What Sotomayor has that Palin doesn’t … so far

Sotomayor’s a racist!

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The report warned that TARP leaves taxpayers far more vulnerable to big losses than the private companies Geithner is recruiting to buy up toxic mortgage assets. Losses through fraud alone could be “staggering,” according to the report. Barofsky said he knew of 20 separate criminal investigations involving the program and is himself directing six audits into TARP outlays, but did not reveal who is under scrutiny.

Yeah, let’s talk about something trivial, let’s change the subject, the largest undertaking of fraud in US history is no big deal, let’s MoveOn.

eewwww

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I wonder if Pat Buchanan has ever read children classics? But since he said it, it must be true…NOT!!

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wow, whiner … quoting from an article dated 2 months ago … did you need the extra time to look up all the big words???

(oh, and by the way … 10 banks have paid back the TARP loans – the Fed and Treasury is already ahead of their projections)

booga! booga!!

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oh, and for you GOPpers out there – it’s called intellectual curiosity … something that was sadly lacking for the last 8 years, but is back in vogue now …

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Excellent article, Jay. Thanks for further clearing up Sotomayor’s reading material in college, while the lovely Sarah wasn’t willing to reveal hers last year. I think that hurt her credibility. I doubt that the governor has the time to thoroughly prepare herself on all the major issues. Anyway, they’ll change between now and the election. Obama is going to fix everything.

I Report You Whine

June 25th, 2009
8:16 am

Protecting big business? I’d think you’d support that 100%. Let’s see how everything plays out before jumping to conclusions.

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Thank you, Jay; this was DEFINITELY on point!!

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um. excuse me … but since when is Pride and Prejudice “children’s literature” … ???

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Sarah’s College reading list contained “Huey, Duey, and Louie go On Vacation”, “Goofy Goes To Skool”, and “Micky and Minnie Lived in Sin”…Just sayin’

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Pat Buchanan must have been a Hahvard man to come down so hard on a Princeton graduate.

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sorry, ‘Buchanan.’

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The GOP had better pray that Sarah does not get caught up in a love triangle. After all, we all saw the way Putin looked at her and she knows where Russia is. I mean, if the GOP loses her to a long-distance lover, who will they have left.

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Jay, that commenter was me. I tried to make a point that had the shoe been on the other foot, Palin would have been ridiculed for reading those books in her college years. My attempt failed. Paul, josef nix and others did a fine job pointing that out. Why the need to rehash it all again?

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Agreed…If Palin doesnt do the work then she will yet again fall flat.
Soto is just a bad idea.

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Calzada says Spain’s torrential spending — no other nation has so aggressively supported production of electricity from renewable sources — on wind farms and other forms of alternative energy has indeed created jobs. But Calzada’s report concludes that they often are temporary and have received $752,000 to $800,000 each in subsidies — wind industry jobs cost even more, $1.4 million each. And each new job entails the loss of 2.2 other jobs that are either lost or not created in other industries because of the political allocation — sub-optimum in terms of economic efficiency — of capital. (European media regularly report “eco-corruption” leaving a “footprint of sleaze” — gaming the subsidy systems, profiteering from land sales for wind farms, etc.) Calzada says the creation of jobs in alternative energy has subtracted about 110,000 jobs from elsewhere in Spain’s economy.

There’s that word again, fraud.

eewwwwww

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Palin would have been ridiculed

What! By her peers — the Pat Buchanans of the world! Ouch! Excessive laughter hurts, in a good way though.

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Whiner — fraud. I concur.

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What Sotomayor has that Palin does not is a fawning media that will do everything it can to elevate her to a position she isn’t qualified for. That same media was simply out to destroy anyone who was named as McCain’s running mate.

It doesn’t take intelligence or glibness to be a President (see our current one or the former one); it takes the ability to govern by a core set of principles and the ability to listen to your advisors and make decisions based on their input. No one knows whether Palin has that ability because she was villified by the left from day one for not answering their questions they way they wanted her to answer them.

Harry Truman was no genius, but was loaded with common sense; same for Eisenhower. Both turned out to be pretty good Presidents. We could use a lot less flash from Hope & Change and a lot more substance right now. I didn’t vote for McCain, but he’d be a major improvement over the American Idol President. And Palin would have been head and shoulders above bumble-speak Biden.

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RB,

You’re just jealous of smart people.

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If you look in any college’s catalog, there will most likely be a course in Children’s/Adolescent Literature. It’s fairly common, I took the class myself in college and it was fun! I read the Bridge to Terabitha and yes, I got a lump in my throat.

We had this conversation last night, children’s books are an excellent tool for children or anyone who does not use English as their first language – any educator will tell you that. One trick to getting kids to read on level is to have an array of books of different reading levels in the classroom and let them choose. Of course, they’ll pick the one that they think the teacher wants them to read, but eventually, they’ll pick the one they CAN read and go from there.

As far as Palin v. Sotomayer in an intellectual discussion? Um, that’s almost hilarious just to think about.

Jay’s article is spot on. Many women like Palin rely on their looks to get them through life – and alot of times it works, until you are faced, like she was, answering some tough questions by people who are above looking at someone’s looks. To alot of people, being smart is much more of a turn on.

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RB amply demonstrates the anti-intellectualism I mentioned earlier. Thanks!

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(posted downstairs, but worth repeating)

Hey Bosch!!! I see your sacrifice to the gods of soccer pleased them:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/sports/soccer/25vecsey1.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

(what’s the American version of oleeeee-ole-ole-oleeeeeee … oleeeeee … oleeeee)

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I can almost picture it now. If Sarah had been elected to the executive level, in no time at all the pictures would have started showing up on youtube and the talk about her “behavior” would have started and the word about who paid for what in order to make her more picturesque and then McCain would have had no choice but to pull the Trump card and admit that she was nothing but a “hail Mary” attempt and we all know how that fifteen minutes of fame worked out. Well, that’s almost the way it played out, except for the getting elected part.

