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Four Republicans from western Suffolk County are attempting to knock Republican George Demos off the ballot in a primary election against Republican Randy Altschuler in June.
Last week, four individuals filed general objections to Mr. Demos’s 2,000-signature Republican designating petition with the Suffolk County Board of Elections, according to an official within Democratic Commissioner Anita Katz’s office, who declined to give her name. Those individuals are James J. Jost of Nesconset, Mary Magnifico of Mt. Sinai, Marlene Wolke of Smithtown, and Jerome Rosen of Brookhaven.
Both Mr. Demos of Ronkonkoma, a former prosecutor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Mr. Altschuler, a businessman from St. James, are competing for a chance to unseat Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Bishop in an election this November.
The individuals who filed objections have until the... more
Last week, four individuals filed general objections to Mr. Demos’s 2,000-signature Republican designating petition with the Suffolk County Board of Elections, according to an official within Democratic Commissioner Anita Katz’s office, who declined to give her name. Those individuals are James J. Jost of Nesconset, Mary Magnifico of Mt. Sinai, Marlene Wolke of Smithtown, and Jerome Rosen of Brookhaven.
Both Mr. Demos of Ronkonkoma, a former prosecutor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Mr. Altschuler, a businessman from St. James, are competing for a chance to unseat Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Bishop in an election this November.
The individuals who filed objections have until the... more
Albert Einstein in his current state has more of a clue than Tim Bishop in his current state - both physically and figuratively.
Yes,we are quite aware of our opposition.
By the way, I find it funny that you don't consider forcing a woman to have a sonogram a big gov't intrusion. I find it funny that you don't find giving my tax dollars to oil companies a big gov't intrusion. I find it funny that you don't consider legislating the right ...more to choose a big gov't intrusion. I find it funny that you don't consider racial profiling a big gov't intrusion.
Your hypocrisy is matched only by your desire to tell others what to believe. There is no difference between the redneck Long Island republicans and the redneck Mississippi republicans - you all want to run the country according to your own myopic ideology.
2. I did mean "our" lord I meant "my" lord.
3. You are committting slander and putting words in my mouth. I never said sanything about sonograms, oil or racial profiling.
4. Your last comment is laughable. It is the progressive dems who want to run the country with their own myopic ideology. Their mantra is if ...more you work hard we can take more from you and give it to the people that don't. When I grew up the only entitlement I received was a kick to the rear if I didnt get out into the world and start earning my keep.
"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war ...more or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
Note the first sentence.
2-Razza's lord can beat up your lord.
3-Progressnow never said you said any of those tings;all she pointed out was the hippocracy of the republican position-that it preaches non-intrusiveness into private lives yet will force a woman to have a nonessential medical procedure.The republicans also want to pass national legislation limiting the rights of gays to marry,prohibit legal medical procedures like abortion,limit collective bargaining and many other intrusions and limitations on rights fought for and won.
4-The only people laughing at her comments are the clowns who don't recognise the hippocracy of theirown positions..so keep laughing.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
"You have to stand in awe, IN AWE, of the all time champion of false promises, and exaggerated claims, Religion. No contest. Religion easily has the greatest B.S. story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people, that there's an invisible man, living in the sky; who watches everything you do, every moment of every day. And the ...more invisible man, has a list of ten things, he does not want you to do..."
~ George Carlin
2. You shouldn't speak for progress. She used the word "you" referring to me. I never said any of those things.
3 the fact that you have no religion or faith in your life makes me feel ...more sorry for you
As for it appearing on currency, "God" does not appear on any denomination including, and exceeding the $500 bill. Of course, they haven't been printed since 1945. "In God We Trust" did not appear on ANY U.S. currency before 1864, and that was only on coins. As far as "paper" currency is concerned, the words were ...more not printed on it before 1957. Yet again, thanks to the "cookie cutter" society.
You accused ProgressNow of libel,yet you libel the President by calling him an athiest. Another example of how ignorance blinds one to his own hippocracy.
Many people ho need religion in their lives are dependent on the crutch of justifying their own beleifs with the approval of others.It's classic authoritarian follower behavior
If they actually meant to say "God", there would have been some inflected form of the word "deus". Second declension, masculine.
Face it, they wanted religion to be separate. Look at the Englsh Crown they has been oppressed under. They wanted religion as much involved with authority, and one would desire a hole in the head.
