John Stewart lays into Lou Dobbs and attorney/dentist/realtor/birther: Video

Well said

Alex Jones at www.infowars.com has been consistent for years. He slammed Bush daily. Many do not like his style of delivery including me but I promote him because his facts are sourced and documented. I have spent hundreds of hours researching his reporting because I couldn't believe it only to find out it's all true.

Right or Left...more divide and conquer. The fact remains that we are at war killing and imprisoning peaceful people.....

the best of the 'right' Ron Paul
the best of the 'left' Dennis Klucinich

snopes is wack! They don't mention Build 7 at all!? I don't even care about where that scum bag was born. He is continuing the wars and that is good enough for me to denounce him as the President and call for his Impeachment! He is a war criminal just like Bush.

To quote myself TV and politicians are for the weak minded.

yet your on here blogging away mini.

...how odd

lol

So Prez O "doubled the tripling of government?" And you say this was "tyranny" on his part, correct?

Can I assume first that you mean the FEDERAL Government? We both know that he has neither power nor influence with regard to state, county or municipal governments -- but believe me, there are a fair number of regular contributors here at Current who DON'T understand jurisdictional differences, so I want to be sure we are at least on the same chapter if not the same page.

So limiting ourselves to the feds, you say that he "doubled" a "tripling," suggesting two separate events. Did he or Bush do the initial "tripling?" Now as to the nature of these events...do you mean the number of Federal gov't jobs? The size of the federal budget? The size of the deficit? The debt?

And regardless of WHAT was being increased -- HOW did OBAMA increase spending when the President has no such authority? I am sure you remember that Bush had to go to Congress just to get 50 billion or 100 billion to continue to fund our invasion of Iraq and our slaughter of thousands of women, children and infants.

I have been observing your string of posts, MM. You seem to make a great deal of the notion that YOU (personally) don't believe this or that fact. Usually, however, one must establish a reputation for a certain degree of intellectual rigor before one has earned "the benefit of the doubt." But these wild allegations (the double tripling) and clear unfamiliarity with government processes and structure don't inspire confidence in any of your other representations. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Doubtless you will rage and rip and tear in response to this. But my criticisms are sincerely as tame as I could make them. I am not trying to make you look bad or to be an asshole about this. It is just that I think your posts would command a lot more respect if you said something like "Obamal to Congress: I will veto any bill that does not at last double annual deficit." At that point, you at least have SOME kind of evidence and confirmation to back up your allegations...

Ah HAH! Well some one read what I wrote and had a decent response! Thank You! YES indeed the President tripled has no power! This is what I was fishing for. Yes When Bush was the puppet President the Fed Reserve tripled our Debt'. And Yes in the last 9 1/2 months so much money has been printed (some say 24 trillion) that one can say that that tripling has been doubled while Obama has been puppet President of 2008-2012! This is exactly where I'm attempting to pull all the Sheep ( I do not mean You, sir) to look at the power structure. The President is under the Fed Reserve and it's Banker Cabal and the Military Industrial Complex! This is the killing machine that Obama cannot stop! If he tries to Blatantly stop the wars on drugs and terror and (like Kennedy printing Silver Notes) attempts to usurp the Fed Re-swerve ;-) he will be 'Kennedyed' -aka offed-aka made an example of-. This is where I tell Obama fans, sure he may be a charming man, even a nice man, but if does anything for We The People, Biden will be President? It saddens me to say crap like this, but I believe it has to be said.

And yet, still no facts or anything of value.

You know that federal reserve surplus is funneled back into the federal budget, right?

Of course, much (about 50% or so) of the interest that the government pays on t-bills (the federal reserve's tool of monetary control) goes to china, right?

This deficit does make some people rich. However, the majority of investment in our country is NOT in the public debt. The largest finance firm in the world manages much more money, alone, than the balance of the public debt.

What is the ultimate goal, here? To try to tell us that... wait, corporate interest is... in control of the country?

Isn't that what most liberals have been saying all along?

Isn't that an incentive to do all the things that improve the public good and fuck rich people in the ass? Such as:

Nationalized, single payer healthcare

Increased taxes on the rich. How many people are going to be upset about a 50%, 70%, 90% marginal tax rate on those who earn more than 1 million bucks per annum? (that does weaken all of those super rich people you are saying control the country... doesn't it?

Legalizing pot

Reduction of the military

etc.

Come on, man. Get on the bus with the rest of us.

The truly 'rich' don't pay taxes.... bottom line is I'm not into big government.... Sure we could both post links and big long replies here. Brother I am on the love hope and peace bus. We're in the same boat. It's ok. I believe all of this is much more corrupt that most people on Current....not really that big of a deal. hugs

haha, yeah, there is plenty of evidence to suggest major corruption on a level that we don't quite fathom.

Like: Why congress seems to need so little in campaign contributions to become so corrupt?

If it was working like a free market (i.e. not influenced by something else) wouldn't two competing sides of an issue have to up the ante constantly? You'd think that the cost to buy out the government would appreciate with the relative value that it nets the "investors." Oddly enough, campaign contributions remain "pocket change" and yet interest groups see tremendous returns on their "investments."

Curious.

WELL SAID!

I am not sure I understand the point to your comment. Could you elaborate?

Hi C'day...great post, apropos..."never ruin a good story with the truth"...Eden...

You got that right CZ. It is bad and wrong and rampant.

When people are being lied to daily without access to the actual "facts" they then feel a need to rely on the "opinions stated as fact" that they ARE exposed to.

This, my friend, is the basis of the modern right wing philosophy. Who needs truth and facts when we can tell them what we want the facts and truth to be?

INDEED...

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous“ - Carl Sagan

I see the problem as stemming from the habit of insisting that everyone is special and "entitled to their opinion" with no regard to its basis in actual fact or intellectual analysis.

Personally, I employ a bullshit detector type strategy to anything presented as "news". It's simple really, just ask yourself whether the idea smells fishy, or how big a chunk of belief are you being asked to swallow.

In this case the idea we are being asked to swallow is that a man rose to the presidency of the US without anyone in power, any institution, any investigators, any background checks or any of the thousands of bureaucrats involved noticing that he wasn't, in fact, American. At the same time, we are expected to swallow the notion that one little psychotic woman in a meeting DID notice it.

Lunacy of the highest order.

RIGHT...

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan

History is written by the victors.