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Post by annaj26 on Jul 27, 2016 16:10:36 GMT -5
Wow... so much bad energy...  I don't hate anyone, I don't envy America right now though. I don't either, Apple. I think of you guys as our "civilized neighbors to the north". |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2016 17:02:59 GMT -5
Obama's hands are tied. He has a Congress that won't work with him. Have you seen this? I don't have a source as it was a post on Marty's page, but I did check a few out and it seems to be right.  That's absolutely true. I am, unfortunately, too familiar with those statistics. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2016 17:04:45 GMT -5
Even though Bush had a substantial majority in both Houses of Congress at first, Democrats successfully blocked nearly all of his second term agenda even before their party took power in Congress in 2006. Well of course they did. He invaded the wrong damn country!! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2016 17:11:39 GMT -5
Wow... so much bad energy... I don't hate anyone, I don't envy America right now though. I don't either, Apple. I think of you guys as our "civilized neighbors to the north". With a very handsome PM. (Not that our President is all that bad.)  |
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Post by sadie on Jul 27, 2016 17:44:24 GMT -5
I'm talking about the fact that there is no money for important things.....but if they owe a favor to someone/company....they can get the $ for that......that's what I am calling pet projects $43 Million On A Gas Station… In Afghanistan The Department of Defense spent $42,718,739 million on a single gas station in Afghanistan that would pump natural gas in the hopes the country wouldn’t have to rely as heavily on imported fuel. The Internal Revenue Service will spend $40 million on Donald Trump’s plan to turn Washington DC’s old Post Office into a luxury hotel. The funds come from the National Historic Tax Credit, and will offset the costs of renovating the building, which will ultimately pump Trump’s bottom line. In 2011, the Obama administration established the State Department’s Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, and gave it a $5 million annual budget. According to Lankford’s report, CSCC’s “Think Again Turn Away” project does little more than run the Twitter account for State, making those tweets awfully expensive. The National Science Foundation spent $374,087 to better understand age-related changes in relationship habits. The study was conducted at the University of Texas at Austin and was aimed at determining whether the life experiences of older adults made it more difficult for them to be in a relationship. The State Department has been dumping millions into studying and conserving aspects of culture in other countries while our president runs around apologizing for ours. “In 2014, State spent $700,000 to conserve a Buddhist temple in Vietnam, $40,000 to document Bengal folk music in India, and $33,000 to preserve Jamdani weaving traditions in Bangladesh,” the report stated. thefederalist.com/2015/12/01/7-unbelievable-ways-the-government-wasted-your-tax-dollars-last-year/The GAO reports that five federal agencies alone spent $3.1 billion on workers placed on administrative leave in a two-year timespan. A lot of that cash — $775 million, to be exact — went to public employees banned from their desks for more than a month. (“Primarily,” Lankford’s waste book finds, “workers are placed on leave because they are under investigation for misconduct.”) Read more at: www.nationalreview.com/article/427891/top-10-wasteful-government-expenses1 Animal Division a. $387,000 to study the effects robot-provided Swedish massage has on the physical recovery of rabbits after exercise. b. $856,000 to train three mountain lions to run on a treadmill in order to measure the energy consumption of the cats’ hunting techniques. c. $171,000 to teach monkeys to gamble in order to determine if monkeys, like humans, believe in the concept of a “hot hand.” 2. Public Safety Division a. $3 million to create a snarky social media presence named “Think Again Turn Away” to counter the propaganda movement of terrorist organizations. b. $331,000 to study whether the concept of “hanger” was real by testing whether hungry spouses were more likely to stab a voodoo doll representing their significant other. c. $335,000 to build 38 “speed humps” (which incidentally, is how six of Adrian Peterson’s children were conceived) in two Portland, Maine neighborhoods. 4. Military Division a. $1 billion to destroy $16 billion in unneeded purchases of military-grade ammunition. b. $80 million for the development of a real-life Ironman suit.c. $21 million for the Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild buildings that continue to burn down because of their shoddy construction. www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2014/10/22/how-did-the-government-waste-your-money-in-2014-separating-fact-from-fiction/3/#4e7685877f20There is of course more....but I tried to pull info from 3 different sources |
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Post by Sysop3 on Jul 27, 2016 19:53:03 GMT -5
That is, of course, too bad. Both parties do exactly the same thing. So what does this have to do with hating Hillary?
