A teabagger bouncy with bonus bouncy imbedded

[Karin]

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Ozymanithrax  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-16-10 12:01 AM
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Teabaggers were looking for signatures and members in front of Target tonight...
 Edited on Tue Feb-16-10 12:02 AM by Ozymanithrax
The man was discussion how they will protect the middle class and end taxes. He seemed a little short on theory how they would fund even the California National Guard, police, or fire departments without taxes.

But, he had several nearly full sheets of signatures.

Will be interesting to see if they can make a run in state politics in California, though they could hurt Republicans if they make a go for it with their own people.
 

gratuitous  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-16-10 12:08 AM
Response to Original message
2. Babies who want everything without paying for it
 Most folks start to get it when they hit their teen years.
 

Maru Kitteh  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-16-10 12:34 AM
Response to Reply #2
3. Bingo!

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)         Tue Feb-16-10 12:38 AM
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5. Most kids learn the value of sharing when they're 3 or 4.

As I stated before, my dad taught me there's no such thing as a free lunch by the time I was 6, Beth. 

Mr. Cheerful tells a long-ish, really stupid tale of his childhood:

mrcheerful  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-16-10 01:06 AM
Response to Reply #5
7. Funny that you said that as every con voter I grew up with even to this day have problems
 with sharing anything. As kids when they ran out of cigarettes or weed they would come running to the kids that had what they wanted, yet when the shoe was on the other foot it was a different story. Their parents were the same way, when the schools had gift exchange xmas day, the con kids parents bought cheap dollar toys to send as a gift, there was a $5 limit that even the poor kids followed.

The funniest thing I ever saw was the day Mrs. high on her horse came in first day after xmas break ranting and raving how her kid got a cheap $1 toy, then went on a rant how poor kids was ruining xmas for her child. It was great cause the teacher knew which kid got what from whom, Mrs. high on her horse was also one who sent her kid in with a $1 toy. The sad thing was, she said, well she thought a poor kid was going to get the gift and she was worried the toy would be better then he toys the poor kids parents got them.

Btw, the school stopped gift exchange that year because the parents that could buy $5 gifts didn't and the poor people who couldn't afford $5 toys bought them anyhow. To the poor parents it was a matter of pride to give what they could, where as the well to do felt only their kids deserved the $5 toys. It was an awakening to those of us that were not of well to do families. Our parents backed teachers 100%, well to do parents always drug their kids in and made a fuss when little johnny rich kid got caught looking up poor girls dresses, like the poor girls should be honored that rich kid was looking.
 

 

To which Beth replies with something dumb and incomprehensible:

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)         Tue Feb-16-10 10:17 AM
Response to Reply #7
8. The cons are not big picture thinkers. They don't think in the long term
 or even beyond their body space. It's strange just as a thing.
 

It's strange just as a thing?   

[Specbid]

gratuitous  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-16-10 12:08 AM
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2. Babies who want everything without paying for it
 Most folks start to get it when they hit their teen years.

LMAO...classic projection right there.

[GOBUCKS]

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To which Beth replies with something dumb and incomprehensible:

It's strange just as a thing?   

Beth is pretty heavily medicated lately. It's why we haven't had many good posts from her. Remember a couple of months ago when she was giddy with excitement about her upcoming shrink appointment, and all the drugs she would get?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Who are these conservatives that won't accept paying taxes for police, FD and the military or even infrastructure?

I keep hearing about them as if they run in teeming herds but I haven't met one...and I think I've met a fair number of conservatives.

Maybe it's the socially based "entitlements" that conservatives don't like.

[Texacon]

mrcheerful  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-16-10 01:06 AM
Response to Reply #5
7. Funny that you said that as every con voter I grew up with even to this day have problems
 with sharing anything. As kids when they ran out of cigarettes or weed they would come running to the kids that had what they wanted, yet when the shoe was on the other foot it was a different story. Their parents were the same way, when the schools had gift exchange xmas day, the con kids parents bought cheap dollar toys to send as a gift, there was a $5 limit that even the poor kids followed.

The funniest thing I ever saw was the day Mrs. high on her horse came in first day after xmas break ranting and raving how her kid got a cheap $1 toy, then went on a rant how poor kids was ruining xmas for her child. It was great cause the teacher knew which kid got what from whom, Mrs. high on her horse was also one who sent her kid in with a $1 toy. The sad thing was, she said, well she thought a poor kid was going to get the gift and she was worried the toy would be better then he toys the poor kids parents got them.

