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He's too busy hob-nobbing with celebrities, playing golf, campaigning and doing interviews on late night than to honor our hero's.
What a disgusting Commander in Chief.
I'm so sorry to hear this, although I wouldn't want anything from this joker, it wouldn't mean anything anyway. Which is a very sad state of affairs. Come on November!
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Paul Ryan's stirring acceptance speech last night resonated with audiences in Tampa and across the country. Here are the six best lines from his oration.
1. "The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy we are living. College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life."
2. "It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind."
3. "I'm the newcomer to the campaign, so let me share a first impression. I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. They've run out of ideas. Their moment came and went. Fear and division are all they've got left. With all their attack ads, the president is just throwing away money--and he's pretty experienced at that."
4. "An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it."
5. "None of us have to settle for the best this administration offers--a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us."
6. "They have no answer to this simple reality: We need to stop spending money we don't have."
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Rep. Paul Ryan ...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President B.O.'s 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies... (R-Wis.) on Wednesday night electrified the Republican Party with a speech that combined lacerating attacks on President B.O. with homespun values and a tribute to GOP candidate Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O... In a 35-minute address that drew thunderous applause from Republican delegates, Ryan condemned the Obama presidency and presented an optimistic vision of the future under Romney's leadership.
The core theme of the speech amounted to four words: "We can do this."
Ryan said the Romney-Ryan team would fix the nation's problems, not blame others.
"Our nominee is sure ready," the vice-presidential nominee said. "His whole life has prepared him for this moment -- to meet serious challenges in a serious way, without excuses and idle words. After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Gov. Mitt Romney."
The seven-term politician focused much of his address on Obama, mentioning the president's name 16 times and Romney on a dozen occasions. He said Obama promised to deliver change, but had failed after four years.
Ryan's father died when he was a teenager, and when he saluted his mother on Wednesday night, he had to wipe tears from his eyes.
Representing a new generation of Republican leaders, Ryan spoke directly to younger Americans struggling to get a job. "College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life," he said to cheers.
In a sign of the new contours of the campaign, Ryan's devoted a chunk of his critique of the president's healthcare reform law. Yet, he didn't home in on its insurance mandate or its new taxes, but its $716 billion cut from Medicare. Ryan's budget also counts the same Medicare reductions as deficit savings, a fact pointed out by Democrats. Romney has pledged to restore those cuts.
The Wisconsin Republican did not delve into the details of his own budget plan, and lambasted Obama for rejecting a bipartisan deficit commission report commonly referred to as Bowles-Simpson. Ryan failed to mention he voted against that proposal and instead paid tribute to the popular entitlement program.
"Medicare is a promise, and we will honor it," Ryan said. "A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours."
"So our opponents can consider themselves on notice," he continued. "In this election, on this issue, the usual posturing on the left isn't going to work. Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it.
"Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate," Ryan said to a loud standing ovation.
Ryan's speech amounted to extended and detailed attack on the Obama record. He acknowledged that the president took office during "very tough times," but added that "the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight."
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Ryan sounds like a guy who knows the numbers and can do the math. It will be interesting to see what Joe Biden has to say when they debate.
...the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight...
I said in 2008 that I would believe there was a recovery when I got a raise. Sad to say it's been four years and I still haven't gotten a raise. I feel lucky just to have a job.
#4
In software, they want kids fresh out of college so they can feed them pizza with RedBull and work 'em all day and all night. There was a time when I could do that but these days, after 6 p.m., I'm not looking for RedBull. I hear those kids can get as much money as I do but I don't know how many of them actually do, especially in San Diego, and I don't know how many are still sitting in their childhood bedrooms waiting for Hope and Change.
#5
Took the ER figuring my skills would give me another chance....(30+ years in software, last 14 in SAP)......
At my age there's been zip, zilch, zero. Lucky I was the paranoid saver type so I'll make it okay.
I hear you, I was pretty much in the same boat. Multiple Cisco certifications, 15+ years as a field/sales engineer. But, after a layoff and being over 50 no one wanted to talk to me.
