‘A corporate culture that has lost its sense of shame’
So says Dana Milbank at The Washington Post:
If Don Blankenship had any sense of shame, he’d crawl into a mine and hide.
As CEO of Massey Energy, he has presided over a coal company that had thousands of violations in recent years, leading up to the April explosion that killed 29 of his miners. The company now faces a federal criminal investigation into what the government has called negligent and reckless practices.
But Blankenship must have no sense of shame, because he visited the National Press Club last week to complain about “knee-jerk political reactions” to mine deaths and to demand that the Obama administration lighten regulations on his dirty and dangerous company. “We need to let businesses function as businesses,” an indignant Blankenship proclaimed. “Corporate business is what built America, in my opinion, and we need to let it thrive by, in a sense, leaving it alone.”
The CEO was asked what he could have done to prevent the deadly explosion. “I probably should’ve sued MSHA” — that’s the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration — “rather than waiting” until now, he said. In the future, he added, “you’ll see not only coal companies but many companies resist the efforts of EPA and others that are impeding their ability to pursue their careers, or their happiness.”
Poor CEO Blankenship. That mean federal government is not allowing him to pursue his happiness, just because his employees are dead….
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RW-(the original)
July 25th, 2010
5:40 pm
5:28 cont…..
Just went back to the Sharp Elbows website and his blogroll is pretty tame. Mainstream conservative sites like Hot Air, Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malkin, etc. Nothing to any of the bomb throwers.
Southern Comfort
July 25th, 2010
6:28 pm
RW
Valid point on the blogger. It doesn’t make your credibility any better if you take someone else’s work and cut it up to push a point that is opposite of what the true and complete work shows.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2010
6:30 pm
In America, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been trumpeting that, according to its much-quoted worldwide temperature data, the first six months of this year were the hottest ever recorded. But expert analysis on Watts Up With That, the US science blog, shows that NOAA’s claimed warming appears to be strangely concentrated in those parts of the world where it has fewest weather stations. In Greenland, for instance, two of the hottest spots, showing a startling five-degree rise in temperatures, have no weather stations at all.
The record high temperature from 113 years ago finally fell yesterday in these parts, 113 years ago, aahhh, the blissful carefree days when we weren’t ruled over by hysteritics and shaman, nor did we have any Escalades, just sayin…
Southern Comfort
July 25th, 2010
6:42 pm
Whiner
You don’t believe in any of that stuff anyway, so why lose sleep or b*tch about it? I don’t think that’s gonna make NOAA or anyone else change directions or anything.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2010
6:44 pm
Bomb Sniffer- Do your comments go directly into obozo’s inbox?
SPQR(laissez Faire)
July 25th, 2010
6:45 pm
Luckily , Al gore trying to rape a couple masseuses will probably end up saving the us taxpayer TRILLIONS in carbon taxes
F the left
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2010
6:52 pm
President Barack Obama on Friday proclaimed a week of “enormous progress” in fixing economic problems and cracking down on Wall Street.
He praised a trio of matters he signed into law this week — an overhaul of financial regulations, an effort to shrink wasteful government payments, and an extension of unemployment benefits for millions of jobless people — as the governing that people expect.
We are teetering on economic collapse and our little Nero fiddles, just sayin…
Lil' Barry Bailout
July 25th, 2010
6:55 pm
Guess what…corporations are not the only entities capable of a lack of shame:
White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi
THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.
Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.
The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.
The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama’s claim last week that all Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release.
————–
Obama: Liar. Terrorist coddler.
Southern Comfort
July 25th, 2010
6:57 pm
Glue Sniffer
Being that there’s nobody named obozo, that would be NO. However, my comments do not go straight anywhere other than where I post them. If you don’t like it, scroll. Your whining and b*tching about the same thing over and over kinda gets old. If you don’t like the stuff, then do something about it other than posting it here. Boycott NOAA, put your own temp gauges out, or something productive. Bellyaching about something has never created a solution. Just sayin…
Kamchak
July 25th, 2010
7:02 pm
Southern Comfort
Don’t take the bait on Andy’s name-calling.
An insult is like strong drink or poison—it can only affect you if you accept it.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2010
7:02 pm
Bomb Sniffer- You are bellyaching, again.
Lil' Barry Bailout
July 25th, 2010
7:03 pm
You know darn well that “Obozo” is just another way of saying “Idiot Messiah”.
