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1. #743989
   On July 13th, 2009 at 2:51 pm, spaceycakes said:

   I can feel it working already.

   It doesn’t matter–as long as I can feel it.

2. #743993
   On July 13th, 2009 at 2:55 pm, tomg51 said:

   Here in Texas, it could well be done by “undocumented workers” whom are also among the uninsured, and needing a hand with buying a work truck that gets better mileage, and also help with a home loan from BofA that should never have been given in the first place, on a house that needs insulation and new windows. Oh, and needing schools where only spanish is spoken. And college tuition aid.

   See how this stimulus money has several-fold impact as it works its way through?

3. #743994
   On July 13th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, nail49 said:

   The city in March accepted a $229,514 bid from Forestry Environmental Services for that project.

   Why, then, are the taxpayers shelling out $400K?!?!

   Inquiring minds want to know what the 42%+ is going to pay for?!?!?!

   More ACORN work?!?!?!?

4. #743996
   On July 13th, 2009 at 2:58 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

   Wow! That should provide dozens of jobs for, what… a month or so! And the increased beauty of the interchange at I-65 and US 31 will be sooo stimulative!
   /gag

5. #743997
   On July 13th, 2009 at 2:58 pm, bjc said:

   *It’s Bush’s fault; Make that the bushes’ fault ; That there is some expensive bushes; This tax, spend, and borrow orgy from P-BO and his Clown Cluster is going to create a snoot full of trouble for them come 2010.

6. #743998
   On July 13th, 2009 at 2:59 pm, JusDreamin said:

   I got your stimulus right here…

7. #743999
   On July 13th, 2009 at 3:00 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

   paging reality……

8. #744002
   On July 13th, 2009 at 3:05 pm, tiredofit08 said:

   and just who’s going to be accomplishing this “shovel ready” project…oh that right is not a job American’s will do so…more money wasted on stupidity and illegals….

9. #744003
   On July 13th, 2009 at 3:07 pm, nail49 said:

   Red State Stooge: Nice attempt at getting us OT.

   BTW, did you similarly point out Jesse Jackson’s “N…” remark about the POTUS or his “HymieTown” remark?

   Did you similarly point out Al Sharpton leading a civil distrubance that caused the deaths of non-black store owners in NY or his pimping the Tawana Brawley case that ruined a policeman’s reputation?

   Go away, troll.

10. #744004
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:07 pm, hunter said:

    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:00 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    What does that have to do with this post by MM?

    Also, it appears it was a missunderstanding on the young womans part.

11. #744005
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:08 pm, Socky said:

    In New Hampshire, the Spendulus is providing $416,000,000 to create 34 permanent jobs. That’s $12.2 million per job.

    No wonder Rest Stop Septic is desperate to spin the topic away from the reckless spending of his little bronze god.

12. #744006
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:08 pm, tomg51 said:

    On July 13th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, nail49 said:
    Inquiring minds want to know what the 42%+ is going to pay for?!?!?!

    The sign promoting the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

13. #744007
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:10 pm, Ragspierre said:

    RSB…

    Got yer reality hangin’….

    “An individual posted two comments on my Facebook wall, the first comment arguing against big government, and the second filled with racially charged comments,” she said in her statement. “I responded supporting the individual’s first post. . . . I was not aware of the racial comments until sometime later, when a third individual brought it to my attention.

    Shay and Hoff declined requests for interviews, said Todd Tolson, convention chairman.

    A friend and supporter of Shay, Torion Bridges, 22, Detroit, said she is not a racist.

    “I was the first one to send a letter to the (Young Republican) national committee to refute what was being said about her,” said Bridges, who is African American. “The race card should not be played in this organization. In every family, there are disagreements, but in the end we are all still Republicans. This will eventually pass, and we will all work together for a common goal.”

14. #744008
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:10 pm, nail49 said:

    The sign promoting the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

    tomg51: That is going to be one bodacious sign!

15. #744009
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:10 pm, Socky said:

    And if you add in the temp jobs created by the Spendulus in New Hampshire, it brings the cost down to $5,000,000 per job “created or saved.”

    Heckuva job, Timmy!

