Displaying 721 To 750 Of 16,275 Comments KT, I’m not sure what you mean with your “you think he’s bluffing,” but I wonder if he has control of his caucus? I sure don’t know that one either. Who is really running their side and will they even be able to pass their “Plan B” tomorrow without any Dem votes? I do wish that there were two caucuses both run by adults for a little bit of time. I think people are tired of all the game playing all the time, after a while it does get old especially after the mass killing and we have some time for some serious actions right now. » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 6:47 pm Quiz me this: Are conspiracies always vast? 😉 » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 5:53 pm Is he the one that showed them and ate their heart out — fresh? Not God, huh? chomp, chump! » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 3:20 pm So why is there even any discussion, AdLlib? They are even coming up with different ways to cut it befroe showing why it needs cut! Hair cuts for a bald man? » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 3:14 pm Thanks for the news k’es, I should say the GREAT news! Regretfully, I do know all those initials and to see those go on the little fellow will really free him up and get him back to full strength. Sounds like he is healing fast which is yet another wonderful sign! Sounds like he is on his way to a full recovery, don’t you think? » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 3:06 pm I don’t know k’es, the know-nothings of this era really, really don’t know anything do they? And they seem to be so dammed proud of it to boot! Both in science and politics and that makes it scarey for all of us because they control the purse strings. I wouldn’t be surprised if the House next year in their budget didn’t replace the NASA budget with a Dept of Alchemy and put the US back on the gold standard. Their going to have those NASA Boys working overtime turning lead in to gold. I’d bet a plug nickel on that! 😉 » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 2:41 pm Kalima, I think that there was a lot that went wrong with this situation, but very little had to do with the State Dept. or the three career diplomats that were “relieved of their duties” (I was glad to see that they may get reassigned in their duties.) » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 1:54 pm KQ, If the circumstances warranted a cut in SS benefits, you know I would more than likely join you in looking for a solution. Again I have to ask, what, where is the need for a cut in SS needed. » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 1:17 pm I do know that the last two years had only to do with inflation/COLA and nothing to do with Obama and negotiations, and yes the AFL-CIO and all unions are are against benefit cuts. I am not so much against cuts if they are needed in the overall budget as a knee-jerk reaction that I once did. The reason I am against them is that I haven’t heard anyone explain the need for them. What gap in the budget are they needed for, just an overall gap instead of raising taxes on the rich? Then the SS cut is absolutely not needed. » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 1:00 pm 😆 Were those the one’s who talked about the good old days but actually smuggled in instant? » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 12:25 pm AdLib, I have to ask you the same question as I asked KQ: Why any benefit cut? What “hole” is it supposed to fill? Need revenue from SS, why not raise the cap? I just haven’t been convinced of a need to cut benefits no matter what scale one uses. » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 10:48 am I’m not to sure about this at all KQ, why are we looking into cuts at all? Social Security did not add one red cent to the debt or the deficit and if one want revenue raised from SS, why cuts? Raise the cap immediately to $200,000 from the $106,500(around there)don’t need a large and quick bump in revenue. If you still need/want revenue raise the cap more quickly than what it was set at under Reagan/O’Neil’s agreement. But I don’t see any need for any benefit cuts. » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 10:41 am Sally the cuts you saw the last two years had absolutely nothing to do with any changes or negotiations from what I understand. The lack of any raises were based on the same calculations that has been used for many years. Senator Sanders did get passed a $500 raise for some based on a sliding scale. (I have a hard time recalling, because mine was stolen in a case of identity theft.) » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 10:28 am What would be good, would be for both parties to cooperate and come to an agreement, to act like adults, not just for the US but for the worlds economies. I would do a lot to remove all these so called “doubts” a let the economies move forward. Short of that, I really don’t know, both have some pros and some cons to them, but I’m really sticking with some maturity taking hold on all sides. » Posted By bito On December 19, 2012 @ 10:08 am Nasa’s post-Mayan apocalypse video released 10 days early – video The End isn’t just near it’s been taped and posted already! 