Displaying 2,251 To 2,280 Of 16,275 Comments Hey bommer girl, good to see you and hope all is well for you (except for that K-sick problem, he will be around for 2 more years 🙁 ) » Posted By bito On March 28, 2012 @ 6:22 pm BTW: Has any one caught any of the business reports today? The US gas surplus is awash with extra gas and petroleum How’s those gas prices? Falling like a stone? » Posted By bito On March 28, 2012 @ 6:14 pm BourneID If you have any questions at all, and you will on your first one, everyone does 🙂 please ask them on the Help page, it makes it easier for admin to find your questions. » Posted By bito On March 28, 2012 @ 6:06 pm This is not from the ONION! [img]http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/nrahoodie.jpg[/img] Much has been made of the fact that Trayvon Martin was wearing a hoodie when he died, with Geraldo Rivera even suggesting that his choice in wardrobe was as much responsible for his death as George Zimmerman. Apparently the choice of attire of hung-over college kids sitting in chilly lecture rooms is somehow threatening and should be worn by only white people. Well, the National Rifle Association, the organization that championed the Stand Your Ground Law, has been selling hoodies of its own. But not just any hoodies. Hoodies that are specifically designed to conceal a handgun. http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/03/nra_selling_concealed_carry_ho.php » Posted By bito On March 27, 2012 @ 9:17 pm Sorry, it was a bit too graphic for me while I was typing it but it does explain his true profession. 😉 » Posted By bito On March 27, 2012 @ 9:09 pm The Daily Edge @TheDailyEdge Newt Campaign Charging $50 To Have Picture Taken With Him, or $500 for a Full Hour 😆 Does he give one a discount on one of his books if you pay for for the full hour? Woder if he gets a kickback from the motel for that hour? » Posted By bito On March 27, 2012 @ 8:46 pm I don’t know k’es (shaking head), they must be jealous/envious of Arizona about who can be be the most undemocratic a**holes. » Posted By bito On March 27, 2012 @ 8:15 pm If you missed “The Last Word” with Larry O’ try to catch the re-run or on-line tomorrow. They tore up the Zimmerman apologist, Joe Oliver big time. » Posted By bito On March 27, 2012 @ 8:03 pm FYI in the ACA the so called “mandate” is actually called the “individual responsibility provision” Now I see why the R’s spun it as “the mandate,” them being the evangelists of personal responsibility! » Posted By bito On March 27, 2012 @ 7:58 pm lyse hogue @ilyseh Srsly can we stop using their language? Not a mandate; it’s a “free-rider fee.” » Posted By bito On March 27, 2012 @ 7:10 pm I only charge 40 bucks Sally. 😆 » Posted By bito On March 27, 2012 @ 7:08 pm Thanks @susand900, as we suspected, we now know where the stink of Americans Elect is coming from- the big cesspool! Great find by Irregular Times and thanks for sharing. A search of the House Lobbying Disclosure database reveals that over the last election cycle of 2009-2010, Tom Sansonetti has been active as a lobbyist for Peabody Energy Corporation, which is the largest private coal corporation in the world and a chief participant in ALEC, a consortium of corporations that writes pro-business legislation that are introduced and passed by corporate-sponsored state legislators and members of Congress. Why does this news make me want to break out the tune “Fresh Garbage” by Spirit? They have no interest in becoming a non-partisan party, they want more corporate take-over. Let’s see Buddy Romer justify this news on UP with Chris Hays next weekend. » Posted By bito On March 27, 2012 @ 6:59 pm Quick Ma, get me the smelling salts! Thanks to the “arrogance, naivete and stupidity” of Supreme Court, John McCain predicts “huge” campaign finance scandals “What the Supreme Court did is a combination of arrogance, naivete and stupidity the likes of which I have never seen,” said McCain, one of the authors of a now partially overturned law that restricted political spending by corporations and other outside groups. “I promise you, there will be huge scandals,” McCain said, “because there’s too much money washing around, too much of it we don’t know who’s behind it and too much corruption associated with that kind of money. There will be major scandals. […] What we have done is made a contribution limit a joke…. But we will go out there again and we’ll fight again and we’ll continue to fight because this system is not fair to the American people… It’s outrageous. It’s an insult to anyone’s intelligence to say [PACs and campaigns] are not connected.” [img]http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/citizens-united-cartoon.jpg[/img] Did McGrumpy have a lucid day when he gave this interview? Now to get him to get back supporting his own “dream act.” » Posted By bito On March 27, 2012 @ 6:24 pm AdLib, You skirted on something that I was thinking earlier today and that didn’t congress already intrude in the medical industry, except the insurance companies, when they passed the law that emergency services must be provided? Isn’t that disrupting their commerce stream, a mandate on them? Can congress pass a law that says doctors and hospitals must now go beyond emergency care and perform their duties until the there is full recovery and not pay? Would that be constitutional? Why not? Has the “mandate” on the emergency services ever been challenged? No, society accepted it as something that a civilized country