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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 19, 2009 - 02:17pm PT
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Not long ago you could be arrested for wearing an anti-Bush t-shirt near the president.
Now you can carry a loaded firearm and talk
about watering the tree of liberty with no
repercussions. And the Republicans want us to
think that Obama is repressive?
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Sep 19, 2009 - 02:29pm PT
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Fat wrote: When something is free, people abuse it, our system will be overrun and crumble. Medicare is nearing bankruptcy.
The evil one
Wow...so medicare is free? Wonder why I have been letting take all that money out of my check for the last 40 years.
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
Arkansas, I suppose
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Sep 19, 2009 - 03:49pm PT
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Driftglass's version of the Aristocrats joke GOP style.
"The Republican Party walks into the American people’s living rooms, and says, "We're the Family Value’s Party, and we'd like to represent you."
The American People say, "Sorry, but we’re a little leery of Family Values parties. They tend to be scams run by demagogues.”
Republican Party says, "But this is really special."
The American People says, "Okay, well what's the act?"
The Republican Party replies, "Well after the worst attack on American soil in history, we hijack the nation's grief and rage to plunge us into a war with entirely the wrong country.
“Then we let the actual terrorist responsible for the attack to sit in a comfy chair on the edge of the stage and laugh and laugh and laugh for the duration of the performance.
“The Mainstream Press then comes out, bends over and we take them violently and repeatedly from behind by jamming giant lies up their poop chutes, which come spurting out of their mouths the next day as 'authoritative reporting'. Then we cite our own regurgitated lies as independent ‘proof’ that we're right.
“Meanwhile Fox News and Hate Radio will peel the flesh from the fallen soldiers (whose flag-draped coffins are to be kept strictly hidden during the entire act. Out of, y’know, respect), wrap themselves in their skin, the Flag and the Bible and spend the rest of the act as a kind of Rich White Greek Chorus, screaming that anyone who is not in the act is a traitor.
“They will also hypnotically repeat ‘9/11/Iraq/Saddam Hussein/Osama bin Laden’ over and over and over again until any distinctions between them become magically invisible.
“We then wheel a brain-dead body on the stage named Terri Schiavo, and proceed to use it to defile both the institution of marriage and the sanctity of life…in the name of the Jesus. And then the President himself will interrupt one of his many vacations to make a special guest appearance and sign a special law to do this.
“Our ‘maverick’ candidates then come out, set fire to their remaining principles, and slither though their own sh#t to kiss Jerry Falwell’s pasty, pestilent ass.
“Then a kick-line of severely wounded veterans of our illegal war hobble across the stage, are locked into tiny rooms crawling with rats and roaches, and are left to sit in their own waste.
“The stage will be ringed by White Male Conservative Fundamentalist Evangelical on tall pulpits who will repetitively rant about the feminists, queers, Darwin and the ACLU oppressing and destroying Christian America while urinating continuously on the proceedings. To spice it up a little, every now and then one of the White Male Conservative Fundamentalist Evangelical preachers will smoke meth and/or orally pleasure some young gentleman volunteer from the audience.
“The daughter of the Vice President will stand under the shower of Conservative urine and sing a merry song about her great love of the Family Values of her Father and her Party.
”Then ‐ live and on stage -- she and her lesbian lover will then give birth to a child out of wedlock.
“Every six minutes a voice will shout from offstage ‘Who is to blame for this horror show?’ and everyone on stage will shout back ‘Slick Willie!’ in unison.
“Every four minutes a spotlight will pick out various Family Values leaders in the wings engaged in various acts of including but not limited to sex with a gay prostitute, sex as a gay prostitute, attempting to solicit gay sex from young boys, embezzling funds from disabled veterans, stealing from native Americans, looting and then busting out various massive corporations, rigging elections, selling soldiers tainted food and toilet water at premium prices, attacking senior citizens for hating soldiers and loving “teh gay”
“And so forth…”
The American People look very uncomfortable, but the Republican Party continues…
“This will be followed by a series of what we call Ironic Soliloquies.
“First, one of our Faith Based 'scientists' will sodomize a baby polar bear with the worlds 'Global Warming' painted on its fur.
“Second, the head of the agency in charge of responding to national emergencies will let an entire American city die. No expense will be spared in making this as realistic as possible, including the mocking of the dead, the dying and the devastated as being 'lazy and stupid'...
