News and Current Events - 2012

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Next up, the ceremony of unveiling Bush's portrait in the White House, today, was so cozy and elitist, it left me feeling queasy.  More and more, Obama looks like Bush III.

Does this mean that it felt that way when Bush II had the ceremony for Clinton's portrait and I could
go back to each administrations doing this for the previous President.  I have no love for Bush II, but
this is just one of those things I wouldn't push as something horrendous.  Laura B. was very amusing.
Bush said when Obama became President that he (Obama) deserves my silence, unlike Cheney's anti
everything spouting, and he has kept his mouth shut pretty much.  If one can't look at something
benign like this as harmless than how can any serious issues get discussed and solved nowadays?

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Either way with the poor jobs report out today and stock taking a beating, it does look like BushIII will be out in November.

Why be so pessimistic.  And, really, Bush III? 

It reminds me of the talk show that was on yesterday with the mother berating her sons,
"You're just like your good for nothing father.  You'll never amount to anything."

But I'll vote for you?

If Walker remains Governor of Wisconsin after his recall will tell the story.

What story?  That it's very hard for incumbents to be recalled.
(As I posted in detail some time ago. Only two Governors have in 200 years.)

That Obama could be re-elected because it is very hard to unseat a President?
(Only two were in the last century, Hoover and Carter.)

I guess I just prefer a little more sis boom and less bah.

[Tony_]

  The subliminal dots have finally coalesced for me.  Let's see, fringe religious background, over-exhuberant enthusiasm for everything, worshipping at the altar of vulture capitalism......I finally get it !  Mitt Romney is the Mormon Sarah Palin !

[Tony_]

So are you voting for Romney?  He has at least 3 years of bidness experience, you know.  

 Am, as usual, befuddled over these emoticon developments.  So much criticism of Kathy for her devil one, and, yes, I had always thought it was more appropriate for the "Ignorant straight woman" sex thread, than here, but, hey, whatever.
  So.  Kathy goes to several posts devoid of any this and thats.  And, then, from an unexpected direction, the above?
 I give up   : the devil image is dead; long live the emoticon?  Et tu, M_I ?

[Tony_]

Does this mean that it felt that way when Bush II had the ceremony for Clinton's portrait and I could
go back to each administrations doing this for the previous President.  I have no love for Bush II, but
this is just one of those things I wouldn't push as something horrendous.  Laura B. was very amusing.
Bush said when Obama became President that he (Obama) deserves my silence, unlike Cheney's anti
everything spouting, and he has kept his mouth shut pretty much.  If one can't look at something
benign like this as harmless than how can any serious issues get discussed and solved nowadays?

   Clinton had not started two wars and weaved them into ludicrous "nation building", nor given away trillions in tax cuts for the rich, nor begun the erosion of freedom with a so-called Patriot Act, nor waved the flag as he stomped on the poor.
   I stand by what I wrote, my friend. The chummy, elitist aura was unnecessary, and it made me feel queasy.  And it could be that this old boy's club attitude is at the very root of our unending problems.

[janjo]

Because unemployment is going up in the middle of a global recession, and with the Euro tottering from crisis to crisis, is that a good reason to vote for Mitt Romney?

Even Obama can't walk on water.

[doodler]

A good reason to vote for Romney is not necessary. Nor is one necessary to vote for Obama. People do not vote for good reasons. Nine times out of ten they vote against something or someone. And it has little to do with reasoning (ie: thinking about things.) Not many vote outside their party affiliations. Do you find it different where you live?

[doodler]

Doodler $3.50 a pound for tomatoes, where do you live? 

I haven't priced tomatoes at the store for months. However, where I live, gasoline is $3.18 a gallon and with my discount, I just filled up for $3.03 a gallon. Wonder if it will go under $3.

[janjo]

A good reason to vote for Romney is not necessary. Nor is one necessary to vote for Obama. People do not vote for good reasons. Nine times out of ten they vote against something or someone. And it has little to do with reasoning (ie: thinking about things.) Not many vote outside their party affiliations. Do you find it different where you live?

Here, some people always vote with their traditional party affiliations, some vote for things, and some vote against things. Some don't vote at all.
My point was really that it is very unfair to blame a country's leader, who ever he or she is, for not being able to control a situation which is worldwide, and to a great extent the product of the market.
The market has far more power than most politicians, and if we expect anything else we are liable to be disapointed.

[bubba]

I haven't priced tomatoes at the store for months. However, where I live, gasoline is $3.18 a gallon and with my discount, I just filled up for $3.03 a gallon. Wonder if it will go under $3.

We are paid $1.18 a litre today.    I don't like to pay more than 99 cents a pound for tomatoes.

But I buy the grape ones or the cherry ones.  That's why I love a garden, I get hundreds of the little ones from a few plants and put them in "everything".


Gas prices and food prices, if that isn't current news I don't know what is! 

[Tony_]

....Gas prices and food prices, if that isn't current news I don't know what is! 

  Well there is that disturbing, and very sudden trend for people eating other people  ......

[Lyle (Mooska)]

   Clinton had not started two wars and weaved them into ludicrous "nation building", nor given away trillions in tax cuts for the rich, nor begun the erosion of freedom with a so-called Patriot Act, nor waved the flag as he stomped on the poor.

This reminds me of my friends story about working on a film in Alabama where
they used a courthouse for some scene and afterwards he was replacing a photo
of Lincoln on the wall and an old woman came up to him and in all seriousness asked
him -- did he have to put the piicture of that man back up there; after what he did
to this country.

Pick your battles.  A ceremony for the former President's portrait being displayed in
the White House is just that, nothing more, IMO. Sometimes a banana is just a banana.

[huntinbuddy]

Yawn.   

[bubba]

  Well there is that disturbing, and very sudden trend for people eating other people  ......

Yea I live in Ontario, I can't get away from that one story.  I see they have identified the victim.  Nice looking kid, the whole thing is just beyond sick.  If that is the one you are referring to..

[doodler]

We are paid $1.18 a litre today.    I don't like to pay more than 99 cents a pound for tomatoes.

But I buy the grape ones or the cherry ones.  That's why I love a garden, I get hundreds of the little ones from a few plants and put them in "everything".


Gas prices and food prices, if that isn't current news I don't know what is! 

I don't know what $1.18 a liter translates to in gallons. I do know my gas price here is WAY under most of the US... I don't know why that is, but I'm happy about it.

Tomatoes are always higher than 99 cents a pound around here, no matter the time of year. Seldom buy them from  roadside stands, where they are usually cheaper.