mr_genius

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 28, 2011 -> 08:29 AM) Um, wouldn't this be against pretty much everything that conservatives and tea partiers believe? Well, you would be surprised at the animosity within the tea party towards off-shoring and corporate 'traitors'. now, i'm not saying I am or am not in that group, but it's a substantial segment of the tea party. now, neo-conservatives are pretty much all in on off-shoring. they love it. but a neo-conservative is loyal to profit, not any country.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 08:15 PM) Would y'all endorse policies in favor of making it harder to outsource jobs? i would

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 07:35 PM) And yet Obama's own Jobs Czar, whose own company paid no income taxes last year on massive profits, is closing a plant in Wisconsin and shipping the jobs and $2 billion of training and upgrades to China. Way to create jobs....for the Chinese. Or is this a dig at the Republicans in Wisconsin? Depends on how tight your tin foil hat is, I guess. good old Obozo. Shipping jobs overseas.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 03:57 PM) Been at this job for coming up on 6 years and just got passed up for promotion by a lady who has been there 3 months and is friends with the supervisor. Go me for not being an ass kisser. i agree with the other comments; time to find a new job

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 03:41 PM) well, to be fair, the dems (still in majority) could have raised the debt ceiling after those december compromises the GOP leadership agreed to, but wanted the GOP to own it. Instead of doing that, the GOP is now demanding highly regressive cuts, and in return will raise the debt ceiling. Regardless of how this turns out,t he debt ceiling needs to be abolished. It's way too dangerous a bargaining chip. An economic atomic bomb and the GOP is north korea. well, not really. the 'atomic bomb' is the debt itself. if spending continues at it's current pace, in 20 years the interest on this debt will eat the entire federal budget. this borrowing isn't 'free'. the big cuts are not regressive, they are critical.

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 24, 2011 -> 11:16 AM) That guy's stances change with the wind. he is a political windsock. that is concerning.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 10:20 PM) You know, actually, Herman Cain is probably the best of the bunch, except he's too blunt. Go figure. I mean, if you want to get elected, you can't run around saying that people should have the choice whether or not to have a mosque in their own community. (GASP!!!!!!) You become instantly unelectable. That, and Michele Baughmann takes away all his tea party love, and she is thoroughly unelectable vs. Obama. Rick Perry... ugh. I cannot stand him. He's a slimeball, but certainly a whole lot better then Romney or McCain three years ago. Currently, I am leaning towards Romney.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 24, 2011 -> 08:03 AM) Via HuffPo- terrible idea.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 22, 2011 -> 10:55 PM) You can tell by all of the reporting about hte REpublicans holding Barack hostage that they totally own the media... media coverage has been very pro-obama (as usual). thankfully, i don't think the media can save Obama in 2012.

should have passed cut, cap, balance. i guess the Dems want a default.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 22, 2011 -> 12:41 PM) One thing I want to say that can't be said enough, cutting the projected rate of growth, isn't really cutting. I'd be curious to see how much of the cuts fall into each category. ^^^

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 21, 2011 -> 07:47 PM) He'll last two months before the cancel him. discrimination lawsuit within seconds of firing.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 21, 2011 -> 04:46 PM) You guys ought to love this. I think Sharpton will be better than that other tool

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 09:37 AM) http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/07/20/thi...private-sector/ agreed. they are overpaid.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 09:44 PM) The gov't will be able to service its debt. So they will not default. true. my preference is the House bill. but no cap increase is second.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 02:18 PM) 5% of people making less than $22,000 a year have a photo copier? WTF? Why? Not really making a comment about the whole poorpeople and necessities thing, as much as just saying... photocopier? Really? probably from a printer/photocopier combo. they come free with a lot of computers.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 22, 2011 -> 02:14 PM) Meet Talisman Terry, the Friendly Fracosaurus. haha. that's awesome.

worst signing ever

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 03:46 PM) worthless traffic department workers that mimic what traffic lights do ^^^

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 01:42 PM) So on to some local topics, what do people think about Rahm so far? I actually like that he is trying to reduce costs (credit cards, recycling program), makes me believe that he can hopefully figure out this mess. so far so good

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 08:21 AM) I'm sure everyone in this thread has this page bookmarked already... https://www.pay.gov/paygov/forms/formInstan...FormId=23779454

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 17, 2011 -> 04:13 PM) The UK has first dibs, frankly. Does this mean you haven't been following? The buyoffs of police? Hacking thousands of people's voice mail/cell accounts, including celebrities, the former PM, hacking into the voice mail account of a missing teenage girl then deleting voice mails so that the account wouldn't fill up and making her parents think that the girl was still alive because she was accessing her voice mail account? i haven' t been following it. too busy lately. sounds pretty good though.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 17, 2011 -> 04:02 PM) The same reason why they hacked into thousands of people's cell phones in England. For news scoops. Money. The big thing here is probably that if a celebrity was hacked by newscorp on U.S. soil, then that not only justifies an extensive FBI investigation, it pretty much compels it. And somehow, it seems pretty unlikely that the "News of the World" was the only group in Murdoch's empire doing this. my oh my. will Rupert go to jail? he should, at least, be sued.