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Iamon lyme: It's a comliment for me. You know more stuff than I know. You'd think people could see the difference. But I've been mistaken for others too. Those turned out to be wrong too!
Artful Dodger: Aw come on, we WANT him to believe we are same person.. don't we? I don't mind that he does, I think it's funny. Doesn't matter, he doesn't believe anything we, er, I mean I say anyway. heh heh heh heh heh..
(V): Of course you would say that (about global warming), but I doubt you are saying it for the same reason people closer to the top of the money chain are saying it. There's a lot of money to be made in the hope that enough people buy into the so called global warming "crises". I doubt you are part of that group hoping to personally gain from it, which begs the question,, just why are you so eager to believe almost anything you hear coming from your own masters, the left leaning profit mongers?
In 2008 The LA Times withheld a video that contained footage of Barack Obama celebrating with a group of Palestinians who were openly hostile towards Israel. Barack Obama reportedly even gave a toast to a former PLO operative, Rashid Khalidi, at this celebration.
This was something the LA Times hid from the American public before the election. The media refused to release the video.
There were also reports that terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn were at the same Jew-bash. Khalidi was thought to be connected to the PLO.Last year the anti-Israel radical raised cash for a ship named “The Audacity of Hope” to smash through the Gaza Blockade. Well they finally raised enough cash and the American ship is ready to join this year’s Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla 2.
Yesterday, Rashid Khalidi, Noam Chomsky, Ali Abunimah and others release a video urging the Obama Administration to free Gaza and allow bombs to be imported by the Hamas terror group.
Republican presidential hopefuls Gov. Rick Perry and Mitt Romney will be in San Antonio this week for the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention, but for the first time in its 112-year history, no one from the White House has committed to making an appearance[...]
“When the President is unable to attend, it has always been customary for the White House to choose a high-level administration official as an alternative speaker,” wrote Richard Eubank, the group's national commander, in a statement.
“It is an insult of the highest magnitude that for the first time in the history of the VFW, the White House has apparently decided that this great and iconic organization of combat veterans and all of its members are not worthy of its notice by not at least offering a first-tier speaker from the administration.”
Konu: don't look now but it's another conservative stand up / actor
As a Comedian...
Michael Joiner is funny. Very funny.1st Place winner of the Hollywood Improv's "FUNNIEST COMIC IN L.A." 2008, and 2010 Christian Music Hall of Fame "COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR" nominee, Joiner has attracted wide praise for his routines that blend a sarcastic edginess with a devotion to clean humor. Joiner has headlined at The LA AREA Improvs, The Funny Bone, The Ice House and other comedy clubs across the country while also performing at colleges and sold out Clean Comedy Concerts nationwide. He's also written for "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."
Michael has been performing nationwide for over 18 years and is rated one of the nation's funniest Clean Stand up Comedians. The TV Guide Network calls Michael "One of the funniest, most original, stand up Comedians working today!"
In 2006, Michael was one out of only four Comedians chosen worldwide to star in the top selling DVD, "The Clean Stand Up Comedy Tour."
Michael has also starred in the Hit Comedy TV show "Bananas," as well as The Gospel Music Channel"s "Stand up for Clean Comedy."
Michael currently writes for many stand up comedians, as well as his 13-year-old comedian son, Dustin Joiner, who has appeared on "America's Most Talented Kids," as well as major comedy clubs, like "The Hollywood Improv," and New York City's "The Laugh Factory."
Unlike most Comedians who stick to their rehearsed script,Michael's stand up comedy show includes some of the most clever, hilarious improv and audience interaction you will ever experience.
As an Actor...
Michael lived and worked in Los Angeles for several years where he private coached with John Swanbeck (Kevin Spacey's acting coach), and studied with some of Hollywood's "A" list acting teachers who instilled in Michael a solid preparation and reading technique that have made Michael"s performances impressively real. Michael also worked in many national TV commercials, as well as starring in several movie and TV projects.
