(2008-09-20) — Although it cost more than the Louisiana Purchase and the Alaska purchase combined and offers far less acreage, President George Bush today said he thinks “U.S. citizens will welcome our 51 state with open arms.”
The announcement that the financial realm collectively known as “Wall Street” had applied for statehood follows a week in which the federal government took control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and insurance megalith AIG. It also comes as news breaks that the U.S. plans to spend up to a $1 trillion to “rescue” other foundering financial firms.
President Bush noted that the newest state is not so much a geographical swath of land as it is “a state of mind.”
“Once the statehood process is complete,” the president said, “We will find that the people of Wall State are just like those in the rest of our great nation. They’re hard-working, industrious and patriotically-dependent upon the centralized government to insulate them from the consequences of their own actions.”
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1 R.A.M. // Sep 20, 2008 at 10:09 am
And I always thought the “51st” State was going to be Washington, D.C. after O’Bama’s Inaugeration. Silly me!
2 Maggie // Sep 20, 2008 at 10:10 am
We will cry all the way from the bank. :>(
3 Darthmeister // Sep 20, 2008 at 10:12 am
Wait, Scott, would that be our 58th or 59th state in an Obama America?
Sarah Palin fired a wife beater in “Troopergate”.
I want to see how long the Donks are going to defend not just one but two wifebeaters in this kerfuffle. It’s pretty clear the trooper involved is an aggressive jerk who was fired for insubordination. But the fascists Donks want to turn this case into a public spectacle/circus. Let them.
BTW, has Democratic Texas Prosecutor James Earle proven anything against Tom DeLay yet or was that simply another Democrat fascist tactic of using the courts against one’s political enemies?
4 R.A.M. // Sep 20, 2008 at 10:18 am
If you have any money in a Chase banking account, I suggest you RUN to your bank and withdraw your funds IMMEDIATELY!
I posted on “Obama tried to unite Hillary-” thread about someone using my debit card number and draining my checking account Thursday, but the “games” with Chase are only just starting!
I notified them within 35 minutes that fraud was taking place, (they allowed 5 transactions to be deducted within a 17 minute period, each ever increasing in value), YET they STILL allowed the transactions to go through, and are now saying, they tried to contact me for info, and could not get through to me, (which is a LIE), so the case AND complaint have been closed!!!
I am heading to my band now to remove my saving account money and whatever funds remain!
5 Maggie // Sep 20, 2008 at 10:24 am
correction #2a:
We will cry all the way to and from the bank.
Mack,Congratulations to you and your wife for this precious gift of God.
(Big Mack / Junior Mack)
6 Beerme // Sep 20, 2008 at 10:43 am
R.A.M.,
Best of luck with Chase. I’ve had my own problems with that company but account theft is a particularly vexing situation! Recently Countrywide contacted me to tell me that my account information had been one of thousands stolen by a former employee and sold. They assured me that the employee responsible had been fired and offered a free credit report/fraud alert subscription.
That solved the problem…
7 gafisher // Sep 20, 2008 at 11:00 am
I hate to say it, R.A.M., but debit card fraud is both rampant and insured. That’s the proverbial “good and bad news,” good because it means your actual loss should be limited, especially for transactions which occurred after you reported the problem but also for most of what might have been stolen from you before that. The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) puts some fairly stringent requirements on banks that offer debit accounts but in return insures your assets (look for the FDIC decal by the bank entrance and scattered around inside).
The bad news is that many, many fraudulent transactions are covered by the FDIC each year, a scattergun equivalent to the big bank bailouts we’ve read so much about lately. I have no inkling how much the FDIC spends each year reimbursing individual accounts, but I suspect it adds up to more than we might guess.
8 Fred Sinclair // Sep 20, 2008 at 11:18 am
GOOD NEWS DEPT: Just got (10:45AM) a phone call from Lettie Packard. She’s at home with no internet access. They’ve got a generator up and running so have electric lights and refrigerator going again. They had 5 feet of water in her living room so things have been hectic. She asked me to say thanks from her for all the prayers from her Scrappler friends. They have been working well - evryone is in good health and she sends her best wishes to all.
IN GOD WE TRUST
9 Mack // Sep 20, 2008 at 11:43 am
The AP had a story out this morning that doetails nicely with Scott’s last paragraph.
“WASHINGTON - Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them “lazy,” “violent” or responsible for their own troubles.”
So if we think you are responsible for your own troubles we are racists?
10 Mack // Sep 20, 2008 at 11:54 am
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26803840/
I first thought it was a joke, but it would appear the AP believes it: Obama is playing the ace deck again. They have played it so many times that people are actually starting to agree with him. We hate the race card. I simply can’t stand socialist.
Speaking of which, I agree with Michael Reagan when he says the dems have robbed us blind and the republicans are driving the get away car. Why aren’t they having Jamie Gorelic and the others doing the perp walk like they did Ken Lay? I don’t see one politician demanding an investigation. Not from either party and this is an election year. Both sides are quick to blame the other but neither demands investigation.
Yet were expected to get behind a plan to throw Billions of taxpayer dollars at this to save companies that couldn’t float their own boats?
11 Fred Sinclair // Sep 20, 2008 at 11:55 am
For the military enthusiasts in our midst, I thought this was a great Marine Corp link. (If it posts)
Semper Fi Marine!
Retired Marine’s Tribute to Marines and All Servicemen and Women of the US Armed Forces and the Heros of 9-11-2001!
12 Fred Sinclair // Sep 20, 2008 at 11:57 am
Oops sorry, it didn’t make it.
IN GOD WE TRUST
13 Mack // Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Ms. Rightwing:
You may recall the story I told after the last election. I was driving to work one cold December day when I saw a car pulled over with a tiny lady and a flat tire. I pulled over to help her pulling around in front of her car. She saw the Bush / Cheney bumper sticker on my car and freaked out. The woman started to scream about Bush and told me she didn’t need my bleeping help.
Rather than create a scene I got back in the car and drove off. Her car was still there some days later. Bare in mind I was wearing a uniform and also had an EMT sticker on the back window. The liberals are nuts.
14 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 20, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I have my account with Chase. Heck, if they want to steal my itty bit monthly government handout let them. I guarantee they sure would be sorry.
Imagine going to jail for what I make every month. Ha! It is like getting caught stealing an apple pie off the window ledge and being forced to do time.
I would like to move to Wall Street. Sounds like Big Rock Candy Mountain to me. Well it has been for the politicians.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cMOz_cPAeE&feature=related
15 mindknumbed kid // Sep 20, 2008 at 2:44 pm
re: my inner racist from the last thread, I neglected to mention that I voted for Alan Keyes in the 1996 WV primary.
