When a Photoshop is worth a thousand words

Hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I see them more like these two guys.

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Is Krusty off stage right with a foam pie?

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pogo, nice off-topic blowhard hyperbole and false equivocation. why not just say the soros is the architect of the european debt crisis. soros ran a hedge fund that returned over 30% annually over 30 years. he never didn’t built a morally bankrupt propaganda empire.

but thanks for the predictable and pathetically inaccurate comparison.

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Yeah, Jay, but Soros is not pogo’s predator, Murdoch obviously is. It’s all about team sports… and not having a working moral compass.

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Dammit that’s funny!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s wrong as hell, but it’s still funny..

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Jay,
so you could say Soros and those dastardly Koch bros…are one in the same, and are either lionized or demonized by those who either agree or disagree with their politics.

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Jay

July 20th, 2011
4:33 pm

Seems you may be projecting your own personality traits onto entire groups of people?

You are guilty as can be of every single thing you claim the “right” ( is that every right leaning person or just a few?) is guilty of doing in your 4:33?

Yet you fail to mention that your entire financial life is a result of you doing the exact same things. If a person does something and happen to be a democrat, you usually remain silent about it… However if the same exact action is done by a republican we get an article complete with graphs as to why it is the republicans and them alone who are destroying our country.

The only difference between YOU and those you blast at 4:33 is that you think you are better an more wise than them because you refuse to admit that you foster quite a bit of hypocricy and one sided visons yourself.

Oh but you are simply an opinion columnist…. but why do you basically make fun of others who may have opinions, many who may share the same baisc view as you only they favor republicans and you democrats?

Is it because you are somehow better than them and your opinion must be correct?

Why the arrogance?

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Jay, sometimes your blogs have a way of bringing out the worst in people. I think this is one of them.

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And the fact that he’s Jewish makes this dynamic all the more virulent.

I didn’t know that, so the probability that those attacking Soros don’t either is probably high enough that you can’t make that blanket assumption.

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I watched a on BBC that hearing from the point it started AFTER the pieing. That IS a good photoshop lol.

On an aside: My adode (latest version 10.1) keeps crashing when I try to open a “secured” document. Does anyone have a suggestion? It’s important that I open it because I need to sign something and get it back……..

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I wonder if Scout has run across this one yet.

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but the hypocrisy lies in the fact that it’s mouthpieces employed by GE (NBC/MSNBC) who are using their platform for pushing for higher corporate taxes.

Really! You got any examples of this hypocrisy. Youtube videos. Transcripts.

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Hey….Rupert is not anywhere near that good looking.

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Jay

” I do find it fascinating to see the right celebrate when corporations evade taxes”

Exactly, Who on the right ?.

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Ewww. How the liberal nasties come out when their benefactor Soros is mentioned (no matter how dispiccable he is). Jay, at least you acknowledge some of his loathsomeness even though you try to excuse it using “Capitalism” as the culprit. No, with Soros it isn’t capitalism and it isn’t money. It is the greed for power. Read about Soros. The drive behind the man is to make the world into a place where the lucky few control everything we the “prolitariat” do. Money isn’t the driver for Soros, ultimate power is.

And Jay, are you actually saying you don’t like capitalism and that all those that take part in it are “predators”? I am very interested to know. It would be very interesting to know your take on exactly what kind of economic system (if not capitalism) we should be adhering to.

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Taxpayer,
It’s not my job, or goal in life to educate you…look it up yourself(hint: you probably won’t find anything here…or the kos…or huffpo…or mediamatters…or the daily beast). evidenced by your mere attendence here, you seem to have atleast a basic working knowledge or the internets…so let your fingers do the walking.

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Kamchak

July 20th, 2011
5:01 pm

Was typing didn’t feel like deleting.

Is that OK or should i delete it the next time?

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You know, Jay, this is probably the most articulate and thoughtful column you have written to date…but maybe that’s because it only has pictures.

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In other words, ty, you got nothing. That seems to be a common characteristic of people such as yourself. Can’t back up what you print.

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carlosgvv – Jay, sometimes your blogs have a way of bringing out the worst in people. I think this is one of them.”
some never need an excuse carlosgvv…btw do you have that list of real science or eng grad schools that are diploma mills yet?

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Johnny Marbles gave him some humble pie.

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Taxpayer,
having nothing and choosing not to educate someone else are two different things…and besides, is anything I link to really going to change your mind or your perspective?

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One more comment on Soros – don’t ever doubt it, he wants to turn the USA into a European style socialist state and become richer in the process. If you have any wealth, not only would it be transferred to predators in the USA, but throughout the World. Any sign of American uniqueness would be only in history books. Comparisons should be to Lucifer, not other people on the Left or Right.

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Taxpayer,
“Please name me ONE Exec or even lowly worker of one of the Holdings Murdock has in the US that is under investigation for violation of US Law ?????”

SO???

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and besides, is anything I link to really going to change your mind or your perspective?

I suppose we’ll never know. By the way, were you staring in a mirror by any chance when you typed that. Just curious.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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TaxPayer

July 20th, 2011
5:17 pm

I have seen numerous attacks on this very site thrown at Fox News.

Yet of all the times I have seen them attacked, I cannot recall One single time you asked any of those attacking if they had documentation to show what they were accusing actually happened.

Do you not truely care about accuracy or are you cool with any and all lies if it helps your argument?

Feel free to document you asking for evidence of any of the allegations made against fox on this site!

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josef…that was funny!

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Schrodinger’s cat

Go to http://www.osac.state.or.us/oda/unaccredited.aspx

I don’t know if the one you used is on this list or not, Maybe you got some illegals to print you one.

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ByteMe: “I didn’t know that, so the probability that those attacking Soros don’t either is probably high enough that you can’t make that blanket assumption.”

Oh I think that when the host of a widely viewed television program starts viciously slandering his name, in ways that are wildly out of proportion to said individual’s actual influence, and does so using historically highly racially charged phrases like “pulling the strings from behind the scenes”, “puppet master”, and the like I think we can safely conclude that something is going on there and we’re not far from the realm of antisemitism.

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Hopefully someone will pie Stewart someday, with a concrete pie!!

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Yes oldguy…I am sure you would. Therein lies part of the problem with the country.

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Likewise, Soros is an international financier, a supposed master of the universe and the type of self-made figure the right tends to idolize. But again, because he supports the left, the very traits that would otherwise get him lionized become reasons to hate him.

Wrong Jay. Are you so dense that you missed the point entirely? The right hates him because he took his money and THEN tries to use that money to change the rules (by influencing politics) so that nobody else could do the same. The point is not that Soros supports the left…the point is that he is attempting to create a failed welfare state in the U.S.

Warren Buffet also supports the left. But he is not hated the way Soros is. Here is your lesson plan for today, Jay. Study the political actions of both men… who support the left… and then report why Soros is hated and Buffet is not. I think that you will find your “support of the left” argument doesn’t make the cut for a passing grade.

Hint: While very rich, WB realizes that a strong U.S. economy and a strong middle class is what makes the business environment ripe for making money. He would rather see a nation of producers and consumers. So while the right may disagree with WB, (fundamentally) we are after the same result. Contrast that to Soros, and you see why we hate Soros but not Buffet.

