Sunday, January 30, 2011

Re: Sarah Palin about the SOTU, jobs and the economy

Lil' Moonbat Tommie.

Not only is it a hateful smear and a lie to say that "right wing fear rhetoric contributes to violence and hatred, as we have seen in Tucson"; it is also ignorant.....This is the reason that ninety nine percent of this group realizes that you are a Moonbat, and why you are mocked unmercifully.

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:

Dickie Dick-

Right wing fear rhetoric indeed contributes to violence and hatred, as
we have seen over and over again, most recently in Tucson.

Qui craint de souffrir, il souffre déjà de ce qu'il craint. ~ La Fontaine

Translation: He who fears suffering is already suffering that which he fears.

On 1/29/11, dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
> You are now being ridiculous. You are supporting a president who told
> his followers and disciples to punch them back twice as hard, to bring a
> gun to the fight, to hit them again and again and you have no problem
> with that and you do find a problem when anyone says the same thing back
> to you. What I find offensive is to find someone so totally unprepared
> and inadequate holding the position he holds and lying to us over and
> over again about what he has accomplished and then to find his acolytes
> calling us racists and demagogues and Nazis.
>
> Then you bring up Waco and try to blame that on the right wing when it
> was totally the left that caused it. You had your buds in Waco with
> warrants to pick up David Koresh. David Koresh went to Waco every week
> on Thursday to pick up supplies. Your buds could have picked him up
> there any Thursday and there would not have been the massacre, the
> slaughter, the kids burned to death but instead your buds waited until
> he got back to the ranch and then attacked with full force resulting in
> many deaths, the burning of many more - and then you blamed the Branch
> Davidians for causing it because they fought back. Totally caused by
> the left.
>
> The offense is totally on your side. You remind me of those little boys
> who smack someone and when they hit you back you go running to mommy and
> complain they hit you. Spoiled little snot-nosed brats. That is the
> left in just a few words, hiding behind the media and slapping out
> inadequately.
>
> On 01/29/2011 09:42 AM, Tommy News wrote:
>> Dickie Dick-
>>
>> Your violent right wing expression is as bad as the Reich wing bumper
>> sticker "Second Amendment solution" slogan used by Michelle Bachmann
>> and Rush Limbaugh, or "protected by Smith and Wesson", etc.
>>
>> Saying that the Pitbull in Lipstick "smacked your guys around"
>> demonstrates the exact kind of rhetoric that caused Tucon, Columbine,
>> Oklahoma City, Waco, etc.
>>
>> You and Sarah Palin clearly n eed a lesson in violence control, and
>> you both need to explore your feminine sides.
>>
>> To repeat, calling the President of The United States is both
>> offensive and un-American, and I suggest that you cease and desist.
>>
>> On 1/28/11, dick thompson<rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> See what I mean. It is still true. She smacked your guys around
>>> REAL good. They have not yet recovered from the WTF idea they
>>> started. Total waste of air is what they are and she showed it very
>>> well. Now what are they going to do. They will have trouble using
>>> SEIU on her since that crew is under investigation for combining with
>>> Hamas and the Muslims. Holder is ducking and dodging trying to keep
>>> his head down so he doesn't have to try to explain what is going on in
>>> his bailiwick. Zero is sputtering about what he spoke on in that lousy
>>> SOTU speech he gave. He is still trying to explain how he expects to
>>> save money by keeping the spending at the inflated figures his crew is
>>> doing with it. TARP is also under investigation for the lies about the
>>> extent it will play in the huge deficit they ran up.
>>>
>>> And way way way back there is Little Tommy News spouting "Small Minds,
>>> Petty Thoughts, a Dutch proverb" as if that will help the cause.
>>> Forget it. You are toast and so is your team.
>>>
>>> On 01/28/2011 09:00 PM, Tommy News wrote:
>>>> OK, I will.
>>>>
>>>> The Pitbull in Lipstick is a laughing stock.
>>>>
>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>
>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
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>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
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>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
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>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
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>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
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>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
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>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
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>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
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>>>> On 1/28/11, dick thompson<rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>> You can repeat Dutch proverbs all day long but face it, she smacked
>>>>> your
>>>>> guys around REAL GOOD there. Bambi's WTF slogan got shown up for the
>>>>> idiocy it is.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01/28/2011 11:21 AM, Tommy News wrote:
>>>>>> The Pitbull in Lipstick is a laughing stock.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/27/11, dick thompson<rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> http://video.foxnews.com/v/4512578/sarah-palin-takes-on-/?playlist_id=87485
>>>>>>>
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Yearning for Respect, Arabs Find a Voice; Watch Egypt

Yearning for Respect, Arabs Find a Voice
By ANTHONY SHADID
BEIRUT, Lebanon — In Yemen, the chants invoked Tunisia, a continent
away. A Lebanese newspaper declared that all of the Middle East was
watching Egypt. A long-dead North African poet's most famous poem has
become the anthem of a moment the most enthusiastic call
revolutionary.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, conflict has pitted the West against the Arab
world, as war in Iraq and Lebanon, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
and the Bush administration's policies forged grander narratives of
"them against us." Last week, as more protests erupted in Yemen,
Jordan and Egypt and as the United States remained largely on the
sidelines, the struggle in the Middle East became firmly about "us."

For the first time in a generation, it is not religion, nor the
adventures of a single leader, nor wars with Israel that have
energized the region. Across Egypt and the Middle East, a somewhat
nostalgic notion of a common Arab identity, intersecting with a
visceral sense of what amounts to a decent life, is driving protests
that have bound the region in a sense of a shared destiny.

"The experience of Tunisia will remain the guiding light for Egypt and
may be so for people in Yemen, Sudan and the rest of the Arab world
looking for change, with a readiness to accept risk, especially given
that even the worst possibilities are better than the status quo,"
Talal Salman, the editor of Al Safir, wrote on Friday.

