Lawman Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 [quote name='Jamie_B' post='211645' date='Jan 31 2006, 08:31 PM'][quote name='DanvilleBengal' post='211641' date='Jan 31 2006, 08:26 PM'] [quote name='Jamie_B' post='211634' date='Jan 31 2006, 08:15 PM'] Im actually looking forward to my Govener, Tim Kaine, response. Everything Ive read and heard about this guy I like so far.[/quote] Likewise. I like that he is appearing to follow in the footsteps of previous governor Mark Warner. Other than George Allen, I think that Warner has been the most effective governor of VA in the brief time that I have existed. I am loving how Kaine, much like Warner, is keeping his promise to try to help out the ppl in Southside VA, and is trying to get that area back on its own two feet. I feel that the Danville area can't help but get stronger with the leadership of Warner, and now Kaine, backing the efforts to bring well-paying jobs to the area. [/quote] While at the same time taking up the promise of his opisition had during the election, of fixing the traffic of northeren va. My biggest beef with Warner was the shutting down of the DMVs on wednesdays. Other than that he was cool. I love Allen, he was a damn fine govener I hope he runs for prez like the rumors are saying. Kaine to me is a bit of the mix of the two. [/quote] Allen > McCain Warner > Hillary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 [quote name='Bunghole' post='211790' date='Feb 1 2006, 12:17 AM']There are about 7 million people too many in Northern VA. And that was when I lived there in the early-mid 1990's! Just keep repeating "HOV Lane and mannequins, HOV Lane and mannequins...." [/quote] Someone got in trouble for that the other week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 [quote name='Lawman' post='211856' date='Feb 1 2006, 07:27 AM'][quote name='Jamie_B' post='211713' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:23 PM'] [quote name='STRAYCAT' post='211711' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:21 PM'] Sounds like a motivational speaker for an insurance company..whats wrong with his left eye brow? 2 inches higher than the other one [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/23.gif[/img] [/quote] He does have that sneaky look, but look past it ... this dude is so far a great governer. [/quote] I think this was a smart move by the Dems, New guy, no dirt and a Moderate. Damn, do you think they are getting the message. [/quote] They will find a way to screw it up. [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/3.gif[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvilleBengal Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 [quote name='Jamie_B' post='211880' date='Feb 1 2006, 08:44 AM'][quote name='Lawman' post='211856' date='Feb 1 2006, 07:27 AM'] [quote name='Jamie_B' post='211713' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:23 PM'] [quote name='STRAYCAT' post='211711' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:21 PM'] Sounds like a motivational speaker for an insurance company..whats wrong with his left eye brow? 2 inches higher than the other one [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/23.gif[/img] [/quote] He does have that sneaky look, but look past it ... this dude is so far a great governer. [/quote] I think this was a smart move by the Dems, New guy, no dirt and a Moderate. Damn, do you think they are getting the message. [/quote] They will find a way to screw it up. [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/3.gif[/img] [/quote] The Dems don't have to screw it up, the Republicans will find a way to do that for them. [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/3.gif[/img] I have no idea how the Armaroff scandal is going to affect the Republicans, but it has already taken down Senator DeLay, and a few others. And there are some sources saying that the Armaroff scandal reaches into the White House. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bengal_Smoov Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 [quote name='DanvilleBengal' post='211939' date='Feb 1 2006, 10:15 AM'][quote name='Jamie_B' post='211880' date='Feb 1 2006, 08:44 AM'] [quote name='Lawman' post='211856' date='Feb 1 2006, 07:27 AM'] [quote name='Jamie_B' post='211713' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:23 PM'] [quote name='STRAYCAT' post='211711' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:21 PM'] Sounds like a motivational speaker for an insurance company..whats wrong with his left eye brow? 2 inches higher than the other one [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//23.gif[/img] [/quote] He does have that sneaky look, but look past it ... this dude is so far a great governer. [/quote] I think this was a smart move by the Dems, New guy, no dirt and a Moderate. Damn, do you think they are getting the message. [/quote] They will find a way to screw it up. [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//3.gif[/img] [/quote] The Dems don't have to screw it up, the Republicans will find a way to do that for them. [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//3.gif[/img] I have no idea how the Armaroff scandal is going to affect the Republicans, but it has already taken down Senator DeLay, and a few others. [b] And there are some sources saying that the Armaroff scandal reaches into the White House[/b]. [/quote] Damn straight, Jack donated over 100,000 dollars of his own money to the Bush re-election campgain in 2004. He has numerous pictures with the president as he was the top republican lobbyist in Washington for the past 5 years. Just another scandal for the Bush adminstration, the adminstration of good Christian morals.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bengalrick Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 [quote name='Bengal_Smoov' post='211942' date='Feb 1 2006, 10:25 AM'][quote name='DanvilleBengal' post='211939' date='Feb 1 2006, 10:15 AM'] [quote name='Jamie_B' post='211880' date='Feb 1 2006, 08:44 AM'] [quote name='Lawman' post='211856' date='Feb 1 2006, 07:27 AM'] [quote name='Jamie_B' post='211713' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:23 PM'] [quote name='STRAYCAT' post='211711' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:21 PM'] Sounds like a motivational speaker for an insurance company..whats wrong with his left eye brow? 2 inches higher than the other one [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//23.gif[/img] [/quote] He does have that sneaky look, but look past it ... this dude is so far a great governer. [/quote] I think this was a smart move by the Dems, New guy, no dirt and a Moderate. Damn, do you think they are getting the message. [/quote] They will find a way to screw it up. [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//3.gif[/img] [/quote] The Dems don't have to screw it up, the Republicans will find a way to do that for them. [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//3.gif[/img] I have no idea how the Armaroff scandal is going to affect the Republicans, but it has already taken down Senator DeLay, and a few others. [b] And there are some sources saying that the Armaroff scandal reaches into the White House[/b]. [/quote] Damn straight, Jack donated over 100,000 dollars of his own money to the Bush re-election campgain in 2004. He has numerous pictures with the president as he was the top republican lobbyist in Washington for the past 5 years. Just another scandal for the Bush adminstration, the adminstration of good Christian morals.. [/quote] it will be bringing many people, from both parties down.... GOOD!