Re: 2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel
Puts me pretty much in a class by myself around here, doesn't it?
Puts me pretty much in a class by myself around here, doesn't it?
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2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel
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Re: 2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel
Juan Williams case is interesting. I can understand why he was let go from NPR. He was giving waay too many opinions on other networks.
But he's usually been a pragmatist. He just did a writeup on the GOP field on Fox.com...that is very much unFoxlike. We'll see how long he goes on Fox giving this kind of opinion. Select excerpts:
Debate Shows GOP Is Out of Step With Realities of Today's America
Last night's debate put on display a Republican Party that still looks like a 1950s Oldsmobile as they prepare to run against one of the hip, new hybrids coming out the multi-national car companies that now run Detroit.
The answers coming from the candidates felt like the voice of your grandfather's GOP. A review of the GOP ideas debated last night for improving on President Obama's disappointing first term reveals a patchwork of proposals that led to economic problems, antagonism towards immigrants, especially Hispanics, and indifference to the poor and seniors.
One of the few substantive contributions of the evening came from former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich who declared, to wild applause: "Congress should come back Monday. They should repeal the Dodd-Frank bill. They should repeal Sarbanes Oxley."
Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley were arguably the two most important pieces of legislation in recent years to regulate Wall Street and punish the kind of mass fraud that tanked the world economy in 2008.
I cannot believe the GOP wants to be seen as the reactionary party whose devotion to the failed economic theories of the past benefit the wealthy, at the expense of everyone else.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/12/juan-williams-democratic-view-is-gop-out-step/
Yet its Fox 'we'll adjust the message' as usual...the page address was changed to 'democratic view is gop out of step'. Funny!
Juan Williams case is interesting. I can understand why he was let go from NPR. He was giving waay too many opinions on other networks.
But he's usually been a pragmatist. He just did a writeup on the GOP field on Fox.com...that is very much unFoxlike. We'll see how long he goes on Fox giving this kind of opinion. Select excerpts:
Debate Shows GOP Is Out of Step With Realities of Today's America
Last night's debate put on display a Republican Party that still looks like a 1950s Oldsmobile as they prepare to run against one of the hip, new hybrids coming out the multi-national car companies that now run Detroit.
The answers coming from the candidates felt like the voice of your grandfather's GOP. A review of the GOP ideas debated last night for improving on President Obama's disappointing first term reveals a patchwork of proposals that led to economic problems, antagonism towards immigrants, especially Hispanics, and indifference to the poor and seniors.
One of the few substantive contributions of the evening came from former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich who declared, to wild applause: "Congress should come back Monday. They should repeal the Dodd-Frank bill. They should repeal Sarbanes Oxley."
Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley were arguably the two most important pieces of legislation in recent years to regulate Wall Street and punish the kind of mass fraud that tanked the world economy in 2008.
I cannot believe the GOP wants to be seen as the reactionary party whose devotion to the failed economic theories of the past benefit the wealthy, at the expense of everyone else.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/12/juan-williams-democratic-view-is-gop-out-step/
Yet its Fox 'we'll adjust the message' as usual...the page address was changed to 'democratic view is gop out of step'. Funny!
unofan
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Re: 2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel
He was Al Gore's campaign chairman in Texas for the 2000 election - that makes him a Democrat through then in my mind.
He was Al Gore's campaign chairman in Texas for the 2000 election - that makes him a Democrat through then in my mind.
unofan
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Re: 2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel
I don't really want to get into this, since I truly don't give a ****. But people put on academic probation with 9 (or however many) D's are not "indifferent" students. "Indifferent" students get the Gentleman C (which these days is probably inflated to the Gentleman B-). At least at my college, you had to actively try to get a D.
I don't really want to get into this, since I truly don't give a ****. But people put on academic probation with 9 (or however many) D's are not "indifferent" students. "Indifferent" students get the Gentleman C (which these days is probably inflated to the Gentleman B-). At least at my college, you had to actively try to get a D.
