The Obama Years- A GOP love story

I'm still dumbfounded by how so many ignorant dumbasses can wind up on the Committee of Science, Space and Technology. Oh, I know how.....they are paid to deny it. You want to know why our government is a waste of oxygen, space and money.....this is a prime example why.


Burn Noticed - The Daily Show - Video Clip | Comedy Central (http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/8q3nmm/burn-noticed)

Boehner says unemployed ‘don’t really want’ jobs. How bad a gaffe for GOP? (http://news.yahoo.com/boehner-says-unemployed-don-t-really-want-jobs-172131239.html)


Why is it that unemployed people are viewed as lazy? It's this myth that's perpetuated over and over, with people passing along anecdotal stories they've heard.

What do they want when they continue to allow jobs to be shipped overseas?

Because it often seems like they are? There are jobs out there, you just have to want to get a job.

It seems like the problem is that they don't want to do the work that is available, or they don't want to work for the pay that's being offered.

I wouldn't allow myself to go 99 weeks without a job. I find it absurd so many people do. I'd be working at a restaurant if I couldn't find a job within 30 days. I wouldn't enjoy it... but I'd do it...

Because it often seems like they are? There are jobs out there, you just have to want to get a job.

It seems like the problem is that they don't want to do the work that is available, or they don't want to work for the pay that's being offered.

I wouldn't allow myself to go 99 weeks without a job. I find it absurd so many people do. I'd be working at a restaurant if I couldn't find a job within 30 days. I wouldn't enjoy it... but I'd do it...

There are jobs but we also need to realize that we continue to shed jobs via robosourcing and outsourcing. Robosourcing in particular is why we have an increase in productivity by companies and increase in revenue generation but continue to shed jobs. Coal mining is a great example. In 2002 the wording of the Clean Water Act to allow mountain top removal mining we increased coal output till around 2009 (it started receiving competition from natural gas at that point) but at the same time decreased the work force by 40,000 jobs due to less need for labor.

Because it often seems like they are? There are jobs out there, you just have to want to get a job.

It seems like the problem is that they don't want to do the work that is available, or they don't want to work for the pay that's being offered.

I wouldn't allow myself to go 99 weeks without a job. I find it absurd so many people do. I'd be working at a restaurant if I couldn't find a job within 30 days. I wouldn't enjoy it... but I'd do it...


Just curious. Exactly what percentage of the unemployed do you see as lazy?

Also, exactly what kind of jobs? Minimum wage jobs? Good paying jobs?

What's the difference in them getting unemployment as compared to them getting a minimum wage job that has to be supplemented by welfare?

I hate Bible thumping assholes.

Ted Cruz booed off stage while defending Israel - The Week (http://theweek.com/article/index/267950/speedreads-ted-cruz-booed-off-stage-while-defending-israel)


The ignorance of this country is astounding.

If he is a no on the Redskin name change thing......I like him

Armed contractor with criminal record was on elevator with Obama in Atlanta - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/armed-former-convict-was-on-elevator-with-obama-in-atlanta/2014/09/30/76d7da24-48e3-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_t witter_washingtonpost)

Some of the stories about the Presidential detail make you wonder how seriously they take to protecting him. I am very positive that the one salute with a Latte in hand angered the more military minded on any detail.

Armed contractor with criminal record was on elevator with Obama in Atlanta - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/armed-former-convict-was-on-elevator-with-obama-in-atlanta/2014/09/30/76d7da24-48e3-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_t witter_washingtonpost)

Some of the stories about the Presidential detail make you wonder how seriously they take to protecting him. I am very positive that the one salute with a Latte in hand angered the more military minded on any detail.

Its a sad world we live in where the media and folks want to talk about something as meaningless as a latta salute and are too incompetent to have a conversation about the failure of the administration to see the isis threat materialize. The slow isis approach already cost thousands of lives, what did the latte saluate cost?

our country is a joke

Armed contractor with criminal record was on elevator with Obama in Atlanta - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/armed-former-convict-was-on-elevator-with-obama-in-atlanta/2014/09/30/76d7da24-48e3-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_t witter_washingtonpost)

Some of the stories about the Presidential detail make you wonder how seriously they take to protecting him. I am very positive that the one salute with a Latte in hand angered the more military minded on any detail.


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Just a note. Presidents didn't salute military men up until Reagan.

Rachel Maddow: 'Not even old Gen. Eisenhower … saluted military personnel' as president | PunditFact (http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/sep/24/rachel-maddow/rachel-maddow-not-even-old-gen-eisenhower-saluted-/)

We suspect Maddow’s basis for her description may have roots in a 2007 New York Times opinion piece by Garry Wills, a professor emeritus of history at Northwestern University, as well as a 2004 op-ed by then-Reagan military aide and now-Minnesota U.S. Rep. John Kline.

Wills was writing about presidents saluting soldiers when they board and exit Marine One (just like Obama on Tuesday).

"We are reminded, for instance, of the expanded commander in chief status every time a modern president gets off the White House helicopter and returns the salute of marines.

"That is an innovation that was begun by Ronald Reagan. Dwight Eisenhower, a real general, knew that the salute is for the uniform, and as president he was not wearing one. An exchange of salutes was out of order."


Straight up from a GOP site.


Is it Proper for a President to Render a Military Hand Salute? | Texas GOP Vote (http://www.texasgopvote.com/military-salute/it-proper-president-render-military-hand-salute-002816)


The answer is quite simple. The President of the United States is a civilian. He is not a member of the US Military and is therefore not entitled to salute. The military salute is a privilege earned by honorable service in the military. It is also a privilege that can be taken away. Military prisoners are stripped of the privilege of saluting. While the President is Constitutionally the CINC, he is not a member of the military.

One of the core principles of our country is our military is under civilian control. The President is that civilian authority over the military as is the Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the branches of the armed services.


The President shouldn't be saluting military men. Period. It's not about respect, it's about principles.

Its a sad world we live in where the media and folks want to talk about something as meaningless as a latta salute and are too incompetent to have a conversation about the failure of the administration to see the isis threat materialize. The slow isis approach already cost thousands of lives, what did the latte saluate cost?

our country is a joke
You misjudge the latte salute. The salute in military history is the symbolic epitome of respect. When the Commander in Chief fails to show those charged with his defense a time honored symbol of respect it shows a mentality. And that same mentality goes to the root of the failure on the latest threat.

Its one thing if its not expected and thus not rendered. Even the hugging the dog pic isn't quite the same, close though and I don't have much respect for Bush's understanding of the salute, but who isn't gonna hug a dog, damn near unpatriotic if you don't. (I keed. I keed) but the dismissive attitude of Pres Obama's was, like I said, to me the lack of respect he has for many foreign policy issues.