( and agrarian to boot) but even IF the founding fathers wanted religion removed entirely from politics then they failed miserably
You are correct except in insisting that the phrase is properly translated, "'God' favors our undertaking". In the selfsame Wikipedia article to which you refer, it is argued that had the authors meant "god", they would have used the phrase, "'Deo' favente". Since the latin phrase used omits any reference to god in preference to an anonymous "he", the translation, "'Providence' favors. . ." would be most appropriate, especially so when you consider that Jefferson, as a deist, ...more would be content with that ambiguous expression.
It would seem to me that you can only consider religion to be included in this federal artifact if you consider deism to be a religion.
Notwithstanding, Christian morality characteristic of the era imbues the documents that created America.
Christian morality does show itself in the literature of the day, including the Constitution. However, aren't those values simply the right thing to do, under any name other than Christianity? Sure they are. It was realistically the most popular religious doctrine of the time. Of course it's presence will be notable.
The ...more Founders didn't fail, the people whose agenda it served; plus those who it yet still serves to defy such notions, and keep up the equivalent of the "Dark Ages" for some of the People did. The people throughout History who have repeatedly interjected religion into Government have failed, not the Founders. Especially since the fifties...
This all verified through sources with Wikipedia.
frankly i really dont care what it means I'll stick by my statement. Religion, like it or not, plays an important part in politics.
Do you realize that is was the State, in a monarchical form, that translated the Bible into Middle English, from the "original" Latin, which was translated from Hebrew, and Aramaic in the firstplace? The New Testament was written in GREEK, then translated to Latin, and finally Middle English. Translation is like beauty, it's in the eye of the Beholder. A copy, of a copy, of a copy, ...more well it tends to be corrupted over time.
If they meant to say "God", the word "deus" would have been used. PERIOD. You don't infer the meaning of a word, if one exists to perfectly suit it. You USE IT. The vagueness was meant to imply an Agnostic style viewpoint. Yeah, there most likely is a higher power, but NO ONE has it right, and if you're arrogant enough to believe you can name that higher power solely on FAITH, your hubris is a "mortal sin" in doing so.
"We KNOW who Jesus is. Get a [expletive deleted] JOB!"
~ Sam Kinison
"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. "
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
It would seem to me, that he saw the light...
"In another time and place he would have been called prophet."
~ Epithet of Samuel Burl Kinison
Influenced: Joe Rogan, Ralphie May, Bill Hicks, Denis Leary, Adam Sandler, Patton Oswalt, Larry the Cable Guy, David Cross, Dane Cook, et al.
Mooshell even uses it to pump up the prez when she touts that ...more “he’s brought us out of the dark and into the light” - a reference to a Jesus like figure where light is used to denote the true path, presented either by God or a savior. Or by Barack Obama. Praise be to the messiah, who by the way chose to use Lincoln’s bible during his swearing in because it makes a great prop and we all know Obama’s the greatest thing since Lincoln, but when the oath was flubbed and the cameras off, nothing resembling a bible or book for that matter was to be found.
By the way,it was Cheif Justice Roberts who screwed up the swearing in of President Obama-maybe he should go back to sunday school.
Luckily,Obama,being a constitutional scholar,knew Roberts screwed it up.
But it's okay,aybe he can get it right next time he swears Obama in next January.If Roberts can remember ...more it.
Some Bradbury-esque, Farenheit 451 style Seashell radio pumping subliminal messages into a "good sheep's" grey matter all the while they are "plugged in".
Gotta keep the rabble under control...
Then this would explain why Tim Bishop voted "Yea" on the bill to reaffirm "In God We Trust" as the official motto of the United States and to encourage its display in all public buildings, public schools, and other government institutions.
The right wants better government policy that expands opportunities for those who actually choose to get educated and live responsible lives. Countries with limited government and more economic freedom are more prosperous. This is the complete opposite of what the radical left preaches.
The right wants unquestioned control over peoples' lives;they've been preaching ...more small government yet the policies reek of control over others.
I am aware of the depressions of 1873,1878,1893,the 1907 crash,the depression of 1921 as well as,of course,the great depression.I have posted on several of these here before,and I understand that you may not have been here at the time.
The left is great dividing classes of people against one another. Gay rights for example. Leave it to the states to decide say most republicans. But you won’t see Obama say a peep about it on the election campaign for fear of igniting a social fire storm that he’d just assume coardly duck out of.
