Comedy | October 12, 2010 | 239 comments

Republicans Apology To America

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfug3fdZHec

shanklinmike
Speaks for itself, they owe everyone a HUGE apology in my opinion. Not just Americans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfug3fdZHec
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  • Wendy_Vaught
  • unimatrix0
    • 0
      unimatrix0  

    • I think it is important to note that the highest rated comment on this thread was posted by H3ADLINE and reads in part:

      "Shanklin, blogs are essentially free at this point. Could you just get your own and stop hijacking a news site to push your political agenda? Especially when you mislabel things as News that are not, and repost things that are taken down... you look like a a scheming propagandist with no concern for the effect or appropriateness of his actions."

      H3ADLINE speaks for many current community members, and makes a valuable contribution to the discussion.

    • 1 year ago
  • H3ADLINE
    • +2
      H3ADLINE  
    • unimatrix0:

      I make no claim to speak on behalf of anyone else, nor do I wish to inhabit such a presumptuous role given my strong conviction that everyone has an obligation to speak on their own behalf, but to whatever extent I can articulate positions that others agree with, I do take some measure of satisfaction.

      In this particular case, the rating of my commentary most likely provides insight into the greater mood of Current users. Its relative popularity proves nothing about its accuracy, admittedly, but I would wager that it reveals a reassuring fact: I am not the only person capable of recognizing shanklinmike's deliberate misuse of Current.

    • 1 year ago
  • Wendy_Vaught
  • Bob_Sherwin
    • -3
      Bob_Sherwin  

    • Very funny and dead on. To you socialists....good luck when other peoples money runs out..you will attack the hand that feeds just like in Greece.

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
  • Nick19
  • kennymotown
  • serenden68
    • +1
      serenden68  

    • i believe mostly all partys need mass reform. the democrats who look good when on camera, are so broad as spread out in their ideals that they cant come together and formulate a concrete plan they all can agree on and actually act on....

      the republicans(in power now) are so far extreme and bassackwards with theirs ideals in that they only care about money and power/security, yet they all are focused and they actually do things... words cant describe the things they do but they get things done.

      as for other parties such as libertarians, independents etc. they all suffer from on or both in some way....

      all of them forgot about the people.. no, they ignore the people. partys might go to local communities and talk and give a lil money but that’s for their own good.. i know this is not true with all who are in the govt. right now but 99.5 of them are guilty of acting this way.

      and what’s worse? we cant place all the blame on the govt... many people agree with the things that are going on and are very active, without sings of slowing down. also the ones who would be against these ideals aren't as active for many reasons, what ever they are, there aren't any excuses for not doing something about making your country better for everyone when nothing is being done and hasn’t been for decades.

      until something big, or a couple small events that make everyone rethink things happens, not much is going to change because this country is essentially at ideal war... and at the worst time possible, not gonna name the list of things we face but you get the picture....

      this is why, if you can, i strongly urge all of you who read this post get a higher education if you haven’t already because knowledge will literally be the key to your future fortune. prepare for the worst, and hope for the best.

    • 1 year ago
  • utubemafia
  • Jack_Gannon
  • unimatrix0
  • Stoneyroad
    • +6
      Stoneyroad  
    • Image

    • 3,170 views ......very impressive Shank
      thats 3,000 more than the votes Mike Beitler will get in the upcoming election.
      Does he know your main Campaign strategy is spending all day on current trying to force feed us your world view?

    • 1 year ago
  • shanklinmike
    • -3
      shanklinmike  
    • Stoneyroad:

      I am not force feeding you anything. The thousands of people you indicated who visited this article and continually vote it up are doing such....

      and Dr Beitler will get A LOT more than 3,000 votes in the election.

      Pretty good run if you ask me, especially considering how 6 months ago we were at ZERO %.

      Thanks for all the hate....

    • 1 year ago
  • toastyguy11
  • shanklinmike
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • shanklinmike
  • shanklinmike
  • unimatrix0
    • +2
      unimatrix0  
    • shanklinmike:

      How many times are you going to post this same tired video?

      Your spam knows no shame. You are worse than a used car salesman - worse than the most annoying Jehovah's Witness - worse than the most obnoxious Amway multi-marketer.

