He was the one willing to grovel to the religious nuts since he is either one himself or milking it for all its worth complete with lighted cross on all background in commercials.
As awful as the below story may seem, what is even more news worthy is the fact that we the US don't have enough H1N1 vaccines on hand to inoculate all our citizens. I think at this time we have enough to inoculate 48 million, and this flu has been sweeping through our college campus.
I wrote "fear Left" by mistake, but then I thought most Americans are fearful where the Far Left would take this country if only they could. So Fear Left is correct when talking about the Far Left.
The NYT is always a tad late reporting bad news, especially when that news concerns a favorite Liberal person and/or organization. This story has been around for at least 6 weeks, a story which everyone who wasn't in total denial already knew. LMAO
"the US don't have enough H1N1 vaccines on hand to inoculate all our citizens"
I saw that flu story yesterday TIR. But I linked a story about a week or so ago that we have too many vaccines for here, and may be donating some of them to other countries that need them.
Haven't we had enough of the Crusaders? Lets get an Atheist in there...the first thing that she/ he would do is to make the Religions, and tier money laundry fronts...is to take away the ability to not pay any taxes.....just a wish I know...but its Sunday, and a miricle could happen no?
Sturg,
Sorry if I interrupted any other post that you might have wanted to put up this morning: I did enjoy that one about the pig...seems like most of us will be products for sale at the butcher shop......About pigs ( Bores) In Mexico on our farm, when I was just a little piglet. There was going to be a big fiesta, and my father had a huge bore for the feast locked up in a shed, inside of a coral.
They must have not tied me- up tight enough (I was always getting loose from them-they said) they weren't watching me close enough, and I got away and went into the coral.... I managed to get the door to the shed opened, ( I wanted to see what was making all of the noise that was coming from it) and let the boar out.. .I guess that at first it was a little confused and ran away from me...I ran after it; that is until if figured out that he nothing to fear from me, and started to chase me.
The noise was heard by my uncle Sal. ( he was a cop in 4 diff countries...including here in the us..loved to travel the world) My family told me that he went outside to investigate , and saw that I was in a little bit of a jam (my life story)... ( later when I was older, I told him that I could have taken that bad ass- boar..) and rescued me, just as this boar was about to take a bite out of may ass...he reached in and grabbed me; he lost the tip of one of his fingers..his middle finger...he say's that when he gives someone the finger...he only half means it....hahaha he was a lot of fun....hope that the devil is enjoying he company...
Those republican bigots would start killing Jews in the streets if a Dem-supporting group like NOW or AFL-CIO decided to hold its convention over the Easter weekend or during Christmas.
Remember the offensive replies and outrageous blather these "values" republicans spewed whenever people said, "Happy holidays" to them ?
flatus, just in case you didn't see earlier post to you in last thread, here it is again. warning it's lengthy if read with following press release that was attached.
I haven't found the article yet, but this one says we ordered 195 million doses:
"One dose means tight supplies of H1N1 vaccine won't be stretched so badly after all. The U.S. has ordered 195 million doses, based on the hope that 15 micrograms was indeed the right dose. Had it taken twice that dose, or two shots apiece, half as many people could have received the vaccine." http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1226602.html
The problem is though, that wouldn't be a good label to run under. I don't think a candidate running as an atheist would make it, because that would automaticaly illiminate to large of a portion of the population (voters).
Religions can't hurt us Solar, as long as they stay in the churches and outside of government.
Posted by: TruthinReality | September 20, 2009 12:43 PM : "Guess who may be coming to your next Saturday garage sale?"
Maybe that will prevent republican manufacurers of
lead-poisoning, and child-strangling toys from unloading their dangerous and banned inventories in "garage sales".
IOW, this just shows that the Obama Administration is pro-life.
If I write a post in Trail Mix, accusing the huckster of being a Kenyan Citizen and subject of the Crown, and if a few of you repeat that accusation here and there, glenn beck will be able to pick it up and use it to help his spiritual bro, willard romney.
I'll begin :
mike huckabee was born in Kenya and is a British subject. The proof is that he hasn't shown us his birth certificate !
I remember watching the '64 republican convention, and the buckley conservatives putting out lit cigarettes on a Black delegate's his sports jacket.
Silly me, I thought it was just an ephemeral aberration. Unfortunately, the party pulled a Munich and appeased these racists. By 1972, the republicans had accomplished racial exclusion everywhere in the party but in Massachusetts. By '76 the republican party had made itself Afro-rein - with the exception of eldridge cleaver.
I also remember harrassment of the tv people in the '68 Dem convention, and a couple of later republican conventions. Maybe someone else can remember the dates of the republican rudenesses for me.
It is interesting to note that the values guys chose to convene at a time that not Jew would attend, but after the holiest Muslim holiday, Ramadan, had ended.
The huckster looks as though he put on 40 lbs in the last year. at this rate, by primary season of 2012, he could become the Sizist candidate.
MN Governor Potholes Aplenty looked slender enough, but he looks too young to gain traction in a party of old, alzheimer's raddled, near death geezers.
willard even looks too young. At least the huckster has a baldspot.
