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Ill believe SOME of this Global Warming crapola when one...just ONE of the so-called "solutions" doesnt involve some kind of governmental money grab.

I realize Im a conservative hack. Whereas you think youre objective and "telling it like it is." WHO is really clueless here?

You are !@#$ing scary.

Funny how the left wants PALIN to "keep talking." Fine. Keep Schumer, Pelosi, Reed, that idiot Geitner and even Mr. "errrr.....ummmm", himself yapping away. It will pretty much guarantee the GOP's return to power in four years.

On a day when four US servicemen get killed in a roadside bomb, that !@#$ Helen Thomas has the never to say "so-called terrorist." Die, already. Just......die.

Saying the basic economic swing cycles are to never work again if this bill isnt passed is in touch with WHAT reality? Maybe the "reality" in that round sphere in the movie Event Horizon, where people rip out their eyes and eat maggots.....but certainly not in THIS reality. Yeah...maybe thats it...Obama's a really big Sam Neil fan.

Bruce is my favorite Bill, but LT wins this one.

Stop effing drinking and go answer my question about your TV, darnit.

Youre so dense it took you THIS long to figure out I wasnt being NICE to you? Back on topic: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...0502766_pf.html The Fierce Urgency of Pork By Charles Krauthammer Friday, February 6, 2009; A17 "A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe." -- President Obama, Feb. 4. Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill. And so much for the promise to banish the money changers and influence peddlers from the temple. An ostentatious executive order banning lobbyists was immediately followed by the nomination of at least a dozen current or former lobbyists to high position. Followed by a Treasury secretary who allegedly couldn't understand the payroll tax provisions in his 1040. Followed by Tom Daschle, who had to fall on his sword according to the new Washington rule that no Cabinet can have more than one tax delinquent. The Daschle affair was more serious because his offense involved more than taxes. As Michael Kinsley once observed, in Washington the real scandal isn't what's illegal, but what's legal. Not paying taxes is one thing. But what made this case intolerable was the perfectly legal dealings that amassed Daschle $5.2 million in just two years. He'd been getting $1 million per year from a law firm. But he's not a lawyer, nor a registered lobbyist. You don't get paid this kind of money to instruct partners on the Senate markup process. You get it for picking up the phone and peddling influence. At least Tim Geithner, the tax-challenged Treasury secretary, had been working for years as a humble international civil servant earning non-stratospheric wages. Daschle, who had made another cool million a year (plus chauffeur and Caddy) for unspecified services to a pal's private equity firm, represented everything Obama said he'd come to Washington to upend. And yet more damaging to Obama's image than all the hypocrisies in the appointment process is his signature bill: the stimulus package. He inexplicably delegated the writing to Nancy Pelosi and the barons of the House. The product, which inevitably carries Obama's name, was not just bad, not just flawed, but a legislative abomination. It's not just pages and pages of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections, one of which would set off a ruinous Smoot-Hawley trade war. It's not just the waste, such as the $88.6 million for new construction for Milwaukee Public Schools, which, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, have shrinking enrollment, 15 vacant schools and, quite logically, no plans for new construction. It's the essential fraud of rushing through a bill in which the normal rules (committee hearings, finding revenue to pay for the programs) are suspended on the grounds that a national emergency requires an immediate job-creating stimulus -- and then throwing into it hundreds of billions that have nothing to do with stimulus, that Congress's own budget office says won't be spent until 2011 and beyond, and that are little more than the back-scratching, special-interest, lobby-driven parochialism that Obama came to Washington to abolish. He said. Not just to abolish but to create something new -- a new politics where the moneyed pork-barreling and corrupt logrolling of the past would give way to a bottom-up, grass-roots participatory democracy. That is what made Obama so dazzling and new. Turns out the "fierce urgency of now" includes $150 million for livestock (and honeybee and farm-raised fish) insurance. The Age of Obama begins with perhaps the greatest frenzy of old-politics influence peddling ever seen in Washington. By the time the stimulus bill reached the Senate, reports the Wall Street Journal, pharmaceutical and high-tech companies were lobbying furiously for a new plan to repatriate overseas profits that would yield major tax savings. California wine growers and Florida citrus producers were fighting to change a single phrase in one provision. Substituting "planted" for "ready to market" would mean a windfall garnered from a new "bonus depreciation" incentive. After Obama's miraculous 2008 presidential campaign, it was clear that at some point the magical mystery tour would have to end. The nation would rub its eyes and begin to emerge from its reverie. The hallucinatory Obama would give way to the mere mortal. The great ethical transformations promised would be seen as a fairy tale that all presidents tell -- and that this president told better than anyone. I thought the awakening would take six months. It took two and a half weeks.

