Displaying 1,021 To 1,050 Of 2,270 Comments KQ, the issue with Bush’s signing statements is that they challenged over 1000 statutes. Alito was the engine of the modern signing statement as a activist executive tool as Deputy Attorney General under Reagan. » Posted By funksands On December 23, 2011 @ 7:22 pm Signing Statements by President since FDR: FDR: 51 Truman: 118 Eisenhower: 145 Kennedy: 80 LBJ: 302 Nixon: 118 Carter: 112 Reagan: 250 Bush 1: 232 Clinton: 381 Bush 2: 157 Obama: 18 Yeah, this guy is totally out of control…… » Posted By funksands On December 23, 2011 @ 5:58 pm I read an interesting poll today from CBS News. Two of the questions were directed to self-described White Evangelical voters. The first ? was “Which candidate views will matter more for your vote?” Economic: 71% The second was: “Most important problem in the country” Economy: 55% I thought this was pretty interesting. » Posted By funksands On December 23, 2011 @ 12:24 pm Kes, that is absolutely perfect. 🙂 » Posted By funksands On December 21, 2011 @ 8:55 pm KQ, like CL said below, don’t discount that. I can tell you definitively that in my town bars restaurants and stores are absolutely packed for the holiday season, unlike last year or the year before. » Posted By funksands On December 20, 2011 @ 12:35 pm Tea Party Nation Claims Obama ‘Staged’ Bin Laden Death, ‘Gave’ Drone To Iran “The astroturfing, bad spelling group of crazies on Rascals are back, and this time they are here to say that little death of Osama Bin Laden–the event that was so widely publicized it was reenacted on Nat Geo–was in fact ‘staged’ by the radical ‘Muslin’ in the oval office. Apparently not quite content with that wildly ludicrous assertion, the Tea Party also believes that Obama actually ’gave’ the downed drone to Iran. According to Right Wing Watch, it seems Tea Party Nation president, Judson Phillips, sent out an email to Tea Party Nation members claiming that President Obama deliberately offered the recently captured predator drone to Iran…and that Osama bin Laden wasn’t killed but his death was in fact “staged” by Obama.” I also heard that Obama has a secret stash of Greek Drachmas and orchestrated the whole Euro debacle for his own personal profit. 😉 » Posted By funksands On December 20, 2011 @ 11:02 am More Good News: “Housing starts increased 9.3% in November to 685,000 units at an annual rate, blowing away the consensus expected pace of 635,000. Starts are up 24.3% versus a year ago. The large gain in starts in November was mostly due to multi-family units, which are extremely volatile from month to month. Single-family starts also rose 2.3%. Multi-family starts are up 145.4% from a year ago while single-family starts are down 1.5%. Starts rose in all regions of the country, except the Midwest. New building permits increased 5.7% in November to a 681,000 annual rate, coming in well above the consensus expected pace of 635,000. Compared to a year ago, permits for multi-unit homes are up 70.8% while permits for single-family units are up 3.6%.” » Posted By funksands On December 20, 2011 @ 9:48 am Three recent Iowa polls show Paul in the lead, followed by Romney, and then Gingrich. Gingrich has seen his number cut in half in the last two weeks. And Heeeeeeeere comes Santorum, up to double digits in Iowa. LOL » Posted By funksands On December 19, 2011 @ 9:08 pm Of course not. » Posted By funksands On December 18, 2011 @ 10:24 pm Zakaria: Will the North Koreans rise up? By Fareed Zakaria, CNN (11/14/11) I noticed a strange item in the news this week. An estimated 200 North Koreans are stranded in Libya right now, among them doctors and nurses whose services are much needed back home. Why are they there? Why can’t they go back? Well, it turns out that they were sent to Libya to earn desperately needed hard currency for North Korea’s tyrant, Kim Jong-Il. But now, despite Gadhafi’s death and the changing circumstances, he’d rather these essential workers stay away. The same goes for hundreds of other doctors, nurses, technicians and other workers in Tunisia and Egypt. Why? The Arab spring. The Dear Leader doesn’t want these people, who have seen street protests succeed and dictatorships fall, to return and talk about it. In fact, editorials in South Korean newspapers say that only 1% of North Koreans have even heard of the Arab spring. But how you would have such an exact figure beats me.” » Posted By funksands On December 18, 2011 @ 9:12 pm Khirad, one of my all time favs! 