‘The core of the problem lies with the Republican Party’

Perhaps corporate media will stop giving the gop a free pass and call out the gop leaders.

Man up corporate media.

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Democrats are expunging their moderate members

Democrats are trending über liberal progressive

They are still 1/2 the problem

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gop blood in the water.

Attack, attack, attack.

Lets end this radical party.

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I read that article earlier this am. I was not gonna comment on it as I know there will be plenty of but… but… but… going on.

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Oops. Uh oh. Getalife wrong. Jay lying

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/any-place-for-moderates-in-the-democratic-party/2012/04/26/gIQABvfpjT_blog.html

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Actually, progressives have been purging corrupt dems.

Perhaps the cons should follow their lead.

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Sure Jm, one very biased author doing exactly what the AEI article says…’They’re just as bad…’

Got you…hook, line, sinker.

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“Indeed this process has been going on for some time. With the exception of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who began as a Democrat but is now an independent, there is no hawkish senator in the mold of Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.). The moderate senator with the highest profile in recent years, Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), left the Senate in 2010 complaining about polarization and gridlock.”

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jm

If you’re talking about Jennifer Rubin’s piece on a Right-leaning blog, I read that one too. I’d wager that the one Jay referenced is a bit less partisaned in opinion than the one you linked to. Blue Dogs peaked in 2010. When did the moderate Republicans peak… 1980? 1990?

I would say that you could do better than that, but I’m not THAT optimistic…

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Bro

You’re reading a left wing blog trying to claim a right wing blog has no cred and defending the left wing blogger? Ah the irony

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Jennifer rubin the right wing person cites the NY times. Are you going to claim the ny times is right wing too bro?

If so this should get interesting

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jm,

You have no credibility but it is great to finally see some from your think tanks.

Try holding your corrupt party accountable like the pros.

Do it for your country.

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Getalife

I prefer Cato over aei

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Getalife, Jay has no cred

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O’bozo in Rolling Stone:

“Frankly, I know there are good, decent Republican on Capitol Hill who, in a different environment, would welcome the capacity to work with me”

Name some names, O’bozo.

Those RINOs need to be challenged in the Primaries.

Compromising with those bent on “fundamentally transforming” America into a euro-socialist basket case connot be tolerated.

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Both parties are becoming more extreme

Blame computers if you want to blame anything

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I mean, all one has to look at the flip flop gymnastics that Romney has done this year to see how far right the Repubs have gone.

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Leftism – substituting the thoughts of others for your own, and equating “problem” as “noticing the screwy policies of the opposition.” I think we can agree that the only problem with the failure of the “stimulus” and the popular rejection of “ObamaCare” and the loss of jobs arising from Dodd-Frank is the fact that Republicans uniformly rejected the lunacy.

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Jay 1:25

So jay assigns truth to a belief based on one blogger on his blog

Good. Then democrats are communists by that logic

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Bingo, Jay.

Perhaps the first in line might be anyone who worked with Teddy Kennedy on anything.

Hatch and Lugar come to mind.

At least Snowe is leaving.

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Of course it is the Democrats who are busy with class warfare chosing to divide rather than unite. Of course its Obama who ran up more dificits in less time than any other president ever. Of course it’s the democrats who have now created an apparently endless structural deficit of 1.4 trillion a year.

Two wars with no funds allocated to pay for them…and weapons of mass destruction….lest we forget?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojL_35QlSI&ob=av2e

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Romney was a senator?

I didn’t know that.

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Americans that finally admit the obvious.

Now they should stand up to the corporate media and tell them to stop giving the gop a free pass and hold them accountable.

Actions speak louder than words.

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Republican Party= Fascism under the guise of Christendom

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w is on a bike ride.

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They will change how America governs itself. More routing around Congressional approval, executive power will become used more and if ,and I believe he will, Obama is elected to a second term he will have the Supreme Court in his pocket to protect what he does. A democratic government is an equation. More on one side of this equation will cause more on the other to equal the impasse and to run the government. The Tea Party and ALEC have an ingenious plan. Freeze federal government, infiltrate into the state government, and push state right at a level where money speaks. A dictatorship is formed at the corrupt grassroots levels and we now have the banana republic the Republicans crave so deeply. There will come a face off at some crossroad in the future. I even see with the gun crazy violate right a possible civil war. And if the right wins that war? A small government with lots of laws, no Sunday sales, large prison populations, lots of expensive wars to exhaust our treasury, women and minorities second tier citizens again, and very dull people holding down our lives.

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I once read a third grader’s essay that read, almost in toto : “Jenna said Tommy is a poopy-head, so it must be true.” The difference between that third grader essay and today’s argument is the efficiency of thought in the third-grader’s work.

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What a difference 6 years makes.

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getalife
06 w got a dem congress
from the people

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The republican primary is over, folks. Romney is the guy.

He ain’t perfect but he’s the best we’ve got. I will vigorously support him over O’bozo.

Sure, he once was blind on some issues but now he can see.

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getalife
willard will win
unless you work
very hard.

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Tax, the severely conservative one.

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The con knee jerk reaction is but the dems………..

Hilarious.

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frog,

Correct.

The dems did win two years.

willard will lose without my help.

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jt,

obl deserved it.

9/11 ring a bell?

Geez .

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re you going to claim the ny times is right wing too bro?

Nope, I’m gonna claim that Jennifer Rubin is a cheerleader for the Right, just as you are.

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The blind sheep like jm and ragnar refuse to see what is plain to everybody else.

I’m just shocked.

Really.

Well maybe just a little.

O.k., not at all.

After all, its been proven that people who are too lazy to think for themselves will, by default, latch onto conservative ideology.

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“And as they conclude, the situation is not going to change until the Republicans are forced to pay a very heavy price for their extremism at the polls, and that’s not likely to happen anytime soon.”

You are correct in a way you don’t even realize. The majority of the American people are standing against the inane, liberal, destructive policies of the Democrats.

Eventually, the Dems. will import enough illegal immigrants, brainwash enough students and commit enough election fraud to again gain the upper hand. Then the United States will cease to be the greatest nation in the world.

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‘You are correct in a way you don’t even realize. The majority of the American people are standing against the inane, liberal, destructive policies of the Democrats.’

And you evidence to back up your rant would be…

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“And you evidence to back up your rant would be…”

A Republican controlled House and the coming election ! ………………………

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‘A Republican controlled House and the coming election ! ‘

Oh, you just pulled it from your usual source…

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Both parties are becoming more extreme

Blame computers if you want to blame anything

The modern day version of Flip Wilson’s The devil made me buy this dress.

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Catching up on my Jay’s Blog reading when I inadvertently came across this hidden in one of the videos that Jay posted. Being uber inquisitive, some say nosey, I had to find out what it was about and found the below drivel:

Dreams From My REAL Father………..

To understand Obama’s plans for America, the question was not “Where’s the birth certificate?,” the question was “Who is the real father?

This complicates things on a number of different levels. First of all if instead of being the son of a Kenyan sheepherder he’s the son of an American Communist, he is a natural born citizen, so much for the birther theories, since as the offspring of two American citizens he would in fact be a citizen. He would also qualify as a pink diaper baby, the name given to kids were born into relatively comfortable communist families. It would mean that if the birth certificate Obama presented to the public year ago is real, his mother was less than honest when she gave the hospital the information about her son’s father

I just hopes Mrs. Obama sues their azzes in behalf of her daughters.

http://grumpyelder.com/?p=23850

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that should be “hope” not “Hopes”. sorry.

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To the GOP the answer to everything is to cut taxes, cut regulations, and cut social programs down to nothing.

Just like 1929-1939. That is what the GOP wants 1929-1939 — not the 50’s like many say.

There was no EPA, no SS, no Medicare, no FDIC, no Medicaid, no Fannie/Freddie AND WE STILL HAD DEPRESSION.

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Yeah, they can sue you cons for your attacks now.

Lets start with the birthers and sue trump.

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Blah, blah, blah Carter. Blah, blah, blah blah Carter. Blah Carter.

See, I too can post like a con.

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The cons will stay in la la land so the gop will stay the course.

On the bright side, most of the bills out of corrupt congress are corporate so they should fail.

They can’t agree on cuts because the gop walk away for taxes on the wealthy.

