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Re: Scenes From the Real America

Hairstrike Alpha — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:49:57 -0000

Oh jebus, can you assholes get more paranoid, ignorant or stupid? I guess this is what Alexander Hamilton meant when he spoke of "the ignorant masses". Okay birthers riddle me this...if Obama really WASN'T a citizen (I can't believe I'm indulging you) wouldn't the national GOP be all over him like flies on a Turdblossom? I mean, just saying, but Karl Rove has never been associated with morality, clean tactics or observance of decency when dealing with Democrats(or anyone but his "useful idiots") . Also, the Obama-Hitler comparison is just plain stupid. May I remind you that Hitler's way of bringing the German economy back was privatizing the factories and then paying them to make weapons? Sounds like a "strong national defense" to me. Hitler also continuously courted religious Germans, villified socialists (who were amongst the first to be sent to CONCENTRATION camps) and considered all leftist beliefs to be part of a "jewish conspiracy". Who talks like that? certainly not Obama :cough, cough much of the rightwing cough: excuse me. The point is, logic is a person's greatest gift against the spread of insanity and paranoia...and facts are the relief boat. You have neither....just biased hatred. Oh and if those REAL AMERICANS in Kentucky are such PATRIOTS, why were they flying the colors of the Confederacy and had many neo-nazis present...umm stop me if you've heard this one....but those two groups fought WARS against the US. So while I cannot bring myself to answer EVERY, SINGLE STUPID charge in this assholes post, I will say this: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste". You're behind the gun on this one, you old wingnuts. Oh and Hitler and Reagan had plenty in common, Hitler corporatized industry, that is he nationalized it, then made it quasi-private which of course is similar to the military industrial complex. He believed only in the rights of the few (sort of like rightwingers who seek to restore the WASP America of the pre-20th century). Hitler also believed in criminalizing dissent (Reagan didn't go this far, but he did seek to brand any dissenting voice as anti-american and turn an entire philosophy into something synonymous with a four letter word). Hitler was supported by business and opposed by unions (another concentration camp casualty, I'm sure Ollie North had ideas along this line). He hated freedom of the press and lifted all civil liberties (wingnuts only care about their guns of course, and the right LOATHES the freedom of the press). So in short on view after view (including anti-semitism, Ann Coulter and John Hagee are similar), Hitler was NOT a leftist, he was a rightist...hell even William Safire placed him on the right in his encyclopedia of politics. Yes I know...health care and environmentalism...need I remind you when Hitler was in office many righties cared about the environment and continued to until Reagan's nutty ass got to office. I can keep on and on and on about Hitler and the rightwing but I don't need to...everyone but dumb lardass Jonah Goldberg and his discredited "Liberal Fascism" book can plainly see this, even the remaining intelligista's on the right. Go back to school, at least graduate high school rightwingers...and if not, then have the common courtesy to clean the scabs off of your knuckles before you opine again...you're like a bloody cult, only more demented. Also.

Re: The Future After Health Care - Business - The Atlantic

Hairstrike Alpha — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:07:39 -0000

Well, it appears the brain damage runs through very thickly in the media, glad I didn't major in anything related to journalism. Are you serious? I mean, I know as a journalist at a mainstream publication you're just above a tabloid reporter but THIS is ridiculous. Let's see, where to begin...oh yes, how about your premise. The GOP and you're saying this with a straight face might use tactics the DEMOCRATS pioneered? Were you in a cave for the last eight years? They used "deem and pass" at least 30 times and have repeatedly used reconcilliation for the heavy weight and yes, not very popular freight.

Let's talk about this bill though...in only rasmussen, which is a Murdoch-owned poll (yeah, we know K. Rupert Murdoch has unimpeachable integrity and so do all his holdings) was this bill consistently unpopular. In fact, in the days leading up to today's passage the bill nearly had 50/50 support/deny in mainstream (read, not fox or fox-affiliated polls). So much for "they ignored the voice of the people", I don't recall the GOP having greater than 50% support for any large legislation they passed after 2003, where were you people then? Did you write an article saying that years from now, when Republicans decry the use of their tactics to pass bills, people will double over laughing? I'm thinking...no. I don't this is a very good bill because I think it doesn't go nearly far enough, but people like you are just deranged. There seems to be a new rule in the media, and that is "forget the Republicans ever used this tactic" I know it works well with wingnuts, who only do as they're told by the GOP anyway, but come on, this column is the best you can do? Wow, that college degree must have been well earned then.

