Our rulers and masters do not even bother to read the bills that spend your money.
In late May, polls indicated that 53 percent of SC voters approved of DeMint's job performance, but only 48 percent said they likely would support his re-election.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
94% of All US Senate Bills Passed in Secret, Unread and Un-Voted by Unanimous Consent
Our rulers and masters do not even bother to read the bills that spend your money.
In late May, polls indicated that 53 percent of SC voters approved of DeMint's job performance, but only 48 percent said they likely would support his re-election.
We don't need to reed no Stinking Bills!
ReplyDelete...let the Teabaggers do that, it becomes their problem.
Thou Shalt not Profile Ideologies
ReplyDeleteBut asked directly about whether political correctness played a role in the failure of officers and promotion boards to pinpoint Hasan despite a number of warning signs, West balked.
“What we’re talking about [with political correctness] is: How do we do what we have to do to get information to spot people who are likely to harm service members versus how are we careful that in so doing we’re not taking steps that lump people into a group and [attribute] characteristics to the entire group,” West said.
But, he added, “I don’t think religion or theology are out of bounds when we’re looking for indicators of violence. “
Lawmakers skeptical
But some lawmakers on Wednesday said they believe politics, not security concerns, played into the investigation – including the reasons given for why the public shouldn’t know that Hasan was promoted even after an alleged statement to colleagues that Sharia law trumps the US Constitution.
“This is another incident in a long pattern of information withheld from the public that is neither germane to national security interests or impinging on legal processes,” said Rep. Mike Coffman (R) of Colorado. “A lot of information that has come before this committee has been classified merely because it’s politically embarrassing.”
West would not answer whether the attack was, in fact, terrorism. “I’m going to pass on whether it was an act of terrorism,” West said. “But I know people who died there were terrified and the people who were wounded were, too.”
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Better Dead than to have profiled and survived.
Reminds me of Trish insisting, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the Turks remain our loyal and reliable friends.
ReplyDeleteOur military has become a PC Cesspool.
But, hey, gives Trish an excuse for another factless slam on the Cheney's.
ReplyDeleteBetter to have scores dead than to interfere with the military's primary mission, and source of it's greatest strength,
ReplyDelete"DIVERSITY"
...as in, OUR STRENGTH IS OUR...
The guiding dogma of our suicide cult.
... become a PC cesspool ...
ReplyDeleteWhy, doug, it was all that, back in the early 80s', one of the reasons I left.
Nothing new, there.
The US military is just another branch of that big Federal Socialist machine.
My! whit, were you ever correct about:
ReplyDeleteGuatemala Sinkhole is MASSIVE!...
Guatemala Sinkhole Is MASSIVE, ...
Guatemala Sinkhole Is MASSIVE,
BBC News -
ReplyDeleteThe Australian police have been ordered to investigate Google for possible breach of privacy while taking pictures for its Street View service.
Sucker is perfectly round too.
ReplyDeleteOnly 10 stories deep.
Take two aspirin, and be sure to keep your cellphone under your pillow so you can call me in the morning,
ReplyDelete(from your subterranean house/grave)
SUCKER!
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""I can only sleep for short stretches. You feel powerless," said de Ramirez, a 60-year resident of Ciudad Nueva who is now staying with a sister-in-law – just a few yards (meters) from her own house.
"The doctor told me I have to adapt to this new life, to this life that changed me in seconds," she said.
"But it's very hard to adapt to this.""
So who do the So. Carolina Morons want to vote for?
ReplyDelete...María Belén Chapur ???
Markie Sanford's Argentine beauty.
ReplyDeleteBetter give DAMN GOOD Head.
ReplyDelete...and wear 2 paper bags.
ReplyDeleteThe Republic of Turkey, doug, is a signed Treaty ally. They have bled with US, before.
ReplyDeleteA full fledged NATO member, in fact this is what our own CIA says about the Turkish area of naval operations:
the Turkish Navy is a regional naval power that wants to develop the capability to project power beyond Turkey's coastal waters; the Navy is heavily involved in NATO, multinational, and UN operations; its roles include control of territorial waters and security for sea lines of communications.
The Turks are nuclear capable, in that there are nuclear weapons inside of Turkey.
Turkey is one of five NATO member states which are part of the nuclear sharing policy of the alliance, together with Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. A total of 90 B61 nuclear bombs are hosted at the Incirlik Air Base, 40 of which are allocated for use by the Turkish Air Force.
And they are the manpower reserve for NATO:
The Turkish Armed Forces is the second largest standing armed force in NATO, after the U.S. Armed Forces, with a combined strength of 1,043,550 uniformed personnel serving in its five branches.
Sanford is one weird ass "conservative" dude.
