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Monica, thanks for the link to NPR, here is the message I sent to them from Roger Ailes:
"Juan has been a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints since his tenure began at Fox News in 1997. He's an honest man whose freedom of speech is protected by Fox News on a daily basis."
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/10/21/roger-ailes-leads-from-the-fro
Thanks to Hannity for turning me on to this quote on this radio show this afternoon.
Posted by: M/M | October 22, 2010 at 06:56 PM
Hey, I realize to most of the denizens here Ron Christie is a RINO (and black at that, sorry DJ), but I just want to stand up and say I just read an advance print of his next book first class mailed to me by my "boss", Soros, along with my latest million dollar "check", and I must say, it's truly "FABULOUS."
Here's the title: Look for it soon on Amazon and your local bookstore!
"Acting Straight: The Curious History of a Sexual Slur".
Here's a few of the top reviews on Amazon:
"The man is just so incisive, with the inside knowledge that only someone who actually lived it would know."
"Truly a trancendental experience; Like listening to Sammy Davis Jr. recite 'I Gotta Be Me' in Mandarin."
"Sheer artistry from a man who REALLY knows where the money is."
Go on, pre-order today. You know you want to.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 22, 2010 at 08:19 PM
Maybe Harry Reid can drive to his concession speech next month in a brand new "electric" Obamobile,if he's dumb enough to think it's not just another socialist fraud from Macdaddy Motors.....
iBD/10/20/2010/////Government Motors' all-electric car isn't all-electric and doesn't get near the touted hundreds of miles per gallon. Like "shovel-ready" jobs, maybe there's no such thing as "plug-ready" cars either.
The Chevy Volt, hailed by the Obama administration as the electric savior of the auto industry and the planet, makes its debut in showrooms next month, but it's already being rolled out for test drives by journalists. It appears we're all being taken for a ride.
So it's not an all-electric car, but rather a pricey $41,000 hybrid that requires a taxpayer-funded $7,500 subsidy to get car shoppers to look at it. But gee, even despite the false advertising about the powertrain, isn't a car that gets 230 miles per gallon of gas worth it?
We heard GM's then-CEO Fritz Henderson claim the Volt would get 230 miles per gallon in city conditions. Popular Mechanics found the Volt to get about 37.5 mpg in city driving, and Motor Trend reports: "Without any plugging in, (a weeklong trip to Grandma's house) should return fuel economy in the high 30s to low 40s."
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/550957/201010191855/Volt-Fraud-At-Government-Motors.htm
Posted by: gringoman | October 22, 2010 at 08:40 PM
Outstanding new video: THE SOCIALIST
http://www.redstate.com/aglanon/2010/10/05/the-socialist/
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MARK LEVIN Repeal it, G.O.P. or be repealed.
GRINGOBRO Mr. Levin means Obamanationcare.
Wash it right out of America's hair.
Got it, Goopers?
Posted by: gringoman | October 22, 2010 at 08:49 PM
Push Progressivism Back
With a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, We The People must stand up to the “progressives” (if that’s not a misnomer I can’t imagine what is). We can’t draw a line in the sand and say “no further”. We must push them back.
The choice this November 2nd couldn’t be more clear. You either stand for the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and America the way it was designed by our founding fathers, or you wish to “progress” to Communism.
Can someone please explain to me exactly how Communism is progress over this?:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Communism is a dead end for real human progress. Communism is a dead end for all who refuse to submit themselves to it’s iron fisted micromanagement of personal lives.
Literally.
Just ask the thousands of Cubans who were systematically murdered execution style by Castro and Chavez. If Cuba’s so great, why have so many people been willing to risk floating across miles of shark infested waters on makeshift rafts in order to escape? Ask the 60 million Chinese who died of famine during Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”. Ask the 10 million Ukrainians who starved to death while producing bumper crops of wheat for Joseph Stalin while enduring the Holodomor. Ask the citizens of Venezuela, with a food war that’s being waged since President Hugo Chavez seized control of food, forcing prices to skyrocket amid shortages and scandal over shipments left rotting at the docks.
I stand for America the way it was designed.
Everyone who stands with me, do not sit at home and take your liberties for granted!
