Proud of their accomplishments
The Republican presidential campaign has railed against the alleged failures of the Obama administration. Amazingly, it has offered not a single word of contrast to the presumed triumphs of the last Republican administration. The most recent Republican president, George W. Bush, didn't even attend the Republican National Convention.
Is the GOP embarrassed that Bush turned a huge government surplus into a massive deficit, in part with tax cuts that primarily benefited the rich? Does it not want to call attention to his pushing our nation into a costly and futile war with false assertions that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction?
Are Republicans not proud of the deregulation that allowed our largest financial institutions to place risky bets on credit-default swaps and scam investors in mortgage-backed securities, bringing the world economy to the brink of meltdown? Are they afraid we'll remember that the Bush administration presided over the loss of millions of jobs, making President Obama's job-creation record look stellar?
Republicans can ignore history, but they can't delete it. They have a record. They are running from it, not on it.
Why? Is it because Republicans don't want voters to realize that Mitt Romney's campaign pledges of deregulation and tax cuts for millionaires echo eerily the promises George W. Bush made before the Supreme Court appointed him president?
LARRY ROTH
Germanton
Perspective and vision
The responsibilities of the Forsyth Board of Commissioners are formidable, and decisions made by the board have a bearing on the quality of life for all the citizens of the county. The wide range of responsibilities includes governance of public and mental-health services, public schools, social services, county tax rates and public safety. Perhaps the most important function of the board is the drafting of the annual county budget that determines how we spend our tax revenues.
In the past months the board has squandered so much time and energy on issues that have been, at best, distractions from its primary function. Sectarian prayer, guns in public parks and a resolution supporting voter-identification legislation had little to do with the authorized duties of our elected officials.
It is now time for a fresh perspective on the proper role of county government and a renewed vision for the future.
Gail McNeill, candidate in District B, will provide that perspective and vision. After Gail McNeill completed her graduate degree at the University of North Carolina, she continued her studies as a Fulbright Scholar. She has taught at Wake Forest University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Forsyth Technical Community College and in the public schools.
For the past 35 years Gail has been active in Forsyth County political and community affairs. She knows the county well and has a significant investment in the future of our community. Remember Gail McNeil on Nov. 6 for Forsyth County Commissioner.
PATRICIA SISSON
Winston Salem
Raising awareness
I so appreciated the article regarding Dr. Gene Paschold's efforts to raise awareness about the importance of colon cancer screening (“Doctor (now) practices what he preaches,” Sept. 21). As a survivor of colon cancer, there is no doubt in my mind that the routine colonoscopy allowed for early detection of the disease and saved my life.
LENORE SHAMEY
Winston-Salem
Finish the Thought
Briefly complete the sentence below and sent it to us at letters@wsjournal.com. We’ll print some of the results in a few days. Only signed entries, please — no anonymous ones.
“Debates between presidential candidates can help voters if they ...”
LTE 1 is a repeat of the first LTE from Thursday morning.
ReplyDelete“Debates between presidential candidates can help voters if they ...” Remotely have a clue what the candidates are talking about, what with all the vital text "likes", photo sharing, X-Factor etc etc distractions that are vital to the survival of the Republic.
ReplyDeleteWW, surely you are not suggesting that Facebook and Twitter are not vital to the survival of the Republic.
DeleteWithout those distractions people might start paying attention to what politicians are up to...think of the chaos that could cause....think of all the suddenly unemployed politicians standing in line at the Employment Security Commission...imagine poor Ann Romney as a welfare mother...scratch that last one...too horrible to contemplate.
Worst of all, everybody would be "friend"-less, like the Dunce. Do we really want more Dunces?
Beer and politics
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wxii12.com/news/entertainment/-/9677474/16779958/-/du3kpyz/-/index.html
I was 'right', as usual. People that like heinies do vote Democratic.
DeleteParrot and copycat...Wordly already posted the same stuff.
DeleteHey, mole! Get back down into your hole.
DeleteTypical Dunce response when he is caught out. Reminds me a lot of 2nd grade.
DeleteI notice in the graph and accompanying article that guzzlers of Bud Light as a group tend to political apathy. This is probably due to frequent consumption of entire 12-packs in one sitting.
DeleteI protest the inclusion of Natural Light, which has similar placement in the graph. NL appears to be a bland sparkling water that is modestly fortified with alcohol. This was supposed to be a graph of beers.
Ha, ha, I think you've got the Bud Light crowd pegged. Ever impress everyone by smashing a beer can on your head? In the days of the old steel cans, that took some measure of guts or stupidity or something.
DeleteFor some years I taught a seminar on psychological manipulation in advertising.
During that time, Busch beer was running a series of TV ads in which a group of young men who you would not want to know, and certainly would hope were not your own children, would stop on the way home and buy a bunch of Busch beer.
