PastaJoe

Another BP apologist. And if there was another oil leak from another rig, you'd be one of the first blaming the gov't for allowing them to continue without a review of procedures.

BP has also voluntarily agreed to create a $100 million fund for the purpose of compensating oil rig workers now unemployed as a result of closure of other deepwater rigs after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon explosion. http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/16/obama.bp....?iref=allsearch

Well, we were told that the war would pay for itself. Oh wait, wrong war. Nevermind.

Why don't they just stop the clock when there's a stoppage like for injury? Is there any other timed sport where the actual time left isn't reflected on the clock? If I was a player, I'd want to know how much time I had left to score or defend, which could determine the type of play you make.

“Sailing and life in general is dangerous. Teenagers drive cars. Does that mean teenagers shouldn’t drive a car?” Laurence Sunderland told the AP. “I think people who hold that opinion have lost their zeal for life. They’re living in a cotton-wool tunnel to make everything safe.” Stupid argument. What teen driver has to wait a couple of days for someone to rescue them. And a good driver is unlikely to get in a crash, while a good sailor is still at the mercy of the ocean and storms that can capsize and sink their boat. She's been on the ocean since January. What happened to going to school?

It's about time Pasta got some respect. They must have some McGruber in Gaza if they can make weapons out of potato chips, margarine, fishing rods, and goats.

In his radio show, "The Glenn Program" on Premiere Radio Networks, Beck mocked Malia Obama for asking her father if he'd managed to stop oil from continuing to spill out into the Gulf of Mexico. At a news conference Thursday, the president recounted how his daughter had asked him, "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" -- in an effort to illustrate how all Americans are anxious about the BP oil rig that's now become America's worst oil spill in history. Afterward Beck made fun of the anecdote, imitating Malia in a squeaky voice. "Daddy? Daddy? Daddy, did you plug the hole yet? Daddy?" he said. Then Beck's co-host Pat Gray responded as if he were the president. "Honey, not yet... Not time yet, honey. Hasn't done enough damage," Gray said. Then Beck took his argument a step further, saying the exchange reveals something about Malia's education. The 11-year-old and her 9-year-old sister Sasha go to Sidwell Friends, and exclusive and high-performing academy that's sometimes called "the Harvard of Washington's private schools." "'Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?' Is that's their -- that's the level of their education, that they're coming to -- they're coming to daddy and saying 'Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?'" Plug the hole!" Beck said on his Friday morning radio show. Later in the 4-minute segment, Beck turned the routine toward Obama's race. "Why do you hate black people so much?" he said, still imitating Malia in a baby voice. "I'm part white, honey," Gray responded in the voice of the president. Friday's segment ran just two days after another piece on Beck's radio program in which he decried critics of Sarah Palin's family. Speaking with Palin, Beck decried the tactic: "Leave my family, leave people's families alone...When it was Bill Clinton, you don't go after Chelsea Clinton. You don't talk about the Bush kids. Now, the minute they get into politics, that's a different story. You leave the families alone." http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/glen...-malia/19496426 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/28/g...d_n_593587.html Beck has since offered the obligatory CYA apology.

Corrected.

Oooh, quick comeback! Not intelligent, but quick!

They should ask the workers at Arizona's electric and water utilities if they're willing to lose their jobs because of the loss of a big customer just so they can have a symbolic F-U.

That's a really moronic response. You don't think they sell things in Socialist countries? The difference is that if the profit is going to the public good by paying down the debt, then it's a Socialist program i.e. being used for the benefit of society, as opposed to the Capitalist program i.e. an individual keeping all the profits for themself. So in the end your family is laughing at you.

Well numb-nuts, please list the specific things that Sestak has done that qualifies him to be labeled a 'rat-bastard'. Not just a politician you disagree with, but a 'rat-bastard'.

Sestak served 31 years in the Navy, and he's a 'rat-bastard'? Really? I'm glad he won, better to have a true Democrat than someone who switched parties just to keep his job. The Democrat base will be more likely to come out and support him than they would have Spector. And so much for the conservative tsunami with Democrat Mark Critz winning John Murtha's seat. And it's going to be fun watching Rand Paul make the Republicans nervous when he goes off their script.

You're still buying that BS Swift Boat smear campaign on Kerry, unbelievable. Yeah, he didn't respond forcefully enough to the liars and let them form the narrative, but in the end it was a sad chapter in dirty politics where the liars profited from their lies.

In addition to her competency, even though her views on all issues aren't known, the left won't throw her overboard and reject her nomination like the right did with Myers because she wasn't considered conservative enough for them.

