Obama’s 5th — count ‘em, five — State of the Union
Tonight, Barack Obama sets the tone and agenda for his second and final term as president of the United States. He will reportedly focus on jobs, the economy and the deficit.
“Nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime,” advance speech excerpts say. “It’s not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth.”
He will also announce that by the end of 2013, the number of troops in Afghanistan will be cut in half, with 34,000 men and women in uniform coming home to their families and country. Gun control and immigration are likely to be focuses as well.
UPDATE: 9:19: The president begins with a litany of successes: “Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis.” Nicely put.
9:22: Making his pitch to avoid the sequester, “a really bad idea.”
“We must embrace the idea of modest reforms” in Medicare, but not without also asking more of the wealthy and powerful. “We can’t just cut our way to prosperity,” but need a balanced approach to get there.
Tax reform and entitlement reform: The Grand Bargain is still out there, in other words.
9:29: “The greatest nation on Earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to another.”
Amen.
9:37: “I propose we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good.”
9:44: A Georgia shoutout:
“In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like Georgia or Oklahoma, studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own. So let’s do what works, and make sure none of our children start the race of life already behind. Let’s give our kids that chance.”
9:48: Boehner applauds, lightly, the idea of comprehensive immigration reform.
9:52: “Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. We should be able to get that done.”
Let’s just say that’s a big ask, shall we?
9:56: “…. by the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over.” That will be 13 years. That’s long enough.
10:06: I think the most telling words in the speech may have come very early: “Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis.” In many ways, especially in tone, this is the speech that a President Obama would have given four years ago if he had not taken office in the middle of the biggest economic crisis in 80 years.
10:13: “Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote.” NRA says “nagannahappen”.
10:16: “‘… this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations.” Correct, Mr. President. And that should not be a controversial statement.
– Jay Bookman
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Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
10:32 pm
“He died a tormented man.
May his soul rest in peace.”
Only in the twisted world of the kook left does their sympathy lie with the murdering thug cop killer. Musta been one of those 6,000 facebook folks who posted “like” regarding this particular thug.
getalife
February 12th, 2013
10:32 pm
That is good news.
Congrats Coach.
In the middle
February 12th, 2013
10:32 pm
I know it is fun to bash “cons”, but what you are not seeing is the end of democratic control. I have seen this too many times. This country loves to punish arrogance. Clinton learned that lesson early and ended up being one of the better presidents, bush forgot it at the end and Obama is deep in it. Like I said ealier, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Aquagirl
February 12th, 2013
10:33 pm
What a d**k.
Hell to the yeah.
Uh Huh.......Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 50 States
February 12th, 2013
10:34 pm
@Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
10:28 pm
“He will reportedly focus on jobs, the economy and the deficit.”
Is that a joke? Because you cannot possibly be serious.
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The joke will be on YOU and the CONS in 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032
2036, 2040, 2044, 2048, 2052.
Uh Huh
barking frog
February 12th, 2013
10:34 pm
BOOTSTRAPS !!!!!
kayaker 71
February 12th, 2013
10:35 pm
Fully half of those in America don’t buy into this Bozo bull sh*t, yet, to the average liberal, they are all wrong. That’s a lot of people to call out. A lot of people to demonize, vilify for most everything they believe in and hold dear. Yet the liberal mind doesn’t work that way, does it? If they don’t agree with me, there must be something wrong with them. Lets get together, media and all, and just destroy them. It they don’t agree with us, they need to be destroyed. Lets demonize white males, then the Tea Party, then conservative business leaders, then non-union workers…. all because they don’t agree with us. Destroy them…… every damned last one of them. Be ruthless about it. Take no prisoners. The sooner those damned people are off the scene, the better our country will be. We’re talking about half the country, liberals. Half the country. And the majority have guns. lots of guns. Nearly 3M guns. Be very careful.
Matti
February 12th, 2013
10:35 pm
This guy is a total girly man.
Get Real
February 12th, 2013
10:37 pm
double douch matti
Kamchak - You cons said Elmer Fudd could defeat Obama, so why didn't you nominate him?
