Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    Wolfpack

    Europe's financial chiefs try to 'stop the rot'

    The social welfare state that is the European Union is coming unglued. The rot is too great for the willingness of Europeans to undertake the reforms and austerity measures needed to avoid a train wreck. If America doesn't learn from this and move away from the current massive government takeover of it's economy, it will be next.

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    Wolfpack

    If, however, we look to the world's fastest-growing and most vibrant economies: Brazil, China, India and, to a lesser extent Chile and Argentina, we would find much higher Keynesian involvement by those nations' governments in their economies. So I don't see how you can call it an utter disaster.

    Brazil, China, and India are growing precisely because they have been moving towards greater free trade (ie. capitalism). Combined with labor cost advantages their economies are booming. In China's case, this is the opposite of China's 1950's land reforms and collectivization policies, and India's push towards Statism in the 1970's. These government - particularly China - are pursuing the same export led crony capitalism that allowed Japan and the Asian Tiger's grow so quickly during the later half of the last century. You have this exactly backwards. It is greater freedom of trade that increases wealth not a stricter adherence to the socialist idea of collectivism.

    To the extent that they can be said to be failing, the primary reason is that they have been driven towards failure by the major force in the United States that has opposed them from the beginning: Republicans who represent the very wealthiest Americans. Social Security, by the way, has been a tremendous success in providing a level of basic income that has kept untold millions of American elderly, widows, and orphans out of utter poverty. And that is the truth.

    You must be kidding! Republicans have been going along with these unsustainable schemes for decades. Social Security is a giant ponzi scheme. Sure, it has helped those people that were lucky enough to live when the nation had many times more taxpayers than beneficiaries. But the truth is in the actuaries ledger - the system as it currently exists in unsustainable and is nearing it's tipping point of collapse. We have finally gotten to the point where we are running out of other peoples money. Current beneficiaries receive money directly from current taxpayer's SS taxes (in exactly the same way that Bernie Madoff payed dividends to his older clients with money from his newer clients) All of the excess money in the system has been spent by the government on other welfare programs, ever greater SS benefits like SSI, tanks, bike paths, and bridges to nowhere.

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    Wolfpack

    Tearing down black people who aren't conservative is a way to support other conservatives? Glad I'm hearing that from you.

    This kind of sentiment reflects a simple black and white, good vs evil dichotomy whereby if supporting one side automatically means "tearing down" others. Opposition in politics is a zero sum game in your mind, but not in mine.

    Whites also attended Obama's church. There was no overt message that blacks who attended that church were superior to anyone else.)

    Except he talked talking about how evil whitey is. That talk never bothered the president. Haven't you seen any of his YouTube greatest hits videos?

    The man did not take it to court the way the Duke players did. That is what we ALL know.

    The county prosecutor took the players to court; the players did not take the woman to court. So I guess ALL of us do not really know. And why should Cain, the accused take the woman to court? He isn't claiming that there was a crime.

    A man of honor would have protected his name and reputation.

    No, not really. The unmentionable former president never tried to take his accusers to court. But wait, he was guilty - so you might be onto something there. I'll have to think about that point a bit more.

    When there is more than one accusation, the probability grows ever higher that the accusers have a case.

    Now that I agree with. However, there still must be proof and not just he said she said. If a woman comes up with a DNA stained blue dress, then I can easily doubt Cain's side of the story.

    I have voted for Republicans in the past and would do so again if and when the party regains its sanity.

    I used to be a Republican but am now unaffiliated when it became obvious that not even the so called "Conservative" party would restrain from spending America into default. The Democrats, like Greece, are in denial that there is even a real spending problem at all. I can never vote for the party that represents dependency and decline.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

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    Wolfpack

    China loves to provoke Japan every now and then. They stir up anti-Japanese hatred and seem to have a jolly good time doing it.

    Posted in: Japan coast guard arrests captain of Chinese fishing boat

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    Wolfpack

    @yabits

    What makes liberalism a better choice for human beings is the realization that liberals believe and trust in the truth and the scientific evidence as opposed to blind faith in an ideology. (Which is why conservatives are opposed to change.)

