The Rant

Well I see no point in arguing about what is the true meaning of "fascism" when everyone  seems to define it as including anyone but me.   I am still working my way through the Goldberg book and I find it to be quite intelligent, and well worth reading. Just delete the word "fascist" everywhere you find it and read it for the points he makes about the ideas that have won so much popularity among vast segments of the intellectual classes the past 100 years.   Frankly, I have little trust in what "professors" in the current university classes have decided, as their thinking represents the problem to me.      I tend to look at politics on this axis. On the one had are those who prefer freedom, free markets, and regard government as a necessary evil to be kept in check and minimized.  Government is dangerous because people are fallible and greedy and not to be trusted with too much power.   Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  On the other

Michael Winship Oh, What a Lovely Class War! http://www.truthout.org/031109A Michael Winship, Truthout: "My goodness, how they howl when the proverbial shoe is on the proverbial other foot. You'd think the Red Army had just left Moscow and was preparing a frontal assault on the Federal Reserve. So what are conservatives, Wall Street and financial television commentators shouting? Socialists! That's right. Spread the word: Socialists are swarming over our nation's Capitol and making off with the means of production, otherwise known as campaign contributions and the federal budget. You got trouble, my friends."

Ok If you have not caught the last few nights of the Daily and what fun they have been having with Mad Money's Cramer , you have really missed something. The Morning Joe decided to stick his nose in the dust up, and he got spanked. And if you haven't been watching, you don't understand why its fun to be a left wing commie. I suggest watching Morning Joe tomorrow to see if he is smart enough to IGNORE the fun at his expense.

What grade should Obama get for his accomplishments thus far?  Taken from MSNBC, which is not usually a  Republican front.  Seems a little early for report cards, but here is the results as of 9PM.  

On the other hand, since Religion and Politics deal with values, which at bottom are more a matter of feelings than logic, I suppose I can understand how calm rational discussion might be difficult. 

   Isn't it interesting that Religion and Politics are taboo topics in polite company?  These are very important to many people, but discussing them only seems to provoke anger in most people.  The exception seems to be that people of similar opinions can discuss with one another how much they hate, desipise, and laugh at those of different beliefs.   Apparently, religions and politics are not subjects that most people desire to consider in a calm, cool, rational manner.  Rather, for most people, religion and politics are emotional topics.  They are the subject of Faith.  People have faith in their religion.  More surprisingly, (at least to me) they have Faith in their politics.  Faith and Reason are like oil and water; they do not mix.   I am not restricting my comments to stupid people or any particular party.  My observation seems true to me of very intelligent members of various parties (although there does seems to be a tendency to judge members of parties to which you do not

Obama told the New York Times he was contemplating reaching out to the "moderates" in the Taliban.  Good news for the women of Afghanistan.   Remind me again why we are still  in Afghanistan.  We are on a Mission from God to convert the Afghani people to a Western, rational, scientific point of view?