As much as I hate Obama, I have to admit he is funny at times. His latest funny act is claiming his policies are more Moderate Republican than Socialist!
President Barack Obama believes that if he were president 25 years ago, his economic policies would make him a moderate Republican.
During an interview with Noticias Univision 23, the network’s Miami affiliate newscast, Obama pushed back against the accusation made in some corners of south Florida’s Cuban-American and Venezuelan communities that he wants to instill a socialist economic system in the U.S. The president said he believes few actually believe that.
“I don’t know that there are a lot of Cubans or Venezuelans, Americans who believe that,” Obama said. “The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican.”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, this was so funny! I swear Obama should have been a stand up comedian! To be fair, one thing he has in common with Moderate Republicans like the Bush Family and McCain is his love of Islam. Other than that, this has to be the funniest thing I have read!
He’s a “moderate Republican,” a “supporter of Israel,” a candy mint, a floor wax, and a fine dessert topping.
“Take my wife, PLEASE!”
Obama addressed the nation about the school shooting.
He kept choking up with grief.
I got the distinct impression that he was faking
appropriate behavior for the camera.
BO is an idiot…smooth talker would not survive on the streets or in a middle class work place….he’s a moron in a Brooks Bros suit…I’d love an opportunity to accidentally headbutt that asshole
@ RIX:
I can’t take listening to more than a few seconds of his robotic voice. It oozes of narcissism.
Must be all that CHOOOOOM! he’s done over the years, and still continues to do while on the Down Low at the same time.
Actually he would be more in tune to Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover. You could throw Richard Nixon in there too but his level of progressivism was so out and out weird I am not sure how to classifiy it. Rodan you would probably throw G. W. Bush in there also with Stimulus I and Medicare Part D.
May I remind folks that even Reagan had deficits (ahem) but everyone needs to understand that Congress and the Executive brancjh have to work in concert to make a budget and guide spending.
unclassifiable wrote:
A budget? What’s that?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
He’s white, he’s black, he’s a Muslim, he’s a Christian, he’s an atheist, he’s Kenyan, he’s an Indonesian, he’s Hawaiian, he’s straight, he’s gay, he’s a smoker, he’s a health nut…
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick he’s a friggin Swiss Army person!
Aw damn it now he’s Swisssssss….
FOOOOOOOOM!
We interrupt this rant to notify you that Unclassifiable’s head just imploded.
@ unclassifiable:
Probably why we haven’t had a budget in 3 years.
@ father_of_10:
I thought you were going to ask me what a “brancjh” was?
/whew that was close
@ unclassifiable:
As Leftist as some of those Moderate Republicans were, Obama is far closer to McGovern than them.
@ Rodan:
Obama is far closer to Nixon, Ford, Rockefeller, and George Romney, than McGovern.
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theoutsider wrote:
Ideologically, Obama is closer to Mao than he is to any previous American president. He’s just allowed the need to be reelected moderate his actions somewhat to this point.
As he let his buddy Putin know, though, he’ll have “more flexibility” in this term, since there are no constraints on his power now.
theoutsider wrote:
how much debt is too much?
How Zero saved the victims of Sandy:
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theoutsider wrote:
Maybe to Henry Ford not to Gerald Ford.
The outsider:
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yenta-fada wrote:
yeah, he stiffed those folks too…the Stiffer In Chief…outsider has no comment oddly enough
@ theoutsider:
If you look at history, he’s probably more of an Eisenhower republican though.
The ‘Don’t worry, be happy Preezy’ fails to notice OR UNDERSTAND….
http://www.jsmineset.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/clip_image00215.jpg
theoutsider wrote:
Sorry, but you’re insane.
@ heysoos:
My husband is reading the book you recommended “Boss”, and it really is an eye opener. A bit dated, and a style suitable to newspaper columns, of course. But accurate and fascinating. A good companion to the TV series.
Guggi wrote:
Someone had to say it clearly. lol
yenta-fada wrote:
heh, I remember that and good for him…you nailed it but I read it when it first came out and Daley was still in office…the Chicago Way precedes Daley by a hundred years…it’s a special sort of American thing…colorful, yet toxic..like Capone himself
father_of_10 wrote:
A budget is a list of winners and losers.
Winners get money and losers don’t.
theoutsider wrote:
That’s a preposterous statement, I await your expansion on it with bated breath.