    The Democrat party has been overtaken by Liberal ideologues that don't want to change anything with American government. President Obama is the most Liberal president in my lifetime. He is deeply ideological and refuses to learn from his past mistakes and continues to trust in socialist economic policies that are not working. Socialism has never worked - it is unsustainable. Keynesian economics is a complete and utter disaster and Democrats want to do another stimulus just a bit smaller than the one that just failed two years ago. The presidents stimulus plan went into effect at about the same time the economic recessions officially ended in the Summer of 2009. The economy has gotten worse since then.

    If Democrats believed in the truth they would admit that their policies are failing. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, all failing and they do not want to make the fundamental changes that have to be made sooner rather than later. They just want to spend more money them. Democrats certainly know what is happening in Greece and the other countries in Europe teetering on the brink of bankruptcy due to the same exact policies that they want to perpetuate in the US. They are just hard-headed ideologues!

    Liberals may hate capitalism and it certainly isn't perfect. But to paraphrase Churchill, "capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all of the others."

    Herman Cain understands that and wants to help blacks and all American's to get off the Liberal plantation of dependency and stand on the their own to the greatest extent possible.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

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    Wolfpack

    Oh, how you just wish that were true. When Coulter identifies one entire class of people (black conservatives) as being better than another class (any black who isn't a conservative) she gives the game away.

    This is so easy; for the life of me I can not fathom why you are unable to grasp this? Coulter, and conservatives in general, naturally support black conservatives. Of course, by definition they oppose black liberals (as well as Liberals of every other race or group you can think of). It isn't racist because she differentiates based on politics, not race (you know, the content of their character as opposed to the color of their skin). For liberals, who spend their lives seeking out reasons to generate animosity among the races, this is laughable. Coulter does this to Liberals all the time and in knee-jerk fashion they fall for it every time.

    Cain's reputation was "sullied" as soon as the women brought their complaints to the NRA, completely independently, it might be added. Cain's organization offered the women an amount of money which they otherwise might have received in a court settlement.

    Oh yeah, if a conservative is "alleged" to have done something wrong then they are "sullied". The 'truth' doesn't matter right? So if someone where to "allege" that President Obama attended a racist black-nationalist church for nearly 20 years then his reputation would be sullied I suppose? Oh, someone has alleged this - and they have the video tape to prove it. But of course his reputation is not sullied, he is a Liberal! He gets a free pass. I have no idea why the women accepted the money instead of taking their case to court. I can tell you however, that it is no unheard of for women to make claims that are untrue (see Duke Lacrosse case).

    What is important here is the realization that at no time did the organization seek to defend the reputation of the person accused of the improper conduct. That can only be done in a setting in front of impartial citizens impaneled as a jury.

    Exactly right! Only a jury can decide - not Liberals and their main stream media supporters - you have made my point for me. Thanks! Also, you cannot state that the NRA did not defend Mr. Cain. You have no way of knowing what the lawyers for the NRA or the accusers did.

    Were I truly innocent, I would never pay a claimant a single penny. Cain's actions in the face of the accusations do not speak as worthy of a man of honor in my book.

    No doubt you don't think he is man of honor after all, he is a black Conservative. Most Liberals (maybe even you) thought that the "unmentionable Democrat president" was a man of honor despite the numerous allegations otherwise. Well, until the 'truth' came out after a furious defense and trashing of the women involved.

    I cannot say what the NRA's rationale was for settling with the accusers. Just as you have know way of knowing why the accusers settled with the NRA. It could be that they didn't have a case. Regardless, my understanding is that Cain was unaware of the NRA's decision to settle with the accusers until after the fact. Correct me if you can point to information that proves otherwise.

    You make very few logical points in defense of the trashing by the Left and the main stream media of this Black man - who happens to be black. Based on the volume of your posts here and your party line defense of Democrats and their attacks on conservatives, you are undoubtedly a true believer. I can respect a person that stands up for their ideology.

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    Wolfpack

    @smithinjapan

    Actually, it's proof that the other GOP candidates will stoop to leaking scandals about each other to knock each other down.

    Could be. But their is no evidence that I am aware of to make that a true statement. It is much more likely given the treatment of Palin, Rubio, and Thomas that this is from the Left.

