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The building where the mob museum is planned in Las Vegas is a former courthouse where one day of the Kefauver hearings on organized crime happened in November 1950.
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009 | 2 a.m.
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- Mob museum a serious endeavor? (10-2-2008)
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Las Vegas’ proposed mob museum is a subject ripe for ridicule, and the Republicans here have held it up as just that.
Now that work is under way on the economic recovery package of tax breaks and public works projects being developed by President-elect Barack Obama and congressional leaders, lawmakers in both parties are insisting that no money go for earmarks — pet projects in lawmakers’ home districts.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, raised the mob museum as Exhibit A in frivolous spending on a Sunday morning political talk show on ABC.
“We would like, on the spending side, obviously, to avoid funding things like a mob museums or water slides,” McConnell reiterated during a news conference on Monday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in his own appearance Sunday on “Meet the Press,” insisted there will be no earmarks in the stimulus package.
Reid’s spokesman repeated the refrain on Monday when asked whether the mob museum should get stimulus money. “There will be no earmarks in the stimulus. Nada. Zero. Zilch,” spokesman Jon Summers said.
Las Vegas’ effort to secure federal money to help turn a historic post office into a museum about its storied criminal past is something watchdogs of excess spending love to hate.
The museum rose to prominence last month after Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman was quoted telling the Review-Journal he would seek funding for the project in the stimulus package.
In fact, he said, he was hoping to suggest as much in an upcoming talk with Reid.
“If we could get some help along those lines, that would be what the stimulus bill was really talking about,” Goodman said at the time.
What happened next is a product of the 24/7 nexus of media and politics.
The story went out the way stories do — on a local radio station and blogs, including the Drudge Report, the conservative must-read site.
Republicans in Washington heard about it and, presto, a poster child was born.
Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley declined to dip into the fray Monday with a response.
Rep.-elect Dina Titus, a Democrat, chuckled when asked whether the museum should get stimulus money.
“That wouldn’t be at the top of my list for infrastructure,” Titus said. “I’m thinking more of highway construction is what we need in Nevada — transportation infrastructure. You’ve got to be careful. The public’s not going to put up with things.”
But Ted Olivas, Las Vegas’ director of administrative services, said he remained “hopeful some of the economic stimulus money would make it to Southern Nevada.”
“We think our projects are just as important as those of the other local jurisdictions in the nation.”
Don't you people pay the least bit of attention in the big city. That is your money they are spending on unproductive projects and making Nevada look like a State full of pinheads (sorry Harry R. and Oscar G. you are the leaders of the band in that catagory). This needs to be put to a stop. Mob Museums? Highways and freeways landscaped to look like an Italian Masterpiece? Times are tough, build it simple and build it cheap. Quit throwing away taxpayer money or the voters will find someone who has some common sense.
"...build it simple and build it cheap"
Yup. That's what brings people here. Simple stuff built cheaply. Put a bunch of boring cheap garbage out in the middle of the desert, and people will flock to it.
Sarcasm aside, that shallow plan only works at Burning Man. It will never work in Las Vegas. Las Vegas is special and unique in that regard, and things like the mob museum and water parks will only help to bring even more people here.
Looks like they found something else to draw attention away from the unregulated markets where the likes of AIG officials and Madoff can work undetected at other people's expense. And we thought the mob was bad?
Let's not forget that organized crime thrived because of poor government decisions. I'd rather them build water slides for children to enjoy than fund another luxury retreat for a CEO.
I have vacationed in Las Vegas in the past but will not do so in the future. I am not a big gambler, but my wife and I loved the shows. They have gotten so expensive that we do not feel like we are getting value for our money. The city has priced itself out of the market. I noticed that as the unions took hold of the labor market the price of every thing has skyrocketed. With the current financial crunch my neighbors who are big gamblers are not going to Vegas but staying close to home (Texas)and going to nearby casinos. The mob museum is but an indicator of the corruption endemic in Vegas, the congress and the unions. I know because I was in a job where the unions came in and the union thugs corrupted the process.
S**** Harry Reid, Las Vegas and the Mob Museum. NO MORE HANDOUTS.
Will we get a Paul Krugman style bailout where no deficit spending amount is too large?
From http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/opinio...
