Comments on: Pennies From Heaven http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:35:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: The Mahablog » Legacies http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-313738 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:01:05 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-313738 [...] And for the most part it’s not American citizens who dissolve into twitches of apoplexy at the mention of raising taxes. It’s the Bush Administration. And why is that, you ask? Paul Krugman dropped a hint in his column today: Here’s how Irving Kristol, then the editor of The Public Interest, explained his embrace of supply-side economics in the 1970s: He had a “rather cavalier attitude toward the budget deficit and other monetary or fiscal problems” because “the task, as I saw it, was to create a new majority, which evidently would mean a conservative majority, which came to mean, in turn, a Republican majority — so political effectiveness was the priority, not the accounting deficiencies of government.” [...] […] And for the most part it’s not American citizens who dissolve into twitches of apoplexy at the mention of raising taxes. It’s the Bush Administration. And why is that, you ask? Paul Krugman dropped a hint in his column today: Here’s how Irving Kristol, then the editor of The Public Interest, explained his embrace of supply-side economics in the 1970s: He had a “rather cavalier attitude toward the budget deficit and other monetary or fiscal problems” because “the task, as I saw it, was to create a new majority, which evidently would mean a conservative majority, which came to mean, in turn, a Republican majority — so political effectiveness was the priority, not the accounting deficiencies of government.” […]

]]> by: maha http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-313349 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:09:18 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-313349 <i>maha wants to believe in a wonderful tooth-fairy</i> You've just been declared an official illiterate idiot. maha wants to believe in a wonderful tooth-fairy

You’ve just been declared an official illiterate idiot.

]]> by: Art James (clownsense etc) http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-313303 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:51:54 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-313303 This is true. A dear friend of mine is a yard-sale stopper. Also: If she has read about a wood-tool auction she tells me. Once I went to a auction with her (rare, I don't hoard 'junk' that may be someone else's gold treasure) and bid on old wood-chisels. Michele is as rare and as precious of a gold-jewel. One is blessed to find a valuable friend. One can find One on Earth without digging and panning in a creek for gold-nuggets. Honest. *She has old-gold-teeth in a brown card-board box she once got at a auction of grab-bag miscellaneous 'stuff' considered junk by most human's standards. You know- the card-board box has old-rubber hair-curlers in it? Pink. Who rolls the hair-up at night anymore? Not Michele. She gathers clumps of Burdock root for tea. Honest. You'll even have to help Michel get thistle-burrs out of her hair some days. I'll have her read you. However, I always tell her to remain apolitical and today I'll tell her to never bid on a crate of Beech Tree Root shampoo. okay? No I won't. I ask her to never listen to the news. I'll ask this rare-find of a precious garden-partner to put her gold teeth under the purple-wand herb pillow because maha wants to believe in a wonderful tooth-fairy. Thanks maha. I hope Michele never ever-ever begins to read Glenn Greenwald. That would be the end of the world for me. She's been as angry as a beautiful gal can get. A "Glenn-the-Blogger"? A-humph. Huff. She no even know GG. Oh-Angry. Poor Glenn. I guess Michele has a few Burdock burrs under the long red-ear mule saddle? Probably so... This is true.
A dear friend of mine is a yard-sale stopper. Also: If she has read about a wood-tool auction she tells me. Once I went to a auction with her (rare, I don’t hoard ‘junk’ that may be someone else’s gold treasure) and bid on old wood-chisels.
Michele is as rare and as precious of a gold-jewel. One is blessed to find a valuable friend. One can find One on Earth without digging and panning in a creek for gold-nuggets.
Honest.
*She has old-gold-teeth in a brown card-board box she once got at a auction of grab-bag miscellaneous ’stuff’ considered junk by most human’s standards.
You know- the card-board box has old-rubber hair-curlers in it?
Pink.
Who rolls the hair-up at night anymore? Not Michele. She gathers clumps of Burdock root for tea.
Honest.
You’ll even have to help Michel get thistle-burrs out of her hair some days.
I’ll have her read you. However, I always tell her to remain apolitical and today I’ll tell her to never bid on a crate of Beech Tree Root shampoo.
okay?
No I won’t.
I ask her to never listen to the news. I’ll ask this rare-find of a precious garden-partner to put her gold teeth under the purple-wand herb pillow because maha wants to believe in a wonderful tooth-fairy.
Thanks maha.
I hope Michele never ever-ever begins to read Glenn Greenwald. That would be the end of the world for me. She’s been as angry as a beautiful gal can get. A “Glenn-the-Blogger”? A-humph. Huff. She no even know GG.
Oh-Angry. Poor Glenn.
I guess Michele has a few Burdock burrs under the long red-ear mule saddle?
Probably so…

