Yikes! Newt Gingrich making sense!?!?

GINGRICH: No, he lives outside of the district. Dede Scozzafava is endorsed by the National Rifle Association for her 2nd Amendment position, has signed the no-tax-increase pledge, voted against the Democratic governor’s big-spending budget, is against the cap-and-trade tax increase on energy, is against the Obama health plan, and will vote for John Boehner, rather than Nancy Pelosi, to be speaker.

Yeah and she’s pro abortion and associated with ACORN.

What happened to Newt’s messy little divorce you libs used to make a huge deal out of, claiming it rendered unfit to make any sound judgments?

hmmm?

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Whiner,

“What happened to Newt’s messy little divorce you libs used to make a huge deal out of, claiming it rendered unfit to make any sound judgments?”

Why do you lie so much? hmmm?

I believe the rant against Newt was that he was fooling around on his wife while carrying the torch and pitchfork to get Clinton impeached over a BJ.

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I always said Obowo was a lying sack of ****.

Here is proof right from the Liar In Chiefs own lips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UErR7i2onW0

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Still liking the idea of Newt/Liz 2012….

Immensely beatable.

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So much for local control and States Rights. I guess the people in Texas know what’s best for upstate New York. Hmmm, maybe States Rights means that one state may better know what’s right for another state.

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Chuck Norris once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it.

A Chuck Norris-delivered Roundhouse Kick is the preferred method of execution in 16 states.

Chuck Norris doesn’t actually write books, the words assemble themselves out of fear.

When an episode of Walker Texas Ranger was aired in France, the French surrendered to Chuck Norris just to be on the safe side.

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While urinating, Chuck Norris is easily capable of welding titanium.

When taking the SAT, write “Chuck Norris” for every answer. You will score over 8000.

When you’re Chuck Norris, anything + anything is equal to 1. One roundhouse kick to the face.

Little known medical fact: Chuck Norris invented the Caesarean section when he roundhouse-kicked his way out of his monther’s womb.

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Come to think of it, the normally opinionated and glad to regurgitate it Republicans have been rather quiet of late. Is Rush on vacation.

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Chuck Norris’ favorite halloween prank is to attend a party dressed as a “round house kick to the face”.

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Chuck once got his buttocks kicked by a grasshopper. But, grasshopper has gone to another place now.

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DoggoneGA

**If he’d stayed in academia he’d be a respected, conservative scholar and critic now. Instead of a laughingstock.**

You just don’t get it. To liberals, anyone who doesn’t march the goose step is considered to be a laughing stock. That sort of makes you all look like the actual laughing stock.

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Newt makes sense on many occasions. You just need to get the Obama ear plugs out of your ears to listen to what he says.

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Chuck Norris drinks PediaSure.

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Chuck Norris facts…..sorta?

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

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NIF

Chuck Norris is Liz Cheney….

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oh,oh…gotta go

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Chuck Norris and Barney Frank? I bet I know who “pitches” and who “catches”, lol

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Ever see Liz Cheney and Chuck Norris together…….????

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JC

What’s that old saying? Even a broken clock is right twice a day. J/K

Newt might be an ok guy. I personally go along with the hypocrite label though. The first impression I saw of Newt was his posturing on Clinton’s misgivings. I never really paid much attention to what he actually said before then. At the time, I agreed with him to a point about Clinton and the fact that he lied under oath. I lost respect for him after I found out he was doing the same thing. Once that respect is lost, it’s hard to get back

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Chuck Norris doesn’t fear terrorists. He actually enjoys them… for breakfast.

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NIF

Not Newt, Clinton.

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how about…and keep myself only unto you…..

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And YIKES, the dems had to seek out an independent turned Democrat to carry their water.

“My beliefs and principles are essentially Democratic beliefs and principles, and what label you want to slide on me I don’t think is necessarily appropriate,” Owens told me late Monday in his first interview as a candidate. “I think you have to look at how someone has acted over the span of your lifetime.”

Owens spoke about his experience in “job development” through the Plattsburgh Airbase Redevelopment Corporation, and how he believes a key to job creation is the luring of foreign companies to place some portion of their manufacturing operations in the U.S. through to satisfy “buy American” provisions.

Owens took a decidedly moderate line on health care restructuring, saying he does not support a public option available to anyone–the crux of the restructuring put forward by President Obama. He said some health plans in Congress not longer include the idea of a public option. This stance is gaining some traction in the Senate.

“It changes every day, the various iterations,” Owens told me. “The bill that I would vote for would have a couple of elements to it. It would cover the uninsured, it would eliminate the ability to exclude for a pre-existing condition, and also that focuses on cost-reduction.”

If the last special election in upstate New York was largely about the federal stimulus package, this one takes place in the shadow of the healthcare debate. While Representative Scott Murphy, a Democratic venture capitalist, squeaked to victory over Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco largely by wrapping himself in the cloak of a popular Obama, Owens is not looking to do the same. Obama’s poll numbers, of course, have since fallen and Owens did not mention his name once.

Of the final three prospective Democratic candidates–a dozen were interviewed at the Minnowbrook Conference Center–Owens is the only one who does not support a public option.

http://www.observer.com/4850/meet-bill-owens-dccc-approved-non-democrat-house

So are the dems running a DINO, an Independent, or what? One thing I know….the big money’s behind Owens. I thought that’s what we all wanted to get away from.

What the heck! It’s NY. I’m all the way down here in Georgia.

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Not to change the subject, because Newt and Chuck are so cool, but never overwork your secretary because they can cost you dearly.

