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cow76:
cleo:
Just which "ill-conceived opinions" are we talking about? As I recall, she got publicity for everything but her opinions.
Posted in: Palin steps down as Alaska governor
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WhiteHawk
No, Obama has already made it clear he backs Zelaya, and considers the prosecution of the dictator-for-life-wannabe to be a coup. Maybe he's hoping that making Zelaya appear legitimate will provide some precedent for himself.
Posted in: Ousted Honduran president returns home -- briefly
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Altria:
The AP article took her qoute out of context (no surprise there). I don't have the transcript, but what she said was that the First Amendment (freedom of speech and of the press) was very important, as it had the power to influence how the populace thinks (see Nessie's 11:18 post) and votes, and that many American tropps have died to protect that right. Then she asked the press to honor those troops by doing their jobs properly instead of making things up (for the purpose of partisan political attacks).
What kind of things? That Trig is her daughter's kid, or that she (Sarah) was a member of the Alaska Independence Movement, or that she spent $150,000 on clothes, or that she didn't know South Africa is a country, or that she said she could see Russia from her house, or that she hunted wolves from a helicopter, or that she was the State Coordinator for Pat Buchannan, or that she was named as a co-respondent in someone else’s divorce, or that she tried to fire her ex-brother-in-law state trooper, or that as Governor she cut funding for an unwed girls home, or that she tried to fire a librarian because the librarian wouldn’t ban some books, or that she attempted to have “Intelligent Design” taught in Alaskan schools...
sailwind:
Because she's not a pro-abortion, left-wing "feminist", silly. Anybody who strays from the groupthink pack "deserves" cheap shots. You know, like Sandra Berhard hoping that Sarah Palin would get gang-raped by a group of black men. According to the haters on the Left, Palin deserved that, even though she's never said anything racist or wished such harm to anyone.
Nessie:
All 15 ethical complaints have been dismissed. If you don't know that, or can't tell the difference between what Sarah Palin says and what Tina Fey says, perhaps you find someone else to post about.
Posted in: Palin steps down as Alaska governor
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WhiteHawk
zurc, would you like to answer Senator DeMint's questions about Obama's health care plan, since Obama won't? It would give you a chance to contribute something relevant to this debate.
1. If the major provisions of the health care bills will not kick in until 2013, four years from now, why the rush to pass a thousand-page bill before the August recess, a bill you admit that you haven’t fully read yourself?
2. You have said your health care bill will cut costs and not increase the deficit. But, independent analysis by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office contradicts both claims, saying it will raise costs and increase the deficit by $240 billion in the first ten years. What independent analysis will you provide that supports your claims and refutes CBO’s?
3. You have repeatedly said that your health care bill allows any American who likes their current employer-based plan to keep it. But the most comprehensive independent analysis available, by the Lewin Group, contradicts your claim and found your bill will force over 80 million Americans to lose their current coverage. Will you provide independent analysis to refute this study?
4. Your own record in the Senate reveals you spent years voting against nearly every reform to make health care more affordable and accessible, but this week you said that opponents of your plan are “content to perpetuate the status quo, [and] are, in fact, fighting reform on behalf of powerful special interests.” Which specific elected officials will you cite that have proposed to keep the status quo, and is that how you characterize the opposition of the 52 Blue Dog Democrats in the House and the moderate Democrats in the Senate?
5. Yes or no question: Will you guarantee pro-life Americans that, under your plan, they will not be forced to subsidize elective abortions?
Posted in: Obama may have to wait for health care passage
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Sushisake3:
And you would be wrong - again. A group of people who want to guns for self-defense aren't the aggressors. That's something the hoplophobes can never wrap their minds around.
LoveUSA:
Oh yeah, look how well that's worked everywhere else. The suicide rates are higher in Japan. Guns are prohibited in Britain, so criminals use knives (when they don't have guns) while the victims still don't have anything. Say, how about finally enforcing the existing laws? Wouldn't that make more sense than a ridiculous - and impossible - outright ban?
smithinjapan:
Rap music and its culture that glofies such cowardly violence as drive-by shootings? Smith, you're finally onto something!
Name them.
yawmin:
In fact, it would be much worse. Just ask Chicago.