16 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 20, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I dropped my CU debit card not long ago. They alerted me after 5 quick tanks of gas, a case of Mad Dog and a handful of grape-flavored White Owls at which time I promptly ordered the immediate euthanization of the now-tainted card.
Of course I had to file a police report before we could get reimbursed, which I did online. I then traveled to the local branch with the report number in my hand, tail between my legs and my head hanging down despondently (I may or may not have been sniveling and whining about what has this world come to)—the funds were released in 24 hours or so. We felt fortunate.
Annoyingly Mortifying.
Cordell keeps telling me he’s hot on the trail of the UnSub but I think he’s just humoring me.
17 camojack // Sep 20, 2008 at 6:01 pm
President Bush noted that the newest state is not so much a geographical swath of land as it is “a state of mind.â€
I was think more along the lines of a state of chaos.
On another note, I’ve got tickets to a McCain/Palin appearance happening Monday, about 15 miles from here…
18 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 20, 2008 at 7:38 pm
This financial meltdown is thanks to the largesse of that infamous philanthropist, Jim “The Anti-Genius”.
19 Fred Sinclair // Sep 20, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Re: Debit Card Fraud - I have a 5/3rd Debit card. About two months ago I got a phone call from some guy in Either Indiana or Ohio - he identified himself as being with 5/3rd’s Debit/Credit card fraud division and asked if I had purchased an item in (some little town -I forget), Canada?
When I said no - he said their computers had questioned the purchase since it did not fit my pattern of debit card purchases which were singularly in the Holland, MI area and although they had paid for the purchase out of my account, he was reinstating the amount.
I thanked him, hung up and called my local branch of 5/3rd and talked with the manager (who is a personal friend). She checked and said that yes it was a legitimate call and my account had just then been credited with a matching amount off-setting the $253. debit from the prior day.
With debit card fraud so common these days, I thought I’d post a plug for 5/3rd.
IN GOD WE TRUST
20 Darthmeister // Sep 20, 2008 at 7:55 pm
<a HREF="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=1" rel="nofollow">Grim Proving Ground For Obama’s Housing Policy</a>
Clearly this is the kind of "change" the rest of America doesn’t need. Another naive socialist economic policy bites the dust, this time at the hands of Illinois Senator Barack Messiah Obama. Of course the Obamatons will mindless drone, "Well, he meant well."
Yes he did.
Hopefully these are the kinds of truths about Obama’s utter incompetence and naivete that will come out in the weeks before the November elections, including the utter failure of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge which he chaired. The man isn’t ready to be a county commissioner much less POTUS.
21 Darthmeister // Sep 20, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Ooops, well, click on it anyway. Or you can find Grim Proving Ground for Obama’s Housing Policy here, if the link in my previous post doesn’t work.
22 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 20, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Darthmeister
Maybe it is just frustration or maybe the residents never cared to start with, but it makes me wonder why nobody picks up the trash or hauls the old mattresses away.
23 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 21, 2008 at 8:52 am
Concerning sources of funds to cover this or that apocalyptic ticking-time-bomb de jour:
If we must be myopic, let’s glom onto the Spending-for-Spending’s-Sake Power-Tripping Bureaucratic Parasites whose malignancies have been stealthily permeating the soul of The United States of America for decades—squirming back and forth across party lines numerous times, leaving toxic, overlapping, slug-like trails along the way.
Stop.
Look around.
This is not The United States of America, Inc.
24 Deerslayer // Sep 21, 2008 at 9:16 am
ReCAPTHIA - mentary ceremony=Obama Rally…What no MO
25 onlineanalyst // Sep 21, 2008 at 9:34 am
Bill Whittle identifies the qualities that protect and foster civilization. Citizen and governor Palin has these qualities.
I have no doubt that she would identify and drive out the legislators, heads of committees and agencies, and corrupt lobbyists that abuse the dollars and the trust of the American people that she would swear to serve. Palin’s resume of achievement and drive on behalf of her constituents indicates that she has the experience that counts.
Barry O!?? Eh, not at all. He has used the system to build a resume of smoke and mirrors, promoted by greedy, power-seeking manipulators.
26 Darthmeister // Sep 21, 2008 at 10:04 am
You have a point Ms RightWing. It also goes to prove government programs won’t change people’s attitudes about money and acting responsibly toward property they’ve been entrusted with.
There are some interesting studies how even if someone is given a wad of cash, those who are the most economically inefficient will blow it all within a matter of months or a year. That’s why reparations are such a hoax, it’s another leftist scheme to redistribute income from the most efficient to the least efficient. Leave money in the hands of those who respect it or earned it the old fashioned way and the dollar will either be saved, invested or used as capital to create/expand businesses and thus create jobs. Marxist socialist policies and liberal guilt produces all manner of stupidity, that’s why government should stay out of anything which smacks of charity. Leave it to private humanitarian organizations that work from the bottom up instead of the top down.
And that was taxpayer money that was involved in that little debacle. There is something decidedly immoral about liberals wanting to empower government to levy even more confiscatory taxes to be poured into bankrupt socialist government programs which in turn define the "compassion" of liberals. In effect, liberals are using our tax dollars to pander to people and buy their vote. Is it any wonder poor minorities vote for the Donks at a 93% rate? This kind political boondoggle has only corroded the underpinnings of our constitutional republic by unfairly rewarding liberals for spending money they’ve conveniently extracted from our wallets in the form of confiscatory taxation.
Liberals worst than the Mafia and its "protection money" racket. At least the dons were up front with their customers about what they were really doing … extorting money from them for a service they really didn’t need if the various Mafia factions didn’t exist in the first place!
27 mindknumbed kid // Sep 21, 2008 at 11:25 am
Obama
(to the tune of La bamba)
To dance, The Obama
To dance, The Obama
Necessita the only One of race
The only One of race
For who?, for you, moan arrives, moan arrives
Moan, it arrives above
For who? I will be, for who? I will be, for who? I will be
I am not the least worthy
I am not the least worthy, I am a “Christian?
I am a Muslim?, I am a Christian!
Obama, Obama
Obama, Obama
Obama, Obama, bam
To dance, The Obama
To dance, The Obama
Necessita the only One of race
The only One one of race
For who?, for you, moan arrives, moan arrives
To dance, The Obama
To dance, The Obama
Necessita the only One of race
The only One of race
For who?, for you, moan arrives, moan arrives
Moan, he arrives above
For who? I will be, for who? I will be, for who I will be
Obama, Obama
Obama, Obama
FADES-
Obama, Obama.
