Yes, my server was down for about 12 hours. My guess is either GOP dirty tricks, or it crashed under the weight of NSA surveillance. Or some “technical” problem.
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Why is the cowardly George Bush so afraid of N. Korea? Is it that he is only willing to fight when he thinks the enemy can’t fight back?
“A King County man was sentenced Thursday to spend 50 hours wearing a sandwich board with the words, “I am a liar. I am not a Army veteran. I have never served my country.” Chief U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Seattle also sentenced Roger Rabbit to four months of house arrest for making a false statement. Rabbit, 56, was convicted of making a false statement — a felony.”
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — A 9-year-old gave birth to a baby girl in the western Amazon jungle, a pregnancy that authorities say may have been the result of rape, the National Indian Bureau said Friday.
The girl was found in the jungle in April by laborers working on a natural gas pipeline from the Coari oil fields to Manaus, a city of 1.5 million people 1,800 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro, said the bureau, known as Funai. [………….Note: Wasn’t GBS in South America 9 months ago? Why, yes, and he was visiting Brazil!!]
Mexico City – In a photo-finish Mexican vote count, conservative candidate Felipe Calderon was Thursday declared the winner of Mexico’s presidential election by a margin of 0.57 per cent over left-wing politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who says he will challenge the results. Four days after Sunday’s vote, the National Electoral Commission (IFE) confirmed that Calderon, the designated heir of current president Vicente Fox, received 35.88 per cent of the vote, against Mexico City’s populist mayor Lopez Obrador, who claimed 35.31 per cent. [………………Can’t you King County Democrats do something here? How about “finding” some more liberal votes, or having the NY City “Upper East Side” liberal DemocratsJ and Palm Beach/Miami “condo” libs “double” vote in Mexico? Perhaps you could kick out any and all military votes? What the deal wih having ID to vote in Mexico? Isn’t that racist??? Well, there is no doubt the “progressive” socialists in Mexico could learn a few things from American “progressive” Democrats!!]
Laura Bush killed a guy!
In a previous thread, MARK THE RETARDED REDNECK claimed the Bush tax cuts have increased federal revenue. This is demonstrably false; disregarding FICA revenues, which were not affected by Bush’s tax cuts, federal revenue was as follows:*
2000 – $1,372,376,000,000 (baseline year)
2001 – $1,297,063,000,000
2002 – $1,152,413,000,000
2003 – $1,069,364,000,000
2004 – $1,146,664,000,000
2005 – $1,279,114,000,000 (estimate)
* Combination of individual and corporate income taxes, excise taxes, and other taxes (including inheritance tax)
Source of data: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org.....?Docid=203
As can be seen from the above data, federal revenues dropped after the Bush tax cuts, and despite recent economic strength have not been restored to pre-Bush tax cut levels.
It’s true, of course, that tax cuts can (in some circumstances) increase government revenue. This is easily demonstrated as follows:
If taxes are zero, government revenues will be zero. Government revenues also will be zero if the tax rate is 100%, because in that case there will be no economic activity. Obviously, there is a point somewhere between a 0% tax rate and a 100% tax rate where government revenues are maximized.
But it’s not a given that cutting taxes will increase revenue. Logically, if the tax rate is below that point, cutting the rate will result in further revenue loss. On the other hand, if the tax rate is above that point, a tax cut will stimulate more economic activity resulting in increased government revenue.
Raw data from the Reagan era is mixed, and more difficult to assess because Reagan raised taxes six times from 1982 to 1987, and the revenue growth during that period undoubtedly is due at least in part to these tax increases:
1980 – $359,309,000,000 (baseline)
1981 – $416,552,000,000
1982 – $416,268,000,000
1983 – $391,569,000,000
1984 – $427,109,000,000
1985 – $468,926,000,000
1986 – $486,313,000,000
1987 – $551,035,000,000
(same data source)
Thus, the Reagan-era figures would seem to argue he had cut taxes to a point below the optimal rate, thus the subsequent tax increases produced more revenue.
Other factors, of course, influence government revenues – the most important of which is the economic cycle. But in general, it appears federal taxation is below the revenue optimization point most (or all) of the time, so tax cuts ordinarily will result in revenue losses, not the opposite. What certainly is NOT true is that cutting taxes will always increase revenues, as argued by conservative tax-cutters; in Bush’s case, this argument is demonstrably false.
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I see JCH is still collecting rejection slips from editors of fiction magazines.
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It should also be pointed out that Bush’s deficit spending will increase expenditures, even if interest rates don’t go up, simply because there’s more debt to pay interest on.
But deficits are a double-whammy, because they cause monetary inflation, which in turn causes higher interest rates, so the federal government not only ends up paying interest on more debt, but ends up paying higher interest on the entire debt!
I haven’t done an analysis, but it’s possible (perhaps likely) that increased revenues beginning in 2004 (let’s assume they came from higher economic activity stimulated by the tax cuts) are more than offset by these higher interest costs. If so, the net disposable revenue loss from Bush’s tax cuts is even greater than shown in the table above.