should do. (BTY 63% of all uninsured that use emergency care do not pay for their service, the public pays for it now.) » Posted By bito On March 27, 2012 @ 5:42 pm You are exactly right KQ and I place the blame not just on the leadership of the Dem party but also much of the rank and file. Immediately after the passage of ACA they forgot about it and let the R’s take the initiative to define the law to the public. I do realize that them just saying NO is much easier than explaining the bill and gave the midterms away. Last poll I saw, close to 60+% of voters don’t have any idea how the ACA has and will effect them and better than 50% are against it (wile having not a clue but it’s bad.) That is why I have been attempting to put up different links to various aspects of the bill. No matter how the SCOTUS rules it will still be an important part of the GE and I think it’s of importance that every Dem should learn as much as they can about the ACA. If the ACA loses in court and Obama loses, your right, we will be back to the Articles of Confederation within the next 4-8 years. 2 sites that are handy “teaching” are the White House.gov and http://www.healthcare.gov/index.html » Posted By bito On March 26, 2012 @ 7:04 pm “If elected, I will repeal Obamacare.” The cost of repealing health reform: Preventive health care Who would Romney’s repeal hurt? Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, 54 million additional Americans now have access to expanded preventive services—and an estimated 32.5 million Medicare beneficiaries—have benefited from the law’s expansion of free preventive service coverage in 2011. If Romney gets his way, Americans like Judy Smith from New Mexico might not get the preventive care they need that could save their lives. Faces of Change: Free Screenings Saving Lives http://www.youtube.com/user/BarackObamadotcom?feature=watch » Posted By bito On March 26, 2012 @ 4:33 pm Sally, there are quite a few comments, and I guess there should be, not only because of the repercussions on health care but the ramifications on the election. I thought this article from the Slate article was also an interesting read: 116 billion reasons to be for the individual mandate It shows that, once again, that the Dems get beat on the explanation/communication front. » Posted By bito On March 25, 2012 @ 12:44 am Affordable Care Act: Closing the Medicare Doughnut Hole Another aspect of ACA that would be killed under the Ryan plan and R leadership » Posted By bito On March 24, 2012 @ 10:59 pm Republicans are desperate to kill health care reform – stop them. And for many videos on ACA to watch or share: » Posted By bito On March 24, 2012 @ 10:42 pm No half stepping here, straight to a theocracy: Pastor Blames Constitution for America’s Problems Weiland’s Mission to Israel Ministries recently sent out an article on the issue of the U.S. Constitution. The work can be found at http://www.misiontoisrael.org. He says that Colonial America was doing well, basing its laws on the Bible. It doomed its future when it adopted the Constitution. Weiland writes that the Constitution is not compatible with Christianity. He finds its words hostile to Scripture. He wrote, “We will never become a nation that pleases Yahweh by promoting the Constitution.” He sees the document as taking away the rights of citizens and not protecting them. He noted that our rights have been “whittled away” since this statement was made the law of the land. …. As one might predict, he does not like the First Amendment. Weiland knows this means religious toleration. Ted is in favor of severe punishment for those who do not practice his official version of the Christian faith. http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/3/20/113844/020 » Posted By bito On March 24, 2012 @ 12:47 am And here is Dahilia Lithwicks preview of next weeks argument before SCOTUS: It’s Not About the Law, Stupid< Forget precedent. Ignore Scalia’s musings. Next week’s health care argument before the Supreme Court is all about optics, politics, and public opinion. » Posted By bito On March 23, 2012 @ 10:31 pm Happy Anniversary ACA The Affordable Care Act at Two Years Two years ago today, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, giving hardworking, middle-class families the health care security they deserve. Health reform requires that insurance plans cover preventive services to help people stay healthy, prohibits insurance companies from dropping your coverage if you get sick, billing you into bankruptcy because of annual or lifetime limits placed on care, and discriminating against children with pre-existing conditions. By 2014 when the law is fully implemented, people will be able to purchase private insurance coverage through new state-based markets called exchanges, which will offer a way to get insurance that isn’t provided by—or tied to—an employer. Americans will have the security of knowing they don’t have to worry about losing or finding coverage if they’re laid off, change jobs, or are self-employed. And further patient protections will take effect: insurers won’t be able to deny care to anyone based on a pre-existing condition, or limit the amount of care they’ll cover over a person’s lifetime. More articles on the ACA at:>> » Posted By bito On March 23, 2012 @ 8:26 pm AdLib, There are many types of journalists and she has never claimed to be a reporter, I think she would be the first to say so, so any comparison to foreign correspondents makes little