Seriously?
This is the kind of crap that needs to be addressed.
http://news.yahoo.com/feds-charge-91...175908404.html
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Seriously?
This is the kind of crap that needs to be addressed.
http://news.yahoo.com/feds-charge-91...175908404.html
Well, at least it is being prosecuted! That's how it made the news! Who knows how much goes on that we, the citizens paying the bills, do not know about!Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
This in a HUGE case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
There are many cases that are for mere millions.....this is a case of excess.....that don't make the news.
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The 'record' for MC fraud was 163 million and that case was prosecuted in August of '11.
Incredible numbers and amazing how the gov't. gets fleeced for that much...
Depends on the locale, I know the county DA out here is pretty activist when it comes to welfare/social services fraud. About every other month there will be an article in the newspaper listing the people caught, and the amount of fraud.
Representative Richard Hanna, R, NY.
http://www.pressconnects.com/article...text|FRONTPAGE
If you host the debate, I'm not going to run any campaign ads on your station.
You too can win any debate just by using the Gish method. Talk fast & lie your *ss off. It's obviously very effective.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-...p_ref=politics
Does it work for people that already hold office?;)Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
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BO has given the country a Big Bird for the last three years......Sesame Street forever?
I gave up on tonight's debate about halfway through. I got fed up with the moderator trying to cut Romney off and his continuing to talk even after she (repeatedly) told him that other audience members were waiting to ask questions. I just wanted to know why each of them think they are better qualified to be the next President than the other person. Don't trash talk the other candidate, just answer the question and tell me why you should get my vote.
We watched this debate. We watchched the previous debate. There is no choice in my opinion. I speak only for myself and I would vote for President Obama. He, in my humble opinion, is more honest and does not constantly have that condescending, sanctimonious look on his face. Mitt seems to have no respect for anyone but himself. He is also a liar in my opinion. Frankly, gives me the freakin' creeps.
Oh ya, I also think he's a jack ass.
The presidential debate on foreign policy and the Bears game are both on TV tonight. Also the 7th game of the NL Championship series. I want to hear the debate, but I also want to watch da Bears. (Could you guys discuss foreign policy during the time-outs, maybe?)
I'l give you one guess as to which program will more entertaining........Quote:
Originally Posted by cassiesmom
It's the game played without 'balls'...:rolleyes:
Judging by all the "vote for" whoever signs all over our town, if everyone running for an office would take all the money spent on signs, mailers, and other not wanted, nonsence and put it toward the national debt, it would be paid off in 4 years. :rolleyes:
I haven't watched any of the debates, but I have read a transcript or two.
I haven't watched simply because if I want to see that big a pile of manure, all I have to do is look across the road when they're running the manure spreader in the hayfield.
I think I've posted this before, but.......
La cucaracha, la cucaracha
woke up on election day
La cucaracha, la cucaracha
heard the things they had to say
A lot of lying and alibi-ing
empty heads without a plan
La cucaracha, la cucaracha
said I'm glad I'm not a man.
I also have not watched much of the debates, just snippets here and there, and heard bits on the car radio until I couldn't stand it and changed to a music station!
I will be very glad when this election cycle is over, there's no question who will win the Presidential contest here in Massachusetts, as the only times in my lifetime the state has gone for a Republican candidate was for Reagan back in the 1980s, and before that it was Dwight Eisenhower, just after WW2.
I am really interested in the elections and want to see someone blow a circuit on one of the 'news' cable channels.
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Again, the people that I find to be the most annoying are the people with accents who THINK they know gobs about Americans and our politics.
The one clown on MSNBC makes me laugh, he is such an arse scratch.
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Originally Posted by RICHARD
Is it not possible to have an accent and be an American at the same time?
Interesting example of xenophobia, isn't it? There is a Brit on Fox News who is also an "arse scratch" but I never questioned his right to have opinions about the US or its politics! (And I the right to disagree with his opinions!)Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
I wonder if that means someone with an "American accent" is not allowed to have opinions about the people and politics of other countries? <<head shake>>
Everyone has an accent of some sort! And seeing as we are a nation of immigrants, whether via the land bridge from Siberia thousands of years ago, or by plane or boat more recently, or any time in-between!
No, not the person I am talking about. It's an intolerable turd that takes every opportunity to insult people.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
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If you really want to know just how intolerable and hateful people are, drop a few political views into the mix and you will see their constitution.
Especially the people who constantly use the catchphrases that are 'hot' at the moment.
Like 'battleground states' and 'war against women'.
I figured a war on women was akin to getting shot in the head because you wanted a free society/state for you and your sisters.
