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1 I have been "lying back in the weeds," watching all this philosophical discussion, however I have been fleetingly drawn into the fray. Are you absolutely SURE about that statement, "SPC"? |
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“God Versus Norton!” Since: Sep 09
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1 I suppose that really complicates your job as a police officer? How many times have you been accused? |
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1 Humility? Gingrich? <.snicker!.> I do have to agree that Gingrich has a lot of experience with failures (personal and public). |
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1 The short answer is probably "more times than he can count / on his fingers and toes." Crime Dog strikes me as a barely walking upright / living / mouth breathing future sexual harassment charge dispenser. The only guy here who / might hold women in lower esteem / who could be a worse misogynist than him is Sir Trav. They're collectively a real credit to their species / whatever that is. LOL |
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3 By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: February 12, 2012 Mitt Romney has a gift for words — self-destructive words. On Friday he did it again, telling the Conservative Political Action Conference that he was a “severely conservative governor.” As Molly Ball of The Atlantic pointed out, Mr. Romney “described conservatism as if it were a disease.” Indeed. Mark Liberman, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, provided a list of words that most commonly follow the adverb “severely”; the top five, in frequency of use, are disabled, depressed, ill, limited and injured. That’s clearly not what Mr. Romney meant to convey. Yet if you look at the race for the G.O.P. presidential nomination, you have to wonder whether it was a Freudian slip. For something has clearly gone very wrong with modern American conservatism. Start with Rick Santorum, who, according to Public Policy Polling, is the clear current favorite among usual Republican primary voters, running 15 points ahead of Mr. Romney. Anyone with an Internet connection is aware that Mr. Santorum is best known for 2003 remarks about homosexuality, incest and bestiality. But his strangeness runs deeper than that. For example, last year Mr. Santorum made a point of defending the medieval Crusades against the “American left who hates Christendom.” Historical issues aside (hey, what are a few massacres of infidels and Jews among friends?), what was this doing in a 21st-century campaign? Nor is this only about sex and religion: he has also declared that climate change is a hoax, part of a “beautifully concocted scheme” on the part of “the left” to provide “an excuse for more government control of your life.” You may say that such conspiracy-theorizing is hardly unique to Mr. Santorum, but that’s the point: tinfoil hats have become a common, if not mandatory, G.O.P. fashion accessory. Then there’s Ron Paul, who came in a strong second in Maine’s caucuses despite widespread publicity over such matters as the racist (and conspiracy-minded) newsletters published under his name in the 1990s and his declarations that both the Civil War and the Civil Rights Act were mistakes. Clearly, a large segment of his party’s base is comfortable with views one might have thought were on the extreme fringe. Finally, there’s Mr. Romney, who will probably get the nomination despite his evident failure to make an emotional connection with, well, anyone. The truth, of course, is that he was not a “severely conservative” governor. His signature achievement was a health reform identical in all important respects to the national reform signed into law by President Obama four years later. And in a rational political world, his campaign would be centered on that achievement. But Mr. Romney is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, and whatever his personal beliefs may really be — if, indeed, he believes anything other than that he should be president — he needs to win over primary voters who really are severely conservative in both his intended and unintended senses. So he can’t run on his record in office. Nor was he trying very hard to run on his business career even before people began asking hard (and appropriate) questions about the nature of that career. How did American conservatism end up so detached from, indeed at odds with, facts and rationality? For it was not always thus. The point is that today’s dismal G.O.P. field — is there anyone who doesn’t consider it dismal?— is no accident. Economic conservatives played a cynical game, and now they’re facing the blowback, a party that suffers from “severe” conservatism in the worst way. And the malady may take many years to cure. |
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2 Severe Conservative Syndrome Mr. Romney “described conservatism as if it were a disease.” |
