Saturday, August 8, 2009

Tom Petri Town Hall Mtg

Rep. Tom Petri is holding a town hall meeting on Monday, August 10 at the Caestecker Library at 9:30am.

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Anonymous said...

For discussion sake, I think it should be established if 1) Church means religion? or 2) Church means God? Separation of church and state DOES NOT mean separation from God! My interpretation of God may be very different than yours, but your God is my God, and we are all God's children, whether some people want to behave or not. Crumbling God leads to crumbling societies that lead to crumbling families that produce adults and children that have lost or never known God. The sum of it all is a world growing shittier and more destructive every day.

dmark said...

Majority does not rule. The constitution and the other foundations of the US are expressly designed so the majorities do not override the basic freedoms of the minority. This is why when a majority of the people in the US were not for equal rights, the President and the Supreme Court moved to eliminate most of the barriers in law and practice to equal rights for African Americans.

Anonymous said...

In democracy, majority rules. When people vote (and minority have the right to vote), majority rules. The most votes wins the election.

When the republic portion of a democracy appropriately kicks in, it becomes about the "leaders" (elected by democratic vote to represent the people) who have the power to legislate and create amendments to Constitutional Law. These amendments are voted on among these "leaders", and the majority vote from these "leaders" wins - hence, a democracy among the "leaders", but a republic in this instance where the PEOPLE were concerned.

Generally, the Republicans want smaller government (less republic), but the Democrats want a bigger government (less democracy).

Anonymous said...

Dumb arses thought slavery was necessary and thought it was their right to steal freedom from others for their own benefit. There was a time when all thought the world was flat, and don't forget those that thought Zeus created thunder to punish someone(s). People are ignorant until they learn. Thank GOSH there were "leaders" that knew enough to oppose the "masses" and fight to change the only thing the "masses" knew or were willing to learn. We live and we learn, and STILL there are people abusing good faith laws to get what they want. Don't tell me even minorities are not a part of any "mass thinking" and aren't willing to abuse old/new laws to get what they want for themselves! And the pendulum keeps swinging back and forth, and back and forth...

Anonymous said...

Slavery and discrimination still exist in America. The laws are cleverly abused and we've come up with better arguments to support clever reasons why some people are better than others, and why some people deserve more or less than others. The deeper the flies get buried in the ointment, the more expensive it gets to extract and kill them, and the less people can afford to protect themselves, so little gets done in time to avoid the suffering and cruelty. Don't kid yourself.

Anonymous said...

Two siblings. The older one is bigger and smarter, for a time, and is able to manipulate, tease, and beat on the younger one. What happens when the younger one finally catches up and starts doing the same things to the other one, to "get back" and also because he has just as much right to appropriate behave like a child as the other child? Hurt, resentment, physical strength, mental power, lack of sensitivity out of ignorance, rebellion, etc. Emotionally driven, living in the moment chaos and words that can't be taken back once their said - constant fighting! More fighting than getting along. Who are the adults here anyway? Nations, civilizations, societies, and individuals are behaving like children! We need to wake up and grow up!

Anonymous said...

Want to teach our children to be better than we are? Adults better start setting a better example, by example, with higher standards. And stop trying to create child centered, child driven classrooms. And stop taking authority and/or GOD out of the equation. A house with no legs will not stand up, for any one or thing. No one is safe and all will suffer, one way or another.

Anonymous said...

"Slavery and discrimination still exist in America." That's right. Now white people are being discriminated against and blacks are receiving special treatment simply because of their skin color. They get racially based scholarships,free college education, special job opportunities even if they are not qualified, exclusive black groups and clubs, even black magazines, all based on skin color.

If there were scholarships for whites only, the liberals would scream their heads off. A magazine called "Ivory" featuring only whites? Right. Oprah can host all black functions and heap her praises on how much better blacks are than everyone else and if a white celebrity did that they would get decimated by the media. Racism is getting worse by the day in this country.

As far as slavery, the "new" slavery is the illegal Mexicans who should not be here in the first place and yet our government allows them to stay because somebody has to do the manual labor for cheap bucks. They get paid cash, don't pay taxes and use our emergency rooms for free medical care. Their gang members fill our prisons and cost us taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. And why don't we secure our borders and clean up this mess??? Because we are too busy bailing out banks, insurance companies, auto companies and building bridges for turtles so that the politicians can continue to line their pockets and Swiss bank accounts with more of our hard-earned money.

How is it that Charlie Rangel has millions in real estate and assets when he only earns $179,000 per year? Hmmm, I wonder. And the Democrats gave him a free ticket to keep riding even though he lied and cheated on his taxes. I hope they all get voted out next elections, a bunch of low-life crooks.

If you want to stop racism in this country you have to treat everyone EQUALLY.

Anonymous said...

"If you want to stop racism in this country you have to treat everyone EQUALLY."

Exactly! Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day; Teach a man to fish and he eats for the rest of his life! You don't create new discrimination to fix old discrimination!

dmark said...

I see the Klaven is back in sesion.

dmark said...

The most votes wins the election.

Um, 2000 Presidential Election Totals

Anonymous said...

And the dmarks are the Woodys. Or does dmark just have a woody for making trouble and insulting others? It never just relaxes and is always giving the business to someone.

Anonymous said...

Ummm, dmark you've proven over and over you're an idiot.

dmark said...

Generally, the Republicans want smaller government (less republic), but the Democrats want a bigger government (less democracy).

Wow, where to go on this gem? Hmm.

St Ronnie of the Deficit
Oversaw the largest increase of government ever.

Comander Codpiece and his Off-the-books Vanity War.
"Downsized" goovernment by privatizing and then let his cronies loot the treasury of hundred of billions. Largest increase in deficit since Ronnie.

And as far as "less democracy" goes I invite you google "vote caging republican" to see their dedication to the democratic process.

Anonymous said...

Do you know the meaning of 'generally', you hate monger? Or do you just live to google any crappola to support your already twisted theories? Different opinions I can handle, but your ugly method of insulting instead of discussing is a disgrace. You a part of the growing problem, dfart.

Anonymous said...

Majority does too rule. I'm seeing too many mean spirited, ignoramuses like dmark everywhere that deserve to remain the minority...but I won't trample on their right to be idiots...just stay out of my way.

dmark said...

I know the meaning of "generally". It means you have no specifics to back up your vague arguements.

dmark said...

just stay out of my way.

Trust me, I will always be in your way.

Anonymous said...

I wasn't arguing, doofus. You were. Get in my way...take your best shot, you wet noodle.

Anonymous said...

dmark gets in the way of truth and likes it. She's just one of those ornary, annoying, mental rugrats.

Anonymous said...

It is an uphill battle, DMark. You are blogging to some real shit-kick Republican/right-wing conservatives. Just know that you are not alone. You have support. The dumbasses do not.

You stupid consesrvatives should know that you are dinosaurs, aka. extinct. Try something new for a change.

dmark said...

Here's a question: What majority?
You guys had your asses handed to you in November. The House, the Senate, The Presidency, the majority of state governors. You dead-enders are 25% at best, with a tail wind. Over 50% are dead against you and the other 25% go to the other side of the room when you walk in. Hell, the dog-catcher wouldn't run as a Republican today.`

Anonymous said...

