One of my favorite moments was during a 4th of July Parade in Larkspur (Marin County) CA. Barbara was a Congress Critter at the time and Grand Marshal riding in an open convertible. As she passed the Silver Peso biker bar the patrons yelled, Hey Babs! She turned to wave and they followed up with a chorus of "Show us your tits".
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I could sit here and post apologies all day long. I used to think the people of Massachusetts were all loony liberals because of Ted Kennedy but I'm not so proud anymore.
I agree with almost everything he said which, given my political philosophy, is not a surprise.
What is a surprise is that he said it at all without all the waffling and PC BS. I wanted to reach in and bitch slap that reporter when he started in on partisanship.
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Graham is making a lot of sense here but I disagree with what he says about housing. He's moaning a groaning about the way houses are sitting empty and how housing prices have fallen. But that is in direct contradiction with all the wailing all these politicians have done in the past about the need for "affordable housing". Face it, housing costs had gotten completely out of control. The only way anybody could afford a house was to get one of these "exotic" mortgages which is exactly what started all this trouble in the first place. The boom had gone on way too long and the bust was way overdue. Stimulate something else, please, and let the housing market come back down to earth.
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I'm not a native of S.C. but IIRC Graham is quite a RINO. I agree EU6305 abt the housing remarks. We should've never bailed out finance and certainly not auto. We should've taken our medicine and faced the music & had a rough couple yrs. We're doing what japan did in the 90s but it looks worse. No one in congress is talking about expanding our manufacturing base in any way. There are really only a few adults up there, but none are in power.
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You can see the tract houses going up by the thousands on the prairie to the east of Colorado Springs. There are hundreds of houses being built in places like Monument, Palmer Lake, the Black Forrest, all along Co. Hwy 115, in Fountain and Security - just about everywhere. Right now, though, there really isn't enough water to meet the needs of all those homeowners. There aren't enough well-paying jobs to fill all those $250,000+ homes being built. Townhouses and condominiums are sitting empty, sometimes for years. The median income in Colorado Springs is about $38,000 a year, yet most of the houses built in the area BEGIN at $175,000, and move up rapidly. Hewlett Packard, SCI, Intel, and a dozen smaller electronic firms have either cut their workforce or left town in the last five years. The housing industry just didn't know when to quit, and the market average price has dropped from about $190,000 to about $160,000 now. It's still going down, and there's no way to predict where it will bottom out.
Whoever let Babs out of her cage should be shot.
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How about we have 'accountability' in the Senate and House before trying to force it onto talk radio. (And you know this is aimed right at Talk Radio and that interweb thingy...)
Kind of a 'remove the beam from your own eye' kind of thing.....
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Of course, the answer to that question is No. The Dems know this is a dog that aint worth fighting. Besides, the only people in favor of reviving the FD are Liberal media hacks that cant make it on their on talent and the progressive Kooks that actually subscribe to their backwash. All they have to do is give them occasional lip service knowing their Useful fools always fall in line anyway.
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I have no doubt that they will try to bring back the fairness doctrine, in as underhanded a way as possible. But my hope is that a legal defense is being prepared that will utterly neuter it before it gets off the launching pad.
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It won't be called the Fairness Doctrine, but they will try. Especially now that Obama is getting his butt kicked over the stimulous bill. TAke note of his last 3 speaches, he responded pointedly and personally to criticism of himself and the bill. He absolutely cannot stand to be critized - so massive is his ego.
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He absolutely cannot stand to be critized - so massive is his ego.
His performance last evening down in Williamsburg was very revealing. He was on the brink of losing it, very desperate. They'
ll be passing out Rush and Fox Network VooDoo dolls in their next outing I'm sure. Hopefully I can cheer him up a bit. I've been up in the attic going through old boxes, looking for some sprockets he can wear on his new Air Force One jacket. Lots of grins, teeth, and joking about the 149 mile flight down from Andrews. If the little people only knew what that hop cost them, wow!