28 Fred Sinclair // Sep 21, 2008 at 11:37 am
Darthmeister #26 - †Is it any wonder poor minorities vote for the Donks at a 93% rate?â€
As a matter of fact - I do wonder. I wonder if anybody can show me (I was born in Missouri (the show me state) one single instance where liberals made good on (or fulfilled) a campaign promise.
Was there ever a time when in reality there was “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage”? I think “Not”.
The very idea that 93% of any group could listen to a plethora (I’ve always wanted a chance to use that word) of eighty years empty promises to witness ‘government housing projects’ built with other people’s money - only to move in and find that due to a combination of their own lack of care, the greed, graft, corruption and street organizers, the new set of ‘rabbit hutches’ are declared “uninhabitable†in a very few years.
[See also American Thinker's "Obama and South Chicago Slum Developers" here.]
“Mayor Daley’s always talking about fair housing and decent housing, and he’s got Allison Davis, who he appointed on the planning commission,” says Smith, who heads the tenants association that represents Evergreen/Sedgwick residents. “We still live in a slum.” (From the article “We still live in a slum,” Mark Konkol, Chicago Sun Times, June 29, 2007)
In 1993, Barack Obama joined a Chicago law firm that specialized in helping develop low-income housing. In time, the job would bring him political support from slum landlords who make Clinton’s shady Arkansas associates look like teenage shoplifters.
B.O. STINKS
29 gafisher // Sep 21, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Maybe we’ll be up to the whole Obama 58-state map soon:
“Foreign banks may get help“.
30 Fred Sinclair // Sep 21, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I’ll try the [here] link once more.
[See also "Obama and South Chicago Slum Developers" here.]
31 mindknumbed kid // Sep 21, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Isn’t it downright pathetic that many people take drastic measures to veil the truth about the liberal candidates? If you are for the candidate and for the evil they stand for, then why not be honest and forthright about it? Obonehead is for unrestricted abortion period, why run away from his position? I know why they practice deceit, but come on, be big enough to stand for what you believe and let the chips fall where they may. Politics is no place for obfuscation, even though that is currently what it is all about. I would like to vote for a candidate that earns my respect, Lady Sarah Palin has done that.
32 mindknumbed kid // Sep 21, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Is this time for moderation?
33 Fred Sinclair // Sep 21, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Well the “here” link didn’t work again but I dogpiled “Obama and South Chicago Slum Developers” and it popped right up with The American Thinker line.
DRUDGE covers the explosion “Death toll from Pakistan hotel blast reaches 53″
I learned from Church this morning that two Elders (Pastors) of my Reformed Baptist Church were staying at the hotel but were not there when the bomb went off.
So that was a bit of good news amid all the horror.
IN GOD WE TRUST
34 Darthmeister // Sep 21, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Analysis: Despite Gaffes, Biden Still Effective on Campaign Trail
Why, of course he is. How can he not be “effective” when the liberal media downplays his gaffes and are essentially the waterboys for the Obama-Biden ticket. One more piece of evidence how the liberal media are unprofessionally and dangerously acting as kingmakers. If this had been Dan Quayle making this many gaffes, he would have been hounded off the campaign trail by now. Sheesh.
The lamestream media must think we’re stupid. Right now, the fourth estate, acting as a fifth column, has become the most dangerous institution in America. They are accountable to no one and continue propagating their deluded deception about how fair and objective they are in delivering just the “news”.
If nothing else, I hope this election serves to wake up the average American to the leftist tilt of the lamestream media. Never again should such power be left in the hands of media propagandists.
35 Darthmeister // Sep 21, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Another Obamessiah Lie Busted By Factcheck.org
I think Factcheck might be up to eight or nine on the number of Oblahblah lies. I thought The Chosen One was all about change and being honest with the American people. Yeah, right.
Here’s an interesting analysis by Gerard Baker writing for the London Times who, being a Brit, is neither Democrat or Republican. Mr. Baker contrasts what Oblahblah reads from his teleprompter with what he really is … a two-bit Chi-town hustler:
Speechmaker Obama has built his campaign on the promise of reform.
However, Politician Obama rose through a Chicago machine that is notoriously the most corrupt in the country. He refused repeatedly to side with those lonely voices (in his state) that sought to challenge the old corrupt ways of the ruling party (Democrats).
Speechmaker Obama talks about an era of bipartisanship, He speaks powerfully about the destructive politics of red and blue states.
However, Politician Obama has toed his party’s line more reliably than almost any other Democrat in US politics. He has a near-perfect record of voting with his side. He has the most solidly left-wing voting history in the Senate. He has never challenged his party’s line on any issue of substance.
Speechmaker Obama talks a lot about finding ways to move beyond the bloody battlegrounds of the “culture wars†in America; the urgent need to establish consensus on the emotive issue of abortion.
However, Politician Obama’s support for abortion rights is the most extreme of any Democratic senator. No one in the Senate - not the arch feminist Hillary Clinton nor the superliberal Edward Kennedy – is more liberal on abortion rights.
Here’s the real problem with Mr Obama: the jarring gap between his promises of change and his status quo performance. There are just too many contradictions between the eloquent poetry of the man’s stirring rhetoric and the dull, familiar prose of his political record.
The fact is that a vote for Mr Obama demands uncritical subservience to the irrational, anti-empirical proposition that the past holds no clues about the future. That promise is wholly detached from experience.
36 mindknumbed kid // Sep 21, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Hopefully the effect Biden is having is all negative.
He may be knowledgeable on 4N affairs, but is he fit to be POTUS? What did he garner-4% of the dem vote in the primaries? Throw in the republicans, indepentents, libertarians, etc. and would he not have the support of under 2% of the nation?
37 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 21, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Biden is incapable of the True, Clinically-Verified “gaffe” because he means what he says; his mutant “gaffes” are not mere [whatever is plural of] faux pas. Rangel, Clinton, BO, same.
The Leftists like the minimizing effect of the word. I don’t even have to tell you why but I can’t help but say it anyway:
It absolves them of personal responsibility as it applies to what comes out of their own personal, self-proclaimed-as-superior mouths.
They think we’re so lame that we can’t see just how depraved they are—the smoke blew back in their faces and they’ve walked through their own mirrors, now, it’s all about some weird, deviant, self mass-hypnosis—a scenario reminiscent of Night of the Living Dead…..
38 Fred Sinclair // Sep 21, 2008 at 9:16 pm
mkk 36 - “….. and would he not have the support of under 2% of the nation?â€
If you will recall David Duke got 2% of the vote when he ran for president in 1992.
Now if I had my druthers, I’d druther B.O. tie Dukes record in this ‘08 election. I’d druther McCain surpass Reagan’s victory at his re-election in 1984. Reagan carried 49 of the 50 states, becoming only the second presidential candidate to do so after Richard Nixon’s victory in the 1972 presidential election.