"It's self-evident to pretty much everyone not on Wall Street or Capitol Hill that the nation's financial laws need some serious reform, particularly when it comes to corporate governance, reining in outrageous bonuses and salaries, adopting rules that stop fat-cats from taking dangerously overleveraged risks with the taxpayers as their backstop, and protecting the consumer from deceptive practices. The meting out of a little punishment to the irresponsibly greedy wouldn't hurt, either."
"All of which makes the time ripe for a grassroots reform movement."
"But one thing that's become abundantly clear during the health-care debate is that you can't count on President Obama to lead a populist revolt. His impulse is to find common ground, not grab a pitchfork, and that's especially true when it comes to his approach to people who make a lot of money. And even if he wanted to, his credibility to lead such a movement has been terribly undermined by his role in bailing out the banks and the big auto companies."
"So who will lead? And how many people will join in?"
My answer to Dan Foomkin is that Huckabee (or some other Republican) will lead the populist revolt against Wall Street. This will be the GOP strategy for 2010 & 2012.
They will attack Obama & the Dems as being the servants of the big bankers (which they are).
This (fake) "populist" revolt will be financed by corporate lobbyists who will also supply astroturf crowds of "angry voters" which will be covered by the MSM as a real "protest movement."
It could work.
Once back in control, the Republicans will not, of course, do a damn thing to control Wall Street.
You're a genius. Unfortunately, I am a history and antiques kinda guy. Setting up websites is a century too new for me to accomplish. I haven't mastered this new-fangled art of typing yet.
Thanks, Pat, just read it (and all the rest of the posts since yesterday evening).
There are so many good reasons for adopting Single-Payer. And so many bankrupt rationalizations for not doing so. And, like most bankrupt rationalizations, they come from morally bankrupt individuals.
The fabled Republican fashion houses displayed their wares in Washington today, hoping to lure the 2012 candidates to their brands. Among the delicious designs unveiled were these catchy items, beginning with the positive Willard Romney messages -
Luntz Style : Get Mitt !
Rove Creations : Got Mitts On?
Cheney Fascions : Gott Mitt Uns !
Here are some choice positive Michael Huckabee messages -
Luntz Styles : Jesus Loves (Huck) We Do Too
Rove Creations : He's A Real Huck
Cheney Fascions : Feith, Huck, and Clarity.
And, now for the selection of negatives for Huckabee supporters. The Luntz Style selection is targeted for the Mormon belt, and follows on the heels of news that Romney has chosen Minnesota Governor Potholes Aplenty to be his running mate, despite the fact that the Governor recently confessed to enjoying Summit Pale Ale, and August Schell's Bock Beer.
Lunts Styles : Huck and Tim vs The Dupe and the Dope Fiend
Rove Creations : Mitt's a Mormon !
Cheney Fascions : Mitt Loves (heart) Iran
Do you really think that willard is the best they've got ?
Damn, what an indictment !
No, wait a minute.... By best, are you referring to presidential lumber, or capacity as a campaign war whorse ? I hope you don't mean the latter, 'cuz willard is definitely Count Dracula w/o fancy dentures.
Funny, Jesus never mentioned a Trinity, or that he was God.
Speaking of 2d & 3d century rewrites of the Jesus story and its meaning, why is it that Little Herod, the Jewish Judge, found "no fault in him", whereas the gentile judge, poncho pilate, condemned Jesus to be murdered on a cross ? Was this just another case of a squishy soft left-wing Jewish judge letting a hardened criminal off ? Or, was it another case of those clannish Jews sticking together against Western Civilization as we then knew it ?
You're horribly wrong, Nash. Jesus IS a Jewish liberal.
Btw, Norway way once Catholic. The horrifically violent Harald Hardrada (Harold Bad News, d.1066), who pillaged and burned his way across what is now Ukraine, who pillaged and burned for Byzantium across the Mediterranean, and who later cut off the Byzantine Emperor's nose and abducted the Empress in a labor dispute, who was King of Norway and Iceland, and heir to the English Crown, was a good Catholic, the dutiful nephew of an obnoxiously proud and blood-thirsty Norwegian glutton/king/saint. Even the State Church Lutherans of Norway consider Olaf Magnusson to be their patron saint, and Harald Hardrada to be his dutiful nephew, a sort of 2d coming.
Solar,
Interesting reading. Though I'm beginning to think that physical space is a wrapper we put on life to help us understand it and there's no such thing. There's just energy.
There is a great site for educational material. Open Courseware by MIT. They've taken almost all of their classes and put them online. There's no credit, but lottsa learnin'. you can take everything from basic classes to nuclear engineering.
They even have an XO at work, part of the one laptop per child initiative. It's a very cool device. http://laptop.org
I'm right in the midst of geniuses trying to figure out how to better present online learning, but I ain't one of them. I'm having fun doing new stuff though.
as to the thread subject, his biggest hurdle imo is his name. even if he were the most compasssionate, articulate, charming, intelligent politcal personage around, too hard to fend off the barbs/jokes about it. with a name like huckabee it's not gotta be good...pr-wise.
maybe if it were pronounced differently. soften the first syllable, accent on the second, draw out the last to become two. maybe "hugh-cob-ee-ay" would sound more presidential.
