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Looks like Republicans had a pretty good night last night. It wasn’t a total sweep, but it was darn close. Upstate New York was an interesting result.
If I was a Democrat, I’d start worrying. It’s not that long till the midterms.
The upshot from last night? The cons are planning a rerun of New York 23 all over the country. Moderates and other rational people are on notice. The GOP does not want you.
In a stinging setback for the national gay-rights movement, Maine voters narrowly decided to repeal the state’s new law allowing same-sex marriage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/us/politics/05maine.html
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Oh, miss piggy is going to love this……
Credible politcal analysts have minimized the significance of the Gov. races, especially the NJ race. The NY 23rd District race is more telling though. The Dems took a seat from the Repubs that had been held by their party since the 1860’s. (remember the Whigs?)
The Repub Civil War continues!
“In a stinging setback for the national gay-rights movement,….”
Oh I don’t know. Why just in the space of my short life I can remember a time when such a vote wouldn’t even have been close. Seems like more a setback for the nose trouble crowd holier than thou crowd to me.
Kathleen Sabelius got elected twice.
Does that mean Kansas is a Democratic state?
NY-23 was the only race that engaged Glenn Beck, the Moose Dresser, and the rest of you CONs.
The result?
A Repubic Party seat that’s been solid for a hundred and thirty years is lost.
Keep it up, CONs!
“In a stinging setback for the national gay-rights movement….”
That is what we have courts for! The (in this case SLIM) popular opinion is often not in step with the future let alone what is right.
A year ago about this time ol’ “Regular” described symptoms which prompted me to urge him to call the (socialist) EMTs because he was obviously having a stroke.
I’m such a bleeding-heart.
Good luck, ol’ “Regular.”
You’ll need all the brain function you have left if you’re gonna frog-march me into an empty field and put a bullet in my skull.
On this date, Nov 4th
1842 Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill
1845 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US
1862 Gatling gun patented (Richard J Gatling)
1922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1952 Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D)
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) beats President Jimmy Carter (R) by a landslide
1991 Minneapolis, MN: Minus 3 degrees — earliest ever below-zero reading.
Notable Quotes
Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it.
- “The Enemy Conquered; or Love Triumphant”, Mark Twain
Odd Facts
A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
If you pause “Saturday Night Fever” at the “How Deep Is Your Love” rehearsal scene, you will see the camera crew reflected in the dance hall mirror.
Race car is a palindrome.
What’s this? An openly gay woman is elected mayor!
In Houston Texas! Damn we may get the South outta the 18th century before we enter the 22nd yet!
I do believe I’ve already thanked you MonkeyHawk.
I doubt you will be able to muster the humility to accept it.
I didn’t go by ambulance as I had a relative who I had evidently called earlier take me to the ER.
“Regular” grovels –
“I do believe I’ve already thanked you MonkeyHawk.”
Was that before or after you threatened to frog-march me into an empty field and put a bullet in my skull?
Actually MonkeyHawk, that would be ‘duck-walked’ and why do you keep bringing things up over and over?
Do you want chaos in the WE Blog? Sure appears that way.
Why ruin a perfectly good day with your constant divisive remarks?
New York 23 has much to teach us and much to show us about the near political future.
A moderate Republican in a reliably Republican district (they held this seat for more than a hundred years) was challenged by a far right wing nut. Sarah Palin and ALL of con rant radio went to the mat for the far right wing nut, the moderate con dropped out and endorsed the Democrat and the cons lost.
BlueJay sings
This could be the start of something good.
GOP Gains Could Hurt Obama Political Capital, If Not Agenda
click here to read more
Dollar retreats against rivals
CNN
Well look at this, the country as found an ACORN…..with the NUT STILL ATTACHED!
http://scaredmonkeys.com/fun-images/Vanderbilt_acorn_nut.jpg
I hope the powers that be in the Democrat party’s heads are buried as far up their….uh, sandpiles, as many on the WEblog. Keep telling them these elections last night don’t mean anything and to continue to push through their policies.
Please.
Wow, look at those gold and silver commodity prices this morning!
Looks like those driving that increase are not liking the economic policies of this administration’s wild creation of fiat money and deficit spending.
Looking pretty sweet for those that saw it coming and put some money in hard assets too.
Typical liberal. The state doesn’t have enough funds to support all the entitlement programs. Look where she chooses to make cuts:
Gov. Jennifer Granholm warned Tuesday of a possible 20 percent cut in state spending next year, a draconian step after billions in cuts since 2003 already have dented police and fire services, pushed schools toward insolvency and reduced oversight of prison inmates.
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20091104/NEWS01/911040351/-1/NLETTER01?source=nletter-news
“In a stinging setback for the national gay-rights movement,….”
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There are only 5 states that allow gay marriage, all either by court decision or legislation.
No gay marriage rights have been granted when it was put to the vote of the people.
Yeah slavery was kinda popular too.
I simply do not understand those who take some sort of satisfaction in the discrimination against others who have done them no harm.
I don’t think I want to.
“Yeah slavery was kinda popular too.”
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Talk about an apples to oranges comparison.
BJ is in favor of the will of the people.
Except when he’s against it.
Hark! I hear the sound of snorting and stamping and pawing the ground! I’ll bet someone is schitting bricks this morning.
Granholm’s office says state budget director Bob Emerson is predicting next fiscal year’s deficit could hit $1.4 billion – with little remaining federal recovery money to cushion the blow.
Dang Sol – your state is taking it right up the kazoo in this recession!
Black on white discrimination was also “the will of the people”.
I suppose it is easy to pooh pooh the oppression and suffering of others provided one is not among their number.
It fell to $1.58 under Bush.
In an election that had been billed for weeks as too close to call, Maine’s often unpredictable voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed. Gay marriage has now lost in all 31 states in which it has been put to a popular vote — a trend that the gay-rights movement had believed it could end in Maine.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jv2czUG72xt9zK5erT-vbOJ2X9UwD9BOONVG0
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Darn voters keep getting in the way.
BlueJay gently reminds XXX that he himself has complained and quite recently of being left out. Just the faintest taste I think of what he would see dished to others.
Well,
‘Boxlock20″ once told us that his marriage was diminished and devalued if gay marriage is allowed. Of course, he couldn’t look me in the eye to tell me that.
Hopefully, bawks is made a little more secure in his marriage today. What other good comes from the marginally popular discrimination against people who just want to be treated equally I don’t know. Maybe XXX can tell us?
Boxlock20,
I’ve doubled my money on Au and Ag, but that doesn’t make it a good thing.
I’m freakin’ out. I don’t like the idea of a dead dollar, makes me think of Hoovervilles.
But yeah, at least I paid attention 6 or 7 years ago. I got some metals, seed and plenty of cheap lead to keep ‘em safe.
I’d start investing in agriculture now as well.
This has zilch to do with “bad policies” of Bush or Obama, they are nothing. Blame the for profit private banking institutions and those “captains of industry” for ALL of it. If America wasn’t so stupid, we’d have those people hanged today, Bernanke, Paulson, Geithner, Summers, Greenspan, Kissinger, Rockefeller…on and on and on down the line.
This will never end until America is either caput or America decides to wake up and humble itself enough to realize that it has been gamed…BIG TIME.
BlueJay
Posted November 4, 2009 at 8:18 am | Permalink
Yeah slavery was kinda popular too.
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I’m sure that will win a ton of African-Americans to the Gay Rights movement.
How about the holocaust and illegal immigration for a minority trifecta?
The “cheap dollar” is the best thing that could happen to America.
It so terrifies the Chinese that they refuse to allow it–they artificially cheapen their yuan to make sure it doesn’t float upward against the dollar.
If the dollar devalues against the yuan, all that crap we buy from Chinese sweat shops will increase in price. And all the quality manufactured goods that America makes will drop in price.
That’s exactly what should happen given the ridiculous trade imbalance we have.
“XXX
Posted November 4, 2009 at 8:30 am
The post itself is unworthy of the poster ( I think) and not worth repeating.
It seems to take pleasure in the pain that an election result will bring to a person who had never been anything but kind to you until you started expressing similar sentiments.
If you are not ashamed for yourself, I will be ashamed for you.
BTW, Pleef–
You haven’t made a cent on gold until you sell it at a profit.
