tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post6842670631205271700..comments2023-06-19T02:55:00.081-07:00Comments on Dirty Greenie Hippy: Health Insurance Hissy Fits.AlanSmitheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302036848656627300noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-12842634370640554292009-12-10T12:26:17.362-08:002009-12-10T12:26:17.362-08:00"But I'll make odds that the Shakeycult w..."But I'll make odds that the Shakeycult will be the world's first internet suicide cult." Hmmm, mass smarmacide, with McEwan taking the first swig of Kool-Aid with that smarmy, pig-like look on her mug. I would pay to see that.<br /><br />Perhaps we could encourage them to blow themselves up at GOP HQ instead. That will eliminate at least half our problems right there.Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-26920113822118368222009-12-09T08:48:19.102-08:002009-12-09T08:48:19.102-08:00bueno, Mike!bueno, Mike!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-3772057698279491532009-12-09T06:12:01.979-08:002009-12-09T06:12:01.979-08:00Damn, that BowWow list of What To Do To Start A Ne...Damn, that BowWow list of What To Do To Start A Netroots -- or, should I say <i>NetWoots</i> -- organization is a real classic. What really gets <i>me</i> is how the whole thing is focused on finding <i>politicians</i> who'll do what you want them to do, and making sure they do it once they're "elected". BowWow seems to be totally locked into what seems to me to be the Donkeycrats' idea of what the job of a citizen is in a functioning democratic society: vote for us, then go home, sit down, shut up, watch TV. BowWow, like most of your standard-issue Liberal types, is all about working your ass off just so you can surrender your power to <i>politicians.</i><br /><br />It's as if BowWow is totally ignorant of history. From what I can tell, there hasn't been a single movement for social/political change in this country that hasn't had to accomplish its goals <i>in spite</i> of politicians, not <i>because</i> of them. We only got labor laws, environmental regs, black voting rights, and an end to the war in Vietnam because people worked <i>outside</i> the system of establishment political machinations, and had to drag the politicians kicking and screaming into doing what needed to be done -- and even then, they'd always manage to fuck it up somehow.<br /><br />Politicians didn't give us labor laws, people like Eugene Debs did.<br /><br />Politicians didn't give black people voting rights, people like Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King did.<br /><br />Politicians didn't give us environmental protection laws and regs, people like Rachel Carson did.<br /><br />Politicians didn't end the Vietnam War, the Weathermen and Viet Cong did.<br /><br />Everything I saw in BowWow's big Netwoots action plan involved sinking time and energy into getting politicians elected to office. What a waste.<br /><br />BowWow reminds me of this one civics/government teacher I had in high school, in the early '70s; a freshly-minted college liberal feminist, she'd take every opportunity to lecture us crazy young longhairs on how to "work within the system to bring about change". Jeezus, what a goddamn' tool she was -- and so is this BowWow jerk. The only difference was that my sophomore-year civics teacher was <i>hot.</i>mike flugennockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794510018915607552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-33897002607401703342009-12-08T10:39:33.136-08:002009-12-08T10:39:33.136-08:00Oops! Thanks, Mike.
Yes, BowWow's organizatio...Oops! Thanks, Mike.<br /><br />Yes, BowWow's organizational methods are strictly of the do-nothing intarweb sort. The average pwog is under the impression that donating $50 to ActBlue and leaving a message on their local republicrat's answering machine is the acme of political activism.<br /><br />Thanks for the link, Al. Wasn't is nice of the Orincus crew to take valuable time off from playing 'Lookit the Wingnut' games to school us all in pwoggie do-nothing incrapmentalism? If they keep that up, I'll have to add them to the PwoggieBloggie list.AlanSmitheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14302036848656627300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-33946205045990399062009-12-08T08:29:42.186-08:002009-12-08T08:29:42.186-08:00I don't think there's enough lolcats and n...I don't think there's enough lolcats and nostalgia in the world to sooth Shakey's bloated ego. But I'll make odds that the Shakeycult will be the world's first internet suicide cult.MediaGhosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16044401662722615033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-4567579035997748902009-12-08T07:41:57.437-08:002009-12-08T07:41:57.437-08:00The dear old climate. What a pity Bowers et al hav...The dear old climate. What a pity Bowers et al have no real use for it. I would worry a lot, but thanks to the science of certified futurism, we know that <a href="http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2009/11/copenhagen-getting-past-urgency-trap.html" rel="nofollow">urgency on the issue</a> is a form of self-defeating pathology. <br /><br />There's a perfect logic to it; by defeating overhaul and regulation now, they've secured a future in which it can defeated again and again.Al Schumannhttp://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-22145933178671813282009-12-08T07:11:51.383-08:002009-12-08T07:11:51.383-08:00Hoh-lee SCHITT, here's more Bow-Wow WOW! --
&...Hoh-lee SCHITT, here's more Bow-Wow WOW! --<br /><br />"<i>With a very weak climate bill delayed at least until the Spring in the Senate, the EPA is just going to move forward and regulate carbon on its own.<br /><br />Some will argue that legislation would be preferable to EPA regulation because that regulation would just stop the next time a Republican administration is in the White House. I would counter that pretending we are going to pass legislation that only kicks in 20+ years from now is equally foolish. Just as different White Houses can change regulatory policies, different Congresses can change the law.</i><br /><br />What an eedjit. He thinks that the problem is "Republican deregulation" while Obama shows us (as Clinton showed us) that the "regulation" under Democrats will be conducted by the regulat<i><b>ed</b></i>, which amounts to practical deregulation with the greater flaw of having the <i>appearance of</i> regulation.<br /><br />But Bow-Wow won't let that reality blind him to the fantasy of Donkey GOOD, Elephant REALLY VERY SUPER DUPER BAD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-85895919807245019772009-12-08T06:57:38.898-08:002009-12-08T06:57:38.898-08:00Bow-Wow's P/A tantrum post is funny. He think...Bow-Wow's P/A tantrum post is funny. He thinks politics is about sales kits, workshops on "organizing... the Bowers way", and his "fame" or "success" is measured in people commenting at his BWOG. It's ludicrous... can he possibly be serious? It's just about mechanical motions, not serious concerns, lost rights, cramped freedoms, tax dollars stolen?<br /><br />Bow-Wow WOW!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-72375815713465267342009-12-08T06:55:48.946-08:002009-12-08T06:55:48.946-08:00Psst. Your Chris Bow-Wow link is the same as the R...<i>Psst.</i> Your Chris Bow-Wow link is the same as the Raw Story link.<br /><br />Blogging when you should be sleeping? (;^>mike flugennockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794510018915607552noreply@blogger.com