Controlled Chaos

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Oct 2, 2009 -> 11:24 AM) Chuck Todd just said as stated earlier, Chicago political ties in Chicago that are connected with White House (Daley, R Emanuel, I'm looking at you) basically cornered Obama into going and Obama didn't really want to. He stated he thought it would be overkill and Chicago was being too over the top with the situation and they were twisting his arm. Todd ended up saying, If Chicago needs another favor from the White House or the president, they probably should hold off on asking because the president wasn't too happy on going in the first place. haha...the most powerful man in the world was cornered.

Received these 2 emails from a friend. Thought I'd pass em on. In Dec. 2000 Clinton signed the bill that led to the financial collapse; not Bush Bill Clinton signed the legislation that led to the Enron debacle and creation of 'credit default swaps' that led to the financial collapse of wall street. The bill was passed on the last vote of the last day of the 106th congress. Credit default swaps were sold as insurance against the default of 'mortgage back securities'. The wall street lawyers who wrote the bill didn't call them 'credit default insurance' to avoid insurance regulation laws. They also wrote the bill so there would be no federal oversight by the commodity futures trading commission or the securities and exchange commission. Finally to remove any interference by the states they included a section that prevented the states from enforcing existing gambling and bucket shop laws. Republicans are duplicitous too, rep. Ewing (R-Il), Sen. Lugar (R-In) and Sen. Gramm (R-Tx) sponsored bills that led to this legislation. Gramm insisted on no oversight by the securities and exchange commission. These guys, including Clinton need to be held accountbale. Who caused oil to go to $140 and gasoline to $4 last year? Yesterday, I sent an e-mail about the legislation that Bill Clinton signed just before leaving office in Dec. 2000. The bill was h.r. 5660 'the commodity futures modernization act'. It not only deregulated the financial markets and led to the 'financial collapse', but, it deregulated oil futures trading, so that, anyone could speculate on oil with no limit on the number of contracts. Before Clinton signed this bill into law, oil futures trading was limited to businesses (airlines, trucking companies, railroads, oil companies, etc.) That needed to hedge the price of oil to lock in their fuel costs for a year or so into the future. This unfettered speculation is what led to the $4.00 gasoline last year and started the collapse of car sales and eventually the car industry in America. This video explains a lot and again it was Bill Clinton's signature that allowed this to happen and he walks around blameless as the left keeps saying geo. Bush deregulated wall street and caused the 'financial collapse'.

If she has ipod an itunes gift card?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 03:32 PM) Dems are a bunch of inept douche bags. Took the words right out of my mouth.

Glenn Beck Explained Cal Thomas Thursday, September 24, 2009 "They would not listen, they're not listening still, "Perhaps they never will." -- Don McLean, "Vincent" Radio and TV commentator Glenn Beck was mentioned three times in separate opinion columns on the same day and in an article the next day in The New York Times, possibly a record for someone who does not hold elective office. Oh, and then there's this week's Time magazine cover. He's everywhere. Beck is also the Left's latest explanation for what is wrong with America. Many on the Left believe that if conservatives would just get out of the way, shut up and allow liberals to re-create America in their image, we would all be better off. But those loud-mouthed cable TV and radio talk show hosts keep uneducated, God-worshipping, flag-waving, NASCAR-loving, country music-fueled trailer trash riled up and prevent their brave new world from being born. The articles, essays and columns about Beck, and so many others on the Right, drip with the condescension conservatives have come to expect from liberal elites who think because they went to the "right" schools they are better than everyone else. I had not met Glenn Beck, so last week I visited him in his high-rise Manhattan office. His walls are decorated with black-and-white photographs of people he clearly admires. There are entertainers like Red Skelton and a young filmmaker named Walt Disney. You could watch Skelton on TV and view Disney movies along with your wife and kids, knowing you'd never hear a bad word, including a bad word about America. Beck has an old Admiral black-and-white TV an aide says they are trying to "make work." When it did work, it carried programs worth watching, including news broadcasts by real journalists like Edward R. Murrow, whose photo hangs on a wall close to Beck's office. Is it Beck who is stirring the pot or has the pot been stirring for some time and it is he, and a few others, giving the masses a voice? Maybe it's the leadership vacuum in the country that has thrust Beck and Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin (1 million of his latest book sold) and others to the forefront. If Republicans were behaving like Republicans, perhaps there would be less perceived need for them. If the Left bothered to hang out where conservatives do and take seriously their concerns about a country to which they pay taxes and for which many of them, or their parents, or children have fought, maybe they would understand what has so many upset. Pollster Frank Luntz understands. In a recent column for The New York Daily News, Luntz reports on his interview survey of 6,400 people, the results of which appear in his new book "What Americans Really Want ... Really." Luntz discovered that people are angry with the government because of the lack of accountability by our leaders and a lack of progress on anything meaningful in Washington. The "absence of accountability," he writes, "ranks No. 1 in the hearts and guts of the average American. Washington spends billions to bail out big business and then can't explain where the money went. Washington spends $800 billion on a stimulus package filled with earmarks and pork projects. And now Washington is trying to create a trillion-dollar health-care experiment when over 85 percent of Americans are satisfied with their health care just as it is." As Professor Harold Hill put it: "Make your blood boil? Well, I should say." Luntz continues: "This could be forgiven, perhaps, if those elected officials from Washington exhibited even an ounce of respect for the voters who pay their salaries. But the combination of a political class that ignores those with whom they disagree and a business class that ignores the very real suffering of the working class (if they are, in fact, working) while pocketing million-dollar bonuses has convinced the public that no one cares." Glenn Beck seems to care and that's why his ratings are now challenging the godfather of cable, Bill O'Reilly. I ask if he fears being transformed into another "Lonesome Rhodes," the politically corrupted main character in Budd Schulberg's classic film, "A Face in the Crowd"? Beck tells me I am not the first to warn of such a possibility. He says he isn't worried about yielding to that temptation. Beck believes in God and doesn't think government is Him. And he's going to his son's ball game the next day. That explains Glenn Beck. Any questions? Copyright © 2009 Salem Web Network. All Rights Reserved.

