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Originally Posted by blue
Question: So is it ironic or sad that a proffessional comedian is now a senator?
Answer: No better, nor worse, than a song-and-dance man as Senator (George Murphy, R-Ca.).
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Originally Posted by blue
Question: So is it ironic or sad that a proffessional comedian is now a senator?
Answer: No better, nor worse, than a song-and-dance man as Senator (George Murphy, R-Ca.).
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There where 2 choices in my question, you choose to redirect instead of answering. I didnt ask if it was better or worse that a comedian was a senator now did I?Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
Now this leads me to wonder if Mr Franken is the first proffessional comedian to hold a seat as a representative?
OH, I am cracking up here.
I had never heard of George Murphy. He's dead 12 years and had such an impact on CA politics people have forgotten him.:(
Seriously, Sonny Bono is rolling around in his grave tonight, both of you forgot about him.Toss out a novena or a chant or whatever you all do to purge your souls - he's not here to defend himself....:eek::)
Is Jello still with us?:D
Proof that people take the Daily Show seriously.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
Sonny must have actually done something the lefties liked otherwise he would be trashed along with Mr Murphy.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
Yes Jello is still with us, I think he might still be doing spoken word tours.
If she's been restrained up 'til now, I wonder what we can expect next week :)
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Palin set to let the tweets 'fly'
Posted: 06:01 PM ET
From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
(CNN) — Sarah Palin says she's ready to be unleashed.
The Alaska governor, who is set to resign her post at the end of this month, took to the social networking site Twitter Friday to proclaim she's looking forward to being a little less restrained.
"10 dys til less politically correct twitters fly frm my fingertps outside State site," Palin declared.
"I'll stay in touch w/whomever wants via personal twtr site; launch July 26," she also tweeted.
The former GOP vice presidential candidate announced earlier this month she would step down at the end of July instead of serving out the remaining year and a half of her term.
Palin later told reporters she intends to spend her days out of the governor's mansion traveling the country in support of candidates — Republican or Democrat — whose ideas she agrees with.
Schadenfreude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
Yall dont want her to go away, and you keep proving it over and over again.
I have to say this and I didn't want to ruin the tribute to Cronkite...
I have not turned on the tube for most of the afternoon, but I can bet you THAT EVERYONE on the tube will say that WC "inspired them to become or persue a broadcasting career"
I say BS to all of them, From Rush to Keith to Glenn to rachel.
If all you all eff ups had half the class he had in his toenail, you all would give up your jobs yesterday.
Don't bring the poor dude down to you crappy idea of news broadcasting.
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Oh, YOu will see poor WC in a flak vest and one hand on his helmet and the other carrying the microphone in the mud of Viet Nam.
While being bombed.
That's a journalist.
With any luck...her 15 minutes are up! Fingers and paws crossed!;););)Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
Because Im lazy....Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
Schadenfreude.
Yall dont want her to go away, and you keep proving it over and over again.
Andy Warhol is rolling around in his grave.......Quote:
Originally Posted by blue
The Left can't tell time, or figure out what to use on leather shoes.
Shinola or ????:D
I wont take that bet, but offer this one....Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
I bet that every journalist that cried over OHB's presidential win, will remain dry eyed over the passing of a great news caster who knew how to be impartial.
Frank Rich, anyone. I always enjoy his Sunday opinion pieces in the NY Times.
This one is especially good.
I could have writen that op-ed in 5 words without the diatribe and hate, "Sotomayor confirmation hearing, snore fest".Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
The stimulus plan must be working.
Link.Quote:
Award Overview
Agency Name Department of Agriculture Project Location LOS ANGELES
Contract Number AG3J14120297196 Project Location - State CA
Funding Amount $1,191,200 Project Location - Zip Code 90058-1800
Completion Date 2009-06-30 Congressional District CA-34
Description of Work/Service performed
2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED
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For those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site....
The contract calls for spending $9.5 million through January, and as much as $18 million through 2014, according to the GSA press release....
