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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (667892)	8/18/2012 12:18:56 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1580215

Tom Morello rips Rage Against the Machine fan Paul Ryan By August Brown August 17, 2012, 11:23 a.m. First New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was rebuffed by The Boss. Now another well-know liberal musician has spurned the advances of a right-wing politician-fan. In a brutal Rolling Stone editorial, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello calls Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's recent vice presidential pick, the "embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades." The 42-year-old Ryan has touted his Rage fandom in the past, a curious choice given the band's ferocious advocacy for unions, immigrants and social justice. Morello is clearly amused and perplexed at how deeply, in his opinion, Ryan has missed the point of his band. "He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage," Morello wrote. "I wonder what Ryan's favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of "F- the Police"? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings!" Ryan's Gen-X demographic could have allowed for some teenage dalliances with Rage's music at the same time he was getting into Ayn Rand, and Ryan has claimed to like band's sound but purposefully tunes out their lyrics. Morello agrees that Ryan was probably "moshing when he should have been listening." Morello was most recently seen supporting Occupy L.A. last year and protesting the opening of a Chinatown Wal-Mart, but this editorial should up the stakes in a musically contentious election season. "I clearly see that Ryan has a whole lotta 'rage' in him: A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment," he wrote. "Basically the only thing he's not raging against is the privileged elite he's groveling in front of for campaign contributions." latimes.com

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (667892)	8/18/2012 12:46:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580215

The "wager" was in response to your post: Yeah......not only do you not know squat about the auto industry but you know even less about stocks. Your INTC stock has done nothing for years as you well know and will continue to do squat going forward....whereas GM's stock is very likely to appreciate. Pray tell..........what is the number one selling brand in China? http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=26983602 Whch was in response to this ridiculous comment made by you: b) My INTC stock has a better chance of appreciating 50% over the next two years than GM Which means you are not likely to win your wager either. As long as you have worked for INTC..........and we all know that's been a long, long time............INTC stock hasn't gone up 50% let alone in two years. That's why the odds favored GM. And I continue to believe that GM's stock will do better in the long haul. And that's not a prediction.......its an opinion.........speculation..........try to discern the difference. A lot of your predictions turned out to be wrong, yet here you are continuing to act like you know more than the rest of us: I don't think the gov't will lose a penny. And I suspect they will start selling their GM stock around the time of the 2012 presidential election. So how long until you finally admit the government will end up losing billions of dollars in the GM bailout? Again, I was not making a prediction..........predictions suggest certainty. And the gov't will lose only if the gov't chooses to sell now. Eventually that stock will go back up. It depends on how long the gov't is willing to hold. Face it, GM is now a campaign prop. It sucks as an investment, it continues to be ill-managed as a company, and the union workers continue their journey into irrelevance. Yet the shills like Steve Benen are out in full force claiming that the GM bailout is actually a "win" for the Obama administration. You know that how? Once again, you are making declarative statements that are not backed up by any links and run in the face of what is getting reported. Very typical winger behavior. And you accuse me of bad predictions. Ha! And the sad part of all of this discussion is that you are so mired in my stock abilities rather than focused on the most salient points; that Obama saved thousands of jobs and insured that the US will have an auto industry going forward........something that would not have happened under Mitt the twit. Even for an INTC bureaucrat your thinking is muddled and terribly unfocused. No wonder Obama doesn't want people to focus on his record. Such silly nonsense.........clearly. you are not listening.........as usual. If you listened, you might figure out why you keep supporting losers.