SPQR(laissez Faire)
July 25th, 2010
7:04 pm
@’Being that there’s nobody named obozo’
obozo = husseinO= the Socialist POS= Karl Marx Jr= Boss of bite me = Mullato Smurf.
Everyone KNOWS that, so it doesn’t have to be repeaed ad nauseum.
When Liberalism and peace and love go bad (and they ALWAYS go bad)….
19 killed in Love Parade panic
“The Love Parade was always a peaceful event and a happy party” but would forever be overshadowed by the tragedy, Rainer Schaller said.
“It’s over for the Love Parade,” he said.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2010
7:05 pm
Besides which, Strip Searcher, with me posting the facts on the Urinal’s web site, they can say that they at least have some credibility, just sayin…
It ain’t like kookman lends any.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2010
7:07 pm
I usually call him our little tard but their are many in the dummycrat party that description could apply to.
So obozo it is.
Kamchak
July 25th, 2010
7:07 pm
Everyone KNOWS that, so it doesn’t have to be repeaed[sic] ad nauseum.
Who granted you the authority to speak for everyone?
Everyone
July 25th, 2010
7:12 pm
I hereby grant SPQR authority to speak for us.
SPQR(laissez Faire)
July 25th, 2010
7:13 pm
correction then..
EVERYONE who is ANYONE knows that, so it doesn’t have to be repeated ad nauseum.
I think Mullato smurf is a new creation but it will catch on
SPQR(laissez Faire)
July 25th, 2010
7:16 pm
WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I now have binding legal authority to speak for Everyone!!
Now….. can Everyone grant me unlimited power of attorney?
Everyone
July 25th, 2010
7:19 pm
I hereby grant SPQR unlimited power of attorney, retroactive to the day before absentee ballots were to be submitted in the last presidential election.
Southern Comfort
July 25th, 2010
7:20 pm
Bomb Sniffer… Strip Searcher…
Your schtick would be funny except for the fact that you’re supposed to be a grown man. I’m not bellyaching at all. I’m asking that you be like your Founding Fathers. Instead of posting things that are wrong, get out and try to correct them. If you’d like an example, try this one.
I didn’t like the fact that immigration enforcement looked more like mythology than fact. I took a job working in immigration to try to change that. I can’t catch every person entering into this country illegally, but what I do can’t be done by the Minutemen or any other civilian group that thinks they have the answer to our immigration problems. My job is to stop illegal immigrants before they become one. The people I stop have legal means to enter this country, but attempt to enter for illegal purposes. Come hang out with me for a week and see if you can do that if you like.
Kamchak
I do that for entertainment purposes, kinda like a cat swatting at a ball of yarn.
Kamchak
July 25th, 2010
7:23 pm
Southern Comfort
As long as you’re having fun….
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2010
7:24 pm
Strip Searcher- Um, so what’s up with your comments outside of illegal immigration?
stands for decibels
July 25th, 2010
7:26 pm
Were you by any chance at the Kroger on Steve Reynolds this afternoon? If not then the visual in my head of you has an identical twin.
RW, I don’t know if this is a riff on some earlier work upthread, but no.
Although how you would have a visual in your head (Mets AND dirty-hippie political bumper stickers?) is anyone’s guess.
If anyone’s interested, we had a pleasant G-Braves outing this afternoon. Found some seats in the shade, watched them lose to the Louisville Bats. Ain’t that America?
RW-(the original)
July 25th, 2010
7:32 pm
sfb,
Pretty close. A Mets hat, an earing, a scruffy beard, spending an enormous amount of time in the organic vegetarian section, pasty but sunburned etc. The guy married up though.
I think you be wrong about that NAP. It looks like the Braves and Mets are a partnership that wants to stay out of the Phillies way.
TaxPayer
July 25th, 2010
7:33 pm
Andy’s whining is, as usual, nothing more than that.
Southern Comfort
July 25th, 2010
7:37 pm
What would you like to know about my comments? Do I have opinions on other things? Yes, and when and where I can, I try to counter anything I don’t think is necessary or needed. In other words, I work in immigration, but immigration is not my life. I do other things as well.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2010
7:42 pm
Strip Searcher- It’s not going to dawn on you, is it?
stands for decibels
July 25th, 2010
7:48 pm
RW, heh. Organic veggies? I think they’re kind of a scam, although you sometimes see some good looking stuff at the farmers’ markets. Earring? I’m wayyy stealthier than that. I mean, when I refer to myself as boringly hetero, I’m not kidding.