The left wants to trash the sanctity of the election process by not requiring identification to be presented. They’d prefer that someone’s vote be potentially cast by someone other than the registered voter. They wage their own war on the elderly by cutting billions from medicare and then attack Republicans for offering alternatives to saving medicare and programs for the poor that are destined for bankruptcy on their current course. The left want to force an unconstitutional law down the thoughts of the public and jeopardize the quality of health care by the greatest health care program in the world – lying all the way through the process- making back room deals to buy votes to ensure passage. The left enslaves minorities and other groups by wanting to keep them dependent on the government, driving up the cost of products and services through unaffordable entitlements and benefits for the corrupt unions.
You can go on making things up;Women knowliars and hippocrates when they see their posts.Many will see yours.
As for the right and it's war mongering,the right didn't want us to get out of Iraq;their policy would have been to keep us there.The last president even said that he wasn't concerned about finding Bin Laden and gave up looking for him.
Presently there is a lot of talk about Iran and Syria;two more Muslim countries widely regarded as terrorist states and the right uses them not only as focal points to generate fear (fear is the only thing the right has in abundance other than stupidity) and we hear them beating the war drums about attacking them both-which would do wonders for oil prices.
The right has led their obedient sheeple right to where they want them-compliant and ignorant,and fighting their battles on sites like this.
Which is completely in line with the passage of Roe vs. Wade. States are within their rights to ensure the health of a woman during an abortion procedure. Your rhetoric is filled with lies and misrepresentation.
"Who knows if he’s hiding in some cave or not. We haven’t heard from him in a long time. The idea of focusing on one person really indicates to me people don’t understand the scope of the mission. Terror is bigger than one person. He’s just a person who’s been marginalized. … I don’t know where he is. I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you."
It can be viewed on youtub ...more for thoe who care to look.
Catching the terrorist that killed 3,000 Americans just wasn't that important to him.
And you're another one who,when they are losing an argument,rsorts to questioning people's patriotism.
I guess I struck a nerve.
Good.
The Washington Post had a great op-ed unday by Thom Mann and Norm Ornstein called "Let's just say it-the republican ARE the problem".
Obama has kept his boot on the throat of the middle class through his goal to curtail consumption of energy. He is saddling generations with debt and has an openly stated goal of high energy prices – yes, that’s great for the middle class. The Obama administration has basically declared war on the middle class through high energy prices and to make energy ...more as expensive as possible, all to curtail consumption.
An Obama-appointed EPA official openly stated that the EPA uses a “crucify them” enforcement philosophy against oil and gas companies. Obama has proudly stated that he supports energy plans that will bankrupt anyone stupid enough to build a coal plant, “if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can — it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.” The president views high gas prices as just another part of his plan to curtail consumption. Energy Secretary Chu was asked if lowering gas prices was a priority. “No,” he replied, “the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil.” The pain you feel at the pump? It’s not democrats or the president’s problem. It’s his goal. What do you know, the same guy in 2008, then noted physicist and vocal global warming advocate Steven Chu told The New York Times, “Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” His goal was to increase the cost slowly, over the course of 15 years. Parity with the Europeans would have Americans paying between $8 and $10 a gallon.
After taking office, Obama drastically slowed the rate at which deepwater drilling permits were issued, forcing oil rigs and the jobs they create to abandon the Gulf of Mexico. Later, using the BP disaster to justify his actions, the president imposed a complete moratorium on such permits — a ban the Louisiana courts eventually found to be illegal. Obama’s administration refused to comply with the court ruling, was found in contempt and was eventually forced to begin issuing permits again.
The left is a dictatorship disguised as an angry mob. Happy May Day everyone. The self absorbed narcissists will be shutting down bridges and tunnels tomorrow and conducting god knows what other despicable acts all under the guise of waging war on the 1%.
When Bush was president and gas prices rose,the entire right wing press kept parroting that the president couldn't do anything about gas prices-especially fox news-
“The next time you hear a politician say that he or she will bring down oil prices, understand it’s complete B.S. If Americans want lower gas prices, cut back. Sell those SUVs, ride a bike ...more if you can. If every one of us bought ten percent less gasoline, prices would fall fast. That’s what the candidates should be saying.” – Bill O’Reilly in 2008, Fox News.
