More signs — still preliminary — that Iran’s ready to deal
For the moment, I’ll file this under “Believe it when I see it,” but it’s nonetheless encouraging:
“Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency are near agreement on a plan that could lift the veil on some of the Islamic Republic’s past nuclear research, U.N. officials said Tuesday in an announcement that raised hopes for a more comprehensive nuclear accord when Iranian officials meet with six world powers later in the week.
Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said U.N. and Iranian officials settled most of their differences during talks Monday in the Iranian capital and were moving toward a formal pact on making Iran’s nuclear activities more transparent….
“We had expansive and intensive talks in a positive atmosphere,” Amano told Iranian television after the hastily arranged meeting in Tehran.
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, also hailed what he described as “very good talks” with the IAEA leader. “God willing, we will have good cooperation in the future,” he added.”
In a separate line of negotiations, six major countries including the United States will meet with Iranian representatives beginning Wednesday to discuss a deal in which Iran would dismantle its nuclear infrastructure and surrender its stores of highly enriched uranium. In return, harsh economic sanctions against Iran would be lifted.
The odds of success in that negotiation would probably increase if the IAEA inspection deal is finalized, suggesting that Iran is finally willing to concede to international demands. In the past, however, Iran has repeatedly seemed to agree to deals only to back out of them later.
Will this time prove different? Perhaps so. Iran has never before faced economic sanctions so broad and so well-enforced internationally. It’s also pretty clear that if these negotiations fail, military intervention becomes a much more serious option, and that’s a route that nobody should be eager to travel.
Stay tuned. Success is far from guaranteed, but it’s at least worth the effort. As an old Iranian proverb puts it, “Trust in God — but tie your camel tight.”
– Jay Bookman
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TaxPayer
May 22nd, 2012
7:13 pm
Colombia Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Spreads to the DEA
Oh NO! Not the DEA too!
Jm
May 22nd, 2012
7:13 pm
Scout 6:53 – reporters are gathering in the east room shortly for a statement
BTW. What does the Waffle House guy want? He wanted his hashbrowns scattered AND covered, and they were only scattered?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:17 pm
Has Romney comment on this?
Headline: Native American says he was branded with ‘KKK’ in hospital…
G Mare 71( got the living' the red state BLUES!)
May 22nd, 2012
7:17 pm
Josef, you get a rousing, stand up & cheer AMEN from this old lady’s corner. Yeah, I am old, but damn, I do remember some fine things.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 22nd, 2012
7:19 pm
josef @ 7:09
Someone has to keep liberals informed !
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:20 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: 1 in 3 divorce filings contain word ‘FACEBOOK’…
josef
May 22nd, 2012
7:20 pm
G-MARE
As Unmentionable says, “I may be old, but I ain’t blind!”
TaxPayer
May 22nd, 2012
7:21 pm
GOP anti-Bain quotes used in ad from pro-Obama super PAC
As I recall, the Republicans were pretty rough on poor old Mitt before they realized that he was their candidate. Maybe they shouldn’t have been so mean.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 22nd, 2012
7:21 pm
TaxPayer:
Headline: “Secret Service Issues New Regulations”
“The Secret Service has issued new rules of conduct for agents. They can no longer get drunk, procure hookers, have affairs or go to strip bars. The rules say that from now on, if agents feel compelled to engage in such behavior, they can run for public office like everyone else.”
josef
May 22nd, 2012
7:22 pm
D*mn! The blog tonight is better than channel surfing the talking heads!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:23 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: 7 die on Everest in 48-hour span…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:24 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: Dad saves boy before car plunges down cliff — and gets pair of traffic tickets…
JamVet
May 22nd, 2012
7:25 pm
Headline: “I was fired for being too hot.”
I can not tell you how often that has happened to me!
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/bestoftv/2012/05/22/sot-hln-woman-too-hot-for-work-wpix.hln
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:26 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: VIDEO: Pastor Suggests Building 100 Mile-Long Electrified Fence For Gays So They ‘Die Out’…
in other news
May 22nd, 2012
7:26 pm
“Success is far from guaranteed”
Anything under the Obama administration is far from guaranteed.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:28 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: 15-foot black snake loose in SC town…
josef
May 22nd, 2012
7:30 pm
ZamVet
Them’s some b-b-b-big b-b-b-breasties….
