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I was just being generic, the shift is on the column, it doesn’t matter whether automatic or manual, the lever is on the column and no knee-banging box in the middle of the seats thereby giving more room for actually sitting in comfort :)

No, I see it. A lot of us see it.

My response, after screaming against this bail out and being ignored along with so many other citizens, was to start my own boycott. I will NEVER buy a GM product, though they now are the only company to manufacture a column shift car. I will take the less comfort, straight-jacket feel front seats, and buy Ford. They are my auto industry heroes, everyone put something on the table in order to make them a viable and profitable company. GO FORD!

Geesh, how much more is going to be rammed through that We the People do not want?

I hear a lot of people talking about ‘regulation’ becoming the way to institute laws that don’t pass. Maybe the 1st then, along with Obamacare repeal is to pass a law preventing agencies from instituting laws and regulations. After all, regulations are laws. We need something that says any regulation an agency wants to enact must come before the house and be passed. After all it is the House that is suppoesd to enact laws under the constitution.

Amazon has lost a buyer here also. I buy/bought all my books there, and I buy a lot of books.

Unfortunately, wikileaks is not down. He’s supposed to be some real hot hacker, you’d think other hackers would like to knock him down and take the title!

Hi,

I believe it is Monsanto that gets the dough with this one. I was listening to Cavuto today and they talked about this bill. I didn’t bother to call since my senator is ‘lord help us’ Boxer and she’s set for another 6 years so what does she care!

I’m with you :) Wow, new construction jobs or rehab jobs to build or refurbish a plant, new chemist jobs, new packing jobs, new shipping jobs, a step in the right directions for employment!

This is what I found about 1199 SEIU East, “... 350,000 members in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland and Washington D.C....

Interesting that the 30,000 low wage home attendants of this union are losing their kids’ coverage. If every union member paid 43 bucks a year [$3.59 per month] that would cover the 15 million short-fall. Oh, and they also did a special fund raising among their members to raise and donate 1 million to Haiti emergency relief.

http://www.unicefusa.org/news/releases/1199-seiu-united-healthcare.html

Just another manipulation to get health care into the gov’s hands.

I am sick of this characterization as ‘whistleblowers’ They are traitors and the so-called ‘leaks’ are treasonous acts.

There has to be some law to get them. They must know that someone might die, so if even one person’s death can be linked to them, they should be arrested and charged with first degree premeditated murder.

My understanding as to Delaware is that O’Donnell was the only conservative candidate. In this I agree with Sarah Palin, if you’re only choice is a conservative who might not win and a progressive/liberal then I go with the conservative. Why the heck would you go with the progressive/liberal, that’s what is there now?

The picking of ‘candidates’ who can win is what moved the republicans more left. I left the Republicans a couple of decades ago when they became just like the dems, only out to win. So, I will always go with the conservative. Maybe along with this ‘vetting’ process, we also need to learn how to do a great ground game for those place where we don’t have a choice between conservatives?

I agree. I’ve never like I’d much rather have a positive list of companies that we can go out gung ho and support.

Though, as an aside, I’d love to have a list of the companies like GE. No call for boycott, but just a list of those kinds of companies so I can make my own choice.

I’ve done my own personal boycott of GE for a decade or more. GM is now on my list. Not calling for a boycott, just think that as a conservative, I won’t support those companies!

LOL, well, that might be one business that could work. Of course, the progressives and liberals in the legislature will give you a ‘special’ tax rate when they find you’re moving all the tax paying working class out of here!

Let me know, I’ll rent from you, I even have the hitch :)

Happy Thanks Giving day!

You’re right, except for 65 and older who get a 15,000 homestead exemption and an additional 10,000 for senior. That property is then fixed at that ‘value’ For me, being lower income and just months short of 65, this would work out best. But for those buying a house above the 100,000 mark that could be a high tax, indeed.

...was appalled at Whoopi’s ignorance of history and current events....

I was appalled at her blatant anti-semiticism which no body seems to mind. Had anyone said of a study of racism against blacks ‘I’m sure some people believe that study’ there would be riots in the streets.

I think that shocked me more than anything else. Then again, her liberosity would include the ‘jews are the problem’ philosopy.

That’s what you get when you have a state in which unions control most state jobs and progressives control the media and the government.

I will be moving because I can’t afford to live here anymore. My standard of living has declined for the last 5 years. But, wow, those government supported ‘you owe me welfare, foodstamps, healthcare’ non-workers and those union government [don’t care if you can’t feed your family you owe me my 80% of earnings pension] workers are ‘moving on up....finally got a piece of [someone else’s] pie’

I’m looking at Texas, they are somewhere down in the 40th level for taxes per capita and % of income, no inheritance taxes, and just the fed estate taxes.

I agree. Just like the MSM became a political arm of the Obama campaign, it will tout itself in 2012, if Palin runs, as the ‘non-partisan, we just report the facts to give you the truth’ agency of the ‘free press’ They will ‘create’ her with vilification and lies. And, be aware, they still have a long reach especially since so many people allow themselves to be emotionally co-opted.

