kurtster wrote: 
WHAT?????

1. What does this mean?

2. What bullshit!

 Beaker wrote: 
No, just a bunch of humorists

 Beaker wrote: 
Note that this is from the Onion

 Beaker wrote: 
did you notice an earpiece at the healthcare summit?

 romeotuma wrote: 
Vern: Do you think Mighty Mouse could beat up Superman?
Teddy: What are you, cracked?
Vern: Why not? I saw the other day. He was carrying five elephants in one hand!
Teddy: Boy, you don't know nothing! Mighty Mouse is a cartoon. Superman's a real guy. There's no way a cartoon could beat up a real guy.
Vern: Yeah, maybe you're right. It'd be a good fight, though.

 Mark_E_DeSnow wrote: 

Of course, we should not discount the deal Mr. Obama cut with Big Pharm and others as he and Democratic Leadership try to cobble together a health care plan that as understood by The People, is being rejected by a handsome majority.
28 years of Republican misrule? Oh, those times when a Republican held The White House and Democrats held Congress? Lets not forget for convenience of discussion those 40 uninterrupted years, 1954-1994, that Democrats held The House. Would that not make them complicit in the misrule you speak of? Or were they just idle bystanders? And if so, what is they were doing all those many years? It took both Parties years of sloppy housekeeping or outright neglect to bring us to our current point in time. I wonder just how much of a Sisyphean effort some will require to admit to that? Perhaps as much effort for Mr. Obama to now realize it's his Presidency and not that of those who came before him?

If I had to grade Mr. Obama on his first State of The Union and nothing else, a solid F. For a so-called Constitutional Scholar, he placed a portion of The Declaration of Independence in The Constitution. No folks, that's not nitpicking, that's not a willingness to overlook such a glaring error, again by a so-called Constitutional scholar. But in the whole of Mr. Obama's first year, I could justify a shaky D, at best. Going back again to the SOTU address, jobs jobs JOBS!, soon to be dropped, or so it seems, while we go back to health care in the same approach that a majority of The People are rejecting. The slow action following the almost horrible Christmas day attempted airplane bombing *the response  to a family friend's child suffering a cut chin was prompt in comparison*. The shout-out when the moment called for Mr. Obama to first address what took place at Ft. Hood. The bashing of so many programs initiated under Mr. Bush that are still in place and in fact, are not altered or removed. The failure to show transparency, the end of no-bid which didn't last a year, ethics which is challenged by how many tax cheats promoted for high positions, the failure to properly vett many who upon close inspection, would not be welcomed on most County Councils, saying one day we're broke and then offering a budget with a 12% across the board increase, the lines in the sand with Iran, only to be redrawn again and again. Capitulation to Russia after praising Polish and Czech Republic leaders on the planned placement of missiles and radars by then pulling those planned emplacements without anything in return from Russia, thus leaving Poland and The Czech Republic hanging out to dry *after their leaders braced against their People's strong resistance to the missiles and radars*. Insulting Norway's King, repeatedly insulting Great Britain *yes Mr. President, despite whatever imagined slights you and the First Lady might feel from Great Britain, the Brits remain our best and most faithful ally...they are our friends*, bowing to other leaders and claiming, falsely, that that is US protocol *and on that, not even bowing correctly if that were called for, to the Japanese Emperor*. Failure to lead on major initiatives while allowing others to author them. On the positive side, not much: hope for those who purchased it is fading for the many. Change? Not. A different way of doing things? Not.
In one year, it's not realistic to expect a miracle let alone a series of them, but it's not too much to expect something other than speeches.

 Beaker wrote: 
He did say, "because I'm the President !" today at the lovefest.

Do as I say not as I do.  What a maroon ...

Tells me all I need to know.
Edit: and this just in, another 500,000 new unemployment benefit filings last reporting period, way to go O !

 Beaker wrote: 
A B+ you say?  He thinks a lot of himself doesn't he?

He gets an F until he and his goons focus on the economy and people get back to work and start making money again.

 Mark_E_DeSnow wrote: 
I read the paper Mark, I watch the news, I know whats going on out there. I was "underemployed" last year for 5 months, I felt the chill although not nearly as bad as you and many, many others. I've taken a jab or two at you in the past because you come off as someone who's quit; as someone mentioned to you of late, you seem to feel that the sky is falling or has already fallen. Pretty negative in my estimation.

Just so's you know where I'm coming from: I'll never give up. Last year while underemployed(and scared) I was always thinking about how to improve my lot, my chances, whatever to be fully employed; and if I couldn't get fully employed...or even lost my part-time gig, what would I do then?! What industry could I take my talents to? What salary can I make it on until aerospace gets back on the upswing?

By no means do I think or believe that you or anyone else just go out there and get a job, but I do think that if you're not thinking out of the box and doing something about it that it'll never happen!

 musik_knut wrote:     That would be The Pusher Man !

 Mark_E_DeSnow wrote: 

 This is for the benefit of Monkeysdad, a deluded fool who thinks that one can easily find a job when none exist.

Now Mark. You'd do well to call Monkeysdad friend. You just don't realize it.

 glassbuteo wrote: 
Well, he never claimed to be virtuous...

 Mark_E_DeSnow wrote: 

who can afford pot these days?