The Col: That must be why Beck has been on Fox news many times since he left.

The Col: With no outside control, if Beck losses further who will he blame?? The Liberals, Fox.. the advertisers that deserted his schedule??

(V): When Fox News distances themselves from you (as they did Beck) you know you're in la la land

Artful Dodger: ??? He's done over 22 consecutive seasons already!!

Golly.... that is a major motor mouth, like where he says in an interview TV belongs in the history books.

... Does he still hate the 9/11 victim's families?

(V): Yeah but on a brighter side, Glen Beck TV has outdone Oprah by over 50%!!! And he's just getting started. lol. Even Van Jones has to subscribe to see what Beck is saying now. The WH is already a member!

Poor Sky Sports.. it looks like (99.99% sure) that their monopoly on major sports coverage and the prices they charge (especially to pubs/clubs/hotels) is broken.

Thanks to Karen Murphy, a pub landlady who took her case to the European Court of Justice and won.

Now, cheap decoders and decoder cards from the EU can be used legally saving businesses thousands each year.

Knox is freed.

Pedro Martínez:Yes it is opinion as virtually everything on this board is and only history will tell whether this is the end of the US and the West as global leaders or just a setback. It is certainly a fact that China’s influence is growing and US and the West seems to have to resort to increasing desperate invasions to maintain their influence.

A fact that Britain is not as great as it once was? If you define greatness as the size of your empire then this is inevitable.

Pedro Martínez: Neither then is stating that the USA has not passed it's zenith. The conditions after WWII where most powers were rebuilding that gave the USA an edge are no longer applicable. The cold war is over. No side won.

As for Britain. Yep. WWII did that, but it would have come sooner or later anyway. History teaches as a fact that all empires rise and fall.

(V): That's your opinion, not a fact. A fact is that Britain is no longer as great as it once was…

... America and Russia both are over as 'the superpowers'... that's a fact.

“There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower




The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view.

Ronald Reagan

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

And….

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Calvin Coolidge




Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in fine, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise.

Mark Twain

I think these ideals are much more representative of American ideals rather than Obama’s ‘shared sacrifice’ nonsense.

-- The Left is prone to hysteria.
-- The Left believes that if The New York Times and other liberal news sources report something, it is true.
-- The Left believes in experts. Of course, every rational person, liberal or conservative, trusts the expertise of experts -- such as when experts in biology explain the workings of mitochondria, or when experts in astronomy describe the moons of Jupiter. But for liberals, "expert" has come to mean far more than greater knowledge in a given area. It now means two additional things: One is that non-experts should defer to experts not only on matters of knowledge, but on matters of policy, as well. The second is that experts possess greater wisdom about life, not merely greater knowledge in their area of expertise.

-- People who don't confront the greatest evils will confront far lesser ones. Most humans know the world is morally disordered -- and socially conscious humans therefore try to fight what they deem to be most responsible for that disorder. The Right tends to fight human evil such as communism and Islamic totalitarianism. The Left avoids confronting such evils and concentrates its attention instead on socioeconomic inequality, environmental problems and capitalism.
-- The Left is far more likely to revere, even worship, nature. A threat to the environment is regarded by many on the Left as a threat to what is most sacred to them, and therefore deemed to be the greatest threat humanity faces.

-- Leftists tend to fear dying more. That is one reason they are more exercised about our waging war against evil than about the evils committed by those we fight.

September 30, 2011
Huge 'Green Jobs' Loan given to Pelosi brother-in-law's company
Rick Moran




Apparently, the only kind of "green" that really matters to the Obama administration is the folding kind.

Mark Hemingway at the Weekly Standard blog:


Despite the growing Solyndra scandal, yesterday the Department of Energy approved $1 billion in new loans to green energy companies -- including a $737 million loan guarantee to a company known as SolarReserve:

[...]

On SolarReserve's website is a list of "investment partners," including the "PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund (East) LLC." As blogger American Glob quickly discovered, PCG's number two is none other than "Ronald Pelosi, a San Francisco political insider and financial industry polymath who happens to be the brother-in-law of Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives."

Iamon lyme: Old Codger-that's me. My knees hurt today.

Iamon lyme: oops..

I was going to ask you if you had ever known me to resort to name calling, but I guess we both know the answer to that now..

heh heh heh heh heh heh heh

Artful Codger: lol

despite?

