I’m a big fan of Mrs. Bush as well, that woman is a saint. She holds reasonable views, and she married a mentally deficient man and stuck with him through all these years…
I wonder what she and the President are going to do to help regarding the Sequester ………… you know ……….. cut back on some of their extravagant travel, maybe take vacations together, etc., etc.
She also advocates for military families. Please explain how eating healthy or helping families tie into the sequester? I’m sure there’s some kind of convoluted logic you can spew that makes sense to dumbasses all around the world.
Play nice. Dont be like the Dem’s were with Nancy. I have never met her and I having nothing negative to say. I am certain she is quite charming and is also very comitted to her causes and charities. Probably the best dancer of any first ladies.
I can’t help but think that some of the vitriol coming from the wing-nuts could be mitigated by a bit more fiber in the diet and a tube of Preparation-H.
I love that Michelle Obama doesn’t put herself on a pedestal and is using her position to address real, everyday concerns like getting enough exercise to stay healthy. She also happens to be a brilliant lawyer, but she is wisely keeping her distance from any and all issues that could be considered political. No egg on her face. Nope.
Not possible. Just think it is silly to try and turn a nice piece of Saturday morning entertainment into a gun thing. Now if you will excuse me I need to blast through a few hundred rounds at the range.
It’s funny and sad at the same time to see the some of the cons get their knickers in a twist because the First Lady doesn’t dress and act like an old white woman.
I am so glad we have moved the discussion away from the boring stuff like the unemployment rate still hovering around 8-9%, and moved on to the stuff that matters like Moocheles hair and her favorite music.
Gotta picture of her recently by email; in this she looks less harry. She’s a moocher just like the rest of you Bookites…..thankfully there’s no way she will ever be Hillary reborn with a tan.
“She’s a moocher just like the rest of you Bookites”
Hmm, if graduating from Princeton cum laude and then getting a law degree from Harvard Law School then being steadily employed for 20 years makes one a moocher, I say we need more moochers!
Look before I leap… “Hmm, if graduating from Princeton cum laude and then getting a law degree from Harvard Law School then being steadily employed for 20 years makes one a moocher, I say we need more moochers!”
(Hey, pssst, take note: it’s about the color of skin. That is to say, not her skin per se, but the skin of those supposedly supported by the political party she represents. She’s got the wrong color of skin, given her party. That why rubesville no like her….they’re waiting for Herman Cain version femme, then she can do any dance step she pleases and they’ll like her just finnnnnnnnnnne…)
Good dancer, agreed. Not so cute as Barack doing skeet in his pink tutu, though. Brilliant lawyer? No evidence. Forced to relinquish license to practice, though.
Repeal the Hollywood tax cuts.
Just a couple of lucky free loaders who capitalized on the ignorance of 51% of the people. As long as there are more free loaders than producers who vote, we will continue down this road toward government dependence.
So, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Stick your hand out and get all the freebies you are entitled to while they last.
BTW, Jay, thanks for not moderating us like Cafferty and others do before we’re allowed to post. When I am here, I feel like the first amendment applies to me, too. Just sayin’…
“You know she has nothing to do with policy, but don’t let things like truth stand between you and your opinion.”
If you think a first lady does not influence policy then I have some ocean front land in Blue Ridge to sell you.
Let me see, we have a first lady that has a degree from Princeton, a law degree from Harvard who has been an advocate for the poor and has held the reins of power in private industry all of a sudden going to be happy and content with sitting around like the good little housewife working with theses little special causes. Yea right!!!!!!
I got moderated the other night. Might have been the auto-filter though.
Upon further reflection, it’s probably a good thing as my comment would’ve gotten me banished for a few days.
BTW: The 1st amendment only protects you from government censorship. Jay is free to do as he pleases in that regard.
From all I can see, the Obama’s are good parents and if you have children you understand what a compliment I am giving them.
One thing that has bothered me about the Obama administration is the knocking down of decorum and tradition of the Presidency.
Obama has scaled back some as time wore on, probably due to advisors telling him he had to, from struting like a black rock star. He has also learned to salute the military.
Mrs. Obama has cleaned up her act as well from letting herself been seen within range of cameras with her panty line showing to acting quite respectable.
My question is, what the hell happened here?
I don’t want my First Lady acting in public like she’s a just-divorced woman going through an identity crisis at some nightclub. Ridiculous and embarrassing for any who value the office of the President over pop-culture.
She’s a most excellent mom. And her daughters should rightfully be hanging their heads low in typical teenage-fashioned embarrassment when around their friends.
“BTW: The 1st amendment only protects you from government censorship. Jay is free to do as he pleases in that regard.”
Well since the MSM has denigrated into nothing more then the propaganda arm of the democrats and therefore the current government in change then in reality they are the government and our speech should be protected against them.
If you think that Bozoette doesn’t have her hand and head into most every decision Bozo makes, you are more naive than a thinking person should be. She is the female version of him without some of the narcissism. She comes across as “brilliant”, caring, understanding, etc but if she is part of the mastermind behind all of these Marxist changes that seem to be happening in our government, all of the fluff that she represents up front is just window dressing. You think she wasn’t consulted on health care, the stimulus, our debt and lack of a budget? It would be a shame to waste all of that brilliance on ski trips and dance videos.
Amen to that. I can’t imagine how difficult it is to parent in that environment and the kids growing up (especially adolescence) in that kind of spotlight must be excruciating at times.
“If you think a first lady does not influence policy then I have some ocean front land in Blue Ridge to sell you.”
I think Bro meant no formal role in establishing policy and I think you know that.
So what is your point?
Unions and corporations have no “formal” role in policy either but we watch them like hawks to see what they are doing. It is the people with informal roles that are the most dangerous.
Either way, she is funny and personable and one really has to be full to the brim with HATE to talk about her the way they do. I don’t even pity them anymore, I wish they would just pack their crap and leave. Real America and real Americans don’t need them or their hate any more.
I see the hysteric in chief continues to think of new and creative ways to scare everyone away from spending cuts…
No surprise, a fear monger…2.3% of annual spend we can’t live without. OMG, flights will be canceled, babies will starve, we will no longer have security to save our shores from threat…
“Well since the MSM has denigrated into nothing more then the propaganda arm of the democrats and therefore the current government in change then in reality they are the government and our speech should be protected against them.”
With contortionist abilities like that td, have you ever considered a career at Cirque du Soleil?
Real journalists learn in 101 the importance of the first amendment – there would be no journalism without it. And while Jay is free to do as you say, he doesn’t, and this is my point. Some get it and some don’t, probably why so many hang out on his blog whenever they can. Just sayin!
“excruciating?”…… how so. She is waited on hand and foot. I am sure that someone else does the laundry, the cooking, the shopping. She doesn’t have to drive herself anywhere, she has a rather large airplane at her beck and call anytime she wants it and a seemingly unlimited budget to do pretty well as she pleases. Excruciating my ass.
Either way, she is funny and personable and one really has to be full to the brim with HATE to talk about her the way they do. I don’t even pity them anymore, I wish they would just pack their crap and leave. Real America and real Americans don’t need them or their hate any more.
As in: Batten down the hatches — the sequester will cut $85 billion from this year’s $3.6 trillion budget! Or: Head for the storm cellar — spending will be cut 2.3 percent! Or: Washington chain-saw massacre — we must scrape by on 97.7 percent of current spending! Or: Chaos is coming because the sequester will cut a sum $25 billion larger than was just shoveled out the door (supposedly, but not actually) for victims of Hurricane Sandy! Or: Heaven forfend, the sequester will cut 47 percent as much as was spent on the AIG bailout! Or: Famine, pestilence and locusts will come when the sequester causes federal spending over 10 years to plummet from $46 trillion all the way down to $44.8 trillion! Or: Grass will grow in the streets of America’s cities if the domestic agencies whose budgets have increased 17 percent under President Obama must endure a 5 percent cut!
Anyone who falls into the trap of buying these scare (lack of leadership symptom) tactics remains blinded by the light…
I see the hysteric in chief continues to think of new and creative ways to scare everyone away from spending cuts
A REAL independent, as opposed to a sham Republican posing as one, would not use talk radio/foxbot type insults on the Presidents name to refer to him.
IMO none of us have any business critiquing this woman. Degraded her ofr minimizing her is absurd. While casting all this she’s a great mom stuff is predicated on what carefully orchestrated PR will never allow her to be cast in anything but under that light of the angels.
What do we really know about what goes on behind the scenes?
Let me see, we have a first lady that has a degree from Princeton, a law degree from Harvard who has been an advocate for the poor and has held the reins of power in private industry all of a sudden going to be happy and content with sitting around like the good little housewife working with theses little special causes.
Obviously, you CAN’T see as she’s done her eating campaign, worked with the NFL’s Play 60 program, and worked with Dr. Biden on advancing causes for military families. She has not, however, put forth her healthcare plan, her sequester plan, or her budget.
I know you don’t understand the difference as your far rightedness clouds your judgement to the point that most things you say are laughable, but whenever you have bonafide proof that she’s engaged in policy, put it on the blog for all to see, or even just me.
Unions and corporations have no “formal” role in policy either but we watch them like hawks to see what they are doing. It is the people with informal roles that are the most dangerous.
B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T!!!!! There’s this little group of people who are employed by unions and corporations called lobbyist that not only play a “formal” role, but as has been proven in some cases, they actually write the legislation themselves. Think Georgia Assembly for example.
Once again, the might td has caught the swing and a miss… Anybody with any sense of self-esteem would have quit embarassing themselves long ago.
Well kayaker, I was talking about the kids.
But foam away man – foam away.
BTW: As I understand it, Michelle does most of the cooking in the residence and the kids clean up their own rooms. As for grocery shopping, there is a pretty sophisticated protocol for buying the food that the President and his family consume. It has something to do with the Secret Service and keeping poisoned food off the President’s dinner plate.
Since you immediate response is to attack and refer to me a foxbot or GOP guy…you concede i reckon. Sometimes things are what they appear on the surface…2.3%?
This is from another exceptional column by George Will…of course I’m sure all of the liberals here have the intellect to sit across the debate table…
OMG! what about the starving babies….who will die of starvation by us living off 3.48 trillion versus 3.6 trillion…
Yes I disagree with much of BO”s concepts of financial stewardship…no different than that of entire congressional body..
Whomever feels that disrespecting this woman and her kids is fun sport, needs to check motives and have a coke and a smile…BO is certainly fair game but leave the women and children alone…
Since you immediate response is to attack and refer to me a foxbot or GOP guy…you concede i reckon. Sometimes things are what they appear on the surface…2.3%?
Not Doomy, I DON’T concede (another right wing diversion, declare “victory” on the stupidity and pretend it’s mission accomplished).
i was QUITE clear on what I said. A true independent would NOT refer to the President in talk radio/foxbot terms which is exactly what you did. When I, and most thinking individuals see stupidity like ‘hysteric in chief, we quit reading because we know that there is no intelligence to follow. All that will come is hysterical dogma based on the inflammatory rhetoric that started it.
If you want to be taken seriously then act serious. You want to be an independent, act independent. Don’t use juvenile little foxbot/talk radio insults at the President. Anyone who uses the terms, 0Bama, (zerobama), Exalted one, the messiah, Dear Ruler, Obozo, president trillions, or any other juvenile name that disrespects the Country as a whole is by definition an hysterical fool who will have nothing of substance to say.
That 2.3% might not be much to you, but that’s money coming straight out of my paycheck. Even after my taxes have gone up, Congress is trying to force me to pay more for a pittance of a pension that will likely be gone before I retire, and I have another person in the house to provide for. So excuse me if I say I don’t give a rat’s ass about your piffle this morning. There are some who won’t be affected by this sh*t, and there are some who will be.
1: I am not talking just about Michelle but ALL first ladies.
2: For anyone to say that they do not influence the policy decisions their husbands make is just plain out ridiculous. The wife (and one day will be the husband) of a President is the person that knows the President better then any other person. They are also probably the most trusted person the President comes into contact with. To say that the wives do not have considerable influence in the decision making ability of the President is like saying your wife has no influence on what you do.
“Attack the woman and if that doesn’t work, attack their girls” Sounds right out of the Palin playbook.
Hmmmmmm is that what Palin did? I can’t say I payed much attention to her. But in other words, you aren’t a grown man responsible for your own despicable behavior right? It’s someone else’s fault. Back to the second grade defense, well Johnny Joe did it too, to excuse the inexcusable. In my child’s case, when she was in second grade, I would have said “Well if Johnny Joe jumps off a bridge are you going to do that to?” Fortunately though she was never so weak minded OR weak willed to try a stupid excuse like that. However in your case I say, “Well it’s a DAMN SHAME that Johnny Joe didn’t jump off a bridge so that you would do so a well you silly little boy.
“That is like saying we need gonorrhea to remind us what penicillin is for.”
Not quite. Gonorrhea remids us how NOT to behave. Penicillin (like elections) is there to help protect us when we ignore that example.
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Just damn…………..
Well I couldn’t’ type what I REALLY wanted to type so I substituted. Thank you for the analysis.
I agree about the kids. They have no place in anyone’s cross hairs. However, saying that Bozoette is immune from criticism is like saying that Hillary Clinton shouldn’t have been taken to task for her role in Hillary Care. These ladies don’t just sit back and watch events happen, they are a huge part in making policy decisions which affect us all. She is just as much a part of that team as Bozo, perhaps because of her “brilliance”, possibly more. These people are a team, always have been from the beginning with similar beliefs, goals and ambitions. She knew that when she stepped aboard this merry go round, now she has to live with it.
You should look in the mirror and practice what you are preaching. For you to use terms like “foxbot” and for you not to acknowledge the campaign of hysterics that the President is running around the country advocating when you know that even with the sequester that the government will actually spend more more next year then this year is showing your not a true independent.
The best parts about the Obamas are they are enjoying being leaders and setting a good example for your children. Power has not gone to their heads and there is nothing arrogant about them. They act like normal Americans.
Oh you poor baby. Things are difficult for the most of us so your crying a river about the most trivial of cuts that are being hysterically inflated fall right into the playbook. We need both cuts and revenue increases but BO has once again, gone back and moved the goalposts on a deal…
I wish you enjoyment floundering in your pot of pity..
The best parts about the Obamas are they are enjoying being leaders and setting a good example for your children. Power has not gone to their heads and there is nothing arrogant about them. They act like normal Americans.
How much longer is the American taxpayer going to believe this dooms day bulls*it. It is so obvious that everything is put in a crisis mode to appeal to those voters who don’t even know who the Vice President of this country is. “Public opinion” is what the media says it is, nothing more. Create a crisis, play it out in the media, then blame those who oppose you so they will take the blame. Nothing but more Bozo bullsh*t, nothing more.
Your opinion of my politics is none of my business..I have been called a liberal dope on this site due to my opinions on gay rights, women, DoD, and guns…I get called a foxbot or worse for my opinions on the fiscal policy.
All you blind followers got when any point is made challenging you savior is emotional, senseless responses…
And how much has your paid increased since 2006? How much has you cost of insurance increased? How many times have you worried about getting laid off?
You are getting no sympathy for any non government workers on having to make a few small (very small compared to what the rest of us have had to endure) since 2006. Matter of fact, if the truth came out, most people would say that it is about freaking time that you felt a little bit of this pain.
You dog you. You must have foreseen the direction this would go in. Drives some of your con friends completely crazy. I love it. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge. Now watch this, happens every time. Simply amazing.
You should look in the mirror and practice what you are preaching. For you to use terms like “foxbot” and for you not to acknowledge the campaign of hysterics that the President is running around the country advocating when you know that even with the sequester that the government will actually spend more more next year then this year is showing your not a true independent.
You aren’t smart enough to talk to me td. Correctly identifying a poster’s influence and where there silly little names come from is not the same as using them.
Have you EVER seen me use silly little left wing names for President Bush? No. How about for mitt Romney? again nope. Sarah Palin? never. Newt Gingrich? not. Herman Cain? nyet. Congressman Rubio? negative. I know you lack the intellectual ability and the debating skills to see the difference so I won’t belabor the point. You are forever making the most ridiculous claims and tossing out the most ludicrous statements so this one was nothing new for you. I understand. in your own little world you have somehow “told me.”
The only thing in reality that you have told me though is how bad your ability for rational thought is.
What is not a lie Jay….. Michelle Obama voluntarily “relinquished her license” to practice law….. And negotiated to have the conditions of why? Sealed, never to be exposed for public review……..
Funny how you omitted these minor details from your snarky response to Weetamoe and Vinnie…..
Hee hee hee hee hee… So, Laura Bush was advising GW Bush on how to go about getting rid of Saddam Hussein, huh? Medicare Part D was all about Laura, too huh? We know Hillary did her healthcare plan, but I’m guessing she was all responsible for Bosnia too, right?
You’re the all knowledgable, all seeing one, so please oh High and Mighty Mensa man, explain how the First Ladies are all doing this policy thing AND their own projects PLUS maintaining the family while their spouses are leading the free world.
I’m waiting with anticipation like a kid waiting on Santa Claus as I know you’re about to put yourself into a pretzel position that has never been tried before….
To say that the wives do not have considerable influence in the decision making ability of the President is like saying your wife has no influence on what you do.
Yep. Everytime I send someone back to their home country, it’s all about my wife. When I told my wife that we needed to go the hospital last Saturday instead of going to Costco, she subliminally planted that message into my head. Next, you’ll tell us how the wife can have all that influence while the Bible says the man is the head of the household.
What the hell does that have to do with anything? THIS is what passes for intelligence from the right? No wonder Rush makes so much money preaching stupidity to the stupid………
Can you get Ellen to dance with you? (good one with both Obama’s dancing lol):
As for pity, you can kiss my naturally Black Ass as I don’t want your pity. My point was to tell you that, while you’re mouthing off about this stuff, some people are actually living it.
We need both cuts and revenue increases but BO has once again, gone back and moved the goalposts on a deal…
WTF???? Obama is asking for cuts and revenue while the GOP is all cuts all the time, and Obama’s at fault? That’s so f**king dumb that I can’t believe you would say that. Hell, I thought you had a smidget of common sense.
Easy to show grace when the taxpayers are paying for everything you have ever had. Neither of them have ever supported themselves. And if this was Romneys wife bookman and the other deaf, dumb and blind obamabots would be whining about the price of her dress.
pete is awesome! I would love to put him on the back of a flatbed truck with a bullhorn and ride him around the country.
Undoubtedly, just as his message was a BIG hit in 2012, he would be a huge help to the cause of liberals, progressives, moderates and independents from sea to shining sea in the runup to 2014.
Just get used to losing, pete and the rest of you neocons. Very used to it.
LMFAO. You get called out for you hypocrisy and plain out bullsh1t and you go on personal attacks. You are playing right into that progressive playbook. Love it when a so called independent is exposed as to what he really is.
And how much has your paid increased since 2006? How much has you cost of insurance increased? How many times have you worried about getting laid off?
Well, considering I started at TSA for less than $26k, my pay has increased a bit, especially when I changed jobs. My health insurance has gone up more than 400% since then. I don’t worry about getting laid off because I bust my ass to ensure I’m not targeted for a layoff. I did the same thing in the private sector. What’s your point?
What is not a lie Jay….. Michelle Obama voluntarily “relinquished her license” to practice law….. And negotiated to have the conditions of why? Sealed, never to be exposed for public review……..
Funny how you omitted these minor details from your snarky response to Weetamoe and Vinnie…..
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Damn, and we keep saying that stupid isn’t contagious. Apparently it is. Ever hear of SNOPES there MikeB? How many times does your stupid assed lie have to be debunked? Well apparently it doesn’t matter how many times because you lack the grey matter to grasp it.
The best parts about the Obamas are they are enjoying being leaders and setting a good example for your children. Power has not gone to their heads and there is nothing arrogant about them. They act like normal Americans.
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getalife, that just may be the most preposterous post ever appearing here.
If you knew how to read (intelligence that you are preaching about) then you would know that was a statement to a blogger that claimed the President is doing such a wonderful job of being just a regular guy.
Just another example of how truly “indepemdent” you thought processes are.
You are getting no sympathy for any non government workers on having to make a few small (very small compared to what the rest of us have had to endure) since 2006. Matter of fact, if the truth came out, most people would say that it is about freaking time that you felt a little bit of this pain.
I tell you what then. Get off your ass and come strap up and deal with drug cartel members and people on the terrorist watch list. Put your family in the line of fire simply because of your job. Dude, you have no freaking idea of what I feel or deal with so, like Stevie Ray, you can kiss my naturally Black ass as well.
Gullible and incapable of considering both sides proffered by intelligent people..I can understand how George Will is very difficult for a leftie to read without spilling breakfast…but that which hurts makes us stronger eh?
I guess Bob Woodward isn’t a trusted source for you either….
if you consider the fact king zero has kept his college records a top national security secret it should come as no surprise that he would do everything possible to keep that on the downlow too. but everything zero does is acceptable to the most gullible among us. And the left is gullible bordering on comatose.
yawn: You are boring td. You repeat the same lies over and over again. Your debating skill set is actually the null set. It’s Double XP weekend.
Hey Bro: naturally Black Ass
TMI my brother TMI. Trust me, i will NEVER check to verify the authenticity of your words………….
Oh and BTW you should download COD Black ops2 on your computer. It’s free this weekend from STEAM. If you need any help just give me a call. I’ll walk you through it. I promise you I have NEVER come across someone playing online named Brocephus.
Its your own pity party I have nothing to do with it….and yes we need both but that means both..BO is clearly deal changing as he has time and time again…he wants cuts about as much as your Black arse needs a shave.
One thing is clear, we are no better off fiscally and we will be worse off fiscally when this regime leaves office..the trajectory is too obvious and none have the balls to disrupt this….If we can’t find a way to live offf 3.5 trillion..40% borrowed, a fundamental void of leadership is the only thing we know for sure..
obamas job as senator got his wife a job at the hospital. before he was a senator he was a state senator, before that he was a community organizer. all subsidized by the taxpayers. we dont know how he could afford harvard since he keeps that a big secret. why would he not want us to know about that?
“You are getting no sympathy for any non government workers on having to make a few small ”
This from someone whose wife works for a government agency.
You are absolutely correct. A employee of the state government that has BALANCED its budget without raising taxes on its citizens. My wife took one furlough day per month for 4 years and 2 furlough days per month for one year. My wife has not even gotten a cost of living raise for 6 years and insurance has increased by almost 100% while deductibles and co-pays have doubled. Our family has made the sacrifices for the state to have a balanced budget and to not stick our children and grandchildren with massive amounts of debt. It is freaking time the Federal workforce and the other government moochers do the same.
“obamas job as senator got his wife a job at the hospital”
when you have to lie to prove your point, you have no point. But it’s obvious that you are out to prove my Granddaddy’s advice: “Once a liar, always a liar”
@ Taxpayer….. Not saying Jay knows the intimate details of why FLOTUS voluntarily relinquished her license.. I doubt he knows (lots of speculation out there, that I won’t be a party too).
He should have, as a matter of journalistic integrity distiguished that she did “voluntarily” reliquish her license in his response rather than omitting that fact…..
Its not often that a lawyer does voluntarily reliquish a license to practice law at a young age…. Its even more uncommon to have the circumstances pertainig to that “voluntarily” reliquished license sealed….. And a media, that never asked direct questions about that situation………
But here we are, putting her on an Idol pedistal for something that takes up a small fraction of her week….. Can’t tell me that her hopping on Dr. Biden’s cause, takes up the rest……
Michelle Obama is a smart woman, but most of the things she does are for the Instagram moments…. Rarely is it her own cause, or substantial contribution to the fabric of the United States of America…….
There exist very few certainties in this world, but my ability to have a decent give and take with you seems to be one of those certainties…Attacking the source feeling it has been discredited enough on this particular forum doesn’t remotely equate to the thoughtfulness of the provider.
liberals forged documents on GWB and are completely braindead when it comes to any of zeros history including snorting coke, hanging out with marxists etc. we have a fool leading the country and even bigger fools defending him.
You are getting no sympathy for any non government workers on having to make a few small (very small compared to what the rest of us have had to endure) since 2006. Matter of fact, if the truth came out, most people would say that it is about freaking time that you felt a little bit of this pain.
I tell you what then. Get off your ass and come strap up and deal with drug cartel members and people on the terrorist watch list. Put your family in the line of fire simply because of your job. Dude, you have no freaking idea of what I feel or deal with so, like Stevie Ray, you can kiss my naturally Black ass as well.
Are you contractually required to continue working this job? If not then you are working it by choice. If you do not like the circumstances of your job then you can go and find a job that better fits and pays what your skill sets require. I can guarantee you that there are at least 10 people out there in the real world with you exact same skill sets that would love to have your job.
Is it patriotic to blindly accept what king zero tells you? is it patriotic to hold the govt accountable? when GWB was in office you called yourselves patriotic for calling him hitler. you people are so pathetic its really sad.
It’s funny in a morbid sort of way to watch the death throes of the FOXBOTS here as they continue to hysterically scream the same failed lies over and over again.
Should I be ashamed for laughing at them? Is it any different than finding humor in someone who through no fault of their own has lost all control of their bodily functions?
who the hell is KEITH talking about? I’m sure his little cutsie FOXBOT name for SOMEONE makes sense to him, doesn’t take much to make sense to someone like him, but it is totally meaningless to me.
Jay… In response to your Snopes find….. That was lasted edited in 2010…… Wonder why?
A word here… A word there…. changed/omitted Makes all the difference dontcha think? I remember looking at Snopes way back in 2008 when the profile of this story was much higher… Snopes said nothing about “inactive status” back then…… No way to prove this on my side, but that is how history changes… One word at a time, over time…..
Hence the Whitehouse finally turning over Benghazi documents on a Friday nite (vs. a Monday morning)7 months after the tragedy…. Think those documents have had enough time in the Executive Branch cleanse cycle???
Its not often that a lawyer does voluntarily reliquish a license to practice law at a young age…. Its even more uncommon to have the circumstances pertainig to that “voluntarily” reliquished license sealed….. And a media, that never asked direct questions about that situation………
Complete and utter buffoonery! If a reliquishment is pursuant to a disciplinary action that is a public act. Many law school graduates often surrender their licenses when they relocate, go into a different field.
Michelle Obama’s license is INACTIVE not surrendered. Many lawyers often put their license on inactive status when they are NOT actively practicing laws. It saves on fees, some reporting to the state bar and also CLE requirements.
This kind of stupidity is right up there with the birther idiotacy.
Is it legal to run a daycare center out of your home for friends without a license? If so, suppose it’s a rented house. Would the owners be liable somehow if their renters were doing so?
I think we need to be a bit more sympathetic to him. It’s becoming obvious that he’s stone deaf and can only hear the voices in his head, and not any others.
who the hell is KEITH talking about? I’m sure his little cutsie FOXBOT name for SOMEONE makes sense to him, doesn’t take much to make sense to someone like him, but it is totally meaningless to me.
I wonder if he can define the word rational………
translation: cant find any records of obamas college days either. keith is right.
Keith: “liberals forged documents on GWB and are completely braindead when it comes to any of zeros history including snorting coke, hanging out with marxists ”
What’s this? “Liberals” hanging out with “marxists”?
Don’t get me started. Or I’ll have to get out my BIG rube cudgel. The one I save for special occasions.
Do think Keith is really this clueless or is it an act?
Hey Keith, produce MY college records chief. Man would I love to see you do that. I would sue the hell out of you and whatever University released my PERSONAL information.
You don’t even have a job and mooch off the government con hypocrite.
Yes you are so right and this is the very reason I belong to the TEA (Taxed enough already) movement because I live off the government and do not pay taxes.
It’s not pity nor is it a party. Why you continue to refer to such shows your childishness and pettiness. Just drop it.
BO is clearly deal changing as he has time and time again…he wants cuts about as much as your Black arse needs a shave.
Obama threw the Left under the bus during negotiations when he put entitlements on the table. Dems in Congress took them off. I guess, in your jaded eyes, that was all a ploy to make Obama seem centrist. If Obama were truly a leftie, he wouldn’t even address the word cut. Only an idiot would want to cut consumption out of an economy largely based on consumption under the guise of economic growth. That’s about as stupid as stupid is.
“If Obama were truly a leftie, he wouldn’t even address the word cut”
Sorry, Bro…but I don’t agree. I have no problem describing myself as a “leftie” and I have no problem with cuts. I only ask that they be meaningful cuts and not targeted at the “least” of us.
As much respect as you have for my POV, I have for yours….. If we can get past all that to be reasonable with ea. other, we may have a shot….. Have a good day..
Lost his flight status while getting paid by Uncle Sam and stumping for some political hack in Alabama rather than showing up and doing his job.
Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.
Bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas; company went bankrupt shortly after he sold all his stock.
The worst president in modern American history. (Volumes have be written about that, but you already know most of it.)
I’ve been doing some research and the results are in. Yes, it’s official: the highest density per capita of born-again Christians in America reside on the death rows around the nation. Chop up 23 people with and ax? Mow down 32 with an Uzi? Carve up your mother-in-law and roast her on a spit? Not to worry, it’s not a problem as long as you done been saved, accepted Jesus as your personal savior. Then you officially have one ticket to paradise. Of course don’t expect to meet Gandhi or Mother Teresa in heaven since they wasn’t no born-agains, and only born-agains can get in. Gandhi and the good Mother? Why they’re way on down south. And I don’t mean no Alabama or Mississippi.
But I do wonder if those death row boys get the 72 virgins when they arrive in heaven. Oh wait……that’s part of some other fantasy. Never mind then.
Are you contractually required to continue working this job?
I took an Oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. Sounds contractual to me. Given the amount it takes to train someone in my position, I’m ensuring the taxpayers get their money’s worth by my continued employment.
If you do not like the circumstances of your job then you can go and find a job that better fits and pays what your skill sets require.
Who said anything about not liking my job? I don’t defend your talking points for you.
I can guarantee you that there are at least 10 people out there in the real world with you exact same skill sets that would love to have your job.
You still didn’t answer my challenge. I didn’t talk about 10 people. I said you!!! Why don’t YOU get off your ass and come do what I do? If my job is that desirable and cushy as you cons make them sound, why don’t you apply for it? Lack the necessary skills or something? Afraid to take a bullet? Afraid to put your family’s well being on the line for the safety of your country? Where’s your sense of patriotism and service to country???
get, you still have it wrong but I blame Doggone! Demand that he show these records and strongly assert as FACT that the failure to provide them is irrefutable proof of your point. And later is anyone calls you on it, remember that you only wanted to see Box 26…no wait, Box 23….And don’t forget to throw in that the failure to produce these records makes them un-American!
I do most of the cooking as well – cuz I am better at it.
I also usually clean the kitchen – she offers but my cleaning the kitchen buys me a lot of doghouse insurance – cheap.
Also, she spends her workday pouring Pinot Noir and serving warm nuts to the hotsy totsy crowd at 38,000 feet – so it just doesn’t seem right to make her bring work home.
Damn Jamvet. i think I missed that game. I thought I had watched it though. That has to be one of the worst calls ever. Which is saying a lot considering how the Big 12 refs treated the Huskers on their last year in the league.
Look: Have you seen USinUK’s website? She has some great recipes. I’ve made several of them and I’m going to make her Pot Roast Chicken with Woodsman sauce this week. Her latest one though Spaghetti Fauxlonese I’m going to do differently. I don’t eat ground turkey…….
“You still didn’t answer my challenge. I didn’t talk about 10 people. I said you!!! Why don’t YOU get off your ass and come do what I do? If my job is that desirable and cushy as you cons make them sound, why don’t you apply for it? Lack the necessary skills or something? Afraid to take a bullet? Afraid to put your family’s well being on the line for the safety of your country? Where’s your sense of patriotism and service to country???”
You are really being totally ridiculous. I really try to be respectful for people in the military or law enforcement because they do have a important job but lets face the facts most of them do the job because it is the only way they can feel power and they really have a some of the biggest egos around and most do not have the necessary skill sets to do anything else. Please do not tell me I do not know what I am talking about because I have a brother that is in law enforcement and a brother in law that served in Iraq and is not in law enforcement.
As far as putting myself in harms way and being afraid of taking a bullet. I worked for DFCS in Fulton county for 2 years right out of college, going into the worst housing projects in Atlanta (ever hear of Perry Homes and Capitol hill) taking abused and deprived children out of homes during the crack epidemic in Atlanta without a gun while being a white male. Would you have the guts to take on that job?
“As far as putting myself in harms way and being afraid of taking a bullet. I worked for DFCS in Fulton county for 2 years right out of college, going into the worst housing projects in Atlanta (ever hear of Perry Homes and Capitol hill) taking abused and deprived children out of homes during the crack epidemic in Atlanta without a gun while being a white male. Would you have the guts to take on that job?”
“As far as putting myself in harms way and being afraid of taking a bullet. I worked for DFCS in Fulton county for 2 years right out of college, going into the worst housing projects in Atlanta (ever hear of Perry Homes and Capitol hill) taking abused and deprived children out of homes during the crack epidemic in Atlanta without a gun while being a white male. Would you have the guts to take on that job?”
Got proof.
That I am going to give to you or any other blogger on these boards? Hell no. You either believe it or not and if you do not then to bad for you.
“… most of them do the job because it is the only way they can feel power and they really have a some of the biggest egos around and most do not have the necessary skill sets to do anything else.”
You make this idiotic generalization because you happen to have a doosh for a brother?
I would have had that hit match the guitar cuts at the beginning just for effect.
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You are really being totally ridiculous.
No, I am being totally honest. You sit here and smugly denigrate government workers, yet you still won’t answer to whether you’re man enough to do the job yourself. You should be thankful that people risk their ass to keep you safe.
As for ego and skillset, I spent years in retail and fast food. I graduated with honors in Mathematics. I have the skill set to do whatever I choose to do. I’ve managed successful stores before, but there’s no reward like knowing I help keep my country safe.
As to your DFAC’s job, I grew up with family in the projects, and I grew up in the hood. I would have no problem at all doing that job. Seems like you did as you only did it for 2 years. Now, Do you have the testicular fortitude to put your hide on the line and do my job? You still haven’t answered.
This Video exemplifies what makes America so Great! We all can sit back and laugh at ourselves and still provide the necessary Wisdom and Gumption to do the right thing for ALL of her Citizens.
Why should I be held to standard that you are not also held too? You spout BS everyday that you can not back up. I told the truth and now I am being called a liar. Like I said before you either believe it or not and I do not give a dam if you do or not.
i was about 20 rows up, on that side of the field and sitting on the 25 yard line – EXACTLY where that play happened. It was almost surreal; one moment Turner is running down the field, for an apparent TD, and the next there was this body flying through the air! Talk about getting undressed!
Later, when I got back to Atlanta and saw the replay, all I could do was look on in amazement again and knew that this would go down as one of the great pancake blocks in Husker history.
Roll Tide! And GO BIG RED!
Moving on down the Tarkio Road
Heading up to Crete, Nebraska
“No, I am being totally honest. You sit here and smugly denigrate government workers, yet you still won’t answer to whether you’re man enough to do the job yourself. You should be thankful that people risk their ass to keep you safe.”
I think I proved that I was man enough. As far as doing your job then if I chose to do that job then I would have no problem with it. I have a wife that is a government worker and she will tell you the exact same thing I am telling you about MOST government workers. Hell I worked for the government for a short period so I know all about MOST of them.
“As for ego and skillset, I spent years in retail and fast food. I graduated with honors in Mathematics. I have the skill set to do whatever I choose to do. I’ve managed successful stores before, but there’s no reward like knowing I help keep my country safe.”
Again I said MOST not all in law enforcement. If you do not see the inflated egos of your fellow law enforcement officers then you either have a large ego or I would question you being a part of the community.
“As to your DFAC’s job, I grew up with family in the projects, and I grew up in the hood. I would have no problem at all doing that job. Seems like you did as you only did it for 2 years. Now, Do you have the testicular fortitude to put your hide on the line and do my job? You still haven’t answered.”
Worked there for two years as a first job out of college to get work experience to get a higher paying job in the private sector to better fit my skill sets. I am almost willing to bet that my unarmed work experience has had my life in just as much danger if not more then your armed job experiences.
BTW: Why in the h3ll should I want to have go back to starting wages to do a job when my skill sets have determined a much higher set of wages?
guy @ 1:32 pm – Typical comment expected from the KKK gallery. However, This so called Monkey you so lovingingly referred too has more Education, Money and world traveled NOW, than You, Your Wife, Baby MAMMA or girlfriend or your backwards Hillbilly children and along with their children will ever hope to see or BE! in three (3) generations! They will never ever dream to live so well and be so happy and attain so many accomplished goals in life.
The Karma of your HATE has already set in motion for a complete denial of it.
You are one Sad, angry,frustrated, poor, ignorant, offensive SOB who is not happy with your own Life, family,community and want to project your personal Hell of misery of a LIFE here. I am rejecting it completely on behalf of the First Lady. Live Well and smile, Mrs.Obama, ignorance and Hate will always be a part of America!
I have a wife that is a government worker and she will tell you the exact same thing I am telling you about MOST government workers. Hell I worked for the government for a short period so I know all about MOST of them.
Yeah, tell me about it. I bet your wife is the only one that works hard in her office just as you were the only one working hard in your office. Give me an effin’ break. MOST government workers do their jobs as they’re required to do. People like you try to paint MOST government workers as ineffective when it’s your “friends” who legislate the rules are the ones f**king things up.
MOST people I know in law enforcement will give you the shirt off their back. It ain’t about egos, but you damn well need one when your job requires you to clock in with the knowledge that you might not clock out.
What you see as “ego” is called officer presence. Ask Scout about that. A weak and timid officer is about as useful as a gold plated soccer helmet in a FIFA tournament. Confidence begats authority, and you have to exude authority if you expect to be in law enforcement. I dare you, no, I triple dog dare you to go to some Spec Ops or SWAT people and tell them that ego crap. I would pay big money to watch them punch your ego out and feed it back to you in small pieces.
I am almost willing to bet that my unarmed work experience has had my life in just as much danger if not more then your armed job experiences.
Yep, I’m sure those Knee Grows in the hood are more dangerous than AQ, the Taliban, or Mexican cartel members. You sure got me there.
BTW: Why in the h3ll should I want to have go back to starting wages to do a job when my skill sets have determined a much higher set of wages?
WHAT?? Starting wages, but I thought government workers made sh*tloads of money and needed to feel the pain like others. So, now you don’t want to take the job because of a pay cut? You spoke more honesty there than I have ever seen you put forth on this blog. Remember those “starter wages” the next time you fix your mouth to whine about government worker’s pay and benefits.
Have you been keeping up with the NFL Combine? If not, check the 40yd times for Offensive linemen. These are unofficial, but not very far off the official mark..
Terron Armstead, Arkansas Pine-Bluff: 4.65
2. Lane Johnson, Oklahoma: 4.75
3. Vinston Painter, Virginia Tech: 4.87
4. Kyle Long, Oregon: 4.93
5. Tanner Hawkinson, Kansas: 5.00
6. Brian Schwenke, California: 5.00
7. David Bakhtiari, Colorado: 5.01
8.Eric Fisher, Central Michigan: 5.01
9.Eric Baca, UCLA: 5.03
10. David Quessenberry, San Jose State: 5.06
I read where Armstead’s offical time is listed as 4.71 seconds. He’s listed as 6ft 5in and 306lbs. That’s downright scary for an offensive lineman to be that quick.
How does working for one government agency for two years allow some to asses most government employees?
Does that hold true for military as well? Seeing that your two years gave you insight into “most” employees skill sets and work habits, how would the military be excluded?
…military or law enforcement…lets face the facts most of them do the job because it is the only way they can feel power and they really have a some of the biggest egos around and most do not have the necessary skill sets to do anything else.
I would venture to say I am having a great day…now that I have visited the Bookman blog and see that there are actually people out here who can find a way to biotch and moan because the FLOTUS is enjoying life and MILKING this thing for ALL it’s worth!!!
You clowns (and those who fit the bill know who i’m referring to) HAVE TO KNOW that Michelle is well aware that she has “haters” right?? Ok, then let me let you in on a little secret…she is in K.M.A. mode – letting you know that while both she and her husband truly want to do all they can to represent our country well as a family that if you choose to resent her just for the sake of doing so then….
NANNY NANNY BOO BOO! Git em susta…and get IT! I love that lady. So “human” and everyday people approachable. The FIRST one I have seen in my lifetime as being such.
I’m not sure. I haven’t seen anything concrete to show that he’s toast. With someone as high value as that, there would be some kind of evidence out there. Unlike our media, other countries don’t censor stuff, so if there were even photographs, they would have made their way to the internet by now. Some of the sickest photos I’ve ever witnessed came from south of the border, and they make the “Faces of Death” videos look like Disney movies.
Randy California would have turned 62 this week. He drowned in the ocean while rescuing his 12-year-old son from a rip current near the home of Bernice Pearl at Molokai, Hawaii. He managed to push his son Quinn (who survived) towards the shore.
“And Jay they BOTH were forced to “voluntarily” surrender their licence to practice law. Or else.”
When you have to lie to prove your point, you have no point. And you, and those like you, DEFINE UGLY. No one else could POSSIBLY be uglier. Can’t be done.
Don’t tick off td. He’s very chummy with the Governor. You’ll end up watching over the DUI first offenders on weekend garbage detail if you ain’t careful.
“And if that’s how the system is, then it sounds like a system that ought to be smashed, no”
Nope. Because that kind of “equality” can never be achieved. Life isn’t fair. All we can do is strive to ensure the everyone has the opportunity and learning to achieve their best, whatever that is.
If they fail to take advantage, then that’s their problem. As long as we can say the had a fair CHANCE that’s all we can do.
He’s bragged about his connections and contacts before, and I honestly don’t care. They’re men just as I am, and we all put our pants on one leg at a time. I “know” people too, and I also have DC contacts.
They’re men just as I am, and we all put our pants on one leg at a time.
Well not me. I like to have my pants on a trouser rack and I jump in both legs from my bed. I am thinking of trying a trapeze or a diving board to give it more flourish in the future. The hardest part is not losing my hat when I do the flips.
You don’t already know? As a true Conservative, td knows everything there is to know about everything. He’s never wrong about anything at all.
Wrong again. If I knew everything then I would be very wealthy and I would know how to convince you progressives of how you are driving this nation into the ground.
Don’t tick off td. He’s very chummy with the Governor. You’ll end up watching over the DUI first offenders on weekend garbage detail if you ain’t careful.
Wrong my friend. Have only spoken to the governor a couple of times and I am pretty sure he would not know my name today.
The Greatest Evil is of the Center (Welcome to the Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013 2:52 pm
Doggone: “Nope. Because that kind of “equality” can never be achieved”
*Which* kind of equality can never be achieved? We haven’t really defined it yet.
But if you’re saying that some reasonable degree of economic equality in real terms and real evenness of opportunity cannot be achieved, that’s simply an ungrounded assertion.
To say that absolute equality of outcomes cannot be guaranteed in the last instance does not mean that egregious, soaring inequalities cannot even be ADDRESSED. That’s what those who benefit most from that inequality naturally argue. Because it’s very convenient for them to argue it.
He’s bragged about his connections and contacts before
To state that one has spoken to elected officials and lobbied elected officials is now “bragging”. Just wow.
Bragging would be to state that I made the highest grade, in a class of about 200, in Newt’s “Renewing American Civilization” at KSU. Is that bragging or just stating a fact?
BTW: I also had the distinct pleasure of telling Ms. Cynthia that she was a blatant hypocrite in that class. Asking Jesse Jackson how he could claim to be a Christian and Preacher and still support abortion in a speech he made at KSU.
One of the best moments was to be able to sit in front of the student center in a chair, within 10 feet, and watch BB King sing and play the blues for about an hour. That was a true pleasure.
Yep, I can think of no other group more deserving of a constant beatdown than these fascistic neocons…
The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this (the 9/11 attacks) happen.
The depraved and deranged Jerry Falwell, of course, but it could have been almost any of our Republicans here…
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.
Second: Did not start blogging until 2009 on the education blog to promote Dr Barge’s campaign to unseat Cox as Superintendent of Education.
I find it funny that the libs on this blog often tell us conservatives that if we don’t like the changes happening to this country we should leave. But they rail against the capitalist system that made this country the wealthiest one with the most level playing field in the history of the world.
So just to shove your words back at you, if you don’t like capitalism, Delta has daily flights out. I’m sure there are lots of socialist or communist countries you would prefer to live in.
“We could have used td and his tea party when w blew up the deficit”
I can see clearly that you were not listening to Rush or Sean during those days when they were raising h3ll, almost on a daily basis, about GWB working with Ted on NCLB and Prescription drugs and spending money we did not have.
To state that one has spoken to elected officials and lobbied elected officials is now “bragging”. Just wow.
IF that were all you stated, I wouldn’t have called it bragging. I recall you stating that you knew legislators and could call them up to get legislation passed or something to that effect. You were basically trying to show how big of a nutsack you had when it came to Georgia politics.
Bragging would be to state that I made the highest grade, in a class of about 200, in Newt’s “Renewing American Civilization” at KSU. Is that bragging or just stating a fact?
It’s whatever you want it to be. I, on the other hand, wouldn’t make mention of that class as it sounds like nothing more than a fluff elective course. When you can claim to have the highest grade in differential equations in a class of 200, then that’s bragging on something worth bragging about. Your boast, fact, or whatever you want to call it is like someone bragging on making the highest grade in underwater basket weaving.
If/When Newt’s course becomes standard for a degree field across the entire country, then it might be a boastful claim to make. Until that time, it’s nothing more than fodder for laughter to me.
I find it funny that the libs on this blog often tell us conservatives that if we don’t like the changes happening to this country we should leave
Well to be truthful, some of the conned offered to voluntarily self-deport and then reneg on their promises. At least one other promised to be dead, but he even turned up at the SOTU.
