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“Our great president came from a civilized part of the country”
Chicago???
Take one look at that NC dummy (Yes, I was born in that State) and ask me why I live in AZ!
AZOlddog wrote:
And that idiot’s vote counts just as much as yours or mine.
http://americanglob.com/2013/02/07/the-onion-finally-discovers-the-medias-love-affair-with-obama/
This is the funniest thing the Onion has ever put up. Unfortunately it would be true if it happened.
AZOlddog wrote:
AZ has got too many dumb transplanted Californians.
I’ll bet that person writing the letter is not even a native North Carolinian.
Here we go again!
Housing Market Already Shows Signs of a New Bubble
@ Speranza:
Then there is the McCain clan!
@ Speranza:
Probably Long Island transplant to Raleigh.
@ Rodan:
All that money the fed is printing has to go somewhere.
There are tweets like this all over the place.
Race relations in the Age of Obama.
Speranza wrote:
No, AZ has too many dumb transplanted New Yorkers and Chicagoans.
Most of the ex-Californians here are conservatives. The liberal Californians tend to head for Colorado or Oregon.
It reads like a letter from Rachael Madow. If we had sound we would be able to identify his/her voice by the pre pubescent cracking.
Rodan wrote:
Cary, NC= Colony Area of Relocated Yankees.
Rodan wrote:
yeah -- moved to North Carolina to escape the liberal politics of New York.
another day, another beating…
I’m numb
I get a decent vibe from the Benghazi hearings and watching Hagel expose his ineptness…BO is taking a hit
The Super Bowl Commercial you didn’t see.
“And so God made a Liberal…”
lobo91 wrote:
Plus the stock market is inflating. They created a new bubble and it will burst. The difference is we will be an additional 7-8 Trillion in the hole.
@ Speranza:
Only to pine for the very same Progressive policies.
Speranza wrote:
My Son-In-Law who is a Fire Chief just took a cut in pay to move away from Cary! Smartest things those Kids ever did. “Pop if I raised your Grandkids in that freaking place I would beg you to shoot me!” I knew that Boy had a Brain in his Head!
@ lobo91:
It’s like that scene in “Independence Day”, when the alien ship comes out of the cloud and it’s just so gynormous you’re stunned. Here, the stupidity is just so gynormous, you’re stunned.
lobo91 wrote:
But remember, we keep being told (even by people here) the election wasn’t stolen.
If she’s a poll worker, how many people did she illegally register? How many double votes did she allow?
1.5 million fraudulent votes in california alone.
@ Mike C.:
The video is pretty cringe-worthy.
And she admits to all of it on camera.
@ Mars:
Watch the video at the link. It goes way beyond just one extra vote.
@ lobo91:
Yep, but remember nothing to see here. O is a god, it has nothing to do with the largest vote fraud in history.
Most gun violence (and crime) occurs in areas that vote for Democrats.
Even though most Democrats are not criminals — Most criminals are Democrats.
93% of all felonies including murders and violent assaults are committed by self-identified Democrats.
Criminals want to disarm law-abiding citizens — so they can’t defend themselves.
This is why Democrats have long agitated for felons to enjoy full voting rights.
According to statistics: Areas with More Legally Owned Guns = Less Crime.
The USA map of the Obama/Romney voting patterns is strongly correlated with the FBI map of gun violence. Here’s proof: “BAN DEMOCRATS FROM OWNING GUNS”
(forward this image to everyone you know).
Skyping with Angelo Codevilla: Is Obama American Liberalism’s Gorbachev?
Interesting print summary of audio interview with former Reagan intelligence staffer Angelo Codevilla.
Link to .mp3 of the interview included in the article.
Mars wrote:
And the handful of idiots like this woman who are investigated and prosecuted are irrelevant. There was a massive, organized effort to steal the election, and nothing’s going to be done about it.
@ RIX:
While it’s a serious situation, I am enjoying watching the cops in southern California chase their tails. They’re conducting a massive search in the Big Bear area, while the guy is probably hundreds of miles away.
They apparently believe that he just pulled over at a random spot in the woods and torched his pickup, and then wandered off into the forest unprepared. I’d bet any amount of money that he had a second vehicle parked within walking distance of that spot, and he’s sitting in front of a TV someplace laughing his ass off at them.
There was just some dumbass on FNC who claimed that there was no way that he could have survived overnight in the woods, despite all his training, because it got down to 14 degrees overnight.
While I actually agree with her about the absurdity of calling someone like Awlaki an American, it’s for a different reason. His case shows why we need to eliminate the idea of “birthright” citizenship. I’m sure Feinstein would be horrified at that thought, though.
What horrifies me, on the other hand, is the idea that someone like her gets to decide who is or isn’t a “real” American for the purpose of assassinating them. What prevents her from proclaiming that NRA members fall into that category, for example?
@ lobo91:
Is not your last thought there the very idea they are pushing for?
Islamic = Good; Gun Owner = Bad!
@ lobo91:
The current reason she doesn’t, the NRA members are heavily armed. She is trying to change that though…
MikeA wrote:
Small arms won’t help much once they start using drones domestically to eliminate “enemies of the state.”
