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What a surprise. You need to shut your TV off & open your mind.nm

Posted By: LVMT on 2006-09-18
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    What a great idea. Let's try a click open, click shut
    nm
    Who said it? Open mind and
    Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
    Who said it? Open mind and
    Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
    Who said it? Open mind and
    It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
    Who said it? Open mind and
    This one calls for TWO:

    Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

    A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to heII in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
    Who said it? Open mind and
    Community service should not be done just to announce the completion. It should be done without looking for a reward or praise. It should not be looked at as doing something for someone, but assisting them in making life better and fulfilling.
    It's quite possible! My mind is open. But sm
    Obama didn't chicken out. McCain did--again!

    I just watched the news on NBC. It was said (on Brian Williams' show) that this morning McCain got spooked by Obama's rising approval rating as opposed to his with respect to the financial situation, and he was advised to suspend--and pretend ("pretend" being my term).

    Do you have an open mind? ..Where is it?
    Conservatives rarely have an open mind.
    Good of you to keep an open mind.

    Nothing wrong with having an open mind......sm
    just don't let it be so open that your brain falls out.

    I have no doubt that Obama is extremely smart and diplomatic. However, any improved relations we "enjoy" with other countries now comes not from any amazing strides he has made in diplomacy but rather in that he has sold us out. He is slowly chipping away at our world position by downgrading, for lack of a better word, our presence in the world as a force to be reckoned with. In other words, he is kissing the backside of countries who seek to destroy America and are having a good laugh at our expense. Don't get too comfy yet.
    Before you lecture others on an open mind...
    you should look inward at your own. "Conservatives rarely have an open mind" indicates yours is closed like a steel trap. An open mind also sees faults where they exist, and according to you, Obama has none, even when he apes faults of the previous administration and has already gone back on so many campaign promises in only 5 months I lost count. Oh but...you have an open mind. Umm hmmm.
    I had a very open mind, and Obama is not my Lord - nm
    x
    Next time, try listening with an open mind.
    God forbid you get the other side of the story.
    It still is for those of us with an open mind to think and read and learn
    There have been some very good information posted here. These are events that are going on right now that are important, and this is where we can catch up on a lot of the news that the mmm is just not telling us.

    For those with an agenda to try to keep suppressing what is happening? Well I see that here too. I stopped coming here for about a week because the board was overtaken by the libs who kept bashing anyone who had a different opinion than theirs and didn't drool over and worship O'Messiah like they do. Once in awhile there would be a good issue (not always the b/c issue), but seeing as it is still a hot topic and NOT being just ignored it is important for people to know what is happening. If you don't think the background of O'Messiah, his shady character, etc, and how our next president is getting elected is important. Then I'd just say keep your eyes closed and move on.

    The only truth in America is that there is no truth???????? The truth is there. Some people would like to know. Others just don't care. Now that's pretty sad.
    You evidently have not been listening with an open mind
    It sounds like you too have been listening to the left wing media. Rush Limbaugh has come out as one of the most powerful and positive voices. What he says is just the way it is. It is what more and more people are feeling. People are listening to him and his ratings have been skyrocketing because of what he has to say. He tells it like it is and the liberals are trying their best to trash him but it isn't working. Like Rahm Emanuel who takes what he says and twists it and outright lies. It's funny how good the liberals are at lying and distorting the facts. Rush Limbaugh is not the only reason but one of the main reasons why we will see a surge in more Americans moving to being conservative. They are tired of the same ol rhetoric garbage and not being told the truth from the liberal media and this is why MSNBC (Olberman & Matthews shows) are tanking big time.
    You evidently have not been listening with an open mind
    It sounds like you too have been listening to the left wing media. Rush Limbaugh has come out as one of the most powerful and positive voices. What he says is just the way it is. It is what more and more people are feeling. People are listening to him and his ratings have been skyrocketing because of what he has to say. He tells it like it is and the liberals are trying their best to trash him but it isn't working. Like Rahm Emanuel who takes what he says and twists it and outright lies. It's funny how good the liberals are at lying and distorting the facts. Rush Limbaugh is not the only reason but one of the main reasons why we will see a surge in more Americans moving to being conservative. They are tired of the same ol rhetoric garbage and not being told the truth from the liberal media and this is why MSNBC (Olberman & Matthews shows) are tanking big time. Rush Limbaugh is the Democrats worst hope/fear to losing the next election. Not the only reason though because the Democrats are doing a great job of that on their own.
    Listen with an open mind, ask questions, learn. nm
    .
    I am referring to the open mind I had when I watched the video -
    I for one thought this part of the discussion was about the video that showed the Obama song. I was responding to the fact that they called the children glassy eyed and brainwashed.

