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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
THE ROANOKE TIMES
Sounds like the Republican Party’s campaign slogan to me! I can just see Mitt Romney, and George Allen, and Morgan Griffith running TV ads withunflattering pictures of President Obama superimposed on photos of the collapsing twin towers and gas station signs with prices at $8 a gallon.
Sharon N,
I think we may have just found out how they planted those 1961 Obama birth announcements in Hawaiian newspapers years after the fact!
That is just too bizarre.
and in keeping with Ogden Nash…
Karl Rove quote: “As people do better, they start voting like Republicans… unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.” [Published in the February 19, 2001 issue of The New Yorker.]
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/karlrove/a/karlrovequotes.htm
I think Suzie was in DC last Saturday.
http://suspectdevice.net/man-in-banana-suit-whphotowalk-streettogs-fil
Debbie,
Was the banana suit shouting, “Come and get it Monkey Boy?” If so, I think you may be onto something.
Possibly, Dan.
It’s bike-ride time folks! Catch you later . . .
Just in case you think the Martin case in Florida is unique. See the article linked below.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/29/us/stand-your-ground/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
@8
Did mine earlier today and ventured onto the newly connected Tinker Creek Greenway. Impressive and cool. The switchbacks down to the bottom of the river are fun and remind me of driving from Hinton WVA to Oak Hill over white oak mountain: A road so curvy that you’d end up going around all four sides on a hillside house on your way up our down. The road takes you back to a nice spot in the river too, right where Tinker Creek comes into the Roanoke river. Actually becomes a pretty nice size river at that point.
This will probably stir up a little discussion, but I found the editorial from the Washington Post to be spot on. You have to click through several pages to read the entire document, but it is worth the time.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html
No discussion needed. It all seems pretty much true. Right wingers have severely damaged the country. I have more than one former Repub friend who had to pretty much switch or stop voting because they can’t support unbending ideologues like Griffith, Allen, Smith, and so on.
Not a 1%er in the U.S. but nonetheless, he reflects the attitude of most 1%ers in the U.S. They are not willing to share anything.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Royal+family+vows+quit+referendum+trims+power/6535265/story.html
Thanks for Sharing the article Ron. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When wannabe politicians sign an oath of allegiance to the ilk of Grover Norquist That party has gone off the rails. Of course the GOP is the problem. Come to the table and negotiate in good faith instead of just plain lie about the GOP agenda which is to dismantle the social safety network which has moved the U.S. forward over the past 150 years.
The party that formed as a grass roots movement in response to the Kansas-Nebraska act which would have allowed the expansion of Slavery is now the Party of voter suppression, Big Business, and the rape of the middle class in America, among other injustices. What a shame.
Hubby and I were talking about political oxymorons today. Among those mentioned were “liberal values”, “green jobs” and “Democrat leadership.” But my favorite is still ‘President 0bama”
“This will probably stir up a little discussion…” then Ron links an editorial that slams Republicans
This, according to the leftwing bloggers, is the very definition of troll: “posting something just to get a reaction”. Most of Ron’s posts are exactly like this. He is among the biggest trolls on the blog.
Boo hoo for the royal family of Lichtenstein. Either they get to veto anything they want, or they’re picking up their balls and going home.
Ron’s link is a great one, of course. It was written by one guy from the Brookings Institution and another guy from the America Enterprise Institute. It’s not at all surprising that they share the view that the Republicans are the problem in politics today; that is so obvious you’d have to be dead not to grasp it.
I don’t like ‘alright’. The preferred form is “all right”. Whenever I see “alright” I feel like I’m reading something from an uneducated person.
It’s not at all surprising that they share the view that the Republicans are the problem in politics today;
To date, the ONLY voices in the wilderness who have been pleading for fiscal sanity and controlling runaway spending have been Republicans, specifically Tea Party Republicans.
No one else seems to care that our credit rating has fallen or that fewer people have jobs than had them at the end of Bush’s term.
Good article, Ron. Until the average voter realizes the Republicans are the cause of their misery we’ll have even more gridlock. The “liberal media” is asleep at the switch.
Boner admits Republicans are in trouble.
Swooze…
would you prefer all left?..
Per Oxford..
Similar ‘merged’ words such as altogether and already have been accepted in standard English for a very long time, so there is no logical reason to object to the one-word form alright.
You get your panties twisted at the most miniscule things…
but havent a clue about things that carry any heft at all.
“No one else seems to care that our credit rating has fallen . . ..”
One of three rating agencies downgraded the credit rating BECAUSE of the Tea Party Republicans.
Obviously the right wing has some research that proves if you keep telling lies, some voters will believe them. Why else would they do so?
One of three rating agencies downgraded the credit rating BECAUSE of the Tea Party Republicans.
Nope. The Tea Party debt ceiling bill that passed the House was the ONLY one S&P said wouldn’t have lowered our credit rating. Senate Democrats and 0bama defeated it.
