I find it mystifying that Mrs. G would vote for Obama if Santorum or Gingrich had won the nomination.
It's only mystifying if you believe it.
I find it mystifying that Mrs. G would vote for Obama if Santorum or Gingrich had won the nomination.
Pick-Up Tips from 22-Year-Old Barack Obama’s Sex Life
Today Vanity Fair published an excerpt from Washington Post editor David Maraniss' new Barack Obama biography. The selection focuses on Obama's first serious girlfriend, 25-year-old Genevieve Cook, whom he dated when he was 22 and living in New York.
Using Barack's love letters and Genevieve's alarmingly well-written diary, Maraniss constructs what shall henceforth be known as The 4-Step Barack Obama Seduction Technique.
Step 1: Beanbag Chair Opener
Hours later, after midnight, she was about to leave when Barack Obama approached and asked her to wait. They plopped down on an orange beanbag chair at the end of the hall, and this time the conversation clicked.
Step 2: Home-Cooked Dinner Seduction
Genevieve (pictured at right, in the June 2012 Vanity Fair) describes her first date with Barack: "I'm pretty sure we had dinner maybe the Wednesday after. I think maybe he cooked me dinner. Then we went and talked in his bedroom…"
Step 3: FUCK
"…And then I spent the night. It all felt very inevitable."
Step 4: Keep Her Wanting More, With Your Hot Bod and Sexy Stink
She remembered how on Sundays Obama would lounge around, drinking coffee and solving the New York Times crossword puzzle, bare-chested, wearing a blue and white sarong.
"I open the door, that Barack keeps closed, to his room, and enter into a warm, private space pervaded by a mixture of smells that so strongly speak of his presence, his liveliness, his habits—running sweat, Brut spray deodorant, smoking, eating raisins, sleeping, breathing."
Maraniss' excerpt also contains portions from Barack Obama's college love letters, which reference T.S. Eliot, "bourgeois liberalism," and Jacques Derrida. Turns out young Barack Obama could have been a character in Girls.
Pick-Up Tips from 22-Year-Old Barack Obama's Sex Life
PhilsFan said:I respected Mrs. Garrison before the last couple of weeks of posts. This is insane.
Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanistic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality. And he wears a stoical face before this. Read his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, as well as Four Quartets, when he’s less concerned with depicting moribund Europe, to catch a sense of what I speak. Remember how I said there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism—Eliot is of this type. Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. (Counter him with Yeats or Pound, who, arising from the same milieu, opted to support Hitler and Mussolini.)
Seriously? Do you realize how negatively these kinds of articles affect your credibility?
It would serve you well to cultivate a more discerning filter as far as what deserves to be shared with others as supporting evidence for your side.
How many hundreds of millions of dollars does GM still owe the public? (i buy GM products and have family who worked for GM, so its not like im on the anti GM bandwagon nor have i ever been).
The man has no shame.
He's nothing more than a shit president who's a terrible leader who likes to play golf on our dime
Yes, we fools who pay our fair share of the burden are supporting the lazy leeches who continue to drag this entire nation into the sewer.
The economy is awful, housing prices are back near Y2K levels meaning millions of Americans are upside down in their homes
And everyday i turn on the news - various sources - it seems a new scandal emerges from this administration. 3 words for you; ATTACK THE MESSENGER. That's all you've got.
And this nation has turned into a me-first entitlement mentality where people expect everything to be done for them or handed to them for free.
Those gosh darn Republicans might not be so evil after all, maybe they were onto something with their backward ideas about "creating jobs" and "hard work" and all that crazy talk.
Mrs. Garrison said:But they are out there
I dislike hard work.
And frankly the world, this century, is likely going to get that leisure society they used to promise us, and we are going to have to learn how to deal with it. On present indications, not well at all.
My little off-topic rant.
I did not write these articles, nor did i say that i believed them word for word. But they are out there, and like those of you who believe hook, line, & sinker every bad word written about the republicans - these serve as something to challenge the status quo that most of you never step outside of.
Ive said this before and i will say it again, one final time. We live in a stupid fucking country. And this nation has turned into a me-first entitlement mentality where people expect everything to be done for them or handed to them for free. This country is no longer worth my service and i wouldn't do it again if i were coming of age today. This just isn't worth my sacrifice in this day and age....i will be just as happy to watch it go down in flames as much as i would be to watch everything turn around. I simply don't care anymore.
