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I am sick and tired of you republican pieces of shit! This country is melting down right before our very eyes most of it is a direct result of republican policy yet you refuse to see it. As long as someone promises to overturn Roe v. Wade, ban gay marriage, make sure you have your guns and are able to force your religion down my throat then that's all that matters. You should be ashamed of yourselves. I blame you and those who think like you for the state of the union. Good work assholes, you have done more damage to this country country than any terrorist could have hoped for. Give me one good reason to keep these mother fuckers in office! .............you can't.
Why don't you shut you f**king mouths and open your eyes?! f**k you, your president and your god!
They thank you for being so candid. You can be sure that this will be widely distributed as an example of a "typical" Obama supporter.
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It's nice to know that the slimmy things that live under the rocks are still alive. As if this thing one hasn't cause enough damage to the reputation of this town, he cries mutany knowing that without his band of ambulance chasing lawyers, things around here are going to remain the same. It's the luxury Junior had that other townspeople do not. And he laughed all the way to the bank with him getting a ride to the New School. He's still a joke but he got the last laugh. Fool me once, ect.
The newly lowered reputation to the Town was thanks to Mr P who acted illegally and the school administration and school board who were "hesitant" in resolving the problem. Don't blame the kid who told the truth. This would never have gotten outside of the school if Mr P or others owned up to Mr P's folly and took corrective action.
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Republicans never waste a minute rewriting the history books.
Its not a rewrite. These things are in the congressional record as is the bill co-sponsored by McCain. The link to the bill was given in the article
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN00190:@@@P
Obama now decries all these financial irregularities, but notice that he did not do anything to resolve this, unlike McCain.
McCain is also right in asking to have Cox, the SEC Chairman replaced. Cox is the head of the SEC which changed the regulations to allow the financial houses to leverege 40 to 1 on their loans.
MR. ZUCKERMAN: Well, the single greatest contributor to the housing bubble was Fannie and Freddie. And everybody knew that Fannie and Freddie was -- they were two institutions, two government- sponsored enterprises, that were out of control in terms -- they made over $600 billion of investments in subprime mortgages in the first six years of this century, and that contributed mightily to what we are all now having to deal with. And Paulson, when he said the core of the problem was the collapse of housing, that's where it all started, in the subprime field. And in fairness, Obama did nothing on that.However, Cox, the SEC commissioner, was the man who sat there while they doubled and even tripled --
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Really?
MR. ZUCKERMAN: -- the ability of financial houses to use leverage. They went from a maximum of 12 to 1 to as high as 40 to 1.
MR. ZUCKERMAN: Cox is on the SEC. The SEC has no jurisdiction over Fannie and Freddie, as a practical matter. The Congress did. The Congress refused to regulate them, even though people like McCain said, "You've got to regulate them," and not only McCain. I mean, this started in the Democratic administration. It was a Democratic honey pot.
MR. ZUCKERMAN: It's $6 trillion. We're talking 6,000 billion dollars. That was the single greatest contributor to the speculation in the housing world. The other side of it was the overuse of leverage by the financial --
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Wait a minute, Eleanor. Did McCain call for the resignation of Chris Cox --
MR. ZUCKERMAN: Yes.
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: -- from the Securities and Exchange Commission?
MR. ZUCKERMAN: Yes, he did.
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Why?
MR. ZUCKERMAN: Because they changed the regulations or relieved the regulations that would have contained the leverage or the excess borrowing or the excessive use of debt in all of Wall Street, particularly the top five firms. They gave them special treatment. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs has still survived; Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns, who no longer survived. Three out of the five blew up, and that is a testament to what they allowed them to do.
From the McLaughlin group telecast 9/21
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Actually it does. Your story is the amount given by the corporate donor, the chart is the amount given by the board members. It is a pretty common tactic.
Jeez people-the story was sourced. Look it up yourselves before dismissing it.
Where's your story? All you did was show a chart.
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Of course, that changes when you look at who the officials gave money too:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/0...nie.graphic.jpg
Your graphic and this story don't agree.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington...age-giants.html
It would be better if you posted the story that went with the graphic. This way we can get some context out of this.
