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Prediction: Coakley will lose, giving the GOP a Senate seat in Mass for the first time since 1970s.

I thought 2006 gave us a great shot to win the World Series again. By the all star break, it looked a lot dicier. It wasn't that the team looked tired it's more that they lacked the fire to have a fully successful season. I think we have the right pieces together to compete and win the Central this year.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 16, 2010 -> 06:02 PM) Then perhaps you start the tax in say 5 yearas time for EVERYBODY. It also applies to contracts negiated before it starts, so might as well just say hey, join a union now, save money on your taxes for next 5 years! It's a farce. If that was the case, I fail to see the harm in offering more people a chance to have a seat at the table when it comes to their employment.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 16, 2010 -> 12:10 AM) That's a good point, too. But, does it take an aircraft carrier? It is a good point that we "lead" in situations like this, I guess... but then again, it takes away resources from an already thin military. An aircraft carrier is sort of necessary when you need to coordinate helicopter delivery of aid and the one working airport in the region is so broken down and clogged that new aircraft are unable to land and there isn't enough fuel to facilitate regular landings and take offs and running a temporary control tower for the airspace around the airport. The military has a fairly long history of providing assistance and comfort to populations. It's something that the military did extremely successfully in Japan and Germany at the end of World War II. The navy also has the USNS Comfort which is a hospital ship and deployed specifically for situations like this.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 15, 2010 -> 09:45 PM) LMAO. Half of the "liberal media conspiracy" is quoted right here in this thread. Whatever. I'm just being "biased". Again, if that's true, please provide a specific example.

So your answer to this is no, you can't point to a single example of a public official or "liberal media conspiracy" has mocked anyone for being concerned about the failures of our security apparatus. Thank you for making my point for me. Pardon me if I consider the voices in this message board to be less influential than those of the broadcast media and elected officials.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 15, 2010 -> 09:50 AM) So I am sure you don't see mocking the other side for their worry about what happened as being important, but that pretty much is the point here. I know you don't get that. I don't see that at all, actually. I see that there are a bunch of Republican talking heads trying to take this opportunity to revise history so that 9/11 happened before George Bush took office or to say that Obama's three days before speaking publicly about this attempt was worse than Bush waiting six days before speaking about the shoe bomber's attempt, I see a bunch of people complaining about how its such a hassle to fly and making disparaging comments about the TSA. I see a lot of people grumbling that we overreacted. So maybe you can show me some concrete examples or where the "left" or the administration has mocked anyone for being concerned about the failures in the administration. Maybe it was somewhere in that speech where Barack Obama took responsibility for the failures in the system, and I was just so surprised by someone in federal government accepting responsibility for a failure that his heckles towards the Republicans went unnoticed by me.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jan 15, 2010 -> 02:44 PM) Why is it the more I read about her the more I think Martha Coakley is the Deomcratic Harriet Miers? She really is running a horrible campaign. I think she just thought she could sleep through the campaign, but never really paid attention to Kennedy's races. Even when he didn't have a serious campaign, he worked hard to win. From what I'm hearing the Coakley crew apparently forgot there was an election til early last week.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 15, 2010 -> 01:46 PM) Yup. /I HEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAALLLLLL you!!!!!!!!! Benny Hinn (after the people attend the workshops on what to do on stage). I know this one first hand. Benny Hinn was always the best dressed televangelist IMO.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 13, 2010 -> 07:37 PM) I think they are more asserting the double standard in how these situations are handled, versus actually being offended. Using an out of date and awkward way to compliment a candidate on his viability in a private conversation and publicly stating that if we'd enacted the Dixiecrat States Rights "Segregation Forever" platform in 1948 all of our problems would have disappeared are CLEARLY THE SAME THING.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 12, 2010 -> 07:03 PM) Unless the Democrats win, then it means something. Good grief. I don't think any special election holds any message for a regular election cycle. I don't think I could be any clearer about that.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 12, 2010 -> 02:20 PM) Yea - but it is Massachusetts. MA elected a GOP governor for 16 consecutive years. It's less blue than you think. I think Coakley will win this comfortably - by about 10 points or so. But special elections, like off off off year governors races generally dont signal anything but a specific state's issues.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 12, 2010 -> 04:03 PM) Unless another station throws him in an old studio, it'll take some time to get new studios build. I dont think they'd want to launch a new show in a old, beat up studio. So, they'd want some time to renovate. Anyone know how big the old Springer Studio is? I think it's currently vacant. Not nearly big enough. Conan's contract is significantly large enough that NBC is going to have to do something to make Conan happy... if not Conan could just sit on the beach for the next four years and milk the network out of 80 million dollars.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 12, 2010 -> 08:47 AM) Or, the pendulum will swing, like it always does. At some point, the hyper-partisan schtick will stop working. The GOP had serious control over Congress, and had a real heyday, from the early 90's until around 2006. Then the country decided they hadn't achieved much lately, and it was time for a change. So we got the 2006 and 2008 elections. Some of the GOP reacted by trying to go to the middle, which is the conventional wisdom. But many decided to try something different - go FURTHER away from the current mainstream thinking, and FURTHER to the right. So far, that hasn't worked much for them, at all. And if they continue down this road, it only leads to a regional party, and never again having control of Congress. Therefore, at some point, the GOP leaders will realize they have no choice but to "come to Jesus" (see what I did there?), and get back to what the "middle" actually wants, if they want control again. Palin is a fail in a Presidential race, a big fail, unless Obama shoots a few puppies. Agreed. What made Obama work is that he represented something new and special and didn't appear nearly as polarizing as Palin does. It remains to be seen if Palin can do the same thing, but unlike Obama - its how she started which is a huge handicap for her 2012 prospects. She might run, but frankly, I think she'll be a smarter Rudy and realize sooner that she makes more money and is held in higher esteem if she merely toys with future election campaigns rather than actually have them.

QUOTE (3E8 @ Jan 7, 2010 -> 08:13 PM) And Jaywalking he stole from Howard Stern And Sean Hannity.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 01:57 PM) I really doubt he said it. LOL He may have thought it, but I doubt he said it. It is something that would be very in character of the private McCain to say. That Game Change book looks all sorts of juicy.

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 10, 2010 -> 09:51 PM) Hey look, Reid is an asshole. Shocking. And if Reid was forced to step aside his leadership role, it would hurt the GOP more than if he stayed in - because any replacement majority leader would probably be a stronger leader.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 10, 2010 -> 11:11 AM) I would too if I were you guys. He's the male, black Sarah Palin. Yea, I said it. Except Republicans like Sarah Palin.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 10, 2010 -> 01:41 PM) So, in other words, it's another reason to set up a universal health care system; it puts permanent workers on an even playing field with temporary workers. Freelancer's Union

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 8, 2010 -> 01:27 PM) The problem is the politician telling that bald-faced lie to a member of the media...and then not getting called on it. ^^ Yes, that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 8, 2010 -> 01:26 PM) Please go to those curves, or any other graph for that matter, and tell me which derivative I should be looking at to see your point. At best, we've been stalled for 4-5 months, or losing ground slowly, after about 12 months of freefall. What that chart doesn't account for is the technical end of that recession. We're just getting to the point where we are approaching break even on employment in this recession, since there's no job recovery yet (minus about 4,000 jobs in November), there's no way to say how slow the jobs recovery is - because we haven't seen one start yet.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 8, 2010 -> 12:14 PM) Rudy Giuliani apparently suffers amnesia: It's not amnesia. This is on purpose. He said last week that the shoe bomber was pre 9/11 and he's the third Republican to forget who was President when 9/11 happened inside a month - not to mention the anthrax attacks.