The GOP has learned nothing. Unless they put a fiscal conservative like Romney at the top of the ticket, they are sunk. Time to let the far right own "Republican" and move on? 2012, the year of the Libertarian as a viable 3rd-party on a grand scale?
sea, or this dire prediction has hit our trail earlier than expected.
"The future global burden of Alzheimer's and other types of dementia has been underestimated, say UK experts.
A report from King's College London suggests more than 115 million people across the globe will suffer from dementia by 2050."
flatus, you're right.
if he chucks that side of him, mike could eventually make it big as another steve allen type with humor, music, eclectic talents. he can be quite funny and good with the repartee. he does handle the jon stewart gigs well. his future lies on the tube not in the wh.
Huckleberry won this the last time by about a 5-1 margin if you don't count internet ballots - which are not allowed this time around. I don't get too excited about "values" voters. They are the Repug dead enders who still think GWB was a great president.
Well Craig, over-exposire this weekend did not settle any questions for the President and as I suspected Obama was thrown tough questions on other subjects. Now Obama has painted himself into the corner on Aghanistan and the media will dig deep into this story. A number of pundits have called this weekend blitz by Obama four too many interviews and as usual, Obama did not offer the details that would help his cause.
Now I'm waiting for Paterson calling WH pressure "racially motivated". Rudy must be loving it....
Yeah, much different than Wright's Jesus Jamie, who to his black radical theology supporters (and Palestinian theology too) was a black Palestinian activist. I'm not kidding either.
There is a great deal of value in being Libertarian, but until they learn where to draw the line on public / private, it will never sell on the national level. Maybe if they picked three or four things that they felt were so valuable to the world as a whole that they were worth being an entitlement no matter what the individual could afford to contribute, then there might be a chance.
Even the earliest societies reached those basic agreements of safety and advancement. Of course what those items are is the source of the argument.
Max, the only one I watched was the Stephanopoulos one. And I listened to that with only half an ear. I already knew what he was going to say--the meaningless mumbles intended to calm the electorate.
Single-Payer Single-Payer Single-Payer. The time is now.
If jesus had been executed 40 years ago, little catholic school children would be going around with little electric chairs on a chain around their necks.....
115 million sounds like a lot, but the real question is where and in what concentration. In a population of nine billion people before 2050 we will have a lot worse problems that whether 1/10 of 1% can remember where they are.
By then they will simply be killed off as a waste of food, water, and air simply because there won't be any ice floes left on which to send them out to sea.
"I was startled last week when Mr. Obama, in an interview with Bloomberg News, questioned the case for limiting financial-sector pay: “Why is it,” he asked, “that we’re going to cap executive compensation for Wall Street bankers but not Silicon Valley entrepreneurs or N.F.L. football players?”
That’s an astonishing remark — and not just because the National Football League does, in fact, have pay caps. Tech firms don’t crash the whole world’s operating system when they go bankrupt; quarterbacks who make too many risky passes don’t have to be rescued with hundred-billion-dollar bailouts. Banking is a special case — and the president is surely smart enough to know that.
All I can think is that this was another example of something we’ve seen before: Mr. Obama’s visceral reluctance to engage in anything that resembles populist rhetoric. And that’s something he needs to get over."
I'm well aware of Black liberation theology. Yes their Jesus is much more militant and darker. Given the politics of the time, I don't image that either the wimpy sweet Jesus meek and mild and the rouse the rabble against the Romans model is completely accurate.
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Michael Baigent is investigating a grisly crime. He’s tracking down leads, digging for clues, and trying to shed new light on a cold case— a case that is 2,000 years old. And this isn’t just any case: It is perhaps, the most well known story in history—the crucifixion of Jesus.
Sara James, Dateline correspondent: You believe that much of what we think we know about Jesus is a lie?
Michael Baigent, author: It’s a lie. It’s an obvious lie.
Tony, it's Bloomberg fuhchrissakes. But isn't the salary cap for the team, not individual players? And it doesn't extend to coaches, GMs etc. does it? Otherwise, you are right on.
Yes, is the answer that Jamie should give you, and not an excuse to keep the same people that got us into this situation in the first place..There are at least three things that are a given, and that all Americans take it for....first is Military security, 2nd, financial security, third infrastructure....there are more...like environment, and going green, and energy conservation, and the one that they promise, but never-ever keep......Bipartisan....from the middle, we can keep this one...since we want some ideas from both parties...not just from one or the other:
One other thing that we can campaign on; is that voters won't have to pick from the less of the two evil's .....there should be at least 3 to choose from....
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Who Who?
