Let’s raise a glass to the hard-working people! (You and me)
As we slide into the Labor Day weekend, I cannot think of a more appropriate way to mark the holiday than to enlist some exceedingly rich people — all of them self-made capitalists of course — to sing the praises of the hard-working people, the lowly of birth, the rag-tagged people, the salt of the earth.
So … SAAALLLUTTTTE!
– Jay Bookman
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Brosephus™
September 2nd, 2012
7:41 pm
Now some of you libs. will say that’s freedom of religion and she voluntarily does that.
One question. Did you ask her if she wears it on her own or whether she’s “forced” to wear it?
Mr_B
September 2nd, 2012
7:43 pm
Scout: I don’t suppose you actually asked her whether or not she wished to maintain her HER religion’s standards of female modesty or not?
Christians have also voluntarily done things most would consider uncomfortable, or even foolish, for the sake of their beliefs.
Recon 0311 2533
September 2nd, 2012
7:43 pm
Just checked in to wish y’all a happy labor day weekend and the last holiday weekend of the Summer. They sure go quickly. Enjoy.
paulo977
September 2nd, 2012
7:44 pm
Jam Vet …….the power of his concerts was absolutely palpable..!!!
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” horrible Omni ” but what a great song that just energized so many !!!.
What is there about these talented souls who leave us so young?
One finds inspiration from their music and a sense that life has its wonders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efro-QrHdnk
josef
September 2nd, 2012
7:44 pm
HE WHOSE NAME FOR HIMSELF I CANNOT USE HERE
Not to put too fine a point on it, but passing by Beth Jacob last p.m., I was thinking a similar thing about the heat and humidity and the clothing…the same could be said for Old Order Mennonites, Amish, traditional Holinists and several others…
How do I personally feel about it? Like Granddaddy said when I was toying with the idea of wearing the kippah, “do as you so choose, Jody. It’s a free country. But you could go ahead and put a kick me sign on your b*tt for your efforts, too,”
I can support the “right” to what one considers religious dress and at the same time say you can’t complain when the general public thinks you’re bat sh*t crazy…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 2nd, 2012
7:45 pm
Where is N.O.W. ?
josef
September 2nd, 2012
7:46 pm
He ne ha…
In case you should check back in….got a Pow Wow one to share with you…
You libs
September 2nd, 2012
7:48 pm
I think the socks come out at night here.
Might be some ethanol program.
skydog
September 2nd, 2012
7:49 pm
0311 -” Only problem was she was draped in black from head to toe and only a little “slit” for her eyes.”
…and I saw a whole church of Talibaptist standing around this morning in this heat and humidity with coats on. You are wearing a coat and it`s 92?
Jm-predator extraordinaire, aka panther man
September 2nd, 2012
7:49 pm
Gotta eat me some corn fed beef
josef
September 2nd, 2012
7:56 pm
JM
Just make sure they weren’t corn fed with the leftovers from the squeezings…!
Drive down to the likker store (now open on Sunday!) in an ethanol powered car, grab you some corn liquor, go by the Publix and pick up some leftovers fed steaks, a little corn on the cob, and celebrate labor day feeling good about all that environmentally friendly stuff…
And, well, since it IS Pow Wow time in Indian Country, give a nod to the folks that taught us how to grow it…
Orange12
September 2nd, 2012
7:57 pm
“I think the socks come out at night here.”
Not really, you did catch me a little flat footed though.
skydog
September 2nd, 2012
8:06 pm
Before Fleetwood Mac.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ammYGQyhQ
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 2nd, 2012
8:11 pm
Excellent article:
“DO MUSLIN WOMEN WANT TO WEAR THE BURKA?”
“Those who frame the wearing of the burka as a feminist issue of the “right to choose” a mode of dress are in grave danger of colluding in the bullying of those who have no “right to choose” and are compelled to live in stifling darkness and worse.”
http://pol-check.blogspot.com/2011/04/do-muslim-women-want-to-wear-burka.html
Brosephus™
September 2nd, 2012
8:12 pm
I think the socks come out at night here.
