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  • Feb 28, 2014, 05:58 PM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    They aren't propagandists.
    http://polizeros.com/wp-content/uplo...e-blinders.jpg
  • Feb 28, 2014, 06:01 PM
    smoothy
    ... So says the Canadian expert on wearing them?
  • Mar 1, 2014, 05:30 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    They're the place for politics, the news comes on before noon.

    What news? I take it from your dodge you agree with that idiot?
  • Mar 1, 2014, 08:00 AM
    talaniman
    Young brother is an idiot for expressing his opinion? Bet you don't even know what structural racism is.
  • Mar 1, 2014, 09:24 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Young brother is an idiot for expressing his opinion? Bet you don't even know what structural racism is.


    No he's an idiot for saying something so idiotic and unproductive, similar to your last remark.
  • Mar 4, 2014, 03:16 PM
    speechlesstx
    Rachel Maddow says the Ukraine crisis is Bush's fault (where have I hear that term before?)

    Hasn't anyone told her the current regime gave Russia a stolen reset button?
  • Mar 4, 2014, 03:58 PM
    smoothy
    Obama had his hands in getting the Ukraine to destroy most of their conventional weapons under the promise of treaty the USA would defend them... how's that been working out?
  • Mar 4, 2014, 04:12 PM
    talaniman
    Obama wasn't president when the treaty was signed.

    Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • Mar 4, 2014, 04:21 PM
    smoothy
    UM.. he was part of the people that put that together, him and John Kerry BOTH. But then... keep on defending Obama... nothing he has ever been involved in is ever his fault.

    http://www.infowars.com/in-2005-obam...isarm-ukraine/

    http://www.fas.org/asmp/campaigns/MA...LugarObama.htm

    I'd post the content of that last link...except it it has far too many characters to post. Its dated


    Tuesday, August 30, 2005
  • Mar 4, 2014, 04:37 PM
    talaniman
    That article has nothing to do with the treaty I cited in which Russia was a signatory. Putin takes off his shirt and flexes and you righties soil your pants.
  • Mar 4, 2014, 04:41 PM
    smoothy
    Tal what are you yammering about... Obama is up to his pink bra in the Ukraine conventional arms disarmament... that's why they don't have enough left to defend themselves...

    And nobody takes Obama seriously except a minority of Democrats... the rest of the USA and most of the world see him for what he is... an Amateur that is unqualified and not smart enough to learn how to do the job he managed to get.

    THank god for us and the rest of the world... he will be gone once and for all in less than 3 years. If we take over the Senate and keep the house this election...we can impeach him a lot sooner. Nixon did NOTHING compared to what this meglomaniac has done.

    Jimmy Carter can finally die knowing he wasn't the worst President we've had during his lifetime...Obama holds that position now and might always hold it.
  • Mar 4, 2014, 05:00 PM
    talaniman
    On Ukraine, some Russian claims veer from reality - The Washington Post

    Lets start with something other than the right wing talking points that your own links refute your accounts.
  • Mar 4, 2014, 05:52 PM
    smoothy
    Why should we take the word of some ultra left wing propaganda rag...

    Yes the Washington COMpost is a left wing extremist rag... I know because I've read it... its degenerated to such a level they don't even care about posting facts... its pure propaganda... you have to "get a thrill up your leg" when the Messiahs name is mentioned to work there... (meaning Obama) I cancelled my subscription to it because you get more factual reporting in the National Enquirer than you do in the Washington COMpost... which is why they are teetering on bankruptcy.


    I'm qualified to make that statement because its one of two local papers where I llive and work. So is the USA Today....another worthless publication.
  • Mar 4, 2014, 05:58 PM
    talaniman
    I can't blame you there Smoothy. I dismiss right wing rags the same way. OMG, we are more alike than we know!!
  • Mar 5, 2014, 06:00 AM
    tomder55
    We invaded Grenada to 'protect Americans '. Then again ; Hitler carved out Sudetenland under the same pretext. Putin carved South Ossetia from Georgia for the same pretext. He would've taken all of Georgia except for the fact that the US and Europe was unified in their response. I don't see the same situation today. I expect that Putin will continue to create political crisis in the country and Ukraine will be consigned to satellite status like Belarus.
  • Mar 5, 2014, 06:20 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    That article has nothing to do with the treaty I cited in which Russia was a signatory. Putin takes off his shirt and flexes and you righties soil your pants.