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“Left Wing” brings Soros being Jewish into the conversation. This is typical, sad but oh so very predicitable from the left. If nothing else works, then play the race or religion card. Most of the left have been reduced to nothing more than a shrill bunch of name-calling whiners who, when cornered, can only offer childish retorts in response to facts. To prove this just look at this blog for a few minutes.

And Jay, I can truthfully say I have never heard any conservative celebrate corporations not paying taxes. This is something that obviously you want to believe, whether it is true or not. Exactly which conservatives were you referring to when you said this?

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midori

Musharaff was really good…so deadpan…I;m no fan of his politics, but give him his just dues, he was funny…

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I’d rather watch the annual baby fur seal bashing than to see that creep!

Have you noticed that no one really cares what you like to watch?

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josef,
That stupid look and in-your-face attitude make me want to throw a brick through the tv whenever I accidently cross a program he is on. At least Bill Maher is up front about his hatred of all things conservative, Stewart hides his behind “comedy!”

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Part of the problem is that the non-conservative conservatives simply don’t “get” comedy.

The greatest comedian (And I use that term with enormous poetic license!) among their innumerable (LOL) legends of comedy?

The stunningly unfunny Dennis Miller. The producer of the single worst comedy program in the history of the species – The Half Hour News Hour. Brought to you by your demented friends at Fox News…

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The cons should use that money they worship and buy themselves a sense of humor.

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There is absolutely no proof to date that the Murdoch US backed news outlets, ie The Wall Street Journal or Fox news has been complicit in any kind of chicanery that the English based News International has done. Fox has carried the hearings daily and has always stated that they are owned by Murdoch. I wonder how something that happens in a foreign country could gain so much liberal condemnation when no US laws have been broken and no US new outlet has been charged with wrongdoing of any kind. It seems to be a Brit problem. Why all the dustup? Maybe all of you libs are just intent on seeing Mr. Murdoch swinging in the wind, n’est-ce-pas?

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More Rupert Murdoch and Fox News derangement syndrome. The left and their juvenile hate fetishes.

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k71…we know facts are not your strong suit. The FBI investigation of News Corp is not complete but the bribing of foreign officials by a US corporation is a violation of US law and was not accurately reported to US shareholders. So when you claim that News Corp is not complicit, you are wrong.

As for reporting…REPORT: How Facts And Pressure Forced Fox News To Cover News Corp. Hacking Scandal

In the days after News Corp.’s long-simmering phone-hacking scandal reignited, a great disparity emerged in the amount of coverage given to the saga, with Fox News giving significantly less coverage to the story than CNN and MSNBC. But as other news organizations began to highlight Fox News’ relative silence on the scandal, as calls for investigations into the corporation mounted, and as resignations and arrests of top News Corp. officials mushroomed, it became impossible for Fox News to ignore the crumbling of a global media empire

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Actually, I thought the congressman bashing “Thrill-up-my-leg” Chris
Matthews on his own show yesterday was roll-in-the-aisles funny!!!

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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has opened an investigation into whether the phones of victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks and their families were hacked into by media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

Gee. I guess that means they’re ALL under investigation.

And, thomas, what on earth are you talking about.

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Matti, and with very few exceptions they are incapable of laughing at themselves. I guess they see it a s a sign of weakness.

To be sure there are plenty of sourpuss Democrats as well, but it absolutely defines the con visage.

Ronnie, the Master Thespian, was the only one who could fake a smile worth a flying ____.

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Keep,

Sort of like the John Edwards fiasco or numerous other things that the liberal press has chosen to ignore until the evidence became so obvious that to continue to ignore it would be tantamount to a cover up. “Fact and Pressure Forced Fox News to Cover News Corp Hacking Scandal”? What a bunch of crap. They are no more guilty of a cover up than any other news outlet under the same moniker. Once more Keep, for emphasis…… No laws have broken, no indictments have been rendered and before you put Fox news and the Wall Street Journal in the grave, think carefully. I don’t like what he did in the UK either but until some kind of proof of a cover up, evidence of wrongdoing by either Murdoch owned news outlet is found, you are just pissing into the wind. BTW, facts are my long suit. I tend to believe them much more than conjecture.

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The left and their juvenile hate fetishes.

HA!!

This from someone whose only mission in life is his devotion to hate fetishes.

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josef

BROSEPHUS

” Soros being Jewish IS relevant if you’ve been following the right wing’s lying, scurrilous and, yes, anti-Semitic tyrade against him. It’s been disgusting in extremis…and I’m no defender of Soros any more than any of the other scumbags who play the game he does…”

Josef, That was funny, calling out the right wingers, and then you calling him a scumbag.

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Amvet,
the best comedians are the ones whose politics can’t be labeled by either party tag. The ones who “offend” everyone. With the passing of Carlin, I don’t know if we’ll ever see another one…Nowadays, if you offend one group…it’s time for an apology tour.

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It won’t be long now . . . I hope, I hope, I hope!

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kayaker 71

Thanks for expounding on my 4:59 post; Jay keeps trying and trying to find some way to Tar Fox ….. so far 0 for infinity!!!

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Yes, I “will” eventually be old.

And it’s up to “me” to do it gracefully as well as humorously.

what’s your excuse?

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You would think that with all the claims of the left defending Soros, those posts would be like all over the place. Does that claim rightly qualify as a straw man or a red herring or maybe both.

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Alright, meeting with the governor went great!! Got a few nice pictures to display at our new location. He seemed pleased to know that I’m a hard-core conservative. I encouraged him to call his buddies in Washington to fight for more spending cuts.

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“And it’s up to “me” to do it gracefully as well as humorously.”

Come back in 40 years and then we can decide

Age does tend to wear on the nerves…………like it or not.

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Midori,

Be nice now.

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Kayaker – pot meets kettle

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Amvet,
Carlin and Newhart…opposite styles, but probably the two funniest…ever.

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“Levi Aron has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and kidnapping.

The cause of death was intoxication from a muscle relaxant, an anti-psychotic drug and two pain medications, followed by smothering.

Police say video cameras captured their fateful encounter while Leiby’s mother waited anxiously just a few blocks away. Detectives later found the boy’s severed feet, wrapped in plastic, in Aron’s freezer, as well as a cutting board and three bloody carving knives.”

Sorry……I do have a problem spending boatloads of money on this guy…………..

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TaxPayer

July 20th, 2011
6:16 pm

Odd you didn’t say a word about this lil gem of a red herring??????

“I do find it fascinating to see the right celebrate when corporations evade taxes, yet somehow become outraged when a corporation such as GE, linked to Obama, evades taxes. “

Who on the right has celebrated corporations evading taxes? Source?

Oh that’s right Jay is a full member of the left so you are unable to hold him accountable.

Let me guess you didn’t read that post, or is it you don’t choose to comment on every post?

Kinda goes back to that earlier post u didn’t understand. Maybe now your duplicity will be easier for you to see.

I somehow doubt it though!

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TaxPayer

July 20th, 2011
6:18 pm

ask and ye shall recieve….

and who would have known it would be so recent?????