B.O. STINKS
39 mindknumbed kid // Sep 21, 2008 at 11:48 pm
In my opinion,if the truth were known about the kind of man Obama is, his true intentions, etc. that he would not get a significant number of votes. That is the reason for all of the obfuscation, they know that what they want is out of line with the majority of Americans.
40 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 22, 2008 at 12:14 am
I had to laugh at our local fish wrap. They have a comment section to give your 2 cents on the article so I gave a my 5 cents worth. They wiped that and all other comments by Republicans off the page.
What a pile of wimps
41 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 22, 2008 at 12:15 am
oops only laugh was suppose to be bold. Duh
42 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 22, 2008 at 7:21 am
I insist that Al Franken and the Ceo of Nbc be processed into Leavenworth immediately.
43 Darthmeister // Sep 22, 2008 at 7:35 am
So let me get this straight. On Airhead American Randi Rhoads accuses Sarah Palin of being a predator of 12 year old boys.
This last Saturday evening, "Saturday Night Live" had a skit essentially accusing Todd Palin of incest. Now we find out al Franken has been a "comedy" advisor for SNL on how to mock Republicans.
Is this the "change" that Obamessiah has been talking about? It seems to me if he can’t get his own disciples to behave themselves and work toward respectful national unity with those who disagree with their political and cultural agenda, then how in the helk is this moron going to bring us all together where peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars?
Maybe Rodney King is one of Obamalamadingdong’s cultural advisors. You know, "Can’t we all get along?" During this election liberal Democrats have been conducting themselves like so many feces throwing monkeys.
44 Darthmeister // Sep 22, 2008 at 7:35 am
… push.
45 gafisher // Sep 22, 2008 at 7:36 am
NBC’s decision to air the highly offensive Franken skit demonstrates a complete lack of both propriety and understanding. It also shows that the angry left will literally stop at nothing now that they see their hopes for an Obama Presidency slipping from their grasp. If they lose there will be violence, and if they win there will be repression. Bank on it.
wv - TRAVESTY Field - Formerly Left Field.
46 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 22, 2008 at 8:33 am
Hm. What do you know.
Someone has taken the Horrorshow analogy and applied it to BO.
47 gafisher // Sep 22, 2008 at 9:33 am
Darth Re#34: “If this had been Dan Quayle making this many gaffes …”
Even if it’s the same misstatement, for Dems it’s a humorous gaffe while for Republicans it “reveals a deep and troubling lack of blah blah blah …”
The news is reporting that both European and Washington leftists are excoriating Governor Palin for Tina Fey’s comments on SNL. These people not only make up their own rules, they believe their own lies.
48 gafisher // Sep 22, 2008 at 9:45 am
Speaking of “No Hablo Charlie” Rangel, the New York Times ran a story saying the difference between Rangel’s tax evasion case and Ted Stevens’ is essentially that nobody questions Rangel’s guilt.
49 Fred Sinclair // Sep 22, 2008 at 11:11 am
From K.C. & The People’s Cube:
Ten good reasons why Sarah Palin is a poor pick for Vice President:
1) She has her OWN HAIR! What kind of Vice President still has own hair? Must not work very hard to still have own hair.
How can she raise family on Alaska governor’s salary (two bears and barrel of oil) when Michelle Obama cannot do so on $300K per year? Very suspicious.
2) Alaska is too far away for her to talk with Iran and Syria, not to mention Ayers.
3) She hunts moose! Alaska’s constituents risk all-out moose revolt if this continues.
4) She rides motorcycle, Obama rides bicycle…. need I say more?
5) How many articles has she written for Harvard Law Review?
6) She is not articulate. I did not hear her say “um”, “uh” or “er” once. Not the sign of someone with a good relationship with teleprompters.
7) Does not make anything happen to Chris Matthews leg.
9) Let’s see HER come up with a complete faux Greek temple backdrop at a major league stadium on just two month’s notice!
10) Neither she nor McSame have revealed their Presidential seals yet! Do they even HAVE THEM???? (Well, she might, being from Alaska and all…)
And as a final nail in her coffin, She was NEVER A COMMUNITY ACTIVIST!
Source: http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=2252 (See comments)
B.O. STINKS
50 gafisher // Sep 22, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Fred Re#48: Don’t say Activist — that a code word for rabble rouser. :no:
OÙ·ama was a “Community Organizer”.
51 everthink // Sep 22, 2008 at 1:54 pm
“I insist that Al Franken and the Ceo of Nbc be processed into Leavenworth immediately.”
Who do you think you are, dipstick?
Try squeezing you nose, and holding your breathe as long as you can, while turning in circles threes before you make your demand.
But whatever you do, come Friday, your old bird will be plucked!
ET
52 everthink // Sep 22, 2008 at 2:06 pm
“She has her OWN HAIR! What kind of Vice President still has own hair? Must not work very hard to still have own hair.”
That’s it? Is this is the sum of the wisdom about which you so often brag?
ET
53 Mack // Sep 22, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Has anyone heard the saying “Throw good money after bad?” This whole bailout scheme is getting stupid. For once it is transparent, Barney Frank and company want to rip us the taxpayer off for $700 billion to a trillion dollars, and they want to give the Democrats the keys to vault. What’s not to love?
54 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 22, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Gosh.
You’d think that I had drawn a sketch of Mohammed or something.
55 Darthmeister // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:27 pm
How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis.
Figures it would be the Democratically-controlled do-nothing Congress.
56 Darthmeister // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Despite nearly fifty years of liberal/leftist denials and lies, the facts are in, <a HREF="http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=8E15CAE5-8E14-418F-93B6-555A12344416" rel="nofollow">Julius Rosenberg was a commie spy.</a>
Once the Berlin wall came down in 1989, virtually everything conservatives believed about the Soviet Union and what liberals denied, was proven true. The possible exception would be the actual strength of Soviet conventional military forces, their military machines wasn’t as advanced as their propaganda machine made it out to be - but we simply couldn’t take the chance they were overstating their military prowess … you know, commie bluster and all that.
Even with the release of the Venona Papers, left-wing and liberal Democrats in America were still in denial about how far the communist party had insinuated itself in the American government. <a HREF="http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1375/article_detail.asp" rel="nofollow">The Claremont Institute does a respectable job here</a> of clarifying the significance of the Venona Papers. Even when the documents were released into the public domain, liberals/leftist still continued to deny Alger Hiss and Julius Rosenberg were commie spies.
