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apogee
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Aug 11, 2011 - 05:55pm PT
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corniss chopper
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breaking the speed of gravity
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Aug 11, 2011 - 07:15pm PT
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Well!
Senator DeMint: Obama Administration Most "Anti-American" In My Lifetime
"We saw within a few days that this president was going to be heavy-handed,
he was going to implement his agenda and pay back his political allies. And
then we quickly saw with the stimulus that he moved into spending literally
$1 trillion on what was effectively a government spending plan, and it just
went on from there to ObamaCare and then to Dodd-Frank. It has been the
most anti-business and I consider anti-American administration of my
lifetime. Things that are just so anathema to the principles of freedom, and
everything he has come up with centralizes more power in Washington,
creates more socialist-style, collectivist policies...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/11/sen_demint_obama_administration_most_anti-american_in_my_lifetime.html
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Gene
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Aug 11, 2011 - 07:23pm PT
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Regardless of who 'wins,' we, the people, will continue to lose. To think otherwise is absurd. There is no magic wand that can make the fiscal mess go away. We own it.
Cheers, Fattrad. Mission accomplished.
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the Fet
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Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Aug 11, 2011 - 07:34pm PT
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The real problem is partisan politics and going to the extremes.
You have state legislatures redrawing districts to make them very red, or very blue. So the congress people who get elected are left wing or right wing.
Hence all the teabaggers screwing things up now.
We need more impartial choices drawing districts so we get less ideological, more practical, bipartisan, centrist folks to
represent the majority of Americans who aren't right wing / left wing kooks.
And of course money and lobbying screwing things up. And people aren't wearing enough hats.
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 11, 2011 - 07:44pm PT
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Dr. F: It's not humour, its humor. I looked it up last week.
In standard English, it's humour. Besides, given my family name, if there's a choice between spelling something "or" or "our", I'll always take the latter.
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euro-brief-guy
Boulder climber
Auburn, ca
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Aug 11, 2011 - 08:03pm PT
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Oh my, the left has truly become unhinged.
very classy people.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Aug 11, 2011 - 08:04pm PT
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Monte, what would a degenerate gambler know about it?
Fats, your boy Rudy ain't exacly setting Iowa on fire. The "corn kernel" voting at the Iowa fair:
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Aug 11, 2011 - 08:15pm PT
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Oh my, who will it be?
A. The Secessionist?
B. The flip floping Magic Underwear health care reformer?
C. The pizza delivery Uncle Tom?
D. The frothy mix of lube and feces? *(Google "santorum")
E. The Quitter?
F. The moderate former Obama employee and former guv of Utard?
G. The budget wrecking, bridge collapsing, bland and forgettable...wait, who was that guy again?
H. The cancer-bed divorce serving disgraced former Speaker of the House?
What a clown-car. This debate should be nothing short of GOLD!
Or who will be pres? One of the above, or the guy who scolded the former administration for being irresponsible for raising the debt-ceiling because of too much spending? The guy who voted 'present' most of the time in Congress (only 2 years, with no executive experience). The college professor who hangs with former Weather Underground militants?
D. The frothy mix of lube and feces? *(Google "santorum")
Don't you think that is kinda 6th grade?
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Gary
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Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Aug 11, 2011 - 08:40pm PT
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bluey, Barack Obama will be the next president. The corporations that your party has placed in the position of power in this country is appalled by the Tea Party. The corporate money will go to the Democrats. The corporations will always go for the slightly right on center position, and nowadays that is the Democrats. Wall Street is turning on the GOP. The GOP is becoming the party of lunatics. Boner and McConnell can't put the genie back in the bottle. Just as in the '30s, the GOP is dead for the next 30 years.
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apogee
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Aug 11, 2011 - 09:16pm PT
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corniss chopper
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breaking the speed of gravity
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Aug 11, 2011 - 10:44pm PT
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Gary
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Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Aug 12, 2011 - 12:36am PT
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Actually, he pulls his news out of his ass.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Aug 12, 2011 - 11:40am PT
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Don't you think that is kinda 6th grade?
Ask Dan Savage. He's the one who coined the "frothy mix" meme and started the iniative that sucessfully made the top google searches for Santorm return the frothy mix definition.
Why? Because Santorum is virulently opposed to treating gay Americans as deserving of equal rights. Don't you that is kinda 6th grade? Couldn't have happened to a more deserving fellow.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Aug 12, 2011 - 01:13pm PT
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Contrary to popular opinion, our political system is working
From an OpEd in the Washington Post, by Charles Krauthammer:
Our political system is working well ... indeed, precisely as designed -- profound changes in popular will translated into law that alerts the nation's political direction.
