Trump is such a buffoon, gotta love all the retards that think he's so great, as well as his advisers, Kudlow id an idiot too.

Yes, you're ignored, and I read your comment anyway.

No, in saying "use drugs," I was not "implying cannabis." I said "use drugs" because I meant "use drugs." Rather than trying to interpret or 'read into' what I'm saying, it might help if you responded to my post, and not what you post in your mind on my behalf.

And I will take you up on your 'challenge:' below is a list of ten "highly intelligent" people who have used cocaine (note: at no point did I say "encourages the use of cocaine." I said "use drugs" without becoming addicted, and being able to function), so that you can provide me with 10,000 more** whose lives and families have been destroyed by it. (**And note here, we're talking about individuals whose lives were destroyed by the use of cocaine itself, and not by the pointless drug laws that imprison people for having a mental or emotional condition that provokes "self-medication" as a form of treatment. Nor are we talking about the illegal status of cocaine which, itself, gives rise to violent cartels that function in the shadow of its legal status.)

So, while certainly many of the following list of "highly intelligent" (non-cognitively deficient) and successful "celebrities" may no longer be using cocaine, all of the following have used cocaine and are/were not addicted and function(ed) just fine:

Sigmund Freud
Thomas Edison
Oprah Winfrey
Stephen King
Tim Allen
Hunter S. Thompson
Angelina Jolie
Robert Louis Stevenson
Steven Tyler
Robert Downey, Jr.

There are others (like William Burroughs, Eric Clapton, Grover Cleveland, David Crosby, Arthur Conan Doyle, Isadora Duncan, Ulysses S Grant, Abbie Hoffman, Elton John, King George V, Larry Kudlow, Sir Paul McCartney, & Barack Obama), but I thought I'd stop at 10.

And if you post the 10,000 names of those whose lives and families were destroyed by cocaine (and not by the pointless drug laws or its illegal status) by the end of the week, I'll take your point.

How American of you..

>> ^volumptuous:
I'm pretty fucking fed up with this blanket generalization of us Americans. We don't own the patent on stupid, and we don't own this fucking crisis on our own.
If you don't even understand the simple fact that AIG is a fucking global company with interests in every corner of this planet, Headquarters in London, Paris and Hong Kong, then you really need to stop lecturing us.
The last time I checked, the US isn't the only one who's fucked right now. Brown just stated that the UK Gov will now start printing money to bail out their own institutions. Germany's productivity is down over 20%. Brazil is down over 60%. And you're acting like it's us Yanks who are just too stupid to turn off our own televisions?
I DONT EVEN HAVE CABLE

And FYI: Us yanks do understand one thing that you obviously do not. People like Cramer, Santelli, Kudlow and many others on CNBC and elsewhere have vested interests in the stock market, and the revolving door that is K-Street/TV punditry/Politics is the nexus that continues to fuck us all over.
So stop your self-congratulatory nonsense. And if this is the last time I hear some delusional statement like "everyone in the US seem to think the TV is here to do their thinking for them" it's still too fucking late for me to not think you're an offensive, self-important fool.

I'm pretty fucking fed up with this blanket generalization of us Americans. We don't own the patent on stupid, and we don't own this fucking crisis on our own.

If you don't even understand the simple fact that AIG is a fucking global company with interests in every corner of this planet, Headquarters in London, Paris and Hong Kong, then you really need to stop lecturing us.

The last time I checked, the US isn't the only one who's fucked right now. Brown just stated that the UK Gov will now start printing money to bail out their own institutions. Germany's productivity is down over 20%. Brazil is down over 60%. And you're acting like it's us Yanks who are just too stupid to turn off our own televisions?

I DONT EVEN HAVE CABLE


And FYI: Us yanks do understand one thing that you obviously do not. People like Cramer, Santelli, Kudlow and many others on CNBC and elsewhere have vested interests in the stock market, and the revolving door that is K-Street/TV punditry/Politics is the nexus that continues to fuck us all over.

