You Can't Make This Stuff Up, Folks !!

[Todd Ianuzzi]

THis is a little twist on the "stuff you can't make up," but the far right continues to try to make it up:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-j...b_1419632.html

[Graygleam]

Because assassination is just so d**n funny........................

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...,6451593.story

[HoosierHelen]

THis is a little twist on the "stuff you can't make up," but the far right continues to try to make it up:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-j...b_1419632.html

I enjoyed that article, Todd. I especially enjoyed the following:

They hate it because it works; Social Security is proof that government is capable and competent. That is why it MUST be destroyed.
For elites this is the problem. Government works, and that tells We, the People that we don't have to depend on elites. That really is why the elites hate Social Security: Because it works.

[HoosierHelen]

Because assassination is just so d**n funny........................

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...,6451593.story

Very poor choice of words indeed.

[Todd Ianuzzi]

I enjoyed that article, Todd. I especially enjoyed the following:

They hate it because it works; Social Security is proof that government is capable and competent. That is why it MUST be destroyed.
For elites this is the problem. Government works, and that tells We, the People that we don't have to depend on elites. That really is why the elites hate Social Security: Because it works.

I am glad you enjoyed the article. It was very insightful. Some argue that government has been too successful. SS and Medicare are so imbedded in our culture that they are taken for granted. For many years, until Social Security began paying out meaningful benefits, poverty was endemic to the elderly. America, in the era of the Robber Barons and during the Great Depression, was an economy that a small middle class, like most developing countries. The highest causes of death for the elderly were hypothermia and starvation. Now, poverty among the elderly is the lowest of the three age cohorts, chilldren and working age adults. It has been a stunning success.

And Medicare. Medicare. Medicare is one of the most efficient healthcare benefit plans in the world. It is more efficient that many other national health plans. By efficiency, I mean that it has the lowest expense to administer. (It does not have low costs of actual medical care. That is a function of the profligacy of the American medical system). Medicare only takes between 2-4% of its revenue to administer is program. The rest pays medical bills.

Private insurers, by contrast, are grossly inefficient. Many will never make the 15% adminstrative fee requirement in the ACA. Even the best run plans struggle to hit 10% administrative costs.

But the meme that government never works, cannot work, should be eliminated, is embedded in the minds of many people, nearly all Republicans and a good number of Democrats. This gives the Republicans a working narrative. And as long as their budget cuts do not fall on their constituents, and the revenue increases are regressive and the low-income Republicans do not understand that sales tax increases are operate regressively and do not understand that lower rates on long-term care capital gains and dividends effectively make them pay a higher marginal income tax rate than Mitt Romney or the Kochs, they face no pocke****ook blowback.

The Republicans churn the social, racial, and karmic issues to a fever pitch, hoping that their consitutents will vote to keep their Karma rather than a relatively larger amount of their income. And it generally works. The South, the rural midwest and montain plains are dependably Republican.

I believe that the Republican party is near its peak. The 2028 election is probably the last before the demographic shift of Americans overwhelm the numbers of their white, rural, and outer suburban base. In effect, the Republican party is going the way of the Harley-Davidson. The people that ride them and like them are closer to their first wheelchair than they are to their first motorcycle. 2012 will probably elect a Republican, and that may be one of the last of the breed.

[BigDeel]

Before

I do not do the kool aid. That is very cliche, dude, But Obama will be relected, the GOP insiders know this and hope Romney can limp to the finish line and save the House for them.....

Now

....2012 will probably elect a Republican, and that may be one of the last of the breed.

Well at least you have both sides covered so you cand claim you are RIGHT

[Mr Douglas]

Brokered convention= Jeb Bush. The "Trinity", if you will.

[Todd Ianuzzi]

Before


Now


Well at least you have both sides covered so you cand claim you are RIGHT

Thanks for the careful reading. It should read 2016. Mr. Douglas could be right. The stain of George could fade a bit by 2016. But after what the rank and file republicans see as a "moderate" like Mitt lose to Obama in 2012, the party may go even further right.

But the reason I said 2016 is that historically after an eight-term one party presidency, the country often changes parties. I do not see a sure bet for 2016 out there right now, but Jeb is propably a good a guess as anyone's.