Will be there.

http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/10/chaos-...glory/#more-274

Listening to a Liar Thomas Sowell Tuesday, September 08, 2009 The most important thing about what anyone says are not the words themselves but the credibility of the person who says them. The words of convicted swindler Bernie Madoff were apparently quite convincing to many people who were regarded as knowledgeable and sophisticated. If you go by words, you can be led into anything. No doubt millions of people will be listening to the words of President Barack Obama Wednesday night when he makes a televised address to a joint session of Congress on his medical care plans. But, if they think that the words he says are what matters, they can be led into something much worse than being swindled out of their money. One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama and all the impressive trappings of the setting in which he says them: He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation's medical care before the August recess-- for a program that would not take effect until 2013! Whatever President Obama is, he is not stupid. If the urgency to pass the medical care legislation was to deal with a problem immediately, then why postpone the date when the legislation goes into effect for years-- more specifically, until the year after the next Presidential election? If this is such an urgently needed program, why wait for years to put it into effect? And if the public is going to benefit from this, why not let them experience those benefits before the next Presidential election? If it is not urgent that the legislation goes into effect immediately, then why don't we have time to go through the normal process of holding Congressional hearings on the pros and cons, accompanied by public discussions of its innumerable provisions? What sense does it make to "hurry up and wait" on something that is literally a matter of life and death? If we do not believe that the President is stupid, then what do we believe? The only reasonable alternative seems to be that he wanted to get this massive government takeover of medical care passed into law before the public understood what was in it. Moreover, he wanted to get re-elected in 2012 before the public experienced what its actual consequences would be. Unfortunately, this way of doing things is all too typical of the way this administration has acted on a wide range of issues. Consider the "stimulus" legislation. Here the administration was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days-- after which it sat on the President's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation. But, like the medical care legislation, the "stimulus" legislation takes effect slowly. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that it will be September 2010 before even three-quarters of the money will be spent. Some economists expect that it will not all be spent by the end of 2010. What was the rush to pass it, then? It was not to get that money out into the economy as fast as possible. It was to get that money-- and the power that goes with it-- into the hands of the government. Power is what politics is all about. The worst thing that could happen, from the standpoint of those seeking more government power over the economy, would be for the economy to begin recovering on its own while months were being spent debating the need for a "stimulus" bill. As the President's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said, you can't let a crisis "go to waste" when "it's an opportunity to do things you could not do before." There are lots of people in the Obama administration who want to do things that have not been done before-- and to do them before the public realizes what is happening. The proliferation of White House "czars" in charge of everything from financial issues to media issues is more of the same circumvention of the public and of the Constitution. Czars don't have to be confirmed by the Senate, the way Cabinet members must be, even though czars may wield more power, so you may never know what these people are like, until it is too late. What Barack Obama says Wednesday night is not nearly as important as what he has been doing-- and how he has been doing it. Copyright © 2009 Salem Web Network. All Rights Reserved.

New guy, on a new team, trying to impress = Fail. He will be fine once he is able to relax. Baseball is different from most things in life. The harder you try the more you fail. You need to be relaxed. He has good baseball instincts and he'll be fine once they're running the show.

Happy Birthday!!!

I was banging the right chick.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 3, 2009 -> 11:41 AM) KTLA has a somewhat different story. Seems the pro health care guy was hit first. But my favorite part of the story is that the Ventura County sherriff says that the man who had his finger bit off has Medicare. This is ridiculous, sad and hilarious all rolled into one. http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fing...0,7135717.story Whoa I'm glad I clicked that link because then I clicked this link at the bottom.

Looks like Torres has just been coming right after them. Has he had a lot of first pitch strikes?

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 03:32 PM) It was a great win as far being entertainment (and obviously the pitching) but if it wasnt for two pitches in the 9th, we'd be classifying it as one of the year's worst offensive performances. Especially since it's against a lefty and we're very very righthanded. Is that you in this pic?

QUOTE (CQMVP @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 07:40 PM) It's amazing how Pods can look so good on that play, and so bad on more routine s***... Absolutely amazing. Rios should still be in CF though. ahem QFT

Happy Birthday!!

DJ AM died.

QUOTE (G&T @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 08:09 PM) So slow... It's just hard to be out by that much when you're running on the pitch. Should be at 3rd before the ball leaves the infield...unless you're being lazy.

Come on Bacon!!

soxfan_9 commenting on that article is delusional. His comments on the Barret incident sound like they are from a cub fan. Acted like a jerk, ran his mouth, and got punched for it?? I don't know anyone who saw it that way...including my objective cub fan friends. He slapped the plate...after a huge moment in the game. That's it. Then he comments that AJ elbows first baseman after he is out taking cheap shots like a punk. I have never seen this, but if it happened I would think it's 2 guys that know each other f***in around. If AJ really elbowed someone in a serious manner to start s***...I'm pretty sure the 1st baseman would respond and s*** would get started.

This thread sucks without pictures!!

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Aug 24, 2009 -> 04:05 PM) I saw the first half before we lost power. I thought it was ok. Had a few laughs, but that's about it. It was PCU with cars.

IT Analyst at a law firm.

I am 35, but feel 45 and act 25.

nice Paulie!