The outrage that the whole world feels at the Israel attack on the Zionist population extened to Britain where anti-Zioist Jews picketed the Israeli Consulate.  They were attacked by Zioinist goons, the equivilent of the Nazi SA.  A rabbi and others were injured.  Just as Zionists assassinated Israeli leaders, imprisoned and toruted Israeli Jews, they are now physcially attacking anti-Zonist Jewish demos around the world.

The Gaza war marked an strong increase in Israeli fascism.

How is Isreal supposed to deal with an enemy like Hammas, who signs a cease-fire agreement and before the ink is even dry, lobs another missle into Isreali territory. Nobody takes the loss of innocent civilian life lightly and it’s a dodge from dealing with the real issue. The Palestinians don’t want peace. They want to destroy Isreal. Period. And at whatever cost in civilian or military lives. Who are the souless suicide bombers, I ask you? Blowing up little old ladies at bus stops. That’s not going to score you any points on the international front. And don’t you understand who is supporting the Palestinians? Not Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, who are rolling in petrol dollars. No! It’s Iran, a fascist state, intent on building a “Greater Iran” that will include territory from Tehran to Beirut and north into Afghanistan. Believe it or not, the mullahs have a plan and they are patiently pursuing it. Perhaps if the more “moderate” regimes of the Middle East had taken a greater interest in the Palestinian situation, perhaps we could have been spared these suicide bombers, et al.

You know there’s only one thing worse than a Bush necon - a real con(artist), Lincoln train ride and all. Boyarsky knows Obama will obey - whatever the Zionists/AIPAC want…Mr. Abe/Obama will be on the ready.

I understand that Obama has lineage that ties him to several founders, Abe Lincoln, John and Robert Kennedy, FDR (and Teddy)and even Ronald Reagan.

A man for all seasons, this Obama chap. Wonder who he’ll turn into after inauguration marketing publicity binge is over?

You know who’s footing the bill for his inauguration? Come on guess?

Boyarsky, you Israel-uber-alles little phony, get out of your “progressive” drag costume. You ain’t passin’, honey. Your smelly old stuff is hanging out in plain sight.

I can’t bring myself to celebrate this supposed “change” just yet, because of what is happening to the people of Gaza, with Obama’s blessing. This is not change. This is more of the very worst garbage that Americans have had to put up with: Israel behaving bestially, and US politicians singing hosannas to the Holy State all the while, as they aid and abet Israel’s obscene depravity and viciousness and greed and ethnic supremacism.

The only way I’m going to celebrate is if Obama, once he gets into power, wipes the smug smile off your murderous Zionist mugs by starting to move American foreign policy onto a new track, towards sanity and away from subservience to your Holy State. Unless and until I see that, I’m not celebrating.

I’m basically a nobody who years ago began reading the public record, rather than being content to simply sit back & veg out with the MSM.  At least with the public record, you get to read our leader’s truth & lies first hand, rather than hearing them filtered through the typical media lies (remember, Rupert Murdoch says that the news is what he deems it to be, etc.).

Help me to see how Mr Obama was “chosen” (beside the vote of the deceived public) for any other reason than to shut our country down (because we’re completely broke).

Contrary to the popular opinion of our citizenry, the US is going down…our lights will soon go off (literally), with no fast recovery.  For his last eight years as Comptroller of the US, David Walker was on a CRUSADE to convince us that we were nearing the point of total fiscal failure (GAO spreadsheets have always been openly available to the public).  Mr Walker retired last year but recently told our National leaders that we have past the point of no return, owing in excess of $59 Trillion dollars more than all of our assets cover (he says that these figures are way low, especially when factoring in the rape of our financial system, by Wall Street).  To top all of this off, our Treasury extends nearly $200 Billion per day, just to keep our banking system afloat (that’s more than $50 Trillion per year more).

Here’s the kicker:  The US imports over 2/3 of it’s oil…mostly on credit.  How long do you think our debt-buyers are going to continue to extend credit, especially since President Bush announced to the world (in December) that we will no longer be paying interest on our debt (since we are insolvent)?  Everything in our world depends on oil.  What do you think will happen, very soon, when 2/3 of our oil supply disappears?

