(2009-01-16) — As part of his effort to smooth the transition for his successor, President George Bush today offered to “pre-pardon” Barack Obama’s choice for Treasury Secretary to clear the way for Timothy Geithner’s approval by the Senate.
Concerns about Mr. Geithner’s failure to pay self-employment taxes for several years pose a potential embarrassment for the incoming Obama administration. If the Senate endorses him as Treasury Secretary, it could set up the awkward spectacle of the man who leads the IRS ordering an audit of his own tax history.
“Bush has offered to write the pardon now,” said the source, “leaving the date line blank for President Obama to fill in once Geithner has been convicted. That way, Obama can blame Bush for the pardon, and still keep his Treasury Secretary.”
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1 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 16, 2009 at 9:25 am
Alas! Unfortunately, there is no potential for embarrassment since that would imply the presence of a conscience which would imply the presence of the Holy Spirit.
I hate to say it but I only observe the slipperiness of a pragmatist and the potential logical conclusions; none of which involves a group hug and the singing of Kumbaya.
God Bless America
2 RepublicanAttackMachine // Jan 16, 2009 at 9:27 am
This sounds like a workable plan. Now if we could figure out a way for Obama to nominate imprisioned border agents Ramos and Compean for cabinet posts, then maybe Bush might pardon them?
3 RepublicanAttackMachine // Jan 16, 2009 at 9:33 am
I especially like your last line, “That way, Obama can blame Bush for the pardon, and still keep his Treasury Secretary.”
I believ that is why Obama he asked Bush to release the other 350 billion to the banks NOW, so he can “blame Bush” later!
Am I the only one who noticed that Bank of America has already got their paws on the first of the second bailout funds?
Remember they are the ones who gave credit cards to illegal aliens, and told people that complained about it, where to go.
Now our tax dollars are helping them. Makes my blood boil!
4 gafisher // Jan 16, 2009 at 9:44 am
Team Obama has reportedly rejected the offer, asking instead that President Bush order Parker Brothers to print an unspecified number of gilded “Get Out Of Responsibility Free” cards to be used by the Obama White House and the leadership of the House and Senate according to guidelines which have not been (and probably won’t be) revealed.
Having been promised the contract to print the new series of US currency, Parker Brothers is expected to comply enthusiastically.
5 Left Coast-Right Mind // Jan 16, 2009 at 11:55 am
The thing that gets me about this whole Tim Geithner thing is that he used to work for the IMF and the whole world knows about it. I thought it was supposed to be a secret, that even their communiques self-destructed to hide their motives, and protect the organization. If we can’t trust him to keep such a secret, how can we trust him to run the treasury?
wv: robbery 200…and counting.
6 everthink // Jan 16, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Dumbyah will pardon Cheney et al, before turning back into a frog; but the issue will be whether, or not, he can pardon himself.
In either case, here or The Hague, it’s not over yet!
Maybe we will have a new use for Gitmo, … exile!
Now, ain’t that poetic?
ET
7 everthink // Jan 16, 2009 at 12:30 pm
96 hours!
ET
8 upnorthlurkin // Jan 16, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Can’t wait for AA Barkey to proclaim his eleventh commandment…..Thou shalt not question any of my appointments! They all aahhh, be above aahh… reproach….and we’re runnin’ outta room aahhh, under the bus!
9 upnorthlurkin // Jan 16, 2009 at 12:32 pm
96 hours until The beginning of an ERROR
10 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 16, 2009 at 12:47 pm
As morning dawned, the men were sent on their way with their donkeys.
They had not gone far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, “Go after those men at once, and when you catch up with them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
Isn’t this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination? This is a wicked thing you have done.’”
~~>
11 everthink // Jan 16, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Say Lurch,
That’s second time you’ve posted: “The beginning of an ERROR”.
You do know “1/20/09 – The End of an Error” is an copyrighted bumper sticker don’t you?
Cease and desist from further infringement immediately, you shameless twit!
ET
12 gafisher // Jan 16, 2009 at 1:19 pm
“But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good …” [Gen 50:20]
It’s ultimately all under control, JL3. Praise God!
13 upnorthlurkin // Jan 16, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Uuhhhh….ahhhh….bring it on…
14 gafisher // Jan 16, 2009 at 1:25 pm
“… The End of an Error†is an copyrighted bumper sticker …”
1] Scrappleface isn’t a bumper sticker.
2] Neither is life.
3] Which end?
15 Tinman // Jan 16, 2009 at 1:46 pm
http://obamaclock.org/
16 upnorthlurkin // Jan 16, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Thanks, Tinman….just made that my Homepage!
17 onlineanalyst // Jan 16, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Here is a keeper: “Presidential Wisdom” . Mr Ferrigno has talent galore and some excellent advice for PEBHO.
18 Fred Sinclair // Jan 16, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I knew the answer was out there someplace. It just had to be. algore must have found it first then when B.O. (the usurper) saw how well it worked, he figured, “Why not?”
Of all places, I found it in Ripley’s “Believe It Or Not”.
Skamania County, Wash., USA Ordinance 69 – 01 details penalties for harming a SASQUATCH a mythical beast whose existence has never been confirmed.
And so algore (who, by the way, invented the internet) invented the cult of “Manmade Global Warming” (“a mythical beast whose existence has never been confirmed”)
Well, boy howdy did it ever work to the tune of billions and billions of dollars (trillions anyone?)
Well when B.O. observed algore’s success, he must have opined, “Well, as a ‘natural born’ American Citizen (whose existence has never been confirmed) I can copy-cat this and with my trick of subliminal hypnosis I can create my own cult.”
And so the “Natural born American Citizen” (whose existence has never been confirmed) will be sworn in on Jan. 20th 2009 as the 44th President of these United States.
I believe that just as algore’s hoax is coming apart at the seams, so too will the usurpers hoax. and like a certain peanut farmer will be a one term babysitter of the Office of the President.
19 gafisher // Jan 16, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Tinman Re#15 — neat, but it assumes B. Hussein will serve out his full term. My guess is he’ll start campaigning for World President in about six months and turn the reins of the Oval Office over to someone else, maybe Biden, shortly thereafter.
In 2012 he crowns himself in Jerusalem, and then …
20 Left Coast-Right Mind // Jan 16, 2009 at 4:48 pm
upnorthlurkin:
Re: #9
Perhaps we can come up with some type of scoring system for President Barack H-word Obama administration’s blunders, which are sure to be plentiful. Maybe adopt a version similar to Major League Baseball’s in which the error is coded as an ‘E’ and then the position number of the player that committed the error. (e.g. E1 is the pitcher, E2 is the catcher, etc.) Except in this scenario, E1 would be Barack H-word Obama, E2 would be Joseph Robinette Biden, E3 would be Nancy Patricia Pelosi, and so on down the line of succession.
