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A new ice cream !
In honor of the 44th President of the United States, Giffords Ice Cream has introduced a new flavor: Barocky Road
Barocky Road is a blend of half vanilla, half chocolate, and surrounded by nuts and flakes. The vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised and usually denied as an ingredient. The nuts and flakes are all plentiful. The cost is $92.84 per scoop...so out of a hundred dollar bill you are at least promised some CHANGE..! When purchased it will be presented to you in a large beautiful cone, but after you pay for it, the ice cream is taken out of the cone and given to the person in line behind you at no charge. You are left with an almost empty wallet, staring at an empty cone and wondering what just happened. Then you realize this is what "redistribution of wealth" is all about. Aren't you just stimulated? |
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Needless to say, it's cold as hell at the RNC ice cream stand, by design, and nothing ever trickles down. |
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as they say
"keep the change".
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I was wondering about that. A lot of people are waiting for the stimulus to Solyndra to trickle down.
And remeber the "cash for clunkers",,,,,,,,it's harder now, for 99% as you call them, to get used parts to repair their cars. trickle down may not work in your community but trickle up poverty is doing well. |
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I won the bet
I had a bet with someone that you would be the first to answer my post. I knew you couldn't resist. It had nothing to do with what I posted.
BUT THANKS FOR PLAYING. |
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The fact is, I could resist. I chose not to, because it's like shooting fish in a barrel ... and I need the exercise. |
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Giffords Ice Cream
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IKR A lot of the used car lots don't have the cheap cars anymore. Also, junk yards suffered because of that as well.
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There is still a Giffords store where I live. It's a spring ritual when the store opens up for the first day of the season, they give out free scoops of ice cream all day.
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trickle down at full strenght
We will feel the full flow of trickle down under a president Romney or a pope Santorum
Yes that's right we'll all feel the flow as they piss on our backs and the GOP spin machine [Rush & Ann] we tell us it's only raining Golden showers anyone? just vote GOP and they'll give you one Jerseygirl Jen |
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], because it's like shooting fish in a barrel ... and I need the exercise.[/QUOTE]
still getting your shots off even if you have to unload by hand. nice. |
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I had corresponded with smc via PM regarding our earlier conversation. At his request, I'm posting this here to forward the conversation for all to see. This is originally in reference to post #222 (one page back):
Conservatives have managed to successfully paint affirmative action as "reverse racism." I must admit that I've fallen victim to this line of thinking. When you look at a pool of applicants, and all else being equal, it doesn't seem right that the minority candidate will get the job just to meet a quota. Or that the minority candidate will get "bonus points" just by virtue of their race/gender/etc. I'd prefer applicants be picked SOLELY on their qualifications, and if it's neck and neck based on that, then the interviewer/company needs to dig a bit deeper and not settle on the candidate whose race will ensure compliancy with some federal statute. That is one side of my brain. The other side of my brain is not so naive as to believe that just because you outlaw discrimination that it actually goes away. Even in communities where there is no overt racism or discrimination, certain minorities are cogs in a machine that by design puts them at disadvantage economically, educationally, etc. The whole "white, male privilege" thing. Racism was so institutionalized in our nation's past that entire communities of African Americans will never have the same opportunities that I had growing up. And I don't buy the Republican bullshit that all you have to do is work hard and pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you'll become the next Steve Jobs. I'm always of these two minds. I guess I feel that affirmative action is too blunt a sword for a job that requires a precise knife blade. I can see where AA is a good thing and perhaps still needed in some capacity, but I'm also not convinced that the way it is currently administered is the best course. With that said, my preferred method of combating institutionalized disadvantage is no more popular with our conservative friends. I feel that poverty remains one of the biggest institutions that people struggle to ever break free from. I don't have solid solutions for creating upward socioeconomic mobility-- but I have NO PROBLEM redistributing the wealth downward. It's patently false that the majority of poor people (which includes many blacks) are lazy and just want to live on the government cheese train. Regarding diversity in general, having spent much of my life in and around academia, I really value diversity in our universities and schools. And I guess I agree with you that these institutions should probably be more diverse than the surrounding demographics might suggest. Maine is TOO white for my taste. It's bad that you can go entire days (or weeks even) without encountering a non-white individual. That wasn't usually the case at the University. |
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I would like to make just one point regarding one thing you write: I am afraid this is not "Republican bullshit." Rather, it is the very core of the misguided ideology of American exceptionalism and individualism, and it is inculcated into us from a very young age. It is why Americans, unlike nearly everyone else in the world, have no sense of social solidarity. It is why Americans are so easily convinced to act against their own economic interests by those who control the wealth. And it is why ours is the only advanced country in the world that does not recognize the right to and extraordinarily social value of things such as universal healthcare, national standards for education (regardless of where you live, ungoverned by property values), and so on."And I don't buy the Republican bullshit that all you have to do is work hard and pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you'll become the next Steve Jobs. |
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I was under the impression that they issued rulings. They will explain their position as an "opinion". But realize that this is different than the casual usage of opinion and that terms may have different meanings in the context of law. A "judicial opinion" or "opinion of the court" is an explanation of the order or ruling which lays out the rational and legal principles that the justice relied (in principle, not personal opinion) on in reaching their decision. I have no idea what his wife's organization is.
