County and City personal property taxes are due today! Avoid that penalty and make sure they are in on time.
A big chill is coming in this weekend. Time for those sweaters and and for the furnace to come on.
The City of Manassas celebrates its 30th Fall Jubilee this Saturday, October 6, 2012 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
A good time is always had by ALL.
Obama kept a promise? That’s not possible. The promise was: if we passed porkulus/stimulus, unemployment would never go over 8%. What you’re seeing is hardly “promise kept”.
get over it. You are just creating I hate Obama noise ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82113.html?hp=r1
Always enjoy the flow of sharp wit and humor when
Stewart and O’Reilly meet.
I had bought the podcast and then forgot to listen. I guess I saved myself frustration. I listened in the middle of the night. It was funny but more informative than funny actually. There were some good zingers in there. You can still buy it. Not sure how but probably off of the Daily Show.
They covered a lot of topics. ED Hill did a great job. Someone remind me again why Fox ditched her.
Right, anything other than obsequious agreement is just “I hate Obama” noise. That doesn’t take any thought at all!
The more obsequious the better actually.
dumb remarks need to be pointed out as such.
ARRA (Obama Stimulus) was signed in February 2009 – and the unemployment rate was already at 8.1% – when the Administration said it would keep the rate below 8%, I do not think they realized that the damage was already done, and with the amount of job losses, it took longer to slow it down than expected.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, it’s all Bush’s fault. Well, who knows? Maybe enough people will buy that!
Slow seems to be the only one still blaming Bush. How long do you think your excuses will work to make people ignore all the time before Jan. 20, 2008? Does it includes blame clinton also?
Got something to sell?
Soon, you may not be able to.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-right-to-resell-your-own-stuff-is-in-peril-2012-10-04
Pick up the best snippets from the Great O’Reilly/Stewart Debate. It is too much to post here.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/07/jon-stewart-and-bill-o-reilly-rumble-debate-best-moments-video.html
There is an extremely interesting article in The Daily Beast from newsweek which details the near death experience of a neurosurgeon.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet
Btw…Chavez won in Venezuela
After all the polls showed him behind by 3 points or more.
This is my shocked face.
@Moon-howler
Enjoyed those Snipits of O’Reily and Stewart. You did not pick and chose from them did you?
@Cargosquid
I mentioned this last week, and again I would ask today: Where are the post-debate polls? Why no ABC-WaPo poll of likely voters post-debate? Rasmussen today has them even at 48%, with the rest of the voters either undecided or voting for someone else. That suggests Obama has lost some ground. The MSM silence is deafening.
@Emma
You should check out the Huffington Post and msnbc. They have both been skewering him.
slow – I re-read what I posted, and I do not see where I talked about Bush at all. Facts are facts – unemployment was already over 8% before ARRA was enacted. And if we want to get technical, Obama never said anything about it not going over 8%, it was a report by the Council of Economic Advisers that said enacting a stimulus would keep it below 8%.
Elizabeth Warren = Fauxcahontas
Now THAT’S funny!!
@Pat Herve
OK, I re-read it. Don’t want to change anything. Thanks!
Here’s a snapshot of something I watched today.
At the community college, J. Sargeant Reynolds, where I go to school, I watched a poll taker ask two questions.
“Are you a registered voter?” and if they answered yes, “If the election was held today, who would you vote for?”
Majority was answering “Romney.”
Not a big majority, but a majority. “Undecided” was just behind Obama by a few votes.
Interesting.
@Cargosquid
I hope they don’t need college loans.
I actually can’t imagine anyone being undecided.
I spoke too soon. This appeared on WaPo late this afternoon:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/10/08/8-takeaways-from-the-new-pew-poll/?hpid=z2
Romney has drawn even with Obama in the presidential race among registered
voters (46% to 46%) after trailing by nine points (42% to 51%) in September. Among
likely voters, Romney holds a slight 49% to 45% edge over Obama. He trailed by eight points among likely voters last month.
What was Starry saying about Obama kicking Romney’s butt in the debate last week?
Perhaps it is far too early for anyone to be going out on a limb.
Its over when its over.
IMHO – Kaine topped Allen in tonight´s debate!
@punchak
I thought so too but I only watched part of it. I also like Kaine much better than Allen so that might have colored my thinking.
@Moon-howler
That’s what I said, too. She agreed. She was astounded at the number, but thought that many of the “undecided” just didn’t want to state their preference.
Here’s a cool side-effect of Obama-Care! Darden Restaurants is playing with reducing hourly workers’ schedules to just below full-time to get around ObamaCare penalties. If the poor get much more help from the Democrats, they’ll just simply disappear!
@SlowpokeRodriguez
There, that explains it – the unemployement numbers I mean. With all this help from the Democrates, the unemployment numbers are bound to continue to go down.
I know, I know, Moon “screw you blue.”
