If Washington’s tone has changed, this is why

Oh, boy! Graphs and charts in colors…our boy’s back in the swing of things…

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“And finally, we have this, which helps to explain why, despite passionate promises to the contrary, the Republicans will not be pushing the government into default or shutting down the government anytime soon:”

Huh…didn’t know that Congress was made up exclusively of Republicans or that the GOP had taken the Senate back. Interesting.

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Face it, the President is a good guy.

Nice family man, well educated , well spoken and hardworking.

He got handed a mess and has managed to get most of pretty well cleaned up.

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“Nice family man, well educated , well spoken and hardworking.”

So many lines, so little time!

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While the mainstream press routinely reports that President Obama is riding high and that Republicans are reeling, Gallup tells a rather different story about the popularity of our newly reelected president. Across Gallup’s entire history of presidential job-approval polling — dating back to 1945 — every president but one has had a higher job-approval rating in the January following his reelection than Obama has. No president has had a lower rating than Obama’s.

Gallup shows Obama’s average approval rating so far this January as being just 52 percent. President George W. Bush’s average approval rating in January 2005, immediately following his reelection, was also 52 percent. This can hardly be a source of satisfaction for Obama, who ran against Bush not once but twice — without Bush’s being on the ticket either time.

But it gets worse. President Clinton beat Obama by 8 percentage points, as Clinton’s average approval rating in January 1997 (immediately following his reelection) was 60 percent. President Reagan beat Obama by 11 points, as his average approval rating in January 1985 was 63 percent. President Nixon beat Obama by 7 points, as his average approval rating in January 1973 was 59 percent. President Eisenhower beat Obama by 21 points, as his average approval rating in January 1957 was 73 percent. And President Truman — who barely beat Thomas Dewey— beat Obama by 17 points, as Truman’s average approval rating in January 1949 was 69 percent.

So, out of the seven postwar presidents who won reelection — a test that only Presidents Johnson, Carter, and George H. W. Bush failed (as President Kennedy was killed in office and President Ford was never elected in the first place) — Obama is currently tied for last place in popularity. Moreover, Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton not only all had higher approval ratings at this stage of their presidencies than Obama does, but their approval ratings dwarfed Obama’s — beating his by an average of 13 points.

By historical standards, Obama can hardly be viewed as entering his second term as a strong, popular, and well-respected president.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

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Here – sounds like you want your own self and a bunch like you to get guns and take over. Then you will be in control. That’s what it sounds like. It does.

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I heard NY Gov. Como has dropped 15 points since pulling his stunt on guns while he still has good numbers, I notice an uptick and down tick in Jay’s graph. Is this a trend??

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Oh. I saw the title and thought it was going to be about MSNBC falsely editing the video tape about the man being heckled.

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Um, Oscar you know The Onion is satire, right? I’m a Christian, which means I’m not a huge fan of guns or taking over the government.

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Here – satire is hard to pick up on a comment board. And I don’t know what the Onion is. Never heard of it.
I know about the Blooming Onion you can get at Chilie’s.

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RB from Gwinnett, You speak with straight tongue and you actually tell the truth. There are so many who live in lala land and want to only hear what they want to hear. obama is a master at that. Give him credit! This phoniness will end on its own because the ones who pay the bills will fold up their tents and go home. Won’t be tomorrow but it will be here in time. It is what it is! God bless what’s left of America!

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OSCAR

http://www.theonion.com/

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Thanks Jay.

I think the Repubs are in trouble as long as Boehner is the speaker. I just don’t know how they left him in that position after his disaster of a first run. I was very disappointed in that selection.

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Well when Obama leaves office he can move to his mansion in Kenya, SS protection around the clock and his check will go much further LOL

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Yeah, but it rubs me the wrong way that, despite their commercials announcer, Chili’s food has never seemed particularly Australian.

And The Onion is America’s Finest News Source.

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Josef – Thanks. LIked the 2018 picture of Miss America.

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DownInAlbany @ 5:03, you must have overlooked giving credit to the weekly standard.

I’ll help you out…

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/gallup-obama-tied-bush-least-popular-reelected-president_698120.html

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Common – Why on earth would you think Obama would want to move to Kenya.
Oh, I got it – more satire. I miss it every time.

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Jay, no matter how much public approval he gets, cons here will still say what a bad job Obama is doing.

Fox News, Rush and their fundamentalist pastors have convinced them Obama is essentially a tool of the Devil.

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Well, I see the Feds are butting in where they don’t belong and cracking down on the hiring of illegals. Now I’m in favor of a crackdown if the illegals are doing jobs us rednecks want. But they’re cracking down on all the crop picking jobs that are a lot of hard work for very low pay and few breaks and no redneck would touch them and they’re liable to raise the price of stuff we buy.

Anyway, I just wish the Feds would let us tell them where to crack down. If they keep this up I’ll probly have to cut out a night at Billy Bob’s because of all the high grocery prices.

Have a good night everybody.

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One question I have about the proposed position on illegals.

They want to give them a path to legal citizenship for those that have been here for years and hold jobs.
But they also want to crack down on the companies and people hiring undocumented workers.
So, if they all get fired and can’t get work, how do they continue to support themselves and their families until they get documented from their path to citizenship.
Theft income?

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According to Jay Carney, Obama demanded the sequester because he figgered that the effects would be so bad that congress would do anything to avoid it. He is now blaming the sudden shrinking of the economy on –who else?—-the republicans because the sequester seems on track to take place.

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Speaking of polls what ever happened to Texas Governor Rick Perry?

From PPP

“PPP’s newest poll finds that only 31% of voters think Perry should seek reelection next year, compared to 62% who think it’s time for him to step aside. He’s among the most unpopular Governors in the country, with only 41% of voters approving of him to 54% who disapprove.”

Republicans are down everywhere.

Speaking of Texas, PPP also shows that Texans, yes Texans, support an assault weapons ban 49% – 41%.

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Michael

Hunh? Not following that…

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“He is now blaming the sudden shrinking of the economy on –who else?—-the republicans ”

I don’t typically go for calling the POTUS names, but Oblame-a is starting to fit a bit too well to avoid it.

How’s that cookie, Jay? Tasty? Filling? Did it go down well with that 4th quarter GDP decline you’re having to swallow? Remember, the real hit is going to be in January 2014 when every small business cuts employees hours to avoid the penalties. If you think that 4th quarter decline was depressing, just wait…

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There is a good reason Obama’s numbers are so high. A majority of americans get their new from a very compliant press. Of course his numbers are high when CNN, MSNBC, CBS, etc. are swooning over the very mention of his name (all tingly down their legs).

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CORBIN

It’s all an act!

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What are you talking about mikey?

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That’s right, in the middle, because the small minority of Americans who get their news from objective, fact based reporting, aka FOX, know the TRUTH! That Obama isn’t even American, wants to use his liberation theology to institute sharia law, confiscate all of our guns, and use the government to control every facet of your life!

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I get all my news and polls from Karl Rove and unskewedpolls.com! Real accurate, if accuracy doesn’t matter.

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TBS – I agree that they will continue to find work. But just pointing out the inconsistacy in the proposed plans.
I am in favor of the path to legal citizenship, as are 65 per cent of Americans, if the polls are correct.
But, don’t want to see long time workers fired or not able to get new jobs if they lose theirs because of any new crack downs.

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“My bet would be that this number is made up mostly of people who pay no federal income tax”

Too bad no one will take you up on that, because you’d lose your shirt to them

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DOGGONE

But, if he did win the bet, would he pay federal income tax on his winnings?

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“My bet would be that this number is made up mostly of people who pay no federal income tax.”

Now Dang, I thought it was the liberals who were supposed to be the elitists….

