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WASHINGTON - Alan Greenspan says the country can't afford tax cuts of the magnitude proposed by Republican presidential contender John McCain at least not without a corresponding reduction in government spending.
"Unless we cut spending, no," the former Federal Reserve chairman said Friday when asked about McCain's proposed tax cuts, pegged in some estimates at $3.3 trillion.
"I'm not in favor of financing tax cuts with borrowed money," Greenspan said during an interview with Bloomberg Television. "I always have tied tax cuts to spending."
McCain has said that he would offset his proposed cuts including reducing the corporate tax rate and eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax that has plagued middle-class families by ending congressional pork-barrel spending, unnecessary government programs and overhauling entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
Richard |
09.13.08 - 5:28 pm | #
Greenspan is an idiot.
leibniz♘☮ |
09.13.08 - 5:29 pm | #
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.
Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.
There's a coveted position, Laura Bush's press secretary.
bah |
09.13.08 - 5:29 pm | #
Simple message:
McOld is a liar, who wants to mess with your Social Security, and voted against medicine for children and health care for veterans.
A. Morphous |
09.13.08 - 5:30 pm | #
Ms. Palin chose Talis Colberg, a borough assemblyman from the Matanuska valley, as her attorney general, provoking a bewildered question from the legal community: Who? Mr. Colberg, who did not return calls, moved from a one-room building in the valley to one of the most powerful offices in the state, supervising some 500 people.
I called him and asked, Do you know how to supervise people? said a family friend, Kathy Wells. He said, No, but I think Ill get some help.
trifecta |
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09.13.08 - 5:31 pm | #
Tortured fingers? I don't hear much about his tortured penis.
leibniz♘☮ |
09.13.08 - 5:31 pm | #
Greenspan is an idiot.
leibniz♘☮ | 09.13.08 - 5:29 pm | #
But that mensch sure can take this yenta around the world!
There's a coveted position, Laura Bush's press secretary.
bah |
As "First Lady" of Texas, no less
Janet Hardig |
09.13.08 - 5:32 pm | #
McCain has said that he would offset his proposed cuts including reducing the corporate tax rate and eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax that has plagued middle-class families by ending congressional pork-barrel spending, unnecessary government programs and overhauling entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
I have always thought that culmination of the Grover Norquist plan to drown government in a bathtub would be to create a fiscal crisis so grave that the GOPers would try to use the social security fund to pay for the government debt they created.
Richard |
09.13.08 - 5:32 pm | #
Just look at the pic. Heh
Gilly Gonzylon |
09.13.08 - 5:32 pm | #
BD: opiates suppress appetite, slow GI movement, cause constipation, slower gastric emptying, prolonging satiety after eating. Impaction is common, weight loss not uncommon. Folk who are doing the drugs as abusers usually are neglecting nutrition for other reasons, too; they're too busy getting or being high. And opiates, unlike alcohol, aren't intrinsically caloric.
ProfWombat | 09.13.08 - 5:28 pm | #
It really ain't that bad. Thing is too many fuckers think pain-relievers are inherently bad. They are not, if you got real pain.
Le Jackel |
09.13.08 - 5:32 pm | #
I was about to give it up because no one in the gang was here. But up popped stunt women. Hey there, you have to be a girl to to stunts. A woman can't do it. What's wrong with you? Are you a Delta Dawn dreaming about days gone by? Is simels going to take you to his place in the sky?
Number 13 Troll. |
09.13.08 - 5:34 pm | #
can you imagine being in houston without power, hot, humid and big uptick in mosquitos.
i hope a lot of people lock up their houses and leave town for a few weeks. of couse, for the poor that's not an option.
TEBB, beat McShame |
09.13.08 - 5:34 pm | #
Leave it to Rove to celebrate ignorance.
"That Obama, he's too fancy schooled for my taste."
MP |
09.13.08 - 5:35 pm | #
Leave it to Rove to celebrate ignorance.
"That Obama, he's too fancy schooled for my taste."
MP |
09.13.08 - 5:35 pm | #
"must be a mouth-breather"-traditional media job listings
jr |
09.13.08 - 5:35 pm | #
by the way, i am wearing my obama tshirt right now. yard sign still hasn't arrived, its on back order.
TEBB, beat McShame |
09.13.08 - 5:35 pm | #
Sorry for the double post.
MP |
09.13.08 - 5:35 pm | #
I'm too wimpy to live in Houston, period.
ErinPDX |
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09.13.08 - 5:35 pm | #
Nothing surprises me anymore. Not a thing.
mer |
09.13.08 - 5:37 pm | #
Shit, now we have a tornado heade my way.
Yippee fucking YAY!