I struggled for quite some time looking for permanent W2 employment. In desperation I started contracting, and pretty soon I had no end of offers to contract and work on big infrastructure projects.
So, I'm telling you this as a round about way to suggest contracting/consulting. Places looking for temporary expertise usually prefer older and more seasoned people. Also, if you have that much experience with SAP, you should have no shortage of contract work available to you. Have looked at sologig.com? Or, some of the big SAP consulting firms?
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Clint Eastwood will be speaking at the Republican Convention in Tampa on Thursday according to Fox News. The networks website is reporting that a GOP source confirmed that Eastwood is indeed the mystery speaker. Thursday nights line-up has a To Be Announced speaker scheduled ahead of Senator Marco Rubio and GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney himself.
#8
I was hoping for Doug Wilder (former conservative Democrat Governor of Virginia, and a good one).
Talk about putting the libruls' panties in a twist.... :-D
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Limbaugh or Palin would have been political suicide since they are media circus acts. Eastwood is off the radar and will be interesting if nothing else.
Ryan did a good job - had a few good zingers. It was the first time I actually listen to anything from him.
Privately I wish someone would say Romney would never bow to another leader...
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Clint Eastwood, in one of his most recent movies, playing the role of an old and grey character, in a scene where he was protecting younger people, chose to confront the bad guys of a gang headon. Old, sick, and his long life almost over stood between the gang and those he wanted to protect whom he told to call 911, and after buying enough time made a move like he was drawing a weapon. Only he had no weapon, died in a blaze of gunfire as the police pulled up and saw the gang gun down an old grey man, and arrested the whole gang for murder. Unlike his many good guy bad guy movies no younger person died in that confrontation, only him. It stunned even the bad guys when they realized he planned it this way, they learned how special he was dieing unarmed so bravely.
Just as we read of the last of the old grey remnants of the Greatest Generation unhesitantly using their concealed weapons permits to quickly stop every day armed robberies and assaults on our streets, these last ghosts of free and noble generation are going on to eternal glory as no less freedom warriors than they were when men of a freerer age.
Clint Eastwood's who looked at the producer of Farenheit 911 in the eye and said that if he ever came to his house, he would shoot him will be a great moment in American political history.
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The Eastwood pic is an exciting one, rather than another political hack. He has a charisma and good memories among most Americans (not punks, though...). If he pulls a Reaganesque "we need to return to American values" speech, I can see this as huge preference cascade point. White males (those without metrosexual clothes) will be locked in. Independents and blue-collar Dems could run big. I like it (obviously)
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and if he says of Obama: "A man's gotta know his limitations"....
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Making a Speech they can't refuse - do ya feel lucky, well do they ...???
[Washington Post] David Chalian, the Yahoo News Washington Bureau chief, has been fired after getting caught claiming that "they" -- Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O... and his fellow Republicans -- "are happy to have a party with black people drowning."
The implication: that Republicans' decision to continue with their convention despite the hurricane hitting New Orleans means they don't care about black people.
Chalian's comment was first caught by the conservative media criticism site Newsbusters. Yahoo! has released a statement apologizing for the comment and announcing that Chalian had been terminated. Unlike Chalian, whoever's actually in charge at Yahoo realizes that at least fifty percent of the electorate is made up of Publicans (the other half being Sinners).
"David Chalian's statement was inappropriate and does not represent the views of Yahoo!. He has been terminated effective immediately. We have already reached out to the Romney campaign, and we apologize to Mitt Romney, his staff, their supporters and anyone who was offended." I'll accept their apology, but it'll be tentative. Having a jerk like that as Yahoo News Washington bureau chief sez a lot about the degree of political correctitude -- and the party affiliation -- of Yahoo's news staff. I'm not getting and "fair and balanced" vibes from them.
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Actually it was the left (when the hurricane was heading towards the GOP convention) than was happy to see people drown.
Projection, hate, envy and narcissism. The core features of leftist disorder.