    But I also responded to the part of Obama being called my Lord - because there is only one Lord in my life and it is not Obama.
    Wow, that really pushed your buttons....trot out that open mind of yours...
    and relax. And no, I decidedly do NOT feel in a weaker position. You are the defensive one. If someone does not agree with you they have a closed mind...THAT is a sign of weakness in your position.

    It was not meant as an insult. You were lecturing people that they should educate themselves...THAT is an insult, much more than the so-called spelling police.

    I know the rules, I slipped, so sorry, and for that I apologize...and by the way....Got it! is way past rude...if you are real interested in civility.

    Thank you so much, and have a nice day.
    Human rights is an issue for you and your children... wake up and open your mind
    nm
    SHUT UP
    COULD YOU PLEASE LEAVE ME OUT OF IT, for pete freaking sake..I DO NOT POST ON YOUR CONSERVATIVE BOARD..I DO NOT AND LIKE I SAID BEFORE, ASK THE ADMINISTRATOR TO CHECK ANY POST YOU QUESTION AND IT WILL NOT LEAD BACK TO MY IP ADDRESS..Whenever you need a punching post, you relate back to **gt said this, gt said that, well, gt this, gt that**..I HAVE NOT BEEN POSTING SINCE FRIDAY NIGHT..THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SINCE FRIDAY EVENING THAT I HAVE CHECKED THIS BOARD..LEAVE ME OUT OF IT..GET A LIFE..I HAVE ONE AND AM TRYING TO LIVE IT AND NOT IMPLICATING ANY OF YOU CONSERVATIVES WHEN POSTS WITH NEW HANDLES APPEAR..I COULDNT CARE LESS IF ONE POST IS REALLY ANOTHER PERSON WHO USED TO POST UNDER ANOTHER HANDLE..FOR PETE SAKE..GET OVER ME!  It is obvious with your incessant attacks on my posts and even on me when I am not posting that you are quite threatened by me..Well, good..Maybe it will shut you conservatives up a bit and make you look at the real facts in America in 2005..and GET OFF THE LIBERAL BOARD.
    Exactly. They'd like us all to shut up, sm
    but it is not going to happen. Even the Bilderberg summit in Ottawa last week got some balanced coverage by MSM in Canada.
    No, you just want her to shut up so you

    insinuate that she must be a lousy worker.  You are being a bully. 


    Maybe Sam is in between jobs.  Maybe she works 2 hours a day.  Maybe she is on vacation.  Maybe she types twice as fast as the rest of us.  Maybe she is the world's fastest Transcriptionist EVER. 


    Maybe, too, she is a business owner, and that informs her politics.   


    No matter.  She can post all she likes and you can argue all you like.  Back and forth until the cows come home.  It doesn't mean she never gets any work done.   I would venture to say with her drive and energy and passion, she gets a lot more done than most of us.  I would also bet that she does it really well. 


    I most certainly will NOT shut up

    while you and your kind try to undo the hard work of civil rights workers who sacrificed so much to end overt racism in my country.


     


    Hey, Bush, et., shut up

    Dang, these people are the own worse enemies, LOL..



    September 8th, 2005 11:18 am
    Bush family Katrina comments draw scrutiny



    WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush is not the only member of his prominent political family to be drawing criticism for public utterances about Hurricane Katrina: His mother has raised eyebrows too.


    In widely reported comments after visting evacuees at a Texas sports arena, former first lady Barbara Bush on Monday seemed to suggest a silver lining for the underprivileged forced from their flooded homes in New Orleans.


    What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality, she said in a radio interview from the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.


