Just when you think the Olympics are not worth the effort someone comes along to make it mean something. Gabby Douglas claiming the gold in women’s gymnastics is one of those moments.
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Indeed, she is! Woohoo!
Now , isn’t that ironic
Does that mean that Obama can be detained indifinetly
Without trial
That’s what the NDAA bill said ‘
Anyone aiding and abetting al-Qaeda was automatically guilty
flatus, hopefully at this moment you are free of the burdensome airport lines, free of these earthly cares and winging your way to a loving reception amid family. we fly with you, friend.
flatus has slipped the surly bonds of earth and is on his way?
champ, you sure you don’t mean “thong”?
Gabby is a bright and shining star and should be the kind of role model for all young females to follow.
The newly released Jobs Report reflect 163,000 new positions added, but the unemployment rate rose to 8.3 %.
At first glance that would seem odd, but within the report explains why this occurred. 150,000 fewer Americans are now in the workforce than from the previous jobs report. Until we can at least keep pace with population growth,unemployment will continue to remain high.
http://bit.ly/OFvgNw
sturge, he wrote yesterday:
given the time difference and it’s already tomorrow in so. korea, does this mean he’s still in the air or there now?
Well, here the old guy is sitting in Columbia Municipal Airport. His Flight was supposed to have left an hour ago and still won’t leave for the better part of an hour. The only way I can make my Asiana connection to Seoul is for this flight to be marvelously early or the As iana flight to be fortuitously late departing. Oho!! The crew just showed up!! I’m grabbing my stuff!!!
Pat, that is one of my favorite quote’s: “…. tomorrow is another day”. You wouldn’t believe how often I’ve thought that (since I first heard it so long ago) — it’s gotten me through so much.
Another is ‘This, too, shall pass’.
So good to hear from you Flatus!! Keep us informed if possible.
This is a noble, but lofty Presidential Executive Order.
The genesis of the problem starts in the home. Until that problem is brought under control, nothing meaningful happens. Also if not implemented properly and without bias by the powers to be in academia, at state and local level, this PEO could prove very problematic and would erase the good intent of this PEO.
http://1.usa.gov/Mnp9RR
The Republican Party of California is now financially bankrupt as well as morally, spiritually and ethically bankrupt. If there was ever any doubt in your mind that the goopers are nothing but a regional party based on exclusion and greed what has happened to them in California should put that to rest.
Ahnold was a disgusting mess as governor..mostly his own fault but the goopers failed to take advantage of his celebrity and interest in new technologies to green things and blew any opportunity they had to be the party of the future.
And all of the problems with the Obamarama initiatives the fault of Republicans. For example, the first responder ranks at the local level have been wiped out because of lack of federal support and lower tax bases. Wealthy people live in gated communities with private patrols, the rest of the population is being victimized on a regular basis — and oh by the way the private patrols are tax deductible. You are paying for some rich guy’s private patrol
McDonald’s tried to be chick-fil-a a while back — they had a “southern style chicken sandwich and sweetened ice tea” no longer on the menu
Katherine , I guess you know that firefighters and policemen are state and local responsibilities and have absolutely nothing to do with the federal government ,
When was the last time the republicans had any influence
In the state government , couple decades ?
Arnold was a joke that y’all elected , twice
Oh and go ahead and invite the rest of Mexico up to live off the system for free , make the whole place a sanctuary state , and continue to raise taxes to pay for it . It’s working out great so far
federal grants used to make up a large part of police and fire department budgets
I never elected Ahnold to anything and it just goes to show what idiots people are when faced with celebrity and California has a long and sordid history of electing show biz folk --George Murphy and of course the biggest loser for the state senor raygun — the beginning of the end of California’s pride in making sure every Californian had access to education and opportunity. Now we are just a banana republic and mostly thanks to Republican policy
and if you don’t think local safety personnel were dependent on federal funds then once again you display an ignorance of state and local government as wide as the mississippi
In California Republicans used to have a lot of influence until they used it for evil
as for the rest of your racist bilge..yada yada
NH police departments finding less personnel funding as federal …
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120801/NEWS07/708019973
2 days ago – New Hampshire police departments that have tapped into national grant … Although police departments get grants from many different … COPS grants have been a major source of funding for departments … the federal government generally picks up 75 to 80 percent of the cost of equipment and training.
oops I guess no one told them they didn’t get anything from the feds
Pat,
Re your 7:26 am post:
I am not now, and have never been a thong.
However, I am legion.
Or is that, I am Spartacus ?
Facts aren’t racist , facts are facts
Every democratic controlled santuary city in the country is up to their ears in debt
MQW,
The way to keep unreistered aliens out of the country is to arrest, try, convict, impoverish and deport the people who hire them. If we’d followed this procedure with the walton family and slick willard, no one would hire the foreigners and they’d be gone now, along with undesirable republicans.
