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- ukit0
Turns out despite all the rhetoric about destroying his capitalist enemies in the end all Kim wanted was the same thing everyone wants, a chance to party down with Bill Clinton
- TheBlueOne0
Oh, I see..the troll who started the "Obama Joker" thread got his image from the Tea Baggers. It's their new symbol for Obama when they call him a "nazi"*.
Ref: http://washingtonindependent.com…
Yeah, he called me a "McCarthy" and said I needed a blowjob. Nice. democracy in action from these knuckleheads.
*so is he a facsist or a socialist? Or you just like throwing around big, bad words you don't even understand because they make you sound all smart and edumacated?
- ukit0
So he called someone a socialist and called you McCarthy for calling him out? Funny shit
- Well all I said was it should be posted in the politics thread...TheBlueOne
- ********0
...Nearly two years later, Obama has made peace with the individual mandate, which is included in the bills that cleared three House committees and one Senate committee. The House bill imposes on anyone who neglects to purchase health insurance for himself or his family a 2.5 percent tax on modified adjusted gross income. The Senate health committee bill imposes a minimum penalty of $750. (We're still waiting to hear from the Senate finance committee.) Yet I've continued to wonder whether the individual mandate is constitutional....
- robotron3k0
all these republicans going crazy
- ukit0
Republicans need to get a grip yo
- locustsloth0
Get those two chicks back on a plane and get them back to N. Korea. It was WRONG for Clinton to negotiate their release!! Or at least so says ex-ambassador John Bolton.
http://www.npr.org/templates/sto…
When i heard this, i laughed out loud, it was so absurd.
- ukit0
So since no one seems to understand what the word means, I've decided I've decided I'm just going to roll with the Republican approach and start using socialism as a catch all phrase for anything I don't like.
Government did something? Socialism
Credit card company raised their rates? Socialism
Some idiot double parked me? Socialism
Thoughts?
- DrBombay0
all of this talk about socialism and shit reminds me of this sort of thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub…
- TheBlueOne0
Please read: "Fascist America: Are We There Yet?"
"It's so easy right now to look at the melee on the right and discount it as pure political theater of the most absurdly ridiculous kind. It's a freaking puppet show. These people can't be serious. Sure, they're angry -- but they're also a minority, out of power and reduced to throwing tantrums. Grown-ups need to worry about them about as much as you'd worry about a furious five-year-old threatening to hold her breath until she turned blue.
Unfortunately, all the noise and bluster actually obscures the danger. These people are as serious as a lynch mob, and have already taken the first steps toward becoming one. And they're going to walk taller and louder and prouder now that their bumbling efforts at civil disobedience are being committed with the full sanction and support of the country's most powerful people, who are cynically using them in a last-ditch effort to save their own places of profit and prestige."Seriously. Read the whole piece.
- designbot0
You know the funny part is ukit, if you talk to folks who have actually lived under socialsm who are now in the US, they'll tell you this is the direction they think we are headed. How do you explain that? Do they not understand what socialism is either? lol ( I'm speaking from personal experience of people I work with btw ) Now if folks were running around calling Obama a marxist, that might be different. Honestly I think alot of you guys are pro socialist, you just don't have the balls to say it. So instead you keep trying to redefine what the word means...don't take it personally. You have the right to believe in whatever you want. I don't think socialism would be be the end all (like some). But it would take away many of our individual freedoms and put too much power and control in the hands of the government (where it doesn't belong).
- ....on my last comment.....this is the road I currently see us headed down.designbot
- What freedoms? The ability to choose an insurance company?DrBombay
- and it totally started with Bush so it has nothing to do with a specific political party.designbot
- Seriously though, explain what "freedoms" you think you will be losing.DrBombay
- Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Insurance.DrBombay
- I don't think that's the case Dr.B....I gotta get ready for work...I'lll try and post up more later.designbot
- TheBlueOne0
Re: This whole socialist crap.
