Our good friends at Investors’ Business Daily have provided us with a handy graphic that shows the phoniness of Obama’s claims about the economy.
The article is worth the five minutes it takes to read.
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OK, let’s try again; Trouble in Paradise?
Look: I’m trying to rally some morale, but I’ve never seen a candidate this late in the game, so far ahead, just throw in the towel in the way Obama did last week – throw away almost every single advantage he had with voters and manage to enable his opponent to seem as if he cares about the middle class as much as Obama does. How do you erase that imprinted first image from public consciousness: a president incapable of making a single argument or even a halfway decent closing statement? And after Romney’s convincing Etch-A-Sketch, convincing because Obama was incapable of exposing it, Romney is now the centrist candidate, even as he is running to head up the most radical party in the modern era.
How can Obama come back? By ensuring people know that Romney was and is a shameless liar and opportunist? That doesn’t work for a sitting president. He always needed a clear positive proposal – tax reform, a Grand Bargain on S-B lines – as well as a sterling defense of his admirable record. Bill Clinton did the former for him. Everyone imaginable did what they could for him. And his response? Well, let’s look back a bit:
With President Obama holed up in a Nevada resort for debate practice, things can get pretty boring on the White House beat right now. Pretty boring for Obama too, apparently. “Basically they’re keeping me indoors all the time,” Obama told a supporter on the phone during a visit to a Las Vegas area field office. “It’s a drag,” he added. “They’re making me do my homework.” -
Thanks Hambone!! 😉
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G’Morning All
Got company this week. How’s this to serve a yankee?
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Great wrap up of the phony claims article.
To get a sense of how dismal Obama’s recovery has been, consider this: Since World War II, there have been 10 recoveries before Obama’s. Had Obama’s merely performed as well the average of all those recoveries, the nation’s GDP would be a staggering $1.2 trillion bigger than it is today, and 7.9 million more people would have jobs.
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Taranto takes on our local rag for doing what comes natural to them – being a “progressive” mouthpiece:
The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments this week in Fisher v. University of Texas, a case that challenges racial discrimination in college and university admissions. A decade ago, in Grutter v. Bollinger, the court held that such discrimination is constitutionally permissible in order to promote “the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body,” whatever those might be.
Abigail Fisher, the plaintiff in the case, applied to the University of Texas’ flagship Austin campus. Her grades and scores were good enough that she would have gotten in had she been from an “underrepresented” minority. But because she was white, she was rejected.
Here’s how her hometown paper, the Houston Chronicle, began a “news” story on the case over the weekend: “In the fall of 2008, the University of Texas enrolled 10,335 minority students, not including Asian-Americans. As far as Abigail Fisher was concerned, that was one too many.”
It’s not even plausible that as a high school senior, Fisher tallied up the number of minority students–being careful not to include Asian-Americans!–and decided that it would be better if it were 10,334 rather than 10,335.
Sure, reporter Mike Tolson didn’t mean that literally. What he did mean is that Fisher is hostile to minorities–a claim for which Tolson provides not a shred of evidence. Quite the contrary: She is quoted as saying (“in a videotaped interview posted on YouTube by her lawyers,” Tolson notes): “I was taught from the time I was a little girl that any kind of discrimination was wrong.”
It’s bad enough that Tolson is so brazenly biased in a news story (and, we should note, in favor of the government–so much for speaking truth to power). Smearing a young woman by falsely imputing to her invidious racial motives is simply despicable. It would be inexcusable even in an opinion piece. Tolson and the Chronicle owe Abigail Fisher, and their readers, a groveling apology. -
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The graphs are compelling. I’ll come back when I have the 5 mins to read the article. Oh –good morning, Hamsterville.
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It’s time for another round of the exciting game that’s sweeping the nation: Name That State!
In which state was this statement made?“The snake is being held in his name and is full property of his estate.”
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I keep telling you, these are Yankees not acclimated to Florida. That’s why they go crazy. There is no one “from” Broward or Dade County. They just stay there.
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Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good,
Now, cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good,
When the levee breaks, Barry, you got to move.Mitt Romney’s post-debate surge appears to have all but wiped out President Obama’s once double-digit lead among women voters.
A new Pew Research Center survey depicted a remarkable swing in the numbers, with Romney pulling even among women in polling late last week. In September, the same polling outfit showed Obama leading by 18 points among women.Texpat predicted an electoral college blowout for Romney. I thought he was way too optimistic. Now, I’m not so sure.
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#2 Super Dave
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Dade Stayed.
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Obama’s issued a “Big Bird” Commercial against Romney.
