MntlWard

@MntlWard (878)

United States • Age 54

Joined myLot 18 years ago

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Who Thinks $400,000/Year is "Middle Class"?

anniepa @anniepa (27955) • United States 31 Dec 12

I mean, REALLY, who thinks $250,000 is middle class? I just read that polls show that most Americans consider anything above $150,000/year to be "rich" and I tend to agree with that assessment. Sure, I know there are some places...

000 is rich

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MntlWard I've seen a couple of responses saying something to the effect of "Well, a business making 250K a year has to pay some of that to employees and other business expenses." Businesses aren't taxed on every dollar that goes in the till. They're taxed on their...

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The Party's over ......

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 15 Nov 12

At least until the next party starts lol. I find I can only cope with MyLot for a limited time, since I tend to create and enter into discussions with "heavy" subjects and hopefully a lot of intelligent responses. Unfortunately...

farewell

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MntlWard Yeah, I've pretty much been on a break for years. I was very active when I started here, but I found the same issues you are describing and had enough after a few months of it. Now, I only come back when the myLot email shows me something I can't resist...

15 Nov 12

Glitch or fraud?

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 6 Nov 12

This item appeared on the 9MSN website in Austalia a little earler today. [b]A voter in the US state of Pennsylvania has filmed a polling machine that altered his vote for Barack Obama to a vote for Mitt Romney. The voter...

election fraud

us elections

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MntlWard This is one of many problems I have with electronic voting machines, especially the touch screen kind. I've more than a few times observed touch screen devices register my touch somewhere else on the screen.

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Trolls

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 24 Oct 12

I have found myself the subject of organised downgrading by other members. How do I go about bringing this to the attention of the administration? Lash

trolls

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MntlWard How do you know it's an organized effort? I know that a lot of people don't really understand what the + and - are for, so if they don't like what you say, they'll downgrade you. And if you go into the politics section saying something other than crazy right...

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Romney Out of Touch? ~ FINAL CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRATS

debrakcarey @debrakcarey (19887) • United States 1 Sep 12

Karen Vaughn, mother of fallen Navy Seal of Aaron Carson Vaughn, reacts to Barack Obama's campaign ad "One Chance." Karen and Billy Vaughn lost their son Aaron last year in Afghanistan. View this ad and tell me Obama is IN...

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MntlWard 1) What did her son's death have to do with the Bin Laden raid? 2) I'm not sure that Republicans remember which political party was in power when the war in Afghanistan started. Clint Eastwood's monologue actually suggested that Obama *started* that...

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Todd Akin's comments "bad break", or just plain wrong?

thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 20 Aug 12

I am sure we were all shocked today to see that no one on this right wing site decided to talk about the number one political topic today: Todd Akin's comments about "legitimate rape". While the vast majority of conservatives...

politics

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MntlWard I'm wondering just how many people really believe what Akin said about some sort of anti-pregnancy effect women have to prevent pregnancy from rape specifically. Sure, the Pill could be used as a defense against that occurrence, but it's my understanding...

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House republicans have some explaining to do!

thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 21 Jul 12

CNN looked at the Senate, and the House versions of the new "Congressional Knowledge Act" which has to do with insider stock purchases by congressmen and women, and noticed a difference between the two: The House version was...

money

politics

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MntlWard Oh! What about Governors of the states? *coughRickScottcough*

22 Jul 12

House republicans have some explaining to do!

thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 21 Jul 12

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MntlWard Does the Senate version include members of the Supreme Court? *coughClarenceThomascough*

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Wikileaks Releases Emails Detailing 2008 ballot stuffing for Obama

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 24 Apr 12

According to emails obtained by Wikileaks, the McCain campaign had evidence of voter fraud and ballot box stuffing in the 2008 election. Emails from the US based intelligence firm, Stratfor, show that although they had evidence of...

ballot stuffing

election fraud

illegal campaign funds

mccain won election

obama took illegal russion donations

voter fraud

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MntlWard The entire sum of evidence that the Dems were stuffing ballots is one email of a guy saying he heard they're doing that. As to the donation thing, I'm not entirely happy about that, but if you think the Repubs are being more proper in that regard, you're...

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Does Obama Understand the Constitution?

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 4 Apr 12

For a "Constitutional scholar", President Obama seems to lack a true understanding of one of the most important governmental structures created by the Constitution: the system of "checks and balances". The point of creating the...

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MntlWard It's funny how conservatives are all about the judicial activism these days.

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Discrepencies between physical evidence and Zimmerman police report, attorney

TheMetallion @TheMetallion (1834) • United States 29 Mar 12

You've probably seen the copy of the police report that's been published[1] in which Officer Timothy Smith states, "While I was in such close contact with Zimmerman, I could observe that his back appeared to be wet and he was...