      Your spam earns you and your cause only contempt.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • toastyguy11
  • shanklinmike
  • shanklinmike
    • -2
      shanklinmike  
    • ThatCrazyLibertarian:

      What was the last rude thing I did? When was I rude?

      Just because I use definitions to educate the world does not mean I am crazy, nor that I am rude.

      Sure, I have a slight attitude, especially when people come on here and lie that Somalia is libertarian land...as if...

      I won't call people brainwashed anymore.... what other words should I allow others to censor from me?

      What other truths should I hide?

    • 1 year ago
  • utubemafia
  • utubemafia
  • utubemafia
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • Andrew_Douglas
  • brit50
  • shanklinmike
    • -5
      shanklinmike  
    • brit50:

      I believe both parties owe us an apology for decades of lies.

      ...but in the end, it's just the political game itself. I wish we could just get rid of this state compulsion and serfdom once and for all.... enable and truly free society, where there would be no ability for large-scale war, because the corporatist government would not be able to steal from us (taxation) and there would be no victimless crimes (arresting people for the wrong type of vegetation in their pocket). We would still have a structured society, but state coercion would be eradicated.

      It would truly enable individual rights and personal freedoms (prosperity).

      It just wouldn't allow people to use force on others to 'enforce' their 'preferences'.

      Only real crimes would be focused on (aggression, fraud, violence, theft,.....), not compulsion type laws that force people to do things against their will or go to a prison...

    • 1 year ago
  • utubemafia
  • utubemafia
  • PzLuvHappeniz
  • utubemafia
    • +4
      utubemafia  
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    • Alternet reports:

      The ring leader of the group is Bettverboten, who issues multiple digg and bury orders everyday. She is a Digg power user who has dugg 70,000 articles and has 1500 submits of her own (18% have gone popular) in one short year on the site. She was previously known as Lizbett before her lifetime ban for offensive and inappropriate comments, and has two sleeper accounts waiting if she gets banned again at loquaciouslola and MsBoop. She is also on Twitter, although her primary focus is Digg, where she has acquired a huge following of power users who are likely unaware that she is gaming the system, and even calling to bury some of her mutuals.

      The other primary members responsible for cheating are CaptCarrot, ChronicColonic, emmersonbiggins (rjwusa), SadLisa (mollydog), Janinco, allisonrose870, asami21, Benthedog, JeremiahLaments (RightWingAttila), libertyalways, phoenixtx, pray4sneaux, quirkopatra, raggsat98, Ramfire98, and ThePartystar. Digg and bury orders are issued multiple times everyday, with most of the members blindly following without question.

      ...Many well established figures in the Digg community are also present, such as BalancingAct, EMFK, Janinco, mikeinto, and spindig. 10 members have been part of Digg since 2005-2006, with 43 having their current account there for over 2 years. 19 are in the top 500 all time users as ranked by Social Blade, including 3 in the top 100. They have submitted over 30,000 articles, and dugg over 1,000,000 submits collectively.

      ...(The rank manipulations are) not restricted to political articles either. Articles about education, homophobia, racism, science, the environment, economics, wealth disparity, world events, the media, green energy, and anything even slightly critical of the GOP/Tea Party/FoxNews/corporations are targets. In fact, any articles submitted by the users they hate the most are on their kill lists, including such benign things as SETI Opens All Data To The Public, Celtics Take Lead in N.B.A. Finals...

      Read the full and extensive investigative article on Alternet.

      Posted By: Yobie Benjamin (Email) | August 06 2010 at 11:15 AM

      Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ybenjamin/detail?entry_id=69562#ixzz12CDkcri...

    • 1 year ago
  • VoyagerFilms
    • +3
      VoyagerFilms  
    • utubemafia:

      Very interesting. I used to write on Current a lot - when I had time to, but had noticed some changes in the atmosphere, not the fault of Current or staff. This would explain a lot. I'll have to look into this further, but it does not surprise me in the slightest as it is evident these are tactics used by the GOP in a lot of areas. Thanks.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • utubemafia
  • jubal
  • neocongo
    • +3
      neocongo  

    • Spanky, this sucks ass. Whatever you do, don't pull it. Highly indicative of the quality of the Libertarian Party. Voted up.