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USinUK,

Yeah, I worked hard to arrange that sacrifice – and of course, I can’t tell anyone what it was – the soccer god wouldn’t be pleased, if ya’ know what I mean.

Oh, it truly was a “Miracle on the Grass”

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Or better yet, Mrs. G., if the media were to actually have a set of journalistic principles that they would follow, there would never be another liberal elected to national office.

But principles, media and liberalism are three words rarely used in the same sentence.

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Even the moonbats are against “Cap and Tax-”

Last week HR2454 was 946 pages long. As of Wednesday morning it had burgeoned to 1,201 pages, as various constituencies made backroom deals with House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and his cohorts. That blatant vote-buying and sweetheart deal-making is why environmental groups like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, and the open-government organization the Sunlight Foundation have come out against the bill.-OCRegister

Now we have to bribe them, eewwww.

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Paul,

Yeah I agree with USinUK – some of us just had breakfast. EWwww.

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Jay,
Please give some background for asserting that Sarah Palin is: “She is clearly an intelligent person…” I have seen little evidence of this. Her educational background is suspect. Her ability to process diverse political theories has pathetic. She was elected mayor of a very small town and thinly populated state with a bunch of outsiders. There’s little if any evidence of intelligence here.

IN

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In terms of intellect, PALIN CAN’T HOLD SOTOMAYOR’S BRA STRAP.

Palin is a dunce.

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RW,

Seriously. McCain should have known those weaknesses BEFORE throwing her out on the campaign trail. She was a train wreck.

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Bosch/USinUK

[[some of us just had breakfast. EWwww.]]

How come your minds default to that position?

It was a metaphor for ‘now we get along.’

A bit of projection, eh? Lemme guess if it’s for BOR or BF….

that oughta take care of lunch… dinner, too. Hey! We got ourselves a new diet plan!

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Mrs Godzilla

[[admit the unprecented access that Fox news had in the Bush House ]]

To which infomercial are you referring?

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Bosch … breakfast … cheesy grits with shrimp and a good dash of Crystal???

Paul … if you’ve ever read any of BF’s quotes, the guy is a laugh flippin riot – if he’s not a happy person, he definitely has the sense of humor of someone who is …

RW … we’re not calling Buchanon an idiot for thinking P&P is a children’s classic … we’re calling Buchanon a wanker for ignoring the list of classics and just picking up on the “children’s books” part of the quote.

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Paul –

hahaha … the “ohmygodIthinkI’mgonnahurl” diet … (also known as the Loofah Plan)

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USinUK

I think the lesson last night is that they can both have a decent discussion. Old habits die hard, though. At one point BOR was moving the discussion along and BF reverted to his line from last time of ’stop yelling at me.’ BOR smiled and said “yelling? That wasn’t yelling. If your hearing aid is up too high we can have someone turn down the volume.”

Funny thing, I doubt if Huffington or Kos will put up THAT interview. They never want to address their stereotypes.

And they probably don’t want to address Rep Frank offering to gore their sacred corporate cows.

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It’s a good bet that Soros has something to do with the Soto media suck-up.

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GayGrayGeek,

Hehehehe. Funny.

Paul,

I’m not perfect man!

USinUK,

Out of shrimp – just plain old cheesy grits today (with Crystal’s of course).

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RW-(the original)

[[She was also being held to standards no VP candidate in history had ever been held to]]

You mean like Truman? Who Roosevelt blocked from information and meetings, even though we were in the midst of a world war? Those standards?

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“A great backstory”

No doubt. But those hot buns will only get her so far…

“…intellectual curiosity … something that was sadly lacking for the last 8 years, but is back in vogue now …”

Thank goodness.

“It doesn’t take intelligence…to be a President”

??? (Actually about fifty more would be more apropos.)

“As a young boy, Truman had three main interests: music, reading, and history. Truman was the only president who served after 1897 not to earn a college degree: poor eyesight prevented him from applying to West Point (his childhood dream) and financial constraints prevented him from securing a degree elsewhere.”

HST had a tremendous thirst for knowledge and had great intellectual curiosity. And Eisenhower attended that podunk brain dead US Military Academy.

I agree those don’t rival North Idaho College and not even reading the freaking newspapers though.

Sorry, apologists, one lamebrain US President per lifetime is enough…

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USinUK

Just wait until Soros’s funding of some of those spontaneous citizen grassroots alliance healthcare reform group(s) mentioned last night get mentioned.

You’ll hit the jackpot.

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Really USinUK???

Not kid stuff. Buchanan is an idiot.–Mrs. G @ 8:39

Granted your 8:36 doesn’t pick a target, but am I really supposed to believe you’re dissing on SS for not knowing what qualifies as children’s lit?

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Dave –

“Gee, Mrs. G., you take a single MISTAKE from Fox News and turn it into some “vast right-wing conspiracy”.”

and if the mis-identification was the first time it happened, you’d be right. but it wasn’t. FOX has done this before with Mark Foley. once is an error … more than that is a pattern

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I’m not saying Palin couldn’t get it done, I just don’t think she will get it done. I’d like to see a Romney/Huckabee ticket in 2012.

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RW –

“Granted your 8:36 doesn’t pick a target, but am I really supposed to believe you’re dissing on SS for not knowing what qualifies as children’s lit?”

I’ll write this slowly for you: Buchanon picked up on the “children’s classics” and misrepresented it like she was rereading Dick and Jane books … anyone who read the rest of the quote can see that she meant classics full stop.

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RW –

“The chicken bone line of succession right now is Biden, Pelosi, Byrd, Clinton. I’ll take Palin over any of them any day.”

just like any good partisan hack would.

me, I’ll take a group with nearly 100 years of collective experience – just like anyone with any sense.

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“I’d like to see a Romney/Huckabee ticket in 2012″

me, too.

just probably not for the same reason.

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Dave R. – If only it was a SINGLE “mistake”. Faux Noise consistently labels any politician caught in a scandal with a “-D’. It seems to be reflexive for the “Fair (snort) and Balanced (guffaw)” folks.

