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~ the best mashedpotatoes
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I've never made 'em with real potatoes but one of my favorite snacks is some idaho spuds with a little chicken bouillion and garlic pepper with milk and butter..
mmmmmm.. think I'm gonna make some right now.. |
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stop voting republican and stop voting democrat till they are out of office it will go on it matters not which is in office they both have the same goal just a lil different way of getting there they do that to make you think you have a choice between them but they are basically the same you know.. that's not really constructive.. what you advocate is basically not voting or voting for a candidate you know has no cance of winning just so you can feel all warm and fuzzy inside for having made some "statement".. I reject that philosophy.. we live in a representative constitutional republic.. You should vote for the candidate that most closely represents your political philosophy. Will they be perfect? not by half but this "just vote for the other guy" bit doesn't work.. and just because the candidate comes from one party or the other doesn't mean that they march lock-step with the party line. Individuality. each is different. vote for the person you feel will represent your view most thoroughly and if they don't vote them out.. that's the way the system works.. vote for the one that will represent you and if they don't represent you, don't vote for them.. but to sit and whine about it like a kindergartener isn't constructive |
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Edited by
raiderfan_32
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Wed 10/07/09 01:07 PM
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So your tax dollars and mine continue to be funneled into ACORN coffers despite the recent move by the congress to cut off funding
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 Fire Prevention and Safety Grant Goes to ACORN Posted by: Michele Bachmann at 3:45 PM Pretend for a second you work for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and you have a certain amount of federal grant money to distribute to fire departments and first responders throughout the country to enhance fire prevention and fire safety. In Louisiana, you have several fire departments applying for funding --in fact, more than you have money to disburse. You would think actual first responders would have precedent over, say, ACORN? Wouldn’t you? Well, apparently, that makes too much sense for the federal government when it comes to fire prevention in Louisiana. According to the Washington Times, "nearly $1 million in Homeland Security funding typically earmarked for fire departments has been awarded to ACORN." The Times goes on to say, "It was one of only three such grants issued to the state and made up almost 80 percent of the firefighting money earmarked for Louisiana...." Thankfully, U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-LA) is all over this and has already requested that the grant be rescinded and given to someone with "expertise in this area." It's not like there was a shortage of fire departments applying for the funding. As the Times reports: "One such group might have been the St. Tammany Parish Fire District No. 3, which applied for a $120,000 grant to purchase smoke alarms for low-income families after a January fire killed four children in a home that had no working detectors. “’We wanted to buy smoke detectors to spread to homes all over the community to prevent that from happening again,' Chief Charles Flynn said in an interview Tuesday. "'I have no problem with not getting a grant, I've lost grants before,' said Chief Flynn, one of the fire officials who complained to Mr. Vitter in a letter. "'My issue is ACORN in New Orleans. Their mission statement says nothing about fire safety or fire prevention. It bothered me that ACORN got $1 million and there are so many smaller and bigger departments that have a need for that money.' "The Monroe Fire Department was the only squad in Louisiana to receive a grant and will be awarded $192,000. The Louisiana State Fire Marshal's Office will receive $62,000. "ACORN received $997,402, slightly less than the maximum allowable grant of $1 million. A total of $35 million was available for the grants project to fire districts across the country this year." The announcement of this grant came after House and Senate votes to cut ACORN off. But, it just goes to show you, the House and Senate voting to cut off funding to ACORN is nothing but a show until the President either signs it into law or he uses his authority to bar ACORN from federal programs and funds. The money is still flowing … and apparently it’s flowing from even the most unusual of sources.http://townhall.com/blog/g/c2cf4fb1-d2d0-4e88-bf0a-90563d01d7cb http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/07/firefighters-lose-large-grant-to-acorn/ |
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how does one group making a new Bible hurt others???? just don't read it. we aren't seriously suggesting banning this are we? Maybe they want to have a book burning. that is the sense I get sometimes. IMO not a very liberal attitude I think Rose hits on something of an important point. The modern American Liberal isn't a liberal at all.. The modern American Liberal, best exemplified in the person of Barack Obama, sees the Jeffersonian liberal ideology as an impediment to his quest for power. Obama gave an interview back in 2001 where he characterized the Constitution and Bill of Rights as a charter of negative rights, one that outlined pricipally what government "couldn't do to you" rather than what government "must do on you behalf". The Jeffersonian Liberal felt the purpose of government was to champion and uphold individual rights by restricting the power of government. He understood that a government with too much power tramples the rights of the individual. The modern American liberal seeks to expand the power of government in order to "make things fair". This is in direct opposition to the ideology of the Jeffersonian Liberal.  This country used to have some serious human rights issues
