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Time for a special prosecutor.

Punish everyone in his fascist army. Do not waste time targeting him. Make people afraid to carry out his illegal orders.

Not defeatist, realistic. We can survive not by removing him, which will not happen, but by taking out his supporting players politically and legally.

This is the first black president. Nothing will touch him, but the people around him can be taken out (politically or legally).

Nothing will touch Obama. It will not happen. Concentrate on punishing his underlings, dishearten them. They are the means by which he executes his evil plans. They are following illegal orders. Punish them.

Obama will never be touched. If there was a video of him lighting puppies on fire, the message would be he must have had a good reason.

Concentrate on really severe punishment for the underlings who execute his evil, even if they say they were just following orders. Obama will never be touched. Punish the underlings. Put fear in their hearts.

That is the only thing that will stop them persecuting his political opponents. Obama wants his opponents to know they are being persecuted so they will shrink back and give up before the next election. That way he can solidify his power. We must not give up. If we can't stop the heart of the persecution, we must at least stop it at the periphery.

Excellent!

Can’t find the rest of the story.

Reminder to govt employees: Always keep the blue dress.

Like Todd really wants to advise the GOP so it will succeed.

Let’s hope those two guys saved the blue dress.

I contributed money to a 911 fund with the expectation that it would be spent on meeting the emergency medical, housing and food needs of those injured in the attack. It turned out there were no survivors, except rescue workers. I expected the fund to be used for them and the remainder, which was substantial, to be used for future emergencies anywhere in the country. I was disappointed to see it turned by social pressure (O’Reilly in particular) into a big life insurance fund compensating families based on things other than emergency needs.

Since then I don’t contribute money that might be misused in that earmarked way. Instead I contribute to the general fund of two charities I trust: Red Cross and Salvation Army.

I’m sorry for people who sent money for Newtown. Most of their money will go to whoever can figure a way to grab it.

... Obama has “kept every promise he’s made”

... and I'm keeping mine, right now. -CC

Go get ‘em, TBM.

They should take a look at my fishpond in spring.

Rest in peace, Doctor Raoul.

Nice.

Babelfish?

How can anyone be ready?

It’s news to me. I thought they were refugees from religious oppression.

Helen Keller. Braille. Touch. A trial run with blindfolds. Maybe I couldn’t talk them out of it, but I would try.

I don’t object to people killing themselves although I would try to talk them out of it. I object to a doctor killing them or to their government going on record that it might be a good idea.

How's this for an explanation? A woman would stay with her own tribe, so any Neanderthal-CroMagnon baby with Cro-M mother would be incorporated into a Cro-M tribe and bring in Neandertal DNA. If the father was Cro-M, then the baby would be incorporated into Neandertal tribe.

Under that theory, there would be no evidence of Neandertal DNA in the mitochondria of Cro-M. It would all be in the 23 pairs of chromosomes. I think that is what has been found.

Leads one to question how exactly Europeans acquired Neandertal DNA, especially since my understanding is that it is all essentially in the female line.

How's this for an explanation? A woman would stay with her own tribe, so any Neanderthal-CroMagnon baby with Cro-M mother would be incorporated into a Cro-M tribe and bring in Neandertal DNA. If the father was Cro-M, then the baby would be incorporated into Neandertal tribe.

Many people, including me, believe that Christie betrayed them. I hope he doesn’t mess up the waters by trying to be the Republican candidate.

Right, thanks.

Please to explain.

Yes, canaries in the coal mine. The people may not be exceptional; they have had an exceptional Constitution thrust upon them and have not been able to appreciate or maintain it for all the reasons and experiences implied in your questions and analysis.

I live in the America. Why am I afraid police might enter my home and shoot my dog? A few years ago the thought would have seemed ridiculous, paranoid, but things are different now. How did it happen? There is something mighty wrong here. How can it be stopped?

The quotation from the article shows only that the author makes claims that are irresponsible and self-serving. The author just puts forth something most people would like to believe, but it is unsupported by any scientific research.

Having seen only the video, the author strongly suggests that uncovering the mother’s faults will likely enable a therapist to solve the child’s problems. We know that is an irresponsible claim, not grounded in science. In addition, blaming the parent gives the therapist (and the general public) a scapegoat when the therapy fails.

As written in another post on this thread, several conditions that for decades had been blamed on mothers, have since been scientifically established to be primarily, or wholly, and matter of genetic constitution.

For every psychological disorder of children, there is a blame-the-mother contingent, as with the author here. Those theories just don’t stand up to investigation. It’s usually the case, as it seems here, the dangerous child has normal siblings. It’s also the case that the frightening behavior is not unique to the dangerous child. We have to admit that we don’t know why a particular person commits mass murder, and many other similar people do not. No one has been able to predict it even in the short term of days ahead of time, and it certainly cannot be predicted from childhood years ahead of time.

