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It is not...
a domestic military base...
It is a f**king airport named after fat @ss jack to which... Many of the commercial flights, which are subsidized by federal transportation dollars, carry only a handful of passengers.
"expand the empire"
I recall posting a few things on camp bondsteel...ted stevens...don young...
Dems retain funding for Murtha airport
The Senate has rejected an amendment that would have killed funding for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., turning back an effort by fiscal conservatives to yank earmarks from a largely deserted airport named after a controversial lawmaker.
The vote was 43-53, as Democrats decided to retain funding for an airport that has only three flights a day and is named after Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), a powerful appropriator who has come under increasing scrutiny for earmarks and his relationships with defense contractors in his district.
The Murtha airport has received a total of $150 million in funding and currently receives about $1.5 million a year. The three daily flights — all to Washington — leave the Johnstown airport, and quite often the airplanes are half-empty.
The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), was the latest in a series of amendments engineered by fiscal conservatives to embarrass Democrats. The House on Thursday voted to kill ACORN funding, following a similar Senate vote last week.
But on the Murtha amendment before the Senate today, Democrats seemed swayed by the arguments of the two Pennsylvania senators, Arlen Specter and Bob Casey, who warned that yanking funding would kill jobs in an already economically depressed area.
The House killed a similar Murtha amendment in May, but that was before the real surge in public dismay over federal spending and before the town hall chaos of the August recess.
"I'm glad most Republicans and few brave Democrats stood against this abuse of taxpayer dollars,” DeMint said. “American people are speaking out against spending and debt, but sadly the majority in the Senate still isn't listening. Senators who voted for Murtha's boondoggle have little credibility calling for fiscal responsibility."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27286.html
...Johnstown airport "Fort Murtha" because of the stream of wartime projects at the facility...
Murtha Airport Got Military Upgrades
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/29/AR2009042902510.html
On election day, November 8, 1898, the Democrats were returned to power. They won a majority of the seats in the legislature and quickly began work on legislation that would effectively disfranchise African American voters for decades to come. The effects of the election were lasting. After Daniel Russell left office in 1900, North Carolina would not elect another Republican governor until 1972. George White, an African American who was elected to Congress from a predominantly African American district in 1898 was the last African American elected to that body until 1928. North Carolina would not send another African American to Washington until 1992.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/1898/history.html
NC seems to maintain Dem majority...at least till the next the election...recent tax increases as well as new taxes on items/services that were not taxed before should see dem's majority decrease...
Dumb @ss white boys!!!
"Guess your thousands would be in the other 14%"
...the survey group of 1,000 Democratic, Republican and independent voters...
Your links states a thousand...my link states thousands.
"selfish greedy wackos" "Those freaking selfish greedy hypocrites."
Yeah, yeah...meanwhile you either do not contribute, or cheat like h@ll...side note "wackos, hypocrites" paints your face each and every time.
"Guess that 14% don't want the rest of Americans to have what they are having."
Are you referring to the federal employees (that includes the f**king writers/pushers of this bill) who will be exempt from this plan?
Those with the mindset of you sly should be taxed 95%...no earned income credit...NO goverment freebies...then YOU can provide the non greedy with insurance
Super "P"
Just checking up to see how the "defender of my post" is coming along in "defending his post"...years/months/days and countng.
SL
"Nearly 8 in 10 Americans support a federal health insurance plan for those who can’t afford or can’t get private insurance"
"More than half of those polled want health insurance reform, but 64 percent don’t want to pay more taxes to expand health coverage to the uninsured."
"Other findings in the AARP poll include:"
Thousands Quit AARP Over Health Reform
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/17/eveningnews/main5247916.shtml
"access to the same coverage available to elected officials, federal employees"
Twas my understanding that the bill the dems are trying to put through would exempt them from having to participate in "the public" plan.
"Despite the carefully contrived optics...blah, blah, blah"
Freedom of expression...freedom to protest...things a liberal stands for...
What the f**k are you?
Why the Obama Administration Will Implode In Weeks
I was the first pundit to predict that Barack Obama would become president. Here's what I think we can expect from this administration in the next six to eight weeks.
Never has an administration had more political firepower at their disposal yet been set to so totally fail in the next six to eight weeks. It is nearly a foregone conclusion. It is nearly unavoidable. And it defies all logic given the sizable majority the administration has in both houses of Congress.
Since I was the first pundit to predict Obama's presidency (back in December 2006) it behooves me to tell you the course I believe the next few weeks will take. Just think, it was only a few months ago that the left looked unstoppable in bringing about their plan to radicalize, nationalize, and federalize America.
