tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post9024695206143761290..comments2024-03-28T12:01:08.192-06:00Comments on The Blog Fodder: Halloween PartiesThe Blog Fodderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-63140101315759160342010-11-03T06:29:46.848-06:002010-11-03T06:29:46.848-06:00All very sad, and pretty much true.
With the Repu...All very sad, and pretty much true.<br /><br />With the Republicans in control of the House, the US will be pretty much ungovernable for at least the next two years.Rob-bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00171692478879522588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-29286052966378779172010-11-03T05:05:02.065-06:002010-11-03T05:05:02.065-06:00Humour of the Wiemar Republic - see this article f...Humour of the Wiemar Republic - see this article from the Globalist: http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=8773 And while you are at it read this too: http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=8726<br /><br />You think Christine O'Donnell isn't hilarious? Or Sarah Palin? Palin/Beck Lipstick and Dipstick, the No-brainer for 2012? And the fact that people take them The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-48459006112362430392010-11-02T20:15:35.309-06:002010-11-02T20:15:35.309-06:00No, Snow; I don't hate America. I'm just v...No, Snow; I don't hate America. I'm just very sad at what I see is happening in and to a wonderful nation — a nation with so many resources — human and other — and much potential. <br /><br />The response to sadness is lament.Rob-bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00171692478879522588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-64617176862323847522010-11-02T18:52:07.786-06:002010-11-02T18:52:07.786-06:00Rob-bear, when I moved to liberal Oregon from cons...Rob-bear, when I moved to liberal Oregon from conservative Mississippi, I frequently met people who loathed the South, and who looked down on me because of my accent. When I tried to represent myself in a better light to such people, I realized that I was in the position of a black man who was trying to persuade a Klansman that all black people aren't idiots. Sometimes, I believe--rightly or Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-53630680751635255142010-11-02T18:27:48.396-06:002010-11-02T18:27:48.396-06:00Perhaps, Snowbrush, some of us laugh in order to k...Perhaps, Snowbrush, some of us laugh in order to keep from crying. Even crying out loud. Perhaps even in public.<br /><br />The real order of the day, I think, is not laughter but lament, deep lament. Lament as in passionate expression of grief or sorrow. Something which we no longer know how to do, I think.<br /><br />I say this on the eve of election day. Will I watch tomorrow night's Rob-bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00171692478879522588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-61703841041354300892010-11-02T12:24:29.615-06:002010-11-02T12:24:29.615-06:00Fodder,
"American politics is hilarious...&...Fodder, <br /><br />"American politics is hilarious..."<br /><br />No more than the politics of the Weimar Republic. American politics are pathetic, extremely dangerous and Insulting to the intelligence. He who has the most money usually wins, and now that the Supreme Court has recognized corporations as having the same speech rights as individuals, and has opened the gate for those Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-411723581705272202010-11-02T08:45:42.875-06:002010-11-02T08:45:42.875-06:00don't write much about Canada because I don...don't write much about Canada because I don't live there anymore and what happens inside its borders affects virtually no one outside of them. The rest of the world only wishes that were true for America.<br /><br />I write about American politics as an offshoot of my extreme reservations about Fundamentalist Christians.<br /><br />I have friends and relatives in America who attend the The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-88709921365415420582010-11-01T17:21:26.246-06:002010-11-01T17:21:26.246-06:00"No one is laughing at you. You have nukes an..."No one is laughing at you. You have nukes and are itching to use them."<br /><br />Well, did you not say in response to a comment I made on an earlier post that you find American politics funny? I very clearly remember this in response to a question I raised about why you spend so much time writing about the U.S. and either none or very nearly none in writing about your own country.<brSnowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-24985848439827877432010-11-01T16:19:53.100-06:002010-11-01T16:19:53.100-06:00Unbalanced is right. In multiple ways.Unbalanced is right. In multiple ways.Kyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01420293836826396933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-82703217824261060912010-11-01T14:09:00.565-06:002010-11-01T14:09:00.565-06:00Snowbrush, the collapse of the American economy wi...Snowbrush, the collapse of the American economy will bring about the Fascist government of the Christian Right, same as it brought about the rise of National Socialism in Germany. It will also take down the rest of the world. No one is laughing at you. You have nukes and are itching to use them.<br /><br />PN, you don't understand. Too many people means everyone but THEM. Remember a The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-68840193910512584102010-11-01T13:44:24.077-06:002010-11-01T13:44:24.077-06:00I am scared of the extreme right. But, while ther...I am scared of the extreme right. But, while there are people who fit your description of the extreme left- they'll take care of themselves. Aren't they the group that have vowed to not procreate? In a generation, they'll be mostly gone.<br />The extreme right, however, has realized it is easier to indoctrinate children than adults. Which is why they show a whitewashed brainwashedprairie nymphnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-66536230595016852492010-11-01T11:25:52.213-06:002010-11-01T11:25:52.213-06:00Of course, they would be coming to me! Hopefully, ...Of course, they would be coming to me! Hopefully, I'll be camped in Rob-bear's yard before they knock my door in at 4:00 a.m.<br /><br />The U.S. has a far bigger problem than fascists though. We have outspent our income for all of the past 41 years, and our debt is growing at the rate of 100-billion dollars a month. Naturally, all the talk in this election is about maintaining the Bush Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-63827688497858957102010-11-01T09:52:38.311-06:002010-11-01T09:52:38.311-06:00The word Socialist isn't a vote getter in USA,...The word Socialist isn't a vote getter in USA, Snowbrush? D'ya think? And yes, RB, the National Socialist Party is better known by its abbreviation "Nazi" and the extreme left (notice the word EXTREME there)is just as totalitarian in its viewpoints.<br /><br />I have crossed swords with some of the folks on the extreme left (animal rights types) and they are not nice people. The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-7449688108435893522010-11-01T07:15:56.253-06:002010-11-01T07:15:56.253-06:00Snowbrush notwithstanding, your points are worth c...Snowbrush notwithstanding, your points are worth considering. Unfortunately the US already has an extreme right party, the Tea Party, which is driving the Republicans further and further to the right, to the position of the NSP, "Nazi" for short (which wasn't socialist at all).Rob-bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00171692478879522588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-37560544651638674532010-10-31T21:34:43.929-06:002010-10-31T21:34:43.929-06:00You have issues, old man.You have issues, old man.Bronwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18386091994745153450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-26959548107376186102010-10-31T12:17:51.491-06:002010-10-31T12:17:51.491-06:00Well, Fodder, you're getting a unbalanced view...Well, Fodder, you're getting a unbalanced view from the papers you read. For example, you are right in that there are people who are so concerned for the environment that they lack concern for human beings (or they see the two as mutually exclusive). Yet, those who are on the left typically err in the opposite direction. Also, the word socialist would be the death knell for any candidate or Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-5958672964705644602010-10-31T12:00:56.749-06:002010-10-31T12:00:56.749-06:00I just know what I read in the papers.I just know what I read in the papers.The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-33716611114294655372010-10-31T11:54:31.811-06:002010-10-31T11:54:31.811-06:00Gee, Fodder, I think you have a rather regrettable...Gee, Fodder, I think you have a rather regrettable misunderstanding of the American political climate.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.com