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Ditching my pump in a few hours - that's halfway!
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One party control when Obama came into office? BULLSHIT.
What was the timeframe between the time Al Franken FINALLY was seated in the Senate and Scott Brown won the special election in MA? A month? Two?
What was passed during that short timeframe when we actually had 60 votes to break a filibuster? The MINOR NON-BUDGETARY FIXES to the Affordable Care Act. EVERYTHING ELSE before or after that, from legislation to help the economy to executive and judicial appointments, either got filibustered into oblivion or had to be watered down to the point where one of the few partially sane GOP senators would cross the aisle.
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One party control when Obama came into office? BULLSHIT.
What was the timeframe between the time Al Franken FINALLY was seated in the Senate and Scott Brown won the special election in MA? A month? Two?
What was passed during that short timeframe when we actually had 60 votes to break a filibuster? The MINOR NON-BUDGETARY FIXES to the Affordable Care Act. EVERYTHING ELSE before or after that, from legislation to help the economy to executive and judicial appointments, either got filibustered into oblivion or had to be watered down to the point where one of the few partially sane GOP senators would cross the aisle.
I know, right. That is the dumbest GOP talking point ever!
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Biden really just said "If Romney did just a good job as governor in MA why isn't he even contesting there?"
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Whenever he was out of state, he would bash us. Now he thinks he can claim he's responsible for our being #1 in education.
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I listened to a significant portion of this on the radio last night.
Without visuals, Biden was going all King Arthur on the Black Knight.
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CANDY CORN!
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LOOOOOOOOOOL HONESTY
I need someone to shop Mr. P90-X onto this picture:
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enjoy - if its made right its only made with honey
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Does it have sugar? Then yes.
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enjoy - if its made right its only made with honey
YES THIS!!! There was a point when they changed from using honey to using corn syrup, and ever since then when I eat the damn things they taste like a chemical factory.
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YES THIS!!! There was a point when they changed from using honey to using corn syrup, and ever since then when I eat the damn things they taste like a chemical factory.
I think either Kraft or Brachs uses honey (but what ratio to other sugar sources, I don't know). Check the package label.
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HFCS counts?
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Okay done with the debate.. jeez what a clobberin'!
Oh yeh I didn't mention it when I heard it, but hooooly shit @ Ryan using a car crash anecdote to score points against Biden! If he just overlooked the fact that Biden's wife & daughter were KILLED in a car crash, it's a huge blunder. If he did it intentionally tho, the guy's a bigger scumbag than we ever thought.
RYAN: Mr. Vice President, I know you’re under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don’t keep interrupting each other.
BIDEN: Well, don’t take all the four minutes then.
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Brach's:
Sugar, Corn Syrup, Confectioner's Glaze, Salt, Honey, Cocoa Powder, Gelatin, A whole bunch of oils, then colors, and stuff.
Very little Dow Chemical ingredients that I see.
BIDEN: The ayatollah sees his economy being crippled. The ayatollah sees that there are 50 percent fewer exports of oil. He sees the currency going into the tank. He sees the economy going into freefall. And he sees the world for the first time totally united in opposition to him getting a nuclear weapon.
Now, with regard to Bibi, who’s been my friend 39 years, the president has met with Bibi a dozen times. He’s spoken to Bibi Netanyahu as much as he’s spoken to anybody. The idea that we’re not — I was in a, just before he went to the U.N., I was in a conference call with the — with the president, with him talking to Bibi for well over an hour, in — in — in stark relief and detail of what was going on.
This is a bunch of stuff. Look, here's the deal.
RADDATZ: What does that mean, a bunch of stuff?
BIDEN: Well, it means it's simply inaccurate.
RYAN: It's Irish.
BIDEN: It - it is.
(laughter)
We Irish call it malarkey.
RADDATZ: Thanks for the translation. OK.
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Less honey than salt? That takes some brass ones putting it on the package as a selling point.
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Okay done with the debate.. jeez what a clobberin'!
Oh yeh I didn't mention it when I heard it, but hooooly shit @ Ryan using a car crash anecdote to score points against Biden! If he just overlooked the fact that Biden's wife & daughter were KILLED in a car crash, it's a huge blunder. If he did it intentionally tho, the guy's a bigger scumbag than we ever thought.
BIDEN: That's not what they said.
RYAN: 7.4 million seniors are projected to lose their current Medicare Advantage coverage they have. That's a $3,200 benefit cut.
BIDEN: That didn't happen.
RYAN: What we're saying...
BIDEN: More people signed up.
RYAN: These are from your own actuaries.
BIDEN: More – more – more people signed up for Medicare Advantage after the change.
RYAN: What – there's...
BIDEN: Nobody...
(CROSSTALK)
RYAN: Mr. Vice President, I know...
BIDEN: No, this is...
(CROSSTALK)
RYAN: Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.
BIDEN: Well, don't take all the four minutes then.
RYAN: Let me just – let me just say this. We are not–we're saying don't change benefits for people 55 and above. They already organized their retirement around these promises.