In spite of my volumnous criticism of your column and obviously limited ability as a journalist, I'll indulge you and make this constructive criticism. You do manage to somehow report the winger's talking points as if you're somehow reporting facts, and then you arbitrarilly cheerlead for them to come along and destroy social security and medicare. Don't think it's not obvious what you're about, it's completely transparent. My advice to is, as someone who looked at fraudulent journalists like yourself and sniggered before closing the book on journalism for a career is this, find a new career. I don't care if you've worked for 1,000,000 other publications before this one (and yes, I am mindful of the hyperbolic use of figures, maybe you'll digest the irony by reading your column with fresh eyes) you're not supporting the fourth estate. Neither you nor anyone like you is. People like yourself and Fox, MSNBC, CNN, etc. etc. are why our countries journalism equates to yellow journalism-era toilet paper. I really do weep for this country with people like yourself as mainstream journalists, I really do.

Re: Donald Trump: Reagan Was A Con Man Who Couldn’t ‘Deliver The Goods’

Hairstrike Alpha — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:58:07 -0000

Wingnuts attract conmen to their "views" like flies on feces. Seriously, they are the most gullable, easily riled and most afraid people out there. If anyone is sociopathic enough to want a wingnut following, the steps are: 1) act TOUGH about every issue and often lead with "it's time to get tough about..." 2) conspiracies must abound concerning the other side. Liberals, Democrats, leftists must always be plotting to take "yours" away from you (this can literally be played out ad infinitium, and no matter how much evidence is that it's a lie, it STILL works), 3) soft or hard bigotry works really well, you must EVOKE the most crass and demeaning portrait of a minority or a woman without actually saying the crass word itself, 4) since sociopath Ayn Rand is a conservative hero, us/them in class venacular is a real winner, particularly if the "us" is someone so elite and removed from conservative society to have nothing in common with "regular" wingnuts, think about the Civil War and all the poor white ignoramuses who couldn't afford shoelaces let alone slaves who nonetheless enthusiastically fought and died for the slave owners, and yes the mode of thinking explains the Koch-sucking of the teabaggers, 5) GAWD, GAWD, GAWD! you must be as Christian as you can make them believe, and you MUST insist that WASP's are the most superior humans out there, relating this to class jargon is even more effective because you can actually enforce white privilege via economic policies. If you follow these steps, and yes I have more and you're cynical enough and uncaring enough about others, you too can become a mock conservative hero.

Re: Hayworth adviser who suggested hurling acid at Dems resigns

Hairstrike Alpha — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:29:58 -0000

So says the idiot with the Obama-Alfred E. Newman avatar. Look, I know you conservatives lack intellect, critical thinking and creativity but this is getting a little old seeing you rob from us and try to pretend you're clever. Oliver North is a dead ringer for Alfred E. Newman and Bush was a cartoon character who also bore a resemblance. The reasons why you "borrow" liberal jokes from 4 years ago are actually simple: conservatives are incapable of making jokes that are not centered around racism, homophobia or religious bigotry. Conservatives are also petty and actively keep score, their humor revolves around sarcastic spite far more than brevity. Studies show conservatives are on average less intellectual and less creative but for once get your own ideas "for Pete's sake!" (source: Mittbot 9000 V 2.5 with Christian conservative personality mattrices and optional dog carrier strapped to roof attachment...).

Oh and by the way...memo to other wingnuts: no more teleprompter jokes. Not only have I seen wingnut pols run teleprompter smack moments before reading a prepared speech or within a prepared speech but it's just not funny. After eight years of a guy who could not pronouce nuclear, or compassionate or a myriad of other words no matter what any of you say Obama looks like Einstein compared to Bush AND Reagan AND Cheney.

Re: Hayworth adviser who suggested hurling acid at Dems resigns

Hairstrike Alpha — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:59:37 -0000

Awww...you so bwight and intelligent, look you managed to get 90% of the pabulum in one paragraph! Let me help you out, Wagon: you're forgetting FEMA camps, Obama being a Kenyan (Donald Trump prominent Mitt-bot 9000 V 2.5 supporter), "obamacare" being "a government takeover of the healthcare system" (2010 lie of the year) and "death panels" (2009 lie of the year). Also, Mittens is doing just a bang up job of lying his arse off, why just this week even after every fact-checking service worth its salt called his Solyndra attack a lie, he put it into an ad!

I love the "oppressive taxes" and "unrelenting regulations" claims...first off, what tax bracket are you in? Second off, the CBO estimated at most 600 jobs are lost in any given month due to regulations...the vast majority are lost of course due to corporate greed and malfeasance. Also, can you do me a favor and take all this down: I want to apologize to you and the cash-soaked corporations who write your "beliefs" as dictated by the GOP: I apologize for wanting to be able to breath the air and drink the water and not have one chocked full of smog and the other completely blackened by spilled oil. I also want to eat food and know it has not been mutated by unregulated genetic engineering or toxic waste leakage or poorly stored nuclear seepage. I know these needs are not good for the corporate bottom line and I'm sorry for this. I also wish to apologize for wanting to not be conned by financial institutions who run legal ponzie schemes that we bail out when they collapse and I'd like to work for a company that doesn't get to treat me like owned property. Furthermore, I'd also like to apologize for not letting the taliban-in-business suits of the far-right evangelical movement become our "spiritual leaders" since only they know what is or isn't moral. I'd also like to apologize for not being more sensitive to the racial fears of "European-Americans" or being understanding of their desperate attempts to keep minorities out of countries we outright stole from them...I feel terrible for this, truly.

