Maher knows better. He’s an ass.

Goldberg lamely tried to assist Walters, saying “we, society took the word ‘retarded’ and made it into something derogatory…When I was a kid, it wasn’t derogatory…”

Bullfeathers!

I have no idea what constituted Whoopi’s culture parameters when she was a kid, but no one has ever used the word “retarded” as a benign and colorless form of identifying objective normalcy. “Retarded” actively identifies a condition of being abnormal.

Because of the pejorative use of the slang epithet “retard” to infer a reserved seat on the short bus, “retarded” has joined the long list of politically incorrect words. Maher and Goldberg and especially Walters are stretching credulity beyond its limits by claiming an innocent and harmless use of the word.

I can not imagine Walters introducing her sister as retarded in any sort of blithe manner.

When one student expressing his views tells another student that his point is “retarded” he is not paying a compliment.

Until Bill Maher can produce the evidence that he was objectively discussing retardation and Sarah Palin’s son came in as a logical subject, I will have to believe that the word was not used by Maher as a message of good will. I base that on what words Maher has used to describe Sarah Palin. I might also note that both Whoopi and Walters also have that same generic slang slot between their legs. I don’t recall Maher reducing either of them to a vagina.

Didn’t we hear that once, in an old movie with Vincent Price? Or was it Bela Lugosi?

http://www.benefits.gov/

This is why the country is boned, by the way.

When a government program is ended, the vulturous political class in both parties swoop down to reassign the money “saved” on some other government bullish*t that has sprung up out of nowhere. Remember the “peace” dividend that was spent ten times over after the Berlin Wall fell?

And this whole Reagan started it theme is morally bankrupt.

Fact Check traces the concept back to FDR. The first program to issue cell phone was started under GW. So maybe they are not “Obama Phones”.

I love history, but that is not what’s important here. What is important is that we’re spending 2 billion on what appears to be a completely unregulated and undisciplined wasteful program. Yes, there are cases where it might be good for some one to have a phone handy, say an elderly person who has no phone and might need a way to call for emergency services. But to just basically hand the things to anybody who says the deserve them…..

I love history, but that is not what’s important here. What is important is that we’re spending 2 billion on what appears to be a completely unregulated and undisciplined wasteful program. Yes, there are cases where it might be good for some one to have a phone handy, say an elderly person who has no phone and might need a way to call for emergency services. But to just basically hand the things to anybody who says the deserve them…..

Want to know when someone is insular and their “facts” come from the Fringe Right Wing Blog-o-sphere?

No one heard of Obamaphones until this gentle lady showed up and went viral.

littlelettermike links a Forbes article that apparently he did not or could not read. It is a nothingburger of an article that micro-picks a distinction without a difference. The program is funded by a federal system of taxation which is not income tax based. Like the gasoline tax, it is consumption based. Big whoop. Who came strutting in saying it was income tax based in the first place? As if that little nerd level quibble is worthy of a Congressional inquiry.

And this whole Reagan started it theme is morally bankrupt. Sure, you can trace to behemoth program back to its beginnings and that was, indeed, the Reagan administration and had Reagan’s support. So, from its beginnings it morphed and expanded and grew from a two million dollar a year program under Reagan to the present two billion dollar a year program under Obama.

Somewhere in the process, Carlos Slim figured out a way to make $10 per phone and he got into the program big time. The merger of big donor money, big corporate profit and big government welfare is at the core of crony capitalism. This $2 Billion pot is way to big not to attract cockroaches.

If you honestly believe that he could have walked into Rep. King’s DC office and gotten a fair hearing, I have a bridge you might want to buy. Assuming that he’d even get that far, I have no-doubt that Rep. King would have picked-up the phone–while smiling at Mr. Snowden—and three men in black suits would have been swiftly “escorted” Mr. Snowden quietly out the freight-entrance to a van. Dropped down the Rabbit Hole…never to be heard from again.

Where one-branch of the Government violates the Constitution, there are legitimate outlets for protest. When all three branches appear to be conspiring-together to burn the Constitution, I can understand running-first.

Good men in good government can do very bad things when “they think” they’re in the right. Ask the Nisei. Ask those at Tuskegee. Ask William F. Buckley’s ghost about HIV tattoos.

I still remember those few tense years in the Eighties where there was plenty of loose-talk about mandatory tests, banned professions, camps in Montana, and midnight knocks on the door. I still remember making quiet enquiries about immigration to Canada or Australia to make my own escape.

Trust the “process” when your life’s on the line? Bwhahhahhahhah…

Who cares about Obama’s polls? The one that matters he won.

Focus on the Senate and the House. If the Dems win the House the country will be in trouble. This country needs divided government. – Comment by mike — June 19, 2013 @ 3:50 am – June 19, 2013

We all know voters return the same damn people time and time again. It is like we are stuck on stupid.

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/06/truth-to-power-party-switcher-elbert.html