Comments on: The truth shall set you free, including the truth about Social Security http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/09/12/the-truth-shall-set-you-free/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Sat, 25 May 2013 23:16:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mike Devx http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/09/12/the-truth-shall-set-you-free/comment-page-1/#comment-132244 Mike Devx Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:43:14 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=19012#comment-132244 bizcor 6:
> Just got done listening to the “debate” and they were gunning for Perry and they had help from Wolfe Blitzer. Blitzer is the one who initiated the Social Security question and it was the first one out of the box. These events are not debates. They are question and answer sessions. The questions are usually loaded.

sadie 8:
> Just finished watching the debate as well. [...]  I agree with your take on Perry. I didn’t like any of his answers on immigration. [...]  Bachman was the only consistent candidate on the podium.  [...] The rest got all cutie cute and I wanted to pukie puke.
 
Just got home from a movie and caught up on y’all’s commentary.  Now, time for me to watch the debate, before my impressions get any more colored in in advance!

I’m frustrated by the adversarial tone of these loaded questions they’re receiving.  I guess we can blame Bernard Shaw at CNN and his classic Dukakis “Kitty rape” question.  Now these journalist moderators, they’re all gunning for bear.   Hoping for THEIR shining question moment?  At this stage in the game, what we’re looking for is differentiation between the candidates.  Comparison and contrast.  ”Getting to know you, getting to know all about you…”   And the journalists are actually getting in the way.  Playing silly games.  Or is it silly?  Are they being objectively adversarial, or is their usual blind Obama support actually causing them to be partisan?

 

]]> By: SADIE http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/09/12/the-truth-shall-set-you-free/comment-page-1/#comment-132243 SADIE Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:15:18 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=19012#comment-132243 JKB
 
WHAT A JEWEL OF A FIND! I could spend hours on this site. Thank you.

]]> By: Mike Devx http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/09/12/the-truth-shall-set-you-free/comment-page-1/#comment-132241 Mike Devx Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:04:54 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=19012#comment-132241 biscor 6:
> Perry’s biggest hurdle was not so much the Gardasil issue but the “Dream Act” they have passed in Texas. That isn’t goooing to sell well to the Tea Party.

Yes.  I knew a guy back when I was attending UT in 1993.  His mother and sister were immigrants who came legally eight years before.  She’d been trying at that point for those eight years to get her two sons in legally.  The waiting lines for legal immigration are very long.

But if you come here *illegally*, you’re going to be allowed to stay, and your children will be here immediately, and they’re going to qualify for free, taxpayer-paid government assistance.  That’s just plain wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.  So yes, big problem for Perry there, at least for me, a Tea Party admirer.

The Gardasil issue is problematic on two fronts as well.  The main problem is the seizure of parental rights by the government, a position that flies at odds with most every other Rick Perry position in his conservatism.  Which leads to the second problem: Why did he do it?  It opens him up to the crony capitalism charge, playing favorites for that particular drug company.  He must recognize that he’s at risk of being labelled just as much an empty slick n sleazy politician with no integrity, same as Romney.

 

]]> By: MacG http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/09/12/the-truth-shall-set-you-free/comment-page-1/#comment-132240 MacG Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:03:05 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=19012#comment-132240 Sadie “Come to think of it, I like the temperature to be the same as my age.”  29? :)

]]> By: JKB http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/09/12/the-truth-shall-set-you-free/comment-page-1/#comment-132239 JKB Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:57:29 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=19012#comment-132239 Oops, that is Life Magazine, not Time.

]]> By: JKB http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/09/12/the-truth-shall-set-you-free/comment-page-1/#comment-132238 JKB Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:56:59 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=19012#comment-132238 I found this a while back.  It is an article from Time in 1939 where they already were quietly pointing out the Social Security scam even as the New Dealers were expanding the welfare state on it’s back.  I like that Congress had already absconded with the “reserve fund” and had to raise taxes.

http://books.google.com/books?id=w0EEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&rview=1&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q&f=false

]]> By: SADIE http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/09/12/the-truth-shall-set-you-free/comment-page-1/#comment-132237 SADIE Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:44:13 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=19012#comment-132237 three of Fonzie’s aaaayh’s
 

Just kidding ya, I don’t drink (Jewish holidays only) but I don’t see great either. The font (blurr) from Bookworm’s program in still in size 8. Gee, I “used” to be that size. Now, I prefer to see my font the same size as the tags on my clothing – a 12! Come to think of it, I like the temperature to be the same as my age.

 
 

]]> By: MacG http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/09/12/the-truth-shall-set-you-free/comment-page-1/#comment-132236 MacG Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:32:55 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=19012#comment-132236 Sadie, (silent H) Haeee…

Sorry that’s my best Fonz. :)

Does that mean I’ll be in declining ratings until I am canceled? 

I never drink and post then again maybe my thoughts would come out in a coherent manner but my typing would still suck %<)

]]> By: SADIE http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/09/12/the-truth-shall-set-you-free/comment-page-1/#comment-132234 SADIE Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:01:56 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=19012#comment-132234  
oops…you just jumped the shark, I just jumped the post button before proof reading and proof drinking :)

]]> By: SADIE http://www.bookwormroom.com/2011/09/12/the-truth-shall-set-you-free/comment-page-1/#comment-132233 SADIE Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:00:45 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=19012#comment-132233 At first I thought he said Fonzi Scheme
 
MacG – your just jumped the shark ;)

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