Please, please, folks. Don't call it lying. Don't say prevarication. Let's all agree to simply characterize it as a mischaracterization.
It's the stock-in-trade of the New GOP (as opposed to the old); a transplant from the hedge-fund-takeover-private-equity style of the best and brightest from Wall Street.
PRESIDENT's
vacations are not exactly freedom from the duties of the presidency.
There is no time and no place when the president is not assaulted by the
requirements of the executive branch of government. Everybody
knows/understands this; but it seems only when the president is listed
as being of the political party they personally favor.
"a
mammoth bureaucratic organization "... Oh yes! We are indeed fortunate
that (before President Obama) we were not afflicted with the evils of a
federal bureaucracy! Amazing how that blasted socialist managed to fill
the country with lazy-ignorant-unionized-leftist-obstructionist
bureaucrats. In only a few months too!
He
did indeed have a lot of nominal Democrat-labelled legislators in the
congress. He also had a really awful tendency to try to be a
negotiator-in-chief. It took him a while to discover that one cannot
negotiate with an opposition that will not negotiate under any
circumstances.
Well, I do recall it as a chilling moment, when Pres. Carter said "I will not lie to you."
While Pres. Bush told too many lies, Pres. Carter told too few!
While Pres. Bush told too many lies, Pres. Carter told too few!
"Complicit" is the term you're looking for.
But... There's no room left in the jails for these cold-blooded killers. The cells are all taken up by those evil weedsmokers.
Stilted. Romney is stilted. Reagan was folksy. All the etch-a-sketch the Governor is up to now won't change that fact.
It would actually be a really great thing if the presidency was decided on issues and principles and abilities. But it's decided on the basis of the competing myths of the candidates.
That's why it's called a "Boobocracy".
It would actually be a really great thing if the presidency was decided on issues and principles and abilities. But it's decided on the basis of the competing myths of the candidates.
That's why it's called a "Boobocracy".
Well,
sure; he got rid of the war tax. But please remember, he had a "Secret
Plan" to end the war. The secret plan was, as we all suspected, to
declare victory and come home. But not until saturating the countries
nearby Vietnam with bombs and mines. Still blowing the feet off children
and water buffaloes all these decades later.
The secret plan to end the war in Afghanistan is just a repeat of the previous. Except, give the various factions more dollars to spend at the US weapons market.
The secret plan to end the war in Afghanistan is just a repeat of the previous. Except, give the various factions more dollars to spend at the US weapons market.
Fact
is, we are at loggerheads here. Everybody actually has the same plan to
end deficit spending. Unfortunately, the "plan" is to Cut My Taxes and
Cut Your Benefits. Once Gordon Gecko becomes the everyman hero, there
really is no way to make the economy, or the country, work.
The
single event that would most unite the Arab world (which is,
admittedly, a bit of a fiction), is a certain declaration by the US that
they were prepared to attack Iran for working to produce the same sort
of bomb that Israel was pretty much given by the US.
There comes a time when playing the victim card becomes counterproductive. Bibi - Are You Listening?
There comes a time when playing the victim card becomes counterproductive. Bibi - Are You Listening?
Very
true, thrh. The Romney's face doesn't seem to exhibit any signs of
thought. Looks like a biddable puppet for pretty much any nearby neocon.
"Less
Vague Than Romney's". Not a very high standard, is it? The only kind of
budget-balancing claims that could be MORE vague than Candidate
Romney's is the old standby: "We'll Balance The Budget And Eliminate The
Deficit By Cutting Waste And Fraud." Which is itself a fraud.
Interesting, time honored irony, that.
You'd
think that with the backing of Sheldon Adelson and Binyamin Netanyahu
the director could have made a better film! Still, it had the desired
effect of creating violent responses that could be used as inserts in
the follow-on propaganda campaign against Iran.
With the humidity, the heat index in Chicago is greater than Libya OR Death Valley! We're number one!
Yeah.
It is, after all, how you parse it. There is no way in heii that Fox
& Frens is a news program. Therefore, there are NO news reporting
errors on the show. The same can be said of all the other offerings on
Fox.
I do agree though, the station does have better (read: better funded) production values than any other cable station I'm aware of. Which makes it the best circus to hit town since Ringling merged with Barnum (& Bailey).
I do agree though, the station does have better (read: better funded) production values than any other cable station I'm aware of. Which makes it the best circus to hit town since Ringling merged with Barnum (& Bailey).
I
read some time ago that if church-owned property were not exempt from
property taxes, most states would have balanced budgets even if they
reduced other taxes. Additionally, I've long railed against the US
government subsidizing religious activities. Ex.: The Chaplain Corps in
the military. Just how did it come about that you and I are paying
priests to pray for god to be on the side of our glorious troops? That
isn't even medieval - it's antediluvian!
Separation of church/state should cut both ways. Cut the government out of religious activities AND cut churches out of government activities.
Separation of church/state should cut both ways. Cut the government out of religious activities AND cut churches out of government activities.