21 Left Coast-Right Mind // Jan 16, 2009 at 4:54 pm
gafisher
Re: #19
He’ll have to serve at least 144 days as President of the United States before he’d be fully qualified enough to take on the World Presidency. Of course, this is assuming he doesn’t run for Overlord of the Solar System. After all, he is the change that the Martians, Venusians and Neptunians have been waiting for.
wv: $17,921,842.91 flesh…that’s right, a pound of flesh is outperforming gold on the commodities market.
22 Darthmeister // Jan 16, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Hey, Geithner isn’t a tax deadbeat (like Joe the Plumber), he’s actually a creative confiscatory tax obfuscator.
A Look At The Real Guantanamo
Obama: Elected “Gun Salesman of the Year” By Firearm Industry Heh!
23 upnorthlurkin // Jan 16, 2009 at 6:41 pm
LCRM – yeah, already the most corrupt administration in the history of Affirmative Action appointments…the terrorist sympathizer in chief with a plagarist as VP, who better than a failed educator as education guru, a tv personality as surgeon general, Tom Dashole to head up healthcare reform, Harpy Hillary as diplomat in chief, a tax cheat to head up the Treasury….uff da! We’re sure to run out of bandwidth if we’re going to keep track of all this…and all under the guise of change!
24 upnorthlurkin // Jan 16, 2009 at 6:59 pm
OLA – Outstanding link to NRO! If only….
25 everthink // Jan 16, 2009 at 7:21 pm
How come nobody’s talking about the president’s
“Farewell Address” last night? Wasn’t that a beaut?
ET
26 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 16, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Last night, I stood in front of my television and watched and listened to the greatest address ever given by any president, but that goes without saying.
It was beautiful. Exquisite. Epic.
I am proud to live just down the road from his neighborhood.
27 MajorDomo // Jan 16, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Obummer Ecollapse minus 3
Clouds of sleaze forming on the horizon
28 baragirl // Jan 17, 2009 at 12:34 am
LCRM-#21
I was going to go on a diet ,but this changed my mind .Wow! I’m more valuable with every cookie.
29 RepublicanAttackMachine // Jan 17, 2009 at 8:30 am
The thought just occured to me, there is no need to “pre-pardon” ANY lib dimocrat, as almost none, (with the RARE exception of the few convicted, that were ONLY convicted because they had an ounce of moral decentcy and “owned up” to their crime[s]), will EVER be convicted or incarcerated, as proved by Hussein Obama, Kennedy, Hillary, Bubba, Reid, Rangle, Alcee Hastings, Bwarny Fwank, (or is it BLARNEY), Wm Jefferson, Marion Barry, Sharpton, Je$$e Jackson, Guv Blogo, INFINITY!
My apoligies to the THOUSANDS of criminal lib dimocrats I didn’t mention!
30 RepublicanAttackMachine // Jan 17, 2009 at 9:32 am
JL3 re#26, I agree, that it was one of the most heartfelt and wonderful “exit” speeches of our time!
I too am honored to have had a President that after all the unfair and unfounded backbiting from the rabid Dimocrats for the last 8 years, STILL has the GOD given forgiveness to extend an olive branch to, (what MOST of us know), will be the most dangerous, devestating, and corrupt administration since Clinton or Carter. The part that will mean the end of America is that Clinton and Carter never had a “rubberstamp” Congress as this illegitimate moron will have! GWB shows he is a Christian and forgiving, even after having the hand he extended to the rabid left biten so many times over the last eight years.
Good thing it was “he” and not “me”!
31 boberinyetagain // Jan 17, 2009 at 10:21 am
JL3, the ghost of Reagan is coming to haunt you for post 26 (and rightly so). His worst speech of all times was probably 3 times as good as Georges best and, if the other night was his best he’s in worse shape than i thought.
Any lingering doubts I might have had about your sanity have disappeared (there were very few, no worries)
You should check into a local facility before you harm yourself or others, seriously
32 boberinyetagain // Jan 17, 2009 at 10:59 am
just in from that well known liberal publication…National Geographic. If these folks aren’t just a “tool” of the “liberal media” then who/what is?
• Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880, much of this in recent decades, according to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
• The rate of warming is increasing. The 20th century’s last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia, according to a number of climate studies. And the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that 11 of the past 12 years are among the dozen warmest since 1850.
• The Arctic is feeling the effects the most. Average temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004.
• Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. Polar bears and indigenous cultures are already suffering from the sea-ice loss.
• Glaciers and mountain snows are rapidly melting—for example, Montana’s Glacier National Park now has only 27 glaciers, versus 150 in 1910. In the Northern Hemisphere, thaws also come a week earlier in spring and freezes begin a week later.
• Coral reefs, which are highly sensitive to small changes in water temperature, suffered the worst bleaching—or die-off in response to stress—ever recorded in 1998, with some areas seeing bleach rates of 70 percent. Experts expect these sorts of events to increase in frequency and intensity in the next 50 years as sea temperatures rise.
• An upsurge in the amount of extreme weather events, such as wildfires, heat waves, and strong tropical storms, is also attributed in part to climate change by some experts.
Conclusion: global warming is a hoax and George Bush was the greatest president the world has seen/will ever see.
Would someone here lend me their rose colored glasses please? I’m gonna need em
33 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 17, 2009 at 12:51 pm
1.) It is absolutely amazing to me what some folks will cite as proof.
2.) You already have them on.
34 Newsman // Jan 17, 2009 at 1:11 pm
“If these folks aren’t just a “tool†of the “liberal media†then who/what is?”
And just what are you ?
A mere tool of the conservative republican right wing.
But somehow, that’s different ??? You are right and everyone else is wrong, right ???
Who are you trying to kid, yourself ?
35 RedPepper // Jan 17, 2009 at 1:30 pm
boberin: Say it ain’t so! A mere tool of the conservative republican right wing?
Let me guess. You’ve been a member of a “sleeper cell” all this time. Right?
I must commend you for your brilliant disguise!
36 RedPepper // Jan 17, 2009 at 1:33 pm
boberin: Oh, & p.s. – nice glasses!
37 upnorthlurkin // Jan 17, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Where’s all the love?!! And where is our resident pinko….what’s his name….Cougie. You guys are supposed to be happy… You got what you’ve always dreamed of with Barkey the first affirmative action president…and control of both houses of Congress….why all the hate?!