Price to PepsiCo for Not Being in Court: $1.26 Billion

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Price-to-PepsiCo-for-Not-law-3214509113.html?x=0&.v=1

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Meanwhile, back in the statistical world of polls:

Put simply, the GOP’s brand is still a mess. According to the poll, just 25% have a positive opinion of the party (compared with 42% for the Dem Party), which ties the GOP’s low-water mark in the survey and which is a worse score than it ever had during the Bush presidency.

And some bad news for the Palinistas:

More than seven in 10 Americans think Sarah Palin is not qualified to be president, according to a new national poll. Seventy-one percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday morning believe the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee is not qualified to be president, with 29 percent saying she does have the credentials to serve in the White House.

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Angry Black Man

WTF? 1.26 million because two men had the idea to bottle water in 1981?

My kid once took our home wireless phone to school with him. So do we start working on a case against the cell phone companies?

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ABM

It will just cost a lot more for the appeals.

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NIF

Not sure if the judgement will be overturned on appeal. They’re trying to get the judgement thrown out because they say they didn’t know about it in time. The article states that attorneys for PepsiCo made hearings in June and July or sometime during the spring. Somebody knew what was going on, but didn’t bother to let everyone in on it. If their argument is simply that they didn’t know, how can they explain the hearings that their attorneys made?

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Try to stay away from posting data from sites like firedoglake.

Are you laboring under the misapprehension that I work for you?

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Newt is overreacting. The Dems did exactly the same thing to Lieberman and they survived.

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I’m out. Time to pick the ABD up from daycare. See you all later.

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Kamchak

Oh no. You wouldn’t work for me.

Just some friendly advice from someone that thought that you didn’t want to look like yet another mindless sheep that will believe whatever they read, no matter where they read it.

Sorry. I guess I was wrong.

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Sorry. I guess I was wrong.

I’ll try to contain my shock and awe.

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Political Insider- Urinal
Newt Gingrich on Twitter: ‘Latina woman racist should…withdraw’

12:42 pm May 27, 2009, by Jim Galloway

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NJ

**The stimulus to the economy would be mind boggling. An estimated 2.5 trillion a year in wind turbine production alone is sitting there, and roughly another 1.5 trillion in various types of solar collectors is as well. This leaves out all other forms of non carbon alternatives.**

Where do these people get these numbers? Trillions? All the car companies combined have never made trillions.

And the problem with Solar is simple. The sun goes down every day. Wind? It doesn’t blow all the time. And then there are the areas of countryside that would be needed to set up wind farms big enough to power large cities.

PLEASE start reading something other than what you are reading. If wind or Solar worked so well, why aren’t we using it? Where would you set the thousands and thousands of acres of land needed to hold all the wind turbines that would power a city like Atlanta?

Nuclear is the only answer and we actually built a huge reservoir to house the waste until Obama shut it down. Carter built it. Obama shut it down.

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KAmchak

I actually come here to see what liberals really think. Shock is not the word. Disgusted is the word.

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@JimmyCarter

What case? You made a statement that sounded like a question but couldn’t have been, as questions end with, y’know, question marks, and not periods. Followed by a statement about resting your case.

Free advice: stop typing when the visuals kick in, ‘kay?

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I’m sure Newt and others of his ilk will always find those willing to purchase his bumper sticker mentality. After all, it is so much easier than actually thinking for oneself.

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Kamchak

**The imperative voice that you use assumes that you think I am under your control**

No. You are not under my control. I understand that you are under the control of the government. You really seem scared. I wouldn’t want control of you. You don’t need to be afraid.

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Taxpayer

**I’m sure Newt and others of his ilk will always find those willing to purchase his bumper sticker mentality. After all, it is so much easier than actually thinking for oneself.**

I’ve never seen a Newt Bumper sticker, but boy have I seen the liberal bumper stickers. Cars with the entire rear covered with bumperstickers. You’ve seen them, haven’t you. You probably have a few yourself.

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Thank you, Bookman, I skip several blogs and then make one comment and it is moderated. Inspirational, I tell you. Inspirational!!

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nothing is free –

“I’ve never seen a Newt Bumper sticker, but boy have I seen the liberal bumper stickers.”

My favorite is the “Dissent is Patriotic” bumper sticker so popular with liberals during the Bush years. Somehow that slogan got turned into “Dissent is Racism” as soon as dissent become undesirable.

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Laying aside the fact that Obama’s original deadline for Iran was September…mid…late?

Iran has also ignored the Oct. 23rd deadline. They’re now drafting up a proposal of their own.

For my STRATFOR lovers: Iran has already made clear that it is unsatisfied by the plan to ship the bulk of its LEU out of the country for further enrichment. An Iranian state television report from Oct. 26 caveated that Iran would be demanding significant amendments to the proposal.

I guess Obama will be setting another deadline? He’s already knee-deep in deadlines and sinking fast.

Words….just words. As empty as the space between his ears.

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Hello…hello… Anybody out there?? knock..knock..

My comment on my missing comment is missing!!!

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Thank you, Bookman, for UNmoderating my posts. Now if you will just MODERATE Taxpayer!!!

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I resisted the urge earlier but I can’t any longer.

Somehow that slogan got turned into “Dissent is Racism” as soon as dissent become undesirable.

Taxpayer, like so many liberals do NEED their racist boogeypersons. I’ve never quite understood the inherent need.

Heck! If I thought less of Obama due to his race, I’d refrain from saying “the space between his ears was empty.”

I’d tiptoe around the obvious in hopes of sounding politically correct? It would be the sensitive way of doing things.

Feeeeee…….lings.

Nothing more than feeeee…..lings.