1. Health Care's Long and Painful Death
Barring the existing possibility that the Democrats cram a reform bill down the throats of actively protesting Americans through an ultra-partisan process that would shut out conservatives and Republicans from even being allowed to contribute to the discussion, health care reform is dead.
It actually died a good while back when the president decided to pivot and create a new issue that no one had been discussing--health insurance reform. The American people will want to know why we should spend $4 billion to cover everyone in America "efficiently," when we already do so with inefficiencies like people using the emergency room as their general practitioner for $2.5 billion.
Deep thinkers on the issue also want to know why the president hasn't entertained one item of tort reform-- protecting his friends, the trial lawyers-- yet is willing to claim that doctors are eager to lop off feet, tonsils, and other body parts just to make a buck.
2. Cap-and-Trade Will Be the Largest Tax Increase in American History
With the 2010 election cycle just around the corner, it won't be too long before the campaign ads are drafted. With cap-and-trade still sitting in legislative limbo (and the president's own adviser--Warren Buffet-- now opposing it openly in the media), with anti-tax Democrats, Republicans, and Independents coming to Washington on September 12, and with "Blue Dog" Democrats getting hammered by constituents during the August recess, the chance of an ultra-partisan "ram through" victory on the legislation would not be wise.
Cap-and-trade, if passed, will contribute to unemployment, Wall Street stop and starts, and ultimately reduced treasury revenues. It would serve as the single largest tax increase on the average American in all of American history.
Even President Obama admitted as much, predicting that electric bill prices, in his words, would, "skyrocket." Those that have looked at the specifics tell us that the average utility bill in America will go from $167 to $307 per month, per family.
3. Unemployment Will Remain
By now several Washington organizations, from left and right, and one of note consisting of both--the Congressional Budget Office, predict that unemployment will not shrink from the predicted "Obama high" of eight percent. Instead, nearly without fail, economists are predicting that unemployment will be at or over 10% for up to the next 24 months.-- That is a nearly 250% increase in the unemployment rate under Bush for nearly the duration of his two-term presidency. We did not see the unemployment climb this high during President Bush's entire two-term presidency.
If more people were working, higher taxes and possible new health care entitlements could be considered, but with at least ten percent of the population out of work, it is political suicide for Democrats to even think of it.
4. Obama's Integrity Has Been Tarnished in August
Not a great deal has been made of the whoppers that the president has been spewing while Congress has been away during the summer recess but it turns out that more people than I realized have also noticed the president wildly "exaggerating" in his talks on health care. For instance, the president confused the $500 physicians actually get to amputate a foot as opposed to the $50,000 that he claimed they got. He also showed an utter disregard for the reputation of those doctors he talks about, the "facts" he uses to make his argument, and is highly overly optimistic about the results of his policies. Long story short, at the beginning of the summer Americans mostly trusted him, his passion index was at +10, he heads into the fall at -14.
5. A $3 Trillion Dollar Budget
There was lots of new spending for this and it sure added up. And that brings me to number 6.
6. A Coming Middle Class Tax Hike
The Obama administration will hem and haw about hiking taxes. -- There will be an official, and arrogant, explanation given by Robert Gibbs from the podium in the White House briefing room about why they must to do this to be "good stewards" and to be a "responsible administration" that "pays as it goes."
But the truth is, in order to pay for everything the Obama administration has promised (and budgeted for), a tax hike is looming for small businesses and the working families that President Obama promised would never come.
And as an aside, the president was going to break that promise all along. Because the minute the Bush tax relief measures run out in 2010, middle class taxes would be going up in the Obama administration. That means that, fundamentally, that Obama's "not a single dime" pledge on the campaign trail was just hot air from start to finish.
Of course, the president, the Democrats, the left, and Congressional leadership could surprise me. They could show up in September and endorse the Coburn health care bill in the Senate and steal all the credit for it. They could show up next week and fight with all their might to not allow the tax rates to skyrocket in 2010. They could decide to scrap cap-and-trade and re-think the use of public money for a true job-based economic stimulus.
But I'm not holding my breath, and I'd advise you against it as well.
They've awakened the American worker, the American small-business owner, and the American voter.
All three of which are now wondering aloud, "What on earth have we done?"
Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "'Baldwin/McCullough Radio" now heard on 197 stations and columnist based in New York. He blogs at www.muscleheadrevolution.com. His second book "The Kind Of MAN Every Man SHOULD Be" is in stores now.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/01/kevin-mccullough-obama-implode/?storytab=story-detail
Wonder what the odds are in Vegas.
You are welcome...
super "P"...
By the way...any idea when you will "defend your post" instead of running/hiding...
