I am amazed people allow this to be called a news channel. No one even corrects this idiot. Sad what our country has become. Nitwits sitting on couches watching empty brains pontificate about absolutely nothing of consequence. Enjoy:
Fox Idiot Forgets 9-11 Happened with no correction
HIS WEAK BLAMING EXCUSE - Keep watching Fox
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Michelle Bachman
OK, you hate the Federal Government however:
You draw your salary there.
You get medical benefits from there.
Your husband gets Medicare money to run his clinic.
You want a tax holiday, but we want a Holiday from your hand in the pot of gold you have found in Washington lady.
If you need more from me ask. I will explain. I am just so sick of Hypocrites hiding behind things they aren't even hiding behind. They are liars, and are trying to change the Government without having any clue how the system works. Burning at the stake for this garbage would be too easy.
Comment please.
You draw your salary there.
You get medical benefits from there.
Your husband gets Medicare money to run his clinic.
You want a tax holiday, but we want a Holiday from your hand in the pot of gold you have found in Washington lady.
If you need more from me ask. I will explain. I am just so sick of Hypocrites hiding behind things they aren't even hiding behind. They are liars, and are trying to change the Government without having any clue how the system works. Burning at the stake for this garbage would be too easy.
Comment please.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
OK, listen up, time for class.
Time to take a few minutes out of your day. Push away from Americas fattest loser, the Family dude, The Detroit Show, 2 and 3/4 boys, The Cardigan sluts and the meat heads from Jersey. Take a few minutes to sit with your children and learn something from an educated individual.
Interesting Doctor Speaking about Evolution, Science, Creationism and Religion
I look forward to comments.
Interesting Doctor Speaking about Evolution, Science, Creationism and Religion
I look forward to comments.
The NFL is Back
OK. The NFL is back, so they saved themselves from the dustbin of baseball in my eyes.
Now: how badly will the Bengals suck?
I look forward to your comments.
Now: how badly will the Bengals suck?
I look forward to your comments.
Let the End Begin
We are doing exactly what we are supposed to do as a strong nation. Fight over stupid stuff that has nothing to do with raising the debt ceiling. Sad. Who is going to put a sock in Cantor's mouth? Bachman? These people are idiots that need strong lessons in Constitutional law, and need to stop acting like just because they call something a tea party doesn't meant they serve tea, or it is a party... and it definitely doesn't say they have any clue how government works. IDIOTS!!!
I look forward to comments.
I look forward to comments.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Interesting Conversation
Here is a recent political chat had between a friend and myself. His statements are in bold blue. My answers "normal". I like these types of debates.
Answering to my post about Eisenhower and the 90% tax rate being good for America:
"Statics do not show that growth. 2.9% unemployment when he was elected. When he left, it was 4.2%. That is job growth? At the peak of his presidency, he had a 1.6% job growth. How is that job growth?"
Yes, and we would be very happy with a 4.2% unemployment rate at anytime in the last 3-5 years wouldn’t we? When he started in office we were still building munitions for Korea, and a significant part of our work force was locked in combat on that peninsula, correlation of history Dave, the two went hand in hand. I see you using the word growth, but putting a small number. This is another issue with the American people. We have come to expect instant gratification. You can’t use a word like growth, and then ask where it is. It was growth either way whether 1/4% or 200% it is growth. Unlike the average workers rate of pay in the last 10 years where we have lost $1500 on average as well as the buying power our dollar used to carry, but the CEO has gained 430%. Now if you post there was job loss to the tune of 250,000 a month then he would have been a failure. Unfortunately for modern Republicans he presided over one of the greatest economic times in this country’s history, and you should be proud of that since he was a Republican, even though he was not a Trickle Down Republican.. Thus the reason those days are so fondly remembered by all of our parents and grandparents. 1 job per household, and you lived like Wally and the Beaver, or at least could afford to live. We produced our own TV’s (Curtis Mathis anyone, Crosley Radios anyone else?) and they were the best on the planet. We made everything. Those jobs are gone forever due to corporate greed, and consumer fickleness.
Where and why President Obama is blaming the previous President:
"Sparky the Dog, I blame both, but I have a problem when one President cannot own up to his doings. Get off the Bush Blaming and put blame where it lies, Obama and the Democrats over the last 2 1/2 years. That is my point. Obama has not offered anything, yet people say he has a plan. If he has one, present it!!!!"
You are right, Bush never blamed Clinton. They blamed him for 9/11 during his whole Presidency which is mind boggling. Cheney and Rove almost had Clinton training the terrorists to fly the planes, and then piloting them all the way to the river, then jumping out and parachuting to safety in his Harlem office secret roof hatch.