A chant in Egypt put it more bluntly, playing on the longstanding
chants of Islamists that "Islam is the solution." "Tunisia," they
shouted, "is the solution."

Unlike Eastern Europe, whose old order dissolved with breathtaking
speed in 1989, Arab countries are distinct in their ideologies and
governments, though they often share the same complaints of their
citizens and some degree of support by the United States. But rarely
has there been a moment when the Middle East felt so interconnected,
governments so unpopular and Arabs so overwhelmingly agreed on the
demand for change, even as some worry about the aftermath in a place
where alternatives to dictatorship have been relentlessly crushed.

The Middle East is being drawn together by economic woes and a shared
resentment that people have been denied dignity and respect. From
Saudi Arabia to Egypt and beyond, many say, there is a broad sense of
failure and frustration.

"After so many years of political stagnation, we were left with
choices between the bad and the worse," said Fadel Shallak, a Lebanese
writer and a former government minister. "Now there's something
happening in the Arab world. A collective voice is being heard again."

As a unifying force, an older Middle East had the Voice of the Arabs,
the wildly popular radio station of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's
charismatic but repressive leader from 1956 to 1970. Its mix was
oratory, propaganda and music, most memorably of Umm Kulthum, the
iconic Egyptian diva. Today it is Al Jazeera, the news network, and
though his popularity pales before the singer's, the Tunisian poet,
Abul-Qasim al-Shabi, whose work has seemed to define the protests and
their ambitions.

But even Al Jazeera has turned its gaze inward. Always provocative and
critical of the United States and Israel, it has covered the Egyptian
protests breathlessly, as it did Tunisia's, sometimes even egging the
protesters on. It is joined by Facebook and Twitter, which have
stitched together disparate places bound by a common language.

Egypt shut down Internet services in the country on Friday, in a
remarkable demonstration of how powerful those tools have become.
Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, reverted to a more
old-fashioned tactic reminiscent of the feuds Nasser had with his Arab
colleagues: he complained to the leader of Qatar, where Al Jazeera is
based. The channel, he said, was aiding those "seeking to ignite
dissent."

That is, no doubt, true. It describes, as well, Facebook and Twitter
messages, some of which have turned into a 21st-century Middle Eastern
version of agitprop.

On Facebook, a group in Jerusalem pledged support for Egypt and
Tunisia. The Arab world, it said, "is moving from darkness to light
... from dictatorship to freedom."

The changes may have deep repercussions for the United States. Mouin
Rabbani, an analyst in Jordan, said economic frustrations mirrored
resentment at governments perceived as agents of the United States and
its allies. In fact, a more democratic Arab world, given recent
polling, is likely to be much more hostile to American policy.

But the preoccupation now is internal.

"Had they been able to resolve the underlying economic issues, people
would have overlooked the corruption, the mismanagement, the
autocratic rule," said Abdel Aziz Abu Hamad Aluwaisheg, a Saudi
economist, speaking from Riyadh. "But when they failed to do the bread
and butter issues, people started looking at their governments."

That may have forged an idea of common cause, where protesters in the
most remote locales take their cues from like-minded people in faraway
places.

In Tunis on Friday, a group of Tunisian protesters gathered outside
the Egyptian Embassy in solidarity. "Mubarak out!" they chanted. A
Lebanese newspaper quoted Tunisian activists offering this advice to
their Egyptian counterparts: Protest at night, wear plastic bags to
avoid electric shocks, wash your face with Coca-Cola to fend off the
effects of tear gas and try to spray black paint on the windshields of
police vehicles.

"I wish I could join them, and I wish these protests could get rid of
all these regimes," said Mona Sibai, an Egyptian woman living in
Beirut. "I feel proud."

Laith Shbillat, a veteran dissident in Jordan, said: "People want
their freedom, people want their bread. People want to stop these
lousy dictators from looting their countries. I'd follow anybody. I'd
follow Vladimir Lenin if he came and led me."

Mr. Shbillat mentioned Shabi, the poet, who died as a young man in
1934. "If one day, a people desires to live, then fate will answer
their call," his most famous poem went. "And their night will then
begin to fade, and their chains break and fall."

"He's leading us from his grave," Mr. Shbillat said.

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/world/middleeast/30arab.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=world

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Re: Pelosi on the SOTU - what a liar she is!!

Lil' Tommie,

I will give you that there has been a debate in this Nation for years regarding health care. Unlike Europeans, the majority of Americans are opposed to socialized medicine. Europeans are now realizing that socialized medicine is a dismal failure. By example, both Germany and the UK are privatizing their socialized medicine programs because, as stated, they are dismal failures. The point being, is that the majority of Americans are opposed to socialized medicine, and socialism in any form whatsoever. We are "do-ers"; movers, shakers. We are a charitable people, but we have no tolerance for those who would drain our resources, and take advantage of our good will, charity, and free handouts.

The ObamaCare legislation is a boondoggle consisting of government-mandated increases in demand, which will in turn create government control over prices, and shortages and rationing are inevitable.That is the whole purpose of the death panels, and other little bureaucratic boards that is within the almost two thousand page piece of legislation. These boards will ultimately dictate decisions concerning choice of care, including, "End-Of-Life Care".

President Obama promised universal coverage, which won't happen, but what he didn't tell us is that his socialized plan could only increase coverage, if at all, by reducing access to, choice of and quality of care, and Americans as well as corporate America are now beginning to see what is in fact in "ObamaCare".

Ms. Pelosi was instrumental in the passage of ObamaCare, in fact, as stated, it was Madam Pelosi who rammed this terrible piece of legislation down Americans' proverbial throats. The only reason that she was not ousted, is because she is from a gerrymandered congressional district in San Fransisco, that is made up of Moonbats like you.

The debate that you reference, has been short and succinct. Hillary Clinton was given a nice cold refreshing cup of "STFU" back ten or twelve years ago, when she broached the subject. Jimma Carter never got past ground zero when he mentioned the topic, and it was clear that last year, an overwhelming majority of Americans opposed the Obama Care legislation, despite the Speaker of the House successfully attempting to pass a health care bill that the Congress had not read or learned of. The Bill's passage was done in back room deals, with God only knows what was being promised.