Of course the scientific study is worth while, but it will not yield anything useful soon. Meanwhile the one thing we can do is protect whatever we treasure from the possibility of such and attack. We protect the president, his children, his officers, members of congress, governors, and mayors with little armies of armed guards. Celebrities do the same for themselves and their families. It’s a good idea for schoolchildren, too.

The poor dear. What gulag did he serve in ?

It's deceptively named Martha's Vineyard.

Awesome video.

Awesome video.

This is from the President? He believes that he has the power to strip citizenship from Americans? May I remind him Americans have the right to petition their government? ... and have the right to speak as they wish? Now where did I read that? Having this stupid thing on the White House site is infantile, but then his supporters like being treated like infants so infantile might be just the right level.

What does hypothecated mean?

I don't get it. If he had Obamacare would he have applied for Medicaid? How else would he get a price he considers fair? Perhaps he would have got the diagnosis and then got insurance, but the diagnosis would have cost the same amount of money he already was unwilling to pay, and he would have paid the penalties in addition. Perhaps he would have just bought the insurance to avoid the fine, but he could have done that without the threat of a fine, and it would have been cheaper. What kind of logic are they teaching at Harvard?.

I suspect this guy, if he exists, avoided medical care to make a political point, but an illogical point, and now it has come round to a very sad situation . His friend is trying to console him by printing in the NYT that he was only marginally responsible , mostly it was unfair insurance rates that are killing him.

Sometimes the truth hurts.

From another thread:

The President has problems with short-term memory. In the debate, while he was answering Romney, he forgot most of what Romney had just said. His memory is so bad he even forgets the topic midsentence. That is why he rattles on. It is not a professorial contemplation of intricate questions, it is simply forgetting.

This memory problem is the reason he latched on to each hint Lehrer threw to him, simply repeating Lehrer's words, then getting off track while elaborating on them.

It doesn't matter if he comes out swinging the next time, he will still have trouble responding to a question and completing a sentence.

Romney's short-term memory is terrific. He was ticking off points, remembering who said what, and organizing Obama's ramblings for rebuttal ... just what was needed to overwhelm his befuddled opponent.

For a debate strategy, it's probably important to recognize that such problems of short-term memory often leave long-term memory, reasoning, and other aspects of intelligence completely intact.

Having a short-term memory problem and being stupid are two different things, but I haven't seen any evidence that the President is overly smart. The only way I guess he's probably smarter than average is his heredity, which seems favorable.

About his memory problem, that could come from the admitted early excesses in marijuana and other drugs or from alcohol. There are other possible causes, but no evidence for them.

The President has problems with short-term memory. In the debate, while he was answering Romney, he forgot most of what Romney had just said. His memory is so bad he even forgets the topic midsentence. That is why he rattles on. It is not a professorial contemplation of intricate questions, it is simply forgetting.

This memory problem is the reason he latched on to each hint Lehrer threw to him, simply repeating Lehrer's words, then getting off track while elaborating on them.

It doesn't matter if he comes out swinging the next time, he will still have trouble responding to a question and completing a sentence.

The President has problems with short-term memory. In the debate, while he was answering Romney, he forgot most of what Romney had just said. His memory is so bad he even forgets the topic midsentence. That is why he rattles on. It is not a professorial contemplation of intricate questions, it is simply forgetting.

This memory problem is the reason he latched on to each hint Lehrer threw to him, simply repeating Lehrer's words, then getting off track while elaborating on them.

It doesn't matter if he comes out swinging the next time, he will still have trouble responding to a question and completing a sentence.

It may be simpler than that. As is amply illustrated in history and personal experience, sadism, pain, and fear are consistently useful in causing others to bend to one’s will.

Still offending after all these years.

The zip code typo could be the correct explanation. Given the keyboard layout, 06814 instead of 96814 is a reasonable typing error. Way back when someone made a searchable file available, I searched for others in Hawaii who had Connecticut numbers. The search found several such people, at least 5, making the zip code explanation somewhat more credible.

The typo explanation may be ridiculous applied to the published bio blurb, but it seems to hold water here.

Ben has gone off the rails a bit. Lovely man, but not thinking things through so well anymore.

Ben has gone off the rails a bit. Lovely man, but not thinking things through so well anymore.

The most important speech of the convention was Cardinal Dolan’s benediction.

My daughter says she watches Chrissie on the chance she will see a giant larva crawl out of the top of his head.