Might be some ethanol program.
skydog
September 2nd, 2012
8:13 pm
Don`t ask me what I think of you, I might not give you the answer you want me to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yq-Fw7C26Y
josef
September 2nd, 2012
8:16 pm
Was out the other day at the local shopping center…saw a burka clad woman getting out from behind the wheel to do her shopping unattended by a male…my thought was, “well, looks like Sharia has its ‘get out of Leviticus free’ card, too…”
You libs
September 2nd, 2012
8:18 pm
skydog
Peter Green and another one of that handful of legendary 59′ Les Pauls.
skydog
September 2nd, 2012
8:19 pm
DO TALIBAPIST MEN WANT TO WEAR THE NECK TIE?
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
8:20 pm
Half of us corn production is now used for ethanol.
Even after he is presented whits the hard cold proof, the kid STILL makes up his own nonsense!!!
Incredible. But food for a drink!
http://www.ethanolproducer.com/articles/8611/world-of-corn-report-breaks-down-corn-used-for-ethanol-ddgs
To paraphrase Pink Floyd, he is comfortably dumb…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 2nd, 2012
8:20 pm
Galations chapter three:
“23 Before the coming of this faith,[j] we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. 24 So the law was our guardian until Christ (Messiah) came that we might be justified by faith. 25 Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian (the law).”
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
8:24 pm
paulo, I love her version of that song.
And look at skydog!
Linking a clip from that absolutely fantastic Buckingham Nicks LP!
I paid $30 for a perfect copy back in the 1990’s and there was a gal shopping there who told me she had bought the only other copy the week before.
Good karma and insanely good music! I list in my top 20 records of all time…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb5xl56pSRM
josef
September 2nd, 2012
8:24 pm
skydog
That Taliabaptist one is not particularly open minded, you know. It shows your own bigotry, imauo.
HE WHOSE NAME….
As I said, a get out of Leviticus free card…I understand your scriptural New Testament point of departure, but, and you know this is true, it’s a Chinese menu of pick and choose…
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
8:28 pm
That record store in Norcross was one of my favorite haunts in the day. Me and my great friend, Dave, an extremely accomplished Chicago born guitarist, went there once and I sang a bit of a Who song, that we did not the name of, or the record it was on, for the owner, who laughed and steered me right to it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gXuBRMtU2A
(The picture on the link is bogus, it is on Odds and Sods.
getalife
September 2nd, 2012
8:30 pm
Economists predict we recover 12 million jobs in his second term.
The same risk taker robme predicts.
The taxpayers will take a huge risk with this gop clown.
Mr_B
September 2nd, 2012
8:30 pm
JamVet: Was cruisin around looking for a good union/ Labor day song and stumbled on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUa7_T7heNo&feature=related
Still crazy after all these years.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 2nd, 2012
8:31 pm
“The just shall live by faith.”
getalife
September 2nd, 2012
8:33 pm
“The meek shall inherit the Earth”.
Mr_B
September 2nd, 2012
8:34 pm
“The meek shall inherit the Earth”.
Touche`
They BOTH suck
September 2nd, 2012
8:35 pm
“……as well as cherry picking”
just saying
skydog
September 2nd, 2012
8:36 pm
Yeah, maybe so Josef, but I was subjected to their rule until I could get away.
(I got Baptist dunking papers I can produce if needed)
I`m not a bigot josef, I don`t like Catholic doctrine equally as much. (Not the folks necessarily, but the teachings)
josef
September 2nd, 2012
8:36 pm
getalife
One of the cartoons in my collection is of the old sign carrying guy walking down the street…buildings in disrepair, smoke, smog, pollution, muggings, etc all around. His sign? “The meek don’t want it!”
They BOTH suck
September 2nd, 2012
8:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpsyrfoX8zw
They BOTH suck
September 2nd, 2012
8:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stBOhNxLrbM&feature=fvwrel
josef
September 2nd, 2012
8:41 pm
skydog
It sounds more like deep psychological problems stemming back to early childhood…you can disagree and disagree strongly with the particular brand you were brought up under and rejected without being mean spirited. That, to me, is simply following what it is you claim to have “escaped.”
Again, that’s just the way I see things. I don’t expect anyone to agree or disagree, that’s why I said imauo.
getalife
September 2nd, 2012
8:41 pm
josef,
I don’t blame them.
