Stock Market Yo-Yo Watch
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The Dow’s down another 80 points after a short lived rally spurred by the student takeover of NYU, so here’s your open afternoon unclenching thread…
289 comments
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gmsc Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:41:58pm |
Worried about your economic situation? Try the new debt elimination program called Don't Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford!
/But where do I get this "saved money"?
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Lincolntf Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:42:01pm |
"They tricked us," complained exiled Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. "They said they were only coming by to chillax with some OG kush and talk about the stimulus bill and shit."
Heh.
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chicago blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:43:12pm |
I love Iowahawk. I can't decide if this or "Tayle of the Asshatte" is funnier.
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Kosh's Shadow Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:43:20pm |
0bama speaks, the market goes down.
He says how he is saving the economy, the market goes down faster.
Why doesn't he STFU?
Maybe because he's a narcissistic asshole with delusions of godhood?
And he sees himself surrounded by the angels of the MFMSM singing his praises?
Will the country really survive four years of him?
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oronpam Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:43:25pm |
Surprised they haven't blamed the markets going down on global warming yet/
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Occasional Reader Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:43:35pm |
Stock Market Yo-Yo Watch
Buy International Cellos Amalgamated!
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HelloDare Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:44:08pm |
When is Iowahawk going to compile all his pieces into a book?
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:44:30pm |
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Vicious Babushka Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:45:04pm |
My daughter got accepted to nursing school!
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redheadredstate Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:45:07pm |
re: #7 Kosh's Shadow
0bama speaks, the market goes down.
He says how he is saving the economy, the market goes down faster.
Why doesn't he STFU?Maybe because he's a narcissistic asshole with delusions of godhood?
And he sees himself surrounded by the angels of the MFMSM singing his praises?Will the country really survive four years of him?
Four years hell, how will we survive four months?
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solomonpanting Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:45:11pm |
Market leaders included Apple ($116.05, +32%), Amalgamated Pachouli & Incense ($23.15, +53%), Keffiya Mart ($17.66, +49%), and Bongs.com ($41.10, +72%). The short list of losers included student loan guarantor Sallie Mae ($1.78, -78%) and General Deodorant ($0.83, -96%).
Now that's funny.
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:45:54pm |
re: #12 Alouette
Yeah!
*raising bottle of Perrier - sorry I don't have champagne on me*
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brookly red Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:46:36pm |
Do we still have a DOJ? cause if we do they are MIA.
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AMER1CAN Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:46:58pm |
Buy oil. It's historically low and is getting ready to rebound.
/free advice
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redheadredstate Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:47:03pm |
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HelloDare Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:47:35pm |
re: #12 Alouette
My daughter got accepted to nursing school!
Congratulations. Let's hope there will still be private medical care in the future.
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Jetpilot1101 Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:48:01pm |
The markets love specifics, something the Obama administration lacks in great numbers. Until the market see either a specific plan, not just platitudes, they will continue to oscillate like a drunken sailor with the trend heading into the gutter. Wall Street doesn't like the democrat plan nor should they. Excess government spending is as damaging, if not more, then excess Wall Street spending. If he keeps opening his trap, the markets will continue to plummet.
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brookly red Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:51:07pm |
re: #21 HelloDare
Congratulations. Let's hope there will still be private medical care in the future.
Of course there will be, we won't have acess to it, but it will be there.
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twincitiesgirl Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:51:31pm |
Bongs.com? I'll put my money here, sounds like a growth industry to me....at least until 2012.
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Occasional Reader Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:51:35pm |
re: #17 brookly red
Do we still have a DOJ? cause if we do they are MIA.
New priorities. They are focusing on our "cowardly" refusal to talk about race.
(I guess I somehow missed it when we stopped blathering on about race. Was there some sort of 48-hour "bombing pause"?)
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:51:48pm |
re: #14 solomonpanting
*remembering Fight Club and the bit with the soap*
You know, it would be funny to make incense, sell it to moonbats on college campuses, and use the funds for things like war chests for the GOP or whatever 3rd party we hatch. We could call it "Smell of Victory"...
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:52:04pm |
Jindal or Rendell... who rocked the dress? Looks like the same one to me....
(scroll to very top of page if you land in the middle)
[Link: boards.fashionism.org...]
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:53:15pm |
re: #26 Chicago Blonde
In this economy? Nah, call it a 'whiff of woe-is-me'....
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P. Aaron Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:53:56pm |
The stock market rally is attributed to the oratorical skills to the big 'O'
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A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:55:01pm |
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Dianna Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:55:37pm |
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gmsc Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:56:10pm |
re: #19 AMER1CAN
Buy oil. It's historically low and is getting ready to rebound.
/free advice
...and worth every penny.
;)
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:56:14pm |
re: #28 tradewind
Or...COMMON SCENTS!
-Patriot Patchouli
-Market Free-Fall Freesia
-Capitalist Cherry
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A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:56:20pm |
I am scrolling through the O's speech. There are some real pearlers in there.
Here is one:
And that's why I've asked Vice President Biden to lead a tough, unprecedented oversight effort, because nobody messes with Joe.
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Killer Tomato Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:57:00pm |
re: #18 taxfreekiller
Democrats think your a bunch of Yo-yo's.
Put two and two together with an ACORN and the 2010 vote.
[Link: www.ice.gov...]
From the article:
The six men charged in the case, including one Salvadoran and five Mexican nationals, are all in the United States illegally. The lone woman defendant is a U.S. citizen.
Hey - with citizens like this, who needs enemies?
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dentate Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:57:43pm |
re: #34 A Kiwi Infidel
I am scrolling through the O's speech. There are some real pearlers in there.
Here is one:
Apparently that was in the script, too, not spontaneous.
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n in wi Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:57:46pm |
re: #34 A Kiwi Infidel
I am scrolling through the O's speech. There are some real pearlers in there.
Here is one:
Joe is no Dick
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Urban Scorpion Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:57:47pm |
You know, I was wondering what could possibly be the issue and it finally came to me while listening to the radio.
Prostate Health
Just like America as a whole, Wall Street and Investors as a whole are, on average, getting older. Certain health issues crop up in an older male dominated workforce.
Chris Matthews has already noted that he gets a tingle in his leg when Obama speaks. Perhaps the tingle is aggravating the health issues of the increasingly elderly Wall Street workforce.
Obama speaks then they excuse themselves and miss out on the huge wave of investors that wish to buy due to their renewed hope and optimism on the economy. The only people left in the room are Republicans, since they are immune to the leg tingle, and Republicans want the economy to collapse (to make Obama look bad) so they force their investors at gunpoint with their evil should-be-controlled guns to sell. This way every time Obama speaks the markets fall.
It explains everything!
