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Sat 03/24/12 05:07 PM
Edited by msharmony on Sat 03/24/12 05:10 PM
not quite that simple though

the government is responsible but the congress has the largest part of the process,,,

steps to a budget

1.president submits budget PROPOSAL
2. congress uses budget RESOLUTION which consists of
a. Discretionary spending (1/3 of budget , must be provided for each year )

b. Mandatory spnding (2/3 of budget, MAY be changed but based upon EXISTING AND STANDING law)

3. congress passes budget resolution and then
4.congress passes 13 annual appropriations bills which authorize changes to mandatory spending

5.dozens of committes and subcommittes work with congress to ACCEPT or REJECT the presidents proposals BASED upon congress' budget resolution



http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2002-CITIZENSGUIDE/pdf/BUDGET-2002-CITIZENSGUIDE.pdf


Now if thats not a case of LOTS of others doing the 'work' for him to sign off on,, I dont know what is


,, In contrast, lets review the decision to go in after Osama


as far as what other presidents would have done,, thats pretty presumptious and could als be claimed of ANYTHING this president has done whether we agree with it or not

as to state of mind,,,at some point Bin Laden stopped being a priority to GW Bush

but that point didnt seem to come under OBama,,,,

just saying,,,


To hold the president solely or even primarily responsible for his signature on some things, while dismissing as irrelevant his signature on other things (especially pertaining to the budget process which involves HUNDREDS of people)

is intellectually dishonest

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Sat 03/24/12 12:53 PM

This Obama lovefest is quite touching..


Nothing like celebrating complete and total incompetence..


Enjoy it while you can, because he will get trounced in November..



I dont know if I would call appreciating kindness a 'celebration'

but of all the things to choose to celebrate,, I dont feel so bad about it,,,,

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Sat 03/24/12 12:51 PM









If you people want some so and so sitting behind a desk in Washington to run your lives for you that your business. Personally I don't.


He doesnt run my life really. But he provides some motivation and support/opposition to the ones in congress that do.

and he represents america/americans to the rest of the world,,,and global relations,,,
All he does for the rest of the world is appologize for the USA





not quite,,,,

Osama bin laden,, gone
Libya
AId to israel
,,,,you get the drift though




LOL ok what exactly did he do to get Osama? Nothing, it was stuff that was already in place and it was the military. Its like giving the CEO of some company the credit for what the Engineers designed. Or even more dramatic than that.



excuse me, he GAVE THE ORDER,,,,

an engineers design is not of much value if it is never USED,,,,

and it shows that he has not just gone around 'apologizing'....


And who gave the order to start the search in the first place? He gave the order big deal. He just happened to be in office when the people doing the real work found him. Anyone in office would have done the same thing.



ANYONE wasnt in office though......

kind of tough to just brush it off as he 'happened' to be in office when something turns out right

but then put direct blame on him for other things that happen in his office

perhaps the job losses you often attribute to him were also the result of people who were doing the 'real work',, and all he did was sign it because he happened to be in office when they came up with the solution?


Nope as he specifically made the decision and was quoted saying he didn't need a new helicopter. That is a different story. He does have control over budget issues. He doesn't find intel and isn't a man on the ground during a war.


show me where the constitution says the president has control over the budget?

I fear you are mistaken

the CONGRESS issues the budget, the president either signs it or doesnt

kind of like signing off on a mission or not,,,

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Sat 03/24/12 09:24 AM
I hope he doesnt come away with a lifetime reminder of that night,,,,

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Sat 03/24/12 09:12 AM
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Sat 03/24/12 09:05 AM

So, this past week my nine year old son came up with the brilliant idea that he's entitled to an allowance. "Everyone else at school gets one" Being the stingy bastard I am, I've never offered one and was hoping he'd never hear of the concept. Unfortunately, now he has and he's been hounding me about it since.

I told him I'd give him the same allowance I got when I was his age, a whopping fifty cents a week. I'd splurge it all at once and buy myself a pack of baseball cards, you know, the ones with the stale piece of bubble gum that comes with it. I never felt like it wasn't a lot of money

He didn't go for that. "Fifty cents?!? That's nothin! That might have been worth something back in the olden days" LOL. Guess I'm an old timer now. "You have to give me five bucks a week at least!"

