Comments on: It’s Time for the Madness to Stop

By: Max Shields

Max Shields — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:43:07 +0000

Back then, with the hoopla of Obama and Michelle on the cover of New Yorker magazine, those were the good ol’ days. Laughed my ass off. What a riot. Loved the fists and Angela do. To this day the image gives me great pleasure. I think Remnick voted for Obama over a hundred times to make up for the mis-UNDERstanding.

Now O is upping the ante in Afghanistan, the collapse of the financial sector is still reeling downward, unemployment is reaching toward 20%, the trillions for continued war making and the printing of money when such plain doesn’t work.

Love when we can play Pinnacle on the deck of the Titanic. It’s so cool and posh.

By: Tree

Tree — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:00:49 +0000

The New Yorker cover was most definitely satire as it mocked the jingoism and fear mongering of the Right.
Just because someone doesn’t get the humor, it doesn’t give them the right to accuse people of being racist.

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:01:29 +0000

There was that New York magazine cover that showed Barak and Michelle Obama dressed menacingly as a kefiya-wearing Islamo-terrorist and dashiki wearing, Afro-sporting, Black-Power advocate. The magazine got called out on it. They defended themselves by calling it satire. It was pointed out that merely repeating the other side’s positions and fears is not satire.

By: danny ray

danny ray — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:46:03 +0000

Don, life is truley sad when you have to define satire. do you not know that everybody here is to busy telling everyone else here how to live for humor?
I on the other hand have nothing else to do but sit around dressed asa tree found it funny as hell.

Lv Ya dude.

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:43:13 +0000

What satirical post?

By: Tree

Tree — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:06:47 +0000

The lack of humor here amuses me the most.

By: anthony innes

anthony innes — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:27:04 +0000

to the intellectual cripples who attacked Don’s satirical post.Get help.
Really the academic posturing here is getting out of hand.Few raise any critical nuance or real links to information in reply to the articles .Its decent of Dissident Voice to provide this forum.Its a shame old lags here have so little to add like Josie MB.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:00:11 +0000

What is regarded as a change in climate? Is it what ‘pundits’ say? Is it local or global? What is the failure of a civilization? Is it moral or commercial? Is it local or global? I have had the opportunity to travel within the ‘continental united states’! Is that the ‘america’ that I have had the privilege to experience? Should that be the case, I am both afraid and tantalized. Which way those americans approach the problem will no doubt steer the course of history. The United States of America MUST stay away from any and all conflicts. Failure to do so will lead to Armageddon!

By: AaronG

AaronG — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:36:32 +0000

Don, the moon is NOT made of green cheese with a few crackers to keep it together out there in space. I’ve done some research and apparently the moon is made of rock and is held there by gravity.

However, you may have been correct with the climate change thing. I called some guys at Halliburton and they agree with you – it IS a hoax according to them. I’m just checking your other assertion that “Rush Limbaugh is a great man”. I’ll let you know what my findings are……….

Your Faithful Proofreader

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:32:58 +0000

and now some ball scores 6 to 5 and 9 to 3 and 0 to 0.

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:24:50 +0000

I don’t use satire because my wit is not sharp enough to carry it off. What would happen is that my words would be mistaken for their precise opposite. In short, you have to be an Oscar Wilde or George Carlin to satirize things. And for obvious reasons they are unlikely to ever be posting on DV.

By: Tree

Tree — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:39:28 +0000

Don, you must be Very Very Serious at all times. Knock of the satire shit and start wagging your earnest, moralizing finger like some of the other commenters.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:38:42 +0000

Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humour in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.

By: Shabnam

Shabnam — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:36:20 +0000

Barry: Don has exposed himself from the outset. Frankly, I don’t know why is he wasting his time on this site. He is not going to sell his broken philosophy to us, especially at this time that this philosophy and economic arrangement has lost ANY credibility it might have had among some who have enriched themselves robbing others.

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:05:15 +0000

Don – I knew you were a fraud when you said you were a capitalist. Or maybe fraud is not the word – just a capitalist…lackey.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:40:25 +0000

I am a Capitalist, Rush Limbaugh is a great man. The free market is the best past to prosperity and one of my favorite books is Atlas Shrugged. Climate change is a hoax and only a left wing conspiracy to gain power and distribute the wealth. Obama is a Socialist and isn’t a friend of the market or rich people. The fight is on and maybe we will not get all we WANT but we must make sure the other side Obama and the left and people who live in trailers and small houses and on the street don’t get what they NEED. We have most of the gold and we make the rules. USA USA USA go team go, go team go drill baby drill. We may not win but neither will the other side. Stay strong and listen to people who understand this and know the truth and how the World works. We will be back to normal very soon and we will all be happy and free as the Sun set’s in the East and the moon is made of green cheese with a few crackers to keep it together out there in space and I watch everything at the same time that I like to call the big picture.

It’s time to stop the madness.

By: Josie Michel-Brüning

Josie Michel-Brüning — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:09:53 +0000

As a modest voice from Germany, I would like to ask, why not joining each other? For instance with the following?

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
http://www.answercoalition.org/
gro.rewsnalanoitanretninull@ofni
National Office in Washington DC: 202-544-3389
New York City: 212-694-8720
Los Angeles: 213-251-1025
San Francisco: 415-821-6545
Chicago: 773-463-0311

By: AaronG

AaronG — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:44:34 +0000

“From the beginning, those in the military have served their country with unswerving loyalty”

The article painted a “support the troops” mantra, which I find dangerous. Grown men and women who enlist in the army know (or should know) that they are not going to work cutting flowers in a florist. They are joining a killing machine. If these young men and women did not enlist then old men couldn’t wage their wars. Period.

It’s a supply and demand problem. We have to stop supplying the military machine with our sons and daughters.

By: Fazal Maula Zahid

Fazal Maula Zahid — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:28:44 +0000

It is this fact we are trying since long to tell you, as a nation, not only face the truth — but come to abide with it. Presently the lies are repeated cleverly and nakedly at all levels with its full strength, so that every one take that as truth. The author is very right in saying that those who serve with such trust and loyalty cannot imagine that they are, at best, “experimental animals” to be used and cast aside by ruthless corporate thugs. We therefore strongly appeal that it is time the madness should be stopped. Time will no more wait for us. We should stop more action that leads to brutality.
Do you know that due to war on terror Swat Pakistan has been converted in to ruins and the heaven into hell. Internally displaced people, who survive from cruel death, are crossing the hills with their swollen legs and injuries, along their kids and ailing elders on their shoulders. They have lost their babies while their father, mother, sons, daughters and other beloved ones buried in their homes that have been reduced to ashes due to bombings and blasting. Do you have the heart to feel and the ear to hear about a mother holding in arms, the dead body of her son for continuous three days, wondering to know what wrong that kid had done to the govt and terrorists. Another woman found her hands empty losing her daughter in river Swat while crossing it to find a safe corner from bombing. Do the people at the helm of the affairs have moral courage to go and see the people shouldering dead bodies of their loved ones to exhibit the output of war on terrors, imposed by the US? And still they in turn expect that people should love America. My appeal to all friends is that to put maximum pressure on the US to stop this drama forthwith. We need education, approach to the services and a peaceful life. Nothing more nothing less. And it is time, not bad to repeat that IT IS TIME THE MADNESS SHOULD STOP
Fazal maula zahid
Pakistan

By: Sheila Samples

Sheila Samples — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:47:08 +0000

Thank you so much, Doug…and Jeff — I wish I could think of something that could prove you wrong, but I think you are exactly right.

Thanks…