Most citizens are not aware President Bush has declared Inauguration Day as a National Emergency, ordering in excess of 20,000 US military troops to help with security.  What this means is the transfer all command, control and communications to the Secret Service; even the military. Is it coincidence that this past Monday President Bush also warned of another 9/11-type event?  Vice President Cheney was in charge of our “emergency” that day.  Guess who will likely be in charge, next Tuesday?  Be scared…

Hold your precious ones near!

Blessings…

Norm Lowry (former christian neocon, now dissident)
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Lancaster PA USA

Hang in there Russ. Not everyone here is so obsessed with the I/P situation that it clouds their views on everything else.

That said, I must agree that calling Isreal out on their heavy-handed attacks is not anti-semetic. Condemning the actions of the Isreali government is not a condemnation of Jews. Big distinction.

Back to the point of the article… this is an historic inauguration and, like it or not, it is cause for celebration, despite our economic situation. The argument that we should spend the money on something else (like feeding the poor, etc.) is as absurd as telling your child to clean their plate because “children are starving in Africa”... as if we are going to pack our leftovers and ship them overseas, Pfft!

Whether or not we think it is a good idea to have a huge and expensive inauguration party, people will flock there to be a part of history in the making. An enormous portion of the expense will be in simply preparing for the inevitable influx of millions of people. To do otherwise would be extremely irresponsible.

Hey man, alot of the folks on here are just unahppy souls and have no other avenue to vent their frustrations, so they find someone that does not jump on their bandwagon and hammer them with negativity.  Wait until you get a response from Fadel, this guy hates everyone, but he or she is pretty funny.  Rock on Russ!

Sticking my head in the trash can, and interacting with you anti-semetic ghouls. Enjoy hating people, Mr. Folktruther, et al. I’m going to take a shower now.

Innocuous?  It could be read as American RIP.

And yes we can be afraid of the cost.  The problems are fundamental, structural and systemic.  If we spend a boatload of money to reinflate an economy structured poorly then we will simply have wasted the money.  And i’m always afraid of spending money that i don’t have…i wish that my representatives felt the same way.

Don’t forget that a good many economists have argued that what we’re seeing now is not the ultimate crises but the penultimate crises.  Roughly the same thing happened in the mid-1920’s and the governmental response to the problem was to print/borrow more to make the problems go away.  They did, for a little while, and then crashed down even harder.

I seem to remember Mr. Obama promising to talk to us like adults; i haven’t seen that yet.  If the problem is to be fixed, we need some honest discussion about the root causes.

Hey, Boyarsky, I know how you could help the US out economically in these parlous times.

If all the “American” people like you who insist that US foreign policy be conducted for Israel’s benefit would just emigrate to Israel, adjust your citizenship accordingly, and start paying Israeli taxes, then the US wouldn’t need to send billions to Israel every year to keep it afloat.

As a bonus, here in the US, we might be able to make a new foreign policy that centers on actual American interests. This would spare us even more expense and grief.

Deal?