The quality of comments suggests we were better off while down :) Except for Roger so far!
So, Stefan — why aren’t you going to share the loot from your lawsuit against Dean Logan and King County with the generous contributors to your “legal action fund” who helped pay for the lawsuit? Isn’t keeping all the money unethical? Aren’t you stabbing your friends and supporters in the back?
klake is a nazi
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What’s wrong with #5? Laura Bush did kill a guy:
“On November 6, 1963, two days after she turned 17, Bush (then Laura Welch) was driving her Chevrolet sedan with her classmate Judy Dyke. It was shortly after 8 p.m. on a clear night when Welch entered the intersection of State Highway 349 and Texas Farm Road 868 (now a four lane highway). Welch drove through the intersection’s stop sign and collided with a Chevrolet Corvair sedan killing classmate Michael Dutton Douglas, also 17. Welch and Dyke sustained minor injuries; Douglas was later pronounced dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bush
I missed that one in the surrounding blather.
August 2001 Bush was on a month long vacation on his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
On August 6, 2001 the CIA tried to warn Bush about the threat , that Al Qaeda was planning a major attack with the intent of inciting a US military reaction – or in this case, an overreaction.
The CIA hoped that presidential action could energize government agencies and head off the attack. The CIA sent analysts to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, to brief him and deliver a report entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.”
Bush was not pleased by the intrusion. He glared at the CIA briefer and snapped, “All right, you’ve covered your ass,” according to Suskind’s book.
Then, putting the CIA’s warning in the back of his mind and ordering no special response, Bush returned to a vacation of fishing, clearing brush and working on a speech about a plan to restrict stem-cell research on moral grounds.
28 Number of vacation days Bush took in August 2001, the month he received a 6 August Presidential Daily Briefing headed “Osama bin Laden Determined to Strike US Targets.”
President Bush, US minister of vacations. On the Sunday morning, the whole world knew a catastrophe was bearing down on the Gulf Coast.
“Leader” Bush remained at his Texas ranch “clearing brush.”
On Tuesday, one day after Hurricane Katrina occurred, Bush was in California, strumming a guitar to celebrate the 60th anniversary of V-J Day.
The United States is notorious for starving workers of vacation time, and Americans take an average of 12 days yearly. Against that backdrop Bush has spent 20-27 per cent of his presidency (estimates vary) on vacation, more than any of his predecessors in the White House. Two years into his presidency, according to the Washington Post, Bush had already taken more vacation than Bill Clinton took in his two-terms as president.
Bush does a “heckava job” on vacations.
ROGER RABBIT WAS A VIETNAM VETERAN, I HAVE PERSONALLY SEEN THE PAPERWORK, THE PHOTOS OF HIS TIME IN VIETNAM, AND A WEBSITE THAT WAS CREATED FOR AN OFFICER WHO FELL ON A GRENADE TO SAVE OTHERS. I HAVE READ AND WITNESSED ALONG WITH OTHERS, LETTERS AND CORRESPONDENCE FROM OTHER ARMY VETS
#2 WHY SLANDER A PERSON FOR SERVING HIS COUNTRY, ASSHOLE? UNLIKE YOU, YOU SACK OF SHIT, REPUBLICAN COWARD LIKE YOUR AWOL BUSH HERO AND HIS FIVE DRAFT DEFERMENTS CHENEY AND NO DRAFT SERVICE KARL ROVE AND SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, DONALD DUMBSFELD WHO HAS NO COMBAT EXPERIENCE. REPUBLICANS LIKE BUSH AND CHENEY SEND YOUNG AMERICANS TO FIGHT AND DIE FOR THEIR LIES.
#2 1. BUSH IS THE LIAR AND YOU WORSHIP LIARS, YOU ARE KNOWN BY
THE KIND OF ASSHOLES YOU HAVE FOR HEROS.
2. BUSH SHOULD BE CONVICTED OF LYING FOR FALSE STATEMENTS:
NO WMD HAVE BEEN FOUND.
3. YOUR LYING COWARD AWOL BUSH HERO SHOULD BE COURT MARTIALED
FOR TREASON FOR GOING AWOL.
4. BUSH SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON FOR ALLOWING A COVERT
CIA AGENT TO BE REVEALED.
5. BUSH SHOULD BE TRIED BEFORE AN INTERNATIONAL COURT FOR BREAKING THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS AND ALLOWING INNOCENT PEOPLE TO BE ARRESTED, ABUSED AND THROWN IN PRISON WITHOUT TELLING THEM WHAT THEY WERE ACCUSED OF AND THEN LATER RELEASED WITH NO EXPLANATION AS TO WHY THEY WERE BEING HELD CAPTIVE.
#2 ATTACKING ARMY VETERANS ARE YOU? YOU DO NOT HONOR AMERICAN VETERANS, THEN YOU ARE THE ASSHOLE AMERICAN TRAITOR. NAME CALL BUT YOU DO NOT SUPPORT AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHEN YOU DISHONOR VETERANS LIKE ROGER RABBIT WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY UNLIKE YOU, YOU LYING COMBAT COWARD SACK OF SHIT.
