  1kielsondrive Member Username: 1kielsondrive Post Number: 1104 Registered: 08-2008 |
One of the funniest photos I've seen in a while. And accurate too.  | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 4260 Registered: 11-2007 |
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Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 5139 Registered: 11-2005 |
EX-Pres. Bozo you mean. | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 4263 Registered: 11-2007 |
No- I mean Hoover villes, which makes my tent a hot commodity. Ebay + $100. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 6832 Registered: 12-2005 |
Speaking of Hoovervilles, this story was in today's Detroit News: Newly homeless occupy Sacramento's tent city quote: | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1849 Registered: 01-2008 |
Bush wasn't a clown, he was a marionette whose strings were pulled by Dick (puppetmaster) Cheney and his neocon advisors. "Decider", my ass, he was more like a rubber stamp: "Over objections from the U.S. intelligence community, the White House is moving to declassify—and publicly release—three internal memos that will lay out, for the first time, details of the "enhanced" interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration for use against "high value" Qaeda detainees. The memos, written by Justice Department lawyers in May 2005, provide the legal rationale for waterboarding, head slapping and other rough tactics used by the CIA. One senior Obama official, who like others interviewed for this story requested anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity, said the memos were "ugly" and could embarrass the CIA. Other officials predicted they would fuel demands for a "truth commission" on torture." ~snip~ "The debate about torture ramped up again last week with an account in the New York Review of Books about a secret International Red Cross report that was delivered to the CIA in February 2007. The report, according to journalist Mark Danner, quotes detainees describing, often in gruesome detail, how they were locked in coffin-size boxes; swung by towels around their necks into plywood walls; and forced to stand naked for days while their arms were shackled above their heads." Coming Soon: Declassified Bush-Era Torture Memos | ||
Mr_onion Member Username: Mr_onion Post Number: 64 Registered: 11-2003 |
Its only Fair,  | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19568 Registered: 11-2006 |
Looking backward again libs? | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1850 Registered: 01-2008 |
quote: Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19531 Registered: 11-2006 Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 4:22 pm: Not the whole mess. Liberals over the last 80 years or so...including Carter in a larger way than most (but not all) of the villains in this story. Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19072 Registered: 11-2006 Posted on Friday, February 27, 2009 - 9:26 pm: LBJ, FDR, Carter...to a lesser extent Clinton....these are the villains. Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 18992 Registered: 11-2006 Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 11:18 pm: Too shallow...the root is socialized housing via the CRA in the 70s (Carter). The root of that is creeping socialism...FDR/new deal in the 30s, and LBJ/great society in the early 70s.  | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19589 Registered: 11-2006 |
Relevant history given our current situation economically. Not irrelevant bitter drivel regarding Iraq and the like. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19592 Registered: 11-2006 |
Left alone unless currently relevant concerns stem from that time. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 3795 Registered: 06-2008 |
Wow. That's quite a bitchslapping you just received, Batz. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19594 Registered: 11-2006 |
An attempt easily shot down in 2 sentences. Not even a challenge. | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1852 Registered: 01-2008 |
GOP had a majority Congress and Republican-lite in Bill Clinton in the mid-90s. They also held the executive office and Congress for most of the past 8 years. More than enough time to change whatever change they felt needed to be done. If the GOP caved to Democrats, then that is complicity and clearly weakness on their part. Reaching past even Reagan to put the blame on Carter or even further to FDR is not only ridiculous, but is also delusional as well. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19597 Registered: 11-2006 |
Dream on (me too). Rescinding and phasing out entitlements can be impossible. Notice some of them have been left in place for decades and through many administrations and congressional configurations. This is what is most concerning about about Obama. Reagan gives some hope for the future as a model of what can be done in a short period of time. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19598 Registered: 11-2006 |
Dream on (me too). Rescinding and phasing out entitlements can be impossible. Notice some of them have been left in place for decades and through many administrations and congressional configurations. This is what is most concerning about about Obama. Reagan gives some hope for the future as a model of what can be done in a short period of time. | ||
1kielsondrive Member Username: 1kielsondrive Post Number: 1116 Registered: 08-2008 |
Okay Flanders, Bush was a marionette clown. Satisfied? | ||
1kielsondrive Member Username: 1kielsondrive Post Number: 1117 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hey Flanders, nice picture. A right wing-nut neo con. Caught in action. | ||
1kielsondrive Member Username: 1kielsondrive Post Number: 1118 Registered: 08-2008 |
Bigb, your clown photos continue to get better. | ||
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc Post Number: 1760 Registered: 12-2007 |
