Displaying 601 To 630 Of 4,640 Comments Some great funnies for Sunday???? » Posted By SallyT On March 6, 2013 @ 11:00 pm Well, it finally ended after midnight because they all had to leave before their pumpkin heads turned into balloons of hot air that hadn’t been tied and were rapidly deflating. » Posted By SallyT On March 6, 2013 @ 10:00 pm The are still filibustering Brennan nomination over drones and it is 11:52pm ET. Gee, are they bringing back the old way of filibustering? » Posted By SallyT On March 6, 2013 @ 8:54 pm KT, I am so sorry for this loss to your family. It is especially hard when someone is so young and their life still had so much ahead. I know today with family and friends had to help. I also know you have a strong spiritual understanding that you can draw on and find comfort, too. You know you have a friend in me and I am here for you, if only through a keyboard. But I feel close to you and together we always find a smile. We will again tomorrow. Today is for sorrow, reflection, and memories. I hope you have lots of memories to draw on. I am around if you need me, my buddy. » Posted By SallyT On March 5, 2013 @ 5:59 pm Lobbyist are a different animal. The reason I even included them in my statement was in connection with Wash DC. As long as they are only pressuring with their voices and pounding the pavement to get their issue heard by those that can make a vote or decision, they aren’t the problem. If that issue is backed by big money, as the NRA, and they can funnel money into campaigns, that is the problem. Lobbyist for the pharmaceutical and insurance companies use money as well as the oil companies. » Posted By SallyT On March 5, 2013 @ 12:42 am Nirek, that is an eye opener but some just can’t see no matter how you try to pry their eyes. I do think that more people are starting to realize that something is terribly wrong but what can one do to change things? I see no real help coming from Washington and those we have in office there. I am not including the President but he can’t do it alone. I still have to put most of the blame on the money in politics. Offices are bought and paid for and those elected have to keep raising money to stay in office. The ones paying to get them elected will expect much in return. Lobbyist are like 5 to every congressmen. How do you fix this? To get elected even the good people need to have money. Where do they get it? Campaign reform is needed but those there aren’t going to do anything about it. » Posted By SallyT On March 4, 2013 @ 3:38 pm Where there you go! » Posted By SallyT On March 4, 2013 @ 3:18 pm Nirek, those Congressmen salaries are for life, that’s an entitlement!! » Posted By SallyT On March 3, 2013 @ 7:06 pm No Apologies? Ah, who was listening to you anyway. » Posted By SallyT On March 2, 2013 @ 2:35 pm That’s good cause Luckovich is usually there every Sunday. Just like you, Glenn! Thank you! » Posted By SallyT On February 28, 2013 @ 10:17 pm Great story I found while researching a cartoon about Teen’s 10-Mile Walk to Interview Lands Job Offer Reagan was spotted by a local restaurant owner last Friday walking 10 miles to a job interview for a cashier position at a local thrift store. When the restaurant owner, Art Bouvier, realized the trek Reagan was willing to make, he hired him on the spot for an entry-level position at his Papa Roux restaurant. “I was completely surprised,” Reagan said of finding out he had the job. “I was ecstatic, surprised and anxious to start working.” There is a video with the link. And, the guy that hired him did so at double the pay! http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2013/02/teens-10-mile-walk-to-interview-lands-job-offer/ Also: » Posted By SallyT On February 28, 2013 @ 8:33 pm Glenn, I already had the cartoon in the list for Sunday but thank you for keeping your eyes out for them. I appreciate any you can find. I am grateful for the help! » Posted By SallyT On February 28, 2013 @ 6:37 pm I saw a headline that said: BOB WOODWARD: The White House Just Threatened Me It sounded stupid and Henry Blodget confirms it here: Oh, Please, The White House Didn’t ‘Threaten’ Bob Woodward The country is in an uproar because people are saying that a senior White House official “threatened” legendary journalist Bob Woodward because of something he planned to publish. If a very senior White House official did, in fact, “threaten” Woodward–if the official promised that a gang of thugs would drop by Woodward’s house later, for example, or even if the official said no one in the White House would ever speak to Woodward again–then, fine, this might be worth talking about. That’s it? In the annals of PR professional-journalist communications, the “threatening” email that Woodward received is actually quite polite and respectful. » Posted By SallyT On February 27, 2013 @ 10:42 pm These Maps Show How Schools Are Going To Get Totally Slammed By Sequestration These Maps Show How The Sequester Is Going To Devastate America 11 States That Are Going To Get Slammed Hardest By The Sequester » Posted By SallyT On February 27, 2013 @ 10:30 pm Leading Catholic Blogger Sees More Evidence That The Pope Is Gay Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/benedict-xvi-to-live-with-georg-ganswein-2013-2#ixzz2MAjx9OT And, when am I suppose to act surprised???? » Posted By SallyT On February 27, 2013 @ 10:23 pm A brave and courageous lady. The monument is long over due but thankfully it is here and President Obama was there. » Posted By SallyT On February 27, 2013 @ 6:29 pm That man is a disgrace to his robe! He is evil and should be retired. Maybe he can shack up with the Pope! » Posted By SallyT On February 27, 2013 @ 6:26 pm OMG, that cracked me up! Thanks AdLib! That is a dog on a short leash! » Posted By SallyT On February 25, 2013 @ 9:01 pm Sherlock, I always keep my head down. » Posted By SallyT On February 25, 2013 @ 5:57 pm Wow, Kes, that was surprising but much appreciated. I am glad that others are enjoying them, too. Thank you so much for bringing that to my attention. As Sally Fields would say, “You like me. You really like me!” » Posted By SallyT On February 25, 2013 @ 3:37 pm Personally, I think the first Academy Award tonight should go to the ones that have to roll out and vacuum that damn Red Carpet, then when they are done have to vacuum and roll it back up again! Hope all my friends here on the Planet are having a Red Carpet Day along with those Hollywood Stars. Congrads! The award goes to you! » Posted By SallyT On February 24, 2013 @ 3:18 pm When the white man first settled here, the indigenous people showed them how to survive and respect the ground that gave them food to live. We listened until our greed made us think we knew more but we did not. If you have just a dozen minutes today, please take time to listen to them again. They are only trying to help us survive and control our greed. We will all be better if we do.