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The Congressional Black Caucus has only one Republican member. Allen West. JC Watts wouldn’t join. He called them a bunch of race pimps. They have not officially sanctioned what West said about Debbie but have said that they will “talk about it” with Congressman West. Hope that West tells them to shove it. They should be called the Congressional Democratic Black Caucus. What a sorry bunch.

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and look at what happened to JC Watts – and it was done by not the black, but the white “race pimps”

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People defending Allen West share his problem – inability to accept the thruth.

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Maybe I’m missing something here, but what’s West’s race got to do with this? A jackass is a jackass, and he is a jackass, melanin content irrelevant in this case…

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Midori,

You don’t seem to be graced with much knowledge about Watts. He voluntarily quit after two terms. Said it wasn’t his bag. First black conservative Congressman elected from a vastly predominant white district. You just can’t stand it, now can you?

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Mark,

The truth about what?

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Maybe I’m missing something here, but what’s West’s race got to do with this? A jackass is a jackass, and he is a jackass, melanin content irrelevant in this case…

My thoughts exactly. I would tend to believe that a retired military officer would have skin thick enough to avoid doing exactly what he did. I think the race part just gives a segment of the crowd here a chance to say race pimp and make it appear relative to the conversation. They’ve probably busted one all across their keyboards because I typed it again….

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“I also have taken note that when that screed has been posted here, not one, not a single one, of the Soros haters countered it as a lie and anti-Semitism of the worst kind”

What the hell are you talking about? I checked in to see if anyone had an answer to my Adobe problem and saw your first thingie that I responded to (thanks for the acknowledgement btw). I read your stuff (like I usually do) but I haven’t read the rest of the posts here. I can’t say I care to. Looks to me like the blog turned (can’t say left of right used a DIRECTIONS or it will be a political statement lol) and went to hell. Just like I knew it would after I read the first few posts.

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Midori

July 20th, 2011
6:46 pm

Thats why I was asking….

Seems you are confusing your opinion and own issues with Race with this one.

The first google article I found was this….http://www.npr.org/about/press/020702.watts.html

in which he says…”Why Watts is leaving: “I was looking into retiring well into the 2002 cycle… I never really got into politics for a career, trying to build an empire. It really has been public service. But I wanted to make sure we got a Republican president, that Speaker Hastert kept his speakership…and we’ve gotten through redistricting in OK. Those were my three missions, and all three have been accomplished.”

Odd!

Now show us what you have that shows it was the whites?

Taxpayer where you at? We need a source here!

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kayaker 71 @6:47 pm: In this case, the truth of what Debbie said.

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Why do we need caucuses based on race or gender?”

Perhaps the usefulness is over now, but the cons will never, ever, ever even acknowledge the historic need for affirmative action or any other single policy to assist in the remediation of wholesale torture, subjugation and murder of the black people.

As evidenced by the fact that their entire political party will not elect people of color. Much less give them a handup?

I understand that after the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 the playing field was level and all of the innumerable racial injustices were instantly evaporated. (eye roll)

But, I guess they don’t feel that way…

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Why do we need caucuses based on race or gender?

Seems we are all Americans 1st.

As long as some people pursue divisive politics, there will always be caucuses based on race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Once society makes the decision to view themselves as Americans first, then I’m sure Congress will follow suit.

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AmVet

July 20th, 2011
6:51 pm

So you agree, there is no need for caucuses based on race.

BTW I am of Irish descent and my people were pretty badly discriminated against, tortured, subjegated, and murdered.

Hell we were even enslaved as well, not to the degree or the number, but enslaved just the same.

read up a lil…http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-irish-slave-trade-forgotten-white-slaves/.

But none of that was ever done to me, and so I don’t expect an apology or make up for harm that wasn’t done to me.

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Midori: I didn’t know he wrote a book, but he told it to my father differently. But then my dad wasn’t a life long buddy, and it was soon after he stepped down. Maybe he wasn’t ready to “share” at that point.

I really liked Watts, both as a politician AND as a Football player.

What he told my DAD was that his boys had reached the age when they needed their father to be around and he chose his kids over politics. Of course my dad is naive like I am and would see that as a valid reason. Even though Watts was NOT my dad’s Congressmen, when my dad had problems, Watts resolved them. I can see the parallel. Although Hank Johnson is MY Congressman, I would contact John Lewis if I ever had a problem. John is my hero and Hank’s a little bit odd…………

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While I’m on a different wavelength from Watts in the political arena, I’ve always found him to be that rarity among politicians, a gentleman. I’ve even followed him a bit since leaving Congress…he’s done some good deeds.

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I remember a member of the GOP (can’t remember which) making snide comments about Watts’ children because they were born out of wedlock.

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thomas, yet nobody said a peep when your forebears called themselves Irish-Americans for decades or the boys form Bologna called themselves Italian-Americans.

But lordy, let the blacks get in on the act (belatedly, because they are at the back of the bus) and suddenly certain folks find utopian American oneness.

This crap is always the same, once a certain segment is finally thrown off the gravy train, they are gonna make damn sure nobody else ever gets on it. All the while pretending to take the high road.

I don’t buy into their transparent, self-serving bs. Never have, never will.
And again, for what it’s worth, I’ve always thought the hyphenated American thing was dumb.

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AmVet.

So why do we still have a Congressional Black Caucus? Or affirmative action. Or a Black History Month. The historic need was there when Vivian Malone and James Hood tried to enter the Univ of AL with George Wallace standing in the door…. but now? I appreciate the history but how long are we going to march over Edmund Pettis bridge in Selma? Most of youthful black America has moved on. The history is important and necessary but it is just that…. history. Most black teenagers could care less as long as their cell phones are working.

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thomas

July 20th, 2011
7:00 pm

Remember books are written to sell! Do you hold President Obama accountable for everything he wrote in his books?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++

Thomas: I do. And I’ve actually READ his books. Well two of them, I read Dreams from My Father and the Kids book he wrote. Have YOU read the books from cover to cover or are you just referring to the paraphrases of certain parts spoken about on right wing radio?

I was gonna leave, but I’ll hang out a couple of minutes to read your answer. You see, when he first came into “view” I listened to talk radio quite a lot. I kept hearing all these ‘quotes” from his book. Finally I decided to go buy the damn thing, read it myself, and see if they were true. Did you?

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AmVet:

You keep close tabs on Nader. Do you have any knowledge of this taking place:

CBC to Lean on Nader

By Erin P. Billings
Roll Call Staff

June 21, 2004

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus will meet privately with independent presidential hopeful Ralph Nader on Tuesday afternoon to tell him in no uncertain terms that they want him out of the race. The CBC asked for the sit-down with Nader in April at the urging of Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.). The 39-member group wants to personally urge Nader — widely blamed for Democrat Al Gore’s narrow defeat in the 2000 presidential race — to abandon his White House bid.

CBC lawmakers, on the verge of formally endorsing Democratic Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) for president, said they fear a repeat of 2000 this fall. Members said by staying in the race, Nader will hurt Kerry’s chances and secure a second term for President Bush. The CBC chairman, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), said the group is committed to electing a Democrat to the White House and feels to that end it is critical to reach out to anyone who might be “blocking those efforts.”