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The bigger question is for you Jay; since the Obama administration, (which pretty much controls your blog here so therefore I will give them credit for being your “content master”) thinks FOX is not a “real” news organization, why are you borrowing from one of their segments to create a topic? Do you make a habit of using irrelavent sources? These little wedge builders you throw in are kind of embarrassing. Your motive is soooo transparent. But, I guess it feeds the 20 or so members of your “base” here who are more than willing to wile away their lives on something that won’t help them or this country one little bit. It will however keep you in a job which is what is really important, isn’t it Jay?

FOX dominates in the USA. Without it we would basically have government TV. I don’t really blame you for using it considering that it is the only source out there that will still give us at least some truth. Yes, it may be self serving but at least it questions the status quo which is more than all of the other news organizations are willing to do.

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October 28th, 2009
5:34 pm

You need a comma between “liberals” and “do”. By the way, don’t fight the urge. The call of the Wyld awaits.

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Repubos doin’ what they always do–creating chaos that will cause their candidate in the NY 23 to lose.

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Hey, Bookman, what is wrong with your moderator? Taxpayer used BULLCRAP.,.ILK..,..IDIOT in the short span of three sentences. Yet he marches only continually and incessantly without the slightest regret from you.

Well, nobody ever said you were open minded.

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Teabaggers losing elections for Repubozos comin’ up. NY23 is the Beta.

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Fox barely dominates in the United States. What they basically do is what happens in Great Britain, where there is almost no “objective” journalism. Every British Newspaper is linked to a political party or to a political movement. When Rupert Murdoch created Fox News, the objectivity of the media in the U.S., the only thing that differentiated American press from the other media of the world, died.

Conservatives have to assert that any media that does not take a political stance, most particular THEIR political stance, is “owned by the government”

That is a bit of distraction which has not truth whatsoever.

It is Fox News, that rather more resembles the media wing of the Nazi Party before its rise to power, the Volkischer Beobachter. This rag used to do what Fox News does today. It runs totally minor events, such as occurred with the ACORN incidents. And it runs them 400, 500 times in a weekly news cycle,. and then assails the mainstream media for being involved in covering up a massive scandal, when in fact, none of the ACORN stories were news worthy at all.

Running the story about an individual who was an ACORN volunteer, and then asserting that actions in the private area of his own life were somehow related to ACORN, was no news story at all, though Republicans and Fox News drones will deny it.

However if a Liberal news show insinuated that Mark Foley’s homosexual activities were condoned and in fact the Republican party were somehow involved in procuring boys for him, this would be the liberal version of Fox News.

There was absolutely NOTHING to the ACORN crap that Fox was running, except as if reflected on individuals who happened to be working for or volunteering for ACORN.

Just as the Republican party was not pimping for Mark Foley. Therein lies the difference.

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I’ve quit worrying about punctuation.

I’m just not that into it anymore.

If that means that you are no longer “teaching”, then I can understand your new attitude.

You obviously got my message. That’s all that matters.

Indeed. You Wyld thang.

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Taxpayer…
“There’s just something about Dusty that warrants moderation.”

Sorta like book burning, eh?

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The latest attempts by Fox News with regard to the Kevin Jennings story is another such event

For several days now conservatives in the media have been on a witch-hunt for Kevin Jennings, the U.S. Department of Education’s director of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. Led by Fox News, the right-wing media have claimed that 21 years ago, when Jennings was a 24-year-old teacher at Concord Academy in Massachusetts, he “cover[ed] up statutory rape” by not reporting to authorities a conversation he had with a student who told him about being involved with an “older man.”

They have attacked Jennings with homophobic, anti-gay rhetoric, falsely accused him of covering up or encouraging “statutory rape” and asked for his resignation or firing.

Of course on closer investigation (the news media getting a copy of the students drivers license) showed that Fox News was lying about the age of the student in question. The fact that he had the drivers license alone would have been enough to kill the Fox Story. The drivers license is not given to people below the age of statutory consent.

This is typical of Fox.
So far they have reported that ACORN started SEIU in Chicago.

That Obama worked for ACORN.

Fox news will simply run lies over and over and over again and then assert that the mainstream media is covering it up. They usually use a Rupert Murdoch Newspaper in Great Britain as the source that broke the story. Because libel laws are almost non existent in England, a paper can simply lie for political or the owners personal agenda, and there are rarely legal consequences.

This has been the Fox News method for the last two or three election cycles. In 2004 a British paper created the Alexandra Pollier story as an attack against John Kerry, Matt Drudge and then Fox News picked it up, and the entire story was simply made up out of whole cloth by Murdoch’s British holdings. Not a single foreign paper that was not owned by Murdoch covered the story.

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Newt is a Yankee.

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Doggone–
How much I agree with you on the term racist…folks don’t even know what the word means…the minute we classify a person by race for whatever reason, positive or negative, we are “racist.”

BTW–Have you Fox hounds been following Shep’s latest? Methinks Jay may be a confrere of his, this Gingrich thread being an example…

Dusty–
Hey, girl, do you save which are moderated? Some truly intriguing patterns do begin to emerge…jus’ sayin’…and pay no mind to Taxpayer,,,he wants to burn books…

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Jefferson–
“Newt’s a Yankee…”
Enough to keep me from voting for him, that and he belongs to the party of Diocletian of the Potomac…

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Dusty–
Trying to keep my Southern manners on today, let ‘em go yesterday…!

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josef,

Today I posted one that was moderated. I put in a post to ask about it. IT was moderated. By the time I tried the third time, my other two were released. Seems like everything I post has to be checked, examined, digested and then released..

Ours is not to question why, ours is but to post and try!!

