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rpm · « **Reply #30 on:** April 14, 2006, 12:01:28 AM »

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Originally posted by EN4CER
Isn't the Colbert Report on Comedy Central?

Yes it is. Have you seen the show? Did you watch the interview? Get back to me when you have.

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Originally posted by john9001
sorry (not really) to bust your balloon but i get SS and i'm not "starving".

also "borrowed" means you have to pay it back. and i do mean YOU.

every month my good ol uncle sammy deposits money in my bank. Y'all keep work'n hard now.

Thank you for proving my point for me, John.

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
just out curosity but have you seen the congressional approval ratings lately?

Have you seen the Presidential approval ratings?

Sandman · « **Reply #31 on:** April 14, 2006, 12:14:27 AM »

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
Hey Nash.....just out curosity but have you seen the congress aproval ratings lately?

Not sure of the House, but here's the Senate.

Debonair · « **Reply #32 on:** April 14, 2006, 01:12:32 AM »

lol, one of my senators is named "gordon"
wtf who let a canadian into congress?

Nash · « **Reply #33 on:** April 14, 2006, 03:56:56 AM »

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
Hey Nash.....just out curosity but have you seen the congress aproval ratings lately?

What do you think?

Gunslinger · « **Reply #34 on:** April 14, 2006, 05:45:47 AM »

Yes RPM I can clearly read in Nash's post the presidential approval ratings. Personally I agree with the the asessment. Thanks for the link Sandy, it looks like the sentat's are in the tank as well. Hmmmm can you say TREND?

john9001 · « **Reply #35 on:** April 14, 2006, 10:49:25 AM »

term limits.

BluKitty · « **Reply #36 on:** April 14, 2006, 11:35:02 AM »

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Isn't the Colbert Report on Comedy Central?

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Yes it is. Have you seen the show? Did you watch the interview? Get back to me when you have.

Sad comment on the state of U.S. mass media when you have to turn to Comedy Central for News.

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/celebrity_interviews/index.jhtml

Here you go .... middle of the page.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #37 on:** April 14, 2006, 12:09:11 PM »

I am with RedTop. After watching this board for seven years, I really think I am better off not allowing the exploitive media into my life. They do not report news, as far as I am concerned. They manipulate the events to get the best ratings, which is not *news reporting* in my book.

The people of this country (and others for all I know) have accepted lieing, cheating, stealing, bribery, and other such ilk as acceptable behavior for the career choice of politician. I find that general attitude to be reprehensible. Every time I read, "it was not who to vote for, but who to vote against", I just cringe. We have no one to blame, but ourselves for letting control of our country fall into such hands.

I also cringe when I see people espousing what a politician says as it is some sort of fact. I really have to shake my head and wonder where this person has been living.

There are solutions to these problems, but they will never happen. I love my country, but I hate how the politicians have misrepresented themselves to us and the world.

Toad · « **Reply #38 on:** April 14, 2006, 12:33:16 PM »

Time to vote outside the box.

The only way to get their attention is with a credible third party showing.

I can't think of another or even "better" way to change the behavior of the incumbents.

Start at the local city council level and work right on up to the top.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #39 on:** April 14, 2006, 12:37:52 PM »

Trade one crook for another. The problem is the people. The politicians do what they do so they can get elected. People do not want to hear the truth. They want to be told what they want to hear.

Until that issue is cleared up, nothing will change. No matter what party is elected, they are all cut from the same cloth.

An honest person will never get elected. It just will not happen.

BluKitty · « **Reply #40 on:** April 14, 2006, 12:39:33 PM »

Vote Progressive....

Go Bernie!

Toad · « **Reply #41 on:** April 14, 2006, 12:42:08 PM »

Generally speaking, Skuzzy, third party candidates are people who are also fed up with the crooks.

Another way of looking at it is that if "the people" never have a choice for "change", change will never happen.

You have to admit, a Libertarian President would be a "change".

Hangtime · « **Reply #42 on:** April 14, 2006, 12:47:07 PM »

yah.. but Nader? Jeeeze....

Whups.. a new Guy.. Badnarik?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #43 on:** April 14, 2006, 12:53:40 PM »

I agree it would be a change, but I do not see it as being a significant change. It is still a politician who had to lie to get elected. If he/she doe snot lie, there is not a snowballs chance in heck they would get elected.

Toad · « **Reply #44 on:** April 14, 2006, 01:07:51 PM »

Well, the question is "responsiveness".

If we keep giving the "old regulars" a free pass and a full time job with luxurious retirement WITHOUT having to pay attention to the needs, requests and desires of their constitutents.... well, it'll only get worse.

OTOH, if we replace all the politicians that AREN'T listening, at least we have a chance of getting a few that DO listen.