Breitbart makes a good point:At the same time Team Obama released a childish ad hitting Mitt Romney for daring to consider removing multimillionaire, one-percenter Big Bird from the federal government welfare rolls, the Romney campaign released a devastating graphic that shows that since his debate debacle, Barack Obama has mention Big Bird and Elmo 13 times but has not mentioned Libya or his plan to fix the economy even once.
The Obamaphoners might be happy with the ad, but I hope and pray that the majority of the voting public have a little more intellectual depth than the obvious target audience.
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Yute attacks teacher, knocking him unconscious, in Philly and he and his 4 associates think it is cool. See the video here.
When this little miscreant is caught, along with his associates, they need to do some time in the big house, ya know yo so they can be buildin up they street cred. -
#11 Hamous
I heard one of the Colorado professors who developed the much talked about and surprisingly accurate voting computer model interviewed by Mark Levin last night. He said the reports he was getting out of SE Pennsylvania/Philly area from Democratic activists were absolutely dismal. He was pretty confident Mitt would win in that state.
He also said Minnesota is shaping up to be a sleeper for the Republicans and it is so close there, he rates it a dead even tie.
They are projecting now an electoral tally of Romney 330 to Obama’s 208.
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#6 Hamous
Loved Taranto’s review of the Chron’s pathetic snark piece. Seems as if the staff there is getting more nervous as the days pass and venting their displeasure in their writings.
Loved all of Taranto’s gypsies, tramps & thieves review of media distress.
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Why Ryan might have trouble with Biden in their debate.
Mod: Mr Vice President, what is the Administration’s plan moving forward to address the record high deficits?
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#15 Bonecrusher
Just a few days ago I saw a video of some black teenagers getting off a bus in Philly (I think it was Philly) and for no reason at all, one of ’em sucker punches the elderly bus driver, knocking him out. Some months ago there was another security video at a subway where the same thing happened – to another elderly man. The yutes were celebrating their achievement before boarding the train, leaving the man laying on the ground.
This is such a sad commentary on society, where knocking people out for fun is celebrated.
And while this may not be limited to the black community, I find it interesting that I’ve only seen black youths doing this. There may be whites and hispanics doing this, too, but I’ve yet to see them caught on video doing this.
There is a rude subculture in our society, and the adults in charge either are participating themselves or are not doing anything to teach their children any better. This goes for the blasting of rap music with vulgar lyrics (for which Hubby was physically threatened when he asked the driver to turn it down, so our young Lovely Daughter wouldn’t be forcibly exposed to the words). It goes for the saggy pants, exposing buttocks to the unwilling world. It is exposed in the “what’s in it for me” group.
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#17 texpat
hubba hubba
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Ryan’s best bet is to just treat the debate as a campaign speech. Ignore Biden, state his positions, and smile benignly at the doddering fool.
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Today is John Lennon’s birthday. “Imagine no religion.”
The growth in the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans – sometimes called the rise of the “nones” – is largely driven by generational replacement, the gradual supplanting of older generations by newer ones. A third of adults under 30 have no religious affiliation (32%), compared with just one-in-ten who are 65 and older (9%). And young adults today are much more likely to be unaffiliated than previous generations were at a similar stage in their lives.
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#20 TT: It is more evidence of the times we are in, we are at the “end of the age” good is being called bad and bad is being called good. The actions of the yutes is another indicator. The pants hanging below the butt has to be a harbinger of the end. Think about it, these thugs have to hang on to their pants with one hand to keep them from falling off and they think it is cool, the fact that they lose the use of one hand doesn’t seem to bother them. Style over substance, form to the abuse of function. I still view it as “wire testing” by the evil one to see just how depraved we are.
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What happens when you speak truth to real power.
All of those fairy, wimpy-a$$ed, Che wannabe’s who wear masks at their little rallies while they cr@p on police cars have nothing to worry about in those protests aside from a little tear gas or pepper spray (at the absolute WORST). -
#23 bob42
Congratulations. You’re almost in at least a plurality for once.
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Self-Promote for the next 4 years while beginning list of goals written out in Oklahoma having to do with destroying and removing church buildings from U.S., a tiny bit at a time — setting foundation for the years to follow.
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John Lennon was a One Percenter.
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#26 Nah, no tingles here. I’ve been seeing the trend develop for my entire adult life, and fully expect to continue at its present or a greater rate for the foreseeable future. “AANs” (atheists/agnostics/nones) will never be a majority, but I can see the “spiritual not religious” crowd being a near majority eventually.
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#15 – One wonders if no one teaches simple math in Pittsburgh?
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#30 Katfish: I sit corrected. I did not count so much as estimate, and apparently not that well. The point remains that they all need to be the “beyotch” in the big house so they get a real idea what it is like to be abused. Perhaps when the shoe has been on the other foot they may get a different idea of what is cool.
