deedub81
Member Profile
A little about me...
Member Since: July 12, 2007
Last Power Points used: December 3, 2018
Available: now
Power Points at Recharge: 1 Get More Power Points Now!
If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.
Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, February 12, 1779
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
Richard Henry Lee, letter to Colonel Martin Pickett, March 5, 1786
While the people retain their virtue and vigilence, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Abraham Lincoln
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams in a speech to the military in 1798
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, February 12, 1779
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
Richard Henry Lee, letter to Colonel Martin Pickett, March 5, 1786
While the people retain their virtue and vigilence, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Abraham Lincoln
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams in a speech to the military in 1798
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Member Since: July 12, 2007
Last Power Points used: December 3, 2018
Available: now
Power Points at Recharge: 1 Get More Power Points Now!
15 Comments
imstellar28 says...my bad, i thought you were being sarcastic. it is very clear FDR worsened/lengthen the depression. many of your sources are from the same school of economics i belong.
In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
>> ^deedub81:
That's what they taught me in history class, too.
who paid the teacher in your history class? whens the last time you did any fact checking on what you learned in high school?
spoco2It's funny... he's playing the whole thing very nicely, that had to have been before the clip of him in SNL, because, well, he's talking about as if he hadn't seen Andy yet.
It's all just a cross promotion in joke.
And it's quite funny now that he's in on it, because the original sketch was terrible, but maybe that was the whole idea.
In reply to this comment by deedub81:
You never know.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Mark-Wahlberg-threatens-Andy-Samberg-135
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
Once again demonstrating that anything said was complete bullshit, as if MW would have given a shit one way or another.
rougyI saw this on the thread, Deedub, and I answered you there.
In reply to this comment by deedub81:
You know what's funny?
You don't see the similarities between your own comments and this woman's remarks.
In reply to this comment by rougy:
Fat, stupid, and fundamentalist is the Republican way of life.
KrupoYay!
Celebrate with cake!
http://vita.fapis.com/cake.jpg
In reply to this comment by deedub81:
Don't worry. I got it. (Upvote #10)
In reply to this comment by Krupo:
I better not have to *promote this more than this one more time!
calvadosThanks champ!
In reply to this comment by deedub81:
Don't worry. I got it. (Upvote #10)
In reply to this comment by calvados:
I think we have a failure to launch, more's the pity. *discard.
StingrayAhh, okay... that's probably where I saw it from.
In reply to this comment by deedub81:
It's cool you can vote for it. I don't think it's a dupe. It's been sitting in my personal queue for about 4 months.
In reply to this comment by Stingray:
I remember seeing this already... is this a dupe?
kronosposeidonhttp://news.videosift.com/talk/Netrunner-hits-500-wins-election-goes-to-jail-In-same-day
thepinkyOh those responses are BEAUTIFUL. I laughed out loud.
In reply to this comment by deedub81:
These guys make it too easy.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obamas-Misleading-Ad-on-Fuel-PricesLobbyists#comment-523477
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obamas-Sub-Prime-Fix-Feb-08#comment-520148
In reply to this comment by thepinky:
Yet another thing that pisses me off about Obama and the entire democratic party: Apparently they are extremely concerned about equality and fairness, but you get people like Nick (below) who say things like, "In Obama he wants to raise the tax to the top 10% and lower the tax for the rest. Mc Dogle here wants to raise the tax for everyone. So you want less tax for you then vote Obama." All for one and one for all? I don't think so. It sounds more like, "All for me and screw you, top 10%."
rougyIn reply to this comment by deedub81:
Why did you down-vote this? Was there something in it that was bias in any way?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obamas-Misleading-Ad-on-Fuel-PricesLobbyists
Didn't even bother to watch it. In your mind, this proves that McCain is better than Obama so what's the fucking point?
