From Politico -- January 4, 2010:
All travelers flying into the United States from foreign countries will receive tightened random screening, and 100 percent of passengers from seven terrorism-prone countries will be patted down and have their carry-ons searched, the Obama administration was notifying airlines on Sunday. The more stringent Transportation Security Administration rules, to take effect at midnight, follow the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner headed into Detroit from Amsterdam.
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JC, do you see that the crazys are bankrupting us? They're not doing it to us, we are doing it to ourselves. We need to grow up, especially the little scared cons.
Crazy cons, why worry so much about death? You're going to heaven aren't you?
BB, maybe we should turn the screenings and the patting downs over to BlackWater. We know how incompetent the government is. Especially when a con is running it. Thanks again w.
"BB, maybe we should turn the screenings and the patting downs over to BlackWater. We know how incompetent the government is. Especially when a con is running it. Thanks again w."
-Raygun
Why do you want to give government more control over your life??? You know the conservatives will be in power again soon. If you dont like conservatives, why are you giving them more power over your life???
Why not reduce government control and give the power back to the people?
"100 percent of passengers from seven terrorism-prone countries will be patted down and have their carry-ons searched"
-CJP
Why do liberals fight profiling so much but support these kinds of actions, whats the difference?
"Why not reduce government control and give the power back to the people?"
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BB, there are some things best left to government. A few things, not everything. Get over it.
BB this is for you;
Now if you're feelin' kinda low 'bout the dues you've been paying
Future's coming much too slow
And you wanna run but somehow you just keep on stayin'
Can't decide on which way to go
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I understand about indecision
But I don't care if I get behind
People livin' in competition
All I want is to have my peace of mind.
Now you're climbin' to the top of the company ladder
Hope it doesn't take too long
Can'tcha you see there'll come a day when it won't matter
Come a day when you'll be gone
I understand about indecision
But I don't care if I get behind
cOMON crazy cons:
Come a day when you'll be gone....
BB, do you get it???
One day you will be gone..
Do you hate reality:?
Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing stretching every nerve
Had to listen had no choice
I did not believe the information
(I) just had to trust imagination
My heart going boom boom boom
"Son," he said "Grab your things,
I've come to take you home."
To keep in silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went from day to day
Tho' my life was in a rut
"Till I thought of what I'd say
Which connection I should cut
I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" he said "Grab your things
I've come to take you home."
(Back home.)
When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me
Today I don't need a replacement
I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" I said "You can keep my things,
they've come to take me home."
BB, do you know how loud the music is?
Comon Case. Love...
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon
We are shakin' the tree
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon
We are shakin' the tree
Waiting your time, dreaming of a better life
Waiting your time, you;re more than just a wife
You don't have to do what your mother has done
She has done, this is your life, this new life has begun
It's your day, a woman's day
It's your day, a woman's day
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon
We are shakin' the tree
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon
We are shakin' the tree
Turning the tide, you are on the incoming wave
Turning the tide, you know you are nobody's slave
Find your sisters or brothers who can hear all the truth in what you say
They can support you when you're on your way
It's your day, a woman's day
It's your day, a woman's day
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon
We are shakin' the tree
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon
We are shakin' the tree
Changing your ways, changing those surrounding you
Changing your ways, more than any man can do
Open your heart, show him the anger and pain, so you heal
Maybe he's looking for his womanly side, let him feel
You had to be so strong
And you do nothing wrong, nothing wrong at all
We're gonna break it down
We're gonna shake it down, shake it all around
It's your day, a woman's day
You had to be so strong
And you do nothing wrong, nothing wrong at all
We're gonna break it down
We're gonna shake it down, shake it all around
Comon Case Its a womens day
When the night shows
the signals grow on radios
All the strange things
they come and go, as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There's no point in direction we cannot
even choose a side.
I took the old track
Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life
Cover me when I run
Cover me through the fire
Something knocked me out' the trees
Now I'm on my knees
Cover me, darling please
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know when you're going to shock the monkey
Fox the fox
Rat the rat
You can ape the ape
I know about that
There is one thing you must be sure of
I can't take any more
Darling, don't you monkey with the monkey
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey
Wheels keep turning
Something's burning
Don't like it but I guess I'm learning
Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Cover me, when I sleep
Cover me, when I breathe
You throw your pearls before the swine
Make the monkey blind
Cover me, darling please
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey
Too much at stake
Ground beneath me shake
And the news is breaking
Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey to life
do you know how loud the musici is???
Peter Gabriel
The time I like is the rush hour, cos I like the rush
The pushing of the people - I like it all so much
Such a mass of motion - do not know where it goes
I move with the movement and ... I have the touch
I'm waiting for ignition, I'm looking for a spark
Any chance collision and I light up in the dark
There you stand before me, all that fur and all that hair
Oh, do I dare ... I have the touch
Wanting contact
I'm wanting contact
I'm wanting contact with you
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Give me the thing I understand
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Any social occasion, it's hello, how do you do
All those introductions, I never miss my cue
BB
"Give me the thing I understand"
Give me a clue...
