GOP pushing Latinos into Democratic arms

USinUK,
Doin’ good. Back at work and using it ok. Gets a little sore at times, but all in all, I’ll be back on the motorcycle by the 10th…

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Normal – more importantly … on this date in 1872, Emily Post was born … so, in her honor, I think everyone should go out of their way to be polite today.

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Afternoon UnU!!!

On today’s date:
1988 – “ET” released to home video (14 million presold)

1991 – Minn Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7

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“Good manners, don’t leave home without them”

This isn’t Emily Post, but I have a feeling she would have understood the sentiment (don’t know who actually said it): “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Good doggie’…until you can find a rock”

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UnU

I was in college at the time watching the games in my dorm room. I was heartbroken as well, but I still felt good for the Twins (long after the heartbreak wore off).

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SoCo,
I remember that if you added up all of the points scored in the seven games, Atlanta actually scored more! The had a 13 to something blowout in there if I remember right. I thought that was weird.

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the 1991 World Series:

It was almost certainly the most unlikely World Series matchup ever, as the Twins and Braves became the first two teams in Major League Baseball history to go from last to first in the space of one season.

Game 1 Oct. 19 MINNESOTA 5 Atlanta 2
Game 2 Oct. 20 MINNESOTA 3 Atlanta 2
Game 3 Oct. 22 ATLANTA 5 Minnesota 4 (12 innings)
Game 4 Oct. 23 ATLANTA 3 Minnesota 2
Game 5 Oct. 24 ATLANTA 14 Minnesota 5
Game 6 Oct. 26 MINNESOTA 4 Atlanta 3 (11 innings)
Game 7 Oct. 27 MINNESOTA 1 Atlanta 0 (10 innings)

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_recaps.jsp?feature=1991

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Yeah. Other than game 1, the Twins won by 1 run each game. Kinda like how the Braves lost this year.

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dB

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Then there are the ramifications of being GILF-ridden, I suppose.

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The trade debate in the United States usually focuses on the jobs lost to factories in the developing world. But the recession has forced countless skilled workers in this country to consider jobs they would have rejected in the past. They now offer foreign manufacturers a resource that was far less common just a few years ago: cheaper wages for better talent.

But the price of having a more globally competitive workforce means more in the United States could fall well short of the middle-class living standards that manufacturing workers once could expect. Wages adjusted for inflation have declined for these workers since 2003.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/26/AR2010102607165.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010102607199

Welcome to the global economy and goodbye middle class of old. The new middle class will be the old higher lower class.

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One shouldn’t presume GILF by association, of course.

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**post WWII economic boom was a little perk our plutocratic rulers don’t feel is worth sustaining.**

Seems that way doesn’t it? Not all corporations are bad but the majority are only interested in the bottom line and directing the profits to the upper tier. Who cares about the worker, the country? Its all about getting as much as you can, as fast as you can. The people can be convinced to vote against their own interests time and again, even though in the process they are becoming the new serfs. Greatest lyric of all time, ” meet the new boss, same as the old boss”

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Hey look up top, my advertisement is up. Anybody need a dishwasher, refrigerator? Christmas is coming soon and I need some cash.

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LOL!!! @ Bosch

Been stocking up on your auto parts lately. Added a 4th vehicle to the fleet last month.

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as far as the 91 world series … does anyone else remember the NL playoffs with the Braves watching the end of the LA game on the big screen (because it was jsut that close!)

http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/cnishared/tools/shared/mediahub/02/00/12/slideshow_512002_BRAVES+WORST+TO+FIRST+_760612.jpg

best. picture. EVER.

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Big Sid Bream — if I live to be 100 I’ll never forget that play. It still brings goosebumps.

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One can easily see the value the left puts on being an American citizen, when there are select spots around the country (all gerrymandered heavy Dimmwittocrat), that are either voting on allowing non-citizens – illegals- to vote under the ruse that “…they pay taxes so why shouldn’t they be allowed to vote?…”, and/or are simply not checking id’s of those entering polling spots.

The hatred of American and all things American, particularly those that have been bought with our finest young blood (btw, you hate the military as well), has poisoned what you call your ‘mind’.

Things are about to change, haters.