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Well if its a popularity contest of course Obama is gonna win. He gets glowing treatment from all news sources cept for one- I won’t say which one. Case in point- I saw that softball 60 minutes interview with O. The same 60 minutes that tried to trash W with the bogus national guard service story. Is it any wonder Obama has decent approval numbers given such slanted media coverage?

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Ok here we go again. There is a differance between the entertainment and the news side. I dont expect Maddow to be even handed in her analysis nor do I expect it on the Ed show. I do however expect good reporting during the hard news segments. Same with Fox, you can push the morning show off the cliff as far as I am concerned, but I fully expect the hard news segements to do a good job. What I do not see during the “news” segements on CNN or MSNBC is good reporting. I dont want “angles” of a story. I want real news. Dont cover up because of ideology.

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I do, however, always find it interesting to see everyone bash Fox news on a day when MSNBC got caught, again, in a phony piece of journalism.

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JB – What do the alpha characters next to the sample numbers mean? Tried finding the definition at RCP site to no avail.

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MIDDLE

CNN International? About the only place to get international news…

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getalife

BTW, your take on the French in Mali?

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VOTER

Previsionist historian, ere ye?

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DannyX

January 30th, 2013
5:49 pm

Party foul! It was not my intent to misrepresent, but, I understand.

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Yep, we now have 50 something percent who want the government to dictate to them what they get and how much they get and how they live their lives. The idea of personnal freedom has been watered way down in the last four years to the point that the very definition is no longer relevant. No party can fight against the free money offered by government entitlements and people are more than willing to give up freedom in return for a free ride. When people find out they can sit and do nothing and still get what they need, why work? Way more people than you think are catching onto this and why not? Even the Con’s are starting to understand there is no reason to work, especially the older ones. Just give in and let the government give it to you because why get up at 4AM and go to work when you can sleep until 8AM and get it all for free like everyone else?

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“I do, however, always find it interesting to see everyone bash Fox news on a day when MSNBC got caught, again, in a phony piece of journalism.”

Simple man, a lot of the people here that bash Fox did indeed bash MSNBC over their phony piece of journalism, and rightfully so.

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But the opinion “segment” of fox is what whips up the ridiculous viewpoints that the “real” journalists can then report on. Hannity, Doucey et al get into a frenzy saying that Obama is a socialist. They say it so much and have such a following that then the journalists say “well this is a story, we have to investigate!” So they go on air saying “there is a growing movement of people [thanks to our network's talking heads] who believe Obama’s policies are socialist. Let’s investigate that claim — giving CREDENCE to the claim that Obama’s a socialist.” And it works as “journalism” because in a postmodern age “socialist” can mean anything you want it to mean!

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sorry, the ” ” should have closed after “let’s investigate that claim.” Not after “that obama’s a socialist.”

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“What this tells me is that 52% of American people, just like Obama, really don’t give a crap that we are 16 trillion dollars in debt, and that number is growing fast. My bet would be that this number is made up mostly of people who pay no federal income tax.”

The bigger issue is the POTUS and the press are telling them they’re going to make evil rich people and corporations pay all the bills and give them a tax cut. It’s a lie. And either Obama knows it’s a lie and he’s playing them for fools (which is working…just read this blog) or he’s a complete idiot. You can take your pick which you think it is.

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Hey pogo, Jay’s first blog of the day was about the crooked Georgia scholarship tax credit. Are the people that use that tax credit also part of your 50%?

Taken a step further, are all parents who send their kids to public schools a part of your moocher, entitlement, freebie society?

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If the AJC keeps pimping how well the economy is doing but today’s numbers shockingly say it’s actually contracting, does Jay’s head actually explode?
Seems that for all the shilling, Obama’s economy is lagging badly. If a republican delivered this kind of performance, the press would go bat-crap crazy.
Instead Jay and the AJC are quiet about the terrible results. I suppose they are waiting for instructions on how to spin it.

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Oh, that article was on page A8…

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getalife

They said they would, and they did. It’ll be interesting to see what international reaction is….

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” I suppose they are waiting for instructions on how to spin it.”

Wilbur, how are you going to spin it? What is your “expert” opinion on the .1% decline?

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I don’t watch much MSNBC because they have too darned many commercials. CNN regurgitates the same stuff at us on an endless loop, and Fox Noise is a bunch of plastic heads telling me how I should feel (”be outraged!”) about a little snippet of a story they cherry-picked to kick off a segment of group squawking. No matter which one is on my TV, I think, “What real news am I NOT getting while I listen to this nonsense?”

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“By historical standards, Obama can hardly be viewed as entering his second term as a strong, popular, and well-respected president.”

Yet he is only the 4th president in the last 100+ years to win two presidential elections with more than 50% of the vote.

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“I do, however, always find it interesting to see everyone bash Fox news on a day when MSNBC got caught, again, in a phony piece of journalism.”
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Its sometimes a weekly or daily event at FOX, having happened countless times in the past, and sure to happen countless times in the future. And yet, I have read more disapproval from the left over this one MSNBC event on this blog today , than I have read of any disapproval from the right on Kyle’s, Wooten’s, Tucker’s and Jay’s blogs combined over ANY of FOX’s transgressions over the past 5-6 years.

Why is that , do you suppose?

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@pogo

January 30th, 2013
6:16 pm
Yep, we now have 50 something percent who want the government to dictate to them what they get and how much they get and how they live their lives. The idea of personnal freedom has been watered way down in the last four years to the point that the very definition is no longer relevant. No party can fight against the free money offered by government entitlements and people are more than willing to give up freedom in return for a free ride. When people find out they can sit and do nothing and still get what they need, why work? Way more people than you think are catching onto this and why not? Even the Con’s are starting to understand there is no reason to work, especially the older ones. Just give in and let the government give it to you because why get up at 4AM and go to work when you can sleep until 8AM and get it all for free like everyone else?
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Sounds like you are dictating what they SHOULD get and how much

they SHOULD get and how they SHOULD live their lives.

The only thing that is WATERED down is you CONS.

Free money? Don’t be ridiculous. Free AIN’T free.

The last time I checked CONS get MORE of the FREE STUFF than

anyone else. Prove me wrong.

YOU SAY “Even the Con’s are starting to understand there is no reason to work”

I get up at 9:00 or 10:00 a.m. because I am RETIRED and I had worked since I

was 15 years old. I get an SS check and a Pension. I have PAID MY DUES.

Have you?

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““Indeed. W’s National Guard Service was indeed bogus.”

W flew jet fighters.

O’bozo smoked dope.

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Logical dude,

Well of course its a popularity contest. So again- its no surprise Obama got elected given his shocking lack of qualifications for the job. Or that he got re-elected or has decent favorability numbers. And why would any of us be surprised? This is after all a dumbed down culture where the 2 people with the biggest number of twitter followers are Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga with 33 million followers each. And low information voters are automatically skewed heavily towards the Ds imdo. No surprise there.

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“W flew jet fighters.”
And Alabama never was invaded by the VietCong.

“O’bozo smoked dope.”
And W snorted coke and drank like a fish – what’s your point?

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“I wonder if Phil Gingrey, who voted against Sandy aid, will seek federal money for his own district.”

Let’s just say he does, Jay, so what? Hypocrite time?

Maybe he just didn’t want all that money to the NE going to union thugs, corrupt pols, and the mob.

I’m thinking his district has none of those.

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Sorry, I mean to say “paper lid on an empty jar.” I hate it when I mess up a metaphor! Wearing a uniform and having your name on a roster does not equate to “service.” Ask anyone who actually served.

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Some of the 36 gop that voted against Sandy asked for the same thing when their State got hit.

Hypocrisy has no bounds for the gop.

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@F. Sinkwich

January 30th, 2013
6:43 pm
“I wonder if Phil Gingrey, who voted against Sandy aid, will seek federal money for his own district.”

Let’s just say he does, Jay, so what? Hypocrite time?

Maybe he just didn’t want all that money to the NE going to union thugs, corrupt pols, and the mob.