See ? Not all simplistic and cruel answers to political and economic problems are hokum.
xr, there you go again hurting the economy and taking from the rich.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/private-prison-companies-illegal-immigrants_n_1731736.html
kind of like your fact that local police and fire don’t get anything from the feds
“xr, there you go again hurting the economy and taking from the rich.” -- Pat @ 1:14 pm
You forgot ‘killing jobs’.
Anyway, thanks for the recognition. I’m doing my bit to end both the walton and the romney threats.
http://www.beatweek.com/blog/12853-cnn-confirms-mitt-romney-paid-no-income-tax-for-ten-years/
jon stewart, you apologize to poor old harry reid now for this
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-1-2012/you--harry-reid--are-terrible
OK, Gabby Douglas is just wonderful, and from all appearances, doesn’t carry the arrogance that is obvious from the faces of so many of the elite level gymnasts.
And I’m pretty sure the grants from DHS are one source of funding for police, firefighters and emergency personnel.
http://www.dhs.gov/xfrstresp/
And our little town is broke, but it isn’t a haven for black, latino or any other group. Nope, we’re a haven for indigent whites. Guess we don’t fit the mold.
Track & Field is on today. I just have to find the channel(s). I saw that same men’s beach volleyball event was on 2 different channels.
I received this in an e-mail from one of my cousins and though this may be a good idea.
Old People Should be Put in Jail
Jails and Nursing Homes
KGC
Every time I get one of the mailings from a far right acquaintance active in CA politics, I go into mourning. The GOP has been steadily screwing up CA since 1976. They have managed to turn paradise into a haven for the rich and a hell for anyone of normal or lesser means.
What was once the agricultural wonder of the US is now a paved over, water guzzling atrocity. If your parent and/or you didn’t get to the state before 1950, please go home. A state whose water can support 12 million should not be the residence of 35 million. The problem was never the southern border, it was the one on the east.
http://underthemountainbunker.com/2012/08/03/cnns-dana-bash-her-source-confirms-harry-reids-source-on-romneys-taxes-is-credible/
My favorite rumor on the Romney tax release isn’t that he is afraid that people will find out that he didn’t pay taxes but that the Church will find out he didn’t tithe enough. Now that could be scary.
KGC ref your 11:14 AM
The southern style chicken sandwich and sweetened ice tea are still on the McDonald’s menu here in Florida.
Flatus
Hope the warmth of family surrounds you and that your beloved is at rest within the love that she gave and received.
PIT
No southern style chicken here. I wonder how much business you have to do to keep an item on the menu
No Chick Fil-a either but not because of the recent flap…because they want a drive-through and the City of Santa Rosa doesn’t want to give them one.
Yeah, the MickeyD’s SS crispy cluck sammich is still on it here, and with $1 sweet tea -- LP loves that combo.
Don’t know what it means on the national scale, but Charleston, SC is financially strong and growing under 7, 8, or 9 term Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Democrat.
7,8,or 9 because I forget. He’s been there many moons.
John Sununu saying nice things about Romney on CNN. Why do all the Romney spokespeople look like uncles you don’t leave alone with children?
Top five reasons why Romney won’t release his tax returns
…
(1) He paid zero federal income tax for two years.
(2) He got REFUNDS for three years, totaling over $25 million .
(3) In 2002, he listed his occupation as “Olympic God.”
(4) As an investor in numerous 3rd world sweatshops, he had deductions for “depreciation” on hundreds of child slaves.
(5) Up until 2009, he had deductions for four wives, and 21 dependent children.
FYI: I got that information from Harry Reid.
The problem as I see it with the federal government giving the state any money is this. It is only a one time infusion for usually 1 year. Small example. A state is given say $50 million to hire new teachers. The state hires new teacher, everyone is happy. The first year everyone forgets the new teachers are being paid by the federal gift, come the following years there isn’t enough money in the coffers to pay the new teachers unless taxes are raised. Then the state threatens it citizen by telling them, well if we don’t raise new taxes we will have to lay off the police, firemen, teachers and nurses. Just the same old song and dance, same dog and pony show on both side of the isle just a different tilt on the story. I really don’t care whose fault it is at this point, but our deficit is approaching $16 trillion. Taxing the wealthy so the government can collect somewhere between $80 to $100 billion is meaningless unless all government programs are cut 3% to 5% for the next 10 years. Until we get serious about this spending, and reducing our debt your children, and their children’s children will be paying for our out of control spending which happens to be supported with borrowed money. If we were an island unto ourselves the debt wouldn’t matter as we could virtually print our way out of debt, unfortunately that isn’t the case.