But Mrs. Roger, what about the president’s deep loyalty to his friends, like when the subject of Ken Lay’s death came up at the White House press briefing:
TONY SNOW: I don’t know. What do you think would be the appropriate thing to say?
REPORTER: I don’t know, I don’t know him. The President was his friend, not me.
TONY SNOW: No, the President has described Ken Lay as an acquaintance, and many of the President’s acquaintances have passed on.
Kinda makes me tear up, such deep sentiment for the desceased “Bush pioneer,” who sent more than $2 million in Enron funds George W.’s way in 2000, as well as supplying him with the Enron company jet on at least eight occasions.
I don’t know what the fuck the taxpolicycenter is, but if you go to the IRS website, the data is clear: TAX RATE CUTS increase fed revenue. Every fucking time. No exceptions.
MRS RABBIT: YOU GO GIRL! MR. RABBIT IS INDEED A TRUE PATRIOT. ALL LIBERALS SHOULD HEED HIS CALL TO ARMS. GET SOME TRAINING. YOU ALL WILL MEET SOME WINGNUTS AT THE FIRING RANGES. JUST SMILE. SAY A CURT HELLO AND FOCUS ON YOUR SKILLS-BUILDING. SELF-DEFENSE IS JUST COMMON SENSE.
BY THE WAY, ANYONE SEEN YO?
I haven’t posted Moonbat Economics lately, so as a refresher, here ya go: Anybody got any additions?
Government exists to make private wealth possible.
Commentby Belltowner— 3/12/06@ 4:15 pm
I like Castro’s system better. He confiscates the employer’s property, shoots the employer, and the workers get quality health care for free. We need something like that in America.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 3/19/06@ 3:42 pm
Don’t talk to me about “core beliefs…”
Commentby headless lucy— 3/25/06@ 7:07 pm
…the oil industry is a zero sum game ( like checkers )
Commentby headless lucy— 4/9/06@ 2:56 pm
“…higher PRODUCTIVITY means fewer jobs…”
Commentby Donnageddon— 4/9/06@ 4:06 pm
“Most wealthy people inherited their wealth and haven’t worked a day in their lives…”
Commentby headless lucy— 4/13/06@ 5:14 pm
..Corporate profits are driven by the cheap labor binge. Corporate executives, board members and their lackeys have rewarded themselves hugely.
Commentby For the Clueless— 4/15/06@ 12:12 pm
America has been reduced to an oil for paper trade.
Commentby For the Clueless— 4/15/06@ 1:05 pm
…The only way to battle the oil-paper-land casino is to opt out of it through micro-capitalism, localized production and consumption…
Commentby For the Clueless— 4/15/06@ 4:21 pm
The rich people who get all these tax breaks lend us that money back in the form of government bonds that they buy and that we have to repay them at interest.
This is not investing in the economy. It’s a double jeopardy rip-off!
Commentby harry poon— 4/18/06@ 8:21 pm
…I said the revenue was the result of deficit SPENDING DO YOU SEE THE WORD “SPENDING” SPENDING SPENDING SPENDING…
Commentby dlaw— 4/18/06@ 10:17 pm
“This most recent round of tax cuts will continue to explode the deficit by giving away over $900 Billion to the super-rich over the next ten years. [4/5/06 NYTimes]
Commentby Harry Tuttle aka Voter Advocate— 4/24/06@ 5:17 pm
How about redistributing the wealth so the top 1% don’t own 60% of all the property in theU.S.?
Commentby harry poon— 4/24/06@ 5:54 pm
If 1% of the population of the US gets the same amount of dollars yearly as the bottom 50%, why is it unfair to tax them at a higher rate?
Commentby harry poon— 4/24/06@ 7:51 pm
People who want to drill into our strategic oil reserves so Exxon/Mobil can have some short term profit are flat out TRAITORS!!!
Commentby harry poon— 4/27/06@ 8:25 pm
A “capitalist” is someone who makes other people take all the risks, bear all the costs, and takes all the profits for himself. And the whole fucking point of being a capitalist is so you can be a lazy ass who does no work and produces nothing.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 5/30/06@ 8:17 pm
Since those capital gain increases likely match job loss in the companies invested in, it think it would be fair to index the tax rate to employment numbers.
Commentby Harry Tuttle aka Voter Advocate— 5/30/06@ 7:09 pm
Also, have you guys been forgetting to go to church and worship? What’s up with your gawd Algore? What’s up with your religion of solar warming? I haven’t heard anything lately. How many of you have dropped off the grid? How many of you have sold you cars and bought bicycles? Or are you all a bunch of hypocrite assholes?
Hey MTR-
Still waiting for your responses on CFC’s. You asked some questions, I pointed you to the answers, and you cut and ran.
If you cannot engage in an honest exchange, stop pretending.
Reagan / Bush cuts taxes – deficits skyrocket.
Clinton raises taxes modestly – budget is balanced and we go into surplus and even pay down some debt.
It’s obvious to me who’s more fiscally responsible and better at governing.
#16. You are right Harry T.
