Bambi's aides admit presentational errors making him less popular

2009-03-15 Thread dick thompson
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4991247/Barack-Obamas-aides-admit-errors-are-making-him-less-popular.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Thanks for being part of PoliticalForum at Google Groups. For options help see

Re: Smoking bans at restaurants are more of a workplace health issue

2009-03-15 Thread Cold Water
Thanks Rigsy! CW Billy Collins - The Best Cigarette There are many that I miss having sent my last one out a car window sparking along the road one night, years ago. The heralded one, of course: after sex, the two glowing tips now the lights of a single ship; at the end of a long dinner with

The proliferation of space warfare technology

2009-03-15 Thread Travis
From: Travis Date: 2009/3/13 Subject: The proliferation of space warfare technology http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=3612 -- *~@):~{ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Thanks for being part of PoliticalForum at Google Groups. For options help see

On Treason The Litany of Political Sins

2009-03-15 Thread Travis
From: Travis Date: Fri, Mar 13, 2009 Subject: On Treason The Litany of Political Sins http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2009/03/on-treason-litany-of-political-sins.html -- *~@):~{ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Thanks for being part of PoliticalForum at Google Groups. For

'Undeclared War' on Mexican Border Greater Challenge than Afghanistan

2009-03-15 Thread Travis
From: *Travis* Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 Subject: 'Undeclared War' on Mexican Border Greater Challenge than Afghanistan *...we found the solution in Texas, and it’s real simple,” Culberson said. “It’s law enforcement.* ‘*Undeclared War’ on Mexican Border Greater Challenge than Afghanistan,

Get Ready for Obama’s Department of ‘Extreme’ Justice

2009-03-15 Thread Travis
From: Travis Subject: Get Ready for Obama’s Department of ‘Extreme’ Justice Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009 *- Pajamas Media - http://pajamasmedia.com -* Get Ready for Obama’s Department of ‘Extreme’ Justice Posted By *Anonymous* On March 11, 2009 @ 12:36 am In *. Column2 01*, * Judiciary*,

AIG paying millions in bonuses despite bailout - crooks without a conscience boycott AIG and the IRS

2009-03-15 Thread R.S.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29697096/ Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121 Congressional Switchboard 800-862-5530 877-851-6437 866-220-0044 White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ Senate http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm House

Older Women Are So Reasonable

2009-03-15 Thread Ohio mark
AFTER BEING MARRIED FOR 44 YEARS, I TOOK A CAREFUL LOOK AT MY WIFE ONE DAY AND SAID, '44 YEARS AGO WE HAD A CHEAP APARTMENT, A CHEAP CAR, SLEPT ON A SOFA BED AND WATCHED A 10-INCH BLACK AND WHITE TV, BUT I GOT TO SLEEP EVERY NIGHT WITH A HOT 25-YEAR-OLD GIRL. NOW I HAVE A$1,500,000.00 HOME, A

Re: Older Women Are So Reasonable

2009-03-15 Thread Ohio mark
I thought you would like this. On Mar 15, 8:54 am, Cold Water coldwater...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, we are. : - ))) CW - Original Message - From: Ohio mark marsupialm...@sbcglobal.net To: PoliticalForum PoliticalForum@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 08:51 Subject:

Re: Smoking bans at restaurants are more of a workplace health issue

2009-03-15 Thread secret...@verizon.net
I'm sorry, I just do not want the government telling me what I can or cannot do. I do not smoke, can't and don't want to because of health reasons and because of how much it costs ... BUT I do NOT support any smoking ban imposed by any governmnet entity. Let the resturants do the banning, let

Re: Older Women Are So Reasonable

2009-03-15 Thread wontstopthinking
Lol. Very funny. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Ohio mark marsupialm...@sbcglobal.net Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:51:06 To: PoliticalForumPoliticalForum@googlegroups.com Subject: Older Women Are So Reasonable AFTER BEING MARRIED FOR 44 YEARS, I TOOK A

Re: Older Women Are So Reasonable

2009-03-15 Thread Keith In Tampa
Been There..Done That... (LOL!!!) On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:18 AM, wontstopthink...@gmail.com wrote: Lol. Very funny. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Ohio mark marsupialm...@sbcglobal.net Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:51:06 To:

Re: Any mechanics on the board??!!

