Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Now You Know Why I Call Them Faux News
From CNN: 3/22/2011
CNN correspondent rejects Fox report on human shields
And if we can't trust them on matters of this magnitude and this easily disputed, can you really trust them when they talk about Obama's secret socialist intentions or how many people showed up at a rally organized by one of their pundits or climate change for that matter.
CNN correspondent rejects Fox report on human shields
And if we can't trust them on matters of this magnitude and this easily disputed, can you really trust them when they talk about Obama's secret socialist intentions or how many people showed up at a rally organized by one of their pundits or climate change for that matter.
Monday, March 21, 2011
ATT Is Buying T-Mobile
http://www.businessinsider.com/att-buys-t-mobile-2011-3
Didn't the government break up ATT during the 80s due to the fact that they were basically a monopoly?? If so, how are they not now going to be a virtual monopoly? What was the point??
And this another one of those things were if Reagan were alive today he would be considered a Democrat...Under Obama's watch this is allowed to happen but it was not allowed to happen under Reagan's anti-business, over intrusive, big government...Not that the President has a say in the matter but still.
Didn't the government break up ATT during the 80s due to the fact that they were basically a monopoly?? If so, how are they not now going to be a virtual monopoly? What was the point??
And this another one of those things were if Reagan were alive today he would be considered a Democrat...Under Obama's watch this is allowed to happen but it was not allowed to happen under Reagan's anti-business, over intrusive, big government...Not that the President has a say in the matter but still.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Another Chain Email Put In It's Place
So I guess this is another one of those chain emails that are going around the teabagger circles. It came to me with the heading: Not Funny, but true dummies at work liberals and democrats
Oh the irony of a Republican using the constitution to keep the "big government" from telling someone what kind of light bulbs to use but I am sure he has no problem telling a woman what to do with her own body (Poe is anti-choice and has a 0 rating from NARAL an abortion rights group and a 100 rating from the National Right to Life Committee) and telling people who they are allowed to marry (voted yes on constitutionally defining marriage) or who can and can't serve in the military or what people smoke in the privacy of their own homes...All powers also NOT given to congress in the constitution. It must also me noted that he has no problem with the big evil government giving subsidies to oil and gas companies...Not surprising for a Congressman from Texas. He actually voted against removing these subsidies.
He has some valid points but I wish people on his side of the isle would finally realize they are just as guilty of "big government" as the people on the other side of the isle...Remember when Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers?That is not the work of a small, unintrusive government, nor is the Patriot Act or telling people who they can marry.
And by the way, by using these light bulbs which are 5x more efficient (a 15 watt fluorescent is equivalent to a 60W and 90% of the energy generate in an incandescent is heat, not light) and last 5-6x longer than an incandescent bulb, means you drastically cut down on your energy bill, you spend less time changing bulbs and you have buy fewer bulbs...And coal plants emit far less CO2. My building switched to these bulbs for our porch and hall lights and we saved over $1200 last year...And it isn't even that big of a building...So you could say they are doing this FOR us, not TO us.
And by the way, we can make light bulbs in the US...Its just with the trade agreements congress makes, it rewards companies to move jobs to China. I don't like that these are made in China but for the people who would rather shop at Walmart to save a few dollars than buy American made goods elsewhere, that shouldn't be a problem.
And I also love the irony that, after railing about "big government", he complains that the GOVERNMENT, needs to do more to find better sources of energy (another responsibility not given to the government in the constitution) and that the people aren't capable of making America more efficient...It's someone elses job (that would be the government), not a shared individual responsibility...So who's the dummy here?
Oh the irony of a Republican using the constitution to keep the "big government" from telling someone what kind of light bulbs to use but I am sure he has no problem telling a woman what to do with her own body (Poe is anti-choice and has a 0 rating from NARAL an abortion rights group and a 100 rating from the National Right to Life Committee) and telling people who they are allowed to marry (voted yes on constitutionally defining marriage) or who can and can't serve in the military or what people smoke in the privacy of their own homes...All powers also NOT given to congress in the constitution. It must also me noted that he has no problem with the big evil government giving subsidies to oil and gas companies...Not surprising for a Congressman from Texas. He actually voted against removing these subsidies.
He has some valid points but I wish people on his side of the isle would finally realize they are just as guilty of "big government" as the people on the other side of the isle...Remember when Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers?That is not the work of a small, unintrusive government, nor is the Patriot Act or telling people who they can marry.
And by the way, by using these light bulbs which are 5x more efficient (a 15 watt fluorescent is equivalent to a 60W and 90% of the energy generate in an incandescent is heat, not light) and last 5-6x longer than an incandescent bulb, means you drastically cut down on your energy bill, you spend less time changing bulbs and you have buy fewer bulbs...And coal plants emit far less CO2. My building switched to these bulbs for our porch and hall lights and we saved over $1200 last year...And it isn't even that big of a building...So you could say they are doing this FOR us, not TO us.