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlackJesus Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 [quote]it will be bringing many people, from both parties down.... GOOD![/quote] [b]Rick you need to quit spreading this lie ..... Abramoff was a Republican lobbyist, spoke at the GOP convention during Reagen, and donated to countless high ranking republicans ..... if you believe a Democrat recieved money from him then name him or her ..... until then this is exclusively another operation for the Bush crime family [/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bengalrick Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 [quote name='BlackJesus' post='212026' date='Feb 1 2006, 01:02 PM'][quote]it will be bringing many people, from both parties down.... GOOD![/quote] [b]Rick you need to quit spreading this lie ..... Abramoff was a Republican lobbyist, spoke at the GOP convention during Reagen, and donated to countless high ranking republicans ..... if you believe a Democrat recieved money from him then name him or her ..... until then this is exclusively another operation for the Bush crime family [/b] [/quote] so your saying that the democrats are free of corruption or something?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! like anyone will ever belive that... you know how ridiculous that sounds.. [i]Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada sent a letter to the Interior Department on March 5, 2002, on behalf of the Louisiana Coushattas, an Abramoff client. The next day, Reid's leadership fund got a $5,000 donation from the tribe.[/i] that sounds sort of weird... listen bj, if you even want to honestly come together on some ideas and stop being so partisan, we BOTH need to admit what is wrong w/ our parties right now.... otherwise, the dem's will look even more stupid when teh truth is exposed... and it will be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlackJesus Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 [quote]Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada sent a letter to the Interior Department on March 5, 2002, on behalf of the Louisiana Coushattas, an Abramoff client. The next day, Reid's leadership fund got a $5,000 donation from the tribe.[/quote] [b]Rick one of his clients isn't him .......... this scandal is not about the Coushatta Tribe hell they are free to give their cash to whomever they want ..... this is about Abramoff who was the key GOP money man and basically tainted half the Republican congress ..... and so now we have to slowly go one by one and find out who ...... [/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 By the way... good speech by my governer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bengalrick Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 [quote name='BlackJesus' post='212057' date='Feb 1 2006, 01:47 PM'][quote]Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada sent a letter to the Interior Department on March 5, 2002, on behalf of the Louisiana Coushattas, an Abramoff client. The next day, Reid's leadership fund got a $5,000 donation from the tribe.[/quote] [b]Rick one of his clients isn't him .......... this scandal is not about the Coushatta Tribe hell they are free to give their cash to whomever they want ..... this is about Abramoff who was the key GOP money man and basically tainted half the Republican congress ..... and so now we have to slowly go one by one and find out who ...... [/b] [/quote] we'll see my friend... we'll see... i doubt highly that only rep's will have problems on this case... granted, MANY more rep's will be in trouble, but some dem's will follow... but i wasn't necessarily only talking about this case... this will open up pandora's box imo, and lobbyists are going to be looked at differently... there were more bad lobbyists than just this one guy... the axe will be coming down on both sides... and like i said: GOOD!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer_Rice Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 LOL. Guys, as I suggested the other day, the fix is in. Or at least, a strong attempt to put the fix in is ongoing. To wit: what happened to the prosecutor of the case? That may not stop it, but let's see who gets assigned to the case now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coy Bacon Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 [quote name='BlackJesus' post='211813' date='Feb 1 2006, 02:20 AM'] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/41.gif[/img] [quote][size=3]State of the Union: Surrender to Rhetoric Nina Burleigh[/size] I watched the pre-game show on Fox, where the camera lingered lovingly on the pasty, blinking face of our newest confirmed Supreme Court Justice, still looking studiously, scarily bland, like a man who might, thank-you Ann Coulter, consume and survive rat poison. Surrealism leavened the boredom, as it always does on this annual evening in the House of Representatives. Who was that silent, scarf-shrouded mystery Muslim woman flanking Laura Bush and what was she thinking? Cindy Sheehan, Major Garrett reported, had been "detained, not arrested" before the President's arrival for attempting to unfurl a banner in the gallery, against House rules. What did the banner say and why couldn't Cindy keep it in her purse until the President got behind his teleprompter? Predictably, the first 40 minutes of the speech were devoted to the phrases and slogans of war and fear that we've come to expect from our chickenhawk Commander in Chief. "Freedom on the march." "Enemies on the run." "The terrorists are serious." "We love our freedom." "We're in this fight and we are winning." No speech would be complete with the trusty, old chestnut: "We will never surrender to Evil." President Bush said all those things, and repeated some of them several times. The eyes glazed over, the mind was meant to conjure up images of imminent apocalypse, dirty bombs in New York, Iranian nukes raining down on Israel. His speechwriters like to take certain phrases, toss them together like a red meat salad, and serve them up. It doesn't matter how they're strung together, the effect they strive for has to do with accretion. Safety. Security. Danger. Terror. Freedom. Repeat after me. Keep your eyes on the small swinging crystal. You are getting verry sleepy. Snap out of it. It's been said before, but the word "freedom" is so Orwellian, so overused, so empty in this country's political discourse, the President might as well replace it with "beans" or "baseball." Maybe he did and nobody noticed? The saddest part of the spectacle was watching each of the Democrats rise to applaud on cue after every reference to the tragic folly in Iraq. When Bush said "second guessing is not a strategy," even Rahm Emanuel and John Kerry gave him a standing ovation. Have these men lost all sense of pride and dignity? After awhile, they looked as hypnotized as parishioners in one of the mega-churches. As for the troops, they were represented on site by the family of one late Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Clay, whose picture flashed on the screen for a moment, along with his lifespan: 1977-2005. Thanks to the Bush administration's Iraq war, Sgt. Clay didn't make it to age 30. The White House brought his stunned, grieving family into the House and gave them seats of honor behind Laura and her Muslim friend. There ought to be a law against this dead-patriot