Wrong again. If I knew everything then I would be very wealthy and I would know how to convince you progressives of how you are driving this nation into the ground.
And conversely if you knew ANYTHING you would see how stupid your assumptions are and how erroneous your assignation of culpability is.
Since it’s impossible to know everything then your hypothesis is by the very declaration flawed nd therefore wrong. While of course it IS possible to know something ( tense change of anything), my hypothesis is correct.
You biggest flaw is your determination to close your mind to anything but FOX and talk radio and their print/website propaganda. Were you capable of freedom of thought you wouldn’t need some failed Secret Service man who was to unpalatable to voters to be elected to tell lies about gun control that you parrot. You wouldn;’t make ignorant assed statements like we are too “scared” to listen to the idiot.
So just to shove your words back at you, if you don’t like capitalism, Delta has daily flights out. I’m sure there are lots of socialist or communist countries you would prefer to live in.
Of all the talk radio/FOXBOT lies, this is the biggest one that the dummies LOVE to repeat.
We don’t have a true capitalist society sport. We never have. We never will.
The Obama’s will do anything to get the public’s attention away from the country’s problems! Sad that playing golf with Tiger or dancing with some clown is big news for their folks!!
“if you don’t like capitalism, Delta has daily flights out”
There are no Delta flights that travel far enough to take you beyond the reach of the virus of capital, as capitalism is a totality, a totalizing force that spans the globe and reaches into every pocket.
“We don’t have a true capitalist society sport. We never have. We never will.”
I wouldn’t be that adamant. We have a regulated capitalism economic system (not society) just as we have a democratic political system, a representative democratic political system.
“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. ”
First, you really should stop predicting things – because you kind of suck at it.
If you think:
Getting gas prices to under $2 by cratering the US economy
Starting not one, but TWO wars
Overseeing an administration that helped guide us to unemployment numbers unseen since Reagan was in office.
A financial system so dysfunctional it took nearly a trillion taxpayer dollars to keep it from self-immolating entirely
US world standing at its lowest point since before we entered WWI
If you think any of the above qualifies W for the Presidential Hall fame – well then there is really little hope for you.
“True capitalism is unrestricted trade where the only law is profit”
Fred:
cap·i·tal·ism
[kap-i-tl-iz-uhm] Show IPA
noun
an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.
What you are describing is greed capitalism. But even THAT is not “pure” capitalism, there is no such thing. All capitalism is regulated one way or another. Either by the businesses themselves, the owners, or the government.
merriam webster disagrees with wiki: : an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
” All capitalism is regulated one way or another. Either by the businesses themselves, the owners, or the government.”
Even the Mafia self-regulated (or did for a time).
For decades they were content to run booze, hookers and numbers. They steered clear of drugs. Knew it draw too much attention from Uncle Sam.
Then they got greedy and OOOPS!
“Real power is knowing when to leave a little something on the table”
Josiah Bartlett, 2002
“Here you go Doggone, as long as you wish to pick at nits let me help you”
People come here periodically and lament that no one can have a “discussion” seriously. Well, no, because FAR TOO MANY people cannot handle a dissenting opinion and have to either ridicule it instead of DISCUSSING it…or resorting to insults.
“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”
Total bs.
He can’t even show his face like cheney.
You are a blind partisan self defeatist with no credibility.
The old man Bush used Iraq war to divert attention from the failed S&L that the Bush family controlled.Sounds as if Student of Newt.needs some diversion.
Jay is one sick puppy. He did this on purpose just to see the cons little heads explode. Nice to see a First Lady that can poke a little fun at herself and show a funny side. Laura Bush had this knack too. None of the previous First Ladies (Nancy R., Barbara B., or Hillary C.) could really male the connection that Mrs Bush and Mrs Obama can. And if you can’t see that you probably just a bitter, small person.
Thanks for the Spirit link JamVet. Saw them on a bill with Renaisance in the ealy 70’s and have been a fan ever since. In fact just procurred the Twelve Dreams CD.
Keep givin’ em Hell Bro – you won’t change their small minds but at least someone calls out their crud.
Your time working for government and here say from your wife certainly gives you the opportunity and right to make an opinion
But from a statistical analysis standpoint and the number of individuals in departments you have nor will ever interact with, that opinion is like an a hole…. We all have one. And as usual yours is broad brushed. But let me guess, you and your relatives and friends were the best workers. It is the other folks who are the problem.
“The District of Columbia’s Fire and Emergency Medical Services says there are no plans to punish first responders for their participation in an economic speech by President Obama, but are still reviewing the event.
Earlier this week, Obama surrounded himself with police and other first responders during remarks regarding the real world impact of the across-the-board package of federal spending cuts known as sequestration, looming in March should Congress fail to reach a deficit reduction agreement. But Washington’s fire and EMS chief told a local TV station the appearance of three firefighters at the event may have violated department regulations.
“I didn’t know about it, the deputy mayor didn’t know about it, the mayor didn’t know about it,” Chief Kenneth Ellerbe said. “There should be protocol followed anytime one of our employees representing the District of Columbia appears at a public event.”
Hmmm seemed like a bi-partisan effort to me…I guess Stevie didn’t know his recent history at the time…
Which president started the Vietnam war?
Make a choice between Truman who gave material and financial aid to France, Eisenhower who added advisers, intelligence support and Air America, Kennedy who sent in the Green Berets or Johnson who sent in the Marines.
“Translation: Obey the law and if competing with an equally qualified applicant who hasn’t obeyed the law ………….. he/she may get the job instead.”
Because lord knows the person who is out of jail and who therefore has in principle paid back his debt to society should continue to be plagued into perpetuity and never allowed to forget their earlier wrongdoing. They should be branded for life, in other words. Might as well just brand them with tattoos.
“Do you think Mary Todd Lincoln did it like this?”
SURE SHE DID !
“A history of mood swings, fierce temper, public outbursts throughout Lincoln’s presidency, as well as excessive spending, has led some historians and psychologists to speculate that Mary suffered from bipolar disorder.”
“After she nearly jumped out of a window to escape a non-existent fire, her son determined that she should be institutionalized. On May 20, 1875, he committed her to a private asylum in Batavia, Illinois.”
“Mary Lincoln was released into the custody of her sister in Springfield. In 1876 she was declared competent to manage her own affairs. After the court proceedings, Mary Lincoln was so enraged that she attempted suicide. She went to the hotel pharmacist and ordered enough laudanum to kill herself, but he realized her intent and gave her a placebo.”
Woahh! If Ben Afflect is a well established Hollywood figure and Hollywood is undeniably “liberal”, then surely Afflect must be a liberal, too, right? And if being a “liberal” means you are anti-American, and being anti-American is doing things like being a squish on things like defense and espionage and all the other ‘dark arts’ of empire, harping all day long about the crimes of Murder, Inc. and so forth, then what’s going on here?
Has the world turned completely upside down? Could it be that maybe the “liberals” aren’t really so “left” at all?
Please help a confused comrade who’s head hurts understand, some wise con.
MM, glad you enjoyed the Gap Band. Did you get up and dance?
Jesus is OK, but many of the most popular preachers in this country that use him to make millions and millions of dollars sure are dirtbags, huh? (And what does that say about their congregations?)
I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be! ~Jerry Falwell
Better order a double on the “mocking Jesus” feinting couch.
The Vatican on Saturday strongly condemned media coverage of a report that is said to contain information about the influence of a gay network and financial mismanagement within the Vatican, and which may have triggered Pope Benedict’s decision to resign. But in his statement, a spokesman for the Vatican did not deny the report’s existence or dispute the description of its findings.
The Italian newspaper La Repubblica broke the story that the report, which was commissioned by Pope Benedict in the wake of Vatileaks and prepared by a trio of cardinals, concluded that “various lobbies within the Holy See were consistently breaking” the sixth and seventh commandments, “thou shalt not commit adultery” and “thou shalt not steal.”
Only a racist would assume white people can’t jump, dance or play music. Mozart, Bruce Jenner and Fred Astaire might disagree. It’s time to move beyond these cheap stereotypes. What’s next? Assuming that black people can’t stay out jail.
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The First lady? Yeah, she’s great. Classy, engaged and smart.
And I love that the GOPers, like the repulsive Lynn Westmoreland, are tormented by her very presence.
“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Senator Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity.” When the reporter asked if “uppity” was really the word he wished to use, Westmoreland said: “Uppity, yeah.”
Last year, Westmoreland was one of only two members of Congress (422-2) to vote against a bill named after the slain 14-year-old African-American boy, Emmett Till, which would provide funds to the FBI to investigate killings during the civil rights era.
You’re connies are doing a heckuva job here in the Georgia White Power Party…
“DoggoneGA”, but if a white person says black men can’t swim, it’s racist right? Yep, double standard as usual. BTW, the headline could have said “FIRST MOM STRUTS HER SNUFF” and it would have been more accurate. Every time I see her it looks like she has a dip in her bottom lip.
A San Diego couple is suing the area’s school district for allegedly violating their children’s religious freedom by offering yoga classes for physical education
Looks like I might soon have better weapons then Bro.
A growing number of firearm and firearm-related companies have stated they will no longer sell items to states, counties, cities and municipalities that restrict their citizens’ rights to own them.
According to The Police Loophole, 34 companies have joined in publicly stating that governments who seek to restrict 2nd Amendment rights will themselves be restricted from purchasing the items they seek to limit or ban.
Extreme Firepower Inc., located in Inwood, WV has had a longstanding policy that states:
“The Federal Government and several states have enacted gun control laws that restrict the public from owning and possessing certain types of firearms…If a product that we manufacture is not legal for a private citizen to own in a jurisdiction, we will not sell that product to a law-enforcement agency in that jurisdiction.”
York Arms, located in Buxton, ME released a statement following new legislation in New York:
“Based on the recent legislation in New York, we are prohibited from selling rifles and receivers to residents of New York. We have chosen to extend that prohibition to all governmental agencies associated with or located within New York.”
Quality Arms, located in Rigby, ID writes on their website, “elected officials have their own agenda to circumnavigate the truth and destroy the constitution of the United States.”
The site states: “Quality Arms Idaho will not supply and firearm or product, manufactured by us, or any other company nor will we warranty, repair, alter, or modify and firearm owned by any State, County or Municipality who infringes on the right of its citizens to bear arms under the 2nd Amendment.”
Bravo Company USA states:
“The people at Bravo Company USA and BCM support responsible private individuals having access to the same tools of civilian Law Enforcement to affect the same ends…As such Bravo Company’s policy is that law enforcement officials and departments will be restricted to the same type of products available to responsible private individuals of that same city or state.”
AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh’s charioteers … AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. ~Jerry Falwell channeling Fred Phelps
WASHINGTON — Hollywood actor and political activist Danny Glover, star of the “Lethal Weapon” films with Mel Gibson, told The Daily Caller that Congress should “abolish guns” in the U.S.
“I don’t own a gun and definitely not only Gun Control, we should abolish guns, the personal guns. That’s how far I’m willing to go,” Glover told TheDC at a TransAfrica Forum benefit event on Wednesday night.
“There are many people in this country who do not have guns, who don’t own guns and are still under the same, are still susceptible to being burglarized or anything, but that doesn’t mean that we should willingly accept the fact that we need guns. We have to find some sort of way in which we live together, some sort of way in which we move on, for the human species to move on without guns.”
Glover said if Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive today, “he would be out there advocating for the end of guns as a prelude to the end of violence as well.”
Colin Powell Calls Out The GOP’s Racism Problem: There Is ‘A Dark Vein Of Intolerance’
There’s also a dark — a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? I mean by that that they still sort of look down on minorities. How can I evidence that?
When I see a former governor say that the President is “shuckin’ and jivin’,” that’s a racial era slave term. When I see another former governor after the president’s first debate where he didn’t do very well, says that the president was lazy. He didn’t say he was slow. He was tired. He didn’t do well. He said he was lazy. Now, it may not mean anything to most Americans, but to those of us who are African Americans, the second word is shiftless and then there’s a third word that goes along with that. The birther, the whole birther movement. Why do senior Republican leaders tolerate this kind of discussion within the party?
Powell added that the Republican Party is “having an identity problem,” noting that its significant shift to the right has produced “two losing presidential campaigns.” “I think what the Republican Party needs to do now is a very hard look at itself and understand that the country is changed,” he said. “If the Republican Party does not change along with that demographic, they are going to be in trouble.
And because they have no intentions whatsoever of dealing with their racial demons, here is to protracted and big trouble for the identity problem gang…
“Civil-rights activists, even those committed to nonviolent resistance, had long appreciated the value of guns for self-protection. Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a permit to carry a concealed firearm in 1956, after his house was bombed. His application was denied, but from then on, armed supporters guarded his home. One adviser, Glenn Smiley, described the King home as “an arsenal.” William Worthy, a black reporter who covered the civil-rights movement, almost sat on a loaded gun in a living-room armchair during a visit to King’s parsonage.”
“Martin Luther King, Jr., known for peaceful resistance, at the same time recognized the importance of gun ownership for self-defense. King understood the risks involved in being an outspoken civil rights leader, living in Jim Crow era Alabama, and took measures to protect himself, his family and others around him.
“Glover said if Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive today, “he would be out there advocating for the end of guns as a prelude to the end of violence as well.”
Like most liberals, Glover needs to review his history.
What I’ve always felt intriguing was the fact that, these christian republicans are not Christians, they cheat, lie, steal…they only claim to be Christians for the “dumb vote” that is the vote of the white trash trailer park dwellers, or in this case…active duty military folks. Republicans hate you, they love the wealthy. They are against every military core belief, they are pro rich, pro white power.
If they refuse to sell their product to all customers, via the Commerce Clause Section 3, “The Congress shall have Power *** To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes”, they can not operate.
I underestimated how many politically lost people would vote for Obama.
In the four years leading up to this past election, several people here repeated the meme that even Elmer Fudd could defeat Obama, and no one here on the right even attempted to blunt that outrageous claim.
“If they refuse to sell their product to all customers”
And yet there are also laws that PREVENT them from selling to ALL customers. Government purchases are not the same as over the counter sales. There’s no law that requires them to big on a government contract. Big deal.
He is not worthy of a response. — Claims the poster of so much stupidity and buffoonery.
Taxpayer, I’d have to think that the broad brush holds about as much validity as much of the broad brush claims of stupidity posted by Senior Digits and the Ftroop brigade.
Without having information about the “47% percent” and other easily proven misstatements of fact, so-called low-information voters would have voted for Mitt Romney.
Can not think of any business that is allowed to discriminate against the sale of their product if the customer has means and methods to purchase that product.
Looks like I might soon have better weapons then Bro.
Looks like you don’t have a clue about the differing missions of different government agencies. My agency doesn’t deal with the 2nd Amendment nowhere near the frequency that we deal with the 4th.
Even if the company decides to not sell to an agency, do you honestly think they’re going to turn down money from a private citizen? Gimme a break…
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Scout
Why don’t you finish the story about MLK Jr. and how he got rid of his gun after his house was bombed. I seem to recall that he felt he didn’t need a gun to protect himself as God would do so himself. If a man, as threatened as he was, can forego gun ownership and let God protect him, what does that say about the “God fearing” people who don’t live in such danger nowadays that can’t breathe without their guns?
“Can not think of any business that is allowed to discriminate against the sale of their product if the customer has means and methods to purchase that product.”
Think alcohol. Think guns and convicted criminals. Thinks GOVERNMENT CONTRACT BIDS. The government doesn’t just go out and buy. The open up a bidding process and there is NOTHING to force any company to bid on that contract.
A company saying they “won’t sell” to the government? All they are saying is they won’t join in the bidding process. It’s a tempest in a teapot and doesn’t mean anything.
In fact, scout cannot even present the truth as evidenced by his MLK “story”. scout should know if he stayed awake in Church that a half-truth is still a lie.
Also, tell the story about how the NRA actively advocated for and pushed gun control measures when the Black Panthers decided to enjoy and express their 2nd Amendment rights…
“Given the significant privacy issues, the Department of Homeland Security has only now set up a working group to study the impact of government UAVs on civil liberties, civil rights, legal and other policy issues.”
UCLA law professor Adam Winkler explores this history in his 2011 book, Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America. “Like many young African Americans, Newton and Seale were frustrated with the failed promise of the civil-rights movement,” Winkler writes. In their opinion, “the only tangible outcome of the civil-rights movement had been more violence and oppression, much of it committed by the very entity meant to protect the public: the police.” Winkler goes on to say, “Malcolm X and the Panthers described their right to use guns in self-defense in constitutional terms.” Guns became central to the Panthers’ identity, as they taught their early recruits that “the gun is the only thing that will free us — gain us our liberation.”
The Panthers responded to racial violence by patrolling black neighborhoods brandishing guns — in an effort to police the police. The fear of black people with firearms sent shockwaves across white communities, and conservative lawmakers immediately responded with gun-control legislation.
Then Gov. Ronald Reagan, now lauded as the patron saint of modern conservatism, told reporters in California that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.” Reagan claimed that the Mulford Act, as it became known, “would work no hardship on the honest citizen.” The NRA actually helped craft similar legislation in states across the country. Fast-forward to 2013, and it is a white-male dominated NRA, largely made up of Southern conservatives and gun owners from the Midwest and Southwestern states, that argues “do not tread on me” in the gun debate.
Check this out, from The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the chapter titled “The Violence of Desperate Men.” The scene is Montgomery in 1956, shortly after King’s home was bombed:
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After the bombings, many of the officers of my church and other trusted friends urged me to hire a bodyguard and armed watchmen for my house. When my father came to town, he concurred with both of these suggestions. I tried to tell them that I had no fears now and consequently needed no weapons for protection. This they would not hear. They insisted that I protect the house and family, even if I didn’t want to protect myself. In order to satisfy the wishes of these close friends and associates, I decided to consider the question of an armed guard. I went down to the sheriff’s office and applied for a license to carry a gun in the car; but this was refused.
Meanwhile I reconsidered. How could I serve as one of the leaders of a nonviolent movement and at the same time use weapons of violence for my personal protection? Coretta and I talked the matter over for several days and finally agreed that arms were no solution. We decided then to get rid of the one weapon we owned. We tried to satisfy our friends by having floodlights mounted around the house, and hiring unarmed watchmen around the clock. I also promised that I would not travel around the city alone.
I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I came face-to-face with the question of death and I dealt with it. From that point on, I no longer needed a gun nor have I been afraid. Had we become distracted by the question of my safety we would have lost the moral offensive and sunk to the level of our oppressors.
1) If MLK, Jr. changed his mind that’s fine. He had the right to do that. But I bet he wore a seat belt in his car even though “God could protect him” ………. Hummmmm ………………..
Remember Carl Rowan? He changed his mind too !!!
“In a 1981 column, he advocated “a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail—period.”
“Rowan gained public notoriety on June 14, 1988, when he shot an unarmed teenage trespasser, Neil Smith, who was on his property illegally. “The interloper was a near-naked teenager who had been skinny-dipping with friends in Rowan’s pool, and the columnist’s weapon was an unregistered, and thus very illegal, .22 caliber pistol.”
2) “Also, tell the story about how the NRA actively advocated for and pushed gun control measures when the Black Panthers decided to enjoy and express their 2nd Amendment rights.”
If the NRA advocated that back then they would have been wrong ………… and would be wrong if they advocated that now. Kind of like a lot of Democrat Senators (i.e., Gore Sr. !) who fought against the Voting Rights Act ………….. now most Democrats have changed their minds ……………. )
3) This young black lady very eloquently explains why blacks need guns just like everyone else !
“The acceptable year of the Lord is that year when every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess the name of Jesus. And everywhere men will cry out, “Hallelujah, hallelujah! The kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.”
It is funny how all these actors are for gun control but will play in a movie (make money) in a heartbeat where they have to to use guns violently over and over again.
MLKJ didn’t rely on God to protect him. He accepted the fact that he could not be a leaderof non-violence and use a gun, and that if that decesion meant his death, he accepted that.
If the NRA advocated that back then they would have been wrong
Thereis no if. They did, and even Reagan himself signed such legislation.
This young black lady very eloquently explains why blacks need guns just like everyone else!
And??? Her OPINION is just that, hers. She doesn’t speak for me. She actually sounds like she’s reading NRA/GOP cue cards as that very argument about slavery has been making the rounds lately. Nice attempted deflection from the half story on MLK though. Nowhere have you heard me advocate or even mention Blacks needing guns.
Well, I don’t recall him having a huge security detail, but I do personally know people who prayed with him. Accepting one’s fate does not mean they stull don’t pray for their safety as well as those around them.
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.
“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.
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.
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?
“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.
“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”
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.”
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.
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…
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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1) WHITNEY HOUSTON
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Obama orders all flags be flown at half mast.
2) CHRIS KYLE
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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.
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.”
“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.
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). ”
“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”
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…..
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.
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.
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.
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…)
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?
“…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)
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.
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…
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.
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.
Family Planning
Consolidated Health Centers
Transitional Cash and Medical Services
for Refugees
State Children’s Health Insurance
Program (CHIP)
Voluntary Medicare Prescription Drug
Benefit — Low-Income Subsidy Medicaid
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
Breast/Cervical Cancer Early Detection
Maternal and Child Health Block Grant
Indian Health Service
Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF) (cash aid)
Supplemental Security Income
Additional Child Tax Credit
Earned Income Tax Credit (refundable component)
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
School Breakfast Program (free/reduced price components)
National School Lunch Program (free/reduced price components)
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
Child and Adult Care Food Program
(lower income components)
Summer Food Service Program
Commodity Supplemental
Food Program Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)
Nutrition Program for the Elderly
Indian Education
Adult Basic Education Grants to States
Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant
Education for the Disadvantaged — Grants to Local Educational Agencies (Title I – A)
Title I Migrant Education Program
Higher Education — Institutional Aid and Developing Institutions
Federal Work – Study
Federal TRIO Programs
Federal Pell Grants
Education for Homeless Children and Youth
21st Century Community Learning Centers
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR – UP)
Reading First and Early Reading First
Rural Education Achievement Program
Mathematics and Science Partnerships
Improving Teacher Quality State Grants
Academic Competitiveness and Smart Grant Program
Single – Family Rural Housing Loans
Rural Rental Assistance Program
Water and Waste Disposal for Rural Communities
Public Works and Economic Development
Supportive Housing for the Elderly
Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities
Section 8 Project – Based Rental Assistance
Community Development Block Grants
Homeless Assistance Grants
Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME)
Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA)
Public Housing
Indian Housing Block Grants
Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers
Neighborhood Stabilization Program -1
Grants to States for Low – Income Housing in Lieu of Low – Income Housing Credit Allocations
Tax Credit Assistance Program
Indian Human Services
Older Americans Act Grants for Supportive Services and Senior Centers
Older Americans Act Family Caregiver Program
Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF) (social services)
Child Support Enforcement
Community Services Block Grant
Child Care and Development Fund
Head Start HHS
Developmental Disabilities Support and Advocacy Grants
Foster Care
Adoption Assistance
Social Services Block Grant
Chafee Foster Care Independence Program
Emergency Food and Shelter Program
Legal Services Corporation
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (employment and training component)
Community Service Employment for Older Americans
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult Activities
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Youth Activities
Social Services and Targeted Assistance for Refugees
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) (employment and training)
Foster Grandparents
Job Corps
Weatherization Assistance Program
Low – Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
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.
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.
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).
LOL actually that’s Terry Branstad, Iowa governor.
I actually was kind of impressed that he would get up there and allow himself to look so silly…
And td, I could be wrong – and you will, I’m sure, immediately correct me if so – but Obama never said it was “all the idea” of the Republicans. And of course the ‘middle class tax increase’ that has you and your fellow travelers so exercised was simply the expiration of a temporary social security tax reduction. Of course you knew that too…
“Obama has been sowing the seeds of racial hatred; we were healing quite well as a nation on racial issues until Obama came along and now we have a lot of racial discord. He may begin wiping out a few hundred people who own guns, pull a large scale Waco or a Ruby Ridge type incident and have it tinged it with racial overtones. But just in case Obama goes through with his plans to take down the Internet, people are setting up phone-trees all over the place to stop Obama in his tracks.”
Blogger Greg Howard, on the Talk To Solomon Show, 2-19-2012.
Love this kind of stuff, it makes me feel really well adjusted. Gotta run, time to go track down a phone tree.
Just to further expand on the wartime presidency thing:
Do you not think it is going to take an inordinate amount of historical lensing (and more that a few bottles of white-out) to judge the war in Iraq as justified in terms of US military casualty count and financial cost? (nearly 5,000 dead and over 30,000 wounded and $800B and counting?)
If you play poker, you should stop because you are going all in on an inside straight with 3 aces on the board.
Keep, yep,the man has veracity and honesty issues.
“Cruz Doubles Down: Harvard Law Was Full Of Communists” HP.
Joseph McCarthy lives!
But at least one his more deranged acolytes, Alan West, just parlayed that stupid 1950s nonsense right into a choice position in a Florida unemployment line…
Sometimes your total lack of knowledge when you think you know everything just amazes me.
Presidents do not even get a full reading of their records for at least 50 years after they have left office (due to national security top secret papers). There are still documents from JFK’s term that are still classified. A real historian can not do a proper job of analyzing a Presidents contribution (or lack thereof) on the national security prospective until all the documents are available (since you claim to be a vet then you of all people should have an understanding of this one would think).
The polls you drag out are nothing more then a media feel good story. They mean nothing as far as what the historians will really say about a President.
They’ll run tomorrow. The wall will likely not get repainted, but they will repair and replace the fencing and things necessary to make it as safe as possible. I wonder if they’ll add something like the backstop netting used at baseball games to keep fly balls from knocking you on the head.
Given the Bush administration’s penchant for outing covert CIA operatives, I am sure if there was anything in Bush II’s paperwork that makes a reasonable case for going to war in Iraq, they would’ve found a way to leak it.
” And of course the ‘middle class tax increase’ that has you and your fellow travelers so exercised was simply the expiration of a temporary social security tax reduction. Of course you knew that too…”
The 2% increase is taxes is what the propaganda machine (Lame stream media) of the President wants the low information voters to think about and is not what I am talking about. What about all the middle class people with 401K investments that now pay 20% instead of 15% on their long term investments? What about all the middle class people that are going to pay for every needle used, machine attached too, test done in that hidden Obamacare tax? How much has the middle classes taxes been raised now when you consider these added taxes?
While you are considering possibilities that none of us know anything about. Consider the thought that Osama did not have just 9-11 in mind when he attacked the US and how many additional plots and plans were crushed by the Bush administration.
Like I said we will not know and the history of the Bush administration will not truly be written for at least 46 more years.
Kam, these new age nitwits who see a commie, Marxist, pinko behind every bush (think Andy when he’s been drinking heavily) are even more deranged that those 1950s cretins…
More fun quotes from another Conservative Christian!
The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. ~Jerry Falwell
“Consider the thought that Osama did not have just 9-11 in mind when he attacked the US and how many additional plots and plans were crushed by the Bush administration. ”
None of which has anything to do with Iraq.
The turn card is up and it did not help your inside straight draw.
td: once again, your dumbass is showing. 401(k) participants pay no tax on gains in their accounts.
Only individuals who make more than $450,000/yr (married) pay the new 20% rate on long-term capital gains. And that only only personal investments — not on 401(k)s.
Even this is much less than the former 28% rate that was in place til King Dumbass the First took office.
I’d echo Look – I have a 401K and I’m not paying 20%. Thanks to the Obama recovery, my 401K is doing pretty well, thank you very much.
Do you mean the estate tax? If so, of course that won’t hit anyone in the middle class.
And as to the ACA, its implementation is already cutting health care costs – so again, I think – respectfully – that you’re mislead. Or misleading, perhaps – only you know that for sure.
betty, I like Bama, but that was a dirty cheap shot at a QB’s head. They should throw guys like that out of the game, right on the spot, to send a message to the other cheap shot artists.
The only other NU highlight from that otherwise forgettable game, but it too is damn impressive!
“What about all the middle class people with 401K investments that now pay 20% instead of 15% on their long term investments?”
What is heaven’s name are you talking about?
My bad. Should read middle class people with rental property instead of 401K. When you sell your rental property that you took a depreciation deduction on will now be recaptured at a 25% rate.
td: once again, your stupidity is showing. The 25% recapture rate of depreciation on rental properties has not changed for years, and remains the same as always.
First, $450,000 for a married couple is NOT rich (especially if you own a small business and file as a individual) and if Obama had gotten his way that would have been $250,000 for a married couple and $200,000 for an individual.
“Your glaring lack of education and your ignorance on most of the issues of the day are an embarrassment that you should be mindful of.”
No it is you that believe the that social justice, income redistribution, Keynesian economic theory, political correctness, abortion is not murder, think that $16.5 trillion debt and borrowing 40 cents on every dollar we spend today is the truly uneducated dumb asses.
If you are referring to section 1250, the 25% only applies to the cost basis adjustment due to depreciation claimed (or allowable) during rental service. If I recall correctly, that 25% is a maximum and graduated.
td: I never said income of $450,000 for a married couple is rich. That is simply the threshold for the new 20% rate.
I think that a society and country that spends in excess of $1.2 trillion on its military (which is more than the total of all of the other countries on earth spend) has its priorities misplaced.
I still don’t like you. You disgust me. You’re a jingoistic, brainwashed, brain-dead, mindless, conservabot who relies on others to do your thinking for you.
the president with tiger and the first lady ……and we wonder why many children have issues with respect, embarrassing, plain and simple. Well, the Queen, is a skydiver, Catherine the Great was “prolific” and Clinton likes Blue Dresses, and Grover Cleveland was “fatherly”….
That would have to be SOME net to stop a 1,500 lb engine block.
If that engine block gets high enough to clear that fence, gravity will ensure that the only thing stopping it will be the ground. Using that kind of overhead netting might catch tires and other pieces of car, but I doubt anything over 100lbs or so would be stoppable at that speed and height.
Keynes’ theories are standing the test of time quite well thank you.
Even one of his most vocal critics in the 90’s, Gregory Mankiw, wrote in November 2008 in The New York Times:
“If you were going to turn to only one economist to understand the problems facing the economy, there is little doubt that the economist would be John Maynard Keynes. Although Keynes died more than a half-century ago, his diagnosis of recessions and depressions remains the foundation of modern macroeconomics. His insights go a long way toward explaining the challenges we now confront. . . . Keynes wrote, ‘Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slave of some defunct economist.’ In 2008, no defunct economist is more prominent than Keynes himself.”
Apparently Michelle Obama cares more about the health of America’s children than she does about her own dignity (not that she came off looking bad at all in that segment). I for one don’t have a problem with that.
If only there were some Republican politicians who cared more about Americans than they do about sticking it to the President, the poor, and Mexicans.
“Sucks for you that you were born five hundred years too late, huh?”
Actually abortion wasn’t much of an issue in this country until about 110 years ago when the medical profession realized that they were losing a lot of revenue to the mid-wives and started pressing for legislation to govern women’s reproductive abilities.
@Look, read “the principles and Practice of Medicine” 1st edition, 110 years ago,,the medical profession offered little more than “tincture of time”, lots of stupid comments on this blog, but yours is the tops, congrats-now go to sleep…
td: I never said income of $450,000 for a married couple is rich. That is simply the threshold for the new 20% rate.
I think that a society and country that spends in excess of $1.2 trillion on its military (which is more than the total of all of the other countries on earth spend) has its priorities misplaced.
I think that a society that spends more on means tested entitlement programs so that people can abdicate having to suffer consequences for their actions and not take responsibility for their actions is corrupt. I think a country that borrows 40 cents of every dollar we spend and has stuck its suture children and grandchildren is morally bankrupt.
It is a Constitutional requirement to spend money on the military and our whole Federal governments top requirement is to defend this nation from enemies both foreign and domestic. I think you progressives not working to balance the budget and wanting to do nothing but spend more and more money are enemies of the future of our nation.
And you are nothing more then a then a Marxist believing socialist and that disgust me to no end.
According to Forbes rankings, Detroit is the most miserable city in the United States.
Home to violent crimes, high unemployment, decreasing population and economic crises, Detroit beat out Miami (last years winner) along with Flint-MI, Chicago-IL, and Modesto-CA. The news comes on the heels of a panel of experts who said last week “the automotive city was facing a fiscal emergency and potential bankruptcy, as well as a possible financial takeover by the state.”
The criteria: “Forbes looked at 200 of the country’s largest urban areas and ranked them on factors including crime rates, foreclosures, taxes, home prices, commute times, weather and decreasing populations.”
Detroit has been run by Democrat mayors since 1964.
The top ten miserable cities:
1. Detroit, MI
2. Flint, MI
3. Rockford, IL
4. Chicago, IL
5. Modesto, CA
6. Vallejo, CA
7. Warren, MI
8. Stockton, CA
9. Lake County, IL
10. New York, NY
Predominant thing in common? Democratic leadership.
Because for the four hundred and fifty ninth time, it is not.
Murder is a felony in this country.
And though you’d love to execute women who have abortions, depraved animals like you are NEVER going to get your way.
Sucks for you that you were born five hundred years too late, huh?
Yes we know that you progressives are so depraved that you refuse to believe that life exist in the womb when there is a lot more scientific evidence that proves otherwise.
You progressives are so depraved that you want to claim climate change is going to kill humans but you will not admit that you have killed more the 40 million unborn children since 1973 just in this country.
“You progressives are so depraved that you want to claim climate change is going to kill humans but you will not admit that you have killed more the 40 million unborn children since 1973 just in this country.”
Hey td………40% of the women that give birth in this country right now are on Medicaid. Without abortion being a safe and medical legal procedure……my goodness, just think of the reaming we taxpayers would be getting.
You can be either a fiscal conservative like myself, who realizes abortion is pro-taxpayer necessity, or you can be a religious conservative, as you apparently are. But you cannot be both.
Regarding your timeline, modern surgery (blood loss, pain infection control) predates 1900 by several decades. Surgery, IMHO, is significantly beyond the “tincture of time” approach to medicine.
In fact, there is a local element to the history of modern surgery in that Crawford Long (see Emory/Crawford Long hospital) is generally regarded as the father of modern anesthesia.
liberals are so pathetic. they have to have each others support. in a gang they are rotweilers, alone they are little fluffy poodles with their fur dyed yellow.
If the yellow poodles did a little research they would discover the country was doing very well with GWB and the GOP in control. Things fell apart when Pelosi and Reid took over. THATS A FACT!!
bernie, I am very happy and I love your president and his lady. I do not hate anyone.You should be ashamed for being so defensive. Take it easy! I even like you too!
Just thought I’d drop in and give HIGH PRAISE AND HONOR to my NUBIAN QUEEN Michelle Obama – a/k/a/ “Shell” (that’s what we sometimes call Michelles in the hood).
Get DOWN and get funky withcho’ bad self SOUL SISTA!!
DAMNNN! I get to do THIS for a whole ‘notha FOUR YEARS??
If the GOP does anything other than call BO’s bluff, they should be completely turned over…they probably need that already.
The closer the sequester gets, the higher the volume of gloom, doom and despair directly from the WH..If they truly believe that, they too should support cliff jumping. If BO can then drag up alledged negatively impacted, starving folks after the fact, he certainly will stoop but he better be sure..
Remember the air traffic controllers in 1981 cries of “aluminum shower from the sky’?
I think this is another case of BO’s strategy of making people sick and then making them better. No way all this hysteria, if any, is realized.
Last thing this dope wants is to go over cliff and see no major impact…if he is correct, GOP’s last straw may be pulled. If he is BS’ing, tide will turn..
Last I heard only 27% of folks knew anything about sequester..
Standing by for all of your excuses and justifications. I get it though…he was just being….”white” I guess ( er…um…excuse me ..a “diplomat”, “embracing the culture” and all THAT OTHER B-S). I put it that way for a reason, and that is to highlight the double standard for those of you who so willingly and SHAMELESSLY live by when it comes to issues of race. You won’t admit it, that ’s why gladly I do it FOR you.
I like her..and those who put forth ugly, demeaning things about her are weak, scared and mindless.
Her husband however is fair game…can’t wait to see if his predictions or starvation, planes crashing mide-air, or another attack on our shores due to weakened security prevail….
This will be a fun week. Bet measures to once again kick the can down the road, making plan to keep government running with nothing accomplished is outcome..
The first lady is a super star on womanhood and one of the better mother’s I have seen too. She gets it even when the press tries so hare to control her, she is nobody’s fool. Laura Bush was a great first lady and in my mind a much better person than W. This country has been blesed the last decade with wonderful role models for our girls to see and learn from.
First “Mom”…..? Why that term to use?…..She’s just a regular gal I bet…..and she’s so proud now….TV and Hollywood personalities, now DC……and this proves what exactly?
You are correct. Her husband (the President) IS “fair game” and I will level my criticism of policies of his and OTHER politicians that do not sit well with me (and I have)…one example is the current gun control debate. Some things I agree with; the more extreme things I do not. I am a gun owner, so I have my own opinions. HOWEVER, I ALWAYS fall on the side of “intellectual honesty” (which I have come to despise the expression because it is so overused these days). Let’s not forget that we have a total 600 congresspersons roundabout who have MORE to do with this than the President ever has or ever will. Congress controls the purse strings. Along with that, you’re stretching in your characterizations of what the President has been saying and trying to do.
I just say you can’t have it both ways. You call the man a “dope” because CUTS (which you claim you want) will go into effect and in a major way. The problem is…these cuts hit one of the largest sacred cows we have – DEFENSE! That’s the problem. We seem to hate “government workers”, but everything defense related pretty much is just that. I know…I was married to that “industry” for quite a long time. Heaven forbid the defense contractors get hit in their pockets. Those grimy little “government workers” who make all of that possible though, screw THEM! They’re “overpaid. You cannot have one without the other. What the president has in fact been doing is telling people the truth about the impact. I sat and watched the JCS detail on CSPAN all of the base closings around the country that will need to happen. Now… radiate outward from there. The president is NOT lying about these things. I just think if people who oppose him simply because of the MAN he is, yet hide behind a facade saying it’s something else only hurt themselves…because it’s totally obvious to people when the arguments are dissected what’s really behind it all. Not saying that is YOU (thought he is a “dope” in your eyes), just saying in general.
Here are the amounts/rough estimates based on numbers put out by OMB before the fiscal cliff deal::
Aircraft purchases by the Air Force and Navy are cut by $3.5 billion.
Military operations across the services are cut by about $13.5 billion.
Military research is cut by $6.3 billion.
The National Institutes of Health get cut by $1.6 billion.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are cut by about $323 million.
Border security is cut by about $581 million.
Immigration enforcement is cut by about $323 million.
Airport security is cut by about $323 million.
Head Start gets cut by $406 million, kicking 70,000 kids out of the program.
FEMA’s disaster relief budget is cut by $375 million.
Public housing support is cut by about $1.94 billion.
The FDA is cut by $206 million.
NASA gets cut by $970 million.
Special education is cut by $840 million.
The Energy Department’s program for securing our nukes is cut by $650 million.
The National Science Foundation gets cut by about $388 million.
The FBI gets cut by $480 million.
The federal prison system gets cut by $355 million.
State Department diplomatic functions are cut by $650 million.
Global health programs are cut by $433 million; the Millenium Challenge Corp. sees a $46 million cut, and USAID a cut of about $291 million.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is cut by $55 million.
The SEC is cut by $75.6 million.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is cut by $2.6 million.
The Library of Congress is cut by $31 million.
The Patent and Trademark office is cut by $156 million
The news releases are already prepared…….Sequester goes through, repubs fault for all the “suffering” that will dominate media……Deal to stop sequester, dems saved you again from repubs”. Back to another manufactured crisis……..
Intellectual honesty eh? Everyone here claims the same..here is some honesty:
The amount of sequester cuts is only 25 billion more than that provided (not yet iunderstand) to the victims of sandystorm . Give that some consideration. When the term intellectual honesty can be defined any way we choose, ithink you agree it,s irrelevant.
Redcoat, you tried desperately …………………. and failed. Now your beloved GOP is in danger of becoming the long term minority party in this country.
Blame yourselves.
In addition to those cuts above, this would be the perfect time to close all of those insidious and perverted tax loopholes for the super-rich and increase taxes, primarily on paper-shuffling wealth of the speculators and derivatives traders, and not human labor.
Further, the days of endless corproate welfare, giveaways and handouts have to end. This is a representative democracy, NOT a state run corporatocracy as the neocons want. We the people/Uncle Sam are the rightful owners and the supreme and independent power and authority in this country!
NOT Wall Street.
That YOU want to gladly give away your sovereignty to the “monied interests” is sad and pathetic. And if you want to cheer on the existing power structure and slime the working class protesters in this country, that is your choice
America’s books can be balanced, but capitalism – the actual American capitalism that worked so well for so many decades, and which applied to EVERYONE, not just the working class – NOT this awful Reagan//trickle down/voodoo economics, must be restored.
All bs scare tactics. As mentioned, the amount is 85 bil.. we set aside about 40%of that numberfor sandy victims….starvipng babies, granny really over the cliff this time, airplanes falling fromtbe sky (see impact of 1981 air controllers)..sieve like borders and the like. Bs. I agree about defense spending imo should be cut at least 20%.
The governors at the National Governors Conference are worried about the damage the sequestration will cause to economic gains in their respective states.
I guess next yiu will try to convince me that there is no waste in any of these areas. Bo has taken discretionary spending to heights previously unknown alledging i presume we are all getting great value here
I note that the DoD cant even be audited….how about that? Means we could cut but not necessarily validate same…government at work .. well at least accordoling.to most here, we have a flawless president..
If we can’t cut 2.4% out the 3.6 trillion dollars the federal government spends of which 40% is borrowed money the magnitude of our financial crises should be apparent to all.
In 2008, no defunct economist is more prominent than Keynes himself.”
Not intended as a compliment.
From the same article:
GOVERNMENT PURCHASES That leaves the government as the demander of last resort. Calls for increased infrastructure spending fit well with Keynesian theory. In principle, every dollar spent by the government could cause national income to increase by more than a dollar if it leads to a more vibrant economy and stimulates spending by consumers and companies. By all reports, that is precisely the plan that the incoming Obama administration has in mind.
The fly in the ointment — or perhaps it is more an elephant — is the long-term fiscal picture. Increased government spending may be a good short-run fix, but it would add to the budget deficit. The baby boomers are now starting to retire and claim Social Security and Medicare benefits. Any increase in the national debt will make fulfilling those unfunded promises harder in coming years.
Keynesian economists often dismiss these long-run concerns when the economy has short-run problems. “In the long run we are all dead,” Keynes famously quipped.
The longer-term problem we now face, however, may be more serious than any that Keynes ever envisioned. Passing a larger national debt to the next generation may look attractive to those without children. (Keynes himself was childless.) But the rest of us cannot feel much comfort knowing that, in the long run, when we are dead, our children and grandchildren will be dealing with our fiscal legacy.
I will never come out here and pretend to be neither an Economist or congressperson privy to all of the hard numbers information from an insider’s perspective. I do however know B-S when I hear it. Sounds like you are in ax grind mode. On the one hand you attempt to toss the “intellectual honesty” thing back my way and in the SAME BREATH proceed to hand me this B-S about the slight difference in the Sandy aid package and the sequester numbers. Let’s see…”Intellectual honesty”…
Realizing that ANY and ALL budget deals for spending/cuts or whatever to bring our deficit/debt under control (whether through sequestration or otherwise) shall be based on a LONG RANGE projection….typically what… around 10 years or so?? So you then attempt to sell me an argument based on a SINGLE YEAR’S portion of sequestration numbers and then try to stack that up against a disaster relief package that was proposed around $50 billion I believe it was. I can do nothing but shake my head at you…then come back and ask…if that is ALL the numbers are (as you imply negligible) then….WHAT THE HELL ARE BOEHNER, McCONNELL, THE TEA PARTY AND PEOPLE LIKE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT?? Why even get caught up in this whole charade about the doom and gloom or our problem, if sequestration is the “worst” that can happen to us if congress cannot hammer out a “less painful” deal???
That doesn’t even make sense..using YOUR argument or (il)logic!!
Well stated Keynesian economics can never be a solution for this country or for that matter any country. Where is a model where it has actually succeeded. Theories can sound good or look good on paper but fall apart in the practical application.
It appears that your argument is not cogent. If our budget is unsustainable, why do we still have continued economic growth?
I think you would agree that our economic policies have been hampered by the lack of growth in the public sector and the decline of jobs in the public sector. We have neglected our infrastructure and failed to reign in our health care costs which currently consume roughly 20% of GDP.
It seems to me that the much of the animus about the size and cost of government is often misguided and based on willful stupidity. (Which does not mean that our deficit is indeed out of control.)
OF COURSE the bureaucracy is GIGANTIC. (As is also the predominant case in private enterprise.)
Look at the Dept. of Homeland Security as a prime example. After it’s inception, I read that at one point we had 17 different agencies involved in “The War on Terror”. Seventeen! Each p*issing on the other’s foot and fighting their little turf wars.
I have real bad news for you hard core Republican reactionaries. (Look it up, because I’m pretty certain that none of you misnamed conservatives have the first clue that that is what you really are.)
This nation no longer has 16 million people in it.
The size, scope and complexity of our national challenges are GIGANTIC.
That some of you apparently think that the greatest democracy on earth can be run like some child’s lemonade stand is interesting, but useless…
guy @ 12:57 am – Sure you are in Maui! Most Likely in Maui – north Georgia playing in a red clay mud hole. and I could give a Rats tail weather or not you like me or not. Your comment concerning the First Lady was offensive and racist to its core. You wrote those hurtful words and it only goes to show what an awful person you are and should be avoided at all costs. Just because you are in a Hawaii on a trip that you will paying for on a credit card for years to come does not put you in any more positive light. If I were to ever find out your employer I would refuse any business with them just because they have you for an employee! and that’s the Truth. I would then tell everybody that has EARS!