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
8:41 pm
…good union/ Labor day song…
Indeed, Mr_B. What a kickin’ version, and what a GREAT song for the heads back in the day! (It took me years to learn what chicken meant!)
If I was King I would pass an edict.
Starting immediately all of the ungrateful union busing Republicans would work a 12 hour day tomorrow.
Further Scout and gang would get no weekends off. Ever.
They would also forfeit all workplace protections and rights.
No overtime pay.
No insurance benefits.
No paid leave. For any reason.
And their kids would work right beside them, 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
Fortunately for the parasites they are kept by better union men and women who fought and sometimes died for THEIR benefits…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbO2_077ixs
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 2nd, 2012
8:42 pm
It was just the other day when I was standing in line at Whole Foods behind this big __________ lady with a grocery cart filled with PROM BURKAS, a you know what? She was paying for them with FOOD STAMPS!
josef
September 2nd, 2012
8:44 pm
K’CHAK
Prom burkas!
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
8:45 pm
Kam, LOL!
Scout and Filky need to go shopping together!
They BOTH suck
September 2nd, 2012
8:47 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXNUjhvY0jI
skydog
September 2nd, 2012
8:52 pm
josef – “It sounds more like deep psychological problems stemming back to early childhood…”
You are right josef. The problem was the church trying to sell me “seperate but equal” from the pulpit.
I wasn`t but 11, but I knew that sh*t could not be right.
Fred ™
September 2nd, 2012
8:52 pm
josef
September 2nd, 2012
7:46 pm
He ne ha…
In case you should check back in….got a Pow Wow one to share with you…
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So how was the Pow wow? We were all set to go and then the little one heard an ad on the Jesus station (104.7) about some concert/festival in Marietta that they were hosting and decided she wanted to do that instead. Since I don’t do Baptists very well I stayed home here. I went to Mellow Mushroom instead and drank beer and watched football lol.
Mr_B
September 2nd, 2012
8:54 pm
Here’s another one for ya Jamvet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1gX0SxtidI
Fred ™
September 2nd, 2012
8:55 pm
josef
September 2nd, 2012
8:24 pm
skydog
That Taliabaptist one is not particularly open minded, you know. It shows your own bigotry, imauo.
++++++++++++++++++++
But it’s accurate. I have learned NOT to trust a Southern Baptist. They taught me that and I have tested the “rule” enough and been burnt enough so that I will NEVER forget the rule. If that makes me a bigot in your eyes I can live quite well with that, but I’m not changing. Modern day Sadducees and Pharisees those rat bastrds are…………
They BOTH suck
September 2nd, 2012
8:55 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X34JarNjoIU
josef
Good points on religion and faith. You seem to have a different take when it comes to southerners and northerners, no?
Not attempting to be a smart ass but asking.
Fred ™
September 2nd, 2012
8:56 pm
I was gonna wait until tomorrow for Labor Day songs but here’s one early:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0
josef
September 2nd, 2012
8:57 pm
skydog
I’m not trying to pick a fight, understand, it’s just that as a religious (not pious
) individual, it bothers me whenever another’s brand is ridiculed. A religious doctrine and its institutions are reflective of the time and place and some congregations within that faith may be highly progressive and others not so much and, in each case, will cherry pick as Both says, to fit their particular stance.
They BOTH suck
September 2nd, 2012
8:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JybkqBGrVs&feature=related
josef
September 2nd, 2012
9:03 pm
BOTH
Oh, when it comes to Northerners and Southerners, well, I have to admit, when I rejected their Sharia version of things, well…the zeal of the reformed!
Seriously, though, and this goes for Fred and skydog, the problem here is that it IS the zeal of the convert and, imauo, that is always suspect…
FRED
The Pow Wow was as it should have been…the bookseller didn’t have what I was looking for, though…
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
9:05 pm
We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike. ~Adolph Hitler
Sounds kinda like Scott Walker and plenty of other GOP thugs!
I really do abhor our American fascists…
It turns out May 2, 1933 — the date of the quote attributed to Hitler — was a pretty important day in the history of the Nazi regime’s relationship with German labor. The day before, Hitler had staged a massive May Day rally — the first held in Germany under official state auspices, according to Shirer — at Berlin’s Tempelhof airfield. Labor leaders from throughout the country had attended, and Shirer estimates the crowd reached 100,000 people. However, that night Goebbels wrote in his diary:
Tomorrow we shall occupy the trade-union buildings. There will be little resistance (William Shirer, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 179).
