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The Constitution grants specific powers to the Fed. All other powers not mentioned are left to the people and the states. If you read it, you failed the comprehension test.Yes, I have. So you don't have to quote it, just give me the articles and sections that apply. Where in the constitution does it prohibit bailouts of markets, and where does it require the president to create a budget?
Oh, that's right. NOWHERE!
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I'm contacting Miller and Rubio to get the AG fired.
Couldn't fire the whole lot of them, so must go this route.
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I quit. Luckily I have the means. Good luck y'all,
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A hurricane. I can't believe it. A hurricane a week before an election, in which the president doesn't do anything but place a few phone calls and get his picture taken with a fat baby who's in love with Bruce Springsteen, swings the most important election of our time.
Such is life.
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!@#$ing idiots elected a woman who used affirmative action while being white. Wow. I give up. The country is screwed.
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Yep. Thanks to the one issue vagina voters.Dem will keep the senate...
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Whatcha got from me?I said earlier today that I've been collecting up the innane commentary from people here and in the media - the OCs, Oxyrocks, GaryMs, VABills, here and the Roves, Ingrams, Limbaughs, there who have made declarative statements that didn't comport with even a slight indicia of reality.
Just remember that when these folks try to be convincing again...
I'm wondering what the excuses will be:
Hurricane Sandy
Popular vote
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Fotunately the people installed a GOP majority in the HOR.So far your prediction is coming true -- it's a tie!
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/06/a-tie-for-obama-and-romney-in-nations-first-voting/?hpt=hp_t2_6
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Jobs. We have businesses and jobs.Pretty quiet in around here today. I think the Romney-philes are not feeling so confident anymore.
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http://freebeacon.com/post/35057729004/victorias-secret-angels-turn-on-power
When the New York Army National Guard’s 69th Infantry Regiment found itself in the midst of a hurricane without power, it turned to an unlikely source to save the day: lingerie purveyor Victoria’s Secret.As they had done for the last three years running, the lingerie company was holding its annual television event at the Regiment’s historic armory, located at 25th street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. For the show, the producers had hauled in eight massive 500 kilowatt generators. Of course, the producers said, we’d be happy to help. Hours later, the lights flashed back on.
“We were dead in the water until Victoria’s Secret showed up,” says Capt. Brendan Gendron, the Regiment’s operations officer.
The 69th asked the designer to come to its aid in delivering food to devastated New Yorkers, a service the company was happy to perform:
The troops also needed help distributing food. The Federal Emergency Management Agency had begun bringing tractor-trailers’ worth of emergency provisions to the armory. It was up to the troops to break up the pallets, load them in military trucks, and bring them to the seven distribution centers in Manhattan where the Salvation Army would hand out meals to Hurricane victims. One problem: the 69th didn’t have a fork lift. So again, they turned to the Victoria’s Secret crew.
We repeat: It was the 69th. 
Leadership!
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President elect Romney was here last Saturday, but my paying job kept me from attending the standing room only rally.
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http://www.timnerenz.com/2012/11/vote-your-conscience.html
NOVEMBER 04, 2012Vote Your Conscience
Regular readers of this column know that I haven’t been blogging for a while; believe it or not there are more important things in life than politics.  But with the election just a couple days out, there is one more thing that needs to be said and then I am going back into hibernation.       
For those who have already made up your mind who to vote for Tuesday, I congratulate you and respect your choice, whether it is Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Gary Johnson or one of the other candidates who appear on ballots in some states.  Every vote is a vote of conscience and no vote is wasted on Tuesday as long as you own it on Wednesday. 
I frankly don’t know how anyone could still be undecided after $2 billion of ads and 18 months of campaigning; that is like not knowing if you are gay or straight 3 days before prom after watching porn all winter.  
But if you have not yet made up your mind how to vote, may I respectfully suggest that you vote for Mitt Romney. 