February 12th, 2013
10:37 pm
A drunk Sarah Palin is currently standing in front of a mirror giving her SOTU using a hairbrush for a microphone.
Heh, heh, heh.
Uh Huh.......Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 50 States
February 12th, 2013
10:37 pm
Rubio es un falso y falso
Kamchak - You cons said Elmer Fudd could defeat Obama, so why didn't you nominate him?
February 12th, 2013
10:38 pm
A lot of people to demonize, vilify for most everything they believe in and hold dear.
Ann Coulter says, “What?”
Jackie
February 12th, 2013
10:39 pm
@kayaker
It is estimated that there are 310 Million guns in the USA.
Sounds like the Tea Party militia may have some problems if they choose to start a “revolution.”
Aquagirl
February 12th, 2013
10:39 pm
Matti Rubio twit?? You really must be a douche…pardon my French
Aw, did Matti pick on your mancrush?
Matti
February 12th, 2013
10:40 pm
Did I say “twit?” Sorry. I meant “twa-…”
Uh Huh.......Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 50 States
February 12th, 2013
10:40 pm
@Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
10:32 pm
“He died a tormented man.
May his soul rest in peace.”
Only in the twisted world of the kook left does their sympathy lie with the murdering thug cop killer. Musta been one of those 6,000 facebook folks who posted “like” regarding this particular thug.
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I don’t get my kicks when someone dies.
Hate the SIN not the SINNER….SINNER
Granny Godzilla
February 12th, 2013
10:41 pm
Rubio
Wow
He’s a younger Bebe Rebozo
Matti
February 12th, 2013
10:42 pm
**Ding!Ding!Ding!Ding!** Rubio wins the tiara by blaming “The moral breakdown of our society.”
Oscar
February 12th, 2013
10:43 pm
Good speech. Now let’s see what congress can get passed.
Granny Godzilla
February 12th, 2013
10:43 pm
He’ll never be president
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 12th, 2013
10:43 pm
Using ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ as his intro music unfortunately reminded people that Rubio voted against the Violence Against Women Act
Heh, heh, heh.
Oscar
February 12th, 2013
10:45 pm
Get hiag capacity mags off the streets. Good idea. Outlaw future sales.
Oscar
February 12th, 2013
10:46 pm
high capacity mags
kayaker 71
February 12th, 2013
10:46 pm
Jackie,10:39,
I would hesitate to predict what would happen in this country if Bozo and his justice dept decided that the average citizen did not need to be armed. Read item #4 in Bozo’s executive orders. He states that the Attn Gen, yeah that guy named Holder who is one of the biggest liars and crooks in our whole system, will have the right decide who is eligible to have a firearm and who is not. How do you think that that is going to go over with the average citizen who owns a gun? Bozo is smart enough not go go there. He gives it a lot of lip service, postures a lot, gets a lot of media coverage for “standing up for what is right” but even he is not stupid enough to try to disarm America. No one is.
Uh Huh.......Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 50 States
February 12th, 2013
10:46 pm
@kayaker 71
February 12th, 2013
10:35 pm
Fully half of those in America don’t buy into this Bozo bull sh*t, yet, to the average liberal, they are all wrong.
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Fully most of us in America don’t appreciate YOUR HATRED for Obama.
To the average Liberal “we know WHY” and YOU are WRONG.
Uh Huh
Granny Godzilla
February 12th, 2013
10:46 pm
Manic?
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
10:46 pm
“Nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime,” advance speech excerpts say.
Oh my God. Now THAT is fun-knee!
“We must embrace the idea of modest reforms” in Medicare, but not without also asking more of the wealthy and powerful.
In other words let’s just tax the rich some poor and make them pay for it. Couldn’t see this coming could we?
“We can’t just cut our way to prosperity,” but need a balanced approach to get there.
Sure we can. The nation was incredibly prosperous the first century or so of its rapid rise to world prominence when the federal govt consumed only 5% or so of GNP.
“It’s not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth.”
