Posts Made By: Mel Maki

Rod Kaufman said:

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http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/A-pan-Arab-scourge-361209

Rod Kaufman said:

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http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/A-pan-Arab-scourge-361209

His previous article described Obama's, "ignorance, arrogance, and naiveté."

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=360746

Rod Kaufman said:

"Analysts there now think the blue chip index will hit 2050 by year's-end instead of 1900".
http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/14/investing/stocks-markets/index.html?iid=HP_LN

Rod Kaufman said:

"Analysts there now think the blue chip index will hit 2050 by year's-end instead of 1900".
http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/14/investing/stocks-markets/index.html?iid=HP_LN

Rod Kaufman said:

"Analysts there now think the blue chip index will hit 2050 by year's-end instead of 1900".
http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/14/investing/stocks-markets/index.html?iid=HP_LN

First quarter GDP -2.9% one of the lowest in history.

288,000 new jobs in June. They forgot to tell us 525,000 full-time jobs were lost in June and 800,000 part-time low wage jobs were created.

China is set to pass the US based on consumer spending this year. First time since 1872 US not number 1.

For the first time our middle class isn't number 1 in the world. Canada has passed us.

For first time in US history more businesses are closing each day than starting up.

There are now 70% more Americans collecting entitlement checks than working in the private sector. 148 million vs 86 million. US Census Bureau

The average full-time employee now earns less (adj for inflation) than 40 years ago.

20% of US families didn't have a single member who is employed.

Record numbers of Americans not in the workforce (over 92 million)

The number of working age Americans without a job has increased by 10 million in Obama's 5 years.

America's second largest employer is a temp agency.

But the Fed did get the stock market higher and there was that very tame Chuck Norris segment on Bill O'Reilly and that rancher that didn't pay his fees.

Rod Kaufman said:

The Kansas governor and his conservative GOP legislature enacted massive tax cuts in order to "stimulate" growth in the state. Bottom line: the state is falling apart.
Why? Instead of attracting new business to the stare, EXISTING businesses simply refiled on their tax status in order to take advantage of the cuts. Result: No income for the state!
Result:
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/may/01/bond-rating-agency-downgrades-state-bonds-cites-sl/
Result:
"Kansas is going broke and predicted to be bankrupt"
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/07/11/kansas-broke-due-republican-plan-cutting-taxes-rich.html
Your GOP at work, making things better, one state at a time...

This is a huge problem. Taxes are just too low. The private sector has too much money. The liberals are trying to fix this.

Rod Kaufman said:

Well, it's time for the anti psychotics...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/03/cliven-bundy-iap-god-civil-war-_n_5646121.html

Huge! This story will be a big part of a low information voter's decision making process.

Pete Brayton said:

This is from the Onion, it has coarse language so don't watch it if you're offended by that kind of thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWKmqzz9ypI

It is too true. Quality programing is an unnecessary expense. And it could be even worse and people would simply watch the least annoying program.

Jim Moscheck said:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Why in the world would a parent put their nine year old girl in a situation like this? What were they trying to teach her? Heck, when my daughter was nine years old she was playing with Barbie's and reading "The Babysitters Club" books. Burgers and Bullets was the name of the operation in Arizona where you can eat a greasy burger and then for the heck of it let your little girl use an Uzi with a fully loaded clip. What could possibly go wrong? The instructor was a military veteran but he make too many mistakes. He was on the wrong side of her and was leaning into the line of fire. Not to be harsh but it sure is a way to cleanse the gene pool. The poor kid was just doing what her parents wanted her to do and will probably suffer mentally for the rest of her life. Just senseless. :S Where else could this happen in the developed world but here in the good old USA. I hope OSHA shuts them down for good along with changing the age limit rules of any other gun range that is authorized to have automatic weapons. This one makes me mad.

It just wasn't reasonable to ask that nine year old girl to shoot that Uzi. Some nine year olds certainly are physically capable of shooting it. The two of them together were not. The article says the Uzi has a powerful recoil. It actually has a low recoil. It is heavy and shoots a cartridge that is typically shot in light pistols. Kids should shoot .22 ammo.

I assumed this was a 9mm Uzi. There were some Uzis made for the 45. They had more recoil.

Rod Kaufman said:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/02/politics/glenn-beck-hillary-clinton/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
The Clintonian era reborn...

Rod Kaufman said:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/02/politics/glenn-beck-hillary-clinton/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
The Clintonian era reborn...

Beck is a phony with zero credibility. He has the fake emotion of a tv preacher. At least Jimmy Swaggert could play the piano.

Clinton will not win. This year she was a poor interview. She won't be able to hold her own without gaffes. The ME will worsen and she won't look good explaining that mess. Can she brag about the reset? Telling the parent she will get the man that made that video? The worst fake Black accent ever used by a politician in Selma? She isn't Bill. Her support is a mile wide and an inch deep.

Rod Kaufman said:

Obviously a political hack for some liberal group...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ban-kimoon/now-is-the-time-to-act-on_b_5738574.html

Maybe not the first person you would go to. He has a degree in public administration.

Bill Clinton was the best retail politician. Remember the pointing at people in the crowd, leaving the debate podium to engage a person, the biting of the lip, or the laughing at a funeral with the grief stricken look when he saw the camera. His wife is not a politician.

Rod Kaufman said:

The I-15 freeway in Corona Ca was closed after a shootout between rival motorcycle gangs with a long standing feud: the Hell's Angels and the Mongol's. Their feud doesn't go as far back as the Hatfields and the McCoy's did BUT there's definitely bad blood between them:
http://ktla.com/2014/09/21/1-dead-2-injured-in-shooting-on-15-freeway-near-corona/
Now, my proposal for a constructive channeling of their vibrant and violent proclivities is to strike a truce and a plea bargain wherein the two gangs agree to cease and desist their turf wars by taking on ISIS in Iraq. The Mongol's the Hell's Angels get to stay out of the pokey while in Iraq and, for every beard they bring back, another year is shaven off their sentences.
What'ya all think?...

I'd be surprised if any of them could pass the physical.