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- zenmasterfoo0
Obama Job Claims not holding water. A good read.
- zenmasterfoo0
And another. This one about Obama/Democratic message on deficit not jiving with administration's actions. I love the following quote in the article:
"This is like quitting drinking, but making an exception for beer and hard liquor," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan watchdog group.
- lazerbass0
you know what sucks most about the afghanis situation isn't that people have a prejudice against them its that thier country is being used as a warzone stomping ground for empires and coalitions of violent militaries and militia
- and no one talks about it like they matter its always terrorists verses the freedom fighters or some BSlazerbass
- Since the beginning of time. It's a tactical focal point for the region. Much like Kashmir is.zenmasterfoo
- ********0
Spent & Approved War-Spending - About $800 billion of US taxpayers' funds spent on the Iraq war. As you were.....
- ukit0
Geriatric right wing extremists...
- ukit0
Even crazier
On December 7, 1981 a man named James W. von Brunn pulled out a sawed-off shotgun at the Federal Reserve Board headquarters, claiming to have planted a bomb and threatening to take members of the Board hostage. That was 40 years to the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, though it's unclear whether that's a coincidence or not.
At the time of his sentencing in March, 1983, he was 63 years old. He ultimately served six and a half years in prison, which seemingly did nothing to change his extreme views on race. Almost 20 years after he was released, he stormed the secured entrance of the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. with a shotgun and opened fire, wounding one guard. He was ultimately shot himself.
Von Brunn, apparently a World War II vet, has a long history of white supremacist writing. His book, "Kill The Best Gentiles" embraces Adolf Hitler's view that Jews concocted World War One as part of a scheme to stab Germany in the back--a myth the Nazis used to justify the Holocaust.
He also wrote an internet posting complaining that Obama's birth certificate and other documents have not been mad public.
- jailtime for pulling a shotgun on the Fed Reserve Board HQ? That's damn-near Patriotic!bliznutty
- cosmoo0
the shooter was white? damn i am disappointed.
- DrBombay0
If he was brown he would have been called a terrorist.
- It's fine when a white guy does it, he is just killing some white folks anyway.cosmoo
- honestly, imagine if the guy was middle eastern.DrBombay
- But he'll be labeled a "crazed, lone gunman" rather than the tip of a very real iceberg.TheBlueOne
- ukit0
Some reality-based analysis here
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/1…
There are two basic truths about the enormous deficits that the federal government will run in the coming years.
The first is that President Obama’s agenda, ambitious as it may be, is responsible for only a sliver of the deficits, despite what many of his Republican critics are saying. The second is that Mr. Obama does not have a realistic plan for eliminating the deficit, despite what his advisers have suggested.
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The story of today’s deficits starts in January 2001, as President Bill Clinton was leaving office. The Congressional Budget Office estimated then that the government would run an average annual surplus of more than $800 billion a year from 2009 to 2012. Today, the government is expected to run a $1.2 trillion annual deficit in those years.
You can think of that roughly $2 trillion swing as coming from four broad categories: the business cycle, President George W. Bush’s policies, policies from the Bush years that are scheduled to expire but that Mr. Obama has chosen to extend, and new policies proposed by Mr. Obama.
The first category — the business cycle — accounts for 37 percent of the $2 trillion swing. It’s a reflection of the fact that both the 2001 recession and the current one reduced tax revenue, required more spending on safety-net programs and changed economists’ assumptions about how much in taxes the government would collect in future years.
About 33 percent of the swing stems from new legislation signed by Mr. Bush. That legislation, like his tax cuts and the Medicare prescription drug benefit, not only continue to cost the government but have also increased interest payments on the national debt.
Mr. Obama’s main contribution to the deficit is his extension of several Bush policies, like the Iraq war and tax cuts for households making less than $250,000. Such policies — together with the Wall Street bailout, which was signed by Mr. Bush and supported by Mr. Obama — account for 20 percent of the swing.
About 7 percent comes from the stimulus bill that Mr. Obama signed in February. And only 3 percent comes from Mr. Obama’s agenda on health care, education, energy and other areas.
If the analysis is extended further into the future, well beyond 2012, the Obama agenda accounts for only a slightly higher share of the projected deficits.
- ********0
It's going to hit the fan folks.
Guard killed during shooting at Holocaust Memorial
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06…
- ukit0
Good thing this guy was just a fringe racist with crazy ideas...it's not like any of the major conservative websites...
Oh wait. Damn
- the comments in that thread make me ashamed to be a human being.********
- These are the people that are "real Americans". Remember that.TheBlueOne
- You Betcha!JonnyPompa
- the comments in that thread make me ashamed to be a human being.
- fooler20
"It irked me how the left was snickering about McCain being 894th in his class of 899, but 0bambi never released his records for scrutiny.
He got in under affirmative action and probably graduated dead last in his class. He was so busy smoking dope and snorting crack that he barely graduated."
- <those people are so stupid, you smoke crack you don't snort it. geez!fooler2
- ukit0
Fox News breaks down and admits...our viewers are a bunch of ^&***$% crackpots.
- I think this is how Shep sleeps at night, once in a while he steps his toe over the Fox line.DrBombay
- typical Republican racists, just another day at Fox Newsutopian
- Shep is on point and always has been. He's the only person I can even watch on FOX, and I actually really like the guy. It's <3tommyo
- well he has that going for him then...DrBombay
- janne760
wow, that's really interesting...
- TheBlueOne0
if only there was a report from, say something like, i don't know, the DHS, about the dangers of right-wing extremist violence that the media could discuss intelligently...
...oh well, maybe one day.
- from Fox News, ya rightutopian
- sterotyping news sources is no different then sterotyping muslim terrorists********
- best to evaluate both, and not jerk off on what u want to hear********
- of course stereotyping can be a lot of fun********
- Cmon dude, Fox is pretty badukit
- all depends on the topic. the topics are sterotypical and reflect the views of the host for ratings. watch cartoons********
- philosophy is more important then partisanship. cartoons are more important for entertainment********
- PonyBoy0
^^perhaps you get someone to run the DHS who's intelligent first...
... Napalitano is a moron - I can site examples of her stupidity in the security for the state in which I live and she was Govnuh for before being the leader of the DHS...
... should I start off that Phoenix has the worst kidnapping numbers in all the states... due mainly to non-U.S. residents too...
... shall we talk about her idea of border security and the amount of bullshit that occurs down there everyday that rarely gets reported on?...
... how about her ability to manage a budget?
The woman is an idiot many times over and doesn't belong in that position, TBO... her initial announcement about right-wing extremists - of which she TOOK BACK! - was rather foolish an ill-timed at that... which makes her... well... definitely not intelligent... the woman is not qualified to be in charge of the nation's security.
- and who should be then, tom tancredo?DrBombay
- all you conservatives EVER do is say what is wrong, you hate government. No thoughts on fixing things.DrBombay
- Chuck NorrisPonyBoy
- fix what?... she's an idiot...
... argue about what I'm talking about and stop jumping all over the road. ;)PonyBoy - Aint doing that, how would you fix it? Who would you appoint?DrBombay
- No one, you would eliminate the DHS and hire minutemen ;)DrBombay
- that'll teach them messicans.DrBombay
- CHUCK FUCKING NORRISPonyBoy
- why do always insist on making people repeat themselves?PonyBoy
- :DPonyBoy
- lol... FUCK the minutemen... good grief.PonyBoy
- FUCK CHUCKING HUCKABEEFDrBombay
- boobs0
How popular is Obama now?
- TheBlueOne0
Yup, just good clean real American fun. You know for patriots. Real Americans.
- ukit0
Something tells me this shirt might go down in popularity a bit
