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   dtroutma said, almost 4 years ago

   Swastika city, that is THEIR “heritage” dream.
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   braindead08 said, almost 4 years ago

   ^Rush is featured on their home page. How much more independent can you get?
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   Kingoswald said, almost 4 years ago

   Best to keep all the ferrets in the one cage, where you can keep an eye on them …
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   NebulousRikulau said, almost 4 years ago

   Wasn’t the Heritage Foundation the group that said that the Individual Mandate was the right way to go for a National Health Plan?
   Right up until a Democrat implemented it?
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   ARodney said, almost 4 years ago

   The Heritage Foundation is where the conservative idea of a health insurance mandate came from, as a private sector alternative to socialized medicine. Now that they’ve pretty much killed socialized medicine as an option, they call their own idea “socialized medicine.” One columnist referred to DeMint leading the Heritage Foundation as the perfect move for the first post-thought think tank.
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   Respectful Troll said, almost 4 years ago

   The Heritage Foundation is also where Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife has worked in her support of conservative issues. A report I just read to confirm this said she made over 650k over a five year period. Some of these issues were reviewed by SCOTUS and Justice Thomas has not recused himself from any of them, despite his wife being paid to defend them by Heritage.
   While the mission statement of HF is noble, and they have pursued issues upon which I agreed, in recent times they have become a lobbyist arm for some of the most conservative members of the Rep party.
   But if ends justify means, then Mr. DeMint has ‘won’ the game, and will recieve the paycheck to prove it.
   Sadly,
   C.
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   Simon_Jester said, almost 4 years ago

   If you’re gonna wave a steak in a pit-bull’s face, don’t sart crying when he lunges at you
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   Simon_Jester said, almost 4 years ago

   I wonder how long it’s gonna take the righties to suddenly decide that Jim DeMint is a RINO…and good riddance.
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   Simon_Jester said, almost 4 years ago

   Couple of questions

   []:

   How many Repubs raised a protest when the Japanese Americans were interned during World War II?

   How nany of them raised a protest when Congress voted to pay them COMPENSATION for their internment?

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   As for the Nazis. here’s how Hitler himself defined Socialism.
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   “Whoever is prepared to make the national cause his own to such an extent that he knows no higher ideal than the welfare of his nation; whoever has understood our great national anthem, Deutschland, Deutschland, über Alles, to mean that nothing in the wide world surpasses in his eyes this Germany, people and land, land and people — that man is a Socialist.”
   []
   Change ‘Deutschland, über Alles’ to, The Pledge of Allegiance and by that definition, the TEA PARTY is Socialist
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    lonecat said, almost 4 years ago

    That’s very interesting. I will reread it and ponder. A couple of immediate thoughts.
    First, a lot of political labels have been so badly tortured over the years that they no longer mean what they used to mean and sometimes mean nothing. Second, a number of these points (but not all) would also apply to Stalinism, in practice if not in theory. Third, the kind of socialism I was brought up in was fundamentally internationalist and anti-racist. (Also anti-Stalinist, by the way.) WWI was the first real test for socialist internationalism, and by and large socialists failed the test.
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    DOGLADY1 said, almost 4 years ago

    Morin – MORON!
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    Simon_Jester said, almost 4 years ago

    @DOGLADY1

    Doglady, you got a minute? I have something to tell you, something that’s gonna hurt, but it’’s for your own good..

    All right, are you sitting down?

    Okay, brace yourself.

    Here it comes.

    You’re NOT the first person to make that joke.
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    Ketira shena Pretarasedrin said, almost 4 years ago

    @DOGLADY1

    …and to continue Simon_Jester’s tirade:
    Besides, female dog, if he’s such a moron, why & how did he win a Pulitzer?
    .
    I have been reading Morin’s work for years, and have found him always hitting the mark of the subjects he draws about. He doesn’t care whether his audience is Democrat or Republican or whatever; he only cares to make people THINK.
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    Cinci Steve said, almost 4 years ago

    But the Lefties think Media Matters is a great organization.
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    Respectful Troll said, almost 4 years ago

    @Masterskrain & @Sharuniboy,
    Excellent insights.
    Another of our eloquent commentators quoted Mussolini, a famous Fascist, as saying Fascism is better described as corporatism, however, my research shows that quote was an english translation of an italian newspaper & not totally accurate, but this was interesting.
    “The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and usefu [sic] [typo-should be: useful] instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.
    State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management. (pp. 135-136)
    Benito Mussolini, 1935, Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions, Rome: ‘Ardita’ Publishers.”
    I’m not making a statement with this, but it does show what a “professional” fascist might have said to some of the comments here.
    Respectfully,
    & Happy Holidayze,
    C.
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