(And while I’d just as soon be pasty, I’m actually about as tanned as I ever get, these days, due to a lot of daytime running, pool and beach time the past few weeks.)
And yeah, the Phils are on a tear. Can’t count them out.
Southern Comfort
July 25th, 2010
7:54 pm
dB/RW
The Braves will take the NL so it really doesn’t matter.
@@
July 25th, 2010
7:57 pm
You’d think that with all the money Jesse Jackson has, he’d get a therapist to help him with his lateral lisp. It’s bad! So bad….that I have difficulty understanding him.
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 25th, 2010
8:00 pm
Don’t forget the Reds and the Cardinals.
RW-(the original)
July 25th, 2010
8:04 pm
No love for the Padres?
stands for decibels
July 25th, 2010
8:04 pm
The Braves will take the NL so it really doesn’t matter.
well, in my experience, the Braves take the NL East whenever the Mets appear to pose some kind of threat…since the Mets appear to be headed into sub- .500 oblivion, maybe you have something to fret about.
Seriously, I have to chuckle when we last chatted about this topic–the braves offensive stats were Teh Suxxor at the time, and I was wondering if they’d be able to pick things up. What a difference two months make.
later, all. Off to watch a little Cards-Cubs, looks like, on espn…
Scout
July 25th, 2010
8:08 pm
Well, well, well ………. What have we here ?
Headline (Yahoo News) : “Migrants sell up and flee Arizona ahead of crackdown”
Southern Comfort
July 25th, 2010
8:19 pm
It’s not going to dawn on you, is it?
In your world, I’m surprised there is even a word such as dawn. You’re so dark and pessimistic about everything. I guess it will not dawn on me, but I’m sure you’re itching and aching to tell me what I’ve done or not done anyway…
HD
I’m doing the Tomahawk Chop until the final out of their final game. I’m just hoping the final out will be to wrap up a World Series for Bobby.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2010
8:25 pm
Paulo977
July 25th, 2010
8:26 pm
World Series …. We don’t have another David Justice so Im keeping my figers crossed!!!
Southern Comfort
July 25th, 2010
8:32 pm
Whiner
Takes one to know one!!!
RW-(the original)
July 25th, 2010
8:36 pm
SoCo,
I just cruised upthread to see what the commotion was and I’ve got say I think you’re a little off base here. You yourself stated that Andy didn’t believe in global warming then told him to go do something about the problem. If he believes, as I do, that it’s a scam then alerting people to stories like the one that says a large part of the data is based on temperature rises in places that aren’t well monitored IS doing something about the problem and might be the only course of action he could take. It’s not like somebody is running a driveway paving scam and you can go out and bust them yourself. If this is a scam it’s a scam being perpetrated worldwide by people in the highest levels of power. Alerting people in your sphere of contacts to conflicting data is about the only tool of an individual.
Lot’s of us have mentioned over the years that some very good information that Andy brings to the blog gets lost because his style leads people to attack the messenger rather than deal with the message. This is something I find very well worth looking into and I’m glad he brought that story here.
In Greenland, for instance, two of the hottest spots, showing a startling five-degree rise in temperatures, have no weather stations at all.
TaxPayer
July 25th, 2010
8:42 pm
Watts Up With That concludes Greenland is not melting without looking at any actual ice mass data.
Well, that IS watt dumbasses do so why should anyone be surprised.
Scout
July 25th, 2010
8:43 pm
Del:
If you’re out there check this out !!!
Headline Article: “The White House responded swiftly and sharply to publication Sunday evening of more than 91,000 secret documents painting a bleak picture of the Afghanistan war, calling the leak “irresponsible” and saying that the source – the whistleblower website WikiLeaks — “opposes U.S. policy in Afghanistan.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40204.html#ixzz0ukDcivqe
It’s quite interesting to see how LIBERALS squawk when the shoe is on the other foot. They sure didn’t seem to mind when Ellsberg released the PENTAGON PAPERS ON THE VIETNAM WAR now did they ???
WHAT HYPOCRISY !