    Nor are you aware of any evidence to the contrary, let alone have any evidence that it's the Democrats. Nice going! You under-minded every single one of your arguments in less than 15 words!

    Then why are the Liberal media making such a big deal out of what is really a non-story? The only thing the man is accused of is of being creepy. He committed no crime and was not found guilty of any crime. I thought that the last Democrat president make all this kind of political hatchet job irrelevant.

    Wolfpack: Just to add to that, while you, arrestpaul, and others struggle desperately to connect this to the Dems, the GOP contenders themselves are blaming THEMSELVES!

    No. One GOP contender - Cain - lashed out and made the implication that Perry might have been the source of this. Could be, but probably not. Cain isn't a career politician so I don't expect him to be gaff free. He is a human being that has made mistakes in his life like all of us have. I am more concerned with the huge national debt and the fact that the US is rapidly bankrupting itself under the Obama administration (and yes, all other presidents over the last 50 years also played a part in that).

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    Wolfpack

    If Cain wasn't conservative, he'd be an inferior black in Coulter's view.

    You don't know that and you certainly can't extrapolate that to all conservatives based on the quote in which she stands in solidarity with Herman Cain. There is just nothing there.

    It's this strange viewpoint that one's political outlook automatically makes them superior to every other member of their group who doesn't hold their views...

    You are talking in circles. By group you must be referring to racial group. I don't subscribe to treating people by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Coulter and Sharpton do not speak for me. But to the larger point, conservatives think their view is superior to liberalism or else they wouldn't be conservative. Not all ideas are of equal weight just because they exist.

    The women who got paid damages rather than having their complaints be made public in front of jury in a court of law. Those women.

    Anonymous. How nice to sully a persons reputation for political purposes and hide themselves from public scrutiny. An allegation doesn't prove a crime was committed nor does a settlement. He may be a creepy guy but isn't a crime.

    The organization that Cain headed never wanted these multiple allegations brought by more than one woman to see the light of day. Things remained "anonymous" and confidential because that's exactly how Cain and his organization wanted it.

    Wrong. It never saw the light of day because the accusers wanted the money more than their day in court. Sorry, but that is the real truth of the matter. The wrong that they felt had been done to them was rectified by their taking the money. If that were not the case, they never should have taken it.

    You keep talking about "proof of guilt." That is not what is relevant here. What is relevant is Cain's behavior when he had so much lead time before the story broke -- and how his story kept changing.

    Guilt does matter when a person is being attacked for something they claim they didn't do. Human interactions can often be awkward and maybe even 'creepy'. But so what? We got bigger problems than to get mired in silliness like this.

    The media and Liberals do not like to see a black man going off the reservation. Therefore, they are going after him.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

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    Wolfpack

    No. It's the spirit of Ann Coulter's statement that pervades the conservative movement. That's what it boils down to.

    "Spirit" huh! Rigghhhhtttt.... Coulter supports Cain because he is a conservative, not because he is a black conservative. That's the bottom line. I don't agree a lot of the times when she uses unnecessarily flagrant language to make some points, but racist she is not. She is guilty of being a political bomb-thrower - which is not what we need in the country today. We have serious existential problems that the political system is failing to address and bomb throwing of the kind you hear from folks like Coulter and Al Sharpton or not helpful.

    No, she is telling everyone that black people who think like she does are superior to black people who don't. Simple as that.

    Since she no doubt thinks that whites, Hispanic's, Asian's, Native American's, or any other racial or other group of people that agree with the way she thinks are superior to those of the same group that don't, I would have to say that this is only anti-black to those who want it to be anti-black. Don't you think Liberalism is superior to conservatism? You are grasping at straws now - the logic and rationale is just not there.

    Well, if a white person makes an utterly bigoted statement against an entire class of people and Herman Cain stands in solidarity with it, I would seriously doubt he would have any integrity when he started speaking out of the other side of his mouth about the content of one's character.

    So basically Herman Cain is racist against himself? Your logic is so wound up into knots as to be laughable.

    What we have seen of Cain's persona is just the tip of an iceberg. The women who formally went on record as reporting Cain's offensive and inappropriate conduct -- as viewed by them and other witnesses -- are showing what lies beneath.

