Rex Kickass

6.15 an hour! Those lazy bastards. 6.15 an hour does not equal 40 grand a year.

But there's a big difference between a radical non-state actor and a nation-state actor. They act completely differently.

Congratulations at reading a textbook. It's too bad that we can't pay rent with graphs and theories.

QUOTE(JHBowden @ Oct 30, 2005 -> 11:03 AM) Destroying Israel doesn't serve any rational goal. It serves irrational goals, such as the extermination of Jews for Allah. Martyrdom, in these people's minds, in only an added bonus. Is suiciding yourself into a skyscraper while flying an airplane rational? No, but rationality didn't stop faithful Muslims from doing it. Keep in context what we're dealing with. And what nation-state did they represent? Oh yeah, none.

Except they would be destroyed as well. By Israel and the U.S. Even Russia might retaliate not willing to allow a nuclear detonation in its sphere of influence to go unpunished. Size doesn't matter. This is International Relations, not porn. Oh yeah, and Iran backed down on its statements too. People in power through totalitarian regimes will - as a rule - use force to safeguard or expand power. Destroying Israel serves neither goal.

Except in the periods after the increase in the minimum wage in 1993 and again in 1997, more jobs were created.

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Congrats to the king and queen of Prawndom. Now perhaps, someday my prince will come. Maybe at the bottom of a glass.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Oct 28, 2005 -> 11:08 AM) I repeat: Where and how you live and work are ultimately YOUR choices. I might add, the word "fault" was your choice, as well. No serious response to this, either? "What has anyone here done besides complain about gasoline prices? What concrete steps have you taken?" I got a fuel efficient vehicle. Then I curtailed my non work related driving to virtually 0.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 28, 2005 -> 09:15 PM) Corporations are people too. No they aren't.

I disagree with you there. That Rex Kickass far too disagreeable. However, that winodj - what a stud he was.

They also have more say in what politicians do than the citizens who can actually vote. That's not a good thing.

Better. But he's not my brother. More my eighth cousin four times removed.

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QUOTE(3E8 @ Oct 28, 2005 -> 12:28 AM) Over the course of a year 5 mpg doesn't make much difference at $2.40 a gallon. At 12,000 miles a year, the difference is roughly $100 a year. For me who has to drive 35,000 miles a year, the difference is roughly $300 a year. And $300 is a midsize hole in a lot of budgets.

Except we'll do it and Iran most likely won't.

The reason Dems seemed to be cracking because the fight wasn't about a supreme court nominee. To be honest, I think the power base in the GOP at the moment is too split and too weak to be able to enforce a nuclear option... and I think it would be seen extremely poorly by a good chunk of the voting popular (almost everyone who isn't on the radical right side who sunk Miers).

That's funny. Thought you were serious for a while. The criminalization of politics happened when politicians openly started flouting the law.

*double take*

I have a Scion xB. If I am really really good on the highway, I get 37mpg. I usually average about 32 mpg. But over the course of a year - at 2.40 a gallon. There's a big difference in 5mpg.

I think youre wrong about the Nuclear Option passing and I think it has everything to do with election politics. There are enough vulnerable Senators in enough states where this wouldn't sit well... GOP Party Discipline clearly isn't there right now. Five senators would need to break away from the GOP to make a nuclear option viable. There are seven moderates who brokered a deal to keep it off the table. Chafee, a vulnerable Republican in a state that hates our administration at the moment, would break away. He's facing a primary challenge from the Republican establishment anyway. Specter might break away as well. Even Santorum who's seen ten to twelve points behind his opponent for next year may shy away from the fight because it would hurt his reelection chances.

Next thing I know they're gonna tell me Liberace was gay too.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Oct 25, 2005 -> 03:37 PM) The Loop was the ONLY station that existed, IMO. No other station was as good as that, nor will one ever equal that station in those days. Steve and Garry were on LS before that, right? With Lujack on in Mornings?

You misunderstood. I meant maybe Israel could go after Iran.

Unless youre driving a Prius or a Hyundai or a Metro, you aren't getting 40 miles to the gallon... Most cars get between 20-25.