Watchout, he'll accuse of you being a libtard for using the Parise reference on a college hockey board...My Zach, there's a conspiracy. Just like the birth certificate.
Re: 2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel
Transcript says 9 D's and that F's were 'rare'.
I don't really want to get into this, since I truly don't give a ****. But people put on academic probation with 9 (or however many) D's are not "indifferent" students. "Indifferent" students get the Gentleman C (which these days is probably inflated to the Gentleman B-). At least at my college, you had to actively try to get a D.
Watchout, he'll accuse of you being a libtard for using the Parise reference on a college hockey board...
Transcript says 9 D's and that F's were 'rare'.
unofan
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Fair enough...serves me right for listening to people on Fark. (yeah yeah, I should know better).
Fair enough...serves me right for listening to people on Fark. (yeah yeah, I should know better).
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dxmnkd316
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Re: 2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel
I didn't even catch that. Brilliant.
I didn't even catch that. Brilliant.
Kepler
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Perry's politics is Cheney's radical Neoconservatism with an even more radical Christianism than Dubya's to spice it up. Whether he's personally dumb or smart doesn't matter; his political theory is responsible for our worst domestic and foreign policies of the last hundred years and his social theories are horrid. I don't care what his grades were -- he's a straight fail on his plans for the country and that's enough.
Perry's politics is Cheney's radical Neoconservatism with an even more radical Christianism than Dubya's to spice it up. Whether he's personally dumb or smart doesn't matter; his political theory is responsible for our worst domestic and foreign policies of the last hundred years and his social theories are horrid. I don't care what his grades were -- he's a straight fail on his plans for the country and that's enough.
Re: 2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel
Let the tugging begin. I referred to you as a libtard because that's what you are. Sort of a scarlet letter for losers.
I don't really want to get into this, since I truly don't give a ****. But people put on academic probation with 9 (or however many) D's are not "indifferent" students. "Indifferent" students get the Gentleman C (which these days is probably inflated to the Gentleman B-). At least at my college, you had to actively try to get a D.
Watchout, he'll accuse of you being a libtard for using the Parise reference on a college hockey board...
Let the tugging begin. I referred to you as a libtard because that's what you are. Sort of a scarlet letter for losers.
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Well then, between Perry's "radicalism" and Deadmeat's statism, we have a rough balance. Geez, the way you describe him, he's better than I thought. Those "plans for the country" really are scary: hold the line on spending, reform entitlements, maintain a strong military, reduce the regulatory burden on business, just to name a few terrifying objectives. God help us, a new dark age. And he's a G*d d*mn Christian who openly expresses his cultish beliefs. Well, there's always old 51.
Paraphrasing Bullwinkle: "No doubt about it Rock, we're gonna need a bigger bed."
Well then, between Perry's "radicalism" and Deadmeat's statism, we have a rough balance. Geez, the way you describe him, he's better than I thought. Those "plans for the country" really are scary: hold the line on spending, reform entitlements, maintain a strong military, reduce the regulatory burden on business, just to name a few terrifying objectives. God help us, a new dark age. And he's a G*d d*mn Christian who openly expresses his cultish beliefs. Well, there's always old 51.
Paraphrasing Bullwinkle: "No doubt about it Rock, we're gonna need a bigger bed."
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bronconick
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Re: 2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel
Re: 2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel
Hey, everybody makes mistakes. I'm submitting my list of "innocent" people to shoot next week. All of you smug, bigoted, a*sholes will have a ball with your unoriginal anti-Texas crap. Snark away, ladies.
Hey, everybody makes mistakes. I'm submitting my list of "innocent" people to shoot next week. All of you smug, bigoted, a*sholes will have a ball with your unoriginal anti-Texas crap. Snark away, ladies.
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Foxton
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Re: 2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel
The look on her face here, not that it looks all that much different than her usual botox-ness, is priceless.
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Congratulations to Michele's husband, since he is the one who makes the decisions.
The look on her face here, not that it looks all that much different than her usual botox-ness, is priceless.
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Re: 2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel
Thank God it's like the preseason coaches' poll. Still got to play the games in order to win.
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