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When The Bleeding Heart Becomes The Iron Fist
Topic Started: Oct 7 2013, 10:31 AM (586 Views)
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ht George

"Barrycades" - we have a new word

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When The Bleeding Heart Becomes The Iron Fist

Whatever the perceived shortcomings of Ted Cruz and his hardy band of stalwarts, they've performed a remarkable public service by highlighting the fate that awaits all who rub wrongly the translucently thin skin of King Barack the Petulant. The Spartans may have had their shields, Native Americans their tomahawks and arrows, the Samurai may have wielded his sword with all the deadly grace of a tiger in mid-attack, but pound for pound, nothing comes close to the audacious stupidity of "Barrycades" and people in pointy little Smokey the Bear hats, poised to protect America's monuments from law-abiding citizens.

Welcome to liberal utopia, where barriers are not erected against terrorists or illegal aliens on our nation's borders, but rather against citizens, and where wheelchair-bound veterans enroute to honor their comrades face tighter security than terrorists enroute to murder a US Ambassador. This is where up is down, wrong is right, illegality is celebrated as progress, and where Constitutionalism is derided as racist. No longer relegated to the fever swamps of academic fancy, utopia has acquired real estate and made known its demands.


The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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As is evident from the muddled compound cliche of the title, the whole article is so stupid it's not even worth reading.

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Whatever the perceived shortcomings of Ted Cruz and his hardy band of stalwarts, they've performed a remarkable public service by highlighting the fate that awaits all who rub wrongly the translucently thin skin of King Barack the Petulant.


Is this guy even capable of thinking for himself, or does he rely on pop culture Mad Libs to get through his discourse? Translucence has nothing to do with thickness, and you don't rub skin the wrong way, you rub fur or a mane the wrong way.

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The Spartans may have had their shields, Native Americans their tomahawks and arrows, the Samurai may have wielded his sword with all the deadly grace of a tiger in mid-attack, but pound for pound, nothing comes close to the audacious stupidity of "Barrycades" and people in pointy little Smokey the Bear hats, poised to protect America's monuments from law-abiding citizens.


Basically what this guy is saying is that "Spartan shields, blah blah and these other examples were stupid, sure, but Barrycades are really stupid." What he wants to say is that "these guys had very good tools of conflict, but all Barry has are these park rangers," but he doesn't know how.

He also clearly doesn't understand the situation. Yes, closing down the monuments sucks. Everyone agrees with that, and if this jackass even bothered reading about it, park rangers are just as pissed about what they have to do as everybody else. These people have likely had their jobs before Obama was even president, and have nothing at all to do with the administration. They're in a hard spot of either listening to their superiors or getting fired. What the hell does this guy expect them to do?

I stopped reading here. There's no point going any further.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Oct 7 2013, 10:45 AM

I stopped reading here. There's no point going any further.

"Barrycades" was enough for me, the rest was filler.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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The Ricochet.com readers are certainly all over it.

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I can't even imagine what the current situation looks like from his echo chamber.
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I'm still waiting for some true investigative journalism. I've seen a supposed quote from a park ranger saying they were told to "make it hurt", but I really doubt this would be communicated to the rank and file. I've also heard stories of closures at parks that are privately owned and run by non-Governmental employees, but figure there is a side to the story we are not being told. But really, closing parks and buildings I can understand, but open air public spaces like the WWII Memorial? Just seems petty.
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Oct 7 2013, 10:45 AM
As is evident from the muddled compound cliche of the title, the whole article is so stupid it's not even worth reading.

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Whatever the perceived shortcomings of Ted Cruz and his hardy band of stalwarts, they've performed a remarkable public service by highlighting the fate that awaits all who rub wrongly the translucently thin skin of King Barack the Petulant.


Is this guy even capable of thinking for himself, or does he rely on pop culture Mad Libs to get through his discourse? Translucence has nothing to do with thickness, and you don't rub skin the wrong way, you rub fur or a mane the wrong way.

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The Spartans may have had their shields, Native Americans their tomahawks and arrows, the Samurai may have wielded his sword with all the deadly grace of a tiger in mid-attack, but pound for pound, nothing comes close to the audacious stupidity of "Barrycades" and people in pointy little Smokey the Bear hats, poised to protect America's monuments from law-abiding citizens.


