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Posted By ind06 1 year, 1 month ago in Humor"President Bush has spent the first seven years and ten months of his presidency doing everything in his power to leave the United States in smoldering ruins," said White House spokesperson Dana Perino. "He certainly is not going to let the final days of his tenure go to waste."
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ind061 year, 1 month ago
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A White House source has leaked that in lieu of a pardon, which could be politically inexpedient, President Bush simply plans to throw a bucket of mop water on Vice President Cheney to "melt his troubles away".
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Afterwards, he will click his ruby shoes together three times and wake in Kennebunkport being assured by doestic servants who suspiciously resemble members of his cabinet, that it was all a dream. -
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Beau78901 year, 1 month ago
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"Confounding the conventional wisdom that he is a lame duck president with no agenda as his days in office dwindle, President George W. Bush is redoubling his efforts to mutilate the country before his term expires, aides confirmed today."
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"Dwindle"! THAT'S what rhymes with "swindle"!-
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Progressive1 year, 1 month ago
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"If the President could preside over the disappearance of the Big Three and the millions of jobs they represent, that would be the ultimate feather in his cap."
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"Cap"! That rhymes with "crap", which pretty much sums up his presidency. -
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saneman1 year, 1 month ago
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Actually, what it really says is how dumb America has gotten since Bush was elected not once but twice. Before Bush was elected the first time, I knew he was an idiot and unfit to be president of anything let alone the U.S., one only needed to see his mannerisms and speaking ability to realize that.
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lvrofwolves1 year, 1 month ago
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Really? if that were true, that Americans are so dumb, he would have gotten 100% of the American vote
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1st. time-2000 Electoral vote 271 Bush 266 Gore.....
Popular vote 50,456,002 Bush.... 50,999,897 Gore
Percentage 47.9% Bush 48.4% Gore
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2nd time-2004 Electoral vote 286 Bush.... 251 Kerry
Popular vote 62,040,610 Bush .... 59,028,444 Kerry
Percentage 50.7% Bush.... 48.3% Kerry
I meant to use the word hardy, and hardy doesn't equal smart or dumb, tho I'd hardly call at least 50% of Americans dumb, maybe dumb for putting up with it as long as we have!-
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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There is "dumb" and then there is "stupid". Dumb implies they know nothing. Stupid implies they can't apply what they do know.
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So yes, 50% of Americans were Stupid! But even a stupid person can see what Bush did to us and they got smart enough this time to realize they couldn't stand to be lied to anymore!-
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lvrofwolves1 year, 1 month ago
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Jeboda Call it what you want and neg me all you want, but those were the stats on who was dumb or stupid, (take your pick)..in voting for Bush.
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Dumb is, slow to learn or understand and stupid is basically same and or tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes.
And I'll say it again, Americans are hardy, the likes of Bush will not completely ruin America, we may be down, but we're not out, Bush will be out! finally. what's important is a bigger majority will not take that BS any longer! WAHOOOO! which does not mean America has gotten dumber saneman...better late then never I guess.
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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The 'dumbing down of America" started with Reagan but we survived that bozo and smartened up after George the 1st. THEN along came Karl Rove and perfected the art of propaganda and fear. George ain't smart enough to think up anything on his own.
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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Typical liberal. Mess up the country and blame it on the Republicans. Create CRA juice it up a lot with the lobbying of ACORN. Republicans try to fix the problem that Fannie and Freddy are getting into but good compassionate Democrats claim they are lying. Then watch the housing market climb and then OOPS. Foreclosures start. Not supposed to happen. Just because banks were forced to give poor people loans they could not afford. Banks were not supposed to want their money back I guess. Too many foreclosures. Oh oh, the bubble burst. Financial disaster. Market goes into a tailspin. That is OK we can blame the Republicans.
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Way to go libs. Compassion in mortgages. Now maybe the government will pay for all of those bad loans.-
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Tangent0011 year, 1 month ago
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Still on that old CRA-is-responsible-for-the-mortgage-meltdown saw, are ya?
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I've shown you time and again that at maximum, 1/6 of the bad loans had anything whatsoever to do with CRA compliance. Further, when the CRA was weakened, sub-prime mortgages INCREASED!