Regular,
Won’t be able to make it this morniong,alternator went out on my car,its in the shop now hoping it will be done before I have to go to work
The House has a new Democratic member from New York; from a district has sent Republicans to Washington for 150 years.
The SuperDuper conservative extremists ran the moderate Republican out of town, backed a “Conservative Party” candidate and gave the seat to the Democrats.
Thanks Sarah! Another vote in the House is welcomed.
The R’s can have their governorships. That’s all local. A House vote is much more substantial.
Oh, brother….
•Freebird1971
Posted November 4, 2009 at 8:58 am | Permalink
Regular,
Won’t be able to make it this morniong,alternator went out on my car,its in the shop now hoping it will be done before I have to go to work
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Uh oh, that suxors man – alternators can be expensive.
No worries though, plenty of time to get together some other day, I’ll buy in memory of your ‘deceased’ alternator. :)
Well, this is a surprise – well, not really”
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The idea behind the $787 billion stimulus bill is that government can create jobs by spending money. For now, let’s ignore fact, history, and economic theory and assume that government spending can actually create jobs.
In that case, we should expect the government to invest relatively more money in the states that have the highest unemployment rates and less money in the states with lower unemployment rates. So let’s check the data. . . .
Yet, with a few exceptions, the data show that this is not the case. Many higher-unemployment states are getting far fewer stimulus dollars than lower-unemployment states.
Take Michigan, for instance. Michigan’s 15.2 percent unemployment rate is the highest in the country. So far, it has received $403 per person in stimulus funds. That’s above the average stimulus per person across all states ($326). However, it’s lower than the $409 per person that the state of Vermont, a state with relatively low unemployment (6.8 percent), has received so far. Michigan’s per-person take is also much lower than the $707 per person the District of Columbia received. D.C.’s unemployment rate is 9.9 percent.
Now look at the state with the lowest unemployment rate in the country: North Dakota. It’s getting $253 per person with a 4.3 percent unemployment rate. Many other states are receiving roughly the same amount of stimulus funds per person despite much higher rates of unemployment.
Which suggests that stimulus funds are being allocated without thought to the level of unemployment within states. If government spending could in fact create jobs, then the problem of unemployment could be mitigated by distributing funds to states based on their relative unemployment levels.
But that’s not being done at all. Instead, funds are being distributed randomly, as quickly as possible, among the states. That in turn suggests something else: Even the federal government doesn’t believe the myth that government spending can actually create jobs.
http://reason.com/archives/2009/11/03/the-secret-message-of-stimulus
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Then how are the funds being distributed? Hmmmm – perhaps political connections count most? Who’d a thunk it. Imagine – create a slush fund, and it acts like a slush fund.
Remember? The CBO told us we’d have a recovery in 2010 WITHOUT the stimulus. So tell me, with a straight face, the a trillion dollars of deficit spending did long term good. Go ahead. Try.
Yeah I’m waiting here for the phone call on the estimate.
Aren’t you waiting on another call too Freebird? I’ve got that coming in December, Lord willing.
MORE BS about “saved or “created” jobs
STIMULUS WATCH: Salary raise counted as saved job
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO – 6 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.
The Georgia nonprofit’s inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government’s latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an “extensive review” to root out errors discovered in an earlier report.
About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren’t saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren’t saved.
That type of accounting was found in an earlier AP review of stimulus jobs, which the Obama administration said was misleading because most of the government’s job-counting errors were being fixed in the new data.
The administration now acknowledges overcounting in the new numbers for the HHS program. Elizabeth Oxhorn, a spokeswoman for the White House recovery office, said the Obama administration was reviewing the Head Start data “to determine how and if it will be counted.”
But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs.
“If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,” HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jMNoef6xDenBbHWO0Im6rIjDmAgAD9BOJH300
There’s liars, then there’s government liars.
Outlander
Yes I am and with my luick it will come while my car is being worked on,but you know I will get to the hospital by any means necessary. My sister in law is due in Dec as well,this month my mom becomes a great grandparent again and next month her 14th grandchild will arrive.
The CONs start with the CONclusion that government spending is bad. It is always bad. It can never do good. (Except for the strange case of Bush building a stadium for himself so that he could sell his baseball team . . . then it’s okay because he’s just making money and what’s wrong with that?)
But stimulus spending is bad, bad, bad. It doesn’t work.
And then they massage the data to make sure it looks bad.
Take an honest look at the numbers and I’ll take an honest look at your conclusions.
ELEMENTARY EPIDEMIC: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama
Each one of the videos below is creepier than the last because the further down you go, the younger the children — brace yourself for kindergartners – except for the last and most disturbing video, which you have to see to believe.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/04/elementary-epidemic-11-uncovered-videos-show-school-children-performing-praises-to-obama/
I’m not about to sell what I have…in two years Au will be at $3000. On that I am certain.
If we have a cheap dollar (so that we can more easily pay our debts) then China will simply stop buying our debt, leaving all of these new trillions to come back into our wallets creating hyperinflation waaaaay worse than was seen in Wiemar Germany.
Good thing we can always make a handy World war happen to kick our economy in the pants (and Cosmo will love this…to get rid of a ton or two of the carbon creators as well).
DavidB
Posted November 4, 2009 at 9:00 am | Permalink
The House has a new Democratic member from New York; from a district has sent Republicans to Washington for 150 years.
The SuperDuper conservative extremists ran the moderate Republican out of town, backed a “Conservative Party” candidate and gave the seat to the Democrats.
Thanks Sarah! Another vote in the House is welcomed.
The R’s can have their governorships. That’s all local. A House vote is much more substantial.
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Pay no attention to the fact that not a single incumbent won or that there are 276 Democrats up for re-election in 2010 in Congress.
Please.
“Last month NCC Eco-Justice Working Group visited mountain top removal (MTR) mine sites in eastern Kentucky. MTR is a disaster for the culture and spirituality of the mountains because of the peoples’ history and love of the place. It tears up lives and divides families because families need employment, even when they are opposed to the demands of the employer. Good information can be found at Kentuckians for the Commonwealth.”
http://www.ncc.org – search eco-justice working group
Maybe closer to Zimbabwe style but more than likely like Argentina.
All part of the plan.
OR Google: “Kentuckians for the Commonwealth”
“Bailouts part of a Reptilian Plan to take over the world!” I saw it on a movie on TV… Thus it must be true! /sarcasm off
I wonder how long Obama will allow the series “V” to remain on TV.
Dayum ANTI — Its just a remake of an old series…. calm down, dude…
The original “V” series is now being re-run on SyFy network…
Each one of the videos below is creepier than the last
Podemos sí!
(yes we can!)
CapnAmerica
Posted November 4, 2009 at 9:25 am | Permalink
The CONs start with the CONclusion that government spending is bad. It is always bad. It can never do good. (Except for the strange case of Bush building a stadium for himself so that he could sell his baseball team . . . then it’s okay because he’s just making money and what’s wrong with that?)
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How did a private citizen get funding like that from the Government to build a stadium for his ball team?
Oh, that’s right, an election approving a 1/2-cent sales tax.
“CapnAmerica
Posted November 4, 2009 at 9:25 am | Permalink
The CONs start with the CONclusion that government spending is bad. It is always bad. It can never do good.”
Put the pipe down, it’s affecting your synapses.
Good luck on all the additions to the family, Freebird. It’ll be an interesting time.
The CONs start with the CONclusion that government spending is bad. It is always bad. It can never do good.”
Oh good. One who can’t think (and, apparantly, has a spastic tic on the shift key) telling conservatives what they think.
P-lease, indeed.
Israeli Navy Seizes Ship Allegedly Carrying 60 Tons of Missiles
“The CONs start with the CONclusion that government spending is bad. It is always bad. It can never do good.”
He forgot to mention that Bush did it. Cap took care of that for him.
And of course.
Cons want the poor to die.
Cons don’t want to help the dying.
Cons want the ____________ to die, starve, faint, be maimed,etc…
Just fill in the blank.
This quote comes from a lib with no thinking ability. He just follows the crowd.
““Bailouts part of a Reptilian Plan to take over the world!” I saw it on a movie on TV… Thus it must be true! /sarcasm off”-Chas
As always, you’re the blind idiot. Over the past 5 years, EVERYTHING that I wrote would be happening…IS (and not because I’m “in the know”, but because I listen to people who are). You’re so delusional and self righteous that you’d never admit anything until the Obama voices told you how it is.
