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My take on the political scene, spiced with bits of life-as-it-happens. I'll try and separate the fertilizer from the facts, at least as I see it. Coming from the perspective of a not-so-average guy with little or no respect for sacred cows, moose or squirrels. A master debater and wielder of a needle-sharp wit guaranteed to pop the toughest gasbag. Count on seeing people you know and love lampooned and harpooned with impunity and puns galore. No one will be spared, that's a promise. (Note: this blog not recommended for the humor-impaired and you know who you is.)

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Who's Whining Now
Contributed by: Doug Wray   on 5/27/2008

This is a response to a recent blog posting by Richard Yale.

Yes, it is about oil.
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Well I'm glad to see people finally realizing this.

The economy in this country will totally die if that Middle East supply is cut off right now. It will not be a recession. It will be a depression that will make 1929 look like the 'good-old-days'.
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And how many decades have people been pointing this out? Peak Oil was ridiculed endlessly. Many people have been shouting this warning for a long time and oil barons like Bush and Co. 'stayed the course' - now, only when their lofty lifestyles are -finally- being impacted do the powerful start yelling. Bit late, but welcome to the party. That Depression will be a lot harder on the wealthy... hardest part I suspect will be having to rub elbows with us nasty 'little people'. Maybe being a bit more decent on the way UP would have made the descent a bit more palatable. Ah well, karma takes many forms.

The bottom line here is simple. If Iran is forced to fall in line, the fighting in Iraq will end over night, and the nightmare will be over.
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You mean: 'If Iran is not allowed to sell their oil for EUROS' - that's the huge fear since the dollar would go into the dumper x1000 worse than it is already.

One way or another, Iran must be forced to join modern times and the global community.
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Right, they're going to take a backseat to a country that propped up the Shah. I doubt that. We messed that bed big time - courtesy of the cronies of the current president. Funny how those chickens come home to roost. I think the Cold-War term was 'Blowback' and baby, it's blowin hard.

It may mean a real war
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You mean 'another war' (that we - definitely- can't afford in terms of lives, money and oil)

---if so, now is the time, before we face a nuclear Iran with the capacity to destroy Israel and beg in a new ice age.
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Great. Now that we're locked in the safe with the two madmen with grenades (that many of those 'peaceniks' tried like hell to keep from being built), we should kill the third one to make ourselves safe. This Cold-War mentality has never worked and isn't going to start working now. This is where the MAD philosophy got us. Hey, thanks.

The 'Good Life' is over sir. Greed and Corprocrats killed it dead with the willing help of toadies of all political species.

I have to say, one good thing has come out of the two Bush terms - more people are active in the American political arena than ever before. Odd that when this phenomenon began, the GOP immediately began losing traction.

I can understand the fear that must engender.

Welcome to our world, you built it, you get to live in it - WITH US.



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Submitted By: Doug Wray
posted on 7/19/2008 @ 11:43:57 AM
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Oh, and speakin of whiners - Phil Gramm is cutting and running from the McCain camp. My hero.
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Submitted By: Doug Wray
posted on 6/8/2008 @ 10:34:22 AM
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Oh, but those fine folks at Halliburton, TRW, Martin Marietta, etc, etc, etc, and Blackwater -have- made a tidy pile of coin, so, yes, there have been some 'good' effects... (twirls index finger slowly)
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Submitted By: Doug Wray
posted on 6/8/2008 @ 10:32:46 AM
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A 'victory'? Exactly what victory are we talking about Billy? Russia's bouncing back stronger than ever and the Chinese hold the paper for enough loans to crash our economy on demand? Those kinds of 'victories' are known as 'pyrrhic' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory and after the latest 'Mission Accomplished' in Iraq one more 'victory' could spell the end of our economy. I'd say there's a LOT wrong with that.
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Submitted By: Bill Prather
posted on 6/4/2008 @ 9:20:12 PM
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Nice writing, funny, too. But didn't the Cold War end with a victory by the United States? What's so wrong with that?
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Submitted By: Brian Crandall
posted on 5/29/2008 @ 1:17:51 PM
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Nice work
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Submitted By: Ralph Dosser
posted on 5/28/2008 @ 11:40:34 PM
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Actually, Doug, I've given it some thought, and I think I was wrong. For too long the left has declined to call out the extreme, ugly and violent rhetoric of the right, using some variation of "nobody could take this crap seriously." But that crap IS taken seriously by the insane right. It's a very real force in our nation's poisoned political dialogue, and needs to be met head-on at every turn. Good work there.
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Submitted By: Doug Wray
posted on 5/28/2008 @ 7:59:05 PM
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Ralph, heh... good point.
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Submitted By: Kaye Fissinger
posted on 5/28/2008 @ 6:12:43 PM
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Part 2 continued from below: I don't expect they will ever relinquish their authoritarianism as reflected in their repulsion at considering the United States a Democracy. While unmistakably our government has been structured as a representative republic, it is a democratically elected representative republic intended to have checks against the tyranny of the majority. The very thought that control would not emanate from the authoritarians, social dominators, and religious dominionists who would assure, by any means necessary, their distorted world view is enough to send the lunatic fringe over the edge.
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Submitted By: Kaye Fissinger
posted on 5/28/2008 @ 6:11:28 PM
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Ralph, more like a broken record (for those who remember vinyl). Some people just can't let go of their good ole days of the John Birch Society and commies hiding under their beds if they weren't hyper vigilant. I remember senior high government classes and a textbook that was called "Democracy versus Communism." The title was a tip off to the propaganda inside. A more honest comparative title would have been "Democracy versus Totalitarianism" or "Capitalism versus Communism". Certain fascistic factions within the United States have persisted in mixing these political and economic apples and oranges. Works exceptionally well for those so far to the right that they are likely to fall right off their flat earth.
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Submitted By: Ralph Dosser
posted on 5/28/2008 @ 11:45:19 AM
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Good post Doug, and good points throughout, but isn't deconstructing a Richard Yale post a fish-in-a-barrel sort of exercise?
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