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2 Director of the White House’s national economic council Gary Sperling’s announcement that a plan for a “global minimum tax” is in the works continues the efforts of Barack Obama himself to oversee a massive transfer of wealth under the auspices of the UN. The call also echoes similar rhetoric out of the United Nations which recently announced an agenda to impose a world tax on all financial transactions to “help the poor”. http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-advisors-ca... SO LET'S SEE, WE PAY..... FEDERAL TAXES STATE TAXES COUNTY TAXES CITY TAXES PROPERTY TAXES SALES TAX AND NOW THEY WANT US TO PAY A TAX TO THE U.N.????? 2 WORDS FOR THAT......F*CK THAT!!!! We shouldn't even be a part of a joke like the U.N. who puts Iran on "The Council for Women's Right" or Lets North Korea head the "Nuclear Disamament Committe". NO WAY IN HELL WILL I EVER PAY TAXES TO THE U.N. I AM AN AMERICAN, NOT A UNITED NATIONS WHATEVER THE TERM WOULD BE. THEY HAVE NO AUTHORITY OVER ME, OVER YOU, OVER ANYONE. OUR GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO FAR, PRIMARILY OBAMA AND HIS DEALS WITH THE U.N. HOW SOON TIL WE SEE U.N. TROOPS IN OUR OWN STREETS? THESE PEOPLE ARE DESTROYING EVERYTHING AMERICA HAS EVER BEEN AND EVER STOOD FOR. IF YOU SUPPORT OBAMA, IF YOU SUPPORT THE U.N., IF YOU SUPPORT ANYTHING TO DO WITH EITHER ONE, THEN YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A TRAITOR TO THIS NATION. |
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3 Hey DUMBASS....there is a video of the guy saying it himself. Get a clue you friggin moron. All you can do is attack the source, ignore the FACT that there is a video of White House’s national economic council Gary Sperling saying it himself, and make a douchebag out of yourself with your left wing drivel insults. Do you really think that covers up what the guy said? Do you really think it changes anything? All you do is prove that you are a brain dead, ignorant, fool who isn't capable of anything other then talking shit...which is what an a**hole does. |
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1 Irrational aren't you. You see this on a source that wasn't so political? You Repugs get all wrapped up in this inflammatory journalism and forget about the truth or asking yourself whether something like this could happen. |
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2 ROFLMAO!!! That's right, you can't argue, dispute, or contradict a video of the person saying it themself. All you can do is attack the website and attempt to insult me. It just proves how weak, how pathetic, and how ignorant you are. So...thank you for confirming that you are nothing but a fool. |
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2 I agree with you. Sites like that generate more hate and fear than anything of real value. It is sad that they have such influence on peoples decisions. |
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2 ROFLMAO!!! As always a left wing COMMIE puke tries to avoid addressing the fact that it is on video, which makes it impossible for anyone to dispute especially a weak minded fool like Seriously, while he continues to attack the source and the person who posted it. He proves that COMMIE PUKES are nothing but idiots full of hate and anger who will say whatever they have to in order to hide the truth about the people they support. This is what these America hating COMMIE PUKES do. They will attack any source they view as having a Conservative opinion. According to them they are all liars, despite the fact that they can back up what they say with facts. So these "Constitution loving, 1st amendment defending" pukes attempt to silence, discredit, slander, and flat out lie about anything and anyone who opposes them. It's all they can do, as they lack both the intelligence and ability to contradict or disprove anything through rational thought and well constructed arguments. When a person is on video saying something, it doesn't matter what site, what news source, or where it might have come from, video is video and video is solid proof. Seriously, Drunken (Not)Conservative, YDD, and the rest of these COMMIE PUKES here are nothing but weak minded, America hating, low life scumbags. They should all be tried, and shot, for treason. |
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2 SHITville you define Severe Conservative Syndrome...There is no cure...just look at how it has made you so sick and sooooo unhappy...it has destroyed your life...or any chance of one. SHITville what a SAD distrubed Nazaerene you are... Your life is nothing but darkness...SHITville some night at that truck stop on 1-7- you hustle...you know you're going to walk infront of a tractor trailer and finally into the LIGHT!!!! God Bless CHEERS |
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2 Such a good little trained LADYBOY. Maybe someday she might be able to come up with something new to say. But don't hold your breath, a rinse & repeat retard coming up with something new to say has about the same odds as being hit by lightning in an underground bunker. |