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Dusty–

On the other hand, getting around the moderator does hone one’s skills in circumlocution…

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Doggone

“What’choo mean “we” paleface?”

Get that one a lot in this house! Unmentionable is “racist!”

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Taxpayer and his kind haven’t the vaguest notion of what goes into the work you do. Besides he wants to burn books…

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Welp, time to sell all the stocks again, I see-

Dow 9,762.69 Down 119.48 (1.21%)

So much for that “recovery.”

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Actually, Jay, this is not unusual for Newt. I don’t agree with his positions on some issues, but Newt has always been a good strategist. Actually, he’s one of the best strategists the Republicans have ever had, the man responsible for getting the Republicans back in control of the House in the 1990s.

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“Newt’s a Yankee…”

So was George of the Bungle…

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AmVet–
My name for Bush at the time was The Carpetbagger Prince and Choice of the Supreme Court…

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“of the Supreme Court…”

Josef…have you ever read Bugliosi’s book on that?

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“differences are vague at best”

I don’t consider them vague in the least. The operative part of the definition of “racist” is this: “involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.”

That is a FAR cry from a bigot: “a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion”

In other words, all racists are bigots…but not all bigots are racist.

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Taxpayer

You can keep the bumper sticker. I’ll just donate to their PAC fund.

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It never fails that if I, or anyone else, takes a swipe at someone else’s grammar, punctuation, syntax or what-have-you, that person is sure to make one of his/her own in so doing. I was taught my my Granny that doing such was “just plain tacky.”

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Well, @@, you’ve certainly demonstrated your ability to search through a thread for keywords yet you somehow overlooked this one, for example:

Jimmy Carter
October 28th, 2009
1:21 pm
Taxpayer

October 28th, 2009
1:18 pm
Was there any “underlying racism” in your post or was I just commiting adultery in my heart again?

That’s mighty Hannity of you to present such a one-sided presentation. Notice, I avoid the use of the word “argument” to describe your effort since it is clearly colored.

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DANGIT!!!!

Take out that freakin’ apostrophe in “you’re”….the “e” too. Put in a “be” between “to” and “accepting”.

Holey crap. Plugging the verbal turf.

IRRDHBRID

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josef, I always found it funny how the conned bleated endlessly about experience. And how necessary it was.

So what did they do? They nominated and elected a man who was a drunk, crackhead male whore, a fraud farmer/rancher, a failure in the oil business (???), a failure as a baseball team owner and a fake pilot.

OH! You meant favorable experience?

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“I can’t imagine coming in here to accepting of all beliefs or opinions”

Again, you’re missing the operative part of the definition: “…UTTERLY intolerant…” Sure everyone has things they don’t like, even things they don’t want to tolerate…but that alone does not make them bigots. It DOES, however, deserve to be called what it is: “intolerance”

And tolerating differences is not the same thing as accepting them, either. I’m quite tolerant of a LOT of things that I would not have in my life.

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“If it comes with your recommendation, it’s on my list!”

That is an accolade, thank you very much! If you don’t come away from reading it ANGRY…you aren’t paying attention.

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The latest blow to the fans of Ayn Rand are likely to be seen in her latest biographers work, yn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller.

The author contends that Rand would have had no tolerance for current neo cons and libertarians, largely because of their support of an economic system and an economy that is based on people like investment bankers and stock brokers.

The single most obvious trait of all of Rands protagonists, is that they actually MADE stuff that was valuable to the society. Skyscrapers, movies, something tangible. The sort of finagling that occurred on Wall Street would have been repugnant to Rand. She would not have liked the idea that a bunch of bankers could get wealthy simply by manipulating paper and leaving nothing behind that people could even look at.

Yet Alan Greenspan’s entire economic philosophy was based on Rand’s “Objectivism” or at least his interpretation of it.

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Hi, josef. And, how are you doing this fine Autumn evening?

Taxpayer and his kind haven’t the vaguest notion of what goes into the work you do. Besides he wants to burn books…

I must admit, josef, that I and other taxpayers (and there are plenty of us) likely do not have the vaguest notion since we’ve never observed @@ @ work.

By the way, I have heard that books auto-ignite at 451F but I’ve never confirmed that value personally. It likely varies over time due to the effects of global warming. Perhaps I’ll luck upon a trash heap of Rouge-tinted books some day and I’ll conduct some experiments. Maybe even publish the results for all to see. Nah. Who would want to buy that!

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Da Fulton County had given 13.2% or 700/5300 Oink 1 Flu Vaccines after its 19th day of vaccination yesterday. If a mutation comes they’ll be dyin’ in tents outside of hospitals and respirator rationing is already a done deal.

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Taxpayer–

Ever heard of the index librorum prohibitorum? Might want to start there and the, of course, there’s the Goebbel’s list– might want to start as he did with the works of Magnus Herschfeld…

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Is the Georgia tradition of mass sacrificing your children from the Old or New tesstamant?

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I am not saying what the parents should or should not do.

But this may be of help Gov. Option Done Deal.

The link at the bottom may be of help since you have sited more than once that a reason for the gov’t to provide a public option is that we rank so low in Health Care comparred to the rest of the world. Well it appears that we also kill our children at a higher rate to with vaccines.

Just thought it was awful for you to pass judgement on ANY parent’s choice as to what to provide their children. Especially when you have no future evidence to show the safety or dangers of the H1N1 vaccine. This is something you HOPE will work at best. If it is not a hope please provide me with information stating as a fact, not medical opinion or scientist concensus, an actual fact that there is NO chance for harm from getting the vaccine.