I am NOT a Republican, dfart #1 and dshit #2. But I am sick and tried of watching the liberal Democrats' deviate spin, racist card, and fear mongering. Are you just here as attention whores, or are you really that ignorant and mean spirited?

Anonymous said...

I think even dog catchers wouldn't waste their time on the mangy mongrel, whacked out, liberal, Dogacraps.

Rodney Blog-OY-ovich said...

To show you how whacked our world has become...Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize!!!! Ha, what a freakin' joke our entire world has become. The guy has done nothing, absolutely nothing, and he wins what once was considered an elite award. I thought the Nobel did itself enough of a dishonor a few years back when Gore won for his Global Warming BS...But if you ever wanted an 'inconvenient truth'...Barry getting the award totally denigrates what was once a much sought after achievement.
This award has now shown it is nothing more than the mirrored disco ball trophy awarded on Dancing with the Stars...I bet Barry could win that one too...after all - it is driven by the vote of the Sheeple!

NoWay said...

Yeah, it really is a bad joke. Interesting that the nomination papers had to be filed two weeks after Obama was inaugurated. Even the liberal Saturday Night Live has made fun of the fact that Obama hasn't done anything worthwhile yet, unless of course you include racking up our debt, breaking every campaign promise, turning our country into a socialist hell-hole and (of course) making his "World-Wide Apology Tour". After all, America sucks and should be despised.

In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."

Gee, do you think that General McCrystal will get the additional troops that he requested over 40 days ago, or will Obama let out troops die because they don't have the back-up that they need to defeat the Taliban? If we don't get the troops, our country is doomed to face endless terrorist attacks from a group whose goal is to kill ever non-Muslim in our country. So much for PEACE. Thanks Barry, you might even win an Academy Award for your great acting.

Anonymous said...

A flat busted, has been, recipient of an acting award - living with his illegal aunt in government funded housing, trying desperately to write another book to whine about his charismatic prejudice and sugar coated, socialism. Meanwhile, his wife would have divorced him for a rich, powerful, white man who likes the way she lisps during sex and doesn't care that she's a bitter, whitey hater.

dmark said...

Pop. Pop. Pop,pop,pop. Pop. Pop,pop.
The sound of wingnut heads exploding.

Anonymous said...

Nope. That's the sound your brain makes when it's trying to put together a coherent thought and just can't. Poor dmark and her ilk.

Anonymous said...

The sound made when she pops her zits before her pus ends up all over this blog.

Anonymous said...

Good one!

dmark said...

I thought your political acumen denoted a 5th grade level of thought. Certainly here is proof.

Anonymous said...

"political acumen denoted"?

Holy balls. Your insults are so juvenile. Shut up already.

Anonymous said...

I have a thesaurus. I don't use it. Why is dmark so mean in order to make her insulting points? Ignore it.

Anonymous said...

You dunderhead conservative Republicans must be going nuts--our President is awarded a Nobel--and the best you can offer?

That's why you are losers again and again.

dmark said...

It's not a surprise to find out that wingnuts don't use reference books. Their screeds are always devoid of facts.

Rodney Blog-OY-ovich said...

He was 'awarded' the nobel prize! That is hilariously funny.
Just shows you how much of an "Oprah" driven presidency this is! Even Bono deserved his award a few years back...that can't be said for Barry.
I wonder if ACORN had something to do with the voting process?

Anonymous said...

I think Obama was "awarded" the prize because he has great abs and the Nobel committee consist of a bunch of faggelas who want to suck on his licorice stick. Why do you think his ears stick out like that?

dmark said...

I'm always amazed about how much you wingnuts obsess about men fellating other men. I wonder if there isn't some projection there?

Anonymous said...

Projection? Is that a pun?

Anonymous said...

Men don't obsess about men fellating other men. They wonder what it'd be like to watch a woman licking a woman, dfart. You ignorant, poor excuse for a female.

Are you that blinded by your orgasmic euphorism over Obama?

Anonymous said...

Obama sure does partake in the candy from both sides.

Anonymous said...

I have to apologize for the post about implying dfart is zombie stuck in the erotic zone. I have my moments, and I loathe her continuous attempts to deceive and degrade.

dmark said...

I find it interesting that you seem to have assigned me a gender. I probably don't want to know, but why do you think I'm a woman?

Anonymous said...

your posts are way bitchy

dmark said...

One more cogent analysis put forth. Is it any wonder that we all are mesmerized by the logic regularly displayed here?

Anonymous said...

In your case, you must be mesmerized by posts you feel are so illogical and without intelligence that you feel it necessary to regularly insult and call names. BTW you were told why someone on this blog thought you were a woman because YOU asked. No one was pulling your chain or derailing issues with the same mean spirited tactics you delight in using to hurt people.

Anonymous said...

dmark's posts are bitchy. Straight up, dmark, are you a woman?

Anonymous said...

The BBC reports today that the year with the highest global temperatures is, of course, 2008...No? 2007? Nope. 2006? Try again. Actually, 1998 was the warmest year on record. Hmmm, how about that - wasn't Miami supposed to be underwater by now? Global temperatures are not rising, but there is one thing that is rapidly increasing: Al Gore's net worth. In 2000, the goofy VP was worth about $2 million. Now he's worth over $100 million and stands to make much more off new 'green' technologies. Just another case of Jack and his magic beans, apparently.

And you dufasses are falling for it. Anyone notice how cold it is today, October 12th? Must be global warming! Yeah, that's the answer.

Rodney Blog-OY-ovich said...

If you want to talk about an 'inconvenient truth' (and speaking of Al Gore)...have you seen all the news about the incongruous information contained in the movie. There are a minimum of 35 blatant lies incorporated into the movie that are being challenged, legally and scientifically, which show how bogus the whole concept is. These aren't liberal/conservative issues...these are scientific issues which were not only incorrectly portrayed, but were purposely skewed as to make the whole "Global Warming" premise more feasible/believable to the masses.
Once again...going forth blindly the sheeple have followed the man behind the curtain...let's hope for once they continue over the edge!

Anonymous said...

Millions of people don't know what they don't know, so the TRUST the people elected/appointed to positions of power. It is these people who know exactly the lies they tell to trick the people who trust them. These people are the ones going to hell...the people they tricked just live the nightmare until death.

Mr. dmark said...

I'd ask you to list the 35 lies but it would be a waste of time. Your list comes from an article written for the Science and Public Policy Institue. ( Oooh, an institute and it has science in it's name! It must be scientific!)
The SPPI is the brain child of Robert Ferguson. Ferguson's last venture was Frontiers of Freedom a "think tank" that was fully funded by Exxon to the tune of a cool $1mil up front and $50k a year there-after. Ferusson refuses to disclose who provides funding for SPPI. Before that he worked as a shill for Phillip Morris.
SPPI's main "scientific" source is a Dr. Claus-Martin Schulte, a British endocrinologist with no climate studies backround.
This group is a front for corporations interested in denying global climate change because it cuts into their profits.
Bottom line here is that no one has seriously refuted more than a few small points in the movie.

Rodney Blog-OY-ovich said...

Au contraire mon dmark! For someone so techno-savvy I would have thought you would have gone much further to dispel the points put forth in my post. To simply state that it was from the SPPI does nothing to minimize that much of "An Inconvenient Truth" is actually a very convenient, and lucrative, bunch of bull crap thrown out by Al Gore and totally bought into by you sheeple.
All you need to do is google it, and you'll find so many different hits that point out the erroneous (proven to be erroneous) 'facts' it will leave your head spinning. It is much like a Michael Moore movie in that regard.