What more likely caused the crisis was the weakening and eventual abandonment of the Glass-Steagall Act put in place during the Great Depression to guard against financial institutions shuffling, bundling and juggling money from balance sheet to balance sheet to make it appear they are a lot healthier than they actually are. The CRA didn't force banks to write bad loans, deregulation ALLOWED banks to write bad loans. Over half of the sub-prime loans written could have actually qualified for conventional loans. Banks and brokers tended to steer borrowers away from (or outright not reveal) conforming loan options because the sub-prime loans were simply more lucrative.-
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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DRA was only part of the problem. The banking laws that were changed at the same time by ACORN lobbying helped a lot as well.
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http://mises.org/story/2963
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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Hey Bozo breath! BUSH pushed CRA and put it over the edge in 2002. My wife worked in the mortgage business and remembers it well.
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I dare you to read and try to comprehend this OFFICIAL White House news release!!
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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Endo, there is no hope for you. We show you FACTS and you choose to ignore them. ONE MORE TIME!!
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FACT: A bipartisan panel tried to regulate Fannie and Freddie in 2004. It was led by some good Republicans. RESULT? They were damn near run out of town by the Republican congress! God no! Republicans regulate anything? NEVER! You want blame? Go look in the mirror. People like you give comfort to the corrupt, inept, unethical, and morally challenged GOP!
THAT is why your part was not only resoundingly defeated 2 weeks ago, but is on a rapid decline to the cellar of politics. If they don't throw off the radical ditto heads like yourself and disavow themselves of hate radio and TV like Limbaugh, Hannity, etc., they will sink deeper and deeper until they no longer exist. THAT would by my first choice of what becomes of them for enabling G.W. Bush to destroy our country. However, if they should decide to return to the honorable old GOP that I was registered with until 6 years ago, I might once again embrace them.
BUT! Step one, they have to remove the haters, liars, smear agents, propagandists, thieves, pedophiles, etc. from their ranks first!
GOT IT? And don't tell me the Dems need to do the same. The ratio of Repugs caught with their 'pants down' is monumental compared with that of the Democrats.-
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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It totally mystifies me that someone like you who is so poorly armed with intelligence can post the drivel you do and expect anyone to buy it. But then I guess there's will always be those with double digit IQ's hanging out on propeller who will listen.
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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ACORN is not just a voting registration group. That is only one part of their activities. Prior to 1990 they were having a problem getting banks to make more CRA loans. At that time Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae demanded a minimum of 10% down on amy loans they would take. Obama sued Citicorp for ACORN to try and make them give more CRA mortgages.
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They went to congress in 1990 and lobbied for changing the CRA and banking laws. In 1992 under Clinton they were successful. The laws took effect in 1995. That started the housing bubble because banks were then graded on their CRA performance. Bad rating and no expansion allowed. As time went on the loans kept getting more risky. Republican tried to get Freddy and Fannie fixed starting in 2003 but the Democrats went to the wall defending them saying the people bringing the report were lying etc. Then in 2006 the housing bubble burst. The rest is a financial disaster.
From their own mouth.
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12444=1%2Findex....
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Tangent0011 year, 1 month ago
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"As time went on the loans kept getting more risky. " This coincides with the weakening of the Glass-Steagall Act. In point of fact, mortgage banks were allowed to merge with insurance providers, and lo and behold, more high-risk loans were made because an underwriter could effectively insure itself.
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ACORN was active in ensuring the CRA mandate against redlining was enforced. Suggesting they lobbied to force banks to make unqualified loans is patently ridiculous. Yes, ratings were tied to CRA compliance, but ratings could certainly be appealed. Lower (or NO) down payments were an industry standard.
Again, only 1/6 of the bad paper had anything at all to do with CRA compliance.
ACORN started the housing bubble? I expect better from you, Endo.-
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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You forget they admitted to lobbying to modify the CRA standards and did it in 1992. You just do not want to admit that they did it. You first refused to believe that were anything but a voter registration organization. Foolish lib.
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They say it but you ignore it. Just have to keep your blinders on. They are a very liberal organization with tentacles in a lot of things. The compassion of mortgages was their concern in the housing market. Red lining is just a way of saying the banks were not allowed to ask for money down and could not examine the income of the people asking for a loan. What happens when you go for a loan. How much down is required and what proof of income do they ask for? But the banks are not allowed to do that for the poor. Then you compassionate liberals wonder why the foreclosures came. Foolish libs.
