Posts for: slatten49
Mar 25, 2024 17:33:37 #
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Liberal Lily wrote:
You've got the wrong Lily.
No, ma'am, I don't think so, as evidenced by the below post and my response:
slatten49 (topic starter rank #15) (online) Joined: Aug 11, 2013 Posts: 55564 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
Lily wrote:
That’s who I was talking about. He’s gotten really sanctimonious.
Lily, I have been using quotes since I joined OPP over eleven years ago. Whenever an opportunity arises to use a pertinent quote, I'll continue to use 'em.
Sanctimonious Nah, just another plain speaking, hard-nosed Texan.
Mar 25, 2024 17:16:09 #
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TexaCan wrote:
Below is just part of the article you posted as yo... (show quote)
Yes, TexaCan, I did read the entire article and was not at all dismayed by the lack of trashing Trump. As it is, The Donald speaks enough trash to cover the aspects of his personality and/or policies. Mike Pompeo could be considered a career politician, so it was not surprising that he would declare himself open to a job in another administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/us/politics/mike-pompeo-president-2024.html
Excerpt...
Mike Pompeo Says He Won’t Run for President in 2024 - “This isn’t our moment,” said Mr. Pompeo, a former Trump administration official. But he declined to endorse the former president and obliquely criticized him.
Mar 25, 2024 17:01:25 #
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Lily wrote:
That’s who I was talking about. He’s gotten really sanctimonious.
Lily, I have been using quotes since I joined OPP over eleven years ago. Whenever an opportunity arises to use a pertinent quote, I'll continue to use 'em.
Sanctimonious 
Nah, just another plain speaking, hard-nosed Texan.Mar 25, 2024 16:43:32 #
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Coos Bay Tom wrote:
I remember his Billboards up all over the place when he ran against JFK--"In your heart you know he is right "
Yes, as I am remember them also. I also remember The Daisy ad. I believe it aired one time only, then canceled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ynEiRvxazU
Mar 25, 2024 16:34:31 #
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Big Kahuna wrote:
To which God replys: "You were my elect to take down the deep state in the U.S. and you exposed them for all their corruptions and sins. I will allow you to be dictator of the Universe for one day." To which Trump replied: "You allowed me, as your elect, to be dictator of the U.S. for one day after you placed me in the Presidency position in the 2024 P**********l e******n, that is a deal and after that you can fire me. I am just your humble servant."
Still the ever-delusional dreamer, eh, BK Mar 25, 2024 10:09:55 #
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biffisbuff wrote:
Why do trumpers think that Biden is dirty but thei... (show quote)
Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump go to heaven.
They are called before God’s Throne.
“Who are you, and what good did you do on earth?”, God asks Reagan.
“I am Ronald Reagan, oh Lord, and I won the Cold War”, Reagan answers.
“Very well”, God says, “Take the seat to my right.”
He then turns to Clinton and asks him the same question.
“I am Bill Clinton, oh Lord, and I balanced the budget”, Clinton answers.
“Very well”, God says, “Take the seat to my left.”
The Lord then turns to Trump. But, before he can ask him anything,
Trump says: “I am Donald Trump and I think you are sitting in my seat.”
Mar 25, 2024 10:05:31 #
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DASHY wrote:
Why do Trump supporters complain about the high costs of food, rent, and gas yet give thousands of dollars to the Trump campaign? Isn’t that the definition of stupidity? Trump loves getting money from the MAGA gang. Trump is their God.
Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump go to heaven.
They are called before God’s Throne.
“Who are you, and what good did you do on earth?”, God asks Reagan.
“I am Ronald Reagan, oh Lord, and I won the Cold War”, Reagan answers.
“Very well”, God says, “Take the seat to my right.”
He then turns to Clinton and asks him the same question.
“I am Bill Clinton, oh Lord, and I balanced the budget”, Clinton answers.
“Very well”, God says, “Take the seat to my left.”
The Lord then turns to Trump. But, before he can ask him anything,
Trump says: “I am Donald Trump and I think you are sitting in my seat.”
Mar 25, 2024 07:47:27 #
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Ranger7374 wrote:
You are wrong about Mike Pompeo, he is supporting Trump...
Ha.....and I bet I can find others that are from your list.....but it is funny
Ha.....and I bet I can find others that are from your list.....but it is funny
https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article272384028.html
Mar 25, 2024 07:38:55 #
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https://www.azquotes.com/author/5665-Barry_Goldwater
Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.
A woman has a right to an a******n. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the religious right.
I am a conservative republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.
While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.
I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
The big thing is to make this country - quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They're American citizens.
The fellow has absolutely no principles. "Money and gall" is all he has.
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.
Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.
You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of states' rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
The Constitution is an instrument, above all, for limiting the functions of government.
Government can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of government power are left to their own devices. This is because of the corrupting influence of power, the natural tendency of men who possess some power to take unto themselves more power. The tendency leads eventually to the acquisition of all power - whether in the hands of one or many makes little difference to the freedom of those left on the outside.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.
A woman has a right to an a******n. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the religious right.
I am a conservative republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.
While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.
I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
The big thing is to make this country - quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They're American citizens.
The fellow has absolutely no principles. "Money and gall" is all he has.
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.
Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.
You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of states' rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
The Constitution is an instrument, above all, for limiting the functions of government.