Those gosh darn Republicans might not be so evil after all, maybe they were onto something with their backward ideas about "creating jobs" and "hard work" and all that crazy talk.
Mrs. Garrison said:Do you realize that i do not care what anyone here thinks about me?
How about, as a filter, we open our minds to something outside of our realm in which we feel comfortable.
I did not write these articles, nor did i say that i believed them word for word. But they are out there, and like those of you who believe hook, line, & sinker every bad word written about the republicans - these serve as something to challenge the status quo that most of you never step outside of.
President Obama is average president at best, at worst he is a national disaster who's lack of business principles and leadership has kept this nations economy in the tank. The only ting he's bothered to get right was giving the order to kill Osama Bin Laden, which at the time he didnt want to make a big deal of because he didnt want to inflame tensions with al qaeda. Now be prepared to hear about this for the next 6 months until election day - because its all he's got. Of course we should forget that he was against the war on terror to begin with. He was against the methods which the US was able to extract intel that lead to this operation he is taking credit for. Just like he was against the surge in Iraq in 2006, which is the only reason we are able to claim any kind of victory there, which of course he will be telling us all about "his" victory there as he ended that war. The man has no shame. He's nothing more than a shit president who's a terrible leader who likes to play golf on our dime, which is fitting since he wants the half of the country who actually do pay taxes to support the rest of the entitlement society who don't with their freeloading lifestyle. Yes, we fools who pay our fair share of the burden are supporting the lazy leeches who continue to drag this entire nation into the sewer.
The economy is awful, housing prices are back near Y2K levels meaning millions of Americans are upside down in their homes, his administration is hell bent on derailing America's energy industry and our Narcissist in Chief keeps telling us he's saved the auto industry at the same time. How many hundreds of millions of dollars does GM still owe the public? (i buy GM products and have family who worked for GM, so its not like im on the anti GM bandwagon nor have i ever been). And everyday i turn on the news - various sources - it seems a new scandal emerges from this administration. 3 words for you; ATTACK THE MESSENGER. That's all you've got.
Ive said this before and i will say it again, one final time. We live in a stupid fucking country. And this nation has turned into a me-first entitlement mentality where people expect everything to be done for them or handed to them for free. This country is no longer worth my service and i wouldn't do it again if i were coming of age today. This just isn't worth my sacrifice in this day and age....i will be just as happy to watch it go down in flames as much as i would be to watch everything turn around. I simply don't care anymore.
Yes its "madness" or "insane" that someone like myself actually had the nerve to come into comfortable little FYM and post something that doesn't quite fit. And then i have the nerve to put people who flame me with personal insults on my ignore list so i dont have to see their vitriol. Not like there was going to be a serious debate anyways with that type of thing going on. And of course, there won't be anybody asking them to stop either, haha.
Fear not, soon i will be gone and you can your little piece of paradise back. I truly hope that someday you all can step outside of the box and see the bigger picture for what it is. Those gosh darn Republicans might not be so evil after all, maybe they were onto something with their backward ideas about "creating jobs" and "hard work" and all that crazy talk. Until then, keep treating everyone with a different view as garbage and keep kicking them out to the curb. And enjoy the dream while it lasts - because without dreams you will be sleeping with the dead.
Cheers
This reminds me of this song by David Bowie
David Bowie - Drive-in Saturday - YouTube
Which is about humanity in the future having to watch old 70s pornos to learn how to have sex again, because they've become lazy and forgotten.
I dislike hard work.
And frankly the world, this century, is likely going to get that leisure society they used to promise us, and we are going to have to learn how to deal with it. On present indications, not well at all.
My little off-topic rant.
Yes its "madness" or "insane" that someone like myself actually had the nerve to come into comfortable little FYM and post something that doesn't quite fit.
Medicare fraud crackdown leads to charges against 107
By Richard A. Serrano / Tribune Washington Bureau | Thursday, May 3, 2012 | Home - BostonHerald.com | Healthcare
WASHINGTON - Doctors, nurses and social workers from across the country, 107 in all, were charged in what federal officials in Washington called a "nationwide takedown" of medical professionals accused of fraudulently billing Medicare nearly half a billion dollars.
The amount of bogus Medicare claims, about $452 million, was the highest in a single raid in the history of a federal strike force combating rising fraud in the medical industry, according to the Justice Department. Arrests were made in seven major cities.
The Obama administration said it was toughening its attack on those who file bills for ambulance rides never taken and medical procedures never provided.
