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Time Out for O/T – Vol. 17

k’es, The max for many first going on SSI is less than 700 dollars a month. Now does that sound like they can even afford donuts? More like “Do-Nots” to me. Not being on SSI also jeopardizes their HC through the Medicaid and other social services. It ends up as a HC via the ER, and who pays for that? The size of his brain, with his short-sightedness may match his little heart amongst another body part as in “You little p#*@k.

» Posted By bito On October 10, 2011 @ 6:02 pm

k’es it doesn’t work for me either. Let me check on it.

» Posted By bito On October 10, 2011 @ 5:47 pm

e’cat he is “The Decider” on what is Christian! Here is his take on Roman Catholics.:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jeffress-says-satan-behind-roman-catholicism
Some (most) of the speakers are downright scary, the Dominionists that Sue and C’Lady have been warning us about.
I think he and the “Value Voters” even scare C-Street theocratic politicos.

An aside: C-Span is supported ans paid for by the cable corporations and they broadcast the “Value Voters” confab live. They did not cover the AFL-CIO’s “Youth-Union Conference.” Just a coincidence or does this reflect on what we all see on “cable news” programs?

» Posted By bito On October 10, 2011 @ 5:40 pm

Em, you haven’t been reading your Twitter. 😆 You’re right 95% of the coverage is NYC/Boston. My local news said it was an anti-government protest, nothing more, in the 20 seconds of coverage they gave it.

» Posted By bito On October 10, 2011 @ 2:15 pm

So Mitt should have said “I’ll reinstate the proposed cuts of Obama’s because of the winding down of the two Bush wars.” ?
Little too truthy for a campaign stump speech? 😉

» Posted By bito On October 10, 2011 @ 1:39 pm

So Mitt says:Romney: “I will reverse Obama’s massive defense cuts.”

Def spending, 2011, $739 b; 2010 $721b; 2009 $698b; 2008 $696b; 2007 $626b; 2005, $506b

Which one are those Mitt?
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MIC spending, the only jobs plan the R’s support, sorta kinda. They want more contracts to the defense contractors at the same time they fight the wages they pay by wanting to repeal the Davis-Bacon prevailing wages and fight the NLRB rulings that decide in favor of Union employees of them.

Them R’s, always looking out for the working person, eh?

» Posted By bito On October 10, 2011 @ 1:01 pm

This a hard to even find the words to even reply to k’es in any polite way. Exactly what would society look like under his vision? Cutting off 5,600 people from SSI may as well as be a death notice for many. Being on SSI is no bed of roses for anyone, it allows one to to live in the “middle class” of poverty and not at the bottom of it. Throw in a disabuilty and it makes it “no fun.”

Maybe the military contractors can pick up the tab for those war veterans.
Look! Is that a flying pig?

» Posted By bito On October 10, 2011 @ 12:27 pm

Funny-sick thing Em that liability insurance is state regulated on non-regulated with just one regulation– if you have a business, you have to have it. 700 to 4,000 is outrageous and I’m sure your Insurance Commission has talked to the insurance company at the last fund raiser they held for them.

» Posted By bito On October 10, 2011 @ 11:53 am

Take Action: Email, Tweet, fax or as the President says use Carrier pigeon but send this article to your Rep. or Senator and to the White House about Small Business Admin. red tape.

Regulations, taxes aren’t killing small business, owners say

WASHINGTON — Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy. However, little evidence of that emerged when McClatchy canvassed a random sample of small business owners across the nation.

[…]

McClatchy reached out to owners of small businesses, many of them mom-and-pop operations, to find out whether they indeed were being choked by regulation, whether uncertainty over taxes affected their hiring plans and whether the health care overhaul was helping or hurting their business.

Their response was surprising.

None of the business owners complained about regulation in their particular industries, and most seemed to welcome it. Some pointed to the lack of regulation in mortgage lending as a principal cause of the financial crisis that brought about the Great Recession of 2007-09 and its grim aftermath.

