Calling Americans selfish is a BIG mistake.

I am so appalled.

Scumbag.

Maybe this will be Obama's "Malaise Speech" -- and look how well that turned out for Carter.

In a sane world Obama would be a laughing stock and not a serious candidate.

and If you Don't want to support my family in America and Kenya, you're selfish.

What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too.

Interesting spin.

So is Biden not selfish when he is as stingy as he is in charitable contributions?

As I recall, Republicans have been proven to be more generous when it comes to giving.

Not that the media will do anything but honor this stupid statement as an important turning point in our nation's history.

Fair enough, I guess that applies to the "95%"?

charity is for thee not me./

Hello, I'm Selfish..... and you are?

Don’t want higher taxes? Barack Obama says you’re “selfish.”

This, actually, is the philosophical underpinning of Marxism.

"From each according to his means..."

In Marxist books, capitalism is often described as an economy based on "selfishness."

Barack, you just revealed your hand.

When all young people can go to college, as Obama wants them to, college may be too dumbed down to help them.

Rip the bucks right out of our family budget, we'll feel so GOOD !

It is so worth it, what a lightworker he is, everyone feeling so righteous under his direction.

/

Of course you are you selfish capitalist running dog imperialists, wanting money for your kid's college fund, just plain selfish.
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OT: Note for bloggers - We are all getting worn out by the election, but it's not time for slacking. On top of following any new developments you should also be copying and republishing some of your key stories on Obama and the election as if they were fresh. Flood the space, there are many people who are just now looking into the candidates, believe it or not. Republish 'em, all weekend long.

re: #12 zombie

"just"?

One would have to have their eyes open to see what The Barack is cooking.

re: #9 WrathofG-d

Fair enough, I guess that applies to the "95%"?

You are right.

Anyone voting for his tax cut is therefore selfish and should be ashamed.

You've probably already heard him say this, but I just got home. "We're 5 days away from a fundamental transformation of America!"

McCain/Palin 08

So if I don't want to be taxed by big government, I am selfish? Did he take any economic theory at all?

/besides marxist that is.

re: #13 jaunte

When all young people can go to college, as Obama wants them to, college may be too dumbed down to help them.

I found that it already was.

It takes a set of stainless steel balls to call anyone selfish when you're a millionaire and your brother is living in a hut on $1 a month and your aunt (the one who helped you make some money) is living in one of Boston's worst public housing projects.

Remember, Obama knows how to spend your money ever so much better than you do. Who are you to challenge Him?

The gall to call the most charitable people on the planet selfish.This from a person who has done nothing for anyone that did not promise political gain.

What's he gonna call us next...

/is dickhead just down the road?

re: #11 saberry0530

Hello, I'm Selfish..... and you are?

Hi Selfish, pleased to meet you, I'm Racist!

That's it. That's the end of the Obama we knew. I'm calling it, right here and right now:

If this gets any attention in the MSM, it's the end of Obama's candidacy.

The only thing he had going for him was that he was a smooth talker. Take that away, and he's just another politician. He just screwed the pooch big time by getting angry.

Two words: Brother, Aunt

re: #12 zombie

This, actually, is the philosophical underpinning of Marxism.

"From each according to his means..."

In Marxist books, capitalism is often described as an economy based on "selfishness."

Barack, you just revealed your hand.

Marcuse is Obama's ideological mentor. It all fits in.

re: #21 thebigolddog and his grandmother in kenya in a dirt hut without water.

re: #25 sandspur

Hi Selfish, pleased to meet you, I'm Racist!

DAMNED GLAD TO MEET YA! (extends hand heartily)

re: #27 pat

Two words: Brother, Aunt

Waiting for the government to take care of them.

So I am not supposed to cling to my guns...or my religion...or my money?

If Obama is elected, and while starving in the breadline, this is next:

"Those who see the need to live as being a virtue are just...selfish."

*SPIT*

re: #17 karmic_inquisitor

I guess calling "the rich" the Bourgeoisie, and the 95% the proletariat would be too obvious of what Barack is up to?

His economics are straight Marxist!

No G-d, No borders, Redistribution of Wealth, power to the working class....

Selfish, unpatriotic little ol' me will be voting for that well-known selfish and shockingly unpatriotic candidate, John McCain.

/

re: #30 saberry0530

DAMNED GLAD TO MEET YA! (extends hand heartily)

Bitter, here!

So what does that make Barack? He's got an aunt and a half brother living in poverty.

The selfish American theme should be McCain's final appeal.Yes my fellow Americans, Mr. Obama is well known for his generosity with your money.

so are we now "selfish ,typical , bigoted, redneck, low information middleclass,joes?" add to list

re: #35 FightingBack

Hey, Bitter!

that should never rise above our station in life*

...imagine no possessions......its easy if you try....

When is Pelosi going to give up some of her millions?
When are the Kennedys going to give up there money?
When is Michelle going to give one dime to someone else?

re: #12 zombie

His Socialist roots just scream out at you if you know what to look for. It's not just from each according to his measure, it is to each according to his needs. In other words, work like a slave to the State, and the State will give you enough food that you (probably) won't starve to death.

Nice racket, the Socialists have going for them.

*spit*

re: #35 FightingBack

Nice to meet ya! My name is Clingy.

Perhaps we ought to get together and have a bitter racist gun-clingers' convention.

Selfish, am I? SELFISH?! For not wanting our economy to tank quicker than Chris Matthews can drop and kiss your ass, Senator Obama?

Not a very smart statement to make in the last 90 or so hours of the campaign, Barack. Especially when there are still so many voters out there who haven't yet been totally convinced you will be better as POTUS than John McCain will be.

The "selfish" ploy is a strawman which (unfortunately) rings a lot of bells with poor ... and self-centered ... people.

/meant in the sense of "poor" being a mindset, rather than solely an economic status

selfish and unpatriotic. how totalitarian

re: #42 DoubleU
I don't want their stuff> and i want them to let us keep ours.

re: #36 HelloDare

So what does that make Barack? He's got an aunt and a half brother living in poverty.

Yeah, but what did they ever do for him? What can they do for him in the future? Why would a Narcissist care about them?

This selfish individual wants to know how much of their own money Obama and Co have VOLUNTARILY donated to the IRS.

what? NOTHING....yea exactly!

re: #36 HelloDare

So what does that make Barack? He's got an aunt and a half brother living in poverty.

This is the guy who is on record of donating less than 1% of his earnings to charity before he finally upped it after becoming the evil capitalist word, 'wealthy'...

Why doesn't BHO say Americans instead of dividing us up into groups?

re: #42 DoubleU

Don't be silly, only useful idiots get to sacrifice for their betters.

