But why dwell on the costs? As college studies show, a college diploma is a bargain at any price! Oh sure, four to seven years ago you could have taken out a $200,000 loan and bought a nice starter house, or a new Ferrari. But where would that leave you today? With a four to seven year old Ferrari, that's where. Instead you have this priceless diploma signifying your wise financial choice to put your debt where your brain is, and hot rod that sucker with the latest nitro-fueled, supercharged academic knowledge this side of Jacques "Big Daddy" Derrida. That knowledge hurtled you down the quarter mile at Deconstruction Valley Dragways and now you claim the prize - this diploma naming you as Top Patriarchy Eliminator. And unlike a Ferrari, no repo man will ever load your knowledge on a flatbed and haul it away - even if he wanted to.
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This whole Oprah thing reminds me of Howard Stern who seemed to disappear from the zeitgeist once he went to satellite radio. HIs show might have even been far better but for most of us he disappeared.
#4
Oprah was unkind to meat from Texas... looking at her physical size meat she likely overindulged in...
Pot Kettle and all that jazz.
Posted by: Water Modem ||
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I never understood her attraction, though she obviously has (up until now, at least) good business sense.
From what I can tell, she's mostly contributed to the wussification of people in this country. And that never bodes well for a country.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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Oprah figured out how to make a televised Pity Party. People loved her show because she had on lots of people who were worse off than the people who watched and they could then feel good about themselves while pitying others.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
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Sally Jessy, Phil, et al were doing the stint before her. She offered an assuage to middle class White Guilt(tm) among the lib and soccer mom crowd. She had already hit her zenith and was naturally coasting downward when she threw in with blood/clan/tribe over her community which was Hildabeast country. It's been in rapid decent since then.
#9
No, Joe 'two scoops' Biden invented the television so FDR could broadcast his fireside chats.
First, credit where its due. Oprah is very successful and for whatever reason has a huge audience outside the USA. A person cannot mention the opportunities of capitalism and the United States without at least mentioning Oprah Winfry. Why and how is certainly up to debate.
She has eased the daytime TV burdons of the middle class and brought 15 minutes to her books which we have not seen or heard of before or since.
She also hands out gifts up to cars and vacations to her guests to create enthusiasm.
She had an active campaign against the ranching community and if a way to gain political gravitas that was boneheaded because Chicaco is most definately affected by the cattle community as well as the rest of agriculture who told her to blow her wind elsewhere.
Her format was tried and true before she came along.
She helped invent the Oxygen Channel, is perhaps the worst piece of shit channel of all the shit channels, featuring a show where loose women drink till they barf then fight their roommates and f@ strangers, and that is their best show the rest, unmentionable.
Enjoy your newfound obscurity Oprah, you well deserve it.
(had to endure her adios show during the storms other day on account of radar updates..geezfarkinggooberdam, about as entertaining as watching a cat fall asleep)
#11
"Oprah figured out how to make a televised Pity Party."
Bingo, Deacon.
Who in the hell has time to watch TV in the middle of the afternoon? Either I'm at work (or was sleeping when I worked 3d shift), or I've got better things to do at home than stare at the boob tube.
I actually set the VCR once to record her show because they were advertising a show about entrepreneurs and I hoped to get some pointers. What a waste. Summary: "Jane Doe was broke and nearly homeless, got an idea, and now she's rich!" No specifics, no suggestions, no encouragement for others, not discussion of the hard work and endless hours Jane (and her family, usually) must have put in, nothing but "now she's rich." Pathetic. Worthless.
As for her giving cars to the audience, I read about that. And about the audience members who bitched because they had to pay taxes on the $40,000 gift. As I said, pathetic.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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Hell, MSM and the ruling caste have ignored the southern half of the hemisphere for generations. What's new?
It's New York, Washington, maybe LA, then Europe, then some exotic hotspot for the moment are the darlings of the information manipulators. A major conflict in Mexico is just the latest to be ignored as was the long war in Columbia.