In addition, officials in the Health and Human Services Department suspended or took other administrative actions against 52 medical providers after analyzing billing requests and finding additional "credible allegations of fraud."
Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, said the arrests, fourth in a series of Medicare fraud takedowns over the last two years, served as another warning to future scammers.
"Medicare is an attractive target for criminals," Breuer said, even as prosecution and jail time is risked with every false claim.
"If you don’t believe it," he said, "ask Lawrence Duran, the former owner of a mental health care company in Miami who was sentenced last year to 50 years in prison. Or his two co-owners, each of whom was sentenced to 35 years."
Of the 107 defendants in the latest crackdown, 87 were arrested Wednesday. Federal agents were either still looking for the others or expecting them to surrender voluntarily.
The cities involved were Miami; Tampa, Fla.; Houston; Baton Rouge, La.; Los Angeles; Detroit; and Chicago.
In the Los Angeles area, eight people, including two doctors, were charged with fraudulently billing about $20 million for services never provided.
Bolademi Adetola, owner of health care equipment provider Latay Medical Services in Gardena, Calif., was charged with billing Medicare for power wheelchairs that were never purchased. Greatcare Home Health in Los Angeles allegedly paid kickbacks to recruiters to find "patients" who were perfectly fine, and then have doctors knowingly write phony prescriptions for them.
Dr. Augustus Ohemeng and Dr. George Tarryk, who treated patients at the Pacific Clinic in Long Beach, Calif., were among four individuals who allegedly billed falsely for feeding tubes for patients who did not need them.
None of the defendants or their lawyers could be reached for comment.
The Obama administration has stepped up efforts to combat fraud in the Medicare program, which provides health coverage to about 50 million elderly and disabled Americans.
Last year the federal government charged 1,430 people with health care fraud, up from 797 in 2008, according to the Health and Human Services Department. The agency also reported revoking the eligibility of more than 60,000 Medicare and Medicaid providers and suppliers and recovering $4.1 billion in fraudulent claims.
Although there is broad agreement that fraud is widespread in Medicare and Medicaid, estimates of the scope of the program vary from $20 billion a year to $100 billion. Total spending on Medicare and Medicaid is expected to reach about $1 trillion this year.
Louis Saccoccio, chief executive of the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, said the latest round of arrests was encouraging and reflected the intensified efforts by the government to combat fraud, especially since 2009.
He said he was most pleased to see that Health and Human Services had stopped payments to 52 providers by using new tools to analyze data and detect potentially fraudulent charges.
The system, which was set up by the health care law President Barack Obama signed two years ago, relies on a computer program to identify patterns of potentially fraudulent charges by providers. "That really has the promise to be a game-changer," he said. "In the future, what you will see is the real impact is going to come from preventing fraud."
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I haven't met many of these people, but honestly I think that most people understand that biographies and autobiographies use artistic license. Those people also understand the difference between license and lies.deep said:his supporters can't have it both ways, touting the books as credible reasons to give him the nomination and now saying 'not factually correct' does not matter.
on that ^ topic
1. I don't care
2. does it matter? well, I could go back four years in here and show you several places where when I suggested that Hillary Clinton was the best candidate several of his more ardent supporters told me his life story counted as life experience that made him qualified to be president, they kept asking me if I had read his autobiography, that if I only read that, I would have a true picture of who he was and what he had been through
his supporters can't have it both ways, touting the books as credible reasons to give him the nomination and now saying 'not factually correct' does not matter.
This from someone who thinks FDA research librarians making $62k a year are the cause of our national debt?
Please. This isn't a situation where either people will nod their heads and say, "That makes sense" or they're just close-minded. That's what you and other pseudo-intellectuals like to do to blind yourself to the fact that you're throwing insane bullshit at the wall. Your post reads like you wrote the entire thing without a single thought. It's the equivalent of downing a few fingers of scotch and shouting into a Siri application about all the angry thoughts that pop into your head.How about, as a filter, we open our minds to something outside of our realm in which we feel comfortable.
I haven't had personal experience with unions, but I presume they're like most other things out there-they have their good points and benefits and they have their moments when they fail people, too.
I do find it funny, however, that public sector employees get attacked if they do make a comfortable living, but to dare suggest the same thing of private employees is class warfare, however. I don't care what job you're in, if you're making six figure salaries or more, that's sure a hell of a lot of money in my eyes, more than many people will ever see in their paychecks in their lifetimes, and there's a point where I would consider the pay in either line of work to be "too much".