In a footnote, Shirer cites an April 21, 1933 document detailing the extensive plans for occupying the union halls and destroying their organizations on May 2. This document was entered into evidence at the Nuremberg trials, and shows that the planning for the May 2 destruction of the unions had begun weeks in advance. The Goebbels diary entry and the April 21 document make it unlikely that Hitler would have made a statement on the second about the need to destroy unions. Everyone in his inner circle already knew that was going to happen. Returning to the narrative, Shirer writes:
On May 2 the trade-union headquarters throughout the country were occupied, union funds confiscated, the unions dissolved and the leaders arrested. Many were beaten and lodged in concentration camps (ibid).
Within three weeks the hollowness of another Nazi promise was exposed when Hitler decreed a law bringing an end to collective bargaining and providing that henceforth ”labor trustees,” appointed by him, would ”regulate labor contracts” and maintain ”labor peace.”185 Since the decisions of the trustees were to be legally binding, the law, in effect, outlawed strikes. Ley promised ”to restore absolute leadership to the natural leader of a factory – that is, the employer . . . Only the employer can decide. Many employers have for years had to call for the ’master in the house.’ Now they are once again to be the ’master in the house’ ” (ibid, p. 180).
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 2nd, 2012
9:08 pm
Josef
you cherry pick because you are one of those
Mr_B
September 2nd, 2012
9:09 pm
josef: Amen. The same institution that produces a Torquemada also produces a Mother Theresa.and a St. Francis.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 2nd, 2012
9:13 pm
Fred
The late great Molly Ivins recounts a true (according to her) story of a late 19th century Texas newspaper editor that once wrote something along the lines of, “The problem with our Texas Baptists is that we don’t hold them under the water long enough.”
Well, it seems that someone took offense and shot the feller in the back, but before he died, that newspaper editor drew his gun and killed his assailant before he expired.
Normal Free, Pro Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
September 2nd, 2012
9:15 pm
Eco? Try Eco Elvis…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VbjtkKQ8Dk&feature=related
Brosephus™
September 2nd, 2012
9:16 pm
josef
I saw this one and thought I should pass it on to you…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/aetna-coventry-and-the-arms-race-in-health-care/2012/08/31/21f622c8-f0ab-11e1-ba17-c7bb037a1d5b_story.html
But a deal that is a boon to Coventry and Aetna shareholders is bad news for the rest of us, reducing the potential for greater competition in the health-care sector at the very time that the country is looking to competition to improve the quality of care and bring runaway costs under control.
Your people over at Aetna are at it again… I think it’s time to officially declare shenanigans on them.
josef
September 2nd, 2012
9:17 pm
Common Sense…
Well, there is THAT!
Mr B
Exactly.
ZamVet
It’s interesting you should bring that up, at the family pow wow, I got into a tangle when I called Ryan a fascist, and not for his economic plan. The point I was trying to make was that those singing his praises were completely missing the point that his selection SIGNALED a move to curtail mine and Unmentionable’s right to this, that or the other and then, slowly and methodically at first, extend that social program to limit their own. They were not at all impressed when they protested their own personal “I don’t agree with that, but there are bigger things,” and I called them “the good Germans.”
It’s just one more brick in the wall…
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
9:17 pm
The same institution that produces a Torquemada also produces a Mother Theresa.and a St. Francis.
What a very wise observation, Mr_B.
I know that there are lots of good people out there who quietly help others and I’ve written before how the church is often the very last refuge for those who are hungry, desperate and war stricken.
Although what a shame that the face of it, in this country, has been so horribly perverted and polluted by evangelical charlatans and tawdry frauds by the score – Falwell, Robertson, Reed, Haggard, Binn, Swaggert, the Bakers, Tilton, Long and on and on and on.
And let’s face it, even on this forum, the most pious are often examples of that toxic pollution.