Just what we need. Another meaningless slogan. Might as well substitute the word waste for invest if we really want to be truthful.
9:29: “The greatest nation on Earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to another.”
So the massive debt is not a problem. Only in lib fantasyland.
9:37: “I propose we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good.”
In other words lets tax oil and gas more than we already do and waste the proceeds on more govt boondoggles.
“So let’s do what works, and make sure none of our children start the race of life already behind. Let’s give our kids that chance.”
Irony from the guy whose party opposes school choice for poor kids.
Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. We should be able to get that done.”
What a complete and total idiot. What manner of a fool does not understand the corresponding rise in unemployment that would occur if we did that. Jeez. Send this clown back to Econ 101.
“this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations.” Correct, Mr. President. And that should not be a controversial statement.”
Couldn’t agree with this president more. Just more irony that he says this while systematically bankrupting future generations with massive debt. Truly the ironical president.
Uh Huh.......Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 50 States
February 12th, 2013
10:47 pm
RUBIO WAS HORRIBLE.
He can’t PLAY with the BIG DOGS.
Uh Huh
Buzz Belle
February 12th, 2013
10:48 pm
Rubio is out. Terrible job.
Jackie
February 12th, 2013
10:49 pm
@kayaker
I think you should read the list of Executives Orders signed by President Obama, carefully.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/16/list-executive-actions-obama-plans-to-take-as-part-anti-gun-violence-plan/
Granny Godzilla
February 12th, 2013
10:49 pm
Hi kayaker
Having a nice evening?
We did.
Excuse me whilst I rinse out my bootstraps.
Jay
February 12th, 2013
10:50 pm
That clip of Rubio reaching for the water is going to go viral. Unfair, probably. But that’s the game.
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
10:51 pm
“I don’t get my kicks when someone dies.
Hate the SIN not the SINNER….SINNER”
No one says you need to get your kicks when a worthless, narcissistic serial thug cop killer dies. Just that you should reserve a little more sympathy and respect for the victims first and foremost than for the worthless, narcissistic, serial thug cop killer. That’s all.
Uh Huh.......Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 50 States
February 12th, 2013
10:52 pm
@Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
10:46 pm
“Nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime,” advance speech excerpts say.
Oh my God. Now THAT is fun-knee!
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Can’t take it can you?
A Black man telling People what they should do.
heeheeheeheehee
Uh Huh
kayaker 71
February 12th, 2013
10:55 pm
Uh…Huh, 10:46,
I don’t hate the man, just what he stands for. And that says a lot. I don’t hate him because he is black. or has big ears, or can’t make decisions or lead this country. I don’t hate him because he has been a colossal disaster on the world scene. I most times pity him for his inability to see what he is doing to this great country. He knows what he is doing. He is very smart in many ways. He has a definite plan for where this country is to be and we will see more and more of his arrogance during the next four years. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Voter
February 12th, 2013
10:55 pm
Obama will not raise taxes on the middle class! Oh wait……
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
10:55 pm
“The joke will be on YOU and the CONS in 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032
2036, 2040, 2044, 2048, 2052.”
Nope. The joke will be on you and the other welfare recipients when you crash the system and there’s no money to pay for your free sheet.
getalife
February 12th, 2013
10:55 pm
I could not be happier with our President.
Actually proposing what campaigned on.
Granny Godzilla
February 12th, 2013
10:56 pm
They say presentation is forty present of a great meal.
Senator Rubio couldn’t cook either.
Uh Huh.......Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 50 States
February 12th, 2013
10:56 pm
@Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
10:51 pm
“I don’t get my kicks when someone dies.
Hate the SIN not the SINNER….SINNER”
No one says you need to get your kicks when a worthless, narcissistic serial thug cop killer dies. Just that you should reserve a little more sympathy and respect for the victims first and foremost than for the worthless, narcissistic, serial thug cop killer. That’s all.
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“Just that you should reserve a little more sympathy and respect for the victims”
YOU are a DAY LATE and a DOLLAR SHORT.