Buzz alluded to this way up thread…
shooter was a clinical lunatic
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/12/live-updates-newtown-ct-school-shooting/
@ MacDuff:
Look at his record.
Urban Infidel wrote:
Exactly
theoutsider wrote:
I find him closer to Lenin. Don’t ya think?
theoutsider wrote:
show us your record…why do you live here if you hate America?…we invented football and yet you hate us….how do you rationalize that?…I’ll bet you really hate Tony Romo
theoutsider wrote:
I guess such stupid claims come from Rick Ungar and they are as well false as stupid
Nice try but now to the facts.
@ RIX:
Only way Obama’s close to those guys is in the phone directory.
theoutsider wrote:
You make assertions, then provide no facts to back them up……are you too stupid to do your own research?
Lets see, Ike presided over an unprecedented economic boom, built the Interstate Highway system (possibly the most impressive contraction project in the history of man) and cemented the US as the preeminent power on the planet, just for starters.
Obama wouldn’t make a patch on Ike’s ass.
@ MacDuff:
“Contraction project” = “construction project”
I’m sure that’s probably assumed, but theoutsider is a bit slow on the uptake……
@ RIX:
@ Urban Infidel:
@ RIX:
To commentators with ugly, angry, slur comments about Obama… Thank you!
You are among the reasons normal people stay away from GOP and Tea Party…You racists truly ARE hateful people!
I mean really 20 kids under 9 years old get slaughtered and if anyone do not get emotional about it is well to me as sick as the #$%$-hole who shot them. that makes Obama a narcisisst that you black-hating racist falsely call him?
The comments on here about this are almost as sick as what this lunatic did. From these comments it’s easy to see where he came from.
President Obama cares about people. You may disagree with him on certain issues, but he’s not a bad person.
No, Barack Obama is obviously not a communist. Nor indeed a Marxist, nor a Maoist. After the enormously public failure of communism, he’d be a fool to be -- and he isn’t.
Barack Obama might possibly be a Muslim. But this is not an issue, since there is no law in the USA barring members of a religion from holding a public office.
Barack Obama is not a pathological liar, although he, quite by necessity and like all other Presidents is a habitual liar. At least he doesn’t start wars with his lies.
Barack Obama is not a homosexual, as his wife can attest.
You just a sad, sick, pathetic hateful racist! The people who call our President a socialist use this rhetoric for racist reasons and/or because they’ve never cracked open a book on political theory.
socialism
so·cial·ism
[soh-shuh-liz-uhm] Show IPA.
noun
1.
a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2.
procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3.
(in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.
Based on this definition, what action has the Obama Administration taken that qualifies as socialist?
Nothing at all, but the frothy mouthed wingers can’t call him another word so they settle for that.
It’s no mystery here that I’ve been critical of many of Obama’s policies, however, I have spoken out when he has been unfairly characterized or treated by the right-wing media or absurd wing-nuts (some of whom post on this blog) in a variety of ways which contradict each other, and NONE of which Obama is: Liberal, Marxist, Communist, Socialist, A Muslim, anti-American, not American, gay, traitor, Usurper, an Enemy of America, a Racist, a Narcissist, a Liar, and on and on. In an alphabet of lies from the right I posted, I’ve said this fact once, I’ll say it again. The only reason the party of hypocritical louts choose to call Barack Obama a Marxist, Communist, Muslim is for the sole purpose that they cannot call him what they really want to call him, and that is NIGGER!
Heh, Eisenhower presided over the biggest construction project in man’s history, while Obama is presiding over the biggest contraction project in man’s history.
Yeah, just alike.
@ heysoos:
What a racist piece of crap you are.Hope Ss beats your ass!
Johnny Boo Boo!…waz up?
yup, I’m a bonified BO racists…I hate white people including him…
pass the bong dude
@ johnnydowrong2:
@ johnnydowrong2:
@ johnnydowrong2:
Ya better crawl back under your rock before the sun dries out your putrid ass.
Later, peeps. I’ve seen enough of trolls for one evening (and they’re not even interesting trolls!). I need to kill some brain cells….gotta keep ‘em in check or they’ll just overrun the place!
Have a wonderful evening.
@ johnnydowrong2:
You really tend to rant, don’t you?