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President Blameless’ presidency is soaring like a Korean rocket…too bad the alternatives are equally devoid of leadership skills. I recall Clinton was able to play ball with those mean old, obstructionist GOPs and managed to leave a legacy of favorability despite his moral character flaws and resulting impeachment…I don’t see big ears getting a second term….even by spending enough to feed our hungry for a few months…

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I don’t see big ears getting a second term….even by spending enough to feed our hungry for a few months…

I wouldn’t underestimate the opposition’s ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory….

Just sayin’

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THe religious zealots of the right are scary. Great example is what’s happening in TN with the legislation to remain in the stone ages…great quote the religious right should heed:

“I fear that these bills, written to give us what they think we want, will have the opposite effect. By legislating our Christianity, what they’re really doing is taking it away from us.”

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BRO,

Couldn’t agree more..choice between a really hip and cool dude or a fuddyduddy neither of which can make a difference…I think it’s time we gave the fuddyduddy a chance..the hip cool dude’s not doing any good…at least most don’t think they are better off…of course, I forget it’s not his fault and that all those promises about hope and change assumed a willing GOP fraction who wanted to be hip and cool as well.

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The two institutions you mention are moderate, but the two authors are not. One of them considers himself “centrist,” which doesn’t mean much. His bio says he’s close friends with Al Franken. That says it all. The other author has done work for two different democrats, a senator and a representative. I guess mentioning that would give the reader too much information on the sources of the original article.

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So much for Biden’s comments about what Romney would have done. What a hypocrite !

“‘Manhunt’ details U.S. mission to find Osama bin Laden”

“When Obama met with his top aides April 28, two days before the raid, both Gates and Vice President Biden reiterated their opposition to the operation as too risky. Bergen writes that they argued that the evidence of bin Laden’s presence was circumstantial, the mission was too dangerous and relations with Pakistan would be destroyed.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/manhunt-details-us-mission-to-find-osama-bin-laden/2012/04/27/gIQAuHxPmT_story_1.html

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I think it’s time we gave the fuddyduddy a chance..the hip cool dude’s not doing any good

I would agree with you on that i the hip cool dude actually had a fair shot at doing ANYTHING. My problem with giving the GOP control again has nothing to do with 2000 – 2008. My problem with the current GOP is that they have behaved like little spoiled b*tches since they gained control of the House. It’s one thing to make your party platform one that would make the current POTUS a one-termer. It’s completely something different when you risk ruining the country to see that happen.

Obama’s goose was cooked from the day after the election in 2010. How many administrations have gone into their 4th year missing as many appointees as this current one? Part of the blame goes to Obama himself for not being more forceful in pushing for confirmations. However, I put more blame on the GOP in damn near blocking anything that Obama tries to do.

You can not run anything effectively if you don’t have people in place to perform the basic jobs necessary. You can’t play a World Series game with 5 players on defense and expect to win or even halfway function. The Democratic Party did some of the same stuff to Bush. However, when it came to things that helped the country as a whole, the Democratic Party put the partisaned bullsh*t aside and worked with Bush to get things passed. You can’t say the same thing has happened in the past 2 years. My question would be, why would you reward the GOP with anything when they have not shown that they can put country over party?

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This did not happen in a vaccum. It has required two things to happen:

1. The Republicans had to sell themselves to Big Business. By catering strictly to the needs of it’s corporate masters, it natuarly appears to be extreme, scornful of compromise, etc.

2. The core Republican electorate had to dumb down to their current state of credulity whereby they believe whatever their politicians tell them, no matter how obvious a lie it is to the rest of us.

Unfortunately, since Republicans don’t seem to be getting any smarter, an improvement in the situation is definitely “not likely to happen anytime soon”.

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Bro @ 4:17 – Here’s something that gives the GOP obstructionism a whole new light….

revelations about a private dinner of House Republicans on inauguration day in 2009 in which they plotted a campaign of obstruction against newly installed president Barack Obama.

Axelrod, who is based at Obama’s re-election campaign headquarters in Chicago, condemned the revelation as “sad, appalling but not terribly surprising”.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/26/democrats-gop-plot-obstruct-obama

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The gop failed to stop our recovery but gave us our first down grade.

Our President has many accomplishments without gop.

They should disband like the whig party.

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This subject is like a kid in a candy store; where do you start?

The most important point is the stark contrast of what makes up the two parties. This contrast is why Republicans will triumph, not just this November but to eternity. And, why the current log jam that bothers Misters Mann and Ornstein was necessary but temporary.

Republicans are bound together by a common thread – conservatism. There are varying degrees of dedication and we have our causes, but none outweigh the core principle. Plus, we are traditionalists.

Democrats however are a party of special interest groups. Each special interest group puts their goal ahead of everything else. The Environmentalists put tree hugging at the top. Gays put their quest for rights at number one. Unions put theirs ahead of the previous two, plus often totally disagree with the others. Blacks can be in any of the previous groups, but their main concern appears to be a continuing perception of discrimination and inequality.

No, Democrats are not bound together by a single core principle. They are together because they have nowhere else to turn and by themselves are not large enough to bring about the change they desire.

All the groups within the Democratic Party eventually bump up against a roadblock but it’s not Republicans. We might hinder their progress, as we have and continue to do now with Obama in office, but in the end their nemesis is the Constitution. They can’t achieve their goals without tinkering with the Constitution. And, it has been shown time and time again most Americans don’t want their tinkering.

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Scout- tell us more about those eeeevil muslims who are bombing abortion clinics in the US, or murdering US doctors in their homes, etc. Oh wait, never mind.

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saywhat?

Oh, I don’t mind.

There is evil everywhere but would like to compare the numbers over the years ???

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Republicans are the party of no. No future.

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promote liberty? wow!! you know i could take that comment sarcastically and mention Manifest Destiny, Nicaragua, the installation of “dummy” figure heads (think “Shah” of Iran), or even Hawaii………..but…. I know that you were serious so I’ll try to do the same.

Scout- are you high?

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DDR
Lies. No attorney would
trade drugs for sex.

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The Brookings Institute, non-partisan…please. The American Enterprise Institute, I don’t know that well but saying that the Democrats present political balance, while most know how far left the Democrat party is, is a long stretch. It’s what the definition of is, is. Jay, sure knows how to cherry pick but Obama’s fallen approval is what it is.

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Johnny Reb’s 5:00 is undeniable.

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In number boy’s post you see the problem (0311/8541/5811/1811/1801, I forget which shot out marine that is, Del or Scout). They take actions from somewhere else and use them as “reasons” here. They can’t argue facts HERE they argue……… I dunno WHAT they argue. They are F’ing crazy………

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Ya’ll have fun with this one. The insane ass holes are going to try to explain how they AREN’T, and those who aren’t are wasting their time.

I’m gonna do something productive like watch grass grow or something………

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Fred

That’s just wrong!!!!

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Recon 0311 2533

April 28th, 2012
5:56 pm

“In number boy’s post you see the problem (0311/8541/5811/1811/1801, I forget which shot out marine that is, Del or Scout).”

Have another drink of loud mouth and then you might even believe others believe what you think you believe. Just a typical delusional day of self importance, right Fred.
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Ahh…. Got an answer. The holy sanctimonious Baptist is apparently the OTHER shot out number boy.

Yawn. Yet another hate filled post from the fine Christian man. Jesus and his mom are SO proud of him. Everyone else here sees his hypocrisy lol.

Let’s hear some more about morality and all that Del lol. I wanna hear about the mote in someone’s eye or something REALLY Jesus like such as that. Have you any tales to regale us with where you show your Jesus like actions?

ROFL

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Fred, the self described out of shape fat boy searching for left wing blog friends. Really pathetic.

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DDR
Lies. No attorney would
trade drugs for sex.

dude. you must be very young. google Fred Tokars for me.

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Our President should use this story in his campaign..

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Normal, you sure are a presumptuous old man ,aren’t you. BTW…how are the kidneys? Hope you’re doing well.

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Normal,

Did they catch it with a blood test?

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as a matter of act recon, tokars is actually OUT and in Witness protection!! he turned evidence against the racketeers and was released! God bless America huh! Gotta love the fact that a woman’s life is worth less than a man’s big mouth!

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“During a lengthy discussion, the senior GOP members worked out a plan to repeatedly block Obama over the coming four years to try to ensure he would not be re-elected.”

They are patriots.

