I saw Air Force One while taking off from SFO yesterday. Lucky for me I was sitting next to a crazy Austrian Ron Paul supporter. "Did you know in 1913..."

7/24/2012 11:06:05 AM

Do you find it funny to call people crazy when they are educating you about what happened in 1913?

"There goes my crazy math teacher, always talking about math..."

7/24/2012 11:18:40 AM

Quote :

"Do you find it funny to call people crazy when they are educating you about what happened in 1913?"

[Edited on July 24, 2012 at 11:22 AM. Reason : .]

7/24/2012 11:22:48 AM

Quote :

"From a friend watching the Olympics: "How about that Michael Phelps? But let's remember he didn't win all those medals, someone else did. After all, he and I swam in public pools, built by state employees using tax dollars. He got training from the USOC, and ate food grown by the Department of Agriculture. He should play fair and share his medals with people like me, who can barely keep my head above water, let alone swim.""

http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html

I chuckled,

8/3/2012 9:42:31 AM

jeez, still riding that out of context quote?

8/3/2012 10:22:57 AM

hey bullet, lighten up.

8/3/2012 10:25:55 AM

Obama supporter just called me to go to a " political education" class hosted by John Legend


I told him I was already educated and supporting Ron Paul.

8/3/2012 2:40:04 PM

you should cater it and make a bundle.

no, that isnt a pizza jab.

its what i would do if i were you. also, tell them the government is wholly responsibly for your business dreams coming true.

theyll love it.

[Edited on August 3, 2012 at 3:18 PM. Reason : make some $$$]

8/3/2012 3:18:18 PM

Quote :

"You Olympians, however, know you didn't get here solely on your own power. For most of you, loving parents, sisters or brothers, encouraged your hopes, coaches guided, communities built venues in order to organize competitions. All Olympians stand on the shoulders of those who lifted them."

8/3/2012 3:29:22 PM

Don't forget the parents gave them the healthy, Olympic Sponsor food.

8/5/2012 9:07:03 PM

pointed out that irony the other day. "we proudly sponsor the 2012 olympics" <-- yes, wherein most of the competitors wouldn't be caught dead near your restaurant

8/5/2012 11:04:33 PM

Pretty sure NBA players eat mcdonalds all the time. I could also see several competitors carbing up on their fries. Obviously not the gymnasts and really athleticy athletes.

8/6/2012 4:23:43 AM

A lot of the swimmers posted pictures of themselves eating chicken nuggets at McDonald's after a race. Got to get those calories.

8/6/2012 8:57:16 AM

1980 Summer Olympics boycott
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.[1] It preceded the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott carried out by the Soviet Union and other Communist-friendly countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics_boycott

8/6/2012 10:29:03 PM

wtf does that have to do with obama?

8/6/2012 11:35:49 PM

obama occupies afghanistan?

8/7/2012 2:20:38 AM

haha, hilarious. mcdonalds and the 1980 olympic boycott. relevant to obama's credibility. and koalas.

8/7/2012 10:25:00 AM

Yes, the koalas are totally the smoking gun. The picture was not used solely for the expression on the koala's face to form a silly statement to relate to internet users that have brains of children.

8/7/2012 11:32:16 AM

War on terror? Hmm. The terrorists aren't really terrorists at all.

Article just released:

Quote :

" ""I opened fire on three Americans who were sitting together," the man explains calmly in the video. "The reason I killed them is because they have occupied our country. They are enemies of our religion and they kill our innocent people."" http://news.yahoo.com/video-taliban-welcomes-rogue-afghan-shot-us-soldiers-122918421--abc-news-topstories.html"

8/7/2012 1:09:36 PM

Thanks for illuminating the great secret that our enemies think we are bad and we think that they are bad.

8/7/2012 1:13:56 PM

geniusboy, seriously. do you not get why people constantly criticize you?

Quote :

"War on terror? Hmm. The terrorists aren't really terrorists at all"

what?

[Edited on August 7, 2012 at 1:15 PM. Reason : ]

8/7/2012 1:15:15 PM

You're not that stupid, figure it out.

8/7/2012 1:20:53 PM

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/07/obama-leads-in-both-va-and-nc.html#more

Quote :

"Obama has retaken a narrow lead in North Carolina a month after having ceded his edge over Mitt Romney for the first time since last October. In early June, PPP showed Romney with a two-point edge in the crucial Tar Heel State (48-46). But now Obama leads by one point (47-46) in a state he took by less than a point four years ago. Meanwhile, Obama is up eight points in N.C.’s northern neighbor Virginia (50-42). He topped Romney by an identical margin when PPP last polled the Old Dominion in April (51-43), and beat John McCain by only six points there."

It's looking more and more likely that he'll win re-election with 350+ EVs again.