He was the one willing to grovel to the religious nuts since he is either one himself or milking it for all its worth complete with lighted cross on all background in commercials.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| September 20, 2009 11:18 AM
As awful as the below story may seem, what is even more news worthy is the fact that we the US don't have enough H1N1 vaccines on hand to inoculate all our citizens. I think at this time we have enough to inoculate 48 million, and this flu has been sweeping through our college campus.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/20/swine-flu-costs-un-report
Posted by: TruthinReality
| September 20, 2009 11:22 AM
Obama kicking the Black blind man to the curb. Where is the outrange from the fear Left.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32933950/ns/politics-more_politics/
Posted by: TruthinReality
| September 20, 2009 11:27 AM
The "Values Voters" Conference during Rosh Hashana? Guess they wanted to make sure no Jews wandered in.
Posted by: craigcrawford.myopenid.com
| September 20, 2009 11:30 AM
I wrote "fear Left" by mistake, but then I thought most Americans are fearful where the Far Left would take this country if only they could. So Fear Left is correct when talking about the Far Left.
Posted by: TruthinReality
| September 20, 2009 11:34 AM
Dear Gussy! I feel like my grandparents when I say, "What is the world coming to?"
Posted by: Syl
| September 20, 2009 11:48 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261377
Jamie, I think it's both. Groveling and milking, plus he is one himself. I'm sure he believes it all.
Aside from all of that, he's a very likable, funny guy. But I sure wouldn't want him leading our country.
Posted by: chloe
| September 20, 2009 12:00 PM
The NYT is always a tad late reporting bad news, especially when that news concerns a favorite Liberal person and/or organization. This story has been around for at least 6 weeks, a story which everyone who wasn't in total denial already knew. LMAO
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/us/politics/20edwards.html?_r=1
Posted by: TruthinReality
| September 20, 2009 12:02 PM
"the US don't have enough H1N1 vaccines on hand to inoculate all our citizens"
I saw that flu story yesterday TIR. But I linked a story about a week or so ago that we have too many vaccines for here, and may be donating some of them to other countries that need them.
I'll see if I can find it.
Posted by: chloe
| September 20, 2009 12:04 PM
Craig,
Haven't we had enough of the Crusaders? Lets get an Atheist in there...the first thing that she/ he would do is to make the Religions, and tier money laundry fronts...is to take away the ability to not pay any taxes.....just a wish I know...but its Sunday, and a miricle could happen no?
Sturg,
Sorry if I interrupted any other post that you might have wanted to put up this morning: I did enjoy that one about the pig...seems like most of us will be products for sale at the butcher shop......About pigs ( Bores) In Mexico on our farm, when I was just a little piglet. There was going to be a big fiesta, and my father had a huge bore for the feast locked up in a shed, inside of a coral.
They must have not tied me- up tight enough (I was always getting loose from them-they said) they weren't watching me close enough, and I got away and went into the coral.... I managed to get the door to the shed opened, ( I wanted to see what was making all of the noise that was coming from it) and let the boar out.. .I guess that at first it was a little confused and ran away from me...I ran after it; that is until if figured out that he nothing to fear from me, and started to chase me.
The noise was heard by my uncle Sal. ( he was a cop in 4 diff countries...including here in the us..loved to travel the world) My family told me that he went outside to investigate , and saw that I was in a little bit of a jam (my life story)... ( later when I was older, I told him that I could have taken that bad ass- boar..) and rescued me, just as this boar was about to take a bite out of may ass...he reached in and grabbed me; he lost the tip of one of his fingers..his middle finger...he say's that when he gives someone the finger...he only half means it....hahaha he was a lot of fun....hope that the devil is enjoying he company...
Posted by: SolarCrete
| September 20, 2009 12:07 PM
Here is the link about Sturgs pig post....
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/playing-tag-with-violence.html#comment-261363
Posted by: SolarCrete
| September 20, 2009 12:15 PM
The misunderstood actions of an airport shuttle driver.
http://wcbstv.com/local/queens.terror.probe.2.1193630.html
Posted by: TruthinReality
| September 20, 2009 12:17 PM
Those republican bigots would start killing Jews in the streets if a Dem-supporting group like NOW or AFL-CIO decided to hold its convention over the Easter weekend or during Christmas.
Remember the offensive replies and outrageous blather these "values" republicans spewed whenever people said, "Happy holidays" to them ?
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 12:20 PM
flatus, just in case you didn't see earlier post to you in last thread, here it is again. warning it's lengthy if read with following press release that was attached.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/playing-tag-with-violence.html#comment-261355
Posted by: patd
| September 20, 2009 12:21 PM
I haven't found the article yet, but this one says we ordered 195 million doses:
"One dose means tight supplies of H1N1 vaccine won't be stretched so badly after all. The U.S. has ordered 195 million doses, based on the hope that 15 micrograms was indeed the right dose. Had it taken twice that dose, or two shots apiece, half as many people could have received the vaccine." http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1226602.html
Posted by: chloe
| September 20, 2009 12:22 PM
"Lets get an Atheist in there."
The problem is though, that wouldn't be a good label to run under. I don't think a candidate running as an atheist would make it, because that would automaticaly illiminate to large of a portion of the population (voters).
