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What would an ex-motor pool grunt know about religion?
This comment did not being anything useful at all to this debate. Its just a trollish comment to get a rise out of others.
It certainly reflects poorly on the posters maturity.
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Strange how many of you now are worried about the budget. Wish you were as worried when Bush bankrupted us during his reign of mismanagement.
Imagine 5,000 piles of one billion dollars. Which is what Bush managed in his two terms - raising our national debt from 5 to 10 trillion.
And to think, after Clinton left office and based on what he did, they predicted the debt would go from 5 to 3 trillion during Bush's first term.
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What makes it possible is that most Americans who don't agree with them don't understand it either. They think that the leadership of an entire political party can't be that despicable, so the critics must be the radicals.
I hope the American people figure this out soon.
Citizens of a country rarely recognize when their leaders, are bad, rotten, despicable or simply evil. Its the "my country is blessed and this can never happen here" syndrome. Which is a great comfort and help to rotten leaders who are blindly supported and given the benefit of the doubt.
We've seen it in Germany where good Germans upset over Brownshirt antics would say "if only the Fuhrer knew" or in Russia where Russians said "if only Uncle Joe knew". Their knew and approved.
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First thing 44 did was put a cap on his own staff's pay
Really? But then a cap is not the same as a freeze.
Links? Proof?
Don't give me links or proof from Republican or right wing sources. They have proven over and over that they make things up to suit themselves.
From the fantasy world of the NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee)
EconomyThanks to Republican economic policies, the U.S. economy is robust and job creation is strong.
Republican tax cuts are creating jobs and continuing to strengthen the economy, yet there is still more to do so that every American who wants a job can find one. Congressional Republicans understand that many Americans are working hard to make ends meet. That is why the GOP continues to push for pro-growth policies that create jobs and oppose tax increases that would add a burden to working families and set back our economy.
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Hohmann is entitled to his opinion but probably doesn't realize that there were influential founders who opposed slavery and sought its abolitition.
George Washington: "There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it."
(It's true Washington owned slaves but they belonged to his wife when they were married. They were freed in his will. Also, I have been in Washington's slave quarters, the accomodations were better than the average frontier family. They were brick with fireplaces)
Choose and pick all you want. However, looking at Washington, I quickly found this:
Washington once told a visiting Englishman that slavery was neither a crime nor an absurdity, noting that the U.S. government did not assure liberty to madmen. "Until the mind of the slave has been educated to understand freedom, the gift of freedom would only assure its abuse," Washington explained.What was your point about the accommodations? Do nice accommodations justify slavery? Would you feel the same about the Arab white slave trade where women were put in the very comfortable Harems?
I can imagine some 18th century Arab sultan or emir telling the British, "Don't worry, no need to stop the slave trade. Our slaves have such nice accommodations."
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(Patriot)
"Aside from being a "bozo", I wonder if Paul will ever acknowledge that George W. Bush saved more lives than any other person in world history? This is not a fact that loony lefties , suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) will easily admit is true. Anyone that doubts the accuracy of this (Paul), should Google "President Bush's AIDS inititive". Bush is responsible for saving over 2 million lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and around the world by spending over 100 billion dollars on anti-viral AIDS drugs. Hardly the actions of a bozo. But let's not forget, Paul is a "Humanist"."
So Bush did one thing right and helped people in Africa. That's good. Now if only he hadn't destroyed the American economy and gotten us into an unnecessary war.
The usual spin.
We KNOW they are not saved because AIDS is incurable.
AIDS is fatal if not treated for life (and even then very often). Who will ensure that the "saved" individuals be treated for the rest of their lives? The very expensive medicine has to be made available to the "saved" until they die of old age or other causes not related to AIDS. No mean feat in areas with unstable governments.
Wishful thinking and political spin cannot override medical fact.
How many lives did Bush endanger and kill with his administrations abstinence only policies?
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Too bad the response is incoherent and doesn't deal with Paszkiewicz's point that the Government does not give us our rights.
Actually government does determine our rights. That is why we need to support a wise and just government by electing good officials.
The rights given by government at our countries founding were primarily for male whites with limited rights to female whites and none to the black slaves.
The rights given at our countries founding were then extended to all by the evolution of our legal system by the people through the officials we elected. The rights are enunciated and determined by our government under the people.
Sometimes the government gives and other times it takes. As was done to the Jews under the Nazis. Where was God when they were shoved into the ovens?
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If you already knew all of it then why are you arguing that Christmas is exclusively a Christian holiday. Obviously you alreay know it's not. What are the inaccuracies? You always come here and make statements but say nothing to back them up.
Because he is a troll.
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Why is it so difficult for you to accept that two very different people can hold the same world view? Out of 200+ million people in this country why would that be such a coincidence? I think you sound a lot like Patriot and Lincoln Logger and a few other anonymous "guests" that post. That doesn't necessarily mean you are one and the same. You want some differences? We are not the same gender, the same age and we live on opposite sides of the country. I studied medicine and he studied law. I also used to be a right winger. I do not believe I am smug at all. Funny that you don't see that in yourself. I think it's pretty smug of you to decide who is who on this blog.
