The natives are getting restless...

[Edwina's Secretary]

Admit it or not, you have Fascist tendencies.

This kind of childish and silly name calling is why I keep you on ignore.

[Puckstop31]

This kind of childish and silly name calling is why I keep you on ignore.

LOL

I cannot believe you can say that with a straight face...

I call a spade a spade. Sue me. And as usual... Style matters more than substance.

[blue]

I did dig through quite a few press releases from the FEC, the source quoted for chasingevil's blog, on their own website and no where did I find any quote from Pam Geller.

It realy dosent take more then a basic HS world history to note the similarities between what the current administration is doing to what pre WWII Germany did succesfully. Pam Geller went over the top in her delivery but that dosent negate her point.

Plus she looks great in a bikini.

[Puckstop31]

Some evidence of my point...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879833094588163.html

The meat...

Under the Bush team a prominent and profitable bank, under threat of a damaging public audit, was forced to accept less than $1 billion of TARP money. The government insisted on buying a new class of preferred stock which gave it a tiny, minority position. The money flowed to the bank. Arguably, back then, the Bush administration was acting for purely economic reasons. It wanted to recapitalize the banks to halt a financial panic.

Fast forward to today, and that same bank is begging to give the money back. The chairman offers to write a check, now, with interest. He's been sitting on the cash for months and has felt the dead hand of government threatening to run his business and dictate pay scales. He sees the writing on the wall and he wants out. But the Obama team says no, since unlike the smaller banks that gave their TARP money back, this bank is far more prominent. The bank has also been threatened with "adverse" consequences if its chairman persists. That's politics talking, not economics.

Think about it: If Rick Wagoner can be fired and compact cars can be mandated, why can't a bank with a vault full of TARP money be told where to lend? And since politics drives this administration, why can't special loans and terms be offered to favored constituents, favored industries, or even favored regions? Our prosperity has never been based on the political allocation of credit -- until now.

Which brings me to the Pay for Performance Act, just passed by the House. This is an outstanding example of class warfare. I'm an Englishman. We invented class warfare, and I know it when I see it. This legislation allows the administration to dictate pay for anyone working in any company that takes a dime of TARP money. This is a whip with which to thrash the unpopular bankers, a tool to advance the Obama administration's goal of controlling the financial system.

President Obama's motivations migh be different, but his methods are NOT. President Obama is doing the same things the hated former President Bush did, only on a scale MUCH more grand.

How about we stop fighting each other and focus on a corrupt government that day in and day out is removing our Liberty, paper cut by papercut?

All this from a President who has never lead a business... Not even a Dairy Queen....

[Grace]

For those who missed Blue's white-out -

Plus she looks great in a bikini.

[blue]

For those who missed Blue's white-out -

Good catch, way to ignore the meat of my post.

[Grace]

Good catch, way to ignore the meat of my post.

I was under the impression, mistaken apparently, that you and Puck were requested not to do white outs.

[blue]

I was under the impression, mistaken apparently, that you and Puck were requested not to do white outs.

I slipped. People get asked to stop the insults all the time also.

Edit: Again, way to ignore the main part of the post.

[Puckstop31]

I was under the impression, mistaken apparently, that you and Puck were requested not to do white outs.

All style.... No substance....


Who cares about what matters... As long as you are "nice".

[sparks19]

This kind of childish and silly name calling is why I keep you on ignore.

Really? coming from the person who talks to people like this I'm not sure you have a moral ground to stand on.

We can certainly tell he did not take advantage of public education.

He does not even know the correct names of the states!

perhaps we should ALL try to be a little more respectful to those we speak to whether we feel they are beneath us or not. what a world this would be if only we ALL treated people the way WE wish to be treated. None of us are innocent... so I'm not sure any of us should be pointing out the shortcomings of others (even though I just did and am very aware of it and I will face my own demons thank you)... we have plenty of our own so before we complain about the way people talk to u s... maybe we should look at the way we talk to others

I was under the impression, mistaken apparently, that you and Puck were requested not to do white outs.

ummm... puck does white outs? lol never seen one. Perhaps I am wrong as I sometimes am.

But this is neither here nor there... I have been enjoying reading this thread and the information in it... so lets get back to that.
I will fully admit that I don't know much on any of this and I am enjoying the read... until it turns into breaking down posts and looking for hidden meanings and calling each other out

[blue]

"any black man is ineligible to run for President and that any vote for himself or anyone else is invalid"

"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."

Until somebody can post a factual link for the source of Grace's quote, the second quote proves true.

Please prove my above statement wrong. I will humbly admit I was wrong.

[Catty1]

Try this - I don't have time to back-check it, but it seems to have been written by Geller in August of last year.

http://www.chasingevil.org/2008/08/p...over-edge.html

[blue]

A spokesperson for the Federal Elections Commission has released a statement that they received a complaint recently from Pamela Geller, author of the Atlas Shrugs website.

Dosent anybody actualy check the Federal Election Commision's press releases before posting blogs? Link. Link. Link. Link.

It seems many of you are attacking the messenger and ignoring the message.

[smokey the elder]

Back to the original piece posted: "Correlation doesn't mean causation". This is a scientific principle which must be kept in mind. Is there a problem with the education system in the US? Yes. Are there other problems? Yes. Is the press not acting as the "loyal opposition" when it must? Maybe. BUT the fact that people have the ability to communicate via the Internet and other vehicles, whether or not they agree or disagree, may foster that critical thinking so prized by Heinlein and others.