Recon 0311 2533
May 22nd, 2012
7:31 pm
“I can not tell you how often that has happened to me!”
Me too…ain’t dreams great
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:31 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: 6 Arrested For Stapling Roommate’s Lips Shut, Torturing Him With Power Tool…
TaxPayer
May 22nd, 2012
7:31 pm
In an effort to reach across the aisle and better communicate with Republicans, Obama followed South Carolina Republican Mick Mulvaney’s lead and spoke to Republicans on an 8th grade level.
Hey. You just can’t make this stuff up.
josef
May 22nd, 2012
7:31 pm
K’chak
@ 7:28
So many lines, so little time…
Jm
May 22nd, 2012
7:32 pm
Kamchak is unhinged. then again, we always knew that
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:33 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: ‘Major’ DC COMICS character to come out of closet…
Moderate Line
May 22nd, 2012
7:34 pm
Moderate Line
May 22nd, 2012
4:24 pm
Jay
May 22nd, 2012
3:57 pm
After that we backed Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war that Iraq started as a way to seize Iranian oil fields, just as he later tried to seize Kuwaiti oil fields. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians died in that war.
++++++
Supporting my statement that the US s”slightly favor” over Jay’s backed is more accurate.
Despite the curious Iran-Contra scandal, the United States clearly favoured Iraq
during the war. Although Washington was not a major arms supplier to Baghdad, it did
provide intelligence at various times and displayed a generally favourable attitude toward
the Iraqis. However, commonly-heard claims that Saddam was a close ally of the United
States are not accurate. While the United States was very close to some of Saddam’s
local allies, Baghdad and Washington always held each other at arm’s length.
http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199289783/01student/cases/iran_iraq_war.pdf
Jm
May 22nd, 2012
7:35 pm
has Obama commented on this?
A New York City system-gaming public school teacher, Alan Rosenfeld, 66, continues to show up for make-work (such as photocopying “duty”), at a salary of $100,000 a year, rather than retire. Rosenfeld was accused in 2001 of making lewd comments to female students in his typing class and removed from classroom duty, but he protested and continues to exercise his union “due process” rights. In a January status report, the New York Post noted that Rosenfeld could have retired four years ago, but that by remaining on the “job,” the value of his pension increases, and the light duty enables him to conduct his real estate business while at “work.”
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:36 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: Man who impersonated dead mom sentenced for fraud…
jconservative
May 22nd, 2012
7:36 pm
“What did we do anyways that originally pissed of the Iranians so much?”
We remained Christian.
Recon 0311 2533
May 22nd, 2012
7:37 pm
It appears that Iran’s toast, at least here on the blog.
Jm
May 22nd, 2012
7:37 pm
when will Obama comment on this?
The most recent government employee to defraud his agency’s worker compensation program (according to prosecutors in Los Angeles) is firefighter Rafael Davis, 35, who received disability payments for about 30 months during 2008-2011 while at the same time engaging in mixed martial arts matches as “The Noodle.” Davis’ record (according to LA Weekly) was 12-2, with seven of those matches coming during his disability period, including six victories. “MMA” (as noted by the newspaper) requires similar “stamina, muscle and coordination” as is required for firefighting.
Jm
May 22nd, 2012
7:38 pm
recon 7:37
josef
May 22nd, 2012
7:40 pm
JM
Didn’t I see them together at Whole Foods…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:40 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: ‘Stolen’ dinosaur skeleton auctioned off…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 22nd, 2012
7:42 pm
Kammie:
“Headline:‘Major’ DC COMICS character to come out of closet…”
It’s “Batman” and he is a pedophile ………… remember “Robin” ?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:43 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: NASCAR INKS ‘GREEN’ DEAL WITH EPA…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 22nd, 2012
7:44 pm
Kammie:
“Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: Man who impersonated dead mom sentenced for fraud…”
Doesn’t count. It has to be a “racial” thing remember? Obama started it.
I guess the “victim” in that case doesn’t look like his daughters.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:44 pm
… remember “Robin” ?
Which one?
Jm
May 22nd, 2012
7:45 pm
josef 7:40 – of course. that’s the only place they shop.
G Mare 71( got the living' the red state BLUES!)
