[talaniman]

One of many.

[Tuttyd]

Gregory, who used to be funny, compared Walmart to Hitler.



A whole 150 people, eh?

So, one of you really, really smart libs help me out here. How is Walmart like Hitler?

I'm not really smart and I am not much of a lib but I will give it a go. Has the similarity got something to do with his name almost having the same number of letters as Walmart?

[smoothy]

The lefties think it would be fair for high school dropouts to make the same as doctors... since so many of them don't want to or can't make the effort to improve themselves and climb the ladder. They want it all handed to them at once.

They also compare everyone they don't like to Hitler... or the KKK... usually when they don't have anything intelligent to say.

[speechlesstx]

I'm not really smart and I am not much of a lib but I will give it a go. Has the similarity got something to do with his name almost having the same number of letters as Walmart?

Good catch, and three of them are the same.

[smoothy]

[speechlesstx]

It's come to this...

When François Hollande came to power last year, his most famous election promise was to impose a 75 per cent tax rate on those earning more than €1m a year. Now France’s socialist president has acknowledged that the country is hitting the tax buffers.

In a television interview this week, he noted that both his and the previous centre-right government had raised taxes in total by €60bn since 2011, equivalent to about 3 per cent of national income. “That’s a lot – that’s to say, too much,” he said.

Mr Hollande has promised a “tax pause”, backing up his finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, who last month triggered a political tremor when he said he was “very conscious that the French are fed up with taxes”.

French business leaders have been clamouring for relief from a relentless increase in the tax burden, which government projections show will rise to 46.5 per cent of gross domestic product next year, one of the highest levels among developed economies. Recent polls have indicated the French public increasingly feels much the same.

Sacrebleu! OK, now I think they're just mocking us, but then after Obama's fumbles this year that's to be expected. Shame Democrats won't listen to us when we tell them to back off.

[tomder55]

And yet another European socialist nation is having second thoughts .

King Willem-Alexander, alongside his wife, Queen Maxima, told the Dutch people that they must create their own social and financial safety nets, and that looking to the state for help was a thing of the 20th century.

Dutch king declares end of the welfare state | euronews, world news
Meanwhile the US rushes headlong to the failed experiment of the statists.

[speechlesstx]

and yet another European socialist nation is having second thoughts .


Dutch king declares end of the welfare state | euronews, world news
Meanwhile the US rushes headlong to the failed experiment of the statists.

"they must create their own social and financial safety nets, and that looking to the state for help was a thing of the 20th century?"

What in the world is going on here, Is the end of the world coming soon?

[talaniman]

It was not immediately clear if the 100 million euros spent by the government on maintaining the Royal House, with its castles and parades, would be included in the austerity cuts.

Recent polls show confidence in the government at a record low and that most Dutch people believe the cabinet's austerity policies are at least partially to blame.

The Dutch economy is expected to have shrunk by more than one percent in 2013, and is worsening while recoveries are underway in Britain, Germany and France.

A socialist society that forgoes equal equity on its citizens is just a fancy dictatorship and the same can be said of so called federalist nations.

[speechlesstx]

Right over his head...

[tomder55]

Waiting for the example of the socialist nation that isn't run by a cabal of the elites.

[NeedKarma]

nation that isn't run by a cabal of the elites.

You mean other than American politics?

[tomder55]

I would argue that the US has been a socialist country for close to a century .

[smoothy]

[NeedKarma]

I would argue that the US has been a socialist country for close to a century .

I think you're trying to use the word as a pejorative within understanding what it really means.

[speechlesstx]

Vindication...

Conviction of ex-US House leader DeLay's tossed

Not only was DeLay's conviction overturned, he was acquitted, something I hear is quite rare for a jury trial.

A Texas appeals court tossed the criminal conviction of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Thursday, saying there was insufficient evidence for a jury in 2010 to have found him guilty of illegally funneling money to Republican candidates.

DeLay was found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering for helping illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002. He was sentenced to three years in prison, but his sentence was on hold while his case made its way through the appellate process.

The Texas 3rd Court of Appeals said the evidence was "legally insufficient," and in a 2-1 ruling decided to "reverse the judgments of the trial court and render judgments of acquittal."

Now, about that worm Ronnie Earle...

[tomder55]

And DeLay ,like Ray Donovan said "Which office do I go to get my reputation back?"

[excon]

Hello again, tom:

DeLay ,like Ray Donovan said "Which office do I go to get my reputation back?"

Not guilty does NOT mean innocent.

Excon

[speechlesstx]

Hello again, tom:
Not guilty does NOT mean innocent.

excon

No one is innocent except those unborn babies your side refuses to protect, but I digress. He was acquitted of the charges. IN fact the ruling makes it quite clear it should have never gone to trial, the jury received poor instructions and there is no reason to attempt a retrial. DeLay is the second Republican vindicated recently, the late Ted Stevens is the other.

Meanwhile Cold Cash Jefferson still has some time to think in his cell.

[tomder55]

This isn't a banana republic where a person with a badge and a vendetta goes after political opponents . The whole thing was rigged to coordinate with Madame Mimi's "culture of corruption "campaign . The sad part of it was that the Repubics would not rally to his defense even as the case against him was tissue thin. You think the Dems would throw one of their own under the bus ? All I have to say about that is... Charlie Rangel.