My prayers are older than your comment.
I did that the day it happened and I did it TODAY.
Uh Huh
getalife
February 12th, 2013
10:57 pm
kay,
You are a horrible sore loser.
Get over it.
You sound deranged.
OSG
February 12th, 2013
10:59 pm
Thank you Mr. President. Yes, the Republicans and TeaParty have done nothing but stall, and create manufactured crisis for the last two years. Americans are getting tired of it, and I for one hope that many of the stallers will be voted out in 2014. We deserve better than to have some of the fools that are in the current Congress.
Just think what we as a nation could accomplish, if the parties worked together. As Mr. Obama said, “We deserve a vote.”
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 12th, 2013
10:59 pm
Well I missed the drink of water but gonna have to find it online.
Granny Godzilla
February 12th, 2013
10:59 pm
Classic k71
I most times pity him for his inability to see what he is doing to this great country. He knows what he is doing
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.
.
I am so very self editing.
Rand Paul next , it just gets better
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
10:59 pm
“Can’t take it can you?
A Black man telling People what they should do.
heeheeheeheehee
Uh Huh”
You can always count on the kooks to come back around to the RACE card when they got nothing left. As predictable as the sun rising in the east.
Fundamental difference between you and me is that you live your life waiting for Obama or a boss or someone telling you what to do. Not me.
And speaking of race there sure seems to be a lot of race baiting going on here regarding Rubio. What’s going on here? Do you bigots not like the idea of being under the leadership of an Hispanic? Sure seems to look that way from here.
Uh Huh.......Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 50 States
February 12th, 2013
11:00 pm
@Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
10:55 pm
“The joke will be on YOU and the CONS in 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032
2036, 2040, 2044, 2048, 2052.”
Nope. The joke will be on you and the other welfare recipients when you crash the system and there’s no money to pay for your free sheet.
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SEE…..THERE YOU GO.
Calling people out of their names like a good little CON.
You don’t know me and nothing about me.
“you should reserve a little more sympathy and respect ”
heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee
Jackie
February 12th, 2013
11:01 pm
It has been reported the so-called conservatives are going to let the economy crash by refusing to allocate they the money they have already spent.
If the economy of the world’s largest economy crashes – the USA – then the rest of the world crashes with us. It has been predicted that the resultant drop in economic activity will make the Great Depression seem like child’s play.
Wonder where all that talk about welfare and free money will get anyone if they have to stand in the same soup lines as everyone else?
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
11:02 pm
“YOU are a DAY LATE and a DOLLAR SHORT.
My prayers are older than your comment.
I did that the day it happened and I did it TODAY.
Uh Huh”
Sure you did pardner. Uh huh.
Jay
February 12th, 2013
11:03 pm
Keep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct7iNhTvzBE
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 12th, 2013
11:04 pm
Thanks Jay!
Matti
February 12th, 2013
11:04 pm
All this breaking news is delaying Rand Paul’s pekoe-tard response. The burning question: Will his response make Rubio’s look brilliant by comparison? Will he walk away with the tiara after all?
Jay
February 12th, 2013
11:04 pm
Thulsa, your desperation?
It’s showing.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 12th, 2013
11:05 pm
Not as good as binders full of women or staring at the wrong camera
bman.
February 12th, 2013
11:05 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_ribbon
getalife
February 12th, 2013
11:06 pm
That was awkward.
Aquagirl
February 12th, 2013
11:06 pm
Rubio’s got a sense of humor, he just tweeted a pic of a bottle of water.
Uh Huh.......Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 50 States
February 12th, 2013
11:06 pm
@Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
10:59 pm
“Can’t take it can you?
A Black man telling People what they should do.
heeheeheeheehee
Uh Huh”
You can always count on the kooks to come back around to the RACE card when they got nothing left. As predictable as the sun rising in the east.
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AND WE CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON YOU CONS.
YOU PLAYED THE RACE DECK………..
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
10:55 pm
Nope. The joke will be on “YOU” and the other “WELFARE RECIPIENTS” when you crash the system and there’s no money to pay for your free sheet.