O’bozo’s euro-socialist Marxist agenda must be stopped at every turn.

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“O’bozo’s euro-socialist Marxist agenda must be stopped at every turn.”

That is some patriotism after you collapsed our economy.

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If Turkey combines with
Greece the euro will
go from the fire into the
frying pan.

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Time for cooking on the grill. Later

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Normal Free, plain and simple:

“I don’t get it. Your fear of Islam is really weird. I didn’t think Marines feared anything but Gunnery Sergeants…”

I’m sure you don’t but you should fear for your grandchildren (if you have any).

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back off scout — my family paid for their freedom in blood from the civil war to Afghanistan. don’t talk to ME about sacrifice. my father’s side, black americans, went to war for a country who didn’t even recognize them as FULL citizens. they went to war in countries to fight for “freedom” in someone else’s land, but couldn’t even take a sip of water out of a “white” drinking fountain

before you dare to lecture me about freedom, you’d better check your arrogance and ignorance at the door.

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Well, I’m getting ready for Saturday night at Billy Bob’s and don’t have time to say much. I’ll just let this Frank Sinkus speak for me. Our problem is we go too easy on the libruls and the Communists. We need to start using some of the weapons the 2nd Amenment gives us. I mean, that Amenment don’t say nothing about using the weapons for just self-defense. So let’s just open up and start blasting the people that don’t want what we want. Heck with this voting stuff. We tried that and you can see what that got us. Picking these libruls off as they walk into the polls would be a good start. We could drag their bodies out onto the grass and make a path for ourselfs.

I’ll be sure and drink a PBR or 10 for the good Conservatives on here. The rest of you can set around and worry about what we’re going to do. I say we all pull a Dick Cheney and invite a librul to go hunting with us.

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Redneck Convert (R–and proud of it) :

Only if they start it first …………………………….

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Crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”

you have the audacity to quote a man who had slaves. probably in chains. such ignorance is astounding.

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While the Democrats may have moved from their 40-yard line to their 25, the Republicans have gone from their 40 to somewhere behind their goal post.

I’m not sure that the hyper-intolerant neocons are even in the stadium anymore.

McCarthyism is still VERY strong in the Republican Party! Is that not right out of science fiction?

And other than the USA, only one country in the entire industrialized world has a lower percentage of people who believe in evolution. THAT is the staggering level of insanity, intransigence and intentional ignorance in the GOP.

We are officially and royally screwed.

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Debbie @ 7:19

You know you really need to calm down but that said I see that you view history from the prism of today and not from the time in which it happened.

In other words, flaws and all our founding fathers were able to set up a system of government unparalleled in the history of the world …….. one that in time was structured to grant freedom to all men and women and get us to where we are today ……… the envy of the world.

By the way, I assume you were aware of this:

“Slavery was officially established in Virginia in 1654, when Anthony Johnson (a black man) convinced a court that his servant (also a black man), John Casor, was his for life. Johnson himself had been brought to Virginia some years earlier as an indentured servant (a contracted person who must work from five to seven years for no wages in exchange for food and shelter before being freed) but he had saved enough money to buy out the remainder of his contract and that of his wife.

The court ruling in Johnson’s favor resulted in Casor becoming the first state-recognized slave in Virginia.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(American_Colonial)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Casor

There will be a test tomorrow.

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12, how may did they put behind bars this year? I know that in the past few they’ve had some bumper crops of jailbirds in Athens…

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Keep up the great work, Debbie, and if, in the end, we can’t beat the nutjobs, we can at least slow ‘em way down!

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The problem with Democrats is their binging habits. Republicans will always be there to purge them of their abundant appetites.

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Correction, a couple of starters

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Scout: You know you really need to calm down but that said I see that you view history from the prism of today and not from the time in which it happened.

Oh really? I guess the word HISTORY is what gave me away huh?

In other words, flaws and all our founding fathers were able to set up a system of government……………..blahblahblah………blah blah………………..By the way, I assume you were aware of this: “Slavery was officially established in Virginia in 1654, when Anthony Johnson (a black man) convinced a court that his servant (also a black man), John Casor, was his for life. …………..blah blah blah ……….The court ruling in Johnson’s favor resulted in Casor becoming the first state-recognized slave in Virginia.”
There will be a test tomorrow.

I’m always amused that some people think they are the only ones who know anything on this blog. Yes, scout, I KNOW my black history. I also know that Johnson paid by way of Karma for what he did to Casor.

PS: I also know that Johnson would’ve been called Clarence Thomas in today’s “prism”

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Keep up the great work, Debbie, and if, in the end, we can’t beat the nutjobs, we can at least slow ‘em way down!

too funny! Thanks!

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Getalife and Del.

Kidney problem was caused by an allergic reaction to a med. The prognosis is good but I’m still in “healing” mode. Thanks for asking.

_________________

Scout,

Yep I got Grand Kids…and three Great Grand Kids. I’m more worried about clean air and water than the Islamic “Boogie Man” getting them.

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I remember has bushnesia.

Ge cleaned up your clown’s mess con..

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When is Obama going to clean up Holder’s mess?

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Normal, good to hear. Keep up the good work and listen to your doc.

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Not to worry. When the Republicans take over the White House and the Senate as well as the house, Jay will have the co-operation he desires. Once the Socialist Communists are gone things will be well. When the regressive party is stopped from implementing the failed polices of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pelosi, Reid and Obama, we will get the government out of free enterprise and again move this country forward into the twenty first century. They say you can’t fix stupid, but we can vote it out in November.

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Getalife…Metformin?

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Long live the republiconserviteatardibitarian party! Love it or leave the third world banana republic ruins they wish to make America!

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Mighty Righty,
If it wouldn’t be so devastating to the American way of life, I would hope that your dream would come true just to show you how utterly misinformed you are and what life under Theocratic rule would be like. Only two kinds of Republicans…Millionaires and dupes. Hope you’re rich…

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There are only two kinds of Democrats, irrespective of financial status…dumb and dumber.

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Orange,

What mess?

Getalife, google “Fast and Furious”

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Recon 0311 2533

April 28th, 2012
9:01 pm
There are only two kinds of Democrats, irrespective of financial status…dumb and dumber.

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Actually there are far more than two, but Republicans can’t count that high.

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NFpas–I am rich. I was born rich. I was born in a nation where I could be all that I had the desire and ambition to be. I have taken advantage of this good luck. I am sorry that you are one of the looney left who can’t survive on your own. It is unfortunate that no amount of help will enable you to improve your life. BTW Republicans are people who believe in Capitaism, Free Enterprise, Liberty, Freedom and equal opportunity while Democrats believe in Socialism, Commuinism and any form of government control over their lives so long as they don’t have to work.

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Don’t forget Mighty Righty, Democrats also like to force people to gay marry, after we take away their guns and persecute some christians while we drive by in our free Escalades on our way to Whole Foods to purchase steak dinners and crack cocaine with our food stamps.

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“I was born rich.”

Yeah right.

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Taps and remember always stand your ground. out

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Getalife

When is Obama going to do something about “Thousand Yard Stare” Janet Napolitano?

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Good Evening Folks!! Tonight is another segment of “What he said / What he really meant to say” Now let’s get started with our first contestant!!!

He’s a delusional righty who’s mental stability is slighty!! Give a big hand to Mighty Righty!! AKA MR!!!

MR – “Hiya Folks!!”

Emcee – “O.k. let’s begin – here’s what he actually said”:

NFpas–I am rich. I was born rich. I was born in a nation where I could be all that I had the desire and ambition to be. I have taken advantage of this good luck. I am sorry that you are one of the looney left who can’t survive on your own. It is unfortunate that no amount of help will enable you to improve your life. BTW Republicans are people who believe in Capitaism, Free Enterprise, Liberty, Freedom and equal opportunity while Democrats believe in Socialism, Commuinism and any form of government control over their lives so long as they don’t have to work.

And here’s what he MEANT to say!:

NFpas–I am really dumb. I was born really dumb. I was born in a nation where I could be as dumb as I had the desire and ambition to be. I have taken advantage of this good luck by being dumber than my fellow man – I Vote Republican!! I am sorry that you are one of the intelligent left who can’t make up dumb sh##t like I can at the drop of a hat!. It is unfortunate that no amount of our dumbness will rub off on you. BTW Republicans are people who believe in nothing but money. We only make token gestures towards any type of religion that doesn’t have greed and avarice attached to it.