And Harry would know about tax loop holes.
If any of you unruly rabble want to send Harry Reid a message (like “Give ‘em hell Harry”) here’s a link to his U.S. Senate website’s “contact me” page…
http://www.reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
MO
The problem is that the US is too large. If what you wanted was efficiency then it would be about six countries and each section would be a combination of rich and poor. As it is, we have empty places and crowded places. The empty places want to be left alone and the crowded places want cooperative actions. Jefferson vs Adams
I opt to go along with the crowded places only because the whole globe is getting more and more crowded and hot. If we don’t cooperate, we will go down in flames. I’m sorry that the freedoms of the empty places is going down the drain, but that’s the way it is short of a massive plague that turns it all into a libertarian loving empty place … aka a Heinlein novel.
we have 50 sovereign states with their own state governments and state constitutions , it’s called federalism
Hey… my booth is all set up and the fair starts tomorrow at 10am. I probably won’t be posting again until Aug 13 or 14.
Jamie… I don’t understand why Romney would want to be represented by Sunununununununu… he was one nasty piece of work as governor and managed to piss off even most of the Republicans. At this point, I don’t think he could win a GOP primary for fart collector in this state…
rr
Because Romney is a clueless git who doesn’t get it at all
RR
I hope the spirit of Christmas is with all the visitors tothe Fair
mqw
Yep … unfortunately, the poorer 50 sovereign entities want all the goodies of the richer sovereign entities without the obligation of doing what the richer sovereign entities want them to do for the privilege. oops
Harry Ried is a chicken lily liveried coward and a lying ass hypocrite , also tied to some shady land deals in las Vegas , he has used his position for personal gain ,
Let’s see his tax records , that would be interesting .
He has vowed not to let the ‘audit the fed bill ‘
Come up for a vote in the senate .
Who’s he protecting ? His fellow 1 percenters ?
kinda weird….I have no desire, all of a sudden, to communicate…..
I am enjoying Harry Reid very much this week…
If the federal government didn’t support them, many of the red states would rank down there with 3d world countries.
And, what the hell are Wyoming and Alaska doing, pretending to be states, anyway ?
Need to audit hypocrite Reid
and find out when he sold out and to whom
Why won’t he allow a vote in senate on the audit the fed bill ?
There can’t be any shady land deals in a place that has no shade. Can there ?
I once cast my woodsy-laksey Minnesota eyeballs upon Nevada, and immediately conceived the twin ideas that a crop of shade grown coffee would suffer horribly there. Of course, the only fish in the place would be dehydrated. Just add water, if you can find any, and you have a fish. I’ll bet this is a big selling point for moving to Nevada. You’ll be unlikely to ever suffer from a case of shark bite again.
A loud razzing by Harry Reid is better than willard deserves. He deserves a loud razzing from wrong pol, but I guess that formerly boundless producer of Razzberries has failed from this drought also. The drought is pro-romney.
Why doesn’t the libbrull eelite meejah report that the drought is supporting willard ? Maybe they ain’t so dang libbrrul after all.
WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn’t personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-10-11-reid_x.htm
Fresh air :
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/history_lesson/2012/08/gore_vidal_don_t_believe_the_rosy_obituaries_he_was_a_racist_and_an_elitist_.html?wpsrc=msn_feed
But the good news is, he didn’t fire Americans and give the jobs to foreign slaves.
I once made money on some property that I owned for less than 3 years.
Made money on property you didn’t own ?pretty good trick
Crickets
An interesting/alarming LA Times 5 part series on the global population explosion.
http://lat.ms/MW4eoP
Be interesting to know if Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid has ever made his tax returns public. I do think ALL our government (local, state, federal) elected officials should make their tax returns public every year, just so we know what investments they hold and what methods they employ. It is called, TRANSPARENCY.
This was a fantastic race to watch, the 800-meter freestyle, and a 15 year old American, Katie Ledecky, won and set a new American record previously hold by Janet Evans set in 1989. 16 lengths of the pool, of which the first 14 Katie’s time was world record setting numbers. With some more training and learning how to better pace herself she’ll set a new World Record for this event.
http://es.pn/NspwEB
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/04/us/politics/reid-has-long-history-of-romney-bashing.html?_r=1
The Koch brothers: I want my fair share, and that’s all of it.
£13tn hoard hidden from taxman by global elite
• Study estimates staggering size of offshore economy
• Private banks help wealthiest to move cash into havens
By Heather Stewart, business editor guardian.co.uk, 21 July 2012 16.00 EDT
“And, what the hell are Wyoming and Alaska doing, pretending to be states, anyway ?”
XR,
Wyoming? You have cut me to the quick, and I am bleeding Wyoming Brown and Gold.
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