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The video says five. Maybe one was not actually involved?
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#27 The dude is obviously delusional and criminally insane. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Rush hatched some delusional conspiracy theory involving those godless evil libruls and feminazis. Or maybe he’ll just blame it on teh gay agenda.
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Nah, he probably reads your hate-filled screeds directed at Christians and decided to take it to another level.
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Hysteria based on half truths. The article is Fracking Nation in Discover Magazine, Matt Damon is starring in a movie meant to sensationalize the same thing. In an effort to avert a ban on fracking similar to what happened with the nuclear power industry due to the movie China Syndrome, an oil industry group is mounting a counter offensive to speak truth to the lies. When I can find the link I will post it.
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#31 – Bubba I was not correcting YOU – the freakin TV report said 5 <<<<<<another glaring example of the death of journalism!
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Everyone should be protesting this crap.
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#34 Hamous, “hate-filled” is a subjective opinion and your responsibility, not mine. I think it’s related to your hypersensitive tendency to defend Christian domination of government, politics, and society in general.
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#36 Katfish: The growth that has sprouted from the carcass of dead journalism is nothing more than propaganda. The LSM has an agenda and an objective and the truth is what ever they want it to be that day to further same.
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#34 Hamous, “hate-filled” is a subjective opinion and your responsibility, not mine.
MALARKY! Your hatred of things decent and moral (as objectively defined in The Bible) comes through loud and clear, this is not a question of any individuals perception, as any objective analysis of your writings will conclude.
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Hamous, “hate-filled” is a subjective opinion and your responsibility, not mine.
There’s lots of objective evidence of your hatred towards Christians who won’t accept your twisted libertine dogma. I don’t care whether you accept your responsibility or not. It makes no difference to me. Your words have no power over me. The fact remains you are a hateful person who goes out of his way to disparage, sometimes in a most vile manner, those who dare to disagree. But it is indeed you who are responsible for the bile that spews from your mouth on a regular basis.
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The foaming at the mouth arabs are flooding Yahoo’s news site.
HEADLINE:After drone, Israel deploys missile defense unit
The comments are some of the most vulgar, naked, Jew hating bile I have ever read.
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Bob will have a major “oh no” moment when draws his last breath. For that, I feel sorry for him. And for that reason, I sometimes find patience with him. It reminds me of a story I read, illustrating Christian patience:
A man named Joe was at a bar with three of his friends. As the beer flowed, so did the clock and before they were ready to call it a night, they heard the last call. “Why don’t you guys come over to my house?” he asked, “my wife will get up and fix us breakfast.”
“Joe, it’s 2:00 am! You’re going to wake up your wife?!” they responded.
“Yeah, she does it all the time,” Joe said, “come on home with me and see.” The four of them staggered to Joe’s house. Joe disappeared into the bedroom for a moment, and soon his wife appeared, attired in her robe, and began pulling out eggs and bacon from the refrigerator. She smiled at Joe’s friends and invited them to sit and visit while she cooked for them.
Joe’s friends were amazed. “Why aren’t you angry?” they asked. “We come here in the middle of the night, we’re all drunk, wake you up, ask you to cook for us, and all you can do is smile? Our wives would kill us!”
She continued cracking eggs as she explained, “My husband doesn’t believe in God. I figure that it’s up to me to make this life as pleasant as possible, since his next life won’t be.”So, Bob, while I find you annoying, insulting, demeaning, lacking a moral compass, and seriously delusional at times, I bear with you and pray that some day you will realize that you are a child of God, that there IS something greater than you, and I pray that it happens before your last breath.
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that there IS something greater than you
Yeah, I don’t see that epiphany happening in this lifetime. It would mean actually admitting he’s wrong about something.
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Pride blinds the fool. This is why so many of the elites on the left are atheists.
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Thank you Tedtam, I appreciate sincere, peaceful concern.
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Perhaps a more musical “hint”………..what I gleaned from these lyrics is:
we cannot lose what we never possessed – rather we are the ones possessed – NOT as in deranged but rather as part and parcel of God’s ‘property’ as the collective group of all humanity / children if you will………………..and the most telling line (IMHO) is:
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My #47 – That was only ONE of MANY “meanings” that touch me for that wonderful song…………..
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October 9, 2012 at 8:50 am
Obama’s issued a “Big Bird” Commercial against Romney.
Breitbart makes a good point:At the same time Team Obama released a childish ad hitting Mitt Romney for daring to consider removing multimillionaire, one-percenter Big Bird from the federal government welfare rolls, the Romney campaign released a devastating graphic that shows that since his debate debacle, Barack Obama has mention Big Bird and Elmo 13 times but has not mentioned Libya or his plan to fix the economy even once.