    Um, it ain't us soiling out pants over this and posting pics of the emperor wearing mom jeans to show how he has it under control.
  • Mar 5, 2014, 07:16 AM
    speechlesstx
    2 Attachment(s)
    P.S. forget the mom jeans, nothing says projecting strength like an alphabet rug.

    Attachment 45762
  • Apr 21, 2014, 04:22 PM
    tomder55
    NBC hired a shrink before hiring David Gregory to host Meet the Press and is now trying to embarrass him into quitting ..... but ,NBC never hired a shrink for Sharpton, Madcow or Schultz . lol

    NBC hired 'psychological consultant' for David Gregory - POLITICO.com
  • Apr 22, 2014, 03:11 AM
    Tuttyd
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    NBC hired a shrink before hiring David Gregory to host Meet the Press and is now trying to embarrass him into quitting ..... but ,NBC never hired a shrink for Sharpton, Madcow or Schultz . lol

    NBC hired 'psychological consultant' for David Gregory - POLITICO.com


    Tom, the term "shrink" is an idiom. The term is totally useless in terms of the link you posted. The article itself actually says as much.

    When all else fails there is a certain security in reverting to political point scoring.
  • Apr 22, 2014, 03:34 AM
    tomder55
    There are estimated to be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in English according to Wiki .Should they all be eliminated ...or are you just becoming another NK ?
  • Apr 22, 2014, 04:03 AM
    Tuttyd
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    There are estimated to be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in English according to Wiki .Should they all be eliminated ...or are you just becoming another NK ?

    No they shouldn't. But idioms shouldn't be used when providing an interpretation of a text. Please stick to an analysis of the text without the need to take liberties. This is especially true when the actual text provides a satisfactory explanation.
  • Apr 22, 2014, 04:11 AM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Tuttyd View Post
    No they shouldn't. But idioms shouldn't be used when providing an interpretation of a text. Please stick to an analysis of the text without the need to take liberties. This is especially true when the actual text provides a satisfactory explanation.

    It would be a pretty boring site if all we did was provide links . I provided commentary .Take it or leave it .
  • Apr 22, 2014, 04:23 AM
    paraclete
    PC is such a drag, it leaves no place for opinion, and that is all we have here, opinion, and you know Tom opinions are like arseholes, evryone has got one and none more functional than the other
  • Apr 22, 2014, 04:45 AM
    Tuttyd
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    It would be a pretty boring site if all we did was provide links . I provided commentary .Take it or leave it .

    In terms of an attempted at analysis of the text it is it is pretty ordinary to say the least. This is not surprising since I am sure you are trying to put a right wing spin on it.

    In these circumstances I guess it is understandable.


    P.S. Sorry about being boring.
  • Apr 22, 2014, 04:59 AM
    smoothy
    I think their first choice for a name was PRAVDA... but since someone holds a copyright on that apparently they had to settle on MSNBC.

