Found it very useful.

After reading this post, I am not sure I understand what you are trying to relate. Please expand on your thoughts a little more. Thanks

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I don’t think American taxes are too low. I think they’re too high. I can accept the double-taxation of dividend income agrument. With corportate rates at 34% effective, there should be room to get rid of that mess anyway. I really have no particular problems with Bush’s tax cuts. I merely think it’s an irresponsible fiscal policy if you plain to keep a minimum of two wars on the boil and have committed to a massive Medicare presicription drug give-away, plujs maintain a national security state.

I think the Department Of Homeland Security and the IRS are massive bureaucratic messes.

On social policy, I’m extreme left. Completely supportive of civil liberties and civil rights.

On foreign policy, I favor peace and diplomacy over war, but I’ve gotten so well of your wars I can’t compalin too much. I just don’t want wa in my neck of the woods. It’s a disaster for everyone and US troops the most. You may laugh at a Venezuelan army with 800,000 but it’s a TRUE 800,000 in the sense that they’re all ready to go. The US is committed to sending small numbers not large, so any war with Venezuela will find the US out-manned by 7-1 or so.

I don’t want the US to lose. I wan’t McCain to understand what a mess he’d be getting into in merely quatering troops in Colombia. And reconsider the ideas he set forth in his Cuban Independence speech in Florida.

What I love most about this site is that the regulars are so hung up about sexuality and have such cold panic about their own identities that they think the trump card is to call someone a lesbian or gay, like that’s a bad thing! Fellers, it’s a GOOD thing. What were Karl Rove and Jeff Guckert, anyway, the Katzenjammer Kids?

And did some numbnuts call me a “marxist?” Wow, what is this, 1960? I’ve always considered myself to be a free-marketeer and to have a kind of conservative take on economics, finance and regulation.

I don’t think anyone here has any conception about what Marxism is in theory and practice and I do because my great uncle fought with the Bolsheviks in 1917 and two years later saw how bad it was going to be and left. My father was a member of ACP for a while as a teenager but only because he was so depressed from having to take that bus upstate every Saturday to visit his my grandfather in various slammers, he liked the idea of being a thug and opposing the government whenever possible.

But he had a very good experience in the US Navy and that kind of cured him of his anger. He’s settled into being a very Progressive Democrat, having made some money in medical pubishing and real estate. Oh, his Navy service earned him 4-years at a private university. Why does McCain think the same right for Iraq veterans is “too expensive”?

I keep forgetting that this is a Pro-War blog and I can’t really blame them for that. If you don’t have a college degree and a struggling at a boring job and can’t make ends meet or like a few here still live with their mothers, I can see the appeal of Amerian triumphalism. Everyone wants to be on the winning team. Me? I like making money too much to worry about “America’s greatness.”

Drug dealer? Well, I sold drugs once in my life, 25 years ago. I sold 500 qaaludes — 1 or 2 at a time! Urgh. It was such an annoying experience I vowed never to do it again. People coming by my place at all hours, calling me at all hours. I coudn’t work or study. It was just wretched. So, I would not say that I am a drug dealer, no. I’m a joyful drug consumer, however.

You were off also by two and a half years. The spikes began during the GOP Congressional years

29. Some Assembly Required | June 19th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

Wooo hooo MORE COWBELL!

And inflated dairy prices preceeded crude prices.

peace, neocon

Nevermind all that, WE NEED MORE COWBELL!

A racist party has the first black man representing them. Can you please in your infinite wisdom, explain to me how that works?

Hope….

Well on your planet Cheney’s energy policy might have done that and the Democratic Party might have had a Congress in such dire straits as those but in the real world of American politics RBOB gasoline prices averaged 3.037 on September 5, 2005 according to EIA and remained there until October 10, 2005. Gasoline prices once again crossed your mythical CheneyLine on April 17, 2006 at 2.764 per gallon and did not return to 2.68 until September 4, 2006. The average price in the US 6 1/2 years after the Cheney energy meetings was 2.816 per gallon.

The greatest increase in oil futures prices correlates with the uptick in crude prices as money left subprime and Alt A CDO paper and moved into commodites including but not limited to: Light Sweet crude, gold, copper, corn, palladium, platinum and natural gas.