The Obamaphoners might be happy with the ad, but I hope and pray that the majority of the voting public have a little more intellectual depth than the obvious target audience.
The ad will be coming down shortly.
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#35 Hamous
Here is one place for info on shale. I have been a little out of pocket for awhile working 55+ hrs/wk and I have not been keeping up with the news a close as usual. I thought I caught something about that Matt Damon movie being financed by one of the member countries of the UAE. The idea was to scare the American public with negative publicity around fracing and to have us beg and plead with our representatives to please import more black gold from the Middle East. -
I wasn’t even aware of the existence of Romney, TX, but it was wrong to vandalize their sign.
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#49 Sarge
This was an arrogant, asinine use of a trademark character from PBS programming. Now, we know public broadcasting is a seething, rank cauldron of leftism, but they are, by charter and law, required to remain non-partisan and refrain from explicit endorsements in political campaigns.
For the Obama campaign to appropriate Big Bird for a political was amateurish, stupid and contemptuous of both the process and their own ideological allies at PBS.
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I think I’ll keep this live feed on my second display as I crunch my numbers this afternoon.
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Polls are coming in fast and furious (no pun intended), too many to link to individuall, so I’ll just link to Ace who is very, very giddy today.
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The pederast, Jerry Sandusky, is sentenced; 30-60 years. His first chance at parole will be when he is 98 as he is 68 now. I doubt that he will see 70.
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As of now, the launch for the human fireball has been aborted.
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Simply stated, it’s the logical terminus of the journey to redefine marriage.
Elizabeth Brake’s Minimizing Marriage breaks new ground in the contemporary liberal critique of traditional arrangements. The object of her critique is what she calls amatonormativity—the belief that society should value two-person, amorous love relationships. Even same-sex marriage (SSM) advocates are too restrictive for Brake in that they would confer benefits on two people alone; SSM advocates are unwitting amatonormativists. Their defenses of marriage leave out “urban tribes, best friends, quirkyalones, polyamorists” and other diverse groups united by a common bond of caring. Brake argues for an almost complete disestablishment of marriage.
Unfortunately for my Max The Beagle, she draws the line at marrying your dog, for now.
Brake follows this argument to its logical conclusion. Consent and consent alone is the ground for legitimate marriage. “Adult siblings and first cousins” can marry. Presumably parents can marry their children once the children have reached the age of consent. “Marrying one’s dog,” however, “is a nonstarter,” for canines are not able to consent. Lest one think that she is a “speciesist,” Brake concedes that should dogs develop an ability to consent through evolutionary processes, she will have to revisit this question and confer the proper rights to man’s best friend.
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quirkyalones? LOL.
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Can I marry a carrot?
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Only if carrots develop an ability to consent through evolutionary processes.
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#57 Simply stated, yours is yet another instance of a ridiculous slippery slope argument presented by people who can’t mind their own business and desire to control the lives of others for entirely irrational reasons.
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No, it’s an example of where proponents of “non-traditional marriage” desire to lead us.
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#59 WB
Can I marry a carrot?
Well, marrying vegetables is generally discouraged, unless you’re a gold digger harvesting a nursing home millionaire. Otherwise, I would say no, but I’m sure you can have a rather physically meaningful relationship.
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yet another instance of a ridiculous slippery slope argument
Isn’t that one of your favorite tactics Bobozo?
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#63 I support equal treatment under the law. You don’t. That’s sad.
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Here we have a liberal intellectual on the cutting edge of redefining marriage and our resident jackass chooses to attack me.
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If holding a different opinion constitutes an “attack” you may be more hypersensitive than Hamous.
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If holding a different opinion constitutes an “attack” you may be more
hypersensitiveobservant than Hamous.insert dreaded acronym here 🙂
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#57 Shannon
It’s hard for me to see how“urban tribes, best friends, quirkyalones, polyamorists” and other diverse groups united by a common bond of caring.
would promote the welfare of healthy, happy children. Without healthy, happy children, the human race is doomed.
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#67 bob42
You have a different definition of “equal treatment under the law”.
I say that it means (in this case) that anyone is free to marry one and only one person at any given time and that that person must be of the opposite sex.
You say that marriage should be a free-for-all with anyone able to marry anyone else at any time, without regard to sex or current marital status.