The legislation will never be funded, and it will eventually be repealed. As is the American people's will.

With regard to Ms. Pelosi, here are just a few quotes:

"Bipartisanship is a two-way street...A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. Republicans have left their imprint.."

Nanc; 2.27.2010

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/84089-pelosi-gop-has-had-its-day-217-healthcare-votes-in-sight

"'We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it."

Nanc; 1.28.2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE1R-xH5To&feature=player_embedded

"(The Slaughter Rule is) more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know. But I like it because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill".

Nanc: 3.14.2010

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/mary-kate-cary/2010/03/16/deem-and-pass-shows-democrats-healthcare-arrogance-problem.html

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:

Lil Keithie Keith-

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TIME magazine covers

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Time Magazine's Cover Helps Show Why Liberals Are Wrong About Conservative Humor

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 01:29 PM PST

There was a time when it was pretty effortless to find articles from liberals on why conservatives simply don't have the DNA to be funny. In fact, before starting The Looking Spoon I tried to look at other conservative humor blogs to see what they were doing. All I had to do was Google "conservative humor" and among the top results would be articles propagating this myth.

Flashforward about 2 years later, I decided to Google "conservative humor" now and found these articles to be nowhere in sight unless you change your search to conservatives can't be funny. For me I know it was the arrogance of their perceived superiority following the 2008 election that motivated me and others to spring into action.

This rant should come with a soundtrack

Perhaps we just needed our backs to the wall to speak up and take back "conservative humor" for search engine results everywhere, but it's stuff like Time magazines latest cover that make it too dang easy.

Their arrogance was their undoing politically, and it's also like gasoline on a conservative funny-bone fueled fire.

From GeronL at Free Republic

This last one from iOwnTheWorld proves there's always two sides to every story...

To any liberals viewing this in bemusement and scratching their heads with the same caution Biden uses to check his hair plugs...THESE - ARE - FUNNY! You make it SO EASY too.

If anyone knows who the artist behind any of the other pieces that are not attributed (all of which were shared with me at Free Republic) step right up and claim the credit you deserve.

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Mitch McConnell raised the art of GOP obstructionism to new levels.

McConnell could chart new course in Senate

By Karen Tumulty
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 30, 2011

ELIZABETHTOWN, KY. - In the first two years of Barack Obama's
presidency, Mitch McConnell raised the art of obstructionism to new
levels. When McConnell and his united GOP troops couldn't stop things
from getting through the Senate, they made sure the Democrats paid a
heavy price for winning.

But now, the Senate minority leader who used to refer to himself as
"the abominable no-man" faces a very different challenge: Can he
actually deliver?

"The first two years, it was frankly pretty simple. From my point of
view, they didn't try to do anything in the political center in the
first two years, so there was no particular appeal" in trying to get
things done, McConnell said in an interview as he traveled his home
state during a recent recess. "The biggest difference will be deciding
when we are actually in a position to work with the administration -
and when we aren't."

Bipartisanship, of course, is just about everyone's favorite tune
these days. But for McConnell - who has some of the best tactical
instincts in modern Washington - the choices ahead are pivotal.

Having a new Republican majority in the House and six new GOP
senators, his hand is stronger. But with more power comes higher
expectations. The Republicans' political gains are fragile, and voters
- who have tossed a party out in each of the past three elections -
have shown they will not tolerate politicians who don't produce
results.

McConnell said the window for doing that is small, maybe six to nine
months, before the presidential campaign overtakes everything else.

The potential for doing business with the Obama administration is
there, however, as evidenced by the deal-making last month between
McConnell and Vice President Biden. It produced a tax cut - and
McConnell's first-ever invitation to a bill-signing ceremony at the
Obama White House, where the president lauded their "extraordinary
work."

The vice president and the GOP leader now speak frequently on the
phone. And on Feb. 11, Biden will join him for a conference on Senate
leadership at a location that is both close to McConnell's heart and a
beneficiary of his fundraising prowess: the University of Louisville's
McConnell Center.

It's a new relationship for a Republican leader who didn't have a
one-on-one meeting with the president until more than a year and a
half into Obama's term.

"It was just business. I wasn't relevant to their business in the
111th Congress and I understood that," McConnell said. "Things have
shifted."

At the same time, McConnell is crucial to pushing forward his own
party's conservative agenda. And he has said that ensuring that Obama
is a one-term president is his "top political priority."

While the new House speaker, John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), will probably
be able to get pretty much anything he wants in his chamber, the
Senate could be the burial ground for those initiatives. That was the
case the last time Republicans took charge of the House in 1995, even
though the GOP also held a narrow majority in the Senate.

Marshaling his troops is something McConnell did extraordinarily well
in the last Congress, when it took every one of his 41 members hanging
together to block things with a filibuster.

But now, said Republican Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), "we will have to go
more on offense."

In McConnell's view, that opportunity arises from the electoral map.

"Wholly aside from the Republicans, there may be Democrats anxious to
cooperate with us," the Republican leader said. "You've got 23 of them
up in 2012, a number of them in red states. They may be quite anxious
to look a lot more Republican in the next two years, which could mean
that we're not just talking about getting 41. We're talking about
getting 60."

Democrats are skeptical he will get far. "He's right there will be
members who will vote with his caucus on some issues," said Majority
Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.). But Durbin noted that when Democratic
leaders last month polled their new caucus on the question of
repealing Obama's health-care law - which McConnell has vowed to bring
to a vote in the Senate - they were reassured to discover that "he
would not have received 50 votes."

A Senate Democratic leadership aide said that Majority Leader Harry M.
Reid (D-Nev.) finds McConnell hard to figure out because he is slow to
commit when they negotiate. "He does not show his hand," said the
aide, who was granted anonymity to speak freely.

