Liberals and their socialist plots

 

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

 

Black and Red

by Tanna Tucker and Nestor Castillo

The history of Black Socialism in America

The Slippery Slope of Socialism!

 

Slippery slope!!

 

We need a balance of capitalism and socialism... like what we had in the 70s.

Exactly.

Socialism is a slippery slope to communism!!!111!!

Republicans seem to want to go back to the good old days... even though there never has been any good old days.

Debtors prisons were so nineteenth century...

How socialism has helped the United States.  And how Merikans don't know it.

People Finally Realizing For-Profit Education Is A Scam — University Of Phoenix Loses Half Its Students

Medieval medicine still works today... and works better than some modern medicines.

Breathe deeply.  Save our oceans.

Separation of church and state.  The US is actually NOT a Christian nation.

Jeb Bush thinks Governor Mike Pence did the right thing.  Do not forget the Terri Shiavo case. These indicate clearly where Jeb would go as president. Odd how the Republicans have hijacked the term, "religious freedom" so they can make it mean whatever they want it to mean.

GetBackToWork Day...

How to track a stolen laptop... and help with a drug bust.

A woman's place in the world from first to last.

Gene therapy restores the sense of smell in mice.

We won't go to war if Israel attacks Iran?



Tom Tomorrow.

Bernie Sanders.

Commieislamofascistic explanation of what socialism actually is.

Blog sprinkles

Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly:

As Krugman noted, conservatives tend not to understand that the left has no parallel ideological desires (wanting bigger government just for the sake of having bigger government). It's why they fell for the bogus Frank quote in the first place.

The left starts with a policy goal (more people with access to medical care, more students with access to college, less pollution, more Wall Street safeguards) and crafts proposals to try to complete the task. The right starts with an ideological goal (smaller government, more privatization, lower taxes) and works backwards.

Krugman himself.

If you divide twelve teabaggers by three parties, how fast will you get to five erasers, two blots, and a dammit, math is HARD?

Of course this man needs his guns!

Aliens? Aliens!!1!!:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Genetic material pulled from a pinky finger bone found in a Siberian cave shows a new and unknown type of pre-human lived alongside modern humans and Neanderthals, scientists reported on Wednesday.

The creature, nicknamed "Woman X" for the time being, could have lived as recently as 30,000 years ago and appears only distantly related to modern humans or Neanderthals, the researchers reported.

"It really just looked like something we had never seen before," Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, told a telephone briefing.

Things your grocer won't tell you.

Look at how much the Obama daughters have grown up since last year!

That was CLOSE!! A 7.2 no less...

Check out your doctor.

Asteroid will hide star tomorrow in the wee hours of the morning ... briefly.

Everybody will be having fun... until somebody yells,"He's gotta gun!"

Via Tengrain of Mock, Paper, Scissors:

Now this is something we can use!

Use this quote, Obama administration!

...Churchill’s oft-quoted distinction between socialism and liberalism: “Socialism seeks to pull down wealth. Liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests—Liberalism would preserve private interests in the only way in which they can be safely and justly preserved, namely by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference.”

Quote of the Day

From the movie Bulworth:

Bullworth: Yo, everybody gonna get sick someday / But nobody knows how they gonna pay / Health care, managed care, HMOs / Ain't gonna work, no sir, not those / 'Cause the thing that's the same in every one of these / Is these motherfuckers there, the insurance companies!
Cheryl and Tanya: Insurance! Insurance!
Bullworth: Yeah, yeah / You can call it single-payer or Canadian way / Only socialized medicine will ever save the day! Come on now, lemme hear that dirty word - SOCIALISM!

(thanks to Steve for the link!)

Pitchforks aimed in the wrong direction

Matt Taibbi explains what is going on with Glenn Beck and the conservatives:

This must be a terrible time to be a right-winger. A vicious paradox has been thrust upon the once-ascendant conservatives. On the one hand they are out of power, and so must necessarily rail against the Obama administration. On the other hand they have to vilify, as dangerous anticapitalist activity, the grass-roots protests against the Geithner bailouts and the excess of companies like AIG. That leaves them with no recourse but to dream up wholesale lunacies along the lines of Glenn Beck’s recent “Fascism With a Happy Face” rants, which link the protesting “populists” and the Obama adminstration somehow and imagine them as one single nefarious, connected, ongoing effort to install a totalitarian regime.

This is not a simple rhetorical accomplishment. It requires serious mental gymnastics to describe the Obama administration — particularly the Obama administration of recent weeks, which has given away billions to Wall Street and bent over backwards to avoid nationalization and pursue a policy that preserves the private for-profit status of the bailed-out banks — as a militaristic dictatorship of anti-wealth, anti-private property forces. You have to somehow explain the Geithner/Paulson decisions to hand over trillions of taxpayer dollars to the rich bankers as the formal policy expression of progressive rage against the rich. Not easy. In order to pull off this argument, in fact, you have to grease the wheels with a lot of apocalyptic language and imagery, invoking as Beck did massive pictures of Stalin and Orwell and Mussolini (side by side with shots of Geithner, Obama and Bernanke), scenes of workers storming the Winter Palace interspersed with anti-AIG protests, etc. — and then maybe you have to add a crazy new twist, like switching from complaints of “socialism” to warnings of “fascism.” Rhetorically, this is the equivalent of trying to paint a picture by hurling huge handfuls of paint at the canvas. It’s desperate, last-ditch-ish behavior.

Go read the whole thing.

$700,000,000,000?

Thanks, but no thanks.

Or as Thers at Eschaton puts it:

No. Blank. Checks. For. Crooks.