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Here’s a look into abstinence education.
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/virginity-rocks/
No wonder it doesn’t work. First they tell you lies about the effectiveness of condoms and they’re teaching methods is if you have sex it’s like smashing your genitals with a brick.
The History of Cinco de Mayo
Introduction
The holiday of Cinco De Mayo, The 5th Of May, commemorates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862. It is primarily a regional holiday celebrated in the Mexican state capital city of Puebla and throughout the state of Puebla, with some limited recognition in other parts of Mexico, and especially in U.S. cities with a significant Mexican population. It is not, as many people think, Mexico’s Independence Day, which is actually September 16.
Today’s Celebration:
For the most part, the holiday of Cinco de Mayo is more of a regional holiday in Mexico, celebrated most vigorously in the state of Puebla. There is some limited recognition of the holiday throughout the country with different levels of enthusiasm, but it’s nothing like that found in Puebla.
Celebrating Cinco de Mayo has become increasingly popular along the U.S.-Mexico border and in parts of the U.S. that have a high population of people with a Mexican heritage. In these areas the holiday is a celebration of Mexican culture, of food, music, beverage and customs unique to Mexico.
Commercial interests in the United States and Mexico have also had a hand in promoting the holiday, with products and services focused on Mexican food, beverages and festivities, with music playing a more visible role as well. Several cities throughout the U.S. hold parades and concerts during the week following up to May 5th, so that Cinco de Mayo has become a bigger holiday north of the border than it is to the south, and being adopted into the holiday calendar of more and more people every year.
[source and for more details - Mexonline.com]
http://www.mexonline.com/cinco-de-mayo.htm
Darn greedy evil union workers. They’d rather close a piece of American history, than take a pay and benefits cut. Guess they’d rather be unemployed.
“The New York Times Company declared its intention to notify Federal authorities today under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification law of its intention to close the Boston Globe within 60 days. The Times Company, which has owned the Globe since 1993, has been involved in intense negotiations with unionized Globe workers, represented by the Newspaper Guild and the Teamsters.
The Boston Globe faces a potential $85 million loss this year after experiencing a 14% circulation drop. Twenty million dollars stands between management and unions in the negotiations.
“The Boston Globe is New England’s largest newspaper. The newspaper has been in circulation since 1872, reporting on every major event affecting the city and the nation for 137 years.” Associatedcontent.com
The New York Times Co. on Monday had postponed its threat to close the Boston Globe after reaching agreement with six of the seven unions at the newspaper on cost-saving measures.
The Globe says the parent company is seeking $10 million in savings from the Newspaper Guild — the paper’s largest union — as well as $5 million from the mailers, $2.5 million from the drivers and $2.2 million from the pressmen.” Washington Post
Cinco De Mayo is another get drunk holiday just like St Patrick’s Day.
It’s significance has increased since Corona Beer started it’s beach commercials and songs about Cuervo Gold Margarita became the rage.
Not to mention between 20-40 million illegal criminal’s who snuck across the border to steal American jobs and plant non-native grass across our yards.
Why does Obama and the liberal congress hate seniors?
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Elderly Hardest Hit
Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs
“Why does Obama and the liberal congress hate seniors?”
Good question.
Obama also froze Social Security for the next couple of years – no COLA (first time that’s happened for years).
Obama is also increasing the out-of-pocket expenses some seniors pay for the medicare part B coverage/expenses.
Obama hates old people. Probably because old people are against gay marriage.
Corona is among the worst beers in Mexico, and experienced travelers and Mexican won’t sit with anyone who drinks it.
Sean Hannity has previously referred to “Obama’s bear market” and used declines in the stock market to criticize Obama administration policies.
For example, on the March 10 edition of his show, Hannity said to former Democratic National Committee financial committee chair Michael Brown, “Obama, since he’s elected, has tanked the markets.” Brown asked, “Oh, that’s Obama’s fault?” and Hannity responded, “That’s right.”
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Dow closes up 200 points S&P erases yearly losses
Stocks finish sharply higher with key housing data and some renewed worries for banks in focus for investors. S&P closes at a four-month high and turns positive for 2009.
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Sean??? Sean???
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After repeatedly using the stock market’s poor performance to criticize President Obama, Sean Hannity, when confronted with the fact that the Dow has surpassed its level on Inauguration Day, stated that “[t]he market doesn’t mean anything to me.”
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Flip. Flop. Dying fish.
beber that’s why you put a lime in it. And NEVER, EVER, drink a Corona that’s not ice cold.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/us/politics/03benefits.html?ref=global-home
The reason COLA is not increasing is because there is no inflation. Rush must have been busy yesterday. However, if we are ever to have a balanced budget, something is going to have to be done about SS and senior health care. The only way out is to cut it, raise taxes, or expand the economy and import millions of young foreign workers. Probably we’ll have to do all three. Or maybe a pandemic will save us.
And NEVER, EVER, drink a Corona
That was all you had to say brother. Stay away from the skunk pee.
“something is going to have to be done about SS ”
That’s funny. Bush tried to do something about Social Security during his first term. Democrats actually LAUGHED and made statements that “there is nothing broke with Social Security”. In fact, certain posters here (Capt America for one) stated that Social Security was the best example of a successful government entitlement program. Quoted FDR and all.
It is interesting to me that now that democrats are completely in power – “something has to get done”.
American_Way:
I’ll bet that you think it was the evil unionized buggy-whip workers that ran the buggy-whip producers out of business, don’t ya?
“buggy-whip workers that ran the buggy-whip producers”
Saw this coming. In this case, what is a reader supposed to think?
The companies financials are public record – they were in a deficit last year and without change they will have an 85 milllion dollar deficit this year.
There isn’t a profit included in that debt. For investors and management – if costs are not reduced we all loose. We aren’t talking a fight over profit margins here. It’s survival.
“Stay away from the skunk pee”
BTW, I did not endorse Corona. I mentioned their advertising commercials.
I’m still partial to Shiner Bock myself. It’s their birthday ya know.
What’s this? It’s not just a handful of bi gots who are against g*y marriage. Can this be? – it includes a large number of democrats. The party of inclusiveness?
A clear majority of Americans [like the Obama election] don’t favor g*y marriage, backed by many in the president’s Democratic party.
Fifty-four percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp poll released Monday say that marriages between g*y or lesbi*n couples should not be recognized as valid, with 44 percent suggests they should be considered legal. The poll indicates that close to 40 percent of Democrats oppose legalizing gay marriage.”
Not much to think about….the newspaper business is a dying business. The newspaper will get there concessions from the unions and the inevitable will be forestalled for awhile.
People who invested in that form of media made a poor investment.
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What’s this? It’s not just a handful of big*ts who are against g*y
Monitor doesn’t like the word g*ay or big*ts.
“People who invested in that form of media made a poor investment”
Picking any investment does not involve throwing a dart at a dart board. It requires considerable research. Many leave that to a broker, or default to mutual funds – professionals. But mutual funds contain media stock as part of a portfolio, and professional advisors didn’t fair much better in picking winners and losers.
But all the normal rules for investing have not been working of late. The rules should not be thrown out the window, but in this recession, many of us got hurt.
But back on topic, here is just an example of how complicated just picking a “media” stock can be:
http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/chart.shtml
Only 54%?
Hell, a good 5 or 6 percent of that bigoted group will be dead of old age in just a few years.
“Corona is among the worst beers in Mexico, and experienced travelers and Mexican won’t sit with anyone who drinks it.”
No beber, it’s just you they don’t want to sit next to. Ever consider that?
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is encouraging people celebrating the holiday with alcohol to designate a sober driver before festivities begin, according to a statement from the Sheriff’s Office.
From 2002 to 2006, the safety administration said 43 percent of highway fatalities across the nation on May 5 occurred due to drunk drivers with blood alcohol content of .08 percent and above.
Cinco de Mayo is becoming an increasingly popular holiday for people to get drunk.
“Statistics show that on average, nationwide, someone is killed every 40 minutes by a drunk driver.
May 5th
Today in the history of record temperatures for Wichita
High: 96 °F (1940)
LOW: 35 °F (1944)
I can’t remember where I found this originally but it was over the weekend and was related to the news of Jack Kemp’s passing. Jack Kemp was Dole’s VP candidate in 1996 and Kemp also served as Housing Secretary in G.H.W. Bush’s administration.
I thought it was an interesting post-election perspective from an old school Republican in what seems to be an ever increasing time of polarization in politics.
http://www.kemppartners.com/about-jack-kemp/column/a-letter-to-my-grandchildren/
“I thought it was an interesting post-election perspective from an old school Republican in what seems to be an ever increasing time of polarization in politics.”
Kemp was a good and decent man. As Hemingway explained in ‘For Whom A Bell Tolls”, Kemp’s passing is a great loss to all of us….and again the bell tolls for us.
“Hell, a good 5 or 6 percent of that bigoted group will be dead of old age in just a few years.”
Bluejay that just demonstrates a lack of compassion on your part.
When you get older, you will realize that the beliefs and ideals you held as a child actually change as you mature. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch Bluejay.
The flower children of the sixties are now “old” people. Yet, we no longer see them sitting in protests, wearing tie-dyed shirts, waving peace signs, and surrounded by
a cloud of marijuana or hashish smoke.
The generation of shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen long hair has given
way to baldness. No more down to your a ss home for the fleas. The once; knotted, polka-dotted; twisted, beaded, braided powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied is now either gray or gone.
The good morning sunshine has traversed their sky of life toward a hopefully bright sunset. Letting the sunshine now includes SPF50.
The Age of Aquarius has evolved into the age of Viagra, adult diapers, medicare bills,
and social security.
(and yes, I slightly resemble these remarks.)
“some” of these remarks….
“The flower children of the sixties are now “old” people. Yet, we no longer see them sitting in protests, wearing tie-dyed shirts, waving peace signs, and surrounded by
a cloud of marijuana or hashish smoke.”
Proof you don’t know a damned thing. I’ll be going soon to the flower child blowout of the universe soon. It lasts a whole month. The reason you don’t know about it is that we don’t want you to know. If you did, you’d do everything you could to f it up.
