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http://www.lordsprayermovie.com/
Your Sunday morning cartoon –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATYl9AG80fc
Your Sunday morning hymn –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oU7M4OeSRM
Your Sunday morning sermon –
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=moyj06p24f
Congrats to Democrats for their victory on the Senate floor last night. I NEVER thought they’d pull that off. Who’d have thought Democrats could pull together to accomplish something so monumental.
The Dems are winning while the Repubes are whining.
Oh well, another day of Rebube CONS crying and wringing their hands and slobbering all over their sticky pix of their White Savior Palin.
Quite pitiful really.
The Dem victory yesterday was actually not that big a deal in the long run, but significant nonetheless.
The question, now, is whether those who favor real reform are willing to risk killing the bill rather than give in to the insurance industry’s demands. Questions of coverage aside, a bill that preserves business-as-usual will indeed balloon the deficit, and continue the same costly death-spiral, and won’t even be worth supporting.
It’s been said a majority of Dems support a public option, which is not the only but by far one of the most crucial steps to producing a more cost-effective system.
The ultimate issue, for me, is whether Reid, if it comes to it, will stand with the majority of his own caucus, even if that means–gasp!–fighting a real filibuster instead of shruggin, going home, and going to sleep.
A more likely result: Reid will demand that the majority of his caucus fall in line with any and all demands of the 3 or 4 holdouts, so they can all have a hollow, symbolic victory, and go home, and go to sleep.
They all have excellent insurance already (for now).
Really though; what they are cobbling together might not be health reform. Why not just give everyone basic preventative health care from birth, and solve the damned problem. You can really reform in two ways; eliminate all government health programs and all health insurance; or dry up the supply of sick people. You’d see prices coming down. It’d would make your head spin.
And what are we going to do with the retiring boomers? They’re going to sink the boat unless we simply elect to let them die. They were anyway; how much do you pay to prolong someone’s life another two weeks? No matter what kind of health system we have someone is going to have to make those decisions. You’re going to let the market or cash decide? Well, O.K. But you wind up with a medical system which caters entirely to the rich. Remember, the boomers are going to break Medicare no matter what happens. Unless you start setting limits.
“DorisKing” –
The whole Baby Boomer argument is what they used to teach in Economics as the “pig in a python.”
It’s a temporary anomaly of population and ends because, yes, even we Boomers are mortal.
The key is increasing the risk pool.
Frankly, I don’t have much enthusiasm for $1000-dollar-a-day medicine that might keep me alive 90 more days; especially since those three months will likely be the sickest I’ll ever get.
Your mileage may vary, but if I get the 90-day prognosis, I’m gonna finally take up sky-diving as a hobby. And I may or may not remember to pull the ripcord.
I see that duh Libs are so full of venom this morning in every post it’s probably best to let the snakes devour each other.
Venom?!
Just keepin’ the tencil on the toad, “Regular.”
Gosh…a whole day without parasite Reg would be like being relieved of a giant hemorrhoid.
Thanks Reg…see ya Monday!
DorisKing
Posted November 22, 2009 at 7:54 am | Permalink
And what are we going to do with the retiring boomers? They’re going to sink the boat unless we simply elect to let them die. They were anyway; how much do you pay to prolong someone’s life another two weeks?
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DK, why we just ration care and get in line, of course. Everyone knows that’s where we’re going, if health care is left to the government. And who cares about old people, anyway? We could just have the government decide what old folks are worth spending money on.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-earth-is-going-rogue-snls-palin-2012disaster-movie-parody/
Adorable kids react to Sarah Palin’s book.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-november-18-2009/excitement-over-sarah-palin-s-book-release
The link is gonna give it away.
Grand old pity party.
http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/colberts-the-word-palin-book-a-%E2%80%99steaming-pile-of-sht%E2%80%99/
The future of the Repube Party:
“I’d rather jump in a volcano than read that (Going Rogue) book!”
-Child at a bookstore during Going Rogue rollout.
Texas’ gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages
BY DAVE MONTGOMERY
FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
AUSTIN — Texans: Are you really married?
Maybe not.
Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.
The amendment, approved by the Legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by voters, declares that “marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman.” But the troublemaking phrase, as Radnofsky sees it, is Subsection B, which declares:
“This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage.”