As narcissism maturates, the narcissist becomes more demanding for respect and compliance and more intolerant of criticism. He becomes paranoid, and divides the world into us vs. them. He casts himself and his minions as victims and instills in them the distrust of the others.
An all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy, usually beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts. Five (or more) of the following criteria must be met:
Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents to the point of lying, demands to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion
Is firmly convinced that he is unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special, unique, or high-status people (or institutions)
Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation, or failing that, wishes to be feared and notorious (narcissistic supply)
Feels entitled. Expects unreasonable or special and favorable priority treatment. Demands automatic and full compliance with his expectations
Is interpersonally exploitative i.e., uses others to achieve his or her own ends
Is devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with or acknowledge the feelings and needs of others
Is constantly envious of others or believes that they feel the same about him or her
Is arrogant, has haughty behaviors or attitudes coupled with rage when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted
The third and fourth editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of 1980 and 1994 and the European ICD-10 describe NPD in similar language
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He shows all the signs of having had no father and a doting, indulgent but distant mother.
My mamma loves me, she loves me,
She gets down her knees and hugs me.
She loves me like a rock,
Rocks me like the Rock of Ages ....
And if I was the President and the Congress call my name,
I'd say who do, who do you think you're foolin'?
I've got the Presidential seal up on the Presidential podium and
My mamma loves me, she loves me .....
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They would obviously love to shut down talk radio, but Obama's comments on Limbaugh is going to make it more difficult. That he dislikes talk radio is now public knowledge and undeniable.
Even hearings on the subject are likely to generate blowback.
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Both Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin are attached with barnacle-like tenacity to the Michigan legislature. With advances in medical care, they and their utterly predictable voting may be there forever.
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This is part of Obama's narcissism--the whole "I will eliminate ALL legitimate criticism of my greatness" thing. Obama is actually VERY DANGEROUS. Really. My DH grew up in Indonesia during the same time as Obama did, so naturally he can read "O" like a book. He says Obama has all the qualities of a very bad dictator. I'm not surprised. He's a real Dr. Jeykill-Mr. Hide type: one minute Mr. Boy Next Door, the next Hitler-esque. Creepy. He will get more and more scary as time goes by, and will gather more and more of his irrational worshipers to him, while excluding others who do not tow his line.
The article linked at post #7 is excellent. Also to be noted is that the narcissist (.le. Oama):
- Feels that he is above the law.
- Talks about himself in the 3rd person singluar or uses the regal "we" and craves to be the exclusive center of attention, even adulation
- Has a messianic-cosmic vision of himself and his life and his "mission".
- Sets ever more complex rules in a convoluted world of grandiose fantasies with its own language (jargon)
- Displays false modesty and unctuous "folksiness" but is unable to sustain these behaviors (the persona, or mask) for long. It slips and the true Obama is revealed: haughty, aloof, distant, and disdainful of simple folk and their lives.
- Sublimates aggression and holds grudges.
- Behaves as an eternal adolescent (e.g., his choice of language, youthful image he projects, demands indulgence and feels entitled to special treatment, even though his objective accomplishments do not justify it).
When he doesn't get his way with the Porkulus Bill, he will begin his descent into trantrum-land, and will vow "never again." This is when things will begin to truly go downhill. He will blame everyone who did not support him 100%, and continue to make accusations of Republicans.
Soros, the ex-Nazi is helping this, I'm sure.
Think about it.
The Nazis blamed the bankers and business men for Germany's economic crisis, took over the banks, nationalized major means of production, enlisted a civilian army to deal with the populace, silenced opposition, and eliminated freedom for anyone not 100% in line with Adolf.
Personally, I don't see much difference between the two.
Another heroic failure of Bambi's vetting operation ...
A Senate committee today abruptly canceled a session to consider President Obama's nomination of Rep. Hilda Solis to be labor secretary in the wake of a report saying that her husband yesterday paid about $6,400 to settle tax liens against his business -- including liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years.
The report, by USA Today, came just before the Senate's Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee was slated to meet to consider Solis's nomination, which had been delayed by questions over her role on the board of the pro-labor organization American Rights at Work. A source said that committee members did not learn about the tax issue until today.
