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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 4, 2012 7:11:28 GMT -5
www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/has-simon-cowell-offered-beyonce-500-million-to-join-x-factor/story-e6frfn09-1226261714301***Beyonce offered half a billion dollars for 'X Factor' contract Manning’s new contract, for five years and $90 million, according to a message posted on Twitter by the team owner Jim Irsay, will pay him an average of $18 million per year Big Oil Companies Post Huge Profits On High Gas Prices WASHINGTON -- The sputtering economy, high unemployment rate and punishing gas prices are taking a huge toll on average Americans, but at least somebody is doing well: The Big Five oil companies this week announced they had made a whopping $36 billion in profits in the second quarter of 2011. According to second-quarter earnings reports, ExxonMobil alone made $10.7 billion in the most recent three months. That's a 41 percent increase over the same period last year and a 161 percent increase over 2009. ***My suggestion; the oil companys should pay the state and federal taxes on gas/gallon instead of the consumer. Don't hold your breathe for that to happen.LOL {{{It’s big business.}}} The pornography industry has larger revenues than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple and Netflix combined. Pornography Revenues are well over 100 billion/year. Theoretically, I could keep going forever but I've given enough examples to illustrate my point. Where's all this money coming from? How can "WE" complain about taxes when we're suppoting all these and many more like them? All these people aren't getting rich off some unknown source!!! = IT'S "US" ! = So, since"WE" spend 'our' money (what doesn't go for taxes) to make these people rich, why not tax them and leave "US" alone? *** I didn't include gov - google them - but don't go-into-shock!!
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 4, 2012 8:12:54 GMT -5
Why Is Missouri Called the "Show-Me" State?
There are a number of stories and legends behind Missouri's sobriquet "Show-Me" state. The slogan is not official, but is common throughout the state and is used on Missouri license plates.
The most widely known legend attributes the phrase to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1897 to 1903. While a member of the U.S. House Committee on Naval Affairs, Vandiver attended an 1899 naval banquet in Philadelphia. In a speech there, he declared, "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me." Regardless of whether Vandiver coined the phrase, it is certain that his speech helped to popularize the saying.
Other versions of the "Show-Me" legend place the slogan's origin in the mining town of Leadville, Colorado. There, the phrase was first employed as a term of ridicule and reproach. A miner's strike had been in progress for some time in the mid-1890s, and a number of miners from the lead districts of southwest Missouri had been imported to take the places of the strikers. The Joplin miners were unfamiliar with Colorado mining methods and required frequent instructions. Pit bosses began saying, "That man is from Missouri. You'll have to show him."
However the slogan originated, it has since passed into a different meaning entirely, and is now used to indicate the stalwart, conservative, noncredulous character of Missourians.
=*= With that being clarified to some extent-get-what-comes-next =*=
Santorum: Iranian nukes would threaten Missouri
By Muriel Kane
Friday, February 3, 2012 21:26 EST
During a campaign speech delivered in Missouri on Friday, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum did his best to make his audience shake in their boots with the specter of an Iranian nuclear attack.
“Once they have a nuclear weapon, let me assure you, you will not be safe, even here in Missouri,” Santorum predicted.
According to The Hill, Santorum is hoping to attract conservative votes in Missouri, where Newt Gingrich is not on the ballot.
Santorum went on to accuse the Iranian government of supplying all the improvised explosive devices used by Middle Eastern insurgents against U.S. troops. “These are folks who have been and are at war with us since 1979,” he stated. “This is a country that has killed more troops in Afghanistan and Iraq than the Iraqis and the Afghans
*** He should have checked his history out to see how they came into power...was-it-"US"?
*** bet'u that gets Ron Paul some votes! ***
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 4, 2012 8:45:42 GMT -5
Urban Dictionary - Worthless people - People that can't help you with anything. They should always be avoided. They will ONLY bring you negativaty
HH 'redneck' definition;
1. ain't worth the powder it'd take to blow them to hell!
