Posted on 02/10/2009 9:52:07 AM PST by an amused spectator
Per USA Today
Just let all of your children know that we’ve just mortgaged their future.
I like the bumper sticker idea - problem is, living in the People’s Republic of Minnesota, I’d probably get my car keyed or tires slashed. Plus, Amy Klobuchar is a total Hussein bootlicker and it will have no effect on her. We’re still waiting on election results here to see if Norm Coleman can pull a win out. If Franken wins, all hope here is lost.
Yes, you are right - we are going to have to get loud, get more active, and try to dare I say, CHANGE what is going on. We are going to have to become the conservative MoveOn.org people. Maybe call it WakeUp.org. In all honesty, after another year or so of this, none of us will have jobs or money and protesting is all we’ll have left.
Sofa King We Todd did.
I agree with you about Specter. Collins and Snowe are probably not worth the time or effort to try to get them out, but you never know how things could change in 4 years. Things could be very different then. You never know, if they keep voting the way Hussein wants them to, he may give each of them cabinet positions.
You have been hanging with master shake again.
I’m ready to hear some state secession conversation now. And ready and willing to pack up and move to any state that starts taking the necessary steps.
I was at my doctors office today and we discussed what this bill is about. She said to watch doctors to start fleeing as they will not want the government controlling their practices. We are seeing the destruction of our economy, health care industry and nation.
“I’m ready to hear some state secession conversation now. And ready and willing to pack up and move to any state that starts taking the necessary steps.”
Me too, seriously. Texas, Wyoming...Alaska...please us Reds in Blue states.
I’m in the southern part of Western Maryland...hopefully that qualifies me as part southerner.
“The biggest expansion of the Federal government in over 70 years, and perhaps in history.”
Um...are you aware of the money and fed employment expansion numbers from the GW Bush years? If not, please go back and research them then come back to amend your statement.
Leni
Ugh! I don’t think America will make a very good socialist country. It’s too big. I bet Norwegians, Swedes, and Fins make for much nicer socialists.
Somebody on another thread posted a quick blurb that they found something in this bill to the effect of something like that. But he/she didn’t elaborate or show a link to what they were talking about.
“Um...are you aware of the money and fed employment expansion numbers from the GW Bush years? If not, please go back and research them then come back to amend your statement.”
Yes, it was big Government at its worst.
However, what took the GOP and Bush 8 years to do , was accomplished in 3 weeks under Obama.
nightmare days ahead...
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=43333
not much, your too light skinned to get a big check.
Nothing new.
Just a permanent candidate with a teleprompter doing what he is told.
Republican Congress 1995 - 2006: $1.6 trillion budget deficit.
Democratic Congress 2007 - 2009: $3 trillion plus budget deficit.
Fact!
I called Snowe’s office and told them every time I go to the doctor from now on I’ll be thinking of two people: Senator Snowe and her 2012 opponent.
Plan to call Collins’ and Specters’ offices and say the same. I guess I’ll be thinking of six people, but who’s counting?
It’s a little early for Halloween but this might be a good time for a re-telling of the story of Dr. Frankenstein shopping for a brain.
Victor Frankenstein VIII, surgeon, found some dusty old manuals while in the attic looking for Valentine cards. That’s right, they were the plans for creating life ... the blueprints, the map into God’s domain.
So he did an internet search for “Igor IV’ and found a match, called him and they met.
Well, of course the most important part of creating life is the brain and they both remembered the story of how Igor IV’s grandfather screwed-up by bringing back a brain marked `Abby Normal’.
So they went to a *reputable* brain shop together: “Happy Harry’s Used Brain Emporium”, on Main Street, between two Starbucks.
Harry saw he had a couple of `live ones’ so he guided them to a wall of shelves. He pulled out a shelf on rollers. Arranged and labeled inside were brains and parts of brains.
“These belonged to academics—`eggheads’. Very smart!”, said Harry, tapping his nose. “Full professors, associates, graduate students, professors emeritus, ya da ya da ya da.”
Unimpressed, Victor asked, “How much?”
“$10,000 new dollars a pound,” Harry replied.
The doctor was worried about the expense, anticipating having to pay grave robbers, setting up a lab and so forth, and he was especially concerned that the creature not be smarter than the maker, so he declined.
Harry shrugged and pulled out another drawer: “Health care providers! Doctors, surgeons, GPs, Osteopaths, registered nurses, some ‘candy stripers’ (nudge, nudge) and some ER sluts. All very bright people.”
Same question. $50,000 the pound, said Harry.
Well, there was room for only one doctor in the House of Frankenstein, and these, again, were parts: bits-and-pieces of brains, like cheap cashews, so he passed, waving his hand dismissively.
Discouraged, Harry pulled out the last drawer.
“These are lawyers, legislators, politicians—`salons’—quite a few senators, mostly Democrats for some reason, I’m sorry to say (under his breath) ...”
Same query.
$100,000 per pound.
Victor was taken aback: “Why so much?!”
Harry replied, “Obviously you have no idea how many of them it takes to come up with a pound of brains!”
So Victor said, “Schweinehund! You are vasting mein time!”
Harry paused then said, “OK, let me show you what I have in the back room.”
He unlocked a triple-bolted door and ushered them into a large room, empty except for a table which was spotlit by a number of halogen lights. Upon the table was a large crystal bowl containing a shimmering liquid.
Suspended in the liquid was a whole brain—glowing, vibrant, pulsing, being fed by tubes.
The mad scientist was impressed. “How, how much for this one?”
Harry saw the hook was set, so he started reeling:
“This is a very special brain. It actually belonged a president of the former United States of America in the first part of this century, back when they really were something if you recall your history.”
“Ya, ya. Skip the sales talk. How much?” said Victor, impatient.
“Well, you’ll know who I’m talking about when I tell you that he was practically considered a god, before all that bad stuff happened.”
“Ya, I know who! So vot? How much?”
“Ten million new dollars.”
“Gott in Himmel! Vy so much?!”
Simple. It’s never been used.
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