Democrats always whine that they are tired of having their patriotism questioned, usually when no such thing is done.
But they are quick to pose their policies as the only possible choice for decent patriotic Americans, even--or especially--when those poicies are the opposite of what Americans have held dear for generations.
Newspeak + feigned outrage + projection

>

re: #44 ClosetConservative

Nice to meet ya! My name is Clingy.

Perhaps we ought to get together and have a selfish bitter racist gun-clingers' convention.

better

re: #13 jaunte

When all young people can go to college, as Obama wants them to, college may be too dumbed down to help them.

No, you will go to college for what the wealthy ruling class wants you do go to college for, you will learn what they tell you and you will work as they tell you.

It is the progressive way.

re: #11 saberry0530

Hello, I'm Selfish..... and you are?

Here's a wacky thought... I wonder how Obama would react if a whole buncha people showed up at one of his rallies wearing "Hello my name is..." stickers with "Selfish" written in as the name. :D :D :D :D

re: #1 zombie

Calling Americans selfish is a BIG mistake.

Especially coming from someone who have given as little to charity as the Obamas have.

He sure knows how to smooth talk a girl.

re: #1 zombie

Calling Americans selfish is a BIG mistake.

Yes, it is reminiscent of Carter's malaise speech ... and we know how Americans reacted to that!

Here's some good trends (McCain >47% for awhile now). The R base is coming home:

Date - Obama - McCain

October 23 51.66 - 44.83% Obama
October 24 51.80 - 44.80% Obama
October 25 52.32 - 44.42% Obama
October 26 52.46 - 44.00% Obama +8.46% high point
October 27 50.58 - 45.96% Obama
October 28 50.89 - 46.01% Obama
October 29 50.24 - 47.07% Obama
October 30 50.88 - 46.21% Obama
October 31 50.86 - 46.89% Obama +3.97% today

bbl

If we are selfish...they are greedy!

It just might be Tea time!

Obama's real tax plan is going to shock the shit out of this nation.

the "95%" is total Bullshit.

re: #36 HelloDare

He's one of the Revolutionary Vangard. They aren't encumbered by the stodgy rules and regulations that the Proletariate live under. They are the Elect.

I wonder if he has his Dacha on the Black Sea yet?

re: #52 Ojoe

division is his game, what he has been teaching for decades

re: #51 Oh no...Sand People!

This is the guy who is on record of donating less than 1% of his earnings to charity before he finally upped it after becoming the evil capitalist word, 'wealthy'...

I don't care how much (or little) Barry donated to charity, that's his prerogative. The fact that he's calling US selfish with his underwhelming record of charity is the HEIGHT of hypocrisy.

The pot is calling the kettle socialist...I mean black.

re: #49 infidel Alan

Yeah, but what did they ever do for him? What can they do for him in the future? Why would a Narcissist care about them?

It's the taxpayers fault that Bro&Auntie are living in poverty.
Let's get it together and solve their problem....
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re: #57 NomadOfNorad

Here's a wacky thought... I wonder how Obama would react if a whole buncha people showed up at one of his rallies wearing "Hello my name is..." stickers with "Selfish" written in as the name. :D :D :D :D

If we could only make it through security?

I voted for Gore.

I disliked Kerry.

I hate Obama.

It never ceases to amaze. The country that runs voluntarily to the aid of other nations and people. The country that selflessly dies so that others might have a chance at freedom. The nation that is always on call whenever and wherever they are needed is "Selfish". This man seriously needs to spend some time in a third world country and see exactly how much we do. Say, I think he might have a family connection to make that happen. He disgust me with his contempt of the worlds greatest society.

West Texas

re: #35 FightingBack

Bitter, here!

Greetings all! I'm Clingy.

Okay. Where's the tape of this?
Don't tell the Times has got it.

Someone should juxtapose his and Biden's charitable giving with this, still at work or I would

By the way, Bill Whittle gives a shout out to Iowahawk and Zombie from his National Review Online column today.

re: #44 ClosetConservative

Nice to meet ya! My name is Clingy.

Perhaps we ought to get together and have a bitter racist gun-clingers' convention.

Woops! Maybe we're twins? :-)

taxes are patriotic, i'm sure they have the best CPAs

Interesting Barack. I see nothing but self-worship, self-promotion, and self-centeredness in you.

How's that aunt of yours in Boston doing? What about your half-brother in Kenya?

"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic," Obama continued. "You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."

I am basically working to support my family. I feed and clothe my kids. I help with the local scout troop. This is selfish?

A black male puma speaks:
As a black male Democrat, I just made a decision that hurts my heart.

I’m voting for McCain and urge you all do the same. I disagree with John on many issues, and true he has the same character flaws all human beings do: sometimes we lie, sometimes we cheat, sometimes we flip-flop. But John McCain’s long military and political record shows his love and loyalty to America. And all Americans can agree with his intolerance for out-of-control spending and earmarks and his insistence on energy independence.

As for my boy Obama…sigh…where to begin? Yes, he has the same character flaws all human beings do — lie, cheat, flip-flop, we all do it. Unfortunately, but a few unique sticking points are impossible to explain away.

His constant race baiting sucks. I was shocked by his implication that Bill Clinton — of all people — is racist and remain shocked Democrats actually fell for it. Bill Clinton a (reformed) liar? Yes. Bill Clinton a racist? Never.

Similarly, Obama’s claim that his racist, anti-American church was representative of black people and black churches was dishonest, damaging, and hurtful.
Read the whole thing.

So if I want to have sex with Michelle Obama and Barack objects, he's being selfish, right? Because the entire concept that what's yours is yours is selfishness, in his book. I bet the selfish bastard even locks the front door of his house rather than letting anyone in need come in to take shelter (and take the sterling silver and the plasma TV).

Speaking of stupid statements, where the hell is Biden?

re: #1 zombie

Calling Americans selfish is a BIG mistake.

Tell you what, Obama. You put down the percentage of your income that you've given to charity, to friends having hard times, to strangers, freeloaders, goldbricks and panhandlers and I'll do the same. Whoever has the highest percentage gets the other's estate. Do you think you even have a chance? Try me, I'll do it.

Stick your stupid lying selfish comments in your ....

30% of my County has voted all ready

re: #25 sandspur

Hi Selfish, pleased to meet you, I'm Racist!

Nice to meet you both! I'm Bitter.

re: #18 Spellcheck

You've probably already heard him say this, but I just got home. "We're 5 days away from a fundamental transformation of America!"

McCain/Palin 08

...but I *like* America!

re: #68 WrathofG-d

I ain't gonna lie. I'm scared of an Obama Administration. Especially if he gets a filibuster-proof Senate. We're really and truely screwed if that happens.

Obama really does believe he can be charitable with other people's money.....does not end in a good place

re: #51 Oh no...Sand People!

This is the guy who is on record of donating less than 1% of his earnings to charity before he finally upped it after becoming the evil capitalist word, 'wealthy'...