So..... a daily chore list is in the works. Gonna make him earn it!


What do you think about allowances? What's a good weekly dollar amount? Do you treat it like an entitlement or teach them early on how that working hard is what makes you money?





its really a personal and private parenting matter that differs for each family, and each family should do what works for them

in our family, we never got allowance for chores, it was our responsibility as part of the household just like it was our parents responsibility to go to work and pay bills,,,,,


we sometimes got financial rewards but they werent routine or scheduled, they just happened occasionally for straight a grades, or extra special consideration of others, or good reports from teachers or other parents,,,etc,,,

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Sat 03/24/12 08:38 AM



my reply:
Roman Catholic boys come to mind for me,
They would not have been abused if they had not been in religion. :(


Yes, they would of.

Remove religion/priest from it, really think he's no longer a pedophile?

Please.

Again, where's your logic, brudda?


logic...
the thousands of Roman Catholic boys who have been abused
were all there for one reason, the church.
Remove the church and these same thousands of boys would have been molested and abused ??? Logically, of course not....



they MAY not have been molested

of course, they MAY have as well, since molestors exist OUTSIDE the church as well

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Sat 03/24/12 08:37 AM

10 WORST LIMBAUGH "AD" SPONSORED ATTACKS ON THE POOR...


One would like to think even Limbaugh could come up with less inflamatory ways to say these things....Wait, silly me!... Sensationalism is worth big media bucks, especially when your only real talent is sarcastic put downs, marriage and divorce, and popping up to 30 Oxycontin pain pills a day....



On June 16, 2010, Limbaugh belittled children who rely on free school meals when he said:

You know, one of the benefits of school being out, in addition to your kids losing weight because they're starving to death out there because there's no school meal being provided, one of the benefits of school being out, college campi being vacant this time of year, is that our audience levels go up. I think, you know what we're going to do here, we're going to start a feature on this program: "Where to find food." For young demographics, where to find food. Now that school is out, where to find food. We can have a daily feature on this. And this will take us all the way through the summer. Where to find food. And, of course, the first will be: "Try your house." It's a thing called the refrigerator. You probably already know about it. Try looking there. There are also things in what's called the kitchen of your house called cupboards. And in those cupboards, most likely you're going to find Ding-Dongs, Twinkies, Lays ridgy potato chips, all kinds of dips and maybe a can of corn that you don't want, but it will be there. If that doesn't work, try a Happy Meal at McDonald's. You know where McDonald's is. There's the Dollar Menu at McDonald's and if they don't have Chicken McNuggets, dial 911 and ask for Obama.

There's another place if none of these options work to find food; there's always the neighborhood dumpster. Now, you might find competition with homeless people there, but there are videos that have been produced to show you how to healthfully dine and how to dumpster dive and survive until school kicks back up in August. Can you imagine the benefit we would provide people?


On February 25, 2010, Limbaugh attacked Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) for telling a story about a woman who was forced to wear her dead sister's dentures because she did not have health insurance or the means to pay for dentures out of pocket, saying:

So if you don't have any teeth, so what? What's applesauce for? Isn't that why they make applesauce?
On December 12, 2011, Limbaugh continued to belittle children who receive free school meals, calling them:

Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the state.
On November 16, 2010, Limbaugh mocked the idea of people "fighting off hunger," saying:

Have you seen people fighting off hunger? But you can actually see it. You go inside Publix or any grocery, you see them walk down the aisles, they're reaching for something, and they don't. It's an amazing thing to watch, people fighting off hunger.
On August 29, 2006, Limbaugh attacked a fundraising campaign for the United Nations' Children Fund (UNICEF), saying:

I mean, for decades, all over the world, we've been beat about the head that there are hungry people out there, that they are starving. UNICEF -- how many of you trick-or-treated for UNICEF? Did you "Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF," Brian? We all did -- did you? We all trick-or-treated. One of the biggest scams on the face of the earth. It was -- the scam was to get everybody loving the United Nations. The scam was to get everybody thinking the United Nations is feeding poor people. Remember all these stories: "A dime a day will feed 20 kids in some outward place around the world"?