    What woman? No one has come forward and said anything except anonymously. Anyone can do that to a politician just to smear them or as a way to leave 'questions' about ones character. There are some unmentionable Liberal politicians (unmentionable because the mod's have asked us not to) that have had allegations made against them much more serious than these and remain lionized by the Left. Like the Duke Lacross accuser, an allegation - no matter how damning - is not proof of guilt. But I suppose the Left, like the Duke faculty, needs only some 'spirit' of guilt to make it so.

    Nobody appears to be losing their minds but the conservatives who make such ludicrous statements about hatred and contempt -- which is what they are projecting onto others. All that hatred and contempt comes from within themselves.

    "Spirit" and "projection"? Seriously, that's your point of view on this matter?

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    Wolfpack

    Ann Coulter's statement with regard to the Cain affair that "Our blacks are better than their blacks"

    So this entire issue comes essentially boils down to Ann Coulter for you? Besides, is this really a racist statement? She is telling everyone that she shares a solidarity with a black man that thinks the way she does. How is that racist? She is allowing herself to be pulled into the game that Liberals play of putting people in groups. Hows this for you, Al Sharpton doesn't think Herman Cain is an authentic black men - whatever that is supposed to mean. Can we then say that all Liberals share this view. Bringing in Coulter is not relevant and beside the point.

    Yes, it's why Newt Gingrich -- who tossed aside two wives (one dying of cancer as Edwards' wife was) -- can run for president. It goes to show there's little between views and actual character.

    Oh so you are taking Kings quote literally with respect to the word character ("I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"). Going down that road misses the forest for the trees.

    Liberals have a particular hatred for conservatives that they feel should not be conservative - by this I mean anyone except for heterosexual white man. I wouldn't expect any Liberal to admit to it. But all you need do is see what they do and say when confronted by conservatives like Clarence Thomas, Marco Rubio, Herman Cain, and Sarah Palin. They go out of their minds with hatred and contempt. That is what you are seeing from the main stream media today.

    Liberals aren't going after Cain. Cain is being taken down by other Republicans.

    Who Perry? I am not aware of any evidence of that. The media is driving this story. I don't think conservatives have lessened their support of Herman Cain over this issue given the lack of any specific charge of wrong doing by a anyone willing to come out from behind a journalists blanket anonymity.

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    Wolfpack

    Well, I can speak only for myself in that regard. I really dislike liars and slimeballs, regardless of race or gender. Why are so many liars and slimeballs conservative?

    Yes of course, Liberals are angels and only Conservatives do bad things. Man, you are hopeless.

    Conservatives assess the content of people's character by their political views. That's why white conservatives will trot out a black conservative and stress that it is proof they are color-blind.

    Yes, conservatives judge people by their views (ie. what is in their head) so in that you are correct. However, conservative whites do not 'trot' out blacks for anything. Blacks like Herman Cain put themselves out there and risk a great deal of derision from other blacks and condescending Liberals of all colors that insist that minorities and women tow the Democrat line. Conservatives are rightly proud of anyone of their fellow conservatives that stand up to bullies like President Obama, Rep. Pelosi, Jesse Jackson, Jeramiah Wright, among many others.

    No. You managed to take a very simple point and dishonestly twist it into something else completely.

    So, no attempt to defend your non-sensical views about black conservatives.

    >White conservatives who think that promoting a black person who promotes their values somehow mitigates their own racism is, in fact, an overt sign of that very racism they try so hard to deny.

    I twist nothing. You fail to confront the tendency by the Left to tar conservatives as racist when they demonstrably are not. The Left's incapable of reconciling what a man like Cain represents and therefore they seek to bring him down.

    Liberals are going after Cain because he threatens a core Liberal belief. That all people that are not Liberals are racists. Blacks like Cain and Hispanics like Rubio, and women like Palin are targeted for snubbing those who feel it is their responsibility to take care of them via government programs that ultimately keep them from pursuing their own path in life. It's condescending and inherently racist in itself.

    The recent attacks on Cain are emblematic of how the Left pursues politics through racial, ethnic, class, etc. groupings that are cultivated and appealed to by pitting people against one another. Why not just treat all people the same and let the chips fall where they may? Oh, because the outcomes are not exactly "equal" so therefore, discrimination must be employed to right the wrongs.