How do you get off accusing people of sacraficing their children?
I would assume it was sarcasm, but have personally witnessed you be this mean spirited and hateful and judgemental in the past.

http://deathbyvaccination.com/

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@ Thomas–I’m saying what everyone from 6 months to age 125 should be doing including parents of any age. Get vaccinated now! If we have mutation it will be like a bad plague movie–and we could have another “wave” in the next four months or the spring. There is not a question about it. There are no significant side effects from the vaccine and thymerosol mercury crap is just that –a myth propogated by medically ignorant people.

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We will not and have not killed our children at a high rate from vaccines and you cannot site any example of that whatsoever. That’s pure ignorance.

The only thing to fear is the flu itself.

And the UK and Japan proved that when they witheld vaccination from children, that death came to about 29,000 children and it is the subject of a famous monograph in the “Disease of the Month” series (orange in color) that you can walk into Emory medical libray and read if you know how to count to “D” in the alphabet.

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G-DD

In relation to your question of earlier concerning the dress code for the APS–

Appropriate (but not limited to)
*business suits
*collared shirts with./without ties
*skirts
*dresses
*slacks
*sweaters, boluses, knit tops, jackets
*coordinated dress shorts ensemble with appropriate shoes and hosiery
*sweat shirts and t-shirts with school-related insignia
*appropriate shoes
*attire in accordance with the environmental requirements for specific job assignments

Unacceptable;
*shorts (except for physical education)
*jeans, including overalls of any color (acceptable only for special projects or activities related to specific job assignments
*hats/headwraps
*immodest dress such as dress which is too short (more than three inches above the knees) or tight or otherwise revealing
*oversized tee shirts and undershirts
*leggings/spandex
*tank tops
*see through clothing
*sundress without a jacket
*clothing that exposes the midriff
*extremely low cut dresses or blouses
*other attire as deemed inappropriate by the building administrator

At our site we “uniform” twice weekly for staff, white shirts/blouses/sweaters with school logo and khakis on Monday and red school logo shirts and black slacks/skirts (school colors) on Fridays…

Our students have a uniform dress code which is collared top of solid white or pastel color and khaki or black shorts/slacks/skirts, no jeans and head coverings only for religious reasons…no t-shirts and no logos/messages except the school emblem…

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Taxpayer–
Ray Bradbury? Was reading him at age 6 –yes, that’s right–Unmentionable thinks he walks on water…He’s a good enough writer and I like a lot of what he says, but I’m not the biggest fan of his metier…

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getalife…

“Newt’s running.”

Well by all means, send him a bottle of kaopectate.

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Carafate in an off lable use is 100 x more effective than Kaopectate, Lomotil, or Imodium to stop a diarrhea while you look for the underlying cause if it continues more than a couple days.

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Actually, you were on my mind today…there’s one little one who could not walk when she came..for reasons known only to her, she has taken a shine to me…today she broke loose and ran to give me a hug…and there are still those who question why I believe in G-d!

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G-DD
@ 7:53

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Gov. Option,

I NEVER said we killed our children. Please show me where I wrote that as my opinion. Whats that you can’t SHOCK!

But are you saying that a vaccine or its complications have never been responsible for an American child?

Oh yes btw you saying so is far from a source. We all here know that you think you are smarter than us all and we are so ignorant to ever challenge your assertions, but I feel I just may be smarter than you. But see how I’m different is that I am willing to say may.

Again I will ask, show me proof, not scientist consensus, or a medically accepted opinion, but an actual fact of the long term effects of H1N1 vaccine?

Any news on the long term effects, or sources for that, to prove as a fact that the H1N1 is safe and will have No long term, or short term effects? Whats that its too new of a drug to have been experimented on long term yet.

No that can’t be the almighty and wise Gov. Option Done Deal said it was. Why no of course he didn’t have a source to PROVE it, but honestly can their be any more proof than if Gov. Option has the opinion that it is so.

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Funny how the seasonal flu has killed WAY more people than H1N1 in the exact same time period huh.

And Flu season has yet to reach its usual seasonal peak.

So everyone, quick fast and hurry, flu shots and H1N1 shots ASAP.

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Liberals arguing about what they consider worthy of their intolerance. LOL!!!

Here’s an idea: give some new ideas a chance because your old worn out anti-American, socialist, bigoted and ignorant ideas suck.

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Fairness would be prosecuting Christie for violation of several sections of 18 USC including his ownership of Cedent stock and hsi complete politicization of the office of NJ US Attorney.

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If it comes to pass, here’s hoping Georgia will opt out — sending desperate liberals in search of THEIR sanctuary elsewhere.

Now, what was that you were saying about hanging out here and who cares about what and blah blah blah.

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Kids with Asthma Hit Hard
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/docs_warn_h1n1_could_asthmatic_kids_hard_102809

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RW–
I haven’t seen it yet myself so can’t comment on “the look,” but in the past I’ve been impressed by his cajones…

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RIF

“…after seeing who his guy exposed his children to Sunday after Sunday…”

One of the (sadly) funniest things that’s transpired on this blog is how my fellow liberals jump on me like a duck on a junebug when I say that this was one of the deciding factors in not just my refusal to vote for him but a key element in my antipathy toward him. The very ones who think nothing of throwing around the evangelical-fundamentalist canard have been the ring leaders in “defending” him…then here Nero comes with his support of Prop 8 as founded in his religion, followed by inviting in the hate monger preacher Wright…Yeah, sure, and I’m supposed to go singing his hosannahs?