When they got home, they would be delighted to find their yard full of nubile bikini babes waiting for the beer, babes who you also would not want to know, but might not mind looking at for a while.
It was one of my most popular classes and examples. Part of that, of course, was because of the blatant connection between the name of the beer and the bikini babes. Whenever a similar example arose in the seminar, someone was almost certain to say "Buy Busch!" More often than not, that somone would be one of the young women in the class and the delivery would be dripping with sarcasm.
I must admit that there was a brief period when I could have starred as one of the dopes in that commercial, so I try not to be too judgmental.
I was a member of that dope category once, too. Who says youth is wasted on the young?
DeleteAnd this youth got wasted a few times on liquids similar to the one you cited in your class.
Ha, ha. Youth was definitely not wasted on us...we knew what was important.
DeleteBut the Busch-type ads wouldn't have worked on us. We were all about price.
Some of the bars in the Triangle area had Rupert Knickerbocker in 16 ounce bottles for about 2/3 what Bud and Schlitz 12 ouncers cost. And for private parties, A&P sold a store brand called Tudor at about half the going rate. One year we took about 30 cases of Tudor to Ocean Drive with us. Who drank them, I could not tell you, but somebody did, and nobody ever complained.
They filled the trunk and the floorboards of both cars, so we had to hold our minimal baggage on our laps or tie it on top of the car. If we had had a dog, we would have Romneyed it.
We knew instinctively that girls didn't care about brand names...they just wanted what we wanted...as the Beach Boys put it, fun, fun, fun.
There used to be a godawful swill called Red White & Blue that went for about 2/3 of what the premium brands (Bud and Schlitz, for example).
DeleteThere was a beer strike in the late 60s when major brand workers crassly walked out. I got by on Ballentine, not bad under the circumstances.
BEER
DeleteWhite can, black letters, made by Falstaff.
City Beverage had it first, as a curiosity, later in supermarkets.
Verdict: No worse than Bud, Schlitz, Miller, etc. But by then we were way past that and into imports...and making our own...illegal at the time...you could make wine, but beer was verboten...we made it anyway.
Nice slides Bucky.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bob for the HTML lesson.
O.T., I know you tried, and maybe it was the repetition, but Bob finally explained it so that even I could get it.
Great! It's easy to do, but not so easy to explain.
DeleteWell done, Professor Bob!
DeleteProf Bob, pls try explaining to me. Again. I'm a slow study, 'would seem.
DeletePerhaps Bob is onto something here and could end up being the next internet billionaire.
DeleteThe problem that I encountered was that if you post the html in a comment, it becomes an unreadable link. Jeez.
Rep. Allen West (R) slams opponent in campaign ad.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/allen-wests-new-ad-is-epic
Mayor Mia Love (R) and Rep. West both drive liberals nuts.
West is a fool to bring up the past.
DeleteWe'll see which the voters think is more important, a bar fight by a teenager or war crimes committed by a seasoned army officer.
“Keep Obama as president,” the animated woman says on the video. “He gave us a phone.”
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkXWqLBTTVg&feature=related
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Tell Obama to buy you some teeth, too.
What's wrong with Romney?
Now that's a loaded question. I think I'll just let the Mitt keep on reminding us himself.
DeleteHealth insurance premiums are up 18% after the passage of Obamacare, but these dopes, like Rush, keep believin.
ReplyDeleteHee hee...these Democrats are too much.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the authority on health care premiums, health insurance premiums rose in double digits during most of the Cheney administration.
DeleteThey rose 9% from 2010 to 2011.
This year, the rise was much smaller. Family premiums rose just 4%. Individual premiums rose only 3%.
None of that has anything to do with the ACA. ACA will not affect any health insurance costs until 2014.
When a crackpot gets their "news" from crackpot sources, they get crackpot "info".
Hey Rush, did you take that biology class over at the Greyhound Bus Station last night like I told you to?
DeleteTypical of the Dunce when he gets one of his lies exposed to reply with some incoherent nonsense.
DeleteAnd even then, he can't get it right. We don't have a Greyhound Bus Station.
Typical NW style. Rush actually helps me make my point that healthcare costs have gone up since Obamacare was passed.
DeleteBut Rush is too stupid to realize he just re-affirmed my point with his post.
You just can't resist making a fool of yourself, can you Rush?
DuncePost
DeleteBoy.....Obama has got the whole world stirred up on taxes.
ReplyDeleteNow, even the U.N. wants to tax the 'rich'.
Debates between presidential candidates can help voters if they don't watch the debates.
ReplyDeleteLiberal bias is partisan selection or distortion of information to support liberal policies. This bias can be expressed by professors and public school teachers, College Board exams, reporters and other journalists in mainstream media, and any other information source. Typically purveyors of liberal bias falsely present themselves as being objective. Liberal bias includes techniques such as distorted selection of information, placement bias, photo bias and liberal style. There is a difference between being liberal, having a liberal perspective, and having a liberal bias.