“Like many other people, I’d like to party all week.  But this isn’t the year for it, not with” Barack Obama about to be inaugurated as president “and fear spreading through the land.” Corporate Uncle Tom Obama who once decried financial de-regulation and corporate malfeasance, will soon be its presiding political enabler. AIPAC stooge Barack,  who once promised a new era in American foreign policy, now shows his true zionist colors - much to the delight of Boyarsky-style liberals - by condoning the massacre in Gaza and proposing to reward outlaw Israel with record new levels of military aid. As mournful as the event promises to be—it will be an unforgivable chapter in American history—“the inauguration does not call for unbridled celebration”. At least not outside of Tel Aviv and Wall St. and the offices of their media shils like Boyarsky. “In a sense, it resembles another grim” situation infinitely worse than our own, in Gaza where Boyarsky has lauded murderous Israeli aggression and dismissed those “dead and wounded Gaza residents on television, on the Internet and in the newspapers” as only an “impression” cynically created by Hamas. No doubt, all those dead and wounded Gazans are just lifesize cardboard cutouts too, like the inspid paper doll figures of Obama Copacabana in the tacky Official Inaugural Collectibles store in Washington
  Boyarsky exulted then that “Obama appears determined to stand up for Israel.”  So it’s little wonder now that it might appear,  “A beleaguered capital in wartime. That’s how today’s Washington, D.C., strikes me”. In Gaza, the average unemployment rate in 2007 according to UNRWA was 29.5% and the consumption poverty rate 51.7%, -  making South Central L.A. seem almost like heaven in comparison. Recent Israeli depredations, cheered on by Boyarsky have, of course,  greatly intensified the unimaginable misery in Gaza engendered by the savage Jewish State, with the toll still rising daily. “With that kind of news, Obama’s most important task should be to “stand up for” Palestinian “homeowners threatened”  - and made homeless (and lifeless) -  by U.S. provided Israeli F-16’s and attack helicopters. “Those are among the people”  that should “be helped” too. Perhaps there is a way to combine the two as Obama himself pointedly suggested during the campaign, with cuts in inhumane foreign aid freeing up more funds for domestic aid to distressed sectors, providing complementary benefits in both policy areas. Late last winter Obama, in discussing the public funds being spent warring on Iraq, declared, “That is money that we could be spending here in the United States, rebuilding our infrastructure, building schools, sending kids to university,” Of course, it was standared Obama duplicity, he’s as much of a warmonger as any Democratic ‘dignitary’,  but it was a laudable idea anyway even if Obama doesn’t really believe it himslf.  And it prompted an equally pertinent suggestion - albeit indirectly - from none other than Kael Rove last March.  In his new role as Fox News contributor,  Rove recounted then, “I happened to be in Los Angeles on Monday, and somebody had heard Obama say this to me [sic], and they were Democrat, and at dinner they said, ‘I’m worried about that, because does that mean he’s going to be looking at our support, for example, for the state of Israel and looking at it in terms of what could we be doing at home with those dollars?’  Fat chance! The Obama team wont be “digging into the crisis” in Gaza to “tell the public exactly how” Israel is using the aid money, “pointing up” again just how small is the “change between George W. Bush and Obama”. There’s still no “idea of immediate and big help to the poor” of Gaza or an end to goyim taxdollars subsidizing Zionazi terrorism. Perhaps “Obama is taking note of the history” and is preparing for WW3 to end this Depression, too.

We don’t hate people different from us, Hollywood Russ.  We just hate you.  But I certainly don’t tnink your puerile drivel should be banned from TD, or anywhere.  Why not get together with Howard and Sepharad and form the Three Amigos to purvey your Ziionist gibberish.

I lived for a time in Hollywood, Russ, but I had to move.  Too many people like you.

This article makes me feel slimy.

hollywoodruss: Calling Israel out when they are wrong is not anti-Semitism. Just because they are Israeli does not give them a free pass to do whatever they please. What is happening over there is a blight on the face of the world. One side has to take a step back. Israel has already taken more than the Palestinians can afford to lose. If they keep going down this path, they will see what happens when a people loses EVERYTHING. As far as the inaugural ball goes, it’s just another circus from the bread and circus crowd. I would prefer to see the money spent on feeding the hungry instead of a president’s ego. This is NOT the time to be partying.

now we know why they call hollywood la-la land.

anti-semitism.  the lazy mans cat call against the thinking mans considerations of the I/P issue.

who here can take boyarsky seriously after his I/P column?

I’ve never seen such blatant anti-semetism in my life! Shame on all of you! Isn’t that just a thin wedge to start hating everybody who is different from you? And yet you have the unmitigated nerve to call me inane? This innauguration, more than any in recent history, should be a national celebration of our democracy in action. It’s something the whole country can join in with, whether standing in the cold watching the parades (wish I was there, okay?) or just watching it on t.v. Why do you people have to throw water on everything?  Obama will probably spend is first Administration cleaning up that mess, maybe even his SECOND Administration. Go, Obama!