This is despite the fact that human society developed the notion of marriage to be what I said just now over three thousand years ago and it is within the last few years that you’ve decided that it just has to be changed because a couple of queens want to have the rest of us legitimize their undying love for each other. -
I believe, bit by bit, Obummer’s support is eroding. This is what I tell people:
1) The Hispanics did not get anything from Obummer, witness his interview with Univision where the commentator called out Obummer for not keeping his promise about immigration reform. Then there was that Univision expose on Fast and Furious, it was not shown by their sister company ABC but the impact was for the Hispanics who have to realize that Fast and Furious put guns into the hands of the drug cartel who turned around started killing Mexican citizens, specifically those teenagers at a birthday party. The American public does not have to see that expose. If it keeps the Hispanics from not voting, then it will have done its job.
2) The blacks also have not been taken care of by Obummer. They have a higher unemployment rate than the rest of the country and expected “one of their own” to take care of them. And hopefully, the black preachers will be able to convince their congregations that the Dummycrat party has abandoned them with their platform endorsing same sex marriage and abortions. It always amazed me why blacks and Hispanics can go to church on Sunday and vote Dummycrat on Tuesday. The best we can hope for here is that they don’t go vote in Nov.
3) The prized women vote is also in jeopardy because you all know that a good portion of them are unemployed and so are probably their husbands because of the economy under Obummer. The single women with children are greatly affected so there might actually be a crossover vote from 2008 to 2012.
4) The college kids that helped in 2008 expecting to graduate in four years and have greater job opportunities under Obummer in 2012 have got to be discouraged. So should every graduating class after 2008, they don’t have much to look forward to with an Obummer administration.
5) I tell people that Obummer basically has two “claims” to fame for his administration, they are that he saved the auto industry and that he killed Bin Laden. Well, first the auto industry was not saved, the union votes were saved. GM was not the only car company, it would have been better off to file bankruptcy and then reorganize rather than have the federal government, aka the taxpayers, buying shares that have lost valve and GM may still go bankrupt. And as far as killing Bin Laden, unless it ended terrorism, all it did was make the terrorist even madder, hence, Benghazi. And so much for Obummer’s foreign policy prowess.
I’ve always said there is a top third who will vote Republican no matter what, a bottom third will vote Dummycrat no matter what. It is the middle third, the independents, who Romney needs to look for. You have to hope the independents are smart enough to understand some of the facts, data and information being provided because I have had discussion with the “bottom” third and they don’t know what’s going on. They are essentially looking for their entitlements because they think it is owed to them because some how the rich people stole it from them or made it off their backs.
So call me an optimist, I’m still waiting for a major “October” surprise to finally do Obummer in. I personally didn’t think the debate would start it but it sure helped. I wasn’t going to watch the debate but I’m glad I did. Seeing Obummer look lost and bewildered was worth it. -
#71 mharper42
It’s not now, nor has it ever been about healthy, happy children or what is best for society at large.
It is simply about a bunch of whiny little nutballs deciding that they need their personal feelings legitimized by the state.
Mr Liberaltarian up there, despite what he always preaches, is simply trying to use the power of the state to force the rest of us* to recognize as “normal” that which we consider deviant, namely the behavior that the homosexual community wants to normalize through whatever means it can.
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Bob has his own version of authoritarianism.
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#57 Shannon
Ms. Brake’s ode to lunacy isn’t exactly burning up the Neilsen Book ratings.
Ranked #477,579 on Amazon.
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DOMA, for me, is about what type of family provides a stable foundation for child-rearing and thus a civil society…
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#72 WB, it is arrogantly presumptive of you to assume that YOU are somehow endowed with the power to define marriage for others. But you’re far from the first to try it. You’re also far from the first to horribly distort a definition of equality with your xenophobic predilection to bigotry and innate/indoctrinated desire to control others.
I say that it means (in this case) that anyone is free to marry one and only one person at any given time and that that person must be of the same race.
Bigots were using that definition of equal treatment to support their discrimination 40 years ago. Some still do today, while others stick with the “it’s best for the children” meme.
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This really is a must read.
Ace lays it out in his post about Sean Trende’s analysis over at RCP Polling.Trende’s argument — I feel stupid digesting it because he’s perfectly succinct and clear in explaining it himself — is that this election’s real story is “Obama vs. Gravity,” or “Obama vs. the Fundamentals Which Are Largely Against Him.” Being a “bandwagon” sort of candidate, it’s crucial for him to maintain the Winner’s Edit — like in a reality TV show, you know who’s going to win or lose based on who gets the Winner’s Edit, and who gets the Loser’s Edit.
The pattern of the race, and the polls, has been this: Obama wins a newscycle, big, for whatever reason, and ekes out a 4-6 point lead. But then the public remembers about the fundamentals of the state of the nation, and that lead begins to deteriorate down to about 2 points, or a tie. And at that point Obama comes out with another big attack on Romney (it’s almost always an attack blitz) and pushes his lead up… for a time. Until gravity overtakes that again, and pulls it back down, in which case it’s time for the Next Big Narrative-Grabbing Attack.
