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that is not funny. The next thing I will give up will be my car. Last bit of freedom, but the most expensive.
I won't give up the internet, it is the only way I can leave home and contact family/friends.
If I were not on assistance/Medicare, etc. I wouldn't be able to afford what meds I take and most likely one of the
homeless.........well, maybe not. I think??Family would take me...........good thing I don't want a lot.....AND that I trust
My Father, God, to provide for me..........and HE does.............without Him, I would give up!
It isn't supposed to be funny, Judy. It is 'What's Happening' in this sad state of America today.
You, as a senior deserve your entitlements, as do I. Don't feel bad about it. We paid our dues.
There are piles of freeloaders out there that are riding Obama's FREEdom train that should not
be on it, tho'.
Here is another one that pertains to the sad state of affairs... Its Whats Happening Today!
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and this one:
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Mitt Romney has a tough time getting the GOP to chase him:
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The New Church Lady:
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Romney Dog
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Political Science
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"I don't want to live in a deadbeat nation. I want to be free to live my own life. I don't want to be a slave to big government. I don't want to pay for others mistakes - especially government's. I don't want to pay to keep democrats (or republicans) in power. I want the government to get the heck out of my life - they are only making things worse. We need the health insurance we have now, but we will lose it when Obamacare kicks in because our insurance company will not be able to compete with a government that can repeatedly raid the tax payer, print money, or borrow money from China or Japan whenever they need some more. Our government thinks they are too big to fail but they are wrong. When they do fail it will be with the democrats in power. It will be utter chaos while the democrats try to build things back up in their own way - but marxism-socialism has never worked anywhere it's been tried.
The question is - does our country need taxpayers? If nobody is working there will be no taxpayers. If their becomes no incentive to succeed - who would work to succeed? It's been said many times and its true - eventually socialist run out of other people's money - then what? Bankruptcy - that's what."
The Preppers:
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Uterus Inc.:
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Snooki Pregnant:
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You know what Warph, just like your demi-god Limbaugh lost a bunch of advertisers over this, you just lost any respect you had from me and several others that thought you weren't quite that anti-women's rights.
Quote from: evanstrail on March 06, 2012, 03:35:12 PM
You know what Warph, just like your demi-god Limbaugh lost a bunch of advertisers over this, you just lost any respect you had from me and several others that thought you weren't quite that anti-women's rights.
My "demi-god "Limbaugh ???" Where did I say that ??? No. I don't listen to him or read his silly thoughts and crap on politics. He sits very low on the toilet bowl as far as I'm concerned. As far as his advertisers, he could lose them all and not be hurt. He's completely supportive by Clear Channel.... they have his back. Doesn't really need advertisers. The man has apoligized for what he said but the far-left doesn't want to hear about it. Obuma doesn't want to hear about it.
Anti-women's rights ??? Give me a break! Do you have any idea what this is all about? Evidently not. This is NOT about womens rights. This IS a political ploy brought on by the hard far-left liberals in the Obuma Adm. Remember, he's running for re-election. It is a shame to drag in Womens Rights on this issue. This is dirty politics. Does Media Matters ring a bell ??? Daily Kos ??? LATimes ??? Huffington Post ??? ... can't get more Far-left then reading those rags. For a start, are you willing to PAY for her contraceptives ??? Are you willing to let the Catholic Church PAY for her contraceptives ??? I guess so. Why do you feel this way ??? Are you a Far-Left Liberal ??? Are you an athesist ??? What are you ??? ... just wondering.
What you probably don't know why I'm chastising this person is, I graduated from Georgetown U. back in the sixties and I know what the wierdo students at Georgetown Law School are... future ambulance chasers... far-left liberal government hopefuls (like Prof. Rosa Thomas) and most of all, more bi's and lesbians than you can shake a stick at.... and I'm sure it is ten times worse today. I'll let you know what the percentages are on my next reunion.
Don't have time for a spell check... gotta go drink a beer.