BTW - Hooray for Hollywood

badlawdog: I would like to boycott Comcast, but they are the only ones who supply high speed internet out here. Without them, I wouldn’t be able to read all of you guys!

Gosh Hollywood Russ, do ‘ya think they’ll have ice cream and cake, and fireworks, and -and a parade even!
War is peace.
Keep the change.

Do something in your own community…Boycott Blockbuster Video, Comcast, CVS Pharmacy, Google and every other Israeli owned business in your OWN neighborhood. Stop walking blindly in to THESE chain stores and empowering our enemies!!!
Israel sports the worlds 4th largest army (conscription is mandatory) and is the world’s third largest arms manufacturer. When you combine the hundreds of billions of dollars Israel spends EACH YEAR on weapons and illegal settlements, you have to ask yourself where in the hell do a mere six million jews in the desert get that kind of money?
If you watched 60 minutes this past week (I know it’s biased) but they did screw up and investigated the huge price in gas last year, coming to the conclusion that it was speculators in the commodities market that caused the increase. They even went further, stating that there was collusion among secret traders to deliberately spike the oil market during a time when oil output was high and demand was low (which should have caused a decrease in oil prices-not an increase). They pointed the finger at Stanley Morgan, but its really AIPAC/Zionist controlled banks/investment firms working in collusion w/ Israel, to create capital for military campaigns. They raised the price of gas to $4/gallon, taking food from the mouths of poor American kids, so they could finance the killing of poor Palestinian kids!!!! Notice every time we get raped here in the US, Israel goes on a very expensive military campaign against Palestine/Lebanon, etc.
If your really outraged, start by boycotting Blockbuster, CVS Pharmacy, Google, Comcast, etc. These quasi-israeli owned businesses are also huge sources of revenue for this criminal, rogue nation…

“HERE COMES THE CHANGE”

Aaah, you missed it….too bad.

Well, your overseers did warn you all not to BLINK.

HokaHey!

re: Max Shields

No Max Shields, you are not a nut job and certainly should not be banned from posting your insights. But perhaps there is a meaning in the term “Hollywood” when applied to Russ, who also should not be banned, despite the inanity of his observations. Perhaps he longs for the by-gone days of the Hays censorship office, before the MPAA, before television, previous, previous, previous…

The Zionists threw a load of horse shyt in Obama’s face by inflicting genocide on the people of Gaza during the days leading up to his inauguration, and Obama remained silent.

The Congress rightfully working on behalf of the American people are practicing due diligence on the remaining 350 billion bailout package and Obama screams VETO!  Obama wants to veto the Peoples House but allows Israeli Zionists to commit genocide in Gaza. Does this engender trust in Obama? 

Trust is not an attitude that Obama can cast over the American People with a calm and resolute voice, it is instead the application of justice.

I grew up in our nation’s capital, and inauguration week is so festive that forgetting our nation’s troubles, even for a few days, makes it all worth it. At least the American people, for a change, chose somebody worthy of the post, forget that he is African-American. For a change, the best man won. And for a change, he IS considering the poor and the marginalized in his algorithm for recovery.

Who IS this max shields nutjob? He should be banned from the website.

US Total Public Debt Outstanding is - $10.6 trillion dollars
http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm . This doesn’t include the massive Federal budget deficit of - $1.2 trillion dollars expected in fiscal year 2009.

The nine comments preceding this one, all do not expect Obama to offer the “change” needed to fix the economy.  So, my depression that there is a majority who “chose” him willingly might be wrong?

That would make me happy.

That the majority voted when they should have protested, because they would have preferred an honest election, to net an honest agenda for change candidate vote at a real majority level could mean we might expect success if we demand a halt and real honest election as required before ANY inauguration.

Doesn’t “anybody but Bush” bring chills up a majority level of voters’ spines?

This was what was forced BY THE MEDIA, I believe.

