Maybe people … who have no risk of losing their cushy tenured job(s) shouldn’t prescribe medicine that they have no risk of ever taking.

- Me

Really, it’s like successful motivational speakers who give “Get Rich” seminars that use themselves for examples. [...]]]> Regarding those against extended job loss benefits or with a Melon-esque attitude about the Great Recession:

Maybe people … who have no risk of losing their cushy tenured job(s) shouldn’t prescribe medicine that they have no risk of ever taking.

- Me

Really, it’s like successful motivational speakers who give “Get Rich” seminars that use themselves for examples. They don’t get the reason that reality doesn’t apply to them is because they already live in a different world. It’s also the reason that a government run by people who are generally far better off than average can’t possible represent the average.

“Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. Purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down… enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.”

- Andrew Mellon, rich bastard who knew no one he cared [...]]]> Mostly so I don’t forget this vile screed:

“Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. Purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down… enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.”

- Andrew Mellon, rich bastard who knew no one he cared about would be “liquidated”

or in English:

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

- Voltaire

Sad but true…

“There is no intrinsic contradiction between providing additional fiscal stimulus today, while the unemployment rate is high and many factories and offices are underused, and imposing fiscal restraint several years from now, when output and employment will probably be close to their potential”

- CBO Director Doug Elmendorf (original source here).

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

- Upton Sinclair

All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not [...]]]> Orwell really did have a special ability to capture the truth (via Glenn Greenwald):

All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side . . . The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

- George Orwell

For the fun of it I thought I’d respond to some of the quotes found in this article about the BP oil spillTM:

Obama plans to take the stage [...]]]> It’s always “interesting” (sarcasm intended) to read the comments to Yahoo! News posts. It always gives a good vision into the insanity that we call the American public.

For the fun of it I thought I’d respond to some of the quotes found in this article about the BP oil spill^TM:

Obama plans to take the stage this evening and take credit for what BP is already doing … This spill is not the dire emergency that the government propagandist are making it out to be.

Uh, so I assume the White House sent you an advanced copy of their speech thus you know what he’s going to say? Also, maybe you could tell me what advantage of making this look more “dire” give Obama other than killing his approval ratings.

[something-incoherent-here] … if not for all the environmentalists with their social senses on high alert preventing us from being self sufficient on oil with their constant lawsuits instead of making terrorist sponsors wealthy. They want to save the bat-winged, rabbit-tailed mosquito!

Yeah, and little things like the entire ecosystem of the gulf. Damn those environmentalists are so stuuuuuupid!

time for comrade obama to blame bush again and raise taxes again

How original! And so accurate given that Obama lowered taxes…

Revelation 16:4, and an angel will touch the oceans and it will become like blood and every living creature in the ocean will die.

It came from the “East” too (BRITISH Petroleum)! It must be true! I knew it – Tony Hayward is the Anti-Christ!

Even he even mentions cap & trade, he should be arrested for treason for selling this great country out to foriegners

Uh, yeah – I see the correlation. Er, not.

BTW – with all the shit on our beaches, we aren’t looking so “great” anymore.

Yes..a new estimate just in time for Obama’s speech. Yeah right.@#$%. Get ready for yet another crisis not going to waste . More taxes,more government control and take overs.

And it weren’t for those meddlin’ kids he would have gotten away with it too!

Anyway – you”re so right – clearly deregulation is the answer – look what it did for Louisiana!

God show us what to do with this element…should we FREEZE it? Should we add something to it to solidify it?

That’s it – God wants us to enjoy tasty Oil-cicles!

New, higher estimates announced just in time for Obama’s propaganda speech tonight during which he will push his cap and trade/carbon tax scheme to bankrupt what’s left of Americal.

Yes, well obviously the answer is more of the same! It’s working so well!

They’re willing to let the Gulf become a “dead zone” in order to pass their “Cap and Trade”.

Can I borrow your tin foil hat for a minute?

obama is an ignorant jerk and a disgrace to America.

Sticks and stones…

more obama lies–this happened on your watch comrade president oil-bama–show some leadership professor and quit going on vacation already

Yeah, a Republican president would never take vacation!

This is why I don’t trust Obama and the Democrats. They are all talk and no action. This would have been cleaned up by now if Palin was President.

How? By clogging it with her beaudatious hairdo?

I could just go on forever with this fun!

- Mohandas Gandhi

“Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”

- George W. Bush, ex-President and War Criminal

Of course, he’s a little late to the show, his V.P. admitted to it two years ago:

“I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came [...]]]> Well, he finally admitted to it:

“Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”

- George W. Bush, ex-President and War Criminal

Of course, he’s a little late to the show, his V.P. admitted to it two years ago:

“I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn’t do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it.”

- Dick Cheney, ex-Vice-President and War Criminal

Of course fortunately we have a president now who will prosecute these admitted criminals.

- Thomas Jefferson