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ie... White firefighters in New Haven, Conn., passed an exam for a job promotion only to have the test results thrown out because no African-American candidate received a high enough score to also be considered for promotion. The Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington who was denied by the university's law school twice. There were, however 30 minority-group students with lower grades and aptitude scores that were granted admission. In HUD, white employees are routinely denied promotions so the agency can hire 382.9% more blacks than in the civilian work force. etc etc etc... In a situation where you have two applicants, one white, one black, and they're both equally qualified, and your employees do not match the local demographics, then yeah, give the job to the black person. But that's about as far as I would take affirmative action. But don't screen out much more qualified people who happen to be white. Quote:
New Orleans is TOO white for my taste. It's bad that you can go entire days (or weeks even) without encountering a non-black individual. Oh, now THAT is racist. NAAWP (National Association for the Advancement of White People) - racist White History Month - racist National Society of White Engineers - racist When people see someone like Herman Cain, do they assume the presidency of Godfather's Pizza was given to him because he is black? If I were him I'd be pretty insulted by that given that he's a highly capable individual who probably earned his position there. I think there's a perception that Charles Bolden, head of Nasa (and the guy who said Nasa's foremost mission was to help Muslims feel better about themselves), was an affirmative action pick because he's a complete joke. But wait... sure he's qualified... he was an astronaut for cristsakes! Uh... yeah... He was an astronaut... when the shuttle program was starting off and Nasa needed to show that space flight was routine and quiet criticisms that all their astronauts before had been black.
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Of course, Jen's point about 71-year-olds never implied that all who needed a heart transplant would get one under "Obamacare." She was making a broader point about government-provided healthcare. And you can rest assured TracyCoxx knew that was her point ... but didn't let it get in the way of making his point by falsely implying (yes, IMPLYING) something in her post that wasn't there, and thus falsely attributing it to Jen by inference.
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Tracy...You do realize that I am white? So it's not like I'm black and saying that I don't like all the whites in my state. I'm simply comparing the demographics of my current location to the demographics of other places that I've lived. I fail to see how stating that I wish my current state had more diversity makes me racist...
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Not so many years ago a student with good grades applied at UMO and was refused. He applied again but checked the box that he was part "Native American". He was accepted. While Maine may be white, it is also heavily French Canadian.(no color there) I think it is a natural tendency for some people to discriminate in anything that is different to them. Color, nationality, religion, sex, weight, dress, attitudes and personal choices, all play a role in our response to other people. |
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That's sarcasm folks.
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All I could find is this: Quote:
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Go ahead ... complain to the site owner about the words I just used. My argument will be this. The rule about not "insulting" other members shouldn't apply to someone who insults the entire site, and offers nothing here except provocation. Read on... Quote:
You make me want to vomit. |
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And btw, I don't disrespect people for having opinions different than me. There were a number of people on this site that had different opinions than I had and we had many fruitful discussions. That is until you took it as your personal mission to respond for every single person that I tried to engage in a discussion with. Do what you must.
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lol if we can get transsexual nurses in private health care will we be good then?
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Dissemble dissemble dissemble... muh ha ha ha!
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This is a new low Tracy. It's not even ironically amusing.
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I too missed the irony. I don't think I meant any irony.
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I did not mean that you were being ironic. I meant that you tend to roll into this forum writing silly provocative and at times insulting posts which I find ironically amusing.
I have a pretty well developed sense of morbid curiosity. I don't remember having one prior to signing up as a member of this forum and reading your stuff over the course of two years. A big part of why I return to this website is to read your latest outrageous comment.
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No obama has made it illegal to protest in his presence.
