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"Sarah has a nice hockey black book and had them boys rotating in and out of the governors mansion."
I thought disgusting stuff like this was only posted at far left sites, like the Daily Kos.And this
idiot gets a couple likes for this, instead of scorn. All you Libs,Dems,or whoever hates Palin
should at least have a little class and denounce this garbage.
"Sarah has a nice hockey black book and had them boys rotating in and out of the governors mansion."
"All you Libs,Dems,or whoever hates Palin
should at least have a little class and denounce this garbage."
BY THE POWER OF CHRIST I DENOUNCE IT!
BY THE POWER OF CHRIST I DENOUNCE IT!
BY THE POWER OF CHRIST I DENOUNCE IT!
Happy?
If righties post crap like this at free republic or lefties post crap at kos,they know where to find it.My point is, this is not the place for it. As for kos being "thoughtful" and the right sites "really spews hate"......Whatever. I see it as not even close the other way. But I am not in the mood or have the time to argue the point.Gotta go to work.
I hope someone alerted the NTSB, because that was one heck of a train wreck.
=P
Regardless, once the dust settles on this announcement, we will see how/what she intends to do. The media will never leave her alone, she is great for their ratings. She will write her book, get big bucks, campaign across the country for like-minded pols, and will have an impact.
Campbell and Katie are celebrating their politics of personal destruction; expect to see both of their ratings fall even further.
They tend to love people in general, but hate individuals. They live in a paradoxical world, where liberty means slavery and progressive means regression to despotism. At least that's what their policies have lead to for about 100 years.
Thats the kinda stuff thats posted on Obama's fav. blog.
This is what we've come to expect from the left.
But then again, they get actual traffic, so your post may get lost. It's not like on here, where you have the same dozen or so folks that linger around all day.
=P
P.S. If you are going to trash a post on another site, at least link to it.
I can't believe I spent 30 mins reading all these comments (341 at last count).
But just out of curiosity, is this how Americans spend their Independence day? Bashing political parties, saying that an elected official was "knocked up" by their daughter's ex bf, spewing idiotic things about the First Lady and making rude attacks against each other for disagreeing with opinions?
I guess the hysteria surrounding this "breaking news" is pretty large, but some comments here are freakin' EMBARRASSING!
(the pinkster was actually one of the more TAME ones here...eek!)
I scanned a few other political blogs and the people there are just as loony, so I guess it's not a TVN "exclusive" (thank God)
But regardless.....things like this make me glad to be Canadian lol
The snewsz media just doesn't get Palin at all. Watch, she will carve out a conservative movement for (hopefully) retaking the House of Representatives and then help shape the Presidential ticket.
Whether she runs for Prez or not is not important...what she does to reinvigorate the Conservative movement could be as important as Gingrich/94 and Reagan sweeping 49 states for Prez.
You go girl! Don't expect any type of fair treatment from anyone in the Snewz media...you will talk over them and around them right to America.
Bless You Sarah!
For wanting to follow the constitution? Sounds pretty radical to me. Besides we can't afford to do this stuff anymore. We're broke.
The hatred these lefties have for Palin is palpable.
Two can play this game, Tina. I promise you that...
Me thinks they doth protest too much??
You're kidding, right? lol
One commentator said it best last night:
We hate her because she isn't in our "class".
An elitist remark of amazing honesty.
McCain/Palin got 60M votes, there are a lot of people eager to hear her voice and it will be heard. Time will tell how effective she will be, but I'm not writing her off, and those who do are short sighted, imho.
That's exactly my point.
The left is writing her off, yet this poster 'Julescat' writes that the left is "mad" because she's making some brilliant move.
It is the most ludicrous, out-of-touch post I have read here in quite some time.
Believe me, the left is not "angry" about what happened yesterday!!! lol
The left is threatened by her and they are angry. They have written her off as a Presidential candidate in 2012, indeed, she has probably taken herself out of that role. She is young and in this political climate we are in today, anything can happen. There is always 2016 but she doesn't have to hold office to hold an audience, that is clear.
The fear this woman invokes in the left is noticeable. It is why they attack her endlessly. She attracts mainstream America and mainstream Amercians right now are pretty fed up with the One and his lapdogs in the media.
She is a voice and it will be heard. Listen carefully.
I think you would agree that this is clearly a case of media malpractice and the politics of personal destruction done by the enemedia on behalf of the democrat party. There will be payback and backlash, and I personally look forward to watching that unfold.
I'm not contesting that.
I am contesting what Julescat said about THIS PARTICULAR PALIN MOVE.
He said the left are mad because they basically are intimidated by it.
Ridiculous.
The left looks on this 'quitting' as political suicide.
Right or wrong, they are rejoicing over it.
They are not mad about yesterday.
Stop talking about Palin in general please, when I was specifically addressing Julescat position about yesterday's events only, which is what this thread is about.
Sure many people are willing to vote for a likable dumb guy such as Bush...but never is Palin going to become president. There isn't a more annoying dumb broad in this country...if there is I hope to never come across her..except in a dark room under the sheets.
Even if she somehow ever got nominated she would never get elected, she has shown herself to be totally unbalanced. She has not served woman well.
She is a dipsy woman who overacheived to begin with. Sure she will get the 35% of the wingnuts but no reasonable thinking person would trust this woman leading the most powerful nation. She has showed her true colors.
Yes, I agree he is smart and he does know what he is doing. Too bad for us.
My puny IQ can see through this man. It's the "smart" ones who can't seem to see the real world.
2. Enact an immediate tax cut for business, investors and individuals.
3. Insure that consumers see the tax cut in their pay now.
4. Review the TARP program and use the funds to insure banks are lending in larger numbers than we saw over the past 9 months.
Michelle has degrees from Princeton AND Harvard. Sarah went to, what 5 different schools (she showed signs of being a QUITTER way back then, too) just for her undergrad. Sounds like a brilliant person to me. Palin wouldn't even qualify to be first lady, let alone president!
She's off her rocker. What a sad little nutjob she is.
Just when I was done licking my liberal chops over one Republican scandal, another one turns up. I feel like a child let loose in a political candy shop. This is almost too good to be true. I don't know if I'm dreaming, but if I am, I don't want it to stop.
But then, I'm not as Holy as people who would do that.
To me that reads damage control.
To wit, when companies release negative financial information, a lot of times they will wait until Friday after 6:00pm when CNBC, FBN, and Bloomberg have started the process of winding down. The reason behind this is that maybe over the weekend the bad news be forgotten in the shuffle of an every changing news environment.
Back to Palin, remember we didn't find out about daughter Bristol being pregnant until Labor Day, while there was a hurricane raging in the Gulf of Mexico.
Seriously, it's one of the oldest tricks in the book.
I look forward to watching her reemerge on the public scene in a few weeks/months and fight her good fight. I suspect she will take on the media in a big way, which means they won't give her as much coverage.
AC hates Palin, as is evidenced in his coverage tonight.
The media is from another country.
And they hate America.
See: I can say stupid stuff, too.
BTW Nice lie about Fox nation and no story....newflash NewDope....its on the FRONT page hater!
To say that the Palin story was on the Fox Nation front page "almost at once" is demonstrably false. Why would you go to the extreme of telling a lie that can be so easily disproven? How embarrassing for you.
Even you could have just gone to the comment section and found the first one posted was ->Friday, July 03, 2009 at 10:42 PM<- That's over seven hours after the news broke on TV.
If you have even an ounce of integrity you'll apologize. Then you can go back to your infantile insults and resume lowering the level of discourse around here.
It was there and you know it, but I guess you cant admit it.
Seems clear that fox WAS NOT trying to hide it....they wouldnt shut up about it all day.
The fact that a guy who calls himself NEWSCORPSE would complain about insults and discourse is unreal.
Dont want to be called on all your lies....maybe you should stick to KOS...were you can lie all day and not get called.....but people here arent all sheep.
The proof is right there in my last comment. You could easily verify it yourself, but that would require a functioning cerebrum.
And I'm through responding to your blathering. I've got better things to do than to be an enabler of your dementia.
I SAW IT MYSELF...so once again you are telling LIES....I know you have FDS but its not Fox's fault that you cant see through all the foam on your glasses.
FOR THE RECORD....IT WAS THERE only Newsdope didn’t see it........ ……...if it wasn’t there you would have at least 1 screen print right? You had 7 hours right? What Newsdope didn’t get proof of his lies......of course you rarely do have proof........no wonder J$ calls you on it so easily!
Cleary in Newsdopes world the fact that Fox wouldn’t shut up about the Gov and Foxnews.com had many stories …because Newsdope couldn’t find it…..it was a FoxNews cover-up!
