Pragmatism > Clinging to retarded principles
I don't know about lying sack of shit. Maybe. I have little doubt he said some things that he knew he wouldn't be able to deliver. On the other hand, I'm sure it looks a lot different once you're in office than when you're running a campaign.
The First Obama Term
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Obama himself is all politician, saying and doing what needs to be said, no matter what, to get power.
His wife has a long and documented history of being an angry black women who hates whitey first, America second.
Obama's LONG time spiritual leader was a documented angry black man who was on record as hating America first, whitey second.
Maybe in retrospect it's a bit ridiculous to think Obama wants anything except to destroy this country as we've known it, except quite a few people suspected it long before he was elected. These people are currently known as "racists." This is why Obama is driving the car at 174 mph toward the bridge abutment, with Nancy Pelosi riding shotgun. Chicago politics married to San Francisco sensibilities, enabled by liberal guilt. We're fucked.
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His wife has a long and documented history of being an angry black women who hates whitey first, America second.
Obama's LONG time spiritual leader was a documented angry black man who was on record as hating America first, whitey second.
Maybe in retrospect it's a bit ridiculous to think Obama wants anything except to destroy this country as we've known it, except quite a few people suspected it long before he was elected. These people are currently known as "racists." This is why Obama is driving the car at 174 mph toward the bridge abutment, with Nancy Pelosi riding shotgun. Chicago politics married to San Francisco sensibilities, enabled by liberal guilt. We're fucked.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
"Cap & Trade Bill" gets closer to being passed.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archive....779.php
Also known as the "Global Warming Tax," or the "Starve and Freeze Bill," this will send our energy bills higher in an already bad economy.
It's like they weren't trying to destroy the economy fast enough, they need to throw this in the fire, too.
When even the Slashdot crowd is against a so-called environmental bill, you know it's bad news.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archive....779.php
Also known as the "Global Warming Tax," or the "Starve and Freeze Bill," this will send our energy bills higher in an already bad economy.
It's like they weren't trying to destroy the economy fast enough, they need to throw this in the fire, too.
When even the Slashdot crowd is against a so-called environmental bill, you know it's bad news.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Get ready to have your private health insurance taxed.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aDvu77pZr7k4
Just too many sarcastic things to say. I am vapor locked.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aDvu77pZr7k4
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, the chief congressional advocate of taxing some employer-provided benefits to help pay for an overhaul of the U.S. health system, says any change should exempt perks secured in existing collective- bargaining agreements, which can be in place for as long as five years.
The exception, which could make the proposal more politically palatable to Democrats from heavily unionized states such as Michigan, is adding controversy to an already contentious debate. It would shield the 12.4 percent of American workers who belong to unions from being taxed while exposing some other middle-income workers to the levy.
“I can’t think of any other aspect of the individual income tax that treats benefits of different people differently because of who they work for,” said Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, a Washington research group that often criticizes Democrats’ economic proposals. Edwards said the carve-out “smacks of political favoritism.”
Baucus, a Montana Democrat, is proposing to tax Americans whose health insurance is valued at a higher rate than what is offered to federal employees. About 40 percent of insured Americans have costlier benefits, and Baucus has said he is trying to set the level at which taxes would be imposed high enough so fewer people are affected.
Just too many sarcastic things to say. I am vapor locked.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
GORDON wrote:"Cap & Trade Bill" gets closer to being passed.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archive....779.php
Also known as the "Global Warming Tax," or the "Starve and Freeze Bill," this will send our energy bills higher in an already bad economy.
It's like they weren't trying to destroy the economy fast enough, they need to throw this in the fire, too.
When even the Slashdot crowd is against a so-called environmental bill, you know it's bad news.
The bill passed in the House.
http://hotair.com/archive....d-trade
I guess now lets see what the Senate does with it.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I wasn't sure whether to put this in the "Global Warming is Bullshit" thread, or here.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10274412-38.html
Hellooooo Cap & Trade.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10274412-38.html
The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government, according to a series of newly disclosed e-mail messages.
Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty "decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data."
The EPA official, Al McGartland, said in an e-mail message (PDF) to a staff researcher on March 17: "The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward...and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision."
Hellooooo Cap & Trade.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Cap & Trade "A huge regressive tax." - Warren Buffet
http://www.abcnews.go.com/ThisWee....&page=1
Bend over, peeps.
And I think Troy said something about Obama working to get the economy back on track?
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http://www.abcnews.go.com/ThisWee....&page=1
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's begin with that vote Friday night in the House, this vote on climate change legislation, very close, 219 to 212. Democrats say it's a major step forward for energy independence, to create green jobs, to control global warming.
But you know the Republicans are saying it's going to cost Americans jobs, going to send jobs overseas. And most important, they say it is a huge tax. And on that they have some backup from one of the president's supporters, Warren Buffett.
Take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
WARREN BUFFETT, CEO, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY: I think if you get into the way it was written, it's a huge tax and there's no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax. So it -- and it's a fairly regressive tax.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STEPHANOPOULOS: How do you answer that? Republicans say this is the defining vote of 2008. They're going to use that in the 2010 elections.
Bend over, peeps.
And I think Troy said something about Obama working to get the economy back on track?
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Prepare for the home-lighting gestapo.
http://www.foxnews.com/politic....omments
Something for his youth corps to do... walk the streets at night and drag peeps out of their homes if they have too many lights burning inside. For mother earth.
http://www.foxnews.com/politic....omments
Something for his youth corps to do... walk the streets at night and drag peeps out of their homes if they have too many lights burning inside. For mother earth.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
From another article:
So that means that I can still get normal lightbulbs, but they'll use less energy? I'm ok with that, assuming a cost increase that's not disproportionate to the reduced energy cost.
But I couldn't find anything that gave more details than the above.
The new rules will go into effect in 2012, and will save up to 594 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions and save consumers up to 4 billion annually through 2042.
Standards will include decreasing electricity use by general service fluorescent lamps by 15% and incandescent reflector lamps by 25%. These lamps represent 37% and 7% of lighting energy use respectively.
So that means that I can still get normal lightbulbs, but they'll use less energy? I'm ok with that, assuming a cost increase that's not disproportionate to the reduced energy cost.
But I couldn't find anything that gave more details than the above.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Is there not a single reporter with the brains or balls to ask "Mr. Obama, why do you care about $4 billion dollars that consumers are putting into this country's economy? What good can come from trying to reduce that number? What gives you the right to tell consumers what kind of lamps they can use? Shouldn't you be more concerned with government spending? How much money will it cost taxpayers for you to legislate this plan?"
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell