Pat Buchanan is entertaining on the Mclaughlin group, but cant say he is likeable.
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Star Hustler, Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.fansoffieger.com/spence.jpgGerry Spence. Is he considered conservative? He's a great man.
I remember listening to this libertarian/populist/isolationist type on the radio named Chuck Harder. He was pretty cool. He had an unfortunate tendency to really deride the UN, but was anti-NAFTA, anti-GATT, pro-farmer, pro-factories in the U.S. borders, and he was kind of like a right-wing Ralph Nader. But he was ignorant in foreign affairs. Nevertheless, his radio show For the People was enjoyable.
http://robthurman.com/images/crouches.jpgI adore Jan Crouch's delivery and showmanship. She is my favorite televangelist. Her husband Paul is funny too. They provide countless hours of religious entertainment. I don't know if I could forgive them for preying on the schizophrenic and disadvantaged though.
― Star Hustler, Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link
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― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link
He looks like Frankenberries even in that old pic.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:32 (nineteen years ago) link
1970s and 1980s: Financial crisis
Financial crisis hit the city in the mid-1970s, when it briefly appeared that the city might have to declare bankruptcy (see John Lindsay). The fiscal crisis resulted largely from the combination of generous welfare spending by the city government in the 1960s and the stock market and economic stagnation of the 1970s. President Gerald R. Ford earned the enmity of many New Yorkers when he refused to use federal money to "bail out" the city. The New York Daily News famously summarized Ford's decision in a headline: "Ford to City: Drop Dead".
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Mir Foregnor, Thursday, 17 June 2004 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465013996http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393038912
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 17 June 2004 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link
William Hague strikes me as an able politician and a decent and honest fellow.
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 17 June 2004 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
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― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.rferl.org/specials/50years/images/kissinger-large.jpg
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
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― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.leary.com/archives/photo/gems/GGordonLiddyLAdebate.gif
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Can someone point me to this article?
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
John McCain is a raving lunatic. I know he speaks his mind and stuff, but it is the mind of a mentalist. Let's not forget this.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Most of the conservative ideals - keeping marijuana illegal, opposing a woman's right to choose, expanding the military (I'd add tax breaks to the rich, but I don't think a conservative would admit that) seem pretty fucking far from libertarianism to me.
In fact, the only republican who actually truely believe the stated conservative goal of "less government" is John McCain who gets shit for being too liberal.
And, unrelated, but why would you ever proudly assert the label "conservative" on yourself; it seems like such an insult -- it implies a fear of change and longing for the past that doesn't seem positive at all to me.
― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
a : tending or disposed to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions : TRADITIONAL b : marked by moderation or caution < a conservative estimate > c : marked by or relating to traditional norms of taste, elegance, style, or manners
The idea that you would be proud that you want to "maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions" or "traditional norms" especially considering that "norms" at one point included slavery and segregation, seems pretty irrational to me.
― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
I admit to liking Tucker Carlson more than I should. I hate myself for finding Liddy amusing, and appreciating his being less nuts than many of these guys. I wouldn't say I like John McCain, but I (mostly, and comparatively) respect and appreciate him. I feel similarly about Lugar, and also Hagel, though (a lot?) less so. I don't agree with Dole on most things, but I would find him inoffensive if he were less of a sellout (and the war wound and he's funny). I didn't mind the Hatfield/Packwood types much, but I wonder if they would have lost my respect if they had been around when the Gingrich revolution came. Colin Powell has completely lost whatever respect I had for him. I dislike PJ O'Rourke and loathe David Brooks the hack (I have some gruding respect for David Brooks the occasional journalist). I find Stanley Crouch occasionally interesting, but typically pompous and in other ways annoying. I like Trent Lott at least twice as much as Bill Frickin Frist.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
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