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I don't know what school you are referring to, but in the school I am affiliated with, the fundraiser is for the PTA to provide extras for the children. Also, the cost of the uniform shirt is nothing compared to what your daughter would have had to pay for new school clothes. Either way, they need clothes for the year, correct? Also, if she is that hard up, maybe she ought to suggest a uniform exchange program where you can hand in your old uniforms that have been outgrown and pick up some used shirts until she can afford them. Believe me, I feel the tug of the purse strings too, but the uniforms are cost efficient. She can pass them down from one child to the other.
It that really true? When I went to public school, I and everyone else used our regular everyday clothes for school. Our parents did not have the additional expense of buying a special outfit for school.
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Palin's so-called Christian pastor accused a woman of being a witch and tried to force her to "confess" or leave the community. When she wouldn't confess, the community made her life so miserable that she left. Some Christian! Which is worse, the inhumanity or the ignorance? This is Palin's pastor! That alone wouldn't mean much, but when we find out Palin herself is speaking in tongues --- she had better hope no one has a video of that!
But the pastor is very Christian in following the scriptures, which say that witches exist. How do you know the woman was not a witch? Were you there? Or are you a heathen, not a Judeo Christian? Do you want the pastor to renounce the scriptures?
1 As is known, the Torah forbids witchcraft in any form whatsoever, and this prohibition is repeated a number of times. In Deut. 18:10-12, we read:There shall not be found among you any one that ... uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer, for all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord.
In Lev. 19:26, it states, "You shall not eat any thing with the blood; neither shall you use enchantment, nor observe times", and in regard to King Menasseh, it states clearly (II Kings 21:2 ff.), "He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel". His sins are then enumerated as follows:
He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards. He wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger (vs. 5-6).
"The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit The Kingdom of God." (Galatians 5:19-21 NIV)
"But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars - their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur." (Revelation 21:8 NIV)
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Higher than George W. Bush's SAT score.
What I expected. You blab about SAT scores but you have no idea of what the scores are. Would you be surprised if I told you her score was 550 Reading and 420 Math?
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Can't accept that a Black woman had higher SAT's and grades than you, can you? Or that a Black man became President of the Harvard Law Review (literally, en elite within an elite) based entirely on grades and a writing sample? Why are you so threatened by successful African Americans that you immediately resort to race to account for their accomplishments?
Speaking of affirmative action, how do you think George Bush II got admitted to Yale University? And with a C average got admitted to Harvard Business School?? The irony of all this is that our leaders who have benefited from affirmative action are mostly White legacies (see also Dan Quayle, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, John McCain, etc.)
What was her SAT score?
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Do we really care? Does anyone really think Bush would be of use during the decision process?
The real decision makers can have their meetings and then tell Bush to rubber stamp their decisions. They can even save him the trouble of showing up by having a pre-ordered stamp ready.
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Can someone please tell me how do people do it, my daughter as of this year has four children in school, the cost of the uniforms was overwhelming, now here come the fundraisers, then on Tusday, they got forms for school pictures! My daughter and son in law both work, but like anyone else they have financial responsibilties. But this is too much, for pictures they want $90 for the four children combined, the pressure put on the children to sell the fundraiser, and the they brought home forms to buy books, come on, this is only the second full week of school what's next? I would like to know how other parents do it without going broke.
Forget the fund raisers. Its enough that you spent all this money on uniforms. They should learn to run a decent school using their bloated budget. If any staff member puts pressure on your kids, see the staff member and if need be the principal. Let them know pressuring kids for money in a public school is completely unacceptable and if it continues you'll sue them for harassment.
When I went to school, extra curricular activities and supplies came out of the school budget. We never has fund raisers. School budgets become more and more bloated while they're busy hitting the kids and parents up for more and more money.
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2.) You should probably be glad they aren't doing a series of town hall meetings because then more and more people would get to see personally how McCain would get stomped.
Yeah, umhh, okay.
I gave the above You Tube video link. Its obvious Obama would be the one getting stomped.
The whole point of an election is to get the most votes. Obama would do town halls day and night if he thought he could do better than McCain. Obama is the one who chickened out.
Here are some more. A bit nasty but it shows he's not the brightest knife in the drawer
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It was revealed today that Barack accepted a cool $500,000. in cash from Freddie and Fannie. NICE !! I wonder if Obama will be giving it back since the taxpayers are footing the bill.