Simply not true Suzie, we debunked that lie a long time ago and you are still peddling it for the masses dumb enough to grant you any credibility.
“…we have changed our view of the difficulties in bridging the gulf between the political parties over fiscal policy, which makes us pessimistic about the capacity of Congress and the Administration to be able to leverage their agreement this week into a broader fiscal consolidation plan that stabilizes the government’s debt dynamics any time soon.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/05/national/main20088952.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody
“…with Congress proving its own inability to function for the greater good. Had the grand bargain been achieved, where each side gave a little to get a better deal for the American people, the downgrade would have been avoided.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20089038-503544.html
Just stop lying, the divisive, “Waterloo” at all costs from the TP/GOP has cost this nation greatly and everyone except the TP/GOP knows it.
#16 Ron doesn’t post lies to get a reaction. You do.
Wow, that was easy. Again.
#18 These two guys were on NPR this morning. Both are great admirers of Reagan and both have blasted Dems over the years. But both agree that the Repubs are responsible for making the past Congress one of the worst ever, primarily because of Repub refusal to do ANYTHING that might end up helping the nation because Obama might get dredit for it. And how they could be on the verge of splitting the nation. I’ve heard this same sentiment from Civil War era historians
One comment I enjoyed: One of the guys wrote an article calling the past Congress the “Worst. Congress. Ever.” Somebody said something like, “Come on, the Congress right before the Civil War was worse.” To which the author replied something like, “OK, granted, but do you really want to be be compared to that?”
Sorry, suze, this is not trolling. It’s the unvarnished truth.
I think that the press is paralyzed with fear of being called “biased” so it engages in ridiculous contortions to make it appear that the democrats and GOP are equally responsible for the current disaster in Washington. They’re not, and until the press has the stones to point out where the fault lies, people aren’t going to figure it out.
None of your links or claims debunk the fact the House bill passed, there would have been no downgrade. But such is the world of tunnel vision, isn’t it, Sandi. For partisans like you, facts never matter.
miniscule
It’s always comical when some oaf misspells a word while lecturing others about grammar and usage.
It’s easier to find a three-legged chicken than a liberal who can spell.
#25 – Sandi – why do RWers and Teabaggers lie? It has become pathological, and pathological liars don’t recognize the deluded and shrill rhetoric as anything but their “truth” – they perceive their ludicrous denials and fabrications as reality – we can only hope at some point they will realize they live in a very abnormal reality and get help and treatment…or that the “journalists” start calling their non-facts intentional Lies….
Romney appears to be very much in this category, however instead of liar, he is called a “flip-flopper” which sounds much more benign…
Only on Dan Casey’s blog do we get to read someone link to an “opinion” piece and have everyone jump on the badwagon and take it as “gospel truth”..like anyone really EXPECTED that a marxist would have any OTHER opinion.
Which, BTW, is exactly what they moan and groan about when a Conservative dares even READ….let alone link to anyone’s “opinion.”
OH wait..no, it is not JUST on Dan Casey’s blog….it happens whenever one tries to talk to liberals.
Sharon N,
It was an opinion piece by a couple of Reagan-loving conservatives who are disgusted with what the Republican Party has become. And they have good reason. Ronnie himself would be disgusted with what’s going on.
#32 Said the troll who can’t keep “they’re” and “their” straight and still doesn’t understand irony.
#25 – Sandi – why do RWers and Teabaggers lie? It has become pathological, and pathological liars don’t recognize the deluded and shrill rhetoric as anything but their “truth” – they perceive their ludicrous denials and fabrications as reality – we can only hope at some point they will realize they live in a very abnormal reality and get help and treatment…or that the “journalists” start calling their non-facts intentional Lies….
Is Hillary denying that the Tea Party bill the House passed was only bill passedthat would have prevented our nation’s credit rating from being downgraded? And that only Senate Democrats and 0bama prevented it from becoming law?
And anybody should give a damn whether you prefer all right to alright. Enough already. That was altogether a ridiculous post.
Does Dan really think the Brookings Institute is conservative?
You have to wonder how many Republicans are going to go into the booth this fall and quietly pull the lever for Obama. I’d bet a lot.
The Twilight Zone strikes again. I’m a little hard pressed to find any Reagan loving Conservatives who can be categorized as “marxists”. Only in the contorted mind of a SharonN does that make sense. Cut back on the spiked tea Sharon. It really is rotting away your brain cells.
#34 “Only on Dan Casey’s blog do we get to read someone link to an “opinion” piece and have everyone jump on the badwagon and take it as “gospel truth”.”
Umm, Sharon, I was aware of this piece the day it was published (last Friday) and then heard more about it on NPR this morning before seeing it on Dan’s blog. I was also aware these two guys have written a book. Seeing it on Dan’s blog made no difference in my opinion about it. These guys have called Democrats of the past “arrogant, condescending [and] complacent” and they consider Reagan something of a hero.
“The Tea Party bill the House passed was only bill passed that would have prevented our nation’s credit rating from being downgraded.”
