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With apologies to Samuel,Marcus and Ben, I have adapted their wisdom to offer some advice in response to yet another childish Davey thread.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than post a shallow thread and remove all doubt. - Samuel Johnson
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to post about the faults of others and to forget his own. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and post repetitive threads and most fools do. - Benjamin Franklin
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The liberals are trying to divert and make it just another "social" issue, but
Its not about birth control...........................its about control.
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But it's not hypocrisy when you deserve it.
Thats true Tom.............................Laws and rules are for “The little people”,
besides WE WON!
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Where have all the flowers gone?....................
Occupiers dangerous, desperate last move?Disrupting CPAC will only expose discredited leftist ideologyBy David A. Keene
The Districts Occupiers are on the march. Even as city health officials and police began evicting Occupy D.C. protesters from their rat-infested McPherson Square campground, organizers were meeting, planning and preparing to confront and, hopefully, silence targets of their hatred they knew would be streaming into Washington this week.
Their targets are the speakers and attendees of this years Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which opens Thursday and is expected to draw more than 11,000 conservative activists to the city for three days of speeches, parties and planning sessions. The annual CPACs are among the most important annual gatherings on any conservatives schedule and are must-stops for politicos seeking conservative support.
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CPACs organizers this year expect and are preparing for trouble - as are the D.C. police. The Occupiers have some experience in disrupting conservative gatherings in the District. Last year, they furiously tried to close down a conference run by Americans for Prosperity and injured an elderly attendee in the process. This year, they are bragging that they are coming to CPAC prepared to physically assault speakers and, presumably, attendees.
Press reports of their planning meetings reveal that they are preparing counterfeit credentials to get some of their people into the conference itself, and there is some reason to believe that their union allies may have moved early to reserve rooms for many of them in the main conference hotel. They are bragging that they will be joined in their effort to close down the conference by allies from the AFL-CIO, SEIU, the National Nurses United, the Metro Labor Council and various other groups.
CPAC organizers think the Occupy movement already has been largely discredited and that a high-profile, desperate attempt to close down CPAC will turn more Americans against them. CPAC has often invited those with whom it disagrees into the conference for political, economic and social-policy debates. But the Occupiers have made it clear that they are far more interested in shutting up those with whom they disagree than in discussing anything - even if they have to resort to violence to do so.
These are desperate people hoping that by attacking us they can continue to draw media attention and support to their leftist allies, one CPAC insider confides, but we arent going to take the bait. We may instead simply enjoy the spectacle of a marginalized, discredited and collapsing movement.
One can only hope hes right, but those attending CPAC and those watching should realize that dying movements can be both desperate and dangerous.
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is being left handed normal; and/or good?
I love the conspiracy theories the righties are constantly coming up with.
Silly response.....the use of the word conspiracy, when none is claimed.
The observation that the media identifies Republicans in critical stories, and not democrats is very well documented throughout the net, there are sites dedicated to just that.
and with the (again well-documented) liberal makeup of the media....................it is not even particuarly suprising...............nothing "conspiratorial" about it.
but cliches are always easier for the left's responses on message boards than actual constructive commentary.
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Is it wrong that I supported Hillary because I thought she looked hot in a pant suit?
Yes.
Its wrong on every level.
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Obama Campaign Chief Seeks to Assure Wall Street
QBy Hans Nichols - Feb 8, 2012
Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) — Jim Messina, President Barack Obama’s campaign manager, assured a group of Democratic donors from the financial services industry that Obama won’t demonize Wall Street as he stresses populist appeals in his re-election campaign, according to two people at the meeting.
At the members-only Core Club in Manhattan, Messina provided a campaign briefing last night for some of the president’s top donors, including Ralph Schlosstein, chief executive officer at Evercore Partners Inc., and his wife, Jane Hartley, co-founder of the economic and political advisory firm Observatory Group LLC; Eric Mindich, founder of Eton Park Capital Management LP; and Ron Blaylock, co-founder of GenNx360 Capital Partners.
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ROBERT REICH: Obama Has Handed The Election Over To The Super Rich
How many billionaires does it take to buy a presidential election?“With so much at stake” wrote Obama campaign manager Jim Messina on the Obama campaign’s blog, Obama couldn’t “unilaterally disarm.”