Cummings said the CBC will try to impress upon Nader on Tuesday that while the independent candidate and Kerry have differences, they are minor when compared to the differences between Nader and Bush. “Hopefully, Mr. Nader will look at the big picture — that being he wants the country going in a much different direction than the country is going in now. We will ask that he not be an aider and abettor to anything that might be harmful to the Kerry campaign.”

One CBC member said the meeting with Nader will likely be a “very direct and blunt conversation.” Others said they expected the session to be “hard hitting” and that the group will not approach Nader with kid gloves.

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thomas,

regarding Jay’s comment earlier about the right’s behavior wrt corporate taxation, I happen to believe him so I have no reason to ask for documentation. If you do not believe him, then I suggest you ask him.

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Brosephus,

I remember the Stark incident as well, but the incident I also recall is being called out like that by his very own party.

I may try to find it and post it if I have time.

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Taxpayer where you at? We need a source here!

thomas,

are you asking me to provide you with a source to support your claim or what? I’m trying to follow you here but you need to be more specific.

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I just don’t know about a guy than can “hate”.

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Taxpayer, where u at? We need help getting some sources and I know what a stickler you are for accuracy, and not opinion.

I’m here, thomas. You need my help searching the Internet? What would you like me to search for. By the way, I don’t recall making any comments about being a “stickler” for opinion or whatever. Would you be so kind as to explain what you mean by that.

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On topic…that is a funny photoshop.

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Crap. I forgot the front slashes at the end………. Dang it, I learned BC code not this stuff, whatever it is………

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Brosephus,

If blacks were not committing so much crime, they wouldn’t have to worry about how much time they spent in prison. The GOP has nothing to do with prison sentences of convicted black criminals anymore than the Democrats do.
Unemployment figures?…. Without an education, it is hard to find a job. That’s not the GOP’s fault, my friend. Has more to do with bad choices. One in three potential HS graduates nationwide drop out, regardless of ethnic group. Many are black, where the rate is much higher.
“We will continue to march over Selma bridge until we are one America” I am not sure how to interpret that but we have the chance to be “one America” most of the time without calling attention to the fact that we are not “one America” but indeed, two Americas, one black and one white.
What is is going to take, Brocephus, for us to get on the same page? It is the biggest single problem that this nation faces, hidden just below the surface, where hate, victim hood and resentment linger. Bozo had a great chance to begin to heal this racial divide but he chose to try to make this a socialist country instead. Can you imagine what he could have accomplished attempting to bring us together? We need someone or something to bridge this gap. We’ve needed that for a very long time.

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LOL @@ : That was already cleared up. Don’t you just love it when you post something and then as you scroll down you see you were a day late and a dollar short to the party? I do it all the time so I will say, thanks for the verification. I hadn’t heard that before Midori brought it up.

What’s with these idiots we (we being inclusive of all Americans) elect? We really elect some boobs to represent us……………..

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Well, back off, folks. Bookman tried to do a “funny” that wasn’t funny and you got all riled up . In the first place, what was the “point” of the cartoon besides being drawn like a child in kindergarten? Murdock sweating before parliament? Sho’ ’nuff? I bet Murdock doesn’t do much sweating. If he does, I don’t care except that Bookman wants to wipe his brow everyday.

Now that race, Jews, Soros, TV commentators, and other subjects have been basted and lambasted, let us move on . I commend Thomas and @@ for clear thinking. So nice to read their voices among the garffitti, the insults (even to grandparents) and the namecalling

So do something worthwhile (sensible) for a change. The BRAVES will be on shortly. Now there’s a team that plays fair and never gives up. Some of you should try that. GO BRAVES!!

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Pete Stark is a classic horses ass and a true reflection of how far his party has fallen.

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@ Brocephus: Look at kayaker @ 7:39. His dialup finally let him post.

I was spot on wasn’t I? I don’t know if you read it, but I posted to one asshat the otherday that not only could I predict what he was going to say, but that I could even write it the same way HE would.

He didn’t take me up on it………

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Fred:

I rarely read ALL the comments. I see now that SoCo set things straight.

Stark…a Democrat…a racist…a sexist…an atheist…AND an anti-semite. Not to mention a NUT from California.

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@@: Stark…a Democrat…a racist…a sexist…an atheist…AND an anti-semite. Not to mention a NUT from California.

I think you covered the high points.

I have a “sensitive” question to ask you.

It took me a LONG time to realize this (much too long lol) but you picked your “screen name” deliberately because it’s the internet “symbol’ for boobs, or breasts, didn’t you? Until just recently I thought it was “at at” and it was just a “coincidence” that you were unaware of.
That’s funny. I applaud you.

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Fred:

It took me a LONG time to realize this (much too long lol) but you picked your “screen name” deliberately because it’s the internet “symbol’ for boobs, or breasts, didn’t you?

No, they’re @@ eyes. It was only later that someone told me they were the internet “symbol” for boobs. Still eyes to me.

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Damn Fred… Based on k71’s post, I think you nailed it. A perfect 10!!!

If blacks were not committing so much crime, they wouldn’t have to worry about how much time they spent in prison.

And we know sentencing is just hunky dory peachy keen straight up impartial.

Without an education, it is hard to find a job. That’s not the GOP’s fault, my friend. Has more to do with bad choices. One in three potential HS graduates nationwide drop out, regardless of ethnic group.

Care to expound why college grad Blacks are the last hired and first fired? or did they make the bad choice to further their education? Interesting percentage there with the 1 in 3…

The national dropout rate is notoriously hard to pin down, and the latest effort to do so – showing alarmingly low graduation rates in some parts of America – is likely to intensify the statistics wars.

In fact, education experts say, none of the existing dropout-rate data gives a full picture. Governors are making changes that will yield better counts within a few years, they add.

Very dated material from 2006…

If you wanna know what it’s gonna take, it’s gonna take effort from EVERYBODY to quit trying to boil things down to a Black/White issue. Sad thing is, for many older people, I think it’s so ingrained into the everyday actions that we will have to have a few more generations die off before things really change and we truly become one as a nation.

Kids that are born now do not automatically have that fear of other races or people who don’t look like them. They learn those behaviors from older people like us. People see me in regular street clothes and think nothing but the worst possible thing. When they see me in uniform, it’s a 180 degree different reaction. Obama never had a snowball’s chance in hell at bridging the racial divide in this country. In another 60 years or so, things would probably be different, but you still have people alive who lived Jim Crow.

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I didn’t know J.C. stood for Julius Ceasar. Julius Ceasar Watts.

Learn something new everyday.

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@@

July 20th, 2011
7:58 pm

No, they’re @@ eyes. It was only later that someone told me they were the internet “symbol” for boobs. Still eyes to me.
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I haven’t made up my mind if I like you or not (I know you don’t care anymore than I care if you like me), but I know you are a liar so I’m gonna buy that. It actually fits with my first impression of you that you DIDN’T know. But as I read you more I saw you have a mischievous side to you so I thought maybe you were showing it in your handle (no pun intended).

Thank you for the clarification. Like answering a question late, I’ve also been guilty of not knowing “internet’ or “texting” symbols. We older folks learn as we go and they keep changing the rules. It’s just not fair.