😉 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2012/dec/13/nasas-mayan-apocalypse-video?intcmp=239 But it seem that it;s really big new in some parts of Russia. Go figure?!? Mayan apocalypse mania grips Russia Officials try to calm fears as Russians buy up emergency supplies before the Mayan calendar runs out on Friday For more than a month, Russians around the country have been buying up candles and matches, salt and torches in an effort to outsmart the apocalypse some believe will come when the Mayan calendar runs out on Friday. In the coalmining town of Novokuznetsk, shelves nearly emptied of salt stocks last month as the city’s residents prepared to ride through the end of the world. “60 tonnes were bought in one week,” Yelena Zuyeva, a city official, said last week in comments carried on the local administration’s website. “Today all trade companies are working and are ready for any level for consumer activity.” With the end of the world just days away, Russians have moved from buying stocks to thinking long and hard about where to be when the lights go off. In Moscow, an underground bunker built during the second world war for the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has offered its services: “We invite you to survive the apocalypse on 21 December in Bunker-42 on Taganka at 65 metres underground!” a note written in ominous red on its website cheerily reads. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/17/mayan-apocalypse-mania-grips-russia » Posted By bito On December 18, 2012 @ 9:22 pm k’es, is this some more of that good ‘ole time “magical thinking?” M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows “Less sex ed –> fewer pregnancies.” “Lower taxes –> more revenue.” “More guns –> less violence.” Anyone else see a trend here? » Posted By bito On December 18, 2012 @ 2:00 pm I knew I was asking too much by hoping that that the purists would hold off or tone it down but no, without knowing what the negotiations are fully about, they show up and start setting their heads on fire. I could be wrong on this one only because I thought Kos was on a full monitor of the Emo’s. Christmas comes early for Boehner If some one on the right, middle, left, or up and down tried to post this here on PPOV, I am pretty confident that they would get pummeled by many of our membership, not because of their POV so much but for the complete lack of sources, facts or figures. It’s as if it were made out of compete air. » Posted By bito On December 18, 2012 @ 10:34 am NRA’s Facebook page shuttered, Twitter activity halted It looks like the National Rifle Association is backing away from social media as the U.S. grapples with the Newtown school massacre and gun control. ….However, the NRA’s official Facebook page has now completely disappeared. When users attempt to visit http://www.facebook.com/nationalrifleassociation, they are immediately navigated to Facebook’s homepage. A Facebook spokesperson told CNET that the social network has not taken any action on the NRA’s page — which leads one to surmise that the NRA took it down voluntarily. It doesn’t say whether they curtailed any of their lobbying activities, does it? Don’t you worry they will be back in full blossom after the holidays and when Congress gets back in, especially when the new session convenes, then it will be back to their normal. Read more at: » Posted By bito On December 18, 2012 @ 4:41 am Consider yourself a very lucky person, Nirek, for being asked and enjoying such a sight. I know what you mean, even though I am not a parent my family had many children, so I have been around kids all my life, and this weekend I found myself with tears in my eyes just from commercials, kids playing in the street and programs/movies on TV. Everything the kids did this weekend had a special quality to it and them. Oh I’m sure I’ll be back to my “get off the lawn” phase of my life, but for now, that remain special, life itself a little specialness to me. » Posted By bito On December 18, 2012 @ 3:46 am From our Twitter time line” What ya think? Is this an action that is honest and on the “up and up? Sporting goods chain suspends sale of certain semi-automatic after shooting (CNN) — Dick’s Sporting Goods, one of the largest sporting goods retailers in the world, says it has removed all guns from its store nearest to Newtown, Connecticut, and is suspending the sale of certain kinds of semi-automatic rifles from its chains nationwide. The move was made out of respect for the victims and families of last week’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting “during this time of national mourning,” the store said in a statement Tuesday morning. “We continue to extend our deepest sympathies to those affected by this terrible tragedy,” the statement said. It was unclear how long the store will keep the suspension in place for the guns, known as ‘modern sporting rifles.’ It’s also not known whether this is the first time the store has taken such a step after a shooting that made national headlines. Or is this just purely a PR move? http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/18/justice/connecticut-dicks-guns/index.html » Posted By bito On December 18, 2012 @ 2:45 am Absolutely k’es Just using the descriptive phrases for heaven that they used would offend me, like you said, a mockery. I am not even a parent let alone one of those that lost a child and I find it sick in it’s own way. I can’t really even figure out where their POV is coming from. » Posted By bito On December 18, 2012 @ 2:30 am In some reading around the intertubes I have seen some “weird” “unnecessary” comments about the Father/Ex husband of the shooter same goes for the brother/son, and I wonder why. Don’t they realize that they have lost two family members, that they didn’t have anything to do with it that we know, and they too must feel devastate over the loss not of just the family members but ofall those lost at the school? » Posted By bito On December 17, 2012 @ 11:10 pm Not in my book, k’es, this is some kind of joke to me, a sick joke. » Posted By bito On December 17, 2012 @ 7:09 pm I don’t know, nor do I even understand what prayer in school is even supposed to do? I said my spelling lists over and over in grade school and I’m still a terrible speller, had my teacher led a prayer instead, would I have become a spelling champ? Which leads me to the question: Is there a certain prayer that one has to say to become a champ, if there is, GREAT, now I can now blame lack of organized prayer and my teach for the wrong prayer. » Posted By bito On December 17, 2012 @ 7:01 pm k’es, I have been in tears most of the day and I’m especially glad I have such good and caring friends on a day like today. » Posted By bito On December 16, 2012 @ 8:12 pm You may have struck the answer, k’es, perhaps that is what is needed, a massive volunteer hot line to man and answer or just talk when people have a feeling that they want to do harm to others. If there is an incident around every 20 some days, is it worth a try, what if 1/3 of them are stopped? » Posted By bito On December 16, 2012 @ 8:09 pm “We don’t go wrong when showing acts of kindness.” » Posted By bito On December 16, 2012 @ 7:53 pm President Obama’s full speech at Connecticut vigil » Posted By bito On December 16, 2012 @ 7:32 pm I’m sure, I fear that the NRA leadership and it’s backbenchers are getting their plans drawn up on how to roll back anything new. Long time, food, good to see you. » Posted By bito On December 16, 2012 @ 6:51 pm Obama vows action on gun violence: ‘These tragedies must end’ President Barack Obama vowed to marshal the power of his office behind a nationwide effort to curb gun violence following an elementary school massacre last week in Newtown, Conn. The president, speaking Sunday evening at an interfaith vigil in Newtown, said that the United States is “left with some hard questions” following the mass shooting, which left 20 children, seven adults and the suspected shooter dead. He used the speech to lay down a marker, vowing to take action to address gun violence amid yet another high-profile mass shooting in his presidency. “We can’t tolerate this anymore,” Obama said. “These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change.” “In the coming weeks I’ll use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens … at an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this,” he said. Obama offered no specifics as to what type action he might take or legislation he might seek to address these incidences of violence. A top Senate Democrat said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that she would introduce legislation on the first day of the new Congress next year to re-institute a ban on assault weapons, something which Obama has previously endorsed but not actively sought. The call-to-action was weaved together with words fro the president…. “This is our first task, caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged,” Obama asked. “And by that measure, can we truly say that, as a nation, we’re meeting our obligations?” » Posted By bito On December 16, 2012 @ 6:21 pmComments Posted By bito
Tears in my eyes for the little man! Just gotta love how he has his hand on his brothers chin and look at the fantastic smile, WOW!
Somethings did go very wrong and one thing that started it was the Republicans cutting the funding for security. Cut the funding security, security blows up in their face, blame three scapegoats for lack of security. Enter stage loony right with McGrumpy and Loony Lindy with their spooners Faux News and what do you get? it’s almost like Fux News is an arm of the government. They call for an investigation and one of their political bootlickers goes back to Congress and gets one.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57559711-93/nras-facebook-page-shuttered-twitter-activity-halted/
I don’t know perhaps they are reaching out for someone to “blame.”
In combination with other tigs is it worth a try?
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