Maybe I'm a sick puppy Warph, but I thought it was funny. I aint calling the young lady the dreaded name Rush called her but I would call her what in the old days they called a promiscuous woman. If she spends 3 grand over 3 years for birth control that means she spends a grand per year--right ? If a condom costs one buck that means she doing "it" over two times a day. Now factor in the days she has a headache and her times of the month and ---holy moly---when does she find time to study for the bar exam ? ;D
Quote from: jarhead on March 06, 2012, 08:24:37 PM
Maybe I'm a sick puppy Warph, but I thought it was funny. I aint calling the young lady the dreaded name Rush called her but I would call her what in the old days they called a promiscuous woman. If she spends 3 grand over 3 years for birth control that means she spends a grand per year--right ? If a condom costs one buck that means she doing "it" over two times a day. Now factor in the days she has a headache and her times of the month and ---holy moly---when does she find time to study for the bar exam ? ;D
Sounds like someone is really getting screwed!
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Holy crap i don't think a triiple bag would work on her!
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Limbaugh and Our Phony Constraception Debate
A student demands that a Catholic school give up its religion to pay for her birth-control pills..""
By CATHY CLEAVER RUSE - Wall Street Journal
Last week Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown University Law Center, went to Congress looking for a handout. She wants free birth-control pills, and she wants the federal government to make her Catholic school give them to her.
I'm a graduate of Georgetown Law and former chief counsel of the House Subcommittee on the Constitution. Based on her testimony, I wonder how much Ms. Fluke really knows about the university or the Constitution.
As a law student 20 years ago, I wasn't confronted by crucifixes in the classroom or, in truth, by any religious imagery anywhere. In that respect the law school has a different "feel" than the university. (YEP... how true, how true! ...Warph) The law school chapel was an unadorned, multipurpose room in the basement used for Mass when it wasn't used for Gilbert and Sullivan Society rehearsals and club meetings. Among the clubs while I was there, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance was particularly vigorous. (I can definitely agree with that... Warph)
I was not Catholic when I attended Georgetown Law, but I certainly knew the university was. So did Ms. Fluke. She told the Washington Post that she chose Georgetown knowing specifically that the school did not cover drugs that run contrary to Catholic teaching in its student health plans. During her law school years she was a president of "Students for Reproductive Justice" and made it her mission to get the school to give up one of the last remnants of its Catholicism. Ms. Fluke is not the "everywoman" portrayed in the media.Georgetown Law School has flung wide its doors to the secular world. It will tolerate and accommodate all manner of clubs and activities that run contrary to fundamental Catholic beliefs. But it is not inclined to pay for or provide them. And it has the right to do so—to say "this far and no further."
When congressional committee counsels plan hearings, they look for two kinds of witnesses: "experts" and "victims." The experts are typically lawyers or law professors who can explain the constitutional authority for the new law and its legal impact, and the victims illustrate why the law is needed.
At the hearing of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee chaired by Nancy Pelosi, Sandra Fluke testified as a victim. Having to buy your own contraception is a burden, she said. She testified that all around her at Georgetown she could see the faces of students who were suffering because of Georgetown's refusal to abandon its Catholic principles.
Exactly what does the face of a law student who must buy her own birth-control pills look like? Did I see them all around me and just not know it? Do male law students who must buy their own condoms have the same look? Perhaps Ms. Fluke should have brought photos to Congress to illustrate her point.
In her testimony, Ms. Fluke claimed that, "Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school." That's $1,000 per year. But an employee at a Target pharmacy near the university told the Weekly Standard last week that one month's worth of generic oral contraceptives is $9 per month. "That's the price without insurance," the employee said. (It's also $9 per month at Wal-Mart.)
What about Rush Limbaugh? I won't defend his use of epithets (for which he's apologized), but I understand his larger point. At issue isn't inhalers for asthmatics or insulin for diabetics. Contraception isn't like other kinds of "health care." Yes, birth-control pills can be prescribed to address medical problems, though that's relatively rare and the Catholic Church has no quarrel with their use in this circumstance. And the university's insurance covers prescriptions in these cases.
Still, Ms. Fluke is not mollified. Why? Because at the end of the day this is not about coverage of a medical condition.
Ms. Fluke's crusade for reproductive justice is simply a demand that a Catholic institution pay for drugs that make it possible for her to have sex without getting pregnant. It's nothing grander or nobler than that. Georgetown's refusal to do so does not mean she has to have less sex, only that she has to take financial responsibility for it herself.