Speaking of hiding...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/replies.aspx?msg=40312039
That "d" on your chest ("defend my post" as you put it) is looking more like a "P" tinman.
"You dodged. A real surpise!"
Speaking of such...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/replies.aspx?msg=40312039
"In MI., Blue Cross raising individual, group rates 22 pct."
Michigan insurance regulators have approved a 22 percent increase
per your link
speaking of intelligent/stupid...
"...thash this economy."
The subject remains the same tinman...focus.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/replies.aspx?msg=40130992
"I defend my posts"
BULLCH*T
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"calling people stupid"
I was simply giving you the proper usage of the word "damn"...to which only referred to YOU as stupid.
"calling people names."
YOU "think" that the entire state of NC is nothing but crooks and pig farmer...then you wish to whine when I refer to you as stupid/shallow/uninformed/misinformed individual.
It is my understanding that the E. Coli levels have been unsafe in some ares of the lakes in MO...I do hope they have leveled off.
"Post away where I'm wrong."
See the links below bullch*t
Have a nice weekend.
"I read somewhere that your number #1 in pig farms..."
It appears your northern neighbor (you are from MO..no?) holds the number one spot...though NC does run a close second. MO ranks in there as well.
"When I think about N.C. I think about the failure of Bank of America that we had to bail out and all the pig farms"
Tis because you are a shallow/uninformed/misinformed individual tinman.
"Had any damn failures from those pig farms?"
As a matter of fact yes...the damn democrats.
http://www.democracy-nc.org/moneyresearch/1999/hogmoney1999.html
And for future reference:
dam: a. A barrier constructed across a waterway to control the flow or raise the level of water.
b. A body of water controlled by such a barrier.
2. A barrier against the passage of liquid or loose material, as a rubber sheet used in dentistry to isolate one or more teeth from the rest of the mouth.
3. An obstruction; a hindrance.
tr.v. dammed, dam·ming, dams
1. To hold back or confine by means of a dam.
2. To close up; obstruct: He tried to dam his grief. See Synonyms at hinder1.
damn: damn that tinman is one damn stupid ____.
"Isn't NC where you raise terrorist now? LOL"
and illegal aliens...but it is the things one can expect when the dems are in control...
"And you bring up race for what reason?"
per media accounts...Blacks are being killed/disrespected quite often in the blue lands...you liberals are a funny bunch...you wish to come squat and piss in the South land...yet you ignore the piles of shit that you have/are creating in your own backyard.
"Home to Liz Dole?"
as well as MIKE EASLEY, JIM BLACK and the 1898 Wilmington race riots...
"dumb people in the south are"
here in NC they still give the democratic party the reins...
bev perdues approval rating is running close to pelosi...former dem mike easley and company (family) are being investigated...and it appears our taxes will be going up...Yep...definitely some dumb southerners/transplants here in NC.
By the way...how many blacks have you fine people in the north/west killed or offended lately.
"They'd love your spin."
Are you referring to me...or to the writers of the "black cop white officer" BS.
Liberal Suicide March
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: July 20, 2009
It was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America. You had a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor sympathized with moderates or representatives from swing districts.
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They brought in pollsters to their party conferences to persuade their members that the country was fervently behind them. They were supported by their interest groups and cheered on by their activists and the partisan press. They spent federal money in an effort to buy support but ended up disgusting the country instead.
It’s not that interesting to watch the Democrats lose touch with America. That’s because the plotline is exactly the same. The party is led by insular liberals from big cities and the coasts, who neither understand nor sympathize with moderates. They have their own cherry-picking pollsters, their own media and activist cocoon, their own plans to lavishly spend borrowed money to buy votes.
This ideological overreach won’t be any more successful than the last one. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Monday confirms what other polls have found. Most Americans love Barack Obama personally, but support for Democratic policies is already sliding fast.
Approval of Obama’s handling of health care, for example, has slid from 57 percent to 49 percent since April. Disapproval has risen from 29 percent to 44 percent. As recently as June, voters earning more than $50,000 preferred Obama to the Republicans on health care by a 21-point margin. Now those voters are evenly split.
Most independents now disapprove of Obama’s health care strategy. In March, only 32 percent of Americans thought Obama was an old-style, tax-and-spend liberal. Now 43 percent do.
We’re only in the early stages of the liberal suicide march, but there already have been three phases. First, there was the stimulus package. You would have thought that a stimulus package would be designed to fight unemployment and stimulate the economy during a recession. But Congressional Democrats used it as a pretext to pay for $787 billion worth of pet programs with borrowed money. Only 11 percent of the money will be spent by the end of the fiscal year — a triumph of ideology over pragmatism.
