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luckyleftyme2's Journalwill you please foward this message to the non -believers
I am so sick of hearing those crack pots who buy the propaganda pitched by the drones leading the right. I just watched a program on my local channel debunking all the propaganda that has been fed to MAINERS about the Canadian healthcare system.
watching the local channel debunking Canadian healthcare an claiming we are getting propaganda info to keep our system ! this should be picked up and spread across the internet. I for one have looked up this and found the Canadian worker making 50,000 a year pays aprox the same as an American worker except his healthcare ins. is paid for while we still need to pay ours out of pocket. As far as the waiting it's no different than living in rural Maine. BUT ONE PAYER IS CHEAPER,THEY ARE LIVING LONGER THAN US AND THE COST IS MUCH LESS THAN OURS.
AND WHEN U KNOW WHO SAYS WHY DO CANADIANS COME OVER HERE FOR HOSPITAL PROCEDURES YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT HOW MANY AMERICANS GO TO MEXICO OR OTHER COUNTRIES FOR OPERATIONS AND CANCER TREATMENTS= IT FAR EXCEEDS THE CANADIAN 100
this is something I posted a couple years back
here's something I would like to share with my friends in this forum; it is a lesson I learned at an early age= when business needs to raise more money to catch up to the cost of living it raises it's prices=when your employee needs a raise and he is a good employee you give him a raise or he becomes an others employee. Or like in Maine he leaves the state= our kids and grand kids:
May 9, 2014
well I have been busy with my wife who is recovering from major surgery and haven't had time to read my favorite Maine paper! Their is an article in the may first addition that all republicans should read! especially those who run the heritage of Maine misinformation center and our infamous Governor who babbled his remarks on increasing the minimum wage hurts the economy! their is an article which debunks 10 rumors about minimum wage all of which the heritage,and the governor subscribe to! Oh by the way the latest goof of the governor was saying how wind power was useless! that sure improved our chances of wining the 49 million dollar grant! (another boner from the right)! their are three of you who read my posts and try to snafu your ilk ! beware your stupidity is costing Mainers income! Here's a little info a mentor of me gave me at 19 when I got my first leadership roll in life. since their are few of you who could ever achieve the success this man had in life I doubt you have the brains to dispute it(that includes you gov.) you see he started on the Holland tunnel as a laborer! he went to night school and became a professional engineer! he retired as the chief engineer of New York city. HIS WORDS TO ME WAS WHEN YOU EVALUATE AND EMPLOYEE OF YOURS FOR A RAISE; GIVE IT TO HIM IF HE DESERVES IT; AFTER ALL BY RAISING HIS STANDARD OF LIVING YOU WILL ALWAYS RAISE YOURS IN THE END!
NOW THAT I AM RETIRED I CAN APPRECIATE WHAT WISDOM HE PASSED ON TO ME AND I TO OTHERS OVER THE YEARS.
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why the right needs to get behind trump
they(the group behind the scenes who have taken the vote away from it's party members) had romney go on stage=this half wit was rejected by the voters for one reason=he robbed people of jobs and their pensions for money!
pass this on as fast and as many forums as you can:
"The lion’s share of the wealth Mitt Romney accumulated during his years at Bain Capital was extracted not only by laying off workers and raiding their pensions, but by using what conservatives call “big government” to redistribute wealth from taxpayers to Bain’s investors and partners.
AlterNetBain Capital was not in the business of creating jobs, or even saving companies over the long-term. Its model had a relatively low rate of success; a study by Deutche Bank found that 33 out of 68 major deals cut on Romney’s watch lost money for the firm’s investors. Its richest deals made up for the flops, however, and Bain’s partners were guaranteed hefty fees regardless of how the businesses they “restructured” ultimately performed.
AS YOU CAN SEE HE IS A PUPPET OF THE ELITE!!!
heroin in Maine
we are getting invaded by the heroin drug pushers. we need to step up the arrest time to prevent rapid spread to new users. I think when you read that a person or group has been under investigation for months you need to alter your policy. think of how many new users,of the ability to spread this junk to our children and hook the addicts to a life of misery and eventually to crime in order to feed their habit. one thing is for sure the method need a kick in the butt.