The Man Is Dead:...
"Biko"
September '77
Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In police room 619
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead
When I try to sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
With only one colour dead
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead
You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead
And the eyes of the world are
watching now
watching now
Drinkin' again, RG?
"BB, there are some things best left to government. A few things, not everything. Get over it."
-Raygun
Mail? Cell phones for the poor?
Do you support the power grab the federal government has been on? Why not allow local and state governments to control themselves?
Mail? Cell phones for the poor?
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Yes cell phones for the poor maybe is a little much.
Wait a second, I'm talking to a con, I better check the facts.
https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/benefits.aspx
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/the-obama-phone/
Wow, you almost had me BB. Now I see your outrage as the profits and salaries are being cut for the money mongering execs.
BB and other crazy cons, why not just raise the minimum wage to something like 10 per hour? Then cut the welfare programs.
Regulatory failure, not low interest rates, was responsible for the housing bubble and subsequent financial crisis of the last decade, Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said in a speech on Sunday.
Another con commandment proven as false their beloved trickle down delusion.
Brandon said...
"Why not reduce government control and give the power back to the people?"
Study up on France. The people have the power and the government is afraid of the people. That's why the people in France have everything they desire.
A smaller government doesn't necessarily work, only a SMARTER one and the cons are not among the smartest of people, just scared of government of any size.
You people need to take the power back that you all so merrily gave away to government and big business.
But then, people in debt don't dare open their mouths, don't they, they only can be scared by fear mongerers such as Limbaugh and his ilk.
"Study up on France."
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"Tale of Two Cities." To bad cons read very little.
I think the US has to go through one more iteration. Then the crazy cons will see.
"You people need to take the power back that you all so merrily gave away to government and big business."
-Anon2
If the liberals are so smart why dont they get the power back for the people??? Oh thats right the liberals are the ones giving our rights away!
My biggest complaint about Bush was the pariot act and I havent heard a wisper from Obama or any of you guys about repealing it!!!
"BB and other crazy cons, why not just raise the minimum wage to something like 10 per hour? Then cut the welfare programs."
-Raygun
Wow that sounds stupid!!! Raise the cost of living so then we have to raise the poverty level again. Why not allow employees to work more than 40+hrs per week without overtime pay?
Raygun
Why do you hate the poor?
"100 percent of passengers from seven terrorism-prone countries will be patted down and have their carry-ons searched"
-CJP
Why do liberals fight profiling so much but support these kinds of actions, whats the difference?
Brandon said...
"My biggest complaint about Bush was the pariot act and I havent heard a wisper from Obama or any of you guys about repealing it!!!"
Obama and his government are too busy with trying to repair what the cons did during the 8 years.
One thing did shine clearly thru while Dumbya was in power. "If you're against me you're unpatriotic/unAmerican/against America."
What a democracy that was!!!! lol
"Raygun, Why do you hate the poor?"
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Comon BB, we have the Chinese to do our slave factory labor now. Lets just pay the Chinamens .25 cents an hour (or who cares what they make) and pay our local citizens a working wage. What do you think?
"Obama and his government are too busy with trying to repair what the cons did during the 8 years.
-Anon2
I love how your liberals point the fingers and never own up to your mistakes. What did the conservatives screw up in the last 8yrs that was out of the liberals control?
One thing did shine clearly thru while Dumbya was in power. "If you're against me you're unpatriotic/unAmerican/against America."
What a democracy that was!!!! lol"
-Anon2
Thats almost as bad as having closed door meetings on health care!
"Comon BB, we have the Chinese to do our slave factory labor now. Lets just pay the Chinamens .25 cents an hour (or who cares what they make) and pay our local citizens a working wage. What do you think?"
-Raygun
I think you need to look at the big picture. The world needs ditch diggers!
What are those working wage families to do when they dont have a job because the only thing they are qualified to do is being done by the china man?
Raygun
Do you have any argument why everyone in this country should make time and half for working over 40hr/wk?
"I think you need to look at the big picture. The world needs ditch diggers!
What are those working wage families to do when they dont have a job because the only thing they are qualified to do is being done by the china man?"
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Hey, great thinkin BB, lets import some Chinamen, and pay them .25 per hour to dig our ditches. You're a business genius BB.
"Hey, great thinkin BB, lets import some Chinamen, and pay them .25 per hour to dig our ditches. You're a business genius BB."
-Raygun
You still havent answered my question, what are those unemployed families to do for an income?
Welfare?
"Welfare?"
-Raygun
I should have known you would end with welfare as your solution. So what you would like done, is raise min. wage and force the ditch diggers on welfare?
Can you give me a reason why everyone in America should be paid time and a half?
