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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 2, 2010 -> 10:14 AM) Radio show from Detroit Public Radio on the rise of right-wing extremism: Thursday, April 1st show: http://wdet.org/craigfahle/ This dude I know posted some Michelle Malkin link where she posted the DHS paragraph about right-wing extremism from last year. I was like, really, this is still being talked about? A pet peeve I have when talking about politics is when I have to explain something over and over, and the person still pushes back against whatever I'm saying (for any number of reasons, usually because they won't concede my point or they are arguing something I'm not saying), and then later actual events happen which prove me right, and it's easy to show why I'm right. And then they STILL act completely oblivious to it all. I had to bring up the guy that shot the guard at the Holocaust museum, the guy who shot the 3 cops in Pittsburgh, the guy who shot the abortion doctor, all within the last year and just off the top of my head, and ask how those guys don't fit the definition given in the report. I could throw the guy who the plane into the IRS building into it but I won't because he was bats*** crazy just like the guy that shot those women in the Pittsburgh gym, but my point stands. I didn't get an answer of course.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 2, 2010 -> 03:23 AM) I don't think anybody can argue with the theory that this team would be as good (or at least as dangerous) as anybody in a playoff scenario. The problem is, how will they come up with enough wins to get in there? Having a semi-potent offense.

I actually didn't really give a s*** about Palin's map personally (notice I didn't comment, I just don't care) but those are just plain targets, not sniper crosshairs, the imagery is completely different. That's a pretty weak comparison. You almost have to TRY to think it's the same thing. Of course, blog commenters really aren't going to worry about that.

god it's confusing when you guys post after each other

Haha, this thread turned out pretty awesome

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 08:30 AM) But poll after poll shows much more Republican enthusiasm for likely voters this Fall. Big parts of the base will stay home in November with things like this on the headlines. How about riding some momentum as a strategy? QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 08:35 AM) I have a feeling that more democrats/ liberals will be energized come November simply to keep Republicans from taking seats. The Dems are going to lose seats in November if for no other reason than the fact that they won more seats than is feasible for them to hold in 2008.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 04:23 PM) he isn't the first to try this. The other cases have been represented by Taitz and were working through the courts last I heard (getting admonished at every stage). Judges are losing patience with Taitz and a couple of them threatened to sanction her. Actually I think she already has been santcioned and says she won't pay.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 31, 2010 -> 06:57 PM) And Sarkozy's statement is about the same. And I was saying Sarkozy's statement looked consistent with other comments I saw from random Europeans. /shrug

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 31, 2010 -> 05:23 PM) At least in the last administration, usually those bad consequences were another, larger contract. In Iraq, anyway. That's a whole other animal entirely, that was like the Wild West in the first half of the Bush Administration.

If you read Greenwald's blog today (BS I'm sure you did) he ripped my employer pretty good. He is knowledgeable on the subject but he has an outsider's perspective and he skews it hard to make it sound like private intelligence contractors are soulless, evil people that are unaccountable to the law and taking over the government. This isn't true at all. Contracting and consulting is a legit business, the federal government pays contractors for practical purposes, and we have to follow the same rules that we would if we were government employees. Put in even more simple legal terms: these companies have a contract with the government and if they fail to meet the terms, which includes following certain rules, then there are definitely bad consequences.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 31, 2010 -> 05:13 PM) That's what I'm saying, this is his method. You just said it cooler than I did. Obama: I'm making a pragmatic decision to allow more offshore drilling as a part of a comprehensive plan Boehner/GOP: OFFSHORE DRILLING IS SOCIALIST IF YOU DON'T OPEN UP EVERYTHING Obama: See what I'm up against guys? Come on now.

Star rating? How do you do that?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 31, 2010 -> 07:23 AM) Every one of them. Yes, every one. But, they had choices, and they made theirs, much like the ZX millions do today. I don't really know what to make of this, this is like me saying the United States is a liberal country because my friends are Democrats by about a 2:1 margin.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 31, 2010 -> 05:07 PM) Yeah, because the GOP is going to hold back on attacking him for it. Like we saw this morning. Where Boehner attacked him for it. Well for whatever it's worth, rope-a-doping opponents to make them punch themselves out is part of Obama's playbook that he's been using ever since he campaigned against Clinton.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 31, 2010 -> 02:18 PM) Scientist at center of "climategate" (leaked memos and emails from CRU), cleared of any wrongdoing by a UK Parliamentary investigation. This gets no traction whatsoever in the Drudge universe. That's how it works.

They are moving Idonije to DE... I think Anderson should be out of anybody's mind by now as a starter, he's had a while now to prove he wasn't a one-year flash in the pan that benefited from Harris's pre-suckage beastliness.

Anyone here Erykah Badu fans? Seen her new video Window Seat where she gets butt ass naked in Dealey Plaza?

That really is how Europeans looked at the whole debate though. Every time I read a comment from a European (even a conservative one) they'd mostly be completely bewildered that things like a public option are so controversial and they'd honestly have no clue what Republicans were talking about because we'd still not even be that close to what they have.

I sold some of one of my mutual funds and bought 5 shares of Apple... not cheap at all, $233 a share. I still have a pretty good feeling about it though, their stock has been going sky-high lately and doesn't look to be stopping any time soon.

Isn't the supplemental census voluntary?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 29, 2010 -> 10:46 AM) My census form was "who are you and where do you live" and nothing more. My wife filled ours out right away but I looked at it first, it just asked how many people lived at my house, age, race, and gender and I think that was all. People are acting all uppity about the race block and being a smartass "I don't see American so I'm leaving this blank" but that was on the first damn census in 1790... that f***ing President Washington, ignoring the constitution!

lol. Congrats Shipps! It's funny how you came to a screeching halt when you met her, we could all see this coming.

The mainstream left though, they don't even keep those guys at arm's length because they f*** everything up and give bad press.

The closest thing there is to anything like that is the far left anarchists that are into sabotage, monkeywrenching, s*** like that. But they aren't all militant and violent like that (hell, they are mostly antiwar)

Tea Partiers right now fall into the same situation all the lefties who protest at the GOP convention and the WTO/G-20 protesters do. Yes, there is an overarching message and most people that show up are angry, and have reasons for going, but there are a lot of garbled messages and it isn't always coherent or unified. And then a lot of them make noise, and the noisest and most extreme ones make it on TV because that's what people talk about, and, well, because the major networks are shallow and stupid.