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Mark and Domenico not bad but might I suggest that you guys hire Jody for this segment? Her weekly wrap ups are a hoot!
Thank you, devie!
Devie,
I second that motion! ☺
Thanks to you, too, Feisty. Some weeks, though, it's hard to find the humor!!!
No doubt!
With the freak show playing out on the right, we cannot afford to lose our sense of humor...
The consequences would be grave...
Jody, just keep in mind that 30% effective income tax rate you will have to pay!!!
I know an excellent CPA that can get it below 20%. Not 'Williard-worthy", but. better than paying the "rabble-rates".
email me.
LOL!!!
I didn't think libs had a sense of humor!
Week two where Obama has taken it in the shorts!!!!!!!
And will it continue to go south for Obama?
winemaker I think you've been over-sampling your wares. This has been a great week for Obama. Polling shows him ahead of Romney in the swing states.
Not a great week for some North Korean rocket-designers. Probably sent to the farms.
Nope. The South is were you GOPers like to hang. Mitt has to hold his nose and pucker up when he swings below the Mason Dixon Line.
We sure do! How do you think we lived through the Nixon, Reagan, H.W. Bush and the "W" years?
Oh Amy, you are funny....last week was an Obama bummer, and this week he also inserted foot in mouth with the woman's issue.
With all those visits from the lady, who also does contract work for the DNC, do you actually believe there was not some input from the administration?
And email you address and I will send you a $50 bottle to sample.
Good thing the rocket went south - what would Obama have done if it hadn't? But, hold the food and starve them out.
And yes, I do sample the wares. Send your address and I send you a $50 bottle to also sample.
Proof please?
Nothing different then what "W" did. What do you want him to do? Bomb North Korea? Yeah that's the ticket and then he can move on to Iran and Syria!
Wine are you related to McCain by chance?
Miss F
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/rosen-hired-wasserman-schultz-media-consulting/477051
So until I see some concret proof proving otherwise, I stand by my comment.
I'll drink your wine in the virtual world. Last time I gave a man I met on the Internet my email address, he sent me a picture ala former Rep. Weiner. (That means I'm more careful now. No, I did not create a folder.)
In the real world I drink the $2.59 Three Wishes brand from Whole Foods. But I'll enjoy your $ 50 bottle of wine in the virtual one.
Miss F
Keep drinking the Kool Aid. I for one will have some of winemaker-4308406"s wine along with Amy.
I sure will - taste so much better then the Hate-Or-Aide consumed by the RWNJ's..
Wow! Nice come back Reb-#s! That's almost as good as Nana nana boo boo.
devie and Miss F
Wow a tandem gang up. Guess you both need to reaffirm your loyalty to each other and the rest of the Lib Gang.
Cute "Hate-Or-Aide" comment Miss F, but I don't hate you, I just feel sorry for you. You have eyes but cannot see, ears but cannot hear and a brain but cannot think for yourself. A real shame but good luck with that as long as your spewing hate works for you.
When will Romney and the Republicans start talking about substantive matters, like the "Ryan Plan". If Romney were to get in, he and the Republicans will AUTOMATICALLY take that as them having a "mandate" to implement the "Ryan Plan", so they need to be talking to us about that, unless they have something to hide, or don't want to deliver the bad news themselves.
Come on Republicans, let's hear you talk about something OTHER THAN just calling the President of the United States names, and repeating your talking points and your hate speech.
Obama / Biden 2012
Well Amy, in your honor my wife and I (stay at home lady) will then open the $100 bottle.
And they're off and running! President Obama is the lead and ol' Etch-A-Sketch is still in the gate trying to decide which way to go! It's not an auspicious beginning for Mitt, but he's going to lose anyway, after all.
President Obama in November! He is obviously our only rational choice!
TO: winemaker-4308406 who wrote:
How so?
2. Romney would repeal Obamacare. Insurance companies would once again be allowed to run up premiums, unjustifiably deny coverage for pre-existing conditions, drop patients when they get sick, discriminate against women by charging them more for coverage than men, and spend more of your premium dollars on CEO profits and bonuses instead of your actual health care.
3. Romney doesn't have what it takes to be Commander in Chief. He shifts positions on serious foreign policy and security questions for political reasons, and his only clear commitment is to endless wars: He has no plan to end the war in Afghanistan and would leave our troops there indefinitely. He called the President's decision to bring our troops home from Iraq by last Christmas "tragic."
