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Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:13 PM

It's A Lie!

Wow, a whole new phrase for our slang, "It's a lie!" Right up there with a "Where's the beef?"

Joe Wilson just achieved stardom for stupidity. I even heard Republican hard liners I work with say this was over the top.

But, of course, that was before they went home and watched Hannity and O'Reilly etc. I am sure by tomorrow Joe Wilson will be their new hero.

Gosh, how creative it might be if a Republican might actually trust their own THINKING and stick to it rather than let their masters control them.

But, this was a brilliant ploy. What a great idea to distract from all the people dying because idiots like Joe Wilson are taking money from lobbyists rather than working on health care.

Cheers Republican trolls, you are screwing America again. You may wave your flag and scream "I am a patriot!" but you really don't get you are murdering Americans by denying them health care, and yes, many of us believe it is just as much a right as defense and we want money for health not wars.

If you weren't such smucks we could discuss this with you and how we are against the Afghanistan war, but you can't get past your grade school mentality and name calling.

Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:53 PM

Edit Button

Yeah, we need an edit button Brian in Seattle, the rest of us could edit your letter. You know, for that reality based community thing.

Friday, September 11, 2009 05:59 AM

@ liberty and freedom

So unless this plan provides for every potential loop hole,-- aliens might land from Pluto and need help, that should be spelled out to--then this plan is a no go, eh?

That ain't liberty and that ain't freedom. That is blocking health care for sick and dying Americans. You group is such so concerned you might have to spend a dollar to help someone. Funny, not a peep out of your group about killing innocent people. It is all about you. A government is by definition socialist when it does anything for the common good. It really is difficult to listen to selfish greedy people talk about liberty. Go talk amongst yourselves. Come back when you figure out that in a capititist society without some socialism the corporations will buy the democracy and then we no longer have a democracy, we have an oligarcy. We are damn close now, if not there already.

Saturday, September 12, 2009 08:46 AM

Hate Sells, Always Has Always will

Hate groups always sell books. Hate is as strong an emotion as love or sex, and these people have fell in hate. It is pornographic feelings for the mind. These people have just fell into hate. It is really sick and irrational and downright dangerous.

A friend of mine knows the hot shot of a radio station in Dallas that spews this hatred. Apparently this is a big joke to them. They are laughing after work about what idiots call; they are feeding this frenzy because it SELLS. I have long suspected that was what Limbaugh was doing and now Beck.

And don't tell me that there aren't plenty of these right wing Congressmen that know this isn't rational. Although some of are true idiots, plenty of those Republicans have brilliant minds, and they KNOW what is going on here. They just haven't got the guts to stop it.

This is very dangerous and you fools who are posting here to push this agenda will regret having your name associated with this one day. We will remind you on these boards that you stoked the fires of hatred. I live in a red state and I smell hatred, it is in the air and I am sad to say that Beck, Limbaugh, Malkin and their kind will never acknowledge they did it, but they have. Just as clearly as the Imperial Wizards of the KKK.

Monday, September 14, 2009 11:20 AM
Original article: Teabaggers can't do math

One thing they can do is hate

I have a friend in Washington who watched this debacle unfold. She said it was just like many of the good ole boys and their little women from her home state (mine) moved in, without any of the minorities. She too, said it was nothing like FAUX news is claiming.

Just to see what was going on, I forced myself to watch Glenn Beck's show. Sure enough, he found one black guy at a tea party in Texas somewhere to prove this wasn't about racism. He also found this really weird black minister I have seen before on television.(I would say that guy was weird if he were purple.) Beck kept saying "Nothing about racism, this is about liberty and FREEDOM!" (Where had I heard that before?) Yup, nothing about racism here, move along. The funny thing was, the black guy said his friends and family call him Clarence Thomas.

Nope, no racism with the tea bags. Just a coincidence that the large numbers of blacks (what is it 95%?) in America don't agree with these tea parties, are they all stupid? Do they all love to pay taxes, or is it that the teabaggers claim black people don't pay taxes like they will say to another white person's face? This was just a good ole boy gathering of the new KKK without their white hoods. Don't tell me those people don't know they are carrying signs that reflect Timothy McVeigh's statements. Don't tell me they don't know Obama in The Joker's face isn't racist.

They have to either admit one: They are really, really stupid or they are really really mean people. For people who want something changed about the government, this isn't the group to hang with.

As I listened to Beck's entire show, I could not find one logical sentence from either Beck or the people that were being interviewed. They were mostly nonsensical in nature or total scare tactics, i.e. "I don't want Obama to ruin this country with socialism. I believe in freedom, liberty and medicare!" To which Beck would say "Amen. They are trying to take our God and religion away from us."

Changing government is one thing, becoming a part of a hate group is another.

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