Actually, he didn't up it after he became wealthy. He upped it after he decided he could run for national office.
And IIRC, the only "charities" he could think of donating to were his racist church and the Congressional Black Caucus!

I'm all for spreading the wealth as long I'm the one spreading it.

Good Evening, Lizards.

If I, a McCain supporter, could have had The One say something to reveal his true nature, I couldn't have written a better line than that. It's straight out of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

He may be Mr. Thompson now, but if he's elected, watch how fast he turns into Wesley Mouch.

Or Cuffy Meigs.

cheers

eon

re: #62 FrogMarch

Obama's real tax plan is going to shock the shit out of this nation.

the "95%" is total Bullshit.

jorline on the last thread had a nice phrase on Obama's real tax plan: "April surprise."

re: #70 Intrepid

Clingy T shirt contest.

What a great country

I better quit for now

re: #80 HelloDare

Speaking of stupid statements, where the hell is Biden?

Obama's taken over as the Gaffe-meister./

re: #80 HelloDare

Speaking of stupid statements, where the hell is Biden?

He's been loafing, The One must make his stupid statements for him.

"Ask not what your country can do for you ...."

For all his flaws, he was a different kind of Democrat. I would not vote for him, but he understood things which Obama willfully ignores and disparages.

re: #80 HelloDare

Speaking of stupid statements, where the hell is Biden?

Giving a speech in Korea town where no one will understand him.

re: #52 Ojoe

Why doesn't BHO say Americans instead of dividing us up into groups?

If he is the Great Unifier, the Father of Lies is his sponsor.

re: #74 Intrepid

You must be my long-lost cousin named 'Patriotic'. We're such a screwed up family

Best review ever of Barak's infomercial

America’s supplies of tissues must have been exhausted during Barack Obama’s 30-minute election broadcast late on Wednesday night. It had been billed as a “closing argument” by the Democrat’s seemingly unstoppable campaign. In reality, it was an all-out, no-holds-barred weepathon with a feel-bad factor pitched somewhere between the third act of Schindler’s List and the slaughter scenes in Watership Down. I emerged from my TV room sodden-eyed and legs trembling, wishing that Iran would just drop the bomb and get it all over with.

Bet Axelrod wants to stick Barry in a soundproof bunker with Biden. Have them play Parcheesi till election night.

re: #96 wolfie

This is true if you ask me.

BBL

Ok, fine, I'm selfish. Funny how the same characteristics--earning your own way and taking care of you and yours--used to be called individualism, self-sufficiency, independence, and determination

re: #32 Oh no...Sand People!

So I am not supposed to cling to my guns...or my religion...or my money?

If Obama is elected, and while starving in the breadline, this is next:

"Those who see the need to live as being a virtue are just...selfish."

*SPIT*

We will be sustained by the party Comrade! The party is all we need, and will see to it that we are provided with what they determine we need. They will take care of us!

/obviously not voting for the commie

re: #91 Ojoe

Clingy T shirt contest.

What a great country

I better quit for now

'bout time you opened up for a boob thread. haven't had one of those for a while.

Obama's real tax plan:

Do you work for a living? Do you provide for your family? Do you provide jobs for others? well-- the democrat party says - F U.

Among the many fuzzy statements that Obama has made about taxes none is more erroneous than his "asking folks who are making more than a quarter million dollars a year to go back to the tax rate they were paying in the 1990s before the Bush tax cuts."

Note the nebulous phrase "tax rate" that conflates federal income taxes and FICA payroll taxes on income. As I recall, the Clintons never introduced legislation repealing the caps on payroll/Social Security taxes. Obama has; and so the new exposure to the 12.4% on self-employed income, coupled with the 2.9% contribution for Medicare, would mean that on self-employed income (and that would be the more likely target), we are talking about a 15.3% tax hike, added onto a 5% additional tax raise on income (34% to 39%).

One can support or reject Obama's plans, but he should at least admit he is not at all going back to the 1990s, but proposing something quite radically new: that anyone in America who makes over $250,000 (the targeted amount seems to change frequently), would pay a new additional tax of 19.3% on their income. And in some states with a 9% state income tax rate, coupled with the 2.9% Medicare rate, one can see that a total tax bite, federal, state, and FICA/Medicare, of at least about 65% of their income, aside from proposed increases in capital gains and inheritance taxes.

This is a radical effort at redistribution (in line with Obama's earlier statement that legislative rather than court action is more effective in redistribution), and nothing at all like the 1990s. The danger is that, coupled with exempting nearly half the wage-earning population from any federal income tax liability, we are going to discourage incentives at both ends of the spectrum. Human nature being what it is, the half of American wage earners exempt will not be so eager to work additionally if it means beginning to pay federal income taxes. The "rich" 4%, who now pay 60+% of the nation's aggregate income taxes, will not be so eager either, if it means giving 2/3s of their additional income to government(s) to give it back to those who are not paying any federal income tax.

[Link: corner.nationalreview.com...]

re: #88 MandyManners

As long as it's other people's money, it can be fun to be generous.

re: #79 stuiec

Dude, raise your standards please.

/going for some mind bleach.

re: #49 infidel Alan

Yeah, but what did they ever do for him? What can they do for him in the future? Why would a Narcissist care about them?

Rush Limbaugh played this excerpt of Obama reading from Dreams From My Father:

OBAMA: If Jane or Zeituni ever felt ill, if their companies ever closed or laid them off, there was no government safety net. There was only family, next of kin, people burdened by similar hardship. Now I was family, I reminded myself. Now I had responsibilities.

So, narcissist that he is, his public persona and his private self-image both include the fiction that he is responsible to help his family members. Even a narcissist would ordinarily do something for his poor relations just to make himself look and feel better. Obama is not your run-of-the-mill narcissist: he's a hypocrite of the first magnitude.

This is a gift that keeps giving. Even when Barry defends charges that he's a socialist, his entire defense reeks of a staunch socialist defending socialism and bashing on the fundamental principles of capitalism! He's caught in his own web of deceptive rhetoric.

re: #45 Intrepid

Selfish, am I? SELFISH?! For not wanting our economy to tank quicker than Chris Matthews can drop and kiss your ass, Senator Obama?

It ain't his ass he's kissing.

(Pausing to rinse vomit from my mouth.)

re: #80 HelloDare

Speaking of stupid statements, where the hell is Biden?

Probably buried under 15" of gorebull warming snows that fell in Scranton on Wednesday!

re: #26 ClosetConservative

That's it. That's the end of the Obama we knew. I'm calling it, right here and right now:

If this gets any attention in the MSM, it's the end of Obama's candidacy.

The only thing he had going for him was that he was a smooth talker. Take that away, and he's just another politician. He just screwed the pooch big time by getting angry.