I've got a question for all the pro-gun-ban (because we already have gun control to varying degrees in all 50 states), anti-self-defense, hoplophobic JT regulars: Would you feel any better if the coward just ran people down with the car?
Posted in: 6 wounded in drive-by shooting at Texas Southern University
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WhiteHawk
Good. It'll give him time to read the massive and unnecessary catastrophe.
Posted in: Obama may have to wait for health care passage
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WhiteHawk
Thanks for the info, OldGeezer.
So all this fuss and bother, this massive entitlement program, all for the sake (excuse) of 2.87% of the population? Where's this crisis I've been hearing about non-stop from the leftists?
The title of this thread is "Obama challenges critics on health care". Baloney. He's not challenging, he's trying to intimidate while hiding behind his teleprompter. If he were challenging them, he would answer Senator DeMint's questions:
1. If the major provisions of the health care bills will not kick in until 2013, four years from now, why the rush to pass a thousand-page bill before the August recess, a bill you admit that you haven’t fully read yourself?
2. You have said your health care bill will cut costs and not increase the deficit. But, independent analysis by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office contradicts both claims, saying it will raise costs and increase the deficit by $240 billion in the first ten years. What independent analysis will you provide that supports your claims and refutes CBO’s?
3. You have repeatedly said that your health care bill allows any American who likes their current employer-based plan to keep it. But the most comprehensive independent analysis available, by the Lewin Group, contradicts your claim and found your bill will force over 80 million Americans to lose their current coverage. Will you provide independent analysis to refute this study?
4. Your own record in the Senate reveals you spent years voting against nearly every reform to make health care more affordable and accessible, but this week you said that opponents of your plan are “content to perpetuate the status quo, [and] are, in fact, fighting reform on behalf of powerful special interests.” Which specific elected officials will you cite that have proposed to keep the status quo, and is that how you characterize the opposition of the 52 Blue Dog Democrats in the House and the moderate Democrats in the Senate?
5. Yes or no question: Will you guarantee pro-life Americans that, under your plan, they will not be forced to subsidize elective abortions?
Posted in: Obama challenges critics on health care
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WhiteHawk
Turning around? Where? Unemployment keeps increasing, for one thing.
Y'all complain about repeating talking points, while repeating Rahm Emanuel's unsubstantiated talking point about the economy. Funny stuff! Reminds me of Al Gore claiming that the debate on global warming was over and it was time for (panicked, unproductive) action. Why? Because he said so, of course!
The difference is that unecessary malpractice suits (and the insurance costs doctors and hospitals pay) are a factor in the rising cost of healthcare. That's a fact.
Another thing about the economy: Several economic experts (the ones who don't work in the Obama administration) have said that the economy would have already started recovering on its own, but the "stimulus" spending and the projected increases in taxation have delayed the recovery and weakened what recovery we will see. Which is common sense, considering the "stimulus" was nothing more than a huge backlog of pork with a little sprinkling of private sector job growth on the side.
We don't forget it, we just remember that he was against bailouts at first, but was persuaded by congress. And who held congress then?
Uh-huh. And you repeat Emanuel's claim...
Posted in: Obama challenges critics on health care
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WhiteHawk
Healthcare wasn't always this expensive. How did it get this way? For one major thing, Democrats have always fought against tort reform. Anybody here priced malpractice insurance lately? If Japan-style health care is what the U.S. needs, then why can't we have Japan-style tort reform first? And how about a Japan-style welfare system while we're at it?
That's not correct. They also know how to say "read the bill before you vote on it", something no Democrat -not even the president- is willing to do. Oh, he's got time to go out and make all sorts of promises about what you can and can't do under this legislation, but has he actually read it to make sure his promises are worth anything? No.
Not unlike his "stimulus" bill, which he didn't read either, but it was critical that it get passed ASAP. Once it was passed , as we all know, he went on holiday before signing it. And now he says it's working as expected. Except he promised that unemployment wouldn't rise past 8% if the "stimulus" was passed and it's now 9.4%. Oh, and it's not supposed to work until 2010 or so.
Does Obama have an honest bone in his body?
Posted in: Obama challenges critics on health care
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WhiteHawk
Saw Obama say in a speech last week: "Make no mistake: Health care reform IS deficit reform."
He's proposed a US$1trillion spending program with no idea how to pay for it (force others to pay for it), while claiming it will stop the growth of the deficit and provide a better system than we have now. Who would be stupid enough to believe him?