...and I always figured a 'battleground states' are places where the "Civil War" was fought, not some struggle for an office where you jerk people around by promising them crap that you cannot do by yourself.
Knock yourselves out fighting pretend scuffles.;)
Wow...I know lots of "intolerable turds" who don't have foreign accents. Ann Coulter comes quickly to mind - just before Sean Hannity.
(Ann did a lovely piece recently on "retards":rolleyes::rolleyes:)
But it never occurred to me to denigate all people with "American" accents because of those nasty pieces of work.
(p.s. Since Mexico and Canada are also on the North American continent...aren't their accents "American" too?)
Central and South Americans are also "Americans" if one is considering it by continent ... as a gentleman from Costa Rica pointed out to me when I was a kid!Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
When I lived in Mexico I learned to refer to myself as from the United States rather than (or perhaps in addition to!) America. It was pointed out to me that the US does not own the continent!Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
I'm an American and I have a Chicago accent. I found this out working with a medical director from Wisconsin. We found it out with words ending in -ake (take, mistake, fake -- he would say taaaaaake it, lots of emphasis on the vowel. Not around here, it's more like tay-k (tay-k yer coat off and set awhile)...
and what is this thing called? The Wisconsin office called it a bubbler, but I know it as a water fountain. I think bubblers and water fountains are two different things up there, though (this round one with the arch of water is a bubbler, but the one you'd find in a school is a water fountain)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...px-Bubbler.jpg
My nephew did an archaeological internship in Turkey, six weeks long, several summers ago. He found that most of the people there thought Americans drive fancy cars and carry guns. Most of the people from that village who were on the team were Muslim, so when they would respond to the daily calls to pray, the American and British members of the team would either continue their work quietly or take a break in a different area. They hoped to keep a low profile even though they were such a large group of Westerners in that one village. My nephew felt they were pretty successful and as a result they learned a lot about the area of Turkey they were working in, and the country in general.
I went to Russia in 1998 as part of a mission work team from church. Part of the pre-trip training was on the culture and how not to stand out as an "ugly American". It was about being respectful, courteous, dressing modestly and in a way that didn't call unwanted attention to us, and treating others as we'd like to be treated.
THE BUBBLER!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by cassiesmom
Oh my dear lord...........I went to a Catholic School and the nuns, especially Sister Mary Torquemada, would use that call the drinking fountains........BUBBLERS!:D They were from the NE sect (Massachusetts) and I loved to hear them talk.
It was a mixture of cuteness with a huge dose of god fearing mixed into the patois.
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I am an American Mutt. I do not have an accent other than the root "Dudius SoCalifornificator". I speak pretty good Espanol and people don't know what to make of me when I do because I don't "look it".
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The dope that I refer to is a 'newsreader' with a show on a cable news network.
He comes off as a pompous arse who, finds it 'funny' to make comments in a round-about way.
I have always thought the people from the same geographical area as being smart, having a dry sense of humor, warm and people that you want to party with.
I caught a segment of his show after the debate and he had to get a dig in by saying one of the participants was "spewing excretory views".
IF I went to his country and started talking smack about the politicians like he does?
I'd be the rude American and probably taken off the air ASAP.
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I do hope that in this election the "THEY PARTY" shows up.
THEY have this agenda that is really scary, THEY want to raise taxes, THEY want to monkey around with the SS system, THEY are going to make sweeping cuts in the the health insurance system....But THEY are going to fight for the right for women to have some say over their bodies (this double-y cracks me up because while I am all for the rights for women to have a say in what us stupid men do to them, they are pretty cavalier when it comes to men having a say about how big their boobs, lips are and how tiny their waists and crow's feet should be.:rolleyes:;))
THEY have always been the scary, no-named evil that when finally named are the same people you and I are to THEM.
The biggest disappointment to American Politics (we don't need some idjit from another country to remind us of this) is the people that we elect to office promise us to change things for the better and can't get shiat done because they are impotent with it come to compromise.
THEY don't have the faintest idea as to how to bring us together, THEY just demonize the rest of country and use that division to their advantage.
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Politicians now are hollow hand puppets, with a lobbyist's hand up their backside making their lips move, another to move the arms and someone doing the voice work so they can sound really good.
A speech writer is a good thing, I'd never expect a politician to be that clever, clear or concise.........THEY have everything at their disposal to make it to office...............
OMG!!!!!!! could THEY be the THEY we are concerned about?
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Back in the elementary grades, the nuns would have us do mock debates, hold elections and do all the crap for a social studies/citizenship grade. Interesting stuff.....we'd nominate a candidate and they would run based on promises like more recess, candy in class, less homework and going home earlier.
All kinds of good crap that really wasn't viable, but nice to think about.