AGREED!

re: #73 nikis-knight

By the way, Bill Whittle gives a shout out to Iowahawk and Zombie from his National Review Online column today.

Wow! Whittle says, of my conclusion to my essay which he links to,

That may be the most prophetic sentence of the year.

re: #77 Ojoe

I am basically working to support my family. I feed and clothe my kids. I help with the local scout troop. This is selfish?

Heh... I'm working to pay back my student loans and take care of my wife and 6 mo. old. A bit less taxes would help... or I could whine for the government to do all that for me, while I sit at home on my butt.
No thanks, Barry, I think I'll stick to responsibility.

Need some humor so

He says we're shellfish? He should clam up!

re: #93 CyanSnowHawk

Yeah, they like to spread it around.

Anyone seen this momentous rumour? Thoughts?

[Link: israelinsider.ning.com...]

Back on 20 August, Glenn Reynolds had this to say:

CORRECTING OBAMA ON THE TOPIC OF AMERICAN SELFISHNESS: "Whatever the case is with his own selfishness, the evidence of an internationally superior American generosity is impressive, beginning with the numbers on our charitable giving. We give twice as much as the British per capita, and according to The American magazine, seven times as much as the Germans and 14 times as much as the Italians. Even in inflation-adjusted dollars, the amount given each year just keeps getting larger, and meanwhile, we do far more volunteer work than in other industrialized countries."

Obama's comments seem to echo the claims of U.N. official Jan Egeland that the U.S. response to the Indian Ocean tsunami was "stingy." That charge was bogus -- there was over a billion dollars in private tsunami relief from Americans -- and it turned out that the U.N. wasted a lot of its own relief money on overhead. But that's how it is with nanny-state approaches: They dampen private impulses toward unselfishness, even as officials line their pockets. Is this what Obama wants?

UPDATE: Speaking of selfishness, perhaps the millionaire Obama could do something for his long lost brother living in poverty in Kenya: "Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender. 'No-one knows who I am,' he told the magazine, before claiming: 'I live here on less than a dollar a month.' . . . He has only met his famous older brother twice - once when he was just five and the last time in 2006 when Senator Obama was on a tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi. . . . Of their second meeting, George Obama said: 'It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger.'"

ANOTHER UPDATE: More Obama/Kenya background. "Obama to School Named After Him - Drop Dead."

[Link: www.pajamasmedia.com...]

Dear Mr Obama

Selfish is as selfish does. Unlock the gates to your gated community and invite a few newbies from the south side in to share your wealth.

You could have bought/constructed a couple of nice apt buildings with the money you spent on your infomercial. then you COULD HAVE housed a few dozen families so they could save their money for the kids college. But, alas, you chose to spend on a prime time informercial and call us selfish for wanting to keep our 50k a year jobs which will not grow if you raise taxes our bosses.

re: #101 goddessoftheclassroom

Ok, fine, I'm selfish. Funny how the same characteristics--earning your own way and taking care of you and yours--used to be called individualism, self-sufficiency, independence, and determination

Off to reeducation camp with you missy...

re: #107 stuiec
So, narcissist that he is, his public persona and his private self-image both include the fiction that he is responsible to help his family members. Even a narcissist would ordinarily do something for his poor relations just to make himself look and feel better. Obama is not your run-of-the-mill narcissist: he's a hypocrite of the first magnitude.

There is a promise attached to caring for your parents....it is the promise of long life.
I guess we are the lucky ones in that he blew it.

re: #96 wolfie

If he is the Great Unifier, the Father of Lies is his sponsor.

Wait. You're mocking my man Herodotus? ;-)

charity coerced is no longer charity; compulsory giving.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle gave $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 through 2004 to charities, or less than 1 percent, according to tax returns for those years released today by his campaign

re: #62 FrogMarch

Obama's real tax plan is going to shock the shit out of this nation.

the "95%" is total Bullshit.

Isn't 95% his tax rate for the "wealthy"? Which probably means anyone making over minimum wage.

Report - (Galveston County)TX Early voting exit poll results:

McCain/Palin - 2
Obama/Biden - 0

;)

re: #85 Iron Fist

I am hesitant to sound like the BDS types for the last 8 years, but I too am SCARED of an Obama presidency, especially under the arrangement you describe.

He is unabashedly Marxist, and the populace loves him for it. With every promise to trample the Constitution (yes, property is protected under the USC, and money is property) the masses who decried Bush cheer in hopeiatic bliss. Like sheep to the slaughter, the American masses, spoon fed on Marxist idieology, and socialist political correctness since childhood, happly and excitedly cheer on their new masters. What Bush was to accused of being to Fascism, Obama actually is to Socialism.

Well my fellow Americans, I see a dawning of a renewed age, where we once again might be made to choose before liberty or death, and accept that when in the cause of human events.....

We are smack dab in that income level they want to tax to death. My husband has a small business. Obama can kiss our capitalistic butts. No way some lazy a$$ is going to going to benefit more from our productivity.

re: #106 BlueCanuck

Dude, raise your standards please.

/going for some mind bleach.

I apologize for the image, but when one is trying to create an analogy, one has to work with the raw material provided. The 1990s posed a similar problem when I wanted to comment in the same way on Bill Clinton....

re: #112 zombie

That is so cool zom....

re: #116 ebed_melech

Yes, and I think it is total nonsense. Filled with non sequitors.

Well shucks, just call me 'selfish' then

One useless man is a SHAME: two is a lawfirm, and three or more is a congress.
- Pres. John Adams

The lower the ceiling for income for tax cuts (now $120K according to Richardson), the lower Barry's polls numbers.

re: #116 ebed_melech

Anyone seen this momentous rumour? Thoughts?

[Link: israelinsider.ning.com...]

More Iranian bloviating. Nuclear tests have a known signature, and do not look like Earthquakes.

Oh my, Mark Levin just played a cut of a poor deluded woman who actually believes that the Obama is going to put gas in her car and pay her mortgage. What the hey?

re: #101 goddessoftheclassroom

Ok, fine, I'm selfish. Funny how the same characteristics--earning your own way and taking care of you and yours--used to be called individualism, self-sufficiency, independence, and determination

see above ... and MWAH!

Good afternoon, everyone. How are my favorite selfish, gun-clinging, bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging, right-wing nutcases?

Did I miss anyone?

re: #112 zombie

Well, Zombie, you are in some tall cotton now!

"You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."

What an incredibly child like statement!

I mean, if that isn't a na-na-na-na-neener answer, I don't know what is.

re: #136 Noam Sayin'
fluffing hair, i think you covered it.

re: #107 stuiec

So, narcissist that he is, his public persona and his private self-image both include the fiction that he is responsible to help his family members. Even a narcissist would ordinarily do something for his poor relations just to make himself look and feel better. Obama is not your run-of-the-mill narcissist: he's a hypocrite of the first magnitude.

