The President and Vice President are right. Stop the kvetching.

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Wednesday September 29, 2010 · 9:52 AM PDT

2010/09/29 · 09:52

Yes, there are still a lot of things that have still not happened, and we all have every right to be angry, but angry with whom? Naturally, the President and Vice President can’t say what I’m about to say, because if the did, they’d look like whiners. But I can say it, because I’m not in the beltway bubble. I’m just part of the general population, so I’m seeing the situation differently than a politician. Stop for a moment. Think, and remember the last 2 years. See if you don’t notice some obvious dots that should be connected.

From the very beginning, from before President Obama even took office, the Republicans were agreeing to stop any legislation that the President might support. This unrelenting and unreasoning opposition was not a mass spontaneous act. Republicans and big business agreed to show a unified opposition to anything that the President might propose. Anything at all! This plan was discussed, agreed upon, and the groundwork laid before the election even took place.

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Sunday September 26, 2010 · 12:29 PM PDT

2010/09/26 · 12:29

We are all voters, but at the same time we are also consumers. Being the wise shoppers we are, we know that making the right choice calls for a careful study of the options. Two options are being offered to us, the Republican Option and the Democratic Option. Let’s be wise consumers of government. Let’s check out the special features of each option.

For the past twenty months we have been bombarded with messages about one of the current political packages. We have heard a lot about the Republican Option, but little has been said about the other option, the Democratic Option. Why? Perhaps it’s partly because hyperbole, scare tactics and outlandish behavior have hijacked, distracted and manipulated our mainstream media. Be that as it may, it’s time we acted like the sensible consumers we are, and made some side-by-side product comparisons.

Daddeeo

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Friday September 17, 2010 · 9:56 AM PDT

2010/09/17 · 09:56

It’s a story that could come right out of O. Henry. The Republicans react to frightening fantasies and outright lies and win, while the Democrats fail to react in time to a very real danger and lose.

Daddeeo

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Saturday September 04, 2010 · 5:33 PM PDT

2010/09/04 · 17:33

John Boehner is beginning to sound like an 8-year old child sitting in the back seat of the car, whining over and over, “Are we there yet Daddy? Are we there yet? Huh, Daddy? Are we there?”, when any fool can see that the car is barely out of the driveway.

Of course we’re not there yet. How foolish, how naïve, how ignorant and totally uninformed someone must be, to expect that a problem that was carefully created over an eight-year period should be fixed in just a few months.

Daddeeo

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Sunday April 25, 2010 · 1:31 PM PDT

2010/04/25 · 13:31

This much we know for certain. Newborns grow through certain developmental stages. We grow through developmental stages all our lives, but the earliest stages are the most critical in terms of the child’s future development. None of this is new or secret information. One of the requirements for a teaching degree is a course in child development. If you take that course, here’s what you’ll learn.

It is during the first three years of life that we begin to acquire all of our basic attitudes toward the world, toward ourselves and toward others. This is when we learn to see our glass as half full or half empty. This is where the twig is bent. This is where parenting MUST begin.

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Saturday April 17, 2010 · 11:13 PM PDT

2010/04/17 · 23:13

I refer to the Teabaggers, the Birthers, the Death Panelists, the people who wear guns in public places, the militias, and the people who can’t spell the words on their own signs. Behold the people who propose to take down the government.

The problem with those poor deluded souls out there in far, far right field is that they all seem to be unable to think of more than one thing at a time.

For example, while they are all focused on their inner angst and rage over what they characterize as an oppressive and dictatorial government, they fail to see that we are a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” They fail to see that they too are a part of the very government they say they are afraid of.

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Saturday March 06, 2010 · 11:55 AM PST

2010/03/06 · 11:55

When I hear opponents of abortion say how wrong abortion is because each fetus is a human life, I have to pose this question. When, at what point in the future life of that fetus does it loose that value?

If life is precious as a fetus, why should it not be equally precious throughout each stage of its development? At what stage can the fetus loose the right to life?

Life is precious whether it’s a fetus or a fifty-year-old convict on death row. Abortion and the death penalty are the same act, but occurring at different stages in the development of the fetus. Execution is abortion at a later time. Why are the vocal opponents of abortion, such as Congressman Bart Stupak, not speaking out just as loudly against the death penalty?