My wife is from Japan. In Japan, they have socialized medicine. They've had it for over half a century now. Their industrial corporations haven't had to carry medical costs on their books, and it is one of the most healthiest populations in the industrialized world. My wife is a doctor. In Japan, she tells me, would be overworked and paid less, but provide more healthcare to a wider range of people. Here in America, she works hard and is paid well above what she would get in Japan, but feels guilty that the insurance companies charge her patients huge sums of money not comparable to the actual care that they receive, and she is forced by the system to do unnecessary procedures and tests for rich people only to keep them "happy" and not really "healthy"
Either way, isn't it odd that one of the world's largest economies, Japan, celebrated as a key linchpin in the world Free Market system, one that nearly a decade ago was feared as over taking America, operates quite well with a socialized healthcare system.
That argument works for Germany as well, one of the key linchpins among the developed world's free market global economy. Are you seriously going to make the argument that socializing healthcare - which is really an issue about quality of life for all - is adverse to free market principles and freedom in general? If so, are Japan and German some sort of freaky exceptions? Germany and Japan aren't called "socialist" states but vital parts of the free, democratic, open market West. I'd expect a good conversation, counter-argument, etc...but now I get the usual "You stupid, demo-nazi socialist nobama supporter!!" which is only promoted by the corporate mouthpieces in the "liberal media", let alone on Murdoch's fascist propaganda arms.
As the Jesus man said, remove the plank from your eye.
- Not to mention simple preventative care being available to all, thus avoiding costly treatments later.harlequino
- Your wife is from Japan? Hahahahahahaha!!!********
- I feel very fuckin' sorry for you... no I don't. Hahahahahaha!!!********
- Please, please email me your address so I can stick my boot up your ass.TheBlueOne
- But you won't because you're an internet tough guy.TheBlueOne
- robotron3k0
Go Rand Paul!
- I will vote for Paul Rand or even David Carson...utopian
- ukit0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20…
This is great news...the unemployment rate actually fell for the first time this year.
- + 32 million US Citizen's are on food stamps!!!! thanks Uncle Sam!robotron3k
- DrBombay0
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/0…
"There was a telling incident at a town hall held by Representative Gene Green, D-Tex. An activist turned to his fellow attendees and asked if they “oppose any form of socialized or government-run health care.” Nearly all did. Then Representative Green asked how many of those present were on Medicare. Almost half raised their hands."
This is why conservatives are generally idiots.
- TheBlueOne0
" Fox News publicized the time and location of “gladiatorial” town halls hosted by Democrats — but not Republicans. With “heated” and increasingly confrontational town halls now dominating news coverage, Washington correspondent James Rosen announced he had “obtained a large Excel spreadsheet showing the schedule of town halls for Democratic members of Congress. To explain why Fox wasn’t reporting on town halls hosted by Republicans, Rosen assured viewers that if he “had the spreadsheet for the Republican members,” he would “share” that as well”.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08…
Yeah, but still no list of Republican Town Halls list from Fox. Huh. How about that. But, oh yeah, this is a "grass roots" movement.
Meanwhile, anonymous voices on the internet are calling for people to show up armed:
- locustsloth0
Fuckin. Stupid. Crazy. Bitch.
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care," the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote.
"Such a system is downright evil," Palin wrote on her page, which has nearly 700,000 supporters. She encouraged her supporters to be engaged in the debate.
The claim that the Democratic health care bills would encourage euthanasia has been circulating on the Internet for weeks and has been echoed by some Republican leaders. Democrats from Obama on down have dismissed it as a distortion. The nonpartisan group FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania says the claim is false.
- i love how she uses her kid for political and emotional leverage. Classy lady, that Palin.locustsloth
- And she was this close to being Vice President. That was the best they had. Think about it.TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
- Rockwell was close. He just needed the incoherent rage, and the "Prez is Hitlerz!" sign.TheBlueOne
- ********0
- She is hotter than most Norwegian Women: http://img5.travelbl…utopian
- ure just showing some 40-50 year old women. Even with that trick, she is uglier********
- Well, she's not "Chick of the Day" thread hot by any means.TheBlueOne
- How many cattle for the Bush Twins?TheBlueOne
- http://dcist.com/ima…
also children of the underearth
100 goats for both, tops******** - just found out chelsea is 29 yo, fuck she looks 39********