» Posted By SallyT On February 22, 2013 @ 1:53 pm As a member, I just received this: The Sierra Club Thank President Obama here –>http://sc.org/Arctic_victory » Posted By SallyT On February 22, 2013 @ 1:48 pm AdLib, want to bet how long 999 Cain will last on FOX? He isn’t going to draw an audience anymore than Palin did. Even the loonies will get tried of him. I think the wealthy and the corporations are having a harder time in selling their product. FOX’s viewers are getting too old to shop as much and there are far fewer young shoppers buying what they are selling. Besides, everyone needs their money for more important things and the 1% is hurting themselves just as much in keeping the wages low on the rest of us. I don’t care if they are just playing the stock market and speculations, they still needs us to buy and if we don’t have the money, we can’t and won’t. Really shows that most of the rich have either inherited or earned their money on investments because they are not smart enough to know how money is really earned. By working and having a product to sell that people need and want in order to spend the little money they have. » Posted By SallyT On February 22, 2013 @ 1:23 pm AdLib, I am sure Trump will try to sue if it can keep him in the headlines. He is just out for publicity. The squirrel on his head isn’t working, so, lets take action against the people that don’t want to shop at Macy’s because the nut is there! SQUIRREL! » Posted By SallyT On February 22, 2013 @ 1:12 pm Well, apparently the NRA would be out numbered with the bird watchers and the fishers. Add that to the government and they will diffidently campaign that they need more guns to hold us all back! Silly how the facts show that there aren’t that many needing guns for hunting and that is why the NRA is putting fear out there that Armageddon is on the horizon. Got to sell those guns some way. However, my faith is restored somewhat that there are more people watching the birds than shooting them. We are a kinder world than the NRA is wanting us to be. » Posted By SallyT On February 22, 2013 @ 1:07 pm More Americans Watch Birds Than Hunt In 2011, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (PDF), 15.7 million Americans older than six went hunting. That’s nearly 29 million less than went fishing, and 3 million less than went out to watch birds. [img]http://www.motherjones.com/files/hunters3.jpg[/img] FWS’s latest survey finds that hunters are 89 percent male and 94 percent white. More than half are 45 or older. Nearly 60 percent live in small metropolitan areas or rural areas. Similarly, about 80 percent of all gun owners are men, and they have been getting older as their numbers have fallen. [img]http://www.motherjones.com/files/reasons.jpg[/img] But hunting isn’t America’s most popular wildlife-related recreational activity: It’s fishing, which 98 percent of Americans have no problem with. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/hunting-demographics-charts-guns And, I wonder how many of those fishing are “catch and release”? That is something you can’t do with a gun. » Posted By SallyT On February 21, 2013 @ 7:41 pm I am still laughing that they replaced Sarah Palin with Herman Cain on FOX. She wasn’t dumb enough? Herman Cain: Americans Have ‘Severe Ignorance Problem’ For Reelecting Obama Failed presidential candidate Herman Cain actually had the nerve to tell Fox’s Bill O’Reilly this Tuesday that the 51 percent of Americans who voted for President Obama in the last election have a “severe ignorance problem.” Yeah… that Herman Cain: Maybe Cain isn’t the best person to lecture the American people on their “severe ignorance problem”? Understatement of the day, right there. http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/herman-cain-americans-who-reelected-obama » Posted By SallyT On February 21, 2013 @ 6:53 pm Trump Threatens $25 Million Lawsuit To Squelch Citizen’s Free Speech The Donald is having a hissy fit, ladies and gentlemen. It seems he did not appreciate the recent “DumpTrump” campaign mounted against Macy’s insistence on carrying his line of men’s clothing. Angelo Carusone, of StopBeck fame, posted the petition on SignOn.org to protest Trump’s continued racism against President Obama, support for birthers, and overall smarminess. Carusone’s petition has nearly 660,000…… “Rather than simply engage in lawful protest, you have apparently made it your mission to interfere with and intentionally disrupt Mr. Trump’s long-standing and well-established business relationship with Macy’s as well as his contractual dealings with other third parties through mob-like bullying and coercion,” reads a cease-and-desist letter from attorney Alan Garten that was obtained by THR. BWAHAHAHAHA. Donald Trump, you should know your adversaries before sending out meaningless cease and desist notices. You have just made Angelo that much more determined to see you either apologize, quit lying about the president, or lose the right to market your merchandise in a store the public at large can choose at any time to boycott for any reason. That’s how the people speak, Mr. Trump. With their feet and their wallets. http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/trump-sues-25-million-squelch-free-speech » Posted By SallyT On February 21, 2013 @ 6:39 pm There’s One Huge Flaw In John Boehner’s Attempt To Pin The Sequester On Obama “The President’s sequester is the wrong way to reduce the deficit, but it is here to stay until Washington Democrats get serious about cutting spending,” Boehner writes. “The government simply cannot keep delaying the inevitable and spending money it doesn’t have.” But there’s one big flaw in his argument, as pointed out by the Washington Examiner’s Byron York and others today. York writes that Boehner and the GOP’s message is “astonishingly bad” on the sequester. York writes: On the other end of the spectrum, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh also cited York’s piece and wondered “what Speaker Boehner is thinking.” In a recent Quinnipiac poll, Obama’s approval rating stood above water at 46 percent. Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, had an approval rating of 19 percent. That included dreadful ratings of 15 percent from self-identified Independents and only 41 percent from Republican voters. » Posted By SallyT On February 20, 2013 @ 6:56 pmComments Posted By SallyT
Yes, there are many times that lobbying an issue will get results that are beneficial. And, I am sure you are very good at that and I am not surprised that you have been successful. I would be very lucky to have you helping me on any cause I was lobbying.
But whether it is 5 to 1 or 9 to 1, to have that many lobbyist in Wash DC means there is a lot of money behind them. They do pay lobbyist. (Yes there may be lobbyist that do it for no or a small fee but those are not in Wash DC.)
Indiana Teen Hikes 10 Miles Through Ice Storm For Minimum-Wage Job!
“I have employees who can’t get here to work on time even though they have cars and very comfortable houses,” Bouvier said. “Here’s a kid who planned his morning to walk three hours and 10 miles in the snow just for an interview.”
“If you’ll do that, you’ll definitely show up for work on time so I thought, ‘Yeah, I want you,’” he said.
“Art paid it forward and I’m going to plan on doing the same,” he said. “I’m going to pay it forward.”
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/02/27/jhaqueil-reagan-storm-hike/
But according to Ben Smith of BuzzFeed, here’s what the senior White House official actually said to Bob Woodward (in an email):
“You’re focusing on a few specific trees that give a very wrong impression of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. … I think you will regret staking out that claim.”
That’s the “threat”?
Sperling wasn’t even saying that Woodward would “regret” publishing whatever he planned to publish because Sperling would get him back for it later. He was saying Woodward would regret it because Woodward would be proven wrong.
“Perhaps we will not see eye to eye here?”
Sperling didn’t even tell Woodward he was an idiot!
WOW! The Obama administration just announced it would, for the first time in U.S. history, protect 11 million acres of the Western Arctic from drilling. This is in the area called the National Petroleum Reserve, so we’re especially psyched!
35 percent of Americans say they own a gun.
80 percent of hunters go after big game/deer,elk. About 4.5 million hunt small game as squirrels; 2.6 million hunt ducks/other birds, and 2.2 million go after other animals like feral pigs.
93% use rifles or shotguns. Spend more than $4.3 billion on firearms and ammunition of the nearly $12 billion US firearms market. Most Americans buy guns for protection; less than a 30 percent of those who recently bought a gun got it for hunting. Which may explain why the NRA has been focusing less on hunting and more on protecting the market for lucrative assault rifles and handguns.
Look, Herman Cain is entitled to believe whatever he pleases. We are, however, talking about a guy who doesn’t know China has nuclear weapons. He said the U.S. can’t launch a military strike against Iran because it’s “very mountainous.” He thinks “Cuban” is a language. Asked about an international military conflict in Libya, he said, “I got all this stuff twirling around in my head.” Asked about foreign heads of state, he said he doesn’t care who “the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan” is.
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Could the GOP message on the sequester be any more self-defeating? Boehner could argue that the sequester cuts are necessary as a first — and somewhat modest — step toward controlling the deficits that threaten the economy. Instead, he describes them as a threat to national security and jobs that he nevertheless supports. It’s not an argument that is likely to persuade millions of Americans.
“But the question is, why would Republicans support something that does what Boehner says it’s gonna do?” Limbaugh said. “… I do not have an explanation. I don’t think that there is a reasonable explanation for that. I don’t understand it. Don’t have an answer for you. It’s too simple to chalk this up to incompetence. It may be that, but that’s too simple. I don’t have an answer. I can’t explain it to you. All I know is that it doesn’t make any sense.”
The polls signal that in the event the sequester cuts kick in and the effects are felt by Americans, they will blame Republicans — the side viewed in much more of a negative light right now.
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