Totally wrong, total BS. As the authors from Brookings and AEI noted, it was the Tea Party extremists in Congress whose unwillingness to compromise led to the deadlock. The deadlock is what caused the downgrade.
Okay Dan, tell ya what…I will give your opinion pieces as much credit as say….YOU would give to any links, I might make to Thomas Sowell, giving his opinion about Holder/Obama/Black Panthers/ Black Caucus…etc,etc, etc….being used to foster racial animosity among the American People…or how the “liberals” are actually the ones who are keeping blacks tied to the “plantation mentality”.
Deal?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/george-zimmerman-trayvon-martin_n_1464830.html
I guess the good attorney is more comfortable with the “court of public opinion” than he otherwise indicated.
That, or he wants more control over whatever cash the cyberklanners contribute to the “defense fund”. Which looks a whole lot more like a bounty.
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative think tank founded in 1943. Its stated mission is “to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism—limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies, political accountability, and open debate”. AEI is an independent nonprofit organization supported primarily by grants and contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Some AEI scholars are considered to be some of the leading architects of the second Bush administration’s public policy. More than twenty AEI scholars and fellows served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government’s many panels and commissions. Among the prominent former government officials now affiliated with AEI are former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, now an AEI senior fellow; former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities Lynne Cheney, a longtime AEI senior fellow; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, now an AEI senior fellow; former Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an AEI visiting fellow; and former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, now an AEI visiting scholar. Other prominent individuals affiliated with AEI include Kevin Hassett, Frederick W. Kagan, Leon Kass, Charles Murray, Michael Novak, Norman J. Ornstein, Richard Perle, Radek Sikorski, Christina Hoff Sommers, and Peter J. Wallison.
The Brookings Institute is more to the center left in its positions on many government policy issues.
For those of you who are complaining about my posting an “opinion” piece on the blog, get over it. First, I stated up front that the “editorial” was just that. Second, it is your pattern to post opinion pieces/information on this blog regularly. Your major complaint this time was it wasn’t the same line of crap you usually parrot from Rush, Sean, Glen or other right wing authors.
Gotta love America…the only place on earth where gunning down an unarmed kid can be converted into an opportunity to turn a profit!
#37 most ill-informed’s position, as usual, without any thought or Facts, blames President Obama for the Aug 2011 downgrade of US credit rating – the go to position with its limited knowledge and limited impulse control on subject matter way over its intellectual capabilities.
Some Facts for most ill-informed – {another act of futility}.
Standard & Poor on why the downgrade of the US’s credit rating – explaining their decision they cite both the decision by Republicans in Congress to turn the debt ceiling into a political football and the Republicans intransigence on tax increases. Their released statement August 5, 2011:
“The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America’s governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed. The statutory debt ceiling and the threat of default have become political bargaining chips in the debate over fiscal policy.
…it appears that for now, new revenues have dropped down on the menu of policy options.
[...]The act contains no measures to raise taxes or otherwise enhance revenues, though the committee could recommend them.
[...]Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. We have changed our assumption on this because the MAJORITY OF REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.”
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/08/05/289861/breaking-s-p-downgrades-u-s-credit-for-the-first-time-in-history-repeatedly-cites-gop-intrasigence-on-taxes/?mobile=nc
Dave @ #1
Do you mean sort of like THIS??!!
http://conservativebyte.com/2012/04/can-you-find-nancy-pelosi-in-this-picture/
What is it that makes Sharon N or Suzie think we care what they think of anything we use to refute their posts? Have we not been clear anywhere along this line? It should be patently obvious to even the most obtuse that we do not care what you think, we do not believe what you say, or care where you get it; much less how you take anything we post. You have no credibility or integrity with this blog and frankly I doubt you have any with anyone not wearing tea bags and using the Bible for a weapon, but beyond doubt you have none here. You are not in a position to make “deals”, “demands” or even ask for consideration. You made your beds. This is not Freeper, nothing you pedal is going to find buyers.
Dan, do you have any idea if the Roanoke Tea Party is doing anything to combat Chemtrails?
oaf???
my oh my!
SUZE old crumb.
Its whats referred to as a standard variant..
In “Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage” (1989), part of the entry “miniscule, minuscule,” notes:
“This spelling [miniscule] was first recorded at the end of the 19th century (minuscule dates back to 1705), but it did not begin to appear frequently in edited prose until the 1940s. Its increasingly common use parallels the increasingly common use of the word itself, especially as an adjective meaning `very small.’ ”
Standard variant…as oppososed to your usual nonstandard variants…
in your case gargantuan variants.
Just remember thrift .
If nothing else it gives you less time to dig your own hole.
…”adjective meaning very small”
I think most folks here know how that applies here.
Ron, ignore the whining, they not only link to opinions all the time, they pretend they are literal facts and research. You did nothing wrong, other than share more truth they do not want to acknowledge. Keep it coming, it is all that will set us free.