Bush is loyal but not to friends or his country. Bush’s loyalty is to his own ass. If Bush were loyal he would have served in Vietnam and would not have gone AWOL. If Bush were loyal to America, he would have experienced combat service. If Bush were loyal he would have worked hard to not allow 9/11 to happen on his watch, or would have heeded the CIA warnings delivered to him on 8-6-2001 at Crawford, Texas. If Bush were loyal to America he would not invade a country that did not attack America. If Bush had loyalty he would stand up for “friends” who have stood up for him. So, no autopsy for “Kenny Boy”? No funeral service? Rumors on the internet that Kenny was going to sing before his incarceration date. Did Kenney die of a “massive” heart attack or was he silenced before he could sing?
Clinton raised taxes, and Newt Gingrich cut spending…for a short period of time.
Hey, anyone know what’s become of Richard Pope? He hasn’t posted here in quite a while.
Of all the righties we’ve seen here, he at least deserves credit for trying to make sense. Hope we haven’t scared him off.
#14-
This line of thought has always intrigued me. What would you have had Bush do? The Clinton admin had an order out there that the CIA and FBI could not share data. If they had, the left would have screamed about civil rights, as they are today.
If Bush had known that bin laden would use airplanes to fly into buildings, would you have wanted him to ground all airplanes? For ever? Profile Arabs, and not let them fly on planes? Erect a giant protective shield around the city of New York and Wash DC?
Even once the planes were in air, before any of them struck a building, would you have wanted them to be shot down by military jets?
What would have helped was thorough intelligence. This isn’t something that a new president, six months in office, can accomplish. It is the task over many years using on-the-ground intel, which was severely restricted by the previous administration. Not blaming them, but you can’t develop a network of informants in half a year.
BTW, the repeated comment about Laura Bush is just mean spirited and petty. It means nothing except that the writer of it has a grudge to bear. Never made any mistakes you have regretted for your entire life? What a small person you are.
K – I’ll say it one more fucking time you dumass. YOU guys are the ones making the assertions. The burden of proof is therefore on you. That’s the way it works.
Do you even know what chi squared is? If not, how ’bout ya git ya some of that there fancy book larnin’ and find out how adults separate signal from noise.
Dumb shit…
ROGER RABBIT SERVED IN THE BX SELLING WOMANS PANTIES.HE WAS THE TOP MODEL.
by Goldy, 07/08/2006, 1:03 PM -Yes, my server was down for about 12 hours. My guess is either GOP dirty tricks, or it crashed under the weight of NSA surveillance. Or some “technical” problem.
Narcissism and they’re put to get me all neatly tied up in one little package: a face for radio and a voice for a Little Orphan Annie.
*out to get me
Ann Coulter gets what she deserved
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....n-coulter/
No Mark, you coward, I gave you the answers at the EPA website, and I pointed out that elevated skin cancer in Antarctica is unlikely due to the small amount of exposed skin there. One way adults learn things is by reading. You apparently are unwilling to remove your blinders.
I say again, coward. You cannot make a coherent arguement, only spout canned points. Your CFC can is past pull date.
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Three cheers for Mrs. Rabbit!
Hip-hip-hooray!
Hip-hip-hooray!
Hip-hip-hooray!
Of course, I would be remiss if I did not also post a photo of JCH’s soul mate: http://www.msu.edu/~nixonjos/a.....-unger.jpg
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Roger – what is the point of your post?
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” … such deep sentiment for the desceased “Bush pioneer,” who sent more than $2 million in Enron funds George W.’s way in 2000 …”
$2 million is nothing to Republicans. It won’t even buy a decent house in the Virginia ‘burbs, much less a presidential tear.
You wanna make King George get all goeey sentimental, ya gotta show him REAL coin. How about flashing $2 trillion from the Social Security Trust Fund? – that’ll get him interested in you.
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You have four degrees?
Okay, smartass … explain how cutting a tax rate of zero increases revenue.
Oh, and one more thing … how about posting your data?
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What a crock from the far left wing blogs
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Retardo — if you can bother yourself to click on the link, you’ll see the “Tax Policy Institute” is a “joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution.” It’s right at the top of the first page … ask your seeing-eye dog to read it to you, maybe he will if you pet him and give him a bone.
(While you’re at it, how about kicking him in the balls. Dogs – ughh!!! Rabbits HATE dogs almost as much as we HATE Republicans. Well, not nearly that much. But dogs chase rabbits, so don’t expect me to like ’em.)
Before you publicly make an ass of yourself by going off half-cocked about “liberal think tanks” blah-blah-blah, let me warn you they got the data from official government sources — same place you got yours.
Now, Retardo, why don’t you go ahead and post your numbers, and then explain why cutting taxes raises revenue EVERY time. I’m especially interested to see how the federal revenue figures from 2001, 2002, and 2003 demonstrate this immutable theory of economics. This shouldn’t be too hard for someone with FOUR DEGREES.
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yada yada … Clinton PROPOSED the budget and SIGNED the budget so it’s HIS budget, dumbass.