"He's a very tough negotiator," agreed recently retired senator
Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), who worked closely with McConnell on
politically sensitive legislation revamping election procedures in the
wake of the 2000 presidential recount. "But if he gives his word, it's
as good as anyone's in politics. I always found he was pretty good for
a handshake."

Even with greater numbers on his side, McConnell will have to contend
with tensions from within, especially with the tea party
reinforcements who have bolstered the ranks of a truculent
conservative wing. That faction on the right is unofficially led by
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who is often at odds with McConnell.

Tea partyers regard McConnell with some suspicion. In his home state's
Republican Senate primary last year, he made a rare break from
intraparty neutrality and supported the establishment pick, Kentucky
Secretary of State Trey Grayson, against their candidate - and the
ultimate victor -Rand Paul.

But even that was a characteristic act of calculation - albeit a wrong
one - for McConnell, who dominates his home-state politics as few
others senators have.

"A lot of it was concern about keeping the seat," acknowledged
Grayson, "and that if we lost a seat in his home state, it would
weaken him."

McConnell moved quickly, once the primary was over, to close ranks
with Paul. "He was able to put it aside," Grayson said. "If there's a
loss, he learns his lesson, and he moves on."

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Hard-line partisan or deft pragmatist? Master legislator or
win-at-any-cost hatchet man? In 41/2 terms in the Senate, McConnell
has been every one of those things, and sometimes all of them at once.
He is hard to get to know - even for his Senate colleagues - but those
on both sides of the aisle agree that McConnell is far more complex
than the opaque, purse-lipped image he deliberately presents.

"He's mean, smart and ruthless," said an Obama adviser, who did not
want to be quoted by name criticizing someone who could have so much
influence on the fate of the president's agenda.

"He's always thinking several moves ahead," said Sen. John Cornyn
(Tex.), who heads the Senate Republicans' campaign committee. "He has
learned the ways of the Senate to an extent that no one else I have
seen has. It's a combination of understanding the Senate and
understanding people."

"I wouldn't count him among the ideologues," said Sen. John F. Kerry
(D-Mass.). "He's a very practical person."

Yet some who have observed McConnell over the years wonder about his
principles. "He embraces the permanent campaign and the partisan war
very easily," said Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar at the
Brookings Institution. "There seems to be no second-thinking about
whether this is the right thing to do, or whether this is good for the
country."

The consummate Washington insider, McConnell is also something of a
homebody who seems to have little regard for the trappings of power.
His wife, former labor secretary Elaine Chao, said: "I call him my
low-maintenance husband. He does his own laundry. He goes grocery
shopping. He cooks - he's a better cook than I am."

McConnell says his character was shaped by an episode that he can't
even remember: a two-year battle against polio that began when he was
a toddler.

With his father fighting overseas in World War II, his desperate
mother took him to Warm Springs, Ga., where Franklin D. Roosevelt got
his physical therapy. She was told that she would have to keep her
only child from walking for two years, and to administer four
45-minute sessions of therapy each day, or he would live the rest of
his life in leg braces.

"I've always felt that it had a big impact on me in terms of focus,
discipline, and if you stick to it even under adverse circumstances,
you may succeed," he said. McConnell ultimately had a normal
childhood, and even played baseball. But colleagues say they notice he
does have difficulty walking downstairs.

As hard-nosed as he is about winning, McConnell sounds surprisingly
idealistic when he describes his days as a young congressional intern
and Senate aide in the 1960s.

It was a time when Congress got big things done by working across
party lines for a purpose larger than politics. McConnell, whose
father had served on the board of the Louisville Urban League,
recalled being on the Mall during the March on Washington in 1963,
though he was too far away to actually hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s
"I Have a Dream" speech. He witnessed the bipartisan effort it took to
break a Senate filibuster on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and
maneuvered himself "inconspicuously in the back of the room" when
Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in the Capitol Rotunda
in 1965.

"I thought it was a very inspiring place. I greatly admired a number
of the people that I observed as a lowly staffer," McConnell said. "I
decided I wanted to take a shot at it. I didn't know what the chances
would be or when the opportunity would come, but I decided I wanted to
see if maybe I could become a senator myself."

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The 1984 election produced a class of Senate freshmen heavy on
pedigree and political star power. Al Gore of Tennessee. John Kerry of
Massachusetts. Phil Gramm of Texas. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.
Tom Harkin of Iowa.

"I was kind of the accident," McConnell said. The new senator from
Kentucky, whose only previous elected office had been county
executive, was known only for the expensive and brutal campaign ad
that got him elected.

Produced by former Nixon media adviser and future Fox News President
Roger Ailes, the spot featured a pack of baying bloodhounds on the
hunt for the sitting Democrat, Walter "Dee" Huddleston, as an
announcer accused him of missing votes to pick up big speaking fees in
exotic locales. McConnell had been more than 30 points down when he
put the ad on the air, but it transformed the race.

When early polls came in showing McConnell on the verge of becoming
the first Republican to win statewide in Kentucky in 16 years, "the
word was that the champagne corks were being popped all over
Washington," he recalled. "They figured if Mitch McConnell was
winning, we must be in the middle of a landslide."

In fact, Republicans lost a seat that year, and McConnell turned out
to be the only one to beat a Democratic incumbent. His early
experience taught McConnell two things that have guided him since: the
value of money in politics, and the power of going negative.

He would develop an expertise in campaign finance law and devote much
of his career to blocking restrictions on political money - an issue
that had relatively little resonance with the public at large, but one
that his colleagues regard as their political lifeblood.

"This is an issue on which he made his bones internally in the
Senate," said Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer, a leading
activist for campaign finance reform who opposed McConnell. "It has
been central to his career in the Senate and his rise to Senate
Republican leader."

McConnell's first leadership post, as head of the campaign committee,
also put him in charge of fundraising. That money built a reservoir of
gratitude among his colleagues. But McConnell also immersed himself in
the institution itself: its rhythms, its rivalries, its arcane
procedures. He keeps confidences close, and spreads credit widely.