I’m thinking his district has none of those.
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So he wants it to go to the Que Kluk Clan, the Tee Party thugs, corrupt cons

and the Georgia mafia?

heeheeheeheehee

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kay,

Delta is ready when you are.

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@Uh Huh….Obama, Mr. Popularity – “Their LEGACY will be…………..Obama’s FAVORABILITY RATING IS 60% heeheeheeheeheeheee”

You find this funny? $16+ trillion in debt, not spending cuts in sight? Welfare and unemployment on the rise? Jobs and the economy going down?

Just what kind of an American are you?

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indigo

January 30th, 2013
5:28 pm
Jay, no matter how much public approval he gets, cons here will still say what a bad job Obama is doing.

Fox News, Rush and their fundamentalist pastors have convinced them Obama is essentially a tool of the Devil.
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What about the ones that don’t watch Fox, listen to Rush, or go to church.

Oh, that’s right. Neat little boxes.

Easier than thinking.

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There are cash-strapped governments and there are broke governments. And then there’s Zimbabwe, which, after paying last week’s government salaries, has just $217 left in the bank. No, we didn’t forget any zeroes to the end of that figure. Zimbabwe, the country that’s home to some of the world’s largest platinum and diamond reserves, literally has the same financial standing as a 14-year-old girl after a really good birthday party. The country’s finance minister admitted as much in a press conference on Tuesday. “Last week when we paid civil servants there was $217 [left] in government coffers,” Tendai Biti told reporters. “The government finances are in paralysis state at the present moment. We are failing to meet our targets.”
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The sad thing is………………217 dollars is 16 trillion MORE than this………..ObamaNation………………has.

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@Uh Huh….Obama, Mr. Popularity – “Their LEGACY will be…………..Obama’s FAVORABILITY RATING IS 60% heeheeheeheeheeheee”

60%? Who cares? How does this help America? How does this help people find jobs? He’s not up for re-election. Wake up!

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Uh huh,

Glad to see you personally know the 66 million followers that I spoke of. Talk about popularity.

The point since it went completely over your head is that as a culture we value style over substance.

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pogo – 6:16

That sounds like a great deal!

What are all these Govt. entitlements you speak of?

How can I get on this gravy train?

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Wearing a uniform and having your name on a roster does not equate to “service.” Ask anyone who actually served.

Well, all I know is I sure wish my Daddy was a big shot back when I was in the army. They never let me go inactive or anything like that. When they told me to jump I said Yes Sir and how high. Or even go into the National Guard. I had to be there every day. I’m sure there’s lots of vets that remember old Redneck. For some reason I always got the s*** details and jobs nobody wanted. There’s lots of fat vets out there that got fat on the potatoes I peeled. Or is that “potatos”? I always get bumfuzzled about that ever since that VP corrected the kid’s spelling.

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@josef – “VOTER – I learned a long time ago not to go predicting the future. Anything can, and usually does, happen just when we least expect it.”

I agree, I was just making a point earlier that whenever anything bad happens the Liberal Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Jay Carney and even obama himself make sure they put the blame somewhere else. It’s either Bush’s fault, the GOP’s fault, etc.

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Chart or no chart, if Obama has a favorable rating, it has to come from those who benefit most from his drive to eliminate inequities. In other words, those who will receive more freebies.

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in the middle -josef, BBC is also good for international news..

BBC is a life saver…i do a lot of international and you can watch only so much soccer, the BBC international hotel channel is a good break,,i remember once i was so desperate i watch a movie in japanese with french subtitles…i couldn’t stop reading the subtitles and no i couldn’t translate it…

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” In other words, those who will receive more freebies.”

That’s just too much common sense for this blog.

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@Thulsa Doom

January 30th, 2013
6:58 pm
“But Obama has to PROVE he was BORN in the U.S?….Uh Huh”
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That was not necessarily AIMED at you.

It was for those who are HYPOCRITES.

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Gee..I never would have thought of this, but maybe she’s on to something:

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/30/msnbc-guest-chicago-is-so-violent-partially-because-of-global-warming-or-something/

Or then again, maybe not. You couldn’t even make this stuff up, it’s so absurd.

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VOTER

Not being a supporter of either of the two major parties, I would contend that they both play that game.

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6.21 pm….RB from Gwinnett….you are 100 per cent correct ..you are the smartest person on line! The others must watch NBC or MSNBC to get their warped political views!! They probably think Al Sharpton is not a racist.

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“But he did not actually show up or do anything that merits the claim that he served. He didn’t, and there’s no evidence that he did, beyond a high-level CYA arranged by his own daddy.”

Prove it. Cause if you can’t you just sound like another leftwing mindless conspiracy kook spouting nonsense that they can’t prove. I’ll say it again

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You can do that right?

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@josef – “VOTER Not being a supporter of either of the two major parties, I would contend that they both play that game.”

I agree, that’s why I want most of them out. Any Congressman that has served 2 terms consecutively, need to go. Term limits voted in. Let’s keep getting new blood in.

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RB from Gwinnett

January 30th, 2013
5:03 pm
“What’s YOUR theory on why the GOP backed away so abjectly on the showdown that they had promised in no uncertain terms?”

Because they don’t have the spine or effective communication skills to overcome the backlash that would cause from media outlets such as Jay Bookman who already vilify them for everything from toe fungus to hurricanes.

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Jay, I think RB has just said your ratings outpace Limbaugh and Fox News!

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Ah, yes, the beauty of interpreting “free speech” as something other than..well, you know…speech:

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2013/01/30/boys-will-ask-you-every-day-until-you-say-yes/

Does anyone here NOT know that computer generated child pornography is also “speech”? I mean, it so patently obvious you wonder why the question had to be answered by our very august SC. Ejaculating into a camera and stuff like that – it’s just what the Framers had in mind concerning “free speech”.

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Matti

January 30th, 2013
6:27 pm
about a little snippet of a story they cherry-picked to kick off a segment of group squawking.

Like what happens on this blog only a daily basis?

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“Daddy Bush, being the smart, rich politician he was, made sure we would never be able to prove it.”

So now we got to W guard service conspiracy kooks. You guys are funnier than the birthers. If you say that Daddy Bush covered for little W then the same challenge goes to you- PROVE IT!

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Thullie D,

Bless your little

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Doom, you don’t get, that’s fine with me.

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Kayaker

That cross of supporting everyone must be a burden and tribulations of all tribulations…

You must feel like you are walking toward Calvary with all that burden of being the provider of you are disdain..

Give me an effn break..

Get over yourself already

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I see Jay like a good soldier is supporting the latest from the Left propaganda machine – anything not rosie is the fault of FOX News and/or the Republicans.

Nancy is blaming the Q4 negative results on Republicans. More Lefties will be yelling the same; we may even get a post from Jay that states the same.

Obama has spent us into the poor house, one more quarter of negative and it’s an official recession. Wonder what the excuse will be then?

Hint – the problem is Obama.

BTW – all those approval numbers for Obama, I wonder what they would be if no one was allowed in the poll if on the government dole?

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Bro….what’s up?
I kinda get the victimized white guy syndrome thing on some levels…not that i buy into it it, but i get the perspective….if you wanna discuss it…..it requires serious objectivity and a realization that no matter our background…we are all human

tryin to keep it interesting so you stick around

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One more item of interest – seems increasing numbers on the Left are so pumped they are openly suggesting we dump The Constitution. Apparently, it hinders their desires. Next thing you know, they will be expecting taxpayers to pay for those desires. Ohhhh wait, we already do.

Treason anyone?

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@Brosephus™

January 30th, 2013
7:14 pm
I don’t like to pick on old people, but just damn. How can one vilify, malign, and demonize damn near everybody in this country but “working White men” and then claim they are the most vilified, maligned, and demonized group in this country.