But would refusing to be corrupted this way really amount to unilateral disarmament? To the contrary, I think it would have given the President a rallying cry that nearly all Americans would get behind: “More of the nation’s wealth and political power is now in the hands of fewer people and large corporations than since the era of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. I will not allow our democracy to be corrupted by this! I will fight to take back our government!”
Small donations would have flooded the Obama campaign, overwhelming Romney’s billionaire super PACs. The people would have been given a chance to be heard.
The sad truth is Obama has never really occupied the high ground. He refused public financing in 2008. Once president, he didn’t go to bat for a system of public financing that would have made it possible for candidates to raise enough money from small donors and matching public funds they wouldn’t need to rely on a few billionaires pumping unlimited sums into super PACS. He hasn’t even fought for public disclosure of super PAC donations.
And now he’s made a total mockery of the Court’s naïve belief that super PACs would remain separate from individual campaigns, by officially endorsing his own super PAC, and allowing campaign manager Jim Messina and even cabinet officers to speak at his super PAC events. Obama will not appear but he, Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden will encourage support of the super PAC.
One Obama adviser says Obama’s decision to endorse his super PAC has had an immediate effect. “Our donors get it,” the official said, adding that they now want to “go fight the other side.”
Exactly. So now a relative handful of super-rich Democrats want fight a relative handful of super-rich Republicans. And we call that a democracy.
This is really a double hypocrisy, since this is the ruling that Mr. Obama publicly scolded the Supreme Court at the previous State of the Union Address.
Now he joins right in.
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Last night, Jay Leno observed that it may be “half time in in America, but China’s got the ball and we’re down by 15 trillion!”
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2) The economy, well this could go either way, if the economy improves then so do the presidents chances of getting elected, if the economy begins to sputter again, then Romney's Mr. "I can fix it" message gets a whole lot stronger.
Good analysis.....I picked #2 as the most important and this article shows the main problem the economy (and by extension, Mr. Obama) will face.
Gas prices to spike 60 cents or more by MayBy Gary Strauss, USA TODAY
February 6, 2012
Get ready for another round of pain at the pump: $4 (or higher) gasoline.
After rising 19 cents a gallon in the past four weeks, regular unleaded gasoline now averages $3.48 a gallon, vs. $3.12 a year ago and $2.67 in February 2010.
Prices could spike another 60 cents or more by May. "I think it's going to be a chaotic spring, with huge price increases in some places," says Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service. Kloza expects average prices to peak at $4.05, although he and other industry trackers say prices could be sharply higher in some markets.
Rising prices are an annual spring ritual, largely because of seasonal demand.
Refiners also switch from winter formulations to more expensive seasonal formulations to meet stringent environmental standards, which can tack on 15 cents a gallon, says Brian Milne of energy tracker Televent DTN.
This year's earlier-than-usual run-up is more about anticipation than current supply and demand. Last week, the Energy Department reported anemic U.S. consumption — the lowest levels since September 2001. Domestic crude oil prices, now about $98 a barrel, are near six-week lows.
Renewed tensions in the Middle East are bolstering crude prices, while speculators are boosting futures contracts, betting on global supply disruptions and tighter refining capacity. Kloza notes that several U.S. and overseas refiners have experienced temporary or permanent closures.
So far, $4 a gallon has proven to be the upper limit consumers will pay. Last April, national prices peaked at about $3.98 a gallon. In 2008, a sharp run-up ended when prices hit an all-time average of $4.11 a gallon that summer.
Can you se the GOP ad with this quote in it ?
Obama's Energy Secretary Chu went on to say, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe”..
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I was going to ignore this silliness, but your , winning "with ease" made me laugh so hard that I couldn't resist
Also your statement from an earlier post was even funnier........"Obama hasn't even started campaigning yet"...........You must be joking with that one.
His populist message.
And who's running against him? A gazillionairre. Do you think that won't work?
Here's a bullet point message campaign (bullet ? ...Hate speech...lol) that will win the American people. With ease.
