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Any who missed Elizabeth Warren on the Late show with David Letterman on 9/3 it's going to re-air tonight. 9/15
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Obama will be the 4th president to bomb Iraq after Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr.
Whatever the problem, the solution is bomb Iraq. |
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| NickF wrote: | Obama will be the 4th president to bomb Iraq after Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr.
Whatever the problem, the solution is bomb Iraq. |
While true, technically the US is not bombing the nation of Iraq, against the wishes of the leadership, but militants within, with the approval of the leadership.
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Eric Holder To Resign As Attorney General
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AG is a difficult position to sit. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. I hope he stays long enough to finish the job in Ferguson.
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| jodeke wrote: | Eric Holder To Resign As Attorney General
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AG is a difficult position to sit. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. I hope he stays long enough to finish the job in Ferguson. |
It's a tough job. 6 years is a long time.
He'll probably go back to his old firm and make $1.5m plus a year and rack up speaking fees.
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I don't always agree with all of the policy (like drugs), but that is more the administration's marching orders. I will give holder the same credit as his boss for doing his job with some class and decency while hyper partisan critics took endless shots at him with a variety of thinly veiled racist barbs being the norm.
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| yinoma2001 wrote: | | jodeke wrote: | Eric Holder To Resign As Attorney General
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AG is a difficult position to sit. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. I hope he stays long enough to finish the job in Ferguson. |
It's a tough job. 6 years is a long time.
He'll probably go back to his old firm and make $106 million plus a year and rack up speaking fees. |
Speaking fees alone would suit my needs. I think Clinton makes about 1.6 million a year for his appearances.
It's a paid vacation compared to what he's doing now.
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| 24 wrote: | | I don't always agree with all of the policy (like drugs), but that is more the administration's marching orders. I will give holder the same credit as his boss for doing his job with some class and decency while hyper partisan critics took endless shots at him with a variety of thinly veiled racist barbs being the norm. |
I trust you understand where I'm coming from when I say that duo handles things similar to how Jackie Robinson handled his "First."
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I hear Alberto Gonzales earns $27 an hour for his speaking fees. . . .
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| jodeke wrote: | | yinoma2001 wrote: | | jodeke wrote: | Eric Holder To Resign As Attorney General
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AG is a difficult position to sit. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. I hope he stays long enough to finish the job in Ferguson. |
It's a tough job. 6 years is a long time.
He'll probably go back to his old firm and make $1.5m plus a year and rack up speaking fees. |
Speaking fees alone would suit my needs. I think Clinton makes about 1.6 million a year for his appearances.
It's a paid vacation compared to what he's doing now. |
I thought he made way more than that. I heard he gets close to $500k for some arrangements.
Obama will be commanding the same or more when he's finished.
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| yinoma2001 wrote: | | jodeke wrote: | | yinoma2001 wrote: | | jodeke wrote: | Eric Holder To Resign As Attorney General
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AG is a difficult position to sit. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. I hope he stays long enough to finish the job in Ferguson. |
It's a tough job. 6 years is a long time.
He'll probably go back to his old firm and make $1.5m plus a year and rack up speaking fees. |
Speaking fees alone would suit my needs. I think Clinton makes about 1.6 million a year for his appearances.
It's a paid vacation compared to what he's doing now. |
I thought he made way more than that. I heard he gets close to $500k for some arrangements.
Obama will be commanding the same or more when he's finished. |
Half of it being for security costs to guard against "True American Patriots".
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| yinoma2001 wrote: | | jodeke wrote: | | yinoma2001 wrote: | | jodeke wrote: | Eric Holder To Resign As Attorney General
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AG is a difficult position to sit. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. I hope he stays long enough to finish the job in Ferguson. |
It's a tough job. 6 years is a long time.
He'll probably go back to his old firm and make $1.5m plus a year and rack up speaking fees. |
Speaking fees alone would suit my needs. I think Clinton makes about 1.6 million a year for his appearances.
It's a paid vacation compared to what he's doing now. |
I thought he made way more than that. I heard he gets close to $500k for some arrangements.
Obama will be commanding the same or more when he's finished. |
You're right I misread.
First on CNN: Bill Clinton's $106 million speech circuit windfall
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Obama Draws Criticism For ‘Coffee Cup’ Salute
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Talkin bout a brain fart, this is top of the charts.  I don't remember any president that actually saluted in the correct fashion. They usually kinda tap their foreheads.
President Obama must have had a lot on his mind saluting with a caffe latte in his saluting hand. I'm sure he meant no disrespect to our armed services. Luckly he didn't spill any on his Hartmarx. 
Bush salute with a dog in his hands. 
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Gotta admit that while I have my disappointments in Obama (ironically because he's the opposite of a radical leftist), one of the things I like most about him is the willingness to publicly admit a mistake and to even change course.
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| jodeke wrote: | Obama Draws Criticism For ‘Coffee Cup’ Salute
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Talkin bout a brain fart, this is top of the charts. I don't remember any president that actually saluted in the correct fashion. They usually kinda tap their foreheads.
President Obama must have had a lot on his mind saluting with a caffe latte in his saluting hand. I'm sure he meant no disrespect to our armed services. Luckly he didn't spill any on his Hartmarx.