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1 President Barack Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget request for fiscal year 2013 breaks his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term and worsens the fiscal crisis, key Republican lawmakers said Monday. “His plan for America is throwing in the towel,” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, told reporters in a conference call after Obama announced his new plan.“The president has punted again; he’s failed to take any credible action.” “This is not a fiscal plan to save America … it’s a political plan for the president’s reelection,” Ryan said. Republicans called the budget a campaign document that increases the debt by another $1 trillion without a plan to reduce the $15 trillion deficit. “This budget is exceedingly deceptive and goes beyond anything I’ve ever seen before,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee said during the conference call. Obama’s budget promises billions of dollars in new stimulus spending, unprecedented levels of spending and new tax hikes. Obama wants nearly $2 trillion in new taxes, including $1.4 trillion in income taxes,$143 billion in additional inheritances or “death taxes,” and $340 billion in other tax revenue. “We built this budget around the idea that our country has always done best when everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules,” Obama said in his budget. “It rejects the ‘you’re on your own’ economics that have led to a widening gap between the richest and poorest Americans that undermines both our belief in equal opportunity and the engine of our economic growth. And countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run,” Obama said. According to an analysis released by the House and Senate Budget Committees, the president’s deficit reduction claims take credit for $2 trillion in savings already committed to under previous law and another $1 trillion in savings that was never even requested for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The budget panels said the plan would allow Social Security to go bankrupt because it failed to address reforms, and also imposes a 23 percent across-the-board cut on seniors. “The president’s budget is a gloomy reflection of his failed policies of the past, not a bold plan for America’s future. It is bad for job creation, our economy, and America’s seniors,” said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). Speaking on the Senate floor, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the president’s budget is “what a failure of leadership looks like.” “The truth is Democrats want to have it both ways. The president wants to be able to take his budget around the country to talk about the parts of it he thinks people will like. And Democrats in Congress want to be able to avoid a vote on it because it’s so damaging for job creation, seniors and the economy,” McConnell said. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) cited certain spending priorities as election year politicking by the White House, including $522 million for renewable energy programs,$45 billion to extend unemployment,$35 billion to create a universal dislocated workers program and $13 billion for a “pathways back to work” fund. Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) said that upon reviewing the budget, he found it hard to believe Obama is taking his fiscal duty seriously. “I sincerely wish the president would put new batteries in his calculator and realize that increased spending and stimulus will not lower our debt and deficit, nor will a faulty and mathematically unrealistic ‘Buffett Rule,’” Schweikert said. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php... HOW CAN OBAMA BE SO STUPID? SIMPLE...HES A COMMIE BENT ON DESTROYING THE AMERICAN DREAM. |
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2 President Obama is nothing if not an incorrigible spendaholic, as his new budget reconfirms in spades. While the nation drowns in debt, Obama wants to buy new expensive Tinkertoys to indulge his utopian fantasies. Legend has it that prior to embarking on his mission to conquer the known world, Alexander the Great, who had not yet established his greatness, visited the oracle at Delphi seeking a good omen. The oracle was actually a priestess who sat on a stool in the crypt of Apollo's Temple above a fissure in the earth that emitted vapors and put her into a trance, wherein she would channel messages from Apollo. Alexander encountered a minor problem when he arrived at Delphi: The oracle was only open for "business" one day a month, nine months a year, and it didn't happen to be open then. So Alexander went around the village, searching for the priestess. When he finally found her, he forced her to accompany him to the temple. Upon arriving at the temple, in his eagerness to receive the oracle, he was literally shoving her down the ramp toward the crypt when she turned abruptly toward him and exclaimed, "Boy, there's no resisting you." With that, Alexander took his hands off her, stepped back and said, with great satisfaction, "That's the only oracle I wanted to hear." This is precisely the attitude that possesses President Obama. He is hellbent on pursuing his agenda, and he will not be denied, even if he has to strong-arm the gods and flout the laws of finance and economics to get his way. While he has the entire nation horrified at our imminent national financial collapse, he chooses not to steer the