Even so…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEvy8mROAj0
Mr_B
September 2nd, 2012
9:19 pm
It’s not a song,exactly, but it is America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzByinTJIyA
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 2nd, 2012
9:21 pm
Good Editorial (ABC):
“It’s Obama vs. Obama as Democratic National Convention Begins”
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — “President Obama has met his own worst enemy, and his name is Barack Obama.
As the Democratic National Convention gets underway this week in North Carolina — a state that epitomized the Obama wave of 2008 but has slipped steadily from the Democrats’ grasp since then — memories of the hope and expectations the president embodied four years ago loom over the gathering.
It’s a sentiment more threatening to the president’s reelection chances than the caricature of an ineffective president perpetuated by some on the right.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/world-news-political-insights-its-obama-vs-obama-as-democratic-national-convention-begins/
You libs
September 2nd, 2012
9:22 pm
joseph
The elders of the wisdom tradition that I avail myself to always admonish us to respect other wisdom traditions.
Most of them have never been exposed to fundamentalist religious thought. I have wondered many times if they might modify their message if they were exposed to more Western religious thought.
I saw my own mentor absolutely besieged by students from a Baptist college when he decided to do one of the only two public programs that he’s done in more than a decade since I’ve known him. Their first comment to him was that there was Hell, and then there was a special Hell that is an ocean of fire that is reserved for those like him.
Within ten minutes they were laughing with him, smiling, and telling him they would pray for his salvation. He is a vast body of positive energy.
I don’t have the patience to fend off the hatred and change the hearts of fundamentalists. It is an obstacle to my own human development.
Brosephus™
September 2nd, 2012
9:22 pm
Seems like I’ve spent a great deal of time on WaPo’s website today. If y’all have the time, here’s two that I read today that should give pause to workers everywhere on Labor Day.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-workers-face-an-economic-power-gap/2012/09/02/c2ed2468-f3aa-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html
On Labor Day 2012, U.S. workers are in dire straits, and an increasing share of elite opinion says it’s their own damned fault.
Not quite so bluntly, of course. But it’s impossible to read the business press and the editorial pages without encountering the argument that the economy hasn’t perked up because of the “skills gap.” U.S. workers, this thinking goes, just don’t have the skills required by our advanced economy. If only our workers and schools were better, if only teachers unions ceased to exist, all would be well.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/can-we-save-american-capitalism/2012/08/31/800de6be-f04e-11e1-ba17-c7bb037a1d5b_story.html
A dozen Labor Days — and three presidential elections — ago, the world was in the thrall of American-style capitalism. Not only had it vanquished communism, but it was widening its lead over Japan Inc. and European-style socialism.
Today, that economic hegemony seems a distant memory. We have watched the bursting of two giant financial bubbles, wiping out the paper wealth many of us thought we had in our homes and retirement accounts. We have suffered through two long recessions and a lost decade of income growth for the average family. We continue to rack up large trade and budget deficits. Virtually all of the country’s economic growth and productivity gains have been captured by the top 10 percent of households, while moving up the economic ladder has become more difficult. And other countries are beginning to turn to China, Germany, Sweden and even Israel for lessons in how to organize their capitalist economies.
It’s no wonder, then, that large numbers of Americans have begun to question the superiority of our brand of free-market capitalism. This disillusionment is reflected not only in public opinion polls but on the shelves of American bookstores, where the subject has attracted many of the best economists in the country. Retooling American capitalism has become something of an national — and even international — obsession.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 2nd, 2012
9:22 pm
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.” John 18:18
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
9:24 pm
jonix, not that I’m ever prone to dramatic hyperbole (LOL at me!), but in some ways I honestly do think that more than a few of the Republican platform planks are flat out evil.
Look no further than what the obscene cons came up with in Tampa last week:
Republicans emphatically approved a toughly worded party platform at their national convention today that would ban ALL abortions and gay marriages, reshape Medicare into a voucher-like program and reject federal spending as an antidote for the nation’s ailing job market.
And yes, this good German ain’t EVER got stop fighting to keep the b@st@ards from getting away with any of it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpTOfr5TeOQ
They BOTH suck
September 2nd, 2012
9:25 pm
Jam
Check out these tunes when you get a chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TANvQcPlHs&feature=related
TaxPayer
September 2nd, 2012
9:25 pm
Oh purveyor of all worldly knowledge of religious garb, Scout,
Do Mormon men want to wear the “special” underwear?
skydog
September 2nd, 2012
9:26 pm
josef – “zeal of the convert”
I don`t know what that means?
josef, have you ever sat through a Baptist sing along? The music alone was enough to make me bolt.