How can anyone take you seriously in anyway?
How can anyone take you seriously in any way? That's a rhetorical question. The answer: no one does, that's for damned sure.
Anywho, if Palin is getting out of the kitchen because it was way too hot, well again, it shows that she does not have the timber to be a presidential candidate. Then of course there is the simple fact that most Governors run on their record as governor when they are running for prez. She couldn't even finish out a single term. Her political career is finished except in speaking to wacky right-wing groups who will overpay her to babble incoherently to them (they speak a common language so it's fine). Of course maybe she can replace Greta at 10pm on Fox. I can see a future in that for her.
But I do congratulate her on giving a press conference that made Mark Sanford's look eloquent in comparison and her ability to totally stupidy the MSM (which of course doesn't take much).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk9HN7AwlX0
You are a great American, and we are thrilled to have you here, "Julescat."
Excuse me for crying; I just love you and my country so, so much... *sniffle*
Sarah Palin brings a whole new meaning to the expression "speaking in tongues".
And I think it was Peggy Noonan who referred to her talking as "yammering"
I wonder why CNN is trying to shove Anderson down our throats?
Anyways, the weeks and months ahead will reveal if there are multitudes of people who support what Sarah Palin stands for, and identify with her values .... we shall see ....
There is no doubt that attempts to bring Sarah Palin down though whatever means necessary will continue while she presents such a threat to those in power. The verbal sewer will continue to flow with filth, but we'll keep the desanitiser hose handy so that the air remains somewhat breathable .. *__*
Again cry - good to have a conversation with ya up in the clean verbal air .... *__*
Anyway, it seems from your moniker that you consider yourself appealing in appearance, or perhaps in personality? .. or perhaps in both .... Do you think a DS child has no value to society at all, or just that a DS child is not nearly as valuable to society as you are cutie?
It is just you trolling someone with a loaded question over an old post so you can make them appear like an ass.
If you legitimately wanted to have an intelligent conversation with that person there is no way in blue blazes you would have worded it like that.
Regarding the topic being worthy of discussion - you think it is not ... however, I believe this underlying issue should indeed be discussed ..... and since this blog is a vehicle for all kinds of filth against Sarah Palin, I would at least like to have some genuine discussion about the real reason for those foul outbursts.
Whatever becomes of her she has no national political future, the GOP will nominate her at their peril,a Goldwater disaster would follow. She is a personality and her future is probably in entertainment.
That being said, I would also dispute your comment that Sarah Palin has no skill and is all bs .... you see I have had an unbiased look at her record of accomplishment both as Gov and before she became Gov ... the people of Alaska surely appreciated her governance, and someone with no political skill could not attract the huge crowds that she does ....
You appear to have inside info on the State of Alaska about to hit the skids .... is it documented yet or have you picked up that idea from the hopeful rumours that likely saturate lefty blogs all over cyberspace?
I would also dispute your comment that Sarah Palin has no political future .... I believe that she is greatly concerned at the socialist direction this country is taking and her goal is to help the country by assisting small govt advocates to get elected, just as she said .....
perhaps events will unfold where she herself is elected to some national office also .... that is certainly not outta the Q cos it is up to the voters out there ....so, we shall see - there is no doubt that whatever Sarah Palin chooses to say or do publically will be POUNCED on and scrutinised in the media, and denigrated by many .... that's no never mind .... the battle is on .... more and more folks will take sides .... you and I are clearly on different sides in this battle md - glad to have a conversation with ya up outta the sewer where the air is fresher ... whew .. *__*
And I get the feeling that a larger scandal is about to rock the Palin world soon. There are rumors (I repeat: rumors) that her Wasilla home was built in exchange for a $13 million contract award. They say that she's trying to get out as quickly as possible to try to make the feds go away quietly. But the investigation is going to ratchet up over the next few weeks.
We'll see, I suppose. That would really suck for her family, but it certainly wouldn't come as a surprise...
He is now the incumbent and will have a much better chance to maintain the Governorship, now that Sarah has kept the target to herself and removed it from the Governor's office.
You lefties and the politics of personal destruction have stepped too far this go round.
You know, the whole "devil's advocate" and 'support the underdog' kind of thing.
But then I watched her statement.
I'm not an idiot.
I couldn't side with that lunacy. lol
Is this a desperate bid for attention, or is she trying NOT to have this story covered?
Why did her staff and her twitter announce right before her presser that she would be saying she wasn't running for another term, not that she was stepping down?
Does this have anything to do with the on-going federal investigation of how her house was built by the same people and using the same materials as the Wasilla Civic Center (which was started by the Bush Administration before she was picked by McCain)?
Is there a reason she feels she would be a lame duck with 18 months left to serve?
Why is her staff telling some news sources she is out of politics for good and others telling the SAME news sources that she's planning a run for national office?
Why is no one in the "news" media asking these questions?
And finally, in a fit of snark, did she at least leave Bill Kristol cab fare after the screwing she just gave him today after he has spent a year telling us how brilliant she is and how she is the future of the Republican party?
I can't say that I am surprised.
I knew the Palin news would send him into a frenzy, but I must say that I was shocked to see him subbing for CB and LK! I think the last time he subbed was for Aaron Brown on News Night and you know what happened after that. If I were CB or LK I would be watching my back.
I always hit the remote when Gergen comes on because I keep remembering his creepy chuckle over "tea bagging" and Rollins is a coward.
It seems to me that if you had anything postive to say about Anderson in his defense you would say it instead of wasting your comment on trying to insult me.
I think it is a little creepy that you are stalking me.
In your post history, which runs 132 pages, if I was really bored I could go and tally up the number of posts that somehow incorporate Cooper into it. I'd bet more than half.
And let's not forget, don't you have a blog dedicated to AC?
One more thing.... if you google the terms "LibraBlue Anderson Cooper," your world will be opened to a treasure trove of different blogs where LB posts her opinion of all things AC.
Thanks for playing.
I do have a blog about Anderson, the only one willing to criticize him I might add. All your "treasures" are merely comments from that blog. Besides TV Newser and Politico I rarely comment to other blogs, but if that is what gets you off, knock yourself out.
I didn't realize that TV Newser had a limit on how many times posters could comment on anyone. Not that it is any of your business, but I write about Anderson because I have been following his careeer for many years and I started out as an admirer of his until he sold out.
Unlike you, I don't read any of your comments not directed to me and I don't have any need to investigate other commentors so I don't know and I don't care about your background so how could I "comprehend" any difference?
I think Chris should be made aware of your feelings about me. I will be sending him copies of your last two comments, I suggest you stop this harassment. I am beginning to realize what you are.
Maybe because your 'following' as you call it borders on OCD stalkerish.
You are dangerous!
If you knew the truth you would be VERY surprised.
Wow, OK sweety, you just surprised me and how far out there you truly are.
If you would, could you then forward every post you have ever written here concerning you stalker crush. That should keep your therapist busy for the next week or so.
Let me grab my bucket of popcorn and coke - this is getting good!!!1
Yeah, it shows.
If you're going to dish it, you've got to be able to take it.
I have the same right to express my opinion as anyone else on this blog. At least I back up my opinions with facts and I never make personal comments about anyone unless they attack me first.
Also, I was responding to someone else's comment so why not criticize that person?
And yes, if I am personally attacked or insulted I will report it. If that is unacceptable to you don't comment to me or about me.
And FWIW, King is going nowhere. Rollins is a coward? He ran the Reagan campaign. I'll take him over Bill Kristol aka "Dan Quayle's brain".
I have no idea who worked on the Reagan campaign, but what is the significance? I don't know anything about Bill Kristol either.
Oh yeah and your comment is inappropriate.
Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/...
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/fox...
Would that cure same2u's FoxNation Derangement Syndrome.?
Do you ever have anything to say that's NOT a personal attack? That's a rhetorical question, because we all know that the answer is NO.
Gretchen Carlson, December 11, 2008
Fox & Friends
http://mediamatters.org/research/200812110004
http://vodpod.com/watch/1222351-foxs-gretchen-c...
http://minnesotaindependent.com/19826/foxs-gret...
Man alive...
He is already calling her "nonsensical" and saying no one ever made fun of her baby. He conveniently forgot to mention that the MSM helped spread rumors that Trig was not her child.
What is his excuse? Those who live in glass houses...
She was a joke from day 1. Never feared her, just laughed her. McCain blew it and regrets picking her.