Southern Comfort
July 25th, 2010
8:49 pm
RW
On the global warming, I don’t have a dog in the fight. Do I think we’re doing harm to the environment, yes. Do I think it’s man-made… that’s up for discussion. My point about Andy, Whiner, or whatever name he’s going by, is that being a cut-and-paster doesn’t always solve the problem. If he’s not a scientist, I’m sure there are groups that he could volunteer with for a week to actually get out into the field and see things for himself.
That’s kinda what I’ve done all my life. I’ve mentored and tutored kids, I’ve helped raise funds and donations to feed and clother people who needed help. My next goal is to help someone with Habitat for Humanity so that someone can enjoy the benefits of home ownership. I don’t do those type things for awards or anything. I just feel it’s the right thing to do because I’ve been given so much that I can afford to give back. It’s not as easy to participate in global issues, but if one is so adamant about a position, then one will find a way.
I’m not knocking the messenger but just curious about his true committment to all the things he questions. I don’t choose sides on many issues because I know that I’m not in any position to effect change in them. The things that I do care about, though, I try to change the negative aspects of them into a positive.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 25th, 2010
9:25 pm
To put it another way, Democrats have been undertaking a vast fiscal policy experiment, blowing out the federal balance sheet in an effort to show that a country can spend and tax its way to prosperity. Look no further than the numbers in the White House’s own budget review for the unhappy lab results.
I suppose you don’t like this one either, huh, Strip Searcher?
Should I go door to door on behalf of the federal deficit?
@@
July 25th, 2010
9:28 pm
HEY! I’m a googlin’ and finding all sorts of stuff.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9780814251430
Dick Wilkinson was like a second Dad to me. He lived down the street from us in California. I didn’t know he wrote a book. Read some of it online. Written just like he talks.
Talks about the Black Panthers’ Angela Davis, some serial killer, unions, and his dealings with the Muslim convicts at Soledad.
Funny….he’s never mentioned writing a book. A man of humility.
Camillus
July 25th, 2010
9:30 pm
Saul good ————- In response to some of your posted questions on the previous page;
Are you really ignorant of the Christian Abolitionist movement in the US, that worked actively, in many different ways – for decades, to end slavery? I think you purposely ignore the many great works that Christian movement did ! Atheists, like yourself, seem to be so willing to remain blind to all the good works that have been accomplished by Good Christians, even to this day. Just as you’re conveniently blind to the evil deeds Atheism has foisted on this world. True believers in Christ have always been outnumbered by nonbelievers, not just in the world or this country, but even in the church – Just as Scout answered you.
Saul, why do you call yourself good ? Your continual rants directed exclusively toward Christians are obviously full of hate. A rant about Hinduism would project some semblance of balance in your antichrist posts, for a change. Now there’s a religion that was specifically, man-formulated, by Arian/Persians to enslave and subjugate an entire conquered sub-continent (India). All for the sole purpose of keeping them in passive & docile servitude {by way of caste system that’s still, in effect, practiced today}.
And speaking of smearing entire groups of people because of the actions of a few, consider this;
In 1860 there were 27 million whites in the USA, according to the census of that year. 8 million of those lived in the Southern States and of those 8 million, there were 385,000 who owned 1 or more slaves. That’s 4.8% of the Southern whites who owned slaves or 1.4% of the entire country’s white population who owned slaves.
Also your observation about the Tea Party not reflecting the racial diversity % of the whole population is a biased charge, masquerading as a ‘question’. When did you ever ask that about any other protest movement or expect any other protest group to reflect exact racial demographics?
Mr_B
July 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
Scout:
Which is exactly why we liberals understand that the Obama administration has operated as a centerist administration for the last 18 months. Not to say that thats a BAD thing. Too bad the the right is so busy making the POTUS out as the next Josef Stalin instead of trying to find some common ground.
SPQR(laissez Faire)
July 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
stuck on a real b*stard of a file here so taking a break..
MOVE OVER, OBAMA: Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care…
Most basic treatments to be rationed…
REID: ‘We’re Going To Have a Public Option’…
in that order, too..could dems be more out of step? it’s like watching special olympics sychronized swimming
Del
July 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
Scout,
Just got on but won’t stay too long. Yes it is hypocrisy…It’s time though that the administration tells Pakistan that you either lead, follow or get out of the way and launch large scale operations into Northern Pakistan, otherwise we need to bring our troops home. History is repeating itself with feckless politicians. Same as allowing North Vietnam’s army sanctuary in Laos and Cambodia. Drones are a tactical weapon, not strategic to winning the war.