Daddeeo

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Tuesday February 09, 2010 · 8:02 PM PST

2010/02/09 · 20:02

When our Founding Fathers were alive, there was no radio or TV, no electronic recording or broadcasting devices. Free speech was thought of as the sound a human being makes when speaking in some sort of public or semi-public setting, a meeting, a church or rally, for example. The meaning of free speech was broadened to include the public dissemination of written speech in the form of a printed pamphlet, broadside or newspaper.

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Wednesday December 23, 2009 · 2:59 PM PST

2009/12/23 · 14:59

Suicide bombers often portray themselves as martyrs who will be welcomed into Paradise. Technically, however, it’s only martyrdom if somebody else kills you, like shoots you or throws you to wild beasts. First, the tyrant or one of his henchmen kills you, and only then do you become a martyr.

The suicide bombers are not martyrs in this sense, because they themselves are initiating the act. They die by their own hand, rather than to suffer the humiliation of willingly dying at the hand of a tyrant for some noble cause or belief. Killing yourself is definitely not the same as allowing you yourself to be killed by the hand of another.

But here’s the worst of it. There are the innocent souls to consider, the ones who die as collateral damage. The reason suicide bombing is a most vile and presumptuous deed is because the innocent dead were denied a last prayer before being suddenly and unexpectedly sent to meet God. Even a criminal about to be executed is given an opportunity to make a final prayer. Suicide bombers deny their victims a final prayer.

Daddeeo

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Wednesday December 16, 2009 · 1:41 PM PST

2009/12/16 · 13:41

Robert Gates: Why are you, once again, implementing a strategy in which our victory is dependent, not upon our own forces but instead, upon the ability of a not-yet-completely-created military force to take over the fight for us? It’s as if, after D-Day, we expected the French Underground to suddenly take over.

I learned everything I know about military strategy in 2 years of Basic ROTC in college. One point that Major Williams stressed repeatedly was: don’t ever put YOUR victory in someone else’s hands. Never surrender the initiative. Never let the other guy call the shots.

In the present case, it is the success or failure of the local police, and a barely-existing Afghan army, that will determine the tactical disposition of our troops. The course of events is no longer of your volition, Robert. What you will do depends on how big and strong somebody else can get, and how quickly they can do it. You have left the matter to chance. How, Robert, is this a sound military strategy?

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Friday December 11, 2009 · 2:53 PM PST

2009/12/11 · 14:53

Richard Cheney: When you claim that there were no terrorist attacks after 9/11 you are either lying, or you have forgotten about the three bio-terrorist ricin letter attacks of October 15, 2003, November 6, 2003 and February 2, 2004.

One letter was mailed to the White House and was intercepted before it reached its destination. Another was discovered in South Carolina without an address. In February 2004 a ricin-contaminated letter was sent to the Dirksen Senate Office Building, causing the building to be closed for a time.

On January 4, 2004 the FBI, along with the USPIS and the DOT, offered a $100,000 reward in connection with the October 2003 case. In late 2004 the amount of the reward was increased to $120,000. No one was ever charged or even apprehended, so we have no proof that the terrorists were domestic and not foreign.

Therefore, in actual point of fact, Richard, there were three terrorist attacks after 9/11. The perpetrator(s) were never caught, and to this day remain at large. Richard Cheney: you lie!

I’ll LOOK FOR YOUR RESPONSE ON THE 6:00 NEWS.

Daddeeo

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Monday December 07, 2009 · 12:09 AM PST

2009/12/07 · 00:09

John Thune: I don’t know what you meant when you said of Senator Franken, “I don’t know what his (Senator Franken’s) motive was for taking us on. . . “ I don’t think Senator Franken was trying to take you on John, but daddeeo certainly is, right here and now.

First, let me point to what I believe is the foolishness of your assertion. By suggesting that it is “us” who are being “taken on”, you are identifying yourself and “us” with the monstrous war profiteers who run HALIBURTON/KBR . These individuals are responsible for denying justice to the victim of a rape committed by their employees. The HALLIBURTON/KBR people are the ones who are being taken on, John, and for good reason. I don’t think you should have admitted that you have common cause with those who flagrantly commit human rights abuses. But you did, John, and now it’s a matter of public record.

Your imply that you and the “us” you refer to are OK with the egregious human rights abuses that HALLIBURTON/KBR is guilty of. If that is not what you meant, then I challenge you, John Thune, to make a public statement to that effect. Explain to the American people what you really meant.

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