From: bknight on
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:15:37 -0600, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
wrote:

>
><bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
>news:f8v0n5di4q87fntitcl71vjghenh2tfqpb(a)4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:04:26 -0600, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>><bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
>>>news:7kn0n518v5f21gs2jo01qnst1gmi84n715(a)4ax.com...
>>>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:36:20 -0600, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> All politicians have advisors, but no one "handles" Obama.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BK
>>>>>
>>>>>Riiiiight. In that case no one handled Bush then either.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> They didn't have to. Cheney made most decisions alone.
>>>>
>>>> BK
>>>
>>>Talk about urban legends. Guess who decied to try KSM in civilian court?
>>>Wasent Obama.
>>>
>>>
>> Not his call.
>>
>> BK
>
>You mean Holder made the decision alone? Gasp!

That's what the Attorney General does, make legal decisions.

BK
From: BAR on
In article <c2f8726d-f6fa-4290-9377-dc1ea84e0491
@a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, johnb505(a)gmail.com says...
> > > We'd be 787 billion richer and have a far smaller government.- Hide quoted
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> >
> > Far smaller? You're going to have a tough time proving that. Without
> > the stimulus, would we have unemployment below 10% today? Would GDP
> > have grown 2.2% in the third quarter of 2009 and 5.7% in the fourth?
> >
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> >
> > More than likely yes.- Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -
>
> You don't know that. Neither do the Tea Partiers and neither do I. If
> Obama hadn't done the things he did to rescue the economy and end the
> recesssion (which has ended) we could be in a severe depression now.
> Nobody on the right seems to want to consider that.
>

John B, you support Bush completely and his rescue of the economy in the
form of TARP?


From: BAR on
In article <eb75656c-643a-4919-b9c3-29b24797a748
@u9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, johnb505(a)gmail.com says...
> >
> > You don't know that. Neither do the Tea Partiers and neither do I. If
> > Obama hadn't done the things he did to rescue the economy and end the
> > recesssion (which has ended) we could be in a severe depression now.
> > Nobody on the right seems to want to consider that.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------�-----
> >
> > I think you give the stimilus a bit too much credit seeing how much of it
> > has yet to be spent. Most economists would disagree with you about the
> > recession being ended.- Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Most economists defime a recession as two or more consecutive quarters
> of negative GDP growth. The last two quarters have seen positive
> growth.
>

Get ready for recession redux.


From: BAR on
In article <5fYbn.136501$kQ5.27548(a)newsfe08.iad>, assimilate(a)borg.org
says...
>
> On 8-Feb-2010, BAR <screw(a)you.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > But if one guy with money will vote to evict ten poor people, we
> > > > > will
> > > > > call that "democracy"? I don't think so.
> > > >
> > > > eviction is a result of not meeting one's contractual obligations and
> > > > not of
> > > > some vote taken.
> > >
> > > No, it can also be the result of someone buying out and tearing up a
> > > valid contract of a fully paid up tenant.
> > >
> > > You need to get out more.
> >
> > What did the contract state what would happen if the property was sold?
>
> I'm sorry but Bert is right, you can't just tear up a contract; there has to
> be provisions for non-renewal or termination; if not, every state has law to
> deal with such situations.

I've rented enough town houses to know that if the owner wants to sell
they buyer often doesn't want to be a landlord. Read the fine print.
From: BAR on
In article <600502fd-08c1-46db-99cd-d9d2703b74f6
@q27g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, frostback2002(a)att.net says...
>
> On Feb 8, 8:32�am, BAR <sc...(a)you.com> wrote:
> > In article <4b6f6b6b$0$21015$9a6e1...(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>,
> > nob...(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com says...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:33:52 +0000, assimilate wrote:
> > > > On �7-Feb-2010, Howard Brazee <how...(a)brazee.net> wrote:
> >
> > > >>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
> >
> > > >> At one time, the Republican party was the one standing for equal
> > > >> rights. � �But now those Dixiecrats have moved to the Republican
> > > >> party and things are different.
> >
> > > > No Howard, the Dixiecrats have long passed, except one Robert C Byrd
> > > > perhaps. The "southern strategy" was a Nixon plan & that was almost
> > > > half a century ago. Please give it a rest.
> >
> > > The fact remains that Bert's original charge--Democrats worked the
> > > hardest to disenfranchise Blacks--is completely dubious when the racists
> > > migrated en masse to the Republican party nearly half a century ago.
> >
> > Thank you for confirming that the Democrats form 1865 until 1965 were
> > hell bent on disenfranchising blacks from voting. And, there were a
> > couple of them into the 1970's.
>
> How about Byrd?

West Virginia will soon be free from the:

Robert C Byrd trash transfer station
Robert C Byrd road to the Robert C Byrd mailbox
Robert C Byrd ....