Legislative changes 1992 to CRA (ACORN)
Although not part of the CRA, in order to achieve similar aims the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 required Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government sponsored enterprises that purchase and securitize mortgages, to devote a percentage of their lending to support affordable housing.
In October 2000, in order to expand the secondary market for affordable community-based mortgages and to increase liquidity for CRA-eligible loans, Fannie Mae committed to purchase and securitize $2 billion of "MyCommunityMortgage" loans. In November 2000 Fannie Mae announced that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) would soon require it to dedicate 50% of its business to low- and moderate-income families." It stated that since 1997 Fannie Mae had done nearly $7 billion in CRA business with depository institutions, but its goal was $20 billion. In 2001 Fannie Mae announced that it had acquired $10 billion in specially-targeted Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) loans more than one and a half years ahead of schedule, and announced its goal to finance over $500 billion in CRA business by 2010, about one third of loans anticipated to be financed by Fannie Mae during that period.-
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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and in 2002, PRESIDENT GEORE W. BUSH pushed it even further! Prior to HIS push, everything was pretty well in balance.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20...
Endo, you can't rationalize your way around this one. My wife remembers when Bush did this that the 'liar loans' etc. started. She predicted our current condition then and she was right.
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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Endo, thanks for the link. I stand totally corrected! You are right! BUT, CRA was to prevent red-lining by banks. In addition, under CRA, banks were required to return a portion of their profits to the community. This was often in the form of contributions to Boys and Girls Clubs, Community Recreation programs, Libraries, etc. All organizations that were neither black nor white.
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 1 month ago
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Well now he can claim to have been a success at something !!!!
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Nobody can say they have damaged the United States as much as he has. Mission Accomplished GW
I am awarding him the long forgotten "Laugh-In" Fickle Finger of Fate award. May it tickle his fanny as he has tickled ours. LMAO
As for the random bombing of Belgium, Don't mess with my morning waffles bud !!!!!!!
I'll pis* on your cheerios and make them soaked oats !!!! LOL
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 1 month ago
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Crymtyphon stares at the zen koan presented by the Master Charlson:
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the best thing you've done in life is fail at whatever you do except succeeding at failure .
If the young disciple can not solve the riddle, he must carry hot coals in his pants while running through the scorpion pit.
succeed at failure he whispers to himself. What does it mean?
fail at whatever you do except succeeding ...
He begins to sweat.
Scorpions.
Hot coals.
He tries an answer:
"Does it mean... a fish?"
The Master stares blankly at the pupil a moment. Then he signals to the other disciples.
Bring the bucket of coals .
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cushi1 year, 1 month ago
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I am so incensed and embittered by this man and his "trashing" of the country...his abdication of a sacred responsibility to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States of America...his misuse and abuse of religion...his idiotic lack of understanding and lack of conscience...his audacity of arrogance in the face of utter humiliation...oh, I could go on and on and on...
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Suffice it to say that I can't even enjoy this attempt at humorizing the horror of his presidency. -
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chevydog1 year, 1 month ago
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Air strikes on Belgium? But they haven't done anyting to us! Now those rogue states of Liechtenstein and Andorra are another matter. I've heard rumors that they both have nu-cular subs plying off the Houston ship channel. They're jealous of our goats.
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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NO, No, a thousand times NO! Did you get over the assassination of JFK? Have you gotten over the 9/11 disaster? Have you gotten over the vietnam war?
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Bush has been just as big a disaster politically, economically, ethically, and morally as any of these disasters were in their own right!
He has destroyed our confidence in our government. He has destroyed our trust in anything we are told. He has promoted hate and divisiveness. He has promoted the right wing propaganda machine to polute the easily manipulated minds of right wingers....
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chevydog1 year, 1 month ago
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Take a deep breath. Exhale slowly. Feel better now? The sun is still up there, birds are tweeting somewhere, and the planets are still in their courses. The country has endured some pretty yucky stuff before, and it can do it once again.
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Personally, I went from "Give the guy a chance" suspension of judgement with WB(though I didn't much like the tone of the 2000 election) to thinking that he was overmatched by the job and that we all would have been better off had he stayed back in Texas. Now Prez-elect Obama has the chance. Some people worship the ground he walks on; I view him as a successful candidate. He's got the chance to steer the country well (not sure whether he or anyone else has any idea of just what that is now); or to bollix it up royally. For all our sakes, I hope he does well; but that's not a given for anybody.-
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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Well said Chevydog. People need to give the new Prez a chance. Never in history has an incoming president inherited more of a mess.
