The Many Faces of US Politics...

[Tyrones own]

Another Good old boy and mate of GWB
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2010/11/24/delay_judge_think_about_thanks.html?cxntcid=breaking_news

Did you miss the news last week on Charlie sc**bag Rangle Declan..or do somethings just never change around here
But then again Rangle is Democrat so he gets a slap on the wrist and that's alright.
Just curious... how do you get away with pleading ignorance to a tax evasion law that you help write and over see 
ye couldn't make this shit up

Wonder will the donation's contributed to get Reid, Boxer, Frank etc re-elected be investigated or perhaps the Money trail to get Obama
in to office might need looked into...but that's right, the Center for American progress, Acorn, the Tides foundation all funded by George Soros
and who could forget the Union elite at SEIU to name but a few, is the smoke and mirrors required to be sure that never happens..
No nothing biased here Declan

[Tyrones own]

What a shocker 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/26/acorn-workers-convicted-admitted-guilt-election-fraud/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

*Declan apparently missed this story also

[Declan]

No nothing biased here Declan

Correct the Gop and Dems are as corrupt as each other. Two sides of the same coin so to speak.

I see the second link you put up TO is from FoxNews - that URL is blocked on my PC

[Tyrones own]

I see the second link you put up TO is from FoxNews - that URL is blocked on my PC

That would explain the ignorance then so...I tried MSNBC but i guess they didn't find something like this newsworthy 

[Tyrones own]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101127/ap_on_re_us/us_portland_car_bomb_plot

Religion of Peace at it again 

[heganboy]

Chinese wikipedia leaks:
From
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/opinion/01friedman.html?src=me&ref=general

While secrets from WikiLeaks were splashed all over the American newspapers, I couldn't help but wonder: What if China had a WikiLeaker and we could see what its embassy in Washington was reporting about America? I suspect the cable would read like this:




Josh Haner/The New York Times
Thomas L. Friedman
Washington Embassy, People's Republic of China, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Beijing, TOP SECRET/Subject: America today.

Things are going well here for China. America remains a deeply politically polarized country, which is certainly helpful for our goal of overtaking the U.S. as the world's most powerful economy and nation. But we're particularly optimistic because the Americans are polarized over all the wrong things.

There is a willful self-destructiveness in the air here as if America has all the time and money in the world for petty politics. They fight over things like — we are not making this up — how and where an airport security officer can touch them. They are fighting — we are happy to report — over the latest nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. It seems as if the Republicans are so interested in weakening President Obama that they are going to scuttle a treaty that would have fostered closer U.S.-Russian cooperation on issues like Iran. And since anything that brings Russia and America closer could end up isolating us, we are grateful to Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona for putting our interests ahead of America's and blocking Senate ratification of the treaty. The ambassador has invited Senator Kyl and his wife for dinner at Mr. Kao's Chinese restaurant to praise him for his steadfastness in protecting America's (read: our) interests.

Americans just had what they call an "election." Best we could tell it involved one congressman trying to raise more money than the other (all from businesses they are supposed to be regulating) so he could tell bigger lies on TV more often about the other guy before the other guy could do it to him. This leaves us relieved. It means America will do nothing serious to fix its structural problems: a ballooning deficit, declining educational performance, crumbling infrastructure and diminished immigration of new talent.

The ambassador recently took what the Americans call a fast train — the Acela — from Washington to New York City. Our bullet train from Beijing to Tianjin would have made the trip in 90 minutes. His took three hours — and it was on time! Along the way the ambassador used his cellphone to call his embassy office, and in one hour he experienced 12 dropped calls — again, we are not making this up. We have a joke in the embassy: "When someone calls you from China today it sounds like they are next door. And when someone calls you from next door in America, it sounds like they are calling from China!" Those of us who worked in China's embassy in Zambia often note that Africa's cellphone service was better than America's.