He knows they are different.
Many posts from 2smart and patriot are really, really ridiculous. This is typical when dealing with trolls. They enjoy posting provocative comments and the response they elicited. They really don't care what they post as long as its provocative enough to get a pissed off response.
They have their own special needs that are met by this behavior. Sad.
Don't feed trolls.
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Now Tsurumi tells us. (Correction - he told us awhile ago) However, quite an indictment.
For 25 years, Yoshi Tsurumi, one of George W. Bush's professors at Harvard Business School, was content with his green-card status as a permanent legal resident of the United States. But Bush's ascension to the presidency in 2001 prompted the Japanese native to secure his American citizenship. The reason: to be able to speak out with the full authority of citizenship about why he believes Bush lacks the character and intellect to lead the world's oldest and most powerful democracy."I don't remember all the students in detail unless I'm prompted by something," Tsurumi said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "But I always remember two types of students. One is the very excellent student, the type as a professor you feel honored to be working with. Someone with strong social values, compassion and intellect -- the very rare person you never forget. And then you remember students like George Bush, those who are totally the opposite."
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Harvard Business School's rigorous teaching methods, in which the professor interacts aggressively with students, and students are
encouraged to challenge each other sharply, offered important insights into Bush, Tsurumi said. In observing students' in-class performances, "you develop pretty good ideas about what are their weaknesses and strengths in terms of thinking, analysis, their prejudices, their backgrounds and other things that students reveal," he said.
One of Tsurumi's standout students was Rep. Chris Cox, R-Calif., now the seventh-ranking member of the House Republican leadership. "I typed him as a conservative Republican with a conscience," Tsurumi said. "He never confused his own ideology with economics, and he didn't try to hide his ignorance of a subject in mumbo jumbo. He was what I call a principled conservative." (Though clearly a partisan one. On Wednesday, Cox called for a congressional investigation of the validity of documents that CBS News obtained for a story questioning Bush's attendance at Guard duty in Alabama.)
Bush, by contrast, "was totally the opposite of Chris Cox," Tsurumi said. "He showed pathological lying habits and was in denial when challenged on his prejudices and biases. He would even deny saying something he just said 30 seconds ago. He was famous for that. Students jumped on him; I challenged him." When asked to explain a particular comment, said Tsurumi, Bush would respond, "Oh, I never said that." A White House spokeswoman did not return a phone call seeking comment.
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In 1973, as the oil and energy crisis raged, Tsurumi led a discussion on whether government should assist retirees and other people on fixed incomes with heating costs. Bush, he recalled, "made this ridiculous statement and when I asked him to explain, he said, 'The government doesn't have to help poor people -- because they are lazy.' I said, 'Well, could you explain that assumption?' Not only could he not explain it, he started backtracking on it, saying, 'No, I didn't say that.'"
If Cox had been in the same class, Tsurumi said, "I could have asked him to challenge that and he would have demolished it. Not personally or emotionally, but intellectually."
Sep 16, 2004 | Bush once sneered at Tsurumi for showing the film "The Grapes of Wrath," based on John Steinbeck's novel of the Depression. "We were in a discussion of the New Deal, and he called Franklin Roosevelt's policies 'socialism.' He denounced labor unions, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Medicare, Social Security, you name it. He denounced the civil rights movement as socialism. To him, socialism and communism were the same thing. And when challenged to explain his prejudice, he could not defend his argument, either ideologically, polemically or academically."
Students who challenged and embarrassed Bush in class would then become the subject of a whispering campaign by him, Tsurumi said. "In class, he couldn't challenge them. But after class, he sometimes came up to me in the hallway and started bad-mouthing those students who had challenged him. He would complain that someone was drinking too much. It was innuendo and lies. So that's how I knew, behind his smile and his smirk, that he was a very insecure, cunning and vengeful guy."
Many of Tsurumi's students came from well-connected or wealthy families, but good manners prevented them from boasting about it, the professor said. But Bush seemed unabashed about the connections that had brought him to Harvard. "The other children of the rich and famous were at least well bred to the point of realizing universal values and standards of behavior," Tsurumi said. But Bush sometimes came late to class and often sat in the back row of the theater-like classroom, wearing a bomber jacket from the Texas Air National Guard and spitting chewing tobacco into a cup.
"At first, I wondered, 'Who is this George Bush?' It's a very common name and I didn't know his background. And he was such a bad student that I asked him once how he got in. He said, 'My dad has good friends.'" Bush scored in the lowest 10 percent of the class.
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/20...rumi/print.html
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You probably did.
I hope he did.
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From a Fox News report, so you'll probably think it's inaccurate; "Ambien, the most-prescribed sleeping pill in America, has been linked to hundreds of cases of sleepwalking, sleep-driving and even sleep-shoplifting. Sanofi-Aventis, which makes the drug, maintains it is safe when taken correctly and not mixed with alcohol or other drugs."