VOTE!!
http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/push-progressivism-back/
Posted by: mjfell | October 22, 2010 at 09:59 PM
Why don't you ask Monica? She knows.
POSTED BY: XBJLLB | OCTOBER 22, 2010 AT 08:27 PM
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Hahaha!! The XKREMENT can be funny at times! Its humor is anything but self-deprecating, but that WAS funny!!
HAHAHA!!!
Poor Monica.. I'm glad that thing is stalking her though, and not me.. LOL
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | October 22, 2010 at 08:44 PM
Ummah,
That reply from Hideous X is pretty much a give-away. Funny? Yes, like a dyke torn between its calling, eg, a fag hag for militant progressives, and dreams of Warrior Princess. No wonder it's always threatening torture for anti-socialists. It tries to hijack Jesus and God to turn Christian Republicans into lampshades. It might still, in its twilight zone, lobby Jesus to get a pass for Monica, so she won't be skinned alive in Gehenna, especially if she gives up George Bush, Dick Cheney and the other sadistic "haters."
X. It still thinks Monica won't click 'delete.'
Posted by: gringoman | October 22, 2010 at 10:06 PM
Barack Obamadinejad in Nevada, on the stump for Harry:
"I want Harry Reid working with me in the United States Senate!"
Kiss of Death, anyone?
Posted by: gringoman | October 22, 2010 at 10:09 PM
Oh yeah, real kiss of death. Close to 10,000 (maybe over) instant early votes for Harry Reid. When the final numbers are in, I'll post 'em.
And close to 30,000 for Boxer and Brown in California. Bye bye CEO outsourcing witches.
As far as Monica pressing "delete"? Man up, fascist wannabe censors. She's more of a man than any of you will ever be, and more woman than you'll ever have.
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Posted by: gringoman | October 22, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Ummah,
Hell hath no fury like a transexual scorned.
Posted by: gringoman | October 22, 2010 at 10:53 PM
"Hell hath no fury like a transexual scorned." - Gringoman
Hell hath no fury like demons unleashed on fresh meat.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 22, 2010 at 10:56 PM
About hell and those demons and WHO they'll be feeding on and WHY?
America killed an average of 31 civilians a day for the six years of the Iraq war.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wikileaks-dump-put-iraqi-war-death-toll-285000/story?id=11949670
GO USA.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 22, 2010 at 11:08 PM
As far as Monica pressing "delete"? Man up, fascist wannabe censors. She's more of a man than any of you will ever be, and more woman than you'll ever have.
POSTED BY: XBJLLB | OCTOBER 22, 2010 AT 10:33 PM
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Hmmm.. better not touch this one! Hahaha!
Anyway, I am in far too god of a mood after watching the Rangers take down the Stankees tonight!
The team from Real America dismantled the team from libtown, the team with a payroll almost equalling that of all the other teams combined and an even bigger sense of Entitlement.
The Evil Empire has been PUSHED BACK.
I take this as a good omen for November!
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | October 22, 2010 at 11:18 PM
It's absolutely astounding what a pitifully pathetic fraud madame xray has proven herself to be.
I'm SO SURE Jesus Christ would endorse this type of language:
Bet a date at a Las Vegas Burger King on it?
I don't care how much blood money you and yours throw at Nevada and I don't care how stupid the rural hicks (in and out of the cities) are.
Nevada is never going to send an alcoholic drunk idiotic racist coat hanger warrior whackjob to the Senate.
But I sure love watching you guys piss away your blood millions. Couldn't throw it away on worse excuses for human excrement.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 22, 2010 at 12:34 PM
I'm willing to bet money that the current White House occupant will stop lying through his teeth before Jesus acknowledges you as one of his disciples. Give it up before you earn yourself a one way ticket to the eternal BBQ, you miserable, phoney, false prophet.
Posted by: mjfell | October 22, 2010 at 09:57 PM
"I'm willing to bet money" - MJFell
The question is, are you willing to bet your SOUL and ETERNITY on it?
I am, and I do, every minute of every day.
Truth is hard. Nowadays. The last.
P.S. I'm not a disciple. There were already 13 of them. One didn't do so well. Like the GOP, always after the money, THAT one.
I am a Christian, a Follower. Sometimes very well, other times not so well. But that's the audience I'm dealing with. Perilous times require tough love.
