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Cap and Trade is actually going to be voted down today. Well done to those against. A special thanks to Dems that voted no.
Sorry Barack, Nancy, Al. No more tolerance for ridiculous bills.
- bliznutty0
Here's another example tommyo
--------------------------------...Harry Reid Won't Commit to Giving Public a Week to Read Health-Care Bill Before Senate Votes on It
Friday, June 26, 2009
By Monica Gabriel and Marie MaglebySenate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) at a pen-and-pad news conference, June 25, 2009. (CNSNews.com photo/Penny Starr)(CNSNews.com) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D- Nev.) will not commit to giving senators and the public a full week to read and review the final version of a health-care reform bill before he holds a final vote on it.
Reid confessed at his Thursday news briefing that he did not have “a lot of time” to read the 1,071-page stimulus bill before voting on it in February.
- Do you ever quote any news source that isn't right wing? Just curious.DrBombay
- Their tagline is "The Right News. Right Now" FFSDrBombay
- Rick, seriously name one fucking news source that isn't biased, or did that not cross your mind?tommyo
- PBSEightyDeuce
- C-SPANEightyDeuce
- there is bias, and then there is party mouthpiece, gimme a fucking break.DrBombay
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news came out this afternoon the supreme devil announced that all protesters must be executed.....
- ukit0
"The American Clean Energy and Security Act – the bill's official title – would reduce greenhouse gas emissions 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, and more than 80% by 2050. It would put in place a renewable electricity standard requiring utilities to draw 20% of their power from renewables by 2020. It would also raise efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, and invest $190bn in energy-saving technology by 2025."
Are those of you criticizing this seriously saying we can't reduce greenhouse gases by 17% in the next 10 years? That's doesn't sound unreasonable to me at all.
- At what cost? And why do we need to do this RIGHT NOW DO IT DO IT when this bill is basically just a huge tax...tommyo
- huge tax + recession = oh great I'm glad we can reduce some green house gasses but what the fuck am I going to eat?tommyo
- All it is is a power grab folks. Same thing we got for the last 8 years, well, we're getting it again in a different package.tommyo
- You'll live, the sky isn't falling.DrBombay
- HAHA I doubt you're going to starve to death dude - again, this is a slow change.ukit
- If the 17% reduction happened this year or next, you would have more of a pointukit
- And by the way, the cost of not reducing emissions...will ultimately be much higherukit
- I didn't really mean myself as far as 'what the fuck am I going to eat,' my family has a restaurant chain, I'll be fine. :)tommyo
- TheBlueOne0
How fucking corrupt can we get?
"Members of U.S. House Financial Services Committee snapped up or dumped bank stocks as bottom fell out of market...As financial markets tumbled and the government worked to stave off panic by pumping billions of dollars into banks last fall, several members of Congress who oversee the banking industry were grabbing up or dumping bank stocks."
- robotron3k0
Welcome to Chicago politics.
- Got something against Chicago?ukit
- jus the politics. I love the greek food there.robotron3k
- ukit0
HAHAHAHAH
- ukit0
Here is Michelle Bachman, making Blitznutty/ tommyo's argument
- i LOVE this batshit crazy bitch.. almost as much as palinBonSeff
- she's got it right on what to tell the upcoming census.robotron3k
- TheBlueOne0
A different take on the Cap N Trade bill from the critical left
- "Cap N Trade" should really be called "Open N Steal"robotron3k
- robotron3k0
the cap and trade is very BS, good old Chicago politics going on (again). And Obama is far sited enough to knock off any potential republican contender (Palin, Ensign, Sanford) for 2012 to keep the bankers fat and happy for another 7 years...
i wanna know when this is going to start happening in the good old USA. maybe the same day that the dollar is dropped as the main global currency or when all the vets come back from Iraq/Afghanistan and find they have been evicted and they have no jobs.
- AND I am soooooooooooooooo glad I didn't vote for him.robotron3k
- watch Obama tumble in the ratings by Sept.robotron3k
- ratings tumbles are bound to happen , has happened to all presidentsBattleAxe
- ukit0
http://www.reuters.com/article/o…
On the way back?
