EvilMonkey

If I am reading this rightm both Morse and Giron have been recalled due to their complete ignoring of their constituents and despite the mega-bucks Bloomburg and the Unions sunk into the campaign. Having a hard time finding link from anything other than conservative blogs so far, which isn't surprising. I don't expect it to get as much play as it would have had the recalls failed.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 9, 2013 -> 11:13 PM) a lawyer/lobbyist having sex with women outside of his marriage =/= a history of discriminatory rhetoric and policy A Kennedy. Just pretend that it was one of Bush's nephews that did this, then imagine your reaction and that of the MSM. Yeah, go there.

Gordon B

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/...martin/2788443/ The estranged wife of George Zimmerman opted not to press charges against her husband Monday after police in Florida responded to her sobbing 911 call reporting he had punched her father and was threatening them with a gun. The police couldn't find a gun or any evidence of any kind of physical altercation like she claimed, which included smashing an ipad and punching the father.

DeAza

More of that darned Republican war on women and keeping them in binders, I guess. http://nypost.com/2013/09/08/rfk-jr-s-sex-diary-of-adultery/

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 8, 2013 -> 02:47 PM) That will work against Hillary exactly as well as running around yelling that Obama is a n-word would have worked in the last 2 elections. You mean like this? http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/75301-r...nts-immediately The only ones doing that were people who heard 'code words' in every criticism. You could have said "I think he sucks at his job' and some media somewhere would claim that was racist.

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 8, 2013 -> 07:38 AM) Still trying to keep Bush's name in the news? I like the technique of complaining about something that isn't happening in hopes that people will think it is. Nicely played sir or shall we say Mission Accomplished! So I was complaining about something that isn't happening? http://www.examiner.com/article/james-carv...t-for-war-syria On Wednesday, James Carville blamed the former president for the fact that many Americans do not support Obama's proposed military strike on Syria during an appearance on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor." http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/20...yria-War-Threat Once again the neocons are expecting our country to be the police officer of the world. You know, I’d would rather have a president put his foot in his mouth than a boot on the ground where it doesn’t belong and will get us in trouble for a long, long time. “We have evidence that there has been the use of chemical weapons inside Syria. But, I don’t make decisions based on ‘perceived.’ And, I can’t organize coalitions around ‘perceived.’ We tried that in the past, by the way, and it didn’t work out well.” - Obama The amount of talk shows claiming that is huge. I also saw a link of Susan Rice claiming the same thing but can't find it anymore.

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 8, 2013 -> 07:38 AM) Still trying to keep Bush's name in the news? I like the technique of complaining about something that isn't happening in hopes that people will think it is. Nicely played sir or shall we say Mission Accomplished! Tex, when i get off this netbook, I will find you at least 2 links where urrent admin offials and Dem politicians have said that events in Syria are a result of Bush era policies and his fault.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 7, 2013 -> 11:54 AM) Rep. Alan Grayson: Those are the first sane, sensible things I have ever heard come from him mouth. I am just surprised that he didn't find a way to make it Bush's fault. But give him time......

Viceado

A. Garcia

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 3, 2013 -> 05:48 PM) Mentally unstable old man (McCain) plays video poker during Syria hearing. He really needs to be voted out. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...2c-c0b0d9d4fe0a I hate McCain, but do you think he was the only one not paying attention at various points throughout? I bet there were many tweeting, checking email and so on.

Alexei

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 3, 2013 -> 12:58 PM) On the surface the Palin pick looked desperate and pandering. The majority of voters never leave the surface. I have always been a McCain fan. I've respected his abilities to work across the aisle without giving up too much of his principles. I hated the way he seemed to think 'reaching across the aisle' was to go like gangbusters at your own side. If he went after Obama half as hard as he does his supposed fellow Republicans on some issues, it could have been an interesting contest.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 3, 2013 -> 01:14 PM) Titty Sprinkles. Oh yeah, in blue painters tape. it will make its way back into the rotation.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 3, 2013 -> 09:54 AM) Palin and Republicans lost that election for McCain. Coming off a 8 year clusterf*** of leadership didn't bode well for any Republican even if he was probably the greatest candidate ever. Alpha Dog I liked your old avatar. Which one was it? The one with a pug and a blow up pug or the pug humping the cat?

A. Garcia

Dunn

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 30, 2013 -> 08:01 PM) this post is the perfect microcosm of why there is never any real good discussion about race here on this board, or in this country. Then again the irony is that pretty much everyone is for not intervening because it isn't us, which is exactly what Alpha was saying, only he just didn't say it in the OK coded words that society deems as acceptable. The completely gloss over the first difference I mentioned, someone that is actually closer to the action than we are. Focus on the racial tones of the other descriptors I used, even though they are true. They ARE different from us, They have a mostly different religion that us (and what few Christians there are there are being slaughtered in the name of Allah) and they tend to have a different skin tone than us. Their whole value system is different than ours, the degradation of women, sanctioned killing in the name of God, death to gays and so on. They are nothign like me, or most Americans. I want nothing to do with them.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 30, 2013 -> 01:56 PM) The question may be: Does age matter (to Hillary and the party)? She will be 68-72 during her first term and a whopping 72 to 76 in the final term. Maybe it doesn't matter because Reagan was older. But Obama was a young, vibrant candidate. Bless Hillary if she can win and keep the job at that age. Many Americans in that age group wouldn't stand a chance of getting a job anywhere and she'll have the most visible job in the world. I personally don't like her, but that's subjective as far as me believing she is mean. Well it mattered when the candidate was McCain, so lets see the mental gymnastics that will happen to spin it into a positive for her.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 30, 2013 -> 02:56 PM) Let me put it this way. I think that intervening in Syria sounds moronic. I can't think of a single way in which it will work out positively until we're prepared to put an occupying force in there. And I would never in 4.56 billion years have thought to cite differences in "skin tone" as a reason why. It never would have crossed my mind. Not in any way, shape, or form. The religion/skin tone issue itself is the one reason that WHATEVER we do there will not be good enough, or will be a bad thing. Deny that if you can, but there is no way that this predominently white, Christian nation can intervene there in any way and not have it looked at as a bad thing by a majority of the mid east populace. One civilian killed in collateral damage and its to the war crimes trials for the USA! A mosque gets damaged in some bomb blast and it is just further evidence of our collective Islamiphobia. We need to stay the hell out and let them take care of it themselves. Cloak it in whatever terminology makes you feel warm and fuzzy, just stay out of there.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 30, 2013 -> 12:53 PM) Since you said it I assume it would matter a lot if the pigmentation of your mom's skin was different from yours? Not with SS, all beings are equally loved.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 30, 2013 -> 12:54 PM) Well I don't know why I would ever have responded to such a simple question like that by accusing you of racism... Oh, right, it wasn't about "my mom or random stranger," it was about you explicitly not caring about another human being because they're from a different country, a different ethnicity and a different religion. This wasn't some hypothetical Sophie's choice. I even said valuing your friends and family more is completely normal and expected. You added the rest of your incredibly racist view of the world, that other human beings are worth less as human beings because of skin tone, religion and geographical location, all on your own. The skin tone thing is because since America is NOT of the same as them, whatever we do will be looked at with disdain and be demonized. I want to stay out because I value just about any American life more than any life in Syria. Tired of spending blood and treasure in the middle east. So they need someone that looks like them to go help to avoid the racism issue. If I could 'save them' by simply wishing it so, sure, why not. But at the expense of American lives? No thanks.