And what's to lose? The damned are already the damned, and Lord knows He's tried everything ELSE.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 22, 2010 at 10:39 PM
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Further evidence (as if any more was actually needed) that the unrenowned madame xray is a complete, absolute, miserable fraud.
No true Christian would stoop to such lows of "self expression". Perhaps he's a black separatist "christian" as is the current White House occupant. You know the type, where it's ok to lie, cheat, steal and completely misrepresent yourself in "the name of Christ". Nothing is off limits, so long as your agenda moves forward.
Posted by: mjfell | October 22, 2010 at 11:34 PM
P.S.
The "Christian", madame xray, doesn't even know that Christ had 12 disciples...
Once a phoney, always a phoney.
Posted by: mjfell | October 22, 2010 at 11:38 PM
This morning I went to sign my dogs up for welfare. At first the lady said, "Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare". So I explained to her that my dogs are mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can't speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddies are. ...
Posted by: mjfell | October 22, 2010 at 11:39 PM
Monica did a good interview with the formidable Michael Savage recently. Here, while the Marxie-mooslamic moonbats mutter and flutter and shudder, is Savage on his new book and the Soros-anointed Macdaddy.....
/////President Obama is like a destructive child who takes apart a priceless watch that was carefully passed down to him. Without regard for the value of what he holds, he recklessly scatters the pieces on the floor and then can’t put them back together again. Failing to learn from his mistakes, this destructive child moves on to another room where he finds another watch to take apart. Once again, he cannot put the pieces back together. That doesn’t stop him from tearing apart yet another costly timepiece until all that’s left are the pieces of discarded, functionless watches lying at his feet. What’s worse is that nobody steps in to stop him before he destroys again.”
—Author’s Note, from Trickle Up Poverty
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MARK LEVIN Repeal it, Republicans, or BE repealed.
GRINGOBRO You know what he means?
That man means Obamanationcare.
G.O.P better stand up and dare
To wash it right out of America's hair.
Got it, Goopers?
Posted by: gringoman | October 23, 2010 at 12:10 AM
"Once a phoney, always a phoney" - MJ Fell
Judas Iscariot was number thirteen. How do you think thirteen got to be an "unlucky" number?
What's your number going to be, MJ?
See you at the Throne. I'll be ready. And not a single one of you will be able to claim you weren't warned in a way you could perfectly understand.
Perfectly.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 23, 2010 at 01:44 AM
MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN
Daniel 5:25-28
25 And this the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
26 This the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Deepest condolences for the innocent who will ALSO pay for your crimes against humanity.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 23, 2010 at 01:55 AM
While listening to WABC discuss Paladino's campaign this morning, a caller pointed out to Mark Simone that most people don't even know that Schumer is running for re-election, let alone who is running against him. GREAT JOB NY RNC AND CONSERVATIVES.
I think we should defund the New York Republican and conservative party.
Posted by: M/M | October 23, 2010 at 09:12 AM
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Hey X-FILES, how's that microwave stroke weapon holding up for ya?
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | October 23, 2010 at 11:10 AM
I think we should defund the New York Republican and conservative party.
POSTED BY: M/M | OCTOBER 23, 2010 AT 09:12 AM
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Just defund the State by moving out.
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | October 23, 2010 at 11:54 AM
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No wonder the X-lax loves the moHAMedans so much. Their false "prophet" was similarly DELUSIONAL. A kindred evil spirit.
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | October 23, 2010 at 12:12 PM
So sorry to be the bearer of bad news madamd xray, but facts are stubborn things:
There were twelve disciples, you fraud. Go "preach" your blasphemous thoughts elsewhere, you repeated violator of God's Nineth Commandment.
The original twelve disciples/apostles are listed in Matthew 10:2-4, “These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him.” The Bible also lists the twelve disciples/apostles in Mark 3:16-19 and Luke 6:13-16.
Posted by: mjfell | October 23, 2010 at 01:05 PM
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I don't think the X-PHILE is a Christian, MJ. I think it is a moHAMedan. Sure quacks like one.