Whenever someone drops the race card they have already lost the
debate.
There are not racists on this board with the possible exception of you.
Obama is critcised for his actions and policies not his race.
But you think that his race should shield him, which does make you
a racist, now doesn’t it?
Carolina Girl wrote:
Really
@ heysoos:
Check it out, everyone -- the circus came to town and left without one of its clowns!
@ Carolina Girl:
(and I wasn’t referring to YOU, Heysoos….)
What, this board doesn’t have a contract with Orkin?
@ RIX:
However, if you’d care to cruise over to LGF or WonKKKette, you’ll find all kinds of racist slurs on Tim Scott and Lt. Col. West.
@ Mike C.:
Nah, Rodan promised he’d pick up some Round-Up at Home Depot, and now he’s saying I’m the one who promised to do it. I said okay, over the weekend, and I’ll be picking up an Iron Fist Troll Hammer while I’m there.
Carolina Girl wrote:
what? are you saying you don’t like my rubber nose?
this would be a good time to post some John Hurt…something easy and soothing…life goes on
I see we have another idiot 1.0′er visiting us.
@ heysoos:
I think it’s grand, darlin’.
BTW, for all you “trolls” who only get the GAZE from me, I’ll break my rule on addressing all y’all just once, to give you some advice. If you want me to come after you, I most certainly will; I don’t because I have respect for this board and the people on it. I don’t like seeing attention whores arrive for the sole purpose of making it all about them. Hence: GAZE — I gaze upon your asshattedness in all it’s glory. Since attention is what you want.
But before you open that little can of worms. I want you to cruise your ass over to Diary of Daedalus and read what I do to Charles Johnson on a regular basis and ask yourself if you really, really want to go there.
Carolina Girl wrote:
They used to love to race smear Condi Rice
I didn’t see one racist thing in heysoos’ comment. The LLL is convinced that if someone doesn’t like the Chair it has to be because he’s half black.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Obama is marxist = RAAAACIST
Clarence Thomas is extremist -- Speaking truth to power.
@ Carolina Girl:
consider outsider plays in the Pee Wee league…
jus sayin
Carolina Girl wrote:
This bed wetter, Johnnydowrong has obviously not read
the racist comments by Obama in his memoirs.
@ Carolina Girl:
Chair is the racist
Radical
Acting
Commander
Initiating
Socialist
Takeover
RACIS
Man I leave this place to get a drink and someone has clogged the toilet and left johnnytwoturds all over the floor.
/gets out mop and clorox
@ unclassifiable:
I think you should loan IT your gravatar.
@ unclassifiable:
Not only that, he left the damn seat up as well. Urban Infidel and I are PO’d.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Doesn’t need to it can use its high school yearbook photo.
@ heysoos:
To which I say, if he keeps it up -- welcome to the NFL!
Where did the 5th year Sociology major go?
Later Gators.
@ Carolina Girl:
I never got that complaint. The darn seat has hinges and can be lowered.
/re-closes the can
@ Carolina Girl:
Being presumptive aren’t we.
I mean that assumes that johnny2turds graduated.
BTW I left the seat up. Sorry bad bachelor habit.
RIX wrote:
He’s checking with Foster for a rebuttal.
@ unclassifiable:
Okay, YOU I will forgive.
@ RIX:
Mom called him for dinner. I hear it’s mystery meatloaf today.
OK I am going back to the janitors closet to finish my drink… er um … empty the mop bucket and disinfect everything.
You kids behave and wash your hands after you do your business damn it.
@ song_and_dance_man:
I don’t know where it comes from either. I think it’s from guys taking putting the seat up, taking a whiz, forgetting to lower it again and a woman going into the bathroom and sitting down, not realizing the seat is up. I imagine it is rather funny to watch when it happens.
Forget the hinges -- why isn’t someone turning on the light?
Guggi wrote:
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Liberals only play when they can get their own facts.
@ johnnydowrong2:
It’s just a coincidence that nearly every person he’s ever been associated with in his entire life is one, though. I’m sure he just ignored everything he was ever taught.
//
@ lobo91:
Don’t you just LOVE a good coincidence.
BTW, how is my favorite pretty puppy on the planet?
Back to the topic of the thread.
