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With the exception of Ichiro and Felix calling this team mediocre would be a compliment.

Looks rad.

Whew, where to start? As with most fundamentalists, despite appeals to the "historical record", Friedmanites' real blind spot is historical reality and the actually existing development of capitalism within it. Friedman and his followers rely on a single truism upon which everything else they say either rests upon or can be explained away by it: "capitalism is extraordinarily productive". That every critic of capitalism including Marx said as much (and more) seems to escape them. Anyway, what's really missing here is the fact that capitalism has not magically bestowed its fruits as Friedman would have us believe from the statement about "lifting people out of poverty" or "lifting boats" or whatever. The actual historical record in advanced capitalist countries in every instance is that societies and majority populations have benefited from the capitalist development only to the extent that working and other lower classes agitated, demanded, and organized politically for a share of the wealth they were producing and equal rights under the law. The record, historical and contemporary, is clear that capitalist countries where labor is weak or suppressed (i.e. not capable of making economic and political demands met), capitalism is a pure machine for exploitation and inequalities are starkest. Relatedly, Friedman would also be at pains to explain why those societies where the benefits from capitalist development have been most widely realized, the populations are best educated, healthiest, etc. are not those that are the most capitalist. Those countries are those with strong democratic socialist traditions where concessions and political power have been wrung from capital through a process of historical struggle. It's no mystery that America's experiment with neoliberalism (an extreme form of capitalism) and weakened labor movement has led to deeper inequalities, shrinking middle class, crumbling institutions, and rapid environmental degradation. Friedman's ahistorical abstracted bleatings won't have much to do with their solution. Dustbin, meet Mr. Friedman. Mr. Friedman, Dustbin.

Awesome but deadly.

Late my ass. You're going to bury the news of the second crucifixion of Jesus Christ in a some two-bit thread about a washed-up hack GOP operative?! Shame!!!

"Git me my milk!!!"

Dude, all these are, like, the same.

Just like Jesus!!!!

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Certainly there must be some way we can lay blame for this at the feet of Sweden's socialized health-care system.

They love these up in Bellingham.

That's not a tongue, it's a dick in his cheek.

No, that was pretty much exactly his time.

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Why did the Angels use pool cues to beat the hippies? Anyone...anyone?

Check out the health care reform town hall meetings. The Angels were neither this stupid nor were they packing this much heat. [video:youtube]

When's the Altamont reunion?

"The white race is a historically constructed social formation. It consists of all those who partake of the privileges of the white skin in this society. Its most wretched members share a status higher, in certain respects, than that of the most exalted persons excluded from it, in return for which they give their support to a system that degrades them. The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race, which means no more and no less than abolishing the privileges of the white skin. Until that task is accomplished, even partial reform will prove elusive, because white influence permeates every issue, domestic and foreign, in US society. The existence of the white race depends on the willingness of those assigned to it to place their racial interests above class, gender, or any other interests they hold. The defection of enough of its members to make it unreliable as a predictor of behavior will lead to its collapse. RACE TRAITOR aims to serve as an intellectual center for those seeking to abolish the white race. It will encourage dissent from the conformity that maintains it and popularize examples of defection from its ranks, analyze the forces that hold it together and those that promise to tear it apart. Part of its task will be to promote debate among abolitionists. When possible, it will support practical measures, guided by the principle, Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity. The editors publish things in RACE TRAITOR because they think that publishing them will help build a community of readers. Editorial opinions are expressed in editorials and unsigned replies to letters."--from Race Traitor

Mike Meyers comes of like a such a lily-white little douche in this clip.

Oh come on people, Glenn Beck and these other guys are just entertainers. They're entertaining us. I listen to them to be entertained. They're not accountable. Nobody takes them seriously. Right? [video:youtube]

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.