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But that still doesn't mean we should shed our bitterness for what Bush has done to this country. What Nixon did and Clinton did pales in comparison but the Dems don't even have the balls to do their constitutionally sworn duty and impeach the SOB. So we have continued to be the most hated country in the world under Bush.
World leaders are relieved we have someone like Obama coming on board. Someone with a level head and the desire to mend fences.
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lvrofwolves1 year, 1 month ago
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Prosper-inc 'Isn't it about time to get over Bush people?'
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If he would pay back everything he's cost us, if he wouldn't take another penny from us...you know that 187,800 per year after he's out! NOT .01 CENT! I really resent that.
let him pay for his own health care etc......after the national debt is not being paid back by our Grandchildren, then, maybe then he can be gotten over, but we should never forget, that's for damn sure!!! -
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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The libs have a hate thing going. The have to hate somebody even if for no more reason than what the Democrats did caused a problem that he did not fix. They have to blame him for everything wrong or if they perceive it wrong. Liberals live to hate. Just keep looking at their posts.
Bush had a horrible deficit. Ignore the fact that the Democrats said he did not go far enough. What are they going to say about Obama's deficit? He said recently that deficits are no problem.
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lloydm651 year, 1 month ago
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Lord help those who through total ignorance can't help themselves.How sad it must be to black,and so full of visceral hate.I don't understand what your problem is.Are you disappointed that despite all the stupid democrats,and of course Chuck Hagal predicting daily that we were in more peril,and subject to more terrorist attacks any minute,and it didn't happen? Wow as dad,a granddad,and a great granddad,I'm grateful.Thank I thank God,and president Bush,once again I will enjoy the holidays with familey and friends in my peaceful community,state,and country.ps I am truly sorry for your pain.
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 1 month ago
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Expressions of hate and contempt delivered as sad, kindly pity, - that's an art form that should not be undertaken lightly, lloyd.
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You had the basic ingredients:
a plea to Divinity to help those who in their 'total ignorance can't help themselves' (ie: they keep disagreeing with you).
a good knife-jab to the eye about how full of visceral hate they are.
an 'I am truly sorry for the pain you must feel being who you are'.
But you wondered into factuality; and as your facts were clearly wrong,
it weakened the framework of contempt .
Chuck Hagal was not the one screaming the terror color code for the day;
that was Cheney and Chertoff.
It was not Hagel who invaded a country to look for nuclear bombs;
then twaddled other reasons when none were found.
It was not Hagal who canceled parts of my constitution to protect the freedoms of my country.
That you are a dad and a granddad and a great-granddad does not make you wise; it only requires you to honestly try and be wise.
Wisdom isn't pitying those who disagrees with you.
It is honestly wondering whether you might be wrong..
Your final, evil little expression of sorrow for our pain?
We aren't in pain, lloyd.
We decided what to do and we elected our man to do it.
We are going to fix the problems that Bush made for our country.
We will be free and prosperous and at peace again.
Our flag will wave bright in the light of the torch of the statue of liberty.
And that's good for your grandkids.
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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Typical liberal. Taking that and turning it into hate speech. You are so liberal that you think that what the liberals are saying are not hate speech. You are so blind that you can't see the hate exuded in this thread about what was supposed to be a humor piece.
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 1 month ago
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For a while I found your hate of liberals interesting, Endo; mostly because you framed your oppostion as because they hate .
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Then it got dull.
Say something affirming or at least funny,
Choose a liberal who says something good; and tell them they made a good point.
Choose a con who has said something mean or dishonest; and tell them off .
I am on record on Propeller as doing both, Endo;
But I have never seen you step away from the party line.
You can't.
You hate us too much.
Your whole point on being on Propeller, is to play 'whack a liberal'.
And you aren't very good at it.
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4thchance1 year, 1 month ago
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Bush has been blamed for virtually everything that has gone wrong around the entire world over the last 7+ years.
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He's been blamed for everything from the 9/11 attacks, to a hurricane that wiped out New Orleans, to wild fires in California, to Iran having nukes, to the wall street meltdown, to the bank failures, to global food crises, to tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, obesity, STDs, Al Qaeda terrorism, high gas and food prices, dirty diapers, radio static, torn shirts, pot holes, burnt toast.... You name it, Bush has been blamed for it. Now you people sit here and try to tell us Bush has done nothing. Well, I beg to differ.