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josef

As much as I usually agree with you, I have to disagree with Wright. Unless someone can post every sermon he preached for 20 years and prove that he preached hatred for the US each and every sermon, I don’t buy into it. If people got flustered by the few clips from sermons that were shown, they’d really blow a gasket if they listened in on conversations at the barber shops, basketball courts, and other areas of social gathering in the “hood”. I’m not saying that Wright was a saint, but what he said is nothing compared to what’s really discussed in the black community.

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josef,

There’s an article back out on the home page of the AJC that describes the transaction fairly well. I saw some cutup video yesterday on some lefty blogs and I gave Shep the benefit that they had cut out the context and it was really a joke, but it appears not to be.

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Taxpayer & josef.

I left both of you a response. It’s awaiting moderation. Don’t know why…just know it is what it is.

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The Rev. Wright card? Puhleeez. He is no better or worse than either of the Hagees, Jim Baker or the countless Southern Baptist preachers that I have had the dubious honor of having to sit and listen to.

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RW

I like Shep Smith. He’s one of very few, from all news channels, that try to report as non-partisan as possible. I’ll usually watch Fox when I know he’s on. ABC overnight has a duo that come off as non partisan too.

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ABM–
I’ll go digging. Not each and every sermon, of course, but his writings, which I have followed, being a student of sorts of liberation theology, have bristled with venom of the crudest sort, in my opinion. So I am not judging him on the basis of those few sound bites. It isn’t the conversations you mention that I take issue with…it is the very use of g*ddamn from a pulpit which set me to rage…that is breaking the commandment of “taking the L-rd’s name in vain” in my opinion and I was taught NEVER, EVER to use those words…if you were to sit in on some of mine and the Unmentionable’s conversations/discussions with our gay friends on the straight people it would not be pretty, for sure, but the idea that I would go into my classroom and use such is an anathema to all I believe in. There’s a HUGE difference, in my opinion, between negative emotions toward “them,” whoever the “them” may be, and preaching and teaching that these emotions are acceptable behaviors and beliefs.

BTW–an error on my part here, I meant to say inviting in the hate monger preacher WARREN…

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Kamchak

October 28th, 2009
9:04 pm

Amen to that one.

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October 28th, 2009
9:10 pm

For a self-proclaimed teacher, you seem to come up light on the vocabulary. Are you trying to imply something or do you simply not know the definition of the word.

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Taxpayer:

Oddly enough, it’s the innuendos I’m catching.

Not much on humor, are ye?

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Taxpayer

And then there’s the incestuous Paulk clan.

Slimeballs.

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ABM,

It’s pretty meaningless to the situation whether or not one likes Shep. The gist of this latest issue where lefties are saying that he apologized for Fox not being fair is that they showed an interview with Christie. When it ended he asked when they would be speaking with Corzine. After the reporter told him Corzine had refused multiple requests for an interview Shep apologized for Fox’s “unfairness” and said if he was in charge that wouldn’t happen.

That’s nuts. All the Democrat would have to do in a Shep run environment would be to refuse to answer any questions and that would preclude Smith from showing the Republican who agreed to answer the questions.

To go out of my way to be fair to Shep I’ll leave a window open that what he really meant was he would tell the viewer in advance that only one side agreed to appear, but with his track record that window is only cracked.

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Not much on humor, are ye?

Just give me some advance notice so I’ll know to be on the lookout. Did it start before or after your earlier remarks about me and racism.

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RW

I don’t think Shep was appologizing because of the recent attacks on Fox, but I could be wrong. He seems like a level headed guy when I’m watching him. I’m thinking more along with what you said about forewarning that Corzine would not be interviewed. My understanding from the article I read was that he was expecting interviews from both.

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Kamchak
October 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
And then there’s the incestuous Paulk clan.
Slimeballs.

That is just so wrong in so many ways.

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josef

Nope. I hold them all in contempt–it’s just that the Rev. Wright has been the one to stir up a controversy on a national level, while these other dirtbags are given a pass. Some even are allowed a seat at the table when it comes to political policy, or in the case of douchebag Warren, is allowed to speak at an auspicious occasion.

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RW
Now, now, they ALL covered the runaway balloon boy!

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ABM–
Amanpour is top on mine and Unmentionable’s list. Did you know that the DC intelligence gathering services have an Amanpour desk that follows her because she is the first on the spot? Now, that’s a reporter…!

K’chak–good, we’re on pretty much the same track here…

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Taxpayer:

You’re gonna make me go back in archives, aren’tcha? To use your term….your reputation has been colored.

Actually, ABM and I had had a fun conversation on the term “colored” earlier.

Get over it, dude. It looks like everybody stopped reading your protests. Alls ‘cept me. I’m polite that way. After this submission, I’m moving on to something more interesting.

ABM:

But the left is almost always represented. I enjoy listening to them as well. Come on, let’s be honest….the other networks are just as colored, politically speaking.

I like to see opposites go at it on FOX. There’s more passion. You don’t see that much on the other channels. I do watch CNN, PBS (Frontline). Mostly Greta though.

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Yeah yeah them damn liberals is so bad. Why can’t they be like Fox–smart, prescient, articulate, and always correct. And them liberals always be targetin’ Repubozokins who is straight up Mother Theresa peoples. Look at Joe Leiberman lying his buns off to protect his beloved Ct. insurance companies.

I mean if that ain’t Mothuh Theresa whut be her?

Of course the liberals always target people who disagree with them. And the liberals jist makes it up. But us Repubozo Faux Hounds we is only tryin’ to edycate the world that the Bush days were nirvana and we gots to get back to ‘em.

And but also–time to do some brilliant Facebookin’ and tweetin’ but also too.

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Lol only a complete pith brained idiot worries about CNN We be the most stupid as a liberal media threat.