I hear Blago is available ...
"Today's executive session was postponed to allow members additional time to review the documentation submitted in support of Representative Solis's nomination to serve in the important position of Labor Secretary," read a joint statement issued by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), the panel's chairman, and Mike Enzi (Wyoming), the committee's ranking Republican. "There are no holds on her nomination and members on both sides of the aisle remain committed to giving her nomination the fair and thorough consideration that she deserves. We will continue to work together to move this nomination forward as soon as possible."
Every time Obama nominates someone for the Cabinet the IRS gets a check. He should keep this up ...
No new date has been set for the hearing. The disclosure about Solis's husband comes after tax problems caused trouble for three of Obama's top appointees, leading two of them -- HHS-nominee Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer, who was to be chief performance officer -- to withdraw.
Asked about the USA Today report at the White House daily briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs emphasized that the nominee's tax returns are in order. "Well, I read the story in USA Today, and it quotes somebody that works here, so obviously we've -- we know about this story. I'll say this. We reviewed her tax returns, and her tax returns are in order," said Gibbs.
Gibbs makes me long for the days of Scott McClellan ...
"The story denotes that her husband had some issues with paying a business tax, and obviously that tax is -- should be paid. He's -- she's not a partner in that business, Gibbs continued. "So we're not going to penalize her for her husband's business mistakes. Obviously, her husband, I think, has and should pay any taxes that he owes. "
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OTOH ISRAELI MIL FORUM [paraph]> OBAMA CONSIDERS/BELIEVES A NEW TAX IMPOSED ON HIS OWN CABINET WOULD CREATE A FEDERAL BUDGET SURPLUS, as Obama Cabinet/Admin can owe under the Fed Tax Code and which may create an Obama-desired US
$18.0Bilyuhn+ Budget surplus [not yet attained]???
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The report, by USA Today, came just before the Senate's Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee.
A bit ironic Id say that two of the liens are for unpaid county health and safety permit fees. That would be like appointing someone to head up the IRS even though he didnt pay his taxes. Oh thats right never mind.
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Don't you all see this is Bush's fault. If they did not have to spend every second of their time fighting Bush they certainly would have paid their taxes on time. Geezzee folks, the nasty Repubs are at fault here and now the Dems will know better how to spend the money anyway.
Oh god, will someone knock me out for the next four years!!
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A small question ? Do any of these commie Dummocrats pay taxes ? Well, they wouldn't as they don't really consider themselves obligated to this republic. They're Citizens of the World, don't ya know. They're too busy on behalf of the World to worry about the peasants of the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair has asked former CIA Director John Deutch, who was stripped of his security clearance nearly a decade ago for mishandling classified information, to sit on an advisory panel on spy satellites, a lawmaker said Thursday.
More evidence that the Obama vetting system is broken. Or worse ...
Deutch, CIA director from May 1995 to December 1996 in the Clinton administration, stored and processed hundreds of files of highly classified material on unprotected home computers that he and family members also used to connect to the Internet, according to an internal CIA investigation. The Defense Department's inspector general found similar conduct during Deutch's prior service at the Pentagon.
Deutch was stripped of his security clearances by CIA Director George Tenet in 1999. As a former deputy defense secretary, Deutch also had Pentagon clearances, but he voluntarily gave them up.
He had agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling government secrets, but President Clinton pardoned him shortly before leaving office in January 2001 and before the Justice Department could file the case against him.
CIA Director Mike Hayden reinstated clearances for Deutch in 2007 so Hayden could consult with him, as well as with other ex-CIA directors, agency spokesman Mark Mansfield said Thursday.
Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee raised concerns about the appointment at the confirmation hearing Thursday of Leon Panetta to become CIA director. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., asked Panetta whether he was aware that Deutch had been asked to sit on an advisory panel that will make recommendations about the future of U.S. spy satellites. Panetta said no.
"Do you think that's appropriate?" Coburn asked.