Barndog, one more festival... |
09.13.08 - 5:39 pm | #
Oh swell, number 13 troll, oops I mean Alvin, oops I mean Heath Barr, oops I mean the asstroll sockpuppet has returned from it's imaginary lunch with it's imaginary friends. Bah ha ha ha ha!
Uncle Fester Lurks |
09.13.08 - 5:39 pm | #
Been out of pocket for the afternoon. From what I am seeing is the damage from this storm is enormous. But I am sure corporate tax cuts will make it all better.
EkCenTriK |
09.13.08 - 5:39 pm | #
How in the fuck do the Republicans have *any* basis from which to ask for more power?
Fucking William F. Buckley, the author of the modern Conservative Movement, publicly said he was aghast at where his experiment went, right before he croaked, and left the cleanup to the rest of us.
MP |
09.13.08 - 5:39 pm | #
I'm too wimpy to live in Houston, period.
ErinPDX | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 5:35 pm | #
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The home of Enron and many republicans, no I wouldn't want to live there.
Uncle Fester Lurks |
09.13.08 - 5:40 pm | #
I think simels is an ass for leaving stunt women walking the streets carrying a rose dreaming about days gone by. Why won't he take the poor old women to his place in the sky?
Number 13 Troll. |
09.13.08 - 5:40 pm | #
Curly was so proud of the moth he just caught, he had to show it to me, immediately.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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09.13.08 - 5:41 pm | #
Eve always brings her mice to the patio door to show us - usually while she eats them.
Occasionally, I get to see them again once she barfs them up in the house.
Barndog, one more festival... |
09.13.08 - 5:43 pm | #
"EkCenTriK
how's your area?"
Two days ago I bought a radio and a bunch of batteries just in case.
Now I have no reason to have them.
Sun shine, warm, bit of a breeze. Beautiful day.
We expected it to come up at us. No go.
It kills me that a 3-4 hour drive leads to catastrophe.
EkCenTriK |
09.13.08 - 5:43 pm | #
Hey, Moe! Lookit who's citing off GWPDA now!
Hello. I am writing to request permission to use one of your photos for educational purposes on a website being developed by the Department of Education for Newfoundland and Labrador. The website is about the Newfoundland Regiment in WWI and we would like to show pictures of the foreign medals that members of the Regiment were awarded. We would be pleased to acknowledge your company as the source of the picture.....
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian |
09.13.08 - 5:43 pm | #
Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records.
trifecta |
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09.13.08 - 5:43 pm | #
Uncle festus, you are paying attention to this drama aren't you. Good on you. Just watch what happens next.
Number 13 Troll. |
09.13.08 - 5:43 pm | #
The home of Enron and many republicans, no I wouldn't want to live there.
Uncle Fester Lurks
I worked in the energy industry, I know a lot of nice folks and very passionate Dems who live in Houston - what I couldn't deal with is the sprawl.
Why do all the Snorg girls look like they're 14-16 year old girls? Is that the demographic of this blog's audience?
Just asking-- seems like an Eerie, Indiana sort of thing.
Swan |
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09.13.08 - 5:44 pm | #
Somewhere out there a confused, befuddled, angry old man and his inexperienced vagina think they can really win the presidential election.
Wake up old timer & end timer, it isn't going to happen.
Uncle Fester Lurks |
09.13.08 - 5:45 pm | #
Ha ha, let me get this straight, the pyscho and the slut are gonna be yer Overlords? Crips, let I said before, you all is trippin', serious.
Le Jackel |
09.13.08 - 5:45 pm | #
Fuck. For the first time that I've ever seen, McCain has eclipsed Barack Obama on electoral-vote.com.
Obama's campaign has to slam the accelerator down, beginning right now.
MP |
09.13.08 - 5:45 pm | #
"what I couldn't deal with is the sprawl."
One reason I hated visiting down there. Gessner and Bissonet roads were a nightmare with traffic.
EkCenTriK |
09.13.08 - 5:45 pm | #
Just got back, I took a brief nap. I agree with all of your advice.
What I will do is this: If nothing changes I will go to my regular doctor (Newly assigned) on Monday and DEMAND some action. I will explain the circumstances and how this problem has been ongoing (more than a month.)
IF I feel worse between now and then and I WILL go into the Emergency Room and have them see if there are some remedies.
My personal feeling is that there is problem with the surgical hernia (from a ten year old stomach surgery) that has been giving me trouble is finally manifesting itself in some more severe problem. My assumption - though no one has checked this out yet - is that the hernia has caused scar tissue to narrow the opening between the stomach and the intestine to the point where very little is passing through causing a back up and causing the acid, food tasting odd, and inability to eat and digest properly.