Sure seems to me, he's got more done then any other president we have ever had. He's been VERY BUSY!
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4thchance1 year, 1 month ago
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Here's what the future holds now with the Democrat party in power...
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When anything went wrong under Bush, it was the fault of Bush because it happened on his watch, RIGHT?
Watch what happens now that Democrat Obama is in power and everything is under Obama's watch. Once Obama takes office, anything and everything that goes wrong anywhere in the world, will be the fault of BUSH...wana bet!? We have a true double standard in our country. This blame game is a one way street with the Democrats. Hypocrisy at it's very finest!
The Democrats have a huge advantage. They have the media who will NEVER blame anything on the democrats. Everything will still be the fault of bush, probably for the rest of our lifetimes anyway.
The media can be summed up in this way.
The Democrats can do nothing wrong. The Republicans can do nothing right. That's the facts we have to live with now in this country. So, we will need to get use to the idea of having one party nation. Much like Cuba with their Castro!-
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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Oh puleeeze! Left wing media? Are you just stupid or what? Reagan deregulated EVERYTHING and allowed the richest people in the world to totally control the media. The media, with a few glimmers of light, is totally a right wing propaganda machine. Just look at Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, FAUX news, Clear Channel, etc.
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Oh sure, the left FINALLY has a voice on the other side with Olbermann and Maddow but too little too late. The right wing media has succeeded in dumbing down America and gotten people like 4thchance to drink the koolaid. I feel really sorry for you 4thchance! I'm not giving you or your rabid harbingers of hate even 1 more chance. You and your criminal GOP are toast! Get over it!-
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4thchance1 year, 1 month ago
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You are correct, the right does currently have the better portion of talk radio on their side, and a little bit of Fox news may lean slightly to the right.
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One of the Obama/democrat plans is to silence their opposition. Many are predicting that the Obama administration will soon shut down conservative talk radio. There again we will see hypocrisy it it's finest. The liberals are all for FREEDOM Of SPEECH, except when it comes to conservatives. Then freedom of speech will need to be wiped out! We will soon see that freedom of speech is a one way street in this country.
Lets tally up what the left has.
CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC and all their HUNDREDS of affiliates around the country are mostly all on the left side of the issues.
Then lets toss in most all newspapers and most all magazines in the USA, all in the tank for the Democrats.
So, as a quick calculation, I'd say the left has about 90% of ALL MEDIA siding with them. That leaves 10% for the Republicans!-
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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All Obama wants to do is bring back the "fairness doctrine" which was cancelled by Reagan so his right wing propagandists could start their brainwashing. The Fairness Doctrine just says that both sides should be presented. It is NOT denying anyone the right to free speech.
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Is that really so threatening to you?
Your long list of those you say are on the LEFT is comical. Most of those you list are really somewhere in the middle but anything other than Waaaaay Right is Left to you!-
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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The fairness doctrine is another way of saying censorship. Of course you liberals always say no but the bottom line is that it is. Here is how it works. Refute it if you can.
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A person owns a radio station. They need to get advertisers to pay for air time. The amount that they can charge for the advertising is directly related to the ratings on any particular show. So the most popular shows get the bigger amounts in advertising. A talk show stations changes hosts if their ratings drop below a certain level. They will then try to get someone that will generate better ratings. This is a fact of life that Rush Limbaugh lived with as he went from station to station in his early career. He even quit radio for a while.
The station has a line up of several conservative talk shows because every time a liberal is put on the ratings go in the cellar. Now along comes the Fairness Doctrine and for every conservative show the government now says they have to have a counterbalance. So they put on liberals to equal the conservatives. Soon the station is running in red ink. The liberals generate very little revenue. Probably a third of the conservative ones. They try other liberals with the same results. At least 30% of their revenue is gone. Is the government going to make up the difference in revenue? I bet not since liberals want the conservatives off the air. That is what it is all about.
So what do they do? They can quit the business or switch formats to some sort of music or put on things like how to shows. The only thing for sure is that there will be NO political talk. Just what liberals want.
Christian stations are also iafraid it will be applied to them. So they will have to shut down rather than put on atheists talk for each our of Christian talk.
Tell me how this is not censorship. This is the reality of radio economics.