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Newt was too busy fucking his secretary while his legal wife lay dying of cancer to worry about something as boring as budget surpluses.
Besides, Michael, Republicans don’t LIKE surpluses. Exhibit A: George W. Bush and the Neocon Congress turned record surpluses into record deficits in just two short years — nearly doubling inflation and unemployment in the process.
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Coulter has not yet begun to get what she deserves. http://ewancient.lysator.liu.s.....sigrid.jpg
Just kidding, ha-ha! Hey, if Coulter can joke about killing Supreme Court justices, why can’t we joke about burning her at the stake? After all, it’s all in good clean fun! Why should Republicans have a monopoly on fun? Republicans want a monopoly on every fucking thing!
If Hollywood makes a movie for 20 million, and it grosses 150 million, shouldn’t Congress demand an “excess profit” tax of another 50% of gross? Note that DEMOCRAT Arron Spelling’s wife lives in an 150 million dollar home. Where is the “redistribution” of wealth? What about the “clillin”? Are the Hollywood Democrats racist? Commie lib Democrats!! Help me here!! hehe, JCH Kennedy
Black basketball players [LeBron James] are making 20 million a year? Where are the cries for “redistribution” of wealth? What about the “chillin”? Where is Jesse Jacksooooooooon? Isn’t that “excess profit”??
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Roger @ 39-
Mark doesn’t read links. He is only interested in parroting his talking points.
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What’s this horseshit about “smiling” at wingfucks at the firing range? There’s only one way to “greet” wingfucks … http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi.....sierry.jpg
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I know.
CORPORATE INCOME TAX REVENUES PLUNGE
Corporate income taxes have dropped from 6% of GDP in 1954 to 1% of GDP in 2002. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org.....?Docid=263
INDIVIDUAL TAX RETURNS SOAR; ESTATE TAX RETURNS PLUNGE
The number of individual tax returns filed soared from 84 million in 1975 to 131.4 million in 1984, but over the same period, estate tax filings plunged from over 225,000 to only 59,000. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org.....m?Docid=18
Dumbass Michael: Clinton raised taxes modestly and the wingnuts predicted the econonmy would tank.
Guess what – they were wrong. Instead we had one of the most robust recoveries ever. Makes Dubya’s look pathetic.
Since North Korea is out of the World Cup, will you liberal “progressive” Democrats be cheering for France? [Lots of white flags in the stands!!]
Re: #25…Janet, I was by no means trying to imply you’re exactly chopped liver.
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“Hey, anyone know what’s become of Richard Pope? He hasn’t posted here in quite a while. Of all the righties we’ve seen here, he at least deserves credit for trying to make sense. Hope we haven’t scared him off.” Commentby ArtFart— 7/8/06@ 4:36 pm
He hasn’t been reported dead to the bar association, so he’s probably on vacation.
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“12 Roger – what is the point of your post?” Commentby sillyguy— 7/8/06@ 5:38 pm
What do you care? I wasn’t talking to you! That was a private conversation between me & Dave Gibney @9.
By the way, sillyguy, has your constitutional amendment gotten off the ground yet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.....hopter.JPG
Dumbass Michael: Clinton raised taxes modestly and the wingnuts predicted the econonmy would tank.
You better look over the data again. The tax cut came just after and the eceonomy took off. Remember Clinton was against it. Remember the donks threw a fit saying the children were losing their school lunches. The donkos shut down government.
Rabbit Pellet, you need another URL SMACKDOWN?
REP Pat (You damn sure are not worthy of the name Kennedy) @ 43
If Hollywood makes a movie for 20 million, and it grosses 150 million, shouldn’t Congress demand an “excess profit” tax of another 50% of gross? Note that DEMOCRAT Arron Spelling’s wife lives in an 150 million dollar home…blah blah blah
Hollywood does not get rich feeding of the government trough with tax breaks,
http://www.ombwatch.org/articl.....?TopicID=1
subsidies,
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....CDDBS1.DTL
an fat no bid government contracts.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/n.....acts_x.htm
They make their money the old fashion way, produce a product and hope people will buy it. If it fails (e.g. Water World, Postman, Battlefield Earth), they do not scream for the government to bail their ass out. They suck it up.
You point to one instance of Hollywood acting like Crony Capitalist (Enron, World Com) and I will tax em. Since it is obvious that you have no F-king clue about the difference between a Capitalist (Soros, Trump) and a Ferengi (Lay, Skilling, Abramoff), you really should go back to school and study.
By the by Puddybud @59, you can weasel aand Bullsh-t all you want, but it does not change the facts:
Reagan: DEFFICITS
Bush Senior: DEFFICITS
Bad Bill Clinton SURPLUSES
Bush Junior: DEFICITS (again)
Folks,
“TheHIM” is a liar. He states that the Darcy Burner campaign has backed off calling her an excutive at Microsoft.
I encourage everyone to see for themselves by visiting the source:
http://www.darcyburner.com/aboutdarcy.php
“Darcy grew up in a military family. She worked hard in school, graduated at the top of her class and put herself through Harvard. After graduation, Darcy worked for 12 years in the high tech sector – including as an executive at Microsoft.”
