Democratic mindset
I cannot understand the typical Democratic mindset. Since 2007, a Democratic Congress and president have almost ruined the country. Their mindset has not been able to solve the problems, but has concentrated on blaming someone else. Even today, President Obama’s message is, “I don’t know how to fix the economy, but neither does the other guy, so you might as well vote for me.”
His message in 2008 was “hope and change?” No plan then, just “hope.” If we throw enough money at the problem, it may go away. It didn’t work.
Do Democrats not understand that the annual debt service on the national debt could easily be $1 trillion in a few years? One trillion dollars for nothing! We are borrowing money to pay the interest on the money we have already borrowed. The Democratic solution is to raise the tax on the rich. How totally insane an idea. It never occurs to the Democrat that encouraging small business to grow and hire people will actually stimulate the economy and start to solve this debt problem.
Of course, to make it easy for people to do business, make it simple for them to hire people; less government involvement, less regulations. The Democrat: Increase the debt, send the country into bankruptcy, and blame it on someone else, probably the Chinese.
Hear the Democrat: the other guy doesn’t pay his fair share of taxes; we will increase his taxes and give you some of it. He hopes it will change things.
J. FRANK JOINER
Winston-Salem
Honest and honorable
I am writing to encourage everyone to vote for David Sipprell for Forsyth County District Court Judge in this November’s election. I could list all of David’s considerable accomplishments, but that would be too lengthy.
David has been endorsed by the N.C. Association of Women Attorneys, the N.C. Police Benevolent Association and, during the primary, by both the Winston-Salem Journal and Kernersville News. I have known David since he was in high school, and know him to be honest, honorable, fair-minded and hard working. His fellow attorneys apparently agree with me, since they ranked him at the top of the five candidates who were in the primary.
Despite David receiving his undergraduate degree from Carolina (I’m a Wake Forest graduate and fan), I will gladly be voting for David in November. Please join me in voting for David Sipprell for Forsyth District Court Judge.
JIMMY KAUSCH
Clemmons
Threats and solutions
I always get excited when I hear about alternatives to the “big two” political parties — we could certainly use some alternatives. But reading your story about the North Carolina Tea Party meeting in Pinnacle (“Issuing a call for change,” Sept. 23) just made me shake my head with sadness.
Tea-party organizer Kevin Shinault is worried about Islam “taking over” and socialism “creeping in”? I mean, he might as well worry about flying saucers landing on the White House lawn. Those minor fears of “others” are ginned up by the Fox News outrage machine to increase profits, that’s all.
No tea-party group seems to be worried about the takeover of our political system by corporate influences that worship profit as their highest value, above health, the environment, democracy and any other beneficial virtue. They don’t seem concerned about the dissolution of the middle class or the growing price of health care that nothing but Obamacare has been able to affect. Indeed, they’d like to nullify the few positive accomplishments that we’ve achieved in the past decade.
These — along with climate change and the possibility of another debilitating war in the Middle East — are much more credible threats than some little mosque or a tiny hike in taxes to care for sick people. That makes the tea party itself more of a threat than a solution.
RICKY S. PHILLIPS
Winston-Salem
Good morning. Tis the season of endorsement, and the Obama and Romney are evil or messianic depending on author.
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This is an article I was discussing with Bob The Measured Man
about an astrophysicist turned computer scientist, and now he is changing medicine, biochemistry, genetics and information crunching in general.
He kinda reminds me of Dr. Oz on an Ophrah show talking about his own poop.
DeleteGive me a break. Dogs have been studying, rolling in and eating poop for millenia and look where it has gotten them. And we all know one person who keeps his in the freezer right next to his chemical chicken sandwiches so he can take it out and look at it anytime he wants.
DeleteI'm sure that this research will be vary valuable in the medical field, but I don't think that I will participate.
A friend who is a doctor likes to say "If you think you're well, you may be. If you think you're sick, you are."
Californians are notorious for doing incredibly stupid things. It only makes sense that our own NW, Rush, would be from, or associated with that loony state.
