prole

Where's Alice?

It's all good. "Climategate" and last winter's snow on the East Coast showed climate change was a hoax anyway.

Is this the Walmart board of directors? [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBY2__J9t0&feature=player_embedded

Apparently Obama is not familiar with the old "fool me once, fool me twice" adage.

SIKE!

And yet privatizing Social Security would force people to assume more risk. This is exactly what private funds do and why so many unwitting "consumers" lost their asses with what they thought was, and were sold as, fairly ironclad investments when the shit hit the fan. Remember, Gramps?

Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

Social Security was vehemently opposed as a "Commie plot" as single payer health care is today. Just another example of the Right fulfilling its traditional role as History's Buffoons.

and another... Devolution is abrewin'!

Yes. Clearly the Fordist/Trade Union model of capitalist production ran its course a while ago and the Reaganite mode that ushered in productivity gains while vastly increasing inequality and leaving a largely redundant population is in its death throes. This leaves us in a conundrum: How are we going to eat all these people AND make them tasty as a motherfucker? I'm open to your franchise ideas.

Indeed. It is unfortunate that even the flesh of these unproductive units is currently ill-suited to nourish our service drones. It is therefore imperative that our R&D labs set to work immediately to engineer new forms that maximize the nutritional output from the aged husks.

Now we can add Cop Killer Conspriacists to the list with IRS Kamakazis, Pentagon Pistol Packing Suiciders, Holocaust Museum Rampagers, Abortion Doctor Shooter Uppers, Olympic Celebration Bombers, Oklahoma Tree Waterers, Klu Kluxers and the rest. I'm sure you'll forgive me, I know I missed some. It's getting hard to keep up.

Apart from the patent absurdity of this statement coming from you, I would like to see you elaborate on this. This should be an easy one: Which freedom(s) were you referring to specifically?

Congratulations, Prole. Your thuggish support has encouraged your fellow lefties to kill...[/i] Yeah, I'm like a Hellenic David Hasselhoff over there...

I'm not sure that would be such a bad thing. In the age of the 12-hour news cycle, we tend to forget that as a nation we've seen all this before. We should not let the threat of terrorism deter us from creating a more just, more democratic society. We have much to learn from the folks who had the courage to continue the march in the face of police dogs, firebombs, lynchings, and beatings from the teabaggers of yesteryear.

Bring It!

Mitt Romney, Socialist.

Where is that public option when you really need it?

Yeah, the "left" has been skeptical of this scheme all along. It was a sop to the insurance industry as a way to spread its risk across the entire population in lieu of a single payer program. As if you didn't know this already... As a fan of the state, you should be thrilled that they've got the insurance companies out front as flack catchers for the backlash that will erupt when the time comes to impose the hard rationing that will be necessary to balance health care costs with health care spending. Think of the kings and tax farmers of yore. If you're sitting on the throne and need to squeeze the people for more revenues, popular anger at the tax-farmers you've contracted with to turn the screws is far preferable to having it directed at the crown. Once again, this nightmare scenario has played itself out time after time in each and every one of the countries that have adopted universal systems. Do you folks do anything but FEAR anymore?

Yeah, the "left" has been skeptical of this scheme all along. It was a sop to the insurance industry as a way to spread its risk across the entire population in lieu of a single payer program. As if you didn't know this already...

It's actually the "smart" ones you have to worry about. Who could deny it was the best and the brightest and not the knuckle-draggers that have left America circling the bowl?

I can't wait for the midterms.

More good news if you're rooting for the continued decline of American conservatism.

Maybe it's just ironic satire.