Starbuck - Excuse me for butting in but why don't you tie a string around your finger to remind yourself not to bring the situation between glencar and Pdog up again?  Not even as a punchline.   I never did see the humor in it, and I remember glencar asking you to drop it.    I also think the Special Olympics joke is cruel.

Moving on because I said I would...


Vice President Biden took a stab at Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday, one day after the chief justice flubbed the oath of office that President Obama was to recite at his inauguration.

Biden was to swear in senior executive staff at a White House ceremony after having already given the oath to newly confirmed Cabinet secretaries. When Obama reminded him that he had only done the one group and hadn't done the second yet, Biden quipped, "My memory is not as good as Chief Justice Roberts."

The slap was directed at the Supreme Court chief, who a day earlier had to recite to Obama the 35-word oath of office, which Obama was to repeat back to him. Unlike his predecessor, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Roberts -- perhaps unwisely -- chose to forego a note card with the oath.

When he started to say the second portion of the quote "... that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States," he instead put faithfully at the end of the sentence. Obama, who apparently had memorized the oath, looked at Roberts, who then realized his mistake and repeated that portion of the oath correctly.

Obama then repeated the oath in the incorrect order. His presidency is unaffected, however. In the unlikely event he'd be challenged as president, the case ultimately would end up in Roberts' court.




PS Thanks Ginda. I know you & I will never agree on much about politics but you're a fine person & if you ever did run, I'd vote for you regardless of the issues. Character counts...

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This is just one more example of the media not even trying to be objective in their coverage of the "Age Of Obama". Does any of this stuff ever get reported on honestly?!

I mean what Reich and Rangal are talking about here is classic socialist wealth redistribution on the backs of the working to the nonworking. It is essentially old Soviet style social engineering cloaked behind little liberal buzz words like-hope,change,sacrifice,fairness, and your basic liberal BS designed to make people feel guilty and unworthy of the very "inalienable" rights that the framers of the constitution gave us. Our very founding as a nation is directly opposed to this very kind of bullshit rhetoric! This is clearly an attempt to put a large central government to lord over the people. This has nothing to do with a government for the people,by the people, and of the people! Reich says "criteria can set so that money does go to others, the long term unemployed, minorities, women." This kind of talk is stunning for many reasons. Not the least of which is the fact that so many people (like "white construction workers") voted for these asshats without any knowledge of any of these radically unAmerican socialist-cum-communist style ideologies that these idiots bring forth! I mean listen to that tax crook (seems to be a Democrat theme these days, no?) Charles Rangal propose a reduction in state rights to an all-knowing-all-caring-all-powerful federal government!! That is absurd!!! The founding fathers must be rolling over in their graves! The fact that the media so willingly got down on their knees and threw all objectivity out the window for their mutual Obamagasm should be grounds enough to sue them for journalistic malpractice.

Liberals so often deride people of faith. Christians, and especially Catholic Christians, are routinely ridiculed and mocked. Yet these very same liberals are more than willing to allow a fat elite Oligarchy in Washington DC to lord over them and tell them how they should live. They worship at the feet of a government that knows better than they, the individual, on what is good for them. Obama is their messiah, and idiots like Reich, Rangal, Pelosi, and Reid are his disciples.

This is one reason why liberals hate Ronald Reagen so much. He stood for the exact same principles that the founders believed. Namely, the rights and self determination of the individual.


I'd say that his 1981 Inaugural Adress was a damned sight better than that of Barry's! In fact, I know it was!

This is what America is about!!

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price."


Ronald Wilson Reagan-January 20th 1981



Riffy


 

>while i certainily don't support the redistribution of wealth<

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need

"the moral of this little parable is that, while i certainily don't support the redistribution of wealth, certainly the mega rich should be able to kick in more dough in taxes than the rest of us. "

So you support redistribution after you were against it, John?

Ten Thousand Motels wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 12:39pm:


I'd rather watch Duck Soup with the Marx Brothers

the bushgeeks attempt to masquerade incompetence behind illusory ideological debates......

Riffhard wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 1:44pm:


Riffy, your the best, however, please do not use the words wrangel=brilliant in the same sentance.
Thank you for your cooperation & support.

Oh, and I almost forgot.
26 days until the digital cable switchover, did you know?

Nellcote wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 1:48pm:

"i am not for the government making any moves to take away any of john and cindy mccain's eight houses. if the mccains want 8 houses, that's their business...even if they forget one of two of them, it's their right to own them if that's what they want to spend their money on.

that being said, if mccain has to pay a buttload of taxes, so much so that he can only afford seven houses, i ain't going to lose any sleep over it."

Okay, thanks for the clarification.

So what do you do with the person with one house, for which they have worked very hard, and they have an annual salary of, oh I don't know, say $250,000?

What happens when that person is asked to fork over so much of their income to taxes that they can no longer afford that house?  Is that a problem?  Not for Obama and Biden.  Hell, that's patriotism right there!

nankerphelge wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 2:38pm:



Not only that Nanky, but Reich wants to make damned sure that those dollars that that family busted their asses for for years is now going to be government mandated to go to the long term unemployed, minorities, and women! Sounds like the very idea of The American Dream to me!


It's horseshit and soon as the populace wakes up to from their collective idiocy they will rue the socialism that they, with willing media accomplices, have wrought upon this country.

I want one single liberal on this board to explain to me how the ideas that are being put forth by these clowns can justified or rationalized?!

I know a few "white construction workers" myself that voted for Barry and they are all gonna have this video sent to them with a big fat "I told ya so!"

The good news is that the American people will not long stand for this kind of socialism and after two years Barry will loose the congressional majority that he enjoys now, and he'll be gone after his first term.


Riffy