Clinton did it to the first Bush, the first Bush did it to “God”… I mean Reagan, Reagan did it to Carter… do we need to go any further? My hand is tired of typing these names. I am pretty sure any plan needs to originate in the house according to the Constitution, but I may be wrong. Obama has talked with the “leader” Boehner and they are willing to compromise, but he can’t lead his rag tag bunch of “baggers” into the light because they think they understand the law better than the Constitutional lawyer sitting in the CEO office now. Because a Constitutional lawyer doesn’t understand the Constitution as well as God.lol
Earning and taxation:
"I am not in the top 5%! But, I am a firm believer that if you bust your ass to make something of your life, you deserve what you get. I believe that no one person or govt. has the right to come in and take the bulk of what you worked your ass off for. Now, with the top 5%....you honestly believe that they need to pay more? The U.S. Govt gets $200 Billion a month in tax revenue. That is $1.2 Trillion a year. That is an enormous amount of money. Is it really fair for the Fed. Govt. to take from one person and give to another, especially if that other person is capable of working and making a life of their own?" "I have no issues with reducing benefits for the rich, when they retire, but have an issue taking their money. A person once said, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." That is where this nation is heading. That philosophy does not work, and that has been proven. This person was Karl Marx."
Even at a 50% rate on the rich, it is still not bulk. It is half, and honestly, if I made $2million a year, I could survive on one of them comfortably. That would be half, but we are nowhere near that. I agree, $1.2 trillion is a lot of money, and if we didn’t give $100billion of it to corporations for sending our jobs overseas and closing facilities in the US every year, or closed out the billions in subsidies to the oil industry who is making hand over fist record profits off your gas tank and mine, or stopped paying farmers not to farm. So, my fundamental question remains: if taxes have not gone up in the last 10 years, but in fact have gone down and stayed down then: WHERE ARE THE JOBS? If TDE works, then we should be basking in the glory of the rich peeing all over us for being able to keep more of their money than at any time in the last century. PERIOD! Again, they are not taking from one to give to another. Corporate welfare is 1000 times what personal welfare is. Again PERIOD!!! They are taking from people and giving back to corporations, those are your “drunks down the street”. They are drunk off your money. That is the way it is. The Marx philosophy was never tried, no matter how hard you try to call Socialism Communism it is like saying a Democracy is a Representative Republic. No, they are not the same. Socialism is living for the society, Communism is living for the state and the military the state supports. I work with at least 5 former eastern bloc residents who will tell you this difference, and agree I hit the nail on the head.
"My situation: Not top 5%, but maybe close to top 10%. I have busted my ass to get to where I am at, taken chances, and things have paid off. Did the Fed. Govt. help me get there? No! It was all me. Now, for what I have done for myself, I should be ok with the Fed. taking a large chunk of my pay? I think not. I am no better than someone making 50,000/yr. The difference is the choices you make in life, and how you chose to live it. I wanted more, and I took chances and worked hard for it. Do I owe the drunk down the street money to pay for a place to live? No. Do I owe the drug addict money to allow them to live their lifestyle? No. Do I owe the person, who refuses to work, money to live on? No. If I lose my job, I take what I can get. I do not believe in mooching off someone who has money. This is my life, I take my own responsibilities. I have seen, at some point, more than half of my paycheck to out in taxes. Hard to work hard when you see that much going out in taxes. There is no incentive to work any harder if the more you work, the more they take. I hold nothing against those who make more, especially if they worked hard to get to where they are."