I'm also sorry that corporations cannot externalize every dollar of their costs so the board can give itself the absolute maximum bonuses on a given year but again, see the first item. For these and also demanding my food not have salmonella and my toothpaste not have noxious chemicals also used in antifreeze over glycerin (for costs) I'm sorry. I also want to apologize for not wanting my kids to play with toys coated in lead-based paint, I understand again that this oppression keeps a few dollars out of a billionaires pockets and I'm sorry. I also want to apologize for my aversion to using nuclear bombs based upon unfounded scientific "proof" of sickness, mutation and death. I know this has curtailed America from FINALLY winning the Cold War and for this I am sorry. I'm also sorry for being convinced of the idea that people who utilize infrastructure the most for their companies and take the most resources and put the most pressure on the planets ability to sustain us should pay more in taxes to society than I and others like me have to. I understand that thinking they should pay for those reasons I outlined and that I shouldn't pay for their use of said items considering the immense wealth disparity is both selfish, short-sighted and cruel. There is no free lunch...unless you're rich. I'm sorry for forgetting this...and lastly, I'm sorry for demanding minorities receive equal rights to the majority and women have the right to vote, get paid equally and have rights to privacy within their own bodies. I am also sorry for demanding people have more privacy rights than corporate charters, a legal piece of paperwork do. I also want to apologize for demanding children be allowed to get the best free education in the world, and eat lunches for free without them paying money for either: they should work jobs for such "priviliges" like being able to read and write and not have rickets. Lastly, I want to apologize for thinking the wealthiest, greatest country in the world could have a healthcare system similar to (single payer) but better than those of Japan and the UK. We're simply not capable of such and I apologize. I know, not being rich and wanting to live a full, healthy and happy life is just terrible and I'm sorry for all of it.

I and many like me have been insensitive to the hopes and dreams of CEO douchebags and over-privileged inheritor "job creators" accross the country...our basic needs and desires might have cost someone a second island...or a fifteenth gulfstream or a yacht the size of a battleship instead of a cruiser...I know this must truly hurt the ubermenschs and we're all sorry. Now you can take that message and post it for me on any Kochtopus organization (AFP, Caito, AEI, Heritage...they own them all practically) so that the ubermensch understand how sorry we little people all are for not being subservient enough to them with our "basic wants and needs". I think that about covers every part of the GOP and why you're all so furious at every moment of your days. Can you do me that favor and spread this apology for the sins of ALL liberals? Thanks.

Re: 6 Big Lies By Republican National Convention Speakers, Day One

Hairstrike Alpha — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:52:43 -0000

Actually neo...I would say that wasn't a mistake. Wisconsin Dems sort of did themselves in by selecting the same guy Walker already beat. After they put Barrett on the ticket AGAIN and seeing the proceeds of Walkers ample Koch-sucking (they call him Marlena) I'm sure they decided it was better to not be associated with that epic fail.

But yes, Obama has made many, many mistakes: his stimulus wasn't big enough or far-reaching enough, he bet too much on transparency which let the GOP drag the health care dispute out endlessly and he still to this day talks in terms of comprimise with people unwilling to do so. He also sold out single payer and lacked the fortitude to push for a public option, everyone knew that one was dead because it lacked executive support. He also picked crappy advisors: second-term Clinton retreads whose one accomplishment was getting Clinton to track to the corporate right who then managed to get Obama to do the same. He's been digging himself out of that hole ever since...he also apparently offends certain large donors by not kissing their asses enough which while offensive to normal people is a major component of our completely broken campaign system where the deftness of rhetoric and the slickness of presentation beats substance and the truth every single time (in other words, Obama better start lying REAL well about RMoney...I'd accuse him of being a Martian and run with it; a lot of people will probably buy that one).

As far as finance goes, the Democrats have been terrible on that one. Obama wanted to break up B of A into a million pieces and scatter them to the wind as a warning for Wallstreet but lousy treasury secretary Tim Geithner (who like Dick Cheney proves the Peter Principle) never "got around to creating the policy". Instead of forcing meaningful regulations on Wall Street, eliminating carried interest and closing dark markets we got Dodd-Frank. I worked in banking and saw what Dodd-Frank amounted to: essentially yes it gave transparency but only to those who knew what the law was and how it applied to them. We as bankers could play dumb about it and still be in compliance...it's a sham in other words. The Dems never expected nor worked on anything meaningful in regards to "Citizens United" (in retrospect, how could they NOT have seen that one coming? SCOTUS had already shown it's absolute corporate-power colors long before that phony lawsuit filed by James Bopp Jr. (look him up) came up; James Bopp and Mitch McTurtle knew the facade would get them what they wanted). So yes, Obama has made many, many mistakes but Dems always do, they simply don't know what to do with power and are not ideological enough to force a change in the culture in Washington. But he still deserves to beat RMoney who is Bush's third term and epic disaster waiting to happen...

