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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Cindy and Medea Protest for Better Spell Check System
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Lord, can't this woman see her 15 minutes were up long ago?
Casey embodies everything heroic we have ever produced as a nation. He was a grown man, not a child and decided against her wishes to reenlist voluntarily and volunteer for a dangerous mission where he gave his life for others.
What she is pulling is against his grown adult choices and makes amockery of those choices.
lew,
I agree that Casy reenlist against her wishes. There lies the problem. The person she is mad at the most is Casy for he is gone and she cannot yell at him for the choices he made.
Everything else is her poor reaction to a situation that she never had any control over.
It is not very nice to pick on people for being dyslexic.
Maybe that sign has some meaning we are not getting. I didn't notice it was spelled wrong (but I can read and write backwards anyway, so I think my brain just switches things to something logical automatically).
Zzzz...Victoria asks us to pick on Cindy for a mis-spelled sign, when she desecrates the English language with every post she makes under her "klatu" sock puppet?
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L_Socialist _ _ _ _: Isa mya spellering alle wright. Gosh EYE hopfe soooooo. Cindi and her SOCIALIST friendd needd your Spelling help.
Ps L_Socialist_ _ _ _, em I right
you think me and Victoria are the Same Person?????? Well I'm honored.
I do have a relative who works with Victoria. I'm sure my relative
will have a big laugh over this one on Thanksgiving Day.
Belittling those who oppose the war is about all that is left for the supporters of the Fiasco. Didn't the last election teach the stay and payers anything. Stay and pay with the blood of our soldiers, our treasury, and our prestige in the world. Stay and pay, and pay, and pay, and pay.
fizzi, our "prestige" in the world went in the toilet long ago, thanks to the cut and runners. The whole world knows America will never stand with an ally again, as we did in WW2 and thanks to the last election, we are poised to abandon another.
But, since when does the left care about a few million foreigners lives? Since when do they care about freedoms, other than their own?
But, let me ask you, what do you have invested in all this? What are you losing by our trying to help Iraqis find freedom?
The belittling is going both ways.
I don’t think either major political party has a monopoly on compassion for others. I don’t think either party has a monopoly on selfishness. It is NOT true that the Left only cares about their own freedom. There are other reasons people oppose the war (some just because a Republican ordered it).
However Lew,
You do have a point. It is an ALL VOLUNTEER military.
So what do the rest of us have at stake? Money (as fizzi mentioned), but the government is going to spend our money on one thing or another anyway.
It does baffle me a little that the same people who are very much for the war are also for not eliminating our tax cuts. We do have to pay for it. I thought we were told that Iraq would be footing a huge part of the bill, but this does not seem to be happening.
Personally I don’t mind paying if a whole bunch of people end up having a better life when we are done.
On C-Span every morning, compassionate conservatives call in to suggest that we "nuke" the Iraqis or "mow them all down." They have apparently lost track of the Bush administration's current lie to justify this disaster, which is to "bring democracy" to the Iraqis. The callers let the mask slip, and reveal the true face of the Republican Party.
In fact, the American people do not give a crap how many Iraqis are maimed and murdered by our greed, power lust and stupidity.
You are right Lew, I have not lost anything in the Iraq war.
1. I have not lost the respect of the Congess that gave Bush carte blanche to invade Iraq rather than exercising its consitutional duty to debate and declare war.
2. I haven't lost the respect of this lying and incompetent administration.
3. I haven't lost my self-respect for being gullible enough to believe Bush's reasons for going to war.
4. I haven't lost a cousin killed in Iraq. We weren't that close anyway.
There is hope Fizziwig. What with the election, Rummy’s finally gone, and Bush is starting to listen to his father and his people. It appears that Lew and his kind (30 per centers) who defend the status quo in Iraq are being abandoned by the very administration they have supported.
There is one thing fizzi has said that I agree with... Congress should have debated and then issued a formal declaration of war. To win we must be fully engaged and fighting to win not as we are currently fighting not to lose.
The change in direction that we need in Iraq is not out but a change in how we fight. We need to take the PC way of fighting the war and flush it. We need to go after the Militia's and that Sadar cleric and permanently put them out of business.
We need to add troops to Iraq, enough to do the job right this time. We also need to talk to our enemies Syria and Iran and tell them what exactly will happen if they do not cease to fighting us with their proxy armies (Militias and terrrorists). (Something like shock and awe).
Cindy's pathetic, and I feel sorry for her. Unable to accept her son's decisions, she spits on his grave and is glorified in the media. Her husband divorced her over the antics, and all she has to cling to are her leftie cohorts and hope for more media exposure.
To me, she's like O.J. - the less of her, the better.
crammie and fizzi both, you may label me a 30 per center if that makes you feel better, I've been called much worse and sometimes, by better.
However, I do believe a supply a perspective most posting here cannot. Having been down this road over thirty years ago and seeing the outcome, seeing it unfold once again right before my eyes boggles my mind.