2. like tits on a bore hog!
3. As much use as a one legged man at an a$$ kicking contest
4. don't know the difference between his a$$ & an a hole in the
......ground
OTHER fa-vo-rites:
Useful
As useful as a grave robber in a crematorium
As much use as an ashtray on a motorcycle
As useless as a carpet fitters ladder
As useful as a one armed wallpaper hanger
He couldn't manage to fart on a diet of baked beans
As much use as mudguards on a turtle
As much use as a trap door on a lifeboat
couldn't direct a turd down a toilet
couldn't tell the difference between a pile of **** and a pudding
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 6, 2012 14:28:24 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 8, 2012 10:04:55 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 9, 2012 7:09:31 GMT -5
Quote ronny: " I have no worries."
Common pharse used in Australia to mean;
=*= "Not a problem!" =*=
Man killed, dissolved in acid over fears he told police about drugs
"Was a calculated, planned and deliberate killing"
A MAN was shot dead and then his body burned and dissolved in acid because his killer feared he might "dob him in'' (((snitch)))over a hydroponic cannabis operation, a jury heard today.
Prosecutor Mark Gibson said Leonard Borg took his victim, Peter Rule, to a factory in the Melbourne suburb of Campbellfield and shot him with a .22 semi-automatic rifle.
Mr Gibson said Mr Borg then phoned another man, who was involved in the cannabis business, and told him to buy bottles of bleach and plastic bags and bring them to the factory.
Mr Rule's body was placed in the back of Mr Borg's Volvo and when the other man arrived he was asked by the accused to clean up blood spatter in an area near some toilets.
Mr Gibson said that despite the clean up efforts forensic officers later found a blood spatter particle, and DNA testing determined it was 1.5 billion times more likely to come from Mr Rule than any other Caucasian person.
Mr Gibson said Mr Rule's body was taken to another factory in Thomastown, where Mr Borg and the other man had a cannabis crop, and there the deceased was placed in a 44 gallon drum and burned.
Mr Rule's body parts were placed in a plastic tub and dissolved in hydrochloric acid before Mr Borg and the other man took them to the Great Ocean Rd and disposed of the remains.
"The Crown says this was a calculated, planned and deliberate killing of Mr Rule in order to protect a cannabis growing business,'' Mr Gibson said.
Mr Borg, 28, of Mickleham, has pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court to a count of murdering Mr Rule, 56, of Meadow Heights, on November 15, 2009.
Mr Gibson said Mr Borg lived in a house in Craigieburn where he grew cannabis and believed his Mr Rule was behind a police raid in August 2009 after a call was made to Crime Stoppers.
Mr Gibson said in April 2009 Mr Borg had rented the factory in Thomastown and started a hydroponic cannabis business with his younger partner who had borrowed $35,000 to help get it established.
The prosecutor said Mr Borg's belief that Mr Rule was an informer meant he was faced with the fear he would dob him in again over the Thomastown operation.
Mr Borg discussed his dilemma with another friend, Mr Gibson said, and told him: ''I've got to get rid of him to get peace of mind''.
The trial before Justice Lex Lasry is continuing.
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 9, 2012 7:42:54 GMT -5
.News.com.au News National .. Politics MPs set to debate gay marriage in House of Representatives by: By Malcolm Farr, National Political Editor From: news.com.au February 09, 2012 5:49PM Four gay marriage bills up for debate next week Labor warns Greens' Bill won't make it to the vote “I just want to make sure that we see reform in this area" .. Greens MP Adam Bandt 'sweetie' and Independent MP Andrew Wilkie 'sugarpuss' will jointly present a gay marriage Bill on the same day. THE national legislature will on Monday become the Pink Parliament with a total of four gay marriage bills being up for consideration. It has taken roughly a century for Parliament to formally debate the issue and suddenly it looks like happening all at once. However, it will still be several months before Parliament gets down to an actual vote - certainly into the second half of the year - because the sponsors of this legislative overload of competing bills are not convinced they have the numbers. The Senate already is enquiring into a gay marriage bill presented by the Greens Sarah Hanson-Young. ((( 'i' don't know who her 'darling' is ))) Labor MP Stephen Jones will introduce the “official'' private members bill - that is, one not officially sponsored by the Government - but certain to get preference in the House of Representatives on Monday. However, the Greens Adam Bandt and independent Andrew Wilkie will jointly present a similar bill the same day. In addition, Mr Wilkie will propose legislation which would exempt religions from having to marry same sex partners. Common sense would say all these new bills should be run as one, but Labor isn't keen to support the Green and the independent. A meeting scheduled with Mr Jones today on a joint approach didn't go ahead. “I would be quite happy to talk about co-sponsorship, indeed that's been our invitation from the beginning,'' Mr Bandt told reporters. “I just want to make sure that we see reform in this area and that we don't see grandstanding.'' ((( What 'sweetie' is refering to is MPs that believe in traditional marriage filibustering the "time-out"))) It will be some time before a vote is taken on the issue and one Labor figure said today: “There will never be a vote on Bandt's Bill.'' One reason is that private members' Bills are only considered on Mondays, which restricts time for debate. There could be as many as 100 MPs wanting to use their 15 minutes of debating time,((( meaning it would go on for around 25 hours all up.))) The supporters of gay marriage know a significant number of Labor MPs would use their conscience vote to oppose changes to the Marriage Act. A handful of same sex marriage supporters in the Coalition could swing the decision, but Opposition Leader Tony Abbott [[[my-hero]]] has refused to grant a conscience vote, saying his MPs were bound by policy taken to the election. The Bandt-Wilkie strategy (((taking time-out from sucking on each others ear))) is to put off a vote by sending the legislation to the Senate inquiry into Senator Hanson-Young's proposals. Read more: www.news.com.au/national/mps-set-to-debate-gay-marriage-in-house-of-representatives/story-e6frfkw9-1226267019536#ixzz1lt3xNYSh |
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 9, 2012 15:13:20 GMT -5
Remind 'me' again..What was the bailout to financial companys? ...OF-TAX-PAYER-MONEY? .. $26B Mortgage Settlement: Good for Banks, Not So Good for Homeowners After months of wrangling, the long-awaited foreclosure settlement between the government ((("US"-taxpayers))) and the banks appears to be at hand. A $26 billion settlement was announced Thursday morning between the federal government, state attorneys general and the five biggest banks in the mortgage market: Ally Financial (the old GMAC), Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan and Citigroup. (Editor's note: An earlier version incorrectly identified Ally Financial as being the old GE Capital.)(the old GM also) The settlement is being hailed as the biggest multi-state settlement since the 1998 tobacco agreement. ((( Call for Phillip Morris Gold))) But as Henry and I note in the accompanying video, the settlement is too small to really help the housing market, or even do much for individual victims of fraud and abuse. The deal may, in fact, hurt housing by sending a message to people who've stayed current on their mortgages that \\\irresponsible behavior is what gets rewarded in America./// ...does seem to be... [[ like none of "US" pay our taxes this year ]] what would gov do? let 'us' off the hook  ? |
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 9, 2012 16:12:01 GMT -5
us.f1209.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f14436%5fAKlYimIAAFAITzQwkQLYiWqLF2g&pid=2.3&fid=Inbox&inline=1&appid=YahooMailNeoCL Poor Mitt. He just can’t quite close the deal. After the smashing victory in Florida and the large margin in Nevada, it looked as though he would cruise to the nomination. Print the wedding invitations, reserve the bridal suite and schedule the honeymoon. The GOP was going to get hitched to the Massachusetts moderate after all. Not so fast! On Tuesday, Rick Santorum came out of nowhere to win in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota. The die-hards on the right are still searching for the Not-Mitt, and Santorum is the latest version, Newt having imploded last week. Barring a late entry from Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Romney, with deep pockets and a strong organization, is still the overwhelming favorite to win the nomination, but it won’t be a marriage based on a deep and abiding passion.