"Milton Friedman, in particular, persuaded many economists that the Federal Reserve could have stopped the Depression in its tracks simply by providing banks with more liquidity, which would have prevented a sharp fall in the money supply."
"It turns out, however, that preventing depressions isn't that easy after all. Under Mr. Bernanke's leadership, the Fed has been supplying liquidity like an engine crew trying to put out a five-alarm fire, and the money supply has been rising rapidly. Yet credit remains scarce, and the economy is still in free fall."
"Friedman's claim that monetary policy could have prevented the Great Depression was an attempt to refute the analysis of John Maynard Keynes, who argued that monetary policy is ineffective under depression conditions and that fiscal policy -- large-scale deficit spending by the government -- is needed to fight mass unemployment. The failure of monetary policy in the current crisis shows that Keynes had it right the first time."
-FDR/Hoover Monetary policy was to constrict the economy in the 30's and was never employed as a tool.
-The recession started in December 2007 yet Fed rates had not yet tipped downward
-Oversea investors removed over a trillion dollars
-The $700 billion Liquidity pump was only started in November of 2008.
-The liquidity actions usually take 12-18 months to work
-Since October Mortgage rates have dropped 1.5%
-Since October commercial rates have dropped 1.5%
-Krugman is declaring a monetary policy failure when non exist
"This is a problem with which Keynes was familiar: giving money away, he pointed out, tends to be met with fewer objections than plans for public investment "which, because they are not wholly wasteful, tend to be judged on strict 'business' principles." What gets lost in such discussions is the key argument for economic stimulus -- namely, that under current conditions, a surge in public spending would employ Americans who would otherwise be unemployed and money that would otherwise be sitting idle, and put both to work producing something useful."
-While the FDR CCC and WPA programs temporarily employed people they never stimulated the economy in the 10 plus years of the 30's depression.
-I question where this idle money is. All of this stimulus money is borrowed money from overseas
For each sector of stimulus we need to know how many permanent jobs are to be created per million dollars spent.
Wasting taxpayer money on a Mob museum, yet another infringement on our rights by the gov't. Add it to the ever-growing list of violations:
They violate the 1st Amendment by opening mail, caging demonstrators and banning books like "America Deceived" from Amazon, Wikipedia and Facebook.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns during Katrina.
They violate the 4th Amendment by conducting warrant-less wiretaps.
They violate the 5th and 6th Amendment by suspending habeas corpus.
They violate the 8th Amendment by torturing at Gitmo.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting illegal wars without declaration.
Impeach them all (both parties, except Ron Paul) and save this great country.
Last link (unless Google Books caves to the gov't and drops the title):
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookD...
When I lived in Nevada, I got to know much about Harry Reid. What became immediatley obvious, was that Harry Reid was a small, petty person. In addition, he is a whiner, and a perfect fit for the Democrat party. As I got to know more about him, I became suspicious that he was not mentally well. I finally found Lyle Rossiter's book "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness", and learned of Reid's diagnosis. I've written him, and suggested that he obtain a copy of the book, but I'm certain he hasn't. He is still as goofy as ever. Too bad.
Eighty percent of our elected officials are incompetent, if not insane. Please try to sort out which ones need to be voted out, and DO IT in 2010. www.libertymind.com
Someone wasn't thinking here. Instead of a museum, they should have a proposed a hotel - you know, to encourage tourism. The hotel could be a series of rooms set in a gigantic aquarium, all with views of the underwater terrain. Then, they could call the place, "Luca Brasi's," since guests get to sleep with the fishes. Since mob themes are good for funding in Las Vegas, this could work!
Typical Liberal hypocrisy. I thought Barack Huessin Obama promised a new direction for government. Sounds like to me it is " business as usual" only this time its the Democrats turn to reap the spoils and RICHES of victory.
Hope & Change......Heil Obama!
The Liberal Mind huh? Sounds like more dubious rantings of so called right wing culture warriors. Probably as academic and well written as an Ann Coultur book. Meaning I don't blame Reid for not reading it/supporting a whack job.
First, Obama isn't in office yet, so why are you blaming him Texas, or are you just bitter that McCain lost?
Second, I read up on the Liberal Mind. It's trash. It's Ann Coultur doing a better (but still bad) job of being academic. Dreck.
