Politics and religion.

[RICHARD]

I was watching REDEYE on the FNC /aug31st show/ and the opened with the Glen Beck rally story.

They quoted 6-7 news sources, one of them was the El Lay times, and each of them, in on form or another noted that the crowd was predominately/mostly/largely white.

So WTF did that have to do with the price of tea in China?

Sometimes I think that instead of race relations getting better? We just slide back down the ladder.

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Yesterday, Matt Taibbi got his arse handed to him by a woman on while they spoke about the same topic on a news program, I want to say that it was Anderson Cooper's program? It was CNN.

Taibbi is a really fun to watch, he's one of the 'new hip' electrojournalists that came from Rolling Stone magazine. He writes these opinion pieces that read more like slanted BS than real opinion tomes.

MT made a comment about there being only white people in attendance and the gal asked him how he knew that was a fact....

He saw it on TV.

That is the kind of spin that the "mainstream" media puts on shiat like the GB rally.

[Puckstop31]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...LEFTTopOpinion

This piece is critical of Mr. Beck. But see what is said about the people.

[RICHARD]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...LEFTTopOpinion

This piece is critical of Mr. Beck. But see what is said about the people.

The 'behavior' of the crowd will get little or no coverage because it IRKS THE LIVIN POOP out of people that wanted to see GB fail.

Now, I try to watch a little of 'them' all -'them' being all the talking heads on MSNBC, CNN, FNC, HLN and I truly find them to all be major league BWs.
Beck, sometimes irks me by his antics but, I really want to see Madcow, Olberman, Ratigan, any one of them to try and pull off an event like that.

Where were the reports of looting, assault, vandalism or ?????? that we associate with political rallies in the past?

What the hell is going on?
This 'kinder, gentler' form of gathering people is worrisome to me.

THere has to be some kind of evil that slow bubbles underneath the calm exteriors of you white people in that crowd.

I can bet that if they had allowed some Mexicans in there, there would have been problems. We would have set up stalls to try and sell water, popsicles or tacos....The nerve.

I liked the idea of getting people together and trying to find some kind of togetherness for the country.

Some of us cannot handle that because it means we'll have to behave ourselves and there will not be the tension we have come to know and complain about.


I love crowds, I have been to sporting events and concerts with 100,000 people around me and thought about how the promoters got so many people to 'behave' for a few hours.

Get on the freeway and check out a good traffic jam. Everyone, well mostly everyone, gets along and follows the rules for however how long it takes to clear up.

A few rules and a giant crowd?

I'll give that blubbering crybaby the respect he deserves. He pulled it off without a hitch.

I would love to see that AH losers that would show up to a Keith Olbermann rally....Come on Rachel!

She has women, dems, gays and a HUGE number of fans she could rally, but then the Right to Lifers will show up, PETA, Code Pink and maybe some anarchists, for flavor?

THe scariest thought to the people that talked about GB in unflattering terms is the fact that he did what he did and there was nothing to complain about afterwards.


Well, maybe the fact that 'whitey' took over and didn't let us 'minorities' come play on the lawn....

That's o.k.

I saw some pictures with some black and brown faces mixed into the crowd..

Even Glenn Beck couldn't keep us out.

[Grace]

19 American troops killed in Afghanistan since Saturday.


source

[Grace]

Bob Herbert's latest piece from the NY Times -

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/op...31herbert.html


One of the reasons we’re in this state of nonstop warfare is the fact that so few Americans have had any personal stake in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no draft and no direct financial hardship resulting from the wars. So we keep shipping other people’s children off to combat as if they were some sort of commodity, like coal or wheat, with no real regard for the terrible price so many have to pay, physically and psychologically.

Not only is this tragic, it is profoundly disrespectful. These are real men and women, courageous and mostly uncomplaining human beings, that we are sending into the war zones, and we owe them our most careful attention. Above all, we owe them an end to two wars that have gone on much too long.

[RICHARD]

So we keep shipping other people’s children off to combat as if they were some sort of commodity, like coal or wheat, with no real regard for the terrible price so many have to pay, physically and psychologically.

Bob Herbert does not realize that they are the children of the United States, I dare go against his idea and say that they are my children, my brothers and sisters, my blood.

What a divine A.H.


Johnny's playroom
Is a bunker filled with sand
He's become a third world man
Smoky sunday
He's been mobilized since dawn
Now he's crouching on the lawn
He's a third world man

[Lady's Human]

Ah, yes, the bunch of rich old men sitting in boardrooms and eating steak while sending others off to war argument...........

It was weak 40 years ago, it's even weaker now.

Start drafting people? All it will do is give the military recruits that frankly, they don't want. When the recruiters have problems meeting goals and they start relaxing standards, then maybe trot out that old canard.

Why are we in a state of endless war?

Because there is no single country we can go pound into the stone age and bring the troops home. We're good at that, we can do it with relative ease and speed.

We have to make certain groups realize that it's insane to fight the US on any terms........and ROE and a kinder, gentler military aren't going to cut it.

Take the gloves off, let the troops fight, let the generals on the ground make the decisions, not the politicians in Washington.

Once you make the decision to send in the troops, the troops need to be left to do what needs to be done........and the reporters and the fact finders need to find another place other than a war zone to find their facts from. There's nothing more irritating than trying to run an operation and having politicians and reporters cheeking up on the troops. It was irritating as all hell in a training environment, I don't even want to THINK about what I'd have done with a certain news crew in combat.

[Grace]

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Bob Herbert does not realize that they are the children of the United States, I dare go against his idea and say that they are my children, my brothers and sisters, my blood.

Of course he realizes they are the children of the United States. Where did you get such a ridiculous idea?




19 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan since Saturday. No comments on that fact?