Fine CC...if FDR is to Blame...I think Hoover had a part to play in this economic crisis...shit...Wilson and his damn League of Nations and entry into the Great War all but ended our policy of isolationism... | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 4278 Registered: 11-2007 |
Don't let Cc rile you. He is what he is. A one sided barker. | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1853 Registered: 01-2008 |
quote: The occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are definitely relevant to our current economic situation. quote: The inquiries, investigations, and release of information pertaining to the legitimacy/prosecution and the operations/management of them are certainly not irrelevant emotionally bitter drivel, but your response demonstrates an effort to trivialize them. Had the PNAC neocons in DC been correct on their well-publicized timeframes and the "reception" received in Iraq and Afghanistan, these invasions and subsequent occupations would have now long been finished and the troops withdrawn. quote: Unfortunately, the statute of limitations hasn't run out on them yet Ccbatson, much as you would like them to be. Apparently those with far more power and authority than you have, will be making the decisions on what is currently relevant, and what isn't. (Message edited by Flanders_field on March 23, 2009) | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1854 Registered: 01-2008 |
quote: Come to think of it, I am wrong. You are correct 1kd, he is a clown, now that his strings have been cut from the executive office. Apparently we can soon see him perform solo under the big tent in SW MI, as well as his wif..er...former Secretary Of State Condi Rice: Bush, Rice Expected to Speak in Southwest Michigan | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 3799 Registered: 06-2008 |
"An attempt easily shot down in 2 sentences." Except you didn't shoot it down. Your post contained an implicit argument that people should avoid looking backward. Then, after flanders demonstrated how you were guilty of the same behavior, you tried to create an exception to your argument so that it wouldn't apply to your previous statements. Pretty transparent, Batz. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19604 Registered: 11-2006 |
Iraq and Afghanistan are trivial at most when it comes to the problems with our rapidly socializing economy. If anything, in the long run, the ousting of Sadaam, and the Taliban, will have been well worth the price in terms of our security (militarily and economically). | ||
1kielsondrive Member Username: 1kielsondrive Post Number: 1127 Registered: 08-2008 |
The most ever socializing of our economy happened in the waining days of the former President Bozo's administration. The right wing, neo-con, nut jobs managed to socialize all of our failed uni-partisan, pre-emptive, war efforts and costs as well as the 'free market' gambling losses of our elite, ruling, oligarchs, to the middle and lower classes. That's the kind of socializing the fundamentalists just love, and never own up to. Yep, it's really evil unless the money's flowing into the coffers of the ultra rich, which is the way it usually works. | ||
Ferntruth Member Username: Ferntruth Post Number: 798 Registered: 11-2006 |
"Pretty transparent, Batz." Yeah, to everyone but him apparently. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19628 Registered: 11-2006 |
Correct Kielsondrive...GWB took a leap off the socialist cliff at the end there. Being a liberal, you must have started to like GWB at that point, right? | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1867 Registered: 01-2008 |
"It's been a rough decade for the Small Business Administration. The Bush administration slashed its budget by more than half, and many of its most experienced and knowledgeable employees were let go. To make matters worse, multiple investigations have found evidence of waste, fraud, and abuse at the agency, which is supposed to help small businesses drive economic growth. On Wednesday, the embattled agency was dealt another blow when the Government Accountability Office revealed that the SBA's $8 billion program designed to funnel government contracts to small businesses in poor areas gave millions to companies that did not meet the legal requirements, including one that was "headquartered" in a trailer home occupied by someone unrelated to the company. Some of the owners of the "small businesses" in question admitted straight-out to the GAO that they were defrauding the SBA's HUBZone program by funnelling money to big businesses or businesses outside the zones." ~snip~ "Rep. Nydia Velasquez (D-NY), the chair of the House small business committee, has talked of shutting down the HUBZone program entirely. But Gunn says far more drastic measures need to be taken. "If the best they can come up with is to end the program then we're all in trouble," Gunn says. His organization is working on legislation with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) to preclude publicly-traded companies from being counted towards the government's small business procurement goals. That move that would keep companies like Raytheon, Honda and 3M (and their subsidiaries), which have received federal small business contracts in the past, from receiving them in the future." Bush Leaves Legacy of Fraud and Abuse At Small Business Administration In less than four months, and likely just the tip of the iceberg of corruption, fraud, waste and criminal activities being exposed so far during the Chimp's administration.  (Message edited by Flanders_field on March 27, 2009) | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19707 Registered: 11-2006 |
Here is a clue...look at the names of these bureaucratic entities..."small business administration". Government is not supposed to be administrating small, or any, businesses. |