16. #744010
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:11 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:08 pm, Socky said:

    In New Hampshire, the Spendulus is providing $416,000,000 to create 34 permanent jobs. That’s $12.2 million per job.

    wow that’s more than the pay for the Office of the President…he should immediately withdraw from office and go to work at one of those jobs!!!

17. #744011
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:12 pm, nail49 said:

    that’s more than the pay for the Office of the President…he should immediately withdraw from office and go to work at one of those jobs!!!

    tiredofit08: That is WAY above his paygrade!

18. #744013
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:16 pm, ajmontana said:

    hmmmmmm, I don’t feel very stimulated.

19. #744014
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:16 pm, southsideironworks said:

    IL Gov Pat Quinn intends to “stimulate” economy organized labor with $23Bil in non-existent state funds.

    If Obie can do it, why cant another corrupt machine politician?

20. #744027
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:27 pm, Hangfire said:

    Perhaps some of this stimulus money can be used to make a National Monument of Neverland Ranch, and light an Eternal Flame at the tomb of the Gloved One.

    Only in America can a poor Black kid from Gary Indiana grow up to be a rich White woman from Santa Barbara county.

    I love this country!

21. #744028
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:28 pm, Tazz said:

    Curbs to nowhere http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller/20090321_Karen_Heller__On_every_corner__a_federal_project_at_your_expense.html

22. #744031
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:30 pm, southsideironworks said:

    If you read the entire article, your blood will boil even more. A company bid on that same job for $220K, but that was BEFORE Porkulus came to town.

23. #744032
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:31 pm, J S Ragman said:

    The Office of Economic Stimulus (OES) employs five of those people, and when the governor appoints the director, that position will pay a $110,000 salary, plus benefits.

    As retired military, I already have healthcare. I’ll do the director job for an even $8 million, and save them a couple hundred thousand.

24. #744035
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:35 pm, Southpaw said:

    NeroBama is going to rue the day he handed over stimulus spending to the Clown College…er…Drunken Sailors…er…U.S. Congress.

25. #744045
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:42 pm, nail49 said:

    Southpaw: Please don’t denigrate Drunken Sailors by equating them to CongressCritters. They may both spend profligately, but the Drunken Sailors are at least doing so with their own money!

26. #744048
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:44 pm, nail49 said:

    southsideironworks: Exactly my point in post #3!

27. #744050
    On July 13th, 2009 at 3:49 pm, Southpaw said:

    With apologies to Drunken Sailors and Clowns. At least they have legitimate professions.

28. #744063
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:00 pm, nail49 said:

    At least they have legitimate professions.

    Southpaw: True, although it is pretty close as to who is scarier, clowns or CongressCritters!

29. #744067
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:02 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    BTW, did you similarly point out Jesse Jackson’s “N…” remark about the POTUS or his “HymieTown” remark?

    Did you similarly point out Al Sharpton leading a civil distrubance that caused the deaths of non-black store owners in NY or his pimping the Tawana Brawley case that ruined a policeman’s reputation?

    Yes and yes. And if you did too, why aren’t you holding all the raging racists in your own party similarly accountable?

    Of course she’s going to pretend it was a big understanding. But the fact is Audra Shay’s defense makes NO sense. She says she didn’t see the second comment, but her comment came eight minutes later, and said “LOL” even though the first comment was not humorous at all. (Of course I don’t find “need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals” humorous either, but she obviously has no problem with it.) Add that to the fact that she unfriended the two people who objected to the “mad coon” comment but not the man who did make the comment, and did not clarify which comment she was too even after those other two did.

    You can try and deny that the sky is blue like you usually do, but when you look at the facts here, there is zero doubt she is a honest-to-God racist.

    And even if there is some doubt, why wouldn’t the Young Republicans elect someone who was free of racial taint? And why wouldn’t Bobby Jindal rescind his endorsement.

    This is a MAJOR scandal, and as I wrote in another threat, an indication of major racism within the Republican Party. “Party of Lincoln” my ass.

30. #744068
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:03 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Anyone who even HINTS at Stimulus II should be summarily committed.

