ARmy Rumour SErvice

**History_Man** · 28-06-2012, 19:38

Originally Posted by DavidBOC

He is now facing a reelection campaign agaist a very, very, very liberal woman, Liz Warren. Harvard law professor who always listed herself as Native American-Cherokee. Blond hair and blue eyes and allegedly 1/32nd Cherokee. Now it develops that there is no documentation that she is even 1/32nd Cherokee. Still affirmative action got her a job at Harvard.

Priceless. Which Native American tribe am I a member of then given my red hair and green eyes? BTW, your avatar, is that the lighthouse at Scituate harbour?

**DavidBOC** · 28-06-2012, 22:02

Originally Posted by History_Man

Priceless. Which Native American tribe am I a member of then given my red hair and green eyes? BTW, your avatar, is that the lighthouse at Scituate harbour?

Red hair & green eyes - Sounds like the O'Gala or O'Wampanoag tribe to me.

Yes that is Scituate Light where, 200 years ago, two teenaged girls playing a fife and drum tricked the Redcoats into fleeing.
Piccy is from my Christmas card. Old fat guy is me, nice looking young man is my son. (I live about 2-3 miles north but can see the light from the beach at the end of my street)

**Gun_Brickie** · 02-07-2012, 06:25

Originally Posted by DavidBOC

He is now facing a reelection campaign agaist a very, very, very liberal woman, Liz Warren.

And if she wins, methinks you'll be getting tarred with the "Massholes" brush again, unfortunately.

**DavidBOC** · 02-07-2012, 16:16

Originally Posted by Gun_Brickie

And if she wins, methinks you'll be getting tarred with the "Massholes" brush again, unfortunately.

No doubt, especially if Joe Kennedy 3rd wins Barney Franks seat.

**jumpinjarhead** · 02-07-2012, 17:02

Originally Posted by alib

You would not know it from the gibbering of right wing politicians but Keynesian countercyclical spending remains economic insanity.

Fixed it for you since the definition of insanity includes doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result each time.

**jumpinjarhead** · 02-07-2012, 17:09

Originally Posted by Grumblegrunt

all politics is corrupt and the US taught pakistan how it was done. I did see a lot of instances over there where entire cities were outsourcing their workforce from the next one over. one instance I saw employed the mayor, his secretary, the accountant and a librarian.

mind you the american definition of city is often a bit confusing and town would be a better label.

Ironically and wholly lost on today's vacuous post-modern government school graduates is the fact that "progressivism" in the late 19th century was the origin of much of the negative model for governance that has brought such corruption and ruination, not to mention widening the racial divide due to the corrupt and racist local governments that keep blacks as virtual slaves in the housing estates of the modern day plantation solely to ensure their block voting on racial lines to keep the scoundrels in office too often in spite of politicians being prosecuted for bribery and graft.

**jumpinjarhead** · 02-07-2012, 17:10

Originally Posted by DavidBOC

No doubt, especially if Joe Kennedy 3rd wins Barney Franks seat.

His seat you say?

**DavidBOC** · 02-07-2012, 19:50

Originally Posted by jumpinjarhead

His seat you say?

Hmmm! Someone out there remembers the "Hot Bottom" scandal I think.

(for non-Septics, Mr Franks domestic partner was charged with running a gay "escort service" out of Mr. Franks apartment)

**DavidBOC** · 02-07-2012, 20:22

For non-septic readers:

Stockton, CA my be the largest city debt to go bankrupt but it is far from the largest Chapter IX bankruptcy. The current titleholder is the sweepstakes is Jefferson County, Alabama, location of Birmingham, Alabama.

Stockton's debts amount to a figure between $500million and $1billion. Jefferson County has debts amounting to over $4billion. Some of Jefferson County's debt is related to major water and sewer work that was mandated by Federal laws and regulations. The problem was exacerbated by a very corrupt county council that decided to solve their financial problems through interest rate swaps and other derivative investments. So far 6 members of the county council are now convicts as they had accepted gratuities from J.P. Morgan for their votes in favour of the investments. Investigations still continue. Meanwhile the poor people of Jefferson County are being saddled with huge water/sewer bills.

Corruption aside, many municipalities in the United States are being crippled by unfunded mandates. Congress and state legislators, when faced with a problems tend to respond by passing laws without appropriating funds to pay for costs. If a TV station has a special on elderly abuse the next week the state legislature passes a law requiring all police and firefighters be trained x number of hours each week for recognizing elder abuse. Then someone passes a law on child abuse, then drunk driving procedures, then cultural diversity, then GLBT issues etc. Pretty soon a city will find itself with a police department that requires 200 hours of special training each year and to keep the department operations staffed has to pay overtime to the officers so they can be trained as mandated and still do some police work.