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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 4, 2010 -> 08:42 AM) Am I missing something? You need someone to explain it?

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Nov 4, 2010 -> 02:03 PM) Employee Free Choice Act is also off the table for a while. Not sure it was on the table the past two years even. It never really was. This was Obama's "supermajority": 57 Democrats (with several DINOs), a socialist that was a pretty reliable vote, a Republican desperately trying to hold onto his seat, and Joe Lieberman.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 4, 2010 -> 01:48 PM) Yes. I don't know if he was considered a non-American, but we had the spectacle of House committee members firing guns at watermelons to try to prove that Bill Clinton was a murderer. There are any number of books you can read from the right-wing opinion factory written about Clinton with all kinds of hysterical character accusations against him.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 4, 2010 -> 11:08 AM) SOME thought that. And paradoxically, the issues they raised and the Constitution they wrote is what ultimately freed slaves, gave them rights, gave women rights, etc. Some, more like most, at the time. Jefferson (probably the most eloquent of all the Founding Fathers and wrote the best passages IMO) owned slaves and he wasn't exactly benevolent either, he used to have his slaves beat and whatnot. Jefferson was otherwise one of the most remarkable figures in history but he was flawed as a human being (being a flaming hypocrite and all). So was Washington. So was Martin Luther King. Not that I'm telling you anything you haven't acknowledged before, I just got carried away typing here. lol. Later in the 19th century in antebellum times (almost a century later) the Democratic National Convention had a song called "n***** Doodle Dandy" they'd sing, and they weren't really even trying to hide it. Stephen Douglas = open white supremacist. And so on. That was just the status quo back then.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 4, 2010 -> 11:18 AM) Right, but the ideas that "all men are created equal" and that we all have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and yadda yadda was pretty new in the world. That's the basis for all of the minority rights issues - equality. I'm not saying ignore the fact that they considered blacks and women less, hence why I said "paradoxically." The Founding Fathers got that idea from the Iroquois Nation... FWIW. Which is why they dressed up as Indians in the Boston Tea Party

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 10:54 PM) ok but if you make it an iphone app, people would buy that s*** up like crazy. Put some graphics to it showing one size to another and you'd double it. You're on to something

lol you google "bra size conversion"

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 09:45 PM) pinky and the brain? holy f***. see edit

Most hilarious (if unnecessary) headline/subtitle combo I've seen in a long time: http://www.slate.com/id/2273344/

I like it when something like this catches up to KG because he does this s*** all the time and gets away with it. He knows nobody is going to retaliate, he knows it usually won't get into the media. When is the last time he didn't get in the face of a smaller/scrawny player and tried to take on a tough PF or somebody like that? Ever?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 09:01 AM) If nothing else, the work Omar did with Alexei was worth the $1.75 million. QFT

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 07:16 PM) And Democrat ideals. f*** equity and fairness for everyone!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 12:10 PM) Compromise for the sake of compromise and split power for the sake of split power isn't a real answer. Appeal to moderation is a fallacy. It assumes that the correct answers really do lie somewhere in the middle of the current political spectrum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation It could be that some policies are just manifestly wrong and that there's no reason to compromise good policy simply for the sake of compromise. If this was Facebook I'd "like" this

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 09:56 AM) Let me clarify. In saying that they were angry that their representatives "did nothing," I meant that the people sent people to office to accomplish certain tasks (i.e., create jobs, fix the economy, get us back on the right path). Those people in office did not do those things, thus, they were replaced. I tend to think the electorate is not only dumb, but also slow in reacting to bad policy. To me, this "tidal wave" of reaction surprised me. The people gave their representatives a shorter leash because they didn't feel like anything was done to solve the problems they felt most pressing (the economy). Yeah, I gotta say I agree with this

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 11:14 AM) I love how initially everyone s*** on Childress for this (*cough* ESPN *cough*), even LYING when reporting that the locker room wasn't behind the move. 24 hours later, when the REAL story comes out, turns out he was a dick and the team agreed. So the one guy Mort talked to said he didn't like the move = the entire locker room. ESPN reporting there. Childress truly is an awful coach though

Kanye West interviewed about the earlier comment Bush made and Kanye actually sounds like a grownup: http://www.celeb****y.com/124650/kanye_wes..._george_w_bush/ (You will probably have to type the word "b****" in the URL bar manually for the swear filter)

No posts about Shaq's Halloween costume? lol.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 12:45 AM) The argument is that your boss can tell you that when you show up the next day, you better have a slip showing you voted for His Favorite Candidate. If somebody pulled that at my job that'd be a MAJOR issue if not a fireable offense.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Nov 2, 2010 -> 03:43 PM) Sweet deal. Just don't overplay him. I support this decision, but... he will be overplayed. His manager is Ozzie Guillen.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 12:37 AM) I wish we had the clarity of message that the Republicans have. But if we did, I probably wouldn't be a Democrat either. Don't so much need "clarity" as we need the Democrats to actually bother trying to deliver that message... before everything has gone to s*** and they are down 15 points in the polls

QUOTE (KipWellsFan @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 12:34 AM) Seems to me that all progressives in swing states, and districts lost too. I'm not looking forward to all the debates over whether Democrats lost because they were too moderate and compromised too much or because they were to liberal. Ugh... LOL @ Harry Reid winning again. Reid's probably a tool, but at least he's not crazy. That whole argument doesn't really have any basis in fact, it's just some s*** talking heads talk about on TV. Democrats lost for a few reasons... but most of all the economy, then the fact that they had won more seats than they could reasonably support, then they just got scared of defending who they are and what they represent and got intimidated by the Tea Party... sigh. Typical Democrats.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 12:26 AM) Let's be honest, its not a slim majority. It's a pretty robust one when its done. The biggest casualties tonight btw? Blue Dogs. My candidate won narrowly. Was happy to help in a small way. Well a majority is a majority. With Republicans it doesn't matter because even when they don't vote 100% in lock step they have a couple of Democrats who vote with them anyway.

Looks like Cali is going to disappoint me... again... Prop 19 probably gonna go down

Bush said that being called a racist by Kanye West was the worst moment of his presidency... lol. Yes Kanye is a tool but cmon... I can think of 5 other points that were waaaaaaaaaaay lower than that

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Nov 2, 2010 -> 11:46 PM) Like this? lol. If it was 1991