Religions can't hurt us Solar, as long as they stay in the churches and outside of government.
Posted by: chloe
| September 20, 2009 12:29 PM
gotta go
Posted by: chloe
| September 20, 2009 12:31 PM
Guess who may be coming to your next Saturday garage sale?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,552021,00.html
Posted by: TruthinReality
| September 20, 2009 12:43 PM
Posted by: TruthinReality | September 20, 2009 12:43 PM : "Guess who may be coming to your next Saturday garage sale?"
Maybe that will prevent republican manufacurers of
lead-poisoning, and child-strangling toys from unloading their dangerous and banned inventories in "garage sales".
IOW, this just shows that the Obama Administration is pro-life.
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 1:21 PM
If I write a post in Trail Mix, accusing the huckster of being a Kenyan Citizen and subject of the Crown, and if a few of you repeat that accusation here and there, glenn beck will be able to pick it up and use it to help his spiritual bro, willard romney.
I'll begin :
mike huckabee was born in Kenya and is a British subject. The proof is that he hasn't shown us his birth certificate !
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 1:27 PM
I remember watching the '64 republican convention, and the buckley conservatives putting out lit cigarettes on a Black delegate's his sports jacket.
Silly me, I thought it was just an ephemeral aberration. Unfortunately, the party pulled a Munich and appeased these racists. By 1972, the republicans had accomplished racial exclusion everywhere in the party but in Massachusetts. By '76 the republican party had made itself Afro-rein - with the exception of eldridge cleaver.
I also remember harrassment of the tv people in the '68 Dem convention, and a couple of later republican conventions. Maybe someone else can remember the dates of the republican rudenesses for me.
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 1:49 PM
xrepublican makes Best Comments.. http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/best-comments.html
Posted by: craigcrawford.myopenid.com
| September 20, 2009 2:01 PM
Romney is the best they have but these idiots won't nominate him because he'a a Mormon.
Posted by: Nash2.0
| September 20, 2009 2:05 PM
Huckabee may be too liberal for economic conservatives. He raised taxes in Arkansas to fund programs for the poor.
Posted by: Nash2.0
| September 20, 2009 2:07 PM
It is interesting to note that the values guys chose to convene at a time that not Jew would attend, but after the holiest Muslim holiday, Ramadan, had ended.
The huckster looks as though he put on 40 lbs in the last year. at this rate, by primary season of 2012, he could become the Sizist candidate.
MN Governor Potholes Aplenty looked slender enough, but he looks too young to gain traction in a party of old, alzheimer's raddled, near death geezers.
willard even looks too young. At least the huckster has a baldspot.
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 2:09 PM
This From Dan Foomkin at HuffPo...
"It's self-evident to pretty much everyone not on Wall Street or Capitol Hill that the nation's financial laws need some serious reform, particularly when it comes to corporate governance, reining in outrageous bonuses and salaries, adopting rules that stop fat-cats from taking dangerously overleveraged risks with the taxpayers as their backstop, and protecting the consumer from deceptive practices. The meting out of a little punishment to the irresponsibly greedy wouldn't hurt, either."
"All of which makes the time ripe for a grassroots reform movement."
"But one thing that's become abundantly clear during the health-care debate is that you can't count on President Obama to lead a populist revolt. His impulse is to find common ground, not grab a pitchfork, and that's especially true when it comes to his approach to people who make a lot of money. And even if he wanted to, his credibility to lead such a movement has been terribly undermined by his role in bailing out the banks and the big auto companies."
"So who will lead? And how many people will join in?"
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/18/who-will-harness-the-rage_n_291683.html
Posted by: Nash2.0
| September 20, 2009 2:16 PM
My answer to Dan Foomkin is that Huckabee (or some other Republican) will lead the populist revolt against Wall Street. This will be the GOP strategy for 2010 & 2012.
They will attack Obama & the Dems as being the servants of the big bankers (which they are).
This (fake) "populist" revolt will be financed by corporate lobbyists who will also supply astroturf crowds of "angry voters" which will be covered by the MSM as a real "protest movement."
It could work.
Once back in control, the Republicans will not, of course, do a damn thing to control Wall Street.
Posted by: Nash2.0
| September 20, 2009 2:25 PM
xrep: You need to set up a website with images of Huckbee's Kenyan birth certificate.
Posted by: Nash2.0
| September 20, 2009 2:29 PM
Nash,
You're a genius. Unfortunately, I am a history and antiques kinda guy. Setting up websites is a century too new for me to accomplish. I haven't mastered this new-fangled art of typing yet.
Craig,
Thans, I really like you, too.
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 2:39 PM
Uh...I meant 'Thanks.'
That's an example of what I mean about not having mastered the art of typing.
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 2:41 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261394
Thanks, Pat, just read it (and all the rest of the posts since yesterday evening).
There are so many good reasons for adopting Single-Payer. And so many bankrupt rationalizations for not doing so. And, like most bankrupt rationalizations, they come from morally bankrupt individuals.
