Ahmadinejad defends possible nuke deal
This is interesting, and even encouraging:
“TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended a possible compromise with world powers over a nuclear fuel deal Thursday as Iran formally responded to a U.N.-backed proposal aimed at stalling its ability to make nuclear weapons.
In a speech in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Ahmadinejad defied harsh criticism from domestic opponents who accused him of giving away too much in the negotiations. He said the West has been forced to alter its confrontational stance toward Iran, state television reported.
Under the proposed deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran would ship most of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium abroad for processing into medium-enriched uranium, which Iran needs to fuel a research reactor in Tehran that makes isotopes for medical uses. The fuel would come back to Iran in a form that could not be diverted to produce the highly enriched fissile material needed for nuclear weapons.”
The fact that Ahmadinejad feels it necessary to defend the pending deal in public suggests that he is at least serious about pursuing it. Why would he take the heat over a deal that he had no intention of concluding? As the Post reports, “If successful, the deal would likely be interpreted internationally as a goodwill sign by all involved parties and might lead to compromises over Iran’s nuclear program.”
But the situation is extremely complicated. Some of the strongest Iranian opposition to a nuclear deal comes from Ahmadinejad’s opponents in the recent fraudulent election, the heroic people who took to the streets in protest. The dissidents are using the nuclear issue to argue that it is the Ahmadinejad government, not the dissidents, who are betraying Iran to the West.
“The interesting part is that the revolutionary and serving sons of our nation are accused of relations and affiliations with the West, while they [government leaders] repeatedly and openly humiliate themselves in front of the U.S.,” said Hossein Mousavi, who came in second in the June 12 elections.
Like I said, complicated.
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Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
5:32 pm
Some of the strongest Iranian opposition to a nuclear deal comes from Ahmadinejad’s opponents in the recent fraudulent election, the heroic people who took to the streets in protest.
Outward appearances and all. Let’s just bomb them all and sort out the facts afterward.
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October 29th, 2009
5:33 pm
His opponent’s are probably mad because they know he will get the bomb for sure now and take Iran straight back to the dark ages, uh, Israeli attacks, not U.S.
I mean really, are we expecting the UN to step up? Like they did in Iraq?
bookman the left wing stooge falling for the rhetoric of a terrorist stooge, how unique.
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October 29th, 2009
5:36 pm
What ever happened to Neda?
Has she been conveniently used and now discarded?
For what, world posturing?
How weak, spineless.
josef nix
October 29th, 2009
5:38 pm
How could anybody anywhere take that fool seriously on anything?
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 29th, 2009
5:43 pm
Great, here’s yosef nix making sense, maybe bookman has a point….
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
5:47 pm
One thing you can take seriously is that nothing is going to stop Iran from making nuclear weapons. That Horsie sped out of the bar when Bush Condie werer drooling and clearing Brush.
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
5:48 pm
Iran has the ability to make nuclear weapons and they will. Deal with it.
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
5:50 pm
All the Repubos who are insurance company hookers would get an education reading this Breast Cancer patient blog. Two drugs in particular that can cost 200 grand a year or more, and are in a class of drugs called biologic drugs also used for RA (Rhematoid Arthritis), Chrohns Diseas. They treat metatastatic breast cancer and keep a large number of women alive. They are antibody receptor specific, so they do not destroy cells and cause the signficant side effects and discomfort of traditional chemothreapy.
http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/8/topic/730702?page=1#idx_16
Pelosi’s bill put up for whip count this morning with a 3PM deadline does not pay for these drugs, and the need for them can cause a woman to have to lose everything she owns and her home.
What often happens to these women is that when they run out of assets to liquidate, they die. The House Healthcare Bill sentences them to death.
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
5:53 pm
Complicated indeed. Is he a threat or just a lot of bluster? This latest posturing is certainly an improvement if sincere. The opposition is sounding more radical.
RIP Neda:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-neda23-2009jun23,0,366975,full.story
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
5:55 pm
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
5:47 pm
Do they even want to?
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
5:55 pm
“Up to 5.7 million cases of H1N1 swine flu hit the United States between April and July, according to a new estimate from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” That number is low because there is always low reporting of all criteria of cases in a flu pandemic.
There is now growing H1N1 Tamiflu and Relenza resistance and several pigs have been ID’d with Oink 1.
A big shouut out to conservative websites who are stupidly recommending a possible way to lose some of their readers and teabaggers who are stupidly refusing vaccine for themselves and their children.
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
5:57 pm
@Amvet–
The government of Quam Mullahs sure as hell does and they will. The 2/3 of people under 30 who are very pro-Western don’t run the country but they could end the Mullahs if they wanted to or replace them.
So the answer is they want to and they will and we can’t stop them. Bush ignored Iran for 8 years at the US’s peril.
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
5:59 pm
This is simplicstic but I wouldn’t trust anything President A says. And right now he has the support of the Ayatollahs.
Pogo
October 29th, 2009
6:00 pm
If you believe this you also believe that the Healthcare debacle is going to be “cost neutral” and “self paying”. Supplying him with “Medium Grade” uranium just saves him from performing that particular step in the uranium cycle to create “high grade” uranium himself. Are the UN and the IAEA that stupid? I think the answer to this is, yes. If Jay sees this as a postive step then he is more far gone than I thought he was. There is no form that “medium grade” uranium cannot be converted to “high grade” (bomb grade) uranium. Uranium Oxide can be extracted and can be concentrated from the yellow cake stage to the bomb grade phase no matter what matrix it is in. One only needs the centrifugal and extraction technology, which Iran has, to do this. Even if “medium grade” is supplied, after the fission process, it is only a matter of time before the maniac begins extracting plutonium and tritium which can be used in bombs. Unbelievable.
josef nix
October 29th, 2009
6:01 pm
TnGelding–
Thanks for the reminder. That is a murderous regime. If they will do that to their own people what will they do to others?
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
6:05 pm
What Repubos never want to talk about is that the money hemorrhage in the stupid debacle/fiasco in Iraq that has produced trillions spent and tons of money hemorrhage on groups like Blackwater was anything but deficit neutral.
Afghanistan is 30% more expensive per troop.
And as to healthcare, CBO has said existing bills are deficit neutral and they’ll score Pelosi’s imperfect bill that doesn’t eover enough.
None of the goofy things Bush did was deficit neutral. They were money hemorrhage out the wazoo.
However you do the nuclear isotope analysis, Iran will get weapons grade uranium and soon.
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2009
6:06 pm
Another Iranian stalling tactic which will be enthusiastically embraced by our limp-wristed President as proof of the success of his apology tour and kumbaya diplomacy.
The world laughs at us now. The bad guys know we are weaklings on the world stage.
Pathetic.
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
6:12 pm
Considering Obama gets Israeli intelligence, anyone who thinks Obama is going to accept anything Ahmadinejad says is delusional, and makes comments like that because it makes them feel good. It’s exaclty like the Faux Noise blonds and the unemployed alcoholic facebooktress.
md
October 29th, 2009
6:14 pm
Always have to enjoy the “they did it so we can too” argument. As we go bankrupt, does it matter in the end how we got there. I don’t think so.
