Is that YOU, Dewy?
Here’s looking at you, kid.
It’s almost the bewitching day. Do all the moonhowlers have their costumes? Who is hosting the Halloween party?
Cargo, we are all showing up at your house. Warn Mrs. Cargo and Cargoette. Just kidding!’
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http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/300418
Grrrrr-
Were we supposed to read about teachers, dog crap or trees? @Big Dog. I checked all three out.
If the teacher was wearing tie dye in the 80s, no wonder she didnt fit in.
Marco Rubio is a TP darling and is often mentioned as a potential VP pick to shore up Latino and conservative support for whoever emerges from the sludge as the Repub nominee for President. It appears Rubio has the same TP trait as his fellow baggers Bachmann and Palin; a proclivity to play fast and loose with history in an effort to better the narrative of whatever “patriotic” story is being fed to the base. Part of Rubio’s compelling life story is how his parents fled from Cuba in 1959 after Castro seized power and escaped to America to avoid communism and live the dream. That story would be more compelling if only it was true.
Rubio’s parents arrived in the U.S. and filed for permanent resident status on May 27, 1956. The Castro brothers were in exile in Mexico at the time and did not return to Cuba until December 1956, some 6 months after the Rubios moved to the U.S. It was January 1959 when Cuban President Batista fell and Castro gained control, which was 2.5 years after the Rubios said they became “bona fide resident(s) of the state of Florida.” Most Cubans who came to the U.S. in the period when the Rubios did were not running from communism, they were running to America in search of better jobs and a better future for their families (sounds familiar somehow). There is nothing wrong with the narrative of the real story, although it doesn’t raise the eye-watering swell of patriotism Rubio’s fleeing the scourge of communism version generates. [And to his credit, he didn’t say his parents were guided to our shores by the sound of Paul Revere ringing his bell and shooting his gun or that his parents came here to help the Founding Father fight the good fight to end slavery.]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/marco-rubios-compelling-family-story-embellishes-facts-documents-show/2011/10/20/gIQAaVHD1L_story.html
Morris, I expected better of you. The WP story is nothing more than a hit piece. Also….who cares? Where’s your dedication to Obama’s problems with HIS backstory? And no, I’m not talking about his nationality……
@Starryflights
At least get your story straight.
Defending corporations that get handouts? Finally, proof that you don’t pay attention to actual events.
It’s the TP that is against the bail outs. Just like the Occupy. There is some common ground.
But the Tea Party wants to take the “crony” out of crony capitalism while the Occupiers want to take the “capitalism” out of crony capitalism.
So…apparently the TP and the Occupiers are in agreement. There should have been no bail outs.
More evidence that inflation is higher than the “government rate”……
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Americans-spending-more-with-apf-2588278944.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
Who are you going to believe? The government or your lying eyes….?
That is a big reason for the “inequality.” It takes capital to make wealth. If you’re spending all your money on necessities, you can’t build wealth.
Green Mountain Coffee going in to Isle of Wight. They will pick up 800 employees eventually.
From Market Watch:
Someone in PWC needs to make friends like that. What a great catch.
@Cargosquid
A hit piece? Since when is setting the record straight a ‘hit piece?” Not sure I understand what you mean exactly.
I think you must be thinking of someone else other than Moe re dedication to Obama. I think perhaps you might have just tripped over your stereotype with that one. Either that or you have the wrong Moe.
You might want to google Colonel Morris Davis to see why I might be going out on a limb. Maybe he should be saying he expect better from you.
@Cargosquid
The professional left Chihuahuas are piddling on the carpet over Rubio you say? I’m shocked.
Didn’t Rubio’s Uncle free Jews at Auschwitz. or am I thinking of the wrong guy?
Ok for the second time in two weeks I’ve seen Gordy sings on public property. A couple of weeks ago, it was Park Authority property, and this week it’s school property(Stonewall Middle). Oops, and I almost forgot about the mobile billboard for the Sherrif that was parked in reserved jury parking. Listen up candidates!! Prince William’s citizen’s property is NO place for your signs.!!!
@Cato the Elder
A swing and a miss. I expect any piddling is because the man obviously lied and embellished his past.