- ukit0
Krugman on the Climate Change bill...
"To fully appreciate the irresponsibility and immorality of climate-change denial, you need to know about the grim turn taken by the latest climate research.
The fact is that the planet is changing faster than even pessimists expected: ice caps are shrinking, arid zones spreading, at a terrifying rate. And according to a number of recent studies, catastrophe — a rise in temperature so large as to be almost unthinkable — can no longer be considered a mere possibility. It is, instead, the most likely outcome if we continue along our present course.
But if you watched the debate on Friday, you didn’t see people who’ve thought hard about a crucial issue, and are trying to do the right thing. What you saw, instead, were people who show no sign of being interested in the truth. They don’t like the political and policy implications of climate change, so they’ve decided not to believe in it — and they’ll grab any argument, no matter how disreputable, that feeds their denial.
Indeed, if there was a defining moment in Friday’s debate, it was the declaration by Representative Paul Broun of Georgia that climate change is nothing but a “hoax” that has been “perpetrated out of the scientific community.” I’d call this a crazy conspiracy theory, but doing so would actually be unfair to crazy conspiracy theorists. After all, to believe that global warming is a hoax you have to believe in a vast cabal consisting of thousands of scientists — a cabal so powerful that it has managed to create false records on everything from global temperatures to Arctic sea ice."
- robotron3k0
today is the day. Let's see how fair our Judicial system is in the United States. Will he get 20 years or 150...?
- locustsloth0
Didn't see this mentioned, but it is so fitting that Justice "Alleged Pube- on- the- Coke- Can" Thomas was the lone dissenting voice in this case
http://www.eacourier.com/article…
- robotron3k0
THIS JUST IN...
150 years for Madoff...
...well, 1 down at least.
- Now, how about the fuckers that did the real damage to the financial system and not just leeches like this foolTheBlueOne
- and general population in a medium security prison. that means butt sex folks.zenmasterfoo
- So you're saying people will still be making deposits in the Bank of Madoff??tommyo
- hehehehheehehehetommyo
- ::SAD TROMBONE::TheBlueOne
- tommyo0
Yeah, here's your gov at work.
So I went to get a CA drivers license. On the questionnaire it asks me if I have any medical conditions. I write down that I have diabetes (I should have left it blank).
Now, 2 months after I applied for the license, I have in front of me a 9 page packet of questions for myself and my doctor before they'll issue me the god damn drivers license. It takes them 2 fucking months to look at my application, see the part where it says 'diabetes' and say 'Send a medical questionnaire to ______.' So now I've got to bother my doctor with this bullshit for what exactly? They gave me a standard vision test at the DMV (passed), my doctor can't predict that I might have low blood sugar at some point and hit someone. So all he can basically tell them is 'he's in good health' by filling out 5 of the 9 pages.. what exactly do they hope to learn from a 9 page medical form.. but here I am without a god damn license.. I've had to take my fucking passport everywhere I go. Everytime I switch cars I need to bring my temporary drivers license paperwork. Who f'ing knows how long it's going to take these idiots to review and approve this packet of bullshit they sent me.. It took them 2 whole fucking months just to send me this pile of shit. I guess I might have a legit license sometime in 2010. Seriously all gov can seem to do is get in our way with their inept bureaucracy. Fuck them.
- PonyBoy0
this really isn't political... but those of you reading in this thread would probably have something to say about more than anyone else...
... why do 'they' release 911 calls here in the states?
I turn the radio down every time the news plays one back - the MJ doctor call... Billy Mays wife etc in just the past few days...
... I don't need to hear that panic... it kind of gets to me actually - what's the point of playing that back outside of shock value?
- Public money pays for the system, so the information is in the public domain.TheBlueOne
- ratings, shock , keeping an audience , it sellsBattleAxe
- but yes I hate them and they are not needed for anyone to hearBattleAxe
- version30
every second of those tapes is filler to the news they are distorting. if they had any need to be ethical, the news would last 30min a day again
- CGN0
- So, he's a secret muslim who does Israels dirty work? I am so fucking confused by you people.TheBlueOne
- Very good graphic. Very good********