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“Without Palin McCain would have lost by a much wider margin than he did.”

??? (Again fifty more would be better.)

She likely widened the loss, especially respective to another moderate on the ticket, which would have secured the independents, undecided, etc… Had the RINO picked someone like Huckleberry or some flaming BuchCo acolyte and neo-con, likethe faithful hoped for, he would have been congratulating the Uppity One by 7PM that night in November.

And McCain’s advanced age made Sister Sarah even MORE circumspect. Thank goodness the American people were smart enough to realize that…

She was also being held to standards no VP candidate in history had ever been held to,

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USinUK,

I’ll write this slowly for you:

Save the condescension. Pride and Prejudice being a children’s book came straight out of Sotomayor’s speech in 1996.

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This article is Jay’s way of short changing Atlantans for the agenda. Because what really matters, 216,000 Americans laid off last week and the economy shrinking 5.5% last quarter, clearly shows Obama and the progessive agenda as the wrong direction for America.

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mm, haven’t you heard? There is a vast left wing conspiracy that locks out the poor misunderstood GOP.

It has absolutely NOTHING to do with the fact that in the free market place of ideas, the conned are seemingly permanent residents of the bargain basement…

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RW –

“Save the condescension. Pride and Prejudice being a children’s book came straight out of Sotomayor’s speech in 1996.”

okay. I’ll leave out the condescension. Buchanon misrepresented what she said – again, like she was reading Dick and Jane books – rather than identify what she DID read, which was classic literature.

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The GOP did not get air time! Well, maybe you just missed the coverage. After all, how long does it take to just say no.

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[[She was also being held to standards no VP candidate in history had ever been held to,]]

AmVet and RW-(the original) agree on something.

The ‘normal’ response would have been “was not!”

There’s a lesson in there somewhere –

Mrs. Godzilla

You’re a svensk kvinna?!?? Do you eat kaldomar and lingonberries during winter festivities?

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Hey Paul,

LSU is National baseball champs for the 6th time. Told ya they thrive on drama like palin.

Yes, I met lil kenneth the page. Not impressed. He will get away with not accepting the stimulus for unemployment as more jobs like GM in Shreveport go away.

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The U.S. economy shrank at an annual pace of 5.5% in the first quarter, the second largest quarterly drop in 27 years. It was also the 3rd straight negative drop. Not that the progressively media dare utter the words DEPRESSION.

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In fact, the word of the day last week was, “Is the recession over?”

What a joke American jouralism has become..

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getalife

from my 9 in the 07:

[[g’morning, getalife

Congratulations! That was painful to watch (at least for some of us). You on good terms with Gov Jindal? He’s about to get a 4X4 F350 load of barbecue for winning the bet - maybe he’ll share in the interest of bipartisanship.

Two good teams but only one can claim the title. Congrats, LSU.]]

Drama it was. College sports rule.

Not impressed with Jindal? Take the barbecue anyway. It’ll be good. Priorities, man, priorities.

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Obsess; to haunt or trouble in mind, especially to and abnormal degree.

Jay;
You are right to be troubled about the popularity of Governor Palin.
So the question: Is it obsession when an abnormal concern is justified?

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Does anybody doubt for one minute that IF they wanted to, The media (including Jay) could find more positive things to say about Palin and more negative thigs to say about Soto?

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What is it with you and Sarah Palin? Do you secretly have the hot’s for her? You mention her at least once a week and you have 2 threads on her on subsequent days.
Sotomyer, thinks her race makes her smarter than other judges of different race. That makes her an idiot, period. Nothing more needs to be noted. If you think the color of your skin makes you better qualified for anything you are stupid.

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How dare anyone try to claim that Democrats can be even remotely compared to Republicans regarding their philosophies toward big business. For one thing, Republicans are the ones with the philosophy that businesses should be left alone, unmonitored, unregulated, free to kill at will. Anything goes, for a buck.

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Paul,

He will share it with his donors. cons tell the people to drop dead.

You should know that by now.

Best sign last night. LSU loves oysters and championships by the half dozen.

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Sotomyer, thinks her race makes her smarter than other judges of different race.

Huh? Is that some more of that Limbaugh/Hannity speak.

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“AmVet and RW-(the original) agree on something.”

True enough, Paul.

But for radically different reasons.

Her being unfairly treated was, is and always will be just another lame excuse by those that are getting VERY used to losing.

Like many, I suppose, I saw her as a shrewd choice originally. A Washington outsider with no known baggage. And MUCH safer than any of the RINO’s in-party competition.

But as noted extensively, it was her “performance” during the campaign that caused millions of otherwise interested Americans to go “WHOA! BIG RED FLAG!”

Curious George Alert! Curious George Alert!

A charming woman and fine American I have absolutely no doubt.

I’m just happy she is nowhere near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue…

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RealtyKing, you’re a real bright one. Thanks for pointing out that Obama is responsible for the last three quarterly drops. Of course, he was inaugurated in late January. Brilliant example.

Your tired complaining about the liberal media (especially like those lefties at Fox or anywhere on the AM radio dial) should make you a great Palin devotee. You come with the appropriate qualities of being a whining, gullible dunce. Kind of like Ms. Alaska 2nd runner-up.

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What Palin has the Sotomayer doesn’t is that she is a Real American with American values, not an elitist immigrant with an affirmative action degree.

Palin is what this country needs to get back on the Right tract.

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GOP for Thee 10:05

[[How dare anyone try to claim that Democrats can be even remotely compared to Republicans regarding their philosophies toward big business. For one thing, Republicans are the ones with the philosophy that businesses should be left alone, unmonitored, unregulated, free to kill at will. Anything goes, for a buck.]]

An “how dare thee” followed by a list of Republican shortcomings does NOT address the Democratic pro big business shortcomings cited.

Care to try again?

getalife

I missed that sign. Thanks for the laugh!