The only thing this new system will do better or more efficiently is scare people into voting Democrat. I guess Social Security and welfare aren't pulling their weight in the voting booth like they used to.
If this proposed system is so great, why aren't the people selling it to you willing to live under it themselves?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Kennedy-Lets-Ration-Health-Care-51145997.html
Same reason so many in Obama's administration don't pay their taxes: "We know what's best for you, but it's not good enough for us."
And why do we need it? Because "47 million" people don't have insurance? (Notice how that number hasn't risen in spite of the rise in unemployment this year? Because it's bull.) Even if half of them aren't illegal aliens, how many of them really need insurance? I'm not wealthy, but when I had to have surgery earlier this year, I didn't panic or ask Obama for help. I'm paying on it without interest. I'll pay for it myself; I don't need to force some wealthy person (who also has rights) like Rev. Jesse Jackson to pay for my surgery, and I don't need a $1trillion government boondoggle rationed by Teddy Kennedy.
Why don't we determine who doesn't have health insurance, which of those don't need it (because they're wealthy), which of those are legal citizens, and then give them $1million -no, make it $10million- each in a medical savings account, and call it a day! The taxpayers are out less than a billion, instead of over a trillion, and the "crisis" is over.
Why not? Because it's not about health care. It never was. It's all about control and scaring up votes. No, the Left aren't fascists... ;)
Posted in: Obama challenges critics on health care
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WhiteHawk
Ah yes, never let a good crisis go to waste. Especially after so many of your DNC predecessors have workeed so hard to create the crisis.
Saw Obama say in a speech last week: "Make no mistake: Health care reform IS deficit reform." My first thought was "And his fanboys claim that Sarah Palin is stupid?!?!?"
Only an idiot would propose a US$1trillion spending program with no idea how to pay for it (force others to pay for it), while claiming it will stop the growth of the deficit and provide a better system than we have now. And only an idiot would believe him. The only thing this new system will do better or more efficiently is scare people into voting Democrat. I guess Social Security and welfare aren't pulling their weight in the voting booth like they used to.
If this proposed system is so great, why aren't the people selling it to you willing to live under it themselves?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Kennedy-Lets-Ration-Health-Care-51145997.html
Same reason so many in Obama's administration don't pay their taxes: "We know what's best for you, but it's not good enough for us."
Posted in: Obama: Don't squander chance to reform health care
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WhiteHawk
Google "Panetta cancelled cia program" and see what you get. You're possibly the only person on the planet debating that he cancelled it.
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WhiteHawk
That's a political career? Don't remember her being on the ticket.
Conservative Democrats, which I have no problem with. It's the Leftists, the Marx and Alinsky acolytes that are the problem.
Posted in: Palin says she's not leaving politics
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JoeBigs:
I watched that speech, and I didn't see any problems with it. I heard the story later about the teleprompter malfunction, but from watching the speech I couldn't tell at what point it was supposed to have malfunctioned, if at all. Which means that whether there was a malfunction or not, the speech went well.
Contrast that to what happens when our current president has a teleprompter malfunction...
In life, there are knowledge tests and there are performance tests. Getting an education from expensive schools is one thing, but if Hillary is that good, why didn't she run for office on her own, instead of riding her husband's presidency and deal-making into a senate seat? While the schools Palin attended may not have the reputation of the ones Hillary attended, Palin made her way up in politics on her own. Which technically makes her a better example of Women's Liberation. Can you accept that fact?
It's not unlike the perpetual college students on JT who look down on those with less time in the classroom. I've seen JET's with their Bachelor's using horrible spelling and atrocious grammar to ridicule me. And while I may have only attended a community college for the engineering training I needed to obtain my job, I excelled at English while in public high school. Which left me feeling sorry for the poor Japanese kids for having to learn English from someone who was all education and no performance. Not that I would want to be a JET, but those kids would have been better off with the "less qualified" choice, namely me.
It depends on where you get your information (Huffington Post?!?) and what information you'll accept.
No, no and no. I said wealth REdistribution, not wealth distribution, it's not like trickle-down economics, and your definition of those economics is wrong.
When the market works according to it's natural flow, the top buy goods and invest in business. Those goods are menufatured and supplied by lower classes, in exchange for money. Those classes buy more goods, and that money is further spread around among those classes and lower.