The facts as of today – we are in deep debt and spending will not solve the problem, no matter who did or is going to do the spending.
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October 29th, 2009
6:16 pm
Oh my, check this out-
President Obama and members of Congress told federal agencies earlier this year to avoid awarding funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to contractors with troubled histories of work for the federal government.
But that isn’t happening at numerous agencies, a Washington Post analysis shows. So far, 33 federal departments and agencies have awarded more than $1.2 billion in stimulus contracts to at least 30 companies that are ranked by one watchdog group as among the most egregious offenders of state and federal laws.
Government records show that as a group, these contractors have sold defective products, manufactured safety tests, submitted false travel claims and padded contracts with fraudulent fees.-WaPo
Remember all the crap Bush got from these turd blossom’s about Haliburton and toys from China, and blah, balh, blah?
Turn’s out, first chance the democrats get, they hook these same lowlifes up with billions of tax payer money.
mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
md
October 29th, 2009
6:16 pm
Iran has sat back and watched NK play their little game with the west for years now. Anyone not think they didn’t learn something from that.
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2009
6:22 pm
Hey, Option, didn’t you hear the part where he said he would sit down with this lunatic and make nice? Did you see how he refused to encourage the freedom-yearning opposition to this Holocaust-denying terrorist after the Iranian “elections.”
Guess not.
Oh, and Obama thinks Israel is the problem in the Middle East, not the terrorists. Do you really think he’d pay attention to “Israeli Intelligence?”
You aren’t old enough to vote, are you?
Scary.
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
6:23 pm
The number of Repubos afraid to debate Rachel Madow is growing. Leiberschmutz won’t. Little Dickia Cheny won’t.
Pogo proclaimed the healthcare bill wasn’t deficit neutral, and in fact the one the House released today. It costs the government $894 billion over 10 years, according to CBO, and it reduces the deficit in a twenty-year window. The financing is mainly through a tax on millionaires. Certain measures on doctor reimbursement and filling the prescription drug “doughnut hole” could push the price tag to $1 trillion. 96% of Americans would be covered under the bill.
All the Repubos here are used to making cost analyses with nothing to back them up. The bill is here that the CBO scored as reducing the deficit over 20 years:
http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf
The House ignored the Obama Big Pharma agreement that gives the pharmaceutical companies a huge windfall and doesn’t fix the Medicare Part D donut.
Many House progressives won’t vote for this.
The public option in the house bill is weaker than most people want, because it relies on negotiated rates which the insurnace companies and their Blue Dog and Repubozo hookers want, rather than a Medicare based +5% rate.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
6:33 pm
So, good ole Boehner has been yammering on with his speel about how the Dems won’t post the Healthcare bill on line. Well, someone needs to write him a dear John. It’s posted. But, when dear John is asked to reciprocate, what does he do. What else. He just says no. Who could have seen that one coming. Apparently not, Eric. He was whining recently about how his party’s just say no approach to everything isn’t such a good idea (I wonder what finally convinced him.). Sounds like they need to get together over a beer and figure out a better coordination of attacks or something. No wonder the Taliban kicked their buttocks all over Afghanistan. You have to study the situation and plan — not make rash decisions and shoot from the hip. Not to worry. The Dems have it under control. The Republicans can go back to doing what they do best, nothing but saying no. hehehe
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2009
6:38 pm
Option: “It costs the government $894 billion over 10 years…the financing is mainly through a tax on millionaires.”
Yep, let’s crater the eeeevil rich! Let’s take their money at the point of a gun, then tar and feather them and run them out of town!!!!
I realize you’ve never had a job, Option, but you should know that a poor person will never hire anyone.
Why are you so envious of those who achieve to the point you think you know how to spend their money better than they do?
Please do yourself a favor and realize that you’re a loser because of the choices you made in your life, not because of “the man.” That’s a much healthier perspective, and you’ll be a happier person.
You are certainly welcome.
AmVet
October 29th, 2009
6:42 pm
Yeah, like the world didn’t “laugh at us” when “the bad guys” knew we were weaklings on the world stage on 9/11/01, huh F. Stinkwich?
Your stiff-wristed strongman GWB sure scared the hell out of and deterred the hell out of them didn’t he?
And as I have noted before, you can’t carry Herschel’s jockstrap…
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2009
6:52 pm
AmVet: “you can’t carry Herschel’s jockstrap…”
No one can.
Last I heard, we haven’t been attacked here since then. I happen to believe that the nut-case in Iran would be much less belligerent with the “cowboy” in charge willing to unleash the wrath of the US military, which thanks to his vision, is just next door in Iraq.
But I guess you libs are just fine with a nuclear Iran. I’m not, and neither are others who love freedom.
But thanks for your input.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
6:53 pm
Mmmmmmmm! The smell of fresh bologna in the virtual air.
AmVet
October 29th, 2009
7:02 pm
Last I heard, we haven’t been attacked here since then.
So you’re thanking Obama?
After all, he’s gone longer without an attack on American soil than the Hero of the Texas ANG did.
All you right-wingers blustering about a nuclear Iran is to me hysterical.
I know my tribe is poised a few hundred miles away.
And in some ways even I’manutjob is smarter than you conned. He knows any aggression means instant annihilation coming at him from every corner (for you flat earthers) of the planet.
Wake up.
Chinas’ had them since 1964. India since 1974. Pakistan since 1998. And NK since 2006.
PLEASE, PLEASE don’t tell me you fell for Captain Stupid’s “Knowing these realities, America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”
Oh, you did.
What’s left to say?
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
7:04 pm
Earlier this month, Fox’s Greta van Susteren asked Boehner why House Republicans didn’t push for transparency when they were in power. “It was a different time,” Boehner said in response.
It’s clear why Republicans have been insisting on having as much time as possible to read the bill. As Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) explained, health insurance lobbyists need to be given “at least 72 hours” so they can try to kill the legislation.
Those Republicans! They’re a laugh a minute. Yet, they still have their loyal 19 percent. hehehe
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
7:07 pm
The great thing about people like Boehner is they always tell the truth. But you have to always reverse whatever they say to get it.
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
7:10 pm
We haven’t gotten attacked since the Obamas got Bo is about as valid as we haven’t been attacked since 911. I always consider we got attacked becaue Bush and Condi were so lazy and stupid. Condi refused to order translation of a kazillion intercepts and Bush CIA took the hijackers who were all on it off the watch list where they would have been picked up when they came into US airports.
These people who want to launch an attack aren’t the type that go into a depression if they can’t watch Dancing with the Stars for a week. They’re willing to wait many many years to get it right.
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October 29th, 2009
7:12 pm
I don’t remember China, India, Pakistan and North Korea supplying whackjob terrorists with everything they need like Iran has.
Nor have they stated that they would like to wipe another country from the map.
It’s cool as long as someone else is getting slaughtered, right, AmWet?
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
7:17 pm
First, who has Iran attacked? Second, who has attacked Iran?
AmVet
October 29th, 2009
7:18 pm
“It’s cool as long as someone else is getting slaughtered, right, AmWet?”
