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28 Apr 06 - 09:54 PM (#1729663) Subject: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: Bobert Well, here today, Rush Limbaugh was indicted on felony charges related to his drug habit and guess what??? No "Rush Indicted Threads"??? Hmmmmmmmm? Had this been Edward Kennedy or Bill Clinton the Bushites here would have jumped on this like there was no tomorrow... That is the difference between progressives and Bushites... Progressives are the truely compassionate folks and the Bushites just want to win and hord every thing... Generalizations??? Well sure... But they seem to fit.... Bobert |
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28 Apr 06 - 10:21 PM (#1729675) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: John on the Sunset Coast Progressives compassionate? Maybe...with other people's money. They are also self centered wimps who, when they cannot win at the ballot box (abortion, smoking etc, political correctness) go to the courts to get their way. If someone doesn't agree with their position they impute evil intentions to the dissenter; a conservative is never just wrong, but venal. A generalization? Yeah...but if the shoe fits. A few years ago I read somewhere no, I cannot remember where, that Conservatives gave more charity than progressives, and that in states that had larger welfare programs, and concommitantly higher state and local taxes, people were less personally charitable. Maybe some food for thought there. |
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28 Apr 06 - 10:30 PM (#1729682) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: Bobert Well, if you can't come up with any source to prove yer rediculous premises, John, why spend up any gray matter on them??? Apparently you ain't been 'rounn too many progressives 'er you'd have a clue of jus how you sound.... |
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28 Apr 06 - 10:39 PM (#1729688) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: John on the Sunset Coast I spend a lot of time with progressives...they sound a lot like you. And please forgive me for not keeping a file on every thing I read, see or hear. |
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28 Apr 06 - 10:47 PM (#1729694) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: Amos I dunno what sort of progressives you're thinking of, John. The ones I know are progressive BECAUSE they want to see social inventions which bring about progress, and which improve the general situation for all participants. Some folks get rabid in defense of their own interests only. They may want specific changes, such as zoning variances for their proposed developments, but they are not progressives. Others, like Rushbo, get rabid just on principle because it sells advertising minutes. All change is not progress, obviously. A |
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29 Apr 06 - 12:15 AM (#1729744) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: GUEST Indicted? News to me, Bobert. Where are you getting your news? NBC, CBS, ABC? CNN? Oh, I'll bet you've been listening to Chris Matthews on MSNBC Right? He was not indicted. He will not serve one day in jail. He will pay the state of Florida $30,000 to cover the cost of the AG trying to find enough evidence to put him in jail. He couldn't find it. End of story. DougR |
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29 Apr 06 - 12:25 AM (#1729752) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: John on the Sunset Coast Actually, DougR, he was arraigned on one count and pleaded not guilty, accorded to a radio news report. Whether he will serve jail time is still to be seen. |
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29 Apr 06 - 12:42 AM (#1729758) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: number 6 Then there is the Progressive Consertative Party of Canada ... whose leader is the right hounourable Prime Minister Stephen Harper .. and who said consertatives cannot be progessive. sIx |
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29 Apr 06 - 02:29 AM (#1729771) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: mrdux re: Rush According to Rush's lawyer, Boy Black -- and a very fine lawyer he is -- a negotiated settlement was reached, in which Rush was formally charged with one count of "doctor shopping." He entered a plea of not guilty and the case was continued, or held in abeyance, for 18 months, during which time he'll effectively be on probation, with conditions that he continue with his drug treatment, pay Florida $30k, plus a supervision fee of $30/month, and pick up no new criminal law violations. If he does that, case is dismissed. If he doesn't, the case goes back to the trial court. Unclear if Florida can bring additional charges if he screws up the agreement. It's called, generally, a deferred prosecution agreement, and it's the same deal that people charged with small-scale drug possession charges get in many jurisdictions. It's not necessarily a reflection of the strength or weakness of the case. In case anyone is curious. michael |
