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[Riverwind]

Moi, there is a reason I don't comment on the Yahoo and other boards, I won't entertain it here either, this thread is close to being closed as it gives nothing but a place for you to bitch. I don't think I have agreed with Bob in several years but I do with this one.

River

[moi621]

I hope those who check it out

Laugh Out Loud, as I did,

Over Bob3 Ex-BFF audacious comment.

This is what I call, FUN!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/o...mt-container-b

Moi
Let's inflict our FUN on Yahoo Blogs.


link check
Click to open replies. You will recognize my avatar.

[moi621]

Guantanamo detainees.

http://news.yahoo.com/confrontation-...mt-container-b

What human rights? Chime in at link there, first.

[Riverwind]

Moi, STOP putting links only they go stale after time, usually a couple weeks, post the article and the link. I will start deleting them or (causing Moi to shutter) close the thread altogether.


River

[A-1]

moi,

Here is a BETTER one...

Why not look at the REPUBLICAN horseshit spin that tries to RATIONALIZE away the GREED of Mitt Romney and his incessant money-grubbing?

As Letterman said last night... MITT WIT!

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman defended Mitt Romney against Democratic charges that he was a "job destroyer" during his tenure at Bain Capital, insisting the presumptive Republican nominee has a "pretty good" record of creating jobs.

Speaking at a lunch sponsored by Bloomberg View in Manhattan, Portman, who has frequently been mentioned as a possible Romney running mate, defended the former Massachusetts governor against charges that he profited off the closing of a Missouri steel company. President Barack Obama's re-election campaign issued these attacks in a new ad.

Portman suggested the steel industry's woes—not Bain's desire to seek profits—were to blame for the company's 2001 bankruptcy. (Romney left Bain in 1999.)

"That wasn't a Bain issue," Portman said. "It was a national economic issue. Steel companies were in trouble."

And he defended Romney's record at Bain, suggesting he was simply engaged in "capitalism."

"Maybe I am missing something, but that is capitalism," Portman said. "It's the free market."

Romney, he said, can point to "where his efforts created 100,000-plus jobs."

"That's pretty good," Portman said.

But Portman wasn't so forthcoming around speculation that he might be picked as Romney's running mate. Asked if he would be "honored" to be chosen as Romney's VP, Portman said he believes he would be "better suited" to remaining in the Senate.

"I was just elected," Portman said, with a coy smile. "Ohio voters expect me to serve out my term."

Oh YES! Let us defend Bain Capital and congratulate them on their contribution to the TRASHING of the American Steel Industry... I mean, that is Republican nationalism that shows a high respect for America, isn't it? Yes?

In a 's eye!

Sorry, I should have left Rush Limbaugh out of this... THE PIG!!!

COMMENTARY: RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A PIG AND THE NOISE OF THE “RIGHT”

Rush Limbaugh is a pig. If it snorts like a pig, walks like a pig and talks like a pig…well, you get it. Radio host Rush Limbaugh said his apology to the Georgetown law student he called a “slut” was sincere but also joked that he, too, got a busy signal Monday when he called the show to join the growing roster of advertisers abandoning it. The student, Sandra Fluke, said Limbaugh’s apology did nothing to change the corrosive tone of the debate over health care coverage and that Americans have to decide whether they want to support companies that continue to advertise on his program. AOL on Monday became the eighth advertiser to leave Limbaugh’s three-hour show as he sought to stem the exodus of advertisers and fellow conservatives declined to offer him support. “I should not have used the language I did, and it was wrong,” a rarely contrite Limbaugh told listeners.

The problem, in a nutshell, is Limbaugh’s apology is a non-apology. Alex Petri writes that these days, apologies come in two flavors: the command apology, issued under duress, and the snarky, self-serving sorry-you-mistook-my-meaning. These can even be the same apology. Apologies are like kidneys – if not given willingly, they lose some of their luster. One of Rick Perry’s mottoes, during his brief campaign, a period of a few months in which he never managed entirely to extricate his foot from his mouth, was Never Apologize. We don’t need a president who apologizes for America, he kept reminding us.