38 RedPepper // Jan 17, 2009 at 1:57 pm
upnorth: Must be they all ODed on Sheryl Crow …
If it makes you happy
It can’t be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad
39 onlineanalyst // Jan 17, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Not to be missed during this upcoming historic event: The Commemorative Barack Obama Sunbeam.
40 RepublicanAttackMachine // Jan 17, 2009 at 2:08 pm
upnorthlurkin: I really believe what we see here with the numerous lib posters is actually, a male “Sybil”!
They are not really happy with Obummer. Rather, sated with their, “anybody but Bush”.
Amazing that even Fox News is sucking up to Obama. What a waste of airtime for his “Victory Train” story. I guarantee this will be the last time Obummer rides a train, but he will continue to throw our tax dollars away down the “black hole” that is Amtrak!
While the American economy goes down the tubes, Obummer thinks it is OK to spend over 100 million for a victory party!
Spin that, you lib kool ade drinkers! You fools chastised Palin because the GOP paid $100,000 for clothes that she returned!
Libs truly are PATHETIC!!!
41 RepublicanAttackMachine // Jan 17, 2009 at 2:22 pm
On the last thread, gafisher left this link, http://www.thisnext.com/item/925F495B/Martian-Popping-toy. saying the “Popping Martian” looks like Representative Waxman.
I agree, but would also like to see the toy updated as “Hussein” Obama. I would LOVE to squeeze that toy daily until the REAL Obummer leaves office!
42 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 17, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Global Warming Derangement Syndrome can be comical.
43 Left Coast-Right Mind // Jan 17, 2009 at 2:55 pm
One of the many treasures of the Tarnished Golden State is Yosemite National Park. On the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, this haven of natural beauty would not have been possible without Global Warming. You see, it is estimated that about one million years ago glaciers started forming and reached an ice thickness of about 4,000 feet. These walls of ice carved their way through solid granite rock, and when the earth warmed up, several millennia later, of nature’s own accord (no SUVs, no coal-fired power plants, no aerosol cans, etc.) the glaciers melted and left behind stunning vistas and exquisite monuments of stone and water, that are enjoyed by as many as 3.5 million people every year.
So…let’s hear it for Global Warming!
44 Darthmeister // Jan 17, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Global Warming has my applause, LC-RM. Without it most of the mid-west would still be under 2000 feet of ice. Thank God that SUVs were originally invented 10,000 years ago, which in turn spared our planet an icy hell. It’s pretty obvious that Cro-Magnon must have acquired such transportation technology from illegal space aliens but fortunately that technology was lost before our planet turned into another greenhouse planet like Venus.
btw, NASA has announced the discovery or rising carbon dioxide and methane levels on Mars which some dummy McDoofus claims is a result of solar activity that has also affected Earth during the same time period. Of course anyone who embraces the greenhouse gospel of Saint al Gore really understands the rising levels of these greenhouse gases is a direct result of a growing bovine and infernal combustion engine population on Mars. Sheesh!
45 Darthmeister // Jan 17, 2009 at 4:08 pm
RAM,
I seem to remember the liberal rent-a-ranters railing against the “excesses” of the 2004 Bush inauguration … and that during a time of relative economic stability and prosperity. Of course that’s was before the Democrats took over Congress and started us down the road toward the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac meltdown.
Given how the national socialist media has thoroughly inculcated the American people with the dire economic straits all Americans are suffering, isn’t it ironic that there hasn’t been a single peep from liberals (who care oh so much for the homeless, inner city poor and other economically “disadvantaged” Americans, right?) about the exorbitant costs of the coming Obama worship-fest along with the $680 million it took to buy the election in the first place?
Of course liberals have always been extremely adroit at demonstrating their utter hypocrisy and double-standards on just about any issue and the cost of Obama’s coronation festivies appear to be no exception. Of course Chris “Tingle-down-my-leg” Matthews and Keith “Chief moonbat” Olbermann will make fine court jesters at the festivities so it may actually be worth a $100 million to see these two clowns in full fawning rant … almost.
46 Darthmeister // Jan 17, 2009 at 4:50 pm
“To anger a conservative, tell him a lie … to anger a kook liberal, tell him the truth.”
The liberal, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: ‘No man should have so much’. The conservative, seeing the same says: ‘All men should have so much’.
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.” – Thomas Jefferson
And that is the difference between us and the barking moonbat socialists who populate the Democratic Party.
47 Newsman // Jan 17, 2009 at 4:56 pm
“Of course that’s was before the Democrats took over Congress and started us down the road toward the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac meltdown.”
Sure Darth, that’s all the Democrats fault ! What was the Bush administration doing during this time to prevent economic meltdown – standing with their fingers you know where.
The real truth is that ‘they/we are all friggin responsible’ for failing to insist that our politicians meet their obligations to all of us.
Nobody gets off the hook here !
Take some friggin responsibility Darth. You are a big boy now !
There is something lacking in those who blame problems on everybody else and act like they had nothing at all to do with what was happening.
What our government and politicians, of all parties, do or don’t do is a direct reflection on what we all do or don’t do.
48 upnorthlurkin // Jan 17, 2009 at 4:57 pm
RAM – though not quite the popping Martian, if you scroll down the page here to the inflatable Dashboard Barkey, in the righthand column, I think you can realize a similar “tingly feeling”! That and the countdown clock from Tinman, yesterday… 1463days, 20 hours, 3 minutes til Dumbo leaves office…
49 baragirl // Jan 17, 2009 at 5:05 pm
I wonder just how many of the “homeless,inner-city poor,and other economically ‘disadvantaged’ Americans “are making their way to Washington DC for the Festivities even as we speak?Something I have never been able to afford.
This time I wouldn’t go if they paid me! Oh…. That’s the way the dims do it.
nevermind.
prettyold
50 baragirl // Jan 17, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Oh my bob-up- and -kiss is way up on his high horse (Donkey) today ,isn’t he ? Doing a little gloating , hey? The big boys that hang around the pool hall and carry matches have been letting him hang around ,too,looks like.
We are big for our britches today. Must not have worked today and had a little sip or two .Got some courage!!!
51 upnorthlurkin // Jan 17, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Mrs. Pretty, I saw yesterday there are still 1500 or so hotel rooms available so maybe the adoring crowds won’t be quite as large as the experts are predicting….of course lib math is something I’ve never understood…..but they are experts at knowing what their mobs want/expect….whether it’s booze or cigs to register fraudulent voters or heavy metal bands to attract a crowd in Germany….it’s all so, so, real….I think the styrofoam Greek columns pretty much define this next administration….phony..