More>>> http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/01/122865/regulations-taxes-arent-killing.html

Mapping Debate did a study on this a few moths ago and came to close the same conclusion, regulations are not hurting the small business economy.

» Posted By bito On October 9, 2011 @ 3:03 pm

Breaking Presser from C-Span! 😉

H/T http://www.businessinsider.com/snl-blasts-mitt-romney-for-not-being-chris-christie-2011-10

» Posted By bito On October 9, 2011 @ 12:39 pm

😆 Kalima, You know how long those women take. 😆

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 7:48 pm

Kalima if you count both legs and arms and multiply by 5 and add her “invisible clothes,” I think the numbers are “right.”

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 7:36 pm

😆 AdLib I was laughing before I even played it!

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 7:31 pm

The upper, upper, upper balcony was packed, really!

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 6:59 pm

A reported 5,000 were assembled to hear Sarah Palin speak today:

[img]http://p.twimg.com/AbRy5JjCAAAKs-o.jpg[/img]

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 6:46 pm

So a devotee to Ayn Rand, an avowed atheist, wins the Value Voters straw poll by a bundle!

WASHINGTON — Ron Paul won the presidential straw poll at the 2011 Values Voter Summit, a comeback of sorts, and return to the usual pattern of highly-organized convention takeovers by the libertarian candidate. He beat out seven other candidates and “undecided.” The full results, with 1,983 ballots cast:

Ron Paul – 36.9% (732)
Herman Cain – 22.5% (447)
Rick Santorum – 16.3% (323)
Rick Perry – 8.4% (167)
Michele Bachmann – 7.9% (157)
Mitt Romney – 4.4% (88)
Newt Gingrich – 2.7% (54)
Undecided – 0.7% (13)
Jon Huntsman – 0.1% (2)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/10/08/ron_paul_wins_values_voter_straw_poll_cain_takes_second.html

I know straw polls mean little to nothing, just saying.

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 6:16 pm

I think Alabama just played the “Ace of Thump” or is there yet another card out there to “beat” it?

In Alabama, It Goes Like This: No ID, No Water
By karoli

Attention all water customers: To be compliant with new laws concerning immigration you must have an Alabama Driver’s License or an Alabama picture ID card on file at this office before September 29, 2011 or you may lose water service. Thank you.

What good news for all the unemployed manufacturing people, they can now find a job doing stoop labor picking crops and plucking chickens. Think of all the money you can save on those gym fees with all that exercise!

Wonder if they will change the state motto?

state seal

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 3:25 pm

I can’t pass this one up: 😆

BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz
2012 Poll: Potential Race Between Black Guy and Mormon Poses Dilemma for Bigots

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 1:20 pm

He is one funny man and makes so much sense through his humor in the vein of Bruce, Sahl, and Carlin.

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 12:45 pm

Yep, I think he got his shorts burned by the “Value Voters.”

Watch Jeffress’ introduction of Perry, where he makes a subtle contrast at the end of Perry, a “born again follower of the Lord Jesus Christ,” to Romney, who is simply a “good, moral person”


More>>> http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jeffress-vote-perry-because-romney-not-true-christian

The comparison wasn’t exactly veiled, I think! 😉

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 12:33 pm

And how do the Value Voters match up with the rest of the GOP?

#VVS straw poll: Paul 37%, Cain 23%, Santorum 16%, Bachmann 8%, Perry 8%, Mitt 4%, Newt 3%, Huntsman 0%

Does this indicate anything on how they will vote for a Mormon in the primaries and general?

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 12:14 pm

On the site “Right Wing Watch, they have compiled some interesting clips from the “Value Voters” confab. Too many to pick from and I suggest you take a look.

A sample:

The theory of evolution was a central topic in Bryan Fischer’s speech to the Values Voter Summit, where he argued that the presidential candidates should reject evolution. “I submit to you that not a single one of our unalienable rights will be safe,” Fischer said, “in the hands of a president who believes that we evolved from slime and that we are the descendents of apes and baboons.” Fischer called the separation of church and state “mythical” and argued that a result of secular government and the theory of evolution result in mass murder like in Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Maoist China.