sense to me. She has always been mostly an opinion talker/writer backed by solid research. Is it your opinion that her opinions are based on bad or false information that causes you to question her integrity? I don’t think so, right? It seems to be “the book” and her hawking it that makes you question her integrity, am I wrong? I haven’t read the book. I’m not even positive of the subject (declaring war, the MIC….?) Is it a piece of trash based on falsehoods (a Coulter/Palin/Beck/Gingrich book?) Or a Sen. Barrack Obama/Sen. Paul Simon/ Sen. Bryon Dorgan book? Is it the fact that she hawked it that makes you question her integrity? You bring up “fully reliable journalists like Murrow, Cronkite and Moyers. Murrow hawked his cigarettes, Cronkite was quite often in print ads (Look & Life, which were on millions of coffee tables in America and Moyers has both written books and has made a ton of money off his and his wife’s production companies (including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.) Did that ruin their integrity? “…her putting self-benefit and self promotion first on occasion, is an issue for me…..” I need some examples of her doing that before I can even argue that point and once again you bring up the comparison with war correspondents and call it in her “self-benefit and self promotion first…..” Again, I think the comparison is a bit much. She doesn’t compare her self to them and I would again need some example of it, especially for self -benefit/ self -promotion over them. As to now having to parse her words, I have always questioned opinion journalists as I do any other type of journalist, I consider it a part of being informed. I really had to question Moyers interview with Stockman this year on his first program of his new series this year. Yes, even St. Bill. I thought it was a weak interview. I may or may not agree with you, you left me with too many generalities. » Posted By bito On March 23, 2012 @ 6:41 pm I think you got it, k’es! That has to be code for something and that script that was rolling at the bottom surely was instructions to the Iranians to carry out some dastardly act. » Posted By bito On March 23, 2012 @ 3:44 pm Did President Obama just apologize to another Muslim country-again? I can’t speak or read Arabic/Farsi so I’m not sure. (/snark over) West Wing Week: 3/22/12 or “Slainte!” http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/23/west-wing-week-32212-or-slainte » Posted By bito On March 23, 2012 @ 12:32 pm AdLib, I don’t want to agree with Rachel 100%, I don’t want to agree with anyone 100% and become a dittohead. I can accept her role she has to play in and the demands of the culture she lives in. I just spent 3-1/2 weeks without any MSNBC just Faux and CNN and wow, can one notice the difference. Try it and see if you aren’t more accepting of her faults! » Posted By bito On March 23, 2012 @ 12:34 am Adlib, …why most pundits in the MSM are supporting this meme about religion being understandable in politics. Because it sells papers! And due to the laziness they have 3-5 national polls in their rolodex and the same with pudnuts. When do ever see a story from Right Wing Watch or similar sites a step off the beaten path? Rarely. ~~~ It ended up being the power cord/charger. I sent a staff member over to the batteries r us store and the checked it. Dead. So I bought a generic/universal charger there. As for E-Bay or any internet store. I rarely buy anything on the internet, I try to buy locally so the taxes help my area roads, schools….Internet stores don’t. » Posted By bito On March 23, 2012 @ 12:08 am Ah but that’s mooslum theocracy Khirad, which is evil, Christian theocracy isn’t. I don’t understand the claim about him and other ‘Christians’ being stopped from saying what he wants “in the public square”, who’s stopping him? When one pulls out his soapbox in the public square, one opens themselves to criticism. That’s part of the deal with free speech isn’t it? Is disagreeing with him stopping him? I agree about the anger, raised voices. Why, does it help making one feel guilty by screaming it with (your word) venom? Selling their product like soap? » Posted By bito On March 22, 2012 @ 11:34 pm Dennis Terry Introduces Rick Santorum Dennis Terry Introduces Rick Santorum GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY, YOU HEATHENS! H/T Right Wing Watch (BTW the Dennis Terry/Santorum apologists are spinning that he didn’t really mean that non-believers leave the country. You listen, you decide) » Posted By bito On March 22, 2012 @ 10:04 pm Bingo! It would be more hilarious if it weren’t frightening. Frank A. is just as frightening but that smirk of Kelly’s needs to be used as someone’s doormat, IMHO » Posted By bito On March 22, 2012 @ 9:35 pmComments Posted By bito
Even on the business channels they are not making this a big deal.
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I don’t know anything about her (Maddow) saying anything about the country turning right, I must have missed that so I can’t comment on that subject, however I did watch last nights show ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#46827122 ) and didn’t notice her praising Ron Paul.
Seriously, when I do watch that “Week in Review,” I am amazed at how many positive things he does during the week and they just show a small portion of what really happens.
Perhaps you want the perfect from her and that ain’t going to happen.
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