Republican Senator, Vietnam Veteran Endorses President Obama
Posted: 10/08/2012 11:59 am
As a combat veteran of two tours in Vietnam with twenty-two years of service as a Republican member of the U.S. House and Senate, I endorse President Barack Obama for a second term as our Commander-in-Chief. Candidates publicly praise our service members, veterans and their families, but President Obama supports them in word and deed, anywhere and every time.
As a Vietnam vet, one of the reasons I support President Obama is because he has consistently shown he understands that our commitment to our servicemen and women may begin when they put on their uniform, but that it must never end.
This decision is not easy for any lifelong Republican. In 2008 I voted for Barack Obama, the first time I ever voted for a Democrat, because the Republican Party was drifting toward a dangerous path that put extreme party ideology above national interest. Mitt Romney heads a party remaining on that dangerous path, proving the emptiness of their praise as they abandon our service members, veterans and military families along the way.
What really set me off was Romney’s reference to 47% of Americans to be written off — including any veteran collecting disability like myself, as a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) veteran.
Behind closed doors with his donors, Romney made clear he’d write off half of America — including service members and veterans — because, as he said “I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility for their lives.” But there’s no greater personal responsibility than to wear your country’s uniform and defend the rights we all enjoy as Americans. We don’t sow division between “us” versus “them.” The Commander-in-Chief sets the bar for all to follow and fight for the entire country. Mitt Romney fails that test. As a veteran I feel written off.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-pressler/larry-pressler-obama_b_1948415.html
Very well put. Mr. Romney’s 47 percent comment was especially insulting to veterans and members of the military. He is unfit to be commander-in-chief.
@Starryflights
Do you mean former Senator Larry Pressler, who has been out of the Senate since 1997 and is a lawyer representing foreign firms here in the US and who was APPOINTED by Obama, on November 10, 2009, as a Commissioner for the United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad? Loyalty does come cheap for some.
Black people in Chicago blame Obama for ruining “white guilt.”
http://hillbuzz.org/extreme-black-anger-in-chicago-at-obama-he-done-did-it-he-ruined-it-for-us-white-people-dont-feel-guilty-no-more-and-wont-do-stuff-for-us-now-64493
Ok, then.
Totally and completely racist and unacceptable for this blog.
White guilt?
That is pure horse crap.
Translation: “Probably true but VERY unflattering for the left, so I must ultimately suppress it…the only way my side can win an argument.”
I don’t have any, do you? I would have it over the Indians if I had been alive then…but I wasn’t. No white guilt here. I have guilt but not over my race. However, if I could be another race, and got my pick of whom I would be, I would definitely be Oprah. All that money and she has a neat personality.
@Moon-howler
Why was that racist? Or, I should say, who was racist in that posting?
Them, the guy who wrote about it, or me for bringing it to your attention.
I found it to be ludicrous and thought that you might find it so also. If that is a true reporting from actual people, is it not a valid discussion?
There is some truth to their words about how “white guilt” is used to their advantage. Its wrong…but it is done.
Racist publication and racist message.
We obviously have different racist tolerance levels.
My grandchildren and kids think I am am a racist so perhaps you should be worried.
@Moon-howler
White guilt may be too close for comfortfort. I get that. Getting over is easier to hear and means essentially the same thing from the other perspective. I had never heard of a “Jesse Hire” before, that must be Chicagoan for the more common understanding of affirmative extortion.
I also did not know that Gays could be racist or is it now that anyone who disagrees with the Demogods is a racist? You know, that race card has been played so much this time around that you can see it coming out of the deck. I am ready to bet.
And all of this on the day that the SCOTUS takes on Affirmative action — again.
@Blue
I have no idea what you have said. Again.
Are you having white guilt? Do you know why? Have you done something evil to someone of color?
Talban says it shot Pakistani teen, Malala Yousafzani, for
advocatings girls’rights – such as attending schools.
This, even amid all the other great Taliban horrors,
stands out as an act of pure evil.
I pray this brave, bright young woman soon recovers.
The world needs her.
Wasn’t that awful? I couldn’t even do that story as a thread. It was just too upsetting.
Now an attack like that is savage! I doubt if the perps will ever be caught and brought to justice.
Cargo et al,
What kind of critical thinker would acutally ASSume the story written on this blog is even accurate. WHO is the writer, from what credible background does he arise?
The entire narrative was racist, from its description of how these people ate their food, to the supposed quoting of white guilt.
I am embarrased for anyone that would actually use this internet propoganda as a pretense for informed debate.
Steve,
Pakistanis are rising up, from leadership to regular people in their outrage of this heinous act.
@Elena
http://hillbuzz.org/contact-us-faq/about-kevin-dujan
Here’s the author if you’re interested.
“from its description of how these people ate their food,”
What ar you talking about? There was no description of how people were eating. I just read it again. The scene was in a Mexican restaurant. And they had margaritas while the author had a Coke. That was it.
