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Author: Raine    Date: 05/11/2015 13:01:43

I'm losing patience with the right. Hat tip to Scoop.

I read this and that was it, I could not have said it better. Read the entire post, it is well worth it.

(snip) You insist you have to have fourteen weapons plus a bayonet to roll to Aldi's, but you want to tell people who walk the world without weapons how brave you are- and if they disagree, you threaten to blow them away- ummm, yeah. You just hit it again.

You are against Obamacare because you don't want the government telling you what to do, but you keep voting in politicians who TELL you they are going to keep the drug war going, expand the government's powers to listen in on your telephone and read all of your correspondence, your thoughts, without a warrant- uh huh- yep. There's that stupid wall again.

You repeatedly vote for people who take away the money needed to give your children a decent school, one that stays open for the whole school year. (Novel thought, isn' t it?) You vote out a government that at least collects enough tax revenue to guarantee your kids can get an education- and vote in a governement that won't fix the roads you drive on, won't allocate money to make sure the bridges under your truck are safe. But tell ME how "Stoopid" I am?

Don't you guys feel the pain? Ever? My old man used to say it best, I guess, he framed it as a question. "What have you got in your head to ache?"

You fight the idea of a union but then complain you can't MAKE it on your minimum wage job, which is all you can find since everyone is paying minimum wage nowadays. Then you fight the idea of raising the minimum wage while staunchly voting for the politician who denies your wife a pay rate that is equal to her male colleague.


Raine
 

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Comment by wickedpam on 05/11/2015 13:19:43
This blog 100000000000%


Morning all.

Comment by TriSec on 05/11/2015 13:34:47
Morning, comrades! Trisec is all certified for another season on the water. I somehow managed to self-rescue my sorry hide in 1:40 yesterday, well under the new two-minute requirement.

Replying to TR from last night's muse/rant...Mrs. trisec sums it up the best so far: "The Spirit of Adventure" sounds like a Disney cruise ship.



Comment by Mondobubba on 05/11/2015 13:39:01
Morning. Well that Kos thingy hit it right on the haid.

Comment by Raine on 05/11/2015 13:46:44
good morning!


Comment by Mondobubba on 05/11/2015 14:35:22
Comment by Scoopster on 05/11/2015 14:57:59
MOrnin' all.. I done dood it again!

Comment by Raine on 05/11/2015 15:06:50
Prince's Baltimore is absolutely wonderful!

Comment by TriSec on 05/11/2015 15:13:02
Just once, I want to reply to a support email with "Because you're doing it wrong."

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/11/2015 15:46:50
Quote by TriSec:
Just once, I want to reply to a support email with "Because you're doing it wrong."



I can get behind that.

Comment by Raine on 05/11/2015 15:49:25
Momma: 11:45 AM May 11, 2015: [Hillary] is going to be the candidate.

and that is a real issue I have right now with Momma.

16 months out.

I have no issue supporting who our candidate is, it most likely will be CLinotn, but saying that she is going to be the candidate is a lot like people saying John Edwards was going to be the candidate.

I was hoping he would be — but, well — he screwed up. literally and figuratively.

I am very wary of the all but certain idea of a Clinton candidacy.



Comment by Mondobubba on 05/11/2015 15:52:34
Quote by Raine:
Momma: 11:45 AM May 11, 2015: [Hillary] is going to be the candidate.

and that is a real issue I have right now with Momma.

16 months out.

I have no issue supporting who our candidate is, it most likely will be CLinotn, but saying that she is going to be the candidate is a lot like people saying John Edwards was going to be the candidate.

I was hoping he would be — but, well — he screwed up. literally and figuratively.

I am very wary of the all but certain idea of a Clinton candidacy.






Comment by wickedpam on 05/11/2015 15:59:53
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Momma: 11:45 AM May 11, 2015: [Hillary] is going to be the candidate.

and that is a real issue I have right now with Momma.

16 months out.

I have no issue supporting who our candidate is, it most likely will be CLinotn, but saying that she is going to be the candidate is a lot like people saying John Edwards was going to be the candidate.

I was hoping he would be — but, well — he screwed up. literally and figuratively.

I am very wary of the all but certain idea of a Clinton candidacy.







truth - there's a bit to chicken counting going on

Comment by Raine on 05/11/2015 16:07:48
I really think that her not putting issues and where she stands on her website now is disconcerting.

There seems to be a lot of people saying things akin to *we all know where she stands* is problematic.

TPP is one thing.

ISIS is another thing.

There are quite a few things to be very honest. If she is running as a new Hillary (my words) come on out and say it.

Say it since we have been told that she is the most vetted candidate.