    THey probibly have more employees than they have viewers.
  • Apr 22, 2014, 09:16 AM
    tomder55
    Anyway ....NBC had no right to release the fact that they had a shrink evaluate him....and ;if Gregory needs a shrink.... Ed Schultz needs a frontal lobe job.
  • Apr 22, 2014, 09:52 AM
    smoothy
    Ed Schultz needs a brain implant... to fill the cavity in his cranium now. Hes a clueless dolt. I heard his lunatic rants on AFRTS (Armed Forces Radio and TV service) back when he was excusively on the radio. He should have been put on anti-psycotic medications years ago.
  • Apr 22, 2014, 09:54 AM
    NeedKarma
    You guys truly are the lowest common denominator.
  • Apr 22, 2014, 09:58 AM
    smoothy
    Nope... Ed Schultz fills that position already. And he works extremely hard to keep it.
  • Apr 22, 2014, 10:24 AM
    tomder55
    Why ? I'm defending their fine host of 'Meet the Depressed '
  • Apr 22, 2014, 02:37 PM
    paraclete
    all of this is making me depressed
  • Apr 22, 2014, 02:41 PM
    smoothy
    Be glad YOU don't have them... but then you actually might have one of your own as pathetic as they are.
  • Apr 22, 2014, 05:03 PM
    paraclete
    No they don't seem to last here, ratings are too important even people like Colbert didn't seem to last more than a season
  • Apr 22, 2014, 06:08 PM
    smoothy
    I guess the larger population base allows for enough pathetic viewers to let them squeak by a lot longer. Personally... I worry about people that watch that almost as much as the loons running that insane asylum.
  • Apr 22, 2014, 06:41 PM
    paraclete
    You do get some would be comedians but a season or two seems to see them out, for a long time we have found revue style comedy attractive but I expect we have seen too many sitcoms, we even exported Paul Hogan but the standard didn't rise much in either place just more banal crapola
  • May 8, 2014, 07:13 AM
    speechlesstx
    I watched about 3 minutes of Chris Hayes the other night. That's about as long as most viewers can take PMSNBC.
  • May 9, 2014, 07:42 AM
    tomder55
    They are still flogging Christie's "Bridgegate " daily ..spending more time on it than CNN has done about the missing plane....But they have not mentioned that across the river ,Governor Andrew Cuomo in March decommissioned his own 'Moreland Commission ' on public corruption which he empaneled last year . When Cuomo appointed them he proclaimed that they would be an independent commission that would have free reign to investigate anything related to public corruption in the state without interference .
    When questioned about the decommisioning ,and possible interference by his office in it's investigations ,Cuomo pulled one of his tantrums ....

    “It's not a legal question. The Moreland Commission was my commission,” ... “It's my commission. My subpoena power, my Moreland Commission. I can appoint it, I can disband it. I appoint you, I can un-appoint you tomorrow.
    "So, interference? It's my commission. I can't 'interfere' with it, because it is mine. It is controlled by me.”

    But Cuomo in fact did interfere in their investigations. As reported by Daily Snooze ,the Commission killed a subpoena to the state Democrats,and the Real Estate Board of New York that they served to the state Republicans and Independant Parties .
    Gov. Cuomo's Anti-Corruption Commission Kills Subpoena To NYS Democratic Party - NY Daily News

    Southern District U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara says that he would take “very, very seriously any suggestion” that Cuomo's office interfered with the Moreland Commission;and said he wouldn't rule out an ethics probe into the Cuomo's administration involvement in 'Morelandgate ' . He has issued a grand jury subpoena seeking emails, text messages and other records from all the members of the anticorruption commission .
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/ny...bers.html?_r=0
    As of now I am not aware of MSNBC ,or any of the dinosaur networks reporting on this growing scandal.
  • May 9, 2014, 08:16 AM
    talaniman
    You know the rules Tom, to see democrats get flogged you have to turn to FOX.
  • May 10, 2014, 05:44 AM
    tomder55
    How do explain the lack of coverage in the so called 'main stream' ? I really don't see much coverage about it anywhere to be honest . Here you have 2 NY metropolitan area governors who have Presidential ambitions involved in local "scandals" . Where one of them has been dutifully flogged for months by the national media ;the other one's scandal barely makes it out of local coverage .
  • May 10, 2014, 05:55 AM
    tomder55
    But The Jewish voice is on the case .

    Quote:

    The U.S. federal prosecutor who has subpoenaed phone and computer records from members of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission, including Blackberry smartphones may now believe there was interference in allowing the Moreland Commission to follow thru on the investigations they began before being disbanded. When federal prosecutors took possession of the commission’s documents and computers, they also collected the BlackBerry smartphones because in the commission’s early days, senior members of its staff were told to communicate with Mr. Cuomo’s aides only via BlackBerry PIN messages, which are not recorded on government servers.Cuomo was listed among 18 governors for lack of transparency and ethics, according to a Washington-based government watchdog group. The ranking, as Gannett points out, is a few months old. But it sprung into the spotlight this week as ProPublica published a story showing how Cuomo's aides use non-governmental email accounts to conduct business and skirt state open records laws.
    Feds Probe Deeper into Cuomo Interference with NY Moreland Commission Investigations

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