Displaying 6,511 To 6,540 Of 7,446 Comments Glen Beckistan Strikes Again but this Time with a Dem Do not know what happened above, here is the comment Hey the new and improved Jim Bakker is selling his survivial kits and for a more robust contribution you can become a partner in his survival “cave” LOL » Posted By SueInCa On March 10, 2010 @ 11:07 am Hey the new and improved Jim Bakker is selling his survivial kits and for a more robust contribution you can become a partner in his survival “cave” LOL. » Posted By SueInCa On March 10, 2010 @ 11:05 am Ok, I am not buying in to that ad, but when I went to the store on Sunday for some grocery shopping, alot of the shelves appeared picked over and empty. Maybe it was just Sunday and supplies were low. » Posted By SueInCa On March 10, 2010 @ 11:03 am Welcome to the Planet Tweety. » Posted By SueInCa On March 10, 2010 @ 4:39 pm You tell him Bito, great op ed. » Posted By SueInCa On March 9, 2010 @ 10:28 am I agree. We recently went back to Kaiser when we relocated back to California. Their system is so easy and effortless. If you are a participant in your own wellness, it is the perfect compliment. I manage all of my health care needs, mostly by internet and phone with my doctor. » Posted By SueInCa On March 9, 2010 @ 10:25 am Great post Marion. The Branson deal going on in the UK is most assuredly quite similar to the Investors here in the states buying up blocks of homes on a dime. The collapse of the housing market put them in to a position to scurry around like cockraches and buy up blocks of homes. In turn, they will do a little work where necessary then turn the properties over to Property Mangement groups and become the newest version of the Slumlord. Who knows, the same person who once owned that home my be the new renter of that home. In any case, it shows that the haves are waging war on the have nots. People who lost their homes are so concentrated on finding new digs and just keeping their heads above water that they don’t even have time to see what really happened to them. If I was a believer in conspiracy theories, I would say this great con is probably one of the best ever perpetrated. Oh wait, I don’t have to be a conspiracy theoritst to believe that, because I do. This is what really got Elliot Spitzer in trouble: Predatory Lenders’ Partner in Crime By Eliot Spitzer Even though predatory lending was becoming a national problem, the Bush administration looked the other way and did nothing to protect American homeowners. In fact, the government chose instead to align itself with the banks that were victimizing consumers. Predatory lending was widely understood to present a looming national crisis. This threat was so clear that as New York attorney general, I joined with colleagues in the other 49 states in attempting to fill the void left by the federal government. Individually, and together, state attorneys general of both parties brought litigation or entered into settlements with many subprime lenders that were engaged in predatory lending practices. Several state legislatures, including New York’s, enacted laws aimed at curbing such practices. What did the Bush administration do in response? Did it reverse course and decide to take action to halt this burgeoning scourge? As Americans are now painfully aware, with hundreds of thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure and our markets reeling, the answer is a resounding no. Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eyegot Elliot Spitzer in trouble. » Posted By SueInCa On March 9, 2010 @ 10:11 am Khirad » Posted By SueInCa On March 10, 2010 @ 7:44 pm Message from a Snob to the Rest of You Marion I used to spend alot of time in Virginia when I worked for Visa International’s US Division, specifically in McClean VA. I have some very close friends in that area and we were eating dinner at one of their homes homes having. I got up to help clear the table and one of my friend’s mothers advised me not to let the plates touch each other. I was cleaning drty plates and she was worried about them touching. I just looked at her and I guess I looked quite confused because it actually turned out to be a little joke on me but she told me that in all seriousness it was an old tradition in the south that somehow if you let the bottom of one dirty plate touch the other it is seriously bad ettiquite. I never did understand that one, but I sometimes flinch when I see someone do the same thing now LOL. » Posted By SueInCa On March 8, 2010 @ 12:55 pm Let’s be our OWN “Moral Majority” Well it has been a long day and I amgetting a bit sleepy. So good night to all my friends at the Planet. Sleep well everyone. » Posted By SueInCa On March 7, 2010 @ 10:37 pm I recently ordered the book again through Barnes and Noble. Only 7.99 » Posted By SueInCa On March 7, 2010 @ 10:34 pm If you ever get the chance, watch QBVII. It is one of the best I have ever seen. It starred Ben Gazarra and Anthony Hopkins. The book was written by