ReplyDeleteThe Turkish military is no longer authorised to oversee the elected politicians.
ReplyDeleteThe lower echelons of the Turkish Army hat the USA as much as Erdogan.
Signatures on papers notwithstanding.
"hate"
ReplyDeleteNo argument with you, on the sentiments of the Turkish populous. Nor on how those sentiments have migrated over the past 43 years, with respect to the disrespect they have, for US, today.
ReplyDeleteBut, there still are 90 B61 nuclear warheads, in Turkey.
Regardless.
You think they hate us now, wait a few years when they're having to bid against us for fewer, and fewer barrels of oil available on the Global market.
ReplyDeleteEspecially if our Armies are still in the Middle East shepherding the remaining supply to American refineries.
Bush was developing Biofuels, and Missile Defense. Obama is going the other direction. This could get dangerous as hell.
You think "tilting" at windmills is bad, wait till you try to knock down an incoming missile with a windmill.
ReplyDeleteObama can only go in the other direction until the election. Then it's all over for the socialists.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're right, T; but I'm not quite as sanguine about the upcoming elections as some.
ReplyDeleteIn the Republican primary, Paul -- the son of 2008 presidential candidate Ron Paul -- received almost 207,000 votes, easily defeating McConnell's preferred candidate, Grayson.
ReplyDeleteConway, meanwhile, received almost 229,000 votes in the Democratic primary. Second-place finisher Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo received 225,000 votes.
Overall, almost 170,000 more people voted in the Democratic primary than the Republican primary, according to the state's board of elections. But does that automatically translate to additional momentum for Democrats come fall?
Hardly.
According to voter registration figures, Democrats outnumber Republicans 1.6 million to 1 million, which easily explains much of the disparity. And while the voter edge may show in primaries, many of those Democrats end up voting for Republicans in the general election.
The Democratic candidates "both got more votes than Rand Paul did."
Will disaffected center-right Democrats vote for Mr Paul?
He will become increasingly demonized, as November approaches.
Old quotes, current quotes, he can easily be painted into a 'radical' corner, as Ms Maddow already has. Referencing his self-inflicted wound on Civil Rights Act of 1963.
The "Tea Partiers" are rank amateurs, and history shows us that rank amateurs don't do very well against "Pros." In any endeavor.
ReplyDeleteThe "tea partiers" are a construct, merely useful tools of the plan.
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I'm sorry, Q. We "voted out" all comments by "Bilderbergers" last night while you were "sleeping it off."
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome to re-apply when you have something hateful to say about the Joos, or Muzzies (or when you get that little Euro thingie fixed.)
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime please keep your hilarious, and thoroughly entertaining comments to yourself, and the rest of the peerage, of course. :)
POTUS IS A PALEOCOM
ReplyDelete...Paleocommunist
Obama Under Fire for Backing Deal to Lift Global Ban on Commercial Whaling
Several environmental groups have joined forces to pressure Obama to withdraw his support for the deal before the whaling commission votes June 20 in Morocco on whether to lift the ban that was championed by President Reagan.
The groups have run ads in major newspapers highlighting Obama's campaign promise in 2008 to "strengthen the moratorium on commercial whaling," adding that "allowing Japan to continue commercial whaling is unacceptable."
Quirk has a little Euro Thingy?
ReplyDeleteThis is starting to make sense.
"I'm sorry, Q. We "voted out" all comments by "Bilderbergers" last night while you were "sleeping it off."
ReplyDeleteI've probably said too much already anyway.
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...I mean why else would a Healthy Yank spend all that time in Spain, unless...
ReplyDeleteThey call him "Little Yanker" in Madrid.
POTUS IS A PALEOCOM
ReplyDelete...Paleocommunist
Obama Under Fire for Backing Deal to Lift Global Ban on Commercial Whaling
Several environmental groups have joined forces to pressure Obama to withdraw his support for the deal before the whaling commission votes June 20 in Morocco on whether to lift the ban that was championed by President Reagan.
The groups have run ads in major newspapers highlighting Obama's campaign promise in 2008 to "strengthen the moratorium on commercial whaling," adding that "allowing Japan to continue commercial whaling is unacceptable."
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ReplyDelete77. bogie wheel
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, Rasmussen has as reported by Hotair a new poll out. The most interesting thing is Blacks still support Obama by 95% or so, Whites are below 40%, Non-White is around 70% and Hispanic is around 60%
Actually, whiskey, the most interesting thing is the way you cherry pick & skew the data. Of the 5 factual statements you make in the single paragraph above, three of them are either flatly wrong or vaguely misleading because of what you state & what you leave out.
It was not a Rasmussen poll. It was a Gallup poll.