May 22nd, 2012
7:45 pm
Never did get that climbing thing. Upon reading INTO THIN AIR, all I could say is WHY? (Book club made me read it). Same reaction to INTO THE WILD. If I am going to put my life on the line, it must be for causes dear to me. Among those are women’s, children’s, poor & disenfranchides rights to be heard & respected. So if that makes me a “bleeding heart liberal,” I accept the label proudly.
D
Jm
May 22nd, 2012
7:47 pm
Look, Big Mouth Obama should begin giving the evening broadcasts since he has so many things to say.
They guy is full of himself. I want to hear what he has to say about the weather too. That’s important stuff.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:47 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: PITT A HIT IN CANNES…
TaxPayer
May 22nd, 2012
7:48 pm
“Now Mitt is not a perfect candidate. He has a number of problems. It’s hard for blue-collar families like mine to identify with him. It’s hard for economic conservatives to identify with him. He needs to do more to reach out to the Latinos…” —Former New York Gov. George Pataki
Recon 0311 2533
May 22nd, 2012
7:49 pm
“It’s “Batman” and he is a pedophile ………… remember “Robin” ?
0311,8541, A pitcher or a catcher.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:51 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: World’s smallest artificial heart implanted in baby…
Jm
May 22nd, 2012
7:51 pm
when will Obama comment on this?
CBO Warns About ‘Fiscal Cliff’
Josef
May 22nd, 2012
7:52 pm
ZamVet
Anderson Cooper is having a follow up coming up….
TaxPayer
May 22nd, 2012
7:52 pm
“There are a lot of other people out there that some of us wish had run for president—but they didn’t…” —Florida Sen. Marco Rubio
Poor Mitt. And that was a comment from someone that likes Mitt. You should hear what those folks over at Fox had to say about Mitt.
Jm
May 22nd, 2012
7:52 pm
sweet. and unsubsidized (by the gov’t)
u can start shopping / configuring now….
http://www.ford.com/cars/fusion/2013/
Josef
May 22nd, 2012
7:54 pm
Robin was of age of consent…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
7:55 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: 911 Dispatcher Caught Snoring on the Job…
Jm
May 22nd, 2012
7:59 pm
I hope they make a plug in hybrid lincoln mkz…… could be sweet
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
8:00 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: Man accused of punching noisy kid in movie theater
JamVet
May 22nd, 2012
8:00 pm
G Mare 71, mountain climbing is an extremely difficult thing to explain. It is VERY dangerous and there are about twenty different ways to buy the farm up there. But the view from above the clouds is indescribable.
I took the sport up in my 40s (Yeah, I’m dumb!) after seeing a film about Everest at the Fernbank IMAX.
I had always been very intrigued by it but after watching that film, I could not stop thinking about climbing.
Then three weeks later, out of the blue, a buddy of mine called and said he was thinking about climbing Mt. Ranier and was I interested.
I jumped at the chance.
We trained for over a year – Sandia Mountain in New Mexico, among others – and it was still the hardest thing I have ever done! But being up there was spectacular if not grueling.
One of the many highlights was meeting the then 70 year old Lou Whittaker and he was still a specimen! Anybody familiar with American climbing knows that his twin brother, Jim was the first American to summit Everest in 1963.
But I decided that it was a young guys sport and never climbed again…
barking frog
May 22nd, 2012
8:03 pm
Jm
getalife is putting words in your mouth.
getalife
May 22nd, 2012
8:07 pm
frog,
I have to think for cons because they are intellectual lazy bums
Soothsayer
May 22nd, 2012
8:10 pm
In 1992, Bain Capital acquired American Pad & Paper, or Ampad, from Mead Corp., embarking on a ”roll-up strategy” in which a firm buys up similar companies in the same industry in order to expand revenues and cut costs.
Through Ampad, Bain bought several other office supply makers, borrowing heavily each time. By 1999, Ampad’s debt reached nearly $400 million, up from $11 million in 1993, according to government filings.
Sales grew, too – for a while. But by the late 1990s, foreign competition and increased buying power by superstores like Bain-funded Staples sliced Ampad’s revenues.
The result: Ampad couldn’t pay its debts and plunged into bankruptcy. Workers lost jobs and stockholders were left with worthless shares.