It’s interesting how easily liberals lie based on mere rumor, innuendo and partisan canards (just look at how easily they slimed Governor Sarah Palin with outright lies), but when actual documentation turns up to blow their little echo chambers of hate apart, they demand even more documentation or simply ignore documentation that contradicts their leftist mantra. I suppose when one drinks the poisoned kool-aid of the lamestream media and now the leftard blogs, its much easier for them to continue embracing their warped worldview.
I suppose it will take at least three or four decades before the stupid "Bush lied people died" canard is thrown on the ash heap of history, too. The evidence which speaks eloquently against this left-wing screed that Bush "lied" is already available and documented in the <a HREF="http://frontpagemag.com/articles/Read.aspx?GUID=8EF70EB2-F364-4CD6-ABE8-4E3A93AAE0A1" rel="nofollow">Who Lied When People Died</a> series at Frontpagemag.com and elsewhere, but that evidence is conveniently ignored by libtards in general because it upsets their ignorant house of cards.
57 mindknumbed kid // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Isn’t everything all rosy since Pelosi and Pipsqueak took over from the evil republicans? Bush’s fault you know, they only run the show behind the scenes, Bush is in the Big Chair…
I sure wish I could remember what the dimakooks promised to do when they got Congress in their grubby paws. But the fact is, I can’t remember a thing about it because I didn’t bother to stand in front of those wind machines and get all starry-eyed with every drop of drivel that dripped off of their chins. Obama is a perfect candidate to represent their party because when it comes down to it, they all are empty suits that appeal to empty heads with touchy-feely spirits that long for imaginary lives filled with hope…
No substance there. Want to make that crowd swoon? Just talk about healthcare for every person in every walk of life freely bestowed by the majic of government. Ha! Government has the answers to every need. Stimulus checks to get us out of the ditches and bailouts for those that our economy “depends upon”, what if our currency springs a leak? Patch it up? The inner tube is chock full of holes and there’s signs of some severe dry rotting too. The religion of government is full of empty promises and failed sacrifices, yet the desperate masses cling to it’s promises for more better stuff to come. Perhaps God sits in Heaven and his chuckling is on the verge of full fledged laughter…
America, where are you putting your faith?
58 mindknumbed kid // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:27 pm
PS - Rejecting God has its price, and we can’t afford to pay it.
59 Darthmeister // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Tracking down the fascist pigs who are responsible for the smear campaign against Sarah Palin.
It looks like there may be some financial (and certainly human resource) ties by the “professional corporation” who produced the hit pieces to the Obamalamadingdong campaign. It apparently wasn’t some “grassroot/nutroot” effort though Moveon.org may have had a hand in it.
Remember when Obama and Biden said “families are off limits”? Nice words but at the very least it was certainly code for Palin isn’t off limits so slime her with lies if you have, too. Plausible deniability and all that. Obama is certainly running the slimiest campaign in a long time given how many times he’s been busted by factcheck.org alone.
I’m just surprised leftist billionaire George Soros isn’t financially tied into trashing Governor Palin. They might find that link, too, eventually.
60 mindknumbed kid // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:34 pm
BTW - Don’t poke the troll he’s getting testy. Must be his false messiah letting him down.
I don’t believe that poll that says 33% of the blue collar workers are so racist that they won’t vote for Ob-golly. Just a ploy to guilt-trip in a few more votes and another put down of the “simpleminded” by the elite.
61 mindknumbed kid // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Laugh, it’ll keep others wondering what you are up to…
62 mindknumbed kid // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:44 pm
What the liberals really dream of is an America where no one is disturbed from their comfy hammocks. Oh GASP! A poor schmo just had to take care of something himself…and now a hurricane is on the way, let’s go carry him to a safe place lest he be injured…house destroyed? Give him a new one and make sure there is a shady spot for the hammock!
63 mindknumbed kid // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Whoo-boy, we’re havin’ a good time now!
64 Fred Sinclair // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Rush covered the Raines/Obama connection very well, but the WSJ on the connection - taken from the WaPo is hilarious - a brief laughable excerpt:
“So the Washington Post is saying you can’t believe McCain’s ad because it is based on reporting in . . . the Washington Post. The Washington Post is not a reliable source of information, according to the Washington Post.
But if the Washington Post is not a reliable source of information, how can we believe the Washington Post when it says it’s not a reliable source of information? But if we don’t believe the Washington Post when it says it’s not a reliable source of information, then we must believe the Washington Post is a reliable source of information, in which case how can we believe the Washington Post is not a reliable source of information. But if . . .
You get the picture. Clearly this is part of a sinister plot by the Obama-coddling mainstream media to induce madness in all Americans who have the capacity for logical thought, rendering them unable to vote and ensuring the election is decided by Obama backers who act totally on emotion.”
B.O. STINKS
65 mindknumbed kid // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Fred - Exactly! Awhat drives their emotion? Visions of hammocks I tell ya…
66 mindknumbed kid // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Imagine just laying there singing along with that old Coca Colaâ„¢ jingle…la-la la la la-la la-la…
I better let it go before I pee my pants in all of this excitement!
67 mindknumbed kid // Sep 22, 2008 at 7:00 pm
err, umm. And what drives…..
68 Fred Sinclair // Sep 22, 2008 at 7:43 pm
gafisher #49 - “Community Organizerâ€.
Oops - a gaff on my part - perhaps? Maybe?
I have it on good authority; (a Demo-lib in my Doctor’s waiting room) that “Community Organizerâ€. is codespeak for an A.C.O.R.N. Activist.(TTTTTTT-TeachersTeachingTeachersToTeachTeachersToTeach) and that’s how A.C.O.R.N. grows exponentially - educating the ‘masses’ on the political intricacies of voter fraud. Faux votes from graveyards, indigents housed in the Rescue Missions (a carton of Marlboros is a guaranteed vote); clearing the opponents off of the slate with innuendoes, unprovable morals charges, etc. You know - the way Democrats win most of the contests they enter.
I cannot recall of hearing about or reading about one single Democrat who laid out a solid platform on issues - plank by plank against a Republican (a real one that is) who did the same thing, and won.
Not since Harry Truman that is. Harry is the last real Democrat to hold the offices of Senator and President. Instead we are offered Soros type minions like Senator Reid, Senator Obama, Senator Biden. Senator Clinton and others of their ilk.
May God have mercy on the USofA come this Nov. 4th.
IN GOD WE TRUST
69 mindknumbed kid // Sep 22, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Fred - Are you saying that the Marlboro Man was working with the democrats? I wonder whatever happened between them? One can only assume that he wasn’t delivering all of the votes he was promising and that it was only a matter of time before they turned on him, and we already know how the story ended - thank you very much Mr. Harvey.
