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QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 10:29 AM) Propaganda? Then why does your beloved administration agree with it? Did I miss something? Has Bush come out screaming that the world is about to end and started proposing legislation mandating massive cuts in carbon emissions and a carbon tax? I must not have been paying attention.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 10:26 AM) so the question arises, if this trend is inherently true, then why are we at % levels not equaled since the 20's? even during the go-go 90's and stock market boom of the late 90's/early 00's, we weren't at these levels. Why now? Also, if this trend continues, is this good or bad for the country/economy??? IMO, the answer is neither. I think the trend that will REALLY be bad for the country/economy in the long run will actually be the complete unwillingness people have to live within their means. The subprime mess which we're going through right now is part of that ( people taking out exotic loans to buy homes they can't possibly afford ). People of all economic stripes are ringing up massive amounts of credit card debt just because they want the latest flat panel TV or IPOD the the guy across the street has. There's going to come a time when the consumer rings up so much debt that he has no choice but to start paying for it and that's when the economy will REALLY be in trouble.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 10:21 AM) Duh? The rich get richer and pay a higher percentage of taxes pretty much every year. Yeah, these socialist, class-warfare guys just love to point this stuff out. Didn't you know that it's evil to succeed in this country and enjoy the fruits of your labor?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 07:59 AM) Here's a couple ideas from another site to get the conversation started: And remember, Reagan wasn't about peace. He was the kick ass hardballer that could wipe out armies with a stare. Willing to kill millions if necessary, Not some pussy like we have today. Just ask Nuke I know you are going for hyperbole but there's a lot of truth to that. You know the vast armies of the Soviet Union, the ones that were going to overrun Western Europe and turn the whole continent red? They crumbled before our very eyes without a shot being fired.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 07:05 AM) I guess conservatives have never gotten over Reagan not being awarded one, so this will be predictable. Reagan did more for world peace by lifting his pinky finger than Algore did with his enviro-alarmist propaganda film and chicken little speeches could do in a lifetime. They should re-label this award to read "number one leftist award".

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 9, 2007 -> 10:24 PM) Another questioner mentioned that many people here in the US give Reagan most or all the credit for bringing down the Soviet Union. His answer was let them talk. (big laugh from the crowd). They can, indeed, talk all they want to..........they are right.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 8, 2007 -> 11:36 AM) Here in the D/FW metro area, Irving police chief is deporting people - and it's creating quite the stir. His stance: I'm only enforcing the law, so deal with it. It amazes me that many people get pissed off when the existing laws are actually enforced regarding immigration. YOU EVIL RACIST BASTARD!!!! DON'T YOU REALIZE THESE PEOPLE ARE JUST TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING?!?!!? NEVER YOU MIND THAT THEY ARE STEALING IDENTITIES AND ARE CRIMINALS FROM THE INSTANT THEY CROSS THE BORDER, WE NEED STRAWBERRY PICKERS AND MEAT PACKERS DAMMIT!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299796,00.html This is freekin awesome!!! It's about damn time the government cracked down on states and municipalities that provide safe havens for these criminals. Hopefully this is the start of a new and more aggressive trend to enforce the immigration laws we have on the books and prevent these people from bedding down here.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Oct 8, 2007 -> 09:48 AM) See: Fox News Channel. Yeah, because we know as long in order to qualify as objective a news outfit must toe your leftist party line and be radically antiwar and anti conservative. Spare me.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 7, 2007 -> 11:38 PM) I'm sorry but being liberal, doesn't make you partisan. Nor does being conservative. You're grasping at straws here Rex. Seriously, any organization that is solely focused on one ideology for its scorn checked any hint of objectivity at the door.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299917,00.html What a freekin pansy this guy is! ( Not to mention a hypocrite ). He is trying to use a court, which he is already on record as saying he'd ignore, to try and stop the execution of a brutal rapist and double murderer. This because the s***bag's "rights were violated". Our so-called president doesn't want to do anything about illegal immigration except hand these criminals a free pass to live here in this country and now he doesn't even want to punish them when they commit crimes. Is this weak, hypocritical asshole out of office yet? We need a real conservative in the White House and not some shill for the Mexican government.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 3, 2007 -> 09:52 PM) Everybody knows it's the fault of Bill Clinton's Penis that Jimmy Carter was such a bad president. Nah. It was Carter's lack of balls that made him such a bad president.

Stock market is zooming higher today to start the quarter off. Dow is firmly in record territory now if it can close here.