The photograph belies the article pessimism, and the comments agree the insistence on lies and hype as if that delivers honest government is not believed by the audience.

But WE voted for the sleeze?

Yes, a majority did.

I did not.  I voted for Nader for President and I had done volunteer activism as soon as I heard he was running AT THE END of the 2000 campaign, I was upset and angry he was not being allowed the proper challenge to the two parties which have ruled our politics but certainly DO NOT RULE our “democracy.”

The media cannot be serious that they have the right to insist on THEIR CHOICES as the only valid choices all during the campaign season and for the debates and for the polls by the mainstream media which is proving its constant corruption as if it is truth, it is not. 

What about the forced issue of how to prove it is not the truth.  OBJECT to the OBAMA RAILROADED agenda so loved by the media, and SAY WE WANT HONEST POLITICS and we can ask for the SIX immediately REQUIRED properly presented by the fact that the media must be brought on on the carpet of public accountability.  They refused to allow honest and fair competition. We have FRAUD bein tendered as if TRUTH of “US” it is truth of corporate corrupt media control, NOT US.

We do not share the enthusasiam of the illegal financial programs offered by the warmongers in our faces and their insistence on calling war peace.  It is not peace, it is not a budget in balance, and the President owes leadership not usurption of the Constitution.

“It {the report} envisioned creation of more than 3.5 million jobs, 90 percent of them in the private sector.”

This ‘90 percent of them in the PRIVATE sector’ is extremely problematic, if in fact this is the case. And, while I haven’t read the report yet, (I’m about to) I’m going to make the temporary assumption that Boyarsky is interpreting this correctly.

If this much of the ‘reconstruction’ goes right back into the private sector, instead of building up the PUBLIC control of these industries, (health care, education, energy, physical infrastructure, etc) then it’s true that nothing will have changed, and the corps will continue to dictate our own so-called ‘democracy’.

This unprecedented crises that we find ourselves in at the start of a new administration provides for an excellent opportunity to redo things a better way. And a ‘better way’ would be to NATIONALIZE everything from water to health care. Our BANKING, transportation, communications, energy, health care, agricultural productivity, ALL of our natural resources, and just about anything else you can think of should be NATIONALIZED. The SAME jobs that these private sector interests provide can be done by the same Americans, in the service of the PUBLIC sector! 

So this equation should be reversed, and at least 90% of these jobs should be in the public sector.

If the Obamas truly were worried about our economy and the jobless, why don’t they take the MILLIONS of dollars they are using for redecorating the White House and give it to the poor? I’m sure there are some soup kitchens in D.C. that can put the money to better use than new furniture. Yet another case of raping the taxpayer!

re: Purple Girl

The fact that Geitner did not pay income tax on his self-employed job at the IMF, and is called an honest mistake is laughable. Not paying taxes on self employed income is what sent baseball player Pete Rose to prison. But then, the all-time hits King is not in the same league as the director of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. A better description might be: a righteously dishonest mistake, by one of the movers and shakers. I wonder if he was at that George Will dinner party, attended by Barack Obama last night?

Why isn’t Krugman on his economic team? Seems to me he’s been the ‘smartest guy in the room’.
Although I like Reich, I am willing to see Rubin and Summers Executed for Economic treason. Paulson & Berneke should have been swinging when they dared had Congress that 2 1/2 page Death threat- Both KNEW it was coming at least 6 months prior and did NOTHING!Now we have no idea where the money went, except that it did not come to US! When Obama named Gietner, I figured we need someone who knows where all the bodies are buried, yet over the last 3 months Geitner has been working as one of the grave diggers…No to OUR side.
I hated the nomination of Hillary ‘Obliterate Iran’ Clinton to Sec of State, Now also hating Geitner Wall Streets lap dog to Treasury Sec.
Careful Obama, even your volunteers are beginning to doubt your ‘change’.

Obama’s plan is named American R.I.P.? You’re Freudian slip is showing! Lol! Just waiting to see how it plays out.

Here is a very good reason to stop supporting the Democratic party:
http://www.alternet.org/audits/119252/