Ann Coulter makes a living from hate, same as Hannity, Limbaugh, O Reilly, Savage, etc... Quite simply, hatred and anger are used instead of intellectual reasoning. Name calling, labeling, character assassination, disparaging, and outright lies are employed by these people all the time, as a way to make a living. They are not concerned with accuracy. They are concerned with making a living.
Mayor Goodman is insane. He has - again - made our city the national laughing stock, this time by trying to honor himself and his mob clients with a tax funded monument to greed and corruption. In the meantime, Goodman cannot find one cent to invest in building a memorial to our country's fallen veterans at Circle Park on Maryland Pkwy.
Former LV Councilman Steve Miller
By redferret
1/6/09 at 9:59 a.m.
"The Liberal Mind huh? Sounds like more dubious rantings of so called right wing culture warriors. Probably as academic and well written as an Ann Coultur book. Meaning I don't blame Reid for not reading it/supporting a whack job."
Did you read any of the excerpts? I'm certain that you didn't, being liberal. You just throw up your liberal ad homenem attacks. Liberals don't have a playbook. They are clueless, and often mentally unbalanced, as you have perfectly illustrated. None is so blind as he who will not see.
It's C O U L T E R, for your spelling edification.
All these clowns use these vapid examples to illustrate pork spending. Meanwhile, there are literally thousands of other items that they're more than happy to Sheppard through the Congressional process and we're paying for them all.
They focus on a few million dollars here and there while BILLIONS are being blown on subsidies to Big Agribusiness, Oil Companies, Banks and other pay-as-you-go political contributors. The tactic of dangling some stupid pork-pie has worked up until now, but since these same clowns have seen fit to reward the bankers with billions and billions with no accountability, I believe the public is becoming wary of the games. Both democrats and republican are guilty of the subterfuge. We're being spent down the river and are getting the royal train ride all at the same time. I say stop these Benedict Arnold swine!
I did read the excerpt. Sorry about Ms. Coulter's name. At least I didn't lie about my age on my driver's license like she did.
And I didn't throw ad hominem attacks. I was pointing out that this guy, like Ms Coulter, are hack polemicists. Nothing wrong with that as long as you know it. The problem is that they act like they are academic, which they are not. Further you shoot yourself in the foot by then engaging in ad hominem attacks just like the ones you denounce.
I personally just don't like writers whose sole purpose is to stir the pot and call the other side crazies. In fact from what I read he sounds like he wants to goosestep down the road to totalitarianism (a frequent criticism of his "book") with children and adults being (re)educated on the correct political philosophies.
BTW it also sounds like you are projecting a lot.
reader1172: "Impeach them all (both parties, except Ron Paul) and save this great country."
Does not Mr. Paul support the Afghanistan war? When did Congress declare war on Afghanistan?
Does not Mr. Paul want to fix social security? Where does it say in Constitution to authorized social security?
Hmm....looks like you should add Paul to your impeachment target list.
Ron Paul believes in the Constitution and he may be the last one left who does. Sadly, we're too obsessed with money and gadgets to notice how its being interpreted. Fortunately, Americans are waking up. Once occupied minds are activating.
There is a war going on for your mind. If you are thinking, you are winning. Resistance is victory, defeat is impossible. Reach within you and find the means in which to gain your freedom. Fight as if the fate of everyone you know depends on it.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson
How does Paul believe in the Constitution when he supports the unconstitution Afghanistan war and Social Security?
I thought he was strict Constitutionist?
I guess not.....................
"Ann Coulter makes a living from hate, same as Hannity, Limbaugh, O Reilly, Savage, etc..."
...and so does Harry Reid, porno and SNL comic Alfred E Franken, House Banking Chairman Barney Franks, but these guy are elected to hate.
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." -- Ann Coulter
Ya, you here that kind of talk from Al Franken all the time. By the way, Einstien, Alfred E Franken is not Al Franken. It's fine if you want to hate people, but at least try to know who it is you are hating.
I get the rest, but how is porno fueled by hate. I get there's probably hate fetish porn, but the rest... I mean how hateful is a pizza guy/cable guy/plumber finding alternate means of payment for services rendered from a housewife hateful?
Republicans spent the last 8 years "Porking" the US tax payers...and now, all of a sudden, they are concerned with Pork legislation? LOL what a bunch of buffoons. No wonder I'm a former Republican.