"So what you would like done, is raise min. wage and force the ditch diggers on welfare?"
No, I liked your idear about importing Chinamens to dig our ditches for .25 per hour.
"Can you give me a reason why everyone in America should be paid time and a half? "
BB, Im not paid time and a half. That's how the money grubbers got away with that rule; ie, don't pay per hour, pay per salaried worker. (Salaried workers don't get overtime pay).
Hows that BB? Just make everyone a salaried worker. Fk hourly pay.
You can raise the minimum wage to whatever you want. It only makes the prices go up to pay for the increase!
Notice the highest drop out rate, poverty rate, and crime rates are in the most liberal sections of the populations? Yes, those liberals REALLY care about the poor!
"BB, Im not paid time and a half. That's how the money grubbers got away with that rule; ie, don't pay per hour, pay per salaried worker. (Salaried workers don't get overtime pay)."
-Raygun
You still didnt answer my question? Why should Americans get paid time and a half for working over 40hrs/wk?
Salary pay doesnt work for low income earners, where is the incentive to work? People will bust their butts to make sure they dont lose a 100k/yr salary job.
"No, I liked your idear about importing Chinamens to dig our ditches for .25 per hour."
-Raygun
You cant import the chinaman for 25 cents/hr, you would have to pay him/her min. wage.
Raygun
Would you feel sorry for someone if they claimed they didnt earn enough money, yet they had the option to work more hrs each week?
Why wont you let Americans work and earn a living?
"People will bust their butts to make sure they dont lose a 100k/yr salary job."
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BB,...
Go read Tale of Two Cities... Plz. Great disparity of fortunes, ... It always causes problems.
"You can raise the minimum wage to whatever you want. It only makes the prices go up to pay for the increase! "
-Casey
In case you havent noticed Raygun is living in liberal la la land.
"It only makes the prices go up to pay for the increase"
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You nuts. Where is the inflation? I don't smell the inflation. (Although I am heavily invested in inflation linked bonds, which did quite well last year(and gold)).
Ironic, eh?
"You nuts. Where is the inflation? I don't smell the inflation. (Although I am heavily invested in inflation linked bonds, which did quite well last year(and gold))."
-Raygun
She isnt talking about inflation.
They never address the issue that I think is very telling, and that is: why are the worst areas in the US the areas that are run by liberal Democrats? They never have an answer with that one
California???
Ok crazy cons... where do I begin...
Ok, have you all ever seen the show "The Wire"?
"BB, Im not paid time and a half. That's how the money grubbers got away with that rule; ie, don't pay per hour, pay per salaried worker. (Salaried workers don't get overtime pay)."
-Raygun
You still didnt answer my question? Why should Americans get paid time and a half for working over 40hrs/wk?
"You still didnt answer my question? Why should Americans get paid time and a half for working over 40hrs/wk? "
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To prevent exploitation.
BB, you ever read "The Jungle", by Upton Sinclaire? Go look it up.
"To prevent exploitation."
-Raygun
Thats the best you can come up with? How would you exploite people by not paying time and half?
Crazy Casey, have you ever watched "The Wire"?
"Thats the best you can come up with? How would you exploite people by not paying time and half?"
Please read "The Jungle", by Upton Sinclaire? Go look it up.
It shows how the laws came to be.
"It shows how the laws came to be."
-Raygun
Why dont you tell me why we NEED those laws?
"Why dont you tell me why we NEED those laws? "
To prevent worker exploitation.
"To prevent worker exploitation."
-Raygun
How would workers be exploited? You still get paid for the hours you work and if people can work 50+hrs per week, this would be a good thing for the poor!
You crazy cons. Please watch "The Wire", preferably on NetFlix as no commercials (I hate the money grubbers commercials). Time Magazine considers it the best series of the decade, and I agree. There is some really, really, really good writing there. It's funny, it's profound. It's ironic. You probably won't get it :-)
"Mad Men" is a close second in my book.
RG watching "The Wire" is not going to explain this. Sorry. Explain to me why, Detroit, Camden, Cleaveland, Baltimore, etc (all liberal run cities) are so poor, crime filled, and have the highest drop out rates?
"...money grubbers..."
-Raygun
You really seem to hate the "money grubbers", but arent you one?
"To prevent worker exploitation."
-Raygun
How would workers be exploited? You still get paid for the hours you work and if people can work 50+hrs per week, this would be a good thing for the poor!
"How would workers be exploited?"
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Ok BB, the good workers would be worked until their worthless. Then the money grubbers would move on. Do you get it?
"You really seem to hate the "money grubbers", but arent you one?"
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BB, all I want is a comfy life, then be done with it. I have a comfy life, and its all I need.
I would like to write a huge best selling novel, but not for the money.
""How would workers be exploited?"
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Ok BB, the good workers would be worked until their worthless. Then the money grubbers would move on. Do you get it?"