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HillJack Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:58:01pm |
I figure three more shots of Tequila and I will be about as unclenched as I can get!
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aggieann Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:59:44pm |
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HillJack Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:59:50pm |
re: #40 Chicago Blonde
As much as you want! I hate to drink alone! Unless that is the only alternative of course.
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n in wi Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:59:52pm |
re: #38 Urban Scorpion
Yeah,just like Republicans forced all those people to get loans they couldn't repay.
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Lincolntf Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:00:13pm |
re: #34 A Kiwi Infidel
Obama thinks that because everyone who sees Biden quickly heads in the opposite direction. He's a yammering noodge.
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gmsc Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:01:38pm |
Saving for Greatness
(From a brochure published by the World Financial Group)
Your savings, believe it or not, affect the way you stand, the way you walk, the tone of your voice -- in short, your physical well-being and self-confidence. A man without savings is always running. He must. He must take the first job offered, or nearly so. He sits nervously on life’s chairs because any small emergency throws him into the hands of others.
Without savings, a man must be too grateful. Gratitude is a fine thing in its place. But a constant state of gratitude is a horrible place in which to live. A man with savings can walk tall. He may appraise opportunities in a relaxed way, have time for judicious estimates and not be rushed by economic necessity.
A man with savings can afford to resign from his job if his principles so dictate -- and for this reason he will never need to do so. A man who can afford to quit is much more useful to his company and therefore more readily promoted. He can afford to give his company the benefit of his most candid judgments.
A man with savings can afford the wonderful privilege of being generous in family or neighborhood emergencies. He can take the level stare of any man ... friend, stranger or enemy. That ability shapes his personality and character.
The ability to save has nothing to do with the size of income. Many high-income people spend it all. They are on a treadmill, darting through life like minnows.
The dean of American bankers, J.P. Morgan, once advised a young broker: "Take waste out of your spending; you’ll drive the haste out of your life."
If you do not need money for college, a home or retirement, then save for self-confidence. The state of your savings does have a lot to do with how tall you walk.
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A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:01:42pm |
Do you feel that warm fuzzy secure feeling, that all is well?
And tonight I am grateful that this Congress delivered and pleased to say that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is now law.
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yochanan Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:02:05pm |
re: #9 Occasional Reader
Buy International Cellos Amalgamated!
if it is a yo yo watch time to buy duncan yo yo co.
he really got the nyu moonbats down i heard the u-tube of it a total hoot.
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itellu3times Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:02:19pm |
A lot of stocks were actually up today.
Intermediate indicators are still weak, I'm still looking for at least mid-6ks on the Dow, but as yet undetermined what happens after that.
Never, ever seen market uncertainty at these levels for this long.
Serious chance that it could - go up! Unless nukes start popping in the Persian Gulf, then, I wouldn't think the market would be happy.
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Diamond Bullet Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:02:23pm |
I wonder what the carbon footprint is of printing 787 billion dollars. Granted, much of it may be distributed as little electronic 1s and 0s, but at some point some of it must turn into "real" money. That could be a lot of trees and inks wasted. I'm hoping Obama just prints a single $787 billion bill, like in the Simpsons episode with the trillion dollar bill. Then the democratic governors of various states can have death matches over it (before it's stolen by Castro).
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Urban Scorpion Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:02:42pm |
re: #43 n in wi
You saw it too, didn't you?! It was all a magnificent trap!
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HillJack Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:02:43pm |
re: #47 A Kiwi Infidel
Do you feel that warm fuzzy secure feeling, that all is well?
I will in about twenty minutes.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:03:34pm |
I just unclenched my mouse, and discovered that I need to buy another one.
/picking plastic out of my palm
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Killgore Trout Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:03:47pm |
I notice that Geert invoked Pat Condell in his speech in New York today. I seriously doubt Pat would endorse Geert's plan to ban the Quran, criminalize Islam and enshrine Christianity in the EU constitution.
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n in wi Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:03:54pm |
re: #52 Urban Scorpion
You saw it too, didn't you?! It was all a magnificent trap!
Orchestrated by none other than the magnificent bastard Rove
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:04:16pm |
The porn industry's hit a new bottom...
(headline is misleading... read the story)
[Link: www.nydailynews.com...]
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Dainn Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:04:22pm |
re: #12 Alouette
My daughter got accepted to nursing school!
Gratz! I hope she has more fun in it than I did!
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gmsc Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:04:34pm |
re: #54 Chicago Blonde
I wish everyone got the memo...
I don't think the publisher would object to you and everyone else sending the memo around!
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Killgore Trout Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:04:38pm |
re: #56 Killgore Trout
It's also easy to see why Ayaan Hirsi Ali doesn't endorse Geert; She could be deported under his plan.
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brookly red Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:04:51pm |
re: #51 Diamond Bullet
I wonder what the carbon footprint is of printing 787 billion dollars. Granted, much of it may be distributed as little electronic 1s and 0s, but at some point some of it must turn into "real" money. That could be a lot of trees and inks wasted. I'm hoping Obama just prints a single $787 billion bill, like in the Simpsons episode with the trillion dollar bill. Then the democratic governors of various states can have death matches over it (before it's stolen by Castro).
It CAN'T turn into "real" money, that is the freakin problem.
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Charles Johnson Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:04:55pm |
Oop. Ack. 'Homegrown Jihad' Documentary Trailer - CBS News
Officials describe the film to CBS News as "sensationalistic" and without any real foundation. According to one official, it is strictly designed to upset and inflame people and does not present a true picture of any so-called “homegrown Jihad” danger. No current intelligence exists to suggest any threat connected with this group, which officials describe as “wannabes” and not terrorists.
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are aware of the movie and have no plans at this time to issue any new alerts or bulletins.
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yochanan Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:05:05pm |
re: #50 itellu3times
A lot of stocks were actually up today.
Intermediate indicators are still weak, I'm still looking for at least mid-6ks on the Dow, but as yet undetermined what happens after that.
Never, ever seen market uncertainty at these levels for this long.
Serious chance that it could - go up! Unless nukes start popping in the Persian Gulf, then, I wouldn't think the market would be happy.
IT MIGHT MATTER WHO GOT HIT BY SAID NUKES IF IRAN NO LONGER EXISTED THAT MIGHT BE SEEN AS A PLUS.
not that i am advocating that or anything.
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HillJack Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:05:14pm |
re: #58 tradewind
The porn industry's hit a new bottom...
(headline is misleading... read the story)
[Link: www.nydailynews.com...]
Oh what possibilities!
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Ojoe Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:05:15pm |
"Prosperity is just around the corner."
— Hoover, 1932
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A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:05:17pm |
re: #58 tradewind
The porn industry's hit a new bottom...
(headline is misleading... read the story)
[Link: www.nydailynews.com...]
