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Miscellaneous See other Miscellaneous Articles Title: Welcome to TOS4 Source: me URL Source: http://none Published: Jan 29, 2005 Author: christine Post Date: 2005-01-28 10:54:16 by christine Keywords: Welcome, TOS4 Views: 16511 Comments: 272 Let's get this thing going ;) Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 230. #171. To: christine (#0) hey, good to see y'all! :) kiki  posted on  2005-01-31   0:11:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #175. To: kiki (#171) WB, Kiki. (Which was my daughter's nickname when she was a kid...I still call her keeks, but not around her friends. There she is Kathleen, if you please.) Happy to see the people of good intention returning. Bush sure is a uniter, ain't he? But this might be a good thing. If we can start talking past the talking points and get down to what is important, we have a chance to forge a real democracy. I mean, how weird is it that liberals like me are the deficit hawks? I always have been one, but it was not a hallmark of the Dem party or the liberal mindset. Now it is. As usual, I will ramble and free associate. This weekend, NPR here in Chicago had a series of specials about the death of Cabrini Green, the largest public housing project in the country. It has been shut down in stages, torn down and replaced with mixed low-rise townhouse villages, where the wealthy pay $350K for a unit, and the poor pay a prorated rent or can buy for a lot less on very favorable terms. So far it is working, and they shut down the last big buildings this weekend. In 1955, huge public housing sounded like a good idea to liberals. It turned out to be a very bad one. It was better than what was going on then, and the city sold the world on it with an ad campaign that contrasted the ghetto that was there at the time to nice clean public housing. Well, it was better, but not much. Europe was doing the same thing, calling them council estates, at the time. Clockwork Orange was a prediction of what would happen, and it was accurate, but if anything, too optimistic. When the Sex Pistols sneered "just another council tenancy" in No Future, they were referring to the warehousing of the marginalized disguised as compassion. That's my longwinded way of saying that some liberal ideas look GREAT on paper, and suck in real life. The job of conservatives is, IMO, to say, yeah, that sounds nice, but society can afford JUST SO MUCH. They act as brakes on the bad ideas for change and force a debate. And liberals force bad conditions to change. It's a healthy thing. The Neocons are a new phenomenon. They're the most deluded, stars in their eyes, hippy-dippy, peacenlove idiots ever. Starshine and Uncle Truckin's dream of having, like, man, a COMMUNITY in the Maine woods where everyone would do, like, what they wanted, sounds more mature and sensible than delivering democracy like Domino's, only with a bunkerbuster bomb. I was in grad school with some of these nuts. A couple are in the administration now, in lowly positions, but they make good money. They were fairly normal until they got into grad school, at which point they developed delusions of grandeur, suddenly realizing they were great thinkers. They were not, and their professors told them so, but they started taking over classes. It was like an infection. Pretty soon a friend of mine would start calling me naive. These people were marginal liberals, not activist or anything, but traditionally liberal. And suddenly it was like The Night of the Living Dead. Neoconism is a very seductive philosophy; boiled down, it says you can do good by doing bad. These are people who think saving a village by destroying it makes sense. The thing I noticed most, though, was how they started saying "grow up." They wanted to be taken seriously, they lost all sense of humor, they suddenly had a mission. The same thing happened to a close friend who is now high up in the Moonies. There has to be a cause greater than all of us for them and if we don't sign on, we're frivolous. Remember the buttholes in the Bushie wing saying, "the adults are in charge"? These are very dangerous people. They cannot think for a second they might be wrong. They never debate. They scream, they deliver ludicrous talking points without a blink, they change language to mean what they want it to mean, they will do anything to win. Underlying it is a sense of narcissism. They are all very mediocre people. There is not one truly bright person among them. Ever notice how Condi demands to be called Dr. Rice? How Smirk demands to be called Mr. President? Condi is a mediocrity and Smirk is less than that. Anyone who hangs out at a university long enough and sucks up to the neocon PoliSci profs (yes, that was my major) can get a doctorate. The one guy they had who was truly intelligent was Paul O'Neill. He was spacy, but bright. And look what happened to him. Christie Whitman, despite my dislike of her, was pretty bright too, but she is long gone and her new book is going to kick their ass. What's surprising is that even the mediocrities, like Ridge and Lindsey and Veneman, have all been thrown overboard too. This gang needs TOTAL loyalty and they were losing it among their functionaries, so they got a whole new crew who had not been around to see them make sausage. My prediction is, it will not work, they will implode and people like Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch are going to get together and say, OK, we don't agree, but we, unlike them, have the best interests of the country in mind. Let's work it out, get someone in office and start working together more. I have no idea how to get out of Iraq, but we have to. I have no idea how to cure the health system, but we have to. I have no idea how to repair our image worldwide, but we have to. I have no idea how we can repair this economy, but we have to. So I am happy to have this site, and we have to make sure that scum like Badeye are banned instantly when they turn discussion into partisan flame war. Mekons4  posted on  2005-01-31   1:29:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #215. To: Mekons4, Samuel Gray, All (#175) Already this morning the person who is not to be named on this site has done the following: 1. Denied that Tommy Franks ever said that Douglas Feith "is the stupidest fucking guy on the face of the earth", because it wasn't in the book he wrote. "Bottom line is Franks never once mentioned anything remotely close to this" 2. Congratulated Crystalk for having a concise accurate picture of what is going on in Iraq. Their concern is only because it is a threat to their OWN HEGEMONY over the United States of America. Iraq's success in its fledgling democracy is very good news for all the Christians in the world and for all decent men and women of goodwill everywhere. "I think you have a very concise, accurate picture of how things are. " 3. Congratulated another bot: Yes, and this was most certainly worth 1,300 American lives. Yes. It was. "Yes, their deaths were not in vain, unlike St Kennedy and LBJ's war in Vietnam." 4. Refused to tell an 86 year old WWII vet (blackhorse) who or what FU is: Ask somebody else Why? Is FU a secret organization that you can not tell me what the FU site is? "Nope, I just have no interest in discussing wacko's that ran away from the truth, as the "FU Clan" did two years ago." Honestly, you can't make stuff like this up. We simply must have a thread dedicated to what this moron says in the space of 10 minutes. The above is only a small sampling just from this morning! robin  posted on  2005-01-31   10:30:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #218. To: robin (#215) Iraq's success in its fledgling democracy is very good news for all the Christians in the world and for all decent men and women of goodwill everywhere OMG...my monitor needs a barf shield. Lord Valdebot is even stupider than I thought, and that's saying something. Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-01-31   10:34:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #223. To: Samuel Gray (#218) That was actually still Crystalk talking, (the html italics fail across blank lines here) However, he agreed whole heartedly. robin  posted on  2005-01-31   10:37:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #230. To: robin (#223) he agreed whole heartedly Figures. They share a single celled structure that could very loosely be termed a "brain." Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-01-31   10:42:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   Replies to Comment # 230.         There are no replies to Comment # 230. End Trace Mode for Comment # 230. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest

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