It's funny that now that I is all growed up, nothing has changed.
We, as adults, hold debates, elections and vote in a guy that promises us less taxes, better healthcare and a chicken in every pot.
All good crap that's really not viable, but nice to think about.......
It may be time to let the children run the country because us adults don't have a clue, the common sense or manners to keep on doing so.:(
And regarding the women's reproductive issues?
There are some women who are incapable of being responsible on this topic......
I worked with some gals who would make copies and walk away from a jammed machine, leave staples and paperclips on the counter, use White Out and smear it on the glass or refuse to fill up an empty paper tray.:eek::confused:
Open mouth and insert foot. And to think the Repubs dumped Richard Lugar for this tea party clown.
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/l...all-sleazy-ads
Sen. Lugar Bio http://lugar.senate.gov/bio/
Are these the same ones that would use White Out to make corrections on their computer screen too? :rolleyes::eek::p:DQuote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
This quiz falls into both religious & political catagories. I scored 6 out of 10. It's hard to tell much difference in thoughts.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...christian.html
I was trying to be 'politcally correct' by not mentioning them.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
One thing is for sure: no matter who loses, it's going to be Hurricane Sandy's fault. :rolleyes::love:
Notice, that the National Weather Service and NOAA are part of the government...Quote:
Originally Posted by momoffuzzyfaces
Who is in charge of the government?:eek:
Here's some political trivia.
No president has ever won without Ohio.
Voter fraud is relatively rare, politician fraud is rampant.
Sometimes first place is the first loser.
Politicians never lie, read my lips....
Always a good source of humor, especially the headlines on Drudge.
Read the headline (Non-Union electrical crews turned away from helping NJ).....
Then read the story.
The reality was nothing of the sort.
The really morbidly amusing part is all the drudge feed commenters' hyperventilation about the headline as opposed to the story.
My journalism teacher always made the newbies write headlines BEFORE we were able to write for the paper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady's Human
God help ya if you didn't read the story and make the headline pertinent to the content.
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That is why I love the idiots that quote 'blogs' as the god honest truth......I do enjoy the 'fresh faced' faces that show up on the news programs that write the blogs.
Again, they have barely figured out how to clean themselves after a BM and that makes them well qualified to read other blogs, rewrite and regurgitate the same story, with their own spin on it.
I was watching TV last night and one entire commercial break was election ads for the different Congressional races, and they are so nasty. Four in a row. Grrrfffrrfrrf. I'll be very glad when this election is over.
To my American friends: On Sunday, don't forget to set your clocks back one hour. On Tuesday, try not to set your country back 50 years.:eek:
Actually life 50 years ago wasn't all that bad!!! I was there!!! The American Dream was still alive and obtainable by anyone willing to work hard for it. Now only certain people seem able to achieve it.Quote:
Originally Posted by sasvermont
Everyone could practice their faith or leave it alone as they chose without anyone 'being offended'.
You learned early that life wasn't always fair, you didn't have to wait until you were grown up to be blind sided by that fact. If you wanted something, you worked for it, you didn't expect it to be handed to you.
Wages weren't all that high but then the cost of living wasn't high either. Most families could get by very well on only one income.
Most people weren't in debt up to their eyeballs.
The government didn't stick it's nose into your business like it does today. Pay your taxes and mind your own business and you were ok.
Presidential elections were based on the canidates GOOD qualities. Now they are just down right MEAN, and NASTY and a lot of time, not true.
Of course, there were some things we needed to desperatly fix, like equality for African Americans and other minorities. Those are still works in progress on certain levels. :love:
I was there too. Do you know the marginal tax rate for the highest earners was over 90% compared to 35% today. Capital gains tax was 25% compared to 15% today.Quote:
Originally Posted by momoffuzzyfaces
You mention minorities but what about women? It was legal - and very common to pay women less than men for the same job. And of course, women were not hired in many jobs. The only job Sandra Day O'Connor could get as a top graduate from Stanford Law School was as a legal secretary. Teachers had to leave the classroom when their pregnancy began to show and flight attendants had to be young, skinny and single - or they lost their job. Even when I was out of college - the newspapers advertised "help wanted - male" and "help wanted - female."
Polio was just beginning to be eliminated. I was six when the vaccine first came out. Just think of the medical advances since then!
It is easy to remember the good times when you look back - but there are many, many things that are better today!
When i started teaching, some of those teachers that "broke ground" were still teaching. They were allowed to continue teaching because a suitable replacement couldn't be found.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
A good friend was a geologist that couldn't find a job except with the gov't. The signs on the doors said "women need not apply". This was the early 60s.