Id tell you youre like on the border of Rettatta territory....but then Im sure Id get some response about me being "against noodles" and "demeaning to eggs" (or whatever the !@#$ was in that hell-soup made by that lunatic).

What the !@#$ does time in office have to do with it. If anything, the short amount of time before resorting to the tactics make it worse, considering he should have it still fresh in his head that he blasted Bush for these things that hes now doing. Or did all the coke Barry the Community Organizer snorted back in Chi-Twon kill his short term memory? WHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! If Mayor Nagin can refer to a whole city as "Chocolate", I can refer to Barry as such. Shut up.

Oh, Im sorry.....next time Ill poke fun of Catholics, white people or someother "acceptable" class to bash. STFU, you oversensive ninny. First you got weepy when people slammed you into next week over the Union thing. Now this. Youre probably the same (*^*&%^$^#that gets offended at Don Rickles. Youre being a !@#$ing fraud, too with your douchy excuses for why its "acceptable" for B. Hussein to use the same tactics that Bush got sh-- for.

Yeesh....good point.

The only "a-hole" things being thrown around is the bull sh-- "YOU do it = "BAD", WE do it = "OK"" nonsense youre throwing out. Youre being a !@#$ing fraud. An apparently an oversensitive one at that if a silly off color comment bothers you so much. Man up.

Ah, so when Cheney and Bush warned of an impending threat, it was "doom and gloom scare tactics" But when The Chocolate Wonder does it....oh he's just being "Real Real honest." Good !@#$ing Lord.

This is the same half-assed "argument" you libs used against Rush and his "fail" comments. Its one thing to not "support" something just to be obtuse and obstructionist for no good reason. Its another to not "support" a piece of legilation becuase it's counter to EVERYTHING you believe in. All you libs whing about "The GOP wont support this.....whaaaaaa." Why SHOULD the Republicans just "support" this POS bill if its something they dont beleive in? When was the last time a Democrat crossed the !@#$ing isle to support a Republican President on something thats counter to the policy and ideology of their party? Oh yeah....it was Joe Lieberman. And he was !@#$ing KICKED OUT of the DNC for all intents and purposes for doing that. Despite being hard LEFT on pretty much EVERYTHING he voted on, he was outcast for the ONE THING be sided with Bush on, the war.

Im sorry I cant take finanical advice from some hussy in a $500 blouse with a $400 haircut telling ME to live hand to mouth. !@#$ her.

Every now and again I get something right. Dont worry. Ill miss the mark with something bad probably before lunch.

"Sugar coat"? No. But as the man the Nation looks to, his job is to lead and yes....encourage people. Not to run around going "Were !@#$ed, were !@#$ed!!!" If you look through history, the BEST Presidential speeches and most memorable "lines" came in the WORST of times. And excuse me...the token gesture of briging a Republican to his Cabinet means jack. Not when he's letting Nancy "even LIBERALS hate me" Pelosi and the Democratic Caucus be in charge of whats in this mess of a bill. Yeah, its their job to write it (duh) but Obama's got the political capital right now to make sure what Congress puts on his desk is something he really wants. And hes not doing that. Instead hes demonizing Republicans for their efforts to expose this bill for what it is.

Here Duey.....here is a good comparison from another bird strike. Notice how ATC keeps providing information and more important options to this 757 so the pilot can decide what to do, even down to when he is safely on the ground and stopped.

I read the terrain/water landing checklist for the A320 a while back. It basically goes like this: 1. Shut down everything. 2. Activate fire bottles. 3. Hold on to your azz.

Dont forget winds, too. But I think it was a calm day if I recall. We are talkin' basic energy/momentum measurement here. The basic essence of flying.

"Lost thrust" and "no thrust" are two different things. Again....ATC's job is to keep relaying options to the aircraft so that the pilot could make a decision as to what to do. He might not have been able to make Tererboro becuase he might have had to make a tight turn that would have resulted in too much momentum loss...but if Newarks runways were more aligned with his flight path, would have been more feasible. ATC didnt know that. Didnt know a lot of things that affected what Sullenberger's real options were.

He didnt "get" what was happenning becuase he had very limited info. He knew he had a damanged plane looking for a spot to land and he knew his altitiude and ground speed. Thats all. He didnt know how damaged the engines were, if they were still making thrust at all or anyhthing else. Oh...and despite this flight's emergency call, this controller was still responsible for all the other aircraft in his sector. ATC's job in that situation is to keep providing info to the pilots so that they can continue to weigh their options and make a decision. That controller did EXACTLY what he was supposed to do.

Why are you complaining about lobbyists?