ReplyDeleteGovernor 'Moonbeam' Jerry Brown recently signed a bill into law that would allow illegals to get driver's licenses. That's good in once sense to North Carolinians, because that means a lot of illegals will go to California instead of N.C. The bad thing is, we'll have all of these people running around the country with these problematic drivers licenses.
Governor Moonbeam, like Rush, is no stranger to stupid decisions. Here is just one example taken from Wikipedia:
Like his father, Brown strongly opposed the death penalty and vetoed it as governor, which the legislature overrode in 1977. He also appointed judges who opposed capital punishment. His appointee as Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, Rose Bird, was recalled in 1986 by voters angry at her opposition to the death penalty. She and two other Brown appointed justices were the first such removals in California history.
Wow! If people don't go along with what he wants, he just circumvents the will of the people. Sounds a lot like our own president, doesn't it?
Almost 20% of Californians don't have either a drivers license or car insurance. No problem if they 'stayed' out there in that loony bin state, but what if they venture into other states? That increases the odds that if Americans are going to be involved in accidents where no one will be held accountable.
I wish we could excise California from the rest of the U.S. Its liberal politicians have imploded its economy, and now we have this 'moonbeam' drivers license decision to deal with.
Enough is enough.
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DeleteNo one has any idea how many unlicensed drivers are on the road in any state because there has never been any study of such numbers. Unlicensed drivers are a problem in every state.
The most recent study of uninsured drivers shows that 15% of drivers in California are uninsured. That number is 14% in North Carolina.
The worst states for uninsured drivers:
1. Mississippi 28%
2. New Mexico 26%
3. Florida 24%
4. Oklahoma 24%
5. Tennessee 24%
Liberal dopes, like Rush, have essentially disemboweled the Los Angeles Police Department.
DeleteHere's an article about the LAPD police union suing the Chief of Police over his new policy to give unlicensed motorists their car back after they've been ticketed for driving without a license. Normally the car would be held for 30 days.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/04/19/police-union-sues-over-new-lapd-impound-policy-for-unlicensed-drivers/
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CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has weighed in on the U.S. presidential race, saying he prefers President Barack Obama.
ReplyDeleteChavez also said in a televised interview that aired Sunday that he'd like to have "normal" relations with the U.S. government.
The Venezuelan leader says, in his words, "If I were American, I'd vote for Obama."
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Oh goody, now we've got the socialist Venezuelan president endorsing President Obama.
That would be reason enough for most people not to vote for Obama.
Yes, I always decide who to vote for based on who other people are going to vote for...that way, I don't have to do any thinking at all...that's why I'm a member of the Buckey Dunce Club...it's sort of like the old Mickey Mouse Club, except instead of mouse ears we wear dunce caps...mine has a little antenna in the peak so I will never miss my hero L-i-m-b-a-u-g-h...cool man!
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Who's the leader of the club
That's made for you and me?
B-U-C-K-E-Y D-U-N-C-E
Buckey Dunce,
Buckey Dunce...
Pretty sick Rush. Did you run out of your medication(s)?
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DeleteI'll bet you have that walking syndrome too. Where you walk constantly, even though you have nowhere to go. After all, you're stuck within your 'loft'-like a 'mole'.
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DeleteHappy October, folks!
ReplyDeleteI think the uninsured driver problem was worse in CA when I moved there. Then the legislature passed a law that mandated a $500 annual cap on insurance premiums for drivers who met set criteria. This of course meant that other drivers' rates went up, but the number of insured drivers increased.
Happy October indeed, and about time too.
DeleteThe last couple of years we have had a big cookout on the roof to watch the first night of fireworks at the Dixie Classic fair. Last year was pretty lame, but this year...WOW! The finale uses some MIRVed warheads.
As to uninsured drivers, I'm pretty sure I heard some Pee Pee Party person say that the government requiring people to buy insurance is socialist or something.
Good afternoon folks!