Re: 6 Big Lies By Republican National Convention Speakers, Day One

Hairstrike Alpha — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:55:14 -0000

I don't think Seamus the dog or Super-Hit the horse think Mitt RMoney or queen Ann are wonderful people. RMoney actually broke a law in Mass. with that one and is still dumb enough to say Seamus liked the fresh air...

Re: 6 Big Lies By Republican National Convention Speakers, Day One

Hairstrike Alpha — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:57:18 -0000

Wilbur? no, no, no...Romney's name is even lamer: Willard. I grew up in SLC, Utah...it's a Mormon thing to name your child Willard but it's still hilarious. I wonder if the world's fattest man squeezed himself onto that yacht, probably not, the damn thing still floats. Imagine what that guy does to car shocks....if cars were people, my friend you'd here nothing but screaming.

Re: George Will: You Know Who Else Had High Voter Turnout?

Hairstrike Alpha — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:00:48 -0000

George Will is a lazy moron. Hitler first off in 1932 was not elected with a majority of the vote: he only received 33%. The main culprit was the weakness of the German central government, the Weimar President von Hindenberg NOMINATED Hitler to become Chancellor mostly out of fear for another coup attempt. Thanks to the treaty of Versailles severe restrictions Germany's central state was pathetic; this weakness alongside hyper-inflation helped the Nazi's gain 18% of the vote in 1930. Hitler was released from prison after the failed beerhall Putsch and was allowed to take part in Democratic elections, why? The 2,000,000 man SA versus the 100,000 man German military. The causal link is further established by the success of the Bolshevik revolution. Von Hindenberg in spite of despising Hitler was under threat of revolt and created a comprimise by nominating him as Chancellor. Hitler didn't assume total control until the 1933 Enabling Acts where his Nazi Party allied with the German conservative party and the Centre Party (the Catholic Party) bowed down to pressure and supported the Enabling Act. Hilter's "cult of personality" moment occured after Germany defeated hated France and completely undid the results of WWI; his support became more than 90% and competely owned the German public (for a time). When wingnuts babble about Hitler it always astonishes me how they forget that the conservative party happily formed a coalition with Hitler and this coalition allowed for the passage of the Enabling Act which ended German democracy and killed the Weimar (contrary to idiotic opinion, the Reichstag decree killed free speech, but not democracy). It's this sort of lazy usage that prompted Godwin's Law in the first place....

Re: George Will: You Know Who Else Had High Voter Turnout?

Hairstrike Alpha — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:10:02 -0000

It is not hyperbolic to state that the goal of the GOP to weaken the central state combined with a severe economic catastrophy could easily create the conditions for the rise of a Hitler-like politician. The Weimar was so limited in its capability to defend Germany that an organized mob like the SA could easily topple it. Not to mention but Hitler after being appointed as Chancellor banned the German Communist Party. After the Nazi's took the majority from the SDP (the ACTUAL German Socialist Party) in the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act after gaining support from the entire conservative party and the tacit support from the Centre Party. The SDP refused to even vote on the Enabling Act and after its passage coupled with the Reichstag decree saw most of its membership tossed into concentration camps alongside the Communists. It never ceases to amaze me the level of just ridiculous ignorance displayed by wingnuts when discussing Hitler...and Will is supposed to be one of the 'smart' ones to boot. Of course it does require a ridiculous amount of ignorance to try to argue the Nazi's were leftists....I won't even get started on that one...you shape up too, Media Matters...your explanation is embarassing.

Re: Foxs Doocy Ignores Problems With Texas Economy To Hype It As Model For Rest Of Nation

Hairstrike Alpha — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:15:49 -0000

So in other words you can squeeze less blood from a turnip in California then you can in Texas. Companies with large minimum wage employment bases externalize the costs to everyone else: Walmart workers are the single largest group of workers on welfare in the nation. Since Texas has done everything it can to scale back state insurance programs to cover these externalized costs you have many more adults without health insurance then California does. This means a lower quality of life...so yes, California has higher taxes but since the governor isn't cruel (or in the case of Perry: stupid and cruel) California's low wage earners can actually see the doctor when they get sick...and not have to depend on ER doctors who do not know the persons health history and misdiagnose conditions given this lack of knowledge.
People like Rick Perry have lived privileged lives- he never has to deal with a reality of hoping for the best when he gets sick because his good old boy network father had good insurance and therefore can see a physician for an illness (except for that lesion in the frontal lobe..the man is a complete idiot). That's why these cuts and steadfast teabagger stupidity toward setting up opportunities for workers who's employers the 'booming' Texas economy have externalized by refusing to provide insurance strikes me as being unbelievably cruel...at best it could be considered benign neglect but that is giving Perry far too much credit (especially considering his infamous ranch name and the demographics of the underclass in Texas). Either way, you are succeeding at something Texas: making your state more structually unsound in the future. You cannot long term count on a workforce with as many slave wage jobs to continue to grow- if you could, North Korea would be flush with cash. Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son and neither is externalizing costs and then refusing to provide opportunities for those who've been externalized by your fat-cat corporate executive class (I'd say constituents but we all know what it takes to become a Republican politician- it's prison rules and rather than fight corporations they find several and become their bitches....it doesn't even require the usual game of circumventing a conscience, either).

