Obama Scandal Bracket (NCAA March Madness)
Take a look at the link, and tell me which scandal becomes your "champion".
Border? What border? would probably win this week, but in a week that was scandal-free (Is there such a thing anymore?), I would vote for IRS thuggery and the computer crashes that followed. This is such a wide open competition that I honestly could see about five of these "winning".
Border? What border? would probably win this week, but in a week that was scandal-free (Is there such a thing anymore?), I would vote for IRS thuggery and the computer crashes that followed. This is such a wide open competition that I honestly could see about five of these "winning".
if any of a broad list of "contributions" to society are
met -- like joining a church, or enlisting in the army,
or working anywhere, or being related to one of these
90,000 new imported kids ... or maybe being able
to say the word "Democrat"?! -- j
The proper metric would be on the pay-back ratio, (paid back/ (public + private funding)).
as a youngster, and the choir director said to make
our interpretation of a certain song soft and plaintive,
he didn't have to coach me on every note.
this president, Valerie/Barack, doesn't have to
coach on every note ... the carefully selected
acolytes *know* how this fascism is sung. -- j
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/05/26/hm...
In my county every Chrysler and GM dealer donated to Republicans. After being forced to close that part of his dealership, the biggest of our county's dealers found GM re-opening his dealership under a Democrat named Rosner from out of county a couple of months later. In my county that was the biggest stinker of 2009.
Well, NOW WE DO KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT!!!!
"The Law is whatever I say it is"
I didn't vote for either Nixon, Ford, Bush, McLame, or Romney, so it's not a Republican thing in my mind. Truman and JFK had some problems, but I could have tolerated them. As much as I didn't like many of Clinton's aims, he wasn't a bad president.
Obama, Jimmy Carter, FDR, Woodrow Wilson, and Teddy Roosevelt all were/are progressives. While they progress, the country regresses, especially producers like those in the Gulch.
Most of the running up of the debt was due to the Democrat House members. I don't like most of the Republican House members, and I don't like any of the Democrats.
Obama could be my brother, and I would still detest him. He stands for everything that I and most people in the Gulch do not.
Shut up about the racism. I haven't encountered any racists in this forum yet, and when I do, I will call them out on it.
The founding fathers of our country looked to the lessons of history and economics to guide their choices in structuring our constitutional republic, based on principles of federalism and democracy. They were worried about a government that was too powerful and abused the natural, individual freedoms of its citizens.
They wanted to avoid the "tyranny of the majority" which results from standard democracies. They wanted to avoid the "tyranny of the minority" which results from oligarchies and plutocracies.
So, they aimed for the middle, broadly distributing power among several levels of government (federalism = local, state, national). They distributed power among various branches of government at each level (legislative, judicial, executive).
Their view (and mine) was that power corrupts people over time. By broadly distributing power, corrupt politicians would compete with each other for power and hopefully limit any one politician from gaining too much power and more significantly endangering our individual freedoms.
You are free to believe whatever nonsense you wish. For the moment, America is still a free country (nominally speaking). I am not a racist, sexist, animalist, foodist, or any other "ist" you want to claim. I cherish my natural, individual freedoms.
I am worried that our government over decades has concentrated too much power in Washington D.C. and the resulting corruption, loss of freedom, and loss of prosperity is obvious.
As I see it, most on the Left naively believe that standard European Democracy (majority rules = tyranny of the majority) is incorruptible, no matter how much power is concentrated into the central government.
The Left also believe that economic freedoms in the form of property rights are not terribly important and should be minimized so that the government can accomplish the "greater good". The Left believes that giant Bureaucracies that micromanage our lives and economy are the answer to all of life's problems.
I, along with most on this website, disagree with the Left's view that socialism and bureaucratic domination is the proper actions of government. You don't have to agree with me, if that is your wish...
1) Bush didn't take us to war on a lie. A former student of mine who became a CIA operative after graduation helped defuse some of Saddam's weapons. Nonetheless, I didn't support that war.
2) Most wars are pushed by companies that are Orren Boyles to Republicans, but the cronyism from the current president is an order of magnitude higher than anything I can remember.
3) Yes, the Gulch is utopian. Fine.
What we have now in this society is completely dysfunctional. Most of us are just sick and tired of being called names for doing what we were born to do and following the rules as they were properly taught as children.
The Gulch would not be an oligarchy because no here wants to rule or be ruled.