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Lots of similarities with NBC's handling of the Trayvon Martin story. Mid-level employees caught and fired for their actions. Both of them were blatant enough to get themselves fired. And likely both of them are or will be quietly hired by another news organization.
One difference is that the Miami editor is unknown.
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When ugliness happens outside the Left, it's always a the institutional culture that's to blame. However, when it's exposed in the Left. it's always an individual failure, no matter how many times and how strong the pattern is.
Ordinarily, the ugliness is so commonplace in the left it doesn't get noticed. You have to really get bizarre to get noticed.
BTW, saw 2016 Obama the other day. The theater was filled. There was the bit in the movie where Nancy Pelosi said "You've got to pass the bill before you can read it." Some guy yelled from the audience "Moron." Spontaneous applause erupted.
As Twitchy reported this morning, repugnant women-hating cretins defaced Mia Love's Wikipedia page with beyond reprehensible epithets like "house nigger" and "dirty whore." After her speech last night, misogynist and racist lefties labeled her an "Aunt Tom" and a "token." Mayor Love has just become one of my favorite people.
I believe "nigger" is now defined as a person of African descent who's a Republican.
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When accomplished Americans such as Love, West, Davis, Rice, Cain, and others like them stand up, they tip the boat of "racial socialism" and permit a bit of truth to splash over the gunwale. Education, skill, enterprise, enterprise, and personal resposibility are an anathema to Affirmative Action and entitlement. When the myth and milking stool of endemic white racism is debunked and kicked away, the grip on the teats of entitlements is suddenly lost.
Thomas Sowell, refusing to treat Affirmative Action as a look-away issue, studied it under a varity of names in nearly twenty countries. He discovered that following initial success, all such programs tend to stall. New opportunities become permanent entitlements. Sowell did not find a single Affirmative Action program that had ever disappeared because it had succeeded.
Accomplished young people such as Love clearly illustrate that the term American Exceptionalism is indeed colorblind and available to all who seek and work to achieve it.
#4
Democrats can't have the field hands going off the plantation now, can they? When that happens their party collapses. The Democrats were, and are, the party of slavery.
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There's real danger of a preference cascade among successful minorities. Martinez' comments about having lunch are just as threatening. Have they aroused the same vitriol? Wonder why not.
#8
Lincoln, a Republican, issued an executive order in 1863 which was known as the Emancipation Proclamation. This freed the slaves at the time of the Civil War. The Democrats have a history of racism and abuses, lynchings, a history with the KKK, segregation. Has history gotten so distorted by PC and revisionist's in the schools that people just don't know what history is these days? Now, you get the most vitriolic, unhinged racist hate speech from them. Some of them sound like they are about one step out of a mental institution. If someone such as Mia Love, Alan West, Art Davis, Condi Rice, etc. are successful, the Democratic Left goes nuts and spouts the most vile epithets; then they blame such hatred on everyone else. They ought to get some professional help.
Just a wee nit pick. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the states of rebellion, which meant that slaves in Kentucky, Maryland, (Joe Biden's state) Delaware, and Washington DC remained slaves. It took the 13th Amendment, ratified in December 1865 to end involuntary servitude [less punishment for crime] in America. It serves as the exclamation point for Civil War.
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It is fairly obvious that a large number of lefties in the media hear dog-whistles when none exist. This is either a tool to bash Republicans and make themselves look smart (that's what I used to think at least) or a verbal explaination of where their own mind is.
For Example the Willie Horton ad. Liberals think the problem was that Willie was black, not that he was allowed out on a hall pass while serving time for a violent crime which showed incredibly terrible judgement on the part of the Governor. Yeah, let the potheads and non-violent offenders out on a furlough if you want but rapists? really? When you are the party of felons I guess that must make some kind of sense but to conservatives it doesn't.
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As Twitchy reported this morning, repugnant women-hating cretins defaced Mia Love's Wikipedia page with beyond reprehensible epithets like "house nigger" and "dirty whore." After her speech last night, misogynist and racist lefties labeled her an "Aunt Tom" and a "token."