Its called sado-masochism
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:05:21pm |
re: #33 Chicago Blonde
There's just something about patchouli...
it bugs. I can't be in the same room.
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n in wi Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:05:52pm |
Any one notice that the most passionate Obama gets is when he is damning the rich?
He gets noticeably angry when talking about "greedy CEOs" or bankers.
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A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:06:01pm |
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:06:50pm |
re: #48 HillJack
All seriousness - my anesthetic is chocolate. I've been hitting the Almond Roca tin in my pantry pretty hard.
/Guys, as long as I'm around, chocolate makers may not be a bad investment...
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reine.de.tout Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:06:58pm |
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A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:07:19pm |
re: #63 Charles
it is strictly designed to upset and inflame people
Suicide bombers tend to do that to people.
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Ojoe Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:07:45pm |
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Killgore Trout Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:07:54pm |
re: #63 Charles
What's with CBS these days? I think they were the original MSM source for the bogus Phoenix kidnapping story.
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Occasional Reader Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:07:55pm |
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:08:01pm |
re: #63 Charles
Nothing to see here, move along....
This from the same bunch of wusses that refused to show the victims nosediving out of the WTC in flames because it might ' inflame'.
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IslandLibertarian Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:08:07pm |
"The markets closed solidly in negative territory, giving back a chunk of Tuesday's huge gains......."
........which had still left the market at a ten year low.
If I expressed my true feelings, I'm sure I'd be banned from LGF.
So I'll just say this:
"0" (pronounced zero) is destroying America.
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Harry Tuttle Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:08:23pm |
re: #63 Charles
They are just seeing this?
Would you rather be shot by a wannabee jihadi or a real one?
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reine.de.tout Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:08:26pm |
re: #72 Chicago Blonde
All seriousness - my anesthetic is chocolate. I've been hitting the Almond Roca tin in my pantry pretty hard.
/Guys, as long as I'm around, chocolate makers may not be a bad investment...
Chocolate bits - I call 'em my "stresstabs".
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HillJack Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:08:54pm |
re: #72 Chicago Blonde
Chocolate just winds me up. That's the last thing I need right now. I actually caught myself yelling at the television during the Non-Screw Up The Union address.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:09:09pm |
re: #19 AMER1CAN
Buy oil. It's historically low and is getting ready to rebound.
/free advice
I'm going short on Hope.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:09:14pm |
re: #83 Harry Tuttle
It's a bogus story.
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Occasional Reader Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:09:22pm |
re: #63 Charles
... which officials describe as “wannabes” and not terrorists
Erm, why do I not find that reassuring?
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:09:46pm |
re: #86 SasquatchOnSteroids
Don't blame you, We're being short changed.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:09:49pm |
re: #73 reine.de.tout
Wonderful!
I'm deathly afraid of asking Alouette; "When is your daughter's baby due?"
/heh
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OldLineTexan Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:10:19pm |
re: #88 Occasional Reader
Erm, why do I not find that reassuring?
The wannabees bring notes from their doctor excusing them from suicide bombings due to illness.
/
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:10:43pm |
re: #88 Occasional Reader
Remember how officials first described the shoe bomber? A bumbling wacko? Harmless?
Until they realized he wasn't.
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Urban Scorpion Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:10:45pm |
re: #57 n in wi
Shhhh! Don't tell anyone! Officially, Rove is just a pundit now. He'd have to accelerate his evil schemes should his latest plans be traced to him.
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Fat Jolly Penguin Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:10:49pm |
Saw that yesterday. I LOL'd.
Off to work now...
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Kosh's Shadow Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:11:23pm |
re: #71 taxfreekiller
Lies by a President co-signed by a Democrat Congress do not get into earnings reports.
They will get notice in little red books sold in Berkly Calif..
And Little Blue Books sold at all proper bookstores. Did you get yours yet?
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Lizard by the Bay Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:11:51pm |
re: #58 tradewind
Whichever male porn star draws the short straw had better tie a rope around his waist and have a strong bloke on the other end before going in.
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:12:01pm |
re: #85 HillJack
I just dug my claws into my sofa pillow...
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rawmuse Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:12:05pm |
re: #69 n in wi
Any one notice that the most passionate Obama gets is when he is damning the rich?
He gets noticeably angry when talking about "greedy CEOs" or bankers.
There will be none left at this rate.
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HillJack Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:12:11pm |
re: #75 Chicago Blonde
Oh I'll share, believe me. :)
Well maybe just a little piece. You know, I don't want to be rude!
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:12:35pm |
re: #97 Lizard by the Bay
(That image now being erased from my hard drive)...
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brookly red Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:13:00pm |
re: #93 tradewind
Remember how officials first described the shoe bomber? A bumbling wacko? Harmless?
Until they realized he wasn't.
Kinda like someone else we know?
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yochanan Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:13:07pm |
re: #84 reine.de.tout
Chocolate bits - I call 'em my "stresstabs".
in the u.k. chocolate bits might be a kind of hooker
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A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:13:12pm |
re: #78 Ojoe
No work in my design office ...
A year out that means no construction jobs.
Australia is looking to rebuild 2000 home incinerated, the authorities also recognise the need to address possible design faults that make the modern home more at rsik of destruction in these high risk areas. Possibilities? Opportunity?
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Charles Johnson Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:13:12pm |
re: #79 Killgore Trout
What's with CBS these days? I think they were the original MSM source for the bogus Phoenix kidnapping story.
It's the Christian Action Network documentary.
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n in wi Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:13:32pm |
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Charles Johnson Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:13:53pm |
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
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solomonpanting Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:13:56pm |
re: #26 Chicago Blonde
*remembering Fight Club and the bit with the soap*
You know, it would be funny to make incense, sell it to moonbats on college campuses, and use the funds for things like war chests for the GOP or whatever 3rd party we hatch. We could call it "Smell of Victory"...
And for the moonbats in sandals: "The Agony of Da Feet."
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:14:03pm |
re: #102 brookly red
So many possibilities there, you'll have to be more specific.
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:14:47pm |
re: #100 HillJack
I was referring to GMSC's cool post @ #46, and here...
*hands over Almond and Cashew Roca pieces*
Good literature deserves good snack food.
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:15:10pm |
re: #105 Charles
Oh... so that's why it was shiite-CANned.
Of course.
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Ojoe Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:15:28pm |
re: #104 A Kiwi Infidel
Use foam core wire reinforced shotcrete (both sides) panels.
Tri-D panels
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Killgore Trout Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:15:53pm |
re: #105 Charles
I'll take the Feds word over the Christian Action Network's on this one. It just seems like CBS is getting bitten by some bogus stories these days.