You can throw all of the red herring’s that you want out here. It won’t change a damned thing. Those who rule YOU as well as little paranoid me, want “global governance” with a common currency. They need to start somewhere and they are starting. A debased dollar and global taxation is a pretty good start.
I’m not trying to convince you nor any of you fuqing Obamatons about anything. I’ve been saying this stuff for the past few years in order to let those who help themselves might be able to take care of themselves.
The rest of you can fuqing rot for all I care. You ain’t special, no matter how much Obama has you thinking you are.
Preacher, you may know Matthew 7:6.
Pig.
For information on Buy Nothing Day check this website: http://www.adbuster.org
Help stop the hellatious spending spree that can ruin holiday joys.
My my… Pleefer is a bit grouchy today!!
Ya know, “V” is just a sci-fi fiction story, Pleefer… And I DID close my comments with /sarcasm off… ya know….
“okobserver” –
Tell us more about “Obama’s Senior Thesis,” then get back to us on “thinking ability.”
‘TIMELINE-How the world found out about global warming‘
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL3445896
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/gore_clears_carbon_dioxide_of_most_blame/
Pleefer’s author, Andrew Bolt,
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/politics/bolt/
‘Light down a wire for solar power ‘
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8341186.stm
“Solar power could be produced cheaply in specially designed optical fibres, say researchers.”
‘Global warming tribunal may stoke debate that climate change is based on belief, not science‘
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/nov/03/tim-nicholson-climate-change-beliefs
cosmos_originally
Posted November 4, 2009 at 11:24 am | Permalink
‘TIMELINE-How the world found out about global warming‘
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL3445896
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cosmao, Your “timeline” forgot to include that in the 1970s some of your AGW alarmists were predicting global cooling.
Well, time to head out for the Teaparty and the Protest.
Let’s just see what all the hub-bub is about.
Andrew Bolt isn’t “my author”, nor did he put words into Gore’s mouth (not that there is any room next to the 10 oz. filet and 4 Twinkies)in the Newsweek article.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/220552
cosmao thinks personal attacks from a computer keek is science.
Tell us again cosmao why Algore won’t debate. If he’s so sure about why don’t he prove it to the “deniers” put it to rest?
Pleefer posted November 4, 2009 at 11:55 am
Andrew Bolt isn’t “my author”,. . .
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Pleefer, who wrote the column at the link you posted at 11:33 am?
donndublin cannot understand that most scientists were projecting warming, not cooling, in the 1970’s.
‘The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus‘
http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F2008BAMS2370.1
donndublin cannot understand that science is debated by scientists, in peer-reviewed journals.
Why can’t donndublin understand simple facts?
‘OUR CHOICE — A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis‘
http://www.ourchoicethebook.com/
cosmao doesn’t understand that predictions, projections and speculations are not “facts”.
donndublin,
Thank you for the links re the glaciers in southeast Asia.
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2009/11/open-thread-113-4/#comment-689597
‘OUR CHOICE — A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis‘
You can find in the science fiction section of your local comic book store.
donndublin posted November 4, 2009 at 12:45 pm
cosmao doesn’t understand that predictions, projections and speculations are not “facts”.
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donndublin doesn’t understand that “predictions, projections and speculations” are not scientific methodology. And are not 1970’s climate science.
To those that continue to feed cosmo’s addiction; you are not helping her. She needs to face reality and step away from the koolaid.
While you feed her, you give her what she desires. No one can be reasoned with that has consumed as much koolaid as cosmo has. Cosmo has swallowed more of al-Gore than Tipper.
Please reference “Active Ignoring” in the linked PDF on how to discipline preschoolers.
Tough love. Yes she has lost her way, but feeding her here only worsens her problem. She needs to step away from the koolaid on her own.
http://pcit.phhp.ufl.edu/Literature/Disciplinewithpreschoolers.pdf
soldevvb urges the AGW science deniers to run away. . .
That’s all you and Algore have Mao, predictions, projections, and specutlation. No science.
http://www.amazon.com/Our-Choice-Solve-Climate-Crisis/dp/1594867348/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257360950&sr=1-1
donndublin doesn’t understand that “predictions, projections and speculations” are not scientific methodology.
The AGW science deniers don’t use scientific methodology.
“Pleefer, who wrote the column at the link you posted at 11:33 am?”-Cosmo
Andrew Bolt.
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I don’t know anything about his politics or his agenda (if he has one), I don’t care. What he says about Al Gore admitting that carbon dioxide (plant food) is not the sole cause of global warming is what I care about. I don’t look for a(D) or an (R) after every authors name.
I love it. Assassin squads for terrorists, drug dealers and “other enemies of the state”.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/us-needs-hit-squads-manhunting-agency-spec-ops-report/
E. Germany had the Stasi, USSR the KGB, Amerika has the DHS and this.
George W. Obama
Pleefer posted November 4, 2009 at 1:09 pm
What he says about Al Gore admitting that carbon dioxide (plant food) is not the sole cause of global warming is what I care about.
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Pleefer, you should learn the facts about an issue before attacking and denying it.
Gore (and AGW science) has never claimed that CO2 is the “sole cause of global warming”.
Obaaama has lotsa cool stuff in store for all of us internets geeks…
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html
“Gore (and AGW science) has never claimed that CO2 is the “sole cause of global warming”.”-Cosmo
No, but it’s sure a big enough problem to force us little people to have to pay credits for producing it.
You’re lost and easily led. You have a need to feel important in an otherwise useless existence.
Pleefer,
Actually, I’m laughing at the falsehoods and stupid attacks that you, and other AGW science deniers post here.
Who pulls wagon when all want to ride?
Friday, October 23, 2009
To the editor:
The money we pay in taxes is there to pay the expenses of operating the government within the bounds of the Constitution. Instead, our politicians are using it to buy votes by giving away benefits (welfare, health care, etc.) from the public trough. In doing so they appear to be caring and concerned, but the real motivation is to build their own personal power base, assure their own re-election and heighten their chances of moving to a higher office. The Obama plan supported by the Democrats (who don’t dare object because that would be political suicide) to expand the tentacles of government is to make more of us dependent on government for our existence (control over the proletariat). Where did we ever get the idea that the government had the obligation or the authority to bail out private businesses, take over the control of banks and manufacturers, and even approve the pay their executives receive?
The usurped, unconstitutional and unrestricted assumption of authority by this administration has reached proportions never experienced in this country. It runs counter to the principles and practices that made the prosperity of this country the envy of the world. Left unchecked the dictates of this government will become so burdensome and restrictive we will reach a point in which the sheer cost (and the individual freedoms we lose along the way) will be beyond our ability to pay for or reverse. When that occurs, who’s going to pull the wagon when everyone wants to ride?
DIANA ARENDT
Flagstaff
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This Letter To The Editor say it all about where we are today. It also says very clearly what will happen if the far left fringe get their way about excessive spending.
Pleefer cosmos isn’t really a person. He/she is an automated response robot and can only answer.
algore is god.
global warming will kill us all
the ice core is melting in all of the glaciers.
This is because from the outside some are expanding.
When you prove cosmos wrong he has a button he pushes much like a telemarketer does that gives him the programed response.
He is a waste of blog space and we should just ignore him. I do.
okobserver, thank you for the very stupid attack, and laughs.
Pleefer. . . CO2 is not the “sole” concern re AGW.
For example, SF6 also causes AGW.
Nike used to use SF6 in the air cushions of the soles of their shoes — they changed the design, so they could stop using SF6.
“(and the individual freedoms we lose along the way)” [okobserver]
Would you care to list any freedoms being threatened by this administration?? would you like to compare and contrast any of those alleged lost freedoms, with any we may have lost in the Patriot Act of the previous administration??
Just wondering, ya know….
“any we may have lost in the Patriot Act of the previous administration??”
And continued in the present one.
just wondering, ya know…..
TeaParty
I just got back from the TeaParty at LD. Boy, was that something! I got there about 12:15. I got to spend almost an hour wandering around talking to people before the shindig got started. I met some nice folks.
Observations:
They’re NOT astro turf. It doesn’t get anymore grass roots than that. They were just regular people. Conservative and conservative leaning, but people just the same.
There are a he11 of a lot of people out there that are afraid of their own government. I think that says something. And what it says isn’t good.