Personally, I think you can be a narcissist and hypocrite at the same time.

As for his promises, I'm sure that in his mind, he's done everything he could to help his relations. Just because it looks like nothing to the rest of the world, doesn't mean that he believes that. Yes Virginia, narcissists are deluded too.

So, when I prevent/stop a robbery I'm being selfish?

Well call me selfish!

re: #136 Noam Sayin'

Good afternoon, everyone. How are my favorite selfish, gun-clinging, bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging, right-wing nutcases?

Did I miss anyone?

Yes, you forgot 'selfish'

re: #52 Ojoe

Why doesn't BHO say Americans instead of dividing us up into groups?

Because that's part of the game plan: divide and conquer. Incite one against the other.

Did you see the African American guy holding the poster at a Palin rally:

"I am Joe the Plumber, and yes, we are related--We're Americans"

All the difference in the world between that and the ever-deadening, corrupt marxist approach.

Obie is plenty generous with other people's money. He can get on his high horse and ride right into the sunset -- or to Germany, where they seem to appreciate him.

I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is the martians have landed. The good news is they eat marxists and piss gasoline.

-Oscar

re: #134 vagabond trader

Oh my, Mark Levin just played a cut of a poor deluded woman who actually believes that the Obama is going to put gas in her car and pay her mortgage. What the hey?

Speaking of Gas.. I paid 1.96/Gal to fill up after work...
I suppose i could research the last time I paid under 2 bucks a gallon..
But...That's just history and I'm trying to repeat it.

Gah, that pisses me off. That pud is a real piece of work.

I had my son when I was 23 years old. I was working at a five-and-dime for $8 an hour. I could've quit and went on welfare and food stamps and brought home more money on that than what I was making at the five-and dime. But no, I kept working, and got higher paying jobs, and now I have a $300k single family home. Am I f-in selfish? I'm proud to say I AM. I worked for what I have.

re: #136 Noam Sayin'

Good afternoon, everyone. How are my favorite selfish, gun-clinging, bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging, right-wing nutcases?

Did I miss anyone?

You forgot all of us perceived racists
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re: #116 ebed_melech

Anyone seen this momentous rumour? Thoughts?

[Link: israelinsider.ning.com...]

We discussed it yesterday. The US Geological Survey says it was an earthquake, and they can tell the difference. Also, the epicenter was underwater; not a likely place for a test hole.

re: #121 arethusa

I mock no mere mortal !

re: #136 Noam Sayin'

Good afternoon, everyone. How are my favorite selfish, gun-clinging, bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging, right-wing nutcases?

Did I miss anyone?

Bitter. You missed bitter.

Barry, you don't mind if I call you Barry, do you? You DO mind? Well, Barry,
the American people are anything but selfish if you approach them correctly Barry. They also don't respond well to you calling them names like selfish when you have kin living in abject poverty. What's that? You don't want to take care of your father's family because they never did anything to help you? Isn't that selfish? Barry, settle down. Stop throwing the furniture around. Barry, if you lose on Nov. 4th will you encourage rioting on the part of your supporters? You won't disapprove? Isn't that the same as approval?

Barry, I insist you sit down. That poor furniture did nothing to warrant you destroying it. So Barry I understand that your white grandmother who raised you when both your parents abandoned you needs some health care. Are you in a position to help her? Barry, Barry, Barry such language. She did take care of you when you were abandoned by both your mother and father. Why can't you see through to spot her a few bucks for the medicine? The government is responsible for taking care of her? Barry, you owe her your very life. Barry, suggesting doing such a nasty thing to such a fine woman should be beneath you.

Noam Sayin, Sorry I missread you statement. Never mind.

Man I have got to get off of the pain meds.

re: #136 Noam Sayin'

Good afternoon, everyone. How are my favorite selfish, gun-clinging, bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging, right-wing nutcases?

Did I miss anyone?

Ummmm, yeah.... "Racists!"

re: #135 pre-Boomer Marine brat

see above ... and MWAH!

MWAH!

re: #116 ebed_melech

Anyone seen this momentous rumour? Thoughts?

[Link: israelinsider.ning.com...]

False. Propaganda puffery from Tehran.

Nuke explosions create a very different shockwave from seismic slippages.

re: #122 willowone

charity coerced is no longer charity; compulsory giving.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle gave $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 through 2004 to charities, or less than 1 percent, according to tax returns for those years released today by his campaign

I'm sure the Palins gave a greater percentage of their income to charity. And Cindy McCain's charitable work is well known.

Why is it government that must make the world a better place in Obama's view? Don't individuals play a role, too?

We've reached the treacherous point in a democracy where the majority is going to vote to distribute the wealth of the minority to themselves.

Had to do this:

NOW THIS SHOWS G!D HAS A TWISTED SENSE OF HUMOR

You would think Mr Obama would Blush at his lack of self analytical insight.

re: #108 zato

This is a gift that keeps giving. Even when Barry defends charges that he's a socialist, his entire defense reeks of a staunch socialist defending socialism and bashing on the fundamental principles of capitalism! He's caught in his own web of deceptive rhetoric.

The One is a classic Fabian Socialist who is supported by an adoring cult of Trotskyites. (Think "Fascists without the obsession over being neatly turned out when they start busting heads".) He has no "resume'", no accomplishments, just a colossal ego, an immense sense of entitlement, a case of malignant narcissism worthy of Norman Mailer, and an utter and complete contempt for the American people.

I would have been overjoyed to see him elected President- of the Praesidium of the Soviet Union, about thirty years ago. An arrogant, incompetent man like this would have been just the thing America needed in charge in the USSR while we were saddled with Jimmy Carter. (Instead, the USSR had the frighteningly competent but fortunately eventually over-confident Leonid Brezhnev.)

I just think that as the President of the United States, he would be a disaster.

cheers

eon

re: #147 HoosierHoops

Speaking of Gas.. I paid 1.96/Gal to fill up after work...
I suppose i could research the last time I paid under 2 bucks a gallon..
But...That's just history and I'm trying to repeat it.

Holy cow! I just filled up the Ram the other day and our gas is still $3.69/gal.

I just had an image of a t-shirt with a picture of Obama on it, covered by a "nope scope," and then above and to the side there'd be a simulated "Hello my name is" sticker with "Selfish" written in.

Unfortunately, it's too late to go to shirts.woot.com and design a t-shirt like that and be able to have it on hand in time for the election. Unless it could be sent by TARDIS Express, that is. :D

re: #147 HoosierHoops

That's great, we're still being gouged here in the Peoples Republic of Conn-ecticut.Enjoy it, it won't last if the unthinkable happens Tuesday.

re: #163 Alaska Kim

Holy cow! I just filled up the Ram the other day and our gas is still $3.69/gal.

