LOL!

When Palin gets elected, how sweet would it be for her to have a lot of the PUMA women that supported her on her staff?

McCain wants to use everything. the Obots have falsely claimed that McCain is only for oil. McCain has a plan for an all of the above approach but we absolutely need to get off foreign oil right now and have that money circulate within borders. much of that money can and should be used to fund alternative energy initiatives but we can not get there if the money is kept going overseas.

drill here, drill now, then coal to liquid, once you eliminate foreign oil, start promoting solar panels on top of every house in America. solar panels and small wind turbines for every home is more cost effective than large solar electricity plants and large wind mills since the electricity being generated doesn’t need to be sent to different parts of the country which our national grid can not handle.

if we see massive effort to put solar panels and small wind turbines on every American home then you will see a drastic reduction in natural gas demand for electricity generation. then that natural gas can be used for transportation. don’t fall for the Pickens plan that calls for massive wind turbines accross the tornado belt – Pickens want the government to foot the tab on building all the transmission lines. that is what Pickens is not telling you, his project needs massive funding for transmission lines. that money is better spent giving tax credits for American households so that people can afford to put a 2.5 KW solar panel or wind turbine system or both on their roofs. do that and you will eliminate up to 30% of the electricity demand on coal fired and natural gas powered power plants without the need for massive transmission line projects that we can’t afford right now.

McCain is the only candidate with this all of the above approach. don’t get fooled by the Obots so called plan. The O’s only plan is to make energy prices skyrocket. that will put a massive burden on transportation and manufacturing industry and will cost consumers money that they can spend somewhere else.

so go vote for Johnny MAC!!!!

Let me just raise one point..

The same media that unquestionably promoted and anointed OBama is the same Media that is unquestioningly promoting Manmade Global Warming.

Since your indoctrinators probably didn’t tell you how to misread the chart, I should let you know the red line means this year’s ice.

Those who know of the Leftist themes in the election campaigns of both Hitler and Mussolini often say that neither was a real Leftist because they were also vehement nationalists. The thought seems to be that nationalism can only be Rightist. But that shows no knowledge of Leftist history generally.

From the days of Marx onward, there were innumerable “splits” in the extreme Leftist movement but two of the most significant occurred around the time of the Bolshevik revolution — when in Russia the Bolsheviks themselves split into Leninists and Trotskyites and when in Italy Mussolini left Italy’s major Marxist party to found the “Fascists”. So from its earliest days Leftism had a big split over the issue of nationalism. It split between the Internationalists (e.g. Trotskyists) and the nationalists (e.g. Fascists) with Lenin having a foot in both camps. So any idea that a nationalist cannot be a Leftist is pure fiction.

And, in fact, the very title of Lenin’s famous essay, “Left-wing Communism, an infantile disorder” shows that Lenin himself shared the judgement that he was a Right-wing sort of Marxist. Mussolini was somewhat further Right again, of course, but both were to the Right only WITHIN the overall far-Left camp of the day.

It should further be noted in this connection that, as Horowitz (1998) reminds us, the various European Socialist parties in World War I did not generally oppose the war in the name of international worker brotherhood but rather threw their support behind the various national governments of the countries in which they lived. Just as Mussolini did, they too nearly all became nationalists. Nationalist socialism is a very old phenomenon.

And it still exists today. Although many modern-day US Democrats often seem to be anti-American, the situation is rather different in Australia and Britain. Both the major Leftist parties there (the Australian Labor Party and the British Labour Party) are perfectly patriotic parties which express pride in their national traditions and achievements. Nobody seems to have convinced them that you cannot be both Leftist and nationalist. That is of course not remotely to claim that either of the parties concerned is a Nazi or an explicitly Fascist party. What Hitler and Mussolini advocated and practiced was clearly more extremely nationalist than any major Anglo-Saxon political party would now advocate.

And socialist parties such as the British Labour Party were patriotic parties in World War II as well. And in World War II even Stalin moved in that direction. If Hitler learnt from Mussolini the persuasive power of nationalism, Stalin was not long in learning the same lesson from Hitler. When the Wehrmacht invaded Russia, the Soviet defences did, as Hitler expected, collapse like a house of cards. The size of Russia did, however, give Stalin time to think and what he came up with was basically to emulate Hitler and Mussolini. Stalin reopened the churches, revived the old ranks and orders of the Russian Imperial army to make the Red Army simply the Russian Army and stressed patriotic appeals in his internal propaganda. He portrayed his war against Hitler not as a second “Red” war but as ‘Vtoraya Otechestvennaya Vojna’ — The Second Patriotic War — the first such war being the Tsarist defence against Napoleon. He deliberately put himself in the shoes of Russia’s Tsars.

Russian patriotism proved as strong as its German equivalent and the war was turned around. And to this day, Russians still refer to the Second World War as simply “The Great Patriotic War”. Stalin may have started out as an international socialist but he soon became a national socialist when he saw how effective that was in getting popular support. Again, however, it was Mussolini who realized it first. And it is perhaps to Mussolini’s credit as a human being that his nationalism was clearly heartfelt where Stalin’s was undoubtedly a mere convenience.

And last but not least we have the original Leftist nationalist: Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte was the child and heir of the very first Leftist revolution, the French revolution and he is to this day lauded as the man who took the “ideals” of the French revolution to the rest of Europe. Like all Leftist dictators, he preached the central Leftist myth of equality — but did not practice it — and built up around himself a cult of the leader that was very much the same as that built up around themselves by Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim Il Sung etc. And, again like other Fascists, he took French nationalism and love of gloire to new heights. During his rule — police state though it was — he made the French feel that they were the greatest nation on earth. And the French died in their droves in furtherance of that myth — just as Germans later died in their droves for Hitler. Mussolini may have invented the term but it was really Napoleon who was the first Fascist. Arthur Silber has put up some excerpts from the recent biography of Napoleon by Paul Johnson that show how very Fascist Napoleon indeed was. Since Napoleon is still a French national hero, it is no wonder that the Germans found it relatively easy to get the French to “collaborate” in World War II.

Obama for nuclear energy? ROFLOL that’s just precious. The Sierra Club just sent me a fancy glossy brochure promising me exactly the opposite.

You astroturfers are really too much. Fortunately, nobody believes your garbage any more.

MODERN LEFTISM AS RECYCLED FASCISM

This guy put a lot of effort into coming up with a framework to explain what the Left is.

In the course of doing so, he makes a case that the Fascism of Italy was the fusion of early 20th Century American Progressivism with Marxism, and that all of the Socialist/Collectivist/Communist/Marxist/NAZI movements were all forms of Anti-Indivudualist Left-Wing movements. The Americans influenced Mussolini who in turn influenced the Americans and how many Americans were quite impressed by all of the innovations by Italy , Germany and Soviet Union.

This love affair ends once the violence nature of Hitler and Stalin unleash war and mass murder.

Let me state explicitly that nearly all Americans who admired Italy/Germany/Soviet Union repudiated those countries when the war came. So I am not linking Leftists with Genocide , war or murder.

In the blue border on the right-hand side of the screen you can find other articles of his under this heading:

Selected reading
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MONOGRAPH ON LEFTISM

CONSERVATISM AS HERESY

Rightism defined
Leftist Churches
Leftist Racism
Fascism is Leftist
Hitler a socialist
What are Leftists
Psychology of Left
Status Quo?
Leftism is authoritarian
James on Leftism
Irbe on Leftism
Beltt on Leftism

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In my next comment I’ll post an except.

here ya go….