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For all of you that think Obama is so great and voted for him...
37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Obama Have Wrecked The U.S. Economy
I think you'll find that many of the above problems were created by the GFC and the recession...and we all know who caused that!
You can't wave a magic wand and cure the mother of all economic fuckups instantly. Obama is getting there as the DJI chart below shows
I think this chart of the Dow Jones Index speaks volumes. It’s the net worth of the top US companies. It represents a nation’s prosperity, and your life savings in pension funds.
On the left is Dubya’s term in office where he recklessly encouraged a market bubble deliberately unregulated by his cowboy financial advisers Greenspan, Rubin and Summers (recommended viewing “The Warning†http://www.pbs.org/w...e/warning/view/)
If Mc Cain had won the 2008 election that trough would have continued down because Republican policy was “let the banks and car industries etc go bankrupt†along with your life savings. We would have had a decade long depression.
Fortunately Obama won and the market clearly reversed from the moment he took office in 2008 and is still rising today, despite obstructionist Republican politics who put their self interest and hatred of Obama before the welfare of their country. If Americans united on economic recovery, (plus peace in the Middle East..no more futile costly wars!)...we could all have a new golden age of prosperity.
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"If Israelis could learn to live and let live the entire Middle East ..."
The whole Arab world has agreed to recognise Israel in return basically for a few acres of land swaps equal in area to land occupied by Israel illegally since 1967
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Arab_League_summit and reindorsed in 2007 in Riyadh
Israel’s reply is to greedily hold onto stolen land and grab even more.
How can peace exist when someone occupies your land? Hamas was not created from a vacuum.
I hope Obama can knock a few heads together to create a peace agreement in his second term.
Without a just peace , violence will escalate and it might come to the shores of Israel’s chief backer the USA, same as the IRA did with the UK...$300 car bombs that cause $2b worth of damage in every major US city.
With spoilt brat friends like Israel, who needs enemies?
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Israel has its fair share of Jewish nutters who want to ethnically cleanse Christians and Muslims from a racist Jews only state.
JERUSALEM -- A Jerusalem monastery, built on the spot where tradition holds the tree from which Jesus' cross was made, was defaced with graffiti bearing the hallmarks of militant Jewish settlers, police said on Tuesday.
"Death to Christians" was daubed in Hebrew on the outer walls of the Monastery of the Cross, an 11th-century fortress-like holy site situated in a valley overlooked by Israel's parliament.
Army Radio reported that "Maccabees of Migron" was painted on the monastery, too, The Associated Press reported. Maccabees were ancient Jewish heroes, and Migron is an unauthorized settlement facing a court-ordered evacuation.
Such acts originally targeted West Bank mosques but have recently expanded to include a mosque inside Israel, Israeli military bases, and now, a Christian holy site.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the words "Price Tag" were also painted overnight by the vandals, who damaged two cars parked outside the monastery in the attack, according to Reuters.
The slogan, used by Jewish settlers in vandalism attacks on mosques and Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, refers to the retribution they say they will exact for any attempt by the Israeli government to curb settlement in the territory.
Israeli settlement building up 20 percent, watchdog says
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Great idea FM, unfortunately they are not content to fight and kill each other.
There is their noble concept of conquest of the non-muslim world.
Live and let live is somehow thought of as a weakness.
>>Live and let live
...it's a pity the Christian USA and UK didn't display the same attitude in Iran when the CIA and MI6 orchestrated a coup to boot out the democratically elected Prime Minister Mosaddegh to replace him ultimately with the Shah to help fill the coffers of US and European oil companies. Or prop up royal family dictatorships through the Gulf for the same reason.
Or Guatemala in 1954
Or Indonesia in 1958
Or Cuba in 1959
Or Congo in the 1960s
Or Iraq in the 1960s, 90s and 2003
Or Dominican Republic in 1961
Or Vietnam in 1963
Or Chile 1973
Or Nicaragua 1981
...and the good ole Christian folks are still at it today, buttering us all up for another war against Iran ..the 3rd war in 10 years fought on Israel’s behalf...but you can bet your bottom $ Israel won’t be sending any troops.... just as they never have in the past. Let the Americans, Brits and any other mugs fight it on their behalf.
Suckers!
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Something to think about...
...and you think "they" are looking out for your interests???