Should Ms. Fluke give up a cup or two of coffee at Starbucks each month to pay for her birth control, or should Georgetown give up its religion? Even a first-year law student should know where the Constitution comes down on that.
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Ms. Ruse, senior fellow for legal studies at the Family Research Council, received her J.D. from Georgetown Law in 1989.
A version of this article appeared Mar. 6, 2012, on page A19 in some U.S. editions of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Limbaugh and Our Phony Contraception Debate.
Obuma's telephone call to activist Sandra Fluke:
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Yikes!!!! Do you believe in reencarnation ??? :o :o
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Margaret Sanger (From Wikipedia):
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist. Sanger coined the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established Planned Parenthood. Sanger's efforts contributed to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case which legalized contraception in the United States. Sanger is a frequent target of criticism by opponents of the legalization of abortion, based primarily upon her racial views and support of eugenics, but she remains an iconic figure for the American reproductive rights movement.
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Yikes!!!! Do you believe in reencarnation ??? :o :o
Now that's just downright freakish!
SOSObuma doing his "Sult" shtick:
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SOSObuma hard at work on how to screw America:
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SOSObuma to Bibi:... "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies."
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SOSObuma doing his "Lucifer" shtick:
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Soildad O'brien as a child:
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There is no one on the CNN news rag that is MORE STUPID then Soildad. Soildad O'Brien is pro-Obama and pro-illegal immigration! She is no journalist by any means, but more of an racial activist that CNN uses to argue against the conservatives for ratings! Her pro-illegal immigration stance and racist views has been well-documented. I wouldn't doubt it that she's also a mouthpiece for La Raza! In my view, she is a bigot and a racist! She hasn't been able to use her "white side" for sensational means, so she turned to the "black side" of her despicable self.
More to come on this ...Warph!
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No doggie treat from Barack Obuma:
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This idiot that you call a President, talks a lot about raising taxes on "millionaires and billionaires," but most of the tax hikes he's mentioned fall on households making $250,000 per year or less. Even raising the very top rate, something Obuma has been pushing during his entire public life, would be a tax increase on small employers and families with taxable income of around $400,000 in 2013. This is known as trickle-down taxation at work, and it's coming to a middle income family near you.
...Warph
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You know... something just doesn't smell right here.
...Warph
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Soledad O'brien as a child:
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There is no one on the CNN news rag that is MORE STUPID then Soildad. Soildad O'Brien is pro-Obuma and pro-illegal immigration! She is no journalist by any means, but more of an racial activist that CNN uses to argue against the conservatives for ratings! Her pro-illegal immigration stance and racist views has been well-documented. I wouldn't doubt it that she's also a mouthpiece for La Raza! In my view, she is a bigot and a racist! She hasn't been able to use her "white side" for sensational means, so she turned to the "black side" of her despicable self.
More to come on this....Warph!
And here it is:
After Breitbart.com broke the story of Barack Obama's embrace – physically and intellectually – of "Critical Race Theory" crackpot Professor Derrick Bell, editor-in-chief Joel Pollak appeared in a remarkable interview on CNN.
Check this out:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/03/08/its_happening_cnn_already_freaking_out_about_new_media_vetting_president_obama
The whole thing is hilarious – you will never see a more clear-cut example of panicked liberals with no idea of what to say. One of them, Jay Thomas, couldn't think of anything better than witlessly suggesting that Pollak must be "frightened that black people are gonna do something to you."
Ah, racism. It's pretty much the only kind of argument the Left has. Merely quoting what people of color actually said is now "racist." As it happens, one of the most noteworthy things a black person has done to Joel Pollak is marry him.
The really amazing part comes early, when host Soledad O'Brien tries to jump down Pollak's throat and dismiss his description of Critical Race Theory. When Pollak politely asks her what she thinks it means, the result can best be described as a short-circuit. By the end, she's not even really "speaking" any more. She's just babbling random phrases like "academic theory" and "intersection," and she appears to be in physical pain.
The beginning of her brain lock is a line that should go down in the annals of journalistic malpractice: "I'm going to ask you to continue on. I'm just going to point out that that is inaccurate. Keep going." That's a perfect distillation of the arrogant ignorance that colors the media's desperate protection of liberal sacraments, and Barack Obama in particular. At no point does she come within a thousand miles of successfully challenging anything Pollak has said.