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Good golly miss molly…the debate rages on-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QczyNaIu9Mo

Normal

Keep on repairing you old steamship!

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Orange,

No, I am the patient and Gemfibrozil caused low kidney function.

Normal,

What is the treatment?

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“The core of the problem lies with the Republican Party”

Bravo, haven’t heard that one before…

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Hey MR!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iYYNmwXM-E&feature=related

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Jamvet the spelling cop is hot on the case tonight.

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Have a great evening all y’all…see ya in the sun rise…

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Hey!

I think I mispelled “angyr”

Oh, no I didn’t!

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getalife

April 28th, 2012
9:50 pm
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Hope they find a treatment that working and fixes the problem.

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If the GOP congressman are so out of the mainstream, they would not be getting elected. Seems to me they represent the people that elect them. And the country is split about fifty fifty. Who determined where the mainstream is and what they think. Could be they mislocated the mainstream.

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Jay spent most of a year trying to imagine or gin up a fight among republicans about Mormonism. Looks like the liberal icon Bill Maher is the one who wants to fight about religion. As usual, the hate is on the left.

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I am rich. I was born rich.

I make The Most Interesting Man In The World, cry like an 8-year-old girl.

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“I am rich. I was born rich.”

~All Old White Republicans.

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Our leader is the President of the United States.

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Getalife,

Good luck on your medical visit. Hopefully the DR only has to prescribe an antibiotic and you are good as new in about seven or eight days.

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Thanks Orange.

Are you a doctor?

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All Dem and Rep go read “How do you kill 11 Million People” by Andy Andrews.
These comments show that we need to be reminded of not repeating history.

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Bill Maher is the leader of Bill Maher, a couple of kids, and a superhead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09tAtjF-M7s&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL06B84926D0EACBEF

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Leadership:

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/TeqBSGfx_OioPqpFpRmzng–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MTQ7cT04NTt3PTUxMg–/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/images/US_AHTTP_AP_FINANCIALTIMES/10fc63dbe23f090b0e0f6a70670055f2_original.jpg

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Bill Maher is the leader of the DEMOCRATS and Pelosi is their Grandma. Period.

As long as the libs keep spewing ilk about Rush leading anything…

It is WHAT IT IS.

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Wow, the vitriol here is amazing. 12, I think I already told you to go away. J$, you need to go with. And Jake, what can I say other than YOU SEEM TO BE ON THE WRONG BLOG. Please go find one which appreciates your hate & ignorance. AND if you feel the need to respond to me, don’ t bother. I am an old woman and I have heard it all.
Goodnight all.

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G Mare, it’s OK.

Good night, you liberal sex pot, you.

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Jake, you really don’t know anything about me. I know that you are in your 60s. I am in my 70s. So I have lived a few more years than you. Thus I have had a few more years of experience. AND I am a woman so I KNOW from first hand experience what the far rightists think of and do to women. Ergo sticks & stones…. And “until you have walked a mile in my shoes,” do not EVEN TRYbto speak to me about my experiences or try to put me down. I know what I am talking about and you never will.

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Please don’t tell that to my grands!

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‘The core of the problem lies within the Democratic Party’. The liberal Democrats are so far left that it makes even moderates appear extreme.

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It’s funny how the GOP “has moved so far right” but we’re not the party that wants to “fundamentally transform America”

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An American Experience…get on the bus…

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/

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That is the most ridiculous statement I have ever read,”the core of the problem lies with the republican party”?
The republican party has tried without success to keep a balance of power between the Judicial, exectutive and legislative. President Obama has taken so much power that it is hard to determine where to start. Health care, the law before the Supreme Court as we speak, President Obama has as much as said that the Supreme Court voting against his health care proposal would be unamerican.
I just heard on the tube, last night was joke night at a whitehouse get together, the jokes were not funny.

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What happened? Of course, there were larger forces at work beyond the realignment of the South. They included the mobilization of social conservatives after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the anti-tax movement launched in 1978 by California’s Proposition 13, the rise of conservative talk radio after a congressional pay raise in 1989, and the emergence of Fox News and right-wing blogs. But the real move to the bedrock right starts with two names: Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist.

Right wing blogs?

As I’ve never ventured outside of the AJC’s forums, I have to wonder if they too are crawling with little more than veracity challenged, slogan slinging, staggeringly unread and intentionally uninformed, p*ss poorly written and almost always enraged fake conservatives.

Does anyone have any experience with these other right wing blogs? And are the Republican bloggers there as abysmal as ours?

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Jake Benson
April 28th, 2012
10:59 pm

…What a joke. I happen to be in my 60’s and I remember when being liberal meant an open mind. Now, it means vilifying anyone who disagrees…

Based on how you vilified the sh*t out of the people you disagreed with in that 10:59 post of yours, I’d have to say that you’re probably the MOST liberal person on this blog. That is, if we used your description of being liberal. Thank goodness you don’t work for Webster’s…

Stuff like this really makes us young people not want to grow old and bitter.

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Funniest line this weekend

While two things are certain in life, death and taxes, death doesn’t get worse every time congress meets.

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Job 12…the whole chapter….

Do you believe that tax cuts reduce deficits..??? Do you believe that spending cuts create growth and jobs….?!?!? Then your mind is weak….

Do I have a religion for you..!!! It is called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints….You can have as many wives as you want…You don’t have to worry about Hell…and you don’t even have to tithe…!! They just take it out of ye check once a week, like ye pay ye insurance….!!!!!

Pretty steep penalty, though, if you’re not right….just like if you’re wrong on the economy with your risky tax cut scheme….the penalty will be Socialism….

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Bro

In all seriousness, perhaps you should spend less time reading blogs that have low content ale and more reading publication articles, or even better, books. Just a thought….

“I read all kinds of blogs.”

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Does anyone have any experience with these other right wing blogs? And are the Republican bloggers there as abysmal as ours?

Jamvet: yes and yes

I’ve even encountered some on Facebook.

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“Letting folks keep more of their own money”……sounds like a GREAT idea…..But it don’t work….It has failed over the past 11 years….!!!!

A better approached is the discliplined and balanced economic plan put forth by the President and Commander-in-Chief Bill Clinton…..

Economist Mike Kimel notes that the five former Democratic Presidents (Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Harry S. Truman) all reduced public debt as a share of GDP, while the last four Republican Presidents (George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford) all oversaw an increase in the country’s indebtedness… Kimel, Mike (2007-12-04). “The Republican Party and the National Debt”. angrybearblog.com. http://www.angrybearblog.com/2007/12/republican-party-and-national-debt.html

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Jm, good job in not acknowledging that you did not read the article.

But it shows. It always does…

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jm

My response to JamVet was in response to his question. He didn’t ask about publications, he asked about blogs. If you really wanna know, I read all kinds of publications as well. I go through news sources such as ABC, Fox, CNN. I also go through Bloomberg, Yahoo, Reuters, WaPo, and my hometown paper. For other hobbies and interests, I go through many firearm sites, model railroad sites, r/c cars and planes, DIY-type home improvement sites, and others as well.

I usually read the blogs just to get a gauge of public opinion on things. There’s also the laugh factor as one can go to any blog and see almost the same cast of characters regardless to where the blog’s located and what the topic is related to.

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The Democrats claim that all the problems are the fault of the Republicans, and the Republicans claim that all the problems are the fault of the Democrats.
And most of us independents believe that you’re both right.

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Funniest liberal logic today

Romney is a right wing extremist per Plouffe

Romney passed romneycare

Obama passed obamacare which was supposedly based on romneycare (per democrats)

Ergo, I guess Obama is a right wing extremist

Liberals are silly

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Midori, why am I not even the tiniest bit surprised?

Most of these Republicans here don’t even believe in evolution!

And it has only been widely accepted by our species as the very basis of biology and other modern sciences for over a hundred twenty five years.

Instead, they listen to and believe in, the anti-science nonsense proffered by blathering idiots like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. (And then pretend that none of them do, that none of their Republican buddies do and that these TV/radio charlatans have no gigantic sway over the con masses.)

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why are my posts being screened out?…been happening for a few days now

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“Most of these Republicans here don’t even believe in evolution!”

Republicans know evolution exists. They’re evidence of it after all.