Please don’t tear my head off if my count (estimate) is wrong, but I’d guess there were 2,000-3,000 people there. KSN will have a better estimate.
Anybody who discounts the TeaParty movement does so at their peril. These are serious people. And they’re people who vote.
If Republicans think they have any control over this movement, they may be in for a surprise. These people are mad at the WHOLE government.
XXX-
Thanks for the report
The counter-demonstration across the street
They must have been hiding on the other side of the ice rink. I didn’t see or hear them. I did see a few people (3-4) with signs leaving the rink.
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littlejohn
Posted November 4, 2009 at 2:27 pm | Permalink
XXX-
Thanks for the report
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No prob, lj. It was a real eye-opener for this old Independent.
XXX thanks for the observations. I feel exactly that way. Wish I could have been down there just to lend moral support if nothing else. Many of us see things moving in a direction that can’t be stopped if it picks up enough momentum.
I agree that I am mad at both parties for allowing ourselves to be bamboozeled by the slick politicians.
If Republicans think they have any control over this movement, they may be in for a surprise. These people are mad at the WHOLE government.
A-Freakin-Men!!!
I’ve been concerned that the GOP would try to coattail this movement. Whether you choose to admit it or not, Dr. Ron Paul got this kicked off. Don’t believe me? YouTube some of Paul’s rallies while he was campaigning. Listen to the message then and the message now. Pretty much the same.
For the freedom and liberty minded folks out there, don’t lose site of the Audit the Fed bill. It has been kneecapped in committee. Don’t let your rep slide by. Hold them to the fire with a fully interrogatory bill to open the Fed up to sunshine.
I bet the pictures (if any) show a cranky, old crowd. A turnout of 2,000 in a metro area with 400,000 people in easy driving distance works out to about one half of one percent. Pretty weak. Not even a speed bump.
Thanks for the report, XXX.
I respect you for a straight shooter even when we don’t agree.
From someone who was there
” I got to spend almost an hour wandering around talking to people before the shindig got started. I met some nice folks.
Observations:
They’re NOT astro turf. It doesn’t get anymore grass roots than that. They were just regular people. ”
From someone who wasn;t
“I bet the pictures (if any) show a cranky, old crowd”
needs no comment
“They’re NOT astro turf.”
Oh that bus caravan and everyone in it is absolutely astroturf. Most people can’t quit whatever it is they are doing and go on a cross country bus tour.
What’s with the trollish gloating the Maine results, XXX?
Seriously.
I think the “Protest across the street” might have been the Hispanic guy with the ice cream cart, but I can’t be sure. If he wasn’t part of the “counter protest” there was not one.
I’d estimate the crowd at about what XXX does.
An ecclectic mix of people. Most looked to be going in and out of the area where the main event was throughout.
Definitely some of the fringe of the GOP if not society that’d I’d describe as afraid of UFO’s as well as their Government. But they have a vote too.
I was at too. It was at least 2000 or more. I got there at 1:10 and had to park a block away because the parking lot was overflowing. The church parking lot and all the side streets were full too. I did see about 4-5 counter protesters.
BJ that’s 4-5 out of a city of 400,000 which works out to 0.0001% and a 500 to one ratio pro to counter. They were all ages.
Suck on that libs.
“The church parking lot and all the side streets were full too.”
Well that casts a little doubt on the 2,000 figure. I went to a lot of Wrangler games. Their average attendance was much less than 2,000 and I had the same parking conditions.
Silly me. I avoid large public gatherings during flu season.
“I did see about 4-5 counter protesters.”
“Silly me. I avoid large public gatherings during flu season.”
uh, yeah.
‘V’ aims at Obamamania
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tc-tvcolumn-v-1102-1103nov03,0,7062976.story
“Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.
The news media swoons in admiration — one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: “Why don’t you show some respect?!” The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader’s origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: “Embracing change is never easy.”
So, does that sound like anyone you know? Oh, wait — did I mention the leader is secretly a totalitarian space lizard who’s come here to eat us?
Welcome to ABC’s “V,” the most fascinating and bound to be the most controversial new show of the fall television season. Nominally a rousing sci-fi space opera about alien invaders bent on the conquest (and digestion) of all humanity, it’s also a barbed commentary on Obamamania that will infuriate the president’s supporters and delight his detractors.”
“They came, they saw, they conquered primetime.
ABC’s “V” premiere was Tuesday’s highest-rated program in the adult demo, cracking usual leader CBS’ drama-series choke-hold on the evening.
“V” was seen by 13.9 million viewers and had a 5.0 preliminary rating among adults 18-49. ”
Ha ha, even Hollywood is beginning to see through the smoke and mirrors of Obama, the worst president ever, and his criminal administration.
soldevvb posted November 4, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Whether you choose to admit it or not, Dr. Ron Paul got this kicked off.
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How many people voted for Paul in the 2008 campaign? And in the 1988 campaign?
“V” originally aired in the eighties.
I seriously doubt that the remake of B grade 80’s mini series is aimed at the President.
Well, I missed the premiere of V completely. Not because of any implied political message. I’d just like the hours I wasted on it in the 80’s back.
soldevvb posted November 4, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Cosmo has swallowed more of al-Gore than Tipper.
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That’s a good example of soldevvb’s attempting to refute many decades of careful scientific research.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_fourth_assessment_report_wg1_report_the_physical_science_basis.htm
“They came, they saw, they conquered primetime.
ABC’s “V” premiere was Tuesday’s highest-rated program in the adult demo, cracking usual leader CBS’ drama-series choke-hold on the evening.
“V” was seen by 13.9 million viewers and had a 5.0 preliminary rating among adults 18-49. ”
You arguing against documented success again BlueJay, ha ha!
BlueJay
Posted November 4, 2009 at 3:27 pm | Permalink
“V” originally aired in the eighties.
I seriously doubt that the remake of B grade 80’s mini series is aimed at the President.
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I would have to agree. The Chicago times writer seems to be doing some serious reaching
Would you like to go get the rest of the article you selectively edited bawks?
It mentions that the V isitors in V might ALSO be an allegory for religious fanatics.
“I’d just like the hours I wasted on it in the 80’s back.”–BlueJay
I can readily accept that statement….that’s about all you do isn’t it BJ….and blog?
XXX,
Thanks for the report. While you were talking to people did you get a sense of what the basis for this fear is?
What is it, specifically, that these good people fear about our government?
You’ve got the link BlueJay….don’t know how to follow it?
BlueJay
Posted November 2, 2009 at 7:18 pm | Permalink
Yeah I think I’ll go down to Lawrence DuMont parking lot and laugh at all coupla dozen of ‘em.
BlueJay
Posted November 4, 2009 at 3:17 pm | Permalink
Silly me. I avoid large public gatherings during flu season.
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That’s what he said then and now look what he says.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gp8M6dmt8Ho2DRK_eqR7dl7QsMXAD9BOQESO0
MILAN — Italian court convicts 23 Americans of kidnapping in CIA rendition of Muslim cleric.
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You mean other countries don’t like it when Americans arrest and detain and probably imprison and torture people without probable cause before a judge?
There was a time when we wouldn’t stand for it either, but that was before we traded our freedom for a false sense of security.
Hopefully the War Crimes Tribunal will find Bush-Cheney guilty as well . . .
How desperate are you bawks?
President Obama won the election only a year ago. You and your editor mean to suggest that the subtext for a major television series investment has been thrown together in what the last few months? I’m not gonna go look but I would bet the series went into pre production long before the election last year.
BlueJay
Posted November 4, 2009 at 3:27 pm | Permalink
“V” originally aired in the eighties.
I seriously doubt that the remake of B grade 80’s mini series is aimed at the President.
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Hey it had the biggest mini-series stars of the day, Mark Singer and Karl Malden…hardly a B-grade production!
On the political spin however, agreed. Unless of course people want to start comparing Obama to Reagan.
BlueJay
Posted November 4, 2009 at 3:13 pm | Permalink
“The church parking lot and all the side streets were full too.”
Well that casts a little doubt on the 2,000 figure. I went to a lot of Wrangler games. Their average attendance was much less than 2,000 and I had the same parking conditions.
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BJ goes on little league night which is the biggest night and tries to compare it to the average. Lawrence-Dumont holds 6400 and city code requires that provide enough parking.