AmVet

For radically different reasons?

Make that “there’s TWO lessons in there, somewhere”

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Yes Brad, and notice that the largest drop in the markets came in Sept/Oct, when it became clear who was going to win the election..

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Mrs. Godzilla

Irish, too?!!? Have you submitted your husband for sainthood, yet?

IHOP has lingonberries for pancakes. Order’em on the side – you get more.

The cabbage rolls are great – I make’em every year. Just a hint of nutmeg.

Lutefisk oughta scare you. I think it’s a Norwegian conspiracy.

My mom gave my wife a sweatshirt with “Pray for Me I Married a Swede” emblazoned on the front.

She wears it proudly. Plus, she stole my Saab.

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Dave R. – For your edification concerning Faux Noise and their mislabeling of anyone caught in a scandal: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/24/fox-news-identifies-sanfo_n_220377.html

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RealtyKing,
Especially Norway – huge economic socialist failure. “Traditional American definition” from the same people who brought you apple pie.

You’ll make a great Palin supporter. You’re a traditional Real American (wink).

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Sotomayor an immigrant?

George American, Please learn to google!

Let the Boss correct your ignorance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPudiBR15mk&feature=fvst

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Reality –

May I refer you to the NBER: “The NBER is the nation’s leading nonprofit economic research organization. Sixteen of the 31 American Nobel Prize winners in Economics and six of the past Chairmen of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers have been researchers at the NBER. The more than 1,000 professors of economics and business now teaching at universities around the country who are NBER researchers are the leading scholars in their fields. These Bureau associates concentrate on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals.”

theirs is the new definition of recession that most economists use, not the “2 quarters of negative growth” –

while the NBER doesn’t define depressions, you’ll find that most economists define it in terms of YEARS in recession, not quarters – (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(economics))

oh, and if you think to smear me with “euro-think”, don’t. I’ll own you.

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AmVet says ” “She (Sotomayer) ain’t white enough…”

Typical liberal pulling the race card.

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AmVet’
Read *If Sotomayer were white enough she wouldn’t be the nominee*.
We have a Latino woman nominee to garner as many votes possible in the next election.It doesn’t get any more complicated than that.

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Brad Steele

[[Especially Norway - huge economic socialist failure.]]

Could you please expand upon that?

http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20090514/ZNYT01/905143011/0/NEWS?Title=Thriving-Norway-Provides-an-Economics-Lesson

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What I would like to know is why an army of INS agents wasn’t at the Georgia Dome last night for the soccer game to round up great multitudes of illegals in one big scoop.

I hate EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU who caused a traffic nightmare last night and made many of us miss the first 4 innings of the Yankees-Braves game by backing up I-75 for 2 freaking hours.

Seal the Border, and…

GO, BRAVES !

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REality –

“Not to mention that layoffs began in record numbers after Jan20th, despite the progressive medias instance that the Obama inspiration, and huge increase in deficit spending, would turn the economy around..”

wrong again. initial jobless claims began skyrocketing right after Christmas (when they were at a low of 487K), hitting a peak on 25 March.

And, as I pointed out to Peadawg yesterday, they are a LAGGING INDICATOR. Unemployment will stay high until the economy takes off – NOT the other way around.

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Sarah Palin-Dick Cheney with lipstick…Just observin’

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RealityKing

June 25th, 2009
9:58 am

That’s old news and the revised numbers are a little better than previously reported.

Obama drops ball at health care forum?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/story?id=7919991&page=1

(Maybe we had better address death with dignity first?)

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GOP for Thee

[[Duh, Paul. Are you trying to claim that the Republican party no longer clings to the philosophy of unregulated, unmonitored, free to kill as the please, environment for big business and that the Democrat party does. Try again.]]

One more time. As Normal put it, I’ll…type…s…l…o…w…l…y…

I pointed out Dems hit Reps with pro big business label. Dems go anti big oil, but in many, many other areas, they’re indistinguishable. I cited support of big Defense and Agriculture industries and the sellout to big industries and rich guys thru cap n trade.

Your response, I believe, was to say “not so. Look at what Republicans do.”

This latest response was to cite more Republican ills and ask me to defend them.

Why would I want to? I’ve stated, quite clearly, the two are, in many ways, indistinguishable. Now, would care to try, a…g…a…i…n… to defend the thesis that Dems are significantly different than Republicans when it comes to being captured by business interests and special interests?

Mrs. Godzilla

My wife has that pin, too………….

And what’s wrong with the potato pancakes?!!?

Ummm, if you don’t care for the pancakes they make from potatoes, might I suggest the vodka?

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TF –

darlin, you have to have INflation to have STAGflation.

we are currently experiencing DEflation.

please leave the economics to people who know what the hell they’re talking about.

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Yeah Jay, you tell em. Palin was only mayor and govenor of tiny little places while Obama was a community activist in a real big city. No contest.

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Many Republicans have withdrawn from the economy in protests over “huge” tax increases and “socialism.” I don’t know how organized it is. I don’t think they understand the depths of the economic crisis that started in November 2007. Was Obama the presumed president then?

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What I would like to know is why an army of INS agents wasn’t at the Georgia Dome last night for the soccer game to round up great multitudes of illegals in one big scoop.

Among other bleedin’ obvious reasons (ever occur to you that your little traffic inconvenience would’ve been worsened had that happened?), your GOP heroes of industry wouldn’t allow it.

Oh, and, um, go Yankmees.

(disclaimer: I hate George Steinbrenner’s Evil Pinstriped Empire almost as much as I do Pat Buchanan, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, and those Metropolitans from Flushing, NY are my first baseball love. Sorry.)

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“Go to cnn.com businees and read the cash for clunkers article”

You’re too late. Jay already panned that one…last week. Maybe someone at CNN should read HIS stuff.

