Comments on: Bush Uses NAACP Speech To Promote Estate Tax Repeal, Doesn’t Utter The Word ‘Poverty’ http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:05:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jim Crow Laws Employment Law Us Supreme Court http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-4653840 Jim Crow Laws Employment Law Us Supreme Court Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:01:40 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-4653840 <strong>Jim Crow Laws Employment Law Us Supreme Court</strong> I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view Jim Crow Laws Employment Law Us Supreme Court

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]]> By: Martin L http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-4329698 Martin L Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:59:20 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-4329698 <strong>Martin L</strong> your ideas make me want to start rigth now Martin L

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]]> By: robert w soesia http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-1743888 robert w soesia Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:35:09 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-1743888 I am not sure, but what right has the government to tax someone's death estate. I mean, the individual person worked for the money and already paid the tax that was due. Why does the government think that they have any right to it again. I am not sure, but what right has the government to tax someone’s death estate. I mean, the individual person worked for the money and already paid the tax that was due. Why does the government think that they have any right to it again.

]]> By: scott wood http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-1463150 scott wood Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:16:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-1463150 Bush isn't a racist. some of you are just turning what he says around to sound racist. We don't live in the sixties anymore, let it go. Bush isn’t a racist. some of you are just turning what he says around to sound racist. We don’t live in the sixties anymore, let it go.

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-684216 big papa Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:01:48 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-684216 <em>I passed the bar on the first time, too!!!! How lucky was that???</em> Comment by mighty aphrodite #142 <strong>puny hermaphrodite, ...so your pimp gives good directions... ...no need to brag about that!</strong> I passed the bar on the first time, too!!!! How lucky was that???

Comment by mighty aphrodite #142

puny hermaphrodite,

…so your pimp gives good directions…

…no need to brag about that!

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-684215 big papa Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:59:20 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-684215 <strong>The NAACP has relegated itself into the closet of stagnancy and ineffectiveness... ...for them to even invite the TRAITOR and criminal Bushiva to address them... ...shows how out of touch with THEIR constituency they are... ..."et tu NAACP?"</strong> The NAACP has relegated itself into the closet of stagnancy and ineffectiveness…

…for them to even invite the TRAITOR and criminal Bushiva to address them…

…shows how out of touch with THEIR constituency they are…

…”et tu NAACP?”

]]> By: mighty aphrodite http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683758 mighty aphrodite Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:21:56 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683758 Shamaaan Braid Fair opines, " If your posts are any indication of your lawyering skills, it’s a wonder you are still admitted to practice!" ******Can you imagine??? I passed the bar on the first time, too!!!! How lucky was that??? whew!!! I'm confident your intellectual prowess and razor-sharp recall will serve you well taking the bar. A big SWAK for confirming the info I vaguely remember having read eons ago. Your cited information CONFIRMS my argument - - that keyboard must have gotten away from you!! HA! Shamaaan Braid Fair opines, ” If your posts are any indication of your lawyering skills, it’s a wonder you are still admitted to practice!”
******Can you imagine??? I passed the bar on the first time, too!!!! How lucky was that??? whew!!! I’m confident your intellectual prowess and razor-sharp recall will serve you well taking the bar.

A big SWAK for confirming the info I vaguely remember having read eons ago. Your cited information CONFIRMS my argument – - that keyboard must have gotten away from you!! HA!

]]> By: Parrotlover77 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683620 Parrotlover77 Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:46:56 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683620 A successful owner? That sounds like something a slave master would say to a fellow slave master friend. So we now define success based on how well people "own" things. This ownership society thing is really twisted. A successful owner? That sounds like something a slave master would say to a fellow slave master friend.

So we now define success based on how well people “own” things. This ownership society thing is really twisted.

]]> By: bones http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683353 bones Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:47:46 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683353 It's up on Crooks and Liars, note Bush didn't have the balls to have the secret Service wade thru a crowd of African Americans to remove that protester, just people like Cindy Sheehan and congressmen's wives at the State of the union. It’s up on Crooks and Liars, note Bush didn’t have the balls to have the secret Service wade thru a crowd of African Americans to remove that protester, just people like Cindy Sheehan and congressmen’s wives at the State of the union.

]]> By: jahan http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683343 jahan Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:32:02 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683343 From what I understand from listening to Air America this morning, Bush was indeed heckled. I can't find a full transcript yet.. but the WHITE house transcript had replaces the heckling incindents with "(applause)" . Awesome. From what I understand from listening to Air America this morning, Bush was indeed heckled. I can’t find a full transcript yet.. but the WHITE house transcript had replaces the heckling incindents with “(applause)” . Awesome.