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 11, 2012 8:00:44 GMT -5
News.com.au Technology .. 'One, two, three, four, five ... and that one there's from your mom' by: From correspondents in North Carolina From: NewsCore February 11, 2012 2:44PM A VIRAL video showing a father firing his Colt .45 at his daughter's laptop after she blasted him on her Facebook page has sparked a fiery debate about parenting and tough love. Tommy Jordan, from North Carolina, posted the video entitled, "Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen" on YouTube on Wednesday. Today, it has passed the four million view count. Mr Jordan went public with the clip after daughter Hannah posted on Facebook a profanity-laced, open letter to her parents griping about what most 16-year-olds would complain about at that age - having to do chores and not having the latest gadgets bought for her. In the video, Mr Jordan sits on a chair with a cigarette in hand and a printed-out copy of his daughter's posting in the other. He also has a .45 calibre holstered to his belt. The angry dad starts off with a message to his daughter. "Hannah, you were grounded for three months for doing something similar to this and I would've thought that with a father in IT for a living, you would have better sense than to do it again," he says. He then reads his daughter's posting, entitled "To my parents." After finishing his reading, Mr Jordan announces that he is "going to put a stop to this, and put a stop to it now." With that, he aims both the camera and his weapon at his daughter's laptop and opens fire. "It's about to get a whole lot harder today. I'm gonna post this on your Facebook wall, so all those kids that thought it was cool for how rebellious you were can see what happens." The video has caused a rift among those who viewed it over whether the punishment fit the crime. After the video went viral, Mr Jordan was besieged by requests for interviews, but said he'd done enough talking. "Never again in my entire life will I ever do anything that garnishes this much attention, both positive and negative. I really wished we'd been prepared or something," he wrote on his Facebook profile yesterday. "Never again will I have the opportunity to speak to so many people about anything ... and instead I'm sitting here stupefied." www.news.com.au/technology/one-two-three-four-five-and-that-one-theres-from-your-mom/story-e6frfro0-1226268493423 |
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 12, 2012 13:34:03 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 12, 2012 15:51:50 GMT -5
Sarah Palin « Thread Started on Feb 5, 2011, 3:20pm » -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's high time Sarah had her own board, she's a 'mover!' This little redneck country girl is stirring the Nation! She'll play a major part in the presidential election ( 'i' don't know if she'll run for it - but who ever does is going to want her on their side) How many politicians do you know that can identify with the public more than she can? Looks, personality, and the [ down-home rhetoric ] to get peoples attention. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Re: Sarah Palin « Reply #15 on Sept 28, 2011, 5:14pm » -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sarah Palin: Would a "title" shackle me? CBS- Appearing on Fox News last night, potential Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin suggested she may not run for president because the "title" that comes with doing so could shackle a maverick like her *** I'd like to "shackle" her! *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sarah Palin « Reply #3 on Feb 15, 2011, 7:46am » -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- She says what she wants, does what she wants and makes no apologies. And love her or hate her, you can't really argue with this: Politics as usual has never been Sarah Palin's style. "I wasn't wired to play that game," the former Alaska governor says in "Going Rogue," the memoir whose title reflects her affinity for going her own way. 'i' guess that's why 'i' like her, 'i'm kinda that way myself. It's a 'redneck' QUALITY! -Definition - a measure of excellence or a state of being free from defects, deficiencies, and significant variations, brought about by the strict and consistent adherence to measurable and verifiable standards to achieve uniformity of output that satisfies oneself In my humble opinion ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sarah Palin « Reply #5 on May 6, 2011, 7:17am » -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "'i' love it, when she talks dirty" i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/03/18/t1larg.palin5454.jpg"LOVE!" those lips! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Palin 2012 Website Endorses Ron Paul - - look it up if you don't believe it! Last Friday, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) announced that he will run for his party's presidential nomination in 2012. He has run twice before. What do you think he has learned from those two experiences? Ron Paul isn’t running to be President, although he probably would like to be. His obvious goal is to use the microphone that a national presidential campaign would give him to 1) educate people regarding his views 2) provide leadership to the Libertarian cause. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =*= I could continue but I think you get 'my' drift? =*= |