Michael's most impressive credit to date has him playing the lead role opposite Oscar winner Louis Gosset, Jr. In SONY/PROVIDENT's powerful new drama, "The Grace Card," released in theaters 2/25/11 (www.thegracecardmovie.com) where Michael is receiving rave reviews from critics like The Hollywood Reporter who said, "Actor-comedian Michael Joiner delivers a POWERFULLY INTENSE PERFORMANCE as 'Mac' MacDonald in The Grace Card!"
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Kerri Pomarolli And no foul language! (most liberal comics can't tell a joke without an f bomb here or there) No dirty suggestive sexual remarks (a hallmark of the libs) Just good clean extremely funny comedy!
Konu: BTW, the cows are neither liberal or conservative lol
Famous World Ideologies, as explained by references to Cows 25/08/2010
Feudalism: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. Pure Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need. Bureaucratic Socialism: Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need. Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk. Pure Communism: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk. Real World Communism: You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most “ability” and who has the most “need”. Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.
Russian Communism: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market. Perestroika: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the “free” market. Cambodian Communism: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you. Militarianism: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you. Totalitarianism: You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned. Pure Democracy: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk. Representative Democracy: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk. British Democracy: You have two cows. You feed them sheeps’ brains and they go mad. The government doesn’t do anything. Bureaucracy: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows. Pure Anarchy: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you. Pure Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Capitalism: You don’t have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don’t have any cows to put up as collateral. Enviromentalism: You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them. Political Correctness: You are associated with (the concept of “ownership” is a symbol of the phallo-centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently – aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender. Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
27. August 2011, 12:38:49The Col (hide)all posts | show thread | link- cloak mode (?) - Subject: Re: laughatliberals Artful Dodger: Mine, and everyone elses apparently.Can you name a successful right wing comic? and if you mention Dennis Miller, his career has tanked in the stand up forum Reply (box)
**I name several here. That was you ONLY requirement. I said they made their living at comedy. Period.
Later you said "funny is funny." That must only apply to liberal funny in your book?
Konu: Re: Bill Hicks , best stand up comic who ever lived
The Col: cue card reader? You have him mixed up with your hero obama.
Now Stewart reads a monitor.
And you tried to claim that no one listens to conservative standups. You were proven wrong. Not once, but over a dozen time. But yet you keep coming back for more.
Konu: Re: Bill Hicks , best stand up comic who ever lived
Artful Dodger: you want to get into a philosophical discussion regarding art? I posed the question to you anyway, you had one unknown and a cue card reader.The general public is the only indicator of what sells, and the conservative stand ups are not very high on the list.My personal fave was not filling arenas at any point in NA,but my question was not based on personal faves, that's an entirely diff beast
Konu: Re: That I see the conservatives on HERE playing the race card whenever anybody disagrees with them.
That I see the conservatives on HERE playing the race card whenever anybody disagrees with them.
Another way of saying this that that every time someone disagrees with a conservative, the conservative plays the race card.
Since the liberals on here almost ALWAYS disagree with conservative points of view, then what Jules is saying is that in ALL THESE CASES, the race card is played.
Konu: Re: Bill Hicks , best stand up comic who ever lived
Artful Dodger: I was speaking of stand up comics, I expanded the list to make it easier for you.I gave my opinion as to my fave,who I consider the best.I think if you check earnings for stand up comics you will get a better indication of the public opinion
Vikings: 7 of them do stand up, and Bono and Neilson are sadly dead.I love Leary, not sure he's conservative though........Mel Gibson is a stand up comic? to some I guess
Konu: Re: I guess you pay attention to what you want to, and ignore other things? That's all I can figure. All the silly libs throw out "racist" to anyone who disagrees with the worthless president of ours.
rod03801: Really...... That is what you perceive.
Guess I read more as I don't see that happening alot.
Konu: Re: And if someone doesn't like Chris Rock, they MUST be racist! Isn't that how libs work?