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Yesterday afternoon FNC broke in for a news conference by
the police.
Basically they just announced that they found foot prints in
the snow by the torched pick up. That was it.
here’s where i dont buy the myth of the ‘conservative south’ and liberal yankees wrecking the garden of eden. for ever the south was dem. there were palces in the northeast that were solid republican. connecticut, parts of nyc, all of upstate, nh, new jersey, and the burbs of phillie.
so the myth goes that the south was overrun by liberals from the north and now eden is soiled. i call bullshit. first there werent enough notherners moving south to change the vote in a way tht is claimed by southerners. now those areas in the northeast that were very gop are now blue…did the conservatives leave and go south and west? since the south was big time big until the late 80′s i would have to say it was the conservative yankees who moved in and swung it for the gop.
or maybe there are trends in voting and how people think that change over time? i know, unpossible you say! the counties surrounding pgh are now dark red, they were hard core dem not 20 years ago. maybe people change? maybe the south isnt as conservative as the myth says and maybe the yankeees arent as liberal as that myth says as well. ca was at one time all gop, and tx was a solid dem state.
i am not buying the myth of the southern conservative eden.
@ RIX:
24 hour news cycle has to fill it with something
@ RIX:
And we all know that it’s impossible for a human to survive in 14 degree temperatures without a hotel room.
//
@ lobo91:
If that doesn’t sum up the mentality (or lack thereof) that we’re dealing with, I don’t know what does. It’s at once frightening and infuriating.
lobo91 wrote:
this grad of the arctic warfare school agrees. or am i really actually dead? might be a zombie?
hmmm….
@ lobo91:
It’s kind of like when they announce something something like
“A New Jersey man is in custody suspected of murdering his
entire family”
Jersey ,you expect maybe a guy name Vinny something.
Then they finish up, “Mohammad abu Hussein Bopshuwop is
being held without bail.”
Well sure, it’s never been done./
It does screw up happy Hour though.
It’s too much. They break in with a ‘News Alert” that was
reported 20 minutes ago.
@ coldwarrior:
CW, we fought since Reconstruction to tip NC to the Republicans. The current Republican Majority in both Houses and the Republican Governor are the result of 100 years of work!
I did not hang around for the last 25 years of the Fight! I was tired of watching the Yamn Dankees move in and change our work! Now the Kids who stayed and finished the fight have finally won!
@ RIX:
in the local news here the joke is that if they dont show the perp or give a description, he’s a black guy. it so ridiculous that the local rock jox make fun of it on the morning program
@ coldwarrior:
Well, that falls right in with the “Guess the Party” game!
AZOlddog wrote:
right, because there were no native nc’s who were dem or liberal. just those outsiders ruining the place.
AZOlddog wrote:
out local rag will not mention the party of ots a dem going to the slammer. this has become so absurd that they have totaly lost control of their online comment sections of the paper. its hysterical to watch.
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh I never did either. Also there are deep differences between the coastal South/Upper South, and the Deep South.
@ coldwarrior:
it looks like NC goes red after the ‘yankees’ move in. scroll down for the historics
Rodan wrote:
Like Massholes who relocated to New Hampshire.
Rodan wrote:
The Raleigh/Charlotte/Wilmington/Chapel Hill quadrangle.
Speranza wrote:
its like austin (u of texas), its a zoo where they keep the libs.
Oh, we had our share of BLEEPING Dems and Socialists. Our problem was out breeding them! The immigrastion problem just slowed it down by 40 or so years.
The joke about Cary standing for “City Absolutely Rebuilt Yankee” is older than I am. Cary was the center of the Research Triangle and had more NJ, NY and MA than they ever had NC until the last 10 years!
It is not something a native NC puke is proud of but, it was the fight we had. My Father was one of the “Die Hard” Dems
and I did the state a favor taking him out to AZ with us!
Speranza wrote:
the political map is always in flux. nothing in permanent.
-long is the struggle, hard the fight.
An insider at the US Dept. of Homeland Security claims: “Obama’s cyber warriors are preparing for collapse — The DHS has hired 3,575 hackers, mostly at minimum wage, to ferret out the identities of people like us on internet forums like this one in preparation for ….?? (I don’t know, whatever?)
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/7666
Do you think this could possibly be true? Seems like it’s too big a conspiracy to not have more corroborating evidence.
Fritz Katz wrote:
the likelihood of a coverup/conspiracy/secret staying secret goes down logarithmically as the number of people in on the secret goes up.
-cw’s axiom on conspiracies
Actually the Heart of DemProg stupidity is Durham! Remeber the famous rape case? Ya’ll forgot Charlotte as a DemProg stronghold! Even it is a Battleground now but it will stay that way for years I fear!
I think the writer was a Republican plant!
Fritz Katz wrote:
the feds do whatever they want….there is no conspiracy, it’s just a brazen ‘fuck off’….and this from your own employee
coldwarrior wrote:
Then we better just keep it between ourselves
Well, according to official federal contract bid solicitations, DHS has contracted for 1.6 BILLION rounds of ammo in the last 10 months. That’s not a conspiracy, just a fact. If it’s practice rounds for their current authorized armed security forces, it’s enough for about 500 years.
waldensianspirit wrote:
agreed.