So you drink Corona, do you Box? Haw, haw, haw.
Union Leaders to Union Workers:
Not Yours!
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Beleaguered leaders of the Boston Globe’s biggest union – under fire for failing to strike a concession deal with the paper’s out-of-town overlords – have themselves received generous pay hikes over the past three years – even as their members have gone without a raise, according to federal filings.
I rarely drink at all but when I do I like dark, heavy beer.
I suppose you could say the same thing about those beers as Corona though as I wouldn’t want to sit anywhere around you even for those.
“flower child blowout of the universe soon”
I’m just so disappointed. (LMAO)
Your universe must be restricted to a small big town in Kansas. Because this blowout doesn’t seem to register with the rest of the world.
And yes, if it involves bleeding heart liberals, I would find a way to f*uck it up. Us retired Marines are very good at intentionally causing others distress, when pushed.
“even as their members have gone without a raise, according to federal filings.”
I told you! It’s those filthy evil and greedy unions causing American industry to wither away.
And you libs thought it was Bush!
Jokes on you. More union workers loosing jobs and taking pay cuts under Obama’s oversight.
And yes, if it involves bleeding heart liberals, I would find a way to f*uck it up. Us retired Marines are very good at intentionally causing others distress, when pushed.
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Are you serious? Who’s pushing you?
The U.S. should follow their lead and ban Rush.
“LONDON (AFP) – The government published a blacklist on Tuesday of people recently banned from the country including a Hamas lawmaker and a Jewish extremist, as well as anti-gay protestors and a far-right US talk show host.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she decided to publish the “name and shame” list — which identifies 16 people banned since last October — for the first time to clarify what behaviour Britain will not tolerate.
“Who’s pushing you?”
No one. A fly buzzing about. A pesky mosquitoes trying to sting. Nothing worth more than waving away.
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2009/05/open-thread-55-2/comment-page-1/#comment-567012
Here’s one for the cons: Rottweiler Blues. I think Warren Zevon wrote it but I’m not sure
Got a Glock in the bedside table
Machine gun leaning by the bedroom door
Kevlar vest in the closet
Well, I wear it when I go to the store
Shadows on the window
Rustling in the hedge
Faces at the peephole
Footsteps on the ledge If you come calling
He’ll be mauling with intent to maim
Don’t knock on my door
If you don’t know my Rottweiler’s name
Halogen lights in the driveway
Guardian Angels living next door
One hundred pounds of unfriendly persuasion
Sleeping on the Florida porch
Slackers in the market
Bangers in the mall
Skinheads on the golf course
Hunting for their balls
If you come calling
He’ll be mauling with intent to maim
Don’t knock on my door
If you don’t know my Rottweiler’s name
Well, he’s dreaming about an intruder or two
And the promise of burglar blood
He’s yearning to chew on a gangster tattoo
And to hear the proverbial sickening thud
Shadows on the window
Rustling in the hedge
Faces at the peephole
Footsteps on the ledge
If you come calling
He’ll be mauling with intent to maim
Don’t knock on my door
If you don’t know my Rottweiler’s name
Sorry couldn’t find a vid.
Phantom
Posted May 5, 2009 at 9:19 am | Permalink
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An ignorant LIB that doesn’t believe free speech is important.
Imagine.
No one. A fly buzzing about. A pesky mosquitoes trying to sting. Nothing worth more than waving away.
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Ok, it just didn’t make any sense for someone to say that they would go out of their way to harass people who weren’t bothering them.
Why Phantom, how unAmerican of you.
Nazi socialism at it’s best.
And since Phantom didn’t leave a link when he dropped that turd:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8033060.stm
(Rush isn’t listed)
The U.S. should follow their lead and ban Rush.
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That seems a bit extreme. Sure, it’s been well over 25 years since they did their best work, but an outright ban of the band seems unwarranted.
Cinco De Mayo in Memphis by Guy Clark, sung by Buffet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLubFUgOetY
Didn’t some country ban the Beatles?
This is crazy:
Family rivals kill 44 over bride feud in Turkey
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Delicious Digg Facebook Fark Newsvine Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks .Print .. Reuters – Forty-one people were killed when unidentified gunmen attacked a wedding party in southeastern Turkey … .By Daren Butler Daren Butler – 2 hrs 37 mins ago
BILGE, Turkey (Reuters) – Masked men armed with assault rifles and grenades killed 44 people at a wedding party in southeast Turkey in a blood feud between families over who should marry the bride, authorities and residents said.
The bride and her groom were killed in Monday evening’s attack in Bilge, a village of a few hundred people in the conservative heartland of mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey.
“Eight people have been caught and detained, and their weapons confiscated. This can be understood as a blood feud between two families,” Interior Minister Besir Atalay told a news conference.
“Family rivals kill 44 over bride feud in Turkey”
The wife called the husband, “A dirty rotten democrat”.
The husbands family too offense.
“Family rivals kill 44 over bride feud in Turkey”
The wife called the husband, “A dirty rotten democrat”.
The husbands family took offense.
TALIBAN SPOKESMAN, “WE WILL WIN THE WAR”
(CNN)
““He tells me it doesn’t matter how many come, they won’t win. “If the Pentagon is thinking of changing its policy, we too are thinking of changing the policy. If they want to send 20,000 to start a new campaign, this is a war and we will see the war and make our policy.”
At one point he laughs when I say he is up against the strongest army in the world. His point is Taliban fighters are not afraid of dying. “If they want to send the troops and change things … we believe they can’t do anything.
“Afghanistan will be the Vietnam for them, concerning their policy [Obama’s?], it is the same Bush policy. There no changes in this policy. I want to tell you clearly we will win, and they will die.”
Zabiullah Mujahid – one of two spokesmen for the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.
WWOD?
Our esteemed prez trying to act highly educated. Will this man ever learn to do his research before opening his mouth. He really should be able to speak more than one language.
“WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s joke wasn’t lost in translation—even though he referred to a Cinco de Mayo celebration as “Cinco de Cuatro.”
Obama jumbled his words as he welcomed guests to the White House to observe the Mexican holiday, sending the crowd into laughter before he referred to the day correctly.
“Welcome to Cinco de Cuatro—Cinco de Mayo at the White House,” said Obama, in what appeared to be an attempt to note they were celebrating on the fourth of May instead of the fifth.”
Translation ‘fourth of the fifth’.
“Welcome to Cinco de Cuatro—Cinco de Mayo at the White House,” said Obama, in what appeared to be an attempt to note they were celebrating on the fourth of May instead of the fifth.”
DA.
Not another democrat scandal developing.
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Murtha’s Nephew Got Defense Contracts
Millions in Work Came Without Competition
By Carol D. Leonnig and Alice Crites
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The headquarters of Murtech, in a low-slung, bland building in a Glen Burnie business park, has its blinds drawn tight and few signs of life. On several days of visits, a handful of cars sit in the parking lot, and no trucks arrive at the 10 loading bays at the back of the building.
Yet last year, Murtech received $4 million in Pentagon work, all of it without competition, for a variety of warehousing and engineering services. With its long corridor of sparsely occupied offices and an unmanned reception area, Murtech’s most striking feature is its owner — Robert C. Murtha Jr., 49. He is the nephew of Rep. John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who has significant sway over the Defense Department’s spending as chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.
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When will the senate start the investigations.
We now have Feinstein, Murtha, Rangle, Murtha, and on and on and on. Where are the senate hearing when we have real corruption. Oh yes – they are straightening out the college football playoffs.
It could have been the teleprompters fault.
“When will the senate start the investigations?”
Never. Pelosi’s own husband made millions off her deals. She can’t very well call for an investigation of the other democrat crooks.
Hey, Vice President Biden isn’t the only one who can make a mistake. His press office yesterday showed it is equally as capable.
Usually his press people have to send out a statement clarifying what the vice president meant. On Monday, they had to send out an email clarifying what they meant.
But it was only a minor mistake. Like the city where the vice president was going. And the vice president’s name.
Subject
“Vice President Buden Kicks Off $32 Million Renovation and Restoration of Wilimington Train Station,” reads the subject line.
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From the office of the dumbest VP ever. I see 4 years of entertainment by this buffoon and his staff.
You are impying that the teleprompter isn’t bi-lingual!
American_Way
Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:18 am | Permalink
“When will the senate start the investigations?”
Never. Pelosi’s own husband made millions off her deals. She can’t very well call for an investigation of the other democrat crooks.
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Democrat or Republican, it doesn’t matter.
Ultimately, it’s money. And we’re sheep.
For some inexplicable reason having to do with who knows what, a widespread impression has grown among many politics fans that MSNBC and its crowd of talkers — including Chris “Thrill Up My Leg” Matthews, Norah “The GOP Is Doomed to Die” O’Donnell and Ed “It’s Time to Grind Them Into the Ground” Schultz — are somewhat in favor of President Obama.
Well, actually in complete love with the Great Change Agent.
Now, thanks to the ubiquitous cameras of C-SPAN, comes official videoed word from Kareem Dale, special assistant to the president for arts and culture and a key White House advisor on disability policy.
At the 1:51 mark of this video, Dale candidly reveals the new administration’s reciprocal feelings. Hint: Apparently the new White House has a popular internal saying involving the words “love” and “MSNBC.”
(UPDATE: Courtesy of Washington writer Patrick Gavin we have a new video below showing the remarkably dissimilar treatment the White House press corps afforded George W. Bush and now Obama. Take a peek going to the link.)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/05/white-house-msnbc.html
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Surely they aren’ telling us there is a liberal bias in the press. Never!
Democrat or Republican, it doesn’t matter.
Ultimately, it’s money. And we’re sheep.
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BINGO!
C.R.E.A.M.
XXX over the last few days I get the impression from you that you actually are getting it. Demo or repub it doesn’t matter. We are the sheep and ‘they’ are the shepherds.
We enough of us wake up to this we can make a difference in the next election.
HAHAHA.. While some 60s generation folks allowed their minds, hearts and human compassion to calcify.. thousands of others still stand up for peace and freedom, human rights, economic justice and human progress.