We don’t have sufficient economic growth that produces revenues that can sustain our growing national debt. Our post recession recovery has been its slowest since World War II. Federal government stimulus has only produced short term lifts to the economy and then it falls back to less than 2% GDP growth and continues to be dangerously close to falling back into recession. I won’t go into the numerous barriers that the government has erected that have been an impediment to small business growth but the small business sector is extremely important to our economy and entrepreneurship is now practically nonexistent. The multinationals are doing fine because they are investing in foreign markets less regulated than our own, We’re not in good shape and that is unfortunately an unavoidable fact.
You are correct in saying that we do not have adequate national economic growth. If one would stop to look at all the reasons that our growth is so tepid, it appears we have forgotten the truism “we need money to make money.”
We can not sustain and grow the world’s largest economy on a shoestring. We must update and upgrade our financial strength through the inclusion of all citizens working and earning a sustainable and living wage.
Using our enormous economic capacity gives us the ability to leverage our dollars through the multiplier effect. If we were to invest in our infrastructure, we would double the effect of each dollar spent.
We need to average 250,000 new jobs each month to keep pace with population growth. We currently have more than 70,000 bridges alone that are deemed substandard. Of course, you realize how difficult and time consuming it is to complete the work on one bridge, let alone 70,000 and the dollars that would be expended to bring that bridge up to code.
How about the sewers, clean water, renewable energy, communication lines and structure. The list goes on and on?
Many right wing reactionaries have blindly accepted the position that Uncle Sam has gotten too big for his britches. And in some cases there is some truth to that. Yet as embodied by the US Constitution, he is the only thing standing between us and all enemies, foreign and domestic.
But from what I have read the tacit adoration of the men who lack of respect for the law of the land is what drives much of this enmity.
I’ve got more bad news for those of you in “America should be a corporate run state” gang.
You detest regulations (well REGULATED militia, my ___) And certainly there are many over-lapping and unnecessary ones.
But the reason Uncle Sam has had to get so heavy handed and to crack down, even in the tepid way that he does, is because plenty of his children are brats, who do NOT respect or follow our laws and our democratic system.
As Thomas Jefferson wrote: I hope we shall crush in its birth, the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations who dare challenge our government to a test of strength and who bid defiance to the laws of our country.
I’m talking about the thieves and miscreants at Lehman Brothers, AIG, Enron, Exxon, WorldCom, Hooker Chemical, BP, Archer Daniels Midland, Georgia Pacific, Genetech, ConAgra, Pfizer, Summitville Consolidated Mining Co, Rockwell, Teledyne, Northrup, Eastman Chemical, GE, Colonial Pipeline, Allied Chemical, Blue Cross Blue Shield…
And the this is, OF COURSE, a very partial list. Should I go on?
Many of these companies have STOLEN from Uncle Sam/you and me, and never faced justice. Yet being the watered down version that he is, he still does business with them.
Just the way you corporations uber alles gang want it…
I agree that you’ve identified areas needing attention, however, until we once again get the private sector cranked up we won’t create the revenues to sufficiently focus on those needs. The divide between the left and the right is the role of government versus the role of the private sector in regaining and maintaining the health of our economy. The fact is both are important but we’re now out of balance and we need to get back in balance very soon.
US corporations have an estimated $2 Trillion dollars cash on their balance sheets.
The corporations say they are concerned about the potential crisis in Europe and how it will affect their business as to why they have not reinvested their profits into business expansion.
If the private sector refuses to reinvest their profits and share those profits with us in the way of jobs with livable wages and benefits, the government must play a role in priming the economy.
While I get the emotional appeal of the above, I am against having Congress abdicate one of it’s primary responsibilities.
Unfortunately, so does congress but they can’t agree on anything and so we continue to move from one crises to the next. Congress only can agree on postponing agreement that never comes. We need to take some action now and though a 2.4% reductions in future spending is a paltry amount it’s at least a step in the right direction. If we’re to take that step then the president should IMO have the authority to prioritize accounts and move money around. Kind of like it’s done in commercial business when reduced spending become necessary.
Folks, have to go to hospital to visit one of my classmates.
He was a member of the 1st Cav (First Team) and fought at Khe Sahn during the the 1968 Tet Offensive.
If by the private sector, you mean corporations, then why would they want to change now? they are making record profits, and not having to hire anyone, is just gravy to them. They have absolutely no profit loss by not hiring. It is the job of the Government to regulate these record profits and force them to hire. Otherwise there is nothing the President can do to make businesses hire…other than nationalize them. And as an aside, I think it is proper and right for the Government to nationalize all defense industries. They are some of the biggest scammers and they need to be stopped.
Bottom line is that in your Ideal World, the Private Sector will act in a proper and moralistic manner, eschewing profits for the needs of the population. Of course, in the real world, we know this won’t happen. The only thing the Private Sector feels patriotic about is the good ol’ American Greenback…and country …and it’s people…be damned.
“the small business sector is extremely important to our economy and entrepreneurship is now practically nonexistent.”
Hysteria much?
SB startups did in fact decline year over year from a peak of 670K in 2006 to about 550K in 2009.
Closures and bankruptcies also increased in the same time frame.
Something you would expect to see in a recession where both capital and consumer demand decrease dramatically.
But – 550,000 start-ups is NOT all but non-existent.
I only scanned your 9:35 because it was lengthy. There’s nothing that can convince me that we haven’t reached the point where our deficit spending is unsustainable.
But – 550,000 start-ups is NOT all but non-existent.
How many of those have turned the corner or are still in business. What about 010, 011 and 012? At this point we should be seeing a lot more and compared to not so many years ago it has become nonexistent. No hysteria but it’s certainly time for objectivity.
Corbin, the private sector include small/medium privately held companies and U.S. based corporations. I would have to disagree with your characterization of those business entities. BTW…is Corbin Sharpe the new normal?
The myth being perpetuated by the right regarding Keynes is that he advocated for continued government deficit spending and superior government effect within the private sector market.
This is untrue. He believed that government and private sector spending were complementary systems where private sector spending should take precedence when the economy is good.
Keynes also believed that there were natural equilibrium points in the market between wages, inflation and interest rates. When this equilibrium is disrupted, the country tips towards recession and the government must take an active role by adjusting interest rates, cutting taxes and increasing spending to nudge the economy back to balance in capital costs. Once the economy recovers, the government must increase taxes and cut spending to ward off inflation to keep things balanced.
One of the things that I think we are seeing that has been a drag on economic recovery is that Richard Kahn seems to have been over-optimistic in the multiplier effect given the hoarding of cash by the multi-nationals.
RECON,
Yes to your last question and I think that if you really look and listen to what CEO’s, large and small, are saying, you would hear that they don’t give a fig about this country. They want to change it to suit them, not the other way around.
I’ve seen this sort of thing before. It’s usually one of those after-work get together drink parties. You know what I’m talking about – where the 50 year-old woman gets drunk and acts stupid.
“Well regulated militia” No one disagrees with that statement that the militia needs to be well regulated but when you read the rest of the amendment you find that the founders exempted one facet of the militia from regulation.
“the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
SHALL NOT is the key phase. The government SHALL NOT infringe on the peoples individual right to keep and bear arms.
Sort of sounds like to me that Keynes believes that the government has the responsibility to control the economy and not the markets. This theory sounds like another I know you are quite familiar with:
“a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.”
Apples and oranges my friend. You are talking about the government stepping in to make sure the free market is not monopolized. What I am talking about is Keynesian economics is about government control (regulation) of the day to day operation of the government.
Yep. and td would be VERY hard pressed to find anything in Keynes writings to justify the “collective ownership” he seems to see there. Regulation…td…in case you don’t know, is not ownership
“You are talking about the government stepping in to make sure the free market is not monopolized”
Same difference. It’s market manipulation that the government must step in to control. Recessions are a form of “market manipulation” that are bad for the country and the government must step in to control it.
What YOU are “talking” about is collective ownership. Apples and oranges my friend
WE THE PEOPLE are sick of bailing out the white collar criminals, who in many cases are already stealing from us, and watching them take over the role of sovereigns in this nation. Because men of no moral conscience in Washington will take their money instead of standing up to them on OUR behalf. We elected them and they answer to US. Not Sheldon Adelson’s or George Soros’ billions of dirty dollars.
It is a threat to the republic FAR greater than the illegal immigrants and Islamoterrorists put together.
And In spite of what that gutless little man said, corporations are not people, my friends.
“the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
@td
You are a broken record. You repeat this time and time again and yet make no cogent point.
But let’s deconstruct the above clause in the Constitution for a moment:
Infringe:
From Merriam-Webster
1 : to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another
2 : obsolete : DEFEAT, CRUSH
Medieval Latin infringere, from Latin, to break, crush, from in- + frangere to break
Given that those founding fathers who had educations would have been taught Latin, I suspect the intent on the language leans towards the concept of crushing/breaking or in more legal terms, prohibiting.
Add to the fact that at the time of the Constitutional Conventions, arms were composed of single-shot flintlocks and pistols and the only weapons of mass destruction were cannons, the founding fathers could not have conceived of a single nutcase individual walking into a classroom full of children and wiping them out in a matter of a few seconds. Had they envisioned that, they may have chosen different wording.
That said, I am not interested in reactionary legislation that would do nothing to prevent the types of tragedies that are driving the current push to enact stricter gun-control laws.
Lets rationally sit down and ask the following:
Is there a problem/risk/threat that needs to be addressed?
If so, what is it?
Once we know what “it” is, is there anything we can do about it?
Personally, I think when it comes to so called assault weapons, that genie is going to be very hard to put back into the bottle.
The effect of that is, those innocents who perish in these types of incidents will have to be considered collateral damage and part of the price we as a society must pay to protect the right to absolute gun-ownership by our citizenry.
Also you seem to think that infringed and unlimited are synonyms. They are not. Again. I ask that you look at how those words are defined.
infringe – v
1. To transgress or exceed the limits of
The rights of the people to keep and bear arms has always been limited and qualified.
Go try and buy a suitcase nuke and see what the men who interpret the US Constitution think of that.
Remember the phrase right before infringed (shall not). In other words the right of the people the keep and bear arms shall not be transgressed. The government shall not exceed the limits placed upon it.
From all the readings of our founding fathers that I have done on this subject they were talking about guns (not cannons, or suitcase nukes). Now I personally think that a ban on automatic guns is against the original intent of the 2nd Amendment. Now I know that ban will not be abolished but if we are talking about original intent then that is my opinion
The fact that td just tried to equate Keyne’s theories to socialism bumps his “W was not a disaster” post to a DISTANT 2nd as the dumbest post in this thread.
I mean seriously dude, was there an O2 problem during your birth?
Look in the mirror tell me what do you see
Or can you lie to yourself like you’re lyin’ to me
Do you fall asleep real easy feelin’ justified and right
Or do you wake up feelin’ empty in the middle of the night
You want to think you’re different, but you know you never can
You’re just another ordinary man
Hey politician, can’t believe a word you say
Almighty media, whose truth d’you sell today?
Watchdog of justice, who keeps their eye on you?
Con man, song in hand, who you singin’ to?
The more I get to see, the less I understand
I’m just another ordinary man
Yo Jam, I have saved Can’t find my way home form this concert in 1969, but as I was looking something up, the whole concert popped up on youtube. I don’t know how much of a Blind Faith fan you are but you might want this:
Freddie, regarding BF, I bought that stunning album of theirs, the only one they ever released, only a few years ago, because I considered it a BIG hole in my collection!
Triumph – great, socially conscious power trio! I always liked them a lot and thought of them as a poor man’s Rush!
Look, too funny!
The second guitar that I ever bought was a 12 string Epiphone because of Roger McGuinn…
Jam: Growing up I was a huge Cat Stevens fan but I never realized he wrote that song until a couple years after Rod covered it. I liked Rod with the Faces. Jeff Beck never forgave Rod for breaking away did he? Which is weird concidering the sheer talent that went through the Jeff Beck group in those years. Rod, Ron Wood, Jimmie Page, Ansley Dunbar, John Entwistle, Keith Moon……. damn toomany to list:
At the time the 2nd ammendment was written, there was no standing professional army. The milita needed to protect America was entirely composed of civilians.
Today, our milita is our standing Military and, by extension, our police forces. They are the ONLY ones guarenteed “the right to keep and bear arms” by the 2nd ammendment.
Deep down, you know this. However, the NRA has sucessfully brainwashed you and others into actually believing Obama wants to take your guns and turn America into a strict Socialist country. They have further convinced you the only way to stop this is to buy more guns. The fact that gun manufacturers are the only real beneficiaries of all this totally escapes you.
It sez something for that tired old dusty document when neither BUSH nor Obama can shred it….although you wouldn’t know much difference in the strategies…
All this arguing over guns I get not. Look at whats practical. There are 310 million guns out there…the ones I think we know about. So these new laws however they turn out, may keep a few hundred thou out of circulation a year..?? Perhaps it’s in the millions?
Perhaps its like the debt except we are doing what is practical and attempting in some way to flatten any growth.
Seems to me there are already plenty of guns for whatever uses are desired…probably keep us busy at least during my lifetime….
The first 18 seconds is Disney but the rest isn’t. This has to be the best “reworked” song I’ve heard. He takes David Allen Coe’s classic, The Ride, and turns it into a Dale Earnhardt tribute.
Then he cried when we got to Daytona an’ as he pulled onto the track,
An’ he said: “This is where you get out boy, ’cause number three ain’t comin’ back.”
As I crawled out of the race car, I said: “Thanks, I’ll catch you later.”
He said: “It’d be tough catchin’ me boy, ’cause I’m The Intimidator.”
He said: “Boy, can you make fans stand an’ scream your name?
“Can you hit ‘em in the rear an’ grab another gear, still roll into victory lane?”
He said: “Boy, do you know how it feels to run three wide?
“‘Cause if you’re Daytona-bound, let me warn you, you’re in for a ride.”
Their “thinkers” have already figured it out for them, so they don’t have to expend any energy towards trying to think for themselves. Once it’s heard three times in the echo chamber, then it’s considered verified fact.
Today, our milita is our standing Military and, by extension, our police forces. They are the ONLY ones guarenteed “the right to keep and bear arms” by the 2nd ammendment.
Look, that Rickenbacker he plays is just stunning. Most of their stuff is!
Too funny, TBS is still all funked out and soulful from Friday night. I love it!!
I really don’t brag about myself (much! LOL at me!) but damn if along with you guys, we don’t put down some truly amazing music. All over the board! From R&B to musical soundtracks to Bluegrass.
Meanwhile….BO’s Hollywood supporters are sporting $100,000 attire…It’s funny how much the film makers etcetera benefit from tax breaks…doubt this $1.5 billion annually includes the fact that accounting for film productions remains one of the most prolific accounting mysteries..I think I heard that a film can gross
Also it is estimated that only 5% of films, despite several hundred millions gross receipts is losing money…no wonder the industry can afford to toss money around as they do..
Everyone has heard of the phrase, no good deed goes unpunished, right?
Last night I lived it!
I gave someone a ride home because they didn’t want to ride with a drunken driver. It only took me 15 minutes to help and was no big deal for a regular mensch, like yours truly.
But when I pulled into the garage and parked, there was a noticeable hissing sound coming from my right rear tire. Thanks god for spares, even if they are of the cheesy space saver variety!
Agent, that looks great; will read it later. Thanks back at ya…
I have no idea where the gun talk comes from as I was addressing Look’s comment about Congress abdicating their authority to Obama. If it were my job to do, I would tell the gun nuts to go fellate a lit stick of dynamite as they make sensible gun owners look like nutcases. You can’t have rational dialogue with irrational people. We see that here on a daily basis.
As for Bush and Obama, I’ve called them one and the same since Obama took his first oath. Obama has actually been a better Republican president than Bush ever was.
Alright Look, fess up. You got that song from me. I need to do one too. I have to admit that the song is an ear worm. The firsttime I heard it it was so catchy oit was running through my head all day. Kinda of like this one. Here is the original first studio take without the jazzed up video or reworking:
I’m not much of a movie goer. My love for the visceral experience of going out and seeing films was very brief but intense. A Clockwork Orange and 2001, … were two of the very first ones I ever saw. (The movie theater at Keesler AFB!)
Most are awful and I’m not into moving a lot of dirt to find a couple of gems!
Jamvet: I loved to HATE Dale Earnhardt lol. His fans were (and still are) the drunkest most obnoxious knuckle dragging rednecks at the race, the bar, the mall ect……. not that all his fans were that way, but the one that WERE that way were always Earnhardt fans. They were as easy to taunt and torment as are the far right wing nutcases here.
Anyway, he was one of those people who transcends his sport to where he is know by folks everywhere. Like Arnold Palmer, Mario Andretti, Babe Ruth, Joe Namath, Muhammad Ali ect……. thye are just so much LARGER than anyone else that they gain myth status even when they are alive. Others may be better, but THEY are the ones everyone loves or loves to hate. They are the ones who “Float like a Butterfly and Sting like a Bee.”
They are the ones who say, “Second place is just first loser.”
To President Bush, Article II demands not merely a unitary but a unilateral presidency in that all authority delegated by Congress must be funneled through the President.
Bernie, you are the bitter fool,not me. You have an anger management problem and I feel so sorry for you. Be Happy and Smile!!!!!
Please have a good day. Your idle threats do not worry me in the least. How I pay for what I do is none of your business,understand?You will be in my thoughts and prayers.
BTW, Jamvet…given that unitary Presidency rode the coat tails of a “permanent Republican majority” I’m think there’s a few Repubs around who are pretty damn glad they didn’t achieve that unitary Presidency!
Some try to fit it all into one month, but that’s like trying to transport a professional football team on a single yellow school bus. There’s too much to cover in 28 days. The history of music alone fills up a month and then some. However it will remain this way until the writers of the history books remove their blinders.
I’m with Kam, this is a great time of year to get yard work done. (And I am done, as in beat! LOL!) It’s not like it still doesn’t have it’s challenges, but at least it’s not hot as blazes and the bugs don’t eat ya alive!
You’re confused, it was Mohammed Ali they made fun of. And you sure are thin skinned, about your Jesus, huh? Your harping on it kinda remind me of those nuts in Denmark, just with a different angle on it.
Planes crash, schools close, houses burn, criminals run free.
Welcome to the “Mad Max” world that President Obama envisions if the federal budget is reduced by 2.3 percent. It’s a scenario designed to provoke rage and hopelessness, and it certainly does, though not for the reasons Obama intends.
Instead, his claim that the $3.6 trillion budget can’t be trimmed by $85 billion without the country collapsing reveals the utter futility of believing he will ever save America from financial disaster. The nation is headed for ruin unless it cuts spending, but the president refuses to do anything about it. In fact, he argues we don’t spend enough, that we must “invest” more. Just plain crazy!
“Have you no shame? And as Doggone notes, when you have to lie”
Have you ever noticed that they seldom, to never, come back and deny they’ve lied? They know perfectly well they’re fibbing…they just think we’re too stupid to notice. No matter how many times we prove we aren’t.
Yep, them Christians….. perform lawful abortions and you risk your family and your life. Death and harassment. But do keep trying to claim how you judgmentally claim to be better than those who worship Mohammed.
“Have you no shame? And as Doggone notes, when you have to lie”
Have you ever noticed that they seldom, to never, come back and deny they’ve lied? They know perfectly well they’re fibbing…they just think we’re too stupid to notice. No matter how many times we prove we aren’t.
Typical Lib response if faced with truth, accuse them of lying! Pathetic!
Poor Scout. It makes him feel superior to write what he just did, but perhaps when he returns I could help him revisit information and proof of a time not that far removed from today when the cost for speaking out against Jesus and Christianity had sometimes deadly repercussions in this country.
…his claim that the $3.6 trillion budget can’t be trimmed by $85 billion without the country collapsing…
And Mr. Right, you wouldn’t be able to state the collpasing truth about what the president actually said if it fell on you. You are a garden variety liar who makes up claims out of thing air.
Which is great for comedic value – as in whacking trolls – but not discourse.
TBS, one of my early Jewish American Princess heroines of music…
“According to the Lib nuts, we already live in a “Mad Max” world where woman can fend off rapist by peeing or vometing on them!”
Funny that you think that’s advice from a “lib”…since it was also advice I was given by a self-defense instructor. Interesting that you can determine he’s a “lib” without even knowing who he is.
So now it appears that JamVet has accused yet another conservative of being a liar when he defends the most flagrant liar of them all, you know, that one that occupies govt housing at 1600 PA Ave. This presidential pretender has lied more than anyone since FDR and still the flakes like JamVet give him a pass. Ought to tell you something about the credibility of some of these liberal posters who are pretty good at calling people names but can’t defend the biggest liar of them all.
Danica made a little history but it seemed
she was not a happy camper in post race
interview. Sounded like she was told to
hold in place rather than go for the win.
71, for someone your age, your write like a young boy.
You know he lied and you choose to ignore it. I didn’t. And YOU can and do lie about what I think regarding your demon, but you are not remotely qualified to speak for me.
Hell, you barely do so, intelligently, for yourself…
race was decent at the end, but new package for restrictor plate races may need to be tweaked if NASCAR wants more than single file racing for most of the race
Not generally an Oscar’s watcher, but I think Seth Macfarlane can be funny sometimes.
Will watch to see if he mangles, manages or marvels tonight.
I think Lincoln will take best actor and best pic.
Emmanuelle Riva for best actress
Alan Argo best supporting actor
Best supporting actress is a toughie – will go with Sally field cuz of Lincoln momentum
Spielberg – director.
Gonna be a good night for Lincoln.
BTW – my track record at this is beyond abysmal so if you have any money riding, bet against any of my picks.
Was gonna drag the leaf blower out of storage and use that but wife wouldn’t let me.
Of course, I then had to bag the damned thing and set it out with the trash.
Earlier today I drove over to Target. En route I came upon a stop light and noticed the car in front of me was sporting a bumper sticker. It read “Is that true? Or did you hear it on Fox News?”
Figured as much. The duels were not that good either. I’m sure NASCAR will have something in place for the 2nd Daytona and Talladega races………….. I hope
guy @ 1:45 pm – You who attacked Mrs.Obama and referred to her as a MONKEY! and I have the anger management problem? Why? because I was the only one, who called you OUT on it?
Then you say you will include me in your PRAYERS? Please! thank-you but no thank-you!
Leave me out of any of your HATE filled Prayers! Whatever GOD you are praying too will certainly raise an eyebrow of disbelief that you would would even have the NERVE to even Pray after such a hate filled statement. Based on skin color alone!
The next time when you look at your WIFE and Daughter or daughters think! How would YOU FEEL, If some unknown stranger referred to them as a MONKEY?
There was supposed to be at least one other sequel to Streets of Fire, but the reviews and box office receipts were too dismal.
Diane Lane has aged very well.
It was obvious that she was going to be a major babe dating back to that charming but a little too sweet film Six Pack with Kenny Rogers (see how I did that tie in with Daytona 500 race day?)
Michelle Obama is undignified and has embarrassed the nation by dancing
The constitution guarantees us the right to blow each other to smithereens
The country is going to hell
W was NOT a disaster
Abortion is bad
Somebody in Maui really ticked off Bernie
Keynes is a Marxist
This blog has more than its fair share of trolls.
Totally off topic: finally finished getting a new wireless router installd on all 3 of my PCs. That should make my life easier…I won’t have to keep swapping the cable around!
- Alan (should be repeatedly kicked in the balls) Greenspan.
- Reagan’s entire team of economic advisers.
- Everyone of Clinton’s economic advisers that was in the room when Brooksley Born warned them about the unregulated derivatives market.
- All neo-classical phlogiston economists matriculated since 1980.
Tonight’s feast is an Oscar’s finger platter with:
Peppered crispy steak frites and a lite green curry and cilantro dipping sauce
Golden corn chowder with shrimp (can’t use fingers with that)
Artichoke leaves with chipolte mayo dipping sauce
Pan fried asparagus, then deep chilled served with a Champagne buerre blanc
Waffle cut sweet potato fries.
So… that’s it, then? After tonight, no more going commando on the JBB? **sigh**
Guess I’d better tell this now, then. So I went to one of my state legislator’s town hall meetings this weekend. A concerned mother of an 8-yr-old got up to express her concern about gun violence, in the wake of Sandy Hook that has her pretty freaked out. She’d done her research, had lots of stats, and knew exactly which bills were put forth this season.
While she was talking, the room full of rightie whacktards started bristling, shifting in their seats, and emitting a low, growling noise like threatened dogs. Nothing she said was in any way radical, but rather, she was expressing her fear and what she’d learned. Our highly self-esteemed Senator man’splained to her: “Well, you know heart disease is the number one killer, but we’re not banning french fries!” (SweartoGod). The crowd loved this. The laaaaarge round woman behind me then started yammering about how “they” are trying to ban french fries too. Don’t know exactly who “they” might be, but bless her heart. Even more, bless the heart of anyone who tries to get between her and an order of large fries. I assured her that I would never try to come between her and a fry — freedom, french, curly, or otherwise.
- Alan (should be repeatedly kicked in the balls) Greenspan.
Some of Greenspan’s policies had merit. I think he summed it up quite well when he said:
“I made a “mistake” in believing that banks, operating in their own self-interest, would do what was necessary to protect their shareholders and institutions.” “…it was a flaw in the model … that defines how the world works.”
- Reagan’s entire team of economic advisers.
Larry, Moe and Curly
Kam, yep… Lesson learned: If being a restaurant spokesperson is going to be the cause of death, be sure to pick the right one. I would go with Hooters myself (josef may want to go with Dick’s last resort).
But again, no kids were killed in the eating of them French Fries by another person.
Whoa… I said almost just that at the meeting, when some chromosomally-deficient little troglodyte tried to man’spain to me (after my question re: the suggested repeal of the 17th amendment) that the Constitution does not guarantee me the right to vote. “When you pry it from my cold dead hands, buddy,” I interrupted. Do these sad Trogs think we’ll crawl willingly back to the 18th Century? AS IF!
““Well, you know heart disease is the number one killer, but we’re not banning french fries!” (SweartoGod). The crowd loved this.”
And therein truly lay the problem. When even an elected representative can’t engage in reasoned conversation on a serious issue and instead deflects to some asinine straw man as a way to get a cheap laugh – there is simply no hope in finding a reasonable compromise.
It would have been awesome if the lady had chastised the fool for making jokes about a serious issue – children and others dying and protecting the constitutional rights of its citizens.
Oh, there was another awesome one! When a constituent asked about the Governor’s refusal to accept funds to expand Medicaid to 600,000 currently-uninsured citizens (at no cost to us), the other Senator there (this guy’s a smoooove one, watch for his ascent to Congress or US Senate…) launched into a 5-minute soliloquy comparing Medicaid “addiction” to (SweartoGod) CRACK COCAINE. Because…. they’re EXACTLY the same thing, you know.
“launched into a 5-minute soliloquy comparing Medicaid “addiction” to (SweartoGod) CRACK COCAINE. Because…. they’re EXACTLY the same thing, you know.”
Well I am addicted to not having some of our citizens dying for a lack of proper health care.
But of course, some of our con friends here think that is exactly what should happen cuz… ya know ….they have made poor choices in life.
What some of these yokels fail to realize is that some of these 600,000 people are going to get very sick for lack of preventive care and end up in the county ER where the cost for care for them will be 10 times what it would have been and the taxpayers will STILL have to foot the bill.
I was saying the same thing. I was rooting for her. I think she had the fastest car out there, but her “team” seemed to be more content with “making history” in the manner that they did. I say WHY SETTLE?? I saw her many times drop down low like she was going to make a move for it. It’s like she was advised to hold back because someone just might have tried to wipe her out to keep from winning and thus causing her to not even finish. I just kinda feel like the team saw that as a new barrier she has broken through and they will build from there. A first place finish is soon to come on the circuit.
Just watched Gandhi. I feel a little more redeemed that his life matters to me.
You guys and gals are on a roll, tonight! I think some of us could have been great comedy writers!
I posted this one the other day, but not seems like the perfect time for a reprise…
I was at the bar the other night and overheard three very hefty women talking at the bar.
Their accent appeared to be Scottish, so I approached and asked, “Hello, are you three lassies from Scotland ?”
One of them angrily screeched, “It’s Wales, Wales you bloody idiot!”
So I apologized and replied, “I am so sorry. Are you three whales from Scotland ?”
And that’s the last thing I remember.
An Englishman, Irishman and a Scotsman are all playing golf
with their wives. The Englishman’s wife steps up to the
tee and as she bends over to place her ball a gust of wind
blows her skirt up and reveals her lack of underwear.
“Good God! Why aren’t you wearing any knickers?” her
husband demanded.
“Well, you don’t give me enough housekeeping money to
afford to buy any.”
The Englishman immediately reaches into his pocket and
says, “For the sake of decency here’s 50 pounds, go and
buy yourself some underwear”.
Next the Irishman’s wife bends over to set her ball on the
tee. Her skirt blows up to show that she is wearing no
undies.
“Bejesus woman. You’ve no knickers – why not?”
She replies “I can’t afford any on the money you give me.”
He reaches into his pocket and says, “For the sake of
decency here’s 20 pounds, go and buy yourself some
underwear!”.
Lastly, the Scotsman’s wife bends over. The wind also
takes her skirt over her head to reveal that she too is
naked under it.
“Hoot, lassie! Why d’ye have no knickers?”
She too explains, “You don’t give me enough housekeeping
money to be able to afford any.”
The Scot reaches into his pocket and says, “For the sake
of decency here’s a comb. Tidy yourself up a bit!”
Yes, let us all pitch in so that the people that do not want to take the responsibility of their own health care can get it for free so that they can still afford their tobacco habits, drinking habits, eating habits and sedentary lifestyle choices. Yes, I think this is the best move for the nation to go forward with.
their tobacco habits, drinking habits, eating habits and sedentary lifestyle choices
Ahh the wonders of targeted marketing that makes CEO’s billions. But hey, the flip side of that blame td be tossing around along with the failure to disclose actual calories, food subsidies and products like BPA…. But Fox don’t tell them about that.
A Scotsman was shipwrecked and finally washed ashore on a
small island. As he regains consciousness on the beach, he
sees a beautiful unclad nymphet standing over him. She
asks, “Would you like some food?”
The Scot hoarsely croaks, “Och, lassie, I havna’ ittin a
bite in a week noo and I am verra hungry!”
She disappears into the woods and quickly comes back with
a heaping helping of haggis. When he has choked it down,
she asks, “Would you like something to drink?”
“Och, aye! That haggis has made me verra hungry and I wad
verra much like a drink!”
She goes off into the woods again and returns with a bottle
of 75-year-old single-malt Scotch whiskey. The Scotsman is
beginning to think that he’s in heaven when the unclad
nymphet leans closer and says, “Would you like to play around?”
“Och, lassie, don’t tell me ye’ve got a golf course here too!”
Yes, let us all pitch in so that the people that do not want to take the responsibility of their own health care can get it for free so that they can still afford their tobacco habits, drinking habits, eating habits and sedentary lifestyle choices.
David Phillip Vetter says, “WTF are you talking about?”
Bernie, sorry you don’t like me. I will not pray for you because you are angry with me. I will cry myself to sleep. I did call Mrs. Obama and she forgives me. Barrack and I are having a beer together very soon. A very nice couple! Try and control your mean hateful heart.
A Scotsman and a Jew went to a restaurant. After a hearty meal, the waitress came by with the inevitable check. To the amazement of all, the Scotsman was heard to say, “I’ll pay it!”, and he actually did.
The next morning’s newspaper carried the news item:
“JEWISH VENTRILOQUIST FOUND MURDERED IN BLIND ALLEY”.
@look, from last night… read the book, I didn’t say that someone in 1860 reported that pressure stems bloodflow and the like, as for crawford long, I like the Hospital, but the people in boston have a disagreement with you and first use of anesthesia, my response was to your obnoxious, ignorant view of medicine and abortion.
Oh and you forgot Joseph Lister and surgical infections iin the 19th century, I don’t need to google it.
A Jewish man went to the races for the first time. Not knowing a thing about horse racing, he went to the paddock to take a look.
He saw a rabbi blessing one of the horses. He wrote down the number and placed a $2 bet. Sure enough, the horse won, and the man won $20.
He went down to the paddock again, and again the rabbi was blessing another horse. He wrote down the number, bet his $20, and again, the horse won, earning $100.
This went on, race after race, until the Jewish man had won $5000. Just before the last race, he watched the rabbi bless another horse. He bet the whole $5000, but this time the horse came in dead last.
He ran down and yelled to the rabbi, “Why did every horse you bless win, except the last one? He came in dead last!!! ”
The rabbi replied, “That’s the problem with you Reform Jews .. you don’t know the difference between a brucha and kaddish.”
Looks like the sequester will occur , Repubs have a popular disadvantage as Obama hits the publicity trail. It will be interesting if the public really cares and who they blame if they care…Personally, I think it’s good for the country to decide if cost cutting is appropriate, of course it would be much better if we could have specified cuts.
finally gun manufacturers are talking about leaving the anti gun states and relocating to states that will appreciate them. bring those jobs to Georgia.
A question to the NASCAR fans: what is it about this sport that you find interesting. I’m not much of a car person and overall am much less interested in sports then I used to be (except baseball and wrestling). Is it the personalities, the technology…?
Yes, let us all pitch in so that the people that do not want to take the responsibility of their own health care can get it for free so that they can still afford their tobacco habits, drinking habits, eating habits and sedentary lifestyle choices. Yes, I think this is the best move for the nation to go forward with.
“Gotta get one last facepalm in, and that was deserving of one…”
Well you are finally embarrassed for Obamacare. Great, glad to have been assistance to helping that light go off. You can now leave the dark side of the force.
Well you are finally embarrassed for Obamacare. Great, glad to have been assistance to helping that light go off. You can now leave the dark side of the force.
Nope. Embarassed for you and your sad attempt at trolling. I didn’t like the ACA when passed and made it well known. Still don’t like it now, but the dumbass GOP failed in offering any plausible alternative. Therefore, we’re stuck with it. That’s just par for the course though as the GOP hasn’t had an original thought since Reagan.
NASCAR used to be fun to watch. Unfortunately, it has degenerated into cars just following each other around the racetrack with a so called “sprint” the last two laps.
Bottom line: Used to be you always had the extra horsepower to pass someone (if you had the guts) but you had to break for the turns. If you can’t pass someone, it ain’t racin’ it’s just “follow the leader”.
“Hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk. Delays await at airports. Padlocks are ready at national parks.
The nation will suffer greater risk of wildfires, workplace deaths, and even surprise weather events, if government predictions are to be believed. Our entire military readiness and superiority are at risk.
Why should there be a Federal government solution to health care? If we did not have the government solutions of Medicaid and Medicare now then the market would have determined that the prices were to high and we would have been paying less. If the government had not determined to restrict admissions to medical school then more Dr’s would be setting prices according to more competition. If government had not interfered and written all these laws that allowed lawyers to get rich at the cost of all of us that are paying premiums then health care cost would be lower.
Government is the problem when it comes to healthcare. The progressives refuse to realize this concept.
There is no cliff fatigue, the majority voted no so it is just a matter of time before the gop surrender and get out of the way.
$85 billion cut out of a $3.7 trillion budget or 2.3% cut. How much has Georgia and other states cut in the last 5 years. Did children die in the streets?
Why should there be a Federal government solution to health care?
Did I say there SHOULD be one in the first place? Once again, I don’t debate or defend YOUR statements, only mine.
“Government Thinking for others is the problem when it comes to healthcare conservatives. The progressives conservatrolls refuse to realize this concept.”
Gawd forbid that they would be so rude to do that. Instead they are dying slow deaths from lack of preventative healthcare, poor education and more quietly behind closed doors or homeless living out of sight so that you don’t have to be troubled.
If the invisible hand of the market would stop giving us the finger, health care costs would drop.
I guess it depends on WHERE that invisible hand is giving you the finger. You could likely write it off as a medical deduction and claim it as a prostate exam.
Have you ever wondered how restrictive a NASCAR restrictor plate is? Well, Rusty Wallace decided to toss his and find out. On June 9, at Alabama International Motor Speedway in Talladega, Wallace hit a trap speed of 228 mph in his Miller Lite Dodge. “We hit 228 at the end of the straightaway,” he said. Wallace’s top lap speed was 216.306 and was 25 to 30 mph faster than with a restrictor plate. “It was a helluva deal that I certainly will remember for the rest of my life,” Wallace added. “We’d all been wondering what it would feel like to run at Talladega again without the plates, and now I know. I’ll bet we could be running speeds up to 235 without the plates if we spent time doing some tweaking. But I’ll tell you this—there’s no way we could be out there racing at those speeds. It was neat to be out there running that fast by myself, but it would be insane to think we could have a pack of cars out there doing that.”
Those cars are not designed with enough downforce to stick to the track at those speeds. Bobby Allison ripped down fence at a little more than 200mph, so imagine what a 230mph car would do. They could have stuck with Winston as a sponsor, but they would not be nowhere near as popular now. They could have stuck with old tracks like North Wilkesboro and Rockingham, but the money wouldn’t be there. Change was coming or NASCAR would have died a slow and painful death.
“If the invisible hand of the market would stop giving us the finger, health care costs would drop.”
If you look at what’s caused the skyrocketing in health care costs over the past 2 decades the #1 reason, far and away, is the cost associated with obesity. We’ve turned into a nation of big fat slobs. And I don’t mean 40-somethings with a little beer gut. We’re talking about people 50, 80, 130, 210 pounds and more overweight. And they’re everywhere. But don’t dare make a subtle mention of exercise or diet modification because you’ll get blistered with “don’t you dare tell me how to live my life!”
Well the time for niceties is over. Get off your fat asses America. A 30 minute walk after dinner every evening. Is that so hard? No, no it’s not, and it goes a hell of a long way. And don’t tell me you don’t have time, you have plenty of time to sit in front of your mega-screen and jam potato chips in your mouth while watching mindless drivel such as Dancing With Talentless Millionaires.
td your 9:25 simply proves that you haven’t done your research.
Personal example – my dad retired at age 62, and lost his health insurance. He and Mom were pretty healthy – and the job was killing him, frankly – so he quit. They – because of their age – were not able to get health insurance. Within a few months my Mom developed severe arthritis in her knees, and spent the next 30 months or so in agony, till the night of her 65th birthday when she qualified for Medicare and could get knee replacement surgery.
Decry federal involvement in health care all you want – but Medicare has made a tremendous difference in lots of Americans’ lives – and there was NO private market solution available.
I expect someday you will also be glad that it’s available to you.
I feel for you brother but you are missing my point. What if there was not government run medicare? Do you really think the market would allow billions upon billions of dollars and not provide a solution?
But absolutely, yes. Insurance companies are in business to make a profit – there’s no way they can do that by selling individual policies to elderly people.
Get off your fat asses America. A 30 minute walk after dinner every evening. Is that so hard?
I understand the lack of exercise thingie, but I submit there are more factors in play. I am concerned about steroids in our protein supply provided by big Ag.
“Only if Obama wants it to be and it is all on him”
yeah well good luck with that, Mr. td… methinks you don’t understand public opinion any more than you understand health insurance….
I understand that the voters of the state of Wisconsin were upset but after the cuts were implemented and the voters realized that most of what the Democrats were saying was nothing more then attempting to scare them into submission and to demagog a nothing crisis then public opinion polls changed and they voted the evil Walker back into office by a larger % then he was elected the first time.
But absolutely, yes. Insurance companies are in business to make a profit – there’s no way they can do that by selling individual policies to elderly people.
If you think that is true then here is your government intervention: State writes a law that says an insurance company can only do business in this state if they offer X% of policies to people over 65 or 60 or even 55. Now get out of the way and let them figure out how to provide this coverage and get the coverage for everyone else under X age and still maximize their profit.
No it is on Obama. Propose cuts equal to the ones currently on the table (Or get your flunky Reid to do it in the Senate) without any more tax increases or let the sequester happen.
I am concerned about steroids in our protein supply provided by big Ag.
AMEN!!! I’ve wondered why sports make a big deal out of performance enhancing drugs when they’re readily available in chicken, beef, pork, and other foods we eat on a daily basis.
Here I am, finally back after surgery, and now facing figuring out how to do the new registration thingie. And we really can’t have FNM? Thanks, AJC.
But maybe there is a GOOD REASON for the change? Somebody please ’splain it to me. Please?
Cheney has money. If liberals worked hard they could have some too. But its too easy for you to just sit around waiting for a handout. Good thing people like Cheney worked and paid taxes to support you.
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Rightwing troll
February 23rd, 2013
8:53 am
She’s so hot… And full of grace. What an asset to the office and our country.
Rightwing troll
February 23rd, 2013
8:57 am
I’m a big fan of Mrs. Bush as well, that woman is a saint. She holds reasonable views, and she married a mentally deficient man and stuck with him through all these years…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:03 am
I wonder what she and the President are going to do to help regarding the Sequester ………… you know ……….. cut back on some of their extravagant travel, maybe take vacations together, etc., etc.
Brosephus™
February 23rd, 2013
9:03 am
I hope you stocked up on fans and fainting couches. This will be fun!
MiltonMan
February 23rd, 2013
9:05 am
I wonder if she is more aware of her blackness while in the white house as she was during her time at Princeton?
Brosephus™
February 23rd, 2013
9:06 am
Scout
You know she has nothing to do with policy, but don’t let things like truth stand between you and your opinion.
indigo
February 23rd, 2013
9:08 am
It took three comments for the trashing to start.
No surprise.
indigo
February 23rd, 2013
9:09 am
Scout
And, guess what?
Someday, she may be the first woman President.
What will you do then, Scout?
Move to Canada?
MiltonMan
February 23rd, 2013
9:11 am
“You know she has nothing to do with policy,”
Bull! She was intimately involved with the USDA/Federal lunch program changes in public schools.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
9:12 am
Mary Todd Lincoln ? More like Marie Antoinette !
Headline (CBS): “Michelle Obama Criticized as “Modern-day Marie Antoinette” Over Spain Vacation”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20012789-503544.html
MiltonMan
February 23rd, 2013
9:15 am
Did she make this appearance during her separate vacation from her hubbie?
M
February 23rd, 2013
9:18 am
Help the sequester? I thought you folks WANTED cuts.
F. Sinkwich
February 23rd, 2013
9:31 am
Embarrassing.
Thomas
February 23rd, 2013
9:41 am
irrelevant
Brosephus™
February 23rd, 2013
9:45 am
MiltonMan
She also advocates for military families. Please explain how eating healthy or helping families tie into the sequester? I’m sure there’s some kind of convoluted logic you can spew that makes sense to dumbasses all around the world.
F. Sinkwich
February 23rd, 2013
9:45 am
Headline on page one of the AJC Metro section today:
“Executed man makes apology”
I can’t remember anything like that happening since Lazarus. Should have been on the front page IMO…
Recon 0311 2533
February 23rd, 2013
9:46 am
The Obama’s certainly appear to have the ability for great success in entertainment. Executive branch governance, not so much.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
9:46 am
She’s so hot… And full of grace.
Yep.
In the middle
February 23rd, 2013
9:47 am
Play nice. Dont be like the Dem’s were with Nancy. I have never met her and I having nothing negative to say. I am certain she is quite charming and is also very comitted to her causes and charities. Probably the best dancer of any first ladies.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
9:49 am
Please explain how eating healthy or helping families tie into the sequester?
But…but…but…
BIRTH CERTIFICATEBENGHAZI and SHUT UP!Recon 0311 2533
February 23rd, 2013
9:49 am
Probably the best dancer of any first ladies
Her husband is a pretty good dancer too.
F. Sinkwich
February 23rd, 2013
9:50 am
Dignity is so old school.
комиссар (Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
9:56 am
“Dignity is so old school.”
Yeah, by the time we saw flight jackets on aircraft carriers it was already long dead.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
9:58 am
Douglasville man pistol whipped for his assault rifles.
If only he had a gun to defend himself….
Oh wait, he did.
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
9:58 am
Good stuff Jay. And thanks.
And like Mr. Troll, I liked Laura too, even though her husband was a disaster.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
9:59 am
I can’t help but think that some of the vitriol coming from the wing-nuts could be mitigated by a bit more fiber in the diet and a tube of Preparation-H.
Loretta Paraguassu
February 23rd, 2013
10:00 am
I love that Michelle Obama doesn’t put herself on a pedestal and is using her position to address real, everyday concerns like getting enough exercise to stay healthy. She also happens to be a brilliant lawyer, but she is wisely keeping her distance from any and all issues that could be considered political. No egg on her face. Nope.
In the middle
February 23rd, 2013
10:00 am
Your kidding me right? We gotta do this? Grow up….
Douglasville man pistol whipped for his assault rifles.
If only he had a gun to defend himself….
Oh wait, he did.
Grasshopper
February 23rd, 2013
10:01 am
Will she be appearing on The Real Housewives next season?
They’re always looking for classy dames.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
10:03 am
We gotta do this? Grow up….
Did I touch a nerve there, sport?
Heh, heh, heh.
In the middle
February 23rd, 2013
10:06 am
Not possible. Just think it is silly to try and turn a nice piece of Saturday morning entertainment into a gun thing. Now if you will excuse me I need to blast through a few hundred rounds at the range.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
10:08 am
Now if you will excuse me I need to blast through a few hundred rounds at the range.
Enjoy yourself there, sport.
I went on Tuesday and had a blast.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
10:12 am
It’s funny and sad at the same time to see the some of the cons get their knickers in a twist because the First Lady doesn’t dress and act like an old white woman.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
10:14 am
“I went on Tuesday and had a blast.”