[Mr Douglas]

Thanks for the careful reading. It should read 2016. Mr. Douglas could be right. The stain of George could fade a bit by 2016. But after what the rank and file republicans see as a "moderate" like Mitt lose to Obama in 2012, the party may go even further right.

But the reason I said 2016 is that historically after an eight-term one party presidency, the country often changes parties. I do not see a sure bet for 2016 out there right now, but Jeb is propably a good a guess as anyone's.

This isn't a 'team sport' anymore. Why would you shill for Zionist fellator Obama, while disliking the Zionist fellators that were there before him?

[HoosierHelen]

This isn't a 'team sport' anymore. Why would you shill for Zionist fellator Obama, while disliking the Zionist fellators that were there before him?

This is a good question Mr. Douglas. Perhaps ALL our politicians feel the need to shill for the Zionist if they intend to stay in office? Do they feel this pressure due to the connections felt between our Christians and their Jewish fellowship connection with their shared 'One God'?

This has always been a bit confusing for me as it seems the the God of Abraham is indeed the God of the Christians, Jews, and Muslims.....yet the Christians and the Jews have made an alliance and the Muslims (of the Hagar line) are treated as the dreaded 'step' sons & daughters. Never mind that Hagar was ordered by Sarah to become the mother of Abraham's child.

All of these actions and statements which are purely directed at gratifying the Zionist regime and the active Zionist lobby in the United States indicate that President Obama is no different than George W. Bush and those before him who considered the security and stability of Israel their vital and crucial commitment.
Today, it’s almost clear to everyone that no politician with an anti-Zionist mindset could ever dream of living in the White House. This is what Prof. Naseer Aruri, the renowned political scientist and author has mentioned in his recent interview published on Veterans Today: “the American political system has institutional and constitutional barriers against anti-Zionists winning the U.S. presidency. Take for example the Electoral College by which Americans elect their presidents. The EC stipulates that a candidate to the presidency must gain plurality and the winner takes all. These two factors (plurality and winner takes all) tend to polarize the system and promote the two party system. In that setting, there is no place for a minority, which is likely to be the anti-Zionist mindset.”


http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/04...irst-priority/

[Mr Douglas]

This is a good question Mr. Douglas. Perhaps ALL our politicians feel the need to shill for the Zionist if they intend to stay in office? Do they feel this pressure due to the connections felt between our Christians and their Jewish fellowship connection with their shared 'One God'?

This has always been a bit confusing for me as it seems the the God of Abraham is indeed the God of the Christians, Jews, and Muslims.....yet the Christians and the Jews have made an alliance and the Muslims (of the Hagar line) are treated as the dreaded 'step' sons & daughters. Never mind that Hagar was ordered by Sarah to become the mother of Abraham's child.

All of these actions and statements which are purely directed at gratifying the Zionist regime and the active Zionist lobby in the United States indicate that President Obama is no different than George W. Bush and those before him who considered the security and stability of Israel their vital and crucial commitment.
Today, it’s almost clear to everyone that no politician with an anti-Zionist mindset could ever dream of living in the White House. This is what Prof. Naseer Aruri, the renowned political scientist and author has mentioned in his recent interview published on Veterans Today: “the American political system has institutional and constitutional barriers against anti-Zionists winning the U.S. presidency. Take for example the Electoral College by which Americans elect their presidents. The EC stipulates that a candidate to the presidency must gain plurality and the winner takes all. These two factors (plurality and winner takes all) tend to polarize the system and promote the two party system. In that setting, there is no place for a minority, which is likely to be the anti-Zionist mindset.”