(joke for the slow)

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Jm

April 29th, 2012
10:29 am

Yeah, but most of the GOPers never got out of the monkey stage…DA DUM!

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JamVet,

I’ve stopped trying to understand, or reason with them.

I mean, the linked article says it all.

Also check the article that Debbie linked to.

It’s sad when they don’t even surprise you anymore with their viciousness and selfishness.

It all boils down to power. The want all the power but none of the responsibility that comes with governing.

Ann Romney recently noted, “It’s THEIR turn”. Their turn to do what? Finally finish where Bush left off?

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You know what ticks me off now

No live streaming of braves game radio

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“wah-wah, if I’m gonna be miserable, everybody else is going
to be miserable, too, wah-wah” [scream/kick, throws toys]

-every dam Republican

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whooa, I got Bingo and a powerball with dat last one, mon

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“The good thing about science, is that its true – whether or not
you believe in it..”

-not a Republican, bet your sweet ass on that one

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Jake Benson
April 28th, 2012
10:59 pm

I find it utterly amazing that the liberal mindset just cannot get outside its name calling and intimidation tactics. Every one of my posts on here addresses observations that are factual.

Words are not even necessary, other than to observe what a laugh riot…

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JamVet

You forgot to put all that in the context that the same person also stated….

I happen to be in my 60’s and I remember when being liberal meant an open mind. Now, it means vilifying anyone who disagrees.

Nevermind the fact that he’s vilifying everyone who disagrees with his political ideology. Claiming something as factual does not relieve one’s action of vilifying. That’s what made me laugh. It’s that “Do as I say, not as I do” attitude that seems to dictate America.

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Nowadays, it’s far too fashionable to be a loud-mouthed, obnoxious a$$hole instead of talking like a normal human would.

WORD UP, BRO!

AU Liberal in ATL
April 29th, 2012
8:46 am
I have some republican family members who I love, but as a general rule, I think republicans are such a surly, stupid, hypocritical, mean spirited, nasty, selfish, childish, misinformed, ignorant, hateful bunch of people. I don’t like most of the ones I know, or any of the ones I see on Capitol Hill, or in state legislatures. Ugh!

I can live with the loss of AU Liberal’s affections.

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Oscar, I wish it was.

It can be found in the VCU Life Sciences Survey 2010.

We are dealing with programmed (primarily) Republican fools who SO hate academia and all things liberal that they are performing self-administered scientific lobotomies.

In 1981 the state of Arkansas passed a law, Act 590, mandating that “creation science” be given equal time in public schools with evolution, and defining creation science as positing the “creation of the universe, energy, and life from nothing,” as well as explaining the earth’s geology by “the occurrence of a worldwide flood”.[90] This was ruled unconstitutional at McLean v. Arkansas in January 1982 as the creationists’ methods were not scientific but took the literal wording of the Book of Genesis and attempted to find scientific support for it.[90] Undaunted, Louisiana introduced similar legislation that year. A series of judgments and appeals led to the 1987 Supreme Court ruling in Edwards v. Aguillard that it too violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment

More Americans Believe in the Devil, Hell and Angels than in Darwin’s Theory of Evolution: Nearly 25% of Americans Believe They Were Once another Person.

And soon, nations like Iran and Saudi Arabiua will pass us by in terms of scientific knowledge being taught to our children.

And who, here in Georgia, can ever forget this “educational” blunder of the Nth degree?

This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.

You’re doing a heckuva job, connies.

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Old news, AmVet.

Like really, REALLY old news.

If it ain’t evolution, religion, neocons, you’ve got nothing ABSOLUTELY.

Your posts are a waste of comprehensive study. In other words, your chosen topics are limited at best.

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u’re doing a heckuva job, connies.

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Very depressing. We could easily slip into another era similar to the dark ages. It only would take one generation to undo all the progress made in the last five hundred years.
I need another cup of coffee while I listen to George S. and George W. et al.

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” Good God, Jay, this president has run the country to ruin ”

Details and facts please?

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“When you reject the Creator, yeah, all you are left with is “theories”.”

and when you accept a creator all you are left with is “theories” Can you PROVE beyond a shadow of doubt that God created everything?

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Yes, but it takes an open, humble, searching heart to see it and experience it. No theories, no debates, experiencing the reality of the Creator is what I am talking about.

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Rightwing Drool, 11:20,

Our debt now surpasses our GDP. Domestic growth in China is at 9%, Mexico at 4%….. the US is at 1.7%. Unemployment is at 8.2% if you believe the contrived numbers…… more 12-14% when add it all in. Millions are still out of work. Foreclosures are still at an all time high. More people on food stamps than ever before in our nation. Welfare spending under Bozo has increased 41% since he took office. More homes under water than ever before in our nation’s history. Your children’s and your grandchildren’s tax dollars have already been spent just to pay the interest on our debt.
I might remind you that when Bozo took office, he stated that if he did not have this economy under control during his first term, he does not deserve to be re-elected. Finally, he has said something that I agree with. Are you blind or do you just not care?

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“Scientists accept evolution as the best and only theory that accurately explains how humans and other species came to be so diverse.”

Depends on which scientist you are talking to doesn’t it?

No. Given that response, the joke is on you. You are scientifically illiterate on the matter .

…sufficient evidence exists in support of evolution to convince 99.85% of America’s earth and life scientists that the theory is valid. Evolution is the key unifying theory that unifies many different branches of science, from cosmology to biology.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_proof.htm

Surveys were sent to the department head of 158 research university Biological Sciences departments asking:

In October 2005, a coalition representing more than 70,000 Australian scientists and science teachers issued a statement saying “intelligent design is not science” and calling on “all schools not to teach Intelligent Design (ID) as science, because it fails to qualify on every count as a scientific theory”.

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st simons- “wah-wah, if I’m gonna be miserable, everybody else is going
to be miserable, too, wah-wah” [scream/kick, throws toys] -every dam Republican

ROFLMFAO!!! I’ve never seen someone use the definition of liberalism to define the Republican Party before. Thanks for making my day.

Liberalism: Not going to be happy until everyone is as miserable as we are.

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Afternoon Jelly,
I am a conservative and a vet, stop spitting on me

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kayaker 71
April 29th, 2012
11:40 am
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Name ONE (1) time when tax cuts reduced the deficit….!!!!! Unleash the entrepreneurial spirit…!?!?!? If your risky tax cut ideas fail again…we will ALL be Socialists…!!!!!

A balanced tax approach like the one under President Bill Clinton is the answer….

I would rather have 2.2% growth and 8% unemployment than another “Great Recession”…or another “Great Depression” for that matter….!!!!!

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JamVet: Does anyone have any experience with these other right wing blogs? And are the Republican bloggers there as abysmal as ours?

Yes and Hell Yes!! i’ve been kicked off of more right leaning blogs than anything!! Some though, let me stay on to “rile up the unwashed masses”; I guess I’m considered their “ONE”. My favorite though, and trust me it’s NOT the most wacky, is the Townhall Daily blogs. Here’s a piece of the action of what I see:

America Won’t Get Rich by Relying on the Permanent Poor…….

With ObamaCare, It’s Abortion or Else……….

And………..one more for the road…………..

The New Welfare Queen: Getting “Crazy” Checks

This one came with this quote from a blogger that when I read it I damn near fell out my chair in hysterical laughter!

As a young conservative, I made up my mind decades ago not to accept any government handouts, but to be self-sufficient in this life. That’s not hard to do in a country as great as America, where opportunity abounds.

If more people would stop taking from Uncle Sam and start making do on their own, most of the entitlement overspending would be a moot point.

I read that and kept saying to myself, “Kid, don’t ever get laid off, (UI), too sick to work, (MEDICAID/DISABILITY), or old (MEDICARE)!

These people on these sites are Hill-LARRY-Yus! They remind me of the dumb kid in school who’d sit in the back of the room and every now and then say something really dumb so that the whole class would start laughing!!

Horrible thought!! That kid may be governor of a state right now!!! eg: Rick Perry, Real “Deal”!!

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Debbie,

What the hell is wrong with being self sufficient? Bozo is not only the entitlement king but the food stamp king as well. He has already written off white working America who is providing all of the money for this “redistribution” of wealth. People that work for a living, free enterprise and a free market economy are all the enemy. More people who work for a living…. less people on the dole but less Bozo votes. See, it’s not so difficult.