Red card for the pun!
F. Sinkwich
February 23rd, 2013
10:16 am
Has she been proud of her country for the second time yet?
midtownguy
February 23rd, 2013
10:16 am
She’s hot.
pete
February 23rd, 2013
10:17 am
I am so glad we have moved the discussion away from the boring stuff like the unemployment rate still hovering around 8-9%, and moved on to the stuff that matters like Moocheles hair and her favorite music.
Inquiring minds want to know.
AR-15
February 23rd, 2013
10:18 am
Gotta picture of her recently by email; in this she looks less harry. She’s a moocher just like the rest of you Bookites…..thankfully there’s no way she will ever be Hillary reborn with a tan.
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
10:22 am
Michelle Obama is NOT an elected government official, therefore, she has no role in formulating government policy.
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
10:24 am
@AR-15
I hope Michelle Obama is able to mooch just as much from the government as you do.
комиссар (Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
10:26 am
“Gotta picture of her recently by email … ”
Swamp. Fever. Flies buzzing …
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
10:27 am
“She’s a moocher just like the rest of you Bookites”
Hmm, if graduating from Princeton cum laude and then getting a law degree from Harvard Law School then being steadily employed for 20 years makes one a moocher, I say we need more moochers!
Tom Middleton
February 23rd, 2013
10:32 am
Isn’t she wonderful, Jay? With only a handful of jaundiced exceptions, America loves the FLOTUS Michelle!
комиссар (Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
10:34 am
Look before I leap… “Hmm, if graduating from Princeton cum laude and then getting a law degree from Harvard Law School then being steadily employed for 20 years makes one a moocher, I say we need more moochers!”
(Hey, pssst, take note: it’s about the color of skin. That is to say, not her skin per se, but the skin of those supposedly supported by the political party she represents. She’s got the wrong color of skin, given her party. That why rubesville no like her….they’re waiting for Herman Cain version femme, then she can do any dance step she pleases and they’ll like her just finnnnnnnnnnne…)
weetamoe
February 23rd, 2013
10:34 am
Good dancer, agreed. Not so cute as Barack doing skeet in his pink tutu, though. Brilliant lawyer? No evidence. Forced to relinquish license to practice, though.
Repeal the Hollywood tax cuts.
Mr. Snarky
February 23rd, 2013
10:35 am
I like “omg I love this song!”. She’s just cool. Same for the Pres.
pete
February 23rd, 2013
10:35 am
Just a couple of lucky free loaders who capitalized on the ignorance of 51% of the people. As long as there are more free loaders than producers who vote, we will continue down this road toward government dependence.
So, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Stick your hand out and get all the freebies you are entitled to while they last.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
10:36 am
Birthers and skewers and skeeters – OH MY!
комиссар (Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
10:38 am
Flash forward ten years or so when we have a black female conservative in a high position.
Imagine the mocking black power fist pumps.
Believe me, the rubes will be over the moon for it.
You just wait.
I can just see it now.
biteme
February 23rd, 2013
10:38 am
What a freakin skeezer
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
10:38 am
Stick your hand out and get all the freebies you are entitled to while they last.
Haliburton says, “What?”
vinny
February 23rd, 2013
10:40 am
Oh, Jay,
Did you cream in your pants when you saw this video? You’re pathetic.
Road Scholar
February 23rd, 2013
10:40 am
Who was that Babe that was dancing with Michelle? Sinkwich’s girlfriend? Milton man is jealous!
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
10:40 am
@pete
Glad that you can recognize someone much like yourself, depending on the government without acknowledging your dependency.
Stick out your hand and see how much come backs.
Jay
February 23rd, 2013
10:44 am
“Forced to relinquish license to practice, though.”
That’s a lie.
And Vinny, based on that post, I will agree that one of us is pathetic. I’ll leave it to others to decide which. Stay classy, my friend.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
10:46 am
“Just a couple of lucky free loaders who capitalized on the ignorance of 51% of the people.”
The cons had two chances to keep the Obamas out of the White House.
They blew it big both times.
Tom Middleton
February 23rd, 2013
10:47 am
BTW, Jay, thanks for not moderating us like Cafferty and others do before we’re allowed to post. When I am here, I feel like the first amendment applies to me, too. Just sayin’…
td
February 23rd, 2013
10:49 am
Brosephus™
February 23rd, 2013
9:06 am
“You know she has nothing to do with policy, but don’t let things like truth stand between you and your opinion.”
If you think a first lady does not influence policy then I have some ocean front land in Blue Ridge to sell you.
Let me see, we have a first lady that has a degree from Princeton, a law degree from Harvard who has been an advocate for the poor and has held the reins of power in private industry all of a sudden going to be happy and content with sitting around like the good little housewife working with theses little special causes. Yea right!!!!!!
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
10:51 am
@Tom M
I got moderated the other night. Might have been the auto-filter though.
Upon further reflection, it’s probably a good thing as my comment would’ve gotten me banished for a few days.
BTW: The 1st amendment only protects you from government censorship. Jay is free to do as he pleases in that regard.
JohnnyReb
February 23rd, 2013
10:52 am
From all I can see, the Obama’s are good parents and if you have children you understand what a compliment I am giving them.
One thing that has bothered me about the Obama administration is the knocking down of decorum and tradition of the Presidency.
Obama has scaled back some as time wore on, probably due to advisors telling him he had to, from struting like a black rock star. He has also learned to salute the military.
Mrs. Obama has cleaned up her act as well from letting herself been seen within range of cameras with her panty line showing to acting quite respectable.
My question is, what the hell happened here?
I don’t want my First Lady acting in public like she’s a just-divorced woman going through an identity crisis at some nightclub. Ridiculous and embarrassing for any who value the office of the President over pop-culture.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
10:54 am
“I feel like the first amendment applies to me, too. Just sayin’”
It doesn’t
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
10:55 am
She’s a most excellent mom. And her daughters should rightfully be hanging their heads low in typical teenage-fashioned embarrassment when around their friends.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
10:55 am
“If you think a first lady does not influence policy then I have some ocean front land in Blue Ridge to sell you.”
I think Bro meant no formal role in establishing policy and I think you know that.
So what is your point?
td
February 23rd, 2013
10:56 am
Look before I leap…
February 23rd, 2013
10:51 am
“BTW: The 1st amendment only protects you from government censorship. Jay is free to do as he pleases in that regard.”
Well since the MSM has denigrated into nothing more then the propaganda arm of the democrats and therefore the current government in change then in reality they are the government and our speech should be protected against them.
kayaker 71
February 23rd, 2013
10:58 am
If you think that Bozoette doesn’t have her hand and head into most every decision Bozo makes, you are more naive than a thinking person should be. She is the female version of him without some of the narcissism. She comes across as “brilliant”, caring, understanding, etc but if she is part of the mastermind behind all of these Marxist changes that seem to be happening in our government, all of the fluff that she represents up front is just window dressing. You think she wasn’t consulted on health care, the stimulus, our debt and lack of a budget? It would be a shame to waste all of that brilliance on ski trips and dance videos.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
10:58 am
If you think a first lady does not influence policy then I have some ocean front land in Blue Ridge to sell you.
I recall Nancy Reagan’s astrologer influencing policy.
Does that count?
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
10:59 am
Well since the MSM has denigrated into nothing more then the propaganda arm
Dittoheads say, “What?”
Reebok
February 23rd, 2013
10:59 am
Video is HILARIOUS. Michelle Obama is so composed and obviously incredibly smart…I wish SHE would go into politics.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
11:00 am
@Taxpayer.
Amen to that. I can’t imagine how difficult it is to parent in that environment and the kids growing up (especially adolescence) in that kind of spotlight must be excruciating at times.
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:00 am
Look before I leap…
February 23rd, 2013
10:55 am
“If you think a first lady does not influence policy then I have some ocean front land in Blue Ridge to sell you.”
I think Bro meant no formal role in establishing policy and I think you know that.
So what is your point?
Unions and corporations have no “formal” role in policy either but we watch them like hawks to see what they are doing. It is the people with informal roles that are the most dangerous.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:01 am
I can’t decide which I like better. The clip above, or Michelle dancing on iCarly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7TSVZZ5WIs
or Michelle doing pushups with Ellen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXvyXlc4vr8
Either way, she is funny and personable and one really has to be full to the brim with HATE to talk about her the way they do. I don’t even pity them anymore, I wish they would just pack their crap and leave. Real America and real Americans don’t need them or their hate any more.
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:02 am
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
10:58 am
If you think a first lady does not influence policy then I have some ocean front land in Blue Ridge to sell you.
I recall Nancy Reagan’s astrologer influencing policy.
Does that count?
Yep, It sure does.
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
11:02 am
I see the hysteric in chief continues to think of new and creative ways to scare everyone away from spending cuts…
No surprise, a fear monger…2.3% of annual spend we can’t live without. OMG, flights will be canceled, babies will starve, we will no longer have security to save our shores from threat…
Disgusting..
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
11:02 am
“Well since the MSM has denigrated into nothing more then the propaganda arm of the democrats and therefore the current government in change then in reality they are the government and our speech should be protected against them.”
With contortionist abilities like that td, have you ever considered a career at Cirque du Soleil?
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
11:02 am
“I recall Nancy Reagan’s astrologer influencing policy.”
Throught the medium of Nancy’s mouth?
Tom Middleton
February 23rd, 2013
11:03 am
@Look before I leap…
Real journalists learn in 101 the importance of the first amendment – there would be no journalism without it. And while Jay is free to do as you say, he doesn’t, and this is my point. Some get it and some don’t, probably why so many hang out on his blog whenever they can. Just sayin!
Robin Colliins
February 23rd, 2013
11:04 am
OMGosh! This is fantastic! And it is so spot on! I am a mom and I’m proud of it! And I am proud of the First Mom for showing us her fun side!!!
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:04 am
No surprise, a fear monger…
The smoking gun is the mushroom cloud.
Are you kidding me
February 23rd, 2013
11:04 am
The Obama’s are all about Hollywood……pathetic!!
kayaker 71
February 23rd, 2013
11:04 am
Look before you leap, 11:00
“excruciating?”…… how so. She is waited on hand and foot. I am sure that someone else does the laundry, the cooking, the shopping. She doesn’t have to drive herself anywhere, she has a rather large airplane at her beck and call anytime she wants it and a seemingly unlimited budget to do pretty well as she pleases. Excruciating my ass.
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
11:05 am
Either way, she is funny and personable and one really has to be full to the brim with HATE to talk about her the way they do. I don’t even pity them anymore, I wish they would just pack their crap and leave. Real America and real Americans don’t need them or their hate any more.
We need them to remind us what not to be.
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
11:05 am
Some perspective..
As in: Batten down the hatches — the sequester will cut $85 billion from this year’s $3.6 trillion budget! Or: Head for the storm cellar — spending will be cut 2.3 percent! Or: Washington chain-saw massacre — we must scrape by on 97.7 percent of current spending! Or: Chaos is coming because the sequester will cut a sum $25 billion larger than was just shoveled out the door (supposedly, but not actually) for victims of Hurricane Sandy! Or: Heaven forfend, the sequester will cut 47 percent as much as was spent on the AIG bailout! Or: Famine, pestilence and locusts will come when the sequester causes federal spending over 10 years to plummet from $46 trillion all the way down to $44.8 trillion! Or: Grass will grow in the streets of America’s cities if the domestic agencies whose budgets have increased 17 percent under President Obama must endure a 5 percent cut!
Anyone who falls into the trap of buying these scare (lack of leadership symptom) tactics remains blinded by the light…
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:05 am
She is waited on hand and foot.
Ann Romney says, “What?”
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
11:07 am
“pathetic!!”
You are indeed. Why do you feel compelled to admit it here?
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:08 am
I see the hysteric in chief continues to think of new and creative ways to scare everyone away from spending cuts
A REAL independent, as opposed to a sham Republican posing as one, would not use talk radio/foxbot type insults on the Presidents name to refer to him.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
11:09 am
“Unions and corporations have no “formal” role in policy either but we watch them like hawks…”
Funny. Our hawks need Lasix then because they didn’t catch the banking industry and Wall Street tossing the US economy into the woodchipper.
It almost sounds like you think there should be a daily briefing memo on the Obamas pillowtalk.
Are you kidding me
February 23rd, 2013
11:10 am
I believe I said the Obama’s are pathetic…… learn how to read Doggone!!
OR can you????
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
11:10 am
“She is waited on hand and foot”
and it appears that that REALLY rankles.
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
11:11 am
IMO none of us have any business critiquing this woman. Degraded her ofr minimizing her is absurd. While casting all this she’s a great mom stuff is predicated on what carefully orchestrated PR will never allow her to be cast in anything but under that light of the angels.
What do we really know about what goes on behind the scenes?
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:11 am
Let me see, we have a first lady that has a degree from Princeton, a law degree from Harvard who has been an advocate for the poor and has held the reins of power in private industry all of a sudden going to be happy and content with sitting around like the good little housewife working with theses little special causes.
Obviously, you CAN’T see as she’s done her eating campaign, worked with the NFL’s Play 60 program, and worked with Dr. Biden on advancing causes for military families. She has not, however, put forth her healthcare plan, her sequester plan, or her budget.
I know you don’t understand the difference as your far rightedness clouds your judgement to the point that most things you say are laughable, but whenever you have bonafide proof that she’s engaged in policy, put it on the blog for all to see, or even just me.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:12 am
Taxpayer: I disagree. That is like saying we need gonorrhea to remind us what penicillin is for.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
11:12 am
“I believe I said the Obama’s are pathetic”
What you think you said, and how others read your words do not always correspond.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:14 am
The Republican way: Attack the women. And when that doesn’t work attack their little 10 and 14 year old girls.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:14 am
That is like saying we need gonorrhea to remind us what penicillin is for.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:14 am
Unions and corporations have no “formal” role in policy either but we watch them like hawks to see what they are doing. It is the people with informal roles that are the most dangerous.
B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T!!!!! There’s this little group of people who are employed by unions and corporations called lobbyist that not only play a “formal” role, but as has been proven in some cases, they actually write the legislation themselves. Think Georgia Assembly for example.
Once again, the might td has caught the swing and a miss… Anybody with any sense of self-esteem would have quit embarassing themselves long ago.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
11:15 am
Well kayaker, I was talking about the kids.
But foam away man – foam away.
BTW: As I understand it, Michelle does most of the cooking in the residence and the kids clean up their own rooms. As for grocery shopping, there is a pretty sophisticated protocol for buying the food that the President and his family consume. It has something to do with the Secret Service and keeping poisoned food off the President’s dinner plate.
Are you kidding me
February 23rd, 2013
11:15 am
On this blog I believe it
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
11:15 am
“That is like saying we need gonorrhea to remind us what penicillin is for.”
Not quite. Gonorrhea remids us how NOT to behave. Penicillin (like elections) is there to help protect us when we ignore that example.
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
11:16 am
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:08 am
Since you immediate response is to attack and refer to me a foxbot or GOP guy…you concede i reckon. Sometimes things are what they appear on the surface…2.3%?
This is from another exceptional column by George Will…of course I’m sure all of the liberals here have the intellect to sit across the debate table…
OMG! what about the starving babies….who will die of starvation by us living off 3.48 trillion versus 3.6 trillion…
Yes I disagree with much of BO”s concepts of financial stewardship…no different than that of entire congressional body..
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
11:16 am
I watched it last night and thought Fallon did a better job to prove white man can dance.
kayaker 71
February 23rd, 2013
11:16 am
Fred, 11:14,
“Attack the woman and if that doesn’t work, attack their girls” Sounds right out of the Palin playbook.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:21 am
Taxpayer: I disagree. That is like saying we need gonorrhea to remind us what penicillin is for.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
11:22 am
“Sounds right out of the Palin playbook.”
The attacks on Palin’s children were repugnant and reprehensible.
The attacks on Palin herself – not so much.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
11:23 am
She is going to Mississippi to celebrate younger folks are losing weight there and her program on healthy food is working.
She brought change to the fattest State in our country.
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
11:23 am
Whomever feels that disrespecting this woman and her kids is fun sport, needs to check motives and have a coke and a smile…BO is certainly fair game but leave the women and children alone…
Signs of…well nothing better to say..
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
11:24 am
Signs of extreme ods.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:24 am
Since you immediate response is to attack and refer to me a foxbot or GOP guy…you concede i reckon. Sometimes things are what they appear on the surface…2.3%?
Not Doomy, I DON’T concede (another right wing diversion, declare “victory” on the stupidity and pretend it’s mission accomplished).
i was QUITE clear on what I said. A true independent would NOT refer to the President in talk radio/foxbot terms which is exactly what you did. When I, and most thinking individuals see stupidity like ‘hysteric in chief, we quit reading because we know that there is no intelligence to follow. All that will come is hysterical dogma based on the inflammatory rhetoric that started it.
If you want to be taken seriously then act serious. You want to be an independent, act independent. Don’t use juvenile little foxbot/talk radio insults at the President. Anyone who uses the terms, 0Bama, (zerobama), Exalted one, the messiah, Dear Ruler, Obozo, president trillions, or any other juvenile name that disrespects the Country as a whole is by definition an hysterical fool who will have nothing of substance to say.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:25 am
Stevie Ray
That 2.3% might not be much to you, but that’s money coming straight out of my paycheck. Even after my taxes have gone up, Congress is trying to force me to pay more for a pittance of a pension that will likely be gone before I retire, and I have another person in the house to provide for. So excuse me if I say I don’t give a rat’s ass about your piffle this morning. There are some who won’t be affected by this sh*t, and there are some who will be.
Jack ®
February 23rd, 2013
11:25 am
She’s tuff. Wish I could dance like that.
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:26 am
Brosephus™ – Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:11 am
You are the one that does not get it my friend.
1: I am not talking just about Michelle but ALL first ladies.
2: For anyone to say that they do not influence the policy decisions their husbands make is just plain out ridiculous. The wife (and one day will be the husband) of a President is the person that knows the President better then any other person. They are also probably the most trusted person the President comes into contact with. To say that the wives do not have considerable influence in the decision making ability of the President is like saying your wife has no influence on what you do.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:28 am
“Attack the woman and if that doesn’t work, attack their girls” Sounds right out of the Palin playbook.
Hmmmmmm is that what Palin did? I can’t say I payed much attention to her. But in other words, you aren’t a grown man responsible for your own despicable behavior right? It’s someone else’s fault. Back to the second grade defense, well Johnny Joe did it too, to excuse the inexcusable. In my child’s case, when she was in second grade, I would have said “Well if Johnny Joe jumps off a bridge are you going to do that to?” Fortunately though she was never so weak minded OR weak willed to try a stupid excuse like that. However in your case I say, “Well it’s a DAMN SHAME that Johnny Joe didn’t jump off a bridge so that you would do so a well you silly little boy.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
11:29 am
“For anyone to say that they do not influence the policy decisions their husbands make is just plain out ridiculous”
Since no one did, the rest of your rant is worth ignoring
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
11:30 am
Check out the next to last paragraph..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bob-woodward-obamas-sequester-deal-changer/2013/02/22/c0b65b5e-7ce1-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_story_1.html
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
11:30 am
“…like saying your wife has no influence on what you do”
In my case she doesn’t. She has COMPLETE control.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:31 am
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
11:15 am
“That is like saying we need gonorrhea to remind us what penicillin is for.”
Not quite. Gonorrhea remids us how NOT to behave. Penicillin (like elections) is there to help protect us when we ignore that example.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Just damn…………..
Well I couldn’t’ type what I REALLY wanted to type so I substituted. Thank you for the analysis.
kayaker 71
February 23rd, 2013
11:31 am
Stevie Ray, 11:23,
I agree about the kids. They have no place in anyone’s cross hairs. However, saying that Bozoette is immune from criticism is like saying that Hillary Clinton shouldn’t have been taken to task for her role in Hillary Care. These ladies don’t just sit back and watch events happen, they are a huge part in making policy decisions which affect us all. She is just as much a part of that team as Bozo, perhaps because of her “brilliance”, possibly more. These people are a team, always have been from the beginning with similar beliefs, goals and ambitions. She knew that when she stepped aboard this merry go round, now she has to live with it.
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:32 am
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:24 am
You should look in the mirror and practice what you are preaching. For you to use terms like “foxbot” and for you not to acknowledge the campaign of hysterics that the President is running around the country advocating when you know that even with the sequester that the government will actually spend more more next year then this year is showing your not a true independent.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
11:32 am
“In my case she doesn’t. She has COMPLETE control.”
OK – now she is out of the room. Truth is, I am king of the castl……
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
11:32 am
The best parts about the Obamas are they are enjoying being leaders and setting a good example for your children. Power has not gone to their heads and there is nothing arrogant about them. They act like normal Americans.
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
11:32 am
Taxpayer: I disagree. That is like saying we need gonorrhea to remind us what penicillin is for.
Fred,
Only one is a voluntary mental state.
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
11:33 am
Brosephus™ – Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:25 am
Oh you poor baby. Things are difficult for the most of us so your crying a river about the most trivial of cuts that are being hysterically inflated fall right into the playbook. We need both cuts and revenue increases but BO has once again, gone back and moved the goalposts on a deal…
I wish you enjoyment floundering in your pot of pity..
Lord Help Us
February 23rd, 2013
11:35 am
‘She knew that when she stepped aboard this merry go round, now she has to live with it.’
As do you…
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:36 am
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
11:32 am
The best parts about the Obamas are they are enjoying being leaders and setting a good example for your children. Power has not gone to their heads and there is nothing arrogant about them. They act like normal Americans.
Can you get a tee time with Tiger Woods?
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
11:38 am
“Can you get a tee time with Tiger Woods?”
No. Why would I want to?
kayaker 71
February 23rd, 2013
11:38 am
How much longer is the American taxpayer going to believe this dooms day bulls*it. It is so obvious that everything is put in a crisis mode to appeal to those voters who don’t even know who the Vice President of this country is. “Public opinion” is what the media says it is, nothing more. Create a crisis, play it out in the media, then blame those who oppose you so they will take the blame. Nothing but more Bozo bullsh*t, nothing more.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
11:38 am
“Can you get a tee time with Tiger Woods?”
Jealous?
stevie,
Losing another 750,000 jobs to go back to a recession is something to rage about .
Proceed gop.
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
11:40 am
Can you get a tee time with Tiger Woods?
Can you get Al Green to sing for you?
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
11:40 am
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:32 am
Your opinion of my politics is none of my business..I have been called a liberal dope on this site due to my opinions on gay rights, women, DoD, and guns…I get called a foxbot or worse for my opinions on the fiscal policy.
All you blind followers got when any point is made challenging you savior is emotional, senseless responses…
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
11:41 am
“How much longer is the American taxpayer going to believe this dooms day bulls*it”
What makes you think we all believe it?
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:41 am
Brosephus™ – Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:25 am
And how much has your paid increased since 2006? How much has you cost of insurance increased? How many times have you worried about getting laid off?
You are getting no sympathy for any non government workers on having to make a few small (very small compared to what the rest of us have had to endure) since 2006. Matter of fact, if the truth came out, most people would say that it is about freaking time that you felt a little bit of this pain.
Sagegirl
February 23rd, 2013
11:41 am
Jay,
You dog you. You must have foreseen the direction this would go in. Drives some of your con friends completely crazy. I love it. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge. Now watch this, happens every time. Simply amazing.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:41 am
Since you immediate response is to attack and refer to me a foxbot or GOP guy…
followed by:
This is from another exceptional column by George Will…
You just proved Fred’s point.
Too funny!
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:42 am
You should look in the mirror and practice what you are preaching. For you to use terms like “foxbot” and for you not to acknowledge the campaign of hysterics that the President is running around the country advocating when you know that even with the sequester that the government will actually spend more more next year then this year is showing your not a true independent.
You aren’t smart enough to talk to me td. Correctly identifying a poster’s influence and where there silly little names come from is not the same as using them.
Have you EVER seen me use silly little left wing names for President Bush? No. How about for mitt Romney? again nope. Sarah Palin? never. Newt Gingrich? not. Herman Cain? nyet. Congressman Rubio? negative. I know you lack the intellectual ability and the debating skills to see the difference so I won’t belabor the point. You are forever making the most ridiculous claims and tossing out the most ludicrous statements so this one was nothing new for you. I understand. in your own little world you have somehow “told me.”
The only thing in reality that you have told me though is how bad your ability for rational thought is.
Have a great day.
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
11:42 am
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:36 am
Tee time with Tiger…thats hilarious..at least he was able once again to hide from the press..
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
11:43 am
DOOMSDAY!
Oh NO! Not a day set aside just for THULSA!
MikeB
February 23rd, 2013
11:43 am
What is not a lie Jay….. Michelle Obama voluntarily “relinquished her license” to practice law….. And negotiated to have the conditions of why? Sealed, never to be exposed for public review……..
Funny how you omitted these minor details from your snarky response to Weetamoe and Vinnie…..
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:43 am
You are the one that does not get it my friend.
Hee hee hee hee hee… So, Laura Bush was advising GW Bush on how to go about getting rid of Saddam Hussein, huh? Medicare Part D was all about Laura, too huh? We know Hillary did her healthcare plan, but I’m guessing she was all responsible for Bosnia too, right?
You’re the all knowledgable, all seeing one, so please oh High and Mighty Mensa man, explain how the First Ladies are all doing this policy thing AND their own projects PLUS maintaining the family while their spouses are leading the free world.
I’m waiting with anticipation like a kid waiting on Santa Claus as I know you’re about to put yourself into a pretzel position that has never been tried before….
To say that the wives do not have considerable influence in the decision making ability of the President is like saying your wife has no influence on what you do.
Yep. Everytime I send someone back to their home country, it’s all about my wife. When I told my wife that we needed to go the hospital last Saturday instead of going to Costco, she subliminally planted that message into my head. Next, you’ll tell us how the wife can have all that influence while the Bible says the man is the head of the household.
Contort please!!
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:45 am
Can you get a tee time with Tiger Woods?
What the hell does that have to do with anything? THIS is what passes for intelligence from the right? No wonder Rush makes so much money preaching stupidity to the stupid………
Can you get Ellen to dance with you? (good one with both Obama’s dancing lol):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW3u4DugwRg
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:45 am
WOODWARD: Obama fibs on budget cuts…
drudgey spam.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
11:46 am
She said she wants Leno’s job.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
11:46 am
“You are getting no sympathy for any non government workers on having to make a few small ”
This from someone whose wife works for a government agency.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:46 am
Stevie
As for pity, you can kiss my naturally Black Ass as I don’t want your pity. My point was to tell you that, while you’re mouthing off about this stuff, some people are actually living it.
We need both cuts and revenue increases but BO has once again, gone back and moved the goalposts on a deal…
WTF???? Obama is asking for cuts and revenue while the GOP is all cuts all the time, and Obama’s at fault? That’s so f**king dumb that I can’t believe you would say that. Hell, I thought you had a smidget of common sense.
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
11:46 am
Funny how you omitted these minor details from your snarky response to Weetamoe and Vinnie…..
It might be illegal to release minor details. Whatever they are.
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
11:48 am
Easy to show grace when the taxpayers are paying for everything you have ever had. Neither of them have ever supported themselves. And if this was Romneys wife bookman and the other deaf, dumb and blind obamabots would be whining about the price of her dress.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
11:48 am
pete is awesome! I would love to put him on the back of a flatbed truck with a bullhorn and ride him around the country.
Undoubtedly, just as his message was a BIG hit in 2012, he would be a huge help to the cause of liberals, progressives, moderates and independents from sea to shining sea in the runup to 2014.
Just get used to losing, pete and the rest of you neocons. Very used to it.
The forecast calls for pain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IrdMyQSKr8
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:48 am
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:42 am
LMFAO. You get called out for you hypocrisy and plain out bullsh1t and you go on personal attacks. You are playing right into that progressive playbook. Love it when a so called independent is exposed as to what he really is.
Jay
February 23rd, 2013
11:49 am
MikeB, your version is a lie as well. I’m sure that you’ll wish to correct your post.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/lawlicenses.asp
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:49 am
And how much has your paid increased since 2006? How much has you cost of insurance increased? How many times have you worried about getting laid off?
Well, considering I started at TSA for less than $26k, my pay has increased a bit, especially when I changed jobs. My health insurance has gone up more than 400% since then. I don’t worry about getting laid off because I bust my ass to ensure I’m not targeted for a layoff. I did the same thing in the private sector. What’s your point?
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:49 am
td melt-down.
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
11:49 am
Food prices up, fuel prices up. The dollars down. Talks of furloughs and whats obamas top priority? golfing with the perv woods.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
11:50 am
“Neither of them have ever supported themselves”
When you have to lie to prove your point, you have no point
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:50 am
MikeB
February 23rd, 2013
11:43 am
What is not a lie Jay….. Michelle Obama voluntarily “relinquished her license” to practice law….. And negotiated to have the conditions of why? Sealed, never to be exposed for public review……..
Funny how you omitted these minor details from your snarky response to Weetamoe and Vinnie…..
++++++++++++++++++
Damn, and we keep saying that stupid isn’t contagious. Apparently it is. Ever hear of SNOPES there MikeB? How many times does your stupid assed lie have to be debunked? Well apparently it doesn’t matter how many times because you lack the grey matter to grasp it.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/lawlicenses.asp
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:51 am
LOL Jay. You beat me to it.
JohnnyReb
February 23rd, 2013
11:51 am
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
11:32 am
The best parts about the Obamas are they are enjoying being leaders and setting a good example for your children. Power has not gone to their heads and there is nothing arrogant about them. They act like normal Americans.
_____________________
getalife, that just may be the most preposterous post ever appearing here.
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:51 am
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:45 am
Can you get a tee time with Tiger Woods?
What the hell does that have to do with anything?
If you knew how to read (intelligence that you are preaching about) then you would know that was a statement to a blogger that claimed the President is doing such a wonderful job of being just a regular guy.
Just another example of how truly “indepemdent” you thought processes are.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
11:51 am
Neither of them have ever supported themselves.
From which right wing septic tank does this stuff come from?
Georgia on my mind...
February 23rd, 2013
11:52 am
Gotta love our First Lady…she has a lot of style and class….
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
11:52 am
“Food prices up, fuel prices up. The dollars down. Talks of furloughs and whats obamas top priority”
when you have to lie to prove your point, you have no point
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:53 am
You are getting no sympathy for any non government workers on having to make a few small (very small compared to what the rest of us have had to endure) since 2006. Matter of fact, if the truth came out, most people would say that it is about freaking time that you felt a little bit of this pain.
I tell you what then. Get off your ass and come strap up and deal with drug cartel members and people on the terrorist watch list. Put your family in the line of fire simply because of your job. Dude, you have no freaking idea of what I feel or deal with so, like Stevie Ray, you can kiss my naturally Black ass as well.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
11:53 am
I think con’s lies are to be expected because it is all they got and no they will not correct their posts but that cracked me up.
Fallon is great at skits but uncomfortable asking questions.
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
11:53 am
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes /FRED
February 23rd, 2013
11:41 am
Gullible and incapable of considering both sides proffered by intelligent people..I can understand how George Will is very difficult for a leftie to read without spilling breakfast…but that which hurts makes us stronger eh?
I guess Bob Woodward isn’t a trusted source for you either….
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
11:53 am
“Neither of them have ever supported themselves”
In my wildly idealistic youth, I was a firm believer that education could overcome even the most entrenched ignorance.
But that comment confirms my growing cynicism that sometimes, you just can’t fix stupid.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
11:54 am
Poor clueless MikeB, gorging himself on the right wing weenie machine…
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
11:55 am
“getalife, that just may be the most preposterous post ever appearing here.”
So you don’t read cons lies.
Got it.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:55 am
Gullible and incapable of considering both sides proffered by intelligent people..
George Will groupie says, “What?”
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
11:56 am
MikeB, your version is a lie as well. I’m sure that you’ll wish to correct your post.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/lawlicenses.asp
if you consider the fact king zero has kept his college records a top national security secret it should come as no surprise that he would do everything possible to keep that on the downlow too. but everything zero does is acceptable to the most gullible among us. And the left is gullible bordering on comatose.
комиссар (Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
11:56 am
“Neither of them have ever supported themselves”
is followed by mention of who?
Ann Romney?
The beat goes on.
The rube lifts his balled fist to the sky and gives vent to his resentment with a mighty yawp.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
11:57 am
keith is a birther.
Too funny.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
11:57 am
“if you consider the fact king zero has kept his college records a top national security secret ”
when you have to lie to prove your point, you have no point
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
11:58 am
yawn: You are boring td. You repeat the same lies over and over again. Your debating skill set is actually the null set. It’s Double XP weekend.
Hey Bro: naturally Black Ass
TMI my brother TMI. Trust me, i will NEVER check to verify the authenticity of your words………….
Oh and BTW you should download COD Black ops2 on your computer. It’s free this weekend from STEAM. If you need any help just give me a call. I’ll walk you through it. I promise you I have NEVER come across someone playing online named Brocephus.
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
11:59 am
Brosephus™ – Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:46 am
Its your own pity party I have nothing to do with it….and yes we need both but that means both..BO is clearly deal changing as he has time and time again…he wants cuts about as much as your Black arse needs a shave.
One thing is clear, we are no better off fiscally and we will be worse off fiscally when this regime leaves office..the trajectory is too obvious and none have the balls to disrupt this….If we can’t find a way to live offf 3.5 trillion..40% borrowed, a fundamental void of leadership is the only thing we know for sure..
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
11:59 am
obamas job as senator got his wife a job at the hospital. before he was a senator he was a state senator, before that he was a community organizer. all subsidized by the taxpayers. we dont know how he could afford harvard since he keeps that a big secret. why would he not want us to know about that?
Oscar
February 23rd, 2013
11:59 am
At this point, college records are irrelevant.
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:59 am
Look before I leap…
February 23rd, 2013
11:46 am
“You are getting no sympathy for any non government workers on having to make a few small ”
This from someone whose wife works for a government agency.
You are absolutely correct. A employee of the state government that has BALANCED its budget without raising taxes on its citizens. My wife took one furlough day per month for 4 years and 2 furlough days per month for one year. My wife has not even gotten a cost of living raise for 6 years and insurance has increased by almost 100% while deductibles and co-pays have doubled. Our family has made the sacrifices for the state to have a balanced budget and to not stick our children and grandchildren with massive amounts of debt. It is freaking time the Federal workforce and the other government moochers do the same.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
11:59 am
getalife, the Trump-led birthers have been one of many gargantuan embarrassments for the new age, non-conservative GOP…
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
12:00 pm
Fred
I may have to check that out. Thanks for the tip. I couldn’t stop laughing when I typed the NBA comment. I was channeling my inner Fred.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
12:00 pm
“obamas job as senator got his wife a job at the hospital”
when you have to lie to prove your point, you have no point. But it’s obvious that you are out to prove my Granddaddy’s advice: “Once a liar, always a liar”
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
12:01 pm
“if you consider the fact king zero has kept his college records a top national security secret ”
when you have to lie to prove your point, you have no point
ok please post a link with zeros college records. how he could afford harvard, his transcripts, etc. link please……..
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:01 pm
“college records are irrelevant”
Not to these cons because they are still focused on getting him.
Se keith for proof.
MikeB
February 23rd, 2013
12:01 pm
@ Taxpayer….. Not saying Jay knows the intimate details of why FLOTUS voluntarily relinquished her license.. I doubt he knows (lots of speculation out there, that I won’t be a party too).
He should have, as a matter of journalistic integrity distiguished that she did “voluntarily” reliquish her license in his response rather than omitting that fact…..
Its not often that a lawyer does voluntarily reliquish a license to practice law at a young age…. Its even more uncommon to have the circumstances pertainig to that “voluntarily” reliquished license sealed….. And a media, that never asked direct questions about that situation………
But here we are, putting her on an Idol pedistal for something that takes up a small fraction of her week….. Can’t tell me that her hopping on Dr. Biden’s cause, takes up the rest……
Michelle Obama is a smart woman, but most of the things she does are for the Instagram moments…. Rarely is it her own cause, or substantial contribution to the fabric of the United States of America…….
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
12:02 pm
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:55 am
There exist very few certainties in this world, but my ability to have a decent give and take with you seems to be one of those certainties…Attacking the source feeling it has been discredited enough on this particular forum doesn’t remotely equate to the thoughtfulness of the provider.
He is quite a challenging voice to be debated…
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:03 pm
“getalife, the Trump-led birthers have been one of many gargantuan embarrassments for the new age, non-conservative GOP…”
Very true and keith is proof but the funny part is trump suing everybody.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
12:03 pm
“Not saying Jay knows the intimate details of why FLOTUS voluntarily relinquished her license”
she didn’t. When you have to lie to prove your point, you have no point
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
12:03 pm
liberals forged documents on GWB and are completely braindead when it comes to any of zeros history including snorting coke, hanging out with marxists etc. we have a fool leading the country and even bigger fools defending him.
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
12:05 pm
can a single brain dead obamabot provide a link with zeros school records. if not you are proving every one of my points are accurate.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
12:05 pm
I await in pregnant anticipation for Stevie Ray to refer to someone OTHER than a Democrat in the same loving terms as he does ANY Democrat.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:06 pm
I am very certain cons will continue to lie and be very unpatriotic.
Oscar
February 23rd, 2013
12:06 pm
K – Your rants have made you irrelevant. Not to be taken a a reasonble person.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
12:06 pm
getalife, that just may be the most preposterous post ever appearing here.
Really?
I recall this little gem from last July:
JohnnyReb
July 9th, 2012
10:07 pm
No, I’ll wait till November to tell you the I told you so line.
What was that “I told you so line” that you wanted to share with me?
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
12:07 pm
king barry and princess joe are saying we dont need semi-auto rifles. so its the bill of needs now instead of the BILL OF RIGHTS????
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
12:09 pm
K – Your rants have made you irrelevant. Not to be taken a a reasonble person.
translation: KEITH IS RIGHT, CANT FIND ZEROS RECORDS ANYWHERE.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:09 pm
“What was that “I told you so line” that you wanted to share with me?”
Proceed reb.
td
February 23rd, 2013
12:09 pm
Brosephus™ – Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:53 am
You are getting no sympathy for any non government workers on having to make a few small (very small compared to what the rest of us have had to endure) since 2006. Matter of fact, if the truth came out, most people would say that it is about freaking time that you felt a little bit of this pain.
I tell you what then. Get off your ass and come strap up and deal with drug cartel members and people on the terrorist watch list. Put your family in the line of fire simply because of your job. Dude, you have no freaking idea of what I feel or deal with so, like Stevie Ray, you can kiss my naturally Black ass as well.
Are you contractually required to continue working this job? If not then you are working it by choice. If you do not like the circumstances of your job then you can go and find a job that better fits and pays what your skill sets require. I can guarantee you that there are at least 10 people out there in the real world with you exact same skill sets that would love to have your job.
Those are facts my friend.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:10 pm
keith is having a meltdown.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
12:10 pm
Keith still loves him some McCarthyism.
No wonder that the 1950s gang is getting crushed…
indigo
February 23rd, 2013
12:11 pm
Keith – 11:59
I’ll bet you think the American Socialist Party paid his tuition, don’t you boy.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
12:11 pm
Anyone up for watching the Daytona 500 tomorrow?
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
12:11 pm
Is it patriotic to blindly accept what king zero tells you? is it patriotic to hold the govt accountable? when GWB was in office you called yourselves patriotic for calling him hitler. you people are so pathetic its really sad.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
February 23rd, 2013
12:12 pm
Well, it’s a shame that woman ain’t White. And a Republican. bShe might could of made a good First Lady.
Have a good Saturday everybody.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
12:12 pm
Not saying Jay knows the intimate details of why FLOTUS voluntarily relinquished her license..
Didn’t read the link, didya?
She didn’t “voluntarily relinquish[ed] her license.” She voluntarily asked for it to be put on inactive status.
Geez….
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
12:13 pm
still no link from obamabots with zeros records. the left just smiles, nods their heads and say yessir massah.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:13 pm
td,
You don’t even have a job and mooch off the government con hypocrite.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
12:14 pm
It’s funny in a morbid sort of way to watch the death throes of the FOXBOTS here as they continue to hysterically scream the same failed lies over and over again.
Should I be ashamed for laughing at them? Is it any different than finding humor in someone who through no fault of their own has lost all control of their bodily functions?
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
12:15 pm
can a single brain dead obamabot provide a link with zeros school records.
Birthers.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
12:16 pm
who the hell is KEITH talking about? I’m sure his little cutsie FOXBOT name for SOMEONE makes sense to him, doesn’t take much to make sense to someone like him, but it is totally meaningless to me.
I wonder if he can define the word rational………
MikeB
February 23rd, 2013
12:17 pm
Jay… In response to your Snopes find….. That was lasted edited in 2010…… Wonder why?
A word here… A word there…. changed/omitted Makes all the difference dontcha think? I remember looking at Snopes way back in 2008 when the profile of this story was much higher… Snopes said nothing about “inactive status” back then…… No way to prove this on my side, but that is how history changes… One word at a time, over time…..
Hence the Whitehouse finally turning over Benghazi documents on a Friday nite (vs. a Monday morning)7 months after the tragedy…. Think those documents have had enough time in the Executive Branch cleanse cycle???
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
12:17 pm
can a single brain dead obamabot provide a link with zeros school records.
Birthers.
translation: cant find those records for some reason, keith must be right.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
12:18 pm
Its not often that a lawyer does voluntarily reliquish a license to practice law at a young age…. Its even more uncommon to have the circumstances pertainig to that “voluntarily” reliquished license sealed….. And a media, that never asked direct questions about that situation………
Complete and utter buffoonery! If a reliquishment is pursuant to a disciplinary action that is a public act. Many law school graduates often surrender their licenses when they relocate, go into a different field.
Michelle Obama’s license is INACTIVE not surrendered. Many lawyers often put their license on inactive status when they are NOT actively practicing laws. It saves on fees, some reporting to the state bar and also CLE requirements.
This kind of stupidity is right up there with the birther idiotacy.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
12:18 pm
Isn’t someone here kind of a “child expert?”
Is it legal to run a daycare center out of your home for friends without a license? If so, suppose it’s a rented house. Would the owners be liable somehow if their renters were doing so?
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:19 pm
keith,
Birthers are hilarious.
Proceed keith.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
12:19 pm
“who the hell is KEITH talking about?”
I think we need to be a bit more sympathetic to him. It’s becoming obvious that he’s stone deaf and can only hear the voices in his head, and not any others.
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
12:19 pm
who the hell is KEITH talking about? I’m sure his little cutsie FOXBOT name for SOMEONE makes sense to him, doesn’t take much to make sense to someone like him, but it is totally meaningless to me.
I wonder if he can define the word rational………
translation: cant find any records of obamas college days either. keith is right.
td
February 23rd, 2013
12:19 pm
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
12:16 pm
Independent, independent, independent…. NOT. You are about as much of an independent as I am a Obama supporter.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
12:19 pm
MikeB, Keith:
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Get two, the first one might be defective.
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
12:20 pm
just nod your hollow heads and say yes mister president. we love you.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:21 pm
Benghazi, birthers and moochers lend me your ears.
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
12:21 pm
the left dont seem to care as much about the bio of the current president as they did the last one.
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
12:22 pm
benghazi: 4 deaths that obamabots are proud of.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
12:23 pm
“translation: cant find any records of obamas college days either. keith is right”
Ahhhh…he CAN hear outside voices. Great, now I can stop feeling sorry for him.
комиссар (Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
12:24 pm
Keith: “liberals forged documents on GWB and are completely braindead when it comes to any of zeros history including snorting coke, hanging out with marxists ”
What’s this? “Liberals” hanging out with “marxists”?
Don’t get me started. Or I’ll have to get out my BIG rube cudgel. The one I save for special occasions.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
12:24 pm
Do think Keith is really this clueless or is it an act?
Hey Keith, produce MY college records chief. Man would I love to see you do that. I would sue the hell out of you and whatever University released my PERSONAL information.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTTAPCUtbc8
td
February 23rd, 2013
12:24 pm
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:13 pm
td,
You don’t even have a job and mooch off the government con hypocrite.
Yes you are so right and this is the very reason I belong to the TEA (Taxed enough already) movement because I live off the government and do not pay taxes.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:25 pm
keith,
Show us your long form birth certificate and college records please.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:26 pm
“I live off the government and do not pay taxes.”
I know td.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
12:26 pm
Stevie
It’s not pity nor is it a party. Why you continue to refer to such shows your childishness and pettiness. Just drop it.
BO is clearly deal changing as he has time and time again…he wants cuts about as much as your Black arse needs a shave.
Obama threw the Left under the bus during negotiations when he put entitlements on the table. Dems in Congress took them off. I guess, in your jaded eyes, that was all a ploy to make Obama seem centrist. If Obama were truly a leftie, he wouldn’t even address the word cut. Only an idiot would want to cut consumption out of an economy largely based on consumption under the guise of economic growth. That’s about as stupid as stupid is.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
12:27 pm
“Show us your long form birth certificate and college records please”
Wrong tone, getalife…you need to DEMAND he show them.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:28 pm
Okay,
I demand to see your records keith but pretty sure you did not go to college so High School will do.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
12:29 pm
“If Obama were truly a leftie, he wouldn’t even address the word cut”
Sorry, Bro…but I don’t agree. I have no problem describing myself as a “leftie” and I have no problem with cuts. I only ask that they be meaningful cuts and not targeted at the “least” of us.
MikeB
February 23rd, 2013
12:30 pm
As much respect as you have for my POV, I have for yours….. If we can get past all that to be reasonable with ea. other, we may have a shot….. Have a good day..
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
12:30 pm
“but pretty sure you did not go to college so High School will do.”
