From: BAR on
In article <4b7095db$0$31033$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>,
nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com says...
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> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:08:32 +0000, assimilate wrote:
> > On 7-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I did a seminar course in literary theory. It was actually pretty
> >> interesting: Kant, Goethe, and yes, Marx, Saussure, Benjamin, Sarte,
> >> Frye, Heidegger, Derrida, Barthes, Foucault, Bloom, Achebe, Fish... I
> >
> > Half the list after Marx is derivative of him
>
> Marx is an important historical figure. There is nothing wrong with
> ideas per se, even ideas which are unpopular. And I believe it's wrong
> to dismiss things out of hand without understanding what they are.

Marxist economic and political theory when put into practical
application has failed and failed miserably.
From: BAR on
In article <4b709928$0$5102$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>,
nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com says...
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> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:16:59 +0000, assimilate wrote:
> > On 7-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The fact remains that Bert's original charge--Democrats worked the
> >> hardest to disenfranchise Blacks--is completely dubious when the
> >> racists migrated en masse to the Republican party nearly half a century
> >> ago.
> >
> > If that's all you got than you got nothing. The racist card is an act of
> > desperation.
>
> It wasn't my claim. Your Bert was accusing the Democrats with working
> harder to disenfranchise Blacks than the Republicans did. It's a
> ridiculous claim in light of what has gone on for the last 40+ years.

Now I belong. I don't think Bill-O and the libertarians would want me.

It wasn't a claim, it is a fact.

When you are told to vote Democrat because we, the Democrats, will take
care of you. And, you realize that you are being used for the election
only and then once the election is over you are told to sit down and
shut up, what do you call that?


From: BAR on
In article <7tcfffFcvuU1(a)mid.individual.net>, dene(a)remove.ipns.com
says...
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> <assimilate(a)borg.org> wrote in message
> news:vL4cn.17558$5n.6066(a)newsfe23.iad...
> >
> > On 8-Feb-2010, "John B." <johnb505(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Far smaller? You're going to have a tough time proving that. Without
> > > the stimulus, would we have unemployment below 10% today? Would GDP
> > > have grown 2.2% in the third quarter of 2009 and 5.7% in the fourth?
> >
> > The Federal Government has intervened in two and only two recessions: this
> > one and the Great Depression. See a pattern?
>
> Yeah....and it wasn't the "Deal" that ended the Great Depression. It was
> WW2.

It was unleashing the economic engine of the USA that pulled us out of
the 1932 depression.


From: BAR on
In article <4b70dc7b$0$4983$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>,
nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com says...
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> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:46:50 +0000, assimilate wrote:
> > On 8-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> Jury is still out on Palin.
> >>
> >> In what respect, Bill?
> >
> > she is still active and could serve in public office again.
>
> You don't think her being a hopeless dingbat is a liability?

History may just repeat itself.
From: BAR on
In article <f8v0n5di4q87fntitcl71vjghenh2tfqpb(a)4ax.com>,
bknight(a)conramp.net says...
>
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:04:26 -0600, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> ><bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
> >news:7kn0n518v5f21gs2jo01qnst1gmi84n715(a)4ax.com...
> >> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:36:20 -0600, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>> All politicians have advisors, but no one "handles" Obama.
> >>>>
> >>>> BK
> >>>
> >>>Riiiiight. In that case no one handled Bush then either.
> >>>
> >>
> >> They didn't have to. Cheney made most decisions alone.
> >>
> >> BK
> >
> >Talk about urban legends. Guess who decied to try KSM in civilian court?
> >Wasent Obama.
> >
> >
> Not his call.

But, the Obama admitted, this weekend, that he was still trying to
figure out where to hold the trials.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35543