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
11:06 pm
“Wonder where all that talk about welfare and free money will get anyone if they have to stand in the same soup lines as everyone else?”
No doubt. Its gonna suck for those people who still have a mortgage, no money in the bank, no crop land of their own to grow some of their own food, no assets owned free and clear, and no built up investments. I’ld hate to be one a them folks completely dependent on govt and at the mercy and whim of others.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 12th, 2013
11:06 pm
Desperation and outright lies.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 12th, 2013
11:07 pm
Thulsa, your desperation? It’s showing.
That’s what you get when you wear speedos.
getalife
February 12th, 2013
11:07 pm
rand got bumped by dornan
Too late rand.
Old cons went to bed.
bman.
February 12th, 2013
11:08 pm
maybe Mister Rubio had been eating pretzels?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBrNkPyr8I8
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
11:09 pm
Uh huh,
So how is “welfare recipients” the race card when there are plenty of white folks on welfare?
Oh noes. Uh huh must be one a them folks that wakes up every morning looking to be offended and thinking the racism boogeyman is hiding in every nook, corner, and cranny. Welfare recipients has just got to mean black folk only in your narrow little world huh? Jeez.
Jackie
February 12th, 2013
11:09 pm
@Thulsa
What makes you think you will be any different if the economy crashes?
Banks will not be open; stores will run out of food; you can not get or pay for basic services such as electricity; law enforcement will not be effective as their will be chaos.
What will you do that will make your situation different/better?
Matti
February 12th, 2013
11:10 pm
Whoa…. on the breaking news.
Question: Would it be insensitive of me to suggest that Rubio go for the Vatican gig? He appears to have the ego for it, and DANG, he’d look good in those blinged out dresses, wouldn’t he?
Granny Godzilla
February 12th, 2013
11:12 pm
Anybody see Ted?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 12th, 2013
11:12 pm
Since I missed it, any outbreaks by that idiot Nugent? Or did he wimp out on all his chest thumpin once the President came in?
Granny Godzilla
February 12th, 2013
11:15 pm
Matti
I like the way you think
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
11:15 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 12th, 2013
11:07 pm
Thulsa, your desperation? It’s showing.
“That’s what you get when you wear speedos.”
Kamspam,
Gee whiz. The lame ass repetitive post bunny can’t come up with anything wittier than that??? Damn! I have to admit I’m bitterly disappointed in you. Try again. Sport.
Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time Doomy is near
Just like Kam they long to be
Close to Doom.
La la la….la la la la…. la la la…..la la la
Kam longs to be
Close to Doom
Why do stars fall down from the sky
Every time Doomy walks by,
Just like kam they long to be
Close to Doom
On the day that Doom was born the angels got together
and decided to create a dream called Doom
So they sprinkled moondust in his hair,
of gold and starlight in his eyes so blue,
That is why all the Libs in town,
Follow Doom all around,
Just like kam they long to be
Close to Doom
La la la…. la la la la la…… laaaaa laaaaa laaaaaa
Close to Doom.
Kamspams obsession with the Doom is duly noted.
Close to you by the carpenters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y_m-CoUIRs
Cherokee
February 12th, 2013
11:16 pm
Matti
:LOL
Goody Three Shoes
February 12th, 2013
11:16 pm
Rubio is Fabio in the eyes of the GOP
guy
February 12th, 2013
11:16 pm
YOU LIE!
Uh Huh.......Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 50 States
February 12th, 2013
11:17 pm
@Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
11:06 pm
“Wonder where all that talk about welfare and free money will get anyone if they have to stand in the same soup lines as everyone else?”
No doubt. Its gonna suck for those people who still have a mortgage, no money in the bank, no crop land of their own to grow some of their own food, no assets owned free and clear, and no built up investments. I’ld hate to be one a them folks completely dependent on govt and at the mercy and whim of others.
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My family owns over 75 acres you are WELCOME to SQUAT there
“if push comes to shove.”