2009-03-15 Thread studio
On Mar 13, 7:21 pm, J.C. jgarrett2...@yahoo.com wrote: 1999 Dodge Caravan keeps smoking.   Any thoughts? I'll put it back on topic and relate it to government. Is it a Car-ora-van? Or a Car-anda-van? That bi-polar vehicle needs Prozac. Not one of Dodge's better vehicles...their vans always

Re: Interesting technology on fingerprints

2009-03-15 Thread Keith In Tampa
Good Morning PlainOl'; I am rather shocked to hear you make such a statement, especially coming from you. Fingerprinting is literally, a search of your person; just as a urinalysis, or a strip search, or covertly tapping your telephone is a search of your personal effects; all of which are

Re: Smoking bans at restaurants are more of a workplace health issue

2009-03-15 Thread NavyBrat
That's right...I don't care about you standing in the cold . I did it for years and didn't bitch and moan about it. I never smoked in my own home when my children lived there. Because any fool knows ciggerettes aren't good for developing lungs. It's the law now and I don't feel sorry for you

Re: Smoking bans at restaurants are more of a workplace health issue

2009-03-15 Thread NavyBrat
I don't have a problem with that. The problem prior to the ban was 'every' restuarant allowed smoking. If it were divided up and there where an equal number of licenses for smoking and non smoking establishments( I don't want to drive 12 miles to find a smokefree place) that would be an

Re: Smoking bans at restaurants are more of a workplace health issue

2009-03-15 Thread Keith In Tampa
That would have been the common sense approach Mark, (and Navy!!) but unfortunately, when far left extremists get involved with regulating they don't consider common sense. I'm here to tell ya, the days of smoking in public are gone. If your state still allows it, enjoy it while you can.

Re: Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail

2009-03-15 Thread Biff
Mommy, Mommy, the nasty lib is picking on me, he refuses to agree with my silly suppositions. On Mar 14, 12:13 pm, jgg1000a jgg1...@hotmail.com wrote: Isn't this baiting?  Wasn't I promised no more baiting,  is their a moderator in the house??? On Mar 14, 11:35 am, Biff

Re: Smoking bans at restaurants are more of a workplace health issue

2009-03-15 Thread Mark
I agree with that. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:32 AM, NavyBrat dotis2...@comcast.net wrote: I don't have a problem with that. The problem prior to the ban was 'every' restuarant allowed smoking. If it were divided up and there where an equal number of licenses for smoking and non smoking

Re: Smoking bans at restaurants are more of a workplace health issue

2009-03-15 Thread NavyBrat
see? We can come to middle ground. I do get riled when someone like Americanbuiltus gets nasty and attacks. My daughter smokes and as someone who did it for 30 plus years, I do know what it feels like to be put outside to smoke. But of course since I'm done with it, I don't mind at all being able

One more reason I am glad not to live in California

2009-03-15 Thread dick thompson
Web search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH sacbee.com Web 5-Day Weather | Traffic 50 F BRIAN BAER/bb...@sacbee.com Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor said, "Unfortunately, the state's economic and revenue outlook continues to

Bambi is making no sense at all on health care

2009-03-15 Thread dick thompson
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/politics/15health.html?_r=1themc=th I guess he thinks that if he taxes it or removed the tax deduction from the current health care system the public will be more amenable to his nationalized system. I have been reading too much about the problems with

Interesting replacements for Rev Wright

2009-03-15 Thread dick thompson
We will just have to see who he dedicates his next book to so we know who his real preacherman is. This book is probably in process right now, the presidential equivalent of How I spent my summer vacation. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/politics/15pastor.html?themc=th

This sounds like it might be an interesting revival if they do it right

2009-03-15 Thread dick thompson
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Gotta love the academics - they give you a real warm and welcoming feeling

2009-03-15 Thread dick thompson
Only if you are a liberal dingbat. Do you think the politics of the reporter had any part in the tone of the article? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/magazine/15Bush-t.html?th=emc=thpagewanted=all --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Thanks for being part of PoliticalForum

And I believe every word this guy and these prisoners say - after all, would a prisoner lie?

2009-03-15 Thread dick thompson
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More buyer's remorse, this time from the NY Daily News that was in his pocket

2009-03-15 Thread dick thompson
More than a bad day: Worries grow that Barack Obama Co. have a competence problem Sunday, March 15th 2009, 4:00 AM Roberts/Bloomberg President Barack Obama Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a

Obama open to taxing some health benefits

2009-03-15 Thread Ohio mark
The Obama administration is signaling to Congress that the president could support taxing some employee health benefits, as several influential lawmakers and many economists favor, to help pay for overhauling the U.S. health care system. The proposal is politically problematic for President

Re: Obama open to taxing some health benefits

2009-03-15 Thread Keith In Tampa
Of course, where is Biffie and Fritzie, and why are they not yelling Hypocrite right now??? Thanks for posting Mark!!! On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Ohio mark marsupialm...@sbcglobal.netwrote: The Obama administration is signaling to Congress that the president could support taxing

