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QUOTE (CryptviLL @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 08:54 PM) Mate - I can fully understand the reality and fakes of wrestling. It's just a hobby, comparing this is comparing apples to oranges. It's happened multiple times, what makes me believe anything I hear from this situation. After reading this article maybe you will change your mind: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?con...a&aid=15767 That is part 2 of an amazing 3 part series. After reading the history of that, how can you say what you said to me? Oh goodie. The Trilateral Commission and the Bilderburgs. I think the defense rests on the "tinfoil hat" s***.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 07:57 PM) No, you or Kap get asked for specifics and support and you flail about without ever providing it. The response is always "OMG how can you not know?! It's so obvious!" edit: if you're going to put forth an argument, be prepared to support it. Assertions aren't evidence. I saw SS2k's answer, and yea, that. I used to post links that could/would back up what I'm saying, but it's just looney bulls*** right wing talk that has to be trumped over by HuffPo, so why bother? Kaperbole ™ aside, facts are pretty undeniable unless you want to liberal spin them ad naseum.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 07:40 PM) lol you say that almost like it's my decision Take a pay cut, for the good of the government. s***head.

It has helped me get in touch with old supervisors... which is VITALLY important TODAY.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 12:49 PM) So only money from far right extremists is acceptable? Would the left spend this kind of money on asshatery? ??? I dunno, I'm just asking. Someone else said it, I think, but it's also Tim (slurp) Tebow.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 12:05 PM) It's all fake outrage in the end. This ad changes nothing. But it is kinda odd that the supposed liberal media won't take ads from left wing advocacy groups and even churches who have a slightly left of center message like we don't excommunicate the gays can't get their ads run during network shows that nobody even wants to watch - but when crazy right wing groups like Focus on the Family want to air a purely political advocacy ad during the most watched telecast of the year, its suddenly not an issue for the network anymore. It's $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, nothing more.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 11:36 AM) I apologize. It was directed as a comment to sports fans in general. I should have mentioned that. You're ok in my book, only because you're not a Cubs fan.

Boom goes the dynamite. Balta, you're a troublemaker.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 07:10 AM) I used to be a Pay-Go proponent, even in favor of a balanced budget amendment, as long as a war declaration and wartime spending were exempted. I've since changed my mind, and agree more with SS2K5 - careful use of deficits is sometimes the right way to go. But really, we aren't talking about just any increases here. The federal government's spending hasn't gone up 5% or 20% in the last few years - its gone up by multiples, and that is just not sustainable or viable in the long run. Congress, both the GOP-led and Dem-led, have put us down a path that is not good for anyone, and if we can get even a relative liberal like Obama to agree its time to pull back, then that's great. I agree. There is a piece of good news that has lowered deficit projections, though. TARP has ended up being a much smaller loss than even the optimists anticipated, and that's something pretty amazing, which has helped things out a bit. Instead of being out nearly $1T, we're going to be out more like $100B, minus the gains in the other funds. I'd say that was a worthwhile investment in averting a true financial disaster. That's a farce, because he's passed trillions and trillions in future spending, but only now is he agreeing "its time to pull back". He's increased the baseline so far out that it will take Barack only knows how long to reign it in.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 10:01 PM) Replace the word "Country" with the word "Media" and I'd be happy to agree, but as I said, wrong thread. LMAO. Yea. The MSM is sooooooooooooooooooooo conservative. They are going to be pissing all over themselves tomorrow morning. No, sir, the COUNTRY is more conservative then you want to admit. We don't want to become western Europe-like. I get your point, but you're wrong. :::::: By the way, seriously (again) please don't miss my question in the other thread about the 1 senator holding up things and how that works, because I didn't think that could happen. I'd like to know more.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 09:57 PM) You're right. I can't think of a single time in history when an especially deep recession has ended because of government spending. A great depression, yeah I can think of one of those where it did. Then you are lying, or finding some BS numbers that support your position, because the "great depression" didn't really end until 1942-1943, and that would be because, um, some big war that happened. ETA: I don't want to debate the technical term of what a recession is and how it's defined. I'm talking logically speaking from a productivity/working standpoint, not a GDP number that shows "growth".

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 09:53 PM) I know this is the Republican thread so I have to accept that the media is a bunch of crazy liberals, but it really says something about either the people running the party or the people running the media, or both, that GWB gets a 51-50 minority in the Senate in 2000 and is able to ram through NCLB, 3 batches of tax cuts, the Medicare insurance company bailout bill, the Iraq war, and so on, and is able to every time peel away significant numbers of Dems, and the Dems 6 years later have a much, much stronger majority and are totally unable to do anything, and the moment anyone says anything mean to them they run away screaming. In my opinion (of course) it's because the Democrats don't really stand for anything. Welcome to the dark side... Seriously, though, it does say that the country is more conservative then you would like to admit - again, that's my opinion.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 09:50 PM) Sweet! The Dems have responded to the election by declaring in one voice "WE NEED THE SECOND DIP!" Well, it worked great in 1937. Seriously, at what point does the government stop spending money? When's it "good enough" for you? And when will you figure out that you can't government spend your way out of an especially deep recession?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 09:46 PM) Why? Goldman, JPM, etc., didn't. JPM did, didn't it? Goldman is just ... Goldman.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 09:34 PM) Support for having a head at the TSA is lukewarm at best. I understand that one because they are wanting to unionize the TSA, and frankly, it shouldn't be.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 09:32 PM) How big of a stink would you make if they tried to change the rules so that 1 Senator could no longer block those nominations? They're not actually filibustered, that's a single Senator bringing a hold. The only way to stop that would be to change the rules. Ok, then I'm wrong. Post me a linky, because I don't understand that as being the rules.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 09:30 PM) But if it hurts their profitability to not break the law, isn't it their moral obligation to break the law? You've gotten even more hippier with that Ph.D. (and yes, I'm messing with you).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 09:28 PM) BS. It's because your heroes won't let them pass anything. The Dems are too scared to change the Senate Rules, and the Republicans are using them to the extreme. LMAO. You had 60 votes in the senate and a huge majority in the house. Go pass some s***. Oh wait, you couldn't, because your own party couldn't do it.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 06:33 PM) Amazing. They are finding people alive after a week. I heard this evening that they found 100 people today. That's just awesome, but time's running out.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 12:07 PM) LinkedIn has recommended to me some other SoxTalkers whom I have never communicated with outside of this forum. I don't think I've ever shared my name here and I don't think they have (publicly, at least) either. That creeped me out. Really? I wonder how that happened? There's got to be something coming through on the cookies, but if they're doing that, it is creepy.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 08:36 PM) i mean...hopefully...had Yea, past tense in this case would be good.

I'm sure, also, as Rex was alluding to, this wasn't about Obama and his policies, this was simply about a dumb woman who couldn't run her campaign, right? Wrong. Even in Massachusetts, this was about Obama. That's all I'm going to say on this whole thing.

Supposedly, Coakley just conceded. I gots one thing to say. HELL YES. Go die in a fire, health care bill. BUT... if that's the way it goes, LEAD on this, and get something done instead of nothing. "Nothing" is not an option anymore.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 07:32 PM) i've watched it a dozen times and ... i don't understand the 18 vote majority thing...an 8 vote majority, yes, actually 7 (afterwards) if you include the two independents of the caucus. He was trying to say that they have 18 more seats then the Republicans, but Overbite obviously failed at basic math to understand the difference.

From Rassmussen, the only one who did any kind of exit polling. If that's true Coakley kills him.