31. #744075
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:04 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    sorry…

    Of course she’s going to pretend it was a big understanding understanding. But the fact is Audra Shay’s defense makes NO sense. She says she didn’t see the second comment, but her comment came eight minutes later, and said “LOL” even though the first comment was not humorous at all. (Of course I don’t find “need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals” humorous either, but she obviously has no problem with it.) Add that to the fact that she unfriended the two people who objected to the “mad coon” comment but not the man who did make the comment, and did not clarify which comment she was too laughing at even after those other two did.

32. #744078
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:05 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    Oh God, what a Monday…

    Of course she’s going to pretend it was a big understanding understanding misunderstanding.

33. #744083
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:08 pm, fourstringfuror said:

    Can you all please stop feeding the troll?

34. #744091
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:13 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On July 13th, 2009 at 2:51 pm, spaceycakes said:
    I can feel it working already.

    It doesn’t matter–as long as I can feel it.

    Does it feel like someone is reaching up your nethers and plucking out your spine? Because, that’s what I’m feeling.

35. #744093
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:13 pm, tre said:

    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:08 pm, fourstringfuror said:
    Can you all please stop feeding the troll?

    Proverbs 26:4
    Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
    or you will be like him yourself.

36. #744096
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:16 pm, txvet2 said:

    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:02 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    So according to you, she’s a racist because of somebody else’s post. Applying your logic, that makes MM a flaming liberal idiot, because she hasn’t deleted anything you’ve posted.

    Meanwhile, you have a sitting Supreme Court justice echoing Margaret Sanger’s advocacy of eugenics and a nominee who claims that her decisions are somehow better because of her willingness to base her rulings on ethnicity rather than the law. Party of racists? You bet.

37. #744104
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:22 pm, John Deaux said:

    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:02 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    This is a MAJOR scandal, and as I wrote in another threat, an indication of major racism within the Republican Party. “Party of Lincoln” my ass.

    Freudian slip?

38. #744107
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:23 pm, wren said:

    And don’t forget Nancy Pelosi’s $16.1 million Mouse House!

    How much “stimulating” can we expect from that money?

    http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/tiny-mouse-that-became-hotly-disputed.html

39. #744109
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:24 pm, Flyoverman said:

    You know RSS, I really, sincerely do not give a rat’s rear about some supposed Republican who could be a racist.

    The topic is Stimulus.

    You want to defend something; defend this. I just drove accross Illinois on I-74. The whole road is festooned with “Recovery Act” Signs and torn up with “make work” projects. The work is almost all uneeded or not critical.

    In the meantime Cedar Rapids, Iowa is still filled with wrecked homes and business from a June 2008 catastrophic flood. Federal assistance is all tied in up red tape, while people suffer needlessly. The city and county have raised taxes, because the DEMOCRAT Congress and Iowa DEMOCRAT legislature have done essentially nothing but give out crumbs. The worthless Governor does zero.

    And to think the evil Booooosh did nothing for 72 hours after Katrina.

    All people like you can do is scream racist and defame the Sarah Palin’s of the world to try and distract everyone from the graft, corruption, cronyism, and frankly out right criminal conduct on the part of the Democrat party, which in my opinion has supplanted the mafia as the largest organized crime group in the country.

    You can’t debate or defend a thing, because you have no facts to defend any of your positions with. So drag out the villans….. drag out the victims and keep reliving the 60’s.

40. #744111
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:25 pm, 24Klady said:

    The only way to get rid of a troll is to starve the beast.

    Back OT:
    “Government “help” to business is just as disastrous as goverment persecution…the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”
    ~Ayn Rand~

41. #744121
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:30 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Rogue said: Does it feel like someone is reaching up your nethers and plucking out your spine? Because, that’s what I’m feeling.

    If I had my druthers, I’d have you keep yer paws off’n my nethers…

42. #744131
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:38 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    So according to you, she’s a racist because of somebody else’s post. Applying your logic, that makes MM a flaming liberal idiot, because she hasn’t deleted anything you’ve posted.

    You need to read and not just play ostritch with bad news. She wrote “you tell ‘em. lol” after the “coon” remark.

43. #744136
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:40 pm, nail49 said:

    Red State Stooge:

    Of course she’s going to pretend it was a big understanding understanding misunderstanding.

    Now that you have untangled your keyboard, how about untangling your mind.

    …why aren’t you holding all the raging racists in your own party similarly accountable?