70 mindknumbed kid // Sep 22, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I’m gonna go have a pic-a-nic in the rain now, we don’t mind that here in Tuff City, Wy.
71 mindknumbed kid // Sep 22, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Scott - Hope the convention is going well, hope they are treating you good too.
72 gafisher // Sep 22, 2008 at 10:26 pm
mkk Re#62: “What the liberals really dream of is an America where no one is disturbed from their comfy hammocks.”
The left promises hammocks, but once they’ve got control … well, I’ve been in the former Soviet Union and even after some 70 years hammocks were much less common than prison cells.
73 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 5:36 am
Without true freedom, a posh mansion can be a prison cell, even with free access to health care.
74 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 23, 2008 at 7:48 am
Two words:
Fontella Bass.
75 Darthmeister // Sep 23, 2008 at 8:29 am
Lately the fawning sycophants of Obamessiah said he was such a great “community organizer” that he personally registered 150,000 Chicago voters himself!
Hmmm, I didn’t think they had cemeteries that big in Chicago.
76 gafisher // Sep 23, 2008 at 8:41 am
Joe Biden, the gift that keeps on giving, has disowned, and said he regrets, the insulting Obama 1982 ad. And recalling earlier assertions that Hillary would have made a better VP, Biden offered his own “Sniper Fire” story, a gripping account of his helicopter being forced down in Afghanistan by a deadly hail of enemy fire.
Well, not hail exactly. Not fire either. Actually it was an approaching snowstorm. But a really scary one!
77 gafisher // Sep 23, 2008 at 9:03 am
mkk, Khrushchev-era housing blocks are no posh mansions, though the Party Leaders’ dachas often are. The “free medical care” was barbaric. Liberal promises are worse than worthless.
Obama’s Chicago tenements are actually a pretty good picture of the prison-like Soviet “apartment buildings.” Compare this Soviet development in Lysvyanaka and Obama’s Grove Parc Plaza.
78 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 23, 2008 at 9:30 am
I find it amusing that, in preparation for the mortification BO will experience in the upcoming “debate,” the Democrat party’s Leftist propaganda machine is touting McCain’s black-ops-ninja-like debating skills. Of course, this preemptive exercise loosens up the tin foil-encased gray cells for the ensuing mental gymnastics it will take to present BO as victorious even though, by any legitimate criteria, he is (and [unless he repents] always will be) a pathetic loser.
79 Deerslayer // Sep 23, 2008 at 9:35 am
Drudge headline…
S Africa faces ‘winter wonderland’; snow, coldest September temps in recorded history…
Anyone seen AlGore lately?
80 Shelly // Sep 23, 2008 at 10:03 am
RE: 76, I can’t wait to see what Governor Palin does with that Biden denouncement during the debate.
The MSM is doing its best to protect Obama from Rezko, Ayers, Wright, typical Chicago thug politics, etc. but the country only needs to know one thing (which unfortunately many of them are too ignorant to know) and that is this. Obama voted FOUR TIMES against providing health care to infants. Nuff said.
81 Welcome, citizens of Wall Street, to the People’s Republic of America | Jason Hayes - Musing // Sep 23, 2008 at 1:00 pm
[...] Scott Ott has yet another amusing post on the creation of the 51st state. [...]
82 Mack // Sep 23, 2008 at 1:11 pm
The house of cards is starting to sway as the MSM comes to grips with reality. They can only hold their breath for so long before they have to let it out. With all the real scandal swirling around Obama things are starting to get out even without the MSM.
Obama called it “Swiftboat politics.” Translated by the rest of us that means real people took it upon themselves to expose hypocrisy and scandal even when the media refused to. Ayers, Reynco all the skeletons in the closet are rattling enough to wake even the most oblivious. All Obama’s connections to the current economic crash with the Democrats in the house and senate refusing to investigate. Even some real liberal dolts around here find it odd that there is no investigation when Enron wasn’t anywhere near this big.
The planned attacks on Governor Palin as seen at http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194057.php are transparent and people are starting to get disgusted by it. So called “Moderates” can’t explain away the inconsistencies.
Now if the elected Republicans would start publicly demanding Pelosi and Reid hold hearing and investigations the scandal would blow up to rightous proporsions and we would take back the house and senate too.
83 Fred Sinclair // Sep 23, 2008 at 1:49 pm
It used to be “Leave It To Beaver”
Now it’s “Leave It To Biden”
From DRUDGE: (and Rush)
Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.
He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
As Reason’s Jesse Walker footnotes it: “And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, ‘Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?’”
B.O. STINKS
84 gafisher // Sep 23, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Things are getting a bit taut in the Obama bin Biden camp, and the MSM actually seems to be distancing itself from the imminent implosion. Matt Lahar, er, Lauer confronted Obama after noting that McCain’s position, which Obama soundly renounced, was echoed by Obama’s own running mate. The following is from an interview with Obama, aired today:
Obama’s response was typically measured but clearly angry; Biden appears to have some woodshed time ahead. All is not sunshine and roses among the Democrats.
85 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 5:20 pm
If the folks at the DemHQ would have just came over to Scrappleface and read some posts prior to their convention, they would have had a heads up about Ol’BooHoO’s challenges to being an appealing candidate and the tough road ahead of them. I tried to tell them, I told them that the Queen of Spades (aka-the Evil Lady) would be his best pick for Veep, ti maximize his chances of winning. I’m so glad that they didn’t listen to me, I believe that the only thing that is going to prevent a major sweep by McCain/Lady Sarah Palin is the vast number of individuals suffering with BDS/PDS. There are a lot of scroofy people out there in Moron.orgy land, maybe a resounding defeat of the “One” will send them packing “back” to their motherland.
86 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Punch it through.
87 RepublicanAttackMachine // Sep 23, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Biden “supposed” indignation is all part of the “plan” to ditch him and add Hillary, now that it is becoming apparent that, that is the only way O’Bama can win, and even with Hillary, it is NOT a sure thing!
BTW, the “Blog Gremlins” have attacked me. I could not sign in as R.A.M., and even with Scott’s system of emailing me a link for a new password, I could not sign in. So I had to re-register as my full, spelled out name.
Oh, well.
88 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Drats! The dreaded moderation process…again!
Beautiful day here in the Land of Scrappleface, troll-free access all day. Isn’t it such a wonderful experience?
wv - pavement throw….who’d Ol’BooHoO toss under the bus now?
89 Darthmeister // Sep 23, 2008 at 5:33 pm
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened…’” Joe Biden to Katie Couric today.
On television? This moron is worse than Oblahblah when it comes to history!
I’m sorry, but if this had been a Republican the media would have been all over this.