8/7/2012 1:24:39 PM

Emails: Geithner, Treasury drove cutoff of non-union Delphi workers’ pensions

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"Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that the U.S. Treasury Department, led by Timothy Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salaried retirees at the Delphi auto parts manufacturing company. The move, made in 2009 while the Obama administration implemented its auto bailout plan, appears to have been made solely because those retirees were not members of labor unions. The internal government emails contradict sworn testimony, in federal court and before Congress, given by several Obama administration figures. They also indicate that the administration misled lawmakers and the courts about the sequence of events surrounding the termination of those non-union pensions, and that administration figures violated federal law. Delphi, a General Motors company, is one of the world’s largest automotive parts manufacturers. Twenty thousand of its workers lost nearly their entire pensions when the government bailed out GM. At the same time, Delphi employees who were members of the United Auto Workers union saw their pensions topped off and made whole. The White House and Treasury Department have consistently maintained that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) independently made the decision to terminate the 20,000 non-union Delphi workers’ pension plan. The PBGC is a federal government agency that handles private-sector pension benefits issues. Its charter calls for independent representation of pension beneficiaries’ interests. Former Treasury official Matthew Feldman and former White House auto czar Ron Bloom, both key members of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry during the GM bailout, have testified under oath that the PBGC, not the administration, led the effort to terminate the non-union Delphi workers’ pension plan. “As a result of the Delphi Corporation bankruptcy, for example, Delphi and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation were forced to terminate Delphi’s pension plans, which means there are Delphi retirees who unfortunately will collect less than their full pension benefits,” Feldman testified on July 11, 2012. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/07/emails-geithner-treasury-drove-cutoff-of-non-union-delphi-workers-pensions/#ixzz22skF7iCR "

Quote :

"The emails TheDC has obtained show that the Treasury Department, not the independent PBGC, was running the show. Under 29 U.S.C. §1342, the PBGC is the only government entity that is legally empowered to initiate termination of a pension or make any official movements toward doing so. "

I suggest reading pages 2 and 3 as well.

Please don't try to defend these actions. Please.

8/7/2012 1:26:07 PM

Speaking of MacDonalds....

Quote :

" Mitt Romney’s dad had a card giving him free McDonald’s for life DES MOINES—Mitt Romney has made no secret of his love for fast food—and it appears he inherited that taste from his dad. Speaking to supporters at a Chicago fundraiser Tuesday, Romney recognized a member of the audience who had worked at McDonald's, based in nearby Des Plaines, for 27 years—including with the chain's founder, Ray Kroc. That prompted Romney to tell a story about his father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney, and what he'd found peeking through his father's "top drawer" as a teenager when he was rooting around for spare change. "I found a little paper card, a little pink card, and it said this entitles George W. Romney to a lifetime of a hamburger, a shake and french fries at McDonald's," Romney said, according to a pool report. "It was signed by the hand of Ray Kroc. My dad had done a little training lesson or whatever for McDonald's when there was just a handful of restaurants, and I saw this thing and was like, 'This is a gold mine, dad! What are you doing?'" Once he got over the shock, Romney said he had the card laminated for his father. "My dad, as you know, would go almost every day to a McDonald's restaurant and get either a hamburger or a fish filet sandwich," Romney said. "And he would present this little card and of course the person behind the counter would look and say, 'Well, what is that?' They'd never seen something like that, but he said it was never turned down. They always honored it.""

Cute story of rich people getting free shit.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-dad-had-card-giving-him-free-202154090.html

[Edited on August 7, 2012 at 6:15 PM. Reason : .]

8/7/2012 6:15:12 PM

Quote :

""How about that Michael Phelps? But let's remember he didn't win all those medals, someone else did. After all, he and I swam in public pools, built by state employees using tax dollars. He got training from the USOC, and ate food grown by the Department of Agriculture. He should play fair and share his medals with people like me, who can barely keep my head above water, let alone swim."""

If this is how conservatives really think socialism works, then i dont know what to say to that really other than, wow

[Edited on August 7, 2012 at 8:52 PM. Reason : dF]

8/7/2012 8:52:16 PM

Let's hear your expert opinion about how socialism works, Banjoman.

8/7/2012 9:20:42 PM

Quote :

"I suggest reading pages 2 and 3 as well. Please don't try to defend these actions. Please."

I don't know about you, but if I was trying to cut costs at a bankrupt company, ending the pensions of a bunch of scrubs with no legal defense would look like an easy target.

8/7/2012 10:29:47 PM

Socialism at work:

8/7/2012 10:49:25 PM

oh yeah obama is a big champion of nasa.

lol, next.