When it’s you conned at the polls, you’re damn straight, duhng. I love it.
Go sell Iran-stupid to some other Ronnie the Dictator’s Best Friend arsekisser…
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2009
7:19 pm
“Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”
Thanks AmVet. I almost forgot that wonderful and inspirational call to action. In a different time, it could have been uttered by our founding fathers.
American exceptionalism may be under attack by the Whitehouse, but it is alive and and will endure.
The world has never seen such greatness, and it behooves all who believe in individual freedom to perpetuate its magnificent existence.
We’ll get through Obama. After all, we survived Carter and became even stronger.
Keep smiling!
@@
October 29th, 2009
7:19 pm
Complicated. Naahhhh, familiar.
Those demanding change have now reverted to the status quo.
For my STRATFOR “Fans” — First, Iran’s goal in these negotiations is not to scuttle the talks, but rather to delay them. Iran’s appearance of cooperation and positive remarks from the latest visit by the IAEA inspectors did not produce conclusive results, but rather gave the impression that some sort of progress, however slow and steady, is being made.
Second, in shipping out their LEU to another country (likely Russia), the Iranians will not be getting most of their own uranium back. Under the proposed amendment, they would be sending out less of their LEU at one time for a more highly enriched uranium that is designed purely for energy generation.
Some of their resources, but not all of their resources. Pilfering a little time to improve on their own enrichment capabilities.
The only thing we’ve got going for us is the Kremlin wars taking place in Moscow. The Bear will be hibernating.
It’s absolutely uncanny how Putin’s economic moves are mirroring Obama’s.
md
October 29th, 2009
7:23 pm
“First, who has Iran attacked?”
Technically – no one. By proxy – Isreal – Twice.
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
7:26 pm
Pakistan has been very supportive to terrorists and most of Pakistan would celebrate if a bomb wiped out Congress and the White House or the population of a city. And with some degree of control or not they have nukes.
The majority of Pakistanis hate Americans and would be delighted to see them dead.
AmVet
October 29th, 2009
7:27 pm
Frankie, are you related to Wyld Byll?
You guys both pontificate that same fogged out, altered reality gibberish.
Sounds just like David Koresh channeling Spiro Agnew.
Or maybe it’s just Jimmy Swaggert.
Whatever, it is immensely entertaining…
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October 29th, 2009
7:29 pm
Observers say Iran had prior knowledge of Hezbollah attacks, such as the 1988 kidnapping and murder of Colonel William Higgins, a U.S. Marine involved in a UN observer mission in Lebanon, and the 1992 and 1994 bombings of Jewish cultural institutions in Argentina.
U.S. officials say Iran supported the group behind the 1996 truck bombing of Khobar Towers, a U.S. military residence in Saudi Arabia, which killed nineteen U.S. servicemen.
CNN reports that American military investigators believe the January 20th attack on a military compound that killed five US soldiers may have either been conducted by Iran or by Iranian-run insurgents. The level of sophistication in the attack, conducted by terrorists in American military uniforms, showed too much sophistication to have originated from one of the native insurgencies.
American and Iraqi military forces have repeatedly claimed to have uncovered evidence that Iran is supplying both Sunni and Shia insurgent groups in Iraq with various munitions. Operations in Basra and Baghdad’s Sadr City slum in recent weeks have allegedly uncovered Iranian weapons manufactured as recently as this year, which would seem to preclude Iranian weapons having been obtained on the black market. Instead, it suggests the direct supply of belligerents inside Iraq with Iranian weaponry by the Iranian military with the knowledge of the Iranian government.
Giggle it up, AmWet, snicker, snicker, haha.
Real funny.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
7:32 pm
Reagan was pretty handy with the proxy too as I recall.
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2009
7:33 pm
You’re welcome, AmVet. Glad that you’re amused by truth, justice, and the American way.
I don’t know Wyld.
By the way, are you French? You kinda sound like it.
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
7:40 pm
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
7:10 pm
And rest assured they are out there waiting. The only questions are how many, how, where and when?
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October 29th, 2009
7:40 pm
Speaking of the IRS, apparently its own staff couldn’t help but notice this opportunity to snag an easy $8,000. One day after explaining to Congress how many “home-buyers” were climbing aboard this gravy train, Mr. George appeared on Neil Cavuto’s program on the Fox Business Network. Mr. George said his staff has found at least 53 cases of IRS employees filing “illegal or inappropriate” claims for the credit. “In all honesty this is an interim report. I expect that the number would be much larger than that number,” he said.
The program is set to expire at the end of November, so naturally given its record of abuse, Congress is preparing to extend it.
You’re in good hands with mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
7:43 pm
I wonder if Iran supplied those folks with the American weapons that Reagan gave them. Now, that would be a bit of irony.
AmVet
October 29th, 2009
7:44 pm
No, Frankie, mother was a German Jew. Dad was from Bogalusa, Louisiana.
Your buddies with the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei took my grandfather, a small town lawyer, away but inexplicably let him go back to Freiburg.
Where he, his wife (a woman dentist in the 1930s) and their only child fled with ten Deutchmarks to their name through Switzerland and your hated France to get to England where they were put in a camp and treated like dogs.
My grandfather died a bellhop in London.
But thanks for asking…
BTW, nice use of a comic book slogan to denote your comic book like worldview…
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
7:44 pm
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 29th, 2009
7:40 pm
I’d think you’d be estactic they were caught. Let’s see what happens to them.
md
October 29th, 2009
7:44 pm
Godd,
You are showing your partisanship again. Please don’t forget that the hijackers had come and gone under Clinton before they came back again. Sounds to me as if everybody was asleep at the switch.
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
7:45 pm
AmVet
October 29th, 2009
7:44 pm
Lord, have mercy on our souls.
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
7:48 pm
md
October 29th, 2009
7:44 pm
Was anybody even at the switch? Why weren’t the airlines’ boarding procedures ever questioned? More than one of the evil-doers were flagged by the CRS and questioned before being allowed to board.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
7:50 pm
Those Republican-sponsored programs such as Isakson’s $8000 taxpayer giveaway (although he wanted $15,000) sure are popular. I’d bet that it will even cost us taxpayers more than those clunkers that folks like @@ cashed in on, while complaining about Obama’s programs all the way to the bank.
Republicans! They’re a real hoot! You would think that the least they would want to do is fund their own taxpayer dollar giveaways or at least not complain about them. Nah. That wouldn’t fit with the just say no strategy. By the way, how’s that workin’ for ya. hehehe
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
7:52 pm
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
7:50 pm
Screw the government!
md
October 29th, 2009
7:58 pm
” More than one of the evil-doers were flagged by the CRS and questioned before being allowed to board.”
Remember Tn, up until then, hijackings were bad, but usually ended up in Cuba with few problems. Never again, at least until the current generations die off.
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2009
7:58 pm
AmVet, sorry to about those atrocities. You certainly have reason to appreciate the freedoms this country affords, not only domestically, but around the world.
I think you’re mistaken about my “buddies” though.
Was that a shot?
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2009
7:59 pm
They are not my buddies.