It’s not so much a “theory” as “exactly what’s happened.”and this,
But if he’s losing, the press is either going to talk about process issues — Why is he losing? Where did he lose it? — or these other issues Obama also doesn’t want to make headlines.
The Winner’s Edit permits the press to hide all that, to focus on Happy Things.
But if he’s losing, they don’t have that cover. It’s either This Bad Thing or That Bad Thing.
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#74 This is utterly ridiculous, completely fallacious, and sadly routine among social conservative control freaks.
It is simply about a bunch of whiny little nutballs deciding that they need their personal feelings legitimized by the state.
Mr Liberaltarian up there, despite what he always preaches, is simply trying to use the power of the state to force the rest of us* to recognize as “normal” that which we consider deviant, namely the behavior that the homosexual community wants to normalize through whatever means it can.No one is forcing you to recognize anything, and you remain entitled to definitions of marriage and deviancy.
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No one is forcing you to recognize anything, and you remain entitled to definitions of marriage and deviancy.
The militant homosexual lobby and its friends among the liberaltine community are agitating for the state to legitimize their behavior via the redefinition of marriage. The state is the government. We fund the government and grant it authority to perform certain functions. Therefore, I am being forced to recognize gay marriage via my participation in society.
There are reasons that certain behaviors and institutions last for over 3,000 years: they work and serve a purpose. Then people like you come along and cry because the rest of us don’t want to redefine things so that you can feel superior.
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#72 WB, it is arrogantly presumptive of you to assume that YOU are somehow endowed with the power to define marriage for others.
Right. Only you and 2% of the population have that power.
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For someone who claims to be such a supporter of limited government,
We’ve known that to be utter bullcrap for quite a while now.
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Bob:
A simple question: IIs there ANY area of social activity/interaction where government might have cause to intervene/regulate?Sure. He wants the government to redefine marriage.
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Does anybody still have any questions about why Jon Huntsman couldn’t get elected as dogcatcher on the Republican ticket ?
Jon Huntsman Sr. — an industrialist, philanthropist and lifelong Republican — is endorsing Rep. Jim Matheson, calling him a conservative Democrat who “represents our state very well.”
The endorsement was announced in a news release Friday afternoon.Matheson is running against Mia Love.
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, it is arrogantly presumptive of you to assume that YOU are somehow endowed with the power to define marriage for others.
Bobozo, why don’t you set fire to that straw man? No one on this blog has defined marriage, society at large has defined it pretty well for the last 3-4000 years. What is arrogantly presumptive is that a couple (relatively speaking) of people arbitrarily decide that the existing definition must be changed because they want to be sanctioned in their particular choice of deviancy.
Just who is being heavy handed here?
What “rights” are you speaking of, that can not be granted with the simple execution of a document, that are being denied to the deviants in question? I have never seen an answer to that simple question. -
The more I think about this doltish statement, the more out of touch with reality I realize Bobolicous really is. To quote Joe Walsh, you can’t argue with a sick mind.
#72 WB, it is arrogantly presumptive of you to assume that YOU are somehow endowed with the power to define marriage for others.
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“Delusional” is the word you are looking for.
When President Barack Obama stepped off the stage in Denver last week the 60 million Americans watching the debate against Mitt Romney already knew it had been a disaster for him.
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#90 Sarge: That someone could be so completely out of touch AND achieve the office of POTUS scares the crapola out of me. This guy is so out of touch he could start another war because it would be good for him (in his own mind) for his re-election chances. The good news is that some lifelong Ds are starting to come out against him.
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#87 Texpat
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive . . . those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -C.S. Lewis
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#90 Sarge
Whatever Dim in the administration leaked the story that Obammy thought he had won the debate did the world a huge service. Only the brain-dead could have thought that. Have they shielded him since then from all the negative reportage? Is his team like all those Nazis in the bunker with Hitler, barely daring to tell him the truth at the end? -
“Is his team like all those Nazis in the bunker with Hitler, barely daring to tell him the truth at the end?”
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There has never been a single story written about this man and those surrounding him that would indicate otherwise.
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This guy is (Hillary) Clinton squared.
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He’s Caesar Barry.
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Well, my girls (wife, small back-up dawg & Lil’ psyhco girl) are about an hour away, barrelling down I-10 ’bout to take the Spur 55 (Grand Pkwy) exit and head down 146. Dang, dammit I’ve really missed my girls, they’ve been gone since Sunday Sept 30.
If lil psyhco dawg was here, she’d be in my lap looking up at me with those big brown eyes. :wink;
YUP! Life is good.