Others are deeply involved in world-changing technology. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
Maybe Barack Obama really is The One.
Yesterday’s news was good — almost supernaturally so.
The economy? Recovering.
The markets? Rallying.
Swine flu? Abating.
Drought? Ending.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/04/AR2009050403233.html?hpid=sec-politics
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If you’re a Republican, Oh, the pain….
Actually XXX this is the trap set for the dems. What part of Obama’s budget busting agenda has taken place?
This is what always happens after a recession. The economy recovers.
So who should be feeling bad. That would be the children of our great nation who are now carrying the burden of Obama’s debt squarely on their backs and the backs of their future children and grandchildren.
What a legacy we are leaving them!
they’ll pay the debt and they’ll like it!
Darn whiny kids anyway.
okobserver
Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:42 am | Permalink
So who should be feeling bad. That would be the children of our great nation who are now carrying the burden of Obama’s debt squarely on their backs and the backs of their future children and grandchildren.
What a legacy we are leaving them!
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The “legacy” didn’t start Jan 20. Maybe insult to injury, but the injury started a long time ago.
“XXX
Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:47 am | Permalink
…The “legacy” didn’t start Jan 20. Maybe insult to injury, but the injury started a long time ago.”
We don’t mind leaving our grandkids with debt resulting from war. It is the debt resulting from money spent in the USA that we don’t like.
The “legacy” didn’t start Jan 20. Maybe insult to injury, but the injury started a long time ago.
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The injury started about 30 years ago as far as I can tell.
brian_nuevo,
I hope you have deep pockets.
XXX that is right to a point. I could cite the stats of what Obama has done but the dems would deny them. So I would invite all those on the left to actually look at the deficit under Obama and see how it has grown for social programs that make people feel good but don’t start to rebuild our great nation.
He is implementing programs that will forever be a drain on the economy of our country. He is implementing plans that guarantee to doom our nation as a great power in the world order. He is assuring that the slackards will live off the more ambitious until the more ambitious say ‘enough’. I will do just enough to take care of myself and the rest can go hungry.
This is the historical demise of all countries that have attempted these policies. The gov can’t be all things to all people. It can’t take from the rich and give to the poor without serious repercussions.
Not wanting to sound gloomy on this rainy morning but history has spoken on this and we are muddling along in the failed footsteps of those who have gone before us.
XXX
Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:37 am | Permalink
Maybe Barack Obama really is The One.
Yesterday’s news was good — almost supernaturally so.
The economy? Recovering.
The markets? Rallying.
Swine flu? Abating.
Drought? Ending.
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Yeah, we’re in the money!
Unfortunately for that money, we are in debt for trillions of dollars, like forever.
Government bailing out banks and private companies…
Talk about a house of cards…
“okobserver
Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:54 am | Permalink
…Not wanting to sound gloomy on this rainy morning but history has spoken on this and we are muddling along in the failed footsteps of those who have gone before us.”
Well, the voters have spoken. If you don’t like it, I hear Canada is nice this time of year.
Another train of thought on the present and future deficit.
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An economist with the Cato Institute says it’s disingenuous for President Obama to exclusively blame the Bush administration for the country’s massive budget deficit when deficits and debt seem to be a part of the Obama fiscal plan.
President Obama has been claiming that he was not at all responsible for the $1.3 trillion budget deficit that was in place when he entered the White House. But Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards, a top expert on federal budget issues, notes the president served in the Democratic-controlled Senate when the budget swung into a deep deficit.
“As soon as President Obama came to office, he pushed through a gigantic $800 billion spending package that pushed up the deficit to $1.8 trillion this year — an absolutely staggering amount of money,” Edwards comments.
“And the thing is, this is not just a temporary deficit under President Obama. His budget blueprint that he introduced a month ago foresees the federal debt to rise to over 80 percent of GDP by the end of ten years, which is the highest level since World War II.”
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=513252
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There are plenty of people to blame. We need to look at them all and get rid of the worse violaters no matter which party.
Brian this is my country as much as yours and I do remember the left moaning for eight years. If you got to stay and fight then I guess I get the same courtesy.
But thanks for the interest in the really serious problems our country is facing.
If the Nation’s debt is such a big issue for Republicans, why weren’t they making a fuss about it during the Bush administration?
If the Nation’s debt is such a big issue for Republicans, why weren’t they making a fuss about it during the Bush administration?
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I think we both know the answer to this question. Debt attributable to tax cuts that primarily benefit the wealthiest among us and money transferred to corporations and their shareholders via no-bid and cost-plus contracts a la Halliburton and KBR is justifiable debt.
Hey, Box, who really wrote the line about the bell tolling?? It sure the heck wasnt Hemmingway(but he was a most interesting writer, when he wasnt drunk).
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway.
Brian,
Huh? If you listened to any of the Conservatives you would know we were constantly making a big deal about the debt.
We disagreed with all the spending, the bailouts, etc…etc…etc…
You would only have had to listen to Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, or any of the others for one day to have heard them complain about the spending.
We were opposed to the Prescription drug program too.
Chas when in doubt, google is your best friend.
“If the Nation’s debt is such a big issue for Republicans, why weren’t they making a fuss about it during the Bush administration?”
Brian, this question, and many like it (but during Bush it was o.k.) are getting very old. (ho-hum)
As a conservative posting on this blog and others I have voiced my disagreement with Bushy spending, republican majority, democratic majority in Congress spending.
I know my posts will reflect that; I believe others like Sol and OKobservers will also reflect the same sentiment (please correct me if I’m wrong).
Some of us posting are conservatives. Not necessarily republicans (at least me) any more.
BUSH spending = bad
OBAMA spending = bad
Congress approving = bad
Let’s stick to the issues and not dwell on the past. I know the tendency is to picture us as hypocrites, and sometimes we are. But I don’t think on the budget/deficit spending/or national debt.
For Whom the Bell Tolls- Metallica
Olde English Version
“No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde;
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.”
http://torch.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/island.html
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John Donne (1573-1631)
“Nathaniel
Posted May 5, 2009 at 12:55 pm | Permalink
Brian,
Huh? If you listened to any of the Conservatives you would know we were constantly making a big deal about the debt.
We disagreed with all the spending, the bailouts, etc…etc…etc…
You would only have had to listen to Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, or any of the others for one day to have heard them complain about the spending.
We were opposed to the Prescription drug program too.”
Were you opposed to the trillion+ spend in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Reposted without comment (since none is necessary) –
Chas
Posted May 5, 2009 at 12:49 pm | Permalink
Hey, Box, who really wrote the line about the bell tolling?? It sure the heck wasnt Hemmingway(but he was a most interesting writer, when he wasnt drunk).
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Regular
Posted May 5, 2009 at 12:52 pm | Permalink
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway.
“American_Way
Posted May 5, 2009 at 12:56 pm | Permalink
But I don’t think on the budget/deficit spending/or national debt.”
That much is obvious.
“ANTI
Posted May 5, 2009 at 1:00 pm | Permalink
For Whom the Bell Tolls- Metallica”
That is something good we can all agree on.
okobserver
Posted May 5, 2009 at 12:55 pm | Permalink
Chas when in doubt, google is your best friend.
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Ummmm… I knew the answer to my question before I posted it… Didnt need to “google” that one…
I’m an honorary member of P.O.E.M :-)
/sarcasm off LOL
Pastors
Opposing
Energy
Mandates?
Pepper
On
English
Muffins?
Brian,
“Were you opposed to the trillion+ spend in Iraq and Afghanistan?”
Is Obama? Are the Democrats?
Looks like Obama is keeping the troops in Iraq as opposed to an “immediate” withdrawl and he is sending more to Afghanistan.
Where are the liberals at to cry about that?
Why are you not on here complaining about that?
And no, I actually agree with the war. I accept that it will cost money to fight terrorism around the world.
ANTI — NO…
P.O.E.M. =
Professional Organization of English Majors – c.f., http://www.prairiehome.org
again… /sarcasm off
Get a life ANTI… please!! LOL
Dom DeLuise Dead at 75
“American_Way
Posted May 5, 2009 at 12:56 pm | Permalink
…Let’s stick to the issues and not dwell on the past.”
Statements like that are why you are thought of as hypocrites.
Did you say “Let’s stick to the issues and not dwell on the past” about William Ayers?
Did you say “Let’s stick to the issues and not dwell on the past” about the Swiftboat fiasco a few years ago?
Did you say “Let’s stick to the issues and not dwell on the past” about Rangel’s taxes?
etc, etc
Chas
Posted May 5, 2009 at 1:10 pm | Permalink
ANTI — NO…
P.O.E.M. =
Professional Organization of English Majors – c.f.,
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Oh, OK Chas…
“Nathaniel
Posted May 5, 2009 at 1:09 pm | Permalink
…And no, I actually agree with the war. I accept that it will cost money to fight terrorism around the world.”
So you don’t mind spending $1trillion ‘to fight terrorism around the world’ but you are against spending $1 trillion on any government programs within the USA.
Is that correct?
Brian,
So you are complaining about spending, complaining about the war, but don’t mind 1 tillion on government programs in the USA?
Is that correct?
I asked you first
Brian,
I answered your first question and had a few of my own.
Technically speaking, you are behind on answering my questions which I asked first.
P Pastors
O Oppossing
E Everything
M Moral
The economy is turning up and the stock market is rebounding, and the CONs can’t quite b*tching about Obama.
“Nathaniel
Posted May 5, 2009 at 1:09 pm | Permalink
Brian,
“Were you opposed to the trillion+ spend in Iraq and Afghanistan?”
Is Obama? Are the Democrats? I don’t know. Some are some aren’t
Looks like Obama is keeping the troops in Iraq as opposed to an “immediate” withdrawl and he is sending more to Afghanistan.
Where are the liberals at to cry about that? how the f should I know. I am not they keeper and they don’t generally travel in a pack
Why are you not on here complaining about that? because I think an immediate withdrawl would be a mistake. Being in Iraq like we are is a mistake but another won’t make it better.
And no, I actually agree with the war. I accept that it will cost money to fight terrorism around the world.”