AmVet
October 29th, 2009
8:09 pm
FS, it was a low blow. And unnecessary.
I apologize.
I love this country. It has afforded me everything I have. Even my very life.
And I still get choked up when I think of those rangers and marines who scaled those cliffs in Normandy and who took those islands in the Pacific to free my people and millions around the globe.
I enlisted at the age of 17 (during a disastrous war in the jungle) partially to say thank you to them and partially to do my duty. And I still take that sacred oath I took in Denver seriously.
I didn’t even believe in the war, but wanted to do my part. And build a future.
My son enlisted two years ago.
(I guess we’re just a bunch of dumba__es, huh? Grin…)
Again, my apologies.
I linked it earlier but it bears repeating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYBSvn5juIk
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
8:15 pm
The covert Bush administration program that used retired military analysts to generate favorable wartime news coverage may not have been terminated, Raw Story has found.
In interviews, Pentagon officials in charge of the press and community relations offices — which worked in partnership on the military analyst program — equivocated on the subject of whether the program has ended.
Are they gonna send Ollie to Afghanistan.
F. Sinkwich
October 29th, 2009
8:17 pm
AmVet, my respects. I have relatives who fought and died for this great country too.
Best wishes to your son.
Peace.
@@
October 29th, 2009
8:21 pm
Taxpayer:
Geez! I said thank you, didn’t I?
You’d think I’d taken your very last dime.
Just following Obama’s lead…doing my best to stimulate the economy with your money. Isn’t that what you voted for.
Don’t blame me, blame your mouthpiece.
Huummmmmmmmm
Crybaby!
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 29th, 2009
8:25 pm
Peggy Noonan is back in the fold-
When I see those in government, both locally and in Washington, spend and tax and come up each day with new ways to spend and tax—health care, cap and trade, etc.—I think: Why aren’t they worried about the impact of what they’re doing? Why do they think America is so strong it can take endless abuse?
We are governed at all levels by America’s luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they’re not optimists—they’re unimaginative. They don’t have faith, they’ve just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don’t mind it when people become disheartened. They don’t even notice.
And they are self obsessed power mongers, I rule.
They don’t care about this great country, they care about themselves.
Gimme, gimme, gimme, like any small child.
@@
October 29th, 2009
8:31 pm
YIKES!
Detroit, Michigan (CNN) — At least five men are scheduled to appear in federal court Thursday, a day after they were arrested in FBI raids targeting an African-American Muslim group that the FBI says sought to establish an Islamic state in the United States, federal authorities said.
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the alleged leader of the African-American Muslim converts, was fatally shot during one of Wednesday’s raids in the Detroit area after he fired at law enforcement agents who were trying to arrest him and four other suspects. An FBI dog was also killed.
Ummah refers to the nationwide group to which the suspects belonged, according to the complaint. The group is made up of mostly African-Americans, including some who converted to Islam while in prison.
Ummah is led by Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, a 1960s radical and former member of the Black Panthers who once said “violence was as American as cherry pie.” He is serving a life sentence in Colorado’s Supermax prison for killing two Georgia police officers.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/29/michigan.fbi.arrests/
Ummah is led by some guy in a supermax prison!!?!!
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October 29th, 2009
8:36 pm
By the way, Hairy Reed and Nasty Pelosi have blown their last wad over health care, one final gush of hot, filthy air, now it can creep off into the ash heap of history, mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
Normal
October 29th, 2009
8:37 pm
Ain’t gonna be no stinkin’ nuclear holocaust…My seven year old Granddaughter just made the soccer all stars for her age group as Goalie…
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 29th, 2009
8:40 pm
Remember where you heard it first, this public option is just a ruse-
If Mr. Reid had pulled the plug on the public option, these highly unpopular policy issues would be front and center. As it is, the public-option sideshow is sucking up all the air, and will continue to. It even overshadowed liberal divisions, such as union pushback on Cadillac-plans taxes. Maybe, just maybe, Mr. Reid likes it that way.-WSJ
Am I not the man?
@@
October 29th, 2009
8:43 pm
So far, the public appears to be supportive of the army, and impatient with the militants, though
That ^^^ kinda sounds like we, conservatives, and
many Pakistanis ask whether a foreign hand, meaning the United States or India, are behind the militants.
That ^^^ kinda sounds like you far left-wingers. And, again?
Most common is a sense of patriotism toward the military, and fury at the weak civilian government and its anemic police forces for failing to stop the horrendous destruction.
That ^^^ sounds like we, conservatives.
“The blitz they inflict on us may be awful but we must show our resolve, our unwillingness to be cowed, and say ‘No, you shall not pass, neither shall we give you relief… now get you hence, Beast, because this is our land, not yours,” An editorial in The News, a prominent English-language newspaper, read Thursday.
Resolve? We could use a little more of that here in the U.S.of A.
Best of luck to General Kayani and Pakistan’s army.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/world/asia/30pstan.html
Marsh
October 29th, 2009
8:49 pm
Boehner’s empty talk on health reform
Let’s give it up for Boner!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoRKG8iR19g&feature=player_embedded
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
8:55 pm
Just following Obama’s lead…doing my best to stimulate the economy with your money. Isn’t that what you voted for.
Let’s see how quickly you start complaining when those Bush tax hikes kick in. By the way, it’s not just my money. I would have charged you interest if it were.
@@
October 29th, 2009
9:07 pm
Taxpayer:
I was anticipating tax hikes…Obama’s. Why do you think I took it while the taking was good.
Besides, we helped that poor landscaper and his family. Surely you cared about them. Obama didn’t.
Probably didn’t do much for the environment though.
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
9:15 pm
AmVet
October 29th, 2009
8:09 pm
I salute you sir and your son as well. Thanks for your service.
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
9:17 pm
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
8:15 pm
What about Levenworth instead?
godless heathen
October 29th, 2009
9:18 pm
I read the 60 Minutes report (yes, read. I missed the show) on Medicare fraud and how easy it is for doctors and medical suppliers to steal from the government. Now I know why a certain frequent poster here is so absolutely giddy about a Public Option. It is a lot easier to bilk the government for dubious tests and procedures than it is to bilk private insurance companies that actually care about the bottom line.
It appears that there is nothing that many doctors would want more than to submit claims to a bloated government agency that has no time or incentive to review charges submitted. These docs will form more LLCs to buy more MRI machines that they will refer every hangnail to, and form more medical supply companies. Is the government going to deny a fat-ass welfare recipient a new motorized wheel chair? Maybe the moniker should be changed to “Public Option a Good Deal (for me and my buddies)”
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
9:20 pm
@@,
you can hardly describe youself as a conservative given your need to feed at the public trough. I’d say war mongering liberal would be a more accurate description.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
9:25 pm
I was anticipating tax hikes…Obama’s.
Well, as usual, you anticipated wrong. They’re Bush’s tax hikes because that’s what the Republican Congress gave him to sign off on and he did. Now, you and yours, all 19 percent of you, get to pay it back. I don’t pay fed taxes, remember. I’m a Democrat so I get to live off the wealthy every day. hehehe
@@
October 29th, 2009
9:26 pm
Taxpayer:
We’ve put far more into that trough than we’ve taken from it. Haven’t claimed deductions in the last 15, maybe 18 years.