I DO “reserve a little sympathy and respect for victims. ”
Uh Huh
bman.
February 12th, 2013
11:20 pm
Kamchak has a crush on Doom? I really need to catch up around here….
getalife
February 12th, 2013
11:22 pm
doomy had another meltdown.
Uh Huh.......Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 50 States
February 12th, 2013
11:24 pm
Did anyone see Ted Nugent?
Goody Three Shoes
February 12th, 2013
11:25 pm
getalife
Did that Thulsa Doom chick think that song parody was funny or did she meltdown as you stated?
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
11:26 pm
Jackie,
For one thing if we had a collapse similar to the great depression about 1/4 of us would be hurting really bad. 3/4 of us would still be okay. I’ll be in that group. And I live out here in the country and have acreage enough to grow my own food. I’ll admit that as of now I’m only good at small gardening but my brother owns a herd of cattle and lots of farmland and is a much better crop grower. He could teach me how to grow to be fully self sustaining. And with his herd of cattle we have plenty of beef. We also have a well so water is not an issue. And while I own no guns if I ever need one he’s got plenty of em. And his house isn’t paid off but mine is. As are my parent’s houses. Cars are paid off as well as well as my brother’s tractor and other farming equipment. As a family we would be fine. Other countries economies have collapsed and have defaulted- see Argentina. Things were rough for the people caught totally unprepared but even then civilization didn’t grind to a halt as in a post apocalyptic movie.
getalife
February 12th, 2013
11:26 pm
Where is rand?
Aquagirl
February 12th, 2013
11:27 pm
Kamchak has a crush on Doom?
Well, one of them is busting out in full Karen Carpenter chills, but it ain’t Kamchak.
getalife
February 12th, 2013
11:28 pm
“did she meltdown as you stated?”
Meltdown.
He does it everyday.
Mr Right
February 12th, 2013
11:28 pm
Once again Obama is focused on the economy, maybe the unemployment rate will come down to 7.8 in about three years!
Cherokee
February 12th, 2013
11:30 pm
Depends, Mr. Right, on whether or not the Repubs continue to obstruct everything he tries to do…
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
11:31 pm
bman,
Kamspam is not that bad. I’ve whacked him so many times he generally stays clear of the Doom.
Kreep though is truly obsessive. At first he used to stalk Dave R. when he was on. Dave R. referred to him as his cyber stalker. It was really, really kreepy. But since Dave R. left kreep is consumed mostly with me. He snipes from the sideline before trying to confront me head on. Its really kreepy this guy’s obsessive personality. There’s something seriously wrong with that guy.
bman.
February 12th, 2013
11:31 pm
“Well, one of them is busting out in full Karen Carpenter chills, but it ain’t Kamchak.”
True. But still…
Kamchak has met with more than one male blogger.
At the Holiday Inn Express.
#KamHammer
bman.
February 12th, 2013
11:34 pm
Doom .. .. Keep has to be an older fellow. He Bings things…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 12th, 2013
11:35 pm
Ahh I see ScumDoom is still lying… but what can you expect? He has to get attention for his stupidity because he is a loser in life.
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
11:35 pm
“Kamchak has a crush on Doom?’
There is something kinda Freudian about the constant speedo references from kampsam and keep. He and kreep sure seem to spend a lot of time talking about my bod in a pair of tight speedos. Its kreepy the obsession but I’m cool with it. People who butter the other side of the bread don’t bother me.
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
11:37 pm
“He has to get attention for his stupidity because he is a loser in life.”
The irony king doing his thing. Good to see the supehero made it back from helping those folks in Adairsville. Sure. We all believe that.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
February 12th, 2013
11:39 pm
Well, I’m for the Death Penalty for the people that spread lies in the news. First we hear from “multiple sources” that they found a body in that burnt cabin and they’re pretty sure it’s that killer ex-cop. Now not 10 minutes ago the LA police held a news conference and said that was a lie and the cabin was still too hot for anybody to enter. It seems like there’s a bunch of a-holes out there that just love to spread false rumors. I say give them all the needle.