Fritz Katz wrote:
If Obama goes that route he best not count on all the ‘rats around him
Speaking of stupid Democrats, I hear Bloomberg Doesn’t Think ‘People Are Going Be That Inconvenienced’ by the Blizzard
Didn’t he say that Sandy want going to be any big deal, as well?
Mike C. wrote:
That’s the crazy and real fact.
@ Mike C.:
goofy attempt at gun control with a little stimulus spending.
MacDuff wrote:
HE wont be inconvenienced at all.
@ MacDuff:
The blizzard is not a big deal when you walk onto a big plane and get out of dodge
coldwarrior wrote:
I fully agree. However this caught my eye:
Then Rodan’s characterization of “Pharaoh Obama” came to my mind.
@ MacDuff:
Last time there was a big blizzard and people were complaining about the city not plowing the streets, Bloomberg told them to go take in a Broadway show.
@ coldwarrior:
I fear that you are correct. Create an Ammo shortage by tying up the production lines with Government orders that MUST have priority!
AZOlddog wrote:
Just as long as we know where they keep it
@ waldensianspirit:
Therein lies the Key! We don’t!!!!!
@ lobo91:
I remember that one.
@ AZOlddog:
Maybe they’re going to put it into Yucca Mountain.
lobo91 wrote:
…or Candy Mountain.
@ lobo91:
have an apoplectic fit and roll over at last!
If they tried to put it there Dingy Harry Reid would finally
OK, I can dream can’t I?
AZOlddog wrote:
Just deviously inviting him to a place with lots of fat people would do it
@ coldwarrior:
That is why I laugh when elements of the GOP base say that group will never vote for us. Look at an electoral map from 100 and 50 years ago. Voting patterns change.
Heck the GOP base in 1980 was different than one now.
What the h—?!
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6uynuvBCr1rn95k2o1_500.gif
How is such a misunderstanding even possible?! Well, all I can muster is that the “Intellectuals” must always find SOMETHING to crusade against, even if that very something is totally imaginary, with no relation to actual reality.
@ AZOlddog:
College Towns are always Dem strongholds.
@ Philip_Daniel:
Good to see you, how are things going?
Actually, there was something the other week about DHS establishing depots across the country and stocking them with that ammo, amongst other things. IIRC, it was some sort of low-level official announcement. Not reported in the “news”, of course.
Rodan wrote:
Going very well. I try to drop by here when I have the chance.
@ Philip_Daniel:
Hey you must be loving the al-Qaeda vs. Hizb’Allah fight in Syria.
Here is Nasrallah pleading with al-Qaeda to stop the war in Syria!
coldwarrior wrote:
It is a sad truism.
They did love reporting that Timothy McVeigh was a White guy.
@ RIX:
Charles wished the Dorner was some White Tea Partier or Nazi.
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah, I think I remember that. I shudder to think how he would have handled 9/11.
@ MacDuff:
He would have blamed the Tea Party.
New Thread.
Mike C. wrote:
Yeah, that freaked me out. But then I remembered the short stint I spent working in state gov’t and dealt w/some of the procurement rules. I’m not sure this pertains to federal procurement rules but -- anyhoo -- the reqs were always hi-balled.
As for that letter to the editor -- that newspaper got pwned. It’s satire.
coldwarrior wrote:
Zombie, most definitely a zombie /Rainman mode off:
O.K., I just read that letter to the editor at the top of the thread, and I am of the opinion that it has to be a spoof. That is to say, I pray to God it’s a spoof!
coldwarrior wrote:
You are such a fibber… That is the (Jim) Angleton axiom.
coldwarrior wrote:
OR he’s a MUSLIM, or both at once!
Flyovercountry wrote:
Nope.
eaglesoars wrote:
I seriously doubt that.
I work in retail.
You wouldn’t freakin’ BELIEVE how
uninformedSTOOOOOPID some people are.lobo91 wrote:
If I lived where it snowed, and somebody predicted a gigantic, anomalous snowfall on the way -- or any other type of over-the-top inclement weather, I’d EVACUATE.
And yes, I’ve done exactly that in the past. I remember standing in my shirtsleeves being glad to be outta there.
@ coldwarrior:
Thank you for that coldwarrior ! I don’t call Texans libs ’cause of Austin and I resent getting lumped in with New Yorkers who live hundreds of miles from me on a small island at the very south eastern tip of this very large state.
Come up here, walk down Main St and start calling guys ‘Libs’ … you’re gonna be leaving town unable to even eat oatmeal for a couple of weeks.
I was born and raised NYC/burbs but re located as soon as it was financially feasible and never looked back. Come up and stay awhile — we have rodeos, shooting ranges, great hunting/fishing, plenty of back country for 4 wheelin’ -- name it, we got it. Other than the differences in twangs, I dare ya to show me the difference between here and your favorite southern town.
O.K., I just read that letter to the editor at the top of the thread, and I am of the opinion that it has to be a spoof. That is to say, I pray to God it’s a spoof!
It had me going until the c-section. No way thats serious.