"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
Links:
- Mika Brezinski asks T. Boone Pickens to be honest about his tax burden.
- T. Boone Pickens and then-Congressman Rahm Emmanuel's two-man, natural gas vaudeville act. Can you spot driftglass in the audience?
5 comments:
You now have my subscription ( ... & my SHIELD! ... & my WARRIOR AXE!) as a ProLeft 1%er.
The podcast gives me a reason to look forward to Fridays (which in my work-schedule are not "TGIF" but hump-days ... ecccccch).
Keep it coming!
Check out the astronomical number of "dislike" ratings on Rick Perry's homophobic campaign video! I am almost tempted to start a betting-pool through PayPal on how long it will be before the campaign pulls it entirely.
I learned through my reading of literature in psychology that the prevailing conservative culture teaches such a disregard of the poor and disadvantaged that many of the poor, upon reaching a higher status, make it their raison d'etre to treat people in similar sitations much worse (and even wish worse outcomes - and in some cases, work hard for worse treatment) for them) in order to heighten their own sense of worth: self esteem.
Take a look at these losers in the Rethug Party. The only one who really stands out as one who was born with high self esteem this year would be Mitt - and he is screwed up by trying to outdo his Daddy (negatively, it seems, as George was the rather decent guy who told the truth about being "brainwashed" and then was mocked and eventually shunned for it and made a nonentity by his party), which sounds familiar doesn't it?
One more thought on your brilliant political podcast:
Noonan, Will, Rove, et al., have started calling the Rethug candidates a "freak show" (IMHO) in order to prepare the ground for the real candidate who will be called onto the stage to "save the day" very soon (or perhaps right before the convention).
I believe this has been the strategy this time all along (unless Obama is truly their safety-net-destroyer choice), but the clowns were a gambit to divert the public's eyes from the Rethug con artists until they were begging for them to return and restore the "natural" order.
My guess, of course, is a Cheney/Bushite, and I think it's probably gonna be Jebbie.
S
Sorry to take up your comments section today, but one more on the podcast:
I agree with you, Fran, about the gratuitous violence turning me off in the middle of the first book (Dragon Tattoo), but, if you do what I did (plough on through for a while), which was to give the trilogy a chance to redeem itself, I think you'll find out why millions and millions worldwide have read it.
And rave about it. Granted, you and I could rake lots of it over the coals, literarily, but it has a unique set of redeeming facets (ideals, perhaps), which I think you both would like.
And it's not really Casablanca, but you have to read all three to see it.
Just my opinion, of course.
And fabulous DFB dissection again on why he leaves out what facts/history (and makes up the rest).
Love you guys!
S
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