Nothing that O'Brien later complained about "someone talking in my ear, so I couldn't hear what you said" while Pollak was mopping her up, blogger Pinecone at Rebelpundit did a little detective work. He decided to Google "critical race theory," and discovered the first response is its Wikipedia entry. The first line of the Wikipedia text appears in the Google search result, and reads as follows: "Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an academic discipline focused upon the intersection of race, law, and power."
So, it seems likely that O'Brien's bizarre performance was a clueless TV talking head growing confused, as terrified behind-the-scenes aides realized she just challenged an informed, determined guest on a topic she does not understand at all. They hastily Googled the term and started reading the Wikipedia entry into her earpiece. Since Joel Pollak does understand what Critical Race Theory means, it didn't get her very far.
To add to the black comedy of the incident, when liberals realized O'Brien had been caught parroting lines from Wikipedia, they launched a desperate editing war to re-write the Wikipedia entry so it matched what O'Brien was trying to say. Pinecone provides an after-action report:
Throughout the day, there have been numerous edits to the wikipedia entry for "Critical Race Theory," including the elimination of "white supremacy" as a key element (an element referenced by Joel Pollak during his interview with Soledad O'Brien and the existence of which O'Brien scoffed at throughout their conversation). At the time of this update, there had been 26 changes today alone; up until today, the last edit had been mid-February, and before that, just one in January.
But wait, it gets even funnier. Jim Treacher of the Daily Caller dug up some Twitter messages from O'Brien's account, right after Professor Bell passed away in October 2011, and discovered she claimed to be a fan of his work. She even said she was going to re-read one of his books to honor his passing. It's interesting that she didn't make viewers aware of this during her encounter with Pollak, isn't it?
And yet, it's painfully clear from her disastrous encounter with Pollak that O'Brien doesn't understand the first thing about what Bell wrote and believed in. If she understood his work, but was aggressively seeking to sanitize it, she wouldn't have needed CNN aides screaming lines from Wikipedia into her ear, and she could have obfuscated more effectively. It still wouldn't have worked, as Pollak came prepared to cite the man chapter and verse, but she wouldn't have looked like a self-destructing robot that just lost an argument with Captain James T. Kirk.
This is what talking-head journalism is all about: uninformed actors and actresses reading lines fed to them by spin doctors. This is why public trust in the mainstream media is at an all-time low.
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Soledad O'Brien is such a phony. In April 2008, Reverend Jeremiah Wright gave a speech in Detroit to the NAACP. One of the things that he said in this speech was that black and white children learn with different parts of their brain, and then gave an "unflattering imitation of the way white pastors speak." People's comments were that he gave a racial speech. Soledad O'Brien, on CNN, was quoted as saying, in a gushing manner, that the speech was a "home run" and "really funny." When questioned about the things he said in the speech, she would say things like, what he really meant was... or what he wanted to say was... Once again she's covering the truth and being racist. Just as with the Henry Gates incident.
In an appearance on Anderson Cooper, the night or so before CNN's "The Moment of Truth" she appeared enraged that it was a racial profile against Gates. She said that she got calls from her FRIENDS saying it was all about Gates being black. She went on that show with the purpose, at all costs, to destroy the credibility of the white police officer and throw him under the bus. When Cooper was talking she wanted to make the point that Gates said "Thank You" to the police officers. By mentioning that, she was purposely misrepresenting the truth by playing down Gates' belligerence and racial remarks, which she didn't even mention. Even Gates' attorney and friend, said to the media that he used very strong language.
Colon Powell and President Obama both said he should take blame in the incident. I have seen this in many occasions with her, where she doesn't speak the truth and hides the true facts. Another time on Anderson Cooper, Cooper said to O'Brien that Senator John McCain hasn't brought race into the campaign, like he said he wouldn't. You would think her response would have been something like, that's great because he shouldn't. Instead she strongly insinuated that he would, even in the last week of the campaign. Also, her questioning style, in interviews is completely different with a white person than it is with a black person. Like in her interview with Henry Gates in "The Moment of Truth" She just went along with his lies. I have seen several comments on various websites about her racism. There are many other examples I could give of her racial bias, dishonesty and hypocrisy. She seems to consider herself to be black. She mentioned in an interview that her parents made it clear to her "you're black" and that's all there is to it.