Spending more in the short term is the only way out of a recession, and prevented a depression. That's how it's been done historically. Once the economy recovers, spending on social support programs decrease because more people are employed and don't need the gov't assistance, and tax revenues increase, which both contribute to reducing deficits, and eventually debt.

And Bush didn't pack the court with judicial activists? The only difference is that you agree with their activist decisions, so in your view they're not activists, they're mainstream.

Putting aside the curious confession that you've checked out my nutsack... Yes I complained when Bush raised spending with a needless and unjustified invasion of Iraq AND cut taxes, therefore significantly increasing the debt while lowering revenue. But once we were in Iraq, that black hole of spending (not included in the yearly budgets) had to be paid for to provide our troops with the support they needed, yet Bush and the Republicans continued the unprecedented policy of lowering taxes in a time of war. And those are facts that you conservatives just can't walk away from. Obama didn't start the Iraq war, and even voted against it, but like the bank failures and recession, he now has to clean up the mess started by others, and that unfortunately means spending more than we or he would like, but what is necessary. And the result is slow but steady progress, with increased job growth, more people restarting their job searches because of renewed hope in job growth, and a continued rise in the stock market and our investments in it. More jobs means more tax revenue, and more tax revenue means less debt.

Funny how there wasn't an outcry from the right and a Tea Party movement when Bush was doubling the debt and fighting a war off the books, or even when Reagan significantly raised the debt. And much of the debt Obama has accumulated was to prevent a further economic decline, but I suppose you would have preferred a depression. And reducing the debt will require a combination of cutting spending and raising taxes, that's just common sense. We've gone too long with reduced taxes while increasing spending. Just this week the military industrial complex has been told that the waste and excess in the military will need to be cut back. Will the Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, have the guts to make the tough cuts? Obama can only propose, the Congress has to enact.

You just keep believing that. Most people vote with their pocketbooks, and by 2012 the economy will be sufficiently recovered with job growth and the continued rise in the stock market. And all you can do is hope that we don't recover. How's that feel rooting against the home team?

They don't get pilloried because they're conservative women, they get pilloried when they say stupid or offensive things, like when Ann Coulter told a 17-year-old Muslim student to "take a camel" instead of the flying carpet she has previously suggested Muslims use for transportation. But she and others make their money from like-minded people by being offensive.

He's having severe migraines from the thought that he might get traded to Buffalo.

I thought it was GWBush; selected by the SCOTUS, and clearly not the most qualified candidate for the job.

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/artic...ns-jerseys.html The Phoenix Suns made a bold statement Tuesday denouncing the controversial new immigration bill that recently was signed into law. In announcing that the Suns would wear their "Los Suns" jerseys in recognition of Cinco de Mayo for Game 2 against the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday, Managing Partner Robert Sarver also addressed the immigration bill that has been a divisive national topic since Gov. Jan Brewer enacted it into law April 23. "The frustration with the federal government's failure to deal with the issue of illegal immigration resulted in passage of a flawed state law," Sarver said in a statement released by the Suns on Tuesday morning. "However intended, the result of passing this law is that our basic principles of equal rights and protection under the law are being called into question, and Arizona's already struggling economy will suffer even further setbacks at a time when the state can ill-afford them." "I looked around our plane and looked at our players and the diversity in our organization," Sarver said. "I thought we need to go on record that we honor our diversity in our team, in the NBA and we need to show support for that. As for the political part of that, that's my statement." Suns co-captain Steve Nash has no problem expressing his political views under the basketball spotlight. He once wore a "No war. Shoot for peace." T-shirt during 2003 All-Star Game interviews. "It's a clear-cut issue for me," Nash said. "I don't agree with this bill. I don't agree with the spirit of the bill or the message it sends, not only to people in our community but how it represents our community across the country and the world. "I think the bill opens up the opportunity for racial profiling, racism. I think it puts the police in an incredibly difficult position that isn't fair to them. It's an infringement on our civil liberties to allow the possibility for inequality to arise in our community." The San Antonio Spurs wanted to be a part of the Suns' statement Wednesday but could not get the "Los Spurs" jerseys to do it in time.

Tom Golisano called Charlie Crist a few days ago, offering his support of Crist's independent Senate run. "Let me know what I can do to help," was Golisano's message. And... Billionaire Jeff Greene, a Florida businessman who made his fortune in the real estate and credit default swap markets, plans to jump into his state's Senate race on the Democratic side, a source familiar with his plans told POLITICO. Greene's entry into the race would represent the latest dramatic turn in a campaign already upended once this week by Gov. Charlie Crist's decision to end his bid for the GOP's Senate nomination and run as an independent. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36579.html