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29 Apr 06 - 03:30 AM (#1729781) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: Ebbie Interesting, given the spin that Limbaugh's lawyer put on it that Limbaugh had to post bail. Why is that? I must say that he comes across as a thoroughly nice guy, the kind of guy I'd want for my neighbor. Or maybe not. "Prosecutors seized Limbaugh's medical records after learning that he received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion. The investigation was held up as prosecutors and Black battled in court over whether the records were properly seized. "Limbaugh reported five years ago that he had lost most of his hearing, saying it was caused by an autoimmune inner-ear disease. He had surgery to have an electronic device placed in his skull to restore his hearing. But research shows that abusing opiate-based painkillers can also cause profound hearing loss. "Before his own problems became public, Limbaugh had decried drug use and abuse and mocked President Clinton for saying he had not inhaled when he tried marijuana. He often made the case that drug crimes deserve punishment. ""Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up," Limbaugh said on his short-lived television show on Oct. 5, 1995." |
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29 Apr 06 - 07:01 AM (#1729821) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: John Hardly It is the course of events that one always posts bail before one is convicted, Ebbie. Bail is a security of $$ to ensure that the defendant shows up for their trial. As the trial has not yet occurred, there has been no conviction. |
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29 Apr 06 - 07:01 AM (#1729823) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: John Hardly Hey Bobert, How are you going to refer to those you disagree with after 2008? |
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29 Apr 06 - 07:38 AM (#1729838) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: freda underhill I heard Rush Limbaugh and his third wife have broken up. Apparently, she came home early and found him with their pharmacist |
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29 Apr 06 - 08:33 AM (#1729854) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: Bobert John, Heck if I know??? Maybe Daddy Bush and his corporate thugs will buy/steal the White House for Jeb and we'll have another 8 years of Bushite ***rulerment***??? Bobert |
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29 Apr 06 - 09:11 AM (#1729879) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: Bob the Postman number 6, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is a dead letter. Remember when Peter Mackay shook hands with David Orchard? At that moment the Progressive element was betrayed. This was the point of Bobert's original post--conservatives are more ruthless than progressives in advancing their agenda. Orchard thought he was shaking hands to seal a bargain. Mackay knew he wasn't shaking hands at all, he was strangling the runt called progressivism. |
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29 Apr 06 - 11:02 AM (#1729941) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: katlaughing Republicans have some funny ways of donating to "charity:" Click Here. |
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29 Apr 06 - 11:08 AM (#1729948) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: freda underhill and they have a strange view of how to be "charitable"to their returned soldiers.. Coming Home from War on the Cheap: Shortchanging the Wounded |
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29 Apr 06 - 11:10 AM (#1729949) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: John on the Sunset Coast Last night I wrote that I wrote a correction to Guest Doug R. About an hour later I heard another news report which supported his post. Mea Culpa. |
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29 Apr 06 - 11:14 AM (#1729951) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: number 6 Bob the Postman ... was just joking in my post ...I could never get the 'progressive' in Progressive Consertative. sIx |
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29 Apr 06 - 11:17 AM (#1729954) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: John on the Sunset Coast Bobert, your posting of 10:21am today tends to support my first posting here last night. |
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01 May 06 - 02:18 PM (#1731346) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: beardedbruce Well, if you can't come up with any source to prove yer rediculous premises, Bobert, why spend up any gray matter on them??? Apparently you ain't been 'rounn too many conservatives 'er you'd have a clue of jus how you sound.... |
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01 May 06 - 03:26 PM (#1731389) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: GUEST,Martin gibson He hasn't been around too many good musicians either, I've heard. |
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01 May 06 - 03:37 PM (#1731395) Subject: RE: BS: Difference 'tween Progressives and Bushi From: beardedbruce Actually, Martin, I will defend Bobert's musical ability, and affirm that he DOES hang around (other) good musicians. We just disagree on politics- but I will lend him my guitar anytime. |