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josef
February 23rd, 2013
8:01 pm
Had a minute here and thought I’d drop in to catch up on last night…good show y’all,,,
And as for the topic assigned?
I’m a huge fan of our First Lady…didn’t set out to like her at all and she’s won me over…she’s been a true class act…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
8:02 pm
td, sensible gun laws that provide real protection against gun violence. But I know you want to go all stupid on some unsupported claims. Enjoy yourself as you flog that.
josef
February 23rd, 2013
8:04 pm
Okay, catch me up
What’s the stupidest thing said by the
Right?
Left?
on the porch today?
td
February 23rd, 2013
8:07 pm
“Democrats say that keeping records of private sales is necessary to enforce any new law and because current federal law requires licensed firearm dealers to keep records. Records of private sales also would help law enforcement trace back the history of a gun used in a crime, according to Democratic aides. Republicans, however, believe that records of private sales could put an undue burden on gun owners or could be perceived by gun rights advocates as a precursor to a national gun registry.”
Just like the NRA has been saying all along. This whole background check idea is nothing more then the government wanting to know exactly where all the guns are. If there is any hint of recording a gun sale transaction then HELL no to private background checks.
td
February 23rd, 2013
8:10 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
8:02 pm
As long as I am not a convicted criminal or crazy then it is none of the Governments business how many guns I own, what types of weapons I own or even if I do or do not have guns.
josef
February 23rd, 2013
8:12 pm
td
Oh, you’re crazy as a loon. Insane? Well, that’s a legally adjudicated determination! -)
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
8:12 pm
Brosephus:
“Nowhere have you heard me advocate or even mention Blacks needing guns.”
Sure you have ……….. you need one for your work !
td
February 23rd, 2013
8:14 pm
I am not opposed to background checks for anyone that wants to purchase a gun either privately or in by a gun dealer. I am apposed to the government keeping a record of any purchase I make.
Since drunk drivers kill more people then guns should we not also keep a record of anyone purchasing alcohol (time and place of all transactions) so that it is easier for the police to track down a hit and run driver?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
8:15 pm
td:
“As long as I am not a convicted criminal or crazy then it is none of the Governments business how many guns I own, what types of weapons I own or even if I do or do not have guns.”
That would be correct as long as they are legal weapons as determined by the representatives of the people (through legislation), signed by the President into law and upheld as Constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
8:17 pm
td:
“Since drunk drivers kill more people then guns should we not also keep a record of anyone purchasing alcohol (time and place of all transactions) so that it is easier for the police to track down a hit and run driver?”
Good point plus ……………..
“GUN CONTROL IS LIKE TRYING TO REDUCE DRUNK DRIVING
BY MAKING IT TOUGHER FOR SOBER PEOPLE TO OWN CARS”
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
8:18 pm
Can you believe that bunch of socialists!
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
8:21 pm
Josef was looking for stupidest post. Well how about:
Sure you have ……….. you need one for your work !
in response to:
Brosephus:
“Nowhere have you heard me advocate or even mention Blacks needing guns.”
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
8:21 pm
Come on Mr. President ………. times are tough. You need to set a better example and cut back !
“Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks.”
“Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that Obama isn’t the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in.”
“Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4 billion spent on the Obama family last year is the “total cost of the presidency,” factoring the cost of the “biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever,” a 50 percent increase in the numbers of appointed czars and an Air Force One “running with the frequency of a scheduled air line.”
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/26/taxpayers-spent-1-4-billion-on-obama-family-last-year-perks-questioned-in-new-book/
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
8:23 pm
CRAP !
TaxPayer bit before Brosephus had a chance too !
LOL !!!!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
8:23 pm
Excuse me:
“to”
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
8:23 pm
Since drunk drivers kill more people then guns should we not also keep a record of anyone purchasing alcohol (time and place of all transactions) so that it is easier for the police to track down a hit and run driver?
