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QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 10:40 PM) Oh, no i full support my statement that the southern people offer nothing productive to this country besides anti-muslim, anti-mexican rhetoric. And, yeah so where do the republicans disagree on torture? Show me where they don't want to torture? Ok, so I'm anti-muslim, anti-mexican? And show me where they do. It's Kraptacular ™, you know, to label a whole lot of people that way. Just like it's Kraptacular ™ for me to label all Dems as dope smoking long haired hippee people who want to contract AIDS through free love events. Yea. Ok, ok. I really will leave now.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 10:12 PM) I don't recall calling you a bucktoothed unedumacated southern bumpkin. Those words are beneath me. Sadly, you can't refute anything. Party of torture. Party of fiscal irresponsibility. Compared to who? The Demys, who hold the same policies, only are more fiscally irresponsible? Republicans = torture? Really? GMAFB. That's ignorant, nevermind the definition of torture, but that's a totally different argument and not the point. And bmags, yes, you implied the whole "southern-ignoramous" thing in two ways, not just one. But I guess at least I'm not a "bucktoothed unedumacated southern bumpkin" like the rest of my "southern" counterparts. Or something. I'll go away now for a couple of days. Oui, Oui - going to Montreal, if I can get out of snowy Dallas.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 09:41 PM) You know the sad thing? You guys scream about how terrible it is that taxes go up, that the government takes over everything, and you never bother thinking what the end result of the climate change we're talking about is going to be. What do you think is going to happen if a corn crop fails? Or if water becomes more scarce out west? Or if the sea genuinely encroaches on people's land. Who is going to wind up paying for all that? Who's going to be making the decisions about who gets to keep their house and who has to move? Who's going to wind up paying for the things we say are coming? Rebuilding New Orleans, that evil government didn't spend any of our tax dollars on that, right? Hell, guess who's butting in on snow removal in D.C.? FEMA! That evil, expansionist Demycrat government you guys are so scared of, that health care bill you're so terrified of is going to be nothing compared to how much the government is going to wind up controlling people's lives and taxing you silly to try to mitigate the effects of what we say is coming. It's because the only solution doesn't have to be government to every single answer that ails us. NO ONE has ever said we shouldn't try to achieve solutions to issues. But, we don't have to listen to "government saves" as the only answer.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 09:42 PM) Really Kap? You feel like you have the right to lecture us about the tone of things? Yes, I do, but no one can tell you anything anyway. So since I said, A, did you mean Asub1? Cause I really read that over here, and that has to be it. That's really what you meant because you cannot be that stupid after working in the field for 15 years. The NYTimes reporter has to be right! There's a difference between Harry Reid is an asshole, and I'm just a bucktoothed, unedumacated southern bumpkin who doesn't believe in fairy tale land. Or, because there's a fallacy of "scientific research" because over 1.5 million years now all of a sudden equals 10 years. Man, I can go on forever here.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 09:23 PM) Please. That's really the entire point, now isn't it? And you wonder why Democrats get branded as liberal knuckleheads that want to do nothing but ram their utopia up everyone's ass? Let's see now - if people don't think like you or disagree, they're labeled and have a bunch of ad hominem attacks placed against them, yet, it's the gosphel when you read it in some liberalsfordumbassescomedrinkmykoolaid.com website. This isn't "Democrat" or "Republican" at this point, it's outright ignorance. To just generically rant over a party and their ideas shows why Democrats can't get anything done. Because they're fundamentally wrong and unwilling to embrace anything else. It's never as simple as "they are for it before they are against it"... oh the irony. But to you, it is. Because you want it to be in your utopia, fraa laaa make believe world. Someday, people will arrive at the real world and actually solve issues instead of over-reaching. And by the way, that goes for both parties. And by default, if the Republicans mean it, less government - better. But they don't. So they're just assholes in a different kind of way, but not a stupdity laced rant by some people who love utopia that cannot exist.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 09:08 PM) And a reminder that he has an opposable thumb. But what if I'm a cow? How could I type?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 09:17 PM) Funny that is exactly how I felt arguing with you in the finance thread. +1