ship of state, but to drive his putt-putt electric car with all the acumen and obliviousness of Mr. Magoo, smiling in self-satisfied delight as he careens through the streets of our national budget, imperiling everyone in sight. Obama resents having to deal with these nagging debt issues, as they interfere with his obsession to play with his new spending toys in his quest to redistribute, er, transform America into his image. He refuses even to make a good-faith effort to confront these problems, because he can't wean himself from his reckless addiction to profligacy and social planning. His 2010 budget projected a $1.2 trillion deficit and produced $1.3 trillion, and his 2011 budget gave us another $1.3 trillion deficit. Last year's budget was projected to generate a $1.1 trillion deficit, and preliminary data indicate that it will be worse when all the numbers are calculated. Obama complained when he was forced to compromise with Republicans in Congress on spending "cuts," which are actually merely reductions in the rate of increase, as we all continue to wallow in the anesthetic fictions of baseline budgeting. Nevertheless, he boasted that he had agreed to more than $4 trillion in cuts. So we should expect something at least marginally prudent this year, should we not, as we approach $16 trillion of national debt? Well, in a word, no. Obama has anything but frugality on his mind. Is he going to take advantage of the expected "savings" from winding down our military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the twin evils he and his liberal colleagues have blamed for much of the national debt? The answer, again, is no. Modern Democrats never use projected savings to reduce overall spending; they use them as an opportunity and excuse to spend more elsewhere. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php... ONLY A FOOL WHO HATES AMERICA WOULD CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OBAMA. |
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2 As physicians and Members of Congress we were deeply disappointed in President Obama’s new so-called “contraception mandate,” including his decision to coerce employers into providing coverage for medications that terminate human life. Legal experts say this ruling is a direct violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed into law by President Clinton in 1993. That law “prohibited government action that has the effect of substantially burdening religious practice.” To comply with the Administration’s latest ruling, religious-affiliated employers face three options: act against their religious beliefs and help terminate human life, drop all employees from health coverage, or exclude Americans of other faiths from employment or charitable services. The Obama administration cannot demonstrate a compelling government interest to justify this attack on freedom of speech and religion, so it refuses to do so. The new mandate will require employers to offer emergency contraception drugs with no copayment, including ulipristal acetate. Premium costs will increase, as will the total cost of ObamaCare as religious employers are forced to drop coverage for their employees, but the end result is even more troubling. Like RU486, ulipristal acetate or Ella, is a selective progesterone receptor modulator. By blocking progesterone receptors, it can destroy a pregnancy and prevent implantation of a human embryo. In 2010, the American Association of Pro Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists cited several studies documenting these effects in written comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. By pandering to groups who profit from abortion-on-demand, President Obama has even managed to alienate Americans who once supported his 2010 law. One Senate Democrat called the recent mandate “un-American.” Another former House Democrat mentioned the ruling as a reason she regretted voting for Obamacare. The President should reverse the ruling and respect religious freedoms enshrined in our First Amendment. Beyond this egregious mandate, Obamacare endangers human life in several ways, including the President’s new Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius insisted this panel may not “ration” seniors’ medical care, before admitting this word remains undefined in the law. She has not announced any plan to define the term in regulations. By slashing payments below costs, IPAB will delay or block seniors’ access to life-saving treatments. It’s time to repeal the 2010 health law, once and for all, and replace it with solutions that lower costs while protecting the lives of all Americans, and respecting First Amendment freedoms. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php... THE ONLY POSITIVE SIDE TO ABORTION? IT MEANS LESS FUTURE DEMOCRAT VOTERS. |