What struck me about the round table on CNN is that one guest (name escapes me) said he completely understood her reasoning, that she is unable to govern because of the malicious attacks and absurd ethical complaints have caused the state to spend excess hours and excess money on defending the governor. At the end of that statement, AC said this:
"You actually believed her"? I was laughing out loud. AC can't hide his hatred for all things conservative. And then he went into her "grammar". What a clymer. Have you ever heard AC criticize Obama for his stumbling and bumbling when he is sans Teleprompter?
Almost everyone is saying the same thing - there is a missing piece to this story. You can just quit because people are picking on you. She looks incredibly weak. I wonder how long she would have survived as Vice-President...
The media has yet to even ask Obama why he refuses to release any of his college transcripts; they burred Michelle's thesis; they let him skate from day one.
But now you want "more investigation" on Palin?
LOL LOL and LOL some more.
Cry me a river, girl...
The only people who believe that are the ones who are drinking his Kool-Aid or don't watch his show.
In regards to the Jackson circus, Anderson had been rude when he interviewed Cherilyn Lee, the nurse who claimed that Jackson had asked her for Diprival, insinuating that she was being less than honest, so now he is trying to backtrack on his attitude.
We'll see in the coming weeks if her story matches reality...
They had a lot of money invested in that tour so they weren't about to tell Anderson that Jackson was too sickly to do it and I think they would have done anything, including giving him drugs and paying off doctors to get him through that tour.
I'll give that one to ya.
You can never trust Republicans. Most of them have dark secrets that they don't want the rest of us to know about. They go around acting morally superior to guise their evil deeds. We see so many examples of them: Mark Sanford, John Ensign, David Vitter, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, and the list goes on and on and on.
Mostly negative, deservedly so, from my buddies on the left.
For once, the right wing nuts haven't dominated a thread because most know she's a joke and have NOTHING to back her up.
It really shows the intellect of these people if they do support her (Tina).
Uh, no I don't
You haven't been around that long apparently.
Is everyone who disagrees with your viewpoint lacking in intelligence Beav, or is the designation restricted just to those who admire and respect Sarah Palin as a leader?
Btw, glad to have this conversation with ya up outta the sewer where the air is fresh and clean .... whew .. *__*
I can't figure out if you are a really good troll or just a lunatic.
I'm leaning towards the latter.
Fear not, I ain't a lunatic, and regarding the word 'troll' ..... is that someone who asks Qs and is happy to engage in a conversation in the fresh air so-to-speak?
Hiya exodus2011 - yeah, I think it's really bizarre the way you go around here asking everyone loaded questions when you ain't actually asking crap.
I'm really glad we had this talk up here in the fresh air where it smells like rose petals and unicorns...whew..*__*
me too, on the pleasant air metaphor, (never smelled a unicorn tho .. *__*)
Your fear is justified. She will be a force to be dealt with.
Be afraid.
But in the meanwhile, just keep insulting her. It is a great way to hide your fear.
It does not seem to matter what name you call yourself on these boards. Under any name, you are still an idiot and a jerk. What a wonderful combination. Moron+misogynist+ chauvinist pig+?= cryforSanford, fka penne pasta etc.
Chuck is just a guy who hates liberals and can`t handle the GOP being out of power. I guarantee he is a freeper.
Anyone that thinks Palin has a future outside her little base is nuts, she is over for most Americans.
So take into account their penchant to exaggerate and use the most flattering numbers, I guess about 300 people were there. :-)
In her pressor she stated that she will work with anyone that shares a common purpose to get our country moving again in the right ( correct ) direction to solve the many problems that we face. There are many in both the democratic & republican party that believe that our elected officials are just two different sides of the same coin.
Whatever you think of her, she draws crowds and attention to herself. I believe that she could help start a real movement that would finally represent us common folk and not all the special interests groups that have their hands in our lives and our wallets.
She could end up becoming the spoiler.
Just my opinion !!!!
Further, if the name Palin can generate almost 500 posts on this web site, you know she has the charisma to elicit tremendous interest. Think Romney or Huckabee would elicit this kind of response?
Palin's embarrassing and would stand no chance.
She's done, get over it!!
Unfortunately, all the big Liberal brains don't seem to understand the state of this country today. They are setting up a situation that will help the opponent candidate to succeed in 2012.
After all, even democrat voters don't like massive unemployment, huge deficits, impending inflation. Many will even oppose $5 gasoline.
Palin will never appeal to more than 40% of the country and independents do not like her. Anyone that thinks the GOP will come back in 2012 are nuts, people do not like or trust republicans and demographics are going against you more every election. Obama is no Carter, that`s just a story you tell each other to make yourself feel better.
All you right wingers have suffered from Obama derangement syndrome since the day a black man was elected. The country gave him a mandate, deal with it!
You know, the way Americans learned to write and speak in grade school.
My eight year old niece is a better communicator than Sarracuda...
It's all about HER. The true signs of a narcissist.
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May I say the 'half a brain' comment is somewhat out of character for your ususal tone beav, it's emotive but not very accurate, *__*
As for 'she's done, get over it' ..... now beav, that is hopeful from your point-of-view, but we shall have to wait and watch events unfold. I can envisage several scenarios where such a forecast misses the target completely ...
But fear not, there will be much new fodder concerning Sarah Palin to rage against as time goes on .... sadly the lefty sewer blogs will continue to flow with new filth also, but hopefully there are a multitude of folks who can discuss the issues that affect the country without having to be hosed off with desanitiser on a regular basis. Glad to have a conversation with ya up here in the fresh air beav *__*
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
You'll like this (NSFW):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s
1. Mark Sanford disclosing more trists and inappropriate contact with women other than his wife
2. Al Franken FINALLY awarded the Minnesota Senate seat after a disgraceful loser, Republican Norm Coleman, concedes after 8 months of holding out for a miracle
3. Sarah Palin abandons the Alaskans who voted her into office...
What fun things does next week hold? Will the implosion of the Republican party continue to accelerate? Stay tuned! Fun!
At the same time the country burns.
More unemployment
Bigger deficits
Huge boondoggle bills that the politicians don't bother to read
$4 -$5 gas is on the way back because we won't drill
Next will be inflation a la Jimmy Carter
Yes sir, the Dems have it all
;-)
60 in the Senate is not good news for you guys.
I guess we'll find out. Bottom line is this country could use some real change. We surely haven't seen any yet.
When are you going stop saying stupid shiite, Glenn Beck (I'm sorry, your preferred name is Julescat now).
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY): The Chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Rangel coughed up $75,000 in unpaid back taxes on rental income last year. The House ethics committee is investigating whether Rangel fulfilled all of his disclosure requirements related to that property, among other issues. In June, the panel launched another investigation of whether a Caribbean trip Rangel and four other Democrats took amounted to an improper gift.
None of these issues were mentioned on ABC, CBS or NBC this year, although Rangel was featured as a talking head in a number of morning and evening news stories. On March 19, the CBS Evening News included a Rangel soundbite in a story on congressional outrage over the AIG bonuses: “Stop the thievery at taxpayers’ expense!” The next night, CBS had another clip of Rangel railing, “Stop the thievery!,” but no mention of the chairman’s ethics problems.
■ Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN) and Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA): Three top Democrats are linked to the scandal surrounding the PMA Group, a lobbying group that closed its doors earlier this year after being raided by the FBI in February. The New York Times reported then that top lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti was suspected of funneling “bogus” campaign contributions to Murtha, Visclosky and Moran, in exchange for directing more than $100 million to PMA clients. Rep. Visclosky had admitted being subpoenaed in May by a federal grand jury, and temporarily stepped down as Chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on energy and water development.
None of the broadcast networks have mentioned Visclosky and Moran’s potential role in the scandal. ABC and NBC have been similarly quiet about Murtha, whom the networks elevated to folk-hero status for his condemnations of the Iraq war in 2005. CBS’s Sharyl Attkisson, however, has produced three investigative pieces digging into Murtha’s ethics, the most recent airing on the June 2 Evening News.
■ Ex-Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA): Jefferson lost a run-off election late last year after investigators found $90,000 in cash stuffed in the congressman’s freezer. In January, NBC made brief references to the charges against Jefferson in a profile of his successor, Republican Joseph Cao. Jefferson’s bribery trial — prosecutors say he received $400,000 in bribes to help orchestrate business deals in Africa — began on June 9, but the networks have yet to mention the case.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2009/07...
Really! what day? because I want to set my TiVo to see biased liberal MSNBC,CNN, 'main-stream/corporate media' etc. send their "journalists" out to "investigate" illegal activity of 'democrats'...
Hey, hey jealousy.
I have been gone the past couple of days celebrating with my family and friends.
"They have no class". That pretty much discribes this thread and the 90% liberal postings.
You mean the wicked woman that entered politics in hopes of doing good for her state?
