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[ewingxmanstarks]

What isn't hateful nowadays? Hate without action is merely rhetoric.

And just because someone doesn't believe in the gay lifestyle they're a bigot? So do homosexuals who don't believe in heterosexuality and the natural order of perpetuating the human race bigoted against straight people and sustaining humanity?

You're grasping at straws, and plenty of people in news, music, acting, etc. have stage names, so what?

It's amazing how people are conditioned to react to words...They act like words are the problem, and behavior is insignificant.

[HarthorneWingo]

but he has a phd

He only won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

[ewingxmanstarks]

None the less...A Marxist masquerading as an economist.

[HarthorneWingo]

None the less...A Marxist masquerading as an economist.

... nonetheless, a Nobel Prize winner.

EDIT: And, btw, he was correct that the initial stimulus was robust enough to get us from spiraling into an all-out depression, but not to get us over the unemployment hump. He completely nailed it.

What's the republican solution? Get rid of medicaid? More tax cuts for the wealthy and the corporations? They've 10 years worth of cuts and deregulation. Where has that gotten us?

[ewingxmanstarks]

As is Yasser Arafat lol

[HarthorneWingo]

As is Yasser Arafat lol

That's why Israel should cut the best deal it can now. But Nitwityahoo is ... well, a nitwit.

But, getting back to Krugman, his analysis of the Obama stimulus package was dead on. See my edit above.

[ewingxmanstarks]

If you belive the tired old line about how the porkulus saved us from another great depression, than I got a bridge to sell you...speaking of which...did you see Obama laughing at how the porkulus was not as "shovel ready" as he thought it was going to be? Ur giving proof tha Krugman is the hack I say he is.

[HarthorneWingo]

If you belive the tired old line about how the porkulus saved us from another great depression, than I got a bridge to sell you...speaking of which...did you see Obama laughing at how the porkulus was not as "shovel ready" as he thought it was going to be? Ur giving proof tha Krugman is the hack I say he is.

I'm immune to Fixed News/Frank Lutz talking points. Calling the stimulus "porkula" is cute, but not very persuasive. It usually helps to have (1) facts; and (2) an economic theory.

So, let me see if I've got this right. You're right and Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner, Professor of Economics at Princeton University, is wrong?

Now it all makes sense.

Here's another reason why everybody has to have a gun. You just never know when 10 year old is going to ring your door bell while playing the game "Ding, Dong, Ditch." Yes, I certainly see the NRA's position on this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/1 ... k2%7C70903

Ding-Dong-Ditch Shooting: Michael Bishop Of Louisville Charged With Shooting 12-Year-Old Over Prank
Posted: 06/15/11 04:59 PM ET

A Kentucky man has been charged with attempted murder after he shot a 12-year-old boy in the back for ringing his doorbell during a game of Ding Dong Ditch.

Jason Eberle of Louisville, was playing the game, which involves someone ringing a doorbell and running away, on Monday night with friends. The New York Post reports that after the kids rang 56-year-old Michael Bishop's bell he came out onto his porch armed with a shotgun and opened fire, hitting Eberle in the back and shoulder.

Bishop was arrested and has been charged with attempted murder. The Louisville Courier Journal reports that he was released Tuesday night after posting $10,000 bail.

-more-

[ewingxmanstarks]

What is comparing think tank information going to prove? Christian Romer said the main purpose of the bil was to keep unemployment under 8%...even keynesian economists agree the money was poorly spent..I'd like to see Obama try and campaign on the success of the porkulus.

Paul Krugman has an agenda that supersedes his brilliance.


My heart goes out to the kid shot, but should this tragedy diminish the right of a responsible law abiding citizen to protect his family against criminals?

[ewingxmanstarks]

After watching that stupid HBO Bill Mahr debacle, some people call a show...I'm starting to seriously question the sanity of Jeanane Garofalo..I'm not even joking

[Pharmcat]

After watching that stupid HBO Bill Mahr debacle, some people call a show...I'm starting to seriously question the sanity of Jeanane Garofalo..I'm not even joking

what happened on the show?

[ewingxmanstarks]

^It wasn't very eventful...I must admit the show can actually be funny sometimes, but this one was pretty lame...the same stupid Wiener jokes....Its getting old.

The reason why I think she might be crazy is she seems to have strange views, and. her passion is unpredictable...She just seems off to me...Its not that's she a liberal...I just think she a weirdo.

