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Re: Congressman Artur Davis – the ONLY member of the CBC to vote AGAINST healthcare reform

PTCruiser — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:23:24 -0000

You still need to step out of this particular discussion. I'm not on your side and you don't agree with me at all.

Re: Congressman Artur Davis – the ONLY member of the CBC to vote AGAINST healthcare reform

PTCruiser — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:33:09 -0000

I don't think so. In fact, I think you need to step out of this particular discussion because your response only causes me to defend the very people I want to criticize.

Re: Congressman Artur Davis – the ONLY member of the CBC to vote AGAINST healthcare reform

PTCruiser — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:06:29 -0000

I wonder where are all of the aspirational pragmatists who post here to defend Rep. Davis' vote? After all, he wants to be governor of Alabama.

Re: Sunday Open Thread

PTCruiser — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:34:43 -0000

The Israelis are not going to play ball whether the rockets are being launched into their territory or not. The current Palestinian leadership is not able to make any such concessions in great part because the previous actions of our government and various Israeli governments has served to weaken and discredit them.

I have to take my boys to Game Stop to buy X-Box codes.

Re: Sunday Open Thread

PTCruiser — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:57:29 -0000

Taking a hard line with the Palestinians has nothing to do with pursuing the right idea or policy and everything to do with providing political cover. The Palestinians live under hard lines and even harsher policies 24/7.

Just keep in mind that the Holocaust occurred primarily in central and eastern Europe and it was not the overarching event of World War II nor were the Palestinians involved.

Re: Sunday Open Thread

PTCruiser — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:41:30 -0000

The Palestinian situation is not a generational problem. I will give the president his props if and when something beneficial happens for the Palestinian people. Until that time...

Re: Nidal Malik Hasan: The Madness Time

PTCruiser — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:32:31 -0000

Yes, but not all of them take advantage of that therapeutic hour by fully disclosing themselves and sometimes the therapist assigned to assist them doesn't really want to get too deep for fear of exposing the chinks in their own armor. It can be a mess.

Re: Nidal Malik Hasan: The Madness Time

PTCruiser — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:23:50 -0000

Not quite in the same way and respect as the male of the species.

Re: Nidal Malik Hasan: The Madness Time

PTCruiser — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:17:18 -0000

Nope. Strictly male behavior.

Re: Nidal Malik Hasan: The Madness Time

PTCruiser — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:07:56 -0000

Many people go into the helping profession because they too need help. Sometimes they recognize what they need and make an effort to get it. Other times, they wind up only telling others what they themselves need to learn.

Dr. Hasan needed help and couldn't figure out the appropriate way to get it. We are going to see more eruptions of this sort in the military and not just among the non-coms. Two pointless and futile wars and multiple redeployments in a time of domestic and international social, economic and political retrenchment will only increase the frequency of these violent outbursts here and in other countries.

Re: Nidal Malik Hasan: The Madness Time

PTCruiser — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:02:23 -0000

Every part of this ongoing and now pointless drama.

Re: Nidal Malik Hasan: The Madness Time

PTCruiser — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:59:58 -0000

Good point!

Re: Friday Open Thread

PTCruiser — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:46:05 -0000

I don't disagree with anything you wrote but Perry's audience love and crave these simplistic melodramas. His devotees don't want complex plots or characters. I have had discussions, for example, with members of my family who couldn't make heads or tails of movies such as Eve's Bayou or Devil in a Blue Dress but thoroughly enjoy anything that Perry does. It is a battle that I have opted out of. There is nothing than can be done to alter their popular culture preferences.

Re: Friday Open Thread

PTCruiser — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:34:23 -0000

Is Tyler Perry producing and directing For Colored Girls... or just directing? Is it being done as a film or for stage? Who is doing the screenplay? Ntozake?

I can't see For Colored Girls... being done as a film. I don't know how it would work on the screen. Obviously, a lot of people, including Ntozake, believe that there is a chance to make some money here but it is an odd choice.

Re: CNN’s ‘Latino in America’ -Day 1 Open Thread

PTCruiser — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:19:44 -0000

There was a lot more camaraderie and less wariness in Los Angeles between young Blacks and Latinos during the 1940s, 50s and 60s than exists now. I think that you are right about prison culture playing a large role in this turnabout.

Re: CNN’s ‘Latino in America’ -Day 1 Open Thread

PTCruiser — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:12:32 -0000

The reaction of the Cuban government or, more accurately, segments of the Cuban government, stems from a fear that reports of stories of racial discrimination against darker-skinned Cubans works to undermine the revolution and gives aid and comfort to its enemies who, by and large, have even less regard for black Cubans.

Re: CNN’s ‘Latino in America’ -Day 1 Open Thread

PTCruiser — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:16:15 -0000

LMAO!

Re: CNN’s ‘Latino in America’ -Day 1 Open Thread

PTCruiser — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:13:39 -0000

No, no, never! This issue will not be discussed. The Cuban government, yes, the same Cuban government who former leader once spent the night in Harlem - has imprisoned and threatened black Cubans who dare to raise this issue. Non-Black Latinos, for the most part, don't want to discuss this issue at all.

Re: Jill and Jack in the bay area!

PTCruiser — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:16:28 -0000

I think the Presidio and Baker's Beach are in the background. It looks as if they are standing on the Marin County side above Strawberry Cove, which is west of the bridge.

Re: Obama’s DHS to Sign Cooperation Agreement With Racial Profiler, Sheriff Arpaio, Today

PTCruiser — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:45:02 -0000

LMAO!

Re: Obama’s DHS to Sign Cooperation Agreement With Racial Profiler, Sheriff Arpaio, Today

PTCruiser — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:43:48 -0000

Craig,

Why do you consider Luna's post irresponsible? Have you been following stories about Sheriff Joe? You know that I trust and respect your judgment but I'm not getting your point here.

Re: A worthy rant from BooMan on Obama criticism from the Left blogosphere

PTCruiser — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:00:35 -0000

Yes, I could be stupid and if so then there is little point in me attempting to exchange points of view with someone as obviously intelligent as you pretend to be.

Re: A worthy rant from BooMan on Obama criticism from the Left blogosphere

PTCruiser — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:43:29 -0000

If you say the president is a fucknut, then I say that you are a fucknut, how is that an attempt to silence you (or somehow run your speech through my approve-o-matic). I am simply calling you a fucknut.

Well, I don't know of any folks who post here regardless of the extent of their criticisms of the President who refer to him as a "fucknut." I really don't think you have any point to make other than your desire to use profanity.

Re: A worthy rant from BooMan on Obama criticism from the Left blogosphere

PTCruiser — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:01:37 -0000

Booman's issue is with some folks on the left who bitch about EVERYTHING.

Folks who on the left side of the spectrum who find fault with everything the President does are at the margins of the debates. Why do you and folks like Booman keep focusing on this small minority of folks as if they represent the political left? What's up with your extreme interest in their views?

BTW, I am not an ally of the President. I am a citizen and an elector in a democratic country with a republican form of government who voted and worked for Barack Obama's election. I don't owe him anything. I paid my dues on that tip.

Re: A worthy rant from BooMan on Obama criticism from the Left blogosphere

PTCruiser — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:21:52 -0000

Only in America!