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National Security Advisor Gen. Jones and Israel’s former Foreign Minister Livni in a joint sit down with Moscow. At the same time, Defense Minister Ehud Barak was sitting down with leaders in Central Europe. Then there were talks between Israel and France.
Meanwhile, in the Mediterranean, Israel and the U.S. are conducting large and complex BMD exercises.
Sounds ominous, don’t it?
Keep your eyes opened on our domestic front. Will we be tapping into the SPR?
godless heathen
October 29th, 2009
9:28 pm
So Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (former H Rap Brown), convicted cop killer, is leading a violent Muslim separatist sect from his cell at Supermax, a federal facility in Colorado known as the country’s most secure. (according to the feds, reported by Christian Boone in the AJC, 10/29/09)
Brings two causes of the liberals forth for consideration. 1) The Death Penalty and 2) Obama’s plan to close Gitmo
@@
October 29th, 2009
9:34 pm
I’m a Democrat so I get to live off the wealthy every day.
And what do you say to the nice lady, Taxplayer?
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
9:38 pm
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 29th, 2009
8:25 pm
They’re power mongers, but you rule? Who’s the bigger monger?
I agree with her that they are unimaginative. I’d even settle for a little innovation. Was she singling out Democrats?
AmVet
October 29th, 2009
9:42 pm
TnGelding and FS. thank you.
Colonel North is an unindicted criminal. Who worked for criminals.
He/they only avoided doing time by lying, er forgetting, to a gutless Democratic congress.
Fitting that he is now a talking head darling of the criminal-coddling right wing, isn’t it?
Shameless and a disgrace to the uniform.
Why and when did the GOP turn away from being “tough on crime”?
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
9:49 pm
@@
October 29th, 2009
9:34 pm
I’m a Democrat so I get to live off the wealthy every day.
And what do you say to the nice lady, Taxplayer?
I tell my wife I love her all the time. As for the 19 percenters, I tell them to get ready to pay because the full cost of the Bush years will be felt by them soon enough. And, I hear the IRS is even adding on some more audits to make sure more rich folks pay their fair share. After all, wars and prescription drug programs and ag bills and F-22s and such cost money, lots of tax money, plus interest.
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
9:50 pm
@@
October 29th, 2009
8:31 pm
By way of the White House, I’m sure.
Hats off to the FBI if the charges stick.
“African-American Muslims question leader’s death”
The death of Luqman Ameen Abdullah – the Muslim leader shot dead Wednesday by FBI agents after he allegedly first opened fire – was mourned and criticized today by some African-American Muslims in metro Detroit and across the U.S.
http://www.freep.com/article/20091029/NEWS01/91029049/-1/rss07
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
9:52 pm
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 29th, 2009
8:40 pm
You are indeed the biggest power monger of them all, said the mirror on the wall.
Dusty
October 29th, 2009
9:52 pm
@@ ….. 8:43,,,you wrote:
“Resolve? We could use a little more of that in the USA.”
We certainly could. Some call that “rah rah” stuff! I was disgusted when liberals began their “confessions” of how they felt about the Pledge of Allegience back a couple a blogs . To be specific, the one about the President going to Dover when the coffins were coming in.
Doggone @ 9:10 am had to tell us “I don’t salute the flag and I don’t pledge allegience.”
USinUK was so pleased with that she threw in a little profanity @9:33 saying “I really don’t give a g..d… if someone says the pledge of allegience.” Of course, then they threw in how important it was to support the country.
I find that very strange support. I assume this is the liberal way to support America.. Maybe they could start the Rah Rah Party. With that kind of allegience, who needs enemy propaganda to undermine us.. We furnish our own.
Linda
October 29th, 2009
9:56 pm
TnGelding, 9:38 I’ve already brought it to your attention that it’s difficult to read your posts because you keep inserting the date & the time. Everyone knows the date. When you submit you comments, the time is recorded. It also shows how long it takes you to write your comments. The one above shows it took you an hour & 13 mins. to write 30 words. Let up. I don’t mean any disrespect if you’re having problems. I apologize if that’s the case.
godless heathen
October 29th, 2009
9:56 pm
>>And, I hear the IRS is even adding on some more audits to make sure more rich folks pay their fair share.<<
Audits of Obama appointees and Democratic Congress Critters would be a good place to start.
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
9:57 pm
@@
October 29th, 2009
9:26 pm
Did you mean haven’t itemized deductions but just took the standard deduction?
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
9:58 pm
@@
October 29th, 2009
9:26 pm
I hope so. What a boondoggle.
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
10:01 pm
Linda
October 29th, 2009
9:56 pm
That was on another blog. I’m not the only one that does it here. But I’ll try to break the habit and learn HTML.
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
10:04 pm
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
9:49 pm
Good news on the IRS hiring more auditors. Now if the rest of the departments will take the cue and hire more agents to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse.
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
10:07 pm
godless heathen
October 29th, 2009
9:56 pm
Amen! Good one. Just get started, that’s all that matters. Revenue is down a suspicious amount.
RW-(the original)
October 29th, 2009
10:07 pm
Day after day, night after night the ignorance abounds. Not only was Ollie North indicted he was indicted on 16 felony counts and convicted on 3 of those however his convictions were overturned when it was determined that evidence was used that violated his immunity agreement.
That’s the way the law works in the land of the free but I guess some just can’t handle freedom.
Dusty
October 29th, 2009
10:07 pm
Poor Taxpayer,
“Bush years”.! Bush did it! Coming up soon: Bush stole my Halloween candy!! .
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
10:09 pm
Dusty
October 29th, 2009
10:07 pm
Who dat?
TnGelding
October 29th, 2009
10:11 pm
Dinner time. Thanks for the opportunity to comment.
@@
October 29th, 2009
10:11 pm
‘Ya know Taxpayer, it’s kinda sad that you think of me and my husband as rich. We’re about as middle-class as they come. We just chose to be frugal.
Thanks to Obama, our daughter will have no choice. His outrageous spending will render her poor from the get-go. Gawd luv her….she had such bright hopes for her future. Put a lot into preparing for it, she did.
TnG:
By all accounts they were a bunch of petty criminals. Their leader…Mr. Brown, now known as Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, said, at one time, that his dream was to unleash a dirty bomb on some unknown city. Twenty-four like-minded sects exist across the U.S.. The F.B.I. is investigating a shooting in California today, thinking it could be related.
Don’t go losing sleep over it though.
Dusty:
…and to the Republic for which it stands…
Do you think they at least stand?
When I see the flag, I see men who sacrificed. If they’re not owed our allegiance, I don’t know what is.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:12 pm
Audits of Obama appointees and Democratic Congress Critters would be a good place to start
Well, I hear the focus will be on the more wealthy so I don’t know if that rules out those that you are concerned about or not. I wouldn’t know because I’m just one of the lowly Democrats that sits around waiting for his entitlements. The Republicans have told me that for so long, I just assume it must be the truth. I can live with that.
