Comments on: Grumpy Old Guy * Open Thread

By: OldGrumpyGuy

OldGrumpyGuy — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:04:36 +0000

The artwork on the walls is my own!

By: MoniQue

MoniQue — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:41:36 +0000

this video is full of chuckles! thanks for posting it, i needed to watch something that would express my anger in a healthy way: LAUGHTER!

laughter at how amazingly arrogant and no-plan-man obama really is.

my favorite is the howard stern one with the majates who don’t even know mccain policies from obama’s policies; and to top it off don’t even know that sarah palin is NOT OBAMA’S RUNNING MATE.

GOD HELP US ALL!

AND I BELIEVE HE WILL.

By: Gianni

Gianni — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:04:23 +0000

Diane101, were you a Hillary Clinton supporter? If so, did you admire the viciousness of the Obama campaign and his supporters against the Clintons and their supporters? Did you like the Hillary nutcrackers, the Bros before Hos t-shirts, the derisive nicknames for Senator Clinton (Billary, Hildebeast, etc.), the rank misogyny of talking heads in the tank for Obama such as Cafferty, Olbermann, and Matthews? After all that, after being called racist time and time again merely for not supporting Obama, you are now ready to turn around and vote for this guy? Where is your self-respect? Let me turn around your comment on you. I sure your side does not win and saddle us for more years of bad government. They have already destroyed the democratic party. Let’s not let them destroy America.

By: Diane101

Diane101 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:05:18 +0000

au contraire, I think you and folks here have drunk the koolaid and I hope that you guys come to your senses as well. It’s funny how both sides feel the other is so wrong, but you don’t just feel the other side is wrong but horribly misguided and lots of etc. and etc. even duped and cheering for racism, really…every point that is trying to be made here can be refuted, but only to those who are willing to see the truth.
Seriously do you think Sarah will make a good president, please!!!!!! She is barely literate, I don’t see how that can be spun any other way. McCain is a doddering old man and with his health history Sarah may well be President. He has many, many problems beside that and I sure hope your side does not win and saddle us with more years of bad government.

By: MBC

MBC — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:27:00 +0000

I agree Jozefal with much of your history lesson, except I call BULLSHIT… just what exactly has Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, George Soros, Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, Barney Frank, Penny Pritzger, Resko, or Jeremiah Wright, done altruistically for America? Really, please name something!

By: beachnan

beachnan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:22:02 +0000

As a loyal Dem for over 36 years, I can understand what Susan and Larry are trying to do. They are trying to bring to light why BO should not be elected. I can see by your comments Diane 101 that you are someone who has drank the koolaid. How sad for you. Thank you to Susan and Larry for trying to bring BO’s issues to light. I only hope that some day, people like Diane will realize how they have been duped and be grateful there are people like you. I heard on the radio today, that a young woman wearing her McCain/Palin T-shirt to the movies was told by someone working at the movie theater that they wouldn’t sell a ticket to a racist. This is an incredible indictment of BO and his followers. This is the type of thing we will be facing if he is elected.

By: Diane101

Diane101 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:54:06 +0000

Susan, I can’t believe that you are writing stuff like this. What has happened to you. You are wanting McCain and Palin to win…You are sure not acting like the person I admired for years on Booman.

