‘Left, Right & Center’: Bad-Touched by TSA

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Posted on Nov 19, 2010

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How’s that touchy-feely thing working for you, TSA? It apparently doesn’t work for some Americans. Other headlines making their way onto this week’s edition of “Left, Right & Center” include GM’s IPO, tax break shenanigans and Afghanistan withdrawal confusion.  —KA

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By brunssd, November 24, 2010 at 10:30 am Link to this comment
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I listen to this podcast primarily to see what obtuse nonsense Matt Miller comes up
with each week.  We spend twice as much as other countries on health care and it’s
Medicare’s fault?  No mention of for profit providers strewn throughout the supply
chain, no mention that Medicare serves those Americans precisely when they are
most likely to need expensive care and no mention of the fact that the 65 and over
crowd aren’t wanted by for profit insurers - precisely why Medicare was created in
the first place.  Miller’s main function seems to be confined to promoting the
WaPo company line - a line where thinking and facts are inconveniences,

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By Ralph Kramden, November 21, 2010 at 3:21 am Link to this comment
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Oh Mr. Scheer, you are really going to get it now for calling our army mercenaries. You are absolutely right of course. Only indentured servants and outright for-hire thugs are serving. I want you to know that I support you. Mr. Miller and Mr. Blankey have a lot of nerve disputing your claim. There is no patriotism involved in Iraq, Afghanistan or Iran; just profiteering. I have two nieces who joined the Army only because they couldn’t get a job. How many children do Miller and Blankey have serving? I hate to say it, but Blankey is just a British Tory who knows nothing about democratic institutions and still believes in a monarchy, hence his idolatry of Gingrich. If Miller is the center, may the Gods help us.
Ralph

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By JackAttack, November 20, 2010 at 12:51 pm Link to this comment

Quite frankly, I was appalled at how
Bob Scheer was literally shouted
down by patriotic blather when he
was making the point about our
professional army being
mercenaries.  This old canard about
our brave men and women fighting
for our freedoms in foreign lands
has been used to justify virtually
every abomination employed in the
expansion and sustenance of
empire.  That we do in fact employ
more mercenaries (contract
soldiers) than our regular military
personnel in these wars of
aggression underscores the fact
that there seems to be a shortage
of “patriots.” 

When a young person joins the
military nowadays, it is often times
after they have been crushed by the
prevailing economic realities of their
lives and see no other possibilities. 
That educated commentators buy in
to the propagandizing bullshit fed
to these young people in the
process of their indoctrination is
disgraceful.  Convincing young
people to participate in the
slaughter of civilians under the
rubric of “patriotism” is as old as
the Republic itself.  What’s new is
that most of us are sitting on the
sidelines using the same old fight
songs to assuage our guilt at not
even having to think about the
consequences of empire.

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