porn. The President winked at them as he spoke, and then seemed to think better of it, and tried to morph the gesture into a blinking back of crocodile tears. Clearly, he gets their grief. Only when Bush mentioned his failed Social Security gambit did the Democrats feel a rush of empowerment, and recklessly applaud their own success in saving that entitlement for their aging base, while the Republicans looked on dourly and the President sucked his teeth. For a second it seemed as though the loyal opposition might begin to behave as they ought, which would involve staying seated, and laughing, jeering, or snoring, especially when Bush uttered the lines about ethical reforms in Washington and his defense of massive illegal eavesdropping. "If there are people in this country talking to Al Qaeda, we want to know about it." Earth to George: If a fraction of the millions your administration is listening in on are talking to Osama's boys on any given day, you and Dick might as well just move into that undisclosed location right now. No one laughed, no one jeered, no one snored. Once again, decorum sucked the starch right out of our liberal soldiers. The pundits will probably be saying that the most interesting part of the speech came toward the end when Bush tried to present himself as interested in energy conservation, and proposed spending billions of dollars on alternative fuel technology research and on math and science programs for students and researchers. It was mildly astonishing. After driving this country's Treasury into a hole halfway to China, literally and figuratively, he's a little late to be getting the idea that nation-building begins at home. Track back through the pre-speech memos and find that that was tacked on to get a percentage of truck-driving nonreligious independents back on board, the ones so pissed off about gas prices, the ones Karl Rove is afraid of. Our President waited until the last minute before he invoked God's blessing on America to bring up that little problem, the destruction of a major American city on his watch. He managed to discuss the state of our union, I believe, without ever saying the words New Orleans. What were we expecting? Some acknowledgement of tragedy and despair from a man who has so clearly not even now come to terms with the enormity of his own disastrous choices? If this State of the Union speech told us anything at all, it's that we will wait awhile for that kind of satisfaction.[/quote] [/quote] Bush just keeps them hypnotized and distracted with hypno-babble while his cronies run off with the public fisc. This mentions briefly the real problem here - the Democratic Party must be indicted and condemned as the false opposition that it is. Real opposition would not have responded nearly so tepidly to the malignant wave that has swept over this nation. People that care need to recognize that the Democratic Party is merely running interference for the vanguard of Hell that is waving the grandson of a Nazi money launderer around as its sock-puppet. The two parties are wings on the same bird of prey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawman Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 [quote name='Coy Bacon' post='212306' date='Feb 1 2006, 07:10 PM'][quote name='BlackJesus' post='211813' date='Feb 1 2006, 02:20 AM'] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [quote][size=3]State of the Union: Surrender to Rhetoric Nina Burleigh[/size] I watched the pre-game show on Fox, where the camera lingered lovingly on the pasty, blinking face of our newest confirmed Supreme Court Justice, still looking studiously, scarily bland, like a man who might, thank-you Ann Coulter, consume and survive rat poison. Surrealism leavened the boredom, as it always does on this annual evening in the House of Representatives. Who was that silent, scarf-shrouded mystery Muslim woman flanking Laura Bush and what was she thinking? Cindy Sheehan, Major Garrett reported, had been "detained, not arrested" before the President's arrival for attempting to unfurl a banner in the gallery, against House rules. What did the banner say and why couldn't Cindy keep it in her purse until the President got behind his teleprompter? Predictably, the first 40 minutes of the speech were devoted to the phrases and slogans of war and fear that we've come to expect from our chickenhawk Commander in Chief. "Freedom on the march." "Enemies on the run." "The terrorists are serious." "We love our freedom." "We're in this fight and we are winning." No speech would be complete with the trusty, old chestnut: "We will never surrender to Evil." President Bush said all those things, and repeated some of them several times. The eyes glazed over, the mind was meant to conjure up images of imminent apocalypse, dirty bombs in New York, Iranian nukes raining down on Israel. His speechwriters like to take certain phrases, toss them together like a red meat salad, and serve them up. It doesn't matter how they're strung together, the effect they strive for has to do with accretion. Safety. Security. Danger. Terror. Freedom. Repeat after me. Keep your eyes on the small swinging crystal. You are getting verry sleepy. Snap out of it. It's been said before, but the word "freedom" is so Orwellian, so overused, so empty in this country's political discourse, the President might as well replace it with "beans" or "baseball." Maybe he did and nobody noticed? The saddest part of the spectacle was watching each of the Democrats rise to applaud on cue after every reference to the tragic folly in Iraq. When Bush said "second guessing is not a strategy," even Rahm Emanuel and John Kerry gave him a standing ovation. Have these men lost all sense of pride and dignity? After awhile, they looked as hypnotized as parishioners in one of the mega-churches. As for the troops, they were represented on site by the family of one late Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Clay, whose picture flashed on the screen for a moment, along with his lifespan: 1977-2005. Thanks to the Bush administration's Iraq war, Sgt. Clay didn't make it to age 30. The White House brought his stunned, grieving family into the House and gave them seats of honor behind Laura and her Muslim friend. There ought to be a law against this dead-patriot porn. The President winked at them as he spoke, and then seemed to think better of it, and tried to morph the gesture into a blinking back of crocodile tears. Clearly, he gets their grief. Only when Bush mentioned his failed Social Security gambit did the Democrats feel a rush of empowerment, and recklessly applaud their own success in saving that entitlement for their aging base, while the Republicans looked on dourly and the President sucked his teeth. For a second it seemed as though the loyal opposition might begin to behave as they ought, which would involve staying seated, and laughing, jeering, or snoring, especially when Bush uttered the lines about ethical reforms in Washington and his defense of massive illegal eavesdropping. "If there are people in this country talking to Al Qaeda, we want to know about it." Earth to George: If a fraction of the millions your administration is listening in on are talking to Osama's boys on any given day, you and Dick might as well just move into that undisclosed location right now. No one laughed, no one jeered, no one snored. Once again, decorum sucked the starch right out of our liberal soldiers. The pundits will probably be saying that the most interesting part of the speech came toward