You are far from being alone in saying same tasteless crap here today, but you sure fit in.
If you liked Palin before this announcement . . . you know she's probably doing it for the right reason.
If you disliked Palin before this announcement . . . you think she's an idiot and quitter! Good riddance!
Palin is truly a polarizing political figure!
Or, um, Barack Obama.
I hadn't written anything about the Palin situation. So there was no propaganda in my statement, unlike yours. It was only an analysis on your statement.
Since you only have 1 like point, I assume that you rushed to this website today and registered fast to bash anyone who wants to protect Sarah Palin. It's only an analysis not propaganda.
Please cite a reference for her IQ.
And before Alaska was the frontier the frontier was the west coast, before that it was west of Mississippi, before that it was west of the Appalachians, before that it was the original colonies. America was a society based on outcasts, uniting together to oppose tyranny. I'm not sure why you'd want to insult that legacy.
Alaska has Senators from both parties 1 Democrat: Mark Begich and 1 Republican: Lisa Murkowksi. So Washington-wise, Alaska is a dual state.
You're only providing broad generalizations not based on fact, only subjective judgment with a bias. I'm perfectly willing to believe she has a low IQ, however I want to see the data first. A difficult speech/news conference in front of the national media is not the environment to make an accurate IQ assessment.
Why does an adult woman, like Sarah Palin is, a self-protection from herself. She maybe is a little bit ruthless in stating something, but at least she has a heart.
And she certainly has no low IQ, since she was a journalist in her former days, that forbids her from having a low IQ. Or will you say journalists are unintelligent?
Agreed. Fox News does that for them. Right wing families everywhere light their candles at night and hold hands around their plasma TVs praising the words of Glen Beck and Bill O and Hannity... promising to be better robots in the future.
Did sarah reject you advances or her daughter?
BUT, I can see it now. Palin getting her own show in primetime on Fox News.
CNN picks up Shep and Palin takes over his 7p slot.
Same kooky audience who supports Beck, Hannity and BillO will slurp up the Wasilla hillbilly's nonsensical ramblings.
You guys love her and you can have her!!!
The dolts in Alaska finally saw what an idiot and LIAR she is.Once she was in the world wide spotlight, couldn't handle the heat, and bailed.
Put a fork in her, she's done.
But FNC may lure here because she needs to feed that big family of hers.
The Sarah Palin Show Set To Premiere On Fox News?
A Palin show on Fox News has always been a good fit for both her and Fox. Neither have an interest in, or reputation for, honesty or accuracy. And both have profited from exploiting controversy and sex.
that MISOGYNISTIC & hate-filled, smug Matthews wasnt on to gloat/mock/curse/comment over Palin
The only problem is, I don't think Sarah will hang in long enough to get the nomination. If she found governing Alaska to be a below her after the 2008 campaign, she's going to hate primary campaigning.
In her incoherent ramblings on Friday, she pointed out that only dead fish float downstream. She's right--and that's her problem... she doesn't get it. Dead fish usually float downstream only after they've first struggled upstream to spawn. Unlike Sarah, the fish actually finish their task instead of giving up midstream.
"Palin is very popular with the Republican asses"
I fixed that for you.
No doubt the Destroy-Sarah Sewer will flow full of filth every time her name hits the headlines, but if we keep the desanitiser hose handy the air will remain breathable *__*
every major network in the world. Can you say hindsight is 20/200?
Each of you is an important, one of a kind person. You are you for a very special reason.
You have been given gifts you need to discover and develop. Your gifts are as individual as you are and are intended to help you live a fulfilled life.
And, you are loved. There are people in your life who love you and support you. God loves you and cares about what happens to you.
This applies to all of us, even the ones we are arguing with, or who hold political office, so let's respect each other.
ReallyNow
Adios. I hope you are right about God.
The following video speaks to how quickly things change in politics (and a bit to hypocrisy as well). It's short, and SFW:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA15XU23kEc&e
I hope everyone has had a great (and safe) 4th of July!
"Only dead fish go with flow"
HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!1
Yeah, I never saw a fish swim downstream.
What a maroon. lol
By the way public figures cannnot win a lawsuit for being criticized, it comes with being a public figure.
Palin is a great celebrity, maybe they should make her the gop chairman but politically she is over.
only someone who is blinded by her celebrity can actually think this country would ever trust her with the presidency.
As for the FBI, Tina... I hear those aren't the initials that should most concern the Great Quitter.
(There, now I've done what the blogger did. Hope I don't get sued too.)
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/...
Why quit as governor? Those sports metaphors at the end of Palin's speech explain it.
She has a contract with the WNBA.
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/...
AP, you need to stay away from MSNBC, they are nothing but hate speech and lies....with KO, RM, and DS leading the way.
Whatever you think of Palin she doesn`t have the temperament to lead anyone.
I eagerly await Palin's next move; she won't ever attract people like you but her attraction to middle america is far greater than you will ever acknowledge.
Really, Sarah picked a perfect time and day for the announcement. No Chris, Keith, or Rachel to make fun of her.
This is truly the sign that the "Palin derangement syndrome" has driven someone mad.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGE1OTE3OT...
Not sure why.
But don't judge this site by this thread.
If you look at the totally of ALL the threads, this place is "right leaning" by a vast majority.
Don't make me go to a "Scoreboard" thread and start counting.
Cus I will. :)
You are absolutely correct.
Oooohhhhh...ornery today, eh? lol
Not gonna play.
Reported.
I agree it is somewhat right of center.
BTW what is the difference between a thread and a blog. I used to call a whole topic a thread. However, I have been corrected (on another site) that a topic on a site was a blog, and a discussion within a blog -like these 5 (at this time) posts are the thread. Have you ever run into this definition. I remember that you once said you also post on some invitation only sites.
Pirate sites. shhhhhhh.
This whole blog thing confuses me sometimes too, so I just use the forum terminology. (Board, Topics [threads], Posts,etc)
I'm probably wrong.
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I don't give a rat's ass what right leaning networks or websites have to say. And guess what? I don't visit them.
It's a novel concept that is probably over your head.
I really am not sure what you are saying.
Yes, I do post on HuffPo, and I do read the KOS occassionally. I am conservative (if you are interested look up my bio on HuffPo), but I spend very little time reading/posting at conservative sites. I usually agree (for the most part) with the rational posters, and I don't care what the Wing Nuts rant about. So why waste my limited time. I am more interested in what people with an opposing political view are thinking. So, yes, I do visit those sites.
I have to admit that whatever your point is, yes, it is over my head. Should you wish to explain it differently, please do.
but now she needs $500k legal fees defending herself. guess what, all these politicians make their big money with speech's.
i noticed she caught hell for for her speech in indiana about 2 months ago. packed hall with outside speekers-20,000 + and then i hear joe biden just gave speech in penn. about 100.
hate her or not, this politician draws crowds, not for protest or hate, but just like her message.
by next yr. book(already signed) 2 mil-7 mil, many speechs for 50k-100k. she will be a rich lady.
remember,2008 election in georgia,i believe chamblis, run-off election. most polls had final about even with some show chambis meybe 2-3 pts ahead just 3 days before election.
guest what, sarah went from alaska to give speech's all over georgia and
chamblis won by 12 %- coincidence, not.
now, i wonder if next yrs politicians for congress will tell sarah not to get near them, or they will lose. they will draw straws to have her by their side.
SO IT'S ALL GOOD!!!!!
BTW, is there a separate Amendment to the C that allows Americans 'Freedom to Congregate' ... y'know, gather in groups? or is it part of the First? ..... I predict that crowds of oppo could grow wildly, bigger and bigger ..... the DHS may step in, siting 'domestic security of The Homeland' and Congress may be asked to pass legislation to limit, or regulate somehow, The Freedom to Gather .... we shall see ....
Hahaha...Predictions.
That's all the right has anymore.
Too funny.
BTW, do you happen to know the answer to my Q above about that Freedom?
And I've read some of your other posts, so I chose not to entertain your stupid question. Go to a library and figure it out your own damned self.
Concerning the reporting on July 4th protests, FOX have got many staff on holiday now as have most news networks, so it's much more unlikely that the full story will be told in the MSM for some days to come ....
You wouldn't know it judging by the media frenzy that surrounds her and the level of chatter she continues to provoke. When is the last time a defeated Presidential nominee, let alone a VP nominee, generated so much buzz this long after an election?
http://jackrabbitcafe.blogspot.com/2009/07/sara...
Looks like I've got your jive down pat.
insult people,you must really have some issues in your life.
Say what you want about Obama he is a brilliant communicator with or without a promter.