I’ve never seen dumber coverage of healthcare, and any other issue. They take twit brain to a new level. A second watching CNN is a second wasted.

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My bodyguard is shorter than Newt’s by about 4 foot 7 inches and you won’t see him until it’s too late.

Stalk at your own peril.

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ABM–
“…government plant…” You and Unmentionable! He swears to it…still follows her assidously,,,

Okay, y’all, I’m going to go out on a limb here and will probably live to regret it, but, on my boy Shep…

It was long ago and faraway, but there was a time when this old f*rt was a bright and talented pretty boy, too so I sort of take umbrage at people not taking him seriously…it’s okay to be pretty and decorative and it’s okay to be sharp and intellectual, but it’s not okay to be both…there’s a jealously there that, whether or not we want to admit it, brings out the worst in us. I cannot tell the number of times back while I was getting established in my “intellectual” pursuits when, invited in to share my research and findings in person, the “look” was unmistakeable. One of the reasons I am such an admirer of Shep is that he has refused to fall victim….

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Well I guess I’m done. Another comment went into moderation. It was addressed to Taxpayer and ABM.

Peek-a-boo! They don’t see you.

josef:

I’m not gonna have another debate with a gay man about some guy’s looks. Been there, done that.

Sheperd Smith has frog eyes. That’s this woman’s opinion. AND

at age 12, 13 or 14, I might have thought him Prince Charming.

See ‘ya.

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As much as I’d rather not, have to agree, BUT he does bring out the school boy crush in me!!

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off

geez

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ow, now, they ALL covered the runaway balloon boy!

josef,

My comment wasn’t negative toward Shep in the least about that. He is in his element when there’s a car chase and nobody gets close to him on how he covers one. On balloon boy he channeled his inner car chase reporter and blew away the competition.

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Yep it is sure a brilliant idea to not get vaccinated and refuse to vaccinate your kids–like most every other Georgia conservative idea.

Yee haw yee haw hee haw hee haw.

Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/swine-flu-prompts-hundreds-176708.html

At least 351 schools were closed last week alone — affecting 126,000 students in 19 states, according to the U.S. Education Department. So far this school year, about 600 schools have temporarily shut their doors.

And the good news is the more schools that close the more dumber more faster we can get.

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Well, whiner, you shouldn’t be constantly bragging about it on here then.

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DUSTY–
Hey! Why is it just as you check in I’m having to check out? So, before I call it a night…what do YOU think of Shep and whiner’s little friend…

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G’night, All–it was fun…

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Fox has more viewers because unfortunately this country has more uneducated people than educated people by far. The South leads the league in ignorance, but there are many other red states with predominantly ignorant people.

Like robots, they accept the horsesh_t that Fox feeds them–a lot like in “1984″.

Fox is the most insipidly stupid trainwreck on the air. Murdoch actually hates their ideology but learned a long time ago there are far more stupid people than educated people and he exploits these ignorant, inarticulate, uninformed Faux Hounds.

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Health care plans average profits of just 3.3 percent. In wireless communications, a vigorously contested market, profits are 11 percent. Does Obama think we need a government cell-phone company to compete with Verizon and AT&T?

The proponents also believe that, like Medicare, a new government plan could be run far more efficiently than private firms. Don’t make me laugh. Medicare, keep in mind, is going broke. And its alleged efficiencies are illusory or nontransferable.-Steve Chapman

Medicare fraud would be far more efficient.

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How long will it take for the Beckerheads to say something foul about the President’s trip to Dover last night?

God Bless you President Obama.

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Newt has always made sense on most issues. He was out of his element as speaker and should never have accepted that position.

Pelosi for life? Please, spare us!

His private life was no concern to us. It was the hypocrisy of the party affiliation. It was the consrvatives that ran him out of town.

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Linda

Fox leads the cable news channels but only has a small fraction of what the network news reaches.

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MR. PRESIDENT, BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!

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HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff was a guest on MSNBC’s The Ed Show tonight to discuss the latest outrage from the far right – an attempt to encourage people to battle against health care reform by burning Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in effigy, as well as holding a contest – with prizes! — to see who can create the ‘best’ “Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi burn in hell” video

This is the right wing fruit cake’s idea of making a contribution. Republicans are really showing that their desperation has no bounds.

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Fox news executive Michael Clemente met at the White House on Wednesday with Robert Gibbs

What was Gibbs having to spell out for the idiot Clemente?

Gibbs: “P-r-e-s-i-d-e-n-t, there’s not 3 e’s in there, Mr. Clemente”
Clemente: “But there’s a z in there somewhere isn’t there?”

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G’morning, Taxpayer

[[follow that up with an immediate cut in the DoD’s outlandish annual budget of $670 billion. Watch the war mongering right wing nuts blow a gasket if that were to happen.]]

Democratic majorities on the House and Senate Armed Services, Appropriations and the majorities in the House and Senate

are dominated by ‘war mongering right wing nuts?

Was that a typo? Didn’t you mean ‘war mongering LEFT wing nuts?

(For the record, I think it’s more left and right wing who like the $$$ and don’t have the principles to stand up for change.)

Hey, didja hear? It’s official! Democrats are cutting half a trillion dollars from Medicare to pay for their health care reforms!

Kinda like cutting the minimum wage to pay for a jobs bill, eh?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091028/D9BKBEKO1.html

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For sure, Newtie is correct on this one. Man, it hurt to type that!

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No Duh!

Health CEOs Call for $500 Billion in Cost Savings in Medicare

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Newsletters/Washington-Health-Policy-in-Review/2009/Jun/June-15-2009/Health-CEOs-Call-for-500-Billion-in-Cost-Savings-in-Medicare.aspx

Kinda like cutting waste to cut waste.

