Buck! Buck! Buck!

Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 3 months ago to Politics
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Do we have a Chicken-In-Chief about security do we have a Chicken-In-Chief with a PC horrid angst as being perceived as opposed to an Islamic anything?
I've also noticed that "violence" is even WH PC preferred over that terrible "terrorism" t-word.
SOURCE URL: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/13/white-house-hit-for-using-security-as-excuse-for-no-show-at-paris-rally/


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  • Posted by MelissaA 9 years, 3 months ago
    Just so were clear, the people shooting things and bombing things aren't terrorists, but the tea party, the people standing up for our constitutional rights, yup they are a dangerous extremist terrorist group.
    This country is going to hell.
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    • Posted by $ 9 years, 3 months ago
      Just ask Lois Lerner, who pleaded the Fifth as innocent and pure as wind-driven snow.
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      • Posted by sumitch 9 years, 3 months ago
        I remember when she was being questioned by the panel and one of the panelist asked her some question or made some statement. Her response was "Whatever".

        If I had been on that panel she would have been fined more than she ever would have for a smart arse answer like that. Or worse if I could get it done.
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      • Posted by MelissaA 9 years, 3 months ago
        Good lord...
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        • Posted by $ 9 years, 3 months ago
          Do not make any kinda mention that in any way even remotely sounds like any mention of God.
          That's how terrorists talk in this country. You know that.
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          • Posted by MelissaA 9 years, 3 months ago
            Oh that's right I left out Christians! If you speak about you Muslim faith you have freedom of faith and religion, speak about god and Christianity you are a bigot and need to be more tolerant!
            I meant what I said about America going to hell quite literally
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            • Posted by $ 9 years, 3 months ago
              I was prepared for a different response that I've actually been rehearsing while doing other stuff..
              I thought you may ask, "Well, you came right out and said the G-word."
              To which I was going to say: I am already doomed.
              Not only have I admitted being a Christian on this board, I once gave a little money to the--eek!--terrorist Tea Party.
              Some day that knock shall come at my door. The people's thought police shall take me away to be reeducated so that I may forsake my sinful freedom-loving ways and be at one in lock-step with the collective of the great and powerful O . . .
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              • Posted by MelissaA 9 years, 3 months ago
                Hopefully someone will stop the motor of the world before that day comes, or we are both screwed
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                • Posted by $ 9 years, 3 months ago
                  I keep feeling like it is to late.
                  Let's see how the next presidential election goes.
                  If it's not a Cruz or a Dr. Carson, my parting shot vote will be in protest for whoever is the Libertarian.
                  That just may be a parting shot before being royally screwed.
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                  • Posted by sumitch 9 years, 3 months ago
                    It looks like Romney is gearing up again. He's not my first pick, but if he runs against Hillary he wins my brass ring.
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                    • Posted by $ 9 years, 3 months ago
                      If Mitt rises up to the top again, I'm voting for the Libertarian. I'm done with holding my nose when forced to vote for "the lesser of two evils" instead of someone I actually like..
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                      • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
                        Then please get at it and help to nominate a candidate that is acceptable. As much as we'd like a "pure libertarian" type candidate, that candidate will not win, not in the current environment, anyway.

                        You don't turn a battleship around on a dime. It has to start with a small adjustment and force needs to continue to incrementally keep that going. This is not a situation of "a little poison" as much as it is "turning a battleship."
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                  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
                    Please don't count out Scott Walker. Living in Wisconsin, I've been able to see first hand what he is about and what he can do. He's no milquetoast Repub (nor CINO). He's successfully stood up to public sector unions (no, not all, but a good portion), cut taxes, improved the business climate such that business and jobs are increasing faster than the national avg.
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                  • Posted by MelissaA 9 years, 3 months ago
                    It can't be to late. We are all here talking about how thing suck. How the government is taking over, how laws and actions are unjust and how someone should do something about it. But one thing ive noticed is that everyone acts like its hopeless. Don't let them do that to us. We can't let the better world we all have pictured become this far off fairytale land that we all think could never exist again. Hold on to it. Fight for it, because if we don't then who will? We are some of the few people left in this country with brains in our heads, use them! Find a way to fight for what we know is right, or how are we any better than the rest of them?
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                    • Posted by $ 9 years, 3 months ago
                      You're right. I have my moments.
                      I need to act like an allosaur.
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                      • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 3 months ago
                        "In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title.

                        Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.

                        Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.

                        But to win it requires your total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is a sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.

                        You will win when you are ready to pronounce the oath I have taken at the start of my battle—and for those who wish to know the day of my return, I shall now repeat it to the hearing of the world:

                        " I swear—by my life and my love of it—that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." John Galt (AR)
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                        • Posted by $ 9 years, 3 months ago
                          Wow! I can see that you care.
                          Thanks for the positive pep talk.
                          I'll keep it in mind.
                          I am dino.
                          Hear me ROAR!
                          I like to bite too.
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                          • Posted by MelissaA 9 years, 3 months ago
                            Ok I gotta ask what's the obsession with dinosaurs? I mean not that I dont love dinosaurs but, just why?
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                            • Posted by $ 9 years, 3 months ago
                              I dunno. My middle name is Alvin for Big Al, both a History Channel dino and the Alabama mascot, myself a Alabama football fan.
                              No, that's not a reason. Maybe its a character I feel I can get into. Better than calling myself Big Al maybe.
                              American Indians identified with spirit animals. A lady friend once said I reminded her of a bear. Maybe I should call myself Bear Bryant. Ha! Ha! It is to laugh.
                              Let's say I just want to. The little kid in me makes me happy.
                              Allosaur is my favorite dino. Magnificent, aren't they? My favorite on YouTube--

