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QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 08:08 PM) I liked the coffee stout, they call it Black and Brew. I think Sam Adams tend to try to make their beers appeal to the masses a bit more than smaller craft breweries. If you are used to a stronger coffee stout like Founders, you may find this quite a bit weak. The Coffee stout had some excellent flavor to it, that one i really enjoyed. Trying the old fezziwig right now and I'm just not hugely impressed by it, not getting much of the added flavors in this one.

Really closing in on getting this talk done.

If consumers cannot see the fees because the law says so, then the fees are not a part of the free market. Customers cannot choose whether or not to pay them.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 04:19 PM) And what Balta won't tell you is that now you are paying more because the Merchants just kept the extra money from the cut, and in most cases you are spending more where the banks have increased other fees to make up for what they, so thanks to Dick Durbans "fix" you are now paying more. Democrats in action. And there is always a free market. Cash. And of course, if there is such a thing as a free market, if I have a grocery store and I receive back $.20 per debit card purchase, and I decide to pass $.19 on to the consumer, I have no undercut my competitor's price, thanks to basic high school level economics, thus increasing both my profits and my sales. And similarly, if the bank is forced to pass that fee on to the customer, similarly, the customer has the right to decide whether or not to pay that fee. Again, basic free market economics in action...the customer is given the right to determine whether or not the service is worth the cost, the fee is not hidden from the customer by the law. So yeah, Democrat economics = allowing customers to make a choice about what payment method to use. Republican economics in action = every fee hidden behind the scenes but charged to people anyway. It's also illegal to directly charge a higher price to people using credit or debit cards (although you can work around it through various discounts). So again, the "Free market in cash" is highly regulated in favor of debit/credit card fees as well.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 03:48 PM) Carimi out vs. Eagles Man he's been out forever, weren't they saying 2-4 weeks when it happened?

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QUOTE (mr_genius @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 03:06 PM) no, you said she was white. i'm sure any one can accuse someone of something. No, I said you dislike the white person because you're disagreeing with me. It's the same logic you used to assume that anyone thinking Cain could have legitimately sexually harassed a woman has a racial element to it.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 02:48 PM) Thank you, I appreciate that. knightni is putting together another list, this one on villains, feel free to add me to your list. Looks upwards...shakes fist into communicator...yells "TEEEEXXXXXXXX!!!!"

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 02:19 PM) Balta, the days of prosecuting a black man for merely looking in the direction of a white women are over. you need to accept this and change your racist ways. I see, so the obvious assumption is that Herman Cain would only ever be accused of harassment by a white woman.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 02:52 PM) Tex, the two groups are NOT the same. There is NO equivelency whatsoever. One group respects the law, one breaks it. One worked within the rules, one flaunts them with impunity. One actually has to have permits for security, sanitation and so on, the other gets off scott free. One chases away the fringe LaRouchies when they can and anyone carrying Hitler signs, one encourages it and even has nazis marching with them. One respects commerce one tries to shut it down because to them all capitalism is eeevil. Hate Wall Street and banks all you want. these groups are just a mess. You realize it'll take me about 13 seconds to fill up a post of tea party Obama=Hitler images, right?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 02:17 PM) you can make all the personal attacks you want. obviously money is the driving issue. there are also elements of racism. I think that you're the racist here, you just dislike the white person. It makes as much sense as assuming you know those people's motives.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 4, 2011 -> 02:19 PM) http://www.businessinsider.com/found-the-m...-morgan-2011-11 Apparently that's another random $600 million that appeared out of no where.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 02:09 PM) the likely scenario is that news agencies refused to pay for the story, therefore she has decided to remain anon. this looks more and more like a frivolous suit filed for financial gain. if she can't make enough money on this, she doesn't want the scrutiny of going public. Seriously, that's just ludicrous. Multiple independent cases, things people don't want to dredge up, sexist pigs who judge that the accuser is just coming forward again for money or that the accuser doesn't want to dredge things up because of money.

I love how you just assume that the motivation of the accuser is more money. After all, she was asking for it.

Plastic chips will follow that wave.

Not long now until we can cover those waves with beautiful oil.

Lets all stop posting and go do something else.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 07:44 AM) Andy Rooney I feel like I should complain about this.

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See, the thing 2k5 doesn't tell you in saying that it's all your fault and not the banks fault is that you're really not actually making a fair decision here. The bank itself has been charging retailers $.40 a transaction per debit card for years. Making them tens of billions a year. But retailers have been forbidden, by law, from passing that cost on to the consumer. The consumer is forbidden from having to make the informed choice because the banks have lobbied to make sure they don't. The Dodd-Frank act cut that amount to about $.22 per transaction. The actual cost of the transaction is something like $.03, so the bank is still making a fortune with every transaction...but because it was cutting into the profits, the banks responded by actually starting to pass on some of the cost to the consumer, and bang! outrage to the point that they dropped the fee completely. The real game is to make it so that the bank wins no matter what. The bank can charge ridiculous debit card fees, but the retailer is forbidden from passing that on to the consumer because of how good the bank's lobbyist is. There's no competition. There's no free market. The game is rigged, and so the consumer is actually forbidden from making a choice.

I've been planning to do so once I do one more move. THat's the reason I'm still with the large, national bank that hates me.

Just eat them, don't do them.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 10:38 AM) All this media scrutiny that Cain is facing in the long run hurts our country more than it helps, it creates a standard of a President that is almost impossible to reach, we all make mistakes, how many capable people don't run for President for fear of the media dragging their skeletons out of the closet? Many of our better Presidents were shady characters who wouldn't be able to withstand today's media scrutiny, JFK was an adulterer but that didn't stop him from being a capable leader.I understand all this character and moral make up of a candidate but at the end of the day I'll take the brilliant asshole over the stand up doofus, we're voting for a President and not the Pope. I'm getting tired of all the digging into the personal lives of politicians, it's not my business just like my personal life isn't your business. All that being said, if Cain just wanted to bang a couple of women working for him without threatening their jobs, that sucks but it's not a deal killer for me, if he was being a total douche and harrassing them constantly, that's different. If you really want to draw a line...there's a big difference between "Things done by consenting adults" and "things that are illegal enough that I settle out of court, repeatedly, for tens of thousands of dollars to avoid the legal case".

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 11:19 AM) Yeah, they covered it up right up until he was forced to admit it was him because of all the work done by others NOT in the MSM. Then they had no choice. Covered it up? Are you kidding? Like the series of interviews he gave 3 days after the photo was published and made the classic statement htat he couldn't say with certainty that the image wasn't him?