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Being “adequately conservative” is how the R’s got themselves into this mess. Being “truly conservative” is the only way out.

JB

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Mrs. Godzilla 7:47

I never, ever thought I’d see it.

Mrs. Godzilla quotes corporate CEOs to justify cutting half a trillion from Medicare. Not the cuts Democrats propose, mind you, but cuts resulting solely in areas that would benefit their industries. So does this mean if you add the CEO cuts with the Democratic cuts they’re going to cut one trillion dollars from Medicare?

I do like how they know how much they can cut, though. “The CEOs did not specify how much each of their recommendations would save Medicare, but they said they “firmly believe” that up to 30 percent of the $2.4 trillion now spent on health care is the result of too few efforts to coordinate care and not enough attention to quality.”

They ‘firmly believe.’ Is that the same as closing your eyes and saying ‘I do believe in fairies, I do believe in fairies, I do believe in fairies”?

Background: not that many days ago it was nigh on impossible to get some here to acknowledge Democrats were planning any cuts to Medicare to fund health care reform.

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“They ‘firmly believe.’ Is that the same as closing your eyes and saying”

It reads more to me like they’re admitting they’ve been screwing the system all this time. So now it’s about to bite back, and all of a sudden they’ve “got religion”

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Once in a while the Newt is correct. Once in a while Bookman is correct. So? It reminds me of the old adage, “Even a broken clock is right twice a day”. (Unless it’s digital. Then, it’s anybody’s guess.)

BTW, Cynthia Tucker is digital.

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Mrs. Godzilla

Is “talk to the hand” your shorthand for saying “I guess I really should have read and thought about that link before I posted it”?

Doggone/GA

The religion of ‘more $$$$’?

Mrs. Godzilla 8:01

- post about Democrats cutting Medicare

- response about how industry CEOs say Medicare really has inefficiencies

- counter response questioning accuracy of magnitude of claims and self interest of those making claims

- new post about…. Republicans!

Lame diversion, really. Did your hand tell you to post that?

Now, back to Democrats cutting Medicare…..

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Lame spin.

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Doggone/GA

Oh, when it’s about one’s own party, driven by pure principles and the desire to help people….

Mrs. Godzilla 8:16

Glad you admitted it. Why do you think Democrats persist with the avoidance of what their leaders have done?

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More ‘Senior Scare’

http://factcheck.org/2009/08/more-senior-scare/

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Taxpayer

[[The Republicans are the war mongers. ]]

You persist with the old ‘we’re always good, they’re always bad’ mantra, don’t you? My point was they both are.

[[And, please, spare me any historical references.]]

Is that the same as “don’t confuse me with facts’?

Democrats seem to have quite a fascination with getting people to speak with their nonauditory body parts.

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Doggone/GA 8:21

Those were my words? Really? I posted something and they were… my words?!!?

Wow. I thought I was typing someone else’s words.

BTW – the original post was sarcasm….

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Finn @ 8.06, good catch, fascinating article.

Some thought provoking teaser material follows:

according to official figures the U.S. spends about 30 percent of its GDP on government at all levels — well below the OECD average of around 36 percent and the EU average of about 39 percent. But add in the “dark matter” of tax expenditures, and federal-state-local spending goes up to around 36 percent of GDP — close to the international average among developed countries and within range of European norms.

But conservatives have no reason to gloat about the discovery of the tax-expenditure dark matter — not if they believe their own rhetoric about free markets and free enterprise. The truth is that tax expenditures warp the market and corrupt private enterprise.

I now return you to “You’re a PoopyHead” already in progress.

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Paul,

You would be the lame one to claim that I try to divert attention by stating fact regarding the Republicans true intentions with Medicare or the fact that Republicans are indeed the war mongers. “Bomb, bomb, bomb, Anyone” might as well have been McCain and Palin’s battle cry.

Not the cuts Democrats propose, mind you, but cuts resulting solely in areas that would benefit their industries.

Now, how about providing some proof to verify your claim on this one first. Then we can proceed to some of your other lameness.

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Taxpayer

May we conclude the other two points before embarking upon a third?

My point was Democrats proposed cuts to Medicare. Have you ever acknowledged that? If you have, do you think they’ll materialize? I don’t. If they do not, what are the implications?

Republicans have nefarious desires for Medicare? Stipulated. Now, back to Democrats…

Second point I made was that even though Dems hold Congress and the Executive, and have passed the largest Defense appropriations bill ever – you seem to make the point it’s Republicans who have sole responsibility. I can understand the historical emotion, but current facts seem to contradict that.

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Paul

October 29th, 2009
7:35 am

Do you support the direct subsidies to insurance companies so they can offer extra benefits to Medicare recipients in order to “compete?”

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Taxpayer

October 29th, 2009
8:18 am

Bush wanted to make the tax changes (cuts?) permanent. Senate rules required the 10 year limit.

Would that be the hand that feeds you?

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As someone who lives in the area, I agree with Newt — it’s not up to outsiders to determine who best represents us in NYS. I didn’t appreciate the viciousness of tone that was aimed at Dede and our local GOP that typically enters when Sarah Palin and the talk radio crowd decide to get involved. We never had that style of a campaign around here. Hoffman, who is clueless on local issues and won’t debate, is letting the Club for Growth speak and do for him. That’s not someone I trust to be a strong representative in Washington. And I’m also pleased to see that Mitt Romney, always the adult, has stayed out of the race and the GOP civil war. He and Newt understand its about uniting under a big tent, not excluding people or holding an ideology litmus test with a one-size only for the entire country.

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