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MntlWard I've asked the following questions a number of times regarding this incident, and I never get an answer from the people who believe Zimmerman's account. (I'm not counting you, Metallion, as one of those people.) If you're walking home from the store, and a...

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Violating the First Amendment--AGAIN!

dragon54u @dragon54u (31634) • United States 10 Mar 12

On Thursday, March 8, President Obama signed into law HR 347 that passed 388-3, an overwhelming majority. The bill states that you cannot disrupt any gathering where the Secret Service is present. If you protest during a speech or...

first amendment

prison for protesters

violating our rights

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MntlWard I don't know if Obama signed it because he believes in it or if he knew his veto would be overridden, since *every* member of the Senate voted for it, and all but 3 members of the House voted for it. I suppose those 3 Republicans deserve a pat on the back for...

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Is Both Andrew Breitbart's Death And Rush's Bomb Threat Just Coincidental?

Fatcat44 @Fatcat44 (1141) • United States 2 Mar 12

TheBlaze.com has an article that Andrew Breitbart has video from Obama's college days, and was about to release them in about a week or two. And that he was saying that it will completely change the election this year. The...

andrew breitbart

coincidental

rush limbaugh

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MntlWard Yes, Breitbart's death is coincidental. Rush's bomb threat is probably strongly related to his display of ignorance about birth control and his use of that ignorance to insult women who need it for reasons other than birth control. However, Rush's insult is...

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Where's the Outrage Over Frank Luntz's Joke About Killing the President?

anniepa @anniepa (27955) • United States 22 Feb 12

We currently have a Democratic U.S. Senator who spent many years as a comedian and comic writer; he once made a rather tasteless and uncharacteristically unfunny joke about former President Bush which has been referenced here many...

jokes about killing president not acceptable

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MntlWard What Franken joke are you talking about? I suppose the Luntz thing isn't as bad as Nugent telling Obama and Clinton to suck on the end of a machine gun.

23 Feb 12

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For Those Who Continue to Believe "The Big Lie"

epicure35 @epicure35 (2814) • United States 29 Jan 12

For those of you who actually are wearing the "tinfoil hats", a bit more truth for you to reject in abject foolishness: http://www.webcommentary.com/php/ShowArticle.php?id=zieves&date=120129 After three years of absolute...

continue to believe the big lie

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MntlWard This discussion is all about believing big lies.

30 Jan 12

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Three Things to Avoid Poverty?

ballerina18 @ballerina18 (33) 10 Jan 12

Here is an interesting article I came across. Do you agree with Professor Galston? Why or why not? http://jkalb.freeshell.org/rants/illegitimacy.html "Professor William Galston has pointed out that you need to do only...

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MntlWard The stupidest thing about Santorum's mention of these three things is that he was using it as an argument *against* birth control being legally available.

11 Jan 12

The File Sharing Scam Exposed!!!

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 24 Dec 11

Do you now who the number one distributor of Limewire, Morpheus, and almost all the other file sharing programs was? CNET!! That's right, CNET, which is owned by CBS/VIACOM and they licenced it to AOL/Time Warner and...

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MntlWard Yeah, this is yet another example of corporations having way too much power over our government. These entertainment companies didn't used to be able to sue for such large amounts until their lobbyists fought for it. And now they're fighting for the SOPA...

25 Dec 11

I thought only poor people didn't pay taxes?

thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 7 Dec 11

President Obama has been highlighting the lack of fairness in tax policy, and is now backing it up with proof. According to the Tax Policy Center, 4,000 American households that make over $1 MILLION last year didn't pay a dime in...

money

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MntlWard Another thing that Republicans don't bring up about taxation is that those who are considered so poor they are exempt from federal income tax have other tax burdens: They have to pay sales taxes. If they're lucky enough to own a home they have property taxes....

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New study about FOX News

thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 22 Nov 11

The Huffington post ran a story about a study done at an obscure university in New Jersey did about FOX News views and their knowledge of current global events. The survey had to do with the uprisings in Egypt, and Syria....

fox news

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MntlWard I think Fox "News" has convinced their viewers that real news outlets can't be trusted, so the kind of person who watches Fox doesn't pay attention to anything but Fox and right-wing talk radio. On top of that, Fox intentionally misinforms their viewers so...

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Would cutting YOUR taxes make you want to spend more?

thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 3 Sep 11

I listen to a certain business channel all day long in my car, and the only solution I hear from republicans is to cut taxes, and stop sending. However, every single one of them agree that the only way out of our problems right...

employement

spending

taxes

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MntlWard I agree with the sentiment of your post here, with a minor correction. Cutting taxes isn't the only solution Republicans are proposing. They're all for cutting taxes on the richest 1% of Americans, but lately they've been saying that taxes should be...

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