Of course, now that they are caught in their lie, TheHim, the DNC operative, will rush to alter their web page to make it look like it never happened.
Yet ANOTHER lie of “TheHIM” exposed.
@12
“Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26, 1940–July 18 1969) was a congressional staffer for U.S. politician Edward Kennedy. Kopechne died after a car driven by Kennedy turned off the road in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts and crashed into a pond. Kennedy did not call the police or authorities to save her until the morning, ten hours after the incident. By that time she was already dead. Questions abound about Kennedy, his conduct, and why he did not serve time, receiving only a suspended sentence. It is assumed Mary Jo died from drowning, although her parents’ lawyer Joseph Flanagan filed a petition barring an autopsy.
On television Kennedy later said he was not driving under the influence of alcohol. He explained he was in a state of shock when he emerged from the creek and confused by “a jumble of emotions”. He added that he tried several times to find Mary Jo by diving down into the water.
He said he gave up hope and remembers little of how he got back to his hotel in Edgartown except that he swam the narrow channel because there were no night ferries and nearly drowned in the process.
Mary Jo’s death severely damaged Kennedy’s reputation, and is regarded as one of the primary reasons why he was never able to mount a successful campaign for President of the United States.
Most people assume that Kennedy did not tell the authorities until morning because he was drunk and did not want the public to know his state of intoxication. ”
http://open-encyclopedia.com/Mary_Jo_Kopechne
#26 Are you paid to troll and defend Bush and apologize for Bush tactical mistakes and blunders? What was Bush supposed to do? Plenty. He only had six months in office. No excuses. What would you do? Call in the top people from both the CIA and the FBI. Call in field FBI agents and field staff of the CIA, for leads on the report. There were FBI field agents who knew of threats to hijack airplanes. Security implementation at airports could have begun especially to stop and search suspicious. At least Bush could have begun a visible effort. BUSH DID NOTHING.
JANET S. HOW CAN YOU DEFEND THE INDEFENSABLE, AND UNEXCUSABLE?
YOU OFFER NO SOLUTIONS JUST APOLOGIES FOR BUSH’S INCOMPETENCE, LACK OF LEADERSHIP, LACK OF MORAL COURAGE. WHY? HOW MUCH DO YOU GET PAID TO POST AND TROLL?
From CNN.com (http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WO.....index.html):
“Gunmen are roaming a western Baghdad neighborhood Sunday and shooting unarmed Iraqis as soon as they have identified them as Sunnis, killing at least 40, Iraqi emergency police told CNN…The gunmen are driving around the neighborhood of Hay al Jihad in several vehicles, checking Iraqis for their identification cards and shooting those who are Sunni, police said.”
Hey, what happened to those “75,000 Iraqi troops” who were deployed in Baghdad as part of the White House PR campaign? I thought Baghdad was well in hand? You mean there are gunmen driving around shooting people and Baghdad’s best and brightest can’t or won’t do wnything about it? Maybe it’s because our buddies the uniformed military/police in Iraq ARE THE ONES DOING THE KILLING?
It’s good to hear the good news from Iraq. Obviously Bush’s policies are working.
The number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war stands at 2,535.
Janet S
“What would you have had Bush do?”
SOMETHING that didn’t involve cutting brush in Texas after being warned of an mminent attack would have been nice. Doing NOTHING didn’t work so well, we all saw.
“A witness in the Hay al Jihad neighborhood said he walked outside his home and saw the main street lined with bodies, and the attackers setting fire to homes.
He said residents tried to call the Ministries of Interior and Defense, without success.
Makki blamed the Mehdi militia loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
The violence continued for eight hours, Makki said, blaming the Ministries of Interior and Defense for not responding, and saying U.S. forces responded too late to stop most of the killings.”
US forces “responded too late?” 75,000 crack Iraqi troops in Baghdad and the streets are lined with bodies? We have lost, lost, lost that country.
THANKS DADDY LOVE!: THIS IS FOR JANET S “The current administration headed by someone who dodged service in Vietnam by pretending to serve in the National Guard, and whose veep had a politically powerful daddy wangle him a deferment. His chief adviser, Karl Rove, also got a deferment, and his chief cheerleader, Rush Limbaugh, also had a politically powerful daddy get him one — based on a big pimple on his fanny.”
DEFEND THAT JANET S AND OTHER REPUBLICAN TROLLS
Al Gore is in for the cold shoulder should he ever pay a visit to the oil and gas rich Canadian province of Alberta.
“I don’t listen to Al Gore in particular because he’s a Democrat, and not only that, he’s about as far left as you can go,” says Ralph Klein, the province’s Conservative premier.
He was reacting to Gore’s comments in Rolling Stone that processing oil sands is a huge waste of energy that also harms the landscape of Western Canada.
“For every barrel of oil they extract there, they have to use enough natural gas to heat a home for four days…It’s truly nuts. But you know, junkies find veins in their toes. It seems reasonable to them because they’ve lost sight of the rest of their lives.”