Architects of the amendment included the clause to ban same-sex civil unions and domestic partnerships. But Radnofsky, who was a member of the powerhouse Vinson & Elkins law firm in Houston for 27 years until retiring in 2006, says the wording of Subsection B effectively “eliminates marriage in Texas,” including common-law marriages.
Interesting, satatom — that one should be watched, if it makes it off the op-ed pages…
nice catch…
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Frankly, I don’t have much enthusiasm for $1000-dollar-a-day medicine that might keep me alive 90 more days; especially since those three months will likely be the sickest I’ll ever get. ”
It costs way more than a grand a day. I’ve just been through it. They managed to bill Medicare about $200,000 during Mom’s last three months. We didn’t have anything to say about it. Nor did Mom. She was out of it.
More on the 911 Trials, what a waste of time of money to try killers.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/249djiip.asp
Happy JFK Assassination Day, CONs.
You people had a “WANTED FOR TREASON” poster with Kennedy’s picture on it circulating that day in Dallas.
Some things never change.
Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8
Zacarias Moussaoui is serving a life sentence without parole at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
In America, we put people on trial to convict and punish the guilty.
You got a friggin PROBLEM with that, george?
Pittsburgh vs. Kansas City?
I hope the Chiefs show up at noon and forfeit the game. Eliminate three hours of wasted television and many the network will switch over to a professional football team’s game.
Oh, the humanity!
MH–
I long ago gave up seeing which commercial sports franchise was able to buy the best gladitorial talent.
As The Onion put it so well on a tee shirt: “The sports team from my geographical area can beat the sports team from your geographical area.”
What was really sad was seeing KU play Texas last night.
Mangino’s got to go.
Give his coats to Mongols so they can construct a yurt out of them, and send the guy to some high school where he can compete at a level he’s comfortable with.
Yeah, “CapnAmerica” –
Or Seinfeld’s take on free agency:
We’re rooting on players’ laundry.
Anybody got a line on the best deals for Black Friday? I got a kid who’s old enough now to park overnight in line if the deal is good enough.
“BlueJay” –
Google “black Friday deals.”
I doubt if your kid will sit up all night for the 27-cent-a-pound turkey.
I have a Turducken in the freezer.
And it’s probably against the law not to serve that green bean mushroom soup casserole in Kansas.
As for Friday, that’s just a tad too crazy for me. I needed a half-gallon of milk last day-after-Thanksgiving and there were people waiting outside, apparently oblivious to the fact it’s a 24-hour store.
(A lot of those people showed up at the local Tea Party last September. Not all that bright.)
I went to one black friday sale, they were packed into the aisles tighter than they were at the Stones concert. and the people were not in as good a humor! Never again.
“Anybody got a line on the best deals for Black Friday? ”
A true vote for capitalism.
Why doesn’t everyone just have the same prices? LoL!
Spending: The cost of the bill is $2.5 trillion over 10 years of full implementation.
• Taxes Increases: Taxes will go up $493.6 billion—nearly half a trillion dollars.
• Medicare Cuts: Medicare will be cut $464.6 billion—another half a trillion dollars.
• Abortion: The bill permits the use of accounting gimmicks that will, for the first time, allow federal dollars to go to plans covering abortion. The bill does not include the Stupak language, and as a result, National Right to Life describes the Reid bill language as “completely unacceptable” and said it would “result in coverage of abortion on demand in two big new federal government programs.”
• Government Plan: The bill includes [one] government run plan [ no choice]and provides states with the possibility of opting out of participating in that plan. According to CBO, the government run plan “would typically have premiums that were somewhat higher than the average premiums for the private plans in the exchanges”
• Employer Mandate: The bill will impose $28 billion in new taxes on employers that do not provide government approved health plans. These new taxes will ultimately be paid by American workers in the form of reduced wages and lost jobs.
More on the 911 Trials, what a waste of time of money to try killers.
For all the convoluted reasoning and bizarre legal fictions offered, this is the essential distillation of the CON objections: we know they’re killers, so why bother with a trial?
That was the same reasoning used to lynch black people a generation ago, or to burn “witches” or few centuries ago. And it’s the exact same mentality.
“That was the same reasoning used to lynch black people a generation ago, or to burn “witches” or few centuries ago. And it’s the exact same mentality.”
Sorta like President Obama saying, “the terrorists will be found guilty and sentenced to death.”
