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The Other Side
Originally posted at Reason.com (via Richmond Times-Dispatch),
The past several weeks have made one thing crystal-clear: Our country faces unmitigated disaster if the Other Side wins.
No reasonably intelligent person can deny this. All you have to do is look at the way the Other Side has been running its campaign. Instead of focusing on the big issues that are important to the American People, it has fired a relentlessly negative barrage of distortions, misrepresentations, and flat-out lies.
Just look at the Other Side’s latest commercial, which take a perfectly reasonable statement by the candidate for My Side completely out of context to make it seem as if he is saying something nefarious. This just shows you how desperate the Other Side is and how willing it is to mislead the American People.
The Other Side also has been hammering away at My Side to release certain documents that have nothing to do with anything, and making all sorts of outrageous accusations about what might be in them. Meanwhile, the Other Side has stonewalled perfectly reasonable requests to release its own documents that would expose some very embarrassing details if anybody ever found out what was in them. This just shows you what a bunch of hypocrites they are.
Naturally, the media won’t report any of this. Major newspapers and cable networks jump all over anything they think will make My Side look bad. Yet they completely ignore critically important and incredibly relevant information that would be devastating to the Other Side if it could ever be verified.
I will admit the candidates for My Side do make occasional blunders. These usually happen at the end of exhausting 19-hour days and are perfectly understandable. Our leaders are only human, after all. Nevertheless, the Other Side inevitably makes a big fat deal out of these trivial gaffes, while completely ignoring its own candidates’ incredibly thoughtless and stupid remarks – remarks that reveal the Other Side’s true nature, which is genuinely frightening.
My Side has produced a visionary program that will get the economy moving, put the American People back to work, strengthen national security, return fiscal integrity to Washington, and restore our standing in the international community. What does the Other Side have to offer? Nothing but the same old disproven, discredited policies that got us into our current mess in the first place.
Don’t take my word for it, though. I recently read about an analysis by an independent, nonpartisan organization that supports My Side. It proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that everything I have been saying about the Other Side was true all along. Of course, the Other Side refuses to acknowledge any of this. It is too busy cranking out so-called studies by so-called experts who are actually nothing but partisan hacks. This just shows you that the Other Side lives in its own little echo chamber and refuses to listen to anyone who has not already drunk its Kool-Aid.
Let’s face it: The Other Side is held hostage by a radical, failed ideology. I have been doing some research on the Internet, and I have learned this ideology was developed by a very obscure but nonetheless profoundly influential writer with a strange-sounding name who enjoyed brief celebrity several decades ago. If you look carefully, you can trace nearly all the Other Side’s policies for the past half-century back to the writings of this one person.
To be sure, the Other Side also has been influenced by its powerful supporters. These include a reclusive billionaire who has funded a number of organizations far outside the political mainstream; several politicians who have said outrageous things over the years; and an alarmingly large number of completely clueless ordinary Americans who are being used as tools and don’t even know it.
These people are really pathetic, too. The other day I saw a YouTube video in which My Side sent an investigator and a cameraman to a rally being held by the Other Side, where the investigator proceeded to ask some real zingers. It was hilarious! First off, the people at the rally wore T-shirts with all kinds of lame messages that they actually thought were really clever. Plus, many of the people who were interviewed were overweight, sweaty, flushed, and generally not very attractive. But what was really funny was how stupid they were. There is no way anyone could watch that video and not come away convinced the people on My Side are smarter, and that My Side is therefore right about everything.
Besides, it’s clear that the people on the Other Side are driven by mindless anger – unlike My Side, which is filled with passionate idealism and righteous indignation. That indignation, I hasten to add, is entirely justified. I have read several articles in publications that support My Side that expose what a truly dangerous group the Other Side is, and how thoroughly committed it is to imposing its radical, failed agenda on the rest of us.
That is why I believe 2012 is, without a doubt, the defining election of our lifetime. The difference between My Side and the Other Side could not be greater. That is why it absolutely must win on November 6.
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dutchpt WEAK! Every Z-H'er spends some time in the barrel! Here's a freebie. ;-]
If you're too young to remember 1969 thru 1981, ask someone u trust.
If you were there recall the politician's responses.
It was a time of Stagflation. That word will be used soon, in this era.
The 'Bob Hope" generation entered their 'spend less-save more' life stage. YOUR Grandparents!
Understand that the baby-boom is in the same life-stage. YOUR Parents!
NOT ONE POLITICIAN WILL ADMIT THEY ARE HELPLESS to restart Growth! They will wait this thing out, just like before.
We must demand cuts in Government spending, to match cuts in REVENUE.