Shoot, even if he DID go to college…I’d put my Dad up against him anytime and my Dad didn’t graduate from High School.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
12:31 pm
Kenyan birth certificate
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
12:32 pm
The bio of the last president, keith?
Drunk driving conviction.
A womanizer and smackhead.
A C+ student.
Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
Lost his flight status while getting paid by Uncle Sam and stumping for some political hack in Alabama rather than showing up and doing his job.
Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.
Bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas; company went bankrupt shortly after he sold all his stock.
The worst president in modern American history. (Volumes have be written about that, but you already know most of it.)
Replacing even Nixon in that list.
Should I go on?
breckenridge
February 23rd, 2013
12:32 pm
I’ve been doing some research and the results are in. Yes, it’s official: the highest density per capita of born-again Christians in America reside on the death rows around the nation. Chop up 23 people with and ax? Mow down 32 with an Uzi? Carve up your mother-in-law and roast her on a spit? Not to worry, it’s not a problem as long as you done been saved, accepted Jesus as your personal savior. Then you officially have one ticket to paradise. Of course don’t expect to meet Gandhi or Mother Teresa in heaven since they wasn’t no born-agains, and only born-agains can get in. Gandhi and the good Mother? Why they’re way on down south. And I don’t mean no Alabama or Mississippi.
But I do wonder if those death row boys get the 72 virgins when they arrive in heaven. Oh wait……that’s part of some other fantasy. Never mind then.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
12:33 pm
http://kenyanbirthcertificategenerator.com/
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
12:34 pm
Are you contractually required to continue working this job?
I took an Oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. Sounds contractual to me. Given the amount it takes to train someone in my position, I’m ensuring the taxpayers get their money’s worth by my continued employment.
If you do not like the circumstances of your job then you can go and find a job that better fits and pays what your skill sets require.
Who said anything about not liking my job? I don’t defend your talking points for you.
I can guarantee you that there are at least 10 people out there in the real world with you exact same skill sets that would love to have your job.
You still didn’t answer my challenge. I didn’t talk about 10 people. I said you!!! Why don’t YOU get off your ass and come do what I do? If my job is that desirable and cushy as you cons make them sound, why don’t you apply for it? Lack the necessary skills or something? Afraid to take a bullet? Afraid to put your family’s well being on the line for the safety of your country? Where’s your sense of patriotism and service to country???
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
12:34 pm
Do think Keith is really this clueless or is it an act?
I think he is a ghost writer for Christian Conservative.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
12:34 pm
get, you still have it wrong but I blame Doggone! Demand that he show these records and strongly assert as FACT that the failure to provide them is irrefutable proof of your point. And later is anyone calls you on it, remember that you only wanted to see Box 26…no wait, Box 23….And don’t forget to throw in that the failure to produce these records makes them un-American!
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
12:36 pm
That clip was funny!
I didn’t know Hillary was such a good dancer!
But of course everyone expected it of Michelle.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
12:36 pm
Doggone
Maybe I should have said far leftie then. My bad….
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
12:37 pm
Where’s your sense of patriotism and service to country???
http://www.hark.com/clips/fvvsnzhpys-boo-yah
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
12:37 pm
“Maybe I should have said far leftie then. My bad”
yes, that I would agree with
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:37 pm
Keep,
I think they will find all the records they want in his library he will build after he is done serving as President.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
12:38 pm
betty
So, what’chu tryin to say about Black folks and rhythm….
There are more than a few of us who can’t dance.
комиссар (Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
12:39 pm
JamVet: “The bio of the last president, keith?
Drunk driving conviction.
A womanizer and smackhead.
A C+ student.
Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie. “:
Boom.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
12:39 pm
No Obama college transcripts *shrug* *yawn*
No Romney college transcripts *yawn* *shrug*
Next tantrum please…but hold off for a second, need to get some popcorn.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:40 pm
moonbat,
That was Fallon in drag not Hillary silly.
Hillary is making millions giving speeches like her husband.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
12:41 pm
Damn, I wish I would have had this one to post last night…
http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/2/23/4020966/2013-nfl-combine-offensive-lineman-butt-size#ooid=IwYXRrOTquN-BHwYIDTlwbtKJSzX1RoB
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
12:41 pm
“Hillary is making millions giving speeches like her husband”
Is she? Then good for her (and good for him too)
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
12:42 pm
There are more than a few of us who can’t dance.
And at least one of you who can’t walk and chew bubblegum at the same time…….
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
12:42 pm
” Where’s your sense of patriotism and service to country???”
td has already demonstrated his patriotism by his wife valiantly not getting a raise in 6 years and paying more for insurance.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
12:44 pm
td has already demonstrated his patriotism by his wife valiantly not getting a raise in 6 years and paying more for insurance.
Wow. She might need to work a little harder. My wife has gotten raises totally about 30 grand the last 6 years………..
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
12:46 pm
@Fred
I KNEW the missus was supporting your hedonistic and pagan lifestyle.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:47 pm
“My wife has gotten raises totally about 30 grand the last 6 years………..”
Congrats Mrs. Fred.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
12:49 pm
Look: Hey, I cook at least………. of course she has to clean the kitchen afterwards………
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
12:51 pm
Bro, that clip was hysterical.
Between the beat downs from Bro and Paul recently, td must be feeling like Number 10…
http://tinyurl.com/c6je75u
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
12:55 pm
I do most of the cooking as well – cuz I am better at it.
I also usually clean the kitchen – she offers but my cleaning the kitchen buys me a lot of doghouse insurance – cheap.
Also, she spends her workday pouring Pinot Noir and serving warm nuts to the hotsy totsy crowd at 38,000 feet – so it just doesn’t seem right to make her bring work home.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
12:57 pm
Damn Jamvet. i think I missed that game. I thought I had watched it though. That has to be one of the worst calls ever. Which is saying a lot considering how the Big 12 refs treated the Huskers on their last year in the league.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
12:58 pm
I think Fred should clean up his mess since Mrs Fred is bringing home the bacon.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
1:02 pm
Look: Have you seen USinUK’s website? She has some great recipes. I’ve made several of them and I’m going to make her Pot Roast Chicken with Woodsman sauce this week. Her latest one though Spaghetti Fauxlonese I’m going to do differently. I don’t eat ground turkey…….
http://redskitchendiaries.wordpress.com/
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
1:03 pm
getalife: Hush. She says the same thing and I don’t need her reading it here lol.
td
February 23rd, 2013
1:05 pm
Brosephus™ – Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
12:34 pm
“You still didn’t answer my challenge. I didn’t talk about 10 people. I said you!!! Why don’t YOU get off your ass and come do what I do? If my job is that desirable and cushy as you cons make them sound, why don’t you apply for it? Lack the necessary skills or something? Afraid to take a bullet? Afraid to put your family’s well being on the line for the safety of your country? Where’s your sense of patriotism and service to country???”
You are really being totally ridiculous. I really try to be respectful for people in the military or law enforcement because they do have a important job but lets face the facts most of them do the job because it is the only way they can feel power and they really have a some of the biggest egos around and most do not have the necessary skill sets to do anything else. Please do not tell me I do not know what I am talking about because I have a brother that is in law enforcement and a brother in law that served in Iraq and is not in law enforcement.
As far as putting myself in harms way and being afraid of taking a bullet. I worked for DFCS in Fulton county for 2 years right out of college, going into the worst housing projects in Atlanta (ever hear of Perry Homes and Capitol hill) taking abused and deprived children out of homes during the crack epidemic in Atlanta without a gun while being a white male. Would you have the guts to take on that job?
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
1:08 pm
Thanks Jay
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
1:08 pm
td,
“As far as putting myself in harms way and being afraid of taking a bullet. I worked for DFCS in Fulton county for 2 years right out of college, going into the worst housing projects in Atlanta (ever hear of Perry Homes and Capitol hill) taking abused and deprived children out of homes during the crack epidemic in Atlanta without a gun while being a white male. Would you have the guts to take on that job?”
Got proof.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
1:11 pm
getalife: We want to see his long form employment ap lol. And 24 pay stubs ALONG with his certification.
td
February 23rd, 2013
1:11 pm
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
1:08 pm
td,
“As far as putting myself in harms way and being afraid of taking a bullet. I worked for DFCS in Fulton county for 2 years right out of college, going into the worst housing projects in Atlanta (ever hear of Perry Homes and Capitol hill) taking abused and deprived children out of homes during the crack epidemic in Atlanta without a gun while being a white male. Would you have the guts to take on that job?”
Got proof.
That I am going to give to you or any other blogger on these boards? Hell no. You either believe it or not and if you do not then to bad for you.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
1:13 pm
td,
I don’t believe a word you say.
Prove it and are you on SS and Medicare now?
Are you mooching?
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
1:18 pm
“… most of them do the job because it is the only way they can feel power and they really have a some of the biggest egos around and most do not have the necessary skill sets to do anything else.”
You make this idiotic generalization because you happen to have a doosh for a brother?
td
February 23rd, 2013
1:18 pm
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
1:13 pm
td,
I don’t believe a word you say.
Prove it and are you on SS and Medicare now?
Are you mooching?
Just for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBfxer2NVlk
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
1:20 pm
Fred
————–
JamVet
Thanks for that clip. It’s bookmarked now. They should have used this as the soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeCxxjKwHbw
I would have had that hit match the guitar cuts at the beginning just for effect.
————–
You are really being totally ridiculous.
No, I am being totally honest. You sit here and smugly denigrate government workers, yet you still won’t answer to whether you’re man enough to do the job yourself. You should be thankful that people risk their ass to keep you safe.
As for ego and skillset, I spent years in retail and fast food. I graduated with honors in Mathematics. I have the skill set to do whatever I choose to do. I’ve managed successful stores before, but there’s no reward like knowing I help keep my country safe.
As to your DFAC’s job, I grew up with family in the projects, and I grew up in the hood. I would have no problem at all doing that job. Seems like you did as you only did it for 2 years. Now, Do you have the testicular fortitude to put your hide on the line and do my job? You still haven’t answered.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
1:20 pm
td,
Just write the truth that you can back up.
I know you can’t.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
1:21 pm
“…taking abused and deprived children out of homes during the crack epidemic in Atlanta without a gun while being a white male”
Forgot to mention the state Troopers with guns, nightsticks and mace backing you up there, din’t ya?
Bernie
February 23rd, 2013
1:23 pm
This Video exemplifies what makes America so Great! We all can sit back and laugh at ourselves and still provide the necessary Wisdom and Gumption to do the right thing for ALL of her Citizens.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
1:26 pm
Geesh td,
I read your rant and the image that popped into my mind was Cliff Clavin.
Always nice to put a face to the man behind the keystrokes.
td
February 23rd, 2013
1:28 pm
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
1:20 pm
td,
Just write the truth that you can back up.
I know you can’t.
Why should I be held to standard that you are not also held too? You spout BS everyday that you can not back up. I told the truth and now I am being called a liar. Like I said before you either believe it or not and I do not give a dam if you do or not.
td
February 23rd, 2013
1:29 pm
Look before I leap…
February 23rd, 2013
1:21 pm
“…taking abused and deprived children out of homes during the crack epidemic in Atlanta without a gun while being a white male”
Forgot to mention the state Troopers with guns, nightsticks and mace backing you up there, din’t ya?
If you say so. Whatever it takes to make you feel better.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
1:30 pm
LOL Look, Cliffie? I think you are right. I see the mindset:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOaaahlgt1A
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
1:31 pm
Fred & Bro,
i was about 20 rows up, on that side of the field and sitting on the 25 yard line – EXACTLY where that play happened. It was almost surreal; one moment Turner is running down the field, for an apparent TD, and the next there was this body flying through the air! Talk about getting undressed!
Later, when I got back to Atlanta and saw the replay, all I could do was look on in amazement again and knew that this would go down as one of the great pancake blocks in Husker history.
Roll Tide! And GO BIG RED!
Moving on down the Tarkio Road
Heading up to Crete, Nebraska
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUbi4QeeN_c
guy
February 23rd, 2013
1:32 pm
Monkey see,monkey do! Classless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can’t take it out of them!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
1:36 pm
Trollspam clean up, aisle 1……
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
1:38 pm
Fred
As a Jeopardy junkie, that’s one of my favorite episodes.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
1:40 pm
@Bro/Fred
Ditto.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
1:40 pm
Ok, this is funny. I don’t’ care who you are.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/artist-bad-dog-sculpture-makes-233819885.html
td
February 23rd, 2013
1:44 pm
Brosephus™ – Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
1:20 pm
You are really being totally ridiculous.
“No, I am being totally honest. You sit here and smugly denigrate government workers, yet you still won’t answer to whether you’re man enough to do the job yourself. You should be thankful that people risk their ass to keep you safe.”
I think I proved that I was man enough. As far as doing your job then if I chose to do that job then I would have no problem with it. I have a wife that is a government worker and she will tell you the exact same thing I am telling you about MOST government workers. Hell I worked for the government for a short period so I know all about MOST of them.
“As for ego and skillset, I spent years in retail and fast food. I graduated with honors in Mathematics. I have the skill set to do whatever I choose to do. I’ve managed successful stores before, but there’s no reward like knowing I help keep my country safe.”
Again I said MOST not all in law enforcement. If you do not see the inflated egos of your fellow law enforcement officers then you either have a large ego or I would question you being a part of the community.
“As to your DFAC’s job, I grew up with family in the projects, and I grew up in the hood. I would have no problem at all doing that job. Seems like you did as you only did it for 2 years. Now, Do you have the testicular fortitude to put your hide on the line and do my job? You still haven’t answered.”
Worked there for two years as a first job out of college to get work experience to get a higher paying job in the private sector to better fit my skill sets. I am almost willing to bet that my unarmed work experience has had my life in just as much danger if not more then your armed job experiences.
BTW: Why in the h3ll should I want to have go back to starting wages to do a job when my skill sets have determined a much higher set of wages?
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
1:44 pm
Fred
They need to bring that to the High Museum or Fernbank so I can get a photo.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
1:46 pm
Fred, well if it does a follow up poo, I am NOT picking it up!
Bernie
February 23rd, 2013
1:48 pm
guy @ 1:32 pm – Typical comment expected from the KKK gallery. However, This so called Monkey you so lovingingly referred too has more Education, Money and world traveled NOW, than You, Your Wife, Baby MAMMA or girlfriend or your backwards Hillbilly children and along with their children will ever hope to see or BE! in three (3) generations! They will never ever dream to live so well and be so happy and attain so many accomplished goals in life.
The Karma of your HATE has already set in motion for a complete denial of it.
You are one Sad, angry,frustrated, poor, ignorant, offensive SOB who is not happy with your own Life, family,community and want to project your personal Hell of misery of a LIFE here. I am rejecting it completely on behalf of the First Lady. Live Well and smile, Mrs.Obama, ignorance and Hate will always be a part of America!
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
1:53 pm
I have a wife that is a government worker and she will tell you the exact same thing I am telling you about MOST government workers. Hell I worked for the government for a short period so I know all about MOST of them.
Yeah, tell me about it. I bet your wife is the only one that works hard in her office just as you were the only one working hard in your office. Give me an effin’ break. MOST government workers do their jobs as they’re required to do. People like you try to paint MOST government workers as ineffective when it’s your “friends” who legislate the rules are the ones f**king things up.
MOST people I know in law enforcement will give you the shirt off their back. It ain’t about egos, but you damn well need one when your job requires you to clock in with the knowledge that you might not clock out.
What you see as “ego” is called officer presence. Ask Scout about that. A weak and timid officer is about as useful as a gold plated soccer helmet in a FIFA tournament. Confidence begats authority, and you have to exude authority if you expect to be in law enforcement. I dare you, no, I triple dog dare you to go to some Spec Ops or SWAT people and tell them that ego crap. I would pay big money to watch them punch your ego out and feed it back to you in small pieces.
I am almost willing to bet that my unarmed work experience has had my life in just as much danger if not more then your armed job experiences.
Yep, I’m sure those Knee Grows in the hood are more dangerous than AQ, the Taliban, or Mexican cartel members. You sure got me there.
BTW: Why in the h3ll should I want to have go back to starting wages to do a job when my skill sets have determined a much higher set of wages?
WHAT?? Starting wages, but I thought government workers made sh*tloads of money and needed to feel the pain like others. So, now you don’t want to take the job because of a pay cut? You spoke more honesty there than I have ever seen you put forth on this blog. Remember those “starter wages” the next time you fix your mouth to whine about government worker’s pay and benefits.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
1:54 pm
Bernie: I think that covers the flyby………..
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
1:56 pm
You proved nothing td and nothing but hot air.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
1:57 pm
Fred, well if it does a follow up poo, I am NOT picking it up!
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
1:59 pm
Yo Bro: Do you think they nailed El Chapo or is it just another dodge by him?
td
February 23rd, 2013
2:02 pm
I dare all you people that feels like gun control is such a good idea to watch this. I am betting not many of you will watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8WLXhahw_A&feature=youtu.be
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
2:03 pm
Fred
Have you been keeping up with the NFL Combine? If not, check the 40yd times for Offensive linemen. These are unofficial, but not very far off the official mark..
http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/2/23/4021176/2013-nfl-combine-results-top-offensive-lineman-40-yard-dash-times
Terron Armstead, Arkansas Pine-Bluff: 4.65
2. Lane Johnson, Oklahoma: 4.75
3. Vinston Painter, Virginia Tech: 4.87
4. Kyle Long, Oregon: 4.93
5. Tanner Hawkinson, Kansas: 5.00
6. Brian Schwenke, California: 5.00
7. David Bakhtiari, Colorado: 5.01
8.Eric Fisher, Central Michigan: 5.01
9.Eric Baca, UCLA: 5.03
10. David Quessenberry, San Jose State: 5.06
I read where Armstead’s offical time is listed as 4.71 seconds. He’s listed as 6ft 5in and 306lbs. That’s downright scary for an offensive lineman to be that quick.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
2:04 pm
td,
No.
Latrina
February 23rd, 2013
2:05 pm
I’m still in awe that she can do so many pushups, now this. Not the world’s biggest BHO fan but Michelle is unquestionably cool.
td
February 23rd, 2013
2:06 pm
How does working for one government agency for two years allow some to asses most government employees?
Does that hold true for military as well? Seeing that your two years gave you insight into “most” employees skill sets and work habits, how would the military be excluded?
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
2:08 pm
…military or law enforcement…lets face the facts most of them do the job because it is the only way they can feel power and they really have a some of the biggest egos around and most do not have the necessary skill sets to do anything else.
td hating on cops, the troops and Uncle Sam.
The perfect Republican.
Keep up the good work, td.
We need you in 2014…
Krystal'sBalls
February 23rd, 2013
2:09 pm
I would venture to say I am having a great day…now that I have visited the Bookman blog and see that there are actually people out here who can find a way to biotch and moan because the FLOTUS is enjoying life and MILKING this thing for ALL it’s worth!!!
You clowns (and those who fit the bill know who i’m referring to) HAVE TO KNOW that Michelle is well aware that she has “haters” right?? Ok, then let me let you in on a little secret…she is in K.M.A. mode – letting you know that while both she and her husband truly want to do all they can to represent our country well as a family that if you choose to resent her just for the sake of doing so then….
NANNY NANNY BOO BOO! Git em susta…and get IT! I love that lady. So “human” and everyday people approachable. The FIRST one I have seen in my lifetime as being such.
one and only
February 23rd, 2013
2:09 pm
as a real Senior Citizen brought up in the OLD days and OLD ways I love it. Go Mrs Obama, see, I still call her Mra. with respect for her position.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
2:10 pm
Fred
I’m not sure. I haven’t seen anything concrete to show that he’s toast. With someone as high value as that, there would be some kind of evidence out there. Unlike our media, other countries don’t censor stuff, so if there were even photographs, they would have made their way to the internet by now. Some of the sickest photos I’ve ever witnessed came from south of the border, and they make the “Faces of Death” videos look like Disney movies.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
2:10 pm
Randy California would have turned 62 this week. He drowned in the ocean while rescuing his 12-year-old son from a rip current near the home of Bernice Pearl at Molokai, Hawaii. He managed to push his son Quinn (who survived) towards the shore.
RIP Randy, I loved your stuff…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDQUg3h63TI
The only evil is of the Center (Welcome to the Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
2:11 pm
So are we enjoying our special Saturday session?
(Just needed a drive-by post to get my name change to stick.)
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
2:12 pm
Bro just had a baby and td wants to cut his job because td does not have a job..
Shame on td.
Shame.
Ronald Reagan
February 23rd, 2013
2:12 pm
Even though she looks manly……shes no Fred Astaire!
TBS
February 23rd, 2013
2:16 pm
td, my apologies.
Posting from my phone. Put your name in instead of mine.
But again, how does your two years give you knowledge of most employees?
Again my apologies
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
2:18 pm
Occupation, the usual. We’re just watching td open wide and insert both feet…
And laughing at the other trolls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7MQ5rxUZsc
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
2:19 pm
“And Jay they BOTH were forced to “voluntarily” surrender their licence to practice law. Or else.”
When you have to lie to prove your point, you have no point. And you, and those like you, DEFINE UGLY. No one else could POSSIBLY be uglier. Can’t be done.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
2:19 pm
stupidity by another sockpuppet name remains stupidity and still a lie.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
2:20 pm
TBS
You don’t already know? As a true Conservative, td knows everything there is to know about everything. He’s never wrong about anything at all.
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
2:21 pm
How do you spell oooooogly? mogibsedats
The Greatest Evil is of the Center (Welcome to the Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
2:24 pm
Unheard of inequality in wealth and opportunity is just the “way the market is”, as they say.
Well, if that’s how “the market” is, then that’s how you’re saying the system itself is.
And if that’s how the system is, then it sounds like a system that ought to be smashed, no?
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
2:28 pm
@Bro:
Don’t tick off td. He’s very chummy with the Governor. You’ll end up watching over the DUI first offenders on weekend garbage detail if you ain’t careful.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
2:30 pm
A bill introduced by Montana state Rep. Steve Lavin would give corporations the right to vote in municipal elections
Whatever will they use for a photo ID?
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
2:33 pm
“And if that’s how the system is, then it sounds like a system that ought to be smashed, no”
Nope. Because that kind of “equality” can never be achieved. Life isn’t fair. All we can do is strive to ensure the everyone has the opportunity and learning to achieve their best, whatever that is.
If they fail to take advantage, then that’s their problem. As long as we can say the had a fair CHANCE that’s all we can do.
The Greatest Evil is of the Center (Welcome to the Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
2:34 pm
The social disease we’re suffering under has nothing whatsoever to do with greed.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
2:37 pm
We can level the playing field but not with this congress.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
2:37 pm
“The social disease we’re suffering under has nothing whatsoever to do with greed.”
Hard to coment, since you haven’t bothered to mention WHICH “social disease” you are talking about.
The Greatest Evil is of the Center (Welcome to the Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
2:40 pm
C’mon, Doggone, I mean THE disease. You know. THAT one. The one we’re up to our ears in.
indigo
February 23rd, 2013
2:41 pm
The Greatest – 2:24
It’s called predatory Capitalism.
or – Money talks and BS walks.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
2:42 pm
Look
He’s bragged about his connections and contacts before, and I honestly don’t care. They’re men just as I am, and we all put our pants on one leg at a time. I “know” people too, and I also have DC contacts.
td
February 23rd, 2013
2:44 pm
TBS
February 23rd, 2013
2:16 pm
td, my apologies.
Posting from my phone. Put your name in instead of mine.
But again, how does your two years give you knowledge of most employees?
Again my apologies
Wife has worked for state government for 20 years and I interact with government employees frequently with my current job.
The Greatest Evil is of the Center (Welcome to the Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
2:45 pm
indigo: “It’s called predatory Capitalism.”
Capitalism is the name for the “disease that we’re up to our ears in” ?
Hm. Good to know.
I agree!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
2:45 pm
They’re men just as I am, and we all put our pants on one leg at a time.
Well not me. I like to have my pants on a trouser rack and I jump in both legs from my bed. I am thinking of trying a trapeze or a diving board to give it more flourish in the future. The hardest part is not losing my hat when I do the flips.
td
February 23rd, 2013
2:46 pm
Brosephus™ – Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
2:20 pm
TBS
You don’t already know? As a true Conservative, td knows everything there is to know about everything. He’s never wrong about anything at all.
Wrong again. If I knew everything then I would be very wealthy and I would know how to convince you progressives of how you are driving this nation into the ground.
Mick
February 23rd, 2013
2:46 pm
My default was set to not like this dance skit but it was tame and looked like fun. Jimmy fallon is pretty cool-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVoH5KbC8Ig
td
February 23rd, 2013
2:48 pm
Look before I leap…
February 23rd, 2013
2:28 pm
@Bro:
Don’t tick off td. He’s very chummy with the Governor. You’ll end up watching over the DUI first offenders on weekend garbage detail if you ain’t careful.
Wrong my friend. Have only spoken to the governor a couple of times and I am pretty sure he would not know my name today.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
2:49 pm
td,
Did you blog during the w disaster?
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
2:51 pm
td
Who is this “you progressives” group?
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
2:52 pm
Fallon’s second guest was:
http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/8800000/Scarlett-Johansson-scarlett-johansson-8836640-1280-1024.jpg
The Greatest Evil is of the Center (Welcome to the Occupation)
February 23rd, 2013
2:52 pm
Doggone: “Nope. Because that kind of “equality” can never be achieved”
*Which* kind of equality can never be achieved? We haven’t really defined it yet.
But if you’re saying that some reasonable degree of economic equality in real terms and real evenness of opportunity cannot be achieved, that’s simply an ungrounded assertion.
To say that absolute equality of outcomes cannot be guaranteed in the last instance does not mean that egregious, soaring inequalities cannot even be ADDRESSED. That’s what those who benefit most from that inequality naturally argue. Because it’s very convenient for them to argue it.
appleseed
February 23rd, 2013
2:53 pm
I think Kamchak speaks from experience.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
2:53 pm
progressives are liberals.
The majority are center left.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
2:55 pm
Did you blog during the w disaster?
get, wanna know why the GOP is in full meltdown mode?
When w left office he had an approval rating as follows:
Democrats – 21%
Independents – 17%
Republicans – 75%
And to this day, they still think he was great.
And why I’m loving every single minute of their suicidal movement…
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
2:57 pm
“And why I’m loving every single minute of their suicidal movement…”
So far, it has been a blast.
td
February 23rd, 2013
3:00 pm
Brosephus™ – Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
2:42 pm
Look
He’s bragged about his connections and contacts before
To state that one has spoken to elected officials and lobbied elected officials is now “bragging”. Just wow.
Bragging would be to state that I made the highest grade, in a class of about 200, in Newt’s “Renewing American Civilization” at KSU. Is that bragging or just stating a fact?
BTW: I also had the distinct pleasure of telling Ms. Cynthia that she was a blatant hypocrite in that class. Asking Jesse Jackson how he could claim to be a Christian and Preacher and still support abortion in a speech he made at KSU.
One of the best moments was to be able to sit in front of the student center in a chair, within 10 feet, and watch BB King sing and play the blues for about an hour. That was a true pleasure.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
3:01 pm
Yep, I can think of no other group more deserving of a constant beatdown than these fascistic neocons…
The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this (the 9/11 attacks) happen.
The depraved and deranged Jerry Falwell, of course, but it could have been almost any of our Republicans here…
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
3:02 pm
We could have used td and his tea party when w blew up the deficit but most of what the left wrote during the w disaster was dead right.
Most of what the tea party writes now is dead wrong and lies.
td
February 23rd, 2013
3:04 pm
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
2:49 pm
td,
Did you blog during the w disaster?
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.
Second: Did not start blogging until 2009 on the education blog to promote Dr Barge’s campaign to unseat Cox as Superintendent of Education.
appleseed
February 23rd, 2013
3:06 pm
the teaquesters got the pubs in a bind.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
3:07 pm
“And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. ”
and does God get mad at himself for all the aborted foeti that HE causes?
alittlecommonsense
February 23rd, 2013
3:09 pm
I find it funny that the libs on this blog often tell us conservatives that if we don’t like the changes happening to this country we should leave. But they rail against the capitalist system that made this country the wealthiest one with the most level playing field in the history of the world.
So just to shove your words back at you, if you don’t like capitalism, Delta has daily flights out. I’m sure there are lots of socialist or communist countries you would prefer to live in.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
3:11 pm
“I find it funny that the libs on this blog often tell us conservatives that if we don’t like the changes happening to this country we should leave”
You can rest easy, “we” get it right back. Fair exchange
td
February 23rd, 2013
3:12 pm
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
3:02 pm
“We could have used td and his tea party when w blew up the deficit”
I can see clearly that you were not listening to Rush or Sean during those days when they were raising h3ll, almost on a daily basis, about GWB working with Ted on NCLB and Prescription drugs and spending money we did not have.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
3:12 pm
To state that one has spoken to elected officials and lobbied elected officials is now “bragging”. Just wow.
IF that were all you stated, I wouldn’t have called it bragging. I recall you stating that you knew legislators and could call them up to get legislation passed or something to that effect. You were basically trying to show how big of a nutsack you had when it came to Georgia politics.
Bragging would be to state that I made the highest grade, in a class of about 200, in Newt’s “Renewing American Civilization” at KSU. Is that bragging or just stating a fact?
It’s whatever you want it to be. I, on the other hand, wouldn’t make mention of that class as it sounds like nothing more than a fluff elective course. When you can claim to have the highest grade in differential equations in a class of 200, then that’s bragging on something worth bragging about. Your boast, fact, or whatever you want to call it is like someone bragging on making the highest grade in underwater basket weaving.
If/When Newt’s course becomes standard for a degree field across the entire country, then it might be a boastful claim to make. Until that time, it’s nothing more than fodder for laughter to me.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
3:17 pm
I find it funny that the libs on this blog often tell us conservatives that if we don’t like the changes happening to this country we should leave
Well to be truthful, some of the conned offered to voluntarily self-deport and then reneg on their promises. At least one other promised to be dead, but he even turned up at the SOTU.
Tap Out
February 23rd, 2013
3:17 pm
Cute and fun.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
3:19 pm
Sorry for the impending double post… Ol’ Bluenose held up a post and then released it.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
3:19 pm
Wrong again. If I knew everything then I would be very wealthy and I would know how to convince you progressives of how you are driving this nation into the ground.
And conversely if you knew ANYTHING you would see how stupid your assumptions are and how erroneous your assignation of culpability is.
Since it’s impossible to know everything then your hypothesis is by the very declaration flawed nd therefore wrong. While of course it IS possible to know something ( tense change of anything), my hypothesis is correct.
You biggest flaw is your determination to close your mind to anything but FOX and talk radio and their print/website propaganda. Were you capable of freedom of thought you wouldn’t need some failed Secret Service man who was to unpalatable to voters to be elected to tell lies about gun control that you parrot. You wouldn;’t make ignorant assed statements like we are too “scared” to listen to the idiot.
Just damn.
Welcome to the Occupation
February 23rd, 2013
3:21 pm
The fascisms of the future, as in the past, will come from the center.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
3:21 pm
Wrong my friend. Have only spoken to the governor a couple of times and I am pretty sure he would not know my name today.
I wouldn’t admit to being that thieving SOB’s friend either. I don’t associate with crooks like Mr. Deal.
Thomas
February 23rd, 2013
3:25 pm
I blog all day therefore I am. Welcome to the nothingness.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
3:26 pm
So just to shove your words back at you, if you don’t like capitalism, Delta has daily flights out. I’m sure there are lots of socialist or communist countries you would prefer to live in.
Of all the talk radio/FOXBOT lies, this is the biggest one that the dummies LOVE to repeat.
We don’t have a true capitalist society sport. We never have. We never will.
BSNBC
February 23rd, 2013
3:26 pm
The Obama’s will do anything to get the public’s attention away from the country’s problems! Sad that playing golf with Tiger or dancing with some clown is big news for their folks!!
Welcome to the Occupation
February 23rd, 2013
3:28 pm
alittlecommonsense :
“if you don’t like capitalism, Delta has daily flights out”
There are no Delta flights that travel far enough to take you beyond the reach of the virus of capital, as capitalism is a totality, a totalizing force that spans the globe and reaches into every pocket.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
3:29 pm
First GWB was not a ‘disaster”…
Technically true. He was a complete, total and utter disaster. Across the board.
…then you will find out that he will have a higher approval rating then Clinton.
Wow.
But then your prognostications are not exactly your strength, are they?
You we absolutely certain that Mitt was gonna win back in November, to the point where you made that humiliating (for you) bet with me.
Epic fail.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
3:29 pm
“We don’t have a true capitalist society sport. We never have. We never will.”
I wouldn’t be that adamant. We have a regulated capitalism economic system (not society) just as we have a democratic political system, a representative democratic political system.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
3:29 pm
Playing golf with Tiger is only big news to the same idiots that call the President the Messiah and Dear leader and exhibit other ignorant behavior.
Anyone who thinks someone can work 24/7 is a complete and utter moron who should NOT be allowed to vote.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
3:31 pm
“The Obama’s will do anything to get the public’s attention away from the country’s problems”
when you have to lie to prove your point, you have no point.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
3:31 pm
Doggone: True capitalism is unrestricted trade where the only law is profit. Child labor, price fixing, all fair game. The Ayn Rand ideal is a sham.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
3:33 pm
“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. ”
First, you really should stop predicting things – because you kind of suck at it.
If you think:
Getting gas prices to under $2 by cratering the US economy
Starting not one, but TWO wars
Overseeing an administration that helped guide us to unemployment numbers unseen since Reagan was in office.
A financial system so dysfunctional it took nearly a trillion taxpayer dollars to keep it from self-immolating entirely
US world standing at its lowest point since before we entered WWI
If you think any of the above qualifies W for the Presidential Hall fame – well then there is really little hope for you.
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
3:35 pm
“True capitalism is unrestricted trade where the only law is profit”
Fred:
cap·i·tal·ism
[kap-i-tl-iz-uhm] Show IPA
noun
an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.
What you are describing is greed capitalism. But even THAT is not “pure” capitalism, there is no such thing. All capitalism is regulated one way or another. Either by the businesses themselves, the owners, or the government.
Welcome to the Occupation
February 23rd, 2013
3:35 pm
Fred: “True capitalism is unrestricted trade where the only law is profit. Child labor, price fixing, all fair game”
Human trafficking, trafficking in organs (forcibly removed from the kidnapped, the enslaved), child pornography.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
3:42 pm
I’m thinking of making this for tomorrow. How does it look? I got the short ribs on sale a Krogers a few weeks ago and put them in the freezer:
http://savoringtoday.com/2011/03/07/osso-buco-style-beef-short-ribs/
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
3:42 pm
“Human trafficking, trafficking in organs (forcibly removed from the kidnapped, the enslaved), child pornography”
and NONE of those are “capitalism”…they are exploitation and can occure under any, and all, economic and political systems.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
3:44 pm
Here you go Doggone, as long as you wish to pick at nits let me help you:
http://www.olystudio.com/products/accessories/mirrors/lily_mirror.html
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
3:45 pm
merriam webster disagrees with wiki: : an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
3:45 pm
” All capitalism is regulated one way or another. Either by the businesses themselves, the owners, or the government.”
Even the Mafia self-regulated (or did for a time).
For decades they were content to run booze, hookers and numbers. They steered clear of drugs. Knew it draw too much attention from Uncle Sam.
Then they got greedy and OOOPS!
“Real power is knowing when to leave a little something on the table”
Josiah Bartlett, 2002
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
3:48 pm
“Here you go Doggone, as long as you wish to pick at nits let me help you”
People come here periodically and lament that no one can have a “discussion” seriously. Well, no, because FAR TOO MANY people cannot handle a dissenting opinion and have to either ridicule it instead of DISCUSSING it…or resorting to insults.
I see you belong to one of those groups.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
3:48 pm
“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”
Total bs.
He can’t even show his face like cheney.
You are a blind partisan self defeatist with no credibility.
He fit right in over at Kyle’s but not here con.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
3:49 pm
You not he.
appleseed
February 23rd, 2013
3:49 pm
The old man Bush used Iraq war to divert attention from the failed S&L that the Bush family controlled.Sounds as if Student of Newt.needs some diversion.
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
3:52 pm
“Disaster” is a rather mild descriptor for the Bush reign of terror.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
3:53 pm
S&L vs Bank collapse.
w won but you get a collapse with a bush.
Jerome Horwitz
February 23rd, 2013
3:55 pm
Jay is one sick puppy. He did this on purpose just to see the cons little heads explode. Nice to see a First Lady that can poke a little fun at herself and show a funny side. Laura Bush had this knack too. None of the previous First Ladies (Nancy R., Barbara B., or Hillary C.) could really male the connection that Mrs Bush and Mrs Obama can. And if you can’t see that you probably just a bitter, small person.
Thanks for the Spirit link JamVet. Saw them on a bill with Renaisance in the ealy 70’s and have been a fan ever since. In fact just procurred the Twelve Dreams CD.
Keep givin’ em Hell Bro – you won’t change their small minds but at least someone calls out their crud.
appleseed
February 23rd, 2013
3:57 pm
First GWB not a disaster-BS the first,second,never a third all disasters.
Fred ™
February 23rd, 2013
4:01 pm
I see you belong to one of those groups.
No. I am simply not going to debate the word is. I said what I meant and my definition is backed by the dictionary. 2+2=4. There IS no f’ing “debate.”
Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2013
4:03 pm
“I said what I meant and my definition is backed by the dictionary”
Well, no it isn’t. But since you can’t see that…you are correct, there is no f’ing debate.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
4:07 pm
Great race .
Stewart wins and big crash at the finish line..
indigo
February 23rd, 2013
4:09 pm
alittlecommonsense – 3:09
No, I don’t like predatory capitalism. And I will work within the system to try and change it.
Unlike you, I do not have a “cut and run” personality.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
4:10 pm
Last night I played that incredible Matha & the Vandellas song. The one that was covered to near perfection by Linda Ronstadt.
Here is another decent cover. (I think the song itself is so outstanding that it’s hard to do a bad cover…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1dRP5j_r3I&feature=youtu.be
julia
February 23rd, 2013
4:17 pm
a first lady who does us proud!!!
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
4:18 pm
Nasty crash left a engine in the fence on fire and some fans got hit.
TBS
February 23rd, 2013
4:21 pm
td
Your time working for government and here say from your wife certainly gives you the opportunity and right to make an opinion
But from a statistical analysis standpoint and the number of individuals in departments you have nor will ever interact with, that opinion is like an a hole…. We all have one. And as usual yours is broad brushed. But let me guess, you and your relatives and friends were the best workers. It is the other folks who are the problem.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
4:25 pm
Poor Republicans, they must be thinking this is what we libs did to them…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRadA7074wk
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
4:28 pm
TBS…td might not know what “reasoning from the specific to the general” is, but he can certainly demonstrate it
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
4:31 pm
I think Kamchak speaks from experience.
Huh?
I just experience defragging my hard drive for only the second time ever.
Whew!
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
4:36 pm
Not one of his bigger hits but one of my very favorites…
Tell me people
Why can’t they say that hate is 10 zillion light years away
Why can’t the light of good shine God’s love in every soul
(Paul Anka on background vocals)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0m_WKAWIUg
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
4:37 pm
Bumper Sticker:
“Our Only ‘Entitlement’ is Freedom”
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
4:40 pm
Stevie lambastes Tricky Dick…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWa0zHR8TC0
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
4:40 pm
scout demonstrates that he did not pay into social security. yawn.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
4:41 pm
UNFETTERED LIBERALISM:
Headline: “Employers could be pressured to hire more workers with a criminal background under recent guidelines issued by the federal government.”
Translation: Obey the law and if competing with an equally qualified applicant who hasn’t obeyed the law ………….. he/she may get the job instead.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
4:43 pm
Oh yes I did (10 years worth) and I get that in additon to my federal pension !
“Earned vs. Unearned Entitlement” but I know you have trouble understanding that.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
4:49 pm
Oooops ! Trouble in Paradise !
“The District of Columbia’s Fire and Emergency Medical Services says there are no plans to punish first responders for their participation in an economic speech by President Obama, but are still reviewing the event.
Earlier this week, Obama surrounded himself with police and other first responders during remarks regarding the real world impact of the across-the-board package of federal spending cuts known as sequestration, looming in March should Congress fail to reach a deficit reduction agreement. But Washington’s fire and EMS chief told a local TV station the appearance of three firefighters at the event may have violated department regulations.
“I didn’t know about it, the deputy mayor didn’t know about it, the mayor didn’t know about it,” Chief Kenneth Ellerbe said. “There should be protocol followed anytime one of our employees representing the District of Columbia appears at a public event.”
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
4:50 pm
Ruh, roh.
On Saturday, gun rights advocates will be organizing at least 121 rallies across the country in a “day of resistance” to President Obama’s gun violence prevention proposals. But some tea party activists are questioning the credentials of the group organizing the rallies, a Mesa, Arizona-based outfit called TheTeaParty.net that’s been criticized as a data-harvesting operation designed to vacuum up contact information and credit card numbers from unsuspecting and largely clueless conservative activists.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
4:50 pm
Saturday Night Live Tonight !
I wonder if they will do a segment mocking Mohammed as they did mocking Jesus last week ?
Hummmmm ………………………
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
4:54 pm
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
4:40 pm
Hmmm seemed like a bi-partisan effort to me…I guess Stevie didn’t know his recent history at the time…
Which president started the Vietnam war?
Make a choice between Truman who gave material and financial aid to France, Eisenhower who added advisers, intelligence support and Air America, Kennedy who sent in the Green Berets or Johnson who sent in the Marines.
Stevie Ray
February 23rd, 2013
4:55 pm
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
4:50 pm
They are both equally easy targets..
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
5:00 pm
I paid into social security and have thus earned said entitlement. I know you have troubling grasping such a basic concept, scout.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
5:05 pm
Is it time for NCAA football yet ??
Welcome to the Occupation
February 23rd, 2013
5:06 pm
“Translation: Obey the law and if competing with an equally qualified applicant who hasn’t obeyed the law ………….. he/she may get the job instead.”
Because lord knows the person who is out of jail and who therefore has in principle paid back his debt to society should continue to be plagued into perpetuity and never allowed to forget their earlier wrongdoing. They should be branded for life, in other words. Might as well just brand them with tattoos.
That’s a very authoritarian way of thinking.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
5:07 pm
Stevie Ray:
Yes ……….. they are both equally easy targets but why do you think SNL will not do an equally offensive skit about Mohammed ?
MiltonMan
February 23rd, 2013
5:08 pm
“Who was that Babe that was dancing with Michelle? Sinkwich’s girlfriend? Milton man is jealous!”
I have hit much better.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
5:09 pm
Oooops ! I think someone out there is becoming jealous again !
Someone who could have put his life on the line and done the same thing for his country but chose not to !
But hey, it’s a free country !
Sheep
Wolves
Sheepdogs
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
5:10 pm
I guess Stevie didn’t know his recent history at the time…
i guess you’ve never read the lyrics to that song.
The song is about social and racial injustice/inequality.
You may now remove feet from mouth!
MiltonMan
February 23rd, 2013
5:10 pm
“Poor Republicans, they must be thinking this is what we libs did to them…”
Keep patting yourself on the back there chief while the Democratic strong-hold DeKalb County suffocates itself in its own fecal material.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
5:12 pm
I see scout holes.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
5:14 pm
“Do you think Mary Todd Lincoln did it like this?”
SURE SHE DID !
“A history of mood swings, fierce temper, public outbursts throughout Lincoln’s presidency, as well as excessive spending, has led some historians and psychologists to speculate that Mary suffered from bipolar disorder.”
“After she nearly jumped out of a window to escape a non-existent fire, her son determined that she should be institutionalized. On May 20, 1875, he committed her to a private asylum in Batavia, Illinois.”
“Mary Lincoln was released into the custody of her sister in Springfield. In 1876 she was declared competent to manage her own affairs. After the court proceedings, Mary Lincoln was so enraged that she attempted suicide. She went to the hotel pharmacist and ordered enough laudanum to kill herself, but he realized her intent and gave her a placebo.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
5:15 pm
SHEEP !
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
5:19 pm
PICKLES!
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
5:21 pm
con.
Welcome to the Occupation
February 23rd, 2013
5:24 pm
So the big movie star, Ben Affleck, claimed to a slightly taken aback Bill O’Reilly last year at the realise of his film that “These are extraordinary, honourable people at the CIA” (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e703e1fc-7cee-11e2-adb6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2LjbpZaFn).
Woahh! If Ben Afflect is a well established Hollywood figure and Hollywood is undeniably “liberal”, then surely Afflect must be a liberal, too, right? And if being a “liberal” means you are anti-American, and being anti-American is doing things like being a squish on things like defense and espionage and all the other ‘dark arts’ of empire, harping all day long about the crimes of Murder, Inc. and so forth, then what’s going on here?
Has the world turned completely upside down? Could it be that maybe the “liberals” aren’t really so “left” at all?
Please help a confused comrade who’s head hurts understand, some wise con.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
5:25 pm
CEVICHE!
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
5:25 pm
MM, glad you enjoyed the Gap Band. Did you get up and dance?
Jesus is OK, but many of the most popular preachers in this country that use him to make millions and millions of dollars sure are dirtbags, huh? (And what does that say about their congregations?)
I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be! ~Jerry Falwell
appleseed
February 23rd, 2013
5:29 pm
Remember what God said about Cain.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
5:30 pm
Better order a double on the “mocking Jesus” feinting couch.
The Vatican on Saturday strongly condemned media coverage of a report that is said to contain information about the influence of a gay network and financial mismanagement within the Vatican, and which may have triggered Pope Benedict’s decision to resign. But in his statement, a spokesman for the Vatican did not deny the report’s existence or dispute the description of its findings.