She's all about being #1, she wants the world to revolve around her. She comes first, before her family. She wants to be a celebrity figure and a star. In interviews she says she works 6 days a week, mostly out of town, and on some holidays. She goes to gala events, concerts, lots of entertainment events, as a single woman, leaving her husband and kids behind.
I think Soledad O'Brien is a very poor journalist. Whatever happened to the days of CNN with Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff? They were honorable journalists. You could believe what they said.
...Ann Coulter
Update: I'm told that some other bloggers and Twitter users were instrumental in digging up Soiledad O'Brien's Tweets of affection for the work of Derrick Bell, with special credit due to the online spade work of @Mermaz on Twitter. For more details, take a look at this thread on Michelle Malkin's excellent new Twitchy website:
http://twitchy.com/2012/03/08/mermaz-digs-up-soledad-obriens-derrick-bell-love/
Nothing's more FAKE than a Soildad O'Brien!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What's the Matter with Soledad O'Brien?
By Michelle Malkin
3/14/2012
CNN's Soledad O'Brien isn't used to criticism. In the world of media elites, she's a beloved figure and an award-winning news anchor. But last week, she revealed her true, decidedly non-neutral colors. And she's not happy about the hoi polloi questioning her hallowed journalistic objectivity.
On Thursday, O'Brien interviewed Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief of the late Andrew Breitbart's online empire. Breitbart's BigGovernment.com released a 1991 video of Barack Obama (then a 30-year-old law student) at a Harvard rally embracing radical racialist Derrick Bell and his push for more aggressive race-based hiring at Harvard. Bell is a proponent of critical race theory (CRT), which posits that America remains a hopelessly racist country dominated by Jews and white supremacists.
O'Brien lost her cool when Pollak shed light on Bell's fringe legal theories. Acting more like an Obama campaign surrogate than a disinterested host, she angrily jumped on Pollak's mention of CRT. "That is a complete misreading of critical race theory," she shrieked. "That's an actual theory. You could Google it and some would give you a good definition. So that's not correct!"
When viewers took to Twitter to pepper O'Brien with follow-up questions about critical race theory, the CNN star had a twit fit. She invited a liberal professor, Emory University's Dorothy Brown, on her television show to back her up and then lashed out: "See? That was our critical race theory 101. Stop tweeting me. We have moved on, people."
Not so fast, sister.
Turns out that O'Brien, a Harvard grad, has a rather emotional connection to Bell. As documented at my new Twitter curation/aggregation site Twitchy.com, O'Brien tweeted that it was a "rough day" for her when Bell passed away last fall. She wrote that she had "just started re-reading" one of his books and mourned again: "RIP Prof. Bell." O'Brien also shared tributes to Bell from fellow Harvard prof and friend of Obama Charles Ogletree. That's the same Professor Ogletree who bragged that he "hid" the Obama/Bell video during the 2008 campaign.
O'Brien failed to disclose her pro-Bell bias to viewers before her segments.
O'Brien also failed to disclose that the liberal prof who denied on her show that critical race theory had aaaaaanything to do with bashing America as a white supremacy-ruled government actually wrote the exact opposite. In one of her own books, Brown asserted that the purpose of CRT was to "highlight the ways in which the law is not neutral and objective, but designed to support White supremacy and the subordination of people of color." Oops.
O'Brien is entitled to her opinions, of course. The problem is that she masks her political activism under the banner of corporate media "diversity." Of multicultural heritage, O'Brien has won countless accolades for her "Black in America" and "Latino in America" documentaries for CNN. The medical school at historically black Morehouse College created the "Soledad O'Brien Freedom's Voice Award" to honor "outstanding catalysts of social change." The first recipient of the activist award? Soledad O'Brien, of course.
O'Brien is also a card-carrying member of two racial/ethnic-centered journalism lobbying groups: the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. These organizations are inherently politicized entities that enforce a skin color-deep ideological solidarity and push a social justice agenda of advocacy journalism. I know because I've fought their collective herd mentality for the past 20 years.