Bush salute with a dog in his hands. |
Pretty dumb criticisms. Presidents have been making distracted salutes for decades. My favorite criticism had to be from Eric Bolling from Fox News. He condemned Obama for disrespecting the troops who risk their lives, and then ten minutes later made his infamous "Boobs on the ground" joke about the first female UAE pilot.
http://gawker.com/fox-news-host-apologizes-for-sexist-boobs-on-the-groun-1639861324 |
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| mhan00 wrote: | | jodeke wrote: | Obama Draws Criticism For ‘Coffee Cup’ Salute
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Talkin bout a brain fart, this is top of the charts. I don't remember any president that actually saluted in the correct fashion. They usually kinda tap their foreheads.
President Obama must have had a lot on his mind saluting with a caffe latte in his saluting hand. I'm sure he meant no disrespect to our armed services. Luckly he didn't spill any on his Hartmarx.
Bush salute with a dog in his hands. |
Pretty dumb criticisms. Presidents have been making distracted salutes for decades. My favorite criticism had to be from Eric Bolling from Fox News. He condemned Obama for disrespecting the troops who risk their lives, and then ten minutes later made his infamous "Boobs on the ground" joke about the first female UAE pilot.
http://gawker.com/fox-news-host-apologizes-for-sexist-boobs-on-the-groun-1639861324 |
Presidents didn't even do the whole salute thing until Reagan, IIRC.
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And FWIW, the salute is not and never has been about the senior man showing respect for the junior man. It is a physical reminder of the very important and very real distinction between the enlisted and officer class (because in war time, an officer will give orders both parties know the man receiving the orders will likely or certainly die from). It is designed to instill, by repetition, the i say jump and you say how high instinct. Pavlovian discipline of masters over expendables.
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Fox News' Ben Carson Thinks New AP U.S. History Course Will Make Students Join ISIS
You've got to be kidding . . .
Now isn't there at least one someone who posts in this thread who swoons at the thought of this character?
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| Quote: | | In recent weeks, controversy surrounding the course has gained increased national attention, as hundreds of students from the Jefferson County School District in Colorado have staged ongoing protests after a conservative school board member proposed forming committees to review the course and make sure it properly promotes patriotism. Teachers in the district have also participated in numerous "sick-outs," where large groups called in sick to protest the proposal. [bold mine] |
The new conservative approach to history (really, just like the old in that the distortion of history towards ideology is favored), now also believes painting the US favorably, rather than accurately, is to be preferred.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_5910982.html
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I hope it isn't the APUSH class my son is taking. I don't want him to behead me in the night.
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The unemployment rate dropped to 5.9% for Sept 14.
As Ronald Reagan asked, are you better off today than four years ago, one could ask the same regarding the last five budget years.
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | I hope it isn't the APUSH class my son is taking. I don't want him to behead me in the night. |
Somehow I suspect your headless corpse would still be able to log on and post.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:38 am Post subject: Re: The Big Five Niner! |
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| ribeye wrote: | The unemployment rate dropped to 5.9% for Sept 14.
As Ronald Reagan asked, are you better off today than four years ago, one could ask the same regarding the last five budget years. |
If you want to trust these numbers, go ahead. Goverment statistics could be manuipulated and altered in so many ways that they're really easy to mistrust.
I know one thing though, things were much much better in this country economically during the Reagan years than they are now. Not saying Obama is the one who screwed it up. He definitely inherited a mess.
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| No. 17 wrote: | | ribeye wrote: | The unemployment rate dropped to 5.9% for Sept 14.
As Ronald Reagan asked, are you better off today than four years ago, one could ask the same regarding the last five budget years. |
If you want to trust these numbers, go ahead. Goverment statistics could be manuipulated and altered in so many ways that they're really easy to mistrust.
I know one thing though, things were much much better in this country economically during the Reagan years than they are now. Not saying Obama is the one who screwed it up. He definitely inherited a mess. |
These are the same numbers that Reagan used, the same methodology, though there is some difference in how they collect the data today.
We were told the data was manipulated before the 2012 election, yet the numbers never changed from the original posting.
Yes, things were better, in some respects, in Reagan's first five years. Taxes were higher (the highest rate was still at 50%) so there was greater revenue potential and spending went up 8.3% per year on average for his first five budgets. When the government takes out its credit card, it can live high on the hog.
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| ribeye wrote: | | No. 17 wrote: | | ribeye wrote: | The unemployment rate dropped to 5.9% for Sept 14.
As Ronald Reagan asked, are you better off today than four years ago, one could ask the same regarding the last five budget years. |
If you want to trust these numbers, go ahead. Goverment statistics could be manuipulated and altered in so many ways that they're really easy to mistrust.
I know one thing though, things were much much better in this country economically during the Reagan years than they are now. Not saying Obama is the one who screwed it up. He definitely inherited a mess. |
These are the same numbers that Reagan used, the same methodology, though there is some difference in how they collect the data today.
We were told the data was manipulated before the 2012 election, yet the numbers never changed from the original posting.
Yes, things were better, in some respects, in Reagan's first five years. Taxes were higher (the highest rate was still at 50%) so there was greater revenue potential and spending went up 8.3% per year on average for his first five budgets. When the government takes out its credit card, it can live high on the hog. |
I don't think printing money is a much better solution.
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