“Nathaniel
Posted May 5, 2009 at 1:16 pm | Permalink
Brian,
So you are complaining about spending, complaining about the war, but don’t mind 1 tillion on government programs in the USA?
Is that correct?”
no. I opposed the ‘war’, the bailouts (both corporate and individual, and other wasteful government spending. I do support some government spending domestically when it will enhance our nation’s infrastructure and directly, tangibly benefit the people in America.
Your turn.
Nathan,
I think I know what the problem is here. The libs so blindly follow THEIR party, they assume anyone posting here, who is not a democrat – are blindly following the republican party.
Some of them assume we worship the leadership because they cannot imagine life without doing so.
An assumption which is not true.
P Pee
O On
E Every
M Minister
Did you say “Let’s stick to the issues and not dwell on the past” about William Ayers?
Ayers WAS the issue when Obama WAS a candidate. He still IS an issue if Obama affiliates with him.
Did you say “Let’s stick to the issues and not dwell on the past” about the Swiftboat fiasco a few years ago?
Don’t remember the swiftboat issue. That’s quite a few elections ago. But it’s a nice reach on your part to make your post make sense.
Did you say “Let’s stick to the issues and not dwell on the past” about Rangel’s taxes?
Rangel is PENDING INVESTIGATION on his false tax filings.
Please continue to be misguided and avoid the discussion on spending our childrens future.
“American_Way
Posted May 5, 2009 at 2:06 pm | Permalink
Nathan,
I think I know what the problem is here. The libs so blindly follow THEIR party, they assume anyone posting here, who is not a democrat – are blindly following the republican party.
Some of them assume we worship the leadership because they cannot imagine life without doing so.
An assumption which is not true.”
What are you talking about?
You Brian. And the question is “who”.
Are there two of you?
brian_nuevo
Posted May 5, 2009 at 12:10 pm | Permalink
If the Nation’s debt is such a big issue for Republicans, why weren’t they making a fuss about it during the Bush administration?
The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday.
“We have no plans to release them,” an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further.
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fleettwood
Posted May 5, 2009 at 2:19 pm | Permalink
The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday.
“We have no plans to release them,” an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further.
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dam, more money down the sit-hole.
“We have no plans to release them,” an aide to President Obama told The Post
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But…I heard they were publicity photos…that’s odd.
““We have no plans to release them,”
So much for a more open government which is responsive to the people. I think you can file a request for the photo’s under the FOIA…
But it amounts to another Obama lie and broken promise.
Or did Obama say,
“We will have a more open government for the people, except when it might be personally embarassing to me.”
#
American_Way
Posted May 5, 2009 at 2:27 pm | Permalink
““We have no plans to release them,”
So much for a more open government which is responsive to the people. I think you can file a request for the photo’s under the FOIA…
But it amounts to another Obama lie and broken promise.
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I wonder if they got any overhead shots of New Yorkers fleeing in terror from their buildings?
““We have no plans to release them,”
_____________________________________
That’s OK. He can pay for them.
“American_Way
Posted May 5, 2009 at 2:06 pm | Permalink
…I think I know what the problem is here. The libs so blindly follow THEIR party, they assume anyone posting here, who is not a democrat – are blindly following the republican party. …”
If you were refering to me, it is another great example of your hypocrisy.
You assume I am a democrat while complaining about democrats assuming those who do not think the same as them are republicans.
I am assuredly not a democrat.
I am assuredly not a democrat.
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Let me guess. You are an Independent, because, unlike the rest, you are a great thinker. You, unlike the rest, evaluate each issue and come the the correct conclusion. You, unlike the rest, are so wobbly, we can’t stand it.
The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday.
“We have no plans to release them,” an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further.
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Obama further stated; “These photos are not really embarrassing enough to the country as whole to release. They would only remind folks of a silly thing I did. We will, however release additional torture photos so as to cleanse our country further. To give her an enema, as it were”
“Or did Obama say,
“We will have a more open government for the people, except when it might be personally embarassing to me.”
American_Way,
Little Barry is starting to sound a lot like Kim Jong-il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, isn’t he.
“Hey, Box, who really wrote the line about the bell tolling?? It sure the heck wasnt Hemmingway(but he was a most interesting writer, when he wasnt drunk).”
Yes he was an very gifted and interesting writer, and he was almost always drunk…at least that’s the way I think if him.
He wrote ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’, a truly great book.
Both he and John Donne, English poet and preacher used those lines.
Ernest Hemingway Quotes
# Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. »
http://www.quotes.net/authors/Ernest+Hemingway
“Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.” — Ernest Miller Hemingway from “For Whom The Bell Tolls”
Or as John Donne (1572-1631), the poet and preacher, said, “No man is an an island entire unto itself….so do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.”
Professional Organization of English Majors – T-Shirt
Fans of A Prairie Home Companion know that POEM stands for Professional Organization of English Majors, one of the beloved (and fictional) advertisers on Garrison Keillor’s radio show. For everyone else, the acronym is spelled out on the back. Black T-shirt is 100% cotton, sizes M–XXL.
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Chas belongs to a fictional group? That is a plus!
What are the requirements for membership?
“Boxloc20″ –
You sure must have some stones to return to WE Blog after I TOOK YOU TO SCHOOL!!!”
(heh-heh)
#
fleettwood
Posted May 5, 2009 at 2:19 pm | Permalink
The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday.
“We have no plans to release them,” an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further.
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Someone should sue under the freedom of information act to have them released. The photos should be public property unless he wants to reimburse the taxpayers.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2201817067
You too can be a member of POEM. Just go to this facebook page and sign up.
Chas, google can be your best friend.
“donndublin” offers –
“Someone should sue under the freedom of information act to have them released. The photos should be public property unless he wants to reimburse the taxpayers.”
So go ahead and hire a lawyer and sue, “donndublin.” You’re a “somebody,” aren’t you?
Or is the issue not important enough for you to actually put your money where your mouth is?
The whole Air Force Two photo shoot was a silly mistake that had nothing to do with what actually goes on in the Oval Office (where, y’know, the President works).
I mean, who couldn’t PhotoShop an image of the presidential airplane (or a reasonable facsimile) near the Statue of Liberty?
Dumb.
Misguided.
And nothing in the whole process related to the President’s work.
You CONs are so desperate, it’s getting hard to stop laughing at you and start whimpering as if we’re watching the Special Olympic.
You try. Lord know, you try. But you’re never gonna win any medal that isn’t handed out just for participating.
Not with your Air Force Two “scandal.”
But sue under the Freedom of Information Act and grab that victory! It’ll be worth all those legal fees, won’t it? Won’t it?
“You sure must have some stones to return to WE Blog after I TOOK YOU TO SCHOOL!!!”
(heh-heh)”—the Monkey
You aren’t even lucid anymore Monkey.
“Or is the issue not important enough for you to actually put your money where your mouth is? “—the Monkey
I highlights one thing for sure, little Barry displays very very poor judgment at times….most times in fact.
I highlights one thing for sure, little Barry displays very very poor judgment at times….most times in fact.
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Someone once told me Kenyans’ have very poor judgement.
Keep working at it Box… If you work hard enough, you will swoon be posting that Donne borrowed the words from Hemmingway!! LOL /saarcasm off
Outta here… later y’all!!
Enjoy your evening… I know I will enjoy mine!!
blessings all!!
If you work hard enough, you will swoon
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Please do not try to ’swoon’ me.
Obama’s campaign promise of a $3,000-per-employee tax credit for businesses that hired new workers – repeated ad nauseam for weeks before the election – was discreetly retired even before inauguration day.
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ANTI — It’s a typo, you fool!!
It is a fairly well known factoid that mentally unstable people dont “GET” jokes… sorry you seem to be one of those…
“Boxlock20″ offers –
“I highlights one thing for sure….”
Yous sure does!
(Do I have to “take you to school” again?)
One more post Chas and you have met your post-salutation minimum before truly leaving the blog…You can do it!
ANTI — It’s a typo, you fool!!
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Oh, OK…Chas
(heh heh)
It is a fairly well known factoid that mentally unstable people dont “GET” jokes…
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That’s why I like messin’ with you, Chas.
(heh heh)
F*CKING OBAMA’S SUPPORT GROUP ARE LAW BREAKERS
Nevada charges ACORN illegally paid to sign voters
By KEN RITTER – 22 hours ago
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada authorities filed criminal charges Monday against the political advocacy group ACORN and two former employees, alleging they illegally paid canvassers to sign up new voters during last year’s presidential campaign.
ACORN denied the charges and said it would defend itself in court.
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now had a handbook and policies requiring employees in Las Vegas to sign up 20 new voters per day to keep their $8- to $9-per-hour jobs.
Canvassers who turned in 21 new voter registrations earned a “blackjack” bonus of $5 per shift, Masto added. Those who didn’t meet the minimum were fired.
“By structuring employment and compensation around a quota system, ACORN facilitated voter registration fraud,” Masto said. She accused ACORN executives of hiding behind and blaming employees, and vowed to hold the national nonprofit corporation accountable for training manuals that she said “clearly detail, condone and … require illegal acts.”
The complaint filed in Las Vegas Justice Court accuses ACORN and Edwards each of 13 counts of compensation for registration of voters, and Busefink of 13 counts of principle to the crime of compensation for registration of voters. Each charge carries the possibility of probation or less than 1 year in jail, Masto said.
A court hearing was scheduled June 3 in Las Vegas, prosecutor Conrad Hafen said
ACORN is eligible for billions – count them – BILLIONS of tax dollars under the Obama approved budget- by Obama design. If convicted of a crime, I don’t think they should receive one penny of taxpayer money. Just FYI: ACORN has received millions in the past of federal dollars. Obama was ACORN’s lawyer
In a preview of harassment and intimidation of pro-lifers likely to come soon from Obamanation’s administration, Slovak Republic police shut down a lawful pro-life rally, claiming their signs showing the truth about abortion were too graphic.
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Richard McTear Jr., 21, was arrested and charged with throwing a 3-month-old baby boy out of a car window on I-275 highway Tuesday morning in Tampa, FL. The infant, Emanuel Murray, is dead, and the mother, Jasmine Bedwell, claims she was also battered by the monster.