🙂 » Posted By funksands On December 18, 2011 @ 9:08 pm Cher, those photos are fascinating! When this country eventually opens up it is going to need a lot of therapy. » Posted By funksands On December 18, 2011 @ 9:05 pm North Korea has been supporting itself for the last several years by farming out its citizens to MNC’s and neighboring countries for slave labor. The workers are held in fenced camps and their wages are sent directly to the govt. Any state that farms out it’s citizens for slave labor will never reform itself. http://zazenlife.com/2011/12/08/north-korean-slave-labour-in-russia/ » Posted By funksands On December 18, 2011 @ 9:03 pm This says it all. Good luck folks….[img]http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/images/dprk-dmsp-dark-old.jpg[/img] » Posted By funksands On December 18, 2011 @ 8:37 pm “The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.” -RIP Christopher Hitchens » Posted By funksands On December 15, 2011 @ 10:52 pm Good article from Mother Jones about Senate Bill 1867 to authorize the NDAA. Not sure how it makes me feel, but it does clarify things a bit. http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/12/new-ndaa-loopholes » Posted By funksands On December 13, 2011 @ 4:44 pm [img]http://2.images.theweek.com/img/dir_0069/34833_cartoon_main/exploits-of-fertilized-egg-person.jpg[/img] » Posted By funksands On December 13, 2011 @ 3:17 pm Adonai: Senator Lindsey Graham: “1031, the statement of authority to detain, does apply to American citizens and it designates the world as the battlefield, including the homeland.” This is one of those, why this? why now? moments. Why THIS bill, after al queda is already decimated? Why NOW as we are extricating ourselves from entanglements abroad? Why the closed door assembling of the bill? What this smells like (an opinion/feeling) is a bill that is actually designed to work backward, to close loopholes on behavior that has already occurred. » Posted By funksands On December 8, 2011 @ 9:59 pm Glad you liked it Bito. 😉 » Posted By funksands On December 8, 2011 @ 8:39 pm The response to Rick Perry’s Gay-Bashing-Brokeback-Jacket Wearing Iowa Ad. [img]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbrI3F7p6-o&feature=g-logo[/img] » Posted By funksands On December 8, 2011 @ 8:00 pm Murph, you’ve got a big heart man. Don’t change. » Posted By funksands On December 8, 2011 @ 8:08 am Patsy, I thought this was a great letter. It takes a pretty strong person to achieve that level of introspection and admission. » Posted By funksands On December 8, 2011 @ 8:04 am KQ, too many people treat Jesus like the fine china. It’s typically only for display and only brought out for company. » Posted By funksands On December 8, 2011 @ 8:03 am *GASP* they wouldn’t dare. » Posted By funksands On December 7, 2011 @ 7:22 pm KT, I heard his hair got a lighter sentence, probation only. » Posted By funksands On December 7, 2011 @ 3:08 pm Adonai, the biggest story for me was the debt ceiling standoff. In the midst of trying to recover from the biggest economic decline since the Great Depression, our government chose instead to stab itself in the face. This revealed a lot about the structural weakness underpinning our republic. That and the Twilight sequel are my two picks. » Posted By funksands On December 7, 2011 @ 3:07 pm No kidding. Talk about “leaving it there”!! » Posted By funksands On December 2, 2011 @ 4:04 pm The article gets harsher from there…. » Posted By funksands On December 2, 2011 @ 3:37 pm How do the Germans view the GOP candidates? The Republicans’ Farcical Candidates “The US Republican race is dominated by ignorance, lies and scandals. The current crop of candidates have shown such a basic lack of knowledge that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein. The Grand Old Party is ruining the entire country’s reputation.”… http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,800850,00.html 🙂 » Posted By funksands On December 2, 2011 @ 3:28 pm Cher, there have been plenty of pure votes cast once the vote becomes a foregone conclusion. I suspect that Sanders would have voted for it if his vote would have been needed. That is my impression listening to him over the last year anyway. » Posted By funksands On December 1, 2011 @ 7:31 pmComments Posted By funksands
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