8/7/2012 10:54:54 PM

Phelps' medal does not represent a profit thus the anology is broken. The medal represents a symbolic gesture of greatnesd in the same way that succesful buisnessman, politicians and scientist also.get awards and or buildings and roads named after them. Now of course the gold medal has value, but as a gesture and not for resale purposes.

Now a profit that he gets is all of his cash from endorsments. One could argue that he should share portions of this out back to the community, but if he isnt already donating some of this to charities or at least giving back to those that have helped him, then he is a heartless citizen, which I bet he isnt. In fact doesnt he have charities already up and running?

8/7/2012 11:24:30 PM

-1 for falling into the Grover Norquist Olympic tax trap.

8/8/2012 2:03:31 AM

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/08/obama-lets-repeat-auto-rescue-with-every-manufacturing-131566.html

ahahaha.

so naive, so pathetic.

8/9/2012 8:45:44 PM

derp

8/9/2012 9:45:10 PM

Obama's photo-shop czar is an idiot.

First he forgets that white people have white hands.

Then he forgets that black people only have one hand per arm.

8/9/2012 9:52:36 PM

thats pretty strange.

8/9/2012 9:55:51 PM

Yeah, there couldn't possibly be someone behind Michelle, and you are falling prey to a simple illusion.

8/10/2012 1:49:58 AM

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/assignment-chicago/2011/04/photoshopping-michelle-obamas-mother.html

nice try

also that is from over a year ago

way to stay current

8/10/2012 3:25:59 AM

Quote :

"derp"

8/10/2012 3:30:13 AM

Quote :

"Three U.S. soldiers killed by Afghan police in Helmand ASHKAR GHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - An Afghan police commander and several of his men killed three U.S. soldiers in the southern province of Helmand, turning guns on them after inviting them to a dinner to discuss security, Afghan officials said on Friday. The men were all American special forces members and were killed on Thursday night while attending a meeting in the Sarwan Qala area, in what appeared to be a planned attack by rogue Afghan forces. "During dinner, the police commander and his colleagues shot them and then fled. The commander was Afghan National Police in charge of local police in Sangin," a senior Afghan official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Sangin is a district. "It looks like he had drawn up a plan to kill them previously," the official said."

http://news.yahoo.com/three-u-soldiers-killed-uniformed-afghan-helmand-064345412.html

8/10/2012 4:21:21 AM

Geniusidiot

8/10/2012 7:49:43 AM

Quote :

"Obama's photo-shop czar is an idiot. "

who is an idiot? http://www.sadtrombone.com

anyway, I wish that the white house would denounce that stupid "bain killed a woman" commercial. then again, after the whole swift boat bullshit, I really have no sympathy for the GOP. 2012 is just the democrats playing by the rules the GOP has used for decades.

8/10/2012 12:48:13 PM

Never fails to disappoint. Soon O-Stalin's photoshop czar will remove grandma from the picture...

[Edited on August 10, 2012 at 2:25 PM. Reason : .]

8/10/2012 2:24:04 PM

he Justice Department said Thursday it won't prosecute Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs or its employees in a financial fraud probe.

In a written statement, the department said it conducted an exhaustive investigation of allegations brought to light by a Senate panel investigating the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

"The department and investigative agencies ultimately concluded that the burden of proof to bring a criminal case could not be met based on the law and facts as they exist at this time," the department said.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/09/justice-department-wont-prosecute-goldman-sachs-for-financial-crisis/

8/10/2012 3:38:06 PM

[Edited on August 10, 2012 at 4:12 PM. Reason : ynwi]

8/10/2012 4:10:09 PM

well there he is! the liberal golden hero!

OWS is so proud (time to go vote for him)!

8/10/2012 5:51:45 PM

8/11/2012 2:57:00 AM

Quote :

"Afghan policeman kills 10 fellow policemen Associated PressBy DEB RIECHMANN | Associated Press – 4 hrs ago KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan police officer killed at least 10 of his fellow officers on Saturday, a day after six U.S. service members were gunned down by their Afghan partners in summer violence that has both international and Afghan forces questioning who is friend or foe. http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-policeman-kills-10-fellow-policemen-143248570.html"

8/11/2012 5:26:48 PM

People from another country killing other people from that country? Totally relevant to this thread.

8/11/2012 8:43:46 PM

I think it is relevant to the fact that neither Rmoney nor Obama have said ANYTHING about Afghanistan in their campaigning.

And as more of these killings (Af -> US, Af -> Af, etc.) are reported, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the President has no friggin' clue what to do (nor does Rmoney), which is why neither of them are saying anything.

Here's the point: We have US citizens (young men and young women) in a hostile and extremely volatile country DYING for a completely un-specified mission for an un-specified length of time, and the friggin' COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF has said NOTHING about what he plans to do to protect those citizens.

And that makes you want to support him, or anyone like him?

smh, people, smh

8/14/2012 12:23:39 PM