the end when Bush tried to present himself as interested in energy conservation, and proposed spending billions of dollars on alternative fuel technology research and on math and science programs for students and researchers. It was mildly astonishing. After driving this country's Treasury into a hole halfway to China, literally and figuratively, he's a little late to be getting the idea that nation-building begins at home. Track back through the pre-speech memos and find that that was tacked on to get a percentage of truck-driving nonreligious independents back on board, the ones so pissed off about gas prices, the ones Karl Rove is afraid of. Our President waited until the last minute before he invoked God's blessing on America to bring up that little problem, the destruction of a major American city on his watch. He managed to discuss the state of our union, I believe, without ever saying the words New Orleans. What were we expecting? Some acknowledgement of tragedy and despair from a man who has so clearly not even now come to terms with the enormity of his own disastrous choices? If this State of the Union speech told us anything at all, it's that we will wait awhile for that kind of satisfaction.[/quote] [/quote] Bush just keeps them hypnotized and distracted with hypno-babble while his cronies run off with the public fisc. This mentions briefly the real problem here - the Democratic Party must be indicted and condemned as the false opposition that it is. Real opposition would not have responded nearly so tepidly to the malignant wave that has swept over this nation. People that care need to recognize that the Democratic Party is merely running interference for the vanguard of Hell that is waving the grandson of a Nazi money launderer around as its sock-puppet. The two parties are wings on the same bird of prey. [/quote] Have you ever voted in an election for either party or any other party Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAYCAT Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 [quote name='Lawman' post='212341' date='Feb 1 2006, 08:25 PM'][quote name='Coy Bacon' post='212306' date='Feb 1 2006, 07:10 PM'] [quote name='BlackJesus' post='211813' date='Feb 1 2006, 02:20 AM'] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [quote][size=3]State of the Union: Surrender to Rhetoric Nina Burleigh[/size] I watched the pre-game show on Fox, where the camera lingered lovingly on the pasty, blinking face of our newest confirmed Supreme Court Justice, still looking studiously, scarily bland, like a man who might, thank-you Ann Coulter, consume and survive rat poison. Surrealism leavened the boredom, as it always does on this annual evening in the House of Representatives. Who was that silent, scarf-shrouded mystery Muslim woman flanking Laura Bush and what was she thinking? Cindy Sheehan, Major Garrett reported, had been "detained, not arrested" before the President's arrival for attempting to unfurl a banner in the gallery, against House rules. What did the banner say and why couldn't Cindy keep it in her purse until the President got behind his teleprompter? Predictably, the first 40 minutes of the speech were devoted to the phrases and slogans of war and fear that we've come to expect from our chickenhawk Commander in Chief. "Freedom on the march." "Enemies on the run." "The terrorists are serious." "We love our freedom." "We're in this fight and we are winning." No speech would be complete with the trusty, old chestnut: "We will never surrender to Evil." President Bush said all those things, and repeated some of them several times. The eyes glazed over, the mind was meant to conjure up images of imminent apocalypse, dirty bombs in New York, Iranian nukes raining down on Israel. His speechwriters like to take certain phrases, toss them together like a red meat salad, and serve them up. It doesn't matter how they're strung together, the effect they strive for has to do with accretion. Safety. Security. Danger. Terror. Freedom. Repeat after me. Keep your eyes on the small swinging crystal. You are getting verry sleepy. Snap out of it. It's been said before, but the word "freedom" is so Orwellian, so overused, so empty in this country's political discourse, the President might as well replace it with "beans" or "baseball." Maybe he did and nobody noticed? The saddest part of the spectacle was watching each of the Democrats rise to applaud on cue after every reference to the tragic folly in Iraq. When Bush said "second guessing is not a strategy," even Rahm Emanuel and John Kerry gave him a standing ovation. Have these men lost all sense of pride and dignity? After awhile, they looked as hypnotized as parishioners in one of the mega-churches. As for the troops, they were represented on site by the family of one late Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Clay, whose picture flashed on the screen for a moment, along with his lifespan: 1977-2005. Thanks to the Bush administration's Iraq war, Sgt. Clay didn't make it to age 30. The White House brought his stunned, grieving family into the House and gave them seats of honor behind Laura and her Muslim friend. There ought to be a law against this dead-patriot porn. The President winked at them as he spoke, and then seemed to think better of it, and tried to morph the gesture into a blinking back of crocodile tears. Clearly, he gets their grief. Only when Bush mentioned his failed Social Security gambit did the Democrats feel a rush of empowerment, and recklessly applaud their own success in saving that entitlement for their aging base, while the Republicans looked on dourly and the President sucked his teeth. For a second it seemed as though the loyal opposition might begin to behave as they ought, which would involve staying seated, and laughing, jeering, or snoring, especially when Bush uttered the lines about ethical reforms in Washington and his defense of massive illegal eavesdropping. "If there are people in this country talking to Al Qaeda, we want to know about it." Earth to George: If a fraction of the millions your administration is listening in on are talking to Osama's boys on any given day, you and Dick might as well just move into that undisclosed location right now. No one laughed, no one jeered, no one snored. Once again, decorum sucked the starch right out of our liberal soldiers. The pundits will probably be saying that the most interesting part of the speech came toward the end when Bush tried to present himself as interested in energy conservation, and proposed spending billions of dollars on alternative fuel technology research and on math and science programs for students and researchers. It was mildly astonishing. After driving this country's Treasury into a hole halfway to China, literally and figuratively, he's a little late to be getting the idea that nation-building begins at home. Track back through the pre-speech memos and find that that was tacked on to get a percentage of truck-driving nonreligious independents back on board, the ones so pissed off about gas prices, the ones Karl Rove is afraid of. Our President waited until the last minute before he invoked God's blessing on America to bring up that little problem, the destruction of a major American city on his watch. He managed to discuss the state of our union, I believe, without ever saying the words New Orleans. What were we expecting? Some acknowledgement of tragedy and despair from a man who has so clearly not even now come to terms with the enormity of his own disastrous choices? If this State of the Union speech told us anything at all, it's that we will wait awhile for that kind of satisfaction.