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Am Vet.After Obama got elected I sat and thought about his first Supreme Court nominee and realized then that it had to be a Latino woman.No one else could fill the bill.Lo and behold,we have one.This is not a racist comment and it has nothing to do with old white men.It’s simple logic.Obama has the black vote and the liberal white vote sewed up.He needs to make inroads with the Hispanics.I do not doubt Sotomayer’s ability.I do doubt her willingness to rule in an unbiased fashion.Things I read about her bother me. She will be confirmed,barring a catastrophe.Obama has had them before,remember,but this time it looks as if he’s home free.

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They were soggy!

‘Zilette # 1 made me homemade potatoe pancakes one mothers day a few years back. At the time she was a newlywed with NO culinary skills.

As I sat in bed waiting, I heard her holler…”Mom, what color are they supposed to be?” I responded golden brown.

She had diced the taters the night before and left them uncovered.

Mothers love sometimes requires eating gray food.

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Duh, once again, Paul. Are you claiming that the Republican party is not the party that supports the philosophy of “no holds barred” big business and that the Democratic Party is now supporting that Republican Party stronghold. If you are, then feel free to provide links to some evidence. Something published by the respective parties would be good.

Now, quit trying to put your interpretation of my words in my mouth, so to speak, and feel free to try again.

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Its really not that hard to search the web ya know..

There are several rules of thumb for identifying a recession, one of which is “two down quarters of GDP”

Considered a rare and extreme form of recession, a depression is characterized by abnormal increases in unemployment, restriction of credit, shrinking output and investment, numerous bankruptcies, reduced amounts of trade and commerce.

Another proposed definition of depression includes two general rules: 1) a decline in real GDP exceeding 10%.

Using 1): Welcome to the Obama depression..

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She is Latina, so she is MORE brilliant than the rest of us. Palin is much hotter though, Sotameyer is freakin’ FUGLY, like Michelle, the Hater, Obama. Barry should cheat on her like Clinton did on his ugly wife. Why are democrats so UGLY? Look at the view, all the ugly woman are liberals. The one true hottie is a conservative. That goes to show ya, just sayin’ Liberal Girls are easier, but who wants a FUGLY girl? Just sayin’

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Reality –

wow. and that’s why you hear SO MANY TRUSTED economists saying that we’re in a depression. because they adhere to your chosen definition.

the reason you don’t hear economists saying that we’re in one is because that definition isn’t the accepted definition.

you should be more careful when grasping at straws.

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It is mind boggeling to me that anyone with a brain thinks it would be a good idea for Sarah Palin to be President of the United States. Even if she has above average intellect, which I think she does, she still came off totally uninformed on many topics and she was clueless on foreign policy (not withstanding she could see Russia from her porch steps). Intellect does not always translate into good judgement (see George Bush the decider). When the face of your party are folks like Rush Limbaugh, Newt three wives Gingrich, Ann Coulter, Sean the great American Hannity and Pat the biggot Buchannan what can you expect for the future? Not much

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Brad Steele

Thanks. As the article pointed out… well, it does refute that contention. ‘Course, it does help when you have a whole bunch of oil and treat the revenues as a national resource, not as something owned by a few.

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Sure there is! Remember that post a while back citing someone who said how things were simpler, extolling health care, free, and education and maternity leave and all the other stuff?

Then he lamented he’d never get rich there and couldn’t quite figure out why?

‘Cause everything costs and someone pays, that’s why!

But as Brad pointed out, the debate often reduces to the simplest points.

And, I’ll offer, Pres Obama was pretty clear in telling the Europeans how and why the American character is different and how risk, work, and good fortune should be rewarded. But along goes with it, responsibility.

I do think some of their ideas are intriguing. Remember the guy in charge of the cell phone manufacturer (Nokia?). Got a speeding ticked with a fine of a couple hundred thousand or so? ‘Cause their fines, punishment for violating laws and to act as a deterrent, are based upon percentage of income, not a flat rate? Because a fine of a grand is a lot more penalty to someone making $45k a year than it is to someone making $45 mill a year.

I kinda like the idea. Fines. Taxes. The whole bit.

Soros is gonna open up more Caribbean accounts to hide more money….

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TnGelding

June 25th, 2009
10:41 am

What about paying for the clunkers with lifetime passes on public transportation?
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Yes! And bring back the trains. Make more of them and make them electric (green). It makes jobs, stimulates the economy…Airlines can fly overseas, but take a train domestically…a wonderful way to travel.

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Gandalf…Bless your heart…

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I was merely pointing out the traditional definitions of the terms reccession and depression. Ones that your progressively educated TRUSTED economists are now feverishly trying to re-define..

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I lived and worked in Norway for two years. Norway only has 4 million people and some of the largest oil resevoirs in the world. This is why they are so successful.

Why so few people. Practically everyone in Norway wants to work somewhere else. When I was there I was paying 90% tax on everything above about $40k. Norwegians love Norway, and all plan to return, but they want to make some money then return. most don’t. They remain a small country because their population is expatriating.

For those who remain life is good. Socialism assures their basic needs, and they have a responsible population who don’t take advantage of the government. They are very plain as to why socialism works there. They are a homogeneous society. They allow very few people to immigrate there, and this is usually temporary work related immigrants. Lots of Texeans, and Louisianans. They will tell you that this would not be possible in a more diverse society where some people would take advantage of there programs.

In short, Over 50% of the Norwegians in the company I worked for wanted to work somewhere else, preferably The US. All say they will return to Norway, most don’t.

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@@ 10:46

I think one of the lessons, on health care or anything else, is to learn from the excesses and what didn’t work in other countries,

and not do it here.

People can point to others who went on diets and became anorexic or who overdid exercise and got hurt.

Doesn’t mean people shouldn’t diet or exercise. Just do it smarter.

GOP for Thee 10:45

You’re becoming tedious.

I put forth a proposition on similarities of Dems and Reps. Didn’t justify Reps in doing so. Said Dems want to paint themselves as different than Reps but in many ways are the same.

Again, I’m not defending any Rep philosophy or action. If it’ll move things along, I’ll even stipulate to everything you’re written about Reps.