And by the way, we can make light bulbs in the US...Its just with the trade agreements congress makes, it rewards companies to move jobs to China. I don't like that these are made in China but for the people who would rather shop at Walmart to save a few dollars than buy American made goods elsewhere, that shouldn't be a problem.
And I also love the irony that, after railing about "big government", he complains that the GOVERNMENT, needs to do more to find better sources of energy (another responsibility not given to the government in the constitution) and that the people aren't capable of making America more efficient...It's someone elses job (that would be the government), not a shared individual responsibility...So who's the dummy here?
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
God is Causing Earth Quakes Again.
Not that there was any doubt as to how retarded Glenn Beck is but this takes the cake.
So when god takes a day off giving AIDS to babies in Africa, he "punishes" Japan with an earthquake to show them what a compassionate, loving god he is in hopes of them converting to Christianity...Makes about as much sense as Bin Laden flying planes into buildings trying to convince Americans to convert to Islam...But then again, it's Glenn Beck and he plays with his own poop.
And I find it interesting that within Christianity and Islam they tend towards god doing bad things and punishing people and being the evil, vengeful guy. You don't hear them when someone wins the lottery saying "He must have been doing something right in gods eye for rewarding him with the jackpot". So if your god is such a dick that he does these things, why would you worship him? What, just because he might throw a temper tantrum if you don't? That's who you want to spend eternity with?? I would rather be worm food or come back as a cow in India or something. What they should be asking is why would god let a catastrophe like this happen? And why not punish child molesters (AKA as gods priests) and child murderers and shit? And not only that, how do you explain all the flooding and tornado's in the Bible Belt?? Maybe that's Vishnu punishing the people of Arkansas for praying to a false god??
Clearly this quake had nothing to do with the North American and Pacific tectonic plates...No, nothing to do with that but god. What year is this? Does he still think you have to sacrifice virgins in order to get rain? Why do religious people always look to the supernatural before looking to science? Well, this is why they are more gullible and will believe shit like Jonah living in a whale and that you reduce the deficit with tax cuts.
So when god takes a day off giving AIDS to babies in Africa, he "punishes" Japan with an earthquake to show them what a compassionate, loving god he is in hopes of them converting to Christianity...Makes about as much sense as Bin Laden flying planes into buildings trying to convince Americans to convert to Islam...But then again, it's Glenn Beck and he plays with his own poop.
And I find it interesting that within Christianity and Islam they tend towards god doing bad things and punishing people and being the evil, vengeful guy. You don't hear them when someone wins the lottery saying "He must have been doing something right in gods eye for rewarding him with the jackpot". So if your god is such a dick that he does these things, why would you worship him? What, just because he might throw a temper tantrum if you don't? That's who you want to spend eternity with?? I would rather be worm food or come back as a cow in India or something. What they should be asking is why would god let a catastrophe like this happen? And why not punish child molesters (AKA as gods priests) and child murderers and shit? And not only that, how do you explain all the flooding and tornado's in the Bible Belt?? Maybe that's Vishnu punishing the people of Arkansas for praying to a false god??
Clearly this quake had nothing to do with the North American and Pacific tectonic plates...No, nothing to do with that but god. What year is this? Does he still think you have to sacrifice virgins in order to get rain? Why do religious people always look to the supernatural before looking to science? Well, this is why they are more gullible and will believe shit like Jonah living in a whale and that you reduce the deficit with tax cuts.
Friday, March 04, 2011
Unions
"Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist..."
If we don't stop them here, who are they coming for next? Imagine if Hitler would have been stopped by the trade unionists...Like the Communists were in Poland and thus ushering in democracy in the Eastern Block! ....Wait? Unionists were partly responsible for ending Communism in Europe?? It wasn't Ronald Reagan? You mean Faux News never talked about this?
If we don't stop them here, who are they coming for next? Imagine if Hitler would have been stopped by the trade unionists...Like the Communists were in Poland and thus ushering in democracy in the Eastern Block! ....Wait? Unionists were partly responsible for ending Communism in Europe?? It wasn't Ronald Reagan? You mean Faux News never talked about this?
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Facts About Obama Spending and Debt
I am so tired of hearing from the tea baggers about how Obama ran up our debt and increased spending and is going to bankrupt the United States...It is true that spending under Obama has increased but I want to clear up all the misconceptions that you tea baggers have about how you are manipulating numbers to try and prove your point.
The bottom line is this: OBAMA HAS ONLY SUBMITTED TWO BUDGETS! THE 2010 and 2011 BUDGET. BUSH SUBMITTED THE 2009 BUDGET which was $3.1 Trillion.
Obama and Congress did have some stimulus add ons to the 2009 budget that added $185 billion (6%) to the 2009 fiscal year but it was ultimately drafted by the Bush administration.
That's how it works, the budget is always submitted the year prior to that fiscal year by the President which in this case was Bush in 2008 who submitted the 2009 budget.