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    Wolfpack

    @TorafusuTorasan

    Speak for yourself. If most humans were into war, we would have killed each other off by now.

    The fact that wars have existed at every point in recorded human history speaks for itself. If you cannot acknowledge that war is natural to humanity then you are willfully ignoring history. If you have been paying attention to the news lately, you might be aware of the battles between Leftist protestors and the police in Oakland California. No one died, but there was violence all the same.

    You've never been naked? What do you have, armor grafted onto your skin and a nickel plated chastity belt?

    Hey, I was born naked - and I'm not ashamed to admit that! However, I don't feel the need to strip down and invite the media over to my house to take pictures of my wife and I in the buff. As if such an un-noteworthy act of self - expression will somehow contribute to the lessening of war in the world. Seems more like John and Yoko had an fetish with exhibitionism. There is nothing intrinsically bad about that, it's just meaningless - like their song.

    Posted in: Yoko Ono: 'Imagine' tune is bigger than expected

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    Wolfpack

    I did not notice at first either. But anyone all frazzled about a picture of a woman breastfeeding has crossed the line from being an anti-sex zealot and gone straight to being anti-humanity.

    What is surprising is that they took this thing so far as to not just write, "Would you have a baby with me" but also have Oshima simulate breastfeeding someone's baby. I suppose they decided not to pull any punches on this advertising campaign. As for being frazzled about breastfeeding, as far as I am concerned if a young lady wants to pull her breasts out in public you aren't going to get any complaints from me. But don't forget, many members of this group are far from being adults - with some as young as 14. If the group were all adults I don't think many people would have a problem with this.

    Posted in: If you had a baby with an AKB48 member, what would your child look like?

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    Wolfpack

    I wonder if President Obama was able to catch a movie while in Cannes.... With the results so far of his economic policies, I suggest 'The Grapes of Wrath'.

    Posted in: G20 puts Italy under watch, but no new aid for eurozone

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    Wolfpack

    Sounds as though the woman didn't get the book deal the guy at the Democrat National Committee promised her.

    Posted in: Cain accuser sticks with allegation

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    Wolfpack

    The Odd Couple.

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    Wolfpack

    Beautiful! Shouldn't they be using those curly bulbs instead? You know, the ones that will save the planet...

    Posted in: Kobe Illuminage

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    Wolfpack

    photo of this girl with her boob out feeding an unknown baby is not cool

    I had to look at the picture again to see what you were talking about... Oshima is actually posed as if she is breastfeeding that baby!

    Posted in: If you had a baby with an AKB48 member, what would your child look like?

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    Wolfpack

    @plasticmonkey:

    I wonder if conservatives such as yourself aim the same criticism at this: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

    I'm not a Christian so throwing the Bible in my face will not cause me to doubt my opinion of the naivete' of Yoko, John and the rest of the anti-war crowd. The song 'Imagine' is fine as just another airy ballad. But taken seriously as an anti-war anthem is ridiculous.

    It's epitomizes the problem with the Left in general, the utter denial of the true nature of humanity. As much horror and death as war has caused over the entire span of human history, it is as natural to our species as breathing. The goal of Conservatives is to channel the natural human tendency to seek a better life for oneself in a manner that creates the greatest good for all. This is the best way possible to avoid conflict. The goal of Liberals (ie. Socialists) is to force people to deny their own individual goals and aspirations for the purposes of creating the unachievable - a utopian society of economic and social equals. Everywhere it has been tried and in whatever style or type imaginable it has failed. Trying to deny a person their innate aspirations is to declare war on him/her. The American Founding Fathers understood this and therefore created the most just form of government with respect for individual rights as its central pillar. Unfortunately, more than 200 years later that form of government no longer exists in America.

    Posted in: Yoko Ono: 'Imagine' tune is bigger than expected

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    Wolfpack

    That's what we are protesting. The money goes to corporations that rob people outta their money. A deceased artist shouldn't be earning money.

    You do realize that Michael Jackson isn't actually getting the money don't you? No one is shoveling loads of cash into his casket. I suspect his family will receive the fruits of his life's work now.

    Posted in: Michael Jackson is world's top dead earner

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