All of your complaints can be answered by 2 or 3 nearly 20 year old articles:
I have busted same ass. I worked full time through school with a stay home mom and 2 sick kids in tow. I used Grants, loans (I have paid back), and medical coverage for my children who needed $1million in surgeries before they were 5. Now I make way too much for any help, and now would be when I need a single payer system that was killed by Republicans to protect the insurance lobby. We all took chances, I did too, and won. Not everyone is playing on or from the same field though. You are not parsing out your tax dollars. I write a check to the government every year, and I am not crazy enough to think that I personally pay for the “drunk down the street”. In fact, if I was smart enough to do simple math, I would know that in reality my tax dollars go mostly to corporations, than to social programs. Actually about 1000 times OUR tax dollars go to corporations than personal welfare. So, I may be giving the “drunk down the street” about a quarter of a cent per year. However, I am paying huge corporations (Archer Daniels Midland) and farmers not to grow food, I am subsidizing the oil industry (Exxon, BP etc…), the military contracts industry (Rockwell, Lockheed, HALIBURTON) the drug companies (Pfizer, Squibb, Bristol Meyers), Wall Street and pretty much any other corporate entity. You lived this when you watched GM leave Norwood owing millions in taxes and saying “who cares”. The schools immediately suffered, roads, police and fire all suffered because a corporation was given a great deal to keep jobs, instead they chose to send them to other states and eventually Mexico. So, I will ask this: Do you owe the corporation down the street who can self sustain and make billions in profits every quarter to keep the share holders happy, but refuse to cut you a deal on gas? Do you owe Wall Street Billions of dollars to make sure they don’t fail and can continue to rape the entire nation? Do you owe the top 1% who control 80-90% of all wealth and refuse to trickle these magic jobs down to any of us more breaks so they can get richer and build bigger bunkers and compounds for when the end of this nation come and chaos hits the streets in your town? If working hard to get where they are was the case, then maybe I would agree a bit on cutting a break that they are already getting by having the lowest tax rates in the HISTORY OF THE US. In most of these instances however, that is not the case, or at least in the Fortune 500 world (my former world of employment). One CEO puts a “friend” on the board of directors because he just purchased a 5% share of the company, then that “friend” turns around and puts that same CEO on his board of directors for purchasing 8% of the stock in his company… and so on and so on. No more cracking the good ole boys network for us, and they will play with your money like Monopoly money while protecting theirs at all costs. Funny though, now they are even eating each other, and Piranhas aren’t supposed to eat other Piranhas: http://www.todayonline.com/Business/EDC110628-0000397/Goldman-Sachs-to-add-1,000-jobs-in-Singapore
Your job may be next, and you don’t even care to protect it.
I look forward to comments.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Oh the tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive. MURDOCH!!!
http://www.outfoxed.org/
this is when it all started folks. People are surprised Rupert has been caught with his other hand in the cookie jar? He pulled this garbage here in the last several election cycles. Talking point memos proliferated through the Faux Noise group of fake talking points, Swift Boating, Reverend Wright...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvMbeVQj6Lw
the list is so long I would break my hands writing it all out for you. This man is a cheat who has ruined what used to be considered news in this country by actually hiring talking heads with backgrounds in things such as Hard Copy and Inside Edition with Bill O'Rielly, Shawn Hannity and Nancy Grace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4l4pBTDm8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY
The Supreme Court of Georgia has twice commented on Grace's conduct as a prosecutor. First, in a 1994 heroin drug trafficking case, Bell v. State, the Court declared a mistrial, saying that Grace had "exceeded the wide latitude of closing argument" by drawing comparisons to unrelated murder and rape cases.
In 1997, the court was more severe, overturning the murder - arson conviction of businessman W. W. Carr in the death of his wife. While the court said its reversal was not due to these transgressions, since the case had turned primarily on circumstantial evidence, it nevertheless concluded "the conduct of the prosecuting attorney in this case demonstrated her disregard of the notions of due process and fairness, and was inexcusable." Carr was freed in 2004 when The Georgia Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Fulton County had waited too long to retry him, thereby unfairly prejudicing his right to a fair trial.
Despite upholding the conviction she sought, a panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in a 2005 opinion that Grace "played fast and loose" with her ethical duties and failed to "fulfill her responsibilities" as a prosecutor in the 1990 triple murder trial of Herbert Connell Stephens. The court agreed that it was "difficult to conclude that Grace did not knowingly use ... [apparently false] testimony" from a detective that there were no other suspects, despite the existence of outstanding arrest warrants for other men.
Suicide of interviewee Melinda Duckett
In 2006, 21-year-old Melinda Duckett committed suicide following an interview conducted by Grace concerning the disappearance of Duckett's 2-year-old son Trenton. Grace interviewed Duckett less than two weeks after the child went missing, questioning her for her alleged lack of openness regarding her son's disappearance, asking Duckett "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?" Duckett appeared confused and was unable to answer whether or not she had taken a polygraph test. When Grace asked her why she could not account for specific details, Duckett began to reply, "Because I was told not to," to which Grace responded, "Ms. Duckett, you are not telling us for a reason. What is the reason? You refuse to give even the simplest facts of where you were with your son before he went missing. It is day twelve." According to the CNN transcript, Duckett replied, "(INAUDIBLE) with all media. It's not just there, just all media. Period." Grace then moved on to a media psychologist who asserted that Duckett was "skirting around the issue."