-Raygun
BULL SHIT!!! Good workers are paid what they are worth to a company.
If that were true, why arent salary employees worked 168hr/wk? Its because your full of shit!
CC, the wire is one of the best written shows ever. And it hints at exactly what we are all talking about.
"BB, all I want is a comfy life, then be done with it. I have a comfy life, and its all I need."
-Raygun
Sorry but I think you earn to much money you will have to pay all of your income to uncle sam from now on!
"Sorry but I think you earn to much money you will have to pay all of your income to uncle sam from now on! "
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BB, JC, did you see that Washington wants to raise taxes rather than cut spending? Tim Eymen may be getting a donation from me. The state wants to raise sin taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes. Our state sucks.
BB, I have so many fed deductions, I really don't pay that much. They give me incentive to spend on equipment, which I do.
"BB, JC, did you see that Washington wants to raise taxes rather than cut spending? Tim Eymen may be getting a donation from me. The state wants to raise sin taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes. Our state sucks."
-Raygun
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??? THAT IS THE LIBERAL WAY RAISE TAXES AND INCREASE SPENDING!!!
"BB, I have so many fed deductions, I really don't pay that much. They give me incentive to spend on equipment, which I do."
-Raygun
Buisness expenses are not income!
I think I have told u 1000 times, I am not a liberal. I am a progressive. I am an independent.
"BB, JC, did you see that Washington wants to raise taxes rather than cut spending? Tim Eymen may be getting a donation from me. The state wants to raise sin taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes. Our state sucks."
-Raygun
I cant believe this is really Raygun speaking! Liberals hate Tim Eymen, that is why they lied about I-1033.
BB, JC, did you see that Washington wants to raise taxes rather than cut spending? Tim Eymen may be getting a donation from me. The state wants to raise sin taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes. Our state sucks.---RG
Isn't Washinton State a BLUE STATE?
That is exactly what we are saying RG. We need to cut spending---not raise taxes. That goes for the feds, too.
Come over to the "dark side" RG...You would be happier. The truth is always better.
"I think I have told u 1000 times, I am not a liberal. I am a progressive. I am an independent."
-Raygun
Walks like a duck, talks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck!
"Buisness expenses are not income!"
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BB, everything in life, pretty much, that I want to do, I can claim as a biz expense. And its all legal. Plus there's a thing called disbursement... BB, I am a petty level money grubber, the pros have some really good loopholes.
"Isn't Washinton State a BLUE STATE?"
-Casey
Only because of the over populated, liberal breeding, poluting shit hole of King county!
"Only because of the over populated, liberal breeding, poluting shit hole of King county! "
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JFC, you crack me up.
"BB, everything in life, pretty much, that I want to do, I can claim as a biz expense."
-Raygun
Thats fine but buisness expenses and personal income are different! So whats your personal income? or realized income?
"Come over to the "dark side" RG...You would be happier. The truth is always better. "
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Sweetums, and not so sweet BB, I think we should cut state and fed employee pay and benefits. Does that make you happy?
""How would workers be exploited?"
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Ok BB, the good workers would be worked until their worthless. Then the money grubbers would move on. Do you get it?"
-Raygun
BULL SHIT!!! Good workers are paid what they are worth to a company.
If that were true, why arent salary employees worked 168hr/wk? Its because your full of shit!
Your finally making some sense!
Lower min. wage
Cut fed spending
Cut state spending
Lower taxes
Remove time and half requirements
Term limits
Fair Tax - No more IRS
"If that were true, why arent salary employees worked 168hr/wk? Its because your full of shit! "
BB..., ok, one my mom hates.., "Stuffs complicated"
"BB..., ok, one my mom hates.., "Stuffs complicated""
-Raygun
Doesnt that really mean you dont know and have run out of BS?
"Doesnt that really mean you dont know and have run out of BS"
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Comon BB, watch "the wire". It will really explain a lot of what I am trying to say. It's hard to put into words.
Please watch it without the silly commercials.
It is really, really, good. I am sure you will like it. Unless it's way over your head :-) My main client loves it also, and he is a con. Again, I am a progressive.
You should listen to your mother Rg. Mothers are so right.
Brando, RG isn't as liberal as he thinks he is. He has just had some very conservative lines of thought.
(and I agree, the fair tax is the way to go)
Sorry. Brandon---I called you Brando. Forgot the 'N'.
Raygun
Wouldnt you agree it would be a good thing to allow poor people the option of working longer hours to earn more?
"Sorry. Brandon---I called you Brando. Forgot the 'N'."
-Casey
Its ok, I have been called worse by liberals when you back them into a corner with their silly logic.
"Raygun
Wouldnt you agree it would be a good thing to allow poor people the option of working longer hours to earn more? "
Get a second job.
Do you get frustrated, Brandon? They all seem to use the same lack of logic.