[HarthorneWingo]

What is comparing think tank information going to prove? Christian Romer said the main purpose of the bil was to keep unemployment under 8%...even keynesian economists agree the money was poorly spent..I'd like to see Obama try and campaign on the success of the porkulus.

Paul Krugman has an agenda that supersedes his brilliance.


My heart goes out to the kid shot, but should this tragedy diminish the right of a responsible law abiding citizen to protect his family against criminals?

It needs to be regulated better. But, admittedly, I would have no problem with a responsible hunter owning a shot gun.

[ewingxmanstarks]

^Huh, only for a hunter?

[lliiknicksiill33]

Wiener is gone! Good riddance!

By the way, classic moment by Howard Stern show writer Benjy Bronk heckling Wiener during the press conference with those ridiculous questions!

[ewingxmanstarks]

I wonder what kind of corrupt deal the Dems offered him to play ball...ah, maybe he'll replace overturd on MSLSD...

[mugzi]

Looks like the democrats got rid of a weiner for once instead of adding more.

Now if only Barney Frank could remove the weiner from his oh never mind. LMAO.

[HarthorneWingo]

You guys just can't seem to help yourselves, can you? Tisk, tisk, tisk.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/1 ... 79783.html

Reggie Brown, Obama Impersonator, Yanked After Mocking Obama (VIDEO)

PHILIP ELLIOTT 06/18/11 11:29 PM ET AP

NEW ORLEANS — A Barack Obama impersonator was ushered off the stage after he mocked the Republican presidential hopefuls and joked about the real president's biracial roots to a room full of conservative activists Saturday.

The Republican Leadership Conference turned the podium over to impersonator Reggie Brown, who drew raucous applause from the GOP's supporters when he projected lewd photos of Rep. Anthony Weiner, the New York Democrat who just resigned after the furor over his sexually charged online dalliances with a former porn actress and other women.

Brown later played up the mass exodus of advisers to candidate Newt Gingrich's campaign and said Gingrich's supporters "are dropping faster than Anthony Weiner's pants."

The audience grew more uncomfortable when Brown turned to the candidates who are looking to make Obama a one-term president.

The impersonator took a shot at former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, saying Pawlenty missed the conference because "he's having his foot surgically removed from his mouth."

"Don't worry: it's covered under Obamneycare ... along with spinal transplants," Brown said.

Pawlenty has struggled this week after previewing his criticism of former Gov. Mitt Romney's health care overhaul in Massachusetts that was a model for Democrats' national plan. Pawlenty first called it "Obamneycare," a hybrid of "Romneycare" and "Obamacare." But when given the opportunity to use the term while sharing the stage with Romney during a debate Monday night in New Hampshire, he balked.

Pawlenty later said it was a mistake not to offer a stronger criticism.

The impersonator joked about Romney's Mormon faith and about polygamy, and Rep. Michele Bachmann's tea party support.

Organizers then cut off Brown's microphone and turned on music. He was shown off the stage.

The jokes came a day after Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour urged Republicans not to be distracted from a message honed solely on jobs and the economy.

"If we let people in the Obama campaign take America's eye off the ball, then that's their only chance to win," Barbour said.

Brown opened his routine with jokes about Obama's biography as the son of a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya.

"My mother loved a black man and, no, she was not a Kardashian," the actor said, referring to the reality television family. Khloe Kardashian is married to basketball player Lamar Odom of the Los Angeles Lakers. Other family members have had black romantic interests on the E! television series.

Brown also joked about rumors of the president's birthplace. Obama was born in Hawaii, "or as the tea partyers call it, Kenya," he said.

Brown highlighted photographs of past presidents such as George W. Bush at the beginning and end of their terms.

He showed a picture of George Washington at the start of his term and then projected an image of former first lady Barbara Bush as though it was the nation's first president as he left office.

Brown then projected a picture of Obama at the start of his term, followed by a picture of Fred Sanford of "Sanford and Son" as a representation of what Obama would look like when he leaves office.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFguV0MkkoI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

[HarthorneWingo]

Maher's New Rules from last night. This is hysterical ... on GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry (Gov. Texas, R).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7yIIaJU00k[/youtube]

[Pharmcat]

^right on BM, great stuff as usual

(i do disagree with him on unions, as I believe their power should be limited)