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So Obama names a fellow to head the Treasury who doesn't pay his taxes.  This is totally hilarious!  It can't get any better than that!   How many more appts does he have yet to make, I love a good laugh.

Hi Daff

Don't put too many beans in that chili. The donkeys will passing enough gas that day. LOL

You are a good sport to not only host a party, but watch the coverage. I think I would rather be water boarded.

To paraphrase another well-blown (oops I mean known) BC sister, on the 20th. I am going to put on my black dress and go into mourning! NOT...but I probably won't waste my time watching the shenanigans. My sister (in real life) the liberal dem who lives in Virginia has tickets to the event and will be going, she is a hoot, we just agree to disagree and NOT discuss politics when we are around each other! She happens to be my favorite sister so we fly her out to TX. every couple of months but avoid political discussions, fortunately we are pretty evenly yoked spiritually so we get into a lot of religious discussions

My claim to fame is meeting Hank Williams JR.! I was 16 and was hanging out with a friend...we were going to a coffee house in the University district in Madison, WI. (on the square) and we were walking by this theatre and there was this big spangled bus with "Your Cheatin' Heart" plastered along the side of it, really bizarre because in those days I was rock and roll all the way! Anyway Hank and another band member came out and stopped us, they had on these god awful spangly outfits and we kinda' just were amused more than anything! But we stopped and talked and then Hank asked us if we wanted to see the show from backstage and then "ride the bus" with them to Chicago...ahhhhhhhhhhhh can you say groupies? We said no, but I always wonder where life would have taken me had we "rode the bus" because Hank was interested in me and the band member was interested in my friend! Anyway, we said no to the ride and no to the show and went along our merry way...only to find out later ole' Hank did some kick-ass music! Now if that had been John, Paul, George and Ringo, I woulda' been on that bus in a heartbeat...LOL!

LOL,  as soon as I had turned my laptop off and packed it up, I remembered it was David Allan Coe, then I laughed thinking, welll lets just see who DOES know what I am talking about......

IBCSPOUSE praying everything goes well today and that you guys get good news!!!

Daffodil, you are very beautiful also!!!!  Thanks for adding your pic to your avatar! 

AlwaysHope,  you get the gold star for actually knowing the title!!  I think everyone here is GA just knows it as "the beer drinking song"  LOL

Paulette, IDK if I know what song you are talking about, but it sounds funny.

We have a festival here called "The Azalea Festival."  I've been to about four concerts.  I've seen Vince Gill, Reba McIntyre, Neil Sedaka, and The Judds.  The Judds were on their "Farewell" tour..was that emotional!  Wynona cried singing this song.  Someone please tell me how one keeps their makeup from streaking when they cry!

Grandpa Tell Me About the Good Old Days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xMqo3wFxw&feature=related

Grandpa, tell me 'bout the good ole days.
Sometimes it feels like
This world's gone crazy.
Grandpa, take me back to yesterday,
Where the line between right and wrong
Didn't seem so hazy.

Did lovers really fall in love to stay?
Stand beside each other come what may?
Was a promise really something people kept,
Not just something they would say?
Did families really bow their heads to pray?
Did daddies really never go away?
Whoa oh Grandpa,
Tell me 'bout the good ole days.

musical interlude

Grandpa, everything is changing fast.
We call it progress,
But I just don't know.
And Grandpa, let's wonder back into the past,
And paint me a picture of long ago.

Did lovers really fall in love to stay?
Stand beside each other come what may?
Was a promise really something people kept,
Not just something they would say and then forget?
Did families really bow their heads to pray?
Did daddies really never go away?
Whoa oh Grandpa,
Tell me 'bout the good ole days.

Whoa oh Grandpa,
Tell me 'bout the good ole days.

Musical interlude
Humming

Did families really bow their heads to pray?
.. Daddies really never go away?

And the beat goes on...

Can Obama save Geithner?

Barack Obama picked Timothy Geithner to save the U.S. economy.

But now, Obama has to save Geithner first.

Geithner's tax problems surfaced publicly Tuesday - but Obama's team has known about them for at least six weeks, waging a behind-the-scenes campaign to push him through the Senate Finance Committee, despite the blemishes on his record, according to documents from the committee.

