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I suggest that all of you, self-proclaiming Americans, carefully listen to Obama's recent (and first as President) commencement speech in Arizona, and report back here with your honest opinions.
My opinion of course, on many levels, is that what he "spewed" was utterly disgraceful, and just totally ridiculous, and outrageous, and clearly illustrates Obama's incompetence and naivety.
Also, Nancy Pelosi definitively marked as a LIAR today, thus her collapse has officially begun and total demise looms near.
The End.
- Self-proclaimed? You're a fucking monkey.DrBombay
- You keep saying "The End" yet you keep going on, and on...TheBlueOne
- "report back"? Sure thing Commandante Dickwad.TheBlueOne
- ukit0
- Uhg shut the fuck up. Seriously. Just shut the fuck up.tommyo
- GetRefresh made this, not I, sir...ukit
- Whoever made it should shut the fuck up. You should shut the fuck up for posting it twice. Inflammatory douchebags.tommyo
- Yes, you inflammatory douchebag.********
- ... says the biggest inflammatory db in the room ....tommyo
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- That's all you have, isn't it.TheBIueOne
- I've got allot more than that fuck-face.********
- But it IS true now, isn't it.********
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- Ha! I agree. Hey man I never asked how you felt about that Heyward-Bey pick. Pappa Davis needs to retire! Go BOLTS!tommyo
- < Would that would be you morilla?********
- Monday night Tommyo!!!!!!********
- TheBlueOne0
Not directly political, but I need to rant about how our media presents ideas. So....START RANT:
I can't put my finger on it exactly, but it's this general hazy everyday-man stupidity that passes for some kind of common wisdom that's handed down from the elite gods like it's gold or some shit. Two years ago Times columnist Thomas Friedman did a column about "how america got carried away" with the fervor of vengeance after 9/11 and we "all got a little stupid". It infuriated me, because this douche spent 2001-2006 writing column after column in favor of the Bush Iraq war. He went on Charlie Rose and said that the Arabs can "suck on this". I knew about 49% of America that didn't get "carried away" with that particular stupidity, but Friedman did, and then he writes some smug, revelatory column like, "Wow, I'm an American elite and even I got carried away! Whew, imagine that, someone as smart as me getting caught up in this..well, I'm over it now, and so should you, America..." No, you're a douche. You got carried away, Tom. That infuriating stupidity paid your bills for five years. Fucking douchenozzle.
And in this Sunday's NY Times magazine, their primary financial reporter repeats the same fucking type of thinking. Turns out this douche took out a half-million dollar mortgage on $2,777 of monthly take home pay (he was paying child support on three kids apparently that was wiping him out...). So he say's this in the lede: "I joined millions of otherwise-sane Americans in what we now know was a catastrophic binge on overpriced real estate and reckless mortgages. Nobody duped or hypnotized me. Like so many others — borrowers, lenders and the Wall Street dealmakers behind them — I just thought I could beat the odds."
No douche nozzle. You WERE duped. You were duped into believing that someone with $2,777 monthly take home could afford a half-million dollar mortgage. You hypnotized yourself because you thought you were a fucking special little douche snowflake, and consequences didn't apply to you, and that you could "beat the odds". You had already duped yourself so that when you walked into the mortgage office you had a giant fucking neon sign above your head that said "Special Snowflake Douchenozzle, Please Take Advantage of Me". And they did.
He goes on to say:
"“My situation is a little complicated,” I warned [the mortgage broker]. I told him about my child support and alimony payments and said I was banking on Patty to earn enough money to keep us afloat. Bob cut me off. “I specialize in challenges,” he said confidently."
Dude, are you THAT much of a head in the sand douchenozzle that when a fucking mortgage broker says shit to you like "I specialize in challenges" you are not about to be handed a fucking giant pile of shit? Jeez, I'd love to watch you try to buy a used car.
You are a dupe. Dupe. Dupe. Dupe. Dupe. You got duped.
It was a ponzi scheme and you fell for it. You. Mr. Dickwad Elite Douche.
I like how he writes: "As an economics reporter for The New York Times, I have been the paper’s chief eyes and ears on the Federal Reserve for the past six years. I watched Alan Greenspan and his successor, Ben S. Bernanke, at close range. I wrote several early-warning articles in 2004 about the spike in go-go mortgages. Before that, I had a hand in covering the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the Russia meltdown in 1998 and the dot-com collapse in 2000. I know a lot about the curveballs that the economy can throw at us."
Obviously not, dick. My god, YOU are the douche that reports on high level important financial matters in the country's primary, most-quoted newspaper?
Fuck.
