Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[innocentbystander]

IB has more courage than all you neocon pukes combined.

he calls a spade a spade, and a hoe a hoe

questions

in your words, what is a "neocon?"

and why does being a "neocon" make someone a puke?

[Jungle Rat]

14K?

Really? Nobody? All reports from almost every angle say things are slowly getting better. Give it up. A negro beat ya, twice. Save face & regroup.

[Toemeesleather]

Exactly Rat....AND for the next 4 years we don't have to listen to all the guilt trippin' by the media....if a white guy had won we'd have to hear about those left behind, e.g. wimmen and coloreds....Remember when Bush and Reagan were President, these policies were racist......but not now!!!!1111

[Toemeesleather]

[Jungle Rat]

It's no wonder Hacksaw left being known as a coward. No one believed his fake online persona anyway. Guy was a whipped CPA.

[Toemeesleather]

If ya white, ya awright, if ya brown, get outta town.

[sardis]

Waiting for tick's spin on the drop in GDP this past quarter...

[innocentbystander]

Waiting for tick's spin on the drop in GDP this past quarter...

i got this

chanelling tick

"...it was the economic uncertainty caused by the Congressional Republican's willingness not to raise the debt ceiling..."

[sardis]

or maybe the weather...

[innocentbystander]

or maybe the weather...

why not? the weather causes gun violence in chicago

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/33 ... -botwinick

[puterbac]

So where they have some of the strictest gun laws in the nation you have a 15 yr old who performed at the inauguration gunned down in good old Chicago.

[puterbac]

So the Corp says no lowering of standards, but it sure looks like they are choosing to review the standards before anyone even attempts to meet them current one.

Some Marine combat jobs may remain closed to women

The Marine Corps, like the Army, is reviewing the physical and other standards required for direct combat fields that had previously been closed to female service members.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... t/1873753/

Amos said he is confident that the Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course (IOC), a mentally and physically grueling 13-week course, is an accurate measure of what it takes to successfully lead a rifle platoon in combat.

"There's no intention on my part of changing anything within the IOC curriculum," Amos said. The course has drawn attention because last year the Marine Corps began admitting women on an experimental basis.

The first two women admitted did not complete the course. Two more volunteers are expected to begin the course next month.

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And yet here we go with reviewing the standards to see if they should exist in that form...

The infantry school for enlisted Marines, however, is being looked at closely to determine whether the standards are a good measurement of the physical and mental requirements of a Marine infantryman.

[puterbac]

And this is utter bullshit....

High School To Collect Students’ Hair For Mandatory Drug Testing

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/01/30/ ... g-testing/

[innocentbystander]

Ann Coulter on Mark Rubio's immigration plan...

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-01-30.html

The Democrats never change their ideas; they change the voters. For decades, Democrats have been working feverishly to create more Democrats by encouraging divorce (another Democratic voter!), illegitimacy (another Democratic voter!) and Third World immigration (another Democratic voter!).

Strangely, some Republicans seem determined to create more Democratic voters, too. That will be the primary result of Sen. Marco Rubio's amnesty plan.

IT'S NOT AMNESTY! Rubio's proponents cry. They seem to think they can bully Republicans the way the Democrats do, by controlling the language.

Rubio's bill is nothing but amnesty. It isn't even "amnesty thinly disguised as border enforcement." This is a wolf in wolf's clothing.

Despite all the blather about how Rubio demands "Enforcement First!" the very first thing his proposal does is make illegal aliens legal. (Don't call them "illegal aliens"!)

The ability to live and work legally in America is the most valuable commodity in the world; it's the Hope Diamond of the universe. I know young, well-educated Canadians who waited a decade for that privilege.

Step One of Marco Rubio's plan is: Grant illegal aliens the right to live and work in America legally. (Rubio's first move in poker: Fold.)

People who have broken our laws will thus leap ahead of millions of foreigners dying to immigrate here, but -- unwilling to enter illegally -- waiting patiently in their own countries.

The only thing the newly legalized illegal immigrants won't get immediately is citizenship. Rubio claims that under his plan, they won't be able to vote or go on welfare. But in practice, they'll have to wait only until the ACLU finds a judge to say otherwise.

Even under Rubio's scheme, all the children born to the 11 million newly legalized illegals will be instant citizens, able to collect welfare for their whole families and vote as soon as they are old enough.

Ann exists to remind Republican politicians why ordinary Republican citizens like being Republicans.

[10ac]

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Officially 100'

[bluetick]

Waiting for tick's spin on the drop in GDP this past quarter...

How much spin do you need for .01 ?

[Dr. Strangelove]

Lamar Alexander believes video games to be a bigger problem than guns because video games affect people.

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[sardis]

Waiting for tick's spin on the drop in GDP this past quarter...

How much spin do you need for .01 ?

That would be .1, and it is the first drop in 3 years.

[bluetick]

Heh - okay Sardis, .1 percent needs some spin. Here's some from the commies at Reuters and BoA Merrill Lynch.

GDP Unexpectedly Shrinks, Decline Seen as Temporary

(Reuters) - The economy unexpectedly contracted in the fourth quarter, but analysts said there was no reason for panic given that consumer spending and business investment picked up.

Gross domestic product fell at a 0.1 percent annual rate, its weakest performance since the economy emerged from recession in 2009, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday.

If it were not for the hit from slower inventory growth and the deepest plunge in defense spending in 40 years, the economy would have grown at a respectable 2.5 percent rate. In addition, economists said Superstorm Sandy, which struck the East Coast in late October may have reduced GDP by about half a point.

"Obviously, the headline number is a bit jarring, but the underlying details of the report, by and large, are consistent with an economy that is growing probably at a trend basis of about two percent," said Michael Hanson, a senior economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York.

[puterbac]

You spin my head right round right round.....