Jim Morin by Jim Morin

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  1. toasteroven

    toasteroven said, 2 months ago

    And then they were both devoured by the slavering demon dog. The moral? Don’t buy your pets directly from the Dark One.

    Oh, and also “the recessions”.

  2. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Jobless Recovery = an Orwellian term not coined by George Orwell, yet entirely within the spirit of his famous novel. “1984.” Pure doublethink.

    Remember, kids: He who controls trhe present controls the future. Also, freedom is slavery!

    Or, to quote Barak Osama: “The US Constitution is more than anything else a Bill of Negative Rights.”

  3. Kingoswald

    KingoswaldGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    George Orwell? You mean the famous English Socialist writer? Fan of his, are you, sf?

  4. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Yes. I am. We need more Socialists like George Orwell, that’s for sure. Because he was HONEST.

    That’s why Orwell is so beloved by political conservatives, dontcha see…

  5. NebulousRikulau

    NebulousRikulauGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    As opposed to GWB saying that the Constitution is just a piece of paper?

  6. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

    scottfreitas said

    Or, to quote Barack Obama: “The US Constitution is, more than anything else, a Bill of Negative Rights.”

    Which is, in fact, precisely correct.

    Life - no-one has the right to kill you (without due process).

    Liberty - no-one has the right to kill you (without due process).

    Pursuit of Happiness - if ou can catch it. it’s ypurs. and no-one can take it away.

    (BTW - i fixed your typos and mis-punctuation; i know it’s hard to type correctly when you can barely read…)

  7. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 2 months ago

    Yep - negative rights so beloved by libertarians, as in forbidding the government to do things.

  8. GNWachs

    GNWachsGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    MM Here we agree. government has only 2 positive functions to prevent force and to prevent fraud.

    Jobless recovery Everything goes up- production, advertising, stock market etc except jobs. More efficient production and it is better to lose a sale than hire someone new.

    I heard a pessimist (realist) say jobs not fully back until 2014.

  9. petergrt

    petergrt said, 2 months ago

    I recall that the term “jobless recovery” was used, perhaps for the first time, by the popular media, within the few months of GWB’s 1st election - right after he won the tax-cat for the ‘rich’.

  10. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Fairportan: yes, you’re sooo smart, lecturing me on the Constititution and then using only examples from the Declaration of Independence to support your claims.

    Barack Osama’s definition of “Negative Rights” refers to the fact that he claims the Constitution only tells you what the government CAN’T do TO you; Osama then expounds that it does not delineate what the government CAN do FOR you.

    Obvious nonsense. The Constitution lays out a detailed list of precisely those areas of society over which the Feds can exercise influence. Followed by no less than three separate Amendments (within the Bill of Rights) which specify that anything NOT included in the aforementined list belonged exclusively to the States, and to the People. The obvious implication is that the Feds cannot go beyond anything contained in that list, with only State and Local governments allowed to determine everything else.

    Obviously, Osama wipes his rear on THAT idea, behaving as though the Federal government alone has the complete and unbridled power to do anything it bloody well pleases, while paying lip service to Congress along the way.

  11. toasteroven

    toasteroven said, 2 months ago

    Sooo…

    You say you admire Orwell’s honesty, especially in regards to language, yet you consistently refer to Democrats as “Demoncrats”, and you call Obama “Osama”.

    Explain.

  12. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Scott, guess you forgot how we arrived in this recession. Amazing you can drive an auto in your state of mind. Orwell would have loved you.

  13. petergrt

    petergrt said, 2 months ago

    There is a sure way to avoid recession(s). Read Das Kapital.

  14. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 2 months ago

    scott, you seem to be awfully confident about yourself. You missed *my* comment. You also missed the fact that Obama is a Constitutional scholar. He may have used a term best understood by scholars, but it’s a legitimate one nonetheless. And you even admitted it in your backwards way. The fact that the Bill of Rights limits the power of government is, in fact, a “Negative Right,” an individual right defined in negative terms by constraints on government power.

    And BUSH is the one who believed in the Imperial Presidency, remember? Remember when he twice expressed interest in being a dictator?

  15. petergrt

    petergrt said, 2 months ago

    “And BUSH is the one who believed in the Imperial Presidency, remember? Remember when he twice expressed interest in being a dictator?”

    Are you still sucking hashish?

    And, you must be thinking about FDR, who actually had drown up articles of dissolution of the Congress of the USA.

    Or are you thinking of Woodrow Wilson’s imperial aspirations and his 150,000 political prisoners?

  16. 4uk4ata

    4uk4ata said, 2 months ago

    Well, Bush did use a lot of methods to make his presidency stronger and expand the government’s power. Remember the whole homeland surveilance thing? The executive orders and signing statements (like on the law forbidding torture)? The pooling of various intelligence, security etc agencies?.Obama may not be the perfect libertarian, but is very far from his predecessor in that regard. I hope - and for what it matters, believe - that he will stay that way. If I hear Joe Biden say something like “The president of the United States needs to have his constitutional powers unimpaired, if you will.”, I may change my opinion.

    Petergrt, you might want to have Bush jr disappear from our minds, but it won’t happen. Get over it. Bush will be held responsible for a lot of things that happened during his presidency, just like Clinton was, just like Reagan was (how the hell did he not get impeached for Iran-Contra I still don’t know), just like Carter was… and, one day, just how Obama will be.

  17. petergrt

    petergrt said, 2 months ago

    4uk4ata and motivemagus:

    WHERE IS THE BEEF!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  18. 4uk4ata

    4uk4ata said, 2 months ago

    That imo you were getting defensive and dismissed the argument just because Bush was involved, even when it is relevant.

  19. cdward

    cdward said, 2 months ago

    “And, you must be thinking about FDR, who actually had drown up articles of dissolution of the Congress of the USA.”

    Link please?

  20. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    4uk4ata, yes, the Iran Contra illegal selling/trading of arms seemed like it got a big pass …. as has some of the violations of law and constitution Bush 43 indulged in …. so the conclusion seems to be that wrongdoing by the righties is OK because it’s done for somebody’s idea of a higher purpose.

  21. Kingoswald

    KingoswaldGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    That’s why Orwell is so beloved by political conservatives, dontcha see…

    The reason they love him is because they haven’t read him. They’d get a bloody big shock if they did …

  22. Corosive Frog

    Corosive Frog said, 2 months ago

    Morin has a point here.