You post an article. How typical.
Posted By: Good God on 2005-10-13
In Reply to: Not that it's any of your - business, but I happen--see msg
I DON'T CARE about your articles. This isn't ABOUT articles. Many of us have someone there. By all means, don't step outside that box. Don't make a life better. And by all means NEVER EVER THINK OF ANYONE BUT YOURSELF. I don't want to hear your personal stories. As far as I am concerned, those soldiers over there are everyone's son, everyone's daughter.
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P.S. Please scroll down after reading above post. Washington Post article included.
Reprinted in Boston Globe. Sorry!
I was going to post that article too
That was a very good article. Is this the scenario you are talking about?
One scenario will suffice: On some Monday not so far in the future, “President” Obama meets with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to announce that “Operation Sandblaster,” for a massive nuclear attack on Iran’s supposed “weapons of mass destruction," will be launched on the coming Friday. The Joint Chiefs remonstrate, pointing out that such aggression will trigger retaliation by Russia and China, almost surely plunging the whole world into a thermonuclear World War III. “President” Obama, however, is adamant, and instructs the Joint Chiefs to have the necessary orders for “Sandblaster”—or their resignations—on his desk by Wednesday morning. Knowing that, if they resign, “President” Obama will simply appoint some unprincipled uniformed “yes men” to carry out his plan, the Joint Chiefs immediately order covert break-ins around the country to obtain his original birth certificate and other material evidence relating to his ineligibility for the Office of President. With these documents in hand, on Wednesday morning, accompanied by a contingent of heavily armed Marines, the Joint Chiefs confront “President” Obama with the evidence, arrest him as an usurper and all the Members of Congress as his co-conspirators, and appoint themselves a Military Commission to function as a “caretaker government” during the ensuing “national emergency.”
I actually didn't post the article because it's long and I knew I'd get the O'worshippers/lovers to come back with some bull-oney comeback like it was too long, or ho hum, or whatever (oh, or the standard "not credible, is a right-wing, etc, etc). But for those interested, here is the link.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin186.htm
I did not mean typical of either party, just what I see as typical on
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Here is article, it disappeared from the above post.
Before 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency listed the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing America: a terrorist attack on New York, a major earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane strike on New Orleans. The New Orleans hurricane scenario, The Houston Chronicle wrote in December 2001, may be the deadliest of all. It described a potential catastrophe very much like the one now happening.
So why were New Orleans and the nation so unprepared? After 9/11, hard questions were deferred in the name of national unity, then buried under a thick coat of whitewash. This time, we need accountability.
First question: Why have aid and security taken so long to arrive? Katrina hit five days ago - and it was already clear by last Friday that Katrina could do immense damage along the Gulf Coast. Yet the response you'd expect from an advanced country never happened. Thousands of Americans are dead or dying, not because they refused to evacuate, but because they were too poor or too sick to get out without help - and help wasn't provided. Many have yet to receive any help at all.
There will and should be many questions about the response of state and local governments; in particular, couldn't they have done more to help the poor and sick escape? But the evidence points, above all, to a stunning lack of both preparation and urgency in the federal government's response.
Even military resources in the right place weren't ordered into action. On Wednesday, said an editorial in The Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss., reporters listening to horrific stories of death and survival at the Biloxi Junior High School shelter looked north across Irish Hill Road and saw Air Force personnel playing basketball and performing calisthenics. Playing basketball and performing calisthenics!
Maybe administration officials believed that the local National Guard could keep order and deliver relief. But many members of the National Guard and much of its equipment - including high-water vehicles - are in Iraq. The National Guard needs that equipment back home to support the homeland security mission, a Louisiana Guard officer told reporters several weeks ago.
Second question: Why wasn't more preventive action taken? After 2003 the Army Corps of Engineers sharply slowed its flood-control work, including work on sinking levees. The corps, an Editor and Publisher article says, citing a series of articles in The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security - coming at the same time as federal tax cuts - was the reason for the strain.
In 2002 the corps' chief resigned, reportedly under threat of being fired, after he criticized the administration's proposed cuts in the corps' budget, including flood-control spending.
Third question: Did the Bush administration destroy FEMA's effectiveness? The administration has, by all accounts, treated the emergency management agency like an unwanted stepchild, leading to a mass exodus of experienced professionals.
Last year James Lee Witt, who won bipartisan praise for his leadership of the agency during the Clinton years, said at a Congressional hearing: I am extremely concerned that the ability of our nation to prepare for and respond to disasters has been sharply eroded. I hear from emergency managers, local and state leaders, and first responders nearly every day that the FEMA they knew and worked well with has now disappeared.
I don't think this is a simple tale of incompetence. The reason the military wasn't rushed in to help along the Gulf Coast is, I believe, the same reason nothing was done to stop looting after the fall of Baghdad. Flood control was neglected for the same reason our troops in Iraq didn't get adequate armor.
At a fundamental level, I'd argue, our current leaders just aren't serious about some of the essential functions of government. They like waging war, but they don't like providing security, rescuing those in need or spending on preventive measures. And they never, ever ask for shared sacrifice.
