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Bloons Tower Defense 4 was released today http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Tower-Defen...-Defense-4.html Anyone picking up Forza 3 tomorrow?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 26, 2009 -> 08:34 AM) I am glad it was the day for the kids to trick or treat out at the in-laws instead of watching the trainwreck of a Bears game. Wow. Yeah, I was debating going out to the drag strip with some friends or sticking around to watch the Bears game. I guess we made the right choice.

How did anyone like Trick R Treat? That movie was awful.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 23, 2009 -> 09:48 PM) I wonder if he was expecting sympathy? Most of the rest of us were rolling our eyes at the tone he was taking, the sense of entitlement to our money. I was thinking "oh f*** you." Probaby not what he intended for me to feel. Hey man, he was sacrificing for the public good! Oh and 3/4's of a million dollars--after taxes.

edit: Balta beat me to it. Stossel's always advocated positions. I do not think this is Fox News or the RNC's fault. Athomeboy, "Give me a break"

From the article: AKA they didn't think this through. How about wide buffer zones around Yellowstone or only allowing it to stop documented predation?

Wolf Hunting in Montana ruins research program. From a news report in Science

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 23, 2009 -> 11:51 AM) I don't get the impression that the Republicans, institutionally, are using him as a mouthpiece. I think Cheney is just still so full of anger and bitterness, that he takes every speaking gig he's offered, where he can spew his B.S. Some Republicans probably still like the guy, but I don't think the party as a whole sees him as a major piece of their strategy. Republican/ conservative voters, not politicians. Sorry 'bout the lack of clarity. edit: just based on my anecdotal perusing of blogs/ forums that are conservative-dominant. Stuff like "Cheney could forget more in an afternoon about Afghanistan than Obama or any dumb lib will ever know!"

I really don't get Republicans trying to use Cheney to beat up Obama over Afghanistan policy. Cheney had his chance to set policy there and f***ed it up/ ignored it for 7 years.

Republicans are eating up whatever he says and bragging about how amazingly smart the guy is.

It's because you're scared of her and hate the good she would bring to the country! populist> Buckley's rolling in his grave, I'm sure.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 23, 2009 -> 10:00 AM) Being worked on, and I'm glad to see that SS2K5 and I have gotten you programmed into understanding the differentiation there. You guys, Frontline, and Planet Money.

Repeal grahm-leach-bailey and reinstitute the Glass-Steagall act, for starters. Oh and lets actually regulate OTC derivatives.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 23, 2009 -> 09:51 AM) Exactly. I think its bizarre that I am getting hit from people on the right for saying these execs at companies still being bailed out deserve what they are getting, but then getting hit from people on the left when I say the gov't should leave the ones at companies NOT on the government dole alone. To me, that is 100% the key point here - if you want to go be a private company, then feel free to cut into your company's profits and give yourself a less than engaged workforce by paying your executives gobs and gobs of money even if they fail. But the minute I own you - as we all do right now if you were so inept that the taxpayers had to bail you out - then you have to live by my rules. And my rules say, you ain't getting paid big bonuses while you are using my money. I also think something needs to be done to prevent private companies from becoming "too big to fail" again, otherwise we're stuck in the same mess of needing to bailout companies who paid executives more money than they can spend in a lifetime to run the economy into the ground. Or we throw out the idea of "too big to fail" and watch what happens when AIG, Lehman, GM, Chrysler, BoA, Citi, etc. all fail within a few months.

The idea that we should facilitate massive wealth redistribution from all taxpayers to a few wealthy executives who made poor decisions for years is garbage. ss2k5, where is all of this awesome Wall Street talent going to go if they aren't paid tens or hundreds of millions of dollars for creating massive economic bubbles but not wealth? What other market or sector is going to invite them in to run their businesses into the ground?

Even if we say tens of millions of dollars (a few dozen jobs worth, maybe) doesn't impact the bottom line that much, it impacts the executive decisions. What motivation did the "best and brightest" have to do anything but run up artificial or short-term gains for personal profit at the expense of long-term sustainability? They were going to walk away set for life regardless, and the more risk they took on and the better the profit looked that year, they better off they were.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 03:25 PM) On a side note, Deadspin sucks. Daluerio has run that place into the ground, and him posting all of those rumors about other people cheating and/or sleeping to the top just because he's bitter he had the scoop on Phillips and wasn't able to find enough backup to post it is lame. Even if they turn out to be true (and with some of the stories a friend of mine who worked at ESPN has told me, they probably are and then some), just throwing crap against the wall and hoping it sticks is an example of why blogs like that get made fun of because that is even a step below TMZ trash, only this is sports not Hollywood. He's pissed because ESPN lied to him and told him there was nothing to the story. It's not as good anymore but I did enjoy the FMJ guest host.

I'm just saving us some time before he gets a chance to post. I thought this was incredibly condescending and also pretty funny. Here's factcheck's statement on the study referenced.

Is Hillenmeyer back yet?

And the follow up argument to that would be: look at what private insurance companies give us. Its not realistic.

Maybe we'll get a bunch of op-ed articles from VP's whining about their pay cuts. Remember the Jake DeSantis guy who wrote a whole letter talking about how altruistic he was for staying on with no pay while simultaneously b****ing about not getting the $750k he was promised? That was great.

Tinoisamoa is done for the year. He was good for the 15 or so plays he was on the field for this year.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 11:18 AM) ObamaCo does the right thing here: executives at 7 companies who were bailed out and haven't paid it all back yet are ordered to slash their bonuses and pay. So if you're Executive 25 and get your pay slashed by as much as 90%, you'll probably end up making less than Executive 26.

The follow up argument is going to be: health insurance for its citizens should be considered a service provided by a functioning government and not a business model

You can get solar-powered LED christmas lights now! http://www.outdoor-solar-lights.com/solar-...mas-lights.html They were like $20/ box at Big Lots, though.