52 upnorthlurkin // Jan 17, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Prettyold, re bob….he’s too cheap to have a home computer…..and that’s not courage….that’s humor….
53 baragirl // Jan 17, 2009 at 5:21 pm
UNL, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those sterling disadvantaged citizens decided to take the money and stay home.
54 everthink // Jan 17, 2009 at 5:29 pm
67 hours!
ET
55 upnorthlurkin // Jan 17, 2009 at 5:47 pm
67 hours …til et’s O-gasm
56 everthink // Jan 17, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Lurch,
Naw, it aint about Obama as much as it is ending our national disgrace.
Eric Holder is no Roberto Gonzales (who is still unemployed)! Old subpoenas will be answered, truth will be spoken, and charges will be filed.
And Scrapplefaces will be very, very sad!
ET
57 baragirl // Jan 17, 2009 at 10:32 pm
ET you just don’t get it . Scrapplefacers are never sad for very long ,and it has to be something personalto sadden us. We are not like Liberals ,who can pout and whine for 4 years or 8 years .On Jan.21 we’ll all be here cracking jokes, poking fun,and being satirical,with maybe a little irony thrown in.
We enjoy our lives no matter who the President is.You can laugh your way through life or you can cry and whine. I’d rather laugh.
I know a month from now ,you’ll be here on SF under one of you alias’ all sour and out of sorts about something.It must be we are the only ones who will say anything to
you, and you would rather be insulted than ignored.I’m going to keep praying for your poor soul.
58 mindknumbed kid // Jan 17, 2009 at 11:20 pm
I am still among the living! Just too busy to lurk these past few days. Next week should be better.
59 mindknumbed kid // Jan 17, 2009 at 11:21 pm
pushing off now.
60 mindknumbed kid // Jan 17, 2009 at 11:23 pm
unl re#55 – Sounds like a big mess is about to be unleashed upon us…
61 baragirl // Jan 17, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Just do as we do here in ‘Sconsin, wear your rubbers.
62 camojack // Jan 18, 2009 at 4:27 am
boberinyetagain // Jan 17, 2009 at 10:59 am
just in from that well known liberal publication…National Geographic. If these folks aren’t just a “tool†of the “liberal media†then who/what is?
Conclusion: global warming is a hoax.
Would someone here lend me their rose colored glasses please? I’m gonna need em
National Geographic is rather “mainstream” (A.K.A. liberal) so far as media outlets go, yes. That crap you’re quoting is just that: crap. There’s been no net global warming since 1998, although the alarmists would have us believe otherwise, never mind the FACT that the CO2 levels continue to rise. (Look up “canard”) What color glasses are you wearing, anyway?
No matter. It’s nice and warm where I am now, which is just the way I like it…
63 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 18, 2009 at 7:15 am
I would have been more impressed had BHO commandeered the controls of the train, floored it and pegged the speedometer while whistling Dixie.
(How is it that I have no desire to equate the inauguration of the POTUS with fornication? Is that why those people elected him? Sexual desire?)
64 RepublicanAttackMachine // Jan 18, 2009 at 9:43 am
Pretty fitting for the “Usurper” to ride into town on the railroad. Amtrak is the poster child for guv-mint handouts, which is what libs love to do with someone else’s money, and what we will see for the next 4 years, (or less), BUT, the best parallel will be after America is “railroaded” by “Barry”, he will soon be run out of town on that same rail!
BTW, Newsman, on this topic, I couldn’t agree with you more. There is plenty of blame to go around. The ONLY thing I would add is, you can change some Repub minds, I just do not see that happening on the Dem side of the aisle. They will follow Obummer into the “economic ditch” mindlessly, and gleefully!
Also congratulations to boberlemming. Your mindless gibbering was so much you actually got Camojack to respond to you, and he is probably the most disiplined Scappler here.
Proof that even the most disciplined can finally be fed up with partisan, mindless, bleating sheep.
PS: After I gave my life to the LORD, I cancelled all so called “Premium Channels” on my DirecTV, but last night noticed that the HBO/Cinemax channels were on free. I did scan through the menu to see what was on, and low and behold, it is peppered with, “We are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration ay the Lincoln Center”, and another show, “Thank you Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House”. No bias here, move.on.
There was STILL nothing on that I wanted to see, even for free!
65 Darthmeister // Jan 18, 2009 at 10:56 am
Newsman, quit cherrypicking my record in order to pick a fight. I’ve been very clear here, the financial meltdown has any number of culprits starting with greed on Wall Street as well as Mainstreet, Allan Greenspan’s economic policies, RINOs disguised as “compassionate conservatives” (i.e. big spending, blue-blood Republicans) deregulation of the mortgage industry first with the Clinton Administration and to a lesser degree the Bush Administration, and Democrats and Democrats themselves.
What I’m not really hearing from you and the national socialist media is the extent to which Democrats – particularly Chris Dodd, Barney Fwank, Maxine Waters, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, et al – had a very direct hand in creating the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac financial debacle which in turn began America’s economic meltdown exacerbated by the liberal media’s partisan misinformation campaign which attempted to pin this all on President Bush.
The shoe is on the other foot, in this case, since I’ve NEVER heard from you any kind of assent that the Bush Administration (and John McCain) did indeed warn of the FM/FM meltdown and the looming credit crisis – not just once, but at least on eight different occasions. Also, the Democrat’s culpability in all this is a matter of C-Span video record which can be found on YouTube – many links have I already posted here.
And what was the Bush Administration doing, you ask? You could have easily found that out yourself if you weren’t such a pointy-headed Bush-hating hack. There are any number of Internet links which clearly DOCUMENTED the Bush Administration’s warnings to Congress about the coming financial meltdown. The only constitutional means available to the President, my dear troll, would have been to act unilaterally (which your side of the aisle has ALWAYS railed against) by issuing an unprecedented executive order which would have wrested oversight of the mortgage industry from the Congress (to the Democrats’ certain primal scream that Bush was acting like Hitler blah, blah, blah, by usurping legislative powers blah, blah, blah) and then to have attempted to “fix” the economy.
The clear fact of the matter is this, Congressional Democrats refused to listen to the Bush Administration thus further imperiling the national economy and once they gained control of Congress in 2006-07 they pretty much said everything President Bush would send up their way was dead-on-arrival. Yet, despite this evidence, you still prefer to publicly display your almost mindless and transparent Bush-hatred by railing in the manner that you did in comment #47.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Go look in a mirror, Newsman, you’re the one not dealing with a full deck here and are being the partisan hack. We have virtually the entire national socialist media and the Democratic Party trying to blame President Bush for the very thing that the Congress has unique oversight responsibility for – the mortgage industry vis a vis Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
And yes, there were long term financial policies (Allan Greenspan and regulatory Congressional big spenders) that were percolating beneath the surface, but there is little doubt the sub-prime loan debacle, compliments of the Carter Administration and further exacerbated by the Clinton Administration (in their misguided notion that wouldn’t it be cool if every American were able to get cheap loans to own homes they really couldn’t afford), was the central catalyst of the present financial meltdown which has now spooked Wall Street.