The very BEST is that they are throwing out all kinds of things in the case against the terrorist that they decided would be better to try in a civil court! Didn't we all see that coming?
"Raygun
Wouldnt you agree it would be a good thing to allow poor people the option of working longer hours to earn more? "
"Get a second job."
-Raygun
Back to my other question, why do you hate the poor? Working two part time jobs is alot harder than working one job with a 50hrs/wk option.
"Do you get frustrated, Brandon? They all seem to use the same lack of logic."
-Casey
It amazes me how hard it is to get them to admit their reps are wrong! I will admit Bush did alot of things I didnt like.
"Working two part time jobs is alot harder than working one job with a 50hrs/wk option."
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Comon BB, it's a slippery slope.
""Working two part time jobs is alot harder than working one job with a 50hrs/wk option."
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Comon BB, it's a slippery slope."
-Raygun
No its not, work hard and you WILL get ahead!
"I will admit Bush did alot of things I didnt like. "
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BB, I will admit (If I didn't know how smart Obama was) I would disagree with some things Obama is doing. But he was left with one Fked up world, so I say let him be, for the time being.
"No its not, work hard and you WILL get ahead! "
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BB, I am begging you, watch "The Wire", at least 5 episodes. The show talks about what we all talk about here, but in euphemisms. It's funny, its coarse, its ironic, and it has some boobies flashing around.
Case Sweetums, don't be scared about terrorists, I will protect you.
"...I would disagree with some things Obama is doing."
-Raygun
What is your biggest complaint?
"Case Sweetums, don't be scared about terrorists, I will protect you."
-Raygun
I wouldnt worry about Casey, she is a conservative and capable to taking care of herself!
BB, I will admit (If I didn't know how smart Obama was) I would disagree with some things Obama is doing. ---Rg
I keep hearing that! How do you know that Obama is "so smart"? He is doing alot of really stupid things, RG.
Case Sweetums, don't be scared about terrorists, I will protect you.--Rg
RG, you are too cute (even if you are a misguided liberal progressive)
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton first announced on Oct. 14 that the U.S. had changed its stance and would support negotiations of an Arms Trade Treaty to regulate international gun trafficking, a measure the Bush administration and, notably, former Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations John Bolton opposed for years.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=116041
"What is your biggest complaint?"
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Great question.
Hmm, maybe Obama should be spending way more on stimulus. And maybe cutting the war spending. And not endorsing a UN resolution on religious BS.
"Hmm, maybe Obama should be spending way more on stimulus"
-Raygun
Why dont you donate your income to stimulus? The feds are broke so give them your money! Where would they spend the money you couldnt?
"How do you know that Obama is "so smart"?"
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Cuz I listen to his words.
Please watch "The Wire".
Why do you hate conservatives so much? Why aren you pissed off about the shaky deals being made in congress to buy votes with our tax dollars?
Why do we allow congress to pass legislation that treats states diffently?
Please Raygun listen to Dave Ramsey, read the total money make over and the millionaire next door.
Or maybe the richest man in babylon?
town hall for hope
-Dave Ramsey
http://www.hulu.com/watch/74840/the-dave-ramsey-show-fri-may-2-2009
"Why aren you pissed off about the shaky deals being made in congress to buy votes with our tax dollars? "
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Cuz BB, I want health care past. I don't care what it costs.
"Cuz BB, I want health care past. I don't care what it costs."
-Raygun
Do you realize how dumb that sounds? Go buy health insurance from a private company if you dont care how much it cost!
"Or maybe the richest man in babylon?"
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BB, I am totally comfortable. I don't need Bill Gates riches. I get life.
By David Olmos
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aHoYSI84VdL0
Read the book and then you would understand life!
"Go buy health insurance"
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BB, I don't trust health insurance companies. Why would any sane person trust a for profit health insurance organization?
Raygun-
Multiply your age by your gross annual income from all sources except inheritances. Divide this by ten. This, less any inherited wealth is what your net worth (excluding home equity) should be.
-Millionaire next door
"Big is bad' catches on in Congress"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31148.html
I agree.
"BB, I don't trust health insurance companies. Why would any sane person trust a for profit health insurance organization?"
-Raygun
Then why in the hell would you trust the FOR PROFIT government?
"then why in the hell would you trust the FOR PROFIT government? "
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Comon BB, the gov may be inefficient, but the gov is not out to make a profit.
JC BB, some things are best left to the gov. Mail, defense, fire fighting, police, health care, maybe higher education (I personally think so), there are many I am probably forgetting.
"Comon BB, the gov may be inefficient, but the gov is not out to make a profit."
-Raygun
Yes they are, the problem is they spend to much and pay themselves to much. A non profit would never survive on a government balance sheet!
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
-Milton Friedman
"they spend to much and pay themselves to much."
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I agree BB, the gov has to cut pay. They are making way more than they should, considering the times.
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
-Milton Friedman
"I agree BB, the gov has to cut pay. They are making way more than they should, considering the times."
