I know our guys in uniform are waiting, ready and able to go fight any war for us as they are all true warriors and patriots but I sit here and wonder if we, as a nation, were truly energy independent, we would even NEED to be in the middle east trying to quell wars there that have literally been going on for hundreds of years and whose people have no interest in our affairs except for our money or kill us. Maybe we could consider protecting our sovereignty within our own borders FIRST, including our safety, and get back to being the greatest nation on earth and then once again start helping other nations as we can without hurting our own welfare. We have a small start now and this could bloom to do just that if we choose carefully for our future and especially for our next generations. We DO have all the different resources to do it and all we really need are good leaders with the willingness & perseverance to go forward.
P.S. If anything right now just commit all we need in weapons and troop amounts to completely wipe out ISIS, as we did to Saddams(sp)army,in the Gulf war under Swartskoff (sp) and be done with it. But I doubt that will ever happen. It hasn't in 1000 years.
(Message edited by Bob_thompson on November 08, 2014)
The cartoon is spot on Tom. The only truth Obama ever spoke was that he would try and fundamentally change this nation forever and the uninformed people that voted for him just did not understand exactly what he meant. Everything else he ever spoke was a lie and liars and deceivers, sooner or later always get caught up with and fail. Time has come to rid ourselves forever of all those that want to change this nation from what our founding fathers, under God, wanted it to be and what has made it great.
Basically, the American public is too stupid to know what is good for them.
The end justifies the means. So admitted MIT's Jonathan Gruber.
The MIT video was made back in '13. That means every comments Gruber made, in print and on TV, in defending the ACA and accusing the ACA's critics of being partisan liars, should be summarily dismissed.
The arrogance and contempt this man have for his fellow Americans are no less than astounding.
Wonder where Fled AKA Fredrica is on that one Fooled by the left all those who think the demos did this because they care. The real game is power and the self hating losers love this stuff.
Basically, the American public is too stupid to know what is good for them.
The end justifies the means. So admitted MIT's Jonathan Gruber.
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“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” says the MIT economist who helped write Obamacare. “And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.”
The arrogance and contempt this man have for his fellow Americans are no less than astounding.
The arrogance and contempt that this man, and his Dear Leader in the White House, and the people pulling their strings, have for America in total is no less than astounding.
President 0bama has lied about everything since he took (and I literally mean took) office. EVERYTHING.
Except one: Fundamentally changing America. One lie at a time.
Dear Useful Idiot Gruber: WE (the American voters) didn't build 0bamadontcare, YOU did.
This entity who some call Obama: * Has carved up America into tiny fiefdoms in order to garner power. * Has dishonored America in public in front of the entire world. * Has lost the Iraq War which we had won and has been fundamental in causing the next war in that cesspool. * Has done everything in his power to grow Big Government while dismantling the Private Sector. * Has been instrumental in the almost exponential growth in college tuition that is hobbling young people with a huge debt burden. * Has doubled the Debt, more than that accrued by all Presidents before him. * Has trampled the Constitution of The United States of America which is the greatest document in history. * Is a really lousy golfer.
I am just getting started but the litany of his crimes grows daily. Anyone who continues to support this SOB is nothing but a Statist and is unAmerican.
This entity that some call Obama, is the worst pResident of Presidents in our history.
Here are the pResident's men at work destroying the First Amendment. There is not a smidgeon of truth because this attack was on Conservatives.
House Committee Demands Answers on Truthy Project Taxpayer-funded initiative collected 600,000 political tweets in its ‘database,’ bragged about having conservative Twitter accounts suspended
BY: Elizabeth Harrington November 10, 2014 5:00 pm
The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track “misinformation” on Twitter.
The Truthy project, being conducted by researchers at Indiana University, is under investigation for targeting political commentary on Twitter. The project monitors “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas,” and “hate speech,” with a goal of one day being able to automatically detect false rumors on the social media platform.
The web service has been used to track tweets using hashtags such as #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and was successful in getting accounts associated with conservatives suspended, according to a 2012 book co-authored by the project’s lead researcher, Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University.
The Net Neutrality decision is less clear, and Cruz is an idiot for making the statements about it he is making.
