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Too easy!
I can picture it now;
You put your right foot in...
You put your right foot out...
You put your right foot in...
And shake it all about...
You do the hokey-pokey & turn yourself around... that's what it's all about!
Have to admit, I would rather hokey pokey than put up with the clown show much longer. Enough of the fluff, let's go to New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida and get this show on the road. I need some red meat!!
Or a cosmo.
Just great Feisty! Now i have to go put on music so I can get the Hokey Pokey song out of my head. Not to mention the mental image of all the Repub clowns dancing to it.
For myself, I think doing the hokey pokey while eating a steak and drinking a cosmo is the way to go. (Imagine Marcus Bachmann that way, that'll warm the cockles of your heart)
Oh, Feisty, now I've got this picture in my head of Newt and Mitt doing the hokey pokey and like Fuzzy, now that song's stuck in my head to boot.
Not to mention the mental picture of Marcus and Michele--now I will need something stronger than coffee!
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Too easy!
I can picture it now;
Speaking of pictures, here is one.
http://reidreport.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ron-paul-with-neo-nazis.jpg
Ron Paul, pictured with Don Black, director of the white nationalist website Stormfront, and his son, Derick.
Here is the article; I keep telling ya'll Ron Paul is a poisonous covert racist, ruining the minds of our young people. So is Glenn Greenwald who can't make a coherent sentence without bashing the President over Gays rights, the rule of law, the Constitution, the President's breathing just about anything the same way FOX NOISE does. '
Glennzilla lives in Brazil with his lover 22 yrs his junior. So what right does Glennzilla have to complain? Opps, forgot Glennzilla thinks President Obama is gonna lock him up without due process.
http://blog.reidreport.com/2011/12/should-glenn-greenwald-have-to-own-the-ron-paul-blue-plate-special/
Glenn Greenwald Is A Republican Tool and so is Jane Hamsher. She has not been back on Lawrence O'Donell's bashing our President since he made her look like a bump on a log.
Make sure ya'll read these two articles when you get time.
Glenn things neither are aggressive enough with their demands upon the president as though he himself received a personnel evaluation atop Mount Sinai from Abraham on calfskin as to who is doing what.
Entre nous - Some homosexual select minorities for partner to fulfill fantasies in the boudoir - a la disposable sextoys. You are aware of this condition correct?
http://www.teamobama2012.com/2011/04/_after_reading_writer_glenn.html
Oh, almost forget Chris Matthews said a lady in Iowa voted for our President ; but has to vote for Mitt now because of the hate President Obama has brought to this country.
Chris told her you don't get rid of the hate by voting out the object of hate.
You mean like this? lmao!
Marcus sure can 'cut the rug'!
Between watching this & Santorum 'surging from the rear', I'll join you in that drink!
Too funny.............And then they danced off into the sunset!
How about
"Twist and shout"
They all seem a little twisted to me.
So Romney's son has said his father shouldn't release his tax returns unless President Obama releases his birth certificate.
All that money-----------------yet so GD clueless.
Q: What has one to do with the other? Nothing. Just keep passing the buck. This is what the Romneys do.
Morons.
Pat Boston MA.
So Romney's son has said his father shouldn't release his tax returns unless President Obama releases his birth certificate.
Pat, it's another stall tacit. Here is what I want to know:
Did Mitt Romney Vote Illegally in Massachusetts?
Allegations have it that when Romney voted in the state in recent years, he was actually living elsewhere. Romney bought a home in La Jolla, California, in 2008 and sold his Massachusetts home the following year, whereupon he registered his voting address as the basement of his son Tagg's house.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/06/did_mitt_romney_vote_illegally.html
Bev,
Hate is a human emotion, unfortunately we are never going to get rid of it, and even more unfortunately it stains and pollutes both sides.
How will we ever get control of it if we always disclaim only one side, being only one sided invites more hate.
I would love to be able to agree that the democrats are the party of love and the republicans are the party of hate. but that is just not the truth, there is too much, and it is shared equally.
WE sure could use a little of John Lennon's wisdom around here......
Imagine there's no heaven. Easy if you tried. No hell below us. Above us only sky.......................
I miss John Lennon :(
Phine, me too! Imagine all the people................who have been slaughtered over the ages for their religious beliefs! It's staggering! Now we have a bunch of religious nuts, from several faiths, trying to get elected.
Pretty scary!
If there truly is a God, I would imagine he is none too pleased with all the bloodletting done in his name!