Each year, I am moving 401-K money into Roth-IRA accounts. Since I'm not working, foreigners are, there is NO tax cost!
I WILL HAVE LOTS OF TAX FREE INCOME, for the rest of my children's lives!
SO CAN YOU!
Think, Think, Think!
The other side drank all my Vodka.
I'm not a vodka drinker but I will gladly share a shot or two of Crown.
One side has marx on their mind and the other doesn't. What is so hard to consider when making a choice?
Both sides are a fucking lie. I'm tired of living a lie. I want one ... Just one person in politics to be honest. As long as we vote for the lesser of two evils we contribute to the lie an I will not participate! You hear me? I will not fucking participate! We as people deserve better than the lesser of two evils! Our kids deserve better than the lesser if two evils . I'm tired of it! And I will not!... not...participate in the lie any longer. I am voting for person "C" the other two choices be damned.
Been rolling since 4:50 this morning, going to get up early again, go for a bike ride, swim, jog, lift some weights, have breakfast with some friends and do some visiting, shoot some trap. I love the smell of gunpowder on my hands.
Then I will get together with my lady and give her a big hug, play some guitar, work on my plan for world conquest and domination which consists mostly of living and loving the good life, trying to understand WTF is going on without getting freaked out and tuning out the BS.
That's my side.
fare well and prosper.
I would pronounce this "election" DOA. It's not like there was ever a true majority of Americans who voted one way or the other. But judging by the comments here, I'd say Americans are AWAKE more than ever and basically have come to conclude that THEY DON'T GIVE A RATS ASS because it DOES NOT MATTER one way or the other.
But it makes for crappy entertainment and lots and lots of completely redundant discussions and wasted energy. Not to mention wasted finances.
Please, someone have the balls and TAKE THIS COUNTRY OVER. I just might follow any real DEAR LEADER who puts an end to this farce of a democracy and puts the bankers and their affiliate lawyers in jail. Then we can START from scratch.
"someone have the balls and TAKE THIS COUNTRY OVER"
The country was taken over, we need it back and these political parties don't have a ball between them all (plenty of nuts to go around in each party... just no balls) ... all it would take is doing the right thing once and for all and bring justice back. The people would go wild seeing corrupt bankers getting justice served to them, not with bullets but with financial destruction to them personally (finally) with a lengthy jail sentence ... the opportunity would fraught with dangers of the bankers trying to ruin as much as possible before they get sent away ... alas I dream of justice.
AssFire Every time I beat the SHIT out of my alarm(clock), to trade Europe, in the middle of the night, I think of you!
Don't tell me you haven't!
Something is going on...
http://www.silverdoctors.com/germany-returning-to-deutsche-mark-e-sculpt...
" A massive € sculpture (identical to the one in front of the European Central Bank) was dismantled and removed from the Frankfurt International Airport in Germany Thursday. The official explanation is ‘the plastic parts are getting weak after 11 years and the terminal needed the space."
I really do think this country needs a Joe Biden / Hank Johnson ticket,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRXH7RkCZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
Every lousy election since Clinton has been "the election of our lifetime" fucking liars.
Dr. Engali you are honest (1) Honest people can smell each other.
Election of our lifetime? What election? It ain't happening. Instead, the MASS ARRESTS and the restoration of the Constitution are coming... sure as the sun will cross the sky, they are coming... http://tinyurl.com/cd5cyjo/
Johnny Reb--Pls cut to the chase wrt that video. Nearly two hours? Gave it two minutes and they had not said a single coherent thing. What is the import of that video to this discussion? Thanks in advance for the summary and insights.
Corzine for President! When duty calls, shit happens...
I'm voting for the other side that is not currently actively trying to crash the economy on purpose. Obama has clearly shown us what he wants to do.
I'm voting for the choir boys who have the best chance of rebuilding a country post-collapse that would be still be recognizable. Remember Obama's close pal, Bill Ayers, already has said he was willing to murder 25 million Americans who could not be 're-educated'. Any alternative to that seems like a good thing.
As for the phoney 'war against women' fear mongering...
A former Obama female voter, 36 yo accountant with masters degree, said this: I worked hard to have a family, home, and career and I aalready make most of the family decisions. I have everything, but it's at risk. Now, Obama comes along and says he's going to protect a women's right to choose. CHOOSE WHAT? He and a bunch of bureaucrats want to tell me and my family what to eat, what light bulbs to use, what car to drive, how much I can earn, what doctor we all must go to, what treatments my kids get -- with no recourse, and what drivel they're taught in school... and the list just never ends... and never will! Barack and Michelle Obama can get their damn Gucci shoes the hell out of my refrigerator. I'd rather be 8 months pregnant with a wife beater, at least I could still kick his ass out and choose to do what I want.