Basically what this guy is saying is that "Spartan shields, blah blah and these other examples were stupid, sure, but Barrycades are really stupid." What he wants to say is that "these guys had very good tools of conflict, but all Barry has are these park rangers," but he doesn't know how.

He also clearly doesn't understand the situation. Yes, closing down the monuments sucks. Everyone agrees with that, and if this jackass even bothered reading about it, park rangers are just as pissed about what they have to do as everybody else. These people have likely had their jobs before Obama was even president, and have nothing at all to do with the administration. They're in a hard spot of either listening to their superiors or getting fired. What the hell does this guy expect them to do?

I stopped reading here. There's no point going any further.
You should get rich as a writer. True story.

Speaking of which... how's it going?
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Mikhailoh
Oct 7 2013, 12:40 PM
You should get rich as a writer. True story.

Speaking of which... how's it going?
And your fatal error, sir, was to put "writer" and "rich" in the same sentence. :P

Eh, very slowly. It's hard to say.

But, y'know, I got nothing better to do, so onwards, upwards and forwards I guess.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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83% of government workers are...still working...
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And the other 17% are still gonna get paid...
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HOLY CARP!!!
There must be a better way to give 17% of government workers paid time off than a (partial) government shutdown, no?
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Jolly
Oct 7 2013, 01:53 PM
83% of government workers are...still working...
Contractors aren't.

And I don't need a poll to tell you that we have a **** ton of contractors. Many, many people are out of work right now.
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Tell me again why the GOP should be the ones to roll over? Two sides of the same coin.
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Oct 8 2013, 05:04 AM
Tell me again why the GOP should be the ones to roll over? Two sides of the same coin.
You really don't know?

For the exact same reason the Democrats should. Because somebody needs to. Because compromise is how our system is supposed to work. Because whining about rolling over keeps people unemployed.
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They both should have. What is not receiving any airtime is that the harder right folks see the implementation of ACA and the continuing overspending as leading to a default of one sort or another anyway.

So, if you perceive that the union is in mortal jeopardy, would you not use any powers you had to save it?
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"One day, making tracks
In the prairie of Prax,
Came a North-Going Zax
And a South-Going Zax.
And it happened that both of them came to a place
Where they bumped. There they stood.
Foot to foot. Face to face.
“Look here, now!” the North-Going Zax said, “I say!
You are blocking my path. You are right in my way.
I’m a North-Going Zax and I always go north.
Get out of my way, now, and let me go forth!”
“Who’s in whose way?” snapped the South-Going Zax.
“I always go south, making south-going tracks.
So you’re in MY way! And I ask you to move
And let me go south in my south-going groove.”
Then the North-Going Zax puffed his chest up with pride.
“I never,” he said, “take a step to one side.
And I’ll prove to you that I won’t change my ways
If I have to keep standing here fifty-nine days!”
“And I’ll prove to YOU,” yelled the South-Going Zax,
“That I can stand here in the prairie of Prax
For fifty-nine years! For I live by a rule
That I learned as a boy back in South-Going School.
Never budge! That’s my rule. Never budge in the least!
Not an inch to the west! Not an inch to the east!
I’ll stay here, not budging! I can and I will
If it makes you and me and the whole world stand still!”
Well…
Of course the world didn’t stand still. The world grew.
In a couple of years, the new highway came through
And they built it right over those two stubborn Zax
And left them there, standing un-budged in their tracks."

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Mikhailoh
Oct 8 2013, 05:31 AM
They both should have. What is not receiving any airtime is that the harder right folks see the implementation of ACA and the continuing overspending as leading to a default of one sort or another anyway.

So, if you perceive that the union is in mortal jeopardy, would you not use any powers you had to save it?
Because they always think that, about everything. Everything the [insert your party of choice]s do leads the country to disaster and we should do everything we can to oppose it.

It's a tired old excuse that's screwing people over a hell of a lot more than some perceived nebulous catastrophe. Man up and work together, that's their ****ing job.

I have no patience for this crap, and crap is exactly what it is.

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To D'Oh: This is the sort of thing that happens when we cut Literature studies.
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Really? Take a look at the CBO projections for spending versus revenue as a percentage of GDP. See how those numbers diverge? Unsustainable.

http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44521

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The CBO's own summation of what awaits us..

