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If you are using Game Change to paint your whole view of this person I find that kind of sad. They gave inside stories on really tense moments specifically on the campaign. I guess that drowns out all the personal work she did for so much good. Because she swore at people who weren't doing a good job on the campaign.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Dec 7, 2010 -> 07:41 PM) And now, for the most disturbing "trend" I've heard about in, oh, a million years: stay at home daughters. Man, I wish someone could just take these women into a different environment and show them just how strong and amazing they can be for a week, and see if they go back.

QUOTE (KipWellsFan @ Dec 7, 2010 -> 04:42 AM) A lot more satisfying if he can also get START and or DADT. I really hope that people weren't holding back a yes vote for repealing DADT to get tax cuts. "Gays in the military will be the end of our dominance as we know it, everyone will be distracted by everyone being gay all the time, gay gay, oh tax cuts? They're alright."

Why not st. louis or KC?

check out crede's stats last year.

I think it will be a good bowl game v. iowa but god damn there's no way in hell i'm traveling to arizona.

I really don't think that call was questionable. A blow that hard to the head is clearly done to injure someone. The league is trying to have less of that.

I'm so f***ing sick of Mizzou getting passed over in bowl time.

we don't jail cigarette smokers.

whatever, as long as it's not permanent. I'm more concerned with QE2 at the moment.

My fried just moved to Seoul. I'm very worried about this.

I didn't get to read the whole thread, it seems to have taken a different turn. But did anyone hear the election week this american life where they examined a tea party group in Michigan. It was very interesting. I'll try to look for it.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 22, 2010 -> 06:20 AM) NIU is my second favorite college team (going to Mizzou next year, so it takes top spot, but both parents went to NIU and it was my fall back school). I was at the NIU - U of I game and NIU almost won that game, so I think they could beat U of I in a bowl game. If only they had a bigger stadium, the Big 12 might ask for them to join. no we wouldn't.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 21, 2010 -> 06:40 PM) I'm like 2K5, I'm not into reading politicians' memoirs, even the ones I like. However there's a couple of exceptions - Al Franken's books (Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them and The Truth With Jokes) because he's hilarious and he wrote those before he became a senator, and Robert Wexler's Fire Breathing Liberal because it's actually pretty educational, and it's more "what it's like being a Democratic Congressman" than it is a polemic. You should read Grant's memoir.

why does the right talk about Obama so much? They are playing right into his hands

QUOTE (beckham15 @ Nov 16, 2010 -> 03:22 AM) privatizing social security would be nice but figuring out a successful way to do it w/out screwing over the people who have put into it all these years and are collecting it now would be the issue i would have with it oneway would be to move over their money to more secure bonds the closer they get to retirement age so they are less averse to risk.

Justin Bieber has a memoir.

stonewall jackson.

Aldon Smith is awesome.

Grants memoir was truly great.

pop punk is great.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 5, 2010 -> 03:27 AM) i was trying to make a point and got carried away. I know...i just think the "you shouldn't worry about how much taxes are b/c it's not that much" thing is just way too personal. But perhaps my ways are way too wonky.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 5, 2010 -> 02:17 AM) BTW I've gradually worked into the tax brackets where I really start to feel the pinch and here's my opinion on that... the truth is, if your taxes are killing your finances or otherwise putting a painful dent in your budget, you really suck at managing finances. Some people who make $120k or so need a reality check on what's essential to their life and what's really going to hurt if they didn't have it. They aren't as rich as they like to think they are but they probably live in a neighborhood in the suburbs next to someone who makes $1M or whatever, and their kids go to the same school, etc. Stuff that is essential to virtually everyone and most people struggle to pay month to month (in this order): Mortgage Car Payment Groceries Utilities Insurance (health, auto, homeowners etc) Phone/Internet/Cable Home security system (if it can be afforded) Stuff that some yuppies in my tax bracket think falls into the above category but the vast majority of people see as a luxury: Sending kids to private school Putting a significant amount into savings every month (like 20%. This is NOT an expense) 529 for kids' college Landscaper and/or maid Annual vacation Home improvement You get the idea but it's always like "if my taxes go up (like... a couple of percent) I won't be able to go to Europe next year while I do all these other things! Seriously now. None are as entitled as those who were born into privilege. Tell that to my parents 15 years ago when they were working just as hard but making 1/4 that, they'd have LOVED to have a problem like that. I think you are getting muddled down in an unwinnable argument. This was a little too micro.

what the hell are the numbers in this thread. Caulfield man, you throw like a billion arguments at once. I'll respond to NS72, i don't think Obama has to attack boehner or cooperate with boehner, I think obama should just get his damn fed appointments thru and focus on foreign policy.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 4, 2010 -> 01:39 PM) I still actually don't mind the Senate having a gigantic that must be overcome for the biggest of the biggest of legislation on principle...I'd actually say that is somewhat consistent with the originalist idea of the Senate as a place where things go to slow down...but I despise the current version of the filibuster...where everything other than naming a post office is subject to it, the Senate can't get anything done, and there is zero effort required from the minority to use it. I understand they wanted the senate to cool down but i also understand they were giving a bunch of power to a largely illiterate and incredibly uneducated population. Even if i'm convinced that the bicameral legislature is fantastic, then i'd say that in itself is a huge check, and we don't need a gigantic supermajority in the second stage just to be a check on the first. If it's easier to create a bad idea, it's also easier to repeal it.