Then there is the budget. Instead of allaying moderate anxieties about the deficits, the budget is expected to increase the government debt by $11 trillion between 2009 and 2019.
Finally, there is health care. Every cliché Ann Coulter throws at the Democrats is gloriously fulfilled by the Democratic health care bills. The bills do almost nothing to control health care inflation. They are modeled on the Massachusetts health reform law that is currently coming apart at the seams precisely because it doesn’t control costs. They do little to reward efficient providers and reform inefficient ones.
The House bill adds $239 billion to the federal deficit during the first 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. It would pummel small businesses with an 8 percent payroll penalty. It would jack America’s top tax rate above those in Italy and France. Top earners in New York and California would be giving more than 55 percent of earnings to one government entity or another.
Nancy Pelosi has lower approval ratings than Dick Cheney and far lower approval ratings than Sarah Palin. And yet Democrats have allowed her policy values to carry the day — this in an era in which independents dominate the electoral landscape.
Who’s going to stop this leftward surge? Months ago, it seemed as if Obama would lead a center-left coalition. Instead, he has deferred to the Old Bulls on Capitol Hill on issue after issue.
Machiavelli said a leader should be feared as well as loved. Obama is loved by the Democratic chairmen, but he is not feared. On health care, Obama has emphasized cost control. The chairmen flouted his priorities because they don’t fear him. On cap and trade, Obama campaigned against giving away pollution offsets. The chairmen wrote their bill to do precisely that because they don’t fear him. On taxes, Obama promised that top tax rates would not go above Clinton-era levels. The chairmen flouted that promise because they don’t fear him.
Last week, the administration announced a proposal to take Medicare spending decisions away from Congress and lodge the power with technocrats in the executive branch. It’s a good idea, and it might lead to real cost savings. But there’s no reason to think that it will be incorporated into the final law. The chairmen will never surrender power to an administration they can override.
That leaves matters in the hands of the Blue Dog Democrats. These brave moderates are trying to restrain the fiscal explosion. But moderates inherently lack seniority (they are from swing districts). They are usually bought off by leadership at the end of the day.
And so here we are again. Every new majority overinterprets its mandate. We’ve been here before. We’ll be here again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/opinion/21brooks.html?_r=1
"Blacks are shot all the time who happen to be innocent"
That makes every white American/America racist?
"This one was shot in the back."
Three shots...where did the first two hit and did they spin Edwards so that the third entered his back...
"black cop shot by white officer"
Why do the writers refer to Edwards as a "black cop" and Dunton as a "white officer"...does rank determine cop/officer status?
Protocol was not followed by one and/or all officers...
SL
Welcome to White Racist America... White Racist as ever...
I see you liberals have a new battle cry...
And yet...
she is still 12 steps ahead/above you.
Imagine that.
"the repubs are at fault here in our state"
Stephidity at its finest...
"...Barack Obama, the most riveting of recent presidents, is leading us into an era of Congressional dominance. And Congressional governance is a haven for special interest pleading and venal logrolling."
Vince Lombardi Politics
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: June 30, 2009
Freud said we’re forever changed by the traumas of our youth, and so it is with the Democrats and Clintoncare. Even as you watch the leading Democrats today in their moment of glory, you can still see wounds caused by the defeat of the Clinton health care initiative. You see the psychic reactions and the scars and the lessons they have taken away so that sort of debacle never happens again.
The first lesson they have learned is that domestic policy making should never be dictated from the White House. The Clinton health initiative was hatched in the executive branch and unleashed on Congress. So the Obama administration is doing the opposite, handing Congress working control of every major piece of legislation.
Congress wrote the stimulus package. Congress wrote the cap-and-trade bill. Congress is writing the health care bill. The House and Senate chairmen make more decisions on these issues than anybody on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Second, Democrats learned never to go to war against the combined forces of corporate America. Today, whether it is on the stimulus, on health care or any other issue, the Obama administration and the Congressional leadership go out of their way to court corporate interests, to win corporate support and to at least divide corporate opposition.
Third, the Clintoncare collapse and the ensuing decade in the wilderness drove home the costs of failure. This has produced a Vince Lombardi attitude toward winning. There are limits, of course, but leaders in Congress and in the administration seem open to nearly any idea so long as it will lead to passing legislation. On health care, the administration would like a strong public plan, but it is evidently open to a weak one. It is on record against taxing health benefits, but it is clearly willing to tax them. It will do what it takes to pass a bill.
All of this has produced a ruthlessly pragmatic victory machine. Last week Democrats were able to pass a politically treacherous cap-and-trade bill out of the House. The Democratic leaders were able to let 44 members vote no and still bribe/bully/cajole enough of their colleagues to get a win. This was an impressive achievement, and a harbinger for health care and other battles to come.