4. Romney's economic plans would take more money from the middle class and give it to corporations and millionaires like him who don't need it. Under Romney, millionaires and billionaires would get a $250,000 tax cut, while families with kids making less than $40,000 a year would, on average, actually see their taxes go up. He also opposes the Buffett Rule so that millionaires can continue to take advantage of loopholes and special deals to pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. And he supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.
5. Romney would end Medicare as we know it -- replacing it with a voucher scheme that would drive profits for insurance companies by forcing seniors to purchase private insurance, paying whatever costs a voucher wouldn't cover out of their own limited budgets.
Jim Messina
The real question is how many illegal's did it take to raise 5 boys?
It was quite a week. Mitt was gloating that he'd won and along comes a spider named George W. Bush to ruin his day. As for the Rosen comment, that will be a short-lived gift for Mittens because everything else he's said indicating he's part of the GOP's War on Women is all caught on tape. It isn't about working moms versus stay-at-home moms, it's about choice but it's more about the economic ability to make that choice and that's something Ann Romney never had to consider.
It's amazing how quickly a point can get lost in a poorly worded comment. Romney's been trying to 'connect' with middle-class folks by turning out in blue jeans and eating grits. And now Ann Romney is trying to connect with a motherhood message.
Sorry Ann, women give birth pretty much the same way, but that's where our commonality ends. You don't know what it's like to fret over bread and butter issues any more than I know what it's like to drive two Cadillacs.
Ursula: don't go there. I wouldn't care if Ann Romney had shipped the kids off to boarding school the day they turned one day old, you don't go there. Its beneath you. Fact is, she gave birth to five kids, raised them, saw that they all survived and are now productive members of society... that's what a mother is supposed to do. Since she also has survived cancer and MS in the process.... you really can't argue she's a bad mother just because she was smart enough to marry someone who pretty much turned out as predicted.
I know plenty of smart women who have run away from marrying money!
They realized, you have to earn it - one way or another!
As far as her illness(s) my mother fought cancer for 5 years and worked FULL time through out all of the treatments up until the last 6 months of her life!
She did so without housekeepers, cooks, gardeners, and such!
PS: No one is saying she was a bad mother, just a mother who had resources provided to her that 99% of the rest don't!
Her point is that they're position is pointless,do you really think she did what she claims? I don't think she has the knowledge or desire to do anything but spend money and hide her gray hair. Rich spouse's hire nanny's and play golf
Ah, yes, the week that was. . .
The week when Obama refused to sign an executive order that would preclude government contractors from discriminating against workers on the basis of sexual orientation- despite having been urged to do so by no less than 70 congressional representatives from his own party.
The week when, despite not caring a whit about their civil rights, Obama had three fundraisers peopled by those in the LGBT community. I wonder how well attended those fundraisers will be in the coming months.
A week when one attack line- the "war on women" trope- blew up in Obama's face, when the woman brought on board to tone down Debbie Wasserman Schultz declared war on stay at home moms. Way to go!
A week when North Korea showed, once again, just how much awe they have of Obama's charms. They will show it again, soon, with another underground nuclear test, I'm sure.
A week when initial claims for unemployment spiked- and the "lowest number in four years" from the prior week was shown to be fraudulent, as that number was adjusted up by an historic, unprecedented, 10,000.
When the EPA declared war on clean coal plants- by following through on Obama's promise to make it too prohibitively expensive to open one.
When gas climbed, again, to the highest price ever for this time of year.
When Obama told us, once again, that he is NOt campaigning. Nope. Not him. And those campaign speeches? Not campaign speeches. That's why we pay for the trips, people! Because he's not campaigning!
It was not, exactly, a great week for Obama's pet media outlet, either, as NBC was forced to admit that some unnamed producer doctored an audio tape to make it appear that a racist statement had been made- when, in fact, the chopped part of the tape clearly showed that a question was being answered. For that, the TODAY Show gets the "Dan Rather Teuth In Reporting" award- and the attendant public approbrium.
Way to go, Team Obama!
Oh, and
Obama shelved in 2012.
Can't you come up with anything on your own njnb? No wonder so many posters are always cracking on you.
Still a better week than...
...Rick Santorum who told us, "We were winning. We were winning in a very different way because we were touching hearts." Yes, Mr. Santorum...too bad you couldn't make those hearts touch a ballot for you. That's not winning, Mr. Santorum. The rest of us call it losing.