It's around $2.39 in the People's Republic of Massachusetts.

re: #148 Alaska Kim

a 300k house in Alaska is like a studio apartment isn't it?
/Heh

Lefties fail to understand the distinction between selfish and self intrest.

re: #148 Alaska Kim

Gah, that pisses me off. That pud is a real piece of work.

I had my son when I was 23 years old. I was working at a five-and-dime for $8 an hour. I could've quit and went on welfare and food stamps and brought home more money on that than what I was making at the five-and dime. But no, I kept working, and got higher paying jobs, and now I have a $300k single family home. Am I f-in selfish? I'm proud to say I AM. I worked for what I have.

{Alaska Kim}
Well done indeed. My children would have to be starving before I accepted a government handout.

re: #156 goddessoftheclassroom

MWAH!

TATTLETAIL!

Oh, yeah. You racist bastards, too. How are 'ya?

re: #160 jcw46

Had to do this:

NOW THIS SHOWS G!D HAS A TWISTED SENSE OF HUMOR

Or he needed someone for his league team.

re: #166 Jetpilot1101

I noticed one station today, $2.56... and that is with the high taxes in Palm Beach county Florida.

re: #159 Cicero05

We've reached the treacherous point in a democracy where the majority is going to vote to distribute the wealth of the minority to themselves.

wrong wrong wrong! Americans will NOT let this guy be President. McCain wins by a large margin.

according to tax returns for those years released today by his campaign

At least he released those?

re: #122 willowone

charity coerced is no longer charity; compulsory giving.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle gave $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 through 2004 to charities, or less than 1 percent, according to tax returns for those years released today by his campaign

See Barry absolutely believes Americans need be forced to give. He can't imagine others would voluntarily give, therefore govt must take and allocate it for them.

re: #170 pre-Boomer Marine brat

TATTLETAIL!

PIMF ... probably a Freudian slap ... er ... slip

Anyone remember this asswipe?

Is America Stingy?

By Jefferson Morley
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 4, 2005; 11:24 AM

Nothing stings an American like being called "stingy."

When Jan Egeland, United Nations emergency relief coordinator, said at a Dec. 27 press conference on the South Asia tsunami relief efforts that the world's wealthiest countries were "stingy" toward the world's poorest countries, both President Bush and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell took offense.

Bush said Egeland was "misguided and ill-informed." Powell said the U.S. had "nothing to be embarrassed about" in its response to the South Asia catastrophe.

Barack Obama is an idiot to step in the same hole as Egeland did. Americans definitely do not like being told that they are selfish for having personal wealth and not wanting it taken from them by fiat. And they also don't like being told that they're selfish when they know that they give generously to charities -- especially when the accusation comes from someone who hasn't displayed any particular generosity.

re: #101 goddessoftheclassroom

Selfish! Don't you know that you are supposed to let God Government manage all of that for you?

re: #153 Perplexed

Classic!

re: #171 Noam Sayin'
you forgot redneck.

re: #167 HoosierHoops

a 300k house in Alaska is like a studio apartment isn't it?
/Heh

smart ass!

re: #163 Alaska Kim

Holy cow! I just filled up the Ram the other day and our gas is still $3.69/gal.

I thought we left the sheep puns in the last thread.

re: #112 zombie

Prophet Zombie!

Wow... imagine the huge mental disconnect required to call someone selfish because they do NOT want their money taken from them and redistributed to others yet the people sitting with their hands out are never called greedy.

I really don't need a lecture on "selfishness" from a multi millionaire who has relatives living in slums.

re: #152 astronmr20

And how could I miss the bitter ones? Damn. I should make another entrance.

*leaves*

re: #169 goddessoftheclassroom

{Alaska Kim}
Well done indeed. My children would have to be starving before I accepted a government handout.

I'd have been totally embarrassed walking into a welfare office. There wasn't anything wrong with me, I was totally capable of working.

This seems to be the election where candidates say everything that should drop their numbers to the floor, but instead no one cares. Or the LA Times suppresses what you said for you!

re: #105 Iron Fist

As long as it's other people's money, it can be fun to be generous.

hi
I am a minister of dept of international finance in Mogadishu. I have millions moneys but need you bank account to transfer off shore. I give you 50%. please send bank account number. Please no tell anyone about this or I could be in deep doo doo.

Who was Ayn Rand and what, in a nutshell, did he represent? What's the novel Atlas Shrugged about? Forgive ignorance. I've heard of Ayn Rand but never paid attention. Help anyone?

Mr Government will share YOUR stuff,with those less fortunate , instead of helping them learn how to Make their own stuff and feel more control over their destiny.
Really this is darn sad.

re: #170 pre-Boomer Marine brat

TATTLETAIL!

Happy Halloween!

Come on, guys. this will cheer you up: Olbermann will be skewered on this week's SNL

Ben Affleck, who’s hosting “Saturday Night Live” this week, was rehearsing a skit this afternoon mocking Keith Olbermann when Olbermann himself got past security to watch, according to a source with knowledge of the incident.

A source described the skit as “savage,” in portraying Olbermann as a deranged person living at home with his mother. Affleck, said a source, became uneasy with Olbermann in attendance at the 3 p.m., closed-set rehearsal.

But Olbermann, through a spokesman, was complimentary on his first time being mocked on "SNL" — a position his MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews has been in over the years.

“I’m not Sarah Palin,” Olbermann said. “I know how valuable it is to me. And it’s funny."

John McCain is expected to be on tomorrow night, but there’s no word if he’s involved at all in this skit.

An SNL representative declined to comment.

What a douche. He's clearly not familiar with the distinction of viewers laughing at him, not with him.

re: #147 HoosierHoops

Speaking of Gas.. I paid 1.96/Gal to fill up after work... I suppose i could research the last time I paid under 2 bucks a gallon... But...That's just history and I'm trying to repeat it.

Hey, has Obama already been elected in your state?

re: #182 Alaska Kim

smart ass!

LOL
I'm teasing you..BTW my uncle is up your way hunting...
You do live in God's country..

re: #117 The Archivist

I loved it when Rush said, (Paraphrasing) "Give him a $20 dollar bill and you virtually double his income!"

*comes back in*

Good afternoon, everyone. How are my favorite bitter, selfish, gun-clinging, bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging, right-wing, redneck, racist nutcases?

Better?

re: #166 Jetpilot1101

It's around $2.39 in the People's Republic of Massachusetts.

2.36 in the Denver Metro area.

Is Obama a loon? that is the question.

re: #183 CyanSnowHawk

I thought we left the sheep puns in the last thread.

I missed the last thread... i don't get out much. heh

re: #173 DoubleU

I noticed one station today, $2.56... and that is with the high taxes in Palm Beach county Florida.