Yeah, that’s much more legal and righteous than a military trial.
“A true vote for capitalism. ”
Not really. I buy most things second hand. Just looking for a way to make a teenager useful.
DK, why we just ration care and get in line, of course. Everyone knows that’s where we’re going, if health care is left to the government.
Care is this country is already rationed, and to an extreme degree, but means of increasing expense and severely reduced coverage. The notion the altering the paying system will someone magically make standard health care unavailable is foolish and has no basis in empirical fact.
If anything, the idea is to reduce the extreme rationing of coverage that takes place now. And if we ended up with a system that provided options as extensive as the CON’s favorite whipping boy–Canada–it would still be less rationed than what we have in the US.
Sorta like President Obama saying, “the terrorists will be found guilty and sentenced to death.”
Yeah, that’s much more legal and righteous than a military trial.
While one might argue that Obama is part of the prosecution team–and so can say things like that–that’s one more reason that they might be better tried in the Hague.
American_Way
Posted November 22, 2009 at 1:29 pm | Permalink
Sorta like President Obama saying, “the terrorists will be found guilty and sentenced to death.”
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Is that an actual quote or are you just making stuff up again, Mr. Pants-on-fire?
‘Climate change sceptics and lobbyists put world at risk, says top adviser‘
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/22/climate-change-emissions-scientist-watson
“Climate change sceptics and fossil fuel companies that have lobbied against action on greenhouse gas emissions have squandered the world’s chance to avoid dangerous global warming, a key adviser to the government has said.”
The AGW crowd are really mean-spirited people, chock full o’ lies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112102186.html?hpid=moreheadlines
Jack offs.
The AGW crowd are really mean-spirited people, chock full o’ lies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112102186.html?hpid=moreheadlines
Jack offs.
Heh, I love it! The irony could not be more hilarious!
Of course, the real problem is that nobody actually found any, ya know, lies.
s that an actual quote or are you just making stuff up again, Mr. Pants-on-fire?
It’s an actual quote, and an inappropriate one for the world’s most powerful person to make, given that legal proceedings have yet to even begin.
Pleefer posted November 22, 2009 at 2:51 pm
The AGW crowd are really mean-spirited people, chock full o’ lies.
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Pleefer,
What “lies”?
“Mean-spirited”, and desperate, is illegally hacking into a server to steal private emails — and illegally posting selected, out of context excerpts to support false claims, aka “lies”.
Okay…they are “chock full o’ not having anything to do with a dissenting view or dissenting science”.
Better?
“out of context excerpts” eh?
mkay.
Those folks that had their emails ripped off should sue the pants off off the Washington Post.
Okay…they are “chock full o’ not having anything to do with a dissenting view or dissenting science”.
Not really. The line about “changing the rules of peer review” (like that was even possible) was private snark (although still inappropriate). But if you follow even any of the details, you see that the scientists who are most criticized have ties to the Cato Institute and other political groups that have been ideologically-opposed to global warming science, despite not being science organizations (and also, conveniently, being funded by the fossil fuel industry).
They had every right to regard such “scientists” in low regard.
Beware the spin zone:
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In interviews with NBC and CNN during his trip to Asia this week, Obama said those offended by the legal privileges afforded to Mohammed by granting him a civilian trial, rather than a military one, won’t find it “offensive at all when he’s convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him.”
Obama said his comments are not meant to prejudge the outcome of Mohammed’s trial, which is expected to take place in Manhattan federal court.
“I’m not going to be in that courtroom. That’s the job of the prosecutors, the judge and the jury,” he said.
Set up your strawmen, but some of us will burn them down.
Pleefer posted November 22, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Okay…they are “chock full o’ not having anything to do with a dissenting view or dissenting science”.
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That’s science.
It’s the responsibility of those with “a dissenting view or dissenting science” to support their view and/or science.
Also, there are multiple theories of contradicting “dissenting science” — and they can’t even resolve which of their multiple theories is correct.
Pleefer posted November 22, 2009 at 3:29 pm
“out of context excerpts” eh?
mkay.
Those folks that had their emails ripped off should sue the pants off off the Washington Post.
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The WP did not publish ALL of the excerpts, and the WP probably asked permission to publish what they did.
Not all scientists and men of esteem that dissent against AGW are bought and paid for by oil men. Hell, oil men buy and pay for climate science as well. They own both teams.