[...]

This is what happens when you let the left run things. We've been beat about the head. There are hungry people everywhere. UNICEF got it all started. We've seen the babies with the extended tummies, the walking skeletons, told that kids can't learn unless they're fed. We've been guilted into pouring resources on the problem.
On October 8, 2010, Limbaugh said about economic equality:

[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be slaves. Some people are born to put up with somebody else making every decision for them.
On April 21, 2011, Limbaugh said listeners should ask young people:

Do you know any low-income people who want to get a better job? ... Do they even want to work?
On September 13, 2011, Limbaugh read from a report on appliance ownership of low-income Americans and said:

More than half of poor families with children - defined as poor by our government - have a video game system with either an X-Box or a PlayStation. More than half. I don't even have an X-Box or a PlayStation. The poor have something that I don't have - well, more than half of the poor.
On February 21, 2012, Limbaugh said of low-income people:

n many cases, speaking bluntly, the people that don't do well have only themselves to blame. And those who have no control over themselves are the ones we help.
On April 6, 2011, Limbaugh blasted government safety net programs and those who depend on them:

Democrats get their power by enslaving minorities through welfare. Let's just say it the way it really is. They create a class of utter dependent slaves, people who end up being addicts, who know no other way to get through the day, who know no other way to get through life. ... The Democrat Party is waiting to glom to them, and basically turn them into parasites.







personally, I think the man is miserable,, even with all his money


strangely, I actually feel sorry for him,,,he seems pretty alone and his only purpose seems to be to find flaws and be miserable about everything and everybody,,,

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Sat 03/24/12 02:15 AM

I like him because he can pronounce nuclear.




rofl rofl rofl rofl

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Sat 03/24/12 01:36 AM





so sad that this thread got so completely off-topic!!!


It's completely on-topic:

"It makes sense that this could be helpful for many people as religion has been allowed to run rampant and has been deceptively taught as the only answer to morality, problem solving, recovery, grieving, etc... And in truth it only makes a person sicker in the end. Makes their lives more empty. "


You are doing what the OP did. You're associating "sick" actions with religion without knowing how everyone was taught, what they were taught, the quality of their existense and their mental capacity.
i am not perfect. anyone who would disdain a topic such as this does not have to participate.







agreeing and disagreeing is what keeps these threads going,,,,


whatever the topic,,,


in this particular thread a person was reaching out to certain individials.




terrorists do the same thing,,,but if misinformation is the tactic, its a choice of conscious to offer corrections for those who may be susceptible,,,,

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Sat 03/24/12 01:27 AM



so sad that this thread got so completely off-topic!!!


It's completely on-topic:

"It makes sense that this could be helpful for many people as religion has been allowed to run rampant and has been deceptively taught as the only answer to morality, problem solving, recovery, grieving, etc... And in truth it only makes a person sicker in the end. Makes their lives more empty. "


You are doing what the OP did. You're associating "sick" actions with religion without knowing how everyone was taught, what they were taught, the quality of their existense and their mental capacity.
i am not perfect. anyone who would disdain a topic such as this does not have to participate.







agreeing and disagreeing is what keeps these threads going,,,,


whatever the topic,,,

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Sat 03/24/12 01:19 AM

'sick' was used by whom originally,,,,ehh i forget? one particular word doesnt really matter,,,,but since it was brought up??? many other words can be used in stead.


its just not wise to stereotype a whole group , especially as diverse as the religious or religion,,,,


it was a poor choide of words,,,

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Sat 03/24/12 01:16 AM

so sad that this thread got so completely off-topic!!!


its not really off topic though

'recovery' implies a sickness existed,,,,,


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Sat 03/24/12 01:15 AM

when I watch the "Believers" here slapping each other constantly with Bibleverses,I am content where I am at!laugh



me too,,,

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Sat 03/24/12 01:10 AM







ooops, this has gone off topic, sorry.
My apologies, Dragoness!!!



