The 47 percent
I find it hypocritical that a multimillionaire like Mitt Romney, who has spent his life looking for tax breaks from the government and hiding his money in the Cayman Islands and other tax shelters, should feel the need to tell 47 percent of us that we are a bunch of leeches.
Such a high number must include seniors; is he planning to get rid of Social Security as well as Medicare? I would remind him that Social Security is fully funded by payroll deductions and has never added one cent to the deficit. It is not an entitlement because we pay for it and own it — so politicians, hands off Social Security!
He and Sen. Paul Ryan plan to kill Medicare by making it Vouchercare. According to AARP, this will end Medicare. Currently my husband and I pay monthly premium dues from our Social Security checks. The Romney plan would be a crippling blow to many seniors; from what Romneys says, we'd be the people he doesn't have to think about. Is this the kind of president we want?
Finally, the reason Romney won't disclose his tax returns is because he doesn't want anyone to know just how many tax breaks he's had.
ELIZABETH L. SANER
Kernersville
Restricting religious expression
We Americans face a great decision this fall in our presidential election, not merely because of economic irresponsibility, but because we fail to honor God, causing serious immoral conduct: sexual atrocities, killings, dishonesty and intolerance. When citizens neglect their Creator, they not only become more interested in advancing themselves, but also disregard the foundation of human freedom stated in our Declaration of Independence: “all people are created equal.”
This is a religious affirmation. This truth is neglected by many political leaders as well as courts that prevent expressions of religion in governmental and public places, thereby promoting the establishment of secularism.
Our Bill of Rights provides freedom of religion for all people, not freedom from religion. Our Constitution emphasizes that expressions of religion are not to be restricted anywhere in our nation. Judgments or laws restricting the establishment of religion dare not limit expressing faith in God in public gatherings, lest they also restrict freedom of speech. Our Constitution prohibits acts establishing a religion, not expressions of religious faith. Individuals praying at governmental meetings, reading Bible verses or expressing faith in public is not the establishment of religion and this does not infringe others’ rights when done with equal consideration, which our forefathers understood.
We live in a world where Muslims enforce their religion and Communists excluded religion, but not in our nation if we elect leaders who abide by our Constitution. The freedom of religion for everyone is vital for a moral people and magnificent nation.
JIM HELVEY
Winston-Salem
Lift the regulations
I would like to point out the hypocrisy of the uber-rich, 1 percent Democrats like President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, the Hollywood elite, etc., in their “concern” and “love for the poor and downtrodden.” Utter rubbish! Where has been the left’s compassion when it comes to something that hits us all, but especially the poor: the cost of gas and electricity?
Under this administration, gas prices have doubled and electricity, at least for me, has risen at least 30 percent. The poor and middle class have been hit the hardest by these rising prices, yet these uber-rich Democrats are not affected and extremely out of touch with this simple reality.
Obama and his party have let the EPA run wild with regulations that affect our pockets. Face the facts; Obama wants high energy costs that hammer especially the poor. He and his rich buddies are not affected at all.
One should not care if the gas companies make billions in profit (which is what they are in business for) if gas reaches pre-Obama price levels. I guess the oil companies have Obama instead of George W. Bush in their back pocket now, yet no mention of that. We will see our income rise and have more disposable income when the chains of Democratic regulations are lifted off gas and electricity companies.
Vote for cheap gas and electricity in November and give yourself a raise.
EMMANUEL KAFANT
Winston-Salem
Sum It Up
Do you trust political polls?
The 47%. Anything or anyone that depends on the AARP for accurate info is a fool. Depending on info from the Supreme Soviet would have done you equally well. The tax return trash is just a loose squirrel in the room--a needed distraction. There is also a curiosity factor among Democrats too....so many of them in the base have never seen an actual tax return.
ReplyDeleteRestricting religious expression. Our nation is in a state of flux right now. Obama re election uber alles.
ReplyDeleteLift the regulations. A little more to it than that.