Now, back to my original question about Democratic sellout to Defense and Big Agriculture and Energy Interests and Rich Hedge Fund Managers….

or does thinking about that reality give you a headache, too?

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Sotomayor will be confirmed because democrats control the process, reguardless of what she is.

Sarah will continueally be attacked by Jay and his progressive band of kool-aid drinkers because they fear young girls looking up to a tradional Ameircan women. Personally, I’d perfer she was VP for 8 years first for the exact reason Jay stated. The last thing we need now is another inexperienced strawman(woman) at the helm.

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Palin was only mayor and govenor of tiny little places while Obama was a community activist in a real big city

It’s kind of funny what people choose to believe. Fact is, Obama became an elected official the same year Palin became mayor, early ‘97.

Although if you want to split hairs, she’d been a member of the Wasilla city council a few years prior to serving as mayor, so I guess technically she’s a bit more of a (scary music) career politician than Obama. Is that where you want to go with this?

Oh, and while she was on the city council, Obama wasn’t a “community organizer” any more–just to swipe from the wiki because I’m lazy…

Obama served as a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School; as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004.[42] In 1993 he joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a twelve-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004, with his law license becoming inactive in 2002.

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USinUK

8-1?!!?

Damn neocon iconoclast literalist strict constructionist conservative justices….

Hey, were they the same neocon iconoclast literalist strict constructionist conservative justices who just the other day voted 8-1 to not overturn the Voting Rights Act like liberals said they were going to?

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Paul –

you know what they say about blind pigs and acorns …

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Bosch,

I count being a professor as inferior experience to being a community activist. He obviously never had responsibility for a budjet.

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Jay-In one paragraph you say “while at princeton she was ADVISED that her english skills were inadequate”. And in the next you say”she arrived at princeton recognized that her background had left a weakness in her preparation and in her ability to compete in the mainstream,and she resoluttely set out to fix it”. Which was it?

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Bosch … dude. like he SO told you, man. like, you should just go back to SCHOOL … and see the AGENDA … man …

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Paul,

Norway is a beautiful, country, and has the most attractive people in the world. It is however, stifling for anyone who is educated and ambitious.

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USinUK,

Yeah, I consider myself TOLD!!! LOL!!!

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Bosch – I think the kewl kidz say p0wned … or some such.

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Clarence Thomas gives men a bad name…

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Bosch,

Yeah, I think having experience with any budget would be helpful. One needs to have some idea of the concept that a budget is not just a spending plan, it must also include an intake component.

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total stereotype-Democrats willing to bend & republicans to stubborn in regards to big business.

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booger,

Are you seriously going to sit there and tell us all that Obama doesn’t know the concept of a budget? That’s just absurd, and we are all a little above that.

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Yeah, let’s take one Norwegian drug addict, and make him representative for the entire country

I don’t think that was her point, but her point was pretty clueless. I think @@ was trying to gin up fear about them gubmint handout programs. What she leaves out is how much it costs to incarcerate a drug addict who winds up committing petty crimes to feed a habit.

Taking her figures at face value, I’d say the Norwegians come out ahead on that particular deal. Of course it seems distasteful to some to imagine that we should subsidize addiction and failure, but then again, when dealing with some folks a government has little but bad options and you gotta go with the leastest-baddest.

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Don’t we already have a member on the court that took English as a second language in college?

http://www.powells.com/review/2007_12_13.html?utm_source=overview&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_overview&utm_content=My+Grandfather’s+Son&PID=18?

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Bosch:

One drug addict????

It’s more than one.

No problem….give ‘em $1,500 a month to kill themselves. Once they’re dead, it’s just more for the remaining Norwegians.

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You may be on to something regarding controlling costs for Medicare and Social Security.

Stop all ‘wellness’ programs and inducements… no more smoking cessation… no more weight control…. short term increase in costs, lotsa long-term savings through… less monthly benefits!

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@@,

Sure, why not. Like DB said earlier, it costs less than that to incarcerate them or put them in rehab – and eventually, they’ll be dead, so we don’t have to worry about them anymore, and yeah, they’ll be more to give to the others. What’s the problem?

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@@,

Excuse me – in my 11:33 – it costs MORE than that to incarcerate them or put them in rehab.

It’s their choice in life.

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“Either way one could argue that it should have been addressed before Princeton. It was just a question to by the way”

Why? It certainly didn’t seem to hold her back any, did it? And it was just an answer, BTW.

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Reality -

“Which by the way leads me to correct that other progressively re-defined term”

Unemployment is a lagging indicator. sorry you seem to have difficulty understanding that concept, but maybe this will help (from the Conference Board):

Leading indicators: supplier deliveries, interest rate spread, equities, money supply, consumer expectations, building permits, manufacturers new orders (non-defense goods – it’s a proxy for business investment), average manufacturing hours, weekly unemployment claims, manufacturers orders for consumer goods

Coincident indicators: personal income minus transfer payments, manufacturing sales, industrial production and employment

Lagging indicators: average unemployment/unemployment rate, commercial/industrial loans outstanding, change in labor cost to output, inflation of service costs, ratio of manufacturing/trade inventories to sales, average prime rate charged by banks, and lastly the ratio of installment credit to income.

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@@ – I’m so sorry about your sister … my god, I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around how much that must have hurt … (I love my sister madly – can’t imagine my life without her)

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My younger sister was a drug addict on welfare.

Had I realized what a personal issue this is to you I might’ve been a tad less dispassionate in my response @ 11.39. But the principle still stands, and I’d have supported any methods that would have helped your sister find the treatment and self-sufficiency she needed.

My profound condolences, however, for your family’s tragedy. My sibs are intact and I can only imagine what the loss of one of them would mean to me.

Later, all.

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that should read I’ve KNOWN a few addicts …

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When President Obama unveiled his regulatory overhaul plan last week, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, dodged a bullet.