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yochanan Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:16:02pm |
re: #105 Charles
It's the Christian Action Network documentary.
of course it is sensationalist but it might also have some truth in it as well.
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Charles Johnson Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:16:39pm |
I'm very skeptical about this documentary too. I think in this case CBS is right.
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n in wi Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:16:50pm |
This is from an article on Drudge talking about torture has increased at Gitmo since Obama took office
"Several of my clients have had toilet paper pepper-sprayed while they have had hemorrhoids," Ghappour said.
More effective than water boarding, I bet
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Ojoe Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:16:55pm |
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HillJack Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:17:18pm |
re: #110 Chicago Blonde
Thank you, and that is a fantastic post!
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kansas Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:17:18pm |
re: #7 Kosh's Shadow
0bama speaks, the market goes down.
He says how he is saving the economy, the market goes down faster.
Why doesn't he STFU?My theory is that it is his intent to do this. As far as the country surviving four years of him. IF we do, it will be in spite of him.
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Mirage Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:18:19pm |
re: #34 A Kiwi Infidel
I am scrolling through the O's speech. There are some real pearlers in there.
Here is one:
Joe makes a big enough mess all on his own.
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:18:21pm |
re: #68 tradewind
I'm a nag champa girl myself.
/I have a dog, 2 cats and Mr. Blonde. Sometimes it's necessary...
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kansas Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:18:41pm |
re: #118 n in wi
This is from an article on Drudge talking about torture has increased at Gitmo since Obama took office
"Several of my clients have had toilet paper pepper-sprayed while they have had hemorrhoids," Ghappour said.
More effective than water boarding, I bet
His clients use toilet paper? Seriously, I heard they did not.
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solomonpanting Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:18:44pm |
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:19:26pm |
re: #120 HillJack
I'm glad GMSC found that. Honestly, if I were a school admin I'd give every graduating senior a copy of that...
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Ceemack Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:19:34pm |
re: #58 tradewind
The porn industry's hit a new bottom...
(headline is misleading... read the story)
[Link: www.nydailynews.com...]
"Holy stretch marks, Batman!"
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Lincolntf Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:19:42pm |
re: #114 yochanan
Yup.
For every hundred "militias" made up of (relatively harmless) beer swigging loudmouths, it seems there's always one Tim McVeigh who actually acts. Can't hurt to keep an eye on the people who are "pretending" to be at war with America.
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:19:47pm |
re: #125 solomonpanting
It's OK, after last night's speech I'm kinda numb.
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HillJack Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:20:56pm |
re: #127 Chicago Blonde
I'm glad GMSC found that. Honestly, if I were a school admin I'd give every graduating senior a copy of that...
A great idea! My daughter graduates this year so with the authors permission I will give her a copy.
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opnion Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:21:48pm |
re: #69 n in wi
Any one notice that the most passionate Obama gets is when he is damning the rich?
He gets noticeably angry when talking about "greedy CEOs" or bankers.
I have noticed that. Could be , because the only Boards that he has sat on are non-profit foundations. I am sure he thinks that he was shut out of Fortune 500 boards because of race. Bet that it never occured to him that it's because he is a dick with ears.
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:22:08pm |
re: #118 n in wi
Hell's bells.... they swiped that one right out of the Deke house at Ole Miss.
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DistantThunder Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:22:55pm |
I just watched a data miner on Glenn Beck's show. He's a researcher and said we have the unusual collapse of the equity markets, the real estate markets, and the commodity markets. He said we will hit the worst of this in 2012. That will be the bottom with 20% unemployment.
Since our past was all built on credit, prosperity isn't coming back until well after 2012.
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redc1c4 Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:23:09pm |
re: #118 n in wi
This is from an article on Drudge talking about torture has increased at Gitmo since Obama took office
"Several of my clients have had toilet paper pepper-sprayed while they have had hemorrhoids," Ghappour said.
More effective than water boarding, I bet
wanna guess why they have hemorrhoids?
DA, DT
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screaming_eagle Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:23:28pm |
re: #92 FrogMarch
Obama is bad for my bank account.
What's a bank account? Sounds like a antique. Is it worth money?
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gmsc Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:23:48pm |
re: #66 Ojoe
"Prosperity is just around the corner."
— Hoover, 1932
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work ... After eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot!"
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, commenting on the failures of the New Deal after two terms of FDR
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:23:49pm |
re: #136 DistantThunder
If we hit twenty percent unemployment, I'm heading for the farm to get some crops in now.
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Aviator Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:24:03pm |
re: #58 tradewind
The porn industry's hit a new bottom...
(headline is misleading... read the story)
[Link: www.nydailynews.com...]
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Killian Bundy Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:24:12pm |
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SasquatchOnSteroids Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:24:15pm |
re: #132 rawmuse
Obama speaks, the market listens, and SELLS!
Revive the EF Hutton commercials to BH Obama.
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:25:11pm |
re: #145 Aviator
That's insulting to the sow. At least she has a faucet for each piglet.
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HillJack Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:26:02pm |
Gotta go! Thanks for the un-clenching! Man, that just doesn't sound right.
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:26:04pm |
re: #136 DistantThunder
You think he's accurate or is it more gloom and doom?
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DEZes Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:26:05pm |
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wrenchwench Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:26:39pm |
re: #79 Killgore Trout
What's with CBS these days? I think they were the original MSM source for the bogus Phoenix kidnapping story.
I have been unable to find "official" statistics that I can link to, but I see the same figure everywhere for the number of kidnappings reported in Phoenix last year. Would you accept UPI as a source?
PHOENIX, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Police in Phoenix, Ariz., say they are tackling the almost-daily occurrence of home invasions and kidnappings in the Arizona capital.Officials said the high number of home invasions and kidnappings has earned the city the title of "kidnap-for-ransom capital" of the United States, The Arizona Republic reported Sunday.
In 2008, there were 369 reported kidnappings and 337 home invasions, which marked a 5 percent increase compared to the year before.
Phoenix police developed a task force in September to reduce the number of incidents.
Police Lt. Lauri Burgett, the lead investigator assigned to the Phoenix-led home invasion and kidnapping task force, said many of the extortion cases are linked to illegal drug trade.
"It's about profit," Burgett said. "It's been a secret society in a lot of ways because so much of it goes unreported."
She said since September, the task force has dismantled more than 20 extortion cells, the newspaper reported.
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solomonpanting Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:26:48pm |
re: #130 Chicago Blonde
It's OK, after last night's speech I'm kinda numb.
Some are numb.
Some are dumb.
Some are numb from what the future holds.
Some are dumb wanting Obama's Five Year Plan to unfold.
Some are numb at the vastness of the sums.
Some are dumb for their support of Dem bums.