How
on earth can anyone suppose that the US has any influence over the
insurgent mobs assailing the failed governments of the Arab states and
N. Africa? It is obtuse in the extreme to pretend to believe that an
uprising to overthrow an autocrat is an attempt to create a democratic
state. That's like saying the Lancastrians were fighting York to turn
Britain into a democracy! Nonsense. The normal result of the overthrow
of a burtal thug dictator is the rise to power of a new brutal thug
dictator.
Thus, the president's action with regard to Iraq is correct: he needs to wait for the civil wars to play out in order to know which brutal thug dictator the US ought to attempt to subvert in order to secure Iraqi oil for the international oil companies. It'll be a few years.
Thus, the president's action with regard to Iraq is correct: he needs to wait for the civil wars to play out in order to know which brutal thug dictator the US ought to attempt to subvert in order to secure Iraqi oil for the international oil companies. It'll be a few years.
OK.
Start here: in 1983. Ronald Reagan, responsible for the murder of 241
Americans in Beirut. His response to the attack? Evacuate. Muscular
foreign policy indeed!
Beirut. 1983. Marine Barracks. Dead Americans: 241. President Ronald Wilson Reagan's response: Evacuate!
INDEED!
Thirteenth century. What was the Christian world like in the thirteenth
century? It does seem as though societal systems evolve in much the
same way as life forms. Thus, it might make sense to compare Islamic
society in the 21st century not to Christian society in the 21st
century, but rather to that society in the 14th century. When a denier
of christ was at immediate peril of his live! When women were set aside
from most parts of the economic life of the society. When jews wre
routinely scapegoated. Et tedious cetera....
Why has no one pointed out the fundamental illogic of Gov. Romney's two principal campaign claims?
One: He (Romney) has "real" business experience as an extremely successful job-creating entrepreneur.
Two: Past federal tax rates have been so confiscatory as to make successful job-creating entrepreneurial efforts impossible. Thus tax rates must be lowered to make this possible
SO: (TWO) makes (ONE) impossible. SO: How did Romney manage it? Or do we not worry about the reality of the situation when we wish to claim victimhood at the hands of the government?
One: He (Romney) has "real" business experience as an extremely successful job-creating entrepreneur.
Two: Past federal tax rates have been so confiscatory as to make successful job-creating entrepreneurial efforts impossible. Thus tax rates must be lowered to make this possible
SO: (TWO) makes (ONE) impossible. SO: How did Romney manage it? Or do we not worry about the reality of the situation when we wish to claim victimhood at the hands of the government?
Add a pound of flesh, and you have a balance diet.
eople
who hate blacks, but like the one black who works in their office (He's
different). .. I KNOW this guy. His black friend is the exception that
proves the rule. Rather than accept that your stereotype MAY be wrong,
simply exempt the actual examples that serve to disprove it.
Perhaps "Mischaracterize" or "Misrepresent" would be preferable to "Misstate".
Probably
a good bet that contract bidding services will grow as the fight over a
shrinking pie gets more intense. As it is, the "competitive bid"
process is so byzantine that it takes a pretty savvy legal and tech
proposal department to even enter the game. Add that procurement
contracts are *supposed* to require multiple sources, and pretty soon
one might see the entire DOD budget going for contract support and
evaluation, and no contract will ever actually BE AWARDED. 100%
OVERHEAD! The ultimate bureaucracy!
I AM SHOCKED! Shocked!
After an entire year of forming a new government, and several months after the election of a government, Libya still hasn't achieved a crime rate of 0%. Such violence would never ever occur in the US now, would it? Everybody here is safe and secure. Because the forces of law 'n order are completely and totally competent to see that no criminal act ever occurs.
Perhaps if we INVADE and OCCUPY Libya, we can restore order there, like we did in Afghanistan and Iraq (and are about to do in Iran).
After an entire year of forming a new government, and several months after the election of a government, Libya still hasn't achieved a crime rate of 0%. Such violence would never ever occur in the US now, would it? Everybody here is safe and secure. Because the forces of law 'n order are completely and totally competent to see that no criminal act ever occurs.
Perhaps if we INVADE and OCCUPY Libya, we can restore order there, like we did in Afghanistan and Iraq (and are about to do in Iran).
The
Marine Embassy Guard was guarding the US Embassy. The attack was NOT on
the embassy. Had the Ambassador been at the embassy, the marines would
have protected him. I imagine Mr. Ambassador Stevens was well aware that
he was travelling to a risky place, since he'd been there before,
during the revolt, alongside the revolutionaries. Expecting a faltering
neo-government of a 3rd world state to have a competence we don't see
here is a bit extreme, isn't it?
I
luv Newt! The man can pack more superlatives into a single sentence
than actually exist in nature! Amazing! Astounding! Alarming! Extreme!
Extraterrestrial, even.
It
appears that Mr. Romney is a victim of the system. He deserves our
sympathy. We should award him a pension, and healtcare coverage. Oh: but
that would make him one of the 'takers'.
Sorry, I take it all back.
Sorry, I take it all back.
asmith1:
FYI - The Bush income tax cuts were DESIGNED to expire (that is, be
temporary), because it was forseeable that they would explode the
deficit. It was also forseen that, after they had been put in place, the
taxcutters could yell Tax Increase! loud enough to keep the cuts from
expiriing. As has been borne out.
