Paul Ryan at the Republican convention saying his playlist "starts at AC DC and ends in Led Zepplin." Those are the two most satanic rock groups I can think of ...Zep dedicating Stairway to heaven to "sweet satan," and ACDC who love to get the "back street rhythm," "shoot to thrill," or sing the praises of "Hells Bells."
Something does not add up.
Wednesday
Obama Did NOT say "You didn't build that"
Sick of the distortions and pants on fire half truths ? Obama just did NOT say what the republicans in Tampa are saying he said.
Here is the full context, from Obama's speech in Roanoke, Va.:
"There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
"The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
"So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the G.I. Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for President -- because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.
Here is the full context, from Obama's speech in Roanoke, Va.:
"There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
"The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
"So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the G.I. Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for President -- because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.
Thursday
FACTCHECK.COM SAYS ROMNEY CANNOT DO IT
The non partisan site Factcheck says today that the tax objectives that SOUND wonderful if they were only possible ..in fact are not.
Said the website:
Tax experts — including one who supports Romney’s plan — say the Republican presidential candidate’s promise to cut individual income tax rates without either favoring the wealthy or losing revenue isn’t mathematically possible.
That’s the conclusion of the Tax Policy Center in a report the Romney campaign attacked as “biased” (although the campaign previously praised the TPC as “objective,” when it issued a report critical of a rival’s tax plan).
And it’s also the conclusion of an expert from the pro-business Tax Foundation, who states that the Tax Policy Center analysis “correctly identified the Romney plan as a tax cut, at least in static terms, that accrues mainly to high-income earners.”
Don't believe everything you hear folks...unless it comes from factcheck.com
Said the website:
Tax experts — including one who supports Romney’s plan — say the Republican presidential candidate’s promise to cut individual income tax rates without either favoring the wealthy or losing revenue isn’t mathematically possible.
That’s the conclusion of the Tax Policy Center in a report the Romney campaign attacked as “biased” (although the campaign previously praised the TPC as “objective,” when it issued a report critical of a rival’s tax plan).
And it’s also the conclusion of an expert from the pro-business Tax Foundation, who states that the Tax Policy Center analysis “correctly identified the Romney plan as a tax cut, at least in static terms, that accrues mainly to high-income earners.”
Don't believe everything you hear folks...unless it comes from factcheck.com
TOP TEN MITT ROMNEY AND PAUL RYAN MOVIES
Honey I Shrunk the Middle Class
Million Dollar Cry Baby
To Kill A Mockingbird With An Assault Weapon Protected by the Second Amendment
Citizen Bain
Despicable Mitt
The Horseshit Whisperer
I Know What You Hid Last Summer
The Lyin King
The Sound of Money
Dumb and Dumber
Million Dollar Cry Baby
To Kill A Mockingbird With An Assault Weapon Protected by the Second Amendment
Citizen Bain
Despicable Mitt
The Horseshit Whisperer
I Know What You Hid Last Summer
The Lyin King
The Sound of Money
Dumb and Dumber
Wednesday
Paul Ryan calls Obama a Divider not a Uniter
Wasn't that left over from the Bush administration ? Having said that, Ryan and his fellow republicans on the hill got together in a room 3 1/2 years ago and decided they would support NOTHING Obama was for. If Obama was for the word Monday to start with the letter M they would still oppose it, no matter what. That was the blood pact. Then, can you imagine them saying "just wait til we tell everyone that it's all HIS fault the country is divided."
While on the subject of Ryan, the Daily Show pointed out that while Ryan is known for being the one who hates the deficit more than anyone, it is worth mentioning that things like Bush Tax cuts, other tax cuts, two wars, TARP, and other things that ran up the debt were ALL THINGS PAUL RYAN VOTED FOR !!!!
HYPOCRITE
While on the subject of Ryan, the Daily Show pointed out that while Ryan is known for being the one who hates the deficit more than anyone, it is worth mentioning that things like Bush Tax cuts, other tax cuts, two wars, TARP, and other things that ran up the debt were ALL THINGS PAUL RYAN VOTED FOR !!!!
HYPOCRITE
Is an entitlement always socialism
The most conservative of Americans talk
about government handouts, entitlements, if you will, and call these things "socialism," yet few
conservatives ever lump in things like the "untouchable" subsidies to
big business. Subsidies that supposedly aren't "socialism" yet are
government handouts.
Monday
10 Political & Economic Imponderables
What a friend of mine on the far right (and truly, NOT a common sense guy) posted on his facebook. He hates Obama. Some points are valid ...perhaps number 2 is a tad bit racist ...but even though I think there are arguments to be made against each of these statements, I will give him his due on them on face value. This blog is, after all, about common sense.
10 Political and Economic Imponderables that should Drive Every American Crazy
1. Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich, at a $40,000-a-plate campaign fund raising event.