Posted by: Ummahgummah | October 23, 2010 at 01:14 PM
RADIO MONICA October 23, 2010
Monica is rocking. She is blasting the PC police over the NPR firing of Juan Williams. She is sick of these socialist gestapo! 9.11. They were MUSLIMS who did 9.11 Yes! They did it in the name of their religion, which is Islam. No, not EVERY muslim is a fanatic jihadi. No body is saying that! She is furious about these commies at NPR sucking on our taxes and then using our taxes to propogandize us for their socialism! And then disgracefully firing an honest liberal like Juan Williams who dared to say what everybody feels if seeing what look like Al Quaeda types on their plane flight. These little NPR tax-sucking socialist apparatchiks DARE to use our taxes this way! We are not bigots. We are saying the facts are the facts and we are sick and tired of being told not to say what we see and how it makes us feel! It is making her ill, this politically correct slop they are shoving down our throats!
Monica today is sounding like the Warrior Princess who can excite the entire Gringo Advisory Board.
Bravo, Cara Mia!
Bravissimo!
www.gringoman.com
Escaping Politically Correct
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MARK LEVIN, Repeal it, G.O.P. or we repeal you!
GRINGOBRO. Hear him, G.O.P?
Obamanationcare.
You better dare
And get it out of our hair.
Got it, Goopers?
Posted by: gringoman | October 23, 2010 at 01:35 PM
Just defund the State by moving out.
Posted by: Ummahgummah | October 23, 2010 at 11:54 AM
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My house has been on the market for 2 years - uh make that 3 years - and I'm not the only one.
Posted by: M/M | October 23, 2010 at 02:13 PM
"but facts are stubborn things:" - MJFell
Tell your "facts" to God at the throne and see how far they get you, MJ.
Hitler, Nero, Judas, Lucifer, Cheney... all full of "facts".
Hell is full of facts. Facts are oftentimes the farthest thing from Truth.
By the time you understand this, it will be too late.
Wise up now, before it's too late.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 23, 2010 at 02:40 PM
"My house has been on the market for 2 years - uh make that 3 years - and I'm not the only one." - M/M
If you really want/need to sell, merely lower the price until is sells. No matter the loss.
Otherwise, don't complain. You're overpriced for the (here it comes) FREE MARKET.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 23, 2010 at 02:43 PM
Hezbollah Robocalls for Harry Reid !!! Supplies the Cash Behind Campaign Against Sharron Angle !!!
Yesterday, news broke that Muslim activist Tarek Beydoun of Dearbornistan paid for 250,000 robo-calls to Nevada voters against Sharron Angle, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate who will beat Harry Reid in November if we prevent-block-stop the Democrats from engaging in their trademark voter fraud !!!
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/25361822/detail.html
Beydoun, a recent college grad, in his 20s claims he’s upset with Angle’s comments about Islamic sharia ruling Dearborn. And, in fact, she’s right, as has been documented on this site:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com
more than any other writer or commentator has. But that’s not the scoop here.
The scoop is that Beydoun worked for a Hezbollah-funded newspaper and a Hezbollah charity raided by the FBI and that it’s highly unlikely that Beydoun, himself, has the means to personally fund 250,000 robo-calls against Angle.
Hezbollah Robocalls for Harry Reid !!! Supplies the Cash Behind Campaign Against Sharron Angle !!!
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/27877/exclusive-hezbollah-cash-behind-campaign-calls-against-sharron-angle
Posted by: USC | October 23, 2010 at 02:46 PM
"Hezbollah Robocalls for Harry Reid !!!" - USC (aka roboliar)
Fascist desperate lunacy knows no bounds.
Oh yeah, THAT preposterous idiocy SPAM will get a drunken nutcase racist coat hanger warrior into the Senate.
Keep trying.
You forgot to add that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi eat live Hispanic babies in secret Mormon ceremonies. And attacked us on 9-11 to make Cheney richer.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 23, 2010 at 02:50 PM
Keep China out of Texas and the US !!!
Wake up Texans this is just as bad as the TTC-Spain-collusion !!!
We must not let the highly uncivilized, brutal-barbaric, heinous mass; abusers, terrorizers, and torturers of billions of innocent; dogs, cats, rabbits, and countless other types of animals, into-onto any part of our country-land, or we will be doomed with an even bigger unremovable giant curse, then we are already plagued with-bearing, for having anything to do with tha;t uncivilized-barbaric-sadistic-heathen nation, that; abuses, terrorizes, tortures, and murders; billions of; dogs, cats, rabbits, and countless other types of animals that are not meant for humans to eat as a food source, which China in fact uses all of those animals for !!!