I live in a community that may have had a drug related call once a week a few years ago -now it's several times a day. really and overdoses are far to common. It's time we changed the policy and protected our families
where is the right who were screaming for the canadian pipeline to be built to texas
hmmm does anyone but me think the right can be led by the rich(who want to squeeze the worker's pay check more every day) like the pied piper led the rats over the cliff? do you remember our local vocal politicians stirring up the sheeple about the keystone pipeline! Or the people who had the gumption to research it and tell others it was to keep the prices high here and ship the product overseas. hmmm hmmm well we won! the canadians decided they missed the big buck time! they couldn't fool us into using old pipes,or a free run over our wet lands!
next time they wave the flag, call our president a wimp or say the word liberal like it is something to be ashamed of remind them it's a hell of lot better than being a slow witted sheeple or like you were called in the fifties the kowtows of the right!
more crap from the right
I copied this just to show how stupid you have to be to fit into the fox crew.
George Bush spent time in AUg cutting brush in crawford texas in aug 10 days before 911
if he had done his job their never would have been a 911.
"quote from the drone of the bullcrap crew"
Lance Dutson: George W. Bush's foreign policy was the perfect foil for Barack Obama, and arguably launched him into the presidency. But after 7 years of Obama’s foreign policy, the world is engulfed in the flames of terrorism like never before.
From Libya to Iraq to Syria, this administration has allowed an abstract theory of pacifism to put America at terrible risk. The attacks in Paris must make progressives like you finally see that Bush's aggressive forward stance kept us far safer than “leading from behind.”
one more month of the right in 2008 and their would have been no country! 43 states on the verge of bankruptcy! how bout that lance? credit ratings of the country in trouble!
no lance your ploy war for oil was a disaster! the left had to take over the countries business to save what you boneheads wasted! next you will try to make another hero out of a loser like REAGAN!
Bush the protector??????
Democratic congressman, asked him when he first found out about the report from the FBI's Minnesota field office that Zacarias Moussaoui, an Islamic jihadist, had been taking lessons on how to fly a 747. Tenet replied that he was briefed about the case on Aug. 23 or 24, 2001.
Roemer then asked Tenet if he mentioned Moussaoui to President Bush at one of their frequent morning briefings. Tenet replied, "I was not in briefings at this time." Bush, he noted, "was on vacation." He added that he didn't see the president at all in August 2001. During the entire month, Bush was at his ranch in Texas. "You never talked with him?" Roemer asked. "No," Tenet replied. By the way, for much of August, Tenet too was, as he put it, "on leave."
And there you have it. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has made a big point of the fact that Tenet briefed the president nearly every day. Yet at the peak moment of threat, the two didn't talk at all. At a time when action was needed, and orders for action had to come from the top, the man at the top was resting undisturbed.
Throughout that summer, we now well know, Tenet, Richard Clarke, and several other officials were running around with their "hair on fire," warning that al-Qaida was about to unleash a monumental attack. On Aug. 6, Bush was given the now-famous President's Daily Brief (by one of Tenet's underlings), warning that this attack might take place "inside the United States." For the previous few years—as Philip Zelikow, the commission's staff director, revealed this morning—the CIA had issued several warnings that terrorists might fly commercial airplanes into buildings or cities.
And now, we learn today, at this peak moment, Tenet hears about Moussaoui. Someone might have added 2 + 2 + 2 and possibly busted up the conspiracy. But the president was down on the ranch, taking it easy. Tenet wasn't with him. Tenet never talked with him. Rice—as she has testified—wasn't with Bush, either. He was on his own and, willfully, out of touch.
A USA Today story, written right before Bush took off, reported that the vacation—scheduled to last from Aug. 3 to Sept. 3—would tie one of Richard Nixon's as the longest that any president had ever taken. A week before he left, Bush made a videotaped message for the Boy Scouts of America. On the tape, he said, "I'll be going to my ranch in Crawford, where I'll work and take a little time off. I think it is so important for the president to spend some time away from Washington, in the heartland of America."
Dana Milbank and Mike Allen of the Washington Post recently wrote a story recalling those halcyon days in Crawford. On Aug. 7, 2001, the day after the fateful PDB, Bush, they wrote, "was in an expansive mood … when he ran into reporters while playing golf." The president's aides emphasized that he was working, now and then, on a few issues—education, immigration, Social Security, and his impending decision on stem-cell research. On Aug. 29, less than a week after Tenet found out about Moussaoui, Bush gave a speech before the American Legion. The White House press office headlined the text of the address, "President Discusses Defense Priorities." Those priorities: boosting soldiers' pay and abandoning the Anti-Ballistic-Missile Treaty. Nothing about terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, hijackings. Nothing that reflected the PDB or Moussaoui.
Anyone who has ever spent time in Washington knows that the whole town takes off the month of August. Despite the "threat spike," August 2001, it seems, was no different.