The point is...Al won the Nobel based on BS and now Barry has won based on...Well, actually, based on nothing. I guess it is part of the whole liberal landscape...take what is 'given' to you because that way you don't actually have to work for it. Baaaah!

dmark said...

I invite you to show some of the "proofs" of lies or misstatements. Anything from reputable climate scientists. Preferably ones whose degrees are not journalism or MD's in endocrinology. As I said before, the "35 lies" thing has been refuted. It's up to you to show where Gore's film is inaccurate.

Anonymous said...

If you are too lazy to look it up yourself, you better go lay down and rest your fat, useless brain.

Anonymous said...

Typical liberal demoncrat...give me, give me, give me! It doesn't matter what anyone says with dmark...he/she/it/she-it(?) wins the argument by shouting the loudest; bitching the most; or just plain beating people into submission with their uninformed, 'I know you are, but what am I' rhetoric.

dmark said...

Rodney says there are 35 lies in the movie. The fact is that the figure comes from a discredited source. All I asked for is that if you claim someone is a liar, it is up to you to list the specific lie and then back up your assetion with facts, not paid for propaganda. I'll ask again. Tell me some of the lies in the movie and prove them to be lies. If you can't do that then all you have is BS and smear tactics.

Anonymous said...

Don't you get it???

AL GORE IS A DISCREDITED SOURCE! HE IS NOT AN EXPERT ON GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE OR ANY OTHER ISSUE. HE IS NOT A SCIENTIST, METEOROLOGIST OR ANY OTHER "IST". HE IS CASHING IN ON HIS FRAUDULENT CLAIMS OF GLOBAL WARMING, WHICH WAS CONVENIENTLY RENAMED CLIMATE CHANGE WHEN THE IDIOTS REALIZED THE EARTH IS ACTUALLY COOLING, NOT WARMING. PHONY, FAKE, SHYSTER, FLIM-FLAM MAN, CON ARTIST. THAT IS ONE "IST" THAT HE DOES QUALIFY FOR.

YOU LIBERALS ARE SO F'N STUPID, YOU BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT IS CRAMMED DOWN YOUR THROATS OR UP YOUR ARSES.

Anonymous said...

You're a hypocrite dmark. Pure and simple. I don't like your tactics or your half baked hate mongering. I've purposely asked people who are of the same, liberal mind that you are for their opinion, because I want to learn different perspectives, and these people DO NOT attempt to insult and hurt to make their points to me even when we do not agree. I stand by my assessement that you, and people like you, ARE the problem. Greedy politicians and the ilk that drink their koolaid. I'm so sick of the lot of ya.

dmark said...

How is it insulting to ask someone to back up their claims? How is it hypocritical? People here continually bring up these wild assertions but absolutely never come back with any sort of proof. All I asked is for Rodney to list one or two lies in Gore's film and to cite some reasonable source to show that they were lies. I'm not married to Gore or global climate change. If you could come up with some reasoned rebuttle to the science in the film I'd be more than happy to consider your side. As it is, when I ask for reasoned arguements I get the CAPS!!! Queen calling me F'ing stupid and some screed about hate mongering. How does this move a dialogue along?

Anonymous said...

My admitted disgust with you doesn't move anything along. I've lost my patience with your hypocrisy. You are a hypocrite because YOU have also posted opinions here without links, and people argued with civility why did not agree. But when someone else posts opinion you demand links to which you discredit with your opinions, with or without posting links to support. That's your hypocrisy and it stinks! I hate your hypocrisy worse than I hate your self-righteous insults.

Anonymous said...

Just what upsets you? Being called stupid, just as you've repeatedly called many on this form? Or being called f'in stupid? Playing the martyr blows your whole MO, dmark, and it doesn't become the mean spirited, tough guy, persona you've worked so hard to convey on this forum. Are you a fraud in addition to being stupid? It just keeps getting worse for the rest of us.

Anonymous said...

Quote of the Day:

“Can someone explain to me how President Barack Obama’s grandiose scheme destined to reduce the quality of the best health care system in the history of the world, force millions of people who choose not to purchase health insurance to purchase it, greatly increase medical costs, our deficits and national debt, ultimately reduce patient choice, and place health care decisions in the hands of heartless bureaucrats is somehow a demonstration of compassion?” – columnist David Limbaugh

Anonymous said...

I think the people know the answer to that one...this president is a socialist, out to weaken this country. Can't argue with the facts but there are alot of morons doing everything in their delusional power to ignore the facts.

Anonymous said...

It is just mind boggling. And scary.

dmark said...

I love your sources. OxyRush's brother.
Let's look at a couple of his assertions, shall we?

the best health care system in the history of the world

Certainly you can receive the best medical care in the world in the US. If you can afford it. The problem is that most Americans are paying exorbitant premiums for health insurance that may or may not cover their needs. 70% of the bankruptcies in the US are due to medical reasons. Over half of those had health insurance. The last World Health Organization ranked the US 37th in the world for overall health care. Right behind Costa Rica. We were ranked 14th in preventable deaths. Behind Portugal. The fact is that every industrialized nation in the world has decided that the health of it's citizens is a national priority, except for one: the US.

greatly increase medical costs

In 2005, the US spent 15.4% of it's GDP for health care. Our neighbor to the north, Canada, spent 9.8%, more than a third less and Canada covers 100% of it's citizens. I have health coverage for my family which costs $12,000 a year, about $1000 per month. Family premiums in Canada average much less than $200 per month or $2000 per year. The poorest amoung us have the absolutely most expensive form of healthcare, our emergency rooms. A properly implemented single payer system similar to Medicare could save billions of dollars.

Over 100,000 people a year die in the US due to preventable causes. Isn't it time that we join the rest of the world and quit making a profit on the deaths of our own citizens?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/05/bankruptcy.medical.bills/

http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single_payer_system_cost.php

Anonymous said...

You are delirious with stupidity.

dmark said...

Well, that certainly put me in my place. I shall slink away, having been crushed by the brilliance of your stunning response!

Anonymous said...

dmark...Doesn't matter the reason why...As the Nike slogan states...
JUST DO IT!

Anonymous said...

Quote of the Day:

“Both Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Ronald W. Reagan implemented the same solution to the recessions they faced. Note that both the Democrat and Republican chose exactly the opposite action that the current administration seems determined to fulfill. Kennedy and Reagan lowered the top marginal tax rates. When they did, small businesses hired more people, expanded the middle class, and brought the U.S. Treasury record revenues the years following the implementation. If President Obama wishes to genuinely solve the joblessness problem, all he has to do is embrace the historically proven solution.” – columnist Kevin McCullough

Anonymous said...

Start your day on a positive note:

1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it ‘Barack Obama’.
3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you: ‘Do you really want to get rid of ‘Barack Obama?’
6. Firmly Click ‘Yes.’
7. Feel better?

GOOD! – Tomorrow we’ll do Nancy Pelosi.

dmark said...

Great, another scholarly reference. WorldNutDaily writer McCullough.
Let's see what Forbes has to say about this.