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4thchance1 year, 1 month ago
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hey Jeboba,
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how's about you show us where the media has, and or, is making a big deal out of something that a Democrat has done wrong. Then I will spend the next week or so compiling a list of all the blame the media has placed on Bush...
I'm 100% serious, name a wrong doing on the part of a Democrat that the media has rammed down our throats like they do with wrong doings by the Republicans. This should be interesting....we will be sitting here and WAITING for your answer....Oh I see, (Jeboba) must have logged off for the day. We won't be hearing from him now...-
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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ARE YOU F'ING SERIOUS?
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All you have to do is listen to Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Schnitt, Fox news, and on and on and on and you will hear them making a big deal out of EVERYTHING wrong with the Democrats.
You're a real piece of work. If we don't answer you instantly, we must have chickened out? SOME OF US HAVE LIVES AND DON'T LIVE IT ON PROPELLER!-
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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You're damned right I'm angry! I'm angry that my country was hijacked 8 years ago. That truth became the exception rather than the norm. That I have been lied to, marginalized, disenfranchised, and bankrupted.
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Angy! Hell yes! We're Mad and We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore!
There, I feel better now.
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reallypsst1 year, 1 month ago
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O please stop the bs , it was already debated and confirmed that every one in his administration and security agencies had some prior intel on possible targets.Here is a list of countries that warned us Israel,france ,briton,even russia sent a warning,so stop standing up for this idiot its not wise !
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Tangent0011 year, 1 month ago
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"Bush has been blamed for virtually everything that has gone wrong around the entire world over the last 7+ years. "
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Not by the Right he hasn't:
9/11 was Clinton's fault.
The mortgage crisis was Carter's fault.
North Korea's nukes are Clinton's fault.
Saddam/Iraq was Clinton's/the U.N.'s fault.
The recession is the Democrat Congress' fault.
$5/gallon gas prices were the Democrat Congress' fault.
The stock market downturn is Obama's fault.
Katrina was the gay's fault.
The big-3 auto industry failure is the UAW's fault.
No Child Left Behind's failure is the Teachers Union's fault.
McCain's loss is the Liberal Media's fault.
Poverty is Roosevelt's fault.
High medical costs are the illegal immigrants' fault.
Bin Laden still at large is Musharraf's fault.
If the Liberals blame Bush for everything, then it is fair to say the Conservatives blame Bush for NOTHING.
I'm willing to concede we haven't had another major terrorist attack on US soil for the majority of Bush's term and it appears several potential attacks were indeed thwarted. But keep in mind, Clinton thwarted several attacks as well and it took 8 years between the major al Qaeda attacks on the WTC.
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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...never heard of this Dana Perino....
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Typical Republican. You just buy the crap you hear on the RIGHT WING MEDIA every day and don't pay attention.
DANA PERINO IS PRESIDENT BUSH's PRESS SECRETARY! SHE'S ON TV ALL THE TIME! You living in a cave somewhere in Tennessee....where they voted for McCain? Yeah, that must be it.
Maybe next year you can get your own outhouse so you can better contain your $hit!
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THOMNH621 year, 1 month ago
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you freakin bloggers have nothing better to do, well your in luck because under the incoming administration you will be able to stay on welfare and sit in from of your computers in your underwear and spout hatred all day. Hail to the Chief and praise be to ala Obama
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THOMNH621 year, 1 month ago
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never said I cared for or even voted for Bush, just wondered whats wrong with people. If we disagree about something political why do the people on the left resort to calling people names. By the way, as a conservative i think Bush and the right had their chance and they screwed it up but bringing back a Clinton administration lead by the most socialist leaning president in history worries me.
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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Our calling names is a learned response. We learned it from 8 years of you right wingers calling us every dirty name in the book while lieing and smearing honorable men and women trying to run for office. The GOP even did it to their own. Look at how they smeared McCain in 2000! And McCain still came back for seconds on the koolaid. You want to know why we hate anything GOP, Right, etc? Because YOU have taught us well and it's OUR turn to be the bullies in the schoolyard. Now go put your little pointy hat on and stand in the corner like a good little loser!
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Tangent0011 year, 1 month ago
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The 110th Congress:
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Raised the minimum wage.
Passed the GI bill.
Passed a Highway bill, creating 40,000 good-paying jobs
Closed tax loopholes for companies that outsource
Passed the Farm bill.
