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Rover said:
Hey, when I dedicate all my free time to rebuilding a rock formation that fell to pieces years ago that sort of looked like an old guy's face if you were stoned or drunk, then you can compare me to dropthatpuck. In the meantime, leave me out of this. :mad: ;)
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Hey, good call. When he's done there, I've got a job for him here that nobody's been willing to take on:
Miner's Castle Collapse
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TF.

He'll go overseas to lobby for the summer games, but he sends Pelosi to meet with the Dalai Lama - when he's in D.C.

Sweet geezus.
 
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dropthatpuck said:
He'll go overseas to lobby for the summer games, but he sends Pelosi to meet with the Dalai Lama - when he's in D.C.
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Perhaps he should send Carl Spackler:

So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
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Looks like a slow couple of days on this thread. Now, I certainly don't condone picking on the kids who ride the short bus, but I need to call this one out:

rufus said:
Why do conservatives hate America?

So let's see, so far this year, conservatives have been against:

Bill Clinton traveling to N. Korea to secure the release of American journalists.
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Not this conservative.

rufus said:
An American city hosting the Olympic Games
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Not this conservative. I was just against that clown of a POTUS wasting time and millions of dollars to travel to Europe to lobby for his hometown and do some more jetsetting, all during the bleakest economic times for our country in 60 years. When I learned that he was only wasting time and money to lobby and not to do some sightseeing, I let it go.

But I've come to a total about face on the clown doing things like this. The more time he spends not running this country is the more time he spends not running this country into the ground. Any day he spends not doing his job is a stay of execution day for America.

I am all for him wasting millions of dollars using Air Force One to take his wife on a date to a Broadway show or to Paris to buy her some $400 shoes. The millions he wastes jetsetting is much better than the trillions he wastes doing his job.


rufus said:
Rescuing American sailors from Somali pirate
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Dope.

rufus said:
Helping American automobile companies stay in business
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So rufus is indeed a proponent of corporate welfare after all! Or is it the nationalization of the economy he likes? Either way, yes, this conservative was totally against that. The American auto industry has been turning out crap for decades. If the auto execs would like to stay in business, they should try making a quality car that can compete with Nissan and Toyata, et al. If the union workers would like to stay employed, they should have not insisted on pensions and salaries that choke the life out of their employers.

rufus said:
And offering Americans affordable healthcare
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Yes, I oppose HR 3200 because what I want is to see Americans to go broke and lose their kids' inheritances. That's exactly what I want. Dope. :rolleyes:

rufus said:
Again, why do conservatives hate America? Why do they feel that America isn't able to do any of these things, why do they doubt the greatness of this country?
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Your real question here is, why do conservatives doubt the greatness of The One's Agenda?

rufus said:
Oh, yeah, cause we have a black Democrat as President.
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So here's a question for the intelligent liberals. Obviously, we all know how ignorant rufus is being to play the race card.

My question is, do the ignorants who go there with the race card honestly believe their accusations against myself and other conservatives? I'm honestly very curious to what you're thinking. Obviously, stereotypes don't come from nowhere so it's one thing to think that about a high school dropout from Montgomery, Alabama who has a "The South Will Rise Again" sticker on the bumper of his pickup. Putting that aside, I tend to think that all but the most exceptional morons are just using the race card as a low blow smear tactic. But I'm curious if the typical liberal really thinks racial bigotry is that pervasive....

(And by the way, I'll bet the house that rufus hasn't met as many black people as I've had black friends, if we want to start keeping score.)


Old Pio said:
I'm with you and Kepler on that one. We will never have a moment like hockey in '80 again.
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Nope, not a chance.
 
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dropthatpuck said:
I jacked your material the other day and used it with a buddy referring to the way he coaches his team - didn't give you the proper attribute either. Sorry. :D
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Bad news, I think I ripped that off from the Freds.
 
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gregg729 said:
Not this conservative. I was just against that clown of a POTUS wasting time and millions of dollars to travel to Europe to lobby for his hometown and do some more jetsetting, all during the bleakest economic times for our country in 60 years. When I learned that he was only wasting time and money to lobby and not to do some sightseeing, I let it go.

But I've come to a total about face on the clown doing things like this. The more time he spends not running this country is the more time he spends not running this country into the ground. Any day he spends not doing his job is a stay of execution day for America.
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How do you feel about one George W. spending 487 days out of office at Camp David and 490 at his ranch in Crawford.
 
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gregg729 said:
My question is, do the ignorants who go there with the race card honestly believe their accusations against myself and other conservatives?
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gregg729 said:
Your real question here is, why do conservatives doubt the greatness of The One's Agenda?
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I think you've answered your own question. With an agenda this great, the only possible way one could disagree with it would be racism. QED. :D
 
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Foxton said:
How do you feel about one George W. spending 487 days out of office at Camp David and 490 at his ranch in Crawford.
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In both cases, the more they are away, the less they can screw up
 
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Two good, recent editorials from ENR. Considering unemployment in one of the nations top 3 industries is closing in on 20%, peeps in the beltway should be listening to this stuff....