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Perhaps the Nixon White House is a better analogy.
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Sorry Dave, I was too slow. And Shannon is on a roll.
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The Sheila Jackson Lee relationship with her staff is probably closest.
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If you say so, chief.
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Oh, my #99, I’ve got the cat! She only loves me if I feed her. She gets real amorous and rubs on my legs when I get the cat food. 😉
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The only one that ever served closely to this guy that had the balls to tell him he’s a phony is Dead Fish Rahm.
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Hell, why do you think Rahm bailed ?
He saw the locomotive headlight at the end of the tunnel.
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Yep.
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Hillary is stroking the states
manperson deal for all it’s worth. Just in case her cankles hold up long enough to run for president. -
#106 Texpat, I wondered the same thing. A lot of people wanted her to take Bidens place, but I knew that she would NEVER do that for a number of reasons, one of which is that she figured that Obama would lose.
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By Hitlery not bailing out she is giving her approval of what 0 has been doing. There is now no way that she can claim that she is different than JugEars (other than genetalia and that is still debatable). I never could see a dimes worth of difference between the 2.
Because she did not bail or resign in disgust, she is now toxic radioactive waste and will not likely get reelected to anything. Her only hope, GOD FORBID, is a SCOTUS appointment. -
#110 Bones, yup I agree, I think she’s long since given up on a Presidential slot, (she’s not aged well) and might be hopping for some kind of appointment or diplomatic slot.
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And just in time for the foreign policy debate, the Obama administration now admits the whole excuse for the Libyan disaster was a lie, a contrived deliberate lie.
Just broadcast on ABC News. The State Department is admitting the truth in advance of their congressional testimony tomorrow. Jonathan Karl reports they are now saying there was never any protest in Benghazi, instead it was an unprecedented attack on an American mission. In other words (Karl didn’t say this but I am) the President lied to America.
Yid With Lid’s Jeff Dunetz has the story with VIDEO here.
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Ahem…Hillary has already been the senior diplomatic officer of the most powerful nation on earth. There is no place to go from SecState except the White House.
The idea she could ever be a viable candidate for the Supreme Court is absurd and insane.
HC made her calculations and bet on the Obama horse – she was wrong and now will be forever tied to the failed project. I think Bill was trying to get her leave a long time ago, but she decided to stick with it. -
Nope. You are wrong, Bones.
As Sec of State she has accomplished a triangulation of sorts. No liberal is going tie her to Obama’s failures. Her own failures will be far back in the rearview mirror of Dem primary voters. Her base of baby-boomer liberal women will still be around and revved up for one last feminazi push. Should she choose to do so, she can easily come back in four years and run.
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Any of you folks in the Clear Lake area wondering what broke the sound barrier, a few minutes ago, that would be the little black dawg with the long legs, running into the living room and knocking the lap-top outta’ my lap. She got out of the Tahoe and ran through the front door and into my bedroom, my office, then into the living room where she found me. If Ididn’t know better, I’d think that she missed me. 😉
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The idea she could ever be a viable candidate for the Supreme Court is absurd and insane.
HC made her calculations and bet on the Obama horse – she was wrong and now will be forever tied to the failed project.I’ll agree with that.
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#117, I was floored, FLOORED, that the Obama machine took her and bubba out. I guess it was the magic negro, Bush is evil and “Clinton fatigue” that did it. It sure was something to see. That said, she will NOT run again unless the next president is worse than the last. And that my friends, is a tall order.
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OK, so what happens when someone who has never ran ANYTHING let alone a lemonade stand, sets policy? Well he KILLS jobs,..of course.
Darden tests limiting worker hours as health-care changes loom.In an experiment apparently aimed at keeping down the cost of health-care reform, Orlando-based Darden Restaurants has stopped offering full-time schedules to many hourly workers in at least a few Olive Gardens, Red Lobsters and LongHorn Steakhouses.
Darden said the test is taking place in “a select number” of restaurants in four markets, including Central Florida, but would not give details. The company said there has been no decision made about expanding it.
In an emailed statement, Darden said staffing changes are “just one of the many things we are evaluating to help us address the cost implications health care reform will have on our business. There are still many unanswered questions regarding the health care regulations and we simply do not have enough information to make any decisions at this time.”
Analysts say many other companies, including the White Castle hamburger chain, are considering employing fewer full-timers because of key features of the Affordable Care Act scheduled to go into effect in 2014. Under that law, large companies must provide affordable health insurance to employees working an average of at least 30 hours per week. -
Obviously my brother thinks that “Indian” woman is the future of the Democrat Party. 🙂
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If Romney & Ryan do a good job, Fauxcahontas will be too old to run by the time the Dims have any chance again.