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redc1c4 Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:26:52pm |
re: #136 DistantThunder
I just watched a data miner on Glenn Beck's show. He's a researcher and said we have the unusual collapse of the equity markets, the real estate markets, and the commodity markets. He said we will hit the worst of this in 2012. That will be the bottom with 20% unemployment.
Since our past was all built on credit, prosperity isn't coming back until well after 2012.
an article you might find interesting here.
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tradewind Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:27:02pm |
re: #146 Killian Bundy
When I read that she had had plastic surgery to look more like her heroine, Angelina Jolie, it all made sense.
Then I started to worry about what kind of plastic surgeon would actually fall for that....and who paid for it?
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SasquatchOnSteroids Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:27:17pm |
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itellu3times Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:28:19pm |
re: #64 yochanan
Even nukes that hit people we wouldn't much miss would probably upset the oil business for some time, like maybe ten thousand years.
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Kosh's Shadow Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:28:21pm |
re: #155 buzzsawmonkey
The only silver lining to that is that it won't help Obama's re-election chances. But if the Republicans can't muster something better than a hatchling, even that won't make a difference.
FDR was re-elected with worse results.
As long as the MSM is the 0's choir, we're not getting anyone else in office.
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HillJack Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:28:54pm |
re: #154 Chicago Blonde
Thanks for the Chocolate! See you around.
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dentate Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:29:44pm |
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solomonpanting Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:30:37pm |
re: #142 gmsc
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work ... After eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot!"
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, commenting on the failures of the New Deal after two terms of FDR
Communist apologists state there's nothing wrong with communism. The problem is it was never implemented properly.
Massive government spending apologists state there's nothing wrong with enormous spending. The problem is there's never been an adequate amount of spending.
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brookly red Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:31:43pm |
re: #161 itellu3times
Even nukes that hit people we wouldn't much miss would probably upset the oil business for some time, like maybe ten thousand years.
drill here, drill now/
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:31:59pm |
re: #157 solomonpanting
Oh man...I'm having a Dr. Seuss flashback now...
Would you, could you, pay the toll?
Would you, could you, sell your soul?
Would you sign on the bottom line?
If you default, it'll still be fine...
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Kosh's Shadow Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:32:28pm |
re: #164 buzzsawmonkey
OK, that makes it Scotch time.
I TRIED to give the 0 the benefit of the doubt, but every time he does something, it is so wrong.
He certainly fits the definition of insanity - doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
At least Clinton would change his mind when things didn't work.
Maybe because Clinton wanted power; he wasn't tied to any ideology. Anything that kept him in office and made him look good was good.
The 0ne is a Marxist.
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Ojoe Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:33:08pm |
re: #169 Chicago Blonde
Obam I am
Obam I am
I do not like
That Obam I am
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Kosh's Shadow Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:33:46pm |
re: #167 solomonpanting
Communist apologists state there's nothing wrong with communism. The problem is it was never implemented properly.
Massive government spending apologists state there's nothing wrong with enormous spending. The problem is there's never been an adequate amount of spending.
And I say that the fact that Communism has never been implemented "properly" indicates that the theory is fundamentally flawed; it cannot be implemented as intended because people just don't work that way.
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:34:26pm |
re: #158 redc1c4
So it's not just more of Glenn's hand-wringing from Saturday night. Thanks for posting that.
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Honorary Yooper Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:36:18pm |
re: #132 rawmuse
Obama speaks, the market listens, and SELLS!
The markets love him as much as they loved FDR, and for the same reasons.
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jorline Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:37:34pm |
Boxer Seeks to Ratify U.N. Treaty That May Erode U.S. Rights
Because of the Supremacy Clause in Article VI of the Constitution, all treaties are rendered "the supreme law of the land," superseding preexisting state and federal statutes. Any rights or laws established by the U.N. convention could then be argued to hold sway in the United States.
Critics say the treaty, which creates "the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion" and outlaws the "arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy," intrudes on the family and strips parents of the power to raise their children without government interference.
"To the extent that an outside body, a group of unaccountable so-called experts in Switzerland have a say over how children in America should be raised, educated and disciplined -- that is an erosion of American sovereignty," said Steven Groves, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
Parental rights groups are similarly stirred; they see in the U.N. convention a threat that the government will meddle with even the simplest freedoms to raise their children as they see fit.
"Whether you ground your kids for smoking marijuana, whether you take them to church, whether you let them go to junior prom, all of those things . . . will be the government's decision," said Michael Farris, president of ParentalRights.org. "It will affect every parent who's told their children to do the dishes."
We're so screwed and the libs are loving it. When is the madness going to end?
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LGoPs Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:37:49pm |
re: #172 Kosh's Shadow
And I say that the fact that Communism has never been implemented "properly" indicates that the theory is fundamentally flawed; it cannot be implemented as intended because people just don't work that way.
That's the key point. On paper Marx's manifesto is beautiful. But it disregards human nature and thus will never succeed. Even the Soviets understood that somewhat in that they attempted to create a new Soviet man. And killed millions trying and still didn't get there.
Capitalism has many warts but it's essential brilliance is that it acknowledges and harnesses human nature. It understands that man works most diligently in his own interest. Leftists call it greed, but call it what you want, it is the engine that drives production.
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solomonpanting Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:38:08pm |
re: #172 Kosh's Shadow
it cannot be implemented as intended because people just don't work that way.
And you have the deaths of over 100 million to support your point.
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UFO TOFU Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:38:26pm |
re: #158 redc1c4
You see clearly that ideas like buy and hold make no sense when you look at things over several decades. You see clearly that diversification does not really work when measured in terms of decades.
Crap, I was just getting ready to do my 08 IRAs.
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Pookykoala Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:39:02pm |
Did anyone else see Obama's mini speech today just as the stock market was closing. He said he is going to regulate the banking industry even more tightly with more restrictive regulations. It was a quick, four minute blurb, and he was standing there with Dodd, Frank, and some others. I think the Dow will plummet again tomorrow. Every time he speaks, the market goes down, down, down......And, he is even closer to nationalizing the banking system.
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A Man for all Seasons Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:39:22pm |
re: #176 jorline
Boxer Seeks to Ratify U.N. Treaty That May Erode U.S. Rights
We're so screwed and the libs are loving it. When is the madness going to end?
Hi Jorline! Hope today finds you well
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:39:33pm |
re: #176 jorline
My G-d. It sounds like something from The Onion.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:39:43pm |
re: #156 wrenchwench
I'l accept that Phoenix maybe the kidnapping capital of the US. The original story a few days ago was saying that Phoenix was the #2 city in the world for kidnapping. I still suspect local police are inflating the numbers to get some of Chairman Obama's free stimulus money.
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Lizard by the Bay Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:40:12pm |
re: #176 jorline
We're so screwed and the libs are loving it. When is the madness going to end?