Quit cherrypicking my views in hopes of legitimizing your braindead rants. It won’t work here.
66 Darthmeister // Jan 18, 2009 at 10:59 am
Three more days until America will be held hostage by closet Marxist socialist ideologues.
67 onlineanalyst // Jan 18, 2009 at 11:12 am
The grassroots claim to have garnered Obama’s victory through the Internet. Here is a chance to compose his inauguration speech via technology. Have fun, kids.
68 Darthmeister // Jan 18, 2009 at 11:33 am
BTW, in accordance with some other Scrappleface observations, wouldn’t you think sourpuss neverthink would be all unicorns, rainbows, and pretty flowers because his messiah will soon be coronated?
Yet neverthink persists in trying to find misfortune in the joy of others or suffering because of the joy of others – us. I’m convinced this creature simply isn’t happy unless he’s being a hateful contrarian and going out of his way to rain on other people’s parades. Must be a pretty miserable existence and thus his continuance here.
We visit Scrappleface because we enjoy Scott Ott’s humor and his righteous and witty perspective on the world. By contrast neverthink comes here because he/she/it is most certainly psychologically damaged and wants to spread the personal misery he/she/it suffers on a daily basis. I believe the term is “freudenschade”.
After the elevation of the empty suit Obama to MOTUS, we Scrapplers will still be here cracking jokes and making rather pungent observations about the derangement of those who found salvation in Barack Hussein Obama!
I still tremble for my country given the damage these closet socialists may do to America. However, when I think how these socialist meatheads have been able to buy their way into a power monopoly by the likes of George Soros, illegal foreign donations, and the rest of the monied fat cat liberals, there is a level of hypocrisy that liberal Democrats have blatantly engaged in after having whined about “the money in politics” and power monopolies. Which goes to prove: Liberals really don’t mind liars, incompetent ideologues, wars and bad economies just so long their liars are the ones in power!
Hopefully, in another three years, Americans will have come to their senses and realize how they’ve been bought by a $680 million dollar campaign of half-truths and clever liberal media sponsored lies.
Until then, let’s party and continue being a burr under the saddle to self-righteous, pointy-headed, we’re-always-right liberals.
69 Newsman // Jan 18, 2009 at 12:03 pm
“Three more days until America will be held hostage by closet Marxist socialist ideologues.”
WHAT CR[fill in here]P !!!!
“What I’m not really hearing from you and the national socialist media is the extent to which Democrats – particularly Chris Dodd, Barney Fwank, Maxine Waters, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, et al – had a very direct hand in creating the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac financial debacle which in turn began America’s economic meltdown exacerbated by the liberal media’s partisan misinformation campaign which attempted to pin this all on President Bush.”
Can’t you read Darth ??? I clearly said that ‘we’ and that includes me and you, are all to blame !
70 mindknumbed kid // Jan 18, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I see, it is my fault. . .
Yeah, as of last July I became a slacker, no longer workin’ 70+ hours a week to keep a roof over my family’s heads and food on our table. I finally have a job that allows me to do that in 44 hours a week (more or less). And my mortgage is paid and free of any gubmint monkey business – I found private financing.
It’s all my fault . . .
71 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 18, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Access to feeding-frenzied Pelosi’s plethora of pork bill is here which I found here.
By the way, I’d like to take this opportunity to pre-thank BHO for bringing us to the brink of disaster because I believe, in the end, more people will turn to Almighty God as they witness the devastating and horrific cascading effects of progressive secularism.
72 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 18, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Hello–I am back, well really I am Ms RightWing.
Whatever.
For those who have been following the highs and lows of government medications, they finally settled on Avelox, which knocked me to the ground-literally. It has been several days now that muscular system has regenerated, enough enough to type. But now the bunker is a antibiotic free zone.
73 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 18, 2009 at 2:07 pm
So now onto a more Ego me bene habeo Scrappelous. Bad times aside.
I see the economy was doing quite well in Arizona this week at the Barrett Jackson Auto Auction (my superbowl). The rich people still have that good old green stuff to spend on classic cars and they also gave huge sums to charity. I think, if I remember Economics 101, that is the way capitalism works.
74 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 18, 2009 at 2:17 pm
And last, but not least–to the one here at Scrapple who is watching his genuine artificial gold plated watch with Obama kissing John F. Kennedy, while rubbing his hands with glee as the hours tick away–you know who you are–the best days in my Journalism career were the Clinton years.
Yes, I too was audited by the IRS and came up short $175 on a tax form five years earlier, but well worth the fine. Now, other than a shadow of a president, all is the same. Can my glory years be revisited?
Stay tune and see. Boy is my leg tingling.
Captcha: speeches were. Now that the speeches, along with all that silly reverb are now over we can put the nonsense in a can and get on with life. sigh Anyone got a toy train set for the White House
75 gafisher // Jan 18, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Barry had better put in his pardon requests soon; it seems he might not be able to grant them himself.Duryea 53.90
76 gafisher // Jan 18, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Oops. The wv doesn’t work unless it’s in the right box.
77 gafisher // Jan 18, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Spot-on Re#74, Ms. RightWing. He’s not even “emaculated” yet and Barry’s already got a roiling cloud of scandal surrounding both him and his erstwhile administration. If we can survive the ride, the next few years could be quite … interesting.
Glad to hear you’re back on the mend; prayers continue.
78 gafisher // Jan 18, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Hmmm … The D.C. Police have reportedly asked members of “the oldest profession” to withhold their services during the inauguration Tuesday. Apparently the Democrats want the field to themselves that day.
79 everthink // Jan 18, 2009 at 3:54 pm
45 hours!
ET
80 upnorthlurkin // Jan 18, 2009 at 5:05 pm
….make that 1462days, 19 hours and 54 minutes until America is once again free….
81 upnorthlurkin // Jan 18, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Great tribute here to Bill Faith, creator of OldWarDogs.us
Godspeed, Bill.
82 Deerslayer // Jan 18, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Deerslayer to Newsman; Sorry I can’t be one of your “we”.
I’m one of those debt free individuals that pay my bills on-time.
No two ways about it that the economic problems lie more directly with the democrats/liberals.