...Newt Gingrich who bounced a $500 check to enter the Utah primary. If only you could use your Tiffany's line of credit, Mr. Gingrich.
...North Korea who launched a rocket that failed after 90 seconds of flight. Well, actually, you just said you were going to launch it. You never said you were going to make it fly.
...George Zimmerman who had his first defense team quit and now faces charges in Florida. Maybe you'll talk to your new team a little more. More importantly, maybe you'll listen to them.
...Bobby Petrino who was the most powerful man in Arkansas but once again proved that it's never the crime as much as it is the cover up. I do pity the man, however...I mean, the injuries from the motorcycle wreck AND he has to sleep with one eye open? I mean, you know what happens when the other eye closes, right? That's rough.
...Foster Friess who, after his "Aspirin As Birth Control" gem, has given us another by saying of the President, "I hope his teleprompters are bullet-proof". Nice guy.
[Ah, yes, the week that was. . .]
Sweet cut 'n paste NoJo...but you're here a little late...that little gem landed in my spam folder around 6am...complete with the same spelling errors.
...at least you're trying. But I gotta tell ya...following all those non-troversies is gonna do you in.
Simply put, you're not trying hard enough.
Uh, Mickey? I wish you'd post it- since I composed that at my kitchen table- and posted it in the time it took to compose.
So, if you think you got it in your email-put up or shut up, Mickey.
[...since I composed that at my kitchen table...]
...sure ya did NoJo...sure ya did...you can't even lie with a straight face anymore...
Like I said...you're simply not even trying.
Oh, and don't quit your day job...you know...sitting at your kitchen table...composing posts (from emails, complete with spelling errors)...where ever would we get the laughs from.
Again, Mickey- put up or shut up.
Since you know, and I know, that you can't put up, you are left with option B.
I'm pretty sure making unsubstantiated accusations is a CoH violation.
[I'm pretty sure making unsubstantiated accusations is a CoH violation.]
You're "pretty" sure? Then report me. But you better be ABSOLUTELY sure.
We all know you, like Smiffy, are a pathalogical liar who twists and deflects everything Obama. You believe your own lies and that is reflective of serious mental anguish stemming from having a black president.
I'll leave it up to you to post the email, NoJo...you know you got it, now "man" up and post it.
C'mon...you can do it, right?
Sure ya can...
Mickey---No Joe's reputation for honesty and integrity here at FR is well known to all.
Oh, I reported it, Mickey.
Believe me, I reported it.
You an I both know there is no "email"- as does anyone who reads my posts and can recognize my writing.
Just like anyone who reads your posts knows what, exactly, you're full of.
Well, all I can say is, I hope it works out better then her empty threat last summer to have her son sue G.E.
According to her, she was going to cause heads to role because the poor thing doesn't do 'victim' well... lmfao!
Funny thing, I just did a 'head count' and they are all still here & accounted for!
[You an I both know there is no "email"- as does anyone who reads my posts and can recognize my writing.]
You could at least have given credit where credit is due...sad, really...you get caught, and you play the victim...
Wait. Making unsubstantiated allegations is a violation of COH? Really no jo? Then you should have been banned long ago for:
Calling people bigots when no evidence exists that they are indeed bigots.
For claiming that certain posters had more than one account, and were writing multiple posts per day.
For claiming that one of the most polite and respectful posters made sport of a blind person, when that never happened.
So, did you report yourself too? Yeah. I didn't think so.
OK ndd, then why hasn't Bev from Chicago not been banned for this reported comment:
Beverly in Chicago
Didn't you know The Catholic Church invented nuns and alter boys for the express purpose of raping them?
A little known fact about the Catholic Church is that it's written down in the Vatican that the Catholic Church intends to take over the US and burn all non-Catholics at the stake before Sharia Law comes to America. :)
Now isn't this an off the wall comment without a respectful position?
Sorry, winemaker, you are barking up the wrong tree. My grandmother was raised in a Catholic Orphanage. Her stories are legion. The Catholic Church has created its own problems by the abuse it has allowed for generations.
And actually I have little interest in communicating with you for cause.
I don't think you answered the question. Why not Look Back and come up with something interesting.
Yeah ndd, you're a hypocrite. Condemn others while you support your lib friend for her racist and bigoted comments.