Comment by wickedpam on 05/11/2015 16:33:33
Quote by Raine:
I really think that her not putting issues and where she stands on her website now is disconcerting.

There seems to be a lot of people saying things akin to *we all know where she stands* is problematic.

TPP is one thing.

ISIS is another thing.

There are quite a few things to be very honest. If she is running as a new Hillary (my words) come on out and say it.

Say it since we have been told that she is the most vetted candidate.




At this moment we are more then a year out, I'd be concerned if it was November and we didn't have anything detailed.

Right now its just waiting for everyone to declare or in the case of Repubs get in the clown car.

Comment by Raine on 05/11/2015 16:43:09
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
I really think that her not putting issues and where she stands on her website now is disconcerting.

There seems to be a lot of people saying things akin to *we all know where she stands* is problematic.

TPP is one thing.

ISIS is another thing.

There are quite a few things to be very honest. If she is running as a new Hillary (my words) come on out and say it.

Say it since we have been told that she is the most vetted candidate.




At this moment we are more then a year out, I'd be concerned if it was November and we didn't have anything detailed.

Right now its just waiting for everyone to declare or in the case of Repubs get in the clown car.
I can't disagree, MAla!


Comment by Scoopster on 05/11/2015 17:10:30
Headline seen today: "Anonymous leaks President's address"

Hey silly anon-morons. We've all known the president's address since grade school.

Comment by Raine on 05/11/2015 17:43:01
Quote by Scoopster:
Headline seen today: "Anonymous leaks President's address"

Hey silly anon-morons. We've all known the president's address since grade school.



Comment by BobR on 05/11/2015 18:00:14
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Headline seen today: "Anonymous leaks President's address"

Hey silly anon-morons. We've all known the president's address since grade school.


Are you sure that wasn't The Onion?

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/11/2015 18:05:16
Have we talked about the sad ghost that was Sy Hersh's latest single anaymous sourced work?

Comment by Raine on 05/11/2015 18:10:49
Comment by Raine on 05/11/2015 18:11:49
Quote by Mondobubba:
Have we talked about the sad ghost that was Sy Hersh's latest single anaymous sourced work?

I was looking into this. His sources are really suspect.

and yes, this one makes me sad.

Comment by BobR on 05/11/2015 18:12:36

Sometimes karma takes its time


Comment by Scoopster on 05/11/2015 18:18:04
Comment by Mondobubba on 05/11/2015 18:20:23
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Have we talked about the sad ghost that was Sy Hersh's latest single anaymous sourced work?

I was looking into this. His sources are really suspect.

and yes, this one makes me sad.



How the once mighty have fallen.


Comment by Mondobubba on 05/11/2015 18:23:47
Comment by Raine on 05/11/2015 20:00:13
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Have we talked about the sad ghost that was Sy Hersh's latest single anaymous sourced work?

I was looking into this. His sources are really suspect.

and yes, this one makes me sad.



How the once mighty have fallen.
‘Utter nonsense': CIA and White House blast Seymour Hersh’s explosive Osama bin Laden raid story

Also, Bin Laden is still dead.

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/11/2015 20:58:42
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Have we talked about the sad ghost that was Sy Hersh's latest single anaymous sourced work?

I was looking into this. His sources are really suspect.

and yes, this one makes me sad.



How the once mighty have fallen.
‘Utter nonsense': CIA and White House blast Seymour Hersh’s explosive Osama bin Laden raid story

Also, Bin Laden is still dead.


Not unlike Francisco Franco.


Comment by Raine on 05/11/2015 21:17:28
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Have we talked about the sad ghost that was Sy Hersh's latest single anaymous sourced work?

I was looking into this. His sources are really suspect.

and yes, this one makes me sad.



How the once mighty have fallen.
‘Utter nonsense': CIA and White House blast Seymour Hersh’s explosive Osama bin Laden raid story

Also, Bin Laden is still dead.


Not unlike Francisco Franco.
Via Vox.
The story simply does not hold up to scrutiny — and, sadly, is in line with Hersh's recent turn away from the investigative reporting that made him famous into unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.

A decade ago, Hersh was one of the most respected investigative journalists on the planet, having broken major stories from the My Lai massacre in 1969 to the Abu Ghraib scandal in 2004. But more recently, his reports have become less and less credible. He's claimed that much of the US special forces is controlled by secret members of Opus Dei, that the US military flew Iranian terrorists to Nevada for training, and that the 2013 chemical weapons attack in Syria was a "false flag" staged by the government of Turkey. Those reports have had little proof and, rather than being borne out by subsequent investigations, have been either unsubstantiated or outright debunked. A close reading of Hersh's bin Laden story suggests it is likely to suffer the same fate.



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