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 13, 2012 7:54:34 GMT -5
www.pagopwing.com/our_beliefs.htm'i' = guess = that makes 'me' one-of-them? ... and 'i' was always told 'i' was a Democrat! but... in 'my' own defense as well as Sarahs: She says what she wants, does what she wants and makes no apologies. And love her or hate her, you can't really argue with this: Politics as usual has never been Sarah Palin's style. "I wasn't wired to play that game," the former Alaska governor says. 'i' guess that's why 'i' like her, 'i'm kinda that way myself. It's a 'redneck' QUALITY! -Definition - a measure of excellence or a state of being free from defects, deficiencies, and significant variations, brought about by the strict and consistent adherence to measurable and verifiable standards to achieve uniformity of output that satisfies oneself In my humble opinion 'we' both have the same precepts!
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 13, 2012 8:32:12 GMT -5
I'm sure you'll remember as I do the commericals (adds) on TV by Countrywide Finanical Systems. They'd finance up to 120% on a home. The following is tid-bits I picked up this morning by surfing the web. If i can find this kind of discriminating evidence in a couple hours on the internet-just think what I'm =not-finding=? His company became the nation's largest mortgage lender largely by discarding every traditional reason for denying loan applications, an art that reached its apex with the invention of NINA loans, which stands for No Income No Assets and meant that borrowers didn't have to present proof they had either income or assets. (Other finalists for this noble prize might include Ameriquest's Roland Arnall, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan and Wall Street bankers such as Ralph Cioffi and Christopher Ricciardi.) Countrywide chief executive Angelo Mozilo Listen, Angelo Mozilo is a good candidate for "The One Person with The Most Responsibility for The Mortgage Crisis." Countrywide, which Bank of America has agreed to buy, now is under fire for its anemic efforts to help borrowers who can't afford its loans. The company also has some recurring problems playing nicely with its customers. Angelo Mozilois an American businessman, he has a net worth of $600 million. Angelo Mozilois has earned his net worth as former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Countrywide Financial Countrywide was the nation's largest mortgage company and played a major role in the U.S. financial crisis by issuing subprime loans. Mozilo in 2010 agreed to more than $67 million in penalties in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Why did the Obama SEC drop all charges against Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo? Mozulio is being "prosecuted" for being an architect of the sub prime disaster, but Obama dropped all charges today, if Angelo writes a fat check to the government. Is this because Mozilo donated hundreds of thousands to Obama's campaign ? Or is it because the "friends of Mozilio" 0% mortgages that he handed out to bribe liberals is too embarrassing? www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con…Now banks are getting off- the- hook with a slap on the hand-you think they won't try or find some other greedy under-the-table way of fraudulently obtaining money in what-ever-way-they-can? =*= THEY-ALREADY-HAVE! =*= |
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 13, 2012 13:19:30 GMT -5
Why can't Mitt Romney catch fire with conservatives?
Explaining the question brings it's own conclusions for an answer.
catch-having the same mental attitude (inspiring and helping people) as the people it takes to 'light-his-fire.
fire creates light, heat, and distruction (intense verbal attack or criticism on his opponents) not a conservative 'thing'
conservatives-that's you & me, Jack, either 'old school' people that want to see things the way they use to be or "Tea Party"
people that's been influenced by "US".
Wet blankets won't catch fire easily which is what 'I' and many others have determined him to be. He has absolutely no conception of the human nature of the 'average' human being'.
Human nature refers to the distinguishing characteristics, including ways of thinking , feeling and acting , that humans tend to have ...
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