No wonder we have problems. A quasi governmental agency paying off politicians. It was less than 500,000 but Obama was the second largest recipient. Our tax dollars at work. Don't expect to get it back.
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You couldn't find the link? You couldn't find the You Tube video where Percy Sutton imparted his information? I can see why you are an Obamite - you have no analytical skills.Here's how Obama did it, my a--. New evidence, my a--. No one knows anything about your source. There isn't a shred of evidence here. Anyone could make claims like that. And they're far-fetched to the n-th degree, like Elvis sightings. Next you'll be telling us his father was really a Martian.This is just the same old Resmuglican swift-boat slime tactics. All lies, all the time. And now that the sleazeball Resmuglicans are getting desperate, expect it to get worse. Except that it backfired, so they may be reluctant to pull this stuff.
Let us know if you actually get any real evidence against Obama.
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Here's some more on your "reformer" from Real Clear Politics
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/...rm_in_illi.html
September 17, 2008Obama Sidesteps Reform in Illinois
By Dennis Byrne
For those of you who still cling to the fantasy that Barack Obama is "about change," you should note how he, or his minions, want nothing to do with reforming politics in Illinois, perhaps the most corrupt state in the Union.
"Throughout his political career, Barack Obama has fought for open and honest government," proclaims his campaign Web site. Apparently, no longer. When the Democratic presidential candidate--now his party's industrial-strength voice for our deliverance from political corruption everywhere--was asked by a reformer if he would help get his political mentor back home to get off the dime and move the most minimal of state ethics legislation toward passage, the Obama campaign sent word back that amounted to a "no."
State Sen. Emil Jones (D-Chicago) is the Chicago machine politician who might have been most instrumental in jump-starting Obama's political career. Now, as Illinois Senate president, Jones is the one sitting on the reform legislation, refusing to call it for an expected favorable vote before it officially dies of neglect.
Jones is the pal of Gov. Rod Blagojevich, no friend of reform, who used his amendatory veto power to change the legislation after it passed both houses so that Jones would get another chance to kill it.
If all that's confusing, welcome to Illinois politics, where intricacy is the best camouflage for chicanery. Suffice to say, neither Blagojevich nor Jones is working for reform.
So, along comes Cindi Canary, director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, thinking that now might be a good time for Obama to parlay his friendship with Jones to do a good deed: Won't you intervene with Jones and try to get him to call the Senate back into session to get this law passed? "[T]his is a place [Obama] could come in and quickly clean up some of the damage and serve his state," she told the Chicago Sun-Times. After all, her group and Obama worked together during those halcyon days when he actually supported reform in Illinois, so maybe he'll be receptive to a plea to intervene on behalf of Illinois folks who have been getting gouged for years by the likes of Jones. "A 30-second phone call to the Illinois Senate president could yield huge dividends to this state," she said.
In response, Obama's campaign issued an oozy statement reaffirming Obama's alleged commitment to reform, while getting no more specific than urging everyone to get together and love one another right now. What Canary was asking Obama for wasn't all that much. Maybe a 30-second phone call to back up his usual pap of, "Look, ah, I've, ah, always been for, ah, reform." For most people, the reform that we're talking about is so basic that they might ask, "You mean it's not illegal already?"
The legislation would make illegal the widespread abuse called pay-to-play politics, by which companies doing business with the state contribute to the state official in charge of ladling out contracts. The new law wouldn't let you do it if you have more than $50,000 in state contracts, which, even at that, leaves open a nice loophole. In Illinois, this is a huge leap forward from how things are done. Blagojevich, who has reaped bundles of cash from state contractors, could be one of the pols most jolted by the prohibition. That explains why he rewrote the legislation in a way that would make it ineffective and why the House overwhelmingly rejected his changes.
Jones now is the only one standing in the way of the reform, with Obama abetting.
Here's another example of how Obama has revealed himself to be a creature of the Chicago machine. Who can forget his silence when he could have affirmed his reformer credentials by endorsing Democrat Forrest Claypool over machine creature Todd Stroger as Cook County Board president? When things got too hot, Obama severed his ties from his racially inflammatory pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. That's not too hard; you can always find another pastor.