[/quote] [/quote] Bush just keeps them hypnotized and distracted with hypno-babble while his cronies run off with the public fisc. This mentions briefly the real problem here - the Democratic Party must be indicted and condemned as the false opposition that it is. Real opposition would not have responded nearly so tepidly to the malignant wave that has swept over this nation. People that care need to recognize that the Democratic Party is merely running interference for the vanguard of Hell that is waving the grandson of a Nazi money launderer around as its sock-puppet. The two parties are wings on the same bird of prey. [/quote] Have you ever voted in an election for either party or any other party [/quote] Probably not..and I find it funny the stunned family of the fallen soldier....stunned? The father looked proud of his son. The sister looked sad which I don't blame. This whole political finger pointing crap is disgusting. Glad those who think we are doing wrong didn't live around in wwII. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawman Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 [quote name='STRAYCAT' post='212349' date='Feb 1 2006, 08:35 PM'][quote name='Lawman' post='212341' date='Feb 1 2006, 08:25 PM'] [quote name='Coy Bacon' post='212306' date='Feb 1 2006, 07:10 PM'] [quote name='BlackJesus' post='211813' date='Feb 1 2006, 02:20 AM'] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [quote][size=3]State of the Union: Surrender to Rhetoric Nina Burleigh[/size] I watched the pre-game show on Fox, where the camera lingered lovingly on the pasty, blinking face of our newest confirmed Supreme Court Justice, still looking studiously, scarily bland, like a man who might, thank-you Ann Coulter, consume and survive rat poison. Surrealism leavened the boredom, as it always does on this annual evening in the House of Representatives. Who was that silent, scarf-shrouded mystery Muslim woman flanking Laura Bush and what was she thinking? Cindy Sheehan, Major Garrett reported, had been "detained, not arrested" before the President's arrival for attempting to unfurl a banner in the gallery, against House rules. What did the banner say and why couldn't Cindy keep it in her purse until the President got behind his teleprompter? Predictably, the first 40 minutes of the speech were devoted to the phrases and slogans of war and fear that we've come to expect from our chickenhawk Commander in Chief. "Freedom on the march." "Enemies on the run." "The terrorists are serious." "We love our freedom." "We're in this fight and we are winning." No speech would be complete with the trusty, old chestnut: "We will never surrender to Evil." President Bush said all those things, and repeated some of them several times. The eyes glazed over, the mind was meant to conjure up images of imminent apocalypse, dirty bombs in New York, Iranian nukes raining down on Israel. His speechwriters like to take certain phrases, toss them together like a red meat salad, and serve them up. It doesn't matter how they're strung together, the effect they strive for has to do with accretion. Safety. Security. Danger. Terror. Freedom. Repeat after me. Keep your eyes on the small swinging crystal. You are getting verry sleepy. Snap out of it. It's been said before, but the word "freedom" is so Orwellian, so overused, so empty in this country's political discourse, the President might as well replace it with "beans" or "baseball." Maybe he did and nobody noticed? The saddest part of the spectacle was watching each of the Democrats rise to applaud on cue after every reference to the tragic folly in Iraq. When Bush said "second guessing is not a strategy," even Rahm Emanuel and John Kerry gave him a standing ovation. Have these men lost all sense of pride and dignity? After awhile, they looked as hypnotized as parishioners in one of the mega-churches. As for the troops, they were represented on site by the family of one late Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Clay, whose picture flashed on the screen for a moment, along with his lifespan: 1977-2005. Thanks to the Bush administration's Iraq war, Sgt. Clay didn't make it to age 30. The White House brought his stunned, grieving family into the House and gave them seats of honor behind Laura and her Muslim friend. There ought to be a law against this dead-patriot porn. The President winked at them as he spoke, and then seemed to think better of it, and tried to morph the gesture into a blinking back of crocodile tears. Clearly, he gets their grief. Only when Bush mentioned his failed Social Security gambit did the Democrats feel a rush of empowerment, and recklessly applaud their own success in saving that entitlement for their aging base, while the Republicans looked on dourly and the President sucked his teeth. For a second it seemed as though the loyal opposition might begin to behave as they ought, which would involve staying seated, and laughing, jeering, or snoring, especially when Bush uttered the lines about ethical reforms in Washington and his defense of massive illegal eavesdropping. "If there are people in this country talking to Al Qaeda, we want to know about it." Earth to George: If a fraction of the millions your administration is listening in on are talking to Osama's boys on any given day, you and Dick might as well just move into that undisclosed location right now. No one laughed, no one jeered, no one snored. Once again, decorum sucked the starch right out of our liberal soldiers. The pundits will probably be saying that the most interesting part of the speech came toward the end when Bush tried to present himself as interested in energy conservation, and proposed spending billions of dollars on alternative fuel technology research and on math and science programs for students and researchers. It was mildly astonishing. After driving this country's Treasury into a hole halfway to China, literally and figuratively, he's a little late to be getting the idea that nation-building begins at home. Track back through the pre-speech memos and find that that was tacked on to get a percentage of truck-driving nonreligious independents back on board, the ones so pissed off about gas prices, the ones Karl Rove is afraid of. Our President waited until the last minute before he invoked God's blessing on America to bring up that little problem, the destruction of a major American city on his watch. He managed to discuss the state of our union, I believe, without ever saying the words New Orleans. What were we expecting? Some acknowledgement of tragedy and despair from a man who has so clearly not even now come to terms with the enormity of his own disastrous choices? If this State of the Union speech told us anything at all, it's that we will wait awhile for that kind of satisfaction.