Comments on: MtP ignores Ron Paul http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/795.html Coffee, Cocktails & More Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:30:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: D White http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/795.html#comment-245106 D White Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:40:07 +0000 http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/795.html#comment-245106 If you'd begun the second paragraph with "irregardless," rather than with "regardless," you certainly would have been taken more seriously. If you’d begun the second paragraph with “irregardless,” rather than with “regardless,” you certainly would have been taken more seriously.

]]> By: David Harner http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/795.html#comment-245010 David Harner Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:07:14 +0000 http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/795.html#comment-245010 I was tempted to comment to MTP, but I did not want to give them the impression that I give a $h-t about their broadcast. If folks quit listening, they will disappear. I was tempted to comment to MTP, but I did not want to give them the impression that I give a $h-t about their broadcast. If folks quit listening, they will disappear.

]]> By: Bret http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/795.html#comment-245000 Bret Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:55:00 +0000 http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/795.html#comment-245000 Unfortunately, I'm not even slightly surprised that Ron Paul was overlooked. The "main stream media" strikes again with their incredible sense of bias and slated journalism. At this point in the campaign it's too early to crown any winners. I believe everyone from both parties deserves equal coverage at this point in the game. Unfortunately, I’m not even slightly surprised that Ron Paul was overlooked. The “main stream media” strikes again with their incredible sense of bias and slated journalism. At this point in the campaign it’s too early to crown any winners. I believe everyone from both parties deserves equal coverage at this point in the game.

]]> By: Lhickey http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/795.html#comment-244970 Lhickey Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:03:15 +0000 http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/795.html#comment-244970 Democracy only works in tribe size group where all the power brokers are known by the people. Their motivations are known. The nature of their inter tribe allegiances are known by everyone. Cliques are present, but their machinations are not very hidden, because everyone can see the nature of the political machinery. The original colonies were small enough for this dynamic to work. Now, we have a nation so big that people have their traditions and loyalties presented by a PR machine. Cliques run the society at all levels, but their work is done in the shadows. Who knows what kind of horse trades are being made between completing forces? Compared to the stakes, the media and both parties can be bought for chump change, and traded like monopoly tokens- all in the shadows, with manufactured motives that we are not allowed to question in any public widely disseminated forum that filters politically incorrect voices. We are really a clique-ocracy. You could probably put the "players" in a small to medium sized auditorium, and very few of the man on the street types would even know their names. Hell, the man on the street does not know the name of the vice president of the US, according to a survey presented on Scott Hortons Stress blog. We have our gin-up glorious history presented to us in School, and we are told what our duty is, and we send our sons off to war to do their duty, without so much as a "unpatriotic" look over our shoulder at dissect the forces that have crafted this image. Actually allowing the real political power to accrue at the tribal level is a kind of regression toward the natural mean as it is now being borne out in Iraq. Maybe the US is so into this drunken stupor of being the worlds only superpower that we will never question the elites who ride the US as a donkey is ridden, and put away wet when done. That bit in our mouth is never questioned after awhile. We probably doomed by the outcome of the civil war, and the bitter fruit of that surrender to the band of cliques that run the nation is now being tasted. Only a few yearn for the sweet fruit of true freedom. Go Ron Paul. They will stop him if they have to kill him, but its noble as hell to watch him struggle against the Lobby. L Hickey. Democracy only works in tribe size group where all the power brokers are known by the people. Their motivations are known. The nature of their inter tribe allegiances are known by everyone. Cliques are present, but their machinations are not very hidden, because everyone can see the nature of the political machinery. The original colonies were small enough for this dynamic to work. Now, we have a nation so big that people have their traditions and loyalties presented by a PR machine. Cliques run the society at all levels, but their work is done in the shadows. Who knows what kind of horse trades are being made between completing forces? Compared to the stakes, the media and both parties can be bought for chump change, and traded like monopoly tokens- all in the shadows, with manufactured motives that we are not allowed to question in any public widely disseminated forum that filters politically incorrect voices. We are really a clique-ocracy. You could probably put the “players” in a small to medium sized auditorium, and very few of the man on the street types would even know their names. Hell, the man on the street does not know the name of the vice president of the US, according to a survey presented on Scott Hortons Stress blog.
We have our gin-up glorious history presented to us in School, and we are told what our duty is, and we send our sons off to war to do their duty, without so much as a “unpatriotic” look over our shoulder at dissect the forces that have crafted this image. Actually allowing the real political power to accrue at the tribal level is a kind of regression toward the natural mean as it is now being borne out in Iraq. Maybe the US is so into this drunken stupor of being the worlds only superpower that we will never question the elites who ride the US as a donkey is ridden, and put away wet when done. That bit in our mouth is never questioned after awhile.

We probably doomed by the outcome of the civil war, and the bitter fruit of that surrender to the band of cliques that run the nation is now being tasted. Only a few yearn for the sweet fruit of true freedom.
Go Ron Paul. They will stop him if they have to kill him, but its noble as hell to watch him struggle against the Lobby.

L Hickey.

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