Gore’s remarks had Klein, who recently returned from a trip to Washington to promote Alberta’s oil and gas industry, seeing red.
“I don’t know what he proposes the world to run on,” the premier retorted. Maybe hot air.”
Thanks, Pud, for the reasoned analysis of the relative merits and potential drawbacks of extracting oil from tar sands. I think we all leave better informed.
Pud,
Oh, I’m sorry, I guess that was an ad hominem hit piece devoid of reason. So silly of me not to realize that.
Since last month ago, roughly 55 more members of the US military have died, and 1600 or more Iraqis have died in Baghdad alone. What’s the metric for “success” here? At some point I would hope that Iraqis “getting their act together” would involve things actually getting better.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06.....ummit.html
“Three years of efforts…have largely failed. Billions of dollars have been spent on both electricity and security, yet residents of Baghdad get only five to eight hours of power a day, and the American ambassador acknowledged on Friday that the city is ‘more insecure now than it was a few months ago.’ … One of the senior officials involved in [the Bush June 206 “strategy session” on Iraq] characterized it as a ‘last, best chance to get this right,’ an implicit acknowledgment that previous American-led efforts had gone astray.”
What a disaster. A complete and total disaster. And, there really seems to be no way out. Three years after the invasion and ocupation, the Bush team finally got together for a “strategy session” to figure out what the hell to do in Iraq. It’s been a month since that strategy sesion ended, and I think we all know what they decided. We need MORE POWERFUL PHOTO OPS.
Back to GWB vacations:
Why doens’t Bush see anything wrong with taking long vacations every summer? He claims he’s working just as hard while he is on vacation at the ranch as he does in the White House.
Of course, that’s the problem. It is pretty much the same, just a change in location.
GWB spent his lifetime doing as little actual work as possible, and relying upon his father’s political influence to reward him regardless of his own merit. That’s how he got into an Ivy League college despite being, at best, an average student in high school. That’s how he got into the Texas Air National Guard despite being on the back end of the waiting list due to his test scores. That’s how he got away with no actual guard duty for the last couple of years of “service”. That’s how he got into graduate school, despite lack-luster grades in college. That’s how he got rescued from probably bankruptcy from not one, but two oil businesses his father set up for him, rescued by his father’s political supporters who bought him out for prices much higher than the businesses were worth, and setting him up in the professional sports business using virtually none of this own money, but having him appear to be the CEO of the business.
GWB’s idea of a hard day of work is to attend a handfull of meetings where his supporters and sycophants tell him what a great job he is doing, and how evil his opponants are. Of course he can do that anywhere, he doesn’t need to be in Washington D.C. to do that.
I propose an experiment, and the concrete results of this experiment will allow us answer with some confidence the question “what do libertarians believe?” Here is my experimental set-up:
– In order to reduce the number of independent variables, I will make sure that the entire United States government is in the hand of one political party – say, oh, I dunno, the Republicans – and I will make sure that this party governs in such a way that the influence the other party can exert on conditions is essentially nil;
– This party will then increase the size of the federal government’s budget by a record amount, and continue to increase it every year, with record waste on pork;
– The president will claim authority not seen since the reign of Louis the XIV, a claim which will go unchallenged by the Congress. He will be bound by no law or “quaint” treaty, will be subject to no oversight or review, and will publically assert the right to crush the testicles of his enemy’s children, in the name of an open-ended war against an emotion;
– Also, in aid of this vaguely-conceived “war”, the state security apparatus will be greatly increased in size and in power. All communications will be subject to government interception and review, any opposition political gathering will be monitored and/or infiltrated, and they can be arrested without charges, shipped to an undisclosed location, and tortured;
– This party’s base will demand that the party go further, for example by executing journalists who take pictures of government officials driveways with permission.
I believe that, once our data is collected and processed (sometime this November), we should be able to determine with some certainty just what, exactly, libertarians really believe.
Thanks to and no permission from http://www.thepoorman.net/2006.....r-freedom/
pbj shill: Everything you post is a right-wing delusion, hallucination or lie.
But keep posting. Thank you for making our points for us.
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Democrats Convicted :
11/30/2005 – Illinois State Rep Patricia Bailey (6th District ) was found guilty of election fraud and perjury after a one-day trial.
11/30/2005 – Democratic Consultant Raymond Reggie, a media consultant and son of a politically prominent former Louisiana judge, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for bank fraud.
11/30/2005 – Democrat Brian Burke, once one of Wisconsin’s most powerful lawmakers, sentenced to six months in jail, was also ordered to pay more than $85,000 in restitution for using state resources to run his failed bid for attorney general in 2002.
11/29/2005 – Fromer Georgia Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison and ordered him to pay a $150,000 fine and $698,000 in restitution.Walker stole at least $425,000 from a charity he created and bilked newspaper advertisers out of another $200,000, according to a sentencing report being used to help determine how much time he would serve in prison.
11/26/2005 – The Queens judge who sparked an uproar when she helped a defendant escape arrest through a back exit of the courthouse should be removed from the bench, a disciplinary panel ruled Tuesday in one of its most contentious decisions on record.