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Post by sadie on Jul 27, 2016 21:11:10 GMT -5
I'm just tired of them all......and this year I am appalled at the two choices.
I think they both represent the worst of the worst.......and I am really sad for the future of our country.
I'll go back to not discussing politics........enough bad karma in the world
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Post by beth on Jul 27, 2016 23:26:04 GMT -5
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Post by Scottish Lassie on Jul 28, 2016 0:44:33 GMT -5
Hate is a strong emotion and the word is overly used in America. I dislike Hillary for many reasons that should be apparent to any one who observes people impartially but I don't hate her. I believe because of America's immorality and unwillingness to repent, God has withheld blessings and these are the people allowed to go forward...we are to blame for this circus. You cannot defy God's natural order and expect blessings but correction and judgement. So we have Hillary or Trump to choose from.... Hi Chefmste, it is my belief that God doesn't withold anything. We are the ones running our lives and what we put into action, is the cause of of all our troubles via the law of Karma. Stop behaving badly and everything will start to right itself. God loves us, we just don't love ourselves enough. If we did, we would behave better and so accrue good Karma which would make the world a better place inwhich to live. Don't pass the buck.!!! |
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Post by Scottish Lassie on Jul 28, 2016 0:51:51 GMT -5
She looks like a beaver! No. That was mean. She seems to be easily bought-out by the groups or corporations whose principals she claims to oppose. She is also a hawk. And she should have dumped Bill - at least until he pulled it together. Hi Ariel, are you really learning? Your attitude is to give as good as you get and in doing so are stoking the fire with more fuel, which in my opinion does not help any conversation, and only breeds more antagonism. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2016 2:34:15 GMT -5
She looks like a beaver! No. That was mean. She seems to be easily bought-out by the groups or corporations whose principals she claims to oppose. She is also a hawk. And she should have dumped Bill - at least until he pulled it together. Hi Ariel, are you really learning? Your attitude is to give as good as you get and in doing so are stoking the fire with more fuel, which in my opinion does not help any conversation, and only breeds more antagonism. This is my opinion. If you want a conversation with me take it to PM. |
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Post by mouse on Jul 28, 2016 4:32:57 GMT -5
my commiserations to all of you who have to choose between the lesser of two evils
its a no win situation for you all
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2016 4:46:25 GMT -5
my commiserations to all of you who have to choose between the lesser of two evils its a no win situation for you all Hillary will keep us relatively safe. It's true, many of us don't like her. But Trump is a maniac, so he is unelectable (and if, by chance, he is elected, I promise you that someone will take him out.) I'm doing a write-in, myself. |
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Post by sadie on Jul 28, 2016 8:25:04 GMT -5
I'll say this about myself......if I was a member of any group....that I professed to care for.....and if I was divisive and knew it would be difficult for others to work with me......I would not run for the head of that group. It would be more important for the group to be able to succeed and achieve their goals then for me to have that position and spend the entire time fighting and getting nothing done.
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Post by Sysop3 on Jul 28, 2016 9:13:10 GMT -5
I'll say this about myself......if I was a member of any group....that I professed to care for.....and if I was divisive and knew it would be difficult for others to work with me......I would not run for the head of that group. It would be more important for the group to be able to succeed and achieve their goals then for me to have that position and spend the entire time fighting and getting nothing done. Sadie, do you think bernie would have had a better chance to beat Trump than Hillary has? I wish that could be the case but given the older generations fear of anything with a "socialism" tag, I doubt it. Maybe she is there because she believes they need her to keep the country from falling to the GOP. |
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