Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[puterbac]

We both get mad when mobile home residents take advantage of idiotic government welfare/food stamp laws and collect hundreds of dollars per month instead of working.

I also get mad when mansion residents take advantage of idiotic government subsidies/loopholes/grants and collect millions of dollars per year instead of competing in a fair and undistorted free market.

I'm okay with loans a long as they are paid back.

I'm okay with basic research that has the potential benefit of finding a better way to do or cure something etc that probably economically unviable for private sector alone....manhattan project for energy anyone?

I'm okay with incentives to keep jobs here because if they do the taxes paid by those workers and the economic activity their spending generates probably dwarfs the original incentive.

I'm okay with snap for those really need it.

[Owlman]

Americans are lazy. Fix that and there ya go.

not necessarily when it comes to eating. We do that with gusto.

[AlabamAlum]

Absolutely great story. Narrated by Tom Hanks:

Much has been written and said about September 11, 2001, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, but one story much less known is the one about the band of boats that came together to rescue nearly 500,000 New Yorkers from the World Trade Center site on the day the towers collapsed.

It was the largest boatlift ever to have happened – greater than the one at Dunkirk during World War II. Yet somehow a story of such large scale became lost in all the rubble. But a new 10-minute documentary called Boatlift by Eddie Rosenstein captures the boat evacuations that happened on 9/11. The film is part of four new short documentaries that were created for the 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Summit in Washington, D.C.

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[10ac]

Wow! I never knew.

[10ac]

you're a cocksucker.

Why can't I delete these posts? And how did they get through?

[GBJs]

Is it the Ghost of Kev?

[Dr. Strangelove]

Braindead cracker favorite Hank Williams Jr., in an incoherent stupor. compares Obama with Hitler, making even the Fox & Friends crowd uncomfortable

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http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdo ... nfl-wp8592

[10ac]

Off the top of your head, How many celebs compaired Bush to Hitler or publically called him a son-of-a-bitch? And how many of those lost their jobs? I know you're keeping score.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Off the top of your head, How many celebs compaired Bush to Hitler or publically called him a son-of-a-bitch? And how many of those lost their jobs? I know you're keeping score.

I would have to think about it.

I can count at least one (Hank Williams Jr.) who has appeared on a morning show, apparently still drunk from the night before, to rant about how Obama is the enemy and he's Hitler to Boehner's Netanyahu (contemporaries, I suppose, in the mind of an idiot).

Even the Fox & Friends gang, who are usually all over Obama's case, seem pretty appalled at his ignorant ass

[Big Orange Junky]

Not that I care either way but it sounded like he was saying Oprama and the speaker were enemies, not that Oprama was the enemy.

Makes a difference.

IMO ESPN has a right to be bedwetting liberals with no tolerance for free speach and fire him. I don't have a problem with it.

Just like you should have no problem with a company firing anybody with an Oprama bumper sticker. Same thing.

I say they both have that right, but I bet my liberal friends will be fine with Hank Jr losing his gig but indignant at the thought of a company firing anyone that supported Oprama.

[T Dot O Dot]

would ESPN fire Hank Jr. for having a republican bumper sticker?

[TheBigMook]

You mean the company that hired Rush Limbaugh?

It seems the line is not whether you support one party or the other... its whether you go on TV and say something offensive enough to alienate a goodly portion of your viewership.

[Jungle Rat]

How do you fire a song?

[TheBigMook]

in c minor

[Toemeesleather]

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[Dr. Strangelove]

Williams' role at ESPN isn't huge but he's effectively a company spokesman. If that's your job, it's probably not a good idea to go on national tv seemingly drunk and call the President Hitler and "the enemy". If a drunken Wilfred Brimley went on tv to call President Bush a Dirty whore and worse than Hitler, I wouldn't expect Quaker Oats to keep him around either.

[AlabamAlum]

It was moronic. What he said didn't make a ton of sense and he wasn't sober enough to expound on it.

[Professor Tiger]

I've been a huge Bocephus fan since the early '80's.

ESPN has every right to drop his song from MNF. They are in a business to make money, and comments like that might cost them money by offending their liberals viewers. I see it as a straight-up business decision, not political correctness.

(Although there are probably only a few dozen liberals who regularly watch MNF. Liberal females are only interested in watching the cheerleaders, and liberal males are busy getting their nails done and watching PBS, but I digress...)

I was, however, deeply offended at that disgusting hat he was wearing.

[bluetick]

I thought the best part was the F & F guy, probably tired of Bocephus's sneer, called him out for his 3 Stooges description of the oprama-biden twosome.

[Dr. Strangelove]

I thought the best part was the F & F guy, probably tired of Bocephus's sneer, called him out for his 3 Stooges description of the oprama-biden twosome.

When you've been drinking, two can look like 3