    And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this -- this is working very well for them, she said.


    I think that the observation is based on someone or some people that were talking to her that were in need of a lot of assistance, people that have gone through a lot of trauma and been through a very difficult and trying time, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Wednesday.


    And all of a sudden, they are now getting great help in the state of Texas from some of the shelters, he said.


    Her son, the president, has faced criticism for saying on September 1 that no one anticipated that New Orleans' levees would break -- even though various federal and state agencies had warned of that scenario.


    In his first tour of the devastated region, Bush also praised Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) chief Michael Brown, saying: Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.


    Brown has become a lightning rod for criticism over Washington's sluggish response to Katrina, one of the worst natural disasters to hit the United States, and opposition Democrats have stepped up calls for Bush to fire him.


    The president has also come under fire for paying tribute to ravaged New Orleans as a place he used to visit years ago to enjoy myself -- occasionally too much, an apparent reference to the days before he quit drinking.


    In an effort to raise the spirits of the hundreds of thousands who have lost their homes, Bush promised to rebuild devastated areas better than they were before, but at one point focused on the home of a powerful lawmaker.


    Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch, he said on a tour of the region Friday, drawing nervous laughter.


    Some Republicans winced, including one disbelieving congressional aide who told AFP: Lott? He's focusing on Lott? Surrounded by poor people, he talks about a sitting senator?


    There have also been echoes of the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when Bush urged Americans to go shopping and live their lives as normally as possible.


    In some of her first remarks after the hurricane, First Lady Laura Bush told Gulf Coast evacuees: It's very important to get your children in school. It gives children a sense of normalcy.


    The White House later put together a plan to help students and school districts affected by the hurricane.


    Barbara Bush had raised eyebrows two days before US troops invaded Iraq, when she told ABC television that she was not interested in media commentators' concerns about the war's potential human toll.


    Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? she said. It's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?


    Shut your mouth......Or Else
    http://www.newsweek.com/id/158107
    I told someone to shut up

    because for some people....they just cannot seem to post anything worthwhile.  All they do is repeat the same stuff and call people names.  If you have nothing of value to bring to the table....please feel free to shut your trap as well.  I know what our country is facing and I stand by my decision of picking John McCain.  I believe him, what he stands for, and what he says.  I do not believe Obama.  If you differ in that opinion....that is your God given right.  But bring something to the table other than insults.


    yea, I figured this would shut a few of them
    xx
    Why did O shut down Gitmo? Bet it is not
    nm
    Another ignorant celebrity. They should shut up
    nm
    Well, shut my mouth, something that we agree on!!! sm
    The one thing I do believe is that our society is very puritanical when it comes to sex.  I personally don't care who lays pipe where as long as it does not interfere with the job at hand.  I could care less about his infidelity -- but I do take issue with someone who passes themselves off as some God-fearing family man who protests loudly about others cheating and who just chose to not even spend Father's Day with his 4 children.  And God knows, if he used taxpayer money to do it, he should be strung up.  The French (and most other "mature" nations) find our atitudes towards infidelity as something backwards, prudish and laughable -- not that I care what they think, but I do think they have a valid point.  What goes on behind closed doors is nobody's darn business!
    I'd be happy if he'd keep his trap shut until he becomes president
    And NOT "most" people think he should be doing more. Just cus you and others seem to worship and love him NOT everyone else does and I'm sick of people saying that. He was put in office by one simple fact. The "committee" put him in. NOT the people. If the people were the "true" deciders we'd be seeing Hillary up there.

    This isn't a "everyone is picking on him, dam3d if you do, dam3d if you don't" thing here. This is just plain wrong.

    Come January 20th have at it. Get up and speak in front of the camera 24 hours/7 days a week for all I care. Right now he is NOT present and he is NOT co-president. Make all the decisions he wants to behind the scenes. He does not need to be giving press conferences talking about issues he should not be talking about until he takes office.

    This is not complaining. This is voicing our utter distrust, disgust, and lack of faith in the guy. Bill Clinton was arrogant but compared to this guy???? Even Clinton didn't hold press conferences like this guy is. At least Bill Clinton respected the outgoing president.