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“pee on the Bible “?

Darn! I didn’t get that memo, I’ll get started immediately!

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USinUK and Doggone,

Yeah, I forgot to put that on the agenda at the last Order of Obama meeting. I’ve been slipping lately.

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“45 percent of NPR listeners were Saddam Hussein.”

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I thought December was “To wish you a happy winter solstice”?

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Where did you get your info Red, I’ve been a NPR listener for the last ten years , never wanted to be Saddam. Especially not now.

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I feel like I’m imitating that guy on Red Eye that comes in at halftime to clarify things, but it really needs to be done.

The 1991 Braves clinched the division on the next to the last day of the regular season and while they did watch the Dodger game on the big screen at the stadium it was regular season, not playoffs. The Dodgers didn’t make the playoffs since their was no wild card back then. The picture USinUK linked is from that same regular season game and at that moment they had only clinched a tie.

The Sid slid play was from game 7 in the NLCS of 1992 and Tom Glavine also had a pretty big part of game 6 in 1995 when the Braves won the World Series.

/Now I can head to the forest with a clear mind even though I see y’all have moved on to other errr activities.

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Bud Wiser

October 27th, 2010
8:50 am

Watch Fox much???? Seriously though, just how does one become so bitter and spiteful???

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Bosch – 9:11 – well, Rememberand Day is in 2 weeks … we need to get a wiggle in it …

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College … Graduation rate

University of Georgia … 82.4

Georgia Tech … 81.3

Georgia State … 57.6

Georgia College & State … 62.1

Georgia Southern … 57.4

Clayton State … 39.5

Kennesaw State … 46.2

Southern Polytechnic State … 42.5

University of West Georgia … 45.3

University system total … 58.9

Source: University System of Georgia

Racial Demographics at CSU:

White 34%

Black 55%

Hispanic 3%

Asian 5%

Source: Earn My Degree (or not).com

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Best world series moment?

The marlins beating the yankess at yankee stadium in game six with josh beckett smoking hot…sidebar note: marlins the lowest payroll in baseball taking down the yanks highest payroll…

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I like that response… Dream on… hee hee hee

One can easily see the value the left puts on being an American citizen, when there are select spots around the country (all gerrymandered heavy Dimmwittocrat),

As opposed to the value the right puts on being an American citizen, with the gerrymandered heavy Republican districts too…

RW

I can never remember what game that was, but I’ll never forget that hustle!!! That’s a real baseball player!!!

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Still, the best all and all thrill moment in pro baseball was watching ol’ Sid round third and head home. (I thought the camera had gone to slo mo, but then realized that was as fast as Sid could run… )

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Kwip Picks:

Why would I glare at an empty nest? In fact, I revel in it.

It means, as parents, we’ve successfully raised an independent nephew (my husband’s) and daughter (ours).

Could not be more pleased with who they’ve become. Two unique and awesome INDIVIDUALS.

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African American men preferred dealing drugs to going to college, because it is “easier.”

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USinUK ..My daughter and her family live in TX and I couldn’t hear a word she was saying when they won!!!

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oops, wrong thread. time to shut this tab -

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Yep. Democrats are up to their usual shenanigans. Some morning headlines (NOT on DNCNN or PMSNBC or the New York Times for the Fox News bed wetters out there):

“Nevada voting machines automatically checking Harry Reid’s name; voting machine technicians are SEIU members”

“Angle campaign attorney: Reid “intends to steal this election if he can’t win it outright”

“Voter from New Bern, NC said he pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked”

And now some headlines why the Democrats are going to have their butts handed to them by voters:

“Employers in the U.S. are starting to warn their workers to prepare for slimmer paychecks if Congress fails to vote on an extension of Bush-era tax cuts”

“Democrats ponder eliminating home mortgage interest and child care tax deductions” [so much for being for the 'middle class' there, eh Obama?]

“‘Government Doesn’t Suck’ march planned” [a group of younger, web-savvy feds are planning to march on Saturday in defense of their coworkers on the sidelines of Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity."] Hilarious.