If any of this current batch of fanatics gets into office, there will be no differnce between them and any other theocracy (see Iran and the Taliban)
Did you know that the man who wrote the Hokey Pokey just recent died, he was 94, he had a painless peaceful death, he died in his sleep, but when the undertaker tried to put his right foot in the coffin, that's when the trouble started!
Forrest,
I need monitor clean up again! (Next time, before posting, just hand me the Bounty) LOL
Forrest, just when I'm starting to feel melancholy, you jump in to save the day. LMFAO
I'm glad I could make you smile, it's good to laugh, it's the best medicine ever for whatever ails us.
Count me in for needing a clean up! lmao!
Iowa Puzzle. It is interesting that so much talk about the Iowa Caucus by pundits, reporters, analysts, writers question the relevance of the Iowa Caucus, particularly on the GOP side. The media paints Iowa's GOP as far right, evangelicals who make poor decisions on who should be President. This Iowan doesn't disagree that the Iowa GOP's track record the last 20 years has been stellar but I would point out that over that same 20-year span, the shift to the far right by Iowa conservatives is no different than the shift to the far right in nearly every other state's conservative groups.
Look at what conservatives have done when elected in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Florida and then discuss far right, evangelical influence and the impact that has had not just in Iowa. The anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, chatter, the birther nonsense heard in Iowa, plays out across the country.
It is easy to pick on Iowa's Caucus because we are first, to dismiss the results as irrelevant but have a caucus in South Carolina first, or Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma or Alabama and the same far right, religious, evangelical, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-immigrant voters will likely have no better luck picking a winner--they will gravitate to the same place because they are passionate.
Don't mean to sound like I am picking on Iowa, Jody. Guess I am just tired of all the bs from our little buddies on the right. After all, they have been campaigning for this moment since President Obama was elected, and, well, on a holiday weekend, it just gets a little old.
Happy New Year, girl.
phinephancy, no need to say anything. I hadn't read the other comments (which are always fun and lighten things up) when I was writing my thought. I wasn't talking about anyone here just the media in general which fails to connect that far right shift of conservatives dot being a nation wide phenomena. Happy New Year to you and Mr Phine as well!
Yea Phine, Just like Obama's constant whining the past 3 years. It just gets a little old. In the words of my 85 year old neighbor, "That Barrack Obama, doesn't he ever shut up"
Jody, The Maine GOP primary voters gave us a far-right Teapublican governor in a state represented by one moderate and one very liberal Democratic Representative, and two moderate Republican senators. It's enough to make you re-think stereotypes about red state/ blue state politics. I think you have to consider the role of the moneyed Koch Brothers, and their ilk, to understand the rise of the far-right, which is contrary to the naturally moderate disposition in this country.
Speaking of constant whining--here's Rocco. Happy New Year, Rocco!
Amy, I agree. I think the media hasn't caught up with re-thinking the system. The shift right began with Reagan's trickle down which gave more to those who already had an in the process, gave them the power over government we see today. Buying politicians isn't new but the amount of money available to do so is greater than it's been since prior to the Great Depression.
Amy,
They are called Neo-Conservatives for a reason, they actually stand hard left of true conservatives. This is why they call any real conservatives crazy. Real conservatism stands anathema to their own religion driven zealot style of politics. They actually treat politics like a religion.
You all may disagree but they have actually narrowed the gap between the parties in the race to be the "Controllers" of American citizens.
True conservatives are tired of being shut out, we are angry at both parties, and we are not going to take it anymore. I've told people for years that middle America will eventually wake up, and when it does we will have a major political shift, or, the second civil war.
Nothing that has happened in this political cycle disabuses me of this notion, but actually reinforces it.
Between Black Friday this year and the last day before Christmas was the largest days of gun buying in the history of tracking gun sales. 60,000 new gun permits average per day reported by the FBI.
Black Friday itself was the largest single day in history with 120,000+ new permits issued, the day after Christmas was the second largest in history with 100,000+ being issued.
The current shopping season saw 1.5 million new gun permits. 24 shopping DAYS!
Call me a nut if you will, but Middle America cleared it's collective throat in 2010, and is about to say something in 2012. If we do not listen, we will all regret it.
Imagine all the people living life in peace, oh oh oh................
I know, it's a DAMN shame!
You can now bring a gun more places than you can bring cigarettes- go figure.
Nevada has the caucus system too. I was a registered Democrat, but then I got so disgusted with Obama, and the Democratic party in general, that I changed my party affiliation to Republican.
We file into a big room and sit in our candidates area. Speeches are alowed and buttons and flags and all that nonsense. Eventually the various groups hold a show of hands and the results are recorded. That's basically a caucus. A more formal primary would entail the use of the voting machines. This is definitely cheaper.
ABO 2012.