McTear has a lengthy criminal history that includes several battery and assault charges, including domestic battery by strangulation and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He is a fugitive on a 2008 felony battery charge in Hillsborough County.
Asked how he could throw a baby out the window of a moving vehicle, McTear responded “It’s a dirty game.”
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Airman Scott Boie, 23, was sentenced in Alaska to 9 years, 6 months behind bars on Saturday after he was found guilty of attempting to kill his unborn child. After his wife refuse to commit an abortion, the monster had slipped his wife the drug Misoprostol, used for stomach ulcers and known to cause miscarriages. The baby died after the poisoning.
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Tiffany Hecker, 21, of Mesa , AZ was sentenced on Friday to 15 years in prison for the 2007 murder of her newborn son, born alive in a toilet.
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Shantaivia Johnson, 21, of Jamaica , was sentenced to three to nine years in state prison over the death of her newborn son, whose tiny dead body was stored in a bucket in her closet for months. Johnson pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter.
“Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto , both Democrats, announced the charges,
A spokesman for ACORN, a nationwide grassroots organization, assailed the action as “political grandstanding.”
Political grandstanding – by democrats charging democrats? If you believe that I do have some swampland in Florida for sale….
“parkay” posted –
Damn! Is it 5 o’clock already?
Obama really does show poor judgement. He went out for hamburgers and didn’t go to ‘5 Brothers’. Everyone knows they have the number one burger and fries in the DC area. Even Michelle knew that when she sneaked out for a burger and fries not too long ago.
Chas please tell me what you had to do to get in P.O.E.M.? You might have been fleeced. Please let us know.
“Clark County Registrar Larry Lomax said that ACORN canvassers submitted 91,002 registration forms last year, resulting in 62,905 new registrations after the elimination of duplicates and questionable applications.”
Not too bad, for a professional organization(cough, cough, choke). Only 30% of the ballots, 30,000 ballots had Mickey Mouse signatures.
Pretty clear violation of state law:
The Nevada complaint alleges 26 counts of “Compensation for Registration of Voters,” which it called a felony under state law.
“By structuring employment and compensation around a quota system, ACORN facilitated voter registration fraud in this state,” Attorney General Masto said. She alleged that the group’s training manuals “clearly detail, condone and, indeed, require illegal acts.”
“okobserver” uhm… observes –
“Obama really does show poor judgement. He went out for hamburgers and didn’t go to ‘5 Brothers’.”
Now THAT’S an issue!
Run with that.
Chas
Posted May 5, 2009 at 1:10 pm
“P.O.E.M. =
Professional Organization of English Majors – c.f., http://www.prairiehome.org”
Does this mean Chas is not a poet and doesn’t know it?
Uh-Oh. Dissention in the ranks. Obama cannot tolerate that.
“WASHINGTON — President Obama is eager to seek a bipartisan solution to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security, people who have spoken with him say, but he is running into opposition from his party’s left and from Democratic Congressional leaders who contend that his political capital would be better spent on health care and other priorities.” NYTIMES
Notice democrats don’t dispute the “solvency of the Social Security System” is a problem. They just don’t think it’s politically correct right now. More denial and more delay to fixing a big problem.
Uh-Oh. Even more dissention. Guess Obama won’t get to rush through more legislation – without thinking.
“Obama’s proposal to close tax loopholes was a reliable applause line during the presidential campaign, but it got a lukewarm response Monday from Capitol Hill.
Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the plan needed further study, even though similar ideas have been around for years.“
Chas
Posted May 5, 2009 at 4:27 pm | Permalink
ANTI — It’s a typo, you fool!!
It is a fairly well known factoid that mentally unstable people dont “GET” jokes… sorry you seem to be one of those…
Monkeyhawk
Posted May 5, 2009 at 5:10 pm | Permalink
“okobserver” uhm… observes –
“Obama really does show poor judgement. He went out for hamburgers and didn’t go to ‘5 Brothers’.”
Now THAT’S an issue!
Run with that.
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Chas
Posted May 5, 2009 at 4:27 pm | Permalink
It is a fairly well known factoid that mentally unstable people dont “GET” jokes… sorry you seem to be one of those…
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I guess you just proved Chas right.
“We all knew that the White House and MSNBC love each other, but it is kind of Kareem Dale, special assistant to the president for arts and culture and a key White House advisor on disability policy, to confirm the love affair.”
Watch Obama’s team express love for MSNBC and kisses returned by MSNBC:
http://www.poligazette.com/2009/05/05/obama-official-we-love-msnbc/
“American_Way” –
You CONs can’t get off your 19% position to realize President Obama is a moderate pragmatist.
Half the people who are polled and don’t approve of President Obama represent people such as “BlueJay” who believe the President isn’t doing enough to pull this nation away from George WMD Bush’s reign of error.
Go after “okobserver’s” hamburger issue. That’s something relatively meaningful you can sink your teeth into.
On a previous CON talking point, it turns out Shrub left a much bigger mess in the Oval Office than Bo Obama could ever imagine. (Then again, Bo has been house-broken.)
Capn and I didn’t even have the name right. It is Five Guys Burgers and Fryes. Best fries I have even eaten served in a brown paper bag.
“President Obama is a moderate pragmatist.”
No, that’s not what my independent friends are saying. It’s more like President Obama is a mess!!
Troyboy,
Yeah, and I remember you getting all lathered up because I took photos of some of your flock’s kids who you trotted out to Dr. Tiller’s with visible bruises, hollow cheeks, their ribs sticking out, dark circles under their eyes and wearing rags that must’ve been stolen from the dumpster behind the Salvation Army store, while their drunk daddy strutted around in an expensive suit and Rolex. Of course that was CHRISIAN child abuse and therefore superior to all the other forms.
Monkey I inadvertently address one of your posts replies to Capn. Sorry about that.
You make such good points. And you even identified Bj as an extremist. Not nice of you.
Goes back to Chas’ point I guess. Mental instability you know. Finally someone figured out your problem.
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Just heard that even in bad times ex Prez Bush has raised in two months more than ex Prez Clinton did in two years to fund their libraries.
“brown paper bag”
Hope you tried them with the vinegar provided.
Decadently delicious, and OMG bad for your health.
“And you even identified Bj as an extremist.”
No, he didn’t.
Lying old crone.
“Half the people who are polled and don’t approve of President Obama represent people such as “BlueJay” who believe the President isn’t doing enough to pull this nation away from George WMD Bush’s reign of error.”
BJ he did identify you as being outside the norm. That is shorthand for extremist.
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AmWay always with vinegar with a little tabasco on top. Makes me want to go back to Virginia.
Five Guys Burgers and Frys
“That is shorthand for extremist.”
Or abnormal.
““Half the people who are polled and don’t approve of President Obama represent people such as “BlueJay” who believe the President isn’t doing enough to pull this nation away from George WMD Bush’s reign of error.”
HARDLY “extremist”.
That describes millions of people.
Oh but then,you have trouble with numbers, don’t you?
Did you ever find that blog full of Democrats who are sorry they voted for Obama that you SAID existed?
Oh-no. Democrats in congress are getting restless about Obama closing GITMO. Apparently some are wondering why we’ve heard nothing from Obama yet…
(Flock is clueless on this one.)
“That is shorthand for extremist.”
Or grasshopper.
President Obama has you cons foaming at the mouth.
That is not enough for me!
I want you having fits and falling down dead of apoplexy!
I want you leaving the country!
I want to see con faces with tears running down.
38,409,200 lbs.
of potatoes were used in our stores in 2008
Millions
of dollars given back to store level employees every year!
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Five Guys use Idaho potatoes that are cut fresh everyday. They post the name of the city in Idaho that raised them. They just opened their 400th location and it wasn’t in Wichita. No I don’t have any stock in their company but I love their business plan.
Bluejay, you better pray to god a few of us stay.
Someone has to pay for your:
Son’s healthcare
Earned Income Tax Credit $3,000 (approx)
Free commodities from SES
Free cheese
The only thing the gubermint isn’t doing for you Bluejay is wiping your hairless a ss.
Bluejay we all own property here and plan to stay. Those transients with no roots will be the first to go. When your neighbors get tired of feeding you they will storm your portals and attack. This could get ugly!
“When you get older, you will realize that the beliefs and ideals you held as a child actually change as you mature. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch Bluejay.”
I just had to respond to this!
People don’t get more bigoted when they get older–bigotry is something ingrained at a young age, something that can be reversed with hard work. Those of us who grew up around gay people aren’t going to suddenly become homophobes because we reached the big 4-0.
There are many younger people who oppose equal rights for gays, but either they are struggling to choose heterosexuality every day like…ahem…some young males on this blog, or they are just misinformed and will become more openminded as our society progresses.
I wonder how many people who were horrified at the idea of a black man marrying a white woman 40 years ago would now no longer blink an eye at a mixed race couple?
You see Jr the main difference between you and us ‘cons’. We worked hard to get to where we are now. We can work hard again if the Obama reign of terror takes it away. Elections are held every two years.
You on the other hand sit around with your hand stuck out waiting for Obama to fill it up. Hope your arm isn’t getting tired.
You will never have what I have. You don’t have it in you.
“storm your portals and attack.:
Rather the fate I have in mind for people like you who use other people to make your living.
I will say that some viewpoints change with age–as I’ve gotten older I’ve become more accepting of gun owner rights and less tolerant of those who abuse the systems meant for the truly unfortunate…
But I stand by my assertion that, barring some traumatic incident, members of my generation are not suddenly going to become bigots.
“You will never have what I have. You don’t have it in you.”
I sure hope not.
It is not in me to use the labor of other people to make me money.
It is also not in me to bend knee to someone who does.
If I were like you, I couldn’t live with myself.
I don’t even want to IMAGINE what that is like.
To take the labor and freedom of another person, keep the profits for yourself and pay them what YOU think THEIR work is worth?
I cannot imagine how any decent human being could be so presumptuous.
But there’s that word decent.
“There are many younger people who oppose equal rights for gays, but either they are struggling to choose heterosexuality every day like…ahem…some young males on this blog, or they are just misinformed and will become more openminded as our society progresses.”