Conflicting Obama Political Priorities Lead to Paralysis 09/23/2009

As the construction industry and the nation attempt to crawl out of a very deep economic hole, there is a maelstrom of competing political agendas: economic stimulus, proposed federal bailouts of an ever-widening group of companies and industries, health-care reform, global-warming initiatives and war strategies and funding, to name just a few. But with the national debt now standing at a staggering $12 trillion, an annual federal budget deficit hitting $1.36 trillion and the federal business bailout tab running $12 trillion—just for starters—there is no money for some or all of these initiatives unless the U.S. just prints a lot more, which is not a wise option.
The stumbling Obama administration seems incapable of finding its way through these initiatives. The “irreversible catastrophe” is not global warming, as President Obama said on Sept. 22 at the United Nations, it is bankrupting the U.S. with out-of-control spending.

So what is the answer? One only has to go back to Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign against George H.W. Bush, who was largely believed to be unbeatable. Clinton and his political strategist, James Carville, beat him by pounding on the basics: “It’s the economy, stupid,” they said in the midst of a recession milder than today’s.

The economy is everything, but every part of it is not necessarily worth or capable of being saved. Capitalism has a way of pruning its own dead branches and growing new sprouts. Socialism tends to sustain what is there—good, bad or indifferent—and stifle innovation. Having the U.S. government as part owner of banks, car companies or even newspapers will not advance the cause of democracy or economic growth. There are tremendous conflicts of interest.

Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaign slogan during the 1992 recession hit the nail on the head:“It’s the economy, stupid.”Early assessments of the economic stimulus produced by the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act show the construction industry is leading the way in activity. Only about $130 billion is slated for construction, but even the relatively small amount of money already flowing has produced or saved 133,000 jobs in construction. That limited stimulus measure does not include the economic velocity created in related industries or communities nor the benefits derived from the valuable long-term investment in infrastructure. But billions of dollars of bailout money for financial firms and executives that caused the financial crisis was not a suitable public investment.

Americans know the Obama administration and Congress have lost their way in setting priorities; the polls show it. Fundamentally, the public cares first about the economy and the ability to work and provide for families. Everything else is secondary.

If politicians and economists can turn the economy around with sound cultivation, there will be much more money to tackle other problems later, including planting new seeds for U.S. infrastructure development.
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http://enr.construction.com/opinions/editorials/2009/0923-ConflictingObamaPriorities.asp

Stimulus-Job Creation Can Never Match Private-Sector Power 09/02/2009

The debate over the number of economic stimulus jobs created or saved by the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act continue long after the recession is over, but the only apparent success so far is related to the infrastructure jobs fostered by the $130 billion earmarked in ARRA for that purpose. As the government coffers run dry, the only way to end the financial crisis is for Washington to start building real public confidence in the U.S. economy and help move massive amounts of private money off the sidelines and into productive parts of the economy. This amount is far more than the government could ever muster and will be allocated by more effective means.

No matter what the ARRA job count is, the number is far less than the 6.9 million jobs that the private sector has shed since the recession began in December 2007. Unfortunately, the stimulus law was heavily loaded with support for social programs that have little or no long-lasting impact on the economy. Only about 17% went for infrastructure.

Only the infrastructure portion of ARRA has the potential of delivering or preserving jobs with marketable skills in the private sector. One only has to remember the dreadful Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA) to see how little a federal employment program can produce. Conceived as an extension of the massive Works Progress Administration of the 1930s, CETA was designed to provide marketable skills to low-income people, but it became a make-work program that produced nothing at great expense. For example, how can giving people jobs clearing brush by hand from defunct rail lines prepare them for a real workplace?

Unless the private sector rises to the occasion and business activity picks up, the next economic catastrophe will be collapse of commercial real estate.
So far, the federal government has not encouraged the kind of confidence in the economy that will cause its regeneration: Congress is locked in a bitter partisan battle and seemingly does not care about anything else; the Federal Reserve is acting in secret to bail out private-sector firms with many billions of dollars; the now-ended, mismanaged Cash for Clunkers program seemed to be aimed at the unwise federal ownership share of auto manufacturers; and the national debt now is a critical national problem.

Unless the private sector rises to the occasion and business activity picks up, the next economic catastrophe will be the collapse of the commercial real-estate sector, which already is teetering. Just as mortgage-backed securities and the derivatives they spawned crushed the housing market, an estimated $700 billion of commercial real-estate mortgage securities now is at risk as companies’ revenues decline and defaults and foreclosures rise. That activity also threatens $1.7 trillion of commercial mortgages and construction loans that banks hold.

Consumers hold the key. When they start spending, job losses will start ending.
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http://enr.construction.com/opinions/editorials/2009/0902-StimulusJobCreation.asp
 
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Foxton said:
How do you feel about one George W. spending 487 days out of office at Camp David and 490 at his ranch in Crawford.
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Its not like the POTUS is out of touch when he is away from DC. Jimmy was a hostage in the White House during the Iran crisis and he never relaxed.

I want a president who is bright eyed and bushy tailed. If he needs to get out of DC to clear his head every once and a while, then go for it.
 
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