    • 1 year ago
  • hunzedog
  • Orsin430
  • H3ADLINE
    • +11
      H3ADLINE  

    • Shanklin, blogs are essentially free at this point. Could you just get your own and stop hijacking a news site to push your political agenda? Especially when you mislabel things as News that are not, and repost things that are taken down. You're clearly not interested in participating on equal footing with the other users here. You know, those who are not leaders of political organizations with their own little following to disproportionately push up their musings while crashing the submissions of actual dedicated members who have stuck with Current since the beginning. I don't ask my friends and family to set up dummy accounts for the sole purpose of pushing my submissions to the top, or email, text and tweet them links to my work here so it looks like my works are more popular than they are in reality. I believe that good stories should live or die on their own merit, not because I lobbied to have them drown out the voice of others who have a life and cannot counter-spam the onslaught of drones.

      Current is about giving a voice to ordinary people, having a dialog where television only offered a lecture. It is NOT those who HEAD THEIR OWN POLITICAL PARTY! You already have many soap boxes to stand on, and many venues for your adoring fans to agree with you. Stop prostituting this noble venture for your own calculated ends. No one is fooled by it, and it makes you look like a a scheming propagandist with no concern for the effect or appropriateness of his actions.

    • 1 year ago
  • mindcruzer
  • H3ADLINE
    • +7
      H3ADLINE  
    • mindcruzer:

      No one takes your attempt at slander seriously for a second, so you only make yourself look like an idiot when you do that. Furthermore, no one who has read anything I've ever written could honestly accuse me of trying to silence others. There are points of view I disagree with, but we should all have the right to voice them, and all of us should fight to protect that basic right.

      Now to your failing to understand my point: when he links his followers back here, that's called spamming a site. I do not have a problem with his point of view, per se, or him posting it. It's the calculated effort to subvert Current and drown out the voices of non-political party leaders that I find repulsive. I would take the same stance for any political insider trying to co-opt another site for their own means. It's cheap propaganda.

    • 1 year ago
  • unimatrix0
  • shanklinmike
    • -5
      shanklinmike  
    • unimatrix0:

      I'm responsible for them leaving?!?

      Sounds like you're trying to pass off responsibility....again....

      Who are they? I would like their names. I will contact them personally and invite them back for great discussion about their collective coercion....

    • 1 year ago
  • toastyguy11
  • Kitten_Moon
  • utubemafia
  • jimbones2045
  • shanklinmike
    • -5
      shanklinmike  
    • jimbones2045:

      It gives the tanning bed tax at the end relevance because it shows the republicans will only do what's good for THEIR pocket book, not that of the taxpayer....

      They are insiders, just like many of the democrats elites. The system is bought and paid for, and both sides are corporatists through government coercion!

    • 1 year ago
  • toastyguy11
    • +4
      toastyguy11  
    • shanklinmike:

      You can't call anyone corporatists when you own a consulting company that helps corporations outsource their labor. You only care about your pocketbook, so don't try to act any different. We know who you are, we know what you're about, you're not going to make any friends here

    • 1 year ago
  • bike10
  • shanklinmike
  • utubemafia
  • ed2point0
    • -6
      ed2point0  

    • Haha, hilarious, I don't care it this is news or not, this video perfectly describes the GOP. Hopefully when we get rid of John "Bronzer Tanman" Boehner, he can go to Jersey Shore and get a tan along with Snooki. For all those who attack shanklinmike as if he's some spammer, find something better to do than whine about one person who is simply pointing out the blatant statism of the Republicans. And to those who don't know anything about libertarianism, I suggest you read Mises, Hazlitt, Rothbard, and other libertarian thinkers before you sound like an uninformed 8-year-old. And for the record, the Koch brothers are nothing more than anti-Ron Paul corporatists who will use government to support their agenda.

    • 1 year ago
  • Stoneyroad
    • +7
      Stoneyroad  
    • ed2point0:

      And here come the Shanklin puppets.

      Another in a long line of people who show up to vote up his storys, and leave comments defending him. No follows, No followers. has only voted up Shanklin's posts no others.

      And somehow he knows Shanklin would never Spam us.
      Even though he has only been coming here for less than a week.

    • 1 year ago
  • ed2point0
    • -6
      ed2point0  
    • Stoneyroad:

      First of all, I'm not a Shanklin "puppet" as you allege, but he is a good friend of mine. I can think for myself thank you very much. By the way, I actually don't mind if he posts articles on this website, it really doesn't bother me. If a so-called liberal posted on campaign for liberty or other libertarian leaning websites I would not mind either as long as they were respectful and courteous.