ReplyDeleteLTE 1: "I cannot understand the typical Democratic mindset."-that's because there is no more "typical Democratic mindset" than there is a "typical Republican mindset". People are far more complicated than that. "...is to raise the tax on the rich. How totally insane an idea" - yes, raising additional revenue to help bring the budget into balance is totally "insane". "...encouraging small business to grow and hire people will actually stimulate the economy and start to solve this debt problem" - it is true that growing the economy and reducing the UR will reduce the deficit and hopefully the debt as well, however, businesses will not hire if there isn't sufficient demand (i.e. sales) to justify additional hires regardless of incentives. "...to make it easy for people to do business, make it simple for them to hire people; less government involvement, less regulations." - LOL, oh if it were only that easy! All in all a typical TB rant full of simplistic, parroted solutions to complicated problems.
LTE 2: Endorsement. At least, the endorsee is a UNC grad :)
LTE 3: The TP doesn't appear to be interested in forming a 3rd party as much as it appears to be more intent on steering the R's hard right. I do agree that having organizers express fears about boogeymen such as Islamic takeovers tends to evoke dismissal due to crackpotism. Demonstrating a grasp of reality does help in establishing legitimacy as a movement.
Sunday's Journal had a story about the author of a new biography of W-S's most notable couple, the Reynolds, having a speech and book signing. It seems that ol' R.J. married the eldest daughter of one of his 1st cousins when he was 55 and she was 25. I have a 1st cousin with a daughter who is around 30 years younger than me. The thought of marrying her is just...creepy.
ReplyDeleteRJR was a fascinating man who lived life to the fullest. No one worked harder than he did...no one played harder either.
DeleteHe lived here as a bachelor for almost 30 years. He was into women, horseracing, gambling, maybe a bit of drinking. In the early 1880s one of his brothers wrote to their parents "Dick is the biggest blood in Winston." In 1894, one of his workers bore him a son out of wedlock who would go on to become an MD and one of the most successful black businessmen in the town of Winston.
Then one day he looked around and realized that he was 50 years old, rich as Croesus and had no one to leave his money to. When he started thinking about marriage, he found that he had awfully high standards...the woman had to be beautiful, of course, but she also had to be as smart as he was, personable, creative, and so on.
It wasn't long before he realized that the only woman in this part of the world who met those qualifications was his first cousin, Katharine Smith of Mt. Airy.
And so it goes. Katharine & Dick made a great team...she changed his life and his company in many ways and together they transformed the city into something much better.
My friend became good friends with their daughter Nancy in her later years. She told him that Katharine was the best mother ever, but that the happiest moments of her life were those spent sitting on her daddy's lap while he read to her.
I think Rep. Allen West (R) has got this guy Murphy whipped, much to Rush's chagrin.
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DeleteThe subject of RJ and Katharine Smith Reynolds' marriage has nothing to do with a scumbag war criminal like Allen West.
But then, this is what we have come to expect from the King of Dunces, sometimes known by the middle school term Buttinsky. Dunce's desperation for attention is truly sad.
The Reynolds, BTW, were Democrats. RJ was a centrist and Katharine was a good bit to the left. Together, they did more for Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, the Piedmont Triad, northwestern North Carolina, southwestern Virginia and the entire states of NC and VA than all of the Republicans who ever lived in the area combined.
Compare to the sad hag Virginia Foxx and the pitiful Pope Puppet Richard Burr.
Lt Colonel/Rep. Allen West is a fine American.
DeleteThis sleaze bag, Murphy (D), ran an ad showing West, in cartoon fashion, hitting women and children. That's outrageous.
I'm glad West ran his most recent ad telling of Murphy's drunken arrest.
I guess we should look at the bright side of Murphy's story. At least he didn't pull his pants down, like An'tony 'Weiner' did.
I might add re the Florida District 18 race...Dunce knows nothing about this race because the knows nothing about anything except public toilets and chemical chicken sandwiches.
DeleteWhen he says "I think Rep. Allen West (R) has got this guy Murphy whipped, much to Rush's chagrin" he is engaging in what is called wishful thinking.