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@@, I know you AREN’T a liar. Holy cow, talk about a HUGE typo. I am SO SORRY for that one

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Dang, I didn’t get it in at time and it’s at the worst possible place, a page change.

Hopefully you will read through the typo, but if you don’t, I fully accept the scathing chastisement and understand you wouldn’t have said it had I NOT made the typo.

Again, I am so sorry.

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LOL, Keep

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SoCo:

This is somewhat off/on topic. I asked my husband if his Dad had ever worn jeans, tennis shoes or a knit shirt. The answer was NO! Trousers, button-up shirts and leather shoes ALWAYS. He said none of his Dad’s generation ever dressed in anything but.

How old are you? Did your Dad or Grandfather wear jeans?

I’m looking for a common thread.

(IW&SH)

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Bropheus… Prof. Baldus from U of Iowa did a great study. His discrimination study of more than 2,000 murder cases in Georgia in the 1970’s led to a challenge that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.This study mirrors research that has shown killers of white people are more likely than those who kill black people to be sentenced to death.Baldus stated one of the most telling aspects of the research was that in the district studied no white defendants or killers of black people received death sentences.“The disparities are not normally as stark as this,” said Baldus.

One of the GA cases studied involved a black accused of a white person before an all white jury where the public defender stood up and talked to the jury about his N…. client.

And still we hear about the poor oppressed white male…

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Fred:

Don’t worry about the typo. I’ve been called worse.

I haven’t made up my mind if I like you or not

Take your time. No need to let me know. It makes no difference one way or t’other

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SoCo is 38…. a lot of wisdom there even if he’s an uppity cell phone talker (like Midori)

Happy belated b-day.

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President Obama would consider a short-term measure aimed at raising the nation’s debt ceiling and avoiding a default by Aug. 2 if Congress agrees to a larger, long-term deficit-reduction and debt-ceiling deal and needs “a few days” to finalize the legislation, his spokesman said Wednesday.

With time running out for reaching such a deal, Obama called House and Senate Democratic leaders to a White House meeting Wednesday as he sought to shore up his party’s support for a compromise deficit-reduction plan that could help break a political impasse over the debt limit and avert a U.S. default.

Alrighty din! Whatevah…

I’m out.

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@@: But I called you nothing. I merely typed too fast and left off ‘nt after are.

As too the rest. Iknow that’s what you SAY on the blog, but you are human, (you are aren’t you). All humans prefer to be liked rather than disliked. But you are correct, in the end, it doesn’t really matter one way or the other.

I WILL say that I respect you and your opinion. I’d go to war with you. You are a stand up guy………… (pun intended on the guy thing)

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SoCo:

My husband’s Dad wore overalls to work in the textile mills. He began dressing “UP” when he bought his pool hall….on the wrong side of town.

(ISH)

And a belated Happy Birthday to you!

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Fred:

Like I said, don’t worry so much.

There are people who like me and people who don’t. They’re free to do whatever they want. Just so you know…the people who REALLY like me describe me as weird in a good way.

G’nite

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Okay the link got chopped but Obama’s now saying that he’ll accept a short term deal while a longer term deal is being worked out. No kidding!

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Only 33% say now that they have confidence in the federal government. Worst in history.

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midori
@ 8:03

THAT was funny!

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Hello Josef, goodbye Josef. I’m out for the evening………….

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One aspect of the Fed’s contingency planning is purely operational: the Fed is developing procedures about how the Treasury will let it know which checks will get cleared and which won’t, Plosser said.

“We are developing processes and procedures by which the Treasury communicates to us what we are going to do,” Plosser said, adding that the task was manageable. “How the Fed is going to go about clearing government checks. Which ones are going to be good? Which ones are not going to be good?”

What’s that saying. Oh Yes. Tick Tock, or something like that.

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or even if he likened ME.

multitasking is teh suxxor…

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Well, thanks, Fred, for ruining a good fussing match. When I read “I know you are a liar” I kind of stuck around to see how much heck was going to be raised about that. I figured @@ was just nasty enough to make you qualified to sing soprano in the Vienna Boys Choir. Now I’ve stuck around this blog for nothing. I guess I’ll just have to go to bed disgusted, like the fellow that waited for a fight to break out and then nothing happened.

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http://www.bartcop.com/cantor-sitter.jpg

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Getalife : when that toon came out I sent it to everybody

The kicker is throwing the bottle!! PRICELESS!!

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Josephus? That must be one bad offspring

Midori…just you try! I am safe…MARTA does not come to my area of town…..and we know criminals only use MARTA for transportation, never the freeways or roads.

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Nothing that jackass ever posts even attempts to present the Redneck in any form other than negative.

He captures any one of my male relatives to a “T”.

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Here’s my theory……josef is Redneck. The complaints are to throw us off the trail. I mean have you seen the two of them in the same room?

Kam….a dog licking itself captures some of my relatives….unfortunately.

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K’chak

Yeah. Unh-hunh. Real stereotype that relative. Not a redeeming quality one, eh? Bless his heart.

LOOK
This is how it’s done…

http://art-bin.com/art/or_weltypostoff.html

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Keep,

well, time for me to rent a low rider

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MPercy

That money flies out to both parties. The one in power just gets a lil more. Figures that you’ll never sew that should worry you is that soft money being passed around that doesn’t require a paper trail.

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Things keep getting worse for Obummer. He’s now down to a negative 2.5 approval with only 33% confident in the ability of our federal government. Worst confidence factor in our nations history.

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K’chak

Nor you me, sport…do your Dixie roots go back to the 1630s, can you document them? I mean if you want to go there, then let’s do it Southern style…

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Brosephus @9:13 pm

The meme appears to be that corporations “own” the Republican Party, which is no more true than saying corporations “own” the Democratic Party. I agree that corporate money is likely to flow to both sides more or less evenly, favoring the current power structure. But that money seems to be swamped by the incredible one-sidedness of union “donations” favoring the Democratic party.

Re: soft money (assuming sew=see) Since we cannot, apparently, track soft money, then saying it flows one way or the other is unprovable is it not? So why argue about it? You say you can’t know how much is there or where it’s going, but some want to pretend they do and blame the other side for it?

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back for a wee bit.

J-Nix, alls I can say is that I can “get”, understand, verstehen and all that, violent reactions against humorists who don’t strike me as funny. (see also, oh, “Jim Carrey, films, sfd’s need to destroy all negatives of”.)

I don’t want to read too much into why you don’t find RC funny; fact is, I do.

And for what it’s worth, I probably have more country/rural cred than most of the folks posting here. I’m talking early (elementary-middle school) upbringing, but it was pretty dang rural. And I’m just as likely to defend those who’d call such folks “rubes” as I am to defend the generic Dirty F-cking Hippie on these here internets.

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well, I’m not here to tell anybody how to relate to Redneck any more than I am to tell anybody how to relate to Stepin’ Fetchit….

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Nor you me, sport…

Certainly.

But then again, I’m not the one saying that RC (R–apoi) isn’t portraying at least some southerners accurately.

Seems to me that you are the one that wants us rednecks to be “stereotypically” the same.

