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2013-11-22 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2013-11-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Well, it'll never be called Hillary-Care. Like its (dead) predecessor, that it.

Posted by Bobby 2013-11-22 07:35|| 2013-11-22 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 You can put lipstick on a pig, but he's still a pig.
- Can't remember who said that :-)

Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-22 07:50|| 2013-11-22 07:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Its about preserving the legacy of the ONE. Otherwise as #1 says.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-11-22 10:15|| 2013-11-22 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 And #2...

Posted by JohnQC 2013-11-22 10:16|| 2013-11-22 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Can't remember who said that :-) Besoeker this will jog your memory

Pigs have long featured in proverbial expressions: a "pig's ear," a "pig in a poke," as well as the Biblical expressions "pearls before swine" and "ring of gold in a swine's snout." Indeed, whereas the phrase "lipstick on a pig" seems to have been coined in the 20th century, the concept of the phrase may not be particularly recent. The similar expression, "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear" seems to have been in use by the middle of the 16th century or earlier. Thomas Fuller, the British physician, noted the use of the phrase "A hog in armour is still but a hog" in 1732, here, as the Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1796) later noted "hog in armour" alludes to "an awkward or mean looking man or woman, finely dressed." The Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon (18341892) recorded the variation "A hog in a silk waistcoat is still a hog" in his book of proverbs The Salt-Cellars (published 1887).

The "lipstick" variant of the phrase is more modern (the word "lipstick" itself was only coined in 1880). The rhetorical effect of linking pigs with lipstick was explored in 1926 by Charles F. Lummis, in the Los Angeles Times, when he wrote "Most of us know as much of history as a pig does of lipsticks." However, the first recorded uses of "putting lipstick on a pig" are later. In an article in the Quad-City Herald (Brewster, Washington) from Jan. 31 1980, it was observed that "You can clean up a pig, put a ribbon on it's [sic] tail, spray it with perfume, but it is still a pig." The phrase was also reported in 1985 when The Washington Post quoted a San Francisco radio host from KNBR-AM remarking "That would be like putting lipstick on a pig" in reference to plans to refurbish Candlestick Park (rather than constructing a new stadium for the San Francisco Giants).

Besoeker, give us a kiss....

Posted by Au Auric 2013-11-22 11:07|| 2013-11-22 11:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Wahhahaha, she's tempting.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-22 11:18|| 2013-11-22 11:18|| Front Page Top

#7 For any program to work, be it overhauling a bicycle or overhauling a national health care plan that is 1/5th of the nations economy, it all has to start with a solid plan. Obama and all of his "Community Activists" have never planned, organized, staffed, or directed a program of any size through completion. All they ever do is intimidate a city into implementing their ideas, leaving it all for someone else to figure out. What I believe we are seeing is the classic failures of an activist at a global level.
The issue now becomes of fixing the issue at hand. We cant go back, they have poisoned the well so to speak. We have to now figure out how to rebuild 1/5th of our economic structure and not totally destroy this nation in the process.
This is not an obumble sized failure, its bigger than his normal screw ups and will take the very best we have to save the health care in America.

Posted by 49 Pan 2013-11-22 13:51|| 2013-11-22 13:51|| Front Page Top

Posted by Pappy 2013-11-22 16:23|| 2013-11-22 16:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Dems know they may be screwed in the next election. They just nuked Senate filibusters so they can pack as many liberal judges in the Judicial Branch, the branch they have always had trouble with, before they head out the door.

Posted by Guillibaldo McCoy1948 2013-11-22 18:16|| 2013-11-22 18:16|| Front Page Top

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