It’s why so many people still believe that Sarah Palin is dumb and not qualified to be President but that Obama is so intelligent and qualified. They have been so progandized that they truly believe being a community organizer qualifies one to be the leader of the free world.

“It would have been worse”

Our response is:

“It would have been BETTER had you not passed your healthcare takeover, your bailout GM, your pay back unions, liberals and progressives programs, your payback to eco-nazis spending, your refusal to fix the tax rates during the recession because it would be a good ‘class warfare’ issue for your campaign, you waste of tax dollars, fraud in your agenda and abuse of we the people. YOU put us in debt for YOUR agenda”

They didn’t and still don’t get it; We the People do!

Hi,

That’s OK, I think it is ABC’s fault, though I can’t really think how they could do it across the time-line so it was live for everyone. I’m not a watcher of the show, only interested this time because of all the hateful things about Bristol and wanted to support her. She’s very shy, a lovely young lady. Besides, tt’s opposite NCIS L.A., more my type of show, love mysteries, detective type shows!

Sorry, I guess you did. This is the first season I’ve watched, and I guess there’s no voting on the final? I can’t find anything. But it seems strange that they would give out the winners before the show is over out here. They must lose a lot of viewers

Not yet, if you mean you bet on Bristol. The show is NOT over. It’s still on as far as I know, they can’t pick a winner until the west coast gets to vote.

Is someone trying to get people to not vote by saying she lost?

Hi,

I don’t know who said she lost, but I am on the west coast also and there’s no way she lost. The show is still on, they are still dancing and voting will be open until, I don’t know when, maybe in the finals only 1/2 after, but they can’t pick a winner until it is over here since we get to vote also.

Duh, I actually was going to tape it, wasn’t even thinking when I saw that. No one has won or lost yet.

She did fantastic! Everyone on the show except Bristol had some kind of ‘entertainment’ experience. I believe that Jennifer was the best. I haven’t seen it yet. Am taping it so I can fast forward through all but the dances :)

Bristol is a perfect example for anyone who needs shot of determination and achievement against all odds!

Too bad they don’t have a most improvement trophy. That could even be won by someone voted off earlier in a season, but it would have to be the judges who decided that.

It’s the same kind of agreement that Clinton had with N. Korea, we give them stuff and they say they will do/not do X, but we CANNOT verify anything!

The liberal way... ‘We have to show them we trust them, then they will like us better and be nice guys’ We can then all be nice gu.... uh, what was that? N. Korea just bombed S. Korea? Really? but we were nice to them.....’ [/sarc]

It depends on who they ask in the poll and how you ask it. Here’s a gallup poll for Nov 4-7 which is a more balanced poll. There are two areas, one has to do with whether one believes if the government is responsible to ensure that all get health care not to provide that health care, the other has to do with which system is prefered, government run or private run.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/144839/Split-Whether-Gov-Ensure-Healthcare.aspx

I stand with you!!!

Thanks. Warm wishes to everyone this Thanks Giving Holiday!

Right, but I just wanted poster to be more specific as to the meaning of populist. It’s kind of necessary to know that to interpret what is being said :)

The required opening bid was 1 million but the reserve was higher and not met.

She ought to try setting up a ‘lottery’ with a minimum ticket price, maybe $200, and then a mimimum of tickets that have to be sold. I might even take a chance for $200 bucks! If 30,000 people did she’d make close to that 6 million after costs.

Wow, I’d love one of those, but unless they decide to do a ‘lottery’ with tickets 200 or less, there’s no way I’d have a chance :(

Oh, not just anti-Semitic, anti-constitutional. Its argument is that ‘it can violate the Constitution and can only be stopped if IT [the government] agrees to be stopped. This is the perfect liberal belief system regarding the Constitution!

Thanks :) I’m slow in my old age, but I finally figured it out. LOL Have a great Thanksgiving.

This is really off this topic. I get it. You can say what you like as to not liking Sarah Palin. I can answer you. I have. We disagree, so we will agree to disagree. I believe she is conservative, you don’t.

Actually she did not say she was pro-choice, she said that if Roe vs Wade were over-turned, let the State’s decide. That does not say ‘I’m pro-choice’ It says I am State’s Rights believer.

I agree with her.

His statement, “But then in a rendition of He Had It Comin’ from “Chicago,” she reverted to her largely flat, heavy-legged form” really goes to the heart of the matter for me.

Why did Mark choose such a ‘style’ for Bristol or is that chosen for them? There are other things/styles in which she has really improved, so why did he choose that style in which she needed to be a pretty ‘good’ actress, pretty professional to put that across. That just isn’t part of who she is. That choice really disappointed me.

She’s a conservative. Of course, one of the ways to pigeon hole someone and try to defeat them is to apply terms which have myriad meanings but imply the ‘worst’ of those meanings. So, what do you mean by populist?

..the agrarian movement fighting against corporations, banks, the rich elites?