The next day, before the airing of the show, Duckett shot herself, a death that relatives claim was influenced by media scrutiny, particularly from Grace. Speaking to The Orlando Sentinel, Duckett's grandfather Bill Eubank said, "Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end. She was not one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this."[CNN has also been criticized for allowing the show to air in the wake of Duckett's suicide. Police investigating the case had not named Melinda Duckett as a suspect in the case at the time, but after her suicide the police did say that, as nearly all parents are in missing-child cases, she was a suspect from the beginning.
In an interview on Good Morning America, Nancy Grace said in reaction to events that "If anything, I would suggest that guilt made her commit suicide. To suggest that a 15- or 20-minute interview can cause someone to commit suicide is focusing on the wrong thing." She then said that, while she sympathized with the family, she knew from her own experience as a victim of crime that such people look for somebody else to blame.
While describing it as an "extremely sad development," Janine Iamunno, a spokeswoman for Grace, said that her program would continue to follow the case as they had a "responsibility to bring attention to this case in the hopes of helping find Trenton Duckett." Grace commented that "I do not feel that our show is to blame for what happened to Melinda Duckett. The truth is not always nice or polite or easy to go down. Sometimes it's harsh, and it hurts."
On November 21, 2006, thesmokinggun.com exposed pending litigation on behalf of the estate of Melinda Duckett, asserting a wrongful death claim against CNN and Grace. The attorney for the estate alleges that, even if Duckett did kill her own son, Grace's aggressive questioning traumatized Duckett so much that she committed suicide. She also argues that CNN's decision to air the interview after Duckett's suicide traumatized her family. Trenton was never found.
On November 8, 2010, Grace reached a settlement with the estate of Melinda Duckett to create a $200,000 trust fund dedicated to locating Trenton. This settlement was reached a month before a jury trial was scheduled to start. According to the agreement, if the young boy is found alive before he turns 13, the remaining proceeds in the trust will be administered by a trustee – Trenton's great-aunt Kathleen Calvert – until he turns 18 and the funds are transferred for his use. If Trenton is not found by his 13th birthday, or if he is found but is not alive, the funds will be transferred immediately to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "We are pleased the lawsuit has been dismissed. The statement speaks for itself," a spokeswoman for CNN said.
Duke lacrosse allegations
Grace took a vehemently pro-prosecution position throughout the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case, in which Crystal Gail Mangum, a stripper and North Carolina Central University student, falsely accused three members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team of raping her at a party. Prior to Duke suspending its men's lacrosse team's season, she sarcastically noted on the air, "I'm so glad they didn't miss a lacrosse game over a little thing like gang rape!" and "Why would you go to a cop in an alleged gang rape case, say, and lie and give misleading information?" After the disbarment of District Attorney Mike Nifong, Attorney General Roy Cooper pronounced all three players innocent of the rape charges made by Mangum and Nifong. On the following broadcast of her show, Grace did not appear and a substitute reporter, Jane Velez-Mitchell, announced the removal of all charges.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x8ARIxg51I&playnext=1&list=PLF8900B8BF8274F85
Elizabeth Smart kidnapping
During the Elizabeth Smart case, when suspect Richard Ricci was arrested by police on the basis that he had a criminal record and had worked on the Smarts' home, Grace immediately and repeatedly proclaimed on CourtTV and CNN's Larry King that Ricci "was guilty," although there was little evidence to support this claim. She also suggested publicly that Ricci's girlfriend was involved in the cover-up of his alleged crime. Grace continued to accuse Ricci, though he died while in custody. It was later revealed that Smart was kidnapped by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, two individuals with whom Richard Ricci had no connection.
When CourtTV confronted Grace seven months later to ask whether she was incorrect in her assertion that Ricci was guilty, and whether or not she felt bad about it in any way, she stated that Ricci was "a known ex-con, a known felon, and brought suspicion on himself, so who could blame anyone for claiming he was the perpetrator?" When Larry King asked her about the matter, she equated criticism of herself with criticism of the police in the case. She said: "I'm not letting you take the police with me on a guilt trip."
In July 2006, Grace interviewed Smart, who was promoting a legislative bill. Grace repeatedly asked her for information regarding her abduction. Smart told her she didn't feel comfortable discussing it, despite Grace's persistence in the matter. Finally, Grace stopped when Smart said she "didn't appreciate [Grace] bringing all this up." Idiot talking heads on the dole folks. Stop paying attention now. Murdoch has been found out legally and finally by people who don't care about his political pull, but want answers and will fry him for lying. Enjoy Republicans. It is crumbling around you now.
