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44878. concerned - 11/1/2012 12:52:49 AM I think Romney would like to shrink FEMA in some manner, or make it cost less, but doubt that he would make any effort to 'eliminate' it. 44879. judithathome - 11/1/2012 12:52:53 AM Okay...this is it for me...discussing things with you is a hopless task and I don't need this sort of negativity these days.
44880. concerned - 11/1/2012 1:00:51 AM Little known Benghazi fact (from Andrew Malcolm):
Curiously, Gen. Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command, has been relieved of his post after only a year and a half on the job. According to James S. Robbins in the Washington Times, Ham got the same emails regarding the terrorist attack by the al-Qaida linked Ansar al-Sharia and immediately began organizing a rescue attempt.
Gen. Ham is said to have told the Pentagon he had a rapid response team ready and was told to stand down. Ham then reportedly said screw it, he was going to send help and was promptly told he was being relieved of his command.
So somebody from Washington instantly relieved Gen. Ham of his command when he tried to save the US Benghazi consulate personnel. Where, oh where will the buck stop? We have the best spinmeisters on planet earth approaching warp speed here.
You want to give your expert opinion here Wombat, and how this snafu fits into your concept of a chain of command? *snerk*
What a travesty you Lefties are supporting. 44881. concerned - 11/1/2012 1:01:49 AM Re. 44879 -
Sorry about that. You know what they say about respecting diversity - it should apply to opinions also. 44882. concerned - 11/1/2012 1:09:24 AM I believe 0bama himself gave the stand down command and he probably also personally relieved Gen. Ham of his command. Now this sorry excuse for a president is still trying to avoid responsibility for his actioins.
Throw the bum out next week. We don't need his BS. 44883. concerned - 11/1/2012 1:14:19 AM Btw, if 0bama gets re-elected, his sequestration budget will cut $900 million from FEMA each year.
So maybe we should be more concerned with what 0bama will do to FEMA than Romney. 44884. concerned - 11/1/2012 1:34:59 AM George Will, who is seldom the most acerbic commentator on any subject, is ripping 0bama and the Democrat Party so many new ones here that all their brains are in danger of leaking out. Some excerpts:
Although his campaign slogan is "Forward!" he evidently wants America to compete with China in the manufacture of T-shirts and toasters. His third economic theme — that he will invest in" (spend on) this and that — has been inaudible amid the clatter of crashing companies he has invested in.
Much of the Democratic Party's vast reservoir of condescension is currently focused on women, who are urged not to trouble their pretty little heads about actual problems but instead to worry that, 52 years after birth control pills went on the market and 47 years after access to contraception became a constitutional right, reproductive freedom is at risk. This insult may explain the shift of women toward Romney.
C'mon, JAH - you seriously mean you didn't see that coming?
His only notable new idea in this campaign is to alter the First Amendment in order to empower government to restrict the amount of permissible political speech — speech about the composition and conduct of government. Nancy Pelosi pledges that if Democrats control the House, they will pass this constriction of the Bill of Rights on the first day.
Pelosi - constitutional scholar and the Democrat creme de la drop toilet.
44885. Wombat - 11/1/2012 2:56:38 AM Come up with some sources that are not unsupported speculation, hearsay, and RUMINT and I'll consider it. 44886. concerned - 11/1/2012 11:52:41 PM 
New Yorkers dumpster diving in the wake of Sandy
Don't they know they can log into the FEMA website and get some money sometime in 2013? Ohhhh, that's right. That's only for people in New Joisey!
Mitt Romney - please come back!
44887. concerned - 11/1/2012 11:58:51 PM Guess FEMA setting up a website isn't cutting it. This is making FEMA's response to Katrina look like a marvel of responsiveness and effectiveness. 44888. judithathome - 11/2/2012 12:22:23 AM Are you serious? One picture sums it up for you, huh?
No doubt you also believe Rush's claim that Christie and Obama are now gay lovers, too?
44889. concerned - 11/2/2012 12:29:11 AM Haven't heard that one. But gays are supposed to be notorious for passing it around on the down low. 44890. concerned - 11/2/2012 1:32:00 AM Winston:
Has anybody from Intrade asked themselves whether there is *any* voting bloc who will go for 0bama in greater numbers than they did in 2008? We know that many are heading for the lifeboats.
Mmmhmmm Hmmm Hmmmm Hmmmhmmmm. 44891. arkymalarky - 11/2/2012 2:42:16 AM Obama had 365 in '08 an intrade has him at 2/1 now. So I fail to see your point. 44892. Wombat - 11/2/2012 2:50:25 AM Randomly flailing... 44893. winstonsmith - 11/2/2012 5:18:24 AM I think the folks at intrade are just bookmakers. The share price is driven by the market. Ultimately the folks that buy are doing the research and deciding what price to buy and sell at. 44894. winstonsmith - 11/2/2012 6:07:10 AM This just showed up on the Gallup home page:
"November 1, 2012
U.S. unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, fell to 7.0% for the month of October, down significantly from 7.9% in September. Seasonally adjusted unemployment is 7.4%, improved by more than a half a point." 44895. judithathome - 11/2/2012 5:24:34 PM Good lord...one of the attendees at Romeny's campaign stop yesterday held up a banner that said "End Climate Silence" and the crowd started to boo and chant USA! USA! Then, some man standing next to guy ripped the banner out of his hands and started yelling at the him. Romney, of course, just stood there smiling.
Talk about low information voters! 44896. concerned - 11/2/2012 5:35:16 PM Well, this just showed up from the BLS (Winston may want to look up who they are): Unemployment rose to 7.9% for October, higher than when 0bama took office.
Excerpted from the BLS unemployment report:
Both the unemployment rate (7.9 percent) and the number of unemployed persons (12.3
million) were essentially unchanged in October, following declines in September.
(See table A-1.)
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for blacks increased to 14.3
percent in October, while the rates for adult men (7.3 percent), adult women (7.2
percent), teenagers (23.7 percent), whites (7.0 percent), and Hispanics (10.0 percent)
showed little or no change. The jobless rate for Asians was 4.9 percent in October
(not seasonally adjusted), down from 7.3 percent a year earlier. (See tables A-1,
A-2, and A-3.)
In October, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more)
was little changed at 5.0 million. These individuals accounted for 40.6 percent of
the unemployed. (See table A-12.)
Why is Gallup screwing around spreading misinformation, anyway? Such obvious skewing may be illegal, being that it is intended to influence the presidential election.
44897. concerned - 11/2/2012 5:37:20 PM 0bama said in 2009 that if he hadn't brought unemployment down significantly in 2012 from when he ascended to the throne, that he deserved to be a 'one term proposition'. No lie was detected when his lips moved in that particular instance.
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