Liberal minority journalists have themselves acknowledged their slavish fealty to Obama and his progressive agenda. During the 2008 campaign, the NABJ, NAHJ and Asian American Journalists Association held a "journalists of color" confab where then-candidate Obama was welcomed with Justin Bieber-style mania. One journalist squealed, "He touched me!" after Obama's address, which was interrupted multiple times with standing ovations, cheers and whistles by the press.
Organizers were so concerned about public displays of Obamedia affection that they issued several warnings to their news professional members that the speech would be broadcast live on (Soledad O'Brien's) CNN. "Professional decorum" was encouraged. One wire story even fretted: "Can minority journalists resist applauding Obama?"
Nope, liberal minority journalists simply can't resist carrying water for Obama. That's because their journalistic unity demands political unanimity. If you don't accept the left-leaning agenda of "social change" journalism, you're enabling racism. If you don't support the pursuit of racial hiring goals as a primary journalistic and academic goal, you're selling out.
Now you know the reason for O'Brien's thin-skinned reaction to Obama's critics. When you vet the president, you vet the media. And they don't like the narrative table-turning one bit.
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Ouch... now that's got to hurt, Barry! Afghans burn an effigy (we think it was an effigy) depicting President Barry Obuma following Sunday''s killing of civilians in Panjwai, Kandahar by a U.S. soldier during a protest in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Hundreds of part-time students (who are full-time Taliban), in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, shouted angry slogans against the United States and the PTSD American soldier accused of carrying out the killings, the first significant protest in response to the tragedy. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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The Liar-In-Chief is at it again:
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Obuma's Energy Decisions:
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Liberals in a Nutshell: They Suck!
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1) They're unhappy - Study after study shows that conservatives
are happier people than liberals. The difference can be staggering.
2) Liberals don't care as much about tradition
3) Liberals see people who disagree as evil
4) Liberals aren't very religious
5) Liberalism encourages arrogance
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"Hell Yes I'm a Muslim... and proud of it!":
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We have had a century of prosperity. And Obuma calls it "greed." Obuma says it doesn't work. Sure income growth may have leveled off a bit. But it's still growing, as is our standard of living if you discount the Obuma years.
"Greed" is now synonymous with the dirty word "profit" as long as it's associated with capitalists. Greed by union workers in the form of rising taxes, unaffordable entitlements and state spending, however, is pur-fect-ly fine for progressives.
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Pygmies clapping: Hooray!!! Let me hear it for ME... at least I got it off the launch pad!
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Warph,
The best cartoon of the week has been our CiC at the Summit of the Americas in Columbia. He felt like the runt pig of a 16 piglet litter. The poor lad has lost his rock star status he had just a few short years ago at the summit. At least ol Hillary had a good time kicking up her heels to some good ol Cuban music. I think Slick Willie was hanging out with the Secret Service boys but I might be spreading a vicious rumor. :angel:
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North Korea warns US of retaliation over rocket
Published April 18, 2012
Associated Press
PYONGYANG, North Korea – North Korea accused the U.S. of hostility on Tuesday for suspending an agreement to provide food aid following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch, and warned of retaliatory measures in response.
Warph,
Just read the above news and wonder if it belongs in the Political Cartoon thread ? It must ,if that loony toon, two bit Dictator, thinks we take him serious. He warns us that he might retaliate because we are hostile for not feeding his Army ?? What's that you say---oh, we will give them the food but first Obummer wants to show the world how tuff he is---before we give them the food.
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CONSUMERS VS FOOD POLICE
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Bain Capital: Type Private
Industry: Financial services, Investment management
Founded: 1984
Founder(s): Mitt Romney, T. Coleman Andrews III, Eric Kriss
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. with offices in Chicago, New York, London, Palo Alto, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Mumbai
Key people: Joshua Bekenstein, John Connaughton, Paul Edgerley, Mark Nunnelly, Stephen Pagliuca
Products: Private equity, Venture capital, public equity, high-yield assets and Mezzanine capital
Total assets: US$66 billion (2012)
Employees: 400+ (2012)[1]
Website www.baincapital.com
Bane: Someone or something that continually causes problems; or ruin; or unhappiness; complete misery...