The judge, Supreme Court Justice Laura D. Blackburne (a Democrat), was immediately taken off active duty by the Office of Court Administration. She faces a lengthy suspension and then, if the Court of Appeals affirms the disciplinary ruling, the end of her nine-year judicial career.
And let’s not forget the entire Democrat Party being CONVICTED in St Louis:
Convicted of conspiracy and vote fraud and facing five years on each count were:
• Kelvin Ellis, a Democratic precinct committeeman and former East St. Louis city government department head who served a federal prison term for extortion in the early 1990s.
• Yvette Johnson, secretary to the city Democratic organization.
• Democratic precinct committeemen Sheila Thomas and Jesse Lewis.
Former U.S. Rep. Frank Ballance, a North Carolina Democrat, was sentenced to four years in prison on Oct. 12,2005 for conspiring to divert taxpayer money to his friends and family through the charitable organization he founded in 1985.
But almost two weeks later, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee still has not returned the thousands of dollars in “dirty money” that Ballance contributed to the DCCC, the National Republican Congressional Committee wants everyone to know.
The NRCC said based on press reports, it appears that the DCCC has no plans to return the $29,500 that Ballance contributed to its coffers.
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/s.....v=0Ra7U30s
Three Charged with Voter Fraud
Excerpt:
(Madison County-December 10, 2004) – For seven years, the FBI and Indiana State Police have been investigating voter fraud in Madison County.
Now, the long-time chairman of the Madison County Democratic Party is under arrest along with two other Democrats. The Republican prosecutor says he will not turn this over to a special prosecutor despite Democratic charges that he has been leading a witch-hunt.
In 2003, when Madison County Democratic precinct committeeman Michael Vaughn was charged with twelve counts of voter fraud, Democratic County Chairman Thomas Ashley called the investigation a “witch-hunt.”
“I’m sure that if any body is charged, it will be Democrats. That’s my opinion. Hopefully there was no fraud,” said Ashley last December.
On Thursday, police arrested Ashley on two felony counts of voter fraud. His son-in-law, Kyle Barber, is charged with 17 counts of voter fraud and obstruction of justice. A friend of the family, Mindy Zeller, faces similar charges.
Republican Prosecutor Rodney Cummings says voter fraud has been Democratic Party standard procedure for thirty years.
“It seems like a systematic pattern of registering people where they don’t vote, knowing when the absentee ballots are going to be sent out, showing up at the residence, collecting the ballots and mailing them themselves and voting them themselves,” Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings.
“These are investigations conducted by the FBI, the state police. They’re not corrupt and they’re not concerned about political partisanship,” said Cummings.
If convicted, the trio face three years in prison on each charge.
Since the investigation began, police have arrested five Madison County Democrats. Two have been convicted. They spent ten days in jail and paid fines.
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We don’t have nearly enough Democrats in this country rigging elections to compete successfully against Republican dirty tricks and election stealing. Democrats need a Karl Rove!
We don’t have nearly enough Democrats in this country rigging elections to compete successfully against Republican dirty tricks and election stealing. Democrats need a Karl Rove!
So you admit Democrats are rigging elections? Good. The first step in recovery is to admit you have a problem.
Roger Rabit: Here is a hint. When you accuse others of election fraud, it usually helps to show some proof, as I did with Democrat election fraud. Oh, and it is more convincing if it is an actual conviction and not a mere accusation. Democrats are good at throwing false allegations but short on providing any verifiable evidence.
Roger Rabbit,
Didn’t you tell us all you were an expert in statistics? I am still waiting for your derivation of the binomial distribution. Outh to be easy for an “expert” such as yourself. I am rusty since having taken my calculus based statistics courses. Can you please refresh my memory on that derivation?
SockPuppet@84 The vote fraud found in the Washington Governors election in Judge Wells court was Republican Fraud. Now, what were you gibbering about, you simpering fool?
pbj
I don’t get it. Should we scour poilce records and see how many Republicans we can find whop have been arrested and convicted? How ab9out kenny-boy lay? I’d say he’s worth about ten judges letting defndants out the courthouse door AND about ten more bank defrauding “media consultants.”
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How can you stop a democrat from voting. Ask for their ID.
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So, apparantly not only did drug addict Rush have the illegal viagra with him when he cleared customs, but he also had some perscription laxatives as well.
Man that’s pathetic.
I’m not gonna stop hating him, but it’s getting harder (no pun intended) when he turns out to be this desperately lonely, fat, constipated, impotent, drug addict.
#94 URL please. Lefties lie so much about Rush Limbaugh!
I rea;ize you lefties are pissed the prescription of Viagra is not a controlled substance or is it illegal to have it prescribed to you doctor for privacy concerns. It is curiuos that some lefty moronic cop would blow it to the Palm Beach Post!!
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!
erratum I realize you…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....nnels_plot
Funny thing about those islamofascist Lebanese!!!
So who else thins it’s pretty bad that the girl for whose rape and murder 5 soldiers are being prosceuted in Iraq WAS ONLY FOURTEEN?
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