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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 05:50 PM) And better health care coverage. well it'll be cheaper health care, that's for sure

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 05:28 PM) A lot of our masters and PhD candidates in the sciences and engineering in this country are foreign born. I think its over half. They used to stay here, but now their own countries are getting up to grade and many are choosing to return home. They'll go where the jobs are at.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 05:19 PM) Its not a good sign for the long term viability of manufacturing. I agree there. But as you and I have discussed before, the way to cut into this is to get onto the leading edge on some things, not trying to protect aging industry in state. R/D and vast majority of technology services are going overseas as well, it's not just some rusty old factory being replaced playing into the trade deficit. also need to add oil / energy into the mix.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 05:21 PM) No, its the AC, whatever the heck that is. google should block them, makes people think AP

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 05:17 PM) LOL, hover over the "crowd estimated at" link in that article. It goes to, I kid you not, rightwingnuthouse.com. Anyway, like I said, I'm happy its going on. Might be more or less, but probably similar in size, to the larger Iraq War protest crowds that were in the 100-200k range. And as it happens, I agree in principle with both groups. the capital police are in on the vast right wing conspiracy. damn you John McCain!

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 04:48 PM) It means Americans are buying more goods again. I'd rather we could manufacture more ourselves, but as far as economic indicators go, that is actually a good one. Its still not as large an imbalance as there was before the recession hit also. The deficit fell massively, in recent periods, because of the recession. it's a sign that, even if the economy has a slight recovery, it won't be sustainable as the trade deficit will just balloon again. it's not a good sign for long term viability.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 05:04 PM) And they were bigger than this (I am seeing "thousands" as the description of this one, which is pretty vague) it appears. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2...aws.html?cat=62 there's a lot of em. i would imagine the capital police would be pretty good at estimating this type of stuff. the pictures of the crowd i've seen are actually pretty impressive

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 05:05 PM) And if you read the article you linked, you'll see why they took down the ads. are you serious?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 04:49 PM) So I guess goggle is in on the librul conspiracy. maybe i know they banned ads that were critical of moveon.org http://www.examiner.com/a-983100~Robert_Co...On_org_ads.html and donated a lot to Obama. You can say 'librul' all you want, but they are pro-Obama. which is fine, they can be pro-whatever they want as far as I'm concerned as long as they don't get special treatment from the White House

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 04:43 PM) google news is just an internet crawl. Unless they program librul bias into their search engine. actually, the google news algorithm is programmed to give certain news sources more weight.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 03:58 PM) How dare you f***ing mobsters take over D.C. http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/12/celeb...he-912-rallies/ WOW

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 02:33 PM) I was reading Huffpo comments yesterday and I had no idea there were so many Truthers on that site. They get hostile if you challenge them too. haha, did you challenge?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 11:10 AM) Read it, it is pretty neutral. I grabbed it because that's what was on google news (my home page). The picture you linked isn't. They obviously hand picked one that would paint the protest in the worst light. I could do the same for any of the GW Bush protests. Take a group of people with legitimate concerns, but only show pictures of the most radical to move an audience towards ones biased view. And the quotes they used are also hand picked to have only the dumbest. It's like when Hannity goes out and interviews 200 Democrats, then shows only the most idiotic responses and claims it was the consensus..

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 11:05 AM) Thank you cash for clunkers for reving up Toyoda and Honda's sales. At least they actually make cars in the US. Much of the rest of the massive trade deficit is a complete bust. Like Obama says, those 7 million jobs lost during the recession are gone forever. Nice leadership.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 11:05 AM) What's wrong with my post? It's just an article about it. eh, it's the NY Times. Kind of like taking a Sean Hannity 'article' and putting it in the Dem thread to show neutral coverage of something.

Chuck Schumer is supposedly going to come out with his 'immigration reform' bill in a week or two. I'm sure it will be total garbage.

Maybe move sqwerts and strangesox posts to the Dem thread.

Is there some huge protest in Washington today? CNN is showing some BIG crowds. By far the biggest 'tea party' protest yet.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 10:25 AM) His opponent, who happens to be a war veteran, will have the advantage of running ads of Wilson looking like a complete douche bag at that speech. Can't imagine moderates and independents wanting to be linked to a petty hyper-partisan. I wouldn't base an entire campaign around the 'lie' interruption, it's going to be old news in a year. 90% of congress are petty hyper-partisans.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 12:39 PM) Better than expected jobless claims, and better than expected imports. Its funny, the market feels its bought too far out into an assumed recovery, but the good news keeps coming, so we just continue to hover where we are. Sort of an odd place to be. ouch.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 11, 2009 -> 01:26 PM) This is why I like the fact that Wilson is getting crushed on donations now It's likely going to be a wash on donations. There has been a front page Druge ad for Wilson and the GOP is reporting he will go over $1,000,000 in recent contributions. Top that off with his insurance industry bribes, I don't think he will be at a fund raising disadvantage for elections next year.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 12:26 PM) What are you talking about? There is a clause leaving them out. That makes it law. That means they have to check. You are asking for something that is already there. Your request is akin to saying the law regarding murder should also have a clause stating "oh, and, if someone DOES murder someone else, make sure you arrest them". lol ok

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 12:18 PM) THERE IS A SPECIFIC CLAUSE EXEMPTING ILLEGALS. WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED? that means nothing if they don't ever check to see if the person is legal. why is this so hard for you to understand? if it was an oversight, then just make an update to the proposal, then that clears everything up. so calm down.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 12:10 PM) The latest bill I have seen has a specific clause exempting illegals from coverage. Why do people keep ignoring this? Now, if that disappears and the bill does indeed cover illegals, then I'm with you on the concern. But nothing, other than fear-mongerers yelling unfounded B.S., indicates that would be the case. here we go with the 'fear mongering' slogan. if they merely add a clause that there will be legitimate checks to make sure only US citizens are using the program it would end the controversy. why not add it?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 12:04 PM) That doesn't even make sense to me. that sounds like something George W Bush would say. Shameful.