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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 01:42 PM) So on to some local topics, what do people think about Rahm so far? I actually like that he is trying to reduce costs (credit cards, recycling program), makes me believe that he can hopefully figure out this mess. From the headlines he sounds like he's doing a lot of things I agree with - cutting the fat and taking on various city unions. Unfortunately I haven't read enough follow-up to determine if he's actually following through with it. Though I did just read he cut like 635 city jobs. It'd be awesome if he fired those worthless traffic department workers that mimic what traffic lights do.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 16, 2011 -> 10:38 AM) I saw Harry Potter last night. It was really awesome. very well done. I felt the first quarter was a little rushed, but the last three fourths was spectacular. Oh, ... oh baby! DH2 was good, but not the greatest. As someone that never read the books and never knew the ending until I watched it I think 5 is still my favorite. Someone else was complaining about the 3d. IMO it didn't do THAT much to enhance this movie, but it's still a neat effect that makes all the wide shots of Hogwarts that much better (btw the scene construction in this movie was amazing. Hogwarts looked awesome). The best 3d film scene ever was in HP 5, the last 5-10 minutes with the fight scene in the ministry. Wand fights, sand everywhere...amazing. But I don't get the people that don't like 3d. It's like complaining that surround sound doesn't make the movie better because stereo is just as good. Nope. The addition of depth of field draws me into a movie a lot more than 2d. Now, price to quality ratio....that's an argument I agree on. $20 bucks for the imax 3d is f***ing ridiculous.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 16, 2011 -> 09:52 AM) lol. Not even remotely the same thing. come on now. His administration briefed on that pretty thoroughly but the Bush administration was more concerned with pointless and expensive missile defense shields that would've been completely useless on 9-11. THEN it became a priority. I don't really think you can compare the 2001 recession to the 2008 mega-recession in depth and scope, especially when you look at them on a graph together, but that's just me. I'm not pinning the 2008 recession on him either but the deficit is not Obama's fault. That's ludicrous, and easily traceable back to Bush and his policies without even much effort. It was there as soon as Obama took office. With the exception of the stimulus anything Obama's tried to do to reverse it in any kind of meaningful, structural way (ending Bush tax cuts, defense cuts of any kind, healthcare reform that actually does something to lower costs) is met with fierce, vigorous opposition. I'm not comparing the two, but if Obama extended most of Bush's policies, how can he really claim that the continually rising deficit is still Bush's fault, especially since his stimulus added a nice chunk? I mean, people ARE stupid, and they've been fed a line that Bush was Hitler 2 so they'll probably buy it.

Guys, we know why the GOP won't make a deal here. Obama is black. Duh.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 16, 2011 -> 08:57 AM) f*** Bill Clinton for leaving a surplus and a bunch of relatively minor problems for Bush to handle Yeah Bin Laden was a pretty minor problem

Oh s***, did NBC just make a television show I'm incredibly interested in watching? I think so...

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 05:49 PM) Badger, I've said in posts I would have hung the jury til we got her on some lesser charges at least. I haven't been holding out for murder. I just wanted her in jail 10 years or so cause she is responsible for this in a huge capacity as, uh, the missing/dead child's mother. I agree she was found innocent and don't want any wackos to hurt her when she gets out even tho I was compared to a wacko that would harm people. Based on the crazy reactions to people that just look like her, i'm pretty certain she'll be living a pretty s***ty life for quite a while, regardless of her guilt.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 03:56 PM) It's guy love between two guys, yo. Though J4L might not be down, I'd hug it out.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 09:37 AM) And we can just as easily blame Bush. And he's not up for re-election so...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 05:21 PM) No, because this one would drive the economy crazy. And I think the GOP can easily argue that the current deficit has Obama's fingerprints all over it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 09:15 AM) The biggest problem with writing off the tax cuts as non-productive is that they were in large part counteracted by the states and municipalities increasing taxes and fees on everything under the sun. Most people haven't seen it. Like my property taxes

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 09:18 AM) Haven't we already seen 2 cases of pilots of smaller planes crashing those planes into buildings? I know there was a guy in Texas about 5 years ago and I'm vaguely remembering a different one involving a younger pilot. Neither of those planes had explosives or anything that would supplement the impact's force on the plane. I guess I don't remember those.