Here is the article that has the above quote.
http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/co...
It is dated 9/13/2001...2 days after 9/11. In the article, she is talking about the death of
her friend that got murdered on the plane that the Muslim murders crashed into the Pentagon.
As for "invade their countries, kill their leaders", she is saying that we should do what we did in WWII (read the article). We invaded Germany and Japan and we killed their leaders either during the war and/or after the war.
Also, we actually followed her advice. We invaded Afghanistan. We killed many of their leaders. We are still trying to kill many of their leaders.
I think many Americans support her advice about invading Afghanistan and killing their leaders, including Obama and Reid.
As for "convert them to Christianity", I am not a practicing Christian, but those Muslims who believe in chopping heads off, suiting up women and children with bomb jackets, wishing to kill every American that they can get their hands on.......those particular evil Muslims need to be converted from their evil beliefs to something else...anything else.... if is the good version of the Muslim religion or Christainity...it does not matter to me.
Lastly, Coulter is not trying to run for office. Al Franken is. It is so shameful that people of that state would even vote for such a person.
"Ann Coulter makes a living from hate, same as Hannity, Limbaugh, O Reilly, Savage, etc..."
And Reid, Franken, Jackson, Sharpton (just to name a few) offer nothing but love huh? LOL LOL. Clean your own damn house before you start telling us to clean ours.
Your contextualizing is an attempt to excuse her. For people in and outside the US (not to mention Muslims in general), they viewed it rightly so as highly inflamatory. Additionally, we DIDN'T do exactly that in WWII. We did bomb them, we executed many leaders due to war crimes, but we never touched religion.
Ann Coulter has terminal foot in mouth disease.
What color are normal ferrets?
"Clean your own damn house before you start telling us to clean ours."
It's true, I do hate the way Al Franken always says that Autistic Children are faking it, and that the only way to speak with Republicans is with a baseball bat.
When did you first lose your eyesight?
"I get there's probably hate fetish porn..."
That's what the show on Fox News all the time, under the guise of what "other" networks shamefully "allow" to be shown.
Or it's what Larry Craig reads on the can, in the airport, when he's not busy with something else.
"Additionally, we DIDN'T do exactly that in WWII. We did bomb them, we executed many leaders due to war crimes, but we never touched religion. "
Thanks for agreeing that in WWII and in the current war that we have killed their leaders and invaded their countries.
It is good that we followed her advice on those two points.
I did not mention religion but we did that too.
Before 1945, the majority of Japanese believe in Shintoism and they believe that their emperors were gods. Shintoism has similarities with those murders's religion that killed Americans on 9/11. On Dec 15, 1945, the MacArthur ordered the end to Shintoism as the state religion and embarked on a game plan to rid Japan from the dominance of that religion. That plan included encouraging Christain missionaries to go to Japan.
Al Franken ---- hero of the left---has permanment foot in mouth disease.
While a mob museum is an obvious waste of money, after the $700,000,000,000 give away to the thieves of Wall Street, any charge any Republican like Mitch McConnell now makes about mismanagement is nothing but oral flatulence.
Mitch, shut your piehole. After you and your "conservative" boss in The Oval Office brought America to its financial knees with your misfeasance, you have almost no standing to criticize now.
The Democrats share no significant blame for that misfeasance along with Bush and the Republicans.
Yep.....I got a mob museum to sell you and it is seating on ocean front land on Trop and Eastern.
Actually I take no advise from Coulter. And you still evade the point that Muslims or any other group for that matter would find that phrase horribly offensive.
As for Japan after WWII, there was no force behind the conversions. Also Shintaoism still exists, and Christianity is not the dominant religion of Japan. Quit making excuses for a prima dona that yells at any one who disagrees with her and blatantly makes lots of junk up. Her books at best belong in the fiction section. At least when Al Franken writes a hatchet piece, he tries to keep it to the facts.
It's embarrassing as hell to think so many of the commentators here live in Nevada. So very few original thoughts being presented. It's like reading rehashed political diatribes.
Get a clue how the seniority system works in congress and be thankful Harry Reid is where he is. It may be another 230 years before Nevada has the political clout it has. Perhaps the nay sayers should just move back home to places like AR, LA, CA, AL, TX, IL or whatever other rock they may have crawled out from under.
