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QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 07:57 PM) well, i can't wait to implement the policy of shooting teenagers anytime they do something stupid in this country. That's the best population control I have ever heard.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 07:44 PM) For about a year. Wrong, again. 2018-2019.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 06:33 PM) Wait, you are going to get worse? I knew that was coming, the question was, who would post it first?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 05:32 PM) She is 13, and definitely old enough to know better. I only did that because she obviously wasn't listening before. When she loses her key she tries to lie about it and leaves the door unlocked/tries to substitute it with the screen door etc. I think she got the point this time. I did tell her if she loses this key, she loses the phone (which like I said she seems to have no problem keeping track of). She didn't have any money, but a new key cost about the same as a sundae, so... Tell her next time she's going to get a drillhole through the center of the phone with a keychain put through it. Then maybe she won't lose it. I'm going to be such an asshole when my kids get older and understand that their actions have equal and unjustified reactions.

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 06:10 PM) Throwing rocks at people with guns is dumb. They deserved to be shot based on stupidity alone. We're all supposed to sit, join hands, sing kumbayah, and praise green. That's the new way of peace in Amerikkka.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 02:21 PM) "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," "Hit Back Twice As Hard" "Get in Their Faces!" "I don't want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I'm angry!" So I know whose a$$ to kick." Change we can believe in.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 08:44 AM) Sorry Kap, but as you said in the Arizona thread, the law is the law. Lifting that law would be an illegal act. And we don't want to give the impression that we just vehemently enforce the laws regarding brown people regardless of the situation but then throw those laws out the window the moment we want to start doing some union-bashing, now do we? Absolutely incorrect. I don't even have to go any further.

Yea, I said exactly this somewhere in the last month. They have to have a kick ass June, and so far it's not bad. It would give them a shot.

QUOTE (Palehosefan @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 07:57 PM) Pac 10 commish flew in personally today to hand out invites to OU, Okie State, and will be in Texas soon. A&M is apparently close to accepting an offer to the SEC. That would be the perfect situation for me. It seems Kansas would be the favorite to take A&M's place. There's going to be a LOT of pissed off people in Texas if that happens. It would be a shame to see that rivalry go down the crapper.