Re: Foxs Doocy Ignores Problems With Texas Economy To Hype It As Model For Rest Of Nation

Hairstrike Alpha — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:26:18 -0000

Yes but the 'low cost' areas of Texas is where no one wants to live...places like Lubbock and Waco. Your Dallas cost of living pales in comparison to Salem, Oregon or other Northwest cities with built-in advantages: an educated workforce (Texas is almost as much of a sieve as La. in education), people actually being able to get insured and the built-in advantage of not being threatened by crazy crackers wielding guns (like your recent white supremacist slayings...). Go ahead and try for it Texas but you have the same problem as the fly over country states: your state is awful. All the tax cuts and whorish tax incentives (corporate welfare) in the world will not help you lure companies which require an educated and technically proficient workforce....maybe instead of pillaging your state for the short term gains of attracting corporations which are always looking for better deals elsewhere (ask Wichita, Kansas about their giant Sprint customer service center sometime...or I should say, that giant empty building they'll never sell) you should invest into your educational system and stop trying to force dimwitted hillbilly fundamentalism into your curriculums as well. You may get Walmart because your wages and required benefits suck but companies which can actually enhance the lives of your state population will look elsewhere. I dunno...maybe the problem is your governor is just too stupid....his newscaster hairdoo is pretty humorous though, governor "Perfect Hair Forever" Perry.

Re: Foxs Doocy Ignores Problems With Texas Economy To Hype It As Model For Rest Of Nation

Hairstrike Alpha — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:34:30 -0000

Me either, just the pure fact that Nuge and Governor Stupid McForgetshistalkingpoints live there (and governor Stupid keeps winning re-election, too). I like to think that a state's relative well-being is reflected in who it selects to represent it, and Texas has some doozies. Like Joe "Sorry BP for America being upset that you killed the Gulf Coast" Barton, Louie "capping the amount of ammo a clip can carry somehow correlates to man-dog marraige" Goobert (yes I know it's Gohmert but this name is more appropriate) and that's without even looking at their idiotic senators. Texas has a bad habit of making the cast of "Buckwild" the Attorney General and then electing said morons to public posts. I guess in order to make it in Texas as a pol you just have to say Jesus a lot, blame everything on the federal government and then pillage your state so a corporation can come in and offer minimum wage jobs without benefits (which is an added tax based upon health care costs for other individuals as well). You can also ensure if said corporation is an oil-company you'll provide them with a complete goober for governor who cannot pronounce the world nuclear and could never get down the basic concept of climate change....said goober will say Jesus a lot and cut corporate taxes, though...

Re: Whose Side Is ‘The Walking Dead’ On?

Hairstrike Alpha — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:28:35 -0000

Like many shows on television the ideology is based upon what you emphasize the show to be about. The problem with right wingers is they fundamentally don't understand themselves- they lack self awareness in every facet. Conservatives are by and large not "rugged individualists", they are authoritarians. So the idea of there being zero institutions with which to submit to is pretty scary. Another part of the zombie apocalypse that would bother wingnuts is there is no religious imperitive to it. "Disaster" films that appeal to wingnuts are ones in which the church is the star as both a place where everyone holes up to the priest winning some noble battle against the greatest evil. In other words, Manichean logic, one side is absolute good, the other side is evil. In the "Walking Dead" non-infected can be as evil as the infected and that sort of gray and gray morality would not appeal to wingnuts. Also, the zombie apocalypse would be the great equalizer- that is the 'social fabric' would cease to exist. Women would defend themselves and not depend on men to fight for them, racism and rigid social order (such as material wealth) would not be factors- the ubermensch of the super-rich would not be able to save the day. Wingnuts imagine they are all John Wayne but their version of John Wayne would only exist if a preacher told him what to do. In the Walking Dead, death can come at any time which tends to produce a political shift to the right- but it's an authoritarian shift. So long as the military, the police and the government can forcibly punish those which scare them, right wingers are happy. But having to survive life and death is to your average conservative not a 'rush', that's just their BS macho act speaking for them (think Ted Nugent- the man pooped his pants and lived in it to avoid 'Nam and yet he's all about threatening to shoot people...consider that typical of conservatives). Essentially most right wingers are pants pissers who like to puff up their chest when in front of cameras but since fear of death leads to authoritarianism you know what really drives them.