You honest to god can not see what the Republicans have done to this country.
thepinkyYet another thing that pisses me off about Obama and the entire democratic party: Apparently they are extremely concerned about equality and fairness, but you get people like Nick (below) who say things like, "In Obama he wants to raise the tax to the top 10% and lower the tax for the rest. Mc Dogle here wants to raise the tax for everyone. So you want less tax for you then vote Obama." All for one and one for all? I don't think so. It sounds more like, "All for me and screw you, top 10%."
nickreal03 says...Well the problem is that lowering taxes doesn't solve the problem. I mean we have gotten the USA into a huge dept and it is not going to pay it self. So lowering taxes for everyone just means raising the taxes later on for everyone as well. Just because you don't want to look at the problem does not mean that it doesn't exits. Inaction is not a solution to a problem, and doing what is popular is not a solution neither. We either going to start solving the problem now or pay more later. That is my point.
In reply to this comment by deedub81:
McCain wants to raise the tax for everyone? I don't know where you're getting your information but it's wrong. McCain will lower taxes for everyone.
Obama will lower for some, raise for others.
In reply to this comment by nickreal03:
>> Obama would do an even worse job. Part of the reason the American economy
>> is on hold is knowing if Obamarx makes it in, people stand to lose even
>> more to taxation.
The taxation is the the problem. The problem is who you are taxing... In Obama he wants to raise the tax to the top 10% and lower the tax for the rest. Mc Dogle here wants to raise the tax for everyone. So you want less tax for you then vote Obama.
JanuariI see... well as you can tell I hadn't picked up on that... but then I also didn't claim he was... It was more that by comparision you certainly don't have to be for their to appear to be a considerable gap...
In reply to this comment by deedub81:
Hmm. My point wasn't to prove that he is fallible. My point was that he's not the smartest man on Earth. Uh, uh, uh, it was meant to be a little tongue in cheek.
Can't you see how an IQ test would hurt?
In reply to this comment by Januari:
First... you'll have to forgive me i'm new to this... Not really sure how this works...
Ok on that note... congrats on finding two clips where Obama makes an error?...
If that was your point?... you'll have to show me where i suggested that he was infallible...
I'm not sure if it's what your looking for but i have no intention of digging up foolish McCain videos... YOU were the one who stated they do a fine job of looking silly... and I am agreeing... whole heartily...
Your right an IQ test is certainly not any kind of indicator of leadership... but frankly how could it hurt?
NetRunnerIt's usually not in his stump speeches, but that was essentially what he said anytime it came up in the primary debates.
I'll have to look at how long ago he started making that position clear, but it was at least as early as last June. Might have even predated his run for Senate.
In reply to this comment by deedub81:
Good points, but Obama wasn't saying these things all along. He's changed his story because he has come to the realization that he may not be able to follow through. If he had been saying "end this ill-conceived war that never should have been waged as long as it doesn't look like it will destabilize the region" when that's what all the other Dems were saying, I'd respect him for it. They were right. Now that he's beaten them and Gen Petraeus' strategy worked, he agrees. He had been saying from the beginning that he was gonna start troop withdrawals when he took office, period.
Correct me if I'm wrong, that's how I remember it. I don't have time to look into now (I'll check later).
spoco2You pedantic sonofabitch!
**
In reply to this comment by deedub81:
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
Yeah, same issue with the control bar... no worky.
Still, some great clips, although some of them are woefully low res
**Still, great clips. Although, some of them are woefully low res.
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
That was friggen awesome.
And I totally agree, the English language is dum.
But it also irritates the living shite out of me when people can't spell or use punctuation properly.
(How hard is it to learn their/there/they're and your/you're ?)
JanuariFirst... you'll have to forgive me i'm new to this... Not really sure how this works...
Ok on that note... congrats on finding two clips where Obama makes an error?...
If that was your point?... you'll have to show me where i suggested that he was infallible...
I'm not sure if it's what your looking for but i have no intention of digging up foolish McCain videos... YOU were the one who stated they do a fine job of looking silly... and I am agreeing... whole heartily...
Your right an IQ test is certainly not any kind of indicator of leadership... but frankly how could it hurt?
Send deedub81 a Comment...
Enable JavaScript to submit a comment.