Dave Kos
Social climber
Temecula
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Sorry to hear about that John.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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"Since when is SS an entitlement?"
Actually, that's a great question. It's time Republicans stopped calling it that, as though drawing on it was only done by nipple-sucking liberals.
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Dr. F.
Big Wall climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2013 - 01:23pm PT
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Karma seems to work just fine for John
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Dr. F.
Big Wall climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2013 - 01:25pm PT
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rong
You are all over the place, grasping at straws
and since you don't know what the hell you are talking about, it just makes all the more hilarious
Do you know the difference between debt and deficit now?
You can say your sorry for bad mouthing me and Obama for being wrong about the deficit...
Obama has lowered it, like he promised.
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Dr. F.
Big Wall climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2013 - 04:02pm PT
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New analogy:
"The Republican spending cuts are like cutting off your leg to reduce weight"
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Dr. F.
Big Wall climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2013 - 04:20pm PT
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Whaaaaaaa????????
More Republican witch hunt lies exposed!!!
The escort was paid to lie by Republican operatives!!!
Which could have taken down a highly respected Democratic Senator
Escort says Menendez prostitution claims were made up
By Carol D. Leonnig and Ernesto Londoño,
Updated: Monday, March 4, 1:57 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/escort-says-menendez-prostitution-claims-were-made-up/2013/03/04/31299fe2-8514-11e2-999e-5f8e0410cb9d_story.html
An escort who appeared on a video claiming Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) paid her for sex has told Dominican Republic police that she was instead paid to make up the claims in a tape recording and has never met or seen the senator before, according to court documents and two people briefed on her claim.
The woman identified a lawyer who approached her and a friend to make the videotape, according to affidavits obtained by the Post. That man has in turn identified another lawyer who gave him a script for the tape and paid him to find women to fabricate the claims, the affidavits say.
The escort was one of two women who taped videos that seems to support a tipster’s allegations that Menendez had patronized prostitutes while vacationing in the Dominican Republic.
FBI agents conducting interviews in the Dominican Republic have found no evidence to back up the tipster’s allegations, according to two people briefed on their work.
Menendez has denied the prostitution claims and called them entirely false “smears” used by enemies to try to defeat him in his recent re-election campaign and his selection as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“It’s amazing to me that anonymous, nameless, faceless individuals on a Web site can drive that type of story into the mainstream, but that’s what they’ve done successfully,” Menendez said last month. “Now, nobody can find them. No one ever met them. No one ever talked to them, but that’s where we’re at. So the bottom line is all of those smears are absolutely false and, you know, that’s the bottom line.”
The women’s videotaped claims, with their faces obscured, were played on the conservative Web site The Daily Caller. The news site reported that “the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000-acre resort in the Dominican Republic...They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100.”
But in an affidavit obtained Monday, one of the women on the tape, who describes herself as an escort, said she and a colleague were offered money by a lawyer to read from a script. The woman said she was surreptitiously videotaped implicating Menendez and Melgen.
does evil have no morals?
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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I can do a magic trick and give you 250 million of the rubes money just like that!
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jghedge
climber
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"I can do a magic trick and give you 250 million of the rubes money just like that!"
Which we spent before lunch, every day for 6 years, in Iraq
And no magic trick needed - just get the stupidest half of the population to vote for it.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Since when is SS an entitlement?
It IS true, when people generally draw more that they pay in, which is the case, and is fundamentally why ti doesn't work over time. The original calculations did not take into account the significant lengthening of lifespan that has happened......
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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TradEddie
Trad climber
Philadelphia, PA
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Politicians have, as usual, cleverly conflated two phrases. They've combined the fact that we ARE ENTITLED to collect Social Security, with "a sense of entitlement". The idea that SS is an inherent right or that it will or should meet anything other than basic subsistence is a sense of entitlement, but the original point of calling these things entitlements was because the government needs to ensure funding because we, the people are entitled to them. Politicians have managed to twist these words to make those most dependent on SS sound like undeserving leeches.
TE
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TradEddie
Trad climber
Philadelphia, PA
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And while I'm bored and ranting, I don't know which I found scarier today, the idea of another Bush running for the White House, or the fact that I agreed with almost everything he had to say on immigration in his NPR interview. That Democratic "back of the line" plan was meaningless, designed to get hispanic votes now, and to convince democrats that it was going to help win future elections when in reality it was an empty promise, the system is broken for many of those already in line.
TE
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TradEddie
Trad climber
Philadelphia, PA
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A minority of both parties approve, Republicans and independents both approve in higher numbers than Democrats, yet Democrats are hypocrites?
In any case, those overall numbers should be an embarrassment to the nation that is self-proclaimed leader of the free world, and are a perfect illustration of the fundamental flaw in democracy.
TE
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locker
Social climber
FukUville
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Fuking A...
BINGO!!!...
"I can do a magic trick and give you 250 million of the rubes money just like that!"
Which we spent before lunch, every day for 6 years, in Iraq
And no magic trick needed - just get the stupidest half of the population to vote for it."...
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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Freedom’ license plate banned in Washington D.C.
March 5, 2013 | 9:56 am
201Comments
Charlie Spiering
Commentary Staff Writer
The Washington Examiner
The word “FREEDOM” is among the list of banned vanity license plate slogans for Washington D.C., according a government file obtained by a Freedom of Information Request filed by the transparency website GovernmentAttic.org.
Other banned phrases include anti-tax messages such as "TAXKLLR" and "TAXRUS4" as well as any reference to the President of the United States such as “OBAMA,” “BARACK,” and “OBAMA44.″
“RONPAUL” is also banned.
Not that "Marxist" isnt on the ban list,, muwwahahahahaaaaa...
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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did you know,, the transportation secretary just spent 50 million for new uniforms for TSA personel, right before the sequestration..?? And the uniform allowance for those employees has doubled.?
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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It IS true, when people generally draw more that they pay in, which is the case, and is fundamentally why ti doesn't work over time. The original calculations did not take into account the significant lengthening of lifespan that has happened......
Bingo! Incidentally, in budget parlance, any "entitlement" is a program whose benefits have already accrued, but are unpaid, under existing laws.
While a few might decry Social Security's existence, the reason rational people seek entitlement reform is because, as Ken states above, the current formula causes the fund to run out of money. The Official Report of the Trustees of the Social Security system has said as much for several years. The idea that "entitlement reform" means ending Social Security is false. In fact, we need to change the formula so that we can preserve Social Security. Whether you like or dislike Republicans doesn't change one basic fact: If we do not modify existing Social Security law, the system will be unable to pay all of the promised benefits.
John
P.S. Dr. F: I'm still chuckling over your "karma" comment. For what it's worth, I thought it was both funny and tasteful.
Ironically, perhaps, while my wife and I had to start over financially in our mid-50's, we also discovered we had an awful lot of friends ready to help when we really needed it. My emotional downfall eventually led to enormous blessing I never would have seen otherwise.
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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JE,, CRAP happens --BTDT myself. Kudos for over-coming.
And,, sooo,, 250 million,,to the musloom brudderhoodlums and Morsi.....
A down payment on promises BO made in 011..
That makes about 335 million given to them recently. A govt that is tied to hamas, and al-qay-duh and that the people there dispise.
ANYONE able to explain this to me w/o the abc/nbc/cnn/ etc rhetoric?
edit:
Why are we financing THAT govt in egypt.
why are we financing the muslim brotherhood AT ALL?
Why do the egyptian people HATE the new Morsi govt so badly?
WHY ON EARTH would any politician THINK you can deal with an organization such as the mulsoom brotherhoodlums with ANY faith.??
Have we not repeated this very crap for decades with very tragic results?
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