tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post6034819298589455315..comments2024-03-18T20:18:14.088-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: When We Lose Our MemoriesOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-82281376199945384782017-03-19T17:57:49.492-04:002017-03-19T17:57:49.492-04:00Cluttered thinking, MAGA.Cluttered thinking, MAGA.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-5203859911982267912017-03-19T17:23:07.874-04:002017-03-19T17:23:07.874-04:00I'm not a Trump supporter at all. I support a ...I'm not a Trump supporter at all. I support a return to post-war centrist Keynesian Big Government which was killed by neocons and neoliberals (i.e., fake conservatives and fake liberals.) <br /><br />Trump's idea that businessmen can save the world is pretty far from a New Deal mixed-market government and economy founded on striking a balance between business and workers.<br /><br />I, do, however, support a democratically-elected president's right to govern. And I will give credit where credit is due. <br /><br />Trump deserves credit for killing free-trade outsourcing looting and the Cold War revival with Russia the MIC was hot for.<br /><br />I will also give credit to all other presidents after LBJ (the last New Deal president) where it is due: <br /><br />Bush Sr. raised taxes after promising not to because circumstances warranted it; he practically begged Saddam to get out of Kuwait before proceeding with the Gulf War. <br /><br />The rest: a big fat nothing.<br /><br />So who do you think is the most progressive president of the neocon/neoliberal era? Bush Sr. or Donald J. Trump? (One could say Bush Sr. was the only adult president. The rest were buffoons and bribe-taking grifters.)<br /><br />-MAGAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-60222003300181437462017-03-19T13:42:13.031-04:002017-03-19T13:42:13.031-04:00Do you deny that you are very much a Trump support...Do you deny that you are very much a Trump supporter, MAGA?Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-40802649910156703742017-03-19T12:37:21.199-04:002017-03-19T12:37:21.199-04:00The koolaid drinker is the one with the fanciful c...The koolaid drinker is the one with the fanciful cultural interpretation of reality. E.g.:<br /><br />Person A: we really should have proper border security so millions of illegals are not crossing our porous border.<br /><br />Person B. YOU'RE A RACIST! YOU'RE A FASCIST! YOU'RE A MISOGYNIST!<br /><br />I would say that Person B is in a koolaid-drinking cult (whose members are conditioned by an obviously suspect source of journalism owned by corporations not shy about propagating upper-class-interest memes and messaging.)<br /><br />Also cult members have a fierce and hateful paranoia of anyone outside of the cult. To a Christian fundamentalist, an agnostic is a Satan worshiper. E.g.: <br /><br />Person A: "So I'll take Trump over the lampreys as an obvious lesser evil. (Of course, I'm waiting on the real thing: a New Deal revival.)"<br /><br />Person B: "Person A is very much a Trump supporter."<br /><br />Cult members tend to be dittoheads who regurgitate cult establishment talking points. If someone presents them with a rational argument, they have no recourse but to resort to arbitrary ad hominem crap throwing.<br /><br />-MAGAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-84521946649678099182017-03-19T11:12:43.018-04:002017-03-19T11:12:43.018-04:00He's certainly long winded, Dana.He's certainly long winded, Dana.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-38497155958506395132017-03-19T11:03:04.825-04:002017-03-19T11:03:04.825-04:00He soils your otherwise excellent blog in my opini...He soils your otherwise excellent blog in my opinion. Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-1458602767963992222017-03-19T02:06:51.666-04:002017-03-19T02:06:51.666-04:00MAGA is very much a Trump supporter, salamander, a...MAGA is very much a Trump supporter, salamander, and he underscores why Trump is so dangerous.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-47324507004276221032017-03-19T02:04:31.466-04:002017-03-19T02:04:31.466-04:00MAGA is Anonymous but he does meet the requiremen...MAGA is Anonymous but he does meet the requirement I set for comments, Dana. I don't expect commenters to agree with me. But I do agree with you that he's getting tiresome.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-12485052401016990182017-03-18T20:52:07.771-04:002017-03-18T20:52:07.771-04:00.. maga astonishes ..