"During the partisan campaigns of the last presidential election, the anti-Obama misinformation machine known as Fox News attempted to fend off “attacks” from the Left that implicated the Bush administration’s failure to curb the then skyrocketing price of gas across the country as a means to hurt the Republican party’s chances of retaining the White House.
Democrats – in a fervor to oust the Republican regime – wrongfully hammered away at the former President’s reluctance to support and pursue alternative energies as well as his lacklustre performance on energy security with regard to oil imports as being the main cause for high gas prices.
While adept energy policy would certainly benefit the long-term vision of energy security, the facts remain that the former and current Presidents’ actions have little-to-no effect on the short-term price of gas. Instead, the argument itself – that a President holds sway over the fuel prices during his own term – is a veiled attempt at partisan shenanigans.
What does affect gas prices mainly are global supply and demand, instability in oil-producing regions and financial speculation – all factors out of the president’s jurisdiction.
In 2008, Fox News got that – fending off the Democrats’ “blame game” by insisted that the current President had no control over costs at the pump (video below).
Back then, select Fox pundits called for less consumption, reduced oil dependence and more mass transit-spending – .all good stuff that actually makes sense – while criticizing the notion that a President can affect the price of gas in the short term."
Now that a democratic president is in the White House,the right blames him for gas prices.
But the fact is that we are now drilling more domestically than we have in years;I know that you will say that it isn't on federal land,but that's because this administration doesn't want to take a chance on polluting federal land-something the right has no problem with.
As far as deep water drilling is concerned,after the Gulf spill,which is still affecting the entire Gulf coast, I'm glad there isn't more drilling going on.The oil industry still can't contain a spill and is still using 1970's era technology when there is a spill-inneffective booms and skimmers,while not having a strategy to stop a well from leaking,especially when it's far deeper than they have ever been drilled before.Just more putting profits before safety,
And,as expected,you once again prove that there is no limit to how low you will stoop.But keep posting,there are still many here that haven't witnessed your angry ignorance.
Just more hippocracy from the right.
There have ...more been at least two radical left publications names “Vorwaerts”, (the German word for Forward). One was the daily newspaper of the Social Democratic Party. The other publication was “Vpered” the Russian word for “Forward.”
He wants to take the country Froward,while the republicans keep talking about taking it back.
Or did they.... This word has a long and rich association with European Marxism.
Many Communist and radical publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had the name "Forward!"
The slogan "Forward!" reflected the conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements reflected the march of history, which would move forward past capitalism and into socialism and communism. How fitting for tomorrows planed civil unrest.... What has become of this once great Republic?
If that is what the republicans ...more want to take us back to,I'll vo to go "Forward".
They're scrambling because their candidate is weak and flip-flops on almost every issue;all we hear about is how bad Obama is,and nothing about how great republican policies are.
That's ...more because they suck.
he NY post today discusses Obama new slogan
National Debt Sept.2008- 10 trillion
National debt now- 15.6 trillion
Federal spending Sept 2008- 3 trillion
Federal spending now- 3.8 trillion
Average price of gas Seot 2009- 2.50 per gallon
Average price now- 3.81 per gallon
Americans on food stamps 2008 28.22 million
Americans on food stamps in 2011 46.2 million
federal workers ...more in 2008 4.2 million
Federal workers in 2010 4.4 million
Jobless rate Jan 2009 7.8%
Jobless rate March 2012 8.2%
Particulary alarming is the growth in debt and the increase in the number of people on food stamps. Facts don't lie. We are moving backwards not forwards
Of course the national debt skyrocketed under Obama- he actually added the costs of the wars to it,unlike bush who hid the costs of the war that was "supposed to pay for itself" when he lied us into it.
Lies and rape-are these the values you hold?
There really is no bounds to your falsehoods, is there. Federal government expenditures and deficits just don’t go into never never land to be pulled out of a hat at a later date. The wars have been funded through supplemental budget requests and appropriated spending.
From a factcheck piece that looks at the truths and untruths of both sides: “while Bush ...more added $5.1 trillion in his eight years — mostly due to tax cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan…” It goes on to report “the Treasury Department’s handy “debt to the penny” website shows the nation’s total debt stood at $10.6 trillion on the day Obama took office and it had increased to nearly $15.4 trillion by the end of January 2012 — a rise of more than $4.7 trillion in just over three years."
So you see, Obama's spending in 3 years has now surpassed W's spending in 8 years. The facts suck, I know.