They torture the animals on purpose because they say it makes the food taste better. They're a sick nation of corrupt-criminals !!!
Chinese investment will boost South Texas drilling
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Chinese_investment_will_boost_South_Texas_drilling_104754124.html
Parts of South Texas already in the midst of a historic drilling boom soon will get a boost from an unlikely source: China. China’s national oil company, CNOOC Ltd., will spend up to $2.2 billion to drill in partnership with Chesapeake Energy Corp. in the Eagle Ford shale, a highly productive oil and gas formation that lies under 11 counties.
China stakes claim to S. Texas oil, gas
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/China_stakes_claim_to_S_Texas_oil_gas_104753969.html
HOUSTON — State-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC is buying a multibillion-dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields, potentially testing the political waters for further expansion into U.S. energy reserves.
With the announcement Monday that it would pay up to $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake Energy assets, CNOOC lays claim to a share of properties that eventually could produce up to half a million barrels a day of oil equivalent.
Keep China out of Texas and the US !!!
Wake up Texans this is just as bad as the TTC-Spain-collusion !!!
We must not let the highly uncivilized, brutal-barbaric, heinous mass; abusers, terrorizers, and torturers of billions of innocent; dogs, cats, rabbits, and countless other types of animals, into-onto any part of our country-land, or we will be doomed with an even bigger unremovable giant curse, then we are already plagued with-bearing, for having anything to do with tha;t uncivilized-barbaric-sadistic-heathen nation, that; abuses, terrorizes, tortures, and murders; billions of; dogs, cats, rabbits, and countless other types of animals that are not meant for humans to eat as a food source, which China in fact uses all of those animals for !!!
They torture the animals on purpose because they say it makes the food taste better. They're a sick nation of corrupt-criminals !!!
They also; abuse, terrorize, torture, and murder billions of hapless animals in their factory fur trades, maniacal medicine extractions from bears who are kept in a cage lying on their side 24/7/365, and in their circuses where they brutally; abuse, terrorize, torture, and murder all kinds of animals as entertainment for their; sick, psychotic, deranged, depraved, uncivilized-barbaric-sadistic-low-life citizen-family audiences !!!
Wake up Texas, don't let these uncivilized-barbarian low-lives get a foothold into our country !!!
We certainly don't need them to do the same kind of oil drilling extraction ourselves, without their secret hidden agenda help !!!
Don't get conned into this Clinton-Bush-Obama-liberal-RINO-type scheme-scam-fraud-swindle !!!
We can gain our energy independence without the help of any secret agenda driven usurping foreign power, especially not the hidden-covered-up, American hating Clinton-Bush-Obama-allies, the anti-American-job-economy-stealing and US-bankrupting Communist Chinese !!!
Don't let them in here !!!
Posted by: USC | October 23, 2010 at 03:00 PM
@USC
Remember when Poppy Bush made all those trips to China when he was President?
That's when he sold the country to the Chinese. Done deal, a long time ago.
China has owned our asses since then, and will continue to own our asses until all-out nuclear war over Iran for Israel.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 23, 2010 at 03:43 PM
It is only a matter of time, until the sensible economy returns.
Foreign influences have taken control of our country through confluent, "legal" means. Our leaders are describing America as more a hub, than an actual nation. Such patriots, these leaders!
We always believed the Supreme Court was above coarser politics, and if call upon would restore the nation by virtue of its Constitution, but alas, we have the court saying it is guided by foreign law and, in addition, has said limitless corporate money can be spent in campaigns. Is this our national, supreme court?
Paul Volker, the patriot of the proper economy, attempted to restore the stability of the financial system by the imposition of Glass-Steagall, with limits of proprietary trading. Which mortgage taker threw him under the bus? How can our financial system continue as it does, giving gifts to friends, such as preferred stocks? How can the same institution give corporate advice, act as a broker to the public, and run a hedge fund? They are no longer serving our public and its economy, they are trying to proscribe it, and openly state a large percentage of people in the nation are not wanted.