Bj makes up a pile of crap like he did when he went to see Hannity.
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Daniel
Posted November 4, 2009 at 3:38 pm | Permalink
XXX,
Thanks for the report. While you were talking to people did you get a sense of what the basis for this fear is?
What is it, specifically, that these good people fear about our government?
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I got to talk to a number of people. Of course you get some of the usual boiler plate, guns (take them away, God, abortion, but they fear having the government messing with their insurance. This is an absolute failure of communication!
People are scared because they see jobs and their savings disappearing.
They see massive, crushing debt that will ruin them.
They see a government that’s out of control.
Glenn Garvin is a political writer as well as a critic (very libertarian), and I think in this case he is reading what he wants into the new V series (which, by the way, I watched as well), rather than actually communicating what is there.
Despite its flaws, I really liked the original V, particularly the original mini-series. The original was an analogy to Nazi Germany, and it was interesting in that the aliens first targeted the scientists (the people most likely to see through them and to question their story). Except for one question during the first news conference, that storyline seems to have been abandoned for this remake.
The first episode of this new series moved too fast. I think they could have taken their time with the increasing influence of the aliens (heck, the original mini-series took more time with this than the new series did). They still could have dealt with the infiltration aspect in the first episode while not rushing the other aspects of the story.
XXX,
Thanks, that makes sense. Although, I would say that the fears regarding jobs going away, savings being depleted, and massive debt are more legitimate concerns than the usual boilerplate fears.
We need more Government Control of the Banks because the Banks effed-up. When Government effs-up, then who controls Government?
- The solution for a business that is run by incompetent managers, is to let that business fail.
- The solution for a Government taking over a business that is then run by incompetent Government managers, is to get Government out of the business of running business.
http://www.housingwire.com/2009/11/04/fha-delays-yearly-fiscal-report-over-accuracy-of-methodology/
FHA Delays Yearly Fiscal Report over ‘Accuracy’ of Methodology
By DIANA GOLOBAY
November 4, 2009 12:13 PM CST
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The public release of an independent actuarial study of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was delayed late Tuesday as the firm conducting the review completes additional tests. The supplemental tests come after FHA questioned the accuracy of the actuary’s modeling.
The audit of FHA’s fiscal year 2009 — which ended in September — was scheduled for release today in conjunction with a press conference addressing the FHA’s fiscal health and financial outlook.
A US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spokeswoman indicated hours before the scheduled release that the report would not be completed in time, and FHA commissioner David Stevens later issued a statement on the cause of the delay.
“FHA asked the independent actuary, IFE [Integrated Financial Engineering], to run additional economic scenario testing above and beyond what was going to be included in the actuarial study to better understand a broader range of risk scenarios,” Stevens said. “Based on these results, we raised questions about the accuracy of IFE’s modeling and IFE therefore advised us that we should not treat the report as final. IFE is now running additional tests to ensure that the final report is accurate.”
Stevens added, “We will only release a report that we are confident is accurate and fully reflects the health of the FHA.”
FHA, which insures lenders against default-related losses on qualifying mortgages, is congressionally mandated to maintain a 2% capital reserve ratio.
Stevens in a mid-September statement indicated the forthcoming actuarial review would show the FHA’s reserve ratio dipping below that required level.
(FHA, Fannie, Freddie – all Government Enterprises that have totally Effed-up!)
Chas
Posted November 3, 2009 at 1:36 pm | Permalink
donndublin
Posted November 3, 2009 at 1:33 pm | Permalink
chas, why don’t you show up tommorrow and tell them “teabaggers” what you think. I’d love to see you and BJ laughed at.
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IF I was in Wichita, I WOULD be there… And I would most likely tell them what I think of them, too…
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Too bad chas couldn’t be there. He’d have 4-5 counter protesters to hear him rant. Just like the 4-5 drunks he preaches to on East Douglas
In fairness to Garvin, his review makes a little better sense without the edit from boxlock.
I know they are trying to tell a story. I just found the whole premise a little silly. Aliens with such superior technology would not have to be surreptitious. They could just show up and say how it is gonna be.
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donndublin
Posted November 4, 2009 at 3:47 pm | Permalink
BJ goes on little league night which is the biggest night and tries to compare it to the average. Lawrence-Dumont holds 6400 and city code requires that provide enough parking.
Bj makes up a pile of crap like he did when he went to see Hannity.
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donndublin,
How do you know what nights BJ did or did not attend the Wrangler’s games? How do you know what the attendance was the nights that BJ was there?
Sounds like you might be doing the very thing you accuse BJ of doing.
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donndublin
Posted November 4, 2009 at 4:00 pm | Permalink
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IF I was in Wichita, I WOULD be there… And I would most likely tell them what I think of them, too…
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Too bad chas couldn’t be there. He’d have 4-5 counter protesters to hear him rant. Just like the 4-5 drunks he preaches to on East Douglas
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donndublin,
How could Chas be preaching to 4-5 drunks on East Douglas if wasn’t even in Wichita to counter the protesters in town today?
I’m starting to think that you’re not the brilliant logician that you like to make yourself out to be.
Also, you might want to spend some time reflecting on who it was that Jesus actually spent his time ministering to while he was here.
Should we believe boxlock20’s interpretation? Or the cast and crew of the show?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(2009_TV_series)
The show’s cast and crew denies the charges of bias. While actress Baccarin acknowledges that she had modeled her character, Visitor leader Anna, after politicians, she and series executive producer Peters were surprised by the alleged “controversy.” At a press conference at Summer TV Press Tour 2009, Peters said that the show was open to interpretation” and that “people bring subjective thoughts to it…but there is no particular agenda.”[15] Peters’ colleague, Jeffrey Bell agreed, stating that it was simply “a show about spaceships.”[14]
XXX
Posted November 4, 2009 at 2:25 pm | Permalink
TeaParty
I just got back from the TeaParty at LD. Boy, was that something! I got there about 12:15. I got to spend almost an hour wandering around talking to people before the shindig got started. I met some nice folks.
Observations:
They’re NOT astro turf. It doesn’t get anymore grass roots than that. They were just regular people. Conservative and conservative leaning, but people just the same.
There are a he11 of a lot of people out there that are afraid of their own government. I think that says something. And what it says isn’t good.
Please don’t tear my head off if my count (estimate) is wrong, but I’d guess there were 2,000-3,000 people there. KSN will have a better estimate.
Anybody who discounts the TeaParty movement does so at their peril. These are serious people. And they’re people who vote.
If Republicans think they have any control over this movement, they may be in for a surprise. These people are mad at the WHOLE government.
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That’s been my experience at tea parties also. Normal folks, conservative, mad at their Government and afraid at the same time.
I suspect there are many former Republicans and former Democrats at these events. It would be nice if the people actually voted all da bumbs out and elected some 3rd Party or Independent candidates.
That almost happened in NY’s 23rd, and Doug Hoffman nearly won in spite of having both parties attacking him and outspending him.
XXX says-
“I just got back from the TeaParty at LD. Boy, was that something! I got there about 12:15. I got to spend almost an hour wandering around talking to people before the shindig got started. I met some nice folks.”
Sorry I missed you. I knew you were ready for a Tea Party.
It is always a great bunch of people. Some of the nicest you will meet.
donndublin
Posted November 4, 2009 at 4:00 pm | Permalink
Chas
Posted November 3, 2009 at 1:36 pm | Permalink
donndublin
Posted November 3, 2009 at 1:33 pm | Permalink
chas, why don’t you show up tommorrow and tell them “teabaggers” what you think. I’d love to see you and BJ laughed at.
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IF I was in Wichita, I WOULD be there… And I would most likely tell them what I think of them, too…
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Too bad chas couldn’t be there. He’d have 4-5 counter protesters to hear him rant. Just like the 4-5 drunks he preaches to on East Douglas
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The PPP is the Big Man of the blog. How brave he is in cyberspace!
There are many comparisons to be made to the series V and not only the administration but the public’s reaction to it on both sides.
I don’t think Hollywood intended it that way however.
There are many comparisons to be made to the series V and not only the administration but the public’s reaction to it on both sides.
I don’t think Hollywood intended it that way however.
That almost happened in NY’s 23rd, and Doug Hoffman nearly won in spite of having both parties attacking him and outspending him.