Actually it is much easier and more effective to simply set up strategic road blocks, which is done.
josef
February 23rd, 2013
8:23 pm
I guess you do have to be melanin enhanced to do Brosephus job…Scary Knee-grow…
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
8:23 pm
To the Moms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-N3F1FhW4
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
8:24 pm
Josef was looking for stupidest post. Well how about:
“TaxPayer”
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
8:24 pm
To the Dads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZa7hU6tP_s
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
8:25 pm
Now scout is going to tell us all how he set a trap with his stupid comment just to see who would call out his stupid comment.
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
8:25 pm
“Josef was looking for stupidest post. ”
Sorry, but I think this is probably the worst:
“Do you think Mary Todd Lincoln did it like this?”
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
8:27 pm
Okay. Perhaps that 8:24 is a close second for stupidest post given his inability to distinquish betwen the definitions of “post” and “poster”.
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
8:28 pm
“Do you think Mary Todd Lincoln did it like this?”
You got a YouTube so we can check it out.
td
February 23rd, 2013
8:30 pm
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
8:24 pm
Good one.
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
8:32 pm
td,
beware the jackals.
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
8:33 pm
“You got a YouTube so we can check it out.
”
You are a sick puppy, TaxPayer.
That’s why I like you.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
8:34 pm
Well td, as I said, you can claim whatever you want but that does not mean you are anywhere close to the truth or reality. Buy some cough meds?
barking frog
February 23rd, 2013
8:34 pm
beware the jacka$$es…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
8:35 pm
“Does this AR-15 make my butt look fat?”
– Thomas “Kim Kardashian” Jefferson
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
8:35 pm
beware of the elephants…
josef
February 23rd, 2013
8:35 pm
Well, no fan of the Lincoln’s but let’s be fair…Mary Todd Lincoln studied dance as a young woman and she met Diocletian of the Potomac at a formal dance. Even her harshest critics in Washington (among them Rose O’Neal Greenhow and Eugenia Yates Levy Phillips, and Judah P, no slouches on the ballroom floor) grudgingly admitted that she was pretty good…
josef
February 23rd, 2013
8:40 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq1mP-f7RYQ
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
8:48 pm
@ mister numbers
It went up $806 (or a bit over 7%) between 2010 and 2013
Most of that was in SS, pensions and health care.
Welfare spending actually decreased
Not surprised the first two increased since anyone born in 1945 would have been eligible for retirement in 2010
So what’s your point?
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
8:48 pm
jo!!!
You are so bad!
But thanks for answering TP’s 8:28.
josef
February 23rd, 2013
8:49 pm
Okay. gotta run… just stopped by to say hello…
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
8:50 pm
hello. goodbye.
td
February 23rd, 2013
8:51 pm
Look before I leap…
February 23rd, 2013
8:48 pm
Please define welfare?
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
8:55 pm
@td
use this link, expand the node under Welfare.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2010USdn_10ds1n#usgs302
td
February 23rd, 2013
8:56 pm
“CRS Report: Welfare Spending The Largest Item In The Federal Budget
Ranking Member Sessions and the minority staff of the Senate Budget Committee requested from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) an overview of cumulative means-tested federal welfare spending in the United States in the most recent year for which data is available (fiscal year 2011). The results are staggering. CRS identified 83 overlapping federal welfare programs that together represented the single largest budget item in 2011—more than the nation spends on Social Security, Medicare, or national defense. The total amount spent on these 80-plus federal welfare programs amounts to roughly $1.03 trillion. Importantly, these figures solely refer to means-tested welfare benefits. They exclude entitlement programs to which people contribute (e.g., Social Security and Medicare).
CRS estimates that exclusively federal spending on these federal programs equaled approximately $746 billion, and further emphasizes that there is a substantial amount of state spending—mostly required as a condition of states’ participation—on these same federal programs (primarily Medicaid and CHIP). Based on data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government Finance, Budget Committee staff calculated at least an additional $283 billion in state contributions to those same federal programs,1 for a total annual expenditure of $1.03 trillion. By comparison, in 2011, the annual budget expenditure for Social Security was $725 billion, Medicare was $480 billion, and non-war defense was $540 billion.”
http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=34919307-6286-47ab-b114-2fd5bcedfeb5
Tundra Dude
February 23rd, 2013
9:04 pm
Scout, the perpetual bearer of good nuze, posted:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/26/taxpayers-spent-1-4-billion-on-obama-family-last-year-perks-questioned-in-new-book/
Good wun!