Our Congress, is thinking our times are prosperous, and people are just jealous of their gains.
Who will see us through these troubled waters and back to our safe haven?
It must be the Tea Party.
Posted by: Honest Abe | October 23, 2010 at 03:46 PM
This one is a little different... .
Two Different Versions.... ........... ....
Two Different Morals
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OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
* MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Co lu mbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
* MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
Posted by: WowZER | October 23, 2010 at 04:13 PM
If you really want/need to sell, merely lower the price until is sells. No matter the loss.
Otherwise, don't complain. You're overpriced for the (here it comes) FREE MARKET.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 23, 2010 at 02:43 PM
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I've been lowering the price.
Posted by: M/M | October 23, 2010 at 07:36 PM
Who was the last student at Harvard to obtain his PhD, by telling it the way he sees it?
And a corollary : What is the sense of being intelligent if you cannot use your own brain? A mynah bird, black with yellow bill, can repeat things it hears endlessly, its only fault is a tendency to stop after awhile because no one any longer listens.
The newer slick cat from Harvard is a political chameleon, he can flit, and float - is expert at telling you what you want to hear, getting his way, and making you feel good whilst he picks your pocket.
If he cannot manipulate you, he tries to outpace you.
It is the triumph of style over substance.
How bout some b-ball?
Posted by: Marine Globetrotter | October 23, 2010 at 07:37 PM
Speaking of the Media
Christine O’Donnell Trying To Break the Spell on Delaware. Trick Or Treat It’s Your Choice Delaware.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2010/10/christine-odonnell-trying-to-break.html
Posted by: Ree | October 23, 2010 at 08:49 PM
"I've been lowering the price." - M/M
Ah, good luck then. It's been a horrific market. Once people become afraid and believe prices will only go lower, they're not up for buying anything at any price sometimes. Happened in 1932, and it's happening again because some people never learn from past mistakes. Takes decades to climb out.
Repeal of Glass-Steagall created the roaring 20's all over again, with the inevitable aftermath.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 23, 2010 at 10:47 PM
Harvard's Jeffry Frieden :
Real wages are stagnant or declining, the standard of living is stagnant or declining, you have to increase exports, decrease imports, increase saving, and reduce consumption. That is the macroeconomics of dealing with a ($15bn+) debt crisis.
Job losses tell the story. Unemployment in the country as a whole today is 9.5 percent to 10 percent, but in the bottom 40 percent of the labor force it is 17 percent, while in the top 30 percent it is just 4 percent. “There is a widespread feeling that the borrowing boom of the 2001-2007 period primarily benefited the wealthy,” while the impacts of the crash and austerity measures will affect primarily the lower and middle classes, he says. “This is not an inaccurate perception, and is a formula for a lot of political discontent.”
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As they anticipate the re-ignition of inflation to reduce debt, they will be watching that political discontent. We sit in an environment of regulatory collapse, with the main positive in exports being to an antagonistic economy in China. There is a general feeling that an organized response from academia would be pointless amid the corruption, therefore it will be the wrath of the jobless and underemployed and their leaders upon which the ignition of real reform depends.
There will be attempts to include this discontent in the body politic, they may not have the patience to play with Washingtonian jesters for a decade.
How long can Arizona wait for the feds to respond to invasion? You are part of the US, to be protected from foreign hegemony. The way it appears today, the feds are going to leave it the way it is.
As for making or breaking China, although one would not want to jinx this, over time the Chinese politburo is able to provide more social support to their populace, and this does little to generate discontent (some coal miners notwithstanding). These people are almost totally dependent on the state.
Posted by: Dgscol | October 24, 2010 at 01:35 AM
Housing prices will continue to fall and fall, and fall. There is unemployment, and upcoming inflation, and finally the sales of homes by baby boomers. We are currently going through a second wave of mortgage foreclosures.
I am not an expert, but ... if you live in an area with inflated housing prices, you may want to sell ASAP (on coastlines), and rent, which often costs half as much as paying interest on a home you purchase. If you want to move somewhere that housing prices are fairly stable you can purchase at any time.
Markets are regional. Looking around can also save you money, since some people are stuck up - cheating on the market.
People are suggest a small markup (5%) as opposed to (10-20%) for dickering purposes.
Good Luck.
