On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:43:21 -0500, "Buerste" wrote:


"Curly Surmudgeon" wrote in message
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:23:03 -0500, Buerste wrote:


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And the beginning of the Democrats taking "plundering" to a whole new
level!

Ah, the old "Evilist of Two Lessors" argument misportraying the
opposition.

I'll put you in the "Asshole A" column.

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Regards, Curly
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Oh gee, a personal insult from a fringe-lefty. Why am I not surprised that
your type immediately degrades to such. It must be instinctual for you like
a bite from a cornered animal. I pity you.

Was "plundering" the clue?
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Cliff

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:23:03 -0500, "Buerste" wrote:


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And the beginning of the Democrats taking "plundering" to a whole new level!

Then explain why the economy does better with dems, why the repubs run
up debts & deficits & lie & start wars & why the dems pay down their debts
& don't seem to start wars based on lies.

This should be good.
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Cliff

"Cliff" wrote in message
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:23:03 -0500, "Buerste" wrote:


"Curly Surmudgeon" wrote in message
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And the beginning of the Democrats taking "plundering" to a whole new
level!

Then explain why the economy does better with dems, why the repubs run
up debts & deficits & lie & start wars & why the dems pay down their debts
& don't seem to start wars based on lies.

This should be good.
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Cliff

Let's see on war....for the last century..

WWI - started and resolved by Dem(Wilson) with no direct attack on USA.
Failed leadership in Versailles Treaty considered direct cause for Hitler's
rise and WWII and allit's consequences.
WWII - started Dem(Roosevelt), resolved by Dem(Truman) largely because of VP
succession and more than two terms allowed
Korea - started Dem (Truman), resolved by Rep(Eisenhower)
Vietnam - started Dem(Kennedy, Johnson), resolved by Rep(Nixon)
Iran Hostage - started Dem(Carter), resolved by Rep(Reagan) left radical
Islamic leadership(see Iraq)
Grenada - started and resolved by Rep(Reagan) in less than a week
Cold War - started by Dem(Truman, see Churchhill Iron Curtain speech),
resolved by Rep(Reagan/Bush)
Panama - started and resolved by Rep(Bush) in less than a week
Kuwait - started and resolved by Rep(Bush), invaded country freed in less
than six months with strong NATO alliance
Somalia - started by Rep(Bush); a year later left by Dem(Clinton) unresolved
mess still present, leading to current haven for pirates situation
Haiti -started and sort of resolved by Dem(Clinton) troops, unresolved mess
still present
Assorted Terroist Attacks against US interests, Suadia Arabia, Kenya, USS
Cole, WTC(1993) - Dem(Clinton) in charge, left unresolved except for cruise
missle attack on baby food factory in Sudan.
Bosnia - started by Dem(Clinton), with limp wristed NATO help. Unresolved,
troops still present.
Afghanistan - started by Rep(Bush), terrorist Islamic leadership toppled,
government democratically elected for first time in 30 years, not resolved
yet.
Iraq - started by Rep(Bush), dictator toppled, democratically elected
government for first time in 40 plus years, unresolved. Outside assistance
from Islamic neighbors(see Iran above) aided forces wanting to topple
democratic leadership.

So if you take actual body counts(how else do you want to judge this??), I
do feel the Democrats take the award on American lives lost in battles they
started.

Massive Social Entitlement programs started by Roosevelt(Social Security)
and Johnson(Medicare, Great Society and a host of other programs) that led
to massive deficit spending that noone has the guts to resolve and will sink
USA as a nation even after the current economic cycle turns up, as they
always do.

Many feel the entitlement nation started by Roosevelt and piled on by
Johnson, started deficit spending and drove it into overdirve. While
military spending can and has been adjusted over time these entitlements
only go one way..UP and noone will ever kill them. It was a genie that
should never have been let out of the bottle.

Flame on!

BAHO

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:55:57 -0800, Curly Surmudgeon
wrote:

Donlald Luskin is an interesting critter:

The talking heads are blaming the investors
for being taken in that 50 billion Ponzi scheme.
It's all THEIR fault.
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Cliff

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:39:17 -0500, Cliff wrote:

THE TOP 10 quotes of 2008, as compiled by the editor of the Yale Book
of
Quotations:

1. "I can see Russia from my house!" — Comedian Tina Fey, while
impersonating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live,"
broadcast Sept. 13

2. "All of them, any of them that have been in fr ont of me over all
these years." — Palin, responding to a request by CBS anchor Katie
Couric to name the newspapers or magazines she reads, broadcast Oct. 1

3. "We have sort of become a nation of whiners." — former Sen. Phil
Gramm, an economic adviser to Sen. John McCain, quoted in The
Washington Times, July 10

4. "It's not based on any particular data point, we just wanted to
choose a really large number." — Treasury Department spokeswoman
explaining how the $700 billion number was chosen for the initial
bailout, quoted on Forbes .co m Sept. 23

5. "The fundamentals of America's economy are strong." — McCain, in an
interview with Bloomberg TV, April 17

6. "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act
are nonreviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be
reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." — The
Treasury Department's proposed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act,
September 2008

7. "Maybe 100." — McCain, discussing in a town-hall meeting in Derry,
N.H., how many years U.S. troops could remain in Iraq, Jan. 3

8. "I'll see you at the debates, b — ." — Paris Hilton in a video
responding to a McCain television ad, August 2008

9. "Barack, he's talking down to black people. ... I want to cut his
.... off." — the Rev. Jesse Jackson, overheard over a live microphone
before a Fox News interview, July 6

10. (tie) "Cash for trash." — Paul Krugman discussing the financial
bailout, The New York Times, Sept. 22

10. (tie) "There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no
libertarians in financial crises." — Krugman, in an interview with
Bill Maher on HBO's "Real Time," broadcast Sept. 19

10. (tie) "Anyone who says we're in a recession, or heading into one —
especially the worst one since the Great Depression — is making up his
own private definition of 'recession.' " — commentator Donald Luskin,
the day before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, The Washington
Post, Sept. 14

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:39:17 -0500, Cliff wrote:

"I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and
fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell
me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did."
--George Walker Bush, to Nabil Shaath and Mahmoud Abbas


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