There's quite a bit to talk about since my last entry. In the time since my last entry here, we've found literally TONS of weapons and ordnance in our troop's sector. Looks like our Al Queda friends were planning a Ramadan surprise for us this month but now that we took away all their toys, I don't think they'll be able to play like they wanted to. Good news! In other news........ Just when you think the system is broken and will never work something pops up and surprises you. We have this one staff sergeant in our platoon who is a real cock smoke. He goes on and on with this wanna-be tough guy facade, but in reality he is totally worthless and lazy when it comes to doing his job out in sector. Well, we finally managed to get this guy s***canned. You see, he has this bad habit of treating our night missions as his personal nap time. If nothing is going on he'll just go to sleep in his truck and leave his guys flapping. There was one instance 2 weeks ago where he was totally zonked out when another unit came into sector to talk to us. Their platoon sergeant drove right up to his truck, opened the door and the s***bag damn near fell all the way out. Last week was the clincher, though. Me and my dismount team found a large weapons cache with a whole mess of bomb making equipment. We tried for about a half an hour to raise this guy on the net to relay reports to our HQ but he was asleep at the switch and did not answer. Finally, he got bumped out of our platoon and into a meaningless job supervising the guys who work in the CP. He won't be able to cause any trouble there. So, all in all it's been a really good last couple of weeks for us.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 1, 2007 -> 09:27 AM) Don't look now, but the Dow is points away from a another closing high... I will be shocked if it closes there, but stranger things have happened. It's very simple really. The stock market never met a rate cut it didn't like. The fact that it was 50 instead of 25 also was a cause for the big whoosh up lately.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 25, 2007 -> 09:31 AM) Actually they are - and Americans are being employed to make them. To say nothing of the fact that the Japanese are able to do that and still clean up the floor with the "Big 3". GM, Ford and Chrysler are paying a heavy price for their arrogance all those years when they thought they were immune to foregin competition.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 25, 2007 -> 09:26 AM) And since Camrys are not made here in the U.S., employing American workers, I think the whole "buy American, protect America" thing has lost some of its footing. Actually, a large number of foregin cars ARE made in America, while an increasing number of "American" cars are made in Canada or Mexico. The lines of "buy American" are very blurry these days.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 09:35 PM) Really, I said they were worth minimum wage, what don't I want to talk about? Many of those guys are operating equipment worth millions of dollars, in the past that equipment took some skill to operate, now it doesn't. The middle class is dying for guys like this. Too bad. Either get an MBA or adjust to a smaller pay check. Sell the house, keep your car longer, send your kids to a public school, perhaps on financial aid. My economy improves when these jobs are moved to Mexico where they belong. You sarcasm aside, you just don't seem to grasp the fact that if these people don't take pay and benefit cuts GM will never be able to compete with the Japanese and these people will be out of work. Thats a much bigger pay and benefit cut than the company is asking for now.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 01:52 PM) Does it take $30+ an hour plus pension plus paid health care to screw on a f***ing bolt or push a button? If you are a member of the UAW..........the answer would be yes. And that's why they wont have anymore jobs left in the near future.

QUOTE(Brian @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 09:07 AM) Nobody should show up. Students, press, nobody. Let him talk to an empty room. I agree with you in principle but it's kind of like a car wreck or a freak show. People will show up out of morbid curiosity.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297738,00.html My favorite part is where he is being welcomed to Columbia U. I think his view of the United States fits right in line with theirs.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 08:38 AM) The President does when he appoints a Federal Reserve Director who he knows is going to push down bond rates at a time when our currency is already under pressure. Pros and cons time of cutting rates. Pros: -Lights a fire under a flagging stock market -Injects liquidity into a banking system which is under enormous pressure from the subprime mess. -Helps stave off recession when we were starting to head that way. Cons: -Makes the weak dollar worse -Pushes down bond rates You can make an argument for both sides when it comes to inflation. Last I read was that annual inflation was running at about 2.1% ( down from 2.2% at the last read ) which is more or less about Bernanke's target but the rate cut will probably start to make inflation turn north again. I guess we'll just have to see where we go from here and if the Fed is going to cut again in October or not.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 08:09 AM) Still hoping for that 1950's Ozzie and Harriet life. No. Still hoping for organizations like the ACLU to quit being such hypocritical assholes. I guess that's just as forlorn a hope as it is hoping for you to quit defending them for it.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 08:17 AM) Check history. Of all your qualities nuke, how well you articulate thoughts is perhaps the most charming. I suppose this is the necessary training you've received and I am certain you represent your bros well. Yes, of course there are men and women from all walks of life in the military. But one white kid from Winnetka doesn't equal 100 Hispanic kids from San Benito, Texas. One white kid flying a plane, doesn't equal 100 less advantaged kids on the front lines walking. And we can go way back to conquering armies imprisoning immigrants and putting them into their army. We could look at armies where the privileged could buy their way out of service. Slaves were sent off to war time after time. Yeah, go look at history. Go look at all the rich young men who risked losing everything to go off and fly for the RAF against the Nazi's even before the U.S. entered WW2. Go look at the men and women who left high paying careers behind to enlist in the army after 9/11 ( I know several of those kind of people personally ). I've been doing this for a long time and I have seen a very broad cross section of the military in my time here. I can state for a fact that there are just as many people from middle/upper class backgrounds as there are poor kids. I stand by my statement and I have just as many examples backing my argument as you have yours. Your condescending attitude and poor attempt at humor just make you look that much more ignorant.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 14, 2007 -> 01:42 PM) Damn, I like O'Reilly and Colbert. O'reilly and Hannity are my favorites. When I'm back home and on the road, I also like to listen to Mike Church on my SIRIUS radio.