The best way to understand Obama, and I can't say this enough, he really believes that it's his job to return the nation's wealth to its rightful, quote, unquote, rightful owners. And that means that he believes the people who have wealth have stolen it from those who have no wealth. It's been unfairly achieved and accrued, and it's his job to take it and redistribute it.-- Rush Limbaugh
"Well, at least we still have The Mushroom Planet."-- Turk Turon
. . .that would assume that they saw their job as covering actual news, rather than advancing the proper political narrative.
. . . Lanza and Jose Garcia, 34, were working on a van in the apartment parking lot when they were approached by three other men, one of whom was armed with a handgun. The men robbed Garcia, taking his keys and money. Lanza put up his hands and backed away as the suspects approached him, but the armed man shot him without warning. . .Better to be armed and defend yourself, eh?
If you can't rely on a criminal's honest nature to follow the laws, it might give people the silly idea that more laws aren't what is needed and then you'll have hundreds of politicians out of a job.--Robb Allen
"We must ensure that our policies enable our news organizations to survive and to engage in the news gathering and analysis that the American people expect."-- Nancy Pelosi
A canny chimpanzee who calmly collected a stash of rocks and then hurled them at zoo visitors in fits of rage has confirmed that apes can plan ahead just like humans, a Swedish study said Monday. Santino the chimpanzee's anti-social behavior stunned both visitors and keepers at the Furuvik Zoo but fascinated researchers because it was so carefully prepared.NO! It proves that chimps are mean nasty vicious brutes just like humans. Ah, but karma caught up to Mr. Hairy Fastball:
According to a report in the journal Current Biology, the 31-year-old alpha male started building his weapons cache in the morning before the zoo opened, collecting rocks and knocking out disks from concrete boulders inside his enclosure. He waited until around midday before he unleashed a "hailstorm" of rocks against visitors, the study said.
"These observations convincingly show that our fellow apes do consider the future in a very complex way," said the author of the report, Lund University Ph.D. student Mathias Osvath. "It implies that they have a highly developed consciousness, including lifelike mental simulations of potential events."
For a while, zoo keepers tried locking Santino up in the morning so he couldn't collect ammunition for his assaults, but he remained aggressive. They ultimately decided to castrate him in the autumn last year. . .
Boy was getting into truck when he was hit by assault-type rifleAhh, I think I see! Someone threw an AK or AR at the kid? No,
A 7-year-old boy was shot in the leg with an assault-type rifle Monday night on the city's Westside, Indianapolis metropolitan police reported. . . .More than 10 shots were fired, [IMPD Spokesman] Thompson said, and one shot hit the boy in the left leg. The bullet passed through the left leg and lodged in his right leg, Thompson said.Now I see! Evil rifle hurts innocent child. We need to outlaw those eeevvvvviiiilllll assault rifles and then the criminals will say, "Hey, it's against the law to have an AR like mine! I'll never ever even think about using it from now on. I'll even turn it into the police and come to Jesus!"
CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISMAnd the first thing I thought: Too late. We're already there.
Fri Mar 06 2009 17:13:48 ET
Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday called upon US President Barack Obama to follow the path to socialism, which he termed as the "only" way out of the global recession. "Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States," Chavez told a group of workers in the southern Venezuelan state of Bolivar.
The controversial Venezuelan leader, who taunted the United States as a source of capitalistic evil under former president George W Bush, added that the United States needs a leader who can take it to a "higher" destiny and bring it out of "the sad role that it has been given, as a murderous, attacking power that is hated all around the world."
Chavez said that people are calling Obama a "socialist" for the measures of state intervention he is taking to counter the crisis, so it would not be too far-fetched to suggest that he might join the project of "21st century socialism" that the Venezuelan leader is heading.
"Nothing is impossible. Who would have thought in the 1980s that the Soviet Union would disappear? No one," he said.
"That murderous, genocidal empire has to end, and some day there has to come a leader ... who interprets the best of a people who also include human beings who suffer, endure, weep and laugh," the outspoken Chavez said.
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Shouldn’t a President of the US know that “P/E Ratio” means “price-to-earnings ratio,” not “profit and earnings ratio?” There is a difference.-- Little Green Footballs
Imagine, if you will, the media reaction if George Bush had made such a basic economic blunder in a time of crisis.