Economy
1. I got handed a piece of sh#t economy from Bush............ True
2. IT got a little worse at first, even worse than we'd hoped.................. "a little worse"...lol .....biased revisionism at its finest
3. We are finally starting to turn this ship around....let me finish that. Every economic recession should have had its turnaround by now, I made it worse
4. Housing will pick up soon as we get rid of a backlog of supply......that's when the economy will really start kicking. It WILL start kicking after the election
5. Mitt hates poor people.
6. Mitt is rich........ Outside the liberal camps, you will find that the majority of Americans don't automatically "hate" rich people
Wars
1. We got handed two stupid and useless wars that were costing us billions and also lost lives........... They were not "stupid and useless"
2. We are mostly out of one and getting out of the other............. Following the military's plan
3. You're welcome........ Most people are WELL AWARE that success in Iraq was due to the "surge", you know...the one Barack opposed
Healthcare
1. You want to beat me up on healthcare? Good luck with that Mitt Mass. Healthcare Romney....... National vs State
Debt
1. I asked a comission to come up with a plan.
2. They put forth a plan.
3. There were other plans too.
4. The Republicans shot them down. LOL..............Read a little, Obama IGNORED his commision's recomendations
5. No one seems to care about the debt right now................. What universe are you living in?
Social Issues
1. We're not much different except on abortion and that's not the hot button it once was................. AGAIN, what universe are you in? have you been asleep the last week?
(unspoken but will hurt) 2. Mitt wears magic underwear and believes a guy talked to god in a magic hat, as opposed to my zombie worship........... Americans are more open-minded then what you (unspokenly) believe
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He's improved his golf game.
Some possible slogans for Barack in 2012;
"Its Tee Time in America"
"don't vote me out, I'm starting to get the hang of this"
"2012.........let me finish the Back 9 "
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Did you read the actual poll that the article was based on?
He couldnt have, none of us could, because the "pollsters did such a laughable job. Like sampling general population adults rather than registered or likely voters. They’ve also dispensed with reporting partisan identification for reasons that only they know. Perhaps,they have something to hide.
Its very likely that they wildly oversampled Democrats, even though declared Dems have decreased all across the U.S.
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As per usual, Dave is off the point here,
The ad invites criticism due to its hypocrisy.
So, bringing in the city of Detroit as some city on the ‘comeback’ after being knocked down, and blah blah blah, was a bit disingenuous as it fails to mention they knocked themselves out.
Detroit and the American car industry would not have made it to ‘half-time’ if it wasn’t for the Bail-Out ™. They were carried by the taxpayer to half-time, beaten and bruised by building inferior products, bloated management and union mismanagement and over-the-rainbow promises to it’s retiring workforce
So, it was nice to see Clint talk about how America will soon roar back (easier said than done), but when I think of Detroit and the auto-industry, I think of bailouts, the U.S. taxpayer being on the hook for a company that refuses to change, a company that thought the Chevy Volt was a good, affordable idea.
America will roar back in spite of Detroit, thank you very much. The rest of us will pick up the slack so crappy car or solar-energy producing companies can exist and disappear and reappear depending upon who is in the White House.
There were many thoughtful articles (both pro and con) about this commercial all over the internet today, I can only assume that Dave chose an obscure one about Karl Rove because it gave him the biggest erection.............
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Are they Gay or European ?
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That's why I love this board. You idiots are so lost in rightwing land you can't even recognize anything from outside of it. Anything that challanges your twisted world view HAS to be illegimate.
You are, as usual, 180 degrees out of sync.
I have noted, since coming over to this board, that the vast majority of posters are at least familiar with all sides of an argument, even while holding strong beliefs.
Your lame attempts at posting have been rightly ridiculed, not because they are "outside anyone's recognition", (as you so laughingly try to convince yourself) but rather because your posts are repetitive, cliche-ridden, third grade level embarrassments.
You don't add counter-point............but diversion and mirth
you don't add substance to any discussion...........but filler.
Undoubtably, you will respond with your standard "faux amusement" reply, but no one will really care either way.
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Some folks didn't get that "we are non-violent" memo.........
Police: 11 arrested at Occupy DC site
WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities say 11 people have been arrested in Washington's McPherson Square since Park Police began clearing away tents from one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites.David Schlosser, who is a spokesman for the U.S. Park Police, said Sunday that one of those arrested was charged with felony assault on a police officer and assault with a deadly weapon. That person is accused of hitting an officer in the face with a brick Saturday evening. The officer was treated at a hospital.