This is a time "we must all hang together or we will all hang separately"
Battle Born... Hey someone had to say it...
When will all of you blind partisans realize that your leaders are no different? Stop feeding into the hate and spend all of that time you use trying to find flaws in the opposition and apply that passion towards something useful, anything, I don't care. Stop wasting energy by bickering with your neighbors, that's exactly what the powers want you to do so you are more easy to manipulate and convince when they want to do something without opposition.
Divide and Conquer.
Wake up!
The politicians are the puppets blinding you from the interests behind the curtain pulling the strings "for your own good." Our Republic must be transparent and protected. Just because we inherited the good life doesn't mean it is permanent or pure. It's time for the people to do their part and run this government and hold it accountable like they are supposed to!
If people would pay as much attention to world events as they do to football, nobody would get away with hijacking our Treasury and staging conflicts around the globe.
"Muslims or any other group for that matter would find that phrase horribly offensive"
Here are other stuff that many Muslims find horribly offensive:
"The state of Israel should exist."
"The USA should exist."
"Women should have the right to vote or drive a car."
My favorite quote that makes many Muslims mad: "You should not chop off peoples' heads that you find offensive."
That is an extremely low threshold. Many Muslim leaders say far worse things on almost a daily basis. Some on the left excuse those statements often.
"As for Japan after WWII, there was no force behind the conversions"
There is absolutely no statement from her where she says to force anybody to believe in Christianity. If you "infered" that then that is your sin. If you know her version of Christainity then you would know that requires a choice that can not be forced.
The biggest present day group that is forcing people to do anything are Muslims.
"Also Shintaoism still exists, and Christianity is not the dominant religion of Japan"
But Shintaoism once was the state religion and no longer is. Also, most Japanese no longer believe in a core Shintaoism belief that the emperors are gods. Also, Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist influences on Shintao religion were re-introduced after WWII.
The Shinto extremism is no longer a dominate force in Japan and Japan has been a peaceful country because of it.
So MacArthur's plan worked. The US changed religion in Japan which you said that we did not.
"At least when Al Franken writes a hatchet piece, he tries to keep it to the facts."
You must be out-of-your-mind. Al has said a ton of falsehoods.
Figures you like Al......the left always have double standards that only applies to their enemies and not to their own.
"Get a clue how the seniority system works in congress and be thankful Harry Reid is where he is."
What exactly has Reid done for Nevada?
Some report that he is number 2 in power in DC.
Yet, Yucca still exists.
Nevada is ranked 49th in Federal Spending Received Per Dollar of Taxes Paid by State.
We are sure getting a poor return on that power.
Perhaps he is too busy carrying water for the DailyKos folk and does not have time for Nevada work.
"Al has said a ton of falsehoods."
Falsehoods? We were talking about hatred.
Okay, list a ton of falsehoods from Al. Or just a few. And I mean actually false, versus things you disagree with.
jfnance, I don't ever recall Ron Paul supporting an increase in American troops ANYWHERE unless it is justified and done so in line with the Constitution.
You may taking things out of context, or, you may be right.
Either way, do you know of a better representative bringing this vision to light the way he is?
How refreshing. It's been almost two months since a post around here got twisted into partisan politics. You people simultaneously crack me up and embarass me. If you all are the brightest minds in your households, society doesn't stand a chance.
I totally agree with TylerFL... pipe down unless you have valuable input. Unless you're offering a solution, you're part of the problem. Ease up on the bitterness and try to be constructive.
First I love how dim a view of all Muslims you take. That you believe that all Muslims feel the way extremist do is your problem. Also, in any case, her words could be construed as a call to war on our part against Muslims, and that they should defend themselves.
And again Nance you dance around with semantics. She says we should invade, kill, and convert them to Christianity, not we'll revise your religion to make it less rapacious.
As for Al Franken, name some falsehoods of his... really go on.
As for Coulter,
well, she claimed two seperate birthdays for her drivers license.
She claimed the NYT didn't run a story on Earnhardt's death and then fabricated a quote of theirs saying the "ailse of Walmart are silent". She misdirects people with quotes, or quotes within quotes.
She couldn't get a proper handle on which Norman Thompson was a socialist candidate in the US.
She also can't differentiate between foot and endnotes. And if you really want more, I can find the nice website devoted to sifting through her junk to find most of her lies and deceptions.