...and there is the cause. Oh, how disappointed you will be when you understand that I care very little about what you think, since I know what you are. See, winemaker, I would NEVER be friends with the likes of you, but I value my friend Beverly very much. Poor little fellow.
Ah ndd,
You're funny. I'm not disappointed that you care very little about what I think, and that you would NEVER be friends with me.
Why would anyone other than the members of your tribe wish to be associated with you? You attack others, march in line with the Head Clowns of the tribe, and support only those who also believe in social engineering programs from the left.
You do rank right there with your bigoted friend Bev.
And the week in Mn was better than NJ.
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&met_y=unemployment_
Unemployment rate in MN 5.7 in NJ it is 9%
gas is $3.59 in Mn in Nj it is....
Mn has 1millon + surplus in our state budget, NJ has a ? in their state budget.
But we do have a snow forcast for Monday.:(
Democrat governors usually start with a surplus budget if preceeded by a Republican, the opposite is also true.
NJ will be in much better shape in 4 years than MN will.
ssmithlg,
No, Pawlenty left our state wih a huge deficit in the new fiscal year by a lot of accounting tricks to balance his budget. Our state shut down for three weeks because of the GOP /Dem gridlock.
But MN has a diverse economy and the recession is slowly receding from our landscape. That is the good news for this week for Mn.
[NJ will be in much better shape in 4 years than MN will.]
Hey, did ya hear? Seems Governor Christie lied about the amount a much needed tunnel project would cost New Jersey, and costing thousands of good paying jobs, and costing commuters even more money.
All so he wouldn't have to raise the gasoline tax a few pennies...
I wonder if he wiped his chin after kneeling at Norquist's feet...you?
www.usdebtclock.org
Government spending out of control should be one of the top issues!!!
Everybody makes mistakes! Its just that the out of touch one makes more than Obama could if he tried! I think he looks pathetic, out there campaigning in his $450 dollar blue jeans, and his nice $300 dollar shirt, with the really nice $1000 shoes! No way is he out of touch with the rich! Stop saying that!
Ol Flippity Floppity Mittenzie! He claims very loudly, that the Dems are accusing him of starting this "manufactured war on women"? Wow! What planet does he come from? Mexicoalta 1? There is not one person in this country that doesn't know how that war got started! It has been going on since the conception of the GOP! Stop lying Mittenzie! Hilary Rosen hit Ann Rummey right on the head with that comment! Ann didn't even raise her own kids, the nanny'a did!
We, the people of this great nation, and the women especially, will vote for Obama this year! We want to go forward, not ass backwards like Rummey wants us to
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 The women's choice!
Republicans love cultural slights made by Democrats. Republicans offer nothing to single parent households or to working women. But Republicans love to gloat that liberals don't value homemakers. Actually, liberals want women to have the choice of work in the home or in the office. And eventually, it will become clear that Romney will do nothing to help women achieve equal pay, will do nothing to help with family leave, will do nothing to offer better tax treatment for child care expenses, and will do nothing to help children!! But hey, if you are a homemaker with a chip on your shoulder, feel free to cut off your nose to spite your face. I don't think many people will decide that lower child care deductions, poor healthcare WITH preexisting and disqualifying conditions, higher payroll taxes for the middle class, and less enforcement of EEOC and FLSA regulations will be offset by greater sensitivity to the concept of motherhood.
You do know that the Obama administration pays women 18% less than men in his administration?
And that list you made? Pure junk.
Obama has released his tax returns and has demonstrated what he really thinks of the "Buffet Rule". It's really humorous that he names it after a man who owes the IRS a billion dollars and has an army of tax attornees fighting so he doesn't have to pay. The brighter folk know it's just flying spittle rhetoric for the hero worshipping feeble of mind folk.
What war on women? Are you referring to the one initiated by Hillary Rosen against stay at home moms?
There you go again weery one. Just blame Hillary Rosen for her "war" she started by pointing out that Ms. Romney has not worked outside the home and, in fact, can drive two Cadillacs without having to. You are quite a little scammer. And your 18% claim sounds like something you pulled out of your behind. Are you comparing apples to apples? Do actually contend that male White House workers are being paid 18% more than their female cohorts for the same work in the same positions. I don't believe it at all. You read like a very disingenuous, if not dishonest, plant from the Romney campaign.