-Raygun
Then why dont we do something about it???
Why does that bug you when your fine with shady deals in congress?
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
-Milton Friedman
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
-Milton Friedman
"How do you know that Obama is "so smart"?"
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Cuz I listen to his words.---RG
You are aware that Obama doesn't write his own speeches, right?
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
-Milton Friedman
I like this one, seems like the only thing government does is undoing what the previous administration has done.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
-Milton Friedman
"You are aware that Obama doesn't write his own speeches, right? "
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Darlin, he is a word smith. He is a really smart guy. Thats why you cons equate him to You Know Who.
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
-Milton Friedman
This is the one that most socialist pigs seem to forget!!!
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
-Milton Friedman
Can you say the liberals?
Raygun
You should read Money Mischief - Milton Friedman
"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. "
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Comon BB, there is some great truth to the above statement.
But if the benefit of one party is to only live, and to the other party to only be more comfortable, then the benefits are not really equal, are they?
Crazy Cons, please watch "The Wire". It will surprise you in many ways. It is one of the best written shows of the last decade. Stick with it for just a little bit. It's that good.
Darlin, he is a word smith. He is a really smart guy. Thats why you cons equate him to You Know Who.---RG.
Oh NO WE DON'T! What are you trying to do, make my head explode??? YOU guys think he is the second coming! WE make fun of the way you all swoon! He may be smart. That is what worries me. Why would a smart person do so many STUPID things and appoint so many inept people?
"WE make fun of the way you all swoon!"
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Lets kneel down and pray sweet Casums. But before we do that, to purify ourselves, lets strip off all our clothes, send pictures out to all concerned, then regret our sins :-)
RG, you couldn't handle it. LOL. I promise you that. LOL.
""The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. "
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Comon BB, there is some great truth to the above statement.
But if the benefit of one party is to only live, and to the other party to only be more comfortable, then the benefits are not really equal, are they?"
-Raygun
Yes??? I give you food and you give me money for my new car. Thats fair, I got what I wanted and you got what you wanted. Capitalism!
70s engergy crisis
-Market crashed about 50%
-Took 60 months to recover
-Inflation 11%
-Gas lines
-Unemployment spiked at about 9%
Was Obama lying when he told us we were in the worse recession since the great depression?
The average CEO of a large U.S. company made roughly $10.8 million last year, or 364 times that of U.S. full-time and part-time workers, who made an average of $29,544, according to a joint analysis released Wednesday by the liberal Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy.
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They earn it BB. That book cooking crap is hard complicated work.
Smartnin Pills
Man those crafty execs found some pills that made them extra smart. Looks like dem pills started losing their potency around the year 2000 though. Thats the same year those crafty devils stock pyramid came tumbling down. And 2008-2009 is the year when their next pyramid came down. Damn, if only I could git some of them pills.
"The average CEO of a large U.S. company made roughly $10.8 million last year, or 364 times that of U.S. full-time and part-time workers,"
-Raygun
What does the average pro athlete make in a year? These CEOs are the best of the best and that is why they are paid 10 million/yr.
"These CEOs are the best of the best and that is why they are paid 10 million/yr"
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Other country CEOs make a tenth what ours makes. Plus ours sure seem to get caught cheating a lot.
"Other country CEOs make a tenth what ours makes. Plus ours sure seem to get caught cheating a lot."
-Raygun
I also wouldnt want to live in any of those countries. Why dont you and the rest of your liberal friends move to those countries and leave America alone?
Why don't you cons move to Texass and tell each other what to do down in that hell hole. You can destroy Texass, and we'll send you foreign aid.
70s engergy crisis
-Market crashed about 50%
-Took 60 months to recover
-Inflation 11%
-Gas lines
-Unemployment spiked at about 9%
Was Obama lying when he told us we were in the worse recession since the great depression?
"Was Obama lying when he told us we were in the worse recession since the great depression? "
Uh, maybe because bankruptcy's are hitting record levels. Maybe because one in seven people today are on food stamps. Maybe because our wages have been declining the last decade.
You cons have had your way the last decade, and here we are.
"Why dont you and the rest of your liberal friends move to those countries and leave America alone? "
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BB, sorry if you are having a hard time. Maybe go join the military. They will pay for all your college upon survival. That's huge.
"Uh, maybe because bankruptcy's are hitting record levels."
-Raygun
Americans are using debt more and more each year, thus more bankruptcys!
"Maybe because one in seven people today are on food stamps."
-Raygun
States are offering more and more social programs for American, thus people are using these social programs.
"Maybe because our wages have been declining the last decade."
-Raygun
Where is your source on this one?
"Maybe go join the military. "
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But BB, you will likely hate the military, as you hate being told what to do. You want to see communism in action, go join the military.
The Air Force is really hard to get into, but give it a shot. You get into the Air Force (4 years) and it's not as bad as the others.