Re: Whose Side Is ‘The Walking Dead’ On?

Hairstrike Alpha — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:44:18 -0000

That was pretty much Romero's point for "Dawn of the Dead" about the faceless, zombie-esque shuffle of consumerism. Every film in the "Living Dead" series is full of social commentary in each film and all of it is liberal- Romero is an old hippie I think. Since his film series is the gold standard of the genera it's no surprise that the more successful efforts are able to borrow certain themes from him. Also...it's not the teevee that is your master- it's the giant merchants who dominate in advertising.

Re: Wendy Davis, Superhero

Hairstrike Alpha — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:38:41 -0000

Yes well you could tell that to the GOP...good point. Although, of course you won't recognize how your point applies to pro-lifers but I'll go ahead and explain how it does. Years ago the GOP was able to orchestrate a backlash against the new left by accusing them of having ideological blinders and being unable to see any consequences of behaving so ideological...oh what a difference time makes! The GOP is hellbent on making this a third world nation and 'pro-life' is just a plank of this ideological rush. Wingnuts want to outlaw abortion which by their definition will increase the birthrate (it won't, abortion will instead operate in back alleys as a black market 'industry' while rich people will still get abortions by their doctors) while at the same time they want to end welfare and medicaid. Right now the US is skirting the edges of being a third world nation in terms of income inequality, education, health care and standard of living; all of which has come about because of Republican policies.

By outlawing abortion and working to gut/end welfare, medicaid, medicare and continuing to wither public education the GOP is all but ensuring the United States will resemble India. Upward mobility- the measure of how the poor are able to move into the middle class, middle class into the wealthy has already been badly eroded by GOPer tax cuts for the rich and deregulation of industry which has offloaded a host of costs (called 'externalities') onto the state...what do you think is going to happen when those industries when they can no longer externalize benefits and wages? Well without being forced to do so they won't change anything which means more poor people, more unhealthy people and fewer educated people. Education and economic viabilities are drivers of teen and unwanted pregnancies- so you'll just see even more class depression. That's right if the GOP gets its way the US will look like India...now go research what India looks like and tell me who is "advocating death" and if you don't believe me...check US history. It's all there and the GOP's right wing ideological fidelity pretty much ensures what I write will come to pass....which is why most economist like every other highly educated professional group identifies itself as liberal. Wingnuts aren't just stupid and live in bubbles, their inability to 'cotton' to reality will have this country resembling India or more to the point- Saudi Arabia.

Re: Wendy Davis, Superhero

Hairstrike Alpha — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:51:52 -0000

Not according to actual legitimate science it's not. Republicans are using junk, garbage science of the type which Todd Aiken's hilarious "a womans body can shut that whole thing down" comment came from- fetal pain. Legitimate science has proven that a fetus does not feel pain until it has a fully formed brain (which is good for wingnuts because they don't have to worry about pain...ever) so your analogy of "pain is still pain" followed by "being ripped apart alive while inside the womb" is pure pigcrap. Junky, ideologically driven bibble dribble science...in fact it's not even bible driven because the bible being a 2,000 year old desert people text doesn't know when a human experiences pain. You're also using a fallacious analogy- it doesn't matter WHAT people call an embryo and for that matter, baby is just a general term that is kinder than 'fertilized egg'. People don't use scientific terminology for much of anything- particularly medical terms. Have you ever read a diagnosis for say, lung cancer in coded medical terminology? By your definition if an idiot on the street doesn't use the magical technical terms- those don't apply! So we can stop worrying about staging cancer or trying to cure it...idiots on the street have gotten rid of the need for complexity which is what you're saying now. In other words, you just appealed to ignorance in a really funny way.

Republicans are consumed by using terms like "legitimate" to hilariously classify rape (I say hilariously because it's fun watching you idiots try to do it when the best classification is- if sex is not consentual (of both sound mind and body) it is rape works just fine except for conservatives dive into this stupidity because they want to have no exemptions to their stupid anti-abortion stuff) but when discussing science that conflicts with your stupid, narrow minded ideology conservatives ignore legitimate medical science in favor of bibble dribble dressed up as 'common sense' which you're doing now. No, nothing that you write is a good point...try again.