Now, If it was BACON, you'd not have a problem with the costs involved?;)Quote:
Originally Posted by blue
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Grace,
Why do you have to flaunt the time zone thing? YOU have a few hours of clarity to read, digest and post articles.
I wake up early every morning and have to kickstart the old brain-you have a head start. Go easy on us Left Coasters?
Please?:eek::)
Oh Sweetie, that was available on the Times website before I went to bed last night. That means it was also available to you, before you went to bed. Remember you get to stay up several hours later than I do ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
LOL,Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
I'll never win with you!
I'll peruse the web more often, later on!
Great read Grace....this is my favorite line...
That is a LOL!Quote:
Coburn maintains that he has immunity from testifying in any Ensign inquiry because he counseled Ensign as “a physician” and an “ordained deacon.” Coburn is an obstetrician and gynecologist, but never mind.
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Originally Posted by Grace
Thank you for posting the article. I loved it.:)
p.s. Here one that I found interesting too. The author is a frequent guest on some MSNBC shows I watch.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notio...ic_humiliation
MSNBC just had Elliot Spitzer on. I wonder what he thinks about political humiliation, effing moron.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
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Back to the article?
I refuse to believe that the author can compare a black woman walking thru a cordon of white people yelling and screaming-and very well threatening her with bodily harm - to some hack judge who doesn't show any emotion while she's being grilled by some idiot senators.
(I have to tell the joke from Red Eye now.....How many senators can fit up the rear of a Supreme Court nominee?)
As some of the people have posted, thre is no comparison.
Eckford walked the gaunlet with little protection from the crowd. How dangerous was her walk to get a little education? Do you think that SS was subjected to the same kind of animosity on her walk to a higher paying job?
EFF NO. She'll ride into that position on Eckford's coattailsand fear.
That is one of the problems with the bleeding heart bloggers who try to find a common link to people who really were the leading edge of the civil rights/EO fight.
As an American of Mex descent, I find that her touted as the First Latina SCJ a laugh. She's going to be a judge, so what?
Why does her 'latina-ness' have to be an issue?
To use the 'peeing puppy' analogy again?
She'll be welcomed into the fold by the 'peeing puppy faction'.
The PPF is the small dog that greets you at the door and is so happy to see you it pees on the floor and all over your shoes. IT does not care about anything thing else other than the fact that you are there. The media and politicians really don't care about this woman and her qualifications, they just want to be seen as the champions of women and race.
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DO we really want a person that shows no emotion as a SCJ? A wet pile of newspaper also has the same persona, so why not nominate that? I would rather see some passion, not a person who hides who they really are.
It's like that new BF/GF you think is really cool, until they show up at your house at three a.m. in the morning, asking why you haven't called them in the past 6 hours.
Nice at first, but effing creepy when you get to know them!:eek:
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Last week a young black gal became the first "Black Woman to solo/fly across the U.S."
What about the "youngest white boy to circumnavigate the world in a sailboat" from last week?
The more we "color" the world of news,the more obvious our 'racism' becomes apparent.
It looks worse in "hi-def".:eek:
Damned if you ....damned if you don't....
Sotomayor was grilled ....are you a hothead? Do you have a short temper? Are you emotional (man speak for have an opinion that is different from mine...)?
Now we get....So if she expressed emotional she is a hothead...if she doesn't she has the same persona as a wet pile of newspapers!Quote:
A wet pile of newspaper also has the same persona, so why not nominate that? I would rather see some passion, not a person who hides who they really are.
Some people just LOOK for reasons to knock others!
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Originally Posted by RICHARD
Richard, I can't even begin to tell you how much I disagree with your
statements.
And that is a good thing. It means that we can agree to disagree and still remain civil and courteous.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
I do appreciate that.
If I said that I was entitled to my opinion because I was a 'wise Latino male' and can come up with better opinions because of my life experiences, I hope you would give me a hearty "Heigh ho Silver-god, are you full of crap!"
Why?
To believe that my "background" makes me smarter or more 'able' to figure things out-did I mention my gender?-is way too phony and elevates my sorry arse above and beyond any real life experiences I have had.
