February 27, 2010 09:30 PM
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Blazing Straddles. Open thread below...
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my email about HR 1283, the Military Readiness Enhancement Act.
He danced around through out the email and never said whether he's onboard to repeal DADT. The letter only said that he would take my views into consideration. Mom figures it's Costa's Catholicism getting in the way of doing the right thing. It's exactly what happened with him and the Stupak Amendment.
I hope there's a good Dem or Green challenger going against him when he's next up for election.
He's a good Congressman in many ways, but I am still angry about Stupak and this doesn't look good either.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Marie Osmond's son commits suicide
depression herself, it must be so hard for her right now.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
that sucks.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
:(
is never the answer. This is sad.
NOBODY 2012
Listen to him, men. He's just crazy enough to do it!
While I whip this out.
;)
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
evah!
YouTube: The New Sheriff Scene from Blazing Saddles
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Also known as The Big Lebowski, of course:
http://movieclips.com/watch/the_big_lebowski_...
Rare color footage and great stories. Much is pretty graphic, but it's riveting.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
print, print, print... I don't agree with every point made but I am certain Bernanke will keep the printing presses running.
Is Ben Bernanke The Second Coming Of Rudolf von Havenstein, The Central Banker Responsible For Germany's Hyperinflationary Collapse (And Ostensibly WWII)?
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/ben-bernanke...
Why the Fed won't stop printing money
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investin...
Goldman Sachs 'predicts' Japan next to collapse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFFbFhybzGA&fe...
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Beer...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Little Johny America has a rounded $12,000,000,000,000 in debt on his credit cards as a result of deficit spending. Johny's fiscal 2010 deficit spending to date by month is as follows:
Question 1
If you add all 4 months of current deficit spending to the rounded credit card debt what is Johny's total credit card debt as of today?
Question 2
Johny has decided his credit card bill is high if Johny wanted to pay off his credit card over the next 100 years at 0% interest rate (LMAO! That's funny) How much would Johny need to pay each fiscal year to be debt free?
Answer Key
Answer to question 1) $12,164,248,228,365.53 (thats trillion)
Answer to question 2) $121,642,482,283.66
Does anyone here think we are going to reduce our spending to the point where we will be $121 billion in the black every year (to just break even) over the next 100 years? (HINT: We haven't even paid off the Vietnam War yet.)
Does anyone here think we are going to get zero percent interest on national debt? Answer: Not a chance in Heaven, Hell, or Earth.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Why don't we do what the banks do? Just write 121 billion on a piece of paper and pay it.
In the "Goldman Sachs 'predicts' Japan next to collapse" clip, the Goldman Sachs guy says he expects the Euro to continue to drop to 1.20 Euro to the US dollar.
The Euro is currently at a 9 month low - 1.35 to the dollar - and has already fallen from 1.45 to 1.35 in just the last 60 days.
What's truly interesting about that report is the way they refer to the "crisis in the euro" as if it was something that just happened, when the truth is Goldman Sachs had a hand in creating the crisis, and has now shorted the Euro with intent to profit from the crisis.
Much as they both sold mortgage security swaps and simultaneously held a short position when they KNEW what they were doing on the front end was fraudulent, or at least devious, and certain to collapse, now they've played the European Union as well.
In AlJazeera's Inside Story - Greece's financial turmoil the three guest experts have very different views, except they all agree on one thing: there should be a criminal investigation and people should go to jail. Max Keiser is as always informative and entertaining!
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
*Pour yourself something to drink and set aside about an hour to digest this very comprehensive and powerful expose' of where we are right now and how we REALLY got here:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?contex...
*Not for the faint-hearted.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
I usually don't link Global Research's stuff here, I'm afraid to get stoned more than I already do. You are brave Abbybwood (hats off).
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Well, since I guess I'm being brave tonight, I might as well link this little floor speech by Ron Paul and defy anyone on this thread to say they disagree with one word of it:
(Love him or hate him):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGktTws2bK0
Goodnight all....
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
I commend you. This is a work of art.
Agreed.
Michael Steele is a *perfect* fit!
hmmm ..
Michael Steele
James O'Keefe
Sarah Palin
The GOP looks more and more like a Mel Brooks comedy every day :)
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
"authentic frontier gibberish"
Some stuff you can't make up!
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/mess...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
http://www.wwl.com/Earthquake-in-Chile-shakes...
I did read or watched somewhere that quakes in Ak or anywhere along the ring of fire does ring Ponchartrains bell. It has something to do with the depth of the quake and the molten magma we're floating on below us sloshing around.
Kind of like an internal tsunami. Cool huh?