Btw, the school stopped gift exchange that year because the parents that could buy $5 gifts didn't and the poor people who couldn't afford $5 toys bought them anyhow. To the poor parents it was a matter of pride to give what they could, where as the well to do felt only their kids deserved the $5 toys. It was an awakening to those of us that were not of well to do families. Our parents backed teachers 100%, well to do parents always drug their kids in and made a fuss when little johnny rich kid got caught looking up poor girls dresses, like the poor girls should be honored that rich kid was looking.

What is this?  How much bullshit can you pack into one post day?

Does this DUmmie think ANYONE, including other DUmmies, believes this?

LOL

KC

[NHSparky]

Funny how the DUmmies seem to think that because we don't like paying excessive taxes, that somehow they can extrapolate that into meaning we won't pay ANY taxes.

Dear DUmmies--no, that's not right.  Try again.

And I caught the last five minutes of Olbertards sputtering tirade last night.  More logical twists and you'd have a mental pretzel factory.

[thundley4]

LMAO...classic projection right there.

That's my first thought.

gratuitous  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-16-10 12:08 AM
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2. Babies who want everything without paying for it
 Most folks start to get it when they hit their teen years.

Except for liberals, they never get it.

[delilahmused]

gratuitous  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-16-10 12:08 AM
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2. Babies who want everything without paying for it
 Most folks start to get it when they hit their teen years.

Wait, I thought teenagers (at least I've always considered 14 year old to be teens) weren't capable of complex thought, that nuancy, abstracty, hopey-changey stuff.

Cindie

[The Village Idiot]

Who are these conservatives that won't accept paying taxes for police, FD and the military or even infrastructure?

I keep hearing about them as if they run in teeming herds but I haven't met one...and I think I've met a fair number of conservatives.

Maybe it's the socially based "entitlements" that conservatives don't like.

I can go with private roads and subscription Fire Departments. You don't pay, they won't save your house. Sounds good to me. heh.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I can go with private roads and subscription Fire Departments. You don't pay, they won't save your house. Sounds good to me. heh.

Except some democrat will move in next to you, expect free stuff and then when his shit catches fire the FD won't respond until YOUR shit catches fire.

[The Village Idiot]

Except some democrat will move in next to you, expect free stuff and then when his shit catches fire the FD won't respond until YOUR shit catches fire.

I'd expect they come to help the paying customers homes from catching fire. In big enough cities, they could have competing fire protection companies with a system that reports "reaction time" for all to see. And they each have different colored trucks. heh.

[AllosaursRus]

I'd expect they come to help the paying customers homes from catching fire. In big enough cities, they could have competing fire protection companies with a system that reports "reaction time" for all to see. And they each have different colored trucks. heh.

Back in the day,they had plaques they would nail onto the buildings. If you didn't have a plaque, they watched your building burn down while protecting the the one next door that had one! The beginning of the insurance companies. Most logos like Prudential, Allstate, State Farm, etc, are reproductions of the plaques they would put on your building.

[The Village Idiot]

Back in the day,they had plaques they would nail onto the buildings. If you didn't have a plaque, they watched your building burn down while protecting the the one next door that had one! The beginning of the insurance companies. Most logos like Prudential, Allstate, State Farm, etc, are reproductions of the plaques they would put on your building.

lol. The good ol' days

[Chris]

I could forsee a black market in counterfeit plaques.

[Chris_]

I can go with private roads and subscription Fire Departments. You don't pay, they won't save your house. Sounds good to me. heh.

Up until the past five years or so, around here, if you lived outside the city limits, you had to purchase a $25 "Fire Tag" that you nailed to either a fence post, or your mailbox post, that indicated that you had paid the fee, or the FD would let your house burn........The county finally included it in the taxes......

doc

[The Village Idiot]

I could forsee a black market in counterfeit plaques.

We would need a computerized-GPS system. All the subscribed homes would be included in the mapping system with estimated arrival times.

[kenth]

Back in the day,they had plaques they would nail onto the buildings. If you didn't have a plaque, they watched your building burn down while protecting the the one next door that had one! The beginning of the insurance companies. Most logos like Prudential, Allstate, State Farm, etc, are reproductions of the plaques they would put on your building.

Poor dummies, being unwilling to pay for such protection with their weed money, they'd would have to blink blink blink blink away their tears and watch their house burn.

[AllosaursRus]

I could forsee a black market in counterfeit plaques.

There was! Al Capone did a brisk business in Chicago!