[/quote] [/quote] Bush just keeps them hypnotized and distracted with hypno-babble while his cronies run off with the public fisc. This mentions briefly the real problem here - the Democratic Party must be indicted and condemned as the false opposition that it is. Real opposition would not have responded nearly so tepidly to the malignant wave that has swept over this nation. People that care need to recognize that the Democratic Party is merely running interference for the vanguard of Hell that is waving the grandson of a Nazi money launderer around as its sock-puppet. The two parties are wings on the same bird of prey. [/quote] Have you ever voted in an election for either party or any other party [/quote] Probably not..and I find it funny the stunned family of the fallen soldier....stunned? The father looked proud of his son. The sister looked sad which I don't blame. This whole political finger pointing crap is disgusting. Glad those who think we are doing wrong didn't live around in wwII. [/quote] I have tried to make this clear, it is a privledge to serve this country. Some people will do anything to get into this country and some people die just trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coy Bacon Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 [quote name='Lawman' post='212341' date='Feb 1 2006, 08:25 PM'][quote name='Coy Bacon' post='212306' date='Feb 1 2006, 07:10 PM'] [quote name='BlackJesus' post='211813' date='Feb 1 2006, 02:20 AM'] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [quote][size=3]State of the Union: Surrender to Rhetoric Nina Burleigh[/size] I watched the pre-game show on Fox, where the camera lingered lovingly on the pasty, blinking face of our newest confirmed Supreme Court Justice, still looking studiously, scarily bland, like a man who might, thank-you Ann Coulter, consume and survive rat poison. Surrealism leavened the boredom, as it always does on this annual evening in the House of Representatives. Who was that silent, scarf-shrouded mystery Muslim woman flanking Laura Bush and what was she thinking? Cindy Sheehan, Major Garrett reported, had been "detained, not arrested" before the President's arrival for attempting to unfurl a banner in the gallery, against House rules. What did the banner say and why couldn't Cindy keep it in her purse until the President got behind his teleprompter? Predictably, the first 40 minutes of the speech were devoted to the phrases and slogans of war and fear that we've come to expect from our chickenhawk Commander in Chief. "Freedom on the march." "Enemies on the run." "The terrorists are serious." "We love our freedom." "We're in this fight and we are winning." No speech would be complete with the trusty, old chestnut: "We will never surrender to Evil." President Bush said all those things, and repeated some of them several times. The eyes glazed over, the mind was meant to conjure up images of imminent apocalypse, dirty bombs in New York, Iranian nukes raining down on Israel. His speechwriters like to take certain phrases, toss them together like a red meat salad, and serve them up. It doesn't matter how they're strung together, the effect they strive for has to do with accretion. Safety. Security. Danger. Terror. Freedom. Repeat after me. Keep your eyes on the small swinging crystal. You are getting verry sleepy. Snap out of it. It's been said before, but the word "freedom" is so Orwellian, so overused, so empty in this country's political discourse, the President might as well replace it with "beans" or "baseball." Maybe he did and nobody noticed? The saddest part of the spectacle was watching each of the Democrats rise to applaud on cue after every reference to the tragic folly in Iraq. When Bush said "second guessing is not a strategy," even Rahm Emanuel and John Kerry gave him a standing ovation. Have these men lost all sense of pride and dignity? After awhile, they looked as hypnotized as parishioners in one of the mega-churches. As for the troops, they were represented on site by the family of one late Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Clay, whose picture flashed on the screen for a moment, along with his lifespan: 1977-2005. Thanks to the Bush administration's Iraq war, Sgt. Clay didn't make it to age 30. The White House brought his stunned, grieving family into the House and gave them seats of honor behind Laura and her Muslim friend. There ought to be a law against this dead-patriot porn. The President winked at them as he spoke, and then seemed to think better of it, and tried to morph the gesture into a blinking back of crocodile tears. Clearly, he gets their grief. Only when Bush mentioned his failed Social Security gambit did the Democrats feel a rush of empowerment, and recklessly applaud their own success in saving that entitlement for their aging base, while the Republicans looked on dourly and the President sucked his teeth. For a second it seemed as though the loyal opposition might begin to behave as they ought, which would involve staying seated, and laughing, jeering, or snoring, especially when Bush uttered the lines about ethical reforms in Washington and his defense of massive illegal eavesdropping. "If there are people in this country talking to Al Qaeda, we want to know about it." Earth to George: If a fraction of the millions your administration is listening in on are talking to Osama's boys on any given day, you and Dick might as well just move into that undisclosed location right now. No one laughed, no one jeered, no one snored. Once again, decorum sucked the starch right out of our liberal soldiers. The pundits will probably be saying that the most interesting part of the speech came toward the end when Bush tried to present himself as interested in energy conservation, and proposed spending billions of dollars on alternative fuel technology research and on math and science programs for students and researchers. It was mildly astonishing. After driving this country's Treasury into a hole halfway to China, literally and figuratively, he's a little late to be getting the idea that nation-building begins at home. Track back through the pre-speech memos and find that that was tacked on to get a percentage of truck-driving nonreligious independents back on board, the ones so pissed off about gas prices, the ones Karl Rove is afraid of. Our President waited until the last minute before he invoked God's blessing on America to bring up that little problem, the destruction of a major American city on his watch. He managed to discuss the state of our union, I believe, without ever saying the words New Orleans. What were we expecting? Some acknowledgement of tragedy and despair from a man who has so clearly not even now come to terms with the enormity of his own disastrous choices? If this State of the Union speech told us anything at all, it's that we will wait awhile for that kind of satisfaction.[/quote] [/quote] Bush just keeps them hypnotized and distracted with hypno-babble while his cronies run off with the public fisc. This mentions briefly the real problem here - the Democratic Party must be indicted and condemned as the false opposition that it is. Real opposition would not have responded nearly so tepidly to the malignant wave that has swept over this nation. People that care need to recognize that the Democratic Party is merely running interference for the vanguard of Hell that is waving the grandson of a Nazi money launderer around as its sock-puppet. The two parties are wings on the same bird of prey. [/quote] Have you ever voted in an election for either party or any other party [/quote] The last time I voted in an election, which wasn't that long ago, I stood in line and realized that by voting, I was signifying consent to a system I knew to be fraudulent. I felt ashamed, because I do not consent to this bullshit. I decided not to do it anymore. By the way, the last time I registered to vote, I registered as a Republican.........not because I believe their bullshit, but because I got to the place where I never voted for candidates - I voted against them. Since the Democrats were worthless write-offs to begin with, I figured