And I say that not as a Republican, because I am not one; nor as a Romney guy, because I am not one of those either; and not even as a libertarian because he is not one of us.  It is the suggestion of a businessperson with a pretty good grasp of what the effects of an Obama re-election will have on small to medium-sized firms – the ones who provide the majority of jobs in this country and whose owners pay the lions’ share of taxes.  The big dogs like GE and Goldman Sachs win no matter what; they’d get theirs even if Vlad the Impaler wins on a write-in.   
But the rest of us have to earn our way in this world.  There is no reason not to believe President Obama when he says he will allow the tax increases on business owners to go into effect January 1, will proceed with the next round of national health care mandates, will further restrict energy production, and will use sequestration as the means to cut DoD procurement.  Those policies are the four horses of the economic apocalypse.   
And there is also no reason not to believe the brave business owners who have come out and told us how they will be forced to respond to those higher imposed costs - by reducing headcount, cutting back hours, scaling back pension and retirement contributions, paring or eliminating health care benefits altogether, consolidating operations, and shifting capital investment and job creation to countries with more favorable tax and regulatory climates. 
It is disgraceful that they have been savaged for telling the truth.  If the media was not so obsessed with Big Bird and the fictional Anne Romney’s War on Herself, they might have noticed that 2012 has been a record year for small and mid-size businesses being sold or liquidated.  Atlas is already shrugging, people; and it will get much worse under Obama Part Dieux.    
Moving investment to a more favorable climate is not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing or a Libertarian thing, it is a rational economic decision that will be made by rational people with a business education and decades of experience.  For those who might never have had an economics of business course let me explain the problem in simple terms:     
Your boyfriend kicks me in the nuts repeatedly.  I tell you that if he keeps it up, I will have to buy a cup to protect myself and then there will be no money for your tiara, Princess.  You blame me for ruining your prom, mom tells you I am an insensitive racist jerk and you both vote to keep your boyfriend…and increase your allowance…and buy prophylactics for law students with very expensive purses.  Majority wins, he keeps kicking my nuts, so I go buy the cup and you don’t go to prom, pouting like a Kardashian on a budget.    
That - well something like it - is what we are trying to avoid, here.   
When weatherman Al Roker told us what would happen when Hurricane Sandy made landfall, did anyone go running to the DA to press charges?  Did the NAACP sue him for prejudicial remarks?  Did any union target his business for retribution or threaten his family?   Is anyone blaming Al Roker for the devastation in New York and New Jersey, or clamoring to ban him from speaking ever again?   
Well, I’m not Al Roker, I can’t force you to do anything, and I wouldn’t presume to tell you how you should vote; I am merely making a suggestion to those who might still be undecided.  And by the way, regardless of who you choose for President, you should look down-ticket to find some outstanding Libertarian candidates for other offices.  In Wisconsin, you can send your message with Kexel, Deschler, Maas, and Ehlers, to name a few.      
Here’s what won’t change on Tuesday, regardless of who we select as our next President:  the European debt crisis, the damage from the hurricane, the global economic downturn, upheaval in the middle east, yawning budget deficits, the unfunded pension and retirement systems around the country, 23 million Americans out of work, the economic ascension of China, and Ben Bernanke devaluating our currency by $40 billion each month.  If President Obama was the best person to confront that list, there would be no list…except for the hurricane damage.    
As much as it pains me to say it, neither Gary Johnson nor Ron Paul is going to be our next President of the United States.  And neither is Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Superman, Jesus, Aaron Rodgers, or the Good Witch of the North.  Our next President will be either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama – pick one.
And remember who comes along for the ride - Biden, Clinton, Geithner, Holder, Panetta, Salazar, Sebelius, Solis, Duncan, LaHood, Chu, Napolitano (the wrong one), Rice,  2 more Supreme Court Justices likely, dozens of federal judges, and the whole fleet of federal prosecutors.  Do you trust your liberty in their hands?  Not me.     
The libertarian’s second biggest fear is that Romney won’t do what he says; but our biggest fear is that Obama will.  Romney wins…by a landslide.          
