tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post5265296129039470788..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-70284195460109719562011-12-20T18:57:42.004-05:002011-12-20T18:57:42.004-05:00Ooops, sorry, Steve - wrong comment to worry about...Ooops, sorry, Steve - wrong comment to worry about being deleted from.<br /><br />And, oooooohhhhh - AmericanNeoCLOWN "hammered you" on his placeQ<br /><br />A place where other warmongering morons go to exchange recipes for "Grilled Iranians," or "Broiled Iraqi's."<br /><br />But don't feel too special, Steve.<br /> <br />In Mr. DouglASS's world, the planet is full of nails, and he wields the hammer. <br />In his hand. <br />And the only difference between that and his dick, is the hammer is long and hard, and his dick, well, not so much...<br />Plus, I don't think he steps on his hammer nearly as much.<br /><br />"Sasquatch Israel!" much recently, Mr. DouglASS?<br /><br />"Sasquatch Israel."<br />That will be his epitaph.<br />LOL!!!<br />What a dope. What a maroon!!!c u n d gulaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00875369227763250574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-67272115840968429832011-12-20T18:07:56.376-05:002011-12-20T18:07:56.376-05:00Since my comment was apparently deleted, does that...Since my comment was apparently deleted, does that mean that 'The Donald' didn't see my question asking him about how his Sasquatch watch in Jerusalem is going?<br /><br />Also, too, dear Mr. DouglASS - what link below "via Blogger..."?c u n d gulaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00875369227763250574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-73490870000742550312011-12-20T15:36:28.981-05:002011-12-20T15:36:28.981-05:00I hammered you for teh stupid of this post over at...I hammered you for <i>teh stupid</i> of this post over at my place, and your idiot commentariat here is just icing on the cake. The link is below via Blogger...AmPowerBloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18236333181889271910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-63753740489623711512011-12-19T21:44:56.956-05:002011-12-19T21:44:56.956-05:00I think the gurus of the self-help movement, if th...I think the gurus of the self-help movement, if they've dropped the ball, is primarily in the area of encouraging "capitalist enterprise" without proper discernment. (Often being militant know-it-alls doesn't help either.) They may fancy themselves as benign altruists, and I wouldn't go so far as to call most of them nihilists, but the fact is they've put too much foolish trust in the Invisible Hand. And that sends an Anything Goes message to those looking for one.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10944458838509326421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-21778664873683768292011-12-19T20:35:46.370-05:002011-12-19T20:35:46.370-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10944458838509326421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-59955770363586872442011-12-19T18:33:32.857-05:002011-12-19T18:33:32.857-05:00Frankly, I lay some blame at the feet of the self-...<i>Frankly, I lay some blame at the feet of the self-help movement. </i><br /><br />Frankly, I lay <i>a lot</i> of blame at the feet of the self-help movement. You're absolutely right about the way that's poisoned the discourse.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-29797124054309918102011-12-19T17:58:02.691-05:002011-12-19T17:58:02.691-05:00I do think most Republicans (Jeb certainly include...I do think most Republicans (Jeb certainly included) really are bought & sold on the magical thinking that results in the kind of radio commercial I heard a couple years back, on Portland's progressive station no less: "Being a millionaire is a choice."<br /><br />Frankly, I lay some blame at the feet of the self-help movement. Maybe not as much in what people like Tony Robbins and Werner Erhard have created ("You CAN make your life work, and here's how and why!"), as how Republicans and some DINOs have turned that into a justification for Randian capitalist Anything Goes.<br /><br />The subject's worth a thesis or two at one of our fine "liberal" universities, if we still have those in the future.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10944458838509326421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-23169956071342918342011-12-19T13:32:07.353-05:002011-12-19T13:32:07.353-05:00the race to the bottom is being cheerled by those ...the race to the bottom is being cheerled by those who will be crushed under the wheel, along with all of us who are the subject of their two minutes hate. as c u n d gulag notes, _of course_ we'll fall for it, well not 'we' exactly, but all the lizard people, and enough of the people who pay no attention whatsoever and yet hold the right to vote. you, gulag, me, and all the rest of the liberal goldsteins have been pissing in the wind for the last 40 years. because as this post highlights, _words have no meaning anymore_. within the indices of 1984, orwell writes at length about language, specifically how language shapes the ability for thought. when jeb bush can write 'the right to rise' regarding corporations that are already standing on the necks of all of us, in one of the most widely-circulated papers in the country, and not immediately be laughed off the stage, we've already lost. the jig is up. orwell was (is) right. the only thing he didn't 100% nail was that it would be totalitarian capitalism, not communsim, that would do us all in.proverbialleadballoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11592049897382920314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-58489233242270266502011-12-19T12:44:35.595-05:002011-12-19T12:44:35.595-05:00"If we as a nation fall for this Orwellian ph..."If we as a nation fall for this Orwellian phrase -- now or in the future -- we deserve the decline and fall that will come to us."<br /><br />Dude, where you been?<br />We're IN the decline and fall phase! <br />And probably close to the fall than to the decline.<br /><br />We've fallen for this bullshit for over 40 years. <br />From "Silent Majority," to "Moral Majority," to today's Luntz-polished turds.<br /><br />And sure, it all began with Nixon, but was perfected by Ronnie and "The Reagan DEvolution."<br /><br />They didn't show us the copy of the speech, because it wasn't spelled "M-O-R-N-I-N-G," but "M-O-U-R-N-I-N-G in America!"<br /><br />And we've been "mourning" that America ever since.<br /><br />Hell, Even a 24k hypocrite like John Boehner knows it!c u n d gulaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00875369227763250574noreply@blogger.com