tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post4072093725519490491..comments2024-03-28T16:26:28.642-05:00Comments on driftglass: Sunday Morning Comin' Downdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-23295265408132339662017-06-27T20:31:42.329-05:002017-06-27T20:31:42.329-05:00Your mention of the "split-finger" baseb...Your mention of the "split-finger" baseball pitch immediately put me in mind of Elroy Face, the great Pittsburgh Pirate reliever (that's where I come from originally) who created the fork ball (same thing; different name) and is credited as inventing the "closer" position of baseball pitching with an amazing win record over many years. He was also an occasional family friend (we would go fishing) when I was a child. I was in awe of him. He was incredibly modest and unassuming and just a simple but incredibly talented baseball player. I'm guessing he wouldn't be a fan of the modern GOP even less so Trump. BTW, he's still alive. Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-12723303759294614402017-06-26T14:23:28.239-05:002017-06-26T14:23:28.239-05:00"Whiter Conservatism?"
Does conservati..."Whiter Conservatism?"<br /><br /> Does conservatism get any whiter than David the fuck Brooks?<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-62799684381002883962017-06-26T14:02:38.997-05:002017-06-26T14:02:38.997-05:00Conservative messaging for republicans ability to ...Conservative messaging for republicans ability to be perceived by their Rush-bots as identifiable. with.<br /><br />As Davis Statton points to., "a rising economic tide would lift all boats".<br /><br /> -apply pre civil war looking glass lenses and it promises, "if all plantation owners with slaves are free to be their own dictators (over life and death) of labor for profit. They will treat their slaves more humanely, even set them free with pocket money".<br /><br />* When GOP for 8 years promise to repeal and replace (with something BETTER). What is meant by better is to cut taxes on the wealthy (tinkling down our backs). Ref; "Horse and Sparrow" which Reagan plagiarized.<br /><br />*When Trump decried throughout his campaign of "Draining the Swamp". Most of the country interprets draining the swamp as getting the Wall Street bankers out, excluding big lobbyists etc.<br />Yet, the words of the language is spoken in wealth perversion dialect meaning.<br />"Get rid of the scientists that do great research backing regulations from causing serious problems the people will have to live and suffer with. Wealthy move and live where this will not effect them directly. The alligators they want off the table are Union lobbyists, Southern Poverty Law Center, Economists that consider better for most and all, The ACLU, Civil Rights law and its supporting activists, Defense lawyers as public defenders.<br /><br />These are the alligators in the swamp the GOP means when getting rid of those alligators. Not, the Goldman Sachs Execs that were bailed out by tax payers (with bonuses for them to stay on) that no control our nations financials from that swamp. They replaced the well educated sciency Nuclear proficient Dept of energy guy with Rick Perry who is invested deeply in OIL and his own admission, "did not know the Energy Dept he was being confirmed to regulated nuclear anything and has NO background of the nuclear stuff.<br /><br /> They speak with forked tongue in forked tongue dialect that has a distinct alternative meaning. Some people call it, Lying. Others call it political speech. I ask, who are the keepers of the language? I know why.<br />Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-47903638239000421602017-06-26T12:59:44.278-05:002017-06-26T12:59:44.278-05:00"The Reagan worldview was based on the idea t..."The Reagan worldview was based on the idea that a rising economic tide would lift all boats. But that’s clearly no longer true."<br /><br />That was never true. Is is less true now thanks to Republican policies. Minimum wage, union bashing, taxes, etc. Workers' proportionate benefit from productivity gains has gotten smaller and smaller.<br />Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469262537314894217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-88007514863450655622017-06-26T11:17:38.009-05:002017-06-26T11:17:38.009-05:00Good grief! I watched his nonsense and had to get...Good grief! I watched his nonsense and had to get off when he extended the "they're like me" crap to Trump. If they actually looked at that loon and thought, "He's a lot like me", then Republicans are liars, racists, cheaters, grasping, hypocritical, clueless idiots who you wouldn't trust to take care of your pet gerbil. So, thank you DFB for validating everything our Mr. Drift has been saying for years.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06305208020734989122noreply@blogger.com