“Third, the top Law Enforcement Officer in the country will torture a series of bound prisoners live, soak the writ of Habeas Corpus in kerosene and set in alight, smash the machinery of democracy, all “The Secretary of Defense will then f*#k an entire country into the ground, destroy the military, lie until his ass actually falls off, and mock anyone who asks honest questions.
“Then, for laughs, the Vice President will shoot a guy. An old guy. In the face.
“The old guy will then profusely apologize for getting in the way of the Vice President’s buckshot.”
The Republican Party pauses, smiling, and then continues:
"This is the best part: the President of the United States then comes back onstage in a flight suit and a massive codpiece, struts over the dead and wounded, over our ruined national reputation, over our failing schools, over our crippling debt, and praises every one of us for the brilliant job we have done, and passes out Presidential Medal’s of Freedom.
“Then a giant banner reading ‘Mission Accomplished’ drops out the ceiling, and 29% of the audience applauds wildly as we all get up and take a bow."
The Republican Party looks at the American People and says, "Well, that's the act. What do you think?"
The American People just sit there stunned for a long time. Finally they say, "That's a hell of an act. What do you call yourselves?"
"The Aristocrats!"
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Sep 19, 2009 - 04:38pm PT
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Riley I share your concern. There are all too many borderline insane whack nuts out there being fired up into a frenzy by the right wing(nut) pundits to not take this threat seriously.
How about we make it abundantly clear that if the pres gets dropped it will be open hunting season on all republicans. Maybe if these talking head pigs fear for their own safety they will ratchet down the vitriolic hate speech and tell their ditto heads to do the same.
Let it be known that if they cause Obama harm they will die!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oiling the AR 15 and Mac 10 now.
Preserve Liberty kill a Conservative.
Hows that for liberal compassion?
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sep 19, 2009 - 07:40pm PT
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You guys have nothing to worry about. The radicals that were promoting the violence in the 70's that had Pellosi in tears all now are safely ensconced as friends of Bary or better yet,
appointed as czars.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Sep 19, 2009 - 08:42pm PT
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Relax Riley.
The only ones talking about presidential assination are Democrats, and I don't believe they're serious about doing it.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Sep 19, 2009 - 08:53pm PT
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Riley writes:
"One thing is for sure I certainly wouldn't want to be anywhere near a predominatly African American area if this happened."
What would make you think things would be any worse in "a predominatly African American area" than in an area populated by non-blacks?
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Sep 19, 2009 - 08:55pm PT
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Chaz: And those jackasses that were arrested in Colorado during the Democratic National Convention. I realize that you prefer to stay snidely aloof about this type of thing and I can understand why you'd think we were all a bunch of hysterical liberals considering there is NO history of violence or assassination of liberal/civil rights leaders in this country. I'm sure MLK, JFK, and RFK were total flukes. Just people exercising their 2nd amendment rights, eh? I wish I could find that article I read some years back by a guy who was in a bar somewhere in the south when JFK was shot and when the news came over the television most of the people in the bar cheered.
Obama was the earliest candidate in history to receive Secret Service protection because of death threats. I'm sure they were all from Hillary supporters, right?
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Sep 19, 2009 - 09:03pm PT
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You're scaring yourself over nothing, HiDesertDJ.
Just like a little kid who's terrified of the dark.
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Stewart
Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
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Sep 19, 2009 - 09:27pm PT
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If you factor mean-spirited greed by a powerful elite, combined with an uneducated electorate with a hysterical fear of helping the less fortunate along with a terror of anything that speaks of government handouts to few others than the military, secret police forces, prisons, or corporate lobbyists into a discussion of right and wrong you run into problems - philosophers argue endlessly about the true meaning of right or wrong. A philosopher would probably agree that human decency is a matter of what is in one's heart.
But the HMO lobbyists and their political toadies ARE liars.
Here's some FACTS from Canada, and these truths are also true in every other civilized nation on the planet, except the U.S. As a matter of fact, Canada's health care system sucks in comparison to most of the above nations these days.
FACTS: - NOBODY is euthanised in Canada. It is illegal, and those involved in such actions end up in jail if apprehended.
- The bureaucracy involved in obtaining treatment as claimed by the opponents of an affordable national medicare systems is non-existent, unless the display of a valid medical insurance card when requesting treatment is considered onerous. In life & death situations when there is no available proof of identity, the patient is treated and the details sorted out afterwards.
- In British Columbia, at the very least, completely FREE health care (including prescriptions) is provided to those too poor to afford the nominal premiums paid by more fortunate Canadians.