If that’s the type of logic it takes to be “conservative”, then this country is truly f**ked up.
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Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

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josef
yeah, every once in a while i even impress myself

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Matti,

I’ll take your 7:14 post as an admission that you simply cannot prove your load of BS. Thank you.

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EC

Good point and will never say there isn’t any merit to it all, however when looking at the entire picture….

It is a piece of the puzzle without a doubt but surely not the majority of that puzzle in my opinion… And surely not the cross that kayaker has elected to put on his back within his own mind

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“He can’t even throw a baseball.”

Well, he can. But he does so like a girl from what I’ve seen. And yet he claims to have game in roundball. I don’t know any real basketball players who couldn’t throw a baseball or football. It’s called athleticism.

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Bro – or three
I’ll be doing Scandinavia soon…,so i’ll be going thru your hood

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“He can’t even throw a baseball.”
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but not the guy in the commercial

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Bro

Or 3?

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Skip
January 30th, 2013
7:16 pm

“Doom, you don’t get, that’s fine with me.”

There’s nothing to get Skip. Your points were some ranting about Vietnam that had not a damn thing to do with the central question as to whether or not Matti can prove that W skipped his national guard service.

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Bro, you have a facepalm I could borrow?

Does a bear sh*t in the woods?

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Or, in the case of that particular post, there’s only one that fits that situation.

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“One more item of interest – seems increasing numbers on the Left are so pumped they are openly suggesting we dump The Constitution.”

It has already been “dumped”, if the truth be known. All 3 branches of government have subverted it almost from the beginning (starting with Washington and Hamilton – two of the biggest Federalists who promised, to get the Constitution ratified, that the federal government could do no more than what was enumerated in the Constitution). Computer-generated child pornography is construed to be “free speech”. There is a generalized right to privacy therein (when, in fact, there is not). And so on and so on.

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Every poll but one reports an eight-to-12-point differential between job approval and disapproval.

Actually Jay the Rasmusen Poll showed a spread of *only* 7%. I know that was a typo, was just pointing it out in case you wanted to correct it.

And for you Gwinnett County Nutcases? We moved away to Dekalb 10 years ago and even though there has been an owner change, Biba’s Italian Restaurant on Sugarloaf is still awesome. We eat up there every time we are that way, and tonight was one of those times. If you have never been you need to go. Sugarloaf near 316 in the Publix shopping Center.

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@JohnnyReb

January 30th, 2013
7:26 pm
Treason anyone?
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If you want to change the world, just change yourself.

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Uh, kayaker, there are more whites on welfare than there are Blacks. Just thought you’d like to know.

Oh, by the way, you might want to consider your post when you buy that next Big Screen Television made in China.

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Kayaker

Problem with your broad brushed ignorant rants is that you have never paid my way…

You are paying for more of your own yet mention it very seldom…. Today being the 1st time I have ever read it..

But keep hating and crying..

And I will keep doing what I do…. Work and strive to better myself in this world

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josef
it was an introspective moment
I couldn’t understand why i was obsessed with subtitles that I couldn’t understand….human nature is a…

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TBG

I feel your pain bro. If I knew how to make that word actually mean something again, I’d enact that plan in a heartbeat.

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NoCom

I’m not trying to pick on y’all, but some of y’all make it too friggin’ easy. I like old White guys, and I’ve had many interesting conversations through the years with them. There are a select few of y’all, though, that are stuck on stupid and make the rest of the group look bad. I know how that feels because there are young Black guys that do the same thing to me. I guess that’s just how life screws with each and every one of us.

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“Does a bear sh*t in the woods?”

No, I have it on good advice that they have carefully constructed latrines that they use.

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Speaking of old white men… I see one of your wingnut ilks has shot and killed an unarmed bus driver, and is now holed up in his ant-gubbimint spider hole with a kidnapped child over in Alabama…

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Well the misspelled word as well but your independence more so

Hahaha

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“We are sick and tired of paying your bills…… both black and white.”

Well to be fair he did include both white and black parasites. We can’t exempt the whitey leeches.

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@Rightwing Troll – “Liar… The country is in wayyyy better shape than it was 4 years ago.”

What color is the sky in your world? Every statistic, National Debt, Deficit over spending, Welfare is up!
Jobs, unemployment are down! You think these are made up statistics?

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so you consider yourself young?

Haven’t hit 40 yet, so compared to the average age of posters here, I’m just leaving puberty.

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Sorry I meant unemployment was up!

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Bro
so compared to the average age of posters here, I’m just leaving puberty.
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By THAT CRITERIA so am I

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Nothing but whining from liberals about how white males are the most demonic people on the planet. Bookman even likes to point out how the GA Assembly, filled with white males, are the devil reincarnated. However, we pay the bills. Yeah, there are more whites on welfare than blacks but blacks only make up 13% of the population. Latinos are not far behind. Either one is going to rue the day when white males say enough. And it will happen.

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@Rightwing Troll – “Speaking of old white men… I see one of your wingnut ilks has shot and killed an unarmed bus driver, and is now holed up in his ant-gubbimint spider hole with a kidnapped child over in Alabama…”

Good job Troll, (sarcasm), I’m sure the parents of the kidnapped child appreciates you using their misery to make a ridiculous point.

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Fred

You are correct and I will buy…

My error rate is easily 123% in that regard…

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REDUCE THE WELFARE ROLES!

Bring those jobs back from Chiner and hire a Black or Hispanic person today!

BTW, Gomer got married.

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Good job Troll, (sarcasm), I’m sure the parents of the kidnapped child appreciates you using their misery to make a ridiculous point.

No kidding one has to be a murdered diplomat in order to be made a ridiculous point……..

Or one of President Obama’s children………

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Haven’t hit 40 yet, so compared to the average age of posters here, I’m just leaving puberty.

yeah…when I was in high school we had to study the future because there was no history

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Sooth

I haven’t heard that one in a long time. That one brings up some good childhood memories of those parties in the park.

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Yeah, there are more whites on welfare than blacks but blacks only make up 13% of the population.

When welfare dollars are paid out based on percentages, you will have a point. Right now, your point is moot as this country pays more welfare dollars to White people than we do to Blacks. Yet, you and people like you want to demonize Blacks as welfare hogs. Why don’t you just face the facts that Whites cost America more money for welfare than anybody else? I guess your bigoted mindset won’t allow you to acknowledge reality. Sad…. just plain sad.

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“Hey kayaker, you find that income limit yet?”

Hey Jay, you find that low cost alternative to Zolair yet?

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kayaker 71

January 30th, 2013
7:30 pm

It just strikes fear in the heart of every liberal parasite on the dole when white America says enough. We are sick and tired of paying your bills……
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Naw Doomy, that’s not racist. Black America and Asian America and Hispanic America don’t pay “bills” only white America. And WHO’S bills? Well obviously anyone who isn’t white.

Jesus, even a far right wing fanatical nutcase should have been able to figure that one out without a memo from FOX or Rush………

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“Gomer Pyle is GAY? Who would have ever suspected……”

Probably Rock Hudson.

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Or is it sarcasm, and I’m just too slow to catch on….

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BROSEPHUS
@ 7:46

Leave it to you to have that one ready!

ERWIN’s
@ 7:49

Being a cat person…that one is rich!

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“When welfare dollars are paid out based on percentages, you will have a point. Right now, your point is moot as this country pays more welfare dollars to White people than we do to Blacks.”

I think his point is that a greater proportion of blacks receive welfare than do blacks. And, if that was his point, he’d right. But I think you already know that.

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Edit: than do whites.

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It’s blue. The markets are up,everywhere you look there’s new construction, I don’t know what world you live in but in my world every teenager in my family now has a job, after years of not being able to find one, housing values are coming back, my company can’t find enough developers or programmers, I could go on and on, but it wouldn’t make any difference to you.

