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read moreBritain has become one of the more aggressive countries in attacking the use of cellphones while driving.
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read moreIt just so happens you googled Bert Sugar and pasted the first entry...blah... burrrrp... belch...blah...#245 | Posted by crispee_oc
Wow, you have completely lost it, Crispee Palooka. ("It" being what little of a rational mind you still possessed after turning into a punchdrunk Palooka, Palook.)
Here's what I wrote that set you off, referencing another poster:
"(a.k.a. Bert "Sweet As" Sugar) can get his fedora out of his eyes long enough to follow you down the pathway to education.
#17 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2009-10-29 10:17 AM
Let's Google "Bert Sugar" -- which is what you claim I did -- and see what the "first entry" is, the one you say I "pasted," okay? Here it is: a Wikipedia entry in which the term "sweet" doesn't appear. How about the second? HBO, and again no "sweet." And again and again and again. Zero accuracy on your part, Palook.
Show me where I pasted anything on that thread (www.drudge.com) about Bert Surgar.
Here you are -- what is now, four or five days since this started -- and you're still trying to show us there's a point to all this except the one atop your pea-brained noggin?
Is there no limit to your stoopidity?
The conservative backlash of 1978 also swept into the legislature a new, proto-Reaganistic generation of Republicans, who dubbed themselves "the Neanderthals." Compared to today's GOP state legislators, though, the Neanderthals look like Diderot's Encyclopedists. The current Republican crop has refused in good times as well as bad to raise business or other taxes (increasing the tobacco tax, for instance, has failed each of the past 14 times it has come up for a vote). Abetted by little local Limbaughs who inflame Republican brains, they protest that the state already has the nation's highest taxes. In fact, California ranks 18th among the states in percentage of personal income paid to state government, and its presumably beleaguered wealthiest 1 percent, according to Citizens for Tax Justice, pays just 7.4 percent of their income to the state, while the poorest Californians pay 10.2 percent.
But the myth of soak-the-rich high taxation persists among Republicans -- so much so that the GOP front-runner to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger in next year's gubernatorial election, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, is calling for cuts in business tax rates even though the state is staring at a $21 billion deficit that it somehow has to close. In short order, unless the federal government steps in with a bridge loan, the state will throw 940,000 poor children off its health-care rolls and lay off tens of thousands of teachers.
Because California is so much larger than any other state, and its unemployment rate among the nation's highest, the collapse of its capacity to spend will counteract some of the effect of the federal stimulus and retard the nation's recovery -- much as its aerospace slump retarded the recovery of the mid-1990s. The Obama administration ignores California's plight at its own -- and the nation's -- peril. The nation's banks are stuck with so much bad paper from California mortgages gone awry that a huge contraction in state spending would make their assets even more toxic. In the short term, the only way to avoid a further downturn may be a federal loan to the state.
A more permanent, homegrown solution to California's woes (and it may take a state constitutional convention to get it) would require the state to eliminate the two-thirds threshold for enacting taxes, to repeal Proposition 13's freeze on the value of commercial properties (some of which are still assessed at their 1978 levels) and to end the process of ballot-box budgeting through the initiative process, which is now more dominated by monied interests than the legislature ever was. In Washington, the Age of Reagan may have shuddered to an inglorious end, but we also need action from state governments -- and Sacramento in particular -- to move us toward a more sustainable economic future.
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BTW it's not "Stoopid" it's "stupid"...
#4 | Posted by ATaxpayer
In normal written communication, yes, it's "stupid." But in this case...
1. stoopid
Having the quality of being really, really, really, stupid
www.urbandictionary.com
OH BTW have ABC NBC CBS MSNBC or PBS figured out why Van Jones resigned yet...
Oh wait never mind I forgot they never heard of him.
#2 | Posted by ATaxpayer
MSNBC: "Obama adviser Jones resigns amid controversy: Environmental official had signed 9/11 petition, disparaged Republicans"
www.msnbc.msn.com
ABC: "Van Jones, School Speech Top List of Distractions for Obama"
abcnews.go.com
NBC: "Obama Aide Van Jones Resigns After GOP Attacks"
www.nbcwashington.com
CBS: "Van Jones Resigns as White House Advisor"
www.cbsnews.com
PBS: "No Replacement Named for White House Environmental Adviser"
www.pbs.org
What's your problem, pookie? Ignorant? Stoopid? Or both?
Another expert opinion from someone too stupid to put the post in context?
#358 | Posted by crispee_oc
Right, Crispee Palooka, you've managed to do it again.
In fact, you've just about mastered that skill.
Ready to move on to "Clown Makeup 101"?
But only if you feel you're up to it.