2. Only in America could people claim that the government still
discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a
black Attorney General and a federal workforce that is roughly 18% black
when entire the black population is only 12%.
3. Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible
for our tax code — Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department
and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee — turn out
to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
4. Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name
of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims
might be upset by the backlash.
5. Only in
America would we make people who, want to legally become American
citizens, wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of
thousands of dollars for the privilege, while we discuss letting anyone
who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.
6. Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the
budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as
“extremists.”
7. Only in America could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
8. Only in America could people demand the government investigate
whether oil companies are gouging the public - because the price of gas
went up - when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company
(Marathon Oil) is less than half of what a company that manufactures
sports shoes and apparel overseas (Nike) makes.
9. Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars
from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a
trillion dollars more than it has per year for total spending ($7
million PER MINUTE), and complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough
money.
10. Only in America could the rich
people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying
their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any income taxes at all.
1. Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich, at a $40,000-a-plate campaign fund raising event.
2. Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General and a federal workforce that is roughly 18% black when entire the black population is only 12%.
3. Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code — Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee — turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
4. Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be upset by the backlash.
5. Only in America would we make people who, want to legally become American citizens, wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.
6. Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as “extremists.”
7. Only in America could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
8. Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public - because the price of gas went up - when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of what a company that manufactures sports shoes and apparel overseas (Nike) makes.
9. Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year for total spending ($7 million PER MINUTE), and complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough money.
10. Only in America could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any income taxes at all.
Sunday
Gotye Parody Obama I Used To Know
Whatever side of the aisle you are on, OBAMA that I USED TO KNOW is one of the best done and most creative youtube vids I have ever seen. Stay with it to the end for the real message.
"You can get addicted to a certain kind of message -- like this is change we can believe in, yes we can. "But college ended had to pay my rent. At least you're the first gay president. But the change I got is that I moved in with my mother." And the chorus: "Because you won and then you cut me off. Now your speeches never soar as high as unemployment. You took ObamaCare so far, but you left me like a dog strapped on Romney's car."
"You can get addicted to a certain kind of message -- like this is change we can believe in, yes we can. "But college ended had to pay my rent. At least you're the first gay president. But the change I got is that I moved in with my mother." And the chorus: "Because you won and then you cut me off. Now your speeches never soar as high as unemployment. You took ObamaCare so far, but you left me like a dog strapped on Romney's car."
Obama Should be lauded as a Conservative Legend ..but there is just NO common sense in politics.
IMAGINE if a Republican President
- pulled us out of the worst recession since the great depression, and possibly saved us from a modern depression.
- Produced 2 straight years of private sector growth
- created over 4 million jobs
- saved the American auto industry
- killed Osama Bin Laden
- aided in killing Ghadafi without an American Casualty
- Finally ended the War In Iraq (Mission Accomplished ?)
- Championed the lowest taxes in decades
These politics of misinformation and half truths must stop. The Common Sense Party !
Trailer Trash Red State Moment
Hot girls from a distance ? Giving trailer Trash a new meaning ...just wondering how many teeth between the two of them ? A dozen maybe ?
Now in case you didn't realize it ...these girls ..and the creator of the sign they stand in front of ...VOTE. Shouldn't you ?
Now in case you didn't realize it ...these girls ..and the creator of the sign they stand in front of ...VOTE. Shouldn't you ?
Political Cartoon of the Day - whose entitlements ?
Here we have the duhhhhh Redneck Tea Party believer in all he believes having a little truth with his morning cup of coffee. When lower my taxes and cut entitlements becomes ...oh no not those entitlements.
Two Lies of Culture
"Our culture has accepted two huge lies: The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear them or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate." - Rick Warren
Republican Conservatives Not What It Used To Be
On NPR Weekend Edition Sunday we heard from a man who was a lifelong conservative, who is disgusted with the way the ideals of Reagan are being put forth. He says his party and beliefs have become very different than before. Not FOR anything but only against things. Too much hate. The base of his GOP in Kansas is simply exiling moderates. "I think the lines have been drawn in the sand. Bridges have been
burned. Everybody is all-in this election," says Jim Denning, one of the
conservative candidates for the state's senate. Tim Owens is Dennings political opponent and has been fending off Koch Brothers funded attacks saying he stands with Obama.
"The conservative element today is a far cry from what the conservative was when I was growing up," he says. "It's angry. It's hateful.""Being a conservative Republican, I'm not crazy, I'm not vicious," he says. "I'm a very reasonable human being."
This culture of hatred has got to stop.
"The conservative element today is a far cry from what the conservative was when I was growing up," he says. "It's angry. It's hateful.""Being a conservative Republican, I'm not crazy, I'm not vicious," he says. "I'm a very reasonable human being."
This culture of hatred has got to stop.
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