I think what Chair is referring to is the fact that Medicare was enacted with 47% of (R)’s backing Johnson in this portion of the Great Society program/initiative. However, and this is big, no one at that time knew(or probably ignored) what a beast Fed funded entitlement programs would become.
So in a very small and only one way is he right, but he attempts to lump every other program that was on level with Medicare as though all Moderate (R)’s were on board with every other program that was instituted with the same intention.
As usual he twists the facts and explains away his socialism with examples that have nothing to do with his forward radical ideals.
Carolina Girl wrote:
She’s trying to convince me that it’s dinnertime at the moment.
Some further news (but not verified).
The weapons used in the attack today belonged to the perpetrator’s Mother and that he, shall we way “approrpriated” them. Stay tuned.
Carolina Girl wrote:
My guess it comes from the days of being Gentlemen and Ladies. I still open a door(car or building) for a gal, so I guess closing a Loo seat should be the right thing to do. So it must be the right thing to do.
I repent.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Speaking of Medicare:
@ lobo91:
My cats do that. They wake me at 1:30 in the morning with the “time for NOMS!” cry and I look at the clock and inform them it is not time to get up.
Carolina Girl wrote:
And he’s been variously described as “autistic,” “learning disabled,” or having Asperger’s syndrome.
Oooo….I’m getting flamed at Disqus because I said I thought Obama’s note cards for his speech said “Pause here to wipe ‘tear’ from under left eye.”
Carolina Girl wrote:
Fortunately, Leia doesn’t do that. She goes to bed when I do, and usually gets up when I do.
@ lobo91:
Asperger’s? I know those with Asperger’s get frustrated and tend to act out, but I’m not all that familiar with that level of violence being displayed.
@ Carolina Girl:
I heard the weapons belonged to the mom and he took them.
@ lobo91:
Even old hippies want their Obama Stash sooner, rather than later.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Of course, none of that precludes his just being psycho…
@ Carolina Girl:
A friend of mine taught his cat to almost act like a dog. He would call it, it would come, he would talk to it and the cat would respond and obey.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Of course, they’re talking about gradually raising the eligibility age over something like the next 18 years, but hey, who needs facts, right?
That’s as stupid as when 20 year olds were rioting in Greece over the retirement age being raised by 2 years.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Cats can be trained to do all that stuff. They just typically don’t want to, so they don’t.
Dogs are much more geared toward trying to please their humans.
@ lobo91:
Raising the eligibility rate makes sense. People live longer in better health than in the 60′s when the program was lawed(is that a legit word?. My current job which I started at 48 will take me to 68 if I gain the grace of God to live that long and retire with a decent pension. And even after that I think I’ll take a job with the evil Walmart or McDonalds as an aside to buttress SS and PERA.
@ song_and_dance_man:
And the full eligibility age for Social Security is already 67, so doesn’t it make sense that Medicare should be the same?
@ lobo91:
It makes perfect sense unless the one asking for this relief is in dire straits and has a record of employment and contribution.
Looks like the dogs in New Zealand successfully learned how to drive.
I hope Leia doesn’t see this:
They make smart dogs down under.
I know Mark quite well actually. He’s a really well known Animal psychologist / Trainer here in NZ.
I used to fly with his dad, Gordon Vette who was the Air NZ DC-10 Fleet Command Captain and a great aviator. He won the World Aviation Excellence Award in the 1990s from the RAS for guiding a lost flyer in the middle of the Pacific to Norfolk Island, with some REALLY smart flying and great bit of imaginative problem solving. Mark’s brother was also a great pilot and was the youngest F-111 captain in the Royal Australian Air Force.
@ Aussie Infidel:
The one in the Youtube video was more impressive, since he actually went around a curve.
Although his parking wasn’t so good.
Like your ‘reindeer friend’ there lobo!
Is he Donner or Blitzen? His nose isn’t red so he’s definitely not Rudolph
lobo91 wrote:
I think the real test would be to see if he’ll brake for a squirrel.
Brick wrote:
Do they have squirrels in New Zealand?
@ Brick:
He’d probably think … what the hell is a squirrel? (There are no squirrels in NZ mate) and then jump right out the window and chase it anyway!
@ lobo91:
Actually the REAL test is whether he can get out of the seatbelt and take the governor off line and go for a few high speed laps
Mark Vette is a great publicist. He just hit it out of the park with the publicity he’s scored with this.
