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The limited edition mono remasters are the ones worth buying, IMO - because those are the mixes the band generally preferred. And its a lot of money for not many new dusty gems.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 11:20 PM) I guess I am the only one who remembers Bush being booed during the state of the union? That was from the gallery, not from Congressional floor. And that too, was disrespectful and had no place.

CNN Flash Poll Reaction 77% very positive and somewhat positive. 21% negative.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 09:12 PM) Yeah, I will grant...you didn't exactly expect a Congressman to go all code pink. Usually they do that in airport bathrooms.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 09:10 PM) Respect the office. I thought it was outrageous when the Code Pink jackasses interrupted Bush's speeches. They however are not elected officials. The elected officals should know that is about the office of the president. The other thing is the pep rally affect. This has been going on for years. One side jumps up, claps like they never heard such a great thing. The other side keeps sitting, makes faces and looks grumpy. The dems did it with bush, and the republicans are doing it with Obama. Its dumb either way. How about a new rule ( not to sound Bill Maherish ). Keep your ass in the seat until the speech is over. No response to the speech until its over good or bad. Its a speech, not an interactive talk. Yes to all of it. I was fairly impressed with this speech, I gotta say.

Boustany shirt and tie is kinda freakin' me out. It's like they're using a fish eye lens.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 08:59 PM) It works for the Prime Minister across the pond. Not in this kind of setting. There's a difference between an address and "question time."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/...ed_You_lie.html The heckler, Congressman Joe Wilson, R-SC. Stay classy, Congressman Wilson!

The thing I've really loved is watching the GOP lawmakers slowly stand up to applaud because he's co-opting their language.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 08:38 PM) I like how they made the mistake and put in a place where the Dems could applaud the Canadian health care system. I always loved when Bush made those. Wow, now he's really challenging them by calling "lies" "lies". Some serious boos/hoots from the right on that one. There is some serious balls attached to this speech. There's not a lot of "big speech" bulls*** in this "big speech."

Damn, Obama is a good speaker. I hate looking at Nancy Pelosi. Rahm Emmanuel should stop with the fake and bake.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 10:39 AM) Of all the flaws that either party tends to have issues with, the one that bothers me most is the bizarre desire of many recent-model conservatives to choose ignorance. I can't imagine why someone would prefer to know less and be exposed to less knowledge and experience, but that is what some of them are doing. It is choosing to be stupid, as if that were something to be proud of. There just seems to be this strong sentiment in opposition politics these days to not accept Obama's legitimacy. It's become a key strategy for the Republicans since 1992. It's not enough to be in the opposition, you have to actively be outraged by everything your opponent does these days - especially if he's in power. The left wing opposition does it too, but not nearly as loudly or effectively as the right wing's fringe. I wonder if it's always been this way (shouting rather than talking), or the hyperaware media state that has grown since the advent of cable and the internet has just made the extremes louder and drown out the people who just wanted to quietly make sense and govern.

Thank you to one and all!

I love Tim and Eric Awesome Show, so I know its funny. Tofutti break!

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 10:10 AM) Looks like at one point you had a good policy, but because of the maze of insurance laws that hurt their competitiveness, when you got to NY, you couldn't keep that one. Maybe fixing a few laws about insurance portabilioty and ability to compete across state lines would have saved you alot of grief. Actually, the one that I lost by moving to NY was the one I had to fight for months about whether or not pulling a muscle in my groin in May was a preexisting condition from December. So I wouldn't call it a good policy. I'd call it a policy that I could afford.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 7, 2009 -> 10:57 PM) ^^^ Fearmongering. I lost my health insurance in 2004 when I decided it was more important for me to move to a state where I didn't have to live in fear of losing my job. I found a job that enabled me to regain some form of affordable health insurance in 2005. I lost that four months later when I left my job about three weeks before I was going to be laid off. I wasn't able to find affordable healthcare at my new job, and picked up my own insurance in 2007 when after a year of looking I was able to find a decent plan that cost less than 200 dollars a month out of pocket. (And when you buy your own plan, its post-tax and not deductible.) Then I moved to a different state. And lost coverage because that kind of plan isn't allowed to exist in New York State. Replacement plans in my new state cost double. This year, I got coverage again because I got a new job. I lost it, with my job in July. In September, I'll be covered again. I have had to argue with insurance companies for months that a pulled groin was not a 6 month old preexisting condition. I had to worry about being dropped from my health insurance company because of the nature of a diagnostic blood test I had to have in 2007. In college, an ER visit was not paid by my insurance company until after the bill was sent to collections, damaging my credit report. I have more bad stories about health insurance than I have good. And I've had no major health problems in my life. I won't pretend that a government option will solve all my issues with health insurance coverage. It won't. I won't pretend that I would even necessarily take that government option for health insurance coverage. Depending on what's covered, I probably won't. But what it will do is force private insurers to offer comparable or better health care options for less. Why? Because the biggest competitor in all of this will be a government plan whose primary mission is to provide health care services, not make a profit. Will this narrow profit margins in the insurance industry? Probably. Will that be a bad thing for the industry? Probably not, smart worthwhile companies will find a way to survive and thrive. And it will happen in an environment that might actually favor the health care consumer for the first time in generations.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 7, 2009 -> 11:26 PM) Stuart can draw? Wow. Hes been doing that a lot, I remember him doing it on SNL in 1988.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Sep 6, 2009 -> 01:40 PM) Alles Gute zum Geburtstag! Na ja, vielen dank. Es war ein sehr gutes Tag!

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 6, 2009 -> 09:06 AM) I know this first birthday without Bea is going to be a tough one, but try to have a great day anyway, and remember the good times. Hope it's a good one! God'll get ya for that one Jim. God'll get ya for that one. Thanks!

Oh hey, that guy that got his finger bitten off in that fight outside a townhall the other day? Admitted on Fox News he threw the first punch after the biter called him an "idiot." http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/cspanj...inger-bitten-to

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 4, 2009 -> 12:21 PM) Medicare and medicaid are so wasteful it's not even funny - especially after seeing some of the things I saw when going through medical billing. Furthermore, the system has no incentive to improve once the government takes it. And they will - language is key - "if you like your insurance you can keep it". Sure, that's true. Today. But even the skeptical ones know that it is the end of the private sector. Except Obama... where in fairy tale land you will have insurance - no matter what - while cutting (RATIONING) costs. You cannot have both, and that is what people know. That's why they can't get traction on this. If that is the case, please explain why private health insurance exists and thrives in Canada, the UK, France and Germany.

For all the gushing of Obama slipping below 50% in the Gallup poll that Drudge was orgasming about, it doesn't seem to be happening in the next few days at week. Obama's tracking poll seems to have rebounded in the last ten days from 50-43 approval (+7) to 55-38 (+17).

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 3, 2009 -> 04:55 PM) In 2004-2005, the anti-American sentiment in Europe and other places was at its peak. That probably played a role as well. New York losing the olympics had everything to do with the Jets losing their stadium in Manhattan.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 3, 2009 -> 03:04 PM) Well all right... PS Don't hate the GILF hunter. Then you should replace the word tiger with cougar in your avatar SS2k. Tough call. I think the late 70s CBGB's gene pool created some of the best indie music out there. Plus, the 70s gave me some amazing Pop Music, the best Michael Jackson album and of course classic New Wave Yoko Ono.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 3, 2009 -> 01:25 PM) See my last post. She's being brain washed. She shows no interest in politics. If it makes you feel better, I loved Limbaugh's show when I was 14 and 15. By the time I was 16, I'd matured enough to know better.