Posted by: Flatus
| September 20, 2009 3:12 PM
flatus: Huckabee wants a "single-prayer" system.
Posted by: Nash2.0
| September 20, 2009 3:17 PM
Campaign Button Fashion Houses Display Latest Designs
The fabled Republican fashion houses displayed their wares in Washington today, hoping to lure the 2012 candidates to their brands. Among the delicious designs unveiled were these catchy items, beginning with the positive Willard Romney messages -
Luntz Style : Get Mitt !
Rove Creations : Got Mitts On?
Cheney Fascions : Gott Mitt Uns !
And, now the proposed negative messages -
Luntz Style : Shut the Huck Up !
Rove Creations : Huck : Lyin' & Stinker
Cheney Fascions : Huck Loves (heart) Iran
Here are some choice positive Michael Huckabee messages -
Luntz Styles : Jesus Loves (Huck) We Do Too
Rove Creations : He's A Real Huck
Cheney Fascions : Feith, Huck, and Clarity.
And, now for the selection of negatives for Huckabee supporters. The Luntz Style selection is targeted for the Mormon belt, and follows on the heels of news that Romney has chosen Minnesota Governor Potholes Aplenty to be his running mate, despite the fact that the Governor recently confessed to enjoying Summit Pale Ale, and August Schell's Bock Beer.
Lunts Styles : Huck and Tim vs The Dupe and the Dope Fiend
Rove Creations : Mitt's a Mormon !
Cheney Fascions : Mitt Loves (heart) Iran
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 3:35 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261381
Craig
The opening prayer called on our lord and savior Jesus Christ. Even if a Jew had wandered in, they would know they weren't welcome.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| September 20, 2009 3:38 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261405
Nash
Unlike most of the attendees at the Value Voters, Huckabee has been known to practice Christianity.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| September 20, 2009 3:51 PM
Nash,
Do you really think that willard is the best they've got ?
Damn, what an indictment !
No, wait a minute.... By best, are you referring to presidential lumber, or capacity as a campaign war whorse ? I hope you don't mean the latter, 'cuz willard is definitely Count Dracula w/o fancy dentures.
Potholes Aplenty, worse. Him number ten, boss.
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 3:52 PM
Jamie,
Wouldn't the wandering Jew you envisage be pleased that all these values folks worship a Jewish guy ?
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 3:55 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261418
XR
Most of them think he converted to Christianity.
Mentioning little things like the 300 year distance between death and deity and all you get are blank stares.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| September 20, 2009 4:01 PM
Except for garage sales, walMart has the best values.
Next is Aldis Brudern Volks Kommisariet , Verkaufners GmbH. sieg heil.
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 4:11 PM
jamie & xrep: They hate Catholics, too.
Their Jesus is blonde & blue-eyed. (Mary was Norwegian.)
Posted by: Nash2.0
| September 20, 2009 4:11 PM
Nash
Nice wavy hair though
http://www.artbycastle.com/images/optimised/Portraits/Img_0004-1.jpg
http://static.open.salon.com/files/jesus_blond31246138290.jpg
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| September 20, 2009 4:24 PM
Jesus was a Jewish liberal.
http://img2.allposters.com/images/EPH/7828.jpg
Posted by: Nash2.0
| September 20, 2009 4:34 PM
Funny, Jesus never mentioned a Trinity, or that he was God.
Speaking of 2d & 3d century rewrites of the Jesus story and its meaning, why is it that Little Herod, the Jewish Judge, found "no fault in him", whereas the gentile judge, poncho pilate, condemned Jesus to be murdered on a cross ? Was this just another case of a squishy soft left-wing Jewish judge letting a hardened criminal off ? Or, was it another case of those clannish Jews sticking together against Western Civilization as we then knew it ?
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 4:34 PM
You're horribly wrong, Nash. Jesus IS a Jewish liberal.
Btw, Norway way once Catholic. The horrifically violent Harald Hardrada (Harold Bad News, d.1066), who pillaged and burned his way across what is now Ukraine, who pillaged and burned for Byzantium across the Mediterranean, and who later cut off the Byzantine Emperor's nose and abducted the Empress in a labor dispute, who was King of Norway and Iceland, and heir to the English Crown, was a good Catholic, the dutiful nephew of an obnoxiously proud and blood-thirsty Norwegian glutton/king/saint. Even the State Church Lutherans of Norway consider Olaf Magnusson to be their patron saint, and Harald Hardrada to be his dutiful nephew, a sort of 2d coming.
Posted by: xrepublican
| September 20, 2009 4:52 PM
Interesting study. Their grammar and spelling may be atrocious, but young people are writing more now than ever.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| September 20, 2009 5:13 PM
Well, someone is keeping track of Mr Obama's promises that have received no action:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/rulings/no-action/
Posted by: Flatus
| September 20, 2009 5:19 PM
what the huck
oh sorry, needs clarifying punctuation
what? the huck?
Posted by: patd
| September 20, 2009 6:04 PM
Spelling error? Like, should be Huk as in Huk Rebellion.