@ Aussie Infidel:
An American dog would demand a Mustang or maybe an SUV, instead of a Mini.
I Feel a lazy Saturday afternoon lunch calling me.
See you guys tomorrow. Sleep well.
@ lobo91:
Very true and an Afghan dog who somehow escaped getting eaten by his master would demand a truck filled with C-4!
Obama=’moderate Republican’ about like mfhorn=6’6″ tall.
I’m 5’7″.
lobo91 wrote:
Damn. A potentially humorous mental image destroyed by an ugly fact.
lobo91 wrote:
the teamsters ain’t happy…
mfhorn wrote:
The man is a pathological liar. I didn’t even believe his ‘speech’ about the massacre in Conneticut (sp?)
I expect him to hit the links sometime this weekend.
eaglesoars wrote:
Those golf clubs ain’t gonna swing themselves!
Brick wrote:
heh. Have you noticed Donald Trump has NOT invited him to join any of his clubs? Trump is a HUGE player -- he loves the game -- but apparently no one wants to play with Obama.
I’m tired of being demonized.
Bumr50 wrote:
I think I missed something
@ brookly red:
Not here. Just in general.
Bumr50 wrote:
yeah go on
eaglesoars wrote:
because obama cheats at golf.
Regards,
-Coldwarrior
President, BGGCC
Awards Committee Chair
Players Team Captain
@ brookly red:
I read the header, and just followed the logical conclusion as to what Soetoro is up to when he describes himself as he did.
It just moves me (us, if you’re so inclined) further towards “radical,” “extreme,” and “dangerous.”
@ brookly red:
Sorry I wasn’t more specific.
My bad.
Bumr50 wrote:
really, hmmm. I just read it as he is lying, again. I suppose you could read that into it but actually I don’t think he is that smart.
the pizza rebellion continues! http://www.myfoxny.com/story/20350175/tom-monaghan-sues-feds-over-new-health-care-law
@ coldwarrior:
Golf isn’t the only thing he cheats at, unfortunately.
coldwarrior wrote:
Hey, I remember that thread. I’d just sold the house in Cleburne and we were celebrating with rusty nails and big ceegars. I couldn’t talk NoThreat into a lap dance.
coldwarrior wrote:
OH MY GOD
I have played golf maybe 12 times in my entire life -- the toughest course Mahogany Bay at St. Thomas. I get into a trap and I just pick up the ball and throw it on the green. Not a serious player, obviously. But even MY swing is better than THAT!! And my ‘cheating’ is up front. Right out in the open and nobody keeps my score. I’m just out there to spend good money on ruining a perfectly nice walk and hitch a ride on a golf cart.
I do have good clubs tho. I have to get back into it.
FORE!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
heh. In my case foreWARNED!
I truly suck. I truly don’t care.
eaglesoars wrote:
You’re probably about 4 games ahead of me… that is full 18 holes. My son and I used to go fairly regularly to a 9 hole course and that was all the golf I needed.
eaglesoars wrote:
then for you it isnt:
a good walk spoiled.
its just a nice walk in a well manicured park.
@ 21 theoutsider: Conservatives: slow to change, measured change. Liberals: Quick to change, unmeasured change. Hope and Change.
That parts him apart from most Republicans.
@ huckfunn:
3x18 holes a week average, walking all of them for about 8 months out of the year.
last year i walked 120plus miles on the course.
eaglesoars wrote:
toughest course i ever played was oakmont cc
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s a good thing. I just don’t want to get out in front of a bunch of people and look stupid. Not only that, it’s so damn hot for a good part of the year down here. If I’m outside I want to be soaking in a pool.
@ huckfunn:
oh, it gets damned humid up here. i go early in the AM to beat the heat.
rodan was shocked how humid it gets here and he lives in florida!
huckfunn wrote:
hell, i do that all the time.
@ coldwarrior:
Did you see this? Kliff Kingsbury gets head coach job at Texas Tech. Kingsbury, former ace QB at Tech was the Aggie OC and replaces Tommy Tuberville who fleux de coupe and ran off to Cincinnati. Kingsbury is only 33!
coldwarrior wrote:
Oakmont. Johnny Miller ’72, I think? I remember. I had Palmer’s autograph -- after he tried to kill me with a ball ricocheting off a tree above my head -- lost in the flood.