http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/04...irst-priority/

Follow the money. Follow who OWNS the 'message' (the media, Fox and Huffington Post alike). Who owns the FED? Who financially took over Britain, its banking and it's imperialism even before the American Revolution? Financed BOTH sides of nearly EVERY war since the Napoleonic wars? Who controls our (Fiat- debt based 'monopoly' money) money system since 1913? Who threatens and carries on and beats war drums about the PROPENSITY of Iran developing a nuclear bomb, while they thumb their nose at the IAEA over their OWN (200-400) nukes and other WMD'S (who know's how many of which are pointing at US)? Who's running this 'thing'?
Moreover, .....do you wish that you or your's or the next generations live in a sovereign Constitutional Republic, or under a one world government/monetary system? Our various 'heroes' on the left and right don't seem to care WHAT happens to us in the end.. We're BROKE. We're owned. We're screwed.....Without resounding changes- RIGHT NOW. Nobody is talking about putting the brakes on that.
Funny thing, .....this isn't really about Jewish people. It's about debt based central banking- (entity other than government printing money, and then taxing us for the interest on money with nothing to back it up). They set up Israel as a 'whipping boy'/ guilt based 'Eddie Haskell', and I actually feel sorry for them. To add insult to injury, Israel AND the international banks are run primarily by pink skinned people of European descent, and there isn't a Semitic bone in their bodies. The families who have primarily run these international banks since the late 1700's, couldn't claim to be part of a 'race of Jewish people' any more than I can for being named David.
I'll stop here. Our 'alliance' is for their gain only. If they can't get it with socialists, they'll get it with Neocons, and there isn't a nickle's difference between them, other than what they pay lip service to for popular support, other than whatever 'news' media cheerleading or grousing about them. Never mind 'elections'. If they made a difference, they'd be outlawed.

[blue adept]

Follow the money. Follow who OWNS the 'message' (the media, Fox and Huffington Post alike). Who owns the FED? Who financially took over Britain, its banking and it's imperialism even before the American Revolution? Financed BOTH sides of nearly EVERY war since the Napoleonic wars? Who controls our (Fiat- debt based 'monopoly' money) money system since 1913? Who threatens and carries on and beats war drums about the PROPENSITY of Iran developing a nuclear bomb, while they thumb their nose at the IAEA over their OWN (200-400) nukes and other WMD'S (who know's how many of which are pointing at US)? Who's running this 'thing'?
Moreover, .....do you wish that you or your's or the next generations live in a sovereign Constitutional Republic, or under a one world government/monetary system? Our various 'heroes' on the left and right don't seem to care WHAT happens to us in the end.. We're BROKE. We're owned. We're screwed.....Without resounding changes- RIGHT NOW. Nobody is talking about putting the brakes on that.
Funny thing, .....this isn't really about Jewish people. It's about debt based central banking- (entity other than government printing money, and then taxing us for the interest on money with nothing to back it up). They set up Israel as a 'whipping boy'/ guilt based 'Eddie Haskell', and I actually feel sorry for them. To add insult to injury, Israel AND the international banks are run primarily by pink skinned people of European descent, and there isn't a Semitic bone in their bodies. The families who have primarily run these international banks since the late 1700's, couldn't claim to be part of a 'race of Jewish people' any more than I can for being named David.
I'll stop here. Our 'alliance' is for their gain only. If they can't get it with socialists, they'll get it with Neocons, and there isn't a nickle's difference between them, other than what they pay lip service to for popular support, other than whatever 'news' media cheerleading or grousing about them. Never mind 'elections'. If they made a difference, they'd be outlawed.

WOW! right on target Oliver, but, WOW!

[Graygleam]

Try and top this one for crazy..........................

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/d...es+Register%29

[Graygleam]

OK, I can top it...................

http://jezebel.com/5901745/ann-romne...rbecuing-a-dog

[michael medeski]

OK, I can top it...................

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney strapped his dog to the roof of the family station wagon before embarking on a road trip.

WTF.

would i sound like a "bully" if i said he needed slapped?

[Todd Ianuzzi]

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2...student-loans/

Rep. Virgina Foxx, Chair of the House Committee on Education, "I have little tolerancance for people with student loans."

[BigDeel]

David Axelrod makes the case for Mitt Romney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=xFUYhN3ikxI

[Todd Ianuzzi]

David Axelrod makes the case for Mitt Romney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=xFUYhN3ikxI

In 29 seconds. What a persuasive case.

[Mr Douglas]

In 29 seconds. What a persuasive case.

They actually repeated part of the clip to fill 29 seconds, ...... which is still less than half the time it would take to describe any meaningful differences between them.

[HoosierHelen]

In 29 seconds. What a persuasive case.

I felt the same way...they edited that one down to cut off any content prior or after the snippet...and had to repeat it to get the 29 seconds in. Would have been nice if it referred to where/when he made the comment. Heavily edited was my reaction.