The Sec. of Defense is gonna be an interesting pick...
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The Sec. of Defense is gonna be an interesting pick...
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Originally Posted by MannyIsGod
I really do like Richardson.
Powell is damaged goods.
I think you are on to something here.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Las Espuelas
ashley todd is damaged goods.
when i realize your "point" i'll respond to it. until then.....................Quote:
Originally Posted by clambake
my first point is that you feel your characterization of powell is correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Las Espuelas
my next point is you didn't possess the common sense to sniff out the lie of "B" girl, which means you're not qualified to label powell.
he is. he presented to the people wmd's. if he wasn't sure or if he had doubts he should've stood up against it, figured it out, or told the administration to go to hell. he went through with it and now we're in iraq.Quote:
Originally Posted by clambake
i guess you didn't read all of my posts there, but keep beating the horse.Quote:
Originally Posted by clambake
:lol it's all powell. he couldn't have stood in the way regardless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Las Espuelas
your first post was a major jump to conclusion. it's indicative of your leadership skills.Quote:
i guess you didn't read all of my posts there, but keep beating the horse.
he could've stood up to the chink in the army and raised a red flag on the situation, but he chose not to. now he's bitter about the decision he made over it. damaged goods.Quote:
Originally Posted by clambake
:lmao lighten up mr mussell. this is a frickin' message board. :lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by clambake
geez
he did have concerns and they got steamrolled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Las Espuelas
i'll be sure to remind you of your decision making skills in the future.Quote:
:lmao lighten up mr mussell. this is a frickin' message board. :lmao
geez
Rumors are RFK, Jr for EPA, Caroline K as Amb to UN.
Emmanuel still hasn't decided on CoS or staying in the House.
I love when right-wingers fear Emmanual as a smash-mouth, in-your-face partisan, while they loving Delay and Gingrich.
As usual, right-wingers are fake Macho Men when dishing it out, but fold like labia majora when it's dished back at them.
shocking -- so much for those - across the table comments - the lets work together --that non-divisive garbage -- but then those were, "JUST WORDS, JUST SPEECHES"
Krushchev accepted, Morosetons_Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_
WTF? No Bill Ayers or Tony Rezco?
Bush's second to last Environmental Protection Agency Chief, came from my home state of Utah. That man was Governor Mike Leavitt. Mike Leavitt owned a commercial trout hatchery in the state of Utah that was producing trout that were inflicted with Whirling Disease, a contagious neurological disorder that seriously fucks up trout's spines before killing them. He was told to destroy his fish, but in order to save cost, he just loaded hem into trucks and dumped them into Utah's natural and world-class fishing waters. That was 1991. To this day, the entire state is over-run with Whirling Disease infected trout.Quote:
Originally Posted by implacable44
Mike Leavitt also refused to protect land from illegal ATV use inside and around the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, because he and republican cohorts in the state had a plan to purposefully destroy federally protected lands with off road vehicles, so as to make the land worthless and thereby strip it of it's protection under a review process.
One of his pet projects was something known as the Legacy Highway, an unnecessary road to be built along the shores of the Great Salt Lake to serve as an alternative to the fully functioning and newly refurbished interstate that would run parallel just a few hundred yards away. This road would have destroyed major, major wetlands that serve as annual migration points for Canadian Geese and ducks that pass through the state. After Leavitt left Utah, the route was changed.
Under Mike Leavitt, Utah was the nation's second leading industrial waste producer.
In short the man was basically an environmental wrecking ball of a human being and this is the guy who Bush put in charge of the entire motherfucking ENVIRONMENTAL. PROTECTION. AGENCY.
So, you know what? Fuck you. Mike Leavitt was just one of the countlessly fucked up, incredibly right wing appointments made by the Bush administration and I could give two shits if you don't like seeing anybody left of Strom Thurmand being speculated about in regards to Obama's bureaucracy. In fact, I revel in your despair. The tables have turned bitch.
Lawrence Summers: Africa Is "UNDER-Polluted"
Lawrence Summers is on a very short list of possible nominees for Secretary of Treasury. His selection has been complicated, however, by his destructive performance as president of Harvard University, a rocky term he finally sabotaged by revealing his opinion that women lack the mental aptitude to succeed in science.
But there is a lesser known episode in Summers' past that further highlights his reckless tendencies, and foreshadows a politically nettlesome nomination process.
On December 12, 1991, while serving as chief economist for the World Bank, Summers authored a private memo arguing that the bank should actively encourage the dumping of toxic waste in developing countries, particularly "under populated countries in Africa," which Summers described as "UNDER-polluted." Summers added that public outrage over the heightened rates of prostate cancer caused by his proposed dumping would be mitigated by the fact that poor people in developing countries rarely live long enough to develop prostate cancer.
Read the full Summers memo here.
When the Summers memo leaked to the public in February 1992, Brazil's Secretary of the Environment, Jose Lutzenburger, responded with an indignant missive. "Your reasoning is perfectly logical but totally insane," Lutzenburger told Summers. "Your thoughts [provide] a concrete example of the unbelievable alienation, reductionist thinking, social ruthlessness and the arrogant ignorance of many conventional 'economists' concerning the nature of the world we live in... If the World Bank keeps you as vice president it will lose all credibility."
If Obama nominates Summers, he will send a dispiriting message to governments of developing countries -- especially in Africa -- just as they have begun to look at the United States as a beacon of hope.
Back in the U.S., Summers' nomination would prompt a reexamination by the media of the countless controversies he has fomented. Even an episode as tangential as Summers' romantic fling with right-wing hatemonger Laura Ingraham could become a source of political embarrassment for the White House. Summers should be left to write his memoirs, not memos.
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Hmmm, Summers sounds like a bad pick. I had forgotten he was the guy at Harvard dissing women's brains.
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Originally Posted by ballijuana
You live in Utah ? I played at the U and lived there for 6 years.. Where do you live ?
now to address your point -- or whatever you were trying to say.. I am familiar with everything you stated.. and I don't care. Bush never ran on a platform like Obama did. Mr. Center - Mr. Uniter. so F you. -- Good thing you live in a state that McCain carried by a huge margin and your vote was worthless.
You played at the U? Ball? Under Majerus?Quote:
Originally Posted by implacable44
I'm a liberal, I live in the Avenues.
1994 -- just 1 year. The Avenues... love the Avenues. Didn't they redo a lot of those houses up there ? How long have you been there ?
I'm really hoping for Richardson as Secretary of State as well. It makes too much sense not to happen, though I've heard rumors about Kerry also.
Eh, somewhat. The higher up the hill you go the more refurbished it becomes, but they've also done a lot to clean things up down on the western side, towards and on Capitol Hill. I've been in Salt Lake for almost 23 years with a couple of brief departures for school. I'd bounce to SE Alaska (of all places) but it's too damn wet and based on travels elsewhere I know that to keep sane I need Utah's alpine/desert environment.Quote:
Originally Posted by implacable44
Did you live in Salt Lake the whole time you were here?
My goodness, you right-wingers sure do love to whine, don't you? "Help help, I'm being oppressed!"Quote:
Originally Posted by implacable44
Obama said he would work across the aisle. That does not, ipso facto, mean he has to staff himself up with 50% Dem, 50% Repub. He'll probably take on one or two Republicans for his cabinet. Lugar or Hagel are my bets.
I will be beyond pissed if that position goes to Kerry. Gibbs got Press Sec. I love that guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by LnGrrrR