The episode raises questions about whether Geithner's nomination will survive, despite early soundings of support from Democrats, and perhaps, more importantly, a larger question:

What was Obama thinking?

Obama's choice of Geithner flirts with an issue that has deep-sixed Cabinet picks before -his former housekeeper's immigration status lapsed briefly while she was in his employ.

Also, Obama's choice to oversee the IRS flubbed his own tax returns - some of which he had personally prepared - to the tune of $42,700 in back taxes and penalties.

And Geithner decided to pay more than half that amount - $26,000 - only after Obama decided to nominate him, according to finance committee documents.

Obama's team calls them "honest mistakes." And in the end, Geithner had the only supporter that mattered - Obama himself. One source familiar with Geithner's vetting says Obama knew about Geithner's tax problems and decided to push ahead with the nomination anyway because he "still wanted him."
"At the end of the day, Barack decided that he was the best person for a really important job," the source said.

"It wasn't that it wasn't a big deal," the source said. "It was definitely factored in. The question was 'Does this disqualify him?' And the answer was no. It was something that he took care of. Yes, it was a mistake but it was in the past."

"It was put into calculation and at the end of the calculation, he was still the best person for the job."

So far anyway, some Senate Democrats, and a few key Republicans, agree. Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said the revelations did not disqualify Geithner, and he said it was crucial for Obama to have a new Treasury secretary in place when he takes office next week. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) said he still supports Geithner.

Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member on the Finance Committee, has privately questioned whether Geithner's problems should derail his nomination and so far has refused to comment publicly.

It's not clear when - or if - Obama's team planned to go public with the tax problems, first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal Tuesday. And the Geithner developments come less than two weeks after another Obama Cabinet pick, Bill Richardson for commerce secretary, washed out amid questions about what Obama's vetters knew about a grand jury investigation into the New Mexico governor's office.

Obama chose Geithner on Nov. 24 - and at the time, the pick was viewed as a forceful move by Obama to assert himself on the economic front. It came after a particularly bad week in the economy, at a time when commentators were starting to raise questions about whether the new president was taking a firm enough stand to reassure the public about the economic meltdown.

Perhaps the biggest factor in Geithner's favor now is that he's well-known to senators on both side of the aisle, who consider him a smart and level-headed figure from his work on the Wall Street bailout as president of the New York Fed. It would be a particularly bad time to deny Obama his choice for treasury, when world markets are looking to the new administration to get the U.S. economy on stronger footing.

Still, one potential trouble sign for Geithner is that some senators are speaking out against giving Obama the second half of that $700 billion bailout - which was deeply unpopular among many in the public. If some of that public sentiment spills over onto the Geithner nomination, that could spell trouble. For instance, CNN's Lou Dobbs already was complaining about the Geithner choice because of his role as an architect of the bailout.

In the end, presidents usually get wide leeway to build the teams they want, and many senators seems satisfied with Obama's explanation that these tax and immigration issues were honest slip-ups.

The Senate Finance Committee documents, however, suggest committee staff put Geithner through the paces - and questioned some of his answers. Transition aides met with committee staff on Dec. 5 to explain Geithner's back taxes and the committee did follow-up interviews with three Geithner accountants and a human resources rep at his former employer, the International Monetary Fund. Geithner also met personally with committee staff Dec. 19.

The committee notes that Geithner failed to pay his Social Security taxes while employed at IMF from 2001 to 2003 - even though he was provided documents that explained that he was required to do so.

In addition, Geithner included payments to overnight camps in calculating his dependent child care credit in 2001, 2004 and 2005. His accountant informed him in 2006 the camps were not allowable expenses. The committee notes that Geithner did not file amended returns to fix the mistake.

Despite that, the source familiar with Geithner's vetting made clear the treasury pick still has Obama's blessing.

"Definitely," the source said. "He stays."

Thank you Sherri and viv and Mood, She has finished the Brain MRI and we are setting in the waiting room for the Pet. 

The other item with Geithner is he had the IRS wavie the penalties.  This though he was notified 4 times by IMF he would be responsible for se tax.  IF he becomes treas sec he is over irs, I cannot see him waiving penalties on everybody who gets caught in audit.  The Penalties for him should have been over 12K dollars.  The dems can't make too big of a deal about tax evasion,  then Rangle would look bad. 