The libs will only be done when they have destroyed everything (getting back at Daddy). Then, when they're starving, they'll be desperate to have the adults in charge for a little while, at least until they can hate them all over again for being "right" instead of "fair", and the shit starts all over again.
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jamgarr Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:40:13pm |
re: #176 jorline
"To the extent that an outside body, a group of unaccountable so-called experts in Switzerland have a say over how children in America should be raised, educated and disciplined -- that is an erosion of American sovereignty," said Steven Groves, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
No shit Sherlock
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redc1c4 Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:41:20pm |
something that occurred to me yesterday talking with the old GF:
if they are cutting back on withholding as part of the stimulus, the infamous $13 a week" plan, doesn't that just mean that your refund next year will be that much smaller, or you might end up owing more that you would otherwise?
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wrenchwench Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:42:02pm |
re: #166 taxfreekiller
Thanks, I've been looking at your links. Terminology is part of the problem. But all the news articles use the same number, and some of them say the number is from the Phoenix police department, but their website says they don't separate out kidnappings. They lump them in with "other crimes." If I can't access the same information as the news media, I might become skeptical.
:)
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Occasional Reader Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:42:02pm |
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jorline Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:42:42pm |
re: #183 Chicago Blonde
My G-d. It sounds like something from The Onion.
No joke here...Boxer has her "Big Girls Panties" on now.
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screaming_eagle Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:44:05pm |
re: #193 jorline
No joke here...Boxer has her "Big Girls Panties" on now.
She no longer wears Under-roos?
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A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:44:20pm |
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redc1c4 Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:44:47pm |
re: #171 Ojoe
Obam I am
Obam I am
I do not like
That Obam I am
i do not like that little man
i do not like his stupid plan
his wife is mean and he's fool
and anyone who voted for him is just a stool
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jorline Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:44:50pm |
re: #182 HoosierHoops
Hi Jorline! Hope today finds you well
Hey, Hoopster. All is well here and you?
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reloadingisnotahobby Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:45:01pm |
That's it!
I'm starting a Goat Farm!
The market is great in Nevada and Cali!( for meat)
Then... When the country goes down the drain the Muslims
can ...you know...do what ....ah.."THEY "do ...and then
eat them! It's a win win!
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Mirage Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:45:13pm |
re: #69 n in wi
Any one notice that the most passionate Obama gets is when he is damning the rich?
He gets noticeably angry when talking about "greedy CEOs" or bankers.
Doesn't he qualify as a money grubbing rich guy?
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:45:14pm |
re: #193 jorline
I'm honestly baffled as to how people can come up with crap like that. But since I just want to live my life in peace and let others live theirs, I never will understand it.
Do they come with a misery quotient they want to inflict on us?
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A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:45:32pm |
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DEZes Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:45:40pm |
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jorline Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:45:47pm |
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SasquatchOnSteroids Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:45:53pm |
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screaming_eagle Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:46:35pm |
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A Man for all Seasons Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:46:38pm |
re: #197 jorline
Hey, Hoopster. All is well here and you?
Doing great here...weather is starting to warm up..Spring is almost here!
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Dianna Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:47:53pm |
re: #176 jorline
Boxer Seeks to Ratify U.N. Treaty That May Erode U.S. Rights
We're so screwed and the libs are loving it. When is the madness going to end?
I will point out that this treaty has done nothing for the children who most need help. Not one blessed thing.
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jorline Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:48:08pm |
re: #200 Chicago Blonde
I'm honestly baffled as to how people can come up with crap like that. But since I just want to live my life in peace and let others live theirs, I never will understand it.
Do they come with a misery quotient they want to inflict on us?
We are one with the world now...peace.
/
The dopers from my youth now run the country.
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:48:44pm |
re: #207 HoosierHoops
Hey HoosierHoops! Spring, glorious spring...when a young cat's fancy turns to open windows. Opened ours for the first time and the sill promptly filled with cat.
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pingjockey Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:49:31pm |
re: #211 jorline
Either the dopers or an asylum is missing a large part of its population.
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Kosh's Shadow Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:49:44pm |
If the US ratifies some of the UN's "Human Rights" treaties, there goes freedom of religion. Only Muslims will have rights; the rest of us will be dhimmies.
I want Yom Kippur off but my Dubai-owned company doesn't want to give it to me? Gone, and no recourse. (Right now, this isn't the case; Mass actually protects the right to take religious holidays off, and my company is owned by venture capitalists.)
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jorline Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:50:01pm |
re: #207 HoosierHoops
Doing great here...weather is starting to warm up..Spring is almost here!
It's 81 degrees right now..I would like a lengthy spring at least.
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n in wi Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:50:24pm |
re: #210 Dianna
I will point out that this
treatyU.N. has done nothing for the children who most need help. Not one blessed thing.
FTFY
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:50:40pm |
re: #211 jorline
Therein lies the problem. If they actually could run something we wouldn't be in this mess...
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BatGuano Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:51:03pm |
Where do the those who voted for Obama get their news?
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solomonpanting Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:51:46pm |
re: #176 jorline
"Children deserve basic human rights ... and the convention protects children's rights by setting some standards here so that the most vulnerable people of society will be protected," Boxer said.
This obviously pertains only to males in Muslim countries.
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A Man for all Seasons Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:52:03pm |
re: #212 Chicago Blonde
Hey HoosierHoops! Spring, glorious spring...when a young cat's fancy turns to open windows. Opened ours for the first time and the sill promptly filled with cat.
Hey Chicago..We are starting to plan a lizard meet up in Chicago this summer..
I'll keep you posted.. Regards
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Mirage Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:52:44pm |
The US should never ratify any treaty the UN spits out ... it's an organization of thugs.
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LGoPs Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:53:03pm |
re: #200 Chicago Blonde
I'm honestly baffled as to how people can come up with crap like that. But since I just want to live my life in peace and let others live theirs, I never will understand it.
Do they come with a misery quotient they want to inflict on us?
Leftists are totalitarians...one of the scariest words in the dictionary. Basically, they are driven to be totally in control of your life. Of course when it comes to their own lives, well that's another matter. They're all hyopcritical bastards.
There used to be a revolutionary era flag that said "Don't tread on me". Translated to modern times it means "Don't fuck with me".....
We need to get in the libtards faces with that flag.
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A Man for all Seasons Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:54:59pm |
re: #215 jorline
It's 81 degrees right now..I would like a lengthy spring at least.
You're killing me!
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:55:06pm |
re: #224 LGoPs
True. I guess why they're so miserable. My own life is messy enough to run; you couldn't pay me enough to try to run someone else's.
And I gave up clothes shopping for Lent, but as soon as it's over...I'm getting me a Reagan shirt.