Posted by: Flatus
| September 20, 2009 8:47 PM
huck's a juck.....
Posted by: sturgeone
| September 20, 2009 8:48 PM
Solar,
Interesting reading. Though I'm beginning to think that physical space is a wrapper we put on life to help us understand it and there's no such thing. There's just energy.
There is a great site for educational material. Open Courseware by MIT. They've taken almost all of their classes and put them online. There's no credit, but lottsa learnin'. you can take everything from basic classes to nuclear engineering.
http://ocw.mit.edu/
They even have an XO at work, part of the one laptop per child initiative. It's a very cool device.
http://laptop.org
I'm right in the midst of geniuses trying to figure out how to better present online learning, but I ain't one of them. I'm having fun doing new stuff though.
Posted by: don1one
| September 21, 2009 12:56 AM
BTW, great verse from Jeremiah 12:1 in a prayer to God, shortened a bit. Sounds like things never change.
"Why do all the faithless live at ease? You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit.
You are always on their lips but far from their hearts."
Posted by: don1one
| September 21, 2009 1:01 AM
I hope everyone is alright. Looks on my screen like no one has commented since 1:01AM.
Posted by: oldseahag
| September 21, 2009 7:08 AM
sea, was wondering that myself. looks like all the ramadans and rosh hashanahs and preharvest festivities have exhausted the troops here.
Posted by: patd
| September 21, 2009 7:12 AM
as to the thread subject, his biggest hurdle imo is his name. even if he were the most compasssionate, articulate, charming, intelligent politcal personage around, too hard to fend off the barbs/jokes about it. with a name like huckabee it's not gotta be good...pr-wise.
maybe if it were pronounced differently. soften the first syllable, accent on the second, draw out the last to become two. maybe "hugh-cob-ee-ay" would sound more presidential.
Posted by: patd
| September 21, 2009 7:21 AM
heck, this japanese "rent-a-friend" thing aint so new. we've had rent-a-congresscritter for years now.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/20/japan-relatives-professional-stand-ins
Posted by: patd
| September 21, 2009 7:29 AM
The GOP has learned nothing. Unless they put a fiscal conservative like Romney at the top of the ticket, they are sunk. Time to let the far right own "Republican" and move on? 2012, the year of the Libertarian as a viable 3rd-party on a grand scale?
Posted by: blueINdallas
| September 21, 2009 7:48 AM
Patd- guess we didn't have enough fun this weekend!
Posted by: oldseahag
| September 21, 2009 8:14 AM
sea, or this dire prediction has hit our trail earlier than expected.
"The future global burden of Alzheimer's and other types of dementia has been underestimated, say UK experts.
A report from King's College London suggests more than 115 million people across the globe will suffer from dementia by 2050."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8263856.stm
Posted by: patd
| September 21, 2009 8:18 AM
How red is Chaney's face? The Obama administration has shown they can protect us to. Right here in the homeland. Good job!
Posted by: buford.myopenid.com
| September 21, 2009 8:19 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261438
I disagree, Pat. Name recognition is a tremendous asset for a politician, even if the name sounds funny.
If there's an impediment in his case, it's the association of his name with the Religious Right.
Posted by: Flatus
| September 21, 2009 8:21 AM
speaking for myself, the "dement"-ed part came years ago and is kinda fun. but that "cha" ending bodes ill.
Posted by: patd
| September 21, 2009 8:22 AM
alzheimer's blog
http://alzheimersdad.blogspot.com/
Posted by: sturgeone
| September 21, 2009 8:23 AM
flatus, you're right.
if he chucks that side of him, mike could eventually make it big as another steve allen type with humor, music, eclectic talents. he can be quite funny and good with the repartee. he does handle the jon stewart gigs well. his future lies on the tube not in the wh.
Posted by: patd
| September 21, 2009 8:29 AM
mornin'
Huckleberry won this the last time by about a 5-1 margin if you don't count internet ballots - which are not allowed this time around. I don't get too excited about "values" voters. They are the Repug dead enders who still think GWB was a great president.
Posted by: newpogo.myopenid.com
| September 21, 2009 8:32 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261447
So he could host a variety show? Leno woud clean his clock - and Leno doesn't play an instrument. Just don't make him the president.
Posted by: newpogo.myopenid.com
| September 21, 2009 8:34 AM
I saw huckabee playing his bass once on tv.....he was playing Mustang Sally......
Posted by: sturgeone
| September 21, 2009 8:36 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261436
OSH
On the west coast it is called sleeping.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| September 21, 2009 8:43 AM
Well Craig, over-exposire this weekend did not settle any questions for the President and as I suspected Obama was thrown tough questions on other subjects. Now Obama has painted himself into the corner on Aghanistan and the media will dig deep into this story. A number of pundits have called this weekend blitz by Obama four too many interviews and as usual, Obama did not offer the details that would help his cause.
Now I'm waiting for Paterson calling WH pressure "racially motivated". Rudy must be loving it....