But betraying your political godfather(s) in Chicago and Illinois is an entirely different matter. Especially if you lose the presidential election and return to being just another senator from Illinois. Cutting his ties with the corrupt Chicago machine is one bridge you will not see Obama burn. Not now, not ever.
Agent of change, my foot.
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This shows one reason why Obama refused town halls
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But he's so accomplished
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Pop quiz: Which of the following schools could Sarah Palin have gotten into?
A. Columbia University in New York
B. Harvard Law School
C. Univ. of Chicago Law School
D. None of the above
Come on Resmuglicans, you know the answer.
Don't all speak up at once now.
Depends on who you know or who writes you references. Ask Bush and Obama.
Here's how Obama did it
New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidateBarack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers.By: Kenneth R. Timmerman WorthyNews.com 9-3-8
In a videotaped interview this year on New York’s all news cable channel NY1, a prominent African-American businessman and political figure made the curious disclosures about Obama. (See Video Clip Below)
Percy Sutton, the former borough president of Manhattan, off-handedly revealed the unusual circumstances about his first encounter with the young Obama.
“I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him,” Sutton told NY1 city hall reporter Dominic Carter.
“The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas,” Sutton said. “He is the principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men. He told me about Obama.”
Sutton, the founder of Inner City Broadcasting, said al-Mansour contacted him to ask a favor: Would Sutton write a letter in support of Obama’s application to Harvard Law School?
“He wrote to me about him,” Sutton recalled. “And his introduction was there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak. Would you please write a letter in support of him?”
Sutton said he acted on his friend al-Mansour’s advice.
“I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly,” Sutton told NY1.
Sutton did not say why al-Mansour was helping Obama, how he discovered him, or from whom he was raising money on Obama’s behalf.
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What's your problem, Resmuglicans? No smart-assed answers to this?
Why reply to a silly post.
That is like me starting a thread titled "Obama is lying" and then giving the Google the result:
Results 1 - 10 of about 5,170,000 for obama is lying. (0.29 seconds)
Should I now list all 5,170,000 links?
Its ridiculous. What was the point? There is no end to the silliness of you Obama supporters, is there?
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Well... matt is now known as the biggest douche in the whole school and in kearny for doing what he did...
i mean... he goes and asks the teacher to talk about it, then when the teacher does talk about it, he tapes it and frames him as preaching in class..
i had classes with mr. P and he never preached about the Gospel ever... he did mention about christian influences on certain time periods... but not more as other teachers do...
i mean... i dont think teachers should preach in class at all... but thats really not what he was doing... he was answering a question... and... as far as the constitution goes thats not against it...
this whole story is about imposing beliefs...
but what happens to the people that believe in intelligent design in schools? aren't they being imposed as well?
dont be a hypocrite like that... if you must use one argument for one side... you have to use it on the other side as well..
You're an absolute idiot. Anyone listening to the tapes knows that P preached in class. Also, P admitted it in the principal's office. P denied it to the principal until Matt said he had tapes whereupon P said "you got me."
This is something which was discussed many times, long ago with the facts being very obvious. Bringing it up now with your obviously false assertions is pure idiocy.
Are you trolling for attention?
As for your comment on intelligent design
The science curricula is based on science. Its not based on beliefs, which intelligent design is. Intelligent design belongs in the Church, not in the science classroom. Using you reasoning, because many believe in astrology, then astrology should be taught in the science classroom so we don't intrude on their beliefs.
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I don't know if the intent was to get us to invade the Middle East. I think they wanted to hurt us and show we are weak.
However, our invading the Mid East is a bonus to them. They do intend to weaken us politically and financially. Remove that projection of American power. They succeeded. We are no longer respected and are no longer capable of building the type of alliance we had during Gulf War I.
Other countries are now taking the lead in international diplomacy and crisis resolution. France took the lead with Russia. China takes the lead in reining in North Korea. Pakistan will do whatever they want.
With McCain things will remain the same. But don't expect much change with Obama. He's committed to beefing up in Afghanistan and in attacking Pakistani territory without permission of the Pakistan government.
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Pakistani security officials said on Monday that troops had fired on U.S. military helicopters and forced them to turn back to Afghanistan, but both the Pakistani and American militaries denied the incident.According to the security officials, the incident took place near Angor Adda, a village in the tribal region of South Waziristan where officials have said U.S. commandos in helicopters raided a suspected al Qaeda and Taliban camp earlier this month.
