Usa Thread

[Steve]

They have got to write about something.

 

 

LOL...seems the party wants the government to leave them alone but wants the government to tell women what they can do with their bodies as well as tell gays they can't marry.

 

Sign should read, "Leave us alone but we want the others to do what we want"

[Steve]

Regarding Obama and blacks. He's the President of 100% of the people not 47% (or 12%...which is the percentage of Blacks in America).

 

Obama had a jobs bill for infrastructure that would put hundreds of thousands and eventually millions of jobs in the inner city. Tons of subway tunnels, bridges, streets, water and gas pipes, roads, energy proofing buildings, etc. needs to be done and many of those jobs are unskilled jobs. Guess who has been blocking it?

 

The jobs are a no brainer. America's infrasture is in very bad shape. Something has to be done and it puts Americans to work and it helps put the Americans with the highest unemployment rate to work.

 

The myth is inner city people don't want to work. Its a myth. People would love to have a good job. Repeat 'good'. The vast majority of jobs in the inner city are retail and fast food. Minimum wage jobs that no one can raise a family on.

 

Also, the schools are crap. Republicans want to kill the Education Department. States have shown they do not run the schools well. Many states with big urban centers have Republican governors who do not do much about the inner city schools and other poor schools. School boards have a lot to do with it as well. Its a mess. Its not the teachers fault. They can shoulder some of the blame but its a societal issue.

 

Until the shcools are fixed you will continue to see high unemployment and crime rates in urban centers.

[Flashermac]

Felix made it!

 

I guess he got up to Mach 1.2!

For those who missed it:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yFU774q6eVM

 

 

[Flashermac]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7BFkOrlTVM&feature=related

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[kamui]

 

Spoiler Alert! G.O.P. Fighting Libertarian’s Spot on the Ballot

 

By JIM RUTENBERG

When he was running for the Republican presidential nomination last year, Gary Johnson, the former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, drew ridicule from mainstream party members as he advocated legalized marijuana and a 43 percent cut in military spending.

 

Now campaigning as the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, Mr. Johnson is still only a blip in the polls. But he is on the ballot in every state except Michigan and Oklahoma, enjoys the support of a few small “super PACs†and is trying to tap into the same grass-roots enthusiasm that helped build Representative Ron Paul a big following. And with polls showing the race between President Obama and Mitt Romney to be tight, Mr. Johnson’s once-fellow Republicans are no longer laughing.

 

Around the country, Republican operatives have been making moves to keep Mr. Johnson from becoming their version of Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate whose relatively modest support cut into Al Gore’s 2000 vote arguably enough to help hand the decisive states of Ohio and Florida to George W. Bush.

 

The fear of Mr. Johnson’s tipping the outcome in an important state may explain why an aide to Mr. Romney ran what was effectively a surveillance operation into Mr. Johnson’s efforts over the summer to qualify for the ballot at the Iowa State Fair, providing witnesses to testify in a lawsuit to block him that ultimately fizzled.

 

Libertarians suspect it is why Republican state officials in Michigan blocked Mr. Johnson from the ballot after he filed proper paperwork three minutes after his filing deadline.

 

And it is why Republicans in Pennsylvania hired a private detective to investigate his ballot drive in Philadelphia, appearing at the homes of paid canvassers and, in some cases, flashing an F.B.I. badge — he was a retired agent — while asking to review the petitions they gathered at $1 a signature, according to testimony in the case and interviews.

 

 

more at NYT

[BelgianBoy]

meanwhile something different : http://www.treehugger.com/culture/community-rallies-relocate-100-year-old-oak-tree.html

[Flashermac]

We had a nearly 200 year old tree in front of our house, much taller and bigger than that oak. It came down in an ice storm one winter and took out almost every other tree in the yard with it. The weight of the ice split the tree down the middle.

[cavanami]

We had a nearly 200 year old tree in front of our house, much taller and bigger than that oak. It came down in an ice storm one winter and took out almost every other tree in the yard with it. The weight of the ice split the tree down the middle.

...and you planted that tree

[Flashermac]

...and you planted that tree

 

 

[unit731]

Spoiler Alert! G.O.P. Fighting Libertarian’s Spot on the Ballot

 

By JIM RUTENBERG

When he was running for the Republican presidential nomination last year, Gary Johnson, the former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, drew ridicule from mainstream party members as he advocated legalized marijuana and a 43 percent cut in military spending.

 

Now campaigning as the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, Mr. Johnson is still only a blip in the polls. But he is on the ballot in every state except Michigan and Oklahoma, enjoys the support of a few small “super PACs†and is trying to tap into the same grass-roots enthusiasm that helped build Representative Ron Paul a big following. And with polls showing the race between President Obama and Mitt Romney to be tight, Mr. Johnson’s once-fellow Republicans are no longer laughing.

 

Around the country, Republican operatives have been making moves to keep Mr. Johnson from becoming their version of Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate whose relatively modest support cut into Al Gore’s 2000 vote arguably enough to help hand the decisive states of Ohio and Florida to George W. Bush.

 

The fear of Mr. Johnson’s tipping the outcome in an important state may explain why an aide to Mr. Romney ran what was effectively a surveillance operation into Mr. Johnson’s efforts over the summer to qualify for the ballot at the Iowa State Fair, providing witnesses to testify in a lawsuit to block him that ultimately fizzled.

 

Libertarians suspect it is why Republican state officials in Michigan blocked Mr. Johnson from the ballot after he filed proper paperwork three minutes after his filing deadline.

 

And it is why Republicans in Pennsylvania hired a private detective to investigate his ballot drive in Philadelphia, appearing at the homes of paid canvassers and, in some cases, flashing an F.B.I. badge — he was a retired agent — while asking to review the petitions they gathered at $1 a signature, according to testimony in the case and interviews.

 

 

more at NYT

 

 

 

And make sure all that vote bring two picture ID's. And both must have your name and address on them !