Here's the UK, Canadian, NZ and Aus Head of State and her 2 successors hiding behind her bullet proof Harry Potter cloak of invisibility...speaks volumes about our comparative lifestyles, eh!
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"notice the death of a three-year-old in Oklahoma who shot himself in the head last weekend with a gun he found in his aunt 's house, that belonged to his Highway Patrol uncle?"
So how would stricter gun control have prevented the uncle from being an idiot and leaving his HP issued pistol lying out where an infant could get it? Not only that, the copper left it with a round in the chamber! (It had to be an semi-automatic pistol. No 3-year-old could pull the trigger on a double action revolver.) Rule number 1: clear your weapon when not on duty!
And the uncle was supposed to be one of the good guys! If a professionally trained cop does a dopey thing, what chance have the general public got against nutters who can buy an assault rifle at a gun fair without even a police check.
In the UK that tragedy couldn't have happened, since the regular police don't carry guns, and in Aus I'm pretty sure cops have to leave their weapons at the police station which they collect when they arrive for duty.
The US mayhem continues...
Two US volunteer firefighters have been shot dead and two injured while responding to an emergency call in the town of Webster in New York state.
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N.R.A. Calls for Armed Guards in Schools to Deter Violence
"WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association on Friday called for schools to be protected by armed guards as the best way to protect children from gun violence."
What they really need is a gun store in every school so that the infants can protect themselves.
The NRA suggested creating a database of the mentally ill ...perhaps they should use their own membership list for starters
In the week after the Sandy Hook shootings, more than 500 more Americans have been killed by guns, most of them committing suicide, around 200 murdered and about 20 killed accidentally.
What I find so weird is that a country with such similar values and morals to the rest of the civilised world and that produces more Nobel Prize winners than the rest of us put together can be so dumb when it comes to gun control.
Americans seem impervious to the facts. Doesn’t the average American notice that the murder rate in the US is four times what it is in the UK? Do they notice that London, one of the world's biggest cities, is about to record fewer than 100 homicides a year for the first time in decades? Do they, blase as they are to news reports of shootings, notice the death of a three-year-old in Oklahoma who shot himself in the head last weekend with a gun he found in his aunt 's house, that belonged to his Highway Patrol uncle?
Americans obviously love their guns more than their lives and their children.
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N.R.A. Calls for Armed Guards in Schools to Deter Violence
"WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association on Friday called for schools to be protected by armed guards as the best way to protect children from gun violence."
What they really need is a gun store in every school so that the infants can protect themselves.
The NRA suggested creating a database of the mentally ill ...perhaps they should use their own membership list for starters
In the week after the Sandy Hook shootings, more than 500 more Americans have been killed by guns, most of them committing suicide, around 200 murdered and about 20 killed accidentally.
What I find so weird is that a country with such similar values and morals to the rest of the civilised world and that produces more Nobel Prize winners than the rest of us put together can be so dumb when it comes to gun control.
Americans seem impervious to the facts. Doesn’t the average American notice that the murder rate in the US is four times what it is in the UK? Do they notice that London, one of the world's biggest cities, is about to record fewer than 100 homicides a year for the first time in decades? Do they, blase as they are to news reports of shootings, notice the death of a three-year-old in Oklahoma who shot himself in the head last weekend with a gun he found in his aunt 's house, that belonged to his Highway Patrol uncle?
Americans obviously love their guns more than their lives and their children.
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Another comment about the gun argument I saw on the televisual extravaganza...
One guy hides a bomb in his shoes (and fails to kill anyone) and now millions of people around the world have to take off their shoes and belts and suffer harassment at airports everywhere.
But if you've got people slaughtering children with guns, the answer is - arm more people...
Like it
It really is quite possible and pleasant too to live in a society where guns are kept well away from the general no-need-to-own population.
I apologise to Americans on this forum I previously called weirdos. I was angry at the preventable slaughter of innocent children.
Personally, I would like to see zero ownership. But perhaps make a start by banning all weapons that a farmer or a hunter would find unnecessary..such as [semi] automatic rifles and handguns. I have a good Canadian friend who hunts with a crossbow to give the game better odds and himself more skilful sport.
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I'm all for it. How do you do it so that not a soul will have guns here? Nothing would be better than a tragedy like this never happening again.
Like they did in Australia. Cash buy back for guns and destroy them. Include amnesty for illegally owned weapons. Just get them out of circulation.