I guess that's okay with some.
Sound familiar?
You conveniently left that out from the factcheck info you posted.
from that same factcheck article-
"And it’s also untrue — as claimed in a graphic widely circulated by email and in social media postings — that the debt has increased more under Obama than under all previous 43 presidents combined. In fact, as of Jan. 31, 2012, ...more the rise under Obama had yet to surpass the rise under his predecessor, George W. Bush."
Senator Barack Obama 2006
It was left out because it is no longer accurate. The piece was written in January 2012. As of March 2012 Obama HAS IN FACT surpassed W’s deficit numbers. But I suspect you already know that but chose to continue down the partisan path. “According to Mark Knoller at CBS News, the inevitable is official: The national debt has increased more in President Obama’s just over three ...more years in office than during eight years of George W. Bush:
The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office.
The latest posting from the Bureau of Public Debt at the Treasury Department shows the National Debt now stands at $15.566 trillion. It was $10.626 trillion on President Bush’s last day in office, which coincided with President Obama’s first day.”
We know we can't trust you to tell the truth
26 months of private sector job growth.
Imagine what the President could have done if the republican party didn't set its sites on opposing anything that would have helped improve the situation.
Mr. Snerdley should go back to answering phones for Rush Limbaugh.
I admire this President Obama for all that he has accompolished so far.
But since this site won't allow links to actual information,it's a quick reference.
By the way,where did you get a copy of the liberal play book? Is there something you're not telling us?
I'd really like a copy if you can spare one.
You have a class of people running the country into the ground from government, to corporate America solely to enrich themselves by flaunting the rules, or even completely disregarding them.
And, you have allowed them to set you at eachother's throats, instead of being at bay for their collective heads.
Each of the Founders who left their writings to posterity was prophetic in some manner. ...more Jefferson when it came to corporations, and aristocracy; Jackson in warning about too "laissez-faire" an approach regarding bankers; Patrick Henry's passion for State rights, i.e., just look at California, and Arizona lately.
I have always, and shall continue to believe that we not only need a viable Independent Party, it seems that more and more these days there are more people who would fit the bill, as such.
Shall we look at the electoral college map along with the Daily Beast?
"It’s now officially not too early to start thinking about the Electoral College map. First of all, the election is just six months away, which provides pundits one of those symbolic but meaningless pivot points to a new phase. But more than that, certain patterns are just starting to emerge. Mitt Romney has been the putative nominee for a month now, ever since his Wisconsin ...more win (if not before). Barack Obama has taken some whacks at him now, and certainly vice versa. We’re in the general-election campaign. So what do we know right now? Chiefly, this great and very amusing irony: that the Electoral College, that bane of good-government liberals for decades (and especially since the 2000 fiasco), is Obama’s best friend. He has the hate-and-anger party to thank for that. But the implications for the fall campaign may be ominous.
At the precise moment that I am writing this sentence—11:45 am on Wednesday—I glance at the new poll “bumpers” or whatever you call them on the home page of Talking Points Memo: little boxes across the top that stay up for a few seconds and then rotate, showing important poll results. The TPM Obama-Romney national average has it Obama 47.1, Romney 45.3, giving Obama a 1.8 percent advantage. That’s no lead at all. Within the margin of error. Real Clear Politics gives Obama a 3.7 percent national lead. Bigger, but still margin-of-error territory. So nationally, it’s a close race.
But when you look at the likely swing states, it is not right now a close race at all. RCP’s Electoral College map gives Obama 227 electoral votes from states that are solidly or pretty clearly leaning in his direction. It gives Romney just 170. It lists 11 toss-up states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. You can then click on all the recent polls in those states. So I did. Here’s what I found.
Obama leads in nine of the 11 states. Romney leads only in two, and he leads in the two whose mere presence on a list of swing states suggests trouble for him—Arizona and Missouri. Romney’s lead in those states is small (3.2 percent in the former, 3.0 in the latter). Of the nine states in which Obama leads, he is ahead by outside your typical three- or four-point margin of error in four: Colorado (9.5 percent), Nevada (6.7 percent), Pennsylvania (6 percent), and Ohio (5.3 percent). Obviously it would be premature to say that Obama is certain to win those states. But given these leads, let’s just give him those states’ 53 combined electoral votes for the sake of argument."
not looking too good for RMoney (not a typo)