I still have my voter regitration card from my old neighborhood. Since the registrar doesn't give a damn I will spend my day voting for Ron Paul in two precients. The Decocratic Precinct has few voting machines, very long lines and I might be able to fight the crowds and the two, broken most of the time, voting machines to cast my vote ;in the Democratic precinct after waiting in lines around the block. I will be lucky to cast my vote in three hours time.
Then I will glide into my new, Republican, voting precinct with the plethora of multi functional voting machines and cast my vote in mere minutes while the valet waits by my car while I quickly cast my ballot.
Democrat: 1000 voters, one machine that works and , always, one broken.
Republican: 1 voter, two fully functional machines.
I know since I live, and voted, in the ghetto for 15 years.
If you get the polygamist elected you will get what you deserve.
At least the President stays on, perpetual, family vacation and lets the Khazars run the country; into the ground, while he racks up the miles on AF-1. I can't say I blame him. He couldn't do diddly-squat without getting his head blown off so it is better that he stay on his, hopefully, eight year ,family world tour while Wall Street rips the economy in shreds.
I talked to my sister about the financial crisis in 2007 and she said: I am glad I pissed my earnings away having a good time seeing the places I wanted to see and enjoying myself instead of worrying about my future.
I thought she quite insane at the moment but, now appreciate her wisdom.
Yep. Bad times. New video of NSA whistleblower William Binney.
The guy gets raided by the FBI..lots of stuff..
http://mlatrader.com/?p=20
Lay off the " Miami Vice" TUBS. Z/H has you covered. If you want to play+ scarface?
JJSF
Brilliant short film. Never thought I would find anything offered by the NYT worth the time of day, but this one certainly is.
The time to short Gold back to 1630 is here.
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Gold/xau is valued in (usd) The dxy is short term ( over bought) However the daily chart looks promising.
Man I'm getting old/ retarded. Time to sky.dive again!
Right, we are on the wrong side.
(should be Our Side, not My side)
we are inclusive here.
There are bad times just around the corner
America gets the leaders it deserves.
Correct.
Once again: Anyone who votes for a Democrat or a Republican is PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Then you have just committed your vote, your support, and your life to Obama. Good luck with that.
LOL...IT DOESN'T MATTER! What don't you get about that concept? What strange impulse compels you to continue pulling the lever for either a Republican or a Democrat, year after year after year, and then expecting a different result? Do you ENJOY getting spit on and laughed at? Are you a robot? A mental deficient? What exactly is your excuse?
It doesn't matter what side is in office. As long as the central banks exists they still win.
This is just pathetic stuff:
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IMF advises delaying austerity until growth returns
Cutting government spending in a crisis will condemn a country to an even deeper recession and inflict “permanent” damage on the economy, the International Monetary Fund has warned.
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne
By Philip Aldrick, Economics Editor - The Telegraph
4:49PM BST 24 Aug 2012
In a paper that will only add to the pressure on the Chancellor, the Bretton Woods institution urged governments to delay austerity until growth returns or – if a delay was not possible – to shift the burden of any programme on to higher taxes and larger benefit cuts.
The IMF study emerged as official figures showed that the recession in the UK had not been as deep as previously feared. GDP contracted by 0.5pc in the three months to June, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), less than the 0.7pc decline initially estimated.
Stripping out the effect of the extra day’s bank holiday for the Diamond Jubilee, the economy stagnated – with growth over the three months estimated at zero.
The IMF paper echoed recent findings by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research that austerity causes more harm in recessions than at times of growth. “If you diet when you are sick, you’ll probably get a lot sicker,” Nicoletta Batini, one of the authors of the IMF report, told the BBC.
She added that every £1 cut from spending in periods of economic strength might reduce national income by 50p “but if you do it at a bad time, it could be £2 or even more than £2 permanently”.
The report, which did not examine the UK situation but focused on the US, Europe and Japan, was an attempt to identify the best pace and structure of fiscal consolidation. While recommending waiting if possible, it accepted that some countries had no choice but to cut their debts.
In that case, the IMF said: “If consolidations need to be implemented during downturns, they should prioritise increases in net taxes.” It defined “net taxes” as both increases in tax and reductions in benefits. By switching the emphasis of the cuts, she said, governments could maintain infrastructure spending.
[code for weapons programs]
“These are painful decisions. But abandoning productive programmes destroys jobs while higher [net] taxes do not – at least in the short term,” she said.
Roughly 40pc of George Osborne’s £123bn consolidation plan is scheduled to come from tax rises, benefit cuts, and lower debt interest costs, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The Government is thought to be examining plans for further benefit cuts to redirect the money into infrastructure such as council housing.