"I think I'd have to sit down and talk with Adm. Blair about just exactly what he had in mind," Panetta responded.
"What kind of message do you think that appointment sends the men and women of the CIA, who work every day to collect and protect the most sensitive" information? Coburn asked.
Panetta said he "did not want to jump to any quick conclusions about what the admiral may or may not had in mind. Clearly this is something I need to talk to him about."
A spokeswoman for Blair, Wendy Morigi, said Blair "is seeking to benefit from the technical expertise of some national experts, and Mr. Deutch is among those who will be called on from time to time."
She said Blair will be consulting with Congress as he continues to recruit panel members and promised to address their concerns.
Panetta later said preventing leaks of classified information can be difficult to do but that he would work with the attorney general to ensure cases don't "fall into a black hole." "I consider leaking, particularly where it involves secrets that are important to this country, treasonous, and I think they have to be prosecuted," he said.
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Lefties: National security is a joke, anyway. Classified information would be better if everyone in the world could see it.
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> Deutch, CIA director from May 1995 to December 1996 in the Clinton administration, stored and processed hundreds of files of highly classified material on unprotected home computers that he and family members also used to connect to the Internet
Absolutely unforgivable! My mouth was open, jaw dropped when I read this.
There's "honest mistake", but this is wilfully ignoring risks. He shouldn't be allowed to read a press release let alone be invited back.
Please accept my best wishes on America surviving the Chicago Political "Machine".
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> Deutch, CIA director from May 1995 to December 1996 in the Clinton administration, stored and processed hundreds of files of highly classified material on unprotected home computers that he and family members also used to connect to the Internet
Absolutely unforgivable! My mouth was open, jaw dropped when I read this.
I agree, nearly. The fact is that at these times security consciousness about the internet (who was just starting a commercial place) was still about zero between the general public. Outside computer specialists few people knew about firewalls and similar. Windows 95 came without any firewall if my memory is any good.
We are allowed to expect that computer people in CIA lectured people about security but in those times before laptops, USB keys and ubiquitous internet connections it is not sure. If they did, he should have been sanctioned much more severely than loding his security clearance. If they didn't the computer people should have been tarred, feathered and shot.
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus says that for every depth, there is one still lower. Ima feeling it's a long way to the bottom. Hang on tight and keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle.
BOSTON (AP) -- Two Massachusetts lawmakers have filed legislation to bar new high-rise development that would cast midday shadows over a half dozen of Boston's public parks.
State Rep. Byron Rushing tells The Boston Globe that people should be allowed to enjoy as much sunlight as possible when in public spaces. Rushing is a co-sponsor of the bill along with fellow Boston Democrat, Rep. Martha Walz.
The effort was prompted in part by a proposed 47-story residential tower at Copley Place, near Copley Square and the Boston Public Library.
Rushing says the legislation would expand existing laws that keep shadows off Boston Common.
Meg Mainzer-Cohen of the Back Bay Association, which represents business in the area, says the proposal could thwart new development.
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State Rep. Byron Rushing tells The Boston Globe that people should be allowed to enjoy as much sunlight as possible when in public spaces
Fool, don't you know that unregulated nuclear power generator kills tens of thousands of people every year through skin cancer! Why next you'd be calling for exposure to all sorts of other harmful natural elements in the environment.
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Actually, there may be a little sense here. High rises can really screw up an area, by turning areas into constant twilight, which drives pedestrians away and hurts street level business.
Or by having reflective windows that make streets scorching hot and raise the cooling bills of the adjacent buildings by tens of thousands of dollars every month.
In either case, neither the architect nor the building owners usually give a damn whose business they mess with, until after the building is built and big, honking lawsuits start happening.
And since city councils and zoning boards will do anything that such businesses want, no matter how annoying, the State intervenes to keep city cores from turning into Blade Runner nightmares.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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BOSTON (AP) -- Two Massachusetts lawmakers have filed legislation to bar new high-rise development that would cast midday shadows over a half dozen of Boston's public parks.