But thanks again
DWD - S☮S |
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09.13.08 - 5:45 pm | #
Y'know, I don't think I've ever read of Greenspin saying, "the Laffer Curve is a bunch of bullshit."
This guy has always been in favor of tax cuts--and especially so in this administration.
I wonder how well this routine would work on the cops: "Yes, officer, that's my car crashed into the tree there, but, I wasn't driving."
I can hardly wait assfuck! NOT!
Uncle Fester Lurks |
09.13.08 - 5:46 pm | #
"Just asking-- seems like an Eerie, Indiana sort of thing."
Only if it developed that the Ts were alive and the girls were not.
EkCenTriK |
09.13.08 - 5:47 pm | #
Uncle, do you think simels is going to Paris?
Do you think simels is going down?
Do you think anything at all?
I bet you are like me, you can't wait for the Paris romantic getaway.
Number 13 Troll. |
09.13.08 - 5:47 pm | #
Texans were told to stock up on "food, water & ammo?" (per MSGOP)
Only in fucking Texas.
Barndog, one more festival... |
09.13.08 - 5:47 pm | #
ErinPDX, I'm a wimp too. Didn't know how to response to some 80-year-old guy at a nonprofit luncheon I was at yesterday when he said, isn't it awesome that Sarah Palin might be vice president. At the time, if I opened my mouth, I would have said, are you fucking kidding me?
Twenty-four hours later, I know what I should have said. Isn't awesome that an African American might be president of the USA?
mer |
09.13.08 - 5:48 pm | #
Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records.
My understanding is no - I got my law degree out of a Cracker Jack box, but I believe if you've got requested documents or information related to official government business, it's irrelevant where it's stored.
stinky |
09.13.08 - 5:48 pm | #
Where's Sarah?
NTodd aka Snowshoe Man Palin | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 5:46 pm |
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Not at home taking care of baby Trig or the rest of her chidren which means Willow will be the next Palin to have a baby.
Uncle Fester Lurks |
09.13.08 - 5:48 pm | #
that crazy ole palin thought she was in iraq.... what a liar!
and remember how much press there was about precisely where kerry was in christmas '72?
McCain/Palin: We lie like you breathe air!
smarty jones |
09.13.08 - 5:48 pm | #
Greta gets the first Todd interview. Only on Fox!
trifecta |
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09.13.08 - 5:49 pm | #
BTW - that was Texas Rep (R) John Culverson who uttered that crap about food, water & ammo.
Barndog, one more festival... |
09.13.08 - 5:49 pm | #
McCain has said that he would offset his proposed cuts including reducing the corporate tax rate and eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax that has plagued middle-class families by ending congressional pork-barrel spending, unnecessary government programs and overhauling entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
If that doesn't scare anyone on it's own merits, I can't imagine anything else will. Excepting of course, brown people.
smalfish |
09.13.08 - 5:49 pm | #
Texans were told to stock up on "food, water & ammo?" (per MSGOP)
Only in fucking Texas.
Barndog, one more festival... | 09.13.08 - 5:47 pm | #
Makes me wanna go raid Texas.
Le Jackel |
09.13.08 - 5:49 pm | #
and remember how much press there was about precisely where kerry was in christmas '72?
Why the fuck do you have a Blackberry if you don't email?
Just Another Zero |
09.13.08 - 5:50 pm | #
And - Notre Dame leads Michigan 28-17 midway through the 3rd period.
I say again...
Barndog, one more festival... |
09.13.08 - 5:50 pm | #
"Who's more likely to cheat?"
That's a moot point and also a stupid
question John McCain already dheated on his first wife and there will be facts coming out about a Palin adulterous affair. Funny how the Riech' wing supports so many cheaters and liers.
You keep stressing morality maybe because your party has none.
wazzup |
09.13.08 - 5:51 pm | #
Food water and ammo?
Sounds like the end of days to me.
smalfish |
09.13.08 - 5:51 pm | #
Texans were told to stock up on "food, water & ammo?"
Fuck, I would think if you stock up on the third, the first two will come naturally.
MP |
09.13.08 - 5:51 pm | #
Why the fuck do you have a Blackberry if you don't email?
Given McCain's gambling habits, I suspect there's a bookie involved....
montag |
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09.13.08 - 5:51 pm | #
I think we should chip in and get simels and the shady dame a bon voyage present. I say we get a bunch of viagra. The old man needs it.
Number 13 Troll. |
09.13.08 - 5:52 pm | #
Texans were told to stock up on "food, water & ammo?"
Because the Mexicans and Black always loot white people, right?
Supreme Commander Thor |
09.13.08 - 5:52 pm | #
Given McCain's gambling habits, I suspect there's a bookie involved....
montag
I note also his mangled hands do not intefere with his crapshooting.
