“Really, folks, what difference does it make? If he were a Muslim, we don’t care. What’s wrong with being a Muslim? Really, I mean, why the controversy here? What’s the big deal? I mean, we’re into outreach, if he’s a Muslim, that’s fine. Right?”
–Rush Limbaugh, yesterday
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“The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.”
John Adams
You would have to quote one of them “liberal Founding Fathers”!
What’s next, something from that “socialist”, President Eisenhower?
Interstate highway system. What an outrage!
And you know how those Massachusettsians are….
from Dean Baker
So why doesn’t the federal government fix the economy?
And I’m not pointing fingers at any specific person or party in Congress – this has been a bipartisan disaster.
Fed policy was far more culpable in the housing market collapse than Rep Frank.
But I’ve posted that link, and since none of the Cons on this site like m pointing out this fact, no one wants to admit to it…
For the most part, I like Alan Greenspan. He knew Ayn Rand – that’s cool!
might as well admit he or she is an adolescent in their parents basement and get it over with.
An insult. How out of character for you.
Ayn Rand? Give me a break!
I forgot, I’m not allowed to prefer anything unless I run it by the snotty elitist police first.
How….proletariat of me.
Is that the French word for “strawman”?
As far as I know. I’m only a simple rube. I know not what’s best for me or even what I truly favor myself.
Thank God for Pols to give me an arena to learn so much from the chattering class.
it does indicate the the latter part of your screen name is probably accurate. it’s ok to be young. If you’re lucky, you can grow out of it.
And the corn in my crap is more aware and active in the community than you are.
Go fuck ourself, you condescending ass.
then I guess you never will grow up. And it isn’t really condescending to call someone on their infantile affectations. It is just honest.
You’re not even debating with me anymore, just being insulting. I feel dumb I even let you piss me off.
Let me know when you’re interested in transitioning out of troll mode.
and I saw your response to Ari about being drunk when you wrote your corn in your crap comment.
I can leave it any time.
I’d rather not act like a douche when I can avoid it. Sorry.
I really would like to just debate policy, etc., instead of just being dickish to each other.
And I apologize too.
In general I enjoy our debates. You are not of a kind with BJ or Libertad and are much more reasonable (even if you are usually on the wrong side of the argument…)
🙂
(and that was a little joke, not intended as a literal insult.)
And no worries.
Fight!
This reasonableness is ….. useful, sure, but it’s so much more fun to have useless flame wars.
I don’t know how but you’ve got a young fan in my crew.
Let me know when he’s ready for the lecture about the producers vs. the looters.
🙂
You have a beautiful family. Good work.
not for much apparently, but for what little it is, we can count on you.
it’s fair to ask you to address his role in the matter. You know it can’t all be laid at the feet of one congressman.
Chris Dodd is equally as culpable as Frank.
Sometimes, encounters with you only make me sad.
BTW, I think the “corn in my crap” quip has run out of gas. But that’s just my opinion.
And I was just being snarky. There’s a lot of culpability for it on both sides of the ideological fence.
Yeah, the corn in my crap thing is now being retired. I just get tired of the overwhelming condescension some people have here sometimes.
It’s a joke – to have a different opinion, something has to be wrong with you. You must be bigoted, racist, too stupid to know the truth, or a child if your philosophy doesn’t match up.
It just gets old, and I was pissed, and had a couple of cocktails under my belt.
So it’s ok for you to be condescending, just not anybody else.
But we already knew that.
I don’t think I am, in general. If I do something you find to be particularly personally condescending, please mention it, and I’ll apologize.
I’m tired of being drawn into dick mode too, though I do my best to remember that I respect some of the people who go there and that I’m certainly not above going there.
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A little longer- but good
“Meaningful Coincidences are Significant” – Carl Jung
Are we going to address the Birthright issue, or “Native Born” son?
Are we, or should we care, who he’s parents were, or how he grew up, or what he embraced as a religious message all his life?
I have my birth certificate, my original, nice it was at March Air Force Base, a military hospital and funny it has all that info you will find on your original birth certificate, including the doctors name and signature. I am sure everyone has such a document. Records are records.
Fact is, he, President Obama is our president. I didn’t vote for him, although he was all about “Change.” I did vote for President Clinton, and he was also all about “Change,” but President Clinton with the help of the Republicans and Americans I may add, did balance the budget, that much is true.
Since, its OPEN LINE FRIDAY. I rather leave that note, else I will ramble on about how Insane this whole mess is…..
Bullwinkle: “Hey Rocky watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat!”
Rocky: “But that trick never works!”
“Stop the Insanity!” “Fix the economic mess!” & “End the Free Ride!” for me thats not a hard message to fight about.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!! TGIF!
that our President’s birth certificate has been widely displayed. His birth certificate has likley been authenticated more thoroughly than any other candidate.
But then I thought that might be considered “piling on” and perhaps even rude.
For me its not a big issue, but his actual certificate that was displayed around the Internet is not the original its simply the State of Hawaii providing a certificate of live Birth, not actually the same just a record of a recorded act. No hospital no doctor, just another State issued document.
See, the problem on this issue is its simple. What hospital were you born at, his family says two or three different ones, I am confused here.
Forget the names, his mother was married to who, they were practicing Muslims or not or ? again, I am confused.
I grew up in Turkey, my first language was Turkish, Arabic, dunno I was young. My mother was Japanese, but she naturalized and she was a Christian. So I can understand, when people have conflicts. But this is easy to put at rest. Just bring all the facts out, not a problem.
Fact is having a muslim name just means you have a muslim name. I grew up with Robert Moore (Bobby) he changed his name to Ahmad Rashad, still Bobby to me. I guess this was during the black muslims days, maybe that was our President’s feelings. I didn’t notice that in the recent press release.