The Italian newspaper La Repubblica broke the story that the report, which was commissioned by Pope Benedict in the wake of Vatileaks and prepared by a trio of cardinals, concluded that “various lobbies within the Holy See were consistently breaking” the sixth and seventh commandments, “thou shalt not commit adultery” and “thou shalt not steal.”
Grob Hahn
February 23rd, 2013
5:31 pm
Only a racist would assume white people can’t jump, dance or play music. Mozart, Bruce Jenner and Fred Astaire might disagree. It’s time to move beyond these cheap stereotypes. What’s next? Assuming that black people can’t stay out jail.
Grobbbbbbbbbb
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
5:37 pm
LOBSTER THERMIDOR AUX CREVETTES WITH A MORNAY SAUCE GARNISHED WITH TRUFFLE PATE, BRANDY AND WITH A FRIED EGG ON TOP AND SPAM.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
5:39 pm
Do you have anything without spam?
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
5:39 pm
Adam raised a Cain.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
5:41 pm
Well, there’s spam egg sausage and spam, that’s not got much spam in it.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
5:44 pm
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart could slam dunk a basket ball?
Who knew?
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
5:44 pm
The First lady? Yeah, she’s great. Classy, engaged and smart.
And I love that the GOPers, like the repulsive Lynn Westmoreland, are tormented by her very presence.
“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Senator Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity.” When the reporter asked if “uppity” was really the word he wished to use, Westmoreland said: “Uppity, yeah.”
Last year, Westmoreland was one of only two members of Congress (422-2) to vote against a bill named after the slain 14-year-old African-American boy, Emmett Till, which would provide funds to the FBI to investigate killings during the civil rights era.
You’re connies are doing a heckuva job here in the Georgia White Power Party…
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
5:47 pm
Love the Python references.
Here we have a bunch of Jay’s cons who’ve cornered moochelle…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
5:54 pm
“Only a racist would assume white people can’t jump, dance or play music”
Wrong. A bigot might assume that, but it is not racism
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
5:57 pm
Seems that 3 of the top 10 high schools in the state of GA are located in DeKalb County.
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/georgia
FarTrain
February 23rd, 2013
6:00 pm
“DoggoneGA”, but if a white person says black men can’t swim, it’s racist right? Yep, double standard as usual. BTW, the headline could have said “FIRST MOM STRUTS HER SNUFF” and it would have been more accurate. Every time I see her it looks like she has a dip in her bottom lip.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
6:05 pm
I think I saw the Pope once slammed a basketball while doing the Harlem shake. Oh nooooo….. wait, now I am confused.
Am I a racist when I watch that movie “White Men Can’t Jump?”
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
6:14 pm
A San Diego couple is suing the area’s school district for allegedly violating their children’s religious freedom by offering yoga classes for physical education
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
6:18 pm
“I will sue you” trump.
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
6:24 pm
““DoggoneGA”, but if a white person says black men can’t swim, it’s racist right?”
No, it isn’t. It’s bigoted, not racist.
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February 23rd, 2013
6:32 pm
Doggone:
We disagree on a lot of things but thankgoodness you know the definition of racist !
td
February 23rd, 2013
6:33 pm
Looks like I might soon have better weapons then Bro.
A growing number of firearm and firearm-related companies have stated they will no longer sell items to states, counties, cities and municipalities that restrict their citizens’ rights to own them.
According to The Police Loophole, 34 companies have joined in publicly stating that governments who seek to restrict 2nd Amendment rights will themselves be restricted from purchasing the items they seek to limit or ban.
Extreme Firepower Inc., located in Inwood, WV has had a longstanding policy that states:
“The Federal Government and several states have enacted gun control laws that restrict the public from owning and possessing certain types of firearms…If a product that we manufacture is not legal for a private citizen to own in a jurisdiction, we will not sell that product to a law-enforcement agency in that jurisdiction.”
York Arms, located in Buxton, ME released a statement following new legislation in New York:
“Based on the recent legislation in New York, we are prohibited from selling rifles and receivers to residents of New York. We have chosen to extend that prohibition to all governmental agencies associated with or located within New York.”
Quality Arms, located in Rigby, ID writes on their website, “elected officials have their own agenda to circumnavigate the truth and destroy the constitution of the United States.”
The site states: “Quality Arms Idaho will not supply and firearm or product, manufactured by us, or any other company nor will we warranty, repair, alter, or modify and firearm owned by any State, County or Municipality who infringes on the right of its citizens to bear arms under the 2nd Amendment.”
Bravo Company USA states:
“The people at Bravo Company USA and BCM support responsible private individuals having access to the same tools of civilian Law Enforcement to affect the same ends…As such Bravo Company’s policy is that law enforcement officials and departments will be restricted to the same type of products available to responsible private individuals of that same city or state.”
http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/firearms-companies-restricting-sales-government-agencies-areas
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
6:34 pm
“We disagree on a lot of things but thankgoodness you know the definition of racist !”
I wish more people did. It’s like over-using “Nazi” – it takes away it’snastiness to use it when what is mean is bigoted
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
6:36 pm
Bigotry, hatred and intolerance?
AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh’s charioteers … AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. ~Jerry Falwell channeling Fred Phelps
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
6:36 pm
Firearm Co’s REFUSING Sales to Gov’t Agencies…
Twice posted drudgey spam.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
6:37 pm
Like this, Doggone?
The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.” ~Jerry Falwell
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
6:38 pm
It was # 32 that left his engine in the fence:
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1006142/thumbs/r-DAYTONA-CRASH-huge.jpg
td
February 23rd, 2013
6:38 pm
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
6:36 pm
Firearm Co’s REFUSING Sales to Gov’t Agencies…
Twice posted drudgey spam.
You are just mad because it is a story that the Lame stream media is refusing to cover because it makes Obama look bad.
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
6:41 pm
“Firearm Co’s REFUSING Sales to Gov’t Agencies…”
And their loss is another company’s gain
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
6:42 pm
Mad?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I’m laughing at your embarrassment of drudgey.
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
6:43 pm
Jamvet…yep, just like that
td
February 23rd, 2013
6:45 pm
WASHINGTON — Hollywood actor and political activist Danny Glover, star of the “Lethal Weapon” films with Mel Gibson, told The Daily Caller that Congress should “abolish guns” in the U.S.
“I don’t own a gun and definitely not only Gun Control, we should abolish guns, the personal guns. That’s how far I’m willing to go,” Glover told TheDC at a TransAfrica Forum benefit event on Wednesday night.
“There are many people in this country who do not have guns, who don’t own guns and are still under the same, are still susceptible to being burglarized or anything, but that doesn’t mean that we should willingly accept the fact that we need guns. We have to find some sort of way in which we live together, some sort of way in which we move on, for the human species to move on without guns.”
Glover said if Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive today, “he would be out there advocating for the end of guns as a prelude to the end of violence as well.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/21/lethal-weapon-star-danny-glover-says-us-should-abolish-guns/#ixzz2LljtAbX2
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
6:45 pm
“You are just mad because it is a story that the Lame stream media is refusing to cover because it makes Obama look bad.”
Nope, it would just make the company look as stupid as they are
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
6:47 pm
Colin Powell Calls Out The GOP’s Racism Problem: There Is ‘A Dark Vein Of Intolerance’
There’s also a dark — a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? I mean by that that they still sort of look down on minorities. How can I evidence that?
When I see a former governor say that the President is “shuckin’ and jivin’,” that’s a racial era slave term. When I see another former governor after the president’s first debate where he didn’t do very well, says that the president was lazy. He didn’t say he was slow. He was tired. He didn’t do well. He said he was lazy. Now, it may not mean anything to most Americans, but to those of us who are African Americans, the second word is shiftless and then there’s a third word that goes along with that. The birther, the whole birther movement. Why do senior Republican leaders tolerate this kind of discussion within the party?
Powell added that the Republican Party is “having an identity problem,” noting that its significant shift to the right has produced “two losing presidential campaigns.” “I think what the Republican Party needs to do now is a very hard look at itself and understand that the country is changed,” he said. “If the Republican Party does not change along with that demographic, they are going to be in trouble.
And because they have no intentions whatsoever of dealing with their racial demons, here is to protracted and big trouble for the identity problem gang…
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February 23rd, 2013
6:50 pm
Assorted Bumper Stickers:
“You can’t scare me, I have children”
“Marriage is like a deck of cards. You start with two hearts
and a diamond and end up with a club and a spade”
“Rise if I must. Shine? Nope!”
“Rolling out of bed is easy. Getting up is what’s hard”
“A wise man once said, ‘Ask a woman’ !”
“How can a man hit a deer at 200 yards but miss a toilet?”
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
6:54 pm
My favorite bumper sticker:
“Always wear your seatbelt. It keep the aliens fro sucking you out of your car”
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
6:54 pm
I see scout thinks he’s a valued Hessian.
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February 23rd, 2013
6:55 pm
“Civil-rights activists, even those committed to nonviolent resistance, had long appreciated the value of guns for self-protection. Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a permit to carry a concealed firearm in 1956, after his house was bombed. His application was denied, but from then on, armed supporters guarded his home. One adviser, Glenn Smiley, described the King home as “an arsenal.” William Worthy, a black reporter who covered the civil-rights movement, almost sat on a loaded gun in a living-room armchair during a visit to King’s parsonage.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secret-history-of-guns/308608/
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
6:57 pm
“Martin Luther King, Jr., known for peaceful resistance, at the same time recognized the importance of gun ownership for self-defense. King understood the risks involved in being an outspoken civil rights leader, living in Jim Crow era Alabama, and took measures to protect himself, his family and others around him.
King was a gun owner.”
http://www.redstate.com/candicelanier/2013/01/17/mlks-arsenal-the-racist-roots-of-gun-control-in-the-u-s/
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
6:58 pm
Easy enough; if they refuse to sell their federally licensed firearms to any government, pull their Federal license.
http://www.atf.gov/publications/download/p/atf-p-5320-8/atf-p-5320-8-chapter-7.pdf
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
6:59 pm
“Glover said if Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive today, “he would be out there advocating for the end of guns as a prelude to the end of violence as well.”
Like most liberals, Glover needs to review his history.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
6:59 pm
Former Secret Service agent and Senate candidate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R8WLXhahw_A
JohnnyReb
February 23rd, 2013
7:00 pm
Kamie – OK, I was wrong. re, the reply I would give you after November. I have to modify it. Here it is -
I underestimated how many politically lost people would vote for Obama. He, and in effect, you guys won.
There it is. I was wrong, at least on the election. On the rest of it, not so much.
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
7:02 pm
“Easy enough; if they refuse to sell their federally licensed firearms to any government, pull their Federal license.”
Why would there be any need to do that? Whoever they are, they’re not the only gun manufacturer…just give the business to a better company.
JohnnyReb
February 23rd, 2013
7:03 pm
As to the politically lost Obama voters, I can find no other quote more fitting than –
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. — George Bernard Shaw
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:03 pm
NORTH KOREA WARNS US: ‘MISERABLE DESTRUCTION!’
That little “twerp” is at it again !
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/23/us-korea-north-idUSBRE91M05220130223
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
7:04 pm
Hear me out before you call me a basher. It’s just fact, intelligent, open minded people who can think analytically do not generally join the armed forced,and if they do, they do not last long. One thing all military types have in common is the mental flaw to accept what they are told without question, whether it be from upbringing, peers…they do not have the ability to learn new ideas and concepts or think for themselves. Most come from low class families…who in this country is type of people who cling to religion and quote it as proven science…just like the republicans who pander to them.
USA Patriot
February 23rd, 2013
7:04 pm
Jackie 5:57 “Seems that 3 of the top 10 high schools in the state of GA are located in DeKalb County.”
Interesting, 2 of the 3 are charter schools.
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February 23rd, 2013
7:05 pm
JohnnyReb:
“politically lost people”
The correct term is “low information voter”.
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
7:06 pm
What I’ve always felt intriguing was the fact that, these christian republicans are not Christians, they cheat, lie, steal…they only claim to be Christians for the “dumb vote” that is the vote of the white trash trailer park dwellers, or in this case…active duty military folks. Republicans hate you, they love the wealthy. They are against every military core belief, they are pro rich, pro white power.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
7:06 pm
There is more crap in a Senior Digits post than on the decks of a Carnival Cruise ship.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:08 pm
No one …………. REPEAT NO ONE …………. should even reply to TaxPayer.
He is not worthy of a response.
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
7:10 pm
@DoggoneGA
If they refuse to sell their product to all customers, via the Commerce Clause Section 3, “The Congress shall have Power *** To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes”, they can not operate.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
7:10 pm
I underestimated how many politically lost people would vote for Obama.
In the four years leading up to this past election, several people here repeated the meme that even Elmer Fudd could defeat Obama, and no one here on the right even attempted to blunt that outrageous claim.
Underestimated?
Understatement.
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
7:12 pm
@USA
Still controlled by the DeKalb County school board.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:12 pm
“AR-15-owning woman who got Biden’s shotgun advice says idea sounded a ‘little sexist’ ”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/23/ar-15-owning-woman-who-got-biden-shotgun-advice-says-idea-sounded-little-sexist/#ixzz2LlqvZ6dm
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
7:13 pm
Melt-down.
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
7:13 pm
“If they refuse to sell their product to all customers”
And yet there are also laws that PREVENT them from selling to ALL customers. Government purchases are not the same as over the counter sales. There’s no law that requires them to big on a government contract. Big deal.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
7:15 pm
He is not worthy of a response. — Claims the poster of so much stupidity and buffoonery.
Taxpayer, I’d have to think that the broad brush holds about as much validity as much of the broad brush claims of stupidity posted by Senior Digits and the Ftroop brigade.
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
7:15 pm
“bid” not “big”
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
7:15 pm
Without having information about the “47% percent” and other easily proven misstatements of fact, so-called low-information voters would have voted for Mitt Romney.
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February 23rd, 2013
7:15 pm
“Underestimated?
Understatement.”
No …………. “low information voters” !
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
7:15 pm
Poor scout. All I did was cut-n-paste and he wants to shoot the messenger. Awww. Poor thing.
The GOV
February 23rd, 2013
7:15 pm
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. — George Bernard Shaw”
Shaw thought Stalin was the best leader in the world. Shaw was a communist. Are you sure you want to use him?
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
7:17 pm
Scout has the mistaken impression that the GOP gives a crap about military personnel. He can’t handle the truth.
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
7:17 pm
@DoggoneGA
Can not think of any business that is allowed to discriminate against the sale of their product if the customer has means and methods to purchase that product.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:18 pm
Looks like I might soon have better weapons then Bro.
Looks like you don’t have a clue about the differing missions of different government agencies. My agency doesn’t deal with the 2nd Amendment nowhere near the frequency that we deal with the 4th.
Another td post. Another td fail.
Even if the company decides to not sell to an agency, do you honestly think they’re going to turn down money from a private citizen? Gimme a break…
————–
Scout
Why don’t you finish the story about MLK Jr. and how he got rid of his gun after his house was bombed. I seem to recall that he felt he didn’t need a gun to protect himself as God would do so himself. If a man, as threatened as he was, can forego gun ownership and let God protect him, what does that say about the “God fearing” people who don’t live in such danger nowadays that can’t breathe without their guns?
The GOV
February 23rd, 2013
7:19 pm
Read Gulag Archipelago
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
7:21 pm
“Can not think of any business that is allowed to discriminate against the sale of their product if the customer has means and methods to purchase that product.”
Think alcohol. Think guns and convicted criminals. Thinks GOVERNMENT CONTRACT BIDS. The government doesn’t just go out and buy. The open up a bidding process and there is NOTHING to force any company to bid on that contract.
A company saying they “won’t sell” to the government? All they are saying is they won’t join in the bidding process. It’s a tempest in a teapot and doesn’t mean anything.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
7:22 pm
Scout Why don’t you finish the story about MLK Jr. and how he got rid of his gun after his house was bombed.
They did not put the rest of the story in the spam mail?
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
7:23 pm
In fact, scout cannot even present the truth as evidenced by his MLK “story”. scout should know if he stayed awake in Church that a half-truth is still a lie.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:24 pm
Also, tell the story about how the NRA actively advocated for and pushed gun control measures when the Black Panthers decided to enjoy and express their 2nd Amendment rights…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:28 pm
Hummmm ………………………
“Given the significant privacy issues, the Department of Homeland Security has only now set up a working group to study the impact of government UAVs on civil liberties, civil rights, legal and other policy issues.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/23/government-plans-for-drastic-expansion-domestic-mini-drones/?test=latestnews#ixzz2LlukwLcE
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:29 pm
http://www.theroot.com/views/fear-black-gun-owner
UCLA law professor Adam Winkler explores this history in his 2011 book, Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America. “Like many young African Americans, Newton and Seale were frustrated with the failed promise of the civil-rights movement,” Winkler writes. In their opinion, “the only tangible outcome of the civil-rights movement had been more violence and oppression, much of it committed by the very entity meant to protect the public: the police.” Winkler goes on to say, “Malcolm X and the Panthers described their right to use guns in self-defense in constitutional terms.” Guns became central to the Panthers’ identity, as they taught their early recruits that “the gun is the only thing that will free us — gain us our liberation.”
The Panthers responded to racial violence by patrolling black neighborhoods brandishing guns — in an effort to police the police. The fear of black people with firearms sent shockwaves across white communities, and conservative lawmakers immediately responded with gun-control legislation.
Then Gov. Ronald Reagan, now lauded as the patron saint of modern conservatism, told reporters in California that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.” Reagan claimed that the Mulford Act, as it became known, “would work no hardship on the honest citizen.” The NRA actually helped craft similar legislation in states across the country. Fast-forward to 2013, and it is a white-male dominated NRA, largely made up of Southern conservatives and gun owners from the Midwest and Southwestern states, that argues “do not tread on me” in the gun debate.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
7:30 pm
Where is the Chamber of Commerce on these gop self inflicted wounds to our economy?
Where are the business leaders?
The silence is deafening.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:35 pm
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2013/01/martin-luther-king-jr.html
Check this out, from The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the chapter titled “The Violence of Desperate Men.” The scene is Montgomery in 1956, shortly after King’s home was bombed:
[...]
After the bombings, many of the officers of my church and other trusted friends urged me to hire a bodyguard and armed watchmen for my house. When my father came to town, he concurred with both of these suggestions. I tried to tell them that I had no fears now and consequently needed no weapons for protection. This they would not hear. They insisted that I protect the house and family, even if I didn’t want to protect myself. In order to satisfy the wishes of these close friends and associates, I decided to consider the question of an armed guard. I went down to the sheriff’s office and applied for a license to carry a gun in the car; but this was refused.
Meanwhile I reconsidered. How could I serve as one of the leaders of a nonviolent movement and at the same time use weapons of violence for my personal protection? Coretta and I talked the matter over for several days and finally agreed that arms were no solution. We decided then to get rid of the one weapon we owned. We tried to satisfy our friends by having floodlights mounted around the house, and hiring unarmed watchmen around the clock. I also promised that I would not travel around the city alone.
I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I came face-to-face with the question of death and I dealt with it. From that point on, I no longer needed a gun nor have I been afraid. Had we become distracted by the question of my safety we would have lost the moral offensive and sunk to the level of our oppressors.
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February 23rd, 2013
7:36 pm
Brosephus:
1) If MLK, Jr. changed his mind that’s fine. He had the right to do that. But I bet he wore a seat belt in his car even though “God could protect him” ………. Hummmmm ………………..
Remember Carl Rowan? He changed his mind too !!!
“In a 1981 column, he advocated “a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail—period.”
“Rowan gained public notoriety on June 14, 1988, when he shot an unarmed teenage trespasser, Neil Smith, who was on his property illegally. “The interloper was a near-naked teenager who had been skinny-dipping with friends in Rowan’s pool, and the columnist’s weapon was an unregistered, and thus very illegal, .22 caliber pistol.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rowan
Tsk, tsk !
2) “Also, tell the story about how the NRA actively advocated for and pushed gun control measures when the Black Panthers decided to enjoy and express their 2nd Amendment rights.”
If the NRA advocated that back then they would have been wrong ………… and would be wrong if they advocated that now. Kind of like a lot of Democrat Senators (i.e., Gore Sr. !) who fought against the Voting Rights Act ………….. now most Democrats have changed their minds …………….
)
3) This young black lady very eloquently explains why blacks need guns just like everyone else !
http://www.youtube.com/embed/vn7bkncf1_E
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February 23rd, 2013
7:39 pm
Brosephus:
Check this out !
“The acceptable year of the Lord is that year when every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess the name of Jesus. And everywhere men will cry out, “Hallelujah, hallelujah! The kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.”
“Hallelujah, hallelujah!”
MLK, Jr. (1966)
http://sowhatfaith.com/2011/01/17/the-acceptable-year-of-the-lord-rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:49 pm
Drudgery !
“FEDERAL SPENDING UP $822.90 PER PERSON SINCE OBAMA”
td
February 23rd, 2013
7:49 pm
It is funny how all these actors are for gun control but will play in a movie (make money) in a heartbeat where they have to to use guns violently over and over again.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:50 pm
td:
…………… and pay big time for private security/armed guards when they need them.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:51 pm
td:
They basically have the “Carl Rowan” syndrome.
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
7:51 pm
Military men are “dumb, stupid animals to be used” as pawns for foreign policy. – Henry Kissinger, Republican and proud of it.
USA Patriot
February 23rd, 2013
7:52 pm
“Where are the business leaders?”
Ridin’ the storm out…..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCeGCSvueM8
Oscar
February 23rd, 2013
7:54 pm
MLKJ didn’t rely on God to protect him. He accepted the fact that he could not be a leaderof non-violence and use a gun, and that if that decesion meant his death, he accepted that.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:55 pm
If the NRA advocated that back then they would have been wrong
Thereis no if. They did, and even Reagan himself signed such legislation.
This young black lady very eloquently explains why blacks need guns just like everyone else!
And??? Her OPINION is just that, hers. She doesn’t speak for me. She actually sounds like she’s reading NRA/GOP cue cards as that very argument about slavery has been making the rounds lately. Nice attempted deflection from the half story on MLK though. Nowhere have you heard me advocate or even mention Blacks needing guns.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
7:57 pm
A bipartisan group of senators is on the verge of a deal that would expand background checks to all private firearms sales with limited exemptions, but significant disagreements remain on the issue of keeping records of private gun sales, according to aides familiar with the talks.
A game of inches but moving toward the goal.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:58 pm
MLKJ didn’t rely on God to protect him.
Well, I don’t recall him having a huge security detail, but I do personally know people who prayed with him. Accepting one’s fate does not mean they stull don’t pray for their safety as well as those around them.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:59 pm
*still not stull
td
February 23rd, 2013
8:00 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
7:57 pm
“A game of inches but moving toward the goal.”
And what is the goal?
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.
Family Planning
Consolidated Health Centers
Transitional Cash and Medical Services
for Refugees
State Children’s Health Insurance
Program (CHIP)
Voluntary Medicare Prescription Drug
Benefit — Low-Income Subsidy Medicaid
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
Breast/Cervical Cancer Early Detection
Maternal and Child Health Block Grant
Indian Health Service
Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF) (cash aid)
Supplemental Security Income
Additional Child Tax Credit
Earned Income Tax Credit (refundable component)
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
School Breakfast Program (free/reduced price components)
National School Lunch Program (free/reduced price components)
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
Child and Adult Care Food Program
(lower income components)
Summer Food Service Program
Commodity Supplemental
Food Program Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)
Nutrition Program for the Elderly
Indian Education
Adult Basic Education Grants to States
Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant
Education for the Disadvantaged — Grants to Local Educational Agencies (Title I – A)
Title I Migrant Education Program
Higher Education — Institutional Aid and Developing Institutions
Federal Work – Study
Federal TRIO Programs
Federal Pell Grants
Education for Homeless Children and Youth
21st Century Community Learning Centers
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR – UP)
Reading First and Early Reading First
Rural Education Achievement Program
Mathematics and Science Partnerships
Improving Teacher Quality State Grants
Academic Competitiveness and Smart Grant Program
Single – Family Rural Housing Loans
Rural Rental Assistance Program
Water and Waste Disposal for Rural Communities
Public Works and Economic Development
Supportive Housing for the Elderly
Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities
Section 8 Project – Based Rental Assistance
Community Development Block Grants
Homeless Assistance Grants
Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME)
Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA)
Public Housing
Indian Housing Block Grants
Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers
Neighborhood Stabilization Program -1
Grants to States for Low – Income Housing in Lieu of Low – Income Housing Credit Allocations
Tax Credit Assistance Program
Indian Human Services
Older Americans Act Grants for Supportive Services and Senior Centers
Older Americans Act Family Caregiver Program
Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF) (social services)
Child Support Enforcement
Community Services Block Grant
Child Care and Development Fund
Head Start HHS
Developmental Disabilities Support and Advocacy Grants
Foster Care
Adoption Assistance
Social Services Block Grant
Chafee Foster Care Independence Program
Emergency Food and Shelter Program
Legal Services Corporation
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (employment and training component)
Community Service Employment for Older Americans
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult Activities
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Youth Activities
Social Services and Targeted Assistance for Refugees
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) (employment and training)
Foster Grandparents
Job Corps
Weatherization Assistance Program
Low – Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
10:03 pm
anywhere but here, right?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
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).
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
10:06 pm
Nasty NASCAR incident this afternoon. Wonder if that will affect tomorrow’s race ?
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
10:06 pm
LOL actually that’s Terry Branstad, Iowa governor.
I actually was kind of impressed that he would get up there and allow himself to look so silly…
And td, I could be wrong – and you will, I’m sure, immediately correct me if so – but Obama never said it was “all the idea” of the Republicans. And of course the ‘middle class tax increase’ that has you and your fellow travelers so exercised was simply the expiration of a temporary social security tax reduction. Of course you knew that too…
breckenridge
February 23rd, 2013
10:07 pm
“Obama has been sowing the seeds of racial hatred; we were healing quite well as a nation on racial issues until Obama came along and now we have a lot of racial discord. He may begin wiping out a few hundred people who own guns, pull a large scale Waco or a Ruby Ridge type incident and have it tinged it with racial overtones. But just in case Obama goes through with his plans to take down the Internet, people are setting up phone-trees all over the place to stop Obama in his tracks.”
Blogger Greg Howard, on the Talk To Solomon Show, 2-19-2012.
Love this kind of stuff, it makes me feel really well adjusted. Gotta run, time to go track down a phone tree.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
10:07 pm
Sad ……..
“Temptations singer Harris dead at 62″
http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/02/23/17070927-temptations-singer-otis-damon-harris-dead-at-62?lite
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
10:08 pm
Jam, just saw your earlier post but looks like we are in sync on the cowardly claims.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
10:09 pm
The hits keep on coming from the unhinged cons:
“Cruz Doubles Down: Harvard Law Was Full Of Communists” HP.
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
10:09 pm
You might be right about the exile thing….
Soothsayer
February 23rd, 2013
10:13 pm
“Nasty NASCAR incident this afternoon. Wonder if that will affect tomorrow’s race ?”
“Hey, so what if ‘at tar took mah arm off! I’ll be back out ‘ar tomorrow!”
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
10:13 pm
…we were healing quite well as a nation on racial issues until Obama came along…
Says a member of a gang that has a 2% black representation in a nation that is 13.1% black.
And conversely is 90% white in a country that is 63.4% white.
Call me crazy but that does not look very healthy.
Segregation is still alive and well in Republican America…
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
10:14 pm
@td
Just to further expand on the wartime presidency thing:
Do you not think it is going to take an inordinate amount of historical lensing (and more that a few bottles of white-out) to judge the war in Iraq as justified in terms of US military casualty count and financial cost? (nearly 5,000 dead and over 30,000 wounded and $800B and counting?)
If you play poker, you should stop because you are going all in on an inside straight with 3 aces on the board.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
10:17 pm
Keep, yep,the man has veracity and honesty issues.
“Cruz Doubles Down: Harvard Law Was Full Of Communists” HP.
Joseph McCarthy lives!
But at least one his more deranged acolytes, Alan West, just parlayed that stupid 1950s nonsense right into a choice position in a Florida unemployment line…
td
February 23rd, 2013
10:19 pm
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
9:53 pm
Sometimes your total lack of knowledge when you think you know everything just amazes me.
Presidents do not even get a full reading of their records for at least 50 years after they have left office (due to national security top secret papers). There are still documents from JFK’s term that are still classified. A real historian can not do a proper job of analyzing a Presidents contribution (or lack thereof) on the national security prospective until all the documents are available (since you claim to be a vet then you of all people should have an understanding of this one would think).
The polls you drag out are nothing more then a media feel good story. They mean nothing as far as what the historians will really say about a President.
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
10:23 pm
The fascist are coming! The fascist are coming!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY
Jm
February 23rd, 2013
10:23 pm
On topic
I thought the skit was pretty funny, but only because she was the first lady
Anyone else and that would’ve been a flop
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
10:24 pm
Disagreement with Bob Woodward.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/23/on-the-sequester-the-american-people-moved-the-goalposts/?hpid=z2
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
10:26 pm
Scout
They’ll run tomorrow. The wall will likely not get repainted, but they will repair and replace the fencing and things necessary to make it as safe as possible. I wonder if they’ll add something like the backstop netting used at baseball games to keep fly balls from knocking you on the head.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
10:26 pm
Brother AmVet
http://wonkette.com/502249/wnd-columnist-complains-about-continuing-slander-of-joe-mccarthy-without-an-ounce-of-irony
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
10:26 pm
“due to national security top secret papers”
Given the Bush administration’s penchant for outing covert CIA operatives, I am sure if there was anything in Bush II’s paperwork that makes a reasonable case for going to war in Iraq, they would’ve found a way to leak it.
Yellow cake anyone?
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
10:27 pm
Yeah, Jm, Michelle was great, but I was pretty impressed with Hillary as well.
td
February 23rd, 2013
10:28 pm
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
10:06 pm
” And of course the ‘middle class tax increase’ that has you and your fellow travelers so exercised was simply the expiration of a temporary social security tax reduction. Of course you knew that too…”
The 2% increase is taxes is what the propaganda machine (Lame stream media) of the President wants the low information voters to think about and is not what I am talking about. What about all the middle class people with 401K investments that now pay 20% instead of 15% on their long term investments? What about all the middle class people that are going to pay for every needle used, machine attached too, test done in that hidden Obamacare tax? How much has the middle classes taxes been raised now when you consider these added taxes?
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
10:32 pm
“..netting used at baseball games”
That would have to be SOME net to stop a 1,500 lb engine block.
td
February 23rd, 2013
10:34 pm
Look before I leap…
February 23rd, 2013
10:26 pm
While you are considering possibilities that none of us know anything about. Consider the thought that Osama did not have just 9-11 in mind when he attacked the US and how many additional plots and plans were crushed by the Bush administration.
Like I said we will not know and the history of the Bush administration will not truly be written for at least 46 more years.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
10:35 pm
“What about all the middle class people with 401K investments that now pay 20% instead of 15% on their long term investments?”
What is heaven’s name are you talking about?
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
10:37 pm
Hey Jam,
After reviewing your most awsomeness hit of the year, I must concur…
This was was a much better blind side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGLtoKL3dvI
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
10:38 pm
Kam, these new age nitwits who see a commie, Marxist, pinko behind every bush (think Andy when he’s been drinking heavily) are even more deranged that those 1950s cretins…
More fun quotes from another Conservative Christian!
The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. ~Jerry Falwell
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
10:38 pm
“Consider the thought that Osama did not have just 9-11 in mind when he attacked the US and how many additional plots and plans were crushed by the Bush administration. ”
None of which has anything to do with Iraq.
The turn card is up and it did not help your inside straight draw.
Soothsayer
February 23rd, 2013
10:42 pm
td: once again, your dumbass is showing. 401(k) participants pay no tax on gains in their accounts.
Only individuals who make more than $450,000/yr (married) pay the new 20% rate on long-term capital gains. And that only only personal investments — not on 401(k)s.
Even this is much less than the former 28% rate that was in place til King Dumbass the First took office.
Cherokee
February 23rd, 2013
10:42 pm
thanks td for your further explanation
I’d echo Look – I have a 401K and I’m not paying 20%. Thanks to the Obama recovery, my 401K is doing pretty well, thank you very much.
Do you mean the estate tax? If so, of course that won’t hit anyone in the middle class.
And as to the ACA, its implementation is already cutting health care costs – so again, I think – respectfully – that you’re mislead. Or misleading, perhaps – only you know that for sure.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
10:44 pm
betty, I like Bama, but that was a dirty cheap shot at a QB’s head. They should throw guys like that out of the game, right on the spot, to send a message to the other cheap shot artists.
The only other NU highlight from that otherwise forgettable game, but it too is damn impressive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pHgRGQiCT8
Soothsayer
February 23rd, 2013
10:47 pm
td: of all the dumbasses that migrate over here from Kyle’s blog, I find you particularly annoying.
Your glaring lack of education and your ignorance on most of the issues of the day are an embarrassment that you should be mindful of.
td
February 23rd, 2013
10:47 pm
Look before I leap…
February 23rd, 2013
10:35 pm
“What about all the middle class people with 401K investments that now pay 20% instead of 15% on their long term investments?”
What is heaven’s name are you talking about?
My bad. Should read middle class people with rental property instead of 401K. When you sell your rental property that you took a depreciation deduction on will now be recaptured at a 25% rate.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
10:48 pm
The turn card is up and it did not help your inside straight draw.
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
10:50 pm
Jam,
Amazing run by Martinez.
But the cold clock block earlier on #10 isn’t any better than Dial on Murray.
I don’t think there should be a penalty on either, but it’s nothing to be proud of…
like gee, I just cold cocked some dumb mf, give me a medal…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
10:51 pm
Should read middle class people with rental property instead of 401K.
Capt. Picard goalposts with warp drive.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
10:51 pm
jindal did not call them the party of stupid for nothing.
td actually thinks w did a great job.
I rest jindal’s case.
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
10:53 pm
getalife actually thinks o is doing a good job.
lol
Soothsayer
February 23rd, 2013
10:53 pm
td: once again, your stupidity is showing. The 25% recapture rate of depreciation on rental properties has not changed for years, and remains the same as always.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
10:54 pm
And as a 4 decade long Husker fanatic, I would be remiss if I did not wish a happy 76th to Tom Osborne.
A legendary football coach and a fine man.
Thanks for a ton of great memories, TO! (But damn, did you HAVE to go for two against Miami in 1984? LOL!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a96h9QvTl7c
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
10:55 pm
moonbat,
So?
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
10:58 pm
So does the majority that reelected him moonbat.
S&L and bank collapsed under bushies.
You can count a bush for a collapse
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
10:58 pm
getalife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR3wSz-r1SU
td
February 23rd, 2013
10:59 pm
Soothsayer
February 23rd, 2013
10:42 pm
First, $450,000 for a married couple is NOT rich (especially if you own a small business and file as a individual) and if Obama had gotten his way that would have been $250,000 for a married couple and $200,000 for an individual.
“Your glaring lack of education and your ignorance on most of the issues of the day are an embarrassment that you should be mindful of.”
No it is you that believe the that social justice, income redistribution, Keynesian economic theory, political correctness, abortion is not murder, think that $16.5 trillion debt and borrowing 40 cents on every dollar we spend today is the truly uneducated dumb asses.
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
11:00 pm
get,
getalife,
let it go.
it was a good day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfbGGZE07M
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:03 pm
…is[sic] the truly uneducated dumb asses.
Oh, the irony!
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
11:03 pm
@td
If you are referring to section 1250, the 25% only applies to the cost basis adjustment due to depreciation claimed (or allowable) during rental service. If I recall correctly, that 25% is a maximum and graduated.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:05 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZZuggp2ZVw
Soothsayer
February 23rd, 2013
11:05 pm
td: I never said income of $450,000 for a married couple is rich. That is simply the threshold for the new 20% rate.
I think that a society and country that spends in excess of $1.2 trillion on its military (which is more than the total of all of the other countries on earth spend) has its priorities misplaced.
I still don’t like you. You disgust me. You’re a jingoistic, brainwashed, brain-dead, mindless, conservabot who relies on others to do your thinking for you.
Alex
February 23rd, 2013
11:06 pm
the president with tiger and the first lady ……and we wonder why many children have issues with respect, embarrassing, plain and simple. Well, the Queen, is a skydiver, Catherine the Great was “prolific” and Clinton likes Blue Dresses, and Grover Cleveland was “fatherly”….
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
11:06 pm
…believe…abortion is not murder…
(Eye roll, head slap and huge guffaw here)
Because for the four hundred and fifty ninth time, it is not.
Murder is a felony in this country.
And though you’d love to execute women who have abortions, depraved animals like you are NEVER going to get your way.
Sucks for you that you were born five hundred years too late, huh?
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
11:08 pm
Or maybe just seventy too years too late in German history…
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:14 pm
Well, the Queen, is a skydiver, Catherine the Great was “prolific” and Clinton likes Blue Dresses, and Grover Cleveland was “fatherly”….
“The Decider” says, “What?”
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
11:15 pm
That would have to be SOME net to stop a 1,500 lb engine block.
If that engine block gets high enough to clear that fence, gravity will ensure that the only thing stopping it will be the ground. Using that kind of overhead netting might catch tires and other pieces of car, but I doubt anything over 100lbs or so would be stoppable at that speed and height.
————–
Capt. Picard goalposts with warp drive.
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
11:17 pm
“Oh[sic], the irony!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLGhPHzxjc
dance, dance I said.
Alex
February 23rd, 2013
11:18 pm
les miserables (sp?) great (Dr, Zchivago-ish) movie….Cafe’ Bistro, good place to see a movie. Not much dancing…….to the barricades!!
Soothsayer
February 23rd, 2013
11:19 pm
If you want to know about NASCAR, you have to ask an “expert.”
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
11:21 pm
“…Keynesian economic theory…”
You crack me up td:
Keynes’ theories are standing the test of time quite well thank you.
Even one of his most vocal critics in the 90’s, Gregory Mankiw, wrote in November 2008 in The New York Times:
“If you were going to turn to only one economist to understand the problems facing the economy, there is little doubt that the economist would be John Maynard Keynes. Although Keynes died more than a half-century ago, his diagnosis of recessions and depressions remains the foundation of modern macroeconomics. His insights go a long way toward explaining the challenges we now confront. . . . Keynes wrote, ‘Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slave of some defunct economist.’ In 2008, no defunct economist is more prominent than Keynes himself.”
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
11:24 pm
Go Danica!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD6AzxeHmVI
saywhat?
February 23rd, 2013
11:25 pm
Apparently Michelle Obama cares more about the health of America’s children than she does about her own dignity (not that she came off looking bad at all in that segment). I for one don’t have a problem with that.
If only there were some Republican politicians who cared more about Americans than they do about sticking it to the President, the poor, and Mexicans.
Look before I leap...
February 23rd, 2013
11:28 pm
“Sucks for you that you were born five hundred years too late, huh?”
Actually abortion wasn’t much of an issue in this country until about 110 years ago when the medical profession realized that they were losing a lot of revenue to the mid-wives and started pressing for legislation to govern women’s reproductive abilities.
Soothsayer
February 23rd, 2013
11:30 pm
Zen, and the art of GOP enlightenment!
It’s all in your mind!
Alex
February 23rd, 2013
11:34 pm
@Look, read “the principles and Practice of Medicine” 1st edition, 110 years ago,,the medical profession offered little more than “tincture of time”, lots of stupid comments on this blog, but yours is the tops, congrats-now go to sleep…
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
11:36 pm
It may be losing at the Federal level but the Constitution has won a big battle in Oregon.
Oregon lawmakers drop attempt to ban the sale of assault weapons and of high-capacity gun clips
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:38 pm
Sock-puppet parade.
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
11:38 pm
Each obamabot had to vote several times to get the emarrassing idiot reelected. Some even up to 12 times.
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:39 pm
Soothsayer
February 23rd, 2013
11:05 pm
td: I never said income of $450,000 for a married couple is rich. That is simply the threshold for the new 20% rate.
I think that a society and country that spends in excess of $1.2 trillion on its military (which is more than the total of all of the other countries on earth spend) has its priorities misplaced.
I think that a society that spends more on means tested entitlement programs so that people can abdicate having to suffer consequences for their actions and not take responsibility for their actions is corrupt. I think a country that borrows 40 cents of every dollar we spend and has stuck its suture children and grandchildren is morally bankrupt.
It is a Constitutional requirement to spend money on the military and our whole Federal governments top requirement is to defend this nation from enemies both foreign and domestic. I think you progressives not working to balance the budget and wanting to do nothing but spend more and more money are enemies of the future of our nation.
And you are nothing more then a then a Marxist believing socialist and that disgust me to no end.
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
11:39 pm
According to Forbes rankings, Detroit is the most miserable city in the United States.
Home to violent crimes, high unemployment, decreasing population and economic crises, Detroit beat out Miami (last years winner) along with Flint-MI, Chicago-IL, and Modesto-CA. The news comes on the heels of a panel of experts who said last week “the automotive city was facing a fiscal emergency and potential bankruptcy, as well as a possible financial takeover by the state.”
The criteria: “Forbes looked at 200 of the country’s largest urban areas and ranked them on factors including crime rates, foreclosures, taxes, home prices, commute times, weather and decreasing populations.”
Detroit has been run by Democrat mayors since 1964.
The top ten miserable cities:
1. Detroit, MI
2. Flint, MI
3. Rockford, IL
4. Chicago, IL
5. Modesto, CA
6. Vallejo, CA
7. Warren, MI
8. Stockton, CA
9. Lake County, IL
10. New York, NY
Predominant thing in common? Democratic leadership.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:47 pm
emarrassing[sic] idiot
Oh, the irony!
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
11:48 pm
Like the moonbat said, give it a rest cons.
It was a great race until the last lap .
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
11:48 pm
never experienced a typo have you? LOSER!!
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
11:50 pm
never experienced a typo have you?
Not while calling someone else an idiot, sport.
td
February 23rd, 2013
11:50 pm
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
11:06 pm
…believe…abortion is not murder…
(Eye roll, head slap and huge guffaw here)
Because for the four hundred and fifty ninth time, it is not.
Murder is a felony in this country.
And though you’d love to execute women who have abortions, depraved animals like you are NEVER going to get your way.
Sucks for you that you were born five hundred years too late, huh?
Yes we know that you progressives are so depraved that you refuse to believe that life exist in the womb when there is a lot more scientific evidence that proves otherwise.
You progressives are so depraved that you want to claim climate change is going to kill humans but you will not admit that you have killed more the 40 million unborn children since 1973 just in this country.
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
11:51 pm
Democrats really think I will pay for a background check when buying or selling guns to private parties. they really are stupid as hell.
Soothsayer
February 23rd, 2013
11:51 pm
Well, I’m going to leave you with this one. Sleep well.
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
11:52 pm
dance kam dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs
KEITH
February 23rd, 2013
11:56 pm
the majority didnt reelect him. the minority voted numerous times reelected him.
moonbat betty
February 23rd, 2013
11:59 pm
Night, yanks [sic]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O17MA58P-QY
breckenridge
February 24th, 2013
12:00 am
“You progressives are so depraved that you want to claim climate change is going to kill humans but you will not admit that you have killed more the 40 million unborn children since 1973 just in this country.”
Hey td………40% of the women that give birth in this country right now are on Medicaid. Without abortion being a safe and medical legal procedure……my goodness, just think of the reaming we taxpayers would be getting.
You can be either a fiscal conservative like myself, who realizes abortion is pro-taxpayer necessity, or you can be a religious conservative, as you apparently are. But you cannot be both.
KEITH
February 24th, 2013
12:01 am
With all those murders in Chicago, can we all agree obama was a complete failure when he was there organizing the community?
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
12:01 am
the majority didnt reelect him. the minority voted numerous times reelected him.
There’s your sign.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
12:02 am
@Alex
Two quick links:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8563453
http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/How-Abortion-Became-Illegal-in-the-United-States-Frederick-Dyer-05-25-2011.html
Regarding your timeline, modern surgery (blood loss, pain infection control) predates 1900 by several decades. Surgery, IMHO, is significantly beyond the “tincture of time” approach to medicine.
In fact, there is a local element to the history of modern surgery in that Crawford Long (see Emory/Crawford Long hospital) is generally regarded as the father of modern anesthesia.
Crawford Long 1815-1878
getalife
February 24th, 2013
12:04 am
“the majority didnt reelect him. the minority voted numerous times reelected him.”
There’s your dumbest post of the day.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
12:07 am
“There’s your dumbest post of the day”
Deluded maybe. I’m still going with “W was not a disaster”.
getalife
February 24th, 2013
12:08 am
“W was not a disaster”.
Good call.
I think I will go with that one too.
KEITH
February 24th, 2013
12:09 am
Zero was elected and reelected because people were allowed to vote numerous times for him. Simple as that.
KEITH
February 24th, 2013
12:12 am
liberals are so pathetic. they have to have each others support. in a gang they are rotweilers, alone they are little fluffy poodles with their fur dyed yellow.
KEITH
February 24th, 2013
12:15 am
If the yellow poodles did a little research they would discover the country was doing very well with GWB and the GOP in control. Things fell apart when Pelosi and Reid took over. THATS A FACT!!
guy
February 24th, 2013
12:57 am
bernie,
I am in Maui enjoying my time.
bernie, I am very happy and I love your president and his lady. I do not hate anyone.You should be ashamed for being so defensive. Take it easy! I even like you too!
Joel Edge
February 24th, 2013
6:23 am
“struts her stuff”?
The ever continuing slide to a lower standard. No horror, Bill Clinton lowered that bar already.