You simply don’t want things to be better, so you cling to your augmented, false reality…

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Rightwing Troll

my company can’t find enough developers or programmers

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Try Bangalore or Mumbai

Or in any town in the USA

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Nice explosion of thought going on here!
Hey sink you want the real date for the end of the republic? The election of 2000 when we got an installed president, that never happened in our history before.
Here is the ultimate irony: Fox called the election! Would anyone let them do that today? They have sacrificed credibility for bullship.
Their cycle of popularity is just about up, republican policy is as naked as the emperor – it won’t sell…

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TRES AMIGOS

Is anybody else thinking what I’m thinking?

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“I think they would put today’s men to shame ”

Towncrier,

No question about that. And George Washington’s men at Valley Forge- if I remember history half or more of them were barefoot trudging through the snow. I was talking in terms of who the left finds it more fashionable to blame- old dead white males that created this country or white males today. If you’ll notice any time there’s a column on demographic trends they come out of the woodwork gloating and celebrating the diminishing numbers of white males in the future if current demographic trends hold true.

Funny but the same liberals on here who are criticizing kayaker on his comments are strangely silent when some of their leftist friends gloat about the perceived diminishing numbers of white Americans in the future- as if their particular brand of closet racism is somehow okay.

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Sooth- “I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I firmly believe that 99% of the people in this country, whether they be Black or White, would much rather have a decent job than to live the demeaning life of a welfare recipient.”
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Nope. Its only 47%. Just ask the would-be next president of the United States. Duh.

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“So, Jay, do you let this guy stick around and post this garbage just to show how depraved some people can be?”

He tolerates a lot – even posts in which people use deeply personal information you’ve shared as a means to attack and mock you. If that is what passes muster, then I can certainly do the same in retaliation. The moral: don’t throw your pearls before swine here.

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Jay

January 30th, 2013
8:01 pm

As we’ve seen today, Kayaker likes to talk big, but when the time comes to face the music, he runs. So when he warns that folks are “going to rue the day when white males say enough,” it’s pure, unadulterated racist bluster.

This country is going to rue the day that it allowed the majority of the people to no longer be held responsible for their actions and become dependent on government for their day to day subsistence.

Very sad day indeed.

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josef

Well, you know I don’t like to assert things unless I have verifiable facts as backup supporting material.

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I think his point is that a greater proportion of blacks receive welfare than do blacks. And, if that was his point, he’d right. But I think you already know that.

If that is his point, then it has absolutely nothing to do with his rant. He’s whining about paying for welfare, and he’s pointing his ire at Blacks. In reality, Whites cost more money to taxpayers in reference to welfare than Blacks, which is my point. My point is dead right, and I think YOU know that.

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“This country is going to rue the day that it allowed the majority of the people to no longer be held responsible for their actions and become dependent on government for their day to day subsistence. ”

I feel we are at the tipping point now. Things like a work ethic, taking personal responsibility for your decisions, self-reliance are INSTILLED in children. They don’t magically develop in people. And it’s the majority of kids growing up today – white, black, Hispanic – that are without these essential traits. We’ve hit the iceberg. Most don’t know it yet.

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“Naw Doomy, that’s not racist. Black America and Asian America and Hispanic America don’t pay “bills” only white America. And WHO’S bills? Well obviously anyone who isn’t white.”

Fred,

I must have missed where he included Asians. I’ll go back and look for that. And if you read further he also noted white as well as black parasites. And I think when he says “white America” is paying the bills of course he is wrong. All of America is “paying the bills”.

I can only surmise that from his perspective that he has a sense of frustration because he sees what a lot of people already see and know- which is that blacks and Hispanics use a disproportionate share of welfare and social services than whites do as a % of their respective populations. That is nothing more than an uncomfortable truth that for some reason bothers people. It is what it is. But rest assured. Plenty of sorry ass whites that are on the dole, constantly in and out of jail, and basically just drug addicts and neverdowells. I know because out here in the country they’re all around me. And I would be shocked if whites didn’t use dramatically more welfare and social services than say Asians. Just another of those uncomfortable truths but one that shouldn’t bother any white people if they themselves are also honest.

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BROSEPHUS

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Think about it this way: for every American parasite, there’s a Chinese or Mexican or Viet Namese, or Malaysian guy who has a job.

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Soothsayer

January 30th, 2013
8:19 pm

Heck, let me line up for those foodstamps! The average foodstamp recipient receives $1,600 a year!

For the math challenged, that’s about $133 a month (or $30.76 a week). You can really live high on the hog with that. Especially with a family of four!

Your math is WAY off.

How Much Could I Receive?

Allotments for households in the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia.

The amount of benefits the household gets is called an allotment. The net monthly income of the household is multiplied by .3, and the result is subtracted from the maximum allotment for the household size to find the household’s allotment. This is because SNAP households are expected to spend about 30 percent of their resources on food.

(October 2012 through September 2013)
People in Household Maximum Monthly Allotment
1 $ 200
2 $ 367
3 $ 526
4 $ 668
5 $ 793
6 $ 952
7 $ 1,052
8 $ 1,202
Each additional person

$ 150

http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/applicant_recipients/ben.htm

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The drama from our cons is hilarious but I admire their resolve fighting for a failed party.

President Obama is undefeated.

That will not change.

Switch that focus on getting him to jobs for the people.

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“If that is his point, then it has absolutely nothing to do with his rant. He’s whining about paying for welfare, and he’s pointing his ire at Blacks. In reality, Whites cost more money to taxpayers in reference to welfare than Blacks, which is my point. My point is dead right, and I think YOU know that.”

Well, I didn’t read his rant – only the part you quoted. I agree that more welfare money is spent on whites, so if you interpreted him correctly then your post is a good correction. I just didn’t read all of that into what you quoted. In any case, both of our points are factually correct.

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td: I took the grand total the United States spent on foodstamps for x (I can’t remember which year) and divided by the total number of recipients. OK? Your figures are less, so what? No matter what, you ain’t gonna live well on food stamps. Try beans and rice and fat back.

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Soothsayer

January 30th, 2013
8:32 pm

td: I took the grand total the United States spent on foodstamps for x (I can’t remember which year) and divided by the total number of recipients. OK? Your figures are less, so what? No matter what, you ain’t gonna live well on food stamps. Try beans and rice and fat back.

I have a family of 4 and I do not spend $668 per month. This also does not incude the fact that if the children are under 4 then they receive WIC and if the children are school age then they receive free lunch and breakfast at school.

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Sinkwich hits the nail on the head.

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I have a family of 4 and I do not spend $668 per month

Always interesting that those who have publicly tried to actually live on what people are paid by TANF have indicated how difficult it is, but, overwhelmingly, the cons on this blog are able to do it day in and day out and have a surplus. I guess its all possible with smart shopping at the Whole Foods.

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So stinkwich- Is it acceptable to mock black, christian, single-mother, conservative, straight, southern millionaires?

How about idotic posters of nonsensical lists?

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Towncrier

You should take the time to actually read what he writes before automatically jumping to his defense. I have no issues with the percentages argument. However, in the real world, welfare dollars are not disbursed based on those percentages.

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Doom

You act as though there are limited number of Blacks who earn wages in this country. Where is your factual proof to back up your, and kayaker’s, supposed claim “that for the most part then that white America is paying out much more money as a whole to minorities in the form of transfer payments”? I’m not talking about guesstimate numbers, I’m talking verifiable fact. If you’re going to back him up, then you should be able to show proof beyond mere assertion.

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Sure are a lot of victims at the top of the societal pyramid who a boohooing a lot.

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Fish Sandwich: I know you don’t sleep well at night. You can’t!

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Why, just the other day a feller was bad-mouthin’ June Cleaver. I let him have it upside the head. He won’t never be doin’ that again!

