When living with obsession is a sin, rats out his pals for a walk

But if you WERE mob you'd have spared him so you could play the "I didn't kill Aro" card!

Yeah Specter and Daschle have both openly said a big problem is old people fighting too hard, it costs so much

He got a fair chance, and he used it to screw up. And now I am contributing by hollering about his screwups, encouraging Congress to thwart future excesses. Nobody is entitled to national peace. Nobody is entitled to national unity. Remember, dissent is the highest form of patriotism!

"I understand Brown can keep all 25 DVDs with and order 1 DVD a month for just shipping and handling for the next four years.  He is free to cancel at any time and just return the 25 DVDs plus minimum cancellation charges.  Now that's a relationship so special, it won't be available beyond April 1st!"

nobody laughed

you guys DO know what I'm talking about right?

We failed to apply the lesson of WW2--kill 1 in 12 with carpetbombing and even the loudest hardcore mofo will stfu and beg for soup and a blanket

Now we're told Obama is eager to meet the Queen.

what the hell is the big deal about the Queen of England?  when she came over here to see Bush people acted like God walked out of heaven and it was bush's big chance to show he mattered.  I think the reverse is true, she could easily be doing supermarket openings if other countries didn't give her some top gigs.  is that it? Bush was trying to beat out the Kaiser and the Czar for pomp and circumstance?

I hope Obama goes to her tea wearing a Bulls cap and offers her a cigarette. You know, like an American.

But the cities with the toughest gun control-- NYC, DC, Chicago--have very high murder rates, with or without a gun.

Re #2-- The US is spending out of control-- Jim Cramer of CNBC 'My Response to the White House':

"You can argue, of course, that Obama inherited one of the worst hands in the world. I had been a relentless critic of the Bush administration's "stewardship" of the economy, calling repeatedly for changes to avert the disaster that I saw coming, although perhaps Gibbs hasn't seen my CNBC meltdown. Seemed pretty prescient to me.

I, like everyone else, have made less authoritative and wrong statements in the past, but that rant still stands as something that I am sure everyone in the Bush administrations' Treasury and Fed listened to. My calls to sell 20% of your stocks in September at Dow 11,000 and then all of your stock if you need the money for the next five years at Dow 10,000 in October, might have eluded Gibbs, too.
But Obama has undeniably made things worse by creating an atmosphere of fear and panic rather than an atmosphere of calm and hope. He's done it by pushing a huge amount of change at a very perilous moment, by seeking to demonize the entire banking system and by raising taxes for those making more than $250,000 at the exact time when we need them to spend and build new businesses, and by revoking deductions for funds to charity and that help eliminate the excess supply of homes.

We had a banking crisis coming into this regime, but now every area is in crisis. Each day is worse than the previous one for this miserable economy and while Obama's champions cite the stimulus plan, it's really just a hodgepodge of old Democratic pork and will not create nearly as many manufacturing or service jobs as we hoped. China's stimulus plan is the model; ours is the parody. "

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10468397/3/cramer-my-response-to-the-white-house.html

>>1) Global Warming is a farce, and is being pushed to make certain people and parties richer at cost of everyone else.<<

For a project to be eligible to sell offsets, it is supposed to prove that it is "additional". "Additionality" is key to the design of the CDM. If projects would happen anyway, regardless of CDM benefits, then their offsets would not represent any reduction in emissions.

But judging additionality has turned out to be unknowable and unworkable. It can never be definitively proved that if a developer or factory owner did not get offset income they would not build their project or switch to a cleaner fuel supply- and would not do so over the decade for which projects can sell offsets.

The documents written by carbon consultants to justify why their clients' projects should be approved for CDM offsets contain enough lies to make a sub-prime mortgage pusher blush. One commonly used "scam" is to make a proposed project look like an economic loser on its own, but a profitable earner once offset income is factored in. Examples include the Indian wind developers who failed to tell the CDM about the lucrative tax credits their projects were earning.

Off-the-record, industry insiders will admit that deceitful claims in CDM applications are standard practice. The carbon trading industry lobby group, the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), has stated that proving the intent of developers applying for the CDM "is an almost impossible task". Industry representatives have complained that "good storytellers" can get a project approved, "while bad storytellers may fail even if the project is really additional".

One glaring signal that many of the projects being approved by the CDM's executive board are non-additional is that almost three-quarters of projects were already complete at the time of approval. It would seem clear that a project that is already built cannot need extra income in order to be built.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/21/environment.carbontrading?gusrc=rss&feed=society

>>2) Reducing Taxes stops recessions and brings more money to the government, but not only are they raising taxes on those who actually pay them, as well as reducing the number who pay taxes, they are also spending at uncontrolled rates. The amount of cash the government is creating is as of Dec 22th 500% of normal. One can predict that based upon this, that we will have inflation as to be feared with your life. If you take all Dollars around the world then this is only a 3% increase, but when you take what the Federal Reserve put out then it was from an average of 5 billion dollars to 126.5 billion. The government takes in about 2.4 trillion dollars a year. We just spent in 4 months? 3 months? 2 months? Yeah you tell me ... 2 trillion dollars should this current bill pass. With a Legislature that has never considered working DOWN the debt or REDUCING the government do you think that this will ever be paid off?