    Obama just can't keep his trap shut!
    Put up or shut up. Give examples, cite sources
    x
    He should shut up and not push policy or influence until he gets into office.
    He has truly undermined the current sitting president and has been disrespectful to that very office. That much is true.

    I wasn't talking about two ways about anything. You must be talking about someone else.
    Meanwhile, volunteers are *begging* FEMA not to shut down camps in Louisiana. sm

    Katrina Volunteers Beg FEMA Not to Shut Down Camps
    By Mark Martin
    CBN News Reporter


    CBN.com – ST. BERNARD PARISH, New Orleans - Carolyn Pitre is grateful to find her Bible among her belongings, piled up in the street in front of her home in St. Bernard Parish.

    Carolyn says, “I'm drawn to try and find something of value because we have nothing left... (cries)… Because we have nothing left... Everything was gone. Everything.”

    All along Carolyn's street, and in the entire area, it is the same: Destruction everywhere you look. Piles and piles of trash and debris. Gutted homes.

    Lt. Colonel David Dysart is the director of recovery for St. Bernard Parish, which is near New Orleans. Dysart stated, “I have no residents living here right now, and I have had absolutely no businesses which have been able to return.”

    The Marine reservist also had a part in the rebuilding of Fallujah, Iraq. He says there are several similarities. Both were completely evacuated, and both had their infrastructures completely wiped out.

    The Lt. Colonel says it is going to take another six months to finish gutting thousands of homes to remove health and safety hazards. And that's where volunteers come in.

    Dysart says it takes 10 to 12 volunteers a day to a day-and-a-half to gut just one house.

    Asked if he needed volunteers right now, Dysart replied, “Absolutely. It's critical that we keep this up. We have approximately 800 homes to date that we've managed to move these items, out of the approximately 5,000 that applied.”

    Volunteers need a place to stay. Right now, they live in base camps set up by fema. The problem is, local relief coordinators say, fema wants to close them soon -- in just a few weeks.

    FEMA told Dysart that it wants to close these base camps because, Dysart said, “It is not FEMA's responsibility to provide support to volunteer agencies.”

    Operation Blessing Disaster Relief Manager Jody Herrington says that not being able to provide a home means turning away a volunteer.

    “Each volunteer that we turn away is another home that's not gutted, another resident that's not helped,” Jody declared. “It's another neighborhood that's not coming back. It's another city that's not restored. The reality is the volunteer help is crucial and critical to the success of recovery out in these parishes.”

    Brenda Puckett is a missionary to nearby Plaquemines Parish. “There's so much to do,” Brenda stressed. “There's so much devastation. The need for volunteers is tremendous.”

    She, too, says the camps need to stay.

    Around 500 people live in one camp alone. A FEMA representative says it one houses contractors, people who are here to clean up and rebuild. I asked him where they would stay if these tents were not here. He said in their vehicles, wherever they could find.

    Brenda said, “It just breaks my heart. We need the contractors here, we need the volunteers here in order to build our Parish back.”

    Pastor Randy Millet helps run a disaster relief center in St. Bernard Parish. He says the volunteers are vital in making sure that residents get the food and clothing they need to survive.

    “Please don't close the base camps,” Randy urged. “Allow us to house our volunteers. They're not looking for a Holiday Inn. They're looking for a cot with a pillow and a meal.”

    In addition, Randy says that without warning, fema stopped providing ice and filling up their generators with fuel.

    “What we’ve got to do in order to get diesel fuel right now -- we have to go across the street to fill up our buckets,” Randy explained, “and bring them back to fill up our generators... three or four... and that takes four or five trips.

    Obstacles, these workers say, that are making it tough to serve others.

    “The sheer economic recovery of this parish is dependent upon the volunteer effort,” Dysart commented.

    Herrington said, “Our plea would be to please consider extending the closing of the base camps so that would give us time for transition and preparation to come up with some other accommodations.”

    Carolyn Pitre does not want to see volunteers turned away. She's grateful for those who helped remove her belongings from her home.

    “We need all the help we can get. It's not over... not by a long shot,” Carolyn stated.

    CBN News tried to contact a fema representative to ask about the base camp closings and other issues facing volunteers, but no representative was available.