When the science of AGW is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, like the proof that water is wet, then by all means, tax me to death for breathing.
Until then, the jury is still out. The debate is not over and carbon taxes/credits are nothing more than the rich stealing from everyone else. Same as always. But this time, you get to feel really good about being robbed.
Pleefer,
Who taught you to incorrectly believe that science can be “proven beyond a shadow of a doubt”?
And you should try to learn the difference between public “debate” and scientific methodology.
They will continue to deny GW until it’s too late:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_sc/sci_climate_09_post_kyoto
“They will continue to deny GW until it’s too late:”
The point is that precious little can be done to reduce energy use, especially those forms of energy we rely on today, without major advances in technology and a switch to other forms of energy yet unknown and maybe not available.
The present efforts, such as ‘cap and tax’ are stupid as they will only harm the economy and create hardship for millions, at best lowering the standard of living for everyone.
You disciples of AGW go without energy yourselves and let the rest of us know how you make out.
It’s in the nature of mankind not to be proactive, but rather to wait until faced with a catastrophe before resolve can be mustered. But sometimes that isn’t until it’s too late. I’m afraid that may be the case once again, especially since you’re talking about rallying most of mankind.
I saw some program that said the earth was much warmer with a lot less active sun in the early stages of the earth’s history. Due to the high level of greenhouse gasses, then flora developed and changed the atmospheric mix to much higher oxygen levels. Mankind is changing the mix back in the other direction in a shorter span and with a more heat producing sun.
Phantom posted November 22, 2009 at 5:32 pm
They will continue to deny GW until it’s too late:
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Their denial so far will probably cause at least a 2 degree C rise in the future.
‘Climate change sceptics and lobbyists put world at risk, says top adviser‘
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/22/climate-change-emissions-scientist-watson
I suspect the environment will self correct by eliminating much of the problem causers, and be brought back into equilibrium.
Phantom posted November 22, 2009 at 6:15 pm
I suspect the environment will self correct by eliminating much of the problem causers, and be brought back into equilibrium.
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Yeah. . . but it’ll take centuries to reach that equilibrium, and Earth will be very different than it is today.
‘Sheer Political Will Is Needed for Climate Fix‘
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/business/energy-environment/16green.html
” “Our capacity to respond quickly when our survival is at stake is often limited to the kinds of threats our ancestors survived: snakes, fires, attacks by other humans, and other tangible dangers in the here and now,” writes Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president, in his latest book, “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.”
“Global warming does not trigger those kinds of automatic responses.” “
“Yeah. . . but it’ll take centuries to reach that equilibrium, and Earth will be very different than it is today.—cosmos
Oh, you mean like it was very different in the past as well. Things change cosmos, always have and always will…..at least until the end of the age.
As I’ve said, the Earth WILL take care of itself and will do so without asking your permission.
You’ll be lucky to be a fossil in stone at that point.
“Global warming does not trigger those kinds of automatic responses.”—Algore
Well they sure don’t with you Algore, look at the energy consumption you are responsible for at home and everywhere else….hell, George Bush is much kinder to the environment than you, multiple times over.
And George Bush hasn’t elected to get rich off of AGW….he actually lives to do something about it.
Except it is still a great snake oil story.
boxlock20 posted November 22, 2009 at 6:35 pm
“Yeah. . . but it’ll take centuries to reach that equilibrium, and Earth will be very different than it is today.—cosmos
Oh, you mean like it was very different in the past as well.
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No, I mean very different than now, and since human civilization has been on Earth. Those future major changes would not have occurred if there had not been AGW.
And thank you boxlock20, for (predictably) making more stupid attacks on your favorite straw-man, Al Gore.
A little over 25,000 years ago, much of North America was covered in ice. Then, gasp, GLOBAL WARMING happened and the glaciers retreated.
must have been all that co2 from internal combustion engines, huh?
boxlock20 posted November 22, 2009 at 6:37 pm
And George Bush hasn’t elected to get rich off of AGW….he actually lives to do something about it.
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Correct. . . Bush delayed important and necessary solutions needed to slow AGW, so that he and his oil friends could maximize their profits.