BTW, the subprime mortgage mess which started the freefall of the financial markets the last few weeks can be laid right at the feet of the Clinton Administration which sought to make mortgages available to high risk buyers and the Democrat leadership in Congress who ignored the warnings and have received mucho dinero from AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac.
Virtually every reliable history of when subprime mortgages began to go mainstream has it starting in 1994 and 1995 when the Clinton Administration changed provisions in the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. The goal of these changes was to make sure that banks were “serving low and moderate income geographies†and making sure that these banks “economically empowered persons of low and moderate incomeâ€.
Yep, they sure did empower “persons of low and moderate income” while sowing the seeds of financial mayhem in the mortage industry and ultimately in the financial markets. About the only thing Republicans can be blamed for is not holding the Democrats’ and their bleeding heart socialist policies accountable and foreseeing how they would mess with the markets down the road.
BTW, it’s an outright lie that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are out of control free market enterprises. They are privately own but heavily regulated, quasi-governmental entities with direct a line of credit to the Federal Reserve. Remember how the collectivist Nazi government heavily regulated privately owned companies and called it national socialism? That was no “free market” enterprise and neither is what we’re seeing today. In essence, the Federal Government and its regulatory milieu and the various incompetent (and bought off) oversight commitees of this do-nothing Congress are responsible for this mess, not free market capitalism.
If Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae had been true free market entities, they would have not been loaning money to high risk borrowers. It’s axiomatic that financial institutions don’t remain successful by making bad loans to people who are in no position to pay them back. Yet that’s what the Clinton Administration demanded, through its new regulations, the mortage industry to do.
90 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 5:42 pm
My free (yet of infinite value) advice to the McCain camp, rightwing media, and other all-around good guys. Crank up the heat on Ol’BooHoO about threefold, I think he’ll go into a complete meltdown.
Just for fun I’d like to see some right-minded witty individual tap the feed to Ol’BooHoO’s magic teleprompter and mess with his head real good. I’d bet the unsuspecting dope would read whatever scrolled across the screen and not even realize what he was saying…sort of like the Muslim/Christian debacle when Stuffinupperlip had to correct him.
If he were to be elected would Soros provide teleprompting for every thing he said and did? Be interesting to see a White House Press Conference…
91 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 5:50 pm
If Ol’BooHoO changes horses at this point it will show that when for the first time in his life he had to make a big decision, he messed it up. I don’t think Hillary would even consider the job at this point and time, she’d rather see him lose and run again in 2012. In order to win Ol’BooHoO has to find a way to turn it around using the same cast of players. I do not wish him well in that attempt.
92 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 5:54 pm
RAM - Well at least weren’t forced to re-register as a DemocratAttackMachine!
93 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 6:06 pm
When and if the government owns your home and supplies your health care needs, what exactly will you be free to control in your life? Smoking would be out, fatty foods - not even on Thanksgiving or Christmas! Would your employment determine the size and quality of house you were qualified to live in? What about sex with a member of the opposite sex? Would pregnancy be “allowed”? With some of these extremists in charge of your sex life, there would be mandatory condom usage, many pregnancies would mysteriously miscarry, and would you have to read pro-homosexual books and “try” it a few times before you were permitted to chose a monogamous heterosexual life? What other surprises might await us in that can of worms?
94 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Once they own you there is no longer a need to read you your Miranda Rights when arrested, no trial by jury either, as their property they will decide your fate. Government programs = government control, the more they “give” you, the less freedom you have.
Still want to ride on the Obamabus? May God help us all!
95 Darthmeister // Sep 23, 2008 at 6:16 pm
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened…’†Joe Biden to Katie Couric today.
Television? Roosevelt? Roosevelt wasn’t even president in 1929.
Biden is either a moron or a KKKarl Rove mole!
You can’t make this stuff up … but rest assured, if a Republican has said the same thing it would be headline news for the next week, particularly if it had been McCain or Palin.
96 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 6:17 pm
At least wait until they sugar coat it enough to get some satisfaction out of it. It will be the last time you find anything satisfying…
97 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Darth - But that’s the way Biden and Katie remember it, don’t throw facts into their fantasy, that’s considered rude behavior nowadays.
98 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 23, 2008 at 7:07 pm
More than once in the last couple of days, Bill-of The Hill & Bill Show-has been observed portraying a Stud Muffin. I consider their behavior schizophrenic at best but the second and third reportage of this phenomenon piqued my brain cell.
Why is Bill-of The Hill & Bill Show-strutting his Alpha-Male-of-the-Universe magnetism up and down the barnyard causing all this fluster, bluster, tsunamis of agitated wing-spans and multitudinous niveaux de parfum?
Bill-of The Hill & Bill Show-smells blood in the water as BO flames out and the Democrat party, like an inside-out gas bubble, implodes.
99 Fred Sinclair // Sep 23, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Rush had a funny today - Quoting Biden on gun control. “Barack Obama ain’t takin my shotgun, so don’t buy that malarky, if he (Obama) tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem.”
Rush continued (shaking with laughter): “I wonder if the Secret Service came to him and said, ‘Did you just threaten the life of the Presidential Candidate?’”
The way this is shaping up the only way the Republicans can avoid a repeat of the 1994 sweep of Congress is for complacent Conservatives to stay home and not vote. “GET OUT THE VOTE” has never been as important as it is now.
B.O. STINKS
100 Fred Sinclair // Sep 23, 2008 at 7:54 pm
:>)
101 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I dare to wonder how much of Fannie, Freddie, and AIG’s woes are due to poor management rather than those small percentage of loan defaults? They have been busy lining politician’s pockets and probably many of their own too.
They lay all of this blame on buyers that bit off more than they could chew, and that is true, but what about other factors such as increased energy costs, increased taxes, much due to increased regulations. An extra 20 bucks here and there adds up. I am so glad I’m driving at least 80% less now than before I moved to Whyoming. Odds are the mortgages they couldn’t afford is less than the rent they were paying too. Our elected officials get other people to pay for their gasoline, electricity, utilities, and then pass measures that drive up costs for the average citizen. It doesn’t register with them that all of their little increases add up. And another thing, they were pushing those ARM’s like there was no tomorrow too. I wonder how many of the “bad mortgages” would have been still intact if we had had some prevention against increased oil prices? Most people when money gets tight can find ways to cut corners and get by, lately I think many were getting by with all of the corners cut already when gas prices and utilities began to climb. We are heading into winter and what are they telling us now? Natural gas prices are going to be up…well, maybe we can all get by on two square meals a day….
102 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 8:14 pm
In case my point was muddled, I blame out of touch, over regulating, tax increasing politicians for MOST of the problems, maybe all.