    Obama's group has tried to shut Stanley Kurtz up several times...
    He was on WGN radio in August when Obama supporters were told to call in and voice their displeasure about Mr. Kurtz and his appearance. Mr. Kurtz has done extensive research regarding the Obama/Ayers/Wright association. The WGN host offered to have someone from the Obama campaign on to counterpoint Mr. Kurtz but they declined. You would think they would like to refute something they vehemently deny.
    No surprise.

    Two Democrats today commented on leftists like you and several others on this board.  I sure do agree with them.


    Mike Kinsley, lifelong Democrat, on Pelosi’s pathetic platform:



    For national security in general, the Democrats’ plan is so according-to-type that you cringe with embarrassment: It’s mostly about new cash benefits for veterans. Regarding Iraq specifically, the Democrats’ plan has two parts. First, they want Iraqis to “assum[e] primary responsibility for securing and governing their country.” Then they want “responsible redeployment” (great euphemism) of American forces.


    Older readers may recognize this formula. It’s Vietnamization—the Nixon-Kissinger plan for extracting us from a previous mistake. But Vietnamization was not a plan for victory. It was a plan for what was called “peace with honor” and is now known as “defeat.”


    Maybe “A New Direction for America” is just a campaign document—although it seems to have had no effect at all on the campaign. My fear is that the House Democrats may try to use it as a basis for governing.


    Orson Scott Card, lifelong Democrat, on the only issue that matters in this election:



    I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations.


    But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it — and in the most damaging possible way — I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.


    To all intents and purposes, when the Democratic Party jettisoned Joseph Lieberman over the issue of his support of this war, they kicked me out as well. The party of Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan — the party I joined back in the 1970s — is dead. Of suicide.


    This may come as a surprise to you, but...
    nm
    Why should this surprise you? Now he is saying
    that they need to have more regulation, after wanting to de-regulate years ago.
    No surprise here...(sm)
    I think I said a couple days ago they wouldn't be happy with the result and that it would just turn into a larger *conspiracy.*  Thanks for not disappointing.  LOL
    no be surprise
    he admits to being a heavy drinker, dating strippers, etc.  He has only donned this moral costume with the church talk and happy marriage schitch since he has had to go far right to get conservative support this election cycle.  Before he was defeated by Bush, he was more left-central.  Now is fair right. 
    Big surprise, huh?

    With all that lynch mob mentality going on, people are waking up to the real deal.  Even a lot of very prominent pubs are turning away, advising JM to dump that noose around his neck because she is dragging him down.  After all, he did create the monster.  I say, what goes around . . .


    No surprise there....
    he is a socialist.
    This may come as a surprise to you,
    are not one monolithic group of people who share the same literal read of the Quran as you would have us believe. Substitute the word Jihadist for Muslim in your statement and then we might have something to talk about. I will not put myself in the position to defend the teachings of a Holy Book that is read, interpreted and elaborated in thousands of different ways by 1.5 billion people who are members of the world's second largest religion. My issue here is not whether or not minority sects within that religion are terrorist...the same way that I see fanatical Christians, by the way (and before you go there, I am Christian). My issue is the ignorant, dangerous rhetoric that would paint a huge majority of humble, spiritual, religious people of faith of any religion in one broad stroke that would leave us believing they they are all out to "get us."
    No surprise there.
    With the kind of narrow-minded thinking and myopic world view you hav expressed in your posts, of course you can't envision anything except your own stupidity.
    Big surprise there.

    No surprise here
    Been watching this woman move up the ranks of corruption in California for many years now.
    For many of us that comes as no surprise......
    They have already told O that out of those released from there, they already know to be fact that over 60% of them go back to fight and kill!

    Yep, all those poor little gitmo guys now being treated like kings in the bahamas.... nice place to start another group up terrorists training!!!! Too bad so many O lovers have been sucked into that belief that those guys are just lovable little teddy bears!!!
    Why doesn't this surprise me??

    Nan, you were stalked??? What a surprise!!!!!
    nm
    Hey, doesn't surprise me
    When Carter won one I knew the committee's cheese had completely slid of their cracker.