I like the one, “Five shocking truths about Michelle Obama”
2. Sometimes she lets Bo sleep in her bed
I AM Shocked, shocked beyond belief…..
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:04 pm
1) WHITNEY HOUSTON
American zero who drowned in her
bath water after inducing a fatal
concoction of drugs and alcohol.
Obama orders all flags be flown at half mast.
2) CHRIS KYLE
American hero and former legendary Navy SEAL
sniper. Known as the “Devil of Ramadi” with over
150 confirmed kills; the most in American military
history, saving countless U.S. military and civilian
lives. Murdered in cold blood.
Obama does not even mention his name in the media.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
9:05 pm
Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNouBe_J0pg
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:06 pm
Tundra:
Don’t you think they could cut back just a little ………… times are hard out there for a lot of folks ………… many who actually pay taxes.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:07 pm
moonbat betty @ 8:25
LOL !!!
Bernie
February 23rd, 2013
9:08 pm
The problem with The Republicans and Mrs.Obama is that she does NOT do the FULL FRONTAL GRIN like one HERMAN CAIN. They really like to see that GRIN because it plays into that old stereotypical description of attitude by persons of color in America. Check out how they LOVE Herman so and How they love how HAPPY he always is!
Mrs.Obama does not play to those preconceived notions and it angers many here and on the right especially.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
9:10 pm
Stupidest posts?
i’m going with keith’s: Neither of them (Mr. & Mrs. Obama) have ever supported themselves.
And td’s: First GWB was not a ‘disaster” and if you are around in 50 years when history of his Presidency will be written then you will find out that he will have a higher approval rating then Clinton.
But one man’s stupid is another man’s ice cream…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k57_67AEOY
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
9:13 pm
Senior Digits posts of stupidity disproven again!
http://politicalmemes.blogspot.com/2013/02/obama-orders-flags-lowered-for-whitney.html — It is not true that President Obama ordered flags throughout the country flown at half-staff to honor Whitney Houston; as noted above, that action was undertaken only at a state level by the governor of New Jersey republican Chris Chistie
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:17 pm
Good Fight:
If that is correct, then I withdraw that part of my post.
when revenge smells bad
February 23rd, 2013
9:21 pm
http://screen.yahoo.com/husband-gets-revenge-084500815.html
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
9:21 pm
Funny thing Senior Digits, if you had integrity and courage, you would admit that you were wrong and you would start checking your spam for accuracy before you post. Posting stupidity that has been debunked without being embarrassed when proven wrong is part of your style, right?
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
9:23 pm
Sure you have ……….. you need one for your work !
I didn’t advocate for DHS to arm officers in my position. You’ll have to take that up with Congress and the US Code. Also, my job being an armed position doesn’t have a thing to do with my race. If I were White, Asian, Hispanic, Arabic, or a member of any other group, I would still get the same equipment issued to me as any other officer.
—————-
1) WHITNEY HOUSTON
[...]
Obama orders all flags be flown at half mast.
2) CHRIS KYLE
[...]
Obama does not even mention his name in the media.
Will y’all make up your minds already. One day, it’s Obama’s neglecting the Black community. When he does something for the Black community, y’all gripe about it. Geez… No wonder America refuses to put y’all back in charge. You wouldn’t know your head from your feet being so confused all the time.
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
9:29 pm
td we have been through the worst recession since the ’30’s – of course means tested assistance programs have cost more in recent years.
Fiscal year 2011 ended in what – October of 2011? Significant reductions have already occurred in those programs because of the improving economy.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:29 pm
Good Fight:
I beg to differ. Unlike you and many others on here (mostly liberals) I am willing to admit if I have misquoted or posted something in error.
But …….. while you’re at it, check the accuracy on this one for me.
“WOODWARD: Obama fibs on budget cuts… ”
“OBAMA’S SEQUESTER DEAL-CHANGER”
By Bob Woodward, Washington Post, Published: February 22
“Misunderstanding, misstatements and all the classic contortions of partisan message management surround the sequester, the term for the $85 billion in ugly and largely irrational federal spending cuts set by law to begin Friday.