Can we play a really dishonest game?;)
Because you do not agree with my statements I am going to pick a part of my statement and say that you....
Don't like sailors.
Don't like white sailors.
Don't like men/teens.
That is patently untrue! Unless, I have you on tape saying that do indeed hate seafaring folks!:confused::D
Having people yell racial slurs at you, threatening you with bodily harm and other crap to get an education is different that wanking your way thru a cordon of arse kissing politicians is a stretch of reality.
I have had some experiences with people being 'racially insensitive'-it hasn't made me any smarter. It just reminds me how stupid people are and how stupid I would be if I walked around telling people that my heritage and testicular fortitude make me a better person that anyone else.
It would not fly for me, so why should I be star struck by some judge that wants to be a bigger judge.
If I said you misread my comments, that would be a slap in your face.
So, why should I take that from a "wise Latina woman"?
She said, she should own it.
P.S. Everyone lies during a job interview.:D
There you go again...maybe you do, maybe some people do...but NOT everyone lies during a job interview.:pQuote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
RICHARD is right. Trying to equate the softball questions fielded by Sotomayor to the risk of bodily harm, and possibly death that Mrs Eckford faced is insulting to Mrs Eckford and the equal rights movment, Rev Martin Luther King Jr would be outraged. Mrs Sotomayor "herself deplores metaphor and analogy", yet the writer of the op-ed Liz linked not only ran with it but expounded on it even dissing Clarence Thomas while she was at it. To call what Sotomayor recieved by the commitee a grilling is an insult to sandwiches.
The person who brought race and sex into the confirmation hearing was Mrs Sotomayor by repeating and standing by her wise latina statement. Ginsburg and O'Connor would repeat the line "at the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman reach the same judgment", I dont see any sexism or racism in that quote.
I wouldnt wouldnt say she has the same persona as a wet pile of newspapers, but I get RICHARDs point.
We finaly get a minority, a relatively young one as well, as the POTUS and he makes appointments based on race and sex, not character.
Are you sexist (equal rights speak to a sexist question)?Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
Your posts about Sarah Palin are very good examples of this type of behavior.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
Hillary, doll?
Are we to blame for all the global warming?
I like Kool-Aid on a hot day, but you are apologizing to the world because you THINK we are the bad guys in the Global Warming problem?
You didn't hook up with Al Gore to get even with Bill, didja?:eek::o:mad::rolleyes::confused:
Al Gore may not have invented the internet, but he sure invented global warming.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
The exceptions prove the rule.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
Interesting article from the N.Y. Times -
David BrooksQuote:
July 21, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Liberal Suicide March
By DAVID BROOKS
It was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America. You had a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor sympathized with moderates or representatives from swing districts.
They brought in pollsters to their party conferences to persuade their members that the country was fervently behind them. They were supported by their interest groups and cheered on by their activists and the partisan press. They spent federal money in an effort to buy support but ended up disgusting the country instead.
It’s not that interesting to watch the Democrats lose touch with America. That’s because the plotline is exactly the same. The party is led by insular liberals from big cities and the coasts, who neither understand nor sympathize with moderates. They have their own cherry-picking pollsters, their own media and activist cocoon, their own plans to lavishly spend borrowed money to buy votes.
This ideological overreach won’t be any more successful than the last one. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Monday confirms what other polls have found. Most Americans love Barack Obama personally, but support for Democratic policies is already sliding fast.
Approval of Obama’s handling of health care, for example, has slid from 57 percent to 49 percent since April. Disapproval has risen from 29 percent to 44 percent. As recently as June, voters earning more than $50,000 preferred Obama to the Republicans on health care by a 21-point margin. Now those voters are evenly split.
Most independents now disapprove of Obama’s health care strategy. In March, only 32 percent of Americans thought Obama was an old-style, tax-and-spend liberal. Now 43 percent do.
