Gotta love the reasoning of these pirates

'Killing our boys was aggression.'   I guess you're just supposed to pay them the money and let them keep pirating.  Nobody was ever supposed to fight back. 

And, as they have threatened to 'deal harshly' with any US or French sailors they capture in the future, is there any reason why now we should not simply hunt down and blast each and every one of them out of the water?  None that I can think of.  I think they just declared war on us. 

• AP: "Analysis: Obama Beats First National - Marmann
  • Obama Haters will hate this post. - They don't WANT him to succeed.
    • You dang right--- I DON'T WANT HIM TO SUCCEED! That would - be a disaster for this country!!!!! nm
      • Treasonous words - tsk, tsk...
        • No dear, that would be words of wisdom!! - MsMT
    • Remember... - ZvilleMT
      • So what you're saying is - Scamp
      • Context is crucial. - dy
    • You don't get it. If Obama succeeds, many feel - with economic policies, country will fail.!.nm
    • And just what claims are those prey tell.....-see message - IMHO
    • Why would anyone want socialism/communism to succeed - I sure don't
      • Count me as one who WOULD like to see them succeed (sm) - nm
    • You always seem to forget - Trigger Happy
    • You libs are as predictable as the tides. LOL nm - meisme
      • Like YOU'RE not? - LOL!!!
    • I think it is ludicrous for anyone..........sm - m
      • Obama is not the country - Scamp
      • I guess it depends on how you look - Trigger Happy
        • You have a good point there..........sm - m
    • I know. The Obama administration (sm) - Marmann
      • It is such a horrible thing when - Trigger Happy
        • you are 100% right on! - hmmm
      • I agree... - It IS sad!
        • No. No no! Look how liberals treated Palin? - Most hateful bunch of people..shameful.nm
        • I absolutely HAVE seen such hatred - Scamp
        • I am not of the pub party. - Trigger Happy
          • You are so right. I think it is puppy-love.. - or fairytale. Reality will hit eventually.nm
  • Looks as if Obama made it worse. - Sunflower
    • Gotta love the reasoning of these pirates - Scamp
    • Well you know if there is a worse outcome - hmmm
    • So what do you suggest? That he do nothing? - Ridiculous post!
      • How about the simple fact that - Trigger Happy
      • I did not the write the post, CNN did. - Sunflower
  • I read it was the Pentagon who asked to - Obama to go ahead with the SEALs
    • Isn't that the way it's SUPPOSED to work? - Marmann
      • You've got some of it right - mt
    • That's the way that works - nm - Amanda

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grow a humor gland.  In many people, this is located next to the smart gland.)

He questions "whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good," and then he turns around and marries a LAWYER!

This isn't surprising to me at all.  Bush's is doing nothing but taking us backwards in time, whether it regards science or civil rights.  The only area that is moving forward by leaps and bounds and progressing at an alarming rate is the price of gasoline.

...in Washington, maybe we can get to the pirates in Somalia next. 

the bit about the open microphone on McCain during the debate was brilliant!!! I laughed until I literally cried!!  By the way, Michelle Obama was warm, intelligent, sincere and very much First Lady material!!!

You've given REASONS why you're glad Bush is out and Obama is in.

They don't understand REASON and common sense.  It's something scary and foreign to them.  So they call it cult worship.  This very thinking is something that will get Obama killed, and when it does, each of these morons on this board will have blood on their hands.

Nobody can reason with these people.  I'm personally tired of visiting this board and being brought down by all the UN-American posts I see. 

I'm interested in having a better life.  All visiting this board does is show me enormous ignorance concentrated into one little site.  There are other sites where people make sense.

This site is starting to become too toxic and hazardous to my health.  I'll check back in a month or so, and if no common decency has returned, then there's no point in my coming back here any more.

for what I said above.  Government shouldn't have 80% of AIG.  They should have let AIG fall on its face.  They shouldn't have given them money in the first place. 

Here is a little blurp I've copied:  I will provide the link below.