I never did catch why it happens just there though, don't know what the theory on that is. I must have fell asleep during the show ;)
Add: Seiche http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiche
in the MSM about the slam dunk of the democrats and Obama over the republicans about the summit but I'm glad that C&L is doing some digging into it.
but Obama was clearly in his element, and the 'Thugs were b*thches in so many ways. NO ONE that I heard gave the president any credit for how well (I thought) he handled his classroom, composed largely of (R)*tards. Of course, that was to be expected, wasn't it.
Tomorrow morning's sewer luge shows will be all shit and no speed as well.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
implication of the republicans applies 100%.
I saw a headline and news story (I don't recall where) proclaiming the Health Care Insurance Reform Summit a complete failure .. because Obama wasn't able to come out of the meeting with a plan everyone agreed upon.
Like that was going to happen ..
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
it was set up for them to come to bring in solutions on how they could come to agreement and they brought in talking points and said, " Start over."
I so wished that Obama had a baseball bat and smacked the shit out of some republicant who said that.
I'm not advocating violence, i just have a lively fantasy :p
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
is that I watched the whole thing except for about 10 minutes and the conclusion that Obama and the democrats came out as losers is completely false.
I watched a lot of it too - tho not as much as you, ron.
And my conclusion was the same.
Obama and the Dems knocked down one talking point and misrepresentation after another. And Obama pointed out "points of agreement" where Republicans had supported or proposed measures that are in fact incorporated in the current bill.
So I'd definitely give the strong win to the Dems, if we're scoring a debate.
BUT .. if the goal of the summit was to change some Republican minds, or get them to pledge to support measures they had in the past favored or proposed, then I can see the point being made that the summit was a failure.
But I (and 99% of the C&L posters) coulda told ya before the summit started that the R's weren't gonna budge an inch.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
I'm just really pissed about how the MSM has covered it or better, how they haven't covered it. Many, as we have seen, claim that Obama and the dems lost the argument. Of course we all know that it's a far left media, "NOT."
(probably not many took the time), but It should have been clear to most people who handled themselves as adults throughout. How anyone could watch and digest the thing as a 'Thug "victory" is beyond me.
Of course, if you expected to get an accurate synopsis from ABCBSNBCNN_Fux, well, their corporate sponsors didn't pick up your cable bill or bar tab, did they?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
(probably not many took the time), but It should have been clear to most people who handled themselves as adults throughout. How anyone could watch and digest the thing as a 'Thug "victory" is beyond me.
Of course, if you expected to get an accurate synopsis from ABCBSNBCNN_Fux, well, their corporate sponsors didn't pick up your cable bill or bar tab, did they?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
could have an impact.
I started watching the beginning on CNN, until Wolf decided to cut from the coverage and ask David Gergan how well he thought the republicans were doing. Flipped over to MSNBC and saw them do pretty much the same thing with Pat Buchanan, as if there is anyone on the planet who couldn't guess what these two fucks would say about how they thought the republicans were doing! Online was the only way to see it, wasn't on unedited on any cable channel in our service. CSPAN was televising some other topic.
The comments on several forums were, however, promising. There were quite a few callers during the intermission to the online CSPAN covereage, who said they were republicans that were pissed off at how the republicans were acting through out the proceedings. Anyone (who is not mental) could see the dems were obviously being accomodating (they're responses to the republicans asking for things such as tax breaks and tort reform reminded me of the old Prego speghetti sauce commercial slogan 'Its In There!'). Yet the repubs still expect more, even though they're the minority party.
Smackdowns of the repub bullshit were in abundance. The highlights of the day (to me) seemd to be the President on McCain campaigning during the proceeding, Becerra on Ryan's mudslinging of the CBO, Durbin on Coburn (and others) on tort reform/malpractice, and Charlie Rangel poinbting out to all on the other side that their use of 'Americans', applying to only those on their side of politics, is a lie.
completely loads? It may be just my weak signal, and it doesn't happen on individual threads, but the little "wheel" (Firefox tab) has never stopped spinning for the last two days for me. Response times otherwise seem normal. Weird.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
"Done, but with errors on page."
For the most part it usually loads normally except for the error warning. Although sometimes I occasionally have to reload the page because it literally won't load all the way. And I have DSL.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
just hit reload and wait ..
:)
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
I sometimes open it and it takes forever to load. I think MS specialises in slow. It takes forever to boot, forever to shut down, WMP takes forever to load, as does Internet Exploder.
me-oww!
...Redmond time, isn't it? Isn't there some time warp that happens there?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
...
me-oww!