Indeed. But it has also gone to great pains to correct those issues and it;s a testament to the structure of government framed bythe founding fathers that allowed for them to be corrected and to the people of the United States that took it upon themselves to correct them. But it's now the leftists, masquerading under the monicker of "liberal" that seek to curttail the liberties that generations of Americans have fought, sacrificed and died to protect and uphold. You might argue against that point but the fact remains that when the government, state, local or federal, lays claim to the product of the peoples' labor, it acts against the principles on which it was founded. It's reverting to feudalism and the monarchic system from which the founders revolted! |
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how does one group making a new Bible hurt others???? just don't read it. we aren't seriously suggesting banning this are we? Maybe they want to have a book burning. that is the sense I get sometimes. IMO not a very liberal attitude I think Rose hits on something of an important point. The modern American Liberal isn't a liberal at all.. The modern American Liberal, best exemplified in the person of Barack Obama, sees the Jeffersonian liberal ideology as an impediment to his quest for power. Obama gave an interview back in 2001 where he characterized the Constitution and Bill of Rights as a charter of negative rights, one that outlined pricipally what government "couldn't do to you" rather than what government "must do on you behalf". The Jeffersonian Liberal felt the purpose of government was to champion and uphold individual rights by restricting the power of government. He understood that a government with too much power tramples the rights of the individual. The modern American liberal seeks to expand the power of government in order to "make things fair". This is in direct opposition to the ideology of the Jeffersonian Liberal. that's what I've said in the past as well. I know it's not all liberal because my sister is what I would call a true liberal. but from what I've seen from some people....they are only liberals when it agrees with their stance on things. I've said that before and I'm sure I'll be saying it in the future ...and only liberal when it comes to spending other peoples' money. 
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how does one group making a new Bible hurt others???? just don't read it. we aren't seriously suggesting banning this are we? Maybe they want to have a book burning. that is the sense I get sometimes. IMO not a very liberal attitude I think Rose hits on something of an important point. The modern American Liberal isn't a liberal at all.. The modern American Liberal, best exemplified in the person of Barack Obama, sees the Jeffersonian liberal ideology as an impediment to his quest for power. Obama gave an interview back in 2001 where he characterized the Constitution and Bill of Rights as a charter of negative rights, one that outlined pricipally what government "couldn't do to you" rather than what government "must do on you behalf". The Jeffersonian Liberal felt the purpose of government was to champion and uphold individual rights by restricting the power of government. He understood that a government with too much power tramples the rights of the individual. The modern American liberal seeks to expand the power of government in order to "make things fair". This is in direct opposition to the ideology of the Jeffersonian Liberal. |
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Ethnic Cleansing in LA
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Turn Chuck Norris loose on the bastards.. I see what you're sayin' Ruth. The fact is that gang violence is not the problem, it is the symptom. The disease is societal decay.. most of the homes in those areas have no families in them, just loose organizations of people that happen to be genetically related to one another (or not); some offspring, some parents, some "other".. and I use the term "parent" in the loosest possible manner. The fact is there are no parents, specifically fathers. most are either dead, in prison or on their way to one of the two, maybe both. vicous cycle. and it won't stop till Kanye West starts listenin to Bill Cosby, until there is some family structure imposed on those neighborhoods that propagate the fodder that fills the ranks of the gangster lifestyle.. Although I know you meant well. How would you like to have someone's "family structure" imposed on you? I get to pick whose family structure it is too like you are here. The problem stems from societies of people that are in poverty for many generations and have a struggle getting out of it. Government help programs do some good but not the majority of the time. Poverty breeds all kinds of social ills. It doesn't matter the color of your skin, poverty does the same thing to each and every one. Stricter policing still doesn't seem to do what needs to be done either. Although policing is needed regardless but the police feel overwhelmed. It is like a catch 22. As long as there are poverty riddled areas there will be high crime areas and the more the public and police judge them and treat them as animals the worse they get. Not saying the policing and stricter rules should not be done but it really never changes anything. A new approach needs to happen. Well, that's kind of my point. I wasn't advocating imposing some structure via governmental policy or legislative approach. What I mean is that untill the communities that propagate the lifestyle and accept crime and violence as a way of life begin policing themselves, the situation won't improve. as far as the public and police "judging" hardened criminals for committing murder and violence in the streets being part of the problem.. what should a free society do? condone the violence? give them a hug? ask them why they're so angry? or if their mommy didn't love them enough? give me a break.. what California needs is an express lane on death row... you can't counsel a cockroach into being something other than what it is. you have to exterminate it at the same time you clean up the mess in the kitchen that invite them there in the first place. |
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Ethnic Cleansing in LA
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well, you're right about one thing at least. The Mara Salvatruchas are bad mofo's.. they came here from El Salvador, displaced paramilitaria, and they are blood thirsty as all hell..