Gun crime continues to decrease, despite increase in gun sales

Despite increases in gun sales, gun crimes continued to decrease in the United States for the fourth straight year in 2010, according to the FBI.

The FBI recently released its Crime in The United States statistics for 2010. Overall, murders in the U.S. have decreased steadily since 2006, dropping from 15,087 to 12,996. Firearms murders — which made up 67 percent of all murders in the U.S. in 2010 — have followed this trend, decreasing by 14 percent.

At the same time that firearms murders were dropping, gun sales were surging. In 2009, FBI background checks for guns increased by 30 percent over the previous year, while firearms sales in large retail outlets increased by almost 40 percent. The number of applications for concealed carry permits jumped across the country as well.

“There was a huge spike,” NRA spokesperson Rachel Parsons said. “It’s probably mellowed out and gone back to normal now.”


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/28/gun-crime-continues-to-decrease-despite-increase-in-gun-ownership/#ixzz1ZIWfl0Cj

Hillary's Turnabout on Jerusalem

In a stunning reversal, Hillary Clinton has done a 180 on her position on Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, contradicting the position she took when she was New York's junior senator, and needed Jewish votes.

9/11 .... 1973

"Agustín Edwards Eastman, one of the wealthiest men in Chile at the time, played a critical role in convincing the U.S. to “lend a helping hand.” After Allende received 36.3% of popular vote in a three-way election and was chosen by the Chilean congress as president, Edwards almost immediately opposed him (Kinzer 170). Edwards consulted the U.S. ambassador to Chile to ask if the U.S. would “do anything militarily, directly or indirectly?”(Kinzer 170). After the ambassador (Edward Korry) rejected his request, Edwards went to the CEO of Pepsi-Cola, who had direct access to President Nixon.[citation needed] Edwards’ friend from Pepsi-Cola notified Nixon of the “problem” in Chile and from that point on, “he (Nixon) had been triggered into action,” as Henry Kissinger said.[citation needed] In addition, ITT offered up to $1 million dollars to support any action by the U.S. to oppose Salvador Allende.[citation needed] ITT had set up shop in Chile and was at risk because “the Chilean telephone system was high on Allende’s list for nationalization.”"


Nothing personal about the murders I guess.. 3000 murdered by the US installed dictator, many more imprisoned, tortured or 'disappeared'.

... It was just business!!

Bernice:

> The left has caused all of our economic problems and they have endorsed crony capitalism more than the right.

Of course, in the USA the left is really more of the right. The USA has no real left wing party. Even the Green Party is a party of the centre at best. The Democrats are a right wing party, and the Republicans are right of the right. It is just the nature of American politics. Both parties engage in cronyism. It all depends on who is in power at what time. In the end, both parties supported bailouts for banks, both parties supported wars that benefit big oil, both parties support the industrial-military complex. It goes on and on.

I copied this from facebook :)

The left never gives up telling their lies about capitalism. The left has caused all of our economic problems and they have endorsed crony capitalism more than the right. These people don't represent America...they represent America's enemies. These people are supporters of Barack Obama, I'll bet.

..... Ok, wouldn't it be better to call the top earners in the USA who defraud and 'pay' for this way to continue out and out criminals.

That getting them to pay up what they by law should be paying in tax, is harder than "getting blood out of a stone". That they bribe, cheat, manipulate the people and government of the USA reminds me of a cuckoo chick's behaviour. N' that others are quite happy to through bribery, blackmail and just pure greed.. let it carry on as long as they get new cars each year!!

... Or to just call them thieving unscrupulous gits?

ustica tnp: Someone called you a racist?

Artful Dodger: when someone call a men a racist.. HE A RACIST!!!!!

Artful Dodger:

"when the top one-tenth of 1 percent has seen their incomes go up four or five times over the last 20 years, and folks at the bottom have seen their incomes decline -- and your response is that you want poor folks to pay more?"

and

""If...if asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a jew...uh...as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honour.""

He made a slip regarding the tightness of the rich's wallets and the emptiness of the poor's. An old English thing was regarding the tightness of a Scottish man's wallet. Blunt.. I'll give you that.

.. But the point at being at ransom at the hands of 0.10% ... or did you not hear about the rich recently blackmailing our governments?

(V): The point of the post was Obama's choice of the word "Jew" Very telling. He's an anti-Semite as well as a racist.

Artful Dodger: N' if they stopped cheating the system they could be on a lower rate. N' maybe it'd lessen the national debt.