Time to start sqealing, liberal Dems. And please, we encourage your hero Obama in telling us to ride in the back of the bus [while it's about to be smashed into a brick wall of economic failure]

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Of any open border Liberal impersonating a Dem delivering AMNESTY, to the 13 to 20 million illegal foreigners over here is–dead meat. GOOGLE–Voter Fraud; or Illegal alien costs; Another concern is that the Democrats voted–YES–on, is “totalization” agreement between the U.S. and Mexico that would grant Social Security benefits to Mexicans, including some who are here illegally, even if they didn’t work in the U.S. long enough to qualify for Social Security benefits. Our Senior Citizens have been gainfully employed all their life’s and these demented souls in Washington, want to share our weak Social Security and pensions with illegal aliens? GOOGLE–illegal aliens and Social Security. Whereas the Liberal-Democrats use the spin, rhetoric who splash on every page of the Liberal press that Tea Party members are anti- immigrant and this is not–TRUE?

This is strictly about “Rule of Law” that coming to USA is a prestigious gift from the American People, who are represented by the government. Entering this great country without permission, is an illegal act against all Americans. Therefore this is a crime committed by illegal aliens–NOT IMMIGRANTS.

Less educated citizens have been brain-washed to believe that this seventh AMNESTY isn’t going to cost the taxpayers–ANYTHING. But ask Robert Rector, Chief analyst at the Heritage Foundation that taxes will go up, to pay the 2.6 TRILLION dollar bill. Slowly this federal government is growing and spreading and we can only hope that the Tea Party candidates will begin reduction in this monstrosity. Yesterday the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday threw out part of an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, but left standing a section requiring registered voters to present proof of identification to cast a ballot. This at least can divorce most non-citizen voters from casting a vote. This is extremely significant in tight races, when only say 800 voters can have a completely different outcome to who goes to Washington or State assembly.

To be fair, every polling location should have one Democrat and one Republican and an Independent as oversight referees to check for absentee ballots irregularities. This is where the honor system is most weak. With the money wasted by Democrats, Republicans it would be prudent to have a national Voter Identification card, with fingerprint and picture to halt for good any form of spurious voting. Vote for Candidates of the TEA PARTY, as our agenda is to remove the taint of escalating power of an out-of-control government, shrinking its size, reintroduce the instruction of the US CONSTITUTION and return the empowerment of the People from the overzealous and arrogant politicians. Tea Party will conform to the citizens referendum and not to the Socialist plan of President Obama and the majority of Democrats.

Mark my words, by the end of this election, illegal aliens will have figured out how easy it is, to check off Senator Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and even Jerry Brown on absentee ballots? This is not just saying Voter fraud is prevalent in the Border States, but every state is equally at risk. Consider the situation that Border States are heavily impregnated with foreign nationals, more so in California, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas. That Senator Harry Reid has promised them some form of mass path to citizenship, if they vote for him in this midterm. Now when illegal aliens have already committed one offense by entering America, so committing a second crime by voting is certainly insignificant to people after the first crime. The fact that potentially filling out a registration forms to vote at home, opens a gaping loophole in the voting process.

It is a certainty that hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant homes have in that family circle at least one unprocessed person, therefore illegal entrant. That anybody can get from the Post Office, Drivers License Department a voter registration or by canvassers of which Acorn had the monopoly of this vulnerable system. Senator Reid has already proved this, by–BUYING–votes for himself, with free food and drinks. Other questions should be asked about SEIU union who have a past history of voter fraud, should not be allowed any intimate programming contact with electronic voting machines. or within certain any legal distance near polling sites. Then again, in Orange County Democrats gave illegal aliens the right to prospect for votes in neighborhoods. With majority leader Harry Reid promising-AMNESTY, that any new administration and then–whatever political party is seated–better take note of the public’s fury that the majority of Americans will not sign on to any form of Amnesty whatsoever. IF ANY POLITICAL PARTY OR GOVERNMENT AGENCY HAD ANY TRUE COMMITMENT TO HALTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, THEY WOULD MAKE ILLEGAL ENTRY A CLASS ONE FELONY?

The Tea Party will not become political pawns of the Republican Party , its elitists views like John Boehner or any philosophies that is epidemic of GOP demagogues. The Tea Party is a very large moderate Conservative percentage to return these United States of America back to its people.

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