Kind
of a fiction. NO WAY would these questions not have been asked and
answered long before now. "What'll we tell the Iranians?" indeed.
Lots
of to urists in the "Holy Land". It's where God likes to go on holiday.
All those Gods, come to think of it: Yaweh, God, Allah. I guess that's
also why so many people like to fight over the place. Because God HATES
everybody who doesn't do... Umm... Err... Remind me: What IS the point
of this particular place being "HOLY"?
Israel attacked a US Navy ship in the Mediterranean, and we didn't go to war with them. We DID apologize, though.
It
seems to me that there are two possible reasons that Gov. Romney has
difficulty gaining traction: it's either that he's not very likeable, or
he just seems dilettantish. Is he: a. A liberal governor, b. A money
manager, c. An IOC director?
He just doesn't seem presidential. And that's odd, because typically by the time the convention is over, the candidate has, by familiarity, come to seem presidential. Heck - even G. W. Bush managed that trick!
He just doesn't seem presidential. And that's odd, because typically by the time the convention is over, the candidate has, by familiarity, come to seem presidential. Heck - even G. W. Bush managed that trick!
Or, as Sen. Santorum put it: "What Snobs!"
Those "Florida election officials" were a single Republican woman, appointed by the Republican Governor.
"Deficits
don't matter". If the president is a Republican. If the president is a
Democrat, the deficit is unsustainable, and proof the president is unfit
for office.
Clear evidence that Gov. Romney is winning the high school junior's vote.
If
"Trickle Down" worked, that would mean that, over time, the poor would
become rich and the rich would become poor. The actual result of trickle
down economics is that we all become poor. Some financially, some
mentally.
Dear Ruth,
"...dangers: further ballooning the national debt and further increasing income inequality."
Those aren't the dangers; those are the GOALS!
Especially the income inequality. What's the point of my being rich if everyone else is too?
"...dangers: further ballooning the national debt and further increasing income inequality."
Those aren't the dangers; those are the GOALS!
Especially the income inequality. What's the point of my being rich if everyone else is too?
You
should all realize that IF Mitt Romney is elected, the economy will
instantly blossom. Reason: Deficits Won't Matter. Deficits are only a
bad thing if the president is a democrat.
Non-profit.
It's more a technical definition than a distinction between a
profitable as opposed to a charitable business. A non-profit corporation
is one in which the income in excess of operating costs is distributed
in other ways than in ROI. But I'm sure as h*** not going to delve into
the IRS book of definitions. That way lies madness.
Mr. Gingrich is also offering *free* advice to Mitt Romney. Worth every penny, I imagine.
I thought "understand economics" was alarmingly cute.
I
think both candidates have very specific plans for the deficit. Only
two problems: First, they can't actually describe the plans, because
they'd cost votes. Second, the plans won't work anyway because they
aren't viable "politically".
The plan we're actually going to end up with is the now vintage "Kick The Can Down The Road".
We all know this, we all complain about this, but we don't seem to have the power to change this.
The plan we're actually going to end up with is the now vintage "Kick The Can Down The Road".
We all know this, we all complain about this, but we don't seem to have the power to change this.
Missing
from the bloviation: When Candidate Obama was campaigning in 2008, his
healthcare proposal was stated as a plan to REDUCE COSTS while extending
coverage. The thesis was that by including the entire population in the
pool of covered the costs would be averaged down and economies of scale
would occur. The economies of scale are largely, of course, ridding
ourselves of the absurdly large overhead created by the insurance
industry.
The resulting rather byzantine "Obamacare", which was forseeable given the toxic politics of the congress, may or may not accomplish the extending the coverage/reducing the costs goal.
Consider, though: If you pay MORE in taxes but LESS in insurance - is that an increase or a decrease in YOUR cost?
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine this.
The resulting rather byzantine "Obamacare", which was forseeable given the toxic politics of the congress, may or may not accomplish the extending the coverage/reducing the costs goal.
Consider, though: If you pay MORE in taxes but LESS in insurance - is that an increase or a decrease in YOUR cost?
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine this.
More like harvesting organs than harvesting corn. If there were any corn to harvest, that is...
Of
course, priestly celibacy is a bit problematic. Unmarried is not even
remotely equivalent to celibate. Without the marriage certificate
however, it becomes difficult for a priest to transfer the church
property he controls to his eldest son. THAT was the problem that caused
the church to decide that priests shouldn't have heirs. Which implied
that they shouldn't be married.
Very pragmatic. Not in the least a matter of religious dogma, until so defined by extremely carefully constructed arguments.
Very pragmatic. Not in the least a matter of religious dogma, until so defined by extremely carefully constructed arguments.
Speed dating. He had only a few loaves and fishes to offer his multitudes (of dates)
It is u ndeniably true that some saints had feet made of thousands of toebones.
You could look it up. In the reliquaries of the churches and convents around the world.
You could look it up. In the reliquaries of the churches and convents around the world.
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