    Because we already hold our party to a higher standard than you do yours. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are still around. David Duke is no longer a spokesman for the Republicans while Robert Byrd (D, KKK) still represents the Dimmocrats. Trent Lott (R) lost his job because he made some innocuous comments that got blown out of proportion and were NOT racist, but they made racists mad.

    And even if there is some doubt…

    Thank you judge, jury and hangman. Wasn’t it a Dimmocrat at MJ’s funeral who reminded us of ‘presumed innocence?’

    Perceived racism is NOT actual racism any more than perceived qualifications to be POTUS are not actual qualifications.

    This is a MAJOR scandal

    In addition to the aforementioned D’s there are John Edwards, Bill (I did not have sex…) and Hillary (Rose Law Firm billings), John Kerry and his travels to Paris, POTUS and his birth ceritificate. Need more? There are plenty to choose from!

    I wrote in another threat,

    Either you are dangerous, or you need even more work on your keyboard skills (along with your rationale).

44. #744137
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:40 pm, fourstringfuror said:

    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:13 pm, tre said:
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:08 pm, fourstringfuror said:
    Can you all please stop feeding the troll?
    Proverbs 26:4
    Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
    or you will be like him yourself.

    That’s kinda where I’m going with it. RedStateBigot is itching for a fight; the last thing you want to do is engage him/her/it.

45. #744139
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:41 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    The city of Hoover will get $400,000 in federal stimulus money for a landscaping and beautification project

    Keynesian Gardens.

46. #744143
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:43 pm, jbh45 said:

    I used to live in Hoover, AL. It is a very wealthy community and does not need pork to “beautify” its parkways along 31 and 65. All they need is some convicts to pick up the garbage strewn about.

47. #744146
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:44 pm, John Deaux said:

    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:41 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Keynesian Gardens.

    Now that’s just plain funny.

48. #744151
    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:47 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    Hey Red State. Do you mind not posting unrelated BS in this thread?

    And back the subject at hand.

    What are the odds that the workers who will do the landscaping are illegals?

    What an asinine use of these funds. Surely there are better ways to used $400K than to landscape a highway.

49. #744188
    On July 13th, 2009 at 5:17 pm, CleanGuy said:

    How nice for them! And once the planting season is over, all those gardeners can return to the unemployement line…

50. #744210
    On July 13th, 2009 at 5:34 pm, Thomas B. said:

    Wow!!! Minimum wage jobs only for a limited period of time (summer). That’s some great stimulus. I’m sure it will kick the economy into high gear. Not.

    What a bunch of idiots. I can’t believe liberals that the stimulus will help the economy. And of course, obama hasn’t explained how he will pay off the $1 Trillion in national debt.

51. #744212
    On July 13th, 2009 at 5:35 pm, Southpaw said:

    Am I reading this right?

    Puerto Rico wants $17.5 BILLION for 1628 jobs

    Stimulus Watch

    These aren’t actual projects YET, but a wish list.

52. #744216
    On July 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    Because we already hold our party to a higher standard than you do yours.

    Oh really? Then let’s hear some outrage.

    Just to recap, a woman who responded to a facebook post talking about all the “coons” running to country by writing “lol,” was just elected to chair the Young Republicans after the scandal came to light, and you are all just fine with that.

53. #744222
    On July 13th, 2009 at 5:45 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Oh really? Then let’s hear some outrage.

    Ok. You go first.

54. #744228
    On July 13th, 2009 at 5:48 pm, sonofdy said:

    Red State Skeptic said: I hate white people.

    Now back on topic 400,000 on this crap? No waste here,,, nnnnoooo of course not.

55. #744232
    On July 13th, 2009 at 5:50 pm, zorro said:

    Ha! One of my best friends lives just off that exit! I’ll have to mention his “special status” to him!

56. #744233
    On July 13th, 2009 at 5:50 pm, sonofdy said:

    Red State Skeptic: seriously, if you are that concerned about one posting on facebook, why don’t you start your own blog and talk about it there?

    I mean most sane people are sick of hereing the racism excuse for every single f$%king thing.

57. #744234
    On July 13th, 2009 at 5:50 pm, sonofdy said:

    hereing = hearing.