That's not just the Koo..... maga astonishes ..<br /><br />That's not just the Koolaid.. <br />its sniffing battery acid<br />chipping anti freeze ..<br />& all chased with bathroom sink LSD ..<br />Bizzaro interpretation of reality..the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-81737537080848008342017-03-18T19:48:06.984-04:002017-03-18T19:48:06.984-04:00Owen, why do you post this idiot's rantings? W...Owen, why do you post this idiot's rantings? Would you invite him into your home and then allow him to sit in your living room and go on like this? Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-2807339270096025442017-03-18T13:14:28.582-04:002017-03-18T13:14:28.582-04:00You've drunk the Kool Aide, MAGA.You've drunk the Kool Aide, MAGA.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-15453309492325395722017-03-18T12:56:19.078-04:002017-03-18T12:56:19.078-04:00More melodrama and conspiracy theories from the fa...More melodrama and conspiracy theories from the fake-left fake-news. From the perspective of many, you people are just making fools of yourselves working yourselves up into such a frenzy – with a lot of help from your friends in the corporate media. <br /><br />Why does the establishment hate Trump? Because he's a racist? One would have to be completely ignorant of history to draw this conclusion. They recently created a militant police force of racist thugs to prey on inner-cities. (Which they might consider 'training exercises.') Hillary Clinton was de facto spokesperson for the private prison industry calling for a police crackdown on these "super predators." (Imagine how hysterical the rhetoric-driven fake left would act if Trump said something like that?)<br /><br />They hate Trump primarily because he stands in the way of their globalization outsourcing looting schemes.<br /><br />Now why is Trump actually in this? He's been saying for years that the American economy is a train wreck. Economic theologians have been saying the same thing. Except they call it 'secular stagnation'. Trump sees America as another 'Wollman Rink.' A problem that can be fixed with some business ingenuity and the 'Art of the Deal.'<br /><br />Since Trump is a businessman, it's in his interest to know economics. (He knew enough to Big Short the housing bubble.) It's painfully obvious to many who have some knowledge of economics that free-trade globalization is a gaping wound in the American economy. It is hemorrhaging jobs and wealth in massive structural trade deficits, driving up debt (public and private,) driving down real incomes, killing demand, bankrupting government and fueling rampant inequality growth (which leads to corruption of democratic institutions from money influence in a vicious cycle.) <br /><br />Trump is smart enough to know that you have to plug the gaping wound in the body economic before you can have any hope of nursing it back to health. The lampreys, on the other hand, who caused this and other gaping wounds with all their obvious leeching schemes, believe there is an infinite amount of flesh that can be torn out of the body. <br /><br />So I'll take Trump over the lampreys as an obvious lesser evil. (Of course, I'm waiting on the real thing: a New Deal revival.)<br /><br />BTW, Americans don't want a ban on Muslims from dangerous countries because they are racists or fascists. It's because it only takes a few jihadists to sneak in and wreak a lot of havoc. Why should they stick their necks out for that?<br /><br />They are not racist for wanting to eliminate immigration anarchy along the Mexican border, either. (Canadians are such hypocrites given how they handled the MV Sun Sea incident: charging the crew with human smuggling to prevent other ships from arriving with more refugees.) Rhetoric does not equal truth. Displays of virtue do not equal virtue.<br /><br />-MAGA<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-64938324825678159352017-03-18T10:18:38.017-04:002017-03-18T10:18:38.017-04:00Not only have we lost our memories, salamander. We...Not only have we lost our memories, salamander. We have lost our understanding of shared responsibility. The only person who counts now is ME.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-42511160770706721772017-03-18T10:10:01.811-04:002017-03-18T10:10:01.811-04:00.. 'losing our memories' - brilliant artic..... 'losing our memories' - brilliant article.. could have been titled National Dementia .. <br />.. dementia is nothing to joke about of course<br />no more than diabetes, mood disorders, cancer, poverty, trauma ..<br /><br />the salamanders have no standing aside from residing in North America<br />specifically Canada .. and our backyards & front doors & privacy & jobs<br />are where our hearts beats fastest..<br /><br />But Fukushima, Trump, Global Warming, Harper Rump, North Korea, <br />Trudeau, Chernobyl, The Great Barrier Reef, Fracking, Tar Sands, Racism etc<br />are also looming large on our radar screen.. the same screen Stephen Harper denied<br /><br />Political Parties have become controlling cesspools.. parasitic breeding grounds <br />Oh the odd well intended citizen may surface.. or be choked off<br />but it may be best to look upon political parties <br />as low brow partisan organized crime.. black mould, ptomain poison fests<br /><br />Trying to find shreds of intelligence, independance, wisdom or common sense<br />in the increasing noise level of snouty sellouts is almost impossible<br /><br />Its very important to look upon Liberals & Conservatives.. NDP .. Green<br />for neo-liberal tendency.. faux policy stance, lip service to Democracy.. or truth<br />or even worse wrapping themselves in the flag or First Nation icons<br />(Christy Clark wardrobe, J Trudeau tattoo.. Harper Senate appointee Brazeau)<br /><br />The populace and media (Indy & Mainstream)<br />must demand better.. insist.. enforce .. shout, march.. howl..<br /><br />The heartbeat and soul of Canada is the First Nations<br />the skeleton and musculature of Canada are all the immigrant generations<br />The skin is our Environment & Species..<br />The skin is one of the most critical organs..<br />our 1st line of defense against pathogens, infection, parasites...<br /><br />When political parasites attack our skin... ?<br />the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.com