Bain Capital, however, made money – and lots of it. The firm put just $5 million into the deal, but realized big returns in short order. In 1995, several months after shuttering a plant in Indiana and firing roughly 200 workers, Bain Capital borrowed more money to have Ampad buy yet another company, and pay Bain and its investors more than $60 million – in addition to fees for arranging the deal.
Bain Capital took millions more out of Ampad by charging it $2 million a year in management fees, plus additional fees for each Ampad acquisition. In 1995 alone, Ampad paid Bain at least $7 million. The next year, when Ampad began selling shares on public stock exchanges, Bain Capital grabbed another $2 million fee for arranging the initial public offering – on top of the $45 million to $50 million Bain reaped by selling some of its shares.
Bain Capital didn’t escape Ampad’s eventual bankruptcy unscathed. It held about one-third of Ampad’s shares, which became worthless. But while as many as 185 workers near Buffalo lost jobs in a 1999 plant closing, Bain Capital and its investors ultimately made more than $100 million on the deal.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 22nd, 2012
8:13 pm
Kammie:
“… remember “Robin” ?
Which one?”
Not you too !!!
Soothsayer
May 22nd, 2012
8:16 pm
“They [Bain Capital] closed down more than 1,000 plants, stores and offices. They outsourced tens of thousands of jobs, and they took 12 companies to bankruptcy. I don’t think those are the values that people want to animate our economy. He is not a job creator, he is a corporate raider. Those aren’t the values that we want to lead our economy.”
— Obama adviser David Axelrod, Jan. 8, 2012
Brosephus™
May 22nd, 2012
8:17 pm
josef
Unite and then some.
Boris Badnoff
May 22nd, 2012
8:17 pm
Never trust a country that has more capital crimes than condiments.
http://gizmodo.com/5877722/iranian-programmer-sentenced-to-death-for-developing-porn-site-software
Bring back the Shah.
Soothsayer
May 22nd, 2012
8:18 pm
“[T]here’s something about raping companies and leaving them in debt and setting up Swiss bank accounts and corporate businesses in the Grand Caymans. I have a real serious problem with that.”
— Rep. Jim Clyburn, May 22, 2012
Soothsayer
May 22nd, 2012
8:20 pm
“[Bain] made as much money off it as they could and they closed it down, they filed for bankruptcy, without any concern for the families or the communities. It was like watching an old friend bleed to death.”
— former GST Steel worker Joe Soptic
godless heathen
May 22nd, 2012
8:21 pm
Sooth,
We already know that Obama Inc hates capitalism. No need to continue to reinforce that with the quotes.
JamVet
May 22nd, 2012
8:22 pm
Of the many excellent reasons to NOT vote for the slimy Mitt Romney – as noted to perfection by Soothsayer – there are five words that will forever rank him among the most disreputable men to ever run for the White House…
Corporations are people, my friends.
Brosephus™
May 22nd, 2012
8:23 pm
JamVet @ 7:25
Those are BAZONGAS!!!!!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
8:27 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio sends two-man posse to Hawaii that stayed there on taxpayer funds in search of Obama’s birth certificate.
Soothsayer
May 22nd, 2012
8:30 pm
Obama Prospects Improve as Swing State Economies Improve
From extra shifts at auto and steel plants in Ohio to office buildings rising in Northern Virginia, the geography of the U.S. economic rebound is providing an edge to President Barack Obama’s re-election.
The unemployment rates in a majority of the 2012 battleground states are lower than the national average as those economies improve. Coupled with the growth of adult minority populations in those states, the trends create a higher bar for presumed Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney in his quest to unseat Obama.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 22nd, 2012
8:32 pm
josef:
What “are” those two guys doing ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbB53CR9b5M&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Brosephus™
May 22nd, 2012
8:33 pm
Kam
Funny you mention that. I was just reading this article here, and I think somebody in Hawaii is having fun at Arizona’s expense….
http://news.yahoo.com/hawaii-trolling-arizonas-presidential-birth-certificate-seeking-secretary-161242830.html
Talking Points Memo got ahold of some of the emails and they reveal some epic trolling on the part of Hawaii’s Deputy Attorney General Jill Nagamine. After Bennett sent an itemized list of all the information he wants verified, Nagamine responded with an even longer list of Hawaii statutes that spell out how they don’t give that information to just anyone and asking under what authority does Bennett thinks he’s entitled to the information.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
8:34 pm
Not you too !!!