I'd vote in Republican primaries against the guy I figured to be the most destructive asshole in each race. It's a waste of time though. Amurikkkins love destructive assholes, so you can't beat 'em voting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coy Bacon Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 [quote name='Lawman' post='212362' date='Feb 1 2006, 09:08 PM'][quote name='STRAYCAT' post='212349' date='Feb 1 2006, 08:35 PM'] [quote name='Lawman' post='212341' date='Feb 1 2006, 08:25 PM'] [quote name='Coy Bacon' post='212306' date='Feb 1 2006, 07:10 PM'] [quote name='BlackJesus' post='211813' date='Feb 1 2006, 02:20 AM'] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [quote][size=3]State of the Union: Surrender to Rhetoric Nina Burleigh[/size] I watched the pre-game show on Fox, where the camera lingered lovingly on the pasty, blinking face of our newest confirmed Supreme Court Justice, still looking studiously, scarily bland, like a man who might, thank-you Ann Coulter, consume and survive rat poison. Surrealism leavened the boredom, as it always does on this annual evening in the House of Representatives. Who was that silent, scarf-shrouded mystery Muslim woman flanking Laura Bush and what was she thinking? Cindy Sheehan, Major Garrett reported, had been "detained, not arrested" before the President's arrival for attempting to unfurl a banner in the gallery, against House rules. What did the banner say and why couldn't Cindy keep it in her purse until the President got behind his teleprompter? Predictably, the first 40 minutes of the speech were devoted to the phrases and slogans of war and fear that we've come to expect from our chickenhawk Commander in Chief. "Freedom on the march." "Enemies on the run." "The terrorists are serious." "We love our freedom." "We're in this fight and we are winning." No speech would be complete with the trusty, old chestnut: "We will never surrender to Evil." President Bush said all those things, and repeated some of them several times. The eyes glazed over, the mind was meant to conjure up images of imminent apocalypse, dirty bombs in New York, Iranian nukes raining down on Israel. His speechwriters like to take certain phrases, toss them together like a red meat salad, and serve them up. It doesn't matter how they're strung together, the effect they strive for has to do with accretion. Safety. Security. Danger. Terror. Freedom. Repeat after me. Keep your eyes on the small swinging crystal. You are getting verry sleepy. Snap out of it. It's been said before, but the word "freedom" is so Orwellian, so overused, so empty in this country's political discourse, the President might as well replace it with "beans" or "baseball." Maybe he did and nobody noticed? The saddest part of the spectacle was watching each of the Democrats rise to applaud on cue after every reference to the tragic folly in Iraq. When Bush said "second guessing is not a strategy," even Rahm Emanuel and John Kerry gave him a standing ovation. Have these men lost all sense of pride and dignity? After awhile, they looked as hypnotized as parishioners in one of the mega-churches. As for the troops, they were represented on site by the family of one late Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Clay, whose picture flashed on the screen for a moment, along with his lifespan: 1977-2005. Thanks to the Bush administration's Iraq war, Sgt. Clay didn't make it to age 30. The White House brought his stunned, grieving family into the House and gave them seats of honor behind Laura and her Muslim friend. There ought to be a law against this dead-patriot porn. The President winked at them as he spoke, and then seemed to think better of it, and tried to morph the gesture into a blinking back of crocodile tears. Clearly, he gets their grief. Only when Bush mentioned his failed Social Security gambit did the Democrats feel a rush of empowerment, and recklessly applaud their own success in saving that entitlement for their aging base, while the Republicans looked on dourly and the President sucked his teeth. For a second it seemed as though the loyal opposition might begin to behave as they ought, which would involve staying seated, and laughing, jeering, or snoring, especially when Bush uttered the lines about ethical reforms in Washington and his defense of massive illegal eavesdropping. "If there are people in this country talking to Al Qaeda, we want to know about it." Earth to George: If a fraction of the millions your administration is listening in on are talking to Osama's boys on any given day, you and Dick might as well just move into that undisclosed location right now. No one laughed, no one jeered, no one snored. Once again, decorum sucked the starch right out of our liberal soldiers. The pundits will probably be saying that the most interesting part of the speech came toward the end when Bush tried to present himself as interested in energy conservation, and proposed spending billions of dollars on alternative fuel technology research and on math and science programs for students and researchers. It was mildly astonishing. After driving this country's Treasury into a hole halfway to China, literally and figuratively, he's a little late to be getting the idea that nation-building begins at home. Track back through the pre-speech memos and find that that was tacked on to get a percentage of truck-driving nonreligious independents back on board, the ones so pissed off about gas prices, the ones Karl Rove is afraid of. Our President waited until the last minute before he invoked God's blessing on America to bring up that little problem, the destruction of a major American city on his watch. He managed to discuss the state of our union, I believe, without ever saying the words New Orleans. What were we expecting? Some acknowledgement of tragedy and despair from a man who has so clearly not even now come to terms with the enormity of his own disastrous choices? If this State of the Union speech told us anything at all, it's that we will wait awhile for that kind of satisfaction.[/quote] [/quote] Bush just keeps them hypnotized and distracted with hypno-babble while his cronies run off with the public fisc. This mentions briefly the real problem here - the Democratic Party must be indicted and condemned as the false opposition that it is. Real opposition would not have responded nearly so tepidly to the malignant wave that has swept over this nation. People that care need to recognize that the Democratic Party is merely running interference for the vanguard of Hell that is waving the grandson of a Nazi money launderer around as its sock-puppet. The two parties are wings on the same bird of prey. [/quote] Have you ever voted in an election for either party or any other party [/quote] Probably not..and I find it funny the stunned family of the fallen soldier....stunned? The father looked proud of his son. The sister looked sad which I don't blame. This whole political finger pointing crap is disgusting. Glad those who think we are doing wrong didn't live around in wwII. [/quote] I have tried to make this clear, it is a privledge to serve this country. Some people will do anything to get into this country and some people die just trying. [/quote] I suppose that's true as long as you're actually serving the country and not unwittingly serving some treasonous oligarchs that have come to occupy the country via sock-puppet demogogues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawman Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 [u]Amurikkkins[/u] love destructive assholes, so you can't beat 'em voting. Do you spell it like that as in reference to the whites in South Africa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawman Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 [quote]I suppose that's true as long as you're actually serving the country and not unwittingly serving some treasonous oligarchs that have come to occupy the country via sock-puppet demogogues.