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That’s says a lot. The NY 23rd was run by a RINO machine for decades. I believe in a conservative Mid-west district Hoffman would win.
cosmos_originally
Posted November 4, 2009 at 4:10 pm | Permalink
Should we believe boxlock20’s interpretation? Or the cast and crew of the show?
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There are obvious parallels in the original (I haven’t seen the remake) to Nazism and Socialism.
From the review I think the same parallel’s are there for comparisons to public reaction to the current administration on both sides.
I don’t think Hollywood intended it that way. Just the same old lack of new ideas so let’s do a remake.
Cash for clunkers another pourly run government program. Trucks traded for trucks, this was supposed to be helping lower emissions. I say BS to that. Now we have to investigate what happened? I did not like the program from the get go. It was obvious what was going to happen.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_bi_ge/us_cash_for_clunkers
Sorry for the multiple posts.
My system is jacked up.
Me needs some Obama money for a new computer.
It would be nice if the people actually voted all da bumbs out and elected some 3rd Party or Independent candidates. -Jimmi (crackhead) Johnson
Get real.
“They’re NOT astro turf. It doesn’t get anymore grass roots than that. They were just regular people. Conservative and conservative leaning, but people just the same.”
Very similiar to my observations from my first Tea party last year.
Democrats, the party of inclusion, are still calling these average Joe Americans names and belittle them.
From their top leadership down, they have made fun of the Tea Party participants. Labeling, branding, all sorts of names.
I hope they keep it up. The crowds are growing….
Satatom fears Obama’s promised gravy train would not materialize if his beloved Democrats were voted out.
Hey libs!
Look at the Obama Flu Vaccine Program. Obama knew about it months ago and made grandios statements on delivery.
Fall is here and no H1N1 Vaccine.
Just wait until Obamacare trys to handle the entire American medical system!!!
He11 they can’t even hand out shots.
Anybody watching Fox right now. Dr David Janda says healthcare rationing was already hidden in stimulus bill. He also says if the HC bill now pending passes, 45% of physicians will resign. That’s rationing by default.
Obama make a decision on Afghanistan today?
November 03, 2009
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DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sgt. Cesar B. Ruiz, 26, of San Antonio, Texas, died Oct. 31 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve, New Orleans.
British deaths raise questions about Afghan police
By ELENA BECATOROS and DEB RIECHMANN (AP) – 1 hour ago
KABUL — The killing of five British troops by a rogue Afghan policeman underlines concerns about training and discipline within the ranks and possible insurgent infiltration of a police force that the U.S. hopes will be its ticket out of Afghanistan someday.
The attack caused anguish in Britain, where public support for the war has been waning. Britain is the largest contributor to NATO forces in Afghanistan after the United States, and its continued presence here is central to President Barack Obama’s strategy as he weighs dispatching tens of thousands more U.S. troops.
The five British soldiers, who had been advising Afghan policemen, were shot and killed Tuesday at a checkpoint where they were living in the volatile southern province of Helmand. Another six soldiers were wounded, as were two Afghan policemen when the soldiers returned fire, officials said.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i8n1R0ts9azt2pf-omBeXIE4zBZAD9BOUO001
The crowds are growing????
WICHITA — Blue skies, warm weather and a crowd estimated at 1,500 to 2,000 people greeted the “Tea Party Express” bus tour in the parking lot of Lawrence-Dumont Stadium this afternoon.
With ongoing plugs from KFDI and other radio stations all morning long…all they could get was less than 2000?
There are more people jogging every morning in Wichita than that!
donndublin
Posted November 4, 2009 at 4:46 pm | Permalink
He also says if the HC bill now pending passes, 45% of physicians will resign.
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1/3 of American doctors are age 55 or older. Most can retire now!
Had the democrats swept the governor races, NY 23, and gay rights the libs would be calling the election affirmation of the Obama politic.
But since that didn’t happen. It’s instead relegated to, “no biggy.
HA!
We don’t need doctors…this is a Christian nation and prayer will suffice for health care.
Ooops, Christians don’t really believe in the power of faith now do they?
Otherwise we could do away once and for all with Medicare Socialism.
“I know they are trying to tell a story. I just found the whole premise a little silly. Aliens with such superior technology would not have to be surreptitious. They could just show up and say how it is gonna be.”–BlueJay
Sure that’s the way you’d handle it BlueJay, but….you such a loser, ha.
Your way doesn’t work.
As a physician who has authored books on Preventative Health Care and Health Care Cost Containment, I was recently given the opportunity to be the keynote speaker at a Congressional Dinner at The Capitol Building in Washington D.C… The presentation, entitled Health Care Reform; The Power & Profit of Prevention was well received…
The first part of The Obama Health Care Plan was buried in The Stimulus Bill which was signed into law by the President in February (see READ the STIMULUS). It is the second part of The Health Care Plan which is now being debated in Congress. Below is the link to the over 1000 page document….. Bill Text, Adobe PDF format. –
David H. Janda M.D.
“It is always a great bunch of people. Some of the nicest you will meet.”
“Nice” people do not deny their fellow man health care.
“Nice” people do not fight the minimum wage and treat workers like things instead of people.
“Nice” people care about something more than themselves and how much they got.
Boxlicker don’t know English too good do he?
I always figured he was a furriner.
Your apology for putting words in an entertainment editors mouth (or rather taking SOME of the words out of it) is noted bawks.
“How desperate are you bawks?”—BlueJay
Not at all, I’m having a ball!
Whether the producers of ‘V’ meant to do ‘whatever’ is irrelevant. What is relevant is how it comes across and get folks thinking and it’s doing a good job of that.
Oh, and BlueJay…with the way Hollywood chases the ‘almighty dollar’ they would turn on this administration faster than you would believe….and probably has.
The writing is on the wall, and it ‘ain’t lookin good for the ‘Acorn’.
http://scaredmonkeys.com/fun-images/Vanderbilt_acorn_nut.jpg
satatom
Posted November 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm | Permalink
The crowds are growing????
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700 to 1,000 in August.
1,500 to 2,000 in November.
Yes, growing.
http://www.examiner.com/x-16243-Wichita-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m8d29-Hundreds-gather-for-third-Wichita-tea-party
Boxlock20,
Your link doesn’t work.
Yes well good luck with THAT bawks.
Creative people, imaginative people, are the sort that watch science fiction. Unfortunately (for you) they also tend to be politically progressive and otherwise open minded.
Not much chance recruiting them into the right.
Maybe if you put subliminal messages in an insurance seminar or a funeral home commercial you reach potential cons. I wouldn’t count on “V” to do it for ya.
If ALL conservatives are mean, money grubbing Satan spawn fat cats are ALL liberals abortion having, smack doin’, gay bein’ welfare cases?
Soldiers’ forum reveals anger and disbelief over latest Afghan deaths
Comments on Army Rumour Service show despair over killing of five British troops by ‘rogue’ Afghan policeman
Wednesday 4 November 2009
News of the killing of five British soldiers by a “rogue” Afghan policeman did not take long to reach the messageboards of the Army Rumour Service.
Among the RIPs and condolences on the unofficial army website, there was anger and disbelief.
Another poster, Duke_of_Kaos, pointed out that it was not the first time coalition troops had been targeted with such tactics.
“As soon as they said 5 by [gunshot wound] it had to be an inside job, not the first, the US had a similar incident earlier this year and I fear it won’t be last case of side changing or infiltration,” he said.
Others took the deaths as further proof that Afghanistan was no place for British troops.
“Sad, sad news, betrayed by our friends, unloved by our people, unsupported by our government,” wrote mick_sterbs. “RIP Guys.”
Spiffy was more succinct: “Afghanistan is not worth one British life.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/04/army-rumour-service-afghan-deaths
“Whether the producers of ‘V’ meant to do ‘whatever’ is irrelevant.”
You didn’t think so when you selectively edited an entertainment review in order to imagine a political motive.
Taliban behind shooting of five British soldiers: PM
Wednesday, 4 Nov, 2009 6:47 pm
LONDON : The Taliban have claimed the killing of five British soldiers by a policeman in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday, adding that five other troops were also seriously injured.
“What we know is that the Taliban have claimed responsibility for this,” Brown told lawmakers.
http://www.aaj.tv/news/World/151369_detail.html
American_Way
Posted November 4, 2009 at 4:44 pm | Permalink
Hey libs!
