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“Like Easter Christmas is an important religious holiday for me.
But I don’t have time for Bill O’Reilly’s shelale war on the free market’s free speech use of the word holiday to sell as many marked down holiday sweaters to as many people as they can in the biggest shopping season of the year. And I don’t have time for Glenn Beck’s Christmas sweater.
Beck and O'Reilly are opinion entrepreneurs - the inventory is yelling and tears.
It’s the holiday’s and business is good for them: low overhead, spoken inventory, and a huge profit.
Just speaking for myself, I am grateful for the freedom of living in a secular society. It is distasteful, often distasteful, but that is part of the cost.

No, Secular does not mean non religious. Actually it is the opposite; secular means that we get to be more religious – without fear of reprisals. My Christmas and my Easter are not rolled out for sale, put on sale, marked down and then given over to merchandise returns.
What makes us free is that our citizens can only shout (or cry) about heresy. And yell (and cry) they do. Money, power and influence are their rewards. My guess is that Bill O’Reilly chose to roll out his holiday scolding about our secular freedoms, because even in what may be the worst holiday shopping season since WWII, he needs the money.”

“That does it. I'm going to Hawaii.”

“True true too true.
So much of Sarah is re worded and re dressed resistance to integration. Look at the attacks on the main organization that registers voters. Those who said NEVER to civil rights needed another set of lingo and another look to their program. Now they have Sarah.”

“In the states that were segregated - Sarah is the ornament for their old ways.”

“With full respect to your comment.
She means something else.
She uses, or misuses, the word to mean something like the pop fantasy of a rogue cop. The script on this is the rogue cop is someone who is that rare person who is in the minority but right, gut right, and fro all but lost and true reasons needs to bust free of laws put in place by elites who don’t know what is real America - and this is the brave person to take action and save our real values.
How many movies and TV shows have we seen along these lines since 1960?
She is exciting that meme.”

“I did not say I had a problem with her book. Or anything remotely like that.
I said she means business - She is in it to win it and she is not a joke.

That is just between you and your reading comprehension.
Or maybe you just needed to make a comment.”

“Barney Frank would be great.
But Actually I would like to see a debate between you and Sarah.
Clear thinking (at least on one side) with the gloves off.
Knockout or 15 rounds
That would be a ticket!”

“Dismissers beware.
She has resigned her governor’s job to work full time to be at the center of national media attention. She has hired professional management. And she is running a campaign, building an organization. She has been redesigned to look the same.
Clearly her narrative is that she ready, the same and worthy; more than ready, still the same, and perfectly worthy of running for the highest office in the land.
In her own words she has a higher calling. And in many people's opinion and especially those in her party she is the leading contender for the 2012 GOP Presidential nomination.
She is speaking to an organization of Washington-based journalists: the Gridiron Club where she is joking only about her critics.
She means business.”

“Sounds like she has better managers.”

“I blame the media.

Glenn Beck (Author), Kevin Balfe (Author), Jason Wright (Author), "The Christmas Sweater"”

“The very nature of a secular society is that we have the freedom to express our beliefs. That's the idea. Secular does not mean non religious. Actually it is the opposite; secular means that we get to be more religious – without fear of reprisals. .
What makes us free is that our citizens can only shout (or cry) about heresy. And yell (and cry) they do.

And like everything else in this great country some things pay better than others.
These splendid talk entrepreneurs are doing well selling huffy indignation. I am grateful for our freedoms. Once being catholic in a protestant city mean being knocked around; but that was you know the KKK. Christians.”

“Like Easter, Christmas is an important religious holiday for me.
I don’t have time for Glenn Beck’s sweater story. Good for him but I don’t have time. And, I don’t have time for Bill O’Reilly’s shelale war on the free market’s free speech use of the word holiday to sell as many marked down holiday sweaters to as many people as they can in the biggest shopping season of the year.
Beck and O'Reilly are opinion entrepreneurs - the inventory is yelling and tears.
It’s the holiday’s and business is good for them: low overhead, spoken inventory, and a huge profit.
Just speaking for myself, I am grateful for the freedom of living in a secular society. It is distasteful, often distasteful, but that is part of the cost.”