@@
July 25th, 2010
9:40 pm
SoCo:
I don’t know how long you’ve been around these parts, but if you think Andy’s here to be sociable, think again. That’s one of the many things, I like about Andy.
The AJC’s liberal views need balance/contradiction. That’s why he’s here.
He could be posting at a conservative site, but then that would be like preaching to the choir. What would be the point in that?
Del
July 25th, 2010
9:44 pm
Give them hell, Andy
Del
July 25th, 2010
9:56 pm
Hope y’all enjoyed a great weekend. Taps
SPQR(laissez Faire)
July 25th, 2010
10:25 pm
weekends=workdays 6 & 7 but oneday, monday thru friday will=lazy days 1-5 so its all worth it for now
Del
July 25th, 2010
10:42 pm
Del: Agree totally
Mr. _ B: Centrist to you maybe ……….. for us conservatives he is the most liberal President ever elected and a very, very dangerous one at that.
“AND SO HE BOWED”
@@
July 25th, 2010
10:42 pm
Well, the NYTimes is at it again and Marine Gen. James L. Jones is not happy.
In a statement, President Obama’s national security advisor, Marine Gen. James L. Jones, deplored the “disclosure of classified information” that he said could put the lives of Americans and U.S. partners at risk and threaten the nation’s security.
It’s understandable why Andy calls them The Treason Times?
Del
July 25th, 2010
10:47 pm
@@:
Ellsberg wasn’t prosecuted for releasing “Top Secret” information so don’t count on anything here ……….. the so-called “public has a right to know” rule.
Del
July 25th, 2010
10:48 pm
Headline Cobb Co.: “Church’s Chicken robbed”
HA! That’s like saying “thunder and lightening” !
RW-(the original)
July 25th, 2010
10:50 pm
Somebody needs to check their handle. There seems to be an extra Del around here tonight.
Scout
July 25th, 2010
10:54 pm
TWO HEADLINES:
TODAY: More NATO troops will die in Afghanistan as violence mounts over the summer, but Washington’s goal of turning the tide against the insurgency by year’s end is within reach, the top U.S. military officer said on Sunday.
1969: More Allied troops will die in South Vietnam as violence mounts over the summer, but Washington’s goal of turning the tide against the NVA and Viet Cong by year’s end is within reach, the top U.S. military officer said on Sunday.
getalife
July 25th, 2010
11:13 pm
He is using the Goldman-Clinton team.
He is a corrupt corporatist from the corrupt senate.
Should be about Afghanistan next week.
It’s another loser.
Scout
July 25th, 2010
11:16 pm
RW-(the original) :
My fault. I sent him a message and put his handle in the “name” box. Sorry …….. but he and I (two Jarheads) are so much alike it doesn’t matter ………………….
@@
July 25th, 2010
11:16 pm
As far as I’m concerned, it’s yet another example of President Obama’s naivete.
“The period of time covered in these documents (January 2004-December 2009) is before the President announced his new strategy. Some of the disconcerting things reported are exactly why the President ordered a three month policy review and a change in strategy.”
The official added: “[I]t’s worth noting that WikiLeaks is not an objective news outlet but rather an organization that opposes U.S. policy in Afghanistan.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40204.html#ixzz0ulZ6SNSf
The Wikis are likely the same people who were pushing Obama into Afghanistan (the right war) during his campaign, only to turn on him once he answered their call.
Never trust a left-winger.
RW-(the original)
July 25th, 2010
11:33 pm
Scout,
No worries, it was obviously an honest mistake. I just thought I’d see if I could get your attention before the sirens went off in the moonbat caves.
RW-(the original)
July 25th, 2010
11:36 pm
Never trust a left-winger.
When you don’t have time to check it’s often helpful to listen to them though. That way you can go the other way until you have the time to check things out for yourself.
josef nix
July 25th, 2010
11:42 pm
Scout
I’ll get you for this! Grandbaby is finally winding down so I though I’d check out what you were talking about last p.m. with the Tucker crowd…I should have known better. The Romany lady told me not to and I should have listened. You did a good job though I might add.