    • 1 year ago
  • utubemafia
  • Stoneyroad
    • +4
      Stoneyroad  
    • ed2point0:

      You've been on this site for 5 days & you only show up after Shanklin sends out his Tweets to come vote up his storys. of course you don't mind.
      In Fact..it's the only reason you are here.

      And i'm sure if a Campaign Manager for a Democrat was posting Political ads for his Candidate's Senate run on a Libertarian site you would have a problem with it.

    • 1 year ago
  • ed2point0
    • -5
      ed2point0  
    • Stoneyroad:

      Guilty as charged lol. Actually I would not mind if a Democrat campaigned on Campaign For Liberty because Democrats are at least honest about their love for statism, the same can't be said about Republicans who won't admit that they worship the state. Besides, it's Republicans who I go after more anyways.

    • 1 year ago
  • toastyguy11
  • Stoneyroad
    • +6
      Stoneyroad  

    • Why is this posted under News ?
      We already knew that Libertarians have no sense of humor.

      But i would like to see them perform this bit next time one of them speaks at a Tea Party rally. But i'm sure they will only bash the Dems when fishing for votes on that side of the pond. what a 2 faced party.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • Stoneyroad
  • kennymotown
  • shanklinmike
    • -2
      shanklinmike  
    • kennymotown:

      The few Ron Paul republicans out there are not corporatist, and most of them lose against establishment neocons most of the time....

      but yes, almost every republican out there is a part of the statist cog....

    • 1 year ago
  • toastyguy11
  • toastyguy11
    • +6
      toastyguy11  
    • shanklinmike:

      You're corporatist, your firm outsources jobs to the phillipines! You're really going to try to pretend that you care about people? The only reason you pretend to be libertarian is because you're afraid business regulations might stop you from being able to outsource everything to developing countries. I bet you pay them really well right?

    • 1 year ago
  • shanklinmike
  • shanklinmike
    • -4
      shanklinmike  
    • toastyguy11:

      Haha, Phillipines? Is this some kind of sick joke?

      Besides, there's nothing wrong with hiring humans across governmental borders. They need to eat too....

      Your protectionism makes you look xenophobic.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • toastyguy11
    • +3
      toastyguy11  
    • shanklinmike:

      Yeah that's a common response, it was on your firm's website, don't pretend like you don't know. How is outsourcing going to help the economy? Also by outsourcing you unfairly compete with local companies, badly limiting that country's ability to develop on its own and build its own economy. I know how globalization works, I've actually been to poor countries that I reference, unlike some people.

    • 1 year ago
  • toastyguy11
  • shanklinmike
    • -3
      shanklinmike  
    • toastyguy11:

      Free trade of labor and capital is good, crony corporatism that traps us to corporatist schemes is bad. There is nothing wrong with other people in other countries producing things.

      My company doesn't outsource anything anyways, and if it does, current.com is probably just as guilty as it is probably some godaddy.com server that has hosting capabilities overseas or something crazy like that. Your attacks are shameful.

    • 1 year ago
  • toastyguy11
    • +2
      toastyguy11  
    • shanklinmike:

      http://www.dtfconnet.com

      "free trade" is just a buzzword, usually used to mean being based in the us and having us customers, but having all your production and employees overseas. You don't sound very sure of whether or not your company outsources. you should check your own website, it's typed like the person who wrote it spoke english as a second language. Your company helps people to outsource to the phillipines. You're part of why the US economy is so weak and unemployment is high. There is nothing wrong with people in other countries producing things, but there is something wrong with companies whose entire customer base is American having their entire workforce and all their production overseas, where they don't have to pay taxes. THAT is shameful, why don't you just admit that you're a republican, and all you care about is money. If anyone is curious, check www.dtfconnet.com that is Shanklin's company's site.

    • 1 year ago
  • shanklinmike
  • shanklinmike
  • utubemafia
    • +5
      utubemafia  

    • *http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Reason_Foundation

      The Reason Foundation describes itself as a "libertarian" [1] think tank which challenges strict environmental regulations: "A national research and education organization that explores and promotes public policy based on rationality and freedom."[1] The Reason Foundation's projects include NewEnvironmentalism.org and Privatization.org. It is part of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation network.