[i.e. Soviet-style appartments blocks]
Last month, the IMF warned the Chancellor he should relax his austerity programme in next March’s Budget if the outlook has worsened. However, the institution has so far been supportive of the UK policy mix.
The ONS’s decision to revise up its estimate for UK growth failed to restore much confidence in the outlook. The detail provided “further evidence that the purported rebalancing of the UK economy is coming at the expense of growth”, Andrew Benito, a UK economist at Goldman Sachs, said. Net trade deducted 1 percentage point from growth while consumer spending sliced 0.3 percentage points off output.
Steven Bryce, a Credit Suisse economist, said: “This is in line with our view that the UK is currently stagnating rather than contracting.”
Most economists now expect the UK economy to contract this year and for the Bank of England to respond with more stimulus measures. Martin Weale, a Bank ratesetter, said he favoured an interest rate cut over more quantitative easing, if it could be proved rate cuts did not put banks in difficulty.
“If it were clear that the interest rate could be reduced ... without finding some banks got themselves into a position where they had to reduce lending because of the effects of an interest rate cut on their profits, I think I would probably prefer that to more QE, if I was choosing between them,” he told The Herald.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9497849/IMF-advises-delayin...
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A N Y T H I N G is possible when it comes to maintaining bankster 'profits' [bonuses].
To hell with those low-life taxpayers though, we need to whip them harder!
I applaud the writer of this article for exposing all the Trolls on this site. It will be interesting to see how many of you Trolls still exist on this site after the general fraud.
Happens every election cycle at every forum. Then all your extra income dries up and so does your "honest and non-biased" candidate support.
Huh?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/aug/24/dan-rather-gary-younge...
Dan Rather talks about the concentration of the American news media, the violation of the public trust, and the transformation of the party conventions into 'wind festivals of nothingness'
Good grief. Dan Rather? Dan Rather? Oh my, do you have a frickin' clue? Dan Rather was one of the monsters who brought about the shift of the MSM into a Democrat Party propaganda machine. He violated the public trust every frickin' night when he was the talking head at CBS. He has ZERO credibility.
Thats pretty much exactly what he says in the video.
This is the problem, as akak wrote:
"Voting for Obama = Voting for Romney = Voting for Obama = Voting for Romney."
But that is simply incorrect. Any adult who cannot see a difference is either insane or is part of the Obama bootlicking campaign. Romney is not the man I would want to run for President if I had a choice. But as between deliberate, intentional evil (i.e., Obama's collectivism and Statism is only a few small degrees from genuine Fascism/Marxism which, in the end, are both simply totalitarianism) and misguided but benignly intended policies on many, if not most, issues, I will take the latter.
Some knucklehead above wrote that voting for Romney under these circumstances is moral cowardice. Laughable, were it not for the sad truth behind it that Obama has won the poor saps head, heart, and soul.
Again, a failure to vote is a vote for Obama AND EVERYTHING HE HAS DONE, STANDS FOR, AND WILL DO. I know that I cannot live with all of that blood on my conscience. How about you?
Write-in Ron Paul. Send a message to the RNC. He won't win but at least the Republicans will get the message. Also, I suggest taking all your money out of the bank. Buy PM's and lots of guns/ammo. Food for 6-9 mmonths is a good idea. After that, I'll see you in the free lunch line.
Well, there's one more vote for Obama. Good luck with the blood on your hands, you poor sap.
However this resolves, the joke will continue to be on the US taxpayer. We'll all be hiding out in caves one day with canned goods and a shotgun. I occasionally lament about how our young children won't have much of a future. Till such time, at least they can take up interesting pastimes, like starting a time consuming blog to express their feelings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZnPsopnJNw
Music video by Kathy Mattea performing I'm On Your Side. (C) 1997 Mercury Records
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I'm On Your Side - Jim Lauderdale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prIrkfcBbt8
Well the only possible good thing I can think about the collapse is 99% of us will be in the same boat.
i think you nailed it and that is the point
and the lesson. well said
People should really be considering voting on themselves; why so much endless welfare? Because so many of us want welfare. The exoskeleton of this culture is riddled with political freaks, thieves, whores... b/c the core of this culture is significantly infested with moochers & parasites.
I am 50/50 on whether we are going to experience the ZH "zombie apocalypse." The U.S. has weathered worse storms (try 4 years of Lincoln's War, for starters). I am certain that if the 99% of ZH posters are right about TPTB, it is not in the interest of those powers that our entire society falls apart. Seriously, our society is what granted them or sustained them in power. So, if they are all-powerful, why let it all collapse?
So they can provide the puppet with the "solution".
“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”
- Milton Friedman