So far, two polls have been released in the district. One, called an "internal poll", whatever that is, by the West camp, showed West with a huge lead. The Murphy camp struck back with a questionable poll of their own that showed Murphy even farther ahead.
Observers on the ground say that it is a dead heat. So far, West has raised more money, almost all from outside of Florida, but Murphy has resources that he hasn't drawn on yet.
One tell-tale: the West camp is doing a lot of name-calling and last week released an ad attacking Murphy for a bar brawl that he was involved in at age 19. They better hope that Murphy doesn't come back with one dramatizing West's war crimes, for which he was forced out of the Army.
Sounds like West is resorting to desperate measures, sort of as if Al Gore had put out commercials dramatizing Laura Bush's drunken auto accident that killed a high school classmate, or just George and Laura kneeling at the throne over and over puking up cocaine and whiskey.
LTE #1 – Mr. Joiner is upset about $1 trillion interest payments for “nothing”? How about $4+ trillion for two wars that have also cost the lives of 6,579 US troops and tens of thousands of innocent civilians in three countries and left another 49,871 US troops wounded, most of them severely…so far…while destabilizing a good part of southwestern Asia, producing two “democracies” that are among the most corrupt governments in the world, diminishing America’s standing in the international community and so on and so on?
ReplyDeleteWhat this country needs is more dunces like Mr. Joiner who get their “news” from Limbaugh/Beck/FoxLies.
That and a good 5 cent cigar.
LTE #3 – About that meeting in Pinnacle. The Journal reporter, under pressure reported, that there were 200 people there. The organizers told the reporter that there were originally 500…maybe they wised up and left. From the picture, there couldn’t have been more than 60 on hand.
Looks like the Pee Pee party is pooping out around these parts.
Come to America, and the taxpayers will feed you.
ReplyDeleteObama administration held dozens of meetings on food stamps with Mexican officials
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/01/vilvilsack-reacts-to-republican-concerns-about-mexican-nutrition-awareness/#ixzz284ovvleg
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There have been 151 meetings between US and Mexican officials regarding the Food Stamp program since 2004. Cheney administration officials participated in about 120 of them, Obama administration officials in about 30 (which does not qualify as dozens, BTW).
There are two lies in the above post…one of commission (…dozens of meetings…) and one of omission (failure to mention the other 120 meetings).
I guess we can expect no better from a habitual liar.
More than one dozen is dozens to me. But I see where it wouldn't make sense to a psychotic.
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DeleteRyan doesn't have time to explain Romney's tax plan.
ReplyDelete“You haven’t given me the math,” Wallace said in one exchange.
“I don’t have the ... It would take me too long to go through all of the math,” Ryan responded.
...Wallace played a clip of President Barack Obama mocking the Romney campaign’s lack of details on the loopholes while on the campaign trail. “No matter how many times they tell you they’re gonna start talking specifics really soon, they don’t do it,” Obama said. “And the reason is because the math doesn’t work.”
A report from the Tax Policy Center found that Romney’s tax plan would actually raise taxes on many middle-class Americans.
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A couple of things we do know. They are both Medicare and Social Security are going to go broke if we do nothing. That's what the Democrats are proposing at this point.
DeleteNot too smart. But again, Democrats have never been accused of handling money well.
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DeleteAnd a typical one, I might add. The subject was Ryan's refusal to explain the tax plan, not Medicare or Social Security.
Try actually reading and understanding the ACA (dream on), which takes care of Medicare.
Nothing can be done about Social Security until the Pee Pee Party fools in Congress either magically convert themselves into sane human beings or they are voted out of office. Some, but not enough, will be on November 6.
Tax Policy Center (TPC)
DeleteRush hangs out with his liberal dopey friends, when he's not being a mole, so nobody takes the time to fact check his nonsense. If one just takes a cursory look at the TPC organization, one would find out some interesting facts.