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How can you “unleash the entrepreneurial spirit” when the wealthy is choking off the middle class…..!?!?!?!?

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k71 – Before we start the debate, let me tell you hi! haven’t seen you around the blogs lately and was “almost” worried about you! However I figured you must’ve been doing o.k. cause you posted THIS:

Bozo is not only the entitlement king but the food stamp king as well. He has already written off white working America who is providing all of the money for this “redistribution” of wealth. People that work for a living, free enterprise and a free market economy are all the enemy. More people who work for a living…. less people on the dole but less Bozo votes. See, it’s not so difficult.

I’ll break it down for you:

(A) Tea Partyers and other extreme Tighty Righties, have been screaming to reduce the government. They want the teachers laid off, the post office laid off, the TSA laid off, GM to fail (which means lay offs), Dept of Education to go away, (Again, even MORE people laid off); AND they also want the FDA to disband!! The only “government entity” they want to grow is the Armed Forces (if you’re young and laid off you can always join the military to go and die in another country or get maimed and then ignored when you come home — ’cause when you get back there will be NO jobs!)

(B) With all these before mentioned positions gone and the MILLIONS unemployed, what the HECK do people EXPECT will happen? Duh!

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St Simons 10:52

Blind faith in science is as dumb as blind faith in religion

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DDR, I thought it well nigh impossible that our fake conservatives here were somehow not representative of the entire extremist and failed ideology of ignorance and illiteracy.

I’sMeat,

Here are three of the most hated words in all of neocondom. (Or is it neocondumb?)

Overwhelming scientific consensus.

But stay ignorant and uneducated, cons. It “works” for you…

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“Blind faith in science”

Republispeak at it’s finest.

Make up a senseless slogan and act as if it is some deep intellectual truth.

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When Hitler and the Nazis came to power, a historian observed that “the gutter has come to power”.

Some years ago, the Republican Party decided to sell itself to Big Business and, because of this, became lackeys of the rich. They also decided to appeal to the lowest common denomator of their already common electorate. Finally, they started to wage an all out war on women, the middle-class and the poor. So, in the coming election, if the Tea Party Republicans keep or increase their numbers in the House and gain control of the Senate, WE TOO can say “the gutter has come to power”

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Jam – This is an excerpt from the link that I provided earlier, (you REALLY need to read and/or listen to Tighty Righty blogs and radio shows — it’ll tell you how crazy they really are):

As I wrote last night, it is clear the Obama Justice Department is out of control, but we haven’t seen everything yet.

“If this administration thinks they’re going to sneak their way into office, we’re going to be there yelling at them, at least,” Fitton said.

I look at this article in one of two ways:

(A) They’re already making excuses as to why they lost the election and

(B) They know how to gin up fear better than Poe, Orson Welles and that freaky lady on that show, all in one!

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kayaker 71
April 29th, 2012
12:36 pm
Well, it appears that all Bozo knows how to do is emulate being cool. Man, that ought to put a lot of people back to work. If you can find enough dead heads out there that really believe that your coolness translates into a better economy, they deserve you. Meanwhile, I’ll take the boring Mormon with the funny underwear.
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And what’s his solution….?????

Freedom..!?!? taking home more of your own money…!?!? tax cuts for the “job creators”…!?!?! shipping jobs to China…!?!?! making the American tax code more “competitive”….!?!? unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit…!?!?!? deficits don’t matter….!?!?! hiding money in the Cayman Islands….!?!?!

Because most of those are old Bush/Cheney ideas….and THEY FAILED MISERABLY…!!!!! You can have your heresy, your false prophecy, and your failed economic beliefs…..!!!!!! I’ll take slow, steady growth and fiscal disclipline over a risky tax cut scheme that could drive us into Socialism….!!!!!

In the meantime, I suggest you read Matthew 7, the whole chapter, 1 Timothy: 2-5, Mark 11: 15-19, Psalm 75, the whole chapter, and Job 12, the whole chapter…..If you are a Christian, that is, and believe in the Bible…..

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“Cut taxes and release the entrepreneurial spirit that will grow the economy faster…!?!?!?” In what universe…!?!? The Planet Kolob…!?!?!?

Because here ON EARTH, IN AMERICA….George Bush tried that and I don’t E-V-E-R want to go down that road again…!!!!!! Give me slow, steady, discliplined growth and a budget surplus……. like under President Bill Clinton…!!!!

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Debbie, nice. Neocon conspiracy theories on steroids.

getalife, did you see this?

Jm
April 29th, 2012
9:59 am

Especially given the liberals here mostly just post icanhazcheezburger cartoons

That’s the extra value one gets from reading Jm. He often doubles down on the silly lies in his posts…

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Getalife 12:43

I’m not in lockstep with anyone

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doomy,

I guess you have gonzonesia too.

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rockie,

No he will enjoy early retirement if he loses.

So will willard.

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When the President does it, it is not illegal.

cheney proved nixon right.

So shove your fake outrage doomy.

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That sums it up very well JamVet.

Well said.

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It’s common knowledge that in a tight race, the conservative candidate must finish ahead by at least two points to avoid being ACORNed.

See Coleman, Norm.

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Also –

Doom: Calling Eric Holder over at the Dept of payback ……

WTF does THAT mean?

AND

The Inspector General is STILL conducting the investigation. Has been since this thing came up. Why not WAIT for the findings? You are quick to tell others not to JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS but it seems you’re always the first in the damn pool.

AND

When I google “Fast &Furios” I see a lot of Faux News slimy little fingers all over this! Amazing how they love to flame the fires of discontent no matter how little information they actually HAVE on a subject. As long as it spews hateful bullsh##t rhetoric, they’re all for it.

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JamVet,

Platitudes without a point being made. Well put….whatever the hell you are rambling on about.

Blah…blah…blah

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How about obl is dead, GM is alive day?

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Looks as if you hit a nerve with his one…I thought as much when I read this online at WAPO…and the response to it here simply underscores just how deep a hole we’ve dug ourselves and cognitive dissonance won’t allow us to climb out any time soon, if ever. The only solution to me is to get as much of the money out of the political process, including public financing of campaigns, strict limits on both the length of the campaign season and the amount of advertising allowed during that season – along with the price ‘the people’ have to pay for broadcast time and print media space. Sorta like negotiating healthcare rates. And, of course, we eliminate all campaign contributions to candidates…maybe then we can stop the legalized bribery that runs our ’system’ now and we’ll find out who the honest ones really are.

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My parents told me not to talk to strangers, stalkers and mystery meat on blogs.

That’s because people like that are usually unhinged, immature and abysmally stoooooopid…..

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I googled Norm Coleman and there was his picture beside a sign that said “LOOSER” on it. Interesting….

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Also –

Doom: Calling Eric Holder over at the Dept of payback ……

WTF does THAT mean?

Debbiedoright,

Thomas Sowell nicknamed it that after their refusal to throw the book at the new black panthers in a clear cut case of voter intimidation.

Brocephus,

“The problem is that we offshore 5 decent jobs and create 1 good paying job and 2 crappy paying jobs.”

Is that your general opinion or is that an actual number provided for and backed up by empirical data? Cause from where I’m sitting that looks like a generalized, off the top of the head opinion based on ….

“If anybody wants to see GDP grow, then you have to put money into the hands of the people who will SPEND it and not those who will SAVE it. If the money isn’t circulating, then it’s not aiding the economy as much as it could.”

Demand is certainly part of the equation but hardly the end all be all. What we need is the successful supply side economics that propelled us to nearly 30 years of near continous economic growth and prosperity. What that entails is low marginal and capt gains tax rates, a smaller, leaner federal govt, less govt interference and spenidng as a % of the economy, and dramatically less regulation as in the BOOM years of Reagan. We were Keynesians when the economy stagnated under Nixon and Carter, supply siders when it flourished under Reagan, and now Keynesians as it flails under O. And the reality is that as the debt situation worsens the economy will worsen for a variety of reasons. It is the single biggest obstacle to economic growth. And I see absolutely no effort by the Dems to combat the debt monster. None.

And as for demand induced stimulus Japan tried it plenty of times- 10 times to be exact, during its lost decade. And it did not work then. And it will not work now. And you guys will continue to propose that something that does not work actually works despite the clear evidence that it does not.

