19 Replies to “Contagion”

1. motionview says:

   October 17, 2011 at 8:44 pm

   From the link

   You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. –Ronald Reagan

   Never truer.

2. newrouter says:

   October 17, 2011 at 9:19 pm

   Labor Day Speech at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey

   September 1, 1980

   It is fitting that on Labor Day, we meet beside the waters of New York harbor, with the eyes of Miss Liberty on our gathering and in the words of the poet whose lines are inscribed at her feet, “The air bridged harbor that twin cities frame.”

   Through this “Golden Door,” under the gaze of that “Mother of Exiles,” have come millions of men and women, who first stepped foot on American soil right there, on Ellis Island, so close to the Statue of Liberty.

   These families came here to work. They came to build. Others came to America in different ways, from other lands, under different, often harrowing conditions, but this place symbolizes what they all managed to build, no matter where they came from or how they came or how much they suffered.

   They helped to build that magnificent city across the river. They spread across the land building other cities and towns and incredibly productive farms.

   They came to make America work. They didn’t ask what this country could do for them but what they could do to make this refuge the greatest home of freedom in history.

   They brought with them courage, ambition and the values of family, neighborhood, work, peace and freedom. They came from different lands but they shared the same values, the same dream.

   Today a President of the United States would have us believe that dream is over or at least in need of change.

   Jimmy Carter’s Administration tells us that the descendants of those who sacrificed to start again in this land of freedom may have to abandon the dream that drew their ancestors to a new life in a new land.

   The Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten.

   Eight million out of work. Inflation running at 18 percent in the first quarter of 1980. Black unemployment at about 14 percent, higher than any single year since the government began keeping separate statistics. Four straight major deficits run up by Carter and his friends in Congress. The highest interest rates since the Civil War–reaching at times close to 20 percent–lately down to more than 11 percent but now going up again–productivity falling for six straight quarters among the most productive people in history.

   Through his inflation he has raised taxes on the American people by 30 percent–while their real income has risen only 20 percent. He promised he would not increase taxes for the low and middle-income people–the workers of America. Then he imposed on American families the largest single tax increase in history.

   His answer to all of this misery? He tries to tell us that we are “only” in a recession, not a depression, as if definitions—words–relieve our suffering.

   Link

3. Jimbo says:

   October 17, 2011 at 9:37 pm

   More cowbell.
   http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/10/you-can-vote-for-smaller-government.php

4. happyfeet says:

   October 17, 2011 at 9:41 pm

   inflation all we ever wanted

   inflation have to get away

5. serr8d says:

   October 17, 2011 at 9:52 pm

   Just in the last hour…

   Hong Kong is tanking. http://www.businessinsider.com/hong-kong-is-tanking-and-the-casino-stocks-are-getting-crushed-2011-10

   …but China! growing like gangbusters. http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-gdp-grows-just-91-2011-10

   OT, but still welcome news; that on-again off-again wuss Bloomberg is once again sick of tents: http://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-says-occupy-wall-street-tent-city-is-not-covered-by-freedom-of-speech-2011-10

6. happyfeet says:

   October 17, 2011 at 9:55 pm

   i wouldn’t be surprised to find that Princess Bloomie has orchestrated a compelling bit of Kent State Lite with his girlfriend Mr. Soros

7. sdferr says:

   October 17, 2011 at 10:04 pm

   Europe’s got an Asian, while Asia’s got a grease,
   Greece has put a Helmut on but Helmut’s dressed in fleece.
   Bloomie has his Owwies, the Owwies they have naught,
   No-one’s got yo Mama’s back, Yo Mama, she gets taught.

   Or takes a trip to Siberia, whichever comes first.

8. happyfeet says:

   October 17, 2011 at 10:07 pm

   the fleecing of Germany hah I bet old Angela would appreciate a nice backrub these days

9. serr8d says:

   October 17, 2011 at 10:19 pm

   Hey, Bloomberg, I’m still awaiting the firehoses. Those kids need proper baths.

   Oh, another visual comparing OWS to our TEA Party. That’s one thing you don’t see much of at those dirty socialist fests: kids, families, strollers.

10. geoffb says:

    October 17, 2011 at 10:28 pm

    For #7.

    “This is not about my Mama. This is about Obama.”

    The Rev. rephrased.

11. motionview says:

    October 17, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    What do we want? Violent revolution (1 in 3) When do we want it? After you pay off our student loans.
    Go Obama!

12. John Bradley says:

    October 17, 2011 at 11:59 pm

    So I was (mentally) singing #7 to “I Do the Rock”… was that right?

13. Joe says:

    October 18, 2011 at 1:09 am

    Walking Dead is not too far an analogy…unfortunately.

14. B. Moe says:

    October 18, 2011 at 2:31 am

    Europe’s got a fever.

    It’s okay. They have an awesome healthcare system.

15. DarthLevin says:

    October 18, 2011 at 5:22 am

    Howard Stern sends someone to talk to the Owwies. Result? Pure NSFW hilarity.

16. JHoward says:

    October 18, 2011 at 5:36 am

    From tiny acorns big oaks grow. Or put another way, when Greece crashes into the EU banking cartel, and that cartel crashes into the globally rigged game, the trickle down won’t be exactly what Reagan was referring to.

    It’ll be cause to crack down on liberty cause when they own ya, they own ya.

    On the other hand Buchanan sees all this as the fragmentation of the New World Order, and not its genesis. And here I thought he was such a downer.

17. B. Moe says:

    October 18, 2011 at 7:21 am

    I think I heard Miss South Carolina in that Stern piece.

    She was the smart one.

18. sdferr says:

    October 18, 2011 at 9:44 am

    It’s right enough Mr. Bradley to the extent it works for you, but the truth is the Venn diagram of my encounters with pop music post 1953 lies within a chord of approx. of one to two degrees of arc at best. i.e, you can safely assume I’m vastly ignorant of the most of it, as for instance, that particular song: never heard it ’til now.

19. Joe says:

    October 18, 2011 at 10:23 am

    Your poetry jam is quite great sdferr.

    Is it me or is PW running weird. I keep getting script errors that make it lock up.

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