She's now officially a quitter and we were supposed to vote for her as vice prez of this country?? What was she going to quit the second highest office in the land when the going got a little tough?
Anyway the "libs" were correct about her all along...character flaw after flaw after flaw.
Interesting metaphor potential but I fail to see it. Please explain.
She a little like Hitler where she's able to brainwash the masses into thinking she has something smart to say and give to the world. She is from the great state of Idaho though, so maybe those Nazi skinheads rubbed off during her community college transfer days.
I hope Palin returns in the national spotlight somehow...in any shape or form.
They don't HAVE any to choose from, so how can one be picked? For the party of dysfunction, you can't script this any better.
But by all means, it's has been fun to watch them in free fall.
=P
50. "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here." --at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002
49. "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." --Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001
48. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." -Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001
47. "I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport." --Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001
46. "Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004 (Watch video clip)
45. "I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." --at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001 (Listen to audio clip)
44. "You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006
43. "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th." --Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007
42. "I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." --as quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War
41. "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." --discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson in 2003, as quoted by Robertson
40. 3. "I think I was unprepared for war." –on the biggest regret of his presidency, ABC News interview, Dec. 1, 2008
39. "I will not withdraw, even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me." --talking to key Republicans about Iraq, as quoted by Bob Woodward
38. "I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." --presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004 (Watch video clip)
37. "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." --Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000 (Listen to audio clip)
36. "Do you have blacks, too?" --to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001
35. "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." --as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002
34. "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." --on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina
33. "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." --Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
32. "I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake." --on his best moment in office, interview with the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, May 7, 2006
31. "They misunderestimated me." --Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
30. "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." --Philadelphia, Penn., May 14, 2001
29. "This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite -- I call you my base." --at the 2000 Al Smith dinner
28. "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." --LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
27. "I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right." --Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001
26. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 (Listen to audio clip)
25. "People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you." --Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002
24. "I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it...I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet...I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one." --after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2004
23. "You forgot Poland." --to Sen. John Kerry during the first presidential debate, after Kerry failed to mention Poland's contributions to the Iraq war coalition, Miami, Fla., Sept. 30, 2004
22. "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." --in parting words to world leaders at his final G-8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as those present looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008
21. "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." --State of the Union Address, Jan. 28, 2003, making a claim that administration officials knew at the time to be false
20. "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." --Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001
19. "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." --Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
18. "So what?" –President Bush, responding to a an ABC News correspondent who pointed out that Al Qaeda wasn't a threat in Iraq until after the U.S. invaded, Dec. 14, 2008
17. "Can we win? I don't think you can win it." --after being asked whether the war on terror was winnable, "Today" show interview, Aug. 30, 2004
16. "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." --Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002
15. "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job." --to a group of Amish he met with privately, July 9, 2004
14. "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." --speaking underneath a "Mission Accomplished" banner aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003
13. "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories ... And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them." --Washington, D.C., May 30, 2003
12. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!" --joking about his administration's failure to find WMDs in Iraq as he narrated a comic slideshow during the Radio & TV Correspondents' Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 24, 2004 (Read more)
11. "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." --Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008
10. "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" --Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000
9. "As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." --on the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2007 (Watch video clip)
8. "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000 (Listen to audio clip)
7. "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense." --Washington, D.C. April 18, 2006 (Read more; listen to audio clip; watch video clip)
6. "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 (Watch video clip)
5. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." --Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 (Watch video clip)
4. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 (Watch video clip)
3. "You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 (Listen to audio clip)
2. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." --to FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina debacle, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005 (Listen to audio clip; watch video clip)
1. "My answer is bring them on." --on Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003
But what about Barack Obama? The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign:
* Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.
*Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
*Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”
*Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?
*Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:
“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”
*Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
*Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:
“Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site.
*Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father:”
“Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”
* And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us”–cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/9...
Biden is a perpetual gaffer. No wonder Obama thiks he can balance the budget, he is counting on those other 7 states.
And we are only working on the first 6 months!
You have to be kidding.
http://politicalmoose.blogspot.com/2007/04/50-d...
BTW, Obama has done some pretty dumb stuff too...scare force one, ipod the queen, dvds to PM that wont play, 57 states, scroll up the teleprompter please, "cinco de quatro", tax cheats, and who could forget joe biden
libs come here to troll around and go on the attack mode for anyone who leans right...don't worry, it helps them sleep at night.
But what about Barack Obama? The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign:
* Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.
*Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
*Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”
*Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?
*Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:
“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”
*Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
*Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:
“Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site.
*Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father:”
“Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”
* And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us”–cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/9...
Biden is a perpetual gaffer. No wonder Obama thiks he can balance the budget, he is counting on those other 7 states.
And we are only working on the frst 6 months!
Look at the people...
They kill animals...
And they have family...
And they have them childrens...
And one day people thinks
'Once upon a time, here, in the earth... Was so much animals, elephans, dolphins, penguins... And more... And now, we see just people around us... We kill all animals'
And they will cry... Why they kill all animals... WHY...
Hell that is easy. Scripture or someones interpretation of scripture says animals are on earth to serve us humans. That sometimes necessitates the extinction of animals that interfere with our hobby of recreational hunting or the placement of condominiums.
There she goes again, doggonit.
You betcha there's more to this story...
Herald Staff
Jeffrey Smuzinick, who was left paralyzed after being struck by the car of WSVN-Channel 7 anchor Rick Sanchez, died Monday in a Pennsylvania nursing home. He was 36.
Smuzinick, a Pembroke Pines furnituremaker, was injured Dec. 10, 1990, after he ran out into traffic leaving Joe Robbie Stadium following a Dolphins football game. He was struck by 1991 Volvo driven by Sanchez.
Smuzinick suffered severe head injuries and was in a coma for many months. He underwent rehabilitation in Florida...
Published on 1995-11-02, Page 4B, Miami Herald, The (FL)
2. TEST: SANCHEZ DROVE DRUNK ANCHORMAN SAYS RESULTS MISTAKEN
DON VAN NATTA Jr. Herald Staff Writer
Television anchorman Rick Sanchez was driving drunk on the mid-December night his car struck and critically injured a man who darted into a road outside Joe Robbie Stadium, blood test results show.
Sanchez had a blood alcohol level of 0.15 percent. In Florida, a driver with a blood alcohol level of 0.10 is considered intoxicated.
"I'm totally, totally taken by surprise by this," Sanchez, an anchorman for WSVN-Channel 7, said late Monday....
Published on 1991-02-12, Page 1B, Miami Herald, The (FL)
3. SOUTH FLORIDA
Herald Staff
NO CONTEST: Rick Sanchez, WSVN-Channel 7's top-rated anchor, pleaded no contest in Miami Thursday to DUI charges -- against his attorney's advice -- for driving while intoxicated after leaving Joe Robbie Stadium.
Sanchez was not charged with being at fault when he hit Jeffrey Smuzinick, 32, who ran in front of Sanchez's 1991 Volvo Dec. 10. Smuzinick is comatose.
But Sanchez had a blood-alcohol level of .15. A driver with .10 percent is presumed...
Published on 1991-11-08, Page 1B, Miami Herald, The (FL)
4. TV'S SANCHEZ TO BE CHARGED IN DUI CASE
DON VAN NATTA Jr. Herald Staff Writer
Television anchorman Rick Sanchez, once South Florida's intrepid reporter of other people's crimes, will be charged today with one of his own: driving under the influence of alcohol.
The Dade state attorney's office this morning will file one count of DUI against Sanchez for driving home and then returning to the scene of an accident Dec. 10, sources told The Herald on Thursday.
A blood test taken that night shows Sanchez had a blood alcohol level of...
Published on 1991-02-15, Page 1B, Miami Herald, The (FL)
5. TV ANCHOR TO PLEAD NO CONTEST TO DUI
DON VAN NATTA Jr. Herald Staff Writer
Television anchorman Rick Sanchez will plead no contest Thursday to a drunk driving charge, saying he wants to avoid a DUI trial that his TV news competitors would turn into a "three- ring circus."
Sanchez, the 33-year-old, top-rated anchorman for WSVN- Channel 7, told The Herald Tuesday that he will enter the plea to avoid a jail sentence for driving while intoxicated on Dec. 10 after leaving Joe Robbie Stadium following a Miami Dolphins football game.
That...
Published on 1991-11-06, Page 1B, Miami Herald, The (FL)
6. ALL EYES, CAMERAS ON RICK SANCHEZ AS CH. 7 ANCHOR ENTERS DUI PLEA
DON VAN NATTA Jr. Herald Staff Writer
The cameramen were lined up like a firing squad in Dade traffic court Thursday to aim their lenses at television anchorman Rick Sanchez.