]]> By: Briseadh na Faire http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683155 Briseadh na Faire Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:40:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683155 This must come as a complete surprise to you, Mighty Aphrodite, but you are WRONG!!! <blockquote>[S]ingle mothers with dependent children have the highest rate of poverty across all demographic groups (Olson & Banyard, 1993). Approximately 60 percent of U.S. children living in mother-only families are impoverished, compared with only 11 percent of two-parent families. The rate of poverty is even higher in African-American single-parent families, in which two out of every three children are poor. http://hec.osu.edu/famlife/bulletin/volume.1/bullart1.htm</blockquote> Then there's this: <blockquote>The vast majority of children who are raised entirely in a two-parent home will never be poor during childhood. By contrast, the vast majority of children who spend time in a single-parent home will experience poverty. http://www.family.org/cforum/fosi/marriage/facts/a0028317.cfm</blockquote> The way you do research, I could probably make a good practice out of representing your former clients in legal malpractice actions! This must come as a complete surprise to you, Mighty Aphrodite, but you are WRONG!!!

[S]ingle mothers with dependent children have the highest rate of poverty across all demographic groups (Olson & Banyard, 1993). Approximately 60 percent of U.S. children living in mother-only families are impoverished, compared with only 11 percent of two-parent families. The rate of poverty is even higher in African-American single-parent families, in which two out of every three children are poor.

http://hec.osu.edu/famlife/bulletin/volume.1/bullart1.htm

Then there’s this:

The vast majority of children who are raised entirely in a two-parent home will never be poor during childhood. By contrast, the vast majority of children who spend time in a single-parent home will experience poverty.

http://www.family.org/cforum/fosi/marriage/facts/a0028317.cfm

The way you do research, I could probably make a good practice out of representing your former clients in legal malpractice actions!

]]> By: Al http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683137 Al Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:26:48 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683137 Yo, Night Owl is the shiizniit daaawg Yo, Night Owl is the shiizniit daaawg

]]> By: common sense http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683129 common sense Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:19:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683129 I think it is clear. George Bush does not care about african americans and will not rest until every each and every one of them is completely miserable...Yup thats it...Yo, gotta run... BET is "Night Owl" is on...Holla! I think it is clear. George Bush does not care about african americans and will not rest until every each and every one of them is completely miserable…Yup thats it…Yo, gotta run… BET is “Night Owl” is on…Holla!

]]> By: Briseadh na Faire http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683121 Briseadh na Faire Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:59:05 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683121 <em><blockquote>BUT the largest single predictor if a child is more LKELY to live in poverty TODAY is having married parents. Comment by mighty aphrodite — July 20, 2006 @ 8:14 pm</blockquote></em> yawn...another statement of fact without an iota of data to back up the claim by our resident "attorney at law." If your posts are any indication of your lawyering skills, it's a wonder you are still admitted to practice!
BUT the largest single predictor if a child is more LKELY to live in poverty TODAY is having married parents.

Comment by mighty aphrodite — July 20, 2006 @ 8:14 pm

yawn…another statement of fact without an iota of data to back up the claim by our resident “attorney at law.” If your posts are any indication of your lawyering skills, it’s a wonder you are still admitted to practice!

]]> By: snuh http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683108 snuh Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:35:27 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683108 capacities for outrage are not what they once were, if bush can get away with openly saying his policies are designed to benefit "the investor class". capacities for outrage are not what they once were, if bush can get away with openly saying his policies are designed to benefit “the investor class”.

]]> By: Cyra Brown http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683083 Cyra Brown Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:01:13 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683083 GWB missed a great opportunity to mention how Laura's program for ending 'gang violence' is going. Bummer, you'd think it would merit a mention, and be a chance to praise the 'little woman' as well. Maybe next time. GWB missed a great opportunity to mention how Laura’s program for ending ‘gang violence’ is going. Bummer, you’d think it would merit a mention, and be a chance to praise the ‘little woman’ as well. Maybe next time.

]]> By: JoeWo Joe Wosik Blog » Blog Archive » African Americans http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683039 JoeWo Joe Wosik Blog » Blog Archive » African Americans Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:52:17 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683039 [...] and the estate tax.  WOW!!!!!!!! [...] [...] and the estate tax.  WOW!!!!!!!! [...]

]]> By: Frozen North http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683035 Frozen North Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:50:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683035 Can you picture the scene? Bush tells his staff he's going to talk to the NAACP. Their jaws drop. He ignores that, says "I'm the Decider. And I'm going to talk about the death tax." And the staff faints. Can you picture the scene? Bush tells his staff he’s going to talk to the NAACP. Their jaws drop. He ignores that, says “I’m the Decider. And I’m going to talk about the death tax.” And the staff faints.

]]> By: Impeachcheneythenbush http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/comment-page-3/#comment-683027 Impeachcheneythenbush Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:33:21 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/bush-naacp/#comment-683027 # 76 If you don't know by now that every day is "opposite" day for GW and that you can't trust a single word he (and his speech writers) say, then you are simply a mole on this board. # 76
If you don’t know by now that every day is “opposite” day for GW and that you can’t trust a single word he (and his speech writers) say, then you are simply a mole on this board.

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