Not sarcastic. Not especially kind. Just trying to bring News Reference up to speed. Newsy hasn’t been coming around here very long. He hasn’t been witness to some of the epic battles we long timers have seen.

And that’s just a short list of Republican incompetence at the highest levels of government.

The erosion of meritocracy is perfectly illustrated by what the Republican Party has degenerated into.

And who is “Amused Observer” obliquely indicting with his flippant “eroding meritocracy” comment?

A Democratic appointee that graduated from Princeton “with highest distinction” (summa cum laude) and has an exceptionally distinguished resume.

You’re very kind, “Quaker”, it’s a commendable liberal trait.

But I’m an independent with a conservative streak and don’t have much patience for toxic crazy people.

Toxic is the key word. If “Frank” were just crazy he wouldn’t be worth commenting on.

And if “Frank” were capable of learning it would be different as well.

But right winger “Frank” is not capable of learning. He starts with a false right wing premise and like a rabid dog he just can’t let his false beliefs go despite mountains of evidence. When his false beliefs are confronted he quibbles over nonsense or changes the subject or flat out ignores the evidence.

He’s a babbling idiot who uses Alice in Wonderland Red Queen illogic.

Take just this one sentence from babbling right wing idiot “Frank DiSalle”:
“Hispanic is a term white people made up.”

Good lord, “white people” is a term “white people made up.”

Talking to someone too stupid or crazy to understand how arbitrary the term “white people” is when he’s complaining about the term “Hispanic” is beyond my patience.

And who is “Frank’s” authority on the term Hispanic? His ex-wife!

And which authority did “Frank” dismiss regarding the term Hispanic? The US Census!

LOL!-)

Right winger “Frank DiSalle” is a nut.

You have my prayers, “Quaker”, in trying to reason with a toxic crazy person incapable of learning.

That’s an oversimplification, Newsy. Mr. DiSalle has been a regular here, off and on, for several years. He is a complex personality.

Right winger “Frank DiSalle” is clearly a little nuts but his argumentation style is a Classic Right Wing Con.

He’s ill informed, he makes stuff up, he asserts falsehoods as fact, and even after all of that is repeatedly revealed he expects to be taken seriously.

Don’t know much about women, huh, Frank?

Hallucinating again, AO?

What do you mean, “if”? They don’t matter at all to me right now. Will she make a good Supreme Court justice or not?

I don’t think careful parsing of 32 words from a single speech is a smart way to figure it out.

No, liberals “don’t judge incompetent right-wing minorities by the color of the skin instead of the content of their character.” But they do judge all minority Republicans and / or conservatives as “not counting” when appointed by Republican Executives to important posts.
Which non-white Supreme Court Justice rose up out of grinding poverty to become a Supreme Court Justice ?

Judge Sotomayor…

Clarence Thomas? Who’s he ?

The first black woman to be Secretary of State ?

Sorry, Albright gets the women’s check mark; Powell gets the black man’s .

Condoleezza Rice ? Who’s she ?

Ummm… I’m sorry that liberals don’t judge incompetent right-wing minorities by the color of the skin instead of the content of their character. I realize that’s been a problem for you for a while now.

Don’t really have anything to say about your other “Hispanics aren’t real” stuff. You’re just batshit there.

No, I am not…

And neither was Joaquin.

His point, and mine, is that, lots of people , like myself, couldn’t care less that Judge Sotomayor is Hispanic or female. There are far more important things than arroz con pollo and habichuelas

The following points, though, are interesting:

1) Hispanic is a term white people made up. The Judge is a Puerto Rican, or perhaps a NewYorican. Based on my ex wife’s experience (born of Puerto Rican parents in the South Bronx) Dominicans dislike Puerto Ricans for the most part, and Mexicans don’t like “Hispanics” that don’t speak Spanish;

2) Women sought equality with men for years, and while they now claim they haven’t achieved it yet, they now claim superiority;
and, finally

3) Her ethnic origins and gender wouldn’t be worth a hill of beans to you liberals, if she were pro-life, anti-gun control, and opposed to affirmative action.

It is also used as a rational for eroding meritocracy in educational admissions and occupational hiring decisions. As the obvious injustices of racial discrimination mandated as affirmative action have been outlawed across the nation by the votes of Americans a new concept has gained favor. Diversity, which is a code word for mandating quotas. The idea that every institution should look like America. That is all well and good until you run into the stone wall of meritocracy. To achieve “diversity” without subjective choice or set asides is difficult.

North Korea went nuclear under Republican President Bush’s watch.

Iran is a problem going back to Republican President Eisenhower’s interference with Iran’s democratic election in favor of Republican Eisenhower’s favored right wing dictator. The blowback from Republican Eisenhower’s interference was the rise of Islamic Iran.

Israel keeps taking land from fanatics that are angry about their land being taken and then Israel blames the predictable reactions of fanatics that Israeli actions keep provoking. I keep reading Israeli’s saying ‘it’s not about the land’, well, then give back the land taken since 1967.

The US is going broke because three consecutive Republican Presidents increased the US debt. Republican Reagan more than DOUBLED the US debt, between Republicans Reagan and Bush 1 they more than QUADRUPLED the US debt, and Republican Bush 2 more than DOUBLED the US debt again once all of the charges he put on America’s credit card is added up.

GM is filing for bankruptcy because right wing economic ideology betrayed America’s manufacturing base to foreign interests.

Unemployment is skyrocketing because right wing ideology betrayed American workers to foreign interests.

A VAT is being talked about to cover all of the debts that the last three Republican Presidents incurred when they were in charge.

“The Chinese are wondering how their investment in US treasuries is working out” because the consequences of 30 years of right wing economic voodoo of borrowing instead of taxing is finally rearing it’s ugly head.

“The dollar is” having challenges because of the same 30 years of right wing economic voodoo.

It would be interesting to know how much Obama really understands of right winger’s “Clinton Rules”, rules that include not just constant absurd attacks by the right on the left, but also the bizarre capacity of right wingers to forget and even rewrite history and assign what has been forged in the last 30 years of Conservative ascendancy to anyone else but the right wing architects that created most of the current circumstances.

Instead of owning up to the results of right wing policies, right wingers literally rewrite history.

Right wingers rewriting history and then marketing that fiction is the only power the right wing has.

It’s bad enough when the neo-con-artists are spewing fictions but then suckers like “Jay” come in and list a trio of Republican war criminals as somehow representing right wing diversity.

Right wing diversity in what? Exactly? The fact that Republican President Bush had a rainbow coalition of war criminals backing him?