There are four aggregate characteristics/behaviours of Muslims that make it inevitable that they will eventually force European peoples into violent conflict with them, that make them, in short, toxic to Western societies: their criminality (including terrorism), their parasitism, their sedition, and their subversion. All these characteristics manifest themselves with remarkable consistency, whether we look at Pakistanis in the UK, Turks in Germany, Algerians in France, or Moroccans in the Netherlands. And none of these characteristics is amenable to being materially affected in any way by anything the British, Germans, French, or Dutch may do. As such, the hostility that European peoples feel towards their rapidly-growing Muslim populations is not only an entirely reasonable response to the characteristics of these populations, but is remarkable only in that it has taken so long to become so prevalent.
[Yawn] Good night!
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NORTHERN IRELAND
versus
* IIRC TOPIX/WORLD NEWS [old] > SHARIA LAW ALREADY BEING PRACTICED IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, + beginning in New Zealand.
Milyuhns-n-Dilyuhns of Muslim Marriages, Divorces being made, undone independent from Aussie Govt-Public laws.
* SAME > US MUSLIMS FIGHT FOR BURQUA RIGHTS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
"Here lies our sovereign king," wrote the Earl of Rochester about King Charles:
Whose word no man relies on.
Who never said a foolish thing
Or ever did a wise one.
This seems to capture President Obama's Middle East problems in a nutshell. The President's descriptions of the situation are comprehensive and urbane. He correctly identifies the forces at work. He develops interesting policy ideas and approaches that address important political and moral elements of the complex problems we face. He crafts approaches that might, with good will and deft management, bridge the gaps between the sides. He reads thoughtful speeches full of sensible reflections.
But the last few weeks have cast him as the least competent manager of America's Middle East diplomatic portfolio in a very long time. He has infuriated and frustrated long term friends, but made no headway in reconciling enemies. He has strained our ties with the established regimes without winning new friends on the Arab Street. He has committed our forces in the strategically irrelevant backwater of Libya not, as he originally told us, for "days, not weeks" but for months not days.
Where he has failed so dramatically is in the arena he himself has so frequently identified as vital: the search for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. His record of grotesque, humiliating and total diplomatic failure in his dealings with Prime Minister Netanyahu has few parallels in American history. Three times he has gone up against Netanyahu; three times he has ingloriously failed. This last defeat -- Netanyahu's deadly, devastating speech to Congress in which he eviscerated President Obama's foreign policy to prolonged and repeated standing ovations by members of both parties -- may have been the single most stunning and effective public rebuke to an American President a foreign leader has ever delivered. Read it all
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Obama plays more like Charles I rather than Charles II. Egotism, court/patronage games, tax problems, skirting law and tradition to achieve his ends, favoritism, vacillation in policies and practices, punishing 'enemies', tossing associates 'under the bus', etc. Once thought the brightest to inherit the happiest kingdom in Christendom while the continent heaved in sectarian fratricide, would bring forth pain and disorder to home.
#2
The President's descriptions of the situation are comprehensive and urbane. He correctly identifies the forces at work. He develops interesting policy ideas and approaches that address important political and moral elements of the complex problems we face. He crafts approaches that might, with good will and deft management, bridge the gaps between the sides. He reads thoughtful speeches full of sensible reflections.
#3
Yet, the home buying tax credit, freddie mac, fannie mae - more than $6 trillion of market already manipulated by this stupid government. At some point, it must stop.
#7
"The market went bad when there was rampant house inflation. The cause? The state creating a credit bubble."
And government willing to back that credit, and CDO swaps, mark to market,(Red Line) lack of SEC oversight, Manipulations of the regulations by banks by using market share to hedge, Congressional lack of oversight of the fredfran scam.
With little domestic support, limited international pressure and a seemingly leaderless and fractured insurgent movement, it seems highly unlikely that Bangkok will any time soon work out a negotiated settlement with insurgents in the south. That may be one reason why authorities familiar with the dialogue process refer to the mediated meetings as "talks" rather than "negotiations".
With little domestic support, limited international pressure and a seemingly leaderless and fractured insurgent movement, it seems highly unlikely that Bangkok will any time soon work out a negotiated settlement with insurgents in the south. That may be one reason why authorities familiar with the dialogue process refer to the mediated meetings as "talks" rather than "negotiations".
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