Bottom line, racism is black and white and nothing else. Her whole raison d’etre is to keep that dichotomy at issue since it’s her rent and rep*tation. If you took her brain and put it in a matchbox, it’d rattle like a bb in a boxcar.
RW-(the original)
July 25th, 2010
11:45 pm
josef,
I left you a message along those lines this morning. Newt expanded the race picture and even got Howard Dean to partly play along.
@@
July 25th, 2010
11:47 pm
That way you can go the other way until you have the time to check things out for yourself.
I’ll say! I’ve been checking out the founder of Wikileak. He comes from a long line of moonbats. It’s in the genes.
He’s reported so worthwhile information, but his claims that the government is spying on him and his army of contributors has been debunked.
He started out as a hacker in high school. Isn’t that a crime?
Weirdo!
josef nix
July 25th, 2010
11:48 pm
@@
In case you check in here…got the post on the American Indian woman and rape prosecutions. This is a major issue for those interested in “Indian things” but you won’t find one in a hundred who are so “concerned” about racism in the country who’d have the vaguest notion of what you’re talking about.
RW-(the original)
July 25th, 2010
11:50 pm
@@,
shhhh…josef can’t see you.
(ISH)
josef nix
July 25th, 2010
11:51 pm
RW
I got that. Being EOI, I found it most interesting to see Ms Sherrod and Newt on the same page there. Like I keep saying, I’ve got my own issues here, but “among the races” and “between the races” is a distinction that most just don’t get.
@@
July 25th, 2010
11:59 pm
josef:
I don’t remember posting anything about an American Indian woman being raped, but that’s not to say I didn’t.
I’ve had a very busy coupl’a days. It’s like I’ve been juggling a dozen balls with frequent interruptions (calls) from a friend whose JERK OF A HUSBAND has rejected her. She keeps asking me “Why?”
My responses? “Because jerks have no use for decent people, like you?” “Because he’s probably found himself another willing victim?” “Who the heck knows…who the heck cares…consider yourself lucky.”
Should I work on my people skills?
(ISH)
RW-(the original)
July 26th, 2010
12:02 am
josef,
You realize we have a couple of regulars here that would search an endless stream of dictionaries to find one that “proves” that among and between mean the same thing if I said they were different, but I understand what you were getting at the other. I’m also enough of an EOI to get a little schadenfreude over watching you not get anybody to bite.
josef nix
July 26th, 2010
12:03 am
@@
It wasn’t about “AN” Indian woman being raped. but the recalcitrance of the feds to bring to justice men who rape Indian women on the reservation, but, back on US territory are outside the Indian nations’ jurisdiction and the feds won’t bring charges…
As for your friend…amen! Count you blessings, Sister…!
RW-(the original)
July 26th, 2010
12:04 am
Somewhere a sentence is missing a “day”…..
(IHB)
josef nix
July 26th, 2010
12:07 am
RW
Not getting anyone to bite…Unmentionable said, “what the hell did you expect you dumb ass. Won’t take my word for it? Well, put it to the test and now you see…you’re a slow learner…”
But it is, as you say, a certain Schadenfreude involved. It was kinda interesting to see who “bit” and who didn’t…
Scout
July 26th, 2010
12:13 am
josef:
LOL !!
I’m going out on a night ambush ……….. check in tomorrow.
And don’t forget our President ………… “And so he bowed”
RW-(the original)
July 26th, 2010
12:16 am
josef,
The way Democrat administrations will recognize brand new tribes for nearly any reason imaginable he’s missing an opportunity. Come up with a name, fill out an application, and have Harrah’s build his downtown Atlanta casino.
/Granted, that in no way advances the discussion, but it does redirect the cashflow.
josef nix
July 26th, 2010
12:18 am
Pombo wants to tell ME a bedtimes story, so I’d better go listen…who knows? This may be one of those things he’ll remember me fondly by when I’m dead and gone… g’night
Scout
July 26th, 2010
1:10 am
THERE ARE A 101 OF THESE …….. SOME OF WHICH WILL HAVE YOU ROLLING ON THE FLOOR !
http://www.wsbtv.com/slideshow/entertainment/24255302/detail.html
Southern Comfort
July 26th, 2010
6:12 am
Whiner
I’d agree with you on the spending. It’s been way out of control for a while, and has only gotten worse recently. I think there’s a Congressman that had a plan for cutting the budget, but I don’t think it will see the light of day because neither party wants to cut what they think is important. They’d rather grandstand instead of doing what’s right for the country.