We’re only in the early stages of the liberal suicide march, but there already have been three phases. First, there was the stimulus package. You would have thought that a stimulus package would be designed to fight unemployment and stimulate the economy during a recession. But Congressional Democrats used it as a pretext to pay for $787 billion worth of pet programs with borrowed money. Only 11 percent of the money will be spent by the end of the fiscal year — a triumph of ideology over pragmatism.
Then there is the budget. Instead of allaying moderate anxieties about the deficits, the budget is expected to increase the government debt by $11 trillion between 2009 and 2019.
Finally, there is health care. Every cliché Ann Coulter throws at the Democrats is gloriously fulfilled by the Democratic health care bills. The bills do almost nothing to control health care inflation. They are modeled on the Massachusetts health reform law that is currently coming apart at the seams precisely because it doesn’t control costs. They do little to reward efficient providers and reform inefficient ones.
The House bill adds $239 billion to the federal deficit during the first 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. It would pummel small businesses with an 8 percent payroll penalty. It would jack America’s top tax rate above those in Italy and France. Top earners in New York and California would be giving more than 55 percent of earnings to one government entity or another.
Nancy Pelosi has lower approval ratings than Dick Cheney and far lower approval ratings than Sarah Palin. And yet Democrats have allowed her policy values to carry the day — this in an era in which independents dominate the electoral landscape.
Who’s going to stop this leftward surge? Months ago, it seemed as if Obama would lead a center-left coalition. Instead, he has deferred to the Old Bulls on Capitol Hill on issue after issue.
Machiavelli said a leader should be feared as well as loved. Obama is loved by the Democratic chairmen, but he is not feared. On health care, Obama has emphasized cost control. The chairmen flouted his priorities because they don’t fear him. On cap and trade, Obama campaigned against giving away pollution offsets. The chairmen wrote their bill to do precisely that because they don’t fear him. On taxes, Obama promised that top tax rates would not go above Clinton-era levels. The chairmen flouted that promise because they don’t fear him.
Last week, the administration announced a proposal to take Medicare spending decisions away from Congress and lodge the power with technocrats in the executive branch. It’s a good idea, and it might lead to real cost savings. But there’s no reason to think that it will be incorporated into the final law. The chairmen will never surrender power to an administration they can override.
That leaves matters in the hands of the Blue Dog Democrats. These brave moderates are trying to restrain the fiscal explosion. But moderates inherently lack seniority (they are from swing districts). They are usually bought off by leadership at the end of the day.
And so here we are again. Every new majority overinterprets its mandate. We’ve been here before. We’ll be here again.
Interesting article indeed Grace. Hopefully commentary like that will help more people to realize that blind loyalty to the parties does WAY more harm than good. Neither party has any idea who "mainstream" America is anymore. The result of career politicians, living a life not even close to what we do?
On another note...
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/07/...8611248259706/
My favorite part...
"White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told The New York Times Obama intends to use the news conference as a "six-month report card," to talk about "how we rescued the economy from the worst recession" and the legislative agenda moving forward, including health care and energy legislation."
:eek: Do they REALLY believe that? Do they really think we are that stupid? In my eyes, it can be only one of two things... Either they really are that stupid, (not very likely at least not for ALL of them to be so) or things are going exactly as they planned. Either way, not good.... eh?
Things need changed... The healthcare system in the US needs fixed, we need to change our energy policy, wars need to be ended... But everybody OUTside the beltway is starting to realize that what they are and HOW they are doing things simply cannot work.
But now BOTH sides of the aisle have been duped. Time for people to put the parties by the wayside... Time for the people to get rid of these worthless, career politicans who know not and CARE not for our way of life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNFWR...eature=related
Again, I apologize for Baba Boxer and her ilk.
What a piece of work and as someone posted on that site, Yes, us Cah lee fuh nee ahs are effed with this witch in charge.
Notice, at the beginning of the exchange that Alford calls her 'ma'am' and this DB doesn't bother to correct him, like she corrected the General a while back.
This is the kind a-holery that we have to put up with in the Great State of ours.