Ron Paul on National Security:
"Instead of securing our borders, we've been planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression. Within a few short years, we turned Iraq into the world's leading breeding ground for terrorists. Our military is spread thin all across the planet, yet we remain involved in dangerous power plays that unnecessarily put the lives of our soldiers at risk. And we brazenly squandered the wealth of our nation as if there were no tomorrow.
It doesn't make any sense unless you consider increasing the profits of the military-industrial complex to be in the "national interest", no matter what the cost to the rest of us may be.
America first. That is what Ron Paul's national defense proposal is all about. And with America he means all Americans, not just the elite. If elected President, Ron Paul will continue his efforts to secure our borders, hunt down the 9/11 terrorist planners (who are still at large), safely withdraw our troops from Iraq and other countries around the world, and finally overhaul the intelligence apparatus in cooperation with intelligence professionals rather than political opportunists."
Confessed Hate Comic Alfred E. Franken next be joke is to be accepted by fun loving Harry Reid.
By redferret
1/6/09 at 10:54 a.m.
Keep reading, you will find yourself. When you do, you may be on the road to recovery.
Rossiter is not a hack. Read what his credentials are.
www.libertymind.com
Where in his credentials is there Poli Sci PhD?
Also was this peer reviewed?
Nuff said, he's a hack.
And future for crying out loud, if you are going to lash out at someone, get the name right. You just look like a putz. FYI It's Alan Franken. Jesus, like wikipedia is really that inaccessible.
"That you believe that all Muslims feel the way extremist do is your problem."
I never used the word "all". Again, you can you "infer" all you want to. Like you do on her words.
Al Franken on Al Franken: "Telling the truth is something I take seriously, and I try to hold myself to an impossibly high standard." LOL
Al lie: "Bill Clinton's far-reaching plan to eliminate al Qaeda root and branch was completed only a few weeks before the inauguration of George W. Bush."
Truth: Sandy Berger - "there was no war plan that we turned over to the Bush administration during the transition. And the reports of that are just incorrect."
Al lie: "[President Clinton] launched a series of bomb strikes, which, as Bush's handpicked weapons inspectors would later confirm in the Duelfer Report, knocked out all that remained of Saddam's atrophied WMD capacity. The threat to America was obliterated once and for all, even though Saddam was still in place."
Truth: The Duelfer Report says no such thing.
Al lie: "If the Director of Central Intelligence tells you 'the system is blinking red,' ask him what he'd like you to do about it.
Truth: There is no evidence that the CIA Tenet ever used the words: 'the system is blinking red'.
Al lie: "Powell would later say of the [UN Iraq]speech, which was written by the vice president's office ..."
Truth: Powell has made no such claim.
Al lie: "Could 9/11 have been prevented? We'll never really know ... Washington might have found out about ... the FBI agent who tried to warn HQ that Zacarias Moussaoui might 'take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center'."
Truth: The FBI agent in question before 9/11 had no clue the terrorists were trageting WTC or that the terrorists were going to fly planes into buildings.
Al lie: "And about three weeks into the life of Air America, I became an involuntary investor. I stopped being paid. So now, we started to make arrangements, and I didn't know anything about this [Air America scandal] until late last week"" said on August 8, 2005.
Truth: In a settlement that he sign, it said Al knew about the problem transactions as early as May of that year.
Ron Paul will never be President unless there is an attack that kills everybody in Executive branch and Congress but him.
He be lucky to get around 2% next time.
But if you want to support him then that is your right.
He claims to be a super strict constitutional theorist but he makes excuses just like every normal person does, like he supports the Afghanistan war (not delcared) and Social Security.
Ron Paul and his staff hang around 9/11 conspiracy nuts.
Ron Paul has made goofy statements.
He said this about Lincoln and the Civil War and Slavery:
"Absolutely. Six hundred thousand Americans died in a senseless civil war. No, he shouldn't have gone, gone to war. He did this just to enhance and get rid of the original intent of the republic. I mean, it was the--that iron, iron fist.."
"Oh, come on, Tim. Slavery was phased out in every other country of the world. And the way I'm advising that it should have been done is do like the British empire did. You, you buy the slaves and release them. How much would that cost compared to killing 600,000 Americans and where it lingered for 100 years? I mean, the hatred and all that existed. So every other major country in the world got rid of slavery without a civil war. I mean, that doesn't sound too radical to me. That sounds like a pretty reasonable approach."