2.399 at a BJ's wholesale club in central Massachusetts, some day last week.

re: #190 Maui GirlAyn Rand was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and was the eldest of three daughters (Alisa, Natasha, and Nora) [2] of Zinovy Zacharovich Rosenbaum and Anna

As I commented in another thread about this article, BHO has inadvertantly invoked Ayn Rand in his quote...

"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic," Obama continued. "You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."

Shouldn't a "Legal scholar", "senior lecturer" and "law professor" have known the import and connotation of the phrase?

re: #197 Noam Sayin'

*comes back in*

Good afternoon, everyone. How are my favorite bitter, selfish, gun-clinging, bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging, right-wing, redneck, racist nutcases?

Better?

You forgot "patriotic"

re: #178 stuiec

Heh, wonder what General Powell thinks of his candidate's accusation. Never mind.

re: #190 Maui Girl

Who was Ayn Rand and what, in a nutshell, did he represent? What's the novel Atlas Shrugged about? Forgive ignorance. I've heard of Ayn Rand but never paid attention. Help anyone?

wiki has some good info on the subject.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

be sure to scroll down...

...

In the world of Atlas Shrugged, society stagnates when independent productive achievers began to be socially demonized and even punished for their accomplishments, even though society had been far more healthy and prosperous by allowing, encouraging and rewarding self-reliance and individual achievement. Independence and personal happiness flourished to the extent that people were free, and achievement was rewarded to the extent that individual ownership of private property was strictly respected. The hero, John Galt, lives a life of laissez-faire capitalism as the only way to live consistent with his beliefs.

re: #158 arethusa

I'm sure the Palins gave a greater percentage of their income to charity. And Cindy McCain's charitable work is well known.

Why is it government that must make the world a better place in Obama's view? Don't individuals play a role, too?

I'd like to give more, but I'm paying so much in taxes, I can't. And that's where Obama wants us, because he believes he and his elites know better how to give away our money. How dare we give to our churches or community groups, when there are obese single moms out there who need new acrylic nails!

[Link: www.aynrand.org...]

re: #185 Wendya

I really don't need a lecture on "selfishness" from a multi millionaire who has relatives living in slums.

Senator McCain will be in my home town area on Sunday, hundreds of other selfish, gun-clinging, bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging, right-wing nutcases and myself will be there - can't wait to see him!

Ayn Rand. I've heard it's pronounced, "Ann." But I keep wanting to pronounce it, "Ain."

re: #206 FrogMarch
perfect ;when independent productive achievers began to be socially demonized and even punished for their accomplishments, .. i'm feeling it.

re: #182 Alaska Kim

smart ass!

I applied for a IT job this week in Alaska with some government agency that studies fishing, something like that. Might be a good place to be if the poop hits the fan in the lower 48. Or is that 56?

re: #193 doppelganglander

Come on, guys. this will cheer you up: Olbermann will be skewered on this week's SNL

What a douche. He's clearly not familiar with the distinction of viewers laughing at him, not with him.

He's obviously not Sarah P. SHE got a spot on the show.

re: #190 Maui Girl

Who was Ayn Rand and what, in a nutshell, did he represent? What's the novel Atlas Shrugged about? Forgive ignorance. I've heard of Ayn Rand but never paid attention. Help anyone?

Ayn Rand

The Ayn Rand Institute

re: #190 Maui Girl

Who was Ayn Rand and what, in a nutshell, did he represent? What's the novel Atlas Shrugged about? Forgive ignorance. I've heard of Ayn Rand but never paid attention. Help anyone?

Ayn Rand was a woman. I'm not expert, but she abhorred communism and celebrated the genius of the individual. One of the less well-known novels, We the Living, paints a picture of the beginning of the Communist Era in Russia after the Revolution. I believe her family emigrated from Russia around that time.

re: #195 HoosierHoops

LOL
I'm teasing you..BTW my uncle is up your way hunting...
You do live in God's country..

Oh yes. My son shot a buck the other day on Admiralty Island (brown bear city). The weather turned bay REAL fast, and he had to drop the deer just to get to the boat. Long story. He went back to get his deer the next day, and it was gone. He could see where a brown bear had dragged it off into a tree line. Damn.

....Noam Sayin'

Can't forget "family loving", where would we be without that loving our familyness?

re: #204 Cicero05

You forgot "patriotic"

*smacks forehead*

This could go on all night.

re: #190 Maui Girl

Who was Ayn Rand and what, in a nutshell, did he represent? What's the novel Atlas Shrugged about? Forgive ignorance. I've heard of Ayn Rand but never paid attention. Help anyone?

Ayn was a she, not a he, and her philosophy was Objectivism, essentially highly anti-socialist, with an emphasis on individualism and self-reliance, but also very atheistic.

re: #210 outsidephilly

Senator McCain will be in my home town area on Sunday, hundreds of other selfish, gun-clinging, bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging, right-wing nutcases and myself will be there - can't wait to see him!

Bitter. You forgot bitter.

re: #213 Walter L. Newton

I
applied for a IT job this week in Alaska with some government agency
that studies fishing, something like that. Might be a good place to be
if the poop hits the fan in the lower 48. Or is that 56?

Department of Fish and Game?

re: #201 Kosh's Shadow

2.399 at a BJ's wholesale club in central Massachusetts, some day last week.

Dare I ask? How much is a wholesale BJ? Do they serve hard liquer at that club?

Hey, B-HO (or any of his operatives that are reading this):

I'm selfish. You are g-ddamn right I'm selfish. It's MY FUCKING MONEY, you dipshit! It is NOT yours, Congress, or anybody else's money except MINE!

You need to deal with that B-HO. So, here is a heartfelt "fuck you" to you and every Jackass that thinks like you do.

McCain and Palin will win by a 70-30 margin. Get used to it.

Understand that? It's written simply so you can comprehend it, B-HO and binBiden

re: #89 eon

Good Evening, Lizards.

If I, a McCain supporter, could have had The One say something to reveal his true nature, I couldn't have written a better line than that. It's straight out of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

He may be Mr. Thompson now, but if he's elected, watch how fast he turns into Wesley Mouch.

Or Cuffy Meigs.

cheers

eon

Don't forget that, in Atlas Shrugged, all the selfish people are the good guys!

Also, he's not Mr. Thompson yet!

re: #203 BobTheBuilder

No.
(1)The words themselves are not distinctive enough to signal any specific reference.
(2) Academic lefties do not read anything very far outside their own worldview.

Not only am I selfish, I dont want to fund a group of 'community security peoples' with the resources and size of the US Army.

NOT GOOD.

re: #180 astronmr20

I try. Read it with a British accent.

re: #192 goddessoftheclassroom

Happy Halloween!

All right! That's a hummingbird feeder behind the cat!
A LITTLE BIRDIE DIED!
GET THE CAT!
GET THE CAT!
GET THE CAT!

re: #224 6pat6

lol.

