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amghru commented on the blog post Late Night FDL: Bad Policies Make Bad Politics
You missed one flavor of conservative, the perpetual victim. This is where most of the Faux News over 65 crowd live. They are convinced that the poor, disabled or displaced are encouraged and assisted by the Liberal government to take what they are not entitled to by stealing it directly from them.
These people may possibly get lumped in with the greedy sociopaths but they are different. They aren’t into stealing themselves.
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amghru wrote a new diary post: Again, Why Are We Spending $Millions On Homeland Security?
There is a story out of Pittsburgh that hasn’t made much of a splash nationally. I mean, Whitney is still dead and one of the Kardashian sisters woke up breathing today. But I digress. Since February 13 there have been nearly 70 bomb threats at the University of Pittsburgh causing almost daily evacuations of student housing, classrooms, [...]
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amghru commented on the blog post Food Stamp Program Crucial to Alleviating Poverty
Our Fathers-in-law are substantially similar. Mine has a Masters in glass engineering from UCLA and graduated from Pitt on the GI Bill. He has the patent for honeycomb shape solar conductors. Actually PPG has the patents from his work. He has never recieved a royalty yet every solar pool cover uses his patent. He loves him some capitalism too.
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amghru commented on the blog post Rick Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign
Lets not forget there is still a VP nomination out there to be had. IMHO, Icky Ricky has been running for VP all along. I’m from his home district and have watched him ride the coat tails to fame his whole career.
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amghru commented on the blog post Food Stamp Program Crucial to Alleviating Poverty
It’s worse than that. Not only are TPTB content with that, through Faux News they have convinced every White, Christian, Senior in this country that assistance of any kind to the poor, hungry, disabled, unemployed, non-white, non-Christian, uninsured or their children is being stolen directly from their bank accounts via taxes.
Easter Sunday at my in-laws (known in my house as Zombie Jesus Day). My wife who does customer service for the IRS starts telling a story about a call she got that should be up for wierd call of the year. One of the details of this really funny story is that this guy on the phone is recieving SSI.
At that point, my Father-in-law and his sister (we call her Crazy Jean) stop litsening to my wife and go into “instant victim mode”. They never heard another word my wife said, interrupted her and started into the “People on SSI are stealing my money.” To which I asked my FIL if his alternative would be to let disabled people starve. To which he replied “yes” in a highly aggitated state. That is when I really pissed him off by pointing out what a Christ-like point of view that is, esspecially on Easter.
Then Jean joins in with more nonsense that ended up with, “I’ll sure as hell never vote for that N***er. Of course that pushed me well past my ability to contain myself.
Now, the complete lack of any facts in the comments of my in-laws probably goes without saying since I indicated the Faux News addiction of the elderly W.A.S.P. sect to which they are card carrying members. What’s worse is that these people were FDR Democrats until Clinton and PeePee-gate. They were able to get out of poverty and off the farm thanks to the New Deal, and the GI Bill. Now if you even mention FDR to my FIL he goes off the deep end.
My in-laws are the core of the “low-to-no” information electorate who through a concerted lack of knowledge just keep on voting to screw things up for the rest of us.
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amghru commented on the diary post Peace Talks in the War on Christianity by Omnipotent Poobah.
I want to know where I can sign up for the secular/atheist army.
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amghru commented on the diary post Spotted Propaganda (1): Thursday, March 29, 2012 (includes Michael-Cavlan-isssue-related UPDATE) by normanb.
Normanb, I am Obama hater because of the depth of his lies and deceit and right wing enabling, but you’re a little parinoid. I don’t in any way disagree with your take on Obama. I did go back and read the thread on that diary and I don’t see how your above commentary and feeling [...]
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amghru commented on the diary post Anti-Occupy Bill (H.R. 347) Unanimously Passed and Signed By POTUS by amghru.
Thanks, corrected. Believe it or not I am dyslectic. I read it as 347 every time I looked at it. Spell check has made my life much better, it fixes all my reversals.
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amghru commented on the diary post Anti-Occupy Bill (H.R. 374) Unanimously Passed and Signed By POTUS by amghru.
Thanks wendy. Good in-depth analysis.
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amghru wrote a new diary post: Anti-Occupy Bill (H.R. 347) Unanimously Passed and Signed By POTUS
In their zeal to dismantle the Constitution, this Bill (H.R. 347) passed the House 388-3, the Senate unanimously, and was signed into law by POTUS and Constitutional lawyer Obama on March 7th. This is a direct assault on freedom of assembly. This bill essentially makes it a crime to not only protest outside of the White [...]
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amghru commented on the blog post Romney Struggles With Evangelicals
Santorum has been running for VP all along.
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amghru wrote a new diary post: The ‘Fair’est Tax Plan of Them All
There has been some discussion of taxes here in My FDL so I thought I would throw my two cents worth into the fray. This is the best taxation plan I have ever seen known as an “Automated Payment Transaction” Tax. The concept for this transaction tax was developed by University of Wisconsin Professor of Economics Edgar [...]
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amghru commented on the diary post The Unfair (and Ineffective) “Fair Tax” by nolesfan2011.
The unfairness of the “Fair Tax” can be put quite simply this way. For regular people it is a tax on all of our income because we spend everything that we make. It does not tax wealth in any way because wealth is unspent income so rich folks don’t pay taxes on any income that [...]
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amghru commented on the blog post Corporate Tax Reform Will Be Painful for Whatever Is Left of the Middle Class
1994 POTUS election results:
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amghru commented on the blog post Corporate Tax Reform Will Be Painful for Whatever Is Left of the Middle Class
I was about to ask the same question. and to newcarguy, a symbolic POTUS might make us feel better, but would make the situation worse not better. What would Rocky or Jill do, veto everything. Then legacy parties controling Congress would never send an acceptable bill to them just to make the point that it was a wasted vote. They obviously have no qulams with holding the country hostage. Rocky or Jill wouldn’t even be able to claim a mandate since if one of them were to win, they wouldn’t win with a 50%+1 majority.
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amghru commented on the diary post This Has Never Happened Before – Active Duty Troops March on White House for Ron Paul by EdwardTeller.
E.T. My appologies for making an assumption that you are a Paulbot. My total dislike of Ron Paul is, however, rational and well thought out.
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amghru commented on the diary post This Has Never Happened Before – Active Duty Troops March on White House for Ron Paul by EdwardTeller.
It is easy for R.P. to have an anti-war stance since there is no way he will ever be held accountable for it since he will never be President and he knows it. All of you Paulbots are so freaking gullible. Feel free to believe that he is sincere but it is nothing more than [...]
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amghru wrote a new diary post: Slain Soldier’s Father Protests NJ Flag-lowering
I have been obnoxiously persistent in my disgust for the absurd amount of attention that the death of Whitney Houston has garnered. However, lowering state flags in reverence to a crack whore who has abandoned her family and treated her fans like total shit by refusing to get the help she needed for her drug [...]
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amghru commented on the blog post Going the wrong way…
I’ll stand by my statement. More evil has been done in the name of Chrisianity than any other cause in history. I would however like to hear your list of worse evils.
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amghru commented on the blog post Going the wrong way…
A Romney nomination would not prompt me to vote for Obama. It would prompt me not to vote for POTUS at all as there would be no policy diference so there would be no reason to vote either way.
A Frothy nomination would, however, be a nomination representing an Xtian theocracy. That, I would be forced to vote against as there is no greater evil than Christianity and the “lesser of two evils” becomes starkly evident.
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