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“Kiss me, I'm Irish!” Since: Jun 10
How do your eggs want you? |
Judged: 3 2 2 SOURCES: http://www.mindconnection.com/library/governm... Don't you have any shame? |
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Judged: 1 1 1 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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“Good Will Always Defeat Evil” Since: Jun 10
Feed the Good, Starve the Evil |
Judged: 3 2 2 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... |
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Judged: 3 3 2 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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“Pushing back logs and libs” Since: Jan 08
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Judged: 1 1 1 USMail? PFFFFFFT! get rid of it and remove your mailbox and your address. No address, no tax notifications. |
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“ON THE PROWL” Since: May 08
Big Birds Nest.. |
So why is ACA different?? Eagle |
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“Kiss me, I'm Irish!” Since: Jun 10
How do your eggs want you? |
Judged: 2 1 1 Stupid Much Today? |
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“Good Will Always Defeat Evil” Since: Jun 10
Feed the Good, Starve the Evil |
Judged: 1 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! |
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Judged: 3 3 2 "I don't drink" and "coward". I made it back! Thanks, Jughead. https://www.youtube.com/watch... |
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Judged: 3 3 2 You're stupid much everyday. You really didn't need to point it out. |
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“Kiss me, I'm Irish!” Since: Jun 10
How do your eggs want you? |
Judged: 2 2 2 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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Judged: 2 1 1 http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-w... |
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“Kiss me, I'm Irish!” Since: Jun 10
How do your eggs want you? |
Judged: 2 2 2 Point out my huevos, little girl. |
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“Pushing back logs and libs” Since: Jan 08
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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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Judged: 1 1 1 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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Judged: 1 1 http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/11/19/demand-... |
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Since: Nov 12
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Judged: 3 3 2 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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Since: Nov 12
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Judged: 3 3 3 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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