jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

America is not Germany. The only N**is we have are the radical right wing extremists and they are despised by 300 plus million mainstream Americans and comprise only a few loons like Doushebag hiding outside the metro liberal areas...although quite a cluster in Maricopa County. Regarded as weirdos even in their hiding places. I know because I lived 45 in one of the most rural areas in the midwest and the single person with this kind of thinking is regarded as the township strange one. ha. Yes, I get the point...but we Americans don't go after odd people just because they're political weirdos. Come out of your bunker, Stymie, and enjoy American freedom and achievement. Big foot and criminal muslim tyrants in the WH do not exist. They are a bigger h**x than going back on the gold standard.

By the way, what's the basis of China's currency? Tea bags? Oops, is that what the Tea Party aims for? Apologies, economics are truly beyond my muddled middle mainstream brain's ability to understand. That's a subject for prog/libs and RWEs to mess with. In the meantime, fool that I am, I will trust the Fed that's got us through various crises the past 100 years somehow. That's the Normality Syndrome you refer to.

Until your reply to me revealed your RWE propaganda agenda and your adherence to thei right wingnut A******lity Syndrome, I actually thought you were discussing economics seriously, Stymie. ha.

stymie

I was having a serious discussion on the Financial problems we are facing until you got into the discussion. It immediately went downhill fast. You are seriously a disturbed individual constantly describing yourself as a intellect. There is definitely a disconnect in your internal wiring that everyone but you can see. Quit embarrassing yourself and stick to something you know. BTW, I have a great friend that graduated from UT; a real nice guy, but he is dumb as a rock too.

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

Too bad your "serious discussion" was stymied.

Until you blasted me with the right wing extremist "soon-to-come disaster to stupid you" story line, your pretense of serious discussion was believable. After that, it was apparent your "serious discussion" was mere echoing of RWE ideological propaganda line and credibility ended.

I take it your U-T graduate "great friend" doesn't agree with your political viewpoint and that is why you think he's as "dumb as a rock" like me. I guess dumb as a rock applies across the board to university grads, since all the ones whose views I know (I count 9 whose politics I know) would consider your viewpoint as a******l. Perhaps your hillbilly university grad is much smarter than you think. Perhaps the real rock is your brain, not his.

Bruce Kennedy Loc: Kansas

:thumbup: :thumbup: jonhatfield, I learned a long time ago you can't argue with these i***ts, so you just have to have fun with it, I do.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Duthcman..Tamworths are my favorite but this is a cutie...good picture for sure.... :lol: :lol:

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

Can anyone remember what the original post was about ?

The Dutchman

The Dutchman wrote:
Ok, where is the URL to this one? Or is it just more of your:



Meaning it's just more of your:

The Dutchman

The Dutchman

Rest assured the progressive liberals can't, Have you ever seen them post anything that makes sense? All they do is hi-jack every post they can't understand and turn it into one of their squealing matches like the spoiled little brats they are.....

stan3186

New Liberal Democrat mascot:

Hungry Freaks

Well, Democrats are not guilt-free on the state of our nation debt, annual deficits.

But this disconnect started in the presidency of Ronald Wilson "deficits don't matter" Reagan who cut revenues (taxes) and increased spending, leading to deficits and a growing national debt. At the time Reagan took office, the national debt was about $900 billion. today, interest on the national debt is about half of the total debt in 1981.

Total federal spending, when adjusted for inflation, is about level with the last year George W. Bush was in office. During the previous eight years, spending went up about 45%.

And most of it occurred while Republicans controlled the White House and a significiant portion of it happened while Republicans controlled at least one house of Congress.

Not one Republican president submitted a balanced budget to Congress-not one. Bill Clinton was the last president to preside over a balanced budget.

The video, when the banker asked the guy if he's asked for a raise, the guy says "no, that so uncomfortable a conversation." It reminds me of Grovoner Norquist, an unelected person, who says that NO tax increase can be implemented. And Republicans in Congress fold under the orders from this unelected official because they don't want to have that "uncomfortable conversation."

Hey, Democrats are far from blameless. But when Republicans make Democrats look financially prudent, you know there's a problem.

"giving money and power to the government is like giving a teenage boy whiskey and keys to the car" PJ O'Rourke.