Neither of you will have to serve, unless Democrat Rangel gets his draft and you are in the age bracket and neither of you lose anything, you have no stake in this. That's why the staunch opposition amazes me this time around.
As for opposing eleminating the tax cuts, since they also end up raising the amount of taxes paid in, wouldn't that be counter-productive to raise taxes and end up receiving less in the treasury? Lowering tax rates to a more fair rate actually increases payments into the treasury.
Unfortunately, neither party seemed to be able to see that lowering spending would benefit the country as well.
Lew, I agree that you add a valuable perspective on many subjects.
How is lowering taxes going to increase tax revenue?
I realize that sometimes by lowering the correct taxes the economy can be stimulated, causing job creation, leading to more income to tax. But I am not certain that the proposed cuts accomplish this. One can spin the numbers to make it look like this. I guess the real data I would want would be total-tax-collected and total population of adults all compared to previous years. (adjusted for inflation). This would not give me anything related to fair distribution of taxes (which is never going to be agreed upon anyway). But I could see if tax revenue had actually gone up or down.
I have read that the tax cuts have contributed to large deficits.
I am benefiting from some of the Bush tax cuts this year (I didn't think I was, but I decided to actually check some figures before concluding that none of his tax cuts were to my own benefit. :-).
Overall, coboble, they work to raise revenue by encouraging job creation. Each of us has more money to spend, we go spend it, causing business to manufacture more goods, hire more people, build new plants which employ even more people and all of them pay taxes.
This doesn't mean we can do away with taxes, just get them to a fair level.
Many claim to debunk cuts, and cry about no jobs and lousy economy, but how can you argue with the lowest unemployment in decades, record closings for the Stock Market weeks in a row and the treasury coffers increasing lately?
President Kennedy understood that, President Reagan understood it and President Bush sees it too. The main problem when they did place tax cuts in policy was spending increased as well. Spending too must be kept fair and reasonable, not every entitlement group under the sun needs to be getting more than they need.
As an example, some years ago, it was felt a luxury tax on the wealthy was a good way to raise more revenue. So, expensive items only the wealthy bought received a "Luxury Tax." They placed the tax on Yachts manufactured in the US. The wealthy simply bought their yachts offshore and registered them overseas, causing some yacht builders to close their doors and place all their workers on unemployment.
Many claim the cuts are for the wealthy, they get a bigger tax cut. So what? They also pay more tax than others as well. In fact, the top one percent of wage earners pay almost 50% of the taxes. Plus, it is they who end up creating jobs, not the government.
But, first and foremost, congressional spending by both parties muct be brought under control.
Lew,
I get the general economic concept, where putting more spending money in people's hands can stimulate economic growth (almost makes me want to go shopping again).
I just am not certain that decreasing the tax of the top income groups really does this.
I know I am not likely to increase my spending based on what I save in taxes. I am likely to increase my savings. (I am not in the top income group, just middle class comfortable so I have no need to increase my spending.)
I need to find the numbers, and compare tax revenue before tax breaks to tax revenue after tax breaks to get more of a clue.
In the mean time, I will enjoy my own tax breaks while I continue to laugh at Bush's speech blunders.
From spell checkers to taxes, how we so quickly change subjects.
Back on subject, I am pretty certain the spelling error is intentional and she wanted to make a statement of some sort. I would also guess that those protesting are not well informed as to the effects of what they are asking for (as is so often the case).
Spelling errors are often used to draw attention to the sign. It's an old ploy and gets the message noticed.
Still, while Sheehan has every right to do as she is doing, I still feel she is wrong and paints a false picture of her deceased hero son. I also think the left and the lamestream media enable her to continue.
Rarely mentioned is that he voluntarily reenlisted and volunteered for the mission that cost him his life, when he wasn't a combat soldier.
Casey is a real hero, his Mom is just another useful idiot basking in glory she doesn't deserve. No wonder her husband divorced her over this.
While I am no fan of Cindy Sheehan and her tactics, she does serve to remind us all of the Administration’s deceit and incompetence in Iraq. Her effectiveness can be measured by the fact that she cannot be ignored by the Kool-aid drinkers who are now choking on the Kool-aid and find that they must lash out at her. Just read this blog.
Lew,
You may be right (as in opposite of wrong) on the Tax thing.
The numbers I can find do indicate that tax revenue has increased since the tax cuts.
I think maybe I should sell some more stock before the end of this year.
Anybody know what Cindy Sheehan's appearance fee is? I'm serious. Obviously her life is that of a professional protester.
Did we look much further than Cindy, to see what was being said here?
I admit I didn't at first (because of my lack of respect for Cindy). However, when I later read the actual article, I think this is a cause worth noting. It is not about the Iraq war (at least this particular protest). It is about real people being pushed off of their land.
I don't know if using Cindy was a good idea here. I almost ignored the real cause due to my lack of respect for her. However, maybe it got the attention of others due to it being Cindy.
Maybe someone who reads this group does investigative type journalism and can research if she gets paid. I would not even know how to do that.
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