"According to a recent Treasury Department study, Ronald Reagan proposed the largest peacetime tax increase in American history as part of a budget deal to get the federal deficit under control. The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) of 1982 was signed into law on Sept. 3, and most of its provisions took effect on Jan. 1, 1983." (Emphasis mine)

So St. Ronnies's response to deficits was to raise taxes.
Ronnie's 81 tax cut reduced the taxes on the top 5% of tax payers (those making over $1,000,000). His tax increases were aimed at the middle class. So the next time you complain about "Obama's socialist redistribution of wealth" remember that Reagan did exactly the opposite.
As a note, remember that the federal defict tripled under his "small government" reign.

dmark said...

My previous post contains a mistake.

Ronnie's 81 tax cut reduced the taxes on the top 5% of tax payers (those making over $1,000,000).

That should have read "0.5% of tax payers"

Obviously a significant difference is respect to how many Americans received tax cuts in 1981.

My apologies for the error.

Anonymous said...

Please explain how Obama promotes socialism. Be specific.

What are examples of Democrats and Republicans promoting legislation that is for the common good?

What/why is wrong with government that provides services for people, aka socialism?

Anonymous said...

Nothing is wrong with providing reasonable services to help others. It's when reasonable and unreasonable services are being demanded/legislated/dictated to help a few and HURT many others that is called SOCIALISM. A very fine, GLARING, line of discrimination that is being crossed under the guise of helping others. From the goodness of people's hearts doesn't exist anymore...it's about who can have more, without a care for who has nothing. We've watched many of the rich people getting away with this, so that the middle class status is almost non existent and it's just rich or poor. And now we're watching the "minorities" play the victim card to take what they want and think they deserve (without earning it) at any cost to anyone or anything that made this country GREAT (however imperfect it may be).

Anonymous said...

Oh..and let's not forget the millions of illegal immigrants pilfering and pillaging US villages and abusing the freedoms that Americans died to promote and maintain. They didn't know how to take care of their own home so now they're here to take yours. They'll vote for anyone giving them amnesty and catering to their whiney demands, and weaken this country to the point of devastation. Where will they go next when they realize their demands only resulted in the hatred directed at them AND the person they thought would help them could care less about them? Where will they go? What country will be stupid enough to let them invade their soil and demand rights on their soil that they are not entitled to? Maybe they'll go back home because then their nasty homes will look better than what they did to our homes????

Anonymous said...

It used to be that people were accepting of their social status, the division of classes, because most folks worked hard and had ambition to keep improving their lives. Now the lower income families believe that they should have all the things that the hard-working middle and upper classes have, TV's, computers, nice cars, clothes, jewelry, etc EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO WORK FOR IT. We have become such a materialistic society. And yet the low income families continue to have babies that they have no means of supporting, buy cars and homes (thanks ACORN) that they simply cannot afford, max out credit cards on frivolous spending and then expect to be bailed out. There is no accountability. I knew a family that was on welfare and disability and lived in a trailer but they took the kids to Hawaii for Christmas! It is this type of thinking that needs to be reversed. And our federal government needs to stop perpetuating this insane behavior.

dmark said...

It's when reasonable and unreasonable services are being demanded/legislated/dictated to help a few and HURT many others that is called SOCIALISM.

From where do you derive this definition of socialism?

dmark said...

Oh..and let's not forget the millions of illegal immigrants pilfering and pillaging US villages

Dude, LOOSEN THE HOOD, IT'S CUTTING OFF YOUR OXYGEN!!!

Anonymous said...

dmark, I'm all for fighting for equality and fighting against the little guy when there is abuse of power from the rich and resourceful. But distributing the wealth is NOT the way to do it.

The upper class worked hard for the things they had, but many times at the expense of those who had so much less, and did a little greasing and abusing along the way. Not all of those who are rich, but enough of them to corrupt the system.

Meanwhile, the poor decide they want the same type of materialistic wealth and, if crying victim long enough and loud enough (a little abusing of their own), they too can have the "wealth" they think they deserve and take it from those they'd watched have it "all" for so long, without working for it. Make others work for it, and work for you. It's not our laws that stink, it's people that stink and don't think the "downtrodden" and "minority" aren't turning the stench up TOP NOTCH, as one so often has to do to take what doesn't belong to them and get away with it.

Wake up you tree hugging, liberal, sympathizers - demanding/legislating/dictating distribution of wealth is SOCIALISM! Look at the other socialistic dictatorships - they don't work, they won't work, and these same dictators are stealing from our country to supplement their crappy country/system.

Why are people in other countries loving the Obamassiah? Because he's giving them what they want! Not because they care about him or because he's a great leader. He's a pansy, a poster boy, and a puppet! If even his wife raised a hand to him, the guy'd shit in his pants. He can't handle the protection, the repair, or the improvement of this country. He doesn't belong in the WH, and his danger to the mob mentality anywhere else he preaches his "you so bad I can fix" snake oil.

Time for CHANGE said...

Obama doesn't belong in the White House, or anywhere in Washington. After forsaking OUR country the way he continues to do, he belongs in prison. He took the oath to protect and defend our country and our Constitution, and is not keeping his promises. He has broken about every campaign promise. He does not follow our Constitution. He has surrounded himself (staff) with socialist and communists. He needs to go.

Anonymous said...

Who deserves more blame for the rampant stupidity in this country? Obama and his dream for US socialism, or the people who believe in him and are spitting on our constitution?

Anonymous said...

I've spent years teaching and showing my kids to love everyone, be kind, and to treat all equally. Now I find myself forced to teach them how to defend themselves and fight for what's right, in a world of so much wrong. Hope they're learning the difference between defend, mercy, and defending out of and with mercy. I'm trying to teach them how to live with and learn from different perspectives...but our children are being given no choice but to pick the side of freedom and equality, while simultaneously fighting against the other side that's trying to kill them. What are our children learning by example? Hate in the name of love? Love in the name of hate? Neither one of these will ever work, now or ever.

dmark said...

while simultaneously fighting against the other side that's trying to kill them

Who, exactly, is trying to kill your children?
How, exactly, are they doing this?

Anonymous said...

Well, let's see, because Americans will not bend to their twisted, murdering will, terrorists would like to see Americans dead - that includes our children - and they are doing everything in their power to kill us, one way or another. By example of parents and politics in our schools these days, we're killing our kids' minds. Pray your children's safety never becomes victim to local politicians' and local institutions' selfish agendas. Don't forget the drugs we keep pumping into our kids and weakening their immune system, in a country where good people can't afford quality healthcare. It's not easy to hide from all this, when you're a parent and a resonsible citizen.

Anonymous said...

No joke man, it's really time for you to talk to your doctor about adjusting your meds.

Anonymous said...

And you used what logic before insulting someone's state of mind???? Pfffffttt

Anonymous said...

When politicians propose some hugely expensive new program and are asked how the government is going to pay for it, a standard ploy over the years has been to claim that they will pay for it by eliminating “waste, fraud and abuse.” At a recent town hall meeting, a citizen raised the obvious question: If you can do that, why haven’t you done it already?

Anonymous said...

Excellent point!

dmark said...

in a country where good people can't afford quality healthcare. It's not easy to hide from all this, when you're a parent and a resonsible citizen.


I'm glad that you are for health care reform. Call your representative and demand a public option.

Anonymous said...