Posted by: Dgscol | October 24, 2010 at 02:36 AM
An alternative to inflation to deal with the debt, is to negotiate with one's lenders and make affordable payments. Since the banks created this debt, and pocketed much of it except for the bribes they gave to political families, why don't they pay it back? Why should the general public pay?
Posted by: Dgscol | October 24, 2010 at 03:07 AM
I'd be happy to pay back my stimulus check, which is all I received. I got no insider deals on housing, or stocks. I got no banker bonus. Please do not make me pay all that interest to essentially pay off what the banks stole.
PS I do not owe 45K. I got only the stimulus check. Honest.
Posted by: Dgscol | October 24, 2010 at 03:50 AM
Just one last comment - why should anyone pay a red cent for interest, if the banks are not repaired and not properly regulated? In the meantime they can make their money off of stocks, and machine daytrading.
Posted by: Dgscol | October 24, 2010 at 04:15 AM
The banks will never be regulated, nor any other business venture, as long as the GOP remains with enough power to stop all legislation with the filibuster. If they ever again gain a majority, it will be far worse. Yes, Obama also made a deal with the devil Wall Street, and Wall Street will never again be main street or good for main street, because Wall Street is essentially consuming Main Street.
Hillary Clinton did not, and would not make the same mistakes as Bill did in the 90's, and that's why she's not President, because there was a convenient novice Wall Street whore ready to do the deal. However, he's learning fast, the very hard way.
Unless big business is regulated to end all outsourcing, and penalized to make outsourcing far more unprofitable than building and manning factories here in the US, the US is finished and already halfway to third world status.
GOP/Tea Party victory will be the final nail in the coffin of the US.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 24, 2010 at 04:28 AM
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Hey, X-FILES: A little birdie just told me that Dick Cheney is sitting in a van outside your house with his microwave stroke weapon in hand.
Better tighten up that tinfoil hat.
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | October 24, 2010 at 12:53 PM
How to spot the Soros socialists, i.e. these water carriers for Libworld's billionaires and eliteniks:
They spout classic Marx pap for their Bolshie billionaires. "Hey, we against de Capitalists. Oh, yeah! See, de Capitalists and their GOP henchmen is exploiting you poor schmucks. We here to save you dummies!"
While waging their Classless War, moaning about "the capitalists who ran away to China," these creepy-crazies conveniently ignore how the politburo in Washington taxes business out of the country, and buries it in bureaucratic paperwork under nice-sounding "regulation". 'See? We wanna regulate de Capitalists for you donkeys!'
The Soros-inspired socialist toadies also hate to tell us how the Soviet-inspired Unions have strong-armed the "capitalists" AND the people's Government with parasite-deals way above what their clients could get in a free market. This great "service" to the "workers," of course, is all ultimately paid for by the taxpayers who it bankrupts with its parasites.
How clever!
And now States and cities all over the country are going bankrupt with these insanely swinish "benefits" and pension plans they are supposed to pay and which can NEVER be paid, as is now becoming clear even to a mindless socialist toady.
How clever---Libworld and its crypto-Stalinist Classless Warfare, with its phoney Ivy League bandleaders.
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MARK LEVIN Repeal it, G.O.P. or we repeal you!
GRINGOBRO Got it, Goopers?
Posted by: gringoman | October 24, 2010 at 01:21 PM
"Better tighten up that tinfoil hat." - UG
As I already stated, they give up when they realize His angels are in their way.
Not tinfoil.
Posted by: xbjllb | October 24, 2010 at 02:01 PM
We need a sharp increase in interest rates, to pay off the debt and liquify the banks. What is all the BS talk about a global gold tax instead?
Posted by: Dgscol | October 24, 2010 at 02:10 PM
The interest rate hike is equivalent to a general consumer tax. Should everyone pay this when the government has not 1) chased the aliens out and patrolled the border 2) has not reinstituted Glass-Steagall and re-toothed the SEC - they should be erring on the side of strict enforcement rather than the opposite and 3) has not acted to fix unemployment?
If we pay this, there is no public stick to make the government act responsibly - except actual batons.
The gold tax spreads the tax over a wider base, but how could they collect? It would require the G20, surely.
Posted by: Dgscol | October 24, 2010 at 02:23 PM