(V): I guess you pay attention to what you want to, and ignore other things? That's all I can figure. All the silly libs throw out "racist" to anyone who disagrees with the worthless president of ours.
Libyan rebels say they are concerned over the fate of thousands of prisoners held in Tripoli by the Gaddafi regime.
Rebel military spokesman Col Ahmed Omar Bani said almost 50,000 people arrested in recent months were unaccounted for.
The rebels believe they may be being held in underground bunkers, which have since been abandoned. Rights groups have seen evidence that dozens of people have been massacred near prisons, but Col Bani did not accuse anyone of killing the prisoners.
"The number of people arrested over the past months is estimated at between 57,000 and 60,000," he said in a news conference in Benghazi. "Between 10,000 and 11,000 prisoners have been freed up until now... so where are the others?"
The colonel appealed for anyone with information to come forward, and said it would be "catastrophic" if they had been killed.
That the design of a constitutional democracy calls for continuous negotiations is of no consequence to a movement of puppets driven by their master to serve only one goal. If you listen to the programmers (Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, etc), you hear a continuous stream accusations toward their perceived enemy, which happens to be anyone who doesn't agree with every aspect of their message. The tactic is to accuse the enemy of doing whatever it is you are doing in order to divert attention away from your own misdeeds. It works. At least it certainly works with the Tea Party followers. They nod their heads in agreement as their favorite commentator presents a totally fictitious scenario and pronounces, "You didn't hear that in the main stream media! They just tell you what they want you to hear!"
When Beck tells the world that there is no such thing as global warming, he accuses the left of lying to you for their own personal gain. He is telling you that because he gets paid millions to tell you that and, without defense against the scientific evidence his only argument has to be that they are lying. With all the right-wing so called modern conservative commentators you get a heavy dose of, "They are coming after me. They don't want me to tell you the truth." For the simple of mind, this reinforces the image that the other side is lying and supposedly garners some sympathy for the commentator who is standing up to the evil of the other side (all for a mere $30 million a year).
From Rush Limbaugh to Glenn Beck and from Sean Hannity to Bill O'Reilly they send the same message over and over, day after day. How do they all arrive at the same conclusions, even the same sound bites with flawless accuracy? They are paid to say what big corporations, big-time religion and the super wealthy want them to say. They speak and the Tea Party echoes. They are the programmers hired by the super wealthy to program the compliant flock of followers who rally around every concept that puts the interests of corporate America ahead and above the rights of everyday taxpaying Americans. Look at Glenn Beck's well publicized $32 million income. Around $3 million of that is earned at his job, the rest can be characterized as the payoff. What do big corporations, big-time religion and the super wealthy get for their share of that $29 or so million? They get programming that produces tens of thousands of obedient followers fighting for corporate welfare while impoverishing the middle class. Of modest incomes mostly, they nonetheless cry for huge tax breaks for the super wealthy and big corporations and they fight against anti pollution laws that hold big corporations accountable for damage done to the public and leaving it to the government to clean up the mess at taxpayer expense. This coddling of the giant powerful corporation by government is not a new idea. It has been the dream of much of the super wealthy class forever. What is new, is the force of the masses of duped average income people shouting in support of this idea at the expense of their own good future. Little do they understand (or want to understand) that, given success by the Tea Party, they will work for pennies, be saddled with all the tax burden and be deprived of the protections of the Constitution and government. That really is shooting oneself in the foot!
Yes, it's a site about conservative politics and conservative political issues. It is also a site about Republican politics, but that's not the same as conservative politics, a point I hope to make clearly. I, like many others, am disgusted with Republican politics and the utter disrespect for the Constitution that goes with those neo-conservatives (or is it neo conservatives? {does it matter?}).