But the new approach comes with its own shortcomings. To understand them, we have to distinguish between two types of pragmatism. There is legislative pragmatism — writing bills that can pass. Then there is policy pragmatism — creating programs that work. These two pragmatisms are in tension, and in their current frame of mind, Democrats often put the former before the latter.
On the stimulus bill, the Democratic committee chairmen wrote a sprawling bill that incorporated the diverse wishes of hundreds of members and interest groups. But as they did so, the bill had less and less to do with stimulus. Only about 40 percent of the money in the bill was truly stimulative, and that money was not designed to be spent quickly. For example, according to the Congressional Budget Office, only 11 percent of the discretionary spending in the stimulus will be disbursed by the end of the fiscal year. The bill passed, but it is not doing much to create jobs this year and it will not do nearly as much as it could to create jobs in 2010.
On cap and trade, the House chairmen took a relatively clean though politically difficult idea — auctioning off pollution permits — and they transformed it into a morass of corporate giveaways that make the stimulus bill look parsimonious. Permits would now be given to well-connected companies. Utilities and agribusiness would be rolling in government-generated profits. Thousands of goodies were thrown into the 1,201-page bill to win votes.
The bill passed the House, but would it actually reduce emissions? It’s impossible to know. It contains so many complex market interventions that only a fantasist could confidently predict its effects. A few years ago the European Union passed a cap-and-trade system, but because it was so shot through with special interest caveats, emissions actually rose.
On health care, too, the complicated job of getting a bill that can pass is taking priority over the complicated task of creating a program that can work. Dozens of different ideas are being added, watered down or merged together in order to cobble together a majority. But will the logrolling produce a sustainable health system that controls costs and actually hangs together?
The great paradox of the age is that Barack Obama, the most riveting of recent presidents, is leading us into an era of Congressional dominance. And Congressional governance is a haven for special interest pleading and venal logrolling.
When the executive branch is dominant you often get coherent proposals that may not pass. When Congress is dominant, as now, you get politically viable mishmashes that don’t necessarily make sense.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/opinion/30brooks.html?_r=1
"another $100 billion in the tax loss"
absolutely..."unhealthy choice/lifestyle" seems to work well among the liberals for taxation purposes...ch*t...up it another 100...
The Obama administration and a number of states, including California, favored reversal because a decision to affirm the 9th Circuit would likely have required the federal government and states to revisit their procedural rules, even if they already allowed inmates access to the evidence.
Get it?
—It’s not like Osborne is languishing in prison because he may have been wrongly convicted. He served 14 years and was paroled in 2007. Six months later, he was back in prison as part of a plea deal in a home invasion case. He and a group of masked men stood accused of raiding a home in search of drugs and money and pistol-whipping residents, bound in duct tape.
The Obama administration and a number of states, including California, favored reversal because a decision to affirm the 9th Circuit would likely have required the federal government and states to revisit their procedural rules, even if they already allowed inmates access to the evidence.
California Deputy Attorney General Michael Chamberlain described the high court ruling as a “well-reasoned decision” that recognizes how the states have already been active on the issue.
“In California, we have a very comprehensive and effective mechanism,” he said.
Passed in 2000, California’s law, which applies to anyone convicted of a felony, requires the state to maintain DNA evidence for the duration of an inmate’s sentence and allows for retesting regardless of the plea. Indigent inmates can also get legal assistance to pursue such claims.
http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2009/alan-mittelstaedt/forgive-them-william-osborne/
"abortion ... which I consider instigated by Christians"
Could you explain your thought process for such a statement.
S. Dakota...
I am assuming that the above is a typo/mistake...
I would be interested in seeing news/links backing your claim/thinking. If a chance arrives (no rush) please post them.
Thank You...
SL
"they are having some success in a few southern states"
care to name those "few southern states".
"Christian Hate Group..."
What/who do they hate?
Zeitgeist Movement...
I take it they are responsible for the content of the clip/movie?
"...in order to find all these people, law enforcement will have to do massive sweeps where racial profiling would have to take place."
Or...they could simply walk onto the construction site of a major pharmaceutical company.
"and your point is ?"
Do not be a hypocrite to those who have/are doing what you did on election day...
"not interested in discussing it with you."
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Ghost...never know when they will/can appear.
you voted mccain/palin...
once again...why?
Her husband and herself benefit substantially from her position.
"the example she gave was sure clear to me .."
then feel free to express your explanation of her post...
she has stated she voted mccain/palin...who (in her words)are part of the "fascist party"
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"not interested."
Thank you...I have heard enough BS today.