lightbringer
TOL Subscriber
I'm a Vet.lain:
:think:
:noid: Uh-Oh
Welcome to the group Tom, do you know many Vets that are not some what disgruntled?
Conservatives: public enemy number 1
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Welcome to the group Tom, do you know many Vets that are not some what disgruntled?
DocJohnson
New member
Being a vet and being disgruntled about taxation have nothing to do with one another.
de oppresso liber
The Berean
Well-known member
:Slippery: Calls the DHS.I'm a Vet.
:think:
:noid: Uh-Oh
"Yes, Mr. Winston Smith, I want to report a disgruntled right wing veteran. No, he hasn't actually make any threats but he did say that President Obama has big ears. He's obviously a traitor to his country. Yes, you can find him hanging out on the website www.theologyonline.com. He hangs out with a female named Julia. Yes, that Julia..."
DocJohnson
New member
Watch yer back, TomO. You been reported! :rip:
lightbringer
TOL Subscriber
Being a vet and being disgruntled about taxation have nothing to do with one another.
de oppresso liber
Do you see any statement about taxation in my post?
lightbringer
TOL Subscriber
Had time to think about that statement?
Now go back to the very first post on this thread....do you see any thing in there about disgruntled Vets?
Carry on!
Now go back to the very first post on this thread....do you see any thing in there about disgruntled Vets?
Carry on!
The one that was supposed to set of a "grass roots" uprising, fell flat on it's face...
I was interviewed by several journalists last week about Rick Santelli’s Rant — my exact quote was it had a “Faux” feel to it. (I haven’t seen it in print yet)
What was so odd about this was that Santelli is usually on the ball; we usually agree more often than we disagree. He’s been responsible for some of the best moments on Squawk Box.
But his rant somehow felt wrong. After we’ve pissed through over $7 trillion dollars in Federal bailouts to banks, brokers, automakers, insurers, etc., this was a pittance, the least offensive of all the vast sums of wasted money spent on “losers” to use Santelli’s phrase. It seemed like a whole lot of noise over “just” $75 billion, or 1% of the rest of the total ne’er-do-well bailout monies...“Within hours of Santelli’s rant, a website called ChicagoTeaParty.com sprang to life. Essentially inactive until that day, it now featured a YouTube video of Santelli’s “tea party” rant and billed itself as the official home of the Chicago Tea Party. The domain was registered in August, 2008 by Zack Christenson, a dweeby Twitter Republican and producer for a popular Chicago rightwing radio host Milt Rosenberg—a familiar name to Obama campaign people. Last August, Rosenberg, who looks like Martin Short’s Irving Cohen character, caused an outcry when he interviewed Stanley Kurtz, the conservative writer who first “exposed” a personal link between Obama and former Weather Undergound leader Bill Ayers. As a result of Rosenberg’s radio interview, the Ayers story was given a major push through the Republican media echo chamber, culminating in Sarah Palin’s accusation that Obama was “palling around with terrorists.” That Rosenberg’s producer owns the “chicagoteaparty.com” site is already weird—but what’s even stranger is that he first bought the domain last August, right around the time of Rosenburg’s launch of the “Obama is a terrorist” campaign. It’s as if they held this “Chicago tea party” campaign in reserve, like a sleeper-site. Which is exactly what it was.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/02/rick-santellis-faux-rant/
Turns out they spent a huge amount of money getting this "spontaneous" rant publicized, and the new ones are a belated attempt to salvage something from it.
But the program is paid for by those who definitely do not work for a living. As a secondary ploy, perhaps they can pretend that the government intends to classify terrorists and disappointed republicans as the same thing. Or have you guys already thought of that? :chuckle:
drbrumley
Well-known member
This reminds me of a story of Nazi Germany in the beginning. The Reich came for the Jew, and noone did nothing, saying it doesn't affect me. Then they came for the Christian, and nobody did anything either saying it doesn't affect me, then they came for me, and nobody was left
drbrumley
Well-known member
Without a doubt. :wave: DHS and FBI
eveningsky339
New member
Most of the folks on TOL are right-wingers, not right-wing extremists. Reading about certain right-wing movements-- such as those that wish to consign women to the role of "walking incubator/cook"-- is enough to make any clear-headed conservative sick.
You signed the bill, you taste the consequences.
You signed the bill, you taste the consequences.
drbrumley
Well-known member
I didnt sign the bill. I never authorized the President to sign the bill. So am I absolved?
Cool!
I supposed we ought to give a shout out to the feds.
:wave2:
Come on in, guys! Grab a cup of that nasty office coffee, kick up your heels and enjoy the show!
Try to keep a serious, slightly concerned look on your face though so your boss will think you're actually working.
elohiym
Well-known member
If you'll read the report more carefully you'll see that it classifies those who merely oppose abortion as right-wing extremists. And it also contrasts right-wing extremists with "law abiding citizens," as though right-wing extremists are not law abiding citizens.
eveningsky339
New member
The more I read it, the more it seems like this report is merely a bundle of goobledeedoop...
drbrumley
Well-known member
Cool!
I supposed we ought to give a shout out to the feds.
:wave2:
Come on in, guys! Grab a cup of that nasty office coffee, kick up your heels and enjoy the show!
Try to keep a serious, slightly concerned look on your face though so your boss will think you're actually working.
:up:
WandererInFog
New member
I wouldn't say it's proven, but it's far from absurd. This comes across as very Saul Alinksy-style politics of "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it", which is something we have seen Obama use to some extent since his inauguration.
But when he doesn't consult with republicans, you guys go ballistic, too. Make up your mind.