I don't like the federal government telling businesses how to run their businesses, but I also don't like cable companies advertising one thing then doing another, and charging providers of content extra when they deliver things to me through a pipe I have already paid for.
You could view it as a big government messing with private business, but you could also view it as the FDA saying that if you want to sell something as 100% meat, it has to contain 100% meat.
In the short term, I think Net Neutrality would be a good thing to limit how evil cable companies can be while they finish their death throes resulting from their cheese being moved.
In the long term, letting the cable companies be as evil as they will inevitably be without some rules for the playing field would get us to better and cheaper solutions faster, just at the cost of a REALLY expensive and miserable short term experience. (The period during which a spasaming cable company does awful things to consumers and drives a pent up demand to get others to pull cables or new wireless solutions to every neighborhood).
Just what happened last week on election day? And what is going to happen in the years ahead?
The most important thing that happened last week was that the country dodged a bullet. Had the Democrats retained control of the Senate, President Obama could have spent his last two years in office loading the federal judiciary with judges who share his contempt for the Constitution of the United States.
Such judges – perhaps including Supreme Court justices – would have been confirmed by Senate Democrats, and could spend the rest of their lifetime appointments ruling in favor of expansions of federal government power that would make the freedom of “we the people” only a distant memory and a painful mockery.
We dodged that bullet. But what about the rest of Barack Obama’s term?
Pundits who depict Obama as a weak, lame duck president may be greatly misjudging him, as they have so often in the past. Despite the Republican sweep of elections across the country last week, President Obama has issued an ultimatum to Congress, to either pass the kind of immigration law he wants before the end of this year or he will issue Executive Orders changing the country’s immigration laws unilaterally.
Does that sound like a lame duck president?
On the contrary, it sounds more like some banana republic’s dictator. Nor is Obama making an idle bluff. He has already changed other laws unilaterally, including the work requirement in welfare reform laws passed during the Clinton administration.
The very idea of Congress rushing a bill into law in less than two months, on a subject as complex, and with such irreversible long-run consequences as immigration, is staggering. But there is already a precedent for such hasty action, without Congressional hearings to bring out facts or air different views. That is how ObamaCare was passed. And we see how that has turned out.
People who are increasingly questioning Barack Obama’s competence are continuing to ignore the alternative possibility that his fundamental values and imperatives are different from theirs. You cannot tell whether someone is failing or succeeding without knowing what they are trying to do.
When Obama made a brief public statement about Americans being beheaded by terrorists, and then went on out to play golf, that was seen as a sign of political ineptness, rather than a stark revelation of what kind of man he is, underneath the smooth image and lofty rhetoric.
The president’s refusal to protect the American people by quarantining people coming from Ebola-infected areas – as was done by Britain and a number of African nations – is by no means a sign of incompetence. It is a sacrifice of Americans' interests for the sake of other people’s interests, as is an assisted invasion of illegal immigrants across our southern borders.
Such actions are perfectly consistent with Obama’s citizen of the world vision that has led to such statements of his in 2008: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that every other country’s going to say okay.”
In a similar vein, Obama said, “we consume more than 20 percent of the world’s oil but have less than 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves.” In short, Americans are undeservedly prosperous and selfishly consuming a disproportionate share of “the world’s output” – at least in the vision of Barack Obama.
That Americans are producing a disproportionate share of what is called “the world’s output” and consuming what we produce – while paying for our imports – is not allowed to disturb Obama’s vision.
Resentment of the prosperous – whether at home or on the world stage – runs through virtually everything Barack Obama has said and done throughout his life. You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to find the clues. You have to shut your eyes tightly to keep from seeing them everywhere, in every period of his life.
The big question is whether the other branches of government – Congress and the Supreme Court – can stop him from doing irreparable damage to America in his last two years. Seeing Obama as an incompetent and weak, lame duck president only makes that task harder.
If the preezy is FOR it, I'm AGAINST it. Works every time.
On the contrary, [0bama] sounds more like some banana republic’s dictator.
And has acted like one for the past six years. Nobody with a pulse thinks he's a lame duck. The people pulling his strings have got (at least) two more years to effect the transformation, and they'll use him for everything he's worth.
So you see no problem with buying a 1MB/sec Internet connection, and having your provider selectively degrade parts of it because they want to promote their own service over a competitors one?