I`m not making this up. I would tell my parents I was going to sit in the balcony. I would skip out and go walk the streets of Albany. One morning I`m walking and hear a joyous noise coming from the black church across the town square. I go sit in a magnolia tree outside the window.(pre air conditioner days)
The music was glorious. I did this for years.
Later I found out the piano player at this church was Albany`s own Ray Charles.
Every Sunday mom would asked how I liked the service?
It was great ma, especially the music.
josef
September 2nd, 2012
9:26 pm
BROSEPHUS
Whoah! Just when you think there’s nothing that stays the same, eh? And, yeah, I think it’s time to call ‘em in…
And that graphic! That hand kinda makes you wonder if “one of ours” ain’t on staff at the Post, eh? Subtle, but for those “in the know!” Hats off!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 2nd, 2012
9:29 pm
…have you ever sat through a Baptist sing along?
Yes.
Twice during the week and twice on Sundays
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
9:29 pm
Talk about hatred.
The piety is hysterical coming from Corporal “The Only Good Muslim is a Dead Muslim” Scout…
Back at ya, BOTH…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY2iKzm62AM
Mr_B
September 2nd, 2012
9:32 pm
And yes, this good German ain’t EVER got stop fighting to keep the b@st@ards from getting away with any of it…
Sind Sie auch deutch?
skydog
September 2nd, 2012
9:33 pm
…have you ever sat through a Baptist sing along?
…and I had to sit between my parents. I inherited their singing genes.
That`s why I`m a drummer.
moonbat betty
September 2nd, 2012
9:34 pm
Hope all of you were able to do some physical work or play outside today.
It was a real sweat shop.
Time for a cold one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03TgkCVDlrA
skydog
September 2nd, 2012
9:36 pm
Bottom of 9th, Braves behind 7-3 and Chipper hits a walk off homer.
Brosephus™
September 2nd, 2012
9:37 pm
JamVet
Did you get to page 12 of that document?
“We oppose any restrictions or conditions that would discourage Americans from exercising their constitutional right to enter the political fray or limit their commitment to their ideals,” it declares on page 12. The platform calls for repeal of what remains of McCain-Feingold — mainly the ban on “soft” money contributions to parties — and either raising or abolishing donation limits. It also opposes passage of any law that would weaken the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which did away with prohibitions against corporate or union spending on elections. The platform specifically mentioned the Democrat-supported DISCLOSE Act, which would require independent groups to list the names of those donating more than $10,000.
(h/t to Bill Turque)
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josef
With the Post, one can never tell. You know there are many who are passers and nobody would ever know their true connections.
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
9:37 pm
Nein, Mr_B.
My mom was born and raised in Freiburg im Brisgau and fled Hitler, barely escaping to England as a 12 year old.
But she was all about having nothing to do with those days when she got here, so I was exposed to none of it.
Ironically, she told me this morning that she was thinking of her dad (an attorney in Germany who died a bellhop in London) as today was his birthday. (His dad died in a Nazi camp in France.)
Obviously, I never met him, but my grandfather was a small, jolly man whose nickname was “Pootzie”…
josef
September 2nd, 2012
9:39 pm
skydog
As a child my Granddaddy made sure I went to every “brand” in the area, and then made sure that I was exposed to those in the city that had no congregations in our small town…it was so I would learn to appreciate the diversity of the homo sapiens’ search for G-d and order and meaning to the universe.
I know the Broadman and Baptist hymnals cover to cover and dearly love them…as a child we lived across the street from the Holinist Church. Sitting with Mama on the front verandah listening to Sister Bessie Wolf on the piano and the joyous singing was a truly spiritual experience, the “joyful noise unto the L-rd.”
As I’m sure ZamVet will attest, all that was a decided break from the hymns we had in temple…talk about staid! Even G-d’s Frozen People (the Anglicans) aren’t THAT dull!
