PastaJoe

Amen to that. The economy is slowly improving, stock values are going up instead of down, financial institutions have stabilized, American car companies are recovering, and all this despite a Recovery Act that was too small, but was the most that they could get approved, and a continual effort by Republicans to put political theatre ahead of what's best for the economy. Of course it's little comfort for all the unemployed, of which I was one at the end of the Bush term but have been working for the past year. Since private companies are making profits but sitting on their cash reserves, it's left to the government to further stimulate job growth. We've seen the failure of trickle-down economics, hopefully voters will remember it was Bush and the Republican Congress that took a surplus to a deficit, enacted tax cuts for the wealthy without corresponding spending cuts, started an off-budget war in Iraq, and promoted less regulation for the financial and energy industries. That tiger won't change it's stripes.

I think they should turn it into a maximum security prison. Other than the entrance, there's no windows. It looks like the walls from Escape From New York.

A conservative dismisses right-wing Black Panther 'fantasies' A scholar whom President George W. Bush appointed as vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Abigail Thernstrom has a reputation as a tough conservative critic of affirmative action and politically correct positions on race. But when it comes to the investigation that the Republican-dominated commission is now conducting into the Justice Department’s handling of an alleged incident of voter intimidation involving the New Black Panther Party — a controversy that has consumed conservative media in recent months — Thernstrom has made a dramatic break from her usual allies. “This doesn’t have to do with the Black Panthers; this has to do with their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration,” said Thernstrom, who said members of the commission voiced their political aims “in the initial discussions” of the Panther case last year. “My fellow conservatives on the commission had this wild notion they could bring Eric Holder down and really damage the president,” Thernstrom said in an interview with POLITICO. Thernstrom, who had openly mocked the commission’s hearing on the case, put her dissent in writing last week in National Review, where she said the incident was “racial theater of very minor importance” and “small potatoes.” And other conservatives have weighed in on her side. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/...l#ixzz0uBKavII5

More goodness from the tolerant Tea Party: In an effort to mock to the NAACP's recent criticism of the Tea Party movement, Mark Williams, a conservative radio talk show host and spokesman for the Tea Party Express, published a post on his blog that is a mock letter from NAACP president Benjamin Jealous to former President Lincoln. "Dear Mr. Lincoln," the blog post reads, "We [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People and we demand that it stop!" The mock letter continues by taking on several core beliefs and positions of the Tea Party movement including the conservative movement's desire to end bailouts of big business, to reduce the size and scope of government, to reduce government spending and to cut taxes. "The racist tea parties also demand that the government 'stop the out of control spending,' " the mock letter says. "Again, they directly target [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People. That means we [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People would have to compete for jobs like everybody else and that is just not right. "Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government 'stop raising our taxes' That is outrageous! Totally racist! The tea party expects [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People to be productive members of society, especially when our mission is to convince them that progress is impossible for them based on the color of their skin?" The mock letter ends by telling Lincoln he was "the greatest racist ever. We had a great gig. … Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we say that belong." http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/...bid=yN4rYMNDBu9 Why stop there, put on black face and sing Mammy. His audience would love it.

Pay attention. I didn't say the billboard showed they were racist. I said it made them look like lunatics. They keep the racists around to try to make themselves look reasonable by comparison.

They keep showing up at the rallies and are allowed to stay, but they're not tolerated? There's a reason why they show up there, and not at NAACP meetings.

I love the thrill of our 3rd stringers beating their 3rd stringers in the 4th quarter. It's the highlight of the season.

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I wouldn't say Tea Party members in general are racist, but they do tolerate fringe racists at their rallies as displayed by some of the signs and things people shout out. Perhaps they tolerate them so as to try and make themselves seem reasonable. But then they go and do something as stupid as the billboard in the linked story, and remove all doubt about their lunacy. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07...oard&st=cse http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/13/...in6675861.shtml

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Unfortunately, they also resigned Lalime as backup goalie, so automatically pencil in 8-10 games in the loss column.

Neither, take whichever of these RBs is left: 1 Chris Johnson RB, TEN 2 Adrian Peterson RB, MIN 3 Maurice Jones-Drew RB, JAC 4 Michael Turner RB, ATL 5 Ray Rice RB, BAL 6 Frank Gore RB, SF

I rolled the eyes because the anti-Obama crowd will call for McChrystal to run just because he's spoken out about Obama, even though they know nothing about his views on most issues. "McChrystal's team disapproves of the Obama administration, with the exception of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who backed McChrystal's request for additional troops in Afghanistan." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37839756/ns/us_news-military/ I still think Hillary could end up as president in the future if she chooses to run.

Lincoln, FDR, and Truman all had issues with generals, and they were right in the end. If McCrystal really feels that way about the administration, then the honorable thing for him to do would be to resign and not wait to be asked to resign by Obama. If he does, I expect to hear calls for a Palin / McCrystal ticket by the end of the week.

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.