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Hillary’s done for. She’s never going to get past her part inthe Benghazi affair—because in the end its going to be worse than we know now, and she’s hip deep in it. Fingers are going to be pointing in all directions. Obamabots are going to try and dump Hillary under the bus—they’ve already started a whisper campaign. This just gives some Democrats even more reason to hate the Chicago crowd.
And some of them DO have consciences. Some of them DO acknowledge uncomfortable facts, even if it is to themselves.
What it all boils down to is this:
On the eve of his re-election, the smartest man to ever be President lied to the American People about a terrorist attack that resulted in the deaths of Americans.
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Dang could these guys be worse than the Russkies?
SpaceX rocket glitch puts satellite in wrong orbit.CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Oct 9 – A prototype communications satellite flying as a secondary payload aboard a Space Exploration Technologies Falcon 9 rocket was sent into the wrong orbit because of a problem during launch Sunday evening, officials said Tuesday.
One of the nine Merlin engines powering the Falcon 9 rocket shut down early, though the other engines burned longer to make up for the loss of thrust, saving the primary mission of delivering a Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station for NASA.
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The Dragon freighter is due to arrive at the space station, which flies about 250 miles above Earth, on Wednesday.
Space Exploration Technologies said its rocket, which was created by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk and his team at SpaceX, as the company is known, could lose two engines and still make its intended orbit.
“Like the Saturn 5 (moon rocket) and modern airliners, Falcon 9 is designed to handle an engine-out situation and still complete its mission. No other rocket currently flying has this ability,” privately owned SpaceX said in a statement.
But that flexibility didn’t help satellite communications provider Orbcomm, which owned a prototype OG2 communications satellite flying aboard the Falcon 9.
The satellite was deposited in a lower-than-intended orbit, Orbcomm said in a statement.
The company declined to release details, but Jonathan’s Space Report, a website that tracks space launches, says Orbcomm expected its satellite to be placed into an elliptical orbit with a low point of 217 miles and a high point of 466 miles from Earth. That would later become a circular orbit at 466 miles from Earth.
Instead, it ended up in an orbit that ranges from 126 miles to 200 miles.
Orbcomm said an analysis has begun to determine if the satellite can use its onboard propulsion system to boost its orbit.🙁
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#122 Sarge, can you imagine the outcry, gnashing of teeth and calling for impeachment if this had happened under Bush?! What about “Fast & Furious”… gun running to the Mexican drug cartels?!
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#120 Shannon
Yeah, that’s it, that’s the ticket.
By the way, the 75 days between election day and inauguration day are going to be meanest, nastiest period we’ve endured in a long time. It will be ugly.
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You people are writing off the Clintons quite cavalierly.
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#123 Super Dave
Dang could these guys be worse than the Russkies?
That is the wrong question.
You should read Rand Simberg at Popular Mechanics:From an engineering perspective, all of this is good news for two reasons.
First, prior to this flight, the idea that the Falcon 9 could still get to orbit even with an engine out was just a marketing claim. Proving it would have required a demonstration in a test flight. Now that claim has been demonstrated and validated in an operational flight, if accidentally. While SpaceX’s competitors and opponents will point to the engine loss as a reason for concern, in reality it should increase confidence in the company’s product. Every rocket provider has problems (United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV, one of Falcon’s competitors, had a second-stage engine issue itself just last week), but in this case the design was sufficiently robust to overcome them exactly as the designers intended.
Second, if the engine really had exploded, this would have potential safety implications for a crewed version of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule. Consider that the upper stage of the Falcon 9 uses the same Merlin 1C engine as the first stage, except with a few changes such as a larger nozzle for vacuum operations and passive radiative cooling rather than the “regenerative” cooling in the first-stage engines (it pumps fuel through channels in the nozzles to carry away the heat). The biggest difference, though, is that there is only one Merlin engine for the upper stage. So if it fails, the mission fails. -
You people have short memories.
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#126 Shannon
Are you kidding ?
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#128 Shannon
Hillary already makes Maggie Thatcher look like a beauty queen. I just don’t think the appeal is there, not like it was with Bill in his prime.
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The fit is hitting the shan.
Now the State Department (Hillary’s people) are saying “We didn’t lie, it must have been the White House (Obama’s people)WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration used that explanation for more than a week after assailants killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
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I’m getting paranoid that I have overestimated by a couple of hundred million the number of people that join me in being less than excited about the growing pains of the commercial space industry.
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#133 Shannon
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#132 Sarge
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I think you should move home to be near all these other space cadets in Space City.
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Sheesh. Next I’m going to find out that you’re into sci fy, too.
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