Krystal'sBalls
February 24th, 2013
8:09 am
Just thought I’d drop in and give HIGH PRAISE AND HONOR to my NUBIAN QUEEN Michelle Obama – a/k/a/ “Shell” (that’s what we sometimes call Michelles in the hood).
Get DOWN and get funky withcho’ bad self SOUL SISTA!!
DAMNNN! I get to do THIS for a whole ‘notha FOUR YEARS??
MMMwwwwuuuahahhahahhahahahahhhahahahaBWWWaaaaHHAHahahahaaaahhaaaaa…haaaaaa….Haaaaaaaaaa…hhhhhaaaaaaaaa..hheeeeeeeewww!
Stevie Ray
February 24th, 2013
8:15 am
If the GOP does anything other than call BO’s bluff, they should be completely turned over…they probably need that already.
The closer the sequester gets, the higher the volume of gloom, doom and despair directly from the WH..If they truly believe that, they too should support cliff jumping. If BO can then drag up alledged negatively impacted, starving folks after the fact, he certainly will stoop but he better be sure..
Remember the air traffic controllers in 1981 cries of “aluminum shower from the sky’?
I think this is another case of BO’s strategy of making people sick and then making them better. No way all this hysteria, if any, is realized.
Last thing this dope wants is to go over cliff and see no major impact…if he is correct, GOP’s last straw may be pulled. If he is BS’ing, tide will turn..
Last I heard only 27% of folks knew anything about sequester..
Krystal'sBalls
February 24th, 2013
8:17 am
To all you who are SO UPSET about the First Lady “strutting her stuff”. Here’s a reminder for you that NO ONE is above BEING HUMAN every now and then.
Your beloved George W Bush (RAISING THE f-G ROOF)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4fflZysO4k
Standing by for all of your excuses and justifications. I get it though…he was just being….”white” I guess ( er…um…excuse me ..a “diplomat”, “embracing the culture” and all THAT OTHER B-S). I put it that way for a reason, and that is to highlight the double standard for those of you who so willingly and SHAMELESSLY live by when it comes to issues of race. You won’t admit it, that ’s why gladly I do it FOR you.
Stevie Ray
February 24th, 2013
8:23 am
Krystal’sBalls
February 24th, 2013
8:17 am
I like her..and those who put forth ugly, demeaning things about her are weak, scared and mindless.
Her husband however is fair game…can’t wait to see if his predictions or starvation, planes crashing mide-air, or another attack on our shores due to weakened security prevail….
This will be a fun week. Bet measures to once again kick the can down the road, making plan to keep government running with nothing accomplished is outcome..
IMO
Odds:
Sequester: 25-1
Kick the Can: 1-4
guy
February 24th, 2013
8:24 am
You tell em Krystal’sBalls!!!! Grrr!!!!
GT
February 24th, 2013
8:27 am
The first lady is a super star on womanhood and one of the better mother’s I have seen too. She gets it even when the press tries so hare to control her, she is nobody’s fool. Laura Bush was a great first lady and in my mind a much better person than W. This country has been blesed the last decade with wonderful role models for our girls to see and learn from.
deegee
February 24th, 2013
8:40 am
Just trying to imagine Ann Romney doing some Mom dancing.
Redcoat
February 24th, 2013
8:41 am
First “Mom”…..? Why that term to use?…..She’s just a regular gal I bet…..and she’s so proud now….TV and Hollywood personalities, now DC……and this proves what exactly?
Cherokee
February 24th, 2013
8:43 am
I dunno, I think pretty much anything tossed out by KEITH qualifies for dumbest post…. he seems to be in a class by himself.
td, for example, is always wrong, but at least he can intelligently present his views…
Cherokee
February 24th, 2013
8:44 am
Thanks for the link Krystal.
Redcoat
February 24th, 2013
8:48 am
Why compare to Mary Lincoln?……….
Krystal'sBalls
February 24th, 2013
8:50 am
@StevieRay
You are correct. Her husband (the President) IS “fair game” and I will level my criticism of policies of his and OTHER politicians that do not sit well with me (and I have)…one example is the current gun control debate. Some things I agree with; the more extreme things I do not. I am a gun owner, so I have my own opinions. HOWEVER, I ALWAYS fall on the side of “intellectual honesty” (which I have come to despise the expression because it is so overused these days). Let’s not forget that we have a total 600 congresspersons roundabout who have MORE to do with this than the President ever has or ever will. Congress controls the purse strings. Along with that, you’re stretching in your characterizations of what the President has been saying and trying to do.
I just say you can’t have it both ways. You call the man a “dope” because CUTS (which you claim you want) will go into effect and in a major way. The problem is…these cuts hit one of the largest sacred cows we have – DEFENSE! That’s the problem. We seem to hate “government workers”, but everything defense related pretty much is just that. I know…I was married to that “industry” for quite a long time. Heaven forbid the defense contractors get hit in their pockets. Those grimy little “government workers” who make all of that possible though, screw THEM! They’re “overpaid. You cannot have one without the other. What the president has in fact been doing is telling people the truth about the impact. I sat and watched the JCS detail on CSPAN all of the base closings around the country that will need to happen. Now… radiate outward from there. The president is NOT lying about these things. I just think if people who oppose him simply because of the MAN he is, yet hide behind a facade saying it’s something else only hurt themselves…because it’s totally obvious to people when the arguments are dissected what’s really behind it all. Not saying that is YOU (thought he is a “dope” in your eyes), just saying in general.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
8:51 am
I presume that the blogger formerly known as Christian Conservative is going to have one doozy of a hangover this morning.
SR,
Sequestration yesterday! Sequestration tomorrow! Sequestration forever!!
LOL!
Here are the amounts/rough estimates based on numbers put out by OMB before the fiscal cliff deal::
Aircraft purchases by the Air Force and Navy are cut by $3.5 billion.
Military operations across the services are cut by about $13.5 billion.
Military research is cut by $6.3 billion.
The National Institutes of Health get cut by $1.6 billion.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are cut by about $323 million.
Border security is cut by about $581 million.
Immigration enforcement is cut by about $323 million.
Airport security is cut by about $323 million.
Head Start gets cut by $406 million, kicking 70,000 kids out of the program.
FEMA’s disaster relief budget is cut by $375 million.
Public housing support is cut by about $1.94 billion.
The FDA is cut by $206 million.
NASA gets cut by $970 million.
Special education is cut by $840 million.
The Energy Department’s program for securing our nukes is cut by $650 million.
The National Science Foundation gets cut by about $388 million.
The FBI gets cut by $480 million.
The federal prison system gets cut by $355 million.
State Department diplomatic functions are cut by $650 million.
Global health programs are cut by $433 million; the Millenium Challenge Corp. sees a $46 million cut, and USAID a cut of about $291 million.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is cut by $55 million.
The SEC is cut by $75.6 million.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is cut by $2.6 million.
The Library of Congress is cut by $31 million.
The Patent and Trademark office is cut by $156 million
Jerome Horwitz
February 24th, 2013
8:52 am
KAm – The Blues are hanging tough. Hope you are watching!
Redcoat
February 24th, 2013
8:54 am
The news releases are already prepared…….Sequester goes through, repubs fault for all the “suffering” that will dominate media……Deal to stop sequester, dems saved you again from repubs”. Back to another manufactured crisis……..
Recon 0311 2533
February 24th, 2013
8:57 am
No problem with the first lady but the country will be much better when she falls out of first.
Redcoat
February 24th, 2013
8:57 am
What country?….we have a political party to keep in power!
Recon 0311 2533
February 24th, 2013
9:00 am
Let sequester happen and then congress should give Obama transfer authority. Let the country then measure his executive ability.
stevie ray
February 24th, 2013
9:09 am
Krystalsballs
Intellectual honesty eh? Everyone here claims the same..here is some honesty:
The amount of sequester cuts is only 25 billion more than that provided (not yet iunderstand) to the victims of sandystorm . Give that some consideration. When the term intellectual honesty can be defined any way we choose, ithink you agree it,s irrelevant.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
9:12 am
Redcoat, you tried desperately …………………. and failed. Now your beloved GOP is in danger of becoming the long term minority party in this country.
Blame yourselves.
In addition to those cuts above, this would be the perfect time to close all of those insidious and perverted tax loopholes for the super-rich and increase taxes, primarily on paper-shuffling wealth of the speculators and derivatives traders, and not human labor.
Further, the days of endless corproate welfare, giveaways and handouts have to end. This is a representative democracy, NOT a state run corporatocracy as the neocons want. We the people/Uncle Sam are the rightful owners and the supreme and independent power and authority in this country!
NOT Wall Street.
That YOU want to gladly give away your sovereignty to the “monied interests” is sad and pathetic. And if you want to cheer on the existing power structure and slime the working class protesters in this country, that is your choice
America’s books can be balanced, but capitalism – the actual American capitalism that worked so well for so many decades, and which applied to EVERYONE, not just the working class – NOT this awful Reagan//trickle down/voodoo economics, must be restored.
stevie ray
February 24th, 2013
9:14 am
Jamvet
All bs scare tactics. As mentioned, the amount is 85 bil.. we set aside about 40%of that numberfor sandy victims….starvipng babies, granny really over the cliff this time, airplanes falling fromtbe sky (see impact of 1981 air controllers)..sieve like borders and the like. Bs. I agree about defense spending imo should be cut at least 20%.
Jackie
February 24th, 2013
9:16 am
The governors at the National Governors Conference are worried about the damage the sequestration will cause to economic gains in their respective states.
http://www.ajc.com/news/ap/health/governors-urge-congress-to-avoid-automatic-cuts/nWXrM/
stevie ray
February 24th, 2013
9:18 am
Jamvet
I guess next yiu will try to convince me that there is no waste in any of these areas. Bo has taken discretionary spending to heights previously unknown alledging i presume we are all getting great value here
stevie ray
February 24th, 2013
9:21 am
I note that the DoD cant even be audited….how about that? Means we could cut but not necessarily validate same…government at work .. well at least accordoling.to most here, we have a flawless president..
Jackie
February 24th, 2013
9:23 am
Wonderful information about Federal discretionary spending.
http://useconomy.about.com/od/usfederalbudget/p/Discretionary.htm
Recon 0311 2533
February 24th, 2013
9:28 am
If we can’t cut 2.4% out the 3.6 trillion dollars the federal government spends of which 40% is borrowed money the magnitude of our financial crises should be apparent to all.
QE 4 EVAH?
February 24th, 2013
9:28 am
In 2008, no defunct economist is more prominent than Keynes himself.”
Not intended as a compliment.
From the same article:
GOVERNMENT PURCHASES That leaves the government as the demander of last resort. Calls for increased infrastructure spending fit well with Keynesian theory. In principle, every dollar spent by the government could cause national income to increase by more than a dollar if it leads to a more vibrant economy and stimulates spending by consumers and companies. By all reports, that is precisely the plan that the incoming Obama administration has in mind.
The fly in the ointment — or perhaps it is more an elephant — is the long-term fiscal picture. Increased government spending may be a good short-run fix, but it would add to the budget deficit. The baby boomers are now starting to retire and claim Social Security and Medicare benefits. Any increase in the national debt will make fulfilling those unfunded promises harder in coming years.
Keynesian economists often dismiss these long-run concerns when the economy has short-run problems. “In the long run we are all dead,” Keynes famously quipped.
The longer-term problem we now face, however, may be more serious than any that Keynes ever envisioned. Passing a larger national debt to the next generation may look attractive to those without children. (Keynes himself was childless.) But the rest of us cannot feel much comfort knowing that, in the long run, when we are dead, our children and grandchildren will be dealing with our fiscal legacy.
Jackie
February 24th, 2013
9:35 am
Good argument of why the US can have a sustainable budget deficit.
http://truecostblog.com/2012/06/15/how-high-a-budget-deficit-can-we-sustain/
Krystal'sBalls
February 24th, 2013
9:36 am
@StevieRay.
I will never come out here and pretend to be neither an Economist or congressperson privy to all of the hard numbers information from an insider’s perspective. I do however know B-S when I hear it. Sounds like you are in ax grind mode. On the one hand you attempt to toss the “intellectual honesty” thing back my way and in the SAME BREATH proceed to hand me this B-S about the slight difference in the Sandy aid package and the sequester numbers. Let’s see…”Intellectual honesty”…
Realizing that ANY and ALL budget deals for spending/cuts or whatever to bring our deficit/debt under control (whether through sequestration or otherwise) shall be based on a LONG RANGE projection….typically what… around 10 years or so?? So you then attempt to sell me an argument based on a SINGLE YEAR’S portion of sequestration numbers and then try to stack that up against a disaster relief package that was proposed around $50 billion I believe it was. I can do nothing but shake my head at you…then come back and ask…if that is ALL the numbers are (as you imply negligible) then….WHAT THE HELL ARE BOEHNER, McCONNELL, THE TEA PARTY AND PEOPLE LIKE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT?? Why even get caught up in this whole charade about the doom and gloom or our problem, if sequestration is the “worst” that can happen to us if congress cannot hammer out a “less painful” deal???
That doesn’t even make sense..using YOUR argument or (il)logic!!
tireofit
February 24th, 2013
9:42 am
I suggest we take away GW’s secret service detail.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
9:42 am
SR, do you have a hangover this morning? LOL! You seem very irritable!
Maybe some Fogelberg is in order… (There is never a bad time for DF!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_9qixMYrOg
Recon 0311 2533
February 24th, 2013
9:43 am
QE 4,
Well stated Keynesian economics can never be a solution for this country or for that matter any country. Where is a model where it has actually succeeded. Theories can sound good or look good on paper but fall apart in the practical application.
Jackie
February 24th, 2013
9:45 am
If the Keynesian economic model works poorly, what model would anyone suggest that has a better practical application?
Recon 0311 2533
February 24th, 2013
9:46 am
Good argument of why the US can have a sustainable budget deficit.
Jackie, it’s sustainable until such time as it becomes unsustainable and unfortunately we’ve pretty much arrived at that point.
Jackie
February 24th, 2013
9:51 am
@Recon
SALUTE!!!
It appears that your argument is not cogent. If our budget is unsustainable, why do we still have continued economic growth?
I think you would agree that our economic policies have been hampered by the lack of growth in the public sector and the decline of jobs in the public sector. We have neglected our infrastructure and failed to reign in our health care costs which currently consume roughly 20% of GDP.
I do not agree with your argument.
Jackie
February 24th, 2013
9:53 am
@RECON
“…the lack of growth in the private sector…”
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
9:53 am
Jerome
Don’t have access to live video of the game, but I’m following via live text from BBC.
Four yellow cards so far, so it must be a well contested affair.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
9:56 am
Damn, Toure scores.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
9:57 am
It seems to me that the much of the animus about the size and cost of government is often misguided and based on willful stupidity. (Which does not mean that our deficit is indeed out of control.)
OF COURSE the bureaucracy is GIGANTIC. (As is also the predominant case in private enterprise.)
Look at the Dept. of Homeland Security as a prime example. After it’s inception, I read that at one point we had 17 different agencies involved in “The War on Terror”. Seventeen! Each p*issing on the other’s foot and fighting their little turf wars.
I have real bad news for you hard core Republican reactionaries. (Look it up, because I’m pretty certain that none of you misnamed conservatives have the first clue that that is what you really are.)
This nation no longer has 16 million people in it.
The size, scope and complexity of our national challenges are GIGANTIC.
That some of you apparently think that the greatest democracy on earth can be run like some child’s lemonade stand is interesting, but useless…
Bernie
February 24th, 2013
9:57 am
guy @ 12:57 am – Sure you are in Maui! Most Likely in Maui – north Georgia playing in a red clay mud hole. and I could give a Rats tail weather or not you like me or not. Your comment concerning the First Lady was offensive and racist to its core. You wrote those hurtful words and it only goes to show what an awful person you are and should be avoided at all costs. Just because you are in a Hawaii on a trip that you will paying for on a credit card for years to come does not put you in any more positive light. If I were to ever find out your employer I would refuse any business with them just because they have you for an employee! and that’s the Truth. I would then tell everybody that has EARS!
Recon 0311 2533
February 24th, 2013
10:10 am
Jackie, SALUTE to you.
We don’t have sufficient economic growth that produces revenues that can sustain our growing national debt. Our post recession recovery has been its slowest since World War II. Federal government stimulus has only produced short term lifts to the economy and then it falls back to less than 2% GDP growth and continues to be dangerously close to falling back into recession. I won’t go into the numerous barriers that the government has erected that have been an impediment to small business growth but the small business sector is extremely important to our economy and entrepreneurship is now practically nonexistent. The multinationals are doing fine because they are investing in foreign markets less regulated than our own, We’re not in good shape and that is unfortunately an unavoidable fact.
Granny Godzilla
February 24th, 2013
10:13 am
FLOTUS is FABULOUS
She is a marvelous role model for young women all around the world.
You go girl!
appleseed
February 24th, 2013
10:14 am
I think a Merkel back rub would be in order….
Steve
February 24th, 2013
10:16 am
I love how it boils the blood of partisan hacks in here to see the first lady looking hot and acting cool.
Jackie
February 24th, 2013
10:21 am
@RECON
You are correct in saying that we do not have adequate national economic growth. If one would stop to look at all the reasons that our growth is so tepid, it appears we have forgotten the truism “we need money to make money.”
We can not sustain and grow the world’s largest economy on a shoestring. We must update and upgrade our financial strength through the inclusion of all citizens working and earning a sustainable and living wage.
Using our enormous economic capacity gives us the ability to leverage our dollars through the multiplier effect. If we were to invest in our infrastructure, we would double the effect of each dollar spent.
We need to average 250,000 new jobs each month to keep pace with population growth. We currently have more than 70,000 bridges alone that are deemed substandard. Of course, you realize how difficult and time consuming it is to complete the work on one bridge, let alone 70,000 and the dollars that would be expended to bring that bridge up to code.
How about the sewers, clean water, renewable energy, communication lines and structure. The list goes on and on?
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
10:28 am
“Let sequester happen and then congress should give Obama transfer authority. Let the country then measure his executive ability.”
While I get the emotional appeal of the above, I am against having Congress abdicate one of it’s primary responsibilities.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
10:29 am
Many right wing reactionaries have blindly accepted the position that Uncle Sam has gotten too big for his britches. And in some cases there is some truth to that. Yet as embodied by the US Constitution, he is the only thing standing between us and all enemies, foreign and domestic.
But from what I have read the tacit adoration of the men who lack of respect for the law of the land is what drives much of this enmity.
I’ve got more bad news for those of you in “America should be a corporate run state” gang.
You detest regulations (well REGULATED militia, my ___) And certainly there are many over-lapping and unnecessary ones.
But the reason Uncle Sam has had to get so heavy handed and to crack down, even in the tepid way that he does, is because plenty of his children are brats, who do NOT respect or follow our laws and our democratic system.
As Thomas Jefferson wrote: I hope we shall crush in its birth, the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations who dare challenge our government to a test of strength and who bid defiance to the laws of our country.
I’m talking about the thieves and miscreants at Lehman Brothers, AIG, Enron, Exxon, WorldCom, Hooker Chemical, BP, Archer Daniels Midland, Georgia Pacific, Genetech, ConAgra, Pfizer, Summitville Consolidated Mining Co, Rockwell, Teledyne, Northrup, Eastman Chemical, GE, Colonial Pipeline, Allied Chemical, Blue Cross Blue Shield…
And the this is, OF COURSE, a very partial list. Should I go on?
Many of these companies have STOLEN from Uncle Sam/you and me, and never faced justice. Yet being the watered down version that he is, he still does business with them.
Just the way you corporations uber alles gang want it…
Recon 0311 2533
February 24th, 2013
10:32 am
Jackie,
I agree that you’ve identified areas needing attention, however, until we once again get the private sector cranked up we won’t create the revenues to sufficiently focus on those needs. The divide between the left and the right is the role of government versus the role of the private sector in regaining and maintaining the health of our economy. The fact is both are important but we’re now out of balance and we need to get back in balance very soon.
Jackie
February 24th, 2013
10:34 am
US corporations have an estimated $2 Trillion dollars cash on their balance sheets.
The corporations say they are concerned about the potential crisis in Europe and how it will affect their business as to why they have not reinvested their profits into business expansion.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704312104575298652567988246.html
Jackie
February 24th, 2013
10:36 am
@RECON
If the private sector refuses to reinvest their profits and share those profits with us in the way of jobs with livable wages and benefits, the government must play a role in priming the economy.
Jackie
February 24th, 2013
10:39 am
@RECON
Please see my 9:35 and how the explains how bringing the budget into balance is a myth.
Recon 0311 2533
February 24th, 2013
10:42 am
While I get the emotional appeal of the above, I am against having Congress abdicate one of it’s primary responsibilities.
Unfortunately, so does congress but they can’t agree on anything and so we continue to move from one crises to the next. Congress only can agree on postponing agreement that never comes. We need to take some action now and though a 2.4% reductions in future spending is a paltry amount it’s at least a step in the right direction. If we’re to take that step then the president should IMO have the authority to prioritize accounts and move money around. Kind of like it’s done in commercial business when reduced spending become necessary.
Jackie
February 24th, 2013
10:43 am
Folks, have to go to hospital to visit one of my classmates.
He was a member of the 1st Cav (First Team) and fought at Khe Sahn during the the 1968 Tet Offensive.
Play nice!
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
February 24th, 2013
10:43 am
RECON@ 1032:
If by the private sector, you mean corporations, then why would they want to change now? they are making record profits, and not having to hire anyone, is just gravy to them. They have absolutely no profit loss by not hiring. It is the job of the Government to regulate these record profits and force them to hire. Otherwise there is nothing the President can do to make businesses hire…other than nationalize them. And as an aside, I think it is proper and right for the Government to nationalize all defense industries. They are some of the biggest scammers and they need to be stopped.
Bottom line is that in your Ideal World, the Private Sector will act in a proper and moralistic manner, eschewing profits for the needs of the population. Of course, in the real world, we know this won’t happen. The only thing the Private Sector feels patriotic about is the good ol’ American Greenback…and country …and it’s people…be damned.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
10:45 am
“the small business sector is extremely important to our economy and entrepreneurship is now practically nonexistent.”
Hysteria much?
SB startups did in fact decline year over year from a peak of 670K in 2006 to about 550K in 2009.
Closures and bankruptcies also increased in the same time frame.
Something you would expect to see in a recession where both capital and consumer demand decrease dramatically.
But – 550,000 start-ups is NOT all but non-existent.
Recon 0311 2533
February 24th, 2013
10:49 am
Jackie,
I only scanned your 9:35 because it was lengthy. There’s nothing that can convince me that we haven’t reached the point where our deficit spending is unsustainable.
Recon 0311 2533
February 24th, 2013
10:56 am
But – 550,000 start-ups is NOT all but non-existent.
How many of those have turned the corner or are still in business. What about 010, 011 and 012? At this point we should be seeing a lot more and compared to not so many years ago it has become nonexistent. No hysteria but it’s certainly time for objectivity.
Recon 0311 2533
February 24th, 2013
11:05 am
Corbin, the private sector include small/medium privately held companies and U.S. based corporations. I would have to disagree with your characterization of those business entities. BTW…is Corbin Sharpe the new normal?
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
11:08 am
The myth being perpetuated by the right regarding Keynes is that he advocated for continued government deficit spending and superior government effect within the private sector market.
This is untrue. He believed that government and private sector spending were complementary systems where private sector spending should take precedence when the economy is good.
Keynes also believed that there were natural equilibrium points in the market between wages, inflation and interest rates. When this equilibrium is disrupted, the country tips towards recession and the government must take an active role by adjusting interest rates, cutting taxes and increasing spending to nudge the economy back to balance in capital costs. Once the economy recovers, the government must increase taxes and cut spending to ward off inflation to keep things balanced.
One of the things that I think we are seeing that has been a drag on economic recovery is that Richard Kahn seems to have been over-optimistic in the multiplier effect given the hoarding of cash by the multi-nationals.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
February 24th, 2013
11:10 am
RECON,
Yes to your last question and I think that if you really look and listen to what CEO’s, large and small, are saying, you would hear that they don’t give a fig about this country. They want to change it to suit them, not the other way around.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
11:11 am
@recon 2533:
I don’t have numbers for 10/11/12 – looking for them now.
If the decline has continued, then yes it becomes worrisome.
bman.
February 24th, 2013
11:13 am
I’ve seen this sort of thing before. It’s usually one of those after-work get together drink parties. You know what I’m talking about – where the 50 year-old woman gets drunk and acts stupid.
Recon 0311 2533
February 24th, 2013
11:19 am
Off to enjoy the day, y’all have a good one. out
td
February 24th, 2013
11:19 am
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
10:29 am
“Well regulated militia” No one disagrees with that statement that the militia needs to be well regulated but when you read the rest of the amendment you find that the founders exempted one facet of the militia from regulation.
“the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
SHALL NOT is the key phase. The government SHALL NOT infringe on the peoples individual right to keep and bear arms.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
11:22 am
@recon 2533
Martin Baily has an interesting article on the Brookings site.
Here is a link:
http://www.brookings.edu/research/testimony/2012/02/01-small-business-baily
td
February 24th, 2013
11:25 am
Look before I leap…
February 24th, 2013
11:08 am
Sort of sounds like to me that Keynes believes that the government has the responsibility to control the economy and not the markets. This theory sounds like another I know you are quite familiar with:
“a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.”
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/socialism
Key term is regulation.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
11:30 am
Moving the goalposts in 3…2…1….
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
11:30 am
“Sort of sounds like to me that Keynes believes that the government has the responsibility to control the economy and not the markets”
Nope, filtered down to the finest level it works out to “the government must step in when the private sector fails to step up”
I refer you to the history of Standard Oil
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
11:33 am
Exempted???
Perhaps you need to review that definition, td.
Also you seem to think that infringed and unlimited are synonyms. They are not. Again. I ask that you look at how those words are defined.
infringe – v
1. To transgress or exceed the limits of
The rights of the people to keep and bear arms has always been limited and qualified.
Go try and buy a suitcase nuke and see what the men who interpret the US Constitution think of that.
getalife
February 24th, 2013
11:36 am
“the government must step in when the private sector fails to step up”
As they did after the banks collapsed.
Of course, the cons pretend the collapse never happened and saving it from depression was free .
td
February 24th, 2013
11:39 am
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
11:30 am
Apples and oranges my friend. You are talking about the government stepping in to make sure the free market is not monopolized. What I am talking about is Keynesian economics is about government control (regulation) of the day to day operation of the government.
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
11:41 am
“As they did after the banks collapsed”
Yep. and td would be VERY hard pressed to find anything in Keynes writings to justify the “collective ownership” he seems to see there. Regulation…td…in case you don’t know, is not ownership
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
11:42 am
“You are talking about the government stepping in to make sure the free market is not monopolized”
Same difference. It’s market manipulation that the government must step in to control. Recessions are a form of “market manipulation” that are bad for the country and the government must step in to control it.
What YOU are “talking” about is collective ownership. Apples and oranges my friend
getalife
February 24th, 2013
11:43 am
I bet td wants to deregulate the banks again because cons need to revisit the collapse to remind them how expensive it really was.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
11:45 am
get at 11:36, well said.
WE THE PEOPLE are sick of bailing out the white collar criminals, who in many cases are already stealing from us, and watching them take over the role of sovereigns in this nation. Because men of no moral conscience in Washington will take their money instead of standing up to them on OUR behalf. We elected them and they answer to US. Not Sheldon Adelson’s or George Soros’ billions of dirty dollars.
It is a threat to the republic FAR greater than the illegal immigrants and Islamoterrorists put together.
And In spite of what that gutless little man said, corporations are not people, my friends.
Occupy that.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
11:52 am
“the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
@td
You are a broken record. You repeat this time and time again and yet make no cogent point.
But let’s deconstruct the above clause in the Constitution for a moment:
Infringe:
From Merriam-Webster
1 : to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another
2 : obsolete : DEFEAT, CRUSH
Medieval Latin infringere, from Latin, to break, crush, from in- + frangere to break
Given that those founding fathers who had educations would have been taught Latin, I suspect the intent on the language leans towards the concept of crushing/breaking or in more legal terms, prohibiting.
Add to the fact that at the time of the Constitutional Conventions, arms were composed of single-shot flintlocks and pistols and the only weapons of mass destruction were cannons, the founding fathers could not have conceived of a single nutcase individual walking into a classroom full of children and wiping them out in a matter of a few seconds. Had they envisioned that, they may have chosen different wording.
That said, I am not interested in reactionary legislation that would do nothing to prevent the types of tragedies that are driving the current push to enact stricter gun-control laws.
Lets rationally sit down and ask the following:
Is there a problem/risk/threat that needs to be addressed?
If so, what is it?
Once we know what “it” is, is there anything we can do about it?
Personally, I think when it comes to so called assault weapons, that genie is going to be very hard to put back into the bottle.
The effect of that is, those innocents who perish in these types of incidents will have to be considered collateral damage and part of the price we as a society must pay to protect the right to absolute gun-ownership by our citizenry.
td
February 24th, 2013
11:54 am
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
11:33 am
Exempted???
Perhaps you need to review that definition, td.
Also you seem to think that infringed and unlimited are synonyms. They are not. Again. I ask that you look at how those words are defined.
infringe – v
1. To transgress or exceed the limits of
The rights of the people to keep and bear arms has always been limited and qualified.
Go try and buy a suitcase nuke and see what the men who interpret the US Constitution think of that.
Remember the phrase right before infringed (shall not). In other words the right of the people the keep and bear arms shall not be transgressed. The government shall not exceed the limits placed upon it.
From all the readings of our founding fathers that I have done on this subject they were talking about guns (not cannons, or suitcase nukes). Now I personally think that a ban on automatic guns is against the original intent of the 2nd Amendment. Now I know that ban will not be abolished but if we are talking about original intent then that is my opinion
getalife
February 24th, 2013
11:54 am
You have to regulate greed is a concept td will never understand.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
11:57 am
The fact that td just tried to equate Keyne’s theories to socialism bumps his “W was not a disaster” post to a DISTANT 2nd as the dumbest post in this thread.
I mean seriously dude, was there an O2 problem during your birth?
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
11:58 am
Is td STILL here spreading hate and lies? How one person be so filled with hate for his Country and it’s Citizens?
getalife
February 24th, 2013
11:59 am
This sucker could go dowm.
Google that td.
getalife
February 24th, 2013
11:59 am
down.
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
11:59 am
Kamchak? Daytona 500? Beer? Bench Warmers?
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
12:00 pm
Counting the seconds before we see the abortion deflection from td…
5
4
3
2
…..
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
12:02 pm
Love to Fred, but I got yard work to do when it finally dries out before it rains again
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
12:05 pm
OK, time for more music. (Before the new format makes it all but impossible!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9j25V4iw94
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
12:08 pm
The water and wind will wash it away Mr. Excuse boy.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
12:09 pm
Another great post at 11:52 by Look.
We can’t outlaw evil and expect the slaughters to stop.
A different (less dangerous!) kind of evil…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s98UgBSNoL4
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
12:11 pm
“Love to Fred, but I got yard work to do when it finally dries out before it rains again”
Condo living is the life for me!
My yard work consists of watering the Shamrock Evergreen shrubs and moving the begonias in at night.
And I am never more than 65 feet from a beer.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
12:12 pm
Last night someone played that awesome song by the Allman Brothers.
This song, also great, and with a very similar name, is not that one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjPqsDU0j2I
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
12:13 pm
More evidence of the corporatocracy that Jefferson foresaw and warned us about…
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/59524_409685979113617_1225334414_n.jpg
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
12:13 pm
Here ya go Jammie:
Look in the mirror tell me what do you see
Or can you lie to yourself like you’re lyin’ to me
Do you fall asleep real easy feelin’ justified and right
Or do you wake up feelin’ empty in the middle of the night
You want to think you’re different, but you know you never can
You’re just another ordinary man
Hey politician, can’t believe a word you say
Almighty media, whose truth d’you sell today?
Watchdog of justice, who keeps their eye on you?
Con man, song in hand, who you singin’ to?
The more I get to see, the less I understand
I’m just another ordinary man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPFpsWbG1Tc
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
12:15 pm
The water and wind will wash it away Mr. Excuse boy.
I wish.
Gazillions of live oak leaves.
Tough as leather, and hangs around longer than an unwanted relative at xmas.
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
12:15 pm
No Jam, you don’t say?
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/ceo-take-home-pay-rockets-as-economy-rebounds/nWYPM/
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
12:15 pm
Look, midtown?
Not always considered in the greatest of the greatest southern bands (ABs, LS, MT, CD), but they damn sure were, in my book…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEmULpVgH5I
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
12:19 pm
Yo Jam, I have saved Can’t find my way home form this concert in 1969, but as I was looking something up, the whole concert popped up on youtube. I don’t know how much of a Blind Faith fan you are but you might want this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfAHsiTHWfQ
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
12:20 pm
@Jam
Yes – midtown
My brother was real hip to these guys back in the 70’s.
Isn’t this Manti T’eo’s theme song?
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
12:21 pm
The guy had an amazing, albeit very uneven career, and most people have no idea that he was a fairly decent guitar player.
Here he covers one of those Cat Stevens songs that is simply impossible not to like…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaU6MgmGyVU
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
12:23 pm
@Jam/Fred
This is one of my fave classics. Grew up on these guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGgLPriZUSA
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
12:24 pm
My favorite ARS Jam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjiBLo-qKZw
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
12:26 pm
Freddie, regarding BF, I bought that stunning album of theirs, the only one they ever released, only a few years ago, because I considered it a BIG hole in my collection!
Triumph – great, socially conscious power trio! I always liked them a lot and thought of them as a poor man’s Rush!
Look, too funny!
The second guitar that I ever bought was a 12 string Epiphone because of Roger McGuinn…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUbxEu-qY0s
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
12:31 pm
Oh wow , McGuinn!
from the Byrds.
Made a gi’tar sound like a banjo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B579egG4oNQ
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
12:32 pm
Jam: Growing up I was a huge Cat Stevens fan but I never realized he wrote that song until a couple years after Rod covered it. I liked Rod with the Faces. Jeff Beck never forgave Rod for breaking away did he? Which is weird concidering the sheer talent that went through the Jeff Beck group in those years. Rod, Ron Wood, Jimmie Page, Ansley Dunbar, John Entwistle, Keith Moon……. damn toomany to list:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtqF0qBqzZo
indigo
February 24th, 2013
12:33 pm
td
At the time the 2nd ammendment was written, there was no standing professional army. The milita needed to protect America was entirely composed of civilians.
Today, our milita is our standing Military and, by extension, our police forces. They are the ONLY ones guarenteed “the right to keep and bear arms” by the 2nd ammendment.
Deep down, you know this. However, the NRA has sucessfully brainwashed you and others into actually believing Obama wants to take your guns and turn America into a strict Socialist country. They have further convinced you the only way to stop this is to buy more guns. The fact that gun manufacturers are the only real beneficiaries of all this totally escapes you.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
12:34 pm
That some of you apparently think that the greatest democracy on earth can be run like some child’s lemonade stand is interesting, but useless…
B… b… b… but small government!!!!
——————
Look @ 10:28
You have to remember that you’re talking to the same group that thinks Obama has already shredded the Constitution.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:35 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUP9A5IS-vo
Stevie Ray
February 24th, 2013
12:35 pm
FRED
Get up, get down, get out..
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+rod+stewart+faces&mid=EEDDE12E2107821F1089EEDDE12E2107821F1089&view=detail&FORM=VIRE3
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:36 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1s2UFc_z8
get it on, get it on
I love music
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
12:36 pm
TBS……. still not to late to watch the Daytona 500……..
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
12:36 pm
“You have to remember that you’re talking to the same group that thinks Obama has already shredded the Constitution”
But they can’t find anything to prove it…they just KNOW
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsAaLNMtb1A
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:38 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BA6fFGMjI
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2WzocbSd2w
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:40 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyjhOxqPmjI
Stevie Ray
February 24th, 2013
12:40 pm
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
12:34 pm
It sez something for that tired old dusty document when neither BUSH nor Obama can shred it….although you wouldn’t know much difference in the strategies…
All this arguing over guns I get not. Look at whats practical. There are 310 million guns out there…the ones I think we know about. So these new laws however they turn out, may keep a few hundred thou out of circulation a year..?? Perhaps it’s in the millions?
Perhaps its like the debt except we are doing what is practical and attempting in some way to flatten any growth.
Seems to me there are already plenty of guns for whatever uses are desired…probably keep us busy at least during my lifetime….
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
12:41 pm
The first 18 seconds is Disney but the rest isn’t. This has to be the best “reworked” song I’ve heard. He takes David Allen Coe’s classic, The Ride, and turns it into a Dale Earnhardt tribute.
Then he cried when we got to Daytona an’ as he pulled onto the track,
An’ he said: “This is where you get out boy, ’cause number three ain’t comin’ back.”
As I crawled out of the race car, I said: “Thanks, I’ll catch you later.”
He said: “It’d be tough catchin’ me boy, ’cause I’m The Intimidator.”
He said: “Boy, can you make fans stand an’ scream your name?
“Can you hit ‘em in the rear an’ grab another gear, still roll into victory lane?”
He said: “Boy, do you know how it feels to run three wide?
“‘Cause if you’re Daytona-bound, let me warn you, you’re in for a ride.”
The Greatest race car driver ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ViEiMr2wDM
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
12:42 pm
Doggone
Their “thinkers” have already figured it out for them, so they don’t have to expend any energy towards trying to think for themselves. Once it’s heard three times in the echo chamber, then it’s considered verified fact.
Real Scootter
February 24th, 2013
12:42 pm
Today, our milita is our standing Military and, by extension, our police forces. They are the ONLY ones guarenteed “the right to keep and bear arms” by the 2nd ammendment.
The SCOTUS says,What? (h/t Kam)
Agent99
February 24th, 2013
12:43 pm
The truth about baby boomers
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1594
It seems we’re not so bad after all, and our music is outstanding. Thanks JamVet and Fred for linking the tunes this morning.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:43 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwqhJyUyoHU
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
12:45 pm
What a crock of crap. I didn’t check the lyrics and that site I got them from is obviously a lying Baptist site that had to “clean” them up……….
I hate that crap.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyPSxS0OIyQ
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:48 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAt6MixlKuA
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
12:49 pm
Look, that Rickenbacker he plays is just stunning. Most of their stuff is!
Too funny, TBS is still all funked out and soulful from Friday night. I love it!!
I really don’t brag about myself (much! LOL at me!) but damn if along with you guys, we don’t put down some truly amazing music. All over the board! From R&B to musical soundtracks to Bluegrass.
Talk about a musical education!
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:49 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1opP8×3Qo
Stevie Ray
February 24th, 2013
12:50 pm
Meanwhile….BO’s Hollywood supporters are sporting $100,000 attire…It’s funny how much the film makers etcetera benefit from tax breaks…doubt this $1.5 billion annually includes the fact that accounting for film productions remains one of the most prolific accounting mysteries..I think I heard that a film can gross
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324880504578298080119811240.html
Also it is estimated that only 5% of films, despite several hundred millions gross receipts is losing money…no wonder the industry can afford to toss money around as they do..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
12:52 pm
“is obviously a lying Baptist site that had to “clean” them up”
Yeah, saw something like just a few minutes ago on TV. The voice said “What the heck is going on?” but the MOUTH clearly said “f*ck” not heck!
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:52 pm
http://www.youtube.cohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1opP8×3Qom/watch?v=KOTOnFKKx7M
Stevie Ray
February 24th, 2013
12:53 pm
Sorry only 5% show a profit..
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
12:53 pm
Did you get any Blue Grass like this Jam?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t7HLkldXbg
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
12:53 pm
Well I just peeked in my fridge and I need…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCPhIjmk-s
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaMJeQYz6c4
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
12:55 pm
I think she might have severely sold out and ruined her future but here is hoping not. i think she ios one of the best today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3SNDe2vkjE
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:55 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhdcJ7K3XM
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
12:56 pm
Everyone has heard of the phrase, no good deed goes unpunished, right?
Last night I lived it!
I gave someone a ride home because they didn’t want to ride with a drunken driver. It only took me 15 minutes to help and was no big deal for a regular mensch, like yours truly.
But when I pulled into the garage and parked, there was a noticeable hissing sound coming from my right rear tire. Thanks god for spares, even if they are of the cheesy space saver variety!
Agent, that looks great; will read it later. Thanks back at ya…
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
12:57 pm
Stevie Ray
I have no idea where the gun talk comes from as I was addressing Look’s comment about Congress abdicating their authority to Obama. If it were my job to do, I would tell the gun nuts to go fellate a lit stick of dynamite as they make sensible gun owners look like nutcases. You can’t have rational dialogue with irrational people. We see that here on a daily basis.
As for Bush and Obama, I’ve called them one and the same since Obama took his first oath. Obama has actually been a better Republican president than Bush ever was.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:57 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62XibPMlXw
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
12:58 pm
“Obama has actually been a better Republican president than Bush ever was.”
That popping sound you hear is con heads exploding across 6 counties.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
12:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=husf6po76mU
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
12:59 pm
Alright Look, fess up. You got that song from me. I need to do one too. I have to admit that the song is an ear worm. The firsttime I heard it it was so catchy oit was running through my head all day. Kinda of like this one. Here is the original first studio take without the jazzed up video or reworking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAV0XrbEwNc
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
1:00 pm
@Fred
It is the only song I will sing in karaoke.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
1:02 pm
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Cv1kg99DY
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
1:02 pm
@Fred
Too effin’ funny.
getalife
February 24th, 2013
1:02 pm
Keep on rocking in the free blog.
Until change has come to the free blog.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
1:02 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Cv1kg99DY
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
1:03 pm
I’m not much of a racing fan, but I do know about the 3 Car. And his legion of fans.
Another Last Ride…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjJUtdc0bhU
TBS
February 24th, 2013
1:04 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVjFwcdQlN0
And for now, I’m gone
TBS
February 24th, 2013
1:06 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbfL4Q9bP7g
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
1:11 pm
Sorry only 5% show a profit..
THAT, I believe Stevie!
I’m not much of a movie goer. My love for the visceral experience of going out and seeing films was very brief but intense. A Clockwork Orange and 2001, … were two of the very first ones I ever saw. (The movie theater at Keesler AFB!)
Most are awful and I’m not into moving a lot of dirt to find a couple of gems!
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
1:12 pm
Look
Fred ™
February 24th, 2013
1:14 pm
Jamvet: I loved to HATE Dale Earnhardt lol. His fans were (and still are) the drunkest most obnoxious knuckle dragging rednecks at the race, the bar, the mall ect……. not that all his fans were that way, but the one that WERE that way were always Earnhardt fans. They were as easy to taunt and torment as are the far right wing nutcases here.
Anyway, he was one of those people who transcends his sport to where he is know by folks everywhere. Like Arnold Palmer, Mario Andretti, Babe Ruth, Joe Namath, Muhammad Ali ect……. thye are just so much LARGER than anyone else that they gain myth status even when they are alive. Others may be better, but THEY are the ones everyone loves or loves to hate. They are the ones who “Float like a Butterfly and Sting like a Bee.”
They are the ones who say, “Second place is just first loser.”
They truly ARE the Champions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyVXFpD4k_s
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
1:15 pm
Fred, I saw them at Smith’s Olde Bar a few years back. They are the real deal…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1LWOuFhal0
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
1:19 pm
Don’t let James Franco start another race. Please!!
getalife
February 24th, 2013
1:20 pm
I think he meant to say gentleman and Danica.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
1:22 pm
getalife
I think so as well. He just made Danica look like she doesn’t belong. “Drivers and Danica” would not have been my choice of words though.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
1:22 pm
…about Congress abdicating their authority to Obama…
The unilateral presidency. As invented by the previous CiC. And this one has taken that ball and run like hell with it.
it’s been coming and is one reason why Congress has approval ratings like used car salesman and lobbyists.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/143225/trust-legislative-branch-falls-record-low.aspx
Stevie Ray
February 24th, 2013
1:26 pm
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
12:57 pm
Can I borrow that term fellate a lit stick of dynamite? I can find much use for that particular term in my personal and professional life…
That’s a classic..
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
1:31 pm
“The unilateral presidency”
Jamvet…small correction…Unitary, not unilateral
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
1:38 pm
Doggone,
To President Bush, Article II demands not merely a unitary but a unilateral presidency in that all authority delegated by Congress must be funneled through the President.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1055901
And…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory
Stevie Ray
February 24th, 2013
1:39 pm
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
1:11 pm
It was all very “otishow”…(horror show)…my drugs…you appear to be a malchick who loves to terroize the lewdies…
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
1:42 pm
Stevie Ray
Have at it!
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
1:45 pm
“Article II demands not merely a unitary but a unilateral presidency”
Yeah, but the way it was referred to on news reports, etc. was “unitary” not “unilateral”
guy
February 24th, 2013
1:45 pm
Bernie, you are the bitter fool,not me. You have an anger management problem and I feel so sorry for you. Be Happy and Smile!!!!!
Please have a good day. Your idle threats do not worry me in the least. How I pay for what I do is none of your business,understand?You will be in my thoughts and prayers.
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
1:49 pm
BTW, Jamvet…given that unitary Presidency rode the coat tails of a “permanent Republican majority” I’m think there’s a few Repubs around who are pretty damn glad they didn’t achieve that unitary Presidency!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
2:12 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pteh5hdZlg
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
2:28 pm
Doggone, another interesting fact, the only thing that Clinton wanted in that Contract with America was the line item veto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A5Tbh_cCSU
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
2:30 pm
“Doggone, another interesting fact, the only thing that Clinton wanted in that Contract with America was the line item veto”
yeah, I knew about that…but it would have been ruled unconstitutional even if he had gotten it. I remember the discussions about it.
getalife
February 24th, 2013
2:55 pm
Danica is fast today.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
3:05 pm
getalife
Doesn’t matter. Joe Gibbs will be in victory lane with one of his drivers.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
3:09 pm
I don’t think anyone has even mentioned Black History Month, but I just figured out why GPB has been showing so many awesome programs lately!