Yesterday Mr. Bush made an utterly fantastic claim: that nobody expected the breach of the levees. In fact, there had been repeated warnings about exactly that risk.
So America, once famous for its can-do attitude, now has a can't-do government that makes excuses instead of doing its job. And while it makes those excuses, Americans are dying.
© 2005 New York Times
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Re-post the rest of the article....sm
people at the restaurant says he didn't watch it.
A host at the restaurant tells CBS News' that the President-elect stopped by the only television in the high end establishment, a small screen at the bar, and watched for "a minute or two." The source said he did not notice what Mr. Obama was watching but that "no" it was not for an extended period of time.
Read the article before you post.
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Re-red the original post with the CBS link/article on his
At least it wasn't Fox covering it, so you should believe eyewitnesses, shouldn't you?
post the link only, not the whole article and the link. See rules for posting.
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Each brown place in the link takes you to a different article that supports this article...nm
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What's even more typical
....is when somebody posts the hypocrisy in your posts you accuse them of something in an effort to change the subject.
Go ahead and have the administrator track my IP address. I don't have anything to hide.
Typical
They're desperate. The fact that she had the decency to even think of something is refreshing. Truthfully, both parties need to try it more often.
If they want to continue this, fine. We can just keep reminding them how nobody on their side does anything to return $ to the taxpayers. All the libs want is to redistribute wealth and take more $ from you to give to someone else while further bloating the gov't. This is why the Republicans were punished by America and also their own party. They deserved it. Now we're reclaiming our party.
Ask your accountants how it'll affect you. I suppose some people will get lucky due to random numbers, but not the bulk of Americans.
typical
dumb dem drama queen
Typical ploy
Ask me a question and then answer it for me.
Where did I say *any*one wasn't entitled to spew as much filth as they want?
WHERE?
Typical apologist for the hate-mongerers out there: Don't address the real issue(s) just change the subject or wave a red herring.
This is so typical of you lefties. sm
Cut and run. It's your mantra. For all your crying about the innocent civilians killed in Iraq, that is NOTHING compared to what will happen when we leave. But you never mention that. Just like Vietnam. Well, at least your are consistent.
What is typical of the left?
It kind of got lost in the point you were trying to make, something about Lurker not answering your question the way you wanted her to...or somethin' like that.
Typical lib reply
The name-calling. You wear it so well.... Classy, honey.
This is your typical response from the
Obama Kool-Aid drinkers. They cannot and will not face the truth, they only want to argue. So what if this is just an example. So is Joe the Plumber. He is just a man who asked a simple question. He never said he was a licensed master plumber making 250,000 a year. He did not go to Obama to ask the question, just happened to be there. Oh, sorry, wrong subject. Anyway, stereotypical response.
You have the typical dem attitude of it's everyone
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Typical Democrat
always wanting to take from what others have created. HA! Sorry, you're wrong.
Dramatic and typical........
I agree with you 100%. I want the best for my country and I am willing to sacrifice whatever I have to in order to achieve that end.
Typical liberal
When you can't debate a point adequately or someone dares speak out about your party or candidate, you turn to personal insults. Sad.
Typical NeoCon spincrud
NOBODY KNOWS for a FACT what is causing climate change on earth. It's just as much propaganda to hear one side as the other on the matter. Not surprising however that NeoCons would find outrageous the fact that anyone might want to take some action to lessen the human impact on the planet in hopes of preserving some part of it for future generations. Oh, how EVIL! Oh, the dark awful motivations of people who want to CLEAN THE AIR and restore some balance to our atmosphere.
Besides that the article is ridiculously stupid. It harps on KILLER hurricanes. Oooh killer hurricanes are DECREASING DECREASING.
Interesting fact ANYONE can figure out for themselves: Hurricane ANDREW (note the first letter) struck on an August 29. First hurricane of the season that year. On August 29.
Note Katrina's first letter: K. That makes her the 11TH hurricane of this year. On August 29.
While the category 4's and 5's are rare, the instance for having them at all is VASTLY INCREASED WHEN THE NUMBER OF HURRICANES THAT COULD BECOME ONE ARE VASTLY INCREASED. Last year and this year both have shown an astonishing upsurge in the NUMBER of hurricanes were are experiencing per season. Since hurricanes are born in the hot air over the African desert, the fact that the desert is expanding by leaps and bounds due to an upward trend in temperatures in that region virtually guarantees we will be having more and more hurricanes that have a chance to develop into killers under just the right conditions.
Nobody knows if global warming is responsible for the expansion of the Sahara or the melting of the polar glaciers, or if the worldwide phenomenon is due to mankind's effects or is just a natural cycle we can't avert. WHO CARES. If some educated people believe they know a way we can HELP the situation why do NeoCons want to thwart them? Oh, right, because corporations might lose money. Our oil economy might burp. So, let's just pooh the world away why don't we. Let's make it a political game and let our arrogant pride hold out for the sake of nothing but holding out. That's the NeoCon game!
Typical when somebody tries to engage you in debate
you show them the door like you are the princess of this palace or something.