So stop your self-congratulatory nonsense. And if this is the last time I hear some delusional statement like "everyone in the US seem to think the TV is here to do their thinking for them" it's still too fucking late for me to not think you're an offensive, self-important fool.





>> ^campionidelmondo:
>> ^Lodurr:
This is one of the best pieces I've seen on the financial crisis. It's amazing how the financial institutions lied to the public every day on the way down.

I think you're confusing financial institutions with television. Ever stopped to think that NBCs own interests played into their reporting? Don't believe everything you see on TV, I think that got you into this crisis in the first place. It never seizes to amaze me how people in the US seem to think that the TV is here to do their thinking for them.
Oh and I'm fed up with the glorification of the Daily Show. Jon Steward is nothing more than a jester, he's only here to make jokes. He's not gonna change anything, yet people are so glad he's here and won't let people get away with anything. People should turn off their TVs and support a real voice of descent.

>> ^boblobblaw:
Kudlow reminds me of Phil Hartman.


I couldn't stop thinking that! Is this the guy that Phil Hartman modeled for his "anchorman" persona, or was it the other way around?

Kudlow reminds me of Phil Hartman.

I haven't actually heard a single "drill, drill, drill" person with the notion that it is going to solve our energy problem by itself. That's obvious, the math on that is simple and this guy is building up a strawman. All I've heard, from people like Kudlow and his ilk, is that the act of freeing it up will cause the market price to decline in the short-term (speculators price in what they think the future is going to be), thereby allowing some sort of reprieve for the transition that this guy is praying for to be less painful. And surely, the democrats on this forum can't use the ten year argument without burying their head in the sand: there was a vote ten years ago to do this very thing and they all shot it down. They used the same "it's too far away" argument back then. So... I guess now is too far away.

The real problem is the the ignorant opposition to nuclear in this country, and the extent to which we're already broke and unable to fund such massive infrastructure changes without further extensions of credit from producer nations that probably are going to pull the plug on the U.S. bond market when they wake up.

Before you rate me down, I'm not defending anyone. I think the Democrats are idiots and the neo-cons are insincere sacks of crap that will lie to get elected and then do the opposite. I'm libertarian who doesn't believe the government should be subsidizing or blocking domestic resources in any way, shape, or form. The market will determine the best product as it has in the past. When oil gets expensive, it incentivizes new forms of energy. And of course, nuclear has been the most efficient source of energy for thirty years, but it got NIMBYed to death to put us in this position by fearmongering radical environmentalists while France is now 80%. Meanwhile, wind costs 10x and solar 25x per BTU relative to nuclear and millions have died or are dying from biofuel subsidies on food crops and oil resource wars. Ugh.

>> ^deathcow:
she started as the mayor of the town I live in


Heaven help us all.

2000 acre "footprint."

Take note of that.

Liberals dominate the media....this has been announced by Rush Limbaugh. And Thomas Sowell. And Ann Coulter. And Rich Lowry. And Bill O'Reilly. And William Safire. And Robert Novak. And William F. Buckley, Jr. And George Will.

And John Gibson. And Michelle Malkin. And David Brooks. And Tony Snow. And Tony Blankely. And Fred Barnes. And Britt Hume. And Larry Kudlow. And Sean Hannity. And David Horowitz. And William Kristol. And Hugh Hewitt.

And Oliver North. And Joe Scarborough. And Pat Buchanan. And John McLaughlin. And Cal Thomas. And Joe Klein. And James Kilpatrick. And Tucker Carlson. And Deroy Murdock. And Michael Savage. And Charles Krauthammer. And Stephen Moore. And Alan Keyes.

And Gary Bauer. And Mort Kondracke. And Andrew Sullivan. And Nicholas von Hoffman. And Neil Cavuto. And Matt Drudge. And Mike Rosen. And Dave Kopel. And John Caldara.

The mainstream media in this country are dominated by liberals. Look at how they all gave Bill Clinton a pass on the whole Monica Lewsinsky affair. Remember? It was never in the news. We never heard any of the salacious details.