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Choices for the Future

The unsustainable nature of the federal government’s current tax and spending policies presents lawmakers and the public with difficult choices. Unless substantial changes are made to the major health care programs and Social Security, those programs will absorb a much larger share of the economy’s total output in the future than they have in the past. Even with spending for all other federal activities on track, by the end of this decade, to represent the smallest share of GDP in more than 70 years, total federal noninterest spending would be larger relative to the size of the economy than it has been, on average, over the past 40 years. The structure of the federal tax code means that revenues would also represent a larger percentage of GDP in the future than they have, on average, in the past few decades—but not large enough to keep federal debt held by the public from growing faster than the economy starting in the next several years. Moreover, because federal debt is already unusually high relative to GDP, further increases in debt could be especially harmful. To put the federal budget on a sustainable path for the long term, lawmakers would have to make significant changes to tax and spending policies—letting revenues rise more than they would under current law, reducing spending for large benefit programs below the projected levels, or adopting some combination of those approaches.

The size of such changes would depend on the amount of federal debt that lawmakers considered appropriate. For example, bringing debt back down to 39 percent of GDP in 2038—as it was at the end of 2008—would require a combination of increases in revenues and cuts in noninterest spending (relative to current law) totaling 2 percent of GDP for the next 25 years. (In 2014, 2 percent of GDP would equal about $350 billion.) If those changes came entirely from revenues, they would represent an increase of 11 percent relative to the amount of revenues projected for the 2014–2038 period; if the changes came entirely from spending, they would represent a cut of 10½ percent in noninterest spending from the amount projected for that period.

In deciding how quickly to carry out policy changes to make the size of the federal debt more sustainable, lawmakers face other trade-offs. On the one hand, waiting to cut federal spending or raise taxes would lead to a greater accumulation of debt and would increase the size of the policy adjustments needed to put the budget on a sustainable course. On the other hand, implementing spending cuts or tax increases quickly would weaken the economy’s current expansion and would give people little time to plan for and adjust to the policy changes. The negative short-term effects that deficit reduction has on output and employment would be especially large now, because output is so far below its potential level that the Federal Reserve is keeping short-term interest rates near zero and could not lower those rates further to offset the impact of changes in spending and tax policies.


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You're over-complicating this. Just read the children's poem.
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Mikhailoh
Oct 8 2013, 05:49 AM
Really? Take a look at the CBO projections for spending versus revenue as a percentage of GDP. See how those numbers diverge? Unsustainable.

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Assuming nothing else changes, yeah. That's a big assumption to make and totally unnecessary, if you're interested in actually balancing the budget.

I'm sorry Mik, it's just whining now. ACA was signed into law three years ago. It's here, we have it. They've had plenty, plenty of time to figure this out. Instead of throwing up their hands and saying, "I refuse to do my job and make this work," it's their responsibility to figure out a budget.

I don't give a **** if they get a stroke from the aggravation and then blame the stroke on the ACA, it's their job to figure this out.
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I agree. And in figuring it out we have Obama decreeing what parts of the law will apply to whom and when rather than following the law as it stands. So the claim that 'its the law of the land' is bullsh!t too.
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They've done their job.

A significant minority is saying we cannot afford this in the current guise.

Just as 26 states declined the expansion of Medicaid, after SCOTUS ruled they did not to expand the roles as outlined in Obamacare.

Even if we delayed the implementation of parts of Obamacare - which is the position of many of the Republicans - it still leaves intact the provisions of the law concerning pre-existing conditions and the maximum age of children on family policies.

So, there is room for some compromise.
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Jolly
Oct 8 2013, 06:12 AM
So, there is room for some compromise.
If your definition is "do what I want or I'm not playing ball," then yes, there's plenty of that going on.
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Welcome to hardball. We have incredibly divisive issues facing us. Healthcare, immigration, sluggish economy, the role and size of government and out of control spending. Compromise has kicked the can down the road to the point where it can be kicked no more.
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Mikhailoh
Oct 8 2013, 06:20 AM
Welcome to hardball. We have incredibly divisive issues facing us. Healthcare, immigration, sluggish economy, the role and size of government and out of control spending. Compromise has kicked the can down the road to the point where it can be kicked no more.
No compromise has been going on here. Democrats are getting their way on everything so the Republicans are shutting down the government, because they don't know how to do anything else. That's stupid and insane.
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