I look forward to your comments.
this is when it all started folks. People are surprised Rupert has been caught with his other hand in the cookie jar? He pulled this garbage here in the last several election cycles. Talking point memos proliferated through the Faux Noise group of fake talking points, Swift Boating, Reverend Wright...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvMbeVQj6Lw
the list is so long I would break my hands writing it all out for you. This man is a cheat who has ruined what used to be considered news in this country by actually hiring talking heads with backgrounds in things such as Hard Copy and Inside Edition with Bill O'Rielly, Shawn Hannity and Nancy Grace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4l4pBTDm8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY
The Supreme Court of Georgia has twice commented on Grace's conduct as a prosecutor. First, in a 1994 heroin drug trafficking case, Bell v. State, the Court declared a mistrial, saying that Grace had "exceeded the wide latitude of closing argument" by drawing comparisons to unrelated murder and rape cases.
In 1997, the court was more severe, overturning the murder - arson conviction of businessman W. W. Carr in the death of his wife. While the court said its reversal was not due to these transgressions, since the case had turned primarily on circumstantial evidence, it nevertheless concluded "the conduct of the prosecuting attorney in this case demonstrated her disregard of the notions of due process and fairness, and was inexcusable." Carr was freed in 2004 when The Georgia Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Fulton County had waited too long to retry him, thereby unfairly prejudicing his right to a fair trial.
Despite upholding the conviction she sought, a panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in a 2005 opinion that Grace "played fast and loose" with her ethical duties and failed to "fulfill her responsibilities" as a prosecutor in the 1990 triple murder trial of Herbert Connell Stephens. The court agreed that it was "difficult to conclude that Grace did not knowingly use ... [apparently false] testimony" from a detective that there were no other suspects, despite the existence of outstanding arrest warrants for other men.
Suicide of interviewee Melinda Duckett
In 2006, 21-year-old Melinda Duckett committed suicide following an interview conducted by Grace concerning the disappearance of Duckett's 2-year-old son Trenton. Grace interviewed Duckett less than two weeks after the child went missing, questioning her for her alleged lack of openness regarding her son's disappearance, asking Duckett "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?" Duckett appeared confused and was unable to answer whether or not she had taken a polygraph test. When Grace asked her why she could not account for specific details, Duckett began to reply, "Because I was told not to," to which Grace responded, "Ms. Duckett, you are not telling us for a reason. What is the reason? You refuse to give even the simplest facts of where you were with your son before he went missing. It is day twelve." According to the CNN transcript, Duckett replied, "(INAUDIBLE) with all media. It's not just there, just all media. Period." Grace then moved on to a media psychologist who asserted that Duckett was "skirting around the issue."
The next day, before the airing of the show, Duckett shot herself, a death that relatives claim was influenced by media scrutiny, particularly from Grace. Speaking to The Orlando Sentinel, Duckett's grandfather Bill Eubank said, "Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end. She was not one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this."[CNN has also been criticized for allowing the show to air in the wake of Duckett's suicide. Police investigating the case had not named Melinda Duckett as a suspect in the case at the time, but after her suicide the police did say that, as nearly all parents are in missing-child cases, she was a suspect from the beginning.
In an interview on Good Morning America, Nancy Grace said in reaction to events that "If anything, I would suggest that guilt made her commit suicide. To suggest that a 15- or 20-minute interview can cause someone to commit suicide is focusing on the wrong thing." She then said that, while she sympathized with the family, she knew from her own experience as a victim of crime that such people look for somebody else to blame.
While describing it as an "extremely sad development," Janine Iamunno, a spokeswoman for Grace, said that her program would continue to follow the case as they had a "responsibility to bring attention to this case in the hopes of helping find Trenton Duckett." Grace commented that "I do not feel that our show is to blame for what happened to Melinda Duckett. The truth is not always nice or polite or easy to go down. Sometimes it's harsh, and it hurts."
On November 21, 2006, thesmokinggun.com exposed pending litigation on behalf of the estate of Melinda Duckett, asserting a wrongful death claim against CNN and Grace. The attorney for the estate alleges that, even if Duckett did kill her own son, Grace's aggressive questioning traumatized Duckett so much that she committed suicide. She also argues that CNN's decision to air the interview after Duckett's suicide traumatized her family. Trenton was never found.
On November 8, 2010, Grace reached a settlement with the estate of Melinda Duckett to create a $200,000 trust fund dedicated to locating Trenton. This settlement was reached a month before a jury trial was scheduled to start. According to the agreement, if the young boy is found alive before he turns 13, the remaining proceeds in the trust will be administered by a trustee – Trenton's great-aunt Kathleen Calvert – until he turns 18 and the funds are transferred for his use. If Trenton is not found by his 13th birthday, or if he is found but is not alive, the funds will be transferred immediately to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "We are pleased the lawsuit has been dismissed. The statement speaks for itself," a spokeswoman for CNN said.