Bruce Kennedy Loc: Kansas

"Dutchman" one can quickly see what an intellect you truly are, simply by reading your posts and realizing that you can not spell. (My oh my, where is "banjojack" when you need her?). For goodness sakes "Dutchman" quit embarrassing the Dutch people, change your user name to "Cretin". Ooops!, my fault, you have no idea what word you misspelled do you? You used the word "imposable" I assume you meant to use the word "impossible", but one never knows what goes on it that little mixed up brain of yours, now do they?.

emarine

pick your lazy butt out of the recliner and find some real news.....REP. DARRELL ISSA: Senator Feinstein releases a report only a few days ago that casts blame on many parts of the government. Some of which there's still a question of if there is another threat like that, will the military, will the State Department be able to react? So the story of B******i is: four people died, let's make sure it doesn't happen again. And quite frankly --

BILL MAHER: If that's what you had been saying all along, we wouldn't even be having a conversation. That's not what I heard you say that day --

RONAN FARROW: The story of B******i is also Congress cut spending to our embassies.

ISSA: That's actually not what you heard me say. I have been talking about that -- I'll give you every quote I've made. The fact is B******i is a story of making sure it doesn't happen again. It's a story of will the system work when an ambassador says, 'I need more security;' instead, he gets less security. At the time the British pulled out of B******i because there were two attempts to k**l the ambassador, one of which, quite frankly, blew up the car and k**led his driver.

We had a situation in which we should have pulled out of B******i, or put a lot of security in there. We did neither.

CHRYSTIA FREELAND: So it's not connected with Hillary Clinton being Secretary of State?

ISSA: Here's the interesting thing -- the person that is responsible from our investigation is the undersecretary, Patrick [F.] Kennedy. He's a career non-political appointee. But the point, though, is

FARROW: But responsibility also has to go to a Congress that time and time again, when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to them and asked for more security money for embassies, cut spending.

ISSA: No, that's not true. They got less than what they asked for, but they got basically what the Senate agreed to give them.

FARROW: Spending was slashed, by the way, by Democrats too before there was --

ISSA: The interesting thing is before our committee, we asked that question of Admiral Mullen and Ambassador Pickering, and they said that, no, that was not the problem. The fact is that the Security that was pulled was Department of Defense security.

Again, the facts in this case is it wasn't the money, as far as we know it wasn't personally Hillary Clinton --

FARROW: It was a $700,000 contract. You be the judge in the context of what these security contracts should be and are at sensitive security locations around the world and whether that was adequate. And I can tell you, having been in on those conversations, having worked with Chris Stevens in the months leading up to this, I know that there were calls for more resources and that part of the conversation was the State Department's inability to rein in money out of Congress.

ISSA: The amazing thing is that they got no new money, they got no new money after B******i, but all the embassies got what they needed. Again, the people who were pulled were Department of Defense. The $700,000 you talk about is kind of interesting because this British guy who got in a little trouble… but the fact is, what we had is we had a whole bunch of unarmed people who were supposed to be guards.

Well, you know if you put a whistle in a guy's mouth and someone's coming over the wall with guns, that whistle may go off but that's all that's going to go off. The fact is that we did not have armed people in a consulate facility that had its wall blown off.

So, yes, those people all ran, the $700,000 worth of people, took off and the ambassador died of asphyxiation, more or less. But hours later, a highly secure -- now reported by Secretary Clinton and others -- CIA facility got mortared, and took down two of our people in that building. Now, there wasn't a lack of money there. What there was was we didn't belong in B******i with the forces available.

Admiral Mullen actually said, had they had a FAST team, had they had the security, they could have been there. They probably wouldn't have been attacked because they would have been too strong of a force. Regardless of that, the question is in all these embassies -- particularly in Africa, a vast area, larger than the United States -- do we have a plan in place to make sure that there is either sufficient security or these facilities aren't there.

Men and women will die in support of our nation's diplomacy. The question is, are the systems in place to minimize that death? Ambassador Chris Stevens was a career professional, he knew the risk, that's all true. But at the same time, in retrospect, we could have done a better job. We need to do a better job in the future.

GEM lucas Loc: TRIADELPHIA ,WV

When I want real news I go to C Span.

The Dutchman

The Dutchman wrote:
Rest assured the progressive liberals can't, Have you ever seen them post anything that makes sense? All they do is hi-jack every post they can't understand and turn it into one of their squealing matches like the spoiled little brats they are.....



Nah! It should be a jackass with down syndrome......