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F. Sinkwich, 8:39,

Your post is most certainly true. And this is one old white male who is sick and tired of it. However, there seems to be more of them than us. So what are we to do. The best thing going would be a gazillion man/woman march on Washington DC with threats of dividing up this country into something that each of the recipients could accept. Sedition? I think not…. but it might just show those in power how serious this has become. We cannot go on this way. Our legislators from both parties, have let this country slide into the muck and at least half of the electorate will not tolerate this crap. We presently have what Jefferson warned about. And we don’t like it,,,,, not one damn bit.

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And why are the burglars in those security system commercials always white?

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I saw something funny a couple of years ago that once I started to observe it I found it to be true. Michelle Malkin I think was ranting about how in our culture and especially in television commercials that its always the white guy in a commercial that gets made to look like a dope, an idiot, or a fool when the commercial has mixed company. She said it was especially so in beer commercials. So I started watching and noticed that damn if that woman wasn’t right.

Almost any commercial that you see where there is a white and a black guy or several guys of mixed company and someone is made to look like an idiot it will always be the white guy if its just one black guy and one white guy or it will always be one of the white guys that is made to look like a dolt if its a group of guys.

So when you watch all the Superbowl commercials this Sunday and you see a multicultural group in a beer or other commercial and someone gets made to look like a dolt you can damn well bet it will be the white guy.

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Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 30th, 2013
8:42 pm

I have a family of 4 and I do not spend $668 per month

Always interesting that those who have publicly tried to actually live on what people are paid by TANF have indicated how difficult it is, but, overwhelmingly, the cons on this blog are able to do it day in and day out and have a surplus. I guess its all possible with smart shopping at the Whole Foods.

Not talking about TANF but Food Stamps. What is your family size and how much to spend per month on food?

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“You should take the time to actually read what he writes before automatically jumping to his defense.”

You are probably right. Though I wasn’t defending HIM so much as they way you interpreted what you quoted. As you know, it is cumbersome to “page” through all of the posts in a thread and I don’t usually do that save for a few posters who I have learned can sustain a lengthy debate on a topic.

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Sink, did hit the nail on the head.

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Sinkwich:

You left out:

Muslims
Ga. Tech alumni

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“I saw something funny a couple of years ago that once I started to observe it I found it to be true. Michelle Malkin I think was ranting about how in our culture and especially in television commercials that its always the white guy in a commercial that gets made to look like a dope, an idiot, or a fool when the commercial has mixed company. She said it was especially so in beer commercials. So I started watching and noticed that damn if that woman wasn’t right.”

I haven’t done any real research on the matter and have arrived at that conclusion from experience. But maybe I will, since Jay chose to challenge my interpretation of the VW ad as essentially silly. We cannot both be right.

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“F. Sinkwich, 8:39,

Your post is most certainly true. And this is one old white male who is sick and tired of it. However, there seems to be more of them than us. So what are we to do. The best thing going would be a gazillion man/woman march on Washington DC with threats of dividing up this country into something that each of the recipients could accept. Sedition? I think not…. but it might just show those in power how serious this has become. We cannot go on this way. Our legislators from both parties, have let this country slide into the muck and at least half of the electorate will not tolerate this crap. We presently have what Jefferson warned about. And we don’t like it,,,,, not one damn bit.”

What are you to do?

I’d say just continue to sit at home and cry and whine on interwebs blogs and wait on your gubbimint check every month…not much else you can do… Nobody’s buying your lies or perceived injustices…

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“The whole notion of Whites paying more appears to be an assumption based on population numbers.”

Brocephus,

You’re a math guy and this isn’t even math. Its just basic common sense. If whites comprise roughly 73% of the overall population but about 37% of the welfare population than they are paying significantly more into the system to benefit other groups. Conversely if blacks for example are 13% of the population but comprise 37% of the welfare population then its just common sense that as a group they are collectively getting much more out of the system than what they are paying into it.

The reasons why these numbers are what they are is a whole other debate.

And to be sure with the recent economic downturn starting in 07 I would venture to guess that of all the new entrants into welfare that many more whites now make up the welfare rolls than in years past relative to their % of the population. The numbers I cited are old. I wouldn’t be surprised if whites now accounted for 45% or more of welfare recipients and blacks now constituted a lower number like 25 or 30%. Haven’t checked in awhile.

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Yep… First it was a war on Christmas… Now it’s an assault on white guys…

Funny… I don’t feel aggrieved.

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TV show on. Gotta run. Goodnight all.

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Towncrier

When you say “And, if that was his point, he’d right. But I think you already know that”, that comes off as a defense of his point when you’re justifying how he’s right. That’s just my take, so take it for what you think that’s worth. As I said earlier, I don’t have qualms with a point that’s factual and shown as such. However, I don’t buy into rants just beacuse someone’s ticked off because of a personal perception.

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Scout

Do you have the name of those schools ans supporting evidence you mentioned earlier today

Thought so,,, you lIAR

Shame a man of your background lies to bolster his FEARS

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Fools abound…how did hard left ideology penetrate the minds of so many people. Okay I know, I know only the weak minds.

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“I haven’t done any real research on the matter and have arrived at that conclusion from experience.”

I never thought about it till I saw her rant. Then I started to notice how right she was- especially regarding beer commercials. It will virtually always be a white guy or one of the white guys that gets made to look like a dolt. I can’t say I blame them. We live in a hyper sensitive culture regarding treatment of minorities. If you had 3 or 4 guys in a beer commercial and the one black guy is the one made to look like a fool then the automatic assumption is that the company or the commercial is racist. And what corporation out there is going to take a chance on being remotely perceived as racist?

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Conversely, there exists segments of our society that can never be criticized, satirized, or censured in any way for anything whatsoever without repercussions:

Blacks
Gays
Welfare recipients
Illegal aliens
Unwed mothers
Baby daddies
High school drop outs
Peeps with tats, piercings, dreds, AIDS, STDs
Abortionists
Etc.”

You need to expand your sources of entertainment.
(Except for maybe abortion providers. Those of us who are pro-choice don’t think that abortion should be a matter of public discussion.)

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saywhat?
January 30th, 2013
8:56 pm

“Thulsa @ 8:52. I also noticed that on this blog. Why are the angry old white guys always forced to post comments that make them look like buffoons? Its not fair.”

saywhat,

Nobody “forced” you to make any of your posts.

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having a problem finding drugs ?

Just keep forgetting where I left them.

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godless

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TBS:

Yawn ………………………

New York Times: “Charter Schools Tied to Turkey Grow in Texas”

“Operating under the name Harmony Schools, Cosmos has moved quickly to become the largest charter school operator in Texas, with 33 schools receiving more than $100 million a year in TAXPAYER (emphasis added) funds.”

“The charter school movement associated with Turkish Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen is under federal investigation ………… Fethullah Gulen is a Turkish Islamic cleric who fled his native country in 1998, after being charged with seeking to overthrow the secular Turkish government. He currently lives in exile at a 28-acre mountain complex in the Pocono Mountains, with more than $25 billion of
assets at his command. The 135 charter schools associated with the Gulen Movement (GM) enroll more than 45,000 students and comprise the largest charter school network in the United States — all of which are fully funded by American taxpayers. Fethullah Gulen has been under investigation by the government since 2011.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/education/07charter.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/stealth-islamist-charter-schools-under-investigation/

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TBS:

P.S.

Keep your head in the sand.

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Scout

yawn all you like

when challenged to back up you assertion (LIE)……. you could do nothing

End of story, LIAR

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Scout

You can lie or back it up. Your Jesus would back it up, why cant you?

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nearly as bad as not having any..

Walmart pharmacy.

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Del:
“Abortion PROPONENTS = baby killers.”

Do you know ANYBODY anywhere that thinks that abortion is an ideal solution to a problem pregnancy? I’ve never met any woman who was trying to get pregnant so she could have an abortion. Nobody is advocating abortion.