Passed access to low-cost student loans.
There's more...
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lloydm651 year, 1 month ago
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4thchance Hang on ,after all the democrats promised the black folks just about everything they ask for,even an elevator,they haven't received it yet,but they were given shaft right away.So don't give up yet some day they will slip up,and fulfill a campaign promise,and that will be the end of their reign of power.No one would believe it.
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ChefEOD1 year, 1 month ago
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Have no fear, what ever President Bush has left untouched or undone, the uber lord Obama will carry to completion. Rest peacefully and soundly, we are in good hands, the change will come as a thief in the night and everyone will be taken care of by the government from this time forward.
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4thchance1 year, 1 month ago
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Hells Bells, that BIG Obama change is already coming, it's in the form of the same old Democrat crap. Obama is using the past Clinton administration people for most all his administration. FINALLY we know what Obama meant by CHANGE! Change back to the Clinton years. That's just great there Obama!
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Poulenc1 year, 1 month ago
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Alas, what Bush and Co. can still do to make the world a more revolting place, is no laughing matter.
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From this week's New Yorker:
"...Bush has entered into his own midnight period, and it promises to be a dark time indeed. Among the many new regulations—or, rather, deregulations—the Administration has proposed are rules that would: make it harder for the government to limit workers’ exposure to toxins, eliminate environmental review from decisions affecting fisheries, and ease restrictions on companies that blow up mountains to get at the coal underneath them. Other midnight regulations in the works include rules to allow “factory farms” to ignore the Clean Water Act, rules making it tougher for employees to take family or medical leave, and rules that would effectively gut the Endangered Species Act. Most regulations are subject to public input; such is the sense of urgency that the Administration has brought to the task of despoliation that the Interior Department completed its “review” of two hundred thousand public comments on the endangered-species rules in just four days, a feat that, one congressional aide calculated, required each staff member involved to read through comments at the rate of seven per minute. 'So little time, so much damage' is how the Times recently put it...." -
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reallypsst1 year, 1 month ago
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We all know that bush was the store front puppet,lets face it his presidency was brought by his old man and the chenney and company.also remember he bankrupted his oil companies with the backing of osama bin laden family we should have known this clown couldn't run a lemonade stand!
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Tangent0011 year, 1 month ago
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Looks that way:
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"George Bush is working at a breakneck pace to dismantle at least 10 major environmental safeguards protecting America's wildlife, national parks and rivers before he leaves office in January."
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m_ayyad1 year, 1 month ago
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YES-He succeeded already in wrecking the country!!
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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What is your point? The cited article says The Obama peace initiative will strengthen the position of Tzipi Livni, who supports the large-scale withdrawal from the West Bank and a final solution to the relationship with the Palestinians.
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FINAL SOLUTION TO THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PALESTINIANS! Are you saying that isn't a good goal? I guess you just want the illegal killing by both the Palestinians and Israelis to continue?
What IS your thought process? Please enlighten.
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fedexman69-391 year, 1 month ago
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You fools. There is no difference between Demoncats or Republicrats. No Bama gets in and he brings in all the old Janet Reno retreads. That's Change for you.
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People forget the Greenspan and Clinton put through the Commodity Modernization Act thru the lame duck session of 12/12/2000 before Dumb ass Bush even got in there. This law mad side bets, Credit Default Swaps legal. They were outlawed in 1908 by the Shad-Johnson Act. The derivetives created by these side bets sunk the US Economy. Clinton and Greenspan will go down in history as the two people that wrecked our Capitalistic system that created wealth in Red China. The Chinese are now more captialist than our new Euro based-permanently stagnated economy. -
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 1 month ago
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24 hours later...
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Ok, DaneL, - busy is good;
but responsibility is better.
You profile says you are big on guns and responsibility.
If you are holding an AK47 to the screen right now, - don't shoot yet.
It is responsibility time ; and responsibility is a more dangerous item anyway.
To recap:
A rascist propeller troll named NoNI_Gars (!) said something trollish; Cowboygrandpa replied with a quick rambling rebuttal; to which a 2nd troll had no reply except a dull insult;
- nothing unusual there, and CowboyGrandpa can defend himself against a dozen of those types,
- but then you followed along with support for the 2 trolls.
So I said, CowboyGrandpa was worth listening to, and asked what did you have to tell us, worth hearing?
You promised us something solid last night.
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