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American Lady

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How many of you pd trolls are "illegals" ...

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Republican Honey wrote:
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"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively
to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the
next five years . We also should remember we have always underestimated the
progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
Sen. Jay Rockerfeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002,
"He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every
significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his
chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has
refused to do."
Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002.
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that
Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons
stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also
given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members.
It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue
to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will
keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam
Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for
the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction. "Without
question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous
dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly
grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation. And
now he has continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass
destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass
destruction is real ...
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003.
NOW THE DEMOCRATS SAY PRESIDENT BUSH LIED, THAT THERE NEVER WERE ANY WMD'S
AND HE TOOK US TO WAR FOR HIS OIL BUDDIES??? Right!!! No, he just did what
the Democrats had been asking for since the Clinton administration.
Sources:
CBS News:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/01/60m ...
Associated Press:
http://www.pr-inside.com/report-Iraqi-source -...
MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23728050/
SOURCES: http://www.mindconnection.com/library/governm...

Don't you have any shame?
American Lady

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Nov 20, 2012
 
ta ta
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American Lady wrote:
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On My Mind:
When will I hack your computer.
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Thanks for advertising
to the www :)
You need to stick to a script. When you want to play Ferrell, put on your Ferrell hat, you idiot. Maybe a clipboard beside the computer would help, but I doubt it.

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TUESDAY, NOV 20, 2012

Return of the 47 percent: The right’s latest tax lie
Conservatives can't stop! A new Heritage study echoes Mitt's "47 percent" theme -- and gets facts and history wrong

BY MICHAEL LIND

The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., has always had a special place in my heart. In the late 1980s, during the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush, the right-wing think tank provided me with my first job as a young conservative intellectual. My first assignment was to write a policy brief about presidential war powers. I was removed from the project after I wrote a draft that began with the observation that the U.S. Constitution divides war powers between Congress and the president, and gives the most important war powers — the power to declare war and to fund it — to Congress. The higher-ups at Heritage reassigned the paper to a Wall Street Journal staffer, who provided them with what they wanted: a brief arguing that the president has absolute, uncontrollable power in foreign affairs.

One of my next assignments was to write a policy paper justifying a forthcoming bill from the late Sen. Jesse Helms, a belligerent reactionary from North Carolina. When I met with the senator’s staff, I was told to wait because Helms wasn’t sure what he was going to put in the bill. After I failed to turn in the policy brief on time, I received an official reprimand from my supervisor, which I treasured until I lost it during a move. The reprimand said, in effect, that at Heritage we write policy papers first and add the facts later.

Things went downhill. I soon left Heritage and, a few years later, the conservative movement altogether. When several colleagues and I founded the New America Foundation in the late 1990s, I held up Heritage as a model of what a genuine think tank ought not to be.

I am amused to report that my former colleagues at the Heritage Foundation have lost none of their willingness to sacrifice truth to propaganda. The Heritage Foundation has published an “Index of Dependence on Government” by William W. Beach and Patrick Tyrrell that seeks to bolster Mitt Romney’s theme that at least 47 percent of Americans are parasitic, government-dependent “takers” rather than “makers”(hat tip to Thomas B. Edsall):

Today, more people than ever before depend on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid, or other assistance once considered to be the responsibility of individuals, families, neighborhoods, churches, and other civil society institutions. The United States reached another milestone in 2010: For the first time in history, half the population pays no federal income taxes. It is the conjunction of these two trends — higher spending on dependence-creating programs, and an ever-shrinking number of taxpayers who pay for these programs — that concerns those interested in the fate of the American form of government.

What caught my eye in this latest piece of Heritage agitprop was this sentence: The United States reached a milestone in 2012 — or the first time in history, half the population pays no federal income taxes.

This is not just wrong. It is an error embarrassing enough to shame even a shameless propaganda mill like the Heritage Foundation.

Heritage implies that a majority of Americans paid federal income taxes throughout American history, presumably back to the 1790s. Nothing could be further from the truth. For much of American history, 100 percent of the population paid no federal income taxes, because there were none. And the federal income tax began to fall on the middle-class masses, not just the upper classes, only in the 1940s.