The board members of the TPC consist of some very interesting members:
Jodie Allen-formerly worked for the liberal magazine Slate
Rosanne Altshuler-liberal professor at Rutgers
Leonard Burman-worked for the Clinton Administration 1998
Robert Greenstein-wked for the Clinton Administration 1996
Joel Slemrod-MI Univ. wrote articles on redistribution
And, these are just the first few people on the list.
Now do you expect 'these' people to actually endorse Romney's economic policies?
Rush, you should just stick to being a mole. You do that well. You're not too good at deceiving people
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DeleteThe Tax Policy Center of the Brookings Institute was created as a non-partisan group by experts from the Reagan, Clinton and GW Bush administrations. The Brookings Institute, along with the Pew Research Center, are among the best known non-partisan research centers in the world.
Let's just expose a few of Dunce's more egregious lies:
Jodie Allen is currently a senior editor at the Pew Research Center, one of the two or three most respected non-partisan research institutions in the world. Before that, she was the managing editor and business editor of "US News & World Report", the most conservative of the three major weekly newsmagazines in the US.
Rosanne Altshuler, the co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax policy center, is the former senior staff economist for President George W. Bush's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform.
Leonard Burman got his start in Washington as a tax analyst for the Reagan Administration from 1983-1988. From 1988 to 1998 he was a senior analyst for the CBO. From 1998-2000 he was deputy secretary of the Treasury. In addition to his teaching and research institute duties, he writes a blog for "Forbes" magazine.
We could go on, but I'm not wasting more time trying to educate a "person" who by definition is "incapable of learning".
Once upon a time "Christians" believed that lying was a sin and would send them to hell. Apparently, that has changed, certainly in this case.
There you go again Rush.
DeleteI didn't see, where you, with any credibility, refuted what I posted about the above individuals.
You're so busy being a dope, Rush, you don't pay any attention to addressing on point statements.
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DeleteI don't know where you went to school, Rush. But if you went to UC Davis. Shame on them for letting you out with such a crappy education.
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And, of course, Dunce would not see much of anything, poor thing...such as that he is not just refuted, but shown to be a shameless liar as well.
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ReplyDeleteFifty-percent of likely voters questioned in the CNN survey, which was released Monday, say that if the election were held today, they would vote for the president, with 47% saying they would support Romney, the former Massachusetts governor. The president's three point margin is within the poll's sampling error.
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The debates will be a big deal, as our infamous VP likes to say.
"There's a sucker born every minute"
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No doubt, the Dunce believes that, because it is "common" (which means "low, bottom of the barrel") knowledge. Only one problem. Barnum didn't say it. If he had, though, he would have been referring to our own beloved King of the Dunces.
Only a sucker would pay any attention to a national popular vote poll, margin of error be damned. Obama is leading in something like 30 of the last 31 such polls, which ought to tell somebody something, but they are all meaningless hype to get suckers like the King of the Dunces to tune in to whatever network is promoting the latest one.
What matters is the electoral college, where Obama has a huge lead.
Romney is an unlikely candidate to win a debate with my long dead grandmother. Unless Obama falls down on his knees and confesses that he was born in the Soviet Union to Stalin's daughter and that he is a Muslim ayatollah, a Manchurian candidate, an American hating socialist and has a sexual preference for chickens, the debates are meaningless because this race is over.
Ohio just drove the final nail in the coffin. Get over it and get back to the public restrooms where you belong.
At the DNC, the loony liberals spiked the football on Bin Laden's death. Then, a few days later, al Qaeda killed a U.S. Ambassador and Muslims were burning American flags in the streets.
DeleteYou gotta give it to Democrats. They're always doing something that doesn't make much sense.
Hey 'Weiner'! Pull your pants up!
My grandparents actually met Svetlana Stalin when she lived in NJ. Said she came off as a spoiled brat, which figures I guess.
DeleteA lot of people met Svetlana. And yes, most saw her as a spoiled brat.
DeleteBut considering the way she was treated by her father, and later by Frank Lloyd Wright's widow, the nutcase Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, maybe we could cut her some slack.
As to Dunce's post above:
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