Sorry, but the upcoming mess belongs to you. (Enjoy)
83 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 18, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Won’t anyone pay my Sears charge account??? It’s not my fault I owe money on it, ya know
Obama, can’t cha hear me.
84 Darthmeister // Jan 18, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Latest Headlines:
CLIMATE EXPERT’S GRIM WARNING: Barack Obama has only four years to save the world….
See, Obamessiah really can save!
However, I think the cold harsh reality will be that in the long run the arrogant and inexperienced Obama’s biggest accomplishment will be putting the “mess” in messiah.
85 Darthmeister // Jan 18, 2009 at 6:42 pm
… 45 hours until America becomes Amerika.
86 Fred Sinclair // Jan 18, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Darthmeister #44 – This is the lead in of a great article in today’s “Canada Free Press”
Rolling On Floor Laughing My Heinie Off
This is almost as big a bad joke as “The Usurper” being sworn in as our 44th President.
_________________________
Gore: Record Cold Snap Is Actually Global Warming
By William Kevin Stoos Sunday, January 18, 2009
Just back from a world tour to promote his new book, “No, Really, It Is Global Warming!” Internet inventor Al Gore talked to Stoos Views in an effort to address mounting world skepticism about global warming and whether Gore is indeed the savior of the planet. Stopping by Stoos Views headquarters in Wynstone, South Dakota, Gore talked to the reporter while lending a hand clearing the four feet of global warming off his driveway.
“To the uneducated and those, unlike myself, who are untrained in geography, climatology, physics, chemistry and astronomy,†Gore began, “it might appear that it has been unusually coldthese past few weeks. If you are like the vast majority of Americans who know nothing about science and are standing there in your four and five foot snow drifts, facing fifty below wind chills, and wondering about the thirty below temperatures from Wyoming to Vermont, and temperatures in the single digits in Georgia, you might say to yourself, ‘how can the winner of the Nobel Prize and Inventor of the Internet be so wrong’?â€
Gore continued, “Actually, these bone chilling record temperatures are perfectly consistent with global warming and exactly what I expected. This is what I call “Polar Displacement. …………….
87 Fred Sinclair // Jan 18, 2009 at 7:36 pm
unl # 23 All of the posts you mention are part of the Usurper’s program. They are headed up by “fronts” that will have less official authority than does The Queen of England in her country. 100% ceremonial with zero power. The power behind the throne is (and will be) Bill Ayers, along with his fellow former Weather Underground terrorist wife, Bernardine Dohrn, they are among the two most despicable people in living in America. And Obama served on a board with him.
They will make all of the decisions in the posts you named as they slavishly carry out the dictates of a certain mega-billionaire, who is in the process of buying America. Date of closure – Jan. 20, 2009.
88 mindknumbed kid // Jan 18, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the return of The Messiah happened to preempt the inauguration of this messiah?
89 mindknumbed kid // Jan 18, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I was in a local convienience store Thursday morning replenishing their supply of milk and my eye caught a glimpse of a magazine cover that turned out to be a “Collector’s Edition * 2009 Inauguration Special *”…
The front cover story is entitled “America’s Hope – Barack Obama – How He Will Change Our World, being immediately offended I stopped to read more of this drivel, trying to quickly identify the source, but seeing as how I was very time challenged and not easily finding the info I was seeking, I opted to purchase it for scrutiny at at later time. It was $5.99, I hated to spend my money to support a bunch of liberal leftists, but I wanted to see who published it. The answer to that question is Weider Publications,LLC a subsidiary of American Media, Inc.
Also on the cover, “U.S.A.’s Greatness Restored – Why You’ll Be Better Off Within A Year”, I have looked through the index of drivel and have yet to figure out which one of the entries tells me anything about that…
Then there is “The American Dream Realized – His Incredible Journey, is the American Dream becoming President? I never knew that was what it was all about, I guess most of us are incapable of ever achieving it.
Anyhow, it is not my kind of reading material, so if anyone else wants it stop in and it’s yours free of charge.
90 mindknumbed kid // Jan 18, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Here is a link to their regular publications – not so odd that I referenced one of their mags before in regard to content during the campaign…
http://www.americanmediainc.com/
91 baragirl // Jan 18, 2009 at 8:40 pm
mkk , just a suggestion ,but why don’t you use your maggotizine as I did our Sunday Newspaper . I took the 4 sections that had large pictures of OOOOHNOma sneering and smirking and the one section with Mrs O, wearing her usual ugly glare,made them into a roll and placed them in the bathroom.
Funniest part- Mrs was on the fashion section .Hardy har har har.
92 baragirl // Jan 18, 2009 at 8:44 pm
MS RightWing, the government should have named your medication Aveknox.
As in it knox you downto the street.
Did it help your lungs?
WV 12. Vodka I’ll drink to that!
93 gafisher // Jan 18, 2009 at 9:10 pm
mkk Re#89: I might be interested. How many carbon credits must I buy to burn it?
94 onlineanalyst // Jan 18, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Fred: Re #87: Why do you think that Obama is bitterly clinging to his Blackberry even though the Secret Service and other government agencies want to divest him of it? Obama needs to be in constant text messaging contact with his shadow government, the powers behind his throne, so to speak, in order to govern at their bidding or finesse his way out of difficulties.
Hold on to your wallets, your freedoms, and your Constitutional rights because all will be jeopardized shortly enough.
Bread and circuses: The Obama Years
95 gafisher // Jan 18, 2009 at 9:17 pm
“A federal judge has ordered infomercial marketer Kevin Trudeau to pay more than $37 million for violating a 2004 stipulated order by misrepresenting the content of his book, “The Weight Loss Cure ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About.â€
In a related story, FTC sources hint they may be pursuing another marketer who made blatently false claims in a series of B.Husseinformercials entitled “Change ‘We’ Can Believe In.”
96 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jan 18, 2009 at 9:31 pm
I have to laugh at the idea of trickle up economics. Generally economics does not fight against the law of gravity. OB1Kanobi has already fleeced the poorest of the black community by allowing every two-bit skunk oil salesman to sell trinkets and baubles (made in China) with the likes of him, Lincoln and Kennedy on it.
Towels, cheap coins, the kind found at Chucky Cheese’s and rare editions of the Life & Times of Obama. The reason they are rare is because nobody knows who this cool cat is.
Late night TV is the main huckster, but I imagine every convenience store in America has everything from bottles of Thunderbird to rolling papers with his picture and “yes we can” below.
You know, come to think about it why did I not invest in Chinese crap to sell amongst my ghetto friends.
Maybe it is time to get out my Brier Patch Stories again.