If McConnell has a role model in the job, he said, it is, ironically
enough, a Democrat - the fiercely partisan and intensely disciplined
George J. Mitchell, who served as majority leader from 1989 to 1995.

And unlike many other Senate leaders, McConnell never entertained
presidential ambitions. "It is somewhat helpful to have just one
agenda," he said.

But while that agenda may be shifting, the Senate Republican leader's
focus hasn't.

"I have a lot of discussions with the White House that I didn't used
to have. I think we'll have a lot more interaction," McConnell said.
"They have obviously decided they are going in a different direction.
When they basically adopt our positions, I expect we'll have a lot of
interaction."

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/29/AR2011012904547_4.html

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Government Is All About Power, Control, And Revenue
http://amgona.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30:government-is-all-about-power-control-and-revenue&catid=9:freedom&Itemid=15

I am a peaceful man. I have never intentionally harmed anyone. I believe in voluntary interaction with others for mutual benefit. I just want to be free to live my life. I do not believe I should be forced to do that which is against my will so long as I am doing no harm to anyone else. I just want to be left alone. "Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind," as Donovan sang to the masses some forty-five years ago. In reality, my desire to be free - to attain absolute freedom - is likely impossible.

I grew up, as do most folks, a brainwashed child. I was taught early on that we live in the United States, the "land of the free." If you believe this - if you have brainwashed your children into believing this - you might want to rethink your beliefs. Freedom - which I was taught mankind was endowed with by God - has likely never truly existed. After all, freedom is incompatible with the order required of a "civilized" society. Or, so our masters would have us believe.

Noah Webster, in his 1828 opus, "An American Dictionary of the English Language," offered as the primary definition of freedom:

FREEDOM, n. - a state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty; exemption from slavery, servitude or confinement. Freedom is personal, civil, political, and religious.

The primary definition of freedom in the 2011 online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary reads as follows:

FREEDOM, n. - the quality or state of being free: as the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action

Please take notice that Noah Webster defined "freedom" in absolute terms, whereas the current Merriam-Webster definition offers a more vague, wishy-washy interpretation. Why have the editors at Merriam-Webster finessed Webster's earlier definition? Does it have anything to do with the fact that you cannot convince people they are "free" if the definition has an absolute meaning?

I think it is self-evident after reading the 1828 definition that absolute freedom does not exist. Even those who have completely dropped out of society - those of who are technically homeless, those who live on the streets or in their cars, trucks, and vans by choice - are not truly free. As close to being free as they are, they still run the daily risk of violating one or more of the hundreds of thousands of rules and regulations enacted by those in power and control.

We are often told that without such rules and regulations we would live in a world of chaos. In reality, such rules and regulations are nothing more than obstacles placed before us, designed to control us, to keep us "in line." They prevent us from being free. They make it impossible to be exempt from "the power or control of another."

Consider this: You cannot start a business without obtaining government permission, even for something as simple and non-invasive as washing windows. If you do start a business without permission and you are caught you will face severe fines and penalties. Mind you, there need not be a complaint from anyone you do business with. Eventually someone who "plays by the rules" will narc on you because (unlike them) you have not bowed down to the narcissistic megalomaniacs who insist they have the right to dominate you. You too must enhance the public coffers. You too must submit to the power and control of those who proffer they are there to "serve" you - all the while bossing you around and taking your money.

Our masters also tell us we cannot drive an automobile without being licensed. Even if you accept the premise that such licensing is necessary (I don't), once you have passed a one-time basic competency test, what legitimate purpose is served by requiring you to renew your license on a regular basis? Why is the license not good for the duration of your existence? None that I can think of. Repeated licensing is nothing more than a means of tracking you and generating revenue.

Recently, the State of Oregon demanded that Dale Smith pass an "in-person practical exam" and successfully complete a 75-question written test to regain a barber's license he unknowingly operated without after his license expired in 2006. Smith, who has been cutting hair for more than 50 years, had not run afoul of a customer complaint. He was "found out" by a state regulator paid to spy on people.

Even more recently, a federal warrant was issued for the arrest of 78-year-old Julian Heicklen. Heicklen was charged with "distributing literature without a permit" in front of a Federal Court House. The Department of Homeland Security "regulation" Heicklen allegedly violated is itself a direct violation of Amendment 1 of the Constitution for the united States, which proclaims, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech [emphasis added], or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

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Re: Pelosi on the SOTU - what a liar she is!!

Lil Keithie Keith-

Wrong again.
The only thing that was rammed back down your throat was the Reich
wing bumper sticker slogans that spew out of it.

The debate on Health Care Reform has been ongoing for many many years,
through History.

If you think that a debate over many years followed by a Congressional
debate and votes in both houses of Congress is ramming anything
through, then you are either delusional, intoxicated, or likely both.

Let me ask you this. How can the speaker of the house "ram" anything
through the Senate and the Executive branch?

Wrong you are, little Keithie.