Tara how do you define ‘oppose equal rights for gays’? If someone thinks that special protections for segments of the population are wrong does this make them bigoted? Or does it just mean that they don’t agree with your opinion of ‘equal rights’. I see the left use this argument a lot as on todays Tiahrt vote on ‘hate crime’ law.
I think that anytime you violate a person gay or straight you should get the full punishment for the crime whether the victim is a gay male or female senior citizen.
What you call bigotry might just be a difference of opinion. Novel idea.
“okobserver” –
I freely admit most of “BlueJay’s” opinions are to the left of mine.
One of the things I learned from my seven years in Los Angeles was just how moderate I am, compared to the full political spectrum.
You can go back to yesterday’s thread about Concealed Carry to see how well my moderate approach plays with the wingnuts of Kansas.
I supported the NRA’s approach and posters such as “Nathaniel” kept attacking.
Sheesh.
You too, “okobserver,” seem to respond to many of my posts with a predisposed agenda that doesn’t have anything in common with the positions I write about.
Eh…
So many of you CONs seem so enamored with your philosophies and prejudices you’ve lost track of reality.
Widen your perspective just a tad and you’ll discover I’m about as moderate a “lib” as there ever was… and I represent the vast majority of most people’s opinions.
The CONs on WE Blog are so far to the right, and have so many co-CONspirators, they think they’re in the middle. And, come to think of it, they are in the middle of the Republic Party’s inevitable self-induced meltdown.
“When you get older, you will realize that the beliefs and ideals you held as a child actually change as you mature. ”
I can confirm that.
I started out as a Republican.
Then, I grew up.
“storm your portals and attack.:
I heard from Max that Bluejay has a baseball bat to defend himself with.
Be bery bery careful.
BlueJay
Posted May 5, 2009 at 6:03 pm | Permalink
I don’t even want to IMAGINE what that is like.
To take the labor and freedom of another person, keep the profits for yourself and pay them what YOU think THEIR work is worth?
I cannot imagine how any decent human being could be so presumptuous.
But there’s that word decent.
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Jr if you weren’t so truly pathetic you would be annoying. As it is I just feel pity for you. What a miserable little man you are to begrudge others jobs to take care of their families while you sit on your behind and ridicule them for that is what you do each time you post this drivel.
Pitiful and pathetic. As I said you will never have what I have. The good feeling you get when you hire someone no one else wants to take a chance on. When you have an employee thank you for giving them a job so they can regain their self esteem. When they tell you they can finally buy groceries for their children.
Yes BJ you will never have what I have.
That’s right okie.
I will never have another human being carrying a cell phone that I give them as a leash so that I can dispatch them to do work to make me money on pain of going back to prison.
Yeah, you’re a real hero.
Notice the need I don’t have to call you names?
You do quite well on your own.
American_Way,
Here is the part of the AP story you didn’t copy/paste. I see now why you don’t make a practice of linking to the source of your copy/pastes.
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Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller emphasized the case involved “registration fraud, not voter fraud,” and insisted that no voters in Nevada were paid for votes and no unqualified voters were allowed to cast ballots.
Law enforcement agencies in about a dozen states investigated fake voter registration cards submitted by ACORN during the 2008 presidential election campaign, but Nevada is the first to bring charges against the organization, ACORN officials said.
ACORN has said the bogus cards listing such names as “Mickey Mouse” and “Donald Duck” represented less than 1 percent of the 1.3 million collected nationally and were completed by lazy workers trying to get out of canvassing neighborhoods. The organization has said it notified election officials whenever such bogus registrations were suspected.
ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson denied the Nevada allegations on behalf of ACORN, which works to get low-income people to vote and lists offices in 41 states and the District of Columbia. He blamed former rogue employees for the alleged wrongdoing.
“Our policy all along has been to pay workers at an hourly rate and to not pay employees based on any bonus or incentive program,” he said. “When it was discovered that an employee was offering bonuses linked to superior performance, that employee was ordered to stop immediately.”
Levenson said the two former ACORN organizers named in Monday’s criminal complaint – Christopher Howell Edwards and Amy Adele Busefink – no longer work for ACORN and would not be represented by the organization.
Edwards, 33, of Gilroy, Calif., and Busefink, 26, of Seminole, Fla., could not immediately be reached for comment.
Masto identified Edwards as the ACORN Las Vegas office field director in 2008, and said timesheets indicate that ACORN corporate officers were aware of the “blackjack” bonus program and failed to stop it. The attorney general said Busefink was ACORN’s deputy regional director.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_VOTER_FRAUD_PROBE?SITE=VABRM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
“my generation are not suddenly going to become bigots”
Pretty narrow minded Hawaiian chick.
You fail to even see that one or two people see “marriage” as a very special act reserved to one man and one woman. They believe so for many possible reasons; upbringing, faith, religion, values implanted in them through their experience.
These people are not suddenly “bigots”. That is your judgement call – not truth.
You also do not acknowledge changes in your life based upon further experience and learning. Practical changes, religious experiences, exposure to good and bad, comfort levels, and all the things you do now – that you would not have done at 18-21. All the things you did when young, which you would not do now.
Oh and don’t pull that trick either.
Don’t try to turn me against working people. I have fought for the rights and fair treatment of working people my whole life. And don’t act like you’re some great benefactor for stealing another person’s time and industry to keep you available for all day blogging.
But the upshot is, you and people who think like you are getting older. The future for you is not at all bright.
BJ your picture that you paint in your little bitty mind doesn’t have even a resemblance to the company my family has.
Your outlook on life is so jaundiced that you see a boogie man behind every tree. You should because the utopia you keep thinking is coming your way just isn’t there and won’t be. The dreams you have of taking money from the hard workers who earned will never happen in the country we live in.
Obama may well try it but in the end the true worker bees of this country will prevail.
As for calling you pathetic and pitiful. Those aren’t names they are adjectives which describe the way you live your life and the desire you have to be taken care of by something or someone other than yourself.
Daniel,
1. The charges were filed.
2. The hearing is in June.
3. Of course the two employees were “fired”, ACORN wants to wash it hands of their wrong doing.
4. The charges are not two lowly off the street employees.
“The complaint accuses Christopher Edwards , former field director for ACORN’s Las Vegas office, of creating a “Blackjack” or “21+” system that awarded a $5 bonus to low-paid canvassers who brought in 21 or more completed registration forms in a day. It alleges that Amy Busefink , ACORN’s deputy regional director, approved the scheme.”
5. And most of your post is not material to the charges (which is why I didn’t waste the space.)
They are not charged with registration fraud or voting fraud.
They are charged with violating Nevada’s law’s related to “compensation for registration of voters.”
And this time, I think the charges will stick.
To take the labor and freedom of another person, keep the profits for yourself and pay them what YOU think THEIR work is worth?
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That is the way this economy is set up. Schools don’t teach much entrepreneurism. They teach kids the skills necessary to get a job.
But in order to accomplish anything substantial and beneficial to society, even a communist like you must realize that a business needs employees. And what they are paid depends upon the market for their skills. Dumb labor isn’t worth much. Not getting paid enough? Change your skill set.
And of course the organizers, the risk takers, the brains are entitled to profit from the activities of their employees. Why else would you want to take that responsibility on?
Bluejay did you use your ballbat and garden hose in this fight?
So you think that a business owner that invests their own money and time to start a business and alway make sure all employees get paid whether you take home any money that week or not is ‘taking advantage’.
Well BJ I can guarantee I have helped more people with the jobs we have created over the last 25 years that you could even dream of.
You are a ledgend only in your own mind so just take your ball bat and garden hose and sit on your front porch. Yep thats helping people find jobs. Sure it is.
“The dreams you have of taking money from the hard workers who earned will never happen in the country we live in.”
That’s YOUR dream. And apparently come true enough that you can sleep with yourself.
The younger working people in this country, we are going to be trusted with the task of caring for you who have done this to our country.As you age and require care?
That might make you sleep a little less comfortable if you really think about it. If you can…really think about it.
Spare me the “Atlas Shrugged” lecture.
Atlas needs knee-capped.
“American_Way” waxes eloquently about –
“…people see “marriage” as a very special act reserved to one man and one woman.”
Then tell Newtie and Limbaugh to shut the f*ck up about it. Six marriages between them. Six wives for two men.
Tell Vitter to stop hiring hookers so he can dress up in diapers.
Don’t let them preach from some imagined higher ground of morality for “traditional” marriage when they have a well-documented history of desecrating the “sanctity” of marriage vows.
Or admit that gender-neutral marriage affects your life (nor anyone else’s) a whit.
Bluejay I have adequately prepared for my own care. Thank you however for the thought. With your work ethic I hope all seniors are as fortunate as I have been in working hard and saving enough to take care of themselves.
The thought of depending on a nation of Jr’s is scary.
“will never have another human being carrying a cell phone that I give them as a leash so that I can dispatch them to do work to make me money”
Bluejay what you fail to realize, and probably never will is that many of us enjoy our work. We have careers. We are professionals in our fields.
We have earned advancements , rewards, and success.
Most workers are proud of the work they do. People take pride in a job well done. It increases self-confidence and self-respect.
We don’t see our jobs as “working for the man”, but more like we are an active, contributing, and vital part of “the man”. We can see our contributions,
we can take credit for our rewards. We enjoy the salaries and benefits we’ve
e-a-r-n-e-d. And yes through hard work. Guess what? I feel better on days I work the hardest. The problems I solve, the fixes I make, are all self-rewarding.
Oh yes, for every one of us who is happy in our job, you can find an example of someone unhappy. Yes, there are days that I wish I’d hit the lottery and there are days I get mad at my boss or other employees (few and far between these days). But I would not trade the relationships, friendships, and acquaintences I have at work for any other job.
“Someone” else is always better off than me. “Someone” else is always a boss. “Someone” else got away with something. But that is part of life.
It will never change.
There aren’t ten big wigs in some tall dark tower, rubbing their hands together, gleefully snapping whips at the American workforce.