We had record ice cap melt in the summer of 07 due to global warming

We have record ice cap growth in the winter of 08/09 due to global warming

We had mildest winter in 10 years in 07/08 due to global warming

We have the coldest winter in 50 years in 08/09 due to global warming

We had record drought in mid west in 06 due to global warming

\We had reford floods in mid west in 08 due to global warming

The temp of the earth could rise by 10 degrees by 2050 due to global warming

The beginning of an iceage is possible by 2050 due to global warming

These few lines prove why you can't debate a liberal. ..His answer is how can all of those facts be

true, they respond by saying everybody that has a brain knows globle warming is real and immident danger

My Two Cents * Huge Thanks * to President GW Bush.

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Ocean monuments? Thank you, George Bush

No, really: THANK YOU, George Bush

06 January 2009  

Marine reserves not only protect the ocean life within them - they help to sustain surrounding ecosystems and animals that pass through them - like whales.

International - Thanks to President George Bush three national monuments in the Pacific will be created to protect the largest amount of ocean in the world to date. This is a true opportunity for us to applaud the Bush administration!

A total of 505,775 square kilometres [195,280 square miles], containing some of the most ecologically-rich areas of the world's oceans, will be protected.

This outstanding decision, together with his protection of a large area of the Hawaiian islands in 2006, means Bush will have protected more ocean than any person in history, before he leaves office in just two weeks time. The decision was made under the Antiquities Act, which gives presidents the right to single-handedly create protection areas and Bush has only used this once before.

Bush will save whales, sharks and corals

Two of the marine reserves that Bush will create include the Line Islands, an isolated and uninhabited archipelago in the central Pacific. The third marine reserve will be in the western Pacific, encompassing a few of the northern Marianas islands and the Mariana Trench, the deepest submerged canyon in the world.

Both regions boast a rich array of marine life including sharks, rare whales, birds and many other top predators along with unique corals and intricate deep sea ecosystems. Nearly 60 percent of the total area protected will be subject to prohibitions on fishing and other extractive activities.

Marine reserves are critical to preserving the diversity of marine life that keeps valuable ocean ecosystems functioning. As overfishing has expanded to the farthest reaches of the planet, 90 percent of the largest fish have already been removed from our oceans and marine ecosystems are on the brink of collapse. That's why we have been campaigning for a global network of marine reserves since 2004.

IBC -- I am thinking of you two .. love to Cam.

Paulette.....I was talking about your "heaven and texas and cowboy" song goofy woman.  I dont think this part is in the beer drinking song....

And I thought of a few more:  Dooby Brothers, Blues Brothers, Little River Band, Yes, U2, and the Police

Hey wait a minute!  Moody don't do house work!!!  And if it is 86, Im laying in the sun!!!!!

Rock, although I am not surprised that <----------- would turn on you, it is still sad that they are not as "accepting" as they "claim" to be.  If you didn't post here, I am sure you would be LOVED by them, but since you "dare" to commiserate with the "enemy" you are not welcome.  Oh well, their loss!

ibc I thought all those ice caps, droughts and mild winters were Bush's fault......hm.......I mean any man that can guide a hurricane and cause flooding, surely he can mess with ice caps too? 

Just saying.........

You all are welcome anytime ... apparently, I have a viral infection. I am on antibiotics for 10 days.  The rash that is going down my legs and on my back, all over my head and forehead is from whatever it is.  They got some blood ....  dr is hoping it is not MRSA ..  which is hard to kill.

Sahalie, thank you soooo much for posting a "Thank You" article about President Bush.  Poor guy just gets beaten up repeatedly.  But, he doesn't feel sorry for himself!  I bet he's saying. "WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO" only a few more days of this crap!  Nah, the libs will continue beating up on him.  Especially our friends over <-----------------------------------------.

IBC, hope all is going well with you and Cam.  I got sidetracked due to telephone calls.

No, I don't want to cook.  My dh cooked last night.  Rocky is the hostess and she will cook AND clean and wash the sheets and serve us drinks and make us very comfortable.