Is it ok to lie if your uncle saved Jews during the Holocaust? Is that what we are saying here?
How about yes, he lied and it was wrong? That might be considered an acceptable response rather than the attempt at deflection.
@Moon-howler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV1sxq8mqvA
Not unless he was a member of the Red Army.
Ooops. Strike one.
How does Gordy get off saying that he is a small business owner – he own a vacation property that he rents out when he is not using it – is that what a small business is?? I wonder how many employees he has (it is a 3 bedroom log cabin).
http://riverwoodsva.com
Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a report from Congress.
@Pat.Herve
I would be one happy small business owner if I owned that piece of property. In fact, I would move there and that would be the end of that.
That thing is just plain old sweet. Good find.
@Cato the Elder
Ah those gotcha moments….
As a person who has repeated family stories about what this person or that person did in wars…easy mistake to make. Obviously he had an uncle who was involved in the liberation of one of those concentration camps. Is it a lie or just the wrong camp?
His grandfather Stan Dunham served under Patton and his great uncle, Raph Dunham, the one probably referred to, entered the continent of Europe on D-Day at Omaha beach.
Ralph probably had quite a few psychological scars having gone through D-Day and then marching on in to Germany.
Sort of makes these birther bonzos seem even more ridiculous and disrespectful, doesn’t it?
I always remember my father telling me about just gagging when he went into some city in Europe that had undergone a lot of shelling and bombing. He said as long as he lived he could close his eyes and still smell burning human flesh. I think he was in Antwerp but I hope no one holds a gun to my head and asks and there is only one other person left on earth who might have heard this story before to ask.
My aunt is 85 and somewhat ga ga and I am not even sure she ever heard him tell the story. Obama’s grandparents are both dead, as is his mother. I can excuse confusing Auschwitz with Buchanwald. When families tell stories over the years, and this would be 65 or so, sometimes the facts get altered over the generations.
Hey, man, my grandfather died in a concentration camp. He fell out of a guard tower.
[ed. note: and the bad taste award goes to…..Pokie. I hope Elena puts you in the corner with a dunce cap.]
@Moon-howler
Ah, now I get it. When Caesar Barackus Obamus gets his family narrative wrong it’s a minor “oopsie” as a result of fuzzy detail from stories passed from generation to generation. When Rubio (or any Republican, for that matter) does it they “obviously lied and embellished the past.” Thanks for clearing that up.
Have I mentioned that you would make an outstanding editor for the WP or the NYT? It’s not too late for that second career! 😈
It was Buchenwald instead of Auschwitz. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8083967.stm
Fox News recently hired former SC governor Mark Sanford to be a political analyst. (Hope they pair him up with Dick Morris and Newter where their “experience” could make for some interesting commentary). Surely if the baggers can forgive a man who confused hiking in the shrubs along a dirt trail in western NC and going below the equator (and beneath the sheets) with his foreign mistress they can forgive mistaking the name of one Nazi death camp with another Nazi death camp. Family values, y’all!
The Occupiers are out there “picking up a pound of beef” for me? They shouldn’t….really.
At a recently improved road here in Prince William County, there was a sign that said, “Courtesy of the Board of County Supervisors and Citizens of Prince William County.”
I have to say that the message on that sign annoyed me. The BOCS may have approved the road project, but it was the citizens of PWC that paid for and supported the project. Politicians need to be reminded that they spend someone else’s money. That sign seemed to indicate that the BOCS has forgotten that it was elected as temporary stewards of the county budget.
@Slowpoke Rodriguez
I don’t understand the neo-con lexicon, but I sure hope “picking up a pound of beef” isn’t more of that “hiking the Appalachian trail” conservative code talk.
It sounds like an “Iwo Jima” experience to me and I don’t want to know any more!!!
@Cato the Elder
It is one thing to historically embellish. Its another thing to confuse one concentration camp from another. Buchenwald and Auschwitz are pretty similar. There is difference in names, not in severity or intent. For that Gottcha, you earned an F.
There is a huge difference in what Rubio is suggesting. He parents came here for a better opportunity 3 years before those Cubans came here who had escaped with their lives and the shirts on their back. That’s ok. He just needed to be truthful about it. I have only known one of those people who came here escaping Castro. She probably has the first dime she hever made in this country. She worked as a custodian and last I heard she was still buying and selling houses in Manassas Park after fixing them up. Neat lady.