Three others were charged with assault on a police officer.
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Keep it up, wiseass, and we'll come to your town and ban the toys at your McDonalds, too. Because everyone knows that if Happy Meals didn't have toys, parents would feed their kids a salad instead.
Don't "toy" with me, tough guy................ One quick call to my family in Nevada, they all jump up and down at once,
and California breaks off and drifts away....................lol
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"...because of the failed policies of the Bush Administration." [/Pelosi]
It plays in Pomona, sadly.
Thats all right Tom,.................California's a lost cause.
Happily, in Peoria, and the rest of Middle America, the administration's lies are more and more known.
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The one I saw had Romney with 315 electoral votes.
Not suprising, any swing towards the GOP in the so-called "battleground" states, where Gov. Romney is polling well, and there is no way that Mr. Obama can repeat.
as Mr. B.B. King would say.................."the thrill is gone"
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I was looking for that electoral poll so I could post it here. I saw it a few days ago but couldn't remember where and a search doesn't bring it up. Do you know where it can be found?
Sorry, the usual ones that I refer to are all several months old.
Here is the latest one that I could find
It has Romney slightly ahead in the popular vote, but it hedges its bets by projecting Mr. Obama winning 290 electoral votes (need 271)
this is based on him winning all 7 states were he is listed as "weak" (Romney at 2)
if he losses just one (FL) or two others, it switches the whole thing.
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More viewpoints on Mr. Obama's new found use for religion.
The rich should pay more not only because “I actually think that is going to make economic sense, but for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’s teaching that ‘for unto whom much is given, much shall be required,’” Obama said at the Washington Hilton, delivering remarks at an annual event that every president has attended since Dwight D. Eisenhower.“We can all benefit from turning to our Creator, listening to him,” Obama said. “Avoiding phony religiosity. … This is especially important right now when we’re facing some big challenges as a nation.”
A bold statement, one I suppose he thinks bolsters his position. However, there’s a word in there that changes everything.
“Given.”
See, Obama isn’t talking about looting from those who have been “given” anything. He’s talking about shaking down the producers, the “creators” of profit, those who have, through their own industry, created wealth.
If Obama really, truly believes Jesus’s teaching that ‘for unto whom much is given, much shall be required,’” let’s apply that to the recipient of government assistance. If you are given much from the benevolent government, shouldn’t much be required from you?
Without a doubt.
But it is considered an outrage that we would even consider doing a urinalysis on those who collect government assistance, despite the fact that those who were forced to pay for the assistance were often willing to provide a sample.
How about those who live in government housing? Should we expect them to keep the property clean and in good repair? They are getting much, should we not expect much? And “the projects” have become synonymous with filth and squalor. Why do we not have a squad of government employees who force the people who take advantage of the coerced charity provided by the taxpayer to keep “the projects” in good repair?
Why isn’t much required from them?
And why aren’t they required to show an increase in the skills necessary to stop being a good for nothing and start being a producer? Remember the story I put on the blog this winter about an Atlanta woman who was upset about not getting federal heating assistance? In the photo of her, you can clearly see a huge flat screen television and an XBox 360.
Why are those who enjoy the largesse of widespread government seizure of personal property allowed to spend money on such luxuries? Shouldn’t much be required, including the sacrifice of high definition television until you can pay for your own heat?
In the midst of espousing Biblical principles at the National Prayer Breakfast yesterday, Barack Obama made a point to say, “We are our brother’s keeper.” Interesting that he used the collective “we” — and made no mention of his actual brother or of his responsibilities to him.
“For a start, when he says, ‘I am my brother’s keeper,’ his brother is back in Kenya living on $12 a year. That’s what he was living on at the time of the 2008 election. So all the president has to do in terms of shared responsibility is put a $10 bill in an envelope and mail it to Nairobi or Mombasa or wherever and he will double his brother’s salary.” - Mark Steyn
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Yeah, because they've declared "war" on Catholics by requiring them not to pick and choose what health care their workers should be covered for.
There is really no point in replying, based on your other posts,
but your limited interpretation of what has occurred due to the administration's anti-religious liberty fiat, is both laughable and sad (for you).
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The Official Mitt Romney thread
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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Romney Wins Maine Caucuses
Breaking: Romney wins CPAC straw poll
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