100% correct. Paul totally twisted the teachings of Jesus. I actually think the “God Hates Shrimp” people are onto something to demonstrate that an old testament “abomination” may not actually be such a big deal.

I also think it’s time for a parody video where two Christian girls are upset because they discovered their church has a liberal bias — have them complain that their pastor said “it is easier for a camel to pas through the eye of a needle than a job creator to get into heaven” etc.

When I was young people used to try to burn down Bank of America branches. Little did they know that all they had to do was get the bank to hire an incompetent boob for a CEO.

A bank failure this big would not be good. On the other hand, it seems like karma for the failure of Obama and these banks to try to come up with some actual mortgage relief for borrowers when the crisis hit (or for that matter, any mortgage relief.

The greatest motivational speech of all time!

Washington Post 3/22/06 Emily Messner *[1] – “A wall would create a strong incentive for the illegal immigrants already here to stay here; once an immigrant has crossed illegally into the United States [or legally on a visa], he would be much less likely to leave, knowing how hard it would be to get back in.”
Scholar Wayne A. Cornelius wrote in Death at the Border: Efficacy and Unintended Consequences of US Immigration Control Policy – argues that the increases in border security since 1993 have been “discouraging unauthorized migrants already in the US from returning to their places of origin.”[2] *Public Policy Institute of California Study “Holding the Line: The Effect of the Recent Border Build-up on Unauthorized Immigration” 7/17/02 – “Unauthorized immigrants are staying longer once they arrive in the United States. Data from a 1992 survey in Mexico indicate that of the people who moved to the United States in the two years prior to the survey, 30 percent returned to Mexico within a year. By 1997, this proportion declined to 22 percent. By the time of the Mexican 2000 Census, only 11 percent returned to Mexico within a year.”

That’s true, but I’ve read the numbers are not large in relation to the overall picture and the numbers include deportations as well as voluntary departures, so the net overall effect is still as I describe. It’s a mark of how bad the current job situation is that some are giving up and going home what will likely be permanently.

20-30 years ago, before the hysteria, Mexicans and central americans paid a couple hundred bucks to come across the border, they’d work for awhile, and then go back home when things got slow or they felt like they had earned enough money, knowing they could essentially come back whenever they wished. Now once they do finally make it across at substantial expense and risk to life and limb, they stay because they don’t dare go back. They know they they might not be able to get back in (alive) even if they could afford to cross the border again. So our entire “get tough on immigration” policy has created the exact opposite result, huge numbers of people who come here and never leave unless they get deported.

Why should failing to use this Roosevelt precedent be any different than all of the other Roosevelt precedents Obama failed to follow, like standing up for the poor and workers, like helping the poor and workers, like standing up to the banks and wealthy and powerful, like being a leader, or like when you fail at something, be willing to admint it and try something different. Worthless, worthless, worthless.

My post below (above)was meant to be a reply to yours. I agree with you 100% — all stupid propaganda.

Yep! I went shopping at Best Buy yesterday afternoon and the place was deserted. Didn’t have to wait in line, had people to wait on me. All these stores did was steal sales from themselves, while making their employees miserable and contributing to our sad desperate consumerism.

The Great Influenza is a great book. Not for the parts about thousands of people dropping dead, which are morbidly fascinatinog, but primarily for the concurrent efforts by scientists to figure out what caused influenza and what caused it to mutate. Part of this research led to the discovery of DNA. I highly recommend the book.

11th Dimensional tiddly winks. I’ve gone from thinking Obama’s just a tool to a tool and incompetent.

We had that. It was called the Glass Steagall Act. Worked great for 60 years. Then DLC tool Clinton supported repeal, and DLC tool Obama didn’t bother to reinstate it.

Oops. DLC on steroids…..

You and me both. Every time I think Obama can’t be a bigger moron/a**h*** he goes and proves me wrong. Then he’s going to blame me when all the young people that voted for him in 2008 stay home. What a tool. I thought supporting Obama was a vote against Hilary and the DLC but instead I got DCL on steroids.

the list could go on and on, but that is a big one!

Yep! Everytime anyone is tempted to believe Obama, just remember all the high fiving and celebrating Obama and his merry band did when Blanche Lincoln (“boo hoo, Blanche won’t let us have a public option”) beat Bill Halter.

“Redwood Eagle 2″ — Rahm Emanuel’s new nom de plume? Sorry Rahm, progressives like me held our noses and voted as we always do. It was all the young people, new voters and independents who were turned off by 2 years of corporate a**kissing and business as usual who didn’t show up. And you didn’t do jack with a Democratic Congress, in case you didn’t notice.

P.S. Thanks for Harold Ford.

A substantial cut to Medicare reimbursements for doctors will destroy Medicare just as readily as cutting benefits — same result. My wife is a doctor who will be forced to stop taking Medicare if what she is paid is cut 20-30%, even though she doesn’t want to. I doubt that many other doctors would stay on anyway, and would just stop medicare patients and/or would leave the system and require payment by cash or credit card.

Good for him. If he is serious, though, I hope he doesn’t get Spitzered.

Hilary had the support of the Reagan Dems because they, like too many of us, me included, didn’t realize Obama was lying about what he intended to do