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TV show is a rerun.

:”Ask and you shall receive.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/VC1fEvidenceSpeciation.shtm”

Nice try, ace. But you probably should go back to school. I said TESTABLE proof – not some bozo’s speculation as to what may have happened. Trust me, you are NOT going to find it.

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“All you white guys look, behave, seduce, pontificate, and come across like GENIUSES after knocking back a few beers with your buddies.”

White guys suck. Got it.

Plus others. See my list above.

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F. Sinkwich

January 30th, 2013
9:09 pm

“You left out:

Muslims
Ga. Tech alumni”

GT

Muslims, good catch

I think you also forgot Gun Owners

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“President Obama is undefeated”

so was Bush but he was also a terrible president, Obama is Bush on steriods.

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Thulsa Doom

January 30th, 2013
9:27 pm

I kinda wondered about that father in the VW commercial. I didn’t see anything racial about it just because the father was white. What I couldn’t understand is how they could put a guy in a commercial that could possibly throw the ball so poorly. Saying that he threw that baseball “like a girl” is an insult to little girls everywhere. I would venture to say my 7 year old niece could throw that ball better than that sorry goofball. Still can’t figure out how the guy could throw a ball so crappy like.

I saw the commercial as making fun of liberal white geeks.

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doom

I was with you for a bit on the commercials but then it dawned on me that just about all groups in commercials are portrayed as idiots! It ain’t called the boob tube for nothing.
I’m another white guy who does not feel aggrieved… I just do what I do –
Hard work never fails…winners make it happen; losers let it happen…there will be poor always, the takers that the right is head exploding about is a small percentage. The truth of the matter? Corporate welfare and rich tax cheats cost this country more revenue than all of welfare combined.
Life is good, life is what you make it, everything else is noise…

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“Those commercials are SO unfair!”

Life is unfair. We get that and the comments on the commercials are just an observation- not something we’re going to whine and cry about to beer brewers. Would be nice if everyone else would get it that life is unfair and deal with it.

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Scout

There are nefarious people of every religion, race, creed and economic status in the US. Who doesn’t know that?

You made a claim. As I thought earlier, you can’t back it up,

But of course you did say Reagan Carter……. guess you read that in the blaze or in wnd.

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Hey, TC! Linkee brokee!

And I teach mythology all the time. Religion, too. I just have to give everybody equal time.

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“Still can’t figure out how the guy could throw a ball so crappy like.”

He was inspired by the lib ilk god of manliness, the one we’ve been waiting for, our hope…

If he heal the planet as he claimed, he can certainly throw a baseball like a man!

Or not.

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“I’ve never met any woman who was trying to get pregnant so she could have an abortion. Nobody is advocating abortion.”

And yet every time she chooses to have unprotected sex that is exactly what she is doing.

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Mick,

Trust me. It aint nothing to get worked up about. Its just an interesting observation that I never realized until Malkin fumed about it and then I started paying attention to it.

Now when you have groups that are all alike as in 5 black guys of course someone is going to get made to look like a dolt. I’m just talking about in mixed company it will always be the white guy that gets made to look like a dolt.

Now when I think of black men being made to look like a dolt I think of those Cedric the entertainer commercials from a few years ago. Hell I’m laughing right now thinking of the one where he is dancing while his gf is in the port o pottie. He butt bumps the port o pottie and the chick goes doing somersaults down a hill inside of a port o pottie. Damn that was funny.

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Godless heathen,

I thought that was a nice pitch that Obama made. Coulda had a little more mustard on it but it was a nice curve and it did make it to the plate- albeit barely.

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” Republicans will not be pushing the government into default or shutting down the government anytime soon:”

What a stupid remark. We’re on an economic course that can’t be sustained. I don’t know what Republicans will do but hopefully they’ll do what Democrats fear to do and that’s cast election concerns aside and do what’s right for the country.

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“Abortion proponents = baby killers. And these idiots are clamoring for more gun control laws. What hypocrisy.”

I read recently there have been 60 million abortions since Roe vs. Wade. Can that be right? Unbelievable if it is. And no one is “advocating” abortion? That seems like a whole lot of advocacy there to me.

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TC

and as long as you didn’t have an abortion, I’m sure you and your God are a OK

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Del: If I’m advocating anything, it would be to make abortion unnecessary in the first place. But I don’t have any illusions that this will ever be an ideal world.

I’ve been involved with both sides of the “do I continue this pregnancy under these circumstances?” question. It’s completely gut-wrenching for everybody involved, and you spend the rest of your life second-guessing the decision you made. But I do believe that the people involve must have the freedom to make whatever decision they feel is right. Nobody outside my family needs to be involved in what are family decisions, and I have no right or interest in involving myself in someone else’s.

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Not only am I an oppressed white man, I am an abortion survivor!

nobody knows de trubble I seen….

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Oh lordy, won’t someone help those poor old white men. Now s’cuse me while I whip this out.

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The tendency of CONS to whining and complaining may be taken as

the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

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Corporate welfare?

Uh, Solyndra?

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anyway, ’twas just a drive by. I did read Jay’s post, not sure what to say since there was little I hadn’t already posted here. (Although I have to admit I wasn’t aware that FNC’s approval polling was so embarrassingly out of whack.)

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Are we headed to another revolution. I sure hope not but it almost sounds inevitable.

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sink

Solyndra? Small potatoes..oil companies? Billions, you know they really need it, right???

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Yeah, mick, if there were some basketball equivalent of the “ceremonial first pitch”–a ceremonial 3-pointer?–these wankers wouldn’t be having their little bit o’ fun.

(Honestly, I never thought his pitches were *that* horrible, and I’ve seen some pretty crappy ones over the years.)

/really oot now

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recon

No revolution, just a lot of hot air being released to add to the global heat…

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@stands for decibels

January 30th, 2013
9:46 pm
Not only am I an oppressed white man, I am an abortion survivor!

nobody knows de trubble I seen….
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You better COUNT your blessings

You could get hit by a bus.

Then you will be a dead oppressed white man, who escaped an abortion.

heeheeheeheeheehee

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One has to wonder if Rep Gingrey (R-GA) and his cohorts will proclaim the USA does not have enough money to help the victims of the tornado in his district today?

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0311

Words…you live by the sword, you die by the sword: elected leaders should choose their words carefully and keep your enemies close…

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“But I do believe that the people involve must have the freedom to make whatever decision they feel is right. Nobody outside my family needs to be involved in what are family decisions, and I have no right or interest in involving myself in someone else’s.”

Are you “down” with non-voluntary euthanasia as well?

=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_euthanasia

=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_and_the_slippery_slope

And are you certain that abortions do NOT lead to a devaluation of life which then lead to an acceptance of euthanasia and eugenics?

=http://graceuniversity.edu/iip/2012/05/12-05-26-1/

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Looks like Broun is running for Senate

The Jesus had a pet pterodactyl commercial cant be far off.

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Uh huh,

If if if if, Yeah. I know. I heard a lot of if if if if from the dawg fans. Similar to woulda, shoulda, coulda

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“Just wondering if you knew if Obama had repudiated the Prime Minister’s statement or not ?”

Good question. If not, you can bet our resident “swine” will not respond.

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recon

Think about it…yeah we get really po’ed at each other if people push our buttons, think different politically, but taking up arms? to what end? No, we’re all a bit looney but we need to save it for the next idiotic tinpot who oversteps their bounds…

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“You tell me, but from the looks of things around here, I’m not the one taking myself way too seriously.”

Self-deprecating humor is common among comedians. What we are talking about is not self-deprecating humor, is it. If I ask my wife something like “how many layers of paint are you going to put on her face”?, she might not find it very funny. But if she herself says something like “Dang, I need to start using acrylic paint on my face – this stuff is running too fast” then we might both laugh. See what I am saying?