Look at the Obama Flu Vaccine Program. Obama knew about it months ago and made grandios statements on delivery.
Fall is here and no H1N1 Vaccine.
Just wait until Obamacare trys to handle the entire American medical system!!!
He11 they can’t even hand out shots.
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Obama Lied and Children Died!
Obama also said the Stimulus would keep unemployment from rising above 8%.
He either Lies or he doesn’t know what the F he’s talking about.
Either way –
W P E
“satatom Posted November 4, 2009 at 4:54 pm | Permalink
We don’t need doctors…this is a Christian nation and prayer will suffice for health care.”
Obamacare covers prayer:
Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments
A little-noticed measure would put Christian Science healing sessions on
the same footing as clinical medicine. Critics say it violates the
separation of church and state.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-health-religion3-2009nov03,
0,2239900.story
“Boxlock20,
Your link doesn’t work.”–Daniel
Thanks Daniel, I realized that. They took it down from this morning….it worked fine then.
Here is another, not as good as the first as the first showed Obamamaniac with his ‘cute’ hat on dragging on a cigarette. But it’ll do.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbKkA5kM7a8/SrBM5_mOnEI/AAAAAAAAAGU/c9FrgmMbWGM/s1600-h/BARACORN_SEIUBAMA.jpg
“You didn’t think so when you selectively edited an entertainment review in order to imagine a political motive.”–BlueJay
I didn’t selectively edit anything. I copied the first couple or three paragraphs so folks would know what it was about and linked to the whole article.
What are you ‘SLOW’ again today BlueJay?
Here, read it again BlueJay and thanks for the opportunity to re-post the links.
‘V’ aims at Obamamania
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tc-tvcolumn-v-1102-1103nov03,0,7062976.story
Leapin’ lizards! ABC’s ‘V’ premiere lands big ratings
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/11/abcs-v-premiere-ratings.html
A lie of omission is still a lie.
I like the guy at the T-bag event that had a sign:
“REAGAN, NOT DEAD ENOUGH.”
Classic!
Thanks for the link to Obama with an “acorn” cap on his head, Boxy.
Just so I have this right–
Ridiculing the Commander-in-Chief during a time of war? TREASON when Bush is in.
Ridiculing the Commander-in-Chief during a time of war? PATRIOTIC when Obama is in.
Okay, got it.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-health-religion3-2009nov03,0,2239900.story
Actually, JimMax–
Obama & Co. predicted that unemployment would rise above 10 percent.
So far it hasn’t.
You remember the last time it went above 10 percent?
When REAGAN was president?
Whiner-In-Chief.
Obama has failed to command anything, accept maybe a certain small beer party on the white house lawn.
I understand now, Am_Way.
The office of the presidency means nothing when a democrat holds it. You can p*ss on it, spit on it.
But when a RepubliCON is in office, whoa, baby, stand at attention and SA-LUTE!
What were the T-baggers whining about anyway?
Give me liberty or give me death? Don’t tread on me?
WTF?
Who’s taking anybody’s liberty away?
This administration just wants to protect people from Amalgamated Federation Health Care Incorporated and you’d think the state was seizing everyone’s first born . . .
Useful idiots for the capitalist class.
“A lie of omission is still a lie.”—BlueJay
What are you talking about?
I copied exactly as it was, didn’t change a thing, and linked.
I can’t help it if you are a poor product of the government schools.
Here, chew on this awhile, from Gary Bauer, but don’t choke, ha!
“New Jersey – This is the big story of the night. Obama staked his reputation on this race. Just consider this recent headline from the Associated Press: “Obama Says NJ Governor Is Key To His Own Agenda.” The article goes on to state, “A Corzine loss would be seen as a political embarrassment for the White House.”
Those were the stakes in Obama’s own words – Corzine was the key to Obama’s liberal agenda. Evidently, that agenda wasn’t the “hope and change” Garden State voters were looking for just one year ago when they voted for Obama by 15 points. Last night, they evicted Democrat Jon Corzine from the governor’s mansion. “
Oh, and consider this:
“If you’re a Democrat member of Congress representing a red state or conservative district, as many are today, based on yesterday’s results would you toe the liberal line and bet on Obama delivering for your reelection next year? By the way, there are rumors today – and I stress only rumors – that the healthcare juggernaut may have been slowed down by these results.”
Gary L. Bauer
boxlock20 posted November 4, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Ha ha, even Hollywood is beginning to see through the smoke and mirrors of Obama, the worst president ever, and his criminal administration.
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boxlock20 posted November 4, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Whether the producers of ‘V’ meant to do ‘whatever’ is irrelevant.
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First boxlock20 claims that “Hollywood” is attacking President Obama and his administration — then boxlock20 says that whatever the producers meant is irrelevant“.
boxlock20 FLIP-FLOPPED.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(2009_TV_series)
“The show’s cast and crew denies the charges of bias. While actress Baccarin acknowledges that she had modeled her character, Visitor leader Anna, after politicians, she and series executive producer Peters were surprised by the alleged “controversy.” At a press conference at Summer TV Press Tour 2009, Peters said that the show was open to interpretation” and that “people bring subjective thoughts to it…but there is no particular agenda.”[15] Peters’ colleague, Jeffrey Bell agreed, stating that it was simply “a show about spaceships.”[14] “
The cons are planning a “we don’t want health care!” rally at the Capitol tomorrow.
These are people who can afford to FLY to Washington DC to tell Congress to deny health care to the poor.
A caller to ranter Mark Levin’s show just made a very definite threat against United States Congressman Grayson, saying if he ran into the Congressman at the protest “I might not be coming back. I might be on the news.”
Speaker Pelosi, lock down the capitol! The cons want to deny their fellow Americans health care and they are prepared to work violence to do it!
I wonder how many of today’s fifteen hundred Tea-Baggers are on Medicare?
KAKE TV says the crowd at the teabagging was “in the hundreds”.
Video confirms what I suspected. Mostly cranky, older people. And there were several counter protesters.
This administration just wants to protect people from Amalgamated Federation Health Care Incorporated and you’d think the state was seizing everyone’s first born
The administration wants to turn this country into their far left socialism idea of Alinsky style governance.
People see that now and kicking nut sacks.
KSN did not give a number. I will get KWCH’s number at 10.
MORE video of cranky old people. SOME of them in…costumes.
And there WAS a fairly substantial counter protest.
BlueJay
Posted November 4, 2009 at 6:05 pm | Permalink
KAKE TV says the crowd at the teabagging was “in the hundreds”.
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BlueJay is a liar.
“More than 1,000 people gathered in the parking lot of Lawrence Dumont Stadium near downtown Wichita to wave homemade signs and banners. Most oppose what they believe is government overspending and intervention in American lives.”
http://www.kake.com/kansas/headlines/69173197.html
Didn’t the (cluster) Fox Noise Channel cover it?
Why not?
According to WE Blog CONs, 750,000 people turned out for it.
I heard the anchor say “in the hundreds” Take it up with her James.
And there WAS a fairly substantial counter protest.
-BlueJay
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No there wasn’t.
” A small group of about 20 people stood behind the tour bus, showing their support for several Obama-administration initiatives.”
http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/69173197.html
“More that a 1,000″ is not that much out of the hundreds. The anchor may be forgiven the slip.
So more than a 1,0000? Guess old donndublin was wrong and I was right.
The average attendance at a Wrangler game was usually around 1,000. Just like I guessed.
The cons continue to grasp at straws.
They continue to lose because they are losers.
I saw video of one of the counterprotesters putting a teabagger on his heels.
KSN ya say?
“Wichitans showed up in force for the Tea Party Express for its cross-country tour. Many people say their protests are not about Democrats or Republicans. Those who spoke to KSN are angry with both parties for what they call wasteful spending. But there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment at the rally – mostly because of health care reform.”
“There were also a handful of protestors opposed to the tea party movement.”
http://www.ksn.com/news/local/story/National-tea-party-in-Wichita-today/CdreyAxf106MgAnxKdPqdw.cspx
BlueJay is full of schitt as usual.
“Wichitans showed up in force”
HEH! KSN wouldn’t even put a number on it. “In force” is something you say to make it SOUND like a story.
Hell I’ve been to garage sales that got a bigger turnout.