You are missing out Bluejay. Your words paint you as jealous, regretful, or remorseful for your own lot in life. You want to be the big cheese – but don’t put forth the effort to “get ahead”. Subsequently, you only have free cheese.
And that will never ever leave you feeling rewarded.
“thought of depending on a nation of Jr’s is scary.”
That’s why SS is going broke. Not enough workers not on the dole to pay into it for seniors.
Monkey I think this is the one thing that separates cons and libs most. Cons make up their own minds. No one passes around a memo and says this is the thought for today. This is the view we think you should take today.
I know all libs don’t think alike but I also know there is a party line on both sides. Because of something Limbaugh or Newt have done should in no way impact my thinking on any paticular item.
“American_Way” waxes eloquently”
Thanks Monkeyhawk.
“Or admit that gender-neutral marriage affects your life”
O.K.
:-)
American_Way,
5. And most of your post is not material to the charges (which is why I didn’t waste the space.)
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Fair enough. It only takes a second to copy/paste the link so that those who are interested in reading the entire story can easily find it.
You’re right, it should be interesting to see how this case ends up washing out.
“okobserver” attempts –
“…one thing that separates cons and libs most. Cons make up their own minds. No one passes around a memo and says this is the thought for today.”
Wow.
Now that’s naive.
It’s been well documented that the Fox News Channel gets precisely the memos you reference; Every single morning.
It’s a recurring gag on Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” stacking up CONs reciting the same talking points. Not the same idea, not the same concept, the same words word-for-word from any Republic Party operative who can get in front of a camera.
Last night, Stewart ran a series of Republic Party congresscritters time and time again talking about “the chilling effect” that supposedly would result from passing the hate crimes bill.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=225932&title=House-DC—College-Bowls-&-Hate-Crimes
Oh, yeah.
You CONs all think for yourselves.
Give me a break.
AmWay the scariest thing about the JRs of this world is that they have no idea what goes into building a successful business. The years of me working outside the family business to bring in money to pay our own bills because the cash wasn’t there to pay our workers and ourselves. We made sure the workers got paid and we made do with what was left.
My husband was a union rubber worker before his job was sent to Mexico in 1986. Twenty three years gone with nothing to show for it but a lot of union dues paid out.
Hard work and an investment of our life savings went into building our business.
This is why I have such contempt for the JRs of the world and am no fan of unions.
Monkeyhawk don’t focus on the few big shots, politicians, or even so called “christian” leaders who go astray.
I know we are part of a minority, but my better half and I have been married for three decades. Faithfully.
There are those who truly believed “for better or worse”, and “until death do us part”, and worked to achieve it.
That said, I have zero problem with gays having civil ceremonies/partnerships. But most importantly: I have zero problems for them having the same rights married couples enjoy. I do personally reject to them using the word, “marriage”. Call it whatever they like – something new and exciting. But I think they are stuck on “marriage” (even though libs hate the religion connected that word) because it will ensure equal rights. And I’m all for equal rights.
I’d even take it a step further. Remove the word “marriage” from all legal paperwork and laws (to include IRS). Marriage is a biblically significant act – not a manmade government act.
So take that legal right away from all of us.
My husband was a union rubber worker before his job was sent to Mexico in 1986. Twenty three years gone with nothing to show for it but a lot of union dues paid out.
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After 23 years he wasn’t vested in any type of pension plan?
“they have no idea what goes into building a successful business.”
I have family and many friends like you Okobserver who run a business. My oldest brother is my best example. While I did a 8-4, 9-5, regular job w/weekends and holidays off: He was stuck working.
When I wanted to take him on a fishing trip – he had to work. XMAS? Think scrooge, the last one out the door.
And that’s just the “time”. Not the headaches, responsibilities, pressures, stress and trying to balance an office book. That doesn’t cover you paying personal property taxes on your home at 11.5 percent but downtown you also pay on your business at 23.5? percent. And it doesn’t cover your having to work WITH employees too (everyone looks at this from the bottom up, most don’t look at the relationship from the top down).
I admire you and respect you for it. I don’t care WHAT business you run.
(I should add for 20 years I put in what I look back on as “days” not hours as a Marine, that I would put up against my bro’s work days.)
Monkey do a lot of cons think alike? Of course they do. Are their statement alike? Many times, yes. No one tells me what to think or say. I have a good mind and use it daily.
I am a fiscal conservative and in most respects a social conservative. That is who I am not what I am programed to be. The talking points memo was spouted during Bush’s terms and disproved. No evidence to support it.
All television talk shows run the kind of spot you talked about. There is as much ammo on the left as right.
In all honesty I cannot say I have ever been in a serious debate with you on anything of substance. Usually because you start with a put down that I take exception to. Such as the joke about Obama’s bad decision he made about the burger joint to go to.
You turned that into a putdown of me. No sense of humor evem though I applauded Michelle O on her choice of burger joints.
And as I said to Tara earlier. Just because I have a different opinion than you do on something doesn’t make me a bigot. It just means I don’t agree with your opinion.
Daniel yes he was vested. You would have been surprised how little those 23 years as a good union worker were worth.
That money as well as everything else we had went into the business. I’m not complaining. We succeeded and a lot of small businesses don’t.
okobserver,
Most pension plans for union jobs at that time were defined-benefit pensions and the workers had some protection if the employer moved away or went belly up.
It just surprised me when you said he had nothing to show for 23 years of service. That was the only reason I asked.
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Daniel
Posted May 5, 2009 at 7:15 pm | Permalink
okobserver,
Most pension plans for union jobs at that time were defined-benefit pensions and the workers had some protection if the employer moved away or went belly up.
It just surprised me when you said he had nothing to show for 23 years of service. That was the only reason I asked.
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It’s not uncommon.
My father is a retired railroad worker. They had the big merger with the Santa Fe and Burlington – so there were many layoffs.
He had tenure,so got retirement early – less than 40 years.
But a lot with less than 30 years had to take a payout with no retirement. Some got lucky and transferred keeping their job.
With unions, it’s not always clear cut, especially if actions after a merger, a shutdown occurs. This means the contract that they thought they had isn’t so good.
D am DemoRats don’t care about saving the planet from GLOBAL WARMING!Bipartisan
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/04/obama-summons-dems-climate-change/
Group Introduces Climate Change Bill as Talks Stall Between Obama, Dems
Talks stalled at the White House Tuesday over the president’s cap and trade legislation, with a bipartisan group of House lawmakers introducing an alternative to the massive energy bill.
Well, turns out the Earth may be COOLING Anyway
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518958,00.html
QUIET SUN MAY TRIGGER GLOBAL COOLING
Could reduced sunspots be tied to temperatures on Earth?
That’s what has astrophysicists and meteorologists wondering as the sun enters a prolonged “quiet period,” a deviation from the usual 11-year sunspot cycle in which the dark blobs on our star’s surface ebb and flow, reports
National Geographic News.
And there may be a link to global warming — or, in this case, cooling. Current theories link an earlier solar quiet time to the “Little Ice Age,” a cold snap that lasted from about 1300 to 1800 in Europe and North America.
During such “solar minimums,” as they’re called, the sun dims a bit, magnetic activity is reduced and solar storms are fewer. No one knows how long each will last until it’s over.
The Maunder Minimum, a period of extremely low sunspot activity from about 1645 to 1715, coincided with the coldest part of the Little Ice Age, when Dutch canals regularly froze during the winter.
Obama was in plane getting photo with NYC in Background?
Photos HIDDEN.
So much for a T R A N S P A R E N T Administration
HTTP://WWW.FOXNEWS.COM/STORY/0,2933,519013,00.HTML
WHITE HOUSE DECLINES TO RELEASE PHOTOS OF NEW YORK CITY FLYOVER
Ya See, The Bailouts Were NOT About SAVING The Banks.
The Bailouts Were To Gain CONTROL of The Banks.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/finance/banks-meet-conditions-repay-tarp-wsj/
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Banks Must Meet New Conditions to Repay TARP
New requirements may soon be placed on banks that want to give back the bailout money they got from the government, creating another hurdle for institutions hoping to exit.
JimJohnson,
Have you received your notification telling you which FEMA camp you’re supposed to report to in order to receive your Federally mandated non-swine flu inoculation yet?
JimJohnson posted May 5, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Well, turns out the Earth may be COOLING Anyway
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Two problems are: AGW is stronger than the past Maunder minimum, and solar cooling is only temporary.
Another link at Jim’s page,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258342,00.html
“While evidence suggests fluctuations in solar activity can affect climate on Earth, and that it has done so in the past, the majority of climate scientists and astrophysicists agree that the sun is not to blame for the current and historically sudden uptick in global temperatures on Earth, which seems to be mostly a mess created by our own species.”
Well hells bells it appears most of the libs have finally been chased from the blog and this is now the domain of the republican cons and independent thinkers lock stock and barrel.
It has been a long time in coming.
Think about how we want to reorganize the blog.
Victory is ours!
The flower children of the sixties are now “old” people. Yet, we no longer see them sitting in protests, wearing tie-dyed shirts, waving peace signs, and surrounded by
a cloud of marijuana or hashish smoke.
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Well I think you forgot about at least one 60’s kid who still is smokin the weed and long haired hippie type probably still in bell bottom blue jeans.
WSClark. Clarkie still does dope.
Obama was in plane getting photo with NYC in Background?
Photos HIDDEN.
So much for a T R A N S P A R E N T Administration
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Libs aint smart enough to catch your drift JimmieJ.
This is an Arsenal?
3 pistols
2 shotguns
2 rifles
Hundreds of rounds of ammo
Huh…
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-liguns0612734161may05,0,4289768.story
Day care center operator charged with hiding weapons
Daniel,
You may be on this list:
http://turnerradionetwork.com/domestic-extremism-lexicon.pdf
(U) anti-immigration
extremism
(U//FOUO) A movement of groups or individuals who are
vehemently opposed to illegal immigration, particularly along
the U.S. southwest border with Mexico, and who have been
known to advocate or engage in criminal activity and plot acts
of violence and terrorism to advance their extremist goals.