On 1/29/11, Keith In Köln <keithintampa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lil' Tommie,
>
> How can you deny that Nanc did in fact ram down the Americans proverbial
> throats, the ObamaCare socialized medicine legislation, when obviously, the
> majority of Americans were opposed to the legislation. That is fact, not
> fiction. It was one of the primary reasons that there was such a massive
> exodus in the House of Representatives, and a significant gain by
> Republicans in the Senate.
>
> Your denial of the facts, is nothing less than Moonbattery!!
>
>
> KeithInKöln
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Quite false Sagey.
>>
>> Wrong again.
>>
>> On 1/28/11, Sage2 <wisdom812@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Jan 28, 8:58 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Put the bottle down, Keithie Keith.
>> >>
>> >> FYI: Nancy Pelosi was THE most effective speaker of the house in
>> >> history,
>> >
>> >
>> > I guess Tommy never heard of John McCormick. Nancy was
>> > effective at one thing and one thing only, just like the rest of her
>> > demagogue ilk. she went against the majority of Americans and rammed
>> > laws down their throats.
>> > That is why the demagogues lost the house, Nancy Pelosi's
>> > effectiveness. Tommy!?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > I lost "Nanc", when she said that President Obama had surpassed
>> >> > President
>> >> > Bush's, "Job Creation" record, in nine months, as compared to Bush's
>> >> > eight
>> >> > years in office......Put the crack rock pipe down Nanc, (and yes CW,
>> I
>> >> > realize that this is a harsh critical metaphor, but come on!!!)
>> >>
>> >> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:01 PM, dick thompson
>> >> > <rhomp2...@earthlink.net>wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >> Then you deny that Pelosi was on Greta's show? You can't even
>> support
>> >> >> your
>> >> >> own lying eyes. FAIL!!! Big Time. The funny part is that when
>> >> >> you
>> >> >> look
>> >> >> at the viewers watching the speeches Zero got the lowest ratings of
>> the
>> >> >> 3
>> >> >> (Bambi, Ryan, Bachman). Ryan and Bachman both had more viewers than
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> president did even on CNN!!
>> >>
>> >> >> On 01/28/2011 10:52 AM, Tommy News wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >>> This is from Faux Noise For The Birds and Sheeple!
>> >>
>> >> >>> What liars they are, and what a liar Dickie Dick is!
>> >>
>> >> >>> On 1/27/11, dick thompson<rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >>>> e
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>
>> http://video.foxnews.com/v/4510871/minority-leader-pelosi-responds/
>> >>
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Re: Pelosi on the SOTU - what a liar she is!!

Frank-

This snark filled diatrabe of yours is not only offensive, it is one
of the worst pieces of vile crap that has ever spewed out of your
potty mouth.
You really are a little jerk, arem't you?

Go take a hike, and get lost you prissy self absorbed wing nut.

On 1/29/11, frankg <frankg2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Keith,
>
> You don't seriously expect an answer, do you? I can't remember the
> last time, if ever, that I saw Tommy post a complete, original
> thought. His response to the opening post is typical -- calling FNC
> liars. Well, it was a flippin interview, by Greta no less. She didn't
> accuse or try to catch Pelosi in any kind of lie or contradiction. It
> was a straight up, albeit soft interview. Tommy could have challenged
> Dick on what points Pelosi was lying on, but he didn't. That would
> have required watching the interview, applying thought and crafting a
> response. Instead he used one of his eight or so canned 'you lie, you
> suck' type responses.
>
> On Jan 29, 11:35 am, Keith In Köln <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Lil' Tommie,
>>
>> How can you deny that Nanc did in fact ram down the Americans proverbial
>> throats, the ObamaCare socialized medicine legislation, when obviously,
>> the
>> majority of Americans were opposed to the legislation. That is fact, not
>> fiction. It was one of the primary reasons that there was such a massive
>> exodus in the House of Representatives, and a significant gain by
>> Republicans in the Senate.
>>
>> Your denial of the facts, is nothing less than Moonbattery!!
>>
>> KeithInKöln
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Quite false Sagey.
>>
>> > Wrong again.
>>
>> > On 1/28/11, Sage2 <wisdom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > On Jan 28, 8:58 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> Put the bottle down, Keithie Keith.
>>
>> > >> FYI: Nancy Pelosi was THE most effective speaker of the house in
>> > >> history,
>>
>> > > I guess Tommy never heard of John McCormick. Nancy was
>> > > effective at one thing and one thing only, just like the rest of her
>> > > demagogue ilk. she went against the majority of Americans and rammed
>> > > laws down their throats.
>> > > That is why the demagogues lost the house, Nancy Pelosi's
>> > > effectiveness. Tommy!?
>>
>> > >> > I lost "Nanc", when she said that President Obama had surpassed
>> > >> > President
>> > >> > Bush's, "Job Creation" record, in nine months, as compared to
>> > >> > Bush's
>> > >> > eight
>> > >> > years in office......Put the crack rock pipe down Nanc, (and yes
>> > >> > CW,
>> > I
>> > >> > realize that this is a harsh critical metaphor, but come on!!!)
>>
>> > >> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:01 PM, dick thompson
>> > >> > <rhomp2...@earthlink.net>wrote:
>>
>> > >> >> Then you deny that Pelosi was on Greta's show? You can't even
>> > support
>> > >> >> your
>> > >> >> own lying eyes. FAIL!!! Big Time. The funny part is that when
>> > >> >> you
>> > >> >> look
>> > >> >> at the viewers watching the speeches Zero got the lowest ratings
>> > >> >> of
>> > the
>> > >> >> 3
>> > >> >> (Bambi, Ryan, Bachman). Ryan and Bachman both had more viewers
>> > >> >> than
>> > >> >> the
>> > >> >> president did even on CNN!!
>>
>> > >> >> On 01/28/2011 10:52 AM, Tommy News wrote:
>>
>> > >> >>> This is from Faux Noise For The Birds and Sheeple!
>>
>> > >> >>> What liars they are, and what a liar Dickie Dick is!
>>
>> > >> >>> On 1/27/11, dick thompson<rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> > >> >>>> e
>>
>> >http://video.foxnews.com/v/4510871/minority-leader-pelosi-responds/
>>
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Re: Hey he does have a skill besides teleprompter reading!

Not even in the same county as funny, Little Travis

On 1/27/11, Travis <baconlard@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has he learned how to change hands and gain a stroke yet?
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:40 AM, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Obama opening this weekend for Joy Behar at the Atlantic City Laff
>> Factory:
>> "Two salmon walk into a bar..."
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Re: Sarah Palin about the SOTU, jobs and the economy

Dickie Dick-

Right wing fear rhetoric indeed contributes to violence and hatred, as
we have seen over and over again, most recently in Tucson.