"The U.S. choppers came into Pakistan by just 100 to 150 metres at Angor Adda. Even then our troops did not spare them, opened fire on them and they turned away," said one security official.
While Angor Adda villagers and officials supported that account, the U.S. and Pakistani military denied the report.
The American wounded will be reported as having been wounded outside of Pakistan.
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Palin said she supported Georgia's entry into NATO and as a member of NATO we would stand with NATO if there was ever a confrontation with Russia.
Bern, I expect the Loonys to misquote and lie about Palin, I don't expect the same from you.
I know that but basically she said she will commit us going to war to support Georgia. Her regret was that Georgia was not part of Nato, missing the chance to go to war. But now she will push to have Georgia join, thereby giving us that "war" opportunity.
You have to realize that the Georgian president won a dodgy election big time. This after his opponent, the prime minister of Georgia and leader of the Rose Revolution mysteriously died in a carbon monoxide poisoning accident at his home.
The regime is extremely corrupt. The President of Georgian has turned the whole country into a family business - his family members run all the government concessions. His popularity was down to 7%, before the "war." In 2007, his own defense minister accused him of corruption and murder. His ex-defense minister is now living as a refugee under protective custody in Paris.
And he's the guy we're supporting?
By the way, even if we push hard, the chances of Georgia joining Nato are zero. The European governments cannot accept a nation that is spoiling to embroil them in a war with Russia.
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Bern, your attempted smear of the next President of the United States is pitiful and pathetic. Boil down all the irrelevancies and you're left with the following accusations by one person who has his own point of view but nothing more:
"First, it wasn’t a consulting house; it was a small company that published newsletters on international business. . . . There was probably some research involved as well, since correspondents usually don’t send exactly what you ask for, and you can’t always decipher their copy. But essentially the job was copyediting. . . . It’s also not true that Barack was the only black man in the company. He was the only black professional man."
Not even a good try, Bern. Just a cheap attack on our next President, whom you obviously don't like.
Since this came out I've haven't seen anyone from that company supporting Obama's assertions or decrying Armstrong's statement.
Armstrong has not been shown to be a liar, unlike the duplicitous and very political Obama
Sometimes Obama has come late to the game. He did not stop taking rides on subsidized corporate jets until the week he was tapped to be the Democrats' chief spokesman on ethics in January 2006. In 2005, Obama took 23 such private aircraft flights, some to attend fund-raisers he headlined. In 2006, Obama led the fight to ban lawmakers from taking cut-rate private air travel. -
Is Obama really the nice, happy, personable, looking guy being marketed on TV or is he something else?
You decide.
Comment from Bill MillarTime: October 30, 2007, 8:17 am
Cathy Lazere [another commentor] calls Barack self-assured? That’s putting a nice spin on it. I found him arrogant and condescending.
The thing is, I worked next to Barack nearly every day he was at Business International–on many days angling for possession of the best Wang word processing terminal.
I had MANY discussions with Barack.
I can tell you this: even though I was an assistant editor (big doings at this “consulting firm”) and he was, well, he was doing something there, he certainly treated me like something less than an equal.
Funny thing… A journalism/political science major… Writing about finance… Pretending in his book to be an expert on interest rate swaps.
I remember trying to explain the nuance of these instruments to him in the cramped three Wang terminal space we called the bull pen. In contrast to his his liberal arts background, I had a degree in finance and Wall Street experience, so I knew what I was talking about.
But rather than learn from a City College kid, the Ivy Leaguer just sort of rolled his eyes. Condescendingly. I’ll never forget it. God forbid he leave the impression that a mere editor like myself knew more about something than did Barack.
He was like that…
Obama the Liar
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Did I say that was her score? Learn to read. Become literate. It may be a life changing experience for you, guest.
I was trying to make a point by replying to the poster who talked about Michelle Obama's SAT scores. Which is, zip it when you don't know what you are talking about. I notice you didn't criticize that poster for his/her erroneous comment.
Its reported that McCain's IQ is 133 (maybe now was?).
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/04/mccains-reported-iq.html
By the way Bush's SAT scores are verbal: 566; math: 640
http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feat...2000/04/17/sat/
What does that prove? Don't worry about the SAT scores.