If it weren’t a slow news day they might not even have covered it. That aint a Revolution. It’s barely a poorly attended baseball game.
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BlueJay
Posted November 4, 2009 at 6:19 pm | Permalink
I saw video of one of the counterprotesters putting a teabagger on his heels.
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One of those ACORN-sympathizing SEIU union thugs, no doubt.
BlueJay appears to lie a lot.
Lies about the numbers in the Tea Party and lies about the number of protesters.
Told ya.
I went to channel 12’s website since they are the only one whose coverage I missed. IF the tea party story is there, I don’t see it.
Ya say ya want a revolution?
My numbers are as the media reported them there shaky. How come you didn’t gimp on down there?
“WICHITA — Blue skies, warm weather and a crowd estimated at 1,500 to 2,000 people greeted the “Tea Party Express” bus tour in the parking lot of Lawrence-Dumont Stadium this afternoon.”
“Fifteen people showed up to protest the tea party.”
http://www.kansas.com/news/featured/story/1041067.html
The loser cons SWORE on their mothers that McCain/Palin would win the election.
Pathetic losers.
“Fifteen people showed up to protest the tea party.”
Only 15 people took the tea party as serious enough to counter protest.
Was there free food at this teabag like there was at the one out by the airport?
AARP to support Health Care Reform Bill tomorrow… MSNBC.com
People are laying down less money to see Palin than people pay to see Bon Jovi!
Of course Palin probably will stiff everybody with one of her infamous NO SHOWS while Bon Jovi will actually perform.
Well, I’ve straighten out the obvious lies of BlueJay.
But, I’ll bet he keeps tearing up and sucking the snot off of his upper lip.
I’m out.
Just an interesting note from history —
One solution to BIG government, is dictatorial control… Very LITTLE government under a dictatorship…
offered with no comment…
Bluejay is in all his glory. He is a grasshopper. He has no job, no friendships, no relationships. He is a big man on the blog. This is where he strokes his ego.
And you guys keep feeding him.
Wonder who that little swishy pants was arguing in the video was? He seemed like an angry little piss ant. :)
Hey too bad you couldn’t take “American way” and “ANTI” and the rest of your puppet show down there James. YOU’D fit right in.
Hint to protesters who want to be taken seriously. Period 1700’s costume does not enhance credibility.
AmWay – Please share with us what your definition of a “job” is??
Seems like old BJ has his panties in quite a bunch over people exercising their right of free speech
Iggydonnely writes: I did not see any counter-protest.
Ol Regular (the blogs closeted gay guy) seems to have his eye on ol’swishy pants.
Must have been love at first sight.
Gotta go watch the Yanks cream the Phils!!!!!
satatom, another of the Libs nic switchers – too afraid to use his usual nic.
Hmmm, I think satatom just admitted being Chas.
Chas = satatom
satatom hates gays and lezbians.
Here’s what Ms. Jeenyous, Tbagger organizer said:
“I had a doctor on Friday say, ‘What makes health care a right to everybody?’” said Lynda Tyler, Tea Party Express Organizer. “’If it’s going to be a right,’ the doctor said, ‘why don’t we open up the grocery stores, shouldn’t we have a right to food?’”
D’oh! Guess they never heard of FOOD STAMPS.
Nitwits.
Where oh where has my Bass Pro bassmaster Stamp gone?
Oh Where Oh where could it be?
Pursuit of Happiness. It’s in the constitution.
Some of that Obama money, slide it my way.
I want my gubermint supplied bass boat – and I want it NOW!!!
I think Bass Pro even has a 19 footer called, “General Welfare”….
Guess they never heard of FOOD STAMPS.
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Maybe they haven’t heard of it, especially since most all programs use cards (Vision) or vouchers for food.
Link provides an article by Rob Natelson, Professor of Law at The University of Montana, and a leading constitutional scholar (See http://www.umt.edu/law/faculty/natelson.htm) regarding the constitutionality of the National Health Care Plan – relevant and instructive.
LINK: http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/08/18/is-obamacare-constitutional/
AmWay – Please share with us what your definition of a “job” is??
GOOO Phillies!!
Go Phillies?
It’s 7 to 1, Yankees lead – in the 5th. :D
It aint over till it’s over. [yogi berra]
Unfortunately Chas, I think the fat lady is warming up back stage
Everyone has a right to seek health care, no one has a right to demand it be given them by someone else.
As the only authorized Reverend of the Weblog, Reverend Way wishes each of you a good night, and Gods richest blessing upon you and your families through the precious blood of our risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
God Bless you, every one.
None of this, “Whatever YOU believe Him to be”…..
from me.
“no one has a right to demand it be given them by someone else.”
I want my damn bass boat. The constitution says I should get one from the gubermint. It is a life necessity….
So Obama needs to give me a damn boat!!!!
With Obama dollars.
Regular,
If things work out(like the grandaughter being born before them) would you want to try for next Wed,same time and place? BTW got the car fixed cost $250,had a friend do it and not the repair shop.
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American_Way
Posted November 4, 2009 at 9:20 pm | Permalink
As the only authorized Reverend of the Weblog, Reverend Way wishes each of you a good night, and Gods richest blessing upon you and your families through the precious blood of our risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
God Bless you, every one.
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Right back at ya,Amway
good night; good luck; god bless —
whatever you conceive god to be…
blessings to all…. ALL….
so mote it be!!
Freebird1971
Posted November 4, 2009 at 9:24 pm | Permalink
Regular,
If things work out(like the grandaughter being born before them) would you want to try for next Wed,same time and place? BTW got the car fixed cost $250,had a friend do it and not the repair shop.
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Ya, 11 Nov 0930 a.m. Toc’s sounds good, I’ll buy.
Not a bad price for an alternator fix. Used to do that work myself on my own cars back in the day. Alternators are costly these days, removing all those belts, bolts and getting back everything is what is a pain.
I thought V was alluding to the bush admin. and Fox, when the aliens told the anchor that he’d have to keep it all positive and thereby have exclusive access to the leader. And, ofcourse the anchor went along for the ride.
I just scrolled through comments above because I want to watch the news and get some sleep. I did attend the “Tea Party” this PM and have some comments.
About attendance, because I attend a lot of baseball games at L-D stadium, I think I can estimate crowds. In my opinion, this crowd was about 1,500 counting people who continued to arrive as others left. I left after the first hour myself.
The so-called opposition included our own WE Blogger, CF, always a tough verbal opponent. While I don’t necessarily agree with his left wing point of view, he is a gentleman when making his arguments. In fact, I noticed him having a good natured debate with Karl Peterjohn who I supported for county commissioner. I would like to have taped that conversation.
In my opinion as stated above by others, tea party speakers, who I believe were mostly from out of town at least while I was there, don’t dare express many carved in stone opinions because they will immediately begin losing supporters.
As a general rule, most people there feel they are being oppressed by too much government and too much government spending and borrowing.
But as soon as tea partiers express positions on, for example, health care, there is division. I don’t think American public opinion has focused on what is wanted in health care. I don’t buy many of the glib power points expressed on health care.
Ditto on abortion issues … I think generally women should make the decision for themselves.
Ditto on the attempt to paint the Koch group as anti-American. I don’t agree.
I am strongly against amateur elected politicians making uninformed idiotic decisions about spending our tax dollars as though there is an unlimited source of money.
I feel unlimited borrowing by government, business and individuals is at the bottom of the failure of our society today.
So “tea baggers” need to stick to patriotic speeches and country and western music.
I imagine if one had driven around the parking lot a good percentage would’ve had out of town tags on the cars. If it was 1500 local Wichitans it would’ve been more impressive, unless they were sporting Koch stickers on the windshields.
Even the name of the show “V” put me in mind of “V for Vendetta”.
But 1500 people ‘united’ around a hodgepodge of issues, really doesn’t mean much.
Nice try Phillies!! Better luck next year!!
IT was a great Season…. But they just couldnt break that Yankee hypnotic trance…
The Ferret gets his own Teleprompter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm8Oll5pVRA
They gave him a teleprompter because he couldn’t memorize his lines.
They cut him some slack because he looked good.
Name ONE President in modern times who didnt use one of the following items when making an address:
1) Manuscript
2) Cue Cards
3) Teleprompter
NAME ONE…. THEY ALL USE ONE OF THE ABOVE…
President?
What are you talking about Chas?