ReplyDeleteDo you trust political polls? I trust two--the consistent polling that shows nearly 70% of respondents believe America is headed in the wrong direction. And the 60% that just showed distrust in media...all of it. The rest is collusion and narrative based on the few suckers who don't scan their calls as well as the assigning of "favorable" to people who do answer but then refuse to be polled. When the 60% line crosses the 70% line maybe then America begins to change.
ReplyDeleteI don't trust polls anymore than anyone else I don't know. I do, however, respect everyone until they give me a reason not to.
ReplyDeleteJim Helvey publishes pretty much the same letter in the Journal every month. He is 86 years old and needs to find a new hobby. he was on the track team in college, so maybe he could "run" with the Dunce.
ReplyDeleteWhen he graduated from Mars Hill in 1948, here is what he said in the class last will and testament:
ITEM X. I, Jim Helvey, do leave my ability to debate to Wesley Harris.
I feel sorry for poor Wesley Harris.
. . . and they seem to always appear on Sundays. Go figure.
DeleteHe's got god on his side...First Baptist Church.
DeleteCan anyone please justify the Republican Senate blocking a bill that would have ended $2 billion in subsidies to the Big Oil Companies and then blocking a bi-partisan bill of $1 billion to help 20,000 unemployed vets? Why not take the $2 billion given to oil companies and create 40,000 jobs for the vets who were over there protecting their interests? Shameful.
ReplyDeleteEasy. The Republican Party has been going slowly insane for about 30 years.
DeleteIt began with Reagan and his astrology and crackpot voodoo economics and Star Wars defense system.
They raised the ante in 1994 with the faux intellectual Newt Gingrich and his failed madness.
They raised the ante again in 2000 with the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz neocon war party.
By the end of that regime, much of the party was foaming at the mouth. So in 2010, they gave us the coup de grace, the right wing christian tax whining Pee Pee Party.
And now we have Mitt the Lip and his sidekicks Akin, Huckabee and Ryan.
I am told that there are a few sane Republicans out there somewhere, but I don't know any of them. The ones I do know are ashamed that they are still members of the Grotesque Old Party and will not admit it publicly.
Obama said the debt is nothing to worry about, at least right now.
DeleteOh boy!?!?!?!?!?!
Does that mean the U.S. economy just won't collapse under his administration? Sounds like it to me.
Another US President said exactly the same thing.
DeleteThose of us who worship his legend and grovel at his feet know him as Reagan the Great.
LTE #3: President Obama, VP Joe Biden, and other Democrats UBER-RICH? So by the letter writer's reasoning, the "uber-rich, entitled Democratic 47% uber-poor" Mitt Romney speaks of are REALLY "UBER-RICH"?
ReplyDeletePresident Obama is "UBER-RICH" in comparison to Mitt Romney, or to himself? If he doesn't care to vote for President Obama, he should just write a letter to the editor to say so, instead of parroting buzz words.
I wonder why people think that the President has some sort of control over gas and electricity prices...I guess Rush Limbaugh must tell them that every day.
ReplyDeleteMr. Kafant is bitching about rich Democrats? The President is worth about $6 million according to Forbes latest calculation. Of course FOXLies continues to cite the amount as $11.8 million...par for the course.
Joe Biden is the most worthless politician in the country in more ways than one. His net worth is estimated at about $350,000.
We usually hear that Mitty is worth $250 million, but Forbes says that it is more like $230 million. If he should happen to stumble to victory in November, he would become the second richest man ever to occupy the White House.
Ross Perot was the richest man ever to run for President. At the time his net worth was about $2.5 billion.
Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal published a study of Presidential wealth. The top ten:
1. George Washington $525 million.
2. Thomas Jefferson $212 million
3. Teddy Roosevelt $125 million
4. Andrew Jackson $119 million
5. James Madison $101 million
6. Lyndon Johnson $98 million
7. Herbert Hoover $75 million
8. Franklin Roosevelt $60 million
9. Bill Clinton $38 million
10. John F. Kennedy Unknown (Had Kennedy lived to inherit his share, estimated at $1 billion, of his father's wealth, he would have been the richest President. His net worth while living came from a trust shared with other family members, the value of which is unknown, but the WSJ estimated that he was the tenth richest)
I know what your net worth is Rush. Zero, at least to me, and to the rest of society.