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jamgarr Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:55:08pm |
I heard today that Phil Collins, Phoebe Snow and Phil Specter are going to collaborate on a new album of Mott the Hoople covers - the working title is "All The Wrong Dudes".
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Occasional Reader Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:55:34pm |
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jorline Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:55:50pm |
re: #210 Dianna
I will point out that this treaty has done nothing for the children who most need help. Not one blessed thing.
Excellent point, Dianna.
The US would be the preferred country of enforcement.
The UN has done a bang up job throughout their history of protecting people.
/
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redc1c4 Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:55:50pm |
re: #223 Mirage
The US should never ratify any treaty the UN spits out ... it's an organization of thugs.
that's why the Dem's are so enamored with them: birds of a feather and all that.
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:56:30pm |
re: #228 Occasional Reader
Can you say "Jon Stewart"?
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
*runs out of the room screaming*
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A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:56:59pm |
re: #210 Dianna
I will point out that this treaty has done nothing for the children who most need help. Not one blessed thing.
Now, all you have to do is look around the world and see these girls that are having acid thrown in their face," Boxer said in January, implying that the U.S. refusal to come aboard has led to abuses elsewhere.
Yup, there is a pandemic of acid attacks on children, Boxer, in the US no less. The day you can guarantee that the US ratification of this treaty will eliminate child abuse in those countries that have a habit of dealing with their children as a matter of "honour" will be the day you might talk sense.
Holding breath.............................no I wont
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Soona' Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:57:42pm |
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jorline Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:58:38pm |
re: #213 pingjockey
Either the dopers or an asylum is missing a large part of its population.
They're batshit crazy, but it's the dopers.
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Soona' Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:58:51pm |
re: #224 LGoPs
Leftists are totalitarians...one of the scariest words in the dictionary. Basically, they are driven to be totally in control of your life. Of course when it comes to their own lives, well that's another matter. They're all hyopcritical bastards.
There used to be a revolutionary era flag that said "Don't tread on me". Translated to modern times it means "Don't fuck with me".....
We need to get in the libtards faces with that flag.
Does anyone know where one might aquire such a flag?
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:59:09pm |
re: #213 pingjockey
Either the dopers or an asylum
is missing a large part of its populationare tenured faculty now.
FTFY
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Dragonwolf Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:59:41pm |
re: #22 Jetpilot1101
The markets love specifics, something the Obama administration lacks in great numbers. Until the market see either a specific plan, not just platitudes, they will continue to oscillate like a drunken sailor with the trend heading into the gutter. Wall Street doesn't like the democrat plan nor should they. Excess government spending is as damaging, if not more, then excess Wall Street spending. If he keeps opening his trap, the markets will continue to plummet.
The market saw a specific plan. It was called the Spendulous Bill. Why do you think it has been tanking so badly as of late?
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A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Feb 25, 2009 2:59:45pm |
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BatGuano Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:00:41pm |
re: #228 Occasional Reader
But he doesn't do news. He does left wing, moonbat anti American satire. Ah! I see what you mean.
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LGoPs Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:01:27pm |
re: #237 Soona'
Does anyone know where one might aquire such a flag?
Good question. I'd consider displaying it in front of my house........the 'tread' one, not the 'f**k' one of course.
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Dragonwolf Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:01:32pm |
And how did my karma go from -4 to +4 that fast? I was kinda hoping it would stop at 0 so I could say I was president for a day ;-)
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BignJames Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:01:42pm |
re: #237 Soona'
I think it's called the Navy Jack or Gadsen Flag....GWB ordered all naval vessels to fly it for the duration of GWOT. I fly one below my US flag.
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Eowyn2 Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:02:14pm |
I only have one problem with Iowahawk.
I keep getting sidetracked.
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A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:02:52pm |
re: #244 Dragonwolf
And how did my karma go from -4 to +4 that fast? I was kinda hoping it would stop at 0 so I could say I was president for a day ;-)
Oooohhh, thats clever!
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Aviator Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:03:08pm |
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aboo-Hoo-Hoo Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:03:23pm |
Yesterday it was reported: Homeland Security official affirms Mexican drug cartel violence has spilled over into Texas
Ok, so now DHS confirms, 'yes' we've a wee little problem with narco(whomever?)-terrorists coming over the border. But really, that’s no biggy, right, we all knew that was bound to occur?
Wrong.
The day before Fox news reported - DHS: Chances of Home-Grown Attack 'Very Low' but it gets even better with the lede:
Hours after the FBI expressed concern over home-grown terror attacks, the Department of Homeland Security said such an attack was unlikely.
Here’s the media poop on the FBI: U.S. Cities Vulnerable To Mumbai-Type Attacks, Warns FBI
Ok, fine…the DHS & FBI will go figure it out.
Yep…quite likely with Tom Perez as our new Head of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. The very same
Thomas E. Perez, right, joined students in Annapolis to urge approval of a bill granting in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants.
The Taking of America 1-2-3.
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solomonpanting Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:03:37pm |
re: #232 buzzsawmonkey
A lot of us--even if not Catholic--are giving up an awful lot because too many idiots have Lent for the past few years.
Perhaps we'll need a Lent-Lease program for the US.
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Aviator Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:04:27pm |
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:05:20pm |
re: #250 aboo-Hoo-Hoo
Thomas E. Perez, right, joined students in Annapolis to urge approval of a bill granting in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants.
Unbelievable.
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BatGuano Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:06:34pm |
re: #252 Aviator
We should all display it. It would mystify democrats.
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mikalm Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:07:31pm |
re: #226 Chicago Blonde
I gave up swearing for Lent. I enforce the ban by fining myself $1 for one of George Carlin's Seven Forbidden words, or $2 for blasphemy, and donating the proceeds to charity. Result: last Easter I ended up cutting a check for $100 to the YMCA Summer Camp fund!
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Aviator Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:09:47pm |
re: #254 BatGuano
We should all display it. It would mystify democrats.
Oh, you mean like economics.
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mikalm Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:09:56pm |
re: #254 BatGuano
We should all display it. It would mystify democrats.
I'm displaying one as my avatar!
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:10:16pm |
re: #255 mikalm
Oh man...I tried that two years ago. Can you say FAIL? :) That's so cool you did that though, and the summer camp benefited.
(I will try that again next year, this year I fear I can't afford it...)
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Dragonwolf Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:13:18pm |
re: #88 Occasional Reader
Erm, why do I not find that reassuring?
Maybe because wanna-be bullets will kill you just as dead
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Chicago Blonde Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:14:31pm |
Bye Lizards, if I don't make it back in tonight I'll see everyone tomorrow!