I haven;t spent any time in LA to speak of but I know it not a vacation destination to say the least. torn by gang-war and stricken by poverty, i'd be surprised if the avg life expectancy was much more than 30 years.. |
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I've wrestled with this issue a great deal..
While I agree that pot shouldn't be illegal.. (well, what I mean is I think it's ridiculous that anyone spends time in prison over marijuana..) I just can't get on board with legalizing (ie legitimizing) the use of substances like heroin, meth, lsd, coke.. all those drugs are freakin dangerous and deadly. legalizing them would send the message that their use is otherwise.. taxing them would in effect be an govt endorsement of their use and would basically put the govt in the position of profiting from the detriment of it's own people.. so.. I don't know.. |
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Ethnic Cleansing in LA
Edited by
raiderfan_32
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Mon 10/05/09 09:50 PM
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Turn Chuck Norris loose on the bastards..
I see what you're sayin' Ruth. The fact is that gang violence is not the problem, it is the symptom. The disease is societal decay.. most of the homes in those areas have no families in them, just loose organizations of people that happen to be genetically related to one another (or not); some offspring, some parents, some "other".. and I use the term "parent" in the loosest possible manner. The fact is there are no parents, specifically fathers. most are either dead, in prison or on their way to one of the two, maybe both. vicous cycle. and it won't stop till Kanye West starts listenin to Bill Cosby, until there is some family structure imposed on those neighborhoods that propagate the fodder that fills the ranks of the gangster lifestyle.. |
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Ethnic Cleansing in LA
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The article says, "Federal authorities said they would announce today a huge sweep of Latino gang members allegedly responsible for violence against law enforcement and racially motivated attacks against blacks." I wish that it was possible to get rid of all gangs. My father was in LA when the Rodney King riots happened. He didn't come out of the hotel for a couple of days. LA can get scary sometimes. As a side note....I worked those riots when I was with LAPD. 
Now, back to your regularly scheduled arguments. 
You have some stories to tell.
What have you seen of the gangs there? They are not human. And, no, I don't mean like in the "reptilian alien" thread. 