Posted by: maxtrue
| September 21, 2009 8:44 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261422
Yeah, much different than Wright's Jesus Jamie, who to his black radical theology supporters (and Palestinian theology too) was a black Palestinian activist. I'm not kidding either.
Posted by: maxtrue
| September 21, 2009 8:49 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261440
Blue
There is a great deal of value in being Libertarian, but until they learn where to draw the line on public / private, it will never sell on the national level. Maybe if they picked three or four things that they felt were so valuable to the world as a whole that they were worth being an entitlement no matter what the individual could afford to contribute, then there might be a chance.
Even the earliest societies reached those basic agreements of safety and advancement. Of course what those items are is the source of the argument.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| September 21, 2009 8:50 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261452
Max, the only one I watched was the Stephanopoulos one. And I listened to that with only half an ear. I already knew what he was going to say--the meaningless mumbles intended to calm the electorate.
Single-Payer Single-Payer Single-Payer. The time is now.
Posted by: Flatus
| September 21, 2009 8:52 AM
If jesus had been executed 40 years ago, little catholic school children would be going around with little electric chairs on a chain around their necks.....
--lenny bruce, c. 63
Posted by: sturgeone
| September 21, 2009 8:55 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261442
patd
115 million sounds like a lot, but the real question is where and in what concentration. In a population of nine billion people before 2050 we will have a lot worse problems that whether 1/10 of 1% can remember where they are.
By then they will simply be killed off as a waste of food, water, and air simply because there won't be any ice floes left on which to send them out to sea.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| September 21, 2009 8:59 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/opinion/21krugman.html?th&emc=th
Good morning all,
"Reform or Bust"
"I was startled last week when Mr. Obama, in an interview with Bloomberg News, questioned the case for limiting financial-sector pay: “Why is it,” he asked, “that we’re going to cap executive compensation for Wall Street bankers but not Silicon Valley entrepreneurs or N.F.L. football players?”
That’s an astonishing remark — and not just because the National Football League does, in fact, have pay caps. Tech firms don’t crash the whole world’s operating system when they go bankrupt; quarterbacks who make too many risky passes don’t have to be rescued with hundred-billion-dollar bailouts. Banking is a special case — and the president is surely smart enough to know that.
All I can think is that this was another example of something we’ve seen before: Mr. Obama’s visceral reluctance to engage in anything that resembles populist rhetoric. And that’s something he needs to get over."
Posted by: tonyb39
| September 21, 2009 9:05 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261453
Max
I'm well aware of Black liberation theology. Yes their Jesus is much more militant and darker. Given the politics of the time, I don't image that either the wimpy sweet Jesus meek and mild and the rouse the rabble against the Romans model is completely accurate.
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| September 21, 2009 9:06 AM
Google now has a chess function on its main page. I may never get any work done again.
Posted by: Nash2.0
| September 21, 2009 9:06 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/20/when-pigs-fly-at-the-roya_n_291277.html
This being one of my favorite sayings....
Posted by: newpogo.myopenid.com
| September 21, 2009 9:08 AM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12084683/
his report aired Dateline Sunday, April 2
Sara James
Correspondent
• Profile
Michael Baigent is investigating a grisly crime. He’s tracking down leads, digging for clues, and trying to shed new light on a cold case— a case that is 2,000 years old. And this isn’t just any case: It is perhaps, the most well known story in history—the crucifixion of Jesus.
Sara James, Dateline correspondent: You believe that much of what we think we know about Jesus is a lie?
Michael Baigent, author: It’s a lie. It’s an obvious lie.
Posted by: sturgeone
| September 21, 2009 9:10 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261458
Tony, it's Bloomberg fuhchrissakes. But isn't the salary cap for the team, not individual players? And it doesn't extend to coaches, GMs etc. does it? Otherwise, you are right on.
Posted by: newpogo.myopenid.com
| September 21, 2009 9:13 AM
Hey folks, there's a
NEW THREAD.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/obama-open-to-newspaper-bailou.html
Posted by: newpogo.myopenid.com
| September 21, 2009 9:31 AM
Blue,
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/huckabee-gets-2012-boost.html#comment-261440
Yes, is the answer that Jamie should give you, and not an excuse to keep the same people that got us into this situation in the first place..There are at least three things that are a given, and that all Americans take it for....first is Military security, 2nd, financial security, third infrastructure....there are more...like environment, and going green, and energy conservation, and the one that they promise, but never-ever keep......Bipartisan....from the middle, we can keep this one...since we want some ideas from both parties...not just from one or the other:
One other thing that we can campaign on; is that voters won't have to pick from the less of the two evil's .....there should be at least 3 to choose from....
Posted by: SolarCrete
| September 21, 2009 9:37 AM
Sturgeone
He is plowing already turned ground. The Passover Plot came out more than 40 years ago
http://www.amazon.com/Passover-Plot-Special-40th-Anniversary/dp/1932857095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253540298&sr=8-1
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| September 21, 2009 9:39 AM
NEW THREAD
Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com
| September 21, 2009 9:39 AM
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