Just Another Zero |
09.13.08 - 5:52 pm | #
Hell, what goes around comes around.
Le Jackel |
09.13.08 - 5:53 pm | #
Wazz, the party of family values mantra has forever been "Do what we say, not as we do."
See they are the only ones who can be forgiven, the rest of us are dirty pagans who will burn in hell.
Uncle Fester Lurks |
09.13.08 - 5:53 pm | #
Fuck, I would think if you stock up on the third, the first two will come naturally
And, my thought is - what good does pistol ammo do against a 12 gauge shotgun with 00 or #2 buckshot anyways?
Barndog, one more festival... |
09.13.08 - 5:53 pm | #
Given McCain's gambling habits, I suspect there's a bookie involved....
"What's the spread on Navy/USC? 23? Fuck it, they'll beat that! Put a nickle on it, pronto!"
Supreme Commander Thor |
09.13.08 - 5:54 pm | #
Why the fuck do you have a Blackberry if you don't email?
Set reminders to try stealing more Constitutional rights.
NTodd aka Snowshoe Man Palin |
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09.13.08 - 5:54 pm | #
McCain/Palin = Atomic Bush/Chieney on roids and estrigen.
wazzup |
09.13.08 - 5:54 pm | #
Because the Mexicans and Black always loot white people, right?
Supreme Commander Thor | 09.13.08 - 5:52 pm | #
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According to the *liberal* media, yes you are correct sir.
Uncle Fester Lurks |
09.13.08 - 5:55 pm | #
And stunt woman ran away. Do you think it was something I said?
Well anyway, it's not to difficult to understand. Everyone knows stunt women is one of simels' nyms.
Number 13 Troll. |
09.13.08 - 5:55 pm | #
I have always thought that culmination of the Grover Norquist plan to drown government in a bathtub would be to create a fiscal crisis so grave that the GOPers would try to use the social security fund to pay for the government debt they created.
Richard | 09.13.08 - 5:32 pm |
Not to mention the frightening implications of our debts to China.
Boyfriend when McCain talked about giving funds to "countries who don't like us very much:"
"We're giving them that money because they loaned it to us!"
Vestal Vespa, indignant |
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09.13.08 - 5:56 pm | #
Am I the only woman here who enjoys seeing some of our male news people in snug wet tshirts during storms?
In a paper to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, astronomers working on the Supernova Cosmology Project report finding a new kind of something that they cannot make any sense of.
What was it?
Now you don't see it, now you do. Something in Bootes truly in the middle of nowhere apparently not even in a galaxy brightened by at least 120 times during more than three months and then faded away. Its spectrum was like nothing ever seen, write the discoverers, with "five broad absorption bands between 4100 and 6500 Angstroms and a mostly featureless continuum longward of 6500 Angstroms." Even the cause of the spectral features is unknown.
K. Barbary and others
The project used the Hubble Space Telescope to monitor very distant galaxy clusters for supernovae. On February 21, 2006, in the direction of a far-away cluster in Bootes named CL 1432.5+3332.8 (redshift 1.112, light travel time 8.2 billion years), Hubble began seeing something brighten. It continued brightening for about 100 days and peaked at 21st magnitude in two near-infrared colors. It then faded away over a similar timescale, until nothing was left in view down to 26th magnitude. The object brightened and faded by a factor of at least 120, maybe more
smalfish |
09.13.08 - 5:58 pm | #
Texans were told to stock up on "food, water & ammo?" (per MSGOP)
Only in fucking Texas.
Barndog, one more festival... | 09.13.08 - 5:47 pm | #
Not that I am aware of. We were told to stock up on
Water
Canned meats with poptop lids
Peanut butter
Granola Bars
Diapers & Wipes.
Not one word about ammo. Again MSGOP is lying!
therealhellkitty |
09.13.08 - 6:00 pm | #
The fucken out right lies and deceptions of the Riech' Wing makes satan blush.
The Riech Wing on c-span had the balls to blaime the economy, health care,mortgage melt down, oil prices,ear marks and the failers of the war on the year and seven months the Democratic party had minor majority in the house.Ah fuckin mazzing!!
wazzup |
09.13.08 - 6:01 pm | #
Le J: if you're still here, no argument from me whatever that too many docs don't prescribe enough pain medication. That's another discussion. The GI side effects of opiates ware well understood and commonly seen. Usually not too bad, but constipation, weight loss, impaction and malnutrition are common, especially in those taking abuse-level doses.
ProfWombat |
09.13.08 - 6:06 pm | #
Three factually correct blog postings from an apparently sane blogger. Oh the horror.
hat |
09.13.08 - 6:49 pm | #
Christ. Just, Christ. It never fucking ends.
renee |
09.13.08 - 7:21 pm | #