very revealing. No longer relevant except for planning for the future…

http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/10/revealed-daily-kos-astroturf-program-to.html

You reminded me that, there was a time when Markos, founder of DailyKos was 0 for 11 on his backing of candidates.

His site meter is also astroturfed.
He has some people pop on and off his site over a thousand times a day each just to make him look popular.

Leopards just don’t change their spots.

Another reason why I will refuse to affiliate with Any Party. Courtesy of Michelle Malkin.

Dear GOP: What not to do at Obama’s common ground Kabuki theater

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/11/04/dear-gop-what-not-to-do-at-obamas-common-ground-kabuki-theater/

It was nauseating.

Republicans including John McCain and Eric Cantor joined Democrat tax cheat Charlie Rangel and spendocrat Henry Waxman, along with Obama corrupto-cronies such as the SEIU’s Andy Stern in a boot-licking session with Dear Leader.

He gathered them all in a press conference setting and called on them as if they were journalistic stenographers.

Obama paid lip service to bipartisanship. They paid lip service to bipartisanship. Obama declared the need to fix health care. They declared the need to fix health care. Obama said we had budget problems. They nodded their heads and bemoaned our budget problems.

Dear GOP: What not to do at Obama’s common ground Kabuki theater
By Michelle Malkin • November 4, 2010 10:34 AM

So, the newly chastened, humbled, introspective, reflective President Obama will hold hyped-up meetings with GOP and Democrat leaders in a few weeks to show his commitment to Common Ground.

And the MSM will lap it up as evidence of Obama’s post-election maturity.

What a steaming load of you-know-what.

Obama has held plenty of make-believe Kumbaya sessions with Republicans — after which, he turned around and rammed his partisan legislative boondoggles and government expansions down our throats anyway.

Go back and refresh your memories of the blowhard-a-thon at Blair House in February 2010 on Obamacare.

Or the barrel-of-monkeys fiscal responsibility suck-up summit in February 2009:

It was nauseating.

Republicans including John McCain and Eric Cantor joined Democrat tax cheat Charlie Rangel and spendocrat Henry Waxman, along with Obama corrupto-cronies such as the SEIU’s Andy Stern in a boot-licking session with Dear Leader.

He gathered them all in a press conference setting and called on them as if they were journalistic stenographers.

Obama paid lip service to bipartisanship. They paid lip service to bipartisanship. Obama declared the need to fix health care. They declared the need to fix health care. Obama said we had budget problems. They nodded their heads and bemoaned our budget problems.

I have etched in mind one of the most cringe-inducing moments of that summit. It starred House GOP Whip Eric Cantor, who is now in the running for House Majority Leader.

If this is the kind of olive branch-swallowing “leadership” he will bring to the job, God help us all:

White House says the upcoming session “is not just going to be a photo-op.” We know. It’ll be a four-hour, ego-stroking bull session to boot.

There you have it. Lip Service and bullshit. The DC Elites that just don’t “Get It”, from either Party. Kubuki Theater pretty keenly sums it up. In short, my confidence has not been reinforced for those that created this mess or failed to properly Represent their Constituents as Stewards of the Republic or failed to heed the call for Fiscal Prudence are indeed part of the problem and equally clueless on a solution. Elections do have Consequences and Lip Service is no alternative to Leadership.

DaNang67: hi, you look like you know what your talking about;
AND the hope is starting to show around, bye

“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

(FDR; Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937.)