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Shady business with Inconvenient Truth

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 18, 2006 -> 03:43 PM) I'll give you another tip. I'm pretty sure Kap isn't 17. He has, however, been posting here for 17 years....

There are some politicians whose reputation and persona can overcome any handicap that race would have. I think Obama is one of them. I think Colin Powell was the other until he accepted his Secretary of State nod. I don't think Obama would be necessarily a bad choice for the Democrats - as he would pretty much automatically rally the base, for no real good reason, but would also really appeal to independents who might feel swayed by a McCain or Guiliani nomination.

I'm not a big fan of Edwards, but he's done a lot for the Dems in the last four years, and would be more than acceptable to the base that the Dems would need to turn out. He probably could get North Carolina AND Virginia to flip red to blue, which might be enough. Especially if Warner gets a VP nod. IMO, I think of the current candidates, I'd like to see an Obama nomination - if nothing else to see someone other than a white male at the head of a ticket. But I'd want Schweitzer, Richardson or Warner to be the VP nod. If Al Gore wanted this nomination though.... if we get real Al Gore, and not consulted algore, I'd be all for it.

I would say Carter is an expert in the conflict with Israel area given that he negotiated the first peace between Israel and an Arab state.

Albums I've loved from 2006 Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio. One of my favorite bands kick out a serious jam with "Take Me Back To Your House," country so funky that even John Ashcroft would be forced to boogie to it. Bettie Serveert - Bare Stripped Naked. Love this all acoustic album from the Dutch act. Have totally fallen in love with the song "Hell Is Other People." Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere. Easily the best pop album to make it big this year. Various Artists - Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited. Surprisingly strong all the way around. I even kinda liked the Cat Power song. Also features the first new Portishead song I'm aware of since 1997. Chiodos - All's Well That Ends Well. If there's such a thing as "classic" scream-o, this would be it. Honorable Mentions: Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche, She Wants Revenge - s/t, Royksopp - The Understanding, Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That, Junior Senior - Hey Hey My My Yo Yo (technically 2005), Someday Never - The Natural Trend of Breathing, Beirut - Mt Wroclai, Rinocerose - Schizophrenia, Billy Bragg Vol 1 (best reissue of the year). So sad the album was so bad: Frank Black - Fast Man, Raider Man, Brazilian Girls - Talk to La Bomb, Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped, Muse - Knights of Cydonia, Jurassic 5 - Feedback.

Post your best albums of the year here.

Sorry, but Carter isn't even close.

Having 3,000 posts is so 2004.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Dec 17, 2006 -> 05:19 AM) Forget about Tara Reid, BT is performing!! That'd actually be kinda hot actually.

He'll have more foreign policy experience than our current President. :-)

October 2005: Long Branch, NJ. 2000 people turn out to see him speak at a rally for the Governor race. It was one of three rallies featuring Obama that day within an hour of each other. Each of them had 2000+ people, on an off cycle election year. Obama isn't a flash in the pan. He has the touch of a Bill Clinton.

Didn't Channel 7 also have adult pay tv after 2 AM in the early 80s?

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 11:25 PM) Where was the intent of the voters when Jeffords switched parties a few years back and changed the makeup of the Senate? Or how about when Republican Senator Paul Coverdale died of a stroke in 2000 and the Democratic governor appointed a Democrat in his place? Sure, it was Zell Miller, but at the time noone knew he was more R than D. Johnson narrowly defeted Thune this last time, so there was a lot of voter intent for the other guy as well. You don't vote for a party when you vote for your Senator. You vote for a Senator.

There is precedent for this. A previous South Dakota Senator suffered a debilitating stroke in 1969. He offered to resign on the condition that his wife would be appointed to fulfill his seat. The offer was rejected. He held his seat, basically in absentia, for four full years. If there is a serious incapacitation threat in the long term, I see a similar offer tendered... as in I'll resign if you appoint a Democrat in my place. But fortunately, it looks as if this isn't a situation we'll have to face.

Anyone that goes through brain surgery is going to be in ICU and critical for at least a day or two after. The more I read about this story, the better I feel about his chances for recovery. By the way, as long as the Senator doesn't die, he can't be replaced without resigning first. So the Senator could literally be incapacitated for the next two years and the Democrats could maintain control of the party, so long as he, or legal guardian representatives, don't resign the post.

I think, if we are serious about illegal immigration - these companies need to be fined hardcore.

But if the company is able to estimate that 40% of the workers are illegal under oath in court... they aren't willfully ignorant. They're knowingly hiring people who are illegals.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061213/D8LVTD7O0.html Does it bother anyone that this company estimates that 40% of its working population is illegal and says that it "doesn't condone the practice?"

I thought this thread was about cake.

If we aren't getting bonuses, that's fine. But at least tell us, rather than have them every year and then never actually telling anyone that they weren't coming around again.

Rumor is my department will not be getting Christmas bonuses for the first time ever. However, nobody is being told.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 03:07 PM) Ultimately you will be correct, history has shown us that no civilization will last forever. What our downfall will be is open to debate. The kind that you envision seems far away. Mine is we continue to borrow billions and eventually we choke on our debt. The most recent example was the USSR. They spent themselves into oblivion. Nope, that was caused by arming Osama Bin Laden and assisting Pinochet in Chile. QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 04:16 PM) I would disagree with that. I would say they were amongst the first, but when the NSDAP came originally to power in Germany, the very first two things they smashed were the labor unions and the communists (the Reichstag fire). Once those were banned, they moved on to other things, with the first major restrictions on Jews starting in about 1935 with the Nuremberg laws. They were quite a bit more slow in moving against most of the Christian institutions, because they were much stronger in Germany. Yes and no. They moved against labor and communists because those forces were the biggest stumbling blocks toward NSDAP power in Germany by 1933. Although the fire was in February of 1933 to help consolidate Hitler's power and enabling him to get legislating power as Chancellor... it was all about the Jews, all the time. Source: www.holocaustcenter.org

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 07:20 AM) Hey, the Bay City Rollers had some decent songs. Saturday Night may have been overplayed, but if that thing never became a MONSTER hit, it would be an underground classic. The "high brow" crowd hated them for the money they made, and the pants. Why wouldn't a high brow crowd love capri pants? They ride SO high!