There is an important point that the media seems to have vastly overlooked on the Ann Romney thing. I don't think Ms. Romney raised those kids without help. It's one thing to raise a large family as the only homemaker. But the multimillionaire Romneys undoubtedly had domestic help - probably live-in full time domestic help. But as we say in my native South, "It is so hahad to find good hep." That is the burden of the terribly rich. Sometimes the hep just folds the linens away without ironing them. Mercy!!
The Weak That Was...
The Mittronic Rombot spewed a lesson in G.O.P. math by claiming 92% of the persons laid off were women. He went further to gabble that 88% of the hypotenuse of the side of Karl Rove's head is Grover Norquist's butt. Further, he gibbered that 100% of dogs are comfortable going 70 m.p.h. on top of a vehicle as opposed to being leashed to the bumper, Rombot's second favorite choice.
North Korea debuted their new rocket powered seed drill in an effort to increase farm production, however, tragically it landed in the ocean. Officials felt sure the new auger satellite technology would allow for expert plowing of the non-mountainous quarter acre of arable land available. In a late breaking development, North Koreans admitted they had "farmed" some flight trajectory calculations to the Rombot campaign and were blaming the lack of success on this factor.
George Zimmerman turned himself in after his lawyers could not find him for several weeks and the police even longer. Zimmerman was said to have mentioned he had this cloak he got from this guy named Harry Potted or something, he was quoted as saying, "Yeah it's all right, but I wish it had a hoodie."
The Newt Gingrich campaign had a $500 check returned for insufficient funds. The check was to be used to file for his candidacy in the state of Utah. When Gingrich contacted Utah state officials, they told him; "What don't you get about Mormon's only? You can be one when you die." Gingrich was said to have replied, "I'm dead inside; does that count?"
Less than one week after Rick Santorum's departure from the race, Tea Party Republican's are already showing disaffection with the presumptive nominee. Many were seen spastically lurching through the street, burbling unintelligibly with foamy spittle flecks upon their lips. Or, I was watching AMC's "Walking Dead". In any event, the dis-heartened simps were heard to moan,"Does Bachmann have a 900 number?", or, "Will Herman Cain bring me some pizza?mmmm...love his sausage." It appears their intent is to migrate to Texas en masse, where they can get a fix of world class crazy from the Governor down there.
In other Tea Party related news, it turns out tri-cornered hats are ridiculously easy to line with tin foil, preventing radiative socialism and/or common sense from penetrating the brain. If the hats are flipped over, they make handy drinking vessels to filter out the godless, commie fluoride that is polluting our precious essence of bodily fluids.
Washington got a new lobbyist this week, as John Bowles registered for the American Nazi Party. No plans were mentioned if they would be soliciting AIPAC for any funds, however, FOX News almost certainly sees a new recruiter for the next generation of fair and balanced reporting. Seig Ailes, y'all.
And that...was the Weak that was.
"however, FOX News almost certainly sees a new recruiter for the next generation of fair and balanced reporting. Seig Ailes, y'all"
Im sure they will just have Bill O'Reilly grow a little under-nose mustache and have Glenn Beck join him on his show. Now that both of them have a lobbiest in washington they can now come clean about their man love, political veiws and slew of turd babys. And since they can come clean about being Nazi's they can just send canisters of agent orange to anyone they think is a "pinhead". It's a great day for Fox News!
Yes, and you nanny loving liberal losers are getting just what you deserve as far as hope and change from your king Obozo. This country is going down the tubes with big government and it is because of you unthinkums who do not have a brain!
my my my, all the bad words. I'm sure there is a violation of the code of honor in your post.
Oh one of the votes doesn't count. I clicked on the vote tab when I meant the ! icon.
After listening to good morning america today I almost threw up! The moron liberal Katrina Vanden Heuvel would make even a lefty sick. Her remark about the remarks about Bill Maher on conservative women should be forgotten shows you how why these far left liberal nuts brains are so defective. There is never any real fair and balanced conversation going on on these liberal media stations. They have a conservative guest on and they continue to get interrupted constantly by the liberal nut who has an opposing view. The nut katrina vanden Heuvel is a total moron and a marriage between her and the imbecile Maher would be a great match.
More insults, did you major in insult 101 in high school?
November 06, 2012 is the judgement day for this republican nut.
He will be voted out by Amricans. Him and his supporters will be
licking their wounds day after.