Lacking power, the agency has only gently regulated the derivatives markets, which have been blamed for wreaking havoc on the global economy. Rather than abolish the agency, however, Obama proposed strengthening it.

The sellout. Riiiiight.

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WASHINGTON — Millions of people living in nearly 600 neighborhoods across the country are breathing concentrations of toxic air pollutants that put them at a much greater risk of contracting cancer, according to new data from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The levels of 80 cancer-causing substances released by automobiles, factories and other sources in these areas exceed a 100 in 1 million cancer risk. That means that if 1 million people breathed air with similar concentrations over their lifetime, about 100 additional people would be expected to develop cancer because of their

Good thing the Republicans were right there making sure that people’s health was on that list of priorities…and funding…Riiiiight.

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@@,

“Bottom line is we’re looking to save resources at the expense of lives and family”

No were not. Not every addict winds up dead.

Addicts are addicts, locking them up or throwing them in rehab will not fix the problem – they’ll either get help or they won’t. It’s their choice, and being on welfare or not has nothing to do with the problem of addiction.

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Isn’t it interesting that people who complain that Obama didn’t have credentials and was too inexperienced will happily admit that they would vote for Palin for President?

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“No were not. Not every addict winds up dead.”

Maybe you don’t know this: but EVERYONE winds up dead

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Drug addiction starts with a choice that can lead to a disease.

Like choosing to be a con and getting the con mental disorder.

Anyhoo, most folks tire of being addicted and sick. They quit or seek treatment.

Something the cons should do too.

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Bosch, I honestly believe that he is so out of his depth on financial matters, that he doesn’t have any idea of the harm he is doing to our country. It doesn’t help that he has surrounded himself with politicians and lobbyist.

Are you honestly trying to say that he or anyone on his team is qualified to run auto companies, control up to 40% of the financial capital of the country, put together a national health program in 5 months without input from the health care industry.

Obama is a smart, charismatic, charming gentleman. All good qualities for a snake oil salesman.

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Doggone/GA,

“Maybe you don’t know this: but EVERYONE winds up dead”

Oh yeah.

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clyde@ 11:59,

Because they are American citizens.

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@@, I’m sorry for the loss of your sister. It’s a tragedy of which no one should make light. It could (and does) happen in any family. There simply are no simple explanations for things like that, especially why people kill themselves — in all the many ways that people do so.

But it ain’t about the mari-ja-hooch, Dear. Tens of millions of Americans burn the doob regularly and never stick needles in their arms, just as tens of millions of us have wine with dinner, or a few cocktails at a party, and never stick needles in our arms. Blaming what’s NOT the problem only keeps us from discovering and addressing what IS the problem – if that is even possible.

Yes, let’s tax America’s biggest cash crop and stop being China’s and the Saudi’s B—h. Deficits make us weak, not an hour or two of chill time on a Friday night.

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ncgreybr

[[Isn’t it interesting that people who complain that Obama didn’t have credentials and was too inexperienced will happily admit that they would vote for Palin for President?]]

LOL! Touche!

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Clyde,

Because if we look out for others, and not complain about doing so, we become better Americans and better humans. Because it’s the right thing to do. Because that addict could be someone’s mother, daughter, father or son. Because that addict could be you.

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clyde 11:59

[[I have never caused anyone to become a drug addict.Why should my taxes be used to assist them?]]

Because it costs more not to?

Because it is one of the responsibilities of citizenship? (I never did anything to cause that hazardous materials spill, why should I have to pay to clean it up?)

Because it’s the Christian thing to do?

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DrinkSlinger,

Sorry to hear that about your mom. I understand the problem very personally as well. Sometimes all you can do is be there for support, if not for the addict themselves, for the ones they live with. And sometimes you just have to accept who and what they are and not try to judge. It’s their life.

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Bosch,

Agreed.

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Whatcha wanta bet Palin’s NOT working on it? She’s too busy traveling all over to even take care of her own children, FGS! And no one in her family is up to “helping” her study up on current events, or even important past events. Will she be willing to run? You betcha. Will she be ready to run? A resounding NO. Are there Republican women who might be viable candidates for national office? Sure. But not If-I-Only-Had-a-Brain Palin.

Let’s give Pat Buchanan a test on some of the children’s classics he disparages her reading. And let’s give it to him on Spanish children’s classics! How about the stories of Ratoncito Perez? And I doubt Mr. Buchanan can claim to have graduated first in his class from BFU, or even BFHS, much less Harvard!

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Doggone-Ditto and leave it at that,pup.

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Bosch,

You are grabbing at straws now, think I’ll sign off before the name calling begins.

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GOP

How on earth did you get ‘concede” out of

[[I stated a position and supported it. You did the same.

Neither saw anything to cause a reconsideration -]]

Wait, I know… the real answer is, Democrats love to go on and on and on and on, stating the same thing over and over and over and over

and never reconsider.

Wait, isn’t that the definition of an ideologue?

same difference -

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wbk,Palin-no chance of winning(and really was wrong person to begin with) & Sotomayer-maybe have someone read it to her so she understands(and really was wrong person to begin with)

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When Jay asked “What Sotomayor has that Palin doesn’t so far”, my first thought was “intelligence”.

I always have to sadly laugh when people tell me I’m “afraid” of Palin. No…I afraid FOR America if someone as simplistic as Palin get into a powerful office. She would have been a heartbeat away from beiing President. THAT is truly fearful!

The saddest part is that when they were making fun of her on Saturday Night Live, they were using her own words. They didn’t even have to make up the comedy. There were SO many highly qualified, intelligent, middle-of-the-road Republican women that McCain could have picked….

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ncgreybr

June 25th, 2009
12:27 pm:

Are you measuring intelligence from the normal white male perspective or the liberal college performance. Intelligence is such a confusing word! I rather hear “He/She displays good commen sense!”.

Commen Sense! Well that blows most liberals out of the water!

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[[She was also being held to standards no VP candidate in history had ever been held to,]]

Like being able to think?