Larry Johnson, a former CIA officer and the State Department's counterterrorism chief from 1989-93, explained on MSNBC this afternoon, during a break in the hearings, why the PDB—let alone the Moussaoui finding—should have compelled everyone to rush back to Washington. In his CIA days, Johnson wrote "about 40" PDBs. They're usually dispassionate in tone, a mere paragraph or two. The PDB of Aug. 6 was a page and a half. "That's the intelligence-community equivalent of writing War and Peace," Johnson said. And the title—"Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US"—was clearly designed to set off alarm bells. Johnson told his interviewer that when he read the declassified document, "I said 'Holy smoke!' This is such a dead-on 'Mr. President, you've got to do something!' " (By the way, Johnson claimed he's a Republican who voted for Bush in 2000.)
Bush as brought out by Trump
Trump brought it up: George W. Bush's responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. This allowed Elizabeth Drew to address, as she put it, "the heretofore hushed-up public policy question that Trump stumbled into." Drew's "How Much Is George W. Bush Responsible for 9/11?" is the most cogent and damning indictment of Bush on this count that we are likely to get. And it comes just in time to counter an incipient George W. Bush rehabilitation campaign.
Elizabeth Drew is the yoda of politics at the world's premiere intellectual forum, The New York Review of Books. As a journalist, she helped bring down Nixon. From 1972 to '77, she was the director of the prestigious and influential Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of fourteen books of the shrewdest political analysis. Her pedigree, therefore, is the highest.
In "How Much Is George W. Bush Responsible for 9/11?," Drew relies heavily on the report of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, which Bush resisted and subverted. She writes, "The unpleasant, almost unbearable conclusion -- one that was not to be discussed within the political realm -- is that in the face of numerous warnings of an impending attack, Bush did nothing."
This is on top of Peter Beinart's recent indictment of Bush for 9/11 in The Atlantic (which relied more on former counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke than the 9/11 Commission), and concluded, "Bush was insufficiently vigilant. The evidence is overwhelming."
So some degree of blame for the 9/11 attacks must be added to that list of catastrophic blunders known as the George W. Bush administration. That list already includes some degree of blame for the culminating disaster of his presidency, the 2008 global financial collapse. Bill Clinton gets some of that blame, but Bush gets most of it for being the leader of the deregulation party and for policies, like massive tax cuts for the wealthy and unpaid-for wars, that turned an inherited budget surplus, according to The New York Times, into a 1.2 trillion dollar budget deficit.
As for the pointless Iraq War, Bush gets all the blame for that after lying the country into it and then managing it with such stunning ineptitude. And ineptitude was the salient feature of something else that Bush owns in its entirety, the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. For that we have A Failure of Initiative: the Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina. The Washington Post's article on this report opens with, "Hurricane Katrina exposed the U.S. government's failure to learn the lessons of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as leaders from President Bush down disregarded ample warnings."
Then there are the lesser crimes: theft of the 2000 election, multi-billion dollar no-bid contracts for cronies, pandering to anti-gay bigotry during his reelection campaign, withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol lowering greenhouse gas emissions, withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, invalidation of the Geneva Convention protocols against torture, and here are 300 anti-environmental actions listed by the Sierra Club.
The point of this rehash is to counter rehabilitation efforts like that of David Brooks, generally considered a housebroken conservative, who recently tried to portray Bush and Cheney as victims of faulty Iraq intelligence. Plus, Bush's rising poll numbers indicate he may be acquiring a glaze of nostalgia. His defenders, including most recently brother Jeb, explain away George W. Bush's record as "bad luck." Another explanation is that an intellectual level, a political philosophy, and a detached governing style combined to create a perfect storm of incompetence. W's record of failures snaps into focus beside his achievements of taking the most vacations, by far, of any modern president, and the longest vacation.
In March of 2008, History News Network polled 109 professional historians, 61 percent of whom declared George W. Bush the worst president. Another 35 percent put him in the bottom ten. It seems likely that back then few if any of those historians would have given Bush the degree of blame for 9/11 that Elizabeth Drew and Peter Beinart propose now.
There are some corrupt incompetent boobs down in that bottom ten, but if there is one, just one, with a record of catastrophic blunders like that of George W. Bush, name him.
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this is what the right has tried to hide-much like the Reagan myth
IS THIS WHY THE RIGHT IS BACKING AWAY FROM THE SPEAKERS POST?
THE CIA SAYS THE RIGHT HAS BEEN FALSIFYING THE FACTS ABOUT HILLARY'S E-MAIL!
Ever since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) admitted that the primary function of his House Benghazi committee was to publicly smear Hillary Clinton and damage her credibility, the details of their gross misconduct have begun pouring out, indicating that this was a much more elaborate and extensive conspiracy than it originally appeared. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), a ranking member of the House Benghazi committee, is determined that justice be served for the blatant misuse of public funds and that Secretary Clinton’s name be cleared.