What is the non-budget wonk to make of this? Who is responsible? What really happened?
The finger-pointing began during the third presidential debate last fall, on Oct. 22, when President Obama blamed Congress. “The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed,” Obama said. “It is something that Congress has proposed.”
The White House chief of staff at the time, Jack Lew, who had been budget director during the negotiations that set up the sequester in 2011, backed up the president two days later.
“There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger,” Lew said while campaigning in Florida. It “was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure.”
The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.
Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.
Nabors has told others that they checked with the president before going to see Reid. A mandatory sequester was the only action-forcing mechanism they could devise. Nabors has said, “We didn’t actually think it would be that hard to convince them” — Reid and the Republicans — to adopt the sequester. “It really was the only thing we had. There was not a lot of other options left on the table.”
A majority of Republicans did vote for the Budget Control Act that summer, which included the sequester. Key Republican staffers said they didn’t even initially know what a sequester was — because the concept stemmed from the budget wars of the 1980s, when they were not in government.
At the Feb. 13 Senate Finance Committee hearing on Lew’s nomination to become Treasury secretary, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) asked Lew about the account in my book: “Woodward credits you with originating the plan for sequestration. Was he right or wrong?”
“It’s a little more complicated than that,” Lew responded, “and even in his account, it was a little more complicated than that. We were in a negotiation where the failure would have meant the default of the government of the United States.”
“Did you make the suggestion?” Burr asked.
“Well, what I did was said that with all other options closed, we needed to look for an option where we could agree on how to resolve our differences. And we went back to the 1984 plan that Senator [Phil] Gramm and Senator [Warren] Rudman worked on and said that that would be a basis for having a consequence that would be so unacceptable to everyone that we would be able to get action.”
In other words, yes.
But then Burr asked about the president’s statement during the presidential debate, that the Republicans originated it.
Lew, being a good lawyer and a loyal presidential adviser, then shifted to denial mode: “Senator, the demand for an enforcement mechanism was not something that the administration was pushing at that moment.”
That statement was not accurate.
On Tuesday, Obama appeared at the White House with a group of police officers and firefighters to denounce the sequester as a “meat-cleaver approach” that would jeopardize military readiness and investments in education, energy and readiness. He also said it would cost jobs. But, the president said, the substitute would have to include new revenue through tax reform.
At noon that same day, White House press secretary Jay Carney shifted position and accepted sequester paternity.
“The sequester was something that was discussed,” Carney said. Walking back the earlier statements, he added carefully, “and as has been reported, it was an idea that the White House put forward.”
This was an acknowledgment that the president and Lew had been wrong.
Why does this matter?
First, months of White House dissembling further eroded any semblance of trust between Obama and congressional Republicans. (The Republicans are by no means blameless and have had their own episodes of denial and bald-faced message management.)
Second, Lew testified during his confirmation hearing that the Republicans would not go along with new revenue in the portion of the deficit-reduction plan that became the sequester. Reinforcing Lew’s point, a senior White House official said Friday, “The sequester was an option we were forced to take because the Republicans would not do tax increases.”
In fact, the final deal reached between Vice President Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2011 included an agreement that there would be no tax increases in the sequester in exchange for what the president was insisting on: an agreement that the nation’s debt ceiling would be increased for 18 months, so Obama would not have to go through another such negotiation in 2012, when he was running for reelection.
So when the president asks that a substitute for the sequester include not just spending cuts but also new revenue, he is moving the goal posts. His call for a balanced approach is reasonable, and he makes a strong case that those in the top income brackets could and should pay more. But that was not the deal he made.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bob-woodward-obamas-sequester-deal-changer/2013/02/22/c0b65b5e-7ce1-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_print.html
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
9:30 pm
Keep
BigJournalism ’s new motto: “The story as reported is correct.. Whether the information I was given by the source is correct I am not sure”
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:31 pm
Brosephus:
“Sure you have ……….. you need one for your work !”