So therefore they are digging a recessionary hole so deep, and inflationary so deep, as to defy logic, and they are doing it smiling. Conservatives know what is coming, we are stocking up on food, guns, and tools. <<

http://www.kcbs.com/Sharp-Rise-in-Gun-Sales/3280353
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/oct/28/bay-area-gun-sales-rise-ahead-election/
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/130491

>>3) Unemployment will pass 15% for sure, probably past 25%, and even could reach 30% with this run-amok nation of ours. Take the perfect example of passing riches to the poor... A certain nation run by a certain POPULAR and OUTSPOKEN (Coincidentally black also) who raped the rich (whites btw) for the poor giving the poor the property of the rich. Mugabe is his name. This is spoken in many Republican circles as that nation now requires wheel barrels to buy a loaf of bread. Wheel Barrels full of cash. <<

Chinamasa was presenting a 66,500,000,000,000,000,000-Zimbabwean dollar ($3 billion) government budget in both foreign currency and the local unit, amid world-record hyperinflation last officially set at 231 million per cent.

Fees at state institutions such as hospitals and tertiary education facilities were listed in US dollars, while the country's power, water and state-run fuel utilities will also charge money in forex.

A hospital visit for an adult will cost $US8 and a term at medicine school will cost $US1800.

The country's financial ruin has added to the chronic hunger and a runaway cholera epidemic, which has killed more than 3000, faced by ordinary Zimbabweans.

Southern African leaders see a unity government as the best chance to rescue Zimbabwe and are pushing for President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai to share power by mid-February.

But the opposition has yet to decide if it will join Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980.

Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga suggested on Thursday that the "dinosaur" 84-year-old should be offered a "golden handshake" to leave office.

He criticised fellow African leaders without the courage to tell Mugabe to leave and said the world should tell him "the time to go is now, we are ready to give you a golden handshake if you will quit".

Mugabe's reputation has plummeted from an African liberation hero to a despot, who has ruined his once-prosperous country.

In June the World Food Program estimated that 5.1 million Zimbabweans would need aid by this month, but the actual figure was 35 per cent higher.

"The economic situation has worsened more dramatically than we had anticipated," WFP regional spokesman Richard Lee said.

The agency is being forced to halve cereal rations given to hungry Zimbabweans so that all in need can receive aid, with food aid being distributed in every district in the country, he added.

The UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs also said on Thursday that, out of the country's 12 million people, only 480,000 have formal jobs, down from 3.6 million in 2003.

"At close of 2008, only 6 per cent of the population was formally employed, down from 30 per cent in 2003," the agency said.

Zimbabwe's economy has shrunk by more than 45 per cent over the past five years, leaving half of Zimbabwe's urban population relying on remittances from friends and family overseas, the report said.

Feuding political rivals Mugabe and Tsvangirai have failed to agree on a power-sharing deal signed six months ago, after disputed elections last March in which the veteran leader suffered his first loss at the polls.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/231000000-inflation-zim-dollar-dumped/2009/01/30/1232818687057.html

>>4) With the growth of hostile nations, and those who say otherwise are ignoring history and current events for political purposes, our current leaders wish to GUT our military. <<

Frank says that's a mistake. "To accomplish his goals of expanding health care and other important quality of life services without ballooning the deficit," Frank noted, Obama has no choice but to decrease military spending. He said that spending excessive amounts of money on the defense budget "precludes" the Obama administration from addressing other priorities: "If we do not get military spending under control, we will not be able to respond to important domestic needs."

Acknowledging that Obama does plan to save hundreds of billions of dollars by withdrawing from Iraq, Frank said the President must go further and take big whacks at big-ticket military projects. He pointed to programs like the Air Force's F-22 fighter, the Osprey troop transport, and missile defense as expensive, unnecessary Cold War-era boondoggles. He singled out missile defense in Eastern Europe as a particularly wasteful use of American taxpayers' money. "I will confess that I am not a regular reader of Iranian-issued fatwahs," Frank quipped. "And probably one of the ones I missed was the one where they threatened devastation against Prague. We plan to spend several billion dollars to protect the Czech Republic against Iran. That's either a great waste of money or a very belated way to make up for Munich."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/02/barney-frank-obama-cut-military-spending

NONE of those were proposed during the Cold War...if that's what Obama meant by "Cold War systems we don't use" he lied yet again..

>>5) Nations who have tried super socialized health care have started running from those programs, or have experienced huge waiting periods for treatment. Those Top Democrats who advocate public health care will never stoop to go to an already existing public health care system. Kennedy? nope. <<

"DURHAM, North Carolina (CNN) -- Sen. Edward Kennedy was released Monday from Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina after recovering from brain surgery, CNN has learned.

Kennedy, 76, will return to his home in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, after undergoing a 3