Work fine for me and i use firefox.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
Have you cleared out your cache lately?
And I bet Annaleigh is running IE, or something IE-based, like the ATT/Yahoo browser. IE is crap. Microsoft is horrible with patching IE. [on edit: I just saw the title of your comment, Annaleigh. Download Firefox, add on NoScript and AdBlockPlus. Don't start going, "But, but...," just do it.]
I'm not having any problems with my Firefox.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Firefox 3.5.8
me-oww!
It's downloading now. ;)
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
u w1ll b l33t in 0 time.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
lrn21337srs
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
...I think I'd understand that better if it was in Dutch.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
>.< /facepalm. I guess i spend to much time on World of Warcraft. :)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
Thanks. :P
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
problems on my new imac and Safari.
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
Hear hear. So true. Drop IE Anna. Get with the "cool rad hip kids". Or whatever terminology the kids use today.
I've used Opera for a while but that wasn't my cup of tea.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
but it was impossibly slow and I eventually gave up. But I think that may have been the computer's problem.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
I used FireFox on my old computer when IE crashed and burned .. and enjoyed it.
But it simply won't load on this machine.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
The only problem with firefox is that it is heavy on the CPU. I guess that's why it's unusable on low CPU machines. Not sure though.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
FF ran fine on my older slower machine ..
no idea what the problem is on this newer faster machine ..
but IE works fine for me ..
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
I haven't used it at all since I got my new computer.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I forget to clear it, but I clear 'temp' and 'temp internet' regularly, 'cause I've got shortcuts to those.
Thanks.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Glad we now know the GOP health care reform plan:
GOP Health Care Plan
...he uses big words like 'particularly' and 'delicatessen.' -- Jack
Boner, why do you jack it off? Oh, I know, there's a lot of privacy in those tanning booths and they clean them after every use.
with the job of cleaning up in peep-show booths...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
zackly.
Cleanse it with fire?
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
do ya think they might rip off DJ Unk for the rap, even though it's 'out' not 'off?'
me-oww!
ReThugs love to steal :-)
NOBODY 2012
I wonder how much that fucker walks. Man, if all those cancer patients just knew how easy it is, just walk off you cancer. Just fecking brilliant. What is your next brilliant advice? Taking vitamins? Paragliding? skateboarding? playing in the traffic?
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
Congrats on your new gold medals, canucks!
Tomorrow's hockey game will be a blast. And it's a full moon.
Expect the unexpected! WooHoo!
Pffft, who cares. The Netherlands got there first evah gold medal on snow, on snowboarding, wow. And also the 100th gold medal in the Olympics.
GO GO red white and blue. :P
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
Them's fightin' woids :)
I still love my country. I just hate the corporatetist, fascist way that has taken it over.
You are thinking about the wrong flag. Canada can win the ice hockey game for all i care. :)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
Ha!
G'night, sleep tight!
;)
It's the first full moon after the beginning of the lunar year. It marks the end of the 2-week Chinese New Year celebration.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Ah, so that explains why i'm so fecking drunk. Damn you moon.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
At least Chile's doing better than Haiti. Another Kennedy running for office? SCOTUS is once again gun-happy Barry endorses another year of your civil liberties going down the drain. Worst corporate screw-ups.
GOP sells the average American out once again. The GOP will never change.
Nearly 6 weeks ago some of us at Crawford's Trail Mix , set - up a site to raise money for ShelterBox.
T M Fish Camp Our goal was to try and buy one or two, tonight we are 43 % into buying our 99th box. We are 15 people away from sheltering 1,000 people, now with the quake in Chile, ShelterBox will be even more pressed. Any help from the folks here at C & L would be greatly appreciated.
Our Donation Page
will be talking his voodoo shit again
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Toll_in_Haiti_fl...
But it has to be a whole town full of republicans for it to work.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness and it has almost killed America!
One important story virtually ignored by liberal blogs (because we won the election, hooray!) and corporate media but important to anyone concerned about civil liberties.
Obama signs one-year extension of Patriot Act
http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/02/27/obama-sign...
Is it the 21st century yet?
We've already been discussing it; where you've been?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Sorry, I've been gone for a while. I'm glad it's being discussed here.
Is it the 21st century yet?
But just barely.
I think people here have pretty much given up on Obama already.
We were taken in by a bait-and-switch.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
LOL! Mel Brooks. Shew, we nearly lost us a four hundred dollar hand cart!
Funny thing is many cancers come from tainted food, preservatives and other environmental hazards
But they don't want to pay to regulate those either.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
put Michael Steele in an African-American's role? :-)
NOBODY 2012
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