Leon Uris. » Posted By SueInCa On March 7, 2010 @ 10:25 pm LOL. I bought 5 postcards at the Holocaust Museum. When I got home I bought 5 frames and I have hung them in a prominant place in my homes everytime I moved. » Posted By SueInCa On March 7, 2010 @ 10:23 pm I have thought about running if only to point out the hypocrisies during the campaign………….but i don’t have the green to run a campaign. » Posted By SueInCa On March 7, 2010 @ 10:20 pm They are infiltrating every area of society, I am fully aware of that. That little creep Stephen Baldwin is the head of one of those organizations. I can’t think of the name off the top of my head. Christian Embassy, I will have to look that one up. » Posted By SueInCa On March 7, 2010 @ 10:18 pm Believe me she is the darling of the Christian right and has been groomed by some of the worst of them. First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out » Posted By SueInCa On March 7, 2010 @ 10:14 pm Khirad, CL is right. Old Newt is right in the middle of the Christian right. If you think Bush was weak, Newt would be a disaster. You don’t have to be pentacostal to be in that group. The group is composed of evangelicals and communists(mainly Catholics) that are on the more rabid side of the respective religion. You can go to one Presbyterian church and get a mild case of protestant, then go to another and get rabid, evangelical christians. In the 70’s they came up with a term for these people, Charismatic to soften the pentacostal term, make it more palatable to the masses. My series is going to start this week and I cover the make-up/history of the christian right in the first installment. I said it better in that post. » Posted By SueInCa On March 7, 2010 @ 10:09 pm I never want to sound like the “sour grape” in the room but I have done my research on these people and I know what they want. They are not dominionist for nothing. You can hear it in their choices of words, regime, socialist, communist, fascism. They say when you constantly refer to others with these ideals you are probably projecting what you believe in your heart. Authority is at the heart of their doctrine and you can bet they will make sure it is dealt all over this country. I just do not know how to wake people up…………….Michael Moore, where are you? » Posted By SueInCa On March 7, 2010 @ 9:59 pm Sheeet, in my opinion if budget cuts should be made, start with them. What do you want to bet there is a C street house somewhere in Sac? And, they knew when they ran what they were up against. I notice they have not forgone their pay raises. That is part of the problem, our elected officials do not set the example for everyone else. If they want, I will take one of their places, I can carpool or drive to work then they don’t have that two home worry. » Posted By SueInCa On March 7, 2010 @ 9:46 pm The worst thing that could happen to this country is to let another republican in the WH. If you think the past 30 years have devastated this country, give them 4 or 8 more years and we will all be reporting to the Christian Department of the Interior. There is not one candidate in that party that I think could do any better job than Obama is doing right now, in fact if they come to power again, they will finish off the freedoms that we still have. If they get in to power again, I truly fear for our country because progressive dems and liberals are going to wake up one morning and you are going to be required to declare your christian status and if you refuse, you will be thrown in jail. Perhaps we do need to understand the worst case scenario to wake us up. My friends, if we wake up one morning in that worst case scenario for lack of action, we only have ourselves to blame. » Posted By SueInCa On March 7, 2010 @ 9:42 pm That’s real family values. What is up with the state vehicle? They should sell them all and make these guys drive their own cars » Posted By SueInCa On March 7, 2010 @ 9:19 pm A Coalition of Church and State – Part 1 Thanks. It is just fascinating to me and with the world in such chaos, it pays to watch these people. I would bet alot of the coups and unrest in other countries have their bullchit written all over it. I know for a fact with Somalia, Indonesia and Chile(Pinochet)coup against Allende » Posted By SueInCa On March 11, 2010 @ 8:24 pm LMAO, very little gel to speak of and tasteful Armani all the way. » Posted By SueInCa On March 11, 2010 @ 8:19 pm Khirad » Posted By SueInCa On March 11, 2010 @ 7:53 pm The best thing you can do is educate others. Stand up and speak out when they tell lies. And post articles about them in their hypocrisy. I read the info on Focus and maybe, just maybe they are softening their approach but I cannot imagine the millions of sheep that follow Dobson to be happy about it. I signed up for their emails and magazine to keep any eye on them. I will keep everyone posted here on what I see. I just might become the resident CR watchdog here. » Posted By SueInCa On March 11, 2010 @ 7:42 pm Here is the WroldNet post by Ken Hutcherson. He is a bit of a nasty one there. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127297 » Posted By SueInCa On March 11, 2010 @ 6:56 pm Cher » Posted By SueInCa On March 11, 2010 @ 6:48 pm He wants something, you can be sure. I don’t believe it for a minute. I am gonna tell President Obama to keep them out of the big house, or better yet, have a tea and invite Rev Wright. Let’s see how amicable he really wants to be. » Posted By SueInCa On March 11, 2010 @ 6:43 pm Thanks Kalima, I appreciate it. You know I have only been following this for awhile but the more I heard over the past year and then learned how these people spouting off had a vested interest in whatever they were pontificating on, I got more curious. This is a good example. CNN did a segment this morning on these kids(more than likely great group of kids as far as I know) who were going to spend a w/e living like the homeless. This was presumably so they could get a feel for what the poor go through. They made up their cardboard houses and prepared to spend the next 30 hours living there and fasting so they would know what it was like to go hungry. Good so far, right? Wrong, after a few hours in the cold, their leader brought them inside because it was too cold for them. Experiment over, right? Wrong because the next day they were still on the fasting thing and standing on a street holding up signs, For a dollar they will plant a fork in the ground to stop hunger around the world. Maybe these kids were doing this on their own to show they understood the plight of the less fortunate, no again. The sponsor of this little game was World Vision. They put kids on display in a deceptive way to draw donations to their organization. They were using these kids as props to generate money. It would have been much more effective if the grownups in the room had stood up and said, let us do it and then truly done so. Don’t get me wrong, I want the hungry to eat as much as anyone else, but World Vision is not the organization they portray themselves to be. I fell into the trap. I gave my monthly stipend of $16(back in 1983) to feed, clothe and educate a hungry child. I was told I would get regular updates as to how my adopted child was doing. Got the introductory letter about my child and then not a thing more. Because I felt guilty, I did not stop my donations. I mean who wants to deprive a child? After about 6 years, yes years, I got tired of trying to get info from them and regretably stopped my donations. I never had received anything to indicate where my donation was going. For all I know Richard Halverson(The Family I now Know) was paying his rent at C Street with my money. I heard a comic, Sam Kennison, do a piece on this and other groups like this, he said………..”Cmon you know the film crew has a sandwich, you would think they would feed the kid, but the director is saying, no no don’t feed him yet, it only works if he looks hungry”. I know there are plenty of good organizations out there, but people like this just make me furious. » Posted By SueInCa On March 11, 2010 @ 3:16 pm Khirad The way you describe it, is a good parallel to the Christian Right here in the US. I am not a religious scholar, by any means, but I see how people use religion to control others or to persuade others into their way of thinking. I also hold no illusions that the US Government, as is usual, have meddled quite a bit over the years with Iran. » Posted By SueInCa On March 11, 2010 @ 12:13 pmComments Posted By SueInCa
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I saw the powder ceremony or should I say throwing on of all shows, The Amazing Race. It looked like not much fun to me. I am one of those girly girls when it comes to sweat or getting dirty, otherwise in most other things,no holds barred. The colors are beautiful though. Do they use those powders to dye cloth? It would produce some pretty vibrant cloth and designs.
That quote is on one of the cards so I look at it everyday.
I would not mind being the spoiler and stirring up the pot alittle. LOL
My friend, Saeed was very modern. He told us stories of the Shah, pretty amazing. We called Saeed Mr. GQ lol. He was the picture of neat, well dressed professional banker and he was the nicest person I ever worked for. We were always amazed that when they came to the states, his family settled first in Oklahoma.
It just makes me want to grab them and shake them. I would love to attend one of their churches and record what goes on but they check at the door for cameras and audio equipment. Can you imagine? I wonder what they are so afraid of?
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I do not have a real depth of knowledge about Iran but I have a friend who immigrated to the states with his family when the Shah was deposed. His father worked in the Shah’s regime therefore they decided to leave the country to insure their safety.
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