Er, no Zython, by the end of GWB’s second term “neoconservatism” seemed to refer to every political ideology. The Honourable Jim Flaherty was attacked as a “neocon” because he engaged in public-private partnerships to build bridges and hospitals. Prime Minister Harper was running his “neo-conservative vision of vision of letting the market decide what is best for the society. Meanwhile “the neocons” are simultaneously “anti-business”. “Neocon” is a totally empty word: one minute you’re in the “religious right”, the next you’re a “neocon”. “Neocon” policies can be summarized as “any policy which happens to be conservative”. If you want to cut personal taxes and remove restrictions on gun sales, you’re suddenly a member; what you call a “political ideology” is in fact a whole set of (often contradictory) ideologies, each applicable whenever you want to attack a politician in a letter to the editor.

Which is probably why he knew more about it than Cramer when he was on the show.

dude can’t even read his own code anymore.

Just waltz on over to Hal Turner’s site for some anti-semitic and all-around “hate everybody” goodness.

And yet, this is precisely what you do in regard to Kos.

Funny that.

fafaroo says: “And all you had to do was “the most casual diligence” before you repeated it. But you didn’t do even that. I’m sure this will be the last time you ever do that again!”

Methinks the case is not closed, despite what Mr. Thayer said at the time.

And all you had to do was “the most casual diligence” before you repeated it. But you didn’t do even that. I’m sure this will be the last time you ever do that again!

Exactly. They only care about Israel because they need the Jews around to to bring about Armageddon. And then they expect all the Jews to die and go to hell.

What I love here is how you equate Judaism and Zionism as though they go hand-in-hand. Despite the fact that the vast majority of “Zionists” are fundamentalist Christians with ulterior motives.

During the Bush administration, “neocon” became a shorthand term for “Jew.”

As opposed to “Hollywood” or “East Coast Liberal”? Neoconservativism refers to a political ideology, mainly in terms of foreign policy. which, in layman’s terms, states that the U.S. can invade whoever the hell they want whenever the hell they feel like.

(Blue was our experiment in a “progressive” blog. It worked out as well as you’d expect, with a raging sociopath and all-around asshole put in charge of it — and he’s still there.)

Was it you? No wait, you said he wasn’t fired.

I wasn’t being anti-semitic in the least when I printed his his birth name.

I don’t think you’re the most unbiased judge of that.

So you made something up? It’s projection. On the one hand you have the architect of the GOP political machine saying ‘Socialist’ was code for ‘Blacks taking your money.’ On the other hand, you have NOTHING! You have a fucking claim with no goddamn evidence.

By the way, no one is claiming every GOPer is racist, or that only GOPers are racist. However, the racism in the GOP is by design. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

“I’m starting to think that there are perhaps five topics that you WON’T tie into your beloved “Southern Strategy” — and I’m not sure about two of those.”

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

Translations: Shut the fuck up, you goddamn racist piece shit.

You don’t even bother trying to argue the GOP isn’t racist, you just complain when I bring it up. And there is no argument. The GOP is a racist organization, as much as the KKK is. It’s racist from the top to the bottom. The people on the top use racism to get elected, and they foster racist attitudes in the people at the bottom.

And your response to this? ‘Waaaaaaaahhhhh!’

The style and manner were a befitting response to a complete hypocrite.

Fafaroo, I don’t recall precisely where I heard or read about the “waterhead” remark — it might have been on the radio.

I’m amazed that Strowbridge caught the irony of Ted Kennedy’s dog — and quite impressed he hasn’t made that a racial issue.

J.

Sean D. Martin says: “Which isn’t reflected in the stock market?”

Remaining with your original comment here (which I’m just trying to understand) ‘No wealth has ever been created in the stock market. It’s not possible.’”

Right. Wealth is not created by the stock market; however, it might be reflected in the stock market. Might be.

If a company creates a new product that sells well, it is creating wealth. This could cause their stock to go up.

If a company is the target of a takeover bid, which will result in fewer job, less competition, less production… i.e. less wealth, their stock could go up.

There is a correlation, but not causation.

If so, please tell us all how being so misinformed has colored the credibility of that person or blog in your mind.

Could you please name the source of the information so we’ll know not to trust what read there?

Okay. Now that’s funny. Tasteless (and highly offensive to Mary Jo Kopechne) but funny.

“Hmm… I see someone triggered one of Strowbridge’s nigh-infinite number of Pavlovian triggers and he went off on his frothing “Lee Atwater/Southern Strategy” frenzies.”

Yeah, how dare I bring up Atwater when you accuse liberals of being anti-Semitic. There’s absolutely no connection between those topics.

Tool.

Unbelievable. Jay Tea, what about the “the style and manner” in which you pushed a story that was totally wrong? Thanks for that!

And Jay Tea, you recently admonished CSS for not doing “The most casual diligence” before saying something about you. it is, apparently, a standard you do not hold yourself to. Ever.

Jay Tea, I assume you’re speaking primarily of yourself here.

Which is about the best you can actually hope for. That others will view the speakers as discredited, cause there is certainly little evidence the commenters (on both sides) ever change their views much.

Which isn’t reflected in the stock market?

Remaining with your original comment here (which I’m just trying to understand) “No wealth has ever been created in the stock market. It’s not possible.”

And the Portuguese Water Dog… in one of the most oblivious moves I’ve ever heard of, Ted Kennedy has one he named “Splash.”

Hmm… I see someone triggered one of Strowbridge’s nigh-infinite number of Pavlovian triggers and he went off on his frothing “Lee Atwater/Southern Strategy” frenzies. I hope someone kept him from swallowing or biting his tongue during his conniption…

Dragging the topic back to the original topic… it’s bullshit to judge a blog by its commenters. It’s a no-win position for the blogger; they are either censoring and oppressing dissent, or tolerating and fomenting hate.

I’ll stick to the Alan Dershowitz notion: the best answer to bad speech is more speech; let the assholes rant and rave and in general discredit themselves and their ideas, with an occasional swift kick in the rhetoric to make certain that everyone knows that the commenter in question is an asshole.

J.