NO PUBLIC OPTION! NO GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE! The government has no business running any business. A public option will not fix the problems that exist. No massive bill is going to fix the problems, because the problems are not even addressed in this bill. The democrats are trying to GRAB POWER at any cost, and it sucks. Only slackers who are to lazy to work and pay their bills want the public option, them and the dirty politicians who get Cadillac health care at OUR expense. They have nothing to lose. Until the next election.

Cry me a river said...

I find it very ironic that the people who cannot afford health care can afford cigarettes, beer, designer jeans, purses and nice cars. They can pay to have their hair cut and highlighted every month. They eat out several times a week. They have big flat screen TV's in their living rooms. But they just can't scrape together enough money to pay for their medical costs. I have no sympathy for them.

Sick of the BS said...

Right on...if they can't afford health care (or, more appropriately, don't want to afford health care), screw em'! If everyone went through life 'NOT' expecting things to be given to them as a birthright, we'd be much better off as a country. The problem is all the leeches (ie: dmark?) who think they have something coming to them just because they exist. Give it a break, get your asses in gear and earn a living. If your job comes with health benefits, good for you. If not, budget your money and find a way to make it happen...if it is truly that important to you.

Anonymous said...

"I'm glad that you are for health care reform. Call your representative and demand a public option."

WHO isn't for healthcare reform? I said nothing about public option, you idiot.

Anonymous said...

The politicians voting for public option are doing so to further weaken the people, against their socialistic power mongering. The people supporting the public option do so because they know NOTHING abut the system, and only care about what can get for themselves for free.

Tried calling a government run agency? Their rude, obnoxious, uncaring, condescending, uneducated, ignoramuses out to bitch slap you for shit-n-grins, because they can and you can't touch them. Their government employees.

Now picture yourself in a doctor's office, with real symptoms of a real illness or disease, that's turned your whole life upside down. You're terrified and vulnerable...and your doctor ends up figuratively, bitch slapping you because he/she can ... or because he's/she's forced to by a government that could care very little whether you die or not. Actually, the more vulnerable you are, the more you are in their back pocket, giving them everything you are or own...until you finally die off and no longer impede their indoctrination of the masses. Volunteer work, free day at Disney, my ass.

Good Reading said...

If Obama Had Told Us Before His Election by Phyllis Schlafly

The Bear on Oct 21 2009 | Filed under: Election 08’, Politics

If Barack Obama had campaigned on what he has actually done in his first 300 days in office, would he have been elected? That’s the question so many are asking today.

If Obama had told us he would appoint 34 Czars, reporting only to himself and not vetted or confirmed in the constitutional way, building a powerful unitary executive branch of government, would he have been elected? What if he had told us that his Green Jobs Czar had been a Communist, that the Science Czar wrote in a college textbook that compulsory “green abortions” are an acceptable way to control population growth, and that the Diversity Czar has spoken publicly of getting white media executives to “step down” in favor of minorities?

If Obama had told us he would take over the automobile industry faster than any socialist dictator ever nationalized an industry, fire the CEO of General Motors and replace him with a Democratic Party campaign contributor, would Obama have been elected? If Obama had campaigned on closing down thousands of profitable car dealers, nearly all Republicans, would we have believed that this vindictive financial retaliation against those who didn’t vote for Obama could happen in America?

If Hugo Chavez, the Communist who nationalized most of Venezuela’s industries, had said before the election that “Comrade Obama” would nationalize the U.S. automobile industry and “end up to his right,” would anybody have believed it? If talk shows had warned against such a socialist takeover, would the Obama-loving media have accused them of McCarthyism?

If Obama had told us he would spend $3 billion in a Cash for Clunkers program that would use taxpayers’ funds to buy mostly foreign cars and grind up the used American cars traded in to make them unusable, would he have been elected?

If Obama had told us that his Stimulus package is a sham because it does not create private-sector jobs (as a tax cut would do), so that the unemployment rate has risen to nearly 10 percent, with 15 million Americans unemployed plus another 11 million underemployed, could he have been elected?

If Obama had told us his Supreme Court pick would be a woman who said repeatedly that a “Latina woman” would make better decisions than “a white male,” that his pick for chief State Department lawyer would be a transnationalist who wants to integrate foreign law into law binding on U.S. citizens, and that his pick for Regulations Czar argues that animals are entitled to have lawyers to sue humans in court, would Obama have been elected?

If we had known that Obama would be totally incompetent as commander-in-chief of his chosen war in Afghanistan, and would not speak to the general in the field for 70 days, ignoring his dire report for six weeks, would Obama have been elected?

Good Reading said...

Obama CONTINUED...

If Obama had told us he would have the government guarantee 90 percent of all U.S. mortgages, imposing $5 trillion in off-budget debt on U.S. taxpayers who had faithfully made their own mortgage payments, would he have been elected? And what if Obama had told us he would have the taxpayers take over 80 percent of all student loans at a cost of $1 trillion over the next decade?

If Obama had told us that he would make the U.S. government a major shareholder in Citigroup (one of the world’s largest banks), would you have believed he could get away with this socialist takeover?

If Obama had admitted that his health care plan would include the same provisions for which he ran negative TV ads against Hillary Clinton (a federal mandate requiring every American to buy health insurance) and against John McCain (a tax on high-cost employer-based plans), would Obama have been elected?

And what if Obama had told us that his federal health plan would pay for all abortions without regard to the Hyde Amendment, and provide full health care (including private doctor visits) to immigrants without requiring proof of legal residence?

If Obama had campaigned on increasing federal spending and debt from a multi-billion-dollar level to multi-trillions, would he have been elected? And what if Obama had told us that his promise to “spread the wealth around” would balloon his first year’s budget deficit to $1.6 trillion?

If Obama had told us that his promise to “spread the wealth around” meant wiping out the Republican welfare reform of 1996 and increasing annual welfare spending by 39 percent to almost $1 trillion a year by the end of his first term, would he have been elected?

If Obama had declared during his campaign that his first major speech abroad would be to the Muslim world, and that he would proclaim in Muslim Turkey that “one of the great strengths of the United States is . . . we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation,” would he have been elected?

Anonymous said...

Excellent question and summary of Obama's dictatorship and lies. Obama makes me want to puke.

dmark. said...

and your doctor ends up figuratively, bitch slapping you because he/she can ... or because he's/she's forced to by a government that could care very little whether you die or not.

What a load of crap. This happens every day, but not by the gov, but by insurance companies. Insurance companies who have been given the only anti-trust exemtion in the US.

dmark said...

Ah, Phyllis Schlafly, the wise old sage. Here's another of her gems:

"Children who are not taught phonics grow up to be adults who can never be hired for anything other than a minimum-wage job. They will never be assimilated into our economy and achieve the American dream.”"

How can yoiu argue with wisdom like that?

Anonymous said...

"What a load of crap. This happens every day, but not by the gov, but by insurance companies. Insurance companies who have been given the only anti-trust exemtion in the US."

Of course, you nimrod! Insurance companies can be, and are, scam artists to make a buck without a care of one's health or well being. They don't pay the medical bills on time, to save millions on the interest they accrue by keeping the money (our paid premiums) in their bank for as long as they can, and they will find every illogical, ridiculous, unfair excuse to refuse to pay the bills! Gee, dfart! You really figured that one out for the rest of us...we just had NO IDEA the insurance companies were to blame in the least, for exorbitant healthcare costs! MAYBE - just maybe - that is why many of us have been screaming HEALTHCARE REFORM??? Ya think, dfart?

