Comments on: Vox Stinque, Harbinger of Doom

By: Benedick

Benedick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:41:33 +0000

Wasn’t the whole tea-party thing a stunt to help John Hancock’s business as a tea importer and to keep up the price? I need to re-read American Aurora.

By: nojo

nojo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:12:37 +0000

@Promnight: Y'know, short of calling the teacher, I would have gone with emphasizing the point in the report. Not because it's foisting politics on the small fry, but because it's the truth. The sprout's free to make his own decisions about the wisdom of excise taxes, but silly me, I thought one purpose of education was to ground him in the facts. Then again: Third grade? I don't think we even cracked Johnny Tremaine until junior high.

By: Promnight

Promnight — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:12:47 +0000

The modern “no taxes, no big gubmint, taxes are slavery, tea party patriots” movement (and you notice the logical connection to the Boston Tea Party, they were protestin’ taxes) is nothing whatsoever but the only remaining publicly acceptable way to express racism.

Thats what it is, racism. Its nothing but racism.

It started long ago with the myth of the welfare queens and their cadillacs, this is just the same meme. They have no problem with big government and taxes, when it helps their parents with social security and medicare, they have no problem with big government spending for wars, no, its all about big government helping browns.

Its no wierd coincidence that we have this explosion of essentially anti-government sentiment, arising immediately that we elect a brown president.

Government, taxes, and all government programs, suddenly become evil, when the government is no longer republican and white.

My 9 year old came home a few weeks ago with a civics-history project, about the revolutionary war, in which he was asked to imagine that there was a tax on his favorite things, watching TV, playing video games, to illustrate why the founding fathers rebelled against taxes, why taxes are bad.

And I almost went ballistic and called the teacher, to tell her, “hey, moron, it was not and never was about “all taxes are bad,” it was about TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.” I was coaching him to point this out in his written report on this experiment, but I am glad Mrs. Prom said lets not make our 9 year old a pawn in our politics, and I did make sure he understood, taxes are not bad, it was about taxation without representation.

These evil fuckers have been too succesful with this shit propaganda.

By: Dodgerblue

Dodgerblue — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:19:48 +0000

@Benedick: You're on a roll today. BTW I saw "Love's Labour's Lost" this afternoon with authentic Brits from the Old Globe. They played it about as broadly as one could, including fart jokes. Very lively audience.

By: Benedick

Benedick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:04:02 +0000

@Tommmcatt is hunkered down in the trenches: They're calling Landrieu the 'Louisiana Purchase'.

By: Tommmcatt is hunkered down in the trenches

Tommmcatt is hunkered down in the trenches — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:20:21 +0000

@Dodgerblue: They bought that prick off with something, mark my words. Otherwise he would be grandstanding this like crazy. Quiet Droopy means a bought off Droopy.

By: Benedick

Benedick — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:34:41 +0000

@Mistress Cynica: I don't hate our troops but I sure do hate Frank Rich.

By: Mistress Cynica

Mistress Cynica — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:32:27 +0000

@Original Andrew: Why do you hate our troops?

By: nojo

nojo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:50:26 +0000

@Original Andrew: We had to destroy our country in order to save it.

By: Original Andrew

Original Andrew — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:45:40 +0000

I’m amused by the polls showing how concerned “Americans” are about the cost of the health insurance bill, and however in the world will Big Gummit pay for all its evil socialism?

You know what I’ve never seen? A poll showing that “Americans” are concerned about the cost of our Big Military and endless failed foreign wars. Are peeps really not concerned at all? Oh, fiddledeedee.