So all the debt, deficit and spending numbers being used to calculate Obama's "increases" start with his 2010 budget, not Bush's 2009 budget.
The 2010 Budget was Obama's first budget. And of course with the small amount of spending increases by Obama, you have to account for the fact that he actually put the Iraq war ($130 Billion) on the budget (overseas military contingencies) which Bush did not(supplemental appropriations)...Not to mention the fact that the wars are still not over and we are still paying for them....And then of course all the interest on the Bush debt...And of course the decrease in revenue due to the Bush economy (-$420 Billion in 09). So not all of the increases in the 2010 budget were actual "Obama spending", like the $209 Billion, or 6% of our 2010 budget which is going towards interest on past debt, a lot of which is Bush's debt.
Here are the facts.
Ending in fiscal year 2001, the US had a surplus $127 Billion
The DEFICIT for Bush's 2009 budget was $1.42 Trillion.
Obama's 2010 Budget saw a deficit of $1.45 trillion...A 2% increase from Bush's 09 budget
Obama increased our national debt by 13.8% in 2010
Bush's increased the national debt 18.8% in 2009 and had increased the debt 11.2% in 2008.
The national debt at the end of 2000 before Bush's first budget was submitted was $5.6 Trillion, for the last Bush budget in 2009 the debt had increased to $11.9 Trillion, a 110% increase.
Over 60% of our budget is dedicated to the following:
Defense Spending (20%) - (Everything included, it's actually much higher than this)
Social Security (20%)
Medicare (13%)
Medicade (7%)
Obama didn't invent any of these, nor was he responsible for the wars or Empire which requires so much revenue for defense nor was he the one who has been borrowing from social security, nor did he have anything to do with the 2000 tax cuts ($2.2 Trillion) nor did he have anything to do with the HMO (Nixon) that allowed medical costs to skyrocket and thus make medicare and medicade as expensive as they are.
2009 also saw a 17% decrease in federal receipts (bad economy) from 2008...Also something Obama had nothing to do with.
So now we know that Obama has very little to do with our overall debt and deficit situation. The next time a teabagger tries to get away with blaming the 2009 budget on Obama, kick him square in his teabags.
I'm not the only one saying this!
The bottom line is this: OBAMA HAS ONLY SUBMITTED TWO BUDGETS! THE 2010 and 2011 BUDGET. BUSH SUBMITTED THE 2009 BUDGET which was $3.1 Trillion.
Obama and Congress did have some stimulus add ons to the 2009 budget that added $185 billion (6%) to the 2009 fiscal year but it was ultimately drafted by the Bush administration.
That's how it works, the budget is always submitted the year prior to that fiscal year by the President which in this case was Bush in 2008 who submitted the 2009 budget.
So all the debt, deficit and spending numbers being used to calculate Obama's "increases" start with his 2010 budget, not Bush's 2009 budget.
The 2010 Budget was Obama's first budget. And of course with the small amount of spending increases by Obama, you have to account for the fact that he actually put the Iraq war ($130 Billion) on the budget (overseas military contingencies) which Bush did not(supplemental appropriations)...Not to mention the fact that the wars are still not over and we are still paying for them....And then of course all the interest on the Bush debt...And of course the decrease in revenue due to the Bush economy (-$420 Billion in 09). So not all of the increases in the 2010 budget were actual "Obama spending", like the $209 Billion, or 6% of our 2010 budget which is going towards interest on past debt, a lot of which is Bush's debt.
Here are the facts.
Ending in fiscal year 2001, the US had a surplus $127 Billion
The DEFICIT for Bush's 2009 budget was $1.42 Trillion.
Obama's 2010 Budget saw a deficit of $1.45 trillion...A 2% increase from Bush's 09 budget
Obama increased our national debt by 13.8% in 2010
Bush's increased the national debt 18.8% in 2009 and had increased the debt 11.2% in 2008.
The national debt at the end of 2000 before Bush's first budget was submitted was $5.6 Trillion, for the last Bush budget in 2009 the debt had increased to $11.9 Trillion, a 110% increase.
Over 60% of our budget is dedicated to the following:
Defense Spending (20%) - (Everything included, it's actually much higher than this)
Social Security (20%)
Medicare (13%)
Medicade (7%)
Obama didn't invent any of these, nor was he responsible for the wars or Empire which requires so much revenue for defense nor was he the one who has been borrowing from social security, nor did he have anything to do with the 2000 tax cuts ($2.2 Trillion) nor did he have anything to do with the HMO (Nixon) that allowed medical costs to skyrocket and thus make medicare and medicade as expensive as they are.
2009 also saw a 17% decrease in federal receipts (bad economy) from 2008...Also something Obama had nothing to do with.
So now we know that Obama has very little to do with our overall debt and deficit situation. The next time a teabagger tries to get away with blaming the 2009 budget on Obama, kick him square in his teabags.
I'm not the only one saying this!
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