The money is not "given" to those top classes, it is earned them. How? By investments, trading, creating and building industry. When you see the government "giving" the rich money, it is actually letting the rich keep the money they've already made.
When money is taken by the government for the purpose of REdistribution, most of it is consumed by the bureaucratic machine itself, and only a small percentage gets back to the public in any form. The top classes have less money to invest and spend in the market, and everyone below them suffers for it. Just ask those who were affected by the "Luxury Tax" of the 90's in America that was placed on cars, boats, planes and jewelery over $30,000. It was the middle and lower classes that produced, transported and provided those goods who suffered, not the rich who were the targets. The rich simply had their boats built overseas, or did without the latest Porsche.
It was everybody's. The government that forced banks to lend money to those with bad credit or no credit or documentation, the people who took advantage of those loans when they couldn't truly afford them, the real estate agents who told people they could afford more house than they really could, Barney Frank, the illegal aliens who abandoned cars and homes bought on credit, the developers who proposed housing that had no genuine customers (There were a lot of "flippers" who bought units in condo towers when they were proposed, with the intention of selling those units for a profit once they were built and it was opened. One of my friends was one of those flippers, and now he is financially destitute. My engineering firm had almost two dozen condo tower projects on its schedule, and we are just one of many firms here. Only a few of those projects were completed city-wide. If you want to know about the housing market bubble, I can tell you ALL about it, from the engineering, investment, consumer and real estate side of things.), the people who packaged bad mortgages and sold them for a profit (two big-name Democrats among the major players), the list goes on and on.
Posted in: Palin says she's not leaving politics
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LFRAgain:
Well, Panetta nixed the program the minute he heard of it, so there's one Democrat who did have a problem with it.
Posted in: House lays groundwork to probe CIA plan to kill al-Qaida leaders
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WhiteHawk
You would think so, but there is a lot political pressure within the airline industry. Not political like DJP or Democrats, but "office-politics" type.
Posted in: Finnair launches A330 service on Osaka route
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WhiteHawk
Ah, it's good to see you back on form, adaydream. ;)
Posted in: Calls grow for probe of CIA plan for al-Qaida hits
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SushiSake3:
No choice?!? That's ridiculous, unless you're a tax-this, tax-that, tax-everything-that-moves, tax-everything-that-sits-still Leftist. Have you never heard an economist advise cutting taxes to end a recession? No? You don't remember Al Gore being reminded of that when he ran for president? Obama had more than one choice, he just isn't any more open-minded than you.
Maybe we were decades ago, before China became a manufacturing powerhouse. If the USA is the world's biggest polluter, then how come our rivers are cleaner than Japan's? How come Tehran's smog is worse than L.A.'s?
If that's true, then you must recognize that your perspective is very narrow too: More taxes, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more government spending... and where does the funding for your perspective come from? Jobs. The market. Goods and services being exchanged. It's like the solar panels and the windmills: You want the result, but you don't want the necessary process.
Okay, so drive your Prius and naively assume the nickel just magically appeared in the car. Say, do you know what is needed to mine, transport, and process nickel for your Prius? Oil.
How, by quietly ignoring my previous comments about the free promotion Obama got from an adoring press? While that same press edited Palin's interviews and investigated her family's private lives (and ignoring Biden's family's private lives)? Not that you're being overly selective or anything...
pawatan:
You're right, this is a Japanese site. But I am currently in the U.S. My apologies for not clarifying.
Say, that reminds me. SushiSake3, I would still like to see your proof that Palin wants more drilling in Iran, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Helter Skelter:
You're welcome. Notice how that example was completely ignored by those who were just denying the connection between the anti-capitalists and the environmental movement? It would be nice to see them have the integrity to question their own beliefs and welcome information that is contrary to their prejudices. I guess that's asking a bit much of the educated, enlightened, open-minded, devoted Left.
Posted in: Palin calls Obama energy plan a threat to economy
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adaydream:
Of course. As long as you recognize that's all it is, and don't start referring to it as a "fact". Some folks get a little carried away.
Posted in: Calls grow for probe of CIA plan for al-Qaida hits
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grafton:
Sorry, you must have overlooked it:
Posted in: Palin says she's not leaving politics