Typical conservative response......sm
I'm sure there are liberal groups that back him. The same way Ann Coulter is embraced for her hate speech. I mean she won the Conservative Journalist of the Year Award if I'm not mistaken. Quite a prestigious award for a job well done, stirring up liberals. If that's what it's all about then I need to bow out and suceed this debate now. You don't think any has the stage to do any harm, well I respectfully ask you to think again, because her face was plastered all over the news spewing her hate for all to see and react, which is what she thrives on. She is hardly the noble person the cons (who support her) think she is.
Certainly I can only speak for myself, but since I have actually *read* what Lurker was trying to relay. Neither she, nor I, support Churchill's statements about the 9-11 victims and have said he was wrong. He was dead wrong, and any liberal group that he is apart of should not condone his comments. Now where his blood line, his plagarism, and anything else you can dig up fits into the equation of hate speech doesn't matter to me.
I too think teachers should teach an objective lesson, and if he was not doing so he should have been reprimanded up to losing his job if he continued to do so. *BUT* an objective lesson does not mean a lesson approved by conservative critics.
Typical....when a liberal does not like history...
they ignore it or attempt to re-write it.
Typical Republican POMPOSITY.
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Typical response from someone who refuses to
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Your typical ignorant, have no answers
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Aah, typical response from an O lover....
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There is the old typical refrain, play it
Bush, baby. Thank God, the pubs in the house wised up, along with 11 of the dems! Prayerfully, so will the Senators!
Typical of the honeymoon phase. nm
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Typical right-wing intelligence.
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So true; really just typical of that mindsdet. s/m
There's an addendum that is also 2 hours, done last year, all about the Federal Reserve and exactly what it is and its function. V-e-r--r-y interesting . . . and scary. I haven't seen the whole thing yet, but I will definitely sit and watch the whole thing later.
Maybe we can pick this thread up again after you've watched!
So does someone's comment at the end of the article, discredit the whole article??
Unbelievable.
Yeah, resort to name calling...typical
dem modus operandi. You sign your post great MT - that is indicative of a rather large ego, blowing one's own horn, so to speak. You asked where I could work that I could post here so often, and I merely suggested I type faster than you, and that is how I can do my job and still post. Dial it back a notch and keep the *ignorant* name calling to yourself.
Joe Blow sounds like the typical Floridan to me. And PS:
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Typical democrat on this board. Trot out the ...
condescension and insults.
Surly and ugly and attack, attack, attack. Whatever floats your boat.
Typical closed-minded, my-way-or-the-highway,
(which means, "Waste of Our Time").
Typical driveby low blow potshot that has...
nothing to do with the thread. Just to inject a little shot of nastiness. What was the point other than that?
typical pub response -- sidestep the question
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Aaah, typical response from an O lover
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Typical dem on this board, insulting, hateful.
Plenty, but you will just bash that as well. So much for intelligent conversation.
I said typical minimimum wage workers
I paid well above minimum wage...I guess reading my post it looks like I paid minimum. That was my mistake.
Typical pub. Underestimates the intelligence of US voters.
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typical O supporter, can't take the facts, so switch
to something else...your kool aid should wear off in about 6 to 8 months.
Typical response. If people disagree, the name-
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That is a typical sick comment from the left.
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Typical conservative lying and twisting of facts...
Note that the Army exceeded the June goal of 5,650 by 507 recruits……….but if it hadn’t have lowered the original goal which was 6,700, it would have missed its goal again by 545. Are these guys smart or what?
You guys just never get real or get honest...do you? ANd the pathetic part is that there so many folks who just follow along with the obvious deceptions and lies......
Typical Republicant hypocrisy. Ya gotta love it!
He questions "whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good," and then he turns around and marries a LAWYER!
This isn't surprising to me at all. Bush's is doing nothing but taking us backwards in time, whether it regards science or civil rights. The only area that is moving forward by leaps and bounds and progressing at an alarming rate is the price of gasoline.
Typical. Totally ignore the fact that you and your buddy...
condescend, talk down, belittle, demean, ridicule, lace your posts with insults....but I guess that is such normal behavior for you you don't realize it.
C'mon Teddy/Taiga/Lifelong Democrat and who knows how many other...it really doesn't matter and it is old news. If you don't want comments at least change the style of posting when you change your moniker. Why do you care what I think anyway? Again you protest too much.
All I can say is that they time their comings and goings reallyyy well.
A world full of evil liberals? Puleezzeee. I see a couple here with delusions of grandeur but evil? Not even close.
I don't call you Teddy as a taunt. You posted under that moniker for a very long time. Apparently you didn't mind the name.
Had I time/energy/and cared I could go back in the archives and cut and paste out of context for you and Ms. Piglet too, but...I don't have...and, frankly, your opinion of me is not something that is going to cause me to lose sleep. So rail on. Knock yourself out. Get that anger out. If you are directing it at me you are letting someone else rest. And that is a very good thing.
Typical, let someone make a decision in a free country..
to support the person he believes is best and his party turns on him like he is a traitor. How can you call yourself Democrats with a straight face?
I am raising my hand...I certainly give a flying frito if someone wants to send this country down the road to a Marxist government. How is that working for Cuba? For Venezuela?
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