ReplyDeleteThe essence of liberal bias is to dismiss or even to censor all opposing views. For liberals, to allow the airing or publishing of an opposing view creates the risk that people might discover errors in the liberal viewpoint. On the other hand, Conservatives typically uphold freedom of ideological expression, with many expressing that although they may oppose a liberal view with every fiber of their being, they will defend to the death their right to say it, because they believe that in the marketplace of ideas the true will always win over the false.
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You'll never convince these liberal dopes, like Rush, of that.
Dunce has discovered Conservapedia, or one of the many parrots who copy from it.
DeleteNice job of copying and pasting, Dunce, except you forgot one thing. You should always cite your source...not to do so can be a violation of international copyright law. At the least it exposes you as a crude and ignorant boor.
Also, when you are quoting someone else's work, quotation marks must be used. If not, you are a plagiarist in addition to all your other numerous shortcomings.
DeletePar for the course.
Did you go over to the Greyhound Bus Station like I told you to? Those 'boys' over there will teach you a thing or two about biology.
DeleteAlso NW, if you've noticed, I've always drawn a line between my comments and some information from somewhere else.
DeleteI guess even though I've been doing it for months and months, you're just too stupid to have noticed it until now.
Pathetic.
The parrot has an echo...echo...echo...echo...
DeleteDunce (Definition: incapable of learning) is incapable of making a substantive reply when he gets caught lying and stealing.
Guess he likes being a boorish, plagiarizing intellectual property thief.
Certainly, for any post of his to have intellectual content, he would have to steal it from somewhere.
Also NW, if you've noticed, I've always drawn a line between my comments and some information from somewhere else.
DeleteI guess even though I've been doing it for months and months, you're just too stupid to have noticed it until now.
Pathetic.
And drawing a line doesn't get the job done, Duncy boy.
DeleteThere is a right way to do everything, and there are many wrong ways...you seem to know them all.
Use the conventions required in the civilized world or just admit that you are what you are.
Also NW, if you've noticed, I've always drawn a line between my comments and some information from somewhere else.
DeleteI guess even though I've been doing it for months and months, you're just too stupid to have noticed it until now.
Pathetic
Poor Rush-he's a mole, and when he comes out, noboby wants to see him, OR hear from him.
DeletePathetic.
A parrot echo...echo...echo...echo...
DeleteAND
A DuncePost
Back to back
For everyone else, Conservapedia can provide some entertaining reading.
ReplyDeleteFor instance:
'In March 2010, liberal evolutionary magazine the National Geographic, postulated that liberals and atheists may be more evolved than conservatives, according to conclusions by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist. Kanazawa states "people with higher levels of intelligence are more likely to adopt social values and behaviors that are relatively new to human life—liberalism, atheism, staying up late, and (for men) monogamy, for example." Kanazawa also defines liberalism, in part, as caring about the well-being of vast numbers of people you'll never meet, and states that this "is a very new thing for humans."
However, in response it is argued that such an definition of liberalism would render Jesus Christ a liberal, who clearly taught "love thy neighbor as thyself", and who came to be the Savior of the world - to those who believe and so follow Him - and which obedience is contrary to what liberalism promotes. And that, in contrast to Biblical conservative morality, history shows that liberalism, as overall manifest today, has adopted such "new" but essentially old ways of rebellion against beneficial moral values, promoting adultery, anarchy, and atrocities such as are seen by such intelligent atheists as Mao and Pol Pot, whose objectively baseless moral reasoning allowed them to justify their evils, as pragmatically reasonable to achieving their "enlightened" ideals.'
Copied & pasted from the Conservapedia entry on "Liberal Bias"
Note that the unnamed author refers to the "National Geographic" as a "liberal evolutionary magazine". Also note that the name of the magazine is set in italic as if it were the title of a book. Names of magazines should be placed between quotation marks.
Also note that the culminating argument names such evils as "adultery, anarchy and atrocities", all things which the Old Testament Yahweh commanded his subjects, at one time or another, to do to achieve his "enlightened" ideals.
You know when Rush starts making Biblical observations, he's gone off his meds.
DeleteYet another DuncePost...we can start calling them that...defined as a reply of no substance to a comment of substance.
DeleteDuncePost...gotta like it.
More electoral corruption by Democrats is surfacing. It seems the Obama Administration doesn't want defense contractors to 'WARN' workers that they'll be losing their jobs shortly because of sequestration.
ReplyDeleteWhy? Because the Obama Administration is afraid the contractors won't vote for Obama in the presidential election.
Hello?!
Never, ever, underestimate the scumminess of Democrats.