Still, blaming insurance companies does NOT absolve Obama for HIS responsibility to this country and its healthcare woes WITHOUT forcing us to become a socialized nation under a government run, single payer plan.

You keep blaming what little brains you have on everyone else, and getting your fingers bitten off? Do you have any fingers left, dfart? Forget using your thumbs, they're stuck up your butt.

Anonymous said...

Our esteemed President and his house of crooked congress today violated the Constitution of the United States by capping the salaries of bank executives who received bail-out loans. Now our government can decide YOUR salary if they think you don't deserve what you are earning. This is a HUGE violation of our liberties. While it might make sense to many of us, it is completely unacceptable and should not be tolerated. There was NO condition set when the bail outs were given. Socialist Barry is destroying our country, and if you are not MAD AS HELL, then you don't have a brain cell in your skull.

dmark said...


Still, blaming insurance companies does NOT absolve Obama for HIS responsibility to this country and its healthcare woes WITHOUT forcing us to become a socialized nation under a government run, single payer plan.


First, what has the current administration done to make health care worse? More importantly without a government plan how do we fix the problem?

Anonymous said...

It's the ole 80/20 principle. Even if 80% of the people behave themselves, do what they can to follow what is right, and go out of their way to not hurt others...you only need 20% of the stupidest, criminal, immoral, abusive, ignorant, cheating, etc. in society or government to tip a situation, most especially from bad to worse.

dmark said...

Following in the footsteps of that other noted socialist, Richard M. Nixon.

Anonymous said...

Yea, dfart, you're slithery kind is all too familiar by now. You don't want details and opinions to learn from. You want information to better attack your opponent with. You've done it before, and you'll do it again. You're not here for anything more than to convince yourself you're, somehow, superior to others. You disgust me and I don't give a shit what you think or how you process it. You...are...useless.

dmark said...

...you only need 20% of the stupidest, criminal, immoral, abusive, ignorant, cheating, etc. in society or government to tip a situation, most especially from bad to worse.

"Recent polls show that less than 20% of Americans self-identify as Republicans"

Anonymous said...

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Ignorance, a thesaurus, and a computer to google with...yippeee...dfart dun thinks she hit paydirt in the brains department!

dmark said...

Open letter to Phyllis Schlafly.

If you knew that George Bush would ignore the the warnings of his security people and allow over 3000 Americans to be killed by terrorists, would you have voted for him?

If you knew that Bush would staff FEMA with incompetant cronies and allow an American city to be plunged into chaos, would you have voted for him?

If you knew that Bush would falsify intelligence and lead America into a war of aggression based on lies, would you have voted for him?

If you knew that Bush would lead America into a realm of renditions, black prisons, and torture, would you have voted for him?

If you knew that Bush would turn a budget surplus into the worst economy since the great depression, would you have voted fore him?

Anonymous said...

Bush is history, we were talking about our CURRENT PRESIDENT, Obama. Changing the subject is not a way to pursue a valid argument.

dmark said...

Phyllis Schlafly is not a source of valid arguements.

dmark said...

Ok...I'm finally going to come clean. I am a sexually frustrated, cross-dressing, trans-gender, homophobic, obsessive-compulsive, liar with a grade school education. I've been out of work since forever and basically live off of the government stipends I get from cheating the system.
So, bottom line, I'm your typical democrat....Baaaah, baaah, baaah!

Anonymous said...

I know good people who are Democrats, and respect their views even if I strongly disagree with them at one point. You're just a typical, run of the mill, asshole with a mean spirited sphincter muscle. Either go to the bathroom or go see a doctor...while you can.

dmark said...

Tsk, tsk, namestealing is a sign of having nothing real to say. I also find it kind of gutless on a blog where almost no one believes in themselves enough to even identify their posts.

Anonymous said...

"Tsk, tsk, namestealing is a sign of having nothing real to say."

How bout name calling? That's the ploy you've repeatedly used when you've nothing intelligent to say on here. Why are hate mongers such as yourself so upset when they end up being treated with hatred? I bet you won't admit the answer but you'll think of a name to insult someone with - you're good like that.

dmark said...

I wet the bed last night. Again.

dmark said...

I wet the bed last night. Again.

Sorry, but you shouldn't sleep with your mouth open on the lower bunk.

Boe Jiden said...

Heck...if I was forced to share a room with dmark I'd sleep with one eye open (no, not that one dmark!).

Anonymous said...

Why is it you right wingers all act like bit players in Deliverence? Your obsession with gay sex is one of the things you all have in common.

Anonymous said...

People are talking about peeing in bunk beds, and giving dfart a taste of her own bitchy medicine, and you bring conservatism into it? Sit down and be quiet, churchmouse. Dmark is bad enough without your blind adoration for it.

Joey Bidenmytime said...

Speaking of stupid things...Barry just declared that the swine flu is now a 'national emergency'. You have got to be kidding me - the guys a total joke!

Fear NOT said...

It's all about scaring people into thinking that they need the federal government to "save" them from certain doom. This is a relatively mild flu strain. Isn't it ironic that thousands die every year in this country from Mesothelioma, and yet our government has not banned the use of asbestos. They can't stir up panic to make it worth their while. How about lung cancer, hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in the USA and yet the government takes no steps to ban the sale and consumption of cigarettes, or even control the chemicals that are added to cigarettes. The government profits from cigarettes, and from the deaths they cause. Now they are vaccinating millions with toxic chemicals and making a huge profit on that. Obama is trying to scare the public into trusting the government to take over the health care business, and it is insidious, evil and corrupt.

dmark said...

I love it. Never a peep out of you people when Commander Codpiece is so out of it he has to be shown the ABC news reports to understand that NO is underwater. You get a president who makes decisions before people are flooding the emergency rooms and it's "Oh no, oh no, the crazy negro is out to get us!".
The order allows hospital to set up off-site ER's, fast-track patient care, and speeds up the process to get vaccines distributed. Scary stuff.

Lieutenant Lutefisk said...

Exactly the point dmark! You have obviously been subjected to the indoctrination program. Conditioned to do the will of your leader just like the rest of the sheeple.

If there really was an emergency then this would have been the right thing to do. Since it is only a Hallmark emergency, declaring it a 'national emergency' is utterly, completely and undeniably asinine.

Maybe Barry is working on his next Nobel. If he got something for doing nothing, just think what he might get for doing something...even if it is total BS!

dmark said...

You dead-enders are truely amazing. You'd let tens of thousands of Americans die every year because you hate the administration that is trying to fix the health care problem and you'd let children die because you think you can make points about an emergency declaration during a potential health crisis.
Where were you when Commander Codpiece was using the bogus "color code terrorist alerts" to manipulate public fears for his political ends? Silent.
Why do you hate America?

Anonymous said...

Someone posts an opinion about Obama's use of "swine flu" to put fear into people's hearts and wallets - and, dfart, immediately starts sniffing around and accusing people of being afraid of Obama's negro-ness????? Dmark, this can not be for real. Can anyone really be as stupid and divisive as you, or are you intentionally trying to stir the pot?

