Does the rest of the world think we are crazy?

[Unkotare]

The rest of the world can kiss my a$$

-Geaux

More southern, slack-jawed stupidity from you. Go back to washing down your road kill lunch with whatever cheap can of mass-produced American pee-pee beer you prefer.

Where are you from, asshole?

 

[Vox]

Why the U.S. government is shut down: 5 theories from abroad - The Week

In an editorial headlined, "Wake up, Jefferson, they've all gone mad!" France's Le Monde writes: "There's no rational explanation for the Tea Party's actions. It's pure hatred of the president, a conception of politics as permanent civil war."

For the French, ObamaCare is not the real issue. "This is the pretext chosen by the core extremist, fundamentalist, the Republican Party, the Tea Party, to sabotage President Obama. This reflects a growing polarization of American public life to shame the Founding Fathers of this great Republic."

WHO CARES what Le Monde thinks?

They seem to understand our problem better than most Americans

nope, they do not.

and it the left-wing newspaper - who cares what they think?

 

[theliq]

Go for it Conservatives

Fuck the world...I got God and my guns

And there in lies the American malady.......you have on your own stupidity and greed achieved what Al-Qaeda wanted......Conservative Repubs are a curse to America,it is not a question of Fuck the World but You have Fucked Yourselves

Where are you from again?

Paradise

 

[Pogo]

 

[Spiderman]

Quite frankly the so called shut down has not affected me or anyone I know one bit.

We certainly can do just fine with a smaller government.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Had the Dems refused to allow just one of Bush's 7 debt limit increases unless Bush compromised on the Iraq War or his tax cuts to the wealthy, the GOP would have peppered the airwaves with claims that shutting the government down would give the terrorists strength. The problem is that the Dems don't have that media power. .

Bollocks.

The government controlled media has been carrying water for the messiah big time. They have done everything in their power to make the republicans look bad.

But it would have been great if the democrats had refused to fund the Iraqi and AfPak ventures.

.

Werd. Maybe, they're all just constipated.

 

[rdean]

Had the Dems refused to allow just one of Bush's 7 debt limit increases unless Bush compromised on the Iraq War or his tax cuts to the wealthy, the GOP would have peppered the airwaves with claims that shutting the government down would give the terrorists strength. The problem is that the Dems don't have that media power. When the GOP was building a think tank/media empire in the 70s, the Dems were sleeping. Now they have no way of pointing to how both Reagan and Bush increased the debt limit far more than Obama, and increased the deficits far more. The Dems got outplayed. They started losing media control in the 70s and now they are SOL. Paul Krugman no longer gets invited to the Sunday Morning Talk Shows, which have been increasingly populated with powerful Republican voices and Allen Combs style weaklings. The game is over. The GOP didn't have the votes to stop health care, so now they are doing an end-run around the will of the people and Constitution, both of which upheld this law.

Republicans used reconciliation THREE times to create that debt. There was nothing Democrats could do. Think about why. If you need help, let us know. Most Democrats or Independents or even some Republicans on the USMB can explain it in such a way even you could understand it.

 

[rdean]

Your post missed the part where insurance rates have been skyrocketing for the last 20 years and medical bills have been the number one cause of bankruptcy for a decade. And that most uninsured are in Red States who get most of their money from Blue States who simply can't afford it anymore because people using the emergency room as their primary source of healthcare is insane.

But then again, Republicans are insane, so it all kind of fits.

 

[P@triot]

We are one of the few nations on earth that still kills its citizens. Joining us in our affection for Capital Punishment are Muslim nations, China and North Korea. We are the only country in North America to use it. All of Europe has dropped it, so has Russia
It does not make us safer and puts the US into the company of barbarians

Yeah...it's so much better to place barbaric serial killers, serial rapists, and murders into posh facilities with weight rooms, basketball courts, HD tv's in every cell, game rooms, libraries, and workshops with free buffet and free healthcare (the finest in the world).

Because that "makes us safer"

(I'm afraid to ask this, but.... how exactly does ridding the world of the worst forms of evil not make us safer in your fucked up little mind [MENTION=20321]rightwinger[/MENTION]?!?)

 

[P@triot]

And the richest "rich" people the world has ever seen. Yet Republicans see those rich as "needy". So they want to shovel the rest of the nations wealth their way.

I see your disingenuousness knows no limits.

