This week offered some tough calls. What was the scariest audio tape: Christian Bale's f-bomb-filled Terminator tirade or Dick Cheney's bone-chilling mutterings on the "high probability" of a coming nuclear 9/11 and preemptive finger-pointing? Who showed the worst parental judgment: 14-is-not-enough single mother Nadya Suleman or the father who thought it was a good idea to post video of his drugged up 7-year old on YouTube (paging child protective services)? And who is most in need of a racial sensitivity class: Miley Cyrus, Bishop Richard "What Holocaust?" Williamson, or Florida Republican Carol Carter, who sent around an email questioning how "2,000,000 blacks get into Washington, D.C. in 1 day in sub zero temps when 200,000 couldn't get out of New Orleans in 85 degree temps with four days notice"? Discuss.
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You are seriously kidding me. Words fail me.
It was so much like what one would hear from the likes of Rush that it leads me to conclude that they really should be led by him. Expose as many of the Bachmans, Carters, Palins, and Hannitys to the American public to the light of day! It can only speed up the demise of that divisive party once and for all. It will probably morph into the new Confederacy since it is pretty much limited to the south now anyway.
Could someone please tell him he's not in office anymore?
Baaaaa.
Does anyone really care about Christian Bale?
If 5% of the people like me who crossed over for the first time ever to vote for Obama refrained from leaving their republicans roots would the Democrats still be in power?
I voted for a leader to stand up and tell the credit-card-loving, mortgage-craving, debt-addicted consumers of America that helped create the meltdown to learn fiscal responsibility. I voted for a leader to implement clawbacks on ill gotten gains by realtors, mortgage brokers, CEOs, Sport stars etc. Instead we got a leader that caps pay after the fact and is promoting a welfare bill as a stimulus bill and an economic team that can’t wait to subsidize 3000 sq ft McMansions and bailout the cash-out refi boat buying middle class because they are victims. Just read the bill yourself. Don’t get me wrong!! I would also support increased spending for a social safety net bill but don’t insult me with “catastrophe” rhetoric and think I am too dumb to go read all 600+ pages myself and expect me to think this bill will create jobs. Democrats will lose everything if they don’t back off from Republican bashing. Stop making me regret voting for Obama with “We won” and give us some respect.
By Hermie Rotea
Apparently Dick Cheney is still suffering from fear, real or imagined. During his 8-year stint as vice president at the White House he and the nation's worst president George W. Bush thrived on fear of terrorist attack as their justification for preemptive strike and self-defense doctrine, which served as their great deception in invading and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan in their illegal, immoral and phony war on terror.
Now Cheney is afflicted by bone-chilling mutterings on the "high probability" of a coming nuclear 9/11 catastrophe and preemptive finger-pointing. Is this what forced retirement from public office has done to him? As one can recall, when he and Bush ran the White House, they ignored many early warnings of terrorist attacks by Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda suicide bombers provided to them by the CIA and 10 other nations, as not credible and impossible. America paid dearly with 3,000 lives and billions of dollars in losses for their criminal neglect and violation of their constitutional duty to protect the nation.
So now who is talking about 9/11? With his dismal record as vice president along with Bush, Cheney is like the tale of the shepherd boy who repeatedly cried wolf although there was no wolf. His credibility is ZERO.
He is sending it loud and clear.
For example, years before Katrina, Scientific American magazine had a lead article detailing what would happen if a strong hurricane were to hit the New Orleans area - they forecasted a major disaster. Not too long after that, Congress passed billions of dollars for levee repair. Unfortuneately, Pres. Bush refused to spend the appropriated money. After the fact, it is easy to see that the $15 billions appropriated for repair before the hurricane are a pittance compared to the consequences of refusing to spend that money.
Personally, I feel that it is a shame that the scientific discussions that took place before Katrina were not acted upon, and that Bush was not taken to task for failing to act upon those warnings. (One could observe that he refused to heed the warnings of major hurricane damage to the New Orleans area, in the same way that he ignored the warnings about Al Qaeda.) Likewise, the scientific warnings regarding global warming have not yet been acted upon appropriately.
Stim Package Movement Master destoyer Carl F----k Rove
Dick Cheny comments Carl Rove The attack dog.
Figure it out Dems your in a war on terror Carl Rove is biteing your rear. WAKE UP
They are like snotty kids that know that if they act up, mom and dad will have to give them a Happy Meal, or some concession to shut them up. I say, put them in "Time Out" and put the count at 24 hrs for every stupid obstructionist trick they use. By now, they are sentenced to 50 years in time out and then...maybe, if they've learned their lesson, they can speak again.
What kind of progress can be made at the rate we need it NOW, if we keep catering to these selfish, ignorant incompetents?
Imagine how A Americans feel when a whole country that had laws to keep the violence of slavery going says" I wasn't there, I'm not responsible, yet all other groups destroyed by some form of halocaust, got set right to build THEIR COMMUNITIES, while we still can't afford homes or start businesses, without the crooks jacking the price up two to three times on us.
Fair my derere.
Maybe I need to check with other investment firms of the color persuasion, since they are on board with future energy plans for America. I've searched the old status quo places, and all I see is drunken greedy influence peddlers, that won't get my children's or my investment $$
Get rid of the crooks, Wall STreet knows who they are and are waiting to try and scam our Green companies.
NOT gonna happen Capn.
If the corporate welfare hacks in DC don't get out the way of the people's money, there will be no demand and it will return to a renters heaven. People just won't put their money in their hands ever again. New honest people, or keep your banks.
WE the PEOPLE will ask OUR PRESIDENT, to nationalize one bank that was trustworthy of the people's savings and back OUR Stimulus, without the crooks ever touching a cent.
I still don't see the perp walkers of WAll STreet. Until then, keep your crooked bankers and inverstors like Madoff.
I have to tell you, it's not looking good for a certain sect of figure heads, that have run our banks and investment firms in the past.
NO JUSTICE ON WALL STREET, NO PIECE OF MY PIE FOR RETIREMENT OR INVESTMENT.
BUCK YOU GREEDY CROOKS, YOU ALL NEED JAIL!!
OH DID I MENTION, NOR MY GRANDCHILDRENS INSURANCE MONEY OR COLLEGE SAVINGS TO STOCK YOUR GREEDY COFFERS.
did that on a temporary basis during the savings and loan debacle and then returned the
trusts to the private sector. It worked then. Britain has shown that it will work now.