“DorisKing
Posted November 22, 2009 at 7:54 am | Permalink
And what are we going to do with the retiring boomers? They’re going to sink the boat unless we simply elect to let them die. They were anyway; how much do you pay to prolong someone’s life another two weeks? ”
Gee, and republicans used to be called against old people because they supposedly didn’t support social security. He11 – republicans are angels compared to today’s democrats.
Democrats want to kill old people!
Raptor posted November 22, 2009 at 6:50 pm
A little over 25,000 years ago, much of North America was covered in ice. Then, gasp, GLOBAL WARMING happened and the glaciers retreated.
must have been all that co2 from internal combustion engines, huh?
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No.
But Raptor, for whatever reason(s), hasn’t researched the issue.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_fourth_assessment_report_wg1_report_the_physical_science_basis.htm
Chapter 6 Palaeoclimate
WASHINGTON – Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are shrinking faster than before.
And it’s not just the frozen parts of the world that have felt the heat in the dozen years leading up to next month’s climate summit in Copenhagen:
_The world’s oceans have risen by about an inch and a half.
_Droughts and wildfires have turned more severe worldwide, from the U.S. West to Australia to the Sahel desert of North Africa.
_Species now in trouble because of changing climate include, not just the lumbering polar bear which has become a symbol of global warming, but also fragile butterflies, colorful frogs and entire stands of North American pine forests.
_Temperatures over the past 12 years are 0.4 of a degree warmer than the dozen years leading up to 1997.
Even the gloomiest climate models back in the 1990s didn’t forecast results quite this bad so fast.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/sci_climate_09_post_kyoto
There GW nuts remind me of a movie I saw where everyone was in a panic over a meteor hurdling toward earth.
Not a damn thing you can do about it, but everyone wants SOMEone to od SOMEthing – right or wrong.
Anyone who believes that six billion human beings and their activities do NOT have an influence on the environment of this planet is irrational to say the least.
American_Way posted November 22, 2009 at 7:05 pm
There GW nuts remind me of a movie I saw where everyone was in a panic over a meteor hurdling toward earth.
Not a damn thing you can do about it, but everyone wants SOMEone to od SOMEthing – right or wrong.
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American_Way believes that humans causing Earth’s climate to change is equivalent to “a meteor hurdling toward earth”.
American_Way seems to have ingested way too much trans fat.
We can do something about AGW — reduce emissions, use land more wisely, increase carbon sinks, etc.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
Now that is hilarious..bj calling someone irrational…
funny…..tooo funny for words..
“do something about AGW ”
And a billion years from now, someone might be around to record what that impact would be…..
Remember, climate changes take eons.
Certainly, congress will have cut off your unemployment benefits by then.
It is interesting how some of the faithful come down on issues of the environment. Some of them remember that they are to be good stewards of “creation” and are in favor of environmental protection. But then there are others of faith who seem to feel that the very IDEA that man (or rather several billion people) could have ANY effect on a world created by their God somehow diminishes that God.
They do not know that they themselves diminish their God in their seeming need to protect him. For to be fair, we must observe that even ONE human being has more of an observable effect on the environment than God ever has been witnessed in.
American_Way posted November 22, 2009 at 7:25 pm
“do something about AGW ”
And a billion years from now, someone might be around to record what that impact would be…..
Remember, climate changes take eons.
Certainly, congress will have cut off your unemployment benefits by then.
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Human-caused climate changes do not take “eons”.
A “nuclear winter” could happen within days.
AGW is already causing climate changes — and more warming is in the “pipeline”.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that people who tithe, go to church, and read the bible worship or care about God.
All those things are signs of ego/personality worship.
God doesn’t need money, worship, or for people to fill a building.
Satan loves those human diversions though. They keep him in power.
American_Way probably believes that only nature can cause wildfires, since nature (thunderstorms, volcanoes. . .) caused wildfires before humans were on Earth.
“only nature can cause wildfires”
Well I don’t think you’d call them wild fires if nature didn’t cause them, wouldja Cosmos?
Cosmos probably believes we need to save the Amazon rainforest, not realizing it was once 47 million acres of civilization and cultivated itself.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wildfires
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Rainforest
http://www.amazon-rainforest.org/
American_Way
Posted November 22, 2009 at 7:53 pm | Permalink
“only nature can cause wildfires”
Well I don’t think you’d call them wild fires if nature didn’t cause them, wouldja Cosmos?