Violence. It's their whole way of life. They hate. Everyone. They even hate the people they love. Luckily for society, most criminals are not that bright. If they were, we'd all be in a lot of trouble. cops here don't even want to go to an area called Como in Ft Worth on the 4th of July because that's where the gangs do the gang wars. it seems to be a tradition there that reminds me of the 'hood I grew up in.. my dad would bring us in from outside on the 4th when it got late and the "fire crackers" started going off.. they weren't firecrackers.. it was gunfire most years we went somewhere to watch real fireworks though and weren't around for that.. still scary though |
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Ethnic Cleansing in LA
Edited by
raiderfan_32
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Mon 10/05/09 08:03 PM
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can't be racism.. only whites are capable of racism. That's not true. I think that comment was made to make a point Did you make that comment? I know who did and I know why it was made It was made to dismiss one particular poster, about something she wasn't even suggesting. yeah but no sooner did I make that suggestion than she came in and posted to the exact effect that not only did I know she would but predicted.. it's almost a parody.. it would be funny if it weren't so pathetic. funny how everyone knew exactly who I was talking about though... sees racism in everything except that which really is racism.. how ironic.. and to rose: 
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Ethnic Cleansing in LA
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since the article is talking about latino gangs killing blacks...then yes that could be considered a form of ethnic cleansing. this article is just talking about one of the groups the feds are targeting. my understanding is that willing is saying the gangs are doing this...not the feds the mass expulsion and killing of one ethnic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn which is what the article is saying the GANGS are doing you don't get it, Rose, my dear. In her eyes, racism doesn't exist if its not a white man commiting a crime against a black man.. she's an expert on race and race-relations.. never mind the fact that the Nortenos and the Mexican Mafia have been killing blacks (gang members and civilians alike) in LA for a couple of decades and that it's based on the race gangs in the prison system... facts are mere inconveniences to her world view which dictates that only whites are racists and not only that but ALL whites (except her of course) are racists.. |
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Ethnic Cleansing in LA
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I used to live in Whittier and did runs with a couple guys from Compton. From time to time I keep an eye on what's up over there. Mexican Illegals in gangs have, for a few years, been trying to kill off and run off the blacks who have populated South Central for generations. Don't know about right this moment but, at one time, the crips and bloods united against them. The Mexicans are proving to be more bloodthirsty and brutal than the black gangs. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/05/huge-gang-sweeps-targets-latino-gangs-that-allegedly-targeted-blacks.html Huge sweeps target Latino gangs that allegedly attacked blacks May 21, 2009 | 8:38 am Federal authorities said they would announce today a huge sweep of Latino gang members allegedly responsible for violence against law enforcement and racially motivated attacks against blacks. The announcement followed the arrests of dozens of suspected gang members during raids early this morning. A news release from the U.S. attorney's office called it the "largest gang takedown in United States history." U.S. Atty. Thomas P. O'Brien, along with officials from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is scheduled to speak at a news conference at 11 a.m. at the Lakewood sheriff's station. The indictment is the latest of several investigations that found gangs participating in race-based violence. Federal prosecutors two years ago charged members of a Latino gang with a violent campaign to drive blacks out of the unincorporated Florence-Firestone neighborhood that allegedly resulted in 20 homicides over several years. In the Harbor Gateway district of L.A., police launched a crackdown last year on another Latino gang accused of targeting blacks, including 14-year-old Cheryl Green, whose death became a rallying point. In 2006, members of the Avenues, a Latino gang, were convicted in federal court for a series of assaults and killings in the early 1990s targeting blacks in Highland Park. -- Scott Glover Where is the ethnic cleansing? IF the title of this thread is true then every time they go after the mob they would be Italian American ethnic cleansing, every time they go after white collar crime it would be white ethnic cleansing, every time they go after black gangs they would be black ethnic cleansing, etc.... So title withstanding since it is not even accurate the article is nothing new. hate to say I told you so.. but... I TOLD YOU SO!!
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Ethnic Cleansing in LA
Edited by
raiderfan_32
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Mon 10/05/09 02:52 PM
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hi rose!! 
  
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hi rose!!
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Ethnic Cleansing in LA
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can't be racism.. only whites are capable of racism, just ask one of the liberals who post on here, she'll tell you..
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Edited by
raiderfan_32
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Thu 09/10/09 05:32 PM
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what's got two thumbs and would rather die of the actual flu than be crippled or killed by the vaccine?