(CROSSTALK)
RYAN: ... programs for those of us.
RADDATZ: But let – let me ask you this. What – what is your specific plan for seniors who really can't afford to make up the difference in the value of what you call a premium support plan and others call a voucher?
RYAN: Hundred percent coverage...
RADDATZ: And what...
(CROSSTALK)
RYAN: That's what we're saying. So we're saying...
RADDATZ: How do you make that up?
RYAN: ...income adjusts (inaudible) these premium support payments by taking down the subsidies for wealthy people.
Look, this is a plan – by the way, that $6,400 number, it was misleading then, it's totally inaccurate now. This is a plan that's bipartisan. It's a plan I put together with a prominent Democrat senator from Oregon.
BIDEN: There's not one Democrat who endorses it.
RYAN: It's a plan...
BIDEN: Not one Democrat who (inaudible).
RYAN: Our partner is a Democrat from Oregon.
BIDEN: And he said he does no longer support (inaudible).
RYAN: We – we – we put it – we put it together with the former Clinton budget director.
BIDEN: Who disavows it.
RYAN: This idea – this idea came from the Clinton commission to save Medicare chaired by Senator John Breaux.
Here's the point, Martha.
BIDEN: Which was rejected.
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Okay done with the debate.. jeez what a clobberin'!
Oh yeh I didn't mention it when I heard it, but hooooly shit @ Ryan using a car crash anecdote to score points against Biden! If he just overlooked the fact that Biden's wife & daughter were KILLED in a car crash, it's a huge blunder. If he did it intentionally tho, the guy's a bigger scumbag than we ever thought.
Scoop do you remember about where in the debate that was (I am trying to read the transcript.)
RADDATZ: You were one of the few lawmakers to stand with President Bush when he was seeking to partially privatize Social Security.
RYAN: For younger people. What we said then, and what I've always agreed is let younger Americans have a voluntary choice of making their money work faster for them within the Social Security system.
BIDEN: You saw how well that worked.
RYAN: That's not what Mitt Romney's proposing. What we’re saying is no changes for anybody 55 and above.
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I think it was somewhere around the half hour mark..
RYAN: He talks about Detroit. Mitt Romney’s a car guy. They keep misquoting him, but let me tell you about the Mitt Romney I know. This is a guy who I was talking to a family in Northborough, Massachusetts the other day, Sheryl and Mark Nixon. Their kids were hit in a car crash, four of them. Two of them, Rob and Reed, were paralyzed. The Romneys didn’t know them. They went to the same church; they never met before.
Mitt asked if he could come over on Christmas. He brought his boys, his wife, and gifts. Later on, he said, “I know you’re struggling, Mark. Don’t worry about their college. I’ll pay for it.â€
When Mark told me this story, because, you know what, Mitt Romney doesn’t tell these stories. The Nixons told this story. When he told me this story, he said it wasn’t the help, the cash help. It’s that he gave his time, and he has consistently.
At the end of the night Paul Ryan held his own on style points. He was able to deliver the rehearsed lines technically. But in the end he looked like he was wearing an ill-fitting suit. Something that looked ok at first glance, but was quickly revealed to be little more than an optical illusion.
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I think it was somewhere around the half hour mark..RYAN: He talks about Detroit. Mitt Romney’s a car guy. They keep misquoting him, but let me tell you about the Mitt Romney I know. This is a guy who I was talking to a family in Northborough, Massachusetts the other day, Sheryl and Mark Nixon. Their kids were hit in a car crash, four of them. Two of them, Rob and Reed, were paralyzed. The Romneys didn’t know them. They went to the same church; they never met before.
Mitt asked if he could come over on Christmas. He brought his boys, his wife, and gifts. Later on, he said, “I know you’re struggling, Mark. Don’t worry about their college. I’ll pay for it.â€
When Mark told me this story, because, you know what, Mitt Romney doesn’t tell these stories. The Nixons told this story. When he told me this story, he said it wasn’t the help, the cash help. It’s that he gave his time, and he has consistently.
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I think it was somewhere around the half hour mark..RYAN: He talks about Detroit. Mitt Romney’s a car guy. They keep misquoting him, but let me tell you about the Mitt Romney I know. This is a guy who I was talking to a family in Northborough, Massachusetts the other day, Sheryl and Mark Nixon. Their kids were hit in a car crash, four of them. Two of them, Rob and Reed, were paralyzed. The Romneys didn’t know them. They went to the same church; they never met before.
Mitt asked if he could come over on Christmas. He brought his boys, his wife, and gifts. Later on, he said, “I know you’re struggling, Mark. Don’t worry about their college. I’ll pay for it.â€
When Mark told me this story, because, you know what, Mitt Romney doesn’t tell these stories. The Nixons told this story. When he told me this story, he said it wasn’t the help, the cash help. It’s that he gave his time, and he has consistently.
Yeah that's it.. The way Ryan worked it in seems more like he just plain didn't know about Biden's family.. Either way Joe didn't let it rattle him, which I thought was really classy.