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heh heh
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_emails%2C_data%2C_models%2C_1996-2009
Climatic Research Unit emails, data, models, 1996-2009
IN CONTEXT.
Cosmo, no one “taught” me anything of the sort (that science proves beyond doubts). That’s my point, ya goof. NONE of you folks have ANY right to charge me for breathing until the debate is over (in your favor). And that will NEVER happen. So why not quit trying to profit off of climate change and actually rally humanity with reason, not threats and taxes.
It looks as though India isn’t wanting to play ball with you “warmers”. It may be time to go ahead and just kill ‘em all. That would chop those Earth abusers numbers down by a few billion huh?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112102010.html?nav=hcmoduletmv
Regular posted November 22, 2009 at 8:10 pm
American_Way
Posted November 22, 2009 at 7:53 pm | Permalink
“only nature can cause wildfires”
Well I don’t think you’d call them wild fires if nature didn’t cause them, wouldja Cosmos?
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heh heh
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wildfires
American_Way
Posted November 22, 2009 at 6:53 pm | Permalink
“DorisKing
Posted November 22, 2009 at 7:54 am | Permalink
And what are we going to do with the retiring boomers? They’re going to sink the boat unless we simply elect to let them die. They were anyway; how much do you pay to prolong someone’s life another two weeks? ”
Gee, and republicans used to be called against old people because they supposedly didn’t support social security. He11 – republicans are angels compared to today’s democrats.
Democrats want to kill old people!
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Say Amway,
You catch 60 Minutes tonight?
They had a segment talking about letting dead people die sooner, cause Medicare is spending way to much money on the old geezers to keep them living.
And live for what?
That’s where Obama & the Dems are coming from NOW – deciding when old folks should die and playing God.
Back when Republicans called for Social Security/Medicare reform, the Democrats cried out that Republicans were killing old people. The Dems also claimed there was no problem with Social Security or Medicare.
DemoRat Hypocrites!
I wish Americans would stop all payments to all debts that they have (minus legitimate private merchant cards, ie; JC Penny’s card, etc). But mortgages, credit cards, auto loans…anything that leads to a bank loan, forgotten. Hell, I even want April 15th to come and go, personally. I’d love to see Americans pushing back.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/11/america-stands-up-to-wall-street.html
Watch 60 Minutes argue FOR killing old geezers!
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml
November 22, 2009
The Cost of Dying
Many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, subjected to uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives at enormous cost. Steve Kroft reports.
Pleefer posted November 22, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Cosmo, no one “taught” me anything of the sort (that science proves beyond doubts).
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Exactly.
And you wont be charged for breathing, Pleefer.
Regular posted November 22, 2009 at 8:10 pm
American_Way
Posted November 22, 2009 at 7:53 pm | Permalink
“only nature can cause wildfires”
Well I don’t think you’d call them wild fires if nature didn’t cause them, wouldja Cosmos?
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heh heh
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‘Ortega wildfire declared 100% contained ‘
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13823322
“A tractor being used to clear brush for farming purposes knocked down the pole and the power lines sparked the blaze about 11:30 a.m.,. . . “
“I wish Americans would stop all payments to all debts that they have..”
Yes, merchants should stop selling to those without cash.
You want a 60″ plasma TV? You pay cash.
You want a blackberry? You pay cash.
You want this or that? You pay cash.
I love it! No more debt!
And now, let our government do the same……..
“Watch 60 Minutes argue FOR killing old geezers!”
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml
Yes, JJ, liberal America is for choice. Choice to kill a newborn, and choice to kill the old.
It is pretty clear where the democrat party is heading…
It’s Like They Want To Lose…
Seriously, what is wrong with these people???
Dianne Feinstein has put her foot down: she’s teamed up with the Fiscal-Scold-Seven on Social Security and Medicare. She won’t vote to raise the debt ceiling (required within a month or Uncle Sam defaults) without a law establishing a “bipartisan commission” that’s sure to ruin Baby Boomer benefits just as the Democratic coalition cracks over choice and Stupak.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is joining 6 [sic] other Senators to demand that Speaker Nancy Pelosi approve a commission to recommend cuts to Medicare and Social Security – or else they’ll refuse to vote to increase the US government’s debt ceiling
http://multi-medium.net/2009/11
Look at the lovely crowd welcoming DiFi to their travesty:
But before Tuesday’s hearing was over, Sens. Conrad, Gregg, Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), George Voinovich (R-Ohio) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) publicly vowed to vote against raising the debt ceiling if a budget reform commission bill doesn’t come along with it.