Allow 6 months leeway period.
Thereafter, massive fines and imprisonment for possessing a gun.
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“People kill people, not guns. Knives, cars, baseball bats can kill too†etc ..is all bullshit blah blah blah.
Yes, of course nutters all over the world will find ways to kill if they really want to, BUT not with so much ease as they seem to find in the USA.
Look at the stats.
http://en.wikipedia....ted_death_rate
36 times more deaths related to firearms per 100,000 than in UK
9 times more than in Australia.
Don’t you Americans realise that it is actually possible to experience normal peaceful non violent entire lives without having access to firearms? More than half the world’s population does it every single day. Some people live in countries where they never ever even see a gun! You are the weirdo exceptions, shaking you heads in shock and confusion when the simple truth stands out like dogs' balls.You're still clinging mindlessly to some outdated legislation of your founding fathers.
Yes, you can always find exceptions...Dunblane, Port Arthur etc but that’s the point..they are exceptions. American once a month copycat massacres now seem to be the norm.
Most people in the civilised world want to lead average peace loving lives. WTF you Americans desire to live at the extreme stupid edge of the bell curve beggars belief. Well, it doesn’t really ..it’s just gutless politicians who mouth platitudes and shed tears when these obscenities happen... but go back to the polls in silence when it comes to election time to cover their arses for fear they’ll upset the powerful NRA.
20 innocent 5-6 year old children a few days ago looking forward to their Christmas treats who are now dead is disgusting and was preventable. Just imagine your grief if they were your own children or grand children.
You obsessively gun loving Americans are almost as mad as the lunatic who murdered them, for allowing this to happen.
Until you get your fucking act together, we’ll read these same headlines again and again.
If 99.9% of the population find it incredibly difficult, if not impossible to own a gun, then you won't feel the need to own one either.
The only gun control should be zero ownership. If you want to practise marksmanship, join the army!
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Watching the putz on the Thai News when he arrived, he said "Burma"...I still often say Burma but I am
not the Prez and a world leader...
The usage of Myanmar is quite controversial... the military dictatorship's attempt to change the brand name while they were changing the constitution. http://en.wikipedia..../Names_of_Burma
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Texas secedes they'll basically be a latin America country...lol.
....same as they were in 1836. Where's Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett when you need them:-)
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Multiple states petition Obama to secede from Union, start own governments
On November 12, 2012, Policy Mic reported that 18 states have filed petitions with the White House to withdraw from the Union and create their own governments. The petitions followed President Obama’s tight race that left many Republicans and Independents surprised and in shock. As fear mounts as to what four more years under Obama’s leadership spreads amongst many citizens nationwide, many have turned to signing their state’s official petition on the White House website. While many debate the results the petitions will have in the end, they do signify that a portion of the nation remains divided after the nation has faced the costliest presidential election in U.S. history.
As of Monday morning, the 18 states that have requested secession from the Union are Georgia, New York, South Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, Kentucky, Mississippi, Colorado, Montana, New Jersey, Indiana, North Dakota, Oregon and Missouri.
A petition must have 25,000 signatures within 30 days before it is considered for hearing. Several of the current petitions are nearing the mark and may become eligible for consideration. While it is unlikely the states would be granted secession, the petitions are an indicator of how divided the country has become.
As more petitions have been filed each day, we will continue to monitor the number of secession petitions currently filed with the White House.
Obama should send a gun boat to Charleston, same as last time this happened :-)
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The election went more or less as I expected - Romney was the top vote getter, but Obama got the electoral votes. Thus in the last four presidential elections, 50% of the time the "winning" candidate has lost! Ironically, a few years ago Obama was saying we needed to get rid of the Electoral College. I bet he changes his tune now. Still, I am sure more than a few folks will be hollering foul. Something just doesn't seem kosher.
The problem is that this time it helped the Democrats. The time before that it helped the Republicans. Both parties have a stake in keeping it unchanged.
Romney - 48,285,320
Obama - 48,160,095
Al Gore - 50,999,897
Bush - 50,456,002
p.s. Robaus, most Americans have an image of themselves as middle class. Thus they will identify themselves as upper middle class (even if they are worth millions) and lower middle class (even if they haven't a pot to piss in). Politicians recognise that in play up to it.