If true, this is a relief. The apology is an entirely lost art. If you want a full set of jousting armor, there are still people who can make you one. But an apology? Forget it. That craft died somewhere before the thank-you note did. The last man who knew how to make a real, sincere apology perished in the Great Fire of Chicago. (“Begin by admitting it’s your fault — ” he gasped, as the roof-beam fell in.) Historians tell us that the apology was once a thing you made when you realized that you were in the wrong. You used to heap ashes on your head, dress in sackcloth, and crawl about on your knees shouting, “Woe is me! I was wrong!” No wonder it’s out of fashion. These days, we are never wrong. Our facts might be wrong, but if so, we can get better ones on the Internet. Our choice of words might be wrong, but you should have known what we meant.

The problem is our national dialogue is so nasty and vulgar, if the talking heads apologized for every stupid thing they said, the airwaves would be nothing short of contrition. The problem is not owned by those on the far right although they are the loudest right now as they challenge the Obama White House. The noise from right wing nut jobs is deafening. As I was perusing Radio Talk Host Chris Baker’s Facebook page this weekend, I discovered another new conspiracy coming from the extreme right. Only a couple of days after the repulsive drive by media assassin Andrew Breitbart dropped dead on the sidewalk in front of his house, at least according to his father in-law the actor Orson “Me and the Orgone” Bean, the right wing conspiracy saw is buzzing away.

On the Drudge Report this past Friday the rabid conservative radio host Michael Savage suggested a hit job on Breitbart was entirely possible. The consensus of the budding Who Killed Breitbart? movement suggests that Breitbart was about to release “incriminating” tapes of interviews he conducted in Chicago over dinner with weather overgrounders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Google Breitbart Dohrn and Ayers and you can see a group photo of Breitbart with the duo. An article on the conservative World News Daily suggested that we will know if Breitbart was whacked,, most likely by an Obama death squad, if the tapes don’t come out.

If in the matter of Andrew Breitbart it was love and not murder conspiracies you were craving MSNBC cable crowd was the place to be. Most emblematic was Keith Olbermann’s replacement Lawrence O’Donnell. Along with Arianna Huffington, the writer Toure and another guest whose name escapes me, O’Donnell and company shed more tears for the dearly departed Breitbart than they ever did for the victims of Breitbart’s Big Lies such as ACORN and Shirley Sherrod who lost her job at the Agriculture Department after Breitbart released yet another doctored, or “severely edited” tape portraying Sherrod as a black racist. “Time to put down the sword,” Toure solemnly intoned.

Huffington and O’Donnell absurdly beatified the same man who maligned their respective colleagues, in the case of the Huffington Post, reporter James Stein, and in the case of MSNBC, take your pick. Better yet, go to Media Matters and see the long list of liberals and progressives slimed by Breitbart. O’Donnell praised Breitbart for never bringing partisanship to social gatherings and always so full of life. Baker offered on his Facebook page a link to a You Tube video from a CIA whistleblower who talks about a gun that shoots a frozen dart of poison that mimicks a heart attack in the unfortunate victim. Does Baker actually believe this? I think he does. It is more noise from the right? Without question.

[moi621]

Typing s-l-o-w-l-y

The purpose of this thread is to involve the EA community
in Yahoo News Blog discussions.
Not to replicate those discussions here.
It leads to views being shared with the world from our little base camp Thread here.

Yes News Blogs go stale, but I always check the link I provide works.
But, if the discussion stays vital, it seems to last longer.
Here is one for practice
http://news.yahoo.com/confrontation-...mt-container-b

When our universal topic comes along, we will be primed to take control.

Possibly the Media forum or DDC would be a happier place for this thread?
Some may ask "Why?".
Response, "Why Not!".
Share your views world wide, beyond those that accept your views here.

Moi

The link works at this moment.