But let's all defend the 1% as they are surely good church going, over donation stating, right wing Americans.

... Are they therefore by colour of the Green Party?

Obama's Freudian Slip

"If...if asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a jew...uh...as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honour."

This is our great orator? Does he even know what he just said? Forgetting the glaring Freudian slip for a moment, does anyone here think a billionaire would NOT want to pay the same tax rate as a Jew janitor? Last time I check, billionaires pay a much higher rate than most in the working class.

"McCain didn't choose her. The GOP did because they WANTED to throw the election. They knew that NO ONE was going to fix the economy overnight, and by the time of the NEXT cycle they could blame it on the Dems. Pretty clever really."

Perhaps the real economists who were able to access the country's accounts and gave the GOP advise told the truth.

"They knew that NO ONE was going to fix the economy overnight"

and so the blame game began

At least 80 people have been arrested during an anti-Wall Street march in New York's financial district.

Several hundred people took part in Saturday's march, which was intended to draw attention to "corporate greed and corrupt politics" in the US. Participants carried banners supporting a range of other issues, including healthcare reform, an end to US wars and the scrapping of the death penalty.

The march came after a week of protests by the Occupy Wall Street campaign.

The loosely organised group says it is defending 99% of the US population against the wealthiest 1%, and had called for 20,000 people to "flood into lower Manhattan" on 17 September and remain there for "a few months".

"The enemy is the big business leaders of Wall Street, the big oil company leaders, the coal company leaders, the big military industrial leaders." A number of placards also called for "justice for Troy Davies", the US man executed in Georgia last week amid widespread criticism.

Police said most of Saturday's arrests were for disorderly conduct and blocking traffic, but one person was charged with assaulting a police officer. One officer also suffered a shoulder injury, said police.

They have not commented on protest organisers' comments that there had been an "unprecedented level of police aggression" on display.

... The bosses always do get extra protection. One has only to look back at how lords and other nobles of the land faired well. As long as they paid respect to the '''KiNg'''

love it.:)

Tommorrow you just might find a piece of history in your back yard. UARS is coming down... somewhere!!

Sorry... might be not accurate, the tax reform figures are a gain for the federal deficit cut plans are $150,000,000,000 per year, not $1,000,000,000,000 as is owed and lost each year.


Guess asking the masters to pay up the 20% of reportable income they keep tax free (approx) and defraud the US by breaking the law of the land is just a step to far!! ... quoting 2008 figures here btw.

When the rich are seen (supposed to be our peers) cheating, lying and greedy... what is honest Joe supposed to think?

Obama proposes to recoup some of the $1,000,000,000,000+ lost through tax fraud and evasion that the US elite top wage earners commit each year.

.... A common fraud is over exaggerating donations to churches and other charities. Common with men under 50!!

Who will protest at some form of clamping down on fraud? After all it's less than half the tax evasion loss to the USA... A reversal of the old Robin Hood, steal from the poor to 'bling' up the rich.

Yeah we need someone who won't have a nice job lined up at the end of his term, not lobbied on nice parties *burp* .. cash.. off shore accounts .. Clothes .. N' other little perks (as one racing driver says in his head & shoulders ad) that goes from so many pressure groups.

Yeah.. A real fiscal conservative!!

N' when they are out.. they can blame the next one!! N' so on and so on... zzzzzzzz

Both known for storing moths in their billfolds

Jack Benny for VP

rod03801: Yes, a REAL fiscal conservative!!!

Vikings: Before my time. Comedian, right?

rod03801: Milton Berle for prez

The EXTREME end of that isn't always appropriate. But right now, we need the extreme end of it to straighten things out.

Artful Dodger: We just need someone fiscally conservative at this point. It's the most vital thing.

rod03801: At this point, Animal, the muppet, could lead better than Obama.

Artful Dodger: THAT is clear!

I can't WAIT for November 2012. Going to be SO satisfying to vote him out. Just like how satisfying it was to get decent people in the House in 2010.

Dems/network news//TV/etc, refuse to believe that the PEOPLE don't WANT this incompetent moron and the other libs like him.

And I HOPE a Tea Partier is the winner.

Though unfortunately it'll be middle of the road Romney probably. But that's fine. Whoever can beat Obama will be good. All I care is that he is GONE

rod03801: It's so funny how they spin anything to protect the ONE. It's laughable. Obama is an incompetent moron. History will prove that.