The first federal income tax in the U.S. was enacted in 1861 to help pay for the Civil War. It was abolished afterward, but re-created in 1894....(cont.)

http://www.salon.com/2012/11/20/return_of_the...
Pumped Up Humps

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NTRPRNR1 wrote:
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2012 Poverty Guidelines for the
48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia Persons in
family/household Poverty guideline
1 $11,170
2 15,130
3 19,090
4 23,050
5 27,010
6 30,970
7 34,930
8 38,890
For families/households with more than 8 persons,
add $3,960 for each additional person.
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/12poverty.shtml#t...
Hey look everybody! The stupid old lady can google with the best of them! LMAO again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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USMail XXXII wrote:
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Fox News?
Pfftt!!
USMail? PFFFFFFT! get rid of it and remove your mailbox and your address. No address, no tax notifications.

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NTRPRNR1 wrote:
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2012 Poverty Guidelines for the
48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia Persons in
family/household Poverty guideline
1 $11,170
2 15,130
3 19,090
4 23,050
5 27,010
6 30,970
7 34,930
8 38,890
For families/households with more than 8 persons,
add $3,960 for each additional person.
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/12poverty.shtml#t...
So why is ACA different??

Eagle

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positronium wrote:
<quoted text>OH, you advocate for Censorship too?
Stupid Much Today?

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positronium wrote:
<quoted text>Not a question of being "brave". I never ask for or solicit supporters. I speak my mind and if others agree then so be it. If they don't, so what?
Do you actively canvass supporters by calling others names like "coward" that only reflect upon yourself?
It is most definitely a question of being brave. I've observed you and how you post, and your tone always changes, and your posts get more rude and vulgar and gutsy when you have supporters nearby. You're apparently too unconscious to even be aware of what you do.

I don't "actively canvass supporters" and never have. I have no need to do such a thing, and I am no coward and neither are my friends here.

Nice double talk and spin though. You've always been so adept at that. LOL!
Pumped Up Humps

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---Wild Irish Rose--- wrote:
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Yeah sure you did, liar. LOL!
I don't drink, fool. You really enjoy making a fool of yourself don't you? So sad to be that lonely and miserable and a coward besides.
"I don't drink" and "coward".

I made it back! Thanks, Jughead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
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USMail XXXII wrote:
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Stupid Much Today?
You're stupid much everyday. You really didn't need to point it out.

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TN Reader wrote:
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Wow, nice links backing up your claims. Page cannot be found, page cannot be found, and page cannot be found.
Could you post some "working" links to credible news that Saddam that he had a workable nuclear program after the first gulf war?
This is the link: http://www.mindconnection.com/library/governm... Another birther site.
Then they wonder why we poo-poo their sources.
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Record Number of Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving...

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-w...

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Pumped Up Humps wrote:
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You're stupid much everyday. You really didn't need to point it out.
Point out my huevos, little girl.

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USMail XXXII wrote:
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I own your real estate, peckerhead. I live rent free in your noggins, but you need to start paying rent.
How so? Try and take it, freeloader. Paying rent to whom? You? Please tell me how you have earned the power to do so?
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American Lady wrote:
How many of you pd trolls are "illegals" ...
Everyone that doesn't agree with you is a illegal. They're out there picking crops with one hand and posting on a laptop with the other, genius.
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FOOD PANTRY SEES 400% INCREASE IN DEMAND...

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/11/19/demand-...

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NTRPRNR1 wrote:
<quoted text>But, you are an idiot. You just proved it;-)
I really have trouble understanding people who hate their lives so much they feel the need to criticize everyone they come in contact with. Why don't you stop lying to yourself about why you behave the way you do. Take responsibility for your actions and pathetic spew!!!! Take a good look in the mirror honey!!!!

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Pumped Up Humps wrote:
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She does. She once stated that she wanted to move from Kentucky to Connecticut because, her words:
"every time I go to town I notice how fat my neighbors are. The girls in Kentucky are all fat, they just don't care about themselves the way 'educated girls in the east do' Women in Connecticut for example seem to care about themselves. Where all the girls here want to do is find a daddy to take care of them."
Her words, it was said here on topix and was recorded. I couldn't make this shit up if I wanted too. NTR is nothing but a worthless troll.
That says it all about her character and true interest in humanity. She really puts on airs to convince people she is truly interested in the well-being of society, but it is all just spew!

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