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QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 26, 2011 -> 07:19 PM) I wonder how this helps the children? Oh wait, it doesn't, it just makes a bunch of whiny ass losers feel better for a few moments to destroy school property to 'make a point'. If caught, the person should get MAXIMUM penalties, fines, jail time. http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/128458763.html Vandalism is bad.

I drank through the whole hurricane, and all I ended up with was this lousy hangover.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 26, 2011 -> 09:14 PM) Expect your sewers to back up and any pump you have to lose power. I live on the third floor. Should be ok for sewage backup.

Flooding will be a huge issue. We've already gotten between 9 and 13 inches of rain this month, and the ground is saturated. Adding another 6 or 7 inches to that is not going to make things good.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 26, 2011 -> 05:49 PM) Are you in a low-lying or floodprone area? If you happen to be alongside a river or something like that, it can still be a major conduit for the surge. I live about a quarter mile from the Delaware, but on a hill about 100 feet above the river, so I should be fine. They are expecting a surge to affect all the way up to about Trenton (which makes sense because there are tidal effects to the Delaware all the way up here, but my house should still be fine from that.

Each revised forecast is looking less and less deadly, although still very strong. It looks like that by the time it hits North New Jersey shore/NYC area it will be a weak cat 1 or just below the hurricane threshhold. I live 40 miles from the shore, and they are still predictions of 75mph gusts here and sustained winds near 50mph.

http://news.yahoo.com/perry-signs-pledge-a...-161046437.html

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 23, 2011 -> 05:01 PM) Wait, what? The human verbal trip-up has been one of his best assets? If it is true that the GOP will negotiate with him because he is Not Obama, than that would work for anyone he picked as a VP. Not that he would ever pick Huntsman or any other Republican, but still, I don't see how Biden has done anything to help Obama, at least in the public eye. What he might do behind closed doors I don't know. Biden is the reason START got ratified, and also his relationship with McConnell essentially helped make a deal happen to avoid default. So yeah, he says a lot of stupid stuff, but he's been incredibly useful.

Plus Joe Biden has been one of Obama's best assets in this term. Republicans will negotiate with Biden because he is "Not Obama."

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 03:56 PM) What is spotify? Spotify is like Pandora but more specific. If you want to hear a specific song, you can search for it and play it streaming for free. You can also play everything the artist you like has in their library, one song after the other. Want to sample an album before buying it? You can stream the whole thing, anytime.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 01:35 PM) Some cheerful news for this thread. Elizabeth Warren has opened an exploratory committee for a run at Scott Brown's Massachusetts Senate Seat. Something tells me this is the real reason she wasn't nominated for the CFRB.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.asp...14_CUTLIN497125

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 03:32 PM) unfortunately the moniker fits for her. she has had success, but lets be honest, i doubt many posters could name more than that one song without a google search The Emperor's New Clothes (follow up single) did have moderate success, and did top the Modern Rock charts in 1990.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 12:25 PM) Anyone do Pandora Radio? I just started playing with it. Is it worthwhile? Its good in smaller doses. Songs tend to repeat often, I find their variety burns me out after a couple hours. Now spotify on the other hand, is kind of amazing.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 11:15 AM) But yet he still hosts Ramadan dinners at the WHite House while completely ignoring Easter. Religion for liberal politicians is OK when it can get them votes, bad when it has anything to do with a Republican. Oh, and he hosted an Easter prayer breakfast as well. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/19/o...r_n_850944.html

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 11:53 AM) I don't know alot about Ed Schultz, but this is the second time he's done something really stupid. He should be fired for this. If Glenn Beck got to keep his job for calling Barack Obama racist, why shouldn't Ed Schultz get to keep his? I'm not defending Ed Schultz here, but if we've defined a standard on when its acceptable to call someone a racist, I think it should be applied equally, no?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 11:15 AM) But yet he still hosts Ramadan dinners at the WHite House while completely ignoring Easter. Religion for liberal politicians is OK when it can get them votes, bad when it has anything to do with a Republican. Ramadan dinners are a tradition that was honored by George W. Bush. Barack Obama also went to church on Easter, so I don't know if the absence of a Presidential proclamation would count as "completely ignoring" Easter.

http://bachmanneyezed.tumblr.com/ The premise of this blog is almost as absurd as her policy positions.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Aug 10, 2011 -> 06:42 PM) Yeah, those Asian dudes running the Western Union shop that got destroyed totally looked like rich oppressors of the poor (er, in this case, suburban brats acting up because a drug dealer got whacked). I hope next time a looter shows up to wreck those guys' livelihoods, claiming that he's just showing the rich that he can do what he wants, the dude with the mini mutton chops beats him to death with a steel pipe. Little bastards deserve it. This is the second time you've been told this within the week. We do not tolerate death wishes in the Filibuster.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 12, 2011 -> 02:58 PM) Which is exactly what was done here. That stuff goes on all the time, and its called out a lot less than you would think, believe it or not.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 12, 2011 -> 02:57 PM) He's also on CNN, which means he is immune. Actually, he's on MSNBC.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 12, 2011 -> 02:33 PM) Like I said originally, you can make that point without making s*** up. I really doubt if Fox had said Obama has perhaps kicked something like 50 puppies, it would have been let slide, because it had the little qualifiers in it. You do realize that Joe Scarborough is a Republican, right?

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/did_h..._he_was_qu.html

French banks have 350 billion dollars exposure to Italian bonds, I guess. And French banks are taking a hit this week.

I thought this was about French banks.