                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yv7Pi7...
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                    • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
                      I appreciate your willingness to see the glass as half full. I, however, see half (more so) of our fellow citizens who are firmly in the camp of socialism (heck, as I've said here before, my own county which is one of the most conservative in the state has a county run taxi service, 2 county run golf courses, and a county run old age home - and not one of the county supervisors nor seemingly the residents, see any problem with any of this). How many of your neighbors are getting welfare, section 8 housing, disability, unemployment, social security, medicare or Medicaid? Do you think any them are willingly going to give that up and take care of themselves? I certainly do not, and until/unless they do, we will continue to slide into the abyss.
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        • Posted by sumitch 9 years, 3 months ago
          Beg Pardon?
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          • Posted by $ 9 years, 3 months ago
            I had to trace that long line down to make sure you were talking to me. Pretty handy, aren't they?
            Sometimes I can be convoluted and sarcastic. Besides those terrible Tea Party members, Christians have been called terrorists by libtard whackos.
            Come to think of of it, I once spoke of God to a libtard. I was not trying to preach (doing so considered an act of terror by many). I was making a brief mention.
            The libtard then refereed to the Almighty Him as a "she." Guess that's cool to a libtard.
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            • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
              Just as proper, as far as I'm concerned since the almighty would be asexual.
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              • Posted by sumitch 9 years, 3 months ago
                Really? Then why would Jesus call him father?
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                • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
                  You've got to remember who the writers were and the context of the times. All authoritarian figures (well nearly all, some, like Cleopatra, were the rare exception and she only because she was the daughter of a Pharaoh) were male. The fact that God was captured as "Father" and a male is totally understandable in the context of the culture.
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                  • Posted by $ 9 years, 3 months ago
                    "Father, in the name of Jesus Christ" is how I often start a prayer due to Jesus saying in scripture "I am the door."
                    Jesus also called God "Father."
                    I'm not after all these years going to start with Mother, Mom, Mama or Mummy.
                    Pagans at that time had a lot of goddesses I can still name. I read Edith Hamilton as a teenager.
                    I was fascinated with the Greek gods and all those great stories.
                    By the way, I have no trouble being a Christian and believing in evolution.
                    Guess I'm complex.
                    I once overheard two people talking about me.
                    Person 1: I heard he's crazy.
                    Person 2: Yeah, crazy as a fox.
                    That's when I was a small time newspaper reporter for 7 years.
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                    • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
                      Me neither. God created all the physical laws, so evolution is merely one of His constructs so as to ensure self-perpetuation. They say He rested on the 7th day. I think He may still be resting, watching his handiwork, amused at how silly we are.
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                      • Posted by $ 9 years, 3 months ago
                        You caused me to think of a movie when I was a reporter back in the 70s called "Oh,God!" The God character was pretty laid back.
                        I saw it on one of my four TV stations at night and the next day in a soda fountain/pharmacy I asked a preacher I knew if he had seen it.
                        "You mean that sacrilege show?" he snapped and walked off in a huff.
                        I recall watching him walk away and thinking I have one more reason never to be a Southern Baptist. (That's another story).
                        Just wait for that yellow line to go by at the start of the video. I don't know what that's about.

                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWjlkm5g...
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                        • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
                          That's for the advertising - how they make their money.

                          I remember that - John Denver and George Burns. The precursor to the Evan Almighty movie, but similar concept.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 3 months ago
    I wonder just who these extremists are. Maybe they are all those Christians beheading all those dandelions when they mow their lawns?!?!
    With leadership that is afraid to name the enemy victory is impossible.

    “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 3 months ago
    Personally, I think that BHO thought the whole thing would be at best, a minor fiasco. He knew that the Pres. of France "Watsisname" didn't want Netanyahu to show up what with the Muslim dignitaries there, and that the whole thing would be forgotten in a few days. How wrong could you be, BHO? Netanyahu did show, and no-one could stop Bibi from being there if he wanted to, there was no conflict and the fact that the chicken-in-chief didn't show stuck out like a thumb that had been slammed in a car door.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 3 months ago
    Is you're title supposed to be "BAWK BAWK BAWK!!"?
    I read this trying to figure out who Buck was... at any rate... I believe his imam told him not to go. And this security b.s. was cooked up immediately. Much like the Benghazi/video excuse. Throw people off the scent... Ed Henry did a nice hammering job. Made Earnest dance a bit.... not that it changes anything I guess.
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    • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
      They might have gotten away with it, except that someone actually asked the Secret Service if they could have provided security and they answered truthfully that they weren't even asked. Caused some serious backtracking at the WH, where an "un-named lowly staffer" was then thrown under the bus. Make no mistake, this decision came from O hisself. He refuses to allow the US to admit that the Islamic religion has a faction (at least) that believes in and uses terror as a mechanism to "advance" their religious beliefs.
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    • Posted by $ 9 years, 3 months ago
      I've always heard "buck, buck, buck" when someone was being called a chicken.
      Maybe it's a Deep South thing.
      Have to admit "bawk" sounds better than "buck," But then again I have tinnitus.
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 3 months ago
    this type of situation is spontaneous, where all other situations dealing with representatives of other countries is choreographed so he does not have to try and do what he has no capability of doing; that is "think". he also would not be the center of attention, no good for an egomaniac. Then of course it would not look good for all of his muslim friends. we the people of the usa have a bad deal siting in the white house.
    maybe the democrats will finally wise up and write to their representatives that they do not like what he does and does not represent them so they the representatives have to just stop him completely. wishful thinking on my part.
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    • Posted by m1tmc 9 years, 3 months ago
      You have him pegged, wiggys! He would be pale in comparison to the other leaders, many of which are probably glad he didn't show. It would have to be HIS show and this was about fighting something he won't admit exists. The emperor has NO clothes to many of us.
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