[/quote] Which family (ogliarchs) do you refer too: Kennedy's, Clinton, Bush's or does it matter because they're all the same [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//3.gif[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest bengaljet Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 [quote name='BlackJesus' post='211813' date='Feb 1 2006, 02:20 AM'] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/41.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/41.gif[/img] [quote][size=3]State of the Union: Surrender to Rhetoric Nina Burleigh[/size] I watched the pre-game show on Fox, where the camera lingered lovingly on the pasty, blinking face of our newest confirmed Supreme Court Justice, still looking studiously, scarily bland, like a man who might, thank-you Ann Coulter, consume and survive rat poison. Surrealism leavened the boredom, as it always does on this annual evening in the House of Representatives. Who was that silent, scarf-shrouded mystery Muslim woman flanking Laura Bush and what was she thinking? Cindy Sheehan, Major Garrett reported, had been "detained, not arrested" before the President's arrival for attempting to unfurl a banner in the gallery, against House rules. What did the banner say and why couldn't Cindy keep it in her purse until the President got behind his teleprompter? Predictably, the first 40 minutes of the speech were devoted to the phrases and slogans of war and fear that we've come to expect from our chickenhawk Commander in Chief. "Freedom on the march." "Enemies on the run." "The terrorists are serious." "We love our freedom." "We're in this fight and we are winning." No speech would be complete with the trusty, old chestnut: "We will never surrender to Evil." President Bush said all those things, and repeated some of them several times. The eyes glazed over, the mind was meant to conjure up images of imminent apocalypse, dirty bombs in New York, Iranian nukes raining down on Israel. His speechwriters like to take certain phrases, toss them together like a red meat salad, and serve them up. It doesn't matter how they're strung together, the effect they strive for has to do with accretion. Safety. Security. Danger. Terror. Freedom. Repeat after me. Keep your eyes on the small swinging crystal. You are getting verry sleepy. Snap out of it. It's been said before, but the word "freedom" is so Orwellian, so overused, so empty in this country's political discourse, the President might as well replace it with "beans" or "baseball." Maybe he did and nobody noticed? The saddest part of the spectacle was watching each of the Democrats rise to applaud on cue after every reference to the tragic folly in Iraq. When Bush said "second guessing is not a strategy," even Rahm Emanuel and John Kerry gave him a standing ovation. Have these men lost all sense of pride and dignity? After awhile, they looked as hypnotized as parishioners in one of the mega-churches. As for the troops, they were represented on site by the family of one late Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Clay, whose picture flashed on the screen for a moment, along with his lifespan: 1977-2005. Thanks to the Bush administration's Iraq war, Sgt. Clay didn't make it to age 30. The White House brought his stunned, grieving family into the House and gave them seats of honor behind Laura and her Muslim friend. There ought to be a law against this dead-patriot porn. The President winked at them as he spoke, and then seemed to think better of it, and tried to morph the gesture into a blinking back of crocodile tears. Clearly, he gets their grief. Only when Bush mentioned his failed Social Security gambit did the Democrats feel a rush of empowerment, and recklessly applaud their own success in saving that entitlement for their aging base, while the Republicans looked on dourly and the President sucked his teeth. For a second it seemed as though the loyal opposition might begin to behave as they ought, which would involve staying seated, and laughing, jeering, or snoring, especially when Bush uttered the lines about ethical reforms in Washington and his defense of massive illegal eavesdropping. "If there are people in this country talking to Al Qaeda, we want to know about it." Earth to George: If a fraction of the millions your administration is listening in on are talking to Osama's boys on any given day, you and Dick might as well just move into that undisclosed location right now. No one laughed, no one jeered, no one snored. Once again, decorum sucked the starch right out of our liberal soldiers. The pundits will probably be saying that the most interesting part of the speech came toward the end when Bush tried to present himself as interested in energy conservation, and proposed spending billions of dollars on alternative fuel technology research and on math and science programs for students and researchers. It was mildly astonishing. After driving this country's Treasury into a hole halfway to China, literally and figuratively, he's a little late to be getting the idea that nation-building begins at home. Track back through the pre-speech memos and find that that was tacked on to get a percentage of truck-driving nonreligious independents back on board, the ones so pissed off about gas prices, the ones Karl Rove is afraid of. Our President waited until the last minute before he invoked God's blessing on America to bring up that little problem, the destruction of a major American city on his watch. He managed to discuss the state of our union, I believe, without ever saying the words New Orleans. What were we expecting? Some acknowledgement of tragedy and despair from a man who has so clearly not even now come to terms with the enormity of his own disastrous choices? If this State of the Union speech told us anything at all, it's that we will wait awhile for that kind of satisfaction.[/quote] [/quote] One thing that wasn't mentioned was how Homeland security is "protecting" our Mexican border. Last week on Scarborough Country there was a lady from a small paper in California that reported a somewhat disturbing incident. She got copies of papers from Homeland Security stating that there would be "attacks" on US border guards,police,etc. and attacks had went up. The problem was that HS didn't warn the people that were in danger. She also reported that there have been over 600 incidents of the Mexican army being on US side of the Rio Grande River.Mexican vehicles with mounted machine guns. The Mexican gov't said they weren't Mexican army. Another example of the US gov't informing us what is going on after the fact and this reporter had to "dig" it up. I feel safer already. Scarborough said that if they can get vehicles on US soil they could bring all types of weapons across the border and distribute to terrorists in US. Joe blamed W and the gov't for doing nothing. All I'm hoping for is that "when" they try to bring in weapons,the color is yellow,orange, or red to STOP them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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