Duke lacrosse allegations
Grace took a vehemently pro-prosecution position throughout the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case, in which Crystal Gail Mangum, a stripper and North Carolina Central University student, falsely accused three members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team of raping her at a party. Prior to Duke suspending its men's lacrosse team's season, she sarcastically noted on the air, "I'm so glad they didn't miss a lacrosse game over a little thing like gang rape!" and "Why would you go to a cop in an alleged gang rape case, say, and lie and give misleading information?" After the disbarment of District Attorney Mike Nifong, Attorney General Roy Cooper pronounced all three players innocent of the rape charges made by Mangum and Nifong. On the following broadcast of her show, Grace did not appear and a substitute reporter, Jane Velez-Mitchell, announced the removal of all charges.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x8ARIxg51I&playnext=1&list=PLF8900B8BF8274F85
Elizabeth Smart kidnapping
During the Elizabeth Smart case, when suspect Richard Ricci was arrested by police on the basis that he had a criminal record and had worked on the Smarts' home, Grace immediately and repeatedly proclaimed on CourtTV and CNN's Larry King that Ricci "was guilty," although there was little evidence to support this claim. She also suggested publicly that Ricci's girlfriend was involved in the cover-up of his alleged crime. Grace continued to accuse Ricci, though he died while in custody. It was later revealed that Smart was kidnapped by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, two individuals with whom Richard Ricci had no connection.
When CourtTV confronted Grace seven months later to ask whether she was incorrect in her assertion that Ricci was guilty, and whether or not she felt bad about it in any way, she stated that Ricci was "a known ex-con, a known felon, and brought suspicion on himself, so who could blame anyone for claiming he was the perpetrator?" When Larry King asked her about the matter, she equated criticism of herself with criticism of the police in the case. She said: "I'm not letting you take the police with me on a guilt trip."
In July 2006, Grace interviewed Smart, who was promoting a legislative bill. Grace repeatedly asked her for information regarding her abduction. Smart told her she didn't feel comfortable discussing it, despite Grace's persistence in the matter. Finally, Grace stopped when Smart said she "didn't appreciate [Grace] bringing all this up." Idiot talking heads on the dole folks. Stop paying attention now. Murdoch has been found out legally and finally by people who don't care about his political pull, but want answers and will fry him for lying. Enjoy Republicans. It is crumbling around you now.
I look forward to your comments.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Political Suicide. Can I help?
I don't even need to give links...lol Unless asked today. Just a short rant about our current political duel.
First, Republicans must be stupid. They are committing political suicide by holding the Presidents feet to the no fire of cutting spending. 70% of the US population (including 60% of Republicans) believes we need to have comprehensive reforms that include tax increases on the ultra rich and cut spending. Not only cut spending. I am enjoying watching Cantor and Boehner kill themselves politically to protect the ultra rich...
We also have Bachman who knows nothing about History at all. I am really glad she doesn't work for any publishing house in the editing room for our school books.
Are we going to get to watch this party implode? It would be neat to see the party Lincoln started go down the toilet to ideals he never envisioned.
I look forward to comments and requests for links...lol
First, Republicans must be stupid. They are committing political suicide by holding the Presidents feet to the no fire of cutting spending. 70% of the US population (including 60% of Republicans) believes we need to have comprehensive reforms that include tax increases on the ultra rich and cut spending. Not only cut spending. I am enjoying watching Cantor and Boehner kill themselves politically to protect the ultra rich...
We also have Bachman who knows nothing about History at all. I am really glad she doesn't work for any publishing house in the editing room for our school books.
Are we going to get to watch this party implode? It would be neat to see the party Lincoln started go down the toilet to ideals he never envisioned.
I look forward to comments and requests for links...lol
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
This is for all you doubters of the world view on the US.
http://news.rambler.ru/10449715/
OK, Time for all you Internet savvy folks to use Google translate. I was extremely happy a friend gave me this link. This friend is from another country. I have known for years what other countries say about the US because I actually read foreign journalism. We are arrogant pigs feeding at the trough of the world, and the feast is running out.
So, it is not American "Liberal country haters" as all you hill jacks might claim who think of the US as a cesspool, but apparently there are quite a few countries that wish we would get our stuff together and use our power for good and not evil. We have turned into Bizarro US. Sad but true. Please use Google Translate for the article and comments. It may not be perfect, but you will get a great idea of how we are viewed world wide. Thanks for the link... you know who you are. Get with it folks, our time is running low. I look forward to comments...