97 everthink // Jan 18, 2009 at 9:47 pm
“Why do you think that Obama is bitterly clinging to his Blackberry even though the Secret Service and other government agencies want to divest him of it?
Because he’s the new “Commander Guy”, that’s why!
Deal with it!
ET
98 baragirl // Jan 18, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Even the Commander guy has to follow the rules.
Only two more days until we really get to start having fun. Pointing out all the errors, gaffes, faux pas, faux mas, absurdities and ignorance of the Man Child who will Ruin the World.
99 onlineanalyst // Jan 18, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Oooh! Touched an “et”nerve, did I?
All right, I guess that Commander Guy has to keep his little mind-numbed brownshirts posted with his ever-evolving game plan and perpetual campaigning. (Now that is what I call community organizing.)
My, my, Obama has certainly created a huge data base of those who follow his party line, comrade. (You would think that these followers would be a little concerned about their loss of privacy.)
Will the Commander Guy send out decoder rings for Americans to decipher the contradictions in his rhetoric from day to day? Lots of his YouTube campaign videos have been wiped out, but that’s no matter. There are skeptics keeping records. They haven’t been blinded by smoke and mirrors.
100 Fred Sinclair // Jan 18, 2009 at 10:28 pm
New world record for Ming vase
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-05-31 05:52
HONG KONG: A rare underglaze copper-red Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) vase sold for HK$78.52 million (US$10.13 million) in Hong Kong yesterday, setting a world auction record for Ming porcelain.
(for photo – dogpile ming vase and link with Wikipedia)
So on May 31st 2006 – this object of rare beauty was valued at $10.13 million dollars.
But a disgruntled servant was offended at the thought of all the poverty around her and throughout China, compared to the wasteful use of money that in her opinion should have gone to food and medical care for the hungry and sick children.
In a fit of pique she smashed the vase on the floor! It broke into hundreds of tiny pieces and all of the “Super Glue” and “Mighty Putty” in the hands of the world’s most skilled artisans could not restore the ming vase to it’s former perfection, beauty and value.
The day after tomorrow on the 20th of January, 2009 a former Junior Senator from the State of llinois – a Mr. Barack Hussein Obama – aka “The Usurper” will take up the role of the disgruntled Chinese servant and will do unto America what she did to the ming vase.
In the years that follow, the pieces of America will never be restored to their former perfection, beauty and value.
King David had his day as did King Solomon. King Ahab ruled his kingdom, The Mesopotamians, the civilizations of Akkad, Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria. Alexander “The Great” had his heyday and so did “The Roman Empire” every schoolchild knows about “The Sun never sets on the British Empire” and now The United States of America, the greatest, most powerful nation in earth’s history is brought to her knees.
Not conquered by an outside superior country, but from within, a victim of cancer (aka – Complacency). The cancer of liberalism has eaten away the political body, until it’s now a basket case. In our pride of being tolerant – we failed to excise the cancer when it was small enough to have been removed – roughly from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to date.
The Christian America, settled by Christians, for Christians who were willing to risk everything to escape the abominations of Europe. It is evident that there were a few ‘moles’ planted on the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. These liberal cancer cells began incrementally working for tolerance until (it’s a slow process – but they know that) today we actually tolerate a religion whose avowed purpose is to kill us. We tolerate a takeover of the Democrat Party by a Socialistic (nee: Communistic) Party to put one of their own into the office of the President.
The Muslim extremists only want to kill us. By far and worse, the Socialist want to recreate the slavery of Joseph Stalin’s USSR (with them playing the role of Uncle Joe). The time has never been so ripe for our Messiah, Jesus Christ to pre-empt the current abomination aka “B.O. – the Usurper”. The seven years of revelation may well be upon us. Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
101 Newsman // Jan 18, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Hey Darth:
Make up your mind will you !
First you blow about our country going to be ’socialist’, now with this dumb statement “… 45 hours until America becomes Amerika.”, you seem to be impling we are going ‘Nazi Socialist’.
Of course ‘Nazi Socialism’ was not at all about socialism, it was all about a right wing fascist dictatorship.
So what it is, according to your great wisdom ?
Socialism or Fascism? Under GW we came closer to the latter what with torture and disregarding the law of the land.
Do any of you people really know what ‘Democracy’ is about ? None of you want to adhere to its principles.
You lose the election and you are all a bunch of sorry sobsisters and whiners !
All you do is complain.
Not a one of you is capable of looking at anything in a positive light.
My word to all of you…….If you think this country is in such a sorry state then why don’t you have the b-lls to leave and find some better place to live.
Not a one of you has the ‘guts’, you just want to sit around and snicker making your sorry self serving complaining remarks.
I suppose each and every one of you believes that you can do a better job then Obama. Then put your money where your mouth is and run for office and prove it !
102 everthink // Jan 18, 2009 at 11:30 pm
“Even the Commander guy has to follow the rules.”
Yes, but he’s also “The New Decider” so he makes the rules about his Blackberry and anything else not limited by the Constitution!
I can see you all are gonna have a hard time with this!
But, he’s also the new War President!!!
37 hours,
ET
103 baragirl // Jan 18, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Well, D’uh Newsman ,look it up in your newspaper,..that’s the comedic one ,right?
The United mStates is not a Democracy, it is a Democratic Republic.
Labels ,labels ,that’s all you know .Socialist ,Nazi Socialist ,Commie Socialist ,Liberal Socialist ,Same thing. It is what theyDO that shows what they are . don’t need no label to know when something stinks.
104 onlineanalyst // Jan 19, 2009 at 12:13 am
The Nazis were socialists. Their party name was the National Socialist Workers Party. More information: http://mises.org/story/1937
Or Google “Nazi” and “socialism”. You will find that it is only in revisionist “history” that fascism is a term describing the right. More precisely, it defines a type of State control.
Here is another scholarly explanation: http://www.lawrence.edu/sorg/OBJECTIVISM/socfasc.html.
105 mindknumbed kid // Jan 19, 2009 at 12:17 am
re#102 – But he does not make the rules when it comes to national security issues, he might decide to break the rules, just how smart is this guy?
106 everthink // Jan 19, 2009 at 12:48 am
“But he does not make the rules when it comes to national security issues, …”
Wanna bet?
ET
107 onlineanalyst // Jan 19, 2009 at 12:49 am
And here is an excellent video that defines our US form of government: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUkxOlTr2ZI
We are not a democracy. We are a republic, a form of government that follows a rule of law, not the fickleness of the majority, who can become lawless mobs.
Understand from the video why Rome flourished and why it fell.
108 everthink // Jan 19, 2009 at 1:10 am
Y’all be sure to watch Dumbyah leave Tuesday because that will most likely be the last time you see him before the trial.