Website: http://www.barackobama.com/
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MAY DAY PARADE 1938 NYC
MAY DAY, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW IS A TRADITIONAL TIME TO CELEBRATE SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM AND IS A CENTER PIECE IN THOSE TOTALITARIAN STATES FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION UNTIL THIS PRESENT TIME. TODAY THE OCCUPY WALL STREET BUNCH IS USING THIS TIME TO TRY AND SHUT DOWN VARIOUS CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WE ALL KNOW OBAMA SUPPORTS SUCH MOVEMENTS, BUT WILL NOT MARCH IN THE EVENTS THIS YEARS WITH THE ELECTION COMING IN NOVEMBER. SHOULD HE WIN REELECTION I WONDER WHAT HE WILL DO ON MAY DAY 2013? THAT'S TODAY'S QUESTION! THE OLD USSR IS DEAD, BUT THE IDEOLOGY THAT FOUNDED IT IS ALIVE AND WELL AND GROWING STRONGER.
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Cocooned liberals are unprepared for political debate
by Michael Barone
05/24/2012
It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforces them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.
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Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972, the movie critic Pauline Kael said it was odd that Richard Nixon was winning the election, because everyone she knew was for George McGovern.
Kael wasn't clueless about the rest of America. She was just observing that her own social circle was politically parochial.
The rest of us have increasingly sought out comfortable cocoons, too. Journalist Bill Bishop, who lives in an Austin, Texas, neighborhood whose politics resemble Kael's, started looking at national data.
It inspired him to write his 2009 book "The Big Sort," which describes how Americans since the 1970s have increasingly sorted themselves out, moving to places where almost everybody shares their cultural orientation and political preference -- and the others keep quiet about theirs.
Thus professionals with a choice of where to make their livings head for the San Francisco Bay Area if they're liberal and for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (they really do call it that) if they're conservative. Over the years the Bay Area becomes more liberal and the Metroplex more conservative.
But cocooning has an asymmetrical effect on liberals and conservatives. Even in a cocoon, conservatives cannot avoid liberal mainstream media, liberal Hollywood entertainment and, these days, the liberal Obama administration.
They're made uncomfortably aware of the arguments of those on the other side. Which gives them an advantage in fashioning their own responses.
Liberals can protect themselves better against assaults from outside their cocoon. They can stay out of megachurches and make sure their remote controls never click on Fox News. They can stay off the AM radio dial so they will never hear Rush Limbaugh.
The problem is that this leaves them unprepared to make the best case for their side in public debate. They are too often not aware of holes in arguments that sound plausible when bandied between confreres entirely disposed to agree.
We have seen how this works on some issues this year.
Take the arguments developed by professor Randy Barnett of Georgetown Law that Obamacare's mandate to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. Some liberal scholars like Jack Balkin of Yale have addressed them with counterarguments of their own.
But liberal politicians and Eric Holder's Justice Department remained clueless about them. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asked whether Obamacare was unconstitutional, could only gasp: "Are you serious? Are you serious?"
In March, after the Supreme Court heard extended oral argument on the case, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin was clearly flabbergasted that a majority of justices seemed to take the case against Obamacare's constitutionality very seriously indeed.
Liberals better informed about the other side's case might have drafted the legislation in a way to avoid this controversy. But nothing they heard in their cocoon alerted them to the danger.
Another case in point is Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's law restricting the bargaining powers of public employee unions. The unions and the crowds in Madison, which is both the state capital and a university town and which with surrounding Dane County voted 73 to 26 percent for Barack Obama, egged each other on with cries that this would destroy the working class. No one they knew found this implausible.
The unions had an economic motive to oppose the laws and seek to recall first Republican legislators and then Walker himself. The law ended the automatic checkoff of union dues, which operated as an involuntary transfer of money from taxpayers to union leaders.
But voters declined to recall enough Republicans to give Democrats a majority in the Senate, and Walker currently leads Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in polls on the June 5 recall election.
The Madison mob seemed unaware that there were attractive arguments on Walker's side.
Why should public employee union members pay less for health insurance and get fatter pensions than the taxpayers who pay their salaries? Why is it a bad thing for property taxes to be held down and for school districts to cut perks for union members enough to hire more teachers?
Beyond the Madison cocoon, in Wisconsin's other 71 counties, which voted 55 to 44 percent for Walker in 2010, such arguments are evidently proving persuasive. Maybe liberals should listen to Rush every so often.
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