[MENTION=20394]rdean[/MENTION], can you please explain how asking government to leave people alone is us "wanting to shovel wealth to the wealthy"?

Only one side wants to shovel money anywhere - and that is your side. The rest of us just want people to be left the fuck alone to earn whatever they get.

Can you imagine that rdean? Earn? Gasp!

 

[Geaux4it]

The US is the most powerful nation on earth. Politically, militarily and economically. Everything we do impacts the rest of the world.

What does the world think of us?

1. Politically: The US is unstable. Our government is broken. We cannot accomplish the most simple tasks let alone act as leaders of the free world. We can't pass a budget, agree to keep our government going, agree to pay our debts.

2. Justice System: We have more of our citizens in prison than any nation on earth. We are one of the few "civilized" nations in the free world that still relys on capital punishment. We continue a fruitless "War on Drugs" than encourages violence and fills our prisons

3. Gun Violence: We have a murder rate three times that of similar nations. We have endured assasinations of our leaders and an endless stream of massacres and yet we show no will to do anything other than accept it

4. Environment: We allow science to become a political issue, ignoring scientific reason because it interferes with our politics. 95% of scientists agree that manmade global warming exists and still we treat is as a political threat not a natural threat

5. Education: America used to set the standard for education but we now settle for "good enough". If our students can pass an arbitrary exam, we are satisfied with the level of education. Our students perform poorly when compared to our peers and we are unwilling to do anything about it. Our education system is disjointed and unfocused

1. yes, the govt is broken. It is broken by corruption, incompetence, and partisan bickering. It is broken by a system that allows people to make a career out of being in congress. recently it is broken because our petty president refuses to negotiate in the best interests of the citizens

2.what would you do with a serial murderer? give him a villa in la jolla? capital punishment is the only punishment applicable to some crimes. The war on drug is a fiasco, we agree on that.

3. gun violence is a by-product of poverty and the welfare state. the Second amendment is there for a reason and must remain

4.man is not destroying the planet and causing the oceans to rise. AGW is a failed religion.

5. blame the teachers union and the liberal mindset that everyone deserves a diploma whether they can read and write or not. Bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator is destroying our kids futures.

We are one of the few nations on earth that still kills its citizens. Joining us in our affection for Capital Punishment are Muslim nations, China and North Korea. We are the only country in North America to use it. All of Europe has dropped it, so has Russia
It does not make us safer and puts the US into the company of barbarians

-Geaux

 

[rightwinger]

We are one of the few nations on earth that still kills its citizens. Joining us in our affection for Capital Punishment are Muslim nations, China and North Korea. We are the only country in North America to use it. All of Europe has dropped it, so has Russia
It does not make us safer and puts the US into the company of barbarians

Yeah...it's so much better to place barbaric serial killers, serial rapists, and murders into posh facilities with weight rooms, basketball courts, HD tv's in every cell, game rooms, libraries, and workshops with free buffet and free healthcare (the finest in the world).

Because that "makes us safer"

(I'm afraid to ask this, but.... how exactly does ridding the world of the worst forms of evil not make us safer in your fucked up little mind [MENTION=20321]rightwinger[/MENTION]?!?)

If the death penalty makes us safer..

Why is our murder rate three times that of comparable western countries?

 

[Harry Dresden]

Your post missed the part where insurance rates have been skyrocketing for the last 20 years and medical bills have been the number one cause of bankruptcy for a decade. And that most uninsured are in Red States who get most of their money from Blue States who simply can't afford it anymore because people using the emergency room as their primary source of healthcare is insane.

But then again, Republicans are insane, so it all kind of fits.

the only Republicans who may be "insane" are the Far Right ones .....but since the Far Left are also "insane" .......i guess once again you have something in common with your far right cousins Dean....

 

[Harry Dresden]

We are one of the few nations on earth that still kills its citizens. Joining us in our affection for Capital Punishment are Muslim nations, China and North Korea. We are the only country in North America to use it. All of Europe has dropped it, so has Russia
It does not make us safer and puts the US into the company of barbarians

Yeah...it's so much better to place barbaric serial killers, serial rapists, and murders into posh facilities with weight rooms, basketball courts, HD tv's in every cell, game rooms, libraries, and workshops with free buffet and free healthcare (the finest in the world).

Because that "makes us safer"

(I'm afraid to ask this, but.... how exactly does ridding the world of the worst forms of evil not make us safer in your fucked up little mind [MENTION=20321]rightwinger[/MENTION]?!?)