Of course, I notice that you are absolutely CERTAIN that this article is a fabrication.
Interesting.
Does anyone know how to set google to search for articles on a certain subject?
The articles are then sent to your gmail account.
@Moon-howler
You can DO that?
cool.
But first, I have to get a gmail account……
Yes, we have a tracker on the BOCS but I cant remember how we did it.
We have troops in Jordan.
This….is interesting……
BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States has sent military troops to the Jordan-Syria border to bolster that country’s military capabilities in the event that violence escalates along its border with Syria, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
Speaking at a NATO conference of defense ministers in Brussels, Panetta said the U.S. has been working with Jordan to monitor chemical and biological weapons sites in Syria and also to help Jordan deal with refugees pouring over the border from Syria. The troops are also building a headquarters for themselves.
http://news.yahoo.com/panetta-us-sends-forces-jordan-131927741.html
@Moon-howler
What is it that you’re trying to do? RSS feeds or are you trying to aggregate based on a topic?
Give me an example and I can probably tell you how to do it.
@Cargo, that was racist. Actually, I have no clue if it is or isn’t as I haven’t read the article but I assume anything and everything written by the Whites is racist. Give us 20 more years. My peoples are trying to breed you all out.
“Talban says it shot Pakistani teen, Malala Yousafzani, for advocatings girls’rights – such as attending schools.”
And yet people say we have a war on women in this country. I mock them because they have no clue what the religion of peace does to women…
Marin, I was probably aware of how women fared in some muslim countries long before you were born. I think your remarks are dismissive and sexist.
In the first place, the war on women that we American women are speaking of has to do with American rights. I certainly do not plan on living like a Somolian woman lives. Please don’t compare the two. I mock you for not knowing the difference and for being foolish enough to be dismissive on a women owned blog.
We very much have a culture war on women being led by the far right. They won’t win because we are Americans and simply aren’t going to tolerate their crap.
I just got a polling call that asked me a few things.
Who would I pick for Congress? Connolley or Perkins(?).
My response. They both suck. Undecided.
Who would I pick for Congress? Allen or Kaine
My response. They both suck. Undecided.
What do you think is the biggest threat to this country? Economy, jobs, taxes, regulations, or healthcare?
My response. Yes. But if I only have to pick one, taxes.
Who would you vote for in the Gov election this Nov? Mcauliffe, Warner, Cooch or Bolling.
COOCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I scared the guy with my enthusiasm.
” I think your remarks are dismissive and sexist. ”
No, telling my wife to make me a sandwich can be interpretted as sexist. Me saying that a bullet to the skull is more serious than telling a college educated woman to pay her own $10/month for her BCPs is not sexist.
“In the first place, the war on women that we American women are speaking of has to do with American rights.”
Interesting coming from someone that is so quick to limit the 1st and 2nd Amendment.
” Please don’t compare the two.”
The thing is.. you are. I’m pointing out that a bullet to a person because they are a woman is a real war on women where telling a woman to pay for her own BCP is a ‘faux war’.
” I mock you for not knowing the difference and for being foolish enough to be dismissive on a women owned blog.”
I call it bringing truth to power.
I call it being wet behind the ears and disrespectful. Some poor kid in another land gets her brains blown out by a bunch of bullying pig men because her culture allows this to happen. Right now, probably nothing can be done about the balance of power in countries like Aghanistan. Women have zero rights. That’s even more reason for American women to make absolutely certain that they don’t lose even a millimeter of ground here in this country. That’s how it goes. Gaining it back is too difficult.
That young girl and other females in Aghanistan and Pakistan have made the tiniest of inroads. They should be proud of their efforts. Their victory is centuries away from completion. Again, even stronger reminder to never lose ground.
It isn’t your problem anyway. Don’t worry about it. There is a culture war over women’s rights in this country. Your opinion simply isn’t important in the grand scheme of things.
“It isn’t your problem anyway. Don’t worry about it. There is a culture war over women’s rights in this country. Your opinion simply isn’t important in the grand scheme of things.”
My opinion isn’t, I agree. However, my vote is. And you ain’t winning it right now.
I have never tried. I cannot imagine we would ever vote for the same person.
@marinm
She is, if you vote for Obama.
Low blow!! Keep it above the belt!!!
Uh-Oh…moderation. I used the bad word “vociferously”. Bad Slowpoke!
Wrong word, slowpoke, “vociferously” didn’t do it.
While you are at it, you are so full of it. No one ever defended the Afghani culture. Not here. Someone might have critized how you said it. I just don’t remember. It must be that way with words.
All you need to lean from this is that no one defended the taliban or mistreatment of women here on this blog.
http://dawn.com/2012/10/10/women-as-chattel/
May help to explain a place where young girls get shot simply because
they want to attend school.