103 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I doubt that Biden has a Beretta…
I thought it was rather revealing when Biden told that other guy that he was mentally unstable…one of my good friends in high school knew his gun better than his girlfriends, it was a trusted companion to him. What’s wrong with that?
BTW, I have a new 2008 International work truck now, it has AM, FM, and CD. So I hear a little bit of Rush each day and life is better.
104 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 8:25 pm
And yes I know trolls, Ol’BooHoO is going to help the middle class by getting big bucks from the rich and giving it all to me. What if the rich man that signs my paycheck can’t afford both me and the increased taxes, one entity is “at will”, the other is mandatory. What choice does that leave him?
105 Fred Sinclair // Sep 23, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Burn Notice ‘Loose Ends’: Sam is throwing it back in his captors faces (and taking a beating while he laughs at them) The head captor says: “You’ve had Special Forces training haven’t you? Deny everything loudly, take every charge and throw it back accusing the enemy of your own guilt.
I thought at the time - that’s exactly what the Democrat line is…with their hands covered with extensive voter fraud they loudly accuse the Republicans of voter fraud. Up to their necks in mortgage meltdown they’re frantically looking under every rock for a Republican to blame.
As a Captain once told me. “I don’t care if they have Polaroid photos of you with your hand in the cookie jar…Deny! Deny! Deny! They have to convince twelve people, beyond reasonable doubt, that you did what they say you did. You, on the other hand, only have to convince one that just maybe you didn’t do what they say you did.
Democrat strategy: Deny everything, countercharging that it was the opposition that did it.
B.O. wasn’t in Special Forces but he probably mastered the art while training with his A.C.O.R.N. buddies. Maybe it was Ayers who taught him?
B.O. STINKS
106 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 8:40 pm
gafisher - re#77 What do you reckon the odds are that all of the money to help the poor with housing ended up in the hands of the movers and shakers/administrators of the housing projects? You sure can’t blame the tenants for the condition of those roofs, maybe the holes in the walls, and other problems. I believe that if the facts were known, many rich and politically connected in cities such as Chicago, are thieves that took from their “causes” by the handfuls. So much for caring…
107 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 23, 2008 at 8:56 pm
If he got the chance (which he won’t), whatever BO might hope to gouge from what’s left of our Free Enterprise system would never trickle down to the truly needy, anyway-socialism just doesn’t work that way.
108 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Money corrupts like no other thing on earth.
So much money in politics these days…
Limit campaign spending to less than the total salary of the office, defund all political parties and start relying on volunteers and door to door campaigning to get elected, send every lobbyist home and concentrate on doing what is best for the country, not groups of individuals, or taxpayers as a lot. Let them that want to serve their country sacrifice to do so, and I don’t mean take a lower paying job rather than get rich on Wall Street either. Genuine sacrifice. Get rid of all of the perks associated with holding elected office. Might just decrease the number of politicians throughout the land…
109 mindknumbed kid // Sep 23, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Many of the founders put everything on the line and suffered loss to establish a different kind of nation. There are no such people among the wannabees and the current office holders today.
110 gafisher // Sep 23, 2008 at 10:00 pm
mkk Re#106: It’s known for a fact the Soviet buildings were little more than a ploy to transfer public funds to bureaucrats’ pockets. Those tenements were built with bad concrete, poorly wired (and in some cases barely wired at all beyond the point the inspector would see) and haphazardly constructed. Obama’s Chicago projects were similarly built, according to what’s been reported.
The tenants reported problems with plumbing, electricity and other defects from the start, as would any responsible occupant. To blame the tenants for the shoddy construction would be cynical at best, yet that’s where the left wants to place the responsibility.
111 gafisher // Sep 23, 2008 at 10:14 pm
mkk Re#101: “I dare to wonder how much of Fannie, Freddie, and AIG’s woes are due to poor management rather than those small percentage of loan defaults?”
I don’t think it’s beyond the pale to wonder whether the bad loans were made to cover up some long-term “creative accounting.” Like those Chicago tenements, it’s easy to blame the nameless people at the bottom of the totem pole when the corrupt structure collapses.
112 Fred Sinclair // Sep 23, 2008 at 10:51 pm
mkk #107:
1Tim. 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
How about ALL elected politicans, before taking their seat - oval office - Congress - whatever - their financial situation must be certified by a forensic accountant of their exact (to the penny) worth. No one can leave office with more than their legal salary would account for. $200 K x 4 years = $800 K.
Read about how Harry Truman left office.
IN GOD WE TRUST
113 Mack // Sep 24, 2008 at 12:11 am
Is it just me, or do the rest of you get irritated when the MSM tries to tell us what we feel and they get it wrong? Perhaps it is the old adage of having an opinion and looking around to find something, anything to support it. But I for one am tired of it. I saw hope there for a second with an MSNBC piece whose title suggested that people were getting mad over this proposed bail out. Then I followed the link to see a photo of an ACORN protestor outside the Federal Reserve Building.
They are mad because the government wont guarantee they get to keep the houses they couldn’t afford to buy in the first place. The cause of the problem was the government insuring Fannie May and Freddie Mac sub-prime loans to begin with. Again they assume people are stupid. They assume we all want our great grandchildren stuck with paying for their bad loans. In my case, they assume wrong.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26841602/
In the above link they rage about how people are mad about Wall Street. The picture shows an ACORN protestor outside the Federal Reserve building but fails to mention Obama’s links to that organization.
114 mig // Sep 24, 2008 at 6:33 am
#55 -
The other thing that must be noted is that all these insolvent lenders contributed huge sums as campaign contributions to Congressional Representatives in both parties but most notabley huge sums given to Democrates and in the top five reciepients are Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Banking Committee. He has not been dismissed or asked to step down. The fox is still the keeper of the hen house.
It begs the question, what ever happened to Tom Delay? Wasn’t he run out of DC on the back of an ass for playing golf in Scotland? Yet, Chris Dodd sits as the head of the Banking Committee staring blankly into the TV screen and mumbles. If he is incapable of keeping this particular house of cards from being built let alone from falling apart, why the hell is he still the Chairman of the Banking Committee?
115 Shelly // Sep 24, 2008 at 9:31 am
Could Biden be more dumb? Televisions in 1929? FDR was President in 1929? Did he not learn from Kerry’s absurd insistence that Nixon was President in December 1969? Facts and truth mean nothing to Democrats. Will Biden next criticize Bush’s handling of Iraq by claiming that President Grant did a better job of communicating with his generals before ordering the air strike on Bull Run?
116 RepublicanAttackMachine // Sep 24, 2008 at 12:06 pm
MKK re:92
Yes, thank the LORD!!! Good point!
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