- People who are medically unable to work are provided with access to a pension.
- Some Canadian provinces provide free health care to ALL citizens regardless of their income.
This is the socialist "hell" that we endure up here. It's too bad that a horrifying proportion of the U.S. electorate appears
to be too lazy or bigoted to get onto the internet (or read some foreign newspapers) to actually get some FACTS to make an informed decision on this matter. As a matter of fact, when seeking the indisputable truth, you could do worse than assuming that most information reported on Fox news or any of their clones is nothing more than the same kind of lies that the Nazis used to betray the trust of a gullible German electorate. I suggest that you get your international news by reading a variety of opinions from information sources from the nation that interests you. This is how one learns facts and learn how to make truly informed decisions.
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shut up and pull
climber
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Sep 19, 2009 - 09:42pm PT
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NO WONDER JIMMY CARTER IS SENSITIVE ABOUT RACISM -- HE IS, OR AT LEAST USED TO BE, A BIG-TIME RACIST HIMSELF:
At The Corner yesterday, Hans von Spakovsky offered a compelling explanation: Carter himself has a history of virulent racism. The facts, drawn from A Voting Rights Odyssey by Laughlin McDonald, director of the ACLU's Voting Project, are astonishing:
When Carter returned to Plains, Georgia, to become a peanut farmer after serving in the Navy, he became a member of the Sumter County School Board, which did not implement the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision handed down by the Supreme Court. Instead, the board continued to segregate school children on the streets of Carter's hometown. ...
Carter's board tried to stop the construction of a new "Elementary Negro School" in 1956. Local white citizens had complained that the school would be "too close" to a white school. As a result, "the children, both colored and white, would have to travel the same streets and roads in order to reach their respective schools." The prospect of black and white children commingling on the streets on their way to school was apparently so horrible to Carter that he requested that the state school board stop construction of the black school until a new site could be found. The state board turned down Carter's request because of "the staggering cost." Carter and the rest of the Sumter County School Board then reassured parents at a meeting on October 5, 1956, that the board "would do everything in its power to minimize simultaneous traffic between white and colored students in route to and from school."
ONE MORE REASON JIMMY CARTER IS AMERICA'S WORST PRESIDENT.
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shut up and pull
climber
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Sep 19, 2009 - 09:45pm PT
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A REPORT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE:
Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday has been in the media game for a long time now. He’s reported good news and bad news about both Democratic and Republican presidents, and the White House staffs took most of the bad news in stride. They knew Wallace was just doing his job.
Not Barack Obama and his White House. The president snubbed Wallace and Fox News in his flurry of visits to Sunday news shows tomorrow, and last night, Wallace told Fox colleague Bill O’Reilly that Obama’s team is just as petty as their boss.
“These guys, everything is personal. I gotta tell you, everything,” Wallace said. “They are the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington.”
Barack Obama is single-handedly destroying the concept of what it means to be “presidential.” He has cracked a joke at the expense of Special Olympians on late-night television; he has said a local police officer just doing his job “acted stupidly“; and he has mocked taxpayers wary of his policies as “bed-wetters” and “folks waving tea bags around.”
Now Obama and his high-paid press aides are acting like children toward Wallace and the rest of Fox News because the network refuses to get in Obama’s tank with the rest of the establishment media.
Statesmanship appears to be dead in the White House for the next few years.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Sep 19, 2009 - 10:14pm PT
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SUP calling Jimmy carter a racist...what a f*#king joke.
You might want to ask the millions of people of all color who he has help in the last 50 years if he is a racist.
What a clown.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sep 19, 2009 - 10:22pm PT
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I'll bet those of the Hebraic persuasion have quite a different perception.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Sep 19, 2009 - 10:27pm PT
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TGT wrote..I'll bet those of the Hebraic persuasion have quite a different perception.
Can't please everyone.
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shut up and pull
climber
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Sep 19, 2009 - 10:44pm PT
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Sad. All these climbers supporting a socialist like Obama. I used to think climbers were independent, responsible types who didn't need their diapers changed, especially by the government nanny state. Sad. Sad. Sad.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Sep 19, 2009 - 10:46pm PT
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SUP...Sad. All these climbers supporting a socialist like Obama. I used to think climbers were independent, responsible types who didn't need their diapers changed, especially by the government nanny state. Sad. Sad. Sad.
Don't like it...leave. Good riddance.
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