Best & Brightest in Washington?

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Comedy Gold from last year:




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This vid breaks it down a little better:




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sometimes the veil is dropped .. and the true color of the left shows thru …
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Yep watch out for that veil when it drops, it could drop on your head if I had the time to CNP all the right wing dingbats making wild statements, or getting caught with whores, or maybe picking up men in bathroom stalls, How bout a clip saying members of congress need to be investigating for being Un-American?

Both sides have their batshit crazies.
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FishBone 9/3/2009 8:33am
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yzvet426 wrote:
Yep watch out for that veil when it drops, it could drop on your head if I had the time to CNP all the right wing...
Yep watch out for that veil when it drops, it could drop on your head if I had the time to CNP all the right wing dingbats making wild statements, or getting caught with whores, or maybe picking up men in bathroom stalls, How bout a clip saying members of congress need to be investigating for being Un-American?

Both sides have their batshit crazies.
Both sides have their batshit crazies.

on this we can agree .....

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DirtyFilter75 9/3/2009 8:37am
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How many people in Congress are Bankrupt, felons, or facing tax evasion charges. it would be interesting to see the numbers!
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Hell look at Florida and their own Corrinne Brown..she's a real gem. And she gets great medical and pay forever...guess you can be a dumbass and still be important in that state.
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DirtyFilter75 wrote:
How many people in Congress are Bankrupt, felons, or facing tax evasion charges. it would be interesting to see the numbers!
Most of them will have that stuff shoved under the carpet or some how rationalized by idiots among them.
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We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme).

That's the government's job, to take care of the people, not to take care of giant corporate conglomerates.
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Racer92 9/3/2009 10:58am
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Nerd wrote:
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme). That's the government's job, to take care...
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme).

That's the government's job, to take care of the people, not to take care of giant corporate conglomerates.
Its interesting that we already are regulating other forms of energy and such (PUC) but with dino-juice we let Big Oil bend us over and go to town.
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Nerd 9/3/2009 11:01am
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Nerd wrote:
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme). That's the government's job, to take care...
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme).

That's the government's job, to take care of the people, not to take care of giant corporate conglomerates.
Racer92 wrote:
Its interesting that we already are regulating other forms of energy and such (PUC) but with dino-juice we let Big Oil bend us over and go...
Its interesting that we already are regulating other forms of energy and such (PUC) but with dino-juice we let Big Oil bend us over and go to town.
We should've nationalized oil as soon as OPEC formed.
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Nerd wrote:
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme). That's the government's job, to take care...
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme).

That's the government's job, to take care of the people, not to take care of giant corporate conglomerates.
Racer92 wrote:
Its interesting that we already are regulating other forms of energy and such (PUC) but with dino-juice we let Big Oil bend us over and go...
Its interesting that we already are regulating other forms of energy and such (PUC) but with dino-juice we let Big Oil bend us over and go to town.
It's also funny that a tax evader is running the Fed. treasury.

You can't make that stuff up.
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Racer92 wrote:
Its interesting that we already are regulating other forms of energy and such (PUC) but with dino-juice we let Big Oil bend us over and go...
Its interesting that we already are regulating other forms of energy and such (PUC) but with dino-juice we let Big Oil bend us over and go to town.
They deregulated natural gas here in Georgia about 5 years ago and the price has almost tripled since then.
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Larry wrote:
They deregulated natural gas here in Georgia about 5 years ago and the price has almost tripled since then.
And the price of gas on the open market has dropped like a stone over those same 5 years.
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Larry wrote:
They deregulated natural gas here in Georgia about 5 years ago and the price has almost tripled since then.
Rooster wrote:
And the price of gas on the open market has dropped like a stone over those same 5 years.
lol , i am sure you just made larry's day .
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Racer92 wrote:
Its interesting that we already are regulating other forms of energy and such (PUC) but with dino-juice we let Big Oil bend us over and go...
Its interesting that we already are regulating other forms of energy and such (PUC) but with dino-juice we let Big Oil bend us over and go to town.
Larry wrote:
They deregulated natural gas here in Georgia about 5 years ago and the price has almost tripled since then.
But you can choose not to use it!

Duh!

If you just put your water in the sun for a while, it'll get warm...
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Nerd wrote:
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme). That's the government's job, to take care...
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme).

That's the government's job, to take care of the people, not to take care of giant corporate conglomerates.
It's the US government's job to take care of people?
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Larry wrote:
They deregulated natural gas here in Georgia about 5 years ago and the price has almost tripled since then.
Rooster wrote:
And the price of gas on the open market has dropped like a stone over those same 5 years.
and to quantify the true impact of these price variances … do you have the rates on deflation / inflation for all the ancillary expenses to bring this product to the consumer … including all relevant changes in taxation that may be effecting the products end cost to the consumer


or is this just a shot from the hip ??
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Nerd wrote:
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme). That's the government's job, to take care...
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme).

That's the government's job, to take care of the people, not to take care of giant corporate conglomerates.
ProMed wrote:
It's the US government's job to take care of people?
wow, for a so called libertarian, he sure sounds a lot like a democrat.Laughing

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Nerd 9/3/2009 3:49pm
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Nerd wrote:
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme). That's the government's job, to take care...
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme).

That's the government's job, to take care of the people, not to take care of giant corporate conglomerates.
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It's the US government's job to take care of people?
Yes.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Domestic tranquility (make sure the people are happy).

General welfare (make sure the people are taken care of).

That's right in the preamble of the Constitution.

And the rules it sets up afterward, for taxation, establishing rules of law, are for the purpose as put together in the Preamble, just as it says. "In order to do this, we have made this Constitution with these rules."

If you don't like it, move to Mexico. They don't have a Constitution like this.
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Nerd wrote:
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme). That's the government's job, to take care...
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme).

That's the government's job, to take care of the people, not to take care of giant corporate conglomerates.
ProMed wrote:
It's the US government's job to take care of people?
Dogger wrote:
wow, for a so called libertarian, he sure sounds a lot like a democrat.Laughing
I'm not a Libertarian.
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Nerd wrote:
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme). That's the government's job, to take care...
We should've nationalized the oil industry. They were screwing us (and still are, just not to such an extreme).

That's the government's job, to take care of the people, not to take care of giant corporate conglomerates.
ProMed wrote:
It's the US government's job to take care of people?
Nerd wrote:
Yes. [i]We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense...
Yes.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Domestic tranquility (make sure the people are happy).

General welfare (make sure the people are taken care of).

That's right in the preamble of the Constitution.

And the rules it sets up afterward, for taxation, establishing rules of law, are for the purpose as put together in the Preamble, just as it says. "In order to do this, we have made this Constitution with these rules."

If you don't like it, move to Mexico. They don't have a Constitution like this.
Steve,

Even though you and I don't always agree, you are spot on this deal. I don't believe it's the governments job to "take care of us" but I do think it's the governments job to see to it that large corporations like big oil don't bend us over and drive it home. Some things like oil, natural gas and medical care have no true market because they are things that each and every one of us can't do with out.

I am not of the opinion that government needs to stay out of our lives. I am of the opinion that I pay for those government services and I want them to do a better job at looking out for the best interest of it's citizens.

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