Also, I have personal knowledge of a woman sleep-eating while using Ambien.
Sounds like a plot from Fox's old show - the X files. Are those writer now doing their news reports?
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Amen, brother. We'll all pray for that.
Christianity in action.
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Does anyone else wonder what a divorced mother and nurse from supposedly Sacramento, California is doing posting here on Kearny on the Web? Someone who knows so much about the court system and just who happens to agree with every comment that Paul says. Maybe if she wasn't on the computer so much she just might be still married? Just food for thought.
I see you crawled out of your sewer to give us one of your nasty and mean comments. What was the point of your comment besides being nasty?
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His farewell address was no surprise. Its what I expected from this pathetic loser. Good riddance.
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Good Point. I saw a pack of old ladies milling about Magnolia Avenue that night and they looked liked they were up to no good. Good Grief!
You gotta watch them. Remember Livia Soprano? A typical old lady. Very vicious when you're in their way. The older the more dangerous. Years and years of accumulated psychological warfare techniques (they seem so innocent, don't they?), cunning and experience.
The cars blocked their street crossing access paths. If you look, you can see that they have knives knives embedded in the legs of their walkers.
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Time to Wake up Kearny, Election time will be here very soon. WAKE UP LOOK AT WHAT THIS MAN HAS DONE TO THIS TOWN. TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE!!!!!!
I agree. He's done a good job.
Time to clean out all those who oppose him.
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How do you know it was a teenager?
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What you don't like is that instead of branding Matthew a liar he has been branded a a sneak.
That is your opinion. The opinion of a small minority.
An opinion refuted by the rest of the world. All you have to do is look at the numerous accolades he has received, the many stories and editorials written in his favor, the numerous speaking engagements he has been offered.
The rest of the world has found Matthew to be a courageous individual who has stood up for his rights and the rights of his fellow students against much adversity. He stopped a teacher from proselytizing his personal religious views on the tax payers dime and time. A teacher who lied until confronted by Matthew's tapes.
In the old days, which so many of you conservatives love, a teacher caught lying without union protection would be terminated for moral turpitude.
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Your "facts" can't be proven one way or the other.
They can certainly be proven.
You can get historical insurance rates. You can get the increases they were allowed by their various state insurance departments over the years. You can look up how much is spent on actual services vs admin overhead.
You can look at the budget of the Federal Government and actually see how much is spent on social security administration. Compare that to private insurance or investment administration.
Its all a matter of retrieving public records.
All it takes is some intelligence (not much) and wherewithal.
Often the facts are obvious. Anyone who has had insurance has seen their rates go up significantly. It is a fact that you can mail a letter for less than 50 cents. Try mailing a letter using a private carrier, such as UPS, for less than 50 cents. You'll be laughed out of the UPS store.
But then, many are really not interested in doing work. They would rather be and are so used to being spoon fed the swill masquerading as "facts" by the fat one and his cronies. They can't even envision doing their own research. They are comfortable being part of the authoritative mind set hive.
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The person's post was full of thinly veiled insults and threats towards the administration, teachers, and policies of KHS. Do you really expect me to have a non insulting exchange of ideas with him?
Give up the sarcasm Bern, you're much better at the politically correct tap dances that you do.
No sarcasm. Just stating a fact, guest.
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I don't see where Bern has posted any facts. Just because he writes things doesn't make them fact.
And how do YOU know my "facts" are wrong? That is always a problem, isn't it? The interpretation of "facts."
Many get their "facts" from Limbaugh and because it is a "fact" from the fat one, it must be so.
Others look at real data - statistics. They see how much insurers take in vs how much they pay our in every one of their categories such automobile or health insurance. Some look at BEA data to get a handle on the economy.
Many will give the fat one more credence than any other source. They don't have the work ethic, discipline and intelligence to research facts. They depend on the fat one and his cohorts to present them "facts". So convenient and painless, having facts "handed" to you on a silver platter.
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The market is up over 300% since the crash in the late 80s. Properly regulated, not over regulated, private companies blow away most government run agencies.
Prove it.
Show me how companies like Lehman, AIG, GM, Chrysler are better. Should we make the Defense Department a private company? What about State? Should we turn your local police department over to private security?
What about a quasi governmental agency such as the postal service? Should we turn them over to UPS or FEDEX? Right now you can send a letter for 41 cents. Can you do that with FEDEX?
And the fact is, if we listened to Bush, half of the social security trust fund would now be "lost" in the market.
The one place I do see where private works better than public is with schools.
Canada's now #1
in Kearny
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Its not true. This is the usual bs from the low information, low intelligence drones as fed them by rightwing radio, etc.
You don't see Canadians pining in their newspapers and letters to the editors about wait times.
They had a series the "Greatest Canadian". The winner was Tommy Douglas, their "Father of Medicare."