I guess Paul is not going after the black vote.
BO's stimulus OINK! OINK! tax bill OINK! OINK! has to be the greatest swindles OINK! OINK! of the United States taxpayers in the history of America OINK! OINK! The whole bill is nothing but pure, unadulterated, 100% OINK! OINK! This newly minted Neo-Marxist and his willing conspirators in the Democrat/Marxist Congress have engaged in one of the greatest transfers of wealth from taxpayers to non-taxpayers. Here's hoping the taxpaying BO voters get what's coming to them!
The real travesty of the mob museum is when you put it in context of what Las Vegas doesn't have as far as culture. The Las Vegas Natural History Museum barely keeps it's doors open and they do the best they can, yet the exhibits are more a glorified 5th grade science fair. The only money they get is from donations and charging at the door. And last I head the Las Vegas Art Museum still had yet to find a place to live. So I guess if a mob museum caters to the tourists and not the locals then the prevaling political wisdumb is: grab some federal funds for it!
what a lame town.
Think as you wish, but you are the one with homophobic rants and a perpensity to offend multiple people and have your comments pulled. That's you, not me.
Thanks..That is so predicatable coming from the left. That whole logic of bomb throwing and callling someone homophoic because they are against gay marriage. If would be OK if you were consistant and called, your Pals, Obama and Reid that. But of course not...that would be too logical.
I often found that people that whine about people who offend are often people that offend.
I notice that you have comments pulled so you must have offended to the point of being removed.
Also just in this thread, you used words like, "whack job", "terminal foot in mouth disease" and "putz".
You offend......no way.
Be careful on that high and mighty chair that you sit on. It is a long way to the bottom.
"Al Franken on Al Franken"
Lots of spin this way and that. Liar? Hater? Hardly compares to the direct and specific stuff we hear from Ann Coulter and company. Like, autism is a fraud and autistic children are faking, or whatever that horrible guy said.
But I understand when he says "Bill O'Reilly never won 2 Peabodys", that you hear that as hateful. Actually it was 2 Polks, and for a show Bill had left years earlier. But okay, it's hateful because it points out that Bill is lying, or something. Whatever.
I don't expect to win an argument with you. I just wanted to hear the lies and hatred you attributed to Al Franken.
Ann Coulter is The Avenging Angel! Careful what call her!
amostheprophet, congratulations on the stupidest post so far this year. Completely useless nonsense with virtually nothing to substantiate anything.
Bravo on your award winning waste of pixels.
"Ann Coulter is The Avenging Angel"
For Satan maybe.
Oh now the repubs feign outrage at excessive spending. They didnt mind all the outrageous spending when they were in control. Repubs racked up deficits and spent like drunken sailors, you know, just like the liberals they are now bad mouthing. I'm so sick of our federal politicians on both sides of the trough.
That radio show was on Newsradio 840 KXNT, and it was Casey Hendrickson with Heather Kydd that did the topic.
Would it hurt so bad to cite your sources? They cite you every time they use one of your stories, and they give compliment good writing you guys do. Why not return the favor? Otherwise you are no better than a content stealer.
Ok nance,
since you don't really know what you are talking about when I said the one dude was homophobic I'll break it down. On several posts I've seen him refer to other posters as being gay, engaging in gay acts, and engaging in gay acts with other posters. That's pretty homophobic.
Second, I'll call republican partisan polemicists who say liberalism is a disease that needs to be eradicated a whack job any time I want. I'ld call a democrat who said the opposite as well a whack job; that's because that's what a whack job would say.
As for the looking like a putz comment, I just find it looks sloppy to try and use someone's full name incorrectly when you can look it up on any basic site.
As for terminal foot in mouth disease, well if you are a big enough idiot to say incendiary things that get you pulled from a media outlet, I think it speaks for itself.
All the fat-cat politicians laugh at us - yes they do, they laugh all the way to the bank. None of this mess concerns them - they aren't living paycheck to paycheck - probably never did or is they did (at one time) it's been so long ago they have forgotten what it feels like. Does anyone honestly believe that ANY of these goons give a flying fig about ANY of us? I don't.
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