DeleteI wonder what incredibly stupid thing you're going to say today?
DeleteI'll bet it'll be a doozie.
I think you have already cornered the market on that.
DeleteI'm just glad I've got all you 'smart' people in here to keep me in check. Hee Hee.
DeleteYou'll be asleep in another hour or two whitewall. So I don't worry about you.
DeleteYou and Stab are part of the 'untouchable' crowd. So don't even try to pick a fight with me whitewall.
DeleteSpeaking of Newt Gingrich, Forbes recently published a list of politicians whose campaigns have the highest unpaid debt as of May, 2012.
ReplyDelete1. Newt Gingrich $4.3 million (including $1 million for private jet service and $270,000+ in personal expenses. Does not include Callista's account at Tiffany's)
2. Lyndon LaRouche $3.2 million (convicted of fraud in 1988 for failing to pay back campaign loans)
3. Rick Santorum $1.99 million
4. Rudy Giuliani $1.5 million
5. Jon Huntsman $1.4 million
6. Michele Bachmann $1.1 million
7. Al Sharpton $ .9 million
8. Dennis Kucinich $560,000
9. Alan Keyes $483,000
10. Laura Richardson $440,000 (Cal 37th district, the only one on the list not running for President)
Who cares? The election is between somebody competent, and would get the economy back on track, and another person.
DeleteInteresting table. I knew about G. Washington. But Joe Biden? Anybody that age surrounded by that much access to wealth and is only worth $350 large is way too poor to ever be President.
ReplyDeleteJust had a scary thought. Couldn't be that Biden is the honest man that Diogenes was looking for, could it?
DeleteNo way!
DeleteIt is possible, in which case he really needs to get the hell out of Dodge before something happens to him.
DeleteI dunno...he's been in DC a long time already.
DeleteMaybe he has the DNA that creates the rarest of genes, the honest gene. I read somewhere that it occurs in about one out of a million people, so there ought to be about 330 of them walking around somewhere in the US.
I don't think any of them live in Forsyth County.
"Uber-" is a worthy addition to Word Watch."
DeleteDeutschland, Deutschland über alles!
DeleteUber is a company that provides chauffeured town cars for transportation in certain cities at a price between taxis and limos. You use an app on your i-Phone to summon them.
Cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Hamptons, London, Los Angeles, New york, Paris, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, DC. Also was available in Charlotte during the DNC and Tampa during the RNC.
We actually used the service the last time we were in Chicago because it was pouring down rain and no taxis in sight anywhere. Fast, excellent service, very clean car. Cost about 2.5x that of a taxi. They automatically charge it, with tip, to your credit card. In our case, the maitre d made the call and added it to our restaurant bill.
I imagine Mitty uses the service to go to the country club. Not. This is for Mitty wannabes.
The tune for that is by Joseph Hayden. It's also a Methodist Hymn
DeletePraise the Lord! ye heavens adore him;
praise him angels in the height;
sun and moon, rejoice before him;
praise him, all ye stars of light.
Praise the Lord! for he hath spoken;
worlds his mighty voice obeyed;
laws which never shall be broken
for their guidance he hath made.
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I like this Mia Love (R) lady. Good looking, articulate, Republican...she got a great name.......I think I'd like to go out with her. Does anybody know if she's married?
ReplyDeleteWell I'll be whipper-snappered, Dunce actually has a sense of humor, and of my favorite variety, absurdist…him, the King of the Dunces, a racist and misogynist, on a date with anyone other than those boys for rent down in the ABCs. Tambù!
ReplyDeleteJim Matheson, the Democratic incumbent in Utah's 4th Congressional District, has had a 17 point lead in the polls over Mia Love for about 8 months. We won't be hearing much more about her.
And a word of caution. Her husband is the biggest, baddest crack dealer in Utah. The last guy who looked at Mia for just a second too long got his you-know-whats cut off. Of course, in Dunce's case, he would need a microscope to find them.