The process has been messy, loud, disputatious, and often rancorous. So what? in the end, the system works. Exhibit A is Wisconsin. Exhibit B is Washington itself.
Wow! What kind of crack to they give those folks over at the Post??
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Aug 12, 2011 - 01:16pm PT
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Something is wrong behind those Eyes I watched most of the "debate" last night.
There's nothing behind those eyes. Nada. A perfect vacuum.
The only one who really said anything interesting was Ron Paul. Now THERE'S Paul's Balls.
I like that earlier suggestion: Next debate, first question: Do you believe in evolution? If not, why not?
So why is it that questions about a candidate's religion are off limits when so many of them claim they are guided by it? Seriously, we've got self professed religious clowns as candidates for President of what is still, at least for a while, the most powerful nation, economically and militarily. The anointed clown will have the power of life and death, derives his/her beliefs from religion, and we don't have a right to know?
Religion was a MAJOR issue when JFK (first Catholic President) was running for President. The Pope will be telling him what to do. Yet he never brought his Catholic religion into government. Unfortunately, some of these bozos plan to do precisely that.
Odd that none of these "strict constructionists" have the faintest idea what the 1st Amendment says about religion and government.
Don't forget that Shrub prayed to his god about whether to invade Iraq.
"I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did."
Now what would the Retardican attitude towards church and state be if there were a Muslim candidate? And I don't mean Obama.
Seriously, I didn't see one idiot up there last night who appeared "Presidential". Not one. The Faux News political commentators said the very same thing on their post game show.
In the immortal words of fattrad: Be Very Afraid. If you don't like Obama, the current alternatives are all MUCH worse. I can't wait till Preacher Perry holds his come to Jesus prayer meeting on the White House lawn. Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Atheists need not apply.
Did I forget to mention that according to Christian fundamentalists, Mormons aren't true Christians?
Let the religious wars begin. We'll show them there Shias and Sunnis what religious intolerance is all about.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Aug 12, 2011 - 01:30pm PT
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Romney: "Corporations are people, my friend!"
So Romney's entire schtick at Bain Capital, his vaunted "business experience" was to borrow money against a firms assets, buy the firm with that borrowed money, "cut costs" by laying off the employees, slice up the company and sell off the assets that had value, then run the remaining destroyed shell into bankruptcy, all while paying himself a fat "management" fee off the top. Nice work if you can get it...which you can if you have a rich daddy who was the ex Gov of Michigan to set you up and pull the right strings.
The man is a disgrace to everything America is supposed to stand for and a cancer on the middle class.
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Aug 12, 2011 - 01:43pm PT
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Sorry if this is a repeat, I couldn't read through everything. But, when I look at the countries on a map that still have there triple A credit rating, this is what I see:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/06/news/international/sp_rating_countries_with_aaa/index.htm
Canada.
France.
Germany.
Norway.
Sweden.
Switzerland.
United Kingdom.
...just to name a few.
Aren't these considered "socialist"? and quite a few of them on the list are European. Don't you keep going on about how both socialism and the European countries are the problem, Fattrad? Hmmm-look at the above list/and linked map. It appears quite a few of them are still triple A rated-while we have been given the boot from that rating. Guess the problem is not as simple as your repeated few words & phrases: Socialism and Europeans (considering a lot of them have held on to the highest credit rating, and we have not)! I want our triple A rating back, and am PISSED that the repugs gambled it away. Yes, I blame the REPUGS and TEA PARTY greed!
On another note, how can Mitt Romney, when talking to a crowd yesterday, with a straight face, say "Corporations are people too". That stupid law is the most corrupt piece of legislation EVER, or at least recently. How can anyone in their right mind utter those words. A corporation is NOT a person, neither literally nor figuratively. Just that statement in itself shows the outright corruption and the fact that it's not even necessary to cover it up or lie anymore about it anymore.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Aug 12, 2011 - 01:46pm PT
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bringing efficiencies to companies
That's quite the euphemism!
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couchmaster
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pdx
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Aug 12, 2011 - 01:52pm PT
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Pat .
If we can forget about politics for a moment,
I am stunned that you use this forum to ask for financial help and then have the audacity to post that you are losing big money in the market.
Try to understand that there are so many hurting and that there are a lot of people a lot worse off.
Have some pride.
Best Regards, Gregg
Patrick Sawyer or Pat Ament? I don't understand......who are you talking about Gregg?
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Fish Finder
Social climber
THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
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Aug 12, 2011 - 02:09pm PT
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Hey couchmaster,
I removed the post and you should do the same.
I was confusing it with Patrick Oliver. MY BAD
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