Now Cummings and the Central Intelligence Agency have caught Chairman Rep.Trey Gowdy (R-SC) culpable in one of the biggest scandals to hit the notorious committee. Gowdy accused Hillary Clinton of releasing the name of a classified CIA informant in her email, saying that her email server contained “some of the most protected information in our intelligence community, the release of which could jeopardize not only national security but human lives.”
This has been found to be patently false. Gowdy has been exposed for altering documents and distorting information in order to make Clinton look culpable – except none of that information was classified, as stated in this sharp letter issued by Cummings:
The problem with your accusation—as with so many others during this investigation—is that you failed to check your facts before you made it, and the CIA has now informed the Select Committee that you were wrong. I believe your accusations were irresponsible, and I believe you owe the Secretary an immediate apology.
To further inflate your claim, you placed your own redactions over the name of the individual with the words, “redacted due to sources and methods.” To be clear, these redactions were not made, and these words were not added, by any agency of the federal government responsible for enforcing classification guidelines.
Contrary to your claims, the CIA yesterday informed both the Republican and Democratic staffs of the Select Committee that they do not consider the information you highlighted in your letter to be classified. Specifically, the CIA confirmed that “the State Department consulted with the CIA on this production, the CIA reviewed these documents, and the CIA made no redactions to protect classified information.”
Unfortunately, you sent your letter on October 7 without checking first with the CIA. Now that we have done so, we have learned that your accusations were incorrect.
Not only has Gowdy been found leading his committee on a partisan crusade, he’s been fabricating evidence and openly lying about the contents of Clinton’s email server. It is an absolute travesty that the deaths of four Americans have been used in such a vile fashion by House Republicans. Instead of honoring their memories and learning from the mistakes that were made, in order to prevent them from occurring again, they have been turned into a political firebomb aimed at discrediting one of our nation’s most prominent and dedicated public servants. The legality of all this is still unclear, but one would assume that some consequences would be in store for distorting intelligence documents and openly lying to the public.
In an atmosphere of political dysfunction where the House Republicans have become a roadblock preventing any substantial legislative action from moving forward, it’s time to question the role of the Republican Party in our politics at all. They have wasted millions and produced nothing; they draw their salaries and waste our nation’s time on ridiculous witch-hunts against Planned Parenthood and Hillary Clinton but do nothing as our infrastructure crumbles and our middle class withers away under the ravenous hunger of the wealthy oligarchs. They do not deserve a place in the political discourse of a civilized nation.
IF THEY HAVE THE FACTS (CIA) THEN THE RIGHT (REPUBLICAN PARTY) SHOULD BE MADE TO FOOT THE BILL FOR ALL THE TIME AND MONEY SPENT ON THIS FARCE! AND THOSE INVOLVED WITH DIRTY TRICKS SHOULD BE BARRED FROM HOLDING OFFICE OR PARTICIPATING IN ANY POLITICAL VENUE INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO VOTE!
are you tired of seeing posts like this in other parties whaco group
while liberals nurse the fantasy that conservatives are "full of hate", instead, when these incidents occur, we see that most times a liberal is doing the killing.
I think it is reasonable to conclude that IBM's actions stirring up racial hatred figured, at least in part, into the killer's decision for action here.
Had this killer been a Christian, or a TEA party member or a hated Trump supporter, the story would be run wall-to-wall for days.
However, I think as this unfolds we will see that the shooter does not fall into that narrative, and so this story will disappear from the MSM in a day or two.
the above is a typical post from this lame brain fool! I have had a gun since I was 8,hunted since I was 10(the first two years I was not allowed to use a gun in nov.) but went with my dad to his stump! I tagged my first deer when I was 12. I SHOT MY FIRST PARTRIDGE WHEN I WAS 10. This was my first lesson about killing game the bird was sitting in a fir tree after we flushed it -my dad said you can shoot it. when we cleaned it he said see all those shot in the breast- you should only shoot a bird in the air. And try to aim at the wing . well I never was the wing shot my dad was -but more than once I've proved I can clip a wing on a partridge or a duck so there is fewer pellets in the breast. I've dropped more than one deer on the dead run. I've never shot anyone but I must admit there have been a few I should have. how anyone can make the statement that the right is for the colored when it's only been a few years that any have been elected to national office in their party shows me the person has the brains of a bucket of mush.
ps this is mild compared to what I would really like to say in person to this hate monger- and is one independent that will stand his ground!
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