(…)
Chris Bowers defines what the Fiscal Scold Seven (and DiFi) want:
Let’s review the threat that these five Democrats are making:
* They will allow the United States to default on its debt, which will vastly increase the overall amount we have to pay on our debt
UNLESS
* Speaker Nancy Pelosi turns over Congressional power on Social Security and Medicare to an unelected commission that will almost certainly propose deep cuts in Social Security and Medicare entitlements.
Keep in mind that deep cuts to Social security and Medicare that pass under a Democratic trifecta would doom the party at the ballot box for years to come.
http://multi-medium.net/2009/11
“And you wont be charged for breathing, Pleefer.”-Cosmo
What are carbon credits for? Doesn’t breathing produce carbon?
I recycle and don’t flush after my number 1, what more do you people want?
I think that we should also tax the plant world HEAVILY for using our CO2.
What’s good for the goose, right?
CapnAmerica
Posted November 22, 2009 at 10:51 am | Permalink
Happy JFK Assassination Day, CONs.
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Sick POS.
Capn, hope you enjoyed celebrating the Transgender Day of Remembrance Friday.
Ahhhh, the US Post Office, the Shining Example Used by Libs to Show How Good National Healthcare will Be!
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Nov. 19, 2009
Can the Postal Service be Saved?
With Losses Mounting, Postal Service Seeks Autonomy, Pushes to Cut Saturday Service; Rep. Danny Davis Calls for a BAILOUT
It’s been an ugly few years for the United States Postal Service.
The quasi-government agency announced this week that it lost $3.8 billion in the most recent fiscal year, which ended September 30th. It also delivered less mail – 26 billion fewer pieces less, a nearly 13 percent drop from the previous year. The bad news follows losses totaling $7.8 billion in 2007 and 2008.
The Postal Service, as it is quick to point out, is legally prohibited from taking tax dollars. But in order to stay afloat, the agency has been actively borrowing from the U.S. Treasury: At last count, according to Postal Service spokeswoman Yvonne Yoerger, it owes the government $10.2 billion.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/19/politics/main5711797.shtml
Sunday, November 22, 2009
SNL: Obama’s China Visit
It looks like SNL’s writers have a much better command of economics than our policy makers.
America’s middle class also deserves a wet kiss, an expensive dinner, and a double feature.
(see the video here)
http://marketrubbernecker.blogspot.com/2009/11/snl-obamas-china-visit.html
Ah . . . ditch the credit cards for debit cards.. like the Europeans….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/22/al-gore-on-saturday-night_n_366792.html
Al Gore decides on a new tact…
(Hu Jintao “speaks.”)
INTERPRETER: Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to add that I completely understand why you feel entitled to come here and lecture China on our shortcomings. After all, my country does owe the United States a great deal of money. Oh, wait. Hold on a moment. I believe I had that backwards. In fact, now that I think about it, it is your country that owes us a large sum of money. Is this correct?
OBAMA: Uh… yes.
(Hu Jintao “speaks.”)
INTERPRETER: Now, it’s coming back to me. I believe it’s $800 billion.
OBAMA: That is correct.
(Hu Jintao “speaks.”)
INTERPRETER: Such a large sum.
OBAMA: Yes, it is.
(Hu Jintao “speaks.”)
INTERPRETER: And yet you haven’t even mentioned it. That’s so odd.
OBAMA: Uh, look, you’re going to get your money.
(Hu Jintao “speaks.”)
INTERPRETER: Are we? Are we going to get our money? Because from what I read your country is in the middle of a serious recession.
OBAMA: Well uh, while this is true, there are signs that our bailout has steadied the financial markets and our stimulus package has been effective in fixing the job crisis.
(Hu Jintao “speaks.”)
INTERPRETER: I’m curious. How many jobs has it created?
OBAMA: Uh, so far, none.
(Hu Jintao “speaks.”)
INTERPRETER: I see.
OBAMA: But our health care reform plan, we’re confident, is going to lead to enormous savings.
(Hu Jintao “speaks.”)
INTERPRETER: How exactly is extending health care coverage to 30 million people going to save you money?
OBAMA: I… don’t know.