3.0 to 4.5 million years ago, something happened. In 10 years, the same thing that took thousands of years will happen, and we will all DIE~~~~~~D That's hilarity and instanity for you.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 06:00 PM) I am still amazed that more people weren't killed. It's because W ordered out the Jews. How's that loosey changey? Note: we don't need to debate this, just sayin' is all.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 08:07 PM) as long as poor, subsidized, welfare southern and mid-mountain west states get representation in our society, we are going to be worse off. woot! i goed backed and crawul in muh hoed neow.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 07:30 PM) Yeah kap, that really wasn't what was being talked about, people in this thread were talking about specific times where the Republicans in Congress were being useless and/or hypocrites and not just saying "republicans like to say no" but ok. I probably wouldn't bother saying anything if you didn't come into the Dem thread which is basically for people to rant about how much Republicans suck, and pretty much say the same thing over and over and over. The point is, if they suck, at least be correct in your falsifying. Republicans do suck, but the righteous "Dems are better" is crap.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 06:59 PM) kap that whole line of "attack" (for lack of a better word) was pretty much supported by specific examples of the Republicans doing what they/we were saying they were doing whereas you just blurted out "Dems suck and want to control you" (for, like... I don't know, the 150th time in this thread) Dems want: control of health care system taxation of carbon dioxide regulations on every industry related to one and two above (all this equals taking away "property" or "wealth" of individuals to funnel into gov't) bmags said: repbs just want to say no and no and no and tax cuts and TORTURE (holy f***!) and that's about it, which is patently false. Therefore, my statements are just as "stupid and predictible" as his, and that's the point. If my statements are "false" and "examples" then so are his.

Those Dems are so good at solving everything and everyone's problems, aren't they? You totally missed the point of that, but you don't want to see it, either.

If that's the repub. platform, then the dem. platform is: take over you and your property take over you and your property take over you and your property take over you and your property and take over you and your property. If you think my statement is crap, then yours is just as crappy.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEK. I hear that vice turning.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 04:01 PM) internet has apparently slow to terrible for a week there. I don't know if videos/tweets will get out like they have on previous days, but I'll start a thread soon for all the developments. A lot of brave YOUNG people are putting their lives at risk for the hope that the future generations have a democratic Iran (And I think as a secular democracy, Iran would be the most effective and vibrant in the ME) BUt tomorrow will also show whether brutal oppression will win out the way it did in China. I don't believe the hangings did anything to really deter the green movement, but pro-gov't militias will be doing very devious s*** tomorrow. I have to wonder what Mousavi will do tomorrow. With his nephew being killed, if he continues to try and not be too much of an agitator, or if he really stands up tomorrow. This is just another step in a long process, but I hope this is the beginning of bringing the tyrants to their knees, and not the beginning of another example of how to crush insurrection. I think on that point we can all agree.

I think there's some people in here that are going to get their testacles squeezed in a vice and then won't be talking s*** like they are now... but carry on like you own the world.

Man, that sucks. RIP, Phil. Great memories.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Feb 9, 2010 -> 01:33 PM) I knew the urine I sent you would be golden. It was golden all right.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Feb 9, 2010 -> 01:29 PM) But I think he has a point about it. For example, the stimulus plan is about half tax cuts and half spending, the bulk of which are for infrastructure projects. Every specific project within the stimulus plan enjoys broad support. But the overall plan doesn't. The part about this article that I don't agree with is that it basically absolves the politicians. Politicians have taken advantage of the fact that the media doesn't really cover issues anymore, they cover horseraces instead. The stories are never about the policies themselves and whether they work, but about how popular the unexplained policies are. So its really really really easy to simultaneously support and oppose the same piece of legislation and get away with it. Because unless your John Kerry and literally say "I was for it before I was against it," nobody will really notice anymore. And that's the worst part. No one can be straight forward enough about what's really going on with anything anymore. I mean, if you're Obama (Democrats) you can't say that you have billions in there for SEIU and NEA paybacks. If you're Republicans, you can't say that there's "tax cuts" in the bill. It goes both ways, and it runs deep. And it just flat out sucks. Everyone's trying to get their special interests covered without being accountable to anyone but their lobbyists.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 9, 2010 -> 01:24 PM) Notice how the only people of expertise who count to you as having expertise are the ones who agree with you. Say it ain't so! There's no telling you anything, because you already know more about it then people who work in the field every day.

Note: It's funny how evil things are even when people are in those areas of expertise say it's not so. We gotta keep blasting those "corporations are evil" lines. Carry on.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 6, 2010 -> 10:55 PM) It'd be easier to accept ss2k5's statement if numerous statements were not made in this thread of "ohp markets tanked moments after obamas stimulus speech heheheheheeh" "oooop markets went down as soon as the day opened after his health care speech hehehehehehehe" all over this thread. Okay, but they did. Just saying.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 6, 2010 -> 09:15 PM) it's okay, keeping 0 inflation is all that matters. Which will prove over time to be impossible. So what next?

Yes, we get it. Obama is the master and messiah. No one could have done it better. All hail Barackus the Great. "Government Saves".