Re: Wendy Davis, Superhero

Hairstrike Alpha — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:37:54 -0000

Oh waaahhhh! You mean the GOP which has redistricted the hell out of Texas in one of the most corrupt and naked bids for power in the nation was the recipient of 'uncivil' discourse when they're usually the ones perpetrating it...of course you're not acknoweldging the rude manner in which the Republicans treated the women thus provoking their 'thuggish' as you call it behavior. You know...doing things like ignoring procedural motions- if you're going to cite "Roberts Rules of Order" to attack supporters of what Davis was doing you need to also attack the GOPers but my instinct is, you won't do that...why would you? It like when Sean Hannity whined about Allen Grayson's to close the bone for conservatives "if you get sick, die quickly" speech as being uncivil while Joe Wilson's near unprecedented screech of "you lie!!!" in the middle of an SOU was totally crickets over at Faux...in fact in the demented world of wingnuts it made him a celebrity. If supporters were loud its because they were insistent in not allowing GOPers to do what they usually do which is freeze out dissent. Jim Sensenbrenner a fat piece of pigcrap if one ever existed used to gavel sessions as being ended...in the middle of testimony! When Dubya was in office the GOPers made a Democratic hearing get moved to the basement and then cut the lights out...no I for one am sick of hearing this whiny "you need to be niccceeeee! whaaaaahhhh!" stuff directed at the left while gopers stick little tongues on their helmets when they are complete assholes..

Re: Wendy Davis, Superhero

Hairstrike Alpha — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:43:26 -0000

I agree and really children born of rape should never be a political football...especially galling when they are used to attack women who decide to terminate the rapists get. In our country the question of whether or not it's proper to use someone or something goes flying out the window when political calculus says its good to exploit them...I'm sure there are many, many examples (Willie Horton and the unfortunate attention this put on the next of kin for victims) of this unseemly treatment but the most overt in my opinion was Michael and Terry Schaivo...especially when it was outed that one of Mel Martinez's staff was sending little notes around telling his fellow wingnuts in the Senate how great it was for them to use Terry Schaivo for more of their BS "pro-life" politics...

Re: Wendy Davis, Superhero

Hairstrike Alpha — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 23:40:09 -0000

Ah...pro-life idiocy...okay, first off it's debatable as to whether or not a fertilized egg or any embryo is a baby and it's also debatable whether or not abortion is 'killing' anything. Futhermore I get tired of this trite pro-lifer nonsense when the people you support are incredibly happy (near orgasmic, really) to continue the barbaric practice of capital punishment. I also get tired of the warmongering party invoking themselves being pro-life. Furthermore if you're going to bitch about abortion...what is your solution? Oh yes, ban it...guess what? that won't end abortion! Do you know what lowers the birthrate, rages the age of conception and also lowers the abortion rate? Education and economic opportunity for poor communities. You can check out any study on unwanted pregnancies and the largest driving factor is lack of education and poverty- multi-generational poverty is an larger driving factor.

Access to healthcare is another driving...so if you really want to do something aside from bibble-dribble maybe you ought to work within your wingnut party to get them to stop fucking up the educational system. You could also get them to stop increasing income inequality which is a cofunction of economic opportunity. Guess what? when you have a system which amounts to little more than the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer you're going to have more teen pregnancy, crime and abortion. But nooo...the GOP wants to destroy the welfare system, they want to destroy medicaid and medicare, and they want to increase the education and income gaps as part of a never ending campaign of upper-class warfare. As for children, what has the GOP done to lower school shootings? They've used paranioa to shield them from scrutiny while they protect the sweet, sweet corporate profits of death merchants and in the meantime more and more kids who you care 'so much' about get cut in half by the massive amount of guns on the streets. You pro-lifers are making things worse and then demanding everyone follow your hollow 'pro-life' belief system...love the fetus, hate the child and despise and jail the adult. Or send the adult off to war or to get gunned down in their own city...but don't educate them, don't give them a chance at a better life, close off higher education so that only the rich can afford it...and do it all in the name of 'freedom'...freedom for WASPs and the super-rich.

Re: Wendy Davis, Superhero

Hairstrike Alpha — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 01:47:39 -0000

Yeah like you pro-lifers care about children...I suppose if you do it's only the most shallow, political football sort of way. I notice the GOP pro-life caucus for instance is right there with the rest of the jackals opposing S-Chip and trying to gut/destroy welfare and medicaid. The pro-lifers also seem to be onboard with withering the education system and all in favor of making college unreachable for poor children. They also are against doing anything to actually curb school shootings and want to eviscerate what gun laws we have while helping the NRA defund/destroy the ATF. So pro-lifers care about fetuses insomuch as making a woman into a glorified incubator with her only input being that her child gets to starve after its born because without a safety net and in a down economy, most of these young women who get abortions would be forced to carry the child to term without any real way of supporting it.

