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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Nov 19, 2010 - 09:49pm PT
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Conservatives see themselves and everyone else as basically selfish. Since we see ourselves that way, we don’t hold it against others when we see them that way as well. Liberals are doing their selfish thing and that is cool with us as long as they leave us alone to do our selfish thing.
At least this guy realizes one of the main problems with conservatives, seflishness. However don't conservatives accuse Libs of being bleeding hearts? Are they selfish or bleeding hearts?
Some libs are too bleeding heart.
That's they key. Conservatives are too selfish. Libs can be too bleeding hearted. As a centrist I believe in balance. Greed is good, but so is generosity. That's why I end up siding with the Libs and left of center folks usually though. I'd rather be too generous than too selfish.
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
La Mancha
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Nov 19, 2010 - 09:59pm PT
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A Sarah quote
A true American savant. Such breadth of knowledge and compassion for her fellow citizens. Why she didn't win the election I'll never know.
Some more exciting examples of her brain power:
-"Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings." when asked what supreme court rulings she agrees with.
-"Nucular"
-"'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'" --a follow-up Tweet by Sarah Palin, proudly mistaking her illiteracy for literary genius, July 18, 2010
-"Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant -- they're quite clear -- that we would create law based on the God of the bible and the Ten Commandments." –-Sarah Palin, arguing that Judeo-Christian belief was the basis for American law and should continue to be used as a guiding force for creating future legislation, interview with Bill O'Reilly, May 6, 2010
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Nov 19, 2010 - 10:14pm PT
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99 weeks is outlandish...let them starve...they could be millionaires if they had some gumption..
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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Nov 19, 2010 - 10:18pm PT
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Skeptimistic
Sarah's don't retreat ;just reload is good advise in the target rich environment of Obama's lame duck 1st term part deux.
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
La Mancha
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Nov 19, 2010 - 10:51pm PT
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good advise in the target rich environment
Not so sure that makes grammatical sense. I'll let you figure out why. In the meantime, we can let it stand as another example of the brilliance inherent in the conservative electoral base.
Are you implying some sort of violence is a solution to whatever problems you perceive are Obama's fault? You do understand that's what Palin is implying with her quote? I thought you said earlier that you cons were not the violent side of the debate...
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Nov 19, 2010 - 11:04pm PT
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"Nucular"
That's how President Carter pronounces it. He served on a "Nucular" sub, didn't he?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Nov 19, 2010 - 11:04pm PT
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Fattrad...if i remember correctly , some of fun-employment comes out of the wage earners check...? bet you a deep-fried twinky...rj
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Nov 19, 2010 - 11:06pm PT
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Germany has a much more generous unemployment program than ours and their economy is doing well ....correct?
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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Nov 19, 2010 - 11:07pm PT
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Its easy to be generous with other peoples money.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Nov 19, 2010 - 11:12pm PT
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Corn nice...the red guy with the gun could be a health insurance executive...it's easy to gouge the poor when our government legislate laws that benefit the elite and f*#k the poor..where do you stand in the pecking order?
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
La Mancha
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Nov 19, 2010 - 11:26pm PT
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More Palin brilliance- Remember this one?
Edit- I think he's the lower half of the letter "h"..
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 20, 2010 - 01:01pm PT
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Germany has a much more generous unemployment program than ours and their economy is doing well ....correct?
Right you are RJ! The big difference between Germany and us is that they
make things the rest of the world is willing to pay good money for. The
only things we make that the world wants are Boeing jets, movies, and
World of Warcraft all of which come up about $65 billion a month short of
balancing the books*. Germany comes in at $17.5 billion a month on the plus side.
That'll pay for a lot of unemployment benefits, if they had
any unemployed that didn't want to be unemployed.
*trade deficit books, that is.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Nov 20, 2010 - 02:15pm PT
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Germany had much worse economic performance than the US for many years until our last recession. Japan had similar problems.
I agree that European-style social welfare systems can work when countries have relatively homogenous populations and high output. The problem is that they don't work so well when either of those two requirements is missing -- or when the population declines, because the Ponzi scheme built into those systems fails.
John
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 20, 2010 - 03:10pm PT
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jghedge,
It works in Germany because they have engineering excellence and manufacturing
efficiency. The similar social safety net systems in place in Italy, France,
and Britain ain't workin' so good without the largesse provided by a
robust trade surplus.
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shut up and pull
climber
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Nov 21, 2010 - 12:50am PT
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Obama presses for missile defense treaty w russia. I thot missile defense was bad?
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shut up and pull
climber
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Nov 21, 2010 - 12:52am PT
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The libs for decades have bashed missile defense as "star wars" and now obama is all for it. WHAT?
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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Nov 21, 2010 - 01:42am PT
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They've got to install some sort of missile defense for Europe because of
Iran.
It'll help nullify any threats by the Iranians to launch retaliatory
strikes.
And it'll pump billions into US defense industries.
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shut up and pull
climber
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Nov 21, 2010 - 02:33am PT
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But wait - libs for decades demonized republicans as war mongers cuz we wanted missile defense. Now obama wants it? Huh?
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shut up and pull
climber
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Nov 21, 2010 - 02:35am PT
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Libs called reagan crazy for supporting missile defense. Now obama is all for it? Huh?
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shut up and pull
climber
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Nov 21, 2010 - 02:37am PT
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Reagan bankrupted the soviets by forcing them to spend money to keep up with missile defense. Gotta love reagan
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