I actually paid for Times Select and still didn’t bother to read Dowd, Friedman, Krugman, Herbert, or any of the other columnists at the New York Times. But now that the content is free again I went over and took a look. Maureen Dowd’s column is the just incomprehensible…I gave up about two-thirds of the way down. But Friedman seems to have flat-out cribbed from my Pissing it All Away and GOP’s Tax Message Wearing Thin pieces.
Which means, of course, that I largely agree with him. I just wish he’d admit he’s reading blogs to get his inspiration.
On another topic, I was glad to see the Giants beat the Jets today. I was beginning to think that no sports team I like would ever win again. And if the Yanks lose today I’ll be right back to grumpy.
“And if the Yanks lose today I’ll be right back to grumpy.”
Hoo boy; might want to go ahead and pour a cocktail or two, just in case.
Scoring 4 runs in a single inning did wonders for my mood.
Almost have a hard time envisioning this, but this may be the one team and city where Steinbrenner making the threat to Torre actually was a positive thing. I hope so. Pitching still shaky though….
The Times of course has long been a known Illuminati rag so when reading Dowd’s linked article I have to admit I have no frigging clue. To me it’s like reading legalese.
Actually I might suggest New York’s influence on the world died Sept 11, 2001 when those towers got demolished….er…came down due to “terraists”.
Hey can I get a job writing at the Times for the big bucks like Mo-do…I have red hair(that’s not dyed) and brown eyes and I think I’d make more sense instead of being seduced by the cuteness of my own words. That column was one stream of consciousness piece of crap wasn’t it.
read friedman. A true follower of the changing winds! What a piece of work!
he is now cribbing from your posts.
This administration only counts Social security receipts as revenue to be borrowed and never repaid. Bush’s deficit last year was 500+ billion counting the 300 billion borrowed and spent from Social security. No wonder he wants to privatize it, there is nothing there. Bush and Cheney have added 4,000,000,000 dollars to the national debt. Thats trillion and I don’t believe that reflects the Social Security theft. Its way out of control.
Future taxpayers will refuse this burden. They will make the hard choices for us. We will stand in soup lines to pay for our sins.
We have a winner! I’ve been saying the same thing for a while: Bush needs to privatize social security because he stole it to pay for his misadventures in the middle east, and if he privatizes social security, he can shift the blame for it disappearing onto Congress.
Just wait until our trading partners want to paid in Euros instead of dollars. I’m all for a War Tax, maybe a increase in capital gains War Tax, a cap on all fees to suppliers of war material to cost + 5% as a profit, anything more than that is a minimum 10 years in prison for war profiteering. Maybe we could tax the war out of existence, because that’s one thing Republicans hate is paying for things.
Well, the Yanks finally pulled one out. Hopefully they can smack around Byrd tomorrow and take it back to the Jake with Pettitte on the mound.
However, Paul Krugman’s blog The Conscience of a Liberal is great.