@@
October 29th, 2009
10:17 pm
TnG:
Sorry. That’s what I meant to say. We don’t itemize.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:18 pm
‘Ya know Taxpayer, it’s kinda sad that you think of me and my husband as rich. We’re about as middle-class as they come. We just chose to be frugal
Actually, I don’t think about you and your husband’s wealth at all. I just care about your tax dollars. I’m entitled to them because I’m a Democrat and that’s what I believe. At least, that what you Republicans have led me to believe so it must be true. And, middle class folks do want to pay for the Bush wars and the tax cuts for the wealthy and the F-22s and the prescription drug program and the ag bill and the interest on all that borrowed money and TARP, don’t they.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:24 pm
@@,
As for your daughter’s future, you now have even more reason to think more of Bush and his deferred payment plan that he dumped on you and yours. Have fun with that. Just remember to pay your taxes though because I’m entitled to a cut. I’m a Democrat. Don’t worry though. Dusty has to pay too. So, you’re not alone.
Dusty
October 29th, 2009
10:25 pm
Taxpayer confesses:
“I’m just one of the lowly Democrats that sits around waiting for his entitlements.”
Good step, Taxpayer. ‘Tis said that confessions are good for the soul. Do you feel better?
@@
October 29th, 2009
10:28 pm
Taxpayer:
I’m always willing to contribute money to our national defense. If I wasn’t, you might be blown to smithereens…not that I’d miss ‘ya.
On the other hand, I was never big on the the rest you mentioned. Opposed Bush’s TARP (that one woke me from my slumber) and everything that followed.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:28 pm
Dusty,
Our soldiers just need you to prove that you really care about them by paying your taxes so they can have vests and pants and bullets. So, do your duty and pay up and quit being such a whiner just because I’m a Democrat and don’t have to pay like you do. I’m entitled. You’re not. So, get over it.
Dusty
October 29th, 2009
10:30 pm
Taxpayer,
Are you saying that Obama is too helpless to cut taxes? Sorry, but Bush cannot come back and do it for him. I guess you forgot.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:33 pm
I’m always willing to contribute money to our national defense. If I wasn’t, you might be blown to smithereens…not that I’d miss ‘ya.
Ain’t gonna happen. I make love, not wars, like Republicans. I make lots of welfare babies. I don’t really believe in abortion. I just stir the pot to make sure that folks like you make sure that all those kids get born so the welfare state can continue to prosper with your voting support and tax dollars. Now, with the Democrats in power,we’re even going to get all sorts of extra handouts that we have always been entitled to but you and your kind just kept saying no to. Free insurance for everyone! Yahoo! And, there’s nothing you can do to stop it. The Democrats are in power and the losers have to pay. All 19 percent of you.
Dusty
October 29th, 2009
10:35 pm
Taxpayer,
I never forget the sacrifices our troops are making for US. Most Americans remember. Did they not tell you about appreciation at the Cut-n-Run Meeting?
@@
October 29th, 2009
10:38 pm
Taxpayer:
You’re kinda making democrats look bad. If, perchance, some unsuspecting soul were to drop by, it’s likely they’d take you for the real thing.
Come to think of it, you’re here all day everyday so…..
you could be telling the truth.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:39 pm
Dusty,
Obama cannot write the legislation that would be needed to stop the Bush tax hikes that Bush signed into law to defer payment of all those Republican expenditures. Surely you understand what has been happening all those years. Did you think that our troops just lived off the land and gathered spoils of war or did you think that all that money that the Republicans borrowed from China was going to someone other than the wealthy here in the USA, etc. You really need to read more. Remember, it was even Bush that pushed through TARP to bail out all those banks. The same banks that are now cashing in on your tax dollars in order to pay themselves those huge bonuses that you cannot possibly object to for to do so would be so un-GOP. So, get used to paying taxes. I see it well into you and your children’s futures.
@@
October 29th, 2009
10:45 pm
I make love, not wars
I’ve always wanted to mention this. I frequently visit a friend in SE Atlanta. On the way there’s this house…overgrown yard…lots of weird yard art…stained glass trinkets everywhere. Right smack dab in the front yard is this sign that reads “WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER”.
I keep saying I’m gonna knock on their door and ask them what is. It’s more likely than not they won’t have an answer. Heck! the smell of weed or incense would probably knock me out before I could ask.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:45 pm
@@,
I am here every day and I just make Democrats look just like what Republicans like you claim that they look like. I have no problem with living up to your expectations. Maybe you should start expecting more if you want more. On second thought, nah. I’m entitled to everything that you 19 percenters have because you 19 percenters have already said so. Like I said, I can live it. So, pay your Bash tax hikes when they hit you and be grateful that you’re safe. It’s the very least you should get for your investment. Oh, and don’t forget to have your kids buy a new home while they can cash in on that Isakson addition to the stimulus. Eight thousand dollars in tax credits per house for you to pay for on top of that cash for clunker program. Isn’t life great.
RW-(the original)
October 29th, 2009
10:48 pm
@@,
Another fun thing to do is ask someone with a “Free Tibet” bumper sticker what they’d be willing to do to free Tibet.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:49 pm
Heck! the smell of weed or incense would probably knock me out before I could ask.
You sound like you could use some mellowing out anyway before those Bush tax hikes hit. So, I would suggest twice weekly visits. In no time, you’ll be a peace-loving and content tax payer. Who knows, one day you might even be entitled to a little of it back.
@@
October 29th, 2009
10:50 pm
Congress could extend Bush’s tax cuts. They won’t though. They’ll let ‘em lapse so Taxpayer can get my money. That’ll insure that Taxpayer keeps voting for ‘em.
@@
October 29th, 2009
10:53 pm
RW:
I know the answer to that one.
Pay some street vendor $1.50 for that bumper sticker.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:57 pm
@@,
The CBO would have to approve any extension of the Bush deferred tax payment program and I just don’t see that in your future. Bush and the Republicans were only able to borrow enough money to push out paying for all their exorbitance until 2011. That was as far as the CBO would let them go. You’re stuck with it now unless Obama can work some Messiah-like magic and really get the economy churning and get millions of people employed and paying some amount of taxes and I just see too many no’s in the way of something like that happening. It’s a shame but one must sleep in the bed that one has made. Reap what one sows and that sort of stuff. That much, you’re entitled to.
Dusty
October 29th, 2009
10:58 pm
Poor Taxpayer,
Still stuck on Bush. Yes, I know what has been happening all these years. We are safe and sound in the USA and I am thankful for that. Maybe you did not notice while protesting with your white flag.flying.
Also, you are pretty dense if you think my family has not been paying taxes. We don’t expect our country to stay free while we sit around complaining. and not giving. But we never planned to pay 50% which will soon be the position which Obama will place us.
Bush did spend money but his billions are not trillions. Obama is the trillions man and don’t run around the block trying to blame that on Bush. Bush was doing his best to keep terrorists busy in their own countries. He was not playing national Santa Claus.