Yes, let's keep calling the religious sick and dictate how everyone should think...




of course the religious aren`t sick! they never kill for their god`s sake, never commit suicide missions, NEVER judge others. I could never call this sick.



that would be 'human beings',,

human beings kill for their country,, does that make patriots sick by extension?

human beings commit suicide over heartbreaks and extensive ridicule,,does that make the heartbroken and ridiculed sick by extensions?

humans judge others, does that make humans sick by extension?


yes, 'religious' people do all the things non religious people do, but its not the fault of religion or lack of religion, its a symptom of human ego and paranoia,,,


hon, i said 'suicide missions: intent to kill others as well as oneself'



in western culture, we call it murder suicide,, same idea though, take out others with yourself,,,


read the post, then read the further expressions. is there a clear line of thinking?



for me there is,,,

the fatal flaws of human flesh is present in religious and non religious, that doesnt make one entire group 'sick' though,,,

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Sat 03/24/12 12:53 AM



laugh laugh

it must be the late hour,,,,


Yes, must be.

-.-


If I say I agree with you lately, does that confirm it's the late hour?






that and the darkness and stars outside my window,,,confirms it for certain,,,:tongue:

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Sat 03/24/12 12:47 AM





ooops, this has gone off topic, sorry.
My apologies, Dragoness!!!



Yes, let's keep calling the religious sick and dictate how everyone should think...




of course the religious aren`t sick! they never kill for their god`s sake, never commit suicide missions, NEVER judge others. I could never call this sick.



that would be 'human beings',,

human beings kill for their country,, does that make patriots sick by extension?

human beings commit suicide over heartbreaks and extensive ridicule,,does that make the heartbroken and ridiculed sick by extensions?

humans judge others, does that make humans sick by extension?


yes, 'religious' people do all the things non religious people do, but its not the fault of religion or lack of religion, its a symptom of human ego and paranoia,,,


hon, i said 'suicide missions: intent to kill others as well as oneself'



in western culture, we call it murder suicide,, same idea though, take out others with yourself,,,

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Sat 03/24/12 12:41 AM
laugh laugh

it must be the late hour,,,,

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Sat 03/24/12 12:37 AM
Edited by msharmony on Sat 03/24/12 12:38 AM







If you people want some so and so sitting behind a desk in Washington to run your lives for you that your business. Personally I don't.


He doesnt run my life really. But he provides some motivation and support/opposition to the ones in congress that do.

and he represents america/americans to the rest of the world,,,and global relations,,,
All he does for the rest of the world is appologize for the USA





not quite,,,,

Osama bin laden,, gone
Libya
AId to israel
,,,,you get the drift though




LOL ok what exactly did he do to get Osama? Nothing, it was stuff that was already in place and it was the military. Its like giving the CEO of some company the credit for what the Engineers designed. Or even more dramatic than that.



excuse me, he GAVE THE ORDER,,,,

an engineers design is not of much value if it is never USED,,,,

and it shows that he has not just gone around 'apologizing'....


And who gave the order to start the search in the first place? He gave the order big deal. He just happened to be in office when the people doing the real work found him. Anyone in office would have done the same thing.



ANYONE wasnt in office though......

kind of tough to just brush it off as he 'happened' to be in office when something turns out right

but then put direct blame on him for other things that happen in his office

perhaps the job losses you often attribute to him were also the result of people who were doing the 'real work',, and all he did was sign it because he happened to be in office when they came up with the solution?

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Sat 03/24/12 12:35 AM



ooops, this has gone off topic, sorry.
My apologies, Dragoness!!!



Yes, let's keep calling the religious sick and dictate how everyone should think...




of course the religious aren`t sick! they never kill for their god`s sake, never commit suicide missions, NEVER judge others. I could never call this sick.



that would be 'human beings',,

human beings kill for their country,, does that make patriots sick by extension?

human beings commit suicide over heartbreaks and extensive ridicule,,does that make the heartbroken and ridiculed sick by extensions?

humans judge others, does that make humans sick by extension?


yes, 'religious' people do all the things non religious people do, but its not the fault of religion or lack of religion, its a symptom of human ego and paranoia,,,

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