      Board of Trustees
      Harry E. Teasley Jr., Chairman

      William A. Dunn, Chairman-elect and Vice Chairman, Dunn Capital Management

      Thomas E. Beach, Beach Investment Counsel, Inc.

      David W. Fleming, Latham & Watkins

      C. Boyden Gray, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering

      James D. Jameson

      Manuel S. Klausner, Law Offices of Manuel S. Klausner

      David H. Koch, Koch Industries

      James Lintott, Sterling Foundation Management, LLC

      Stephen Modzelewski, Maple Engine, LLC

      Sarah O'Dowd, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe

      Robert W. Poole, Jr., Reason Foundation

      Randall N. Smith, InSite MediaCom, LLC

      Al St. Clair, Procter & Gamble

      Walter E. Williams, George Mason University

      Frank Bond, Trustee Emeritus

      Funding
      Between 1985 and 2006, the Foundation received $6,318,421 in 162 separate grants from only eleven foundations. [2]

      Earhart Foundation
      JM Foundation
      Koch Family Foundations (David H. Koch Foundation, Charles G. Koch Foundation, Claude R. Lambe Foundation)
      John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
      Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
      Scaife Foundations (Scaife Family, Sarah Mellon Scaife, Carthage)
      Smith Richardson Foundation

      Selected Corporate Supporters (2000)
      3M
      American Forest & Paper Association
      American Petroleum Institute
      Bank of America
      Bayer Corporation
      California Association of Realtors
      California Water Service Company
      Ken and Colleen Butler, Capital Partnerships
      Chevron Corporation
      Coca-Cola Co.
      Consulting Engineers & Land Surveyors of California
      Council of New York State, Inc.
      Continental Airlines
      Corrections Corporation of America
      DaimlerChrysler Corp.
      Dart Container Corporation
      Delta Air Lines
      Dow Chemical USA
      Eastman Chemical Company
      Eberle & Associates, Inc.
      Edison Electric Institute
      ENRON
      ExxonMobil Corporation
      Ford Motor Company
      Freedom Communications
      General Motors Corporation
      LCOR Incorporated
      Lehman Brothers, Inc.
      Eli Lilly and Co.
      Microsoft Corporation
      National Air Transportation Association
      National Beer Wholesalers Association
      Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott
      Pfizer, Inc
      Philip Morris Companies
      PricewaterhouseCoopers
      Privatized Emergency Services Association
      Procter & Gamble
      Shell Oil Co.
      Southern California Water
      Techcentralstation.com
      Union Carbide Corporation
      Virco
      Wackenhut Corrections Co.
      Watson Land Company
      Western States Petroleum Association

    • 1 year ago
  • shanklinmike
  • zHellas
  • Dejan_Croatia
  • utubemafia
  • utubemafia
    • +6
      utubemafia  

    • *http://reason.com/blog/2010/06/09/rand-paul-distances-himself-fr

      -Rand Paul Distances Himself From Libertarianism

      Now, according to the AP, Paul is underscoring his differences with libertarianism and the Libertarian Party.

      Republican Rand Paul said Tuesday he differs with the Libertarian Party by opposing abortion and supporting judicious overseas troop deployment, distancing himself from the party his father once represented in a presidential election.

      The U.S. Senate candidate from Kentucky told syndicated conservative talk show host Sean Hannity that he doesn't fit the mold of a Libertarian. Paul said his conservative social views and willingness to send troops abroad to protect the U.S. set him apart from the party some have tried to associate him with.

      "Instead of maybe saying we're never anywhere overseas, I say we need to be more judicious in where we are, in that I don't think we can afford to be everywhere all the time," Paul said. "But it also doesn't mean that we never intervene and that we can allow people to attack us."

    • 1 year ago
  • Stoneyroad
  • shanklinmike
  • toastyguy11
  • Stoneyroad
  • toastyguy11
  • shanklinmike
  • shanklinmike
  • shanklinmike
  • shanklinmike
  • toastyguy11
  • toastyguy11
    • +4
      toastyguy11  
    • shanklinmike:

      If they invited you, clearly you have something in common, like having all the same ideas. You only give Glenn Beck credibility by contributing to his events, all you care about is getting more followers

    • 1 year ago
  • toastyguy11
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • zHellas
  • Stoneyroad
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