Anonymous said...

Since the beginning of mankind, people have died from disease. The weakest are weeded out of the human race. It is called "natural selection" and continues through the millenniums. Americans fear death more than any other civilization, probably because their faith is weak.

If our government was truly concerned about children's health, they would be actively doing something to prevent childhood obesity, such as banning high fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated oils from the market. I don't see the feds going after McDonald's and Burger King. Juvenile diabetes is raging out of control. Parents are apathetic about their children's diets and overall health. Kids sit for hours on computers and in front of televisions. You never see kids playing outside any more, like when we were kids. If our unhealthy children are dying from a simple flu, then that is our fault. Don't blame health care reform for the sparse deaths from this "pandemic". More kids die riding their bikes to school than are dying from this flu. If you are worried about your kids, start buying and cooking healthy food for them and send them outside for some fresh air and exercise.

Anonymous said...

"If our unhealthy children are dying from a simple flu, then that is our fault. Don't blame health care reform for the sparse deaths from this "pandemic"."

Somewhere in the entirety of this post, there is food for thought regarding choice we've made that are doing harm to ourselves. But the simple flu and sparse deaths comments were were pretty hugend illogical leaps. For what reason, I'm not sure, so I'll leave it at that.

Anonymous said...

GLOBAL deaths per day: Seasonal flu 1,027, Swine flu 23. Is someone getting rich off the scare tactics?

In the USA, June 2009 average -

One birth every........ 7 seconds
1 day = 86,400 seconds divided by 7 = 12,342.8 births per day.

One death every....... 13 seconds
1 day = 86,400 seconds divided by 13 = 6,646.1 deaths per day.
Source(s):
http://www.census.gov/population/www/pop…

It's all just life and death. Don't freak out about it. The swine flu "pandemic" has been greatly exaggerated to make us afraid, but some of us have common sense. As flu's go, it is not an especially bad flu. The "regular" flu mutates all the time, that is why flu shots are a not only a waste of time and money, but they put toxins and foreign anti-bodies into your bloodstream to live there forever, causing damage. There are hundreds of variations of the flu, and whatever flu shots are manufactured in a given year are done so solely on guesswork. Congratulations, Guinea Pig. You've just had poison injected into your body, thinking it will somehow save you. It won't save you, but it might kill you one day.

Anonymous said...

1. ‘Life’s tough……it’s even tougher if you’re stupid.’ – John Wayne

2. ‘My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it’ – Barack Obama

Unfortunately now we are beginning to understand what the second one means and what the first says about us.

dmark said...

In regards to the H1N1 emrgency order, Take a look at this.
All but four states and three districs are reporting widespread influenza outbreaks. More importantly, look at the percentage of visits for ILI. Week 40 of 2008 (Oct) is higher than any time since Week 10 (March) of 2008. As you can see, Week 10 is traditionally a high point of ILI and Week 40 a low. This suggests that by the spring, this could be the worst flu year in a long time.
The emergency order allows hospitals to set up off-site clinics and helps to fast track vaccinations. This is a prudent responce to a possible nationwide health emergency.

dmark said...

Week 40 of 2008 (Oct)

That should have read "Week 40 of 2009 (Oct)"
Sorry.

your HINI said...

blah blah blah

dmark said...

your HINI said...
blah blah blah


Translation from dead-ender to english:

"Facts, facts, I don't need any stinking facts."

Anonymous said...

You need an enema. You're full of it. Go AWAY. You creep me out. Do us all a favor. Go far away.

dmark said...

What creeps you out is that some one shows your *Anonymous* BS to be just that. BS.
You dead-enders are a fading minority, destined for the dust bin of history.

Anonymous said...

Let all the sheeple get the 'emergency' vaccines...it will help with the indoctrination! No More KoolAid..Only Vaccines! Bah, bah, bah!

dmark said...

I soiled myself at the grocery store this morning. Crap just oozes out of me all the time, wherever I am.

dmark said...

Quite honestly, I couldn't care less whether any individual gets a H1N1 vaccination or not. The only advantage to me is that the more people who get vaccinated, the less likely that there may be disruptions in the economy and general society due to pandemic illness. As 58 year old man with no health issues, I'm in a low risk area and probably won't get one myself.
Having said that, when people start promoting the "goverment is out to get you" meme about vaccinations then you move from the less than 20% dead-ender catagory to the less than 1% "Glen Beck is my news source" crowd.

Anonymous said...

And you're a liberal fanatic and hater. All you do is act like an idiot while calling others idiots. The same typical BS from shits like you making a bad situation in a good nation worse than it ever was. F'in hypocrite.

Mike C. said...

I had a former employee call me earlier today inquiring about a job, and at the end of the conversation he gave me his phone number. I asked the former employee if this was a new cell phone number and he told me yes this was his “Obama phone.” I asked him what an “Obama phone” was and he went on to say that welfare recipients are now eligible to receive (1) a FREE new phone and (2) approx 70 minutes of FREE minutes every month. I was a little skeptical so I Googled it and low and behold he was telling the truth. TAX PAYER MONEY IS BEING REDISTRIBUTED TO WELFARE RECIPIENTS FOR FREE CELL PHONES. This program was started earlier this year. Enough is enough, the ship is sinking and it’s sinking fast. The very foundations that this country was built on are being shaken. The age old concepts of God, family, and hard work have flown out the window and are being replaced with “Hope and Change” and “Change we can believe in.” You can click on the link below to read more about the “Obama phone”…just have a barf bag ready. – From Mike C.

https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/home.aspx

Anonymous said...

I saw a picture headlinining these "Obama" phones. It was of Michelle Obama serving food in a soup kitchen for the homeless or those on welfare. One of the homeless/welfare was the one taking her picture with his new "Obama" phone. Free soup comes with a free cell phone now. Does this make sense to anyone?

Anonymous said...

Obama's administration has done nothing that makes sense so far. Free cell phones for welfare recipients is beyond wasteful. Obama seems to care nothing about his budget or how much national debt he racks up. He is more than irresponsible. God forbid these people can't call their crack dealers unless they have an Obamaphone. Ridiculous.

dmark said...

Before you all get your anti-Obama panties in a twist, you might want to note that the program is part of the Lifeline program initiated in 1984 (Reagan administration). The wireless program was implemented in the fall of 2008 (Bush administration). It is set up by the FCC (Republican chairman) under revisions made after Katrina (Bush aministration). The company that supplies the phones is TracFone. TracFone has been a strong republican supporter with upper management people serving in the Bush administration and on the McCain presidential campaign.
As a note, it is not funded by tax revenue, but by the Universal Service Fund paid by telecoms.

Anonymous said...

Let go of your pickle, dmark.

dmark said...

I love it. Let one of you squirrels bring up another of your un-documented anti-Obama rumours and you're all over it. Once the truth comes out, no one is there.

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

Anonymous said...

As usual, you continue to blame Bush for the things that Obama is or isn't doing. We are in a recession, our country is not just broke, but deeply in debt. Any and ALL unnecessary spending should be halted, immediately. Obama is spending OUR money, our kids money, and our grandchildren's money like there's no tomorrow. It is irresponsible and unacceptable.

Nancy's New Jet said...