As for the speech I set thru it with old Ace on my left and my machine guns on my right. Every time I stroked the guns and said “Nobody’s going to get you, baby” Ace let out a contented sigh.
Have a good night everybody.
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
11:39 pm
bman.
February 12th, 2013
11:34 pm
Doom .. .. Keep has to be an older fellow. He Bings things…
Probably. In all his time on here he’s never mentioned a gf or wife or anything like that. Then again when you’re akin to a socially awkward penguin what can you reasonably expect from him other than internet obsessions?
Jackie
February 12th, 2013
11:39 pm
@Thulsa
Here is some good reading to let you know that it will be much more severe than you could ever imagine.
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/sequestration-debt-ceiling-weapon-mass-destruction-155604358.html
http://www.aei.org/article/foreign-and-defense-policy/defense/its-not-just-defense-cuts-sequester-would-cripple-our-economy/
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 12th, 2013
11:40 pm
Scumdoom is an arse as usual….. Frankly Scummy, don’t care what you believe or not. You have no idea and your whining is just idiotic.
Jackie
February 12th, 2013
11:42 pm
@Thulsa
Have you stopped to consider there may be hungry and homeless people that live near your brother?
Sounds like the cattle and crops will be subject to theft.
Don’t forget, they have guns too!
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
11:42 pm
Jackie,
Quite possibly. It could be really bad. I’m just saying that it wouldn’t be like in a post apocalyptic movie like say “The Road” or “The Book of Eli” and that at least 1/4 to a half of us, especially those of us that own our stuff free and clear, would be ok. 2 films that were incidentally filmed in Detroit of all places because of its barren, no man landscape of urban decay and ruin. Detroit to me is the poster child for Democrat decay, desolation, and despair.
Dumb and Dumber
February 12th, 2013
11:45 pm
We can’t just cut our way to prosperity? Hello…you mean we HAVE to cut our way to prosperity…if we don’t cut drastically, we’ll lose control of everything and nothing else will really matter. Our currency will become like the peso, etc. The fellow just doesn’t understand economics and how business works, never has, never will.
Jackie
February 12th, 2013
11:45 pm
@Thulsa
You keep repeating that 1/4 number; where do you get that figure?
If you think about it, without your friends and neighbors having jobs, where does the money come from to go back into the economy?
Without the demand for goods and services that money creates, the supply of goods and services would disappear or become too expensive for most of us to afford. Your money would be like that of Zimbabwe, virtually worthless.
Mick
February 12th, 2013
11:47 pm
Everybody is not talking about the best part of the speech, you know, the part where president obama asks the congress to let all the people with a mortgage that pay on time to be approved to refinance! It’s a winner because the money I save will be money spent…find some fault with that one doom the negative or scout the doubting thomas…
yaker
Chill man, your freaking out is not warranted…the sun will come up…four years go by pretty fast…life goes on…afterall, we survive an almost world economic meltdown after eight long years of bush…we’re ok and still digging out but there is no problem to big to solve…we’re americans dammit!!!
Thulsa Doom
February 12th, 2013
11:48 pm
“Have you stopped to consider there may be hungry and homeless people that live near your brother?
Sounds like the cattle and crops will be subject to theft.
Don’t forget, they have guns too!”
Nope. His property is nestled behind a hill and set way back from the road. You can’t see his pastureland or cattle from that small hill. And what’s more he has very few neighbors and the ones that he does have all can see and keep an eye on things. He’s also got 3 dogs that generally sleep outside at night and would alert him to anyone coming onto the property. It would be a foolish man that would venture onto his property. People out there generally help and take care of each other. If people needed help or were going hungry he would voluntarily help people out. And besides in regards to theft the population out there is so sparsely concentrated that the idea of organized gangs of thugs is just not a possibility. They have however had problems with marauding bands of telephone pole thieves.
Oscar
February 12th, 2013
11:50 pm
Doom – Don’t have any acres and am no good farmer. Do have guns an ammo. Should do all right.