Your sarcasm is too close to the truth. You are a taker. Not a giver.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
10:59 pm
If only Obama would push through a law that would let him be King, or Messiah. Then, us Democrats could fulfill that one remaining Republican prophesy. Help us to make it happen, 19 percenters. Together, we can do it.
md
October 29th, 2009
11:05 pm
I don’t know where some on here went to school, but we were taught that Presidents don’t write bills. So not too sure how Bush was able to write that TARP bill. Unless that Democrat controlled Congress wrote it for him. Maybe thats what happened.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
11:07 pm
Dusty,
Your safeness and soundness under those covers comes at a price. It’s a price that you will just have to get used to because your savior, Bush, has made it so. If you have a problem with his and the Republican’s legislation, you need to take it up with them. I’m perfectly happy with those Bush tax hikes kicking in right on schedule because,as you Republicans have also told us until it finally stuck, we love tax hikes. Don’t worry though. We’re gonna get you some guaranteed health insurance to help keep you healthy and working for many more years of tax paying bliss. I promise, the last thing on our minds is death panels. Nope. Wellness panels pay off through increased 19 percenter productivity via fewer missed days at work. That’s just the beginning though. Obesity and new fitness programs are in the next round of legislation. Don’t be scared though. They’re for your own good. hehehe
@@
October 29th, 2009
11:08 pm
I haven’t been paying attention, Taxpayer. How’s consumer spending?
Our devalued dollar is doing wonders for our exports. Exports make up…what 11% — 12% of our GDP? Consumer spending, 70%?
It’s a shame but one must sleep in the bed that one has made. Reap what one sows and that sort of stuff.
I’m feelin’ bad for you now, Taxpayer. I’ll contribute more thru my paycheck. Oh wait…..I’m not getting a paycheck this year. I’m donating my entire salary to those I consider special.
Sorry!
DoggoneGA
October 29th, 2009
11:09 pm
“I don’t salute the flag and I don’t pledge allegience.”
You forgot to add that I don’t bow my head in prayer either. Gotta be sure to get ALL those “sins against “patriotism” in, or else someone might think you’re slacking…you know?
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
11:13 pm
Don’t worry about missing a year of tax payments, @@. Whatever you don’t pay, you can just pass it off to your children to cover for you. It’s the Republican way.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
11:15 pm
And, @@, not paying any taxes in addition to feeding at the public trough makes you a Democrat too. No. You are still a war monger. That’s right. You’re a war mongering liberal. hehehe.
Dusty
October 29th, 2009
11:17 pm
Oh, Taxpayer, you are so cute.
No, we won’t help you keep a king. We are going to elect a nice Republican president in the next big election. Americans will be begging for one by then. They are now wondering: WHAT HAPPENED???? They have already found out that CHANGE means those little coins in their pockets and not one thing FREE. Boohoo!!
Well, goodnight. I’m watching the World Series. Great players!!
@@
October 29th, 2009
11:17 pm
Venezuela said Oct. 29 that a water conservation program for Caracas will begin Nov. 2 and will last six months, El Nacional reported. The program may include rotating water shutoffs of up to 48 hours at a time. Government officials have stated that the current water shortage was due to a lack of rainfall caused by El Nino and wasteful use by Caracas residents.
Global warming and wasteful consumers.
So what? They’ll either hoard water on the days they have it or they’ll go get it from a friend whose water hasn’t been cut off.
md
October 29th, 2009
11:17 pm
“”I don’t salute the flag and I don’t pledge allegience.”
You forgot to add that I don’t bow my head in prayer either.”
Do you by chance throw the ball back to the poor neighborhood kids when they hit it in your yard, or do you have a collection?
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
11:20 pm
What’s consumer spending got to do with me, @@. That’s for rich people to do in order to stimulate the economy and get the trickle flowing down to the masses and make jobs as sales clerks. Ewww. That’s a job. I’m a Democrat. I’m entitled to pay without the job stuff. That is what you Republicans have been preaching all these years, right. Am I getting it wrong. Tell me if I have misunderestimated your words.
Taxpayer
October 29th, 2009
11:22 pm
We’re in power now, Dusty. There will be no Republican president to mess that up. No more deferred tax payments for you.
@@
October 29th, 2009
11:22 pm
Whatever you don’t pay, you can just pass it off to your children to cover for you.
Surely you’ve heard of life insurance? Savings?
I’ll bet the only one you know about is the death tax. Well maybe your democrats will give you a little when I die. Maybe not. I might dole it out to my daughter in increments.
md
October 29th, 2009
11:24 pm
Thats OK Tp, there’s gonna be plenty of ticked of dems soon too when the younger ones that don’t want to purchase insurance are going to get fined for not having it and then taxed to pay for the subsidy for the druggie down the street that spends all his money on his fix. Thats gonna go over real well with them young yuppie dems.
@@
October 29th, 2009
11:27 pm
Alright, it’s been interesting.
I’m off to bed. Gotta work to help out Taxpayer.
DANG! I keep forgetting.
No can do. Those who overcome their challenges are counting on me.
Sorry again!
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 29th, 2009
11:41 pm
A good place to start would be to tie off the major arteries in Iraq and Afghanistan that are hemorrhaging so much effing money.
I Report :-) You Whine :-( Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 30th, 2009
6:25 am
Aflac third-quarter profit soars- Exchange rate in Japan helps fuel 263 percent increase over 2008Columbus-based supplemental insurer Aflac Inc. said thirdquarter profit rose 263 percent, largely on favorable currency exchange rates in Japan, where the company does most of its business. -Urinsl
So their dollars are worthless but they have more of them, yay!
mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
jt
October 30th, 2009
6:58 am
Gorden is dead to me now. Why do these people have to open their mouths?
Sting isn’t a religious man, but he says President Barack Obama might be a divine answer to the world’s problems.
“In many ways, he’s sent from God,” he joked in an interview, “because the world’s a mess.”
But Sting is serious in his belief that Obama is the best leader to navigate the world’s problems. In an interview on Wednesday, the former Police frontman said that he spent some time with Obama and “found him to be very genuine, very present, clearly super-smart, and exactly what we need in the world.”
Joey
October 30th, 2009
7:08 am
Sting is serious.
Ahmadinejad is serious.
Bono is serious.
Three people that I would follow ………
nowhere.
Taxpayer
October 30th, 2009
7:09 am
You 19 percenters are so easy. The GOP thanks you for your support. Really, they do.
Normal
October 30th, 2009
7:15 am
MR. PRESIDENT, BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2009
7:27 am
But the situation is extremely complicated.
No it’s not. It’s easy.
1. Hottie gets shot.
2. Online conservatives pretend to care.
3. Look! shiny baubles!
/winger
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2009
7:36 am
I could draw a line from the religious intolerance that drives the political stupidity throughout much of the Middle East to jt @ 6.58’s business about how Sting isn’t qualified to mention God on account of Sting not belonging to the right God-fearin’ club.
but like Jay says: the situation is extremely complicated.
USinUK
October 30th, 2009
7:37 am
g’morning dB! g’morning Normal!!