Thanks for the info, FM... I didn't know that.
btw.. Fox News reports Obama winning the popular vote too...and they never lie! hehe
Obama 54,166,024
Romney 53,367,097
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Pres Obama re-elected! Hoorah. The USA and the world can breathe a sigh of relief.
Now that he has nothing to lose, I hope Obama can make some real changes in his second term...peace in the Middle East top of my personal list. If that happens the global economy will be revitalised.
As CS said, the Republicans need to do some soul searching and eradicate the far right wing looney element from their platform....Tea Party, Trump, Palin, Beck, Bach, Limbaugh etc.... if they want to represent ALL the American people.
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Just out of curiosity, do politicians use the term "working class" in USA? Romney and Obama were constantly appealing to the "middle class". Is it just a euphemism for "working class" in an attempt not to relegate voters to the lowest rung. Or were they truly appealing to middle income earners?
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to CS
>> No President has been perfect in terms of foreign policy and global affairs.
...I agree. Dubya was absolutely abominable.. a lost decade for the USA and the world.
Clinton was about 48 hours away from browbeating Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat into a peace deal in the Middle East at Camp David in July 2000, then sadly got called away to a G7 summit. How different the world might have been...no 9/11, no wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, a decade of prosperity and regeneration in a peaceful ME, no need for sabre rattling from Iran
On the other hand he (and the rest of the so called civilised world) sat on their hands while millions were butchered in Rwanda and Bosnia ..in Clinton’s own words, his biggest foreign policy regret.
Then I do give him credit for peace in East Timor. It was an Aussie initiative, but when the massacres started after the independence referendum, it was US sending a warship and threatening ties with Indonesia that clinched the deal.
>> If Obama is to blame for Libya
..latest I read it was a CIA cockup. But I suppose the buck stops with the Prez.
>> As a good will gesture to doing that we should shut down Guantanomo. Give it back. Open up communication. Cuba is no threat to us. They will want American tourism dollars.
...what a great idea..on condition that any remaining dangerous prisoners be resettled in Cuba and not allowed to leave. They can’t be tried in US courts because Dubya and Rumsfeld made any evidence inadmissible there due to water boarding, and it’s too risky to allow them to rejoin Al Qaeda.
My hope is that Obama wins next Tuesday and that he makes his second term memorable. Peace in the Middle East alone would boost the world economy. Imagine the reconstruction contracts flowing America’s way, goodwill from Arab countries, the mass tourism, and the wind taken out of the terrorists’ sails that would result.
The alternative under Witless Romney is too bleak to contemplate....another lost short sighted Dubya decade
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Not to worry, Joe Biden has already said he is running next time. Genius Joe for President!
Isn't it Hilary's turn in 2016?
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The girls in Soi BJ (Soi 6 Pattaya) would have their work cut out manoeuvring through that lot. Last time I was down there I had to repeatedly tell one girl that I was giving her just one hour to remove her hand from up my shorts or I was going to report her to the tourist police for sexual harassment.
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"Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said at a GOP primary debate last June that he would "absolutely" shut down FEMA and transfer its responsibilities to the states. "If you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better," Romney added."
What, another flip flop by Romney?
“I believe that FEMA plays a key role in working with states and localities to prepare for and respond to natural disasters,†Romney said in a statement. “As president, I will ensure FEMA has the funding it needs to fulfill its mission, while directing maximum resources to the first responders who work tirelessly to help those in need, because states and localities are in the best position to get aid to the individuals and communities affected by natural disasters.â€
"Everyone that votes for me stated Romney will get a new puppy"
Watched an excellent programme on Aussie TV last night
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/2294844598/The-Choice-S1-Ep2 (Maybe allows rerun outside Aus?)
Looking in depth at Obama and Romney. Obama came across as idealistic but naive that he could achieve consensus politics to get the country out its financial mess when he first came to office. But Romney...what a flim flam man..worse than a used car salesman. He'll reinvent himself anyway you like..tell you anything he thinks you want to hear. I haven't taken much interest in fact checking previously...not my problem...I can’t vote. Except that I do know something about global politics and I dread Romney being elected...he hasn't a clue.... a male version of Sarah Palin. There's a heap of trouble coming America's way..wars probably in which none of his children will serve just like chickenhawk daddy....and more how to lose friends and stop influencing people.
But I was appalled to watch with my own eyes the way he flip flops.