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I was always taught that, at some point, action speaks louder than words. If that’s his calling in life, to be a preacher, so be it. I just prefer a little action at times instead of just words. That’s just me personally. On preaching to the choir, his message resonates more with conservatives than with liberals. He could also give independents here reason to think differently, but I don’t think he stands a rats chance in hell of changing the minds of any liberals here. Anything he posts will be discounted either for the source of the information or who posted it. It’s a lose-lose situation, but I’ll give him an A for effort.
See y’all in a day or two. It’s getting close to busy time on the job. Laters!!
Bud Wiser
July 26th, 2010
7:12 am
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama, who rocketed to the White House promising “change you can believe in,” is now telling voters they shouldn’t change a thing.
His message for the fall elections, which are looking ominous for his Democrats, is that Republicans caused the nation’s economic troubles, but he and the Democrats are starting to fix them. So stick with the Democrats and don’t go back to the GOP.
“This is a choice between the policies that led us into the mess or the policies that are leading out of the mess,” Obama said recently in Las Vegas.
Trouble is, it’s a tough sell to voters who’ve seen little progress.
Oh, I wouldn’t say that….. there has been progress all right:
1. The national debt has blasted through the stratosphere,
2. With the likes of Vann Jones and ilk, the non-prosecution in the Philadelphia New Black Panther voter intimidation case, the racist and socialist/communist sides of the administration glows brightly,
3. The “right” war in Afghanistan plods on, withdrawal and secession dates still muddy,
4. The Gulf of Mexico is covered in oil that will damage our nations beaches to an extent that will never see any of it cleaned fully in any of our lifetimes, covered because of the stupidity and incompetence in response by this administration.
I could go on, but why bother? This moron rose to power on “change” and wants now to “change nothing”, the ultimate flip-flop, the ultimate absurd expression of ignorance by this incompetent sap.
Outhouse GoKart
July 26th, 2010
7:32 am
Democrats and libruls never had any sense of shame to lose.
larry
July 26th, 2010
8:10 am
1. The national debt has blasted through the stratosphere, thanks to two ill-advised tax cuts, two wars and a medicare part D plan.
2.With the likes of Vann Jones and ilk, the non-prosecution in the Philadelphia New Black Panther voter intimidation case, the racist and socialist/communist sides of Faux news glows brightly.
3. The “right” war in Afghanistan plods on, thanks to the inattention and inaction of the previous adminstration, withdrawal and secession dates still muddy,
4.The Gulf of Mexico is covered in oil that will damage our nations beaches to an extent that will never see any of it cleaned fully in any of our lifetimes, covered because of the stupidity and incompetence in response by B.P.
There corrected all of those mistakes………………… Your welcome.
Jack
July 26th, 2010
8:21 am
Put enough restrictions on corporations and they’ll take their business elsewhere. Capital goes where it’s welcome and stays where it’s treated well.
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
8:29 am
Consumption goes where it’s welcome and stays where it’s treated well.
Lil' Barry Bailout
July 26th, 2010
8:35 am
So does business and jobs.
Lil' Barry Bailout
July 26th, 2010
8:36 am
If you don’t like a corporation’s culture, sell your shares. Otherwise, STFU.
Gale
July 26th, 2010
8:41 am
If I remember, mine dangers were one of the reasons unions came into being in this country. When it is the company versus the worker, there is only so much danger they will accept. From some of the stories, that limit hadn’t been reached in the Massey mine explosion. If workers accepted that security measures were circumvented, not that they should have been, it appears they accepted the risk. I hope the explosion was a wake up call for mine workers. The safety measures are there for them, whether they impede the mine profitability or not.
And where are the companies going to go? The coal is there. Sure, they can take their business to China and work that coal, by Chinese rules. Over there if a mine owner is found guilty of negligence, they execute him.
USinUK
July 26th, 2010
8:47 am
“Put enough restrictions on corporations and they’ll take their business elsewhere. Capital goes where it’s welcome and stays where it’s treated well.”
… of course, if they leave and take their jobs with them … leaving the public unemployed and unable to buy their goods / services … they are cutting their noses off to spite their faces …
earning a living wage shouldn’t be a crime.