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“Norway is a beautiful, country, and has the most attractive people in the world. It is however, stifling for anyone who is educated and ambitious.”

Hardly. With the advent of the European Union, you have a lot of people moving from other areas of Europe into Norway to set up businesses with government grants from their own countries. There is one town on the southern coast of Norway that is almost completely populated by Dutch citizens who have done so. One of the benefits that many European governments give their citizens when they are unemployed is the option to be give grants to start their own businesses. They can still collect some portion of their unemployment paychecks while attempting to get the business off the ground. They can use these grants to establish a business anywhere in the EU. While Norway isn’t part of the Union it it has mutual arrangements with the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Switzerland. So you can collect unemployment in any of these if you are from Norway and vice versa.

Norway Risk Assessment

Country Rating

Rating: A1

The political and economic situation is very good. A quality business environment has a positive influence on corporate payment behaviour. Corporate default probability is very low on average.

Norway also has some of the lowest inflation rates in Europe as well one of the lowest unemployment rates

Of course the various entrepreneurial welfare benefits allow a Norwegian to move to the Netherlands to establish a business, or an unemployed Dutch citizen to do the same in Norway. For a few year, the Dutch were using their government benefits to go to Norway to set up video rental businesses, for example.

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Another problem Obama was stuck was was Bush’s “trickle down” bailouts. The ones the the Democrats were suggesting before the collapse would have largely prevented it and cost a whole lot less in the long run. It would have been cheaper to have readjusted the mortgages that people walked away from before they walked away from them. Then there would have been NO bad paper for the banks to have to walk away from. Of course this would have prevented the collapse of the investment bankers who were being hit on all sides to pay off the credit default swaps on those mortgages people walked out on to avoid paying more for their homes than they were now worth.

“A progressive bailout would look very different. It would relieve the banks of their burden by buying up mortgages from working people in trouble, rather than giving hundreds of billions to those who are most responsible for getting us into this crisis in the first place.”

Of course Bush and the Republicans largely fought any such effort to bail out those on the bottom and focused on bailing out those at the top.

I remember two years before the economic collapse, there was already talk about the tens of thousands of mortgage holders who were walking away from their mortgages, and everyone on the right was stating that in no way, shape or form, would this have ANY effect on the economy, while in the cloakroom of congress, they were already preparing for an economic collapse by passing legislation that totally altered the bankruptcy codes, making it impossible for a court to readjust the mortgages for these people who went into bankruptcy. Bush slipped in his rules making bankruptcy for the average person much more difficult well before the Democrats took control of Congress and most Democrats were trying to make the case for not making those changes in case of some economic crisis, either personal, or national.

One of Bush’s most amusing (or it would be if this change was not a large part of the cause of the current economic collapse) statement was:

“In recent years too many people have abused the bankruptcy laws,” Bush said. “They walked away from debts even when they had the ability to repay them.”

Those who OPPOSED the changes stated:

“Those who fought the bill’s passage said the change will fall especially hard on low-income working people, single mothers, minorities and the elderly and will remove a safety net for those who have lost their jobs or face crushing medical bills.”

As usual, the Democrats got it absolutely correctly and the Republicans got it absolutely wrong.\

Had the previous bankruptcy laws remained in place, this current economic mess need not have occurred. Had the bail out been from the bottom up, rather than top down, the same thing. The recession would either have been far less severe, or it would not have occurred at all, because there would have been other options than walking out from being under water on a mortgage, because no one would have been underwater on their mortgages at all.

This is too funny because by REMOVING the ability of the average person to have the courts readjust their mortgage liabilities, people simply WALKED because there was no longer a legal option for them by which the banks still would have collected a good percentage of what was owed to them, rather than simply getting the house back and past mortgage payments.

The Bush people, and the Republican majority congress were anticipating a collapse in the housing markets as early as 2003, but they were totally lacking in any sort of awareness of how this would sweep through the general economy, or simply didn’t care all that much because they were as well positioned to make money in this economy as in the previous one.

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I am again reminded why I cancelled my AJC subscription years ago and why I feel the need to bathe any time I read the comments sections after an article.

The only reason that armed revolt has not yet happened in this country is because half the population still cant believe what they are seeing out of this Congress and administration and the other half are just idiots.

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Pat Buchanan is an idiot. But don’t put down the entire Republican party because of him. Now I do admire Sotomayor for improving those areas of her life that were lacking. But that doesn’t mean I like her as a person or as a nominee for the SC. She is still a racist and is wrong in her interpretation of what the Constitution is all about. She should NOT be on the SC. I also agree with the author that Gov. Palin would be wise to improve herself in area where she may be lacking (or even just perceived as lacking). That said, however, I still say that she has much more executive experience than our current President has (and she wasn’t even running for the top spot!).

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N.J., before you start spouting off about how “wrong” the Republicans were and how you think they were responsible for the current economic crisis–TAKE A COUPLE OF COURSES IN ECONOMICS FIRST! I am so tired of Democrats who think they know the “truth” when it is all subjective propaganda. If you did a little research, you would find that everything that N.J. said regarding our current situation is totally bogus. By the way, I studied Economics, Finance and worked in securities for over 10 years. I don’t have time to breakdown the whole scenario, but a little objective research will show you who really is responsible for the current economic situation. I am not saying that Bush didn’t cause some problems there at the end–he did. He made a huge mistake by pushing for the first bailout at the end of his term. But the Democrats (with their lack of understanding economics and free markets) have made a much greater disaster out of a situation that would have corrected itself in less than a year. Now our entire country is heading for complete collapse–thanks to those people in office now who are only out for themselves and their personal gain.

I hope you are all happy you voted for “hope and change”. Because the change is coming and you better hope that you are one of the “elite” in power instead of one of the millions who have become slaves to the State with ever dwindling purchasing power.

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Sotomayor – the perfect affirmative action candidate for the Supreme Court – a second rate legal mind and a racist – The socialist must be thrilled – and Thomas Jefferson is ashamed.

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