"Maybe because our wages have been declining the last decade."
-Raygun
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Just type in the "Lost Decade" and read.
"But BB, you will likely hate the military, as you hate being told what to do."
-Raygun
I dont mind being told what to do when I volunteer. My boss tell me what to do all the time and it doesnt bother me because I didnt have to get a job there.
"Just type in the "Lost Decade" and read."
-Raygun
Doesnt that refer to Japan???
"I dont mind being told what to do when I volunteer. "
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But once you volunteer, they own you. War time maybe different.
I hated my 10 years in the USAF.
Case Sweetums, I really enjoyed the pics. Thank you very much, I will treasure them.
"But once you volunteer, they own you. War time maybe different.
I hated my 10 years in the USAF."
-Raygun
Wasn't that your own dumb fault?
Where is your source on the declining wages???
BB, I hate being told what to do. Thats why cons drive me so crazy, with their fking religious crap.
I am having problems finding anything on it declining. I think you might be looking at adjusted charts(inflation)
"BB, I hate being told what to do. Thats why cons drive me so crazy, with their fking religious crap."
-Raygun
What have conservatives told you you couldnt do besides killing babies?
"Wasn't that your own dumb fault? "
Yeppers. Wanted to get to Alaska to hunt and fish, which I did for 7 years.
But in the end it paid for 5.5 years of college, which changed my life.
"What have conservatives told you you couldnt do besides killing babies?"
No homos.
No drugs.
No sex.
No prostitution.
No pleasure of any kind unless it involves spending money :-)
The Big Zero
Time magazine also had a huge article on this.
Time magazine also had a huge article on this
-Raygun
Your mistaking the inflation! Inflation is the fault of government spending to damn much.
"What have conservatives told you you couldnt do besides killing babies?"
No homos.
-Sorry I will agree with this one, it does seem to a conservative value
No drugs.
-This is mutual among liberals and conservatives.
No sex.
-This is just stupid
No prostitution.
-Also just stupid
No pleasure of any kind unless it involves spending money :-)
-Again stupid
So I guess the only thing conservatives are telling you cant do is marry your boyfriend, I am sorry and we should join sides and fight for your freedom!
Comon BB, I not calling you retarded, but what did w accomplish? He had his way. He did exactly what you crazy cons say we should be doing now. What am I missing?
"Was Obama lying when he told us we were in the worse recession since the great depression? "
Uh, maybe because bankruptcy's are hitting record levels. Maybe because one in seven people today are on food stamps. Maybe because our wages have been declining the last decade.
You cons have had your way the last decade, and here we are.
-Raygun
Why do you forget that liberals were in congress during the last decade! Why dont you grow up and take some responsibility for your actions?
"Comon BB, I not calling you retarded, but what did w accomplish? He had his way. He did exactly what you crazy cons say we should be doing now. What am I missing?"
-Raygun
W didnt accomplish much! But that doesnt mean you can blame your short comings on him! It sure has been a long time since I have heard democrats pushing to pay down debt.
"No drugs.
-This is mutual among liberals and conservatives."
BB, you idget. RayGun started the whole fking "war on drugs". And you cons are the ones that are tough on crime.
Obama said the feds will no longer prosecute for marijuana. Its basically legal now in Calif and soon will be in WA. What cave do you live in?
Palin that stupid ... is the one preaching abstinence. JHC BB, join the real world. Get away from Faux News.
"Why do you forget that liberals were in congress during the last decade!"
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JHC BB, the gd tax cuts for the rich. The GD deregulation of just about everything. The GD wars, you cons love so much. w had his way, and his way is BS. I dont care if the libs helped him or not. He got his way, and here we are.
Obama said the feds will no longer prosecute for marijuana. Its basically legal now in Calif and soon will be in WA. What cave do you live in?
-Raygun
I dont see obama passing legislation to legalize pot!
Palin that stupid ... is the one preaching abstinence. JHC BB, join the real world. Get away from Faux News.
-Raygun
Palin isnt passing legislation to ban sex! Palin is a christian and christians tend to believe in abstinence. So how is she forcing her will on you???
"JHC BB, the gd tax cuts for the rich. The GD deregulation of just about everything. The GD wars, you cons love so much. w had his way, and his way is BS. I dont care if the libs helped him or not. He got his way, and here we are."
-Raygun
Bush didnt get his way, conservatives tried to regulate the lending industry but the liberals shot it down. They said it would hurt the poor. Fk the liberals and their bleeding hearts!
"JHC BB, the gd tax cuts for the rich."
-Raygun
Wow are you talking about the 5% cut on federal withholding?
"Palin isnt passing legislation to ban sex! "
JFC BB, look at your stupid leaders right now. Palin, Bachman, Beck, Huckabee, the fking mormon guy in Salt Lake. These are your GD leaders.
"JHC BB, the gd tax cuts for the rich."