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Uh Huh……….Obama, Mr. Popularity

January 30th, 2013
10:02 pm

@td

January 30th, 2013
9:55 pm
At yet Republicans won 56 seats the next month in the elections. I guess this punches a huge hole in Jay’s theory.
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“At yet?”

“At yet” they may LOSE in 2014 and 2016.

I am glad I can humor you with a typo.

Check with Nate Silver and see what he thinks are the chances of the Dems taking back the House prior to 2022.

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Bama is a better team, but CMR doesn’t have the killer instinct that Saban, Meyer or even Miles has.

Great guy but it is what it is. Still my team, but I’m not one of the Dawg fans thinking CMR is the man.

He is a great individual, but not a GENERAL.

My best friend is married to a Bama grad, who let’s say is high up in a telecom company. HIGH UP as in on the board.

She donates to Bama both to academic and athletic programs. She has been to several Saban “fund raisers” and “rah rah” sessions. She says while she love Bama he is a dick……..

I’m just jealous……. He isn’t at GA.

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TBS,

Richt is close. Hopefully he’ll get there one day and when you think about it he was really 5 yards from the a national championship. I think we all knew the seccg was the national title game and that ND was just a formality.

Richt is one of the class guys in college football. People forget that it took the great Tom Osborne 22 years I think it was before he won a national title and I think it took Paterno something like 25 years or more to win it.

FWIW I only see 2 things wrong with Richt. No. 1 I think he really needs a strength and conditioning coach. The dawgs tend to fade a lot and bottom line is that they just don’t have the physicality of an Alabama or LSU. He just needs them to bulk up more and get more physical stamina and endurance.

The only other thing is that Saban may be a total d)(>(k but that’s okay. He runs the program with an iron fist and makes damn sure the players are focused and disciplined. Keeps those guys out of the police blotter and I’m more proud of that than the championships. And I really do believe that intense discipline our players have carries onto the field in terms of penalties and mistakes.

Richt has done a good job of disciplining them lately but in years past uga had a renegade problem with all the off the field arrests. I think if he can continue to get his guys more disciplined on and off the field they can make that leap to the top.

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Cherokee

January 30th, 2013
10:57 pm

And? It is legal and it is politics. Nothing that the Dems have not done in the past.

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td

Love that you are now a Silver groupie after sucking that Rove and Morris nipple for so long……..

we wont even bring up the blaze and breitbart who you willfully allowed to brainwash you about oversampling

bwhahahhahahhaha

Have a great night

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bookman, your radical nut at 1600 Penn. was just smacked down for his illegal/unconstitutional appointments. to you the fool can do no wrong, even when the courts bust him.

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Washington, State, and local governments…Democrats and Republicans….stop using taxpayers’ money to support private businesses….we know a scam is going on. Stop this legalized theft….it’s just easy money, our country’s future being stolen……The two parties system isn’t working for all the people of this country. It seems the US has now been or being transformed into being just another labor pool source for a global system….our wealth is being sucked dry….

Sorry, just early morning thoughts needing to express..

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We’re doing good. We are recovering from the Great Recession. Our investments continue to improve… Life is much better. So sad to hear that you are not doing well, Redcoat.

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“From members of the party of “personal responsibility”-”

I also remember that the “party of personal responsibility” does not want to require everyone to purchase insurance, but also does not want to let them die if they need medical care, so they insist that us responsible people pay for the medical care for the freeloaders. Including those that make $100,000 per year.

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Taxpayer,

Per your 06:47. Maybe you should change your user ID to nontaxpayer.

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A recent poll gave several options and those polled responded more favorably to a colonoscopy than to the U.S. Congress. Now, that stinks!

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This makes me sick.
the way the ignorant AM radio sub-language code has crept into
our lexicon – from AP

NEW YORK (AP) — A big government study has fingered leafy greens like lettuce and spinach as the leading source of food poisoning, a perhaps uncomfortable conclusion for health officials who want us to eat our vegetables.
“Most meals are safe,” said Dr. Patricia Griffin, a government researcher and one of the study’s authors who said the finding shouldn’t discourage people from eating produce. Experts repeated often-heard advice: Be sure to wash those foods or cook them thoroughly.
While more people may have gotten sick from plants, more died from contaminated poultry, the study also found. The results were released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A simple story put out every year by the partly fed-funded CDC that
says. ‘remember to wash your vegetables’ turns into this –
-”a BIG gubmint ’study’ (hear the ignorant derisive sneer?)
-”an uncomfortable conclusion to ‘those’ that want us to eat our
vegetables (insert derisive eyeroll)
-”researchers repeated oft heard advice”…(waste $$ on ’science’)

the worst thing about the Last Decade of the Debacle of Stupid is
that these stupid people with willful ignorance have crept, slid, slimed
their way into positions of responsibility, and lower the whole bar.
Congratulations, cons. We’ll clean up your mess, again.

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I do feel sad for Orange given that he could not prepare for that 2% payroll tax hike back to the level it was at before the temporary cut. I suppose the same issues plague the Republicans with regard to the Bush temporary tax cuts.

And yes, Orange, my wife works here at home running her internet-based business and I am retired so I do not work (hehehe). I just look at stocks and blog and stuff like that.

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Breaking news,

Most Americans oppose cloning Neanderthal on the grounds that we just don’t need any more Republicans.

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TP

I am retired so I do not work (hehehe). I just look at stocks and blog and stuff like that.
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That’s why some of us hate you. j/k

You old fart

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Nice catch St. Simon’s. Amen Granny.

Yeah we will have a few hundred LESS this pay check, but we are still 1000’s ahead from four years ago. The raises for doing a GOOD JOB and WORKING HARD offset the TEMPORARY payroll tax cut.

That was nice while it lasted, but now it’s time to man up and pay pour Countries bills. The TEMPORARY payroll tax did what it was supposed to do, it gave Americans a little more in their pocket to survive the Bush crash and it helped spur the economy. Why are the Republicans whining about paying their bills and taking personal responsibility? I don’t get it……..

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Corbin: I was at my eye doc’s yesterday and he said his son needs a job. He graduates in the Spring from Washington University in Mech engineering I think he said. Can you help a brother out?

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Whew…Stands had to read that twice…..thought you said 800 #godzilla at first glance….

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TaxPayer

January 31st, 2013
7:31 am

I hate being an old fart too. I should have started at a much younger age being a fart.
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Naw, then folks would call you mean like they do me. I retired when I was 40………….. retired, quit working……. same difference.

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thought you said 800 #godzilla at first glance….

I woulda been in Rednck Convert territory if Ida done that.

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(they have excellent coverage through well managed plans they can choose from, but they do pay.)

They can also vote themselves a pay raise to cover any premium hikes. And their pension plans are to die for.

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And their pension plans are to die for.

How do they collect if they are dead? I never understood that phrase…….. now if it were something to KILL for, I could be down with that……………..

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Considering the economy………….Where does one get these free Obama Rose-Colored glasses?

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To all who might think that there is any significant information in the 2 graphs of FOUR months of data please read “the signal and the noise” by Nate Silver , then have a cup of coffee and chuckle and enjoy your day. Jay, if there is a ? to your title than the answer is NO, there is no reason by these “graphs”that there has been a tone change in D.C.

Better yet Blank is kicking in more money and the Falcons may do a sweep to get around the Ga. state legislature voting on taxes or something about that….??

“I won’t mention the outlier”childish nonesense, you may not mention it, but you SHOULD ask why their data is different or you could remain ignorant and potentially a lemming–read the book and “herd” mentality..

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“while Obama isn’t committing hundreds of thousands of ground troops to a “surge” in hopes of salvaging Afghanistan at the moment”

Keep you eye on Mali.

And Iran.

And Syria.

And even Egypt.

The destabilization of the Middle East/N Africa being actively advanced by this administration is very dangerous and cynical.

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