The original “Robin”, Dick Grayson went solo as his own superhero, and at least one other teen replaced him. I never got into the comic book craze, everything I know is referenced from the sitcom, “The Big Bang Theory.”
Soothsayer
May 22nd, 2012
8:36 pm
Keystone XL Pipeline Will Raise U.S. Gasoline Prices, Group Says
TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s proposed pipeline to carry crude from the oil sands of Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast would increase gasoline prices, according to a report from an environmental group that opposes the project.
The Keystone XL pipeline would divert crude oil from the U.S. Midwest to refineries along the Gulf Coast geared to producing diesel fuel for export, the Natural Resources Defense Council said in a report today. That will decrease the amount of gasoline produced for U.S. consumers and raise production costs, making the fuel more expensive, according to Anthony Swift, author of the report and an attorney with the environmental group.
Now who’da ever thunk somethin’ like that? That ain’t what they done told us now is it?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
8:36 pm
SoCo/Bro
Yeah that’s it. TBogg’s running with that right now.
Oscar
May 22nd, 2012
8:40 pm
We already know that Obama Inc hates capitalism.
)_______________
Is that one of the lies your father told you?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 22nd, 2012
8:42 pm
Hummmmmmm and ……………… Hummmm ……………… ! Something’s going on out there Libs. !
Headline: “Powell not ready to endorse Obama for re-election”
“Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn’t ready “to throw my weight behind someone” at this time.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/22/powell-not-ready-to-endorse-obama-for-re-election/#ixzz1veIefMBL
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
8:43 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: NC: Loyal White Knights of the KKK sends invites to its cross burning at dusk white unity event
Residents in Reidsville, North Carolina have begun receiving fliers inviting them to a May 26 Ku Klux Klan cross burning intended for “white people only.”
Soothsayer
May 22nd, 2012
8:44 pm
NBC/WSJ Poll: Obama Leads By 4, Still Struggles On The Economy
In the newest poll, Obama leads Romney among African Americans (88 percent to 2 percent), 18 to 34 year olds (55 percent to 35 percent), women (53 percent to 38 percent), independents (44 percent to 36 percent), and seniors (46 percent to 44 percent).
Romney, meanwhile, holds the advantage with whites (52 percent to 39 percent), men (49 percent to 40 percent), suburban residents (47 percent to 41 percent), Midwest residents (48 percent to 43 percent), and high-interest voters (47 percent to 44 percent).
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
8:47 pm
Has Romney commented on this yet?
Headline: Almost No Regular Americans Rank Deficit As Their Top Issue
Just one single percent of Americans rank the deficit as the most important issue for them in choosing a president, according to the new Washington Post/ABC News poll. The percentage of Americans who think the deficit is the most important issue this election is so incredibly tiny that it is practically unmeasurable.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
May 22nd, 2012
8:48 pm
Why don’t you love me like you used to do?
Why do you treat me like a worn-out shoe?
My hair’s still curly and my eyes are still blue;
So why don’t you love me like you used to do?
HankThomas JeffersonJamVet
May 22nd, 2012
8:52 pm
I had forgotten that a high ranking official in the Reign of Error supported the anti-American, Uppity Muslim Without a Birth Certificate in 2008.
What another huge embarrassment for the disgraced Bush/Cheney administration, huh?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 22nd, 2012
8:52 pm
Kammie:
You forget that neither one of them should comment.
But ……….. Obama choose to ……….. twice. Once with that professor who got “tuned up” by the cop and of course the Martin/Zimmerman thing.
Brosephus™
May 22nd, 2012
8:52 pm
Kam
I don’t usually read TBogg’s, but it seems that everybody’s picking up on that story. I’d be embarrassed if I were from Arizona.
Cool vid before I vanish into the night. If you’re not opening your beer like this, you’re not a REAL manly beer drinker….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ-slvv_ZT4
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 22nd, 2012
8:53 pm
JamVet:
You’re not worthy to shine his shoes.
Recon 0311 2533
May 22nd, 2012
8:57 pm
Unless there’s an unlikely major positive turn in the economy before November, it would be an historic event, given today’s economic circumstance, that Obama would be re-elected.