<<<<THIS GUY 
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nope but ACORN does have a twenty or thirty year history of doing this stuff repeatedly living in New Mexico for the last 15 years or so we have been hearing of this stuff in news in the papers and on TV for years and years it seems to be their modus operandi (that's latin for all you GED'ers)
I have to take you at your word on that I had not heard of Acorn until Obama. It this the same thing posted by Arizona? I can't play the videos on my computer for some reason so I cannot watch them. I've been aware of their St. Louis doings for awhile. Over the years, they've turned over vacant houses to low income people here. They helped make it where companies had to clean-up their toxic chemicals and dumping practices. They started programs that got developers to hire unemployed people. They got police to respond better to rapes in low income neighborhoods and started rape prevention programs. And more. So, you'd overlook the Illegal activity just because they have benefited St. Louis?? In that case, what would be so wrong with allowing a known but, not convicted pedophile opening some low-income daycares in St. Louis and forget he's a criminal? She never said that anyway. She said a few bad apples don't rotten the bunch. Hell, the video only shows one bad apple,right? Just because one person would assist someone in illegal activities does not mean that the whole organization does it, nor does it make the whole organization a bad one. let's apply Occam's Razor to this hypothesis. You say that this "couple" just happened to find the ONE corrupt ACORN volunteer/worker who just happened to specialize in tax preparation. Further, that assertion would suggest that her creativity and knowledge with respect to tax law, prositution, human-trafficking etc was simply off-the-cuff, ad-hoc. The woman referred to as Shira seemed to be very confident that the tax consultant was "real good". This would seem to indicate that she's well versed in and carries much experience in gaming the tax code.. This Community Organization seemed in no way concerned that this Pimp and Prostitute were anxious to set up a brothel in their "community". In fact, they were willing to assist them in breaking any munber of local, state and federal laws in setting up their "housing". there was little or no hesitation in the ACORN employees in knowing exactly what to do or how to approach the "problem" of someone trying to set up and illegal prostitution and human trafficking ring in their neighborhood.. So is it more reasonable or likely that this is an isolated incident, a statistical outlier? or is it more reasonable to suspect that this ACORN office is accustomed to dealing with people in this manner; teaching them how to cheat the tax code, illegally claim dependents, turn a blind-eye to felonious illegal activity? Is that how they serve their community? by condoning the importation of underage sex-slaves? helping pimps establish brothels on their streets? by condoning prostitution? Seems that's the kind of service my community could do without.. Occums Razor, the simplest deduction is probably the correct one. So that makes your analogy right? The simplest explanation that there is only one wrong doer is more simple than the whole slew of them who have never been caught before now. so the fact that this organization is under investigation in some two dozen or more states for voter registration fraud is also some statistical anomaly? One is an incident. Two is coincidence. Three is a trend. |
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nope but ACORN does have a twenty or thirty year history of doing this stuff repeatedly living in New Mexico for the last 15 years or so we have been hearing of this stuff in news in the papers and on TV for years and years it seems to be their modus operandi (that's latin for all you GED'ers)
I have to take you at your word on that I had not heard of Acorn until Obama. It this the same thing posted by Arizona? I can't play the videos on my computer for some reason so I cannot watch them. I've been aware of their St. Louis doings for awhile. Over the years, they've turned over vacant houses to low income people here. They helped make it where companies had to clean-up their toxic chemicals and dumping practices. They started programs that got developers to hire unemployed people. They got police to respond better to rapes in low income neighborhoods and started rape prevention programs. And more. So, you'd overlook the Illegal activity just because they have benefited St. Louis?? In that case, what would be so wrong with allowing a known but, not convicted pedophile opening some low-income daycares in St. Louis and forget he's a criminal? She never said that anyway. She said a few bad apples don't rotten the bunch. Hell, the video only shows one bad apple,right? Just because one person would assist someone in illegal activities does not mean that the whole organization does it, nor does it make the whole organization a bad one. let's apply Occam's Razor to this hypothesis. You say that this "couple" just happened to find the ONE corrupt ACORN volunteer/worker who just happened to specialize in tax preparation. Further, that assertion would suggest that her creativity and knowledge with respect to tax law, prositution, human-trafficking etc was simply off-the-cuff, ad-hoc. The woman referred to as Shira seemed to be very confident that the tax consultant was "real good". This would seem to indicate that she's well versed in and carries much experience in gaming the tax code.. This Community Organization seemed in no way concerned that this Pimp and Prostitute were anxious to set up a brothel in their "community". In fact, they were willing to assist them in breaking any munber of local, state and federal laws in setting up their "housing". there was little or no hesitation in the ACORN employees in knowing exactly what to do or how to approach the "problem" of someone trying to set up and illegal prostitution and human trafficking ring in their neighborhood.. So is it more reasonable or likely that this is an isolated incident, a statistical outlier? or is it more reasonable to suspect that this ACORN office is accustomed to dealing with people in this manner; teaching them how to cheat the tax code, illegally claim dependents, turn a blind-eye to felonious illegal activity? Is that how they serve their community? by condoning the importation of underage sex-slaves? helping pimps establish brothels on their streets? by condoning prostitution? Seems that's the kind of service my community could do without.. |
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