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“You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…

“A Muslim officer crying “Allah Akbar” while shooting up an army base is considered to have committed “Workplace Violence” while an American citizen boasting a Ron Paul bumper sticker is classified as a “Domestic Terrorist”.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country illegally.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more of our money.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
A seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for calling his teacher “cute” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
The Supreme Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom, while sitting in front of a display of the 10 Commandments.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
Children are forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children of “underprivileged” drug addicts are left to rot in filth infested cesspools.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
Working class Americans pay for their own health care (and the health care of everyone else) while unmarried women are free to have child after child on the “State’s”dime while never being held responsible for their own choices.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
Hard work and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid and subsidized housing.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
The government’s plan for getting people back to work is to provide 99 weeks of unemployment checks (to not work).{ ie: 1.9 Years}

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
Being self-sufficient is considered a threat to the government.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
Politicians think that stripping away the amendments to the constitution is really protecting the rights of the people.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
The rights of the Government come before the rights of the individual.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
Parents believe the State is responsible for providing for their children.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
You can write a post like this just by reading the news headlines.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
You pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor defaults on his mortgage (while buying iphones, TV’s and new cars) and the government forgives his debt and reduces his mortgage (with your tax dollars).

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
Your government can add anything they want to your kid’s water (fluoride, chlorine, etc.) but you are not allowed to give them raw milk.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
Being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you “safe”.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
You have to have your parents signature to go on a school field trip but not to get an abortion.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…
Using the “N” word is considered “hate speech” but writing and singing songs about raping women and killing cops is considered “art”.

Unfortunately, this list could go on and on.

Our world has been turned upside-down.

We are in distress. Where do we go from here?

“COWARDICE asks the question – is it Safe?”
“EXPEDIENCY asks the question – is it Politically Correct?”
“VANITY asks the question – is it Popular?”
“But the CONSCIENCE asks the question – is it Right?”

“And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither, Safe, nor Politically Correct, nor Popular, but one must take it, because its RIGHT!!”

Author Unknown

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YakYak:
Bozo is not only the entitlement king but the food stamp king as well.

Imo, with Romney we’ll upgrade to the Soup Line presidency. (no, not another gubmint giveaway….they’ll have to bring their own ingredients)

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What you Republicans need to do is cut my taxes because right now I just don’t feel like creating any jobs for you. Now start cutting my taxes until I do. I’ll let you know when you have cut them enough.

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Is that your general opinion or is that an actual number provided for and backed up by empirical data? Cause from where I’m sitting that looks like a generalized, off the top of the head opinion based on ….

Generalized based on the decreased number of jobs created since the 70’s in conjunction with wage stagnation. Give me a while, and I’ll go find the empirical data that you desire if that’s what you need to convince you.

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“Generalized based on the decreased number of jobs created since the 70’s in conjunction with wage stagnation. Give me a while, and I’ll go find the empirical data that you desire if that’s what you need to convince you”

Wage stagnation is a myth. Wages may not have improved much but overall benefits including vacation time, personal days, sick days, perqs such as car allowances,401ks, life insurance, ever rising health insurance etc. means that overall benefits have been increasing.

Job creation overall has stagnated since the 60s under both Dem and R administrations. The reason I believe for that is because of the enormous advantage we held over the rest of the industrialized world for up to 2 decades after Europe and Japan were devastated in the wake of WW2. That head start began to significantly diminish in the late 60s and 70s. That and ever creeping govt over both R and D administrations I think puts us at a disadvantage moving forward.

And Brocephus quit worrying so much about outsourcing. As our dollar continues to fall and our country continues to move towards insolvency there will come a point, and its happening now, where it may in fact be cheaper for us to manufacture here and export more. Exports have been climbing since our dollar has been falling.

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Scout – 1:47

You left out one;

You know you live in an upside down land if – One of the two major political parties in your country has sold itself to Big Business in return for election and re-election funds and, in consequence, become lackeys of the rich and utterly useless to the people.

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“it’s a HEAVILY DEMOCRATIC PRECINCT. , “You don’t typically intimidate your own voters.””

Debbiedoright,

So are you saying that every single voter that came to the precinct that day was a Democrat? Or just the majority of them like 60 or 70%?
I dunno who wrote that point but that has got to be one of the alltime single dumbest points I’ve ever read.

“noting that the Black Panthers were standing in front of a majority-black precinct that had voted overwhelmingly for Democrats in previous elections — not a prime spot for intimidating white voters”

Get back to me when you can provide evidence that there were no white voters. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Going by this absurdly obscene logic I guess its okay for the KKK to start hanging out outside predominantly white or 90% Republican precincts huh? Gawd ya’ll come up with some ridiculously absurd shyte.

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“When we were more of a closed economy and had greater influence over our own direction, then you might have a point.”

A closed economy? Excuse me but exactly when we were a closed economy? We’ve been trading with the rest of the world since day 1.

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Doom – you know u should take up defense law. you zero in on one item in a line with 10,000 items and attack that ONE item. Never mind that the other 999999 are TRUE and factual, it’s that ONE ITEM you wish to attack. They teach that in law school you know. that’s why lawyers are paid a lot of money and are so damn good.

unfortunately I actually WENT to law school, so you “can’t play a player”. If, at the time of the incident, a white person standing in the line felt intimidated by the NBP, they, and this is important, DID NOT COME FORTH AND MAKE ANY CLAIMS OF INTIMIDATION.

before you have any perceived amount of injustice such as voter intimidation, you must have a voter come forth to SAY HE WAS INTIMIDATED.

Also, really quick, here’s another point, Shabazz was successfully prosecuted by Holder’s DOJ, BUSH’s DOJ did NOT prosecute the NBP. Again in case you missed it BUSH’s DOJ did NOT prosecute the NBP.

PS: You don’t want to feign any outrage over the Minutemen incident with the Hispanic voters and the lack of prosecution by the DOJ?!! Boy!! Am I Surprised that you don’t!!!

Get back with me when you are just as angry over the Minuteman incident as you are over the Philadelphia incident.

I’ll hold my breath.

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carlosgvv:

You’ll have to take that up with the author …………….

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266 more days,

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“Get back with me when you are just as angry over the Minuteman incident as you are over the Philadelphia incident.”

wHAT THEY DID IN INTIMIDATING VOTERS WAS EQUALLY UNCOOL dEBBIE. nO DOUBT ABOUT IT. Sorry for the big caps malfunction but in a hurry and not going to worry about correcting it.

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Avert your eyes, Republicans…

Today, thanks to the GOP, compromise has gone out the window in Washington. In the first two years of the Obama administration, nearly every presidential initiative met with vehement, rancorous and unanimous Republican opposition in the House and the Senate, followed by efforts to delegitimize the results and repeal the policies.

On financial stabilization and economic recovery, on deficits and debt, on climate change and health-care reform, Republicans have been the force behind the widening ideological gaps and the strategic use of partisanship. In the presidential campaign and in Congress, GOP leaders have embraced fanciful policies on taxes and spending, kowtowing to their party’s most strident voices.

999 anyone?

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Hi Midori!!! Beautiful sunday today here in the A.T.L.!! In a minute I’m gonna head out and take the dogs for a run in the mountains or on the trails (they LOVE our runs — makes them think they’re still in a pack).

Oh I don’t mind “informing the masses”; although deep in my heart i know I’m not making any headway, it keeps my debating skills sharp for when I need them on my real job!

so in essence, when I’m on the blog, it’s like doing homework!!

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Not sure about the gun as I understand that in several states that carrying a weapon openly is legal.

Open carry in Arizona IS legal; but “intimidating” someone WHILE you are openly carrying your gun is not.

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“Hillary ‘Won’t Stop Drunk-Texting Me From Cartagena’” Aol.

Good one Mr. President.

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Wage stagnation is a myth. Wages may not have improved much but overall benefits including vacation time, personal days, sick days, perqs such as car allowances,401ks, life insurance, ever rising health insurance etc. means that overall benefits have been increasing.

Doom

You’re funny… You write “Wage stagnation is a myth.” Then you follow with the very next statement, “Wages may not have improved much” before trying to shift from wages to AND benefits. You can’t spend benefits in the grocery store. You can’t give QT a 401k as payment for gas.