He won the Massachusetts governorship in his debate flooring his opponent with a blatant lie
"I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose.â€
"You know, I never really called myself pro-choice" ""Look, I was pro-choice. I am pro-life. You can go back to YouTube and look at what I said in 1994. I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice. I changed my position."
Obamacare was based on Massachusetts' Romneycare, but now he wants to scrap it.
And now as Unit731 points out Romney the chameleon is trying to piggyback Sandy disaster relief.
I really fear for USA if Romney is elected. 47% of you don’t count anyway, and if you try to count we’ll take away your right to vote with bullshit photo ID requirements. How can you be so gullible?
Does anyone know who Romney really is?
He’s a bigger conman than Joseph Smith, once charged with selling fake jewels, who then went on to discover the Angel Moroni’s golden tablets that only he could read about Jesus visiting America and the Garden Of Eden being just east of Missouri. Completely wacko but Romney believes it and this man may have his finger on the button! Incredible...Hollywood couldn’t make it up!
More flip flops here.. http://samuel-warde.com/2012/06/list-of-mitt-romney-flip-flops/
“I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.†Source
“Roe v. Wade has gone too far.†Source
“I don’t line up with the NRA.†Source
“I’m a member of the [NRA].†Source
“I like mandates. The mandates work.†Source
“I think it’s unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front.†Source
“I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose.†Source
“I never really called myself pro-choice.†Source
“I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.†Source
“I did not see it with my own eyes.†Source
“I supported the assault weapon ban.†Source
“I don’t support any gun control legislation.†Source
“I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.†Source
“There’s no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.†Source
“I will work and fight for stem cell research.†Source
“In the end, I became persuaded that the stem-cell debate was grounded in a false premise.†Source
“I would like to have campaign spending limits.†Source
“The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates and their positions without burdensome limitations.†Source
“I’m a strong believer in stating your position and not wavering.†Source
“I changed my position.†Source
“Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.†Source
“I’ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry’s come back.†Source
“I’m not in favor of privatizing Social Security or making cuts.†Source
“Social Security’s the easiest and that’s because you can give people a personal account.†Source
“I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.†Source
“Ronald Reagan is… my hero.†Source
“I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life.†Source
“Any description of my being a hunter is an overstatement of capability.†Source
“If Massachusetts succeeds in implementing it, then that will be a model for the nation.†Source
“What works in one state may not be the answer for another.†Source
“It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.†Source
“I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there.†Source
“It’s a tax cut for fat cats.†Source
“I believe the tax on capital gains should be zero.†Source
“It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.†Source
“He’s going to pay, and he will die.†Source
“Relative to the leading candidates, some people see me as being more conservative.†Source
“I’m not the most conservative candidate.†“I’m not the most conservative candidate.†Source
“The TARP program… was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.†Source
“When government is… bailing out banks… we have every good reason to be alarmed.†Source
“These carbon emission limits will provide real and immediate progress.†Source
“Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.†Source
“This is a completely airtight kennel mounted on the top of our car.†Source
‘They’re not happy that my dog loves fresh air.†Source
“Those… paying taxes and not taking government benefits should begin a process toward application for citizenship.†Source
“Amnesty only led to more people coming into the country.†Source
“When I first heard of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, I thought it sounded awfully silly.†Source
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has worked well.†Source
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I just came back from a gun show.
The Republicans were saying how great the Mormons are because
they are family oriented and take care of their own.
I told them if they belonged to a group that took 10%
of your gross you would expect the same.
Does that mean Witless Romney pays more $$ in his Mormon tithe than he does in Income Tax?
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Another fuckwit....
"Republican US Senate candidate has come under fire for suggesting that pregnancies caused by rape were "something God intended to happen".
Richard Mourdock, standing in a key race in Indiana, made the remarks in a debate with his Democrat opponent.
His comments come two months after those of Missouri Republican Todd Akin, who said women's bodies had ways of preventing pregnancy after rape."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20054737
What planet do these people live on? ..Sadly the same one as the people who elect them, I suppose.
Global RIP thread
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Yes, Stephen Fry among others the same. He said he wont take his lithium because it will suppress his creative manic side too. he's attempted suicide too on one of his black days.
Sad loss Robin Williams..one of my favourites.
Interesting item here
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/11-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-amazing-robin-williams--gye_fC7RMe
..along with other fascinating stuff, he was a great fan of Rugby Union and good mates with Jonah Lomu