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Re: Polar Bear Warming?

JasonTromm — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:39:49 -0000

Whoops! No Global Warming For the Last 15 Years http://bit.ly/yRKtgw

Re: Tweets for March 14th

JasonTromm — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:38:06 -0000

Sandra Fluke does not represent my wife, she doesn't represent my daughter. Sandra does not even represent the majority of women in this country. She represents a small minority who don't want to take responsibility and pay for their own birth control. Fluke needs to grow up!

Re: Tweets for May 7th

JasonTromm — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:35:35 -0000

Well, if the courts haven't ruled Obama ineligible by now they would have to give Jindal a pass too.

Republicans are trying to do something for America, at least in the House of Representatives. They have passed 15 job bills that Harry Reid has refused to bring to a floor vote in the Senate. http://bit.ly/FRFgO2

Re: Tweets for May 7th

Ed Darrell — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:44:08 -0000

According to birthers, Jindal can't be qualified to be president, since his parents were not born as citizens.

By now there are more questions. When will Newt Gingrich release his birth certificate? Rick Santorum? Ron Paul? Mitt Romney -- and will it show his Mexico-born father as his father, if he does?

When will conservatives stop playing with phony issues, and let us work to save the nation? We have unemployed people, people in need of housing, people in need of health care, roads and bridges to fix. When will Republicans do something for America?

Re: Tweets for March 14th

Ed Darrell — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:39:49 -0000

Who is Sandra Fluke? She's your daughter. She's your wife.

Who is Rush Limbaugh to call your daughter a slut? Who is Rush Limbaugh to call your wife a prostitute?

Re: Polar Bear Warming?

Ed Darrell — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:38:30 -0000

Still warming. Investigations show there was no wrong-doing by scientists, only by the hackers. Too bad criminal action can soil the reputations of scientists.

Re: I Am Passionate About Education

JasonTromm — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:30:05 -0000

I couldn't stay away from politics! The Presidential election of 2012 is probably the most important in my lifetime. I hope the people that visit my site now will read what I say and then read other sites to educate themselves before going to the voting booth.

Re: We Didn’t Have the Green Thing Back Then

Doris — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:31:59 -0000

That was how I used to make money, growing up in Florida, because there were a lot of discarded bottles beside the road. I used to spend Saturdays collecting them.

Re: We Didn’t Have the Green Thing Back Then

JasonTromm — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:16:38 -0000

I remember gathering up all the soda bottles in the house and taking them back to the grocery store to get the deposit back. It was a pretty good deal for me because my dad paid the deposit and I got to keep the money when I took the bottles back.

Re: Tebow Derangement Syndrome

JasonTromm — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:56:29 -0000

Timothy tells us "Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution" http://bible.us/2Tim3.12.NLT

But there is hope because Jesus told us, “Everyone who acknowledges me publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven." http://bible.us/Matt10.32.NLT

Re: Tebow Derangement Syndrome

Dan Black — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:19:54 -0000

I think if your going to represent and be a person of faith your going to have critics and haters.

Re: Stop SOPA Now!

S. Riley — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:37:55 -0000

SOPA Is an Agent Provocateur’s Dream.

If SOPA is passed by Congress, Private and Government Agent Provocateurs to censor free speech will need only publish Text at Targeted Websites that constitute (copyright infringement). Websites that have large numbers of posted comments and information could not possibly investigate every posting to avoid being shutdown by the Justice Department.

Re: Hundred Acre Stew?

JasonTromm — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:55:39 -0000

LMAO!

Re: Hundred Acre Stew?

Auburn — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:54:27 -0000

Kinda takes the bounce out of him, doesn't it?

Re: Hundred Acre Stew?

Dan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:52:06 -0000

Hey Pooh, how come there are no bubbles in this hot tub?

Re: Hundred Acre Stew?

QualityFrog — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:46:08 -0000

I didn't know Wal-Mart sold hot tubs?

Re: Hundred Acre Stew?

QualityFrog — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:44:55 -0000

Yuck! There's too much Pooh in that stew.

Re: Stop SOPA Now!

JasonTromm — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:04:43 -0000

Update: The House Judiciary Committee considering whether to send the Stop Online Piracy Act to the House floor abruptly adjourned Friday with no new vote date set -- a surprise given that the bill looked certain to pass out of committee today.