"State of Florida versus Ricardo Sanchez," a court clerk announced at 11:37 a.m.
At that moment, a hush fell over the jammed courtroom as WSVN-Channel 7's top-rated anchor strode to the bench to plead no contest to charges of driving while intoxicated on Dec. 10, 1990, after leaving Joe Robbie Stadium.
Every head...
Published on 1991-11-08, Page 1B, Miami Herald, The (FL)
declaring non-involvement.
Another first for Sarah .... the battle continues ... *__*
Like your use of metaphors - they really convey your viewpoint, but I really don't think SP has that ego you have ascribed to her. I believe she is stalwartly opposed to big govt and will do all she can to garner support against it, but it doesn't have to be her who is the nominee for POTUS ....
Nice to meetcha cry, and have this conversation with ya, up here in the clean fresh verbal air ... whew ... *__*
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1...
Remember, this would be the Obama FBI.
We listened to your anti-Obama/anti-Michelle crap for months and when we finally have an "anti" thread of our own you get all butt-hurt and whine like little biatches!!
FINALLY there's a thread balanced in our favor and all you guys can do is talk about how shocking it is what's going on here.
Hah!!!
Nothing being said in this thread hasn't been said by you guys in countless Obama/Michelle rants repeatedly, over and over, since January.
IF YOU CAN'T TAKE IT THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T DISH IT OUT SO MUCH.
HOW DOES IT FEEL NOW!!!LOL!!1
Hypocrites.
We listened to your anti-Obama/anti-Michelle crap for months and when we finally have an "anti" thread of our own you get all butt-hurt and whine like little biatches!!"
Whining? Oh I see, when we disagree, it's whining. I have rarely said a thing about Obama. I think
the worst I ever said was, he was a lib. I am also pretty sure, I never said a word about Michelle.Yeah, you can check. And
where do you get 'finally have an anti thread" ? You guys had a good time with Mark Sanford and
your friends went to town on Prejean.
"Nothing being said in this thread hasn't been said by you guys in countless Obama/Michelle rants repeatedly, over and over, since January."
Show me some close to this.....""I've already spilled the beans...she's carrying Levi's child. What a stud that hockey hottie is. Hockey Moms Spread Their Legs 4 Younger Boys"
"Sarah has a nice hockey black book and had them boys rotating in and out of the governors mansion."
When I posted my disgust for this you mocked me. Why? You never answered. You dont agree with this I am sure. Maybe, because you know I am a "righty" as you say. I must therefore be a
hypocrite. Or since you posted as if I was a religous zealot, I must be making judgements. Or
since your true colors have now come out, it must be to provide cover for your fellow libs. Or maybe
it's just that your the only one here who is fair and can be outraged.
Are you not the fair man who posted this....."*sigh*
Until then can the two sides stop hating each other, please?
I am so tired of all the name calling.
When you hate the other party in America's 2 party system you are hating and disrespecting America imho."
"What makes most of you people think you are any better, or even different, than Bill and Keith?
Most of you are much worse.
And you have no idea how your words might inflame someone.
And this site is not one tenth as bad a most of the others."
"I wanna hear you denounce the kinda bomb-throwing dialog that your side has been throwing around.
As a democrat, I condemn the same thing when it was done to Judge Thomas.
Dispicable from both sides.
My Character can only condemn that kind of debate.
I think it harms our country.
But I guess you either don't see that or don't mind it. "
"Yup.
You are correct.
They have that right.
And they have the right to call her a "man" and a "bitch" and a "c*nt" and every other name in the book that they used.
That doesn't make it right.
It is not the way to discuss important issues in this country.
They are rotten, pathetic people.
And they hurt their own cause imo.
There is a BIG difference between "having a right" and "being right".
You have the right to cheat on your wife in this country.
That don't make it right.
That's the way "heart" works, really.
You like to see people be happy and act decently toward each other no matter if they agree with your principles or not.
But some people enjoy seeing those they disagree with abused and destroyed.
And they justify it a thousand ways.
They are sad people."
Check my posts and see if I have ever attacked anyone here. I am sure I have name called but only
after being attacked first. I am also not some crybaby who acts outraged at every little thing. I think the only other time I got disgusted was (and coincidentally) about Palin. Here was the comment ..." And also, someone who professes such great values, she can't control her tramp of a daughter of hers.
Hockey moms are insulted by her.
Bad mom. Period!!/ love being blue"
And this is what I posted "You know I read the first part and got angry and was going to respond then, like you I saw that "tramp of a daughter " and was stunned."
And the thing is, I am no big Palin fan. I like her, yes. But I dont think she is the best person to run
for Prez. I dont have a problem with you guys saying she made a mistake and killed her chances
for 2012.I feel the same way. I dont have a problem with questioning her knowledge or intellect. I
disagree, but that's opinions.I dont care for the rumors, but that's being partisan. I wont cry about it. But the personal attacks are too much.The person I called out, pretty much called her a whore
and a pedophile. Even if it were true, I dont think it is something to gloat about.
And this is just childish....."IF YOU CAN'T TAKE IT THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T DISH IT OUT SO MUCH.
HOW DOES IT FEEL NOW!!!LOL!!1
Hypocrites."
I have never cried about personal attacks. I dont like them. But this was the first time I have ever made
a point about it. They go both ways but this was way out of line.
But you are still whining about how she is getting super extra special horrible treatment. Boo hoo.
Bullshit.
You haven't been in the minority on this site like we lefty's have, and we notice the vitriol that's been spewed here day after day.
The inappropriate name calling and personal attacks against Barack, Michelle and Hillary.
Hillary got it a lot worse and a lot longer than Sarah did.
"But the personal attacks are too much."
HAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Are you retarded??!?!?!
How can you EVEN SAY THAT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE!!!!!!!
DO YOU KNOW WHAT GOES ON HERE!?!?!?!
But go ahead, whine more.
This is the worst moderated site I have ever been on.
tantrum about it. I thought you were being a little baby about nothing and were feigning mock outrage. I gave you the benefit of the doubt tho, and apologized. I was right the first time. And your calling me a whiner?
"But you are still whining about how she is getting super extra special horrible treatment. Boo hoo."
.I complained about one poster's attack .That's it.I made it clear in my post that I have no problem with everything else .But you ignore all that and twist it to make me the baby. Whatever
"You haven't been in the minority on this site like we lefty's have, and we notice the vitriol that's been spewed here day after day."
Who's the real whiner? Boo hoo.Try being a righty. You watch all the nets and they all lean left. Read most newspapers and it's the same. Most journalists are left. Most colleges have lefty profs.
The prez now caters to the left bloggers at the W.H. Lefty bloggers are much more featured
on cable than righties. You even have the star at MSNBC blog at one and use their material often.
We have talk radio and Fox. And all the libs do is whine about it. SOME even want the fairness doctrine. And you call us whiners?
"The inappropriate name calling and personal attacks against Barack, Michelle and Hillary."
Again, show me where I have ever attacked any of them. You cant, so you lump me in with
all righties. I am not the hall monitor here. I see it both ways and stay out. I also do not read every single post or thread. Most of my posts are on topic. Cable news. Not politics. A small percentage
of time,I am drawn in. This attack on Palin was over the line. If you cant just admit that, fine. Point
to other bad behavior. Isn't that what you tell us over and over. Typical lib.
Show me where Obama and Hillary's kids were attacked. Show me where Michelle or Hillary were
referred to as sluts or pedaphiles. The only thing I agree with you on is, Hillary got it longer.
Righties never complained about that.
As a matter of fact, those comments got many "likes".
I complained about it on both sides.
But for you guys to act outraged now is the height of hypocrisy.
I said my piece.
Deal with it or not, I don't give a crap.
after on this thread but did not answer our questions. Why? I asked you twice again and you change the subject.
" Righties never complained about that.
As a matter of fact, those comments got many "likes".
Righties? You generalize.Show me where I posted any crap like that. If you could see where posters give likes on other posts you would see I did not post a like. I did not see them. Are you
saying because righties post some hate it is o.k. for you libs. No, you cant do that because
you have jumped on your high horse more than a few times, to claim pointing to bad behavior
does not excuse other bad behavior.
I complain about one post I thought was over the line. One. You were having a lot of fun cheerleading
and did not like me putting a damper on your party.You know I am a righty so you paint me a zealot to dismiss my post. There is nothing in my other posts to suggest I am a a fanatic or even deeply
religous. Yet, I am a righty so who cares if I am not. That is the way I will be percieved. You dont
want to agree it was over the line to stop your fun. You cant point to righties posting bad things either because it goes against your bad behavior credo. So, mocking is the best way to dismiss the
point of my post.