Mahogany Bay has NO line of sight. None.
huckfunn wrote:
I do that every time I get on the course. I don’t care. Eventually, they -- ‘other people’ -- don’t either.
@ huckfunn:
Sorry for the time in getting back to you on this, but you asked a few days ago if I was in KS, and yes, I’m in Wichita.
What’s the latest on Lily’s recovery?
eaglesoars wrote:
i’m jealous.
huckfunn wrote:
33…ok, looks like tech might be looking at a long term coach there.
mfhorn wrote:
Now I seem to remember that you’re from Kansas. I’ve been mostly absent from the thread for much of the past week, so I’m not sure. Calo’s been keeping up with her and will hopefully give us an update.
eaglesoars wrote:
that makes it tough. my cc has that issue on a bunch of holes as well. lotsa blind shots on 1, 2, 4, 9, 11, and 17.
and trees….trees…trees
coldwarrior wrote:
No such thing as a “long term” coaching hire.
“There are two types of coaches. those that are fired and those that are gonna get fired.”
-Bum Phillips
coldwarrior wrote:
Kingsbury may well be the youngest head coach in NCAA FB. He sure did a nice job at A&M and that’s probably what got him the nod at tech, along with the fact he bleeds black and red.
unclassifiable wrote:
yeah…true. true.
huckfunn wrote:
i like seeing an alumnist come back and get a chance to run the show. it’s nice.
unclassifiable wrote:
Heh. One of my favorite Bum quotes. It also works well for independent petroleum landmen.
huckfunn wrote:
Oh man do you got one of those jobs where you lie to momma and tell her you play piano in a whore house?
unclassifiable wrote:
Haw! Actually, she worked with me up in the Barnett Shale for about 3 years after she retired from teaching 3rd grade.
@ huckfunn:
Just kidding. I have had to support and enhance royalty and lease systems so I know it’s a thankless job.
coldwarrior wrote:
The funniest thing -- if you ‘have’ a course at a club or something you walk it first so you literally get the lay of the land and get to know it. At Mahogany Bay EVERYBODY was a freaking tourist. We met a group coming THE WRONG WAY. We heard a ‘play thru’ holler and it was coming from in front of us. They had no idea where they were or that they had started from the 12th hole. I think we were on the 5th hole. We -- of course -- let them play thru but we showed them the map. They were thoroughly embarrassed but I really can’t blame them. It’s a confusing course and nothing but mountain. It was hysterical.
I just heard Savage make a fine observation. No one in the MSM is mentioning the Waco massacre.
I found a job I’ll be applying for this weekend, doing something very similar to my current position (life insurance) but for about 60% more money. And probably a chance for future raises, which we don’t get at the call center.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
song_and_dance_man wrote:
well most of them weren’t born then… how about no one in the MSM is mentioning fast & furious.
Regarding the theme of Rodan’s thread:
You need to distinguish between someone’s ideological druthers and their actual policy. O has socialist druthers but sees himself as bending to the demands of reality to the point of being indistinguishable at times from a moderate Republican. I don’t think he’s entirely wrong here, and it seems to me the debates showed some overlap between the two candidates on a broad range of issues.
mfhorn wrote:
good luck
unclassifiable wrote:
Actually, I’ve been a landman for the better part of 33 years and it’s been very rewarding. I’ve been an independent for all but 1 of those years. I’ve had exactly one paid Christmas and 1 paid vacation in all of those years, but it has been worth it. Of course if I had my druthers, I druther be a piano player in a ho house.
Moe Katz wrote:
2 words, RINO’s suck.
mfhorn wrote:
Oh good gracious. The very BEST of luck and prayers …….
huckfunn wrote:
I suppose playing the piano is better than playing the organ
Moe Katz wrote:
Whatever you’re smoking -- I want some.
brookly red wrote:
NO NO NO NO
You did NOT just say that.
Yeah, you did.
Marv Levy: predicting the winner (of the Super Bowl) is easy … being right’s the hard part,”
eaglesoars wrote:
No, you give me some of yours!
eaglesoars wrote:
no, that was spot on. a moderate republican is like a dull knife, it may have a point but it is useless in a fight.
eaglesoars wrote:
awww come on, I gotta be me
@ brookly red:
recall
I meant the Ft. Hood killings.
