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Post by jdredd on Jan 20, 2013 21:52:10 GMT -5
Stoessel just had has some bozo from the Koch-bankrolled Libertarian Cato Institute, making the tired comparison of California to Greece.
But to be fair, now he has a guy talking about extreme forfeiture laws in Texas.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 20, 2013 22:00:18 GMT -5
Wasn't I just talking about lurid journalism? Now Stoessel is comparing California to the Soviet Union. I guess Stoessel is just one more example of douchebag Boomer journalism.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 20, 2013 22:11:37 GMT -5
Well, now Stoessel has ended on FBN, and there is something called "The Willis Report", with some stereotypical generic blonde Gen X info babe. Of course her program started by slamming Obama's green energy subsidies. Yawn. I'm moving on.
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Post by Turk on Jan 21, 2013 20:35:33 GMT -5
JD’s on a roll. Well I happen to like Stoessel at least he’s not consumed with racism and hate like the fools on MSNBC.
I've seen Jerry Willis, nice legs.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 21, 2013 21:41:45 GMT -5
Being on a roll is a dirty job but someone has to do it.
Racism, like everything else, is in the eye of the beholder, so I can't dispute your assessment of MSNBC.
Fortunately, nice legs aren't enough to keep me watching the hokum coming out of Murdoch's Fox Network for long.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 22, 2013 20:01:09 GMT -5
Feeling guilty bout slamming Stoessel without knowing hat much about him, I decided to buy his first book for my Kindle. Well, I've gotten about 15% through it, and frankly, you are ten times as smart as he is on your worst day, T. Frankly, to use the word Ann Coulter used for Obama, Stoessel is a reperson.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 24, 2013 19:03:06 GMT -5
Herei is my basic problem with Libertarianism: The last thing the human race needs is an "ism" based on encouraging everyone's self-centeredness. Humans already have WAY too much of that naturally.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 10, 2013 22:26:29 GMT -5
Once again I find myself watching Murdoch toady John Stossel taking a shot at teacher's unions, a fave Libertarian scapegoat, on FBN. He has on Michelle Rhee, a failed "reformer" of DC's school system who attacked the Unions and lost. What is satisfying to remember is that Stossel used to be on a REAL network, and now has been demoted to unwatched FBN. They must be desperate to hire a guy so shallow and simple-minded.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 8, 2013 15:29:11 GMT -5
I think Rand Paul's filibuster that forced that weasel Holder to put into writing that no drone executions will happen on American soil may have given the Libertarian wing of the GOP a shot in the arm, and made both the Dems and the GOP Old Guard look pretty bad. Heck, I might be willing to vote for Rand if the liberals in the Dem Party don't revive their anti-war creds.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 2, 2013 21:51:19 GMT -5
www.economist.com/news/britain/21578666-britains-youth-are-not-just-more-liberal-their-elders-they-are-also-more-liberal-any"Polls show that the young are more relaxed than others about drugs, sex, alcohol, euthanasia and non-traditional family structures. They dislike immigration, but not as strongly as do their elders. And they are becoming ever more liberal. The BSA has tracked attitudes for three decades. It shows that the young are now far more tolerant of homosexuality, for example, than were previous generations at the same age. Experimenters with new technologies, fashions and ideas, young people in Britain and elsewhere have long tweaked established social institutions. But their iconoclasm goes further than this. Young Britons are classical liberals: as well as prizing social freedom, they believe in low taxes, limited welfare and personal responsibility. In America they would be called libertarians.More than two-thirds of people born before 1939 consider the welfare state “one of Britain’s proudest achievements”. Less than one-third of those born after 1979 say the same. According to the BSA, members of Generation Y are not just half as likely as older people to consider it the state’s responsibility to cover the costs of residential care in old age. They are also more likely to take such a hard-hearted view than were members of the famously jaded Generation X (born between 1966 and 1979) at the same stage of life." "Just as the construction of the post-war welfare state helps to explain the collectivist instincts of the old, today’s economic adversity and dwindling welfare payments appear to be forging a generation of dogged individualists. Rosina St James, a 22-year-old student who chairs the British Youth Council, a network of 230 organisations, describes a sense that “you’re running against the person next to you”. “ People in our generation are incredibly competitive with each other,” she says." So young Brits are embracing Libertarianism (known as "liberalism" in Europe as the article says, causing endless confusion here)? Is this simply the logical conclusion of Middle Class Values, which were invented in England? If they want to embrace the "dog eat dog" philosophy, so be it. Not my problem.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 8, 2014 1:46:00 GMT -5
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/7/rand-paul-demands-democrats-return-money-raised-se/"Sen. Rand Paul, who has been in a bit of a tiff recently with the Clintons, says that any Democrat who has raised campaign money with former President Clinton should return the cash to protest his sexual behavior in the White House. Speaking on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program, in an interview airing Sunday, Mr. Paul said Democrats are being hypocritical by criticizing Republicans as waging a war on women while at the same time embracing Mr. Clinton, who was impeached for lying about a sexual relationship with a White House intern." "Mr. Paul recently called Mr. Clinton a “sexual predator” for his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky." I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree: Rand is a looney just like his dad.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 9, 2014 0:51:43 GMT -5
Caught the tail end of a debate on Libertarian dufus John Stoessel's show over Piketty's book. Will Piketty's book make a difference in the American political landscape? Not a chance. Is it fun watching the apologists for the billionaires squirm as the book continues to be a bestseller? Hell yeah!
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Post by jdredd on Jun 19, 2014 14:41:06 GMT -5
Maybe I'm being too hard on the Libertarians. I'm beginning to think more like them as time goes by. They seem to be the only ones with their heads screwed on right about the Middle East, that is, GET THE HELL OUT AND DON'T LOOK BACK. And they seem to be on the money on the "war on drugs", I agree with them on guns and women's reproductive rights, and even an open border. Of course they will drop all that (except the guns) to become part of the GOP power elite, and only retain their approval of the coming Billionaire-run World Plutocracy which they have in common with the GOP establishment.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 4, 2014 3:56:32 GMT -5
If any of you imaginary people who have been reading my posts faithfully would know, I am pretty negative about Libertarians, even though I agree with them on SOME things. The problem with them is that they are Utopian. For instance, to use an example related to the present anti-illegal-immigration hysteria, a true Libertarian would believe in open borders. Would that work? I doubt it. No taxes, no public anything, and anything goes may sound good to some people but sound impossible to me. Most humans like some kind of order, some more than others of course.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 10, 2014 22:35:12 GMT -5
I finally got around to reading some Noam Chomsky, and OMG he's a libertarian! I was so disappointed. But he is good for a few laughs, such as for this whopper: "Man is fundamentally a creative, searching, self-perfecting being"!!! Imagine applying that to, say, your average English soccer thug or Mexican cartel member...
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