If I made a few posts that complained about others and they were all against the left you have a bit
of an argument. I have made one. One. If I attacked Obama, Michelle, or Hillary you have an argument. I have not. You avoid and change the argument when asked why you have a problem with
my complaint. You bring up hate from the right as a reason to attack without specifically saying that post was o.k. because the right does the same. You generalize, trying not to break your bad behavior credo. After all that would be so...Republican.
You cant point to any attacks I have made, so again, you generalize. Righties do the same. Payback. You have finally shown your true lib self. Do me favor and dont give me one of your witty
retorts or change the subject. Save it. I am the one who does not give a crap. You twisted my point
on you being dishonest on a subject once.Let me be clear here. You are dishonest. Oh, is that a personal attack? Boo hoo.
I never mentioned you.
I wasn't talking about you.
Dude, I haven't even read your last 3 posts.
First paragraphs only. lol
So if you're writing them for me you may wanna stop.
All I know is I'm not going to start counting or comparing insults specifically.
I'm not in kindergarden.
My opinion is the righties in this topic have a lot of nerve to be complaining about "personal" insults.
Once again, if it don't apply to you, so be it.
Hey, I bet your last 3 posts were really great!!!!
I make my first post this afternoon and minutes after mine you post this "If it don't relate to you, then don't worry about it." and this ""But the personal attacks are too much."
HAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Are you retarded??!?!?!
How can you EVEN SAY THAT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE!!!!!!!
DO YOU KNOW WHAT GOES ON HERE!?!?!?!
Who are you talking to?
My next post you answer a few minutes later with this "I could show you we're Barack was called "shit brown" and I could show you were Michelle was called "monkey ugly" but I ain't gonna waste my time searching." Again, who are you talking to?
Disqus e-mailed your responses to me right away. I told you not to bother with your witty retorts.
Dude.
I don't give a rat's ass what you believe but I didn't see any post by you.
It was late here too and I was reading the RSS feed WITHOUT any user names so I posted a rant. Of course after you started questioning me I was replying to you, but not before. Duh.
You are making an ass of yourself right now although I know you will never admit it.
But I know what my motivations were, and they were not you.
My motivations were made by MANY posts.
That's why I repeatedly kept saying if it don't apply to you don't worry about it.
Because I thought it didn't.
Everything ain't about you dude and this most certainly was not.
Once again I only read your first paragraph. lololol
after on this thread but did not answer our questions. Why? I asked you twice again and you change the subject."
That was my first paragraph in one post. I dont see your answer .
"But the personal attacks are too much."
That was about the 15 th paragraph in another post. And you posted this ""But the personal attacks are too much."
HAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Are you retarded??!?!?!
How can you EVEN SAY THAT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE!!!!!!!
"Everything ain't about you dude and this most certainly was not."
Yeah, it's all about you.
Whatever. I gotta go .Late golf date.
Talk about a fool...
*snickers*
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5443/teapart...
Wha happened!?!?!
So are all the people on this site who said they were going to be bigger and better this time gonna eat crow? lol
Estimated 25,000 attended one in Texas. Thousands attended the event in Nashville. Thousands showed up in Morristown, NJ. Three thousand people in Nevada Tea Parties. Hundreds showed up in Quincy, MA, thousands at another one in MA. Other events drew thousands as well, to include South Carolina, Indiana, Idaho, Arkansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Florida, New Mexico, even Connecticut.
Hmmmmm...a month ago people were screaming on this site, "YOU WAIT AND SEE, THEY WILL BE GROWING, THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING, AMERICA IS WAKING UP!!!".
Now that they didn't actually grow, attendance is not important. LOL
I guarantee that if they did double in size the right would be strutting their stuff all over this site and attendance WOULD be important.
OT, but I notice that Susan Roesgyn of CNN and anti-tea party fame, is now covering several MJ stories for CNN. LOL
Yeah, I noticed that too.
I had to do a double-take. lol
Tax Burden By State
If all other things are equal, a state with a lower burden is a more attractive place to retire than a state with a higher one. To get a true sense of which state is less expensive, you need to look at state and local tax burdens. Only then do the low tax states stand out.
It is estimated by the Tax Foundation that the nation as a whole will pay on average 9.7% of its income in state and local taxes in 2008, down from 9.9% in 2007 primarily because income grew faster than tax collections between 2007 and 2008.
New Jersey residents paid 11.8%, topping the charts. New Yorkers were close behind, paying 11.7%, and Connecticut was third at 11.1%. The top 10 were rounded out by Maryland (10.8%), Hawaii (10.6%), California (10.5%), Ohio (10.4%). Vermont (10.3%), Wisconsin (10.2%) and Rhode Island (10.2%).
Alaskans pay the least, 6.4 percent in 2008, but Nevada is close at 6.6 percent. In four states the residents pay between 7 and 8 percent of their income in state and local taxes: Wyoming (7.0%), Florida (7.4%), New Hampshire (7.6%) and South Dakota (7.9%). Four other states round out the bottom 10: Tennessee (8.3%), Texas (8.4%), Louisiana (8.4%) and Arizona (8.5%).
http://www.retirementliving.com/RLtaxes.html
and perhaps I have erred in using the phrase 'you don't like' and it would be more accurate to say 'you hate' instead ....
And NO - I do not hate that woman. I think she's wrong for America, much in the same way neocons believe Obama is wrong for America,
In my ENTIRE time on this board, I have never said a NEGATIVE word about her baby.
You are a coward and a deplorable human being for trying to USE her child as some sort of wedge.
He's been using that DS bullshit all over this topic, and I straight up called him on his trolling.
So JJ, what is your view as to the reason for so many crude and filthy posts that emanate whenever Sarah Palin is discussed? .... is it just human nature .... what causes her to be singled out for this kind of treatment? I can understand people disagreeing with her and it is common of course for people to call others morons and idiots when they have been offended, but I just can't fathom why there is this foul sexual stuff spewed out over and over again against her ....
I eagerly await the backlash against MSM for the malicious and personal attacks on Palin; it is coming. I note they are in defensive mode today, claiming SHE played the victim card....she is on offense, they are on defense.
The bloggers spreading the false story on a "criminal investigation" are already backing off their claims due to her being on the offense. It will be fun to watch over the next several months.
Now, she can't even say that she was a one-term governor. Her national political career is over. And who's to say that that is not what she wanted all along - to be the next Rush Limbaugh - in lipstick (that was quite some imagery there...).
Obama, McCain, Biden, Clinton all maintained their "senate salaries" while running for president, continuing to abuse us tax payers for taking money while doing nothing.
As I said, time will tell how this all plays out, but right now, I see more in her camp than out of it (and I'm not talking about the beltway insiders who don't like her because she is not in their "class" (and thats a quote from an on-air elitist).
Polls showed that he dominated her in the debate.
Survey USA: Biden 51% Palin 32%Undecided 17%.
MediaCurves.com tracked independent voters, showing them breaking to Biden 67% to Palin 33%.
CNN/Opinion Research: Biden 51 Palin 36.
CBS: Biden 46 Palin 21.
Fox: Biden 61 Palin 39.
You must really like her no matter what she says.
You're in the minority here and can't think rationale if you think she's a good candidate, let alone won the debate.
In all honesty, she did better than expected, but Biden did way better than expected and kicked her sweet ass!!
http://wonkette.com/409650/insane-sarah-palin-l...
It is scary that a certain % actually consider this lightweight a possible leader of the world, scary!
My family and I enjoyed a pitcher of sweet iced tea with our bbq...
Hey maybe MSNBC can get rid of morning Joe and give the job to Palin and then we will have two ditsy woman on the show!
If that were to happen.....wow.....POOR WILLIE!!!!! <g>
However, high unemployment, high inflation, high taxes and high interest rates caused many to rethink their allegiances and Reagan won going away. I suspect we may find a very similar situation in 2012.
After four years of this, the country will be ready for another conservative to set the country back on its feet.
I think there are many folks who feel as you do. If things continue on this path, there will be many, many more by the time 2012 rolls around.
The economy was doing just fine until the Democrats took over congress. Even when the Republicans spent like drunken Democrats libs weren't happy. If Republicans had stuck to conservative policies most of this mess wouldn't have happened.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/sarah...
Its sad, and its pathetic...but do whatever helps you sleep at night. I'm not one to stop you, but I will point it out.
Girl can't help it.
running over people under the influence.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1991-08-07/news/th...
The Forgotten Man
Eight months after he got hit by Channel 7 anchorman Rick Sanchez's Volvo, Jeffrey Smuzinick is doing poorly. His family is just plain doing poor.