They are highly critical of the U.S. Government’s response to
illegal immigration and oppose government programs that are
designed to extend “rights” to illegal aliens, such as issuing
driver’s licenses or national identification cards and providing
in-state tuition, medical benefits, or public education.
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JR is in this group.
You know, except for the Planning of Terrorist Attacks, the majority of Americans I know support curbing illegal immigration and agree with the above definition of an “extremist” group.
Watch Out! Many of you could be put into one of these categories, and YOU WILL BE DEALT WITH!
Would this be Rev Wright?
(U) black power (U//FOUO) A term used by black separatists to describe their
pride in and the perceived superiority of the black race.
Notice the trend – describe a group with views that Oppose Obama, add a phony tag stating they “plan terrorist acts” to their label and PRESTO – EXTREMIST GROUP!
(U) Cuban
independence
extremism
(U//FOUO) A movement of groups or individuals who do
not recognize the legitimacy of the Communist Cuban
Government and who attempt to subvert it through acts of
violence, mainly within the
And a CATCH-ALL group, for those who don’t fall into any of the other categories:
(U) decentralized
terrorist movement
(U//FOUO) A movement of groups or individuals who
pursue shared ideological goals through tactics of leaderless
resistance independent of any larger terrorist organization.
(Reminisent of Germany, 1930’s, labeling certain groups which disagree with your view as ‘bad’, then inciting hatred against them.
I don’t think I fit into any of those categories.
Now attacking the classic writer of Self-Reliance – Thoreau.
(U) direct action (U//FOUO) Lawful or unlawful acts of civil disobedience
ranging from protests to property destruction or acts of
violence. This term is most often used by single-issue or
anarchist extremists to describe their activities.
Now Cosmos is included in this group:
(U) environmental
extremism
(U//FOUO) A movement of groups or individuals who use
violence to end what they perceive as the degradation of the
natural environment by humans. Members have advocated or
engaged in criminal activity and plot acts of violence and
terrorism in an attempt to advance their extremist goals.
They target industries, businesses, and government entities
that they allege are engaged in habitat destruction, citing
urban sprawl and development, logging, construction sites
and related equipment, and man-made sources of air, water,
and land pollution.
(also: ecoterrorism)
Now attacking Harriet Tubbs:
(U) underground (U//FOUO) A term used to describe clandestine extremist
groups, individuals, or their activities.
Take your pill, Jimbo. Yer all overwrought unnecessarily.
Obama’s administration is clearly on a campaign to label Undesireable Groups of people in the US.
The people who OPPOSE OBAMA, are the Undesireable Groups.
Watch out folks.
If you have 7 or more guns, you have an Arsenal!
Look out folks, you are EXTREME and thus UNDESIREABLE!
Blogs will be searched for opinions of those who disagree with Obama.
(signing off now)
“Victory is ours!”
Not hardly.
It seems that cons just have more time to post here. No doubt exploiting someone to make them money while they post here.
“Bluejay what you fail to realize, and probably never will is that many of us enjoy our work. ”
As do I.
But I make my own schedule and ask set my own compensation. I was not always so lucky and will not forget those who continue to be exploited by people like okobserver who make money….
and nothing else.
Obviously, jimjohnson doesn’t care the weapons were owned by a drug addict . . . Opps . . . felony; some had serial numbers defaced . . . Opps . . . another felony; were moved by his parents . . . opps . . . another felony; and moved to a day care center caring from as many as 12 children ages 2 to 12. . . . another felony.
jimjohnsohn shows his true, blue, anti American colors by supporting felons owning guns. Class act there, moron. As they say in England: This man is too stupid to breed.
When ever reading posts by OK/KS Grandma I am reminded of a comeback by Winston Churchill…
When confronted by the wife of a member of Parliament who said “If you were my husband, I would poison your tea!” Churchill replied, “If you were my wife, I would drink it!”
I pity Mr. OK/KSGrandma – I wonder if he asks for second helpings of tea.
“You would have been surprised how little those 23 years as a good union worker were worth..”
It is sad and all too common that your husband was a victim of corporate greed. Apparently, he decided to join ‘em rather than beat him.
I’m betting his harpy of a wife had something to do with that.
Okobserver, I find you the lowest sort of scum. You use other people to make you money and then think you are doing them some sort of favor.
I have researched the labor force you exploit. It was a poster here, a Republican, who put me on to just exactly how despicable you probably are.
“it appears most of the libs have finally been chased from the blog and this is now the domain of the republican cons and independent thinkers lock stock and barrel.
It has been a long time in coming.”
It was a short time in going, back at the beginning.
See? We’re winning. We have the White House, the Senate, the House, soon, the Courts.
We also have the will of the American people and youth on our side against your more tired and worn out ideas.
Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. »
http://www.quotes.net/authors/Ernest+Hemingway
That statement has generally been accredited to Hemingway, and is so from several sources. It was also use earlier by the English poet and real, as opposed to faux, preacher John Donne.
The faux preacher’s ability to comprehend is very limited as well. On my original post I never gave Hemingway author credit, simply that he illustrated the concept in his book ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’.
It is plain to see the FAUX preacher got his certificate, if he even has one and I doubt it, from a cereal box.
What a dumbbass.
Yea, Max… that sure is a Hemmingway quote — Old Ernest quoted it straight out of John Donne… 400 years earlier??
Anybody who would cite this as coming originally from Hemmingway, has got to have an intellectual screw loose, righ Box?? Donne lived in the 16th/17th Centuries…
You’re not stupid enough to try to challenge that, are you??
Then again, from your name calling screed, maybe you are!! LOL
It’s simple Box… Hemmingway wrote the book… Then, for a title, he quoted Donne… He didnt invent the phrase.. easy, huh??
“Yea, Max…” s/b Yea, Box…
sorry for the typo
“That statement has generally been accredited to Hemingway, and is so from several sources.” [boxlock]
Box, this is just so FALSE of a statement, there is only one possible response: Huh?
What school of literature did you go to?
I’m guessing, NONE…. LOL
Nobody with an ounce of integrity would even think of attributing a phrase known in nearly all the world, to come from John Donne, would attribute it to Hemmingway…
Except for Box and his maginary “others”
Shakespeare didn’t invent a lot of his phrases or even story ideas. He re-invented, re-introduced old stories and phrases from the Greeks and others.
You can see this clearly in The Tempest.
Backpedal, Boxic, backpedal faster!
Yep.. true.. And the writers of West Side Story, and Tennessee Williams both borrowed from Shakespeare…
Shakespeare’s re-writes, etc., were also well-known in his own time as well. They didnt use footnotes much then.. :-)
“Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. »
http://www.quotes.net/authors/Ernest+Hemingway
Hemingway chose the following portion of the meditation as an epigraph to his 1940 novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls: “No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.”]
http://www.timelesshemingway.com/onetruesentence/pivot/entry.php?id=22
“Do not ask for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.”
Shown as a quote of Hemingway:
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:ZpFy3I6fYuEJ:www.sayings-quotes.com/ernest_hemingway_quotes/+Hemingway+quotes,+whom+the+bell+tolls&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Well, then, “Boxlock20″ –
If it’s on the internet it MUST be accurate.
Like how Batboy is the illegitimate child of Hillary Clinton and a space alien.
Hemmingway QUOTED the John Donne work.. He didnt WRITE it… Thus, it cant be attributed to HEMMINGWAY… John Donne wrote it some 300 years earlier!!
Why is so hard to admit to that FACT??
My exact, copy and pasted in comment was, “Kemp was a good and decent man. As Hemingway explained in ‘For Whom A Bell Tolls”, Kemp’s passing is a great loss to all of us….and again the bell tolls for us.”
Hemingway used that phrase in his book to express the concept, and that phrase is listed as a quote attributed to him, as seen above and in dozens and dozens of other sites I could have listed, but first that we know of written by John Donne (1572-1631), BUT WHAT’S THE POINT. Whether or not he authored it is irrelevant in the way I used it up thread.
Are you all making something of it so very stupid (obviously are) as to not understand that “explained” does not necessarily mean authored?
Hemingway was making that point and that is all I said.
Now, lets look at why some are making a big deal out of nothing.
It is because I get to you and beat you at our every encounter that you hang on anything you THINK you can get one up on. Ha! I do!
It shows you are weak and lack self-confidence and are petty.
Oh, and Chas, when you say “Shakespeare’s re-writes, etc., were also well-known in his own time as well. They didnt use footnotes much then”.
Remember John Donne lived (1572-1631), and Shakespear mid/late 1500, generally 1531 to 1592, they didn’t use footnotes then either.
Keep trying, “Boxlock20″ –
You went all google posting links to your contention the quotation is Hemingway’s.
Your attribution to Hemingway revealed your underlying ignorance of the quotation.
Look. It’s no big deal. But it’s on a par with attributing –
” Some men see things as they are and ask why? I dream things that never were and ask why not”
…and attributing it to Ted Kennedy.
First off, Teddy was quoting his brother.
It’s the kind of thing Bobby might have said but there’s no record of it.
Further — and evidence Bobby might have said it someplace; he was always quoting people — RFK was quoting George Bernard Shaw… who actually wrote those words.
But anyone who attributes the quote to Teddy, or to Bobby, inadvertently exposes ignorance.
That’s what happened with your Hemingway reference.
I keep trying out of concern for your ignorance Monkey.
When I am dealing with idiots I must remain patient and repetitive in the extreme.
I personally did not attribute authorship in my first post about it in fact, I simply said Hemingway said it and it applied to Jack Kemp and that is exactly the fact. Then when jumped on by fools I sited several, of which there are dozens, of sites actually giving him credit simply showing it is a common thought.
Now, what’s your problem, I would venture you would not have any clue to who said what and simply want to try and make points where you can’t any other way.
Face it, “Boxlock20″ –
I took you to school.
Again.
Hemmingway QUOTED the John Donne work..
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I don’t know if Metallica knew who they were quoting.
Monkey,
You couldn’t take a rock to school without losing it.
Face it, your claim to fame is as a second rate blog participant, and a poor one at that.
You are also a liar as I never said Hemingway authored that statement but that he use it and it describes the death of Jack Kemp.
You have nothing of importance to hang on, petty.
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