A short vid about HR 347 http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v...irzg&vq=medium Now before you liberals roll your eyes and say "it's just Fox News", lets hear from Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanin...b_1328205.html Quote:
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Of course not. It would have been touted as crucial to fighting terrorism, sedition, or whatever. There would not have been a peep about civil liberties. |
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Just because I'm telling you this story doesn't mean that I'm alive at the end of it. If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. DEO VINDICE |
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I wonder how many of Obama's other skeletons in his closet took the pay-off?
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...l3fUF0cb7LpcNM
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Yes, if it's true, it's reprehensible. Reprehensible. But a surprise? No. Uncharacteristic of politics? No. Newsworthy? Maybe a bit. |
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the same dusty failed econmic plan
So far all Romney and other GOP bozos have done is bitch and complain about Obama's handeling of the econmy and so far all they have done is preech and hold up there dusty failed econmic plan that lead us to the econmy tanking under GOP control and the rain of George W Bush
The failed trickle down policies of cutting taxs for the rich cutting captial gains tax and cutting taxs for the multi billion dollar bussiness's and shift all the tax burden on the 99 ppercenters so far the econmy savior Romney has offered nothing new on how to fix things his announced plans to basicly pick up where W left off doubling down on the failed policies that kead us in to the worst econmey since the great depression which was caused by the GOP by the way under president Hover and president Coolidge Wake up America and smell the coffee Romney is nothing but a bussiness CEO and spoiled rich brat which sounds like another failed president George W Bush in US history we have so far had only two CEO's as president Hoover and W and both destory our econmy and yet the GOP is givings us another on who what to pick up where W left off and actually put us in to another great depression Jerseygirl Jen |
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The Difference
The Difference
President George W. Bush's speech afterthe capture of Saddam Hussein: "The success of yesterday's mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq . The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator's footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force. Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people. Their work continues, and so do the risks. Today, on behalf of the nation, I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate them!" Obama's speech after the killing of Osama bin Laden: "And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the Director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan . And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and I authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad , Pakistan ." Obama did not once acknowledge our brave men and women who fight for our country....and that myfriends is THE DIFFERENCE ! |
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The full transcript of Obama's speech announcing the death of bin Laden is readily available at the White House website and on many, many other sites (including news sites such as CNN.com). There, the untruth of franalexes' post can be found. Obama said in that speech: A post of the type above by franalexes is designed to perpetuate the myth the right so adroitly spins that Obama is somehow "different" or "other." Hell, she even uses the word "difference" to close her post. But the only difference here is that Obama, in this one speech, limited his direct thanks to those who carried out the mission in Afghanistan to get bin Laden. Bush, who sent American soldiers to lose their lives in Iraq based on a total lie, broadly thanked the members of the Armed Forces."Tonight, we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who've worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. The American people do not see their work, nor know their names. But tonight, they feel the satisfaction of their work and the result of their pursuit of justice. Just to set the record straight, Obama makes speeches thanking the Armed Forces for their service with regularity. Here are excerpts from just one example, at Fort Bragg on December 14, 2011, announcing the formal "end" of the war in Iraq: The honest response from franalexes would be to come on and post a simple retraction of her attempt to divide people on such a flimsy basis. There are plenty of genuine policy differences among politicians that demand serious discussion. The attempt to perpetuate the pseudo-"otherness" of Barack Obama does a disservice to the cause of everything I bet franalexes would insist she stands for as an American."... the United States military is the most respected institution in our land because you never forget that. You can?t afford to forget it. If you forget it, somebody dies. If you forget it, a mission fails. So you don?t forget it. You have each other?s backs. That?s why you, the 9/11 Generation, has earned your place in history. |
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There WAS a difference between the two speeches SMC. One of them dealt with a credible threat to our national security; the other, not so much. I don't think that was supposed to be what I took away from Fran's post though.
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I agree. In fact, I was going to point out that difference, GRH, but I decided to focus on the method of discourse employed in the post, and make a point that cannot be disputed with fabrications. Those who contend that Iraq represented "a credible threat to our national security" will spin all manner of fabrication to make their case. But they cannot deny that the portrait of Obama franalexes seeks to paint with her post is completely false; they can only ignore the truth and keep making the same claim, hoping that if it is said enough times the ignorant will buy it as the truth.
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LOL, that's our fearless leader for you. And you can bet your cute ass if the mission went bad the word "I" would not appear in the speech.
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But I think I've figured you out, TracyCoxx. The two pictures below are, in fact, one and the same. |
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