RE: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/1…
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- BattleAxe0
^ Which is why there never was a Crisis , there was troubled time sure, but to say that the actions of some irresponsible lenders, over reaching borrowers was going to bring America to it's knees is a concept I never bought, mainly because no Head of state ever broke it down to what we were trying to avoid. We could not avoid the financial meltdown that was caused my market manipulation , cause I stand by a gut feeling that it was staged are we all to believe that Madof is the only grand schemer , Trillions lost and only 1 guy goes to Jail ?
so what was the solution to all this ? slap some hands for lending too much money, clear there books and give them money so they can keep lending ..... a formula that works well for the responsible folk , but has time and time again caused recessions, depressions , so it was rinse lather repeat ,
the economy was and is bound to recover , did we need top down stimulus is debatable
- disagree in totality. In was a ponzi scheme by the financial industry.TheBlueOne
- You really need to brush up on some macroeconomics to understand why this is indeed a crisis..TheBlueOne
- ..when you have trillions of dollars above GDP in private contracts outstanding and no one to pay up, that ads up to a crisis.TheBlueOne
- all I do is look outside and see the truthBattleAxe
- malls packed , airports packed ,BattleAxe
- not to mention the solution enacted was nothing new, no reform just a prop upBattleAxe
- The stats disagree with everything you just said.DrBombay
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Hey, Obama is a figurehead marionette. I think this is slowly becoming widely understood.
the actual dudes behind the policies are in his cabinet or outside of media exposure, altogether.
toddler-minded, kool-aid drinkers may disagree
...and it's certainly their right to do so.
- ukit0
Obama appoints Utah Gov Hunstman as ambassador to China
http://www.politico.com/news/sto…
This guy was supposed to be the up and coming Republican hope. Oops...
- lowimpakt0
what a fucking plonker
"Mr Yettaw's detention led to the arrest of Ms Suu Kyi, who is now on trial in Burma's Insein prison.
Ms Suu Kyi's lawyer said her supporters were "very angry with this wretched American", whom he called "a fool". "
- stem0
Looks like Charlie Brooker and now you SteveNo will be on Redwatch...
- lowimpakt0
i filled out that british citizenship test on Facebook... I'm looking forward to the knock on the door late at night from the BNP....
first they come for the Facebook quiz responders. then they come for.....
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This morning, Dems are fucking squirming over Pelosi. Trying to justify her fucking lies and schitzo-like behavior. WTF??? Does she need to go? You already know my position.
Btw, DrBombay, happy Monday, and eat my shit you baldheaded fuck-turd.
- Pelosi: Strawman target to distract from the fact that Bush tortured. Period.TheBlueOne
- getrefresh, you supported torture though.DrBombay
- Hardly squirming. Many are calling for an independent investigation yet those that are criticizing Pelosi...IRNlun6
- think an investigation is taking it too far but still cry out to oust her.IRNlun6
- Bush did not torture.********
- ukit0
NYT gets caught stealing from a blogger
- TheBlueOne0
Discussing politics with GetRefresh is like playing chess with a pigeon - they knock the pieces over, crap on the board, then flap back to the flock to claim victory.
- DrBombay0
Getrefresh has no principles and treats politics like sports.
- < hahahahahahaahahaa go read your own fucking posts you 2 watt lightbulb.tommyo
- Sorry sir, you are wrong.DrBombay
- But keep attacking me and giving getrefresh a pass, it's funny.DrBombay
- Read above where I called him an inflammatory db. Treating politics as sports is your m.o. friend. Go team go!tommyo
- I break from the team tho, fuckstick.DrBombay
- oh god that's rich, when have you ever strayed from the Liberal Handbook of Common Knowledge ©2003?tommyo
- NEVER is the answer Rick, never. You're a loyal soldier and so is GR. You're both so similar it's fun to watch you fight.tommyo
- You can own as many guns as you want. So... like... you're wrong.DrBombay
- < hahaha and 'You can own as many guns as you want.' isn't total party rhetoric you dumbfuck? Proving my point for me.tommyo
- me.tommyo
- gun control? dude, you're dumb. You were justy crying about montana like a week ago.DrBombay
- tommy it isn't worth it to argue with me about non-issues.DrBombay
- Every issue with you is a non-issue.tommyo
- Don't cry lil guy. You were wrong.DrBombay
- TheBlueOne0
Donald Rumsfeld's Judgment-Happy, Scary, Biblical Defense Briefing Art:
The whole lot of them here:
http://gawker.com/5258524/donald…Wow.
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The ACORN-OBAMA relationship may be rearing her butt-ugly head. Unfortunately for some, this story is far from over. More to most assuredly come. Shame on the NY Times, btw.
- TheBlueOne0
..and turns even more into a burnt little rump of a party:
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^ And it's too bad Obama, Pelosi and the rest of the leftist idiots are squandering your hard fucking work away, because at this rate, in 2012, Obama and his cast of cooks and criminals WILL be voted out... tick, tock, tick, tock.
Btw, Ukit, you are such a follower. Get a fucking spine, will you?
- A well presented and argued political position. Your path to victory is clear. Obviously.TheBlueOne
- FYI - hey neocon sheep, the GOP is dead!********
- Cooks?ukit
- Cooks, crooks, what's the difference? Obama loves that Kobe beef, btw, and on our tax dollar.********
- I like cooks, it means they're producing something I guess. As opposed to the GOP who keep reheating moldy leftovers.Josev