You’ve been out so you missed to joke/satire about two pages back.
Sorry you didn’t get it ……… thought you were sharper than that …………..
)
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
9:31 pm
“Obama orders all flags be flown at half mast.”
Untrue – it was Governor Christie who order flags to half-mast in NJ.
Obama did issue a public statement on Houston’s death.
That he has not (as far I can tell) for Kyle is notable but not entirely surprising.
Given the current state of the debate about gun control, for the White House to issue any statement
on the Kyle murder could have been interpreted as political pandering of the worst kind during a time of private tragedy.
It is possible that Obama contacted the widow after the killing privately and she requested that he make no comment. A request that any decent person would honor.
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
9:31 pm
But then anyone who thinks that Bush will ‘have a higher approval rating than Clinton’ in 50 years is well and truly divorced from reality….
td
February 23rd, 2013
9:32 pm
” Summary
The means-tested welfare system consists of 69 federal programs providing cash, food, housing, medical care, social services, training, and targeted education aid to poor and low-income Americans. Means-tested welfare programs differ from general government programs in that they provide aid exclusively to persons (or communities) with low incomes.
In FY 2011, federal spending on means-tested welfare, plus state contributions to federal programs, will reach $940 billion per year. The federal share will come to around $695 billion, or 74 percent, while state spending will be around $250 billion, or 26 percent.
Combined federal and state means-tested welfare is now the second-largest category of overall government spending in the nation. It is exceeded only by the combined cost of Social Security and Medicare. Welfare spending is greater than the cost of public education and is greater than spending on national defense.
In the two decades before the current recession, means-tested welfare was the fastest growing component of government spending. It grew more rapidly than Social Security and Medicare, and its rate of increase dwarfed that of public education and national defense.
Despite the fact that welfare spending was already at record levels when he took office, President Obama has increased means-tested welfare spending by a third. This is a permanent, not a temporary, increase in spending. According to the President’s budget plans, means-tested welfare will not decline as the recession ends but will continue to grow rapidly for the next decade. Obama plans to spend at least $10 trillion on means-tested welfare over the next ten years.
In FY 2008, means-tested welfare assistance amounted to around $7,700 for each poor and low-income person in the U.S. population (those with non-welfare incomes below 200 percent of poverty).
In FY 2011, total means-tested spending going to families with children will be about $470 billion. If this sum were divided equally among the lowest-income one-third of families with children (around 14 million families), the result would be around $33,000 per low-income family with children.
Means-tested spending comprises a vast, hidden welfare state. The public is almost totally unaware of the size and scope of government spending on the poor. This is because Congress and the mainstream media always discuss welfare in a fragmented, piecemeal basis. Each of the 69 programs is debated in isolation as if it were the only program affecting the poor. This piecemeal approach to welfare spending perpetuates the myth that spending on the poor is meager and grows little, if at all.
The piecemeal, fragmented character of the hidden welfare system makes rational policy-making and discussion impossible. Sound policies to aid the poor must be developed holistically, with decision makers and the public fully aware of the magnitude of overall spending. To accomplish this, Congress should establish a cap or limit on the future growth of total means-tested spending.
When the current recession ends, or by 2013 at the latest, total means-tested welfare spending should be returned to pre-recession levels, adjusted for inflation. In subsequent years, aggregate welfare spending should grow no faster than inflation. This type of spending cap would save the taxpayers over $2 trillion during its first decade. An aggregate welfare spending cap of this sort is contained in H.R. 1167, The Welfare Reform Act of 2011, introduced by Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH). ”
http://www.heritage.org/research/testimony/2012/06/welfare-state-69-means-tested-programs-and-940-billion-in-annual-spending
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:32 pm
By the way, did you ever figure out how to tell innocents from criminals if you ever have to use it ??
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
9:33 pm
heritage.org
There’s your sign.
appleseed
February 23rd, 2013
9:34 pm
Adam raised Cain. Thinking he was his son.Happend lots of times I would think.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:35 pm
Look before I leap:
“Given the current state of the debate about gun control, for the White House to issue any statement
on the Kyle murder could have been interpreted as political pandering of the worst kind during a time of private tragedy.”