Qui craint de souffrir, il souffre déjà de ce qu'il craint. ~ La Fontaine

Translation: He who fears suffering is already suffering that which he fears.

On 1/29/11, dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
> You are now being ridiculous. You are supporting a president who told
> his followers and disciples to punch them back twice as hard, to bring a
> gun to the fight, to hit them again and again and you have no problem
> with that and you do find a problem when anyone says the same thing back
> to you. What I find offensive is to find someone so totally unprepared
> and inadequate holding the position he holds and lying to us over and
> over again about what he has accomplished and then to find his acolytes
> calling us racists and demagogues and Nazis.
>
> Then you bring up Waco and try to blame that on the right wing when it
> was totally the left that caused it. You had your buds in Waco with
> warrants to pick up David Koresh. David Koresh went to Waco every week
> on Thursday to pick up supplies. Your buds could have picked him up
> there any Thursday and there would not have been the massacre, the
> slaughter, the kids burned to death but instead your buds waited until
> he got back to the ranch and then attacked with full force resulting in
> many deaths, the burning of many more - and then you blamed the Branch
> Davidians for causing it because they fought back. Totally caused by
> the left.
>
> The offense is totally on your side. You remind me of those little boys
> who smack someone and when they hit you back you go running to mommy and
> complain they hit you. Spoiled little snot-nosed brats. That is the
> left in just a few words, hiding behind the media and slapping out
> inadequately.
>
> On 01/29/2011 09:42 AM, Tommy News wrote:
>> Dickie Dick-
>>
>> Your violent right wing expression is as bad as the Reich wing bumper
>> sticker "Second Amendment solution" slogan used by Michelle Bachmann
>> and Rush Limbaugh, or "protected by Smith and Wesson", etc.
>>
>> Saying that the Pitbull in Lipstick "smacked your guys around"
>> demonstrates the exact kind of rhetoric that caused Tucon, Columbine,
>> Oklahoma City, Waco, etc.
>>
>> You and Sarah Palin clearly n eed a lesson in violence control, and
>> you both need to explore your feminine sides.
>>
>> To repeat, calling the President of The United States is both
>> offensive and un-American, and I suggest that you cease and desist.
>>
>> On 1/28/11, dick thompson<rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> See what I mean. It is still true. She smacked your guys around
>>> REAL good. They have not yet recovered from the WTF idea they
>>> started. Total waste of air is what they are and she showed it very
>>> well. Now what are they going to do. They will have trouble using
>>> SEIU on her since that crew is under investigation for combining with
>>> Hamas and the Muslims. Holder is ducking and dodging trying to keep
>>> his head down so he doesn't have to try to explain what is going on in
>>> his bailiwick. Zero is sputtering about what he spoke on in that lousy
>>> SOTU speech he gave. He is still trying to explain how he expects to
>>> save money by keeping the spending at the inflated figures his crew is
>>> doing with it. TARP is also under investigation for the lies about the
>>> extent it will play in the huge deficit they ran up.
>>>
>>> And way way way back there is Little Tommy News spouting "Small Minds,
>>> Petty Thoughts, a Dutch proverb" as if that will help the cause.
>>> Forget it. You are toast and so is your team.
>>>
>>> On 01/28/2011 09:00 PM, Tommy News wrote:
>>>> OK, I will.
>>>>
>>>> The Pitbull in Lipstick is a laughing stock.
>>>>
>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>
>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1/28/11, dick thompson<rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>> You can repeat Dutch proverbs all day long but face it, she smacked
>>>>> your
>>>>> guys around REAL GOOD there. Bambi's WTF slogan got shown up for the
>>>>> idiocy it is.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01/28/2011 11:21 AM, Tommy News wrote:
>>>>>> The Pitbull in Lipstick is a laughing stock.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/27/11, dick thompson<rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> http://video.foxnews.com/v/4512578/sarah-palin-takes-on-/?playlist_id=87485
>>>>>>>
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Re: Sarah Palin about the SOTU, jobs and the economy

Correction:
To repeat, calling the President of The United States "Zero",
"Nobama", etc. is both
offensive and un-American, and I suggest that you cease and desist.

On 1/29/11, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dickie Dick-
>
> Your violent right wing expression is as bad as the Reich wing bumper
> sticker "Second Amendment solution" slogan used by Michelle Bachmann
> and Rush Limbaugh, or "protected by Smith and Wesson", etc.
>
> Saying that the Pitbull in Lipstick "smacked your guys around"
> demonstrates the exact kind of rhetoric that caused Tucon, Columbine,
> Oklahoma City, Waco, etc.
>
> You and Sarah Palin clearly n eed a lesson in violence control, and
> you both need to explore your feminine sides.
>
> To repeat, calling the President of The United States is both
> offensive and un-American, and I suggest that you cease and desist.
>
> On 1/28/11, dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> See what I mean. It is still true. She smacked your guys around
>> REAL good. They have not yet recovered from the WTF idea they
>> started. Total waste of air is what they are and she showed it very
>> well. Now what are they going to do. They will have trouble using
>> SEIU on her since that crew is under investigation for combining with
>> Hamas and the Muslims. Holder is ducking and dodging trying to keep
>> his head down so he doesn't have to try to explain what is going on in
>> his bailiwick. Zero is sputtering about what he spoke on in that lousy
>> SOTU speech he gave. He is still trying to explain how he expects to
>> save money by keeping the spending at the inflated figures his crew is
>> doing with it. TARP is also under investigation for the lies about the
>> extent it will play in the huge deficit they ran up.
>>
>> And way way way back there is Little Tommy News spouting "Small Minds,
>> Petty Thoughts, a Dutch proverb" as if that will help the cause.
>> Forget it. You are toast and so is your team.
>>
>> On 01/28/2011 09:00 PM, Tommy News wrote:
>>> OK, I will.
>>>
>>> The Pitbull in Lipstick is a laughing stock.
>>>
>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>
>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>
>>>
>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>
>>>
>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/28/11, dick thompson<rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>> You can repeat Dutch proverbs all day long but face it, she smacked
>>>> your
>>>> guys around REAL GOOD there. Bambi's WTF slogan got shown up for the
>>>> idiocy it is.
>>>>
>>>> On 01/28/2011 11:21 AM, Tommy News wrote:
>>>>> The Pitbull in Lipstick is a laughing stock.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1/27/11, dick thompson<rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>> http://video.foxnews.com/v/4512578/sarah-palin-takes-on-/?playlist_id=87485
>>>>>>
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Re: Obama Gaffes: Confuses Iraq with Afghanistan

Il faut tourner sa langue sept fois dans sa bouche avant de parler.

