The "Father of Reagonomics" thinks Bush is moving toward a police state

Please stop thinking that rationality on the publics part play's any part in this. 9/11 freaked America out and it went to war in two countries, neither of those two countries provided the hijackers, [that would be Saudi Arabia]

big dirty bomb goes off in a major American city next year or an outbreak of anthrax happens.

Instant panic, instant shock. The govt will get to do what it damn well wants and you [I mean 'you' collectively, nothing personal] might not agree now but when it comes, if it comes, you will be grateful for the leadership to salve your fear irrespective of what that leadership contains just as long as it hurts someone else and makes them pay for your discomfort.

rob

again with the comic training wheels.

salve 1 (sv, säv)
n.
1. An analgesic or medicinal ointment.
2. Something that soothes or heals; a balm.
3. Flattery or commendation.
tr.v. salved, salv·ing, salves
1. To soothe or heal with or as if with salve.
2. To ease the distress or agitation of; assuage: salved my conscience by apologizing.

so no saddle soap softens leather which is dead and cannot be soothed, but you're close.

It's difficult for a budding comedian such as yourself to face the fact that 'close to funny' is the antithesis of 'funny'

and the segue into Speaking of Economists is, because it's untethered is again a comic convention best left til later. To have arbitrariness be funny requires trust on the part of the audience and that must be created rather than simply presumed.

you need to visit a couple of open mike nights somewhere, you learn much faster.

Still I think with effort you have potential. Not least of your assets is your personality, even though crippled by conservatism and comic overconfidence, is still quite likeable.

Also i always thought Tonto spent his entire relationship trying to keep a straight face. The lone ranger was like the head prefect of the prairie.

New Labour, please. Blair, like Clinton, was packaged as a liberal but was glad to help dismantle liberal policies.

Well in Britain The Labour Party has over the past ten years introduced virtually all the laws the Nazis enacted.

So if the Nazis did it, it's bad? Automatically? Just like that?

Honest question looking for an honest response (sick of being flamed by people who imagine me hating)

Well what great humanitarian projects did the Nazis introduce us to?

gun registration

It's not so much that they introduced great humanitarianism as it is that they had a lot of laws that were ... normal. For example, burglary was illegal in Nazi Germany. So was murder. You can argue that the way the laws were enforced was unfair, and you'd be right, but you are the one who simply said enacting laws the Nazis enacted was automatically wrong.

So the point is, maybe you should provide some specific examples of what the party has done that you disagree with rather than making this vague generalization.

As I said members of the BNP are being expelled from their jobs by various trade unions affiliated to New Labour, and this has now been declared legal by the EU.
These people are being denied the "right to work" simply because of their political affiliations, not because of anything they have done.
And note: the BNP is a legal political party which means that people are legally entitled to vote for it or to belong to it.
In Nazi Germany the Jews were also expelled from their jobs.
And by the way to declare that burglary and murder were illegal under the Nazis is also misleading.
They were illegal long before the Nazis came into power, indeed it was the Nazis who legalised the murder of over six million Jews.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Vigilance is in very short supply.

Seven years of the Bush Administration has taught me that the Second Amendment isn't just a hunting licence.

No evidence? It's right under our noses - the Bush Administration has the means and motive, all they need is another opportunity like 9/11.

Denial is more than a river in Egypt. Add that to the meaningless quip list.

it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. George Carlin

Man....you guys are on a roll. And I thought there was a Writers' Strike!

I think it comes down to a question of patriotism. Is patriotism being patriotic to the president? or to the state?

If you can't figure out the answer to this, damn good, question.... know that you are not a patriot, you do not support your troops, and this does not please Jesus.

it's got nothing to do with republicans and democrats, that's a punch and judy show.

Rob, it saddens me to see someone such as yourself still believing in fairy tales.

I don't care what arms you may have tucked in your basement, unless you have a stinger or equal then i could evaporate you and your dwelling with whatever I chose to arm the helicopter with that day. You wouldn't be a 'freedom fighter' either. as a member of the armed forces I would look at you as a terrorist and gain satisfaction in your destruction.

This whole, 'Patriot Americans' not allowing the country to be usurped is just so much sedative.

Why don't you come right out with it. "don't worry, be happy."

Struck a nerve obviously.

Did the armed forces react in any shape or form after the president invented a new justification for it's use called pre-emptive defence?
Has the armed forces not been pruned quite dramatically of late in it's higher levels of anyone who's opinions clash with the present admin's.
Is there now more or less a culture of unthinking obedience in the armed forces?
Please...save your white horse galloping over the brow to the rescue to the dusty halls of your own imaginary comfort zone.
Your pride and reality are in fact two different things, you do know that don't you?

As for your huffing and puffing about your quite deluded idea that you and your comrades in arms are the armed forces.

I put myelf in the position of those in the armed forces who will destroy your romantic little civil war with bigger guns than you have. You can read that as impersonating a member of the forces if it gives you the juice you need.

The armed forces have done nothing, zilch, nada to defend the constitution over the last 2 terms and the constitution has suffered for it.
The armed forces you are so proud of seem to be a bit bogged down in foriegn wars to focus on defending the constitution at present. How absolutely coincidentally convienient!
"don't worry, be happy." "couldn't happen here"

I wonder why Blackwater were used in Katrina far more dramatically than the guard?

You stick with your marshall romances and your stabs at comedy. I doubt we'll agree on much.

The armed forces have done nothing, zilch, nada to defend the constitution over the last 2 terms and the constitution has suffered for it.

makes me wonder what side they are on.

I'm under the assumption you are not at present a member of the armed forces,.
But you are acting as if you at present are"if you think I'm going to be any part of any fascist overthrow

I can take it then that you are presently an active member of the armed forces reassuring us that the constitution is under your vigorous protection?

We'll the great news is that you'll defend that constitution in part for the sake of people like me who won't automatically trust you to.
I apologise for presuming you ex military and insist as you're active, that you apply yourself to your duties rather than swan about on the internet reassuring people as to how hard you're working.
I see straight through you.

good evening.

Mexico, here I come!!!

But Fear is our only god!