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 11:45 am

Hey Ohio! Let me make this perfectly clear:

Vocal SB5 Supporter Republican Rep. Ron Amstutz On Why State Legislators Are Exempt From SB 5

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 11:22 am

Weekly Address: Making Your Voice Heard on the American Jobs Act

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2_8W9GuHc&feature=player_embedded

Transcript: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/10/08/weekly-address-growing-economy-american-jobs-act

» Posted By bito On October 8, 2011 @ 9:10 am

I often wonder exactly who lives in this district that keeps electing this man and is there not one single ‘sane’ person living there to challenge him? Does he have “dirty pictures” of everyone there?

Republican Congressman Says Obama’s Jobs Bill Is Really An Effort to Destroy Marriage in America

Did you know that President Obama’s jobs bill is really a covert effort to destroy marriage in America!! You didn’t? Well you’re obviously not listening to the paranoid, delusional thinking of some of those wise Texas politicians who are quite sure they are more in touch with God and the truth than anyone else.

Rep. Louie Gohmert, (Republican, schizophrenic) announced on the floor of the United States Congress this past Tuesday, that he is sure, that President Obama’s jobs bill is actually part of covert effort to destroy marriage in America? How? Gohmert knows something about the bill that not another living soul can verify, the jobs bill provides tax credits to unmarried couples that married people don’t have.

In his words:

“This president, by virtue of the power to tax, the power to destroy, takes a shot at traditional conventional marriage. This may be something nice he’s throwing out for gay folks that are living together so he can tell them actually you are better off not getting married because there is a marriage penalty here,”

H/T http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/07/republican-congressman-says-obamas-jobs-bill-is-really-an-effort-to-destroy-marriage-in-america/

» Posted By bito On October 7, 2011 @ 5:04 pm

What we need is an #OccupyNordquist by a hundred R’s in Congress!

Rep. Frank Wolf, a Republican, Attacks Grover Norquist on the House Floor

Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf (R), one of six House Republicans who hasn’t signed Americans for Tax Reform’s no-taxes pledge, took to the House floor today and slammed ATR President Grover Norquist, accusing Norquist of working with “unsavory characters” and pushing a pledge that makes it harder for Congress to achieve meaningful deficit reduction and tax reform.

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/rep-frank-wolf-r-va-attacks-grover-norq

» Posted By bito On October 7, 2011 @ 4:18 pm

Em, I must admit I couldn’t watch much of his speech so I missed that part on his tax plan. Yeah he’s going after Michelle’s voters so he can get up to 4% in the polling. No taxes but leave my Medicare alone, keep my airports and flights safe and we need a new highway where I live!

» Posted By bito On October 7, 2011 @ 1:31 pm

Good point? Can the R’s win with a “I’m against it because Obama is for it?”

“I mean, here is a good question, here’s a little homework assignment for folks: Go ask the Republicans what their jobs plan is if they’re opposed to the American Jobs Act, and have it scored, have it assessed by the same independent economists that have assessed our jobs plan. These independent economists say that we could grow the economy as much as 2 percent, and as many as 1.9 million workers would be back on the job. I think it would be interesting to have them do a similar assessment — same people. Some of these folks, by the way, traditionally have worked for Republicans, not just Democrats. Have those economists evaluate what, over the next two years, the Republican jobs plan would do.

Republicans Wet Themselves During President Obama’s Press Conference!
By Extreme Liberal

» Posted By bito On October 7, 2011 @ 11:19 am

Funk, here is the take on the jobs numbers via Bloomberg.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-07/u-s-payrolls-rise-103-000-in-september-jobless-rate-at-9-1-.html?cmpid=bit

» Posted By bito On October 7, 2011 @ 10:55 am

I know C’Lady, just when I think I have some rules figured out, I realize I don’t. I have read through some of them and even those make little sense to me.
The definition for arcane says: “See U.S. Senate Rules.” 😉

» Posted By bito On October 7, 2011 @ 9:56 am

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