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2 President Obama’s wildly irresponsible budget proposal is remarkably punishing to economic growth, at a time when an economy weakened by years of Obamanomics is about to tumble into a shallow grave of 1.1 percent GDP growth. The President raises taxes on virtually every aspect of investment, from capital gains and dividends, to corporate taxes, and the personal income taxes of investors and business owners. If an enemy of America had been asked to design a weapon of economic sabotage to push the tottering U.S. economy into recession, they might have come up with something like the Obama budget. One of the predictable consequences of slapping nervous businessmen with confiscatory tax increases is that more operations will be moved overseas. There are plenty of places for a corporation to escape the grasp of a tax-hungry Obama Administration, since America already has among the highest corporate taxes in the developed world, and Obama wants to make them even higher. Some people criticize capital flight as unpatriotic, but there comes a point at which keeping investments within our borders is illogical. Well, the geniuses who brought you Solyndra and Cash for Clunkers have a solution to that problem: a global minimum tax that would cripple the rest of the industrialized world by raising their tax rates to Obama levels. Then nobody would have a reason to outsource or move their investments overseas. It’s so incredibly obvious! Why didn’t someone think of this sooner? Here’s Gene Sperling, Director of the White House National Economic Council, to lay it out for you: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php... AGAIN, THESE AMERICA HATING LIBERALS WON'T BE ABLE TO DISPUTE THE VIDEO EVIDENCE, SO THEY WILL DO THE ONLY THING THEY KNOW HOW TO DO, ATTACK THE SOURCE. |
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2 In his recently released deficit plan, President Obama lays out the “Buffett Rule”(named, of course, for Warren Buffett, the famous investor and supporter of Obama). The rule, as Obama defines it, is “that people making more than $1 million a year should not pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than middle-class families pay.” Obama’s clear inference, of course, is that this otherwise happens routinely; that the rich are shirking their citizenly duties while the middle class pays. Is this inference true? Or is it simply a political fiction, a straw man from which Obama hopes to make hay in 2012? The Tax Policy Center (TPC), a center-left joint-creation of the Brookings Institution and Urban Institute, publishes federal tax statistics by income group (see, here, here, here, and here). The essential funding source (at least from individuals) for most of the general functions of government — defense, roads, national parks, federal law enforcement, etc.— is the income tax. It is almost entirely through the income tax that individual citizens contribute financially to the day-to-day functions of their government. In 2010, according to the TPC, Americans in the lowest quintile of income-earners — the bottom 20 percent — paid minus-3.8 percent of the total federal income tax burden. In other words, they got more back, in income tax credits and the like, than they paid in. Similarly, those in the second quintile paid minus-4.3 percent of the total federal income tax burden — so they, too, weren’t paying into the income tax till but rather were taking out. Those in the middle quintile — pretty much the center of the middle class (this quintile had an average income of $44,000)— paid 3.9 percent of the total federal income tax burden (about $1 of every $25 dollars in income taxes paid nationwide). And those in the fourth quintile — whose income ranged from $58,000 to $102,000 — paid 15.1 percent of the total federal income tax burden. So, all told, the 80 percent of Americans whose income placed them in one of these first four quintiles of income-earners combined to pay 10.9 percent of the total federal income tax burden. Put otherwise, this 80 percent of the citizenry paid about $1 out of every $9 that was paid in federal income taxes nationwide. Meanwhile, Americans in the highest 0.1 percent of all income-earners — these are the very rich, with incomes of at least $1.974 million — paid 16.4 percent of the total federal tax burden. Essentially, one out of every $6 paid in federal income tax was paid by this 0.1 percent of the citizenry. In other words, the top 0.1 percent paid more toward the workings of government than the bottom 80 percent did. That’s despite the fact that the bottom 80 percent collectively made more than six times as much money as the top 0.1 percent did. On average, a given member of the top 0.1 percent paid $1.1 million in annual federal income tax —$1,147,616, to be more exact. That’s more than 1,000 times what the average person in the middle quintile paid ($1,017). Yes, the very rich made a lot more money — but not anywhere near 1,000 times as much. In fact, only 12 percent of this gap in income-tax payments is attributable to the gap in income between the two groups. The rest resulted from the very rich paying a much higher percentage of their income — more than 8 times as high — in income tax. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/top-01-pe... CLEARLY WHEN .1% OF OUR POPULATION IS PAYING MORE TAXES THEN 80% OF IT, SOMEONE ISN'T DOING THEIR FAIR SHARE. IF YOUR A COMMUNIST IT'S THE .1%, IF YOU ARE AN CAPITALIST IT'S THE 80% WHERE ALL THE WHINERS, COMPLAINERS, AND CRYBABIES COME FROM. |
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