Oh, you mean similar to this statement ?
“President Obama: If I Had a Son, He’d Look Like Trayvon Martin”
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
9:35 pm
Gosh, will the filter PLEASE block any links, quotes, or references to that Woodward Opinion piece. One man’s opinion being quoted over and over does not make it a fact. Give it a break, please…..
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
9:36 pm
What a surprise td – the Republicans are attacking President Obama…
There’s a shocker for ya….
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
9:37 pm
By the way, did you ever figure out how to tell innocents from criminals if you ever have to use it ??
YOU assumed that. I never said I couldn’t. I’m not here to defend your words. Sorry, but that’s not how things go. You assert something, then you need to prove or disprove it.
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
9:37 pm
LOL. Good luck with that Brocephus. You’re correct of course, but that;s the way they roll….
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
9:38 pm
Gosh, will the filter PLEASE block any links, quotes, or references to that Woodward Opinion piece.
Not until drudgey quits featuring it front and center.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
9:39 pm
Even after getting caught in yet another silly, needless ODS-driven lie, the corporal then……………….. lies again.
I am willing to admit if I have misquoted or posted something in error.
He admitted nothing with this: If that is correct, then I withdraw that part of my post.
An intellectually honest person would have looked up the info after being informed it was nonsense (and an intelligent person would have checked it out FIRST), confirmed that it was nonsense and then said to the forum, “Yes, what I wrote was nonsense.”
But he just scampers down another hole, until his next nonsensical lie.
Too funny…
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
9:40 pm
You’ve been out so you missed to joke/satire about two pages back.
Sorry you didn’t get it ……… thought you were sharper than that …………..
Nice attempt to cover your ass, but your comment is at the top of this page. I’ll believe that explanation just as soon as I believe that people conspired back in 1961 to plant Obama’s birth record to enable him to become president. Both of those sound just alike to me.
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
9:40 pm
And td, I know it was a Senate report that you’re quoting – extensively – but Obama can only spend money that is appropriated by House Republicans.
Perhaps they’re barking up the wrong tree?
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
9:41 pm
Poor scout. He is soooo head over heels jealous of President Obama.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:42 pm
Brosephus:
Good ……….. I was worried about you (and us !)
td
February 23rd, 2013
9:42 pm
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
9:31 pm
But then anyone who thinks that Bush will ‘have a higher approval rating than Clinton’ in 50 years is well and truly divorced from reality….
Well you my friend do not have an understanding of how Presidents are graded historically. If you would go and do a little research you will find that the Presidents that guided our nation through wars tend to receive much higher grades then Presidents that only presided during times of peace and prosperity. (Lincoln, Wilson, FDR…)
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
9:42 pm
“But then anyone who thinks that Bush will ‘have a higher approval rating than Clinton’ in 50 years is well and truly divorced from reality”
Soothsayer, are you?
Hoping for some blue sky tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujPuVhgTl2Y
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:43 pm
Brosephus:
That chip has been on there so long you’ll never get it off.
Too bad ………. really. Life’s too short.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
9:44 pm
Scout
No need to worry about me. I’m highly qualified and well trained.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:45 pm
Please see my 9:29
No one going to take “THE” Bob Woodward to task for saying Obama is shall we say “shading the truth” ??
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:45 pm
Brosephus:
I know you are. Be careful out there !
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
9:46 pm
@mister numbers:
“President Obama: If I Had a Son, He’d Look Like Trayvon Martin”
FWIW, I thought the comment was out of line.
And he got quite a bit of backlash on it at the time.
Might be a case of once-burned…
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
9:46 pm
Dance betty, dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXfc7VMyj94
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
9:46 pm
By the way, here’s my favorite video of her dancing (although she looks hotter today with the bangs….)
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/VideoNetwork/1443394041001/First-Lady-Michelle-Obama-performs-UNI-s-Interlude-Dance-
td
February 23rd, 2013
9:47 pm
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
9:33 pm
heritage.org
There’s your sign.
You mean the sign that says good respected research? Yes that is the sign Heritage carries.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
9:47 pm
That chip has been on there so long you’ll never get it off.