On March 5, New York Fed officials forwarded to the Treasury Department a summary of AIG’s bonus and retention payment issues, including details of the retention program for officials of the Financial Products. This information included that $165 million in payments were expected that very month, as well as the fact that the contracts were in place in the first quarter of 2008, and so not covered by the limitations in the stimulus bill as articulated by an amendment to the stimulus bill offered by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.

As ABC News' Capitol Hill Correspondent Jonathan Karl reported, in February, the Senate unanimously approved an amendment restricting bonuses over $100,000 at any company receiving federal bailout funds, but during the closed-door House and Senate negotiations the provision was stripped out and replaced with a measure by Dodd exempting bonuses agreed to prior to the passage of the stimulus bill on February 11, 2009.

You can read the whole article at this link:  http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/obama-adminis-1.html

So this basically shows that these bonuses were pushed through by Dodd and so the government had its hand in giving out these bonuses and now they are going to turn around and take that away.  It is a contract.  I understand that AIG got butt loads of money from the government.....which was wrong in the first place.....but don't you see how scary it is for our government to have this kind of control and power.  To give and take away at the drop of a hat.  To null and void a contract that someone in government (Dodd) pushed through to make happen and then they turn around and want to tax it to death or just take it from them. 

Why in the he!! did Dodd get this slipped in there in the first place?  that is the real question.  This wouldn't even be an issue.  Dodd slips this in because he received the highest amount of money from AIG.  So of course he wanted to pay back the hand that fed him...so to speak.  And guess who had the second highest amount of contributions from AIG.....Barrack Obama.....   So Dodd slips this through and allows a loophole for the AIG execs to get their big ars bonuses and now that it has gone public and people are furious......now government wants to take control and make them give the money back.  Isn't it the governments fault in the first place....first for bailing them out and then for letting this loophole slip by to pay back AIG for contributions to campaigns. 

This is why our government sucks.  They don't care about Americans.  All they care about is getting money back to the groups, etc. who contributed money to their campaign.  That is why we can't get away from wasteful spending and earmarks.

What if a sex offender was running loose in your neighborhood.  What if he had raped a child 10 years ago, went to jail with a slap on the wrist (like what happens these days), and got out in ten years.  He shows up in your neighborhood, and you see him out on his porch everyday when the school bus arrives and leaves.  Not only is he leering at the school kids he's making outrageous comments on a daily basis.  Would you say, *Oh, he went to prison.  He did his time.  Hopefully, he's rehabilited.  Yes, he's a little strange and outrageous, but so far, as far as we know, he's not touched a kid again so we need to leave him alone.*

Would you trust this guy?  Especially if you then found out he has a *rape room* in his house?  What if his sons were running around the neighborhood reeking havoc and doing the same things but in a more merciless way and you found out they were going to inherit his house when he died?

Well, this correlates very well with Saddam.  Almost too closely in fact.  Like many of you say here on a daily basis, the world is our neighborhood, and in many neighborhoods there are bullies, and they don't quit being bullies until you take them out.  It's just the way the world works.

This must be why you so obviously love Muslims? 

You do realize that you contradict yourself on just about every other post you make?  ROFL..

....what happens if millions of us default on our mortgates?  Will the lenders foreclose on all of us?  Foreclosure is a lengthy and expensive process, potentially ending in an eviction of you refuse to go quietly.  What  will they then do with all the houses and nobody to buy them?  We all know how quickly vacant buildings deteriorate. Will we have suburban ghost towns? 

Same with car payments.  If we have mass defaults on car loans, how with the lenders handle all the repo's that will generate?  What will they do with millions of repossessed cars?

What happens if millions of us can't pay our taxes?  Doesn't have to be a formal tax strike.  A lot of us who are ICs don't have taxes withheld.  What if the self-employed cannot afford to send the quarterly payments?  How many audits and prosecutions can the IRS handle?  What  will they do with those who are convicted of tax evasion?  Will they have to let thousands of murderers and rapists out of the overcrowded prisons in order to put us in, to send a message?  Will they be fighting with the banks over who gets first dibs on any assets left over after the house, the car and the big-screen TV are taken?