..the ‘clasical’ conservative populist movement to have government by the people not an elite class of people which is what our founding fathers used to create this great country and in the modern U.S. a movement back to those constitutional basics and limiting the Federal government?

..the U.S progressive movement trying to establish a socialist government and redistribute wealth on ‘behalf of the people’ based on a European model socialist government?

And so many more. It means whatever the particular country, group of people, religion, political party, want it to mean, though they all chant ‘for the people, for the people’. Populist in general just means the ‘common’ people as opposed to the elite. I have to think that Sarah Palin supports the ‘common’ people, opposing the elite, the elite in the political parties, in government etc.. Beyond that she is a conservative with regard to big government, the constitution, the people’s liberties, etc., etc..

So true. This is the issue on which the media doesn’t want to focus. That 0.5% is only the earmarks, how much more will be saved because congressman X won’t vote for a bill because he gets nothing in return?

As per the rules: “Phone lines, text votes (AT&T customers only) and online polls will open at the top of each performance show so that viewers can vote for their favorites. Phone and text lines will stay open for 30 minutes after the end of the show. Online voting will remain open until 11am (Eastern Time) the next day.”

You will have to register to vote online, I believe.

Maybe the passengers should be able to ask the following:

Are you lesbian, gay, bi or hetero sexual before anyone got to grope them, huh?

“...something shady is happening at the Carson City Jail....”

Of course something shady is going on in your eyes, Laura...they are actually following the law as to illegals.

Now, explain to me why, if he has been here 20 years and is married to a U.S. citizen, he hasn’t worked to take care of his status? He’s not that old, so was probably brought by his family when young and there are ways to become legal, especially since his wife is a citizen. Hmmm, wonder if he is not responsible, i.e. is a crook, gangster, coyote, or drug dealer?

I agree. If we start a protest to impeach, then the focus goes off the congress and keeping their feet to the fire to force them to cut spending, extend the tax rates, repeal Obamacare, defund it as they push repeal. Once you go down that road, you unite the now disrupted democrats, many of whom are blaming Obama.

I want to keep the focus on the congress, calling, emailing, protesting in front, if necessary.

Hey voter: if you don’t know how to fill out the ballot and are so dumb you won’t ask, you’re vote don’t count!

No, this is every Senator ignoring his actual responsibilities in order to get re-elected. If these Senators actually did their job, which is NOT to represent people in the states, that’s the job of representative, but rather to PROTECT the State from an out of control power stealing Federal government, we would NOT be having this discussion. Once senators began to be elected by the ‘people’ they became just another ‘representative’ rather than a protector of the State itself.

Madison’s Federalist #62 part II specifically discusses the Senatorial appointments by state legislatures “[has the advantage]... of giving to the State governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government as must secure the authority of the former....” Our senators no longer ‘secure authority to their states’

Where did you get this information? I have searched and the latest I could find was the article posted at Newday.

Well, if you actually voted where hold residency, then it shouldn’t matter that you are registered elsewhere. I was registered in NC until the 2008 presidential election, though I had not voted there since 2005 when I moved to CA. Once I missed voting in the Presidential election in NC, I would be dropped from the registration rolls.

There are a lot of people who are registered in more than one place due to moving, but the valid registration is only in the district where you actually reside.

The voters who came awake and said: throw the bums out!

One World Government in action. I wish the Irish would fight back!

Right. He can also give it to the government, they would be glad to take it!

Why is it that government supporters can scream for more laws to take more money from taxpayers, but those same people would be appalled if Churches were given the right to take 30+ % of your money?

I agree, we have to be counted over and over. Unfortunately many of us have to also work and support ourselves. But, if there are those still out there in the Tea Parties, as one example, who can still protest, then those protests need to continue. There should be protests now on capital hill against the ‘agenda’ that is going forward and doesn’t include the existing tax code and either making it permanent or extending it.

Many of us could get to our representatives local offices. We should call for town halls as something that is done whenever our representative is back in the local area where we can show in big numbers and keep his feet to the fire and our hand on the pulse of Washington

We have a tendency in this country to protest, get our point out, throw the bums out, put the new in and then walk away expecting everything to ‘work’ now. It cannot be that way anymore. WE MUST CONTINUE to protest, to be heard and seen, emails, phone calls, town halls.

It has already arrived. There were violent protests in San Francisco by students over tutition hikes for UC San Francisco.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2031923,00.html#ixzz15zkJ4SnE

This is out of the handbooks; get the students to begin the protests. We had better be ready to counter this with peaceful protests in response so that we are not ignored. We didn’t allow them to do this with our military this time, or we would have had another era of ‘vietnam type protest’ where only one side is heard.

I have no problem with an increase in tuition at Universities. I actually think that there should be cuts in things like monetary support for clubs, for conferences, for ‘teacher special training’ at out of state meetings etc., etc.

Thanks very much!

I also found this link, so there should be enough for everyone to get the idea :)

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/130113-republicans-prepares-to-fight-net-neutrality-for-december

You MUST register to be able to read this article. Supposedly it’s free. Just thought I’d note this requirement.