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K’chak

Sometimes you’re as dense as the Black Forest of Germany…it’s precisely that that sends me into a snit…stereotyping. His is one-dimensional…like I said, read the Eudora Welty and see how it’s done without being mean, hateful and spiteful…

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but that attack on him from the anti-Semites is precisely what I called it.

Nothing that jackass ever posts even attempts to present the Redneck in any form other than negative.

josef–Did it ever occur to you that the unwanted “tribal” attacks that you loathe are a natural byproduct of the same “tribalism” which you promote?? Seems to me that you can’t have one without the other.

When I have some time, I will answer your SE essay in detail, but let me say this for now: When I came to the South, I met two basic types of “Southerners”–the tribalists and the non-tribalists. The non-tribalists, i.e. people who professed no particular identity with being “Southern”, all treated me well and welcomed me to the area. The tribalists?? To a person, they were all hateful, small-minded people who tried to justify their rudeness with meaningless historical arguments about events which occurred before any of us were born.

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Since we cannot, apparently, track soft money, then saying it flows one way or the other is unprovable is it not? So why argue about it? You say you can’t know how much is there or where it’s going, but some want to pretend they do and blame the other side for it?

There’s a misconception on your part that we cannot track it. It can and should be tracked, however, our esteemed leaders refuse to legislate that into being. Do you think all these Super PAC’s are raising money by hitting grandma and grandpa up for $10 each? That’s the money I’m talking about. It flows to both parties, further enabled by the SCOTUS due to Citizen’s United.

Did you see the arrest on Tuesday near DC? A naturalized American of Pakistani descent was arrested for being a Pakistani Intelligence Agent. He estimated to have funneled up to $100k a year in political contributions.

In total, the FBI estimates that the group received up to $700,000 per year from Pakistani government sources, according to the complaint. The nonprofit group reported much smaller budgets in its annual reports to the Internal Revenue Service.

Prosecutors also allege that the group served as a conduit for political contributions, both secret and public, that may have reached $100,000 per year. The biggest single recipient of disclosed contributions was Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), a longtime pro-Pakistani advocate on Kashmir, who expressed shock Tuesday at Fai’s arrest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/two-charged-in-pakistani-spy-services-alleged-funneling-of-money-via-us-group/2011/07/19/gIQAbVTmOI_story.html

We’ve gotten to the point where the American public no longer matter when it comes to elections that we decide. Damn near all our politicians are bought and paid for by some company, person, and I guess foreign country or intelligence agency. That should ruffle the feathers of ALL Americans regardless of what their political leanings are.

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Headline: “Federal authorities are investigating “incidents involving harassment and bullying” in Minnesota’s largest school district. The probe comes after a string of seven student suicides in less than two years.”

“FKI” …………… freeze ! (Federal Kindergarten Investigator)

Is their anything the federal government won’t stick its nose into ?

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The tribalists?? To a person, they were all hateful, small-minded people who tried to justify their rudeness with meaningless historical arguments about events which occurred before any of us were born.

Sorry for that Bruno. Years of complacency and training not to “sass you elders,” has resulted in that kind of rudeness. We shoulda told ‘em to STFU and quit fighting that silly war decades ago. My bad.

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BRUNO

Do that. What you are saying, if I may be so bold as to interpret it the way it struck me, is that there are two types of Southerners…those who “assimilate” and those who do not…quite frankly, and I mean no disrespect by this, I see no reason I should…

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Oy! Look, you illiterates, the South is NOT defined by that one four-year period in the middle of the 19th Century.

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Sorry for that Bruno.

Not your fault, Kam. If we ever have that blog get-together that Jay mentioned, you would be one of the people I would be happy to sit with, whatever political differences we may have.

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1811/0311
July 20th, 2011
9:32 pm
Headline: “Johns Creek Students Excel on CRCT’s”
I’m betting they didn’t cheat and the teachers didn’t commit fraud.
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Now I wonder why Scout would say or think that considering no other information posted….[using my church lady voice] Why I bet its hatred because of SATAN….

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Brosephus: “We’ve gotten to the point where the American public no longer matter when it comes to elections that we decide. Damn near all our politicians are bought and paid for by some company, person, and I guess foreign country or intelligence agency. That should ruffle the feathers of ALL Americans regardless of what their political leanings are.”

One thing though, corporations don’t vote. All politician are still, ostensibly, elected by the people. It’s more accurate to say, then, that unions and corporations (and rich individuals) use their money to help convince people to elect politicians who are beholden to the unions and corporations (and rich individuals). Or, they latch onto one who has already been elected and buy them up later?

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MPercy

Ok, I misread that statement. In all honesty though, I don’t think we should be contributing anything to political campaigns. If it were up to me to design campaign reform, elections would take 6 months tops, including runoffs. There would be no outside money involved at all with all campaigns being 100% public funded with a set limit per office.

If a candidate can not run a campaign with a set budget and manage his funds well, I don’t want him in office messing with my tax dollars. If he/she doesn’t receive money from any outside source, there’s no urge to repay the donation with some type of shenanigans. Also, keeping the election period to a set beginning and end, would keep us from this whole silly crap of “is he running or not?” and incumbents could actually do their damned jobs instead of worrying about re-election stuff.

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those who “assimilate” and those who do not…quite frankly, and I mean no disrespect by this, I see no reason I should…

Your call, of course, but maybe you should stop wasting so much time complaining when “outsiders” throw rocks at your group.

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BRUNO

Oh? So I should just go ahead and get hit by the rocks and say nothing? Not in this lifetime.

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So durbin now says gang of six plan won’t work because it’s not ready in time for deadline. Just ridiculous.

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Oh? So I should just go ahead and get hit by the rocks and say nothing? Not in this lifetime.

Your time management is your choice, josef, just pointing out that the baby and the bathwater are inseparable. Complain away, friend.

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Democrats, not to be trusted. Even when they cosponsor a plan ala durbin, or sponsor a commission ala obama, they throw the results under the bus. Dems are to blame for this fiasco more than R’s, though they suck too.

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Jm 10:13: “Democrats, not to be trusted. Even when they cosponsor a plan ala durbin, or sponsor a commission ala obama, they throw the results under the bus. Dems are to blame for this fiasco more than R’s, though they suck too”

Correct!

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I think if I did earn more, it would probably end up being more of a burden than something I’d enjoy.

Yeah cause the government takes so much it’s not worth it. I know from experience. In particular from phaseouts when your tax rate goes to 100%.

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We’re number one! No. Actually, we’re only number nine. But that’s good. Right.

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Southerners ACCEPT others and watch their foibles with a smile while realizing that said “invaders” cannot do any better.

In your world, Dusty, there are Southerners and Invaders.

In my world, there are cool people and A-holes.

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Bruno

Don’t forget the music…

Remember this one here??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l01nelceGgg

I heard it on XM late Sat night coming back from Alabama. I had not heard that one since I was in elementary school.

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EntNow I wonder why Scout would say or think that considering no other information posted….[using my church lady voice] Why I bet its hatred because of SATAN….
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or, it could be explained by a complete comprehension of demographics. COMPLETE.

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heard it on XM late Sat night coming back from Alabama. I had not heard that one since I was in elementary school.

The only disadvantage about living 1 mile from my work is that I don’t get my daily dose of Soul Street and The Groove.