JamVet
May 22nd, 2012
8:58 pm
Nor are you to shine mine, jarhead!
It must infuriate you to no end to know that he voted for Barry because he was black!
LOL…
Soothsayer
May 22nd, 2012
8:59 pm
Rush Limbaugh Ratings Drop In Several Big Markets
Rush Limbaugh’s ratings have dropped sharply in several major markets following the firestorm over his comments about Sandra Fluke, Politico reports.
Limbaugh called Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” for her birth control advocacy, sparking condemnation from President Obama on down and causing many advertisers to flee his show. (One major radio CEO recently admitted that the controversy had cost him millions of dollars.)
Gosh! It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Soothsayer
May 22nd, 2012
9:02 pm
Well, they done canned “Dog the Bounty Hunter.” Now what am I gonna watch?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 22nd, 2012
9:04 pm
SoCo/Bro
The next time I come through airport security, I want you to be on hand to explain that the chainsaw in my possession is about making sure the stewardess is properly prepared to open my beer.
Recon 0311 2533
May 22nd, 2012
9:04 pm
Sooth, I think Limbaugh laughs all the way to his bank. I don’t take the time to listen to him as an unabashed conservative but he presents the conservative view that drives the far-left nuts.
Soothsayer
May 22nd, 2012
9:04 pm
I mean, after all, Duane and Beth is America.
Jay
May 22nd, 2012
9:07 pm
“… but he presents the conservative view that drives the far-left nuts.”
I don’t have a theory about what it might mean, but it’s undeniable that conservatives put a lot more value on “driving liberals nuts” than vice versa.
Tundra Dude
May 22nd, 2012
9:08 pm
Corporations are people, my friends.
Another example of American Exceptionalism.
Is The USA The Only Nation in the World With Corporate Personhood?
opednews.com
It’s not surprising to learn that no nation on earth enshrines in its constitution the right of corporate personhood.
Mila Versteeg, associate law professor at the University of Virginia, is probably the only person in the world to have read every constitution that has been written since 1946– constitutions from 186 nations. She’s not only read them, she’s quantified them, in terms of the rights that they define. That was part of a project she did while at Oxford.
Recon 0311 2533
May 22nd, 2012
9:10 pm
Jay, come on…we love to drive each other nuts and that’s unfortunately why we never get anything done.
Jay
May 22nd, 2012
9:14 pm
Recon, believe me, I’m not trying to draw conclusions from it that one is better than another. I’m just observing that it’s true. Human Events, the conservative magazine, sent out a daily email last year — “365 Ways to Drive Liberals Crazy.” And I hear it pretty often from the right.
I’m honestly not trying to drive you nuts by noting that. :>)
barking frog
May 22nd, 2012
9:15 pm
Too many nuts will lead to a return of squirrels..
Doggone/GA
May 22nd, 2012
9:17 pm
“I don’t have a theory about what it might mean, but it’s undeniable that conservatives put a lot more value on “driving liberals nuts” than vice versa”
Yeah, but see…we can do it without putting any thought or effort into it. Just by being. So we don’t have to put any value on it, it’s just a given!
TaxPayer
May 22nd, 2012
9:20 pm
A little perspective on the thought process of our con brethren regarding civil rights.
JamVet
May 22nd, 2012
9:21 pm
T Dude,
In my useless opinion, corporate personhood is a perversion of the highest degree.
That we have so many spineless *real* people who are willing to just give away their sovereignty is beyond explanation…
barking frog
May 22nd, 2012
9:26 pm
JamVet
The American Revolution
was as much against
corporations as it was
against the King.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 22nd, 2012
9:26 pm
“I don’t have a theory about what it might mean, but it’s undeniable that conservatives put a lot more value on “driving liberals nuts” than vice versa.”
Because it’s amusing to us !
Recon 0311 2533
May 22nd, 2012
9:26 pm
“I’m honestly not trying to drive you nuts by noting that. :>)”
Don’t worry Jay many have called me nuts. I must say, however, that in my old age I’ve learned that it doesn’t pay. I’m reformed nuts but probably still on the fringe. Semper Fi.
Tundra Dude
May 22nd, 2012
9:28 pm
corporate personhood is a perversion of the highest degree.
Just one consequence of having a corporate go-fer in the white house.
They appoint fellow go-fers to the Supreme court.