Pleefer posted November 22, 2009 at 8:51 pm
“And you wont be charged for breathing, Pleefer.”-Cosmo
What are carbon credits for? Doesn’t breathing produce carbon?
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Carbon taxes, and cap & trade are to reduce emissions of fossil fuel based carbon.
Do you eat and drink fossil fuels?
“INTERPRETER: How exactly is extending health care coverage to 30 million people going to save you money?
OBAMA: I… don’t know.”
hahahahahahahaa!
Just for you Cosmos, you and your silly wildfires:
She comes down from Yellow Mountain
On a dark, flat land she rides
On a pony she named Wildfire
Whirlwind by her side
On a cold Nebraska night.
Oh, they say she died one winter
When there came an early frost
And the pony she named Wildfire
Busted down its stall,
In a blizzard she was lost.
She ran calling Wild–fire
Calling Wild—fire
Calling Wi–i–ld–fi–i–re
By the dark of the moon I planted
But there came an early snow
Been a hoot owl howlin’ outside my window now
For six nights in a row
She’s comin’ for me, I know
And on Wildfire we’re both gonna go
We’ll be ridin’ Wildfire
Ridin’ Wildfire
We’ll be ridin’ Wildfire
On Wildfire we’re gonna ride
Gonna leave sodbustin’ behind
Get these hard times right on out of our minds
Ridin’ Wildfire
The WE Blog should have a Special Topic on last night’s SNL.
They used to have special topics when SNL bashed Republicans, didn’t they?
cosmos_originally
Posted November 22, 2009 at 9:13 pm | Permalink
Pleefer posted November 22, 2009 at 8:51 pm
“And you wont be charged for breathing, Pleefer.”-Cosmo
What are carbon credits for? Doesn’t breathing produce carbon?
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Carbon taxes, and cap & trade are to reduce emissions of fossil fuel based carbon.
Do you eat and drink fossil fuels?
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Now I absolutely know that cosMAO is an undeducated fool.
Never heard of pharmaceuticals cosMAO?
Resins?
What an ignoramus cosMAO is and an uneducated one at that.
undeducated = uneducated
Ridin Wildfire…
Hmmm…..
That’s what Obama was doing in that SNL skit last night!
The giant hemorrhoid is back. Sucks to be a parasite like him…but then Repubes love their parasites.
“And thank you boxlock20, for (predictably) making more stupid attacks on your favorite straw-man, Al Gore.”–comatose, er…I mean cosmos
You mean Algore? The hypocritical freak of AGW.
Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’? — A $30,000 Utility Bill
Think Tank Blasts Gore for Hypocrisy
“Al Gore, the world’s first carbon billionaire?
“Armed with Gore’s utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president’s 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.
If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn’t care,” says the Center’s 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. “But he tells other people how to live and he’s not following his own rules.”
In other words….a hypocrite!
Your hero cosmos is a total hypocrite chasing his fortune off of idiots that fall for his hypocrisy.
Various nics of the decidedly NOT regular “Regular” Mr. Mc Cluer joined with unhappy grampy bawks.
THIS is the best the right has.
iNTERESTING… How would a GAS bill devour killowatt hours?? Hmmmm???
Regular eats and drinks pharmaceuticals? That helps explain his posts.
boxlock20 scrounges in the past, and attacks Al Gore for what his utility USED to be, BEFORE Gore remodeled the home to meet LEED specs.
Just glanced thru the stolen materials of the climate scientists. Found it marginally interesting, though, as you might expect, fairly technical and mundane.
Invasion of privacy aside, I think the hackers may have done science a favor, as when one looks for the grand conspiracy the deniers rants about, guess what?
There’s nothing there.
And the give-and-take you see in most of the emails I’ve seen (a tiny fraction of millions of words) actually give a good impression of how day-to-day science really works.
Chas
Posted November 22, 2009 at 10:36 pm | Permalink
iNTERESTING… How would a GAS bill devour killowatt hours?? Hmmmm???
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Lots of states require gas usage to be converted to kilowatt hours. It’s just unit of energy conversion.
cosmos_originally
Posted November 22, 2009 at 11:04 pm | Permalink
Regular eats and drinks pharmaceuticals?
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Yes I do eat pharmaceuticals – daily.
Yes, we knew.
Im convinced Satacom is BJ