She's not going away. Win lose or draw, she's going to be around for a while. She's sharp.
DeleteBy way Rush, you calling somebody else a racist and a bigot is like saying Timothy McVeigh was a good person. It's absurdity.
DeleteNow tell us again how you hate the Morman Church, and how Mitt Romney is like George Wallace.
You're pathetic Rush.
Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains. - Winston Churchill
ReplyDelete________
Winston must have known Rush.
Ah yes, Sir Winston, Honorary Vice President of the First International Eugenics Conference in London, 1912.
DeleteHe was twice the man you are Rush, but that's not really saying much.
DeleteI'm not Rush.
DeleteSorry Bob. At any rate, I stand by my post.
DeleteHe also still stands by his post about portable nuclear devices and many other ridiculous assertions.
DeleteChurchill was a great man between 1940 and 1945. The rest of his life is open to interpretation.
Certainly, he was a racist, an asshole and the town drunk of England. But Dunce, with his obsession for bathrooms and naked men, would have liked him. Churchill was fond of receiving his staff in his bedroom or bathroom, issuing dictation while naked.
When he first heard the reports from Pearl Harbor, he knew that the US would now come into the war. He also knew, that as always, the Americans would insist on running everything. So just a couple of weeks later, at Christmas time, he undertook a dangerous and highly secret voyage across the Atlantic, the idea being to secure as much control of the war as possible for Britain.
The astonished FDR put him up in the Lincoln bedroom. During his visit, Churchill virtually drank the White House dry. But the high point of the visit came one night when FDR knocked on the door of the Lincoln bedroom.
Churchill had just had his bath and was pacing the room naked, dictating to his stenographer Patrick Kinna. He went to the door and opened it. Surveying all that pink British flesh, FDR may have gotten a weird expression on his face. Without missing a beat, Churchill said "See, Mr. President, I have nothing to hide from you." The President's reply is not recorded.
Here's where Rush gets most of his news:
ReplyDeletehttp://mediamatters.org/
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Check it out, you'll be amazed at what the extreme, left-wing of the Democratic Party obsesses over.
Had never visited mediamatters.org, but will put it in the rotation.
DeleteIt isn't a news site, but it's easy to see why Dunce started foaming at the mouth about it...it is a fact checking site, which means it spends a lot of time correcting the outright bullshit that runs on Dunce's favorite "news" channel, FOXlies.
Hey, now, like Dunce, I can just cut and paste to refute his stupid statements.
My favorite feature was a TV clip from ABC in which 50 year old virgin and idiot Ann Coulter says:
"I think civil rights are for blacks, not feminists or gays who want to get married."
She went on to add immigrants, and repeated that civil rights are only for blacks. I guess that means that we poor white men and non-feminist women (whatever that is) are left out in the cold too.
Is it actually possible for any person who can walk and talk to be so stupid? Surely someone pays her to make a fool of herself. Aha, they do, don't they, just like they pay Limbaugh and Beck. Pretty sweet job...turn off brain, say stupid things and get paid for it.
Bet somebody's paying Dunce too.
50y virgin? Coulter and Ingraham both dated Dinesh DiSouza (sp?).
DeleteDoesn't mean anything happened.
DeleteI heard that the most exciting moment was when she made him clip, file and paint her toenails.
She has lusted for years for Geraldo, but I doubt if he ever went for it.
12 of the fifty states have online voter registration. I wonder how many people have registered from Mexico?
ReplyDeleteAs always when Dunce copies and pastes from his guru and mentor Rush Limbaugh he gets it all wrong.
Delete1. 13 states, not 12, have approved online registration. But South Carolina and Connecticut have not yet implemented it, so only 11 states, not 12, currently offer online registration. Just another in the long line of Dunce's "trivial mistakes".
2. Among the early adopters of this process are some of the most conservative states in the union, including Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, South Carolina and Utah.