This isn't really a conservative blog. We are not just blogging on conservative issue. We mostly discuss so called Conservative Republican politics while real Conservative politics are hardly ever discussed now days. Mostly we hear about Republican politics that certainly are not conservative. This is certainly is not a Republican blog and it goes without saying, it is not a liberal blog. So, if you want to discuss the so-called conservative issues of today, this may not be the place for you. It's definitely not the place for patting each other on the back and admiring current Republican political issues or Republican politics in general. It really is only a blog about how the Republican Party has fled from conservative ideology and abandoned America as it turned its back on freedom.
... he vast majority of Tea Party supporters I have asked say that the TP movement is self funded. They tell me that it is a body of dedicated people joined together to fight big government and its oppression. They seem totally unaware of the huge corporate big money effort that has sustained the TP while injecting special interest ideals and completely reshaping meaning of conservatism. It's not just the multi-billionaire Koch brothers and their Koch Industries, it's the conglomerate of huge insurance companies, big oil and every other powerful corporate interest that can benefit from reducing the power of average people while gaining greater control over government. Case in point; the main financial opposition to Obamacare quietly comes from those insurance companies who were getting a nearly $140 billion subsidy (theoretically for interfacing between patients and Medicare). They lost that under the Health Care Bill and they want it back. That's a lot of corporate welfare and they are willing to fight for it. Not that Obamacare is all that good, but it isn't bad in the ways that Tea Partiers have been led to believe.
Big time religion comes in second in influence over the TP movement. No, the big churches don't contribute the hundreds of millions of dollars that come from big corporations, but they do pump in people. Not just average people, but zealous soldiers who have no regard for the Constitution, the freedoms due Americans or anything else that is not on the Christian agenda. This segment of the TP movement is working fervently at changing the very meaning of the Constitution by attacking its basic principles and revising the history of its founding. You hear it all the time at TP rallies and meeting, "There is no separation of church and state! We are a Christian nation! The Constitution protects family values! Abortion must be stopped!" On and on they attack safeguards to freedoms well grounded and intended in the Constitution. They teach people that the Constitution isn't what our forefathers and the courts have intended. When convenient, they deny science and most of all, they work hard to force these views on everyone. If you have attended a Tea Party rally lately, you've seen that it is working.
Oh the joys of socialized medicine. In a move that the nurses union no doubt considers a breakthrough in modern medical treatment, NHS nurses are wearing 'Do Not Disturb' signs.
The UK Daily Mail reports that after a successful trial at Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Kent, a NHS pilot program to have nurses wear bright red tabards with 'DO NOT DISTURB. DRUG ROUND IN PROGRESS' in bold white letters on the front will be implemented in hospitals across the nation.
In a victory for both organized labor and the NHS, nurses can now fully concentrate on one simple task and refuse to address other concerns of their patients. "What we do when interrupted is simply turn around to face the patient and point to the words," proclaimed one of the NHS angels of mercy. Improvements will undoubtedly be made as the system is refined, perhaps the NHS could put the 'Do Not Disturb' warning on the back of the tabards which would save the nurses from having to turn around and face the patient.
Patients have been meekly submitting to the new prohibition, rather than risk the wrath of the nurses. Move over Florence Nightingale, Nurse Ratched is on her rounds and she's looking really angry.
(V): The col ask for just ONE names. He's been given that and more.
To be a Republican is to belong to the right wing. Liberal is left. That's how it's defined in the US. You know that and if you don't, you should. Yes, some are moderates and there are conservative libs and liberal repubs (we call them RINOs).
You leftys are all the same. Get an honest answer to your question and then pick the answer apart becauser you don't like the fact that it proves you wrong.
And it doesn't matter if Mel Gibson is a "nutter" because that probably describes more than 80% of the liberal comedians in the world.
The Col: The drivers were getting tired of having no medical facilities at races and dying. So they grouped together and paid for a mobile hospital to be at each race. When the race track owners and car makers did not get that it was a bad thing that drivers were dying through bad track safety.. They boycotted races and made the industry pay up and make the races safer.
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