On a side note:
“Power to the People” was not about being black, brown or red. It was about representation,having a political voice. I know alot of people then embrace the words of MAO, Lenin and Marx. I knew the difference and didn’t.
I guess alot of people still have those questions. Any comments? What do you think?
Is it a “Coincidence” when someone surrounds themselves with people who have a certain political leaning?
The real one gets filed with the state vital records department.
You probably have a COPY with the imprint of the state seal. Just like me, born in Chelsea Naval Hospital.
That you righties can’t get this “right” means I would never, ever vote for you.
If Charley has his ORIGINAL birth certificate, someone must have stolen it from the state.
If Obama had his own original, can you just imagine how many people like Charley, Orly Taitz, etc. would be screaming about that, and claiming that he’d created a fake, etc. etc. etc.
Of course, the fact that the REPUBLICAN officials in Hawaii (thank God they are Republican or else we’d be hearing even more conspiracy theories) have SWORN UNDER OATH that they indeed have the original and that it shows that Obama was born in Hawaii, means nothing to these fevered conspiracy theorists who are convinced that Obama is the original Terror Baby.
For me its not a big deal, just that someone was mentioning his name hence the comment, and I was referring to my procession of my birth certificate that I am happy to share, which shows the doctors name and the hospital.
Thats the point I was making.
Now an “Unaffiliated” is a Republican? is that like an Progressive? Or maybe you are thinking of an Independent?
See, the problem is, 1.2 million “Unaffiliated” are neither, and that is something the parties are assuming otherwise, and frankly they don’t get it.
If what everyone is saying (All parties and Unaffiliated) is true, then you have some serious problems.
Every poll in the nation for the last six months have indicated a dramatic plunge of the approval ratings of both parties, Dem or Rep.
And no amount of President Obama robo-calling or Nancy Pelosi calling is going to change that, Nor will the calls from the other-side of the aisle, instead it is simply driving the nails deeper into the political coffin on the morn of Nov 3rd.
Not a copy.
No wonder “We can’t just all get along.” We don’t even understand simple definitions.
Sheesh.
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Chelsea Naval, eh ? On the banks of the Mystic.
We musta been separated at birth.
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Yeah, May 14, 1946. I knew a good deal when I had it and I didn’t leave Mom for a month after the due date. They didn’t induce then.
Dad’s CG commanding officer kept extending his duty a week at a time, lying about needing him so that I would be born on the gummint nickel.
As David has continued to point out, we have a jobless problem in Colorado.
Sadly and despite the Obama bailout programs that promised to keep unemployment under 10% we have dipped yet again. Colorado’s economic development guru’s who worked their majic with Forontier, 1st Data, Qwest, Coors, et. al. have predicted that the 100,000+ jobs lost under Hickenlooper-Ritter won’t come back until at least 2014. This would seem to suggest that Colorado will bounce along at a 10% unemployment rate for the next half decade.
The of course there are the unofficially unemployed.
http://www.latimes.com/busines…
we have a jobless problem in Colorado.
OK, seriously, you’re relying on David to point that out for you?
We wouldn’t have 9 to 10 percent unemployment.
(It’d be 15 to 20, but what the hey.)
http://www.donthurtcolorado.co…
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Failure to act today will result in hundreds of millions of your tax dollars being taken from the government. These monies will be unavailable for Democrat leaders to spend in support of growing the government.
Note the qualifier.
http://www.rasmussenreports.co…
Landslide!
Its not about DEM or REP, if you refer to all incumbents they are in some serious doo-doo.
I like how Rasmussenreports is polling now with “Someone Else”
I rather stay well under the radar, as some folks up the hill refer to it, the “secret vote” in November.
Good luck getting your incumbent to survive November, but be warned that doesn’t mean the other party will win.
But what do I know, I predicted a Norton – Bennet slugfest in Nov now we have the Buck N’ Bennet.
What are you talking about? I’m not supporting any incumbents. And a word to the wise – it’s not smart to trumpet your own ignorance in that you incorrectly predicted Norton would win.
I didn’t see the far reaches of the Political universe 527 dumping zillions into Buck.
So, I went with Norton.
I was wrong, write on Bennet. And good for you, my prediction most if not all incumbents will get “fired” I will tally it up Nov 3rd.
If I have the time.
TGIF
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51% of those polled think the US ought to help Israel invade Iran.
How can civilized people be so gung-ho for wars of aggression ? This country needs a draft.
and we have way too much military power. We need to downsize for our own (and the rest of the world’s) good.
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from CNN
maybe McCain dosen’t know the ins and outs of social media but I think he does understand its power in reaching people.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…
For crying out loud, doesn’t anyone remember past three weeks ago?
Not that I want McCain to win or anything.
Note that in this graph you want the number to go down! From BusinessInsider
![](https://static.businessinsider.com/image/4c6d4b097f8b9a8b71690400/chart-of-the-day-initial-jobless-claims-2007-2010.jpg)
I know Republican instrangence is part of the reason, but couldn’t Obama and the Democratic house at least propose legislation that would address the awful situation we are in? At least call the Republicans in the Senate out for doing nothing.
In case you haven’t realized it yet, the Obama administration doesn’t care one whit about creating jobs. They want everybody to be on unemployment and dependent on big government to solve their problems. Then Obama can use his stimulus (a.k.a. “slush fund”) to do pretty much whatever he dang well pleases.
I’ll post it.
Your unwillingness to see any good in those you oppose precludes the possibility of anyone giving you any credibility.
Or as R/G said – are you really that insane?