@Kelly3406
Many people feel that way. How do the discretionary funds hit you? Many people are opposed to those being given away by the supervisors like its their money rather than the tax payers.
@Slowpoke Rodriguez
That should have been living (not leaving), inplying you were secretly a 1%-er.
@Cato the Elder
No new careers. Is Rubio a Republican? He should tell the truth whatever party he belongs to. I hope the the Prez self corrected also. Those just aren’t equivalent situations.
@Kelly3406 I drive by a sign that says that every day. I’m not a PWC resident, but it annoys me just the same.
@Morris Davis
I had the wrong uncle. Uncle Ralph was Stanley Dunham’s brother.
Sorry and thanks for finding the right uncle. It seems that the Prez had a grandfather and 2 great uncles who served in WWII,, all in the European theater. It just makes all the birther comments that much more disrespectful in my eyes.
How can this still be happening – http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/30/snowstorm-strands-jetblue-passengers-on-runway-for-seven-hours/ – a plane is diverted to anther airport, and the passengers have to stay on the plane for 7 hours (after a three hour flight) – no food, water or bathrooms – and they can see the terminal. This is criminal.
It really is. Why couldn’t they just taxi over to a door and let them out?
Jet blue is famous for this behavior.
I have flown JetBlue several times. Nothing like this has never occurred.
Taxi to a door with an airplane is probably not as easy as it sounds.
I suppose they could have opened the emergency exits and let the passengers slide out.
Better than what happened, anyway.
7 hours on a loaded plane with no working bathroom, water, etc. I thought that was a violation of the passenger bill of rights or something.
“never” should be “ever”
It annoys me, and everyone else that I’ve talked to that has seen those silly signs. Wonder what the cost is of those signs and how many are on display county-wide.
Two interesting articles on the front page of today’s WaPo:
1)”The New American Neighborhood” – PWC and the two cities are
at or near the brink of being “minority majority”. The WaPo’s
2010 regional map seems to indicate GTS in Manassas, the
western part of Manassas Park and portions of PWC near Rt#1
are 85%+ Hispanic.
2) “Social Security adding billions to U.S. buget woes” – If so,
it has indeed been a giant Ponzi shame run by both parties. Like
any retirement plan we paid into the plan knowing at some
time we would need to withdraw from it – the money was part of a
“Trust Fund” that has turned out to be nothing but a big pile of I.O.U.’s.
Bernie Madoff times a hundred.
As the WaPo article states”If fully repaid, the trust fund can fully finance
benefits through 2036 …”.
@Big Dog
Wasn’t the real SS problem that politicians couldn’t keep their paws out of the till?
Didn’t that just happen to us again in VA? Good intentions but I have them on my Visa card aso…….
It was your typical liberals at Occupy Madison that got caught doing it in public. Maybe ask them what it means.
God did I ever goof that one up.
Do you need me to change something?
Karma can be swift.
@Moon-howler
Al Gore’s “lockbox” idea from the 2000 campaign isn’t looking so bad now, is it? And that was back when we had a surplus and we were on track to eliminate the federal debt by 2012.
@Morris Davis
We’ve done “lockboxes” before. Problem is, Congress has the keys to the “lockbox”.
I meant to respond to the “bad taste award” thing with “Slowpoke takes a bow”…..but I messed up the placement.
I guess hoping that you wanted me to take down that your grandfather was a concentration camp guard was too much to hope for?
Sorry, the humor escaped me.
nothing about concentration camps is funny.
Surely that is not what you meant to say. Let’s just take that remark down.
I am really disappointed in you Slowpoke. Some things are funny and some things are not funny. Might I suggest you read “The Promise”. It is a book written by a woman who survived Auschwitz along with her sister. I would be more than happy to lend you the book. My third cousin who is the only survior in his immediate family (they were Polish)would not find your comment humorous at all.
When you finish The Promise, I have The Night here that is Elie Weisel’s signature book on the Holocaust. I will gladly lend it to you.
Slowpoke is a wussie. He should apologize for his foul comment.