I always think of you when I hear this one, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KKD2TCzN04

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You seem to find it necessary to classify one and all.

Pretty funny talk coming from someone who just posted 5 paragraphs about Southerners and damn Yankees. Why does place of birth mean so much to you?? What’s so important about where your dead relatives are buried??

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At any rate, Dusty, Gov Deal seemed to like me just fine today. We yukked it up for a while and he never once called me a Damn Yankee. He beamed when I identified myself as a hard-core conservative.

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‘He is very good at spotting the weak, cutting him out of the herd and feasting on him. But capitalism REQUIRES, EVEN CELEBRATES, PREDATORS, does it not?’
This is a fundamental fallacy that the far left, yes you jay, perpetuate that is completely at odds with what free-market capitalists aspire to. You try to paint the whole system dysfuntional based on a what a few unscrupulous people have done……the fact is that this system demands a certain standard of person to work most efficiently and the problem is not with the system, it’s with the standards of the people in the system….the capitalist system doesn’t create these things that you suggest it does, the people who are predators create the predators in the free market system……AND if you police the system correctly, you limit the predators…….a free-market capitalist believes that the gov’t has REPEATEDLY failed to police a system and ACTUALLY punish the predators…….and finally a conservative free-market capitalist agrees that a balanced budget amendment will exponentially enhance the free market that has taken our country to heights never seen before it……. please tell all ,jay, what your vision of capitalism is? Be careful……

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I was born in Georgia I love it.

Didn’t your momma know better than to be traveling so far from home up north that close to time to be giving birth. Were y’all just passing through on your way to your winter home in Florida.

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Don’t forget the music…

That and our mutual attraction to hot Nubian women…….

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Waaaay before your time, Bro Bro, but still gets me moving:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsvyrAEXT-E

Let your hair down, Dusty and bust a move!!

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Jay,
Are you waiting for your ‘answer’ strings to be pulled by the puppetmaster? burn….

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Before my time??? I remember when Kool and the Gang were straight funk without the lyrics. They brought JT in to add vocals.

Now if you wanna stink up the place with some funk…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXhnQY5Kva0&feature=related

Add this to your mixing bowl and let is sit for a while..

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What cha doing messing around with the governor? Cutting the ribbons on the new clinic or something?

As part of a PR tour, the Gov dropped by our new location today. Earlier in the day he went to the Infantry Museum and, I’m assuming, Fort Benning to check on the expansion. Nice photo op for us. He was very gracious, of course.

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Well, I bet someone has already posted this today and I also bet you lib., prog., “lock-nuts” had some fine excuses:

March 2006

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure…. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America ’s debt limit.” – Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

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Brosephus–Hitting me with some George Duke, eh?? I’m jsut glad you didn’t play “Dukey Stick”. That might have embarrassed Dusty.

Back at ya with my favorite George Duke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-O4hViUF8M

And Dusty thinks I have no heart………

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Taxpayer,

My mother headed for Augusta, Georgia and got me started right. You just can’t beat it !! Home in Florida? That’s vacation land (just ask MIck). I like to tickle my toes in the sand there . Then head home.

Where are you from, Taxpayer? Somewhere in the “cold frozen North”?

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Bruno…
Won’t be able to link it from here…will have to catch it in the a.m.

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The far left is shaken about the balanced budget amendment……..which would be a nightmare for you and many more jay…….but coincidentally it is THE RIGHT prescription for the fiscal problem we face………I would like to see the elected politicians come together one time and ACTUALLY FIX THE PROBLEM AT HAND…..a balanced budget amendment would fix the problem period…….instead of creating legislation that never fixes the issue it portends to,and then creates more problems which need fixing…..it’s time for them to do this for the good of our country and i ask you to join me in support jay…….what do you say?

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Dusty

It’s all in how thick you slice them and then don’t overcook them. If they’re thin sliced, they’re gonna end up soft anyway. If you slice it thick, then they don’t go all mushy nearly as fast.

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Time to call it a night…

Bruno

If you pop back through, here’s a two-fer for ya..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIdug40ZM-M

and to end my day in the same manner in which I like to start it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lon60iv3G8

Catch y’all later..

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My favorite Archie Bell and the Drells:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Z4veQGj0E

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OK Bruno, now you have me riled up

Well please don’t send me to one of your Gladiator schools for punishment, md. I’m too old to fight.

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“In the era of massive belt-tightening budget cuts, the story of two never-completed, unused Navy ships now being sent to the scrap heap after costing U.S. taxpayers $300 million is a case study in Pentagon waste.”

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/two-never-used-navy-ghost-ships-sent-scrap-164452572.html

And some folks think we need to raise revenues to give them some more……………..wonder how much we could save just by being diligent?

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And some folks think we need to raise revenues to give them some more……………..wonder how much we could save just by being diligent?

md–You must have missed all of Jay’s charts recently which show that we’re just not spending enough. Per the diligence you mentioned, I just don’t see it happening due to the natural indifference that is created by spending money that isn’t personally earned.

Gotta hit the sack, catch you later.

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Yankees are ONLY from one of the six New England states and nowhere else. The rest of you may consider yourselves “Northerners”, or “Non-Southerners” but not Yankees.

Oh, and New York Yankees are from the Seven Rings of Hell.

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of course, the only thing funnier than the pic is the parade of knee-jerks “oh, YEAH … well … GEORGE SOROS”

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Good morning all. I watched the final landing of the space shuttle and it was a sad moment. I grew up with NASA and had expected we would have colonized at least the moon by now, but then I thought what with the politically generated debt crisis, lack of jobs, lack of empathy for our less fortunate folks, and what seems to be the main attitude of “as long as I got mine, screw the rest”, our country has become just like the name on my shirt. Faded Glory. We are no longer a great country and that’s very sad.

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“berating those he hasn’t the intellectual capacity to confront on any level but his own”

well, if there is anyone who would be able to relate to that, BW, it’s you.

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Normal – now that’s what I call a lo-tech flight simulator

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stands

and then you google aaron klein the author….

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Morning all – stands @ 7:23 — vellllyyyyy interesting……………

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Granny googled Mr. Klein and it seems that he is actually nothing more than a misunderstood, psychotic meglamaniac. I’m terribly shocked Granny that you of all people, have such disdain for a man who wrote such classics as “The Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists”. You are usually much more tolerant of pyschosis Granny and, dare I say it, I feel that you are prejudiced against mentally challenged people!

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This is just another tiresome example…

I know how that reads to me. I mean, “This” followed by “is”…, you know what I mean.

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Morning UnK! Never watched Laugh-In. Got that saying from my uncle, I always thought he was making fun of my aunt, (who’s Vietnameese), because her english is sometimes, hard to understand. Especially when she’s angry at him.

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Sad but true-

“You are on the verge of almost annoying me.”

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Wal-Mart the Latest Victim of Global Labor Arbitrage

[Corporations] don’t see they have extracted the maximum amount of benefit out of globalization, and that they are now operating at the peak of the curve, after which revenue and margin growth are going to start reversing, and for some companies wind up negative. Most of them will pity poor Wal-Mart, whose customers are “broke”, never imagining that the same thing is going to happen to them.

This is a great short article — well worth the couple of minutes it will take you to read it.