But the Americans are oblivious. They travel abroad so rarely that they don't see how far they are falling behind. Which is why we at the embassy find it funny that Americans are now fighting over how "exceptional" they are. Once again, we are not making this up. On the front page of The Washington Post on Monday there was an article noting that Republicans Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee are denouncing Obama for denying "American exceptionalism." The Americans have replaced working to be exceptional with talking about how exceptional they still are. They don't seem to understand that you can't declare yourself "exceptional," only others can bestow that adjective upon you.

In foreign policy, we see no chance of Obama extricating U.S. forces from Afghanistan. He knows the Republicans will call him a wimp if he does, so America will keep hemorrhaging $190 million a day there. Therefore, America will lack the military means to challenge us anywhere else, particularly on North Korea, where our lunatic friends continue to yank America's chain every six months so that the Americans have to come and beg us to calm things down. By the time the Americans do get out of Afghanistan, the Afghans will surely hate them so much that China's mining companies already operating there should be able to buy up the rest of Afghanistan's rare minerals.

Most of the Republicans just elected to Congress do not believe what their scientists tell them about man-made climate change. America's politicians are mostly lawyers — not engineers or scientists like ours — so they'll just say crazy things about science and nobody calls them on it. It's good. It means they will not support any bill to spur clean energy innovation, which is central to our next five-year plan. And this ensures that our efforts to dominate the wind, solar, nuclear and electric car industries will not be challenged by America.

Finally, record numbers of U.S. high school students are now studying Chinese, which should guarantee us a steady supply of cheap labor that speaks our language here, as we use our $2.3 trillion in reserves to quietly buy up U.S. factories. In sum, things are going well for China in America.

Thank goodness the Americans can't read our diplomatic cables.

Embassy Washington.

[tyssam5]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101127/ap_on_re_us/us_portland_car_bomb_plot

Religion of Peace at it again 

Good job by the FBI in scaring the shite out of people, they could have had this kid locked up months ago.

[tyssam5]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101127/ap_on_re_us/us_portland_car_bomb_plot

Religion of Peace at it again 

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december132008/bill_hakim_12-13-08.php

We also have Christian 'conservatives' up in Oregon who need watched.

[Tyrones own]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101127/ap_on_re_us/us_portland_car_bomb_plot

Religion of Peace at it again 

Good job by the FBI in scaring the shite out of people, they could have had this kid locked up months ago.

Under what grounds  ... the ACLU or our inept AG Holder would have had field day
Are you really that stupid or is it simply sheer ignorance

[Tyrones own]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101127/ap_on_re_us/us_portland_car_bomb_plot

Religion of Peace at it again 

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december132008/bill_hakim_12-13-08.php

We also have Christian 'conservatives' up in Oregon who need watched.

Pray tell you're not comparing a botched bank Robbery with a Muslim terrorist going after collateral damage
of what could only be young families at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony...and all in the name of Allah 
* but while you're at it...please do explain the Christian 'Conservative' slant to you going back to '08 to find this story

[Tyrones own]

Phew...After November I think the Country may be turning a corner 
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46573.html#comments

[heganboy]

turning the corner and heading the wrong way...

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Phew...After November I think the Country may be turning a corner 
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46573.html#comments

So, an immigrant to the US lauds the blocking of the reformation of US immigration legislation.

[Tyrones own]

turning the corner and heading the wrong way...

So you've been happy enough then so 

[heganboy]

I would have preferred to see that act passed, was very disappointed to see the tax bill go through this week. Very interested to see if the overhaul of the tax system will ever happen, I think its one of the biggest impediments to the US economy as it stands.
Even W's "

President's Advisory Panel for Federal Tax Reform criticized the tax system as being extremely complex, requiring detailed record-keeping, lengthy instructions, and complicated schedules, worksheets, and forms. They stated that it penalizes work, discourages saving and investment, and hinders the competitiveness of American business. The tax code is commonly riddled with provisions that treat similarly situated taxpayers differently and create perceptions of unfairness.The panel's major reform push was for the removal of the Alternative Minimum Tax, which is not indexed for inflation."