ET
109 MajorDomo // Jan 19, 2009 at 1:30 am
Obummer Ecollapse minus one.
Now showing signs of being a total ecollapse.
110 Left Coast-Right Mind // Jan 19, 2009 at 1:40 am
Do any of you people really know what ‘Democracy’ is about?
I don’t live in a Democracy, up until now it’s been a Constitutional Republic. After Tuesday January 21st, 2009, it will be a Non-Representative Thugocracy based upon, then, Senator Barack H-word Obama’s campaign rhetoric, the actions of his supporters and the machinations of Congress. And just what do you mean by “you people”?
You lose the election and you are all a bunch of sorry sobsisters and whiners!
Mr. Kettle I presume? Please allow me to introduce you to Mr. Pot. Now which side of the political spectrum is still belly-aching, griping and grousing over an election that happened eight years ago?
All you do is complain.
Not true. I firmly believe that Barack H-word Obama can be one the best things that’s happened to the United States of America (in the long run of course; the short-term is gonna be hell). Full-fledged liberalism will be center stage. Every single modern day liberal issue can be steamrolled through the legislative process without substantial opposition. Every left-wing power grab that has been foisted upon a populace, and failed miserably around the world, is potentially headed our way. My prediction is, when it is shown to be a failure here as well, liberalism will take its rightful place on the refuse pile of history. The trick will be making it through the tough times, and coming out the other side. So, in a way, Barack H-word Obama will be the best player on the conservative team.
Not a one of you is capable of looking at anything in a positive light.
I’m positive that Barack H-word Obama is going to be the next Jimmy Carter, not Roosevelt, not Kennedy, not Lincoln. Does that count? I mean, who doesn’t want to grow up to be like Jimmy Carter?
My word to all of you…….If you think this country is in such a sorry state then why don’t you have the b-lls to leave and find some better place to live.
I’ll take your word under advisement. However, please be advised that this line of reasoning has already been vilified by those railing against the “America: Love it or Leave it” crowd. So if we can’t use it, it’s dirty pool to steal it, bastardize it and lob it back.
Not a one of you has the ‘guts’, you just want to sit around and snicker making your sorry self serving complaining remarks.
And the celebretards that vowed to leave the country if George W. Bush was elected in 2000 or re-elected in 2004? Please provide links to your posts on their personal website forums pointing out their lack of ‘guts’ for not making good on their promises, and barking at them for their behavior over the last four to eight years.
I suppose each and every one of you believes that you can do a better job then [sic] Obama. Then put your money where your mouth is and run for office and prove it!
Find me a sugar daddy with George Soros-type money (might need $350 – $400 million by 2012), and a cult following that doesn’t need details interfering in their decision-making process and I’ll consider it.
Here’s a nickel’s worth of free advice. Phrases like “All of you”, “You all” and “You people” are inclusive of everyone who reads and/or comments on this site, so I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for the personal attacks you instigated against me and my character. Secondly, words like “all”, “every”, “none”, etc. (unless mitigated somehow) are called ‘absolutes’. The dangerous thing about using absolutes in your arguments is that your debate opponent need find only one instance where the absolute doesn’t hold true, and your entire argument is discredited. So please, consider yourself discredited, because that’s how I’m scoring it here.
111 everthink // Jan 19, 2009 at 2:36 am
“I don’t live in a Democracy, up until now it’s been a Constitutional Republic.”
This has also been referred as a “representative democracy”, a “direct democracy” is impractical.
I know the John Birchers, and other conservatives like make this “republic noise”. I can only guess it has something to do with the party names, but is there some other point?
Do you think you’ve discovered a “loophole”, or something?
34 hours!
ET
112 mig // Jan 19, 2009 at 9:10 am
Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind
After decades of 24/7 Hollywood – Washington-style media brainwashing, many have succumbed to a new brand of “marshmallow Christianity†that dares to pass as the real thing. We’ve got leaders who thumb their noses at the most basic teachings of Christ and still dare to claim the name “Christian†without challenge. Others bearing the same name can’t trash Christianity often enough.
We’ve had 9/11, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, suicide bombers, pirates, illegal immigration, a worldwide financial collapse, and declining populations throughout the Western industrial world.
It’s enough to make ancient Egypt seem like the “good old days.â€
“Tolerance, diversity, and understanding†have replaced “faith, hope and charity†even on the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The ancient outrage of the prophets has been drowned by media-induced mediocrity.
Jesus, by contrast, was notably intolerant. “If anyone offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea.†(Matt. 18:6.)
Contrary to this smiley new reputation, Jesus didn’t think much of pedophiles, abortionists, or Pharisees, whom He compared to whitened sepulchers full of rottenness within.
In short the whirlwind has arrived.
Barack Obama has pledged to sign the Freedom of Choice Act – a bill that will go far beyond Roe v. Wade toward making America the abortion capital of the world. He has also announced plans to put trillions more on the national credit card, payable by your children and grandchildren and mine.
He’s already come down firmly on the side of the continued slaughter of the unborn. Can the frogs, gnats, flies, anthrax, boils, hail, and locusts be far behind?
113 onlineanalyst // Jan 19, 2009 at 9:23 am
et: If you can tear yourself away from MTV/MSM: The Obama Years, watch the video that I posted at #107. It’s time that you learned a little history. The term Constitutional Republic has nothing to do with partisan politics.
Enjoy this hysterical moment. Stay warm, enjoy your rock concerts, and always keep a porta-potty in sight. You’ll be sure to have an (inaugural) ball. Check your Blackberry/cell phone for further instructions.
114 gafisher // Jan 19, 2009 at 9:50 am
Re#102, Stunning to realize it’s been eight years since we’ve had a Warp Resident in the White House. We now return you to the Clinton Years.
wv – darly sland – “‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre …”
115 everthink // Jan 19, 2009 at 12:31 pm
24 hours!
ET
116 Left Coast-Right Mind // Jan 19, 2009 at 1:20 pm
I don’t know about any of you, but I never pledged “allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Democracy for which it stands: one Nation under God, with Liberty and Justice for all.”
So I guess Christian socialist Francis Bellamy invented the “loophole” for conservatives. Imagine that.
117 everthink // Jan 19, 2009 at 2:28 pm
LCRM,
I think you have “misunderestimated’ my position
on the use of the term democracy.
22 hours!
ET
118 everthink // Jan 19, 2009 at 2:36 pm
OLA
Ignorance is exalted in you!
ET
119 mig // Jan 19, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Praise and Joy! Capt Mack has a son! Congratulations to the family!
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