Say it loud, Bro!
We’re people, we’re like the birds and the bees
We’d rather die on our feet
Than be livin’ on our knees
Outta sight…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0A_N-wmiMo
getalife
February 24th, 2013
3:10 pm
Bro,
Hendrick
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
3:16 pm
JamVet
Some try to fit it all into one month, but that’s like trying to transport a professional football team on a single yellow school bus. There’s too much to cover in 28 days. The history of music alone fills up a month and then some. However it will remain this way until the writers of the history books remove their blinders.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
3:17 pm
getalife
Hendricks will get a top 5, but the trophy will leave with Gibbs.
pete
February 24th, 2013
3:31 pm
Well thank God. You can no longer buy 2 liter drinks in NY. Because you know…2 liter drinks are what are causing all our problems.
Where do these idiots come from, and who elects them? Oh, that’s right…stupid liberals. Nanny state sums it up.
getalife
February 24th, 2013
3:51 pm
Bro,
They start taking chances with 30 to go.
Your car is smoking.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
3:55 pm
getalife
I’m down 2 now, but the 11 is still running point.
getalife
February 24th, 2013
3:55 pm
They are fighting for the outside line and they will probably crash again.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
3:59 pm
They will crash with about 5-7 laps left.
getalife
February 24th, 2013
4:39 pm
Final lap crash Johnson wins.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
4:47 pm
BOTTOM LINE:
IF YOU CAN’T PASS IT AIN’T RACIN’ ………… JUST SAYIN’
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
4:47 pm
getalife
Curse you and Hendricks….
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
4:48 pm
Headline (AJC): “Judge calls time out in DeKalb school board case”
“A judge has issued an order temporarily blocking Gov. Deal from replacing DeKalb school board members.”
Well, well …………….
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
4:54 pm
Anyone know if they made fun of Mohammed on Saturday Night Live last night ?
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
4:55 pm
I’m with Kam, this is a great time of year to get yard work done. (And I am done, as in beat! LOL!) It’s not like it still doesn’t have it’s challenges, but at least it’s not hot as blazes and the bugs don’t eat ya alive!
(And Look laughs at us!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggaKJyx_iRU
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
4:56 pm
Headline: “Karzai orders US special forces out of Afghan province”
Well, there you go.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
4:59 pm
You’re confused, it was Mohammed Ali they made fun of. And you sure are thin skinned, about your Jesus, huh? Your harping on it kinda remind me of those nuts in Denmark, just with a different angle on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz5PYxEHb6o
Mr Right
February 24th, 2013
5:03 pm
Planes crash, schools close, houses burn, criminals run free.
Welcome to the “Mad Max” world that President Obama envisions if the federal budget is reduced by 2.3 percent. It’s a scenario designed to provoke rage and hopelessness, and it certainly does, though not for the reasons Obama intends.
Instead, his claim that the $3.6 trillion budget can’t be trimmed by $85 billion without the country collapsing reveals the utter futility of believing he will ever save America from financial disaster. The nation is headed for ruin unless it cuts spending, but the president refuses to do anything about it. In fact, he argues we don’t spend enough, that we must “invest” more. Just plain crazy!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
5:08 pm
JamVet:
I have no problem with the Jesus skits. He can take it and so can I. It’s called free speech and free artistic expression.
That’s not the question and you know it ………. and you avoid the answer just like the network writers/executives avoid the skit.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
5:08 pm
…his claim that the $3.6 trillion budget can’t be trimmed by $85 billion without the country collapsing…
Have you no shame? And as Doggone notes, when you have to lie…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdHnGyU1yJQ
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
5:10 pm
JamVet:
I’ll go ahead and give you the answer because I need to go for the afternoon.
Run the “Jesus” skit and you risk a few letters or phone calls from offended Christians.
Run the “Mohammed” skit and you risk your building and your life.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
5:17 pm
What question?
This one?
Anyone know if they made fun of Mohammed on Saturday Night Live last night ?
No, I haven’t watched that generally awful and insipid program in 35 years. You have?? (Again, too much dirt and not enough gems.)
For the Marvin Gaye-loving TBS…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmZ03Q7AoaU
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
5:18 pm
“Have you no shame? And as Doggone notes, when you have to lie”
Have you ever noticed that they seldom, to never, come back and deny they’ve lied? They know perfectly well they’re fibbing…they just think we’re too stupid to notice. No matter how many times we prove we aren’t.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 24th, 2013
5:23 pm
Yep, them Christians….. perform lawful abortions and you risk your family and your life. Death and harassment. But do keep trying to claim how you judgmentally claim to be better than those who worship Mohammed.
Mr Right
February 24th, 2013
5:23 pm
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
5:18 pm
“Have you no shame? And as Doggone notes, when you have to lie”
Have you ever noticed that they seldom, to never, come back and deny they’ve lied? They know perfectly well they’re fibbing…they just think we’re too stupid to notice. No matter how many times we prove we aren’t.
Typical Lib response if faced with truth, accuse them of lying! Pathetic!
Rightwing troll
February 24th, 2013
5:23 pm
According to the head of the NRA nuts, we already live in a “Mad Max” world… Where AR’s can fend off tornados and hurricanes…
Rightwing troll
February 24th, 2013
5:25 pm
Michelle O is proud of her country, it’s Rushbo the pill popper who’s ashamed of his country…
Rightwing troll
February 24th, 2013
5:26 pm
He’s been ashamed ever since they outlawed Dr. Shopping…
Mr Right
February 24th, 2013
5:29 pm
According to the Lib nuts, we already live in a “Mad Max” world where woman can fend off rapist by peeing or vometing on them! Pathetic!
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
5:30 pm
“Typical Lib response if faced with truth, accuse them of lying! Pathetic”
If it’s not a lie, it’s defendable. How come they’re virtually NEVER defended?
Rightwing troll
February 24th, 2013
5:31 pm
Not even necessary , since a wermans body can shut down a legitimate rape…
TBS
February 24th, 2013
5:33 pm
Jam
Cool tune. Back at you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usl-h5f-8W0
TBS
February 24th, 2013
5:36 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfoDG9GPzQE
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
5:38 pm
Poor Scout. It makes him feel superior to write what he just did, but perhaps when he returns I could help him revisit information and proof of a time not that far removed from today when the cost for speaking out against Jesus and Christianity had sometimes deadly repercussions in this country.
…his claim that the $3.6 trillion budget can’t be trimmed by $85 billion without the country collapsing…
And Mr. Right, you wouldn’t be able to state the collpasing truth about what the president actually said if it fell on you. You are a garden variety liar who makes up claims out of thing air.
Which is great for comedic value – as in whacking trolls – but not discourse.
TBS, one of my early Jewish American Princess heroines of music…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShOZKLUAJU8
And a later one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz68mjIreH0
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
5:38 pm
“According to the Lib nuts, we already live in a “Mad Max” world where woman can fend off rapist by peeing or vometing on them!”
Funny that you think that’s advice from a “lib”…since it was also advice I was given by a self-defense instructor. Interesting that you can determine he’s a “lib” without even knowing who he is.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
5:39 pm
Oops, boldies gone bad!
The greatest of all the JAPS for me…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-8HYbYYW1U
TBS
February 24th, 2013
5:41 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fsSemITu_s
TBS
February 24th, 2013
5:43 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYp5NtkpCAA
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
5:44 pm
You know the dance from that film…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoDPPgWbfXY
Peace
February 24th, 2013
5:44 pm
MikeB@11:43am
You apparently do not yet know it, but Jay is the only one who knows the truth.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
5:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZtkVj3JPaw
kayaker 71
February 24th, 2013
5:48 pm
So now it appears that JamVet has accused yet another conservative of being a liar when he defends the most flagrant liar of them all, you know, that one that occupies govt housing at 1600 PA Ave. This presidential pretender has lied more than anyone since FDR and still the flakes like JamVet give him a pass. Ought to tell you something about the credibility of some of these liberal posters who are pretty good at calling people names but can’t defend the biggest liar of them all.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
5:50 pm
This presidential pretender has lied more than anyone since FDR and still the flakes like JamVet give him a pass.
The smoking gun is the mushroom cloud.
We will be greeted as liberators.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
5:51 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAPbXAq8T84
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 24th, 2013
5:53 pm
“Let ‘em eat yellow cake” G.W.Bush
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
5:53 pm
Oh geez, the race is over and the drunken blogging begins4.
josef
February 24th, 2013
5:53 pm
Okay, over 900…not bad for a weekend…Looks like an interesting crowd of regulars
So, fill me in, what do I need to know…?
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
5:55 pm
josef
SSDD
TBS
February 24th, 2013
5:56 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRE7_Bzr7h4
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
5:56 pm
“SSDD”
I was going to say “SOS”
TBS
February 24th, 2013
5:58 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lepx24flhaI
josef
February 24th, 2013
5:58 pm
BROSEPHUS, DOGGONE
‘Bout what I reckoned, but just wanted to check to make sure.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
5:59 pm
@Bro
I pardon your beg, but I am NOT drunk.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
6:00 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peChXys7FcY
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
6:01 pm
Look
You’re not rattling off like a drunkard either. M;)
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
6:04 pm
@Kam
The begonias are in. The shrubs needed no watering and I even swept up a leaf off my balcony from Mrs. Newsbaum’s nasty ole ficus.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
6:05 pm
reaching down in the crates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOQw62RxCPs
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
6:05 pm
…and I even swept up a leaf off my balcony from Mrs. Newsbaum’s nasty ole ficus.
No offense, but bite me!
barking frog
February 24th, 2013
6:07 pm
Danica made a little history but it seemed
she was not a happy camper in post race
interview. Sounded like she was told to
hold in place rather than go for the win.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
6:08 pm
From one of the greatest and most under appreciated rock and films ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJk61DfPOug
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
6:09 pm
71, for someone your age, your write like a young boy.
You know he lied and you choose to ignore it. I didn’t. And YOU can and do lie about what I think regarding your demon, but you are not remotely qualified to speak for me.
Hell, you barely do so, intelligently, for yourself…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
6:09 pm
Oops “rock and roll”
TBS
February 24th, 2013
6:09 pm
race was decent at the end, but new package for restrictor plate races may need to be tweaked if NASCAR wants more than single file racing for most of the race
but I only caught the last 50 laps
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
6:10 pm
Awesome HM&TBNs, TBS.
Timeless…
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
6:13 pm
Not generally an Oscar’s watcher, but I think Seth Macfarlane can be funny sometimes.
Will watch to see if he mangles, manages or marvels tonight.
I think Lincoln will take best actor and best pic.
Emmanuelle Riva for best actress
Alan Argo best supporting actor
Best supporting actress is a toughie – will go with Sally field cuz of Lincoln momentum
Spielberg – director.
Gonna be a good night for Lincoln.
BTW – my track record at this is beyond abysmal so if you have any money riding, bet against any of my picks.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
6:14 pm
TBS
Most of it was single file racing. That new car sucks on super speedways. Hopefully, things will be better on other tracks.
josef
February 24th, 2013
6:15 pm
Of course it’ll be a Lincoln sweep…anybody surprised by that?
TBS
February 24th, 2013
6:16 pm
two greats but not a combo most would thing of in terms of playing together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4vOL_UQw6o
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
6:17 pm
So do the states rights folks round here have mixed feelings when the doctor pronounces him dead, Look? (Ain’t I a stinker?!)
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
6:17 pm
“No offense, but bite me!”
Was gonna drag the leaf blower out of storage and use that but wife wouldn’t let me.
Of course, I then had to bag the damned thing and set it out with the trash.
I’m beat! I need a beer.
breckenridge
February 24th, 2013
6:18 pm
Earlier today I drove over to Target. En route I came upon a stop light and noticed the car in front of me was sporting a bumper sticker. It read “Is that true? Or did you hear it on Fox News?”
It was good for a smile but not a chuckle.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
6:18 pm
Bro
Figured as much. The duels were not that good either. I’m sure NASCAR will have something in place for the 2nd Daytona and Talladega races………….. I hope
Bernie
February 24th, 2013
6:19 pm
guy @ 1:45 pm – You who attacked Mrs.Obama and referred to her as a MONKEY! and I have the anger management problem? Why? because I was the only one, who called you OUT on it?
Then you say you will include me in your PRAYERS? Please! thank-you but no thank-you!
Leave me out of any of your HATE filled Prayers! Whatever GOD you are praying too will certainly raise an eyebrow of disbelief that you would would even have the NERVE to even Pray after such a hate filled statement. Based on skin color alone!
The next time when you look at your WIFE and Daughter or daughters think! How would YOU FEEL, If some unknown stranger referred to them as a MONKEY?
You NEED more than JESUS my friend!
josef
February 24th, 2013
6:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9QpDvhshOQ
TBS
February 24th, 2013
6:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcZQxjp6k2Y
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
6:23 pm
@Jam
Most of our con posters are decent people who share the feeling that the assassination was a tragedy both for the nation and the Lincoln family.
A few of the more hard core cases might smile.
2 or 3 wing-nuts might actually clap and cheer.
Agent 99
February 24th, 2013
6:25 pm
Kamchak @ 6:08
That was a pretty cool movie. When the apocalypse comes, I wanna be like Amy Madigan.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
6:25 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Via2kutZeUc
TBS
February 24th, 2013
6:29 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyBem5-Bfpg
cool tune
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
6:42 pm
Agent 99
There was supposed to be at least one other sequel to Streets of Fire, but the reviews and box office receipts were too dismal.
Diane Lane has aged very well.
It was obvious that she was going to be a major babe dating back to that charming but a little too sweet film Six Pack with Kenny Rogers (see how I did that tie in with Daytona 500 race day?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhTVSatyN90
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
6:42 pm
“So, fill me in, what do I need to know…?”
Michelle Obama is undignified and has embarrassed the nation by dancing
The constitution guarantees us the right to blow each other to smithereens
The country is going to hell
W was NOT a disaster
Abortion is bad
Somebody in Maui really ticked off Bernie
Keynes is a Marxist
This blog has more than its fair share of trolls.
IOW – SSDD
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
6:45 pm
oh..
and Fred and Bro are fantasizing about dying and being re-incarnated as Danica Patrick’s fire suit.
josef
February 24th, 2013
6:49 pm
LOOK
Ok, there’s the nuttiness from the right…and what’s coming in stage left?
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
6:52 pm
Totally off topic: finally finished getting a new wireless router installd on all 3 of my PCs. That should make my life easier…I won’t have to keep swapping the cable around!
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
6:54 pm
@josef
Look above you…
Other than that, the left has been its normal, considered and courteous self.
Wall Street is bad
War is bad
W is bad (and it’s still all his fault)
However, we all agree that music doth hath charms to calm the savage breast.
josef
February 24th, 2013
6:55 pm
LOOK
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
6:56 pm
Doggone/GA
Next step, wireless printer.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
6:58 pm
Doggone: A bit late to the party on that, aren’t we?
But better late than never.
Check out this link for ideas to keep things somewhat more secure.
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/wirelesssecurity/tp/wifisecurity.htm
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
7:00 pm
@Kam
Just did that 2 months ago. Am kicking myself for not doing it a long time ago.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
7:02 pm
W is bad (and it’s still all his fault)
All? Not hardly.
- Alan (should be repeatedly kicked in the balls) Greenspan.
- Reagan’s entire team of economic advisers.
- Everyone of Clinton’s economic advisers that was in the room when Brooksley Born warned them about the unregulated derivatives market.
- All
neo-classicalphlogiston economists matriculated since 1980.Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
7:05 pm
“Next step, wireless printer”
It’ll have to wait a while. I just got a new laser printer.
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
7:05 pm
Thanks look!
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
7:12 pm
Tonight’s feast is an Oscar’s finger platter with:
Peppered crispy steak frites and a lite green curry and cilantro dipping sauce
Golden corn chowder with shrimp (can’t use fingers with that)
Artichoke leaves with chipolte mayo dipping sauce
Pan fried asparagus, then deep chilled served with a Champagne buerre blanc
Waffle cut sweet potato fries.
Skipping the baked bacon and kale.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
7:13 pm
Check the documentation Doggone.
Many, if not most, of the printers on the market come with wireless capability already built in.
Matti
February 24th, 2013
7:14 pm
So… that’s it, then? After tonight, no more going commando on the JBB? **sigh**
Guess I’d better tell this now, then. So I went to one of my state legislator’s town hall meetings this weekend. A concerned mother of an 8-yr-old got up to express her concern about gun violence, in the wake of Sandy Hook that has her pretty freaked out. She’d done her research, had lots of stats, and knew exactly which bills were put forth this season.
While she was talking, the room full of rightie whacktards started bristling, shifting in their seats, and emitting a low, growling noise like threatened dogs. Nothing she said was in any way radical, but rather, she was expressing her fear and what she’d learned. Our highly self-esteemed Senator man’splained to her: “Well, you know heart disease is the number one killer, but we’re not banning french fries!” (SweartoGod). The crowd loved this. The laaaaarge round woman behind me then started yammering about how “they” are trying to ban french fries too. Don’t know exactly who “they” might be, but bless her heart. Even more, bless the heart of anyone who tries to get between her and an order of large fries. I assured her that I would never try to come between her and a fry — freedom, french, curly, or otherwise.
I’m surrounded by whacktards.
I know, I know. You’ll miss me.
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2013
7:20 pm
“Many, if not most, of the printers on the market come with wireless capability already built in”
Yeah, but since I only use the printer on one PC it’s not a big deal to have it cable connected.
josef
February 24th, 2013
7:20 pm
Matti
“The laaaaarge round woman behind me ”
Ooooh, goody, can I link this one now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LQJYgs1sxc
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 24th, 2013
7:20 pm
Breaking news: Fat man with blocked arterties, armed with a clip of French fries, breaks into a school of children, kills no one but himself.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
7:21 pm
- Alan (should be repeatedly kicked in the balls) Greenspan.
Some of Greenspan’s policies had merit. I think he summed it up quite well when he said:
“I made a “mistake” in believing that banks, operating in their own self-interest, would do what was necessary to protect their shareholders and institutions.” “…it was a flaw in the model … that defines how the world works.”
- Reagan’s entire team of economic advisers.
Larry, Moe and Curly
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
7:23 pm
Keep
It’s been done.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/feb/11/heart-attack-grill-spokesman-dies-heart-attack/
josef
February 24th, 2013
7:25 pm
LOOK
You’ll get my French Fries when you pry them from my cold, greasy dead hands!
Matti
February 24th, 2013
7:25 pm
josef,
That’s a magical subject for you, isn’t it? Heh… You know who makes the rockin’ work go ’round.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM8uRndlZIA
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 24th, 2013
7:27 pm
Kam, yep… Lesson learned: If being a restaurant spokesperson is going to be the cause of death, be sure to pick the right one. I would go with Hooters myself (josef may want to go with Dick’s last resort).
But again, no kids were killed in the eating of them French Fries by another person.
Matti
February 24th, 2013
7:29 pm
josef,
Whoa… I said almost just that at the meeting, when some chromosomally-deficient little troglodyte tried to man’spain to me (after my question re: the suggested repeal of the 17th amendment) that the Constitution does not guarantee me the right to vote. “When you pry it from my cold dead hands, buddy,” I interrupted. Do these sad Trogs think we’ll crawl willingly back to the 18th Century? AS IF!
josef
February 24th, 2013
7:30 pm
Matti…
Oh, you know what I’m talking about… but thanks for the link…love that cover…
As our zaftig L’il One says, “I got hips plainly built for child bearing!”
josef
February 24th, 2013
7:31 pm
matti
@ 7:29
Now, THAT’s the matti I respect and admire…you go, Girl…
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
7:31 pm
““Well, you know heart disease is the number one killer, but we’re not banning french fries!” (SweartoGod). The crowd loved this.”
And therein truly lay the problem. When even an elected representative can’t engage in reasoned conversation on a serious issue and instead deflects to some asinine straw man as a way to get a cheap laugh – there is simply no hope in finding a reasonable compromise.
It would have been awesome if the lady had chastised the fool for making jokes about a serious issue – children and others dying and protecting the constitutional rights of its citizens.
josef
February 24th, 2013
7:33 pm
GOOD FIGHT
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
7:33 pm
Some of Greenspan’s policies had merit.
There was I time when I thought so.
But he, like phlogiston chemists, is wrong from the get go. And it’s not just the banks that are ignoring everything but their own self interest.
We also made a huge mistake during the Carter administration.
Real Scootter
February 24th, 2013
7:34 pm
Breaking news: Fat man with blocked arterties, armed with a clip of French fries, breaks into a school of children, kills no one but himself
That’s why the law is going to ban 30 round clips and only allow 10 round clips.Nobody could kill them selves with only 10 fries!!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
7:36 pm
I would go with Hooters myself
Or Tilted Kilt.
josef
February 24th, 2013
7:37 pm
“When French Fries are outlawed, only outlaws will have French Fries.”
–Ronald MacJefferson
Matti
February 24th, 2013
7:38 pm
Look….
Oh, there was another awesome one! When a constituent asked about the Governor’s refusal to accept funds to expand Medicaid to 600,000 currently-uninsured citizens (at no cost to us), the other Senator there (this guy’s a smoooove one, watch for his ascent to Congress or US Senate…) launched into a 5-minute soliloquy comparing Medicaid “addiction” to (SweartoGod) CRACK COCAINE. Because…. they’re EXACTLY the same thing, you know.
Thomas
February 24th, 2013
7:39 pm
For someone reason went to the link. American Prospect- interesting. What’s next Fox News Magazine for the neo-cons?
Economist.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
7:39 pm
josef
That’s “FREEDOM FRIES” to you.
Real Scootter
February 24th, 2013
7:40 pm
–Ronald MacJefferson
ROFLMAO Josef!!!!!! And, howdy!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
7:44 pm
Taxidermist.
josef
February 24th, 2013
7:49 pm
K’CHAK
“Qu’ils mangeant des frites de la liberté!!!!”
–Marie A. Jefferson
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
7:49 pm
“launched into a 5-minute soliloquy comparing Medicaid “addiction” to (SweartoGod) CRACK COCAINE. Because…. they’re EXACTLY the same thing, you know.”
Well I am addicted to not having some of our citizens dying for a lack of proper health care.
But of course, some of our con friends here think that is exactly what should happen cuz… ya know ….they have made poor choices in life.
What some of these yokels fail to realize is that some of these 600,000 people are going to get very sick for lack of preventive care and end up in the county ER where the cost for care for them will be 10 times what it would have been and the taxpayers will STILL have to foot the bill.
Pennywise, pound foolish.
josef
February 24th, 2013
7:50 pm
SCOOTTER
And a howdy back atcha…
Krystal'sBalls
February 24th, 2013
7:50 pm
@barking frog
February 24th, 2013
6:07 pm
I was saying the same thing. I was rooting for her. I think she had the fastest car out there, but her “team” seemed to be more content with “making history” in the manner that they did. I say WHY SETTLE?? I saw her many times drop down low like she was going to make a move for it. It’s like she was advised to hold back because someone just might have tried to wipe her out to keep from winning and thus causing her to not even finish. I just kinda feel like the team saw that as a new barrier she has broken through and they will build from there. A first place finish is soon to come on the circuit.
Real Scootter
February 24th, 2013
7:50 pm
Y’all need to keep an eye on Matti,sounds like she has been consorting with the enemy(or spying on them) not sure which.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
7:51 pm
oh forgot to mention the dessert.
dark chocolate mousse with butter cookies shaped as Oscar.
Matti
February 24th, 2013
7:53 pm
Look…,
You’re cruel to taunt us with that.
Real Scootter,
I never consort. Okay, sometimes I let them sweet talk me and buy me dinner, but I never consort afterwards!
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
7:54 pm
Just watched Gandhi. I feel a little more redeemed that his life matters to me.
You guys and gals are on a roll, tonight! I think some of us could have been great comedy writers!
I posted this one the other day, but not seems like the perfect time for a reprise…
I was at the bar the other night and overheard three very hefty women talking at the bar.
Their accent appeared to be Scottish, so I approached and asked, “Hello, are you three lassies from Scotland ?”
One of them angrily screeched, “It’s Wales, Wales you bloody idiot!”
So I apologized and replied, “I am so sorry. Are you three whales from Scotland ?”
And that’s the last thing I remember.
Not Scotch or Welsh. Irish…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKaiHamPT54
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
7:56 pm
Are you three whales from Scotland ?
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
8:01 pm
Only Scot joke I know:
An Englishman, Irishman and a Scotsman are all playing golf
with their wives. The Englishman’s wife steps up to the
tee and as she bends over to place her ball a gust of wind
blows her skirt up and reveals her lack of underwear.
“Good God! Why aren’t you wearing any knickers?” her
husband demanded.
“Well, you don’t give me enough housekeeping money to
afford to buy any.”
The Englishman immediately reaches into his pocket and
says, “For the sake of decency here’s 50 pounds, go and
buy yourself some underwear”.
Next the Irishman’s wife bends over to set her ball on the
tee. Her skirt blows up to show that she is wearing no
undies.
“Bejesus woman. You’ve no knickers – why not?”
She replies “I can’t afford any on the money you give me.”
He reaches into his pocket and says, “For the sake of
decency here’s 20 pounds, go and buy yourself some
underwear!”.
Lastly, the Scotsman’s wife bends over. The wind also
takes her skirt over her head to reveal that she too is
naked under it.
“Hoot, lassie! Why d’ye have no knickers?”
She too explains, “You don’t give me enough housekeeping
money to be able to afford any.”
The Scot reaches into his pocket and says, “For the sake
of decency here’s a comb. Tidy yourself up a bit!”
td
February 24th, 2013
8:04 pm
Look before I leap…
February 24th, 2013
7:49 pm
Yes, let us all pitch in so that the people that do not want to take the responsibility of their own health care can get it for free so that they can still afford their tobacco habits, drinking habits, eating habits and sedentary lifestyle choices. Yes, I think this is the best move for the nation to go forward with.
josef
February 24th, 2013
8:07 pm
An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman walk into a bar. They sit down and the bartender says: “What is this, some kind of joke?”
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
8:08 pm
Careful td, keep talking like that and someone might mistake you for a Democrat.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 24th, 2013
8:08 pm
their tobacco habits, drinking habits, eating habits and sedentary lifestyle choices
Ahh the wonders of targeted marketing that makes CEO’s billions. But hey, the flip side of that blame td be tossing around along with the failure to disclose actual calories, food subsidies and products like BPA…. But Fox don’t tell them about that.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
8:11 pm
Ok I do know another Scot joke:
A Scotsman was shipwrecked and finally washed ashore on a
small island. As he regains consciousness on the beach, he
sees a beautiful unclad nymphet standing over him. She
asks, “Would you like some food?”
The Scot hoarsely croaks, “Och, lassie, I havna’ ittin a
bite in a week noo and I am verra hungry!”
She disappears into the woods and quickly comes back with
a heaping helping of haggis. When he has choked it down,
she asks, “Would you like something to drink?”
“Och, aye! That haggis has made me verra hungry and I wad
verra much like a drink!”
She goes off into the woods again and returns with a bottle
of 75-year-old single-malt Scotch whiskey. The Scotsman is
beginning to think that he’s in heaven when the unclad
nymphet leans closer and says, “Would you like to play around?”
“Och, lassie, don’t tell me ye’ve got a golf course here too!”
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
8:11 pm
and Fred and Bro are fantasizing about dying and being re-incarnated as Danica Patrick’s fire suit.
Only if Danica’s got a motor in the back of her Honda!!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
8:12 pm
Yes, let us all pitch in so that the people that do not want to take the responsibility of their own health care can get it for free so that they can still afford their tobacco habits, drinking habits, eating habits and sedentary lifestyle choices.
David Phillip Vetter says, “WTF are you talking about?”
Redcoat
February 24th, 2013
8:12 pm
Mr. Vet…….all businesses should stand on their own, government should only serve not, dictate……..I agree , end all loopholes
Guy
February 24th, 2013
8:13 pm
Bernie, sorry you don’t like me. I will not pray for you because you are angry with me. I will cry myself to sleep. I did call Mrs. Obama and she forgives me. Barrack and I are having a beer together very soon. A very nice couple! Try and control your mean hateful heart.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
8:14 pm
@Kam
“David Phillip Vetter says, “WTF are you talking about?””
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9oX-kZ_9k
josef
February 24th, 2013
8:14 pm
What’s an example for perpetual motion?
A Scot running after a Jew.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
8:16 pm
White House releases state-by-state breakdown of sequester’s effects
Ruh, roh.
josef
February 24th, 2013
8:18 pm
A Scotsman and a Jew went to a restaurant. After a hearty meal, the waitress came by with the inevitable check. To the amazement of all, the Scotsman was heard to say, “I’ll pay it!”, and he actually did.
The next morning’s newspaper carried the news item:
“JEWISH VENTRILOQUIST FOUND MURDERED IN BLIND ALLEY”.
Alex
February 24th, 2013
8:20 pm
@look, from last night… read the book, I didn’t say that someone in 1860 reported that pressure stems bloodflow and the like, as for crawford long, I like the Hospital, but the people in boston have a disagreement with you and first use of anesthesia, my response was to your obnoxious, ignorant view of medicine and abortion.
Oh and you forgot Joseph Lister and surgical infections iin the 19th century, I don’t need to google it.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
8:23 pm
…your obnoxious, ignorant view of medicine and abortion.
Well, someone’s panties are in a wad.
Have you considered going commando like those other three ladies in Look’s joke at 8:01?
josef
February 24th, 2013
8:25 pm
ZamVet
For you and any other MOTs…
A Jewish man went to the races for the first time. Not knowing a thing about horse racing, he went to the paddock to take a look.
He saw a rabbi blessing one of the horses. He wrote down the number and placed a $2 bet. Sure enough, the horse won, and the man won $20.
He went down to the paddock again, and again the rabbi was blessing another horse. He wrote down the number, bet his $20, and again, the horse won, earning $100.
This went on, race after race, until the Jewish man had won $5000. Just before the last race, he watched the rabbi bless another horse. He bet the whole $5000, but this time the horse came in dead last.
He ran down and yelled to the rabbi, “Why did every horse you bless win, except the last one? He came in dead last!!! ”
The rabbi replied, “That’s the problem with you Reform Jews .. you don’t know the difference between a brucha and kaddish.”
Alex
February 24th, 2013
8:28 pm
Looks like the sequester will occur , Repubs have a popular disadvantage as Obama hits the publicity trail. It will be interesting if the public really cares and who they blame if they care…Personally, I think it’s good for the country to decide if cost cutting is appropriate, of course it would be much better if we could have specified cuts.
KEITH
February 24th, 2013
8:29 pm
finally gun manufacturers are talking about leaving the anti gun states and relocating to states that will appreciate them. bring those jobs to Georgia.
KEITH
February 24th, 2013
8:29 pm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/berettas-future-in-maryland-tied-to-states-gun-control-debate/2013/02/23/bcc56c62-7776-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story_1.html
Alex
February 24th, 2013
8:36 pm
A question to the NASCAR fans: what is it about this sport that you find interesting. I’m not much of a car person and overall am much less interested in sports then I used to be (except baseball and wrestling). Is it the personalities, the technology…?
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
8:39 pm
what is it about this sport that you find interesting.
Speed and the skill and ability to handle it. I watch NASCAR, NHRA, Formula 1, Indy, and even bar stool racing if I can catch it on tv.
josef
February 24th, 2013
8:43 pm
Okay, that’s over 1000…let’s see what we get on the new format…
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
8:48 pm
Yes, let us all pitch in so that the people that do not want to take the responsibility of their own health care can get it for free so that they can still afford their tobacco habits, drinking habits, eating habits and sedentary lifestyle choices. Yes, I think this is the best move for the nation to go forward with.
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Gotta get one last facepalm in, and that was deserving of one…
Alex
February 24th, 2013
8:48 pm
@ Bro, thanks..
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
8:51 pm
Wow: Chris Waltz.
KEITH
February 24th, 2013
8:57 pm
secret meeting of the Chicago political machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J_sfX1ol-VY
td
February 24th, 2013
9:00 pm
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
8:48 pm
“Gotta get one last facepalm in, and that was deserving of one…”
Well you are finally embarrassed for Obamacare. Great, glad to have been assistance to helping that light go off. You can now leave the dark side of the force.
Look before I leap...
February 24th, 2013
9:00 pm
A man in a kilt wins best animated film.
The coincidence is just scary.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
9:10 pm
Well you are finally embarrassed for Obamacare. Great, glad to have been assistance to helping that light go off. You can now leave the dark side of the force.
Nope. Embarassed for you and your sad attempt at trolling. I didn’t like the ACA when passed and made it well known. Still don’t like it now, but the dumbass GOP failed in offering any plausible alternative. Therefore, we’re stuck with it. That’s just par for the course though as the GOP hasn’t had an original thought since Reagan.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
9:11 pm
Alex:
NASCAR used to be fun to watch. Unfortunately, it has degenerated into cars just following each other around the racetrack with a so called “sprint” the last two laps.
Bottom line: Used to be you always had the extra horsepower to pass someone (if you had the guts) but you had to break for the turns. If you can’t pass someone, it ain’t racin’ it’s just “follow the leader”.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
9:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ICBrhQ-c0
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
9:15 pm
“Christoph Waltz, who played a bounty hunter in “Django Unchained,” won best supporting actor at the 85th Academy Awards.”
Geez ……. there those liberals go promoting handgun violence again !
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
9:24 pm
Scout, they know they can get most libs and cons to watch. But not this one.
Since the time of FNM may be coming to an end, I’m going out playing the stuff I like. If you don’t, watch the Oscars!
Well maybe it is just the time of year,
Or maybe it’s the time of man.
I don’t know who I am,
But you know life is for learning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gunGDjIWuHU
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
9:24 pm
Headline (ABC): “President Obama Faces ‘Cliff Fatigue’ in Latest Budget Fight”
“Hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk. Delays await at airports. Padlocks are ready at national parks.
The nation will suffer greater risk of wildfires, workplace deaths, and even surprise weather events, if government predictions are to be believed. Our entire military readiness and superiority are at risk.
What if nobody cares?”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/02/president-obama-faces-cliff-fatigue-in-latest-budget-fight/
WOLF ! WOLF !
td
February 24th, 2013
9:25 pm
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
9:10 pm
Why should there be a Federal government solution to health care? If we did not have the government solutions of Medicaid and Medicare now then the market would have determined that the prices were to high and we would have been paying less. If the government had not determined to restrict admissions to medical school then more Dr’s would be setting prices according to more competition. If government had not interfered and written all these laws that allowed lawyers to get rich at the cost of all of us that are paying premiums then health care cost would be lower.
Government is the problem when it comes to healthcare. The progressives refuse to realize this concept.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
9:25 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJFcIvZ_X50
TBS
February 24th, 2013
9:25 pm
Jam
If you have the Palladia channel, they are playing a Queen concert from 81 in Montreal.
Pretty damn good
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
9:26 pm
JamVet:
Good for you. I don’t watch either.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
9:29 pm
Are there any drones over the Oscars per chance ?
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
9:29 pm
0311 etc…, just SNL, right? (grin)
Nope on the Palladia, TBS, But wish I did now.
One of my favorite Queen tunes..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pm4fQRl72k.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
9:31 pm
“Obama to govs: Let’s work together”
“The president applauds the work governors have done and asks for their help moving forward.”
Aw ……….. isn’t that sweet.
TBS
February 24th, 2013
9:31 pm
Jam
80 percent of what they play imo is crap, but they do have some gems like tonight
Peace
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February 24th, 2013
9:32 pm
JamVet:
Nope ………… don’t watch SNL either.
I did in the old days when it was decent.
getalife
February 24th, 2013
9:35 pm
There is no cliff fatigue, the majority voted no so it is just a matter of time before the gop surrender and get out of the way.
td
February 24th, 2013
9:36 pm
Maybe this has something to do with me receiving an absentee ballot in the mail in Florida.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/23/v-print/3250726/the-case-of-the-phantom-ballots.html
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
9:38 pm
If the invisible hand of the market would stop giving us the finger, health care costs would drop.
td
February 24th, 2013
9:40 pm
getalife
February 24th, 2013
9:35 pm
There is no cliff fatigue, the majority voted no so it is just a matter of time before the gop surrender and get out of the way.
$85 billion cut out of a $3.7 trillion budget or 2.3% cut. How much has Georgia and other states cut in the last 5 years. Did children die in the streets?
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
9:41 pm
NASCAR used to be fun to watch.
That’s why you don’t lock yourself into one particular form of racing. There’s far more to enjoy out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY9mrKR5SkA
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yNbtmNjs10
In the second clip you’re looking at 32,000hp (8000×4) in Charlotte vs 19350hp (450×43) on the track at Daytona today.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
9:43 pm
Why should there be a Federal government solution to health care?
Did I say there SHOULD be one in the first place? Once again, I don’t debate or defend YOUR statements, only mine.
“
GovernmentThinking for others is the problem when it comes tohealthcareconservatives. Theprogressivesconservatrolls refuse to realize this concept.”JamVet
February 24th, 2013
9:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvWlQlO5vk
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 24th, 2013
9:44 pm
Did children die in the streets?
Gawd forbid that they would be so rude to do that. Instead they are dying slow deaths from lack of preventative healthcare, poor education and more quietly behind closed doors or homeless living out of sight so that you don’t have to be troubled.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
9:46 pm
If the invisible hand of the market would stop giving us the finger, health care costs would drop.
I guess it depends on WHERE that invisible hand is giving you the finger. You could likely write it off as a medical deduction and claim it as a prostate exam.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
9:54 pm
SoCo/Bro
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February 24th, 2013
9:56 pm
This is very informative “especially” the reloading drill at the end (one 20 round magazine vs. two ten round magazines) :
Assault Rifle vs. Sporting Rifle
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=8C-CLsMRcA0
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 24th, 2013
9:57 pm
Brosephus:
I hear you but it’s just not the same. Starting in the 80’s it changed.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
10:05 pm
Scout
It had to change for safety reasons. Have you ever read up on Rusty Wallace’s test back in the early 2000s at Talladega?
http://www.caranddriver.com/news/rusty-runs-unrestricted-car-news
Have you ever wondered how restrictive a NASCAR restrictor plate is? Well, Rusty Wallace decided to toss his and find out. On June 9, at Alabama International Motor Speedway in Talladega, Wallace hit a trap speed of 228 mph in his Miller Lite Dodge. “We hit 228 at the end of the straightaway,” he said. Wallace’s top lap speed was 216.306 and was 25 to 30 mph faster than with a restrictor plate. “It was a helluva deal that I certainly will remember for the rest of my life,” Wallace added. “We’d all been wondering what it would feel like to run at Talladega again without the plates, and now I know. I’ll bet we could be running speeds up to 235 without the plates if we spent time doing some tweaking. But I’ll tell you this—there’s no way we could be out there racing at those speeds. It was neat to be out there running that fast by myself, but it would be insane to think we could have a pack of cars out there doing that.”
Those cars are not designed with enough downforce to stick to the track at those speeds. Bobby Allison ripped down fence at a little more than 200mph, so imagine what a 230mph car would do. They could have stuck with Winston as a sponsor, but they would not be nowhere near as popular now. They could have stuck with old tracks like North Wilkesboro and Rockingham, but the money wouldn’t be there. Change was coming or NASCAR would have died a slow and painful death.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
10:05 pm
We need a Homeland Department of Peace in this country. “hic habitat felicitas”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdmw4tJJ1Y
getalife
February 24th, 2013
10:14 pm
td,
Another 750,00 jobs killed job killer.
Proceed.
breckenridge
February 24th, 2013
10:14 pm
“If the invisible hand of the market would stop giving us the finger, health care costs would drop.”
If you look at what’s caused the skyrocketing in health care costs over the past 2 decades the #1 reason, far and away, is the cost associated with obesity. We’ve turned into a nation of big fat slobs. And I don’t mean 40-somethings with a little beer gut. We’re talking about people 50, 80, 130, 210 pounds and more overweight. And they’re everywhere. But don’t dare make a subtle mention of exercise or diet modification because you’ll get blistered with “don’t you dare tell me how to live my life!”
Well the time for niceties is over. Get off your fat asses America. A 30 minute walk after dinner every evening. Is that so hard? No, no it’s not, and it goes a hell of a long way. And don’t tell me you don’t have time, you have plenty of time to sit in front of your mega-screen and jam potato chips in your mouth while watching mindless drivel such as Dancing With Talentless Millionaires.
Cherokee
February 24th, 2013
10:16 pm
td your 9:25 simply proves that you haven’t done your research.
Personal example – my dad retired at age 62, and lost his health insurance. He and Mom were pretty healthy – and the job was killing him, frankly – so he quit. They – because of their age – were not able to get health insurance. Within a few months my Mom developed severe arthritis in her knees, and spent the next 30 months or so in agony, till the night of her 65th birthday when she qualified for Medicare and could get knee replacement surgery.
Decry federal involvement in health care all you want – but Medicare has made a tremendous difference in lots of Americans’ lives – and there was NO private market solution available.
I expect someday you will also be glad that it’s available to you.
td
February 24th, 2013
10:17 pm
getalife
February 24th, 2013
10:14 pm
td,
Another 750,00 jobs killed job killer.
Proceed.
Only if Obama wants it to be and it is all on him.
Cherokee
February 24th, 2013
10:18 pm
“You could likely write it off as a medical deduction and claim it as a prostate exam”
Post of the day, Mr. Bro….
Cherokee
February 24th, 2013
10:20 pm
“Only if Obama wants it to be and it is all on him”
yeah well good luck with that, Mr. td… methinks you don’t understand public opinion any more than you understand health insurance….
td
February 24th, 2013
10:23 pm
Cherokee
February 24th, 2013
10:16 pm
I feel for you brother but you are missing my point. What if there was not government run medicare? Do you really think the market would allow billions upon billions of dollars and not provide a solution?
Cherokee
February 24th, 2013
10:26 pm
Thanks.
But absolutely, yes. Insurance companies are in business to make a profit – there’s no way they can do that by selling individual policies to elderly people.
getalife
February 24th, 2013
10:30 pm
td,
Both parties agree it is bad policy.
It is on the gop.
Proceed.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
10:33 pm
Get off your fat asses America. A 30 minute walk after dinner every evening. Is that so hard?
I understand the lack of exercise thingie, but I submit there are more factors in play. I am concerned about steroids in our protein supply provided by big Ag.
td
February 24th, 2013
10:34 pm
Cherokee
February 24th, 2013
10:20 pm
“Only if Obama wants it to be and it is all on him”
yeah well good luck with that, Mr. td… methinks you don’t understand public opinion any more than you understand health insurance….
I understand that the voters of the state of Wisconsin were upset but after the cuts were implemented and the voters realized that most of what the Democrats were saying was nothing more then attempting to scare them into submission and to demagog a nothing crisis then public opinion polls changed and they voted the evil Walker back into office by a larger % then he was elected the first time.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
10:34 pm
The GOP just nominated a candidate that was clearly unfit to lead this nation. And got pretty embarrassed in the process.
Things are not exactly looking rosy over there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE
td
February 24th, 2013
10:42 pm
Cherokee
February 24th, 2013
10:26 pm
Thanks.
But absolutely, yes. Insurance companies are in business to make a profit – there’s no way they can do that by selling individual policies to elderly people.
If you think that is true then here is your government intervention: State writes a law that says an insurance company can only do business in this state if they offer X% of policies to people over 65 or 60 or even 55. Now get out of the way and let them figure out how to provide this coverage and get the coverage for everyone else under X age and still maximize their profit.
JamVet
February 24th, 2013
10:42 pm
Have fun fellow Bookmaniacs.
It’s been real!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AN7S7n8VdM
td
February 24th, 2013
10:45 pm
getalife
February 24th, 2013
10:30 pm
td,
Both parties agree it is bad policy.
It is on the gop.
Proceed.
No it is on Obama. Propose cuts equal to the ones currently on the table (Or get your flunky Reid to do it in the Senate) without any more tax increases or let the sequester happen.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
10:52 pm
I am concerned about steroids in our protein supply provided by big Ag.
AMEN!!! I’ve wondered why sports make a big deal out of performance enhancing drugs when they’re readily available in chicken, beef, pork, and other foods we eat on a daily basis.
Brosephus™
February 24th, 2013
10:53 pm
Cherokee @ 10:18
Thanks for the nod. You have to laugh here sometimes to keep from crying, and sometimes the laughing ends up making you cry anyway.
getalife
February 24th, 2013
11:00 pm
td,
The turtle will cave.
Again.
luangtom
February 24th, 2013
11:23 pm
This is sure a nice diversion from the normal run-of-the-mill forum…..
appleseed
February 24th, 2013
11:27 pm
I’m so thankful ex VP CHENEY had medicare,at his age he was so lucky to get a transplant.Must have had some pull.Reckon
G Mare
February 24th, 2013
11:39 pm
Here I am, finally back after surgery, and now facing figuring out how to do the new registration thingie. And we really can’t have FNM? Thanks, AJC.
But maybe there is a GOOD REASON for the change? Somebody please ’splain it to me. Please?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
11:46 pm
G Mare
Jay told us on the 19th that “sometime in the next few weeks” we would get the new format.
If he gets advance notice, I think he’ll give us a heads up just prior to the change.
KEITH
February 24th, 2013
11:47 pm
Cheney has money. If liberals worked hard they could have some too. But its too easy for you to just sit around waiting for a handout. Good thing people like Cheney worked and paid taxes to support you.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 24th, 2013
11:54 pm
…people like Cheney worked…
Haliburton’s no bid contract says, “What?”