Between her and Feinstein-who just got a bill prohibiting the transport of firearms across state lines- are a disgrace to many, if not all women who represent the people in their states.
Feinstein has a permit to carry a CW, yet she won't allow people in her own state to arm themselves?
What a golden crock of crap. I can hardly wait for the next elections.
I hope the people take up brooms, shovels, pitchforks and pointy sticks and get rid of both these abominations.
Morons.
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I have to make an apology here.
BO was talking about a red pill/blue pill analogy, I thought he was going to bring out the woman from the first Matrix movie. I yelled at the TV before he changed tact and started to talk about the 1/2 price pill being better.
Gosh, he may have a point with his HCR talk!
A hypocritical politician? Nah!Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
My dad had a wonderful weather vane.Quote:
Originally Posted by Medusa
When the the Santa Ana winds blow-When I was in Catholic school that was my favorite time of the year, those plaid skirts were really aerodynamic!- the the top would do a boogie that made me afraid that Mr. Rooster would fly off and fall to the ground.....
THAT is the way I look at most of the politicians today-with the exception of Thad McCotter-that guy is funny, smart and a pleasure to listen to.
They go with the wind, spin around when it shifts and the only truth they represent are the compass points below them.
If we have to stumble to regain a little direction for the future, I am for it.
I just cannot stand the spinning action-it makes me dizzy.;)
Dont go riling up the misandrists again RICHARD.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
She decided to berate and degrade him instead.Quote:
Notice, at the beginning of the exchange that Alford calls her 'ma'am' and this DB doesn't bother to correct him, like she corrected the General a while back.
You mean "Once Great State", I think.Quote:
This is the kind a-holery that we have to put up with in the Great State of ours.
I would have done the traditional Pirate...
But too many folks are easily confused/offendedQuote:
Originally Posted by blue
Only the ultra rich and elitest politicians beleive they have the right to defend themselves. The 2nd Amendment dosent aply to the masses, just read Sotomayor's decisions on the subject.Quote:
Between her and Feinstein-who just got a bill prohibiting the transport of firearms across state lines- are a disgrace to many, if not all women who represent the people in their states.
Feinstein has a permit to carry a CW, yet she won't allow people in her own state to arm themselves?
Keep waiting and hoping. Put your hopes in one hand and **** in the other and see which hand fills up first.Quote:
What a golden crock of crap. I can hardly wait for the next elections.
I hope the people take up brooms, shovels, pitchforks and pointy sticks and get rid of both these abominations.
Morons.
We have arrived at the time of Bread and Circuses. Has Change been shoved down our throats so much that all we have left is Hope? I Hope that States that can afford to start seceding.
The .GOV is gonna start buying all of our meds from Canada?Quote:
I have to make an apology here.
BO was talking about a red pill/blue pill analogy, I thought he was going to bring out the woman from the first Matrix movie. I yelled at the TV before he changed tact and started to talk about the 1/2 price pill being better.
Gosh, he may have a point with his HCR talk!
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For all of you Cheerleaders out there, That is how you preach to the choir! None of this wimpy "Here Here", or "Amens". None of the weak kneed Sheeple response, "I couldnt agree with the OP more" BS.
Richard, that Thune Amendment was not a good one. It would have, basically, put the control of gun laws in the hands of the Federal Government. Most gun owners I know, prefer to have Washington keep hands off. Leave it up to the states.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
Under the proposed amendment, all states would be required to recognize concealed carry permits from all other states, including states that grant permits without regard to criminal records. In Virginia, this would allow convicted criminals to carry weapons onto parks and playgrounds.
You can read the article HERE.
Rather then muss up Medusa's thread in Cat General Ill post this here reguarding spaying humans.
Source.Quote:
President Obama's "science czar," John Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, "compulsory sterilization," and the creation of a "Planetary Regime" that would oversee human population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet -- controversial ideas his critics say should have been brought up in his Senate confirmation hearings.
Absolute garbage, and fearmongering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
You are entitled to your opinion, as is Mr. Davis entitled to his.Quote:
Originally Posted by blue