It’s FRIDAY! FRIDAY! FRIDAY!! (not that I have anything exciting planned for the weekend other than life maintenance … I’m just looking forward to a bit of a lie-in)
AmVet
October 30th, 2009
7:38 am
It’s OK guys, you still have:
Neil Young, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Ian Anderson, John Mellencamp, Bonnie Raitt, Kenny Loggins, Eddy Vetter, Green Day, the Foo Fighters, Lou Reed, R.E.M., Dave Matthews, David Byrne, Lenny Kravitz, Rosanne Cash, Moby, Tori Amos, Michael Stipe, Eddy Vedder, Nine Inch Nails, The White Stripes, Cold Play and Jack Black. Among many, many others.
And of course, The Dixie Chicks.
So keep on supporting/contributing to all those LIBERAL artists who are adamantly opposed to your ideology, dogma and heroes…
Maybe a new conned band called PNAC will start making some kicka__ music! Maybe a bunch of conned bands will appear on the scene. Maybe global cooling is in effect now.
Face it, we have all the talent…
A confidence man, but why so beleagued?
He’s not a leader, he’s a Texas leaguer
Swinging for the fence, got lucky with a strike
Drilling for fear, makes the job simple
Born on third, thinks he got a triple
– Bushleaguer, Pearl Jam
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2009
7:43 am
It’s FRIDAY! FRIDAY! FRIDAY!!
Mornin’, Youze.
Sorry to lead with some nasty, weight stuff, but…
did you ever happen to see what’s turning out to be a rather seminal New Yorker piece about our nation’s use of drones?
I read the dead tree edition a few days ago, got thoroughly depressed.
Heard a UN liason’s take on this over at Democracy Now this morning. Got more depressed.
But some difficult questions are being raised about the policies this Administration are pursuing, and I really can’t ignore them. Are we going to permit our government to carry out what amounts to an under-the-radar political assassination campaign without so much as calling them to legal account for it?
Normal
October 30th, 2009
7:48 am
UsinUK, Good Morning! I went to my Granddaughter’s last futbol game yesterday evening and while her team suffered their first loss, it was announced that she made the All-Stars!
She is listed as first team
goalie and second team, I believe it’s called foreward (?) Offfense side.
We had a big port bar-b-cue blow out as a celebration. Needless to say, I was one proud Grandpapa!
Normal
October 30th, 2009
7:52 am
I forgot to mention that Miss Destiny Wirtz is just seven years old!
USinUK
October 30th, 2009
7:56 am
Normal –
“I went to my Granddaughter’s last futbol game yesterday evening and while her team suffered their first loss, it was announced that she made the All-Stars”
heyHEY!! great news – and, yes, you deserve to crow about it and say that talent obviously runs in the family … she just couldn’t help herself!!
dB –
thanks for the link – I’ll give that a read over lunch – my pre-read opinion is that I’m happy for their use for intel-gathering, but for offense? I think that we’ve ruined enough weddings to last a lifetime.
AmVet –
I have no problem with artists of either stripe stating their opinions about current events – that’s their right as much as it is ours. in most cases, it makes me like them that much more (especially when they stand up and say, “no, thank you, I’d rather you didn’t play MY music at YOUR campaign event”)
USinUK
October 30th, 2009
7:57 am
seven years old!
well, it sounds like that 7-year-old is one lucky tyke to have such a proud and loving grandpa!!
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
October 30th, 2009
7:59 am
Well, good morning everybody. I see the libruls on here are laughing because we get a tax hike at the end of next year. It’s the librul Democrats fault. They wouldn’t give us the votes to make the tax hikes last and we had to use this Reconciliation. My buddy Jim Earl says you can’t use Reconciliation for anything that lasts longer than 10 years. So My President’s tax cuts will expire at the end of next year and we’ll get a Tax Increase! They’ll be taking more money out of our paycheck and giving it to Those People! This is what you get when you elect librul Democrats that won’t extent the tax cuts.
So people like @@ and Sister Dusty and the Whiner and other godly Conservatives will be working for the guvmint longer starting in 2011. I don’t see why we can’t borrow some more money from China and make the tax cuts stay. It’s free money.
I’m good and mad and I think I’ll hit some potholes this a.m. and break a few bottles of beer. Thanks alot, libruls. You done made my day.
stands for decibels
October 30th, 2009
8:11 am
I don’t see why we can’t borrow some more money from China and make the tax cuts stay. It’s free money.
Sometimes I simply must tip my cap to the eloquence, and thank the good Lord for giving us this national treasure, Redneck Convert.
AmVet
October 30th, 2009
8:12 am
USinUK, well said.
I still laugh though at how the conned are so oblivious about the message.
Remember when Saint Ronnie decided to purloin Springsteen’s Born in the USA?
The Big Government RepubliPuritans and the Fraud Morality crowd had no freaking clue what the song was even about.
And had they been the type with any shame, they would have been sorely embarrassed when somebody finally told them.
For me personally, I could never be a conned.
I could never listen to, much less put money in the pockets of musicians who excoriated my most important beliefs and heroes. But somehow these right-wing squares are able to “separate the artist from the music”.
Sound so Islamic or third world.
I guess they’re just that desperate that they’ll dance to something musically decent as opposed to the trash music that extols Georgie, etc…
Normal
October 30th, 2009
8:15 am
USinUk, all of my grandkids make it real easy to do the lovin’ part.
Saturday, I get to herd them through trick or treat time. That is always a kick. I have two Great Grandkids just now walking and the older Grandkids are fighting to see who gets to “escort” them. The camera will get a workout Saturday night!
Taxpayer
October 30th, 2009
8:25 am
Redneck is coming down too hard on @@. She openly acknowledged that she feeds from the public trough and pays no taxes and she just loves wars to boot. What more could one want in a Republican. As for Dusty, she’s still in denial.
Bubba
October 30th, 2009
9:04 am
Nothing’s really complicated in dealing with Iran. You just count on them to do the opposite of what they say they’ll do:
BRUSSELS — European leaders pressed Iran Friday to stick by a deal that would limit its uranium enrichment, voicing “grave concern” over the country’s nuclear program.
Western diplomats said this week that Tehran had rejected a plan proposed by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei at talks involving Iran, the U.S., Russia and France.
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U.N. nuclear inspectors, headed by Herman Nackaerts, left, arrive at Vienna’s Schwechat airport, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, from a visit to a previously secret Iranian uranium enrichment site. What the inspectors saw, and how freely they were allowed to work, will be key in deciding whether six world powers engaging Iran in efforts to reduce fears that it seeks to make nuclear weapons seek a new round of talks with Tehran. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)
The plan calls for Iran to export most of its enriched uranium, offering instead to enrich it to a higher level inside the country under U.N. supervision. Iran missed an initial deadline of last Friday to respond, and instead this week offered to enrich its uranium to a higher level inside the country under U.N. supervision.
EU leaders expressed “grave concern over the development of Iran’s nuclear program, and Iran’s persistent failure to meet its international obligations,” according to a draft statement circulating on the second day of a two-day EU summit in Brussels.
Bubba
October 30th, 2009
9:07 am
Did you read that correctly? Iran REJECTED the plan that Jay is so encouraged by. LOL