Everybody has an opinion. They don’t even have to be factual to be valid.
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
9:49 pm
LOL I know td – If only I were as well informed as you are…..
td
February 23rd, 2013
9:49 pm
Brosephus™ – Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
9:47 pm
That chip has been on there so long you’ll never get it off.
Everybody has an opinion. They don’t even have to be factual to be valid.
Like those comments from Obama that stated the sequester was all the idea of the Republicans? How about the Obama comments about he would never raise the taxes of the middle class?
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
9:49 pm
You mean the sign that says good respected research?
No.
This has been yet another episode of one word answers to a simple(ton’s) question.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
9:52 pm
“…Presidents that guided our nation through wars tend to receive much higher grades then Presidents that only presided during times of peace and prosperity. (Lincoln, Wilson, FDR…)”
Johnson, Nixon, Bush I (14th, 32nd and 22nd respectively)
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
9:52 pm
Numbers @ 9:45.
Sure – Woodward messed up. Here’s an explanation:
http://editors.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/02/woodward_misses_the_mark.php?ref=fpa
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
9:53 pm
W guided this nation through a war alright. He lied his way into and chose it himself. ON THE WORNG COUNTRY! Oh and he managed to botch that invasion and occupation damn near every step of the way.
Yep, a real winner that historians will suddenly change their minds about in the distant future. (HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency Worst; CSPAN poll – GWB 36th out of 42)
This fact is irrefutable: the list of polls that have ranked him as very poor and in the bottom 10 of US Presidents is LONG. Maybe td has an extensive list of polls with him in the top 10. Or even top 25.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113806/americans-expect-history-judge-bush-worse-than-nixon.aspx
Along with that Gallup poll, he is widely viewed as the worst president since WWII. Wrestling that prestigious title away from Tricky Dick.
That entire administration was a total disaster. That the neocons will never admit it is a BIG reason why they will continue to get crushed by American voters, just as they did last November…
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
9:53 pm
Cherokee @ 9:46
You should have warned us that Bob Barr was dancing with her in that video!!!
Check old dude in the button down shirt on the right side of the screen….
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
9:57 pm
Like those comments from Obama that stated the sequester was all the idea of the Republicans? How about the Obama comments about he would never raise the taxes of the middle class?
No. Don’t care who’s idea the sequester was. It wouldn’t have happened without Congressional legislation passing both houses. Congress as a whole gets the blame. Same with taxes. Obama can’t raise taxes. He can’t do it unless Congress passes it first.
The president is not a dictator that can just do whatever he chooses. Congress has to legislate it first. It’s been that way since George Washington.
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
9:57 pm
dance Kam dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMKHbgghVus
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
10:01 pm
Look before I leap…
February 23rd, 2013
9:46 pm
I hear you.
Soothsayer
February 23rd, 2013
10:02 pm
Here is the complete list of “welfare programs” from td’s post @ 9:32. I think he’s right. There’s a lot of them programs that are wasted. We should be spending that money on the military instead.
td: I’m so tired of your drivel and garbage on this blog. Why don’t you take over to Kyle’s once in a while.
You have some serious psychological problems that you need to address.
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moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
10:03 pm
anywhere but here, right?
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February 23rd, 2013
10:04 pm
Cherokee:
Of course someone else in the press was going to try to refute Woodward but he is in deep doo doo now ………….. the damage has been done …………..probably be exiled from the White House.
appleseed
February 23rd, 2013
10:04 pm
Them Teaquesters brought it all on.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
10:04 pm
Nope Senior Digits, you are still missing integrity and courage. You made a post of stupidity and claimed it as FACT. When pointed out that your “fact” was wrong (because you apparently did not bother to check before posting the stupidity”, you sheepishly say “If that is correct….” You admitted nothing because you don’t have the courage or integrity. Your hatred disengages your ability to use your brain and even take 1 minute to confirm whether your spam is correct and what the real facts are.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
10:06 pm
Kam, funny how they get outraged about Reid making a claim from a source (so far not disproven)and yet they do it over and over again (and get disproven).