OT: Sometimes being a PITA pays off!

Cute, but inaccurate. The Nazis were socialists. Remember, Nazi = Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei = National Socialist German Worker's Party.

Hardly your stereotypical Republicans.

By contrast, the communists in divided Germany euphemistically called their land the DDR, (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, or 'The German Democratic Republic').

IOW, over there, the socialists fancied themselves Democrats.

Cheers, James Arthur

Of course the Nazi's were no more for the German worker than the current crop of 'Republicans' are the ideological descendants of the first Republican president, but who should let details like that get in the way?

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Maybe he was writing a memo to human resources: "'I don't know weather we should keep Rich on the payroll any longer.' No, that's not right. Its 'whether'."

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At least he didn't spell it "wether".

The formal definition of neoconservative is "a liberal who has been mugged by reality."

John

Doesn't it make you wonder, though, how a PHB can be so clueless, yet earn more than a typical engineer...?

Hmmm... I recall learning that distinction in 2nd or 3rd grade. Where did he go to elementary school?

Well, that was the name, yes, but I really don't know what their economic policies were, since my attention has been mostly consumed by the authoritarianistic aspect of the "nazi" thing. And the intolerance, and the way the skinheads these days seem to identify with the extreme right wing while wearing swastikas.

And I think words are evolving - a neoconservative is nothing like what we used to call a conservative. They used to be for limited government, and keeping the Constitution as the highest law of the land, separation of powers, all that archaic stuff.

Nowadays, "conservative" seems to mean "imperialistic" or something.

Thanks, Rich

Heh. He _is_ human resources. ;-)

I drew up an org chart once:

;-)

Cheers! Rich

I have no idea where he went to school, but I think probably in California horse country; and just from observation he seems to show symptoms of having been an abuse victim in his childhood, none of which is my or anybody else's business, of course.

Thanks, Rich

The neoconservative appraoch to reality is to ignore it, so the mugging would appear to have deprived the victim of any remaining contact with the real world.

Before attempting a counter-arguement to this proposition, you need to find a weapon of mass-destruction in Irak, some of the uranium that Saddam was supposedly buying from Africa, and an al-Qaida member whom Saddam had protected while knowing them to be a member of al-Qaida. Happy hunting.

The practical definition of a neoconservative is "a reactionary idoit, stupid enough to believe neoconservative propaganda". This is a slightly circular definition - for a more objective test, try and find out their attitude to "The Bell Curve", which was rubbish, but sufficiently well-disguised to go down well with the less-than-critical neocons it was aimed at.

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He could well have been rather distracted in elementary school, then. Poor fellow.

That's the great thing about holding absolute power: You get to call yourself what ever you want.

's-republic+North-Korea (As a rule, the more qualifiers, the less free the citizens.)

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You mean like "extremist" Barry Goldwater? Imagine how much better a place the world might be had we elected him.

But my liberal Democrat boss was right---err---correct when he told me, "Kid, you vote for Goldwater and the next thing you know we'll be bombing N. Vietnam." I voted for Barry and sure enough, we wound up bombing N. Vietnam.

I think it means dipshit, religious nut cases (pardon the redundancy) who want to eliminate my pursuit of happiness. And by Bush's appointment of Chairman of the Federal Reserve apparently wants to put me in the poor house too. I seem to be losing about $5K a day in my IRA since this bozo took over.

But maybe that's what they mean by "tax cut". No income, no tax.

I'm a lifelong Republican voter (even voted for GWB once, fool me once shame on you...) but I'm so pissed off I'll vote for Hillary before I'll vote for another one of these idiots. And that includes my Senator and one time idol, McCain.

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PHB'es are into it for the money, and engineers (IMO) are into it for the thrill of discovery and invention. And maybe a Nobel prize down the line, so the money is less important than the work.

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As I understand it, "neoconservatives" are a group of people who, starting around 1980, abandoned the Left for what they considered to be the Right. As you say, it's very different from traditional conservatism with a little c. By many criteria it's not conservative at all.

Hmmm... What is Mr. Bernanke doing wrong, and why is he responsible for the end of an extraordinary bull market that couldn't have gone on forever? Economists, as far as I know, think highly of him. The main reason is that, unlike his predecessors, Bernanke comes with documentation. His book "Inflation targeting" outlines what he thinks he ought to be doing. In many ways I would describe him as more conservative (with a little c) than any of his predecessors, in that he thinks that it's his job *not* to change the economy.

Ah. The tax cut isn't Bernanke's doing.

I voted for him.

McCain is dog meat.

...Jim Thompson

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Touché.

"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"

"I'm smart enough that I've figured out how to get to do things I enjoy without having to spend my own money doing them."

If they had been honest and called themselves the Murdering Drug-addicted Lunatics Party, they wouldn't have gotten as many votes.