So, if we don't vote for 0bama, we're selfish racists now?

Yeah, I want to vote for a guy and a party who is going to call me names.

re: #199 pat

Is Obama a loon? that is the question.

Nah. Just a narcissistic communist with delusions of grandeur.

re: #207 doppelganglander

I'd like to give more, but I'm paying so much in taxes, I can't.

Same here. I usually try to volunteer time instead of money when possible.

re: #219 Noam Sayin'

*smacks forehead*

This could go on all night.

Welcome back Noam. Pull up a chair and stay awhile!

re: #217 Alaska Kim

Oh yes. My son shot a buck the other day on Admiralty Island (brown bear city). The weather turned bay REAL fast, and he had to drop the deer just to get to the boat. Long story. He went back to get his deer the next day, and it was gone. He could see where a brown bear had dragged it off into a tree line. Damn.

bee happpy: at least the bear didnt drag away your son.

re: #190 Maui Girl

Who was Ayn Rand and what, in a nutshell, did he represent? What's the novel Atlas Shrugged about? Forgive ignorance. I've heard of Ayn Rand but never paid attention. Help anyone?

Ayn Rand

Rand was a she, not a he. Born in Russia, emigrated to the United States, and became a best-selling author with two novels based on her philosophy of Objectivism- The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Both are still best-sellers today, half a century after she wrote them.

Today, Atlas Shrugged seems eerily prescient.

cheers

eon

re: #224 6pat6

Hey, B-HO (or any of his operatives that are reading this):

I'm selfish. You are g-ddamn right I'm selfish. It's MY FUCKING MONEY, you dipshit! It is NOT yours, Congress, or anybody else's money except MINE!

You need to deal with that B-HO. So, here is a heartfelt "fuck you" to you and every Jackass that thinks like you do.

I'm sensing that you won't be wanting an application for the Obama Youth, then.

re: #229 pre-Boomer Marine brat

All right! That's a hummingbird feeder behind the cat!
A LITTLE BIRDIE DIED!
GET THE CAT!
GET THE CAT!
GET THE CAT!

You have been warned...

re: #217 Alaska Kim

Oh yes. My son shot a buck the other day on Admiralty Island (brown bear city). The weather turned bay REAL fast, and he had to drop the deer just to get to the boat. Long story. He went back to get his deer the next day, and it was gone. He could see where a brown bear had dragged it off into a tree line. Damn.

Obama thinks your son is selfish..Share with the Bear/2008

re: #231 gmsc

So, if we don't vote for 0bama, we're selfish racists now?

Yeah, I want to vote for a guy and a party who is going to call me names.

racist.

re: #235 Eowyn2

bee happpy: at least the bear didnt drag away your son.

True. It's not unheard of around these here parts.

...

re: #222 Alaska Kim

Department of Fish and Game?

Probably. But it was for a certain project in that agency. I didn't pay much attention to the agency, I was concentrating on the job requirements.

I'd rather continue working in live theatre, but really, at 55, if I can get back to programming, I really need to, even if it means I leave the Golden, Colorado area (which I love).

Bottom line. I would even go to Europe if I coudl find work. Only conditions is I have to live someplace with some mountains, or at least hills. Flat ain't where I'm at.

Bah. Kids ringing the door bell. Forgot to shop for candy. They are going to get raw potatoes, just like they did last year.

BRB...

Selfish?
Hey Obama how about you come and work the 15 hour days that we do in our small business, then work our farm on the weekends. You can help us work the cattle, plant and combine and for sure we could use your help in 100 degree heat pouring concrete!

You do that and then I will think about sharing my "wealth".
Until then stfu!

Going out trick or treating with my daugher, will be back later with some interesting info!

re: #194 Walter L. Newton

Still paying $3.77/gal here. Ah, the price for living in the middle of the ocean, er, um, I mean paradise.

re: #231 gmsc

So, if we don't vote for 0bama, we're selfish racists now?

Yeah, I want to vote for a guy and a party who is going to call me names.

Don't worry comrade, the re-education camps will help you.

re: #77 Ojoe

I am basically working to support my family. I feed and clothe my kids. I help with the local scout troop. This is selfish?

RACIST!

re: #243 Walter L. Newton

Probably. But it was for a certain project in that agency. I didn't pay much attention to the agency, I was concentrating on the job requirements.

I'd rather continue working in live theatre, but really, at 55, if I can get back to programming, I really need to, even if it means I leave the Golden, Colorado area (which I love).

Bottom line. I would even go to Europe if I coudl find work. Only conditions is I have to live someplace with some mountains, or at least hills. Flat ain't where I'm at.

There are some pretty big mountains in europe, if you speak german or french.

Hey what happened to our avatars?

re: #241 Alaska Kim

True. It's not unheard of around these here parts.

My daughter was stationed by Anchorage. She loved it.

I am eating a big bowl of vanilla ice cream all by myself because:

A. I am selfish.
B. I am racist.

re: #244 astronmr20

Bah. Kids ringing the door bell. Forgot to shop for candy. They are going to get raw potatoes, just like they did last year.

BRB...

Sounds like a banner Halloween in Soviet Russia...or the USSA 3 years from now (God forbid!)

re: #227 Eowyn2

Not only am I selfish, I dont want to fund a group of 'community security peoples' with the resources and size of the US Army.

NOT GOOD.

+11

Selfish...and LOVING IT. In a perfect world, Obama would be leading a bunch of Bolsheviks, not Americans.

re: #239 HoosierHoops

Obama thinks your son is selfish..Share with the Bear/2008

Yeah, well when Obama pays for part of the hunting license, the boat gas, the food, the ammo, etc., I'll share.

re: #190 Maui Girl

Who was Ayn Rand and what, in a nutshell, did he represent? What's the novel Atlas Shrugged about? Forgive ignorance. I've heard of Ayn Rand but never paid attention. Help anyone?

"I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind--yet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands?"

re: #238 goddessoftheclassroom

You have been warned...

a.k.a.

re: #247 DoubleU

Don't worry comrade, the re-education camps will help reprogram you.

Fixed it.

cheers

eon

re: #250 Typicalwhitey

Hey what happened to our avatars?

First our avatars, then our income, and finally, our freedom. It's started already.

re: #244 astronmr20

Bah. Kids ringing the door bell. Forgot to shop for candy. They are going to get raw potatoes, just like they did last year.

BRB...

Throw them taters in the microwave for a couple of minutes, drop 'em in a paper bag and they will cook while the kids collect the rest of the candy.. Will also melt the candy into one giant choclate candy corn mess. What a sight!

re: #237 Cicero05

You would be correct.

re: #253 JSK1121

Sounds like a banner Halloween in Soviet Russia...or the USSA 3 years from now (God forbid!)

In Soviet Russia, Halloween tricks you!