3. It is ironic that the first state to adopt online registration, in 2002, was Arizona, the poster child for anti-Latin everything. The extremely conservative Secretary of State is delighted with almost ten years of results, reporting that:
-------a. The law has brought about a marked increase in voter registration.
-------b. The cost to register a voter online is 3₵ as opposed to 83₵ for paper
-------c. Far from promoting fraudulent registration, having the information in digitized format makes it easier to authenticate each registration.
Dunce and Limbaugh are both cut from the same cheesy cloth…why tell the truth when a lie will do?
You're wrong Rush as usual. Only 12 have actually implemented it.
DeleteYou're like the dumb boy that always raised his hand in class, pulling himself out of his seat, and then he would get it wrong.
Shall I repeat it. Rush, you never can resist making a fool of yourself, can you?
Mia is on Huckabee, Rush. You'd do well to listen to her. You might learn something.
DeleteHere we go again with the 30 million dead people thing.
Delete13 states have approved online voter registration, which means that state law allows online voter registration. They are:
1. Arizona
2. California
3. Colorado
4. Connecticut
5. Delaware
6. Indiana
7. Kansas
8. Louisiana
9. Nevada
10. Oregon
11. South Carolina
12. Utah
13. Washington
11 of those states, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Nevada,
Oregon, Utah, and Washington, have implemented online registration, which means that you can actually register online today.
Two of those states have not yet implemented online registration.
Online registration will begin in Connecticut in January, 2014.
South Carolina's system is ready to go, but they are awaiting Federal approval.
I realize that American English is one of the toughest languages in the world, but as we used to say in the Navy, there's always the ten percent who don't get the message.
Speaking of Arizona:
ReplyDeleteSince day one the Republican candidate, no matter who, even Mr. Generic, Herm Cain or Ricky Perry, has had a goodly lead in the polls in Arizona, home of one of America's most insane GOP women, the community college grad Governor Jan Brewer.
Eight weeks ago, Romney led by 13%. Two weeks ago the lead was a comfortable 9%. A new poll released Friday showed that Mitt Man's lead had shrunken to only 3 points, close to the margin of error…almost certainly because of his recent stupid comments. And don't forget that the debates are coming up, in which the Mitt will actually have to say something. Are we headed for a landslide?
You're dreamin Rush. Obama is not going to carry Arizona.
DeleteGet off the pot, and drink some coffee. Let reality sin back into your sick, twisted brain.
sink back
DeleteFacebooking
ReplyDeleteChoice: watch the Steelers or spend a couple of hours on my motorcycle. The Steelers have it do without me. It was a glorious afternoon to be out.
Ha, ha, a no brainer! And back just in time for the exciting finish.
DeleteWe walked from the Arts District out to the School of the Arts, then visited friends who live across the street. Glorious is the wrod.
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DeleteOops, that exciting finish turned out not to be much fun, huh?
DeleteI guess the Steelers forgot to send their defensive unit onto the field for that last series.
It was exciting for the Raiders and fans. I think the Steeler defense stayed behind in Pittsburgh. Susan pulls for Baltimore, so I'm now watching and pulling for them in the night game.
DeleteI don't really have much interest in organized sports anymore, but I know most games pretty well. I'm more interested in how people think about sports.
DeleteThe other day I saw a headline on some website that said "Flacco thinks he's the best QB in the NFL." I thought that was intere.sting, so I found the interview with Bob Costas.
Costas said "You've been quoted as saying that you are one of the best QBs in the NFL." Flacco said "That's not what I said. I said that I think I'm the best QB in the NFL."
Costas gave that little look that he does when he wants us to know that he is all knowing and whoever he's interviewing is a fool.
"So if you look across the field before the game and see Tom Brady, who's had his place reserved in the Hall of Fame for years, you're thinking 'I'm better than him' ?" Costas asked.
"Exactly," Flacco said. "If I don't think I'm better, then why am I here?"
I understand that, and I like it. Flacco is obviously not better than Brady or the Mannings, etc. But he's a young QB with a brain and a good arm. If he doesn't believe he's the best, he never will be.
Note who just won the game for the Ravens over Tom Brady's Patriots.