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LGoPs Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:15:33pm |
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wrenchwench Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:15:33pm |
re: #250 aboo-Hoo-Hoo
I've been posting tons of links about the narco-terrorists, so I feel responsible to make this caution: I don't think it's right to conflate the narco-terrorists with the Islamo-terrorists. Sure, there's a bit of overlap in tactics, and our borders are vulnerable to both, but they aren't teaming up against us, at this point.
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Mirage Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:16:53pm |
re: #250 aboo-Hoo-Hoo
Yesterday it was reported: Homeland Security official affirms Mexican drug cartel violence has spilled over into Texas
Ok, so now DHS confirms, 'yes' we've a wee little problem with narco(whomever?)-terrorists coming over the border. But really, that’s no biggy, right, we all knew that was bound to occur?
Wrong.
The day before Fox news reported - DHS: Chances of Home-Grown Attack 'Very Low' but it gets even better with the lede:
The Taking of America 1-2-3.
Brother, does the word "illegal" mean anything to these people...
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Ojoe Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:21:02pm |
re: #201 A Kiwi Infidel
Here is a revised link:
Hadrian Tridi Systems
(foam core wire reinforced shotcrete walls)
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Shr_Nfr Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:21:56pm |
As a generalized comment, the last 3 trading days of the month are dominated by cash flows in and out of funds. Those cash flows have been initiated before today in general and this is just the response to them. I have seen some pretty thin stuff get the crud knocked out of it on no news as people reduce their positions. This market is totally uncertain on what Washington is going to do. The stress test numbers today gave the banks a little bit more certainty, but that is all. GM reports tomorrow.
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Ojoe Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:22:51pm |
re: #270 winston06
Well it is more than that, it is the greed and stupidity of many, that is "killing" it. Obama is just not making it better; probably worse.
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Shr_Nfr Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:23:06pm |
re: #269 Ojoe
That look like Jimmy Carter in the picture. It better be disaster proof.
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wrenchwench Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:24:16pm |
re: #268 buzzsawmonkey
Except, of course, as regards the lovely poppy fields of Afghanistan.
I should be more specific: I meant the Mexican cartels when I used the term "narco-terrorists." Sorry for the sloppiness.
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Ojoe Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:25:41pm |
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Dragonwolf Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:30:23pm |
re: #176 jorline
Boxer Seeks to Ratify U.N. Treaty That May Erode U.S. Rights
We're so screwed and the libs are loving it. When is the madness going to end?
Sometime after the one-world-government is thrown off by the second American revolution.
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Shr_Nfr Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:58:00pm |
re: #275 Ojoe
Woops, my wife had just come home and I hadn't read the caption. Sorry. Check out what happened to Jimmy's Habitat for Humanity houses. They built them on top of a garbage dump and they are now falling apart. Moron can't even use a hammer straight. Given that Jimmy is advertising the stuff, I wouldn't touch it. Its likely to inflate in place and draw terrorists.
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Fighton03 Wed, Feb 25, 2009 3:59:01pm |
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infidel4ever Wed, Feb 25, 2009 4:21:18pm |
re: #267 Mirage
Brother, does the word "illegal" mean anything to these people...
No. Because they think that the earth belongs to all of us, and therefore people should have the right to live anywhere they want. If that happens to be the US, well, you will just have to move over and make room for those poor souls. They have the same rights as you. Borders/nationalities are irrelevant.
Trust me. I have a friend who actually spouted that rubbish. (Green/leftist).
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infidel4ever Wed, Feb 25, 2009 4:27:33pm |
re: #281 buzzsawmonkey
You forgot the coda to the bolded portion above: "UNLESS they are Israelis."
Yes. Sorry. I thought everybody knew that already...
//sarc off
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azul93gt Wed, Feb 25, 2009 5:03:29pm |
Whenever B. Hussein discusses the econony the stock market drops. That's what I hear.
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Ojoe Wed, Feb 25, 2009 5:34:02pm |
re: #278 Shr_Nfr
Actually the foam core concrete panels are really good. Carter is just along for a ride with a photo or two on the Tri D website.
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bakishamil Wed, Feb 25, 2009 6:20:05pm |
Down with idiots. Stupid dumb white hippies trying to make it a global political stage. Idiots stick with tree hugging. Stupid mofos
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bakishamil Wed, Feb 25, 2009 6:23:36pm |
Down with idiots. Stupid dumb white hippies trying to make it to a global political stage. Idiots stick with tree hugging and smoking trees. Stupid mofos
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pupdawg Thu, Feb 26, 2009 8:56:07am |
The president and his truly unmerry men continue to spew-abundant gloom and doom rhetoric about the economic future of our country and her suckling citizens. They, ad nausea, go about planting pay-later seeds of American Socialism in what they see as very fertile ground. These killing fields have been freshly turned, limed and fertilized by the likes of the MSM, the masses of entitlement-minded supporters here along with many in Europe, the Middle East and enemy-populated-elsewhere abroad anxiously awaiting the 'change.' Yet, the president and the Democrats, for the cameras and mics at least, cannot seem to comprehend why the very barometer of our capitalistic financial health, the NYSE, plummets reflecting downward their onslaught of negativism disguised to further implement Socialistic 'change.' Ironic, don't you think?
These are the same people, leaders, movers and shakers within and without our government who refuse to listen as the political leader of Iran threatens Israel with nuclear annihilation at every opportunity and who continues down the path of creating the weapons to do so. Is it irony due to group stupidity or conspiratorial ignorance at its zenith among Democrats?
Hurricane Katrina and the recent Tsunami that killed so many were merely a whisper and a warm salty bath compared to the internal storms that are coming. Americans by the millions are now battening down their personal financial hatches in an unprecedented way. Jobs will vanish in record numbers with a shocking quickness. Businesses will close by the thousands. The companies who survive will do so at the kindness of a near defunct government floundering under socialism. If there are stocks they will be penny stocks. Because, when the very people who live, work, financially support, fight and die for this country, run deep and silent, the last one out needs to get the lights. This has the distinct possibility to become the greatest depression of all times in America and by symbiotic financial connections throughout the World. I'm almost convinced the president and his Democrat enablers want it this way. I pray these images change for the better and soon. If not, there will be no where to go and no escape route provided by FEMA or our local authorities. We will possibly be reduced to a nation of homeless, penniless victims looking for a proverbial National Super Dome in which to huddle and a bankrupt government to provide enough milk-filled teats to sustain us all.
Currently the stage is set with a president who wishes to destroy capitalism in America with the left posturing as the supporting cast of antagonist and we, in the peanut gallery, watch as the curtain continues to fall on us all with no protagonist in sight.
Hopefully, the history books at least will accurately report who and what destroyed America. It came from within at the very highest office with minimal assistance from without by friend and foe.
May God save the Republic!
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