By: JozefAL

JozefAL — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:17:33 +0000

Have to agree with WildChild, here, notrees. Socialism’s ultimate goal is NOT communism. Communism is another economic/political theory that BORROWS from socialist theory but has a different goal.
Socialism, for instance, still thrives in Sweden and Denmark (where it co-exists, quite happily, with capitalism). One should note, too, that many African nations have experimented with socialism and ended up with dictatorships on both sides of the political spectrum. The former Zaire, for instance, began with a strong socialist influence but became a very heavy-handed RIGHT-WING (and pro-US) dictatorship under Mobutu (who, somewhat ironically, started his road to dictatorship with a strong Socialist agenda). The neighboring Congo Republic (not to be confused with the former Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo) started with a modest Socialist agenda but swiftly moved towards a very strong pro-Marxist agenda. South Africa’s Nelson Mandela had very strong pro-Communist leanings but once he became South Africa’s first post-apartheid President, he never implemented any Marxist or Communist ideals upon the country (interestingly, his story was the opposite of Fidel Castro’s–Castro started off as a mere Socialist who only became a Communist because the US turned him away because he wouldn’t be another US lackey as Batista had been; if the US hadn’t imposed the sugar embargo to retaliate against Castro’s independence, Castro wouldn’t have accepted the Soviet’s offer and become a Communist).
Of course, notrees, you sound like the standard “know-nothing stuck-in-the 1950s Commie-under-every-bed” jerk who would’ve voted against Kennedy because he was a Catholic who would take orders from the Pope. It needs to be remembered that unions were attacked because they tried to get decent living conditions and wages for oppressed workers and, in the 1920s, accused of being Communists and the top goal of right-wingers was to destroy the unions, something that nearly happened during the Reagan years. Northern unionized auto states found themselves losing jobs to Southern NON-unionized states (ironically, some of those Southern plants are beginning to talk about unionization). The unions helped end the period of the greedy robber barons who felt that the only purpose of capitalism was to enrich them on the backs of the workers; it should be noted that many factory workers from 1850 to the early 1900s worked in conditions that were as deplorable as the very slavery that ended after the Civil War (to some, the only difference between slavery and factory work was that slaves got free room and board under deplorable conditions while factory workers had to pay for their deplorable condition). If you want to, go find some job where the boss expects you to work for 100 hours a week at minimum wage, no overtime pay, no guaranteed sick leave or holidays or vacations, no opportunities for advancement or pay raises (unless minimum wage goes up), being fired or laid off for no cause (or worse, because the boss doesn’t like your political views or your gender or your spouse or significant other), then come back and praise the virtues of unfettered capitalism. The simple fact is that capitalism works best ONLY when it allows everyone to enjoy it, not when it exploits others. It’s hard for someone who feels exploited by “the system” to appreciate the system.
True socialist countries help to reassure their people that no one will be ignored because of their inability to pay for something. In this manner, socialism embodies the teachings of Jesus (no matter how often the corporate capitalists like to claim Him for themselves).

By: Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:04:37 +0000

Has this been verified? I can’t find any.

By: bert

bert — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:27:52 +0000

Susan – does anyone at NQ know this?

BREAKING NEWS - US Attorney in Ohio to File RICO action against ACORN tomorrow!

http://centristnetblog.com/daily-news/rico-action-acorn-ohio/

By: MOmule

MOmule — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:58:19 +0000

Fidel has survived for forty odd years and is a pretty smart guy. Battista’s Cuba wasn’t exactly heaven on earth – and I believe Castro started out with good intentions, but the usual happened “Power corrupts, etc…”. But this could be a crafty way of helping destroy BO. Do we really know who the old Cubano would prefer in the White House? With saying this, it certainly will turn off a load more Americans. If only he had got into a baseball team here way back when, history would have been different!
Love Grumpy’s video – but unless the art work on the wall is all prints, I doubt he is just a poor old guy. However, since he has created a great persona for the cause, he gets my sincere thanks.

By: bemused

bemused — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:45:14 +0000

I thought she might be there as an attractive diversion for the MSM from things like ACORN. Who wouldn’t want to go to Martinique to pursue a sex scandal?

By: samb

samb — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:35:35 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJFRkTU5ypg

I SAW IT TOO, YOU GUYS ANSWERED MY QUESTION THANKS
HERES THE LINK

By: McKatmoon

McKatmoon — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:17:39 +0000

I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole. I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation – John McCain on the floor of the Senate May 25, 2006

logisticsmonster.com/2008/10/05/obama-supporters-and-the-audacity-of-division/

By: McKatmoon

McKatmoon — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:05:46 +0000

Do you remember?

Drivers licenses for illegal immigrants & other positions Obama held during the primary election.

October 13, 2008 — iusbvision

Source: iusbvision.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/drivers-licenses-for-illegal-immigrants-other-positions-obama-held-during-the-primary-election/