By Sean Rowe
published: August 07, 1991
He was one of these guys you see on Friday afternoon at the 7-Eleven, stocking up on beer for the weekend, maybe buying some Lotto tickets, then piling into a battered van with his buddies and cranking up Zeta-4 on the radio. It would be nice to say his skills as a carpenter were renowned at the swank enclaves of Williams Island and Turnberry Isle where he worked. In truth, the people who live in the houses he built never paid much attention to Jeffrey Smuzinick.
And these days they don't even see him. A friend recalls that Smuzinick used to put down his hammer at midday and speed into town for legendary lunches -"a dozen oysters, ten chicken wings (hot), fish sandwich (plain), and an order of French fries." Now, in a South Dade nursing home, the 32-year-old Pembroke Pines man is learning to drink pureed spaghetti through a straw.
Minutes after midnight on the morning of December 10, 1990, an intoxicated Smuzinick darted out in front of a Volvo on a residential street near Joe Robbie Stadium. The driver of the car, WSVN-TV Channel 7 anchorman Rick Sanchez, became the subject of a subsequent January 16 New Times story that described the odd circumstances of the accident. Sanchez, whom a Metro-Dade police officer said "smelled strongly of alcohol," first stopped his car but then later left the scene. A blood test to determine Sanchez's sobriety was not administered until an hour and fifteen minutes after the collision. Though Sanchez says he tried to aid Smuzinick at the scene of the accident and flag down motorists, eyewitnesses claim the anchorman ignored the injured man and loudly told police and bystanders that blood tests were pointless, and would hurt his public image.
Best known for his stint as a sometimes-melodramatic correspondent on Channel 7's "Crime Check," Sanchez continues his work on the station's evening and late newscasts while awaiting a September 13 court date on misdemeanor drunk-driving charges. Though the results of one test show the newsman's blood-alcohol level was .15 -slightly over the legal .10 limit - the test was performed after Sanchez left the scene of the accident. In January Sanchez told New Times he had consumed no alcohol the night of the accident. His attorney, Richard Essen, now says the anchorman returned home and had "a couple of drinks to calm his nerves" before returning to the scene. Essen doubts that Sanchez's DUI charge will ever come to trial. "I think the results of the blood tests will be thrown out," the lawyer says. "If the results of the blood tests are suppressed, then there is no evidence against him at all. The state cannot proceed."
Meanwhile, after two months in a coma, Smuzinick has regained consciousness and is making slow improvement. His right side remains largely paralyzed due to massive brain damage, but he can move his left arm and leg and sometimes hold his head upright. Using hand signals, he can answer yes or no to simple questions. Doctors last Friday removed a feeding tube from his trachea, and Smuzinick can now eat liquid foods. He has indicated that he hopes he can soon move from HealthSouth Regional Rehabilitation Center in Cutler Ridge to the town house in Pembroke Pines he purchased and finished remodeling shortly before the accident.
"The first eighteen months after an accident like this are crucial," says Dr. Kenneth Fischer, a neurologist who treated Smuzinick at North Shore Hospital until March 21. "Whether or not he will improve further is hard to say. It's very unlikely he will ever be able to function independently or converse spontaneously."
Though Smuzinick's health insurance policy covers most of his medical costs, it doesn't pay for rehabilitative care. Family members say unpaid bills for physical therapy now total about $81,000. To save money, they have removed Smuzinick from the clinic's head-injury program. Using videotapes to learn therapy techniques, friends, relatives, and former co-workers have begun to provide a semblance of the rehabilitation program they can't afford.
One friend of the family, Kelli Crist, has distributed flyers describing the accident involving Smuzinick and Sanchez. The flyers list Crist's phone number (680-2741) and request donations to help pay for treatment and therapy. So far the fund-raising effort has not gone well.
"Nobody seems to be interested," Crist says. "We must have passed out 5000 flyers in Miami alone. Yours was the first phone call I've received."
Smuzinick's fiancee, Jackie Stringhill, says it's just as well that Sanchez hasn't paid a visit to Smuzinick since the accident. "I guess his attitude bothers a lot of people. But we have enough to think about. We have our hands full. We don't really talk about the accident much any more. Anyway," she adds resignedly, "as far as Sanchez goes, what goes around comes around.
Do you mean to prison?
Frankly I wouldn't be surprised by anything that is revealed because Palin is such a freaky Republican like Mark Sanford. There are a lot of questions to be answered in both the Sanford and Palin freak shows and the media must make every effort to get to the bottom of this. I want answers NOW!!!
Sweet.
*shrugs shoulders*
fan-fair = fanfare.
Happy 4th!
Sanchez is a MCP.
Thanks Chris for posting on this; Happy 4th to you and to everyone else on board.
What does MCP mean?
(...)
;-)
Too bad some of you people didn't enjoy the 4th!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/opinion/05dow...
P.S. Anyone care to wager on how much of Sarah's house was built from materials and labor that were never billed to her, even though she insisted that the construction company send her an invoice.
>>"Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy."
"...their governor had a solipsistic meltdown so strange it made Sparky Sanford look like a model of stability."
"She can hunt wolves from the air and field-dress a moose, but she fears being a lame duck?"
"Why not? Palin/Sanford in 2012, with the slogan: 'Save time — we’re already in Crazy Town.'"
"She refuses to succumb to the 'politics of personal destruction.' It’s no fun unless she’s the one aiming those poison darts, as she did when she accused Barack Obama of associating 'with terrorists who targeted their own country.'"<<
Thanks for the link, Same! I'm not holding my breath on that whole 'pay to play' business with her house, but it's certainly not out of the realm of possibilities. Just look at how her lawyers are attacking the media for merely mentioning it - going so far as to threaten a relatively obscure blogger (Shannyn Moore) with civil slander lawsuits.
The LAST thing you do is threaten the media, because they'll come at you like, well, a pitbull (sans lipstick).
Good lord, you gotta be kidding.
Imagine the ratings you would get - Glenn Beck-esque I'm sure...
OH SNAP MSNBC, OH SNAP FOX NEWS, OH SNAP CNN, OH SNAP "MEDIA". The press conference happened and you missed it.
They didn't have a live feed, OH SNAP!
Yeah, that's right, I don't care if it's your fault that there wasn't a live feed or that no real notice was given, it's all your fault news media. I blame you for missing the live feed. You're news channels, don't give me this "we don't have any confirmation or word" BS, you should use your telepathy next time.
I fully demand that they use telepathy next time.
OH SNAP.
(And, I talked about how there wasn't a live feed available, as far as I'm concerned, that's more ON-topic rather than half the crap that y'all type down there. Oh, "you don't get it", no you don't get this is a blog for media discussion and not for you to vent your political views or am I just reading the blog title and articles completely wrong because I'd like somebody to tell me otherwise if I am. No, I'm right? That's what I thought. OH SNAP TVNEWSER COMMENTERS, OH SNAP).
Republicans don't stay faithful to their spouses. It's in their genes!
Harry Reid is a stand up guy!
Changing the subject: They should really consider having a correspondent based in Alaska along with Hawaii. They are part of America, right?
Not for long. At least if Sarah Palin and her Alaska Independence Party loving husband have anything to do with it...
There you go trying to push the false left-right paradigm. It isn't left vs. right, it's liberty vs. tyranny. The country hasn't moved right or left since you were born. It doesn't matter which false choice gets elected, the country continues to move towards tyranny. They like to get you all wrapped up in the fake argument of which fascist policy is better than the other, but they are all fascist policies. Why choose either evil? Both do not have our best interests in mind, only their own and their mega-corporation crony friends. Choose liberty, trust yourself and your fellow citizens, not the government. The government lies, from both sides of the aisle.
=P
As myself and many others predicted. Now it's the D's turn. they can not survive without each other. They play the voters off each other arguing the minute details of legislation and thus avoid the obvious, that they don't have the right to do what they want to do to us. This forces people to choose sides and defend arguments that fundamentally go against what is best for the people. The fascist state we live in requires two sides to distract us with false arguments so we can not see what they are really going to do to us.
The federal government has two boots, one with a D on it and one with an R, both of them want to crush your head.
http://tiny.cc/6O7jB
Very rich.
1 day later, just...classic.
No wonder why my other post hasn't received much "buzz".
Go down to the first 100 comments, I have a very harsh comment that's ACTUALLY related to the media.
Further down the comment line...
P.S. Claudio Palacio of CNN Espanol is doing a nice job covering the protests at the Honduran airport.
Ooops, I spoke to soon, CNN moves on to MJ coverage giving up the life coverage at the airport.
With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty.
Why isn't the media all over that? Oh that's right, they are still memorializing MJ.