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Comment by DJones on February 24, 2012 at 11:40am

Great...a place where I can relate.  Thanks for showing me this chat room.  

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 23, 2012 at 9:49am

Update on Protest and Incident in Afghan

This is such an horrific incident, with the repercussions falling solidly on NATO forces serving in Afghanistan, the brunt will be on our own military.

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The statement from President Hamid Karzai's office says the U.S. ambassador delivered the letter on Thursday.

In the letter, which is quoted in the statement, Obama expresses his "deep regret for the reported incident" and offers his "sincere apologies."

According to the statement, Obama wrote: "The error was inadvertent; I assure you that we will take the appropriate steps to avoid any recurrence, to include holding accountable those responsible.""

Comment by TexasDocMom on September 22, 2011 at 9:58am

Link to Howtower's article...

With his tea party hat carefully positioned
atop his bounteous crop of perfectly coifed hair, Prince Rick warns the
commoners that big government is bad, bad, bad -- because it intrudes into their
lives, forcing things like Social Security and Medicare on them.

Strangest of all, though, this prancing
prince of privilege would not be where he is without the steady "intrusion" of
big government into his life. From first grade through college, his education
was paid for by local, state and federal taxpayers. He was even a cheerleader
for the government-run college he attended. Also, as cotton farmers, he and his
family were supported with tens of thousands of dollars in crop subsidies from
the pockets of national taxpayers -- a big government "intrusion" into his
pocketbook that he wisely avoided condemning at the time.

Then, after a brief stint in the federal
government's Air Force, the perfidious prince hit the mother lode of government
largesse: political office. He's been hunkered down there for 27 years and
counting. In addition to drawing more than a quarter-century's worth of monthly
paychecks from Texas taxpayers, including $150,000 a year as governor, Prince
Rick also receives full health coverage and a generous pension from the
state.

Wait, there's more -- he gets $10,000 a month
to cover the rent on a luxury suburban home, a flock of personal aides and even
a state-paid subscription to Food & Wine magazine.

So, children, the moral of this Perry Tale is
to ignore the prince's hypocritical hype -- and look at what he actually does.
When he says he intends to make government "as inconsequential as possible," he means in your life, not his.

Comment by TexasDocMom on September 9, 2011 at 2:06pm

Moody's: Obama plan will work

A top economist says President Barack Obama’s job plan will likely add 1.9  million jobs and grow the economy by 2 percent.

Mark  Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, also said Obama’s $447-billion  plan would likely cut the unemployment rate by a percentage point, United Press International reported on Friday.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63069.html#ixzz1XTodaLDK

Comment by TexasDocMom on September 9, 2011 at 1:43pm

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/09/09/315518/bush-takes-cred...

 

Bush takes credit for the killing of Bin Laden...the man is going senile...we all remember in 2002 when he said "I really just don’t spend that much time on [Bin Laden], to be honest with you."

Comment by TexasDocMom on September 9, 2011 at 11:48am

Texas Republicans disenfranchising voters  So, this county elected a Democrat, who turned Republican this last session...and now the Repub lege is trying to guarantee his seat by redrawing his district. This is exactly what happened with Rick Perry....he was elected by a Democratic district, turned Republican...and check out how his "hometown" he was bragging on really feels abou them. Notice he doesn't do that so much since Perry has discovered that the national and international media actually are not afraid of him and will vet every comment for truth or false...

The area's notable figures believe Perry has "absolutley" turned his back on Haskell, according to Haskell's County Judge, David C. Davis, 64, who told Huffpost, "I haven't seen him in years."

It was a sentiment Davis, a Democrat, had expressed in 2005, complaining to a reporter that Perry had ignored hundreds of Haskell flood victims in 2004.

Don Ballard, the superintendent of the county's school system, concurred with Davis at the time and still does.

"It was pretty bad," Ballard recalled to HuffPost. "We lost a bunch of homes around the lake. We've got a lake that's about three miles form where the school is. We had a lot of homes damaged," but, he noted, "not enough to get any kind of aid."

"Perry didn't come by," Ballard continued. "There were several [people] that expressed concern that he didn't show. This is his home county. This was an issue for some folks."Paint Creek "dumped by Perry"

Comment by TexasDocMom on September 9, 2011 at 10:44am

"The Perry appointees who run Medicaid have allowed hundreds of millions of
dollars to be misspent on orthodontic braces for children who don't need them --
with huge profits for private dental clinics owned by Wall Street hedge funds."

Perry enriches lobbyists and hedge funds with state dollars.

 

This is why it was just scary to hear Perry at the debate talk about handing all of SS and medicare to the "states"...he has fed state and fed funding to his corporate pals and lobbyists.  Congressman Doggett had to file legislation to guarantee federal education money actually got to the education services for our kids...Rick Perry just moved it to the general fund. Trying to cover Texas's 27 Billion Dollar shortage...he's counting on getting elected President, he'll be long gone and won't have to deal with that $27 billion shortage in the next Texas lege session.

Comment by TexasDocMom on September 9, 2011 at 10:29am

Quite frankly, Perry is such a rw nutcase Dominist courting, Koch sucking cash whore that he would be the best candidate to run against a good man like our current President, it would certainly guarantee our winning a second term. But he is so vile, it is sad to see the Republican party sink so low...I want to be proud of the statesmen that serve, and RickPerry is slime.

 

 

Romney and Perry

Comment by TexasDocMom on September 9, 2011 at 10:21am

How embarrassing for Nancy Reagan and the two Reagan kids...I didn't like Reagan but he was at the least, a statesman, and except for Huntsman, none of the people on that stage would have been allowed at his dinner table.

"The moment that would have broken my father's heart was the moment when applause broke out at the mention of more than 200 executions ordered by Rick Perry in Texas. It was stunning and brought tears to my eyes. This is what we've come to? That we applaud at executions?" - Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan's Daughter

 

Time Article "Not my dad"....

Comment by TexasDocMom on September 9, 2011 at 10:16am

Is this how Congressmen treat constituents? is this okay? that was a 71 year old Plumber, a conservative all his life, in a conservative district....and look how he's treated, and Ryan JOKES about it!!
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