Hey John McCain is visiting the UK on friday to meet with out unelected prime minister Gordon Brown, ……. want me to take him out for you ?

Anders, please just send the bobbies to arrest him. We don’t need another war with England.

Amerikans are sheep. They’re gonna get the government they deserve and they’re gonna get it good and hard.

F this shit. Now that the primary is done I ain’t gonna stay registered Repo. I’m gonna go back to bein’ a registered Librarian. Or F it. These elections are a f’ing joke. I’m gonna unregister.

Can ya unregister? The only way I know of doing that is to move. (Ya gotta re-register whenever ya move to be able to vote.) Can ya unregister to vote without moving?

Damn. In Shitfornia Ghouliani is beating Ron Paul. I hate f’ing Taxifornia. But at least all the precincts haven’t reported yet so maybe it’ll change.

No Im further ‘oop north’, nearer to Manchester, and it’s 5:26pm here.

Hey Anders, do the McCain ads show up for you when you’re in this here Stressblog? Google probably targets by the location of the IP address so I’m guessing you never see them and get some other ad instead.

Cool, Scott! If there’s one silver lining in all this it’s to see that cackling, cross-dressing, ghoul of a hynea getting beat by Ron Paul in his own f’ing state!

All,

Thanks for making me laugh. When I heard the results today, I wanted to cry.

Lets all go to the GOP final nomination dinner and do this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qwirWWnzJKM

Just had a scary thought ….. McCain / 9u11iani ticket :O

Just got off the phone with a good friend who voted Obama despite my pleas for Paul. She confessed what I have been suspecting is going on: Paul is just “too scary, too radical” for most people. That’s right, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution are too scary and too radical for Americans. I told her that she voted for more war, more debt, etc. and she said no, she was sure that Obama would be different. It was at that point that I handed the phone over to my wife so that I could go shoot myself. Fortunately, I’m out of bullets.

Hey isn’t Brzezinski advising Obama on foreign policy ? thats far more scary than anything Ron Paul has.

It means that Obama will be a “realist.” Realists are of course very dangerous people.

Re: Getting out of social security.

Even I admit that that prospect scares me a little. But it’s because I’m not very self-sufficient and I seem to lack the skills for investment. How will the kids like me invest if they’re not in SS? Of course I realize that SS may not be there for them in a couple of decades, but I think it’s a fair question to ask what alternatives there will be. Would we spend all our time agonizing and fretting over our investments? Of course people do that now, but that’s no way to live, if you ask me.

Bob Bogus Your comment is awaiting moderation.

Why, admin, why?

Hey MikeL, check this thread out tomorrow. I tried to respond to your question about socialist insecurity but this here stress blog won’t post it…

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser

Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998
Posted at globalresearch.ca 15 October 2001

Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?

B: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today?

B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.

B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.

Translated from the French by Bill Blum

Well, i doubt anyone advising Ron Paul has something as scary as that on there rap sheet, i doubt most Obama supporters dig past his “change” buzz words to discover who is advising him.

If the Federal Reserve didn’t make the interest rate on savings accounts ~1% because they’re perpetually lowering rates for the billionaires on Wall Street, you’d have easy, safe investments in things like Certificates of Deposit and wouldn’t need to have an extensive knowledge of all sorts of markets to make money with investments.

There is no certainty that under a “Paul economy” that CDs, or what have you, would even exist as we know it. Or more importantly, that you can convince the voter that they should trade the certainty of a (low, deflated) government-backed return on their retirement savings for the uncertainty of the market. I’m not advocating the gubment route, but it’s important to keep in mind that market uncertainty is a very scary thing to most normal people, but in fact that’s the trade-off that Paul is asking them to make.

There’s plenty of investment broker guys you can go to to plan for retirement who can guide you through all the hoops.

This doesn’t instill me with much confidence, seeing how most brokers are just glorified sales men. But maybe there’d be more scrutiny of shady sales if there was more individual responsibility. But again, who knows what those Paul-era brokers would even be selling?

In any case, I’m hoping we’ll have a Greater Depression long before that to stop all these evil motherfuckers in Washington and their murderous global hegemony. This country seems far too full of the terminally stupid and murder-loving to join the Revolution and make the change voluntarily.

I don’t think that the last depression was a very good thing for liberty, was it? What makes you think it’ll be any better the next time around? Me, I’m not so excited about a big crash. Very bad things will happen, for sure.

Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today?

B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea.

So it was because of this “excellent idea” that we all have had to register for the draft since 1980 since Carter ordered it blaming the Soviets. Just curious, do kids today still register? I know they have to to get guv thug student aid and I heard that some states won’t let kids renew their drivers licenses if their not registered. Is this true? Do kids not register anyway?

Scott, why did you quit posting your radio show mp3, no thing to tape it?

Today’s show at http://www.mediafire.com/?5bvv3tt1wr9

Lol, I lused to isten to your show sometimes while working, but I could not concentrate on working or on listening at the same time. And yes I can chew gum and walk at the same time in case anyone was wondering… so I just listen to the interviews now on antiwar .

Where’s vineyardsaker?

James,
Vineyardsaker is long gone. I want to know where Mace is.

What about Mudshark?

Did all you dudes register fer the draft when you were 18? (Except for Anders unless they got draft registration in jolly ole England.)

Woo woo! Scott.

I got the “Horton Bump” earlier re: my comment on the Ron Paul match.

Thanks for the shout out, mon!

That was almost 19 years ago. Allah, praise be His name, how time flies.

evilpaul,
In that case, i’ve been so long ineligible for the selective service that I might as well be dead and buried. But it’s never stopped me from getting your federal tax dollars shipped to me. he he.

“ Bob Bogus,
Yeah, it all makes sense on paper–getting the guv out of the equation, that is. But the problem is that we’re asking people to trade a system that they have seen their parents and grandparents do ok on financially–not great, just ok–for a system of total financial self sufficiency. Of course the latter system is the one required to live an existence free of the State and its coercive apparatus, but try convincing people that it’s better to take care of yourself than have someone else do it for you. I bet you’ll win the rhetorical argument–I have time and again–but most will choose as they did on Feb. 5, out of pure fear of uncertainty and out of ignorance if nothing else, to let the state take over. I think this is what’s going on inside the head of my Obama-voting friend that I mentioned earlier. She doesn’t know how to save a dime so why not let the state take care of her, or so she’s probably thinking. And I bet she’s typical of most Americans, Republicans included. To overthrow that kind of mentality is going to take a lot of work.” - MikeL

This is an example of the seen and unseen. It is why so many people think that people had jobs in the 1930s because of the New Deal. They don’t think about what those people may have been doing instead of subsidizing growth in the desert etc. if the government had not kept businesses from adjusting and expanding.

The way that Ron Paul has mentioned as a way of phasing out the system will be hard to convince people of. I think the only way that there will be a change is when it collapses. This will likely be through hyper-inflation as people continue to get their checks, but the value is eroded away. I don’t think many of the people in the system really care about this right now, even those that realize this, as they assume they will be taking dirt naps when it goes bust.

The way that Ron Paul has mentioned as a way of phasing out the system will be hard to convince people of. I think the only way that there will be a change is when it collapses.

It could be like the Sovient Union where the whole damn thing collapses, not just two or three of the largest government ponzi scheme programs. A French socialogist who predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union thinks the US faces a similar downfall.

Thanks for that wonderful norman finkelstein interview, Redrum.

The last two links on finkelstein’s page are ‘removed by youtube’ but if you mouse-over the related video lineup at the bottom of each youtube window, you can see Parts 6 and 7 (P6 P7) are still viewable.