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because we went into debt for a broken system EVERYONE MUST GO INTO GREATER DEBT

wellp, so the one thing that unites conservatives and liberals on this site is our hatred of texas...(politicians...)...(i guess)

QUOTE (vandy125 @ Feb 2, 2010 -> 08:10 PM) Exactly, I've heard of some of this and am pretty annoyed that I've been working hard and responsibly paying off my loans. Why should my taxes go to pay off someone else's loan who is not being responsible? what indication is showing that they are not being responsible?

balta and his science comics

Haha, great great thread. Wonderful story by Reuters, news industry at the top of their game. Also, the middle class doesn't benefit from medicare? Our military dominance? Social security? Highways? Your meat not being infested with diseases? Your medicine doing what it actually claims to do? Scholarship programs? News to me.

why would kreutz being gone be a bad thing?

i think the last two wilco albums are the epitomy of sitting on your laurels.

they signed the deal before knowing how much it was for?/green

plus the millions of very popular apps. Just email and video?

ah, so they are for the type that doesn't cover anyone new, doesn't control costs, and lets the insurance companies move to the state of lowest regulations and go wild? Brilliant. Also, have your taxes gone up 100% the last ten years? Are they projected to go up more than 100% in the next ten and twenty? Hmmm...no? Huh. Interesting. Guess you would be saving more money this way then.

What are you talking about with serfs.

serfs didn't get paychecks.

bahahaha

the friendship bracelet compilation volume 3 is here: http://www.mediafire.com/?nkmtayjytzy

just for continuity's sake, mbinaa

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Jan 31, 2010 -> 03:36 AM) Health of the pitching staff fell apart at the wrong time. That team could mash the ball, though. The last season of the old ballpark was a lot of fun but heartbreaking in its own right, especially now knowing that the A's were led by a couple of cheaters. I am just amazed at how many posters here are actually buying into the whole garbage notion that Cubs fans have suffered the most. If you look at all the franchises in baseball, you will see that out of 100+ world series, the Yankees have represented the AL about a third of the time and won about 25% of the total. The Cardinals are the Yankees of the NL, though a poor man's one at that. The Red Sox dominated early in the 1900s and then finally resurrected the franchise in the past decade or so. After that, not many teams have had any significant number of pennants of note. For the most part, it is stories like the White Sox, Phillies, Indians, Orioles, Reds, Pirates, etc. Periods of fielding very competitive teams, an occasional pennant or title, and some really bad stretches as well. Every one of these franchises can point to a whole host of heartbreaking times where they were so close to a pennant and a player got hurt or the team hit a bad stretch or the Yankees f***ed them like they did so many times to the Sox in the 50s and 60s (with the Indians and Tigers experiencing a lot of the same pain during that stretch). I scoff at the idea that any one of their fan bases has suffered more than the rest. God damn it you are wonderful.

bad as the mariners O is I think they get the weird year this year and take the west.

Hey, congrats florida, for once the f'd up news story didn't happen in your state!

2003 hit the hardest for me. 1994 I was just confused as hell being 8 years old. But that year I got one of those fake autographed balls signed by the whole team, I looked at it so much i rubbed off all the signatures in like a month. I love those memories. Also...there was a mascot then, that I loved...it was a dog?

Ahh question time was hilarious. How rare these people are faced with reality

The left know exactly what to do, the problem is that senators with populations in total less than 1 million get to control what to do.

Well, its clearly a difference from 2 years ago, where our best prospects could be marginal players. Now we have 5-6 that could be starters and maybe a topline starter. The depth will take some time to build.

Ideally I want single payer, I find myself rooting and calling and writing for a bill significantly less than that, who ushers in millions of new healthy clients into the insurance industry. That is in fact listening to the other side. You think that the you don't have to compromise to be listened to. That's not how you govern a republic of 300 million. All you wanted to do is open up competition across state lines...that doesn't go nearly far enough to cover or compress costs...so yeah, if people who actually want to solve a problem and you have people who don't, the people who don't will get left out of the process, but their insight was CLEARLY there in the crafting of the bill, to say otherwise is retarded. If you have the ability to pass something with broad appeal, you do that, they tried, the other side was just stalling and trying to kill it in their nihilist view of government, so they mmoved on. That doesn't make republicans shunned, they could jump in at any time if they promised that if they got some of what they wanted they would vote for it. They won't, theyll get some of what they want and then not vote for it. SO f*** them.

Kap, if the point is that you think that since the dems has 60 sens that they can't complain about anything, that's fine. I think it's stupid because it's completely ignoring very conservative senators. But the fact that just because they have sixty you can accuse them of not having tried to get some republican senators is really inane. They clearly did. They wasted 4 mos. doing it even when it was clear grassley would never vote on it, and even when he stated that yes, he did have an impact on that baucus bill that is so clearly the senate's bill at this point. They clearly tried to court snowe and collins, and snowe, who said she could commit to a triggered PO, is not even going to vote for a billl without any PO at all. And you want me to believe that no, the dems didn't reach out to the GOP at all. it's clearly false. And in the climate change negotiations, when sens. like Graham and McCain who so clearly agreed with climate change legislation before now say they are adamently against it, you can again claim the democrats clearly never reached out to GOp. But there are two sides. And one side is committed to not even trying to legislate, and do whatever they can to reduce the senate to a halt. They've said as much. But yet you seem intent on pushing this memo that the dems are just pushing this radical leftist legislation, when the hard progressives have shown willing to compromise A LOT to pass something to help the situation. So yeah, I find your comments stupid, especially when you are pushing them in the dem thread.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Jan 29, 2010 -> 01:53 AM) make sure you take him someplace awesome to eat.. lord knows when i got back from iraq thats the first thing i wanted.. a beer, and some REAL food lol.. I'll be sure to follow through on that!