Posts Made By: Dave Snope

The Catholics are the ultimate swing voting group. Lots of socially conservative blue collar workers that also believe in government aid and unions. Ted Kennedy taking good care of the blue collar Catholics in Boston and the like. Obama couldn't have done a better job of alienating them to the point where they were uncharacteristically activated.

What astonishes me is that the latest poll shows that 47% of voters think that Obama is better on the economy. They must be stuck on stupid. Or food stamps. Maybe promises of more free stuff equates to "better on the economy"?

Yes, because for a liberal, fairness trumps all, including facts.

IIRC, most of the blame being tossed around here was at "speculators".

Obama had his small part in the price increase by limiting the supply of oil. But we're talking 1% or thereabouts in the short-term big picture. That hasn't changed a bit. But he could have helped the future supply a lot by allowing drilling. Planning for tomorrow, lowering oil futures prices, and ultimately our price at the pump. We may have the world's largest oil reserves and could have a strong impact on world prices (contrary to what the Obama supporters say with their flat-earther peak oil theories). Short term, it's just the damand that has gone down due to depressed world economies caused by socialistic governments spending and taxing like there's no tomorrow. You know, the ones that are trying to achieve "fairness". Guess which three countries lead the world in a achieving income equality (eg "fairness)? It's Greece, Spain, and France. Icons of social reasoning, all.

Regular unleaded is $4.29/gal around here this week. Wonderful. California has it's own special set of fairness achievers running the state and driving up the cost of everything. Our gross public debt is $378 billion, closing in on Greece's 330 billion euros. But our state is solving bigger problems. We are totally preparing for the onslaught of global warming, whether it be wet, dry, hot, cold, or snowy.

Lee Spain said:

Fortunately, Anacortes sells telescope and firearms!

ROTFLOL!!

That's a good one!

That's a handsome dog

They are speculating that the attacker took "bath salts".

The president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, Armando Aguilar believes the entire incident is the fault of a new drug trend that has led to similar incidents. Emergency room doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital said they too have seen a major increase in cases linked to the street drug called “bath salts”



“We noticed an increase probably after Ultra Fest,” said emergency room Dr. Paul Adams, at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

In many of the cases, Dr. Adams said the person’s temperature has risen to an extremely high level, they’ve become very aggressive. Some have used their jaws as a weapon during attacks. Dr. Adams said the patients were in a state of delirium.

“Extremely strong, I took care of a 150 pound individual who you would have thought he was 250 pounds,” Dr. Adams said. “It took six security officers to restrain the individual.”

Adams said the extreme strength and violence of patients on “bath salts” has become a significant threat to all those charged with the task of trying to help those high on the drug.

What Romney says makes sense. Just some straightforward facts about what is going on around the globe, without any hyperbole. You, however, couldn't avoid hyperbole with your sleazy label "neocon". There's nothing "neo" to it. And Romney's comments don't imply a "buildup", as your jump to conclusion says, but it should mean a stop to Obama's proposed defense cuts.

Although I do not believe that the government can create jobs, it has been shown that the development of complex military systems has a large (long-temporary) positive effect on employment due to the pyramid effect of thousands of sub-contractors hiring people to fulfill design and production phases. And in the modern defense procurement system, much of the R&D is self-funded by these contractors. The employment effect is gigantic compared to, say, a large solar plant operated by four people and primarily built from panels built in China.

Agree on the F22. Our fighter planes are so very old, and the new ones are going to get stretched very far. Two recent events reminded me of this.

There was the recent story of the Air Force father and son who flew the same F-15 aircraft thirty years apart. http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/18/americas-aging-aviation-force-father-son-flew-same-fighter-jet-30-years-apart/

Last week, my wife and I ran in to an old friend in a restaurant. He told us that his son was now flying an F-18 in the Persian Gulf. We found that remarkable, as my wife flew the F-18 at Pax River thirty two years ago. http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/fa18/fa18_milestones.htm

Thirty years is an incredibly long time for a fighter plane design. Think about the evolution and great number of different fighter planes produced from 1940 - 1970, from WWII through the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

Atlanta is also a strong contender for lead in electing clowns to congress. You've had Hank "Guam could capsize and tip over" Johnson, and Cynthia "Why didn't Bush warn New Yorkers before 9-11" McKinney.

Man, makes me want to run for office. Wadda life! Young mistresses and unlimited funds to pay them, unlimited travel, round-the-clock adoring sycophants, all paid for with other people's money. All I'd have to do is dress smartly and become a polished liar. Oh, wait...