]]> by: PFT http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-312743 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:27:43 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-312743 Now as the Bush tenure is winding down, it's time for fiscal responsibility. Just like when the Republicans lost control of the House and Senate, it was time to do something about those earmarks. To be fair, maybe the last 6 years has been a result of a pandemic viral infection. Too bad for the 1 million Iraqi dead and 4 million displaced, but it's not our fault, we were just sick and did not know any better. Friedman may have recovered, showing those infected can be cured, hopefully others will as well. Maybe we can name the virus after Baghdad Bob. Tom is a BBV survivor. The cynic in me thinks that Friedman has just taken leave of his participation in the mass media madness that made even Baghdad Bob sound credible, and has chosen to return to humanity and credibility for a while to remember what it was like. Maybe he knows what is to come (Iran +) will be the death of humanity and the truth as we know it. Kind of like saying good bye to an old friend whose time has come. Tom saying Good Bye America. The conspiracist in me hopes that there has been a regime change in the shadow government that dictates policy to the corporate media and public government puppets. Maybe they had a touch of the virus and recovered as well. Tom is now off his leash, and a recovered Baghdad Bobber to boot. . Now as the Bush tenure is winding down, it’s time for fiscal responsibility. Just like when the Republicans lost control of the House and Senate, it was time to do something about those earmarks.

To be fair, maybe the last 6 years has been a result of a pandemic viral infection. Too bad for the 1 million Iraqi dead and 4 million displaced, but it’s not our fault, we were just sick and did not know any better. Friedman may have recovered, showing those infected can be cured, hopefully others will as well. Maybe we can name the virus after Baghdad Bob. Tom is a BBV survivor.

The cynic in me thinks that Friedman has just taken leave of his participation in the mass media madness that made even Baghdad Bob sound credible, and has chosen to return to humanity and credibility for a while to remember what it was like. Maybe he knows what is to come (Iran +) will be the death of humanity and the truth as we know it. Kind of like saying good bye to an old friend whose time has come. Tom saying Good Bye America.

The conspiracist in me hopes that there has been a regime change in the shadow government that dictates policy to the corporate media and public government puppets. Maybe they had a touch of the virus and recovered as well. Tom is now off his leash, and a recovered Baghdad Bobber to boot. .

]]> by: c u n d gulag http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-312451 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:49:29 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-312451 Where were you for the last 6 + year;s, Tom? OK, I am now truly speachless; All I can say is this: ARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!! Where were you for the last 6 + year;s, Tom?
OK, I am now truly speachless;
All I can say is this: ARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-312420 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:37:36 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-312420 Why raise taxes when we have our children and grandchildren to pick up the tab? Or better yet..Why worry about what the war in Iraq costs when your daddy owns the cattle on a thousand hills. Why raise taxes when we have our children and grandchildren to pick up the tab?

Or better yet..Why worry about what the war in Iraq costs when your daddy owns the cattle on a thousand hills.

]]> by: idlemind http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-312304 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:28:18 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-312304 What do you mean, Europeans are doing better? Our CEO's are paid much better than theirs! What do you mean, Europeans are doing better? Our CEO’s are paid much better than theirs!

]]> by: Bonnie http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-312030 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:31:39 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-312030 Off topic: For those in a different time zone, be sure and catch the 60-minute interview of Bruce Springsteen. It' really good. Off topic: For those in a different time zone, be sure and catch the 60-minute interview of Bruce Springsteen. It’ really good.

]]> by: Bonnie http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-312001 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:44:33 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-312001 Maybe it's because he is no longer behind a firewall . . . Maybe it’s because he is no longer behind a firewall . . .

]]> by: biggerbox http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-311864 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:50:49 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/10/07/pennies-from-heaven/#comment-311864 Golly, I might have to start reading Friedman again. It's almost like he's finally gotten around to reading what progressives have been saying for the last 3 or 4 years now. There's a certain endearing charm to reading someone who has an air of fresh outrage at the nonsense from the White House. Imagine, the spokesperson spouts nonsense! Mind-boggling, how they really think they can pay for a war while cutting taxes! It's crazy! The country will go to hell in a handbasket! Yes, Tom. Exactly. So glad you were finally able to join us. Were you stuck in traffic? Would it be too catty for me to suggest that Tom should look for the Administration to have a sensible tax policy in, say, 'about six months'? Golly, I might have to start reading Friedman again. It’s almost like he’s finally gotten around to reading what progressives have been saying for the last 3 or 4 years now.

There’s a certain endearing charm to reading someone who has an air of fresh outrage at the nonsense from the White House. Imagine, the spokesperson spouts nonsense! Mind-boggling, how they really think they can pay for a war while cutting taxes! It’s crazy! The country will go to hell in a handbasket!

Yes, Tom. Exactly. So glad you were finally able to join us. Were you stuck in traffic?

Would it be too catty for me to suggest that Tom should look for the Administration to have a sensible tax policy in, say, ‘about six months’?

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