If the death penalty makes us safer..

Why is our murder rate three times that of comparable western countries?

do all violent criminals get the death penalty?......or do they do shortened sentences because...they were nice while in prison.....and get out do it all over again....meanwhile the kid with a 1/4 pound of Pot on him gets 30 years to life......

 

[P@triot]

We are one of the few nations on earth that still kills its citizens. Joining us in our affection for Capital Punishment are Muslim nations, China and North Korea. We are the only country in North America to use it. All of Europe has dropped it, so has Russia
It does not make us safer and puts the US into the company of barbarians

Yeah...it's so much better to place barbaric serial killers, serial rapists, and murders into posh facilities with weight rooms, basketball courts, HD tv's in every cell, game rooms, libraries, and workshops with free buffet and free healthcare (the finest in the world).

Because that "makes us safer"

(I'm afraid to ask this, but.... how exactly does ridding the world of the worst forms of evil not make us safer in your fucked up little mind [MENTION=20321]rightwinger[/MENTION]?!?)

If the death penalty makes us safer..

Why is our murder rate three times that of comparable western countries?

Because of bleeding-heart liberals like you that enable murderers while blaming inanimate objects such as guns. You people have outlawed capital punishment in many states and make it nearly impossible to carry through in the rest.

Now I ask again - how exactly does ridding the world of the worst forms of evil not make us safer?!?

 

[whitehall]

Maybe it's time to analyze the left wing posts. The anti-American posts are based strictly on the radical left's fantasy world. They hate America and the Constitution and they assume that foreign governments think the same way. The fact is that foreign people love the greatest Country on the face of the planet. They love American society and American individualism They envy American decadence even though the elites in the Hussein administration hate it.

 

[idb]

Maybe it's time to analyze the left wing posts. The anti-American posts are based strictly on the radical left's fantasy world. They hate America and the Constitution and they assume that foreign governments think the same way. The fact is that foreign people love the greatest Country on the face of the planet. They love American society and American individualism They envy American decadence even though the elites in the Hussein administration hate it.

You don't travel much, do you?

 

[Pogo]

1. yes, the govt is broken. It is broken by corruption, incompetence, and partisan bickering. It is broken by a system that allows people to make a career out of being in congress. recently it is broken because our petty president refuses to negotiate in the best interests of the citizens

2.what would you do with a serial murderer? give him a villa in la jolla? capital punishment is the only punishment applicable to some crimes. The war on drug is a fiasco, we agree on that.

3. gun violence is a by-product of poverty and the welfare state. the Second amendment is there for a reason and must remain

4.man is not destroying the planet and causing the oceans to rise. AGW is a failed religion.

5. blame the teachers union and the liberal mindset that everyone deserves a diploma whether they can read and write or not. Bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator is destroying our kids futures.

We are one of the few nations on earth that still kills its citizens. Joining us in our affection for Capital Punishment are Muslim nations, China and North Korea. We are the only country in North America to use it. All of Europe has dropped it, so has Russia
It does not make us safer and puts the US into the company of barbarians

-Geaux

I love quotes, don't you Geaux?

Take your tagline:
"Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board, and then struts around like it won the game." ---Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin huh? Really?

What do you guys do, just take everything that shows up in your e-mail box as gospel?
Gullible's Travels...

 

[Pogo]

Maybe it's time to analyze the left wing posts. The anti-American posts are based strictly on the radical left's fantasy world. They hate America and the Constitution and they assume that foreign governments think the same way. The fact is that foreign people love the greatest Country on the face of the planet. They love American society and American individualism They envy American decadence even though the elites in the Hussein administration hate it.

You don't travel much, do you?

He's in western Virginia and didn't know the Blue Ridge Parkway is open.

(that's right in his back yard)

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

We are one of the few nations on earth that still kills its citizens. Joining us in our affection for Capital Punishment are Muslim nations, China and North Korea. We are the only country in North America to use it. All of Europe has dropped it, so has Russia
It does not make us safer and puts the US into the company of barbarians

-Geaux

I love quotes, don't you Geaux?

Take your tagline:
"Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board, and then struts around like it won the game." ---Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin huh? Really?

What do you guys do, just take everything that shows up in your e-mail box as gospel?
Gullible's Travels...

Conservatives love Vlad the Dictator – they want to be just like him, and admire his authoritarian ways.

So much so they’d like Putin to be their presidential nominee come 2016.