Nancy Pelosi wasn’t happy with the small jet USAF C-20B, Gulfstream III, that comes with the Speaker’s job…no, Madame Pelosi was aggravated that this little jet had to stop to refuel, so she ordered a Big Fat 200-seat USAF C-32, Boeing 757 jet that could get her back to California without stopping!

Many, many legislators walked by and grinned with glee as Joe informed everyone that Nancy’s Big Fat Jet costs us, the hard working American tax payers, thousands of gallons of fuel every week. Since she only works 3 days a week, this gas guzzling jet gets fueled and she flies home to California , cost to the taxpayers of about $60,000, one way! As Joe put it, ‘Unfortunately we have to pay to bring her back on Monday night.’ Cost to us another $60,000.

Folks, that is $480,000 per month and that is an annual cost to the taxpayers of $5,760,000. No wonder she complains about the cost of this war…it might cramp her style and she is styling, on my back and yours. I think of the military families in this country doing without and this woman, who heads up the most do-nothing Congress in the history of this country keeps fueling that jet while doing nothing.

Madame Pelosi wants you and me to conserve our carbon footprint. She wants us to buy smaller cars and Obama wants us to get a bicycle pump and air up our tires. These people are nuts.

If you think this is outrageous, forward it to all those on your email list! Keep in mind the figures above do NOT include cost of plane or crew, just fuel!

One wonders what her total package cost us? And she wants to tax our IRA’s & 401 K’s!

Anonymous said...

I can't help but want to give a big thank you to Illinois for pumping the snake oil into what is now the Obamassiah and another big fat thank you to California for botoxing Pelosi's certifiable nutso career on our dime!! Obama needs to be taken down BIGTIME but that woman should be committed!

I must admit getting a kick out of Pelosi's stuck up reaction to that Harry Reid's condescending, pet the pig, fake arm around her shoulder! Classic! First time I've ever seen her do the right thing - her facial expression said it all! One nutbag turning on another nutbag - but not before both of them have caused REAL damage in and to this nation!

Anonymous said...

Many, many, many (not all) smart men in politics do not like smart women (either in politics or those who can see their simple minded BS). But smart women DO NOT like other smart women! There is such little room being made for women, and women are made to work so much harder to prove themselves (it's like swimming up stream), you better believe a smart woman will do everything in her smart powers to make sure SHE is the omega and most loved by the male species. Women can be real bitches to get what they want; most of the time, I'd say rightfully so, but not in all cases. Men don't know what hit them because are not women and are still trying to figure out just how a woman ticks and just what the hell they want - some women take full advantage of that vulnerability and ignorance. Just saying...

dmark said...

Where, exactly, did I blame Bush? Other posters claimed this was an Obama program and I pointed out that it wasn't. I was in no way "blaming" Bush for it. And you convenlently skipped over the part about it NOT being funded from the tax rolls.

dmark said...

While we're in the debunking mood, take a look at this entry from Snopes about the *Pelosi Jet Debacle*. As you can see, the use of AirForce planes was started for Denny Hastert after 9/11. As of March of this year, Pelosi had used the larger plane only once because the AF didn't have a smaller plane available. The plane request (by the House Sargent At Arms) was for a plane with a longer flying time, not a larger plane.
I really wasn't going to address this one because it's been debunked so many times elsewhere, but I couldn't help but notice how the post here is word for word from the viral email sent around.
Come on guys, at least rewrite this crap! You're just phoning it in!

Anonymous said...

Oh, goody. More regurgitated and blind rhetoric. You think you see right through others' BS but you are unable or unwilling to see your own or that of those you support. Boring. Predicable. Worn out. Typical. Ignorant. Eyes to see, ears to hear, darling dfart. Get yourself some.

Anonymous said...

This is from the White House visitor logs that check everyone who goes in and out. Here’s a few individuals, with their number of visits:

George Soros – 4 times
Bill Ayers – 2 times
Jeremiah Wright – 1 time
Micheal Moore – 8 times
Micheal Jordan – 5 times
Gen. David Petreus – 0 times
Unions Boss Richard Trumka – 8 times
Union Boss Andy Stern – 21 times
Alan Greenspan – 8 times
Gen. Stanley McChrystal – 0 times

Anonymous said...

"The White House warns that many names that may appear familiar — and controversial — do not in fact refer to the most famous people to carry those names. Jeremiah Wright is on the list, but it's not the president's former pastor. This Michael Jordan is not the basketball player. This Michael Moore is not a filmmaker. The William Ayers who took a group tour of the White House isn't the former radical from Chicago who figured so prominently in the 2008 campaign. And the Angela Davis on the list has a different middle initial than the activist and former fugitive."

Anonymous said...

"The White House warns that many names that may appear familiar — and controversial — do not in fact refer to the most famous people to carry those names. Jeremiah Wright is on the list, but it's not the president's former pastor. This Michael Jordan is not the basketball player. This Michael Moore is not a filmmaker. The William Ayers who took a group tour of the White House isn't the former radical from Chicago who figured so prominently in the 2008 campaign. And the Angela Davis on the list has a different middle initial than the activist and former fugitive."

Anonymous said...

Okay, yeah, right.

Anonymous said...

What the WH says may be true or it may be lie. But OF COURSE the WH will say what it has to say to cover up a truth that will hurt it! And OF COURSE I think the names of all those people are EXACTLY who their "famous" names say they ARE!!!! Nice try WH!

Anonymous said...

You've been pawned!

Anonymous said...

And you're still on the wrong side of the tracks. Good luck with that, sleezbag!

Flutrina said...

RE: Swine Flu

In August administration officials promised 80 to 120 million H1N1 Swine flu doses would be ready by mid–October. Calling the plan an “aggressive response” designed to produce enough vaccine for every American who was feeling uneasy eating a strip of bacon.

Here it is mid–October and only 16.5 million doses have arrived. This is 14 percent of what was promised and is not even close enough for government work!

The new prediction is 150 million doses in December — just in time to protect “Winter Festival” Santas in shopping malls — and only two months after the “epidemic’s” peak.

Concerned that nine months of hype wasn’t producing the required level of frenzy, Obama went on the radio last Saturday and declared a national health emergency.

In Fairfax County, VA clinic lines started forming at 5:45 AM. In Maryland waits were up to 4.5 hours.

Who qualified for immunization was a moving target. On Saturday in Fairfax only pregnant women and children under three were eligible. Then the Flu Potentate ruled that 5–year–olds qualified and parents of children younger than 6 months.

In DC the rule was pregnant women and young people up to age 24. Parents older than 24 with infants were turned away. Then the collective mind changed and “caregivers” for children under 6 months and adults 25 – 64 with underlying conditions were added.

Finally in Maryland immunizations were limited to last names beginning with N thru Z who voted for Obama in both the primary AND general election.

So here you have it, a dry run for the Obama Administration’s performance on nationalized health care. All vast governmental forces were focused on a single disease rather than the entire gamut of America’s health care problems. There was no greedy, profit–riddled private sector in this fight, only the saintly public option. The program had universal coverage and no pre–existing condition exclusions.

The result? Missed deadlines, rationing, incompetence, blame–shifting, arbitrary decisions, random displays of authority and don’t forget: long lines.

There’s a word for this preview of socialized medicine under Obamacare.

Call it Flutrina.

dmark said...

I thought you deadenders didn't believe in the flu vaccine. Doesn't it turn you into an Obamatron?

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