Moe Katz wrote:
hey that’s not moderate republican, that’s liberal democrat
@ brookly red:
Do you really think O would, in his heart of hearts, have opposed the admission of the Pals to UN observer state status? Presidents don’t really have their druthers, they’re really circumscribed by Congress, the State Dep’t, and reality in general.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
/oh the tragic work place accident? I remember hearing something about that…
@ Moe Katz:
I think Chair was referring to things that were done in the 60′s that somehow give him cred in the avenue he’s driving down in this instance.
See my 78
Moe Katz wrote:
honestly, I don’t think he has a heart of hearts. I think he is a tool of satan. There I said it.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
That makes sense.
aladam I make great chicken noodle soup.
brookly red wrote:
Well perhaps, but it’s a tribute to the US system of gov’t with its checks and balances that he isn’t able to do a lot more damage.
brookly red wrote:
Consider that stolen and I’m taking all the credit.
Off to do some reading. Good. Nite.
Moe Katz wrote:
WHAT???
gawd. It’s a good thing my reading is science fiction.
eaglesoars wrote:
If you read SF you should have a good imagination. Now imagine the world if Obama had his druthers.
Moe Katz wrote:
well yes and no, he has ravaged the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and it is a blessing he has not turned country into the old Soviet, but I don’t think the checks and balances have much to do with it.
I think that he/they know that in the event of a civil war (and don’t think it couldn’t happen) he would not have the support of the military.
brookly red wrote:
Unless Powell comes out of retirement….
Moe Katz wrote:
I do believe he/they are trying to subvert the military, but I don’t see it happening.
brookly red wrote:
You would know more about that than I do, but I would expect you’re right.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I could use some of that right now…
Moe Katz wrote:
Colin Powell is a joke.
Philip_Daniel wrote:
just another day in east flatbush…
The Osprey wrote:
You mean Colon Bowel?
heysoos wrote:
INDEED.
Moe Katz wrote:
brookly red wrote:
brookly red wrote:
Indeed.
eaglesoars wrote:
@ eaglesoars:
That makes two of us. I’m sure in the note cards was “Pause for effect and wipe under left eye to simulate tear.”
Who the hell needs note cards to express grief at a tragedy?
@ Carolina Girl:
Someone who was raised by wolves and/or Communists.
@ lobo91:
Communist wolves? Why should there only be commie rats?
Fossil Rocks Anthem…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ClJ5lwl_wM0
That’s definitely a “double Heh.”
Hat tip -- TattooedIntellectual at GCP
Damnit…
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Where does this number come from (47 percent) ?
What I could find was:
SENATE YEA NAY NOT VOTING
Democrats 57 7 4
Republicans 13 17 2
HOUSE YEA NAY NOT VOTING
Democrats 237 48 8
Republicans 70 68 2
source
So 13/70 votes are hardly 47 percent.
@ Guggi:
You’re right -- it’s a bit over 48%. 83 votes out of 172.
@ Mike C.:
I didn’t know that you count congressmen and senators as one. I don’t compare apples and oranges.
Guggi wrote:
SADM’s post, to which you were responding, said 47% or R’s supported the legislation. It didn’t discriminate between the houses of congress. He was right (more or less), you were wrong.
Not rocket science here…
@ Guggi:
It’s not about guns, it’s all about control.
Guggi wrote:
Before the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment there was a big difference between the House and the Senate. Now days not so much, two sides of the same coin.
Something the DemonicRats refuse to admit…
The Only Way To Stop A Man With A Gun Is With A Gun
Disarming the law abiding is rewarding the criminal.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
If you read over the thread on the shooting, notice how quickly fultonchain morphs from wanting “reasonable” control of “assault weapons” to telling you how many and what kind of guns you can own, how you can and cannot carry them, and even how much ammunition you are allowed to own. What he never comes out and says is that only the politically connected would be allowed to own guns in the first place, just like New York City. It is nothing about preventing shootings like this (which arming the potential victims would do) and all about using a tragedy to further their political agenda.
So now they’re saying Lanza’s mother had no association with the school what so ever. The media are such lazy louts
@ Iron Fist:
The point we really have to make clear is that when deterrence works no one gets hurt. This fact does not fit in with the liberal plan and must be suppressed at all costs.