“Like Easter, Christmas is an important religious holiday for me.
I don’t have time for Glenn Beck’s sweater story. Good for him but I don’t have time. And, I don’t have time for Bill O’Reilly’s shelale war on the free market’s free speech use of the word holiday to sell as many marked down holiday sweaters to as many people as they can in the biggest shopping season of the year.
Beck and O'Reilly are opinion entrepreneurs - the inventory is yelling and tears.
It’s the holiday’s and business is good for them: low overhead, spoken inventory, and a huge profit.
Just speaking for myself, I am grateful for the freedom of living in a secular society. It is distasteful, often distasteful, but that is part of the cost.”

“Ratings BetterDays Ratings.”

“I have done business in the southern Balkans states, Burma, Indonesia, China, Brazil, Argentina, Ukraine, where corruption is high. In some cases it is beyond corruption. It is outright theft, and there is danger if you are foolish enough to try to work around the system. I know about business practices in Russia and Nigeria though not through direct experience. Thuggery and Corruption has many countries in a choke hold. Do you know about Somalia?
My friend, I can tell you that low levels of corruption are the exception in the world. Hong Kong has one of the lowest on the planet.
In many places it is considered part of doing business.
Is Brazil corrupt? Yes.
Is Brazil unique in the world or even the most extreme? No.
That was the point.”

“She denied that she was a candidate to sign books at Ft Hood. That was useful.”

“You would know that was not true if you had:

A.) read the article
B.) spoken to anyone who speaks Portuguese.

In Brazil, Portuguese is spoken.

In Mexico,Spanish is spoken.”

“Yes it is called the ideal enemy.”

“It was Joe Stalin who launched the myth that Hitler had escaped and was alive. Better for Joe that Adolf was alive.
Now George Bush is in semi whatever you call it, and his partner in war still in hiding.

9 11 was first and foremost an economic attack. We know what George Bush did because we lived it. We can know and should look really hard at what he was doing with money issues - the surplus, the tax restructuring, further deregulation of the financial markets and international money transfers - before the attacks. That was his presidency pre 9 11. It is hard to remember what he was doing before the nation was hit.
It is not the war it is the war powers. They don’t fight and their kind don’t fight. Valery Plame was destroyed to discredit Joe Wilson when it was thought Wilson believed would get in the way of their chosen war.
Osama bin Laden was not destroyed when it was decided his capture would get in the way of their chosen war. The poster should have read Osama Bin Laden wanted alive.

When the country was drowning there was no air time for the truth. There was a fast closing window to get the war powers. Once the troops were committed and the president war powered there was no possibility to resist his dictates. He truly was the decider. Capturing or killing Osama bin Laden would have meant no Iraq – no war powers”

“That is right. The problem is theirs because we live in the present. And that is as it should be. Who else?
It is improper to blame those trying to solve a problem not of their making. And it is wrongheaded to mistrust their ability to correct mistakes inherited simply because the problem is present.”

“Lula is popular. He was democratically elected twice to the Presidency by a great plurality. And he will be stepping down because of term limits. He worked hard for direct elections, something that we do not have in the USA, and he faced prison and torture in so doing. He won. Like every single US politician he will not leave office a poor man. I am not a big fan of Lula and in my eyes perfect he is not. All politicians are corrupt, and he is a politician.
He will leave office as he approaches his70’s, and on balance I think he did very well for his country and by golly he worked.
If people give money voluntarily intending that to go to the poor and the lions share instead goes to enrich church leaders and their lavish life styles then that is A-OK with you: because they did so voluntarily. You have got some set of standards.”

“You say he never worked a day in his life, with zero basis other than your bias, which you continue to cling to. When you are caught dead wrong you mock. You try my Christian patience. I hope you are not in Brazil to make it more like yourself. There are 192 million happy Catholics in Brazil.
Lula worked hard as a street vendor and shoeshine boy from age 12 and gave the money to his mom. He entered factory work when he was a teenager and continued to support his family. He worked in the factory for at least 10 years before being elected to a position in the union which is still working. To be sure he did not become rich working on the streets of Sao Paulo or in Factories. No one does. If that were your biography how would you take someone saying you never worked a day in your life? Honestly, what would you say?
I think it would be safe to say that you did not live under the military dictator ship in Brazil. Or under any military dictatorship; so let me tell you that representing the unions was a brave thing to do under the dictatorship and it is still work.”

“Send me your enemies list and I'll get back to you.”

“typo #2
Do you think that evangelical missionaries cannot see that taking money raised for the poor and intended for the poor but used for personal enrichment and to support lavish life styles by churches leaders is corruption?”

“My B.
should have been
There is corruption in Brazil but no more so than in most places in the world.”