Government can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of government power are left to their own devices. This is because of the corrupting influence of power, the natural tendency of men who possess some power to take unto themselves more power. The tendency leads eventually to the acquisition of all power - whether in the hands of one or many makes little difference to the freedom of those left on the outside.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Mar 24, 2024 18:45:32 #
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From William Weir...Author, Journalist, Minister
Briefly. Gas prices got as low as $1.87 in February 2016 under Obama, holding steady around $2.30 until Trump took office. From there they rose steadily until October 2018, reaching a peak of almost $3.00. As the economy continued to flounder under Trump (2018 saw the worst year for the stock market since the 2008 housing crisis; the Fed lowered interest rates in 2019 for the first time since Bush was President to try to prevent a recession), prices fell slightly, holding around $2.65 until the p******c.
Once Trump mishandled the p******c and the country began shutting down, demand for fuel dropped and prices fell, reaching $1.93 in April 2020—almost as low as a year before Trump took office. Trump then stated that low gas prices (during a financial crisis) was bad for America. He pushed OPEC into a two year deal to slash production to drive up prices. (This is probably the only thing in his failed Presidency that he successfully accomplished.) Gas prices began to rise immediately and continued to rise until Biden took office.
Once Biden reopened the country, people started driving normally again and the global oil shortage Trump created drove prices up even faster. Prices continued to climb until Trump’s OPEC deal ended in May 2022, peaking at just over $5.00 in June. Then normal production resumed and prices began to fall again. Currently prices are hovering around $3.00 a gallon, about where they were at the end of 2018—the last time the economy was considered reasonably stable under Trump.
So long story short, Trump’s failed economy did lead to gas prices dipping before reaching a record high because of his OPEC deal, but thanks in part to record high domestic oil production under Biden, gas prices are back in line with where they were before the “Trump Slump” despite global inflation driving prices up on almost everything else.
So let’s adjust the numbers for global inflation. The $2.30 under Obama in 2016 would be $2.97 in today’s dollars. That $3.00 under Trump in 2018 would be $3.71 in today’s dollars. The $2.65 we averaged in 2019 would be $3.22 in today’s dollars. So adjusting for inflation, gas prices now under Biden are lower than they were before the p******c under Trump, and only slightly higher than they were in the final year of Obama’s Presidency.
Briefly. Gas prices got as low as $1.87 in February 2016 under Obama, holding steady around $2.30 until Trump took office. From there they rose steadily until October 2018, reaching a peak of almost $3.00. As the economy continued to flounder under Trump (2018 saw the worst year for the stock market since the 2008 housing crisis; the Fed lowered interest rates in 2019 for the first time since Bush was President to try to prevent a recession), prices fell slightly, holding around $2.65 until the p******c.
Once Trump mishandled the p******c and the country began shutting down, demand for fuel dropped and prices fell, reaching $1.93 in April 2020—almost as low as a year before Trump took office. Trump then stated that low gas prices (during a financial crisis) was bad for America. He pushed OPEC into a two year deal to slash production to drive up prices. (This is probably the only thing in his failed Presidency that he successfully accomplished.) Gas prices began to rise immediately and continued to rise until Biden took office.
Once Biden reopened the country, people started driving normally again and the global oil shortage Trump created drove prices up even faster. Prices continued to climb until Trump’s OPEC deal ended in May 2022, peaking at just over $5.00 in June. Then normal production resumed and prices began to fall again. Currently prices are hovering around $3.00 a gallon, about where they were at the end of 2018—the last time the economy was considered reasonably stable under Trump.
So long story short, Trump’s failed economy did lead to gas prices dipping before reaching a record high because of his OPEC deal, but thanks in part to record high domestic oil production under Biden, gas prices are back in line with where they were before the “Trump Slump” despite global inflation driving prices up on almost everything else.
So let’s adjust the numbers for global inflation. The $2.30 under Obama in 2016 would be $2.97 in today’s dollars. That $3.00 under Trump in 2018 would be $3.71 in today’s dollars. The $2.65 we averaged in 2019 would be $3.22 in today’s dollars. So adjusting for inflation, gas prices now under Biden are lower than they were before the p******c under Trump, and only slightly higher than they were in the final year of Obama’s Presidency.
Mar 24, 2024 17:25:52 #
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Lily wrote:
Wrong again. Once you showed it was not a quote by Eastwood it was accepted.
You simply fail to understand we don’t care who wrote it. It is spot on accurate.
Now go house an i*****l i*******t.
You simply fail to understand we don’t care who wrote it. It is spot on accurate.
Now go house an i*****l i*******t.
"Spot on" lies in the eyes/ears of the beholder. Mar 24, 2024 17:18:17 #
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AuntiE wrote:
As it is Palm Sunday, your flogging is reduced to only two strikes with a palm leaf.
I don't know whether to be disappointed by your failure to threaten me with a lopping or grateful that you didn't.Mar 24, 2024 17:13:43 #
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JFlorio wrote:
Except I don’t like Trump. I just don’t think his policies are as destructive as Biden’s, whom you do like.
I like Biden as opposed to Trump. I know you have been a DeSantis supporter. Thus, I posted 'Trump cult members', not you. You retain my respect.
Mar 24, 2024 17:07:27 #
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Jim0001 wrote:
YOU would know Slacker49!
Yeah, you're right, non-hacker. T***hs often have trouble being accepted by many OPP ERWNJs, but lies are readily accepted by the same group. This thread's OP and subsequent posts serve as light examples. Mar 24, 2024 16:42:45 #
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Rose42 wrote:
It didn’t sound like something Eastwood would say - accurate or not
It didn’t sound like something Eastwood would say - accurate or not
I've been a huge fan of Clint since his 'Rawhide' days..to include his spaghetti westerns, his directorial debut in 'Play Misty for Me' and all subsequent films with which he was associated.