“Moment Of Clarity” is a weekly commentary by Libertarian writer and speaker Tim Nerenz, Ph.D.  Visit Tim’s website www.timnerenz.com to find your moment. 
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I do miss Larry.we know fj and a couple others followed us over, but it doesn't have the same feel... Ya know???
These libs seem too ignorant. Too stuck on the DNC talking points and personal insults, and not interested at all in honest debate...
Oh..... wait.... Sounds a lot like the libs back there huh???
Nevermind....
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Happy anniversary!Hey that's right Ox. its all of the "other board" refugees anniversary this week .
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On the other board that shall remain nameless, I had a link to a well documented explanation of the surplus myth. Both parties like to maintain the myth because it' benefits the Clinton legacy while it was the result of GOP budgets.There was no surplus. There was an accounting trick.
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Found it in my signature.
Something to think about: Surplus Myth
Something else to remember: Political Fables
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Check out this video on YouTube:
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I would vote for Johnson if I were in New York. But I'm not. I'm in a "battle ground state" and am realistic.
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ThatRomney
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Lurker here. Occasional poster. Many more don't post at all. They are out here. You are right.Because there are those who lurk here, but don't post, and it benefits the community to tear down stupid every time it rears it's ugly head. If you charged me with the task of creating the perfect foil for logical, competent conservatism, I would hand you Duck_Dodgers007. He is the absolute caricature of unthinking, bitter, and broken hyper-partisan liberalism, and he showcases why most every conservative argument made here is correct, even it instances where they clearly aren't, because he loses every single argument before his opponent has a chance to win it. He's beautiful in his counter-intuitive efficency.
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My 2:Go ahead...tear me to shreds if it makes you happy.
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Hurricane Sandy left in its path some impressive statistics. Its central pressure was the lowest ever recorded for a storm north of North Carolina, breaking a record set by the devastating "Long Island Express" hurricane of 1938. Along the East Coast, Sandy led to more than 50 deaths, left millions without power and caused an estimated $20 billion or more in damage.But to call Sandy a harbinger of a "new normal," in which unprecedented weather events cause unprecedented destruction, would be wrong. This historic storm should remind us that planet Earth is a dangerous place, where extreme events are commonplace and disasters are to be expected. In the proper context, Sandy is less an example of how bad things can get than a reminder that they could be much worse.
In studying hurricanes, we can make rough comparisons over time by adjusting past losses to account for inflation and the growth of coastal communities. If Sandy causes $20 billion in damage (in 2012 dollars), it would rank as the 17th most damaging hurricane or tropical storm (out of 242) to hit the U.S. since 1900—a significant event, but not close to the top 10. The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 tops the list (according to estimates by the catastrophe-insurance provider ICAT), as it would cause $180 billion in damage if it were to strike today. Hurricane Katrina ranks fourth at $85 billion.
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I'm gonna give you a chance here. Re-read this and fix it.Everyone isn't a fox news zombie. So save your pathetic rhetoric for other fox news zombies. I'm actually an investor myself, it's a big part of my life, but I'll pay my taxes when I cash them out. I won't try and cheat the country whose military I served in, whose police protected me, whose policies supported the middle class and I love
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Look up Silver on the Mass special election for Ted Kennedy's replacement polling. He's a hack that falls in line at the last minute to get his predictions right. He's got one election that my 7 year old grandson could have predicted all 57 states correctly and he missed one.
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Again... Fiat said they were moving Jeep output to China. So, are you saying that the majority see the lie that Fiat wasn't thinking about doing just that? You are a lemming.No. What it means is that the majority of Americans saw through the lies and BS Romney shovels, like how Jeep is moving to China. The man changes positions faster than a weathervane in a hurricane.
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Specificity. Foreign to some.
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He did. Again. You actually suck at this. If this is your schtick.You taking me to task for anything I say is a solid contra-indicator of the foolishness of any of my statements.
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