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DDR – youtube is a wonderful thing

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

(and a cookie goes to the first person who can name the actor w/ Arte Johnson)

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Good morning people.

Ready to watch a train wreck?

Get ready. Looks like there’s about as much chance it’s coming as not..

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thomas – meh – we’re killing time until we get fresh sheets …

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UnK – I was going to say Ronald Reagan, but then I saw where someone else posted Peter Sellers. I should’ve known that — Sellers is much more attractive than whatzizface.

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DDR gets the cookie!

Peter Sellers was brilliant …

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Yes, the pic is funny. Enthusiasm for talking about it died on the first page. I await fresh sheets.

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Let me break out those prophetic words of Krugman from November as I think they remain very current:

Barring a huge upset, Republicans will take control of at least one house of Congress next week. How worried should we be by that prospect?

Not very, say some pundits. After all, the last time Republicans controlled Congress while a Democrat lived in the White House was the period from the beginning of 1995 to the end of 2000. And people remember that era as a good time, a time of rapid job creation and responsible budgets. Can we hope for a similar experience now?

No, we can’t. This is going to be terrible. In fact, future historians will probably look back at the 2010 election as a catastrophe for America, one that condemned the nation to years of political chaos and economic weakness.

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Indeed he was right, the 2010 elections can already clearly be seen as marking a decisive and disastrous turn in the political history of the United States, the consolidation of paralysis.

I like Jay’s Age of Illusion yesterday, and another option is that we call the age we’ve now entered The Terrible Age.

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I have never seen an episode of the Simpsons. I feel un-American.

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Below is a prime example of the insanity that prevails in this administration and one of many reasons why this nation cannot survive six more years of these fools. No thinking person can read this and excuse the stupidity of the very people charged with our safety.

http://www.infowars.com/dhs-video-characterizes-white-americans-as-most-likely-terrorists/

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Tom Morrow is always right on target!

I’d like to think he has his fans in the Administration. I like even more to think that Obama reads it, and finds the Middle-Man ‘toons appropriately irritating.

In a just world, T.T. would be a multi-millionaire, invited on all the Sunday morning bobblehead shows, a household name.

He’s as good as Luckovich and maybe even a little bit funnier!

The two men have very different missions. Daily newspaper vs. alternative-weekly, it’s like the difference between a beat reporter and a feature writer.

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Cartoons discussing cartoons!!??!!

I’m out for now.

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Granny Godzilla

July 21st, 2011
8:38 am
Read before you speak so you can discuss the actual article with knowledge.

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I find it disturbing that all you liberals collectively attack the face of the conservative media with your vicious jihhad against Murdoch like a bunch of Islamists. However, you peopple are so predictable in your lock-stepped campaign of demeaning illustration and denouncements. It does speak volumes about your hateful character.

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Yeah Donovan, what a valid comparison — Islamist jihadists and people criticizing a guy for hacking the cell phone of murdered teenage girls.

Personally, I find those comparisons disturbing.

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Mighty Righty

My question is above and beyond the article….

Why do you have a problem with keeping an eye out for home grown terrorists?

Can you answer the actual question without dodging it?

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“I can’t WAIT to go to Harrod’s and shop until I pass out from lack of money or exhausation, whichever comes first!”

now, THAT should be an Olympic event!

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Granny Godzilla

July 21st, 2011
8:51 am

I feel sorry for you. Please for your own good, seek help.

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now, THAT should be an Olympic event!

I would win the gold hands down UnK……….I’d even beat those “muscular” Eastern Europe “girls”.

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Mighty Righty: I have read the article, and links, and I do not find a particular problem with the DHS’s classifications. I do think it is important to make sure threats are identified. Please try to remember the DHS is a Bush initiative. If they are focused on things you think they should not be focused on, tough. They aren’t created for your amusement or demagoguery. They are there to identify threats and help protect the general US public from those threats.

I think it speaks to how successful we are at combating terrorism that our most terrible threats are from nutjobs in our own country. So cheer up, dude.

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Adam

July 21st, 2011
9:13 am
Every “home grown” nut job for the last ten years have been muslims most of whom were naturalized citizens. So don’t hand me that “home grown” BS. I don’t know what George Bush has to do with the HSA unless Obama appointed him to relace Janet Napolitano.

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BS? Jared Lee Loughner? There’s some BS for you punkin.

Again Mighty Righty

I question your loyalties.

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For your reading enjoyment:

Despite encouraging viewers not to pay attention to a person’s race in determining whether or not they may be a terrorist, almost all of the scenarios in the clip proceed to portray white people as the most likely terrorists. Bizarrely, nearly every single one of the “patriotic” Americans who reports on their fellow citizen is either black, Asian or Arab. Imagine if the video had portrayed every terrorist as an Arab and every patriotic snoop as white, there’d be an outcry and rightly so, but this strange reversal must have been deliberate on the part of the DHS, but why? Is this merely political correctness taken to the extreme or is something deeper at work?

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the DHS’ own internal documents list predominantly white conservative groups as the most likely terrorists, such as Ron Paul supporters, gun owners, gold bullion enthusiasts, and a myriad of other comparatively banal political interests that are largely the domain of white middle class Americans.

This has little to do with the color of a person’s skin, and everything to do with the fact that white, middle class Americans are the biggest roadblock when it comes to Big Sis expanding its control over every facet of American society.

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This has little to do with the color of a person’s skin, and everything to do with the fact that white, middle class scared, xenophobic and delusional Americans are the biggest roadblock when it comes to Big Sis expanding its control over helping every facet of American society.

Fixed it!!!

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Mighty Righty posts directly from Info Wars (just helping him out with attribution)

Author and Birther Paul Joseph Watson who claims Bill Gates wants a vaccine to sterilize people to reduce the planets population.

Lovely man.

I question his loyalties as well.

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Mighty: “You obviously don’t keep up with the news. Jared Loughner is/was a well known LIBERAL nut job.”

C’mon, Mighty, this is silly. Do you really think that?

Surely you realize that it’s not really possible to speak of a political orientation in the normal sense in the case of a paranoid schizophrenic who’s completely gone into a psychotic episode.

If we wanted to try to translate his bizarre fantasies into some kind of political language that’s familiar to us, we’d probably end up with some type of radical libertarianism (concern about devaluing currency, law, etc.). But this is a vain attempt and very misleading. So you really should desist from repeating nonsense about Jared Loughner.

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“I don’t have anything new to say about Rupert Murdoch,…”

You already said too much. Rumor has it he’s buying up all the Atlanta papers and you’re in line to be a columnist at the Thrifty Nickel.

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Jay

July 20th, 2011
4:33 pm

It is misleading and simplistic to say that capitalism requires or celebrates predators.

One thing capitalism does require is a willingness to let businesses fail.

Capitalism works best when there are enough competent people assertively, proactively, and energetically pursuing their own interests. Ideally, these should be traders who seek to exchange value for value, not predators or power seekers. Under mixed-economy statism such as we have now, predators and power seekers can use government to help them get what they want, and this can be very destructive. Under true laissez-faire capitalism, even predators and power seekers have to act like traders if they are to profit or to gain or hold positions of strength, and this limits their destructive potential.

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