The non-white number is closer to 64%. The Hispanic number is closer to 54%.
Both of those numbers are on a downward trend since just January 2010. Hispanic support started out about 74 in January, which means its falloff to circa 54 by the May 24th poll is a drop of 20 points, or about 27%. The non-white number started out at about 75 in January and has dropped approx. 10 points.
From the May 17th poll to the May 24th poll, the approval ratings from these groups dropped 5 to 6 points. In just that one week. Hotair’s interpretation of this is: “The constant attacks on Arizona’s immigration law appears to have either backfired among Hispanic voters or not been a factor at all.”
I know you would like to continue subscribing to your Unified Field Theory of Race, but that dog just won’t hunt this time. Anyone who wants to can follow the Hotair link and take a look at the racial demographics chart. There are only two groups where approval/disapproval for Obama has remained fairly steady since January 2010, and that is among blacks and whites. Among non-whites and Hispanics, there has been considerable volatility. What’s happening with these groups doesn’t automatically spell “Get Whitey” unless, perhaps, one happens to be using a ouija board to do the reading.
The other thing that should be pointed out is that “approval” and “disapproval” are blunt measuring instruments and are useful only up to a point, and can be misleading or unhelpful when multiple political events are happening simultaneously and provoking different reactions in certain demographics. Policy-specific polling, like Rasmussen has here …
http://tiny.cc/n4dep
… can help parse just what it is people are reacting to. Note that responses can be inconsistent or contradictory (41% [!!?!] think Obama has Excellent or Good ethics, only 28% think he’s “more ethical than most politicians,” while the Congressional favorables are down in the toilet …). Also, Rasmussen’s polling has been showing for some time now that there is far more passion in Obama’s disapproval numbers than his approval ones. In this particular poll, Obama’s “strongly disapprove” is at 43% whereas his “strongly approve” is at 25%. Passionate voters tend to be committed voters, who tend to show up at the polls. FWIW. It’s still a long way to November, and beyond that, to restoring our Constitution. But provoking 43% of the electorate to the point where their heads are on the verge of exploding from frustration is not unifying anything, nor is it building political capital for the tough times. And we ain’t seen nothin’ yet in terms of tough times. I think everyone but the completely oblivious is sensing this.
"They call him "Little Yanker" in Madrid."
ReplyDeleteHmm.
Doug.
Maui.
On the list.
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Plenty of alternative lifestyle choices available here.
ReplyDeleteEven a tradition in native history and contemporary behavior.
I'm not saying...
ReplyDeleteI'm just sayin...
You should be setting up tours Dougo.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you know the lay of the land pretty good.
Doug's Tours: Take a Walk on the Wild Side in Maui
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Time trippin' me back to Jr High, Q.
ReplyDeleteLove that sax at the end.
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Well the way things have been going I should have expected it.
ReplyDeleteRoom service just brings back my tux from being cleaned.
I'm laying out all my stuff for the masked ball tonight and I notice I'm missing two shirt studs.
I call up the front desk, talk to the concierge, and am finally told there is not one stinking stud left in the entire hotel complex.
I sit down trying to figure out next steps and I notice the package with my mask in it. I open it up and just about shit. It's a black mask alright just as I'd ordered, but it's got these huge bird feathers attached rising up from the eyebrows. What the f***.
So I call the concierge again. Same story. It was the last one they had.
So now, instead of sitting around drinking mojitos and getting my shit together before the party I will be travelling all over Spain (on a Sunday, after seven) trying to find tuxedo shirt studs and a friggin manly mask that doesn't make me look like a raging transvestite.
I could just spit.
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Quick Quirk, there's a black sand beach on Puerto Naos La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, get your ass there, and fashion them studs, from some little black rocks, they'll go with your feathered mask. You'll look great, be a big hit.
ReplyDeleteSure Bob and be back by 10:00pm when the party starts.
ReplyDeleteRemember there is a 6 hour time difference.
Geezopete.
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Heading out, but just wanted to say this is the reason I sold my CITI stock:
ReplyDeleteDescrimination: Never Again
I can SO sympathize with this woman. Jews, Blacks, latins, complain about descrimination. Try being wickedly handsome all your life.
Never Again
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And while you're there, look for some clam shells too you can use 'em for castanets.
ReplyDeleteStudless in Spain..qué horror!
ReplyDeleteLook up Tony Blair; He might have some studs, and a manly mask left over from when he was a man.
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ReplyDeleteThe US uses 600 million gallons of gasoline a day. A $.25 a gallon tax sent to the Gulf States would compensate those damaged. Nature will clean it up 90% of within 2-3 years.
ReplyDeleteJust make sure the money goes into a specified fund for such emergencies.