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Am I from Mars, are you from Venus? JHC. w raised the debt in this country by 5.5 trillion dollars. Mainly by massive tax cuts to the top 1 percent of wage earners, with the stupid fking belief that it would trickle down to us peons. It didn't work BB. Again.
"JFC BB, look at your stupid leaders right now. Palin, Bachman, Beck, Huckabee, the fking mormon guy in Salt Lake. These are your GD leaders."
-Raygun
Are you fucking stupid??? Obama, Pelosi and Hilary are the leaders! They have the power and they are controling this train wreck of a country. Why does the majority of Americans oppose the health care bill yet they are still going to pass it? Why does the majority of Americans think were heading our country in the wrong direction?
Our real problem is voters dont have any good choices, TERM LIMIT!!!
"Am I from Mars, are you from Venus? JHC. w raised the debt in this country by 5.5 trillion dollars. Mainly by massive tax cuts to the top 1 percent of wage earners, with the stupid fking belief that it would trickle down to us peons. It didn't work BB. Again."
-Raygun
Its more like 4.9 Trillion, which would be about 612 billion each year. Obama has already beat that with about 1 trillion every single year!
Obama and Hillary are two of the smartest politicians around (I dont pay much attention to Pelosi so maybe shes good also?).
Are you comparing Obama and Hillary to Palin and Bachman? JHC BB, you better go say a prayer for you mind.
Are you comparing Obama and Hillary to Palin and Bachman? JHC BB, you better go say a prayer for you mind.
-Raygun
No I am saying Hillary and Obama have control over this country and still Americans dont like what is being done, but they dont care because they are going to do it anyway!
"Obama has already beat that with about 1 trillion every single year! "
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BB, your beloved lack of regulation has forced this whole problem that Obama is facing now.
BB, your beloved lack of regulation has forced this whole problem that Obama is facing now.
-Raygun
Bull SHIT!!! What has Obama done to solve this problem, stimulus???
The stimulus is a drop in the bucket and our federal government couldnt afford the amount it would really take to jump start the economy. So what has really caused the rebound? Nothing! It was just time for the economy to start recovering.
Your fked up bankers are the cause of our problems. And the reason they got away with what they did was lack of regulations.
"Your fked up bankers are the cause of our problems. And the reason they got away with what they did was lack of regulations."
-Raygun
Your partially right but what about the sub prime loans? Should we ban sub prime loans?
Raygun-
How does it make you feel that your worthless leaders couldnt even read the stimulus bill?
$18 million spent on the recovery.gov website!
32% of the stimulus has been paid out, so why couldnt they read it?
What caused the economy to turn around? The stimulus is just a joke and couldnt be the reason for its recovery!
source:
http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx
Did funding billions into medicare and medcaid solve our economic problems???
Raygun
Open your eyes, your leaders are idiots and corrupt!
"Open your eyes, your leaders are idiots and corrupt! "
BB, you live in a delusional world, led by people who believe in imaginary beings. Look at your leaders, and they're all religious nuts.
Case sweety, are you out screwing around on me?
"BB, you live in a delusional world, led by people who believe in imaginary beings. Look at your leaders, and they're all religious nuts."
-Raygun
Your not going to contest that your leaders are idiots or corrupt? I am glad to see your finally coming around and understanding that Obama, Hillary and etc are only concerned about themselves.
"Obama, Hillary and etc are only concerned about themselves. "
At least they are not stupid and concerned only about themselves.
Comon BB, your cons leaders love money above all else.
At least they are not stupid and concerned only about themselves.
Comon BB, your cons leaders love money above all else.
-Raygun
Yes, that is why they go to church and donate their time and money to help others. Common is that the best load of crap you can come up with?
"Yes, that is why they go to church and donate their time and money to help others"
Yes BB help others, and tell others what to do (Gods will). Comon BB, all that help comes with a price.
So BB, are you going to join the military?
"So BB, are you going to join the military?"
-Raygun
No, I dont need to join and the military doesnt have a shortage of soldiers.
Yes BB help others, and tell others what to do (Gods will). Comon BB, all that help comes with a price.
-Raygun
Help others and tell you you cant marry another man. While democrats only help themselves and shit on others who work hard!
Really BB, watch the wire. Up is down and left is right. It's a fked up crazy world.
Case Sweetums, I really enjoyed the pics. Thank you very much, I will treasure them.---Rg
Case sweety, are you out screwing around on me?---RG
You should know better than that! You should know that you--and only you have my conservative, Christian heart! Glad you liked the pics! (that gotta keep 'em guessing)LOL
RG---and this is for you! Can't you see that we are saying the same things, only in different ways? Both sides suck! the dems and the republicans suck BAD! We need fresh blood. We need term limits! We need new people! come to the "dark side" Be a Libertarian! The freedom will refreshing! You will love the feeling! (Don't you kinda think John Stossel is cool?)
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