QUOTE (T R U @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 12:04 AM) youth and energy will always be superior Until you shrivel up and die.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 05:48 PM) Jeremy, come on. It's not a personal attack. I have nothing against Bren, and I have nothing against Chase Blackwood the person, just as I'm sure J4L doesn't either. A personal attack would not constitute my posting an OPS figure. That's baseball. We talk baseball here. That's all I got, man. You knew exactly what you were doing when you posted that. But, I certainly am not going to sit here and say it was an "attack". It was just kind of a tacky post at that point in the thread.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 05:08 PM) I believe it's a reference to Obama not putting a temporary moratorium on the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (Jones Act), to allow foreign vessels to help with the cleanup. Yes, and which, by the way, was lifted almost immediately by one George W. Bush in the aftermath of Katrina. Here's the bottom line. You put aside the political favors and BS in a time like this. Somehow, our genius of a f***tard president hasn't figured that out yet.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 04:00 PM) And they blew up building 7 with demolition equipment. If the administration would actually show some initiative (especially in the cleanup effort - i.e. rejecting international help, catoring to unions to keep state regulations in place while rejecting equipment), I might not be inclined to think that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 03:56 PM) I think the point is pretty obvious. When John McCain proposes it and debates on it and keeps going with it for months, you have no problem with it. When Obama doesn't even include it in his health care proposal, you decide it sounds like a great way to smear him since it was a horrible idea when McCain proposed it, so you decide to declare that we should all trust you, it'll wind up in the law and it'll be awful. I had no problem with it? Really? Show me where I endorsed John McCain. That, and immigration, were two of the biggest reasons I had to wear rubber gloves when I voted. John McCain would have never gotten that through, but that's something that I doubt you'll understand.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 03:57 PM) Oh, so you can dish it out but you can't take it. Yeah. Democrats want illegal immigrants in the country for the votes, but those pure hearted conservatives don't sully themselves with such trifles. I don't want them here because they are ILLEGAL. But I just don't want them here for votes. Got it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 03:47 PM) Oh come on. When you have a crime scene, you don't let the suspect control the scene for 6 months even if they're paying for the cleanup. Let's see, then. Instead of going up to the stage and beating the s*** out of someone, you do it silently and not make a big show of beating up the suspect. In this case, we can't do that, now can we? We have to "kick some ass" so that we can shut down the oil production in this country. The worse the spill is, the more people will get pissed off at oil companies. That's what Barackus the Great is counting on, and right now, they're willing to take the heat for that opportunity. That's exactly what this has become.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 03:48 PM) Oh, so that's why you're trying to get rid of Latinos, so that they don't vote Democrat. At least you're honest. Rght. I'm a racist, bigoted, money grubbing, oil drilling piece of s*** because I'm a conservative. Keep the stereotypes going once again.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 03:51 PM) Funny, because this was John McCain's explicit campaign proposal for how the Republicans would reform health care if they won in 2008. Funny, I don't give a s***. That's not the point, now is it? You always want to deflect back to something that's not relevant.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 03:02 PM) my job. Okay, let me explain a couple of things to you. And it's not "anecdotal", it's fact. In 2011, it is VERY likely you will see the amount the health insurance costs reported as income. This does two things. 1) Of course, your reportable wages just went up. You will now pay to the government what used to be paid to insurance companies. 2) Because you just had an increase of taxable wages, a s***load of people are going to creep up in brackets and you'll have to pay even more in taxes. Most people are going to go from 10% (oh, wait, 15%, because ALL brackets go up, not just the "rich" like people want to say...) to the 28% bracket (yea, because the 25% bracket is completely eliminated). 3) They ain't fixing the AMT anymore after this year. And health care is going to knock a lot of people into that situation - oh wait, unless you go with their plans. DING DING DING... there's the plan, right there. The government just took over your health care. So, in summary, the government just stole a s***load more money from a s***load more people. They just reduced money in the private sector yet again. Those "subsidies"? You have to meet about 6,235,346 requirements to even SNIFF the subsidies because the way the law was written. And I haven't even gotten into the sucker punch of employer plans. They won't exist in three years (at most five), because they can't. ::: On another point, for all of the talk about "bending the cost curves", it's simple to do. SO simple. Reduce medicare rates. Who controls that? Oh, the government. Har. Doctor offices usually charge 200% of medicare rates as usual and customary. That's how the rates are determined, so the government sets the rates anyway. Reimbusement is then negotiated between carriers and insurance comanies, but not anymore, because the insurance companies cannot negotiate new rates without going through the government now. ::: And you wonder why I keep saying it *IS* government run health care without the words government run health care written in the bill. It's because it is.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 11:11 AM) Is it really a state's job to do that though? Can a state prosecute someone based on federal law? First, how about the federal government doing their job? Oh, wait, we need those democrat voters. Second, they are getting turned over if there's anything found re: citizenship.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 11:23 AM) Well, first point...it's in U.S. waters, it is a U.S. licensed rig, the U.S. owns the mineral rights, and the U.S. would be taking royalties on the oil that was sold. It is a U.S. problem involving a multi-national company that the U.S. licensed to do the drilling. Second point; as I noted a few pages ago; other nations with expertise in these areas have offered help. The U.S. Obama Adminstration turned them down.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 11:21 AM) A finding of criminal negligence is 100% required by the law in order to be able to impose the $4300/barrel fine. If you don't want the DOJ in there, then all you're doing is protecting BP from a fine of a few tens of billions of dollars. Riiiiiiiiiiight, here we go again, I'm PROTECTING BP. Now really, who's protecting whom? There's a time and place for the legal crap, and it's after they stop the damn oil from coming out of that pipe.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 11:31 AM) Since this got bumped...why not post this. And every subsequent report shows that the costs are going well UP, not down, and don't forget that well over half the people who weren't covered chose not to be covered.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 09:09 AM) So what do you think of Arizona rewriting US citizenship laws? And I believe we wil agree on this. Something needs to be done, the walk over and give birth situation is out of control. But the way Arizona is going about it is wrong. We need to change the Constitution, which needs to be done nationally. I'd even go so far as to say it makes Arizona look even crazier, if that was possible. Let's see if they pass this first.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 08:59 AM) So you believe he should be on a ship in the gulf until this is finished? Of course not. But he needs to show leadership and get the people in place to resolve the issue (oh wait, let me send Eric Holder and lawyers to sue... criminal investigations, etc... yea!!!!!!!, that will help resolve the crisis). But he has no clue who to send or what to do. Everything is reactionary, and he's doing NOTHING to get rid of the beauarcracy in place to get things moving toward a resolution.