Traduizer: You should turn your tongue 7 times in your mouth before you speak.

On 1/29/11, frankg <frankg2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tommy,
>
> As you said... "Remember Dubya!"
>
> I'm willing to bet you weren't citing Dutch proverbs back when the
> liberal media was having a field day on every Bush gaffe. You had an
> opportunity to take the high road but you just couldn't do it. Clearly
> Obama knows the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan, and that this
> was a simple brain cramp. Pardon the folks on the right for having a
> little fun at Obama's expense.
>
>> "...that lil Keithie Keith is such an offensive, officious, awful hateful
>> attack dog cynic. Much like his idol, the Pitbull in Lipstick from
>> Wasilla, the crack capitol of Alaska, Keith resides in the booze capital
>> of Florida."
>
> Weren't you the guy who was just talking to Dick about getting some
> anger management help??? Man, sit down, take a deep breath and pour
> yourself a glass of chardonnay -- it might help. Besides, Keith's
> currently in Germany. :)
>
> Oh, and btw, congratulations - you've managed to insult folks from
> both Alaska AND Florida in one sentence.
>
> On Jan 29, 9:32 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's sad.....(in a funny sort of way) that lil Keithie Keith is such
>> an offensive, officious, awful hateful attack dog cynic. Much like his
>> idol, the Pitbull in Lipstick from Wasilla, the crack capitol of
>> Alaska, Keith resides in the booze capital of Florida.
>>
>> Yes, he is.
>>
>> On 1/29/11, Keith In Köln <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > It's funny....(In a very sad way) that Lil' Tommie can post something
>> > like,
>> > "Small Minds~~Petty Thoughts~~Dutch Proverb"; and yet Lil' Tommie is
>> > the
>> > epitome of his now oft repeated proverb. Like I said, funny and sad.
>> > The
>> > thread about Pelosi and the thread where Frank chewed Lil' Tommie up and
>> > spit him out, pointing out Lil' Tommie's lack of understanding and
>> > foolishness, I think pretty much sums up those who have no understanding
>> > of
>> > government and world affairs, but are nevertheless so vocal. When
>> > confronted with facts and empirical data, that makes their arguments
>> > for
>> > naught, they look like deer iin the headlights.
>>
>> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> Tommy: I have a great pic of Mohammad I will send you if you want.
>> >> Travis
>>
>> >> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>>
>> >>> "Small minds, petty thoughts". Dutch Proverb
>>
>> >>> Remember Dubya!
>>
>> >>> On 1/28/11, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> > [[ No surprise here as he has never known the difference between his
>> >>> head
>> >>> > and his ass. ]]
>>
>> >>> > <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Obama
>> >>> Gaffes:
>> >>> > Confuses Iraq with
>> >>> > Afghanistan<
>> >>>http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/obama-gaffes-confuses-i...
>>
>> >>> > *Scotty Starnes
>> >>> > <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| January
>> >>> > 28, 2011 at 9:30 AM | Tags:
>> >>> > Afghanistan <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=afghanistan>,
>> >>> Barack
>> >>> > Obama <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=barack-obama>,
>> >>> > Iraq<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=iraq>,
>> >>> > Obama <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=obama>, Obama
>> >>> > gaffe<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=obama-gaffe>,
>> >>> > President Obama <
>> >>>http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=president-obama> |
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>>
>> >>> > This is what happens when Obama's trusted aid, the teleprompter, is
>> >>> turned
>> >>> > off and his words aren't feed to him.
>>
>> >>> > *Washington
>> >>> > (CNN<
>> >>>http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/01/27/obama.youth.outreach/index.html>
>> >>> > )* -- President Barack Obama experienced *a rare speaking stumble*
>> >>> Thursday,
>> >>> > mixing up Iraq and Afghanistan when responding in a YouTube
>> >>> > interview
>> >>> > to
>> >>> > questions challenging the wars in those countries.
>>
>> >>> > Rare? I guess CNN hasn't checked YouTube lately. Obama mispronounced
>> >>> > corpsman and said corpse man <
>> >>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlkK65y_-T4>.
>> >>> > How about Obama's 57 states
>> >>> > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrsBKGpwi58> stumble?
>> >>> > My favorite was when he called an inhaler a
>> >>> > breathylizer<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxxGUeZtno>.
>> >>> > No, it has to be when he said he was a
>> >>> > Muslim<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqIpdBOg6I>.
>> >>> > As you can see, these are rare Obama stumbles.
>>
>> >>> > *The president twice referred to Afghanistan when clearly talking
>> >>> > about
>> >>> the
>> >>> > situation in Iraq*.
>>
>> >>> > He said that the United States would withdraw all combat troops from
>> >>> > Afghanistan by the end of 2011 and that combat operations there had
>> >>> ended,
>> >>> > which actually describes the situation and policy for Iraq.
>>
>> >>> > It was unclear whether Obama realized his mistake. He then correctly
>> >>> stated
>> >>> > the situation in Afghanistan, saying the United States would start
>> >>> > withdrawing some forces beginning in July, with the goal of handing
>> >>> > over
>> >>> > full security responsibilities to the Afghan government in 2014.
>>
>> >>> > Watch the
>> >>> > video>>><
>> >>>http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/01/27/obama.youth.outreach/index.html>
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