Iron Fist wrote:
lets change the types of weapons and ammo to types of words….nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives.
we need reasonable noun, verb, adverb, and adjective control!
waldensianspirit wrote:
In the age of instant information, most of the Information is crap. It seems to take longer to get the facts than it did in the past!
What the purpose of Twitter, other than for celebrities to, instantaneously, broadcast their ignorance to the world?
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Thank you for your information and your polite manners.
coldwarrior wrote:
We have that now, it’s called politically correct speech…
@ Guggi:
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Indeed. Free expression is, by its nature, offensive to someone. If you’re not stepping on someone’s toes, you’re speech isn’t truly free.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
When someone uses a gun in self-defense, it doesn’t make the news. What message does it send to the unstabe that if they go into a classroom and killl a bunch of unarmed kids, they will be famous? The media has its role in these kinds of events. No one is proposing media control. The gun controllers know that the answer to abuses of the Second Amendment are the same as for abuses of the First Amerndment: more freedom, not less. That is if you want to really do something about the problem. The Left isn’t interested in that. If they were they’d be talking about going back to putting the insane in assylums where they can’t hurt people. If someone is a danger, they shouldn’t be walking the streets. It shouldn’t be a question of whether or not they can buy a gun. After all, if they kill someone with an axe, that person is just as dead as if they;’d used a gun. In this case, the gunman could have used pretty much any other weapon he chose. No one was armed to stop him, and the kids were defenseless.
That so many Republicans had supported Johnson’s medicare bill only shows that Republicans (as well as Democrats) have never been such a monolithic block like some here wish they should be.
Jacob Javits (R) was certainly more liberal than James Eastland (D).
@ Iron Fist:
There are two things that the liberals fail to understand, reality and human nature. That’s why they are hopelessly trapped in their little world of make believe. Which would be fine by me if they would stay there but they want to drag the rest of us down with them.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
not me.
i speak freely.
With strict gun control, Britain’s gun crime has gone up 89% in the last decade. The gun controllers don’t want to look at the positive side of gun ownership. Over the last 20 year the trend in the States has been to allow freer access to guns and especially carrying guns, and crime has gone down. At worst, allowing carrying guns doesn’t increase crime. Therefore the State has no reason or authority to continue to resist such measures. This is something the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has just told Illinois. I expect them to appeal it to the Supreme Court, where Roberts will have a chance to redeem himself from his ObamaCare ruling.
Iron Fist wrote:
obamacare tax on ammo.
Oddly, Huckabee is on Fox actually making a little sense. Who knew?
MacDuff wrote:
that fool governed to the left of bill clinton yet is held in regard as a voice on the right. he has so many groups on the right suckered it isnt even funny. heh, he isnt the fool. those who think he is a conservative are the fools.
Hmm, they’re saying some of these teachers were huddled in hiding with their students…..praying. The old axiom that there are “no atheists in a foxhole” is proven once again. Secularism and diversity just aren’t appropriate when facing possible death.
coldwarrior wrote:
Well, like the broken (mechanical analog) clock, he had a moment of correctness this morning, and it had nothing to do with his unfortunate politics.
lecture is up.
(and the fresh ‘coldwarrior’s own’ double smoked pepper bacon from my buds at the smoke/slaughterhouse make is getting fried up now)
coldwarrior wrote:
Wise man say “never fry bacon in the nude”. : D
Obama has chosen John Kerry as Sec State. Scary. This man is a traitor, but I expect him to sail through confirmation. The Republicans believe in being collegial more than they believe in good governance.
Iron Fist wrote:
I guess this was all staged. Choose someone who will be fought and then come up with your original choice.
coldwarrior wrote:
Same here. Fork the libtards with chainsaw…
@ Iron Fist:
If Republicans oppose ‘Lurch’, would they be prejudiced against former Swift Boaters who marry in to money?
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Sideways!
@ Guggi:
I suspect as much. Kerry might would have met with opposition if he’d been the first out of the gate, but here the Republicans score a tactical victory while continuing to lose the war. Oh, well. I expect the next four years to be compounded misery. I don’t have high expectations for the Obama Administration at all.
@ mfhorn:
I want to tax John Kerry’s ass off. Put him in the 90% bracket. He’s living off a dead man’s money, anyway.
Iron Fist wrote:
A fugly Gigolo
MacDuff wrote:
I thought that was how you make spotted dick.