The child can then be born into a country with a group of 'Christians' who find it disagreeable now that it's out of the womb...they want to force the mother to bare it but then are unwilling for society to do anything to take responsibility for the child she's been forced to birth. Not to mention pro-lifers are all in favor of forcing mothers who can potentially die due to a difficult pregnancy to carry the child to term, they also want to criminalize miscarraiges based upon whether or not the police believe the miscarraige is accidental or intentional. This will force women into the back alley with coat hangers as desperate women look to unsanitary black market conditions to abort the pregnancy knowing that in a harsh society which seeks to punish them by making them carry it with no remedies possible that they MUST abort the pregnancy. This is the world the pro-life movement wants- love the fetus, hate the child. Their only solutions for what happens after they succeed in destroying the social safety net while forcing women to carry the child is to sit in judgment and pretend like there is some magic 'bootstraps' for the mother and child to pull themselves up by once the welfare system is null and void...that's the most galling part is hearing the unrealistic dream world conservatives live in when you ask them what happens AFTER they force a poor woman to raise a child in their world where welfare is gone and so are medicare/medicaid and without any real economic opportunity given the GOP's labor and trade policies...it's inhuman. It's also essentially making every poor child born into a self fulfilling prophecy if their family is not wealthy and/or is unwilling to help since society no longer has the will but has lots of harsh names to call them (on a side note in this conservative dystopia billionaires will be able to buy small countries...so there is that I suppose). That is the reality of the conservative 'utopia': we'll look a lot like India which since we're about halfway there anyway we'll just finish the journey.

Re: Trayvon Martin And Why The Right-Wing Media Spent 16 Months Smearing A Dead Teenager

Hairstrike Alpha — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 01:39:22 -0000

That's an excellent point and it seems to be part of the larger web of lies for the ever growing Zimmerman story. There are so many facets which bother me about that trial including the ever changing placement of Trayvon Martin's hands. In one variation his hands covered Zimmerman's mouth and nose but those left Zimmerman's hands free...or were they? Apparently Trayvon's knees were holding Zimmerman's hands down; that's if we accept that Martin was indeed straddling Zimmerman something the prosecution should have fought vigorously while offering an alternate narrative which makes Zimmerman the aggressor which is by far the likeliest event more on that soon. But the knees held him down and yet Zimmerman can apparently dislocate his shoulder because how else could he reach for the gun he had postioned BEHIND HIM? Not on the side as his lying, race baiting attorneys stated and which was not contested- behind him as he clearly illustrates in police videos.

Trayvon was apparently MUCH stronger than his size would indicate as according to Zimmerman he quickly overpowered him so thorougly which is hard to believe as Zimmerman is physically larger, stronger, more well-trained and also much more confrontational-minded comparing histories. But in this particular story Trayvon paradoxically was very strong but also hits like a bitch since the best he could do was a couple of pink marks, some very shallow scrapes (which do not at all look like any injury I've ever seen from someone who's dome is being bounced on the sidewalk) and a broken nose. By the way, as anyone knows the nose is extremely easy to break and requires little strength to do so. So Trayvon once again was in spite of his appearance and mass was Conan strong and yet he hits like Rush Limbaugh who I assume couldn't kill a fly with a punch.

Historically and even ignoring for now the statements of witness 9 (a cousin who stated that Zimmerman molested her over 13 years and kept her in silence under the threat of grave bodily harm who also said he and his family are a bunch of proud racists) Zimmerman is the one with the long history of violence given his assaulting his wife, assaulting a police officer and other germain yet not allowed statements. Zimmerman had the strength advantage, the know-how, the deadly weapon and the history of confrontation. Clearly he should have been painted as both the aggressor and the prosecution should have offered a very different story with Zimmerman on top shooting Martin in the chest to kill him. Given his bias (40+ 911 calls to report suspicious people and everytime it was a young black man), his history of violence and physical aggression and his obvious mounting aggression on the phone right before the fatal confrontation....he was a murderer and he got off because of a racist broken system, pure and simple.

Re: Your Political Rants Are Too Awful Even for Reddit

Hairstrike Alpha — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:38:50 -0000

Uh yeah, that...well Ron Paul himself is a fringe figure for most people and many people regard him negatively. So what she was doing was stepping away...and I don't see how that's a negative statement, "whatever your feelings on Paul" is a tacit acknowledgement that some people like him and some people despise him. He's a controversial figure so it's an appropriate statement. Now if it was a lesser known or less polarizing figure I could definitely see such a statement as being considered negative but in this case, I don't think so. You're being far too touchy about language...

Re: Deleted Comments Of The Week: In Which The League Of The South Weeps And Whines

Hairstrike Alpha — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 15:34:08 -0000

Yes the South is so tough we kicked the living shit out of them, blew up their plantations and occupied them until backroom trading ended reconstruction (which was probably the worst mistake the Union ever made). The South is so smrt they drag the rest of the country down in literacy and IQ testing not to mention all of the fundamentalism which is clearly a sign of Southern jean-yus at work. The South is so well off we should just let them go....fine by me. Bon Voyage wingnuts but before you go you're paying for that industry FDR gave you including the TVA and your grids, have fun affording all of it.

Southern "nationalists" are such dumbfucks...

Re: Deleted Comments Of The Week: In Which The League Of The South Weeps And Whines

Hairstrike Alpha — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 16:25:36 -0000

Just think about back when they introduced hickory-smoked bacon to your palette and act accordingly.