Also, the claim that benefits are growing and better seems to lie in stark contrast with the continuous claim that public sector benefits need to be cut in order to match their private sector counterparts. At one point and time, the public sector had to add benefits to match the private sector. The public sector hasn’t changed much over the years, and now the benefits are better according to popular rhetoric. That would imply that private sector benefits are not growing and getting better. Things, such as 401k’s are left at the peril of the market. Health care costs are increasing just as premiums are increasing. This doesn’t even account for the increase in hiring people as independent contractors to avoid offering any benefits at all.

As to outsourcing, it’s too late to worry about it. I point it out simply as an example of short term thinking causing long term problems.

A closed economy? Excuse me but exactly when we were a closed economy?

When I say a closed economy, I’m referring to our actions having more impact and effect on market tendencies. Remember back when we could lower gas prices simply by decreasing demand which caused a surplus in supply? That’s what I”m referring to. Now, global supply and demand gives us less sway of things even within our own borders. I know we’ve been trading with people. Hell, my old agency used to actually make a profit for the country when it came to trade. Those days, however, are long gone.

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“Mitt Romney’s Lies

From ‘100,000 new jobs’ to Obama’s jobs record to his first name, Mitt Romney has a truth problem.”

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/01/12/mitt-romneys-lies

Corporate media and you cons never challenge his lies but we will.

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Damn Fred, just rub it in….

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Democrats are at the extreme end of left. Notice how desperate they are. They lie a lot and tell half truths spoken by others. Now they want to get rid of the word illegal and call anyone who uses it a racist or worse. Anyone that does that should be called un-loyal to all the citizens and Constitution. This is still a country of laws. People who break the law are illegal in actions and deeds. Democrats need to compromise to insure that all Americans are safe, secure, and our country is not given away to those who break our laws or those who would not hold officials accountable for the enforcement there of.

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does Elvis talk to you, Halftrack?

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Oh, Jamvet, that (Don’t look, Ethel) had me roflmao! Thanks!

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,800850,00.html

Africa is a country. In Libya, the Taliban reigns. Muslims are terrorists; most immigrants are criminal; all Occupy protesters are dirty. And women who feel sexually harassed — well, they shouldn’t make such a big deal about it.

They lie. They cheat. They exaggerate. They bluster. They say one idiotic, ignorant, outrageous thing after another. They’ve shown such stark lack of knowledge — political, economic, geographic, historical — that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein and even cause their fellow Republicans to cringe.

Or, if you want a more “Fair and Balanced” assessment…

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/23/sex-lies-and-immigration-more-gop-candidates-talk-more-out-touch-appear/

Lies

It’s one thing to make grand rhetorical statements to try and get attention in a crowded race. It’s another thing to flat out lie to the American people.

So there you have it. Romney is a Democrat. So is Gingrich, Perry, Cain, Johnson, Paul, Bachmann, and anybody else that participated in the GOP presidential campaign this year. Halftrack, I think you have set the new, almost unattainable, bar for conservative values. Your country thanks you immensely.

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Thulsa Doom
April 29th, 2012
12:45 pm
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No matter how low the jobless numbers get, no matter how slowly the US economy continues to GROW…..This President will N-E-V-E-R be the failure that GW Bush was….Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, John Boehner, nor Dick Cheney….!!!!!!!!

Drives conservatives crazy…but it’s the truth…!!!!!

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josef

I caught bits of it on replay. There were a few jokes that brought tears to my eyes… The one I can’t stop laughing about is when Obama showed his photo for 4 years from now.

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Joe the Prophet : I hope you’re better at prophesy than hindsight but I ain’t gonna hold my breath…Let’s focus on substance : How do you feel about personal fiscal responsibility or how do you foresee that one shaping up in say, two decades..? Make sure you shake the 8 Ball good. I await your prophesy so I’ll know whether to continue to fund my investments for myself and family or should I forget it, live large, file bankrupcy and take somebody else’s hard earned money in my Senior days..? Now, don’t count Social Security because nobody wants that one to go away, right..?

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The kimmel joke about Obama covering his ears “if you can”

Was pretty funny

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Yep

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josef

Michelle got caught by the cameras a few times. I’ve seen where a few people got their knickers in a twist over the Palin/pit bull joke.

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Brosephus

Folks just can’t lighten up, can they?

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Folks just can’t lighten up, can they?

Sadly some can’t…

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Funny, though, all during the primaries , every single canidate kept calling themselves a Reagan Republican. Makes you wonder if they even remember how Reagan was.

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Cases of selected memory. Or false memories. Remember or invent the part you want. Ignore the rest that does not fit in with the myth.

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josef

April 29th, 2012
7:44 pm
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Yoiu should have your olfactory nerve checked. Of it could be a sinus condition.

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josef

April 29th, 2012
7:51 pm

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Ahh. Now I know the problem. You should try standing in front of them instead of spending all your time standing behind them.

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Josef,
I still think Democrats stick better…

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Oh, And number boy (Scout?), I always am for the rule of law. What made you think otherwise?

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Norm

Howzit goin?

Fred…

Now, now. Sois sage! Don’t make me have to condescend to defend Bruno…..

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Mittt has totally lost the PETA viote. and the women’s vote. and the Latino vote.

And Obama has lost the Independent vote that propelled him to victory in 08. It will be a close election in November and while there is no guarantee Romney will win there certainly isn’t that Obama will.

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Recon: You aren’t an independent so how can you state so glibly that obama has lost the independent vote?

I AM an independent and he hasn’t lost my vote. I WISH someone better was on the ballot, but no one better is…….

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Josef: Got some pretty damn decent crawfish boiled up. A little salty and this batch wasn’t as “live’ as I would have preferred, but I did a pretty damn good job. Only my second time (why would I boil them before, at home they were boiled for me).

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Obama has had more fund raisers in office than the last five presidents, PUT TOGETHER. While he might talk about getting money out of politics, his actions utter contradict his words and that is putting it kindly. As is so often the case the Democrats make outrageous commens and the press gives them a pass when it come to actually examining their actions.

This president ran as a post partisan, post racial man who would offer us a “third way” besides the democrat/republican divide. What we got is a old school, traditionall hard core leftie who needs racial division to keep his base fired up and who has only failed, far left policy choices to offer. The premise of his whole campaign was a sham.

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How about some IDEAS. Some PROPOSALS? Why is that so hard?

You DO know who you’re talking to……. right?

Hi josef!! beautiful day today! hope you had a chance to get out and enjoy it!!

Recon – funny thing happened when i was trying to find the information on Fred Tokars like i’d promised i would. it seems there aren’t ANY recent links, stories, etc. about him. HOWEVER there ARE a few semi-recent affidavits of testimonies supposedly by him, that are RESTRICTED in nature. I couldn’t get in them because they’re sealed tighter than Ft. Knoxx — however I had left Lexis/Nexis up and went to get a drink; when I came back an unknown program had downloading unto my computer. I tried to stop it, find it, and i even turned my computer off; but the download happened. It seems when you are too inquisitive about the whereabouts of a Mr. Fred Tokars formerly of Atlanta, Big B wants to know why.

So, he probably IS in witness protection somewhere. Its ashame though — he should be in jail getting gang raped by some guy named Big Joe.

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should be WAS downloading. Sorry.

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Hiya, Midori!

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Any of you ever go to another city’s website to read their local paper? I go to the miami heralds online paper all the time; when you read their blog, say i was reading story about a woman, hispanic, who was an ex-stripper who had her husband killed and in the comments section you get all these people talking about beaners and how they’re ruining society and how the cubans have turned miami into a third world country all of its own; and its funny how prejudice and ignorance is just seeping through their comments.

in seattle? they denigrate the indians and the samoans

in atlanta if the person is black, it’s a big monologue about how the blacks have turned atlanta into this or that.

america has been in existence for 200+ years, but we can never outgrow our own ignorance and bigotry.

amazing ain’t it?

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I am a respected non-partisan political analyst…

I’ve won five Pulitzer’s, nineteen Grammy’s, forty Emmy’s, twelve Peabody’s, eight Oscar’s and a Noble Peace prize.

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The Morgan Freeman joke was funny and both are cool, smooth operators.

We will chill out after the election.

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“The newt needs to get out of politics and enjoy retirement.”

Word up, g.

Lets just say it, these Republican bloggers are the problem.

They have become an insurgent outlier in American blogging. They are ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of their political opposition.

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