58. #744242
    On July 13th, 2009 at 5:56 pm, Southpaw said:

    I mean most sane people are sick of hereing the racism excuse for every single f$%king thing.

    Agree. I guess some people have never heard of this story:

    The Boy Who Cried Wolf

59. #744249
    On July 13th, 2009 at 6:01 pm, sonofdy said:

    Red State Skeptic. Clearly by the standard you just espoused for a person to be racist and condemed for life, includes everyone who has laughed at any joke or listened to any music using the words “cracker” “coon” “spic” “n!gger” to name a few.

    Thats everyone in this country.

    So shove your fake, over-blown “outrage” over this issue. This issue is nothing more than a liberal attempt to destroy a young woman because she is not a liberal.

    Thats it.

    Bigot.

60. #744290
    On July 13th, 2009 at 7:14 pm, JConrad999 said:

    A beautification project? Is this really the extent of thinking politicians can do? Wow… Intelligence and politicians just don’t seem to mix.

61. #744295
    On July 13th, 2009 at 7:21 pm, cheapseat said:

    obama’s in st louis to party down at the all star game, after all, he spent 1 day in washington d.c. after his 10 day world trip, that’s enough to solve our problems. he told us the stimulus was working exactly as planned, and spending another trillion or two on healthcare is just what we need, so off to the home run derby. but what’s this, the african american contractors brigade will be blocking the highway from the airport to the ball park to protest they only get 25% of the contracting jobs in the area. hmmmm, 14% of the population, 25% of the jobs and white business owners are still racist. al sharpton organized the first of these highway shutdowns ten years ago, and i don’t think he has paid his fine yet. black youths are 4 times as likely to be unemployed as white youths in new york, but they have HOPE FOR CHANGE. THE CHANGE IS WORKING PERFECTLY, YOU BETTER HOPE WE CHANGE BACK TO A GROWN-UP WHO IS PRESIDENT INSTEAD OF THIS POSSEUR WHO WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT.

62. #744313
    On July 13th, 2009 at 7:45 pm, happyscrapper said:

    obama’s in st louis to party down at the all star game, after all, he spent 1 day in washington d.c. after his 10 day world trip, that’s enough to solve our problems.

    As I said on another thread, don’t worry about Obama not being on the job. That is what his czars are for…to run the country so he can have fun.

63. #744325
    On July 13th, 2009 at 8:07 pm, cabrerski said:

    Wanna bet that ACORN is using this story to get more stimulus dollars?

    http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1663507,fbi-burr-oak-graves-071309.article

    I mean, in the Chicagoland area, a number of bodies have been dug up and their plots re-sold. ACORN is on the case, ensuring the old bodies have not had their votes disenfrancised and, of course, to register the new bodies to vote and/or change the address.

    Now, that is community activism!!! Probably worth another $28 million or so.

64. #744379
    On July 13th, 2009 at 9:07 pm, Common Sense said:

    “landscaping and beautification”

    I can provide some stimulus in my backyard if they want to give my money away for free.

    I’d like a new deck, some more trees, and a gazebo.

65. #744408
    On July 13th, 2009 at 10:54 pm, graysonret said:

    landscaping and beautification project at the Interstate 65 and U.S. 31 interchange,

    Reminds me of the ’50s when everyone knew that the interstate highway system was known to be unconstitutional. So, congress and Eisenhower declared it as a military project, for quick movement of our armed forces and evacuation…much like the Autoban was declared. I guess it’s constitutional now, under the Obama government, where everything the liberals want is constitutional.

66. #744570
    On July 14th, 2009 at 9:24 am, tiredofit08 said:

    On July 13th, 2009 at 4:43 pm, jbh45 said:

    I used to live in Hoover, AL. It is a very wealthy community and does not need pork to “beautify” its parkways along 31 and 65. All they need is some convicts to pick up the garbage strewn about.

    round up some illegals and put them to work doing more of those supposed jobs Americans won’t do at no cost and save a ton of $$$..

67. #745031
    On July 14th, 2009 at 3:32 pm, Wildcatter1980 said:

    And, dummy me! Here I thought this would be a post about how Obama is tearing down further the private sector to get the general public so scared that they’d agree to Obamacare, not to mention cap & tax.