The Goat Pen

eCat wrote:

Jungle Rat wrote:So then, now you know Hizzy, now, you finally know.

I know people that would have killed her for 1/10th of that

sardis wrote:Word to the wise. If you are going through a messy divorce, you may want to wait a few years after it's finalized before you attempt to run for office...especially if it mentions about you giving your wife herpes.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/0 ... aison.html

Saint wrote:NC has always been a conservative state but maybe not as yahoo redneck as some of our southern brethren. however, NC's cities are, as in many states, less conservative than its rural areas. and of course, there are a lot of colored here and they aren't conservative.

sardis wrote:Even though I don't think our constitution is sacred for the whole world to emulate, I don't see how I would change it to make it better for this country. There is a system in place to "change" with the times, i.e. slavery and women's suffrage. In my opinion change in the constitution should be a difficult task and not easily effected by temporary political gains.

Bklyn wrote:My favorite Fox show was Fox News Watch, which had both competent Conservo and Lib journalists on the show. They canceled it, then brought it back later with most of the same Conservative commentators, but replaced the Libs with either clowns or LINOs.

The Budget

I'm just glad we're being transparent with the numbers, finally. The question is, what things in the budget should not have been in place? The tax cuts? Doc Fix? Iraq? Afghanistan? Public Education? NASA? We know nobody on either side of the aisle is touching SS or Medicare, so leave that off the scale. "Obamacare" hasn't even been fully inacted, I'm pretty sure any costs that aren't offset by savings are not substantial.

So, outside of the numbers just stated simply as the total numbers, the question lies on what you would have done differently to impact those numbers? I think we all have our thoughts on it...but I'd be pretty certain that we won't be uniform in our thoughts. If we wouldn't line up unilaterally here, I'm not too sure how anyone would think Congress would.

crashcourse wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Unite ... ral_budget

Until the U.S. Conference of Bishops recently got crosswise with the Obama administration, even the church rarely emphasized the contraceptive issue. So at first, I was mainly struck by the sheer quaintness of it all. (As, evidently, were many Catholic universities and hospitals quietly complying with state laws mandating contraceptive coverage.) The bishops’ indignant fulminations about their wounded consciences put me in mind of the hilarious production number in Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life,” with its chorus of impoverished Catholic urchins singing

“Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.”

Coarse jokes about priests, altar boys and contraception virtually wrote themselves. I’ll spare you. But while we’re at it, let’s light a candle for Sinead O’Connor, an eccentric woman in combat boots with a shaven head, who tore up the pope’s photo on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992 to protest clerical sexual abuse of children in her native Ireland: wrecking her U.S. career to make a point entirely lost upon most viewers at the time.

The late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s marriage was declared null and void after 24 years and three children because — get this — he’d entered it with reservations. Specifically, he never intended to quit “dating.” (Evidently a family tradition.) Never mind that Kennedy’s ex-wife Joan agreed. Mine found it sickening, a patent end-run around the church’s unwillingness to countenance divorce.

For that matter, a couple of bishops attended Newt Gingrich’s third wedding. So don’t tell me they couldn’t find a way to accommodate President Obama’s downright Jesuitical compromise to the effect that Catholic hospitals don’t have to offer employees contraceptive care, but their insurance companies do. Canon lawyers make distinctions like that one every day.

stop spending money on the last 6 months of life which is where most medicare expenditures come from --keeping grandma and grandpa alive for another couple of months