So, to me this just goes to show that 9/11 was a fluke and Al Qaeda doesn't really have the proper resources to do anything like this again. If his next big plan was to go after Air Force One...well, good luck to them. I could potentially see the issue with small planes flying under radar, but wasn't that sort of the big security breach that was involved with 9/11? That a lot of those guys got trained at small airports in smaller planes? I thought at some point the rules for getting a flying license changed.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 09:31 PM) No, I'd have made sure the jury was hung so there'd be another trial and maybe the 'truth' would come out. I am basing my feelings on what I've learned through the trial. I mean, folks, this woman lied and lied and lied. The duct tape? This was no accident caused by daddy. She has to sit in jail for at least 10 years on some charge. So I'd hang the jury. I would because I feel there was enough evidence to convict her. And she even told somebody in another lie she used chloroform to get the baby to sleep at times. This is a human life we're talking about. She is the one who instituted the defense that it was an accident caused by dad. With all these lies, she CANNOT walk as she is about to do. Just because she's a liar and a terrible mother doesn't mean she's the one that killed her kid. Maybe she was just involved in the cover-up? Maybe the kid died in an accident and she tried to cover it up to get out of this exact situation? Who knows. The prosecution couldn't say how the kid died or why Anthony would have done it (really? Just to party? you believe that? All indications were she could have just left the kids with the gparents, why take it the extra step and kill the kid?) As many people have said, the prosecution screwed up by not charging her properly.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 06:58 PM) The Constitution means a lot of things to a lot of different people and so did it in 1787... and I wish people would read it before they talked about it. It says specific things certain pieces of the government do, certain things it explicitly can't do, and implies a WHOLE LOT of other s***. It was done that way on purpose. The problem is when SCOTUS decides, over 200 years, that there's something implied in the Constitution despite the fact that there is express language dealing with the issue.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 08:20 AM) Obama is willing to go to $4T, if the GOP is willing to look at ending the Bush tax cuts for the top bracket. sign me up

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 03:30 PM) greg is making me question the legitimacy and wisdom of jury trials. As my partner (a state attorney for like 15 years) told me after this verdict - jury's are incredibly unpredictable. You'll win 50% of the cases you're supposed to lose and you'll lose 50% of the cases you're supposed to win.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 03:26 PM) 1.) Yes because she made up that lie. If she wants to throw the jury off and I'm on the jury and there's absolutely no reason to believe it was a drowning, I'm not leaving the room til the jury is hung. 2.) I said they obviously bought it (for a while) then chickened out or wanted to get home after the 4th of July. 6-6 proves at one point they considered it a reasonable case and she was guillty. Under your view of the justice system we should have killed her when the initial charges were brought. Nancy Grace told us she was guilty three years ago, why believe otherwise? Who needs a trial? Who needs the government to prove their case when they can use media headlines to obtain a verdict?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 09:22 AM) I'm curious how you would react if Obama started going to national prayer events held at mosques. Of course it would be on his free time and these would be privately funded events. For some reason, and I don't know why, I could imagine a huge uproar from you and most conservatives in this country. I doubt it would be on constitutional grounds though.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 09:17 AM) Yeah, I'd say I disagree on that. Same. Course this is one of the oldest constitutional arguments around - does the Constitution ban the government's involvement in religion completely, or just from promoting one religion in particular (and really the Constitution only speaks of passing LAWS respecting the establishment of religion) But, as the Constitution has been bastardized on this issue, we are where we are now - anytime the government is associated with any religion at all it's a violation of the Constitution.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 08:57 AM) Still having the fight the myth that Fannie and Freddie caused the housing crisis I still blame the government for perpetuating the myth that EVERYONE should own a home and actively pushing banks to lend out more and more money to people that probably shouldn't have taken out loans to begin with. That obviously doesn't excuse the asshole bankers/lenders that took advantage of people, but it played a really big part.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 05:01 PM) YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CHILDREN, ADMIT IT! "I don't have a problem with them, I just think they're f***ing gross, I don't want them near me, and I don't want to ever have one. I mean, I COULD live with one, I suppose, if I was forced too. But they better never talk to me or do things near me. Oh, and they can't be that really outgoing, flamboyant type. But yeah, I don't really have a problem with them. To each his own, you know?"

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 04:21 PM) Would you really support the type of policies it would take for the U.S. to improve its standing in the Middle East? Ending overseas adventures, throwing support strongly behind pro-democracy movements everywhere (including Saudi Arabia), ending military support of Israel and strongly supporting a Palestinian state? You might be one of the "Withdraw from Afghanistan" people and you might have a problem with what we've been doing in Yemen, Libya, etc., but I don't think you'd be too happy if Saudi oil stopped flowing. On one hand I'd like to believe that we should pull ourselves out of the world completely, and especially in the Middle East. On the other, I realize that our security depends on our involvement just about everywhere, especially in the Middle East. But my feelings have been growing more and more that we continue to fear this extreme reaction if we were to "pull out" and be at the mercy of the Saudi oil kings. But is it that much better than spending trillions a year to maintain the status quo? I dunno, tough question. I'd also add that I could give a flying f*** what the world thinks of us. We're the hegemon of the world and we'll ALWAYS be disliked by someone, regardless of what we do. So why bother caring? I just thought it was hysterical that liberals tripped over themselves to vote for a guy that promoted himself as this world changing leader, someone so completely opposite from Bush (who ruined the world and the view of the US forever), despite knowing full well that he probably couldn't change a damn thing and that we (rightly) will do whatever is in our best interests as a country, consequences be damned.

I've learned two things about J4L in the last two days: don't have gay sex near him and don't bring your screaming kid near him. He really dislikes both.