Re: Why I Am Against Public Sector Unions

JasonTromm — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:54:38 -0000

In the private sector only about 7% of workers are unionized. In the public sector 36% of workers are unionized, that' a huge constituency for Democrats!

Re: Why I Am Against Public Sector Unions

Chibster — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:54:14 -0000

Your arguments would be valid if the numbers supported them. Union representation is very small in society these days which means that the elected officials that cater to the voting union members is effectively cutting out a majority of their constituency. It should also be noted that while politicians do receive money from unions, they also receive large sums of money from corporate sponsors, which balances out the argument that politicians are bought and paid for. As for your arguments about public sector unions bypassing their "bosses" to get raises, how do the politicians receive their pay raises? I don't remember ever seeing a question on the ballots asking whether I approve of them getting more money. As for teachers receiving 4% raises while their neighbors are receiving only 1%, if that; when is the last time you saw a teacher that was overpaid, or that even had a competitive salary compared with their neighbor?

What Scott Walker did in Wisconsin is attack the workforces ability to negotiate for fair treatment and is now using the media propaganda machine to make it appear that he's saved his taxpayers some money. In reality the public sector unions in Wisconsin agreed to pay cuts, increases in costs to health care, and all the other demands that the governor put on the table because they understood that in order for the state to make improvements they would have to participate. What did Scott Walker do when presented with an opportunity to work with the employees of the state? He decided to pass Act 10 which effectively strips all bargaining rights from the public sector unions. The savings that the state is experiencing now would have been realized had he accepted the negotiated terms and not passed Act 10, and therefore any information released from the state of Wisconsin showing that Act 10 has saved the state anything would be a blatant lie. It's unfortunate that some people are unable to see through this propaganda.

Re: More Bullies or More Wimps?

Fe Williams — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:51:12 -0000

I think it's that some kids are just scared of fighting back because they might end up hurting their selves more.

Fe Williams

Re: Today’s Comics

Joy — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:41:18 -0000

I must say... Crude but certainly to the point. We can't even "swallow" the plan, we have to take in through the back route which nobody cares for at all. Very effective.

Re: Businessmen vs. Bureaucrats

Tim — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:43:21 -0000

If we don't invest, we're sunk. We won't be able to build our capability in a number of vital industries, to enable us to compete with the chinese in the years ahead. Despite our national debt, we can't afford not to invest.

Re: Businessmen vs. Bureaucrats

JasonTromm — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:42:26 -0000

First, the Bush administration nixed the Solyndra loans as unsound. http://troms.me/47r (Don't discount this story because it's on Townhall, ABC news backs it up.)

The results of the Congressional probe shared Tuesday with ABC News show that less than two weeks before President Bush left office, on January 9, 2009, the Energy Department's credit committee had voted against offering a loan commitment to Solyndra. Even after Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, analysts in the Energy Department and in the Office of Management and Budget were repeatedly questioning the wisdom of the loan. In one exchange, an Energy official wrote of "a major outstanding issue" -- namely, that Solyndra's numbers showed it would run out of cash in September 2011. There was also concern about the high-risk nature of the project. Internally, the Office of Management and Budget wrote that "the risk rating for the project sponsor [Solyndra] … seems high." Outside analysts had warned for months that the company might not be a sound investment.

Even if I concede that the government needs to invest in new technology (what you're calling infrastructure) ... we're broke! The government has no more money to spend. We're 14 trillion dollars in debt, most of it borrowed from the Chinese. If we borrow more money we'll become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Peoples Republic of China.

What you're suggesting is like you or me borrowing $25K on credit cards to invest in the stock market. That would be insane.

Re: Businessmen vs. Bureaucrats

Tim — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:41:22 -0000

Solyndra was both a risky business venture AND future-infrastructure.

"Guaranteed the loans anyway" - not true. The loan process was begun when Bush was still in office (and was touted by him).

George Kaiser (the Obama campaign contributor) didn't invest anything in Solyndra - his family's charitable foundation did. Kaiser doesn't personally profit from any of this.

The Obama Energy Dept finished the loan guarantee - *then* global prices for solar panels collapsed, at which point Solyndra told Energy that it was having now cash flow problems and wouldn't be able to make the first repayment. That's when Energy found out. At that point the loan was restructured to make it easier for Solyndra to pay back (to help them avoid bankruptcy).

Richard Branson and the conservative Walton family both still believed Solyndra was a good bet and chipped in an additional $75 million each. Then prices collapsed again.