BigSqwert

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 04:18 PM) People watch over your shoulder all the time. I'm always careful of what I play, and also, what I work on while on a plane. That's why I use one of these now. It's not perfect but it helps.

Kudos to the Onion. Hilarious!

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 01:54 PM) Funny offshoot story. When I was traveling almost 200k miles a year, I burned and watched alot of movies on my laptop. Usually i am in my own world zoned out because I hate flying, but I packed American Psycho for one of my flights, and as I am watching the chainsaw scene, a lady behind me taps on my shoulder and tells me to turn off the movie because its making her sick. 1. I never realized other people watch the movies I was watching 2. How can you not like that scene? Weird. Needless to say, I put a little more thought into the movies I packed on flights from then on. Heh. I've got a funnier story. A few years back I was doing a lot of traveling for work and on one instance (who am I kidding it was quite often) I brought an adult DVD with me on the trip. A couple of days into my trip I asked the I.T. administrator at the work site to provide some files to me as part of my work. She came back to the office I was working in and handed me a disk and said "go ahead and put this into your laptop and copy the files over". I paused thinking "did I pull that DVD out of the laptop last night????". The DVD had images on the cover that were, needless to say, inappropriate for work. I was flustered and I told her to just go ahead and email the files to me. She replied "Why? They're right here on this disk. Just copy them over." I kept saying that it would just be easier if she emailed them and made up some excuse that I had issues with my disk drive. She looked at me like I was crazy and after a few minutes finally left the room. I'm glad she went for it 'cuz as soon as she left I checked the drive and sure enough the DVD was in there. Phew!

I think Jindal is the future of the party.

LOL @ Bill O'Reilley's map:

heh http://mccainsevendays.ytmnd.com/

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 12:28 PM) There's no clean criminal record required to run for office. Just to vote for one. So someone who did 10 years for manslaughter can run for President but Arnold Schwarzenegger can't?

They might want to switch naming rights and call it Lego Park after all the changes we've seen over the years.

I don't understand how a felon can remain on a ticket.

Spot on Jenksy.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 11:43 AM) I could only find this. Not sure if it works in suburbs. http://www.chicagoelections.com/voterinfo/default.aspx Never mind. I think that's from 2007.

I could only find this. Not sure if it works in suburbs. http://www.chicagoelections.com/voterinfo/default.aspx

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 11:29 AM) Should we do an early voting thread? Well what exactly is this thread if not an early voter thread?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 11:29 AM) Should we do an early voting thread? or leave it to the gen election thread? just a thought. You mean a thread like this?

I believe they are building the Juan Uribe buffet.

1 min 13 seconds. Must be because of my height.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 09:48 AM) That is 20 states, plus part of NE. So its more or less 20.5 to 13.5 in terms of solidly held states. How many "big" states does McCain have? 1

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 09:39 AM) AHB's Roselle buddy. Heh. Maybe he should go knock on that dude's door and see what the deal is.

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Glenn Greenwald gives us some insight on reporting on the campaign trail. Very good read.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Oct 28, 2008 -> 08:25 PM) The theory goes, you cannot live, for example, in a brothel, without being affected. Desensitization is a well studied part of the human experience and if we keep surrounding ourselves with immoral acts we all become immoral. Good decent people, for example, supported the Nazis because the Nazis were woven into the fabric of the society. We accept sixteen year-olds pregnant and then we have more sixteen year-old pregnancies. Huh? So if this law passes gay people will cease to exist?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 28, 2008 -> 06:30 PM) I tend to think the most important issues... like gay marriage... should get an up or down vote from every voting citizen. Aren't important issues subjective? Gay marriage could be completely irrelevant to a large portion of the electorate.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 28, 2008 -> 07:34 PM) So what's the source of this? The actual GOP? A couple of jerks in the GOP? According to the flier it's from Barack Hussein Obama II. But yeah...probably a couple of jerks in the GOP.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 28, 2008 -> 03:52 PM) Me too. Opens at 8:30PM? wow. Kinda late? We should have a pretty good idea if he won by then. There will be a mile-long line at 3PM waiting to get into the park.