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
9:40 pm
…Chipper hits a walk off homer.
NIIICE!
What a final season in a Hall of Fame career!
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
September 2nd, 2012
9:44 pm
Maybe the ICE staff person harassed him to the point of having PTSD
Well, after reading the story about that woman now I know the whole guvmint has got wussified. From what I could see, the woman was pretty good-looking. And two of the men suing claim she called them up in their hotel room and asked if she could come give them a BJ. Now instead of asking how quick she could get there, they went and hired lawyers and started suing.
I guess I’m too danged old to figure out how things work nowadays. Have a good night everybody.
josef
September 2nd, 2012
9:45 pm
Mr. B
Nein, kein Tropfen deutschen Blutes, daß ich wissen. Wer weiß, was unter dem Holzstapel ist!
Mr_B
September 2nd, 2012
9:46 pm
“G-d’s Frozen People ”
Now,thass funny! I thought those were the Lutherans.
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
9:48 pm
BOTH, I’m fairly shocked. But so far, that album is eminently “listenable”…
I had no idea!
josef
September 2nd, 2012
9:49 pm
BROSEPHUS
josef
September 2nd, 2012
9:49 pm
BROSEPHUS
They BOTH suck
September 2nd, 2012
9:50 pm
Jam
Old school Preist.
It is pretty damn good hard rock as opposed the “heavy metal” they are known for in the late 70s and 80s
skydog
September 2nd, 2012
9:50 pm
With due respect to the Baptists hymnals, this just sounded more godly to me at 11.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQXsM1l2wZ8
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 2nd, 2012
9:54 pm
I know the Broadman and Baptist hymnals cover to cover and dearly love them…
Ugh!
You should try standing and singing 30 verses of Just As I Am for twenty minutes. The ladies in the church began complaining that the invocation was taking too long and the Sunday roast in the oven that had been timed was sitting in a hot oven for too long. The message was clear, six verses were enough, and if no one came forward after that then WRAP IT UP!
JamVet
September 2nd, 2012
9:56 pm
Bro. a bunch of perverted sovereignty-sell outs.
Corporatists who want to have a government of the big corporations, by the big corporations and for the big corporations.
Because they sure as hell hate Uncle Sam and that we the people stuff…
Brosephus™
September 2nd, 2012
9:56 pm
Lesen dieses ganzen Deutsch macht mich will ein Weizenbier und Schnitzel
They BOTH suck
September 2nd, 2012
9:56 pm
My gf tuned me into this dude….
He can flat lay it down, if you like Gospel music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWrGjzBheno&feature=relmfu
moonbat betty
September 2nd, 2012
9:57 pm
Freaks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alFpBTx2DxY
Mr_B
September 2nd, 2012
9:57 pm
Josef, your taxing my rusty German vocabulary. (I had to look up “woodpile.”)
Jam: Don’t you have a Kansas connection? My great grandparents emigrated to the Kansas City area just after the turn of the 20th century.
skydog
September 2nd, 2012
9:58 pm
My dad was a banker and one of the perks for being a banker was he had the local morning radio dj play “Just A Closer Walk With Tee” every morning……………for 10 years.
He would sing along. He should have been a drummer.
Fred ™
September 2nd, 2012
9:59 pm
LOL Kammie, the only thing worse than 30 verses of Just as I Am is that same preacher coming to supper and his 3 hour prayer before you could eat…….
Brosephus™
September 2nd, 2012
9:59 pm
JamVet
Yet the mindless cheer them on, to the detriment of the entire country. I’d love nothing more than to see both politial parties scandalize themselves into oblivion.
Y’all have fun. It’s lights out time here…
josef
September 2nd, 2012
10:00 pm
Mr B…
So did I! Not a word I’ve found much use for!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 2nd, 2012
10:01 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syV2LkGpQB0
TAPS !
Mr_B
September 2nd, 2012
10:01 pm
Nicht schnitzel heir; aber bratwurst am grill fur Arbeiterstag.
Fred ™
September 2nd, 2012
10:03 pm
What does Arbeiterstag mean?
Mr_B
September 2nd, 2012
10:03 pm
“So did I! Not a word I’ve found much use for!”
Depends how far back in the Schwarzwald you live, I guess.