Re: Smoking bans at restaurants are more of a workplace health issue

2009-03-15 Thread rigsy03
Then that should extend to their food which has been drenched with lethal chemicals since the 50's or 60's. Silent Spring-Rachel Carson On Mar 15, 9:59�am, NavyBrat dotis2...@comcast.net wrote: see? We can come to middle ground. I do get riled when someone like Americanbuiltus gets nasty and

Re: Obama open to taxing some health benefits

2009-03-15 Thread Ohio mark
never gonna happen. they drink too much koolaid On Mar 15, 2:13 pm, Keith In Tampa keithinta...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, where is Biffie and Fritzie, and why are they not yelling Hypocrite right now??? Thanks for posting Mark!!! On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Ohio mark

Re: The economy and green energy technologies

2009-03-15 Thread Societal Retard
Not much word from Krugs about the economic turnaround he said wasn't coming; that said it might be over tomorrow for all I know... On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:29 AM, dick thompson rhomp2...@earthlink.netwrote: ++ | How the

Re: Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail

2009-03-15 Thread rigsy03
Clinton did little to stave off the eventual attack of 9-11 and pretty much ruined respect for the presidency. The Clinton no-fly zones are responsible for thousands of deaths. The Cole. The Oklahoma bombing. The bombing of China's embassy in the Balkans. The leak of USA security to the Chinese.

Re: Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail

2009-03-15 Thread Mark
Clinton allowed the rule of law (not talking about him personally and the blow job) to handle things. There was a WTC attack on his watch as well, the defining difference was he jailed all those found to be involved (still there as well). Clinton prosecuted a much larger war (both territory and

Re: Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail

2009-03-15 Thread dick thompson
An embassy in a foreign country is considered US soil. He should have responded to that. Why else do we have US troops at embassies to guard them. We should respond when our embassies are attacked. All you have to do is look at Carter and the way he handled the attack in Teheran to see

Re: Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail

2009-03-15 Thread THE ANNOINTED ONE
The French and Germans were consulted They informed Bush2 (J, Fischer, Aussenminister) to his face that the info from curveball about the atomic issues was absolutely false. When Bush2 told Fischer that he would decide the validity of a report (even though it was a German intelligence report

Re: Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail

2009-03-15 Thread THE ANNOINTED ONE
Yes Embassies in foreign nations are US soil and you have a right to protect them. What you forget is that one step outside that embassy gate is NOT US soil. Pack everybody you please into the embassy.. just do not step outside, you have a habit of forgetting details like Sovereignity and

Re: Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail

2009-03-15 Thread rigsy03
Two months too many. On Mar 15, 2:40�pm, Mark markmka...@gmail.com wrote: Clinton allowed the rule of law (not talking about him personally and the blow job) to handle things. There was a WTC attack on his watch as well, the defining difference was he jailed all those found to be involved

Re: Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail

2009-03-15 Thread Keith In Tampa
Who is revising history here?? There were several missile head tips, as well as other parts that are still not accounted for!!! On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Mark markmka...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed and as soon as it became aparent as Iraq was asked about it all THREE that were in

Re: Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail

2009-03-15 Thread Keith In Tampa
As well as biological agents and chemical weaponry, that are still to this day unaccounted for in Iraq!!! On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Keith In Tampa keithinta...@gmail.comwrote: Who is revising history here?? There were several missile head tips, as well as other parts that are still

Re: Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail

2009-03-15 Thread Mark
Payload sections that are no good without delivery vehicles which were destroyed. Kinda like the payload section of a Tomahawk ... They don't work without the delivery system. There was no revision done. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Keith In Tampa keithinta...@gmail.comwrote: Who is

Re: Report: Cuba, Venezuela Might Host Russian Bombers

2009-03-15 Thread THE ANNOINTED ONE
They have every right to host them if they so please. Just as Germany/ Poland hosts craft from the US. On Mar 15, 11:51 am, Keith In Tampa keithinta...@gmail.com wrote:  * Cuba, Venezuela Might Host Russian Bombers Chavez Offers Island As Temporary Base; Analyst Says Such A Move By Kremlin

Re: Smoking bans at restaurants are more of a workplace health issue

2009-03-15 Thread NavyBrat
what about restaurant owners in THEIR OWN bars? or business owners in THEIR OWN office buildings? * As I said in my post. Not the same as a private home. The restuarants and bars have health codes they have to meet to serve the public. Smoking falls well within those health

Interesting article about the stimulus package

2009-03-15 Thread dick thompson
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As the Brits see it - Bambi and his shift to the left

2009-03-15 Thread dick thompson
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