OK, Time for all you Internet savvy folks to use Google translate. I was extremely happy a friend gave me this link. This friend is from another country. I have known for years what other countries say about the US because I actually read foreign journalism. We are arrogant pigs feeding at the trough of the world, and the feast is running out.
So, it is not American "Liberal country haters" as all you hill jacks might claim who think of the US as a cesspool, but apparently there are quite a few countries that wish we would get our stuff together and use our power for good and not evil. We have turned into Bizarro US. Sad but true. Please use Google Translate for the article and comments. It may not be perfect, but you will get a great idea of how we are viewed world wide. Thanks for the link... you know who you are. Get with it folks, our time is running low. I look forward to comments...
Monday, July 11, 2011
Why must they play games with our future?
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-challenges-gop-compromise-debt-153234996.html
I blame Republicans for being stupid, and Democrats for being chicken shits.
Have a great week!!!
I blame Republicans for being stupid, and Democrats for being chicken shits.
Have a great week!!!
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Stop these people please for the love of "GOD"!!!LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSbfs32yCU&feature=feedu
Need more than this video be said? These people are one of the many problems in this country.
Need more than this video be said? These people are one of the many problems in this country.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Disgusting
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/113086/bubble-destroyed-middle-class-marketwatch?mod=bb-budgeting
Please pay attention folks. We are losing everything to a Plutocracy.
Please pay attention folks. We are losing everything to a Plutocracy.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Where is the Trickle?
This is a subject I would like to cover. Trickle Down Economics.
"Trickle-down economics" and "the trickle-down theory" are pejorative terms that refer to the policy of providing across the board tax cuts or benefits to businesses, such as tax breaks, in the belief that this will indirectly benefit the broad population. The term has been attributed to humorist Will Rogers, who said during the Great Depression that "money was all appropriated for the top in hopes that it would trickle down to the needy.
Proponents of these policies claim that if the top income earners invest more into the business infrastructure and equity markets, it will in turn lead to more goods at lower prices, and create more jobs for middle and lower class individuals. Proponents argue that economic growth flows down from the top to the bottom, indirectly benefiting those who do not directly benefit from the policy changes. However, others have argued that "trickle-down" policies generally do not work, and that the trickle-down effect may be very slim, if indeed it even exists at all.
Today, "trickle-down economics" is most closely identified with the economic policies known as Reaganomics or supply-side-economics. Originally, there was a great deal of support for tax reform; there was a dual problem that loopholes and tax shelters create a bureaucracy (private sector and public sector) and that relevant taxes are thus evaded. During Ronald Reagan's presidency, the Democratic Party-controlled House, at the urging of President Reagan, cut the marginal tax rate on the highest-income tax bracket from 70% to 28%.
A major feature of these policies was the reduction of tax rates on capital gains, corporate income, and higher individual incomes, along with the reduction or elimination of various excise taxes. David Stockman, who as Reagan's budget director championed these cuts at first but then became skeptical of them, told journalist William Grieder that the term "supply-side economics" was used to promote a trickle-down idea.
Here is a little clip to show you how much Reagan was run by the MONEY GUYS in politics at the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTcL6Xc_eMM
Pay attention... That is Don Regan (Presidents money guy), former head of Merrill Lynch telling the President to speed it up. Notice Reagan talking about letting the Bulls go... Whose symbol on Wall Street is the Bull? HMMM...
OK. Question for all you Conservatives with guts enough to explain your stance.
You complain that a Democrat wants to infuse actual companies that may hire you with "bail out" monies. You complain they want to give you Social Services at a cost to all of us to help out the less fortunate. Even though, economically, you are the next unfortunate one in line. With that said:
How in your right mind can you vote for this policy to continue? I have heard the Tea Baggers all say: the bail outs have brought us nothing (even though it was a Republican who signed the first ones with no oversight at all). All we keep hearing is "where are the jobs?". However, after 30 years of trickle down experimentation in this country, I have a question for you:
Where the hell are the jobs? In the last 30 years we have gone from CEO pay being roughly 40% more than that of the workers to 400% more, and guess what, the average just went up another 20% this year. Yet, I still feel no jobs trickling down on any of us. They just took 1500 jobs from Goldman-Sachs, and shipped them overseas too. So, complain about Obama. However, look in the mirror. All of you who are dumb enough to be led by the nose with a policy that has never worked and will never work are ridiculous. Get a load of you voting against your own interests. It is great. This country was great when the wealthy were forced to pay back the society that allowed them to live an ultra wealthy lifestyle. We had a sustainable middle class, and we could provide for one home with one job in that home. Since the days of Ike who had a 90% tax rate, the country has been on a steady spiral down hill. So, if you can complain about a couple of years of a President trying to help... then I reserve the right to ask: where are all the jobs we were promised if we kept the rich man rich, and allowed him to get richer? Should he not by now have figured out a way to trickle a few jobs down on his US brethren? Or is it better he ships your job overseas so he can collect more cash because they work for $.50 and hour? You have been lied too, and you are being stupid for blindly following an economic experiment that has had 30 years to produce anything but strife and destitution in our nation... oh and an ultra wealthy class.
I look forward to comments.
"Trickle-down economics" and "the trickle-down theory" are pejorative terms that refer to the policy of providing across the board tax cuts or benefits to businesses, such as tax breaks, in the belief that this will indirectly benefit the broad population. The term has been attributed to humorist Will Rogers, who said during the Great Depression that "money was all appropriated for the top in hopes that it would trickle down to the needy.
Proponents of these policies claim that if the top income earners invest more into the business infrastructure and equity markets, it will in turn lead to more goods at lower prices, and create more jobs for middle and lower class individuals. Proponents argue that economic growth flows down from the top to the bottom, indirectly benefiting those who do not directly benefit from the policy changes. However, others have argued that "trickle-down" policies generally do not work, and that the trickle-down effect may be very slim, if indeed it even exists at all.
Today, "trickle-down economics" is most closely identified with the economic policies known as Reaganomics or supply-side-economics. Originally, there was a great deal of support for tax reform; there was a dual problem that loopholes and tax shelters create a bureaucracy (private sector and public sector) and that relevant taxes are thus evaded. During Ronald Reagan's presidency, the Democratic Party-controlled House, at the urging of President Reagan, cut the marginal tax rate on the highest-income tax bracket from 70% to 28%.
A major feature of these policies was the reduction of tax rates on capital gains, corporate income, and higher individual incomes, along with the reduction or elimination of various excise taxes. David Stockman, who as Reagan's budget director championed these cuts at first but then became skeptical of them, told journalist William Grieder that the term "supply-side economics" was used to promote a trickle-down idea.
| "It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory." | ||
David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director | ||
Here is a little clip to show you how much Reagan was run by the MONEY GUYS in politics at the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTcL6Xc_eMM
Pay attention... That is Don Regan (Presidents money guy), former head of Merrill Lynch telling the President to speed it up. Notice Reagan talking about letting the Bulls go... Whose symbol on Wall Street is the Bull? HMMM...
OK. Question for all you Conservatives with guts enough to explain your stance.
You complain that a Democrat wants to infuse actual companies that may hire you with "bail out" monies. You complain they want to give you Social Services at a cost to all of us to help out the less fortunate. Even though, economically, you are the next unfortunate one in line. With that said:
How in your right mind can you vote for this policy to continue? I have heard the Tea Baggers all say: the bail outs have brought us nothing (even though it was a Republican who signed the first ones with no oversight at all). All we keep hearing is "where are the jobs?". However, after 30 years of trickle down experimentation in this country, I have a question for you:
Where the hell are the jobs? In the last 30 years we have gone from CEO pay being roughly 40% more than that of the workers to 400% more, and guess what, the average just went up another 20% this year. Yet, I still feel no jobs trickling down on any of us. They just took 1500 jobs from Goldman-Sachs, and shipped them overseas too. So, complain about Obama. However, look in the mirror. All of you who are dumb enough to be led by the nose with a policy that has never worked and will never work are ridiculous. Get a load of you voting against your own interests. It is great. This country was great when the wealthy were forced to pay back the society that allowed them to live an ultra wealthy lifestyle. We had a sustainable middle class, and we could provide for one home with one job in that home. Since the days of Ike who had a 90% tax rate, the country has been on a steady spiral down hill. So, if you can complain about a couple of years of a President trying to help... then I reserve the right to ask: where are all the jobs we were promised if we kept the rich man rich, and allowed him to get richer? Should he not by now have figured out a way to trickle a few jobs down on his US brethren? Or is it better he ships your job overseas so he can collect more cash because they work for $.50 and hour? You have been lied too, and you are being stupid for blindly following an economic experiment that has had 30 years to produce anything but strife and destitution in our nation... oh and an ultra wealthy class.
I look forward to comments.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Good Bye to Some of the Craziness
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/glenn-beck-signs-off-fox-news-show-become-223643319.html
So is anyone else happy this mook is gone?
So is anyone else happy this mook is gone?
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